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A highlight from GENC : Innovation at the Core of Marketing with Alyson Griffin, Head of Marketing at State Farm
"Gen C is the generation of the new Internet. In Gen C, the C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer and collectibles, both digital and physical with on -chain provenance. It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. It stands for community and digital citizenship and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them. These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy and how they look at the hybrid, digital and physical spaces being built all around us. And finally, how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they interact with. We focus on how brands large and small are building for these audiences. Welcome to Gen C. Avery, I have to play you the new intro that I just made for Gen C. So here it goes. Edge of my seat. All right. So you might've noticed that was me not speaking English, but I am going to Portugal next week. So that was me speaking Portuguese. And how did I do that? Well, both you and I have been experimenting with, Hey, Jen's video translation software that utilizes AI to speak in multiple languages. You added an amazing piece that you put up on LinkedIn the other day. If you speaking Hindi, I don't know if you actually speak Hindi or not. Very limited. Very limited. But I just want to throw this stat out before I want to get your thoughts, which our is old friend, Mr. Beast, 50 % of the people who watch his videos don't speak English. And so what he does is hire voice actors all over the world to be the Mr. Beast in their local areas, because he knows that for him to go as global and get as many views as he needs, he has to be in language. And so what do you think about, Hey, Jen, and some of these new tools that are coming that will allow for video translation that is not only only, audio but as you and I have both been playing with, it also literally changes your mouth movements to be speaking the language that you've selected. Sam, thank you for turning me on to Hey, Jen. My first thought was that I was going to use it to connect my grandparents along because we do have a language barrier. And while I was sad to see that Telugu was not a supported language, I was like, it's okay. I'll do it in Hindi. And I sent it and they actually thought it was real because, you know, not everybody is familiar with powers of AI, especially with this sort of intonation, which is amazing. And then I started playing around with it a little bit more. And I want to call out Hey, Jen, but also 11 Labs, which is the voice translation that is powering all of this. Hey, Jen is sort of bringing that video, but 11 Labs does the audio. And we've been working on a couple of little things with 11 Labs in different capacities. I'm really impressed with what they're building. And it's critical because only 14 % of the world speaks English, yet 59 % of the world's digital content is in English. So if you're a person who doesn't speak English, much less, God forbid, is not literate, then you can't access the amazing, wonderful world of the internet that we all know today. It's a massive thing. I think it's early days. And of course, everybody rightfully so has questions on where is this data going? Who owns it? Who's storing it? Hey, Jen is an LA based company. And 11 Labs has raised from a number of investors, including Andre Sinso. We've done some diligence on them, but I think it's early days. But this technology is insanely powerful for brands, but in the immediate term for content creators. If I was a content creator, I would be using this immediately for my target languages, because it'll expand your reach so much, enable you to connect. And by the way, it's not going to be long before that's happening on demand. In real time, I mean. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I did the same thing you did. I recorded a video that I translated into French and I sent it to my friend in Paris. And I said, I've been working on my accent. What do you think? And he gets back to me and goes, oh, like, you're really nailing the language, you're really nailing the accent. Like, you've come a long way. I don't speak French. Because the intonation is like you, right? Right, exactly. It's cloning your voice. It sounds like a white person speaking Hindi. Like, there's some things that are colloquialisms that a local person would never say, but it sounds like how you would speak Hindi if you were very good at it. Yes. I will also say what was fascinating to me was Angelique Vendette, who I also sent the video to, responded and say, okay, here's the problem. It's speaking French Canadian. It's not speaking Paris French. And then I had other friends who because I had put it up on Instagram and for the one in Spanish, I had tagged Mexico and I said, can't wait to get back to CDMX. And someone tagged me and said, no, this is speaking European Spanish. This is not speaking Latin American Spanish. So I do think there is like a lot of nuance that still needs to get worked out in it. But just the fact that I could record a 48 second video that people in Paris and people in Mexico didn't recognize that it was AI at first. I thought it was fascinating. I think you hit it exactly, which is, oh, yeah, if I was a content creator, if I was a brand marketer and I was doing shorts, I think this is a perfect way just to get more reach for your content at a 30 to 90 second level, which should be labeled as AI also. Agreed. Definitely. Cross -country transparency, 100 percent. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. But I do think that anyone who hasn't played with the page and video translator or there, you can now do it just by uploading a photo and snippets of your voice powered by 11, as you mentioned. So you can actually create yourself saying anything without even having to record a video at this point. You could all do it by text. So it's pretty fascinating. I'm very excited for where this stuff is going, because this is the kind of use case that I think you and I look at this and we're like, this has a very tactical, tangible opportunity. And I think the stat that you just mentioned, only 14 percent speak English, but 60 percent of the content is in English is such a big business opportunity when you really think about that. So, so relevant. Let's pivot from there to a very related topic, which is I don't know if you saw this week, but TikTok has started using AI labeling and Reddit and Reddit. Right. Exactly. For TikTok, anytime you use one of the filters that utilizes AI, now it's going to be labeled as AI. They also are doing auto detection for people who are utilizing AI software and they want anyone who is utilizing AI for their content to have a label on it. I think this is a step in the right direction. I would love all news content also to be labeled like this, because there's a lot of stuff out there. I read an obituary that was driven by AI about a basketball player who had passed away and it said the basketball player is unliving. So that was the way that AI described him being dead, was that he was unliving. And so clearly there's a lot of stuff that needs to get worked out. But from a brand perspective, from a creator perspective, I think that the idea that we should know when things are being modified feels like the right thing. But do you think that affects the creator economy in any way? I think it's similar to how we do hashtag ad, like trust or transparency is key. We just need to be transparent about using these things. I've thought that for quite a while as it relates to Instagram and TikTok filtering because people get unrealistic like body images. I mean, yes, some of this happens in like magazines and photo shoots and all of that stuff it has for a long time. But I'm all about trust or transparency and the digital ecosystem. Agreed. And I also think there's a healthy respect for knowing when someone might be utilizing a tool. It's a productivity tool. It doesn't mean it has to be less entertaining. It doesn't mean it has to be less interesting. I think our enterprise brands, though, we're still at a place where like we can't just use 11 labs like at scale right now. It's not ready yet. It's like a proof of concept. This is how it could be going. And back to what we've talked about before, it's building the muscle for when this really hits scale, we're going to be ready. Correct. And in terms of just going back to Mr. Beast, who has these 13 actors that play him around the world, he said, our team is very actively looking because it's not cheap to do that. And he said, our team is very actively looking. He thought from his perspective and when their research that it's going to be still a couple of years before we actually see it being good enough where he's comfortable. What he said, which was interesting, is they've done some AB testing where they use the voice actor and then they'll use a cloning. And he said every time he does a cloning, people are calling out that something sounds wrong and it distracts them from the content in the video, which I think for someone like him is just really important to make sure it's landing. Totally, totally agree with that. Yeah. All right. Final story before we get to an amazing guest is Crossmint and MasterCard are going deeper together. So Crossmint powered this artist portal that MasterCard released a couple of months ago. It actually brought one hundred thousand people into blockchain. It was primarily based on music and that was also powered by Crossmint. And it seems that Crossmint and MasterCard are getting in bed together even more with an eye toward small business, which I thought was kind of interesting. Just the idea of easy ways when you think of utilizing your MasterCard to pay for something and then thinking about a reward system that can be on chain, that feels like it makes a lot of sense, right? I hit my 10th time at the coffee shop. I get a little NFT that says I'm a 10 timer and maybe that gets me a free coffee later. But this feels like a very natural, easy way for blockchain and brands to get together. And I want to know if you have any thoughts about that. Yeah, well, I love Rodry and the team and of course, Raja and his amazing team at MasterCard and everything that they've done in this space. So recently connected with Raja and he was like, I'm still very bullish on Web3. And one, I love him for saying that because there's so many mixed reactions right now. And it's amazing to hear leaders who continue to invest, continue to launch programs like their startup accelerator and continue to support these sort of Web3 native businesses, massive bands of what Crossmint is doing. And I think that a partnership between a payment processor and a minting tool makes a lot of sense because you're likely going to be paying maybe not thousands of dollars, but a couple bucks for some of these things. And having that super integrated is a great fit. And shout out to MasterCard for continuing to innovate in this space. I see them. I see Visa. I see the banks really continuing to lean in and identify these enterprise use cases that can make their customers both B2C and also B2B customers lives a little bit easier. Well, we have asked Raja to be on the podcast 27 times, so we're going to continue to ask until he shows up. So, Raja, if you're listening, we're coming for you. Avery, after the break, we are going to come back with Allison Griffin from State Farm, a big brain marketing thinker, so excited to hear her perspectives on marketing, on the metaverse, on Web3, on innovation in general, because she's such a great thinker on that. So we will talk to her after the break. Sounds great.
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"Allison, thank you so much for joining us here today on Gen C. We are so thrilled to have you as a guest. Thank you for having me. I'm excited. Yeah, I would love to have you share a little bit about yourself and your journey, how you landed in this role towards Gen C community. Yeah, thanks. I had a weird nonlinear path into leading the marketing team here at State Farm. I've actually been at State Farm for about two and a half years, but almost my entire career, nearing three decades, was in the Bay Area, where I was born and raised, in the high-tech industry. And most of the time, other than when I was on the agency side early in my career, it was at Hewlett-Packard and Intel. Two small companies no one's ever heard of. Yeah, right. Exactly. So global marketing, always high-tech, always started out on the public relations, so narrative side of marketing, and sort of expanded over time from there. But it was kind of interesting. I didn't start in marketing. I was in pharmacy school, actually. And from a very early age, I thought, I'm going to be a pharmacist. And I'm an only child, and so my parents were telling everybody, our lovely child is going to be a pharmacist, whatever that means. And three years into a doctor or pharmacy program, as I'm counting pills, five, 10, 15, 20, I decided, I don't think I can do this for the rest of my life. And went into an advertising class, the heavens parted, angels were singing down on me, and I thought, I'm with my people. So I kind of had this starting on the science-y side, pivoting over to the advertising and marketing side, being in high-tech in Silicon Valley my entire life, and really digging in there to kind of marry that love of tech and just being in Silicon Valley, it just sort of all collided there. And then State Farm called, and I didn't see it coming. So for me, changing out of the Bay Area, moving from California, where I'd been my entire life, leaving an industry where I was cemented and loved, meaning technology, and going over to one country of marketing versus global marketing was definitely not something I saw coming. Allison, to paraphrase the John Mulaney line. I love him. If I had a nickel for the number of people who started out in pharmacy, who ended up being guests on Gen C, I'd have two nickels, which is not very much, but more than one would expect. Very good. I love that. Oh my God, so somebody else started in pharmacy. Jeff Carvalho from Heisnabiety. Yeah, we need to connect to Jeff. Both started out in the pharmacy business. So there's something clearly about pharmacy and innovation that just goes hand in hand. Allison, speaking of which, I don't think the general public looks at State Farm or even the insurance industry in general as being one that really focuses on innovation, but clearly there's a lot in it. And especially when you think of just the realities of like complex financial instruments, there's a lot there. I'm just interested in like, what's that sort of inside look at your process? What does innovation mean to you and to the role that you are in? Yeah, so for me, I lead marketing at State Farm and I'm bringing with me that technology, innovation, mindset and spirit, which is I think what they were interested in when they were looking for somebody to take over the department and looking outside. State Farm doesn't go outside its doors very often and not at the executive level. So I think that sort of tied to innovation was something that they were interested in and looking for. From the minute I walked in the door here, I started marketing programs that had an innovation slant to them. So I'll give a couple of examples. One was when I was early on, we had a matchup between Patrick Mahomes and our then also Ambassador Aaron Rodgers. They were playing each other in a football game, which doesn't happen very often conference wise. And we wanted to make a big team State Farm innovative activation around it. So what we did was I brought an activation that I had experience with on the tech side at Intel in particular. And it was an augmented reality, I'll call it game, little football find, little footballs you could see in your phone no matter where you were in the entire country. And we were engaging current and potential customers around the country. And what we gave as one of the enterprises was NFTs. And this was when NFTs were six months old. So it was not something that the insurance category would have thought like, why are you doing an augmented reality game? What are you giving away NFTs? What is going on? And for me, it was all about capturing customers, something interesting, intriguing and different using innovation to be at the forefront of marketing. But not only for the earned media sake of it, like, whoa, isn't that interesting? Look what State Farm is doing. But it was for that connection to the customer. And to me, growing up in technology in Silicon Valley, the synopsis is that fire when you're doing something and it's fun and dopamine is spiking and you're trying to win an NFT, something that was so brand new and weird and different. We had dwell times of over 14 minutes on that game. And that was extraordinary plus opt ins to play the game. And so for us, we were doing it using innovation as that way in spiking that love inside the players, giving an experience that was new and different in a category that wasn't activating that way. And that's just like an example. I'm sure we'll talk about what we did on the metaverse coming up, but that was one of them. And so for me, bringing that love of innovation, trying new things, being on the forefront, but marrying it with actual ROI from a marketing perspective, dwell time, engagement, opt ins, those were also measures that were really important to us. I think that there's a little bit of a misnomer that we give to these experiments, which I just think we should recognize, which is you said, oh, well, yes, this is our media thing. Sometimes like marketing is about attention. There's nothing wrong also with doing things for earned media, because frankly, it's a cheaper way than doing it to buy those impressions. So I do think this idea of like the innovation as stunt gets a bad rap, because I think you guys were trying something really interesting and new. You probably got a ton of our media, which never hurts because it makes State Farm, the brand be seen as