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A highlight from UNCHAINED: SBF Trial | How Sam Bankman-Frieds Lawyers Might Try and Win His Case
"Thanks for listening to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto, on the CoinDesk Podcast Network. You can also listen to the episodes on the Unchained feed earlier if you subscribe there. Plus check out all our content on our website, unchainedcrypto .com. Very dangerous to call the defendant. However, you may be in a situation where the government puts their case on and you are going to lose. There is no way you're winning. You're only shot as a Hail Mary. Okay, let's put them on. The other side of the coin is it's very powerful when a defendant testifies. It makes it much harder for the jury to convict. They're not dealing with characterizations of a person anymore. They're dealing with that person. They have heard the person speak intimately in a courtroom. And even in cases I've had where a defendant testified, even when the jury ends up convicting, it often takes them longer to get there because it's a harder decision when a human being testifies to them. Starting on Tuesday, October 3rd, the day this episode airs, the world will be watching the criminal trial of the United States versus Sam Bankman -Fried. In this episode, my guests Kayvon Sadeghi and Samson Ensor unpack what it is we're likely to see in the trial, starting with what kinds of potential jurors it is that both the prosecution and the defense will want to deselect from the jury poll this week. Why it's even gotten to the point of a criminal trial given that three co -conspirators have already pleaded guilty, what the core of the trial centers around, and why it is they think the fact that it involves crypto won't matter. Plus, they explore the effectiveness of one potential defense from Bankman -Fried's side, the so -called advice of counsel defense that says that FTX's own lawyers approved of the company's actions. And finally, they raise the question that everyone will be looking for. Will Sam testify? Hi everyone, welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as a senior editor at Plorbs, was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full -time. This is the October 3rd, 2023 episode of Unchained. Buy, trade, and spend crypto on the Crypto .com app. New users can enjoy zero credit card fees on crypto purchases in the first seven days. Download the Crypto .com app and get $25 with the code LAURA. Link in the description. Vaultcraft by Popcorn is your no -code DeFi toolkit for building automated, non -custodial yield strategies. Learn more on vaultcraft .io about how you can supercharge your crypto portfolio. The game has changed. The Google Cloud Oracle, built for Layer 0, is now securing every Layer 0 message by default. Their custom end -to -end solution sets itself up to bring its world -class security to Web3 and establish itself as the HTTPS within Layer 0 messaging. Visit layer0 .network to learn more. Today's topic is the trial for Sam Vangman -Fried. Here to discuss are Kay von Sodegi, Partner and Co -Chair of Fintech and Crypto Assets at Jenner & Block, and Samson Enser, Partner at Cahill, Gordon & Rydell. Welcome, Kay von and Sam. Great to be back with you, Laura. Likewise. Thanks for having us on. So, the day this episode airs is the first day of the criminal trial for the United States against Sam Vangman -Fried, the former CEO of FTX. Before we dive into the details of this trial, why don't we just have you each briefly describe how your background is relevant to this case. Kay von, would you like to start? Sure. Sure. So, I've been a litigator in New York for the last little over 20 years now, I guess, and in the blockchain space since late 2016, so I've been following all sorts of litigation enforcement actions in the space, including things related to the FTX situation, of course. I also know when things go criminal to open people like my friend Sam here, who have more direct experience, so I'll turn it over to him to discuss his background. Sure. Thank you, Kay von. I used to be a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York in the securities and commodities fraud unit, which is the unit that is prosecuting Sam Vangman -Fried. When I was there, I did their first crypto securities fraud cases. So what you're seeing in this case is sort of an evolution of some of the cases that I worked on. The prosecutors in this case are folks that used to be my colleagues. I know them well, both from when I was a prosecutor and now as a defense lawyer at Cahill. I tried a case in front of Judge Kaplan, who is the judge in the case. I know him well, and I've had a case in front of him as a defense lawyer. And the defense lawyers are folks that I'm friends with from both sides. I worked with them with Chris Everdale when we were prosecutors together. And now on the defense side, he and I have worked together on this side as well. All right. So to begin our discussion, why don't we first explain how this trial is different from, say, the SEC's case against Ripple, which secures to even get a judgment that is now being appealed. So how is this trial against SPF even able to start less than a year after FTX collapsed? Sure. I can jump in. For what a lot of people in the industry have been looking at are things like the SEC enforcement action against Ripple, Coinbase, other things like that, which are civil proceedings. And those tend to be preceded by years of investigation followed by, once a case starts, months if not years of discovery where parties are exchanging all sorts of documents, taking depositions, there's multiple rounds of briefing. And we end up with something like a decision on summary judgment, as we saw in Ripple, before you ever get to a trial to decide what's tried. That is a very different process than the criminal process, which involves a lot less discovery up front. You end up exchanging a lot less information before trial, and it's a much more accelerated time frame. And I think for talking about exactly how those mechanics work, maybe we can kick to Sam to discuss a little bit about that criminal process. Yeah, for sure. I think in a criminal case, it is very common to get from indictment to trial within roughly a year, even in a complicated case. This case is unusual in that the prosecutors investigated the crime very, very quickly. It was November of 2022 that I think the market and the public started to see signs that FTX was cracking. It was not long after that that there was an indictment. So they were speedy in the investigation. Judge Kaplan is a no -nonsense judge who does not like to move a trial date. So he is somebody who pushes a case to trial if that's where it's headed. And so that's why we are here. In the criminal context, as Kayvon mentioned, you know, in a civil case, you will get to question under oath that is depose the other side's witnesses. So there are no surprises at a trial. Not so in a criminal trial. The does defense not have the opportunity to... If the witnesses for the government don't want to be interviewed by them, they won't be. They don't have the right to question them. If those witnesses don't want to be questioned, they may not even know who the witnesses are. They may learn that for the first time very shortly before the trial. If you've seen the movie My Cousin Vinny, it's actually a pretty good summary of how the criminal process goes. You're there and you're hearing the testimony for the first time. You have to really be live on your feet to be able to deal with it. And that's something that I think surprises a lot of people who aren't familiar with the system because I think the natural instinct is, you know, civil cases are about money. Criminal cases are about your freedom. And you would think as the defendant, when your freedom's on the line, you'd have more rights to information that you would have more ability to mount your defense and have everything that you would need to do so. But in fact, it sort of works the opposite way that you have less information going into the trial. You have less rights to understand what the prosecutors are going to do than you would to understand what the SEC is going to do when they're bringing a case just for money damages. I think another thing to think about, and this has played out in some of the briefing ahead of trial, in the Ripple case, the defendants, the company and the executives who were named in the suit are not in jail. So they can run their business, they can live their lives, they can meet with their lawyers in a conference room to prepare. Sam Bankman -Fried has been repeatedly asking the judge to release him on bail because he is literally in jail right now awaiting trial. He was out on bail originally. He did things that caused the judge to detain him. And now he's sitting in a jail. What that means is his lawyers do not have 24 -7 access to him. He may not have full access to computers or things to do the stuff he needs to do to prepare. I can tell you on the defense side, I've had clients in jail when I've had to defend them. It is extremely difficult to confer with a client and prepare for court when you have limited access to them because they're in jail. Yeah, one other thing that I wanted to ask is why this even went to trial at all, considering that three of S .B .F.'s own colleagues will be testifying against him and have already pleaded guilty. So I don't really know. I'm not a lawyer. But in my head, it's like when you have that kind of testimony against you, you know, from witnesses that were directly there, does that mean that a plea deal wasn't even on the table? Or do you think Sam declined such an offer or, you know, what happened there? I am sure that if he had wanted to plead guilty, I doubt very much that the government would have been interested in letting him cooperate because he is, so to speak, the kingpin. When the government lets somebody cooperate, that is, plead guilty and testify against others to get a reduction or leniency at sentencing, typically the government wants to get somebody in the middle or the bottom and cooperate them up against somebody higher up in the food chain of a crime. I don't think there's anybody above S .B .F. We could have a discussion about whether he maybe knows things about others who would be peers of his in the industry, but I doubt the government was interested in his cooperation. Would they have let him plead guilty just to have some reduction in sentence exposure for the certainty of a conviction? They probably would have, but I expect they would have wanted a very stiff plea. And I think S .B .F., as some defendants do, they take the position, I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't act with intent to the fraud. And when intent is the key issue, what was in somebody's, between somebody's ears when they were doing something, it's very often that that gets tried. White collar criminal cases get tried a lot. And I think people, it is important in a white collar criminal case, when you're talking about fraud, very often, 97 percent of the facts are not going to be in dispute. In other words, the facts of did people deposit money or funds or digital assets on FDX not in dispute? What did the terms of use say, not in dispute? A lot of the activity is not in dispute. The question is, what was Sam thinking when he did certain things? Was he acting with the intent to deceive people and take their money or were other people doing that and he was just blissfully unaware? And so what you're saying is it really could be either that the government didn't offer the plea deal because they wanted to use the other witnesses to get him or that Sam wanted to take that gamble since, you know, it would be harder to prove what his intent was. So you're saying it really could be either? It could be either, but I would expect knowing the, I think if Sam wanted to plead and was willing to take stiff terms, he probably could have. I think that he drives the buck. The government decides whether you get charged, it's really up to the defendant to decide whether they go to trial. I don't expect they were going to be, as you say, it's a stiff plea that would have been available if anything. I mean, there was going to be no light sentence on the back of a plea here. So I think Sam was looking at any plea would have probably been a long time behind bars. And so at that point, maybe you decide to take your chances in his shoes. Because of the sheer amount of money and the number of charges. Yeah. Okay. So the main task at the start of the trial will be to choose the jurors. What do you think each side will be looking for when it comes to prospective jurors? So we've got a, you know, a little bit of a, of a hint from the voir dire questions that each side has put forward. You know, I think - That's the name for the process for vetting the jurors. Exactly. Maybe, maybe it makes sense to start with sort of how that process will unfold. So the trial will start with the selection of jurors and it's very different in a civil case as we're dealing with here or than in the criminal case. So civil case, the lawyers get to ask questions directly of the jurors, particularly in state court and it's a very freewheeling process. In a federal criminal case like this, the questions are handled by the judge and both the prosecution and the defense have submitted proposed questions to the court that will help guide what the court asks of the jurors. And a lot of it is pretty typical stuff that both sides somewhat agree on. And you want to know if people have any connection to any of the parties in the case, any of the lawyers in the case, if they have certain direct background and exposure to FDX or things like that. I think where some of the differences lie is whether people have broader exposure to crypto or the crypto industry generally, if they have views on any of that, or even the financial markets is one of the areas that parties may be touching. And then once we move past that, the defense was trying to, you're asking the judge to get into areas that I don't expect he will, but looking for any exposure to or experience with people with ADHD, any things along those lines that you can tell are sort of teeing up some of their defenses. So I think the defense will be looking for people who will be more sympathetic to some of those additional factors where, as I imagine the prosecution will be looking for people who are probably generally skeptical of crypto overall and avoiding any of those sort of sideshows. I would put it in three buckets. I think the government and the defense will think about the types of jurors into three buckets. One bucket are people who are sort of the quintessential citizen, common sense oriented. They work a job they can convict. Those are the people the government likes. So somebody who holds a job, somebody who is a boss, somebody who's a mid -level manager. So they are committed to society. They have to make decisions. They sometimes have to make decisions on incomplete information. That's the type of person the government would want. Then you've got people who are extremely technical, who want proof in mathematical certainty. Those are folks that the defense would like and that the government might not like. And then in the third category is another group that the defense would like. And those are folks who are more emotional and not necessarily going to be driven by the sort of inferences the government will put before them. So for example, the government likes to strike social workers, very afraid of having a social worker on there who might sympathize with a young defendant and say, you know, maybe a mistake was made here. I'm not sure beyond a reasonable doubt that this person should go to jail. No, wait. Just to go back to people who are either familiar with crypto or financial services, it wasn't clear to me. So it seemed like you were saying that, you know, the government would seek people who were skeptical of crypto. But if you're, if you just are knowledgeable, then is that, it seems like that would be better than for the prosecution rather than for the defense. Am I right in thinking that or? It's hard to read the tea leaves of exactly how that one will cut. You know, one of the defenses that, that we can see Sam Bankenfried would like to put forward and that the prosecution is opposing is an idea of sort of blame the regulators, blame the uncertainty in the industry, all of those sort of things to suggest that this was wild west, it wasn't clear what the rules of the road were, and therefore that should absolve him of some responsibility. And I think that's something the prosecution understandably doesn't want to get into and the judge has indicated, you know, there's going to be a pretty tight leash on anything like that, I think. But people who are very steeped in the crypto industry may have more of those views. They may be, you know, they may think that the uncertainty in the government's approach is partially to blame for what's happened, things like that. And so anybody who's so close that they may have some of those views may not be an ideal juror for the prosecution, but somebody, you know, somebody who's lost money, lost money or knows people who've lost money in some of these scams may be, you know, may be more likely to be a good juror for the prosecution. So it's hard to see exactly how those things will cut. I think it's important to note also, we call it jury selection, but it's actually a misnomer. The right name for it should be jury deselection. You don't pick your jurors. You get a pool of people and you have a certain number of strikes. And so really what you're doing is picking the worst apples and deselecting them and you're stuck with what you're left with. And so it's really, I think when trial lawyers do jury selection in a criminal case, they think about who are the people I have to get rid of? Who can I just, who can I not have on the jury? Government does not want the social worker on the jury. The government does not want, they don't like lawyers on the jury because they fear that a lawyer might just take over, creates unpredictability. Another sort of advantage for the defense is that the government has to get 12 jurors unanimous to prevail. If the jury is not unanimous, that's a hung jury and it's a mistrial, which basically is a victory for the defense. And if the jury unanimously wants to acquit, that's a victory for the defense. So it's the, the, the, the government needs to be able to get a group of people who can agree. Maybe somebody leads them and the rest of the people can go along with it, but they have to be able to reach consensus. That's important as well. Yeah. This is definitely a pretty complicated chess game. It sounds like, so one other thing that will happen or might happen after the jury deselection is that Judge Kaplan, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is the judge in this case, might give a pre -opening jury charge. Explain what that is and why it is that he might give this or why he might not. Sure. So it is common practice before the commencement of the, the body of the trial, which is the opening statements of the lawyers, the presentation of evidence, and then closing arguments. Before the sort of body of the trial, the judge will typically give preliminary instructions to help the jury understand what they're going to hear. So the judge will say, you know, you're going to hear opening statements. These are the lawyer's attempt to give you a preview of what to expect, what the lawyers say is not evidence. And some rules of the road, some general rules of the road, and that's common. What Judge Kaplan does that's unique, he doesn't do it in every case, but he has done it in some, some criminal cases where it's complicated, is he will hone in on what he thinks is a key issue in the case and flagged for the jury. One of the key issues in this case is going to be a dispute about X. Here are the key rules you need to know about the law on how to decide X. Why is that important? It focuses the jury. It gives you a sense of what the judge thinks is the real battleground.
Level After Next With Katie Barnett
Tim Branyan: Air Force Vet Turned Tech Mogul Shares His Origin Story
"So how old were you when you left the Air Force and started becoming a tech mogul? Yeah, so I don't remember exactly how old I was. I think I was 23, 22, 23. I got out and I didn't fully get out. I still had my toes in. I went to school, was really burnt out and depressed pretty quick and decided to jump at the chance to do contracting. So I did a similar job as a civilian contractor on an army contract. And really that's kind of where the tech adventure started was just after getting that job and playing a position, the mission as a civilian and making really good money, I was just like, man, I really want freedom. I want to own my life. Making this amount of money is great, but I worked a lot and I didn't really own my time. So I just became obsessed with like, how can I actually own my time? How do I make half of this money, but not have to trade hours for it? And how do I extend my vacation time? That was kind of the thought, how do I actually create freedom? I think so many people get feeling that way, but very few people end up asking those questions in a way where they're gonna seek to find those answers. So what did it take for you to leave something that was bringing in good money, but was taking so much of your time freedom away to kind of turn and be like, I'm gonna do something bigger here. Yeah, so belief, and I just got to a point where I was more afraid of regret than afraid of failing, attempting something that had a high probability, or at least that had a high belief level that could potentially work. So I'm pretty risk adverse. I know that's not maybe what you hear normally, like from entrepreneurs, burn the bridge, sink the ships, do your thing. That's not really my mantra. I'm more tactical with regards to working your job, working the thing that's paying you, and minding your freedom. So whatever it is that's paying your bills and taking care of your foundation, and I even try to limit the foundation that I really need. What I mean by that is reducing expenses and living small so it's easy to manage, and then working double time, triple time, focusing on the thing that's going to be my escape. And when I say escape, the thing that I was always working towards was this life I didn't need a vacation from, and the vehicle that would take me there. So that ended up becoming tech. It made sense. Like apps made sense. E -commerce, the digital real estate sort of world made sense to me, versus anything else that I racked my brain on. And yeah, I just, I gave it a shot, and I've been giving it a shot. I'm still learning, and I don't feel like you ever really arrive as an entrepreneur. If you do, maybe, I don't know. That's still, I don't think it's possible, especially at the rate at which things are always evolving. But yeah, I'm still a student. I'm still aggressively curious, and I'm still learning and figuring things out. I just have a different response when things go wrong, I think, or when things need edited, adapted. I think that's what, at least a lot of the people that have hit high success ranks, titles, money in their bank accounts tend to have those characteristics of adapting and overcoming. Absolutely. So that's really kind of the name of the game.
