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Trauma Coach Chantelle O'Connor on Regulating Your Nervous System
"Us how you learned a little bit more about how to kind of regulate yourself. Yeah, so I never really understood the nervous system until I started to, I, around a few years ago, I, when I said I sort of looked at my mother wound and I worked with a coach who introduced the element of your nervous system, and I was like, wow, this makes so much sense to me, so she introduced the, she introduced, well she taught about the autonomic nervous system and where we have childhoods certain or certain experiences, I mean, most people in this world will have some trauma now, this is not, it's not, so there's, we will live in certain places within our nervous system, so the very top of our nervous system is the ventral vagal, and that's when you feel very social, you feel joy, peace, you want to connect with others, so when I first started this experience, those things, I experienced them maybe fleeting, but then I noticed they disappear completely, and then you have the parasympathetic and the sympathetic, so I think the parasympathetic is when you are in, you are in fight or flight, so, sorry, no, that's the sympathetic, so the sympathetic is like the middle part of the nervous system, and that's when you're in fight or flight, so for me, I would have like, I would be very adrenalized, and I would be rushing, rushing from thing to thing, doing thing to thing, like not eating properly, drinking too much coffee, you know, making sure I have all the things done in the day, and it was my way of trying to ensure my worth through being productive, and I would live here, and then I would get to the end of the day, and I'd think, I don't know how to relax, I've got so much energy in my body, how am I going to sleep, and this was when I would really start to see problems like within my menstrual cycle, because a lot of it would impact, the cortisol levels would impact my hormones, and then my ability to relax, I mean, even now, I can relax, but I have to really bring myself into like a routine of it, I'm not someone who can just push off very quickly, and so, and then she said about the parasympathetic, which is the dorsal part of your nervous system, this is where you have like the freeze, shut down responses, and that's might, that might be when you're like totally numb, you know, you're completely dissociated, because dissociation is a part of trauma as well, and what she introduced was this kind of map for like two weeks, you had to notice where you were to keep saying to yourself like, where am I right now on my ladder, and I would notice that like in the supermarket, for example, like say I've had like three cups of coffee, and I've not eaten properly, and I'm like trying to do all the things again, and I'm not asking anyone for help, because I have to make sure that I do all of them, and this then, I would say this to myself, and I think, God, I really need to be able to notice that, I could see where I was on my ladder, and there's also a lot of stuff to do with your body, it's not just about recognizing maybe mentally where you are, it's also about noticing where your body is within your, because your body and your mind will work together, so your body will give, and be giving you signs that it's, it's in one of these parts, and I think for me, a lot of like learning how to listen to my body was a big part of healing this stuff, because I live here, I live in my head, I don't live in my body, I find it very hard to come down into my body, so that for me was like doing things such as yoga, recently there's been someone on, I think she's really like changed it, which is the workout, which she does like a lot of somatic stuff, somatic exercises, which is meant to bring you back down into your body, because I think what some people forget is that we have three minds, we don't just have our mind, and that's it, we have our body as well, and we also have like our energy field, so our body holds memories that before even our mind has cognitively processed them, so say you're three, and maybe this is an example, I had like deep sense of dread in her body, and she couldn't really figure out, she knew like her mum had lost her temper with her verbally a lot, and she knew that kind of stuff lived in her head, but she would have this deep sense of dread in her body, and she recognized that, I think her dad shared with her like when she was two or three, her mum kind of would get a little bit annoyed with her, and yank her arm really hard, and that's actually before she could really cognitively form a memory around that, her body had remembered it, and stored it, so also it's a lot about that, because that just to bring back your question, will impact where you are within your nervous system, and where you tend to live, so the whole point of that is trying to get you back up to the ventral vagal, which is the part where you feel, you just feel yourself, you're quite calm, you feel quite peaceful, it's a lot, it's associated a lot with like the seeds, like you're curious, you feel sort of contentment, that sort of thing, and you want to also be connected to other human beings,
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from Bitcoin Hits $30,000 | Outperforming Market
"All right, so Bitcoin breaking 30k, this of course has a lot of potential impact on the market at large and how all of this is shaking out. There's a lot of mixed signals here. We're going to try to break through that all today. You guys are going to love it. My name is Paul Veron. Welcome back in the Tech Path. Let's jump over to one event that's happening right now. There's so many things happening right now. Pretty much all at the same time, it feels like. Jim Jordan fails to win the house again. This is the third vote. Jordan is not giving this up. Remember McCarthy, it took I think 15 rounds to get him certified in to the speaker role. The question is whether or not there's a lot of people that do not want Jordan in. Obviously he is not necessarily a, I won't say he's a positive crypto, but he has no opinion. But the other scenario that could play into this is we could see someone that is pro -crypto still. So you've got a couple of people that have jumped ship, and that is Don Bacon, voted for McHenry. Lori Chavez, DeRaymer also voted for McHenry. Brian Fitzpatrick flipped over to McHenry. This is a new vote against Jordan. And then McCarthy, Jennifer Kiggins also voted for McHenry. Mike Lawler, which we knew about earlier in the week. And then Marian Miller Meeks also for McHenry. So there's some new people within the Republicans now starting to put McHenry up at the top of the list here. Whether we see Jordan or McHenry jump in, McHenry would be very positive for crypto. He obviously, in support of the bills there in the house, most likely would get them through before these sessions close out and possibly get us some legislation before the end of the year. We'll see how that all comes together. Here I want to jump over to a clip from CNBC. And this was with Powell, and many of you have probably seen some of this. But I just want to play this clip real quick. So no, I don't think that there's a fundamental shift in the way that interest rates affect the economy. There may be some differences in this cycle because of what I mentioned. As I mentioned, we are seeing the effects where we expect to see them, which is interest sensitive spending and also asset prices to some extent and the exchange rate, which you're also seeing a strong exchange rate, which is disinflationary. So I don't think there's a fundamental change in the way monetary policy affects the economy. And again, it goes back to just very strong demand. We take the economy as it is. We take fiscal policy and the economy and all the things we don't control. They come to us, and we conduct policy always to achieve maximum employment and stable prices. So we just take what comes. The fact that we have a strong growing economy, a strong growing labor market, and inflation coming down, these are the elements that we want to see that to achieve the outcome we want. So I'm going to pause it there because he feels to me like there's a little bit of double speak there in the sense that there's still pressure from the Fed to continue higher for longer and also to try to achieve the 2 percent in terms of an inflation target. But at the same time, they're still saying, hey, these things are still happening in the economy when clearly that is not necessarily the case. We are seeing problems in the economy that are running up against us, and that's including job numbers, including the crackdown on credit, including the situation with what we've seen on mortgage backed securities. We are going to see a lot of implosion yet to come. And I think this is the thing that plays out. You look at a couple more tweets and this is where it gets confusing, I think, and then everybody's kind of in the same boat. Here's Kobe Easey talking about stocks are falling like a recession is coming. Home prices are rising like there's no recession with an 8 percent mortgage, by the way. Bonds are falling like the Fed is raising rates. Gold is rising like the Fed is cutting rates. And then you have oil prices rising like a major war is coming. That is very possible. And then tech stocks rising like there's no problem at all. So nothing really adds up. I agree that this is something we've talked about for I'd say the last year is that some of these things just don't make sense with what we've seen in this cycle. And remember that we've been on a run for many, many years. Well over that cycle of a seven year cycle before you see recessions, we're into 15 plus years now. And when you look back really at the last true recession in 2008, I mean, sure you could say the 2020 time was a slight one and maybe 22, but that was induced. The scenario will get into what kind of impressions or issues hit the markets to cause this to maybe shift in another direction, including a shift down. This was Garris Holloway kind of hitting on what I think is pretty close right here. Gold hitting resistance at about 1985, big level. Stock market hanging by a thread with a crisis on the horizon, yields continue higher. All that we know. And the Powell, of course, willing to break something, but history shows Fed won't be causes an epic meltdown. That's the question mark right now is what is that black swan that is in a war? Is it something happening in the job market? Do we see enough pressure from inflation and or credit crisis that could occur that really starts all of this to create that domino effect? The problem is there hasn't been major movement. It's in these little steps toward what many people have said is that we're still not out of the woods yet. However, with all of that happening, Bitcoin is outperforming everything. Traditional finance assets in 2023, Bitcoin is smoking the competition as high as $30 ,000 to on October 20th of this Friday moves markets to another correlation is the question mark whether we see it break away from traditional stock market. We'll see. And then right now, about 79 percent and 34 percent accumulated gains on year to date versus Bitcoin and Ethereum. That number is one to pay attention to. Let me zoom in on this chart right here, because this gets you pretty jazzed if you're a Bitcoiner right now. Almost 80 percent up, and that's where we at currently year to date from the beginning of the year. And then Ethereum struggling to keep pace at only 35 percent. And then you see some of the other assets, gold sliding up as 26 percent gain. I'm sure Peter Schiff will be happy about that versus NASDAQ and the SPY. So a lot of traditional finance assets not performing at the pace in which we've seen these risk assets perform. Do we see a structure here where we get that adjustment? Many traders, many analysts still believe that could occur. However, many people are also looking at a short term pump if we do get an ETF. So there's a lot still yet to determine. Watcher Guru says just in, SEC drops lawsuit against Ripple. Some people think this is one of the things that caused this pump, even though I do not believe that. This was the only thing. I think these are a cumulative effect on what's been happening overall from a global macro standpoint. Obviously what we're seeing in terms of conflicts. And then you have things like what's happening in China. Right here. You know, right here is Vale share cap. This of course, Dr. Bear. If you have a reasons I have mine, meaningful moves are always driven by liquidity. And the PBOC injects, this is basically China, injects record amount of liquidity overnight. Remember, there's been another major real estate failure in China. This is one of the big challenges past the Evergrande debacle that's occurred already, which has caused liquidity and also not a lot of trust in the financial system in China. So this is another factor that plays in it when you inject liquidity. Much like if this happened in the United States. Think about this, major bank failures, someone like a BlackRock or a VanEck having troubles. Those would create massive unrest within the population. That's the kind of thing that's happening right now in China. Zero hedge comes in when oil, gold and bitcoin are all flights of safety. Something is about to crack. That's a question. I don't know. I look at this. Yes, I agree with that there's a lot of pressure from the macro side of things. There's a lot of unrest, you know, you know, from when you look at conflicts around globe. And you also look at these cycles. So that's another factor that plays into it. All of this a very interesting time. But there are going to be some people that are being made millionaires in this run or billionaires in this next run. We are going to see that kind of impact. The other thing I want to hit on here is VanEck saying, well, hey, if a spot gets done, you know, in terms of an ETF and it gets approved, kind of zoom in on that for you guys a little bit so you can see it. What would you do? Would you buy it or not? Most people are saying when I say most, we're almost 60 percent saying yes, but there's a lot of people out there that are still in the market that is for the direct asset. Now this remember a spot, yes, that is direct asset as well. But it's a little bit different in the sense that I think it goes after maybe investors that who are not necessarily in their crypto curious or they're just getting into crypto for the first time. But I have a feeling that that will start to create them to quickly move into the markets on exchanges to buy Bitcoin directly and other assets, which I think all coins will be one of the big winners here as we start to see these markets start to shift. We're going to play a few clips here from Dan Tappiero. And this was one with Larry Fink and the ETF. Listen in. The Larry Fink turn for, I would say, institutional investors was very important. Do not underestimate that. Two years ago, he was very clear. He said Bitcoin is a fraud for money laundering or whatever it was. And we're thinking, oh, my gosh, how could he say that? Two years later, he says Bitcoin is a global asset and he wants the ETF. So I would not underestimate the importance of that switch and those comments to let's just say, you know, U .S. institutional capital, but also, I think, global capital. He's you know, it's a 10 trillion asset manager, very well respected. And it seems like every few months we get another turn like that. Some guy who was an ace here turned some. Yeah. I mean, even Dalia, you know, to a certain extent is also kind of repositioned into risk assets. So the fact that we've already seen Wall Street at its best with the big players such as Fink already spinning. Remember, there was a very interesting flip with Fink and that was the ESG issue. That, of course, would play against the potential of a Bitcoin ETF, because remember, so he obviously sees, meaning Larry Fink, obviously sees the future here, not in ESG, but in what we will see. And that is risk assets going forward and a lot of what we're going to see around just crypto in general. Let me play another clip for you guys. This is Tapiero also talking about the sector in general, listen to him. I just wanted a bet on the sector. And that was, so for traditional macro guy, I built a sector bet and it's a portfolio, you know, as I said, of 24 businesses now, 1 .2 billion. And we really are in the middle of this ecosystem, this growth stage. So it was, you asked me the question, how did it happen? Well, it happened slowly and then all at once. And then I put down everything, I got rid of everything I had in the traditional world. I don't have really much exposure in the old world anymore. Once you see the upside potential and how big the TAM, the total addressable market of this space is, everything else is really dull. I mean, you know, bonds and currencies, I mean, moving 10 or 20 percent, who cares? This is like a, this will be eventually a restructuring of how human beings interact with value. That's pretty big. You know, listen, I know everybody watching our channel, you already are drinking the Kool -Aid, most likely, but if you're new to the channel, this is probably an eye -opener for you. You're probably saying, wait a minute, what's about to change? Well, what Tapiero is referring to is really kind of shift of everything, whether it's tokenized securities or it's a blow up of how we see entertainment in the NFT space, it's a blow up on what we'll see in terms of projects starting to come out and a reinvention of the internet. So all of that is interesting because it's happening now and it's happening at a pace. I think I would disagree with him on sense that kind of slowly and then all at once, I don't think we've seen the all at once yet. Yes, it's growing, but it's still under a trillion dollar market cap in a suppressed bear market. So we're not really seeing the all at once yet, but we will. And that's the key that I think he is alluding to, lots of going on there. Let me jump over to this last clip. Actually, I have a couple more clips with him, but one on tokenized assets. Even this concept of tokenizing real world assets, RWAs, which has now become a little bit, has been growing a little more in vogue in the last six months, is still, we went from $100 million of assets tokenized to now $800 million in a few months. But it's $800 million. There are hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of assets. So, you know, and then you look at something like the stablecoin market, which literally three years ago was zero. And last year in 2022, you had $8 trillion of stablecoin settled, $8 trillion. Now, what in the traditional world goes from zero to $8 trillion in three years? At some point in the future, all things of value will sit on a blockchain and be in the digital asset ecosystem. And so that is something, a vision that's beyond just Bitcoin for payments, which is for six, seven, eight years. That's what people were focused on. I don't think anyone would have imagined how big and how fast things have grown.