innovative and forward thinking, which is never a bad look for something. I just wonder, like I know Avery, you probably counsel people all the time on this, but I do think there's a challenge sometimes that marketers like, oh, I don't want to do a stunt, but sometimes like stunts are exactly the right marketing play. I think no one wants to do a stunt, but everyone wants earned media is something that I've heard in my time working with a lot of different brands. And Alison, I think you mentioned that you started your marketing career in PR, so you probably have that sort of muscle built. What is going to get people talking? What is going to generate earned media? What is relevant enough for consumers to care and want to engage with State Farm for 14 minutes, which is an astounding amount of time when you compare that to time spent doom scrolling on TikTok. And you know, how do you use innovation as that like relevance lever to build that experience, I think is so incredible. And I think you all did the same thing on Roblox. You mentioned AR, you mentioned NFTs. State Farm was also one of the first movers on Roblox from a brand perspective. What sort of sparked that? Was that all kind of part of your plan coming from this tech world? Yeah, so we happened to coincide, a couple of things came together. So we have a really great partner in iHeartMedia. We've been partnering with them for a long time and doing some innovative things in audio in general. And it was about to be our 100th birthday anniversary as a company. And so I was already here for about a year already had that augmented reality NFT activation under my earned media plus plus plus plus. And we were thinking about the 100th anniversary and what could we do from an innovation standpoint. So we were talking to iHeart, they had this metaverse idea. And this was when metaverse was still the only thing anyone was talking about. NFTs had been it and then bam, pivoted over to metaverse. And for us, we also in the real world are known for stadium naming rights and in sports. And so we have experience with our name out there in the real world, and experiences around people's passion points, you know, when they go to a game, when they go to a concert, things like that. So iHeart was looking to build iHeartland on two different platforms on Roblox and in Fortnite. And we wanted to take the State Farm Park naming rights in those experiences. So that was kind of number one. So number one was tying our in real world and what authentically people have seen us and are comfortable with our name and how we show up in the world and applying to this new location, if you will, the metaverse. Also, it was important to me that on our 100th anniversary, the only insurer and to this day, by the way, who made the announcement that we are not just gonna be in the metaverse, we are in the metaverse. And when I say we, I mean not only our naming rights, but Jake from State Farm. So we had had experience with him in NBA 2K. He was the first non-playable character on that game for quite a while and our partnership with the NBA was a really great start of that. And we were measuring and learning things like in NBA 2K, now I'm speaking, an avatar like Jake, thinking forward to the metaverse, there. So will anyone come up to and interact with an insurance character, right? Like maybe they won't. Yes. If they do, how long? Dwell time. If they engage for a period of time, can he, that Jake, get them into the neighborhood goods store, which was right there in the amphitheater area or front area of the game? If they go in the store, will they look at khakis in red? Will they buy the articles of clothing and will they wear them around the game? So it's like each one of those is yes, yes. How long? How often? Where? What happens? And so we'd already had kind of a metaverse-like experience for a long time with that character. So it wasn't a leap for us. Again, it would be authentic to us. We are already playing in that space. So let's not just say we're going to be in the metaverse. Let's have naming rights like the real world. Let's put Jake in this experience like we had already in NBA 2K. And we knew the kind of things that got people to interact with that character. And we would just test and learn more and grow and amplify that experience on Roblox. So for us, the metaverse was like a natural next step. Innovation was really important to me. Our 100th anniversary and saying we were there was really important to me. Speaking of earned media, another thing, stunt or otherwise, and even more so the ROI measures that we could get with a younger customer in a situation that we didn't have a lot of experience in, but we had more than others did. Allison, to me, this also really reinforces a thesis that we've been speaking about at least for the last couple of weeks and it's been playing on repeat in my head, which is this idea that we should be looking at immersive spaces as experiential. I cut my teeth in the experiential industry for many, many years. I know the power of building experiences, but when you talk to Angelique over at Allo and she's like, we're approaching 100 million people coming through the Allo experience in Roblox, there's no way any experience would ever do would get that amount of engagement. And they're spending more minutes per person than you get on a TV spot. So I also think that there's something that's, a really great lesson in what you're saying, because you had already had these physical experiences in naming rights on parks and deals with the NBA. And now it's like, how can we personify those in other digital spaces? But it sounds like, which I really love is the idea of how do we kind of closely replicate, but also enhance what our IRL experience is. So we're doing the same naming bits and you see the same kind of signs you would see at a stadium as you would in a virtual stadium. But now the fact that I can be a player who's wearing Jake's and his red shirt is like, there's like a nice meme factor about that. There's like a lot of really good stuff there that I think just are great lessons for our audience to think about, which is that these immersive spaces over time, especially you're going to get more people coming through a Roblox, coming through a Fortnite than you're ever going to get going to the Coachella tent. Yes. And it's so funny you said that because we've done some concerts with I Heart in these parks, I Heartland State Farm Park. And exactly what you're saying, I'd just like to amplify here, like Charlie Puth was one of the first concerts and millions of people versus State Farm Stadium, we can get, I don't know, you know, however, tens of thousands to a concert, for example. And so I Heart and State Farm talked a lot about democratizing access and the ability for people who couldn't get to a concert in real life, couldn't see, afford, travel, whatever. The date doesn't work for them that Charlie comes to their town. But to be able to have this really cool immersive experience in a platform or on a platform in Fortnite on Roblox, where they already are and love and love to be. That was really important for us too. So understanding the customer and showing up where they are not forcing them to try to come to us because again, we also know we're an insurance brand. I mean, I'm not under any notion of delusion here that people love insurance and think about it all day long. They don't. And so we've got to really be out there in ways that are interesting, intriguing, and we have to keep upping our game and innovation is a way to do it. Speaking of innovation, Alison, I love that you just sort of called that out. Insurance is not on everyone's mind day to day, although I just renewed with State Farm. I just switched my homeowner's insurance, bundled it with my car insurance. It is actually on my mind right now. I love the customer service. It was great. And as you think about Web3 and those customer relationships, how is State Farm starting to embrace this? Because you all have done some stuff in the metaverse. You've done some stuff in AR. You've really put your flag in the sand and being a brand that stands for innovation. How are you thinking about this sort of macro world of Web3? We have a labs team too, so beyond marketing. Sam, we love Sam. Yes, yes. That has been working a lot on how we are thinking about Web3 and blockchain in particular for customer data, privacy. As an insurance company, we have to handle a lot of data and where the innovation team and the marketing team work together so well is that I have to make sure that people feel safe and comfortable interacting with State Farm. That's the brand, if you will. And then Web3 allows this anonymous wallet of data. But as long as a customer opts in, we love that. We're happy for customers to be in control. Privacy is paramount to us. We understand the needs and how critical that is for our customers in this category. And so we've done some tests around payments. We've done tests. Even people probably don't know insurance companies pay each other. So this public knowledge USAA and State Farm have been using Web3 for the payments that we make to each other securely, quickly, efficiently. I just want to pause because that is a huge thing and I don't think a lot of people know this. Right. They hear about the brand marketing earned media activations and not so much about the enterprise use cases that are already happening. Huge institutions like State Farms have these teams dedicated to figuring this out and thinking about how to leverage this in a sustainable way. So I just want to double tap on that point. Thank you for that. Yeah, it's payment processing available for on-chain data, for automation, less customer action required, privacy, all of that. We've been doing it. And we're a little bit ahead of our time in a couple of places where the industry, you know, it's hard. It's like, okay, USAA and State Farm and do we as an industry want to jump on this? Is it their thing? We want our thing. So there's a lot, you know, and it keeps changing. Technology changes all the time. So our labs team is on the cutting edge doing more than we realize. Like a long time ago, State Farm was using drones for surveying damage over where humans can't be. And it's funny, my Intel, one of the business units we have was commercial drones when I was at Intel, and trying to show use cases of where drones could go fly over in the middle of the ocean for oil rigs and over places where humans can't be. And State Farm has been using them for a long time. That's not web three. But my point is, all of these different technologies that we're using in concert to be more efficient, to have less strain on resources, to help the customers faster, better, to be in places more quickly than we could otherwise, you know, and catastrophes are right, wrong, good or bad. That's where State Farm shines. And being there for our customers in their greatest time of need. And if we can do that more quickly, that matters a lot. And Allison, insurance is a moment in need sort of product, right? Like not everyone, despite Avery, is thinking about insurance 24-7. That's right. Just like once every two years. Once every two years, right. But so I do think that there is something interesting because I think there are those moments, right? I'm moving, I'm buying a house, I'm selling a house, I'm buying a car. Like there are times when you think about insurance. They're called life events. State Farm has definitely heard of them. Yes, exactly. So there's those times when you think about it. But as we also know, the landscape of digital products, the landscape of immersive products, all of these things are growing so rapidly and changing and falling in favor and out of favor. How do you, because I think what it sounds like is you're really trying to have innovation be part of the core DNA of the brand and the marketing brand, especially. How do you sort of keep it on the cutting edge without expending so many resources to say we have to be in this specific platform today or that specific platform tomorrow? Like how do you pick and choose? So we have a part of our budget that we have set aside for innovative activations and thinking. You know, another one that we did that I thought was pretty innovative is gamerhood. So we created an entire gaming neighborhood that was broadcast in a five-week weekly series on Twitch and YouTube and tied in insurance messaging lightly. It was not heavy on that, but a really fun environment. And my point of that is we start with who's our customer, where are they, and what are they doing? They're on Twitch and on YouTube gaming. Who do they follow? These influencers. Let's go talk to them. How can we activate an insurance message? Use Jake in that audience as an example. And then how do we make it fun and that they're going where they already are? I'm not trying to pull you to come to me. And so the innovation comes there and we have a bit of money that is I'll say set aside. We know we're going to use it and we say, look, we have the ability to spend a little more resources, people, money when we come up with those gems like the augmented reality NFT game, like metaverse activation, like this gamerhood challenge. While we're still keeping all of what people know and love about us, leaning heavy into sports, those passions, leaning heavy into using audio differently. Our jingle is another one that with iHeart is a really nice tie in the metaverse and in audio. And so my point is the expectation is we do what we do and we do it well and that we exercise this muscle that can be implemented in a way that's new and different. So for me, it's hard. I brought in in addition to our agency roster that we had when I walked in, I added a couple in the experiential messages, thought leadership things that we would do. And because we had more of that outside in from the tech industry, from partners I had in the past, that it was just a beautiful mix of different agencies and partners thinking about our brand, keeping consistent the things that we do really well, but having that space to add in some new ideas every once in a while and not overtaking the team, but where they will pop. I love that. And you all have had a lot of pops in the last two and a half years when you've been leading the marketing group. And I always feel like it's helpful for our audience to hear a little bit of the things that don't pop, right? And that's part of that innovation journey. Is there anything that comes to mind when you think about something that you thought would be a great move? They're like, oh, that wasn't the best thing or this didn't work out in the short term, but in the long term it did. One of those sort of like failures that led to success. Yeah, you know, because I grew up in tech, so what I also didn't do in the early 40s or 43 years. So in the 70s, I was growing up as a kid and seeing a female in the 70s heading into Silicon Valley and going head to head with these heady tech male dominated industry and seeing her never fail. And at a company like Hewlett Packard that was so, you know, darling of Silicon Valley. And I say that to say, and tech is go launch, fail, learn, keep going. It wasn't a fail fail. It was just, okay, what's the next thing we're going to do in tech? And for me, I just have that mindset. And so I don't feel like there was a failure. What I feel like is launching things that were ahead of their time or launching things that competitors like to point back to. So the NFTs, we got people like, oh, what NFTs. And then we didn't do it again. But that doesn't mean that was a failure. It was amazing. We got 14 minutes of dwell time, so people could win an NFT. Win, right? Or metaverse. It's like, what is an insurance company doing in the metaverse? We're connecting with current and future customers in a meaningful sticky way where they are. And metaverse isn't being talked about in the same exact way. And we know, and this audience knows Web3 is not metaverse. We know that. Sometimes gets talked about that way. But it's still not a mistake to be there and to show up in places. So that's kind of my approach with the failure question is, hey, now what's the next thing? If I don't do NFTs for 14 minutes of dwell time next time, what will we do? And be open to the possibility that trying a new hot thing is not ever going to be a mistake ever. I love that you sort of went there because the other person who has that same exact theory is my boss, Gary. We've never had a mistake. We're only sometimes ahead of our time. And I love that attitude. It's so true to tech. It's like, you know, in my time at Google as well, nothing's a fail or a flop. It's like, oh, we were a little ahead of people on this one. Moving on, moving on. I think that attitude fosters a culture of innovation, fosters a culture of risk taking. Well, and I will tell you, what I have learned in my two and a half years in the insurance industry is it's actually we're in the risk business and specifically no risk business. So this technology person from the Bay Area who's like, let's do the metaverse. It was a little bit like, oh, I'm not speaking for the legal team here at State Farm, but they were probably like, oh my gosh, who did we just bring in and what is going to happen to us here in the world? And so, you know, the antibodies come out, especially in a risk adverse industry about innovation. So that's why I have to be double, triple sure that the things I'm going to stick my neck out for here are tried and true in a way. Like I knew the Intel, I knew NFTs would be of interest because they were all the rage. So taking enough of the comfort where you're not really putting the business or the company, of course, at risk, real risk, but that is a risky marketing activation. But I will say, and maybe I can say this and you can't considering our different roles, but I think bold, brilliant marketers take calculated risks. And I think that having a bit of a risk tolerance level is inherent to being successful in the marketing world, whether it's you, whether it's Linda Boff, whether it's Raja Mastercard, there are things that could have blown up in everyone's