40 Burst results for "Reese"
The Mason Minute
Fun Size (MM #4610)
"I noticed something alarming this year for Halloween. I'm sure it's been this way for a few years, but of course, I haven't paid attention. Our office staffers give us cute little treat bags for Halloween. It's nice, it's enjoyable, and I'm not complaining. Well, in a way, I am complaining, though, because the first thing I noticed, the fun size candy bars, the fun size Snickers, the fun size Reese's, they're smaller than what they used to be. They were always small to begin with, but now, of course, they're much, much smaller. In fact, there used to be the little square Snickers size, and the fun size was a little bit rectangular. I guess now the fun size is in between those two shapes. I don't know how big they are. And the one thing I've said before, and I know I've talked about this before, is they don't get the ratio exactly the same. The small now fun -sized Reese's doesn't taste the same as the bigger Reese's Peanut Butter Cup because the chocolate -to -peanut butter ratio isn't the same. It's off just a little bit. I know I'm complaining, and I know there's nothing I can do about it. Prices go up, and in order to keep the prices down, that means packaging and sizes shrink. I'm not happy about it, but of course that just means I have to eat twice as much. So much for my waistline.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "reese" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Ten test routing At -76, 103 Terps blow this game wide open with a 31 -6 run in the first half. Jordan Geronimo. We just went out there with the goal to get after it. You know, we put a lot of energy. And so, you know, playing with energy allows us to, you know, get easy defensive stops and easy buckets. So that was kind of the main goal. Just go out there, play defense, get stops, and it's going to create offense for us. Julian Reese, 22 that's points with 12 rebounds. Jamir Young also scores 22. Just as important, the Terps at 8 of 20 from 3 -point range. Just finding our rhythm. We're all good shooters. Just stepping in with confidence in our shots. It was good to get the ceiling off the rim. It's been a rough couple games in the past, but we're confident those are behind us and we're ready to go knock down some shots on the road. Terps enter the evening shooting 21 % from 3 -point range. That ranked 359th in Division There are 361 schools. They were tied for 359th I should say. That's a little better. Yes, Big Ten openers tomorrow night at Indiana. Howard falls to Cincinnati 86 -81 in OT. Downs Seth tallies 24 points and 7 rebounds for the Bison in defeat. College football, Georgia, Michigan, Washington, Florida Florida State the top four teams in the latest playoff rankings. Dave Preston, WTOP Sports. Alright Dave, coming up a meeting a about proposed data center project that started yesterday is continuing at this early hour. We'll bring you
The Mason Minute
Fun Size (MM #4610)
"I noticed something alarming this year for Halloween. I'm sure it's been this way for a few years, but of course, I haven't paid attention. Our office staffers give us cute little treat bags for Halloween. It's nice, it's enjoyable, and I'm not complaining. Well, in a way, I am complaining, though, because the first thing I noticed, the fun size candy bars, the fun size Snickers, the fun size Reese's, they're smaller than what they used to be. They were always small to begin with, but now, of course, they're much, much smaller. In fact, there used to be the little square Snickers size, and the fun size was a little bit rectangular. I guess now the fun size is in between those two shapes. I don't know how big they are. And the one thing I've said before, and I know I've talked about this before, is they don't get the ratio exactly the same. The small now fun -sized Reese's doesn't taste the same as the bigger Reese's Peanut Butter Cup because the chocolate -to -peanut butter ratio isn't the same. It's off just a little bit. I know I'm complaining, and I know there's nothing I can do about it. Prices go up, and in order to keep the prices down, that means packaging and sizes shrink. I'm not happy about it, but of course that just means I have to eat twice as much. So much for my waistline.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Fresh update on "reese" discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Um, and I think you're going to see that much or more and what the NBA does next. So I think the same way the NFL moved digital and has had a lot of success, I can't imagine the NBA does anything. I think they do that or more, not less. So you're definitely going to see a shift in how these games and, and the other thing is, um, I think one thing that doesn't need to happen is one thing that frustrates the shit out of me as a fan. Is, you know, it's so hard to find out even where to watch a game. And it's like, it's, it's, it's too complicated. This needs to be simplified. Like I want to be able to, to go one place and be able to watch, you know, most of my sports. So, you know, that's obviously the dream we have for fanatics long-term, but we're not even thinking about that today. It's just, you know, it's a, a big bold dream and then you forgot how to make it happen over, you know, many years. The baseball playoffs were tough with that. Where it's like, as soon as it was time for a game, you had to do this basically roulette to see what channel it was on. It's not just, sports are tough for that. It's hard to find where you want to watch games. Is it TBS? Is it, what are, oh, we're on ESPN tonight. And by the way, I owned part of a basketball team before and I can't figure out where to watch a basketball game sometimes and where to watch a, a baseball game sometimes. And so, yeah, it's, it's, I think that's an opportunity as well. And the one thing, if there's one thing that I didn't know enough in the beginning of my career that I really think now is you got to think about the fan first and everything you do, and then back into the business model from that. And that is something that we talk about religiously for next today. That's a different conversation than five years ago. We're just, you know, you got to think about what's in the fan's best interest. And if you start there, I think you have a better business longterm. So you gave up your stake in the Sixers. I did. Is it true that being a minority owner just means that you have season tickets? No, definitely not. I mean, look, I was obviously, you know, this cause you follow this business closely. I was probably, you know, you were pretty hands on for minority owner. Yeah. And that wasn't by design. It's just kind of what happened. You know, look, business is about relationships. And, you know, I suck at a lot of things, but I generally have pretty good relationships. Seems like it. And so I think in the first five or six years, I wasn't that involved. And then as time went on, you know, I kind of got more involved. And look, my relationship with Josh Harris and Dave Blitzer was and is incredible. And I think, you know, we all kind of, you know, do what we do best. But I was very involved in the last couple of years. And, you know, certain things went as planned and certain things didn't go as planned. And I could tell you what didn't go as planned. We never want to have any guesses. Well, we never won a championship and that sucks. And, you know, when you own a basketball team, you own a sports team, you have one job, which is to win a championship. And each year that you don't win a championship, you failed. Right. And you should look at the end of the season and say, we didn't achieve our goal if you didn't win a championship. And so, you know, to me, I was involved with it for 11 years and, you know, we got bounced in the second round of the playoffs. You know, too many times. And so we never achieved our goal. And that's something I look at as a personal failure because I was deeply involved with it. You certainly owned an interesting team. We did. That's the story of my life. I mean, I think I'm used to having... You just spent the Pistons where like nothing happened year after year. Your team was like a soap opera. Yeah, well, I mean, sports has a lot of that that follows it. And I feel like I have a lot that just follows me with that as well. So, yes. Were you trying to mediate the hardened thing at the end or did you know this ship had sailed? Look, it's no secret that I'm incredibly close still with Josh Harris and David Blitzer and the Sixers organization and Daryl and also with James. I thought there could have been a really good solution in it. That didn't come to fruition. At the end of the day, I'm happy now that the Sixers are happy and doing great and James is happy. He got what he wanted. I'm more bullish than you are. I think the Clippers will be better than you just told me the Clippers were going to be. I'm the opposite of bullish. Yeah, you're very negative. So I'm un-bullish. Yeah, so I'm bullish and I'm going to put that out there. Look, James, James, you know, it's very easy. Bearish? What's the opposite of bullish? Bearish. Bearish. Yeah, you're showing the Clippers short. I'm sold already. Yeah, I have all the shorts on it. Okay, perfect. Perfect. Well, I'm more bullish than you are. I think it takes time. If there's one thing I learned that I didn't know in the beginning of the Sixers, to get multiple stars to play well together in jail, that takes time. And something that I think James doesn't get enough credit for is the way he adjusted his game to fit into the Sixers. And, you know, look, Joel is a incredible basketball player. He's, you know, great, not very good. And James came in there and figured out how to change his game to really, you know, support Joel and support the team. And I think that was working pretty well. What would be interesting is to watch, you know, and by the way, to see the way Reese is, you know, stepping up now is a beautiful thing. And he's, you know, he could be one of the best humans in the planet. I mean, that guy is a, you know, he's a born leader. He's always happy. He's always got a smile on his face. He's going to make the All-Star team. And by the way, no one deserves it more than he does. And he's working his ass off. But, you know, it's interesting. You got to get through a season, you know, without injuries or without, you know, season ending injuries. And you got to get through and, you know, shit goes wrong in any season, in just about any team. It's very hard to keep a team healthy for, you know, the key guys healthy for an entire season. So, you know, to me, you know, the measure of success for the Sixers is going to be how do we progress and, you know, not be bouncing the second round of the playoffs. And, you know, I'm rooting for great outcomes for both. I mean, for me, you're out. You're never owning a team again. I'm never owning a team again. I think, you know, fanatics is such a bigger opportunity. I'm fortunate to sit in the middle of sports, technology, the greatest athletes in the planet. I love what I get to do. I learned so much. I'm grateful for the opportunity. I did it from 2011 until 2022. And I'm so happy to not be part of it anymore. It doesn't sound that much fun. I mean, the ego part sounds great. You get sick court side. You get to potentially win the title. Those are the good things. And then the bad things are literally 90 things. The fact that players can become unhappy within six months and now your whole season's upended, or you have a basically 29 and 30 chance of not winning the title year after year. Here's the reality. It's not fun because if you think it's fun, you don't have the responsibility of every night going to bed and every morning waking up saying, how do I win a championship? And the stress and anxiety that goes along with that fans who are just like, they're looking at you, it's like they're doing their job saying, win a championship for me. God damn it. Right. And so, um, you know, I learned so much from it. I think it was actually helpful to me in the early parts of my career and from a development perspective. And by the time, you know, in the later part of it, it was so complicated with Fanatics getting into the online sports betting business with Fanatics, having direct deals with 3000 athletes, which is, you know, violates all the league rules. So it was definitely time for me to move on. It took, I had, in addition to the stress of wanting to win a championship and not succeeding for the city of Philadelphia, then I had the stress that I knew I was violating all these league rules and, you know, what legal letter was coming each day from it. And so it was very clean. It was time for me to move on. And now I'm in the best position in the world because if there's a situation I care about, I can help behind the scenes. And so, you know, my, and my relationship with, you know, I think still I joke around people all the time. People still like, if you were an NBA star, when I owned, you know, when I was the third largest owner of the Sixers in a very visible, you know, part of the organization, people looked at you a little bit sideways. Now, no one looks at you sideways anymore. Everyone just looks at you as neutral, which is the way I need to be as the leader of Fanatics. You occupy such a weird territory in the sports world because you have, you're probably, you could make the case you're the most powerful person in sports because you have the relationships literally with every league, every commissioner, all the, all the famous stars, right? But you, you don't have a lot of the negative responsibility of that, right? It seems like your role is additive in all of these different things. People call you, they ask for advice, or you're trying to help them from a business standpoint. There's, there's nobody quite like you, but I always wondered, like, I wish there was a sports czar that could basically be for the, for the sake of just how sports would run, things that make sense, that could just be like the sounding board for people, but we don't have that job. It doesn't exist. You're kind of like the de facto sports czar, even though you're not the czar. Does that make sense? Um, first, thank you for the kind words. I don't look at myself like that at all. The people that are the most important people in the sports organization are the athletes, these incredible talented athletes that do what they do. We'd have no, but we'd have no, we'd have no, like one thing I'm very aware and humble about without the thousands of incredible athletes that do what they do, we'd have no business. We'd have nothing to do. Okay. We wouldn't have people to buy merchandise from us, to buy collectibles from us, to buy, um, to bet on sports with us. We'd have nothing to do. And without the sports organizations, the leagues, um, we'd have no business either. That's it. I think what is where I'm finally in the right place in my life is I've got rid of conflict and that's a great place to be. You're the only one, everyone else has some sort of conflict. I think, you know, a lot of what I do is the behind the scenes stuff that, you know, we never talk about and that, that, that, and I enjoy that. And I learned from that and I grow from that. And, you know, I, look, I don't think there's a lot of people that have really good relationships with the commissioners and also really good relationships with the people who lead labor. Okay. Cause naturally there's tension, you know, between those organizations a lot of the time. And I think, um, you know, there aren't, you know, I don't have much complexity anymore other than I'm waking up every morning, going to bed every night, you know, focused on one thing, which is how do I better everything that we do for next week? We have so much to be better at. Um, but I think I look at it as a, um, as a opportunity and something that I love doing that so many people come to me and say, Hey, what would you do here? What do you think about this? You know, and, but I learned as much from each person, you know, the way I work and people don't really get this about me. People think I'm just being self deprecated. I'm not, um, I legitimately