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The HUMAN Training
Surviving Covid and Chaos: Looking Back at the Early Days of K9 Culture
"August 1st, 2020, so right in the middle of the pandemic and that was the good old days of... Not the good old days, the days of quarantine in a lot of places, everyone's wearing a mask. Should you wear a mask? Should you wear three masks? Should you wear 72 masks? Oh my God. Six feet away from people. How many boosters should you have? I mean, it was just chaotic. Nobody knew. No, we didn't have shots then. No, there was no shots. We're not going to talk about that. But you had to be six feet away from everyone, which is really nice because the leash is six feet long, so that was awesome. So yeah, we opened up. It was just Laura and I for that first month in our facility here. We did not... God, do you remember? We didn't even turn the lights on in the back three quarters of the building because why? Why do we even need to go back there? It's just the two of us. And so that was the first year, and it was August 1st. We didn't really do boarding trains for a while. We tried to discourage them because we didn't have kennels at that point because when you order kennels, they're usually a six -week lead time, but because of COVID, it was a four to six -month lead time. I mean, everything's lead time was just ridiculous because everyone nationwide, worldwide was not working, working from home, whatever. And just general trial and error, like we did cinder block kennels first. Yeah. So we had to build some cinder block kennels. So we had some. And then once we did have a couple of boarding dogs, once those first initial dozen kennels were built, then we had the ability to board. I guess we always do. So someone's probably listening, well, why didn't you just put the dogs in the crates? We did. We But it's not what we like to do. I don't like dogs sleeping in crates all the time. I don't know. I just, because if they're not training, they're in a crate, and then if they're sleeping in a crate, I don't know. I just. But we did have crates. Yeah. Julie's office was the first kennel room. Yeah. Your office was the kennel room, air quote. Oh, God. I don't even think we had a break room. No. The first couple months. And then the break room we slept in. Yeah. Well, first we slept in Wyatt's office. That room was. A noise. Wasn't too dark. No, it didn't. No, we slept. The first time we slept in the grooming room, but there's ticking because right by the grooming room is. The fire suppression, fire alarm system constantly beeps during the day. You don't notice it that much. But when it's. At two o 'clock in the morning, when there's not a sound anywhere, like what the hell is that noise? So yeah, we made it one night in the kennel room, which is, or excuse me, the grooming room. It wasn't the grooming room at that time. It was just a room. Then we went over to Wyatt's. And then we moved to Wyatt's. Oh, I remember why we only made it one night in Wyatt's office. The way it's laid out, it was too small. You know, you try to get out of the air mattress to the left or to the right, and you're up against the desk or a wall, and I thought, no, this is crazy. we So then moved to the break room, but it wasn't the break room. It wasn't the break room. And Wyatt's office wasn't Wyatt's office either. It was just a room. When the people left this building, they left all the furniture. It was full of crap. Yeah, because they went out of business and refrigerators and they went out of business before COVID. They haven't paid their rent in like a year. Yeah. So there was like a whole bunch of crap here. It was an indoor soccer center facility before. Yeah. We sold all of it. Yeah. Facebook. That was one of my jobs. Facebook marketplace. Just getting rid of all the soccer stuff that was left. We had couches here. We had chairs. Cheers. Scoreboards, goals. Cooking. Soccer balls. Cooking because they had this little bar here. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They had that. Freezers. It was interesting. Who was our third person we hired? So the next one that came on was Wyatt. Wyatt! Wyatt came out at the end of August. Still paint the walls. And then a week later. Oh, I forgot about that. We finished. Yeah. We were still paper walls. Wyatt's little baby. Wasn't the baby's two? Make it look like a dog. Alex's like two. Maybe one. He was here riding around doing stuff while we were painting everything. My mom even came and helped paint it. She was 70 years old. It was pretty cool. Yeah. It was cool. I felt bad. We worked her to death. Yeah. We took netting down. It was a lot of work. The building's 47 ,000 square feet, so there's a lot of netting that has to come down. Scoreboards, goalies. Windows to clean. Oh my God. All glass walls. So all of our training fields, they're surrounded by eight feet tall human shatterproof glass. Well there's soccer prints, hand prints, human prints. Head print prints. I mean any print you can think of on both sides of those windows. I know for a fact I spent a whole entire eight hour day cleaning windows and it wasn't even half that. Not even. And then when we got that one with one side we went, oh shit. Now we got to go on the inside and do it. We're not dead. We're only halfway done. And you can't see the smudges until unless you're on the other side of the glass, so you could clean it but not miss parts. It took a long time. And then light bulbs, we replaced over, I can't really count, I know it was over $5 ,000 in the first two months of light bulbs. Oh my God. That's how many light bulbs they had lit. And in the middle of doing this, we're training dogs because Charles sold a few dogs the first week we opened. Right. The first week we opened and they knew they were our first. In fact, those first two dogs, Laney, she was just here boarding last week and that was three years ago and we were just all joking with the owner. I remember when he came in, it was just the two of you. And then Hank. And then Hank after her. Hank. They're both two of the most dog aggressive dogs we've trained. So right off the bat, to this day, they're still two of the most dog aggressive dogs we've had. And they both ended up liking dogs.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/03/23
"Not just any Fleetwood Mac record, little secondhand news, first track when you put the needle down, when that little Rumors album was released, you heard this, you heard the great Lindsey Buckingham, who is 74 today. Mike, you've caught, you've caught the Mac a few times, have you not? Oh, sure, sure. Love Fleetwood Mac. What a sad, what a sad story because he's so, he's a genius. He's a total genius. And they fired him like four or five years ago. The chemistry was just terrible. He does solo tours now and does some, some Fleetwood Mac stuff, but I just hope he's just not... These stories, these stories about these guys all breaking up and fights and all that. The Eagles, of course, had an epic, epic battle. You know, who they fired, they fired, I guess, the, I mean, they had a big, the two of them, the two founders, I guess, of the Eagles. They broke up and then they came back and, you know, it's like, hey, life is short, you know? That's it. You know what it makes you think about? It makes you think about Aerosmith. Same five guys, 50 years. There you go. You got to get Steven Tyler well again because he like blasted a vocal cord. But anyway, speaking of people who've been together for a long time, here's my buddy. How are you doing? Well, I'm good. I'm just trying to make sense out of the, the rage that the establishment Republicans and the Rhinos and the squishes are exhibiting towards Matt Gaetz. Now, I, I think there's a lot of merit towards the frustration over what Gaetz is trying to do in, in ousting Kevin McCarthy personally. I think Kevin McCarthy has done a great job. I think he's, he's fine. You know, it's a tough conference. It's a tough coalition. You got to hold it together. McCarthy did a great job in helping to identify strong candidates in California and New York, in New York. And without those victories, Marc, we don't have, we don't have a Republican majority in the House. Now, we have a slim majority in the House, slim, four, four people. That's it. All right. So I want to present, and I get it, you know, this is probably giving the Democrats a lifeline. It's ceasing our momentum. This is probably not the most productive thing to happen right now to try to have this crisis over the Speaker of the House. But what the establishment types are saying in their rage, and man, are they mad. I mean, Marc, they're not agitated. They're not, they're livid. I mean, I, I heard this morning, I, I never knew Switzerland could be so angry. Man, for Switzerland, Switzerland's got the knives out in the show before yours. Geneva is on fire. Oh, my gosh, Switzerland is burning. This is a reference, of course, to the always even -handed, neutral, and presidential matters, et cetera, our buddy Hugh Hewitt, who has decided to take a couple of sides, take one side on this. Not so neutral on this issue, is he? I mean, it's just like full -blown, Gates is a clown, he's a fraud, he's a traitor, he's a this, he's a that. I saw a tweet last night that got me thinking, and this is, I think, a reasonable thing to have as part of this conversation. Has Kevin McCarthy fulfilled the promises he made in order to get elected speaker in the first place, or hasn't he? It's a reasonable thing to talk about. It was, you know, Gates and Lauren Boebert and Eli Crane and all these real, you know, sharp -elbowed Republicans got concessions from McCarthy in his bid to become speaker. Remember, I'm old enough to remember that wasn't so easy. That was not long ago. Exactly. And it wasn't that long ago. It wasn't that easy, right? Well, he promised they would pass 12 appropriations bills for a budget, in other words, fiscal responsibility in the budget. He'd give members at least 72 hours to read legislation. Now those are not, that's not onerous and that isn't crazy. So those two promises, well, both of those promises were broken this past weekend. And Gates is saying, you broke your promises and we're going to hold you accountable. Now, does he have a plan? It doesn't really sound like it to me. I don't know who you replace him with. Thank you. And it does hurt the Republican momentum we have. There are over 200 Republicans who are solidly in McCarthy's corner. But Mark, we expect some accountability. We do expect disruption. We do expect people who are warriors and fighting for what we believe in. So it just seems to me that to turn on Matt Gaetz all of a sudden and, P .S., insult the millions and millions of Americans who are rooting for him isn't very productive. Are they rooting for, first of all, your sound, sound logic throughout. Are they rooting for him in this particular tactic or they admiring the lofty standard that he has? And it may not even be all that lofty is like, hey, you made us promises to become speaker. How about keeping those promises? There's an old adage that it's possible for multiple things to be true at the same time. Here are the two things that are true at the same time. Kevin McCarthy has been a very successful, very impactful speaker and deserves a lot of conservative praise for the things he has been able to do. There's thing number one thing. Number two is he might have fudged on some of these things, seems to have fudged on some of these procedural things, and I don't say that to be dismissive of them. Some of these things that he promised the Gang of 10 or whatever they were that were that were holding him up. So in what form is this the only accountability? Is this the only way to call him out? Because all I would ask, and I'll give this back to you in the following way, is if Gaetz tactics are so great and if they are to be admired, what is the end game? What is the plan? Trump's have disruptions a plan, and it's a wonderful plan. Various other people who are disruptors, there's a place they're trying to get you to. Here's what I want to do that is specific. Here's the goal I'm trying to get to. What exactly is the Matt Gaetz end game? I don't know, and I don't know that he knows. I'm not sure he does. I would suggest, I would respectfully submit that the way to deal with these differences is behind closed doors, not to burn it all down. I mean, again, make no mistake. I don't agree with the Gaetz tactic right now. I don't want anybody to be lost on that, but I also strongly disagree with disparaging the spirit with which he's doing it. And again, savage millions and millions of Americans in the process. So listen, I guess Cal's out of the barn. He's called for the vote. The vote's going to come today or tomorrow if they oust McCarthy, which is possible because Democrats are quite capable of adding to this misery right now. Right now, Gaetz needs some Democrats. And if he gets Democrats to support him because they like to sit back and see this kind of dumpster fire, well, McCarthy's out, Mark. Is there an irony there in that Matt Gaetz needs Democrat help to oust a speaker whose worst sin is doing something with Democrat help? Yes. That's a great irony with a capital I. Great way to put it. It really is. And I heard a congressman, you know, a RINO New York congressman on Hewitt this morning and they are again, they are on fire. As you said, Geneva is burning. But this guy pointed out, well, I don't think any of the Democrats are going to want to be associated with this guy, Matt Gaetz. Don't be so sure. Strange bedfellows sometimes. Well, AOC of all people said this week, hey, we're not going to it's not up to us to bail the Republicans out of the mess they're in. Believe me, they're enjoying this. I do agree that this benefits the Democrats. I'm sorry for that. And I hate it. But I also don't like seeing, you know, somebody called a nihilist. I mean, nihilist. You know, it's like and he's anti -American and he's got his daddy's boy and daddy was the Florida. I mean, they're just attacking him personally. I mean, it's it's kind of wild. To see it. There are bigger fish to fry. I want to share with you. You mentioned earlier I was listening to you talk about the plight of the big cities. Horrible story out of Philadelphia. There was a young journalist, an LGBT journalist who was very prolific on X and social media mocking conservatives for being concerned about crime in big cities like his city of Philadelphia. And this guy was even mocking the idea of having a gun to defend yourself in your home. He was mocking and taunting Republicans for criticizing cities like Philadelphia. He loves this Jim Kenney, this sanctuary city mayor. Markie was shot and killed in his home this week. He was murdered seven times, seven bullets put in his body. And of course, the ghouls on social media are dancing on his grave and they're mocking him. Can't do that. But but you must understand that this is life or death, that things are happening in these cities. And I hate it. I hate it for his for obvious for him and for his family, his loved ones. And again, a well -known journalist in Philly, apparently in the LGBT community. But the bottom line is a day before he was murdered, he was literally, you know, poo pooing the idea that we got a crime problem in Philly, mocking the people who are trying to draw attention to the issue to make it better. And it's funny. So did you hear the two things when I was talking about the conversion of Dallas mayor Eric Johnson? He said, listen, we need Republican mayors in our big cities, so I'm going to become one. We also need to elect more of them. And that seems like a ridiculous long shot. How do you get a Republican elected in most of America's big cities? And I don't know the answer to that except to try. A lot of people don't even want to try. We have given up. We have ceded the cities to Democrats. Is that helpful? 70, 80 percent of Americans live in these big cities. Is that helpful to just give up or should we try to it's a marathon, not a sprint. It's an uphill steep climb to try to get some sensible Republican mayors who can save our cities. You spend so much time in New York. I grew up in the suburbs of D .C. I'm in Dallas and Fort Worth all the time. You're in Tampa all the time. Big cities are beautiful. There's no more beautiful city in America than San Francisco. It breaks my heart what happens out there. Should we try to save American cities or say, screw them, get buried under your own bad policies? I'm inclined to say you own it. You live with it. You've got to you inherited this. There's a great column by Douglas Murray of the New York Post called The Fall of Lululemon. How stores have surrendered to looters. He tells the story of how Lululemon fires employees who try to stop shoplifters from walking out with the high end material and merchandise from Lululemon. And a lot of stores are doing this. They're firing any of the employees. They're saying, let them go. Let them walk out. And guess what? When you when that happens, when you encourage it. I mean, it's not a sane society anymore. I mean, call us old fashioned. Law and order is an important thing. It's one thing that people want to steal, but for businesses not to mind being stolen from. Well, but I'm intrigued by the employees thing. And for those that don't know, Lululemon is high end athletic wear, mostly for for women, but not exclusively. And so there's some some an arm load is some serious cash if you're going out the front door. Thousands and thousands of dollars. What do we expect? I mean, if I'm an employee, I'd love to say, well, I'm not going to let this happen, blah, blah, blah. But sometimes these people might be armed. I mean, what these what these stores need is armed guards to prevent this, not employees trying to try and try to go vigilante. Two female Lululemon employees in Atlanta confronted three masked men who pillaged the store. All they did was call the police. Right. I mean, one of the systematically said, you know, what do we want them to do? What do we want? They did call them. They were fired. They were fired for for for OK. Pardon me. Confused host for for calling the police or for not doing more for calling the police. No, they did too much by calling the police. One of the fired employee told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, we are not supposed to get in the way. You're supposed to clear the path for whatever they're going to do. And then it's over. You scan a QR code. We're not supposed to call the police. We're not supposed to talk about it. And Douglas Murray says Lululemon isn't the only company in America that has taken this completely lax approach to its own stock. Well, guess what? Lululemon's on the verge of bankruptcy. They're going out of business. And Douglas Murray writes, you know what? I'm sorry. Count me as one who's not real sympathetic. We're in post consequences America. And this is how Congressman Henry Cuellar gets carjacked. Or it's not the specific because of this, then that because crime is going to happen. But we're going to get more of it in cities where people know they'll get away with it and know that punishment does not await them. And there is a choice that Americans get to make. Republicans are law and order. The Democrats are certainly not, no matter how mad Switzerland gets. Look at that. Look at that call back. Happy Tuesday. And the Mike Gallagher Show lies ahead. Everyone knows that putting money aside and savings is really important. But then what? Should you keep your savings locked in a CD for a higher rate or keep them liquid in a money market? Can your checking account help you save, too? 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Unchained
A highlight from SBF Trial: How Sam Bankman-Frieds Lawyers Might Try and Win His Case - Ep. 551
"Very to dangerous call the defendant. However, you may be in a situation where the government puts their case on and you are going to lose. There is no way you're winning. You're only shot as a Hail Mary. Okay, let's put them on. The other side of the coin is it's very powerful when a defendant testifies. It makes it much harder for the jury to convict. They're not dealing with characterizations of a person anymore. They're dealing with that person. They have heard the person speak intimately in a courtroom. And even in cases I've had where a defendant testified, even when the jury ends up convicting, it often takes them longer to get there because it's a harder decision when a human being testifies to them. Starting on Tuesday, October 3rd, the day this episode airs, the world will be watching the criminal trial of the United States versus Sam Bankman -Fried. In this episode, my guests Kayvon Sadeghi and Samson Ensor unpack what it is we're likely to see in the trial, starting with what kinds of potential jurors it is that both the prosecution and the defense will want to deselect from the jury poll this week, why it's even gotten to the point of a criminal trial given that three co -conspirators have already pleaded guilty, what the core of the trial centers around, and why it is, they think, the fact that it involves crypto won't matter. Plus, they explore the effectiveness of one potential defense from Bankman -Fried's side, the so -called advice of counsel defense that says that FTX's own lawyers approved of the company's actions. And finally, they raise the question that everyone will be looking for. Will Sam testify? Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago and as a senior editor at Plurbs was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full -time. This is the October 3rd, 2023 episode of Unchained. Buy, trade, and spend crypto on the Crypto .com app. New users can enjoy zero credit card fees on crypto purchases in the first seven days. Download the Crypto .com app and get $25 with the code Laura. Link in the description. Vaultcraft by Popcorn is your no -code DeFi toolkit for building automated non -custodial yield strategies. Learn more on vaultcraft .io about how you can supercharge your crypto portfolio. The game has changed. The Google Cloud Oracle built for layer zero is now securing every layer zero message by default. Their custom end -to -end solution sets itself up to bring its world -class security to web three and establish itself as the HTTPS within layer zero messaging. Visit layerzero .network to learn more. Say goodbye to your credit card rewards. Big box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets. Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it. If you love your credit card rewards, visit handsoffmyrewards .com and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 687:Bitcoins U.S. Shutdown Surge, SBFs Trial, and Coinbases Singapore Milestone
"Good evening and welcome to the crypto overnighter. I'm Nicodemus and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10pm Pacific on Monday, October 2nd, 2023. Welcome back to the crypto overnighter where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas and no BS. But we do have the news. So let's talk about that. Tonight, we delve into the intricate dance between the crypto world and various power structures. Will Bitcoin maintain its golden status amid government turmoil? What's at stake for Sam Bankman Fried as he faces a monumental trial? As Ross Albrecht marks a grim milestone, we look back at Silk Road's complicated legacy. Meanwhile, Coinbase gets a warm welcome in Singapore. But what does that mean for its U .S. operations? Swiss Bank UBS is making waves on the Ethereum blockchain and Grayscale aims to revolutionize Ethereum trading. Lately, we've been talking about the recent political drama that could have led to a U .S. government shutdown, but it didn't. And Bitcoin reacted in a way that's worth discussing. At the 11th hour, Republicans and Democrats struck a deal to keep the U .S. government running for another 45 days. This is not a permanent solution. It's a Band -Aid. The disagreements over funding levels, borders and the Ukraine -Russia war are still there. But for now, the government stays open and the U .S. citizen bears the brunt of this political circus. Now let's talk about numbers. As news broke, Bitcoin shot up over 3 % to hit 28 ,000. It also collided with its 200 week moving average, a critical resistance level. As of the latest data, Bitcoin is sitting at $28 ,360 apiece. If it consolidates above this level, we could see it test the local high of just under $32 ,000. Bitcoin's dominance in the crypto world also spiked well above 50%. On the flip side, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 171 points or 0 .5%. The S &P 500 fell by 0 .3%, while the NASDAQ composite rose 3%. So while traditional markets were shaky, Bitcoin showed resilience. Jay Hatfield, CEO at Infrastructure Capital Management, attributed Monday's tech sector rally as a relief sentiment from the averted shutdown. But he also pointed out that interest rates are the dominant factor in trading right now. The Senate passed the resolution just before the midnight deadline, and President Biden signed it into law. Initially, equity futures were in the green, but they fell into the red before the markets opened. Why? Because investors are now focusing on surging interest rates near 15 year highs. The 11th hour deal to avert a U .S. government shutdown had a ripple effect on financial markets but none more pronounced than Bitcoin. While traditional markets like the Dow Jones showed a decline, Bitcoin sees the moment, surging past significant resistance levels. This is a testament to Bitcoin's resilience and its role as a sort of financial safe haven during times of political uncertainty. The Dow's decline in Bitcoin surge presents a stark contrast. It's almost as if the investors are saying they have more faith in a decentralized digital asset than in the stability of the U .S. government. And if so, who could blame them? Both the Dow's dip and the spike in the 10 year treasury yield indicate that traditional markets are still heavily influenced by government actions and are not immune to the chaos of political breaksmanship. Bitcoin's dominant spiking above 50 % is another key takeaway. It's not just leading the crypto bull market, it's dominating it. This could be indicative of a broader shift in investor sentiment, favoring Bitcoin over other assets including altcoins. The 45 day extension gives Bitcoin another window of opportunity. If the bulls can maintain momentum and keep Bitcoin above its 200 week moving average, we could see it test new highs. But let's not forget, liquidity is still scarce. Unless another significant event prompts more U .S. dollar printing, progress may be slow. Yet the message is clear. In a world where traditional systems are showing cracks, Bitcoin offers not just an alternative but perhaps a better way forward. In essence, Bitcoin has once again proven its mettle by not bowing to political uncertainties. It's a reminder of why we're all here. For a financial system that doesn't play by the rules of centralized entities. That Bitcoin resilience? It may help us weather storms like what SBF is facing. Speaking of Sam Bankman -Fried, his trial kicks off tomorrow and it's far from a simple legal hiccup. Here's what's unfolding. And hey, if you're as glued to these narratives as we are, hit that follow button. You won't want to miss a beat.
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"Investment advisors, switch to interactive brokers for lowest cost global trading and turnkey custody solutions. No ticket charges and no conflicts of your interests at ibkr .com slash ria. In which a jury found him liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. The trial is expected to last until December 22nd. And that's it for this edition of the Bloomberg Law Show. I'm June Grosso and you're listening to Bloomberg. Casting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is aiming to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his post. He filed a motion Monday to force a vote to overthrow McCarthy. Speaking to reporters outside the capitol, the Florida Republican mentioned House Majority Leader Steve Scalise as a potential replacement. The U .S. Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to former President Trump's 2024 ballot eligibility. On Monday, the high court rejected the challenge brought by a long shot Republican presidential candidate. It used a post -Civil War provision of the 14th Amendment that barred former members of the Confederacy from holding office. It argued Trump was ineligible to run due to his alleged connection to the January 6th Capitol riot. The White House is pressing Congress to provide more aid to Ukraine. To see the continuation of the brave people in Ukraine to fight for their freedom, right, to fight for their democracy. Press Secretary Corrine Jean -Pierre told reporters today they're still strong. Bipartisan support to back Ukraine, which is a top priority for the Biden administration. Everyone's phone will go off this Wednesday at 2 .20 p .m. Eastern. Lisa Taylor has more. That's because the federal government will be conducting an Asia -wide test for its emergency alert system and wireless emergency alerts.