The Breakdown
A highlight from SBF Trial, ETF Progress, JPM Onyx Milestone: The Crypto Weekly Recap
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, October 14th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link at the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Happy weekend. Today, I have another conversation between Scott Melker and I. This was recorded yesterday morning, and there are a couple of things that I think you will find valuable in here. One, although we do spend a fair bit of time on the SPF trial, as opposed to just giving the play -by -play, which I've been doing on the show, this is a lot more a subjective reading and interpretation of the events, what they mean for the industry, what I think we learned. So in true weekly recap fashion, I think it does a little bit more of that. Now, the second topic that I think will be of interest to a lot of you is JP Morgan and real world assets. We had some interesting news there. And finally, there is a little bit of ETF intrigue and what might be happening on that front. So friends, I hope you enjoy this. Let's dive in. NLW Men, how are you today? I am good. I'm having a great week, better than a lot of the weeks of people we're going to talk about today. I'll tell you that. For sure. I don't think Sam's having a great week. And there's someone else we have to give an honorable mention to who's finally having a bad week. And that, of course, is Steve Ehrlich from Voyager Digital. You guys may not have seen this, but he's being sued by the CFTC for fraud, for neglect, negligence of customer assets, for lying about FDIC insurance, for taking risky bets while saying that customers assets were safe and they were only taking safe bets. He told this to me personally via text message and phone and on interviews almost until the last day. I was unable to withdraw crypto unlike everyone else who could have gotten their assets out because Voyager had done me a favor and put protection on my account that they refused to lift for two months that I asked them to when I saw problems with Celsius. I have a personal feeling about this, but I think the worst part, and Nathaniel maybe is someone who's slightly outside the situation, give me some perspective, but the worst part is that everybody knows that Voyager declared bankruptcy to protect the executives from criminal charges, right? It was pretty clear at the time they could have just liquidated the assets. We would have gotten roughly 75 cents on the dollar, but instead to protect themselves from suits that had already been filed so those would be erased and suits they knew were coming, every insider knows this, they decided to declare bankruptcy. We ended up getting back 35 % of the assets, but really 24 % of the value on the day that it happened. This is a civil charge, of course, so he still is criminally protected, but to see him get in trouble anyways after doing all of that to us just to protect himself gives me extreme mixed emotions. I mean, how do you view this as like, I guess, a third party who was not luckily a creditor to Voyager? Yeah, so a couple things. One is I think that this is going to get us nicely into, I think, the SPF case as well. The consequences for this set of executives is incredibly important for the evolution of this industry, right? And I think that the mixed emotion of it probably should have been worse, but at least there is this set of actions which could result in not just penalties financially and things like that, but real prohibitions on what this person is able to do in markets in the future is important. I think that for a little while, and this is sort of, again, a preview of what I'll say about about SPF too, for a little while, I think that the crypto industry is going to have to just deal with the fact that there is more evidence that it's just sort of full of scams and frauds like the critics have always claimed. But in the long run, what these cases are actually serving to point out is that it's not just the industry being inherently or a priori dirty, it's specific people making specific decisions to lie, to commit fraud, to change balance sheets, to do things that regardless of the industry would be fraudulent, would be criminal. And ultimately in the long run, especially as a new wave of actors comes in, both from the traditional financial sector and a new class of entrepreneurs who are going to specifically, I think, position themselves as the opposite of this generation of folks, it will be important that we have on record that what happened was specific instances of fraud and criminal behavior, not just that's what happens in crypto. It will also be really important as a deterrent for future actors who come in to realize that there is punishment for these actions, even if it's in the unregulated wild west of crypto. Yeah, listen. That's a very important part because we've seen Mashinsky, we've seen SPF, of course, maybe BlockFi, we haven't seen anything yet. I don't know if there's anything to see there, but it is nice at least to see this in the press and that people don't see Ehrlich completely skate by as if nothing happened and there was no dereliction of duty here. What's crazy is the guy hasn't spoken a word since any of it happened. And he had a statement today, the talented management team at Voyager created and maintained our platform in full compliance with the existing regulatory structure. Our team consistently communicated and worked closely with our regulators when literally everybody knows that the risk management team was just left out of every decision. There's been reports of it, that it was literally like, Steve decides we need yield. We're going to go do this. It's Steve. Everyone said that. And so like, listen, his quote is the exact one that his lawyer would write up, obviously, and send out on a PR release and then we won't hear anything else. But these people have to at least be punished in the court of public opinion, even if it's not a huge fine or if he has no money or if he doesn't go to jail, people need to see this in the press. I mean, we saw how much of American politics, like the broad American politics was shaped by the lack of consequences for the financial industry in 2008, a huge part. You're talking Occupy Wall Street on one side. You're talking about the Tea Party on the other. This was a major, major impact because I think that many people who have kind of a historical point of view will point to this as one of the single biggest failures of the Obama administration to not hold to account that group. So yes, it's brutal to live through right now, but it is an incredibly important exercise dredge to actually up and figure out who needs to be held to account for what happened in the space. Yeah. I can't really tell if it's cathartic or just makes me angry and triggers emotions again, but either way, I think it's a good thing and that has to be our natural segue right here into what's happening at the Sam Bacon free trial. I actually signed up for the Wall Street Journal just to keep this update going on the recommendation of Misha, the producer. Never thought I would have a Wall Street Journal subscription again, but it is really great that they're just giving these constant updates on what's happening here. But nobody's better probably for giving the constant updates on what's happening here than you. Let me flip it around to you though. I was thinking about this. I would love, same way you asked me for kind of outside context, I have a lot to share sort of that has a little bit of insider perspective. What's your big broad strokes impression of sort of this testimony this week from Caroline and where it leaves things? Well, to be clear, I don't think it's really anything new. I think that a lot of it aligns with the assumptions that we had of how things were going. There's been previous articles extensively about the misbehavior there, the alleged fraud and all the things that were going on. But to hear it from the horse's mouth, so to speak, is really impactful. And so the levels that they went to just work outside the system to commit fraud, to lie to existing lenders, to lie to potential lenders, to lie to customers. It's very, very clear that this paints a picture of him as an outright criminal mastermind from day one. It's impossible to even look at his effective altruism without looking through it that lens. It really seems like as kind of ADHD and Ritalin and Adderall dependent that he was and all over the place, that there was a very direct focus on a goal that he had and he was willing to do anything to do it. They kind of talked about his utilitarian side of it and that he could lie and nobody else could because he had a goal. I just think from the outside, it's exceptionally clear this guy is guilty. He should go to jail forever and they should throw every book they have at him to make sure that nobody tries this again. Yeah. I think that the story is getting unbelievably clear. And to your point, a lot of it is what sort of has started to become working assumptions from the crypto industry, but that has really been articulated now. So if we look at last week and Gary Wang, I think that the biggest impact on the jury from that testimony will be how early these sort of activities started. Gary being asked to code the ability to the negative accounts all the way back in July of 2019. Gary kind of walking through that first Alameda was allowed to withdraw up to FTX's revenue, which is $150 million, and then that was increased to a billion, and then that was increased to infinite, $65 billion. That story. So we sort of got the dispassionate version of the story that's just, here's how Sam directed this to be put into code, the use of customer money. What we got from Caroline this week is how explicit it was, how acknowledged it was that this was customer money, how she knew throughout. And it was, you know, by all accounts eating her, you know, sort of psychologically that she knew that that was the only source of revenue. And so, you know, it was a hole that she was just directed to keep digging deeper and deeper and deeper. And I think that the sort of, you know, if Gary kind of gave the timeline, what we got from Caroline's testimony was that, to use your word, Sam really was the mastermind determining this from day one. It seems very intentional that it was the four people, you know, the three who have turned basically state's witness and Caroline who knew what was going on, that Sam always called into these meetings. And Trabuco, I've got to be in there, man. I don't know where this guy is, but we can talk about that later. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that the, you know, so you sort of have a dispassionate set of behaviors that are articulated. Then you have sort of a lot of color about Sam. You know, I mean, listen, Sam's, the argument that he didn't know what was going on was completely blown out of the water this week. And I think that the additional layer is we really started to get some worldview kind of color that I think will help jurors explain or understand how this could be. You know, Caroline explained something that had widely been my assumption, which was sort of an ends justifies the means kind of thing, that Sam held himself as fundamentally separate from the rest of the world. You know, this is sort of the biggest, angriest moment in the podcast that I did right after the whole thing went down, where I kind of imagined Sam sitting there, even now, as he had been caught, thinking the rest of the world was just too stupid to take power the way that he knew how, rather than all of us understanding that every day we're confronted with these decisions where we can do the right thing or do the wrong thing, and we decide not because the right thing is easier to do the f***ing right thing. And I think that that's really what was articulated as part of this as well, that he just didn't believe in the conception of lying or fraud. There was no such thing. It was all just, would it be a positive expected value calculation on his ability to impact things? You know, he was willing to play the most serious game and it exploded, you know, and this is one of the possible outcomes. So now he's got to kind of live in it. And I still believe he thinks he's innocent, to be quite honest. And one point that you made is that Caroline really blew a hole in the idea that he was not the mastermind, right? He's saying it was her fault, pointing fingers everywhere else. What it also blows a hole in is the idea that it was a small hole that maybe was a small mistake and then they just sort of, you know, tried to fill it and it got worse and worse and oh woe is me. That's actually to some degree what I believe happened with Voyager, right? I think Steve Ehrlich, and he talked about it even in the past, offering 9 % to our customers. Well then Doge got popular, a million people signed up in a day and we had to find a way to give a million, now 2 million people, 9%. And that sets us further down the risk curve and the further down the risk curve you go, obviously, the bigger chance there is that you're going to blow up, victims of their own success, either the customers leave or you have to go further down the risk curve to offer that yield. So maybe in a situation like that, it was a snowball going downhill that just got bigger and bigger and bigger. This was 2019 before even the bull market for SPF, where he's put these systems in place. This wasn't like, oh, we blew up with Luna, what are we going to do and started committing fraud to fill the hole. This was fraud from the very beginning. It was a criminal enterprise set up to be that way. I think that the, you know, when the dust settles, what will be clear is that it turns out that for Sam, it was Alameda all along. Alameda was his personal fiefdom. It was his big financial power vehicle to do whatever he wanted to do. An opaque set of accounts that he could direct to politicians, to investments, to whatever. And even ultimately, as big as FTX got, it was still a subsidiary in his mind of Alameda, which was his personal power bank, you know, the bank for his power bank. And that's why he never even considered it was just a play to get customers to unknowingly fund his various world changing ventures. You know, I put that in serious air quotes there. Yeah, I know we have other stories to get to, but it's hard not to continue to talk this to death. I mean, there's some incredible highlights. SPF tried Thai sex worker wallets to unlock frozen funds before bribing Chinese officials. He ended up bribing Chinese officials to get OKX and Huobi accounts open that were frozen. I mean, there was literally no length this guy would stop at to avoid doing what he wanted, to your point. I mean, it's really crazy. He tried to go to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and lie to them about an investment. Can you imagine? Yeah, we haven't even Saudi Arabia invested and then found out about this. Yeah, MBS doesn't exactly have the cleanest record of people who double crossed him. I don't know if that's the highest expected value calculation, Sam. No, I mean, what were the most to you? Like what were the most astounding revelations here? Was there anything like this? I mean, these are these are small details, of course, Thai sex worker. It makes for a good headline. But like there are things here that even you were like, wow. I think that the brazenness that I mean, the utter brazenness that like so there was a so John Ray in Michael Lewis's book, Lewis focuses on him very he's more critical of John Ray than he is of Sam, which is part of the reason people are so frustrated. But one of the things that John Ray said in that book is that there are kind of criminals who are born and criminals who are made, you know. And I think that what's interesting and this sort of is what you're saying, you were just painting a picture where for a lot of these institutions, they maybe just got in over their head. They made a stupid set of decisions that had sort of, you know, a cascade of impacts that they were caught up in their own, you know, problems. And that's sort of how it went down versus I set out to acquire, you know, the fact that he was explicitly trying to get finance targeted so that their customers like he was using he was trying to use the US government to shake down finance for FTX's benefit. Right. By the way, that ended up we haven't talked about how that ended up being the single thing that ultimately brought him down. You know, it's it's become not popular to talk about this fact, because obviously in the wake of, you know, Sam and CZ like CZ set the train in motion when he sent that tweet about FTT. Let's not deny it. They were playing a very serious game of who's got a who's got a bigger billionaire D that they can throw around and CZ bitch slap Sam into the next century. And it was because very clearly Sam had been running his mouth all over D .C. trying to use that very inelegantly. I mean, Sam was a two bit mafia wannabe, basically, you know. So I think that the brazenness really shows up. The Chinese official bribe is another area where it's just, you know, it is not a normal behavior for a kid who's in his first CEO ship within about a year of doing it to be willing to bribe Chinese officials. That is born criminal is arguably American ones as well. But we don't need to go there. James Murphy met a lawman yesterday, was on the show, and we're going to keep talking about this. We'll cook through the other stories in a minute, but pointing out yesterday that the buyout of CZ from FTX was with customer funds and theoretically could be for a massive clawback. Right. Well, that's I mean, that's a that's a whole thing that another dimension of this story, which is extremely problematic for for for other parts of this industry. And the other thing. So if we're let's let's segue to the other parts of the industry implications. That's a big one, right. Is what the estate is going to do vis -a -vis that sort of financing. Now, Binance is so on the ropes via, you know, vis -a -vis the U .S., you know, who knows how that'll that'll happen. But the other one is there are now big questions or people starting to ask questions about how much Genesis knew when. Right. And what that relationship looked like. Because, you know, the very prominently part of the most damning testimony from Caroline was that Sam very clearly knew to authorize, you know, to pay back Genesis with customer funds, which creates a clawback situation for them, which doesn't seem that there's any possible way that DCG could handle if that if that comes this way. You know, so. Yeah. And she created seven fake balance sheets to show to everyone, which in and of itself is slipping away for literally ever. I mean, this is a crazy part of the story that the balance sheet that triggered the whole thing. Right. Like I said, CZ threw it down the mountain with his FTT tweet. But, you know, it was started with the Coindesk report that was the sanguinized of the seven choices of balance sheets. The one that they had cooked that was the least damning was the one that still damned them. And it's insane. A balance fake sheet was enough to cause a complete cascade and death of FTX. Imagine if we had seen the real one. Obviously, we can't even imagine. One question that I have, I guess, last before we move on to Bill 2. Do you think that we'll see any of the politicians brought up in this trial? Gary Gensler, Maxine Waters, et cetera? I don't think so, because the prosecution has no interest in doing that and they've got him buried. Yeah, so so so exactly. So there's a couple of reasons why we won't. One is that to when you go after ultimately this the SDNY is not putting Congress on trial right now, even if they'd like to. And when you go after that type of target, you have to have it dead to rights. And I don't believe I believe that there's probably a lot of messages out there where Sam was sort of intimating bribes or, you know, but I would be very surprised if there was actual sort of full on like Chinese official bribery behavior yet. Now, give him one. You just gave him donations. You can do that much easier here. Give him give him one more election cycle. And I mean, listen, even when it happened, I think to the extent that we want to find some solace in this situation, the amount of power that Sam was able to accrue in about 18 to 24 months coming from zero from a standing start is so unbelievable relative to anything we've seen basically in modern history, that the horror of imagining him being able to accumulate power for three or four more years before being found out one another crypto cycle probably would have cleaned up the I wouldn't have cleaned up the balance sheet, but it would have made FTX able to handle things. You know, it would have gone through that sort of like, oh, yeah, they were bad in the past, but like they were able to kind of clean it up. So I don't know if we could take any solace to the fact that this every every day that it would have gone on longer would have been much potentially worse for the world. Absolutely. Absolutely. And the final thing before we move on, how much impact do you think it had on the last market cycle as far as the price of the assets? We saw a revelation that he had told Caroline to keep Bitcoin under 20 ,000. I kind of reread that. I don't think that's really what he was saying. I think he was saying sell, keep selling above 20 ,000. Exactly. So I don't think that he was purposely manipulating the price, as maybe you've seen, on X. But do you think that this behavior and FTT being in the market and all of the VC activity they did with FTX customer funds dramatically impacted the structure of the last cycle? One hundred percent. Absolutely. I mean, you've you've you've even seen post the collapse of FTX how much more organic market movements have looked right. I mean, it just it took out this force like where the even without the intention to goes explicitly manipulate market prices, which, frankly, like, you know, if we got Sam Trabuco's testimony, I would be very surprised if there wasn't some amount of actual straight up market manipulation attempts.
