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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 09-27-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. So I mean, why disappoint so many school -aged children? Always the best time with Rick Davis and Jeanne Shanzano, even in times like these. Our two of Sound On starts right now. Bloomberg Sound On, politics, policy, and perspective, from DC's top names. Federal spending combined with too -laxed monetary policy has produced this 40 -year hot inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew and Kaylee Lines on Bloomberg Radio. The government shutdown appears unavoidable at this point. So who should we pay? Welcome to our two of Sound On as the Biden administration considers spending options now. In the case of a full shutdown as soon as this weekend, it might be unavoidable. And we'll have the latest on negotiations from Capitol Hill. And we'll discuss the fallout with Michael Linden, former executive director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Biden White House, the man who would have had to make those decisions this weekend. SEC Chair Gary Gensler gets his latest grilling in the House. And a cannabis banking bill.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "rick it" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 09-26-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. As always, thank you. I want to join Rick in the desert here. It's raining in Washington. I'm Joe Matthew in the nation's capital. We'll bring in Kaylee coming up next. Glad you're with us. Hour two of Sound On starts right now. Bloomberg Sound On. Politics, policy, and perspective from D .C.'s top names. Most people, including most Republicans in Congress, understand that we need to get aid to Ukraine. Who's going to take us in a rational way into the future and lead our country? This has really become kind of the new frontier in American politics, is this battle between red states and blue cities. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew and Kaylee Lines on Bloomberg Radio. Joe Biden becomes the first sitting president to visit a picket line. Welcome to hour two of Sound On. As the president elevates the auto strike to new levels a day before Donald Trump does the same with his visit to Detroit, we're joined this hour by Sharon Block, professor of practice, executive director of the Center for Labor and a just economy at Harvard Law, worked on the Biden transition team, and will talk to us about the future workforce that we're getting a peek at in this UAW strike. Later this hour, Wendy Benjaminson, Bloomberg Washington senior editor on the shutdown.
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
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"Men and two women all from texas are in custody jim ryan abc news northwest news time north 214 west news radio is your home for breaking news and traffic and weather every 10 minutes on the forest here's kimmy klein from the high performance homes traffic center in everett we have a new crash on northbound 5 marine near view drive it's partially blocking the right lane just starting to cause some slowdowns around that area for the afternoon and leaving c -tech airport we have a collision eastbound state route 518 just east of highway 99 looks like state patrol able to is clear everyone off to the right shoulder but is still busy leaving the airport heading down that hill towards south center in castle watch for a crash reported on forest drive near highland drive southman 405 remains slow too as you head away from southeast safe the all way up towards sunset in redton even kirkland is starting to crowd on northbound 405 around 85th we're on busy the valley freeway very briefly on south on 167 between allinson road and 24th in sumner and we hope this police investigation in lake city and northeast seattle that's still fully blocking both directions of state route 522 lake city way between 149th and 145th is barricaded off so you can use alternates around there they're forcing off to detours the support is sponsored by beacon plumbing the plumbers are on time and tidy and their work is guaranteed stop freaking call beacon at 1 freakin or go to beacon plumbing dot net your next northwest traffic it's 224 some drizzle has wandered on in again and our forecast sponsored by northwest crawl space services showers overnight lows drop into the upper 40s lingering hours tomorrow near 60 and then we'll have a few morning showers friday but clearing later in with morning fog saturday and sunday 59 with the drizzle in downtown seattle news radio 1000 m 7 97 your information station sponsored by muckle shoot casino i'm rick fan fan size checking headlines now
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 13:00 09-26-2023 13:00
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The Dan Bongino Show
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Evangelism On Fire
A highlight from Sydney Sundance Smith's - God Story
"Welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. My name is Mark Thomas, an ordained pastor, a teacher of the best selling book of all time, your host, and most importantly, your evangelism coach. Every episode, I bring you an inspiring message to help you live the most exciting life God has created you to live by actively sharing your faith in Jesus with others. I believe in the power of the gospel and the potential of all Christians to live out the mission of the great commission. I believe the best way for Christians to grow is to go. It's time for a revolution in every Christian's life around the world so that every person everywhere around the world can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ from a friend or a family member through one -on -one evangelism. I'm so thankful for our time together today. I absolutely love spending time with you, evangelism on fire nation. I believe this podcast will truly inspire you and I believe it will inspire so many people that you know. And if you're inspired and feeling moved to share this, then please message some friends, post this on social media and let people know about this episode so we can get this message out there more. I appreciate you and everyone listening right now. And a quick reminder, I encourage you to subscribe to the podcast, to rate it, to review it, to spread the word on social media and spread the message of evangelism on fire forward. Many people are looking for hope these days, especially young people. They wanna be part of something bigger. And here at evangelism on fire ministry, we have big plans to reach them in 2023. Here's where you will not find hope. You won't find hope in the culture. You won't find hope in technology. You won't find hope even in many ways in politics. Now, all of these things have their place, but true hope can only be found in God. The message that we wanna share is that God wants to give hope to the young generation and all generations, that there is hope for them through a relationship with God, through Jesus Christ. And we wanna offer this hope to as many people as possible in 2023 through our outreach ministries, which of course includes our EOF podcast ministry. I'm asking you to join us at EOF ministry and become a partner. A partner is just a friend that makes a regular commitment to us each and every month. They stand by us. That enables us to respond to the opportunities that are coming our way. In many ways, we live in a hopeless world, but through Christ, we have hope. Life without God is a hopeless end. Life with Him is an endless hope. Join us right now and become a part of our team and let's reach the world with the most important message that exists, the gospel message. Join us for the plans we have for ministry in 2023 by becoming an Evangelism on Fire ministry partner. Are you ready? Well, this is your next step. Go to today's show notes and click on the giving link to become a monthly partner by setting up a monthly donation or go to our website evangelismonfire .com. Click on the donate button to give a monthly reoccurring donation or a one -time gift. Thank you for joining us to give hope to the world. All right, welcome Evangelism on Fire nation to today's podcast episode. Man, I've got a big time treat for you guys today. We have on our podcast episode today, Sydney Sundance Smith. She's 31 years old. And let me tell you what, she's on a mission to be one of the world's top female bare knuckle fighters. And listen, she has her eye on the title. And you know what? Something that I love about Sydney is that she is a true spiritual warrior and she carries her faith and her father's memory with her everywhere she goes and into the ring. Sydney Sundance Smith, welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. How are you doing? I'm blessed and highly favored. Yeah, I'm doing well. I feel really good. You know, I'm in a really good place in my life, so. That's awesome. I'm so happy for you. So you know what? So my audience, Evangelism on Fire Nation, so they know more about you. I gave you a little introduction, but tell us more about who you are. Oh, wow. I feel like that's such a big question, right? Like the, what does Shrek say? Like an ogre, I have like an onion, I have ears. Yeah, I don't know, man. I'm just like a kid from the middle of nowhere. I grew up on a horse farm. All three of us, my brother and my sister and myself, we were all born at home. We were not born in a hospital. Oh, you were born at home? Not a hospital, at home. Oh, wow. And so for my sister's birth, my dad actually had to deliver her because the midwife was somewhere else. And so she didn't get there. Oh, wow. So my dad had to deliver my sister. That is wild. What was going on with the midwife? It starts wild. She was delivering another baby like across the county. Right. Wow, that's such a cool story to start this podcast off. Hey, it's interesting from starting to talking with that. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, I mean, I don't know. I just grew up out like in the middle of nowhere in a place called Middlebrook. Doesn't even have enough people to be considered a town and still considered a village to this day. When I first heard about you, I was when I was training at Mixed Martial Arts Institute here in Richmond, Virginia. And I would hear your name mentioned, you know, in my training sessions. Then I got to be good friends with Gigi, who she owned MMA Institute around the area that she lived. In Charlottesville, yeah. Yeah, for a little bit. And through Rick McCoy and Tyus Thomas and David Gladfelter, I got to know more about you because I would just hear your name around, you know, the Institute. So let's get right into it. How did you come to faith in Jesus Christ? So I actually, I grew up in it. I just kind of always believed he was there, that he was and that his son existed. And I didn't really know too much about the Holy Spirit growing up. That wasn't really something, it's not really something that Presbyterians talk about a lot, you know. And so, yeah, I mean, I had a relationship with him for, you know, most of my life, but it really didn't, it was like, you know, like the shockwave kind of hit more when I was like 16, 17. And I was really starting to go through like some really serious suicide and depression. And I got really, you know, just really into the word. And, you know, my mom bought me a study Bible on Easter, the year I turned 17. And I still have it, I still use it every day. And so that really just kind of, cause I just have this insatiable appetite just like to know things. I don't know why I just do. And so, yeah, so giving me a study Bible was a great way. And I just never looked back, you know. And that's, I mean, I've had my ups and downs, right? You know what I mean? I'm not saying, I've walked a perfect path since I was a teenager that is far from true. But, you know, it doesn't mean that I've ever stopped believing in God or loving God or talking to God. You know, I think that I just kind of have this different understanding of who he is and like what he wants to do. Like he's never gonna give up on you, you know? And I think that's something that's really important and not something that I really want to get out there is that I'm not saying go out there and do all these bad things. We shouldn't sin much so that grace can abound much. But what I'm saying is that like, grace covers a multitude of sins. That's what I'm saying. And there's no shame, no condemnation for those that are made new in Christ. And that's what I'm trying to come and talk about is there's a way, we've kind of gotten to this point as a society where if anybody starts saying like, thus sayeth the Lord, or you quote the word in a way that people know that you're quoting the word to them, they just shut down, right? And so I don't know, I just feel like God has written it on my heart in a way that, you know, I just talk about it. I'm not trying to shove it down your throat. I'm not trying to like preach at you, but I just, I feel like God is so enmeshed in everything and every single moment of every single day that I mean, his word is just one more example of that. And speaking it is very powerful and that's something I learned along the way. And so to speak it, you have to know the word. Say that again, Sydney, maybe that one more time. To speak the word, you have to know the word. So yeah, you know, write it on your heart. Yeah, to speak the word, you have to know the word, you know, and I've read some articles about you that you are in the word daily. Yeah, I love that. I love that. Every day. In my study Bible, Josephus, you know, I've got like the concordance, the Hebrew and the Greeks dictionaries. Like I really do, like, I truly go through it all, all the time. I just love it, you know. I think it's really interesting. And I think that when you study the different translations, not that anyone is better or worse than any of the others, but I think that, you know, they all have something to offer. And, you know, that goes for like the Hebrew and the Greek too, because their vocab, like, I don't know how to explain it, but their vocabulary was richer. It was like more dense than ours is. I feel like the words that they chose to communicate what was going on or how they were feeling or what God was saying were chosen for specific reasons. They did a lot of like play on words with, you know, like was it Adam and I can't remember the other one, like that that's similar to his name, but it's like Adan or whatever, you know. And like, so one means Adam and one means something that's like completely opposite and bad that he did or whatever, you know. Hey, you know what, if someone's listening right now, right, so this is mostly a Christian podcast, but a lot of those listeners out there right now, they're not reading the word daily, say like you are or I am. What encouragement would you give to them to pick up the best -selling book of all time, the Bible, right, and get in the word and, you know, taste that a little bit every day. What would you, what encouragement would you give to them? I mean, what do you have to lose, right? Like there's so many places in the Bible where it talks about how we should meditate on God's word. And that's not just sitting there and being like, oh, you know, I'm thinking about your word. But the Hebrew and the Greek actually means to like speak on the utterance, to talk to yourself about it. And honestly, you know, you shouldn't look at it as a chore. I know for a long time, you know, it's not like I've read my Bible every single day for my entire life, right? Like we all go through stages and phases and seasons, but, you know, habits are what you consistently do. So, you know, it's gonna take time to get to that point where, you know, you make it, it's just part of what you do every day. You have your coffee and you sit down and you spend time with God first thing, you know, that's kind of like what I like to do. Just pick a time that works for you. It doesn't have to be like, oh, I'm spending 45 minutes, you know, just literally anything is better than nothing, right? Like God just wants you to say, hey, you're important to me and I'm taking this time out of my day to just spend this time with you. Set yourself up to like read five verses or read a chapter a day or, you know, start with small bits. But I mean, honestly, try not to look at it as a chore. I mean, you're meeting with the creator of the universe and magnificent things happen. Ah, come on. I mean, you know, Jesus is the word, right? Yeah. So, I mean, if you shun the word, you're kind of like shunning Jesus in a way. And he came to give us life more abundantly. So how can you have abundant life if you kind of like refuse the one who's trying to give it to you? Wow, that is, that's deep. That's profound. That is so good. That's the Holy Spirit now. That's the Holy Spirit. Speaking in and through you. Just do the talking. Cause I ramble. People know that. I'll talk forever, especially when it's about God. So I was like, God, please just let the Holy Spirit. Isn't it cool when the Holy Spirit speaks in you and through you and you hear what you just say and you're like, wow, thank you, Holy Spirit. That was totally you. Yeah, that was not me. You're like, whoa, that was good. Yeah, that was fire. That was fire, straight fire. Yeah, I was praying for like tongues of fire to be dropping on people in Albuquerque and stuff. Like it would be so heavy in the arena. Like I pray for that kind of stuff. Like to me, when I walked into church on Sunday, cause I've been doing like a really in -depth study on Joshua. I actually did a pretty in -depth study on judges. And then I went back and did Joshua cause God was like, go read Joshua. And I was like, all right, cool. So that's what I did. And you know, so I walked into church on Sunday and I just, I felt God say, take your shoes off. This is Holy ground, you know? And that was what I prayed over the ring the last time I fought in May, cause they let you go out and check the ring out. And so like, I prayed in the spirit and, you know, people call that speaking in tongues. To me, I call it praying in the spirit. It's personal between me and God. But you know, and I just remember saying like, this is Holy ground. Do you know what I mean? And I like closed the whole circle of it and like, you know, I just, and I pray about it before I go, pray about like his spirit being there, you know, and the Bible says that, that God himself is enthroned on the praises of Israel. And then people want to ask me, like, why do you walk out to Christian rapper, Christian praise music? And I'm like, why wouldn't I, you know, I'm inviting, I'm inviting God to come in and like come into my situation. You know what I mean? And just, and yeah. So to me, it's, it's a lot different, you know? So much of it is spiritually based for me. I mean, even like the hashtag, watch me rise that I use, right? That actually comes from one of my favorite verses in Judges. And it's because it was a woman judge who spoke at Deborah. And you know, I'm always about like the women warriors, like the outcasts that, you know, in society it's like says to be ladylike and they're like, no, I'm going to go fight with the dudes. Like that's who I've always identified with, you know, like Mulan was my favorite Disney movie. Like, yeah. So yeah, I mean, I don't know. I lost her. So, you know what you, you mentioned a moment ago, August. So you have an upcoming fight Albuquerque, right? Just trying to trace that one back, but yeah. But you also mentioned that how you went into the ring and prayed at your last fight. Now your last fight, you beat your opponent. You landed 98 punches to her 26. And you know what I'm like that. Yeah. And you only suffered a few bruises. Tell us about that fight. You know, there was a lot of craziness going into that fight that, you know, I just kind of briefly spoke on and that's pretty much, you know, most of like that's like the gist of what I'll say about it just to like, you know, maintain a modicum of respectability, but basically my corners last minute abandoned me for no good reason. And like one of them wasted a promotion flight and all this stuff, like it was insane. And I'm like at the airport, you know, trying to figure this stuff out. My friend drove down from South Carolina with her mom and her four year old son and like to corner me. And man, it was just wild. Like so many God moments happened. You know what I mean? It was like for every curse, there are two blessings. Like that was, that came true. You know what I mean? Like that was just so evident. And it wasn't just for me. It was for so many other people around me too. Like my friend who came down, she had been, you know, kind of like, you know, a rough state, a stagnant place in her faith with God. And, you know, I guess was feeling some type of way. And when she saw like everything that had happened and how God just like made everything just boom, boom, boom, boom, she was like, look, I told my whole family, there's no way I'll ever question again, if that is real, you know? So literally it was just nothing but God. I was just having a blast. Like I had to put all that stuff out of my mind. I didn't feel any emotion. Like, you know what I mean? I felt some, but I just prayed for protection and peace and to stay on point for what we came there to do. You know, like I had, like I have people who like, I have prayer warriors who literally like that is what we do is we pray over these events. It's not just we're praying over my fight. We're praying over the event as a whole, you know, we're praying over all of the millions of live viewers, you know, that's what we're doing. And it, I mean, hey, I couldn't have, I mean, it was other than, you know, just wanting to push the pace a little bit more. I feel like, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't a bad start to be KFC, you know what I'm saying? And you know what? BKFC, now, one thing I love about you, okay? You're a different breed, okay? You have martial artists, you have your MMA fighters, but tell my audience, maybe some of them don't, they do not know what BKFC is. You're a whole different beast, okay? All right, you're a whole different human beings. So evangelism on fire nation. If you don't know what BKFC is, listen to this. Tell my audience what type of fighter you are, Sydney Sundance Smith. So I started off in MMA, but I was waiting very patiently for them to open my weight class. And when they did, we fight with no gloves, just a little bit of wrap support around your wrist. And you know, I take down some of that. You're talking bare knuckle. Bare knuckles, yeah. Bare knuckles. 