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So make sure to try them while you can. Tap the banner to learn more. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. If you missed it, we started, wait, that movie made how much money? Month last night on the rewatchables. We did Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, me, Chris Ryan, Van Lathan, it was a wonderful experience for all of us. Van looked at Chris at one point and he said, everything I do, I do it all for you. Oh no, that was Bryan Adams, but we had a great time. Coming up on this podcast, I'm gonna do an NBA Power Poll at the top because there's no games as I'm taping this on Tuesday. So let's, where are we after two weeks? I tried to fly through this. I limited myself to 22 minutes. I think I went two minutes over, but I flew through it, tried to get off as many comments as I possibly could. And then our old friend Malcolm Gladwell is gonna come on and do some sports hour stuff. There's some things that he's noticed about direction sports are going in that he doesn't like, and we're gonna try to fix it. So that's the podcast, first, our friends from Pearl Jam. Here we go. All right, I'm gonna throw an NBA Power Poll at you. I'm not sure I'm gonna do this every Tuesday, but I definitely wanna do this some Tuesdays. I'm gonna go through all 30 teams as fast as possible. And I'm gonna throw things out that I feel like are important when necessary. Pot shots, important comments, things I've noticed, some fake trades, you've known me for a while. It's gonna be all the typical stuff. Going backwards from 30 to one, I'll give you the groups as we go. The first group is called the Dregs. That's Washington number 30. They are 30th in defense. And the only reason they're 30th in defense is because we only have 30 teams. I actually think there's some way they could have been 36th in defense. They're the only team in the entire league that I do not wanna watch on league pass for any reason at all. They're one and five, 15 .6 point differential against them. Shoot this team into the sun. I cannot believe House thought this team was gonna go over 24 wins. They might not go over 14 wins. They're awful. I never want them on my TV. Next group, probably the lottery. I say probably, but I'm gonna zip through these teams and then go back to somebody. 29 Utah, 28 Portland, 27 Detroit, 26 San Antonio, 25 Charlotte, who is way more fun than I expected they would be to watch, and 24 Chicago. It just feels like the lottery's in the future for all these teams. I wanna talk about San Antonio really quick. Three and four, kind of a sneaky, tough schedule. They played Phoenix twice, the Clippers, Dallas, that goofy Indiana team, Houston, and Toronto. They're minus 8 .6 point differential because they've gotten blown out a couple of times, and they're 29th on defense, which I was surprised by per 100 possessions. The thing that I wanted to point out here, because this one Benyama thing is super important. This is the best teenager that's come into the league, at least since LeBron. We can debate. LeBron, I think in year two, for two months at least, was a teenager when he was putting up 27, seven, and seven. When he started his 27, seven, seven cycle. Wembe might be the best teenager I've ever seen. They're starting Jeremy Sohan at point guard, and Pop's been transparent about this. No, no, we know we're gonna take some lumps. We're trying to figure this out. I went to the game when they played the Clippers, I talked about it in a previous pod, and it was just an absolute debacle, watching poor Sohan try to run the offense, bring the ball up. Now we're seeing teams starting to pressure them because he's not a point guard. He's a small forward. There's crazy stats now. Trey Jones, just by being on this team and not being Jeremy Sohan, is now one of the best advanced metrics point guards of all time. Right now, his per 100 on -off is plus 28 .3 because Sohan is minus 22 .7. That's how disparate the two things are. Which brings me to my point, this is too important. You have the best teenager maybe ever. You have one of the best league pass players already in the entire league in Wimby. I have no idea how long he's gonna stay healthy, knock on wood, hear me knock really loud. I just got my dog going. No, that was me, dumb ass. They need one more point guard. TJ McConnell is on Indiana, and they have Halliburton, who's averaging a 24 -12. He's awesome. They have Nembhard, who's great as a backup. McConnell's like, he's 13 minutes a game. He's clearly a trade piece for them. Just go get him. I'm not saying San Antonio has to make the playoffs, but they need to be entertaining, and Wimby needs to play with point guards. He clearly needs just to play off people, high screens, all that stuff. They need one more point guard. TJ McConnell is my choice. They have all their own firsts. They're not gonna trade those obviously, but they have some goofy picks. They have Charlotte's top 14 protected first. They have a pretty good Chicago first that I wouldn't give up. They have a first swap with Boston. There's ways to do this. I would just put that Charlotte pick next year on the table and just grab them because you guys hit the lottery. Literally, with Wimby -Dyama, literally hit the lottery. You hit the lottery and you hit the lottery. Get to do two point guards. We're not asking for much here. I wanna watch this guy. I wanna enjoy him play basketball. All right, next section is panic time. Number 23, Memphis. They're one and six. They finally got out to Schneider. And number 22, Sacramento, who lost twice to Houston in three days by 18 and 25. No Darren Fox for either game. Panic time in this respect. I know we're six games in the season, seven games in the season, but the West is one of those things where you're gonna look up and the car is left. The car has left the driveway and your family is gone. You're gonna be basically Kevin and home alone if you don't get your shit together. And I don't even wanna be two games under 500 in the West. That's how deep and good the West is. So when you're one and six, like all of a sudden two and 12, two and 13, Sacramento could all of a sudden be three and nine. I would just be nervous constantly. This is not like last year when the Lakers started out two and 10 and ended up making the playoffs. Nobody is doing that this year. The cutoff line is gonna be 46 wins. Memphis looks, they just can't score. And I think it's gonna be really, we talked about this verno last week. It's gonna be really hard for them to crawl back and be at least like 11 and 14, something like that by the time Ja comes back. The Sacramento thing, we predicted this when we did the over -under preview, like the conference is way better and they stayed basically the same. And now Fox is hurt. So it can take Fox going out for 10 games and all of a sudden you're not even in the playing game. I would just be nervous, so it's both of those teams. Again, it's early. Next group, friskier than we hoped. We have number 21, Brooklyn. Ben Simmons averaging almost 11 rebounds and seven assists a game. And yet you can't play him at crunch time, bizarre. Number 20, Orlando. Number 19, Houston. Number 18, Indiana. And number 17, Toronto. Just quickly on Houston, a delightful league pass team. I had no idea. It's like being at a buffet dinner and somebody brings like some, have you ever had a fried oyster? It's like, great, I'll try that. And then it's delicious. They play hard. I like watching them. And I did not expect a Shungun to be a potential all -star, but that's where we are. They're three and three. Again, they beat Sacramento twice, we'll see. But Orlando at number 20. Every time I do this, I'm gonna have a BS all -star of the week. I used to do this when I wrote my column back in the day. I used to call them the Bill Simmons all -stars, just people that I just liked for whatever reason. I love Jalen Suggs. I don't really know fully what he is. He tries harder than everybody on every other team. He really gives a shit. He feels additive in all these different ways. And yet at the same time, he'll absolutely like airball a three in one of the biggest moments of the game. But that guy cares. I watched a game where he got this hustle rebound. Can't remember who they, they lost at the buzzer. Get this hustle rebound and dribble back out and took a three and missed it and put his jersey over his head for like the next minute and a half. I actually think he might've been crying. He was so upset they lost. He is the most competitive random guy in the league. I love Jalen Suggs. Oh, as Saruti said, it's the Laker game. I love Jalen Suggs. I don't know what he is. He might just end up being like a seventh man on a championship team at some point. He's gonna have a moment on a good team. I don't know if Orlando's gonna be the team, but it's gonna happen for that dude. I also really like Anthony Black more than I thought, but we'll see. It's early for this team. Palo hasn't gotten going. Somehow they're four and three. We'll see when the schedule gets harder. Toronto at number 17, just the Lakers miss Schroeder. And I like what Schroeder's doing in Toronto. They're three and four, but they easily could be five and two. I've been watching them because I have their over under, I bet on. And I like where Toronto's at. I think they're better than they were last year. I think they're at least a playing team. Number 18, Indiana though. So their second in offensive rating and 25th in defense. In the 25th, I was actually surprised it wasn't worse. They can't guard anybody. They're shooting 43s a game. Their top six guys are all over 40 % three point shooting. They're kind of like the 80s Nuggets, but with threes. And they just play with a certain pace. And some days it's going to be bad. Like the Celtics put 155 points on them and it probably could have been 160 if they'd made some shots. Hal Burton's special. He's a 24 -12 this year. But the crazy thing about their offense is that Matherin's been terrible. And Matherin was a guy that they were like, this is going to be our guy. He's making a leap. We're going to trade Buddy Heald. We got to give the card keys to Matherin in that spot. And he's been bad. And their offense has still been pretty good. This is a team that anytime you see them, I don't know if you bet basketball, but if they're like plus 11, plus 12, it's like they could beat anybody any night. I'm just telling you. I'm not saying they're going to win a round in the playoffs, but just night to night, that's a team that they could just go 22 for 45 from three, make some shots. And Hal Burton, they actually should be five and two. Hal Burton blew the last possession against Charlotte the other night. But I've enjoyed watching them. I've watched an insane amount of basketball, by the way. All right, next group, the wildcards. I don't have a lot to say about these teams, but we'll go in order. Number 16, New Orleans, just seem jinxed. I'll come back to them in a second. Number 15, Cleveland. I want to see them with Garland and just, I want to watch them for a couple of weeks. I like the Struce edition, but we'll see. The Knicks, they're three and four. Nice win against the Clippers. The Randall thing continues to be nuts. Now he's taking out guys in the other team. Clippers 13, just traded for Harden. We talked about the Knicks and Clippers last week. Look, the Clippers, they played one game and they got killed by the Knicks. They're worse. I told you that last week. Still feel that way. Guess what they can't do now? Any transition stuff. The Knicks, 26 to six in fast break points last night. Rebounding. They got out, rebounded by 17 by the Knicks. Harden just brings so many things that you don't want in a starting five, but then he brings the great passing and the scoring and he can have the ball all the time. They don't need anyone to have the ball all the time because they have all these other guys who need the ball. I just don't like the trade. I continue to not like it and I don't understand it. I actually liked the team they had before they made the trade. So congrats again, Clippers. Number 12, Miami. 28th offensively. Kind of feels worse when you watch them. They haven't had their full team for a couple weeks. I'm not gonna judge them at all until December. I'm not gonna judge Dallas either. Dallas I have at number 11. They're six and one, fourth in offense. They've had a really easy schedule. So that's why, let's see what happens. Their one loss is to Denver. Let's see what happens when they play some tough teams all in a row and have one of those four games in six nights or three on the road. One of those situations. But they are in better shape than they were last year. And you look at the Grant Williams piece, which I'm not spiteful when I watch my old players. I'm rooting for Grant Williams. It's like seeing somebody you dated that you still have a good relationship with. It was nice to see him do well for them. Derek Lively seems like they have something. We talked about him last week, but he's at least like a rim runner in that kind of Nick Claxton world, but maybe a little more violent alley -oop or a little young Clint Cappelli. The Kyrie thing is the piece that I'm really interested in this. He finally had a good game last night, but for this season, 24 % shooting, 3 .8 free throws a game, which are always the two numbers to look at with Kyrie. What's he shooting threes? Is he getting in the line? And so far it's been neither, but he seems happy. When you watch them, they've been a surprisingly pleasant watch, and he seems like in a good spot. So I don't want to jinx it because as annoying as he's been over the years, and you know my stance on Kyrie, I just don't trust him. And I just feel like a seven -year track record of imploding kind of has to start to mean something after a while, but it is fun to watch him play basketball. And it does feel like he's got a specific spot on this team. They don't have to rely on him too much. It's very similar to where he was in 15 and 16 and 17 with the Cavs where he could kind of float in and out like a cat with LeBron. It's like, I'm feeling it. Oh, all right, let's give Kyrie the ball. The shooting going down though, it's a small sample size, but they also haven't been playing tough teams yet. And I'm just monitoring that because with guards, it can kind of sometimes go sideways pretty fast, and you don't realize it happened until after it happened. Just quickly going backwards to number 16, New Orleans, because they lost Ingram, they lost McCollum already. And they have this Hawkins who they drafted that everybody liked coming out of the draft, but the fact that he can play right away has actually kind of saved them a little bit. I just, I still feel like we need to do some sort of ceremony or something with them. Like we need the people from the Conjuring to just do something with New Orleans basketball. It just shouldn't be this bad every year. Your team shouldn't have two, three major injuries every year. You should have good luck at some point. And this goes back to the seventies. Remember, when they moved, when they became the New Orleans Jazz, their first major, major giant trade was for Gail Goodrich with the Lakers. They had to give up two first rounders, and he immediately blew out his Achilles. He played, I'm gonna say, less than a season. And one of the picks turned out to be Magic Johnson. So that's where we started with New Orleans, and it's been awful ever since. Nothing good has happened in this team other than they've won a couple of lotteries, but even the lotteries they won, the Davis, Anthony when they were in Charlotte before they got to New Orleans, they bring him to New Orleans and he wants to leave. And then they win the Zion thing, which seemed like the luckiest thing that ever happened to them. And meanwhile, we're still waiting for him to play two straight months. So Conjuring people, something. We need something to happen with that team. All right, the top 10. We're at a good pace right now. Where are we at? Yeah, feeling good. This is working. Young and hungry is the next thing. We got Oklahoma City at number 10 and Atlanta at number nine. If you remember, Atlanta was one of the, these are the two teams I was going nuts for before the season for their over -unders. I love the Atlanta over -under. I love the New Orleans over. And I like what I've seen from both. OK sees four and three, Atlanta's four and three. Atlanta's sixth in offense. And that's notable because Trae Young has sucked again shooting west. He's 28 % from three. Last year's 33 % from three. This might not be happening the next Steph Curry thing. Like what age does he have to hit where we have to go? All right, he's not the next Steph Curry. Because I think I hit that age last year at age, when I was age 53. I think I hit that for Trae. They killed Minnesota, which is notable. We'll talk about Minnesota in a second. But they really, I watched that game and they really, really, really handled them. I like this Atlanta team. And I think there's a path for them to be a three or a four seed if Trae can get going. And then OKC, trade for a big already. You're a guy short, like stop. You guys have a chance to be like a 50 win team. What are you doing? I want to see what's going on with Josh Getty in about two weeks. Whether it looks different than it has for the first couple of weeks here. I don't like, he's not going in the free throw line at all. 1 .3 a game. 26 % three point shooting, which we knew. He can't shoot threes. But there's also like the Chet piece of it. Seems like it's throwing them off. And I've watched games where they've taken them out at crunch time.
