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"rob farley" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"Jacksonville, where you go if the hotels in Tuscaloosa are fully booked. This is the Lawyers Guns and Money Podcast. Hello, and welcome to the Lawyers Guns and Money Podcast. This is Eric Loomis, and we are here for our mid-season NFL podcast. I presently am known as the Josh McDaniels of NFL Prognosticators. I'll start this by simply admitting that before the season, I picked the Buffalo Bills to win the AFC, and I am the full McDaniels. Don't listen to me ever, certainly don't bet on anything I have to say, but listen to this for reasons that are incomprehensible to me. Scott, I'm here with Scott Lemieux, Rob Farley. Gentlemen, how are you doing? Very well. We're doing well. I am consuming this evening a Bissell Brothers Industry versus Inferiority IPA. Bissell Brothers is a fine brewery on Portland, Maine. As for the name, I think I identify more with inferiority than industry personally, but it's a great brewery. Rob, are you having a beverage this evening? Yes, I got my customary eight fingers here. This is just a simple maker's mark. It is gift pack season in Kentucky, and so this may be in my pocket. Often the gift pack with the bottle of bourbon and the free cups costs less than the bottle of bourbon, so it's a very exciting time. Is gift pack season just like Christmas, or is it an extended season of its own? Well, obviously, it's early November, I guess it's mid-November now, so I guess it's around Christmas, but it's pretty early. This is my new gift pack glass right here. Half the glasses in my cabinet are gift pack glasses. I got to say, is somebody buying you the gift pack or are you buying yourself? No, I buy it for myself. I deserve this. I deserve this. Frankly, I deserve this. Yes, exactly. It keeps on giving for like two days. By the way, I found a place in Vancouver that was selling blends for $20 a shot. Very nice. Was that Canadian dollars? Yes. A lot of loonies. Yes, but compared to what it would cost in the States now, if you can even find it, that's a solid deal. Are you having a beverage? I was a little earlier. Yes, unfortunately, just a Topo Chico, the North America's finest sparkling water. Understood. Well, we did stop at Structures Brewing in Bellingham on the way back from Vancouver, so I'll have a beautiful Structures IPA later this evening. Sounds delicious. I got to get up to Bellingham. I know there are a lot of breweries up there. Anyway, we're here to talk about the National Football League. It is mid-season or just slightly past it. As always, it's been a really interesting season. We start with the AFC East, I guess, is where we usually start, in which the Miami Dolphins look really, really good if you ignore a few things. The Bills, the Jets and the Patriots, it's not so great. Either one of you want to start by thinking about this somewhat odd division? Yeah. I think it's classic. The Dolphins and the adorable Mike McDaniel are obviously a flawed team. You can say they beat up on losing teams, but the thing is, there is something to be said for beating up on losing teams, which is a stark contrast to the team that was picked with the division, the Buffalo Bills. It's weird because it's a very rare case of me favoring the vibes over the analytics, that if you just look at the numbers last year from Buffalo, they seemed fine. Even until they're finally out of the top five in DVOA, but for most of this year, Josh Allen's watch them. It's pretty obvious that their failure in close games is not just luck. Yesterday, that last two minutes was a masterclass in bad coaching. First of all, you have the Josh Allen hero ball. He gets outplayed by the 100-year-old Russell Wilson, because Wilson just avoids turnovers and makes a few nice throws. They're playing the Broncos. You don't need to be making impossible throws in every time, but still, they're in a position to win it. They get the go-ahead touchdown. On second down, they call a zero blitz, get Wilson sacked out of field goal range. The first error, for some reason, he calls another zero blitz, rather than just let them get a short completion and settle for a 55-year-old field goal. So then Wilson, who's got somebody's face, throws it down the field, and then you get the classic defensive back, does not turn his head, runs over the receiver like a 35-year-old pass interference to set up the field goal. You blame the player, but to me, I blame the coaching there. That's one where you've got to be in his ear. If Wilson can throw an accurate 35-year-old pass over his face, salute. You cannot touch the receiver. They call that every time. You have your numbers to the back and run a receiver. That's 100% of the time pass interference. It's just brutal. They give them the field goal. They get the field goal, miss the field goal, but they have 12 men on the field. The best part of that is that McDermott called two timeouts during that sequence. He made a point of wanting the Broncos to have a chaotic get your field goal unit onto the field play, but they were not prepared. It's like the Broncos handled it fine. They couldn't pick their 11 people on the field with two timeouts to work with. You knew they were going to kick the field goal the next time they do. That's like Josh McDaniel's caliber work. It really seems to me that much like his mentor Ron Rivera, McDermott seems like the coach who's really good at taking a dysfunctional organization and making it professional, but he's not going to take it over the top. Again, Alan's decision-making gets worse every year. They don't develop other wideouts behind digs. They're just dumb decisions. They've had injuries to their defense. Imagine, but I'm sorry, I'll buy that excuse until you let Mac Jones march right down the field against you and get a game-winning drive. They've lost to Zach Wilson. They lost to the aging Russell Wilson. They barely beat the Tyron Taylor's giants. They barely beat the, but you know, like, sorry, like that's, you've got to figure out a way that as, as, as, as Mike Tenier pointed out, like the, the Texas, I'm more than 20 players on their injury list. They beat the Bengals in Cincinnati. Right? So, I mean that, you know, I just, so you've got to be able to, you know, you, you, every team gets defensive injuries. I'm sorry. You've got to find a way to steam around those. And against the Bengals, the defense kept them in the game. Like they, oh, they held the Bengals 24 points. They didn't score, you know, like Alan didn't do the job. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this, because I know this Bill's game is very much on your mind. You know, it was just such a microcosm. Yeah. I mean, this morning, the Bills fired Ken Dorsey, an offensive coordinator, which seems more than well-deserved because the guy kind of sucks. I mean, you know, the, the Rose is a little off Brian Dabel in New York right now, but, we'll get to that. It was noticeable decline in Buffalo. Certainly, but certainly, Dorsey in a year and a half had been pretty bad. And the offense had declined and Alan is, Alan does seem to be declining. Maybe not permanently, but so I guess, I guess, you know, does firing, you know, does making a change in offensive coordinator matter here or is it really, you know, at the head coaching level? And I mean, certainly your description of the special teams disaster at the end of the game suggests it's a lot more than just Ken Dorsey. Yeah. I mean, I, you know, and again, it's one of those things where it's hard because, you know, McDermott hasn't generally done a good job there. And I don't know, maybe like, you know, has a different coordinator, you know, maybe things, but it's getting to the point where, and then there's a Josh Allen does not strike me as the kind of guy who's going to be good into his 30s, the way he plays. I got to, the clock is ticking. I don't know how much more of this you can, you can stand to watch. That's interesting, right? Because I don't, you know, you're right about the way he plays, right. But, but, you know, I mean, honestly, I do kind of see him as a guy who has enough physical tools. You know, the question is, is he smart enough, right? Because, you know, quarterbacks who play into their mid thirties are guys who are pretty smart and learn to take care of the bodies and learn how to utilize the tools that they have, right. And, you know, Josh, you know, he has things that are still going to work for him, you know, five, six, seven, eight years from now, right. You know, the canon of the arm, it's not gonna, he's not gonna have the same kind of athleticism. But, you know, this team, I mean, Allen is very representative of this team in that, you know, there's just, it just feels like so much can go wrong. And it often goes wrong with the bills, right. And every little thing that goes wrong causes them to lose a game, right. They just don't have the kind of resilience. And this has to be a coaching issue more than anything. I mean, I feel like it has to be a coaching issue. They don't have the kind of resilience that, you know, where they have players who step up, solve the problem that every single team in the NFL has where something disastrous happens in the second quarter. But that seems to discompobulate the bills and, you know, they're unable to bring, to bring, to bear the obvious talent that is on the roster in order to produce good outcomes, right. And it's almost singular in terms of watching this team struggle. Maybe a lot of the Cowboys, like very like, that's a great comparison, but same thing, like very talented bully team. Like if they get a lead, they can run you out of the building, but they self-destruct at any sign of adversity. Like just anything goes wrong. The coaching staff get like, they're never going to win a close game at the end. They're just like, you know, and there's, they, anytime they get an injury, they bitch and moan about it. And they just, they don't play just very similar to that. You know, again, not again, I think I like the Cowboys defense more. I like Allen more than Dak. Although the gap is not as big as you would like if you're a Bills fan, but it's just same thing. Like they're just, you never think they're going to win a big game against a good team. Yeah. Well, let me, let me, let me throw a number out at you. Two numbers. I think really sums it up. So the Bills are five and five.