faces. So I think that whether it's working in the creator economy, whether it's working in new technologies, creative technologies, AR VR, immersive worlds, the fact that you did NFTs alone, like all of that stuff, there is some risk element because you're kind of also leaving the opportunity in the hands of other people to build the brand. I do want to say, I think that even though you're in an industry that is about avoiding risk and about mitigating risk, I think there is a boldness to creative and thoughtful marketers that are willing to say, I'm going to take some chances here. And, you know, one out of a hundred may not work, you know, but that's worth the risk and the reward. Right. As long as we're keeping true to our brand, authentic to what makes sense for where we show up and how we show up to me, that's where, you know, so the level of risk, is it worth it? Is it really risky or is it just something we're not familiar with activating? It's that like, what kind of risk are we even talking about here? And I have always done things that are different. I remember at Intel, speaking of commercial drones, we did two things that were really interesting and different. I was the head of brand globally, and we were trying to show how the brand would be appealing and interesting across consumer and commercial minds and people, so broadly everyone, but also highlighting the technology. So we use drones to repair the Great Wall of China was one of them. And we use drones to go over whale colonies, Snotbot it was called, where the DNA from the blowhole was captured on the drone and brought back safely to the ship. So you could test all the whales, not find one spirit, cut its flesh and only test the one. So my point is finding something that's true to the product you're trying to sell, the company that you represent, the values that you are espousing in the world, but doing it in a way that is like, I always call it the Chris Griffin filter. That's my husband, Chris Griffin, 30 year retired San Francisco juvenile probation officer, so could not be more different from me in tech and in marketing. And I would always talk to him about like, is it cool if a drone and Intel were repairing the Great Wall of China? It is one of the seven wonders of the world. And it was like, Chris Griffin, you know, the probation officer was like, oh, that's pretty weird. That would get my attention. I wonder what they're doing. And so it was always with that filter. And I think that and bring that into State Farm and say, look, we have the permission because we're the leader in the United States and insurance, we can lead the way and be a thought leader, do things differently, show up differently in the world. We have to give ourselves that permission because of our position in the market. And as long as we stay true to who we are. And we also would not have those lovely drone light shows that power Burning Man all night long if it wasn't for Intel bringing that to the Super Bowl and for the fireworks shows. Yeah, we opened the Olympics. Actually, that was one of the hardest because it was in the winter and in Korea. And so interesting to be able because we were an Olympic sponsor to do stuff like that. I was so excited about those kind of campaigns. And I think taking chances on things like that was also just, it didn't occur to me that that was risky in that same way. It was well, that's what I do as a marketer. I love your history of sort of doing these innovative things that are always like tied to relevance and drive business results. I think that's exactly how marketers are pushed to think about innovation. How can innovation drive growth and State Farm hasn't existed for 100 years doing the same media plan. It's changed a lot. We have to. And it will change a lot. And it has to change a lot. If you look like into the future, any things that are interesting to you as you start to shape your 24, 25, 26 sort of strategy, what are the things that you think we're going to see really take off that you've maybe done some early pilots with that you could see scaling up much more broadly. So in my past, I always liked product placement, actually didn't do it very often had to be in the right places. And it's been around for a long time, you know, a Coca Cola can in a movie that an actor is drinking, you know, soap operas, yes, wherever. So it was interesting. And to me now, getting our brand in content. So we're working differently with media partners now. And I say this, you know, meet with our media partners all the time, we're a big advertiser, right. So we're very fortunate for the access that we have to some of the biggest media people across around the world, really. And I'll say to them, now, don't freak out about what I'm gonna say, stick with me, and you'll end up understanding. But I'm not that interested in the 32nd spot in between commercial breaks. Now, of course, we're still going to do it. I'm in one of the most competitive categories in the country, and I will and we have to. So I don't mean I'm not going to but you know, where I'm really interested. I'm interested in weaving into the storyline, product placement but in the storyline of the actual show, so that my brand lives on beyond a 32nd spot, that when the show gets replayed a year later, my commercial is not the one that's hitting. 20 years later, look at the researches we're seeing of Suits and Friends and all these shows. Correct. So let me talk about Roblox for a second because similar. Our jingle, the nine note jingle, Like a Good Neighbor State Farm is there, I will spare you and not sing it. That jingle is important. The words, Like a Good Neighbor State Farm is there are important. Our logo, the three ovals is important. And so we put that on Roblox in iHeartland in a couple of ways. So Jake is there, number one, but it's an audio experience that iHeart had on the Roblox platform. It's like be a radio pioneer. And so we said, alright, so let's integrate the sound. So when you're playing a couple of the games that you can do inside that environment, so the logo is turned down and it's a stepping stone ladder to get to a better viewing location of State Farm Park, number one, connecting all that. If you do this and interact with our brand, you get a logo. And when you jump on the logo, I think it's the five note, not the nine note plays. And so these interesting ways to put your brand and keep that slow drip of our assets in the minds of current and potential customers, I think is really interesting. And so that's like another, you know, thinking about pulling audio and not visual as well. So we can expect Jake to be in next season of Yellowstone, it sounds like, as a character. The hot cowboy like wearing the khakis and the red shirt. I know, wouldn't that be fun? We can put Jake almost anywhere. Jake on a horse. It's on a lot of people's mood boards right now. Allison, thank you so much for your time. It was wonderful to hear the stories. There's so many lessons in this episode. So really just thank you for being here and we appreciate all of that. I love the opportunity to talk about the fun stuff. And I appreciate the platform here to get my juices reinvigorated again too, and the questions that you asked. And you know, it's always good for marketers to go back to their own personal why, and you've brought out some of my personal why. So thank you for the opportunity. Thank you so much, Allison. Avery, Allison, Dynamo, what a great conversation. Thank you for arranging that. That was incredible. I know we've been like trying to reschedule with her for so long, but I'm glad we really got it over the finish line. Her and her team are amazing. I want to shout out Baldwin Cunningham, who first kind of brought us into that, who is amazing. I love Baldwin. Baldwin leads their State Farm Labs team is also fantastic. I think when people think about insurance, they think it's all like stodgy and you're like, actually, there's part of that. But there's also like so much innovation that happens at these companies. And it's so cross-functional, like it's a massive company. And Allison absolutely nailed it with insights. I love that she brought in her history from Intel and from HP, everything from drone shows to AR to Metaverse. She really knows herself. To me, that's the big takeaway, which is being bold, but also really putting innovation at the core of your marketing strategy is the way you succeed as a marketer today. It's not 30-second spots anymore. It's not banner ads anymore. It's not newsletters like those are in the toolkit, but it's not the way to really make a difference. And I really love Allison's approach to that. So that was amazing. All right, Avery, until next week, super excited for our next guest, super excited for this guest, super excited that you are who you are. Thanks for that, Sam. Right back at you. And thank you, Gen C community for tuning in. I think this is one of our best episodes ever. So let us know what you think in the comments, hit us up with other suggested guests, and we will see you all next week.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Chairman Mike Gallagher (House Select Committee on China) and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin
"Cable news, noisy, boring, out of touch. That's why Salem News Channel is different. We keep you in the know. Streaming 24 -7 for free. Home to the greatest collection of conservative voices like Dennis Prager, Jay Sekulow, Mike Gallagher, and more. Salem News Channel is unfiltered and unapologetic. Watch anytime on any screen at snc .tv and local now channel 525. I talked with Ro Khanna yesterday, your colleague, about a lot of things, but I did not cover your Washington Post article because I wasn't aware of it at the time I talked to Ro Khanna. Do the Democrats agree with you in the Washington Post article that we ought not to be funding with American dollars Chinese aircraft carriers? Some do. I mean, I think everyone can agree upon at least that aspect of it, that American dollars should not be funding the Chinese Communist Party's military buildup. Make no mistake, they're embarked on the largest sustained peacetime military buildup since World War II, potentially ever, depending on how you defined it. We shouldn't be investing our money in Chinese aircraft carriers, fighter jets, artillery shells, advanced nuclear technology, but that's what's happening. We launched a bipartisan investigation into BlackRock and MSCI. My ranking member, Raja Krishnamoorthi, has expressed a ton of concern about American dollars funding Chinese military buildup. In many cases, this money is going to companies that have already been flagged on various government blacklists for posing national security risks. What's crazy, Hugh, is that it's not illegal, but it's suicidal. We're subsidizing our own destruction. We're allowing pension funds, university endowments to invest in Chinese companies that are building things designed to kill Americans in a future conflict. No matter where you draw the line for decoupling, let's say you just want transparency measures, as some Republicans do. You want a broader set of restrictions on American money going into China, as I do. I think what's inarguable is that money shouldn't be funding military companies and technology companies like AI companies in China that are perfecting their genocidal surveillance state. Now, the Financial Times also ran a story this morning that Goldman Sachs has been taking Chinese money, laundering it in effect. It's not criminal, but they're hiding the origin of the money, and they're buying U .S. companies. It's the opposite of what BlackRock is doing, which is sending American money to Chinese companies. They're taking Chinese money and putting it into American companies. Do you want to stop that flow as well? Well, particularly if these are national security -related companies, I saw that some of the investments were in the cyber space and in the supply chain space. It all depends on what type of control comes with the investment, but potentially, that could give them access to information or effective control over companies. That would be bad for American national security. I think it's definitely worth looking into. The bottom line is, Congress, we need to step up and legislate a fix to some of this stuff, whether it's on outbound capital flows, which the Biden administration just released an executive order that's filled with loopholes. It's a step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough. We need to legislate that when it comes to Chinese money being invested in American companies. We tried to fix CFIUS to get at some of that issue, but clearly, it's not up to the task. We need to legislate a fix to that. Here's the other thing, Hugh, that I find interesting when it comes to American investments in China. In addition to being morally reprehensible, the Chinese funds have been terrible investments. Over the last five years, the S &P 500 has soared to about 78%. Meanwhile, things like BlackRock's FXI ETF, which invests in these Chinese large -cap companies, it's down 30 % in that same period, even as Chinese GDP supposedly doubled. That doesn't make sense. A lot of the funds we looked at in our investigation similarly underperformed drastically. Where did the money go? Is it going into corrupt Communist Party coffers? I don't know. My only point is that beyond the national security concerns, just as an investment proposition, China looks bad. There are systemic risks to a continued investment in China that range from having your assets seized in the event they try and take over Taiwan, or just the inherent risk involved in things like variable interest entities, for which there are no shareholder protections. Part of what we're trying to do on the committee in a bipartisan fashion is to engage Wall Street in a dialogue about this. It just seems insane to me that we would continue to send our money to China, where it's being used for nefarious purposes. Well, you know, Chairman, the investment bankers make their bonuses based upon the amount of money they move through. So they have every Adam Smith -driven incentive to just blow you off. Does your panel have subpoena power, by the way? We do. I would grab Larry Fink. I would grab Jamie Dimon. Separate hearings. And I would put them down and say, let's talk about this because it's a national crisis. Let me ask you, by the way, I think if I had a bell, I would have rung it when you said Sisyphus. I believe that violates the acronym rule, does it not? Oh, you got me, Hugh. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. I apologize. $10 to Food for the Poor, because that's it. It's $10 tip jar for Food for the Poor. When you use an acronym. I want to talk to you about increased applying unilaterally. I did because you're a repeat offender. Like, you know, that on the sentencing guidelines, people who do the same thing over and over again, they get fined more. Princeton people are particularly prone to this. And then when you pick up a Ph .D. from Georgetown, you really become. And then you go to Marine. Did you ever go to the command general staff college or the war college or anything like that? No, I got out as a captain before I had to do all that before my brain was corrupted. Well, they have many acronyms there. I'm listening to a bio of Eisenhower and I can't keep up. Let me ask you something, Chairman. Ro Khanna was on and we were talking about artificial intelligence. And he said they're sitting down with the speaker about what to do. I have no preconceived opinions, but I do think they might want to just add the Select Committee on Engagement with the Chinese Communist Party, and artificial intelligence regulation, because you've got a smart group of people. It's working. Would you be opposed to that if the speaker and the minority leader wanted to expand the jurisdiction of the committee to look at what we do about A .I.? Not at all. And we've actually, in our early investigation, had numerous conversations about A .I. and I would expect those to be part of future policy reports. We release, I would note Ro Khanna is my ranking member on the innovation subcommittee on armed services. And we see eye on a lot of things related to military innovation going forward and have a very good working relationship. And he's willing and I think him going on your show is a testament to this. One thing I really respect about Ro is he's willing to mix it up. Obviously, he's very progressive. We disagree on a lot of issues. I'm right. He's wrong. But I respect his intellect and his willingness to mix it up. Three quick ideas here on A .I. for small steps we can take in this Congress as we consider sort of the broader long -term implications. Well, related to what we were just talking about, American venture capitalists, American money in general shouldn't be allowed to invest in Chinese A .I. companies like Baidu. It just makes absolutely no sense. Again, we're subsidizing our own destruction. Two, when it comes to autonomous vehicle technology, which is going to be one of the most widespread deployments of A .I. in a way that really affects the American people over the next 10 years, right now of the 10 -ish companies that are allowed to test in America, at least three I believe are Chinese, but our companies are not allowed to test in China or expand really at all in China. And as a matter of reciprocity, that's wrong. We shouldn't allow Chinese A .V. companies here in America. And then finally, the ethical guidelines that the Pentagon has for the use of A .I. are a decent start. They're pretty good. I actually think we could build off those, expand those across the federal government with the goal of not innovation suppressing on A .I. or slowing down our efforts in this area, but also ensuring there are guardrails so that we don't have uncontrolled A .I. that does things that Americans are concerned about. And then you start to build out the concentric circle so we're on the same page with our allies. Start with our closest allies, the Brits and the Aussies, and then expand from there, and particularly focus on countries that have a unique technological