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"randall" Discussed on VUX World
"Right. And of course, the customer is like, what the heck is this? Like, what am I going to do with the wheel? And then the next year they would say heck. Sure. Yeah, they would probably be much less filtered. You know, and then the next version is like a wheel with an axle. Again, essentially, like, I think it was broken down in five phases and the whole thing was completely useless until the fifth phase. And I think that's what happens when you get design working and working in a silo, tossing it over to engineering who's now responsible for slicing it up into an MVP. And I think versus, you know, then the happy path of that is, you know, you have a skateboard as sort of the MVP of the one that well, let's give them a means to move faster. Yes. Right. So by keeping the goal in mind and making sure design is working with, you know, implementation or execution along the way to make sure that even the minimum viable product is fulfilling some kind of meaningful goal that's going to benefit people. I mean, in tech, we always like to think that we know what we're doing and that we've got the customer in mind. But, you know, the truth is sometimes with some of the challenges that we work on, they can be pretty complex. They can be pretty complicated. They can make us want to bang our heads off the wall. And look, we're humans, right? And we're also seeking, you know, reduction of effort. And sometimes, you know, we'll take a shortcut fully thinking that it's totally fine because man, you don't understand the insurmountable action. Do you know what I mean to deliver this thing? But, you know, and that's why again, making sure design is constantly throughout the loop, like within execution as well, you kind of avoid those pitfalls. Please don't upset the customers. We need to at least do something useful for them. I'm kidding. I totally get you. It is like, it's the two different perspectives. And I guess in any project, there are many more perspectives, but essentially design and tech, which is maybe not the best way to summarize, even though you are CTO, but, you know, code and the implementations and all this stuff need to both feed into it constantly. Yeah, yeah. Maybe I'll just give you one more question because I realize we're at the hour mark now. So now I just need to make sure that, all right, I'll give you one that's let's, you know, because you, you know, as you're speaking about, like giving people time back and we're thinking of really, how well can we do this? So, and we're talking about connections. A connected bot is a good bot. So if you were to imagine into the future and anything would be available to you in conversational AI to improve the connections, what, what do you hope you would have to improve conversational AI exponentially? It's a tough one. Yeah. So what connections would help improve conversational AI? I suppose maybe I'd answer it in a slightly different way. I can think of an answer, which is where I would like to see conversational AI connected to improve on the other end. So like having just been at a conference where, you know, I think I would have loved to see some kind of spatially aware assistant, you know, with things like wayfaring, you know, for example, but, but someone like a vision based assistant where, I mean, I know you think of like the, you know, the, the old view from Terminator where, you know, he's looking around or I guess Iron Man, more, more recent relevant one where, you know, we're using augmented reality to kind of see and discuss things, right. Maybe ask additional questions. Right. So conversing with your, conversing with your augmented reality metadata that you already have, you know, impressive statement. We have, we have good means of displaying stuff, but taking that data. And I mean, if you think like some of the technologies that we have available today, like, you know, you, you walk past, none of this is new. You know, you can hold out your phone and walk past a shop and have ads pop up and stuff like that through augmented reality, but being able to also converse with that. Cause they can, obviously they do that pop up. You want to know more, you click in now you're in a webpage or modalities change. Like we're really like the experience that you're kind of walking down. If you really want that customer to get in your shop where you really want to catch your attend their attention. What if just answering a couple quick questions or even having an agent be like, Hey, you know, you like our ad, like come in here and, and, you know, we'll show you ABC or even, even add some empathy. And you think some of the technology we have to be available today could already be some of the underpins of that. Like you think like you could take retrieval, augmented generate retrieval, augmented generation, and pair it with augmented reality. So you could have these conversational pop-ups, you know, as you're kind of walking through, you know, a neighborhood with shops or things like that. One of the other things, this was something I dealt with a lot in telecom was accessibility. You know, because there's, there's people who are unable to speak, but still need to make phone calls. They have these TTY devices and stuff like that. But, you know, like speech recognition, of course, still needs to improve to make this bulletproof, right. But being able to increase the availability and quality of those services by having people even potentially pick a brand for themselves. Today, you know how that service works. There's essentially a contact center. And the customer is essentially typing messages to an agent who is then calling on their behalf and having these conversations. And so, you know, there's an opportunity for even people to personalize themselves. So imagine they're calling a contact center. Right. And again, you're also dealing with availability, you're dealing with staffing, you're dealing with scheduling, you're dealing with times of day. Right. So instead of that, imagine, you know, being able to create your own persona branded voice, right, which you're controlling by typing as opposed to having another person. You technically, you know, you technically can't control exactly how that person's even going to represent. So what if you want to sound bubbly or what if you want to sound upset for whatever the reason is, right. I imagine that, you know, there's a lot of capabilities that we can add today that today are just not available to people in the current user experience provided by the TTY service. So and then, of course, last but not least, you know, this is just because, you know, I love video games. I've been playing video games and things like Dungeons and Dragons, you know, the tabletop games since I was young. You know, I've always wanted to have more conversational experiences with the worlds around me in these games. Right. And I think like, you know, if we talk about like non-playable characters, for example, in a video game, you know, today you'd walk up to them and you'd initiate a dialogue and you get these preset choices, say this one, this next thing, say this other thing. And, you know, it kind of, it does and it doesn't ruin the immersion. I mean, I think that's what we're used to. So it still provides the immersion, but like it's very guided immersion. It's like, no, you have to say these things. Some cases, I'm like, well, that's not what I would say. I would say this other, you know, thing or whatever it may be. But I love the idea of, you know, I'm trying to find out what I'm doing and these people have the information and I actually need to talk to them. I feel like that's like incredibly immersive, like actually to be able to interact with the world around you and converse with it, to learn and actually figure out what's going on. So when I think of that, you know, I would love to see, you know, conversationally, I play more of a role there to provide much more immersion in those kinds of experiences. Yeah, well, that would be incredible. You know, like all of those things you've described have been incredible. But, yeah, I can imagine in video games, because it is really, you know, you start to see the kind of the joins that are holding the whole thing together when you start to go up and talk to these people. And they're just like, you know, even in some games, they won't even talk to you. They'll just go like and walk away. And it's like, well, okay, that's kind of funny, but it doesn't feel very realistic. Yeah, yeah. And even, you know, yeah, it could be done with large language models. And, you know, you could go so deep, like in a Lord of the Rings game, they could speak Elvish. Some people have learned to speak Elvish, so the bots could speak back to you in Elvish. And that would be outstandingly immersive. I think that would make many people's dreams come true, you know, to really feel like you're there talking with these people. Yeah, cool. Let me know when the popular NLU framework starts supporting, you know, Elvish and Klingon and all that stuff, and we'll have some pretty immersive video game experiences. It's really, yeah. I'm sure this isn't so far away. It's just like, yeah, then you would need Google Translate for Klingon. I was going to say, we got to hit it at the big tech firms. Please create the acoustic model for Elvish.Yeah, I'm sure there's someone there who's a huge Lord of the Rings fan that would be up for it. There you go. You know, Google or wherever. Yeah. Yeah, Justin, we could talk forever. It's great. It's great getting your thoughts on all this stuff. And, you know, like so much of what you're saying is useful. You know, I really wanted to get your thoughts on data and connections and, you know, these aspects, which I think, you know, as this is essentially, you know, these podcasts are really for conversation designers. And many of us are dealing with these things regularly, but perhaps don't understand them as well as we would like. So thanks so much for giving the insights and, you know, making those connections. Thank you for having me. Honestly, I'm happy to be here. And I'm glad that you didn't grow me too bad. So thank you. Hopefully my usual scatterbrain miss and came up with some coherent responses along the way. But no, it's totally fine, man. I'm just going to feed all of your voice data into some kind of AI trickery and get you to say whatever I want you to say. No promise. I'm not going to do that because I'm not going to go and research that. Yeah, that was a strange way to end it. Anyway, thanks, man. Thank you. Cheers. Cheers.