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"rob farley" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"This is the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. Hello, and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. My name is Rob Farley. And with me today, I am delighted to have my very own co-authors, a long-term friend of the blog, Charles Danoff, who is not a newcomer to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. You may remember him from such podcasts as the Top 50 Westerns of All Time, and I don't know, possibly some other podcasts some other time in some other place. And also not a newcomer to the podcast, Dr. Jeff Williams, who you may remember from a podcast we did some time ago on street crime and firearms. But both of those are a little bit deep cuts for the LGM podcast group. How are you fellows doing today? Great, thank you. Yeah, good. So the occasion of our podcast this week is a project that the three of us worked on together for about two years. It is a book that is now available through Lynn Rainer called Waging War with Gold, National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages. And this project is a labor of love that we spend a great deal of time on. It is available through Amazon and other sellers. We would deeply appreciate any thoughts that anybody might have about it. Then today we wanted to explore the project, sort of think through what some of the main arguments are, but also think a little bit about the process of how we went through and ended up writing this book. So I think it's probably best if we start with you, Charles. Maybe you could do the sort of the brief outline of our argument book, but then also if you could tell us a little bit about sort of where you're coming from and what attracted you to this particular project. Sure. Well, the germ of the project really started when you recommended me for visiting professorship at the Army War College. And against all common sense and odds, they took your recommendation. And I spent what was a very fruitful, eventful year there, after which they canceled the program. So I guess I had an impact. But during the course of that, and we had discussions which later turned into presentations, and I was able to run a seminar on it about the idea that one thing that is lacking from what is called professional military education, and honestly in international relations and strategic studies in general, is a consideration of the role that finance plays in the contest station for international supremacy. So we developed a theory based on this, which starts out that states do, we start with some really basic and universally accepted assumptions, at least within the IR community, which is that states seek to maximize either their security or their power, whichever word you use, and that in the course of that, they contest with each other in international arenas or what are called domains to get to hegemony where they can stop worrying about whether they're the most powerful state in the system or not. And conventionally, the domains have been considered to be land, air, sea, and more recently, space, both actual and cyber, and those have been gradually integrated into the study of international relations. Our argument is that international finance is also a domain, and that in the same way that states compete by force of arms, they also compete using instruments of finance. And also, because there have been epical changes in the international system, we developed an adjunct to that theory, which is that in the same way that there are revolutions in military affairs that change the balance of power, there are also what we call revolutions in financial affairs, technological changes that affect who is the hegemon of the system. And in order to demonstrate that argument, we not only argue that it exists now, but that we go back basically to the beginning of recorded civilization, and we have several historical cases. Part of that is motivated by the Army War Colleges and professional military educations deep in abiding love for the Peloponnesian Wars. So we figured that one way to get a foothold with at least that particular audience is to demonstrate how using the Peloponnesian War and as well as Polybius' writings afterwards that these conflicts existed and influenced the outcome. That's the gist of the argument. So I have more thoughts on what you just said, and I want to frame it a little bit more in terms of international relations theory. But before we do that, I want to go to Jeff. Now, Jeff, you come from a slightly different academic background than Charles and myself. List your affiliation here. Charles, you are University of Idaho, and Jeff, you are Transylvania University, Lexington's own, Transylvania University. Lexington's own. Exactly. So Jeff, from your perspective as an economist, what about this project seemed interesting to you and made you want to explore more deeply some of the stuff that we wrote about in the book? Well, when you first described it to me, I guess it was a phone call. You were just talking about the idea and the idea of the finance domain, the domain framework just seemed like such a beautiful way to think about a lot of different issues in finance for me, which is very clarifying. Just that very notion was very clarifying in terms of thinking of institutional development and sort of a lot of stuff that kind of is talked about by financial historians and economic historians and all sorts of people in the present day and going back. And I think that the idea of the domain just structured stuff in an almost magical way in terms of my thinking about it would be the way to describe it. And so as sort of specifically in your sort of academic training as an economist, how would you say that economists and political scientists think differently about finance and specifically finance, right? Not the economy more broadly, but specifically the role of money.
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"This is the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. Hello, and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. My name is Rob Farley. And with me today, I am delighted to have my very own co -authors, a long -term friend of the blog, Charles Danoff, who is not a newcomer to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. You may remember him from such podcasts as the Top 50 Westerns of All Time, and I don't know, possibly some other podcasts some other time in some other place. And also not a newcomer to the podcast, Dr. Jeff Williams, who you may remember from a podcast we did some time ago on street crime and firearms. But both of those are a little bit deep cuts for the LGM podcast group. How are you fellows doing today? Great, thank you. Yeah, good. So the occasion of our podcast this week is a project that the three of us worked on together for about two years. It is a book that is now available through Lynn Rainer called Waging War with Gold, National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages. And this project is a labor of love that we spend a great deal of time on. It is available through Amazon and other sellers. We would deeply appreciate any thoughts that anybody might have about it. Then today we wanted to explore the project, sort of think through what some of the main arguments are, but also think a little bit about the process of how we went through and ended up writing this book. So I think it's probably best if we start with you, Charles. Maybe you could do the sort of the brief outline of our argument book, but then also if you could tell us a little bit about sort of where you're coming from and what attracted you to this particular project. Sure. Well, the germ of the project really started when you recommended me for visiting professorship at the Army War College. And against all common sense and odds, they took your recommendation. And I spent what was a very fruitful, eventful year there, after which they canceled the program. So I guess I had an impact. But during the course of that, and we had discussions which later turned into presentations, and I was able to run a seminar on it about the idea that one thing that is lacking from what is called professional military education, and honestly in international relations and strategic studies in general, is a consideration of the role that finance plays in the contest station for international supremacy. So we developed a theory based on this, which starts out that states do, we start with some really basic and universally accepted assumptions, at least within the IR community, which is that states seek to maximize either their security or their power, whichever word you use, and that in the course of that, they contest with each other in international arenas or what are called domains to get to hegemony where they can stop worrying about whether they're the most powerful state in the system or not. And conventionally, the domains have been considered to be land, air, sea, and more recently, space, both actual and cyber, and those have been gradually integrated into the study of international relations. Our argument is that international finance is also a domain, and that in the same way that states compete by force of arms, they also compete using instruments of finance. And also, because there have been epical changes in the international system, we developed an adjunct to that theory, which is that in the same way that there are revolutions in military affairs that change the balance of power, there are also what we call revolutions in financial affairs, technological changes that affect who is the hegemon of the system. And in order to demonstrate that argument, we not only argue that it exists now, but that we go back basically to the beginning of recorded civilization, and we have several historical cases. Part of that is motivated by the Army War Colleges and professional military educations deep in abiding love for the Peloponnesian Wars. So we figured that one way to get a foothold with at least that particular audience is to how demonstrate using the Peloponnesian War and as well as Polybius' writings afterwards that these conflicts existed and influenced the outcome. That's the gist of the argument. So I have more thoughts on what you just said, and I want to frame it a little bit more in terms of international relations theory. But before we do that, I want to go to Jeff. Now, Jeff, you come from a slightly different academic background than Charles and myself. List your affiliation here. Charles, you are University of Idaho, and Jeff, you are Transylvania University, Lexington's own, Transylvania University. Lexington's own. Exactly. So Jeff, from your perspective as an economist, what about this project seemed interesting to you and made you want to explore more deeply some of the stuff that we wrote about in the book? Well, when you first described it to me, I guess it was a phone call. You were just talking about the idea and the idea of the finance domain, the domain framework just seemed like such a beautiful way to think about a lot of different issues in finance for me, which is very clarifying. Just that very notion was very clarifying in terms of thinking of institutional development and sort of a lot of stuff that kind of is talked about by financial historians and economic historians and all sorts of people in the present day and going back. And I think that the idea of the domain just structured stuff in an almost magical way in terms of my thinking about it would be the way to describe it. And so as sort of specifically in your sort of academic training as an economist, how would you say that economists and political scientists think differently about finance and specifically finance, right? Not the economy more broadly, but specifically the role of money.