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A highlight from 1211.Fixing The Metaverse Problem | Improbable CEO Herman Narula Interview
"All right, so today we're going to dive into some Web3 content. I think you guys will like it. Really what we want to do is explore how many of these companies are starting to navigate these waters. There's a lot happening around this space, whether you think Metaverse or you think Web3 and kind of this conversion. All that we're going to talk about today. It's going to be a good one and we've got a special guest for you. My name is Paul Beryl. Welcome back into Tech Path. Joining me today is Herman Narula, who is the CEO of Improbable. We've had and talked about Improbable a lot, but thanks for stopping in today. We appreciate it. Well, thank you for having me on. All right. So, Herman, let's get into a few things here and I want to kind of first kind of get a framework around Improbable for some of our new audience, maybe people that have experimented with their first NFT, started to learn about Web3 a little bit. Give us a framework quickly on where Improbable is today. Sure. So, in order to make valuable virtual experiences that are differentiated from what people can already do, like play games or interact in the real world, you have to give people something really new and really valuable. And doing that means expanding the scope of what virtual experiences can be. So, what Improbable has spent years doing now, I mean, a decade of our lives with iteration after iteration of technology, is making it possible to support not just a hundred people in a space, but tens of thousands of people connecting from anywhere in the world on a mobile phone or PC or Mac, just by clicking a link to jump into a world which isn't just a game, but is an environment that can support all of those people talking, speaking, singing, in some cases, happy birthday in this example that you're showing me right now, also interacting with each other in incredibly rich and social ways. And to make that possible, we have to handle orders of magnitude more information on the backend. So, recently we did an event with Major League Baseball where we brought thousands of baseball fans into a virtual stadium all over the world. That type of thing takes billions of messages a second that all have to be delivered at low latency to hundreds of countries and have to be done in a way that can survive hackers or other problems. So building the infrastructure to build practical, useful, and valuable virtual worlds is fundamental to what we do and have done. Another aspect of what we do is we make it possible to have richer digital items. So an NFT is really great as a token of ownership, but it doesn't actually do anything, as I think a lot of people have said more loudly on Twitter recently than before. So we created a language called Metaverse Markup Language, and it's totally open source. It's MIT licensed, and it lets you build a complicated, rich object just using JavaScript and HTML that can describe something that can live in a game or it can live in a web browser or anywhere else, and it can link to an NFT if you want. And those objects exist inside all of the worlds that are part of the M -squared network, which in probable has been separate from the partners. All right. So a lot happening here, and of course just the technological achievements have been pretty significant here. When you look at where the Metaverse is today, and kind of, I guess to a certain extent, I think a lot of people saw Metaverse come onto the scene when Meta changed their name. That was kind of the iconic event that occurred. We saw a lot of projects start to open up in 2021, late 2021, and early 2022. When you look at the challenges inside Metaverse, because right now what we're seeing is quite a few people who look at it, whether it's brands or you look at even users and players, that are saying some Metaverses are absolute wastelands. There's nobody there. There's a challenge of interoperability. We've got all these big picture issues that have not really been addressed right now. Where do you feel maybe the short -term future, but more long -term future is for Metaverses in general? Well, let's start by saying there's more than 600 million monthly active people in Minecraft, Roblox, and Fortnite. Phil Rosedale, who created Second Life, is one of the founding advisors of M -squared. If those people interacting in virtual spaces, buying and selling things, moving them from place to place, creating things, kids coming home from school and having whole new experiences, brands showing up. If that isn't Metaverse or Metaverse -like, then I think we're stretching the definition to some extent. So there is already a massive, almost a significant percentage of young human beings on Earth with access to these technologies are interacting inside these spaces. The interesting question, to build on your question, is what's going wrong with crypto Metaverses, or Web3 Metaverses, or VR Metaverses? And I think what's going wrong with them doesn't require a lot of speculation. We know the answer because 30 years of psychology and engagement research in interactive entertainment tell us the answer. The experiences are bad. If the experiences are bad, it doesn't matter what fancy NFT they're linked to or what VR goggles I put on. If you're not providing me with fulfillment, and that fulfillment can only come in a few ways. It can come from a social experience that I couldn't otherwise have. It could come from competence, the feeling of getting better at something, or it could come from making meaningful choices, then there is no real future to it. And I think the other big challenge with a lot of these projects is they're swimming against economic reality. So if the entire ecosystem you've built is around a bunch of people who've bought assets with the expectation, whether or not you marketed it that way, that those assets will go up in value, definitionally, you can't make money that way. The only way you can make money is if people buy stuff that they don't necessarily want to sell on. I mean, if you think about your house, most of the items in your house, you probably don't want to sell on. You know, I bought a sandwich recently, I don't want to sell that on. I want to eat that. So if there's no function, there's nothing wrong with people owning assets that are memorabilia or artwork, et cetera, but that isn't the foundation of a diverse and valuable ecosystem of users. I think on the VR side, while I actually am a believer in the immersive value of things like VR and AR, I don't necessarily know that they are the answer for some of the problems that the metaverse can really solve. I mean, we've talked a lot about sport. I mentioned baseball and you've shown some stuff on screen. This isn't a gimmick. This is solving an economic problem that is at the heart of sport, right? If I told you there was a company that had 600 million active users right now, and those users joined it from birth and would kill you if you tried to make them buy a different product, and they taught their children until the day they died, how much money is that company worth, that brand worth? Well, Real Madrid is that, and you'd think it would be worth hundreds of billions. It's estimated at about five. Why? Because about every year they make less than a Euro per fan. And that's not because fans aren't passionate. It's because, well, if I can't come to the game, because I live in Southeast Asia, or if I can't meet a player or if I can't have a social experience or if I can't really engage and feel involved, well, what can I have? So some of the events would be the last couple of weeks, like meeting famous football players inside an environmental space where everyone can speak. These expand the scope of culture, of sport, of music, of these other areas. So I think the metaverse has to solve a problem, and the problem can't be that you want your token to be more valuable. If that's the problem the metaverse is solving, then it's not solving a problem. It's broken. Sure. Exactly. Well, you hit on a couple of really interesting points here, and I think this is something that a lot of people have to get over to understand kind of this little bit of this concept of what maybe the real future of metaverses are as opposed to what we'll see in the blockchain space. Two things you hit on there, of course, is this brand equity or brand properties that are being transcended into a place like what you had mentioned there with Real Madrid, biggest soccer club maybe on planet Earth when you think about that, expanding that out there. Lots of great opportunity there, and obviously that will be a big part of that. You also mentioned just the existing Fortnite Roblox kind of connection. Those are already kind of metaverses today. They're just not necessarily running on a blockchain. So there are some things like that. Now, in terms of this capacity, because Improbable, of course, is solving some challenges here, you look at the current player count record that has been achieved by you guys, and you look at ... You had even mentioned the size of Real Madrid alone, and think about that times a thousand if you look at all the entities of NFL, MLB, NBA, and then the World Soccer Leagues. There's a lot of fans out there. What are the capacities for blockchain metaverses in the future? So we're able to host entire stadiums full of people at this point, and you can have many of those events running in parallel. And so you could literally take the ticket revenue of a sports league, and if there was six years' events, experiences, and ticketed people who can come in ... I mean, assuming you wanted a ticket, you don't have to, because we can run it cheap enough. You could do it for free. If you could bring Call of Duty -style monetization, that's two to six percent of the audience spending most of the money, to things with a billion, two billion, three billion users and fans, and you could make that interoperable, and you could make that accessible, especially to people on a mobile phone. I mean, let's think beyond football, cricket. There's a billion cricket fans out there, and you look at a 4G map of India, and you see some pretty amazing things in terms of internet access. If you're able to do that, you're not just talking about improving, building a tech company, or improving the metaverse, or improving Web3. You're really making people's lives fundamentally better for things they really care about. One of the things we found is that that becomes a vast opportunity. In terms of capacity, the blockchain really is just a tool. In the demos that you've just shown on screen, there are AI -based bandwidth compression algorithms. There's new approaches we've taken to rendering that don't exist in existing game engines. In fact, we've actually built a new method to allow generative AI objects to appear dynamically inside worlds. We don't talk about any of this, because honestly, these are just tools. And that's how I look at the problem with the conversation these days. Like for me, blockchain, and this is going to sound really bad, but blockchain is like a sewage system. I'm very happy it's there, and if it wasn't there, we couldn't have great cities, and we couldn't build a lot of good stuff. But I don't want users walking through the sewage system. It needs to fade like open -source software, like infrastructure, into the background. It needs to be a powerful enabler for things that your grandma likes, for things that the average football fan or gamer likes, without having to think about, is this an NFT? Is this on the blockchain? Is this a wallet? Is this whatever? That's the key to really making something really valuable. So our philosophy, and this may be as a result of being at this 10 years, having the hopes and dreams, seeing things not work, seeing things work, and building and building and I think a lot of people in the NFT space are quite recent sometimes. It's just pragmatism. Let's just create the things that matter. So we use central services. We use decentralized services. Where it makes sense, we use one. Where it makes sense, we use the other. But we always ask, what is the value proposition? Because the event we've just shown you, you could not run that on a blockchain. No one can do 20 billion transactions a second that are nowhere near where blockchain is. Well, I think the point you are making, too, is this is a societal shift, and when you look at the capacity of where technology is going, there's going to be some great opportunity. You had mentioned a little bit there about AI. That in itself is going to really create some new experiences on its own, much less what we'll see in terms of fan engagement, things of that nature going forward. I want to jump over to the topic of M -squared. Improbable opens up the tech behind Bored Ape's, Ape Metaverse, obviously M -squared. The engine behind this, talk to me a little bit about what M -squared is, because I know it's a separate entity as opposed to a probable itself. Kind of go down that direction and what the plans are here. There's a lot of technology and a lot of separate pieces, so I'll talk a bit more about the economic framework and why that's important, and then I'll touch on technology. Yeah, these are some really cool demos here showing on screen the memorable events from our recent history. But what I will say is, I think what we've realized painfully over the last decade is that there is a fundamental economic problem with video games right now, and that problem is the cost of user acquisition is ridiculous. It costs $10 a person on average to make someone play a free game. Let's just do the maths of that, right? A free game. Not working. Not working, right? That's why a lot of games companies now are just paring back the franchises they know. Exactly. You see layoffs, you see problems in the industry. And the other challenge that people need to internalize is the probability of a team making a hit game, even if they've made many hit games before. And I've seen this firsthand, and we support some of the largest games companies in the world, and people don't know this, but we do a lot of services work for them as well. It's basically like roulette. There is no one with a magic formula to go make a hit game, unlike, interestingly, in music film, and where you see consistent successes created by the same people. Games are a lot more variable. So with that in mind, right, it really doesn't, to me, make a lot of sense that a bunch of projects try to hoard users, try to create their own platforms. And so what M Squared is trying to do is to say, look, it's hard enough as it is to create compelling experiences, and a lot of the industries that we want to work with have loads of users. Instead of a licensing model, which is what Fortnite and Roblox effectively are, they're traffic -based networks. They own the user, they earn the equity value, they own the multiple on that view. You're a guest there. And yeah, that can be really great for marketing, but you can't build a business like that. What is the IP -able value of a business wholly dependent on Roblox? What is the revenue multiple? 1x, 2x, if that, you're not going to get there. So the idea behind M Squared is a radical view. We don't take 20%. We don't even take, you know, we take, I think it's like 2 % is the current number. We don't own the user, you own the user, you own the asset, you own the metaverse. When you went to that baseball experience, you didn't even know it was running on M Squared. But behind the scenes, like the plumbing, like the sort of network that we are, we ensure that all the different metaverse operators on top have the option to do pretty incredibly interoperable things. So avatars can freely move from world to world, items can freely move from world to world. People can create commercial relationships across experiences that don't have to limit them to one metaverse or another. And crucially, because we are targeting companies with massive numbers of users, but very little engagement and monetization, they're actually happy to share users because there isn't always a game on. There isn't always a concert on. And so it makes a lot of sense to create value that way. Now that said, we also are interested in ordinary open source creators. We have a live world right now at construct .msquared .io, it's like a debug space. And we want to let those ordinary creators build content that these bigger brands can bring into their worlds as well. So it's a different model. Yeah, for sure. And I think it really does open up the opportunity here, I think, for a lot of creators and developers kind of going forward. I want to jump over to the demo. And we have a demo clip here of the Construct. And I want to play it for you and then kind of get your explanation of how this works, all that kind of stuff. All right. So we're showing the Construct now. And obviously, kind of walk us through what the framework here is, maybe what the mission is for the Construct. Sure. So the Constructs are completely free, always on Metaverse that is non -commercial. Its purpose is really to create an environment where any creator can walk up to a blimp and just use basically JavaScript and MML to create an object and instantiate it into the world. And it's a way of letting people develop, test, experiment, explore. We host weekly creator meetups in here, which are a lot of fun. I think we did a lecture for a Swiss school here randomly as well. So this is like, oh, there's a dinosaur right there, actually, hilariously enough. It's a completely raw, if you've ever seen The Matrix, this is like the back rooms, right? This is the non -branded, non -professional, non -polished, rough part of the Metaverse where crazy things happen. Someone threw a Daft Punk stage at me, that was strange. The people have made guessing games, hot air balloons, and this is all just made by ordinary creators using an open source language. So Constructs where we test the bleeding edge stuff, it can support about a thousand people off the bat, just as a test base. Interesting stuff. All right, so this is good. I mean, for advancing the technology, obviously, you get a lot of creators in here to really kind of change the game in terms of just the ideation that comes out of this. So very cool. It's just a debug space. It's not something that's intended to house or to be used for consumers. This is really just a place where in the middle of development, and you don't want to deploy it yourself, you might use Constructs. That's pretty much it. And what's interesting is this isn't provided for a lot of other services, which is in the pretty essential environment. Yeah, exactly. So I think that helps kind of go forward. You guys are doing things quite a bit differently. I was looking at this headline right here, obviously you guys are a Softbank -backed startup, but you have a partnership here that's started to roll out, and that is with Google and NVIDIA. So talk to me about what this partnership means for Improbable. So this is the really weird thing about M -squared. It isn't like a normal technology or platform play, in that Improbable is just one supplier of potentially many other suppliers of technology. Like if you want to use a particular streaming service, or if you are a networking provider that's in direct competition with Improbable, and you want to provide your services to companies on the network, you can. So the goal of M -squared is really to facilitate the development and investment in infrastructure by many companies that exceeds the appetite of any one business, and can benefit lots and lots of other companies. One of the main problems with content -based platforms is that they eat so much value that the value that could be created with businesses on top is not created, and this is a way of rectifying that. So you see partners like Google, Ubitus, NVIDIA for streaming, but you can basically plug in any component relevant, different game engines, you can build your own game engine, and the M -squared leadership team, board, and founding team of which I'm part, the goal there really is to, oh this is a very, very old demo that isn't even our current deck that's now on screen, but hilariously enough, still looks cool. But look, our goal really is to invite different providers to contribute value to the network, and it's not exclusive, it's not something where a provider only has to work with us. That's another big difference in view of M -squared. The goal is to create something additive, not to take away from other platforms.
