35 Burst results for "Scooter"
The Bad Crypto Podcast
Is HEX Crypto a Scam? With Tom Gillespie
"One of the most controversial figures in the history of crypto is one of the most requested guests on this particular podcast. Hexagons, those that are true believers in the hex cryptocurrency demanded. Yay requested that we have Richard Hart on the show to ask some honest questions and we had a great conversation with him back on episode number 582. Still not convinced about hex, learned a lot about Richard, but not convinced about this cryptocurrency. While there's another gentleman out there who is not convinced his name is Tom Gillespie, Tom is a debunker of sorts, has a colored history as a commentator on many news networks. He's a disgruntled investor in a crypto called scoot has produced the scam demic film the fake influencer and is currently investigating hex and if you go to hex documentary dot com, you can learn more about this. Tom, welcome to bad crypto. Much appreciated fellow thanks for the intro. Yeah, so give us just a real summarized version of your background before we get into this investigation. Yeah, so I started off, you know, messing around with pennies, penny stocks back in the day, much like Jordan Belfort. My story is quite similar to Jordan Belfort's actually. So I spent a lot of time. Are you a criminal? Are you a criminal? Oh, I haven't spent any time in the jail, no. Okay. Are you a wolf? A wolf. A wolf of now. I will it depends, have you seen the fake fluent? There's a pretty good backstory detailing my adventures back then. And you can watch it for free on red red TV, I think it's called. Okay. Please go on. And then so yeah, I think it was about 2017, 18, I got hooked into something called scooter coin from my younger brother. Tim and his son, these kids love to play on their scooters, you know, at the skate park. And there was this scooter coin that he wanted to get in heavy on. And that's what influenced the production of the fateful and so because I ended up going down that rabbit hole and discovering a whole world of crypto, just madness, really. I mean, you guys have obviously been in crypto longer than myself, but didn't work out too well for me. And it provided for some very, very interesting content, I guess. And that's what sort of pushed me into making the fake full and sort of my first personal adventure into film production
Parts Counter Gurus Podcast
Onewheel RECALL?- #letusride
"Over there and side shot is in the building. Side challenge. We're on the road. And I had him, I had him talking into the mic. And he's like, I didn't know what to say. So, okay, you can stop now. So I said, do the ABC's backwards. And he's still working on it. Showtime. That's a tough one. That is good brain exercise. So make sure you try it. That's good practice for when you're 21. No, it's actually, wait. No, no, no. We're not doing that. No, no, no, no, no, no. Don't go there. No, that's counting backwards. And we don't want that to happen, right? D.C.. BA, I did it. All right. Congratulations. And welcome in. You passed the test to be on the podcast today. Thank you, sir. Side shot, welcome in. You are our youngest guru. We always love having you on. And typically when you are on, that means that you guys are in some sort of undisclosed location. Our view is break. We are renting a condo, the blue angels are done for, I think the rest of the week, they were flying this morning. I think so, because it's holiday. We're coming up on ah, that's right. I saw I saw that actually I saw it on the news. There's been a lot of flyover for holiday. That'd be nice, yeah. How to fry a turtle. Fly over. Yeah. They get time off too, right? They're on vacation too. Sure, they do. Unless they're active duty, like in foreign land somewhere, sometimes they'll have some food, but they're on duty always, man. So thank you guys for in guys and gals and uniform for serving God bless you. Hope you guys have a wonderful holiday season coming up and we support everything you guys are doing. So thanks very much. Wait a second. What? Field sobriety test dot org. What are you looking at? Always getting ready. See what you challenged him to learn, learn a backwards, man. Now touch your nose, touch your nose. All right. There you go. That's pretty funny. Actually pulling up our stuff and it's on my iPad. Can we put a link? Can we put a link? Can we put a link to the podcast link up for a field sobriety test? Anyway, don't go there. We'll talk about that later. So wow, so you're there, you've got a little bit of echo going on. We know just trying to kind of preface this a little bit. So you're not in your normal studio. So you're on location. So, you know, you have some challenges from time to time. Podcasting from the kitchen is a challenge, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you just acquired something new, didn't you keep? Little rider, something there? I brought, yeah, it's here. Do you have it with you? So, yeah. Have you been writing? It's heavy. Yes, too. So now when you guys are writing this thing, do you wear your helmet? Oh yeah, so you're talking about a OneWheel. And. There is this whole class of personal transport vehicles that is out now. And I actually learned this from Disney because I had to look up the rules at the Disney campground to see what was allowed. Segues. Is it PT? Is it PTV or PEV? It falls under either personal transport vehicle or plugin electric vehicle or personal electric vehicle. And one wheel, a segue, electric kick scooter, the ones that we've podcasted on where you see a lot of people like renting. Same class, basically. So I got a OneWheel for my birthday. And can you rent this? They are. Can you rent these? I don't think so. Probably not, unless somebody bought a lot of them and it's just going to melt. A lot of those and a lot of insurance. Anybody. Yeah. Yeah, so they're dangerous, of course. And there is risk involved. But some of it, just like anything else, Jay, it just completely depends on. When you learn to ride a bicycle, you probably started with training wheels, or at the very least you started with your feet on the ground, and you weren't going 15 miles an hour,
AP News Radio
Live Updates: Russia-Ukraine-War
"One week after Ukrainian forces took back a small town in the Carson region residents talked to the AP about their experience a bridge lies destroyed an abandoned by a nearby river in the town of bellica oleksandrivka burnt out cars litter the streets aside from an elderly man on a scooter the streets are almost empty 72 year old tetyana Pazuzu is deeply scarred by the Russian occupation of her town in August after a strike hit the yard of her neighbor tetyana ran to see if everyone was okay minutes later when she was entering her home her house was hit twice It was a disaster a complete disaster There was not a single peaceful day We were hiding in the shelter and planting in the garden when there was no shelling Local government worker Alexander sultan was taken captive by the Russians for a few hours He was released after they realized he had no information on Ukrainian troops I'm an optimistic person but I'm still frightened as you can see the war hasn't come to an end yet I'm Karen Chammas
Business Wars
"scooter" Discussed on Business Wars
"And so that certainly put a lot of women her sales, I think. She took on the much bigger battle. At least for herself of going up against scooter and there was no polling patches from the asset when she used terms like toxic male privilege and things like that. It's like she was really going for it on every level. How Scooter Braun responded to any of this recently. He responded, I think, very reluctantly. My colleague Shirley halperin did an onstage interview with him. Maybe 6 months a year into that controversy and what she addressed it for the first time. And he sort of took a can't we all get along attitude and hit his haul kind of rap at that time. We should be dealing with these things privately and Taylor won't talk to me. She only talks through the press or through these statements. And he took a very kind of like, I don't really understand why she's doing this kind of attitude and seemed as he spoke to be kind of more of a regular guy talking than this mogul exercising his clout. And so I think depending on whose side you're on, you think the other person is the bully. So Taylor certainly used the word bully from the outset as soon as she started going after Scooter Braun and scooter hasn't used the word bully, but I've seen a lot of people who support him. Say no, Taylor is the one bullying him and she wouldn't talk to him and listen. What do you think about her strategy to rerelease some of those original albums, you know, rerecording? I mean, we'd seen something like that before I think, no? We stretched defined past examples, and I think it really was a stretch to compare it to anything that's ever happened in the past because any time performers rerecorded their old material, which happens a lot over the years.