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"randall" Discussed on VUX World
"So, you know, being able to understand and being able to zone in versus, you know, some of the other 50% could be an error condition, or it could be that there is a piece of the conversation that's bad, that's very frustrating, and it's causing people to lose their patience and say, hey, let me put me through to a person. But unless you can separate all of that and kind of figure out what's going on, how are you going to dig in? Are you just going to start doing qualitative analysis on transcripts for all calls that were escalated? Like, have fun, right? Like, it's going to take quite some time to kind of get those insights. But even on the NLU confidence front, there's a lot more that people could be doing, right, by pairing in that sequence and turn data. Because when we talk about intent confidence, I think most people in our industry would know what that means. Oh, you know, person said this intent, and we had an 83% confidence that that was, you know, that we correctly identified the right intent. But how do we know if our copywriting, if our prompts are confusing, right? And so by being able to, again, understand where we are, where we are in a sequence, where we are in a turn, we can also evaluate what is the average confidence of any intent within a specific term. So if we have a turn where we're saying, you know, please provide your postcode and, you know, the color of your favorite hat, right? I'm sure we're going to get some pretty confusing responses to that, right? Maybe, maybe everyone just gets it, and, you know, we just actually intense to capture perfectly. But I'm imagining, like, that would probably leave people a little confused. Maybe triggering some what's and why, right? Or like weren't you like all things that are not progressing the actual conversation. So being able to, you know, identify what are the turns people are spending more times in. So how many turn durations did we have to get through for people to exit? How many fallbacks per turn? What is the average confidence of any intent being triggered in turn? Suddenly, now we're also able to evaluate how well we're doing on the copy front as well, right? And so, you know, the other thing when it comes to, you know, standardization of data, and there's nothing standard about this at all, but everyone should be doing this. It's again, coming up with like, learn about it, learn as much about your customer as you can, right? Without obviously being invasive. But like, you know, obviously, most bots that I've worked with, all bots that I've worked with have had the need to identify a customer, right? Doesn't that you don't have to identify them for every use case, but like, the more the more details you can pull about a customer in some way, shape or fashion, the better you're going to be able to help them. And the better you're also going to be able to provide ROI details on the bot itself, or even even do that proactive, you know, the proactive contact prevention, because if you can figure out the state that people are in, so identify the customer, look up things like, you know, are they a new customer? Are they a long term customer? Do they have a subscription? Is that subscription, you know, about to expire? Was there a recent price change? Is it like there's, there's so many things about a customer that might drive them to call, there's so many like fingerprints or breadcrumbs that you can identify. And then when you can take that data, and pair it with the response to how may I help you, you've essentially got a customer journey map into like a journey aware map of contact drivers, right, which then can lead you down the path of optimizing it, right? So how do I shorten it? I already know these details about this customer, how do I ask them the least questions possible to get them to the right, you know, outcome, or try and prevent, you know, you know, an example of a debt collection agency recommendation that we made, we noticed that, you know, over 50% of people were contacting to find out how to set up a payment plan. Right. And so we provide them responses on how to set up a payment plan. And that's awesome, like job done sort of Yes. But like, at the same time, do you know how many contacts we could prevent if we, for example, tried to more proactively get that information into customers hands, right? So big, big journey, informed contact driver analysis, and then at the top of the pyramid, but the business side, really, I again, even less standard, I would say here. But but there is one analytics conversation AI analytics vendor that that I would say does this very well. Definitely love that product. But I would focus on automation. And then again, that's what we do, because automations, you know, things like looking up an account, things like delaying a payment, things like opening up a case for a bad internet issue, like these are things that a person would ultimately have to do that have a unit of time associated with them. And in other words, have a dollar amount associated with them. And so when we're, we're really talking about ROI for conversational AI, it definitely should not focus should not be on containment. That's for sure, because containing doesn't mean that you actually helped anybody. The focus and also an escalated conversation. The bot may have still added value there. Right. Totally. Yeah, some people may say, oh, cost per call $15. Right. Then, you know, the bot didn't handle it, it escalated it. So that still cost me $15. And on an average sense, like they're not wrong. But there's a difference in cost still. Like we say $15. That's based on an average, right? Where we're averaging all calls out, there's obviously still a dollar value difference in a phone call that an agent spent 15 minutes on or spent 45 minutes on. Right. If the bot is completing tasks, like creating cases, doing DPA checks, like actually doing work that is ultimately going to save time for the agent when they are actually handling the call. That's valuable. And if you're focused on deflection and cost per call and all that kind of stuff, you're going to lose all of that. But if you focus on the automations, you can actually look at metrics like agent time saved, and you can actually put together the ROI that says, hey, you know what? Okay, so we've reduced the volume of contacts going to our agents by 50%, but we're not getting rid of anybody because you've also doubled our subscriber base. And so now we've kind of broken even. So the way I like to look at it is really when you're tracking the automations, you get that more fine granular ratio where you can actually say, here is the improvement, either the cost, if you really are looking for headcount, it is what it is, or you can say we've now doubled our customer capacity with the same number of people. And that's what those by tracking automations, you can get the data that actually lends you to those metrics and that financial proof. Yeah, totally. It's almost, it's really just proving the value of the bot, right? Because you can be saving money, which I guess looking at containment is, it's like, how much money are we saving? But also how much value is the bot adding? And if you have these metrics, and I think that could even lead, and I think it does, it leads to thinking, oh, here's somewhere else that we could add value when we have all of this data in front of this, all these metrics. Oh, we can see here that, you know, these people are asking for this and the bot could provide it, you know? Yeah, it makes perfect sense. It's all about time saving, time saving for everybody. But that's the thing, it really is time saving for everybody. It's for the agent as well as the customer as well. And I think a lot of people, at least when I talk to people, it seems like, you know, people aren't always necessarily thinking about the agent side as well, but like there's other than just, okay, we're going to reduce capacity, therefore we're going to reduce the number of agents. But it's not always the conversation, how do we make their lives better, how do we make it easier? For me, like when I look at this, I know you've probably heard me say that a bunch of times, but like I think I feel like, you know, we're probably on one of the most noble missions out there, which is, you know, how do we give people, again, customers, agents more time in their life back, right? It's like the most precious resource, we can never buy more of it, right? So by keeping that goal in mind, and by focusing on that for everybody, like literally everybody wins, the business wins and the customer wins, as opposed to when you're focused just on deflection, the business wins at the expense of the customer in most cases. Or even as well, yeah. Yeah, not a good path to go down, really, is it? You know, if the business is winning, but the customer isn't, then there's a very good chance they're just going to go somewhere else as soon as something else appears. It's very interesting, sorry, I'm not going to go on a long tirade here about this, but to show that, again, there's that book I love quoting all the time, The Effortless Experience, about how the battle for customer loyalty is more about reduction of effort than it is about delightful experiences. But, you know, beyond that, you could absolutely love a product, but when you feel a business is wasting your time, you're out, right? There was a really nice monitor that I bought. I think I told you the story, but it was a really nice monitor that I bought maybe a couple of years ago when I started working from home. And I love the monitor. It was great, I was so happy with it. And then after a few weeks, there was like a little red pixel kind of in the middle. I was like, oh, OK, whatever, stuck pixel, you know, it's under warranty, so, you know, I'll get it replaced and what not. And it was funny because it began as what I thought was going to be one of the most sophisticated customer experiences in my life. Or like I Googled, like, what do I do with this monitor? Or where do I call it? So scan the QR code in the back of your monitor to get this express code. And I was like, ooh, fancy. So I scanned it, right? I'm thinking this is going to save me time, right? So I scan this code and give my 10 digit express code number. And then I call the hotline. I'm not going to throw this brand under the bus.
VUX World
A highlight from Conversations Squared With Justin randall
"So, you know, being able to understand and being able to zone in versus, you know, some of the other 50 % could be an error condition, or it could be that there is a piece of the conversation that's bad, that's very frustrating, and it's causing people to lose their patience and say, hey, let me put me through to a person. But unless you can separate all of that and kind of figure out what's going on, how are you going to dig in? Are you just going to start doing qualitative analysis on transcripts for all calls that were escalated? Like, have fun, right? Like, it's going to take quite some time to kind of get those insights. But even on the NLU confidence front, there's a lot more that people could be doing, right, by pairing in that sequence and turn data. Because when we talk about intent confidence, I think most people in our industry would know what that means. Oh, you know, person said this intent, and we had an 83 % confidence that that was, you know, that we correctly identified the right intent. But how do we know if our copywriting, if our prompts are confusing, right? And so by being able to, again, understand where we are, where we are in a sequence, where we are in a turn, we can also evaluate what is the average confidence of any intent within a specific term. So if we have a turn where we're saying, you know, please provide your postcode and, you know, the color of your favorite hat, right? I'm sure we're going to get some pretty confusing responses to that, right? Maybe, maybe everyone just gets it, and, you know, we just actually intense to capture perfectly. But I'm imagining, like, that would probably leave people a little confused. Maybe triggering some what's and why, right? Or like weren't you like all things that are not progressing the actual conversation. So being able to, you know, identify what are the turns people are spending more times in. So how many turn durations did we have to get through for people to exit? How many fallbacks per turn? What is the average confidence of any intent being triggered in turn? Suddenly, now we're also able to evaluate how well we're doing on the copy front as well, right? And so, you know, the other thing when it comes to, you know, standardization of data, and there's nothing standard about this at all, but everyone should be doing this. It's again, coming up with like, learn about it, learn as much about your customer as you can, right? Without obviously being invasive. But like, you know, obviously, most bots that I've worked with, all bots that I've worked with have had the need to identify a customer, right? Doesn't that you don't have to identify them for every use case, but like, the more the more details you can pull about a customer in some way, shape or fashion, the better you're going to be able to help them. And the better you're also going to be able to provide ROI details on the bot itself, or even even do that proactive, you know, the proactive contact prevention, because if you can figure out the state that people are in, so identify the customer, look up things like, you know, are they a new customer? Are they a long term customer? Do they have a subscription? Is that subscription, you know, about to expire? Was there a recent price change? Is it like there's, there's so many things about a customer that might drive them to call, there's so many like fingerprints or breadcrumbs that you can identify. And then when you can take that data, and pair it with the response to how may I help you, you've essentially got a customer journey map into like a journey aware map of contact drivers, right, which then can lead you down the path of optimizing it, right? So how do I shorten it? I already know these details about this customer, how do I ask them the least questions possible to get them to the right, you know, outcome, or try and prevent, you know, you know, an example of a debt collection agency recommendation that we made, we noticed that, you know, over 50 % of people were contacting to find out how to set up a payment plan. Right. And so we provide them responses on how to set up a payment plan. And that's awesome, like job done sort of Yes. But like, at the same time, do you know how many contacts we could prevent if we, for example, tried to more proactively get that information into customers hands, right? So big, big journey, informed contact driver analysis, and then at the top of the pyramid, but the business side, really, I again, even less standard, I would say here. But but there is one analytics conversation AI analytics vendor that that I would say does this very well. Definitely love that product. But I would focus on automation. And then again, that's what we do, because automations, you know, things like looking up an account, things like delaying a payment, things like opening up a case for a bad internet issue, like these are things that a person would ultimately have to do that have a unit of time associated with them. And in other words, have a dollar amount associated with them. And so when we're, we're really talking about ROI for conversational AI, it definitely should not focus should not be on containment. That's for sure, because containing doesn't mean that you actually helped anybody. The focus and also an escalated conversation. The bot may have still added value there. Right. Totally. Yeah, some people may say, oh, cost per call $15. Right. Then, you know, the bot didn't handle it, it escalated it. So that still cost me $15. And on an average sense, like they're not wrong. But there's a difference in cost still. Like we say $15. That's based on an average, right? Where we're averaging all calls out, there's obviously still a dollar value difference in a phone call that an agent spent 15 minutes on or spent 45 minutes on. Right. If the bot is completing tasks, like creating cases, doing DPA checks, like actually doing work that is ultimately going to save time for the agent when they are actually handling the call. That's valuable. And if you're focused on deflection and cost per call and all that kind of stuff, you're going to lose all of that. But if you focus on the automations, you can actually look at metrics like agent time saved, and you can actually put together the ROI that says, hey, you know what? Okay, so we've reduced the volume of contacts going to our agents by 50%, but we're not getting rid of anybody because you've also doubled our subscriber base. And so now we've kind of broken even. So the way I like to look at it is really when you're tracking the automations, you get that more fine granular ratio where you can actually say, here is the improvement, either the cost, if you really are looking for headcount, it is what it is, or you can say we've now doubled our customer capacity with the same number of people. And that's what those by tracking automations, you can get the data that actually lends you to those metrics and that financial proof. Yeah, totally. It's almost, it's really just proving the value of the bot, right? Because you can be saving money, which I guess looking at containment is, it's like, how much money are we saving? But also how much value is the bot adding? And if you have these metrics, and I think that could even lead, and I think it does, it leads to thinking, oh, here's somewhere else that we could add value when we have all of this data in front of this, all these metrics. Oh, we can see here that, you know, these people are asking for this and the bot could provide it, you know? Yeah, it makes perfect sense. It's all about time saving, time saving for everybody. But that's the thing, it really is time saving for everybody. It's for the agent as well as the customer as well. And I think a lot of people, at least when I talk to people, it seems like, you know, people aren't always necessarily thinking about the agent side as well, but like there's other than just, okay, we're going to reduce capacity, therefore we're going to reduce the number of agents. But it's not always the conversation, how do we make their lives better, how do we make it easier? For me, like when I look at this, I know you've probably heard me say that a bunch of times, but like I think I feel like, you know, we're probably on one of the most noble missions out there, which is, you know, how do we give people, again, customers, agents more time in their life back, right? It's like the most precious resource, we can never buy more of it, right? So by keeping that goal in mind, and by focusing on that for everybody, like literally everybody wins, the business wins and the customer wins, as opposed to when you're focused just on deflection, the business wins at the expense of the customer in most cases. Or even as well, yeah. Yeah, not a good path to go down, really, is it? You know, if the business is winning, but the customer isn't, then there's a very good chance they're just going to go somewhere else as soon as something else appears. It's very interesting, sorry, I'm not going to go on a long tirade here about this, but to show that, again, there's that book I love quoting all the time, The Effortless Experience, about how the battle for customer loyalty is more about reduction of effort than it is about delightful experiences. But, you know, beyond that, you could absolutely love a product, but when you feel a business is wasting your time, you're out, right? There was a really nice monitor that I bought. I think I told you the story, but it was a really nice monitor that I bought maybe a couple of years ago when I started working from home. And I love the monitor. It was great, I was so happy with it. And then after a few weeks, there was like a little red pixel kind of in the middle. I was like, oh, OK, whatever, stuck pixel, you know, it's under warranty, so, you know, I'll get it replaced and what not. And it was funny because it began as what I thought was going to be one of the most sophisticated customer experiences in my life. Or like I Googled, like, what do I do with this monitor? Or where do I call it? So scan the QR code in the back of your monitor to get this express code. And I was like, ooh, fancy. So I scanned it, right? I'm thinking this is going to save me time, right? So I scan this code and give my 10 digit express code number. And then I call the hotline. I'm not going to throw this brand under the bus.