barely made it out of high school. It's a miracle that I graduate. I went to college. I posted my, you know, my, my 1.87 GPA that I had in the one semester. I'm a little like, I can't read. Like someone just said to me, yes, so you should read my book. And I said, I need to actually, um, without getting into who it was, I'm going to listen to it on audio. And I haven't even done that for, I haven't read a book since ninth grade. The way I learn is by getting great people around me and by they learn from me and I learn from them. So I'm always picking up different data points from people. So that's the way my brain works. You know, get a really differentiated group of people around you that all have different backgrounds and different things they can add and try to help make their lives better and then learn from them. And that's a lot of how the ideas that we get at Fanatics come from. That's how a lot of my growth comes from. But I want to make sure I'm always giving more than I get in every time that I can. Would you call yourself a problem solver? I think it's one of my best skill sets because I'm street smart. It's like, you know, look, look, you obviously, you can't be dyslexic, not be able to read a horrible student barely made it to high school, didn't go to college. And then also, you know, you have to have some positive traits. My positive traits are relationship skills and like common sense and common sense solves problems. So yes, I think I'm generally a very good problem solver. I've also learned you can't solve everyone's problems and you can't fix everything. And that's something where I work on average 18 hours a day, seven days a week. You know, people always see the fun microwave and they see the shit on Instagram. They see, you know, my white party, this Fanatics Super Bowl party. You know, they see me with, you know, some people that are strategically important to me or some good friends of mine. They always think I live a fun life. I'm like, what I love to do is get up, work my ass off and then do it again the next day because that's the one thing I'm good at. I'm not a good, I'm a terrible athlete, I'm a terrible student, but that's the one thing I like doing. And so, but you also learn at the same time, you can't, you know, you can't fix everything. You can't solve everyone's problems. The Vanity Fair just, or Vanity Fair wrote about the white party a couple months ago, which you revived. P. Diddy had it, like he, it stopped in 09 and then there was like a Hamptons white party void and then you stepped in and now this is like the party every, what's it, July 3rd every year? Well, it's your change. It depends on where the holiday falls. But you know, it's funny. I had not even thought about the Diddy had done the party. And obviously he had an amazing party, but it stopped in 2009. And at that point I was just working in my old company, you know, 24 seven. Nobody else did it for 10 years. I don't think so. Look, I bought a house in the Hamptons in 2020 and, um, I just decided to, you know, I think I just picked up from one of my friends said, Hey, Lorne Michaels used to have them in like the seventies. Right. Then you have a, like, there's like a tradition. I can tell you, like, look, it's a great idea. One of the things I love to do is bring people together. Yeah. I like, I actually really enjoy that. Whether it's different pockets of that's exactly where I was going. I love bringing people from different backgrounds together because what happens, you all learn from each other. And whether it's, um, you know, whether it's a dinner that's got, you know, a bunch of athletes from different sports, a bunch of friends, some, you know, really successful business people and some, you know, collectors and we're all learning from each other. Whether it's, you know, the, you know, I remember the first time I introduced Robicraft from Meek Mill together and we flew to Miami for something and they're learning from each other. So, but we, these are always, you know, I think what's a loss is if the really successful people in the relationship aren't always learning from everybody around them. So if you sat with Robicraft and you were on that flight, the first time they introduced them to Meek Mill and they were going and we were going to, um, Miami, I remember just listening to how many questions Robert was asking Meek. And it's like, Meek had all these questions you want to ask Robert, but this went on for two and a half hours. I barely said a word because I knew each of them. So you're just delighted. I was, I loved watching him. It's just like a great conversation. And, you know, Robert's learning about, you know, the culture in the background that Meek comes from and Meek's asking Robert business questions. And it's like, I love stuff like that. And so we do a lot of that. And the white party is really just a big manifestation of that in a lot of ways, because you have so many different people from different backgrounds. You've got some of the best and most iconic business people in the world, some of the best investors in the world and some of the most well-known athletes in the world. And then by the way, people get to have fun as well. And that's a fun thing. What's the single best story that's happened at the party or that you can tell, I guess. Great question. Single best story. There's been one where you're like, I can't believe this. I feel like I'm on Mars. Yeah. I mean, the whole event makes you feel that way, to be honest. I mean, you, when you see so many great people come throughout the world, I mean, I think just, you know, for me, um, I feel really fortunate and lucky that so many people just want to come together and, you know, hang for 12. It's actually a 13 hour party starts at 5 p.m. and goes till 6 a.m. in the morning. And most people go the entire time of it. Um, you know, uh, for me, I just like seeing the relationships get formed from the people told me, I met this person there. Um, you know, funny story. I just, Mo Obama's now in the Sixers. Um, he came the first year. He's now married or engaged the person he met, you know, at the white party. I love that, you know, it's amazing. Um, but I mean, there's so many incredible stories, probably none worse than when, uh, Camille, um, you know, um, fell off. The stage and had to go to the hospital in the middle, middle of the white party. Oh my God. But I knew she was going to be okay. She didn't know that. So I was trying to stay behind and make sure all my friends were having a great time. And, you know, I got, I was told I need to immediately go with her. I would be a bad for the relationship. Yeah. It's seen that way. Your guy, Bob Kraft, the Pats might have a chance to have the worst record in the league here. This is not, not what he's about. This is the worst Patriots year since he's owned the team. I'm a giant Patriots fan. This is part of the process. We knew when Tom Brady left, we knew we were in, we were in the first class of the airplane cabin for 20 years, having a great time with Tom Brady. And then eventually you get moved to the back of the plane. It's part of the process, but he's probably not handling this while I'm guessing. Look, here's what I'll tell you. To do what they did. Robert need to be the glue in a lot of places. And I watched that firsthand. Yeah. Okay. And I can tell you the person that I learned, learned the most from in sports ownership was absolutely Robert. It's not the stuff that people see. That's what happens behind the scenes is how you keep shit together. It's when people want to kill each other and they actually don't kill each other. It's when you stop bad stuff from happening. And so, um, for me, I was, I've always been a big student. Like I study, you know, lots of tricks that Robert has and I've watched lots of things. I can tell you he's a perennial winner. Yes. This has been a horrible season. He will be a perennial winner. Yes. Tom Brady, greatest quarterback, greatest NFL player of all time. There's to me, there's no debate about that, but I think if you asked Tommy, he would say he alone that Robert was, you know, glue and helped, you know, keep everything to where they were able to win six championships together. If it's a six Super Bowls, got to get my vernacular, right? If it's an absentee owner, do Brady and Belichick make it until through 2019? No. When do you think they break up? Um, I don't want to get myself in trouble, but, but far before 2019. It is amazing. But now it's like the big controversy in New England is, well, Brady won the Super Bowls and I, to me it was both of them. I think I give them equal billing in the six Super Bowls. So how about this? I give the three of them. Um, and look, you're going to say fair. The person who had the most responsibility is Tom Brady. I got to tell you something, I'm fortunate enough to really have got to know Tom really well in the last few years. I have never seen someone who, when you spend a ton of time with them, you see why they've got the outcomes that they've got. He's truly extraordinary. And I've seen other athletes that have won, um, a lot of championships. I think they've maybe been more athletically talented than Tom was. Tom did it from an absolute will to win. And I'm not going to fucking give up and I'm going to win that game. And just watching him and his work ethic, um, is truly, uh, extraordinary. And I will tell you, I don't think there's another person that's like from an, from a people who've played sports, he could be the person who motivates me the most. I hear from him the earliest in the morning. Yeah. Okay. There's, you know, there's generally a text before six AM for one of the, one of the two of us, but even in the West Coast, he's always. He's, he's just, and he's always working and pushing and whatever he's doing. And that, that's a, that you realize why he's got that outcome, but that said, he alone, um, would not have done that. I do think that, you know, addition to Bill, that Robert, uh, really, um, added, there's so many things that I know that he did that people will never understand to keep, to get the outcomes they got. Well, I hope at the next quarterback, it's somebody who's super competitive and a freaking maniac. Cause I, I'm convinced that's like 90% of it. For somebody to be great at that level, at that position, it can't just be about the talent. There's, there's these extra pieces that come with it and you can kind of tell when somebody doesn't have it and you can tell by the way people talk about them and their teammates and their coaches. look, the best confirmation of what you just said is what happened when Tom Brady went to Tampa. I mean, this guy went to Tampa. That was a very weird situation. Yeah. And he wins a super ball the first year he's there. With playing with a bunch of guys who he was 20 years older than we had nothing in common with. Yeah. And you watch that and you watch that leadership come through from him. And that's the thing again, like when we started, we do a company meeting once a quarter where we bring our 18,000 employees together and we bring a guest, uh, in front of our, um, you know, in front of the 18,000 employees. Every quarter, my first guest was Tom Brady. Yeah. And I think when Tom came on, people would say like, Hey, you just like trying to showcase, Hey, we have a great relationship with Tom Brady. No. What I want to do was ask Tom, okay, how do you deal with high pressure situations? Could you learn from someone better than Tom Brady on how to deal with high pressure situations? Um, you know, um, how do you, you know, what are the things you do to lead and get better results from getting people work together? What are you doing? People aren't working well together, you know, and his answers were spectacular. I asked him for an hour, all these different questions about leadership, management style, work ethic. And I mean, so many people were side texting me and email me saying that was spectacular listening to him. Um, and that's again, why he got the outcome. Did you ever hear him talk about playing in the Superbowl? How it took him like five or six times to realize that the halftime was longer and it was screwing up his mental whatever. And so then when he went into like the last couple of Superbowls, he figured out how to crest his energy after the halftime because he was too hyped. But for the first half, but then it would dip and then he couldn't get it back. So he like put all this weird mental energy into like, all right, here's what I have to do. And I have to be super calm and then do this. And then third quarter I crest. I didn't, but who else would think like that? But I just heard him tell the story, um, last week about what the different things he went through in his brain when they were down 28-3. Yeah. Against Alana and just listen to math and just listening to how, um, he first didn't want to be embarrassed. Yeah. And then he realized, okay, we can win this game. Let's go. Just we're down 19, six plus two, six plus two, three. We're there. Correct. Correct. And it's just, and just how he knew he was going to win that game. She's an incredible story. Um, since the last time we talked, which was almost two years ago and you were just getting into collectibles back then. Something I've cared about my whole life. But now you're like deep in and it seems like you have the book. I couldn't help. We're at your house. Couldn't help but notice. It's among cuts up. You have some proudly displayed cards, but do you have the bug? Are you in? I absolutely have the bug. I was as a kid, I training cards was my first bit. And I like remember terrible student, terrible athlete. I was the last person being picked on every team. I couldn't do well in school. So business was the only thing I was good at, but the business I loved the most as a kid was buying and selling trading cards to my friend's parents. That was the business. Okay. They had the money. I found the customer with the money and I bought and sold cards like crazy as a kid. I didn't get back into this until three years ago. I can tell you I've never had so much fun. I mean, this is a incredible industry. You know, collectors are the best fans in the world. Like there's nothing I love more than going to collectible shows, talking to, because these are the best fans in the world. You talk about someone. You're a collector. You're definitely buying a lot of sports merchandise. You're, you're investing in, in cards, memorabilia. I might've gambled a couple of times. I mean, this is, this is the fanatics. These are the fanatics most important. I'm your wheelhouse customer. Yeah, for sure. Absolutely. So you saw, you must've looked, you saw what everybody who was in the collector thing, and when I was at ESPN, I see the photo essays from the convention and part of the comedy of it was just, you know, it was out in 1973. You really felt like you were in a time machine. There was no woman to be seen. It was the most depressing place in the planet. And yet there's tens of millions of dollars of product in here and some of the best stuff and all these people who they've been waiting the whole year to go. And it's like, why isn't this cooler? What are we doing wrong? Why isn't this better? I've never seen an industry with more passionate collectors that have been so underserved than this business. And to me, that just creates so much opportunity. And we've done, look, we've only, we came up with this idea only three years ago. We only bought tops, January 1st of 2022. It's not even two years that we've owned tops and we've done so much so far. We haven't even got started yet. So you buy tops, everybody goes nuts. Then Panini's involved. Now there's been some battles with Panini, right? Like, how does that, how does that all work out? Different sports, like, is that an obstacle or is that something that eventually works itself out? Yeah, I mean, for me, we're just focused on doing what's in the best interest of the collector. So for us, like, let me tell you what we saw. Okay. When we looked at the business, we saw a business where you had sports properties and players giving the rights to, um, tops, Panini, upper deck. These companies were all selling