100%. She said 100%. Facts, yes. I'm so like, okay, so they're coming up with this new card. It's one in Thailand. It's like the super fight or whatever. And they're letting them do, it's a special rules, bare knuckle Muay Thai. Ooh. I have been bugging the crap out of them. Like, hey, can we get a bare knuckle Muay Thai? And they're like crickets. And then this happens and I'm like, I see y 'all. I see what's happening. Y 'all keep me in mind at 1 .15, I told them, I told all of them, I've told my manager, I've told Dave Felt, I mean, you know, I've told them all. I said, if you start a bare knuckle Muay Thai, don't even ask me any questions, you just sign me up. Sign you up. Every single time you have a fight for me, don't even ask me, don't ask me no questions, just sign me up. Don't do that until the day I cannot fight for. That appeals to me. So how do you go from MMA to bare knuckle fighting? How does that transition happen? Very carefully, I guess. It's hard not to kick people and knee people. I mean, honestly, I was just waiting for them, like I said, to open my weight class. It's been around for five years now. So you're a straw weight, correct? Yeah, yes. All right. They had 1 .25 for a while and I, you know, I've been offered a couple of different, different promotional bare knuckle, you know, fights at 1 .25. But I just, you know, I had a lot of medical issues and stuff and, you know, even now healthy, I have to, I have to work to be at like 1 .32 walking around, you know, like a healthy 1 .32. So there's no way I could fight at 1 .25. Those girls cut from like an insane amount and yeah, no. I'm good at 1 .15, you know, like I can make the weight. It doesn't bother me. I make 1 .15, like my body just automatically knows like, oh, it's time to cut weight. And it just does it. Like I really, you know, I just have this really good system and as long as I stick to it, then I really don't have any problems. I cut weight and I feel so strong. It's so weird, but it's just, I've gotten it down to that, down to that point, you know. You know, one thing that I've heard about you, tell me if this is true, but I've heard that you're a fighter who likes to get hit. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so like, you know, Donald Cerrone, you know, he kind of like a little bit of a slow starter sometimes. He's got to get hit a few times to like kind of wake him up. And then he's just like, you know, like back in the day, that's, that's kind of like me. You know what I mean? It's like, if you don't, if you're not going to exchange with me, it's kind of hard. Like, yeah, I mean, I still fight you, right? But it's not going to be the same level of fight. You know, if you're, if you want to bang with me, you're going to, like, I know people think like, maybe I'm just, you know, exaggerating or whatever, but like, you're going to get a different, a different side of me. Like you're going to bring out something in me that is like, oh, okay, you think that was hard, like my turn. You know what I mean? Like I get to hit you now, right? So I don't know. I just, I love it. I've always loved it. I fought Chelsea McCoy for my first fight, right? Like Rick McCoy's daughter, first ever MMA fight. She hit me so hard, I fought double. I'm not even kidding, right? I didn't know what to do. I had never, like, I was training out of a basement with some, you know, with a guy who had a few amateur fights under his belt. Like, it wasn't like I was Rick McCoy's daughter trained at the MMA Institute, right? I apparently even knew what the MMA Institute was. And I was just like, yeah, I'll fight her. Everybody was like, you're really going to fight her? And I was like, yeah. And then like, I didn't get knocked out or submitted or anything, right? Like we had a good fight, but yeah, she made me see double and I was just kind of like, you know, it was in that moment where it was, it was kind of like, you're either going to do this and you're going to love it. Like, that's going to, that's going to do it for you. You know what I mean? Yeah. Or you're done. You know what I mean? This is not for you. Yeah. And I was just like, I shook my head and I was like, well, then I was like, just pick one, you know? So it kind of solidified that. And you know, so it's not the last time I've seen double in a fight.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "rick it" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
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Mark Levin
Trump, Others React to National Poll With Trump Leading Biden
"So much rather be in this position of having an incredible record for our president to run on what's his record folks what what I mean what what is the record I want to MSNBC know they came out with their poll and I got it's not that bad actually tied 4646 this other poll is wrong right that's that's what they've said they're now coming out and they are just like this is just flat out wrong ABC News recline he described this new poll number as quote alarming and staggering for the sitting president United States of America listen these numbers paint a bleak picture for presidents Biden's reelection chances Rick yeah and Martha maybe the most startling number in our poll is this the hypothetical matchup a rematch of Donald Trump versus Joe Biden our poll with the Washington Post pegging this at 51 % so for Donald Trump over Joe Biden that is a nine -point edge now that's only points a difference couple of from our last poll in May but it is significantly different than most recent polls it is an outlier compared to other polls we've seen recently our partners at 538 put together an analysis for us they find average an of recent polls having this more of the one or two point range with Joe Biden typically having the edge but whether you believe that or not look there's a good chance that there's people just trying to send a message in the polling right now given the other frustration we've seen we know in this poll there's some some quirk some oddities around the number of black voters and Hispanic voters the younger voters who seem to be supporting Donald Trump and get this because it's pretty hard to believe but we people ask whether Donald Trump should be constitutionally disqualified for running for office and among people who said yes yes one in five about 18 % say they'd vote for Trump anyway so that might just be sending a a message that's more anti -biden than it is pro -Trump but regardless the weaknesses that we are seeing for Joe Biden
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh "Rick It" from The Dan Bongino Show
"Place before a crowd of current and former union members. WLS News time 1204. On the roadways Kennedy inbound O hair to the burn is 42 minutes 27 in from Montrose just 25 back out to the airport from downtown Eden's inbound Lake hook to the junction is 19 minutes your delay free on the outbound side Eisenhower in from Thorndale to the old post office is 31 minutes don't see that listed moving road work into that might be cleared out of the way early outbound Ike is a 25 minute trip Stevenson 26 minutes inbound I 355 to the drive outbound just 23 and the Dan Ryan inbound 95th Street to downtown is 17 minutes outbound you're looking at about 12 next traffic update in 15 minutes get news on the hour to happen when it breaks continuous coverage at WLS AM dot com I'm Rick
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 09-22-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. No facial recognition. I think turn and run is going to be the answer for me. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. Big thanks to Rick Davis and Jeannie Shanzano. Hour two of Sound On starts right now. The auto strikes are getting bigger. Welcome to hour two of Sound On as the United Auto Workers expands strikes against GM and Stellantis, but not Ford. We're going to get the latest from Bloomberg Auto reporter Keith Naughton coming up, and we'll dive into the details of the negotiations and what might come next with Arthur Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is indicted in a federal corruption probe. We're going to look at the case against Senator Bob Menendez with Bloomberg Politics reporter Ryan Teague Beckwith.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/18/23
"Macy's one day sale is going on now with great deals of the day on fall updates like 40 % off outfits for the office that work off the clock too and 40 to 60 % off shoes handbags and accessories to finish your look and get 25 to 40 % off your favorite beauty skincare and fragrances plus get free shipping with any online purchase of $25 or more at Macy's savings off sale and clearance prices exclusions apply before we begin to 1959 the year before Mike Gallagher's birth holy cow it's pre Mike Frankie Avalon and Venus Frankie Avalon Michael I ever dead alive correct 83 today happy birthday Frankie Avalon I leave it to you my friend how was your weekend I know how mine was well I know as you were you were on the middle of it I kept reaching out to you you were so busy you could barely have time for your buddy Mike to give me all the the ins and outs I got to you but I was Rick and I was recovering my wisdom's tooth surgery for every for the dozens of people all over America worried about it it went fine does it a little bit of pain Friday night not a big deal turns out there it's not that it wasn't quite the major surgery I thought it was going to be but my heart hurt in reading your tweet that Donald Trump is not pro -life let's go well let's start there let's start there because I'm going to use the Marc Davis rule about two things being true at the same time first of all this of course stems from his his widely covered interview with Kirsten Welker she's the new host of NBC try I got a I got a very funny text from my phone screener an office manager in Tampa Tracy who said if she's gonna be the host for meet the press I give me the press about six more months I mean I didn't watch the whole thing you know who I did watch a lot though side note and I want to ask you about this have you seen Margaret Brennan is that her name on face the nation on CBS yes hmm oh boy she's bad she's a terrible interviewer I mean I don't mean to I hate to listen she's very prominent and maybe I'm wrong to criticize her but she just seems really stilted and awkward and I just watched for some reason I very rarely watch all of face the nation but I watched almost the whole thing I thought this is not a great talent anyway that's a sidebar so Kristen Welker Welker nails President Trump on the abortion issue and and I see your tweet and I heard your monologue this morning oh Donald Trump is not pro -life as if that virtue signaling is what it was what it sounds like to me is is scoring points with somebody I don't know who you're trying to win over when you say don't over analyze here's because and it gets to the root of the way I believe we all should be and that is not to operate to the fealty of any individual any person it's never about the person it's about the principal there are degrees of pro -choice you can favor partial birth abortion you can favor it at 20 weeks you can favor it at 15 he clearly does said so calling the heartbeat bill the only way to be technically pro -life the wrong way the wrong oh really how life are you if you're okay with with a baby and do you hear yourself do you hear yourself answer the life how life are you how pro -life favor abortion at 14 weeks I think I'm pretty pro -life if I get Roe v.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 116: Part 1: Eric McBride and the December 2015 San Bernardino Terrorist Attack
"Ola, ola, ola, amigos, amigos, players, playerettes, dudettes, everybody in between, welcome back. This is the follow -on episode to last week with Rick Prado on the 22nd anniversary of 9 -11. We had a theme going here, we wanted to follow through on this next theme, and we'll tell you about that here in just a second, but first of all, welcome. As always, I'm here. I'm Morgan. I'm here literally with my partner in crime, and we're going to do what we did last time. I know some of you guys like small town police water, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to do that when we're talking about something as serious as when we talked about 9 -11. And then this month we're talking with Eric McBride. He retired as the chief of police in San Bernardino City. If you guys remember, Alex Collins we had on was a deputy with San Bernardino County. His partner was killed, Jamie McBride. He was wounded by a piece of shit. We don't even want to mention his name. But we're getting into now the December 2015 terrorist attack at the city of San Bernardino. Fourteen people killed, I think twenty -seven wounded, and it just didn't seem right to follow on. You know, we wanted to have a couple serious discussions, so that's kind of what it was. So before we get started though, just a couple quick things. Head on over to Apple, Spotify, hit those five stars. Let us know what you thought of last week's episode. Let us know what you think of this week's episode. And don't worry folks, next week we'll get back into small town police water. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com, our book from our prior guest, Rick Prado. You'll see that up there, Black Ops, The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior. Great reading. You just got to get it. We've got everything you need there. Follow us on social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, at Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram. But follow us on Patreon too, patreon .com slash gameofcrimes. We just recorded some great episodes. You can't make this shit up. We've got 9 -1 -1, Case of the Month. One rule we made is Murph never gets to pick a movie again. He has to submit it for review before we review it. I promise to do better in the future. Well, because you're on the hook for next month. All right. But guys, we have a lot of good stuff over there. Everything about, you know, we get into funny stuff, we get into serious stuff. Our Case of the Month has been recommended by you, the listeners out there. So head on over there, patreon .com slash gameofcrimes. Now this is a show about crime. We normally are fun and jovial because this is a show about crime. We talk about bad people doing bad things and bad people doing bad things to good people. We take the story seriously and that's how we're going to do it. This is not about us having fun and joking at the expense of a serious incident like this. So our next guest, Aaron McBride, like we said, retired as the chief of police, worked his way up from patrol officer, but started off as a Marine, formerly on active duty. He's got some good stories there, but he comes to us through another long list of people, a family of service, the McBrides out in California. He does. You know, our good buddy out in San Diego, Mel Sosa, made an introduction for us, got us to Eric. But the McBride family is well known in the law enforcement circles out there as brother Jamie, his niece Tony, and then Jamie's other daughter are all police officers out there that have experienced violence that, you know what, most cops in the United States don't have to experience. I'm not sure what's going on with the McBride family here, but you know what, they don't shy away from it and they don't run away. They address the issues as they come to them, and they're protecting their communities. Eric here was just the fact that, I mean, he's a trendsetter. You're going to hear him talk about his high school career, getting out of high school early so he could join the Marine Corps early. And his whole life is service to his community and his fellow man. And you know, in my book, there's no greater calling that you're willing to dedicate your life to work for the public. A public servant, I think, is a term of a hero. And that's certainly who we have on here today. And I'll tell you, again, we've got to thank our buddies out there, Southern California Gang Conference, Mel Sosa, all of those people. They're brothers to us. They get us great gifts, great gifts, great guests, which are gifts for things like this. And I'll tell you, you've really got to sit down and listen to this because one of the things that's going to come out of this is stuff that has not really been talked about in the media before, and you'll hear him talk about a call that was received. He's been briefing this to law enforcement. On the day of, he was the, quote, deputy incident commander, but he was the incident commander for all intents and purposes. And so he's not the one at the tip of the spear out there, but this guy has the overview of everything going on. You're going to hear things that went well. You're going to hear about things that didn't go so well. But we will never get to hearing any of this, Murph, unless I ask you, are you ready to play the biggest, baddest? And as we see in this episode, too, the most dangerous game of all, the game of crime. Absolutely. So everybody get in, sit down, shut up, hold on. You're getting ready to hear a story about an incident that I wasn't even aware of, a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. So Eric, tell us what's going on, brother.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 09-15-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. All right, Joe Matthews is going to say goodbye to the panel now. Rick Davis and Jeannie Shanzano, love you guys, happy Friday, thanks for another great week of analysis. You will only hear them here on Bloomberg. Hour two of Sound On starts right now. The auto strike is on. Welcome to hour two of Sound On. As the United Auto Workers walk out on the big three, President Biden dispatches officials to Detroit. And we are joined this hour by Neil Bradley at the U .S. Chamber of Commerce, which is calling out the Biden administration for making this happen. Later countdown to the shutdown, we'll spend some time with Bloomberg politics reporter Mike Doerning, who will help to bring us inside the budget standoff on Capitol Hill. And we'll be joined later on by Bloomberg's David Webber.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from This Asset Is Outpacing Bitcoin As Inflation Hedge!