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"rob farley" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"You know, Herbert has to go out there and he has to win a division or, you know, win a playoff game, right? You know, that's, we are firmly, he's in the fourth year, he needs to go out there, this team needs to win a playoff game this year, they're certainly capable of doing it, but if he doesn't win a playoff game this year, it's starting to become a little bit of a disappointment. This is the Lawyer's Guns and Money Podcast. Hello and welcome to the Lawyer's Guns and Money Podcast, and welcome to our annual NFL preview with Scott Lemieux and Rob Farley. Gentlemen, hello. It is finally time for the NFL to return, and thus the world is right again. Finally, Sunday has a point. God lives, finally. Not three days he's dead, it's like seven months. So, let's, we might as well just jump into this, you know, as a pretty exciting season unfolds with what I believe is the vastly superior conference this year, the AFC. And why don't we start with the AFC East, which is kind of a traditional place to start, where you've got a pretty interesting division with four teams that all have a few question marks, but all could be 500 or higher. Yeah, it's fun. So, I have the win projections from Aaron Schatz's annual almanac, which formerly under the auspices of Football Outsiders, which was destroyed by some shady Canadian company. So, the projected wins for the division are Bill's 10.8, so basically 11, Jet's 9.8, so basically 10, the Dolphins 8.5, perhaps a little lower than some men have anticipated, and the New England Patriots at 8.1, projected to be under 500 for another year. So, do we think that's, yeah, and that's probably roughly how I'd see the division lining up, Bill's winning it, Jet's wild card. I mean, the Dolphins, so I guess take those, let's go one by one. So, the Bills are interesting in that they were probably the team most picked to win the Super Bowl last year, and it was a weird year, and yet they had a good record, the underlying stats were fine, but something always seemed a little bit off about them, and then they just got absolutely, the score on that Bengals playoff game was not as close as the game, and they struggled to beat Skylar Thompson the previous week. So, I think the question is, do we just kind of write off last year, Allen clearly was playing hard for a lot of the year, Miller was injured, tons of injuries to the defense, so we kind of write off last year's an aberration, and basically say they should be top contenders again, or do we say McDonough's gonna regret that 13 seconds where he turtled against Mahomes and Tyree killed the rest of his career. I have to say that instinctively I'm kind of leaning towards the latter, that I think the Bills are still a good team, but I wonder if they kind of lost their moment and the rest of the conference, several teams in the conference are kind of pulling ahead of them, but they're still good, I may be wrong about that, but there's something I don't know, there's something I don't entirely like about the vibes around that team, I'm not sure I can, I don't know if it's my old Josh Allen skepticism or what, but I think they're like a good team, but I would rank them pretty far below the, well, there's the injury issues of the Chiefs, but if the Chiefs and Bengals are healthier, I think I like them quite a bit more. Yeah, I would say that part of a hallmark of your approach to the Bills and Josh Allen is consistency, Scott, I mean, you've got another train and you've stayed on that train, as long as it will take you, right. I mean, yeah, you know, I don't know, I mean, this is an awfully good division, but I think every team in this division has serious questions, except for the Bills, right, you know, all of the other teams are solid, right, but would you really be surprised to see Aaron Rodgers completely fall apart, would you be surprised to see Tua get hurt, you know, and who knows what's going on in New England, but I mean, you know, the Bills, you know, I have to agree with you, right, that they need to be the favorite in this division and then much depends on two things which are very hard to predict, which are Tua and Aaron Rodgers and, you know, I think we have to grapple with the fact that we, you know, we can't, you know, I think we go into this Aaron Rodgers question with, you know, sort of seeing Tom Brady ahead of him and that's probably wrong, right, because, you know, Brady is so sui generis, right, that I don't think we can take that projection and then apply it to what we're going to see out of this Jets team, so I don't know, I mean, beyond the Bills, I don't know what's going to happen, what's going to happen in this division other than it's a pretty good division, there are going to be some pretty good games, I mean, I think I do agree that the Patriots are probably going to come in last, but I would not be shocked if any of the three teams, if any of the teams other than the Bills came in last, I would be shocked if the Bills even came in second, so.
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"You know, Herbert has to go out there and he has to win a division or, you know, win a playoff game, right? You know, that's, we are firmly, he's in the fourth year, he needs to go out there, this team needs to win a playoff game this year, they're certainly capable of doing it, but if he doesn't win a playoff game this year, it's starting to become a little bit of a disappointment. This is the Lawyer's Guns and Money Podcast. Hello and welcome to the Lawyer's Guns and Money Podcast, and welcome to our annual NFL preview with Scott Lemieux and Rob Farley. Gentlemen, hello. It is finally time for the NFL to return, and thus the world is right again. Finally, Sunday has a point. God lives, finally. Not three days he's dead, it's like seven months. So, let's, we might as well just jump into this, you know, as a pretty exciting season unfolds with what I believe is the vastly superior conference this year, the AFC. And why don't we start with the AFC East, which is kind of a traditional place to start, where you've got a pretty interesting division with four teams that all have a few question marks, but all could be 500 or higher. Yeah, it's fun. So, I have the win projections from Aaron Schatz's annual almanac, which formerly under the auspices of Football Outsiders, which was destroyed by some shady Canadian company. So, the projected wins for the division are Bill's 10 .8, so basically 11, Jet's 9 .8, so basically 10, the Dolphins 8 .5, perhaps a little lower than some men have anticipated, and the New England Patriots at 8 .1, projected to be under 500 for another year. So, do we think that's, yeah, and that's probably roughly how I'd see the division lining up, Bill's winning it, Jet's wild card. I mean, the Dolphins, so I guess take those, let's go one by one. So, the Bills are interesting in that they were probably the team most picked to win the Super Bowl last year, and it was a weird year, and yet they had a good record, the underlying stats were fine, but something always seemed a little bit off about them, and then they just got absolutely, the score on that Bengals playoff game was not as close as the game, and they struggled to beat Skylar Thompson the previous week. So, I think the question is, do we just kind of write off last year, Allen clearly was playing hard for a lot of the year, Miller was injured, tons of injuries to the defense, so we kind of write off last year's an aberration, and basically say they should be top contenders again, or do we say McDonough's gonna regret that 13 seconds where he turtled against Mahomes and Tyree killed the rest of his career. I have to say that instinctively I'm kind of leaning towards the latter, that I think the Bills are still a good team, but I wonder if they kind of lost their moment and the rest of the conference, several teams in the conference are kind of pulling ahead of them, but they're still good, I may be wrong about that, but there's something I don't know, there's something I don't entirely like about the vibes around that team, I'm not sure I can, I don't know if it's my old Josh Allen skepticism or what, but I think they're like a good team, but I would rank them pretty far below the, well, there's the injury issues of the Chiefs, but if the Chiefs and Bengals are healthier, I think I like them quite a bit more. Yeah, I would say that part of a hallmark of your approach to the Bills and Josh Allen is consistency, Scott, I mean, you've got another train and you've stayed on that train, as long as it will take you, right. I mean, yeah, you know, I don't know, I mean, this is an awfully good division, but I think every team in this division has serious questions, except for the Bills, right, you know, all of the other teams are solid, right, but would you really be surprised to see Aaron Rodgers completely fall apart, would you be surprised to see Tua get hurt, you know, and who knows what's going on in New England, but I mean, you know, the Bills, you know, I have to agree with you, right, that they need to be the favorite in this division and then much depends on two things which are very hard to predict, which are Tua and Aaron Rodgers and, you know, I think we have to grapple with the fact that we, you know, we can't, you know, I think we go into this Aaron Rodgers question with, you know, sort of seeing Tom Brady ahead of him and that's probably wrong, right, because, you know, Brady is so sui generis, right, that I don't think we can take that projection and then apply it to what we're going to see out of this Jets team, so I don't know, I mean, beyond the Bills, I don't know what's going to happen, what's going to happen in this division other than it's a pretty good division, there are going to be some pretty good games, I mean, I think I do agree that the Patriots are probably going to come in last, but I would not be shocked if any of the three teams, if any of the teams other than the Bills came in last, I would be shocked if the Bills even came in second, so.