cards to distributors who then picked where the cards go. And they weren't selling the hobby shops. They weren't serving the breakers. They weren't serving the retailers directly. It made no sense. Like would Nike ever sell to a distributor to sell it a footlocker or just sell it? Well, there were middlemen who used to like, just mark it up. Right. And so they were taking money away from the collector and the hobby shop. So the first thing we saw that we said, this makes no sense. We need to collapse that and service the hobby shops directly, the breakers directly, the retailers directly. I think when we bought tops, they served 300 hobby shops. I think today we service 800 hobby shops or something like that. They're all happy that you did this. Elated. They can't. Yeah. They're the, yeah, they, they want to get product directly from us because they, they need that direct relationship so they can get the allocation of what they need to build their business to best support their collectors. And we'd rather give them the margin. You know, if you'd say there was a big incremental margin to split, most of that margin went to the hobby shops, the breakers, to the collectors, you know, to the industry. It didn't sit with us. We kind of passed it on. So that was very obvious. The players were getting kind of shortchanged too. And now they're making a lot more money because we're paying them on a much higher sales. The second thing, and this was crazy. I didn't know what a redemption was. Okay. Now you're going to laugh at me and if you're not a collector, you know, people are going to bore people here. But, um, you know, everyone kept saying to me, Michael, you need to get rid of redemptions. And so it took me like a, you know, a couple of weeks to figure out what a redemption, which is basically an IOU, you know, I bought, you know, a case of cards, a pack of cards. And you know, in that card came, um, your, um, Joel Embiid year two, Zion, you know, card. And there's an IOU for it because they didn't have the card signed by them. And, um, there were so many redemptions out there that collectors were like maddened by this. So I went to, um, you know, baseball, which is our biggest business today. And I went to the head of the union, Tony Clark, you know, I went to our organization, said, we need to eliminate redemptions. And they're like, okay, explain to me how this works. What do you need to do? You need to have a much better relationship with athletes to give you an example, when we launched tops, you know, Chrome, this is a rough number. But like, you know, a year ago, we probably had 30,000 redemptions. And that means 30,000 I use this year with less than a thousand, we reduced it by 97%. That means when you buy cards and you're not chasing us for cards. It's part of the motto is they were hoping that people wouldn't chase for the card. And then they just got to keep the card. I can't speak to what other people do. What I can tell you is we want to delight our customer. Last thing we want to do is a customer chasing us for card. And by the way, if we need to get them a card, we want to get it to them very quickly. So we've reduced our redemptions as top since we bought the business is much bigger than it's called twice the size. And the absolute amount of redemptions is down by 75, 80%. And in all the new releases, it's down by 95%. So I was just like focusing on our relationship with the athletes to get cards signed more quickly, making it a better experience for the athletes because you're worried about the collector. So that's where your relationships help. And it's where fanatics relationships help. And by the way, we're focused on it because we care so much about the collector. The next thing was like product innovation. There had been no material product innovation. Like I remember this is actually basically just the Chrome cards. And it was what in the late 2000s, 2000s. Well, I'll just give you an, I just give an example of like how entrepreneurial we were. Mike Mahan, who's the CEO of our collectibles business. He called me last December. He said, Hey, I've got a great idea. Every time a baseball player takes the field for the first time, I want to put a debut patch for one game on the Jersey. When they get off of the field, I want to take that debut patch off and put it into a one-on-one card. I said, wow, that's an amazing idea. So what are we doing? He said, well, you know, I spoke to the tops organization. They told me it will never, ever happen. There's no possibility. Like, what do you even waste your time? Wait, you're going to try to put a patch on the uniform and like every rookie that ever played. You think, you think that the, the league's going to be okay with that and the player's going to be okay with that. He said, but I like, it makes complete sense. So I called Rob Manfred. I called Tony Clark that minute. I called Tony. I said, Tony, I got a great idea. I said, I want to put a debut patch on the Jersey for the first time, you know, a player plays their, their, their, their major league game. He said, that sounds like an amazing idea. You make the Jersey's go do it. Then I called Rob. Rob said the same thing. We launched that four months later. Wow. These are the most valuable cards today. There's each year, three to 400 people debut in major league baseball. They play the first game and think about if you got, so it's almost like the jump man card, but it's a debut. Oh, Tony's debut. If you, if you had the only one in the world, if he had a patch from his first game, that patch was in a card. You had that card. Okay. That card is worth millions or tens of millions of dollars more sense to me than when they would just grab, like, it's a piece of dare cheaters Jersey on a card. And by the way, a lot of times they say they're game warm because the guy put the Jersey on his body for one minute in the park. We stopping all that stuff. So look, by the way, do we still screw things up every day? Yes. Cause it's, you know, we've only owned tops for less than two years. And then we bought, there were so many problems just in the manufacturers. We bought the biggest printer of trading cards because there were so many problems. You were having misprinting of cards delays. Like you should watch trading cards. Like you launch a video game launch or shoe launch. Okay. So Nike says this Travis Scott shoe, or this Jordan's launching on this day. And that's an event when we launch cards today, we have a giant launch coming up on 12, 12 with Bowman Chrome and what's going to be Brady day for us. And it's going to be insane. You'll see all this. You're going to actually text me at 12, 12 and say, wow, that was awesome. Okay. Cause we take our launch and we turn them into events. Well, the basketball has been the opposite where it's like, it's coming out soon and you never know. And it's like, can I just get a Zion rookie box? Yeah. Can you just tell me when that's coming out? If you, here's what I would say. If Nike did the same thing every year and they just had evergreen business, the business would fade. Okay. But they keep innovating. So what we need to do is have great product breakthroughs. I'll give you another example. Um, in a base card. Okay. It like in baseball, on the base card, um, there are, you know, many base cards of, of a player. Okay. So, um, you know, our CEO and the team come up with something called the MVP buyback program where the cards used to trade for 50 cents or a dollar for these cards. And we said, Hey, we're going to buy the back. We're going to give the hobby shops a credit of $20 for every MVP each year. So, um, you know, uh, uh, Kuna, um, uh, Tony, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to give, um, last year, Pope, uh, Paul Goldschmidt, we're going to give a, um, you know, $20 credit through the store. So now you're driving all these people into the stores, um, who returning tens of millions of dollars at retail of these cards to get store credits. And what do they do? They buy that much more cards. It wasn't that complicated for, you know, our team to come up with that. But it's been like, if you ask a hobby shop, they'd say it's driving demand like crazy. And then just marketing, like we are marketing collectibles and trading cards for the first time. And so I think overall, this was a sleepy industry with no innovation. We're coming in and saying, we're going to innovate products like crazy. We're going to innovate, um, marketing, we're going to fix the consumer experience, and then we're going to worry about the collector and the hobby shops, uh, and the breakers. And so, you know, for a business that we came up with an idea three years ago, we had our first dollar of revenue less than two years ago. We're making great progress, by the way, there's lots of things to still fix. You know, you know, we bought, you know, this really big company that makes, you know, packages, a lot of cards, you know, we have to keep pushing quality and say, you know, the quality needs to be amazed. I told you a little bit ago, we're going to put a chip in all high end cards going forward with a unique identifier. So you can't counterfeit a card, so you can't steal cards. You know, there's so many things we can do to improve. So the counterfeiting is the biggest issue, which has been the biggest issue for 30 years. It's not the biggest issue, but it's a big, look, if you can't invest in something and know that it's authentic, okay, then why am I invested? So take that example. We created this debut patch and let's say, you know, you had, let's say we did that when Otani or Aaron judge, you know, had their rookie years and you had that debut. Well, that card is going to be worth millions of dollars. So we better put a unique identifier in that card to make sure that no one can, can, you know, come up with a counterfeit version of that card. So we're very focused on doing what's in the collector's best interest. It'll take time, but we are, I mean, we've doubled the team at TOP since we bought the company. Uh, we're, we've invested so many times the capital in, in the manufacturing. We, they, we just moved into a brand new facility to really fix quality, fix timeliness, eliminate theft, eliminate counterfeiting issues. And, you know, we're a lot better than we were, but you know, you still, you wake up certain days, you work up certain days, you're like, can't fucking believe this just happened. Like, you know, shit goes wrong. Cause you know, you've got new companies that you're working to perfect and get right. I told you I was on the TOPs board for a couple of years and I was always surprised. The goal, it seemed like of the entire card industry was just people like this stuff. Let's just keep serving the burgers and fries. Don't get crazy. Let's just keep going out. Let's try to turn a profit. Let's not, let's not think outside the box at all. And that was the case in the eighties, the nineties, the two thousands kind of protect your lead. And now you're, you know, basically throwing a chainsaw in the whirlpool here, but has the response been, have you felt like a little, whoa, whoa, this is too much. You guys are acting too crazy or you feel like everyone's welcomed the innovation? Neither. So I'd say it's been overwhelmingly positive. Yeah. But there's still negativity. First of all, collected, like I look at a collector, like the ultimate sports fan, they care about their hobby and it is their hobby. The same way, you know, you know, for a sports team, it's their team. They care about this more than anything in the world. You almost can't win with them. No, I think you could only lose. I think you can win, but they have really high expectations because they deserve to have, they're investing in this hobby. I think people give you a lot, like we're getting so much credit for the debut patches that we did and how much people love these cards and people love Finax live. The live commerce platform that we launched, people love the marketing that we're doing and, you know, hobby shops told us the MBB buyback program is the best thing that we've ever, that anyone's ever had in the hobby. People love the marketing we're doing. But then when you screw up, they tell you as well. But guess what? Great. That makes us better. You know? So what would I say? Well, one of the things that was the national with me, you would see thousands of people showing appreciation for what we've done, but when we screw something up and we still make mistakes, you know, you know, people tell you and they have the right to tell us. Yeah. One of the things now, and it's not with you guys necessarily, but just like these box breaks, it's a whole thing now about, did they fake, did they fake that one? Oh, how did that person end up with the card in this box? And here's what I'm going to tell you. So how do you, how do you fix that? So let me give you a great example. So, first of all, breaking is a big part of the collectibles industry. If a collector doesn't... A big part of Finax Live. Correct. And if a collector doesn't like that, then they're just not being realistic because you'd say there are three distribution points for primary cards, right? Breakers, hobby shops, and retailers like, you know, a Walmart or a Target. That's been, and before it was hobby shops and the retailers, it wasn't the breakers. The breakers now have a, you know, important, you know, and by the way, it's great marketing. So, you know, for us, we understand the math of you take like, you know, a big break or one guy's doing 15% of the business, they're going to get 15% cards. So what we did, people always question the integrity of what we do. So this year for the first time, we said, Hey, let's take our auditor. I think we hired Deloitte and Touche. It wasn't Deloitte and Touche. One of the auditors, we're going to hire you. I think it is Deloitte and Touche. We're going to hire you. We're going to pay you to audit all the results the same way the NBA audits their draft lottery. That's cool. And we did that this year. Okay. Now we haven't really broadcasted, but we started doing that this past year. We now have Deloitte and Touche coming in, auditing everything to make sure that everything is random as it's advertised. So that was a great thing for us to do. We just added a cost for the authenticity, the hobby. Does everyone know we did that? No. Did we make a big deal out of it? No. But it's important to do things like that. Absolutely. I always say anytime someone has a right, we should listen to it, figure out whether they're right or wrong. If they're right, we should act on it. If they're wrong, we should still hear their perspective. So what do you collect other than James Harden cards? Well, you only saw some of the new displays that we're working on. So you saw my 86 Jordan downstairs in the basement. And, you know, for me, I like to collect things with my friends. So, you know, big Brady collector, you know, obviously Joel, you know, I'm not friends with Jordan, but, you know, you can't be a collector, not have an 86, you know, 10, you know, Jordan card. And for me, what I want to actually collect, honestly, are the really interesting things that we're making for the first time. So we have some Brady cards coming on 1212 that are going to be spectacular. Okay. And we have some, um, you know, some of the innovations that are coming next year, just things that I'm like, I need to own this because they're so cool. Because it's more like, to me, like, you know, look, I've got into art in the last couple of years for the first time in my life. I feel like these are things that make me want to say, I want to own this instead of art because I can display it the right way. It's a piece of history. And that's what I think, you know, is so great about collectibles. Do you have a 2000 Brady yet? Um, I do. Just a couple, couple of good rookie cards that of course I didn't get in the moment. We didn't talk before we go, we got to talk about gambling quick. Cause you got into that too. What have, uh, would have been your, your thoughts as you dive into the business? What, what surprised you? I haven't been surprised to date if I'm being blunt. I think it's a really big industry. I