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AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
"pr department" Discussed on AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
"Always with our resident number Gavin resonant numbers expert Gavin werber, Jason is in Japan. So Gavin, thank you for taking the chair and taking the microphone and joining us this week. I'm very happy to be here. I feel like this is like a biannual tradition where I have to I sit in for Jason when he's off doing something fun. When we send him halfway around the world to go ride trains and eat fun foods. We call on your expertise. But it actually works out perfectly this week because we've got really an interesting numbers and laws heavy show as the U.S. Department of Justice has finally filed suit as expected to block the JetBlue takeover or merger with spirit, call it what you want. So we'll talk about that a little bit in just a few seconds, but yeah, I was traveling basically we hit stop on the record button last week and I took off for a long weekend, a nice little vacation without the kids. I am jealous, which was fantastic first time in 8 years to go on vacation without getting a non work trip without kids, I should say. That was good. I talked about this in the show last week, but 7 8 7 9 gone out and then a 7 8 7 8 coming back, both very, very lovely flights, but my love for the 7 8 7 window is really a love hate relationship because while I like that bigger window, I really dislike the fact that it's a 50 50 shot whether or not you're going to be able to look out a clear window or it's at this point broken in some electrochromatic some shade of two. It's like, you know, when you can do the warm, cool slider. Yes. It's like one of those they're going to get blue or you're going to get yellow. Like there's no in between if they're stuck. I've also find that those windows get very hot when they're dimmed. You know what? I've never pressed my face up against a dimmed 7 8 7 window, but I would not be surprised. I mean, sending an electrical current through it that would make sense. But yeah, good flights all around. The 7 8 7 8 didn't know that you dislike it or it just was. I have a feeling that that's what the issue with the window was because it was just my window. Of course, the window that I was sitting at. But yeah, we had a super eager first officer. Oh, so I don't know if it was the first time that they had given a PA announcement or if they were just that chipper and cheering normally. But they were very, very excited to be making the PA announcements. So I thought that was great. And then when we landed, we landed, touched down back in Chicago, touched on lovely last night, thrust reverses opened up. We start slowing down, slowing down slowing down. Everything's normal. And then we slam down the brakes, 'cause we had to make that high speed turn off. And we made it. Because otherwise, there was the risk of having to taxi for 463 years to get back to the terminal out of here. And we're back. So Jason's in Japan, he's going to have an interesting story to tell. Next week when he's back. So I'm going to leave it at that and tease you dear listeners. We know how we know how we flew out and it'll be interesting to find out how he flies back, which is what I'm looking forward to hearing. I have a hunch that we're not going to hear much about the flight out after the flight back. You're probably right. You are probably right. So we'll talk about that next week, but this week we're going to start with Gavin, who has been so nice to join us this week. We're going to talk about the DoJ suit, some new orders that came out and fresh trouble for Boeing, though this time, it's not really Boeing's fault. But let's dig in to the suit that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed to block JetBlue's takeover of spirit. This is not a surprise. It is definitely. It is long expected. The initial announcement was met with, okay, when's the DoJ going to get involved? Every conversation that we have had on this show with anybody whether it's been just Jason and I, whether it's been guests following back and forth between spirit and frontiers possible merger and then JetBlue coming in and saying, no, we want to take over spirits. All of those conversations have been either closed out with or Ben sandwiched in the middle with all of this is subject to regulatory approval. And now we come to that stage. Or regulatory disapproval. Your regulatory disapproval is the case may be. What is the DoJ saying is the legal problem with this proposed merger. They go after a few bits. First of all, the entire first half of the complaint sounds like it was written by spirits PR department when they were trying to fend off the JetBlue hostile takeover bid. I mean, that was helpful of them to have the pre write done. Exactly. It really centers around market competition and consumer protections. They spend a lot of time talking about the options, the unbundling options and control of their pricing, that the spirit and model offers consumers. And if spirit gets bought up and seats get taken out of spirit aircraft and they get turned into JetBlue aircraft, those options will go away. Which sounds all well and good, but for those of us who look at the wider scope of the airline industry, it sounds like the government's contradicting itself. It talks about unbundling in how great on bundling is when, you know, in the last couple of weeks we've seen the president himself talk about junk fees and seating fees and the fee laden way that we all fly now. That was pioneered by spirit. So on one hand, they're bashing it, but here they're saying it's a good thing. So I really don't know which one to believe. But also the way that they speak about the basic economy fares. And how they make it sound like JetBlue alone copied spirits, business model, because they wanted to keep up, whereas we all know that every single airline went down that route in a bid to show up as the cheapest on the GDS. And I went dug into an article that I wrote in 2018 for a runway girl network where I went into what JetBlue's unbundling looks like. And they actually made it cheaper to buy the stepped up fair than it was to buy the
Crypto Business
"pr department" Discussed on Crypto Business
"Attractive story, especially if it's an NFT collection, let's say, they're not going to be captivated if you just tell them, well, the part of this that's really cool is that we're really getting really hard into the tech. And if you do it like this, you save money on gas. Those things are all fantastic. But you have to illustrate in a way that makes sense for the average reader to grasp. And make sure that you're speaking to everybody and not just speaking to yourself and your team. So you have to speak in layman's terms obviously. So spell the story after them, make sure it's attractive and hook them with it. And then obviously, if they're really nice to you, maybe they'll send you a draft or something. It's kind of unheard of if they want more information, they'll reach out the one assets from you. They'll ask for photos, videos, more information. And then there will be types of stories where you'll have to compromise. And the news outlet will say, I'm not writing anything about you unless there's an embargo, which means I'm the only one who breaks this story. Happy to do that if the media outlet is very big, reputable. And I think it makes sense for my brand. If it's not, then it doesn't make a difference to me. I'm not going to do that with them. Some companies will not want to do that in some wall. I would imagine you're going to have to get approval from the other brand before you do this, right? Because they might have their own PR department that may or may not want you to do this. Is that fair to state? Yeah, absolutely. Depending on companies revolve around how they do these things very differently, the bigger the company, the more red tape there is. So you want to craft that story and then present it to the brand you're working with, make sure that they understand who you're chatting with, what outlets you're going towards. They might have their own press strategy, stuff like that. But you want to make sure that your unified in your messaging. And that's where what I said before makes sense of have for our record label, we help artists tell their stories with digital collectibles.
Business Wars
"pr department" Discussed on Business Wars
"Hey, welcome back. We're talking with Victoria's song a reporter at the verge and comedian Matt braunger. Now we've discussed how meta and peloton have responded to crises. Now let's turn to the king of scandals in the tech world, Uber. Let's take a listen to a recent business wars daily episode. Late last year, we told you about some legal trouble into which Uber had waited. The U.S. Department of Justice slapped the ride share app with a lawsuit claiming it discriminated against passengers with disabilities by charging them if they needed more time to get into vehicles. Like we mentioned then this could all be traced back to 2016. The year that Uber initiated a new policy, if drivers had to wait more than two minutes for a user to get into the car, the driver could be compensated at the user's expense. Before the rule, drivers couldn't start charging passengers until they actually began driving. So the rule appeared to be a win for drivers who likely didn't want to idle around waiting for free. But of course, the rule didn't play out very well for users, especially those who needed more time to get settled into a vehicle, like people who needed to load wheelchairs or people with blindness, or limited mobility. Hence the DoJ's lawsuit, which alleged that even when Uber drivers knew that a passenger needed more time due to a physical condition, they still slapped them with a weight fee. That, according to the DoJ, was a violation of the Americans with disabilities act. Well, last week, Uber paid up in a settlement with the DoJ, the company said it would pay double the wait time fees to around 65,000 disabled riders already identified by Uber, and that it would commit an additional $2 million in funds for other affected users. So Victoria did that payment hurt Uber in any way and make a dent, so to speak or from either a financial perspective or in terms of PR? Financially, no, they just reported that their last quarter earnings were up 72%. So they're making billions. They're doing fine, demand is not lowered in any respect. But I also am reluctant to say whether or not it dinged them in the PR department because at this point I just don't know anymore. We all know Uber is terrible. And it's not a secret that people who need accessible design are underserved, especially by the tech world. And it's a shame because accessible design benefits everyone. But these are not companies by and large that really take pride in having the most accessible services and designs. Some do, they're very rare, but it's just an area where it's not listened to. I don't think most people even knew about this to be like the average person, don't think most of them even knew about it. Yeah, I think you're right about that. Matt as a working comedian, do you take a lot of ubers yourself or no? Yeah, I mean, you know, as someone who gets a babysitter and goes out having drinks of my wife or with friends, I mean, it's one of those things where, you know, I met people who work in law enforcement that said they don't give any breaks in terms of, oh, you seem a little bit over the line in terms of drinking kind of thing. These days one of those things because it's changed the landscape. That's the one positive I've seen with rideshare. And I do say kind of the one positive because it's incredibly under regulated. What Uber and Lyft does is they go to a major metropolitan area and go our way or the highway.
ESPN FC
"pr department" Discussed on ESPN FC
"For Harry Maguire. We talked about them before the tournament, how it's so difficult to not play regular and play at this level. I suppose in some sense Stevie mentioned Senegal, I suppose in some sense the USA put them on a little bit of pressure, Senegal ramped it up. The French will ramp up even more. Can he stand firm? I think if him and stones can, along with walker, and I think walker has been a brilliant fullback for years. If they can do that, I actually think England have got once you go past and bar pay. I think England have more and those forward possessions are presumed Sterling is going to be back available. Yeah, he's traveling back. It's going to be back available. Then you've got Grealish, then you've got rashford. You've got Ford and soccer, Kane, Bellingham, all these, I just think England have a lot there. If they can, if they can nullify and that is a big question at the other end, and you're not going to stop in Barbie and Griezmann in Jerusalem for 90 minutes, but if you can nullify yourself, I do think England have enough going forward to win this game. But I agree, I think it's going to be a great game. It should be a crack of that. It's the fourth quarter final, of course, proceeding that is Portugal against Morocco. ESPN FC on ESPN+ is presented by the all new Honda CR-V hybrid as we look ahead to this cycle. He's not playing. He's not planning. Morocco 5 to two. And it was a story, of course, in the Portuguese press, saying that Ronaldo threatened to go home when he realized that he wasn't in the starting 11. They released this statement saying the FPS clarifies that no time did the captain and the national tinker Chan are now threatened to leave the national team at any stage in Qatar, the level of commitment of Portugal's most cats, international player, was once again demonstrated in the victory against Switzerland. This is what Ronaldo said on Instagram, a group too close to be broken by outside forces, a nation too brave to let itself be frightened by any adversary, a team in the truest sense of the word which will fight for the dream until the end. Believe with us, strength, Portugal. Penned by not mister renowned. Pinned by the PR department who said, let's get ahead of the story. Frank, how bonkers this whole story, which of course has developed over the last 48 hours, Ramos absolutely brilliant. We are not going to discuss whether or not Ronaldo should start because he knows that he won't now in that quarter final against Morocco.
