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WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "River" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Ukraine. Keep it here. We'll have full details on these stories in minutes. It's 1218. And time for traffic and weather on the 8s. Let's see what's going on with Rita Kessler in the traffic center. Will mark, let's start out in Maryland on westbound 50. What is now being called long-term work westbound 50 in the area of the 7 river bridge is in the right lane. This is permanent work 24/7 until Saturday at least, not sure if they're actually going to be able to pick it up then, but that's when they're saying they may be able to clear it. So this causes delays depending on what time of day it is, of course, but we do have a little bit of a delay approaching route two now, where there was a wreck reported off the left side. Southbound route three at four 50 and napolis wrote in buoy was a report of a wreck. You'll also find southbound 95 after two 16 the work was on the right side. The delays have eased inside the beltway on the Baltimore Washington Parkway southbound headed toward the good luck road overpass. There had been some activity off the roadway. Old Georgetown road between democracy, boulevard and Nicholson lane, you're under police direction for the work zone. Now on the beltway, outer loop topside delays from university boulevard headed past 29 coalsville road toward Georgia. This is the mobile street sweeping crew. In the left lane, the work in both directions near Georgetown pike takes the right lane just a brief delay on the outer loop approaching Georgetown pike. We do have the delay on the inner loop in Virginia. Basically coming out of annandale before two 36 headed toward 50 and 29 in merrifield, the two left lane should be blocked with the mobile work zone. The team at the four 95 express lanes want you to know to save time you can hop in the express lanes now. Now if you're on the outer loop of the belt wave, lays are headed after the Eisenhower avenue connector toward the Woodrow Wilson bridge. At the split for the local and throughs, it was the left lane that was blocked with the work. Northbound three 95 delays coming from edsel road toward duke street. This is work, taking the left lane, and northbound 95 has a solid backup through Fredericksburg before route three headed towards 17 today the work is set up in the left lane. Silver diner is ready to play ball after 33 years silver diner is now in D.C. across from Nats park, silver diner brings its healthy in its classic menu options to the navy yard neighborhood, eat well, do well. I'm Rita Kessler WTO P traffic. Now let's check in with chuck bell for our forecast. Sunshine is going to be gradually giving way to increasing clouds today, but there's not going to be a rain chance on your Tuesday. Today's high 62.
AP News Radio
Australia: 'Millions' of dead fish clogging Darling River - DW (English)
"Millions of fish have been found dead in southeastern Australia, experts are blaming the phenomena on floods and hot weather. The lower darling baccar river in New South Wales state is coated with millions of dead cod perch and carp floating lifeless on the surface, local authorities said the deaths were likely caused by hot weather, which meant the fish needed more oxygen, however, as the floods receded, oxygen levels dropped, the combination of the two weather conditions resulted in mass fish deaths, local resident John denning in the outback town of menindie, complained of a pungent odor from the dead fish. And a horrible to say all those dead fish. Enormous fish kills have also occurred on the river at Mende during severe drought conditions in late 2018 and early 2019, with locals estimating millions of deaths. I'm Karen
The Eric Metaxas Show
A Little Story About Ajax the Great
"Talking to Spencer clavin, who has written a new book how to save the west ancient wisdom for 5 modern crises. There's only one other book with the plural word crises in it that I can think of written by Richard Nixon. Did you know that? 6 crises. 6 crises written by Nixon. Yeah, I think it was the late 70s, his saddle river period. You mentioned before we're talking about the classics, which inevitably come up when you're talking about the west. We're talking about the ancient Greeks and what does Athens have to do with Jerusalem. And just a fun fact, just because no one else will care about this, but I think you might. You mentioned, first time on this program, anyone has ever mentioned Ajax, telemon, Ajax. There you go. I want to meet them. Beef witted Ajax in the words of Shakespeare. But what I loved is when I realized that Ajax was the anglicization of the Greek ayas, depending on how you pronounce it, right? And then I realized, oh yeah, in the 1920s, whenever they came up with Ajax, the cleanser that people use to clean their sinks and whatever. It's because it's strong. So there was once a culture. In the 1920s and 30s, when people were so literate in the classics, that everyone know Ajax was like Hercules. He's strong. And how depressing. Right? Okay, but it gets weird. Oh, yeah. It gets weirder. I was in Greece because I'm Greek. And I saw a canister of Ajax, and you'd think that what would the Greek version of Ajax, the blue dot cleanser? What would the Greek version be called? Of course, it would be IS, right? Naturally. A zeta alpha Kappa. Wow. And I thought no one in the world cares about this, but me and someday in the future. Maybe I'll have Spencer clavin on. And I'll let him know that I had this crisis.
AP News Radio
Abortion ban injunction upheld by N. Dakota Supreme Court
"North Dakota's ban on abortions will remain blocked while legal challenges against the law continue. North Dakota's Supreme Court just ruled the state's abortion ban can not be implemented, while a lawsuit continues that challenges the constitutionality of that ban. The ban was designed to take effect once the U.S. Supreme Court overturned roe versus wade. But the Red River women's clinic sought an injunction, saying abortion rights were protected under the state constitution. The clinic's director is praising the court's extension of an injunction granted last summer. The clinic has already moved its operation from Fargo North Dakota to nearby moorhead, Minnesota, where abortion is still legal. I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
Embiid has 36 points and 18 rebounds, 76ers top Cavs 118-109
"The 76ers made it 6 straight wins by downing the Cavaliers one 18 one O 9. Joel embiid led the way with 36 points in 18 rebounds. He also benefited from a reverse call that allowed him to avoid a 6 foul with four 12 remaining. Sixers coach Doc Rivers. I thought he'd flopped on the play. So I really didn't think that Joe would be filed out. Joe did. That's what scared me. James Harden finished with 28 points and tyrese max, he had a 23. Caris levert had a team high 24 points, and down of a Mitchell had 21 for the calves. I'm Dave ferry
AP News Radio
North Korea launches ICBM before South Korea-Japan summit
"North Korea has test launched another intercontinental ballistic missile. I'm Ben Thomas with the latest. The U.S. and South Korea are conducting joint military exercises. Here putting together a floating bridge across a river. It's just one small piece of the wet gap crossing operation. Captain Sean kaspersen. We look forward to continuing to train together and building the relationship between the U.S. and the Korean forces will remain ready to fight tonight. Katie cop she Doc. The maneuvers have roiled Pyongyang calling them a rehearsal for invasion. The launch was North Korea's first ICBM test in a month and third weapons test this week. It also came hours before the leaders of South Korea and Japan were to meet in Tokyo, the summit, the first in more than a decade, is expected to focus on North Korean threats, aiming to overcome disputes over history and quickly rebuild security and economic ties. I'm Ben Thomas
AP News Radio
Storms end Southern California water restrictions for 7M
"There's a silver lining from the latest storm to drench California. I'm Lisa dwyer. California's 11th atmospheric river left the storm soaked state with a bang bringing flooded roadways, landslides, and toppled trees to the southern part of the state, but also a drought busting rainfall that means the end of water restrictions for nearly 7 million people. The decision brings some relief amid the state's historic drought, but weather woes remain an additional 61,000 people remain under evacuation warnings. California's governor Gavin Newsom. We do as I speak 31 shelters that are operating in 14 counties in the state of California. And there is more weather on the way. None of us naive about what we're looking forward to next week, potentially on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, 12th atmospheric river. I'm Lisa dwyer
AP News Radio
Grandson of Iditarod co-founder wins Alaska sled dog race
"6 dogs will Ryan reddington and his sled across the iditarod finish line in no molasses. This was the 40 year old 16th try. We failed, of course, a few times you know, but we kept our head up high and in stuck with the dream. Reddington, who was in new pia, becomes the 6th Alaska native musher to win the world's most famous dog sled race. It means everything to burnout. And yeah, it's been a goal of my sense of very small child. The nearly 1000 mile race started March 5th in willow for nearly 33 mushers, who traveled over two mountain ranges, the frozen Yukon river, and on the Bering sea ice. I'm Julie Walker.
