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When We Talk About Animals
"santa bell" Discussed on When We Talk About Animals
"Thank you so much for having me on. I'm so excited about the lovely depth in your introduction to the book and i'm really excited to talk about animals one of my favorite topics and not not usually what we talk about. When we talk about shells you write in the book that shocking number of people don't even realize shells come from animals. They assume that their form of rocker stone. According to one survey that you mentioned ninety percent of americans don't realize that shells are made by animals at all and yet these shells as as you describe are the life's work in the homes of an incredibly diverse array of sea creatures. Will you tell us about the animals that make shells and how and why they do it. Yes sir. I want to quickly mention that survey that you mentioned is not ninety percent of americans but it was a specific survey of visitors to a seashell museum in florida. Called the bailey matthews national. Shell museum in santa bell. They surveyed visitors to find out how much they already knew about seashells and those surveys revealed that about ninety percent of people who visited the museum and they were. They were often it tourists in children visiting with their families and so it was ninety percent of that group. That didn't know that a shell is made by living animal. And i found that really really shocking and that was that was actually the statistic that led me to the book and for a long time. I was sort of in disbelief about that. But since then i've come to believe that it is a very high number in also talked to a lot of teachers about just the number of kids who aren't exposed now especially to the coast. Even in florida there are plenty of inland children. Who have never seen the sea much less being able to handle. Live molluscs or observe. Live mollahs so to answer your questions. The mollis are this incredible group of animals. The largest group of animals after arthropods that include insects. And i i decided to write about marine mollusks. Because i came to see seashells as a really beautiful way to help. People understand what's happening to earth and what's happening to the animals and sue marine creatures and seashells have been so beloved in all of humanity that i kind of came to see them as ambassadors and that beauty. That eating were so drawn. Sue is as you say made by a living animal. Also the mollusks. A huge group of animals that live everywhere from the top of the himalayas to the deepest on sees. I'm writing specifically about the marine mollis of which there are fifty thousand named in the ocean and yet probably twice that many unknown and still unnamed. So that's another kind of exciting part of the story is that there are still being discovered all the time the other thing that is so fascinating about these animals is that they've survived for five hundred million years they are the mollis sora half a billion years old and that means that they survived earlier periods of warming earlier periods of ocean acidification. So those that we live among now are really some of the world's rates survivors. And i love that parted story because so so often when we talk about animals. We're talking about such a devastating story. Right especially with all the mammals that are britain's with extinction so i i liked this idea as a topic in so many ways in my hope is that it really draw draw people to the story of life in the.
Cheine On
"santa bell" Discussed on Cheine On
"Make the decision and you can always beg for forgiveness or you know. Change that decision afterwards but make that next best decision. You can in a moment of not knowing what to do and so. That's what i did. And i ended up in communication degree. And you switch to a community. I do business management and a year and a half in communication. Yeah the nice the easiest major public speaking and they just do this. Major was that what was your mindset of switching a communications knowing and having confidence in my communication abilities and knowing i wanted to do a lot of public speaking and so is like hey this could be a very Transferable again degree that could be applied to whatever job. I do so like. Hey if i if. I can really solidify this. I will have confidence in me. Landing in a field of work and that lasted three days. Won't that lasted three days until my counselor was like look we respected. We get it but we think you should be a little bit more business oriented knowing who you are knowing enough about you and so they recommended me to move into business management the vice versa of what you did okay. So i moved into business. Management that lasted. Maybe a couple months up. Until i was walking while i'm telling you man change changed you time and that lasted until i was walking from exam to Sovi south village remember sony. Yeah freshman housing for anyone. Who has soviet and i was with my roommate. Who to this day still my roommate. My best friend. I and not the thai dish advertisement monroe and he was telling me he us in the resort and hospitality program and he was telling me how promising it was ninety. Seven percents career placement rate here in south florida being so touristy hospitality some is like lit up and i'm like i like a hospitality guy. Mommy's always said to you. You're very hospitable. And so i was like new opportunity. So i couldn't change it because it was final exams for the first freshman year so i just wrote it out. That's summer and then the second my f- fall semester. My sophomore year came around which was twenty sixteen jumped into resort and hospitality management. So that was degree. Change number four. Now here's where it gets interesting interesting. And this is one of my most humbling topics to talk about in. And i haven't done a lot of these recently. But i used to do a lot of talks on campuses and stuff like that especially in high schools and colleges and i would always usually start one of the talks or conversations about how i got to where i am with this with this next story so i was in resort and hospitality and part of it is you need mortal internships in at least two different categories sectors of resort and hospitality recreation front desk concierge interesting yup and so i was like oh i got to get these internships so very quickly. Got one over at a local hotel over on santa bell and it was the recreational. Kublai isn't making some cash right you know and But i was also sophomore in college. And i was also having some fun and i was also going out very frequently and so i would come in sometimes not in the best state to work. I may have may have not or may have dozed off a couple of times while sitting in a chair folding towels as and then led into getting fired. I was fired from my first internship in my fourth degree. Change so you can imagine how where the where the hell am i with my doing. I was and so i was like. Are you know what my fault. I kind of building i screwed up now. I got to figure out what to do. I want to stay in the program. Let me say the program. Let me get another internship. So i ended up at another hotel former speeches time doing front desk and you can tell by just talking to me now. You probably would be able to guess. I'm not somebody who can sit in front of a behind the front desk for like eight hours. It'd be good to talk to. Yeah for sure but you just get sick of the actual sitting standing there behind a desk and so Within thirty days i review the sat me down at this. The second internship second hotel all in the same semester with a few week period of getting fired and then getting the next job the sammy down and he said look at their voices really trembling. They couldn't come up with own words there like it's not working out like you're not productive. You don't really do much. And they're like tripping over the words the the manager doesn't even not even looking at me. Hr person's doing it. A person manager who brought me in the office. Not even looking at me saying it. And i'm just looking at him like this is bullshit and i'm like you can pull up the spec requirements that we have every day as employees that we have to give signatures in the the supervisor checks off when we get done you'll see the time stamping you'll see my initials next eighteen out of the twenty items or reason wasn't twenty out twenty s. Because there's other two supervisor had to do this other too. So i got my eighteen hundred twenty items done within usually an hour of being there because that's just how diligent of a worker. I am and how simple those those things i had to do. Word and not get the signature. They