"And probably flat next time, but it's close to a coin toss. They could raise it in November. CPI is up. Consumer Price Index. What does this mean? It basically means how you feel when you're opening your wallet at the end of the week, and then, you know, the pain that you felt. Well, CPI inflation jumped 3 .7 % in August, more than expected. The main reason, higher oil prices were behind the big rise in headline inflation last month. CPI rose 0 .6 in line with economists' expectations for 0 .6 and up from 0 .2 back in July. In a year -over -year basis, it rose 3 .7 % versus forecast for 3 .6%. So you got to be careful sometimes. You'll see people say, oh, you know, it's only 0 .6, it's only 0 .2, yeah, compared to last month. But when you're looking at a nation's inflation, you don't want it to even go up 0 .5 % month -over -month. You kind of want it to be flat month -over -month because the target is 2 % for the year. You divide that by 12, you're going to have everyone coming in at like, what, 1 .888, I think, like that. So 0 .1, 0 .2, we can handle that. Once you start tripling that, quadrupling that, that's when you're going to start to feel a little bit of pain. The core CPI, which strips out food and energy, rose 0 .3. And on a year -over -year basis, core CPI, which is stripping out the food and energy, rose 4 .7%. So almost a whopping 5 % year -over -year there. Surging oil prices were a major factor in the rise of headline inflation. The Fed, though, will likely take comfort in the continuing decline in the core inflation rate, which fell to its weakest pace since mid -2021. The Fed's September policy meeting takes place next week, and the central bank is widely expected to leave it unchanged. Focus will soon turn to the next meeting at the start of November. Markets are currently pricing in a 40 % chance they will rate height then. So according to the CME FedWatch tool, and the prediction markets have been pretty accurate. So it looks like it's going to be flat next time and probably flat next time, but it's close to a coin toss. They could raise it in November, but we're going to be pretty close to the holidays. I don't know if, you know, it's not popular to do something like that right before everyone has to go Thanksgiving shopping or Christmas shopping. And I'm going to be real interested to see what Black Friday is going to look like this year. Do you guys have any Black Friday predictions? Is it going to be, I mean, we're still shrinking it just because of web activity? I always, you know, I'm probably going to buy a TV. That's my Black Friday prediction. Okay, okay. Drew, you're going to buy any like chicken coop wiring? Oh my God. You know, I've been liking buying chainsaws. So I might go get a chainsaw. Oh, man. Plural. You know, chainsaws. All right, chat. How many chainsaws does one home need, one family need, one man need? You got a chainsaw on a pole that I can stand on a ladder on a ladder and then using the pole with the chainsaw at the end of the pole and really reach new heights. So, you know, there's a chainsaw for everyone. All right, all right. Gas is surging. They're feeling the inflation at the gas tank for sure. Yeah, we've seen gas is moving on up. Some people are saying people's faces will melt because of Avax. Avax Avalanche. Because they're sad they lost so much? Is that why? The tears melted the makeup. Ten chainsaws. Ten chainsaws is the number. Kevin has three. Kevin has three. I got a chainsaw. Piccolo Rick says, Piccolo Rick has three chainsaws. Do you guys like really like Limp Bizkit? Like what's, you know, old Eminem videos? What's going on here? I love that album unironically as a 14 -year -old. What is the CPI? Here we have a little bit of a breakdown of the CPI. CPI is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. They tweak it. They massage it, you know, to kind of make them look a little bit better. Here we have the 12 -month percentage change for the major categories. All items. So we have all items, 3 .7 to the upside. Then food, 4 .3%. Energy, actually down here. And then we have major categories, all items, less food and energy. That's the core, 4 .3%. So this is the year -over -year change. So Brent crude probably down there. Alright, let's see. What else do we have here on the US CPI? We have this US CPI pegged token, and it is outperforming Bitcoin as an inflation hedge. But the important thing is to look at, you know, what is the timeframe that it's outperforming here. In this context, this is created, the token created by Fracks Finance and supposedly pegged to the US CPI seems to be outperforming Bitcoin by close to 40 % since its deployment. But the deployment was from September 22 to press time. So from September of last year. And you can see here that was pretty close to, oh, wait, no, that's the CPI. That is not a Bitcoin. If we go to here, we go to Bitcoin chart, we go to September of last year, go to CoinGecko, go to the top coins, click on the flagship crypto. We can't do one year, but we kind of can. Yeah, Bitcoin is actually up. So outperforming in a major way. So doing a pretty good job there. September, I think we're a little bit high. Yeah, September. So up Bitcoin roughly 25 % and is outperformed it by 40%. So the CPI token, but me, I would stay away from something like that. Like just trading gold on the blockchain. I'd probably rather just buy gold from, you know, a pawn shop or something. I don't know, it depends on the tax. Depends on what kind of tax they're giving you. Someone did their community service in a forest to axes only. Ooh, yeah. Whoa. That's a lot. That's what we're kind of feeling. Mario has three, big one, small one and a long one. They're very practical tools. What do you guys like watching a lot of Dexter or someone? I mean, how much trees are going to cut things down and break things apart? It's chainsaws are amazing. Well, I just hired tree removers because I'm scared of heights and there's just no way my age broken limp wrist, you know, that just seems I would be up there shaking like a Chihuahua dripping pee.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 115: Part 1: Ric Prado Hunts Osama bin Laden and Leads the CIA Response after 9/11
"Ola, ola, ola, amigos, amigos, players, playwrights, dudettes, everybody in between, welcome. This is a special edition of Game of Crimes. We're going to dispense with a couple of things that we normally do, small town police water, things like that, because number one, it's the 22nd anniversary of 9 -11, never forget. And this episode and the following episode that you'll find, too, that we'll be talking about the issues of terrorism. So nothing funny about terrorism, nothing funny about all these people dying. But our next guest, we'll talk about him in a minute, but we just kind of want to set that stage real quickly, though. Thank you guys for joining us. Morgan here, joined by my partner in crime. Hey, it's Murph, everybody. Yeah, hey, guys, head on over to Apple, Spotify, hit those five stars, really means a lot. And after this episode, I think you'll realize why hearing stories like this are so important. So head on over there, head on over to our website, GameOfCrimesPodcast .com. The link to our next guest book, what we'll be talking about, you're going to find that there are all sorts of good stuff there. Follow us on that thing they call social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, at Game of Crimes Podcast on Facebook and the Instagram. But look, join us over on Patreon, Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. We just got through recording. You can't make this shit up. Had some fun there. We did our Q &A, which is one of the funnest things we do. I think it's the most fun we have because it's driven by you, our players, right? It's a blast. It's a blast. And we've got good stuff. We got some good comments on our previous episode, 911, what's your emergency? Which was actually recommended to us by one of our guests out there, Bunny, if she's listening. That was her asking about that. So we did that. So hey, good stuff. But yeah, guys, just head on over to Patreon .com. A lot of good stuff. We've got 911, what's your emergency? We've got our Narcometer review, our monthly Q &A, case of the month, you know, and so we have a lot of fun. So join us there. Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. Now, this is a show about crime. We talk about bad people doing bad things and bad people doing bad things to good people. But in this case, we take the story seriously, you know, we don't take ourselves seriously. Exactly. But in this case, we wanted to just take out some of this because our next guest, Murph came to us by way of a friend of the show again, good friend of the show, Patrick O 'Donnell. Yes, sir. And thank you, Patrick, again, for introducing us to Rick. This guy is a true American patriot and hero. Rick Prado is our guest today, worked as an ops officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. Now, if you've heard me talk in the past, I make jokes about what CIA stands for. But if you've ever seen our presentation, I explained that it's not an indictment of the entire agency. It was one particular person we had problems with while we worked in Colombia. The agency, in my opinion, is one of the best in the world. Everybody dogs them out because they can't publicly defend themselves because everything they do is secret, which goes to protecting our country. So, you know, I know a lot of you probably want to agree to that and you've had bad experiences or you just believe with crap you see on TV or in the movies. But Rick's going to straighten out a lot of that stuff today. You're going to hear stories that you're not going to hear anywhere else. And let me tell you, too, the great thing about Rick is we knew some of the same people and actually one of our guests we had on, Tracy Walder, previously, had just come on the agency at that time. But Rick was in charge of the Counterterrorism Center, CTC, for CIA. When you talk about the tip of the spear, they were the tip of the spear before the tip of the spear got in there, before the Green Berets got in there, before the first military boots were on the ground. It was CIA, their paramilitary officers. Guys, this is a story, you know, and I know people say, we dispel a lot of stuff. But here's the important thing, Rick gets into, we actually have some very candid discussions around 9 -11, the current threat of terrorism, what's going on in the world. We dispel and disabuse people to some of these notions about enhanced interrogation techniques. It's not torture. I know some people disagree with that. It's not torture. Not when we put our folks through the same thing. He'll talk about seer training. But I think the biggest thing that I got out of this, Murph, was just listening. Here's another guy like Jack Garcia, came out of Cuba, fled Castro. These people know what communism looks like. They know how bad this stuff is. And they came to this country. His first firefight was at seven years old. He's going to tell you about that. First time, not that he was actually directly involved, but he was in the middle of a firefight at seven years old with automatic weapons. Again, it's just what an American, you know what the American story is, Murph? Here's somebody who comes to America, loves America, wants to do everything they can to defend and protect America against all enemies and foreign and domestic. And here's another guy that's living proof of the thing you always say, just because we retire doesn't mean our oaths expire. What he's currently doing is great. So hey, look, we're going to, like I said, we're going to dispense with a lot of stuff. We just want to get right into the episode. So before we can talk about this episode, Murph, there is one thing we do have to do. Before we talk about this, I need to ask you, are you ready to play? And you guys will realize this. In honor of 9 -11, the biggest, baddest, most dangerous game of all, the game of crimes. Everybody get in, sit down, shut up and hold on. Bring Rick on a true American patriot. Unbelievable what you're getting ready to hear.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from What is Evangelism?
"For like three years now to try to use some of this more advanced technology to Do sermons and things from so this is the maiden voyage for this Tablet so I have it on paper also in case Technology doesn't work the way it's supposed to Yeah as Pastor John mentioned first let me say thank you Pastor John and Mary and I here and thank you for this opportunity On that back table. There are just a bunch of free books that we bought brought to Bless you guys. There's also tracks back there If you have any questions about any of the books there's books on Probably one of the great little gems back there is called listen up. It's a little booklet on how to listen to sermons Hey John, I didn't see you come in a Lot of great things back there. So please avail yourself of those resources. I'm not taking any of it home And I don't want to those are to bless you guys so The the topic this weekend is We have an evangelism summit. So in this first session I'm gonna be talking about well, what is evangelism and and why do we evangelize? So for some of you guys these this will be you know some basic stuff for you hopefully there'll be something For you to take away that'll be helpful to you in Adam session He'll be talking about how and when we evangelize and then in a final session today. I'll be talking about What about results? trusting God and evangelism, so I'd like to start out if you have your Bibles with you Turn to Romans chapter 1 Romans chapter 1 We're just gonna read verses 16 and 17 and I'll pray again as we get started Romans chapter 1 verses 16 and 17 Paul under the inspiration the Holy Spirit Gives us the Word of God. He says for I am not ashamed of the gospel For it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes To the Jew first and also the Greek for in it. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith as It is written the righteous Shall live by faith Let's pray together Heavenly Father. We do bless your name We thank you Lord God for the gospel the gospel that has redeemed Many of the souls in this room. We pray that the gospel would Be effectual for anyone in this room has not been redeemed yet that they would hear the gospel They would hear about your power to save and that they would have a desire to come to you a desire that only you can Put within them Lord God, but we know that it's Lord I pray for Myself today Lord that I would get out of the way of your word. I pray for my brother Adam Who's such a dear friend to my family that you would help us as we teach from your word? That you would bless these Saints and build them up Equip them Lord for the sharing of the gospel the good news of our Lord Jesus Pray that the things that we would say would be in accordance with your word and anything that We would say that was not would be disregarded please God be our help today in this time in Jesus name. Amen Okay, so so sometimes when you want to define Something or speak on a certain subject. There may be a lot of misconceptions or even false definitions of that subject So therefore, you know when you want to do something like that You have to point out the falsehoods about it and and address The wrong definitions of it. So the first thing we actually talk about today is is what evangelism is not Because there's a lot of things I think out there especially in the evangelical church world That are talked about as if they are evangelism, but they're not actually evangelism. Okay, so inviting people to church That might surprise some someone in here. I don't know I'm not that this is not to say that inviting people to church is a bad thing But for so long in the church world People have this idea that well, we have a pastor and so it's the pastor's job to evangelize. That's another misconception It's every Christians privilege to evangelize But inviting someone to church is not evangelism Although it's a good thing Things like you know, I I did evangelism on a university campus for many years and and still do and so there would be various You know free lemonade stands and free cookie stands and things like that and oftentimes these were Ministries that call themselves Christian ministries that were saying that was their form of evangelism. Just giving away free cookies No talk of Jesus. No literature about Jesus Not giving it away in the name of Jesus while that might be a nice kind, you know Merciful thing to do give someone a cookie. It wouldn't be merciful to give me cookies. I don't need cookies In case anybody, you know had any thoughts about that, but that's a nice thing, but it's not evangelism a really popular Evangelical teacher anybody in here ever heard of Rick Warren Rick Warren, he's got this book in the church. The Lord saved me and we used to call it the Bible light It's called the purpose -driven life Rick Warren got on national television several years ago around this time of year around Easter time and he told people They said if you could give people any message What message would you want the world to hear and he said well, I just tell people to give Jesus a try You know try them out for 40 days And if you don't like what you found then, you know, just throw them back kind of, you know But the Word of God says do not put the Lord to the test Jesus is not someone to be tested. He's someone to be worshipped and adored and followed after Another thing that sometimes gets Confused for evangelism is our personal testimony of our having been saved now Our testimony can be evangelism if it includes the gospel in it but have any of you guys ever heard like one of these testimonies where maybe the Lord saved somebody out of a really rough life and There was way more about sin and the way they were living and everything like that It was hardly really even mention of Jesus or his power or anything like that So if you're going to share your testimony with someone of how God saved you, that's a good thing If you've experienced the power of God for salvation in your life, just make sure that you include the gospel in it Sometimes I've heard testimonies that I wondered if it was actually a Christian testimony Because there was nothing about Jesus in it You know a a or na can turn somebody away from Problems in their life like alcohol and drugs, but it won't necessarily redeem their soul if it's got nothing of Jesus To it the Apostle Paul. I think is a great example. He had several opportunities as he was arrested and imprisoned to Share his testimony of what God did in changing his life In Acts 22 he says I Persecuted the way to death the early Christians were called followers of the way Jesus himself said I am the way the truth in the life Paul continued on he said when when God struck him down on the on the road to Damascus He heard a voice that said I'm Jesus of Nazareth who you are persecuting and then at the end of that Defense that he gives for his ministry. He says the God of our fathers Appointed you to know his will This is what God proclaimed to him to see the righteous one and hear a voice from his mouth for you'll be a witness for Him to every one of what you have seen and heard Okay, so Paul speaks of Jesus in his next defense He says that he speaks of the way again, and he says And it is with respect to this this resurrection of the dead that I'm on trial for you today Well, there weren't people not anybody was just running around claiming to be resurrected from the dead They knew he was speaking of Jesus when he said I'm on trial