The MMQB NFL Podcast
A highlight from New England's Historic Loss & CJ Stroud Breaks Out
"Hello and welcome to the MMQB NFL podcast. I'm Conroe. That's my dog Ernie upstairs barking at the FedEx guy. Albert Breer's here and I'm going to start in New York because Albert I can't believe that we're still doing this Taylor Swift thing. And now the NFL is doing the Taylor Swift thing. Do you see that they are their subhead on their Twitter pages. The Chiefs are now 2 -0 as Swifties. I did not see that but I am more and more. It's fake. I think so too. I think on Friday like the radio show I did in Boston. They leave me at the like and these guys are really creative and they kind of like took me through their full like tinfoil hat like conspiracy theory. You know like you know what this actually really makes sense. Like because the NFL has forever chased the female demographic and they've struggled to get it. And they know that there's nothing more buzz worthy on that side of the aisle than Taylor Swift. And they were shameless enough to cut like I mean we've seen some of their shameless acts over the years to try and get the female audience. And this wouldn't even rank in like the top 10. You know what I mean like this would just be sort of par for the course that they would do something like this. So I really like I am officially on this Monday morning Connor especially after the 10 million shots that box last night. I'm all the way there. This is all fake. This is all like this is all contrived. This is it. Everyone wins situation. Taylor gets to promote her movie. What else is it? There's one other thing right is a new album coming out. I can't keep track of all of this. I have no idea. OK. So Taylor gets to promote that stuff with a different demographic. Right. Like football different demographics different than hers. The NFL gets to try to take a swing at the female audience. And then Travis Kelsey gets an enormous benefit from this. Travis Kelsey's following has exploded. Nine hundred thousand new followers. This is like an everyone wins situation. And it's all fake. A 14 point 14 whatever place jump in Jersey sales. Like we were taught in school to follow the money and it's right out in front of us. Like it's like you know we're not even it's not even like they're hiding it. And I think I'm only read some of this stuff sometimes, though, and like like over the last week, like actually clicking on some like people dot com links, you know, I've seen some stories she reads. And I always think that the page six type stuff, you know, and I always think it's funny when there's like an insider into somebody's relationship, like who would be the insider into your relationship? Connor, I, you know, when they when they when they when they put sources into your relation and then people's relationships. Yeah, the sources be I mean, it would be like my neighbor or like my mom or my wife's mom. It would be like, yeah, I think I think they're fighting, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have a publicist. I always think that's great. Like is the sources into the like the insiders into the relationship? Like is that person like just coming over and hanging out on a Tuesday or something and that makes them an insider? So Brian Costello, who's awesome, Jets beat writer for the New York Post, and he tweeted the the bio for the NFL's Twitter page, which is the Chiefs two and O's Swifties. And he's totally right. This is the kind of stuff that fuels nutjob conspiracy theorists, not just the ones with the podcast. But the fans who watched that game last night and saw their saw the outcome derailed by an extraordinarily questionable call on Sauce Gardner. And listen, I'm not saying it's good, bad, right, wrong or indifferent. But if you're a Jets fan and you've already seen your entire season railroaded by the NFL's greed and desire to milk whatever they can out of this franchise and you had to do hard knocks. Every single game is on prime time. Your schedule is ridiculous, ridiculously front loaded and impossible at the beginning. You know, I don't know what else you could think right now other than your team is just being actively manipulated by by the league. And listen, I don't believe it. You know, Andy Benoit and I used to fight about the I used to get him going on the NFL's fake thing a while back. We had a lively discussion about that after Peyton Manning's second Super Bowl. But I don't believe it. I'm not one of those people. Well, you're not making them go away. I just noticed I just went to the NFL's Twitter page. It is now the header is three shots of tail left. And like if you look at the bio, I think this is a tailor. I think this is a tailor reference. We had the best day with you today. Maybe is that a reference? I think it has to be right to be clear. I'm not anti Taylor Swift. I think she's a fine musician. Yeah, I think she's a genius. Like, yeah, I think she's a legitimate genius and everything she touches turns to gold. And there's a reason for it. She's obviously incredible. Yeah, I just don't like I want you know what? I think I'm hot, too, because I'm coming off the I wrote about the way those are the lyrics to it. Those are those are lyrics from a Taylor Swift song titled The Best Day. Okay, I think I'm just a little hot coming off the Toy Story broadcast, too. Did you did you catch any of that? I was actually coaching third grade football during the Toy Story. Okay, good. Yeah, I threw that on and I was just like, what are they doing? And I get it. You're trying to get kids to watch football. But how about just allowing kids to watch football or to have kids play football and not to watch like a I mean, the technology was incredible. But it like it looked like a like a like Minecraft, you know, and like I just felt like I watch it with my son for a minute. And I was like, they're trying to just it's like cocoa melon. They're just trying to hypnotize them. So we we bang that thing fast. I mean, I just feel like that's like there are some people at the league office who don't have enough to do. And that's how things like that wind up coming to life. Like like fix, fix the problems. Like we're focused on Taylor Swift and the Toy Story broadcast, like like digital chains so that like chains don't break during the game. Grass fields like like like fix the actual problems with the games. My God. Anyway, twenty three twenty, the Chiefs beat the Jets. The Jets fall to one in three. The Chiefs are three and one. I think my takeaway from this game is the takeaway that everybody had, which was this was a feisty, very feisty Zach Wilson game. I think that Robert Sala, to me, win or lose, just earns so much credit because during the week he knew he was going to get demolished. And he said, you don't throw people away. You just don't throw people away. And I give him so much credit because honestly, this is job on the line stuff. And he stuck with Zach Wilson. He dug in. There was no sample size. And Zach played really well. I was very happy for them. And look, like I think that the biggest problem that Robert Sala had was like, can he continue to sell Zach Wilson to the locker room? Because the premise of that entire team, the construction of that team this year was we're going for it. Right. So there are guys in that locker room like Allen Lazard and Adrian Amos and Randall Cobb, guys that were like that are older vets that are there to chase the ring. And like guys like that aren't going to have patience. They don't care what this means for your franchise in 2025. They care about right now. And the younger guys in the roster are going to be worried about what's going to get them in a position to get paid. So it can be hard to sell a developing quarterback to a locker room. And I'll give Robert Sala credit for standing by Zach Wilson, because if he didn't do that, like it would have been impossible. It would have been impossible for Zach in that locker room. you And, know, it sort of made me think of something I said earlier in the day about how Josh Dobbs should get us to question everything about how we develop quarterbacks, how the NFL develops quarterbacks, how the NFL nurtures quarterbacks. Because, you know, you have this guy in Josh Dobbs who got what, six years to kind of learn away from the bright lights. And then because he was on different teams, because he had different experiences, because he was developed away from game action, because people invested in him, because he had a chance and people had patience with him. And, you know, every single movement of his wasn't, you know, litigated on a public level on a week to week basis. You know, he had a chance to kind of get better in the background. And now you have a guy who's so adaptable that he could be traded a week before the season and start and take maybe the worst roster in the league and have a competitive over the first month of the season. It really like to me, like looking at Josh Dobbs makes you question everything. And so if six years can do that for Josh Dobbs, why are we throwing guys out after two or three years? That's what I don't get about it. It's fair to make an assessment on a guy and say, like, he sucks now. But to say guys never going to be good, just ignore so much history. You know, like Alex Smith is a phenomenal example of it. Right. Like how many times was he given up on in San Francisco? Yeah. Like, oh, he can't play. But no one was looking at the fact that like he had five coordinators his first five years in the league. He had two head coaches. Everything was completely unstable around him. And then Jim Harbaugh gets there in 2011 says, no, I'm sticking with him. And he takes off and then he's in the league for another decade as a starter. You know, like it's just we have so many examples of the of why we shouldn't make definitive and declarative statements about young quarterbacks. And yet we do it over and over and over again. And like I do, I think like the intention of the Jets in the first place was we have to press the pause button with Zach Wilson. We may have wronged him by playing him too fast. Right. And by putting too much on him too early. And so the whole intention on bringing him back this year was to allow him the chance to do the Josh jobs and develop in the background for a year or two. And that got blown up. But just because that plan got blown up like that's not Zach Wilson's fault. That plan got blown up. It's not anybody's fault. So now you're going to just completely throw the kid out. Why? Because Aaron Rodgers got hurt. There's a lot of like really faulty logic that goes into the way that he's been talked about over the last couple of weeks, I think. I agree. I'm not just saying this because I wrote about it, but to not even, you know, I think we're in such a easy Twitter dunk society that when Zach Wilson and Nathaniel Hackett get paired up, everyone's just like, oh, this is going to be terrible. And without looking at any of the history of any of these guys. The AFC championship came with Blake, Blake Bortles. He got Ryan Nassib drafted out of Syracuse. I went to Syracuse. Do you know who was the quarter? The last quarterback drafted before Ryan Nassib, Donovan McNabb, Donovan McNabb. I was going to say I was going to say Troy Nunes. Like I think drafted as a quarterback. I think there was a couple of quarterbacks that turned into tight ends, but in literally broke all the school records with this guy. And then he got Kyle Wharton, I believe, to the doorstep of the playoffs. Yeah. Two MVPs with Aaron Rodgers after he was lost in the woods for a little while. The guy's good at what he does, you know, and we're seeing in Denver now, who knows? Make your own judgments about what happened there. But I think that this thing could work like, OK, yeah. The Jets are one in three, but their schedule softens up a little bit. They played a lot of their best defenses up front. You know, Zach Wilson is going to look bad against the Cowboys, but how many other people are going to look really bad against the Cowboys? Right. And now in the next few games, like they have the Broncos coming up. I mean, Zach Wilson could could legitimately put up 50 points against that team. The Eagles, who are really good defense giants, Jets, Giants before Halloween, which if he can handle the pressure. I think that's coming off a buy, too. So it's coming off a buy. You know what Wink Martindale is going to do. He does it well, but you know what he's going to do. And then the Chargers November six, the Raiders November 12th. You don't play a really good team. You play the Eagles in the bills in the next month and a half. Otherwise, you're good. Well, we're kind of like that's like and that was the whole logic behind this. And I think we talked about this last week. To me, the problem with going away from Zach Wilson, like in the whole in the first place, was a there's no better option out there right now. Right. And B, once you go away from him, you can't go back again. You know, so I think so. I think so. I knew that like it was if we bench him in consecutive years, we can't sell him to the locker room again.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E16: Oliver: Writer, Producer, and Novelist Spotlight
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Mayolone. In this episode, don't have regulars, because raisins, as always, unfortunately. As for our guest, he's from Portland, Oregon, currently living in Los Angeles, California, and he is a film producer. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Oliver Tutill Jr. Well, thank you, Peter. It's actually Ted Hill Jr. But thanks for having me on your show. I'm excited to be here. Anytime. So, how's life? It's good. It's really exciting. I love the film business. I've been in the business for quite a while. And it's very exciting meeting different people, talking to different producers, actors, filmmakers, editors, composers, business financing. It's all very exciting. You meet a lot of very interesting people that are very involved in their work and are very creative. Ah, very good. And have you been up to much recently? Yeah, we've been pretty busy. My company's name is Cinema Development and Writing Services. And my business partner is Tara Walker. And what we do is, when we started out, we've had our business about a year now. And anybody that's curious, they can just go to cinema wds .com. That's our website. And what we do is, we work with novelists, and we adapt their novels into screenplays. And then once we've adapted them into screenplays, we've been asked by our clients to, well, can you place this with Hollywood companies? And we said, well, yeah, we probably can, you know, we weren't doing that. We're primarily focused on writing, but we started packaging, which means that we started putting together like a deck of electronic brochure that shows the actors we thought might be good for the role, and what the director is. And then we present it to different production companies, different producers and finance companies in Los Angeles, and sometimes in New York as well. Okay, very nice. And what inspired you to start all that? Well, I think I started out in the business, and so did Tara, we were both actors. And we enjoyed that. But it's, it's very, very tough. Getting regular work as an actor, you go through good times, and then there's these long stretches where you don't have much work. And so we said, Well, how can we get more involved in business? And so we both decided, well, why don't we become producers? So Tara started her own production company years ago called Alpenfest films. And then I started, I started out making a production company called Autumn Tree Productions, where I, at that time, this was in the late 1980s, I pretty much focused on making educational films, and actually was pretty much on emotional child abuse. And I did that for 10 years, I had a lot of success. A lot of my films, educational films are used in universities and colleges and many institutions. And after doing that for 10 years, I wanted to segue over into doing commercial motion pictures and, and documentaries. So I started a company called Bluewood films. And under that name under that company, I produced quite a few films and documentaries and pleased to say that some of them are on streaming platforms now where people can can see them. I just have my newest release was just last month. It's called Crazy Horse of Life, featuring Russell Means, the late Nakoda actor who did very well. Right, then. Very good. And have you ever considered like, releasing any of your work on an international level? Yes, I mean, Crazy Horse of Life is available internationally. They can definitely time to be TV so anybody can go to to be TV and anywheres in the world basically and watch it for free. It's ad supported. And then we've got another film called the right to bear arms, which is a dramatic crime feature starring john savage. And that's available on Amazon Prime and Amazon freebie and also on to be TV. And we've got another film that's distributed internationally. It's also on to be TV. It's called the Loch Ness Monster of Seattle and it features Graham Green, the Academy Award nominated actor from Dances with Wolves. It's been doing very well. My distributor is very pleased. He just sent me a letter the other day and he said how happy is that how well it's doing. So those those three films are available now. We've got new ones that are going to be coming out later this year. We're excited about. Wow, fantastic. So where would you see yourself 20 years from now? Well, that's a good question. And 20 years is a long time. But I would say in 20 years, I'd probably see myself and Tara, my business partner, our own company now, but probably producing eight to 12 motion pictures a year. Also, I'm a composer too. So I probably, I haven't been doing my composing recently, but I've, I've scored a lot of motion pictures and documentaries. And it's a matter of fact, Crazy Horse of Life. The score I did that score and I did actually I wrote the score years ago, but it's used in this big feature now and I scored the movie right to bear arms as well. So but 20 years, I want to still be producing movies and helping actors and helping create jobs for people that work in the industry. You badly because they can't get work. Yes, of course. So I want to provide jobs for people. And also, I'm a novelist as well. And I hope to have a few more novels released. I just had my first novel released by awesome Achilles publishers, which is their home offices in London. So it's definitely an international release. And it's called when the sunlight goes down, goes dark, excuse me, when the sunlight goes dark. And it's about a young, young boxer living in Los Angeles, who has to deal with unscrupulous promoters. And one of the one of the supporting characters in the book is a man from England who who wins one of the heavyweight titles. It's also a book that it also covers worker exploitation, family dysfunction, spousal Okay, fantastic. Yeah, let me just mention, Peter, that people can look at it to go to the website for the book. It's when the sunlight goes dark .com. That's the website for the book. And it's also available on amazon .com and Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, any bookstore, you go into any reputable bookstore, and they can order it for you. All right, then very good. So in terms of your written work, besides what, besides the novels you've just written, are there any more novels you're yet to write or have released? I do have one novel. It's called primordial division. I'm searching for the right agent to rep it. It's kind of a crime horror novel. It's also set in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. And it's about a woman who has the ability to see the future. She's kind of one of these mind readers and the kid, the male protagonist is able to, he's got the power of telepathy. Very good. And it's set in the context of the entertainment industry. Oh, nice, nice. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? I'm sorry, say that again, Peter, a 14. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? Oh, a 40 minute presentation? I could give it on, definitely, I could probably give it on, I made educational films for 10 years. So I could do on an education, I could do one on the film business. They cover all the aspects of the film business from development to pre production to production to post production, exhibition and distribution. I could do that for you. I've been in the music business since I was a kid. So probably give you a one on that as well. So, okay, very good. What which recent news story have you found most interesting? That's a really great question. The recent most recent news story that I found the most interesting probably would be what's going on with our climate and what's happening to the earth in regards to the climate crisis that's happening in the world today. That's that's one of them, I guess I know it's a big topic, but it definitely stands out. I'm also fascinated by what's going on in American politics today, who's running for president and what's going on in Congress in the Senate. And I'm also very concerned with the state of our country, you know, and how divided people are and how unhappy so many people are. Yeah, absolutely. I was gonna also say to my friends who are very struggling because they have kids, and it's hard for them to get daycare for the kids. So I have one friend, she had to give up work because she, she couldn't afford to hire a babysitter or a nanny or daycare. So yeah, she had to give up her job. Oh, no, that's just sad. Very sad, very sad, the income inequality in this, in the United States. I'm not an expert in your country, but in the United States, it's very sad to see so many people that are divided by class. Wow, I thought the UK was bad. I didn't know that the US has got bigger problems given its size. Yeah, there's a lot of problems. Definitely. We've seen the erosion of the middle class here. You know, it's been kind of disappearing for years. And the income inequality that exists in this country, it's pretty bad. And as well as you know, there was a, I was watching, I was watching News Nation the other night and the big story presented by Chris Cuomo, who's an interesting newscaster, whose brother to his brother to the former governor. And he his top story was these kids that these babies, basically, the toddlers and daycare that died from fentanyl overdoses. And he's all over that. And I'm thinking, yeah, that's, that's tragic. But a lot of people don't want to address what's happening kids into this country, they have many kids suffer from abuse, and how they it's very difficult for them to thrive and survive become and constructive citizens. That that puts something into the country that helps it grow more. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I can share one thing with you, I used to be a teacher. And I taught drama at a film school and a college, as well as film production. And I had a class, this is in Seattle, Washington. And I had a class where I had a quite quite a number of kids that were African American. And I'll never forget this, Peter, because like, they would come to class, sometimes the girls would be crying and go, what's wrong? She go, Well, Joey got killed last night. He said, What are you talking about? She goes, Yeah, Joey, you know, he got on the top of he got on the roof of Dan's car and Dan shot him to death. I said, Oh, you don't read about that in the paper. And then then another day, a girl came into class, she was weeping. I said, What's the matter? And she's when my sister was killed last night. I said, Well, what happened? She said somebody shot to her living room window, and she was killed. You don't read about it in newspaper. Just people don't know about that. Exactly. Yes, indeed. It's the media these days, they only want to show what they really want to show. They don't show the important stuff that goes on like poverty, financial crisis or things that impact a lot of people in this world. Absolutely correct. Yes, you're right, Peter. They don't know it's funny, funny because Chris, it's not funny, but I found it interesting. Chris Como mentioned one night on his show on news nation, he, he mentioned that people don't want to talk about class warfare in this country, you know, what's going on between the classes between the wealthy and the poor, or the struggling lower middle class, you get an idea of it. And now with all the strikes that are going on, you get the writers Guild of America on strike. You've got the screen actors Guild that's going on strike. Now you've got the United Auto Workers going on strike, and it's getting bigger, that strikes growing. And if that strike goes all out, it's going to, it's going to play havoc on the economy here. Yeah, absolutely. What do you disagree with most frequently? What do I disagree with most frequently? Probably people that say everything's going to be great. You know, you just have to hang in there. And also, I find myself disagreeing a lot with financial advisors who say, just, you know, keep it where it is, you know, don't sell, just stay steady, keep your bonds, 40 % bonds or 60 % bonds, 40 % stock or 40 % bonds, 60 % stock. I disagree a lot with financial advisors. Not that I'm an expert in finance, but I'm fascinated by it. I read about it. Absolutely. How much time do you spend on the internet? How much time do I spend on the internet? A fair amount, because I do a lot of research on the internet. And while I'm something to do research on something particular, then then you find, wait a minute, I've got to have to research this more. Then you find yourself going to another page, finding more things to read about. And then you realize you're going to be searching even more on the internet. So and to be honest with you, I spend so much time on the internet as it is on zoom calls. I'm tired of looking at the internet. I prefer reading books. So I read a lot of books. But I've got to use the internet a lot to do research. You know, especially I work with a lot of people that I've got to find out what their background is, you know, in the film business, and the financial business. So I do spend an enormous amount of time on the internet. I imagine you, you do yourself, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Hours upon hours. Yeah, it's a it's a necessity. It's a necessity today without a without a cell phone or computer. It'd be very difficult to survive. I do know some folks in their 70s and 80s. They don't use computers, they don't use cell phones. I do know one young guy who doesn't use a cell phone, but that's very unusual. But it's very hard to survive. I couldn't stay in business if I couldn't use a computer and cell phone. Oh, yes. Sure. It's the same for you. Yeah, of course. The internet is such a necessity. It's part of our lives, in a way. Absolutely. Yes. It is. It's built in. And you read about these kids, you know, they get addicted to their cell phones and computers. And there's so many psychologists that predict they're gonna have trouble with their personal relationships in looking at a screen. They don't spend time in person a lot. I don't know how that'll play out, but it makes sense in a lot of ways. What a world filled with clones of you, what would a world populated by clones of you be like, a world populated by I'm sorry, what what would a world populated by clones of you be like? You mean point of view? And a world populated by clones of you? What would it be like? Oh, clones of me? Yes. Okay, what would I think it would probably be a pretty peaceful world. To be honest, I don't think there'd be any wars, I think war would end. I think children would, we'd set up some type of educational system and change some values in the government in the country so that kids don't get abused, that parents are afforded the education and the training, starting in high school. Probably actually, I take that back, starting in grammar school. How to parent, how to treat other human beings, learning about themselves, becoming self intelligent, learning emotional intelligence, understanding their emotions. And growing up to be citizens that are productive and have empathy for other people. And if this happened, we could, I believe we could end this may sound naive, but I do think we could end poverty in this country. But there's no will to do that. There's no will to help kids because children can't vote. And they're not members of political action committee. So I would, I would make sure that their political action committee is available for children. I would allow children at a certain age if they can show that they have some knowledge about the political system, to have a say in voting, to see who represents them. And I believe with education, and with treating people well, with respect and compassion, having people trained for the type of work that they want to do, that poverty could could be eliminated. And so there are a lot of clones to me, there would be no more wars. And there would be a lot less suffering in the world. Yeah, that sounds that sounds like a very good reason. Thank you. Welcome. What's Education is the key. Education is the key and law. The merging of law and education. And again, unfortunately, the people in power, the bureaucrats and politicians don't have the will or the desire to bring about the needed changes. Yeah, it's so sad. What is your favorite quote? Yes. And probably, I guess it's a quote that is on my mind a lot now, because it's a quote I used to open my novel when the sunlight goes dark about the boxing family in Los Angeles, and the quote is, Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am so meek and gentle with these butchers. And it originally that quote is taken from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar when Mark Anthony is standing over the dead body of Julius Caesar and Caesar has been assassinated. by members of the Senate. And he's bemoaning the fact that he's so meek and gentle with these butchers because he's kind of going along with them at the time. And it's just a quote that just stands out to me because I've used it in my book because I my books about worker exploitation in one way because a lot of these boxers are exploited. And a lot of them end up in not very good shape. Because people aren't looking out for him. So I guess for today, that's my favorite quote. I mean, I have others too. But I guess for today, that's the one that would be my favorite. All right. Very good. And I could you could use that metaphorically, too. I mean, the sense that, you know, Oh, pardon me, you know, why aren't the people that are running the government trying to help the people? Yes, that's a very good question. I'm sure you've run into very similar situations in England. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All the time. What's improved your wife quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? I'm sorry, Peter, you have to say that one more time. All right. What improved your life quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? well, Oh, I would I would say I spent a lot of time in therapy. I came from a very dysfunctional family. I suffered a lot of abuse, I was put into a private boarding school where kids got regularly beaten very badly. One of the lucky ones, really, I never suffered any permanent physical injury. But I think if I hadn't gone into therapy, and I was in therapy for decades, I'd say that probably the key to my being a functioning productive adult today, that in a book I read, called compassion and self hate, written by Theodore Isaac Rubin, that book changed my life. I never thought a book could change my life, but that one did. Yeah, of course. That and of course, if you're going to be successful, you have to you have to work hard, you have to know where to put your effort, you have to work hard and you have to think smart. I mean, that old saying about if you work hard, everything will fall into place is not necessarily true. I've known, I've had guy friends that have worked hard all their lives, and they've got nothing. Yeah, absolutely. So you got to work smart, as well as hard. Yes. But the more success you realize, it just adds to your happiness and your fulfillment. Yeah, of course. But people need the basic necessities have to be taken care of. You got to have clothes, you got to have proper shelter, you got to have decent physical health. I don't think I've ever met anyone that's happy if they haven't had good physical health. Yeah, of course. How did you spend your last birthday? Well, my last birthday, I had dinner with my business partner and my best friend, Tara Walker. We went to a really nice restaurant down on the beach, had a great dinner. And then went home and watched a really great movie. And it was a great day. And you know, I talked to a lot of friends and family too. I got a lot of calls. Okay. That's cool. It was fun. Oh, yes. It was quite a time. Yeah. You like birthdays? Yeah, I like birthdays. It's pretty cool, I guess. It's funny. I was just reading about Jimmy Carter, you know, the former President of the United States who is a president. And he's going to be turning 99 here in a couple days. And someone called him up, one of his family members said, I wanted to wish you a happy birthday. And he said, that's, that's not real good. I'm not really excited about this birthday. I didn't know you even make this far in his life. Yeah, he's going to be 99 years old. And you know, he's been in hospice for seven months. Everyone thought he was going to pass in about two or three weeks and he's still going. Madness. Amazing man. Absolutely. We could use a young Jimmy Carter today. That's for sure. Uh huh. Yeah. That'll be something. It would be. Yeah. Yeah. What's the best way to start the morning? The best way to start the morning is to eat a good breakfast. I know so many people that don't eat breakfast. They have health problems, they're overweight. And I don't mean starting breakfast, you know, eating junk food. You gotta eat something healthy for you. Eat something healthy. Write down the things you need to do today if you have to make a list. Yeah, it helps me a lot before I go to bed to write it to do this. So when I wake up in the morning, I know exactly what I got to do. And I got to feel the body first. You got to take care of the body. I have a friend of mine who's, he had a stroke and he's in the hospital now. He can't barely move. And, you know, he, he didn't have the right diet and he's still a fairly young man. It's very tragic. So feel the body and feed it well. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure you know, because I could tell you put a lot of hours on your show. Oh yeah. It's, it's quite a process, but it's definitely worth it. Yeah, it's enjoyable. Yeah, sure is. If you could travel back in time, what would decade you want to live in? There's so many decades I would love to live in. There's so many centuries I'd love to live in. It's really hard to pick one, but if I had to pick one, I'd probably say the early 1960s. Sixties? That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's when Muhammad Ali came on the scene and that's when the Beatles came on the scene. To me, that's, I think we'll never see the likes of the Beatles or Muhammad Ali again. Yeah. So one of a kind, they always say. Yeah, but I, believe me, Peter, I'd love to live, I could go back to ancient Rome and be fascinated. Of course, your life expectancy wasn't very long. Oh yeah. Cause Sanitary wasn't up there and the advancement technologies got in the way. Yeah. Everything's like, ugh. I would love to live the life of a Plains Indian in 1840. I think that would be fascinating. It's freedom that people can barely conceive of today. And what a great, got the kids, Indian children back in those days, man, talk about having a great childhood. Yeah, absolutely. And that is all we have for this episode. It was great having you on Oliver talking about your works. You're welcome. And until next time, stay tuned for more.