The Dan Bongino Show
Kari Lake: I Know I Can Fix Problems in Arizona
"Gosh I just have so much respect for you and what you're doing I am I am personally really stoked about speaking to you I met you one time At an event it was brief There were a lot of people around you Everybody wanted to talk to you And Carrie I think it's because you have that kind of genocide you know You have this you have a gift I mean I don't want to start with excessive flattery and make you uncomfortable but you do you have a gift I don't see in a lot of politicians And in order to just fight back and instinctively answer a question without having to look like you're going through mental gymnastics Is that a product of your career in the media before You don't see it a lot Is that your media training I think first of all I will take the flattery after awesome If somebody throws me a compliment I accept it You got it I think it is And the fact that I don't really want to be a politician it's gross to be honest Yeah I'm just in this because I see problems in Arizona I think I can fix them I know I can fix them especially with we the people behind me And I don't know how to speak anything but the truth I was just with one of my campaign staffers yesterday And we were talking about we were going on a big interview on Fox And she was telling me some things And she was my trying to tell you anything You're just going to go out there and say what's on your heart What the heck am I even thinking trying to tell you what to say I don't do well being coached on what to say I just have to speak from my heart And if that gets me in trouble sometimes so be it I'm here to speak the truth I'm not a good liar But apparently even though I'm not a good liar we're doing well in politics because people are ready for the truth Authenticity and somebody who's going to push back against all that we know is wrong in society and in this world right now
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"seeing problems" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Would she does the fed interpret market action is the key point I'm trying to do or the quick question I got to ask. That was interesting because she was saying markets are fine right now. We don't see problems. We don't see any reason that with market turmoil that would cause us to stop. And I guess one takeaway from that is one of the levers, the fed polls is by raising rates they want financial markets to react. I mean, they want financial conditions to tighten and that means a higher dollar and higher mortgage rates and presumably lower bond and stock prices than there's a wealth effect through which the economy is slowed. And so I think up until now, they have seen these financial market changes and if anything, our place by it because that's part of their goal is to slow the economy and they haven't seen anything disruptive. The most disruptive thing obviously has been recently out of the Bank of England and what's happening in the UK. But that is not alarming enough right now. I have to say that Janet Yellen said pretty much the same thing in a CNBC interview just a couple of hours ago. At the time, I felt like some in the market might think that they're asleep at the wheel that they're not seeing that some of these things could be visiting U.S. shores, but it seems at least at the moment they feel comfortable. And actually, they're not really being very successful in bringing unemployment up, are they? No, no, you have unemployment at three and a half percent. And you just had another fairly big jobs report, meaning that job creation ordinarily should be to just account for the trend growth in the labor market would be around a 100,000 and they're going more than twice that
Bloomberg Radio New York
"seeing problems" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"From Bloomberg world, headquarters I'm Charlie pellet, we begin with the developing story, stocks lower across the board, but first we have headlines from Atlas worldwide holdings on Apollo led group is in advanced talks to buy Atlas air this according to Dow Jones, shares of Atlas surging now by 10.1%. Boeing, meanwhile, gaining ground on a double case of good news today giving the plane maker a much needed lift after months where few breaks went its way Boeing, member of the Dow rallying by 6.2%. Stocks lower though across the board with the S&P now down by 21 points a drop of 5 tenths of 1%, the Dow is down 101 a decline right now of three tenths of 1% that has a stack composite index lower now by 50 points. That is a loss right now of just about four tenths of 1%. Ten year yield 2.61% we do have the two year right now yielding 2.90% spot gold up two tenths of 1%, 1769 the outs while West Texas intermediate crude is declining by 5.3% at 93 45 a barrel. While as for the economic backdrop, Lara reign is chief economist at FS investments. Right now, Q three GDP is actually shaping up to be positive. A small positive, but I think we really need to wait that there's another shoe out there to drop and it's the jobs and the fed probably said that about ten times. That to them, they're really going to continue to address inflation, primarily until they see problem with the jobs. And again, we do have crew down by 5.4% poor manufacturing numbers a claw across the globe, fueling concerns that are global slowdown may staff demand. Oil stocks lower ExxonMobil down 3.3% BP's ADR is down 1.8% Chevron down 2.6%. I'm Charlie palette and
The Stuttering John Podcast
"seeing problems" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"That's a damn good. You don't have there you go. There you go. That's why you're my resident genius. So I saw problems is what I do. Yes, I am. Absolutely. I'm an incrementalist. Dear God. Who would have thought that incrementalism is the means by which healthful change occurs? Said everyone who understands diet and exercise. But anyways, yeah, I'm glad I'm very excited. It's a huge day. I just cracked 30 K as far as subscribers on YouTube last week, and that was a big step for me. We were hunting for that number for a while. I can't do it. Man. Yeah, I don't know what Trump has done working today. Congratulations. Thanks. And I'm already at 30.4..
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"seeing problems" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"New. Pedia new pedia was sexually supposed to work with wikipedia alongside it but didn't end up working that way. So experts had no role at all in the in the system. They just had to work Side by side shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of anonymous in some cases dim wits. And of course that's going to drive them out and it did so at the end of two thousand one the beginning of two thousand sorry end of two thousand and two the beginning of two thousand three. I actually made an ultimatum to jimmy wales. I said look you you do something about these difficult people who have overrun the project. That are driving out the good people and you also throw the expert to bone of some sort. Give them some sort of key role in the system approving certain versions of articles or whatever. Give them a group to work with. And then you know i. I won't leave. But if you don't i'm going to have to leave because i just can't i can't Approve of what's going on anymore. And jimmy wales. I think he liked that idea of meat. Completely leaving because it seemed to be very easy for him to to say okay. yeah. I don't really see problem. I don't see the problems that you're identifying in the project so So i left and dive never regretted leaving Well this is one of those things and i think. That's maybe it's a tie in to you know when you were over at ever a pdf. It's like throwing those experts abound. Let's let the let the experts. Earn some crypto over their time and their knowledge. And and maybe let them you know. Have some have some Fact checking but just anti-bias a checking in there because it's like or if you're biased there at least these the you least need to know that it's by honesty. That's all just honesty. A that is a virtue that we should aspire to. And i think when people are trying to put out an agenda. They're not being honest..
The Virtual Entrepreneur
"seeing problems" Discussed on The Virtual Entrepreneur
"Lineup trinity now is it. Business person isn't enterpreneur wanting to really understand is that you paid to solve people's problems right. Enterpreneurs have chose to see that within these problems and russians is a trinity's right and so what will while one mindset. Stop you track for moving forward. The other one's actually rates you fought right and what i mean here is. You've come to a stop where there's a problem one way to look at. This needs to say well go forward in. Stop turn around. But i know as say. This is exciting. I wonder what else is beyond. And this becomes a way of looking at this challenge by overcoming. This challenge is the only way to move forward and so as independent as we paid to see problems and pushes and roadblocks as paternity because everyone has a project in mind they have worked at doing and they want to go from where they are to their results in.
NewsRadio KFBK
"seeing problems" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"Risk cut by 64%. Look, it works. Okay? It works. Numbers show it works, You know, I mean, one of the things that we were promised by our political leaders. We're going to follow the science. Well, that didn't necessarily always happen as we all well know, but the science that's coming in right now on Visor and Madonna, Johnson and Johnson. The vaccines do work. And then they're being very successful and every day we have new stories we just talked about the mayor of New York came out this morning, said We're opening up fully. Yeah. July one yet theaters, restaurants, bars rifle on tourism, he says July 1st Bill de Blasio, New York City It's on I also new study out on the covert 19 the long haulers. We hear a lot about them. Study now says that Cove in 19 long haulers it their genes are actually altered. And so that's why they may continue see problems like skin problems, shortness of breath, losing sense of taste and smell and that it's actually altering the jeans. This virus sticks with him for a log out of Texas Tech going to talk about gossip. And the site. There's science behind gossip. Did you know I didn't see it? But I think a lot of people are maybe missing the gossip at the office. All right about I'm sure they are. You can't keep up on. Well, Joe and Sally you're doing. Maybe they're zooming gossip. All right, We're gonna talk about gossip. Is it good for us? Bad for us in the science behind it. Today while you drive home covering Sacramento, Northern.
Side Hustle School
Childrens Librarian Builds Bra Business
"Alison alexander. Saw problem took it upon herself to find a solution in two thousand fifteen. She started doing cross stitch quickly became passionate athlete. She continued to workout. Her body began to change and then came the problem. She was more muscular than she was before and her sports bras didn't fit right. She tried shopping for new ones. But the options available on the market didn't fit. Well either. She was also bothered by the fact that muscular women weren't often showcased at she didn't feel seen allison wanted to change that for both her and women who look like her muscular and strong. That's why she started. Kfi t fitness apparel brand geared toward female strength athletes to launch the business alison turn toward another brand. She had tried to start in two thousand ten back then. She was in the midst of battling postpartum depression and needed something to focus on so she sold some of her daughter's old clothes that she was outgrowing. It took off quickly. She called it. Kids fly to in two thousand. Thirteen allison took her online success and open to boutique and ever she says now was a huge mistake. She quit her job to run the store and soon realize she hated it. Kids fly to faltered after that she went back to work two years later with the bones of a business already in place she built. Kfi notice there of the initials come from the kids clothing line. Kids fly to when pivoting from business that no longer work for her. Allison who also works fulltime as at children's librarian to take the part she did enjoy and explore new ways of doing it for example one store that already offered sports bras was lou limit. It's an incredibly popular brand allison. Says she felt it catered to thinner women. She bought a bra from them and began some online research searching to find a manufacturer she connected with a few of them and had samples eight samples of bras designed to fit women with muscular backs when she became wearing the samples to the gym. Several other women ask about them. Seeing this interest you decide to invest in several colors. One style of bra and watch a jim listed a photographer. Who was hoping to start a portfolio and we'd take product photos for free. Then she created a shabat by sight and chose ship station to manage everything associated with shipping. And by the way. Thank you ship station. They are also our partner of the show but they have nothing to do with editorial so it's just always fun to hear when they're actually helping one of our case studies alison connected with local cross. Fit women who competed at elite levels the local athletes and introduced her to cross women who are nationally recognized. She even had whole teams of women order custom process to wear at large cross bit events that were well photographed and that resulted in organic marketing per calf. Now let's talk about start up. Costs low. start up. Costs alison salts personal items for two hundred dollars. She then use that money to buy sell and trade her way up to two thousand dollars which then invested in her first set of inventory was able to keep costs so low because she kept that first collection of inventory small and shopped around for the best most cost efficient manufacturer currently kfc averages a profit of five thousand to seven thousand dollars a month. Alison markets are products primarily on instagram and an active email list. She's used paid ads only a few times and prefers instead to identify influencers. She now has an ambassador team of more than one hundred women to market products. She says micro influencers those with a good amount of followers but not a very large amount. She says they've been a big key to her. Success and to never underestimate someone's value based on the number of followers as kfc has grown allison added to the types of year. She offers she noticed that the business attracts different types of women. Now some of whom don't do cross fit currently offers tank top shorts leggings and more. She tends to stick to basic styles offering them in different colors and prints which she believes encourages repeat buyers these repeat buyers or where the magic happens because it takes a lot less effort to retain customers to acquire them. Once she has a customer she can email them to show off new products. Subtly prompting them to order again a big deal in a crowded online space. She knows that she has customers who bought during her first product launch. Who still shop with her today. Looking to the future alison plans to wrap up her graduate degree in leadership which aids both kfc and the coaching business. She recently started. That's focused on working with other women who have us women like her. Who saw problem and set out to solve it
WSJ What's News
Countries across Europe suspend use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine over blood clot fears
"Has joined the list of names putting a pause on the astra. Zeneca covid nineteen vaccine. As we reported yesterday france. Germany and italy have temporarily stopped administering the vaccine after a small number of patients experienced blood. Clotting the astrazeneca vaccine hasn't been given emergency authorization in the us yet and it's one of four different vaccines that have been approved in the eu but the decision to suspend its use comes as much of the eu is seen an uptick in cases as more virulent strains of the virus outpace vaccinations. What will this mean. For the overall vaccination efforts in europe the journalist any strasbourg has been covering the vaccine. Roll out from the start and joins me jenny. Welcome thank you very much. Nice to be here jenny. We got the news yesterday. That spain france germany and italy are suspending. The astra zeneca vaccinations but they are not alone last week. Denmark pause the shots than norway ireland. The netherlands followed suit as someone who has been on the story early on. Is this collective movement surprise to you. Well so i think a lot of what's happening is the cautions building right so it we're not saying we're not seeing new cases reported as much as we're seeing countries saying look we're gonna wait for the european medicines regulator to essentially do their review. Were expecting the they're called the ama. We're expecting that agency to say something about it. It's been looking into these reports because it all started about a week ago with some reports out of austria and there was one batch that they stopped you that austria stopped using but they kept using the astrazeneca vaccine. It was really last thursday that denmark norway iceland stopped using the vaccine altogether. It's been building up since then but they're all kind of citing for the most part. I mean it's fast moving but they're all citing you know the same investigation that's happening the same review of safety. So you're seeing a bunch of new reports pile up just a lot of a lot of shared caution. We should mention. Astrazeneca has said the number of cases of blood clotting among people in the eu and uk who have received a shot is lower than for the general population. Jenny we had this big push to get as many shots in arms as possible as quickly as possible but there have been some hiccups in the eu. What does this all mean for the broader effort to accelerate the population. Yeah well i mean it's really bad timing. I mean europe has been sluggish in its vaccine. Rollouts ms we've chronicled in great detail in and then the same company astra zeneca is been under massive political fire for shortcomings than their deliveries. This quarter and next quarter or hundred million doses fewer than they projected. You know that was a huge huge thing late last week again. I mean it's not. It's not good but we also don't know how long all these countries are saying. This is a temporary cautionary measure. We want more information. We just wanna make sure we're not making a mistake. The uk has said keep vaccinating people with shy. We don't see evidence we've done eleven million plus doses of this vaccine. Were not seeing problems if we were we. Would we would say hunting. And even you know. There's an international association has devoted to thrombosis clotting issues and they're saying we don't think we think the cove nineteen with blood. Clotting is actually greater than the use of the vaccine but look if your a country in your people are asking questions is a safe you. You wanna be able to tell them. It is so some people are saying. Look the systems working like the risks are being assessed. And that's what we want. As part of your reporting you have talked to a lot of scientists and researchers during the pandemic any idea about. Just how big of a concern. There is about safety at this point. I mean look this. This vaccine has not raised red flags about severe safety concerns. It's been the large scale. Clinical trials have mainly thrown up results. Showing mild to moderate. You know side effects or reactions. Really they're not even so severe be called side. Effects like soreness in the arm stiffness chills about headache stuff. That goes away over a few days so this. This is all pretty new for this vaccine. The concerns about safety and at the same time though as every as regulators including the european medicines regulators pointing out they see more instances of severe blood clotting in the general population than have been reported in relation to post vaccination. So you know causality is difficult. It's a difficult question. Are people ill. And as millions of people get vaccinated. Some of them will will show problems. There have been a couple of there have been some deaths. Would they have happened anyway. You know causing showing link between the vaccine and the illnesses and the conditions can be very difficult especially out of clinical