KFI AM 640
"santa bell" Discussed on KFI AM 640
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Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"santa bell" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"So you're right about that. Yeah we could. I just wrote all day about it all night about that but yeah so absolutely i mean. I'm glad you brought that up. Because it was. I considered too and like in thinking about why left. My listed probably is a bias that i have for like. How great is the individual player. That did it. So i loved it. He's on your list actually since he's Right before you give me your next game. I just want to say that. I watch this game My wife and i went on a little mini vacation. That wasn't really a vacation. We went to florida Last week or two weeks ago whenever this game was To stay at my in-laws just bought a condo and on santa bell island so we had this place to ourselves like overlooking the ocean. so beautiful while My wife had just gone to bed and We just gotten there. I think that day or the previous day and I'm pretty sure that there were two. There were three games that night and two of them were on either turner. Espn and was on mba tv. The nuggets blazers was on the nba tv. This condo did not have in dat. So i watched it on my phone and was just cackling canadian. I was laying down on a couch Just holding the phone up over my head at midnight or whenever it was just like hallucinating. Like maybe a drowned earlier in the day. And this was heaven. Me just watching damian lillard on my phone hit ridiculous shots like i. It was it was. It was like a spellbinding performance. that was i'll just i'll never forget that. Yeah no i was doing the same thing. I just laughing like an idiot watching the game because the shots were just like they were hilarious at a certain point like it made it at a certain point it just went beyond all reason like what he was doing and got progressively crazier and those are the of performances. I think that like belong on this list and my pin so hit us with your next one. Chris sure so. I think this would actually goes outside of what i just said. As far as like how ridiculous it was is. But i'll i'll give it anyway. Just because i think this one actually has more potential be overlooked and others in a loss and series loss which i think is probably the more the bigger staying for him. lebron's game. One in two thousand eighteen the catholic. Jr smith dribbled out the ball. I mean it's never to. Is it okay. so so. we're on the same page. I mean this dude almost had a fifty point triple double in game. One of a finals were like pretty much. His team was thought to have no real chance. They did end up having a chance. But only because of lebron. I mean let me see if i have it pulled up. I think as far as the numbers with it like let's see so he got twenty one from kevin love but kevin love was one of eight from three. The team was ten of thirty seven from three and lebron lebron was three of seven so basically the rest of the team was what worse than twenty five percent from the field from three fifty one eight.
The Kindle Chronicles
"santa bell" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Myself and then. I brought some college roommates back once. And then the my father died relatively young so my mother and i came down the the winner that he had passed away during those holidays. And so those are my first revisits and then it was probably another two or three decades before his back against. Do you recall from those first visits. First impressions i well was her causeway. Then or how far back in time the causeway on that All of golf dry was not pay too. I remember a lot of seashells beautiful beaches. If you get off a plane in northeast if you get on a plane in northeast. Ohio and you exit in a winner down here. They're certainly something even more magical than if used to it during the summer. Day and so Just remembered good weather good times and just the the entire natural beauty of the place when you are visiting that earlier period where you sort of making a note to yourself that someday i wanna come back here and live here and work here. We did that. Just be that was just kind of serendipitous. The way fab well the city manager that Were was a longtime when a longest-serving city managers in ohio. Dave elder for more than ten his family had been coming every spring break to santa bell before the causeway. So i would always hear his reports and i worked for a mayor in cleveland. Ohio as truth staff and he decided after many successful terms to not run for re election in my den fire chief came in and said you have pictures on your desk from some sets on santa bell. Did you hear. They're looking for a city manager. We were all looking for jobs in and Got me called up. They were down to the final five but um was able to get in the pool and then over. The next couple of weeks emerged as the finalists. They'd had some terminus times before that. The city managers in the five years before i arrived. So i didn't know of i definitely didn't think i would necessarily be here for twenty years but I thought well worst case. I'll get a good tan. It'd be back up north but Ended up being a lot longer. Tenure you owe a debt to that Was fire chief. That gave you the tip. Yep and he now is retired and lives in benito estero area actually. Yeah and this was back in two thousand one or late Two thousand one. Actually i accepted the position the week of nine one one. I said yes. Be early in the week and then by that by for the week was out nine. One one occurred so it was kind of a difficult time to be moving and transitioning but Many people had things much worse happening that week so oh for sure. Yeah i use the word magical. I've seen effect in that Southern living magazine. There's there's words like that that And i certainly use words like that. When i tell my new england why why do you think it has any affect. What what what are the. What's the equation. That seems to so frequently lead us to talk about this island as magical or enchanted something better than just. Oh what a great vacation spot. Something a little extra. Well i tell people it's still much more than just a dot on the map. We are world class travel destination. Were almost on. Everyone's list of best beaches are best donate destinations for bucket. List to see in your lifetime type of thing. But i think it's the sense of community and the uniqueness that gives people that sense of the somewhere more special and i think at least in my last two decades we have a great gratitude to our civic leaders and founders who did so much to protect the community and if you just go off island there's some very nice communities and towns but you really now that the development off island continues in this region you see the contrast of the nato protected status santa bell and the more Manicured You know of in the subtropics when you when you don't protect that nato's grounds and wildlife and all the things that we do here. But i think if if you live here for short time you realize and for people who stay like you have for more than that one week or so you get that sense of community you know. I'd say over the last few years before our pandemic. it's very common at city hall that we did a lot of calls before the fourth of july or the holidays saying. What do the people on santa bell do for the fourth of july whether the people on santa bell do for christmas. What do they do for easter. And they people come here and they wanna live that whatever they see is at santa bell lifestyle and they want to become immersed into the community there for a week or a day. They want to go to the farmer's market and they want to go to bailey's and they wanna you know they they they want to feel it. Just see it. Well then you've got this major commitment to preservation of wildlife and wild space for almost seventy percent of seventeen thousand acres reserve of one kind or another i. I'm not an expert on wildlife. Love it if if they had only preserved thirty five percent of the island would there be way less wildlife way fewer species of birds. I mean what. What's the effect of taking that much. Land on a place like this in terms of how much wildlife you can support. I think there's a couple of things one. It's the percentages actually way north of seventy percent. I think that would