capability in A .I. If we do that, if we get sort of the overall ethical framework right, I actually think we can turbocharge innovation in this space and make sure that we win the A .I. race and the CCP does not win the A .I. race. Well, it is a national security issue, but I've got three suggestions for you and your colleagues. First of all, a stand down order to every regulatory agency out there, the FTC and everybody else. They have no idea what they're doing. They just don't. A .I. is new. It's not meant for old regulatory structures like the Interstate Commerce Commission trying to regulate airplanes. Doesn't work. Number two, you've got to change the pay scale for technologists. Now, they used to have a special pay scale out at China Lake for the rocket scientists that we needed at China Lake and other advanced weaponry systems. We need a technologist pay scale that is just way better than we've got. We're going to lose every technologist that DARPA has. And then number three, and this is what I want to ask you about, we need visibility. I mean, walk in rights to every room in Silicon Valley and every A .I. company in the United States. By walk in rights, I mean, if a guy from DARPA shows up and they knock on the door at Metta and he says, show me to your A .I. lab, they don't get to lock the door. These are like nuclear science. We can't let this stuff be developed in private. Do you agree with me? I agree with that. I guess the flip side of that, though, Hugh, is enough research security such that, you know, an MSS operative, a Ministry of State Security think KGB in China couldn't just walk in to the same facility or United Front operative. And honestly, your reference to China Lake, I think, is a great instructive example here, because when it comes to the things we put in our weapons systems, we have a very old suite of things called energetics, which make our weapons go and go boom. We develop more advanced energetics at China Lake. It's called CL20. It stands for China Lake 20. The Chinese stole that technology. That's what they put in their weapons systems. And that's why their their rockets go farther than us and have greater destructive impact. So that's a lesson in how not to do things. And we remain too risk averse to use things like CL20, even though it's now old technology. It was developed in the 80s. So a lot of examples that we can use from there in order to apply to the A .I. competition today. I'm going to geek out. The Office of Personnel Management, AKA OPM, so I don't get fined. OPM had a separate schedule for scientists at China Lake that was policed by the deputy director I replaced, the deputy director at OPM. He was a scientist who had worked there. And he said, you know, no one's going to work for us unless we pay them. It was like double the highest number. Rowe said yesterday we got to pay him like we pay our doctors. No, no, no. We're not going to. This is the most lucrative field in the world. You got to give him a piece of the intellectual property. I mean, you really have to come to grips with the fact that technologists make the dollars. And I don't know that the American people really understand the difference between what the private sector pays a level one technologist and what the government will. We're going to lose everybody.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Fresh update on "raja" discussed on CoinDesk Podcast Network
"Gen C is the generation of the new Internet. In Gen C, the C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer and collectibles, both digital and physical with on-chain provenance. It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. It stands for community and digital citizenship and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them. These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy and how they look at the hybrid, digital and physical spaces being built all around us. And finally, how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they interact with. We focus on how brands large and small are building for these audiences. Welcome to Gen C. Avery, I have to play you the new intro that I just made for Gen C. So here it goes. Edge of my seat. All right. So you might've noticed that was me not speaking English, but I am going to Portugal next week. So that was me speaking Portuguese. And how did I do that? Well, both you and I have been experimenting with, Hey, Jen's video translation software that utilizes AI to speak in multiple languages. You added an amazing piece that you put up on LinkedIn the other day. If you speaking Hindi, I don't know if you actually speak Hindi or not. Very limited. Very limited. But I just want to throw this stat out before I want to get your thoughts, which is our old friend, Mr. Beast, 50% of the people who watch his videos don't speak English. And so what he does is hire voice actors all over the world to be the Mr. Beast in their local areas, because he knows that for him to go as global and get as many views as he needs, he has to be in language. And so what do you think about, Hey, Jen, and some of these new tools that are coming that will allow for video translation that is not only audio only, but as you and I have both been playing with, it also literally changes your mouth movements to be speaking the language that you've selected. Sam, thank you for turning me on to Hey, Jen. My first thought was that I was going to use it to connect my grandparents along because we do have a language barrier. And while I was sad to see that Telugu was not a supported language, I was like, it's okay. I'll do it in Hindi. And I sent it and they actually thought it was real because, you know, not everybody is familiar with powers of AI, especially with this sort of intonation, which is amazing. And then I started playing around with it a little bit more. And I want to call out Hey, Jen, but also 11 Labs, which is the voice translation that is powering all of this. Hey, Jen is sort of bringing that video, but 11 Labs does the audio. And we've been working on a couple of little things with 11 Labs in different capacities. I'm really impressed with what they're building. And it's critical because only 14% of the world speaks English, yet 59% of the world's digital content is in English. So if you're a person who doesn't speak English, much less, God forbid, is not literate, then you can't access the amazing, wonderful world of the internet that we all know today. It's a massive thing. I think it's early days. And of course, everybody rightfully so has questions on where is this data going? Who owns it? Who's storing it? Hey, Jen is an LA based company. And 11 Labs has raised from a number of investors, including Andre Sinso. We've done some diligence on them, but I think it's early days. But this technology is insanely powerful for brands, but in the immediate term for content creators. If I was a content creator, I would be using this immediately for my target languages, because it'll expand your reach so much, enable you to connect. And by the way, it's not going to be long before that's happening on demand. In real time, I mean. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I did the same thing you did. I recorded a video that I translated into French and I sent it to my friend in Paris. And I said, I've been working on my accent. What do you think? And he gets back to me and goes, oh, like, you're really nailing the language, you're really nailing the accent. Like, you've come a long way. I don't speak French. Because the intonation is like you, right? Right, exactly. It's cloning your voice. It sounds like a white person speaking Hindi. Like, there's some things that are colloquialisms that a local person would never say, but it sounds like how you would speak Hindi if you were very good at it. Yes. I will also say what was fascinating to me was Angelique Vendette, who I also sent the video to, responded and say, okay, here's the problem. It's speaking French Canadian. It's not speaking Paris French. And then I had other friends who because I had put it up on Instagram and for the one in Spanish, I had tagged Mexico and I said, can't wait to get back to CDMX. And someone tagged me and said, no, this is speaking European Spanish. This is not speaking Latin American Spanish. So I do think there is like a lot of nuance that still needs to get worked out in it. But just the fact that I could record a 48 second video that people in Paris and people in Mexico didn't recognize that it was AI at first. I thought it was fascinating. I think you hit it exactly, which is, oh, yeah, if I was a content creator, if I was a brand marketer and I was doing shorts, I think this is a perfect way just to get more reach for your content at a 30 to 90 second level, which should be labeled as AI also. Agreed. Definitely. Cross-country transparency, 100 percent. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. But I do think that anyone who hasn't played with the page and video translator or there, you can now do it just by uploading a photo and snippets of your voice powered by 11, as you mentioned. So you can actually create yourself saying anything without even having to record a video at this point. You could all do it by text. So it's pretty fascinating. I'm very excited for where this stuff is going, because this is the kind of use case that I think you and I look at this and we're like, this has a very tactical, tangible opportunity. And I think the stat that you just mentioned, only 14 percent speak English, but 60 percent of the content is in English is such a big business opportunity when you really think about that. So, so relevant. Let's pivot from there to a very related topic, which is I don't know if you saw this week, but TikTok has started using AI labeling and Reddit and Reddit. Right. Exactly. For TikTok, anytime you use one of the filters that utilizes AI, now it's going to be labeled as AI. They also are doing auto detection for people who are utilizing AI software and they want anyone who is utilizing AI for their content to have a label on it. I think this is a step in the right direction. I would love all news content also to be labeled like this, because there's a lot of stuff out there. I read an obituary that was driven by AI about a basketball player who had passed away and it said the basketball player is unliving. So that was the way that AI described him being dead, was that he was unliving. And so clearly there's a lot of stuff that needs to get worked out. But from a brand perspective, from a creator perspective, I think that the idea that we should know when things are being modified feels like the right thing. But do you think that affects the creator economy in any way? I think it's similar to how we do hashtag ad, like trust or transparency is key. We just need to be transparent about using these things. I've thought that for quite a while as it relates to Instagram and TikTok filtering because people get unrealistic like body images. I mean, yes, some of this happens in like magazines and photo shoots and all of that stuff it has for a long time. But I'm all about trust or transparency and the digital ecosystem. Agreed. And I also think there's a healthy respect for knowing when someone might be utilizing a tool. It's a productivity tool. It doesn't mean it has to be less entertaining. It doesn't mean it has to be less interesting. I think our enterprise brands, though, we're still at a place where like we can't just use 11 labs like at scale right now. It's not ready yet. It's like a proof of concept. This is how it could be going. And back to what we've talked about before, it's building the muscle for when this really hits scale, we're going to be ready. Correct. And in terms of just going back to Mr. Beast, who has these 13 actors that play him around the world, he said, our team is very actively looking because it's not cheap to do that. And he said, our team is very actively looking. He thought from his perspective and when their research that it's going to be still a couple of years before we actually see it being good enough where he's comfortable. What he said, which was interesting, is they've done some AB testing where they use the voice actor and then they'll use a cloning. And he said every time he does a cloning, people are calling out that something sounds wrong and it distracts them from the content in the video, which I think for someone like him is just really important to make sure it's landing. Totally, totally agree with that. Yeah. All right. Final story before we get to an amazing guest is Crossmint and MasterCard are going deeper together. So Crossmint powered this artist portal that MasterCard released a couple of months ago. It actually brought one hundred thousand people into blockchain. It was primarily based on music and that was also powered by Crossmint. And it seems that Crossmint and MasterCard are getting in bed together even more with an eye toward small business, which I thought was kind of interesting. Just the idea of easy ways when you think of utilizing your MasterCard to pay for something and then thinking about a reward system that can be on chain, that feels like it makes a lot of sense, right? I hit my 10th time at the coffee shop. I get a little NFT that says I'm a 10 timer and maybe that gets me a free coffee later. But this feels like a very natural, easy way for blockchain and brands to get together. And I want to know if you have any thoughts about that. Yeah, well, I love Rodry and the team and of course, Raja and his amazing team at MasterCard and everything that they've done in this space. So recently connected with Raja and he was like, I'm still very bullish on Web3. And one, I love him for saying that because there's so many mixed reactions right now. And it's amazing to hear leaders who continue to invest, continue to launch programs like their startup accelerator and continue to support these sort of Web3 native businesses, massive bands of what Crossmint is doing. And I think that a partnership between a payment processor and a minting tool makes a lot of sense because you're likely going to be paying maybe not thousands of dollars, but a couple bucks for some of these things. And having that super integrated is a great fit. And shout out to MasterCard for continuing to innovate in this space. I see them. I see Visa. I see the banks really continuing to lean in and identify these enterprise use cases that can make their customers both B2C and also B2B customers lives a little bit easier. Well, we have asked Raja to be on the podcast 27 times, so we're going to continue to ask until he shows up. So, Raja, if you're listening, we're coming for you. Avery, after the break, we are going to come back with Allison Griffin from State Farm, a big brain marketing thinker, so excited to hear her perspectives on marketing, on the metaverse, on Web3, on innovation in general, because she's such a great thinker on that. So we will talk to her after the break. Sounds great.
WLS-AM 890
"raja" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy alludes to RFK jr. is talk about crazy town this guy is a nut Saturday at 4 p .m. here at 890 compliment the WLS ever Jim here on Twitter from al Bundy retired now we missed you man married with children he says Dan your podcast was fantastic today I've always wondered why the media doesn't question more how pathetic Biden is everything going forward revolves around Obama yes yes al Bundy you're correct where's peg the reason they don't go after Biden more is because he was Obama's vice president if they start nailing him down on the bribe he took when he was Obama's vice president it's going to make Obama look bad it's the same reason the media would go after Mike Pence if found they out he took a bribe because it would make Trump look bad because he was Trump's vice president the reverse works too I'm glad you figured that out sir that's the greatest compliment that's what I'm here for I have to teach myself and if you learn something in the process after folks as you know our world can change in a moment's notice it seems we could be on the brink of economic collapse and it's scary but if you don't think you need emergency food right now wait a day and see what happens just don't wait too long because as I speak my patriot supply is offering a huge discount on their best -selling three -month emergency food kit for a limited time you'll save 25 percent per kit it's the biggest discount they offer it doesn't come along every day it's not gonna last long so yourself do a favor grab your 25 % discount on each three -month emergency food kit you need for my patriot supply it includes delicious breakfast lunches dinners and more providing 2 ,000 calories a day and calories our survival in an emergency fact get at least one kit per person in your family grab 25 your percent discount today before the software expires we get fast and free shipping too go to mypatriotsupply .com or you may regret it that's mypatriotsupply .com
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Congressman Warns of Impending Loss in War Games
"My last suggestion tonight put out a summary, press release of what happened. Just the end result. That way, people are like, what? 'cause we're gonna lose. Every war game that Hendricks has told me about we lose. And so maybe if you're a democratic colleague who's your ranking, remember? Raja krishnamurthy, from Illinois. I would like to know if you two are playing co presidents. I know we don't have a co president, but that is a headline the headline would be Gallagher makes himself president you. So come on, we don't want that. Marine in charge of the country. We're in trouble. Okay, congressman, no breaking off to go watch the bucks lose game two. Get it done. And look, I really look forward to talking about it with you next week. Be well, congressman Michael Gallagher rep Gallagher on Twitter. He is here every week in tonight. He's going to be doing the war game with the select committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Thank you, congressman. When
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Unpacking CES 2023: Where Was Web3?