Thank God I'm Atheist
"pr department" Discussed on Thank God I'm Atheist
"Right. It used to be this really simple little thing. And now asked all of these in depth questions, specifically if they support the church's teachings on marriage family and gender. And so the bishop honestly answered and said that brother bustle has expressed some concerns around the issue, but he is honest in his desire to understand the lord and will come to the right decision on this. Is what the bishop says. Right. And it is the only thing that anybody's been able to suss out that suggested that this guy maybe doesn't have like a 100% in line with the church attitude, right? And then there was this woman who also was released, Dan, that's for you. From her position and you're right, fired. And she said that she and she's clear. She's like, she wasn't shy about raising concerns. From time to time, like in faculty meetings about how the curriculum treated the gay community and in fact she remembers the time where she pushed back against a video that theorized mothers contributed the same sex attraction in their kids. And she said that the speculation in the video was at odds with the church's own stance, spelled out on its website, right, that it does not take a position on the causes of same sex attraction, right? Right. And so but she's clearly a little bit of an agitator from their perspective, right? Just by honestly asking questions, she also talks about how students would come to her or she's had students come to her after a class is wrapped up and say, you know, I'm really glad that she talked about some of your own struggles with faith. That actually meant something to me because I've had questions and that example has helped me decide to stay in the church. Okay. Whatever. It's not how the church sees that. But that's, again, that's not how the church see that they want the perfect example. They don't understand that there's some people that people question, right? Right. And seeing others who question who's decided to stay in could actually be a way to keep people in, right? But instead it has to be 100% 100%. And so she's out, right? But with no explanation, they get a call. It's nobody that they know. They're just called some rando from the office that fires people. And they'd give no explanation. Your contract is so from the office of firing people. Yeah. And you're fired. Yeah. And I got to say, yeah, I think your take on this might not be seeing the forest for the trees entirely because you're saying that everyone's baffled that they're trying to figure out exactly what the infringement was. I think the point here is that the church just wants an excuse to fire people without having to show cause. And this is their reason, their work around. They don't care about anyone who's an agitator. They can just get rid of by saying we revoke their, we don't fire you, but we do revoke your ecclesiastical endorsement and therefore you can't work here anymore. Sure, yeah. No, I just want to get rid of the agitators and, you know, any other university setting, it would be hard to get rid of these people. Well, to show cause other beyond just we hate how they like gay people. Right. Well, the way that the thing that I wanted to tie it into was that the church has gotten some decent press in the last couple of weeks about their support of this, what is it the marriage? It's not defense America, respect for a marriage or whatever. Anyway, the gay marriage bill that just went through Congress. Or making its final little bit of the way through Congress, that would enshrine gay marriage as a right. At least federally in this country. And they're getting because they came out and they were in support of this after they'd gotten some religious concessions and whatnot and one thing. But make no mistake about who these people are, right? Exactly. They finessed that situation so well in order to get some good press out of it. Their PR department is not the same as their retaining professors department. Yeah, so they're getting good press all while they're. Releasing people from their positions. Firing people over having some questions about the church's stance on gay marriage and gay rights and just the place for gay people in the church, right? And it's like make no mistake who they really are. Yeah, so. Absolutely. Well, so my next story is a huge bummer. So trigger warning, there's okay. Not just about the bummer. We're going to mention rape. And it's ugly. Okay. In Los Angeles, there has been a mistrial in a rape trial against actor Danny Masterson, who was on that 70s show. This is the curly redheaded guy on that side. Okay. Yeah. He is accused by three women of rape, but between 2001 and 2003. Including a former girlfriend. Oh, wow. And here's the thing. You might, one might be tempted to ask, why has it taken so long? For this to even go to trial, that was many, many years ago. Well, here's the trick. There was a thread that linked all of these people. Masterson himself and the three accusing women. And that link was the Church of Scientology.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
"pr department" Discussed on CoinDesk Podcast Network
"Did I miss this drama that he said there should be consumer protection and then everyone got mad? Like Wendy, did you follow that drama by chance? Adam? I got an update on that. Thank you for we talk about what this is. Thank you for saying it, so I didn't have to, but basically Sam came out with possible crypto regulation. We tore that apart on my show is also a guest on somebody else's show talking about it. But again, it's just a possible Bill and it's just kind of sort of a guideline of what could and should happen. It was torn apart by the entire community because it does sound like DeFi and our privacy is truly under attack. And that's all I'm going to say about that. All right. So that's where I'm seeing this out of. I'm seeing this like, okay, SPF started scrambling the PR jets like, oh no, we're down bad in the PR department. What can we do? Let's reimburse some fishing scam victims. That'll do it. Maybe that's a bit, I don't know. Cynical of me, but I kind of see it in those terms rather than in what may be a worthy cause to reimburse people for a one time case of bad luck. But I don't know, Adam, what are your thoughts? I mean, I think that this really goes back to the concept of moral hazard. That's the reason why, although they're doing this, they're at the great pains to say this is not a precedent that they're setting, because the concern certainly, if you're SPF, is that people are like, oh, hey, I don't need to be careful because FTX is going to bail me out if I screw up something and wind up getting scammed. Again, not a hack as far as I can tell. This was, again, a cloned website that people then linked their API keys to. So they actually did stuff with it being fooled into thinking that it was actually the real service, when in fact it was not, effectively giving permission to the scammers to then pull money or do whatever it was that they did in terms of making these malicious trades within their accounts. So that moral hazard thing, just like when you bail out banks, bailing out banks means that banks don't need to be as careful because the government is going to bail them out. Well, Sam bank and freed and his FTX company is kind of filling that role here. And if I were them, I would also be at great pains to do that. Now, I think your point is really a good one, Zach, which is maybe this isn't about this thing at all, and maybe it's just about replacing the headlines that SPF pulled into the mainstream over the last couple of days and making it something about this. So this is the conversation that we're having. And if that's the case, well, then kudos because it's working, Jen. I just thought Wendy's hand up, so I'm going to kick it off to her. I want to know more information about this. How did so many customers get this three commas fake website and decide to use it? Where was the original source from? Because I went through and I read that Sam's threat, but I didn't see any of that there. And I also believe in that somebody else on Twitter again, I don't have the source in front of me. They said this was going on for quite some time. It was like the last 18 days. I could be wrong, please fact check me. But I want to know where the original source came from. And why this was decided to be pushed out on a Sunday evening. So Billy's pay attention to times that things are being released and also what it is going to be replacing because this is a very good PR marketing tactic that is also done in mainstream media. However, I'm not making any allegations. I just like to look outside the box. Yeah, I guess it's a good time to remind everyone to always check the links. They click on and make sure the websites you're visiting, the places you are putting your personal information and passwords into are actually the real places that you are meaning to interact with. Always, always, always read that website address.
The Dan Patrick Show
"pr department" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"You know, why would you fire someone to put someone in the back injury back in the game? You know what I'm saying? The story does not match up. We send a note to the dolphins to find out more information. And they said it was a back injury. Yes. And you know, I wonder too if there's a little more of the stories should be focused on the ground, you know, like turf has become a big story, right? You need to replace some turf, but it seems like most concussions in the NFL happen not because of helmet to helmet contact, but because of somebody's head hitting the ground. Is there any way to change the turf or something to make it more giving rather than, you know, so hard? Well, they've been trying to do that for a long, long time. Trying to figure out what's the best turf to use. Also, the cost of turf, and they want to use their stadiums for concerts and so many other things. Can you slide out a field and slide it back to play a game? So there's a lot of things that they've toyed with. We did ask the dolphins. We just wanted to know what is the injury classified as, and we heard from the dolphins PR. He was evaluated for a head injury listed as questionable to return during the game at that time. He cleared the evaluation, meaning he did not have a head injury, and thus returned to the game. Why is this doctor fired? What did he do wrong? That's what I want to just tell me. First of all, who is he? I can ask him, we'll have him on the show and say, why'd you get fired? PR department goes on to say after the game two and coach mcdaniel both described the back injury he suffered in a game and played through. He was listed on the injury report the next day with back and ankle injuries, which is required for any players receiving treatment. I hope that answers your question. Okay, so
Leading Saints Podcast
"pr department" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"And so yeah, you can imagine when you haven't done many people every day about 2000 people coming on site every day, there's got to be protocols. There's got to be health and safety. All those fun things. And so we've got to make sure we're doing things right and then leading up to that from an engagement piece with the local community and again across the UK, not just internally within the church, but externally from missionary perspective as well. So yeah, we've got to make sure all those things are tied up. So it's not just that 859 hundred volunteers, there's obviously other people on top of that, like the church's PR department, the church's missionary department and anybody else, yeah. And so if you're not the creative type, you're not standing. I don't like how you read that you said that line. Do it. You're not doing any of that. And obviously there's the decisions like do we postpone or not, or that you're definitely involved. But what else do you do? That formal presidency there. Yeah, yeah, we just sit back and go out for meals every now and again. So it's very easy to get involved in the detail of these things. But we have people who are called to do that to do the detail fundamentally our role is to is to provide spiritual leadership for the pageant. Yes, to make sure that everybody is safe and that everybody has a good time and everybody who comes along and enjoys it as well. But how do we make that transformation from a spiritual point of view? So there's a lot of, it's a wrong word because it sounds like a business word, but strategic work. If you know what I mean by that in terms of what we do there to make this theme, most positive experience, because it isn't just people turning up, seeing ashore and leaving, how do we make it that it isn't that?