probably be just the ding darling and preserves but the city owns a significant contribution land ourselves as well as the about conservation foundation. So if you put those together you're usually just under eighty percent So you know. Places like cinnamon gardens at the city. Owns or jordan marsh and then of course the kept thiede The sandbox tiba. Ccf conservation foundation owns numerous parcels. But it's particularly as we've acquired the more recent or as these other parties have it's become even more strategic so it's not just about the raw acreage is about protecting certain water bodies like the symbols. Do which some people refer to as the cinnabon river or what. We call wildlife corridors. So that we can if you look at the map of the green map of santa where the conservation leeann is. It's not just pockets. There's connectivity so that that wildlife has areas to rome four region nest and and it's more than just the one area and then the diversity of the areas that are protected so sometimes people come to santa bell and they go. Oh i got a lot with no wetlands. I got an area with no wetlands. And of course we're very protective of our wetlands but it could be a very unique upland hammock a canopy that needs protection so it's not just wetlands it's at the diversity of the land in the fact that we try to protect the entire Not just one species but the entire wildlife community on seeing in the habitats for for that. Will you mentioned well quarters. Are you actually seeing where the wildlife is going and then trying to find the pieces of land would help protect their router. How precise can get actually help them get where they need
The Kindle Chronicles
"santa bell" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Kind of serendipitous. The way fab well the city manager that Were was a longtime when a longest-serving city managers in ohio. Dave elder for more than ten his family had been coming every spring break to santa bell before the causeway. So i would always hear his reports and i worked for a mayor in cleveland. Ohio as truth staff and he decided after many successful terms to not run for re election in my den fire chief came in and said you have pictures on your desk from some sets on santa bell. Did you hear. They're looking for a city manager. We were all looking for jobs in and Got me called up. They were down to the final five but um was able to get in the pool and then over. The next couple of weeks emerged as the finalists. They'd had some terminus times before that. The city managers in the five years before i arrived. So i didn't know of i definitely didn't think i would necessarily be here for twenty years but I thought well worst case. I'll get a good tan. It'd be back up north but Ended up being a lot longer. Tenure you owe a debt to that Was fire chief. That gave you the tip. Yep and he now is retired and lives in benito estero area actually. Yeah and this was back in two thousand one or late Two thousand one. Actually i accepted the position the week of nine one one. I said yes. Be early in the week and then by that by for the week was out nine. One one occurred so it was kind of a difficult time to be moving and transitioning but Many people had things much worse happening that week so oh for sure. Yeah i use the word magical. I've seen effect in that Southern living magazine. There's there's words like that that And i certainly use words like that. When i tell my new england why why do you think it has any affect. What what what are the. What's the equation. That seems to so frequently lead us to talk about this island as magical or enchanted something better than just. Oh what a great vacation spot. Something a little extra. Well i tell people it's still much more than just a dot on the map. We are world class travel destination. Were almost on. Everyone's list of best beaches are best donate destinations for bucket. List to see in your lifetime type of thing. But i think it's the sense of community and the uniqueness that gives people that sense of the somewhere more special and i think at least in my last two decades we have a great gratitude to our civic leaders and founders who did so much to protect the community and if you just go off island there's some very nice communities and towns but you really now that the development off island continues in this region you see the contrast of the nato protected status santa bell and the more Manicured You know of in the subtropics when you when you don't protect that nato's grounds and wildlife and all the things that we do here. But i think if if you live here for short time you realize and for people who stay like you have for more than that one week or so you get that sense of community you know. I'd say over the last few years before our pandemic. it's very common at city hall that we did a lot of calls before the fourth of july or the holidays saying. What do the people on santa bell do for the fourth of july whether the people on santa bell do for christmas. What do they do for easter. And they people come here and they wanna live that whatever they see is at santa bell lifestyle and they want to become immersed into the community there for a week or a day. They want to go to the farmer's market and they want to go to bailey's and they wanna you know they they they want to feel it. Just see it. Well then you've got this major commitment to preservation of wildlife and wild space for almost seventy percent of seventeen thousand acres reserve of one kind or another i. I'm not an expert on wildlife. Love it if if they had only preserved thirty five percent of the island would there be way less wildlife way fewer species of birds. I mean what. What's the effect of taking that much. Land on a place like this in terms of how much wildlife you can support. I think there's a couple of things one. It's the percentages actually way north of seventy percent. I think that would probably be just the ding darling and preserves but the city owns a significant contribution land ourselves as well as the about conservation foundation. So if you put those together you're usually just under eighty percent So you know. Places like cinnamon gardens at the city. Owns or jordan marsh and then of course the kept thiede The sandbox tiba. Ccf conservation foundation owns numerous parcels. But it's particularly as we've acquired the more recent or as these other parties have it's become even more strategic so it's not just about the raw acreage is about protecting certain water bodies like the symbols. Do which some people refer to as the cinnabon river or what. We call wildlife corridors. So that we can if you look at the map of the green map of santa where the conservation leeann is. It's not just pockets. There's connectivity so that that wildlife has areas to rome four region nest and and it's more than just the one area and then the diversity of the areas that are protected so sometimes people come to santa bell and they go. Oh i got a lot with no wetlands. I got an area with no wetlands. And of course we're very protective of our wetlands but it could be a very unique upland
The Kindle Chronicles
"santa bell" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Beaches. If you get off a plane in northeast if you get on a plane in northeast. Ohio and you exit in a winner down here. They're certainly something even more magical than if used to it during the summer. Day and so Just remembered good weather good times and just the the entire natural beauty of the place when you are visiting that earlier period where you sort of making a note to yourself that someday i wanna come back here and live here and work here. We did that. Just be that was just kind of serendipitous. The way fab well the city manager that Were was a longtime when a longest-serving city managers in ohio. Dave elder for more than ten his family had been coming every spring break to santa bell before the causeway. So i would always hear his reports and i worked for a mayor in cleveland. Ohio as truth staff and he decided after many successful terms to not run for re election in my den fire chief came in and said you have pictures on your desk from some sets on santa bell. Did you hear. They're looking for a city manager. We were all looking for jobs in and Got me called up. They were down to the final five but um was able to get in the pool and then over. The next couple of weeks emerged as the finalists. They'd had some terminus times before that. The city managers in the five years before i arrived. So i