Home Gadget Geeks
A highlight from Gavin Campbell with Home Assistants Local Voice AI, mmWave Sensors, Zigbee vs. Z-Wave, 3D Printing and Smart Lawn Watering HGG588
"This is the Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks Show No. 588 with guest, Gavin Campbell, recorded on October 19, 2023. Here on Home Gadget Geeks, we cover all the favorite tech gadgets that find the work. News reviews, product updates and conversation, all for the average tech guy. I'm your host, Jim Collison, broadcasting live from the Average Guy Network TV studios here in beautiful Bellevue, Nebraska. Fall is here, and we're loving every minute of it. Of course, we post a show with some world -class show notes out at The Average Guy. There'll be a few tonight out at The Average Guy. Big thanks to Dave McCabe, who joined me last week. We'll refer back to Dave a few times maybe tonight. And Dave, thanks for coming on. Always great to be with him. I get a lot of comments when I interview Dave on the show. A lot of you guys remember him from Home Server Show. And he's just one of my best friends to hang out with. So Dave, thanks for coming in here. Big thanks to our Patreon subscribers as well, if you're one of those. Thank you. Thanks for doing that. Appreciate it. If you're not and you want to join the team, head out to theaverageguy .tv slash Patreon. I've got a $5 plan. I just got a new Patreon, Patreon, I guess is what we're calling those. These days, Randall Black joined me out there. And so, Randall, thanks for jumping in there. Appreciate you doing that. If you want to do it and give it a try, you can do it for one month, or as long as you want, theaverageguy .tv slash Patreon. I said it before, and I messed up his name. I don't know why, but Gavin Campbell is joining. It said, because in the notes, it said Dave McCabe, and then I fell all over it. Gavin, welcome, welcome back. It's always great to have you. You've been making the circuit these days. What other podcasts have you been on? I heard you on another one. What have you been doing these? So we have our own podcast, hometech .fm. So I do that with TJ and Seth. But this week, I will be on, I don't think it's posted yet, but Entertainment 2 .0. I've been, you know, I've been on that a couple times now with Richard Guenther. So, you know, of course, Home Gadget Geeks, this is, you know, seems like a quarterly thing now. Yeah, you know, I love, I love having you on here. You bring great content, you get, you're kind of become, you have kind of, we're both kind of tired. So this is, there may be a lot of stumbling on words tonight. You have kind of become our home automation expert. Dave admitted on the show last week that he had tried out Home Assistant. Didn't know, didn't know what to do with it. Once he got it up and running, didn't know what to do with it. My Home Assistant instance is running well. You know, I think I've, like I got all my, my Govee sensors for the humidor, for the cigars, those are all on there. Got all the ring, you know, kind of all the, the ring stuff on there. Got all my switches, all my lights, all the, the batteries for the ring, all the, like the, the ink, ink volumes, whatever you call that, how much ink is left in my printer. Like I have an HP printer kind of thing in there. Crazy. I got my 2021 Legacy, all the mileage and the odometer, you know, so the odometer reading and all the tire pressure and stuff sitting on the, I don't, that's probably not the best use for it, but it's there, right? And the weather as well, the shield stuff comes in. So there's a lot, I mean, there's a lot of things available for that, right? Yeah, Home Assistant, if anything, what it's got going for it is it integrates with everything pretty much, like almost too much. And that's also kind of one of the downfalls of it. And we're seeing this even recently with Mazda, they actually, there was an integration with Mazda's online service. And they recently sent them a cease and desist or whatever you would call that, right to say, Hey, we didn't authorize this. You're not allowed to use it, please.
The MMQB NFL Podcast
A highlight from New England's Historic Loss & CJ Stroud Breaks Out
"Hello and welcome to the MMQB NFL podcast. I'm Conroe. That's my dog Ernie upstairs barking at the FedEx guy. Albert Breer's here and I'm going to start in New York because Albert I can't believe that we're still doing this Taylor Swift thing. And now the NFL is doing the Taylor Swift thing. Do you see that they are their subhead on their Twitter pages. The Chiefs are now 2 -0 as Swifties. I did not see that but I am more and more. It's fake. I think so too. I think on Friday like the radio show I did in Boston. They leave me at the like and these guys are really creative and they kind of like took me through their full like tinfoil hat like conspiracy theory. You know like you know what this actually really makes sense. Like because the NFL has forever chased the female demographic and they've struggled to get it. And they know that there's nothing more buzz worthy on that side of the aisle than Taylor Swift. And they were shameless enough to cut like I mean we've seen some of their shameless acts over the years to try and get the female audience. And this wouldn't even rank in like the top 10. You know what I mean like this would just be sort of par for the course that they would do something like this. So I really like I am officially on this Monday morning Connor especially after the 10 million shots that box last night. I'm all the way there. This is all fake. This is all like this is all contrived. This is it. Everyone wins situation. Taylor gets to promote her movie. What else is it? There's one other thing right is a new album coming out. I can't keep track of all of this. I have no idea. OK. So Taylor gets to promote that stuff with a different demographic. Right. Like football different demographics different than hers. The NFL gets to try to take a swing at the female audience. And then Travis Kelsey gets an enormous benefit from this. Travis Kelsey's following has exploded. Nine hundred thousand new followers. This is like an everyone wins situation. And it's all fake. A 14 point 14 whatever place jump in Jersey sales. Like we were taught in school to follow the money and it's right out in front of us. Like it's like you know we're not even it's not even like they're hiding it. And I think I'm only read some of this stuff sometimes, though, and like like over the last week, like actually clicking on some like people dot com links, you know, I've seen some stories she reads. And I always think that the page six type stuff, you know, and I always think it's funny when there's like an insider into somebody's relationship, like who would be the insider into your relationship? Connor, I, you know, when they when they when they when they put sources into your relation and then people's relationships. Yeah, the sources be I mean, it would be like my neighbor or like my mom or my wife's mom. It would be like, yeah, I think I think they're fighting, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have a publicist. I always think that's great. Like is the sources into the like the insiders into the relationship? Like is that person like just coming over and hanging out on a Tuesday or something and that makes them an insider? So Brian Costello, who's awesome, Jets beat writer for the New York Post, and he tweeted the the bio for the NFL's Twitter page, which is the Chiefs two and O's Swifties. And he's totally right. This is the kind of stuff that fuels nutjob conspiracy theorists, not just the ones with the podcast. But the fans who watched that game last night and saw their saw the outcome derailed by an extraordinarily questionable call on Sauce Gardner. And listen, I'm not saying it's good, bad, right, wrong or indifferent. But if you're a Jets fan and you've already seen your entire season railroaded by the NFL's greed and desire to milk whatever they can out of this franchise and you had to do hard knocks. Every single game is on prime time. Your schedule is ridiculous, ridiculously front loaded and impossible at the beginning. You know, I don't know what else you could think right now other than your team is just being actively manipulated by by the league. And listen, I don't believe it. You know, Andy Benoit and I used to fight about the I used to get him going on the NFL's fake thing a while back. We had a lively discussion about that after Peyton Manning's second Super Bowl. But I don't believe it. I'm not one of those people. Well, you're not making them go away. I just noticed I just went to the NFL's Twitter page. It is now the header is three shots of tail left. And like if you look at the bio, I think this is a tailor. I think this is a tailor reference. We had the best day with you today. Maybe is that a reference? I think it has to be right to be clear. I'm not anti Taylor Swift. I think she's a fine musician. Yeah, I think she's a genius. Like, yeah, I think she's a legitimate genius and everything she touches turns to gold. And there's a reason for it. She's obviously incredible. Yeah, I just don't like I want you know what? I think I'm hot, too, because I'm coming off the I wrote about the way those are the lyrics to it. Those are those are lyrics from a Taylor Swift song titled The Best Day. Okay, I think I'm just a little hot coming off the Toy Story broadcast, too. Did you did you catch any of that? I was actually coaching third grade football during the Toy Story. Okay, good. Yeah, I threw that on and I was just like, what are they doing? And I get it. You're trying to get kids to watch football. But how about just allowing kids to watch football or to have kids play football and not to watch like a I mean, the technology was incredible. But it like it looked like a like a like Minecraft, you know, and like I just felt like I watch it with my son for a minute. And I was like, they're trying to just it's like cocoa melon. They're just trying to hypnotize them. So we we bang that thing fast. I mean, I just feel like that's like there are some people at the league office who don't have enough to do. And that's how things like that wind up coming to life. Like like fix, fix the problems. Like we're focused on Taylor Swift and the Toy Story broadcast, like like digital chains so that like chains don't break during the game. Grass fields like like like fix the actual problems with the games. My God. Anyway, twenty three twenty, the Chiefs beat the Jets. The Jets fall to one in three. The Chiefs are three and one. I think my takeaway from this game is the takeaway that everybody had, which was this was a feisty, very feisty Zach Wilson game. I think that Robert Sala, to me, win or lose, just earns so much credit because during the week he knew he was going to get demolished. And he said, you don't throw people away. You just don't throw people away. And I give him so much credit because honestly, this is job on the line stuff. And he stuck with Zach Wilson. He dug in. There was no sample size. And Zach played really well. I was very happy for them. And look, like I think that the biggest problem that Robert Sala had was like, can he continue to sell Zach Wilson to the locker room? Because the premise of that entire team, the construction of that team this year was we're going for it. Right. So there are guys in that locker room like Allen Lazard and Adrian Amos and Randall Cobb, guys that were like that are older vets that are there to chase the ring. And like guys like that aren't going to have patience. They don't care what this means for your franchise in 2025. They care about right now. And the younger guys in the roster are going to be worried about what's going to get them in a position to get paid. So it can be hard to sell a developing quarterback to a locker room. And I'll give Robert Sala credit for standing by Zach Wilson, because if he didn't do that, like it would have been impossible. It would have been impossible for Zach in that locker room. you And, know, it sort of made me think of something I said earlier in the day about how Josh Dobbs should get us to question everything about how we develop quarterbacks, how the NFL develops quarterbacks, how the NFL nurtures quarterbacks. Because, you know, you have this guy in Josh Dobbs who got what, six years to kind of learn away from the bright lights. And then because he was on different teams, because he had different experiences, because he was developed away from game action, because people invested in him, because he had a chance and people had patience with him. And, you know, every single movement of his wasn't, you know, litigated on a public level on a week to week basis. You know, he had a chance to kind of get better in the background. And now you have a guy who's so adaptable that he could be traded a week before the season and start and take maybe the worst roster in the league and have a competitive over the first month of the season. It really like to me, like looking at Josh Dobbs makes you question everything. And so if six years can do that for Josh Dobbs, why are we throwing guys out after two or three years? That's what I don't get about it. It's fair to make an assessment on a guy and say, like, he sucks now. But to say guys never going to be good, just ignore so much history. You know, like Alex Smith is a phenomenal example of it. Right. Like how many times was he given up on in San Francisco? Yeah. Like, oh, he can't play. But no one was looking at the fact that like he had five coordinators his first five years in the league. He had two head coaches. Everything was completely unstable around him. And then Jim Harbaugh gets there in 2011 says, no, I'm sticking with him. And he takes off and then he's in the league for another decade as a starter. You know, like it's just we have so many examples of the of why we shouldn't make definitive and declarative statements about young quarterbacks. And yet we do it over and over and over again. And like I do, I think like the intention of the Jets in the first place was we have to press the pause button with Zach Wilson. We may have wronged him by playing him too fast. Right. And by putting too much on him too early. And so the whole intention on bringing him back this year was to allow him the chance to do the Josh jobs and develop in the background for a year or two. And that got blown up. But just because that plan got blown up like that's not Zach Wilson's fault. That plan got blown up. It's not anybody's fault. So now you're going to just completely throw the kid out. Why? Because Aaron Rodgers got hurt. There's a lot of like really faulty logic that goes into the way that he's been talked about over the last couple of weeks, I think. I agree. I'm not just saying this because I wrote about it, but to not even, you know, I think we're in such a easy Twitter dunk society that when Zach Wilson and Nathaniel Hackett get paired up, everyone's just like, oh, this is going to be terrible. And without looking at any of the history of any of these guys. The AFC championship came with Blake, Blake Bortles. He got Ryan Nassib drafted out of Syracuse. I went to Syracuse. Do you know who was the quarter? The last quarterback drafted before Ryan Nassib, Donovan McNabb, Donovan McNabb. I was going to say I was going to say Troy Nunes. Like I think drafted as a quarterback. I think there was a couple of quarterbacks that turned into tight ends, but in literally broke all the school records with this guy. And then he got Kyle Wharton, I believe, to the doorstep of the playoffs. Yeah. Two MVPs with Aaron Rodgers after he was lost in the woods for a little while. The guy's good at what he does, you know, and we're seeing in Denver now, who knows? Make your own judgments about what happened there. But I think that this thing could work like, OK, yeah. The Jets are one in three, but their schedule softens up a little bit. They played a lot of their best defenses up front. You know, Zach Wilson is going to look bad against the Cowboys, but how many other people are going to look really bad against the Cowboys? Right. And now in the next few games, like they have the Broncos coming up. I mean, Zach Wilson could could legitimately put up 50 points against that team. The Eagles, who are really good defense giants, Jets, Giants before Halloween, which if he can handle the pressure. I think that's coming off a buy, too. So it's coming off a buy. You know what Wink Martindale is going to do. He does it well, but you know what he's going to do. And then the Chargers November six, the Raiders November 12th. You don't play a really good team. You play the Eagles in the bills in the next month and a half. Otherwise, you're good. Well, we're kind of like that's like and that was the whole logic behind this. And I think we talked about this last week. To me, the problem with going away from Zach Wilson, like in the whole in the first place, was a there's no better option out there right now. Right. And B, once you go away from him, you can't go back again. You know, so I think so. I think so. I knew that like it was if we bench him in consecutive years, we can't sell him to the locker room again.