Wisdom From The Top
"pr department" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"I can remember, I think a lot of people can remember the moment when they stopped using Yahoo as their search engine and then Google, for me, it was like 2001. Everybody was talking about this new thing Google and Yahoo had been in my homepage and that's what everyone used and I remember around that time making that transition to Google. And then over the next decade, Google really became a more prominent at least search engine than Yahoo. And around 2011, they were looking for a new leader, new CEO, when they approached you because you were a prominent executive at Google to lead the company and you took the job. Tell me what before you got to Yahoo. What was going on at the company? What was the sort of the state of affairs at Yahoo? In 2011. Oh, I think it helps to go back to September of 2011. I've always been a big fan of Carol barts. Amazing CEO of autodesk, and then of Yahoo. She and I share our Wisconsin roots. And so I had always really looked up to Carol, and was really sad and shocked at sort of the way that she had to exit Yahoo in September. And I remember reading about it in the news that morning and being upset about it. And then a good friend of mine came for his one on one, a guy named Gabriel stricker, who worked in Google's PR department, communications department, and he closed the door and he said, before we start our one on one, can we just talk about something? He was like, Yahoo CEO. Raise your hand. And I was like, and I remember putting my hands out in an X in front of him. And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. I was like, that board is, they don't know what they want. Are they trying to rebuild the company? Are they trying to sell it off for parts? They Carol's incredibly talented and that just fell apart. And this board is just confused. The leadership of the company is confused. And he was like, no, look, it's male. It's maps. It's mobile. It's social, it's everything you've ever done. It's news in a new context. He's like, he's like, this is the job for you. And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. That fall, they went on. They hired Scott Thompson by about January and by April or early May. He had resigned. And at that point, I thought to myself, oh, you know, Gabe told me last fall that I really should go for this, and I didn't. And maybe I should, but interestingly, at that point, I was 5 months pregnant. And so I was like, you know, it's just too bad because it's a great job. And the board has gone through a lot of changes recently. And so maybe they are trying to figure out what they want to be, and if Scott wasn't a good fit, then maybe I am, but I was like, nope, you're having a baby in October, and you're working on Google Maps for Apple and just stay focused. And so I didn't raise my hand. I didn't go to them. And then about 6 weeks later, I got a phone call from an executive recruiter, and he said, I'm calling you about this other opportunity and it's a CEO role and is in your neighborhood and it's in the domain that you've worked in, and then all of a sudden, at the end, he said, it's Yahoo. Are you interested? Wow. I was like, I just heard myself say yes. And he said, well, what would you need to be sure that you would want to be considered? And I said, I would, I want to meet with the board and I want to get a feel for, do they really want to work on products and making Yahoo's products relevant again in the mobile age, and if they're interested in products, I could be a very good fit. And if they're interested in financial engineering, then I'm not the right person, but I'll need to know based on the board. And so I met when I met with the nomination and governance committee. Who was leading the CEO search and it was really clear that they did want to work on products. And then ultimately went on to interview with the whole board. And it was all very secretive. I remember the day of my interview, they told me I had to stay home from work, so I came up with some reason. I did not go to work, and then they said a 10 o'clock black town car will pull up to your driveway and you're supposed to say project cardinal and they'll say project cardinal and you'll get in and you'll be taken to an undisclosed location for this interview. Wow. And it was all very, it was all very cloak and dagger. But you know, it all kind of happened like clockwork. And then ultimately they decided that I was the right candidate. Yeah. Tell me, what was it about that opportunity that attracted you at the time? Because you must have known that Yahoo was. Was going through some tough, a tough period that they were facing some pretty strong headwinds. For sure. And one I like hard work. It looked like hard work. And it was. And it's such a compelling brand. It's such a compelling company and story. And especially the people. And especially for me, I had a glorious plan of having my first child going on a 6 month paid maternity leave with stocking the whole time. And to give that up, it would have to be something really spectacular, but Yahoo as a company was that. And yes, it was also really troubled. But I love art. Probably because of my mom and I talked once to an art dealer and I said, you know, how do you decide which artists work you're going to represent and which ones you don't. And he said, you know, look, one, I only work with people who are nice because life is too short to work with people who aren't nice, but two with art, if an artist isn't nice, you feel it in their work when you look at it. And I think that's really true. And I also think it's true for most things that get created and built. You can tell a little bit about the disposition and the values of the people behind it in the way it works and feels and looks. And I think it's really true for technology as well in terms of how thoughtful are the people are they fun, what are their values like and you could just say, wow, Yahoo's board has been really, you know, really all over the place in terms of direction in recent years, the leadership has, but the products themselves have a levity and a softness and a funness to them and a thoughtfulness and they're so usable that there's just got to be good people there. And when I got to Yahoo, I was really pleasantly surprised because despite all the chaos at the top, the people who work there are amazing, they're talented and they're nice and they're fun and you really feel that in the products and.
Gun Talk
"pr department" Discussed on Gun Talk
"Tom talk gun. That is the number Tom. Talk, gun. In the study, I think that's really what it is. The study of how the media manipulates public opinion. Love is what they say, but honestly, a lot of it is what they cover and don't cover. Stories they send out, certainly they color them the way they write them. But sometimes it's just a choice of we're not going to tell you about something or we are going to tell you about this other thing. And it can really be misleading to the public. And of course that is the intention is to if you want to move somebody in a certain direction, you get them thinking a certain way. During me right now to talk about something that just happened recently along those lines, David kadri is journalist. He has written about guns for many years and he's one of the, I call you David, one of the clear thinkers on this. Thanks for joining me, man. Thanks, Tom. You know, you're right. We have both been doing this for a long time. And I got to tell you, I have never seen the feeding frenzy that we're seeing right now. This is just, this is just insane and trying to pick out what to write about what to highlight, not just what the media keeps from us through lives of omission, but also what we get filtering through and what is it that is just worth a mention on a blog versus what is it that requires a whole article to get into all the lies and deceptions and this is just nuts, the situation that we're in right now. It's really a tidal wave of, I don't even like to call it misinformation. It's just lies. And as you say, you can lie by commission or you can lie by omission in the case of this story that should have become out of Nigeria that most people never even heard of. You might just kind of touch on that and what happened there and why it matters that we didn't hear about it. Yeah, there was a story on Fox News, I guess about a week ago or so. I've been involved in all kinds of other things since this one came out. And it says gunmen murdered dozens of congregants during mass at a Catholic Church in ondo state, Nigeria, the attackers used explosives and firearms in the assault on Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church, killing more than 50 and this is something that first of all, how did the gunman get to guns? Because Nigeria, they have strong gun control laws over there. Yeah. They do have strong gun control laws. And I mean, to the point where you can not only get yourself in trouble, you can get yourself killed if you have illegal guns in a number of countries. So yeah, how do they get them? And then what do they do? And then because it didn't happen here, I don't know if it's because it didn't happen. Here, it's not a story, or is it just that, oh, they actually do have mass shootings in other places, because how many times have you heard David? This never happens in other countries. Exactly exactly right. They want to use that to mask the fact that it happens all over the place all the time. I forget what I saw that U.S. was how far down on the list we were in terms of real mass shootings. And then they pull out this deception that while they call it the developed countries. And the U.S. has the most in the developed countries. And what do they mean by that? Well, that's one of these terms of convenience that can mean anything that they want it to mean. And they always conveniently seem to leave out both Russia and Mexico, both of which have higher GDPs than many of the countries that they include in the developed countries list. So you tell me what the agenda is. I think we call that cherry picking. Yeah. Just pick out pick out the ones that further the narrative that we're doing. Right now, and you mentioned that it's like, it's not even like daily. It's by the hour now, the stories that are flowing, of course we had this impromptu highly financed and orchestrated mass march around the country. More Bloomberg billions being spent on this. And the media, which I have come to start calling it they're just the PR department of the gun ban industry, they're just parroting all of this and never asking. I mean, even with Joe Biden says something completely idiotic about 9 millimeters and they blow your lung out. Nobody in the media challenges it or ask even a question about it. At this point, David, I think they're complicit. Oh, they're absolutely. And I mean, how often have we heard Biden repeat the total lie that you couldn't own a cannon in the Revolutionary War? And yet the only place we ever hear that corrected is if some conservative sends out a tweet and so you never see that corrected in any of the news reports that come out. They just dutifully pair it a narrative and then you take a look at the words that they use and you can find the same words you just put those words into the Google search engine and you'll find that it's appearing on CBS and you'll find it's appearing on MSNBC and The New York Times and The Washington Post and CNN and AD nauseam. Well, it is the talking point that they have been issued by the gun ban industry. The media gets its orders on what to say and what not to say by the gun ban industry, even to the point where and people think we're making this up. They actually publish guides for the media on what to say and of course they have guides to each other and the gun ban industry of what not to say. Don't say gun control, we're going to say gun safety. It's just those kinds of things. We're going to manipulate the language and part of it is being dismissive. I mentioned that when they say common sense, gun laws, that's their way of being dismissive, which is if you disagree with me, then you don't have common sense. Exactly right. And so what we have when we go back to the length of Nigeria's story, we take a look at all of the restrictions that they have over there. Okay, civilians are not allowed to possess machine guns. Military rifles, handguns, private possession of semi-automatic assault weapons and of course whenever I say this, you know that I'm putting parks around that. Private possession of handguns, pistols and revolvers is prohibited at add to that licensing background checks, registration, and then you have to say, well, what is it that they're asking for here? They are trying to ban semi-automatic. They are going for universal background checks. They are going for registration. They are going for everything that Nigeria has going and they're saying that somehow or other, what doesn't work over there is going to work over here for what reason. Well, it's a different country. It's a different situation. They have Civil War going on and what keeps the people victims. They are disarmed by a tyrannical government and what's it all about? It's about freedom.