because I'm out preaching the resurrection from the dead in his third defense before King Agrippa Here's an interesting thing. He says that God made him a messenger to the Gentiles that they should repent and turn to God Performing deeds in keeping with their repentance and the very next verse. This is um 26 acts he says I went and told him to repent and turn to God and and continue repenting and Perform good works and keep her repentance and then he says verse 21 for this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me So he says I told him to repent and they tried to kill me Nowadays, there's a preacher probably a lot of you heard of Steve Lawson Excuse me, he said The problem with preachers today is nobody wants to kill them anymore You know, I mean nowadays if if someone's out preaching usually give a testimony Someone assaulted me or spit on me or maligned me a lot of times people, you know Even within the church will look at you like well, what did you do to bring that on? The Apostle Paul when he first was converted thank you, honey When he first was converted the first place he went and preached in they plotted to kill him and And his friends had to lower him in a basket down the wall a city to get out and escape More things that are not the gospel social work Social justice work or political involvement are not evangelism again. These things may complement evangelism, but they're not evangelism Unless there's the proclamation of the gospel Because evangelism the word comes from the evangel The UN galleon we're going to get to that in a minute even a pop Christian apologetics are not necessarily evangelism if they don't include the gospel anybody ever heard the There's a famous quote from a guy named st. Francis of Assisi. It's a preach the gospel if necessary use words Anybody ever heard that it's pretty famous quote. Well friends brothers sisters You can't preach the gospel without words It's impossible. The gospel is a spoken message about Who Jesus is and what he's done? lastly Another thing that is not evangelism is the results that you see from your evangelistic Efforts are not evangelism themselves one pastor said it this way quote. We don't fail in our evangelism If we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not converted we fail only if we don't faithfully tell the gospel at all Evangelism itself isn't converting people. It's telling them that they need to be converted and How they can be all right, so we spent a little time there on what what evangelism is Not now. Let's get to our subject. What is evangelism? All right Proverbs 11 30 says the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and whoever captures souls is wise So I'm going to give you several Definitions of evangelism the word you are going to lead So is used 52 times in the New Testament and the literal meaning is to bring good news or to announce glad tidings specifically the glad tidings of the coming of the kingdom of God in salvation to be obtained in it through Jesus Christ and the things that relate to this salvation I Wouldn't recommend Google as an information source necessarily, but I decided I would Google Evangelism and I actually like their definition. It is the spreading of the Christian gospel by public preaching or personal witness. I Thought that's pretty good for for Google I wouldn't advocate that like getting much information from them the Baptist faith and message of 2000 I Actually really love their their definition of evangelism. It says this listen as carefully. It's really good It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nation The new birth of a man's spirit by God's Holy Spirit means the birth of love for others We're going to get to that more later Missionary effort on the part of all rests thus upon the spiritual necessity of the Regenerate life and is expressly and repeatedly commanded in the teachings of Jesus The Lord Jesus Christ has commanded the preaching of the gospel to all nations It is the duty of every child of God to seek constantly to win the loss to Christ by verbal witness Undergirded by a Christian lifestyle and by other methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ. What do you guys think? I thought it was pretty good Pretty good. I really liked it Another definition I found is you can tell the gospel to someone by sharing these several simple truths one Let's always remember this the gospel begins with God and so evangelism should begin with God So the first thing we need to tell people is that God is holy. He's the holy creator of all the universe Especially when we're dealing with a culture now Which is a culture of non -offense a culture that's got like a God who's like a genie in the bottle You know, he's just there when I need something or he's there when I got a problem I rub the little genie bottle and Oh God help me now, but that's not who the God of Scripture is. He's a holy God He created all things he created you and me. The next thing we need to tell them is that they're sinners Who deserve God's righteous eternal wrath and there's nothing wrong with saying I was born in the same boat. You were in We were all born the Bible says in Ephesians 2 by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind The next thing we need to tell them is after they've heard that God is holy and we're sinful They need to hear about one who wasn't sinful. It's Jesus who's fully God and fully man He lived a sinless life and he died on the cross to bear God's wrath in place of all who would believe in him and he rose from the grave in order to give his people eternal life and Lastly is that the only way to be saved from? Eternal punishment in hell is to be wrecked and be reconciled to God is to repent of your sin and Trust in the work of Jesus for your salvation So evangelism is just basically telling others this basic message All right, so that's what is evangelism probably sounds pretty simple I mean there's I've literally got probably 20 scripture references here that support the Bible Showing an evangelism as a spoken message that you can't preach the gospel without words So I'll list them off for you. If you're taking notes, you can write them down Romans chapter 10 verses 10 through 17 mark 16 15 Colossians 128 Colossians 4 2 through 4 a whole slew of them from Acts acts 2 14 3 11 through 26 chapter 4 verses 5 through 12 chapter 8 verses 4 through 8 chapter 10 verses 34 through 43 chapter 13 verses 16 through 52 on and on and on Ephesians 6 19 and 20 1st Corinthians 1 17 Ezekiel 3 17 through 20 The gospel is a spoken message therefore to to evangelize we must Open our mouths and speak Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ. And how will they hear without someone preaching to them or Proclaiming to them. All right, so That is what evangelism is and I and I want to say to I'm intending for There to be interaction So if you've got a question comment Anything like that, please don't don't be afraid or shy to raise it now next Why do we evangelize So I'm putting that question out there for y 'all And what and when I teach I'll just say this I tell my Sunday school class All the time when I ask a question and everybody just sits there looking at me. I say I'll wait So, why do we evangelize brethren John, Good so people will be saved Jason says because we're commanded to you. Yeah, there's not only one right answer to this question Thank You Hannah to glorify God Yeah for our sanctification Yeah, good all good answers anyone else have it have something they'd like to share Amen amen Praise the Lord you don't hear that in a lot of churches today be a doer of the word not a hearer only Deceiving James yourselves says right like if you're not a doer you're just to hear you're deceived Yeah, praise the Lord, I think those are all all great answers yeah, I would I would say first and foremost Right first Corinthians 10 31 whether you eat or drink or all that you do do for the glory of God So whether it's evangelism or anything else we do I would say the first and primary goal is to glorify God and we know that God is glorified through the proclamation of his Son Yeah, we're commanded to Amen, I mean we look at you know, Matthew and He says all authority in heaven on earth has been given to me therefore go and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit and A lot of times that gets chopped off there, but he actually says in teaching them to obey All the things I've commanded you right, so It's not just to not just to evangelize and leave them there but to make disciples and teach and train those Disciples in Luke he says it in Luke 24 He says that repentance for the forgiveness of sin shall be proclaimed in my name to all nations Acts chapter 1 verse 8 Jesus before he ascends After his resurrection.
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Monitor Show 14:00 09-07-2023 14:00
"My sense is yes, and something else I see is that I know a lot of people in Gen Z who, if they were asked in a public opinion poll, do you think you approve the job Joe Biden is doing? They would say no from a left perspective, but when it comes to election day, they will go in and they will vote the Democratic Party from top to bottom. All right. Lincoln, great to have you. Don't be a stranger. Lincoln Mitchell, and of course, Bloomberg Politics contributor Rick Davis. And some big thoughts this hour. We've got a long way to go. So hour two of Sound On starts right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Now from our nation's capital, this is Bloomberg Sound On. We're talking about red and blue division within states. How busy is Donald Trump's legal team going to be? Is the economy stupid? Is that actually what will decide this race? Bloomberg Sound On. Politics, policy, and perspective from D .C.'s top names. Federal spending combined with too -lax monetary policy has produced this 40 -year high on inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew and Kaylee Lines on Bloomberg Radio. Coach Tommy Tuberville digs in. Welcome to hour two of Sound On as the senator from Alabama rejects calls to drop his block on Pentagon promotions in protest of the military's abortion policy. We're going to be joined in just a moment by retired Marine Corps General Arnold Pinero who has very strong feelings about this as we bring Kaylee Lines back into the conversation for the first time in a couple of weeks here on the radio and on YouTube. Later on this hour, Mike Doerning, Bloomberg News deputy congressional editor, shut down politics and the future for...
Evangelism on SermonAudio
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"Let me encourage you with a testimony of Rick Phillips. He's a pastor and an author. I've sat under his ministry at a RC Sproul Pastors Conference. Tremendous guy. Here's his testimony. He wrote it in a book he wrote called Jesus the Evangelist. Here are his words and I'll close with this. One person who might think poorly of her witness is a woman whose words were instrumental in my own salvation. I do not know her name and doubt I could recognize her. One day as I moved into an apartment, she was moving out next door. I carried one box of books to her car. After thanking me, she asked whether I was looking for a church to attend. My body language made it clear that I did not appreciate the question. So she quickly stammered, if you are ever looking for a church, I would recommend this particular church a few blocks away. With that, she drove off and I never saw her again. I've often imagined her kicking herself for her weak attempt to witness. But a few months later when the Holy Spirit had prepared a way for the Lord into my heart, I remembered her words. Went to that church and hearing the gospel there, I believed and was saved. Let's pray together. Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the Lord Jesus. We thank you for the ministry of evangelism. Though fear is often and even always with us, motivated by love, let us overcome the ditch of fear. Perfect love casts out fear. May we be used of the Lord to reach others. May we have that mindset, recognizing that when we say anything of the gospel, it's God who opens human hearts. Just as in Acts 16, the Lord opened Lydia's the ability even now on planet earth while we're alive to share your truth either through the words we say or through gospel tracts or through gospel included books, books with the gospel inside, sermons online we can send people to. Lord, we have so many resources, but Lord, use us. Use us. For us as pastors, may we always do the work of an evangelist and may we as Christians, as we go into all the world, preach the gospel. The preaching of the gospel is not living a certain way. That's a result of the gospel. That's the beauty of what the gospel does, but the gospel itself is good news, news that needs to be heard, news that needs to be shared. Lord, we ask these things that you might be glad to be glorified. In Jesus' name, amen.
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Monitor Show 14:00 09-05-2023 14:00
"Rick, Vivek or ten -year -old Grace? You hear the way she asked that question? No, I'm all about Grace, too. I want to make sure she's eyeing office in a higher land. I just can't imagine what her parents must be telling her at dinner. By the way, China's going after Taiwan. Ask Vivek. Rick, Jeannie, thank you so much. Great to have both of you here. Bloomberg Politics contributors are a great panel and our friends on Sound On. You even get to see them this time. Join us on YouTube. I'm Joe Matthew. Hour two of Sound On starts now. Bloomberg Sound On. Politics, policy and perspective from D .C.'s top names. Federal spending combined with too -lax monetary policy has produced this 40 -year high on inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. They're back. Welcome to hour two of Sound On. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. As senators return to the Capitol after the big summer recess, House members return next week. And there is still no agreement on how to fund the government, on how to avoid a shutdown. And we've got some difficult decisions to make here. We're going to compare notes just ahead with Bloomberg Congress reporter Megan Scully. We'll talk about the challenges facing Washington with Congressman Don Beyer. The Democrat from Virginia joins us, serves on the Ways and Means Committee and will be central.
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Monitor Show 05:00 09-03-2023 05:00
"Investment Advisors. Switch to interactive brokers for lowest cost global trading and turnkey custody solutions. No ticket charges and no conflicts of your interests at ibkr .com slash ria. Stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg dot com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. The commander in chief is commenting on a recent racist shooting in Florida. President Biden says terrorists will never prevail in the US following the racist shooting in Jacksonville. Biden was in Florida Saturday to tour the aftermath of Hurricane Adelia and spoke about last weekend's shooting that took the lives of three black people at a Dollar General store. Biden said silence is complicity and he would have much more to say on the topic soon. President Biden says FEMA is doing an incredible job responding to the damage in Florida left by the hurricane. The president spoke at a news conference Saturday in Live Oak, about 60 miles inland from where Adelia made landfall on Wednesday and had praise for the town's chief of police, who said he continued doing his job even after the storm, despite having lost part of his own house. Biden was joined by Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida. A new study says air pollution is the greatest external threat to public health. Stephanie DeLuca has the latest. The annual air quality life index from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago found air pollution to be a bigger threat to a person's health.
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Monitor Show 19:00 09-02-2023 19:00
"Monday I'll get that back. Follow all of the Bloomberg family of podcasts on Twitter at podcast. I would be remiss if I did not thank the crack team that helps with these conversations together each week. Ateeka Valbron is my project manager. Paris Wald is my producer. Justin Milner is my audio engineer. Sean Russo is my head of research. I'm Barry Ritholtz. You've been listening to Masters in Business on Bloomberg Radio. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. President Biden surveyed Hurricane Adelia's damage in Florida with a Republican state leader today, but not the one that most people were expecting. Senator Rick Scott, who is with me today, I want to thank him for his cooperation, his help, and he shares the view I do about FEMA. They're doing an incredible job. The president spoke at a news conference in Live Oak about 60 miles inland from where the storm made landfall on Wednesday. Biden downplayed Governor Ron DeSantis' absence and instead thanked the governor for working with FEMA and helping the president plan today's visit where it would cause the least disruption. A new poll shows former President Trump holds a huge lead over his GOP rivals. Julie Ryan has more. The National Wall Street Journal survey finds 59 % of Republican voters say they would support Trump while Ron DeSantis is way behind with just 14%. Trump dominates the field despite four indictments and skipping the GOP debate. The same poll shows Trump and President Biden tied at 46 % in a head -to -head matchup, excluding other possible candidates. I'm Julie Ryan. Jimmy Buffett fans are mourning the death of the legendary musician, the singer -songwriter best known for his iconic hit, Margaritaville, shared some thoughts on what made his music so special.
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Monitor Show 18:00 09-02-2023 18:00
"Brief and others are looking a lot at what the shape of historical regulations were. It's a critical case. Thanks, Eric. That's Professor Eric Rubin of the SMU Dedman School of Law. Michael Bloomberg, the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg Radio, is a donor to groups that support gun control, including Everytown for Gun Safety. This is Bloomberg Law on Bloomberg Radio. I'm June Grosso. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. President Biden is surveying damage from Hurricane Adalia in Florida with a Republican state leader, but not the one most were expecting. Senator Rick Scott, who's with me today, I want to share is the view I do about FEMA. They're doing an incredible job. The president spoke at a news conference in Live Oak about 60 miles inland from where Adalia made landfall on Wednesday. Biden downplayed Governor Ron DeSantis absence and thanked instead the governor for working with FEMA and helping the president plan today's visit where it would cause the least disruption. North Korea fired more cruise missiles into coastal waters today. The South Korean military reported the latest launches followed renewed threats from Kim Jong Un. The North Korean military launched a pair of ballistic missiles earlier in the week simulating what it called a nuclear attack targeting South Korean command centers. The missile tests come as the U .S. and South Korea wrapped up joint military drills, which the North condemned as reckless and confrontational moves by the U .S. and hostile forces. A member of the far right group, the Proud Boys, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the Capitol riot. Jim Forbes has that story. Ethan Nordin was convicted on charges of seditious conspiracy and several other felonies during Friday night.