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"rob farley" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"Well, let's go. Here you have your money. You want... $10,000? Yes, the services, hamburgers, salads, pasta, lamb, and when you buy a house, you're suspended from your car, and you have work to do. And that's all you need to do to have a DUI. Well, and what do you want? A propane? Don't pay the price of your money, you can't sell it. Don't pay the price of your money, you can't sell it. Also, all of the marketing possibilities with your home team. Hello, and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. This is Eric Loomis, and I'm here with Rob Farley and Scott Lemieux to discuss the general state of sports right now, particularly baseball, probably a little bit of football. Gentlemen, how are you all doing? Very well. There's also an obscure politically relevant hockey topic I could bring up too. We could always talk hockey around here, which might be more of a monologue for you, but hey, that's... Hockey and racism. That's the game on ice. But it's been a lot since we talked about sports here. Right now, it's August 30th is when we're recording this, and baseball is reaching its pennant races, or playoff races I guess is more appropriate these days. They're very interesting this year. Particularly, I think we should start with the official or unofficial perhaps team of LGM, which is our Seattle Mariners. So, what a run for the Mariners, and I was wondering what thoughts you guys had about what's going on here and maybe talk about the ALS generally. Well, as Eric and I, I don't know how many times I had this conversation earlier this summer, I was just brimming with confidence about the Mariners, particularly that offense. Every time Dylan Moore came up in a big spot, it was just great. No, I was... I was kind of on the fence. I know on our major league preview, Dave was pretty optimistic, and then I think the rest of us were like, consciously optimistic, but perhaps a little more skeptical, and I think I might have been the most skeptical. And then really for the first half of the year, the team was actually worse than even I had anticipated. Good pitching, but just really desultory offense. Particularly with Julio being a little off, and there's just not much else going on. The Mariners having their annual second base disaster, the curse of Sean Figgins, showing up in Colton Wong. What was his final slashline? It was genuinely horrific. Yeah, like I just... And one thing to see, Jesse Winkers also on his way out of the league. You know, so it ended up being kind of a wash no trade, but boy what a disaster it was. I mean, it was not a bad move. I mean, yeah, so he had a 241 on base, 227 slugging. And one year ago, he slugged 430, and the year before that, 447. I don't know what it is that happens when the something about the Mariners and second base are not mixed. And Adam Frazier was awful for us last year, has been a perfectly competent member of the Orioles this year. So I don't know what's going on there. But anyway, and it's weird that the team almost turned around when they released Wong, not saying he was the only problem there. But you know, and what's interesting is that the pitching staff has been excellent all year. And I think that the Mariners rotation has been top three in ERA all season. And I believe they're now first in the majors in the ERA. I may be wrong, but it's close, if not so. Really, really strong rotation led by Castillo. Scott's surveys always has good bowl pens. And one thing is that they were able to use their annual pump and dump, sort of creating a closure out of Paul Siewald and trading that for a couple of useful depth pieces that they really needed, even though they've had a little bit of problem in the back end. So yeah, it's surprising, obviously led by Rodriguez. But obviously, it's been really encouraging how they've played over the last couple of months. And it would be nice if they could win the series against the A's as the rubber match is ongoing as they speak. But yeah, it's been pretty exciting over the last month. And I'm looking forward to going back to the park. I mean, it's interesting. I think that when they traded Siewald, it was sort of like, well, what really is Dominic Canzone and Josh Rojas? I mean, they seem like a couple of marginal players and they actually played pretty well, both of them in Seattle. But I mean, it seemed like what they did ultimately was just give him, give service a lot more platoon options and a lot more mix and match stuff that he's been using at the back end of the lineup so that if it makes sense to go more or Matt Ford or Caballero, then that's fine. But Cade Marlowe has been a pretty good call up. And then Canzone and Rojas, I mean, that's a lot of options, each of which is functional to slightly more than functional in the right circumstance against the right pitchers. And I think that makes a lot of sense. And then, you know, Telenik will get, you know, should be back here for whatever that's going to really be given that he was, after that good start with sort of sliding back into his usual suckiness as the season went on. But they should have a lot of options in September. So I think it'll be, you know, I like the way the team sort of made moves mid-year to change its construction, even though, as you say, is Munoz really a reliable closer? Well, it's been a couple of times where it doesn't seem to such so. But, you know, but you certainly have to like where the team is in a three-way tie for the West with a cratering Rangers team and an Astros team that, of course, is going to remain competitive, but has its own flaws. Yeah, I mean, this is this is such a remarkably interesting division, right? I mean, and, you know, one of these teams is not going to go to the playoffs, right? I mean, we're operating in the assumption we're going to have a division winner. We're going to have, you know, one of the teams is probably going to be the wild card, but one of them is not going to go to the playoffs. Well, no, no, because there's three wild card teams now. Is it three wild card teams now? Yeah, so Toronto, I mean, you know, somebody's going to be out, but it could be, it could be the Blue Jays. Oh, okay. You see, I was this was a rules update that I was unaware of. But, yeah, the season ended today. Seattle, Texas, and Houston would all be in and the Blue Jays are actually three and a half games behind the Astros. So that's they're actually have work to do. Yeah, that's that's actually quite interesting in terms of the National League as well. But I think the more critical point about this particular division is that, you know, you have you have one of the worst rosters in the history of baseball in this division. And I would I would hazard that the Oakland A's are not the biggest train wreck in this division, right? I mean, I think that the the Angels, you know, are having one of these catastrophic seasons that even though they're not going to end up the worst team in this division because of the A's, you know, this is this is a sort of great train wreck of a team in terms of its wasted potential, its complete catastrophic use of two of the biggest stars, two of the most talented players, not just in Major League Baseball, but in baseball around the world.