WLS-AM 890
"pr department" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"Broke file Subway you know the sandwich shop Some again ridiculously stupid reasons some woke they're in their PR department said I got a great idea You know who eats subway You know middle class working folks right I mean folks is at some bold assertion right there It's not a stretch right You know you think your local Thurston Howell what lovey and love me love you right So I'd love you You think Thurston howells eaten in subway I'm asking a serious question You think your local billionaires running around eating a subway it's a working class place Start as a subway shop It's an interesting backstory actually how subway and blimp is in the whole fight with all that happened But it's a pretty middle class place It's relatively cheap You get a sandwich you feel yourself up right So who is the moron walks through Who told subway It was a good idea To hire Megan Rapinoe and elitist snob women's soccer player who thinks it's a good idea to crap on our American flag in Neil when our national anthem plays Some idiot in a boardroom was like hey I got a great idea Let's hire Megan Rapinoe And a bunch of other idiots were like half that great idea Well what happened People like me and I'll tell you I actually used to like subway I'm done like I'll never eat one again And probably no other conservative I know will either because you thought it was a good idea to hire someone as your spokesperson who apparently hates the country so much He can't even respect it enough to at least stand and acknowledge that we have a national anthem in front of groups of people So why do I say that Go broke file Because red state our friend's sister told you we love As a headline Megan Rapinoe hardest hit his finger point he begins after subway releases dismal 2021 numbers Subway lost in 2020 1600 1609 stores presumably in part due to the pandemic But as for what's at the root of the 2021 closures there are a number of issues potentially to blame including tougher reference from the company's CEO to get locations to stay open more days during the week and work more hours and go on and on And also how some customers turn their backs on subway after they ran several ads in 2021 featuring Rapinoe a prominent woke activist known for kneeling during the national anthem and being a lousy spokesperson for women's equality Chest up folks chin out your activism your selective spending of money at locations that support American values your ability to go out there and spread the word via social medias and highlight what's going on with these companies teaching wokeism and using wokeism to advance their brand is starting to work They are starting not going to happen overnight It's no time for a victory lap It's no time to crack a bottle of DRC or whatever you're.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"pr department" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Gonna stop us now by starship. And so that is an example I believe I have this right someone's going to correct me I'm sure, but that's an example of the team putting that out that putting a modern song to their baseball team, but that's kind of been reclaimed by twins Twitter in the last couple of years thanks to the likes of Parker hagerman and he'll just put that song on either twins highlights or low lights. The song works either way. It's either kind of heart warming or just like, yep, those are our bubble and so that is an example of something that's originally out there as a like word of slap our corporate whatever on this and has since been reclaimed by the fanbase for like fun Twitter videos. So it could happen. It just might take 30 years. Yeah. Right, there could be some value to just having a fight song that's like ironic. I mean, it's so bad it's good, right? And maybe you can kind of re contextualize it. And I guess the team might put a song out there with that intent, but I don't know that that's what's happening here. And this is not so bad it's good. It's just bad, I think. So I don't know if it's bad in a fun way. Who knows? Maybe it'll catch on and we'll be proofed wrong. But I don't see it. I mean, there are sports that have singing and chanting and stuff as part of the fan experience. And my understanding is that baseball. I think maybe other stadiums I'm not familiar with. So I don't know. If that was a bigger part of American baseball culture, I would happily engage in that, but that's not what this is. Yeah, I mean, to have like a, you'll never walk alone style chant. I envy that when I see soccer teams that have that happen. But again, it's kind of organic. I think more so than just the team decided that this is our new song. So yeah, I think that it needs to arise more naturally. Yeah, like there are teams that will play, you know, they play music that is has some sort of local connection at important moments in a game, and that can feel cool like the Mariners played Jimi Hendrix song after they win, you know, so it's like, it is rooted in the place, you're able to identify it as having something to say that is also about the place it's from, but first of all, Jimmy Hendricks famously wrote good songs, so that's a big difference. And it isn't, you know, it doesn't feel forced in quite the same way that it would if it were something that Mariners PR had tried to write, which I don't know, there might be some very talented songwriters amongst that PR stuff. I don't mean to have done a great thing. If any team PR department could do this or team marketing department, it might be the Mariners, but all right, last one here, this is Matt Patreon supporter who says hypothetical question if the pitching rubber extended from first base to third base, how different do you think baseball would be? Would pitchers change up their starting location at the expense of a longer distance to throw the better off, would pitchers be positioned for defensive purposes would we see lots of pitching from the foul lines for Deadpool hitters? My gut is that given how much velocity matters, most teams would stick with pitching down the middle, but you have crafty guys that get by with lower speeds. So maybe some would be able to make a career out of it. So the pitching rubber extends all the way from foul line to foul line instead of just being a little slap on the mountain here. Where would pitcher stand? I mean, I was at how would it change how would it change how pitchers pitch or how would it change the game overall? Well, both, yeah, how different would baseball? I was just going to say ground ball pictures are going to have an interesting time of it. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Would you fall down on your little first piece if you're a hitter? Like, would you slap? Well, yeah, that's a good question too. Maybe is it a raised rubber still, but it extends across the entire that's what I was about to get all kinds of carrots that would be cool. Don't get me wrong. I love this, but it would be very weird. People would trip. It would be carnage out there. Yeah, this is like not as bad as a pit potentially from an injury standpoint, but the next worst thing. So I think from a, just pitching standpoint, I think, even if you were farther away from home plate at, you'd want to have a more extreme oblique ankle, right? I mean, it would be pretty impossible. Now granted, could you throw strikes? If you still have to get the ball over the plate, then you can't really do that if you're pitching from over at the foul line. It would just like the ankles, how are you actually going to get the pitch over the plate without beating the batter? So I guess you couldn't stand all the way over, but I would think that you would want to move part of the way just, I mean, for one thing, you'd give hitters a worse look at the ball. I mean, it's why some pitchers will move from side to side on the rubber as it is, or they will stand on the extreme side of the rubber just to give hitters a worse look at the ball, depending on their handedness. So if you were to move even farther over, then yes, I guess you would have to travel a longer distance, but it would be tough to get a good look at it, and it would also be tough to get around on it, probably. I mean, you'd have to pull it. You'd have to pull it, basically. And if you know that the person is going to pull, then you can move your fielders over there, and then that's the other advantage as Matt was saying that you'd have the pitcher who would be more in line to field these balls, which I guess it would place a greater emphasis on pitcher defensive skill, but it would basically be like having another infielder stationed at the place where the ball is going to go as opposed to up the middle. So I think that would be an advantage, although it would be like the new hot corner would be like the picture. Even more injury risk, so that would be an issue too, so that might be a reason not to stand way over there, but yeah, I think you would move not all the way, but a good portion of the way between the bases. They moved back and forth during and at bat, like this is going to add to the time of game where you're starting at third for like the first couple pitches. You walk across the dive head to pitch for the other side. Yeah. From batter to batter you would, probably, yeah. Yeah, and would it depend? Would you have to do it similar to like pat van did you having to declare a handedness? Right. Probably. Yeah, I think this is probably something that would actually change baseball pretty significantly. And probably not in good ways. No. I mean, you just wouldn't get 6 three grounders anymore, right? They hit the, I mean, at least what worth that gigabyte could hit the rubber and it would carry them off somewhere. Yeah. And then it just kind of be up for you. I don't know. I don't know if you'd see more or less double plays. Like, you know, you're not going to get the hard ground ball. You could flip and turn around and turn a double play, or maybe you catch people off base. It's like a line drive that hits the car. The thing is if the rubber extends, then does the mound extend? This was going to be my next question. Now, now you have to now I really want to know what this does to it based on it. Because you got to run up the little hill and then down the little hill. Right. Up and down up and.
Elevation Church Podcast
"pr department" Discussed on Elevation Church Podcast
"Shot on blessed. I'm blessed, because God said I'm blessed. And hey, let me throw this in. In case some of you got any haters. What God bless no man can curse? What God bless? Even your haters are the PR department. 'cause God is gonna use the people who don't like you to fulfill genesis one 26. Because not everybody like Jesus. If everybody had liked him, they wouldn't have crucified him. If they didn't crucify him, he couldn't have died for your sad. If he didn't die for your sin, he couldn't have fulfilled his mission. Is God using in your life? The dirt to create. And bring forth because that's what he did. In genesis one. And I think that's what he's been doing in me. Some words God gives you as a preacher, are not meant to be shared. And that's frustrating. When the lord speaks to me, I get excited. You can ask my family. This isn't going to show I put on. I'll grab the kids in the middle of video games, come here, you got to hear this. And I start preaching to the kids, all right? All right. And then sometimes the lord will give me something. That I think is just for me. And that's what happened to me with genesis one. Okay, let me tell you something about creative work. Because I consider myself creative, a creative person, you know? And well, I mean, in this area of life I'm creative. Other things I've never do. I can't do arts and crafts. I don't like arts and crafts. Like some people go through the supply section of the Walmart and stuff. And they just get all excited in the craft section. Oh, glue sticks. I was taking Abby through Barnes and over the other day. She was getting excited about colored pencils. I never in my life got excited about a colored pencil. And all of my kids are different. You know, all good at different things. And it took me a while to realize that as God reveals your assignment in life, it will surface your insecurities. There's that word again. Surface because remember when God started showing genesis one too. I pulled this last minute to show you. It said that in the beginning, before God spoke anything, the spirit of the lord hovered over the waters. You have others to get it in there. I definitely gave it to him last minute, so it's not their fault. But look what it says. That the earth was formless and empty. Now that just doesn't mean that there was nothing there. The connotation of these words and Hebrew is that it was chaotic. It was not just formless and void. It was chaotic. It was empty, and it was futile. Frustrated. Like, your life. Sometimes, not all the time. I know right now you look amazing. But that's your surface self. That's your Sunday self. Aha. I will put a nest camera in your house this week, and then I'll come preach to you, not based on what you showed me on Sunday, but what you dealt with on which day the make me bring a Wednesday word in this church this week that I saw you on Wednesday in the spirit. The lord was hovering over the surface and he brought forth something out of that. So I was going to genesis one because I'm trying to understand not only am I professional life, but as a parent, as a husband, as a man who wants to be like Christ and some people said it's a midlife crisis, but I don't really look at it that way. I just think it's the process that we all go through. Of trying to figure out like, how can I know that God is my father, know that he's my provider. See him do so much miracles. So many things. And still be insecure. How come it even seems like? Success creates extra insecurity. 'cause now.
TechtalkRadio
"pr department" Discussed on TechtalkRadio
"Find a PR department anymore. I have sent emails to them because we wanted to feature one of their newest cases on one of our segments for TV. Nothing back. Two emails, nothing back. You know, so we all of course there. You know, and it's the same thing goes with Nvidia. We've had, you know, we've had some of the bigwigs from Nvidia, you know, from diamond when they were on Apple. It's a very difficult to reach as well. We used to have a great relationship with Apple. Very hard. And I don't know if it's the influx of podcasters that are, you know, starting up going, hey, we want to look at this and we want to look at that for broadcasters that makes it difficult, but it's been a chore. I mean, Logitech is great. They've got people, but I still go through a third party company to do stuff with them. Yeah, true. So yeah, it's really difficult. So I don't know if wise has a PR department or somebody, but I went on their website. It was real difficult to find anybody. I'd love to just let them know, hey, you know, we got a guy on the show that loves wise. Yeah. You know? Well, I mean, you could always try to look up this CEO of wise and try to I was gonna ask you about that. There is a website for people who want to reach a company like CEO or Graham Cuba that I know that and you've mentioned it before and I think we used to have it on our website so that people you know when they have a statement or they have a complaint or they have a comment that they know at least it may get to the grand poobah himself and you actually had this work for you in Denver. I did. Yeah, I'll tell the story again. I want to say it's let me think here. It's definitely email. It's funny. If I type in email the boss, right? It wants to send an email to your boss. No, no, if I say email the boss in Google, yeah. Tech talk radio is the second link. Well, of course, yeah. Of course. Yeah, because we've talked about it. We've talked about it, yeah, but yeah, so it's email the boss dot org. I want to say. Right. Let me see here..