Evangelism On Fire
"rick it" Discussed on Evangelism On Fire
"Step up to the next level. You know what? This verse of scripture came to my mind as you were just sharing that, right? Do you have it in your mind to what verse of scripture I'm going to be sharing? Because I always share this verse of scripture with you, but I'm going to, I'm going to break it out. Okay. I'm going to break it out. Cause I was going to, I'm asking you the question, but the truth is I can't wait. I can't wait to share. All right. And whatever you do, do it heartily as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord, you will receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ work as unto the Lord. That's what you're talking about. I just had to break that verse down. That's Colossians 3, 23, 24. Have you ever heard me mention that verse to you weekly weekly? I love what you said, man. If you're cutting grass, whatever it is that you're doing, do it as on to the Lord. Exactly. Yeah. What would you add to that, man? Just take each day as it comes because God always has your back. The Lord will always be there for you. And no matter what you persevere, no matter what you're going through, you persevere through it and you show tenacity and you show the strength that Jesus has for you by doing what you do daily. I just love how you just lay that down. My brother. Well, look, here's that question that I told you a moment ago that we're going to come back to. All right. So this is, man, I can't wait to hear your response to this question. If someone is listening to this podcast right now, all right. Hey, Rick, this is primarily a podcast that Christ followers listen to, right? But I'm always believing that there's one or maybe more, a few, who knows how many, but there's always going to be at least one person out there listening to this podcast who is not a Christ follower, right? They haven't made the decision to follow Jesus yet. So for that person, right, we're speaking and we're directing this question to that person. If someone is listening to this podcast right now and has not committed to following Jesus, what's the number one thing you want to share with them? It's not really a share. It's more of a question. What better time than now? What better place than here? You have heard stories of people that have had faith in Christ and what they've come through and you can sit there and I've had it asked too many times by nonbelievers. What evidence do we have this Christ exists? How can you not look at the grass, look at the sky, look at the trees, the birds, anything on this earth and realize that there is a Christ and a God that loves you because that's the fallback for too many nonbelievers and I've been on the other end of the spectrum as a Satanist. That's too many. That's the fallback for too many of them too is I'm the higher power. No, there is no higher power than Jesus or God because you think you're the higher power. He will show you in due time that you're incorrect in your thinking. But like I said, what better place than now and what better time than here? Man, I give you a boom on that. You know, I love what you're saying is found in scripture. It says now is the time. Today is the day of your salvation for those who are listening right now. You know, you have not received the love of God that God so desperately wants to give to you. You have not accepted the God who created everything that exists into your life and I'm believing Rick is believing that now is your time that today is the day of your salvation. What does that mean that now is the moment that I'm going to share the gospel message with you. All right, this is God's plan of salvation. This is God's good news. This is how you come into a relationship with God. This is how you accept Jesus into your heart and to your life. I'm gonna share the gospel with you. God's word says that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is your Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you'll be saved. What does that mean? If you believe that you're a sinner that you know, you do things wrong that you shouldn't do. And if you believe when you do those things, someone is watching you even when you're alone. Well, that's someone's God. He's watching you and he's calling you to him. He wants you to know that he offers forgiveness. And if you believe in God and then the scripture says that one day we're going to pass from this life and we're made in God's image. We're created to live for an eternity and your eternal destination could either be heaven or hell. God says, I give you a free gift of salvation. That's the gift of eternal life in heaven. And how do you obtain that free gift? Well, do you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins? Do you believe that Jesus died on the cross to demonstrate how much he loves you? He literally died to demonstrate how much he loves you. And if you believe that on the third day, Jesus resurrected from the dead, coming back to life, proving that he is the one and only true living God. If you believe in that, if you have faith in that, that's what you call faith in Christ and Christ alone. If you're listening now and you believe that as Rick just mentioned a moment ago, now is your time. Today is the day of your salvation. Just repeat this prayer after me. I'm going to lead you in this prayer and just repeat after me. Say, Lord Jesus, forgive me of all my sins. Come into my heart and take over my life. I make you my savior, my leader, my rescuer. I receive your free gift of salvation. I believe that you resurrected three days later, coming back to life. And I receive you as my savior. And I thank you, Jesus, for saving my soul. And I want you to continue to pray this prayer with me. Just say, God, you know my life. You created me. Empower me to live the life that you created me to live on planet Earth. Reveal to me how real you are and use me to tell other people about the free gift of salvation that you alone offer. I pray these things in your name, Jesus, and Jesus, I thank you for saving my soul. Amen. And for those of you who just made that decision, you've got a next step. Number one, congratulations. Rick and I, we congratulate you for making the biggest, the best decision of your life. Here's your next step. Go to evangelismonfire.com. That's evangelismonfire.com. Go to the homepage, scroll to the bottom, and in the comment section, this is what Rick and I are going to do for you, okay? Go to the comment section, leave your name, leave your address to your home, and Rick and I are going to send you a free Bible, a free book called Begin. That's a book that's going to explain the first steps of your new journey following Jesus. We're going to send that to your front door, and we want to invest into your relationship with Jesus Christ immediately. And again, congratulations. You have just made the best decision of your life, and your life will truly never be the same. Rick Plunkett, I want to thank you so much for coming on Evangelism on Fire podcast and joining us for our series, God Stories, and sharing your amazing God story. Thank you for having me, Mark. You're welcome, and hey, my brother, I love you, and I appreciate you so much. We love you and appreciate you too, brother. Thanks so much for your time with me today. It's been an amazing time, and thank you so much for listening. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey of sharing your faith in Jesus with others. Make sure to check out the show notes for a description of today's show along with other details, and also make sure to share this with a friend and subscribe over on Apple podcast as well. I really appreciate feedback, Evangelism on Fire nation, so share a review on Apple and let me know what part of this episode resonated with you the most. And if no one has told you lately, God loves you, I love you, you matter, and you have divine purpose. Now it's time to go out there and share the boom, the gospel message with others. Make sure to join me for our next episode.
Evangelism On Fire
"rick it" Discussed on Evangelism On Fire
"So going back to the Holy Spirit, you brought up the Holy Spirit empowers us to help other people, maybe share the gospel with people, whatever the Holy Spirit leads us to do. All right. Now, when you were speaking about that, just a couple of moments ago, this verse of scripture came to my mind is Acts 1.8. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses telling people about me everywhere in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and listen to this Rick, into the ends of the earth. So when you're obedient to the Holy Spirit, leading you to maybe share the gospel, to pray with someone or to give to someone financially, what does that feel like when you're obedient and you actually do that? Explain some of those feelings that you experienced. Oh, it's a feeling of none other. You get joy like none other because you know you've done something to help somebody else out or call it to help other human beings. Now, hey, a couple of minutes ago, Rick, I asked you, what are some of the best times you've ever had in your life? And you shared that with us. Now I'm going to get to our question. It may be difficult for you, but I'm going to ask it, man. I'm going to ask it. What have been some of the worst times in your life? My father's passing back in April and not knowing that he was where he was at in life, but I have a good feeling that he's in heaven. But that was one of my toughest times in life because there was a week or two, we didn't go see him. And I was like, okay, maybe he'll get better. And then I got the phone call the Sunday morning, April 30th, he passed at 1 30 in the morning. And that was one of the toughest times in my life. But I walked through it every day with the strength of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. And I have a cross that was given to me by a family member. It just has his ashes and it just keeps him with me daily. Yeah. Yeah. That's so powerful. I remember, man, when you got that call, was that a Saturday you got that call? It was Sunday morning. It was Sunday morning. It was Sunday morning. And I remember, man, I came in and I entered into the church building, you know, it's Sunday morning. We're getting ready to have worship service that Sunday and evangelism on fire nation. I took one look at Rick and I knew something drastic was wrong. Okay. So that was Sunday morning, not Saturday night. So I asked Rick, I said, man, what's going on, man? Just don't look like your normal self. And then he told me that his father passed. Let me tell you what, what kind of servant's heart this man has. He could have been anywhere but church that Sunday grieving, but he chose to remain at was bringing to our worship service that day. And I'll never forget that, man. I'm always praying, Rick, like for God to increase my faith in him. And that day when you said, I am here to serve Jesus, I'm here to serve the people that he's going to be bringing here today and nothing is going to stop me. You know, that really, that really spoke volumes to me and increased my faith in God. And it really motivated me to, cause I'm never, I'm just going to be honest with you, man. I've experienced a lot of pain. I've experienced a lot of turmoil, a lot of, a lot of tragedy. I have never experienced that. So when I saw that, man, I was like, oh my gosh, you know, I want to be able to be a leader that if that ever happens to me, that I can persevere through that tragedy and still come and remain on the mission of God, man. And so that's, that's one thing I've learned from you, man, is you have perseverance, you have tenacity, and really that exhibits the trust that you had in God and a willingness to continue to serve when you definitely didn't feel like it. Exactly. And that's one thing that I've learned over the years is God's always going to be there no matter what you're going through. Say that one more time. God will always have your back no matter what you're going through. Come on, man. That, look, I know I heard that two times, but that's so good. Say it another time. God will always have your back and be there by your side no matter what you go through in life. Evangelism on Fire Nation, you've heard Rick say that not once, but not even twice, but three times. Someone's listening right now. You're going through a hard time. You don't know how to get through that hard time. Yes, you know, God, Jesus is your savior. Yes, you're born again. Yes, you know, you need to lean on God to help you through this, but Rick, for that person or those people who are feeling like they have no hope, what would you tell them right now? I tell them God has always got your back no matter what you're going through, no matter where you've been, what road you've been down. There's too many people that believe the worldly talk of I'm a drug addict. God is not going to want me. Well, let me tell you, God wants anybody to sort of step foot into the kingdom of heaven and fight the battle for him. For those of you that are listening right now, you feel like there's no hope. You feel like you can't take your next breath. Number one, know this. You are loved. You are valued. Continue to trust God. Continue to not lean on your own strength. Continue to acknowledge God in all of your ways. And listen, this is what Rick's saying. This is what we're saying. This is what we want you to know. God is going to direct every step of your path. He's going to be your strength, okay, in your time of weakness. So press forward, do not give up and remain hopeful and trusting in your savior, Jesus. So Rick, I want to get a little more personal, man. All right, let's go. So you're talking about the death of your father being, of course, some of your worst times that you've ever experienced. Oh yeah. So you're still, I mean, you just lost your father this past April. So how are you still coming along and how are you dependent on Christ as you still are grieving his loss? I mean, because it was just April, this past April. That's easier said than done, but you just go with the flow and you take each day as it comes. God will always have your back. God will always be there. He took his son and slayed him at the cross for us. And Jesus died for our sins. And so does that way, any sin that we commit as human beings going forward is forgiven. Isn't it amazing, Rick, that he died on the cross to forgive us of our sins. He also died on the cross to demonstrate how much he loves us. Oh, that's astonishing if you think about it. So Rick, man, I want to thank you. I know those are some hard questions that I'm asking you and just thank you for opening up your heart and sharing that with us. Okay. So I got a question, man. This one, this question's a little more of a fun question. Okay. You ready? Let's go. All right. Let's go. If someone is listening to this podcast right now and has not committed to following Jesus, what's the number one thing you want to share with them? Okay. Hold that thought. We're going to come back to that in a minute. All right. I just thought I'd ask you that to give a little more time to think about that. But here's the question that I'm going to ask you right now. What brings you the most fulfillment in your life right now? I'm talking about right now. Doing God's work. Even if it's as simple as doing a job with a employer, cutting grass, weed eating, raking, whatever it is, do it to the best of your ability with God in mind. Because as you do stuff at your best with God's best in mind, you step up to the next level.
Evangelism On Fire
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"That's so true. That's so true. In fact, you know what? Now that you're speaking about that, you know, the Rob Church Richmond City Campus is right by, it's in the heart of Richmond on the north side and there's a Greyhound bus station. I don't know. What would you say? Like it's a mile and a half from here? Something like that. Mile and a half, two miles. Me and Mark have been there many a time and witness to people and I've just stood there and prayed while he's witnessed. I've been there with groups of people that we've taken as part of a church outreach. Yeah, absolutely. And you know, one of the coolest things that I've experienced is when someone's stranded at that bus station, like what you were just speaking about, they're just passing through town, right? And they do not have any more money to get a ticket. They're stranded. They can't make their way back home and they find the Rob Church Richmond City Campus number and they call. They ask for help and we've had the opportunity to go out there, buy them a ticket so that they can get home, back to their families, back to their kids, you know, back to their mothers and their fathers. And we have the opportunity to share the boom. What's the boom, Rick? The gas full message, bring them to a relationship with Jesus so they so choose. I mean, there's lots of good people out there that have chosen it, but also Mark will tell you on the other end of the spectrum, there's people that don't want to hear it. You'll run into people that are like, nope, not today. Get out of my face. Absolutely. But you know what? We shake the dust off and we keep on going and we share the gospel message and we're looking for that one. Exactly. God left the 99 to seek the one and we find that one and we try to bring them into a relationship with him. Boom, Rick. That's it. That is the mission of the Great Commission. I love it, man. I love what you're talking about, man. So I'm going to ask you a question right now, but I got a question before I ask you the question. Are you ready for this question? I'm ready. Let's go. He said, let's go. All right. What's one thing about your testimony that you've never shared with anyone? Honestly, there's very few people that I've shared this part with, but Mark and Stephen Walker, shout out to Stephen Walker in North Carolina. Stephen Walker? Know what I'm just about. Even as a child of Christ, you still run into struggles because when me and my girlfriend moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to get away from a bad situation with family, we were children of God, but we still ran into the drug road and Satan was there tempting. And it took us moving back to Virginia to get out of that cross hairs and back up with Mark and Stephen and adamantly share with them what was going on. Yeah. So tell us a little bit more, man, go deeper into when you were facing your addiction with drugs. Tell us a little bit about that period of time in your life. What was that like? It was a chakra because I never thought of myself as someone that would have the tough face drug addiction, but there was a time where it wouldn't even take rent money because we were living in North, well, Nashville, Tennessee. Sorry. Yeah. So you were living in Nashville, Tennessee at that time. Yep. And we got unlucky because I say unlucky these days, but the old me would have called it lucky doing the wrong thing because we had one to slip two floors above us and he was a drug dealer and Vicki happened to bump into him, walking our dog and they got to talk him. And then we got into a relationship with him, which even in the midst of the drug addiction, God was still the president because he wasn't your standard drug dealer. He would ask you, have you paid your rent before you get anything from me? And the devil in us would be like, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I paid my rent. We faced eviction not once, but twice. The first time we pulled ourselves out of it with help from an attorney with the urban housing development. And the second time we just pretty much told us, I saved you once this time, find somebody else, find somebody else to use, to go and to find somewhere to live. And that's how we wound up in Missouri with some friends. Then we stayed there for about a month, moved back to Virginia to take care of my dad's health and even with his past and we're still going good beside God. So even in the midst of your worst time of your life, even in the midst of your drug addiction, you're telling us that God moved in a mighty way. Oh yeah. He's always there to move. You just got to open your eyes and see it. Absolutely, man. Absolutely. That's powerful. That is powerful. Now let me ask you this. Now, you and I, we share that, um, that addiction part of our life. I was once addicted to drugs, nearly died from drugs. I know what God did for me to deliver me out of those drugs. And I know how he has set me free from ever going back to drugs, but how did God help deliver you from your drug addiction? Pretty much it was like I was talking about, my dad texted us, he was like, my health is failing. I need somebody to come take care of me. We wound up with a vehicle from a church member in Nashville, Tennessee. We made it to Missouri. It broke down in Missouri. So we stayed about a month or two with a friend, contacted my father and he literally drove from Richmond, Virginia to Springfield, Missouri to pick us up. We moved in with him. Helped him pay his rent, helped him pay his bills and God's worked in mighty ways because even with helping him, we're still able to help others. That's so good, man. That's powerful, man. And you know, I've had the honor and the privilege to witness that part of your life of when your father was alive, you helping him. And then we're going to get to his passing here in a little bit, but in the midst of your struggles, your trials, all of the valleys that you face, one of the things I love about you, man, is you're constantly giving back to other people. You're constantly allowing God to use you as a vessel for him. You know? So I just really, really see how God works in you and through you. And it's just amazing to see that, man. So I guess what I'm trying to say, man, it's an honor to be not only a brother in Christ. Yeah. We're in the same family, man. We're in the family of God, right? Exactly. But it's an honor to be your friend, man. I just want to acknowledge you for how you allow God to use you and all the different ways he uses you. So thank you for sharing with us about, you know, the one thing and you just said it only two people knew that part about your testimony, myself and Stephen Walker, shout out to Stephen Walker one more time. You better be listening to this because we gave you like two or three shout outs. And if you're not listening, I guess you're missing it. That's on you. But yeah, we're thinking about you obviously in today's interview, man. So God bless you. My brother. Hope you're doing well. Here's another question, man. I can't wait to ask you this question. Are you ready, Rick? Let's go. And the infamous words of Nick Jenkins, Pastor Nick Jenkins. What's up? Give him a shout out. Nick Jenkins. How you doing, my brother? So how would you describe the feeling when you lead someone to Jesus as their savior or when you pray for someone? Or how would you describe the feeling when God is using you to minister to someone on his behalf? It's a feeling like no other. You just let go and you let God take over the moment because sometimes you don't even realize what you're doing. You'll just be there and you'll be somebody will be like, oh, I need some money for food and you'll just randomly pull out a wallet and hand them money. And it's just God takes over those appointments, their divine appointments, because you never know what's going to happen. You just let go and you let the spirit do it. Well, hold on, hold on now. You just said you let go and you let the spirit do it. Break that down a little bit more, Rick. That means the Holy Spirit comes into you and he takes over your body. You're a vessel for him because you can help people in ways unknown to others. You can give them food. You can give them money. And honestly, nowhere in the scripture does it say this. We have to know what they did. What's the money? Because too many people I talk to on the streets when I'm witnessing and talking about money to people will say, oh, I don't do that because I'm afraid they're going to use it on drugs. Because that's not our place to know. That's the Holy Spirit's place to know when he will convict them for what they've done with that money. It's not our place to convict. It's his. Man, that's so good. That's so good. Do you think that sometimes people use that as an excuse not to give to people who are in need? I've seen it too many times. I want to shout out somebody else, Andrew Delgado, as I used to work for. He's the pastor of Revive. We used to have conversations when I was his assistant going places and I'm like, Elsie, somebody stand on the street corner. I'll give them food, but I won't give them money because I don't know what they're going to do with the money. And that goes back to the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit tells you, if I want you to give them money, you're going to give them money. If you don't do what I tell you to do, whatever happens to them could fall on you. And it might not because I've called you to do something and it's your place to either accept the mission or choose to not accept the mission. Yeah. You know what, man? My, my thought, my belief is, is exactly what you're saying. If God, by the power of his spirit, the Holy Spirit puts within that particular believer, Hey, give that person money, right? Our job is to be obedient. We're not responsible for that person for whatever they do. Now we could use wisdom. We could use knowledge. There's sometimes at all, see people, they need money or they're asking for money, right? And I know I get a sense like they're going to go buy some drugs with it, or they're going to buy some alcohol with it. So what I'll do is I'll give to them, but I'll just switch up the way that I want to give to them. I'll say, Hey, you know what? I want to go ahead and buy you lunch. Let's go over here. I'll go ahead and contribute to buy and use some, something to eat, something to drink, something like that. So yeah, you know what, we're to use wisdom and discernment, but here's the thing, man. When the Holy Spirit puts in a child of God's spirit to give to a person who's in need, we cannot use the excuse, well, no, I'm not going to do that because I don't think they're Our job is to be obedient to the Holy Spirit's leading, give to that person and God'll handle the rest.