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"seeing problems" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"On the same brain systems in the exact same way as drugs or alcohol so people can very much self medicate through daily. How early are we seeing problems develop and kids? Well, this is one of the behaviors that can start quite early. I mean, you know, almost every house has a deck of cards or dice and many people myself included. Have learned to play cards or decent counting games. You know, with my grand parents at a very early age playing hard for you. Nope. Enea Enea point what we see when we talked problem gamblers that that if they're in treatment now What did you really start came with seriously for money. The average North America you you you want wouldn't get for for for men and women. What would your award you guessed? I would think late. High school early college 10 years old for males, 12 years old for females. What this is when you talk 12 years old for females when you talk to problem gamblers in treatment, and you ask them when they started gambling seriously for money. You know what? What is your first memory of? You know what? When was that? First bet that really that that first rush of excitement You felt they report extremely early. And we know that's actually a big predictor. We know that the early start to gamble, the more likely you are to have a problem and again that that tracks with Drugs and alcohol and smoking and things like that, But, yeah, it starts so much earlier than people think. What are they gambling on it at 10 and 12. It could be anything from Pokemon cards. Obviously, sport is very popular. Okay, the top four things the kids gamble on before the age of 17. Our lottery sports. Personal games of skill and cards so I can hit the ball farther than you can know. You can't Yeah, and again, you know, gambling is part of our culture. It's part of growing up, you know, learning how to take risks and judge things so I love that gambling. In fact, a lot of it, although it may not be desirable is not necessarily pathological. But we do know that their early start, you know, for first, some small percentage of kids do start that early making get hooked on that rush and can lead to some, you know down the road can have devastating consequences. So the thrill of winning at that early of an age Really defines them going forward. Yeah, I think that the prototypical story would be the kid. He goes with his ghost in track with his uncle. It's also gives me five bucks. And he puts it on the red jockey because he likes the color red. Okay, 50 to 1. Long shot it comes in. So now you know, he's now got, you know $200, and he's up on his uncle shoulders And there's that real that excitement that Every hooping and hollering and clapping. And, um, um, they may chase that same high for the rest of their lives. I'm reminded of that scene in the Bronx Bronx tale where the Little kid's sees throwing craps. And winning and all the guys are high fiving him anything. She's the big guy in the neighborhood for doing that, Yeah, For most kids, it's not going to turn out that way. But, you know, we know that for some kids it does. Now the first experience I really had with gambling ever. And this is why I said late high school early college Woz and see Double a pool. Our pools considered gambling. They are considered gambling. And it's interesting to think about a lot of our gambling law really takes back toe, You know, 17th 18th century English law. U S law basically that the quick primer for everyone, especially folks. They're playing on the Internet. Right now, you know people they're in office pools isn't unless it's been specifically made legal. In your jurisdiction. It is illegal. In other words, US law treats gambling is a vice where it's not permitted unless it's specifically Li life. Look at all these questions about is my Internet book illegal and can I play poker on the Internet ball block and unless you can show me a specific long where your Legislature has said this is Specifically legal than it is presumptively illegal. S so yes, the pools that you participated or probably. Now what you know, it's seen by law enforcement General is a victimless crime. But, you know, technically, uhm yeah, there are laws, eyes is pretty far out of date. When it comes to what people do? Yeah, because I mean, we've got so many things to talk about this hour between Internet gambling and casinos, which are now everywhere. They're not just arena in Atlantic City and in Vegas. We have more than I can count within a few hours of driving. Yep. E mean I could get to one soon if I needed to. Um, And I mean, this is therefore it's It's hitting all different ages. But you know, kids can play poker on the Internet for real money. Which is it Zvehr e scary stuff going on right now. Think, gambling his his change in her in our culture and society over the last 20 years and on the hell we haven't quite caught up to some of the impact. It is to say we've always been a nation gamblers, you know, risk risk taking an entrepreneurship or are part of the American didna. You know, we we do tend to take risks for the other folks, and I think that that leads to some great things. But the downside is gambling used to be fairly rare, and what was available was generally small stakes. Now gambling is everywhere, and you can bet for incredibly high stakes. Now gambling is gambling used to be sort of Seen but not heard. Now it's being full fledged, sponsored by state governments is a good way to balance budgets, sort of fun schools, So I think the way we see gambling and legalized gambling Has really changed in and I think that's gonna replications down the line that we're not fully aware of. Yet. This is Hannah Stanley, an ESPN 1000 year listening to be on sports, and we're talking to Keith White, who's the executive director for the National Council on Problem Gambling. He eats What Keith? What's your website? If people want more information? Yes and The key gambling got Warg that stands for National Council problem gambling dot warg. All right, so if you want more information, you can go to Keith's website. He just gave you are mine. I will have a link to his and and some other places where you can Get some help. If you do need it or get more information on that's going to my Web site at ESPN Chicago dot com..
KSFO-AM
"seeing problems" Discussed on KSFO-AM
"Their invited to this this special party, But they have to bring their puzzle piece and they're in this journey of finding their their puzzle piece that plays into the grand puzzle at the end, and you know, and they also find their purpose by helping one another, and they get to this Grand party and Bronco has his piece toe put into the grand puzzle, and it's the last piece and they find out That they all have a piece to play. Just like we all have a piece to play in life. You know, I also won every single boy or girl that reads This poker hasn't read to him to understand how the book ends with the last three lines that you're unique. You're special. You're wonderful. And I want every single boy or girl to know that t dream about that. And to understand that because when we understand just how special we were created, I really believe that it changes a life. Well, Bronco. The main character is named after a dog that you loved and lost. That's a nice way for sort of two, you know, immortalized this dog. Uh, you even gave the dog glasses. Your dog had some seeing problems. And the kids in the book I understand are named after kids that you met through your wish program. Yes, that's exactly right. Um, All the rest of the characters were named after some amazing young boys and girls that I had the chance to get to know that have lost their battle andare looking down from us, but hopefully this was just a small a way of being able to honor them. And they're amazing fight and also for them living out. This story of every single one of them were Um or, uh um, amazing and being able to live out this story of having purpose every day and helping one another in their highs and in their lows, and they just they were so unique and special and wonderful, and I just wanted to be able to honor them by putting in this book. Tell listeners about the charity. What do you guys do? Well, that's into your foundation. Our mission statement is to bring faith open love that those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need and really just sum that up. It's the really fight for people that can't fight for themselves. And so we do that in a number of ways, whether that's with our hospital that takes in sick, hurting kids and give some physical, emotional and spiritual healing. Whether that's our wish Wish program where you give kids with life threatening illnesses, their wish. Whether that is, um, orphanages around the world are night to shine, which is a worldwide problem for people with special needs Its our work against anti human trafficking where we try to rescue as many as possible and restores many as possible through safe home through safe homes all around the world. Our goal is in whatever way when people are hurting and they have been livin LA. Past or look down or looked around that we don't look around them, but we see him and we helped him and that's really our mission to fight for people that can't fight for themselves. I mean, you and your family have devoted Your lives to charity and helping people. This isn't just you know nothing against some other charity. But this isn't just an athlete throwing their name on a foundation. This is in your life. Yes, sir. It will be. You know, until my last breath and hopefully still a long time after that, because it's just not something that we do. But we really believe that it Zapata of who we are and what we want to do with our biggest purpose and callings and passions in life. Is not to play or win a game. But to be able to change another life for the better and especially at TCF to fight for those that others haven't you know whether that is special needs, whether that is those that have been thrown away. Whether those that are being trafficked around the world here in our backyard or around the world, it's You know, we want to be able to create an army of people that say no longer on our watch. No longer is it good enough for this to happen when we could do something about it? And that is our purpose. And we believe that is our calling pandemic. Been hard for the charity hard for these families that you've been talking to It's been hard for a lot of people, but I also got to tell you on the other side that it has been amazing to see the support. It has been amazing to see the stories. It's been amazing to see how people have rallied together in so many different ways. And so while it has been really tough for a lot of people we've also seen you know the best that a lot of people have the offer and rallying and we've seen that in so many different ways. I know Families that has been months, dropping off food houses with sweet letters and cards and knocking on the door bell and then leaving and just having so, so people that are hurting. We'll just have warm meals. You know, we got to, um, you know, in certain areas around the world where there was huge starvation, you know, we've never really been Um, you know big into that We've been a different forms of ministry, but you know, we we needed answer the call, So we fed over 100,000 people during Cove it in multiple, different countries. And so it's just, you know, trying to step up and rally where there's need and where we could could step into that fight. Spring training couple weeks away. I assume you've been staying in shape. You ready to go? You haven't had any of the play for for what a year and a half now. Yes, we've been staying in shape. Excited will be heading in a cage in just a few minutes. So I'm really looking forward to it. Especially after not getting a chance last year. You have any idea any idea where you're gonna spend the summer? Most of them, you know, I'm just focused on spring training first, and then we'll take it from there. Okay, Uh, you got Super Bowl plans you many traditions. Uh, you spent a few months there's a teammate of Tom Brady Did any surprises all the CM stilic selling at this age this many years later, Um, I'll tell you what it's not that much of a surprise, because you know his work ethic is focuses Intentionality..
UX Podcast
"seeing problems" Discussed on UX Podcast
"Of evolution and learning and saying. Oh we don't always get it right but here's how we're trying to improve. Here's our commitment to you to improve And i think one of the very recent examples of that is if we look at the organization zoom when they've been in such a spotlight because they're they're kind of in everybody's screen in your face because you're in their faces Most of every day and Over the past year. They've been really challenged by that because their user base has exploded tremendously like they were originally targeting business users that were supported by it departments and then within a few months into twenty twenty suddenly. They're supporting hundreds of thousands more users most of whom didn't have it departments because there are people calling in from home or preschool teachers or college instructors or people that were looking to set up happy hour with friends or Or a family meal virtually and they were calling in with the support of an it department or anybody. Saying here's how you do that. Securely here's why you might want to have a password or a waiting room on that. And as a result they started seeing problems with zoom bombers and And other issues of security and yeah the organization could have said. Hey you're using it wrong. We didn't intend it to be used like this by so many people at once and instead on I believe it came out. On april first their ceo Can release this long mea culpa blog post saying. Yeah you know. We've made improvements but we're still seeing problems and and we realize we can support you better. Here's what we're going to do. Here's what we're already doing and It was just a wonderful point of vulnerability where i think he did everything right because he accepted blame in the singular i i think his posts started out by saying i'm sorry and then he brought into credit to people that were making changes. He made that plural to say. Here's what we're going to do differently..
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"seeing problems" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Government facilities. Moving forward to CBS is to call skein got. The government says the threat will persist through April. They're urging state officials to remain on high alert as well by 33 traffic and weather together, the Subaru retailers of New England all wheel drive traffic on the threes. Where are we seeing problems or are we seeing problems Might do we do have a problem up to the north Here, Ben, it turns out we've got a situation on the upper end of route 1 28. Let's go right up to the WBC news radio traffic copter. I kind of suspected There was a reason for this back up as we headed up from Burlington 10 minutes ago ensure enough. We've been a crash. Couple vehicles involved North bound rape before Washington Street, Woburn. They're over in the breakdown. Lane actually have already loaded up one of those vehicles and taking them away. But we've got one more to go on the flatbed record state police air here one state of the left to give them a little more room, but it is slow in this area. Kristen AC in the WBC news radio traffic copter elsewhere to the north highways are a lot quieter than usual. Take Route one. For instance, it's wide open off the Tobin Bridge all the way up in the Lynnfield and Peabody, Roots three and 93 North are both good all the way up to the New Hampshire line. We've got troubles on the expressway. I know it's not what you want to hear about North bounce back in a very quickly through east Milton getting word of a crash. Uh, this is gonna be just before that East Milton Square overpass near Adam streets. So be careful there. I believe one lane. At least one lane is blocked there again. This just happened south found is now stop and go mass have to self bay, but not too bad beyond that roots. 24 95 south. They're fine. And so is that lower portion of 1 28. Downtown store. Oh, drives backed up a little bit coming into Lefferts circle. It's like that. Typically, it's slow on the left word up Krampus. Well, the lower deck of 93 is good. So is the second bridge in the mass turnpikes Trouble. Frias. Well, my king.