The Vergecast
"scooter" Discussed on The Vergecast
"Delaware. It's going to be a whole thing. Did we redesign our entire site to better cover the Elon Musk Twitter trial? Maybe. Not entirely untrue. Who can say? Do we have any inkling that this trial isn't going to happen? I feel like it has slowed down. The last few weeks it has like, it's sort of the column before the storm, it feels like. It's absolutely happening. Like, they want him to buy it. He doesn't want to buy it. Nothing's changed there. The economy has not gotten better. Nothing's going to change there. And the people who are on Twitter seem less and less interested in running Twitter by the day. That's real. It's definitely going to trial. Will they settle after the first day? He's being deposed this week or next, I think. Right. His deposition happens. I mean, I think he's going to want to fight it. But at some point, money solves this case. Yes. And so it's just a question of how much money Elon pays for what? My only ask is that if this does settle, it would be a real bummer from like an interesting story perspective if it settles ahead of the trial. But if it does, my only request is that he pay with one of those big giant novelty checks. Just because that feels it feels like Elon. Delivered by a guy in the robot suit. Yeah, right at delivered by a guy in a robot suit. In a self-driving car that doesn't really self drive, but just sort of like flings past the Twitter office in San Francisco. This all sounds good. Okay, then there is Adobe max, which I would not always include on this list because it tends to get very sort of arcane and this stuff, but I feel like after the figma acquisition, Adobe is probably going to talk an awful lot about the Internet at Adobe max and all this stuff that they're doing to make their stuff more accessible to more people. And I think this might be a really interesting year for creator tools. That event is always kind of cool because they'll be like, here's something that will maybe come to Photoshop four years from now. And isn't it incredible? We can replace your grandmother. With your grandfather in this photo. All you have to do is click. And I love all those demos. They're just wild and then occasionally they come, and they are nothing like what I saw in the demo, and it's much harder to do, but it's great. But if they can start bringing those tools, a lot of right now, Photoshop the online kind of versions of Photoshop, the ones on iOS and everything else. Still have nowhere near the same amount of features as what you get with the full, the whole shebang. And they need to close that gap. This is a thing that Scott belsky was a chief product officer at Adobe was saying, because people aren't reasonably mad about Photoshop pushing you towards Photoshop cloud files now instead of spitting out PSDs. And you can still get the PSDs, but it wants you to do the cloud thing. And he was like, in order to make Photoshop on iPad and the web more powerful and then compete with things like figma, you need the files to live in the cloud. And it's just like oh, that's a big battleship to turn. This is the Microsoft Excel to a bar. Every button that you might want to remove there is 10 million people who are going to be mad at you and who use your tool literally for a living. Yeah. Yeah. You can't mess with it. We'll see if they talk about figma. I think my prediction for W max, I agree with you, Alex. Adobe max and siggraph are like my two favorite shows of the year. Just like watching what people can do with creative tools, amazing. They're going to talk a lot about AI art, right? They have to. It's the thing. They're going to talk about stable diffusion in Dolly and all the rest of it. I think that's going to be really fun. It does seem like at some point it would be weird for Adobe not to do that. That is the next obvious turn for Adobe here. It's like, oh, you don't want to learn how to use Photoshop. No problem. Just type into this prompt in Photoshop. And we will do it. Exactly. Be like, family who loves me, push the button, spits it right out at Niagara Falls, great done, and then you're like, sell it as an NFT. On the comfort of your own home. Yeah, that's not that right. Okay, and then last one, and I put this one at the end because we don't really know when it's happening, or if it's happening, or in what way it's going to happen, but there is a bunch of Apple stuff that we are assuming is yet to launch some more iPads, maybe IMAX, maybe some other headphones. I don't know, but then there was the report for Mark urban at Bloomberg saying that instead of an event in October Apple might just do a trickle of press releases and stuff. Is there anything exciting left this year that we think we're waiting for? I mean, it's mainly going to be processor upgrades, right? Like the iPad Pro will go from an M1 to an M two. I would assume, same with the imacs. The iPad is do something, but they haven't redesigned it. They seem very content with how the iPad is. So when he wrote that piece, I was like, yeah, that makes sense. Well, so there's no Mac pro with an M series chip in it yet. There's a Mac studio, which is people love, but there's no Mac pro. And they've hinted towards the Mac pro, which makes us think at some point that is coming. Aren't we owed the Mac pro, didn't they say they were finishing the switch? Yeah, he said, the only one left is the Mac pro and then it was like, but that's for another day or something like that. Yeah. So it's coming. The fact that you can just like buy a 18 core Xeon tower from Apple right now is very funny. Yeah.
The Vergecast
"scooter" Discussed on The Vergecast
"A vehicle called the nimbus one, which is this futuristic looking thing that's kind of a cross between a tricycle and a car. It's this super skinny thing with one seat and three wheels and you sit inside it and drive it with a steering wheel, but it tilts as it goes like a motorcycle. We call it a pod POD because we don't think it's a card. We want to stay away from that paradigm. Whatever you call it, it's not available for sale yet, but when it is, you'll be able to buy one for about ten grand or subscribe to one for a couple hundred bucks a month. Or if you don't want to do that, just grab one off the street whenever you need one for a few minutes. Nimbus wants to do all the things all the ways. Rent by the minute, free floating, that's really convenient, but it's going to cost a little bit more because you're basically paying someone to move it for you in charge of for you. So that's going to add a little bit more to the cost. But if you're in a hurry, you don't really care. If you're using something day to day, then you want that vehicle to be yours. There's a big galaxy brain taken there somewhere about the end of ownership and the fact that people are increasingly willing to pay for convenience rather than having something that's permanently theirs. I tend to agree with Lee hangs take, though, that the answer is actually lots of business models and lots of different systems for lots of different things. And weirdly over the last few months, I've now been thinking about that subscription spectrum with almost everything in my life. What do I want to own? What do I want to rent and what do I want to just be there occasionally when I need it? I should probably just buy the office because I watch that constantly.
The Vergecast
"scooter" Discussed on The Vergecast
"A scooter with soul. But unagi doesn't really want to sell you one, at least not at full price. It would much rather use subscribe to one for about $55 a month. I thought that whole setup was kind of odd. So I called up David Hyman, the CEO of unagi to convince me that renting a scooter is the move. We kind of envision our subscription service. It's like mailing a giant Netflix DVD mailer. They're so lightweight. That's kind of what helps make the model work. It shows up at your door in under 72 hours. If anything happens to it, we send you a new one. If you threw the box away, we send you an empty box and you send yours back. We don't make you wait to get yours repaired. You get a new one right away. People's transportation they want it to be effortless. They don't want hassle, they don't want downtime. Car downtown sucks. David told me that this idea is really working about 20 people subscribe to a nugget scooter for every one that buys it outright. And the KC makes is pretty convincing. I don't want to care about maintenance. I don't even know that I'm gonna want this scooter forever, so spending a $1000 on it seems crazy, but I do know that $55 a month is actually a lot less than I'm spending on scooter rides right now. More broadly, this is a real trend in the industry. Bird will happily sell you one of its scooters, for instance, and has tried a similar thing where you can pay extra to make sure there's always a bird nearby. But the thing I couldn't shake was the convenience part. It's so nice to just get off a scooter, lock it up and then never think about it again. Not my problem. And now I'm supposed to lug this thing around and charge it myself and carry it into the coffee shop with me. David said, yeah, it's a trade off, but he thinks it's worth it. I always put it down next to me in a cafe, I bring it into a movie theater and put it in the aisle, throw it in the shopping cart at the supermarket. That's how I handle it. It's not ideal. Really, when I go into a restaurant, nobody cares. But one day if everyone were to do this, restaurants would start going. No, we're not going to have 20 scooters in the restaurant. You know what this means, right? This means valet scooter parking is going to be a thing. What a world we live in, my Friends. Anyway, I ended up giving it a shot.
Business Wars
"scooter" Discussed on Business Wars
"In the last episode is Taylor Swift grew increasingly self confident. So did her discontent with her label, big machine. So she jumped ship for universal. That was a gut punch for borchetta. Scooter Braun saw an opening and approached borchetta with a deal to buy big machine. And with that purchase, came swift's masters from her early albums. In this episode, swift fights back by deploying her own, varied dangerous weapon. The swifties. And brawn pulls out all the stops to protect the 300 $1 million asset. He just bought from borchetta. This is episode three. Revenge of the swifties. June 2019, Chicago, Illinois. A group of friends are at a bar watching a baseball game. The news interrupts the coverage. Taylor Swift is blessing manager to the star Scooter Braun, Braun, who manages Justin Bieber just acquired the rights to her entire catalog up through 20 17s reputation. In a poster tumbler, she called the sale, my worst case scenario, swift says she's been bullied by Braun for years and signs up. One guy in the group slammed down his beer and shakes his head. Oh, come on. Taylor Swift's been bullied. She's always playing the victim. His girlfriend intervenes. Hey Jack, that's not fair. I think she's genuinely upset that this guy bought her songs. It's like he owns her. Their friend interrupts. Look, she made a mistake and got into business with someone without doing her homework, but how long does she have to pay for that? For Christ's sake, Jack, she was just a teenager. You would have done the same damn thing. I don't know. I just have a hard time feeling sorry for Taylor Swift of all people. I go cry me a river on your private jet. The girlfriend takes a sip of her beer. Either way, I hope she does rerecord her old stuff. Wait, wait, what? Oh, you didn't see that? Kelly Clarkson tweeted that Taylor Swift should rerecord her old songs. Kelly Clarkson, a former American idol winner turned daytime TV host, posted on Twitter that swift should rerecord all the songs she doesn't own the masters to. Just approve a point. That's so weird. Well, I'd stream them. Kelly Clarkson's suggestion is not really that unheard of. In 2018, pop singer JoJo rerecorded her early albums because of a fight over the masters with her former label. Def Leppard released what it called forgeries of its hit songs while fighting with its label. And in the 60s, the Everly brothers rerecorded versions of their recent hits when they signed to a new label. And that is something labels don't want repeated. To deter artists from doing this, now contracts usually have clauses barring artists from releasing rerecorded work from its initial release for three to 5 years or more. Swift's exclusivity clause isn't up for more than a year. Scooter Braun doesn't know yet whether she will rerecord or how he'd respond if she does. But he figures he has some time. But so does swift. And she's not wasting any of it. August 2019, scooter bronze office in Beverly Hills. Braun sits behind his desk in panic mode. He's got his elbows on his knees and he's running his hands through his cropped hair. Swift is just announced on Good Morning America that she was going to rerecord her old songs. And that poses a serious problem for Braun. Hello? It's one of bronze investors, a guy who put in big money to help Braun by swift's masters. Scooter, what's this I'm hearing about Taylor Swift planning to rerecord our old songs? Oh, don't worry, that's nothing. It's just taught. It better be just talk. We paid $300 million for those masters. Braun shifts uneasily in his seat. The truth is that if swift does rerecord her old albums, it poses a big problem, and this investor knows it. He plows ahead. Look, she's already proven that she has an incredibly loyal fan base that's the size of a small country. If she re-records those songs, he greatly diminishes the value of our investment. Listen, it just doesn't make any sense for an artist as big as Taylor to rerecord her old material. She'd just be wasting time. Trust me, she'll be focused on making new stuff. Look, I'm expecting these recordings to make us 15 million a year. If they don't, I'm going to be severely annoyed. And my attorney will be making that extremely clear to you. Got it? Braun leans back in his chair and tries to stay calm as he calculates how things might play out. Swift might not follow through on her threat, but that's unlikely given that she's told the whole world that she wants to rerecord her masters. Her contracts exclusivity clause is up in November of 2020. That means he has a little over a year to milk this investment for all its worth. Maybe even find another buyer. But for now, the future value of bronze purchase is under threat. So he decides to fight back the only way he thinks he can. By choking the songbird. What swift doesn't know is that Braun still controls her right to even
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
America Doesn't Care About Trump and His Empty Fascist Rallies
"Speaking of illegal, I think I punched a hole through my iPad pressing like on this. You said, I'll say it again. Restaurant and let the chips fall where they may say he's a flight risk and ask him to be held without bail until trial, enough bull already. I mean, the fact that he's out there openly inciting violence, you know, fascist rally, again, in the middle of going on that lipless F Hugh Hewitt show and saying that, you know, there's going to be you needed to believe bump for that lipless Hugh Hewitt. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. And going on and saying there, oh, there's going to be trouble like you've never seen trouble like you've never seen if he's indicted. And I'm like, do you really think people are going to get off their scooters and do something to try to support you if you're indicted? I mean, just stop. Football season started. Nobody gives a crap anymore. Just stop it. I know, look at the size of that stupid rally. Did you see the pictures? I mean, it's pathetic. And of course, they pushed everything forward to shove everyone together to make it look like there were more than a dozen people there. But it was, you know, yeah, it was mostly empty, and you know what they put those poor people through. These things last forever. It's like a brainwashing session. I know. I mean, the speakers start over three hours before Trump's Trump gets cooked there. And they were already quiet and he was like shushing him like some creepy, rapey librarian, right? While he was with the creepy music, I don't even know what's happening.