didn't know of i definitely didn't think i would necessarily be here for twenty years but I thought well worst case. I'll get a good tan. It'd be back up north but Ended up being a lot longer. Tenure you owe a debt to that Was fire chief. That gave you the tip. Yep and he now is retired and lives in benito estero area actually. Yeah and this was back in two thousand one or late Two thousand one. Actually i accepted the position the week of nine one one. I said yes. Be early in the week and then by that by for the week was out nine. One one occurred so it was kind of a difficult time to be moving and transitioning but Many people had things much worse happening that week so oh for sure. Yeah i use the word magical. I've seen effect in that Southern living magazine. There's there's words like that that And i certainly use words like that. When i tell my new england why why do you think it has any affect. What what what are the. What's the equation. That seems to so frequently lead us to talk about this island as magical or enchanted something better than just. Oh what a great vacation spot. Something a little extra. Well i tell people it's still much more than just a dot on the map. We are world class travel destination. Were almost on. Everyone's list of best beaches are best donate destinations for bucket. List to see in your lifetime type of thing. But i think it's the sense of community and the uniqueness that gives people that sense of the somewhere more special and i think at least in my last two decades we have a great gratitude to our civic leaders and founders who did so much to protect the community and if you just go off island there's some very nice communities and towns but you really now that the development off island continues in this region you see the contrast of the nato protected status santa bell and the more Manicured You know of in the subtropics when you when you don't protect that nato's grounds and wildlife and all the things that we do here. But i think if if you live here for short time you realize and for people who stay like you have for more than that one week or so you get that sense of community you know. I'd say over the last few years before our pandemic. it's very common at city hall that we did a lot of calls before the fourth of july or the holidays saying. What do the people on santa bell do for the fourth of july whether the people on santa bell do for christmas. What do they do for easter. And they people come here and they wanna live that whatever they see is at santa bell lifestyle and they want to become immersed into the community there for a week or a day. They want to go to the farmer's market and they want to go to bailey's and they wanna you know they they they want to feel it. Just see it. Well then you've got this major commitment to preservation of wildlife and wild space for almost seventy percent of seventeen thousand acres reserve of one kind or another i. I'm not an expert on wildlife. Love it if if they had only preserved thirty five percent of the island would there be way less wildlife way fewer species of birds. I mean what. What's the effect of taking that much. Land on a place like this in terms of how much wildlife you can support. I think there's a couple of things one. It's the percentages actually way north of seventy percent. I think that would probably be just the ding darling and preserves but the city owns a significant contribution land ourselves as well as the about conservation foundation. So if you put those together you're usually just under eighty percent So you know. Places like cinnamon gardens at the city. Owns or jordan marsh and then of course the kept thiede The sandbox tiba. Ccf conservation foundation owns numerous parcels. But it's particularly as we've acquired the more recent or as these other parties have it's become even more strategic so it's not just about the raw acreage is about protecting certain water bodies like the symbols. Do which some people refer to as the cinnabon river or what. We call wildlife corridors. So that we can if you look at the map of the green map of santa where the conservation leeann is. It's not just pockets. There's connectivity so that that wildlife has areas to rome four region nest and and it's more than just the one area and then the diversity of the areas that are protected so sometimes people come to santa bell and they go. Oh i got a lot with no wetlands. I got an area with no wetlands. And of course we're very protective of our wetlands but it could be a very unique upland
The Kindle Chronicles
"santa bell" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"An interest in public service But hit all my professional jobs before santa about were in ohio snows local government and then the education you. You attended university down here in this area. Or how did education bring you clearly started at the started at a regional campus of kent state university. been moved up to the main campus finished. An undergrad at can say university Did my graduate work and ohio. State university did a law degree at capital university and did special training at a couple of other schools including harvard at the kennedy school for local government And when was the first time you saw santa bill in the eighty dollars working for a suburb of columbus. Ohio called worthington. Ohio and even then. There is a number of people from the kamba sir suburbs including people at the worthington city hall. That would vacation down here and they said how nice it was and how much they liked it. So that was the first time i came down to visit and you just came down for a vacation in the winter came down. Yeah one time. Business spring By myself and then. I brought some college roommates back once. And then the my father died relatively young so my mother and i came down the the winner that he had passed away during those holidays. And so those are my first revisits and then it was probably another two or three decades before his back against. Do you recall from those first visits. First impressions i well was her causeway. Then or how far back in time the causeway on that All of golf dry was not pay too. I remember a lot of seashells beautiful beaches. If you get off a plane in northeast if you get on a plane in northeast. Ohio and you exit in a winner down here. They're certainly something even more magical than if used to it during the summer. Day and so Just remembered good weather good times and just the the entire natural beauty of the place when you are visiting that earlier period where you sort of making a note to yourself that someday i wanna come back here and live here and work here. We did that. Just be that was just kind of serendipitous. The way fab well the city manager that Were was a longtime when a longest-serving city managers in ohio. Dave elder for more than ten his family had been coming every spring break to santa bell before the causeway. So i would always hear his reports and i worked for a mayor in cleveland. Ohio as truth staff and he decided after many successful terms to not run for re election in my den fire chief came in and said you have pictures on your desk from some sets on santa bell. Did you hear. They're looking for a city manager. We were all looking for jobs in and Got me called up. They were down to the final five but um was able to get in the pool and then over. The next couple of weeks emerged as the finalists. They'd had some terminus times before that. The city managers in the five years before i arrived. So i didn't know of i definitely didn't think i would necessarily be here for twenty years but I thought well worst case. I'll get a good tan. It'd be back up north but Ended up being a lot longer. Tenure you owe a debt to that Was fire chief. That gave you the tip. Yep and he now is retired and lives in benito estero area actually. Yeah and this was back in two thousand one or late Two thousand one. Actually i accepted the position the week of nine one one. I said yes. Be early in the week and then by that by for the week was out nine. One one occurred so it was kind of a difficult time to be moving and transitioning but Many people had things much worse happening that week so oh for sure. Yeah i use the word magical. I've seen effect in that Southern living magazine. There's there's words like that that And i certainly use words like that. When i tell my new england why why do you think it has any affect. What what what are the. What's the equation. That seems to so frequently lead us to talk about this island