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Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from Finding Freedom on Bitcoin Island in the Philippines with Marc Mantini
"In El Salvador, they have Bitcoin Beach, and in the Philippines, in this little island, it's called Bitcoin Island, and they've onboarded about 260 merchants right now on the island. Welcome to the Coin Stories podcast, where we get to explore the future of money, business, technology, and Bitcoin's revolutionary promise to boost economic prosperity around the world and mend our broken financial system. I'm Natalie Brunel, and I'm here to learn with you. This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. None of the discussions should constitute as official investment advice, and you should always do your own research. Please make sure to subscribe to the show so you don't miss out on any new episodes. This podcast is made possible through partnerships with companies I trust, and I'm very picky about who I choose to partner with, so I hope you take the time to listen to the ad reads throughout the show. Thanks for joining me, and if you like this type of content and want to see more of it, make sure to hit that like button. All right, it's time for the show. Welcome back, everyone. A couple of weeks ago, I put out a tweet, and I asked for Bitcoiners from around the world to get in touch with me if they want to share their Bitcoin story. I just want to hear from other people about how they got into Bitcoin, why they believe in it, maybe their struggles with fiat, and I got a lot of responses, and I'm really excited to share these stories, starting Mark with Mantini, who is living on Bitcoin Island in the Philippines, has a fascinating backstory. So, Mark, thank you so much for joining me. Hey, Natalie. Thanks so much for having me. It's great chatting with you, and yeah, I'm glad we're able to connect and happy to be here and share my story today. Okay. So, Mark, you're originally from Canada. You learned about Bitcoin in 2016. So just tell me a little bit about your backstory and how you actually heard about Bitcoin. Yeah, for sure. So, like most people, I actually heard about it prior to sort of jumping in, right? So I came across my path maybe in 2014, and I kind of dismissed it, just, you know, busy with life. So I didn't really think too much into it. And then in 2016, my wife, her and her siblings are all sort of computer engineers background, software engineers, network engineers, and it was her brother in Australia who actually told us about this new technology where we can sort of send money back home to the Philippines and Australia where some of her other siblings live at cheaper, faster rates. So at that point right there, I mean, that sold me. At that point, I didn't know anything about the network, difficulty adjustments, having cycles. I didn't know anything about the underlying technology. We just knew we could send it home quicker, faster, instant than Western Union and other remittances that the Philippines typically uses. So once we found out that, I was pretty much sold at that point. Yeah, I mean, millions of people around the world, they're sending money back home to their families and they're spending. I was surprised by how high the fees are with companies like Western Union. So for you, it was like this solves an immediate problem. Exactly. It was a no -brainer really, right? So once we found out that, it was just, that was it. And then it took me another maybe year or so before I really started going down the rabbit hole and understanding the whole underlying technology and everything that comes with it. But at that time, we were just like, we can get it there instant. You know, mom didn't have to take a bus to go get it. They didn't, you know, take their 15%, didn't take three days. So like I said, we were all in just with that alone. And then once we started digging deeper into it, then we just fell down the hole. And then, yeah, so it's been almost seven, eight years now. Wow. Well, so how did you learn about it? Because I think that there is this wide chasm between when you first hear about it, you're skeptical, you maybe dip your toe in, and then going on a Bitcoin standard and moving to Bitcoin island. So what was that process like for you and how did you actually learn about it so that you have total conviction in it? For sure. So once I started to put my mind to like learning about this new technology, obviously started with reading the white paper, right? I think that's where you start understand what it's about, all the underlying technology. And from there, it just started getting into sort of podcasts. Although back then, it wasn't that many podcasts, I guess, it was just as many videos, I could see YouTube videos, anything that came across our path, we were just all over it, basically trying to gather as much information as possible. And then speaking with my wife's brother, they were just kind of helping explain sort of the technology about it from the network standpoint. And then from there, we just started stacking as much as possible. And we really haven't stopped since. And about the Bitcoin standard. Yeah. So the Philippines, we're on an island called Barakay right now. And it's also known as Bitcoin island. So in El Salvador, they have Bitcoin beach. And in the Philippines, in this little island, it's called Bitcoin island. And they've onboarded about 260 merchants right now on the island, accepting Bitcoin. So it's pretty amazing, actually, yeah. What made you decide to move there from Canada? I know that you were really involved in in the meetups in Toronto, you helped out with the first Canadian Bitcoin conference. So what made you leave? You know, really, it's, um, the world is changing. And if you follow anything that's happening with Canada, it's pretty much run by like, a tyrant