Business Wars
"scooter" Discussed on Business Wars
"February 2016, the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. Swift sits front row at the Grammy Awards and a red crop top in magenta skirt. Her hair is cut in a sleek straight bob, no more loose country curls. She's waiting nervously to hear the results of album of the year. The announcer opens the envelope. And says two magic words Taylor Swift? Swift's mouth drops open. She stands up and hugs her friend, Selena Gomez. She embraces producer Jack Antonoff, who made the majority of this record with her. And then she strides onto the stage. I want to thank the fans for the last ten years. And the recording academy for giving us this unbelievable honor. I want to thank she begins by thanking her collaborators. And then, she gets serious. And as the first woman to win album of the year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success. Or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame the crowd cheers. It seems like she's talking about rapper Kanye West, and the way he disturbed during the 2009 VMA awards, a flap which he claims made her famous. And then there was the hugely public scuffle over whether she agreed to allow Kanye to use a lyric in a song about her. Swift keeps going. But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you're going, you'll look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment. It's a powerful speech. And it's telling that swift does not once mention borchetta, or thank her label. And while many assume it's addressed to west, it could also be about borchetta. 1989 goes on to become not only the most successful album of her career, but one of the top three albums of the entire decade, it sells 5 million copies in its first 9 months, making it the fastest selling album since 2004. But even though Taylor Swift is riding high. It's all about to come crashing down. August 2nd, 2016, Nashville, Tennessee. There's been a lot of media attention lately, so swift is lying low in her apartment. She's lounging in bed with one of her cats on a large white duvet. Just then, one of her cat stands upright and tucks her ears back, making a hilarious expression. She snaps a video of the cat standing up on its hind legs. She's been trying to stay offline lately, but this clip is too cute not to post. What's going on? You feeling less looking like a cat and more like a squirrel today? Mmm um. Yep. She adds it to her Instagram stories. Swift's public image has been at an all time low this summer. There was a controversy over whether swift agreed to allow Kanye to use a lyric in one of his songs. In June, Kim Kardashian said that her husband Kanye had called swift for approval of the lyric. When swift denied it, Kardashian uploaded a tape clip of the call that made it sound as though swift had heard west song and didn't object. Kardashian posted it with the emoji of a snake as if to say that swift was that snake. And then, well, then it felt to swift like the whole Internet turned against her. Anonymous masses calling her a liar and saying that she's playing the victim. So she's been trying to stay off social media and out of the headlines. But just as she looks for her kitty on her Instagram feed, she sees a picture from Justin Bieber. She reads the caption Taylor Swift what up? It's a black and white FaceTime screenshot of Bieber, with Scooter Braun and Kanye West. Swift's heart sinks. There's a lot going on in this one screenshot. The messaging is not that subtle. It signals that Bieber, who she thought of as a friend, is taking sides, Kanye's. And west is now a client of brawn. Swift throws her phone down. She's furious. These guys are ganging up on her. But worst of all, borchetta hasn't publicly spoken out in support of her. And that steams her. Inside the big machine offices on music row in Nashville. Hey Scott? Hey Taylor, how's it going? She holds up her phone, which is open on the Bieber Instagram post. Did you see this? Not good. Uh huh. That thing still kicking around? Yeah. Yeah, it is. I just wish it would all go away. We'll share a nods. I get that. So what did you want to talk about today? Well, I've been thinking about what's next. This is my last album on our deal. After her next record, swift 6 album deal is up at big machine. This means she'll be able to sign to another label, or renegotiate it, big machine. Right. And you know, we'd love to have you stay at the label. This is home for you. Swift wriggles in her seat slightly. Well, I'd be open to exploring that possibility, but in order to resign, I need my master's back. Taylor, I just can't do that. You know I'm exploring selling big machine without your masters, this label is worth a whole lot less. And I need to take that into account. Swift begins to cry. Look, this is the worst summer of my life. I just want to be able to get my master's back and move forward. Why is this so hard for you to understand? Well, we can keep talking about it. And maybe now is not the right time. Swift is facing the fact that her reputation is in shambles. And she has no idea how to mend it. She decides to disappear from public view. Swift will use this time to gather her strength, she'll use this sense of shame as fuel to go through a painful metamorphosis. And when she returns to the stage, her lyrics will be weapons and her new persona will be unrecognizable.
Business Wars
"scooter" Discussed on Business Wars
"Late 2006, Taylor Swift stands in front of a studio microphone at a drab gray walled radio station. Hey, I'm Taylor Swift and you're listening to the morning drive with Mike and Joanna. Q one O four, your number one for country. Swift takes the headphones off her head and turns to the host. Was that good? That was perfect. Thank you. Trust me, you'll be hearing that a lot on the radio. Oh, I can't wait. Just so long as you play my song. You betcha. Swift's mother Andrea steps in. Taylor honey? It's time for us to get going. Sure, mom. They walk out of the studio, head for the car. Swift and Andrea drive to the next stop. Despite swift's radio offensive to promote her self titled debut album, it only sells 39,000 copies in its first week. But swift isn't giving up. She's doubling down. She throws all her energy into promoting the record to boost sales. Time is at a premium, so she arranges to attend high school remotely. Her days are packed with radio stations, interviews, and performances in shopping malls. When she's not promoting her record in person, she connects with her fans through a new website called MySpace. She gets about 600 emails a day, but she tries to answer everyone. With messages like this. OMG, thank you so much. I'm so excited for you to hear the album comes out in October. It's hard work, but swift's determined to make her self a success. And in time, her loyal followers, lovingly cultivated by swift. Will become a force for her. And her family is all in. They moved south so she could be a country music artist. They don't pressure her. She does that herself. She and her mom are on the road a lot. Going from one radio station to the next. She feels like she has to make this work. All right, we're at the next station. Thanks, mom. A year after swift's first album is released, it eventually reaches number 5 on the billboard 200. It's been a slow burn. But swift's career is about to take off like wildfire. Before long, the album has sold millions of copies. It's a great success for swift and borchetta. New labels usually struggle, but swift's success establishes big machine and borchetta as a team, a force to be reckoned with. It seems smooth sailing. Over the horizon, however, is a powerful force. The man who will one day try to claim Taylor Swift's entire empire. Whether she likes it. Or not. Early 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, a twentysomething with dark hair and a baseball cap is sitting in front of his computer watching YouTube videos. Scooter Braun is a former club promoter who works at Jermaine dupri's label, so so deaf. He's doing research for an artist on the label when a related video pops up that catches his eye. It's a young kid wearing a white shirt and black tie. He's performing in a church singing competition. Ron leans closer. This kid has a crystal clear voice. He's performing a note perfect rendition of a neo hit. But it's the kids vocal style that catches bronze ear. He sings with such emotion and natural ease. Braun is instantly amazed. He needs to know more about this kid. There's talent there. And Braun, once in. So he gets in touch with this young kid. His name? Justin Bieber. Braun even flies Bieber in his mom out to Atlanta. Braun decides to become his manager. And like swift, Bieber will soon become a teen sensation too. And their paths will meet in the most unlikely of circumstances.