"How is CES? How is a consumer electronic show? What did you think of it this year? I didn't make it, so I'm really curious if web three was everywhere, or if it was anywhere. Great question. CES was a little bit of both. One, there were some amazing people, great conversations that were had. We interviewed, I think almost 20 people and did a bunch of great Sessions on stage. And so that was fantastic. The thing that I was most interested in is how much web three was not showing up on the show floor. For anyone who hasn't been to CES, it is really an expo show. It is a 1 million ft² of demo space for people to show off their new wares. There was like 15 foot holograms of Mark Cuban. There was all of this amazing sort of gaming and VR tech and haptic tech that we saw and tons of autonomous cars. But when I kept looking, I was like, oh, I'm not seeing much web three here, which compared to when you go to a south by Southwest or a can or even art Basel. You see what three almost everywhere? Here it was kind of missing. And so I'm just, I was a bit surprised because I thought I would see more from not being there, but seeing the news, what was your takeaway? Yeah, well, I was thinking about going and I've been to CES a bunch of times before. This year, just timing didn't work out. So I was following along the news. I was really excited to see what Raja for Mastercard announced with Mastercard's web three accelerator. They're doing that in collaboration with polygon studios, which I thought was really cool. That seemed to be sort of the biggest web three announcement in news, but a lot of what I was seeing was more hardware developments like L'oreal, unveiled some new technology on the applicator phase for people with accessibility challenges. I thought that was amazing. I didn't see a ton about web three though, outside of Mastercard's announcement with polygon.
Mark Levin
Stanford's Ram Rajagopal: Today's Grid Wouldn't Support All EV Society
"Let's say we were to have a substantial number of electric vehicles charging at home as everybody dreams Says ram Raja Paul and associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford Co authored a recent study looking at the strain electrical vehicle adoption is expected to place when the peregrine He told Yahoo finance today's grid may not be able to support it all boils down to Are you charging during the time solar powers on In Sacramento officials said California great could face a potential shortfall of roughly 1700 megawatts Which would affect the power supply between one and 4 million people this summer That number would likely be exacerbated by an additional short for fall of 5000 megawatts In the case of extreme heat and further fire damage to existing power lines
Whispering Huntys
"raja" Discussed on Whispering Huntys
"Like kylie. An raja were the closest to expressing the song I feel the song and they chose the costumes to make fabulous which is what is you know like i'll have to and like i loved it like kylie had revealed it wasn't like a reveal. Reveal you know. It wasn't like a gimmick. It was like i just have code. I'm going to open it up. Look how fabulous. I love goddamn. It wasn't a whole mystery or anything but it was something that showed it off as she tumbled across this. This is the thing about the conflict that was so mazing so even if she was going to do tumble past when that's why she was Her weight resort off. And then she did it. The mac that she was able to land her flip then continue as if nothing happened like a professional and then i saw the beauty back coat because wrap dress made on it. You laid on it and that's me was like this is somehow elevating the lip sync because the coat was such a different tone to dress. She was wearing that. It was like she was honest. Special island so perfectly chrome attica is the thing yeah and that hair on her head was so good. I mean it just yeah. It was so and that hair bastrop dot hair. And like the bob with waves yet. I don't i used to think well. You always bigger the hair. You know the closest jesus better queen. But now i kind of want like a huge big ball if you ever do a live show. I'm going to be wearing a huge big bosch and it's not an egg when i know. Actually this is my secret master plan but more on that another so i would've been happy with kylie moraga and i think that having our first trans woman after eliminated impersonating lady gaga one lip.
Whispering Huntys
"raja" Discussed on Whispering Huntys
"Is going to her booth like no one is talking off like it was the i think the attitude towards russia and sulky is was so negative coming out of season eleven like seeing rajai ashoke get their arc and mike the growth. The personal broccoli got to see finale with raja is like. That's what she desserts. That's why you go on andrei because you want the world to love you. You don't want everybody to hate you. And i feel like fell in love with raja now ike but she she did the work like you can tell. That roger's like therapy. I mean like. I dunno therapies. Like whatever you wanted to be like you could go to like a self help conferences and then just as as long as you can find some radical honesty with your own and then apply that to that everyone puts on you That's that's what therapy is. It's about being really honest about why you're upset about something and not deflecting that onto the world around. You also just like feeling the emotions that you're trying to avoid. Oh yeah burns. Like stay in the awful. Yeah golly god like a work through it ya doing. The work now honestly. I was having such a terrible week. And i was. I was invited like go with a friend to island blah blah blah. And i was thank. You know what. I'm going to stay home. I'm gonna sleep in my house. And i'm going to feel but at the same time like i'm not gonna do a damn thing and i feel so happy today. Odyssey wide wideawake happy because they had all of this stressed man. It was like bubbling up. And i wasn't facing like that reality. And i wasn't able i wasn't putting it off work in order to fix the things that were stressing me out so i was like okay. Fine land for as long as you need to and then like get up into one big and then another thing and then another thing and like finally like the stuff that i still have an impact for. My new apartment is almost unpacked. Like about to scream. Because i'm so happy and then you know what. I was really really productive this weekend. So i'm like you know what you gotta do the work and you can't avoid like bat dark side of yourself because it just builds up but like raja and kylie gave us so much this season and there was unlike the smallest moments because like kylie link at the beginning that they weren't even showing her unless it was like untucked. But you'd be thing like the deepest things about her journey and try to lecture people on an raja was like facing that same kind of like. Oh my god this exact same thing that happened on my season but do not let me leave this competition because i came to win and i was like That oh also did you like group. meiomi look in worker. When he wanted. I loved it. I i love the western village. I love the cows. Nice suits all i thought was the peppermint and bob going like this did you did you hear. Did you read the article but like explain. How the fracking works. Yeah yeah i get. I was some land. But everything underneath is like bob's your own call question. Is this or is this. Not one of the best rupaul. Like finale songs this of this our country. No it's not one of the best. It's not it could. It's better than lucky but it's not as good as like the season two or season three wince that now season two of all-stars with alaska was and read. You wrote you. That's because they used to let them do more. I swear that review what you must have been sixteen bars. But i think got like four bars or whatever you know what. I mean like the verses in this is our country seemed really short. I i mean it's i believe it was like four or eight stanzas but also they kind of want to prevent what happened like when roxy andrews had to write her. You don't want to put on. Why prevent that. That was denied it. We ought it became very well known for all the wrong reasons. No no no but because it was so simple when she did her hair and it made it. Okay it just was like it was just it was perfect roxy andrew in that moment in time right and everywhere she goes people. Do it like people just like break out in that song which is outside so maybe does need to be longer again. You have to leave them for the comedy because especially just because like in the start of the season. We're always getting a lyric verse challenge and we always get when at the end. But then why is the what at the end. When there's only four people so much shorter i don't know like that's when it should be short this. They should because they've earned the the extroverts time from the girls binding them. I kind of doubt like that. There's two song challenges. Yeah i feel like it takes away from the fact that there's like this one big song that the entire like that. It's like you get to right instead. I think it's because we love it. Like ev every we want they wanna give everybody the chance to rent some lyrics attack so so they. They've put it early in the season. Thirteen like it was so early. So that every girl got to do the song within then sometimes becomes more popular than the second song which is k. Like bing bang bang or whenever which is the best one. and then any rupaul. Show saw song. And then the same thing. With break-up by by and then the final song no one remembers it and no one wants to be forgettable and those two songs aren't forgettable.
Myths and Legends
"raja" Discussed on Myths and Legends
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Myths and Legends
"raja" Discussed on Myths and Legends
"Hi we surrender. The emperor of china said to the army arrayed outside his gate. He didn't know who was there or why but he did know that he didn't want to deal with any of that. So yeah preemptive surrender. He just hoped new overlords were merciful. But you know if they weren't unconditional surrender. Just don't kill him. dad come on. He heard from the other army. He squinted and hey was that guy. It was that guy. The krim the son-in-law to be what was he doing here in conquering them. On this day of his daughter's wedding vikram smile he wasn't conquering them. Just bring his army here to surround the emperor city for reasons. Not quite sure but they were here now and so was the party. He he didn't just bring an army but entertainers to they combine the two parties for one fantastic gala in the princess in vikram or married. The couple sat on a raised watching the dancers below. When the raja got word that a troop of jugglers had a special performance. Just for him he grand. Yeah put them on next. Juggling ruled well after the dancers finished and the jugglers took the stage. The crime froze. Oh no there in the middle of the troupe. With a sorcerer and the disgruntled minister that had killed his son for the sorcerer he turned to his new wife so he actually forgot about the main plot here and he needed to catch up on a lot quickly. You see there. Was this guy who was out to kill him. At first he was marrying her for that but then grew into so much more and but his wife put her finger to his lips. It was okay. She had this. He should just enjoy the show fridge. Eglin act they did a surprisingly scant amount of juggling. In fact the story doesn't mention any juggling. It does mention however a corpse. The sorcerer took a seat on something in a box and soon when the source restarted to rise it became apparent that that something was a some one the adult son of the minister that had been killed. The crowd clapped thinking that all this was part of the act and once the corpse was clear if the box the source shot off in the air like he was riding morbid flying carpet he vanished into the sky and initiated the very worst type of firework show. There was an explosion above and parts of the body dropped among the screaming. Panicked crowd in a flash. The sorcerer appeared again on stage. He pointed to vikram now. Dear russia i will assemble this man and bring him to life again. He raised his arms in the body. Parts flew from the crowd reassembling themselves until the corpse stood in the centre. Occultist rushed him some ashes from one of the fires each sprinkled it on the corpse and gasped to death. The raja clapped. His wife looked at him seriously. What she told him to enjoy the show. And that was legitimately impressive. But the show wasn't done the young man turn to his dad the one who had killed him for this. His eyes were filled with panic and rage. I'm hungry father. The young man. Said the sorcerer smiled raising his hand palm up again then go change into a tiger and eat your enemy he boomed. The corpse collapsed to a writhing mass on the ground for poke from skin and his hands and feet exploded in the clause. His head dropped face down on the ground and then exploded upward. Aurore sorcerer pointed vikram. There was the tigers corey his enemy kill and eat the tiger. Turn to face vikram but didn't move. The source are appointed again right there but the tiger did move right up there. Go get him. Killing each year enemy he will eat his enemy. The source heard from the days. It was the princess who is now standing. It was at that moment but the source were realized. Just how overmatched he was by the princess's power. The tiger looked to her. She nodded well. Do what the man said each your enemy. The tiger obeyed and turn faces father. The man albus hands. Hey son look no hard feelings. It wasn't personal. He was just passover pro- promotion and the tiger lunged and did as it had been told. He ate his true enemy when he was finished. The crowd gave space as the tiger rushed from the city. The sorcerer to turn to run but found himself rooted to the spot the princess walk down and soon looked up at the man who clenched his fists to hide the shaking and the sweat kill me. He demanded she smiled. No he didn't tell her what to do. She wouldn't kill him. That was too merciful. The sorcerer's look drifted from rage to panic. She said that that was the last thing he'd say you're still in there. The princess informed the sorcerer and t always would be he would forever be behind. His own is but his exterior was like that of an animal and he was a human but his mind was like that of an animal. He would ride along with himself but she told him not to worry he would always be safe in fact he would never die. He'll be forced to wander this earth like an animal forever a constant prisoner of himself wherever he went. The sorcerer now acting like a dog went over and sniff the corpse. He ran along the crowd each of them backing up. But then one started shoving the man and the others joined in the sore shifted back and fear from the people before bolting from the city. The crowd partying around him. He was never to be people who stood with wrapped tension after the corpse firework exploded over the crowd and then clean them all up. The erupted in applause. Oh my gosh. That show was amazing. The special effects the drama. Wow when are the actors that played the tiger sourcerer administer gonna return to take a bow and the makeup on the guy who was mall by his tiger son super convincing best reception ever. The princess took her seat next to the russia and the pair with the princess watching over them.
Myths and Legends
"raja" Discussed on Myths and Legends
"A decision and choice had been made the emperor's decision to respect his daughter's choice but but him the princess stroke victims face the smile. This was a kind man. A monarch that was approaching equality with her in power and intelligence which was more than she could save for. The other. men assembled yes him. The oilman was excited for his boy. His son was going to marry the princess. Then paused ono. His son was going to marry the princess and he had helped pay for the wedding seriously. Don't do anything. I'll be fine. Vikram beg the oilman papa. Please deal took a deep breath. Okay sure he trusted his son. The come smiled good and one more thing tonight. Could.
Long Term Care Radio with Brian Ott
Tacoma Zoo Welcomes New Sumatran Tiger
"Sleep. I'm Daddy, The newest resident of Tacoma's point. Defiance, Zoo and Aquarium is looking for a new love Raja, a male, two year old Sumatran tiger is slowly being introduced to the zoo's three female Sumatran ins. It's hoped he will take a liking to one of them and meet with them. Raja comes from a zoo in Topeka, Kansas. Sumatran tigers are rare and endangered. Just 400 of them remain in the wild.