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"Well, let's go. Here you have your money. You want... $10 ,000? Yes, the services, hamburgers, salads, pasta, lamb, and when you buy a house, you're suspended from your car, and you have work to do. And that's all you need to do to have a DUI. Well, and what do you want? A propane? Don't pay the price of your money, you can't sell it. Don't pay the price of your money, you can't sell it. Also, all of the marketing possibilities with your home team. Hello, and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. This is Eric Loomis, and I'm here with Rob Farley and Scott Lemieux to discuss the general state of sports right now, particularly baseball, probably a little bit of football. Gentlemen, how are you all doing? Very well. There's also an obscure politically relevant hockey topic I could bring up too. We could always talk hockey around here, which might be more of a monologue for you, but hey, that's... Hockey and racism. That's the game on ice. But it's been a lot since we talked about sports here. Right now, it's August 30th is when we're recording this, and baseball is reaching its pennant races, or playoff races I guess is more appropriate these days. They're very interesting this year. Particularly, I think we should start with the official or unofficial perhaps team of LGM, which is our Seattle Mariners. So, what a run for the Mariners, and I was wondering what thoughts you guys had about what's going on here and maybe talk about the ALS generally. Well, as Eric and I, I don't know how many times I had this conversation earlier this summer, I was just brimming with confidence about the Mariners, particularly that offense. Every time Dylan Moore came up in a big spot, it was just great. No, I was... I was kind of on the fence. I know on our major league preview, Dave was pretty optimistic, and then I think the rest of us were like, consciously optimistic, but perhaps a little more skeptical, and I think I might have been the most skeptical. And then really for the first half of the year, the team was actually worse than even I had anticipated. Good pitching, but just really desultory offense. Particularly with Julio being a little off, and there's not just much else going on. The Mariners having their annual second base disaster, the curse of Sean Figgins, showing up in Colton Wong. What was his final slashline? It was genuinely horrific. Yeah, like I just... And one thing to see, Jesse Winkers also on his way out of the league. You know, so it ended up being kind of a wash no trade, but boy what a disaster it was. I mean, it was not a bad move. I mean, yeah, so he had a 241 on base, 227 slugging. And one year ago, he slugged 430, and the year before that, 447. I don't know what it is that happens when the something about the Mariners and second base are not mixed. And Adam Frazier was awful for us last year, has been a perfectly competent member of the Orioles this year. So I don't know what's going on there. But anyway, and it's weird that the team almost turned around when they released Wong, not saying he was the only problem there. But you know, and what's interesting is that the pitching staff has been excellent all year. And I think that the Mariners rotation has been top three in ERA all season. And I believe they're now first in the majors in the ERA. I may be wrong, but it's close, if not so. Really, really strong rotation led by Castillo. Scott's surveys always has good bowl pens. And one thing is that they were able to use their annual pump and dump, sort of creating a closure out of Paul Siewald and trading that for a couple of useful depth pieces that they really needed, even though they've had a little bit of problem in the back end. So yeah, it's surprising, obviously led by Rodriguez. But obviously, it's been really encouraging how they've played over the last couple of months. And it would be nice if they could win the series against the A's as the rubber match is ongoing as they speak. But yeah, it's been pretty exciting over the last month. And I'm looking forward to going back to the park. I mean, it's interesting. I think that when they traded Siewald, it was sort of like, well, what really is Dominic Canzone and Josh Rojas? I mean, they seem like a couple of marginal players and they actually played pretty well, both of them in Seattle. But I mean, it seemed like what they did ultimately was just give him, give service a lot more platoon options and a lot more mix and match stuff that he's been using at the back end of the lineup so that if it makes sense to go more or Matt Ford or Caballero, then that's fine. But Cade Marlowe has been a pretty good call up. And then Canzone and Rojas, I mean, that's a lot of options, each of which is functional to slightly more than functional in the right circumstance against the right pitchers. And I think that makes a lot of sense. And then, you know, Telenik will get, you know, should be back here for whatever that's going to really be given that he was, after that good start with sort of sliding back into his usual suckiness as the season went on. But they should have a lot of options in September. So I think it'll be, you know, I like the way the team sort of made moves mid -year to change its construction, even though, as you say, is Munoz really a reliable closer? Well, it's been a couple of times where it doesn't seem to such so. But, you know, but you certainly have to like where the team is in a three -way tie for the West with cratering a Rangers team and an Astros team that, of course, is going to remain competitive, but has its own flaws. Yeah, I mean, this is this is such a remarkably interesting division, right? I mean, and, you know, one of these teams is not going to go to the playoffs, right? I mean, we're operating in the assumption we're going to have a division winner. We're going to have, you know, one of the teams is probably going to be the wild card, but one of them is not going to go to the playoffs. Well, no, no, because there's three wild card teams now. Is it three wild card teams now? Yeah, so Toronto, I mean, you know, somebody's going to be out, but it could be, it could be the Blue Jays. Oh, okay. You see, I was this was a rules update that I was unaware of. But, yeah, the season ended today. Seattle, Texas, and Houston would all be in and the Blue Jays are actually three and a half games behind the Astros. So that's they're actually have work to do. Yeah, that's that's actually quite interesting in terms of the National League as well. But I think the more critical point about this particular division is that, you know, you have you have one of the worst rosters in the history of baseball in this division. And I would I would hazard that the Oakland A's are not the biggest train wreck in this division, right? I mean, I think that the the Angels, you know, are having one of these catastrophic seasons that even though they're not going to end up the worst team in this division because of the A's, you know, this is this is a sort of great train wreck of a team in terms of its wasted potential, catastrophic its complete use of two of the biggest stars, two of the most talented players, not just in Major League Baseball, but in baseball around the world.
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"The football isn't going to change it because the mighty dollar is doing it all. The greed and, you know, let's face it, players are getting paid, coaches are making exorbitant salaries that make no sense, really, that make no sense. This is the Lawyers, Guns and Money podcast. Hello and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns and Money podcast. My name is Rob Farley. Here with me is my colleague Eric Loomis. Eric and I have the tremendous honor to have as a guest on this Guns and Money podcast, Coach Rich Brooks. His biography is long, but it involves being the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats. It involves being the head coach of the St. Louis Rams, and most notably for us, the head coach of our beloved Oregon Ducks. Sir, it is a tremendous honor to have you here with us this afternoon. It's a pleasure to be with you. I wanted to start just by asking, I know that you live back in Oregon, and I hope that your place is safe from the fires. We have had a lot of smoke. I have a son that lives up the McKenzie River about 25 miles, and his house burned down in the fires two years ago, and the fires are close to his house again, but the good news is he can't get to it because everything else is burned around it, but it's been pretty smoky, and the wind has changed, and it should be a good day for Oregon football on Saturday when they open, as long as the wind continues from the north or the west. Well, let's hope so, and you know, part of the reason that we wanted to talk to you is this is such a transformative moment in college football right now. I mean, you of course coached Oregon for 17 years. You also played at Oregon State, and the fate of those two schools in the current conference realignment has differed, and Oregon and Oregon State, after playing against each other for over a century, all of a sudden that may not happen anymore, and I'm wondering from your perspective, what your thoughts are about realignment and the ways in which it's affecting these two schools that mean so much to you? Well, you know, people don't remember, but when I went to play at Oregon State, graduated Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, California in 1959, and played freshman football that year, and then varsity football 60-61-62, and had the pleasure of playing on a pretty good team with Terry Baker, who won the first Heisman Trophy west of the Mississippi, but in those days, Oregon State was independent. It was not part of the PAC-8 at that time. The league broke up over money.