Business Wars
"scooter" Discussed on Business Wars
"And has a net worth of $570 million. Scooter Braun is the top music manager in the world, and one of a very few to become a celebrity in his own right. Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun's feud is a proxy for the furious battles over ownership happening all across the music business right now. From streaming to the rise of music catalogs. The battle is being waged mostly in boardrooms, but swift also enlists her forces from social media. Not only is this a fight between the powerful pop star and manager for a $300 million catalog. It's a fight that could reshuffle the entire business model of the music industry. And powerful forces are picking sides. This is episode one. On the outside. November 2004, Nashville a young Taylor Swift tucks her blond curly hair behind her ears and clears her throat. She's only 15, but she looks older than that. Her piercing blue eyes are fixed on her guitar. This performance is the most important of her life so far. She needs to get it just right. I hope you like this. I worked real hard on it. Swift strums her first chord and begins to sing. But she's not in a dimly lit nightclub or one of the karaoke bars she performed in as a kid. Today, she's in one of the offices of Universal Music crew. Sitting across from her is Scott borchetta. He's a record exec in his early 40s. He's had a decent career, but no huge hits. Still. It's a big deal for swift to get a meeting with someone at universal. The lyrics are honest. Confessional. And it's surprisingly well written for a teenager. Ever since she moved a few years ago from Pennsylvania to Nashville. Swift has been making a name for herself. She wants to be a star. Now. Shadow applauds and swift's mom, who was also in the meeting, beams at her daughter. That was great. Just great. Who did you co write that with? Thank you. Oh, that one was all me. Raises his eyebrows. He'd assumed one of swift's more experienced collaborators had helped her. Great songwriting is key for country music success. He's intrigued. Wow, that's very impressive. And do you play any other instruments besides guitar? Yes, I play piano ukulele and the banjo. Bruschetta nods. Another point for swift. He looks carefully at her. He first heard of her when he received her demo. Along with the music, the package included a picture of swift modeling in an abercrombie and Fitch catalog. She was holding a guitar and wiping a tear. The picture projected this all American image. One that could work for country. Yeah, we're shadow things. She's the whole package. He thinks for a second. Teenagers aren't stars in country music, let alone teenage girls. Most of the listeners are much older and a lot of them are men. But swift looks older than she is. So he might be able to pass her off as a twentysomething. Plus, she's a great songwriter. It's a risk from a marketing perspective. But he loves her music. He thinks she could be a star. Here's what I want to do. I want to sign you as a solo artist, not just a songwriter. Swift clasps her hands together. A grin spreads across her cheeks. This is exactly what she's been hoping for. But borchetta is not done. But I don't want you to sign to universal. I want you to sign my own label. I want to put the music back in the music business. Swift looks at her mom excitedly. They're both thrilled, they can hardly believe this is happening. Oh, that sounds amazing. So what do we do now? Well, I haven't got the label set up yet. I'll reach out to you when I do. Over the next few days, swift weighs her options. Even though she's only a teen, she's got a clear idea of what she wants from her career. She already has a development deal with a major label. But they want to wait until she's 18 to break her as a solo artist. Borchetta wants to launch her career right away. So, she does what any teenage girl would do when facing a monumental decision. She writes about it in her journal. This last week was crazy. So capital records doesn't think I'm ready, but there's Scott borchetta, and he's so passionate about the project. I think that's the way we're going to go. I want to surround myself with passionate people. She calls borchetta. Hi Scott, it's Taylor. I just want you to know I've made up my mind and I'm waiting for you. She wiggles out of her old contract and borchetta officially launches his own label.
Business Wars
"scooter" Discussed on Business Wars
"Or shadow looks up and breaks into a grin. Taylor, great to see you. I was just listening to a new demo. It's pretty good. Swift smiles tightly. She's not interested in talking about anyone else's music today. She settles into a chair, or shadow twirls his mustache as he talks. But it's no shake it off, am I right? Swift's song shake it off won three Grammy nominations this year, including best pop performance. The song was also a break from her country music sound. No soothing acoustic guitar, no fiddles. Sheik is all horns and hard edges. Like her music, she's changing too. She's not the pliable wannabe that she was ten years ago when borchetta discovered her. She's come into her own. And she wants control of her destiny. Moving to pop really worked out well for us. Yeah, that's partly what I wanted to talk to you about. She'd had to fight with borchetta over her desire to go from country to pop. But right now, she's here to talk business. Given all the success we've been having, I wanted to bring up the possibility of getting back my masters. Borchetta puts the headphones down. Straightens up and looks at her. His expression serious. Masters are the original copies of an artist's work, whoever owns the master recordings, also owns the very lucrative copyrights associated with them. Taylor, my ownership of your masters is something we agreed upon way back when you first signed your deal. Swift's jaw Titans. She gave borchetta control of her masters when she was just 15, with no experience in the recording industry. She didn't bother with an attorney. She relied on her dad. It's a decision. She regrets. I know, but these songs just mean so much to me. What would it take to get them back? Or shed a considers this for a moment. Swift's contract with big machine is up soon. She owes them one more album and then she's a free agent. She's the biggest earner on his label by far. He's built big machine around her. And he wants to keep her there as long as possible. What about this? I give you a chance to earn back your masters. Swift leans forward, placing her slender arms on her knees. Focusing her blue eyes intently on borchetta. She's earned hundreds of millions for big machine already. Earning back her masters can't be that hard. In exchange for each new album you make with us. You'll get control of one old album at a time. Swift's stomach sinks, and she feels her blood howl in her ears. Suddenly, her weak position is crystal clear. This arrangement would keep her tied to big machine forever. It would be bad enough if she was just tangling with borchetta. But little does she know, someone else wants to own her masters? It's not another artist, or another label. No, it's Scooter Braun, manager to Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Kanye West. Braun is the most famous manager in the world. And he didn't get there by being nice. Swift's fight for her masters isn't going to be just a scrimmage for what she believes is rightfully hers. It'll be much, much more than that. She will wage a painful, expensive battle. That's going to change the course of the music business. Forever. No, the physical office is an ever evolving space. This is why embedding flexibility in your workplace solutions is so crucial. Foresight workplace occupancy sensors provide data driven insights into where space optimization is needed, which is key for any organization, especially if you've got shared desks and reservation systems by keeping a portion of your assets permanently flexible, you limit exposure and provide employees flexibility and choice. Learn more at court dot com slash flexible. That's co RT dot com slash flexible. The great resignation, supply chain hiccups, digital finance. There's no shortage of volatility in business today. But volatility isn't the problem. Doing nothing is. Crow believes that within all of these challenges lie hidden opportunities and better ways of doing things. With specialized experience in audit tax advisory and consulting, crow can help you embrace volatility in today's economy. Visit embrace volatility dot com to see how Crowe can work with you. Once again, that's embrace volatility dot com. From one tree, I'm David Brown and this
Techmeme Ride Home
"scooter" Discussed on Techmeme Ride Home
"Is no longer working with the company. Both halted its service in Portland on July 1st because of the company's failure to provide the city with updated insurance and pay some outstanding fees. Portland subsequently suspended bolts permit to operate there according to a city spokesperson end quote. Over the weekend, Crunchbase news had a look at the rise and fall of the entire micro mobility sector, especially east scooter competitor bird, which is now a penny stock with a public market cap under a $160 million. As valuations in the scooter and bike rental sector collapse, quote, in total well over $5 billion in venture funding went into assorted startups engaged in the renting charging and making of scooters in roughly the past 5 years. E scooters were still hot enough last year that when the spac boom arrived, voracious blank check acquirers looked to the space for potential targets. Bird announced in May of 2021 that it would go public through a merger with a spac, switch back to add an initial valuation of $2.3 billion. In truth, birds financials didn't look great at the time. It's 2020 revenue was down over 40% year over year to $79 million. Net loss exceeded $208 million. Still, bird forecasted revenue would hit over $400 million by 2022, and even that number would represent just a tiny slice of a global micro mobility services market, it estimated at $800 billion. Like virtually all VC funded spec deals, it worked out badly. Bird plummeted immediately upon completing its merger in November so far this year, the price has gone steadily downward with shares recently going for less than 50 cents each. These are exceedingly bad numbers, even by terribly performing spac standards for perspective, birds recent public market cap was around a $135 million. At that level, it has to see its market cap increase by just over 20 X or 2000% to break even with the $2.9 billion valuation it reportedly scored in its 2019 series D end quote. Interestingly, the piece says, this is ground zero for the VC lifestyle subsidy going away for all of us. Apparently your average 20 minute scooter ride now costs on average about $6. That's more than a quick bus or subway ride in places that offer those as options. In the modern workplace, employees log in and out of countless websites, services, and apps every day. How many of your coworkers use password one two three for every system? How many teams share credentials on a spreadsheet or via email? According to the Verizon data breach investigation report, 81% of corporate data breaches are due to weak or stolen passwords. Keeper securities, enterprise password management platform, enforces strong passwords and makes it easy for teams to securely share credentials. Keeper locks down, login details, infrastructure, credentials, confidential documents, and more in a patented zero