Software People Stories
"raja" Discussed on Software People Stories
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Software People Stories
"raja" Discussed on Software People Stories
"The things as a book. I know i saw that the deep throat aspect each other. The is what the cental caught off. The thing that someone is asking to be boosted things. I should i should. I understand. The reason waiting asking is that they've received something and they want to put into that to make that in certain amendments by low anomaly when when the benico matic mission is is elaborating at the bottom is union state the between mother money and devotion is dominating law so does not just the won't beat what a a he's answered with And it'll be a part of me money and yet many times. Just i look. This doesn't mean unload so that these doesn't mean what other kind of respect each other so they bonus so when he is asking him to both of at least one thing that win was hearing seven tool dividing the more nights that So what saving without hitting me wisely gain a places when that smoke so to take real different Thing and then and in his than we have a lot of money who who loves them and humana at other more flowers. Say seventy the lesson. Is that job. So we got his auto settlement so it won't be the eagle and that'll be not suspect and speak. Bowling team started respecting each other. In hokkien. gone. They help this. Both gimmick off distinct of the thing and discussing is not going to think that he is coming to me because he is unable to prove that. stops dead the despite by saad mini-plays basis and beg said. Now leave off the dame on many occasions of eighty s team under the app to them space to both at and thought the months probably the demon becoming better performing team and the secret sauce. Self daily league play quality offered his that aspect and i can only Canopies just this for me. I'm the What they're asking against A it's it's not cheap. The context and that is button delivers him. An amount that you're getting idea police said doesn't mean the deal that is not getting the tiny. So you've got an idea because we saw this back previous Admit name slowed but julius in theme the of the bucks lady to meet very complex problems. That bought the Today this week in in a position so far loss lost three days leading. Testing problem becomes Suspensive disappointed over over has willing to find a destination. So w substratum of not the estimates moss vote but that is not the one that yet going to something that a lot of visa freedom so started spark algorithm that it could go check that in mid eighties. Australian deflated eighteen estimation so simply it took on being a lot of things the kind of eagle. That is what is stopped being so normally you go from one place another place we had this intrinsic while we happened to the shot as the follow the shot so you can start from being biologically off the radio possible. Send the whole I approach Approach and leads and other things because as well again know what's bytedance even unbalanced and The different states that then began thailand within different ideas so simple putin is the game..
Software People Stories
"raja" Discussed on Software People Stories
"Uh the what the other people and then again this district and then on this look when they are some dependency. They'll give me give. This is what you can bill. Fog in the morning spun me. So you see this dependency. Then will this winnable communication in yet monning has come meeting what can ultimately that. What is it. what the dependencies that we can take this deform often. What under the entire disobeyed laid off So the date people lose when that this discussion district one operation exceptional nothing in delaware we can build a safety in different making. The banning and batticaloa component is not limited. So it's i'm taking one more thing because no way might. John is done that thing that i can want to participate in dusty. This up is molly council. Thanks to what lewis sexual fahd before Hundreds walk fudge a Limits on and they can this thing so this be the owner for the quantities. What can frog does that kennedy Induced that beep is velocity of the book underneath. Actually summarize the Distill the communication. We can come out of that eighty off the defendants exum data different use case. Just him. we saw that again. Give it to model so that the people has fought using this model and then they get in the back meets the other than giving full items to one buzim to a feedback. So just like in begins. Keep probably upkeep on a subway the small smuggling pottage of feedback birth so this lady have not implemented this idea that the Empty midi nicely put but actually the problem is not about. Everybody inventing their own methodology. Obviously we are building on proven cuckney to earn approaches. That are there but at the same time as you had describing this one analogy. That was crossing. My mind was ceo concert. You have different artists coming together. That sometimes the violinist is an accompanying person off. Maybe the main but from the same but what one does is probably slightly different or if it is a woke concert particularly connecticut concert you abbas stick protocol when somebody takes the lead ben. they kind of complement. Each other is more than one..
Software People Stories
"raja" Discussed on Software People Stories
"The diameter of yanni went off so Places where it is coming back to a prius because it is in line with what we discussed earlier the interesting what he had dismissed the desktop sold them be a person who the suggesting when they get after the personal assistant than me would generate the Taught played as a joined that finish marketing and then say why specimen quality wants to be in. saudi failure. Also did food than there is a reporter and at If closely front testing that someone Software and miss someone will estate under a month mentions offered out of the most shocking me. Because i guess. I am the suster to cease all these things slob would really blooming and goodness instead of me but defend but both of us lateness in that. Or get this amendment. But his watch. Finally everyone is believed today but during feynman without really oppose this delayed way. It doesn't as a lot of the at anthony sheltering than what this is so they can also new software and they can have been dating. This is what the whole lot elimidate's don't give you don't want possibly community tests and the wants to pick up discovers percents. I'm this but i'm with distinct. And then ballistic had all saudi as before but We didn't have banned mickens someone so they had elite discovered this but i'm really happy hour later. The industry landed or disease. That began abbas So again getting back to this the douche nov lib so the new show is again. Getting this thing dusting. It's the do stuff deputies in the not. Got the diamond able to do this job. Awesome proposes flood example. Your of experiences Guessing cow moreland guinea's experience than me. So many what interesting. Job to me. Disembarkation. lipa zeke up. I give you this opportunity bilges. It gets bigger slamming some deals. And then you asking me to build. It showed a stark His job when he's asking adapted to this that is. I'm all the problems of stocking just because of someone's inevitably this in-space for someone that Together began yet and not saying that Duchess of back. I mean that does not back. The state at seeing the doesn't separate lucien someone's years responsible is bad that autumn puzzle vamping slow the one day they can. That does the next day. I will district auburn with what they have against because in stuff. I'm getting into those times. When john lewis this another comedy that jello bean and there'll be some people who claims of the nominee doing several state owning endive..
Software People Stories
"raja" Discussed on Software People Stories
"Want to be an architect in those rows away essentially about understanding somebody else's problem in solving it so is dead at roger methodology on an approach. How you would internalize the problem or how you would go. And identify. solution not advocating a solution that small such farmland my copying from the forefathers. They did most of august Aflaid when it comes to candidate especially Positional cambe above us. Defend the mason. Michnik cab yet because of Amna just might will be and that means also Stabbing this wing of people saying is still something that'll be one person end the few that dot the scam so it is not the time against those. Since it's it's not a few of a hope began. Bill that sought example that other people who are now nowadays the assembly line taking softer didn't slob someday. Equal in diplomat sunday night someone will battery the someone will under someone will take it up the jason. They put all this things at some place and then they lost some places finding is but they think that this debate Developing software and a gifts. Not that most of the times we are not in this case that someone the component and the someone will give us. I cannot up like the bobby it made a people who maybe this bonus giving this amazon. Is this a Some some yet invading inflicted up and answering this is lyneham believing application. And the ma'am giving up so differently. They can think of falling to spend on some assembly line technique. You bought me the other day that act. If you will reduce the auto savitt kneels beside continued gunda symbol of work in progress of the number of eight hundred quicken buzzer. And obviously when we look and then won't be united time so that. If i'm doing something and then someone with both and another time during all of them in the notes that seventy eight this lady. Yes then itching. So can i say that. This may but what i can do is as in mitch discounted flooded info so stimulate the it..
Software People Stories
"raja" Discussed on Software People Stories
"The submitted on so anyway. So awesome portions the bulls such something that has been even in the visiting pacifists. On so far then cement nipping and I put cetera. So in the end up to david hub for him the so a light boot beaten by likely in the so. The last thing may want to boarding so Is the only one that what. I'm on then yet. Adding different designation subtle justify the sake of convenience and also managed by being for example. Some of my friends me kidding. This podcast savant example. The technology dismissal list is something that we had for marinate buster here. The author is analyst in person. Awkward estimate in elegant ways. Should he or she should boykin a boon but how turning foot mission aboard the problem only auto business not the that was against someone will descend mon. They they understand the suspect then. So there's some of the game so the thinking that that idea business from not understand business he's You'll see your understand businesses This other people who yesterday about morning and the days of us shining even in booth they implied because might prevent Me this started augmentation. We did him to win a slow at one charlotte via the boss sudden to be a big bold appeal as the destination is but he's not fat will call someone assistant that if you're not the boss of you're adding some badges that be updated something so that is one thing then come the roles advocacy Ignatius late on this bus insurable this thing. This person trump things that may have been in the united not the data that The trip begins and they can dilute osa mice like the only fatal of the dismissed. As because i imagine preventable predict system and i'm muggy. Cpa product designers. So what is that in the seventy s off. That's a different adblocker. Application norweb this product. It light so that is what makes them believable distance. So if you're the gideon pilot is a tragedy Declare it fought for mammal Reporting and the Nickname somebody muslim. The slow someone is telling the descent some by only technology. Hitler suspected whether what he is telling what one this this both of both of them should walk and intact interesting. I can fully relate to the liberal on the card. Because i also believe in that as good. Did you call yourself a junior after engineer. Vp and all that it is an organization noting and renamed meeting whether it a customer. Somebody outside it is about what you can do for them. It doesn't matter what you are. Titles so i always used to have some rules that we probably unique or the stem and the organization. When i was filming one grew. I said i wanted to call my group. Cooperating solutions group. Who used to have a lot of debate and people are captors. Say de gaulle. Davis with is cooperating solutions. It's not just one thing you need some things that all talk together work together so that is what we will give you so at least it it was a conversation starter and then if you wanted different designation can you suggest something and there's not an ignition put sign in fact. Most of the time. I will not have any title road just my name and then we'll see what we can do. We can work with each other so that brings me to the next question. The moment you said you also want to be a business analyst..
Software People Stories
"raja" Discussed on Software People Stories
"It is lloyd will just pull those and in fact i remember neither buzzing on an end to names. Mace counselors Me a number of saints. So news mr tradition. Ms was among desert spots and then Made motherly was ninety. Nine hundred eight then. Certain are they started getting the concepts of india sensible importance i saw except because this hogle ebony i so after that what this gift you in. Id so long Lake experiments so a chemistry just accelerated. Things unfolded late. Tried boom things. Fanzine grading books so. This is the only thing that i am. A lot of the mega fame and a fatal hit is not considered on offense again. That's when it fitting does gamba's Experiments here so when already your swing up with the experiment. We have a model of the things which i am using it for the next in soho not. A software is bad software duty switching video banks. It's not gunson's the middle east but rather than for did anything funding become applicable distant Exciting mechanical engineering for this over them. Putting it sussed approach and mechanical engineering at relatable distance. Us more people long connection the cost of fatal. It's so he Police they have been out on a is so. let's say smoking. Lake louise able to relate australis and some wailua the other conditions that they have not however lake. That's interesting when you learned idea software concepts from at you gain doesn't individual then menu said no a year you continuing because you like to do experiments all things but many times that is not only one percent on at least this are that is used ultimately even if you read everything. It works with some other software. So when did that session. realization happened. And what was the impact of that so multiple things. What is for somebody big portion but extensively until swinson us abduction during mcbain so might consider myself Bus so things will be used in the makes the myself that i am working on one thing in the night loss of the puzzle door another thing and then other people and plus not deputy district against the seen a boom next named i guess is what off but at the same time order to get a bus of the bus. This priming defense having gone through Let me flawed this indicating a mock Of just to be we just learned this concept gun i think. Against wanting to distribute a dame's it starts the illegally after those to me sounded. This bank accepts most But some along with me Not more than four members though Did we find it daily interesting that the whole weekend. So because that's what the separation of Soviet personal nathan Find that this name flow of it. So of an am working on something that by a full energy to make better considering that this another component shared then we got very different and then we get component. Then we start those things so now desist Talk even this payback proper distance. A dusting thinks it has been Extents so far the transition from Looking bus indignation of it not among syndicates phenomenon. Fog me just happen us. Pop up the entire journey monthly us wendy You make a thanks. Thanks for the game pushing yet. Sometimes you shouldn't really happened. But i am not aware of the things that happen and here this portion. Now i have a follow on question. But before that since you mentioned from and digital onto butare hitting envision yard career or professional trajectory or did you start and then what was the changes that you went through all have you done..
Software People Stories
"raja" Discussed on Software People Stories
"The company this off their stories. I'm shift i'm chitra and ninety three. Bring you interesting untold stories of people associated with the creation or consumption all software based solutions. You'll hear stories of wadsworth and sometimes what didn't you will also hear very personal experiences and insights. That would trigger your thoughts and you to do even greater. This conversation happened between two imperious. The guest raja a gorda for life and she will go to the host imagine a profession or a way of working that you can liberally make mistakes and each time you do that. You only get better. What's the role or title from. Where did this freeze full stack developer. Originally i mean does it even make sense after all an end user needs software tools to do their job successfully and that can mean interacting with several parts of a system. So it's almost like asking someone who bought a car which part of the guard us know. And then imagine you're playing the final of cricket tournament for your state or country and your captain comes up and says i want you to bowl this over and you say i'm not a boiler. Can you ask. someone is and by now. If you're wondering what on earth this episode is all about listen and find out for yourself hired. I welcome to the software. People's stories asset equals two from giant. Okay you want to start with your audience toady how you got interested in software and how you got into softer and then what has been happening these days so i'm not really a big giant. Who went to the nabet. Believe this beautiful piece of he spent belus time this again Make last Dating this offer but thank bluff me schoolteachers who play the investor to tell me what a hub latest software take upper on nation. He a- ask the vote. The mid semester gasped will because puzzles that. I believe out because of the flowcharts said what they do he explained. Obviously what is the at cut number slow-medium before chart. Nearly they had to go through this thing. Which is the biggest. Somebody's minimum flow tidiest Use the concept of keep the in some better than Patient that on said on investing but the must be to find artisans models number the finals Of debate is the last day that is liking than let amid a hit from the can muster that he is like this is the best. I guess he got some opportunity. Because i am the ester ruled double. The number of science produced him domino relating us batch so then name thankful to second feature is still in spanish galleon kids dot nestle saito the school but key he blew off Members made in civic duty his sleep any used pizza Software because festival access to the ten is very naturally bus of some time. That what he's had discussed lama someone of time especially from the evenings from six to eight even getting beneath from me. Don don device up at eight of indo spangles owing spots. So what the good thing that. What i'm doing today is on..