think there's, you know, um, some really good companies and there's certainly FanDuel, DraftKings are, you know, really good at what they do. You know, a lot of respect to, you know, MGM, you know, the different competitors in the space. What I tell you is I think we do have some real competitive advantages. First, our offering to the fan is more rewarding. We give on every bet place. We give 1% on a straight bet up to 5%, depending on the type of bet back of the gross bet back to you in fan cash that you can then go place other bets by merchandise, by trading cards. Um, so we have the most rewarding offering of anyone out there. Cause if you say the rest of the economics are the same, but on every bet you make, you get, you know, you get fan cash, which is essentially cash back to either bet more or, you know, buy other things from the Fanatics ecosystem. I think that's incredible. You know what, look, I knew this was going to be really hard. People, you know, people said to me like, Michael, you know, FanDuel and DraftKings have 80% of the market. You really, I think you have a chance. I'm like, I can read I'm fully aware of it. Yeah, look, we have more than a hundred million customers. Right. Um, you know, we talked to those customers a fair amount of time. Um, we have a lot of relationships in this business and we're in it for the longterm. We want to be, you know, a real player in this longterm. We're going to be, by the spring of this coming year, we'll be in every state that FanDuel's in from an online sports betting perspective. We'll be in every state that, um, from an iGaming perspective. So we're going to have a full, you know, the Fanatics sports book will be out there in the middle of doing transitions now because we bought points, but we're transitioning that over the Fanatics brand. So it's going to take us a little bit of time. I think, um, I have no patience. That's not a strength of mine, but if I'd say, what have I learned? You just have to be a little bit patient, even though I'm not. Well, as you know, I have a giant FanDuel tattoo on my back, but there's room for more than FanDuel. And you were trying to have a Fanatics tattoo and you just somehow ended up with it wrong. You started with the right first letter, but then somehow, you know, it got screwed up after that. You had the first two letters, right? Were you surprised, first three, were you surprised that the, uh, the sports have embraced gambling like this? No. Even when you see it on the NBA, the studio shows? Not the slightest, because every conversation I was having five years early with everybody who mattered was already embracing it. Everyone knew it was coming. Guy gave Adam Silver tremendous credit for going out and being so open about why it made sense to embrace it, but it was the most logical thing on the planet. So it was obvious it was coming. It wasn't a question of if it was a question of when. Everyone knew it was coming, but ESPN. Um, I thought you said that. I had to. It was sitting there. It was a funny joke. It was relatively funny. All right. So you have gambling collectibles merchandise. Is there anything coming that you can't hint at yet? No, what's coming right now is deep focus on being great in each of those businesses. And we have a lot of work to do in each of those businesses. And then over time, when we're ready, when the businesses are more mature and we feel like, you know, right now we have so much to do, we haven't even launched the right shed. If you look in the collectibles business, you know, today we have baseball F1, Bundesliga, UEFA Live, UFC launches. Uh, next year, we still, then we still have to launch WWE. We have to launch, you know, NBA. We have to launch NFL. Uh, so we need to get all of those properties moved over. We need to do a great job. We need to all the product innovations that we've done in baseball. We know baseball when we bought tops was the number three player. Yeah. It's now number one by far and away. Okay. NBA and NFL have dropped quite a lot and baseball has grown tremendously. Um, because of the product innovations, the market innovations, the distribution innovations, the consumer focus, their elimination of, you know, such a high percent of redemption. So we needed that same thing in the, um, in the new sports that we're taking on. So we have so much to do in the three business room. We're not doing anything new for a long time. What do you gamble on? Cause you're, you're prone to a six AM Vegas. Yeah. So are you blackjack? I haven't gambled on sports since 2009. But you're, you're like a cards guy. I like blackjack and Baccarat. Baccarat cause how fast it is. What are you like James Bond? Yeah. It's just so fast. It's the, you get maximum amount of action in the least amount of minutes. And if you ultimately want to get back to work and just do it for a quick change in mental, you know, stress levels for something else. I like Baccarat cause it's the fastest game. But all that, the NBA players are mostly blackjack, right? Yeah. I mean, we, yeah, yes. There's a lot of blackjack and do you have a seat? Are you like a third base guy? Are you middle of the table? Where are you? Um, I generally have to be on, um, that's, that's, I think that's an individual sport. Gambling is an individual sport. So when I'm playing blackjack, I generally like to play on my own. Um, but if I'm, So nobody at the table. Look, I'll, I'll just play differently, more conservatively. I'm going with a big group. So you're one of those guys. I mean, you, you, you want everyone to do whatever they want and don't ever tell someone what to do. But if you're really going for, you know, a lot of action, then you want to, you want to control your destiny versus others. But so when I'm with my friends gambling, I'll probably gamble a little bit differently. And then someone puts too many drinks in me. I might not care and just go all in no matter what.
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"I noticed something alarming this year for Halloween. I'm sure it's been this way for a few years, but of course, I haven't paid attention. Our office staffers give us cute little treat bags for Halloween. It's nice, it's enjoyable, and I'm not complaining. Well, in a way, I am complaining, though, because the first thing I noticed, the fun size candy bars, the fun size Snickers, the fun size Reese's, they're smaller than what they used to be. They were always small to begin with, but now, of course, they're much, much smaller. In fact, there used to be the little square Snickers size, and the fun size was a little bit rectangular. I guess now the fun size is in between those two shapes. I don't know how big they are. And the one thing I've said before, and I know I've talked about this before, is they don't get the ratio exactly the same. The small now fun -sized Reese's doesn't taste the same as the bigger Reese's Peanut Butter Cup because the chocolate -to -peanut butter ratio isn't the same. It's off just a little bit. I know I'm complaining, and I know there's nothing I can do about it. Prices go up, and in order to keep the prices down, that means packaging and sizes shrink. I'm not happy about it, but of course that just means I have to eat twice as much. So much for my waistline.
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The Mason Minute
Fun Size (MM #4610)
"I noticed something alarming this year for Halloween. I'm sure it's been this way for a few years, but of course, I haven't paid attention. Our office staffers give us cute little treat bags for Halloween. It's nice, it's enjoyable, and I'm not complaining. Well, in a way, I am complaining, though, because the first thing I noticed, the fun size candy bars, the fun size Snickers, the fun size Reese's, they're smaller than what they used to be. They were always small to begin with, but now, of course, they're much, much smaller. In fact, there used to be the little square Snickers size, and the fun size was a little bit rectangular. I guess now the fun size is in between those two shapes. I don't know how big they are. And the one thing I've said before, and I know I've talked about this before, is they don't get the ratio exactly the same. The small now fun -sized Reese's doesn't taste the same as the bigger Reese's Peanut Butter Cup because the chocolate -to -peanut butter ratio isn't the same. It's off just a little bit. I know I'm complaining, and I know there's nothing I can do about it. Prices go up, and in order to keep the prices down, that means packaging and sizes shrink. I'm not happy about it, but of course that just means I have to eat twice as much. So much for my waistline.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "reese" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"On me. Maryland a big favorite tonight and going on the court against Ryder. Dave Preston is live in College Park with the details. 43 seconds to play in the first half. They lead 52 to 26. A 19 -2 run earlier in the half Blowing this one wide open. Bigs eating early and often. Jordan Geronimo 13 points. Juju Reese adding 12 with 9 rebounds. Terps holding the Bronx to 11 baskets. 9 turnovers. They lead 52 to 26. 34 seconds to play in the first half. Alright meanwhile Howard a big underdog against Cincinnati, but the Bison hanging with the Bearcats. They're down only 34 -29 at the break. Howard shooting 45 % while holding Cincy to 40 % shooting including only two of ten from three -point range. The latest college football playoff rankings are in. Georgia still in the top spots with Michigan, Washington and Florida State rounding out the top four. Ohio State's first loss slid them from two all the way down to six while undefeated FSU back in the playoff picture after their win over rival Florida last week. Rob Fork, WTOP Sports. Alright just ahead on WTOP and CBS News we're telling you about twelve more hostages being released in Israel today. Details just ahead at 756. This report is sponsored by Washington D .C. BMW Centers now during the BMW Black Friday sales event. all Lease an -electric 2024 BMW i5 eDrive 40 for 719 per month. Details view centers dot com. Today around 5000 Americans will hear you have cancer. At Pfizer we won't rest until they hear the all clear. See how we're innovating at Pfizer dot com slash oncology. Pfizer out due yesterday. Thanks for watching. Lowe's knows how to save pros time and money. Right now save $200 on a DeWalt miter saw now just $399. And there's more. Save $100 in a DeWalt table saw only $299. Visit us in store or online for more deals you can't
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Interest Rate Hikes FINISHED?! (Crypto War NOT Over)
"Welcome to Discover Crypto! It is September 20th. It's 11 .30am. How are we all doing? We got Drew and AJ on the ones and twos today, folks. We're going to talk about the Fed. We're going to talk about what are they going to be saying with the interest rate hikes. And also we're going to be talking about Bitcoin and other cryptos. AJ, how are you doing today? I'm doing great, man. Another day in the life. Let's get it. Drew, how are you doing? Oh, just great. You know, can't complain. Well, you can. You can. You complain when you get home. You'd like, you know, just really vent to your two -year -old. Yeah, that's where I do it. Deezy, did you see the tweet that went out yesterday about the show I'm doing with from George from Cryptos R Us? What? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's with Blockchain Boy and Neutron. Joshua Jay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So we're all like, it's for crew, like, plus, you know, and basically we're all doing something different. I believe, like, Josh is doing like a news kind of show and Blockchain Boys. I'm not really sure what Blockchain Boys doing, but I know the videos are going to start coming out here pretty soon. We're still like brainstorming my concept, but I have a really good, like, rough idea of what I'm doing. But it's going to be really interesting to see how, like, where this goes. And I'm just fun to excited to do something different, you know? And I'm excited. We got Frankie Candles doing the charts today. I see Frankie getting ready in his neon square. He's in his, like, little neon area. I don't know if, oh, he can hear me. He's showing some recognition and anticipation of what Deezy is going to say next. Yeah, we saw the Donald Trump Jr. tweets. It looks like he got hacked. Also, Rob, you're popping it. Hey, we're going to see you back. Can't wait till you come back. All right, let's just get right into crypto. Marc Kepson's Drew is done. Am I too tall? Am I too tall? Too tall for the camera? Look, I got to stand. I got to do these shows a lot, you know? I take the shoes off. So I shrink, you know? They come in. I'm like 6 '11", and I take the shoes off. Then I drop back down to 6 '3". I got the Tom Cruise lifts. All right, Bitcoin is falling a little bit, folks. We were in the green this morning when I first woke up. Now we are down 0 .6%, and Ethereum is down 1 .3%. But XRP looks pretty good. XRP is up. It is up 0 .8 % on the day so far. Meanwhile, Cardano, I woke up this morning. It was up, but now it's down. It is down 0 .7%. Dogecoin down 1 .3%. TonCoin finally cooling off a little bit for the week here. It is down 1 .2%. Litecoin has taken a little bit of a beating, folks. Litecoin is down 5%. We talked about Litecoin a little bit yesterday on ATB. I highly recommend you check that out after this stream. All right, let's look at the top gainers. Then we're going to look at the top losers. You know, I have a streak of keeping my coins in the losers, but not today, folks. I'm feeling good. In fact, maybe I'll have a coin in the top 10. Who knows? All right, here we have Caspa leading the way. Caspa is just on fire, folks. The people who bought Caspa at $0 .01, $0 .02, looking good. Just put in a higher high too. You got past that last one, yep. All right, we are now above a nickel, and it looks like maybe price discovery mode for a Caspa. XDC is up 4 .3%. Maker is up. Radix is up. Aave is up. I have a coin in the ties. A little Solana. I think maybe I have some Arbitrum. Maybe. I'm not even sure I have to check. Then we have, you know, XRP is up 0 .8%. We got gold. Gold's moving to the upside. The graph moving to the upside, even though Bitcoin and ETH are down. Okay, so it's not all blood in the streets, but hopefully, it's not going to be blood in Deasy's wallet, guys. And again, I promise you, I do not check this ahead of time. I kind of like being surprised. I like discovering it with you. So let's discover cryptos, Deasy's coins in here. I'm looking good today. All right, I don't know how long the streak has been continuing. I don't know when's the last. I think I last held Litecoin in 2021. Never had Thor, Phrax, eCash, or I know Frankie likes to trade Adam. I like to trade Eve. So maybe we'll talk to him about the Adam is falling 4 % here. Litecoin down 5%. Thor chained down 5%. Any of these coins, you know, peak it. Well, if you go at it, I do have two in the top 10. I got two in the top 10. Just, you know, just to make it feel good. But any of these screaming at you here? Yeah, Thor, Litecoin, Phrax. Not surprised really to see. I mean, everything kind of came up yesterday. I'm still kind of sticking to the theory that the pump we're seeing could possibly be a bull trap. I think, you know, when we get into the FOMC news, the pauses that is likely coming is going to be bullish for the sentiment. I'm just still like kind of macro worried based off of the stock market sharks. Actually, the Algorand, you know, down 2 .8%. That one's kind of obviously yelling at me a little bit. I have a theory coming up, but I'm not going to say it right now. But I'm making a video about it, about Algorand. So stay tuned for that. OK, so you're going to create more? I'm going to create more. I create more crypto content every day and some of it's about Algorand. But I like how it's a period. Create more. No exclamation point. Just create. It's more like create more. Oh, OK. Great. More. Great. Great. Yeah. All right. Well, we're going to create some stories here about the feds. What are they doing? I don't know if we've ever had an article from this news organization. ABC. Shout out to Mickey Mouse and the Disney crew here. Fed to decide on a rate hike. Testing optimism about a soft landing as inflation rises again. Upon announcing the Fed Reserve's latest rate hike decision in July, Jerome Powell spoke out a lectern in Washington, DC for a half hour before he dropped a bombshell. The Central Bank staff has abandoned its forecast of a recession. Staff at the Fed, in other words, now expect the Central Bank to achieve a soft landing, an outcome in which the US brings down inflation while avoiding a downturn. Inflation has ticked up for two consecutive months, reversing some of the progress made in the effort to bring price increases down to normal levels. Meanwhile, oil prices have soared, threatening to push inflation even higher. Well, they got like moving ads. Whoa, whoa, what's going on here? Calm down, ABC. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect the Fed to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged, affording policymakers time to weigh their next move as a rapid series of previous rate hikes take full effect. I was looking at Caleb Franzen's tweets. We're at 99 % on the prediction market unchanged today, right? Have you been looking at the, when is the next one? Is it November? I can pull the calendar. I'm pretty sure it's the end of October. I think it's like maybe on Halloween. Let me double check. Oh, on Halloween is going to be spooky. Okay, Drew, are you going to give out candy this Halloween? Absolutely. You know, but actually I'll be doing candied apples. Okay, I'm going to be giving out pamphlets on inflation to children. Yeah, you know, you could have got Reese's pieces, but blame Jerome Powell. You can take advantage of the time and the season to teach your children about tax. Tax them. Like attacking kids for their pillowcases of candy? Taxing them heavily. Yeah, take 33 % of every Snickers bar they get. That's right. Yeah, that's just the way it is. Why wait? Welcome to America, you know? And yeah, the next FOMC is October 31st, November 1st, so. Okay, okay. October 31st. All right, all right. Halloween, what's Jerome Powell going to dress up as? Alex from A Clockwork Orange. Pat, do you want us to dress up on the channel? I might be willing to dress up in a costume. I might be willing. You know, every - I could break out the green spandex, go old school. You know, every Halloween, AJ disappears and a Mr. Meeseeks just shows up. Okay, I heard existence is pain though. Existence is pain. We're not fumbling around for meaning here, Deezy. All right. Well, I'm fumbling around for this rate of inflation. It eases slightly 6 .7 % despite the oil prices surging. You know, like we said, I think the oil is going to be a leading indicator, so inflation will trickle down from the oil prices. If you want to think about it, it's going to cost more money to get those bananas to drive from point A to point B because they're going to have to spend more in the gas tank. This is going to be - It's just give it a while, let it roll out to the rest of the economy. Namely, food. Oil prices really, really like to impact food prices a couple months down the line. Well, we're looking at the ONS as the Office for National Statistics, and they said the consumer price index measure slowed in the 12 months to August from the 6 .8 figure reported the previous month thanks to food rising at a weaker pace during the month compared to August 22. During the X minute, I have a tweet about Canadian food prices, and I just kind of look at where they've gone over the past 20 years. It is shocking. It is shocking. I used Bard. I was like, this doesn't feel right for the price. I went to a Canadian grocery store, and I went low. I went low. There's expensive eggs and cheap eggs. I typed in the cheap egg price. It was still very scary. All right, well, we have predictions. Jerome Powell's got his ideas. You notice I was thinking about this BlackRock. What is BlackRock thinking about all this? BlackRock and others predict the Fed's next move. What does it mean for Bitcoin though? According to Marilyn Watson, is a BlackRock's head of global fundamental income strategy. The central bank's federal funds target rate will remain roughly the same until the end of the year going through its September, November, and December meetings. For the record, I think the economic data has consistently surprised to the upside, she said. That includes GDP, the unemployment rate, and the labor market. Beware, beware of recession. The analyst has previously argued that Bitcoin's price is macroeconomic determined by conditions, including its four -year cycles, which I am still a firm believer in for this cycle. Might be less of an effect of the previous one, but I'm still a believer in the four -year cycle, going to push Bitcoin to the new high. I do think we'll set in a new all -time high. I don't think we're going to hit a quarter million dollars in two years, but I think we're going to flirt with $100K, which they do not believe are related to the Bitcoin halving. So they're saying the four -year cycle is not related. I don't know what they're saying here. Risk assets go lower in recessions. So I'd expect Bitcoin would not perform well in that environment. It has not seen a real recession in its existence. It was birthed out of a recession, but yeah, hasn't really gone through one from the beginning stages to the end there. Yeah, there's never been a Bitcoin bull run during a phase of quantitative tightening. We've always been quantitatively easing the money supply anytime Bitcoin goes up into the right. And that obviously is what it takes. I think they're kind of leaning into if we're in a recession, and that lines up with the four -year cycle. But just so far, we're three for three with the having idea playing out. And the trend hasn't broken yet, so that's why I always say sticking to November 25 as a benchmark, but that's just a benchmark. It could be behind that. It could be in front of that. We don't have a crystal ball, but we can go off the pattern that we've seen before. All right. Well, speaking of quantitative tightening, we also have calfskin tightening, the tightest calfskin in the entire world. I don't care if you have a baby cow jacket for an extra small on an 800 -pound man, there is no tighter calfskin than the man I'm looking at right now. That is Frankie Candles. Frankie Candles, welcome back. How's it doing? Does it feel good? It feels good. The calfskin is tight, and so is Bitcoin's price action. But yeah, I don't want to waste time here. Let's go ahead and jump right into the charts here. Now, here we are. Now, obviously, I talk about this all the time. I don't typically trade on newsdays like this. It is usually a complete washing machine. Usually the shorts get wrecked, then the longs get wrecked, or the longs get wrecked, and then the shorts get wrecked. So I don't typically trade. Now, I am in a few trades right now. I am in this Bitcoin long right now. I have profits locked in on this trade and my stop loss is at my entry. So kind of how I am playing this today is I'm going to be holding my long. I am long from about $25 ,000 to $50 ,000 just below this range. And again, I have taken profits on that stop loss at break even. And then I am also in a short position from somewhere up here. I am slightly in profit on the short position. So I am long up and now I am in this small short position that is in slight profit. However, this is kind of how I'm playing this today, DZ. Because basically, like I said, I never recommend people trade on these newsdays just because of the complete unpredictable volatility that you're likely to see. Now, the last FOMC meeting, I believe, was on the 25th, 26th of July. I believe someone could correct me if I'm wrong on that. But we actually have seen a few FOMC meetings where we didn't really have too much happen. And I've been telling people that we are likely in that kind of boring accumulation phase of the bear market. A lot of times, if you go back to at least the 2017 or 2018, 2019 bear market, we had that bear market rally. And once we topped off at that point, we kind of just bled out. And for the most part, if you kind of just ignore this panic wick from March of 2020, which was obviously a Black Swan event, we kind of just wiggled sideways. We got that big bear market rally, we topped off, bled out a little bit, and then we just kind of went sideways again with the exception of that panic wick. And I do think we are in somewhat of a similar situation here where the rest of this bear market may not be the most exciting thing ever. But for today, basically how I'm handling this, DZ, is I'm going to be kind of...
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 12:00 08-22-2023 12:00
"Silly thing where they pretend they don't Buy it so the Indians buy it and then the Indians refine it and then they sell the refined product to the Europeans That's right. So that's how it works. So we'll keep an eye on that again Regular gasoline three dollars and eighty five percent at three dollars and eighty five cents a gallon across The u .s. A little bit cheaper down at the Jersey Shore, but not much People still got some driving to do this summer. So paying attention to the price at the pump. We're gonna have more coming up this Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg radio This is Bloomberg markets with Paul Sweeney at We got a lot of green on the screen here, but the volume is light We constantly underestimate the strength of the US consumer This is a market that's much more optimistic or bullish than maybe its central bankers are breaking market news and inside from Bloomberg There's still some concern out there in the market that there is room for things to deteriorate a little bit more than what they're indicating As small and medium -sized businesses struggle, they don't present as much competition The supply chain has still got dislocations globally and here in the u .s. This is Bloomberg markets On Bloomberg radio All right coming up in this hour we're gonna talk about the regional banks here Herman Chan and Arnakul Kuda, they're both from Bloomberg intelligence, so they're smart folks S &P just downgraded the banks I guess it's better late than never but we'll check in with the the smart folks who do this stuff for a living January Jennifer Reese she's a senior antitrust Litigation analyst Microsoft Activision.
WTOP
"reese" Discussed on WTOP
"Working Really actually. Reese's Reese's. This I'm onto something. Reese's Reese's. Reese's This is WTOP news. WTOP FM, Washington. WWWTFM, Anasis. Braddock Heights, Frederick. Traffic and weather on the 8th. Here's Rob Stalworth. New in problem Virginia. Eastbound 66 before Route 15 in Haymarket. Giving the report of a crash involving one overturned vehicle to watch for response as they head to the scene on the outer loop of the Beltway in Maryland at Richie Marlboro Road. The work zone is clear and all your travel lanes are open, but delays remain there. Outer loop at Arena Drive. The left side was blocked for the crash. Top side of the Beltway still delays on the loop outer as they leave New Hampshire Avenue toward Georgia Avenue. Southbound 270 after 85. Buckystown
Veteran on the Move
"reese" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
"Primary residence. No, zero. I mean, that's a 5 ten, $15,000 a year benefit. In your state, okay? So I cover state benefits for all 50 states. Then in part three, we've completely revised and revamped all of the for profit military and veteran discounts. So everyday discounts at your favorite places to shop and goods and services that you need, I've got a whole laundry list of nonprofits, things like free hunting and fishing trips for disabled vets, go through that, comprehensive list. And then we've completely revised and expanded the bonus section, which is section four last time I think there were only three bonuses. Now there's ten bonuses, but I'm not going to share what all those are. You need to get the book to find out about all the bonuses. That's awesome. Well, hey Brian, you're running a successful business now too, and now you've written two versions of your book, which is awesome. So thanks for sharing your entrepreneurial success story, especially what you're doing in support of veterans and VA claims and everything else that's going on out there. There's so many veterans that don't know they rate certain things and there's, like you said, there's so much stuff, even with your local and state governments and profit nonprofit organizations out there just looking to hook guys up with various things. So having that awareness of what the good deals are is instrumental. It's my honor, man. It really is. I mean, this is what this is what I believe God called me to do and that's why I'm here. Awesome. Absolutely. Love the energy man. All right, these two veterans are asking. Thanks for listening to veteran on the move. Your pathfinder to freedom. If you like to show, leave us a review on iTunes. Reviews are always greatly appreciated. So until next time, this veteran is screw Mike.
AP News Radio
Reese, LSU women push past Miami 54-42 to reach Final Four
"LSU advanced to the final four with a 54 42 win over Miami in a defensive minded affair, Alexis Morris, led LSU with 21 points. This moment is literally everything to me. I am the comeback kid. I went through so much adversity, the world count me out media wearing bad posts, portraying this image of me, now I could just, you know, just let it all go. I only got 22 points from Jasmine Roberts LSU one despite shooting 30% from the field, Miami missed all 15 of their three point shots. I'm Mike Reeves.
AP News Radio
NYC neighborhood carries on during wait for Trump grand jury
"As the world waits to see whether a grand jury in dates former president Donald Trump crowds gather outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan and life goes on. More than any Trump supporters or protesters, there were reporters out here in front of the court, but a block away in front of another court. Law & Order SVU was being shot. Tourists are Lakota and daughter Lola from Canada were passing by. It does seem surreal. My mom was like, oh my gosh, it looks like we're in like an FBI zone. The same courthouse with a grand jury meets is also where people get married like Santiago cartero. It's been in the making for a while, so, you know, it just happened to be the same day. It's fine. We're here for something important. I'm not going to let that bother me. And then there's Reese Cohen who lives around the corner and is nervous about Trump's calls for protests. Just 'cause you don't know what his people will do. We've already heard so much. We seen January 6th. In Lower Manhattan, Julie Walker, New York.
AP News Radio
Aston-Reese scores 2 as Maple Leafs beat Hurricanes 5-2
"Zack asked and re scored twice in the Maple Leafs entered a two game skid by topping their hurricanes 5 to two. Aston Reese tipped in a shot to open the scoring two 54 into the game. He added an insurance goal with 5 O one left in the second period. They were pretty easy goals for me to put in. I mean, gossip with a great shot. Great move by him too. That little shammy at the top to get free and then laughs with a great sauce pass. Mitch marner auston Matthews and Morgan rielly also scored to back Ilya samsonov, who turned back 31 shots. Carolina lost for the third time in four games to stay one point ahead of the Devils for the metropolitan division lead. I'm Dave ferry
Coingape
Megaphone Pattern Governs The Ethereums Ongoing Price Action Is 2000 In Reach
"5 p.m. Sunday February 26th, 2023. Megaphone pattern governs the Ethereum's ongoing price action is 2000 in reach. The formation of a megaphone pattern in the daily time frame chart shows the Ethereum price is in a state of high volatility and uncertainty among the market participants. Furthermore, the ETH prices recent reversal from the rising trendline triggered a near beer cycle correction phase, which could tumble its price below the 1500 support. Hey Reese the post megaphone pattern governs the Ethereum's ongoing price section is 2000 and reach appeared first on coinbase.