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"scooter" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"And that is clever or good. So my question is, what are you doing in your family when they call you when they call you too clever by half? You have a quick wit or a smart mouth or you just get yourself into trouble, you can't get yourself out of. Yeah, I think it's a quick way smart mouth is, for example, if somebody says something to me and my response is very quick and then was like, oh, you're being so die. So it's not used. It's used endearingly and lovingly, but it's not necessarily a good thing. Yeah, that's how it is in English too. Well, thank you so much for calling and sharing that information. It was a delight to talk with you about it. Thank you. You too. But we love hearing from listeners who speak more than one language, we'd love to hear your thoughts about English or your own native tongue. So give us a call. 877-929-9673 or tell us what you've observed in email that address is words at wayward radio dot ORG. Hello, you have a way with words. Hey guys, my name is Logan Weber, I'm calling from Greenville, North Carolina. Hi Logan, welcome to the show. Hey, Logan, what's up? I have a question about a Fraser group hearing. Scooter poop. Scooter Pruitt is, is that a noun or a verb? I've heard it in both ways, actually. So basically in usage, I would hear like, so what did you do today oa win? Scooter pooping. Or I did some scooter pooping today. So mostly as a very, I guess? Okay. So if your scooter pooping, what do you what are you doing? So in how I understood it and it's kind of just like going around town doing errands kind of just piddling around just driving around town, I guess. Who's saying this? Well, my mother actually was the one I heard the most from. I guess it would be like my mom and my grandma and my mom's side. So they weren't necessarily on a scooter riding around. No, no, no. We've never had a scooter. We've never owned a scooter, so yeah, it's always just in cars. I kind of thought it maybe a scooter related just like maybe the sound is good or maybe it's when you're driving it around, but I'd never do. And have you heard anybody outside your family use this term? No, not once. Okay, because this term has been floating around for a while. And I believe the earliest version of it is scooter pooping with a pea rather than a routine. Yeah, at least back to the late 1930s and in fact, you can look at databases of newspapers and there's one little story that made the rounds again and again and again in 1938, when a reporter in Savannah, Georgia wrote about read a little piece about a conversation that he had with a girl who said she'd been invited to go scooter pooping. And this reporter had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. So he asked some of the younger employees at the newspaper and he learned that scooter pooping is, quote, currently a popular term for going out and having a good time. And the reporter ended the little story by saying that he returned to his typewriter, feeling very old. Well, even more interesting than I was expecting. Okay. Scooter poop. Why they, I guess, where the poop part came from? No, that's the mystery Logan that is a big mystery. We've got theories, though. Yeah, I mean, part of it is just the fun of the rhyme, I think, scooter pooping, but it could be just tooting around. It's just the idea that you're not really making a lot of progress. Putting from place to place. Yeah, and scooter is old slang term for automobile. So it could have had to do with that. But we've gotten calls over the years about this. Beverly Sanders called us last year and left a voicemail talking about, actually, she was asking about another phrase that her mother used to use instead of saying, well, land's sake or my goodness. Her mother would say, well, my cow on a surfboard. But in she also mentioned that her mother and her friends, when they were going out at night to go clubbing or socializing, they would go scooter pooping. Around the 1950s, we also heard from Rachel waters from wilmore, Kentucky, and she knew it as scuti poopin, which she learned from her former Kentucky in laws. We also heard from Kelly Gilliam and new Yorktown Virginia, Lindsey green from Arizona and dean Morton and Texas who all knew some form of the term. So it's gotten out there. It's still in use here and there and people still know it. There's a lot of scooter pooping going on out there. So it's national. Okay. Yeah, it does seem to be associated mainly southern though. It does seem to be making each other. Interestingly, the earliest use we found in print is attributed to a boy in North Carolina in 1937, which is right now. So I don't know that there's a North Carolina income connection, but it was just an interesting coincidence. Yeah, that is actually way more interesting than I was suspecting. Well, Logan, we're really glad you called. Happy scooter pooping. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. All right. Take care. Thanks a lot. Bye bye. Children, this is the line to call when your parents say something mystifying. When your parents pull out that old rusty lingo, the dusty stuff that you just can't make out, give us a call. We'll try to explain it at 877-929-9673. And parents, when the kids come home from school with that shiny new glittery chrome slang, well, we'll try to puzzle that out too. Let us know words at wayward radio dot org. This shows about language seen through family, history, and culture, stay tuned for more of a way with words. You're listening to a way with words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. As long as there have been books, people have been writing in the margins. You probably made notes yourself in a book agreeing with what the author said, or maybe disputing it. Or maybe you personalized a book for someone with a gift inscription. In the 19th century, books were even a kind of social media. They were especially popular as gifts because they were cheap enough now to be owned by the middle class, but they were enough of an investment that people hung on to them for their whole lives, and families tended to pass them down from one generation to the next. In fact, books were considered so precious that eventually many of them ended up being donated to libraries. But this means that increasingly libraries face the challenge of deciding which books to clear out and digitize to make room for more. And there's a really cool project that began at the University of Virginia using a cadre of researchers and volunteers to seek out what they call this shadow archive of history. This effort has now spread to other colleges and universities, and it's described in the new book called book traces, 19th century readers and the future of the library. It's by Andrew stauffer who's an associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. And I love this example. He describes a volume of poetry that they found. And it has a penciled inscription above one of the poems saying that it was read to a woman who died in childbirth. A short time before she died, the woman had asked her mother to read that poem to her. And a family member later noted that in pencil on the page above the poem. They even pasted the woman's newspaper obit in the front of that anthology and attached a flower, and grant is a touching window into both the role of poetry and the role of books in the lives of 19th century of Americans. And there are lots of examples like that in the book, and it just, it makes you wonder what's out there on the shelves just waiting to be discovered and what we're losing in the process.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Nasim Pedrad's TV Show 'Chad' Is Everything We Need Today
"I was about to have a stroke last night. Guys, you have no idea. I was ready to land based this TV show. With an old SNL player name, not seen pedrad. A Persian, right? Because I thought when I watched this show, I'm looking at him going, what the fuck is this show? I thought they were trying to be serious. Here's nassim to draw who's like 38. Playing a 14 year old boy in school trying to get through school without, you know, without being bullied because it's obviously, you know, I said, oh, this is a transgender kid. This is a new show. It's called Chad. I never saw it before. And I wave shit. I even filmed 30 seconds of it to put on Facebook to show you guys how crazy this was and how much bullshit we have to deal with. You talk about the feminization of America. All of this nonsense is feminine energy and it's no good for the country. All the culture, it's just not. I can't stand the woke shit. Guess what? It turned out to be maybe the best sitcom I've ever seen in my life because they were making fun of the woke shit. And as I told my girlfriend, the joke is the joke. It was like one of those moments where you can hold it. Hold it. Look what you're doing. They're making fun of the bullshit we're dealing with. The joke is the joke. On top of everything else, this 14 year old kid is being played by a 35, 6, 7 year old woman, takes place in Oregon, which is the capital of BLM and antifa, and they thought. The kids in her high school thought when she got up to talk, she was going to come out as gay. It looked obvious. And if she began to talk to her classmates, they all started this chant, be gay, be gay, be gay, and I go, oh my God. It's my favorite fucking show of all time. And there's a friend in school who rides on a scooter and you think right away, oh, they've got to do the handicapped kid thing, yeah. Okay. That's the way movies and TVs shows are going now. There's a handicap kit. And it turns out the kid is in a scooter because she has chronic fatigue syndrome. So that they can in front of that. It's my new favorite show.
The Doug Collins Podcast
The Death of Journalism: A Conversation with John Soloman
"John looking back on this? And now with just the news and before we end it, I'm going to let you, I want to talk about that. I'm a fascinated by what you're doing there. But in your time in those organizations and you were working through the complicity over the last 5 to 6 years, it's often downplayed why because they're their own mediator. They're the ones that talk about it except for you and I do it here. Could they have ever could the media could the clintons Obama Biden any of these ever pulled any of this off without a complicit media? No, and that's the check and balance that was blown up. I mean, you really have two check and balances. Suddenly intelligence and enforcement start practicing politics instead of what they were trained to do. And then the media sanctioning and in some cases censoring the truth. So they had their own version of the truth and whatever that truth was. They were going to impose social media news medium. I saw the moment of change. I go back and I remember in the summer of 2007, I'm sitting in The Washington Post newsroom. I had been in The Associated Press, my whole life before that, and politics just don't enter the conversations in the newsroom. You keep your politics outside, or you got fired at the AP back in those days. I'm not sure whether that's the case today. But scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's pharma chief of staff. Was convicted in the summer of 2007 crimes were kind of really to unmasking a CI agents identity. When the verdict got announced, I watched large numbers of the reporters in The Washington Post museum stand up and applaud the verdict. They were sharing for student Libby to be convicted. I was floored. I had never seen such a political expression made in what I thought were the sacred grounds of a newsroom. I remember walking into the editor and said, you can't let this happen and to his credit he came out and scolded everybody. But that was the period that period where Barack Obama was starting to come to power and the Democrats were really making inroads in the media. That was the point that the switch flip, then social media gave everybody their opinion voice and they started expressing opinion on Twitter. And before long the media became complicitous in picking one winner, the Democratic Party and imposing one loser, the Republican conservative movement, and truth became whatever the news media wanted.