Cloud Security Podcast by Google
A highlight from EP141 Cloud Security Coast to Coast: From 2015 to 2023, What's Changed and What's the Same?
"Hi there, welcome to the Cloud Security Podcast by Google. Thanks for joining us today. Your hosts here are myself, Timothy Peacock, the Senior Product Manager for Threat Detection here at Google Cloud, and Anne Hunchuvakian, a reformed analyst and senior staff in Google Cloud's Office of the CISO. You can find and subscribe to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts, as well as at our website, cloud .google .com slash podcast. If you enjoy our content and want it delivered to you piping hot every Monday, please do hit that subscribe button in your podcasting app of choice. You can follow the show, argue with your hosts and the rest of our Cloud Security Podcast listeners on our LinkedIn page. Anton, this is a fun CISO episode that's full of growth lessons, leadership lessons, interesting stories of migrating to cloud and one of the strongest endorsements of cloud as both risk reduction and business velocity improvement I think we've gotten on the show to date. What did you think today? I think so too. I think that we should not lament that the episode did not cover how to improve configurations of your cloud armor or how to run SIEM or any of this. It's a really good episode with a guest who experienced some of the lessons that clients are learning today, but eight years ago. So it's really fascinating that it's like for many companies, his past is the future and that makes his lessons hugely valuable. Hugely valuable and his advice is applicable to both CISOs all the way down to people who want to get started and get promoted in our field. And so maybe with that, let's turn things over to today's guest. With that listeners, I'm delighted to introduce today's guest. Today we're joined by Jeremiah Kung at AppLovin. Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm excited to have you here because we have something in common. We've both had the East Coast to West Coast experience. I started my career in Washington, DC, and I swear to God, the people I worked with at the startup I worked at First Shape, to this day, if I get drinks with them, they rip on me for wearing a suit to my interview with them. So the East Coast to West Coast interview, the whole thing is very real. So what's your take on that distinction aside from costumes for interviews? Yeah, I totally get it. I'm not a big fan of wearing ties either. It feels like a weak pair of hands slowly strangling me all day long. Yeah, for me, it's more of a metaphorical one. I was born a West Coast surfer kind of guy for the longest time, but career wise, especially making the moves, working for bigger banks, which I saw them as East Coast, let's face it, the bigger banks are New York, North Carolina. It's very suit and tie, very more button down, very much more about the controls, the frameworks, the committees, and infosec has to give the go ahead further than it goes to production. West Coast being out here with places like Palo Alto, where innovation is rampant and it's wonderful, you got to move fast. So you live by the speed and the velocity of your releases. And if someone's slowing you down, they're going to keep you from getting to market faster than your competitors. So it's a very different approach to information security. I remember earlier when I started speaking about this about a year ago, you can tell all sorts of funny stories about being at an East Coast company. And you know, all the red tape you have to go through and everyone kind of sighs and kind of agrees with that. But you know, at the end of the day, the West Coast, you have other risks you need to be aware of too, as well. And it's about trying to find that balance and attending to what the risks are. So the fundamentals don't really change, but out here, you have to innovate faster? Innovate faster. And I think really what you need to understand to have is a clarity of the risk, right, to really understand what the risk is. Coming from a big bank, of course, losing data is a huge thing, operational risk, regulatory risk, and there's all of that layers that you need to go through. With the West Coast, you really need to kind of understand, okay, how's this company making money? Where's all our data sitting? And you know, what are all our attack surfaces? So I think this is a basic step for anybody information security is to really understand what the asset inventory is, including intellectual and data assets. But it's not just small company, large company, though, because it sounds like if you're in the West Coast startup, your risk of just dying, the risk of startup going kaput, deep in my heart, I think it's more important than cybersecurity risk. I'm joking about it. But ultimately, I understand if I am a startup guy, the startup going out of business is a higher risk than security issue. Of course, security issues can also drive you out of business. Yeah, I get that. But that's not just what you're talking about, right? There are other issues. Yeah, absolutely. Other issues on that, because operational risk is again, if your competitors beat you, and you lose market share, okay, yeah, regulators are going to come after me or something like that. But it doesn't really matter. I'm out of business. What's the big deal there. But at the same time, if you do get breached, that's going to make you lose market share as well. So you need to kind of figure out what that balance is. Okay, that makes sense. So let's shift gears. This was actually kind of a cool intro. And it introduced the whole concept in my mind. Now I kind of think, hi, are you East Coast CISO or West Coast CISO? Maybe my greeting for the foreseeable. One other thing we wanted to explore, and this may have something to do with this cost dimension is, initially, when cloud computing public cloud showed up, the default stance from any CISOs was kind of slightly negative and, or maybe strongly negative or get this cloud out. I'm not allowing it in my company. So this was probably like a good number of years ago. Now, certainly this changed, and we see a lot of CISOs embracing cloud. But here's the thing. We hypothesize that there are CISOs who are active cloud fans who kind of want cloud because it's better. And admittedly, we have a CISO here, Phil Danables, who is of that type, but he joins Google Cloud because of the belief, presumably. Now, are there other CISOs who think cloud is just superior for security and they're driving cloud adoption as opposed to resisting it? What is your take on this? Yeah, that's a great point. I've seen both sides of the coin. I've talked to people on both sides of the coin on this one, and I'm kind of obviously in the more cloud -centric side, but I'm a little bit more in the middle to the left of that, if that makes any sense. I'm very pro -cloud. I think it deals with, very efficiently, a lot of the old concerns that you would have about security, patching updates and Vone scans and Vone updates and all that other type of stuff, because you can spin these things up so quickly, the fixes and release it out there. It's not, back in the old days, some guy with a CD running around from every server trying to load and update patches and stuff like that. You know, that's such a funny thing to pause on, because maybe this is my youth speaking. I sometimes forget that people had to do that. And I think for a lot of our listeners, it's hard to appreciate that, yeah, really, that's how it used to work. If you had to patch something, it wasn't Terraform Apply, my new version. It was a dude with a CD in a server room somewhere. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And if you were in a freeze period to try to do patches, you had to go through all sorts of updates and things like that to try to get in, and it gets all sorts of approvals. I think the dude with a CD is the least of your problems, is the talking to all the layers for making a change, submitting requests in paper forms, you know, ideal bureaucrats. I think the dude with a CD would be like, dude comes in, sticks a CD, and does the patching. That's fast. No, no, no. But some of that still exists, right? You still need change windows, you still need approval. So maybe here's the question is, how does Cloud, for you as a CISO, change that part of the equation? What's the non -technical changes? Improved. Not changed. Take the pessimistic stuff out. How did Cloud improve this for you? Anton, I think that's known as leading the witness. Okay, fine. Yeah. I feel like you're trying to give me what the answer is there. But I mean, I'm already on that side. It's really the visibility. Because, you know, being at Apple, we're strong partners with Google Cloud and being all in Google Cloud, I can really see where our assets are, I could see trends over time, I could see the logging and the monitoring and all the alerts and the phones all in one spot, which is very nice. But I get it, not every company can be 100 % in the cloud. I would imagine that a bank, you're going to at best be some kind of hybrid approach to that, depending on the size of the bank. And I could see and outsource a lot of the running around changing. I just had this question the other day dealing with some audits. Hey, show me when's the last time you changed and rotated your keys and how often that is? Well, being in Google Cloud, they do that for you. And you guys do a random rotation of that. Whereas AWS does it to make sure the keys are rotated every 365 days, according to NIST and TIP standards. You guys do a random rotation, which it could be two weeks, it could be 365 days, but at some point, those keys will be rotated. So that's kind of the intelligence behind to keep it random, to keep it fresh, to keep it on top. I appreciate that from a security perspective. And I don't have to rely on a team to constantly run, again, running it out and changing keys and this and that, even at a cloud level where you have to, you know, you can just terminal in and do that. This is just handled for you. And as we moved more and more to Kubernetes, more and more to serverless environments, these ways old of needing to do security become less and less impactful. But then again, there's always a new attack surface that has yet to be discovered. New problems are going to come and show and raise their heads from a security perspective. We're just on the way of discovering what those are. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So I want to go back in time a little bit to maybe when cloud was newer for you. I understand you were part of some big migrations back in the day. What did you learn about doing those, quote unquote, right? It was really lucky to be with Capital One 2015, 2016, sometime when they were deciding to be the first big bank to move everything 100 % into the cloud. So famously cloud forward. Yeah, very cloud forward. Yeah. So how did that go? It was a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of work, but it was really interesting. It was great to be part of that team to really learn how cloud can mitigate, how to move quickly, how to combine the teams. I think one of the things that I found to be the right way of doing things was they took a very strong two in the box approach, really kind of a three in the box approach. And what they mean by that is for those teams to move forward, the development team would have one lead that was the business lead and say, hey, this is what the customers want. This is what the industry and market trends are looking at. And then there would be a tech lead say, okay, this is what the teams can develop and how long it's going to take. And then I kind of squeezed my way in there to become that three in the box, the security perspective to listen, okay, this is what the business wants. This is what tech can provide. And here's the risk and the risk we need to mitigate. And to have that conversation was invaluable because you got it from every angle. You didn't just hear what IT said that I can only do so much and why is the business wanting that? You got to hear it from the business exactly what they wanted, how they wanted to do things and why too, and why this was important for the business. That makes a ton of sense. So what were maybe some, for people in a similar boat in the future, how did you get effective at communicating the risk to people? How did you help business understand that? How did you help IT understand that? What was it? The saying that they say, fools talk, cowards stay silent, wise people listen. And that was really kind of key for me on that one was at first listening to the business, understanding their pains, understanding what they were challenged with. This really helped me to assess my risk and also come up with mitigation plans that would work for the business. Again, same approach with IT is understanding, okay, what are their pains? Where are they coming from? And this way I can come up with what the plans should look like with considerations for everybody across the board. Okay, so... Wait, wait, wait. Sorry, Tim. I am kind of curious about it, but I'm nervous that we are kind of reducing all this to effective communication only. Is this... Sorry, this doesn't sound very right. But the point is that effective communication clearly had a huge role, but there are other pillars for success because a huge migration of the first half of bank to the cloud had other tricky elements, right? Yes. So that was another one. What we had was a very strong partnership with our cloud partners at the time. They had been sitting and working with, especially since there were no frameworks, there was no really references. I remember even the regulators at the time were sitting, okay, that's great. You guys are doing that. Can we just sit and listen to see what you guys are doing so we can kind of spread this out with the rest of the banks and standards out there? I think the key partnerships with your vendor, your cloud vendor specifically, was invaluable, providing advice and having that back and forth feeds. I remember working with one particular tool. We said, hey, this encryption standard is not really up to snuff. Could you guys work on that and develop something? And sure enough, I think within two or three dev cycles, they had something that was what we needed. To this day, I find that to be an ideal approach, working with my cloud vendors or just any vendors that I have. I appreciate those who will sit down, listen to me and hear my complaints and do the whole listening and coming up with an approach. I think almost all my security vendors I'm using, as well as the cloud vendors with you guys, have that type of approach. Okay. That does sound like real magic for a lot of more technically minded leaders I've met. So this is solid. This advice is worth the price of podcast alone in my mind. So to sort of progress further, like you mentioned that you learned those lessons quite some time ago and many companies are still learning them even now. And for some of them, cloud is with the future, funny enough. So now that you've went through all this and other lessons, how are you approaching securing cloud given differently the lessons? Like what are you doing better in 2023 regarding securing cloud compared to the original lessons? For me personally, it's a little bit different. Talking to some of my peers who still haven't made that jump, they seem to have that lack of trust of having their data set somewhere not on a server that they're under control over at some point and at their own personalized data center that they have, their own physical security, own the HVAC systems and all other type of stuff. They want to have that data. Okay. That's an approach. It's going to be tough to scale over time. I think one of the things that I found to be very successful here that's helped is reading a lot, a lot of reading, a lot of talking to other peers in the industries and a lot of vendors going to these discussions to stay on top of what the recent threat is and what the other trends are and what the solutions are out there. I think that's key. We're a community and that has to be pushed forward if that makes any sense to continue to talk to folks. I think sitting in your own little silo is not going to work very well. Well, I don't think I know. Yeah. I forget who it was on the show, but they said that security is a team sport. Yeah, absolutely. So I guess on that thread, actually, I want to pull on this a little more. I often joke with CISOs on the show that what they need is not another piece of technology, but rather a family therapist to help their relationships with other teams. What advice would you give to other CISOs, security leaders on first building better relationships with other teams, and two, how to get out of the saying no mentality and into that real collaborative listening mode? Yeah, that saying no mentality. I've talked to some CISOs like that who said, yeah, I'm looking to hire and I need people to join my team because I need them to get out there and say no as much as humanly possible. No, people don't actually say that? Explicitly said that? Oh, wow. Yeah. I just remember I stopped and I looked at him and I said, how are you doing, man? Are you doing okay? Wow. I can imagine his life was pretty miserable. Maybe if you're working on a highly top secret government project where you got to hide the alien bodies, maybe. That's a good example. Yikes. Yeah. I think a family therapist is a great way to do that, to work with their teams, but I think really at the end of the day, it's not that hard. Everyone wants to do a good job when they come to work, hopefully, and everyone wants to get along with their work base. I think the thing is just the key is to be available for them if they have questions. Try to initiate those conversations and also learn when to back off. Everyone's busy. They have a lot of their own success metrics they have to shoot for, so if you can be part of that formula, great on a day -to -day basis, but if they're a little too busy for you to come back at a better time, pizza and beer is always a good way to go as well, but I think it's just trying to be as value -add as possible at all times and be understanding that everyone's trying to get their jobs done as well. I think that's key. That's good advice not just for security leaders, but for PMs as well. One of my favorite pieces of advice for PMs I ever heard was framed as bring the donuts, and I think security is kind of this way too. With PMs, nobody invited you, and they can get along just fine without you for the most part, so you've got to really understand where they're coming from and what value you're bringing to the equation if you want people to work with you constructively. Yeah, it's knowing your role. Security can be a value -add and can be positive for the business, but a majority of the time we're kind of a cost to that business, a necessary cost and maybe, hopefully, a helpful business benefiting cost, but at a cost, nonetheless, people aren't usually going to go to the company for how secure it is, especially on the West Coast. It's about how much money or how handy their product is first. Security is kind of a second thought, but we can definitely work together on that. I have heard some pretty inspiring stories on this show and in my professional life of how security helps teams move faster by taking, say, risk out of the equation or automating away some risk, and so I think maybe in cloud, due to its nature, there's unique opportunities for security teams to be helpful there. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Usually, if you're already moving into the cloud, you're kind of taking a fresh start, and that's where you can really do the security by design. I get it. If you're on mainframes and you've been around for 30 years and now you're the new security person, it's really to go back and difficult to do security by design from the start, right? You're kind of retroactively trying to find fits here or there. But starting fresh into the cloud, it's like, okay, we could do this by design. AppLovin's been great about kind of doing that with protecting their data by saying, hey, I don't need a lot of sensitive data. We're going to try to use our own attribution formats and other types of formulas to grow our customers' business without taking on a lot of that sensitive information. So that helps reduce the risk, again, secure by design. So this is good, especially excellent. Okay, Tim, you can make fun of me for saying excellent, but this is excellent. However, excellence hasn't spread uniformly, right? And you do see people who are still in the saying no mentality. And regarding architecture, we do see a lot of people still stuck essentially in the 90s regarding architecture. They want to lift and shift, or they're even debating whether this new cloud thing is for them. So given your experience, what's your best advice for the leaders of these organizations where either the CISO is blocking cloud or maybe even CIO doesn't want it? So basically, they are not getting any of the benefits. And when they start doing cloud, they do it in a very on -premise way, the lift and shift way. Yeah, that's a tough one, because you're really trying to tell somebody to change their entire point of view. Yes, that's exactly right. Yeah, you need to have that aha moment, travel to Damascus moment for them. And I don't think I could give them individual advice to have that aha moment other than travel the world, talk to folks and, you know, experience and see what else is out there. I know for AppLovin, when we jumped over 100 % into the cloud, our business just naturally spiked because of the efficiencies, how quickly automating compute usage was with that intelligence to go up and down for what our demands were. That's amazing. And, you know, again, that's a strong partnership with Google on that, having just an incredible team that really kind of jumped to everything that we needed, which was fantastic. Not easy to find in the industries all over the world. So that was really helpful. But I think they need to talk to people who have those success stories and just to see what it is. I think at the end of the day, if those folks would talk to the business more and to see what the business needs, they'll kind of start to see, yeah, that it makes sense. That's where we need to kind of move towards. But that has to be that personality of I got to get out of my silo. I got to talk to people out of my comfort zone, because you may not be a business person. You could be a genius infosec person. But if you don't get the business and have that background, it's going to be difficult to travel far. Yeah, that's for sure, Drew. It reminds me of that saying, if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. You really can't go far in security unless you can bring other people on board. And that's one of the things we've talked about on another show, I think, a CISO episode, talking about the challenge of developing people who've excelled for their technical skills as they rise in their career to then excel on non -technical skills. What advice do you have for those people to make that leap from I'm great because I can understand X .509 to I'm great because I can convince the person down the hall that our interests actually are aligned? Yeah, that's a great point. So even on my own team right now, I have people who are very smart, very technically have done some great things, and they want to get to that next level. So for me, to that level, to try to help coach them along those lines, I recommend understanding all the different domains and then having a very strong relationship with the business and spend time with them. I think peer mentorships and things like that to do exchange programs within the company are also very important to understand how the business works and just spending time with them. I think that's, I guess, it's almost like what a social CISO type of thing. It's just very social, and it's really about getting outside of your shell and understanding everyone else's pains and what their goals are to win for their game. That's really kind of at the end of the day, yes, technical, that's good. You need that, absolutely. But it's all about people, processes, and tools. It's a three -legged chair, right? So people are so key, and I think I find a lot of the really, really smart infosec folks tend to focus on the tools, and everyone ignores processes, right? No one wants to document anything, but that's also very important too. So those are the kind of key aspects. But this sounds like hard work. It can be, but it's really depending on your personality types. But it's really not too hard. There's a lot of great classes out there to kind of coach yourself through, and just the ways of thinking about stuff, which is good. I read this great book called Superforecasting, which was, Phil Tetlock wrote this, and it was really about a way of how to think of things differently. You don't have to be highly educated. There's these experiments that are to use folks to become, quote, unquote, superforecasters. Some of the best performers, one of them was a housewife who just had a high school education, but because once she learned how to use the little levers and stuff to do the math on this, it became about how did she see things and how she thought about things. And it was about, okay, most people would see an event and automatically change their opinion about something broadly. For her, it was about, okay, that changes my opinion a little bit towards this direction. And then she would gather more and more data, and each time it would move the dial to the left or to the right. And eventually, she was able to call out, yeah, in six months, this is going to happen. And she was right. I think it was close to 87 % of the time. People like that had that kind of approach is really helpful. And I think, again, that kind of breaks down from what we were talking about today is about seeing the trends and kind of seeing the forest of the trees and then looking at every piece of information. And they'll just stick to one piece of information, which might be legitimate, but have that kind of shade your whole approach. You got to see all sorts of factors to kind of come in and see at the end of the day. And I think if you do that, you're going to see that cloud's going to be, for most cases, not all. Again, if you're hiding UFO bodies, okay, maybe not. We'll see that it's an advantage. Well, Jeremiah, I hate to do this on such a note, but I have to ask you our traditional closing questions. Sure. First, do you have a tip to help people improve their security when migrating to cloud? And two, aside from super forecasting, which sounds great, do you have recommended reading for our listeners? Yes. Super forecasting was a great one. I read another great one recently called American generalship. I'm just about finishing it up right now. It's pretty good. It's ideal of how to become a stronger leader and a stronger follower at the same time too. This kind of helps you coach of, okay, this is how I can mentor somebody. And this is also how to be a good mentee at the end of the day. It also has a lot of really great military stories in the background on that too. So fun stuff there if you're a fan of the military. And I'm sorry, what was the other question? One tip, one easy to follow tip for people. Yeah. I'd say try to make a new friend inside the business. At least once a month, have these one -on -ones and have a cup of coffee. I think it goes a long way. I remember getting on an airplane ride home from one of these other team events, talking to sat down two folks that I don't normally work with and got to spend five hours instead of watching a stupid movie, sitting there and talking about their business and what they're seeing, talks of AI and how they're using co -pilot and chat GPT and all that other type of stuff. It was really fascinating to hear their point of view of what they saw from a line of business that I didn't normally do a lot of work in. That's a fascinating answer and fits with the theme of the episode, which I think might be listeners, go make some new friends. So with that, Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks guys. Really appreciate it. And now we are at time. Thank you very much for listening and of course for subscribing. You can find this podcast at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts. 