V103
"seeing problems" Discussed on V103
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"seeing problems" Discussed on WTVN
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KCRW
"seeing problems" Discussed on KCRW
"Audit. Better election. I know that. The Democratic controlled Congress isn't interested in that at all. More than 60 courts have thrown out trump campaign challenges due to a lack of evidence of voter fraud. There were also two recounts in Georgia and a partial one in Wisconsin. Maybe there wasn't any fraud. But tell me what you have a lot of people in this country that don't think so. Don't think that it was a fair election. I'm one of them. Surveys show that large majorities of Republican voters across this country still don't believe Joe Biden legitimately won the election to states to the South in Arizona state GOP this weekend may vote to censure Republican leaders who didn't support overturning that state's election results. But some longtime party activists. They're like Kathleen Wynne said. The very public infighting isn't productive. I do believe that Republicans will come together, but I think it's gonna be for a greater cause. Can't be about being Republican. It's gotta be about the things that we stand for. When lives in rock ribbed conservative Mesa of Phoenix suburb. She saw problems with the election, too, and his upset. Trump isn't getting a second term. But it's time to move on. I think we are still one of the few countries that it was founded on fair elections and freedom. And I hope that that continues through this presidency and That Joe Biden and Camel Harris have AH, successful presidency because ultimately that will be success for our country in conservative America. Many Republicans think their success rests on the party holding onto the coalition Trump built, which includes many first time voters. Spend some time in places like Idaho and it's clear that's not a guarantee in star. A defiant Jason Smith told me he has no plans to vote Republican anymore. After this past election. We just want to be left alone in this country..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"seeing problems" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"I think every American would want To have an audit. Better election. I know that. The Democratic Point controlled Congress isn't interested in that at all. More than 60 courts have thrown out trump campaign challenges due to a lack of evidence of voter fraud. There were also two recounts in Georgia and a partial one in Wisconsin. Maybe there wasn't any fraud, but I heard what you have a lot of people in this country that don't think so. Don't think that it was a fair election. I'm one of them. Surveys show that large majorities of Republican voters across this country still don't believe Joe Biden legitimately won the election to states to the South in Arizona state GOP this weekend may vote to censure moderate Republican leaders who didn't support overturning that state's election results. But some longtime party activists. They're like Kathleen Wynne said. The very public infighting isn't productive. I do believe that Republicans will come together, but I think it's gonna be for a greater cause. It can't be about being Republican. It's gotta be about the things that we stand for. When lives in rock ribbed conservative Mesa of Phoenix suburb. She saw problems with the election, too, and his upset. Trump isn't getting a second term. But it's time to move on. I think we are still one of the few countries that it was founded on fair elections and freedom. And I hope that that continues through this presidency and That Joe Biden and Camilla Harris have AH, successful presidency because ultimately that will be success for our country in conservative America. Many Republicans think their success rests on the party holding onto the coalition Trump built, which includes many first time voters. Spend some time in places like Idaho and it's clear that's not a guarantee in star. A defiant Jason Smith told me he has no plans to vote Republican anymore. After this past election. We just want to be left alone in this country. Trump was our president, and for most of us who still is our president, we still follow him. Kirk Siegler, NPR news star, Idaho.
KGO 810
"seeing problems" Discussed on KGO 810
"Used that song open their show off and on for 25 years. I have been around for about four or five weeks because of the holidays and we had some college football and basketball game, So it's been a while so I'm happy to hear the song again. Everybody out, Michael. Funny. This is consumer talk. The whole idea of this program is to make sure you get your money's worth and who treated well, when you spend your hard earned cash. We have a telephone number. Oh, yeah, Baby, if you want to call in 80808 10, 80808 10 or telephone over our show is produced by Laura's far today our engineer, we have all start Terry Adams. At the helm. Thank goodness we all feel safe. We'll land safely. I know everything is going to be okay. We've got a lot of talk about today because I've been gone for a while. And we just We just had, like a bonus. Eight minutes. I don't know if you heard that we just had a bonus. Eight minutes and I was talking about getting your Corona virus vaccine. And so I just talked about afraid minutes. But let me tell you briefly what I've learned. There's no overarching plan. You'd have people. I say they like small government. Okay, This is small government. Nobody's really keeping track. Nobody's got a centralized plan. Believe me, your health care provider and the large companies center Health Stanford All the all the big help government there are trying Nobody really knows Kind of what's going on. I personally believe within the next couple of weeks. This is all going to get shorted out. Certainly within two weeks after the new administration comes in, although I actually think before that, so why do you need to do in order to know when you're going to get your back to where you're going to check in with your doctor, and you're probably going to have to check in more than once. If your doctor is affiliated with, like Sutter Health care are large company. Like that, Then you'll want to check in with a swell you can pretty much to do this just by going to the website, the California Department of Health Really wouldn't hurt to keep track of that CDC keep track of that. I know it's a lot of work, but if you want a vaccine You might want to start keeping track of all of this. Okay, so a lot of us were concerned if we got the vaccine Because it's a new would we be hurt? We haven't heard anything yet. To start keeping track. When did people first get it? What is your concern? Do you have a scientific basis for your concern? And if so, what's the Times fan? What do you have to worry about? Would tell you to keep track of all of that, too. If you're concerned, I've got quite a few friends in the medical field and I'm not hearing any concern from any of them. And I and I was early before they had The vaccines available, They would say, Well, we gotta you know, I gotta look at I got to see what's going on. I'm not hearing that at all now, so my inclination Now I'm not gonna be up that my inclination Is just to go get the two shots because I don't want to make anybody sick. I feel like I'm healthy and I'm young enough and all of that. I'll be fine. I can get in line. Early. You're in some Because if you're in the media, you you end up being around a lot of people. And so they want to make sure media doesn't spread. Now we're nowhere near the front of the line. We're just not at the end of the line. So it'll be interesting. If you have any thoughts on this. Give me a call. I'd love to hear what your thoughts are A zero a zero a tent on the show today, some of my very favorite people who've got bankrate dot com James Royal coming by from them that Schultz from LendingTree, great guy heard the consumer Van Wiesbaden from consumer checkbook. He changes his affiliation. Her must have a hard time getting along with people. I'm teasing. He doesn't either. Great guy we have. Jeanette Praveen E is going to be coming in pretty sure unending cow pirg. They've got some big news. It turns out And Amazon eyes being accused again by Cal PIRG, California Public Interest research group. This is a consumer group that does a lot of heavy lifting for you. Um and, um camp Urgh. A year ago, said Hey, Amazon. There's a lot of people gouging and it's your responsibility because they're on your platform. And they said that I don't know if it was just the Amazon but everybody kind of what? Oh, Because public interest research group the National or the California version are powerful people and they're smart, and they don't make rash judgments or decisions. So they were saying, What are you gonna Diogo? And if I remember correctly Humans are kicked, like 6000 sellers off Maybe 6000 product. It was a time anyway. So Cal Fergus back saying, Mm. We're seeing problems. So let's let's hear what problems there saying, I think this is going to be interesting. Well, our air has been getting dirtier under this administration for the first time in five years. US gas mileage for new vehicles is down. And emissions the kill people and certainly hurt people with lung issues are up. First time in five years. Um, it's up 50.2 No gas mileage is down. 0.2 No zero point to pardon me. 0.22 tents. Well, you know, over a tank of gas. Yeah. You know, it's costing you money. I mean, you know, here and here in San Francisco, where I live gasoline is so expensive. When you pull up to the pump, they just ask you how much money do you have and give us all of it. Because it's expensive. If you can find a gas station. It's expensive. Um s o. I would tell you that that's probably going to change with the new administration. That whenever people act like global warming is fine, make up your own mind on that. But when they start implementing rules, saying that the car you buy is going to have be less Gas efficient, but that's a problem. The problem for families. It's going to cost you a lot of money. Over the ownership of that car. How much you're gonna live. And you don't even notice. That's the third and we're all buying bigger cars. Everybody needs a giant car nowadays. You know I don't have kids anymore. It's easy for me to talk. Now. It's just like all the people that only ride bicycles and they don't have cars, and then they locate like, well, I just I bicycle You go. Really the little League you and you take your mom to the hospital for appointment Right on your body. Oh, you don't do that on a bicycle. Oh, your mom doesn't live here and you don't have kids. Okay? Yeah, It's pretty easy to be pure pretty easy for me now to be pure. I don't have kids. I don't have a lot of places. I got to go working home pretty easy. And then out for fun. I haven't done that for a year. Oh, man, anyway, so that's terrible. Treasury. Is going to be issuing, issuing. Debit cards for a lot of these economic impact statement payments. That's C Free money You're going to get from the government that they just did. I think it's going to be increased quite a bit. Here's why I'm telling you this because it happened last time. People thought it was junk mail and they threw away debit cards and at $1200 on it. This time for this round. It's gonna have $600 on it..
WIBC 93.1FM
"seeing problems" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
"W Y PC Mobile news on the level on the go. Was the election fair? I'm Madison McGill. Here's what's trending this hour, Chris Davis reports on a group of Republican senators who planned not to vote to accept some of the election results. Different year. Seeing problems. Senator Mike Braun and several other Republican senators say they believe there may have been election fraud in some of those contested states. So their plan is when Congress meets for a joint section to ratify the election come Wednesday. They're not going to accept the results from those states. Instead, they want those states to go back and have a 10 Day review of the election and a special legislative session. Where those states can certify the vote again. Chris Davis 93 WNBC Mobile news Police pulled a Louisiana man over for running a stop sign and found more than a passenger in his car. Two guns, prescription drugs, syringes, marijuana and eight bags of ecstasy. Brandon Robot Child admitted to police in Henry County. The drugs were his. But he wasn't a dealer that didn't stop police from arresting both Rogachev and his passenger Thomas Keaton for possession and more. Dru School of Medicine has seen a 47% increase in applications this year, Assistant dean of admissions doctor Peter Yoon told wish TV. It's because of medical workers setting a good example especially during a global pandemic presses with chief Yoo says virtual classes as well as people giving up their gap year to get started early. They have also contributed to the increase on Madison McGill on the level on the go on Twitter at 93. W A. B C and w E b c dot com Now your forecast from the American standard heating Weather Center cloudy skies with light snow developing after midnight lows of fall to 33 some morning snow on Sunday mostly cloudy with highs near 37. I wish TV Star Trek eight meteorologists here. I like event that's really firm. I'm something a little softer than that Rest easy. But the sleep number 3 60 smart bet you could both be just your comfort if you sleep number setting it really help me fall asleep Faster? Yes, by gently warming your feet, Okay, But can it help?.
77WABC Radio
"seeing problems" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Thank you so much for taking a little bit of time out of your Saturday afternoon Till listening to the show. We're gonna have some great gas son in the next hour. So please stay with us with us throughout the hour. I hope you all had a Very happy and healthy holiday weekend and when we're just getting started, we got a couple of more days until we have to all go back to work, but I wanted before we close the books on 2020. Wanna recite some of the statistics on the economy because I think what you're hearing from the media folks about what's really happening with the American economy. And what is being told to you eyes Grand Canyon divide because the reality is things are not nearly as bad. As the media is portraying things and the Democrats, frankly, because they want to trash the trump economy, even in the last couple of weeks, and what I'm here to tell you this afternoon, I got some of the numbers that just came out. The less Last week or two. And anybody who thinks this economy is crashing doesn't know what they're talking about. And this has a lot of relevance to the need for all of this so called stimulus spending and I'm going to get into that for a minute. Because you all know you've been listening to my show. Hopefully for the last couple of months, and you know I don't buy it. I don't buy that. We need this massive debt bomb. The Congress has just passed. I don't buy it as Joe Biden size that we need another one or $2 trillion of debt bombs in in January, when he becomes president. I do think he is going to be sworn in January, 20th. But let me just recite some of these numbers because they blow me away folks, and I think they will you and it's by the way. I know that most of you listening to the show Live in New York. It's been brutal time for New Yorkers because of the shutdowns of the economy by Cuomo in de Blasio. They deserve a lot of the criticism for the way they have handled this crisis, and I think it's been Shameful the way they've done it. But here we go. Let me let me give you some of these. Just on Friday, The new numbers came out on the unemployment insurance, how many people actually unemployed and collecting benefits from the government. That number shrank. That number shrank in the last week, and it's rank the week before that, as well on this was surprising, everyone said, because of the new round of lockdowns from everywhere from New York and California that we were going to see a huge, huge spike in unemployment. That hasn't happened. That hasn't happened in some areas. It has New York is seeing problems. California seeing problems. My home State of Illinois is saying problems, but in most of the country, there is not an unemployment problem. Now I know that shocks a lot of people because again Your most of your living in an area where your businesses and your stores and your schools are shut down. But that is not the case and half of America and those states are doing very well. Thank you. That's a pretty amazing thing that unemployment people on unemployment is falling and not rising. That's number one. Number two looks less look at the latest data from the Labor Department about the number of openings for jobs. You know, they've been tracking these numbers for 25 or 30 years at the Labor Department, and what they're telling us, according to the latest report is that there are over 6.5 million job openings in America's 6.5.
Coronacast
Victoria takes a deep breath and opens up!