Mark Levin
RINOs, Lobbyists Participating in Liz Cheney's Virginia Fundraiser
"So she's having a fundraiser And virtually every rhino you could possibly think of and lobbyist Is participating Those on the invitation is co hosts writes Paul bedard Malto who's who of influential national Republican since the Nixon era Bold statement of establishment and support for Cheney who show an attacks from former president Donald Trump for supporting his second impeachment and working with the January 6th commission Among those co hosting the event are former Virginia representative Barbara comstock I remember when Barbara was a conservative Now she's a lobbyist She makes a lot of money Columnist Mona chairman is a moron Has been now for quite some time Former Bush Homeland Security secretary Michael chernoff Now this one's unbelievable Former Cheney aged scooter Libby do you know who gave scooter Libby a full pardon mister Medusa Donald Trump George W. Bush wouldn't even do that for scooter Libby This was Dick Cheney's right hand man Unbelievable And top lobbyist in GOP consultant who's been a hanger on forever Charlie black Suggested contributions are a $1000 ahead Of course couples can pay $5800 for a photo reception and the VIP reception donation is only $10,800 per couple
Does This Happen to You
A highlight from In the Rear-View Mirror
"I've only ever owned one car. She was my first grownup purchase. After graduation it became quickly evident. That the scooter. I'd used zip around campus. Wasn't going to cut it on the streets of seattle. My dad helped me find her on e. bay. She was a used. Two thousand two hyundai santa fe with skin peppered and dense. She'd previously been involved in a rollover situation but her guts were unharmed while her previous owner wasn't thrilled at the thought of hanging onto an imperfect vehicle. I was poor and open to the idea. She costs seven thousand dollars. It was a fortune. Then let's be honest also now but she seemed worth it as she was sturdy. Safe and even trendy. If you squinted your eyes and allowed for creative liberties. I was bigger than still swollen with the possibilities of the lives. I might lead a wealthy novelist a stylish professor or quirky artist a journalist and actor or maybe a movie director but most of all a dancer. Fuck i wanted to be a dancer so badly in made my stomach hurt if i reflected on it too long as i couldn't possibly want something that much and not get it. I was certain everything would work out. I drove the santa fe. Too many exotic locations my retail jobs. My performing jobs might teaching jobs. My dance students thought she was cool. And everyone knows high-schoolers get to decide these things. I started a dance company. I piled costumes props and dancers into the santa fe and drove them to every show. I could book. my friends. were beginning to quit dance. Giving up the old dream for husbands and office jobs. I decided to be better than that. I was going to dance forever. I was probably going to drive the santa fe forever because there was no way i'd ever afford another car on what i was making foreshadowing. I hold onto
EV News Daily - Electric Car Podcast
"scooter" Discussed on EV News Daily - Electric Car Podcast
"So you ain't gonna pull icy on one hundred twenty eight so we'll be talking about language a bit more and promises and i know a lot of new listening to this podcast around the new drivers or wanna learn more about ev. So that's something that will. We'll talk a bit more about these new. Byu charges from instable going into mackey. D's and costa coffee and the first ones the byu importing into europe are being used by insta- volt they go plans to put some one hundred fifty kilowatt charges in over the next year as well. Nothing faster than one hundred and fifty but that makes perfect sense. now let's talk about scooters. I keep talking about all the indian company l. allah and i need to talk about some other companies as well but i just i'm obsessed with scooters at the minute what if you want to scooter. That's electric well. Piaggio will happily sell you. The vesper electrica for seven and a half thousand dollars which is a lot for a scooter. Another option comes from all the s. one and the s. one pro. The i've been talking about so much over the last few weeks. Fifty five miles an hour for the s. One seventy one miles an hour for the pro. Seventy one mile an hour on a little scooter. Like yeah you bulls still to do that. Let's loads of performance. And it's look is over the legal speed limit in this country on a scale. If you think about the seventy five mile range of the base one hundred twelve mile range of the pro version it does get quite compelling seven inch digital dash to show the information that you need and it starts at the equivalent of indian vehicle of one thousand three hundred fifty us dollars. They figure export them as well. I would have. I will just go to cairo. I can ride a scooter on l. place kaanai with my license past many many years ago Yet like absolutely. I'd have one of those in the garrick for twelve thirteen hundred quid. Yes please hero or another company. Though hero motor corp also rivaling all with the electric scooter business in india by next year the start of next year as well hero mosey coupe. Which is the world's longest to will manufacturer for the last twenty years right. They're going to debut their electric two wheel muddle relying on any fixed charging but also battery swapping technology. Lift up the seat. Pull out the battery. Take it to your apartment or if you can't get you know if you have to leave your bike somewhere else plug it in next morning. Probably back in off you go. The company was founded in nineteen eighty-four formerly hero honda. Actually back in. In in the six plants they make eleven point six million scooters a year. That's just i'll say again. They make eleven point. Six million units in india every single year. That market is so big they have six thousand dealerships and of course they will have the staff and the infrastructure to be rolling out electric scooters across india. What about super socco. The australia based super sakai v moto is the company..
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"scooter" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"I'm calling from wrinkle north carolina. Hello good welcome to the show. Hey logan was up. I have a question about a phrase grew up hearing Scooter scooter putin is. Is that a noun our verb I've heard it in ways actually so basically in usage. So what did you today allowing. Scooter booting Or i did some studio putin today so mostly as a verb. I guess okay. So if you're scooter putting what are you. What are you doing. So in how i understood it. It's kind of just like going around town doing aaron kinda just pedaling around Just driving around town. I guess who sameness. Well my mother actually was..
WTOP 24 Hour News
Washington DC Police Will Patrol on Bikes, Scooters to Engage Community
"Is deploying a new unit of officers on bikes and scooters with the goal of increasing interaction between police officers and the community. This is something that we've been working on for several weeks. And I'm happy to announce the formation of this new unit. Oh, Moments before the sky opened up over Congress Heights, Southeast D. C. Police chief Robert Conte announced a new community focused patrol unit that will be deployed on bikes and scooters in times where our manpower has decreased almost 215 officers since October 2020 MPD must more effectively used the more limited resources that we have, with the goal of interacting more with the community County says the three squads will be sent to neighborhoods around the clock based on crime data from the previous 14 days. In southeast Megan Cloherty. W T O P News.
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
Scooter Braun Comments on 'Confusing' Feud With Taylor Swift
"Scooter braun whose justin bieber's manager. You might not know his name. But he's a big big manager in hollywood. He's confused about his feud of taylor swift. That's how you know his name. He bore taylor swift's stors all her recordings. I think it was six of albums. Taylor went absolutely crazy. Some people say rightly so now. Scooter is to say the following quote. I regretted. it makes me sad. That taylor had this reaction. I don't know what story she was told. I asked to sit down with several times meat. She refused and he offered to sell her her back catalogue. But she's saying not quite so fast so in november when the story broke she said that brown basically did this behind her back and she wasn't allowed to buy her own music. She said the following quote. So i would have to sign a document that would silence me forever before i could even have a chance to beat on my own. Work is crazy that she didn't own her own work. Legal team at the time told her is absolutely not normal to sign an nda like that and nondisclosure agreement and said basically this is the type of document you get someone to sign after sexually assaulting them and paying them off and she said that she would never sign it. These masters were not for sale to me. I think taylor here. I'm not sure. I believe scooter. And even if cutest telling the truth this is not gonna help you. Stop. it's over you did this. You made a lot of money. He's already sold them again so he's made hundreds of millions of dollars taylor swift there sort of winning too. So don't feel batches re recorded all her old albums and she's going to re release those. So i think here we can feel okay for both people but definitely there's something a little
The Red Box Politics Podcast
"scooter" Discussed on The Red Box Politics Podcast
"Let's see that's That's gonna be fast dollars. Expect take on the oldest. There's a call coming up on me. That that's what i do not cost housing and then me Okay why beguiling left off the closing also going left put me indicators on who who. Well the band i don't know about. This is a call that was done. Can go on the bus on the van Comment pushed on a par. Now which is snotty for straightening. Please let me over. Thank you thank king you thinking you. Maybe they'll parking parking. Let's talk up. I'm an chat. With duncan out. How all this saw lately. I've ever man we all so how often saw the road safely. So don't come. We'll see we'll see school them. So i've downloaded the app of the thing journey. Where do i leave it where you have to leave In a parking bay in london and that's one of the critical things about how we really hope that. This brand of doctors micro mobility. You'll be a success in london. I'm instead of having who's being left everywhere you sit in other places in denial and it was definitely. It's been learning curve for the industry as a whole but we seem to be a a an air seemed to have got to a place where we're comfortable with what the city needs. What people need right as neat as well and so we're not gonna customer going around the block. A couple at the moment is One pound per unlock. And then it's fifteen pence per minute but we've got various policies that are available including ones that take out the need for the timed element. So you just pay the unlocks at one pound per go up to thirty minutes. Then you don't have to worry about.