This Old Marketing
"pr department" Discussed on This Old Marketing
"And you know. We talked about long time before who we thought could purchase. I mean how many conversations did you. I have over dinner and drinks and say who could buy like wheat right and we knew we we were. We were almost growing ourselves for these different companies. So if you're a constant entrepreneur in your starting something you should start to know your exit if you want to exit and sell and this could be something where i wanna say. Quick payout but eighteen months is amazing acceleration of. Here's incredible and it's really enough time to to to you. Know i mean honestly. It's not even enough time to really build the business you know they were just figuring thing. Is you know what. I mean you up. It's not enough time to figure out the business in eighteen months but it is enough time to figure out the audience and the absolutely and that's what they did and they built their audience and they had a good following and honestly i don't know what the revenue of figures are but it probably was more of audience. Land grab in this case. Because they've well. I think it was a and pallet. Right this was you know when you look at you know when you look at the portfolio of axel springer. And you're absolutely right. I mean if you guys want to just see like a company that knows how to acquire and build a portfolio of media operations. Just go look at their news. Know the segment of their the portfolio. That is news and media rolling stone. You know know insider you know so many different and just they cover the gamut of all these things. And i'm sure when it was. We're going to acquire politico. They looked at it and went. Oh right there's this other thing protocol what what is that. How how many okay they got. They got a little bit of momentum. Going oh my gosh. Look at the talent there. Let's get where they're coming along for the ride. You know what i mean. That was it was all about recognizing the talent of what they were able to do. So yeah incredible. So that's that's what that was the takeaway for me it was. Y'all think there's a newly. There's a new mob because of all the money that's out there that in my opinion it's not going to go away for a while. There's an opportunity but a lot of consumers are late to the business because they don't understand that your exit strategy starts at launch. It doesn't start when you wanna tackling. That's right that's right. That's right nor does it have to be ten years. It could be. What's your what's your goal. what's your timetable. You then you then you just figure out okay. Do you want to sell for one. Million fifty thousand twenty million. Whatever the case is and you figure out how what would you need to get to certain points so yeah i hear you go all right moving on to our next story here which is a fascinating one and i have to say especially fascinating to me is a. It's a new. We've talked about this before with our friends at spotify and this comes right from the. I guess the pr Department of spotify and basically their announcement that they have opened up podcast subscriptions to all every podcast or that wants to be part of it and they open up by saying again. This is just breaking news just a couple of days ago. They opened up by saying we have long. This spotify saying this. We have long believed that creator should have a variety of options at their fingertips when it comes to deciding how to monetize their work..
Girls Night with Stephanie May Wilson
"pr department" Discussed on Girls Night with Stephanie May Wilson
"Search become a standout candidate and help you leandra dream career and you also promised to make the process fund and i knowed all the women who are listening to just turn up the volume because this is so hard my husband and i am told this story on the podcast a couple of times but my husband and i lost our jobs. We were working at the same company and we lost their jobs three months before our wedding. Which was oh my. God full stress a lot of unneeded stress. We were playing for jobs in my gosh. I filled out so many online applications and i tweaked my resume a thousand times. I wrote the bus cover letters. I could think of and i did not hear back from anybody it just. It is so hard to one find a job in to get yourself noticed above all the other people that are applying. I'm sure my my resume was in a stack of like a thousand for some of those jobs. So i mean i know. I'm not the only one who is felt totally frustrated and intimidated by this. So i want to start at the beginning. Tell us a little bit about your background. It's like how did you get here. How did you start doing the work you did. And then we're going to dive in. And i'm gonna ask you all kinds of questions that i know we all have on this subject. Yes so my story is a little bit convoluted and how i got here. If you would've told me in college that i would have ended up being a career coach. I would've said what's that. How do i become that. And do i really wanted to do that. And i went to school. I got a finance degree. And i got a marketing degree. I had no idea what i wanted to do. And my parents lovingly push me into into financing. Hey this reasonable career. Hey you should try it out. And i said okay and someone gave me a job and i said okay. I'll work so i landed. My first job worked ended up working in investment banking. So if you're familiar with investment banking at all. It is a very very roughly salads associated with it. I was working one hundred hours a week in my first job. I was mentally drained physically drained as you can imagine. I developed an eating disorder. During that time period it was terrible. It was really awful all this time. I wasn't really believer. I had grown church. But i really didn't understand what faith really meant to me and especially in that job i was. I was just a hotness to say the least and i remember. There was this moment where i was a saturday morning because i was at work naturally saturday morning i was at work. I was laying on the bathroom floor. I had just had an episode with I believe me a- and so we're getting super personal heroes. Superfast is what this is all about. And i was just as lane in the bathroom floor with my my head against the floor and i just said god. I don't know if you're real but if you are you got to get me out of here. And a couple of weeks later. I had a sorority sister from my college retouched me and say hey there this job. The new york stock exchange. I think can be really good for it. We need to get you out of where you're at. And i was just like i have no time to repair. Okay i'll go. I went to that interview and i. It was worst interview. I've ever done a cry during the interview. The worst thing i've ever done and somehow some way. They granted me the job. So i ended up working at the new york. Stock exchange got out of investment banking. Worked on wall street for a couple a couple more years which was an amazing amazing experience in his. It's historic building. It's a part of our country's history. I got to see all these companies go public in. While i was there i got to actually explore different things that i was interested in. I talked to the marketing department. I talked to the pr department and realized that i had a knack for for sales and talking to people like my favorite job that i did at the new york. Stock exchange was touring the ceo's around the exchange telling them what was what what the different places wearing. What it in the history behind. It doesn't maybe it'll be a tour guide now now not a tour guide. Probably but i thought sales might be something. That was interesting to me. So i kind of transitioned from there in an longer story with that. But i transitioned in ended up working for a start-up at the time i was the thirty third employee for this really small career platform called the muse dot com on. If you've never heard before a highly recommend writing that down the muse dot com has a wonderful resources for career advice in coaches in companies that are interested in hiring people that care about culture so it was just an amazing experience to growth that company over the course of two years and simultaneously. I started a side. Hustle and at outgrew coaching Because i was in that space. I had a story that i was pretty good at figuring out how to land offers and get job offers and so i wanna teach people how to do it and ended up going full time when i moved out of new york about a year and a half ago here to nashville south as a little bit about my story. A lot jam packed in there. That's amazing okay. I'm so glad we got to have some backgrounds. I'm gonna jump in and ask you just a ton of questions. How do you feel about that. Please deal so. The first question is on your homepage. I kind of love everything that you said. Sort of broke our questions down in terms of that. So that's a little outline. If if that's hopeful we're so the first question you talked about hating our job. I think that so many of us have been there. If we're not there right now but i think something that happens that a lot of us figure this is life. We don't always love our jobs. This is part of adulthood and in some ways. I think that's true even our dream jobs don't always feel like a dream. But how do we know when it's time to move on or look for a different opportunity. Win is where's that line between. I'm having hard day and this is not the right place for me. Yeah so tell people you're never going to have one hundred percent dreamed double all the.
The Adam Carolla Show
"pr department" Discussed on The Adam Carolla Show
"Hey just a steel town girl saturday night so on top of things that's on top of things they are being valvoline motor oil because Chained doing oil change on one of the cars and got all the different weights. Got all the different reviews ended up making the purchase. They give you the best price. It's it's just better it's bang. It's another decision. Made thanks to bring the decision. Engine all right. Gina grad You got the news share deal not quite yet but it's coming to make sure everyone's queued up I wanna thank everybody. I got nice email from my editor today and She said hey. Good news We moved up a few notches. On the new york times bestseller lists you usually sort of slough off and then that's the way it works almost like when a movie comes out maybe start off it number one or number two and then as the weeks where on you drop down and eventually drop out of the top ten We were number eight. And then we're like number eighteen and then we're like number thirty one and then we popped up to like twenty eight which doesn't sound like any big whoop but we didn't go down. We went up so when all the New books came out on tuesday. Normally you move over a little bit when the new books come out. We're actually going up and that's a thanks to all you people but in my never ending. I would like my next book to be called. I never thought adults would be this stupid. I got this thing and and please help me out here. Because people say when i make sort of simple requests there have simple ideas or things that would fall under the heading of no shit or no duh of course or sure anyone who did this for a living with think of that sort of thing. Of course anyone over twenty five with two fucking brain cells to rub together with come to this people say to me a lot. They go adam. You're smart and people. Don't think like you do and i go. I'm not that smart. I'm really not in what i'm thank you. Wait a minute. And what i'm suggesting is not very smart. It falls under the no shit. Not the will your super bright. I have ideas. That are good ideas. And i'll tell you when they're when i think of them. Oh yes i shall. But this wasn't one of them. So i got a thing back for my editor and she said Hey good news. You know the books doing good and it's having a second life in. It's still going strong. And they've decided to Get some new money together and do a new ad campaign and the they have a new thing and we want to show you the ad campaign and it's an online thing and it's a picture mean picture of the cover the book and couple lines about the book and then it goes to sort of online thing and i thought that's flattering. That's nice. they've they've got a few few ducats in. They're throwing it behind the book and it's hard to tough business to book business. It's hard to get them behind you in your book and Especially hard to get them to sort of repledged. They did it the first time a month ago but they've decided to sort of repledged themselves and i i thank them for it but as i was looking at this thing this picture of me on the cover of my book and a couple of words underneath it i saw and then i saw the email the next day saying well. We're going out with this. And i sort of thought about it and i thought wait a minute. Shouldn't it have one of those little stickers that says new york times bestseller like i see on every single book. That's on the new york times bestseller thing that little gold star. They put on the thing. That seal of approval. Yeah it's kind of like when our movie came out and we got two thumbs up from at the movies. And i said don't you want to put two thumbs up on there and they're like i dunno you. Think so well seeings how every other fucking movie on the planet. That's lucky enough to get two thumbs up from cisco and whoever do it and it wasn't cisco but the point is was roper and whoever but the point is yes. I'd say i mean. Listen if i won a gold medal in the winter olympics i put gold medal winning or billet surprise. Or you know. I ain't bragging but i'm just saying state in fact i'll ask you this. How many movies they get two thumbs up at the movies Make no mention of it on the cover. The dvd cover. Is there any none none. As a matter of fact. I'll take a step further when they get one thumbs up one thumbs up. They go thumbs up at the movie they do. There's a way of sort of describing it that makes it seem like you got two thumbs up when you didn't hubert alone gives them thumbs up. He just says thumbs up to this movie so it is thumbs up. So it's a solitaire. You take a look at the hammer. Dvd jacket which came out. You know four months after we got the two thumbs up at the movies. I don't think there's anything on there about getting two thumbs up at the understated arguably the biggest most prestigious review show ever. But now not not gonna do that. So that was my crazy idea. So i wrote back to the editor. Which one of those gold stickers it says new york times bestseller list so this new audience you're trying to market it to you can go. Oh well maybe there's something here and she wrote me back good catch. We'll see if we can get it in that we've already. We've already released it but maybe for the next round but she literally said hey nice grab are they gonna make you buy all the books back like oh synchrony stickers no just for the ad and i just start why am i thinking first off and i love my editor. She sweet and she's good at her job except for this part of it and it's not even her job. It's the pr department but when you have a first off. Here's what i want to scream. Everyone i want to get on top of a mountain with bullhorn. But one. Dr seuss withdraw and yell. What you do for a living. This cannot be at this. There's no way this isn't march into the crown random house. Pr department ago police. Tell me what you do. Please tell me please tell me. You're you're a shiite muslim sleeper cell. There something your work your reporting type. Al qaeda's there's something going on. There's no way you do this if you have a new york times bestseller. Don't you almost did that. The first fucking thing you put on there when you're doing any kind of advertising are like i said whatever it is you did if you wanna if you won a super bowl or got a medal of any kind and again. We live in a society.