"I'm health reported Teigen Tyler Physician and Journalists Dr Norman Swan on this really important for all pride. Victorians. Chief see the twenty seventh of October. Yes. Finally yesterday in Victoria. The Prima Donna Andrews announced the revised roadmap towards bacteria covid normal and it was a real relief for Victorians and the rest of the nation Norman what sort of the highlights of what Dan Andrews said yesterday because it's the comprehensiveness of the opening up, there is no daily dallying now retail hospitality getting back to work. Yes. There are restrictions on indoor numbers and outdoor numbers. But if you live in New South Wales, you're used to that and that will take a while to loosen up but everything just gets going and later on today the numbers in households will become clearer because that is a high risk environment. But if recycle is anything to go by, you won't really notice it too much and it will loosen up with time zones. There aren't any significant outbreaks. Milestone in starting. To have zero cases and the last time, the state had zero cases when on the ninth of June one hundred and forty days ago. So obviously, there's still probably GONNA be filtering through in the next few days but really, really hot. The. Really hot work that they've been doing paying off you know Sommese. Still be virus in Victoria and you will see the odd cluster popping up as indeed they do new South Wales, but eventually, it will get down to almost zero spread. So it's it's fantastic news. But the premiums, right it's constant vigilance is what's required covered normal does not be normal covered normal means social distancing means not getting together to large numbers too. Early it needs ring really careful at home in means continuing to wear masks outside so. Lucky. That they've got mandated masks. New South doesn't yet. You know hair salons can do services when the clients wearing face covering corona cast listeners will remember that we covered the story in a few weeks ago a few months ago I can't remember now but the flat tackle that's right. The in united. States swear to positive here salon workers did not pass the virus onto their clients by wearing masks insisting that their clients wear masks. So it's really important. So these things will protect US moving forward. One of the things that really stood out to me went any Landrus is talking about what the new normal looks like is how much the rest of the country can learn from this because in places that aren't. Victoria and you South Wales. It's been quite a long time since it's been a lot of virus circulating in the community that we know about at least and I know from my own experience living in Queensland that I think there's a lot of complacency that's crept in and it's probably a good time to just refocusing guy this isn't normal life. We still got a kate how God's up try and it could come in to come in on a ship from overseas. You've already seen problems in western. Australia nobody is particularly safe the risk of spread by open borders and I was extremely low, but it does mean we've all got to be careful moving forward. At some point, international borders are going to have to open up we're going to have to learn what covered normal actually means now new South Wales are ready to move in. You saw the football matches you. It doesn't feel to abnormals in in in in New South Wales, and that's the real feeling in Victoria but I think those two states are better prepared for this. Than the other states and we've got to open up the borders and people just will have to be more careful definitely in Australia where in a much better position than other parts of the world where covered normally is no in knee normal live, and in the states, this disease control have expanded their definition of what a close contact means in terms of someone's ability. To spread the virus if they had this definition by the way, these definitions are fairly arbitrary based on evidence. That's not necessarily very solid. So they had a similar a criterion to us which right at the beginning of the pandemic was sh- you might remember which is he going to be within a couple of meters of somebody for fifteen minutes to have a significant. Chance of passing this on and what we know now is the aerosol spread the lows that's be contravened indoor environments but no the redefined were close contact is if you just think about that as the means of spread and there's no question that a lot of spread is through contact and what they've found is that in fact, you can be in close contact with somebody. Over a twenty, four hour period repeatedly. So it's not just a fifteen minute window. It's actually multiple occasions and it comes from correctional facilities where they've shown that tired the infection was probably cumulative infection over a period of time. So it's no longer fifteen minutes. It's still two meters in the case of the United States, but it can be over twenty four hour period not just one fifteen minute window. So multiple short episodes of content
Untangle
Dr. Robert Brooks Discusses The Power of Resilience and Bouncing Back More Easily
"Thank you so much for being with us on UNTANGLED. Today. Beyond the show. So I want to start with this very broad question because we're gonNA, talk today about resilience, which is such a huge topic in such an important one and I would like for you to define resilience for us. Is An excellent question because different people have different definitions. The definition I basically use is that resilience implies the capacity to bounce back from adversity. Every one of us is going to experience some challenges some much greater than others, but million people problems as things to be overcome rather than be overwhelmed by they see problems things to be solved, and thus they don't feel paralyzed when adversities arises, but rather they tell themselves what are some strategies I can use to deal with this particular versity? All of us. Face, certain challenges, and one of the things that you question rings up this, we sometimes don't know when it may arise, and that's why I believe that preparing ourselves to be resilient. Have a resilient outlook really helps us in terms of preparing us for the many different situations challenges that may arise in our lives. What is that inner strength that propel some people to overcome obstacles and adversity? Given the research con temperament from birth. Some children already have a greater capacity to deal with adversity than others and that doesn't mean you can't learn to deal with adversity put a child's temperament how easy they are whether or not they quickly get frightened or how they start out already could be a certain predisposition for being either less or more resilient, but I wouldn't want anyone listening to this saying. You mean. Set in stone. By the time, we're two years old now, but certainly this the old nature nurture and you really can't separate them. So certainly, our inborn temperament plays. and. Then our life experiences some children grow up in homes where they will have very tomatoes to observe people's solving problems people dealing with conflict while I know from my clinical practice, there are those who basically have never really had models. With, people always are very stressed out with people do not know how to deal with conflict. So certainly, our born temperament at life experiences will play a role. One question I often get is, was it ever too late? Can people become more resilient and I would never have written a book I didn't feel at any age. There are certain things that we can do to help us to develop a greater capacity for it's. My stance has been to look at what are the characteristics of resilient people I started asking. Zillion child or adult see the world differently themselves differently from others and can we incorporate this into our schools in trial pair day an entire own lives by cannot tell you how many parents and teachers and other caregivers basically said to me. Can you help Chalabi resilient if you're not Brazilian and the quick answer is it's more. So, in terms of your question I, do a lot of workshops. Helping kids being resilient when I share with people are what are some of the characteristics of say resilient kids and can we somehow develop strategies to this just to give you one example which is one of my favorites? Years, ago. I was writing a book about school climate and I asked about fifteen hundred adults to fill out an anonymous questionnaire and one of the questions. Wise of all the memories you have school. What is one of your favorite memories at something adult said or did that boosted your dignity and your motivation? One of the most frequent responses was he will recall when they were asked to help out I. Got Answers like I. Remember when a teacher asked me to pass out the milken straws I remember not dress me to tutor young child and I remember the time saying to myself. That's one of the best memories of school. Now know that there's a whole body of research that shows senior citizens who are actively involved in helping others humidity control for other things sleep longer lives and are less stress. We now know that when kids are invited to help other sayings in schools, they're less likely to be bullied. So to drop out. So the past couple of weeks a couple of workshops for educators and one of the things I say kids to be more resilient. Asked. This question does every child in the school every student feel that he or she is making a positive difference in school because that's what brings purpose and meaning. As I said before resilient people see problems this things to be solved rather than overwhelmed boy. So I often pose the question. What do you need to have that belief? One thing is in early age is help them to make decisions so that they started to become good problem solvers with adults. I will often say in my workshops or when I'm dunes therapy have any of you ever face a problem where I thought is I don't even know where to. Start and everyone handles by said Majid this almost every problem you face to felt that way. So situation like that people become over well, they're not going to be resilient at all they become more stress. So with my adult patients, I'll say, so we have to figure out how you can step back and think of different options and different ways of solving things I. Don't WanNa be over-simplistic as I say it is. Sometimes we get so overwhelmed we fail to look at some possible options will be helpful with teachers parents I say, if problems arise in a classroom or home, let's more more s kids how they might sell them. Approach is really been to look at the characteristics of Brazilian children are adults, and then how can you apply these in your own life?
The WoMed
Hacking Our Way to Innovation with Rebecca Love, RN, MSN
"So here. The woman we really love to dig into wine. Nurses decided on that sealed in particular. So what made you want to be nurse so nursing was a second career choice for me? I had gone for Undergrad in a degree in international relations and a minor in Spanish and I thought that I was going to be a lawyer to be honest and I was working on a presidential campaign at the time when healthcare was a big issue. I remember being these rallies and everybody was talking about healthcare and there were no nurses in the audience or a lot of Ernie's or a lot of lobbyists or a whole bunch of people that know nurses and I don't know about you Daniel but my mom's nurse. Do you have any family members who are nurses in your family? My Grandmother was okay and so that was my piddle movement. My mom came out and we went to dinner and she said we really think you should be a nurse and I remember her. It was an interesting time the politics going on and I remember thinking you know what? How can you be a member of? How can you speak to the choir if you're not a member of it and if everybody's talking about healthcare but nobody a nurse here? How do we really know what needs to change? And what the problem. Yeah and that was where my life turns recognizing that to really impact change in healthcare. I probably had join healthcare Do that and that's where my journey began. That's amazing it's topic. I've talked to a couple of friends about we've talked about on here to how there isn't representation in Congress in government of nurses like what we're actually going through what we face on a daily basis. I think that's fascinating at that. Made you change your career path. That's amazing well. It's funny that you say that because the statement that made me change my career path was at my I want you know. I said I wanted to be a lawyer and my mom said to me she said you know there's plenty of strong lawyers out there in the world and she said but I can tell you is being a nurse. There's not enough strong nurses out there. I need more strong nurses on there to change. What nursing looks like to the world and and you to become a nurse and at that time? I didn't know what that meant. I I remember. It felt really importance. But it's now ten fifteen years later that I look back and I recognize those words shaped everything that I've done in nursing every step of the way and I know your own story about how hard times it was for you to be a nurse and how it's challenges we faced how you didn't always feel like you fit in are you also didn't feel like you had a voice and that was hard for me and I'm and how to learn how to navigate. What sometimes feels like a very disempowered profession to become more voicemail and more recognized but more importantly that necessarily placated she but really just given a seat at the table is. Hey you got this. You know what you're talking about and I respect your opinion as much as I respect. Everybody else is around the table. Not so much. Hey I'm just giving it placeholder for a nurse to have at the table. It's really sit there and say we want them here. Because we we get that you guys have value add. That's been really interesting place to come from and I don't know you know in your own personal With your conversation if you guys have felt the same kind of challenges at times yes One hundred percent. And that's something that I think just Added onto years of being like repressed as a nurse that led to ultimately me burning out at the bedside. And that's something that you've been really trying to champion a lot for to in that you know there's this fear like aren't nurses are burning out after two years we're reporting out all these new grads but they're burning out so quickly yeah two hundred fifty thousand nurses. We graduate a year in this country and we lose over fifty percent of them by the bedside within spheres a practice the largest exodus of a profession that nobody talks about and I like you left the bedside as a as an rn. Within two years. I went back to Grad. School became a nurse practitioner for that exact feeling of feeling so like I didn't have that voice and every time I stepped in and I felt like there were so many near misses where I begged you know for changes to happen or orders to be changed or medications to begin our interventions to happen literally knowing that things were going wrong but not having the ability to make those decisions to change. There's outcomes depending on other people to make those decisions and only be given. The toolbox is a nurse to sit there and say well I really think I really believe are really feel that we got to make this big this change or get medication and not giving the tools to actually effectively voice. Why I had the you know the knowledge in the expertise to make those decisions at everything I always did had to be signed off by somebody else because as I was considered for lack of a better world credible enough or had the license or the intelligence to be able to recognize that what we were seeing. Mary made sense it. We should be able to take initiatives to save patient's lives because that was always really hard place for me to citizens to sit there and beg other people and then sometimes it literally and I'm sure you face it if you felt like you were burnt out so often begging to make the changes that we did an often being told. Hey stay in your lane like if you see problems but your job is to be a nurse and to do those things. Your job is not to challenge the way that things are being done and under mentally. That always sat wrong with me Fundamentally because you probably nursing school told hey you're you're the advocate of the patient where you really get on but when we got out in practice man it was tough
The Big Story
A thrilling naval rescue off the coast of Nova Scotia
"When things start to go wrong on the open ocean sometimes they go really wrong really quickly. We make really good boats. We have state of the art navigation systems and we have all the emergency measures in the world to prevent disaster still. We don't belong there. The Sea is not our turf. And if you've ever seen a movie about a nautical disaster it's not that far off from reality about a year ago off the eastern coast of Canada. Things went really wrong really quickly. And all that state of the art technology wasn't working when that happens the boat and its crew can't do much outs but put out an emergency distress call and pray that somebody answers it and that those people are close enough to help and if they're really lucky at the ships that answer. The call are part of the Royal Canadian Navy and are prepared to undertake one of the most dramatic. Rescues that you'll hear about outside of a Hollywood pitch meeting. This is the story of that rescue. I'm Jordan he throwing. This is the big stars. Nick Taylor busy of Maclean's chronicled the whole dramatic tale. An hello first of all what is the McKenna McKenna is a forty nine foot yacht. It's called the Hanse four ninety five. It was on the inside of beautiful boat. I don't know a whole lot of boats but I saw some photos Of the cabin and it was decked out you could wash dishes on that thing you could sleep very comfortably and you could sail the high seas. It's a fairly rich person vessel. Yeah I mean it's the kind of you buy when you have some money to buy a boat. So what happened to her well The owner of the boat was named John Hagen. He's a surgeon who lives here Toronto. And he asked a broker who is in the area where he should by boat so John and the broker whose name was pat sturgeon Had A few conversations and they found the McKenna in Greece. In this Mediterranean port called left us their mission was to buy the boat and then find a way to get her to Canada. How do you get a boat to Canada when you buy it overseas? I mean I guess. There's an obvious answer to that question. Well Yeah I mean you you usually on the water but there are a few options you can. You can bring a boat over in a container ship shipped almost package kind of thing or if you want to maybe save a little money depending or have a little more flexibility you can hire skipper to get on that boat. Hire a small crew and take it where you want. And this is what he did. And that's what he did. So tell me. But the the captain and the crew and and I guess what Rupert Mondro does because this is a job that I didn't know existed. It's an unbelievable story. How he started doing what he's doing he was born in South Western. England in Devon Place called barnstable. He was a trained actor at one point. He had his own company. He went bankrupt. He told me at the age of Twenty Eight. He was Drifting around I think thinking what do I do next at that point and so he got on a boat and loved. It started sailing and eventually he started delivering goods because he was very good. Skipper and so twenty five years. He did that until the he was he was hired to bring the McKenna across the Atlantic But he he's just a natural born c fair when you talk to him about it You know it's it's like he was born on the water and the way people talk about him is a remarkable. They say it's almost as if he doesn't need instruments he he can sail the seas just by sort of you know putting his finger in the wind and saying little now the waves are gonna come this way so we better go this way and You know he has autopilot. And all the fancy instruments but He's he's been spent the latter half of his life Just having fun sailing boats around the world and he's gone almost everywhere so he captained the McKenna taking it. I guess from Greece to Canada. Yeah he he brought crew And a cook And in October of two thousand eighteen they they met in in Greece and they spent a few days. They're getting ready Inspecting the boat making sure everything was in working order. It was by all accounts. A beautiful boat the McKenna was in very good condition and And ready for the voyage. He said By text to John. The surgeon Looking wonderful we're GONNA get going and so. They sailed through the Mediterranean. They had to stop in Italy everywhere. They talked with scenic about away but they stopped in Italy to fix a a steering problem fixed. It kept going. Stop at Gibraltar for a little while whether stopped them from going much. Further few days finally got onto the Azores which was the final stop before the Atlantic crossing Weather stop them again. There's a lot of weather in the late fall in the North Atlantic relatively treacherous waters so They were waylaid for for a while and It it took them quite a bit of time to get from Greece to the stores But then in November they set sail for Halifax what happened well. A lot of bad things happened relatively quickly The the treacherous weather caught up with them again. Rupert had this satellite phone that he borrowed from another sailor and he was able to get weather reports on sort of four or five hour delays. So he would check the forecast and based on what it said he would. He would steer the boat in a different direction. There was a big weather system coming in a big low pressure system from the South who was moving north and he and his crew. We're GONNA try to beat it to the north and they almost got there when you when you look at some of the screengrabs. They have of the of the weather patterns but they didn't quite make it and we're caught in this little arm of what they all refer to everyone involved in this as a hurricane. It was not a named hurricane but it was hurricane-force winds and it had this little arm whipping around and got caught in it and It for twenty four hours totally ravaged the boat crew was hunkered down The waves were were roaring. The wind was ripping through the rigging of the masks on On the on the boat and they were I mean they were they were rolling safely but quite violently through huge waves the kind of waves that you would see in big bad blockbuster movies you know. Not Maybe not the biggest of the big but huge so The weather data and they and they survived that The boats survived intact. They didn't capsize anything. Like that. But When it was safe to emerge in sort of inspect the damage rupert who Never saw probably couldn't fix came out and saw problem he almost couldn't fix because Man It was. Just it was torn. The steering was broken. The rudder was at a place it took some real Seafaring ingenuity to even get the boat. Operable again he and they kept going well. The steering quadrant was broken. The the the sort of mechanism that connects the rudder to the autopilot into the anything you need to actually change direction in the boat. He had to flip it around and turn it one hundred and eighty degrees the steering quadrant and then welded into place. Not Welding really. He had a cables and whatever it was at its disposal that would keep things together and worked. And so he I think the cruise airing macgyver. I got yeah he really was a seafaring macgyver and I think the crew was stunned They they were texting as well back to John. The surgeon who was a little helpless at this point in probably starting to feel a little guilty by boat is in the middle of the North Atlantic Middle North Atlantic. And his crew. That I sent. There's with it in. Oh my God we can even do and so. He was getting texts. They're saying we're pretty sure Rupert Scott under control because he's a pretty you know stoic. Man and And he did and they kept going and then well and then I hit more weather goodness. It never really stopped. They were chugging at this point as fast as they could to Halifax where the boat was gonNA spend the winter before coming to Toronto in the spring but more weatherhead This time the forecast racist dead wrong it. It misled Rupert and And his crew and they found themselves overtaken by a storm that I don't think was hurricane force but was nevertheless the kind of thing that would damage a boat. That's already been that's already damaged it just. His ingenuity was Was unfortunately Somewhat beaten down two to nothing by the storm so they found themselves once it had calmed a little bit and they were able to assess the situation adrift at Sea. What do you do in a situation like that? Well in this case what you do. Is You look for boats in the vicinity of your of your boat? Anybody who can help. You is a savior and fortunately for the McKenna. There were two Canadian navy ships. Who happened to be coming home from a mission a training mission in And War Games in Europe and they were only about eight nautical miles away from the McKenna. When everything went Super Ri- so rupert the captain got on the radio with Peter McNeil the captain of HMCS glaze Bay talked a little bit and Ships turned towards the McKenna it was glaze. Bay and HMCS summerside two coastal defence vessels. Which are two of the smaller ships in the fleet? But by comparison to the McKenna they were quite large and probably looked a you. Know a welcome sight to about adrift without any ability to really go anywhere on. Its own power and then they rescued them and it was no problem. In the story is over everything's Peachy The ship came and they just pluck them out. No it was really difficult. 