government right now. And we were personally affected with our jobs. And once that happened, I mean, I'm Generation X, so we don't trust in general, a lot of things. And when that happened to us at work, that was kind of the final tipping point for us. So we went out to the trucker convoy in Ottawa back in early 2022, just to support the whole trucker movement. And it was just a great experience, Natalie, so many great people we met, that we probably wouldn't have met, if that didn't happen. So it was kind of a blessing in disguise, although going through it at the time, obviously, it wasn't a lot of fun. So that was the tipping point for us, right. And then once we heard about Bitcoin island, and all the things they're doing, my wife is originally from there. So we just decided to make a move. So we're just out here right now, basically, on an open ticket, just exploring, having fun, contributing just from a sort of a grassroots level, trying to help out as much as we can with people who are interested in trying to help them out. So, you know, the Philippines remit, I think the fourth largest company that country, excuse me, that remits money back home. So this is just another way to basically help them do it at a cheaper, faster, more efficient rate. So we're just kind of doing our part, like I said, at the grassroots level. And, yeah, we're just gonna be out here and see how it goes and plan to stay for a while and help out as much as we can. Yeah, you know, I actually met a woman from the Philippines here in St. Louis, she's on a work visa. And she was mentioning to me how she sends money back home and the inflation that she's experienced in her country. And I was trying to tell her about Bitcoin, but you know, it's so hard. It's really hard to get people to understand and to trust it, since it's all digital. And a lot of people, when they look at this space from the outside, they feel like they could potentially lose their money. So there's that, you know, initial hurdle. But I want to ask you a little bit more about the Philippines. But first, you know, in terms of Canada and that trucker protest, I think that that was a huge orange pill moment for so many people, including even a presidential candidate here that we have, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said that that's what made him realize that we really need Bitcoin and Bitcoin freedoms need to be protected. So, I mean, were you surprised that the government today in 20, well, it was 2022, I think at the time, but overreached in that way? And I know your family was personally affected. I mean, lost your jobs because of the decisions that you made. Did you think that that was possible in this day and age? I didn't really think it possible, but I did. If you look at the history of our current prime minister, I mean, his father was prime minister and it's sort of they're cut from the same cloth, right? So it's a good point you mentioned, Natalie, because there was a lot of money donated to the truckers via different methods. And the only method that wasn't confiscated was donations. Bitcoin So all the GoFundMe, all of the other avenues to help out the truckers, they got confiscated by the government, frozen bank accounts. I mean, Natalie, we were talking about single mothers donating 10 bucks, you know, just to help out the truckers getting confiscated. Meanwhile, we already know what's happening. Did you know people who had a and year seven months, eight months now, and people are still going to court for that and people are still trying to fight those in court? And it was really unfortunate. So circle back to your question, was I kind of surprised in this day and age? Not really, not from the current government in Canada, unfortunately. So it's just a really, really sad situation. But we're proud to be a part of the Trucker Convoy supporting. We were there for four or five days. We met some great folks who are still in touch with today.
Thom Hartmann Program
Fresh update on "st. louis" discussed on Thom Hartmann Program
"Text EASY to 511 These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Text fees may apply. Alrighty, picking up your calls here on Anything Goes Weekend on the Tom Harvin program. David in Leadwood, Missouri. Hey David, what's on your mind today? Hey Tom, how are you? I'm alive and kicking, Larry. David, Or excuse me. There is a worldly, renowned doctor named Dr. Bacon Bruce at St. Louis University Hospital. He was a pivotal person who developed a cure for Hepatitis B, which cured me, cured Willie Nelson, and other patient Naomi Judd. However, we had to wait a whole year for the FDA to approve this because of the government I developed a little bit of cirrhosis because of that weight. However, every time I there was with Dr. Bruce Bacon, we were oh so excited that I won the election. So it shows you how the most intelligent people, how they think, and they are progressives. And the other thing I had to share with for you this weekend, on a better note, is my cannabis is going harvest tomorrow. And I hope others can follow suit because I grow for it myself, yes, but I give it away to elderly shut -in people, people that have problems with their health and people that are poor and being a hippie true like I am from the 60s, is the best thing to do. And I wish you and all your viewers a happy weekend. Thank you. Thank you very kindly, David. And keep up the Johnny Apple seating there with the pot. Kim in Santa Rosa, California. Kim, what's on your mind today? uh, Well, two things. Uh, first they don't pay his best distance breaks since the eighties. Well, that's good to hear. I used to, I used to replace brake pads when I was a teenager at an SO station. I always was haunted by that, but anyhow, good to know. Okay. What else? Okay. Um, Gavin Newsom, the reason he didn't replace, uh, Diane Feinstein when she was sick and, and