The Small Business Radio Show
What Will Amazon Do Next in 2021?
"The other day announced a new ceo. And so we're is amazon. Going in two thousand twenty one and how can small business owners actually participate hit. Help is jason boys. A season entrepreneur and nationally rise x. nationally recognized expert on amazon. He's considered the world's leading expert in dot com third party sellers. He's the founder and ceo of avenue seven media llc a seller group that harnesses the power of amazon for direct to consumer product brands. He's also the co author of the amazon jungle. The truth about amazon and the sellers guide to thriving on the world's most perilous e commerce marketplace jason. Welcome to the show. Thank you bury. Congratulations to you. Six hundred and twenty six show twelve years you know. He started with just one person. So tell me how you've been doing during this pandemic. Our business has been booming Amazon scott galloway came out and wrote a book about The pandemic amazon a company that was built for something like a worldwide pandemic and they've benefited greatly and frankly so's my business. Because so many small businesses that had regional brick and mortar retail store outlets that. Just shut down on him and folks were were kind of on the fence prior to the pandemic called and said jason get amazon tomorrow. Can you help me so our business has been. I mean we keep up very hits been it's been You know a bittersweet story. It's good news that our businesses doing great as results pandemic. But it's been a really difficult time for everyone. Any recession is always winners. And there's losers. But i tell you one thing jason happen. This year that i never thought could happen in relation to amazon. I couldn't believe they couldn't deliver in two days. Came buried i. I made some predictions in early october. That fda and amazon delivery network was going to break. It ended up not breaking but they broke the post office. They bury them with so met much volume that they literally couldn't couldn't handle it and you're absolutely right. There were very few packages that were delivered to people's doors within two day window within that one day window even still though what they did. This holiday in terms of ramping up delivery final mile warehousing added fifty percent of square footage and like four months. I mean it's historic area. It's pretty incredible what they did so just recently announced. Jeff bezos is going to step down. Ceo and there was a joke on facebook. That says well i guess he's fully invested 401k. Now that's why he's stepping down. But one predictions you have for twenty twenty one with amazon given a new ceo and the hopefully the winding down of the pandemic. Yeah well you know. I hope jeff vases is going to be okay with the pay reduction. Moving from fulltime. Ceo to just executive chairman. You think you'll be okay hope but yeah you look i. I don't think that amazon is going to miss a beat. You know the minute. The announcement came out which by the way was interesting enough announced around the same time as their blow out. Q four earnings call Historic in its own right Potentially to deflect which amazon's pr department is really good at About how great they have benefited in his really tough time for our country But look amazon's not going to miss a beat andy jazzy. Jeff clone bleeds amazon. Blew has been basically attached to jeff bezos hip for more than twenty years. He's an incredibly talented competency. Oh who took. Aws from zero to fifty percent market share in the cloud. Space according to gartner so He's incredibly talented. He will help Execute on jeff bezos division. Basil's we'll take a back seat behind. The curtain is gonna shove jesse in front of congress and answer. All those difficult antitrust questions and basis is going to work on what he loves doing which is invention and future technology. Whatever amazon looks like five ten years from now will have been developed from. Basil's mind so he's not going anywhere. He's just removing himself from some of the shall we say more uncomfortable task. It's going to land on jesse's lap in the next You know one to ten years. As i trust drums or are beating louder and louder. So let's talk about some of the trends that you've been discussing Tell us about how you think. Amazon is getting into healthcare. They are already in healthcare. I mean they're providing primary care for you know scores of their own employees tens of thousands of their employees they They famously removed themselves from joint venture with jamie diamond and berkshire hathaway recently In the rumors from within inside amazon at the reason they did that is because they were holding back and the amazon pharmacy group which spun up recently. we're saying we can't move fast you know. We can't move fast because we're being held up by chasing in berkshire hathaway. So i saw that. A lot of a lot of people in the press came out berry and said oh. This means amazon can't figure out healthcare. It's too difficult. It's too challenging. I didn't see that at all. I just saw that you know amazon. Saw this as cutting weight so that they can really focus on what they do. And that's innovate
Planet Money
Health insurance whistleblower: I lied to Americans about Canadian medicine
"When I first moved to New York from Canada back in two thousand, I went to visit a park. And I made the mistake of sitting down in the grass and something bit me. In New York. That's probably the best thing that could happen to you sitting on the ground. So the bite got worse and I didn't have any health insurance but I had to go see a doctor who so I went to a clinic in my neighborhood and they were gonNA charge me like a lot of money. No welcome to America me a lot of money and I was not used to paying money to go see a doctor. So the whole thing was like super foreign they would try to explain to me what was happening and I did not understand and I would talk to my friends and people about what was going on and I was like trying to figure it out and they're like, yeah. But isn't this better than what you had in Canada? and. They would say things like. You know I thought Canadians waited forever to go see a doctor and I thought Canadians couldn't get the treatments that they needed and and I will always remember this detail. They would say Canadians die in hallways they die lying on gurneys in the hallways of hospitals waiting for treatment and the people that said this to me were not conspiracy minded types. These were people who I knew and I respected and I just was like, where are you guys getting these stories from? So, flash forward to this past summer, and I'm scrolling through twitter I. I see this article by someone who used to work in the Health Insurance Industry and the headline according here is. I sold Americans ally about Canadian medicine big old lie. This was the guy who had made up all of those lies I'm I'm at fault here, and then the work I'm doing now is to make amends for all the work that I did. To perpetuate those beliefs those miss about the Canadian system. This is Wendell Potter he ran the PR DEPARTMENT OF CIGNA Health Insurance for a long time. Now, he's a whistleblower when I talked to him, he told me that part of his job was to run campaigns to specifically bad mouth. Healthcare. Because for decades, one of the biggest fears of the insurance industry in the United States was that Americans would discover that just to the north was a place that had essentially no health insurance companies. A place where the government ran healthcare systems a place where people live longer than Americans and have lower infant mortality rates of place called. Canada.
The Indicator from Planet Money
Jamaican Monetary Policy: Behind The Music
"So, we called up the Central Bank of Jamaica ask what was going on with their music video and they put us in touch with Wayne, Robinson in economist and deputy governor at the Central Bank of Jamaica. Hello Wayne you're here with us now thanks for joining us I very basic question. What does the Central Bank of Jamaica do okay. Have you heard about the fit? The US. I'm sure. Yes. The equivalent of the US Fed Meka. Responsible for overseeing the financial system. Are also responsible for monetary policy. The issuing of notes and coins so I was on twitter. kind of scrolling through very distressing stories and I saw something that you posted on the Jamaican. Central. Bank. And it was like. It was all these dancers and it was like it was like a music video. Yes, think you are speaking to our, what was I looking at? Okay, the government took a policy decision. As part of its economic reform program. Transitioning or monetary policy framework and our and our monetary policy strategy. To what is called A full-fledged inflation targeting strategy. This innocence see what you're saying now is exactly like that is the kind of language I expect out of a central bank right I mean, it's very, it's very technical. Word. And precisely you're. I think you're not alluding to the challenge we face then. How do we break down just what I said to you? In language that. Every single individual can understand and can appreciate. And that was a challenge. Tour Pr Department and one of the things nor Jamaica. You knew that we're a country that is renowned and we love music and the PR department. decided to try to capitalize on this to try to tell the story in a language that everybody's speaks and everybody understands that language is is music particularly Reagan music music videos with like dancing and like everybody's talking about inflation rates. Yes. and. It's the what is it the low stable and predictable inflation? Predictable inflation. And inflation just it's it's the amount that prices rise. So inflation really high that means prices are going up a lot and and people get really scared because they're saving starts to be feel less valuable. Also. Begin to worry. So, then they will then go back on their investments as well. So that will affect employment and growth I feel like for time at least at the Central Bank of the US, there was sort of an effort made to be as cryptic as possible. The idea of clearly communicating monetary policy so that everyone can understand like that's actually not that's pretty new. Roof central banks. To recognize this imperative. And, a number of central banks have tried to change their approach. But I think coming out of the global financial crisis where one of the major challenges encountered was that are traditional tools of monetary policy I. Think Right across the globe central banks recognize that we had to augment those traditional tools and in a context we're not sion's where the market expectations and with an auditor man's. Rations really matter a lot. The central banks came to the realization that the hot to then a just how they communicate in order to affect those very same expectations with our which are important. Central banks they're known for being very formal, very stuffy cryptic, and even though there has been some movement away from that like you guys have just gone like totally in the other direction I mean this is like speedy. It's like exuberant and fun and people are dancing at it's just like so it's like the opposite of everything I associate with central banks. That was a deliberate strategy because we're. At the outset, the first thing that we needed to do was to grab people's attention. Because other say economics monetary policy issues tend to be very critic very boring very to use your term Recoba crosses as has been very stuffy. So we had to radically change that. So this is the first step was to grab attention. And then the knicks fees then was to then try and break down don't issues to do that. We had to do something radical. I feel like one of the things that central banks really try to do it's very important for them to be taken seriously because there's a lot of trust that is necessary in a banking system. was there any worry that like this might make people trust the central bank glass that it might seem like less serious? No No. No. That wasn't our concern really because, okay. One thing you really recognize with a need to connect to people. You can't build that trust unless you create a bridge on this, you meet that connection. And so this was the main strategy that we thought was necessary to make that connection in order to build that trust. Do you think other central banks should take a page from you guys and be More fun more accessible or sure almost definitely. But the precise strategy the precise methode would be a function of the audience that they're targeting. Are you in? Are you in Kingston Right now? Yes. The capital. Yes. Are you working from home? Are you going to the office now Willa? Combination? Some days in some days I I work from home. One of the strangest thing is that coming into the office? You're virtually alone here. Because we have minimal staff that that comes in. Do you Miss Your Coworkers Oh? Yes. Oh yes. The coffee breaks the chops accommodate. Over coffee. Yes. That's sort of camaraderie dot a about various direct social interaction. And the two should know we are thinking of ways you know to. Sort of encourage this evening this virtual world. Well, thank you so much for making the time I. so appreciate it. That's that's my pleasure. Stacey. Yambio. Nation.