as magical or enchanted something better than just. Oh what a great vacation spot. Something a little extra. Well i tell people it's still much more than just a dot on the map. We are world class travel destination. Were almost on. Everyone's list of best beaches are best donate destinations for bucket. List to see in your lifetime type of thing. But i think it's the sense of community and the uniqueness that gives people that sense of the somewhere more special and i think at least in my last two decades we have a great gratitude to our civic leaders and founders who did so much to protect the community and if you just go off island there's some very nice communities and towns but you really now that the development off island continues in this region you see the contrast of the nato protected status santa bell and the more Manicured You know of in the subtropics when you when you don't protect that nato's grounds and wildlife and all the things that we do here. But i think if if you live here for short time you realize and for people who stay like you have for more than that one week or so you get that sense of community you know. I'd say over the last few years before our pandemic. it's very common at city hall that we did a lot of calls before the fourth of july or the holidays saying. What do the people on santa bell do for the fourth of july whether the people on santa bell do for christmas. What do they do for easter. And they people come here and they wanna live that whatever they see is at santa bell lifestyle and they want to become immersed into the community there for a week or a day. They want to go to the farmer's market and they want to go to bailey's and they wanna you know they they they want to feel
The Kindle Chronicles
"santa bell" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Is february twelfth. Twenty twenty one on santa bell island in florida. My guest this week is my grandson. James who will be fifteen years old and nine days on february twenty first. We spoke by zoom. He's up in cambridge. And i'm here in santa bell About half an hour about his new school in western massachusetts the pandemic and his experience of it as a freshman in high school and Probably the part that tickle me most was his candor in his enthusiasm for what. He's learning about his journey as a writer. Also in this episode I wanna tell you about some comments. That marty baron made in an interview with the new yorker and this is on the occasion of his impending retirement as the executive editor of the washington post was a wide ranging interview. But what most interested me was what he had to say about working for. Jeff bezos as the owner of the washington post and. then i've got some For the tip. I wanna talk to you about the new fire operating system. Which i just installed tonight and i've heard from a couple of you that this is a big change in how the fire looks and it's worth looking at. Let's get started. Marty baron was already legendary newspaper editor before he joined the washington post as editor in two thirteen. He had been the editor of boston. Globe at the time of the globes Crusading work to light problems of child abuse within the catholic church and he the he even had a movie made about it. He didn't play himself in the movie. But it was pretty dramatic movie just showing how tough a job that was to break open into the sunlight. What was going on behind the scenes in the art sizes of pasta so he shows up at the post in twenty thirteen and a less than a year later. The post is purchased by. Jeff bezos So the new yorker in an article in the current issue by isaac charter Does a an actual interview question to answer the fellow to over the phone with Marty baron and I was really intrigued to see if there are any changes in barons view of basil's I had heard him speak several years ago at south by southwest baron and at that time it was more new but the basics of basil's not interfering at all in the amazon coverage by the paper and just Believing in the mission of the paper and doing it for that reason that that was what i thought was the case and it was pretty much confirmed in this interview with with something. That was a little bit surprising. That i'll tell you about Barron says in the interview that when. Jeff bezos acquired the post in two thousand thirteen. He fundamentally changed our strategy and that was to go from being a news organization that was focused primarily on our region to being a news organization that would be national and even international. He said at the time and he was correct that we are in an ideal position to do so because we are in the nation's capital that's a good base for that we have the name the washington post which can be leveraged to a national scale unlike a lot of other names of publications around the country and we have a history and heritage the shaper identity. Which is going back to watergate. China light on dark corners. I love this line. He says the implication is that we didn't have to go on a retreat to figure out. Who the hell we were so with that. We became national I find that Revealing parable of the way. Jeff bezos looks at a problem from way high up in terms of perspective. What is this thing called washington post. What kinds of opportunities does it have. Just by the fact it has washington in its name. Where might people be interested in reading what goes on in that city all over the world and so his digital strategy of expansion and turning the post profitable all flowed from the scene into the essence of This newspaper which he was invited to by By the the graham family as a way to preserve the post into the future baron is asked. Why did basil's by the post And he says things which you would expect in which i believe is true that he believes in the mission of journalism. He thinks it's important for democracy. So the civics book Aspects of y bezos is involved in it. He's confirmed this lately in talking about why he has decided to retire as ceo in july But then barron speculates a little and. I don't think i've seen this before. But it seems right to me. He says but my guess is also that he thought it was an interesting challenge and my sense of him is that he likes challenges and that he thought this was doable. And going back to what. I said about how we shifted our strategy. He saw an opportunity that i think others did not see. And that's what makes him him. He recognized that if we could shift our strategy to be national and even international. We could turn the post around because he felt that while focusing on our region was perhaps the right strategy for a different era it wasn't the right strategy for the current one. that's what makes him him He was naturally as well. What about covering amazon. You've heard me talk on the show that that Anybody who reads the washington post coverage of jeff bezos and amazon I don't think would spend a lotta time worrying that the ownership of the papers resulting News coverage sl- slanted toward in a favorable way toward amazon But anyway the new yorker guy says was there a different editorial process amazon stories. Baron answers none zero none. There's just no different process. We treat it like anything else that we do when we first when he first met with the staff he said. Cover me the way you cover anybody else and cover amazon the way you cover any other company. He's reiterated that on several occasions. I've never experienced anything that calls that into question. He hasn't interfered in any way whatsoever with our coverage. And i've never heard a complaint never heard a suggestion never heard anything This this confirm my sense of how basil's has been hailing the post I thought that Several years ago at south by southwest baron and his top digital guy said that they were in a meeting every other week with basil's high level strategy meeting and it appears that that's not quite so frequent now because barron said that he The meetings are typically typically once every two weeks three weeks or something like that. Sometimes we go for a while without any meetings. It's not as regular was but every few weeks we have a meeting. I think maybe after july when jeff steps down see yoda the washington post editor. Whoever it might be after baron Might be having a few more meetings more involvement because that's something jeff said is is important to him. He likes doing something. That improves civilisation in washington. Post and blue origin Both fit that criterion But i'm sure that there won't be any shift in how much.