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"This is Doug Green and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller and I'm very pleased to have with us today Rob McDougall who is the CEO of Upstream Works. Rob, thank you for joining us today. Hey, great to be here, Doug. Good to talk with you again. Well, this is really exciting. I've been enjoying talking with you just before we started our podcast about what's going on in the AR market. And you know, what's exciting to me is we've been doing a series of podcasts the last few weeks where folks have been coming forward and talking about how they've made AI a practical tool for a company or for an organization or for maybe an entire industry. So we're going to be talking about an exciting story today about how Upstream Works has changed United Airlines and also about the idea of operationalizing AI. So we're going to be talking about those topics in a second, but for people that don't know Rob Upstream Works well or maybe know a little bit about you guys, what is Upstream Works? Upstream Works is a software application company. We focus on the agent experience and we provide an agent desktop application that's designed to run either on premise or in cloud so that your infrastructure doesn't matter. Our goal is to make sure that your agents have a consistent interface that they can work with across platforms, across applications, across channels. And these days we've been using the term EX. So what you're doing, it feeds right into that employee experience. Absolutely. We call it AX because we're focused on agents, but that's what it's all about. A happy agent is going to give a better service. We believe that that smile on the agent's face comes across the phone. It's a tough job. It's a tough market. You know, you can't find enough people to do that job today, so you want to keep those employees happy and they're the face of your company to the world. So with that in mind, you have actually taken AI and you're doing something called operationalizing AI. Sorry, that didn't come out so smoothly. So what is operationalizing AI? First, it's a tough word to say. I will give you that. Look at it this way. If I was to ask you, Doug, to go to my office, go to my computer, log in and add yourself into my CRM system or billing system, you wouldn't know what you had to do. You understand my ask, but you don't know where my office is. You don't know how to get into my computer. You don't know what my CRM or HR systems are. You don't know how they work. AI is the same thing. Even with the new generative AI model, is it really good at understanding? I know what the guy's asking, but I don't know how to do it. Operationalizing AI means doing that connectivity between what the AI can do and making it do something actually for your business. So integrating it into your backend systems, providing an interface that an agent can use to view things easily, using it to provide other business value like routing or translations, but making it actually work properly in your complex in silo the contact center. So this is really interesting because what you're telling me is it simplifies things. Well, tremendously. What we saw back in the early days of chat and email is a lot of people would put in chat and email, but they were discreet channels. They didn't integrate with the contact center. It was a bad experience for customers. You had to have specialized agents who got different training because the desktop interfaces were different. The tools were different. Omnichannel has now taken us into a realm where an agent can deal with sort of one set of tools across the different channels, but then you start throwing AI into the mix and it comes up in a different place. So you put in AI and it's got its own interface. So I need special agents to do something over here, or it doesn't actually integrate with the other tools that I have in the contact center. So I've got to make all that stuff work together. And this is what Upstreamworks has been doing for 23 years is being the spider in the middle of the web and taking the applications that are important for your business and help you make those work for the business and for the agents to make their life easier. So it's interesting that you're using a new thing to basically follow your brand story, which has what you're describing sounds like what Upstream is all about. Absolutely. We focus on enterprise contact centers. We don't go for the small contact center. And the reason we focus there is because large enterprises, when they deal with products, what they want is something that's shrink wrapped in out of the box, like Word, and they just put in the disk and it all works, but it's got to work exactly the way they work. And that doesn't exist. So what we have always done is we built a product that is designed to provide all the features out of the box, but have all the configurability and integratability such that I can integrate it into the workflows that the company has and make those work properly in an enterprise environment. And AI is no different. You could look at a manufacturer who's going to say, oh, we'll put in our product and here's our AI. And the company says, well, that's nice, but we use this other AI. That's where Upstream works comes in. And they may use Amazon AI for translations, and they may use Google AI to search their knowledge base, and they use Watson to look up their medical information. They may have different AI applications. Our goal is to make them all work and make it seamless to the agent. So the agent doesn't know there's different AIs happening. It's just there's stuff that shows up and stuff happens. And I'd love to hear a little bit about your product line and offerings right now, but maybe you could tell me that in the context of where you're offering this operationalizing AI service. Well, it comes as an actual part of our product, right? It's right there. It's right there. So one of the components is a desktop component called Virtual Agent Portal. And we spent a lot of time kind of working through what to name this, because we didn't want people to start thinking we're providing AI to them, because we're not an AI provider. But what Virtual Agent Portal allows you to do, it's a kind of an open placeholder, so that if I need to interact between an agent and an AI on the desktop, it can go into Virtual Agent Portal. And I can do things like I can try Amazon, or I could switch it out for Google, because maybe I get a better price. The agent doesn't see the difference. I don't need to retrain them. I'm using a certain AI, and I put in a different training model, and I want to do some A -B testing to see which one's giving me better results. The agent won't see the difference. Virtual Agent Portal handles all that in the background and feeds the information back to management to say, okay, yeah, the new changes are working, so we're going to now use that AI. But it's all about making it transparent to the agent, so they're focused on the customer and my understanding is that with all this, you guys have now developed and are operating with a very big customer. Yeah, somebody we've been having a lot of fun with over the summer is United Airlines. So they're a big Cisco shop. They've got Cisco UCCE. They've got Cisco Webex. And they had this concept that they called Agent on Demand. And what they wanted to be able to do was to provide airline -side services to customers remotely. And with Webex and the Cisco Contact Center product, those things didn't work together. So Cisco brought in Upstream Works, and so we're kind of the glue between all this. So now what happens at United Airlines is, and if you're traveling and you're at United, look around because you're going to see QR codes all over the place. You can shoot the QR code with your phone, and you will get hooked up with a live video call with the United Gate agent. So it's for doing airline -side things. So can't buy my baggage. I got to go change my flight. I want to change my seat. You know, all the stuff that you could go up to the gate to do, there's a big lineup, or you're in the United Club having a drink and you want to do this, you can now do this on your phone remotely. From a customer experience point of view, it's an awesome thing. But what's even better about it is think about gate agents. These are the people who are standing at the gate and they're doing stuff and then you board your flight and then they go back in the back room and they sit around until their next flight. Well, now what they do is they go back in the back room and United has little, I'll call them informal contact centers in every airport. Gate agents leave their post, they go back and they get on the phone and they start dealing with other customers from all over the world. So from United's point of view, they're now getting much better utilization of their staff and they're assisting people at any airport where there's United Airlines. And from the customer's point of view, they just know that, hey, I want to change my seat and I can do it on my phone and talk to a person to do it. So it's a win for the customers and it's an absolute win for United as well because now, you know, I don't have to line up to do this stuff and I can better utilize my agents. It just occurred to me that it's liberating for both sides of that equation. In other words, as you were mentioning from the customer point of view, now I don't have to stand even, you know, it was used to be a problem. I have to find the right line to stand in. That is, you know, we've all had that experience. I can just click on one of these wherever I am in the airport and get help. Yeah, absolutely. You hit the QR code and it's going to ask for your flight number. So you put your flight number in and your passenger name, and then you're going to get to the right person to talk about the right stuff. It doesn't matter what line you're going to get in because it's skills routed to the right person. Wow. And that also means that remote, to your point, remote agents, whether they're at an informal contact center, a little mini one in the back office there behind the gate, or maybe just as in a more, it may be out of a home even, right there, there is help now, you know, late at night, maybe there's no one at the little airport in a smaller center, which United does fly in and out of, maybe you're just talking to someone somewhere else. That smaller center, you could talk to an agent at home, but you could also be talking to an agent who's on shift at O 'Hare in between flights. Right. So that's really, that really is an amazing step forward. And it really, it leverages all the technologies already in place. Yeah. And then, and then they went further because they said, you know what we, cause you can, you can escalate between voice video and chat on the application. You don't have to do video call. You can also just chat with the agent as well. But they've also got translations. So they're using, I believe it's Amazon for doing, there's Google, sorry, they're using Google to do translations, but now I can go on, I can click that QR code, say I'm Spanish. I can type in in Spanish, what the agent sees is coming up in English and they answer in English and the person gets it back in Spanish. And this is a great use of generative AI because that's, I will say a year ago, when you showed translations in a demo, it was anyone spoke the language went, yeah, that doesn't really work. The language was stilted generative AI has, has changed the game on translations because generative AI can translate really well. So that's a very excellent use case for it. This is very exciting because it sort of opens up so many doors that, you know, the, the agent might be in Berlin, the, the, the other, the passenger might be in Mexico city and they're able to talk to each other in their own languages. Yep. And you can do it across industry as well. Think about, you know, you as a person, you go to a drug store and you need to consult with a doctor and they've got a nurse practitioner there who can triage. And then click a QR code and get a video conference going with a doctor who may be at a central site. Now I'm sitting, having a conversation with a medical professional via video that's been queued up. And, you know, on the doctor's side, he's between patients, he logs onto the system and he just starts taking some calls and he can deal with patients. And now I don't have to have doctors everywhere. I can centralize them and I put nurse practitioners around. So there's a lot of healthcare uses for the same type of application. Hey Rob, let's stay with that a second, but in both cases, because, um, do you, do you, I'm going to use maybe the wrong term, but is there a continuity on each case? In other words, let's say, um, I opened up a conversation as a United customer or as a, as a patient and it's concluded, but now I have the same problem maybe four hours later. Will the next person who helps me know about my last conversation? Well, we captured the interaction history of every interaction that happens. So the answer, the quick answer is yes. Um, as a, as an agent or a doctor or a gate agent, uh, you can go back and review the previous recording, um, or the transcript of what's going on, or again, another great use of generative AI. You could also get a summary delivered back to you of what had gone on on that previous call, but that whole contact history is tracked. So every single time Doug Green contacts, they're going to be able to say Doug Green always contacts us and says, we screwed his seat up. He does this every single flight. So maybe he's just pulling our leg. So, you know, it works both ways. And that's really amazing because that's the type of information, you know, old school that, you know, there would be someone around who knew some other people and would say, yeah, look at Doug. And this is, he does that all the time. Here's how to handle it. Now we're able to do this on a, on a, and that must make agent life or the doctor life, whoever's receiving the contact a little bit easier, right? They've, they've got that contextual and historical information. Yeah. We've always believed, I was talking about the elephant never forgets. And I've always believed that as a person contacting a business, there are certain things that I know the business should know those things as well. Most importantly, I know that I called last Thursday about the same thing. The business should know that the agent who picks up my call, this is, you know, this is video or just a voice call, but the agent should know that as well. And that's the important part of interaction history. So regardless of the channel you come in on, the agent has access to that information and they can see what that context is. Cause that's all important to them providing you good service. Rob, you know, I know it's early days and, and, but you know, this was an historic summer for travel. So United you've already flown, if you will, through a challenging time. What's the reaction, what's United telling you and what are customers saying what's happening? Uh, United loves it. Um, all of the airlines are aware of it and are looking and, and want to understand how they've done it. Um, we're getting a lot of inbound, uh, requests coming in from basically all the major airline carriers from very senior people. Um, I think over the Labor Day weekend, it was something like, I don't know, 2 .3 or 2 .8 million passengers went through Chicago O 'Hare airport, uh, and NBC news and Chicago did a section on United and all the travelers and right in the middle of it is, and they have this agent on demand application and they show here's a phone talking to an agent. That's the upstream application right there, which was very cool. So Rob, you know, uh, with this, this, uh, work you're doing with United, I understand they turned to you because they were able to find you as a reliable source for this. So original the agent on demand idea, uh, came from United. Um, and they, they did a proof of concept to say, okay, it kind of works, but it wasn't robust enough for sort of the enterprise you will. Um, and they turned to Cisco who was sort of their trusted communications provider and said, can you do this? And Cisco looked into it and they came back and said, no, we can't get all the bits and pieces, but we can't make them work together. And then somebody inside Cisco who knew upstream, wasn't talk to upstream. And so Cisco came to us and we said, yeah, of course we can do that. So it went back to United said, okay, we have a solution. Um, and we put that into United and they'd been extremely happy with the stability and how well it works. So everything's great. And since then it's, I don't, I mean, maybe it's early to say this, it sounds like it's on its way to becoming an industry standard. Uh, we're getting a ton of inbound interest. People are coming up and saying, you know, we, we, we've heard about the agent on demand. We want to know how it works and how you do it. And, and now we find out that upstream works is kind of the key enabler here. So, yeah, we're getting a lot of inbound demand on it, which is great. Well, uh, I wanted to, uh, conclude our podcast with just about how we can get a hold of products from upstream works. I understand that you're a channel oriented company. So do you have a channel pro program? We have a channel program. Uh, we do not sell directly at all. Uh, we have distribution channels, uh, throughout, uh, Canada, the U S and Europe. Um, we're available, um, on the Amazon platform, we're available on the Cisco platforms. Um, and we are expanding our market. So if there's, you know, if you're one of our resellers, uh, you know, you, you can, you can get at this. Um, if you're new to us and you want to talk with us, you've got some opportunities you want to discuss. Uh, we do have a channel program. We're really easy to deal with. Um, basically we can sign you up and then we'll do all the heavy lifting and until such time as you want to take on as much of the sales training and implementation training as you want to based on your business needs. Sounds like a great way for a channel partner right now or an MSP to win with AI. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, this is an exciting, ongoing story, Rob. I really hope that we get to do an additional podcast, maybe just about the United application, if you will, or, or that the, what you're doing there and in healthcare and maybe some other industries, learn some more news and do some stuff in the future. But for now, I want to thank you for joining us. Where can we learn more about upstream works? www .upstreamworks .com. Well, I hope everyone takes a visit and takes a second look, but for now, thanks very much for joining me today. Thank you, Doug. It's been really fun.
RADCast Outdoors
A highlight from Pack Smarter, Hunt Harder: A Two-Part Series with Mike Kentner
"This episode of RadCast Outdoors is brought to you by PK Lures, Bow Spider, and High Mountain Seasonings. Fish on! Hey! RadCast is on! Hunting, fishing, and everything in between, this is RadCast Outdoors. Here are David Merrill and Patrick Edwards. To get back on point, we've covered quite a bit of it. When you're setting up for these hunts, depending on this, that, and the other thing, what are you doing as far as bow hunt, rifle hunt, ammunition? Are you just taking just one quiver full, or are you taking what... Because there's a lot of weight in the ammo for these things. Archery -wise, I take my one quiver full. I carry a pack of six arrow quiver. That's what I kick in, no matter where, from backcountry mountain goat hunt to antelope alongside the truck. I carry six arrows. You get six tries and you're done. Yeah, if it takes me six tries, I'm going to go back to truck crying. I'm pretty much done. A lot of times I will carry extra arrows in the truck, but I may be miles from the truck at any one point, but I've never yet run into a situation where I've emptied my quiver and not put an animal down, but it could be done. I've seen it done. I just haven't accomplished it yet. And I'm actually the same way. I run a... one is a grouse arrow, so I actually only have four broadheads. I run a five arrow quiver anymore. And by the time we get to that third arrow, it better be done. Now, knock on wood, I haven't got into the fourth one yet. I do sometimes pack an extra broadhead so I could change out that grouse arrow, because I'm tired of wasting broadheads on grouse. And I'll tell you, anytime that we see a grouse when it's seasoned on pause, it's time to put a grouse in the pot for dinner. So that's... I'm glad we're on point there. As far as... say elk hunt or mule deer hunt, you didn't fill your tags and you're going, or you drew something that you're going to go rifle hunt for, how much are you going to plan on packing for your rifle? I normally carry 10 rounds. That's what I... usually four in my gun, and then I put another six in my pocket. If I was going on a multi -day hunt, I may pack a few more, but... Have you ever needed more than that? Really, I've never needed more than that. Usually what's in my gun is... the four in the gun is more than sufficient. There's been a few times I've used a few backup rounds trying to finish something off, but it's most of the time, it's the four rounds in the gun's all I've ever needed. Dan, I'm similar. Once that first arrow flies or that first bullet flies, it's a little bit chaos for a moment. And if that first one didn't go where it's supposed to, it doesn't get better with the second and the third of archery. I've made a marginal first shot and the second great shot, right? It has happened. And same with the rifle. But typically we're trying to make sure that first shot counts, and then the nexters are just tertiary, right? So as far as getting into calls, obviously, dear, you're not packing much, Antelope, you're not packing anything. But elk, what's your go -to stuff to have in your backpack and on your person? I carry an open reed cow call, a bugle tube, I have multiple brands, I have a whole closet full of them because I'm addicted to elk calls, so I don't even, I'm not even brand specific most of the time. And I usually have about eight or nine diaphragms with me at any time, mouth diaphragms and all different tension stretches. So I can reach from more lower growly bugles to higher, get up to the more higher pitch sounds by the different calls that are there. And most of the time I carry two of each because in a good day, a lot of days I'll wear out one reed. I pack four to six for, and I have a few more in the truck and I'll, same thing, I have a couple tensions and I'll wear out one every two or three days, I just, they wear out, they just do. Yeah, you stretch the latex in them, they get stretched out. What are we supposed to do with these things once they are stretched out? Because I'm always tossing them in the fire. Yeah, I get rid of them, they're not, they're no good, no use to me, I just throw them away when they're done, when I'm done with them, but, or let my grandkids use them. Okay. I just wanted to cover some of that, the call stuff specifically. We've gone through optics, obviously shelter. Each one of these items, guys, is going to be specific to your hunt, right? There isn't a hundred percent do all. Now, for the most part, I'm taking the same binos and the same vinyl harness, right? If I'm going to pack a sidearm, I'm taking the same sidearm, elk, deer, antelope, mule deer. I'm using the same broadhead for elk, deer, antelope. A lot of this gear transition, I don't have to buy a whole bunch of different gear, but I retool definitely or re -kit and go from a 18, 22 pound day pack up to a, I think the other day I was at 52 pounds with four days of food, right? But I had the heavy spotter, I had the tripod, I had the sleeping pad. The Hilleberg, it's got a big enough vestibule that you and I could put our packs and bows in the vestibule and sleep in there, but it's still shoulder to shoulder tight. I don't mind if it's nice weather, I'll hang my pack on a tree or something like that. If like when we were mountain goat hunting, there was not really any place to hang stuff. So it's got to come in with you to stay out of the weather and even August in Wyoming hunting mountain goats, you're going to weather some thunderstorms. They just collide over the top of those big ridges and you're in the wide open. There's nothing to hide from them in. Yeah, I can just last week I was on a solo couple day elk trip over in Wyoming and in one of the mountain ranges and every evening you could see it building here at Cummin and I actually, it was about two, three in the afternoon, I went and hid in the tent for 45 minutes because it was torrential bound for and I was out, I was back at camp about noon and elk had shut up about nine o 'clock. So I was just waiting for them to start up in the early afternoon. So those afternoon naps, elk hunting are amazing. I think that's half the reason I go anymore, but I will say that to be able to throw the backpack and bow in the vestibule, crawl in the tent and just wait it out when it's sheets of rain coming down, it's worth it for sure. And if you were trying to bivvy sack it, and that's what I found, I still have a XBG Cabela's bivvy sack in there for a while. I had the sleeping bag and pad inside that. You still really have to set up a tarp unless you want, unless it's really good weather. Yeah. Yeah. If it's just, if it's bluebird sky and you're just going to sleep on the ground, they're okay. If you're in mosquito country, you're still going to have mosquitoes all over your face. I just, guys can scream at me all you want. If you love your bivvy sack, I've had one and I'm just, I'm not a big fan by no means of, I don't think there's any more true security in a tent than a bivvy sack. There's just a little more protection from sideways rain and from wind. You get a lot more space between your bag, between you and the weather. Yeah, I agree. And when you get up and it's drizzling and you got to get dressed, when you sit up in a bivvy bag, it's raining and you got to get dressed in the rain. It's a little demoralizing when you're in your tent and you can open the. I opened the door and cook in the vestibule and can start getting dressed and I can have my rain gear on before I even step out. It's, it makes a little different atmosphere when you can get dressed, quote unquote, indoors before you go outdoors. So definitely your, but when we start adding all these things up weight wise, your kit can really start getting, your backpack gets heavy and yeah, for sure. One thing we didn't talk about that I really liked that Bowspider selling is our pack covers or waterproof backpack covers. They are multi -use, really nice. We have two sizes, but what I've found is if you put that receiver on top of your backpack and then put our ultra lightweight backpack covers over, you can still put the post through the material into your receiver so you can have your backpack waterproofed. If you're running our bow slicker, you can have your bow waterproofed and still have quick access when you're hiking around in the rain and that's actually is pretty handy. It is pretty handy if you're getting into bad weather. So definitely a waterproof backpack cover. If I have my rain jacket and my backpack cover, I'll hunt in some pretty nasty weather before I even put my rain pants on. But I am running gaiters, right? So if the brush is wet, most of the time my legs are still staying pretty dry. Now it's got to be pretty nasty for me to go, all right, it's time to put the rain pants on just because I've got the pit zips on the rain coat. So if I'm hunting with the rain jacket on, I can open those pit zips up and I'm still getting rid of a lot of that moisture humidity. Once I put the rain pants on, it feels a little more, locks in, claustrophobic, I build a lot more heat and sweat and I can't move as fast as far. So certainly that's some of the things I do, you do. It's great that we covered some of the same stuff. Food wise is one of the big things, food prep, food. What are you doing on a multi -day hunt versus a day hunt? Day hunts, I grow mainly with granola bars and sometimes tortillas, peanut butter, a few things like that. I don't carry a lot of heavy food with me. Pound of food, maybe. Pound of food, maybe. A few granola bars, protein bars, stuff like that. Multi -day hunts, I'm usually running granola bars for breakfast, something similar to that lunch time and then dehydrated dinners for whatever brand you prefer, for the dehydrated meals or freeze -dried meals for dinner. I've eaten quite a few of them and there's a bunch out there and I'll ramble through a few of them.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from Part 2: Zach Wilsons Alive, Belichicks in Trouble, Buffalos Cruising, and Week 5 Lines With Cousin Sal