Nonprofit Everything
Social Justice
"Should our nonprofit take a stand on social justice issues. If we think it might alienate some donors. Oh topical questions Mad We can tell what's on people's minds and I'm glad that this is on people's minds because it's a really important question. I have an opinion and if you're gonNA guess what my opinion is, which is. Absolutely. So so there's tons of research, and and before we get too far. This is ab absolutely. Bring in a guest expert because this is the kind of lead to. This is the kind of thing where people who know way more about this than we do. But, but there's there's a ton of research out there and people in the nonprofit sector, probably more likely to believe it than people in the corporate sector are that. When you take a stand on social issues, you bring the people that are interested in what you've got to say much closer to you and the people that were never interested in you to begin with are not going to have their minds changed by you taking a stand on a particular social issue. I can talk about my time at three. Square I think I've probably told this story on the podcast before to. We got a handwritten note. A check for I think twenty five dollars on it and the handwritten note said. Here's twenty five dollars. I would like you to use this money to feed American citizens only. Hell I remember that we talked about. It's been two years. We talked about like that right, and and we had no hesitation at the food bank like I. You know I looked at it. I knew what I wanted to do I brought it to the executive or the CEO. I said Hey. This is what we got. This is what I WANNA do. And the blessing was absolutely. That's what you should ride. There was not even any discussion internally about. Let's not hurt her feelings, so we drafted a letter, which said that much your donation. However, we cannot restrict donations specifically to people who are American citizens, and that's it and we returned it back to her with that little note. There's a one hundred percent chance. She never gave another donation to the food bank again, but that was twenty five bucks right, so it was absolutely wasn't a really hard. We weren't selling our morals for a significantly amount at large amount of money was just a very well. And you and I both know that amount of money shouldn't matter. I know within a matter, but like we don't know this reader talks about alienating some or this. You know this person says they're alienating some donors. We don't know what size donors were talking about, but I still. That doesn't make a difference in my opinion. I just think. I would I would say my push pushback to that would be that. What donors are you alienating by? Not taking a stand because there's been a whole I I've been following all these sort of private facebook groups that have nonprofit professionals in groups with you know nonprofit executive directors all over the country that are talking about this and I would say if I were just roughly speaking. Ninety percent of people right now are putting out some statement because a it's so intertwined in every mission out their rates. Social Justice issues are at the core of those I think the key is making sure that it is. Not done in a sloppy manner or a an obligatory manner I. I don't know about you. Andy, but I've seen so many statements that come out that feel like people are doing it to check the box. Instead of actually it's core values. It's the way they work and I. Think People can see through that so I do think you have to be careful about that as an organization, so, but it comes back to your fundamental values. Your mission your how you? who you serve a to me, it feels it just feels like a even if it's a donor on the line like what about the donors who are waiting to see what you say? I think you gotta look at it from both lenses absolutely I mean and you have you make a good point about like especially right now. There's a lot of every corporate PR. Department has put out some sort of statement it says either black lives, matter or something close enough to that that they don't feel like they're actually going to put their foot in anything. They don't mean to put their foot in and and you can tell just by the way they're written whether or not they mean. Whether or not, it's like. I. Read Someplace recently that that saying we need to do better is about the same as hopes and prayers for gun violence like it, it just something that comes out of your mouth, and it means you have absolutely no intention of doing something about it. So when we talk about know in the nonprofit sector. Your your integrity is all you have, and you realize that your people are going to give to you because believe in your mission one hundred percent of the time and some of the other things, so there's there's other studies that are just recent. That are so interesting because they're tangential to this, not the same thing, but it's like if if you find out that there's a charity for that serves cats in a charity. This serves dogs and you're a dog person. You've always been a dog person. You give the dog person charity, and then you read a study or read something in the newspaper that says. The dog charity is. Seventy five percent effective and the cat charities ninety five percent effective. It doesn't matter your dog person. You're still giving to the dog charity, which means that the purpose that caused the reason that you're a nonprofit is always going to be much more important than the individual activities that you undertake and provided. You're not terrible now that you're not coming down on the wrong side of this thing. And if you if you do come down the wrong side of it out, you get what you deserve
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
Carlos Beltran Out as Mets Manager After Astros' Cheating Scandal
"We got the news about one o'clock today that yet. Another person untied to the Houston Astros. Cheating scandal has lost his job. Carlos Beltran recently hired by the mets to be there next managers out of his job before even having having a meeting in spring training. That's because he was named in. The Commissioner's report released the other day for his role in the Astros signed stealing scandal of two thousand seventeen eighteen Beltran and the mets both indicated. Today that this was a mutual decision but I suspect that a week or two weeks ago even those with knowledge of the science dealing details from two thousand in seventeen believed that Houston. GM Jeff Luneau Astros Manager Aj. Hinch Red Sox manager Alex Cora now Carlos Beltran would still have have their jobs and they're all out and that's where we are probably Vera covers baseball for ESPN. She knows. Carlos Beltran now score very well Marley. How you doing? It's been a crazy week. I think crazy is a very good adjective buster special like no that totally can managers. Were highly touted. I don't have a job today. Unbelievable let's let's start with Carlos Beltran. That is the the most recent news. I'm going to also ask you about Alex. Corsie is we go forward but but I about Carlos. I thought that when the mets didn't put out a statement immediately on Monday evening after the Commissioner's report came out out the fact that the mets didn't come out right away and have a statement from Jeff Wilpon from Brody Bandwagon. And saying this is our guy. Carlos Beltran is our manager edger. And that's what we're going to do moving forward because what was in the report involved the Houston Astros in two thousand seventeen. The commissioners made it clear that Carlos this is not going to be disciplined for his role in that because he's the player at that time but the fact that they didn't put out that statement on Monday and then dragged out into Tuesday day and then Wednesday. You could see that the mets they were weighing their options and just as someone who covered the mets back in one thousand nine hundred seven having worked in New York market for a long. I've never seen an organization that is more affected by public opinion than the mets. And I thought Yep that he at some point. They're going to let him go. What what did you think absolutely couldn't agree more with what you said? And not only that the fact that you know one of the reasons why they hired Beltran was because it was excellent in publicity. Ns S you. And I know spending so much time covering baseball in New York. The mets have failed many times on the PR department. And this would hiring hiring Carlos Beltran. They bought themselves all this goodwill right the return of the prodigal son with everything that had happened when he had left the comments of the Wilpon when he used to be a you know. Oh a mets player. Everything gets kind of water under the bridge. There's just you know one of the most impressive press conferences that I have attended you know at city field so it was just as big. Pr Moment and then all of a sudden I agree with you. They got swayed by public opinion. And one of the things that Carlos Beltran and as you mentioned before which is important you state. The aren't family our friends of mine. So my activity here Sometimes can be a little bit swayed but the point is that can handle the media. He's been you know he was a player for twenty a years worked on a capacity assistant with the Yankees and so on and I feel that this was in my opinion. Definitely a wilpon decision muster. Oh No no question. The way this was described I think Carlos but at a statement they talked about a mutual decision. No way like this like Carlos I think absolutely was set on going forward but they say as all the conversation was taking place in New York to columnists were were taking aim at this and they are asking questions. Well what. What did the mets ask Carlos about? After the first athletic story came out about the signed stealing. And how would the mets feel about Carlos not having credibility with the media and it became a real hot topic on talk radio here and one stat ball started rolling downhill and then Aj hinch losses job and Jeff Luna lost his job and Alex. Cora lost his job. There was no way the mets leadership was going to stand in the way of that momentum and stand up and say in the past it was in the past which by the way is what Brody van wagon and said back in November. He kind of indicated like well. That's not really a mets problem. That's an astros throws problem. But their their their words their tone definitely changes week the only aspect that I can you know Ah have gone in this process. One of the things were Carlos may have had some input. Devil's advocate here. Is that one of the things that Carlos Beltran they'll turn and and you and I have covered a great deal of is the fact that he does not like off. The field distractions buster. And I think at that is the part or they'll go. You know what this is the right decision. He is one of those guys that likes to talk baseball. I remember what it was like the whole scandal with Iran in the Yankees Yankees Carlos Beltran was part of the Yankees Organization at the time as a player and he refused to engage in sort of those conversations so there is an aspect of how much he doesn't like the distraction and then that part certainly you know he could have had any input on but I I agree with you. This isn't you know the mets founded selves in an island. Having to make a decision and they got swayed by Jim Crane did and obviously you know what the Boston Red Sox decided to do. After the imposition of a penalty suspension to Alex Score. So let's breakdown go by the way. Yeah exactly breakout some other elements of this What do you think the mets miss out on? Not Having Carlos Beltran altron their manager. Carlos Beltran is an excellent leader. And I think that's one of those things that has been a little bit missing the New York Mets Organization. He drives arrives you. He's one of those guys that inspires others other players and he also galvanizes clubhouses right. He he was the player for the day when he was with the Yankees. Hanky along with Andrew Miller he always has always been so well spoken and he crosses that kind of you know barrier quote Unquote Latino players. And you know the players that are not Latino and I felt that he could galvanize that clubhouse very very well and I think that's the number one thing that the mets are going to miss out on and this is a man who obviously has left the game for a long time doesn't need the money this isn't right and it was honestly doing this job because he truly wanted to make an impact in organization that really has lost their way a little bit in the last couple of years so I think it's a huge loss. So they mess. We're GONNA do not have Carlos Beltran but I do understand the decision. In terms of the whole quote in quote distractions off the field now. I'm not as close to him as you are if I was I think and he asked me my advice in this situation. Now that he's lost the job of the mets would. I think I would tell them was Carlos you need to hold a press conference in New York have rent out a room at a hotel or restaurant invite all the reporters to come and basically say I'm here to answer all your questions about what went on with Houston with me back in two thousand seventeen eighteen. Because I think that's the only way he's going to be able to manage at some point down the road and all I heard for the last decade is this is someone who absolutely terrific manager in the future future. He has to be great at this job but I think that would allow him to and let's face he's never going to move past this. It's already cost him his job but at least to get past those questions would be to tell the writers. I'm here to answer every question you people have about what take place and I'll tell you exactly really what happened. What do you think about that? I don't know that I mean I. I would love for that to happen. Let's be very clear. I don't know that the benefit for for Carlos it's worth it If if one of the drugs and he said this in an introductory press conference specifically said I didn't want any job I don't need need a job. I wanted to stay in New York. Carl has very very young children. They're all right like very yes. Three kids are all very young during school in your this is where they reside the kids go to school will. So there's only two baseball jobs that he would apply for the New York Yankees and the New York mets and he's not gonna get either one of those jobs so I just don't think that at this point point it benefits the family anyway and I do think that Carlos will do what's best for his family especially having young children Buster and I know you know that you had young children at one time. It's the point that these kids have to see the paper tomorrow. They're going to be in school. They're old enough. You know and I feel like it would rehash a lot of topics. Is that right now. Maybe people are going to move on you know and and just gone from that now if he later on when the kids are a little bit older he wants to do something else. Maybe at that point but but at this point I just don't see the benefit.