Evangelism On Fire
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"Welcome evangelism on fire nation to today's special podcast episode. You guys know that we have been in our amazing series called God stories. And today I have a really, really special guest that I can't wait for you to hear his God story. His name is Rick Plunkett and he's here to share his God story with you. Hey Rick, how you doing today? I'm great. How are you doing, Mark? I'm doing awesome. So before we get into your really, really amazing God story, first of all, I think it's really important for evangelism on fire nation to know how you and I first met. Oh yeah, I can give the story. I was working out at American family fitness when it used to be on Virginia center commons mall. Now that's in, that's in Richmond, Virginia, right? It's still there, but the mall was actually gone, but I was working out and Mark walked up to me and my girlfriend, Vicki, and he was like, I have a question for you. And we're like, what's up? And he said, I have a big question for you. So what's the big question. Do you know this Jesus loves you and wants you to be a child of his. So we stopped, we talked, we, he evangelized to us where he came to know Jesus in that very moment. And our lives changed in a big way. Yeah. I'm going to tell you something, Rick. I have evangelized, you know, I have shared the gospel message with many people over the last 20 plus years, but the, the unique thing about you and Vicki out of everyone that I had the opportunity to share the gospel with and had the privilege of leading them to Jesus, you and Vicki are the only people who are a major part of our church here in Richmond, Virginia. Let me give Thrive church a shout out. That's our church here in our hometown RVA and Rick is a great example. And his girlfriend, Vicki are a great example of when I first saw you, man, and I saw Vicki at American family. You know what, man, I have finished my workout, went to the locker room, grabbed my bag. I'm walking out and I see you and Vicki and you know what the Holy spirit put in my heart right then and there to come and meet you and come and share the gospel with you. And, you know, it was just an amazing opportunity to meet you, get to know you, share the gospel with you. And we prayed together. It was just amazing. Oh yeah. It was amazing for us too, because a lot of stuff's changed over the course of time. It doesn't happen in an instance, which is something I want to point out to people that are looking for a relationship with Jesus. It's not going to happen overnight. You're not going to just wake up one morning and be like, Hey, I'm a child of God. Let me go out here and make a million dollars because this is something God's called me to do. That's not how it works. That's good, man. That's good. So evangelism on fire nation. That's how Rick and I originally met. I guess you could call it a, uh, you know, a God divine appointment that he set up. Right. Oh yeah. So that's how we originally met. So evangelism on fire nation. I wanted Rick to come on today's God story series and just really, really tell you more about how his life, his life has changed since we met that day at AmFam. And so I guess, I guess a question I would ask you, man, we'll start out Rick would be in around two minutes or so. Tell us how you came to faith in Jesus Christ. We, we just touched on that briefly, but go ahead and tell us a little bit more about how you came to faith in Jesus Christ. Really just with meeting Mark. But then we also were invited to Thrive Richmond city campus. We came out and when they did the altar call, I was one of the ones that raised my hand and with a relationship with Jesus, things change. It's not overnight really, but it happens in God's time. That's good. That's good. That is so true. Say that one more time for our audience. Maybe they didn't catch that the first time. Things don't happen overnight in a relationship with Jesus. It's done in God's time because you might want something your way, but God has divine appointments where he tells you, you may want this now, but if you hold on and wait, there's going to be bigger things on the other side for you. I'm going to give you an amen, Rick, and I'm going to give you a boom on that one, brother. So tell our audience, man, what was your life like before you made a decision to follow Jesus? Chaotic. One word sentence, chaotic, because you'd wake up, I'd wake up each morning not knowing because I live with my dad and he had failing health, but he also tried to avoid the bill collectors. Like we had a landlord who was a family friend and he'd come knock on the door and my dad would be like, oh, I'm not home. I'm like, okay. So I'd be like, oh, he's not home. But coming to know Jesus just opens up the door for you because you're like, you know, there's stuff that you do in this world as Jesus looks at it and he's like, you can't do that to people because they're his children too. That's so good. So that's one of the ways that Jesus has transformed you. It sounds like since you've given your life to Jesus, you do more of the right things. Oh yeah. According to his word and you love people more with the love of Christ. Exactly. You got to love them with the love of Christ because no matter what you see in the news, the news is always going to be out there trying to down people and talk bad and show you the wrong side of the world. God tries to show you through his word, the right side. He's like, I give you a basis for instructions called the Bible, which is basic instructions before leaving earth, which is an acronym Mark taught me a long time ago. And it is so true because you read it cover to cover and you're like, oh, so this is the way we're supposed to be. But the news wants us to look at stuff less half empty. You're speaking about the Bible. You know what? I also call the Bible something else. I also call the Bible the best selling book of all time. It always has been and it always will be God's word. I tell you what, man, I know I feel like this and I love God's word and I know you do as well. What are some of the best times of your life? Just being a child of God every day is a good day because you wake up and get to see the world and get to try to witness to people and help people in situations. God has divine appointments every day because there might be somebody that needs food. You might give them food. You might give them money. It's not our place to know what to give them. That's God's calling. He'll tell you in his time, hey, you have money in your pocket, give it to this person and you'll get blessed. And that's where we have to step into the mix and actually do what God calls us to do because if we don't do what he calls us to do, we don't know what happens to that person on the other side. You know what? Speaking about that, what are some ways that God has used you to help other people since you became a believer? Financially, I've given to people standing on street corners. I don't like to call them homeless because I've been there. I've done that. I call them the less fortunate in the world because they are less fortunate than most of us. They don't have somewhere to stay. Some cases, they don't have family that's just there for them. They're out there on their own trying to make their own way to family in a different state.
Evangelism On Fire
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"Welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. My name is Mark Thomas, an ordained pastor, a teacher of the best selling book of all time, your host, and most importantly, your evangelism coach. In each week, I bring you an on fire message to empower and coach you to live the most exciting life God has created you to live by actively sharing your faith in Jesus with others. I'm so thankful for our time together today. It's such an honor spending time with you evangelism on fire nation. This podcast will truly inspire you and I believe that it will inspire so many people that you know, and if you're inspired and feeling moved to share this, then please message some friends post this on social media and let people know about this episode so we can get this message out there more. I appreciate you and everyone listening right now in a quick reminder. Please subscribe to our evangelism on fire over on Apple podcast right now and leave us a review at the end of this episode of the part that you were inspired by the most and spread the message of evangelism on fire forward. The youth today represent the future of our country. Many of them are putting their hope in everything other than God. They are being deceived. Grandparents aren't taking their grandkids to church like they did in the past. The church has been dwindling, which means the younger generation is not hearing about God and his word nearly as much as they used to. That's why it is so important for us to get in front of them and make sure that worldly desire is not leading them astray. We want to let them know that there is hope for them through a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. In order to do this and to make an impact, we need your help. We need you to join us on this mission of being an inspiration for the younger generation. To do this, become a partner at evangelism on fire ministry. Being a partner means making a commitment to give whatever you can to help us on our mission. We can't do this without you. We can't do this without the support of God's kingdom. Let's reach the world with the most important message that exists, the gospel message. Join us for the plans we have for ministry in 2023 by becoming an evangelism on fire ministry partner by going to today's show notes and clicking on the giving link to become a monthly partner by setting up a monthly donation or go to our website evangelismonfire.com. Click on the donate button to give a monthly reoccurring donation or a one time gift. Thank you for joining us to give hope to the world.
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
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"And luckily found a way out of that. How would you define your own antenna? I would say I'm an open channel. I don't have any when something interests me. It doesn't matter where it's coming from or why. I notice what's interesting to me, and I don't feel like I have a thing that's mine in terms of the way that I'm engaging as making creative things. Sometimes when I look at many of the things I've made, I can see themes that run through them, but it never happens intentionally that way. I get to realize I like things that have a believability about them. I like it to feel natural and in the moment. And I like things that are surprising. You have a chapter titled self doubt and you state that self doubt lives in all of us and while we may wish it to be gone, it is there to serve us. I was surprised to hear that you have a depressive tendency because so much of your work seems so buoyed by light. How do you manage self doubt? Do you still have self doubt? I mean, I've read, I think I heard actually on 60 minutes that you feel like you're paid for your confidence and decision making. And is there room for self doubt in that? There's definitely room for self doubt. The purpose of it is to know what you're doubting. So when the work is in front of me and I have the reaction that I have, whatever that is, I think it's beautiful. I think it's challenging. I think it's exciting. I think it's not good enough. I trust that a 1 million %. And the reason is, if I feel it, I'm not thinking past that. It's like if I'm shown two pieces of clothing and asked which one I like better. It's usually easy for me to say, I think I like this one better than that one. That's all I'm doing. And I never go past what that means or what are the commercial implications or what the companies are going to think. I never think past just how does it make me feel? Would I wear that piece of clothing? Or do I think it needs to be a better piece of clothing? Do I want a different choice? I'm making things as the audience. I'm always the audience for the things that I'm working on. And I never think past what I like. So the self doubt can come when you get past what you think, and I would say in my work, I've never had self doubt. All it is is a reflection of where I'm at. You know, it's like, this is the best version of this that I can make at this time. I like it. I like it enough for you to hear it. Or I'm collaborating with a person whose name is on the front of the record, and this is how they want it to be, and I support them in their vision. It's theirs. But beyond that, it's out of our control. So self doubt would come in different ways in the book we talk about doubting a work into greatness. And that's the difference between doubting yourself and doubting a work. How do you deal with artists that are concerned or worried or doubting that they're not going to ever be able to make something as good as they already did? I come in with the confidence of saying we're going to make the best thing you've ever made. The reason I'm there is for us to work together to make the best thing you've ever made, whether it's possible or not, we'll see. But that's the intention. We go in with the intention, it's going to be the best it could ever be. I could remember when I said that to Johnny Cash, he looked at me like I was insane. Because he had reached such heights and so long ago that the last 2025 years before us working together, there were no glimpses that he would get to the place where he was before. But I definitely went in with that intention that was my goal. Again, I don't know if it's possible, but that's the intention. And it's a belief that it's possible, because everything's possible. We don't know. We can't know. So I always start with the idea of I know I'm willing to do whatever I can do for it to be as good as it could be. We're going to find out how good that is. Do you believe that something needs to be believed as possible in order to make it possible? I think it helps because sometimes we surprise ourselves into the possibility of something existing that we don't think is possible. We can be working on something and through a mistake discover, wow, that thing I didn't think was possible as possible. I loved your book. The one part that actually made me cry. And I don't cry at a lot of books. You wrote about fear. And I am going to try to read this without actually tearing up. Ultimately, your desire to create. Must be greater
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"rick it" Discussed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"Even though, in my mind, I can make it better, me doing the work to make it better and me putting the time in to make it better and then saying, you know what? I'm going with the original that I thought wasn't good enough. I'm going back to that because it has something that you can't, I can't explain. So knowing that the amount of time or effort we put into a project, there's no connection between the amount of work that goes in and how good it gets. And unless you do the work, you never know if it could be better. So when we're working in the recording studio, often an artist is playing a song and it gets better and it gets better and it gets better. And we keep playing it. And we keep playing it until it gets worse and worse and worse, because it's still might get better. It's still might get better, but once you get on them, once the momentum shifts and it gets worse, a couple of times in a row, the chances in that moment of getting a better one, unlikely. We may come back to it at another time or rethink rethink it at the time, but in the moment when it's happening, there's a momentum that's generated where it's getting better or hanging around the same area. And then there's a time when it gets worse. How do you know when it's getting worse? It's a feeling. It's a feeling and I'll tell you one of the things that's hardest about it is if you're listening to the same thing over and over again, you can definitely lose perspective. So sometimes I'll say 5 hours into playing something. I can't really tell anymore, let's listen to it tomorrow. Or go out for a walk, go for a swim, do something to really, or work on something different to really, if you really engage in a different project and you come back to the project that you had tunnel vision on the tunnel vision is gone. As soon as you really engage in something else I want to talk with you about the artist's antenna. You state that we are all translators for messages, the universe is broadcasting in the best artists tend to be the ones with the most sensitive antenna to draw in the energy resonating at a particular moment. I think connects a bit to the tuning in aspect as well. How do you think that artists are able to pick up what is resonating through this antenna? Do you think it's magic? I think that yeah, I think it starts through the love of the thing that you're making. So when you go into a creative pursuit, chances are you're doing it because you love that form. And I think that devotion plays a role through repeated viewing repeated listening repeat it with the study, the care that goes in as a fan, I think that opens the channel. Now, in terms of sensitivity, the same sensitivity that makes you great artists makes you sensitive person. So there's great beauty in being more sensitive and there's great pain in being more sensitive. So it's not uncommon to see great artists have drug problems or not be able to handle their life in a way that's sustainable. And that can come from that same sensitivity is the thing that makes them a great artist. It makes the world too painful to be in, can make the world it can also make the world an ecstatic place. The highs tend to be higher in the lowest and to be lower, if you're really sensitive, where another person having the same input feels it as a three or a 7 and we might feel it as a zero or 11 based on the same input. You state that many great artists first develop their sensitive antenna not to create art. But to protect themselves. Yes. And they have to protect themselves because everything hurts more. And because they feel everything more deeply. An example of that would be, it's not unusual to hear stories of artists whose parents maybe were alcoholics and when a parent would get home and they wouldn't know which version of the parent it would be. Is this the one that I can talk to or is this the one if I try to talk to I'm going to get hurt or threatened? Even as children to protect themselves, they're learning to study the situation in very advanced ways. Unrealistically advanced ways. I have spoken to psychologists about how that awareness is created to try to stay as safe as possible. And if you can be that attuned to what somebody might do to you, you can try to protect yourself from it. But that's a tough exchange. Absolutely. And the other beautiful part of it is through the self expression we can heal. There's something about being able to say, this is me as I am. This is how I see the world. It's really enlivening and through the creation of art we can heal ourselves and we can heal the audience as well. We heal each other. It's a beautiful form of connection and communication. Especially when, you know, great, great music speaks to the person individually, but universally at the same time. Yes. And when it's speaking to different people, different people can like it for completely different reasons and have a completely different relationship to it. And none of that matters. Once we make a piece of art to our standard and put it out into the world, after that, the audience gets to, it gets to become theirs. And when I say theirs, each person who interacts with it gets to have their own story with it. And based on their life experiences, they'll see it in a different way. Have you been able to work with artists to try to calibrate their antenna to use that sensitivity without being self destructive? Absolutely. Myself. I tend to be depressive and being a Pisces. I'm a person who historically would be would be one who might fall prey to addiction and luckily I've been able to avoid that as it relates to drugs or alcohol. I definitely had a food problem and I was very overweight.