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What the Tech
Microsoft's most daring Surface ever might be unveiled this week
"We do have a lot to talk about obviously to more. You're here here for the surface of the Microsoft hardware of and not this not a surface event. It's a Microsoft hardware wording here obviously a lot of surface news coming along so I want to kind kind of stick to that and actually at the show I'll give a little review of my iphone eleven pro Max that I've here for about a week and a half now so it's a lot of pros and cons say that there's a lot of nothing but good news from US Review Sandra curious. I'm there's some there's a handful of things not all the sickness. That's making your negative. The sickness made me extremely you like it didn't prevent me from getting a flu supposedly Rowsley Apple Devices prevent illness and injury. You know what that's what I thought but only if I had the air pods any Apple Watch I would have been prevented all illnesses so tim. I'm Cook told me so Paul. What do you want to begin with. This event actually let me let me begin at the end because this is leaking all of the twitter's right now so so as I had speculated for actually many weeks in a row and windows weekly Microsoft is GonNa because I base this on the timing of the event. You may recall that in the spring. They suddenly started testing windows ten version twenty one. The Virgin is not coming until next year. That was very confusing. They've never done anything like that before. It's a Lotta time right yeah and and given that and the fact that such and Adela was coming to this event. I I've been speculating that maybe this'll be the time that they unveil what's going on. Software wise in that release because it must be the basis of this light. Os or whatever we're calling this thing that we've been talking about for a long time and now what has leaked is that Microsoft will announce a new version of windows ten wins ten acts that will ship late next year on new dual screen in folding screen devices does ten x ten ten. Well Yeah right right so this is the first this. Is this the first name. I guess official name change absorb trailer for Windows ten. No no no no so. This is just a new version so we have windows ten home. We have pro enterprise. We have been pro. workstations nations got it so ten. X is another skew. It's and it will only be provided on those devices. It's not something well. I should say I I actually don't know a lot about it right now so I should say I don't you know there's no way that someone with windows ten. homer pro is ever going to be able to update to this or upgrade or whatever it's not a you know. It's like a side hi thanks so it's just another skew in its very specifically for those kinds of devices and so we'll see what else you know. They'll talk about it. they'll show show off a prototype apparently some people upset of what Mary Jo Foley Centaurus and you know look we know Dell and Lynn Ovo have both talked about. I don't know if was falling deal screen devices or one of the one of both whatever those are the number one in three three P. C. makers in the world. Presumably everyone in the top five will announce such a device may be. We'll see one of those Lenovo last year was very or the subsisiary. Actually was very cagey when they said you know it's. GonNa be running windows but they didn't say which version obviously it's going to be this version so yeah that's exciting. I suspect I'm just again. I'm just guessing based on timing that twenty one that version of windows ten we've been testing forever must have the plumbing wing necessary to support those devices and that will actually see the the real world support for it in two thousand eight to which would be a minor upgrade that will ship at this time next year so so that's that's the big news it's kind of like their one more thing you know type announcement right because obviously the focus tomorrow is going to be on the stuff like here's the new stuff that we're. GonNa ship very soon for this holiday season the windows ten x stuff for next year time period but I think they're just prepping the user base really just for the future right so this this is coming windows those who support folding until screen devices. I find it very interesting considering d think they'll show some some sort of you know demo on a rendered device. I have no idea yeah I'm curious about that. I I yeah I'm curious. See I'm curious to see if usually at these events. You don't see you know deller. Lenovo already other company right so I don't know if they're going to either not. I don't know if we're actually going to see their devices in person or anything like that. I don't that I have no idea that demo is for those folding devices. I I know that I know that it's hot now because it's new but coote. Who is it marketed to WHO I remember. It's almost like when the note I came out right the Samsung note and everybody said the way too big for the regular consumer. WHO's this poor. Who needs the phone to be that big and in reality slowly? Every single phone became that Obagi now there's nothing unique about it in that sense but you know right now who sat foldable device for actually the that thing thing that you just mentioned is probably a good comparison because it well okay. I guess it doesn't actually replace another device. I suppose in some ways the died so for a lot of people a FAB type form factor means. They don't have to have a tablet and a phone right so they have this thing. That's kind of inbetween in a does both things well. You can watch movies and read. It's like a big enough screen. I think that this new device type folding a dual screen devices kind of fall into the same type of category where in in this case what you might be preventing yourself or not having to carry any Moore's laptop right that this thing will will be a phone or a small tablet form factor to begin with and it's easy to carry but when you need the bigger screen you can kind of open up. It's it's sort of the same value proposition gas as you know a folding smartphone right. It's when you need it. You know you get the bigger screen and so I'm I'm curious to see how Microsoft presented that I mean the surface team has proven itself to be very averse to leading edge technology right. They still don't support thunderbolt three for some reason so what what would make them jump on the bandwagon with this kind of thing they must have some pragmatic rationale for it. They don't tend to just do things to kind of nuts not so part of it is probably pressure from PC makers you know in the same way that Samsung and Weiwei and whatever must have gone to go and say hey guys. This is the new trend you've got support this android they did even though they don't today provide their own folding vice of any kind and they don't seem to be making one. Microsoft in this case is making one so very interesting because we'll say very. It's very interesting considering. This is something that we've been I berth for all that changes a lot doesn't and this was probably one of the first major topics we discuss when you and I started started doing podcasts courier was a foldable windows based device or Microsoft device that a lot of people were excited for in two thousand nine or two thousand and two thousand ten right when I think he mark thousand career exact timing yeah I mean we go back to it because it kind reminds me of this because we we had the scene discussion where who is marketed to US vice four and can't catch catch on. I'm not convinced that why and Samsung are going to have a la- major success with their foldable devices with their foldable yeah. Maybe it's something that happens over time I the the note was immediately successful in it triggered a a real change in the industry. Even apple eventually jumped on board. Obviously the the folding thing it's GonNa take a while but part of the reason is just the reliability issues right. You're seeing problems with their redesigned designed. Samsung Galaxy fold and so it's GonNa take a little a little take a little while. I do think that because. PC's are bigger and bulkier devices compared to phones that the reliability issues have a chance of not being a serious and there are some productivity arguments. You could make around in having a bigger screen at your disposal so we'll see. I mean some of it's going to be hokey. It may not you know the whole thing may not fly. I don't personally other than the whole yeah. It's cool the thing I mean I. I don't personally see a use case for it. So a lot of people said that about like we said the note. I remember remember when I when I think jokes holding like an ipad up to like I had one sent me by. At and T. to review and I loved it. I praise the device I I thought the more battery life and that thing remember Android at that point wasn't as refined as as it is now at all bit rot was way worse than it was today. These things were were the soft software wasn't as sophisticated as it was on the iphone at that time so I love the phone and I gave it a praising a great review view where the battery life was a necessity and other other manufacturers should catch onto this large display and
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Meet the company training up more diverse startup founders
"This. Marketplace podcast is brought to you by Colgate. University now in its bicentennial year. Colgate university is celebrating a proud tradition of intellectual rigor at it's beautiful campus in central New York. The deadline for early decision this November fifteenth. Learn more at Colgate dot EDU. And by the alternatives podcast. How is artificial intelligence impacting people's lives today. Find out with the alternatives podcast new series called human stories of AI, you'll meet people like a widower who talks to an AI chat bot, help him processes grief and a truck driver who fears self driving trucks are eliminating his job. Listen at all turtles podcast dot com. Or find the alternatives podcast wherever you get your podcasts. The meat company trying to train up a more diverse generation of startup founders from American public media. This is marketplace tech demystifying the digital economy. I'm Ali would. Only about one percent of venture capital backed startup founders are black according to CBS sites. Data even fewer are black women or Latino. There's not a lot of age, diversity geographic, diversity and underrepresented founders. Don't always have access to the networks or the training programs that can help them get startup funding. Mandela Dickson is a former public schoolteacher startup founder and was a mentor for entrepreneurs at the firm Cape or capital about a year ago. She created founder, Jim, which is an online only training program for would be startup founders. I talked to her the afro tech conference last week in San Francisco. Just like if you want to be a lawyer, you go to law school, if you wanna be a doctor you go to medical school, right? But there is no school for people who wanna be venture capital backed startup founders in often times the schools that are formed are informal right by your networks and a lot of underrepresented founders. Don't have the people in their networks who've raised venture capital who've Ben venture capitalists. So we're. Literally, creating kind of from the ground up this first Ebba curriculum, specifically tailored to meet the needs in how a deep level of empathy for the lived experiences of underrepresented founders. So tell me about the Taylor like what is different about the message that you give to underrepresented founders. What are the first activities we do is actually called differences as strengths, and it really is actively for founders to reflect on what makes them unique how because you didn't grow up where these other people grew up because you went to different schools and were exposed to different things that your purview is different in the world. And that you're able to see problems other people don't even know exist, and that's a competitive advantage because most people out there, are you mostly will out there are not from fluid background. And so the problems that you're going to go out and solve will actually help the majority of people since it's online only talked to me about the network building. Because I know that's a big thing that people talk about when they come out of us of an accelerator in there with a class, and they really have. It's sort of like we were all eagle scouts together. Baen it's huge. How do you create that in a in an online experience straight question? So that's actually one of the biggest things I underestimated Meyer, original hypothesis for founder, Jim was that it was a curriculum was a language barrier that the reason people were not succeeding here from certain groups was because they didn't speak the language. Well, what I grave underestimated was that people were looking for a community these individuals again, they're only in their world. They may be the only black or Brown or let LGBTQ are older founder in their circle in. So how we structure network it's in we're very intentional. We do affinity groups on a weekly basis. We also do peer trainings. So it's not just the expert trainers who have the knowledge we actually elevate the founders within our community to train each other Mandela Dixon is founder and CEO of founder, Jim incubators and exceleron for underrepresented, founders are becoming more. Common. Although experts say it'll be hard to change the industry for good until the venture capitalist themselves. Become more diverse and now for some related links. I did find some hopeful news about the tech industry, relatively speaking. An off Ed in entrepreneur magazine from about a week ago notes, a big upsurge in the number of events focused on women and investment, partly because successful women entrepreneurs are funding the next generation of founders and also because we're just talking about it a lot still only two percent of BC funding went to women at all in two thousand seventeen far less to women of color. But it's a good read binded utter website. Marketplace tech dot org, and before we go a super quick story that you might have missed and all the Amazon hubbub earlier this week. Google is not to be outdone. It said it also plans to double its workforce in New York City over the next ten years, reminding us that the ranks of the underrepresented in the tech industry are also anyone who's not in about four major metropolitan areas. A recent report on venture capital activity from pitchbook and the national venture capital association. Included what it said was a shift in attention towards startups in non coastal regions of the country. The report noted quote this trend hasn't quite surfaced in the data yet, but positive sentiment and interest are emerging. We'll see I'm Ali would. And that's marketplace tech. This is a PM. Hi, I'm Zach and I listened to marketplace in Arlington Virginia. I think what I appreciate the most about marketplace's their ability to take the economic news of the day issues such as tariffs rate hikes and tax reform cut through the political noise, and clearly and concisely explained not only how these issues affect our country and the rest of the world, but how they impact people like me. I hope you'll consider joining me as marketplace investor and donate today at marketplace dot org to help make their work possible. This marketplace podcast is brought to you by Amazon web services. Did you ever wonder how we're streaming millions of movies on demand or doing our banking from the beach and how we're watching a live mission from Mars smart business minds dreamed up those ideas and Amazon web services is how they built them with the broadest functionality and the most experienced leading enterprises trust the AWS cloud to build the next big idea. Are you ready to build it? Learn more at AWS is how dot com slash podcast.
The Nice Guys on Business Podcast
How to get your ideal client's attention
"To capture your ideal clients attention, whether it's online on your website on social media, or if you're at a business of dent and you're meeting people, who are your potential clients, you want to use language that is their language. You want to describe. The things you help people do because most entrepreneurs you either help. Someone solve a giant boulder of a problem, right? That's blocking them hats, the rest of their life, right? Or you help them chief this giant dream. That feels like it's as far away as Mars. So when I ask people to get clear on their ideal client, it's really getting down to it's even more than a niche. You've got a target market, you think of his beach fall right now, then you think of a niche market? Well, that's a medicine ball, like a workout, all of its smaller, and that's that's a good start. But I like to say, go further drill down to the diamond in the centre, your perfect ideal client and get to know them better than they know themselves get to know them. Like, you know, your family journal. I recommend journal some people like to write your computer, asked yourself everything about them. Sure. You saw problems for him, that's that's just the beginning. Why do they want to solve the problems? What are their emotional drew. Drivers? What gets them up in the morning? You start with what are they wake up at two AM going God. If I don't fix, you know, ABC problem a my life and my businesses over, right, we'll hold on to help clarify for second because I think you crossed over into a separate area and I want to make sure that I haven't lost anybody that's in our community. We started by talking about things like marketing, and then we started to develop a maybe an idea that might be sales or or there's definitely difference between sales and marketing. So how is it that we can teach ourselves? We have to understand what our market wants, but we also have understand how to present it to our market so that when they come to us as result of our great marketing that we're about to go into, we don't feel like we are being to sales a, you're too pushy for them because isn't that one of the issues that many people have factly feeling. They don't want to throw in horn. They don't wanna feel overly self promotional, but the way around that is to think about marketing number one, you're being of service when you're telling potential clients how you help. Others just like them. You talk about the outcomes. You shove very brief stories about how you help people just like them solve problems just like they have. It's interesting because it's almost like you're educating the people that are coming to you as to the things that you've done that have been good in the past with other clients and all your basically doing sharing the other client story about how you were able to solve their problem thinking. Maybe there's some crossover if you've done it. Right. And your only marketing to a specific niche market, they probably have very similar problems. They probably have the same questions at many. Your other clients have an all you're really doing is solving the problem through sharing the story of how you solve the problem for somebody else.