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I was newsday. New York newsday gets a picture. On the front page, the next day of Clinton staring at this baby. So federal judge Robert ward, hears about it. So somebody from the media comes up to me and says, do you have any comment about this man showing Bill Clinton in a board of baby? I didn't even know he was successful because I couldn't go there because the police were following me and watching me. So once I realized that Harley was successful, I just started jumping up and down and shouting hallelujah. And then I thought, we better get out of Dodge. So we took off, didn't matter. Judge board issued an award for our arrest, the FBI was on its way to get us on my lawyer called Jay sekulow, you know, Jay. Jay calls him up and says, Randall will turn himself in. You don't need to send the FBI. So the next day we go to court and the judge says to all my compatriots, you, you, you. I'm going to try you civilly for contempt of court, but mister Jerry has been here too often. I'm trying him for criminal contempt. So Harley, the judge kept grilling Harley and says, you broke my order and Harley was like, I didn't know about an order. And he couldn't be held accountable without their being knowledge. He had to know about the order. So because Harley didn't know, here's our joke. Harley did the crime, Randall did the time. I went to prison. I went to prison for 5 months. He tried me, and the media was all there, and ABC, chalk drive. I've got the ABC chalk drawing in my living room. I bought it from the artist because the attorney general for the state of New York, Robert Abrams, you remember him, he was quite a piece of work. He was there. He was part of the special prosecutor to try me. We just stipulated to the facts, the judge found me guilty, sent me to 5 months in federal prison. I lost all my appeals and on the day after the election in 94, I went to federal prison camp in allenwood, Pennsylvania. And we brought Bill Clinton face to face with the fruit of his pro abortion beliefs. I want to tell you, in 1994, Mother Teresa spoke at the national prayer breakfast, you know the story. The abortion issue in front of the clintons and everybody. She did a graciously with the power and authority, but graciously. When she refused to eat with them, she would not break bread with them. She stood behind the curtain until it was a prayer breakfast and she said she would not eat with them. That's why she's mother Teresa and I'm just Derek with Texas because when I spoke in 2012 at the national parade breakfast, I watched all the videos of what do people say these bread breakfasts because I was the speaker in 2012. And when I watched her video, I said, I'm going to bring up the unborn in my speech because she did. And I got to tell you, to telling the story of this movement, these figures, she's a key figure in the movement, of course, as well. We want people to go to Randall Terry dot com Randall that ends our time for now. But I just praise the lord for you. I thank God for you. And I want to say we've got to continue the conversation. In the meantime, folks go to Randall Terry died. They can get all my books are there videos are there and they can help us fund this documentary. It would be awesome for people folks need to do that. Randall, thank you, my friend. Eric, thank you, sir. Great to be with you. I'm a stand.
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Like you. Promise you. I'm. Folks final segment for now with Randall tariff. You got to go to Randall Terry dot com. You kind of come apart of telling the story this documentary series dragon slayers vital vital vital stuff. But I want to go back to this part of the story because Randall, so many people have never heard of these things. It was 1992 or 90, it was 92. When you brought an aborted fetus right to Bill Clinton, tell us, I mean, this is, this is genius activism. I want people to understand, this is daring genius activism. This isn't when some useless activism. This is genius. You found a murdered baby, the body of a murdered human being in a dumpster, tell us about this. A friend of ours found this baby boy in a dumpster 19 weeks gestation, his body was burned by the saline solution that killed him. He was buried properly eventually. So we held a press conference in New York City during the democratic convention in 92. 88 is when we had the big thing in Atlanta at 92s was New York. By then, we're international news. And if we show up and I came on the scene, the media was going to cover it. So we showed the baby to the media. And we said, we are going to show this baby to Bill Clinton during this weekend. We had no idea how to do it. We were praying, we were fasting. And a federal judge, Robert ward, saw me on TV. So he issues an order from the bench saying neither Randall Terry and or his associates shall show Bill Hillary Clinton on the island of Manhattan and aborted fetus blah blah blah. So now, if I show him the baby, I'm in contempt of court. So we figured out where Clinton was staying, we figured out his schedule. I called a friend of mine, my co host in radio, Harley blue. I called the parley and I said, Harley, I need you to come to New York right now. I need you to not watch the news. Don't listen to the news. Don't read a newspaper. I need you to come. I've got something for you to do. Do not listen to the news. He said, okay, so he drove to New York, and I said, Bill Clinton is staying in this hotel. We've got you a room. He will emerge out of this door. We showed him where at 6 15 in the morning to go jogging. I want you at that door with this baby. We put the baby in a plastic container, a see through salad container. So he stays at the hotel, he doesn't know about the judge's order. So he stays at the hotel, the Clinton comes out of the door at 6 15, goes straight to his limo to go jogging. And Harley is there going, Bill, Bill, I want your autograph. Clinton went into the lip mode and then changed his mind and got out of the limo and walked straight to Harley. So this is a God moment. Harley's got the baby under a USA Today newspaper. He hands Bill the newspaper to be autographed. Clinton is autographing it. And then Harley says, Bill, what about the babies? Clinton looks at him? He says, what about the babies? And Harley takes the baby and holds it ten inches from Clinton's face. Clinton looks down at the baby in about crabs his pants. I mean, he's jumps back, stands there staring, looking at Harley, throws the paper down on the ground, goes into limo, starts to leave the hit the brakes. He opens the door, throws the pen out at Harley. And then they drive off. So.
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Now listen, this is you're doing too much. We got to have you back to talk specifically about time boys. All right. I'm not kidding, because I don't want to talk about it now because we're not done with this. So we got to have you back soon to talk about time boys and we will do that. But let's just continue the narrative here. So the federal government comes after you. Yes, pro life movement. Ladies and gentlemen, are you listening? And they shut down operation rescue. This is 1994. It's an extraordinary thing, and yet the movement continued and continued and continued. And it went to seed. What I tell people is, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it abides alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. So they scattered the rescue movement, but it went to seed and those seeds became active in the political world. There's a book called wrath of angels, WR ATH, wrath of angels, written by two journalists, one of them is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Jim rison. These people are not our Friends. They're not pro life activists. They're secular journalists. And the premise of wrath of angels was that operation rescue was responsible for the establishment and the growth of the religious right. That the religious right as a powerhouse that would not go away ended up coming because of operation rescue going to seed. So it was a bitter pill for us as you can imagine. But it was, it's why we ended up going into the political realm with such fierceness. And I've spent, you know, the last 28 years of my life involved in campaigns, going after Barack Obama going, I ran for president, I got to tell you this, Eric, I ran for president in 2012 as a Democrat. Just to be on the ballot in a handful of states against Barack Obama so that I could run ads showing images of aborted babies. And I said in my ads, if you vote for Barack Obama, you have blood on your hands. And that message resonated. I ran in Oklahoma. I beat a sitting president in Oklahoma in 14 counties. I carried the entire Panhandle of Oklahoma in 2012 in the Democrat primary. So I didn't, you know, I'd be the president. If they want me to be the president of the Panhandle, you're the definition of crazy like a Fox. You are the definition of that. You remind me to some extent of my very dear friend John S mirak, because you are very creative when the scripture says weird to be wise as serpents. Were to be crafty. You did that. You were very crafty and very creative in the way that you battled. And a lot of times people are very flat footed in the way that they battle. But to be creative, to understand how to use culture, how to use media, how to manipulate media. What happened in 88, how that went wrong for their side, and so it's fascinating to me that, you know, it's only now that many people are even aware of you because as you say, in 94, the kind of the movement officially ended the organization. That's what I went to prison. The day after the election in 94, I started when Newt Gingrich and the Republicans took the house the day after the election in 94. I started a 5 month federal prison term. Because of my role in showing candidate Bill Clinton and aborted baby. We brought him face to face with an aborted baby, a 5 month of boarded baby that was taken out of a dumpster. And wait a minute. Not a photograph, a baby. A real baby. Yes, an aborted baby. A lot of people don't know that story. We're going to go to another break, but this is a fact ladies and gentlemen. This is all this stuff needs to be known and documented, which is why we want you to contribute to the film called dragons and slayers to this documentary series in order to do that. You should go to Randall Terry dot com. It is vital that everyone know this story these stories will be right back talking to Randall Terry..
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Operation Rescue Was Shut Down by Pro-Abortion Janet Reno
"You said that Janet Reno, who was the attorney general under Clinton, they were so pro abortion that they decided number one priority shut down operation rescue shut down Randall Terry, and they brought the full force of the federal government to bear. On ending operation, rescue, so that you were forced to shut down in 1994. Yeah. We had, it was sad. I mean, when I look back now, you know, 30 plus years or 30 years later, I was a young man then. I'm a middle aged man now holding on desperately to middle age. But it's a fearful thing when evil controls government. And that's what we're seeing today. When you have a president who, as a candidate, as a candidate, I was in Philadelphia. I oh, you asked me, what have I been doing since then? Well, I've been doing radio. I've been doing television. I've been making movies. I've been writing books. We recently we released a time travel movie. This beard that I'm wearing right now is scruffy. I look scruffy 'cause I'm gonna play a villain in a movie this summer about fentanyl and the drug trade. We've got a time travel movie that's just been released, a second time travel movie. What is the title of that movie? Time boys. Time boys. And it's got over 60 awards.
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Plus all the lawsuits who on the day that I filed bankruptcy, I had 27 active lawsuits against me. I just want to say folks, this is all on the test. You're responsible for this information, go to Randall Terry dot com. We'll be right back. It's gonna be a show down and it's a friend I call on my way now. Are you tired of not getting a good night's sleep? Well, my friend Mike lindell has created the perfect solution. He didn't just stop at the pillow. He also created the Giza dream bed sheets made from the world's best cotton called Giza, these sheets are ultra soft and breathable, yet extremely durable, and now for a limited time, you can get 50% off the Giza dream sheets with prices starting as low as 29 98. These sheets come in a variety of sizes and colors and have a 60 day money back guarantee and a ten year warranty take advantage of this amazing offer go to my pillow dot com and click on the radio podcast square and use promo code metaxas at checkout. You can also find deep discounts and all my pillow products, including the my pillow two mattress topper and my pillow, towel, sets. Don't wait any longer to get the best sleep of your life. Take advantage of this amazing offer go to my pillow dot com and click on the radio podcast square and use promo code Eric at checkout. Don't wait any longer to get the best sleep of your life call 809 7 8 three O 5 7 or go to my pillow dot com now and use promo code Eric..
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The Evil Reason Why Randall Terry's 'Operation Rescue' Shut Down
"To ask you, so operation rescue was launched in 1987, ended effectively in 94. And what have you been doing in the roughly three decades since it officially shut down? The Clinton administration made it their mission to break our back. So Janet Reno and one of her first press conferences said that her main objective was to stop operation rescue. Janet Reno was the attorney general for Bill Clinton. And in case people don't remember her, she looked a lot like sasquatch. Yeah, she was not a lot of times people get the names mixed up. But she was the attorney general that looked a lot like Susquehanna. No, listen, I have to joke around because it's such bitter sick stuff we're discussing. She was evil. They passed a ministration decided. Think about this, folks. I want you to want you to hear the Clinton administration decided we want to break the back of operation rescue. Let's think about that. Why? Why would they put everything on the line? To end a movement, a peaceful movement to end abortion. Why would the clintons do that? But they did. So go ahead. Well, they were baby killers is the answer. They believed in shedding innocent blood. They were the villain in the story.