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
'You Are Being Evasive': Questioning of FBI Director Gets Contentious
"A house hearing today. Carson raja krishnamoorthi asked fbi director christopher ray about the subpoenas of the phone records of congressman. Adam schiff and congressman. Eric swale well by the trump justice department. The league hunt began when the fbi sent a subpoena to apple in february twenty eighteen. You don't dispute that report correct. I really can't discuss civic investigation. don't want to get out in front. The justice department on this in a really best director and the fbi interviewed witnesses and connection with this leak investigation. Correct again sir. i. I really can't discuss any specific investigation. I'm not asking you to discuss any specifics of the investigation. But the fbi was involved with these investigations. Correct when there are leak investigations. Typically the fbi is the investigative age good. That's the that's what we thought. The fbi was involved with this investigation. Now sir and this is during the time that you are the fbi director. Did you ever discuss the apple. Subpoenas with jeff sessions congressman. I understand the question. I really don't wanna get out of the justice department on this as you know the you're just being asked a simple. Yes or no question. Did you discuss the leak. Investigation with jeff sessions congressman again respectfully. I'm not trying to be difficult here but the inspector general has been asked to look into this. I have a very good being evasive keyser. Yes or no questions or you're under oath either. Yes or no simple questions that we need to get to the bottom of
Coaching for Leaders
"raja" Discussed on Coaching for Leaders
"Have you changed your mind on see. I would say that. I have noticed a huge spike in pumps off things like mental wellness. Lack off the ice cream. Is that many of the people in a mental illness. Course some oddity medically driven but a lot of it is actually based on stress based on your diet based on your lifestyle what is off stating the faces that how people are probably single-mindedly focused on some aspects of life mostly work because that something which is absolutely critical for lively for most offensives. I what i think is in all in in more of the eastern cultures it. This is money. Regret that talk about focusing on your whole life. You don't add. Cut your entire life at work even if your livelihood depends on if you don't answer your life on your work that doesn't mean you make lecture work. You put work where it belongs. You look is to support life. Your life has to be holistic. It has to be hold some. It is so richard babied. It's almost a piggy. If most life gets taken by what along right. So i think people have to generally generally do second introspection. Getting into things like mindfulness meditation. They should think about the kind of by that heavy because you're dying actually affects not only a physical wellbeing and your health mental being in hell and takes off by find to say this is how neglected this whole field is a how to live life in a whole sub fashion. It as stunning at. I think people have to really start noticing and they got offered so. That's one big shifted perspective for me because Take it for granted coming back on and to have been mitigating for gago somebody years now under do yoga every day. So these have been a part of my life. And i just take it a golden part but i started looking at some of these tax analysts. Mike on you. Finally people do some of these things they can help them Medicines and they don't do it get into those situations in the first place. So that's that's one big. I would say raja raja. Manar is the author of quantum market. Mastering the new marketing mindset for tomorrow's consumers. Raja you so much for your wisdom. Hank thank you much again having me. Please stay safe and be well. If this conversation was helpful for you several related episodes. I'd also recommend one of them on the closely related topic of sales is episode to ninety nine how to lead top line growth with tim sanders in that conversation. Tim and i talk about deal storm in his most recent book on sales and the process that many organizations are following today in order to engage customers. Well both bleeding into and also after actually making the sale and our traditional view of sales is that it's a lone wolf salesperson who is working alone or mostly loan to start the process and finish it and then handed off to someone else and really a lot of organizations are not working that way at least not effectively anymore. Episode to ninety nine is an introduction on how to think about sales a little differently in your organization. I'd also recommend episode three eighty one serving others through marketing with seth. Godin conversation about marketing is complete without sets wisdom. Many of his principles and ethics have guided be in business over the years. And you'll hear many echoes of permission. Marketing. and. So many of the other principles that seth teaches in raja's book as well that's episode three eighty one and also recommended is episode four eighty four where to start on subscriptions with robbie kelman baxter on that episode. We talked about the new trend. It's not as new anymore on companies and organizations moving to subscription models Certainly you and your family have noticed this pattern and it has been a big change and shift in the last five to ten years of how businesses are engaging customers and continuing that relationship. Robbie is an expert on how businesses can utilize subscriptions in their work and in their strategy episode. Four eighty four is the starting point for that. And then finally. I'd recommend episode that aired on dave's journal awhile back that's titled if you build it. They will come. That's a message. We have heard many times in popular culture. It is a myth and it is really not the way to approach engaging and building a business in engaging with customers and explain why in that episode you can find it linked up on the episode notes. All of those you can find on the coaching for leaders dot com website. We have a section for sales and selling we also have a section for marketing many other conversations that we've aired over the years on both of those topics and many more if you had not yet set up your free membership to access all of the past episodes searchable by topic. I didn't fight to do so to score over to coaching for leaders. dot com. Set up your free membership in a few seconds. So often running in the full interface of our library. Accessing episodes searchable by topic as i mentioned and also full access to my own personal library all of the interview notes including the notes for raja's book and of course the weekly leadership guide which comes to your inbox every wednesday including the most important links from every episode and all of the resources. I've been fighting for you. All of that at kuching for leaders dot com. Set up your free number ship and you'll be off and running next monday. I'm glad to welcome michael. Hyatt's back to the show. He is going to be teaching us. How high achievers can start to fine balance. Join me for that conversation with michael next week. Have a great week..
Scuba Shack Radio
Wet Notes - 3-28-21
"This is wet notes here on scuba shock radio for sunday march twenty eighth two thousand and twenty one first up today. I want to give you an update from reef or the reef environmental educational foundation. They have released their two thousand and twenty two field survey trips and it's pretty neat. They have eleven trips. Planned in two thousand and twenty two starting with saint vincent in february and that is being led by amy lee. For those of you who listen to the show. I had amy on the show last july. They also have a cuba trip in march followed by raja arm pot in april. May june will feature saint lucia and roett tan. july is. the red sea and hawaii is in august. The september two thousand and twenty two baht trip is already sold out grand. Cayman is october bon. Air's in november and the year closes out in december. In 'cause you might wanna take a look at the reef website for all the details availability and pricing. These trips. look pretty awesome last week ned. who's a dive master at. The shop passed on a new york times article about looking for climate solutions and this article was written by catrine einhorn. Essentially she reported that ocean bottom trawling for shrimp whiting. Cod and other fish emits as much carbon dioxide into the air as the entire globalization industry. Now this was based on a study published in the journal. Nature and it was pretty enlightening. About how trawling releases. Immense amounts of carbon from the ocean floor and that leads to more acidification of the water and that reduces the oceans capacity to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. You can check out the entire article on the new york times website look for climate solutions by katrina einhorn. There's another piece of good news. Out of molly s this month. The honolulu star advertiser reported that a trained response team was able to free young. Humpback whale from gear entangling. It's left pictorial flipper. They were able to free about fifty to one hundred feet of line from the flipper but not we're able to get the Entangled line out of its mouth. They are hoping that that will ultimately free itself. They haven't seen the whale since it was freed. Apparently it wasn't in great shape but at least now it has a chance. They recovered gears being analyzed to see if they can determine the origin now. The efforts were led by the hawaiian humpback whale national marine sanctuary in partnership with cardinal point captains k key koala project and ultimate whale-watch. Now i've had the opportunity to go out with ultimate whale-watch from lana. A couple of times was very happy to hear of their support. We carry a lot of aqualung equipment in our shop and like most businesses twenty twenty taught many of us a lot of lessons. Well i recently sent out a message that they are introducing. A new aqualung is a bit of a rebranding. They're using a new tagline beyond the expected in the message. They said the twenty twenty taught them to expect the unexpected time to seek out the unexpected. If you check out the aqua lung website they further state that they are for the ocean exploration for ocean understanding and for ocean conservation. The aqua lung site also has a really inspiring short two minute video to get you inspired. Stay tuned for more from akwa. Long as they go beyond the expected earlier in the week. I got an email from nicole. Russell dima vice president of operations and i e mail had a lot of different information but one of the items that stood out said las vegas is open for business that means they are in fact planning to hold the demon. Show two thousand twenty one in las vegas in person and not some very exciting news. There was a learn more link in the email that took you to the dive equipment and marketing association's website where they gave you a list of all the trade shows conventions and meetings scheduled in las vegas of over five thousand or more attendees in the next twelve months. Now that was an interesting list. F why the marijuana business daily or m j biz con two thousand twenty. One is expected to draw thirty thousand people. And it's just one month before dima for all you dive pros out there. Mark your calendar for demon show two thousand twenty one november sixteenth to nineteenth in las vegas. Nevada can't wait to get back to dima and finally earth day two thousand twenty one is less than a month away earth day is actually april twenty second however it looks like this year. They are promoting three days of climate action. It starts on april twentieth. There are three lead organizations working on this educational international or education international the hip hop caucus and earth uprising will will be organizing three separate parallel climate action summits on april twentieth and twenty first ahead of president biden's global leaders climate summit on april twenty. Second what a difference a year makes. What a different political climate additionally earth day dot org will be producing the second earth day live digital event on april twenty second. Check out the website on earth day dot. Org for more information. Well that wraps up wet notes for sunday march twenty eighth two thousand and twenty one here on scuba shack
Marketing Today with Alan Hart
"raja" Discussed on Marketing Today with Alan Hart
"This is like an accent. Nucle- a brave new word where there is such a deluge of technologies coming at us. It's each one off. These is independently capable off dramatically artery. People's likes and imagine all is coming at the same time how much effort disruption so marketing is going to go through an unprecedented level off disruption as via entering it's fifth dispensing and it does not like five years hence our sense it is happening. We haven't the Oddity between the fourth and the fifth piloting Mini of this technology saudi and to have begun to scale like for example. I is already skating. But he fast. And then you have got a technologist like blockchain. Just getting ready fast. Spot speaks forty percent penetration already so this technologists on knocks him through to the stick is that he had and now until the binders marketing has to be completely imagine for. This new would existing theories strategies concepts of simply not work so what they tried to buy books. Quantum marketing is to firstly help marketers understand up businessmen understand in blade english. What each of these technologies are demystifying. Because the moment you said technologists omega on so this is really simplified. Make access to be And then i would plane how it is going to impact marketing and then give steps on. How marketer sept eleven age those in what should they do village does and so it was kind of a playbook For bank on a little bit off would say explaining the concepts and then outlining the future and how you should go after this has arguably the structure of my book and like you. Rank is said many mini off might be s that actually reached out and this all these many topics which free soft had visit superficial understanding effect. All but villa shadow ask so to speak because of anyhow reached them for declared levity born to advocate your ignorance now unfortunately. That's very prevalent right. I am this at this is such a phenomenon and does something see most of unilever off facebook or tweet completely clocks slowly companies. To have acted responded. I feel extremely good about it. So hopefully it will find it useful and practical in the quantum marketing Highlight i think five points may get the little off. But i hope i get it right. There's the northstar or purpose. You have heart obviously technology which we've talked about these technology ships. That have happened over the time. And then you have brain and data. These are pretty all encompassing. Frankly as you think about how they all kind of piece together but how did you come up with these as you drive these and maybe a quick quick thumbnail on what the what each means or what they stand for so basically you say that You know all matter. And everything is made up of find elements so they started sitting back and said what exactly on rehabilitates from market and is said. These are the final winston which make the pie mix assets marketing cousin so the first thing which is not true so much in the past but it is going to be upset or two critical for the future is hopeless hopeless is about having some kind of not star a guiding post so you are actually pursuing that and everything else es in support of it..
Marketing Today with Alan Hart
"raja" Discussed on Marketing Today with Alan Hart
"It's about predicting where the consumer is going in getting it right. One of the things we want to do is create odds. That don't suck then bracing chains. Chris great possibility malan heart and this is marketing today today on the show we have back. Raja raja manar chief marketing and communications officer at mastercard. Roger was previously on episode eighty six and encouraged to go back and listen to that today on the show. We talk about his new book. Quantum marketing mastering the new marketing mindset for tomorrow's consumers. We talk about. What is quantum marketing. What were the prior paradigm. That led up to this current job. That he's documenting in his book as well as the five of quantum marketing. So i hope you enjoy this show with raja.
WGN Programming
Mother, Four Daughters Die In Morning House Fire In Des Plaines
"And displace after this morning's deadly apartment. Fire is screaming at me if you come out of the house because the house is on fire, he's Pablo Moreira. Oh, a tells W G and he lived below the apartment where the fire started. It killed a mother and her four young daughters happened just after 10 A.m.. It has two story duplex type apartment building on Ridge Lane just off Oakton couple blocks north of O'Hare Airport. No word yet on what caused that fire Congressman Raja
Afternoons with Marcellus & Kelvin
Houston Rocket fans can trade their James Harden jersey for a free car wash
"Wind chill factor. Ooh and for a nice tender hands of the southern california athlete right. Be hit up inside your fingers. That code was particularly for the receivers might be interesting. cold weather. Goff is a thing you know that right or cold. Weather periods of manny struggled with it as well. I mean some. Qb's you know if you didn't spend a great deal of time. Didn't accustomed to it. Coming up is really hard to catch up once you become a pro. We've seen that time and time again. I don't know how an raja's dozen other than the fact that he got to sit behind brett
John Landecker
Chicago Weather: Cloudy Skies, Cool Temperatures Ahead
"Will be mostly cloudy skies tonight the low temperature in the upper twenties, mostly cloudy for much of Tuesday. Tuesday's high 35 That's basically where we should be this time of the year on Wednesday, we'll have more clouds and sun coming our way. The high reaches about 36 Thursday. Partly cloudy conditions we start to warm up 39. They're low forties for Friday with a mix of sun and clouds and rain and snow on the way from Saturday. Saturday's high 41 I'm w G and meteorologist Dimitrius Ivory 20 in Rochelle, 20 wanted to calve 26 in Lansing right now and 26 at O'Hare midway on the lakefront here windshield right now. 18 ago here 17 of Midway 21 Flight front. I'm Raja vanish on Chicago's very own 7 20 w
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
Philadelphia 76ers agree to trade Josh Richardson to Dallas Mavericks for Seth Curry, per report
"Today. Just now josh. Richardson was traded by the sixers to the mavericks at a thirty six. Pick with richardson for sets cari and richardson's kind of one of those guys that just happened now according to coach and you know an elder reporters but The tyrod terry moves into this at curry spot into the south carolina. Spot right into but richardson is one of those types of guys. That were sort of talking about here right. I mean like. I think you would want knee smith to grow into that type of role and hopefully get better on defense. Maybe not a guy who was handling a lot for you but can here and there That that would be the long term goal for him. But i'm not so sure that the ball handling ability is there but if it is it's never going to be at a high level he's always going to be a shooter for you and if he can shoot a heck of a lot better than richardson. While being good on defense. That'd be a really nice player but there's a lot of questions though.