AP News Radio
Another atmospheric river pounds California, 27K to evacuate
"Another atmospheric river is wrecking havoc in California while heavy snow hits the east coast. I'm Lisa dwyer. Forecasters are warning of more flooding and potentially damaging winds as a new atmospheric river pushes into a swamped California. Nearly 27,000 people are under evacuation orders statewide with emergency declarations for 40 counties. There's been damaging winds with gusts of up to 70 mph. There are also numerous reports of fallen trees and more than 330,000 customers without power. The national weather service says the storm is moving faster than expected, and most of the rainfall should shift southward. California has been battered by ten previous atmospheric rivers this winter on the east coast heavy wet snow cause a plane to slide off a runway and led to hundreds of school closings canceled flights and thousands of power outages there. I'm Lisa dwyer
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
The Language of Evangelicalism
"John, I think you'll probably know. I'm an evangelical Roman Catholic Presbyterian. That means I go to mass on Saturday night and I go to my Presbyterian Church on Sunday, one river two banks, but I speak evangelical very well. Rick Warren and Greg Laurie are friends, Al Muller is a weekly conversationalist with me. I know, you know, John piper I read desiring God years ago. I know most of the stuff you talk about. I've got to tell you at the beginning. I have never heard of CJ Mahoney or Lou engel until I read your book. Never heard and I've been covering religion since 1992. So first question, do you think your perspective in testimony might be jaded by that particular covenant life church experience and these particular pastures? Well, I guess, can I ask you what you mean by jaded, just that my experience might not reflect a more mainstream experience? Is that what you're kind of? Yeah, I think mainstream evangelicalism is not anti intellectual at all. But then again, I've had doctor Mark Roberts as a pastor for 25 years. He got his undergrad and PhD from Harvard. Doctor Larry is my current pastor in oldtown is a phenomenal scholar and preacher and archbishop who is listening right now in the author of three books is an intellectual giant in the Catholic world and I've written three books on evangelicalism and this, I just think testimony is a 100% accurate about 1% of the church. How's that sound? Yeah, I think my dad raised a similar objection. When I talked to him about the book, he does not feel like a lot of evangelical culture is anti intellectual. And I think it's a totally fair question to raise. I do think that even if you haven't heard of CJ Mahaney or Lou angle, you know, I did some reporting recently. Let me deal with CJ first. CJ is not a figure on the same level as somebody like Al molar. But until about, you know, 7, 9, ten years ago, he was of a similar stature to Al mohler, if not as nationally known. So never quite got to that level, but was kind of on his way there was working with Mueller quite closely in a group of other ministers who were organizing a conference every year called. I think together for the gospel. Danny Louisville.
AP News Radio
Flood problems grow as new storm moves into California
"A farm worker community on California's central coast that's known for its strawberry crops is now mostly flooded. Residents in the farm worker community of pajaro were already struggling to find food with so many roads and businesses closed following storms, but another atmospheric river arrived Monday, and crews rushed to repair a levee break on the swollen river, resident Mary Alcantara. There was already one flooding. So we weren't expecting a second round, so it was really unexpected. Sean and Murray is with the Monterey county water resources. When these next storms come in later in the week, which look like very similar height to these last storms, we will have water coming over the breech area. Some 8500 people already were evacuated. Other residents say they have nowhere else to go. I'm Donna warder
AP News Radio
As atmospheric river exits, a new storm threatens California
"Many California residents can't seem to catch a break from the weather. Miserable weather continued across huge swaths of California on Sunday. Paul Abrams, who lives in a mobile home park in Moro bay, tells KS BY that Sunday's flooding wasn't as bad as before. It only got up to, you know, maybe 8 inches where I'm at now last time I was up maybe 16. However, the people on the side of the creek really got hit hard. But the national weather service says the next weather system could exacerbate severe flooding that's already overwhelmed the area prompting a levee failure in widespread evacuations Saturday near California's central coast. I'm Donna warder
AP News Radio
Atmospheric rivers flood California with more rain, snow
"Thousands of people are under evacuation orders in Northern California, with flooding from the latest atmospheric river. Santa Cruz county is one of the areas hard hit by this latest burst of storms called the pineapple express. In SoCal, Nick muleta tells KG OTV, a flooded creek destroyed a portion of Main Street. I've never seen the creek go actually through the road, so it's just nuts to see, you know. It's really crazy. Dozens of homes are under threat and Watsonville and Lake oroville spillways are being open to head off flooding from the reservoir. In the Bay Area, a business roof collapsed, killing a worker at a Pete's coffee distribution center. Roads are reported washed out in central California and several public parks, including Sequoia and kings canyon, are closed to visitors due to the heavy rain. I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
Back-to-back atmospheric rivers are plowing through California
"California's bracing for another series of atmospheric rivers with a chance of flooding in the coming days. It's already raining in some areas with the heavier precipitation coming in a day and lasting through the weekend. Flood watching effect through Sunday morning. Northern and central California are expected to get the brunt of the storm. Melting snowpack in the mountains will intensify the situation. Residents are urged to be ready for rivers and creeks rising quickly. Forecasters warn mountain travel could be difficult with higher elevations expecting several more feet of snow. So much has fallen in the Sierra and other mountain ranges, residents are still stranded and struggling to dig out.