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"The football isn't going to change it because the mighty dollar is doing it all. The greed and, you know, let's face it, players are getting paid, coaches are making exorbitant salaries that make no sense, really, that make no sense. This is the Lawyers, Guns and Money podcast. Hello and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns and Money podcast. My name is Rob Farley. Here with me is my colleague Eric Loomis. Eric and I have the tremendous honor to have as a guest on this Guns and Money podcast, Coach Rich Brooks. His biography is long, but it involves being the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats. It involves being the head coach of the St. Louis Rams, and most notably for us, the head coach of our beloved Oregon Ducks. Sir, it is a tremendous honor to have you here with us this afternoon. It's a pleasure to be with you. I wanted to start just by asking, I know that you live back in Oregon, and I hope that your place is safe from the fires. We have had a lot of smoke. I have a son that lives up the McKenzie River about 25 miles, and his house burned down in the fires two years ago, and the fires are close to his house again, but the good news is he can't get to it because everything else is burned around it, but it's been pretty smoky, and the wind has changed, and it should be a good day for Oregon football on Saturday when they open, as long as the wind continues from the north or the west. Well, let's hope so, and you know, part of the reason that we wanted to talk to you is this is such a transformative moment in college football right now. I mean, you of course coached Oregon for 17 years. You also played at Oregon State, and the fate of those two schools in the current conference realignment has differed, and Oregon and Oregon State, after playing against each other for over a century, all of a sudden that may not happen anymore, and I'm wondering from your perspective, what your thoughts are about realignment and the ways in which it's affecting these two schools that mean so much to you? Well, you know, people don't remember, but when I went to play at Oregon State, graduated Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, California in 1959, and played freshman football that year, and then varsity football 60 -61 -62, and had the pleasure of playing on a pretty good team with Terry Baker, who won the first Heisman Trophy west of the Mississippi, but in those days, Oregon State was independent. It was not part of the PAC -8 at that time. The league broke up over money.
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"It's a three-hour movie, and it doesn't feel that way. And, like, a week earlier, I had gone to see Mission Impossible 7-1-13, gosh, whatever. And, you know, that's a movie that's an action movie. People are leaping off cliffs and leaping onto trains, and the trains are falling over cliffs. And it's 15 minutes shorter, and it feels longer. This is the Lawyers, Guns, & Money podcast. Hello, and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns, & Money podcast. My name is Rob Farley, and joining me today are a large group of LGM front-pagers from New Mexico. We have Cheryl Rofer from Seattle. We have Scott Lemieux. And from a town near Tel Aviv, we have Abigail Nussbaum. And I believe this is your first appearance on an LGM podcast, although you've been with LGM for quite a while. How is everybody doing today? Fantastic. And as I think we were talking about, this is what may be our first four-time zone podcast, which just sort of reinforces how this is becoming a Big Ten blog, right, that eventually the Big Ten will encompass every time zone across the entire world as new universities are added to the league. So what we're talking about today is Oppenheimer. And I think we come at this film from a lot of different backgrounds. Cheryl and myself, you know, I have more general security interests. Cheryl has worked in the nuclear enterprise specifically. Scott and Abigail, both of you, right, really extensively about the aesthetics of film. And you both studied film pretty extensively, even if you don't have sort of the same professional linkage to the material in Oppenheimer that Cheryl and I might. But I think it's a really important film. You know, already at LGM, we have, I think, three long posts. It might be more than that by now on this film. And I've certainly had a lot of thoughts that I haven't put into a post myself. So I think the easiest way to start here we'll give you the pride of place, Scott, to tell us a few of your thoughts about about Oppenheimer. And then we'll go into a more general conversation where we'll try to hit a bunch of different questions that the film arose in our minds. So we'll start with you, Scott. And then we're going to go around with just sort of general impressions of the film. Yeah, welcome, everybody. And my apologies, I've got sort of the end of the cold. So teaching yesterday was a very rough experience. I think my voice sounds a little better today, but I may have to. But if that means that Abigail and Cheryl have to talk more, I think everybody would be happy with that anyway. But yeah, we did the full Barb and Barbie Heimer experience. Barbie on Saturday, Oppenheimer on on Sunday. Not an IMAX, unfortunately, because the Taylor Swift concert made getting to the other end of downtown unviable.
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A highlight from LGM Podcast: On a Road Called Oppenheimer
"It's a three -hour movie, and it doesn't feel that way. And, like, a week earlier, I had gone to see Mission Impossible 7 -1 -13, gosh, whatever. And, you know, that's a movie that's an action movie. People are leaping off cliffs and leaping onto trains, and the trains are falling over cliffs. And it's 15 minutes shorter, and it feels longer. This is the Lawyers, Guns, & Money podcast. Hello, and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns, & Money podcast. My name is Rob Farley, and joining me today are a large group of LGM front -pagers from New Mexico. We have Cheryl Rofer from Seattle. We have Scott Lemieux. And from a town near Tel Aviv, we have Abigail Nussbaum. And I believe this is your first appearance on an LGM podcast, although you've been with LGM for quite a while. How is everybody doing today? Fantastic. And as I think we were talking about, this is what may be our first four -time zone podcast, which just sort of reinforces how this is becoming a Big Ten blog, right, that eventually the Big Ten will encompass every time zone across the entire world as new universities are added to the league. So what we're talking about today is Oppenheimer. And I think we come at this film from a lot of different backgrounds. Cheryl and myself, you know, I have more general security interests. Cheryl has worked in the nuclear enterprise specifically. Scott and Abigail, both of you, right, really extensively about the aesthetics of film. And you both studied film pretty extensively, even if you don't have sort of the same professional linkage to the material in Oppenheimer that Cheryl and I might. But I think it's a really important film. You know, already at LGM, we have, I think, three long posts. It might be more than that by now on this film. And I've certainly had a lot of thoughts that I haven't put into a post myself. So I think the easiest way to start here we'll give you the pride of place, Scott, to tell us a few of your thoughts about about Oppenheimer. And then we'll go into a more general conversation where we'll try to hit a bunch of different questions that the film arose in our minds. So we'll start with you, Scott. And then we're going to go around with just sort of general impressions of the film. Yeah, welcome, everybody. And my apologies, I've got sort of the end of the cold. So teaching yesterday was a very rough experience. I think my voice sounds a little better today, but I may have to. But if that means that Abigail and Cheryl have to talk more, I think everybody would be happy with that anyway. But yeah, we did the full Barb and Barbie Heimer experience. Barbie on Saturday, Oppenheimer on on Sunday. Not an IMAX, unfortunately, because the Taylor Swift concert made getting to the other end of downtown unviable.
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"It was tough. So I wanted that tension, I wanted you to feel it. I wanted you to smell what they had to live in. Tin can that they were traveling in. This is the lawyers guns and money podcast. Hello and welcome to the lawyers guns and money podcast. My name's rob Farley, and today I am delighted to be able to speak with my friend John Wayne Miller, who has a new book available right now for Amazon called the hunt for the Peggy C how are you doing today, John? Doing great. Thanks for having me. Well, thank you for being able to join us.
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"Hello, and welcome to the lawyers guns and money podcast. My name is rob Farley, and with me today is doctor Collins Snyder, who is joining us to talk about recent events in Brazilian politics. Maybe you could go ahead and introduce yourself, Colin. I know that many LGM listeners will already be familiar with you, but for those who are new to the podcast.