AP News Radio
Maryland rolls in 2nd half, beats No. 21 Northwestern 75-59
"Jameer young led 5 players in double figures with 18 points as Maryland used a strong second half to beat 21st ranked northwestern 75 to 59. The terms improved to 20 and 9 and 11 and 7 in the Big Ten going a perfect ten and zero at home in the conference. Young's three pointer before the half gave Maryland a two point lead. I feel like that momentum screen it was big or just for us to be up at half and just to go in a second half, you know, with the most amount of confidence that we can win the game. Julian Reese had 12 points and ten rebounds from Maryland while chase adiz had 16 for the wildcats. Craig heist college park, Maryland.
Your Daily Prayer
A Prayer for Patience
"Some 31 says I trust in you O lord, I say you are my God. My times are in your hands. The ultimately, patient spirit is about recognizing the lordship of Jesus in our lives. Patients reminds us that we are not more important than the people around us. Our time is not more valuable, our work is not of higher quality. Patients helps us recognize that God's plan for this moment is of more importance than our plans. And it may just be that God's desire for us is to share or receive. An expression of Christ's love. What might the lord be asking of you? In this moment, let us pray. Reese's God, my heart can become easily overwhelmed by the busyness of my life. Please forgive me when the tasks of the day or the demands of my schedule crowd out the space needed to be still in your presence. I know your promise that I can do all things through you who strengthen me. But I can become so easily flustered as I try to muscle my way through life by my own efforts. I pray O lord that you increase within me, the capacity for patience. Lead me into times, Ryan called to rely not on my strength, but yours. Move me into places where I am called only stop. To rest, to breathe, or to listen. Help me be still. And know you. Here, now. More than anything, Jesus. Help me to observe the hours and the minutes of my day. I said firmly in your schedule. Give me the strength to step outside of my plans for this moment. So that I can enter more deeply into your will. You are lord of this time. And I lay myself before you, as your servant. I pray all of this in the name of Jesus Christ my lord. I'm in.
The Garden Question
"reese" Discussed on The Garden Question
"Carol, why do you hate native plants? The study I heard that when I was contacted about speaking at a conference, good friend actually, on the committee, said there were some people who were going to blackball the conference and not come because of you being the speaker and I said, what in the world I said, you hate native plants, and I was like, that's ridiculous. I love native plants, but I don't adhere to a native plant purism philosophy. I think it can actually be harmful. In fact, I wish there were a lot more native plants that I really adore using that are kind of hard to come by in the trade. Not anti native plants and native purism because I think it can have some dangers in the long run. What are those dangers you're seeing with the united purist movement? This idea that they have to be used if you are guarding for wildlife as a whole idea that native insects need native plants to survive simply isn't true. If we say that it has to be native and we require people and, you know, there are laws now being passed in some places that say it has to be native in these particular new gardens that are going in. And some of those are actually pairing some out that are non native plants that wildlife is already adjusted to. It sounds so logical, native insects need native plants. Force you're on board with that because we care about our insects because now our birds insects owned up the food chain. Everything depends on our insects. A fear that by limiting our choices and insisting that it has to be native, we're actually going to lack the diversity we need in today's really drastic changes in our challenging climate. I want to use every tool at our disposal. Something that has always kind of confused me is what is considered a native plant, is it plants on this continent, the stay, the region in the state, or just in my backyard, what really is a night of plant..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"reese" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is a Bloomberg money minute There is still a lot of empty office space waiting for workers or something to fill it The real estate firm Reese incorporated said the percentage of space available in the U.S. topped 18% last quarter but in the nation's ten largest business districts hassle system says only a little more than a third of workers are back in the office Sooner or later you're going to have to reevaluate what's the highest and best use of those assets Tim rude of the real estate analytics provider situs AMC says if it takes long enough Folks are going to be pretty darn open minded about how to repurpose the refurbish some of those properties for I don't know affordable housing high end housing He figures there some time to figure it out These are long-term leases usually So they're being saved by that But he says banks patients will run short and when things are reevaluated That leads to default So his advice start working on it now It's going to hurt for the banks It's going to hurt for the property owners Not to mention he says the cities that are losing tax revenue Joan dogger Bloomberg radio And JIT makes innovation happen It also makes entrepreneurs like Anya o'dwyer founder of innovate a tech driven civil engineering and construction management firm Anya says and JIT is defining the future Extremely important as a hub of disciplines all in one space with all of these brilliant minds And yet his role is huge when it comes to defining the future and power from an interdisciplinary point of view they have it all there whether it's the innovation hub the maker space and JIT is already creating bash collaboration between the disciplines and you have civil engineers speaking to programmers speaking to electrical engineers And together they're creating advancements that we wouldn't have been able to do without those three minds coming together and solving a problem as one rather than solving it in isolation And JIT New Jersey institute of technology Learn more at nj IT dot EDU You see the value in worldwide market news The push for a global minimum corporate tax rate is still alive and well and you want it first The Labor Department has sent an emergency regulation to The White House So do we bond yields around the world are.
The Dan Bongino Show
Don't Underestimate Elon Musk's Investment in Twitter
"It's a major shareholder in Tesla right So he just on a weekend makes some unhinged decision just because he wants to tweet a little more to spend billions of dollars Decisions by the way they could affect judgments about who he is and his judgments that could impact the other companies He holds major stock valuations and he just did it on the weekend because he was bored That's top notch analysis there Nice job Yes Just a personal thing He was just annoyed in a weekend Yeah yeah sure he is He built his company built a vehicle that went to space and the most popular electric car brand in the world A lot of government subsidies involved but that's for another day I assure you If you think this was some decision he made on the weekend like M and M's Reese's pieces or buy billions in Twitter I assure you you are under thinking it big time
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Was George Reeves's Death a Suicide?
"The George Reeves shall must have been the top one of the top 5 shows. One of the first 5 shows we did when I got to LA to do mysteries and scandals. And I knew some I knew some stories about George Reese, but man, so much more light was shed on these people. And I remember the names in these stories so well, he had a fiance named lenore lemon. And they went out to dinner with their friend Robert condon. And then the three of them went back to Reeves and Lennon's home in Benedict canyon. And just so you guys understand who don't live in this area, Benedict canyon is such a beautiful area. You go up the hill in the valley that separates Hollywood from the San Fernando valley, and these homes are gorgeous. And the view from these homes is spectacular. So they go back to their place on Benedict canyon, and after George goes to bed, lenore lemon decides to host an impromptu party in their living room with condon and the neighbors William bliss and Carol van ronkel. And Reese wakes up by all the goddamn noise they're making. You know, he's not in the mood to hear this kind of bullshit. You know what you're a celebrity and you're working in the business and things aren't going right. And you know you got people responding off you. You can't fucking stand to hear them in the other room laughing and whooping it up when all you're doing is laying your head on your pillow worried and concerned about what this fucking business is doing to you. And that's what was happening with George Reese. So he gets woken up by the stupid drunken noise. He comes downstairs to tell him to shut the hell up. Then he's calmed down. He spends some time with them. He had a drink. He said, calm down, George is such a stick in the mud. How the fuck can cognac. He has the drink. He's calmed down. And he goes back to his room. And not too long after that, the guests hear a gunshot coming from his room. So bliss runs up to stairs to the room, they find Reeves body naked, he's laying on the bed, and there's a gunshot wound to his temple. And as a pistol on the floor, and it looked like it fell out of his hand. Now even though George Reeves death was ruled a suicide, there's some conflicting stories that began to come out in the press, likely because of the fact that the only witness had been drunk at the time. And some news outlets claim that lenore lemon was with reason the bedroom when he shot himself and that she came downstairs and told her guests tell him I was down
Daily Pop
Gabrielle Union Opens Up About Dwyane Wade Fathering Baby With Another Woman
"Union gets real about why she stayed with dwayne wade after he father a child with another woman before they were married. She says the me up today would not have stayed with him. But would i be who. I am without the pain. I remember a small voice in my heart telling myself to leave but my fear of public humiliation was so great that i didn't take my own advice. Gabriel dwayne seemed to be strong now. But what do you think it took to get to that place. First of all let me just point something out before we even get to that point. If you're a woman and all you've ever wanted your whole life was to have a baby with the man that you loved in your body just not wouldn't let you do it and then that person turned around and gave that gift to someone else that wasn't you. It's an reading. Her first book won't need more wine. You have to. You have to read this book. This part of the book was actually left out this story. This narrative was left out of that book but she talked about her attempts to get pregnant. and how about. So it's just crazy but amazing that she's opening up about this now. I think it's also probably. She feels at peace with it. I think she's done a lot of work. I think she's recognized a lot about the situation and i also feel like the one thing i do want just on one little nugget for dwayne. Say we're not together is they. He wasn't that you know he turned around and gave this gift to somebody else. When they were at an item they had hit a rough patch in their relationship. You're right you're absolutely right. And it was in a very unfortunate thing that happened. I mean a child is always blessing. They're so fun even when you wanna yak on live. Tv they're front. And i think this took a lot of work a lot of work to get to a place where they felt like they could be the couple that they are
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Anthony Mackie to Star in ‘Twisted Metal’ Live-Action Series
"Anthony mackie is to star john doe in the live action twisted metal. This is justin kroll at deadline. After recently being named the next captain marica anthony. Mackie looks to a found his next juicy role to sink his teeth into sources tell deadline that mackey is set to star in and executive produce sony pictures pictures television and playstation productions twisted metal a live action adaptation of the popular video game. Maquis will play the lead role of john doe in the half hour live action tv series. Insiders say that sony tv in playstation productions are extremely high on the package and plan is in the works to take it to buyers soon. We're thrilled to have anthony. Mackie on board his ability to blend a comedy action drama is perfect for the twisted twisted world. We're creating said assad kill bash head of playstation studios twisted metal high-octane action comedy based on an original take by deadpool scribes. Rhett reese in paul. Were nick about a motormouth. Outsider offered a chance at a better life but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland with the help of a trigger happy car thief face. Savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road including a deranged clown. Who drives an all-too-familiar ice cream truck doe is a smart ass milkman. Who talks as fast as drives with no memory of his past. He gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to make his wish of finding community. Come come true. But only if he can survive in onslaught of savage vehicular combat
AP News Radio
Chisholm’s Homer in 8th Lifts Marlins Over Mets 3–2
"Jazz Chisholm belted a tiebreaking solo Homer off J. Reese familiar with two out in the eighth inning giving the Marlins the rubber match of their three game set with the fading Mets three to to face a million a couple times before so I mean I was just out there and I was kind of hard as balls sinks and I was just looking for a pitch up I got it up and I I got all of it New York wasted a two nothing lead managed just four hits in losing for the fourth time in six games all against the two worst teams in the NL east Chisholm began Miami's rally with an RBI grounder in the seventh hi V. bias homered and doubled for the Mets who fell five games behind the NL east leading Braves who remained four games behind the NL east leading Braves I'm the ferry