AP News Radio
Colombia proposes shipping invasive hippos to India, Mexico
"Colombia is proposing transferring dozens of hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar's former ranch to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population. The hippos, which are territorial away up to three tons have spread to far beyond Escobar's hacienda Napoli's ranch along the magdalena river, environmental authorities estimate that could be about 130 in the era and their population could reach 408 years the ranch and the hippos have become a sort of tourist attraction in the years since the kingpin was killed by police in 1993, when his ranch was abandoned the opposed survived and reproduced in local rivers and favorable climatic conditions to successfully export such animals for hippos would be lured with food into large iron containers and transfer by truck to the international airport. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
AP News Radio
Ukraine's northeastern front could decide new battle lines
"Ukrainian soldiers train every day on the country's northeastern front as tensions rise with Russia. The troops throw grenades and far machine guns at targets, but it's only a drill. However, the sound of a real war rumbling just a short distance away underscores the high stakes in this part of Ukraine, military officials say a much anticipated Russian offensive has already started with fighting that could determine the next phase of this war, observers say time is of the essence, so speed and cohesion is the goal of the exercises grueling artillery battles have stepped up in recent weeks in the vicinity of Kubrick's the strategic town. He's on the eastern edge of kharkiv province by the banks of the osteo river. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Doug Collins Podcast
Doug Talks Hunting and Songwriting With Neil Thrasher
"Admit, only if you've watched some video today, the mounts. Where do you hunt mostly now? Oh, gosh, I hunt all over. Let's see. Hang on, let me fix this. Sorry. I hunt here. I've got a farm here. I go down to Louisiana a lot. I got a buddy. It's got an eye on it on a Mississippi River. I went to Illinois this year. I went to a few different places. Getting up with rob and damn it in Illinois, have you? Rob. Rob hatch and Lance Miller? No. Their place up in Illinois. No. I haven't got that invite yet. I'm barely, you know, I hadn't been able to go. It's pretty wild. I got this place up here. It's pretty wild. So hunting from a songwriter perspective. Sitting in the stands, sitting out, you get ideas when you're sitting there. Very rarely. Whenever I go home. Really? I'm like, I've checked out when I go hunting. I'm all about it. Hey, look, once I go through the gate, I leave Nashville behind. I mean, sometimes it happens. And sometimes you'll be sitting there, if it's a lull or whatever and it's and it's peaceful or whatever. I mean, I may, I may go to a go to a song, look up a song on my phone and maybe work on a verse, maybe, but not usually I don't. Usually I maintain with the Woods.
AP News Radio
Clinic to open near Ohio derailment as health worries linger
"Authorities are attempting to reassure residents of an Ohio community that was a scene of a huge train Roman two weeks ago. I Norman hall. Ohio governor Mike dewine says the plume of chemicals that spilled into the Ohio River from a fiery train derailment has broken up and is no longer a concern. Dewine says air tests inside and outside of homes in the village of east Palestine found no traces of chemicals, but dewine says he understands why residents who have lingering headaches and irritated eyes remain skeptical. Residents deserve an answer. They have suffered a great deal. This has been a traumatic time for them. Clinical open within days, at least 5 lawsuits have been filed against railroad operator Norfolk Southern audio courtesy wsyx WTT. On Norman hall
The Charlie Kirk Show
Jack Posobiec Unpacks South Africa's Latest Economic Disaster
"What we've been doing, Charlie, for a long time now, is promoting political agendas ahead of merit head of skill ahead of quality. And we are getting to the point now where because we've been introducing work quotas and we've been introducing these new ideas. We have a transportation secretary who was given his job because of his sex life, who has no qualifications whatsoever for that position. We're now in a position in our country where everything seems like it's just falling apart. All of the systems, the routine maintenance, the trains can't seem to be running properly. And you talk to the left and they'll say, oh, this is because of greed. This is because of capitalism. What's the capitalism? Where's the profit incentive for everything falling apart? No, that doesn't explain it. And so the reason that I brought up South Africa is because if you've just seen a couple of days ago, South Africa's president just announced that they are an energy crisis, their entire energy grid is failing. They are invoking the disaster law now because they're introducing power shortages. They have to do this so they can have any power at all whatsoever. They've also got water issues at the same time. They're having water supply issues. I mean, they're right on the coast. They have plenty of rivers, but at the same time, they can't get water to the people. And so this footage that we're all looking at comes to us by way of Joel Pollock from breitbart. And I just have to say, congratulations at South Africa. You are the first country to achieve total equity, full equality, full inclusion in your workforce, the level of equity and equality is off the charts because everyone is suffering equally. That's the only way and the only outcome that will ever come from forcing equality on an entire country or an entire group of people because human beings are inherently inequal. That's just how it is. We all have different talents. And so what you're seeing there, that those are images of the central mall in Cape Town, South Africa, from just a couple of days ago, that's completely blacked out. And you're seeing this across the country, hospitals are having power issues, kids have to read by candlelight or you're seeing images of kids that, you know, like the strobe light attached to their head kind of stuff, the flashlight, and it's horrifying. It's terrible. And you go back to 1998. And Nelson Mandela, his government, and you can pull this up on the old CNN website. The news CNN, you can never find it. But it says racial quota plan to become law. They called it employment equity, Charlie. Have you heard that phrase before? I know that I have because the parliamentary move would give quote preferences to people on the basis of race and ultimately require racial quotas said anitha Jeffrey of the South African institute of race relations. To push this transition into the quote white dominated ranks and make up for the wrongs of apartheid, Mandela's government backs a plan in which black South Africa. I'm just reading from CNN dot com, by the way. Government would back a plan in which black South Africans quote would need to constitute 69% of the workforce at all levels from the top down
The Dirtbag Diaries
"river" Discussed on The Dirtbag Diaries
"Rivers, rivers really changed my life. They've been really important to me as an adult. Moved out to Colorado in 1997 to go to graduate school at CU boulder. And just happened to pick up our river guiding interview trip on the upper salt river. For 5 days. And I wasn't sure I wanted to be a river guide, but I really wanted to go on the salt river for 5 days. At cost basically, the interview for this guiding company. And I got the job and started guiding and it changed everything in my world. I dropped out of graduate school. I started living in a truck, started guiding year round, and then guiding led me to Knowles and teaching out her education and doing some science on the river to and which eventually led me to go back to graduate school to get a degree to work in river conservation. So it's kind of an inflection point, or change the whole course of my life, just picking up that one trip in 1997. This is Mike Phoebe. He's the director of the Southwest river protection program for American rivers. His love for rivers changed his life. And it also led him to his wife Jenny. Then I met Mike. He was a big boater. And so I just kind of got exposed to it. I never guided, but I got exposed to rafting and kayaking. But for me, it was really being on the river is really powerful and just