"All right. So we're taping part one here. It is a little past 4 o 'clock Pacific time. Just watch the Pats completely shit the bed. We're not going to talk about that. That'll be part two. Part one. Ryan Russilla was here. We're talking Drew Holiday. The big trade. How is the NBA different for you right now, and are we done? Do we finally have the 30 rosters? Is this what we're looking at? Do we know who's going to be on everybody's team, or are we somehow not done? I never think we're done anymore in the NBA, and I know you're being a gracious host here, but you and I talked for five minutes today. I think you have the headline take on this, okay? I think you have the headline take on what the top of the league looks like. Are you ready to share it this early? I think Boston has the best top six. I did not feel that way 24 hours ago. I did not feel like there was a clear best. I trust this team in crunch time, and if Porzingis stays healthy, which is a huge if, I think they have the best six, and they can fill around, and they have the most ways that they can play whoever in the series. So from that vantage point, you had to do the trade. And they gave up a center who has been hurt every single year, and I don't fully trust that he's ever going to be out there when it matters. Brogdon, who was hurt, who was mad at the team, and two picks. And you get Drew Holliday, who was a 2021 Finals hero, who's one of the best defensive guards in the league, who's still really good, and just raises their ceiling. Now you can go white Holliday, Tatum Brown, and a center at crunch time, and you're good. You can switch on almost everything, especially if you get anything from Horford. So were you similarly enthused? Yeah, I love Drew. There's some stuff with his shooting in the playoffs where it's been pretty bad, or you're like, is that just because you can't make shots at the playoffs, or is it just what happened statistically? I mean, it does happen. I mean, if I'm getting the negative parts out of the way, like, yeah, sure, he's a little bit older. The big situation is a huge question mark. I can't believe what they got from Horford last year. So I don't know if you can just pencil that in, because he was way beyond expectations, at least for me, or for what I had for him. But when you can add Drew for those pieces, and I'm with you, when Rob Williams is right, it's really, really nice. But you can even tell when he's out there, you're like, is something wrong with him again? The number of times that I've watched Rob Williams in Celtics games, I'm like, I know he's out there, but wait, something. And every time, I thought Marcus Smart was trying to end his career with some of those Valley U passes, depending on how he lands, like, wait, is this going to be the last one we ever see from him? So to me, it makes a lot of sense. By the way, on that Rob point, my dad texted me after the trade, he's like, oh, I hate giving up Rob. I'm like, you complained about Rob more than anybody I know in my life. You would text me from the games going, oh, Rob's just off in the, Rob just walked in the tunnel again. I don't know what happened. I like just Brian Barrett had a tweet, 32 games, 29 games, 52 games, 61 games, 35 games. Those are Rob Williams' last five years. It just wasn't reliable enough for a team that's trying to win a title. I interrupted you. No, you didn't, because it's a it's a really good point, because what's going to happen? I mean, you know, it's just there's there's definitely like if Prozingis is hurt, it feels like the whole thing is screwed up and there's a really good chance that that could happen. But if you're talking about like the allocation of minutes and the talent that's getting those minutes, well, the talent that's getting those minutes just went up with Drew Holiday. And that's, I think, the simplest way to look at it. So they they turn Marcus Smart and Grant Williams and Brogdon and Rob Williams into Drew Holiday and Prozingis, more Derek White minutes, more Peyton Pritchard minutes. And then there's a little bit of an X factor with who's going to be like that ninth man, tenth man, kind of big four slash five person, maybe, or somebody you trade like that. I feel like that's the easiest position to pick up in January and February. The big thing for me is I think White was ready for a bigger role. I think White and Holiday together is magnificent as a as a backcourt. And I read some stuff today. They think White's going to come off the bench. I don't know if I see that. I think I would come out of the gates with White and Holiday and Tatum and Brown in the center and maybe bring to your Horford point, like maybe bring Horford off the bench and try to really try to rest his minutes during the season and be careful with him and make him a bench player. And then the playoffs reassess. But I think that having those four guys all together, they complement each other so well. You can play basically any kind of defense against any perimeter guy in the league. Those four guys and they're just better. I mean, there's there's just no way around it. They're better. He's a much better player than Marcus Smart was last year. And you know, you made that point about the shooting. He'd have those games. He'd go 5 for 22 in a playoff game. You know, he'd eat. But I do feel like he was asked to do a little bit more than maybe what he's supposed to be doing. I don't feel like he's a pure point guard. Right. Now you have White who can handle most of the ball handling. He could play off the ball and they're going to get the best version of him. Awesome locker room guy, too, by all accounts. I mean, really like a beloved teammate wherever he went. And I think they wanted to change the chemistry a little bit. I think this was an unhappier team than maybe they led on to the outside world last year. Yeah. Look, I definitely like him more than Smart. And you know, to be totally fair, when I'm looking at like the Lillard side of this trade last week before we knew the second piece of Drew and upgrading from Drew to Lillard, I'm going, OK, well, now you're top two in Milwaukee's like in the argument for the best two in the NBA. OK, that's that's really what this league has been about now post the teens decade where it was the arms race for your top three. It's you look around the league, you go, OK, who's got the two best? Like, let's come up with the five teams who have the two best. And with Lillard and Giannis, that's like a whole nother level. So when I was looking at it, it's like Lillard compared to Drew, you know, Drew is not somebody you're expecting to break down a defense off the dribble. Right. Oh, we're stuck into the shot clock, like make something happen where Lillard can literally do anything right in the final second of the shot clock and still you feel like it's still a decent look. So that part of it's a huge upgrade. But he's number three to four as far as an offensive option. He also and I don't know, this is just me talking out loud as I thought about the trade. It's pretty clear that when Boston's offense gets into trouble in the playoffs, like Tatum and Brown haven't figured out a way to kind of unlock it other than just like I can already picture my head like I know what the Tatum move is going to be. I already know what the Jaylen Brown move is going to be. And I don't know if Smart was able to make their life easier with the playmaking. And then sometimes I even think Smart would go like, well, if you guys are going to screw around, like I might just I might just be green light on this possession. I don't think Drew necessarily plays that way. So, you know, it's probably silly for me to think that like Drew is going to be the Steve Nash type who comes in and sets up all these great late playoff possessions. But there may be something in lessening the burden of those guys feeling that they have to do or defaulting to just forcing the issue as much as they do in the playoffs. I like how much ball handling they have, to your point, because they were talking about experimenting a little bit more with Tatum as a point forward this year, which makes me nervous a little bit just because, you know, he's six foot nine. I'm not sure that's the best use of him, but they seem pretty adamant. Like we feel like he could be a little bit more of a creator. And then you think White can do that. To me, White is the key to this season now, because if, you know, other than the Porzingis health thing, which I almost I'm going to knock on wood, but part of the reason they made all this movement and they got rid of Brogdon and Smart was I think they really wanted to push White to be the lead ball handler for them and a creator. And there's some unbelievable pick and roll stats with him. And just if certain people set him a pick in the way, even in the Miami series, he was one of the only guys who could create offense. So I think they have that plus they have Drew. And the reality is for Drew, this is this might be the deepest offensive team he's been on. Right. When you think back to like it was on some pretty weird Philly teams and some pretty weird New Orleans teams, and even when Milwaukee was at its best, it was really just Giannis, Middleton and Drew. And that was it. This is there's more shooting and playmaking around him than I think we've seen. Maybe it'll be a slight upgrade on the flip side. He doesn't have Giannis, who was the second best player of the century, probably, but I like the spot for him. It seemed like he really wanted to go to a contending team and I don't really know who they were competing against because for reading through some of the reports, it just seemed like Philly. I don't even know what the trade was for them. Portland wanted at least one piece back, probably two that they could do their keeper package. They wanted picks back. Golden State wasn't even in it. And it didn't seem like OKC ever threw their hat in the ring, which I was shocked by because I felt like OKC was the sleeping giant of this whole thing with Dort and some picks and just say, fuck it, let's let's see if we can be really good this year. So it seemed like it was down to Boston. The Clippers, they just had more assets. I don't know if Portland keeps Rob. He's on a good contract. They already have Ayton. My guess is that they're probably spinning him. Does it make sense that both of those guys? My sense is they're going to try it out, you know, but, you know, the thing with Rob is like, if you think he's an awesome defensive player that's just out there, like he's awesome when he's used a certain way. And once Boston unlocked that two years ago, where they stuck him on a non shooting big and then you could see other teams adapt to it, it's like, well, let's stop giving them an out where Rob can just roam off of this dude that's not a shooting threat, because I think that, you know, this is just going to turn into like now that he's not here. But I mean, have you listened to us talk about Rob Williams at all last couple of years? He you know, I don't I don't think he's I know what the defensive metrics are. I know the on off stuff. It's a big reason why I think the analytics models always love Boston. Like sometimes you look at him and be like, hey, I think this team's good, but like these numbers are overwhelming. This is like, yeah, it's it's so far like as if there's this huge gap between Boston and everybody else, which I never really felt going back these last two years. But you're if Chauncey Billups and you think like, OK, Rob Williams is going to go out there and like wreak havoc, it's like, well, he has to be used a certain way. So maybe they feel like that's in defensive support to Aiten. And with Aiten, you know, I have I'm not quite sure what to expect. Well, this is the one thing he's probably going to put up huge numbers because he's not going to have older dudes that have a higher status in the league that go, I'm sick of passing it to you. So he's probably going to get more touches. We'll probably see like early Aiten numbers and like twenty to ten for the first six weeks of the season. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah. Like he'll he'll he'll put up some big numbers there. But, you know, defensively, it's really about his competitiveness because there were times I think going back two years ago when we were thinking about him with that run of the Suns, the finals, you're like, look at this guy. Like he can switch out on the smaller players. You can rotate. But it's all about the way he's wired. And I think long term, unfortunately, like we already kind of know the answer there. Like I don't think all of a sudden now you start playing with some fierceness after being in the league this long. So he was the fifth option on that team and there seemed to be real resentment toward him in that whole Phoenix culture of like, why doesn't he just realize we don't need his offense? We need him to basically rebound and block shots and crash the offensive boards. I think his attitude was probably twenty five years old. I want to be the best player I can be. I already went to a finals. I don't that's not I think I could do more than that. So I don't I don't think anyone was necessarily wrong. As I said, on my Thursday pot, I just hated the trade for Phoenix. I just thought they got the poopoo platter back. You know, they got some some some spare ribs back and a couple of egg rolls and and that's it. But they did not get an entree back. And I think he's an entree on the right team, whether he's a guy that made sense for them. I don't know. But I know that they didn't get a good haul for him. I think Rob, for his contract, for what his talents are, is a really intriguing piece for them or for another team, because you could trade for him. And it's not like a daunting salary. Right. I think he's in what is what is it, like 15 a year or something like that? No, it's a really good. Yeah. I mean, it was a really low cost extension and he's still a pretty young guy. Yes, so.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 118: Part 1: Marc Cameron - From Deputy US Marshal to Arliss Cutter to Tom Clancy
"Well, again, here we are. Episode 118. Murph, we have 118. This is like surviving 118 attempts on our life. We have dodged all the bullets. Our listeners are loyal and they protect us. You guys protect us. So welcome back again. Episode 118, Game of Crimes. Thank you, thank you, thank you guys for joining. I am your host with the most hair. Just got it cut, Morgan Wright, here literally with my partner in crime. Murph, who's almost bald and your hair looks like crap. My hair doesn't look like crap. It looks like crap. No, it doesn't. It looks marvelous. I've got so much. She says, the person who cut my hair said, when you come in after six weeks, it's like most people's eight weeks or 10 weeks. So I get a lot of hair. Hey, when I go in and get a haircut, it takes like three minutes. I'm in and out. There you go. You sure that's a haircut? Be nice now. I'm just starting this. Please, please don't pay attention to him, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sorry, okay. We're trying to gain some professional help. Yeah, whatever. All right, how's that working out for you? Okay, let's just do some quick housekeeping before we get started. Hey guys, head on over to that Apple Spotify. Hit those five stars. It helps us out a lot. Remember, the other thing we learned that too, guess what guys? Not only did Stitcher go away, Google Podcasts is going away. So you're gonna have to, if you're on Google, make sure you pick a new service to keep listening to us. Make sure you hit that subscribe button too so that you do not miss. Deliver to your digital inbox every week on a Monday and Tuesday, these episodes like this one's coming out. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com. In fact, when we talk about our guest today, Mark Cameron, we'll talk about his book. That'll be listed on there. And we've got a lot of great stuff on there. So make sure you head on over there. Gameofcrimespodcast .com. Also follow us on that thing they call social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram. But Murph, I'm telling you, we're gonna have some fun on Patreon. Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. I have a 911 call coming up for you. Of all the 911 calls, I guarantee you nobody, nobody has taken a call like this before that I'm aware of ever, anywhere. Looking forward to hearing this one. Holy cow. There's gonna be a couple. This one, I don't know if I can make an entire case out of it, but I've listened to it. And just the sheer confusion on the call taker, they've never been presented with this before. So we'll have to talk about that. But guys, we just did our warden of the throne. It's a unique little thing we're doing now. Rather than just taking one topic, Murph brings two topics. I bring two topics. We're allowed to get into things that are catching our interest for the previous month or some stories. So we just did one talking about Philadelphia and the looting, Iran, and what they call the Iranian experts initiative. People have had their security clearance suspended. You talk about some tragic cases up in New York, the Bronx, baby dying at daycare center, and the recent death of that CEO by a sexual predator who should have still been in prison, but wasn't. Right, in Baltimore. So those are a lot of good things. We've got Q &A coming up, 911, what's your emergency case of the month? So guys, all good stuff. You don't hear this anywhere else, but on patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. But the other place you gotta be though too, Murph, our favorite mafia queen with the iron fist with the velvet glove. You gotta head on over there, watch what Sandy Salvato is doing with our Game of Crimes fans page. Just go to Facebook, type in Game of Crimes fans, answer a couple easy questions, get admitted to the Inner Sanctum in YouTube. You will see what goes on behind the scenes, behind the curtains. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain because that's one of our favorite people happening over on Game of Crimes fans. It's a lot of fun. There's a lot of humor there. A lot of dark humor too. If you saw some of the stuff people have posted, I hope you guys, I hope your healthcare plan supports you with an employee assistance program. I'm telling you. I don't know what you're talking about. Here's what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about now because you know what time it is. Guess what? I'm gonna ask you, do you know what time it is? Guess what time it is? Come on, give me a clue. It's time for Small Town Police Blotter. Hey, this because in honor of our guest that's coming up, Mark Cameron, the author, we'll talk about him in a second, but he went from Texas, lives in Alaska. So I thought we should have an Alaska theme. There you go. For our Small Town Police Blotter. So Murph, gotta ask you. Yes. This comes out of the Alaska Dispatch News. You know, a lot of fishery stuff, a lot of crabbing, a lot of lobster stuff, a lot of that goes on in Alaska, doesn't it? Mm -hmm, mm -hmm. So you have an idea. You go, hey, we're gonna take a crabbing boat and we're gonna convert it into a floating bar and strip club. What could go wrong, right? Oh my gosh. So 54 -year -old Darren Byler of Kodiak and his 46 -year -old wife, Kimberly, own the Wild Alaskan, a former crabbing boat that's been converted into a floating bar and strip club. Apparently it's doing pretty well. They've been running the business since June, but now they're in serious legal trouble and Murph, it's not for stripping. Uh -oh, what is it? This gives new meaning to, you know, why this is on a crabbing boat. So if you're out there floating, you have to provide facilities for people to use, right? So if they use the facilities, number one and number two, you should probably find a way to take care of that other than dumping it into the ocean. Oh, come on, come on. So they were just indicted by a federal grand jury for improper disposal of human waste after they were caught dumping feces from their bathroom into the harbor, as they say in Maine, into the harbor. Instead of taking the waste tanks to the proper places on shore, they both could be facing up to one year in jail and $25 ,000 in fine, but that's not the worst part. The worst part is the Coast Guard said they lied about dumping the tanks, and if they're convicted of that, making false statements to the Coast Guard investigators, that could get them five years in prison and $250 ,000 in fines. Cha -ching. I tell you what, you gotta do a lot of stripping to make that kind of money. It's a shitty situation they got themselves in. It's terrible. This whole thing just stinks. It stinks, man, stinks to high heaven. Tell you what, you know, you had a turd in one hand and wishes in the other. Anyway, we could go lots of places with that, so. These people didn't move to Alaska from Florida, did they? I don't believe so. Thank goodness. Hey, but I went back into the archives too, so I pulled some articles out of the Alaska News Archives, the Fairbanks Daily News Minor. This comes to us January 21st, 1955, and I'm telling you, the stories are hilarious. These are quick hits. And not always, but this is what's in Alaska. This is what's important in Alaska, January of 1955. The Tokyo police hire pretty hostesses. Tokyo police, grieved by complaints that their headquarters is unattractive, have assigned four pretty girls to meet people at the building's two entrances. Officials have also ordered the women to take charm courses. That is what's important in the Alaska, you know, the Fairbanks Daily News Minor. The other thing you gotta do here, be prepared. And this comes to us, it's out of Tucson, Arizona, but in the Fairbanks Daily News Minor. This is 1955, a 15 -year -old boy with a loaded .38 caliber pistol in his waistband was removed from high school class here by police. His explanation for carrying a gun, a couple of those teachers were giving me a hard time. Well, geez, okay. Okay, but this one though, this one has gotta be, this is it. This is St. Monaface. I believe this is Alaska, no, Manitoba. This is St. Monaface, Manitoba. All right. Police were certain the worst of the winter is upon them. Pete Nikoluk has started his annual jail term for vagrancy. Nikoluk has spent the past 21 winters in jail on vagrancy charges. Police says he always manages to get arrested just before the coldest part of the winter sets in. Who says this guy's not smart? Three hots and a cot, and I get through the toughest part of winter. Oh my goodness. That's, well, you know, that's prior planning, I guess. Prior planning prevents piss -poor performance, the 6Ps. There you go. Yep. You ask my children, they'll tell you what the 6Ps are. That's right. Murph, now, we'll finish up with this. I went and looked at what are some of the strangest laws in Alaska, and these are definitely Alaskan. It is illegal to whisper in someone's ear why they are moose hunting. Okay. It's legal to shoot bears. However, it is illegal to wake a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph. Why would you wake a sleeping bear? Isn't that the truth? Here's another thing, and I don't get it. It is considered an offense. It's illegal to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose. What? Why? Huh. Apparently, it's also illegal to sell stun guns to children. That one, I kind of get that makes sense. Well, if you're in Fairbanks, Alaska, if you love a vuvuzula, remember what they did during the World Cup. You know, you blow those things that make a lot of noise. Those annoying things? Yeah, it's illegal to blow a horn in a manner that disrupts the peace. Good. Yep. So, it's illegal to fatten up a sheep, cow, or pig within the city limits of Fairbanks. Are we talking about people or animals? Well, maybe it's meatball, and you'll have to listen to her. You'll have to listen to our warden of the throne. All right, it is also a crime to speak so loud that you offend a sensitive person enough to make him, her, or her leave if you're in Fairbanks. What? Okay, well, hey, be nice. That's just be nice. And you can only carry a concealed slingshot if you have received the appropriate license. The license. Do you have a license for that slingshot? All right. Oh, okay. I didn't know you had to have that. But Murph, this is the craziest one. This reminds me of an episode of you and JP on Narcos where you were accused of doing this, not a moose, but it is an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane. Well, you know, I gotta agree with that, but have you seen how big a moose is? How do you push it anywhere? Well, how do you get it into the damn airplane to begin with is what I wanna know. And who wants a moose, a pissed off moose, in their airplane? Uniquely Alaskan. So Mark Cameron, as we get into this, and again, we wanna thank our buddy, Patrick O 'Donnell, Cops and Writers. Go listen to his podcast. Hooked us up with him, but Mark Cameron is an interesting dude, moved from Weatherford, Texas to Alaska. And we're gonna talk about his book that was just released. It's an Arliss Kutter novel, Breakneck, by Mark Cameron. But the interesting thing too, Murph, was he wrote the last seven Tom Clancy novels. And this is a guy that used to be a marshal, which most of the reports were saw bad guy, put him in jail, you know? Not extensive reports in the marshal service. Saw a fugitive, arrested, same.