The Kindle Chronicles
"santa bell" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"The extra that was published in entrepreneur. Which you'll find a link to in the show notes tells how a rather odd meeting with steve jobs. And jeff bezos Laid the groundwork for the kindle. The story that i've never heard before and i. I have a feeling this book might be full of them. Unfortunately i was not able to schedule an interview with the authors. Their virtual book tour. I think i get started that process a little late but maybe be a chance to catch up with one or both of them later. My guest next week is going to be patrick. Wola hand and he is Worked at amazon and he has been overseeing the kindle updates. i reached out to them quite a while ago. And we were talking about the latest update for the oasis. And the paperweight kindle So he's going to tell us what amazon tries to do these updates. I think we may get a chance to talk about that. Patch that i told you about last week. This kind of a an extra story to the most recent update on monday darlene. And her sister debonair will to our next rental. This'll be the third and last rental of our. Stay down here this winter we will be in a house next to a golf course on the bay side of santa bell so i i might actually rent some clubs and see if i can remember anything about golf from After about a thirty year. Hiatus when i played in casper wyoming each move there were doing in the island is becoming more of an undertaking because we keep buying stuff at amazon and Durling bought a chair. That i'm gonna have to put on the top of the tesla and hold With my arm out the driver's side window and try to pick a quiet time to cross periwinkle to get it from this house to the next one. I kind of amazed that we're halfway through our stay here but we're we're all loving it and we've already booked a waterfront condo for december which will be the start of next year's winter exploration of the island We're getting lots of time to figure out what we might like if we have a chance to buy something here. And that's going to depend on the waking up of the still dormant Real estate market for condos in downtown denver. Thanks for listening. Great to have you with me here on santa bell and i hope you have a good week take care..
Beach Talk Radio
"santa bell" Discussed on Beach Talk Radio
"Thirty four thirty five and So he wants his. His tied of santa bill was that he had a house up here on capterra and he was instrumental in nineteen forty five and getting the ding darling. National wildlife refuge authorized and then also protected as the santa bella national wildlife refuge and then later after he passed away in nineteen sixty seven. Pass away and sixty three and then sixty seven they changed. It changed the name from santa bill. National wildlife refuge to the aren't very nice nominee. Ask the dumbest question of the day. And she's used to me asking these questions she's up here. And how do you get there. How do you get there from here from here. Well coming over from santa bell island. You'll it will turn right at the causeway all perry winkle way head straight on down to To tarpon bay road take a right and then take a left on santa bell captive road. And we're on the right hand side about two miles down. What's the biggest fish i've ever caught. Probably a say it probably might Tarpon is probably about a fifty sixty sixty sixty pounds sharpens. How long. How long did it take you to pull it in. Oh not terribly long. Maybe ten ten minutes really not to take a couple of hours. I mean look our spaghetti arm. I wish i could bigger with. Yeah so where did you catch it out here in tarpon bay okay. I didn't know what he did. We miss anything about ding. Darling in you. And congratulations on the position. I know you've been kind of in the acting positions for a while and So that's that's gotta be gotta be good to be the cato. It is I i. I'm i'm beyond words To to to really say i. I really This place has a place in my special in my heart. And i never did. I think that i would come back after. I left in two thousand eight and became a manager up in charleston south carolina cape romain national wildlife refuge. Never did. i think i'd be able to come back to be the manager here being in my career and things just fell into place dream job. I yeah i it is case. I have to say i've got the best. You know my staff. They're just i. It's smaller than going. It is rebuilding our staff. I mean we've We've been going through a workforce plan part of this Of job now because it is the project leader for southwest. Florida refuges is part of that reorganization and and So my job really i. Initiative is really to to rebuild our staff and get our capacity. We've we've suffered in the last love. I'm gonna look at this job. I knew you have an internship program right. people can't apply for internships. That's right you know. We have interns throughout the year..
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"santa bell" Discussed on Beach Talk Radio
"Then iran police department and that's lee county ambulance. Hopefully nobody fell off their bike without a helmet on. So we're getting all the action today. Different here you have your own fire department and your own police department. No no the fire department is is the santa bella cap. Tv it. that's a county that has not that is not part of the city of santa bell. Okay at our police department. Yes we do have a police. Department services. Both areas correct and and i was remiss because when i said maybe i forgot someone chief dalton. He has been here for for decades and he is now. He's our current chief and put it in a good word for us. And maybe he'll come on the show. And i don't know but i can't. You know very lucky to have the leadership that we do on safety on this island. We're small island. So safety of our of our citizens of our guest is our sern. I guarantee you when you made a comment about somebody on this bike path. I guarantee you somebody on this. So you're you're saying how long you've been on the council So i was appointed for a four-month term. And then jim jennings moved off island. And i i finished his one year and then i am an to two years of my first four years. Okay so the other person that will be left after the election is on how long richard johnson johnson John says you know. Has you know his family. As of the bailey family. So bailey's grocery store. He he came on with me in this first in the first four year term He was on planning commission as well off. Their roots are usual. Basically the same amount of time on the board. And then you're gonna have to kind of well. You might have new members. You might have to new members and jason. Who's on before jason monitor's on before and do you recall how long jason was on before he had to resign to run for. He ran against Vote-on i think right. He was actually elected. I think there were four people running for three position so he was actually.
The Kindle Chronicles
"santa bell" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"You land. It's always a pleasure. I want to comment briefly about Bradley suggestion that jeff bezos might split amazon up himself. I'll admit to extreme skepticism. When i first saw what he had written about that idea but you know as we talked. I guess i saw the advantages that amazon might gain from being the one reconfiguring itself in order to minimize the disruption for customers as opposed to having government regulators do the work driven by more political pressures than by customer obsession. I'd still rate the prospect as a long shot. But then i back the mayor of south bend indiana to become the forty six president so i kinda like longshots speaking of which i enjoyed every minute of the two and a half hour confirmation hearing that mayor pete head yesterday before the senate committee A model of how brief answers really are a good thing because each senator only has five minutes. And if you're smart you let them do most of the talking and this exchange at the very end with the senate committee chairman. Senator wicker from mississippi. You'll you'll get a chance to hear the hear. How laconic pete was and then also a little pleasant exchange at the end of it. Mr buddha judge will you pledge to work collaboratively with this committee provide thorough and timely responses to requests for information as we work together to address important policy issues. I do. And i will thank you very much and up. I understand you had a birthday earlier this week. That's that's true. You ran for president. United states where you actually constitutionally quality now by much but just made the cut okay and and you're on the tonight show last night with jimmy fallon and you're on the morning. Joe show this morning in terms of of of thrilling experience out is being before this committee today. Compared to those. I would characterize this as a unique experience chairman very well said. I reached out to austin clan for an interview for this weekend. He wrote a nice note. Back saying lend nice to hear from you apologies but i have to decline for now slammed with requests and being home with the kids fulltime and trying to write best austin also. I reached out to brad stone. Because i know he's working on a new update of his everything store book about amazon and asked if he wanted to kind of do an off broadway conversation with me before he goes on the circuit and he said he. He looks forward to talking with me about the book. But it's probably not gonna be coming out until about may that is going to be one well-timed book he's been working on it for about a year and in the current changes in washington with Everyone on both sides of the aisle looking at amazon another tech companies. The definitive new book about amazon is going to have a lot of readers. I'm sure that will. I sure will have a chance to talk to brad about it around the time that it's released. This is len edgeley for the kindle. Chronicles on santa bell island and florida. Thanks for listening. Please stay safe..