that presence and yeah, I just, I just found myself falling in love with river ecology and river environments. The two met at a boat take out along the green river while working as outdoor educators for Knowles in Utah. Rivers brought them together and have been a part of their relationship ever since. And so the rivers, I feel like they not only brought us in connection with one another. I mean, both of our histories, but I feel like they helped to deepen our connection, you know, when things start to get too chaotic here in the real world with paying mortgages and credit cards and things like that. For us to be able to get out and connect on the rivers and it really slows us down and helps us to really deepen our connection with one another. With ourselves but also with one another. After rowing the same rivers year after year as a guide and outdoor educator, Mike started to notice the rivers and surrounding ecosystems, changing before his eyes. It was actually working for Knowles and taking students on whitewater kayak and rafting courses down desolation canyon. That really started clicking in my mind that we needed to do more work to protect rivers and wild places. We watched the tava puts plateau above desolation canyon go from a remote area that was mostly full of Pronghorn to just this massive oil and gas field. And eventually oil and gas wells that you could hear down on the river in the river corridor. Seeing the rapid changes motivated Mike to study natural resource policy at the university of Montana, and after graduating with a master's degree, he worked in climate change mitigation for the federal government. And in 2011, his dream job popped up with the river conservation organization, American rivers. Mike worked to defend rivers from dams, mines, and oil and gas developments in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. He also advocated for new wild and scenic designations along with many other river protections. In 2015, Mike realized that in three years he'd be eligible for a 5 month sabbatical from his job. So he and Jenny started planning for the trip of a lifetime. We've always had a dream to do a long trip together. And specifically somewhere on the Colorado plateau because it's just a powerful place for both of us and we're drawn to it. So we decided since the Colorado and the green rivers were so special that we've always wanted to do a source to see river trip and we're like, this is our chance to do it. Jenny and I talked a lot about that if you, if you really love something, you want to see all of it, right? You don't just want to see the most beautiful parts. You want to see the whole thing. So this is our opportunity to see the whole thing. And we wanted to do it all at once too. The upper river is a much more wild river than the lower river. Most rivers, when you pal, and starts to see you start out on this little tiny creek almost. And the river gets bigger and bigger and more powerful and you pass all these tributaries getting coming in. Then by the time you reach the ocean, the river's massive has this huge flood plain. It's miles across. You know, you have these bigger ocean life and that feels like the natural way of the river. The Colorado River doesn't do that anymore, you know? It's more like a reverse hourglass. You know, it starts small in the headwaters and builds and builds and builds. And then after it hits like Powell, reservoir, it starts to die. The conditions along the Colorado River were changing fast. Mike and Jenny knew this trip would allow them to experience the river before it changed even more. A mega drought across the west put the health of the Colorado River at stake. An a century old water agreement between 7 states set the stage for the over allocation of the river's water. Knew this morning for the first time in 99 years of recorded history, a water shortage has been declared for parts of the Colorado River. Every year, since 2002, we have watched Lake mead shrink. Each year hoping it was just a fluke. But now 20 years later we know it's not. It's a 20 year drought. The Colorado River is a critical source of water for the western United States, but in mega drought, one significantly exacerbated by climate change is jeopardizing that river's future, how the water gets used and threatening long-standing agreements between states. So the Colorado compact, Stephanie, will you break it down for me? I think it's important to start by saying that while the major infrastructure along the Colorado is federally managed, states tribes in Mexico are the ones who use the water. So in 1922, the federal government and the 7 states that rely on the Colorado River created an agreement that would determine how the rivers allocated between states. I should say that the compact is only one of many laws and agreements in settlements, shaping how the river is divided. But today it's used as the foundation of decision making, as water managers and policy makers try to figure out how to manage the river's future. So you're saying that when there is a decision to be made, we rely on this document from a hundred years ago. Yeah, it's kind of crazy, right? A hundred years ago, that was a long time ago. Yeah, there were probably about the same amount of people in this country then, right? Yeah, definitely. Nothing has changed. So the states that are a part of the compact are divided into upper and lower basin states, the upper basin includes Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico. The lower basin states are California, Arizona, and Nevada. And when the compact was written, officials looked at the total flow of the river in million acre feet, and basically divided it in half between the upper basin and lower basin states. For a little bit of context, one acre foot is enough to supply two households of four people with water for one year. Today the states still rely on the amount of water that was agreed upon in the compact, but a lot of other issues are getting in the way. The population has grown exponentially in the west, climate changes altered the amount of water in the river. So a law that dictates the use of the river that was written a hundred years ago in 1922, in many ways
Couples Therapy
"river" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"Living room window. One day, one of my neighbor's packages was delivered to my porch. So I knocked on our door to give her her package. She asked if I could hear her working late at night. I said no. She asked if I could hear her watching a movie and maintained uncomfortable eye contact. Unbeknownst to us, we were the noisy sex couple. I now use a white noise machine by the window and turn on the TV. My neighbor hasn't had to mention hearing us anymore. Maybe the journalists can use a white noise machine, hope that helps. Thank you for your podcast. Former nosy sex neighbor. We love a former nosy sexy noisy. A former noisy sex neighbor knows these sex neighbors very different. It's like you're peeping. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Noisy sexy. Doc. Oh yeah, hello. You have a sex in there? Get the fuck out of here, pal. Ask it walking. Yeah, that's I would suggest, although you may not want the white noise machine if you are taping a segment, but maybe you get one of those things like a in therapy offices that have that little thing. Maybe you put that outside your door. So maybe it doesn't get picked up on your on your segment, or maybe just gift it to the noisy sex neighbors. That's true. Hey, again, like we said in the episode, you should have a conversation with them. But maybe also part of the conversation is you give them a white noise machine. Why not? Why not? Don't you doesn't everyone love making love to the sounds of? I do. Oh, I know what you do. Naomi. We've got a wonderful episode today. Well, I mean it's our dear friend. You've already heard his dulcet tones. River butcher hell yes..
Blood River
"river" Discussed on Blood River
"And that's that the judges dismissed everyone so they can spend the next several days reviewing the evidence and after that now call them all back to the courtroom for the announcement of the verdict. A five days later the judges send out a message. They've reached a verdict crowds of supporters. Gather outside a courthouse for months now transform the sidewalk and the busy street in front of the building into a sort of shrine to bertam. They burn incense and arrange candles and flowers around her portrait. Some hold signs with pictures of her smile others hold pictures of.