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"rick it" Discussed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"I think the line between those things is very close. The things that Andy Kaufman did, you could say they were stunts and you could also categorize them as performance art. He did the concert at Carnegie Hall and at the end of the concert he had everyone in theater go outside and get on buses and go to a junior high school cafeteria for cookies and milk. Yeah, I know somebody that was there. It was really phenomenal. It was a phenomenal experience for them. Yes. And it's clearly a stunt and it's clearly performance art. Without a doubt without a doubt. You found it your next punk band hose in 1981. And I understand that at the time, the band flipper was a big influence. I have been a huge flipper fan for as long as I can remember. I think they have one of the greatest logos, rock and roll logos of all time. In what way would they an influence to you? Up until that point, I understood punk rock to be fast music. Flipper was the first punk band that played slow music. Almost like sludgy music. And it was very innovative to me and it inspired me to start a slow punk band, so I would say that that was probably as close as it got to flip her, but it's pretty close because it was they were the only ones doing that. So it was definitely derivative of flipper. I don't think so many bands came in their wake doing what they did, but then Kurt Cobain says flipper was his biggest influence as well. So tentacles of a band because it's funny. Everyone I knew, all the punk rockers I knew had the flipper album. I knew the guys in the band and I met the people at the record company and everyone I knew had this album and it sold 10,000 copies, which, you know, other albums sell 500,000 copies or a million copies at that time, yet here's one that sold this many and I know everyone I know has it. So I started having more of a sense. Well, it messed up my sense of thinking I know what popular is because I didn't. And the idea of how much love and energy can be created with a small group of people in a neat with a niche audience. Because for a period of time, flipper was my very favorite band, whereas maybe three years earlier, four years or 5 years earlier, maybe it would have been AC/DC who sold millions and millions of albums. So for me they were in a sense the same, like their impact on me was the same, but their impact on the world was not. Which I find really kind of upsetting. I think that 7 minute song brainwash from the compilation sex bomb baby is one of the best pop punk rock songs ever written. It's so cool. What I love canal so cool, the wheel, it was something called the wheel that's an incredible your first 12 inch EP was titled hose and according to the liner notes, it was recorded on one Sunday in April 1982 between the hours of 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. and I believe you designed the cover, which was an homage to composition to made by Mondrian. Yes. And the host album was the first time the Def Jam logo was placed on a cover. I believe. And Def Jam was a company, the record company started in your dorm room at NYU. And your dorm room dorm room was literally the company's headquarters and the NYU mailroom became def jams as well. And your dorm room would dress was on the album sleeves. How did you first come up with the name Def Jam? It was street slang for great great music. Great record. It was something you might hear somebody say who spoke the lingo of the street. And you've said that the large D and J letter forms were as much for the role of the DJ in Def Jam as for the words themselves. Absolutely. Why so? One of the reasons I started recording rap music at all was the people who were making it were experienced music makers who had made music before. And hip hop was a really revolutionary new genre. And the people who made music in other ways from before hip hop didn't really understand what it was. They made it more like the things that had come before. So it was not unusual to hear on the earliest of rap records before the Def Jam records, the musical track might sound the same as an R&B track that you might hear someone singing on if you went to a nightclub. The perception of the more experienced people at that time was, okay, would make this R&B song and instead of having someone sing the melody, we'll get a rapper to rap on it. And that's an aspect that's one aspect of hip hop, but it's not the whole picture of hip hop. And I would go to hip hop clubs and what was exciting about it was the DJ, the DJ really was the star of the show. And it was all about Montage. It was about taking old things and finding a way to reinterpret them. It's so interesting because it wasn't copying something. It was taking a tiny aspect and turning this tiny aspect into something new, and it was very exciting, and it was done through human DJing. It was done through dexterity. It wasn't done through machines. So there was a performance aspect, even in replaying someone else's music. And that's what hip hop really was. So I would have these experiences of going to these clubs with this incredible music, beside the rapping, incredible music. And I wanted it basically just document that because as a fan, if someone had already done it, I probably wouldn't have done it. The only reason I did it was as a fan wanting to be serviced as a fan and I wasn't being serviced. So I made it because I wanted it to exist. You said that when you would first involved in hip hop, the idea that it would become what it became was not a possibility. And you stated that nobody who was making hip hop music thought, this is going to be the biggest thing in the world. Most people didn't even think it was music. It was that outside everything else that was going on.
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"rick it" Discussed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"Rick, you were born on Long Island in the 1960s. Your dad was issue salesman and your mother a stay at home mom and I understand your aunt Carol was like a third parent to you. In what ways did she influence you as you were growing up? Both of my parents were the youngest in big families and were always the youngest and always childlike. And my Carol was my mom's oldest sister and she functioned as my second mom and my aunt Carol worked at Estee Lauder in Manhattan. She ran the creative services department at a time when many women didn't have jobs like that. Yeah. And I would spend time with her both in her office at Estee Lauder and she would take me to the theater and she would take me to a museums and to movies and she had a very different cosmopolitan life than my parents who had more we lived at the beach. She was more of a beach life. So I got to experience two very different upbringings because of my aunt Carol and my parents would drop me off with my Carol on Friday night and I would be with her until Monday morning and then she would take the train back to Manhattan and go to work. So my parents got the weekend off, I got to have the benefit of a third parent. It was a really good deal all the way around. I believe you first fell in love with magic when you were 9 years old. Why magic? Something sparked in me when the mystery of this something happening that didn't seem possible. The impractical happening. Excited me. And when your kid, the difference between doing a card trick and speaking to dead relative, let's say, they're closer when you're 9 years old, it's all the same, the things that you can explain, some of them are done through learning a technique, and some of them we just can never figure out. I was interested in all of those in all of the things that couldn't be explained, or the things that were baffling, and I spent a lot of time trying to figure everything out. Shortly thereafter, I understand that you began to have recurring problems with your neck. I believe you were around 14. And your doctor diagnosed this as stress related and recommended that you undertake different types of meditation to help manage the stresses in your life and this must have been in the 70s. It sounds pretty progressive for a doctor to recommend that at that time. What kinds of meditation were you doing back then? I learned TM at that time transcendental meditation. Yeah. And I loved it. And it's been a big part of my life ever since. Now, I've learned many forms of meditation since and sometimes I use other forms for a particular purpose. But I tend to keep coming back to TM and I don't know if that's because it works the best for me or if it's because of when I learned it and how many years that was because it was my first practice maybe that's the reason that I stick with it. I also quite like guided meditations and yoga nidra where I'll lay down and be guided through a process instead of having to keep the attention myself to check out and listen to instructions is very relaxing as well. I think another influence at that time was to teach you had at Long Beach high school, mister Freeman. I believe it was he who first taught you how to play guitar? Yes. He ran the audiovisual department at school and any possibility to not go to class and hang out in the AV department and play guitar and watch videos and just hang out with artistic, it was an artistic bunch of people who were into both artistic stuff but also the technology of the arts because we all could run the projectors and we could all deal with all the machinery of it. At that point in your life, what did you think you wanted to do professionally? I didn't have any ideas on my own. I imagine maybe when I was 14, I was probably still interested in magic. And my parents had in mind for me to be on a professional track. And their first choice would have been a doctor and I needle phobic and pass out at sight of blood so they would settle for me being a lawyer. In their mind, that was the track I was on. And I guess in my mind, I was a kid I didn't, I didn't know anything. So there were things that I loved. That wasn't one of them, but I assumed that would be the path I would go on. While in high school, you started a punk band, you named the pricks. Can you talk to us or tell us about the brawl that ensued at your debut gig at CBGBs? Yeah, it was a planned event. It wasn't a real brawl. I also like pro wrestling quite a bit. So it was a theatrical event and my father played a policeman in the story. And it was like a performance art piece, it's funny that you ask about it, that it has taken on some sort of mythology enough for you to ask about it when in reality there were probably 12 people in the room was not a and even as a performance art piece. It was not particularly successful. Was it performance art? Or was it more of a stunt? I don't know where the line is.
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"rick it" Discussed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"Ted audio collective. We can be guided in the same way that a hummingbird is guided. To build a nest. The same way we can get back to our true connection if we get out of our own way. From the Ted audio collective, this is design matters with Debbie millman. For 18 years, Debbie millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do, how they got to be who they are and what they're thinking about and working on. On this episode, record producer Rick Rubin talks about his book on creativity. It's the first time my name has been on the front of something. My name's always on the back. When the celebrated record producer Rick Rubin decided to write about making great art. He created a book about how to be in the world. This is because he believes, as I do, that life itself is a creative act. Rick Rubin has won 9 Grammy Awards and over the years he has produced a who's who of musical artists from the Dell to the Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, and Jay-Z. His range is vast and his talents are many. They also include prose, this man can really write. Rick's latest creation is a rich meditation and love letter of sorts to creativity, and it just debuted at the very top of The New York Times Best Seller list. Its titled the creative act, a way of being, and we're going to talk all about it and more in our conversation today. Rick Rubin, welcome to design matters. Hello, pleasure meeting you.
Scoops with Danny Mac
"rick it" Discussed on Scoops with Danny Mac
"Kinda back where it was. I started out as a backup baseball right by a lot of games. You still enjoy going to the park. Still the manager. Scrums although at zoom it's been different. Now we're getting back a little bit of normal but you still enjoy the interaction and being at the park. Yes and no Dissolves are good for what they they do on a short term basis. But i'd hate to spend the rest of my career doing that You miss the walking through the clubhouse and just seeing a guy and talking to him just talking to them maybe not even interviewing them this. He had something you wanted to say to. You may have some more you wanted to say to you or you might see a guy. That's by himself. And you thought well this is a good time to ask him about such and such as nobody else's around i can maybe have the store for myself and you don't get those opportunities anymore. You have to do it on the field before the game and nets. That's just recent that's doable. It's better than you know. Turn it in which was done before the game on interaction before the player so maybe next year. It'll be kind of like it was. I don't know if we'll be in the clubhouse again though and that's you have to live without. I guess i don't see you as controversial or a screaming match with player. But was there ever time you walked into the clubhouse pre-game you're just hanging out and somebody said all were you at or did you really write this even larussa who i know. You're friends with me of time or to pick something apart. Were there any occasions where he walked in and a player was really steamed. Yes but if he saw you there. Let's say you'd written something the previous day for the same morning and talk the previous day and he's ready to unload on you but then you can see the wheels spinning you start walking over to him and you think well okay. He's here. I'm gonna i'm not gonna explode. We're going to talk about this. But i'm not going to be ready to them or whatever and ambient generally it ends up like that one time walking into hardest was after a game. I'd written a long story about him for the sunday paper early. August of nineteen eighty five. I think he was already at nineteen months. He was on his way to you. Know twenty five. Twenty eight wins. The forgot their twenty one. I think was is high. And he's pitching sunday game against montreal. Bec- pizza in the sunday paper and way down in it. I pointed out that walking occasionally had some trouble with the boys and blue and on this particular day he walks maybe three or four or five loses a game six two four and after the game he blames me for the empires messing with them and not giving them the calls that he should have had more walks into usually. Had you know not giving montreal credit for having a good game plan or whatever t reels on and on about article i at least i appreciate the fact that either he or somebody read that far into it. Look at it. And this was on for about seven or eight minutes. I'll like expletives and everything just a loading on the not from me but from him all right yeah and the players. Are you know right there that they could all hear it now. They're getting tired of you. Know walking and repeat himself and and and finally jack cart walk schober. tournaments is joaquin. Why don't you just shut the blank up. And and joaquin was kind of afraid of jack clark for was a big man and he shut the blank up right away and that was the end of that and walking the next day they were houston apologize for his behavior. But but that's the only time that i had a real session with them. I had one session with with whitey in a hotel room. One time way way back when when the topic of your temple and came about that was a hot button issue. Of course in the while he was on the team know he'd he'd been traded to san diego needs said something at temple. That's something afterward and why you was all upset. He thought i should've pointed out the fact that he you know he was Why he was in the rehab center. You know that drug related. Or whatever. But i said i can't say that you guys can say i can't say that and the next day forgot about. It was all right. This is one one night. Did whitey sit around. Like after games with the writers would you literally beers and just sit in the office and bs or with am i imagining when spring training especially like that After the game once in a while he off your beer afterward but didn't have much time then during night games especially but he would answer all your questions and if he had more he would answer them again the next afternoon while he was doing his charts he was getting kind of. You'd like somebody to talk to while he was doing his he. He was his own lyrics. Seeped kept colored puck at colored pencils for each different pitcher and worried. Pitch was hit. You know and what the result was out or hit And you can get even better information then weren't many. What was the only one newspaper for the most part. It was quite a pleasant time and He he didn't take note of the fact that the a lot of the scribes. The missouri grow with me during the their stand. Saint louis he says. I you know first night. S a bunch of questions. Growl hamworthy grill. Second night not asking too. Many questions is not before third night. Golf i'm again and come in any questions. I'm asking all the questions you guys do anyway. Meaning were wrong over. The missouri grill was legendary right. That was not just sports like post. Hang right it was For a while it was actually the globe democrat hang out when the global existed and we had a little place called the press box right across the south in the newspaper on the talker. They're actors even call twelfth street then have done and then the globe folded so we ended up taking over. The grill are spot. That was number our spot until the early eighties And you'd have umpires broadcasters and writers and especially the umpires writers kind of formed a fraternity. Because they're all on the all opponent team for the players you know that they didn't hate you but they'd have to like you either you know and you're all sort of on the enemy side. You mentioned the templeton and rehab when hernandez deal went down. I've always been curious about this. How much did everybody know on the outside. It was a terrible trade. Made no sense and whitey for years didn't say anything and then it came out there were drug issues and hernandez talked about. How well was it known even in the media world and was there any temptation. I gotta right why. They made this move. You didn't know a lot of information at that point. When the trade was made you didn't know I guess there was some suspicion and Then as we went along you know hernandez got caught up in the pittsburgh drug dry where it was it was out there who was one of the seven guys. He in parker of dale berra and a few other. Tim raines i think a couple of other guys. I was in that smith at three cardinals center and But you didn't know and and it look like at. I was hoping to trade him for ray knight which would have been a better deal but houston didn't wanna do it. I think he was with houston. Then so it came down to. Neil alan.