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"Let's find evening, drinking a stone face, juxtaposed, New England pale ale, stone face is a very fine berry of newington, New Hampshire. And one of our 55 states. And I think that New Hampshire, I think the stonefish definitely send me some beers for promoting their delicious products. And I'm here to have this evening with rob Farley and Scott lemieux. Are we going to do our mid season NFL podcast? Gentlemen, welcome. And to structure our, I just saw that the latest Devo a readings have been released if you want to know who's the top ten on the bottom 5. I would be interested in that. So any guesses who's number one right now? This is team wise. Yeah, after losses, game full team performance. Well, I guess I would say Kansas City or Philly. Farley? I would say the jets. No, so number one is Philly. Number two is buffalo, so Philly goes into first place after buffalo losing the jets. Third is Dallas. Fourth is Baltimore. 5th, your Seattle, Seahawks. Just like we predicted when this thing goes. We're getting ahead of ourselves. I have a beverage here that needs to be honored. Oh, sorry. And then bottom 5 before we get to the beverage, bears, rob Farley's beloved Arizona Cardinals, the Texans, the Panthers, and your Indianapolis Colts. H by many to be a competitive team this year, both inside and outside. I don't think any of us though. I don't think any of us, I don't think any of us. We made some mistakes, but none of us like colts. I think that's one area we avoid. But anyway, please rob, get to your new bourbon. Oh, so this is not a new bourbon. This is a this is a fresca and Trader Joe's rip asado tequila from jalisco, Mexico. 100. I'm going
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"And money. Podcast. This is Eric Loomis. And I'd like to start this podcast as I so often do through poetry. In particular, and in particular, it is now fall or nearly fall. And in 1923, Robert Frost wrote this poem about fall. And throughout her sad quote, nature's first green is gold, her hardest, huge hold. Her early leafs of flower, but only so an hour. Then we subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down today, nothing gold can stay. And it's a very sad poem, but what you realize is that Robert Frost had this sad opinion about the fall because he did not have the National Football League. And so that's what we're here to talk about today. The glories of fall and the National Football League and I am here with Scott lemieux and rob Farley. So gentlemen, welcome. Welcome, what do you wish to show your beer selection? Oh, yes. Yes, yes, I am personally drinking. A progression time for a living double dry hot New England IPA out of beautiful Northampton Massachusetts. Beautiful. Same drinking. This evening? Several fingers of a Kentucky straight bourbon that I'm not even going to mention the name because I have one, I don't remember it. And two, it's not very good. So this is finishing off. This is finishing off a not ideal bottle. And so I think we're just going to let lie who the miscreants are who made this bourbon. I realized listeners can't see the size of the poor, but I have to wonder, is that the entire bottle? Well, I mean, the bubble. It's a full four fingers here. Maybe 5 fingers we're going to move on. It's a fist of bourbon, a fistful of bourbon. Sounds like Tom Waits. By the way, personal to Woodford reserve sponsorship opportunities are available. Like I'm sure
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"My name is rob Farley. And today we have with us Cheryl roper and Dan Nixon and we are going to talk about the ongoing Russia Ukraine war, but we're also going to talk about some other stuff going on in the world that is related to the conflict. So how are you guys doing today? Pretty good. Been worse. You have thunderstorms on the way, Cheryl. So we might have some interesting background noise. Is that correct? Yes. We just have humid heat here in Kentucky. So there's nothing particularly exciting about whatever's going on here. So. I guess, I mean, we have not done a podcast in a while. And so let me start just by asking both of you and we'll start with Cheryl. What is your assessment of the current state of play between Russia and Ukraine? At the moment, it looks like both Russia and Ukraine are preparing for a big Ukrainian offensive
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"Podcast. My name is rob Farley, and today I have with me Matthew Gabriel, who is the author along with David Perry of the bright ages, which is a reexamination of how we understand what other people call the medieval ages and some people call it the dark ages. Thus the name the bright ages in western culture, modern historiography and so forth. How are you doing today, Matt? I'm great. Thanks for having me. Absolutely delight. I tremendously enjoyed this book. I listened to it on the audiobook, which I do for so many books these days. But this was a fine companion for walking and for driving and really for everything else. So I have a ton of questions and it took me a while to boil down to what exactly I wanted to, how exactly I wanted to start this. In a way, the frames your project. But what I came up with, and this affects this comes not only from sort of a cultural space that we're part of, but also from my particular orientation and security studies. Why is it that the bright ages feel more alien to us than antiquity, despite the fact that the bright ages, the medieval period, really continues to permeate our culture. And we can, I think, later on talk about how it does. But it continues to permeate our culture in so many ways. And yet there is this alien to it. That you don't have the same feeling of when you talk about antiquity. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's a really interesting question, and it's one that I myself, I think that the weirdness of it, if you will, of the European Middle Ages, was something that attracted me to the field in the first place is that it was both familiar and foreign and all at the same time. I think one of the things that we don't often talk about is the fact is that of the kind of big the larger structures of periodization that we have in the study of the past, right? You have antiquity, the Middle Ages and modernity, at least in the western the western perception of periodization..
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"This is Eric Lewis, and I am here with Scotland you and rob Farley, and we are talking about the National Football League. In particular, the NFL Draft, we're presently at time of recording about midway through the second round, and so the Seahawks have already annoyed us. Which is not surprising. So rob Scott, how you all doing? They're doing great. Yeah, rob, what is your beverage of choice today? So I have a L hemorrhoid tequila reposado with fresca. That's very Mexican except that the only thing that would have that fit better in Mexico, which is the true drink of Mexico is not the margarita. It is the tequila with squirt. Oh, yes, yes. Well, squirt and fresco are basically the same drink. Yeah. It's kind of strange because I feel like squirt is a kind of a soda that is completely dropped out of the consciousness of the United States. I guess it's still made, but oh yeah, no, you can still get squirt. Because last time you were down the street was like, that's a man drinking a squirt. It's not something you see very often. So it's like seeing somebody drinking on RC. So yes, in Mexico, that is the thing. So I am drinking here a trillion double dry hot stillings street IPA, which in my view is probably the best brewery in the great state of Massachusetts. So it is very tasty. What about you, doctor loi miu, I know it's a little early on your time, but it is a Friday. Yeah, unfortunately, I do. I've got a goddamn faculty data form that I've got to have done by Monday. So this is from Atlanta, Georgia, a cork zero. The finest of Georgia. Well, anyway, so we again, we were about halfway through the second round here. And you know, I guess that looking at the giraffe so far..