Blood River
"river" Discussed on Blood River
"Before the judges reach their verdict. There's one more stab in this trial. The judges wanna give the people directly affected by this case a chance to address the court. I the judges. Here from veritas family. Her children women his daughter. Isabel tells the judges that her mother raised her and oliver siblings to recognize injustice to always fight on behalf of people whose rights had been trampled. But she says she never thought they'd have to apply those lessons to their own. Mother bears youngest daughter. Laura tells the judges that by fighting for her. Now they're fighting for all the women and mothers who've been victims of violence but she says it's a fight that won't bring back all the hugs and the nights with her that they've lost next is bear to son salvator. He's kept a much lower profile than his sisters in the years. Following his mother's murder he addresses the cord from a remote video feed. Dickey's gusty harleys. He tells the judges that this is a unique opportunity to punish not just low level hitmen. The poor who are paid to kill but to punish those who pay them the economic powers that support a culture of murder together the casseroles family issues unified plea deliver a guilty verdict and set a precedent. The my protect future victims and prevent similar crimes. Then for the first time during this trial. David castio speaks. Conscience greets everyone in the courtroom including bertolt daughters. But they're not interested in listening to him both gathered things rise in walk out of the core room as he talks. He says he first wants to thank god for the life. He's a living despite the challenges of the past couple of years and even though bear children have left the courtroom. David addresses them. You're serving the. I want to say especially to all of the family members of bit. That gossip is that. I had nothing to do with her murder neither directly or indirectly. I want to underscore that. I did not participate at all. I had no payments. I didn't intervene at all. I had no involvement in the logistics or in getting weapons. I want to state this so that it's clear and present in your minds. These daring phil chris again. He says that he and bear. Were friends friends. Who held different points of view on a lot of things but friends nonetheless while mentioning this david refers to his mother denura. She sitting in a chair near the rear of the courtroom working her hands nervously. He says his mother always raised him to be a good christian to respect others and to accept those who don't share the same beliefs. He speaks of his father who died shortly after he was detained in prison. He speaks of his children who haven't seen their father in three years and four months. This has been difficult for me to obviously but god has a plan for my life. I don't understand it. And i don't question it gave funeral throughout the trial. The prosecutors have described david as a representative of.
Blood River
"river" Discussed on Blood River
"This senior year by after nearly three months of testimony. It's time for the closing arguments. The state prosecutors lay out the bones of their case. They review the key text messages and witness statements and they sketch a portrait of david as a killer an executive driven by the simple desire to protect his interests and undermine anyone who threatened them the private prosecutors representing the victims. Try to put the case in a broader context. They say david needs to be in prison but this trial is bigger than him. And it's bigger than berretta the private prosecutors tell the judges they have a historic opportunity to break a cycle of impunity for the powerful in honduras. They point out. The david comes from a life of privilege and that he doesn't fit the stereotype of a cold blooded killer but the prosecutors warned that appearances can deceive to meet the vive castille. Judging by his appearance his background nobody would think he's capable of committing a crime like this one because he doesn't have the appearance of classic criminal. But this is the profile these behaviors at this level that have shaped the history of this country hits from these positions of power and not just through this act but many acts that they've destroyed the social fabric that they destroyed the institutions in this country music. Is this observation. The david wasn't a typical murder suspect resonated with me i'd met david. He'd looked me in the eye repeatedly insisting that he was innocent that he to mourned bertos. Death said he admired her was my friend. It could not bring my mind to do any harm. Not only birth to any human being. I met his mother his oldest friends. I'd spoken with his former classmates at west point. All of them were certain of his innocence. They couldn't imagine that he even tangentially involved in a murder much less plan one. I'm convinced their faith and trust in him was sincere. They had no hesitancy in vouching for him. They believe he's a good man. They love him. Try to imagine just for a moment that david deserves their trust that he's been falsely accused. If that's the case those friends and family members have been deeply wronged and then of course. There's the other possibility what if david didn't deserve that. Trust in that case the suffering. They've endured over. the past. Three years seems even worse. It seems cruel berta and her family and everyone who loved her. There obviously the primary victims but no matter the outcome of this trial. They're not going to be the only ones murders.
Blood River
"river" Discussed on Blood River
"After danielle toddlers dismissed. The private prosecutors called several other witnesses. Their testimony takes weeks and then it's finally the defenses turn. Their strategy is pretty straightforward. David has been framed. Maybe it was malice or maybe just incompetence either way. His lawyers argue that the police botched everything. Here's one illustration that they highlight in court. It has to do with mariana diaz d. as remember was a middleman. He's already been convicted for helping to arrange the logistics of veritas murder. The day of his arrest diaz gave a statement to the police. He said the dessus former head of security offered him about twenty thousand dollars to help plan the murder and says the money came from his manager. Prosecutors say he was referring to david the statement was read in court but diaz never actually signed it and it wasn't dated the defense attorneys. Say this renders the statement worthless. The defense says another example of police incompetence centers on brenda barahona. She's the telephone expert. Who extracted most of the text messages and calls that implicated david. His lawyers have questioned her qualifications her training technological expertise and they've done this inside and outside of the courtroom they say they've uncovered one hundred thirty three errors of fact in her analysis. They say she quote hid messages. That proved david in verita. Were friends they say. She ignored messages suggesting other groups. Not desa also clashed with berretta. And barahona didn't investigate them. They don't editor brenda. But i own a considerable disco. See the noise from a video clip disparaging barahona 's work. David's team distributed it via social media. Brain nevada our net doing tests. Costano defense team says their own experts dugout tax that barahona ignored one of them is related to a key exchange between david and douglas studio. It's an exchange. We've talked about several times in the series. The mission aborted texts. If you recall was the former head of security for the dam site by hone says he acted as the point man between david in the lower level hit men who carried out the killing remember. Barahona suggests that david busst. Eeo originally planned the murder for february. Two thousand sixteen about a month before berto was actually killed. She says that plan fell through because bertos family was with her when the hitmen went to her house and this was win boost. David exchanged messages referring to a mission aborted before the trial david had explained to me that barahona completely misinterpreted this text. David says when boost message him in early february saying mission aborted he was talking about a trip. he planned to take to Teke that's a town where desa was developing a solar project. David says he wanted busey. Oh to check it out. Because they'd been having problems with local gangs near the solar project you travel to the Conduct a specific date. He was going to travel at a later date. David's team argues that they have texts that specifically reference this aborted trip to china teke and in court. They ask an expert to read one such exchange. That was extracted from boost ios phone in this chat. String steel references. A job that he's doing he's asked where it's located in his response is read aloud in court being sued and he added reaching a young. He answers that it's at an energy plant in the south. He says custodio called me yesterday in another message. Ten days later boost has asked where he's at he's in there. It is show tech however the prosecutors seem ready for this. They point out the dates of those texts march. Eight and march eighteenth. 2016 was killed on march third so.
Blood River
"river" Discussed on Blood River
"In our final episode. We'll take you all the way to the end of this trial. The judges will decide david. Casio's faith a not guilty verdict would allow him to reclaim a life that he says has been stolen from him for bears. His family a conviction proved justice in honduras. Five long years after they began searching for it can still be found. I'm.