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Us. It was others, but we were really the central dynamo. And if I could, Eric, this will help people to understand why this discussion is important for the future. I wanted to give you a brief summary. Randall's rules of righteous revolution. All right? Here's what it takes to change the culture. Number one, you need a group of people who use radical rhetoric. Number two, they have to have incendiary images. Number three, they have to have aggressive action. Number four, they have to have serious sacrifice. And then number 5, they have verifiable victory. So what I did as a young man when I started all of this is I studied the abolitionist movement, the Boston Tea Party, the end of child labor, the women's voting rights, the end of segregation. And as I studied all of these social revolutions, a symmetry became clear to me. Every single one of these movements had radical rhetoric. They said things that were really offensive. And so we have to say abortion is murder. We can never equivocate on that. And then number two, they all used incendiary images. All of us have seen the images of black men hung or the backs of slaves beaten or little grimy children dying in coal mines. These images or the Jews piled up in the concentration camps. If somebody got into a concentration camp with a camera and took pictures and then got out and did not show those pictures, they literally would have been a collaborator with the Nazis. And there are Christians in America who are saying, oh, you should never show the image of an aborted baby because it's offensive and it might hurt people's feelings. Wow, wow, wow, wait a minute. You use that logic for slavery or racism or anti semitism or the Holocaust. It's absurd. You have to show the victims. And then the third thing is aggressive action. The young people of today want to win this war in cyberspace. They want to do a TikTok or they want to do a real for Instagram or do a blog. You know, those things are fine, but imagine Martin Luther King trying to cross the Edmund pettus bridge in cyberspace. You know, with a TikTok, you know, or going to a lunch counter sit in in TikTok. You've got to have real aggressive in your face action that is in the street. And then the fourth thing was Sirius sacrifice. We are not going to finish this war to end the killing of babies without real sacrifice. And that's serious sacrifice means my time, my energy, my reputation, I might have to spend a couple days in jail. I might have people hate me. I might have people threaten me. I mean, I've been I've had so many death threats. I can't even count them. And police, the FBI coming to me and saying, we've got a guy in custody. You know, and it wasn't fun, but we're not going to win this war unless we get out of our comfort zone and do and say and show the truth. With valor. And then in the end, you have what's called verifiable victory. There's no place you can own a slave in America. Women can vote anywhere. Black people can eat lunch anywhere they want. No children are dying in coal mines. It's total victory. And that's what we're after in the pro life battle, total complete victory..
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Com. Check it out. Welcome, I'm talking to Randall Terry. Oh man, Randall Terry dot com. Randall, again, a lot of people know you as an iconic figure, you're a legend at this point, but so many people don't, which is fascinating how I always say, or I should say that I have often said, when I wrote my book about William wilberforce, which has tremendous parallels to the story of the pro life crusade, the battle to end the slave trade in the British Empire, so many people have never heard of William wilberforce. And you think, why have they not heard of him? Part of the reason is because of the success. In other words, wilberforce succeeded in making the slave trade and slavery so unthinkable that we kind of really even talk about it anymore. Everybody knows slavery is wrong. You know, most people haven't heard of Jonas Salk because we don't have a polio problem anymore. It's interesting that when you're really successful in moving the dialog, the culture, people kind of move on, they forget they're ever was a day when evangelical Christians couldn't care less about the unborn. And it's only because of Francis schaeffer and because of Randall Terry and a handful of others that Christians who claim to believe in Jesus and the Bible suddenly understand, oh, that means killing the unborn is wrong. Fascinating to think about. There's a phrase that I heard years ago. Winners write history. And so every child in America learns about the civil rights movement. Ending the Jim Crow laws and any segregation because they won. The reason that my name and the name of operation rescue is not known to so many young people is because up until now, we haven't won. But now that roe is overturned, there's a documentary crew coming around that I'm a central part of their documentary in its on Frances shaffer. And the whole, it's an HBO documentary and the whole premise of it is that Francis schaefer gave this theology and Randall Terry took it to the streets. So I'm saying to people, look, doctor schaeffer gave us the theology, doctor Martin Luther King gave us the tactics. I just combined them and we went out into the street and it went to seed. So when these tens of thousands of people got arrested, many of them went on into politics. People have been elected to the U.S. House. Many people elected to the U.S. House who were arrested with us. Many people have become campaign managers. They work in campaigns. They've fought to get control of the Republican Party in their area to make it the pro life party. It didn't used to be this way. People don't even know that there were pro life Democrats and pro abortion Republicans. Operation rescue is what is what sealed the deal to help push the Republican Party to become the party of life. It wasn't just.
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Uncovering the History of the Pro-Life Movement With Randall Terry
"It's interesting that when you're really successful in moving the dialog, the culture, people kind of move on, they forget they're ever was a day when evangelical Christians couldn't care less about the unborn. And it's only because of Francis schaeffer and because of Randall Terry and a handful of others that Christians who claim to believe in Jesus and the Bible suddenly understand, oh, that means killing the unborn is wrong. Fascinating to think about. There's a phrase that I heard years ago. Winners write history. And so every child in America learns about the civil rights movement. Ending the Jim Crow laws and any segregation because they won. The reason that my name and the name of operation rescue is not known to so many young people is because up until now, we haven't won. But now that roe is overturned, there's a documentary crew coming around that I'm a central part of their documentary in its on Frances shaffer. And the whole, it's an HBO documentary and the whole premise of it is that Francis schaefer gave this theology and Randall Terry took it to the streets. So I'm saying to people, look, doctor schaeffer gave us the theology, doctor Martin Luther King gave us the tactics. I just combined them and we went out into the street and it went to seed. So when these tens of thousands of people got arrested, many of them went on into politics. People have been elected to the U.S. House. Many people elected to the U.S. House who were arrested with us. Many people have become campaign managers. They work in campaigns. They've fought to get control of the Republican Party in their area to make it the pro life party. It didn't used to be this way. People don't even know that there were pro life Democrats and pro abortion Republicans.
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"So take us back to 1988. You decide to go to the democratic convention in Atlanta and you put in jail, keep tell that story again. All right, so I'm on CNN crossfire with Pat Buchanan and Mark green. Mark green says, what's next? And I say we're going to Atlanta to the democratic invention. We had no plan. Nothing in place, no infrastructure, nothing. So my staff, they just went crazy and we started sending out letters and making phone calls begging people. Please come to Atlanta and join us and go to jail for three or four days during the convention. So we get there. There's a 137 of us that go on the first morning of the convention. We go to an abortion clinic and we sit down and we start praying, the police arrest us, and when they take us into custody, they, they said, what's your name? And we said, all the men said, my name is baby John Doe. In other women said, my name is baby Jane Doe. Because we wanted to identify with the babies who had no name. So nobody had identification with them known had any money. We knew that they would hold us. And they had this huge warehouse facility with cots. They brought us in, they put us there, and they thought, okay, well, they're being smart, Alex, they'll give us their name and we wouldn't do it. So after a couple of days in this big place, they put us in the key road prison facility. Which was another mistake on their part because they gave us an entire wing of the prison. And during the day, the men and women could hang out in a big area together, and we sang and prayed and had preachers in jail, we had prayer meetings, and Bible studies, 24/7. I mean, literally all day long. And while we're there, the police are negotiating with us and they say, okay, on Friday, at the end of the week, we'll just let you all go. Time served. Well, the attorney for the do versus bolt in case. Now we all are familiar with roe versus wade, but it was actually two cases. Roe versus wade, and Doe versus Bolton. The dough case was critical because it defined health of a woman. So when they stay a woman has an abortion for her health, that can mean financial health, emotional health, up to the day of birth. So the attorney for dough versus Bolton, Marjorie Pitts haymes, she said to the city council and to the police, don't you dare let these people go without giving their names. So we found out that she was the problem. And man, you know, I'm in my 20s. I've got a bunch of young advisers around me. And I thought, you got to be kidding me. You picked the fight with the wrong people. So I went on pat Robertson, CNN. They were letting me do interviews from jail. They would bring cameras up to the fence and let me do interviews or do them on the phone.
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Randall Terry Goes to the 1988 Democratic Convention, Lands in Jail
"So take us back to 1988. You decide to go to the democratic convention in Atlanta and you put in jail, keep tell that story again. All right, so I'm on CNN crossfire with Pat Buchanan and Mark green. Mark green says, what's next? And I say we're going to Atlanta to the democratic invention. We had no plan. Nothing in place, no infrastructure, nothing. So my staff, they just went crazy and we started sending out letters and making phone calls begging people. Please come to Atlanta and join us and go to jail for three or four days during the convention. So we get there. There's a 137 of us that go on the first morning of the convention. We go to an abortion clinic and we sit down and we start praying, the police arrest us, and when they take us into custody, they, they said, what's your name? And we said, all the men said, my name is baby John Doe. In other women said, my name is baby Jane Doe. Because we wanted to identify with the babies who had no name. So nobody had identification with them known had any money. We knew that they would hold us. And they had this huge warehouse facility with cots. They brought us in, they put us there, and they thought, okay, well, they're being smart, Alex, they'll give us their name and we wouldn't do it. So after a couple of days in this big place, they put us in the key road prison facility. Which was another mistake on their part because they gave us an entire wing of the prison. And during the day, the men and women could hang out in a big area together, and we sang and prayed and had preachers in jail, we had prayer meetings, and Bible studies, 24/7. I mean, literally all day long. And while we're there, the police are negotiating with us and they say, okay, on Friday, at the end of the week, we'll just let you all go. Time served. Well, the attorney for the do versus bolt in case. Now we all are familiar with roe versus wade, but it was actually two cases. Roe versus wade, and Doe versus Bolton. The dough case was critical because it defined health of a woman. So when they stay a woman has an abortion for her health, that can mean financial health, emotional health, up to the day of birth. So the attorney for dough versus Bolton, Marjorie Pitts haymes, she said to the city council and to the police, don't you dare let these people go without giving their names. So we found out that she was the problem. And man, you know, I'm in my 20s. I've got a bunch of young advisers around me. And I thought, you got to be kidding me. You picked the fight with the wrong people. So I went on pat Robertson, CNN. They were letting me do interviews from jail. They would bring cameras up to the fence and let me do interviews or do them on the phone.
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"There are people in other parts of the world whose very lives are threatened simply for believing in Jesus. People literally enslaved for their faith. There are hundreds of thousands of persecuted and enslaved in the Middle East and they need our help. Christian solidarity international frees thousands of enslaved believers every year. Many of them by listeners to this program, another slave liberation is scheduled soon, so will you give $250 to help free yet another captive called 8 8 8 two 5 three 35 22 8 8 8 two 5 three 35 22. Christen solidarity free feed and heal the captives 8 8 8 two 5 three 5 22 or metaxas talk dot com and click on the Christian solidarity banner. Thank you. Folks, welcome to the Eric metaxas show sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals, visit legacy p.m. investments dot com that's legacy p.m. investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric metaxas show. Would you consider yourself smart incites precocious astute clever wise beyond your years and good at checking a caesarea for synonyms? Well, then you've come to the right place here now is the handsome attractive striking gorgeous and quite frankly breathtaking Eric mar Texas. Folks, welcome back. I continue my conversation with Randall Terry. Let me just underscore this is an important conversation. You need to write down Randall Terry dot com. You need to visit Randall Terry dot com. We are talking about making a documentary Randall is making a documentary that tells the history of the movement where we're counting it right now, the very brief version. But it is a seminal, it's a seminal piece of American history that we are discussing right now. If you want to know, how is it possible that roe V wade got overturned? How is it possible? It began by God's grace with operation rescue. I mean, before that, of course, it began with Francis schaeffer as always doing things. And but we have to know the history and as randomly you were saying this is, this is about where we are now. We need to revisit this so that we know where to go from here on because we've got a lot of issues facing us, the abortion issue is still central. But let's go back, you were talking about the movement exploded in the summer of 88, here in Atlanta..