The Kindle Chronicles
"santa bell" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Today is friday january eighth twenty twenty. One i'm recording tonight and santa bell florida. It's a quiet island. But it's justice roiled by this drama in dc is. I'm sure it is where you live if well it's been news all over the world not just here in the us but dramatic events that we've been following. It helps to be in a quiet place and with early in her sister and connected to various connections. That i have i have a new connection now. that's my guest gregg epstein. Who enjoyed talking with this week to bring you the interview for this episode. Greg is humanist chaplain at harvard and mit an unusual role that turns. I'd have quite a history in interesting to hear about it particularly because some of it started back when i was at harvard Fifty years ago We talked about work. Life balance tech addiction ethics and technology and how harvard and mit students approached the world differently. Perhaps you're also going to hear how greg and my stories kind of laughed drew a connection with my mother who passed away in twenty eighteen. Let's.
The Kindle Chronicles
"santa bell" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Things on my plate. So i resigned. But southbound about light is not represented on the florida lighthouse board. The city has not appointed a representative all of the Articles about lighthouses and both coast of florida and are periodically featured in their newsletter delay. House and china bell is always not mentioned not even a photograph of their christmas decorations. So i i think the side of the city council has taken an interest in the lighthouse. And this may come to light with this documentary. They really need to appoint someone to serve as a representative from sound about. Yeah it sounds like a. When would people be able to see the documentary. How and how it's gonna be provided as a as a dvd student. That's that's the format. When i pulled in fact the producer of the video. Qatada for Doing the project was here yesterday. Loan them some old eight millimeter movies which included some of us when we first moved there and and Understand that part of the footage will be included in the film and he told me he's shooting to complete it Late january it's being done. I understand for the santa bell historical village. Oh i see and they might have a version of it on youtube or something. That people could see In addition to the dvd. The last one who didn't became available on one. I'm not. I'm not pretty much on a museum. Visit and acquire okay. I'll do that the last thing i was curious about. I knew you'd have some insight is nineteen seventies was a very consequential period for santa bell. Because that was the time when santa bell residents incorporated as the city of santa bill taking control of development. Zoning those kinds of issues over from lee county and a pretty dramatic change in the number of units. That could be put on an acre. I think it went from forty four per acre to five. What looking back at that. I would think you feel pretty good about being part of the group that was making some decisions that had a huge impact on what santa bell looks like today. Yeah looking back County zone shelhah. Belka four ninety thousand residents. Can you imagine that. Wow nine thousand and The tally board of county commissioners at the time or hell bent on developing a to increase to counties tax base. And we could see it coming Condos like a sundial being built out right on the edge of the high tide line. They authorized bulk headlines put concrete she piling in bulkheads and this impacted sea turtle nesting. So things were going downhill.
The Kindle Chronicles
"santa bell" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Public education interpretation of the resources. So things changed over time. just has a few Rare species that that are found on the refuge on the island within refuge lands nothing really spectacular except perhaps the sound of del rice rat which is an endemic subspecies of rats. That's found only on santa belt We had one time had populations of eastern indigo snakes. But they're now extirpated from the island because of the traffic on the roads range their range of that they were extremely large ranges and they would cross the roads and the traffic baseball underpaid. Your book which i came across. And i putted smash words and downloaded it to my kindle you published it in twenty fourteen the santa bella island lighthouse specialized history of santa bell. Island fifteen thirteen to twenty fourteen. It's a lot of work to write a book and you've written other books. What what was the message that you were hoping to bring to readers when you road and published that book particular book was trying to consolidate information that was Known in some information that was unknown bring in a few personal experiences narratives about how life was there and also bring forward the the operation of the lighthouse. The pays that happened there. Through the years we lived in that house for removed in the house and december fifty eight and we left in july five seventy nine so just under about twenty one and a half years We live there. And i learned a lot about it. Experienced a lot of different things there. So i tried to bring together Old photographs Namely postcards of changes to the lighthouse over the years and and good some Some factors about how things operated through the years. Well as i read the book. I had an appreciation for the history goes back to the eighteen. Hundreds and the various a entities that were responsible for it leading up to the city of santa bell taking over the management of it in one thousand nine hundred eighty two and then actually purchasing it for four hundred and forty seven dollars and seventy cents and in twenty ten. And i wonder who was the result of some hard negotiations as to whether there was going to beef seventy cents or or some other number on the last two. I don't know the exact story that one but what happened Wildlife service moved in the house. Buildings men is the land beginning at nine hundred forty nine and then in nineteen seventy two. It was a decision made at the lighthouse was not compatible with the objectives of the refuge. And knowing we were eventually they building a new headquarters on santa bell cap road we withdrew. Look what the service withdrew the application for the land and went back to the bureau of land management. When i knew this was happening i was actually serving the city council at the time and i went to the city manager and just as a bit of information i told him what would eventually becoming done that We would vacate our our lease agreement with the coastguard guard. Didn't wanna see some governmental gobbledygook ended up with Some private concern purchasing the lighthouse area..