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"river" Discussed on The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"If you took a walk a really long walk from baton rouge to omaha. It's safe to say would definitely take more than sixty minutes in the real world. You'd have to be an enormous giant to do that but at the mississippi river basin model. Everyone's giant that's because the model squeezes sixteen states the parts of those states that are all connected to the mississippi river into a couple hundred acres of space to reference. That's about the size of one hundred fifty football fields there. Ever based model is a physical model Physical hydraulic model of the mississippi river basin. This is sarah mcewen and the reason she knows so much about this model is because she's trying to save it. It doesn't go to the headwaters but it is kind of stops at key points along the tributaries that The mississippi river main line would have had backwater impacts. So you have like tulsa omaha nashville. These are all kind of key points that are the upstream reaches and then you have those rivers that flow down until they converge join the mississippi. And then you have the mississippi all the way down to baton rouge about half a century ago. The city of jackson mississippi took it over from the us army corps of engineers but by nineteen ninety-three. It was completely shut down with no vision for its future. It was in the middle of a park. Say you have soccer field. Do you have go kart track. You have mountain biking trails but to my knowledge besides kind of mowing it initially to keep the trees and education contained. That was really all that was diet. I don't necessarily know if the if the thought was there that this could be something
Blood River
"river" Discussed on Blood River
"More phone calls and more phone data. Is the trial concludes. David's team will launch an all out assault on the case that the prosecutors have assembled. We'll hear david's tearful plea to the judges and we'll hear the verdict that's next time on blood river.
Blood River
"river" Discussed on Blood River
"In a.
Blood River
"river" Discussed on Blood River
"It could be concluded that his friendship with her is not sincere and that he simply uses it as a means to monitor and.
Blood River
"river" Discussed on Blood River
"Could griffey was the the metal at this level. Then the next day the first witnesses for the prosecution or called a police investigator places his right hand on the hon during constitution in swear to tell the truth only the truth after him comes a medical examiner and a ballistics expert. Together they establish the facts of the case that aren't in dispute on march. second twenty. Sixteen three men broke into his house at about eleven thirty. Pm they shot her dead and they also shot gustavo. Castro mexican environmentalists who is staying with perta ina guest bedroom. He survived in the weeks following the murder. Investigators examined data from nearby cell phone towers. They identified a few cell phones that didn't belong to local residents but were active in barracas subdivision. Near the time of the murder those suspicious phones had been in contact with individuals connected directly or indirectly to david's company. Desa two months after the murder. Police arrested the alleged hitman. That was the same day they also arrested two desa employees with connections to david the same day hecuba. Attala called david with the news. One of the men arrested that day was the former head of security for the dam. Project that berto opposed. He was an ex military officer named douglas. Gustilo you'll hear bastios name again. That's because the text messages and call logs. That were extracted from his cell. Phone are vital keys. The prosecution's case against david there are thousands of pages of these communications during the trial. Experts been days on the stand reading aloud individual messages. Skin the plan. They contains sima idea that message. For example from what's app chat group that included david edessa employees at the time says he has been in contact with people he refers to. As quote informants the state prosecutor's explained the desa for three years had cultivated paid informants to monitor bared his movements. This included some people who claim to be part of bertos organization in one message sent less than a month before the murder edessa manager rights to david and the others saying quote. She said again that some of their people tell us everything but she didn't refer to any particular person she said david. Sto knows everything. When she goes there the prosecutors want to underscore this idea. David castio knows everything. Remember his background. He's a graduate of west point return to honduras to serve as a military intelligence officer. Bertos friends and family believe that history is deeply significant. They say he's the kind of person you can never take at face value a spy someone who tries to get close to people only to get information that he can use to his advantage and they say he leveraged his military and political contacts against berretta the prosecutors sift through some of the text messages to illustrate this. They point to one exchange between david and danielle atallah. Danielle is the cfo of desa. And he's also a member of the family. The company's principal investors david rights. Danny i need the cash for the afternoon. Meetings witnesses for the prosecution suggests those meetings may have involved politicians at the time. The president of honduras was named pepe. Lobo david writes the mayor. Just as pepe to resolve dessus problem caused by coping. they just saw him in the council of ministers. We have a mayor. Daniel atallah response. The one from intibuca went yes. David writes the prosecutors. Have no proof that any payments were actually made no bank statements or cancelled checks or corroborating testimony and they present no evidence that those politicians actually did them any favors about ten days. After that exchange davidson's a message asking for cash to take to intibuca buca in court. The expert reads daniels response remember. He says there's only sixty five because the rest is for the minister. Prosecutors also offer other messages that they say suggest desa was paying off lawyers and witnesses to protect itself from legal troubles in one exchange between david and other desert officials. They discussing incident the threaten to land someone connected to the company and hot water. One of them writes the woman making the accusation and the supposed witnesses are from viadana lists and we need to work them in a subtle way. This has to be done through third parties to avoid them saying that there's coercion threats. Extortion bribes invalidating the witnesses or the evidence the message continues and take care of the bosses take care of ourselves and of course protect our company. David has maintained. The desa sometimes appealed to police and other officials for help and that they had every right to do so. Because berto and cocaine were waging a violent and completely illegal campaign against it last year from his jail cell. David told me that. Of course he contacted the police. And other officials asking for their support. People from veritas. Organization had vandalized his worksite. He said destroying equipment and setting buildings on fire. They had to be stopped. That's what we think is but.
Blood River
"river" Discussed on Blood River
"Is argued by prosecutors but there are multiple teams of prosecutors. I you have the state these are the federal prosecutors from the honduran public ministry. Roughly equivalent to the justice department in the united states but next to them at separate tables set the private prosecutors. These attorneys represent not the state but the surviving victims of the crime. Bertos family members in other words. They'll argue their own cases independent of the federal prosecutors. They'll call their own witnesses to the stand and present their own evidence. They'll take part in questioning and cross examination of all the witnesses separate from the public prosecutors. At first blush this might sound a little like the system in the united states where the state directs a criminal trial and the families of victims can bring separate civil suits to court. But that's not what this is. The judges in this case won't issue to verdicts one for the public prosecutors and another for the private team they'll only be one verdict. It's just that the state and the private prosecutors will have a voice in the courtroom. Joseph barra is a law professor at ucla specializing in human rights law. He's part of an international observer mission monitoring the trial. He says that the private prosecutors might be thought of as a sort of legal insurance policy against corruption. Imagine a case where. A public prosecutor might be paid off or influenced by a wealthy well-connected. Defendant a team of private prosecutors might help counter the possibility of a fixed trial. Ideally their interests should in some ways merge with the public interest in getting to the root of the crime finding the truth and achieving justice and they have a specific kind of moral high ground in wanting to achieve justice because they are the ones who have been victimized by the crime. Trials like this are required to be open to the public according to honduran law but the law didn't foresee the outbreak of a global pandemic. The judges ruled that only the separate teams of attorneys as well as one member from their family and one from david's could watch from inside the courtroom to satisfy the requirement that the trial be public. The judges made it available via livestream. The audio isn't the best quality at times. it sounds completely distorted. The camera doesn't show the judges more often than not it's pointed at the backs of the public prosecutor's so it's not that great capturing whatever visual drama might unfold but when you call up the video there's a column where observers can type in comments in real time and instantly david's family members and sympathizers start to get into sparring matches with two side as the trial gets underway someone using an account linked to coping betas organization types of comment may justice be done and may david pay for his crime. The name of david's mother denura appears on screen. You might remember her from previous episodes. She's always been her sons. Most unwavering defender everything will come out. Everything will come out someday. I am more than my faith is like unbreakable. And i know that somehow somewhere someone will be able to to tell the truth about all this and how everything has been manipulated denura types of response in the margin. She says god will never allow david to be punished for this crime. Because he's innocent someone snaps back and tells her to leave god out of it that triggers backlash from other backers of david one says bear to was a fraud. Someone who stoked conflict for personal gain the running commentary never stops it appears as constance scroll enrolling throughout the trial and it will only get nastier since april twenty eighth two days after the trial was supposed to end it but new appeals and complaints by the defense have had to be sorted out and dismissed intern. Finally it's time for the opening statements. The public prosecutors go i. They explained that they're going to present hard evidence that will leave no doubt of david's involvement in this killing. He was in communication with some of the people who've already been for taking part in the murder. Witnesses will be the government telephonic. Investigators who extracted those communications and who've mapped out the connections that they say put david at the center of the crime next. The private attorneys representing bertos family have a turn. They'll argue that. David's company desa was essentially a criminal organisation they it used political and economic connections to harass and terrorize berretta. Finally it's the defense's turn they reject everything. The prosecutors have implied in their statements. They argue that the honduran investigators the same ones that the prosecutors consider their star. Witnesses.