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"reese" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"Of like In addition to so by and large. It's the folks that don't have in house legal departments at all but we do have a few clients that us as sort of a plug and play. You know they've got one or two lawyers and they're either Getting really lean or they're getting really busy and they're still lean from last year and they just need people who are good at what they do who can pick up and run with things rather than trying to bring somebody on. Get them trained up And get them. Moving wounded will then. I think we're about to run out of time. I wanna thank you for coming on. Can i just say one last thing. Do we are hiring right now. So if any of what. I've said Sounds interesting to any incredible lawyers out there. Please give me a call. Sounds good. And i can say this through knowing rachel she is probably gonna be the coolest boss in the world. Buckle than i ever will be. If anybody's listening the needs legal counsel they can also reach out to you as well right. That would be great. Perfect absolutely yousef. I think you're a great host. Sorry that lashed out at you earlier donny. I think you're not a hillbilly right. I think this marriage is going to work long term. That's kinda the goal and kisses everybody. The opinions and statements expressed here in our solely lows of rachel race. They are not and should not be construed as the opinions or statements of our recent associates or any of its other attorneys. Nothing contained in this. Podcast establishes attorney client privilege between rachel race or recent associates and any person are recent associates and rachel reese individually expressly disclaimed. The creation of attorney. Client privilege there. Anything involving this podcast..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"reese" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"Listen we can do it like this. The houston young successful entrepreneur. Musk business all right back to another week of all money. This donnie davis and of course you're beautiful co host use of chowdhry and this week we are joined by rachel reese harris associates. So into your firm. Rachel it is. It's our recent associates are recent associates as anyone ever mistaken you for the pee and buttercup all the time. That's how i actually tell people to spell my name. Reese like candy's okay i like that. That's that's what i would do so solid marketing instead of accusees. You could do better cups. Be just giving. That's a good idea. I would. He can't even random people. I can't all the time from random people. That's literally what i do. Somebody driving by run down. And i'll be like you have any candy in. There was just going to let you do award. It's absolutely not going to wear a rachel. If you haven't lessened the past. Couple of sodas. He's doing this thing where he'll just drop something really stupid in the industry at me as though it's my job to pick up the pieces i wasn't stupid but okay. I was going to wait him out on that. But you're never gonna be. It became very clear that he was committed to the silence. You'd be silent the whole roll. Okay i really thought that quickly i was like. Are we just going to say the rest of the episode. Good okay so before. We dive too deep into into anything. Me and donna are in a bit of a heated battle between you know actual handsome people and or good looking people a handsome and the hillbillies don is is is good looking so actually told her a little bit about this last week but would you please tell us. Who's better looking at a donnie. Oh god i can't make kinds of decisions. You're not going to hurt either of our feelings. Here's the problem on the one hand. We have tall dark and handsome okra on the other hand. Have a very special place in my heart for gingers. Okay he has. I am one. You're not a total ginger. When you die your hair doesn't united so you gave. The most attorney friendly answer was very. I mean just went right down the middle. You gave me my compliment. You gave donnie his compliment. But he's not satisfied. I are you going to answer the question and you can just bleed the festival. You'd like to write What is it that we like to say and depositions. I do not recall. I do not recall. Okay that's fine. That's fine so a first we're going to. We're to default to tall and handsome. I'm going back. i don't mind it. But rachel honestly all jokes aside. You are one of the coolest attorneys that i've dealt with and i'm not saying this to to crap on any other attorney. I just think you're really cool. Because i think you bring a really cool side of law to a space. That isn't necessarily known for cool law right and i don't know if that's even a thing. If is there any cool. I'll there any law that you're just like. Wow that's cool. I mean the lawyers think it's cool but you know normal people on the street they're like. Wow you guys are huge door. that's great. Yeah so all the others that i know because we deal with a lot of lawyers i mean all the wars i know are very Buttoned up berry. You know to the point of hey. A plus b has equal. And you're like hey long does get to see. There's a lot of different routes. Get there. And i really really liked that about you and actually the one way that actually mean you got introduced through previous podcast. Gas was tony schnur and i remember. He talked about you and actually in private as well. He kind of mentioned me to you and he was just like man. Rachel is she might seem like a nice sweet girl but she's a bulldog and she got. She got a lot of shit done for us when he was at his previous company and he was like she was choose one of the best assets that i had and she got it done. He's i gave her. I gave her my budget. I said this is what i want to get done. And she just got it done and that is that's really for me. That's unfamiliar territory with lawyers. Generally because they'll give you a budget and they'll tell you kind of what they think but a lot of times it's not really a accurate and not to Not to knock them as stuff comes up right in case the things can go sideways. Thanksgiving can you might need experts. You might need whatever you know. Have you kind of go. I'm just trying to my muslim showing off right feather in your cap. Yeah we'll thank you. That's a really great compliment Coming from you ain't coming from tony. So yeah i mean what we try to do at. The firm is really mary the in house experience and what you would expect from an in house lawyer with what you expect from outside counsel right thorough tactical everything is very very well done But your in house lawyer you know. Their job is to spot issues. Triage tell you. Hey this case is a dog. you really don't wanna spend any time money on this. Or hey i know this. Is you know the way that it's normally done. But maybe we can skip a few steps and just come to a resolution if we do xyz okay told us to case you've ever worked on how i mean obviously redacted the the the pertinent parties or we're call him out who cares case so i'll tell you some things and obviously i won't talk about who they were but i've had some really interesting interactions with landowners right so Traditionally a lot of work. That i've done has been in south texas especially announces swift energy slower bell resources and now a lot of my clients are out there and use of shaking his head because he does a lot of work in south texas. The landowners out there. I was literally just talking about this. With another person. I think on tuesday and my god the landowners out there are they are. They're heinous. i've dealt with. I've dealt with land owners. I've had a gun pulled on on me in west texas but in south texas. You know you get a gun pulled out on you in west texas to give you a warning if they're pulling a gun on south taxes there usually isn't a too many warning shots. It's just don't let you know that. Hey this is if this is coming out triggers beanpole. Yeah it's it's south taxes the different animal. I don't know what it is with the landowners out there. So i'll be negotiating leases and i'll use the example. Well you know. We're not going to indemnify you if somebody when you're Tenants pulls.
Revision Path
"reese" Discussed on Revision Path
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Revision Path
"reese" Discussed on Revision Path
"You can also write about a project or thought process and things like that you know and i've been fortunate to have a few designers on here who are pretty good writers and i don't know if they would really consider like continually doing the writing but like most recently. I had jeffrey henderson on footwear designer in new york and he owns an agency called them. He's been writing on medium probably for a few years. Now just such great writing. I would read an entire book of jeffrey's riding because it's about projects is about his thought process he weaves his own personal story into it coming from cleveland. And everything like it's so it's just so good and it's not writing that you see from black designers but it is extensively design writing. Yeah i mean that's like that's some important. I think. I mean like i said earlier like so much of great work comes from passion you know and so much of writing becomes better when it's grounded in intentions like those things overlap right. It's like if you have an idea that you just feel so jazzed up about getting that out through writing is what in my opinion like produces better writing so I mean and i mean to your credit with having won that award for me to think about writing as it extends from you know novel or poem to the writing in an ad or an product even think of even podcasting as an auditory verbal expression. Kind of writing too. So i don't think that's too far off as you know maybe a departure from like the people who've won the award previously but it's definitely kind of all connected you know. It's like that that key. In that bob ought to go back to what it's like. These kinds of expression are kind of all intertwined now at the end of the day. Say where do you see yourself in the next five years. Like what are you want your your legacy to be. Oh wow you know. Hopefully i think like to say like doing what i'm doing now but like on a bigger level can tune into work on projects that i'm passionate about. I think one of the things i've been able to do more recently through. Working co actually is begin to work on or work with a number of clients who are in the nonprofit space. We have the work in co fund. Which is this allotment of a million dollars worth of work essentially invested in nonprofits that advance the black community. So it's really the agency like working to sorta leverage this ability that agency has to build and design and develop and ship These digital products to enact positive social change so those are the projects that i've worked on more recently that feel most fulfilling and rewarding to me. Some i'm trying to think more about like how i can do more stuff like that. Not only through working co but you know extracurricular -ly as well so i think in five years. Hopefully i'll have or my day to day time devoted to projects that sort of fall in line with that and just to kind of wrap things up here. Where can our audience find out more about you and about your work on line on lincoln. Just reese fuller. It's reese like the peanut butter filled chocolate cups fuller u. l. e. r. I'm also on instagram. It's just at fuller with an underscore at the end but not really post all that much there be. I try to keep a pretty quaint minimal digital presence but i am very responsive. Say if you should be a message on link. Dan or instagram. I'll definitely hit you back a writer. That's not on twitter. Wow yeah i know we could talk about. I had a twitter back in the day. I still lurk on twitter every so often. Yeah still get my my my laughs and my info but yet just trying to be a little bit more..
Revision Path
"reese" Discussed on Revision Path
"She's kind of took me under her wing. Showed me so much about like product writing in that moment because we're building new sort of micro sites and web activation for the company at the time. But i think really just like taught me not only how to show up as a writer and collaborate with different kinds of designers. Just kind of how to like navigate a company of that size like a professional sort of setting in a way that was on a really authentic Appreciate that and yeah even moving on like throughout my career just like a number of great thoughtful managers and like team leaders. Even that i think overall did a great job of being themselves and away and like having their own creative process and inviting people to like become a part of that and sharing what they knew to work for. Getting work approve door producing good work. Different prompts or like riding techniques sort of generate ideas even and all of those experiences have just been helpful for me in some capacity throughout my career literally literally everybody literally everybody and again. I say blessed and highly favored literally. Everybody i've worked with has helped me in some way so this has been so great to have that experience. Is this where you saw your career going like when you first started out as a writer arrive when you first got into writing like this teacher kind of introduce you to the mechanics of it. Is this kind of where you thought your career would end up not at all you know. I'm a veered off course. I'm somewhere in the middle of the woods and just eaten berries. I guess. I don't know weird weird but no one i. I had that teacher in high school. Who sort of like broke down how to write a essay for me. I was really. I'm gonna go to new york and be a music journalist. You know like. I'm gonna be on the tour bus with drake life backstage riding down like all these on a really hot takes and his experiences into a really interesting story.
Revision Path
"reese" Discussed on Revision Path
"It's like people might say like. Oh i don't have the cultural permission for me. Yeah exactly cut. That has been something. I've felt at moments throughout my career. But i also think to even other more senior black riders or other black professionals even the design industry. I've seen who i think in some instances very clearly have demonstrated a level of performance. And excellence that is like ridiculous. They're so good at what they do. Sort of being passed over for promotions or raises or even more junior people making more money than them. Sometimes i do think that there is like a sort of maybe not an under appreciation of black talent everywhere. But it's definitely an issue that i've felt in also like talk. I think very freely and openly frequently about with some of my friends who also work in the industry but even with that in mind. I think you know especially after last year. It feels almost like a a turning point or like a a reckoning moment. where like the powers that be are at least more aware of if not eager to sort of create a healthier culture lack dynamic for all kinds of black professionals. So that is something. I'm really excited for and glad to be living through anyway. Okay now say you know we've got someone that's listening to this and they wanna follow what you do or they want to become a writer in the design industry now. This might be a a lofty question. But i'm curious. What advice would you tell them like. Are there any sort of particular resources or anything. They should checkouts anything like that. Yeah i mean. I'd say i guess sort of related to some of the points. We chatted about early. Like there's so many different kinds of writing in like ways to be a writer you know in design and technology and make a living. You know it's like no people who just do naming i know people who are really interested in focus on a brand copywriting like they just wanna do voice intoned guidelines or just want to do commercials the or just want to work in product so many ways that writing becomes a part of the creative or design process so i think having as clear vision of what sort of subdivision of writing you're most interested in building a portfolio around that or making connections with people who do that kind of work seeing the kinds of projects that they work on and are excited by so you can just get a better sense of like what we're really jazz you up because i think that's really like the secret sauce is to like as often as possible. Just do the things that get you the most excited even if that changes from like month-to-month quarter quarter like year to year. Just follow is going to be cliche. Follow your passions. But i think that ultimately is what encourages anyone to show up more fully to a professional conversation. Just figuring out what that looks like for you. I think is the the best advice i could give. Yeah so there are some people that he said some people that just do naming and like these are designed writers or there's some people that just do voice and tone work as it relates to like style guides and things like that okay. I'm i'm curious for myself. Wanna know this. Like how do those work. I mean i feel like that's such a specific like almost. Feel like that's hyper specific to be a writer and only be able to focus on those sort of small things like voice in town or naming as opposed to you know like what you would be doing with micro copy and things of that nature. I think when you're like that specialize especially if you're freelancing you can command a little bit more compensation for the value that you would bring..
Revision Path
"reese" Discussed on Revision Path
"From working in these agencies to working in house particularly once you work that we work and i would probably say well i guess working working co is kind of. Do you consider that more agency or more in house. I think i mean we are a product design and development agencies. I think of it as an agency. Although it's very different than at least milder agency experiences happen. Is there a big difference for you. Being a writer in agency environment versus in in house environment from my experience yes. The biggest has been in an agency setting being able men encouraged to touch a much wider variety of types of businesses types of projects. I feel like especially at this in my career. I just want like soak up as much like information and experience as possible. That's why my feel more interested in working at agency right now. But i've worked on projects you know in industries like genomics or healthcare or retail or the nonprofit space. There's just like there's such an array of like exciting opportunities when you're working at an agency versus when your in house. You're really dedicated to that. One brand set of products. That one mission you really like focus in on a very specific way especially as a writer just like very deeply understand. Appreciate the voice tone behind the brand the company that you're working with also mold it and shape in evolve it in a unique way too but i think the the biggest distinction that i've experienced has been choosing between like breath and depth. So yeah in my time at we work got there for like almost two years. Yeah like i mentioned..