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US, Mexico agree on tighter immigration policies at border
"U.S. and Mexican officials have come to an agreement on new immigration policies to deter illegal border crossings. Illegal border crossings are expected to increase after pandemic restrictions come to an end next week, Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood Randall met Tuesday with Mexico's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and other top officials, and they've come up with a 5 point plan under the agreement Mexico will continue to accept migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua, were turned away at the border, and up to 100,000 people from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, who have family in the U.S., will be eligible to live and work there. On Tuesday, the U.S. said that 1500 active duty U.S. troops would be deployed to the southern border for administrative support. Dot of water Washington
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Randall Terry Unpacks the Theme of "Time Boys" and "Time Boys 2"
"I'm talking to Randall Terry, whom you must discover for yourself at Randall Terry dot com or on the rumble channel for this program, the Eric metaxas show. You can watch the two hours I did with him talking about the story of his life, which is extraordinary folks. I want to recommend it to you. If you get my newsletter, go to Eric metaxas dot com. When we sent out the newsletter, you will get this video. You've got to know who I'm talking to. This is not just some guy who made time boys the movie as important as that is, as wonderful as that is. So time boys the movie has to do, you said earlier, Randall, with. Trying to save a life medically. That theme is in time boys and time boys two, which I'm very excited about. I'm very thankful for. I want to encourage because I appreciate you teasing me about being a dad, but when I when I look at king David in the Bible and I see this boy out in the wilderness, watching sheep. He could have become bitter. He could have become lazy, but what he did was he used his time to learn to fire a slingshot and got so good that he could do it on the run and then he also learned to play an instrument because the Bible calls him the psalmist of Israel. So when our boys were little and I'm having, this is an exhortation to moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas. When our boys were young, we said to them, look, you're going to eat, you're going to grow, but you're going to learn math, and you're going to learn English. And you're going to learn at least two instruments. All of them were required to play the piano, and all of them could pick another instrument. And so the reason I'm saying this is because we're desperate in America for people who have a gift with the arts. But a lot of it has to do with discipline. And I don't want to practice too bad. You have to practice. And so you can just see king David out there with the sheep, but he's also using his time wisely to learn to throw that sling to learn to sing to write poetry to play the instrument. He was so good that when he played for Saul, the demons left Saul.
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"So You Wanna Make a Movie" With Randall Terry
"We did a thing called so you want to make a movie. Rather than do the making of time boys, we did this 17 minute thing so you want to make a movie and we tell what we did and basically say run the other way. Don't do it. You've got to be out of your mind. Don't do it. And then we have all these different moms and dads, volunteers talking, explaining how we pulled this off. And where can people find that? I believe it's the movie dot com. Yeah, I believe it's there. And if not, as long as you believe. As long as you believe it's their time boys, the movie that come, you gotta be crazy and the good news is you are crazy in the best way that's a compliment we'll be right back.
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Randall Terry Focuses on His Feature Film, "Time Boys"
"About time boys. This is obviously, as we said, this is a family film, you made it with your kids. It's just kind of extra thing. I think everybody's dream to have a dad who would do something crazy like this. But just to be clear, you, as much as you've done for your kids, you never created a time machine for them, did you? No, and I was shame on you. Shame on you. A real father. No, the fact that you said you're going to make a film about time travel, I still can't get over this, and then your wife says, now, you said you're going to make a film, you know, wow. So you actually went and you did this. I still can't believe, how did you fund this? This is a huge thing you've done. It was a massive project. And we had over 200 people involved. When you see some of these scenes, how big the scenes are, we built a fair. We built a fair for 1908 and horses and animals and goats and pigs and rides that were era rides from 1908. It was just a bit of a ride from 1908. Yeah. You'll see it in the movie. It's crazy. That's just too much. You're just making other fathers look bad now, Randall, Terry. All right. You didn't need to do that. Listen, I got to make it. I've never done this stuff. Yeah, but you've been in movies. And you and I both know that in the culture wars, the storytellers are critical. And the bad guys, look at what has happened to Disney and marvel and D.C.. I mean, it's tragic. What's happened? So I'm a student of Frances schaefer. You love Frances schaefer. He was always saying you got to be in the arts. You got to be in the arts. And so I thought, all right, you know, in my life I've been writing books and I wrote a play and then finally when my boys were putting the screws to me to do this, I thought, all right, I'm doing it. And I mean, you know, now one of my boys, he'll mock me. The kid who survived cancer would be like, you didn't even know what you were doing when you made the movie. I said, I know I didn't know what I was doing, but I still did it.
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Randall Terry Fulfilled His Sons' Wishes to Make "Time Boys"
"Want to talk to you today, Randall about what you've been doing lately, one major part of which is making films, you have a film called time boys, first of all, if people want to find time boys, what's the play? Where can they go to find it before we start talking about it? You can go to time boys the movie dot com. Time boys, the movie dot com. So it's also on platforms like pure flix is airing it right now. Amazon, there's still people can find it. You're a Christian, you love God. And you're now a filmmaker, and you're making films like this. How do you get first of all, tell us the plot of time boys before we get into the background. So it's a really phenomenal story. A family story. My son got cancer. We moved to Memphis. And we had to stay here because of all the complications. He's alive, thank God, but in the middle of his treatment, the boys were younger and they said, dad, you do television. You've got all this gear. Let's make a time travel movie. We wrote the script and we hired professional wait a minute. Your son said, hey, dad, let's make a time travel movie, and you didn't go, yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe. You said, okay. Yeah. And you actually made a time travel movie called time boys. That's kind of, that's a kid's dream come true to have a father crazy enough to be like, yeah, let's make a time travel movie. So what gave you the idea that you could make a time travel movie? Because a lot of times people have ideas, but to actually make the movie. I've seen the trailer. It's obviously, you know, the real thing. You pulled it off. But how did you, what gave you the idea that you could do this? Well, I had been doing television and radio for decades. And we had a lot of good gear. And I hired a kid right out of film school. Actually, I hired three. I hired a director of photography. I hired a scriptwriter of who ended up helping us not with the script, but with other elements. And then I hired an editor, we got some professional actors, and we had a homeschool community that we were really a was a big part of our lives. And this homeschool community rallied and moms and dads and kids literally gave up their entire summer. And we just filmed and filmed and filmed that we had, I don't know, we had like 30 sets. I mean, it was a huge production, and we won, we've won over 60 awards with this movie.
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You Can Help Fund Randall Terry's Documentary "Dragon Slayers"
"Mentioned it, you're making a documentary called dragon slayers. Yes. How can people know more about that or help fund it? If they go to Randall Terry dot com, they can watch it, and then there's a button at the top that says dragon slayers that goes to a crowdfunding site of people who want to help. We would be honored and we need prayer. We need help. It's a huge undertaking because we've been hauling around thousands of documents, news stories, photographs, hundreds of hours of video footage that's pristine, beautiful footage. It's a documentary maker's dream come true. What we have, but it's also, it's overwhelming. It's massive, because there are people to this show who could fund the whole thing. And I just want to say, listen, I need funding for projects that I'm working on. But God's people have the ability to fund these things. If you care about its white and if you care about what is right and true and you don't act on it, if you care about what is right and true and do nothing and you don't spend the money God has given you and do what you can, God doesn't you don't get credit for caring.
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Okay. Randall Terry dot com. This is the action point, ladies and gentlemen. I will continue my conversation with Randall Terry, but the action point is go to Randall Terry dot com. It is vital. People learn the history of this movement and how it was by God's grace, Randall Terry and operation rescue that led to the overturning. Did you hear about it? A row versus wade. Yes. I got to say Eric, if I could to make this point, I know we're almost out of time. People have said to me media people that roe would never have been overturned without an operation rescue because we brought the social political tension that was needed. If it was not for operation rescue in the rescue movement, America would be like England or France or Germany, where abortion is entrenched. There is no political movement to end it. There's no party that it's pro life. So politicians see the light after they feel the heat. We did what the anti child labor people did. The abolitionists did, the people against segregation, we created the social tension that was needed to get political change. And if people don't understand that history, they're not going to understand what to do in the future. So this series, this documentary is not just about the past. It's to inspire the future so that we can finish the battle and make it against the law to kill babies. I think that's why I want people to go to Randall Terry dot com because this is about where we are right now in the culture. We are at a moment where many people have shrunk from this kind of activism. They say, I just want to preach the gospel. They are absolutely theologically wrong. Many of them are just cowardly. And it's important that we understand what we're dealing with. So this ends this portion, but I want to keep talking to you Randall. I want to go back to when the movement exploded in Atlanta in 19 88 at the democratic convention for now, we'll just say.
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"And they say to me, what's next? This is July 6th. And I said, I made a snap decision. I said, we're going to the democratic convention in Atlanta. Now, my staff was watching and they looked at each other and said, what? Holy crap. So we had 13 days, 13 days to prepare to go to Atlanta. No cell phones, no email. So we're now scrambling, sending out letters, calling people, saying, hey, Jonathan Atlanta, join us in Atlanta. We want to go in the democratic invention is there. So we go a 137 of us get to Atlanta and on day one of the convention when dukakis was the nominee. We go and we get arrested in front of an abortion clinic. We do a blockade. We do a rescue. That's what we call them was a rescue. And we all give the name baby Jane Doe for the women, baby John Doe for the men. And I said, we're going to identify with these babies. We're not going to give our name because they die without a name. And I said in furthermore, they'll keep us in jail for the three days that the convention is in progress. So we're going to be in jail while the Democrats are having their convention and we're going to get media coverage. And we're going to say, hey, we need to stay babies. The Democrat party is supporting the murder of children. So it worked. Let me sitting in jail. And then the attorney for Doe versus Bolton, the roe versus wade companion case. The attorney for Dover Bolton gets involved and uses her political cloud in Atlanta to say you need to keep these people in jail until they get hold on. Hold on. We are, we got a lot more ground to cover folks. Please write these things down. Operation rescue. My goodness. We'll be right back talking to Randall Terry. Like a crown. You call this job Jesus. Folks, welcome back. Just to conclude this portion of my conversation with Randall Terry, I want us to mention the documentary that you are making now about everything we're talking about is called dragon slayers. And I would love people to support this film, dragon slayers dot com. Let me tell you, so go to Randall's Terry dot com. Right on the front page, our AND, ALL, RY. Randall Terry dot com. If you click on the thing that's right on the front page, it's a 5 minute promotional piece opened by Oprah Winfrey, and it'll take you to give send go, which is one of the crowd funding places. So we, Eric, we're going to do a serial documentary. We've been talking to a lot of filmmakers about this. People are drooling because the content is so rich and we have hundreds of hours of footage. I hired camera crews back in the day to follow us. So we have pristine footage that's 35 years old and we're making a killer documentary, but it's going to be a serial documentary. So it'll be ten episodes and I know that it sounds expensive. You're in the media world. You know how much it is. But to do a good 30 minute cereal, you know, 30, 30, 30, 30. You're at about 90 to a $100,000 per episode. That's how much it takes. Right. And that's a cheap one. So at least yeah. Yeah. So we need to get the money to do the first one, which is going to be on Atlanta. They called it the siege of Atlanta. That is where operation rescue exploded internationally. A moment ago, this was in the summer of 88, so first of all, we want to send people to Randall Terry dot com. And if they go there, if they give a contribution, when they go to the thing, I'll send them my book, divine correction as a thank you..