Blood River
"river" Discussed on Blood River
"On in the five plus years since betas debt lots of people in honduras and around. The world urged the country to bring her killers to justice. Seven people have already been sentenced for their roles in the killing. These included the hitman who pulled the trigger to kill bhakta as well as a few middlemen. Who helped plan the logistics. But to the castro has family and their supporters that wasn't enough punishing low level triggerman. Is one thing going after the powerful accused of pain them to kill is another and that kind of accountability is extremely rare in honduras. This trial in the eyes of the international human rights community is a test of the country itself..
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
"river" Discussed on Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
"Rivers about the fact that it might be okay for the storm drain to wash away. Some of the residue from your yard or your orange trees but it's not okay for people to start dumping sewage into the river simply because it's more convenient particularly if it's going to make people sick kill all the oysters and degrade the quality of life for everyone but what happens if we think about rivers a little bit more metaphorically what if we think about the river of time unlike the hudson river the river of time generally only goes in one direction unless you ask h. g. wells this river of time when it starts here and goes forward is something that affects all of us as we think about standards in our community so for example most communities have figured out that an educated populace that when you spend the time and money to educate six year olds or nine year olds teaching them to read and write to understand science and other things they will grow up down the river of time to become better contributors to the culture that all of us benefit when kids are educated so on behalf of the kids who don't have a say in it. The community speaks up and says all kids have to be educated and on behalf of the parents the community says and we're gonna pay for it and hence public school and i'm hoping that most of the people who are listening to this agree with me that levying attacks on all of us so that kids can be educated. Seems like a really sensible idea but once we start going down that road one of the questions is is it okay for those kids to be opted out of the public school that we're all paying for and go to a private school instead and then if they're going to a private school should the tax payer money that would have been going for them to go to public school the allocated for them to go to private school and then what happens if the private school they go to doesn't teach them things of use. What if after eight or ten or twelve years in this facility. They don't know how to read and write. What if instead of teaching them science as we understand it in a way. They're teaching them things that are closer to mythology. That aren't practical or useful and that might even be divisive. How do we decide to fill the river of time and that leads to beginning to understand things about capitalism liberty and freedom. Many of you have heard me say before that the purpose of culture is not to enable capitalism the purpose of capitalism is to enable culture in other words capitalism is the special case friend. Told me about the difference between a navy pilot and an air force pilot in the united states air force started. They were the first people with airplanes and there are volumes and volumes and volumes of rules and regulations and the rule for air force pilots in follow all the rules in the books navy pilots on the other hand have just a few manuals and the rule for navy pilot is. If it's not in the book you can figure out what to do. So one is about avoiding getting in trouble and the other one is about finding your own way forward and when we think about the difference between those two when we think about capitalism one way to think about it is the default is everybody can do anything. They want with liberty and freedom to create the most value for themselves selfishness first and then culture community. They have to come up with the special exceptions. That aren't allowed the alternative. The one that has been around for tens of thousands of years is that culture says these are our standards. These are the things that are sacrosanct and in any spaces that aren't carved out. You can do anything that you want. Because that enables the market economy that enriches so many of us and that is part of the challenge that we're facing in our culture today. Which is it is tempting to say that. I am responsible for everything that i do. Leave me alone. But the rivers rivers of time the rivers of connection the rivers of culture and the rivers of rivers are now far more intertwined than they have ever been before and so when we put an idea into a kid's head it will pay dividends or costs for generations to come. Here's a simple example. Is it okay for private industry to say. We are going to discriminate against people like women. Black people people of color indigenous peoples people who have traditionally been discriminated against. We are not going to hire them and we were not going to promote them. Because we don't have to well over the last few generations. I think we have seen that toxic longterm implications of this and we have created this idea of the protected class of people where we say. Yeah you can say. I'm not going to hire left-handed people and you can say i'm not going to allow people who come to my office to wear earrings but no you can't persist in maintaining a caste system. One that costs everyone an enormous amount in terms of justice and civility and potential. No you can't do that but we keep coming back to these edged cases edge cases about who you can serve in who you can't serve edge cases about what the long term and short term implications of using this chemical or having that policy. Should we treat big companies monopolies different than we treat little ones. Is it okay for apple to say. We're not going to allow certain kinds of businesses to be in the app store. Because if they do that then defacto they are keeping lots of people from seeing those apps on the other hand if it is completely wide open then how do we hold people responsible for creating things perhaps anonymously that are toxic to the culture in the world around us and i don't know the purpose of this passes into tell you the answer but it's the more clearly about the questions. Which river are we dumping stuff in. What are the repercussions generations from. Now what will people say if eli on. Musk builds a supersonic airplane. Is it okay for him to fly it wherever he wants. Regardless of how much carbon it dumps into the air is it okay for him to take off with a sonic boom that you hear every night when you're trying to sleep. Is it okay if that sonic boom breaks the windows of your house and you have to pay money to replace them. All of these. Things are on a spectrum and there's no doubt in my mind that two or three generations from now people are gonna look at the carbon we left behind and they're going to say what were you thinking and they're going to pay attention to just how deep inequity was both in terms of income distribution but mostly in terms of opportunity because opprtunity creates new frontiers. It creates connection it creates value and every time we do what capitalism pushes us to do. Which is the short-term expedient convenient thing we might very well be shutting the door on the long-term resilient powerful bit of possibility instead so. I don't know the answer but my hunch is that the more we think about it in the more we engage with the better. We're going to get thanks for listening. We'll see you next time. We'll be back in a second with some questions from previous episodes but first here's a message from our sponsor who when is it time to love. What is it time to learn a new way to see the world to connect with others to lead to engage in possibility. Akimbo is a b. corp and independently owned and operated institution designed around learning not education not certificates not great but learning together. It works if you do the work. I hope you'll check out. The people at akimbo are up to visit akimbo. Dot com slash. Go to find out about their new upcoming workshops and how it all works. Thanks. it's matty base of my. Name's kyle