"That's Why You're Single"
Are Women Smarter Than Men?
"Do you think, Rebellion, that women are smarter than men? Let's hear the response. No, I do not think women are smarter than men. I think women use their heads more. I think we, I believe women use their heads more than we do. They use their heads to do what? You don't want to go that route, TJ. I can tell you a mother woman that can hurt that. Now you're trying to spin me around now. She's going to lie with her head. I ain't going to lie. The way that I answered the question was, I believe women think more than we think. I believe men use our group strength more than we use our brains. So, I guess to answer the question, I might take whatever, you know, maybe I am saying yes. But I just know that men use more group strength than women are women. So they're thinking way more than we are. You mean they overly think. But okay, we're going to let you do that rock out with that. Alright, TJ, what was your answer? My answer, Rebellion's answer was no. I do not believe women are smarter than men. No. Okay, and TJ? I'm kind of on the same page with him a little bit. But I feel that they are, women are way more, like they use their heads better than we do. I'll say that. They also use their hands too, but we ain't going to talk about that. We can talk about whatever. You know, but they, you know, their brain is, I mean, all women are fucking nuts in the first place. This isn't on the table, they're all fucking crazy. Polko nuts. I've never met a normal woman. We were just talking about how women have a very strong active imagination. Women are fucking nuts, they're all fucking crazy. My mother was crazy, my sister, my wife was crazy. Tell him to answer the question. Tell him to answer the question. Stop dodging, man. Tell him to answer it now. All right. Women use, like I agree with Rebellion, women use their brains better than we do. I'm not going to say they're smarter than us, but they use their brains better than we do. Because we'll do shit that makes no sense and get caught. A woman right now could go cheat, and you will never know she's cheating unless you fucking get on some Mission Impossible, James Bond, Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer should catch him cheating, you know what I'm saying? You got to be something to catch him. If a woman want to get caught, she'll get caught. She'll get caught. If she don't want to get caught, she'll be shooting shit for you to find, and she don't care. But if she don't want to get caught, you ain't never going to find that shit. You got to be a million times ahead of them, and they're already a million times thinking about that before, so it's like, it's, you know, like, we walk around, you know, so yeah. I'm not going to say they're smarter, but they use their brains
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from Part 1: Boston Gets Jrue Holiday With Ryen Russillo
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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 16:00 09-30-2023 16:00
"Hey, can I let you in on a little secret? Ugh, I'm obsessed with the Drop app. Drop makes it so easy to score free gift cards just for doing my everyday shopping at places like Ulta, Sam's Club, and Lyft. So if you're like me and love a good shopping spree, download Drop today and join the secret club of savvy shoppers. And use my code GETDROP999 to get $5. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. It appears a government shutdown has been avoided after the House passed a 45 -day stopgap funding bill. The measure passed 335 to 91 with overwhelming Democratic support as dozens of Republicans voted against it. The bill now goes to the Senate for final approval. Former President Trump could be in New York City on Monday for his civil fraud trial. Trump's lawyers revealed his plans on Friday while discussing another case, a lawsuit against his former lawyer Michael Cohen. Trump was set to undergo a deposition in that case in Florida on Tuesday, but his lawyers asked the court to postpone it so he could get to the New York trial, which opens Monday. Earlier this week, the judge overseeing the New York case ruled that Trump had been overvaluing his properties and was liable for fraud. A Michigan judge is ruling the teen who shot seven people and killed four at Oxford High School in November 2021 can be sentenced to life without parole. Lisa Taylor has more. Judge Kwame Rowe made the announcement Friday morning that Ethan Crumbly has a slim chance of rehabilitation. He said the teen is obsessed with violence even while being held in jail. The hearing and ruling are required as the U .S. Supreme Court ruled that underage defendants could not be given a life without parole sentence without a separate hearing following a conviction. Crumbly is scheduled to be sentenced in December. I'm Lisa Taylor. SpaceX launched another 22 Starlink satellites into orbit.
WCPT 820
"second shot" Discussed on WCPT 820
", it is the Stephanie Miller show which Carlos does rocky and Mike in Kansas City. Hi, Mike. Hi hang on All right, I'll see you. I'm a native Kansas City and I've been keeping up on this stuff about the railcar. They mentioned they mentioned the Northland, which is the area at north of the Missouri River. And that's kind of a blue collar area. So I'm thinking there might be a racial component here. And the other thing we have intervention or ask on Monday, how did you get on the wrong street? Well, we have a lot of streets and terror. Right. I grew up on 79th tariff. But there's also a 70 street, which is nowhere near the area. Yeah. Yeah And then 80 street. I live, I grew up like in China, they shouldn't area, which is the southwest verb. So I'm way, way far away from this area. Yeah. So, I mean, so if people wonder how the hell did he get off the wrong street, he probably had to bid on for a 115. Yeah. But he got over a 115th parents, yeah. Yeah, and also people. See people seem unaware that you have other options. Like not answering your door calling the police other than shooting through the door at someone that happens to bring your doorbell. As most burglars don't, I don't disappoint of order most burglars aren't gonna bring your doorbell. So, but this one, I just was yesterday, Carlos, a 20 year old woman was shot and killed after her friend turned into the wrong driveway in upstate New York. That's where I'm from. I've stayed in New York. I mean, they accidentally turned she got lost. Right. Right. The woman was a passenger to vehicle when the man 65 year old fired two shots from his front porch. It's a very rural area with dirt roads. It's easy to get lost. They drove up this driveway for a very short time, realized their mistake and they were leaving when he came out and fired two shots. Oh my God, can we please stop shooting each other? Yeah. For. Right? And it just happened until two cheerleaders. Yes, somebody like Kyle rittenhouse who was driven from another state by his mom with a long phrase rightful to go quell a riot and it's okay and not only okay, the guest at cpac. It's just going to snowball. You're opening the door to lots of 29 minutes. You are listening to WCG 8 20. Here's the latest Chicago weather update. For the weather, weather center, I'm meteorologist, Michael Carroll. Partly to mostly cloudy skies and store for this afternoon, along with a slight chance for some showers and storms, while high temperatures reaching 80, then Fortnite, slight chance for a storm, a low of 62. Showers and storms then becoming more likely on Thursday, especially into the afternoon, mid 70s, for Friday is slight chance for lingering shower there back to 64, and that's your latest Chicago weather update. Currently, 53°. Mind over matters. Doctor Amy Harris, new on as you know this show is about challenging you to think differently to make different choices in your life to take action to create positive outcomes in your life. So I want to challenge you to look at your life holistically to where my satisfied, what areas need attention and then go to work, take an action what you need to do. Mind over matters with doctor Amy Harris new on. Sundays at 10 a.m.
Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"second shot" Discussed on Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"Overall events about 90,000 of them are serious, and we're clocking in at 15,000 deaths and we all know that bears is understated. Considerably. Came in your for people that don't listen on a regular basis. George, you're given so much information. Can we break that down? I mean, usually is my expert witness today. So it's true. It's a lot so the CDC gives out data George is talking about what are the causes of true truly causes of death. If somebody is is passing away with versus from something that's a huge distinction if you pass away from a heart attack, But with Covid, you didn't pass away from Covid. I mean again. Maybe I'm too much of a former prosecutor and defense attorney that the terms matter to me when the government comes in and says, Yeah, your client Killed somebody. Okay, maybe, but it wasn't murder. It was in self defense. Every murder is a killing ever. Killing is not a murder. Every assault involves a strike. But every strike is not an assault and so context matters. And so I get militant about this because people's people are making decisions based off of out of context, information or just blatantly false information. Irresponsible at 99 point, whatever percent of people that have passed away were unvaccinated. And then they don't tell you that the definition of unvaccinated as we don't know if you have a Vaccine or you've had one jab. Not too. This is a really, really big deal. Which is why it's so confused. Why we should dismiss any of this be. Am I wrong in my act? I want to make sure Mac out wrong. Completely correct. We should be dismissing outright any claims of, uh, supposed pandemic of the unvaccinated. They've been playing with those numbers. They include data from January to June, during which vast swaths of the population warrant even vaccinated, so that's complete nonsense. People need to understand that the CDC considers you unvaccinated up to 14 days after university Ive your second shot. Think about that word. Think about that family pregnant. Pause there. Well, I want I want to bring in the mayor's numbers. So those of you that aren't with us on a regular basis are new listeners. There's is a branch of the CDC. It's It's a data collection aspect of the CDC, the center for Disease Control. It stands for Vaccine adverse Event reporting system. It's a self reporting system. There's been data done out of law out of the think that Harvard Pilgrim Institute or whatever in 2000 and 10 did a study and said they said only 1% report because you don't know the report. And then we didn't report with my son was adversely affected by his his vaccines, which you just don't know the reports, some studies say up to 10% report. So let's say 1 to 10% reporting, and there's no enforcement that that's right so you don't have to do it. So there's what George is saying in the vaccine since the Covid shot has been released. And now since we're in September were nine months in now we have 600 years. 675,000 adverse events from small to huge. I mean, just any effects and adverse overall out of those 765,000 of them have been serious. But not causing death. Serious and 15,000 deaths. And now if that 15,000 is 1 to 10% do the do the numbers. If that 90,000 excuse me, is 1 to 10% or that 650,000 and one then the numbers become very disturbing, and we're talking about a nine month period now. My issue is trying to censor this type of discussion. I can't stand hearing these discussions on these media outlets from all over from Fox to everywhere else. I watch them all because I want to know what's being set out there when I have time. And you get people. All vaccines are extremely safe. They've been effective fighter. One has been approved for distribution by the FDA, which is not accurate its way out of context that statement and we talked about this last week. I think George and we can touch on it again. Karen, if you if you steal this necessary today, But all I'm saying is information that people rely on and actually do something that could affect their family's health or not, is a big deal to me. When you politicize healthcare. It bothers me When you politicize academia. It bothers me When you politicize the church. It bothers me. I don't want anything politicized. I want the truth to prevail. I want people to critically think I want an environment where we can share good and stupid ideas that is the nature and and and the nucleus of the First Amendment. I want people to be open minded skeptics and I want people to have the freedom to make the decision. That's best for them. I was at a legal seminar this last week and Portion of people. We're wearing masks all over the place. They'd sit down because when they sat down for the seminar, I guess the virus won't touch you. And they had little snacks. As soon as they got up. They put their mask on. I mean, literally to walk across the room to talk to somebody, and that's when they took it off to eat the snacks or whenever they provided. I didn't eat the food there, But I mean so and I was like, What does that make sense? Your lawyer. I mean, you look at evidence for a living what evidence supports this behavior, and that's all it is. For me. It's about what's the truth. What's the evidence? What is the true science show us and it's ironic to me that the people say follow the science aren't really following the science, and that's hypocritical. It's important. I think, I think we need to provide a public service announcement here on this on what's being announced out there a counter announcement to us what we're hearing out there. We talked to a lot of wonderful doctors who are some were friends. Who are all saying the same thing. Hey, man, it just seems like all the people are coming in the hospitals and emergency rooms, etcetera as you they're all unvaccinated. And we've never disputed that unvaccinated people can get very sick ever with covid. Of course they can. They did. Okay, no question. I would just remind them that when they say that they are unvaccinated. They need to remember that they should push back on that. See, there's no way to confirm that the Covid 19 San Antonio database itself cause he's confirmed or suspected cases number one number two, but they don't they don't they? Don't report it that way. George. It's always confirmed. It's always this is the truth to look at the fine print, but these individuals who are claiming to be in vaccinate, Please recognize if you've had one shot. You're considered unvaccinated. It's important to recognize that Again. The CDC counts a person. Who has who has been vaccinated. As unvaccinated. How up to 14 days after your second shot. Number one. If you haven't had your second shot, you're considered unvaccinated. That's that's that's ridiculous. We have tons of data to show that people have been having reactions to these things. After their first dose, the public health of England is replete with this kind of data. Totally and utterly dismissed. We call it effects in nation or a pandemic of the unvaccinated, But we know how they're handling those numbers. We know that they're counting tons and tons of people from the nation wasn't vaccinated. Hate this. Gotta push back on this nods. I just hate deception, George, True, and so do you. Because you're trained chemist. You've actually worked in laboratories for those who don't know George. Is our resident scholar. When it comes to research on things. He's a very, very intense and inconsistent researcher in general over overall issues, But then when it comes to medical research issues, when it pharma and medicines and things of this nature and data So he looks at these things. They know what matters to you as a lawyer in a court of law. I just think of the idea. Do we like the idea of censorship.
The Steve Warne Project - Sports
"second shot" Discussed on The Steve Warne Project - Sports
"Welcome back to the proceedings. Oh my goodness what. A sunday for phil mickelson becoming the oldest major winner in golf history. All right that clip. Courtesy of our friends at cbs tsn. Jim nance and nick faldo. And what a shot. And what a scene. Jimmy is phil. Mickelson becomes the oldest man to win a major like we're talking like well over a hundred years worth of major activity like unbelievable stuff and again. What a scene a mob scene. Almost kobe is no longer in the american consciousness any longer. What a story right. Well it's just off the map you know it's it's it's stuff you know all all those outages steve all those all those household expressions it stuff legends are made of movies are made of You know when. Jack nicklaus a one in one. The masters in nineteen eighty six. He was forty six years. Old right and people just went beserk over that you know that that may stand forever that a guy that old can beat all these young kids you know who are coming was not the record by the way fills was though wasn't it is yes yeah. Julius boros held the record he won the nineteen sixty eight pga championship at the age of forty eight of. Okay sorry there you go So anyway you know. I i love the majors like you. I'm looking at it. I i you know cori. Connors is having an unbelievable year and particularly major. So i through the through the through the hyundee on corey so goodbye hyundee. What's a good a great first round though at a great first round. well even into the third round steve. He was one underplaying teeing off on sunday. You know and i said we're gonna talk about of course all about phil but if he shoots four or five hundred. He'll be in there and he he would have been right because phil wins at six under but it just it was a totally you know not only an unbelievable story But it was. You know this whole weekend of watching phil play. I've never seen him look the way he looks. I've never seen him You know the going on with with mike ing the players or get are getting in really close with with the players when they're talking about shots You know i. I came to realize that on the weekend. This is unreal. You know like.
KOMO
"second shot" Discussed on KOMO
"Who shows up for a first or second shot either Madonna or finds her the clinic at figurehead runs from 3 to 4 45. That's a one 4021st Avenue west. The Burke Gilman Brewing Clinic follows from 5 15 to 7 at 36 26 North 45th. No appointment necessary either place just Show up thirsty. Corwin Hague Co. Moh news coming up on the come all morning news charges filed against an Auburn man in last month's accidental shooting death of an eight year old girl. I'm Carleen Johnson. It's 5 34. This is the Comal. Morning news traffic time, not from the dupe in law group Traffic center. Here's Kierra Jordan. We still have an aid response and renting on South bound four or five after 30th that's been blocking the right lane slow you down in the immediate area, and then it's a visual distraction for North bound drivers, So that's leaving you slow from about sunset. Work on I five continues to crowd Maura's. You're approaching the Tacoma Dome. We're looking at a heavy commute on North and 167 is you pull away from 5, 12 and head toward Jovita will also see a brief slowdown in rented writers. You're approaching four or five. Our next Cuomo traffic out 5 44 our report This time it is sponsored by Puget Sound Energy is covert Bill Assistance Program With hardship comes help. Puget Sound Energy is offering energy bill assistance of upto $2500 per customer. Visit PNC dot com slash cove it today to see if you qualify. Here's the forecast with Cuomo meteorologist Christian Clark. This stretch of dry, warm weather has been incredible, hasn't it and happy to say that it continues well into the weekend and actually Saturday and Sundays, temperatures.
ABC Radio MELBOURNE
"second shot" Discussed on ABC Radio MELBOURNE
"Kushell, is that yes, you go and get your second shot on def you if you have any days along I've Four weeks. Killings. Yeah, and there's been no development on adversely. That's fantastic news for you, but yes, to get the second shop, But I take your point. Well, you're not handed information when you got that shot telling you about what happens next. I'll leave it all about that. You know they could be side effects, and I did have significant side effects for the first couple of days, which is fine. We just part of the process. But then there was no information share about There's a possibility of blood clots. Which obviously has an eventuated in myself. I'm concerned. Yeah, but I'm more concerned about now, these even words from the epidermal sorry from the medical fraternity fraternity, saying, Look, we should band. The estrogenic at those is completely from under things like that. That's the view of of one person. That's Michael tool from the burnished and he was saying that he would say that's what he would advise the federal government. The Commonwealth to Make them more than a recommendation but actually mandate that that's his view. But the official line has not changed Kushell, but I appreciate the thought process that you have to go through right now. James, who's on the Western railroad. I You're still on the Western Ring Road, James. Now I'm parked outside. My office is in killer park. So we're nice and safe. Virginia. Good on you. Good morning. What's happening? Okay, The biggest problem going forward, his people not wanting to take the vaccine, and we cannot combat the misinformation. He's what I suggest the all world leaders specifically for this course Scott Morrison needs to do. He needs to sit behind his desk. Export one evening like this way can we need the sight of elation? This forest is serious. The best way forward is to be vaccinated. I am telling you all now go on, get vaccinated. Going forward Those that don't want to get vaccinated. That's fine. Don't do it. Six or eight months from now, when we've got to the place where everybody that wanted it has taken it and everyone that won't take it doesn't Then. Fine. We know we're there. We're gonna open up when we go back to business. But they won't Those of you that have not taken the vaccine will get Cove it absolutely you will get it. From their 20% of you will get sick And from there, two or 3% of you will die. Trying to discover it is going to use this figures. But sounds to me like you've Mister Mister Career in politics, James Well or friends. Tell me that And I wish I could get get to that price. We need it to get my friend. But the point is this but a zoo Muchas we We want as many people vaccinated as possible, and the only way to do that is to stand there. Tell them that you're not forcing them to do anything on that. It's their choice. However. Advice, um and and have the could take the consequences. But I take your point. Absolutely, James, that in all of this, I think we've had We had one major press conference in camera. That was the address to the nation if you like, but no, we haven't had that. We haven't had the prime minister at his desk, You know? Good evening, Australia two minutes before the evening use or whatever you might like an inn out on social media. That's sort of communication has been absolutely missing. To my complete surprise, including the advertising campaigns that clever, smart, quirky campaigns that I fully expected to see coming down the pipeline, and I know you did, too. Matthew Thomas, senior forecaster at the Weather Bureau. We'll look at the day that you've delivered us. Thank you. Well, we had a little bit of folk about some suburbs and particularly.
KTAR 92.3FM
"second shot" Discussed on KTAR 92.3FM
"By Howard Air. Whether replace the repair call Howard Air. Mm hmm. Arizona's morning news news Flash. I'm Jamie West. Here's what you need to know. Right now. The Republican response to the president's speech came from Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina. Called Biden's infrastructure plan, a liberal wish list, a big government waste and the biggest job killing tax hikes in a generation, he says less than 6% of the president's plan actually goes to roads and bridges. State representative Alma Hernandez says she's tested positive for Cove it 11 weeks after getting her second shot. The Tucson Democrats says she continued to mask up and socially distance but still caught it. Her symptoms are mild. 17 between Phoenix and Flagstaff, and I 19 between Nogales and Tucson are two of the nation's most dangerous highways, according to a Tele track nap man. Report. Interstate Foreign Florida tops the list. You're never more than 15 minutes away from today's top stories on Arizona's news station, Katya our news Sharper Points. Commentary presented by Schwartz Laser Eye Center When Phoenix got its first major sports franchise, it was a sleepy town with fewer than one million people living in the city and in its suburbs combined. The year, The Phoenix Suns made their debut 1968. They want only 16 games lost. 66 missed the playoffs, and that's in that season by 25 Games. They actually did make the playoffs the next year but lost in the first round of the team that would become our longtime nemesis, the Los Angeles Lakers. I can't even say the word Lakers without wincing, and I can't hear the words Celtics without wincing. It may be the only word that I don't like to hear my wife's beautiful voice make, but she's a Massachusetts native and his green blood. It's probably because it was the Celtics, who beat the Suns in the 76 NBA Finals, but a Almost becoming NBA champions and not getting there. After some incredible games was assigned, the sons.
WJR 760
"second shot" Discussed on WJR 760
"Just got her second shot. And you know that the third arm on her looks really, really good. But other than that, Just kidding. Should know. Basically, no, After effects whatsoever a little bit a little bit sick to her stomach, but very, very little on who knows? That was something she ate too. So that was it. No fever, no chills. Anything like that? No. Nothing like that at all. Yeah. How about you? No. I mean I mean, my wife got it. She got her first shot. Um, aside from having you know, a sore arm like you would maybe for a flu shot. She had no Yeah, She had no impact at all from the first shot, but they say most if you are going to get if you are going to get any sort of, um, a side effects it sounds like it comes after the second dose. Well, we we shall see s So far so good. Those all I can tell you, and we'll hope that for everybody who's getting the shot because more and more people are getting the vaccine now, and it's. There's also a story out of New York. I wanted to mention where Andrew Cuomo, the governor there. Now admits that he was forcing elderly people in the nursing homes and exposing them to the virus. Just awful news and an office. Yeah, so I wonder if he'll be held accountable for that, You know? I mean, if we're trying President Trump right now for the in charge and accusing him of the riot in Washington. What do we do with somebody who actually did that and cost lives in our nursing homes, you know is is your thing is is he opened two criminal charges because of that. I don't know. Good question. And they argue Donald Trump was just playing politics because you know he was trying to pass the blame off to Democrats. I would imagine that you withholding numbers based on the The number of, um you know, deaths or people who were put into a nursing home with this virus that seems to be playing politics. You don't want the bad optics. That's what it is. No, but it's more than optics. You're talking a life and death situations here. People's.