obviously we needed to do that at that time is because he's promised the state of California that he would appoint a black woman. So he wanted to hopefully wait until she, you know, uh, we so that could be elected. I don't know if the state constitution allows for for him to have a special election. It does. And it also allows for him to make an appointment. But, uh, you know, this is, I think that her term expires in 24, doesn't it? Or am I, is it 26? Yes. I'm voting for it. This is why I think he should appoint Barbara Boxer. I realize, you know, he made this promise about a black woman, but there's a black woman running in the primary, you know, Karen Bass. Uh, or no. Barbara Lee, excuse me. Yeah, both of them. Uh, and, and, you know, I I don't think that he should be putting his thumb on the scale for anybody. And that's why, you know, and I have no idea if Barbara Boxer is up for not, this or but you know that she's, she would be a placeholder. She has no interest in being in the Senate, but she knows how to ground hit the running. And I think Gavin Newsom should
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Monitor Show 15:00 09-21-2023 15:00
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Live2cre8
Fresh update on "st. louis" discussed on Live2cre8
"What's an example? We did all of the packaging for Land O'Lakes, for instance, and redesigned logos for people. We also did that. So we had the artists were kept busy doing things. And my father stuck me at a drawing board in the middle of these artists. And I watched because I really didn't. I had taken some art classes and I was, you know, a fledgling artist, but not very competent. And I watched what their methods were. And back then there were no computers, of course, back in the late 1950s. So a lot of it was copied from magazine ads and catalogs. And a lot of the work was done by tracing, by putting tracing paper over it. And so you would start with that and a sketch. You'd develop the sketch that way. So I saw what they were doing. And so I would take home some tracing paper and I would find some ads or something like that, something visual. And I would start tracing over it just to see what came out of it. And I discovered that if you focused on making sure that the darks were accurate, the pieces of dark in the illustration or in the photograph were properly replicated or traced, you take the photo away from underneath the tracing paper and voila, you have something that looks pretty much like the photo that you just had underneath the tracing paper. And so I soon realized that if you look, I soon began to be able to look around the room or look anywhere. And essentially by making an accurate depiction of the dark portions or the shadowed parts, you will come up with an accurate depiction of what you're looking at. And so I got pretty good at sketching. And I got pretty good at looking at what I saw and replicating it. I actually think if I get time in this life, I'd like to write the book that tells that little secret and has people practice that with tracing paper. It is a shortcut to understanding visual art because it's a shortcut to learn how to sketch. But I haven't done it yet. Cool. I'm going to try that. So I became a pretty good artist. And then as I began to understand the business and saw how the in-store displays were designed and created, I got pretty good at that. And then started to go out and begin to find some clients of my own, usually out of town in Chicago. Our business was in Minneapolis and St. Paul and that's in Minnesota. And I would go to Chicago and Cincinnati and Milwaukee and St. Louis and so forth and would find new clients. And that's what I was about doing. I really wasn't very excited. As I learned the business, I began to question whether or not it really was a good business model. We were making display materials for very prestigious companies back then. There was 3M and Pillsbury and Kraft Foods and so forth. We would make one one year and it worked and we would have some success with it. But next year they would look at us and say, well, what are you going to do for us this year? And then there would be a competition and we would either win or lose that competition against the competitors of ours. And it just didn't seem like it had any staying power. We were always trying to reinvent the wheel and it was difficult. There was no residual opportunity there. So I kept looking for new ideas, new things that we could get ourselves into. And at one point I tried something called Pizza in the Round. Pizza was just coming on in the early 50s. And so also was the radar range as it was then known. And there weren't very many of those around that of course became known as microwaves. And so I tried to match those together and had an artist, actually a very prominent architect, design a building that looked like a Venetian building. Wherein people could drive up at one end and place their order and drive around to the other side and then about a minute have the pizza they wanted. Fortunately I found that my knowledge of the business of pizza and the purchasing thereof of the ingredients were really lacking. And I did pull back from that fortunately before I got in too deep. But those were the kinds of things I was looking for. So you've got a creative bent, you've got the drive to do something. Because Twister, you didn't sit down and create Twister. It started out as I think it was called Pretzel. What was the initial concept? What did you first start working on? Well I was trying to develop a product that could be a self liquidating premium. Which meant that if you sent in the label from something in a dollar you would get something. It isn't done much anymore but it was rather popular back then. And I was trying to do it for a shoe polish product for one of my clients. And I thought well let's see was kids shoe