reading. Seth stephen out in madison wisconsin. Hi alicia from charleston. Here on the warm greetings from curious. How much nick ryan from pittsburgh. pennsylvania sent his rex. Hi hi this is. Roberta perry my christian is and that completes my question as you know. I love to hear from you if you got a question about this or any previous episode. I hope you visit akimbo. Dot linked at daycare. I m b o dot l. i. n. k. And click the appropriate button. Three interesting questions this week here. We go hi. Seth charles quarter in montreal. Canada miss people. Thanks for your work listening to your recent rant on education. I find myself wondering how to pull the lever of motivation. While i am a self sturdier and i've learned things from photoshop to interesting financial concepts i've also offered training back in the day. I offered powerpoint training to a whole group of people. And i offered it for free. No one took me up three months later. I offered the same training in charge. A very nominal amount thirty five people showed up part of what i did was offer them half of their money back if they actually showed up. So where do you see the bonus and lever of paying for what you're receiving and is one of the weaknesses of our current. Give it away or the current build it and offer. The free service is one of those weaknesses that money for better for worse remains a powerful internal drive for which people perceive the value and that without a lack with a lack of perceived value people will not engage in the education training learning that. They need to thank you for this charles. The thing is that money is two things not one. It is a transfer of value. It is a way of paying our bills but the other thing it is is a story we tell ourselves a story about the things that we are buying whether were business. Spending twenty million dollars on consultants or at investor deciding that a stock is undervalued. Or somebody taking a course on powerpoint which is free or not free. We tell ourselves a story about guarantees. We tell ourselves a story about getting a refund. Getting a kickback. All of these things are separate from the fact that money is what we use to pay our bills so when you showed up to your friends and colleagues and said i'm gonna offer this course for free when they probably heard his. You're viewing it as either a hobby or a gift and they were viewing it as something. They probably weren't going to take seriously. They decided their time was worth more than what you or they were going to put into the course but when you showed up and said this course costs money you were making a promise. And they looked at the money and they looked at you and they said well charles's the sort of person who would take this seriously if we were paying. And so if i'm gonna shop up i need to take seriously and you can see all the ripples that are caused by this we know that you can take almost all the courses at mit for free or you can pay thirty forty thousand dollars a year to take them in person. Why is it that people who take them for free her so much less likely to finish them. Part of the reason is you. Don't get a degree that piece of paper that magically confers some sort of value but a big reason is because they didn't pay for it so as we enter more and more of a digital age we need to think about not what the marginal cost of delivering something is. It costs nothing for one more person to listen to this podcast so pricing it. That way makes no sense but instead what is the story. What is the story of money. were telling. And how will it change. The outcomes that we seek. I started under here from brazil. I liked her rant about merchants and shopkeepers and one of the things that came to my mind when you raise the status of merchants. Is that english. Merchants in now are were thief's and they stole precious materials and gold from an using slavery as determing forests around the world and of course at a time the english culture might not perceive them as thieves rather explorers or merchants are doing business as usual but now no different have a different perception about what it means and when we come to the recent times i guess many companies might have.
Death of a Film Star
"river" Discussed on Death of a Film Star
"More lucrative life. it could have been rivers to if it wasn't for what's happened in nineteen sixty eight. Two years before river was born. His mother isn't cooled heart not then instead. She's arlene as he's living. An american dream married young good job. She's a secretary among in hudson skyscrapers typing letters and connecting calls. She spent her days watching the suits and sharp minds. They find me. She's in the market needs in the public psyche and they feel them with products are lynn is inside the great engine of american consumerism. But above the noise she can hear something else. It starts on the opposite coast out in california in san francisco and is growing louder. It's cool to free yourself. From the machine to broaden your horizons to join a different dream of what america could be to turn on tune and dropout and ali out says she packs a bag. She grabs what cash she confined as she leaves her husband her bronx apartment and her old life behind his hikes across the country looking for a counter culture of capturing imaginations and freeing minds as rivers child of that revolution an echo of that. Bits of the baby boom. He's born on a peppermint farm in oregon. Warm summer air the smell of the crops. His mother refuses any drugs or hospital treatment. She stays in the small house on the commune and when river arrives that the samsara applause and the applause never stops so the family grows four siblings fall river rain leaf liberty and summer. The family moves mexico puerto rico venezuela the free love philosophy moves. They fall in with a religious sect and by cows again. The one constant performing river sings and plays guitar asking for money singing for his supper christian spirituals spanish pulp old folksongs rivers the frontman in traveling family band. A group that never goes to school a sets of children who learned their lessons on the street how entertain and how to survive and an education like that leads to only one place. La hollywood sees lots of kids like river. They arrive by the busload cheekbones clean skin and ambition fresh recruits fame factory. He looks like one of hundreds of wannabes and jogging waiters. Until you look closer until you listen properly i. He's look river has sweep of long blond. Hair it's frames. A straits knows above a perfect mouth but at the center of. It's all his eyes. here's the thing about. This is the right ones lazy. It truck slightly off center. Offer beat of the rhythm. A couple of degrees out from wade expect onset before takes river flutters his eyelashes a rapid flurry of blinks to censor his iris. But it's always slips again and it gives him something something that sets him apart. River has this unsettling quality onscreen..
Death of a Film Star
"river" Discussed on Death of a Film Star
"Rivers. Tale isn't a simple one someone to tell. It's three weeks later off of his death three weeks of headlines and news reports tears and trauma. This is his wake people trying to make sense of it. All rivers mother is sitting on the stage. She's cooled rivers friends all around her. This review saw earnest. And the atmosphere's side bart serene river is at peace a guiding spirit. An angel cooled back above. That's what the voices say eight remembering a boy who was barely a man and then there's another voice a note of discord in the harmony. It's comes amongst the accusations and confusion and it spills the elephant in the room. Someone says is there anybody here who can tell us why it took all those drugs. His mother's in shock is two young sisters liberti and summer. Run out of the room in tears. Seventeen and fourteen but it's a question they and everyone else in the room have ost themselves ready. Most funerals are about stories retelling and refining. Who a person was sharing. Memories share the burden of grief with river. It's not so easy is last shoot. He doesn't fade away. He burns dazzling bright and then darkness. He's gone and those left behind are left wondering like an illusionist audience. They can't tell what's real and what's not whether their faith has been misplaced with They've been deceived. Because river doesn't want hollywood's usual. Trappings but then he dies is most cliche.