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"rob farley" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"And money podcast. My name is rob Farley, and today with me is Sheryl rover and we are going to talk about Russia and the Russia Ukraine more. How are you doing today? Fine. I'm looking forward to it. There's a lot going on. Oh yeah, there is there is a great deal going on. So you've been reading and you've been writing. I know you've been thinking a lot about what we could describe as the way that Russia's goals in this war. Despite the fact that their ability to accomplish the goals seems to be getting more and more sharply curtailed every day, their discussion of goals is becoming more maximalist. So could you start off by just having a conversation about what it sounding like Russia is wanting out of this war at this point? Boy, that is really hard because Putin has said a number of things that might lead one to believe that what he would like to do is reconstitute the Soviet Union or more likely the Russian Empire, or at least bring together all the russias as in sort of all the rashes, which would be great Russia little Russia, which is Ukraine and white Russia, which is Belarus. And there's certainly action in that direction. On the other hand, while some of the things Putin has said are pretty maximalist, they are in fact on the battlefield pulling back from any kind of maximalist goals for the military action, it's looking more like they might be satisfied with a small bite of the eastern part of Ukraine and finally pulling off the Donbass into who knows what an independent entity part of Russia is not clear anybody knows what that would be. So there's a real conflict there. And I don't know what it means. It's certainly means that Putin and the military are having some interesting conversations. Right. And to my understanding, we're also seeing from Russian media and major Russian media figures. Not really offering any sort of middle ground on this. And I mean, it's tough to write up stuff because what I know about Russian media comes way through Twitter, right? And so I know that there are a lot of people on Twitter who basically just want to amplify. Sort of the nastiest statements that are coming out of Russia and not really talk about anything that's a little bit more moderate. But it does seem as if Russian rhetoric is not being finally tuned to match Russia's battlefield performance thus far. And it's interesting to the latest assessment, I think it was DoD this morning sort of talked about what the situation on the ground is. And the progress really is incremental in a lot of places in the Donbass, right? Heavy artillery bombardment followed up by sort of very slow painstaking defense of infantry and armor. Still taking substantial casualties. These are heavily fortified positions that they're biting into. But they're still talking in terms of hail marys. And that's just quite strange to me. And it strikes me that it's dangerous from a Russian civil military perspective as well. Yeah. When you I wasn't adding in the Russian media into what I said earlier. And when you add in the Russian media, things really get crazy. Although like you, my only understanding is through Twitter. So I just don't say too much about this, but they were showing pictures of how Kaliningrad could nuke Berlin in a hundred seconds or something like that this morning that's pretty inflammatory. And I think part of what we're seeing is a push to get Putin to declare a full mobilization. I think that the military, you know, if we think back to our special operations, the military were frequently unhappy with being limited in that way and would like a little more. And what Putin is doing is a special operation kind of thing, which means it's limited, as far as the what the military can do. And the military would probably really like a full mobilization. Now, I'm not sure that dragging up a bunch of conscripts who are going to be not happy to go is going to help them a whole lot. There is some speculation that Putin will declare full mobilization on May 9th. But I think that part of the agitation we're seeing is a push to get Putin to declare full mobilization. Right, right. Now, I've heard the same thing and it's interesting I saw what was a pretty good analysis, which is, you know, even if so, so say that Putin goes ahead and declares his full mobilization in early May. And maybe it's may 9th. I think we're assigning a lot of symbolic importance to May 9th at this point, but it is a bit awkward to be having a victory day parade when you're in the middle of a war that you're not actually winning. And so I can see the awkwardness about that. But, you know, the analysis is that, you know, you can't really start funneling reservists and new conscripts into this operation in a framework of months, right? Or unless it's like 8 or 9 months down the line. And so you're seeing new fresh troops being integrated into the force. You know, basically, as we're turning to 2023, and until then, Russia is sort of really in a pretty precarious military position because Ukraine's material position is improving steadily. Ukraine is not have a manpower issue because it has fully mobilized its reserves and it's fighting on its own territory. And so the indication, I mean, it's really it's a really sort of fascinating thing, right? Because you're saying you announced this mobilization, you really tipping your hand to the Ukrainians that you're going to see this thing to the finish. Which then I think is would change Ukrainian behavior and interesting ways, right? It might make the Ukrainians a little bit more risk accepted in terms of in terms of pushing Russia out. And so I don't really know how that plays out. But it's an interesting gambit with really the future of the Russian state that goodness playing with here. Yeah, really Putin has gotten himself into a really, really bad situation, and he doesn't have a lot of good options to carry forth on, like you say, the Ukrainians are going to do what they can to push the Russians out. And I've been trying to think of what would be a satisfactory endgame for either side clearly neither side is ready to negotiate now the Ukrainians want their country.
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"rob farley" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"Money podcast. My name is rob Farley. And this is the fourth of our series on the oral history of the blogosphere. Joining me today are Scott lemieux and tetra of Zelle. How are you guys doing? Great. Very well. At least adjusting for context. There we go. All right. All right, so Ted are you are better known among the crowd that is following this podcast. As doctor B from the early history of the blogosphere, so winding way, way, way back way back. Tell us a little bit about how and why you started blogging. Wow, that is way back. So a lot of it has to do with having a kid and grad school. So I started writing stuff on, oh my gosh, I didn't even, what was the platform called? It was the pre blog platform. I'm just drawing a blank if I remember I'll say it and we can put it back in. But our journal live journal, thank you. Yes. On a live is on it's hard to remember now, yeah. Before that, so I was on a forum that was called hip mama. And it was a form of moms having kids. In Seattle. And I actually met some really cool people, including the woman who was one of the Linus nannies for the time when I was finishing grad school. Anyway, we were doing that. And I had a live journal, but live journal as some people might remember limited audience. It was like the way Facebook wasn't the beginning. It was just the people that you kind of added into your and I was just writing about grad school and having a kid and figuring stuff out. And I just decided I wanted to broader more public audience. So I started up a blogger blog. And we should say that we were all actually at that grad school together. I don't rob, did you meet her before? I met you a few times just because we were all involved in a unionization effort at the time. And it should be said that Ted Jo was actually unlike me like actually pretty prominent leader in that movement. So like we do each other little and I'm pretty sure that I like you know I only found out who you were like well after like bitch PhD took off. So I didn't know I actually knew the person involved. But yeah, we were actually, so this is actually a UW story. I think it's generous to say I was a prominent leader. I mean, I was in the English department, right? I think a lot of noise. But, you know, I would defer to other people on that. But yeah, we realized after the fact that we had that we had both kind of been traveling the same circles. Yeah, I don't think I met you until 2019, which oddly enough was something like two years after I met mister B and pseudonym. Pseudonymous kids. So I met them first and then later on. Thomas oops, I guess, I guess I can say his name. Thomas, my husband was out here.
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"rob farley" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"My name is rob Farley, and with me today, I am delighted to have Mike Cole, who is the author of the bronze lie, which is a recent book about the Spartan mirage or the legacy of Sparta in the modern and ancient worlds. He is also the author of legion versus phalanx and a whole host of other works. How are you doing today? Mike, good, thanks. I really appreciate you having me on. Well, it's absolutely an honor. I devoured both bronze lie and legion versus phalanx. And pretty rapidly. And actually, at the end, I want to come back to that because I listened to the audiobooks and I saw I have questions about the audiobook versions and how those came together. So I mean, why don't we just start out with the big question, which is what was the bronze line, what attracted you to talking about Sparta in this way? Sure. So look, I have always had an abiding interest in ancient warfare, just coming out of being a war gamer, which is what led me to legion versus phalanx. And my interest, of course, was very tactical, very practical, sort of what you would expect from normal Warner kit deployment logistics all that kind of stuff. But what I think look, I make no secret about my leftism. And I think I sort of became very alarmed with the rise of trumpism and because you have to remember it wasn't just an American phenomenon in 2016. It was a global phenomenon. And I think at the same time that the unite the right rally was going on in the U.S., there was a massive one in Poland, and that was something like ten times the attendance. So what I noticed across all of these movements and I do mean all of them is that they use Spartan iconography as, and mind you, I'm not talking about reasonable conservatism, right? I'm a leftist, but I'm not a wild slavery leftist, right? I want to be clear about that. I'm very interested in, I don't like flipping. I mean, literally every leftist has exactly that same thing that they say about other leftists. I know that because I just travel in these circles. But there's always of course I'm not a lunatic. But rob I mean it. I'm the one who really needs it. But yeah, and unfortunately, I think we live in an injury you have to make that disclaimer, right? Is that there's such intense political division globally, not just in the United States, where you really have to identify when you say that you're on the left or the right that you're on the same in moderate left or right and not part of this because those polls are really a serious phenomenon throughout the world right now. So I do think it does bear speaking to. But anyway on the far right mind you, I'm not talking about conservatives in the mold of a David French or a Brett Stevens or whatever. I'm talking about generational identity tear. And the oath keepers and things like that. Spartan iconography was universe universal. And I kept thinking, what is this?.
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"rob farley" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"My name is rob farley. And today i am absolutely delighted to have. Joe coles who is the operator of the hush kit aviation blog which many of the readers lawyers guns and money will know from having mini links to the site over time. And he's also the author of two volumes of the hushkit book of war planes And we're going to start off today talking a little bit about those books Because i think they're fantastic works And then we're going to go into a subject. That i find terribly interesting in that is near and dear to his heart which is a cold more british aircraft. So start off with. How are you doing today. Joe pre pre perky. Thanks caffeinated and ready to go. Yeah deal fantastic..