The Kindle Chronicles
"santa bell" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Walk around it and a little bit. I know that Just six years later. Living in the house our i was walking under. That's amazing. I love thinking about what santa bell must have been like in one thousand nine hundred fifty two or fifty seven when you moved here. What's the biggest change in santa bell from then until now well you can probably go up today. And the biggest. That's traffic. yeah we had. Four ferries operating at peak season and those ferries could only bring right around two hundred twenty five cars over to the islanders day. That's all we could. That's all we could handle into the transportation system and look at it today. There are probably this. Week is the height of the Usually the height of the traffic. And maybe ten thousand cars a day. I'm just gonna get that. But i haven't seen any recent traffic cones and it's bumper to bumper chris lock at times and that's the primary reason why after living there for fifty years. We decided when we fully retired to move in town for my. We still have a traffic issues here but we don't have to leave here only occasionally so. Yeah yeah now. The santa bell national wildlife refuge. Which is job you had when you were living at the lighthouse. You're the number. Two person at the refuge was later. Renamed after ding. Darling was it the same size in nineteen fifty eight as his now. No no in nineteen fifty eight Rescued had a lease agreement with the coastguards. So we manage. They delayed house tract We had a lease with the state of florida for about two thousand acres whether mangled parts of the refuge are located with wildlife drive is and fish and wildlife service purchased the one hundred eighth ability track. We had a few small tracks that were under lease to that was the The boundary refuge of course back in those days Both tommy would the wreckage manager. I had both federal and state enforcement authorities so we included all of sound about to be part of the refuge because it was established in nineteen forty five and then in nineteen forty seven closure Closure order was established. Close all it sound a bell to the hunting taking of migratory birds so all of our surveys of birds. Mammals and fittings reptiles included olive. Sound about now when you go into the refuge now has been attitude since fifty but added to then darling passed away in nineteen sixty two and there was an effort. There was a local committee called jan. Ding darling memorial committee established with the goal of doing something to acknowledge the important input darling to saving the islands and all of his other work nationwide when he was director of the bureau of biological survey and the contributions he mate.
BrainStuff
Do Beaches Need Seashells?
"Today's episode is brought to you by starbucks. They say that starbucks nitro does for cold coffee. What music does for workouts road trips in grand. Romantic gestures sound too good to be true. Guess we'll just have to try it for yourself. Starbucks nature cold brew. It's called coffee that subtly sweet lush and velvety smooth only at starbucks welcome to brainstorm a production indivi- heart radio. Hey brain stuff. Lauren vogel bomb here. We humans tend to enjoy the ocean so it makes sense that we'd want to take a piece as of at home with us but be warned beachside souvenir hunting can land you in prison. If you go overboard case in point early in summer of two thousand eighteen a texas access woman was fined five hundred dollars and sentenced to fifteen days in jail by a florida judge for illegally harvesting forty. Queen conch shells her key west vacation. Queen conches are marine greene's nails who live in gorgeous shells of their own making florida allows people to collect the vacant shells but it's illegal to take one. That's still occupied by alive conch. The shells of the aforementioned i mentioned texan took had living breathing molluscs in them. Florida has a vested interest in these nautical treasures on the shell loaded island of santa bell a barrier community near fort myers beach coming as a major draw for tourists and when residents noticed their precious commodities were vanishing. They took action in the late. Twentieth century local local started worrying that out of towners repelling too many shells as a conservation measure. Santa bell banned the collection of any shells with their original mollusks still living inside as well as does any sand dollars starfish and sea urchins. The ban took effect in nineteen ninety five and has since been extended throughout santa bell's home county. If you've noticed shell depletion on the beaches he visit know that it's not just a matter of light fingered vacationers organized poaching has become a serious global concern. We spoke by email with vincent instant nyman an anthropology professor at oxford brookes university in the united kingdom and a twenty fifteen study he co authored nyman documented the illegal trade of indonesia's protected shells calls the indonesian government keeps a list of molluscs that are illegal to trade or collect within the republic's jurisdiction chambered nautilus triton's trumpets and some giant clams are among the creatures ostensibly protected by law there yet poaching is rampant. Neiman's paper tells of twenty illegal shipments were intercepted by the indonesian authorities between in two thousand eight and two thousand thirteen but together these busts yielded more than forty two thousand shells a protected species valued at seven hundred thousand dollars nyman even said it's very important to note that we're not talking about individual tourists collecting a couple of shells on the beach putting them in their suitcase and bring them home. We're talking about a large scale commercial trade where the shells are collected by active fishing scuba diving cages etc and where entire sections of the ocean floor are emptied he stresses the poachers like to grab occupied shells and then destroy animals within them. He explained that when the animals are alive their shells are usually excellent condition as opposed to shells that have been discarded and washed washed up on the beach which are often damaged mosques aren't the only animals who've been hurt by the reckless over hunting of sea shells when sales nautilus and other sea animals die of natural causes other creatures like to move into their former shell homes we also spoke by email with michael kousky an ecologist at the university of florida he he said the most obvious examples are hermit crabs which use empty shells as protective armor. There are in fact many marine habitats. It's hard to find an empty shell because hermit crabs inhabit but almost all of them when there aren't enough shelters go around hermit crab populations are curbed and housing is just one service that unused shells offer some sea creatures creatures and birds eat them for mineral supplements calcium carbonate others use the sturdy shells as anchors from other mollusks barnacles and many more the harvest of these shells isn't just bad for the local ecosystem. It's also bad for the environment and ultimately for the humans who live and visit their take yoga beach a lovely slice of the iberian peninsula tesla located in sao paulo spain hot vacation destination. That's enjoyed increasing popularity wanting to know more about how this rise and human activity was affecting the ecosystem colo. The ski rolled up his sleeves and hit the scene from july of nineteen seventy eight through july of nineteen eighty-one. He and his colleagues put together monthly catalogs of all the seashell material they could find on your a beach kulakowski returned decades later for a new round of surveys beginning in two thousand eight and ending in two thousand ten. His discoveries weren't encouraging tourism data revealed field an almost three fold increase in visitation between one thousand nine hundred and twenty ten during that same period the number of seashells on your beach fell by more than sixty percent coincidence incidents probably not other beachside communities should be worried about the same kind of decline in seashells and not just for environmental reasons shells tend to break up into particles that are bigger than typical sand grains these shell fragments helped beaches fight erosion by locking up making it harder for winds waves and water currents to move shoreline shoreline sediment around if we moved to many sea shells it'll become harder for beaches to resist the forces of erosion and that it affects short side buildings roads and other infrastructure so what's the solution nyman notes in many countries. There are excellent laws in place to prevent overharvesting companies and individuals should follow the existing existing regulations and the authorities should enforce them. It is an economic crime and should be handled such he added the prosecutors. Judges must take large-scale poaching operations more seriously. Today's episode was written by mark manzini whose name i've been mispronouncing for about about two years now and it was produced by tyler clang brain stuff is a production of iheartradio's. How stuff works for more on this and lots of other multidisciplinary topics visit our home planet has works dot com and for more podcasts from iheartradio iheartradio app apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows today's episode is brought to you by the capital one venture card when you earn unlimited double miles on every purchase your next trip is closer than you think. What's in your wallet.