Revision Path
"reese" Discussed on Revision Path
"Would you describe this shape as more of a key. Or a bah bah and more often than not people would Named the angular shape a kiki and the rounded shape abbaba Because i think there is some inherent connection between you know processing things visually and processing things verbally that we kinda all just begin to understand an very similar way so i do think to bring it back to your earlier point that they're just two different kinds of expressions two different kinds of design and ended the day. What do you think people misunderstand when it comes to like what you do being a writer in design process. Is there other things that people. Just don't get. I think one of the things that i've kind of had some conversations around in the past just sort of i think like setting people straight feels like a little bit too intensive way to describe it but it is a lot more sometimes can be hopefully than although i did use this raise like making the word sound good. That's part of what we do as writers on design teams but to the spirit of thinking of writing as a kind of design. It really is an a more. Holistic way shaping a project or a piece of design the riding in a way that is bigger than just. Does this like sentence. Fit on a cpa button. Look good does the type laid out on this headline For your welcome email like look like too much copying like i think there's a lot of moments where or i've expires several moments where it's like the design feels like it's already kind of set in place and they just want a writer to come in and like line at it the copy but we can really bring. I think a lot more to a project than that by being brought on at an earlier phase. So yeah i think. That's one of the bigger misconceptions..
Revision Path
"reese" Discussed on Revision Path
"He has like. I said i'm a senior writer at work. In co i think pretty largely that means you x. Writings how i would describe it otherwise but it kind of feels like it. It's more than that. So i'll say organizationally we sit as part of the design team but the role is office super cross functional so i'll work with you know designers strategists or even sometimes the new business team but generally. I just say like wet. My goal is the soup is way to put it that. Like i make the word sound good or as good as they can. So that's an a product for example. It's about making the user experience however we want it to be that could mean maybe it's simpler or more educational or more inspiring or engaging or whatever but ultimately just having sort of goal in mind or vision for how the product feels and sounds and what it's all about and trying to communicate that translate that and expressed that the writing and shaping the design process as a part of that as well. Now anyone that has. I think listen to this show for. I don't know maybe the last two or three years is definitely heard me really sort of beat the drum as it comes to why designers need to write more or they need to start getting into writing and it's interesting because of that end with this being designed podcast. We haven't had any writer's on your the first writer that we've had on the show which congratulations making blanket really truly an honor every day. But like as i've done this show and i've gone to talk with design managers and product managers a bunch of different places. I've seen designed departments. Now start to include writers more as part of their teams like they may call it something different than writer they may call it content designer you x. writer etc but like there including writings one of as part of the team. Can you talk to me about the importance of writing in the design process..
Revision Path
"reese" Discussed on Revision Path
"Let's start the show all right so tell us who you are. And what you do reese fuller. I'm a writer. I think that sort of manifested as being a brand copywriter. In some instances a verbal designer and other instances but right now i'm a senior writer at an agency called working. Go right now. We're in the second half of the year by the time this era's will be in august my goodness house twenty twenty one been for you so far. It's been good..
Dyking Out - a Lesbian and LGBTQ Podcast for Everyone!
"reese" Discussed on Dyking Out - a Lesbian and LGBTQ Podcast for Everyone!
"That's the funny thing to me though is that we're all seeming to be a lot more fluid and a lot more open to this idea of like we're evolving. We're changing whenever. But then we have these hyper specific kind of like fixed labels that mean such a specific thing where and again i think everything is valid. It's whatever works for you. i will support it. I will use the terms. he want. You know everybody has a different human and you need to do what works for you for for me personally. I'd rather have a lesbian label but is more fluid and inclusive in itself that within lesbian. It's more encompassing or within these fewer labels. There's so much more room to move around that you're not constantly having to be like. Oh i thought i was this but now i'm this or the queer umbrella just using the term queer is like a catch on that gives you space to explore more because it is such a journey and people come out and so many different ways at so many different times and it can feel overwhelming to feel like you have to constantly be coming out and updating the world in that way you know right yes yeah i'll i'll take lesbian plus and just kind of go from there. That's that'll be half lesbian. Plus so everything. Yeah by being foss onto it. I want the disney plus flags. Where's that at prize. The big it's all man. Is there a disney gay. Bloat elsa pride flow. There should be no. It's all the villains. Oh yeah yeah it's cruella. Yeah they're all man. What's with kids being like. The effeminate gay is evil between like earth. Him remember him from power of girls. I don't. I never watched that but i mean yeah same same deal. Yeah him is like is literally the devil who is also like okay. A drag queen right. Has this really echoey like elude power. Puff girls like yes an incredible but as like a bad guy right right jellicoe pickles gay. Oh my god so many cartoons truly. Yeah well that's another way that the queer climate is changing is now instead of having to like code all these cartoons now. They're actually coming out as gay. So gross films mom is now gay like hey instead of us being like what what she married to this man. She's obviously we can come out and say it.
Newsradio 700 WLW
"reese" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"I'm Matt Reese breaking now It'll put more money and a lot of people's pockets. Maybe even yours. The House is one step closer to passing another coronavirus relief bill Within two weeks it past a Senate approved budget resolution today, a key step for Congress to approve President Biden's plan without Republican support. President Biden says he'd like unity with Republicans on his American rescue plan is spokesperson Jen Psaki says polls show Americans can't wait. They want these checks to get into communities. They want this funding to go to schools. They want more money for vaccine distribution, the president unwilling to cut money from relief checks, and state and local governments, reeling from their pandemic tax losses. Andy Field, ABC NEWS Washington Checking the roads. Friday afternoon, the latest traffic and weather together from the U. C. Health traffic Center. You see health cardiology provides the region's most advanced heart care program. Visit you see health dot com slash heart for details. Accident has been cleared east to 75 at Montgomery Road traffic much better in that area. There is an accident downtown plum and seventh and the traffic lights around a glen Way and blend more. North 75 slow between the Norwood Lateral and Towne Street South found heavy through Lachlan and between Mitchell and 74. I'm Rob Williams News radio 700 WLW. Now ladies forecast from a train heating and cooling Weather Center on news radio 700 wlw. Snow showers are possible otherwise clouds a lower 21 Tomorrow, a few clouds early than sunshine. A high of 34 at night a chance of snow late and low down to 19. We could see a dusting by Sunday morning. Watch the roads Otherwise partly cloudy in 27. I'm chief meteorologist Steve Raleigh. From your severe weather station news radio 700 wlw Radar's clear A few flurries here and there and 34 degrees is our temperature. The city of Cincinnati routinely shuts down the Western Hills viaduct for maintenance work That's going to happen again Much of the day tomorrow. They will close the bottom deck from 6 A.m. to three PM for inspections and maintenance, like sweeping and cleaning out drains. Ramp from 75 south to the virus also going to be closed as well. A short stretch of Spring Grove Avenue, but the top deck of.
MyTalk 107.1
"reese" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"So you may have seen this on the my talk of Facebook Page. Hannah posted this article. So, Peter is Peter is up up in arms. Over Reese Witherspoon. I believe getting a French bulldog, um, from a friend of hers that is a frenchie breeder or whatever and As you know where the story's going to go. So Pete is only two of them. Yeah, and the one she purchased in November after the death of her other friend, she Pepper. Um, so I think this is the second one. She she has gotten. I think I don't know if it's from the same woman that gave her the puppy back in November. Anyhoo doodly doodly. This brings up a sore topic with me because I, um Alexis knows this dawn. You You weren't here, but I got to tell you and I was actually, um Was actually relieved. You know Hashtag never read the comments. But I was reading the comments on our own my talk post on the story, and I was ready for the outrage. But I was heartened to see more people going. Let Reese do what she wants to do. Here's my deal. I am all for adopting dogs from shelters. I really am. I'm a dog lover. I am an animal lover. Anyone that listens to the show with any frequency will know that not only myself, but all of us Here we are animal lovers. We all have animals of some kind. I grew up around dogs. I know the benefit of shelters. I think the stars that that publicize it. I think they're doing great work. However, my point with being really irritated with this is The people that are criticizing her. You don't know the nuances and you don't know the specifics of her situation. And let me tell you why? Because I got a lot of beef and yeah, this this I'm internalizing this because I really didn't speak out a lot of the time. I was just just called Alexis. The bitch. I just called Alexis Toe. Be rageful about it. I got a lot of damn grief with both Dexter and biggie to the point where I was one of the first times where with these jobs I told Alexis that I'm really gonna pull back and remember Lex, I I really stopped posting about the boys whatsoever. And the reason the reason it irritated me wasn't because It wasn't because of the questioning of why I would not get a shelter dog. It was the assumptions that people knew my exact situation. What I mean by that is people like Oh, you got Dexter. He's a boxer. You got it from a guy and I didn't feel the need to explain it. But I will now just because, as an example of we don't know, Recent full story. Dexter was bred by a guy in Indiana. Um, that Breathe that breeds boxers and is only done at that point and on Lee did it a couple times and then just stopped. It wasn't a business, he just bread. He had two boxers and blah, blah, blah. Dexter went to another home, Um, went to another home. And the kids kind of freaked out with Dex. So Dexter was returned to this gentleman. Lo and behold, one of Colin's colleagues was adopting the other puppy knew this guy from Indiana was a dear friend of theirs and happened to show a picture to Colin was like, Hey, this boxer's homeless. Who was returned, and nobody wants some do you and Jason want him and Lo and behold, we went over there and I fell in love with Dexter immediately. With biggie. Biggie was done by a woman that watches the Jason Show, and I had made one passing comment that if we were to get another dog we were going to get Ah, Frenchy. Well, this woman email the show and she goes. Look, I my friend. She I guess was a little bit of a hooker on got got pregnant and she goes, I I I wanna I I don't I can't keep these puppies. I have puppies. I can't keep them. I'm gonna I'm gonna sell them. On def You want the pick of the litter? You know, you show brings a lot of joy. I'll give you the pickle letter. I said great will come by and see him and that's how I got biggie. My point is being Got immediate grief. But people had no idea they hear breeder or they hear and they make all sorts of assumptions. And it just pisses me off because I think shelters are very important. But again, you don't know you don't know people's full stories and until you do, don't judge This, and now they peed it. Has this truck driving around Nashville, Uh, targeting Reese going? Hi, Reese. Um, hi, Res. You nap? Yeah. They have one of those mobile billboards driving around near her house. With a picture of a shelter dog going. Hi, Reese. Why didn't you dot Me? I'm Bruce, the shelter dog. I'm just like it's a bridge too far for me personally, I don't like that. I don't like because I think it negates your mission because all it does is piss people off like me. Who I'm an animal lover. That's just gone. You know, open to hearing it. Yeah, and there can be all and we people will consider too. There are all types of reasons. That a family that wants a dog may not be able to go to a shelter. You know for a myriad of reasons. For instance, Steve Patterson has a soft coated wheat and terrier because His kids or wife are super allergic to dog hair. They can't And so that is a hypo Allergenic dog. Yes. So there is a great example. Yeah, There's all my big point is just it's before you jump because I'd Lex knows it. I got Oh, my goodness. I got such blowback for that. And then when I read these comments about Reese, not on our page, but when I was reading the story about and then the mobile billboard, I'm just like people, Montu business. You don't know you don't know Reese is full thing. And there. There are plenty of celebrities that promote shelters and I and I, and I love it. I think people win when they can. I think it's great if they make the personal choice, yes. But every family is different and free for people to make a blanket judgment. Just irritates may Um and look, I know I'm going to get blowback on this, but I've I've passed the expiration date of caring I really have just I think that this argument is ridiculous. Do they go outside of the Westminster Dog show and say you guys shouldn't be Parading pure bred dogs in here because then shelter dogs don't get in any attention. Yeah, That's a great point, because you're right. That's a whole big thing. How pure are they and And Plus, there's a big winner this year that whip it. She's gonna have babies mad about that. Plus, there's a big difference between getting your dog from a small breeder and a puppy mill. Like Know where you're getting your dog. Somebody's just like just a person who breeds you know boxers, and they just do like in in a in a good way, and they're informed. No, not just you can tell. You know what I mean? Yes, That's my point. All of these, Steve what You just said the dog show my personal experience with Dexter and big I'm making I'm building the point of you don't know everybody's full circumstances. And until you do don't make a blanket judgment on them on de specially something is personal. And this was my thing with when I told Lex you don't pay my bills. You do not pay my bills. You don't be like that. You don't know me like that, and I don't have kids. This is the closest so it's It's really irritating. Don't you tell me? Don't you tell Colin and I What kind of animal we can get? I didn't like that. That really that really rubbed me the wrong way. So when this when this when this happened, T Reese, I was just you know, because it does. It negates the mission and the I'll say it again The valid mission. I think when you can, absolutely and I look, I've done the walk for animals. I'll put my name on it. I'll put my name on all those causes. But I it's almost is ridiculous is saying like There are a lot of Children that need to be adopted in this world. Don't have your own Children. You know what I mean? I can see that. It's kind of that big of a leap for me. Plus like it's a personal choice. Lexie. Yes, I've adopted many many shelter cats. If I decide in my life that I want to have a little Frenchy, I'm going to get one and that like you don't know my previous experience with how many shelter animals I've adopted or even volunteered for..