Morning Edition
Thailand Declares State Of Emergency Amid Anti-Government Protests
"Is on a kind of locked down, but it's not the pandemic its politics. On Wednesday, tens of thousands of anti government protesters gathered in Bangkok to push their demands for the military back to government to step down before the sun came up. However, an unidentified government spokesman read a statement on television like onto turned him a quandary rang naked punk. He declared a state of extreme emergency in the capital in a bid to end the student led protests. Whose demands also include cause to reform the country's powerful monarchy. Reporter Michael Sullivan is on the line from Bangkok. Good morning, Michael. Just tell us what the situation on the streets is right now. Well, Rachel. I just got back from a protest on demonstrators called for late this afternoon after they were driven from the prime minister's office this morning, and they're not listening to the terms of this extreme emergency. That the government declared one of those terms was no gatherings of more than five people. And now there are several 1000 at the Raja purse song Intersection in the commercial heart of the city and their defiant They say they're not stopping, and so far, there's a heavy police presence, but no intervention. Yet aside from this morning's arrests of several of the protest leaders and the government says all of these measures are necessary because Wednesday's demonstration they say, caused chaos and disorder, including disrupting a royal motorcade. But I mean, it wasn't yesterday's demonstration, largely peaceful. It was even though there were tens of thousands gathered at Bangkok's Democracy monument. There wasn't any real problem, despite the fact that there were many pro royalist demonstrators there on the sidelines, dressed in yellow, which leads some to believe there could be trouble. But there wasn't until The anti government demonstrators started their march to the prime minister's office about a mile away. And it's not exactly clear how. But there was a woman when some of the protesters were suddenly in the way of the queen's motorcade. And the on ly thing. Separating them from her limo was a thin blue line of police who forcibly part of the protesters to allow the motorcade to pass even a sum. Flash the three finger salute from the hunger Games movies as it did, And that seems to be the catalyst for all of that. This kind of thing just doesn't happen here on band some of the protest leaders who are detained overnight or some of the most vocal about challenging not just the government, but but the whole monarchy as well, right? Yeah, and I don't think that's an accident. I think it's not a coincidence. All this is happening. While the King and queen are in Bangkok. They usually aren't They spend a lot of time in Germany and This is one of the things that some of these protestors have also criticized in addition to saying the monarchy has too much money and too much power and up Until a few months ago, this kind of talk was taboo. You just don't talk publicly about the monarchy here in part Because criticizing the king or the royal family can land you in jail for up to 15 years. But even after some of the students announced their manifesto to reform the monarchy back in August, in addition to their demands for the prime minister stepped down and for new constitution The government really didn't crack down on them apart from some arrests for sedition until now, Just in a matter of seconds. Michael, what happens now? The students say they're not done. They vowed to continue Now we'll need to see how the military backed government one that's long made defending the monarchy, one of its core missions, response to the students this afternoon. All right. Reporter Michael Sullivan in Bangkok. Thank you so much. You're welcome.
The NBA Show
LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers are the 2020 NBA Champions
"Lakers have won a twenty twenty title in the bubble, their seventeenth overall Lebron's fourth overall. What is the biggest takeaway right now? Raja mean the Lakers. I, they were my pick to start the season. I'm not sure about yours. It seems this doesn't seem like too much surprise, right? What do you think now? They they were might pick to win a title and take for me is like you still don't bet against Lebron brought did just despite. You know what a season may look like the ups and downs of whatever team he's on whatever they need to sort out chemistry. Wise. At the end of the day you don't bet against Lebron. Yeah and I think especially in terms of this series, we see this against stars all the time where a team will challenges star right when you see that when we talk about Kobe when you talk about M J and when you talk about any star down the line. They will challenged. But especially in this in this type of environment but I don I wouldn't even when they were down and when the when the Lakers it seemed like all they were having a bump in the road still didn't think the Lakers were going to lose the series and again you do not been Lebron James and he showed you tonight, right? Yeah. No doubt and look we came on I don't know after game four maybe and we were critiquing breaking down and we had the discussion about who you take in a half court set to get you a bucket right and and I took the four five six people over. Lebron in the half Kazusa over Lebron. James. That is catch nobody. Saw Go could have been MVP tonight. By like the the Bronx the great what ones doing even when they're pushed and challenged is they realize where they need to be better in the next game to make sure that they get to where they want to go and you saw that like he was able to get on transition which really help. But man, he was a monster and half court like think about the three point performance in game five and tonight. It was just like I'm bigger stronger. I'm getting to the rim. Let me just showed the rest of this team how I'm GonNA conduct myself tonight. And people follow
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Florida governor reopening state's economy despite spread
"Governor Raja Santa's lifting all restrictions on restaurants and other businesses in Florida today in a move to reopen the state's economy, Despite the spread of the Corona virus, the Republican governors move short, too stoked debate in a politically crucial state where the pandemic has become intertwined with politics. His order allows restaurants across Florida to immediately reopen at full capacity and prevents cities and counties from ordering them to close without justifying it for economic or health reasons.
Dennis Prager
Hurricane warning issued for parts of Florida as Isaias looms
"Forecasters have declared a hurricane warning for parts of the Florida coast as hurricane Sias drenches the bottles on the track for the U. S. East Coast. At a news conference. Florida Governor Raja Satya says he's declared a state of emergency for Florida's Atlantic Coast. It's the hurricane approaches. I want Floridians to know the state of Florida is fully prepared for this and any future storm during this hurricane season, the division of emergency management Has had the state operations center at Level one since March. Officials in Florida say they're closing beaches, marinas and parks in Miami Dade
Win at RETIREMENT the Harwood Way with Robert Harwood
DeSantis Joins Trump For Executive Signing of Lowering Prescription Drug Costs
"Raja Stances joined President Trump that the White House has four executive orders were signed. That will lower prescription drug prices in 2019 to scientist was behind the push to import cheaper drugs from Canada and other countries into Florida. We knew that this day would eventually come And I think the fact that we're standing here today. Obviously, Florida you know, we did some groundwork, but really, it's a result of presidential leadership. One order reduces the cost of insulin and epi pens well. Another order allows pharmacies to order drugs directly from Canada.
Weekend Edition Sunday
Coronavirus testing: What you should know
"Us we begin today with a look at testing in this country as the corona virus continues to spread getting tested for the disease here is still hard consider two different stories one is from actually hiker she lives in Houston she began having symptoms on March sixteenth so she went to an urgent care clinic where she tested negative for the flu but when she asked to take a covert nineteen test they said they were going to test me there because I was young and you know I don't have any risk factors the next day a friend told her about some community health centers in Houston that were offering free testing they asked to the usual questions her symptoms if you travel to China recently if you've been in contact with anyone who had to cope with nineteen I didn't know if I come in contact with someone but the guy was kind of hinting like if you say that then I can you for advertising she got the test and waited for two weeks to hear back I mean there's so much uncertainty right now and so then waiting on this test was just another layer of uncertainty finally the results came back she was positive actually was then told that she would hear from the Houston health department within a week it took them three weeks to reach her this past Wednesday by then actually had already recovered so that was the case from last month but what about testing now let's hear from grace Belmont of Roxbury Massachusetts I had been ill for a while it started with a sore throat and moved into my lungs and increasing fatigue and throughout that process I sought out testing it was repeatedly told no wonder symptoms worsened she ended up in the emergency room and by that time I realized I needed to lie in order to get tested so I said that I had had a fever which I had not had and they because of my only other sentencing I was finally able to get a test she said the doctor seem nervous quickly testing just one side and not sticking the swap very far back the test was negative but she continued to get sicker it was very alarming to find my health going downhill at a rapid clip and not being able to get any help in the den the doctors I could tell were also very frustrated with that with the restrictions that have been put on them as well I was early April just this past week she got tested again and it was a much different experience my doctor was able to request a test I went to a designated co that hospital and I met with a trained nurse who reported that he did approximately seventy test today had a lot of experience again the test was negative progress continues to have severe symptoms so not quite trusting the result she is keeping her distance from our family just in case she does have the coronavirus in between the test and the result is the wait for the phone to ring and on the other end of that phone call is often someone like our next guest Dr Carolyn Schulman is a third year resident at George Washington University and she wrote an article this past week in stat about her experience informing people that they tested positive for coke at nineteen and she joins us now from the hospital where she's on a thirteen hour shift thanks so much for taking a break and being with us today thanks so much for inviting me I imagine it's really scary for people to find out that they've tested positive what kind of reactions do you get most people I found were specially in March when we news so much less than we do now and we still have a lot to learn they had a lot of questions a lot of anxiety I had some folks cry some people were relieved to just talk to someone and they hadn't been isolating in their house waiting for their test results and then some people are really relieved to find out an explanation for their sometimes and by the time I had called them sometimes they were feeling better I understand we have to keep people's privacy but you did in your article give sort of general descriptions of some of the stories that you heard can you tell us a few now what kinds of people were testing positive and and what does that tell you I found testing positive were from all walks of life are low income populations seem to be especially more of honorable in this pandemic the issue of overcrowding and housing in DC and many other cities is ongoing and in the setting of a pandemic it further highlights our needs for more social services in these areas some resources did exist and I would get what I could to my patients but it was definitely a role outside of what I had done previously in terms of practicing medicine it expanded into other areas that really affected people's health and public health you describe a man called Jeff who lives alone and who has a chronic blood condition but who had to resume his job as a a ride share driver because he needed to make ends meet yeah unfortunately that was that wasn't an uncommon reaction that I would find when when telling people their results really think people are trying the best they could but some people really couldn't miss a day's work or a week's work the headline of this article was it was my job to call people whose cover nineteen tests were positive that taught me a lot about medicine the law and society explain what you learned yeah I think it highlights the fact that health depends on so much more than just hospitals is really difficult as probably anyone but especially as a position to know how to help in those situations I wasn't trained on how to help someone who lives in an in an overcrowded house self isolate like I wasn't trained on how to help somebody get food like it wasn't on my boards it wasn't on any of the tests I took I just was determined and dedicated and trying to figure out everything I could while I was making these phone calls that was Dr Carolyn showman thank you very much thank you so much there are two types of tests taking place right now the ones we just heard about happen when you worried you might have a live infection the others are antibody test also called serological tests antibody test Rainsy who was infected in the past and some officials hope they can be used to decide who can safely go back to work because they have some kind of immunity there are now more than a hundred different types of antibody test available here typically it would take months or even longer to get approval from the food and drug administration which regulates medical products but after criticism for slowing down the process president trump removed approval barriers allowing companies to take their antibody tests street to market now house oversight subcommittee has raised the alarm saying that after a briefing by federal officials they found the FDA is unable to validate the accuracy of these tests Illinois Democrat representative Raja Krishnamoorthi chairs the house oversight subcommittee on economic and consumer policy and he joins us now from Schaumburg Illinois good morning Hey good morning will so as I mentioned your committee was briefed by officials about antibody tests coming onto the market what do they tell you they basically told us that there are two paths that makers of these tests can utilize to get their test sold one is to basically get authorization from the FDA to sell them and for companies have taken advantage of that and then the other is not to get any authorization from the FDA and go ahead and sell them and a hundred and seven have taken advantage of that and unfortunately a wild west of unregulated tasks are now proliferating and our biggest concerns are that they're unreliable inaccurate and in many cases making fraudulent claims about their testing results but isn't there a bit of a problem here because on the one hand there was a lot of criticism that the trump administration and the FDA was just holding the reins too tight and that they weren't getting tests out to people who needed them and now there's this other complaint that there's just too many tasks and there's not enough oversight it can sound like it's unclear really which direction the government should it should go on well I think that you know because the serological tests are so important because the trump administration is really promising the re opening of the economy on these tasks it's important that the tests to be accurate and that the test makers not making fraudulent claims about them there is a way to go about balancing the need to get a lot of testing out there with the need for you know making sure that they're accurate that's called the emergency use authorization route that allows makers to even begin using and selling the tasks at the same time that they're seeking authorization on Friday the FDA administrator Steven Hahn was asked about the antibody tests over which you raised the alarm here's what he said at the White House briefing we provide flexibility what we've told manufacturers is that in order to market in the U. S. they have to validate their tests they have to tell us that they validated their tennis package insert they have to let people know end users labs X. cetera that those tests were not authorized by FDA does this reassure you in anyway no because what he's basically saying is that these makers have to self validate and because of this kind of voluntary compliance type of regimen there's absolutely no incentive for a junk test maker to actually produce their results to the FDA so what would you advise people to do I think right now only use a test that has been authorized by the FDA they've listed the handful of tasks that have actually been authorized on their website I think the FDA needs to take action to clear the market of all under unauthorized tests and they should require authorization before any of these tests are sold and then they did it put out clear standards as to what characterizes a good test and what do you do with the test results that's the most important thing for a consumer standpoint you know that's where the FDA really needs to