The Red Box Politics Podcast
"scooter" Discussed on The Red Box Politics Podcast
"You don't have degrees and left parties dominated by voters who do have them. There's nothing wrong with the way that he's talking but he's not decided who he's talking to and that's just that's his biggest problem so i only only do think that is a problem of choosing and at the time when he joined jeremy corbin's shot at cabinet. I thought that was kinda quite small. Political maneuver it. Put him in the game to be leader after corbin left without having to staunch everything the kuban stood for. And i'm now much more inclined to the fact that he joined it because he finds it hard to make political choices and make a political decisions by the way. Boris johnson does too But he manages to encompass everything whereas kissed storm is left cussing nothing. That's a that's a problem are all in the end when you can collapsed the and that's what was the issue instead of getting in and out for cabinets and shadow cabinets is dominant. Cummings folks this idea Yesterday and he's never. You might still be going that we know answering questions online. Only if you pay him. What are the things he talked about was if you could pick executive figures from outside parliament that would improve things Basically you could see the maitland. Officials will put them in lords as put them in the lord's as ministers and he's basis. Thank you shouldn't be Just choosing people run the country from the pool of people who manage to become an mp once again having a swipe at matt hancock but instead using from the households david you know any smart people in the house of lords who good at what in the country i do. I'm on one particularly well on. I always thought he should be administered. But i'm not exactly sure how he can carry on being columnist and a and b administer on talking of course about charles moore donny george to defend yourself. Should you be. Should you be giving a job at government you know with the idea of dominic cummings was one of those ones. Where when you when you realized that's the logic elliptic asian of the algemeen. You'll putting you go back to the beginning of the ultimate and start to question the premises. Because i'm call possibly end up there in a situation in of immature. Parliamentary democracy is run by people who aren't parliamentarians or emits. You do away with parliamentary democracy in the incorrect assumption. That will then get a lot. Better people Running making executive decisions being Accountable and you white. So as she have paid of dominic cummings is saab stack and i find it very intellectually stimulating. I think he says a lot of extremely interesting. Things provided one exception understands that he fundamentally believes in politics without politicians in it. She's she's a very dangerous. Which is almost ludicrous or dangerous. And an i'm able to. I think you have to do with what dominant coming says. Without getting distracted by the fact that he thinks everybody at stop true that everybody else but he thinks so many other people he deals with a radio and called think of any way of running a political system and to install a few data. Scientists that he met and i do think is still valuable nonetheless. But is it is a recurrent fantasy. This isn't it that you can somehow take the politics out of politics. And you can kind of create a situation whereby the best minds and they're always minds contiguous to your own can rub along together etcetera and sort things out and in a way there's a lot to be said for the idea that government can make use all of talent and there's an a recurrent problem as well which is because and this is going to get listeners really up because we pay 'em mp's a relatively low amount you either major money baton but before you become an nba. All if you are interested in what is a good middle class and upper middle class. Stand up life your family. You won't become an mp. Oh you went. Stay an mp and that's and that's a genuine difficulty to which were very reluctant to confront says some ways what it comes to suggest it sort of is to try and get round the barriers which we ourselves have imposed towards of talent actually going into staying in politics i think is fundamentally should not he. He thinks that the only judge judgment be made about an action by government. Is its effectiveness efficiency. And he's very angry that it isn't effective and efficient. And i understand that but he misses out the fact that it also has to enjoy the laws also have to enjoy consent that they have to be transparent. He made that The public has to not abuse its power and all of these things are overheads. They make things less efficient and he doesn't accept that constraint is an extraordinary sort of hole and his model of how government should be done. It isn't all like the moon. Landing is not actually a particularly good example because only involves one big major projects under executive control of the president is not a typical action. So i had this law week with his acumen views. He doesn't leave any room in procurement for appearances as if because he thinks that's a relevant man what he calls potemkin measures to persuade the public that transparent but they didn't matter do mats. Aren't he's actually just roller about pass. Look the you make you make an important point which is just how much politics is about persuasion now. The problem with having to persuade people things in order to get your way is there's than area of compromise there's the area whereby you don't ever get anything out the perfected level that you would want because you have to dial it down a bit in order to kind of get it through if you if you look at. What's happening to has to happen. In the american system. Joe biden to get anything substantial done. You really see how vital the question of persuasion is at every at every level and of course it's immensely irritating if you you've got the right idea you know you've got the right ideas and you find them. It's like it's like making a at a television program with will commissioning editors and an commissioners and produces all with different ideas. You come in with this idea. Of what the drama is and what you end up with is nothing like what you went into the room when you sound like. You're speaking from experience. I just finally on the list of things to talk about. I'm not sure who suggested this. But ufo's there's this report coming out from the pentagon t tiny what the us government knows about it. 'cause unidentified aerial phenomena which of you is a believer. I put. I put this because i know diners. Consider expert on this. I'm always very keen to hear what you don't know is dining has a kind of tiny little kind of conspiracy conspiracy which is quite. Ill rather likes these stories. I wanted to find out what he makes. The i know i make this you f. I think but i wanted to find out what dynamics of it sorry anything that involves have extraterrestrial beings or You drag and the game is frightened. I turned all fat team. But the moment asked some sort of metaphysical Kind of a fictional animals involved in. It quite like I've at a point before. David persuaded me how dangerous they were. I was quite attracted to the conspiracy. And i did for quite a long time binds. The conspiracy theory that john kennedy was was murdered about matthew or the cia. Normally i so much but the the mafia and now i realized that's absurd but david not wrong. I tragedy by that and and for all interesting reasons that you think you kind of next level of knowledge that other people have it doesn't reflect very well on me as a person i think. Hopefully it reflects better on me my lesson but more the part. So here's here's the thing which really fascinates me about this. So what you've got. Is this report. Which essentially details They're thinking and chronicled the experiences they have with the with with these sorts of encounters. And here's the thing. I want to from people who think that this does show that they are indeed alien encounters. Don't we spot any of them on their way to earth. Why don't we only see once. They're in the atmosphere. That's what i want. There was nobody from space seem whizzing past of people ages and ages. You must assume. The people inmates smash table taipei the potato paypal avoiding the world's well. I feel we've covered a lot of ground there who kissed mashed potatoes..
The Red Box Politics Podcast
"scooter" Discussed on The Red Box Politics Podcast
"Up on today's episode where you stand on east scoots his. I'm you stand on the platform but they are spreading across the country though too towns and cities are starting to trial them. The all the the future of transport allow they silent menace. I in another sort of blew episode after the space centrifuge business. I've been out to china out using an east coaster. Then we lock it But will also find out about the whether or not they are legal and whether or not they re the future charles. That's coming up a big thing on the post. But i it's all columnist polly. It must be tuesday. it must be finkel fitch fitches don don and david each meet the services of columnists the janus of journalism and the ultimate political portmanteau of opinion cinco fish with daniel finkelstein and david aroma vich. On times radio yes back to bitcoin. I saw tuesday morning. It's daniel finkelstein morning dining rolling and one of its one hundred. Good morning naturally with go daddy. It sounds like something like the village. People think you'll find. They are an excellent website for building. Your own website quickly and easily i must. I must try this afternoon. Eyeballs generally having ago. Yes they is incredibly. It's always dangerous easy to create a website. Maybe we need maybe volley finco kovic dot com could have could set websites all the radio anyway enough of that nonsense. Let's get back to business. Let's talk about care star. Or i mean i slightly unkindly described him as a poor man's davey all the knighthood none of the hope a i call him on saturday but the careers. Just charisma matter in in politics Let's talk you. I study talk. But i don't think that's really the problem for storm. I think he's as she quiet and attractive personality. And there's a lot of reason to think that The electra unlike would say william hey into a certain extent with milan. They haven't dismissed entirely of the problem. I think he's got caught. The just tj joist is i think he's always had a problem making choices in politics and he's got a particular problem i think with choosing between gun fight. The right wall states move towards more sort of nationally Nationalistic olds become sort of globalist liberal. With i think he's read future boss allies and the electric can pick up that feeling that he hasn't made up his mind. I suppose that's essentially the problem. Isn't it david. It's not necessarily making up his mind. People can tell if you don't believe something if he's a globalist liberal. That's fine you can make the case but the people can spot someone trying to make up their mind and trying to work out. What the right thing to do electorally. Well after i suggested this topic rather facetiously because there was poor oak kissed on losing Hartlepool by election and being accused of a lack of charisma. And then the next one by ed davey and then you think well. Maybe charisma isn't quite the because i don't think anybody i mean even in his own party thinks at davies. You know i kind of the george clooney of politics As an emphasizes the point donny makes which is we reach for. These kind of notions like the kings wicked advise. You know it's not the king but is there advisors. It's not this. It's like a charisma. We're not we're actually talking about is Exactly sunny says a kind of matter of stance labor is called the moment betwixt and between and finds it very. It's almost as if it hasn't quite managed to work out what its analysis of the new political demography of britain as what is likely to be into a three years time and therefore what. It's kind of most what the pitch which most goes with it sense of how the world should be. I'm what the electric might think. The world should be is going to be three or four years time. I would broadly concur. We danny says which is in the end do think the labor is going to have to say every body will benefit if we are more internationalised if we are more worked in With world if we are able to compete better and to cooperate better account of his davies story before but did a previous news by but not at the time previous newspaper lipton party conference. We had a meeting. There's mean a couple of political pulses and the editor on a barge in birmingham which was sort of swaying very slowly. Everyone was tied and hung over to and just a meeting with davy. They just went on and on at home without any. I think by the end. He said all of that is in the public domain rendering the entire meeting essentially empha- more forever more at the other newspaper the independent. It was not any meeting that had gone on too long. had entered. ed davey talk. Talked up wwl donny. Part of the problem is because she kissed talks a bit like david there. He talks about having this sort of thinking out loud about his as his assessment of the left's place a liberal democracy the twenty percent while over there. You've got on the blade. You could have a breach we can build you around about. You'll symbol money. We'll do this. Jona hospital policemen while kissed sort of having this sort of just just sort of Intellectualism he's talked about labor's lost contact with work with the word the new orleans working class and all that sort of stuff and you know we need to build a connection and trust and voice doesn't little to about could actually trust or does offer people thinks well on my view is that there's nothing wrong with a kind of quite intellectual property. Fastest will devote your gang oster and kissed on account on decide whether he is or isn't but if you look all over the world what's happening is a rotation of politics in which conservative parties are gradually becoming policies dominated by voters. You don't have degrees and left parties dominated by voters who do have them. There's nothing wrong with the way that he's talking but he's not decided who he's talking.