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Wait, wait. We're getting into more deep waters. Ladies and gentlemen, let's hit pause. We'll be right back, talking to Randall Terry. But now we're building. Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to Randall Terry. Randall, there's a lot of here and I want to give you time to tell the story. But you just told me you have a brand new book out, the title is the title is divine correction. How God gets the nation's attention. Now, you know, we've been talking about the shedding of innocent blood. So I started my study in the scriptures about divine correction God's chastening a nation reaping what it sows judgment, whatever you want to call it, I started this study over 40 years ago. I have been working on this particular book for three years, and it is a comprehensive study of the way God corrects a nation, how God gets the nation's attention. It's a comprehensive study from genesis to revelation, and as far as I know, and I've been studying this for a long time. It's the most comprehensive book in the English language on this topic to have been written in a hundred years. I mean, no one is doing this. And it's not dated. So I wrote it because I'm a Bible college graduate. I love theology. I wrote it for people who teach the scriptures for pastors, priests, evangelists, so that they could have a resource to look at the various ways that God delineates in the scriptures how he chases the nation and why he chases the nation. And what we have to do on our end to get God to show mercy in the midst of judgment. Okay, and that's the larger subject folks of this conversation with Randall Terry. The book is divine correction, how God gets the nation's attention. But Randall, let's go back just so people understand your story. 'cause I want to get to all of this. But so you're saying that God gives you this vision in 1980 three and a bona FIDE vision in the vision you see yourself on the Phil Donahue show. In a number of years later, that comes to pass, but I don't want to skip ahead to that. I mean, you can say a little bit about that, but I want to go back. I want to follow the track. Well, the point was is that the proof of a vision is if it really comes to pass. And it came to the past. I led the largest civil disobedience movement in American history. We had thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of people that gathered around abortion clinics. And, you know, I was young and just trying to do what God wanted me to do. That was the lord showed me like the prophet Elijah to play to an audience of one. What mattered was, did I do and did I say what God wanted me to do and say, in any given situation? And as I tried to remain faithful to that paradigm, if you will, God kept opening doors. And you know, I would be on these TV shows and, you know, I started, but like I said, well, you know, I'm jumping ahead now, but back in 84, in the spring of 84, I started in front of an abortion clinic, and then a few Christians joined me, and then a few more, and it just steadily grew. And I did my first act of civil disobedience. In January of 86, with 7 people, me and 6 others, we went and into an abortion clinic with big chains and we chained ourselves to the equipment and we got it on videotape and it was all very exciting. You know, at that point, I'm 26 years old. I'm full of fire and passion and just being faithful in the little things. And then moment by moment, event by event, God gave me favor and God gave me authority to speak into the hearts of men and women and people literally came from their pews, many of them doing nothing and saying God, I repent from what I have failed to do. I repent that I did not do more to stop the shedding of blood. And they would come from their pew right into the streets and oftentimes right into jail. You go to directly to jail, do not pass go. And we had, literally, hundreds of preachers and priests with us in jail. So we were having these massive prayer meetings singing, carrying on. It was like a spiritual retreat. I would tell people, we're going to go have church on the doorstep of hell. The abortion clinic. And so, you know, at first there was 200 of us. Our first big event was in fall of 87. Cherry hill New Jersey, and we called it our test run. And we had 300 people come from around the country to sit in front of an abortion clinic. They arrested 230 of us, took them 11 hours, and then the chief of police came to me and begged me. He said, please, mister Terry, please. Just the rest of you go home. We're tired. The abortion clinic is not going to open. Please. Is that okay? So 70 of us got up and walked away. 230 were arrested. Of course, they knew who I was, so I got my summons and I went to jail for that one. But that was the beginning. And then pat Robertson, the 700 club, they had us on because of that event. And then that led to New York City in May of 88. Right at the time when you were coming to the lord. And that went really well. And that led to Philadelphia during July 4th weekend in 88. And then this is really funny. I'm on crossfire with pat Robertson, I mean, pep, Buchanan, on CNN..
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Randall Terry on "The Shedding of Innocent Blood"
"To talking to Randall Terry Randall Terry com. Okay, Randall, so you're giving us the timeline, the story of how you become the head of this monumental civil disobedience civil rights organization to end abortion and you're giving us this moment. This is so beautiful. You're in a church. You have a vision. We'll talk about that in a minute. But you then search the scriptures and you find this phrase, the shedding of innocent blood. So go ahead. So in the scripture, it says, for example, no psalms that says they shed innocent blood. The blood of their sons and daughters who they offered to the idols of Canaan and the land was polluted with blood, and the lord hated his inheritance and handed them over to foreigners to oppress them. So I studied the books of Moses, the law of Moses, and I saw how that the pagan nations, the 7 canaanite nations, they were displaced because they were sacrificing their children. They were shedding innocent blood. And it all came into sharp focus for me. That true religion, James wrote, true religion, and undefiled before God the father is that you help the fatherless in their distress. And a fatherless child is a child about to be killed. So the prophet Isaiah said, though you multiply prayers, he God is talking to his own people. He says, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not hear you because your hands are covered with blood. And I thought, what is going on? And so the more I dug in the scriptures, the more I saw that the guilt of innocent blood is twofold. It's upon those who kill children. But it's also on the hands of people who know that children are being killed, but don't do anything to stop it. So the Greek word and the Bible for a baby is breath os, the Hebrew word in the Bible for unborn baby is Ben. It's the word for a baby for a born baby or an unborn baby in the Bible the same word. So I came to these intense conclusions that God wanted me to say babies from death. That
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Operation Rescue's Randall Terry Describes His Vivid 1983 Vision
"You, in 1983, have this experience in a church. Talk about that. So we break up into little groups, there's maybe 7 of us in my group, we're in a little Sunday schoolroom. And, you know, we had our list of what to pray for, and abortion was on the list. So I started praying. Lord, you know, please, save babies. I mean, I didn't even know what to pray. And I had a vision. So this was not normal for me. But I saw a scroll coming down in front of my face with words written on it, telling me what I was supposed to do. And that I was to recruit people to go by the hundreds and thousands in front of abortion clinics. That we were to re-educate the public to the value of human life from a Bible based perspective. And I saw myself on Donahue, the Phil Donahue show. In the vision, in the vision, I saw myself on Donahue. And so I went to my, I went to no one. I didn't know what to do. I was so startled, I didn't tell a single stole and I thought, okay, am I going crazy? 'cause this doesn't fit my theology. I don't know what to do. And then I had this idea. If this is from God, I'll find something in the scriptures to confirm it. So I started digging through the Bible, not even knowing what I was looking for. And I found this phrase, the shedding of innocent blood. And I thought, oh my goodness. And so as I studied it from genesis to revelation, most of the time in the scriptures when the phrase is used, the shedding of innocent blood. Most of the time it's talking about child sacrifice.
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Randall Terry of Operation Rescue Shares His Story
"I want my audience to get to know your story. And let's start with this. You are making a documentary film called dragon slayers. That tells the story of this. So I want everybody to know about that by the time we're done with this. But Randall, I want your story. You were so iconic and so central to this movement in the 80s and the 90s, what is your story before that? How did you get involved in the pro life movement? Where do you begin life? Well, I was a graduate of a Bible college. I was blessed by the lord to be able to preach in churches all over the northeast and in Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras. I spoke Spanish fluently and preached in Spanish and my mission in my head was to be a missionary and to preach the gospel. Where did you grow up? I grew up in upstate New York outside of Rochester, New York, and a little town called west Henrietta. And went to public school there, I quit school when I was 16, four months before graduation, I was an honor student, graduating early, and I got into a big fight with my dad, and quit school. And literally it started traveling around the country. Hitchhiking, sleeping under bridges. And I was 16, my poor mom and dad, but people were preaching to me as I was going. And I came to the lord when I was 17. And had a genuine born again come to Jesus conversion. So I began to preach to all my friends and I felt a call to go to Bible college. So I went to Bible college. And while I was there, I saw the documentary by Francis schaefer called whatever happened to the human race. You remember it. Isn't it interesting how, you know, we all do what we do. And we don't know how it's going to affect people. It's kind of funny to think that there are many people in my audience that they don't know Randall Terry and operation rescue much less Francis schaefer,
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"randall" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Through hardship, you persevere. Through toil and sweat, you succeed, you dedicate years to fulfilling the calling on your life. Why do you go to such lengths? Because you are born with a purpose. You are a Christian leader with a desire to change this world. As a student and graduate of regent university, you will gain the education that will prepare you to lead in such a time as this. Say yes to your purpose, visit regent dot EDU slash learn more. Folks, welcome to the Eric metaxas show, sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals, visit legacy p.m. investments dot com that's legacy p.m. investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric metaxas show. I shouldn't tell you this, but Eric hired someone who sounds just like him to host today's show, but since I'm the announcer, they told me, so I'm telling you, don't be fooled. The real Eric's in jail. Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is an announcer Michael buffer. Telling you, I'm sorry, America, Texas. I keep forgetting. Alvin, this is ask metaxas today after asking taxes. We're talking to Randall Terry. Ladies and gentlemen, I promise you, you don't want to miss that one. That's coming up. But right now, ask my taxes Alvin, you read the questions, and I try to answer.
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"randall" Discussed on The Higherside Chats
"You can just pop over to joe rogan after year and say. Hey give people my new site information. Now doesn't really work that way. It's just on the next show at all after very sour taste in my mouth and motivated me even more so to throw randall on our schedule and help him get the word out about the changes and his latest work and all that good stuff seems like it's going really well and the cosmic raffia podcasts. A lot of fun as always around here if you only listen to the free first hour with no ads. We also got a whole second hour with today's guest in every guest and we talked more about catastrophes in the second half today which is a nice compliment. Because when you ask well how could all this common knowledge be lost. This is a big part of it. Motherfucking upheavals man. We got into stuff. Like did the ancients have help of some kind with this information. Who are the guardians. over this knowledge. We talked about scale and variants the evidence of catastrophe and a nice little aside about lake monsters and the correlation with lake formation origin ali lakes with lake monster lore were all formed the same way and see that last one was a really interesting and fun tangent but i would have liked to follow up with his thoughts on river spirits or lake spirits and animism and the idea that maybe these are physical representations of spirits of the land that bays in and out on occasion but again. Maybe next time. If i don't wait so long but regardless another one in the bag starting july off right hope. He had a good firework day. Hanging out with you and yours. It's what it's all about. And with that i'm getting out of here a love you guys. Thanks for listening. Sign up for plus if you get value out of the free show. You'll get twice as much. The higher side chats dot com. I've done my part. your move. Catastrophic cycle conceal irs building secret keepers and restores of the geomagnetic arts. Your from space was it's light started. It's making crop circles. I was looking up. It showed me all the hidden stuff. And now i'm all in lightens.
The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"randall" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
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The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"randall" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"You know that's greg greg. Yeah so end of season six. You leave the office. How difficult was it to make that decision to leave. you know. i think that's when i stopped paying. Yeah when i stopped paying. That was that was scary. I was really scary. Because i knew i could shoot me. I didn't go to film school. i didn't go to school. I i i you know. I barely graduated high school but in high school. You mean third grade. I do yeah You know. I didn't really have a backup plan other than maybe i could go back to. The office of his didn't work and it was a very good job. And i had fun doing it every single day. But i started. I fell in love with directing. I still love shooting but i fell in love with directing and it was scary because i had this job for six and in television having a job for six years is is unheard of. There are very few shows that get to do that. And i was making good money and i moved my family out here from australia to try so i could go home at night and it was scary to step away but i. I really felt very safe. That i was the greg would always be there. He'd always let me back in right and a lot of conversation. Obviously about steve left. But i remember when you left and was deeply emotional. Time for us as well. I mean i remember us talking about it and you talking about some of your fear anxiety but feeling like it was it was time and you know as one of those quite frankly core cast members. That were together. I remember that being very very difficult for us we. We knew we were going to miss. You know i messed. Everybody knows it was that that was tricky. It was like leaving home. You know it's like you know you need to where you're not going to grow but at the same time home is a great place. Yeah what are you most proud of about the show or thankful for you know. I when i'm thankful for his greg. Giving me the chance. Greg ben giving me the chance. It's completely changed my life. I'm you know it's and they didn't such gracious way. That's another thing. I think about like there was never a bad idea in the office. Never about if somebody in craft serve gave greg and ideas. That's a great idea. Go running with it so it was it was just. I think what i love so much about it. It was just so collaborative and it wasn't always easy to find a way to do something but we always figured it out. And i think it was greg. I said everything. We do everything that everything that makes it. Harder makes it better. Which i think is kind of a metaphor for life. You know it strikes me. You know. Ben told me that he went to kevin riley and said this guy. Greg daniels is the guy. The guy who had not worked very much at all in in live action program. And then ben goes to greg and says this guy randall. Einhorn he's the guy someone who's never shots and it's like these kids got given the keys to this really cool toy ricky gervais as created and went okay. Well let's you know what let's not worry about doing. How other people would do it right because we haven't done that. Let's do it in our own way. I think there's there's there's something very liberating about not knowing how to do something that you come up with your your own way of doing it might be special you know. I didn't know formal film training whatsoever. I just thought i like that. Oh that's cool. And that's what i would you know i would just get to chase. What i felt was cool. Not what i thought. I knew the notion of hiring a documentarian to be the documentarian on a scripted. Tv show when you dissect that. I know that that's necessarily the wisest choice but it really worked. And i think obviously bend saw something and greg saw something and it's not necessarily the choice that i think ninety nine point nine nine percent of people would ever make but they did they did. Where do you think you'd be right now if the office had never happened australia probably the the outback night. Yeah i love rain. Rains is to make fun of my accent. Which i don't here do i have. You do have an accent. Now when you listen to this you'll be like. Oh yeah no by rain rains. Might there was. It was beautiful. Caught a wild boar might gorgeous. Beautiful so amazing. I just want you to know that. I think the work you did in creating the vision of the show.