WSJ What's News
Goldman struggles to build new income stream
"Now our main story this morning it has to do with the future future of Goldman Sachs. The Investment Bank has been trying to attract a very different type of customer lately. These are people who are looking for traditional banking services like savings accounts. It's the retail banking effort is called Marcus but it's been struggling. Charlie Turner Has Been Finding out why from Peter Ruediger Peter Goldman Sachs has been known as the bank focused on stock trading mergers. IPO's but isn't the company pinning its hopes or at least more of its hopes on Marcus. It's consumer lender always marcus done done really since it launched in two thousand sixteen so this was a big departure from Goldman and it's been an expensive one so far so since it started making its first loans and deposits about three years ago. Marcus's ACAS lost one point three billion dollars and that's gonNA things like buying a couple of other startups data can leapfrog some of the other competitors to hiring a lot of people to staff call centers to really just sending out pieces of mail to get other people to take out one of their loan so it's been an expensive proposition so far. Goldman has had to find customers in a bid to compete with other consumer banks. Isn't it doing this through acquiring or partnering with other companies. That's right biggest banks in the country think of J. P. Morgan Chase or wells Fargo. have thousands of branches is all across the country. Goldman is a much newer bank. it's a digital bank. There's a website it doesn't have any branches so rather than kind of hang shingle on the corner and hoping somebody walks by an opening savings account it kind of has to go find the customers where they are so a credit card that with apple is one good example of that apple has one hundred million iphone users in the US what better way data can tap into a a base of young tech savvy consumers who are willing to spend then kind of offer credit card through apple some other examples that we're reporting the story. Is they're actually talking into. Aarp about maybe extending some banking services to their thirty eight million senior citizens who are AARP. Are they really counting a lot on this partnership on a credit had a card with apple where do things stand right now as it had to concede a lot of the business partnership to apple so this woman's I ever credit card because of that in order to kind of get into where some of the other big banks that have issued cards for folks like Amazon and American Airlines if Gomo wants to be on that level it in new needed a partner and apple knew it needed it it kind of get to where it wants to be so because of that there was some leverage in their relationship that apple could extract over Goldman so where do things stand with Marcus right now is Goldman in some sort regret stage or is it in the toddler stage with Marcus which is only three years old. I mean what has to happen for Marcus to stop losing so much money which I believe you. Mentioned was one point three a billion dollars one point three billion they're definitely in the toddler phase right there three years old so toddler so far what do they have to do they they have to kind of get beyond the build phase as of the programs just kind of let it run for a couple years so when you're making your first loan you have to build all kinds of systems to you know send out those pieces of mail to actually collect the payments to actually early go after delinquent borrowers and once those are built you can kind of sit back and hope that you've made the right choices in Europe models and the money could come a little bit more but you know because I've never done this before before. There are some self inflicted wounds. They've made that they may be would do differently if they had to do it over again so for instance when Marcus launched its loan program one choice that they made was not to have a team of if specialists committed to the act of collecting payments from delinquent borrowers now part of that was motivated by the fact that this is Golden Sachs who famously was called the vampire squid after the financial angel crisis headlines like Goldman Sachs sues grandma to try to recover you know delinquent loans is not something that the PR department they are really wanted to see so they're. They're a a little gun shy on doing some of that otherwise there's you know in the category of rookie mistakes. I would also say that apple card was a huge build and maybe maybe they didn't anticipate the resources that it would entail so you know in order to get this thing launched on time which debuted in August they actually had kind of repurpose in hundreds of engineers all around Goldman's projects. They are working on in other parts of the firm to be put on hold. Everybody added to come to Marquess to kind of get this apple credit card launched on time we should say that apple and Goldman declined to comment
Colleen and Bradley
Jennifer Aniston wants everyone to stop focusing on her love life: 'You’re diminishing everything I have succeeded at'
"Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Aniston who is unfortunate in love and baron of child. Yes. Yes. This is one that we have been we've. We've been seeing it everywhere since as early as I can remember is when she divorced Brad Pitt. And sometimes we almost see her seeming to push it. Complains about it. So this was the lovely thing about the podcast and Holly feel free to jump into. Because I know that you you listen to it actually before before I did. And I know you had some very thoughtful insight. The thing that really struck me as I listen to this. It's just great if you if you live in the world that we do of celebrity and you find any of this fascinating beyond just the stories themselves. I think you'll find this episode of the Dakota ring podcast about Jennifer Aniston and tabloids general very worth listening to one of the takeaways for me was how it really is a symbiotic relationship. And in fact, it's it's a Frankenstein. If you will so tabloids. Gave celebrities an opportunity to get there. You know, images raised her their their publicity, their popularity increased or it was a platform for celebrities. Right. It benefited them. But then it's sort of like switched and celebrities. They were always hated this intrusive, tabloid media and would complain about complain about a complain about it. But then this sort of way, they dealt with that is by almost. If you can't beat them join them, and then using the tabloids to the point where now really tabloids I feel like are just an extension of celebrity PR departments or celebrities PR people teams and now they're using tabloid media to benefit their own careers. Right. And Jennifer Aniston is part and parcel of that. Because. And you even hear her when she's doing in the podcast they play. Some excerpts of interviews where she complains about the tabloids and how horrible they are. And it's like what Jennifer Aniston would you have much of a movie career versus anybody else. From the cast of friends. I'd like you to just go through your mind of all the the stellar careers from the other cast members of friends versus Jennifer Aniston and tell me that those tabloid stories didn't benefit your long term. Image and career in Hollywood. Right. Right. And we yes, I mean, you you we've seen it specifically with Jennifer Aniston, certainly, but we've seen it with other celebrities too were the tabloids have been used to make us maybe forget about a bad story that came out about a celebrity where you can almost tell if you're thinking critically, you're paying attention that the stories that are being then circulated after a bad story are probably being fed to the tabloids to try to sweep that one under the rug and make you think of a good story when you think about the Kurdish they've been playing that game for years. Oh, sure. I mean, the the the clean's of of the ability to push a narrative about their family to make us believe something that may or may not be true, but is meant to help construct our belief of who they are speaking of the Kardashians. One of the reasons they were able to get a foothold in this tabloid platform is because there was an. Need for content and people like the Kardashians were more than willing to fill that void for all of these tabloid magazines. Because not only was it us weekly. Not only was it people magazine, but it was Perez Hilton was the D list is just Jared TMZ. Now, it's not just magazines. It's not just weekly periodicals. Now, it is twenty four hours online there. They have to churn out content constantly in one of the women. And the thing that I didn't like there's a piece where in Jennifer, Jennifer Aniston is talking about this tabloid coverage. And she's like in a lot of it's written by women as if to shame the women who are doing this. But you hear from some of the women in the business or who were prominent in the business or were there when it sort of took off for what it was. And it was like again, I just think that's very unhealthy and unhelpful because those women were doing a job, and they weren't ever. It's not say anybody. But for the women in particular, they were talking to those women did they were trying very hard to be as journalistic as they could. But to also fill the need that Holly just touched on, which is you have an environment where they are required. They were putting out in the case of us weekly fifty two issues a year, and she. They they had to create content. She's like people always give Saturday Night Live credit for showing up and doing a job fifteen weeks outta the year. Whereas we had to publish a full issue on celebrity coverage fifty two weeks a year, and we did it with, you know, never lying about stuff. But certainly painting a picture in a way that was salacious enough to sell sell tabloids. So they were being far more thoughtful, my point is then perhaps actors and the objects of those publications would she would give them credit freight, brain, right? You know? And I think the thing that is fascinating. Endlessly fascinating is the the level to which in that ecosystem of of Hollywood and celebrity that the paparazzi the tabloids and the stars and the publicists all rely on each other to try to elevate their careers. And yet. The celebrity is allowed to demonize the tabloids in the paparazzi. Yeah, it's sort of like a game. Right. Lincoln a nod because they know if they're smart that for every article that is written about Lindsay Lohan that affords her things like a series on MTV that another celebrity who's probably very hard working and very qualified in playing by the rules in doing the game is not getting. Yes, you know, what I'm saying? I think it's very much a symbiotic relationship. One more really quick before. I forget this. 'cause I forgot to share this with you when we were talking in the last hour about the profile that was written about Lindsay, Lohan, paper magazine, she one of the one extra thing. She did mention about