AP News Radio
Summer Camps Return With Fewer Campers and Counselors
"Summer camps are back but with fewer campers and counselors all fifty states are allowing summer camps this year corona virus related rules will be in place Tom Rosenberg with the American camp association says the goal this summer is to have fun to get there we actually have to agree to follow these basic rules and I'll listen to this camp directors who are doing their best to care for children Josh Nelson says the Glorietta adventure camps near Santa Fe New Mexico a ready to go fly lines you have mountain scooters the waterfront's huge the camps will have mask rules they have the same book rooms so that's where they can take the mask off at night or when they're sitting down at meals at their table Margaret JP's children are going to camp in Kansas it's a sign that things are getting back to normal the camps in New Mexico will be at one third capacity I bet Donahue
The Dave Ramsey Show
Milwaukee's Electric Scooter Season Begins
"Streets this summer as the city's Department of Public Works tries to implement more transportation options. The return as some riders excited after last year's hiatus. I think that this is such a good, more fun concept than just a bike, but they acknowledge those who aren't following the rules can create headaches. Don't put in alleyway. Don't do it here. But there's no consequences as you wouldn't know who put it there kind of things. Study runs until November, 15th in downtown Milwaukee. Tony Braddock WTMJ news. In
Morning Edition
China Detains Delivery Worker Who Tried To Improve Working Conditions
"Of 2020. As the year of the delivery worker. Delivery workers helped millions of Americans stay safer during the pandemic, and in China, they fed hundreds of millions of people who were in quarantine. One delivery worker in China tried to improve working conditions, and now he's in detention as NPR's Beijing correspondent Emily Fang reports China has three million delivery workers, and they are everywhere. Outside every apartment complex, an office building. You see them with their bright windproof jackets and scooters. She was young or Mongol, as he is popularly known, was one of them. He worked all sorts of jobs and Beijing food delivery, package delivery and wholesale logistics. But he also made short videos about life as a delivery worker. He put them on throwing the Chinese version of Tic Tac woman. Sure they will make what the teacher he says, is this video delivery workers are people, not robots, but delivery platforms treat us like hogs in the machine, so he tried to organize delivery workers, one of China's fastest growing groups of gig workers here. He is in the podcast interview last September, about how he was detained for a month for trying to set up a strike. Failure only about Italian here he says they could do everything to arrest you fix you with a criminal charge. Sentenced to two years in prison and you change nothing. So do other delivery workers still dare to complain? Well, I dare And then, as big annual political meetings kicked off in Beijing this February, he simply disappeared. Nobody saw you should heart. So NPR went looking for answers. That search took us to remote beat CIA Prefecture and China Southwest infamous for being one of the poorest places in the country. They're in a village tucked amid lush green mountains. We found Mum Drew's father, Jin won Pa. In a small concrete house amid fields of corn. The elder Chen visibly tears up when we asked him about his son.
WBZ Afternoon News
Taylor Swift’s New “From the Vault” Track “That’s When” Features Keith Urban
"Album released today. Last 13 tunes on Fearless Taylor's version are re recording of Swifts 2008 Studio album now owned by Scooter Bronze Big Machine label. There are new pairings one with Maren Morris, another with Keith Urban. This said, Did you wrong baby? Stick from the vault? Fault. Mr Perfectly fine has fans and even his wife, Sophie Turner, pointing to swift, ex Joe Jonas. Deborah Rodriguez. CBS News, 4
Climate Connections
Georgia-Based Innovation Lab Works to Speed the Transition to Clean Transportation
"Curiosity lab and peachtree corners. Georgia companies are testing new transportation technologies. For example. you can summon an electric scooter and it will roll up riderless and ready for you to hop on. Think uber but for an scooter. You pull up. You call it. The east cooter drives to you. Brandon brandon is chief technology officer for the city of peachtree corners which owns curiosity lap. The lab is located within technology park and allows companies free of charge to see how their products perform a real world setting. The property includes a one and a half mile stretch of road. That's used at the test. Track for technologies like the scooters and self driving electric shuttles and now part of the track is a solar road it's embedded with solar panels. That people can walk in drive on and they've here right on top of the roadway. So you don't have to bust up. The asphalt random says the manufacturer is evaluating. How the solar road performed with pedestrians bikes and cars and changing weather. Conditions can hold up on a roadway. What happens when it gets really hot. What happens when it rains. The data that companies gather at curiosity lab can help improve emerging technologies and that can help speed the transition to cleaner transportation
Pop Shop
Demi Lovato Drops New Album Featuring Ariana Grande
"A whole new album from demi lovato. It's been much teased alongside the new youtube docu series that she has also called dancing with the devil just like her album And there a brand new song on the album featuring arianna guerande her management's cohort with scooter braun. And it's called madam last night. The devil is really having a moment in popular right now. Seriously maybe in very very different ways very different ways so we already talked about a little nasdaq's. We talked about the title of this dummy album. But then this song specifically is referring to meeting satan. So yeah and it's i mean an expectedly incredible vocal from these two. I mean They you know kinda came up at the same time. But i i. We have never gotten a duet from them before and they really lean into you. Know how these two voices sound together. It's a lotta is ing and I think my biggest takeaway from listening to the song is how much i cannot wait to hear it. Sung live because vasic.
AP 24 Hour News
11-year-old fatally shot in Philadelphia while riding a scooter
"On 11 year old Philadelphia boy is dead a 14 year old hospitalized after someone opened fire as they were writing a dirt bike this evening. Police say the younger boy was hit in the neck and died to the local hospital. The 14 year old was shot twice, once in the arm once in the ankle. No arrests
Wow In the World
Are You Smarter Than A Toilet?
"Okay ready to go. How are we getting their guy. That is used scared me god. Did you hear getting the gang back together. We're like harry run and her miami. Obviously harry sorry. Dennis really love for you to come but for taking guy roz yellow bananas scooter. And you know. It's only got seating for two people vote and a giant pigeon. Aw plus we need you here to spy on the neighborhood and watch out for danger. I guess yeah. We promised bring back a souvenir. Dierk many yoga. I think we have a little problem. Why what's going on. Well i kick it the banana scooter to start. It seems like the battery might dead. Maybe the banana is overweight. You know according to popular fruit and veg mechanics magazine. Overripe produce is the number one problem with perishable transportation. Know what happened to have your rollerblades handy do you. Oh boy. Do i know almost reggie got to ride gadfly dennis. Thank you still got. Tripling is the banana scooter. All the way down to the convention center. No problem indie rollerblades. Four oh come on you to hand you reggie. The entrance is right over there. What what what what i wear. Welcome to the bathroom showcase. Are you considering bathroom remodel. Yes i am looking to build a bear tuba lazy river in my bath. Tab and my buddy guy over here is tired of pooping in the kitchen sink. Mendy danny house. Well actually. It's a solar powered energy efficient. Modular in oversized debbie doll dream. Well i think that it's just super and i believe we've got some lovely compact laboratory options that you are going to a door. Come with me right this way but what what what what look at this of this place mindy now over here to the left you'll see be during the latest in portal body technology. Oh i think you mean florida party right. Yeah as in portable potties not poor tongue or tau you see traditional porta potties. Need to be transported to a location but but let me guess portal. Transport i bingo. Oh it's like the rollerblades of toilets now that something. I can get my behind behind once properly tested. These portal policies will be able to transport poopers through time and space past or future time. Travelling toilet signed me up. I want to see inside. Oh please don't go in their bodies bigger than your new house guy. Rise please sir. The portals are highly unstable. They have access to urine and feces from all of human history. Do i just flush myself to another car. What no sir please. it's just a prototype with. It's still in beta testing.
Pop-Punk & Pizza
"scooter" Discussed on Pop-Punk & Pizza
"All right guys. You have a great night and thanks for being on you do the same. Thanks so much. Of course happy to do it slide. I wish my name was scooter. Isn't that a.