Scoops with Danny Mac
"rick it" Discussed on Scoops with Danny Mac
"Post. Starting to get into the baseball coverage in the late seventies coming from zoo. Bob brig the legendary. Bob brag and over the years the commission so many different stories. So we thought we'd sit him down. Run through all of it. Memories of jack buck Mike shannon who's working with right now. Currently working on a book with mike shannon. Also tony larussa whitey herzog stories. Throughout the years and that one time he was covering leon spinks he got kicked out of the press conference. By mr t. All part of the fifty years in the business for the one and only commissioner coma really is a gentleman always pleasant and for years. When tony larussa would conduct his interviews he would sorta quiet everybody down and look at rick just kind of nod and that meant that the commission would go first rick hummel so he is subject of the latest kilcoyne conversation. It's presented by b and g. Tuck point the best in the brick. 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I feel like i have a lot of rick. Hummel knowledge but it's all loosely correct and two when people talk about the commission. I always say that's not because he's a baseball aficionado. And he could have been the commissioner. It's about an office pool or am i. Am i in the ballpark here. Well yes Office pools reports part of it. But the the main reason why i guess was. We had this football dice. Football league apa football very complicated. Big boards at player cards referencing. How guys did during the previous season you know. I played it as a kid baseball. And you'd roll an eleven especially. Yeah home runs in baseball much easier. Football very complicated and we hit about anywhere from nine to sixteen players depending on what your it was and only a couple of us knew how to read the boards. Mostly me and and so. I ended up going to all the games whether my team was playing or not fishy. Did you know otherwise would have taken five or six hours. Took three as it was so went back to. Ap that was a great man. The baseball cards. And willie start. I feel like he hit eighty homers from one summer league is it always the role of the day when he's not you feel better about know. Roll a good number right now. Does anybody call you. Rick like just your wife say commission to your kids say commission. No no nobody else. Well i mean My wife very occasionally but most often just ricker ricky and the kids. You know dad but at the ballpark. It's all come in a lot of it is and and i think it was. Maybe like shooter. When he was here in the early eighties it gets passed down from one generation of players to the next on the new players. Commend you know and and and they'll call you record whatever and then somebody will them. We actually call them commissioned and so so the day that somebody calls you commission never called you that before you the day holiday. Call me commissioner wheeled around. I what you're talking to make. I mean obviously. Somebody told holiday. Yeah hey that's the commission. Yeah okay When you started did you think. Hey i'm gonna. I'm gonna do this for a long time. When you're seventy five years old. I still see the ballpark. The players still call you commission. Did you think you'd still be doing it at this point. No when i started in newspaper didn't have any great desire to be covering any particular sport. I just wanted to be a sports writer and i didn't baseball seemed to be far far away. Because that's the one i followed the most as a kid and they seem bigger than life players. You know they were like gods and you you were in there on their by their presence in your mind anyway So i didn't have a chance to do that for the first couple of years. I was there. I did high school stuff. And that was fine and some college stuff M and amateur boxing and little hockey and Readily some baseball and seventy three. I started doing some baseball and became like a number three guy than a number two guys couple years later i'd be doing for thirty four games a year. Nineteen seventy eight. Keiko was our baseball writer. And he got promoted in the office two executive position and he said he once you do this. Baseball was like may of seventy you. This baseball the rest of the season. And i said all right and said Let me know if you like it or not. If he likes matures. And so i said i will i. I'll tell you and i liked it. And from then on from they may have seventy eight. Cover the team for until twenty two thousand one. Full time you know. It became kind of a hybrid rider. After that. i'm.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"rick it" Discussed on Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"Break comes.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"rick it" Discussed on Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"Willing as you mentioned. You've been a body in motion for a really long time. Did it take you some time to throttle back to realize that there was going to be another wave that the road predictions of in twenty twenty weren't coming true that in fact it was gonna be a while before you went anywhere where they're sort of almost shades of steps of Of the grieving process where you finally had to come to terms with the fact. I'm not going anywhere else. Well there's my woes. I'm not making any money. And i can't do my research and make my tv show. We shows all figured out for poland and iceland. We had the flights booked we had the permissions with scripts with crew lined up. I was excited about it. But i got over that in a hurry. You know this is much more important than than a privileged my ambitions as a businessman or by travel dreams. I employ one hundred people That's beautiful responsibility. That i take seriously and we have a lot of people that looked us for you. Know how to put their travel to europe together and then we have all these people that work with us indirectly in europe. And i remember ray Again we were. Euphoric were gearing up for the biggest year ever. I mean it was just a gang of travel nuts and suddenly we couldn't have our staff meeting inside and we met you know behind the extra house that we had across the street in the backyard syndrome by a white picket fence. One hundred of us. And i was standing there at saying. We don't know what's going to happen but we are not going to after today. That's our last in the office. I was not a fan of remote work. I want people there because we have the core and really loved being right there but our staff knew what was coming our way and we had scrambled people in the last or two to get us capable at home and we said goodbye and then it was that emotional day. I still remember it. Vividly and You know our our inner circle. That did the tourists we said. Well we'll have to see. We had the tours full. You know twenty five people on a on a bus. One hundred tours. That's a lot of people. Twenty five hundred people whose travel dreams. I mean i got over the lost income. It's their travel dreams. They saved they planned. They dreamed they got their friends together. And we had. Oh we have to cancel through april. We have to cancel through. May we have to cancel. Not through june through the summer we have to cancel till the end of the year. You know it just was worse and worse and worse and then i just realized we gotta hunker down. We got trim the sails and we just have to survive this thing. So it's been a year and a half with with no revenue in one hundred people on the payroll and I just met with my staff this morning and You know it's it's it's discouraging because we want to do our work and and we can't in there. I'm committed to keeping people on the payroll i've even. Yeah but my focus has been as more on our community and our roles as leaders in our community and so on. I'm paying my staff to work even if we don't have the work so i decided well. Let's mobilize people to help out in the community because older people can't do the there the normal volunteer force their nervous about covid And their people in the needs are greater than ever. So i thought well you guys i'm paying you if you can Use your company time and help out with meals on wheels and food banks and you know cleaning up the parks and all this kind of stuff so in our own little way. you know. we're doing four hundred hours a week with volunteer work on company. Time and i'm hoping this cove will cause us all to recognize that there are things more fundamental at stake here than our own travel dreams our own bottom line now. I'm not. I'm not trying to be like a wise guy but i think the brand the way the public sees you as a decent guy and you do in your work. Think about the impact of travel about the relationship of visitors to the places they go. Does the calculus change a little bit after so. Many tourists dependent economies probably had an awful twenty twenty that instead of being cautious about those things instead of having.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"rick it" Discussed on Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"He organizes tours over the continent and since around march of last year. He hasn't been able to do any of that stuff. He's been away from europe for the longest time in his decades of covering it. So he's instead taken to finding ways to bring europe home to the united states cooking reading up on history looking back at fond memories of travels past so we decided to bring him the show and to interview him. Pair him with another public media legend. Our friend ray suarez. It's a clash of pbs. Titans before we get into that. Let's hear a little bit of a recent streaming event. He hosted called monday. Night owl. here. Rick is talking about some of his favorite european dishes something. We didn't anticipate when we started this monday night. Bumble ben was that it would evolve into sort of a shared meal. And every week i i. I'm surprising myself. I'm getting into the cooking. And i want to share with you. What i'm gonna be eating tonight. And i put the the menu on our Information so people can of eat with but look at this beautiful beautiful plate. I miss my kids. They're saying who is this man. I could this place. It's nothing betsy but it sure was it together and this is the danish meal. This is called smarter broke it. It means a butter on bread. Motorboat is open based on is in all over scandinavia. Buying these open base. Which is you go into a shop and you just choose what you like. rick steves. welcome to bullseye. Well thanks ray and listen to that. I just felt like an enthusiastic little kid who somehow just learned how to cook well. Let's be clear you weren't much of a cook before where you know this. I call it a corona bonus I'm a travel guy. I spent one hundred days a year in europe. I love my work. I'm writing guidebooks making public. Television tv shows leading tours and suddenly. I haven't been on an airplane for a year. And i just decided at the outbreak. This to play the cards. You're dealt you know i was telling my tour groups You know if it's not to your liking ginger liking and i've changed my liking were there a lot of irons in the fire. When the world shutdown things that sort of stopped in the middle. Oh yeah. I mean i had. I had one hundred tour guides from every country in europe in my living room having an amazing party the week that all the said in that Retirement homer senior center in kirkland that the first cases of covid were being reported it was just. It's just a twenty minute drive from my house. And we had just finished a week-long Celebration are annual summit of all the tour guides. We fly them into seattle every every january in february and And we have a big huddle and we're just having a big party. We were going to go home and have the best year of touring ever you know. Twenty nineteen we took thirty thousand people on fifteen hundred tours and we were already almost sold out for the next year and they flew home. We're all euphoric. And then i look at this. I'm looking out at puget. Sound here from my my window at home and is like a su- nami came in and it just submerged everything i remember. The the next couple of months was busy in reverse. We had to send back twenty four thousand deposits tours I had to keep my staff of one. Hundred employed somehow had one hundred guides in europe. That are now not able to do their work and it was. I mean know you think every time strange during this last year i just every coupla days it occurs to me. Oh that industry's been in crisis also and you know i'm focused into tourism. We lead bus tours. And we write guidebooks and you know. It's it's devastating From travel point of view are guidebooks. Ray were right up to date. These were the labor of love over thirty years of researching. I've got fifty different guide books on europe and they're all based on little moms and pops you know the the the the the entrepreneurial ventures that i think make travel so much fun to connect with these little guest houses and being bees and cafes and restaurants that are the dream of a husband and wife and It's just ski saddens me to think of how many of these works of love labours of love or are in crisis now and what's going to be a big emotional thing for me is to go back to europe. Once we get through this and see who still standing. I mean the big corporations will be standing. And they'll be the starbucks still be where we know. Starbucks is in in paris and so on. But what about the the little guys. And that's what really makes good travel so our initiative right off the bat is going to go back and sweep through and and see what's still there and put the guidebook make the guidebooks accurate. And then patronize the little guys. As if the way we consume can help shape the future. Well that means that An up-to-date book given lead time the time to run down. All these leads figure out. Who's still in business and all that We're talking about what twenty twenty two twenty three till you can sort of figure out what still here in the world and from you know people who value guidebooks. That's that's my thing is writing guidebooks to me. A guidebook at twenty dollars tool for for three thousand dollar experience if it's any good at pays for itself on the shuttle and from the airport and A lot of people are going to be traveling later in. Twenty europe's might beeped but anywhere you know and And then it's going to be almost. I'm i'm i really believe. Travel be wide open in twenty twenty two but from guidebook point of view. Anybody who's updating now is wasting their time you gotta wait till you're expect to some semblance of normalcy before you go back and find out you know who's there and who can we recommend so the workable research is only going to be possible if all goes well. People get their shots in europe and in the united states and so on in early two thousand twenty two and then it takes eight months. If it's just pedal to the metal to get it out into the bookstores so anybody traveling in twenty twenty one or two thousand. Twenty two will be using guidebooks that are either. I think dishonestly claiming to be updated because he can't update it or you're gonna be using information that was accurate in two thousand nineteen when the last of our guide books were updated for twenty twenty. And then you just. There's still much better than nothing at all. I'm going to europe. I hope later this year and be equipping. My i'll be traveling with a guidebook. Like i always do. And we'll just have to realize that you know things have changed and the only way to have information is to be flexible and use. What was accurate before covid. But what i'm committed to is by the end of two thousand twenty two. We will have what we're calling post covid guidebooks researched and updated by experiences after cova had passed. And then you know from twenty twenty three on. we'll be back back in her stride. God.
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"Rick Davis and Max Burns, Democratic strategist and founder of third degree Strategies. The perfect people to help walk us through what the heck is going on in the House Leadership Congress woman Liz Cheney, She may pay a very steep price for her criticism of former President Trump as Republicans get to set to vote on whether the Wyoming representative should retain her leadership role in the party. Congressional Republicans are taking a harder line on the issue than some of their constituents, the overwhelming majority of whom seemed to believe that Cheney and any other member of the party should be allowed to speak their mind without sanction. Some of these constituents see the congresswoman situation as to her shove a punishment. But former New Jersey governor and ABC contributor Chris Christie said on this week on ABC on Sunday that Cheney knew the deal she was making. We have sound on that. This is smart and tough, but I think this is doing what she wants to do. I don't think this wants to be in leadership anymore, because once she won the vote earlier, she continued to press this issue publicly in a way. That was antagonizing the people who were against her. Likewise, Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Republican Jim Banks said that Liz Cheney is quote causing a distraction. We have sound on that Republicans are almost completely unified. In a single mission to oppose the radical dangerous Biden agenda and win back the majority in the midterm election..
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"Tv well. I was a pretty big selling point for me. Rikki don't make any bones about being homer which i think is a part of what makes fun to listen to. But do you think you're able to remain impartial. While still kind of rooting for sabres done your call of the games. I think that i'm relatively impartially. I certainly give credit to the other team where credit is due. Hct a homer. Yeah i don't have any problems I don't hide behind that. I you know i. I'm proud of the fact that i broadcast buffalo sabres games and do i want them to. You're right. I want them to win. But at the same time. I have to admire the talents of other teams have other individuals in the league and i do think broadcasting has changed for after years. It's changed it's changed changed from a physical point of view. I mean Our locations not nearly as good as they were all buildings. You're not supposed to the ace anymore. They sell all the good locations now just suite holders suffered to do the game it takes you a little way from the action and that type of thing so it definitely changed over the years although the equipment is much better after the ninety five ninety six season the team moved across the street to the marine midland arena. Which is now the hsbc arena. Is there anything you miss about the on sidelines. basically that's put off I i you know. As far as sideline are concerned. I think i prefer to be in the auditorium but you know as far as sites are concerned. It'd be fruit for to be in boston. Garden few other the old arenas as well so But but beyond that no at at the end the odd was a dump quite frankly in particularly because the in the last couple of years didn't spend any money on it because they knew they were walking going across the street right right and so it for very good reason. They didn't spend any money on it. So at the end it was It was a dog eared to say the least well. Now you've seen a lot of saber teams over the years. Is there anyone team that you enjoyed watching or calling the most. I think the last two years have been the best to be honest Two years ago when the sabres made it to as far as carolina in the conference finals. it was a shop right. Nobody expected the team to do. Nobody checked to make the playoffs Right from the get go on none of the national publications all pick buffalo the if not last in the league. Maybe you know second to miss the playoffs for sure. The fact that they had such a marvelous season and went on and goodness knows what they would have done. A fan las four defenseman. You know the final round. No science crying over spilt milk. But and then they picked it up last year right where they left off so it made the last two years the fact that the fans got so involved. You can't get near. Hsbc her most nights can anywhere near the plex Because fans are just been so incredible. How would you describe your connection with the sabres fans and the city of buffalo or a. I guess maybe you might say it's a mutual love affair certainly love affair on my behalf. Anyway i Overall lee's years. I i keep running into people who tell me you can't retire. Guy says that and know he's he's put my age. He's got a tan and february and i said where are you. Get the tab. And he says the phoenix or miami. I it's okay for from right. This is this happens a lot. Trust me at a lot. But i'm so you love it you do so that makes it easy to keep coming back. I i love what i do. I love to travel i. I love games to sit down and do the hockey game great To have to travel to all the time. I don't love it so much time on record as having said this several times in the past and i'm not complaining about i travel. It's very good. You know charter everywhere. First class seating on board in ice hotel. But it's still travel and as you get older it gets more onerous than that. That's the situation right now. Is there a team that you remember is having maybe the most characters or or. Maybe there's a funny story about something that happened in the booth of the locker room. Maybe even on the road that people haven't heard before that's kind of story. They're all kinds of coming from here. You can give us one that maybe there have been plenty. Trust me. But i'm not about to tell at this moment or at any other moment. That's that's something to do with my longevity to. Yeah there's been a lot of fun moments of the as well this season your longtime partner jim. Lorenzo decided to retirement and harry. Neal neal was brought on as his replacement. What are your thoughts on. Jim settlement and now working with a new partner. I always thought i'd go before jim. the renzo decided that he will shoot me. He did it in In fine fashion surprised everybody using so But as far as harry coming on board hurry and have been friends for years and years and whenever we've had the opportunity over the years we've hung up together on the road whenever we hooked up on the road somewhere. Gone over a few beer in that type of thing and And this is gonna work wanting wonderfully well. It's not gonna be a problem already very comfortable. Another absolutely and and it's for harry. It's great because he lives in buffalo and now his home games are no longer in toronto and he doesn't have to drive back and forth has changed lots of the is. What do you think is one has been one of the biggest changes. Well you're asking me from little changes will change. Our weather thing could talk about the rules changes. Do you think that's been for the better. I think the fact that it's opened up the agent created more. Offense is definitely for the better but we stuck in an awful lot. And i say we talking the league's everybody. Yeah everybody An awful run here some bad hockey games some bad clutching and grabbing going on and nothing happened except between the blue lines and everybody trapping and it was getting boring and it was beginning to show up in the attendance figures all around the league and they had to do something and they did They still got a little tweaking to do. I think so too many penalties now with all the penalties like one after another issue and the problem with it is a. Where do you draw the line. And i think that's the issue right now. Because i see some penalty some nights that are called and i look and i look at it and i say there's no way it should but you know there's a lot of heat on the officials have not pointing my finger at they haven't they you know they've got to perform and they've got to perform to the standards that are set and doing.