KOMO
"second shot" Discussed on KOMO
"The north and central parts of Seattle. By placing those mass sites and Kent and Auburn the hope is that more people will get the chance to get the shot. Save as many folks as possible. We're working hard to ensure that vaccine eligible residents at high risk and living with in those areas with the highest disease burden have fair and equitable access to vaccine. So far, though, the percentage of people getting the shot in South King County are less than most other parts of the county. On a positive note. However, at those mass sites, those appointments are booked throughout the rest of February. Problem come on. Hospitals hope to see more covert vaccine by the end of the month to meet the demand. It comes as the backlog bills for those waiting for their second shot of our world communities. The hospitals are the only provider healthcare. Cassie, Sour with the state's Hospital association, says there's also a renewed push to get those with their first shot that second one the Department of Health is expecting a little more than 207,000 doses this coming week. Roughly the same the next week and then to round out February a jump to 240,000. It's around that time. Many are optimistic that Johnson and Johnson with its single shot vaccine, We'll get the green light from the FDA. Another vaccine is great news. Another vaccine that seems to work well, it seems to be safe and another vaccine. Frankly, that He's a little bit more rugged. That's because it can be stored in a normal freezer, and the company is aiming to produce 100 million doses by June and in a tweet, the White House Covert 19 response team says it is working to partner with more pharmacies so that more shots convey administered. Tweet also says that states should be seeing a 5% bump in the amount of vaccines that they received.
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"second shot" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Rebounds. To block shots. And an assist. Ain't good. 1 13 points for six shooting one of two from three point Land, made all four of his free throws, two rebounds, three assists and a steel in 38 minutes. Cormac Ryan, five points in two of five shooting one of two from the free throw line. Seven rebounds, three assists Ah steel couple of turnovers and an unfortunate Mental error. Late in the game, although again you can't assume against that pressure is going to make the shot, but they didn't get a shot off. Nick Jogo 17 minutes two points, one of two shooting two rebounds. Gonna steal. Here's a real tough part. Notre Dame shot 59% scored any points that should be enough on the road is coach breaks, said They shot 66% of the first half 19 to 29. I was a tale of two halves, but it's not like they went ice cold. They shot 52% in the second half. Something that hurt them was after going six of 13 from three point land, only one of five from three in the second half. In the game. They were nine of 13 from the free throw line. 69% 20 assists on 32 field goals. That's pretty good. 11. Turnovers is not terrible, but nine in the second half in key situations. Is not good, And it was a difference in the game that only made four blocks and five steals. Here's your Hustle Stats points off turnovers. Notre Dame one that 15 14, but it was the points off turnovers that they gave up in the second half that played a huge role in the loss points in the paint, or even if 48 Second chance points the other day, one that 76 fast break points, though the change in Notre Dame in Georgia text offensive style of play where they really push it, and they were effective tonight. They outscored Notre Dame 20 to 10 and fast break points. Bench points again, almost even 87. Here's why You can't sleep tonight if you're in the Omni in Atlanta. You remember the Notre Dame team? Notre Dame led by as many as 17, and they lead for 35 minutes and 16 seconds in this game, it was tied three times. The lead changed hands six times with Georgia Tech on a lead. For 3 19, but they win it tonight there 11 straight win at home. Extending back the last season by the score of 82 to 80. I'll be back to Neymar, Notre Dame player or players of the game in a moment. But first this time out, you're listening. The Notre Dame basketball radio network today. Tastes like movie night. Okay, whose turn is it to choose and everyone's favorite hit pizza and coaxed today tastes like front row seats roll like cushions and popcorn and counting the seconds. Teaches here today. Tastes like a slice of the action like we belong here on now just had never tasted this good. Coca Cola..
News Radio 1190 KEX
"second shot" Discussed on News Radio 1190 KEX
"Then filling with second shots. That's what the UK is doing, I think is a pretty reasonable approach. The covert 19 vaccine delivery did hit a snag for some parts of the country this week to do a major snowstorm that shut down airports and roads and led to some record setting snowfall totals. ABC is Rob Marciano was in Philadelphia, the Northeast, getting walloped by the biggest nor'easter and years, your blizzard conditions and howling winds, blinding drivers, states of emergency up and down the coast in Stamford, Connecticut, a dramatic rescue after a truck slid off the roadway and into a pond. First responders using a ladder truck. Diving into the water, pulling two people out. One rushed away on a stretcher into a waiting ambulance, the other able to walk away and the storms hitting just says lifesaving. Koven. Vaccinations are ramping up. So sites in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia shut down The Empire State Building. New York City streets nearly impassable even above ground subway service suspended W A. B C's Mike Marcia, you put your face right into it. It does feel like needles stabbing you right into the face. Brooklyn getting hammered by the snowstorm right now in Queens, winds gusting above 40 MPH on the coast. Feed of storm surge, submerging streets. Hundreds of flights canceled our job Anita's at JFK Airport. We are feeling some very strong wind gusts here at JFK Airport. Nearly every flight canceled here in the New York area in Pennsylvania conditions, not any better. It's been pretty bad. I mean, there's a lot of drifting at this point, and that was very icy, so the roads are terrible hundreds of wrecks across the region. In Washington, D C, the biggest no fall in two years, delaying the long awaited opening of in person classes and the covert 19 pandemic still has some lingering effects on the economy, although much like the virus numbers out this week are better than they have been..
WJR 760
"second shot" Discussed on WJR 760
"Chance to fight their way back into this thing, and here in the lead the last eight minutes, they're gonna have the chance to do it at the following. Langford's gonna shoot to Langford's pretty good today a 5% Don't I missed two shots all year shots away, and it's good. Well, Josh has worked really, really hard this year. When he got shut down for 17 days. That was a tough one, because he was really starting to get back to being his old self Tonight has got this is a second game back second shots away, and he got both of it. So Josh Lang for doing pretty good for a free throw stripe. Two out of two. Got 12 points so far this afternoon, and it'll have state 64. Michigan State's got 49 the Buckeyes in the weed right now, Walker with the basketball down out of Washington, Washington once it's Dr he's cut off of the elbow. Gets it back over now to towns, towns trying to do something with Lily call. He spends fires off the glass and good. Seth towns made a couple my shots difficult to guard that fadeaway towns able to bank it in right post. So now go out of state. 66, Michigan State's got 49 Spartans have the three ball from the side foster lawyer he got it. And for lawyer that's his first points of the game. That's three straight three point makes now from Michigan State is they've started to shoot the ball much better. That's his first bucket of four games. Kevin Can you believe that Good time for it? Seven or way to go in the game? The Buckeyes having and they gotta leave three ball coming by Walker. No good rebound. Molly. Call quick. I went past the Rock and Watts. Here comes that mass. You watched Jump shot free throw line. Nobody's found..
Newsradio 970 WFLA
"second shot" Discussed on Newsradio 970 WFLA
"Family, a proud partner of the Tampa Bay Lightning, this ex lightning radio by Blake calling to single trying to get away and he will center ice, trying to single right wing specially came across the bled open, right circle shot kicks a maid rebounds. Hot sand again. Vasilevskiy on specially cough two in a row. Yeah, Two of the 15 saves he made in that first period, Andrei Vasilevskiy. By far, Tampa Bay's best player, Carolina came out with speed pace. They were tenacious on the puck, and as a result really dictated play Now, if you're Carolina Disappointed that you weren't able to score. When you have those glorious scoring opportunities, and I think for the lightning and a Knopper to nitty to go into the locker room, regroup. And, you know, get that important for school and put Carolina back on their heels a bit play from behind. We'll see if that transpires for sure. Tampa Bay 1 65% of their face offs. Carolina 35% Carolina Oh, for one on the power play, but it was a dangerous one. Lot of glorious scoring opportunities. The lighting of Block five shots. Carolina with four when you take a look at some individual statistics for the Lightning at the forward position. You've got Alex Cole Lauren leading the way with ice time at 7 14. Stamkos has one shot on goal as this Johnny Gord, and then on the back end, Leading the way, of course, is Victor Hedman. He played eight minutes and 42 seconds. He had two shots on goal. How foot played 3 53 on roots of played 4 35. So we'll keep an eye to on cow foot and his minutes getting you know anywhere between 10 12 for the Lightning when he has played Joint Tampa Bay. They're lighting staff in alumni at the Lightning made training center for programs developed for people of all ages. Along with the ice surface. The training center offers ball hockey and dodgeball leagues camps and more visit lightning made hockey dot com. For more information. And as we said before, sir really did leave for a time being in that first period, but did come back. He played five minutes and 14 seconds again. We told you about Volkoff getting an opportunity to play in this game on 1/4 line only played 2 45 did have a shot on goal, but Something we highlighted in the pregame with guys like Joseph and Volkoff getting an opportunity to play because of some injuries, and you want to see them take advantage of it. So far, Joseph has a couple of goals on the air played 4 23. In that first period, but they want to see a bit more production from that fourth line a little different this year than last year, for sure, with center pocket. Not on up and having been doubt but something that I think can be beneficial for the lightning with the assets they have in the skill sets that that fourth find possibly possesses, with some speed and for sure skill. Check out the seasons locker room collection, including a lightning, authentic protea shirt and train like a lightning player. The collection is available online, a Tampa Bay sports dot com or.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"second shot" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"Is Nash for them Peril know the guard Pope. Nope. Shorter a shorter. Okay, that's an upgrade from I got him for free to that song pretty loaded with that. They defend like crazy and last year I'd say and they would be Personnel to to cover the Celtics. You can throw game as Tatum. You can throw LeBron James Brown and you got some defensive guards there to between pulp and Schroeder. We're going to be able to go at Campbell and smart. So the Celtics they're not going to be able to compete in this game unless they defend and turn off. Because the offenses are going to come easy. The Lakers aren't slacking the season whatsoever. Even though they have the short way off and well Braun coming back after 60 days or whatever. It was there going full-speed. Maybe they want to touch that Warriors record that could be what they're going for. Maybe we'll grown once and win MVP after not winning it for a bunch of years now something to record the record record of three wins how they're going to do that in a 70-72. It's really hard to 73 games are winning percentage Yeah, I guess that one doesn't take the underdog. I'm ready. So that's who I want to see every movie for the Caruso show man. I just think every time these two teams come together at least in the last couple of years. I know Tatum just it's a it's like a child. It's not just a challenge. It's it's a it's a I can make history against the Lakers type of thing, right? Cuz after what happened to them really well last year. In fact, they blew him out in the garden. Yep. Mean, look it came in a losing effort. But that game in l o that was that was Tatum Tatum's like favorite a number of national T coming out party favorite performance. And I think you were out there for vacation again. Was that you were out there for that. That's right. That's right. Yeah it was and let me tell you guys something bad like being in that locker room like it was it did not feel like a loss. It was weird. It was like they were just like I know what sound really bad to say it but it was like they were just kind of like a great game. You know, that's that's my that's my next question will be off this team. I'll start with Jimmy like thank you. It's the stage. Like is this where we are they've gone off to a great start at the top two in the east Are we back to this team has to make the finals like is this where they are in the development? They they lost Hayward but young guys are filling in cuz last year when they played the Lakers hard and they had the four stars and they would roll into the BIOS. They had to get done with finals, but this year is a little different. It's a good question. I think the expectations are I don't think you can lower them from last year. So with that being said, I mean like you said you you did lose Hayward but you've expected Brown and Tatum to improve you had chemic coming back, but you weren't you're a healthy was going to be so if he is healthy and you see the improvement from those two stars. I'm not going to say that it's off NBA finals are bust but it's certainly Eastern Conference Finals for me. I don't know if they are better than the Sixers in the playoffs last year. They murdered them. So we'll see which team shows up. I guess in the playoffs. He are if he they've got some health things going on too. It's a wide-open East. So with that being said, I mean, I would be pretty disappointed if they didn't put it serious charge.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"second shot" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"You know, the three guys are back together. Oh man, that's too funny in the comments. Okay, I want them. What about you? I want more rocker 213 is low. I mean what took the kid gloves off. What does the Congress? I think? I don't know. I think it's I think it's I think it's avoiding too big lineups now having all three of your best players back and and playing those guys more minutes and you've just the rotations now tough unless you're planning to bigs on the floor off for large chunks of time. Somebody's going to one of those guys is going to end up with ten twelve minutes every single night. Play around get his value up at you know, see what you got. You know, when you going to see what you go with this guy just going to play in 30 minutes for the rest of his career thirty minutes a game. That's why he drafted him. I don't think so. I mean he's not he's not, you know, he's not nine years old like this guy's an he's an adult he can play 1520, you know low 20 minutes. I want to see that I want to see what they've got with them, you know took him out there. They can roll whatever the law lobs. So that's one thing. I want to see embrace the role of gravity Jimmy exactly gravitational pull per game. I want to see that and I'm still waiting to see if Romeo is ever going to play this year. I think that could possibly change things. You know me. I don't know anything. I want in Romeo. I just think on that big rotation. I'm trending towards Thompson playing the the least minutes of those three and I have been for a while now that Rob is back. I want to see Tristan playing the fewest minutes of those three. Oh wow. I like Tristan the Lakers match up though. Come on. Let's get into that real quick because let's face it. You got me and see what need that muscle. You know, you'll need a little more muscle contraction. If I'm I'm Brad. I'm like, hey, I know that's the problem that the troops to do. You're not yet John if you don't deliver against the chance when you get afuckin, what if I'm Brad, I mean what what I have you here for not going to like even your best-laid Champions, you know, I just I forgot the Lakers are next that's going to be ugly if they don't defend mister mister. Oh, I'm the only one the locker room here with the ring. Come on. Let's see. Let's see how long this is it if I'm Brad, I'm like you show it to me now or I'm going to continue minutes. It's inexplicable and he has to at some point. I'm all for building them up ramping them up when I get in the forward things now the excuses with him are valid but.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"second shot" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"Would be at apologetic to I'm sorry guys. I'm terribly sorry and how bad I've been I just Oh, I thought signing is just bummed me out so far. I thought he was going to I thought he was going to change the defense. I thought they could be a number one defense with the way he plays in his played inside in his career or his defensive rebounding stuff and all that. Really they've gone in the opposite direction and he's been a big part of it. He made one great stop on Mario Johnson one of them at the end underneath there. But otherwise it was just torch City. He dropped and even though he grabs boards, how many times is he just that Little Engine That Could that's just too short and he's jumping and tapping and he's just getting out tap and then he doesn't get the rebound. It happened. So many times tonight like his effort is there I mean, it's absolutely there. It's I don't know what happened. There's just not enough results and he is dead. Some games where he is grabbing some boards. He had 9 tonight, but it just he's had issues with the put backs all the time. So the play raindrop the air ball and they almost called the turnover but the shrimp barge. Yes. Do you know who the good Aldridge get all just here, but I don't know the Spurs going to do it. The Spurs are all you know, they want to make the playoffs. Yeah, they're all in. We stopped talking about this game you talk about this again for a while Thompson. Let's talk about the topic of the game. But he's not going to be that he's not going to be the enforcer all all day long, or at least not completely shut down the opposing the best opposing big, you know, I'll be stunned if the Celtics don't make a trade this year. Same so let me ask you this for real should Mark is not taking that shot should Marcus spoke with Marcus part. No for real. You know, this is what happens. They win a couple of games everything looks good chats filled with a bunch of positive people. This is the best way the East going to the finals blah blah blah Jill and Jason MVP, you know, one two, and then you have this craft game and everyone's like trade everybody and Brad sucks. Like I get it. Nobody Grinch in the negatives are in the way you want that for real if you had to look at this team just After what we've seen snapshots 17 games at this point. Is there anything you would now that you've got? Most of the pieces in place granted Pritchard will come back Romeo eventually. We'll see what we found. Is there anything you would do differently you did see tonight..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"second shot" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"This guy's 35% for life, you're going to get 35% on all his shots, but there's something to him playing the role within the offense to that if he's going to be a threat to take off. 7 as many as 22 as we've seen him in the past threes you get a guard that you have to go at him like he's going to be a threat in those spots because you never know when it's going to be I I understand but I shared this stat the other day in 2019-2020 when he took 13 shots or more the Celtics were eight and twelve and two and four in the post-season last year when he took fewer than Twelve shots last year. They were Thursday 1 to 9. Okay this year the numbers were even worse when he took 13 shots and I'm going to add today's game to it when he takes 13 or more there one in five when he takes off a fewer. They're eight and two, I don't know how long over a course of time you need to see these numbers to recognize the Celtics are always worse when Marcus Smart shoots a lot. That's all I'm saying. It is as a high volume shooter when you shoot his lower percentage is Marcus Smart does your team suffers for it? That is a fact. Okay. It's isn't a hot take place. Are just literally this is empirical evidence. It's not the reason they lost tonight. The reason it rears its head is every time he shoots a lot. They lose or it's usually affects the team adversely so I don't know how how long how big like a sample size you need to see but going over two years. It's undeniable. It's not the only girl on the team has it just is a problem that continues to exist from time to time. Right? So I I will one of the first guys to say that when it's one of those markets smart lights, it's like, oh here we go off like one of these one of these games but those stats all sound great John and they make your point. They make the point that you're trying to make but there's gotta be some outside like factors truck games where other guys are hurt and he has true and there's George were like, they're already losing and it's not his fault. Of course, they're going to start like jazz kind of the cage. Right, right. So yeah, I do think there is a connection there. I mean there are plenty of games where that is the reason or one of the main reasons lost tonight. I don't know I saw but the thing that occurred it's there that that keeps popping up and every time we see it we've had this discussion and we keep having the discussion because all of these Marcus Smart games and poorly or so many of them have so I would be surprised this season. I think his shot his field-goal attempts are going to go down this season because Jason Tatum and Jenna Brown are another year older and and more focal point of the offense..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"second shot" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Dr. Gupta has been a practicing neurosurgeon for about 20 years. Also, we hear from Maria Ressa, a journalist in the Philippines whose coverage of authoritarian President Rodrigo do TERT. Has resulted in Internet trolls, death threats, criminal charges jail and being chosen this time magazine's 2018 person of the year. She's the subject of a new frontline documentary called 1000 Cuts. And book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews a new Western that she describes as the Handmaid's tale meets Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid First News. Live from NPR news. I'm Janine Herbst. Democratic House lawmakers have drafted an impeachment article against President Trump, accusing him of inciting an insurrection over the attack on the Capitol building this week. Least five people died. They plan to formally introduce the proposal on Monday. A vote is possible by Wednesday. Meanwhile, a West Virginia lawmaker arrested and charged in connection with the attack, has resigned his post. 90. Others have been arrested. More than a dozen face federal charges. NPR's Ryan Lucas has more. One question that looms over all of this is whether there was an organized effort by right wing or self styled militia groups in the rampage at the Capitol. There has been public reporting, suggesting as much, officials say they are aware of those reports. They say they're looking at every angle here, but they had nothing to confirm on that front at this point, but that, of course, is something that we will be keeping an eye on in the days and weeks to come. Is this investigation proceeds? MPR's Ryan Lucas. Daily coronavirus deaths in the U. S have topped 4000 this week for the first time as new daily infections near 300,000 this as the CDC says only seven million of the 22 million vaccines that were distributed have been administered. NPR's Amy held reports the U. S is still facing weeks of a worsening surge post holiday festivities. The government's top infectious disease. Doctor, Anthony Fauci, tells NPR that the holidays also contributed to vaccination delays Right now, I think we just need to give a little bit slack, not a lot. We're past the holiday season. Now, let's really turn the afterburners on. It comes as the incoming Biden administration announced a major change in vaccination policy instead of keeping millions of doses in reserve as booster shots. The plan is to spread them out as first doses for more people. The goal remains to give the second shot on time, provided manufacturing speeds up how she expects by April. It will be what we call open season on vaccines, Everyone will be able to get a vaccine. Amy held NPR news. President elect Joe Biden plans to extend student loan payment relief to federal borrowers on quote Day one, according to his transition team. The latest suspension of payments and interest is set to expire on January. 31st MPR's Elissa Nad Bernie reports. Relief for more than 40 million borrowers has been extended and extended, and Biden plans to continue that on his first day in office. David Cayman is Biden's incoming deputy director of the National Economic Council who advises on economic policy. We've announced that on day one The president elect will direct Department of Education to extend the existing paws on student loan payments and interest for millions of Americans with federal student loans came and also reiterated by the support of a proposal to cancel up to $10,000 of federal student loan debt to help ease the burden of the pandemic. Listen at morning NPR news and you're listening to NPR news. You're listening to W N. Y C in New York. Good evening on my on Levinson. Confederate flag was found tied to the front door of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning, museum CEO Jack Kliger said the incident was reported to the police referencing the fact that in search insurrectionists Rated at a Confederate flag inside the Capitol building. This week, he called it a potent symbol of white supremacy. And he said that hate has now arrived at the museum's doorstep. The Museum of Jewish Heritage Houses a train car that once transported Jews to the Auschwitz death camp. In the new year. Governor Cuomo says will push for more election reform in order to see absentee ballots counted more quickly. I'm going to propose legislation to speed up the county by requiring county boards to process absentee ballots as soon as they're received. And begin counting and reporting them on Election Day in New York. Absentee ballots must be counted no later than 14. Days after Election Day, the New York City Board of Elections waits a full seven days. Reports. Rather, the reforms would also increase the amount of time to request an absentee ballot from 30 to 45 days and also extend early voting hours. Buffalo Bill's earned their first home playoff victory in a quarter century when Josh Allen threw two touchdown passes scored another rushing and Micah Hyde batted down. Philip Rivers. Desperation heave for 27 24 wild card win over the Indianapolis Colts and a limited.