polish? Back then moms polished their kids shoes believe it or not. That's an ancient art also. Yes it is. And so I was working at my desk and all of a sudden I had this idea. If you take the kids, put them on this mat and you make some squares and you have them go around on the mat. And I realized whoops, wait a minute. This idea is bigger than that. There's something here because there's nothing on the market where the game is played by people. In other words people are the players. Yeah usually it's a board game with little figurines marching around the board. And the board is on a table top. So I went out in the bullpen where all of our artists were and pulled out a great big sheet of corrugated board which we worked with often. And I drew one foot squares, four going one way and six going another. And so there were 24 squares on it. And then I invited eight people and made teams of two out of the eight people. We had the yellow team, the green team, the blue team and the red team. And each one of them were at a corner of the board, each team. And the object was for in their turn for one of those players to move forward to another square. And the first team that got to a square opposite them or a kitty corner from them would be the winner. Well it didn't take more than seven or eight turns and everybody was bunched up in the middle. We had eight artists and assistants of all type. And everybody from our offices joined in and pretty soon we were laughing so hard that it was obvious that the game. It wasn't a game. But that was what sparked me because it was so funny and so much fun. I knew that there was something really intrinsically right about this. Over the next month or two I developed a game that had squares on it and had four people on the board. It had two teams of two. It was a game of tic-tac-toe basically. It's still a good game. It's a cute game. And we have not been able to convince Hasbro to put it out. It's kind of a game that older people would love to play because they don't have to play Twister much and get down on their hands and knees. But can still play a game where they bunch up. I called it King's Pootsie. The players would put bands of either blue or red cloth around their feet, Roman sandal style. And they would try to get four in a row. Four colors in a row. And I took it to 3M who then had a whole line of very sophisticated and excellent strategy games. They were tabletop games. And they were friends of mine because they were one of our clients for whom we developed their in-store displays for their Scotch tape division. And they looked at it for a while and as I suspected they would, they turned it down because it really didn't fit the upscale market that they were shooting for. They thought it was wonderful but it just didn't fit. And that was no surprise. So I put it on the shelf.
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Monitor Show 23:00 09-21-2023 23:00
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Monitor Show 14:00 09-20-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. Trend cruising speed. We'll get the forecast from the Federal Reserve in about 20 seconds time alongside that Fed decision. Going into it, the price action looks like this on the S &P 500, positive by 0 .2%. On the NASDAQ, almost totally unchanged. To the bond market, yields on a two -year, shaping up as follows, near, in and around 5 % on a two -year in America, 5 .05%. Mike McKee has the decision. This is the very definition of a unanimous hawkish pause. The Fed leaves rates today in the range of five and a quarter to five and a half percent while saying growth is solid and inflation elevated, so hire for longer. Policymakers leave another rate move on the table for this year and take two reductions off the table for the next two years. The statement once again discusses, quote, the extent of additional policy firming that may be appropriate. And the dot plot shows that 12 members of the Open Market Committee still believes they will raise rates by another 25 basis points this year. The high dot at six and a quarter percent comes out of the dot plot with St. Louis Fed's Jim Bullard's retirement. For 2024, the committee now sees a median effective Fed funds rate of 5 .1%, up 50 basis points from their June projection. And for 2025, 3 .9%, up from 3 .4 % in June. The long -run neutral rate is unchanged at two and a half percent, although the central tendency range moves up to 3 .3 % from 2 .8, and the dots show seven members think that the neutral is higher than two and a half.
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A highlight from IDL82 Part 3 Chapter 38 Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerning Hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. To continue production of these podcasts, prayers, and more, go to discerninghearts .com and click the donate link found there, or inside the free Discerning Hearts app to make your donation. Thanks and God bless. Part Three, Chapter 38 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Corey Webb. Chapter 38, Councils to Married People. Marriage is a great sacrament both in Jesus Christ and His Church, and one to be honored to all, by all, and in all. To all, for even those who do not enter upon it, should honor it in all humility. By all, for it is wholly alike to poor as to rich. In all, for its origin, its end, its form and matter are wholly. It's the nursery of Christianity, whence the earth is peopled with faithful, till the number of the elect in heaven be perfected, so that respect for the marriage tie is exceedingly important to the commonwealth, of which it is the source and supply. Would to God that His dear Son were bidden to all weddings as to that of Cana? Truly, then the wine of consolation and blessing would never be lacking. For if these are often so wanting, it is because too frequently now men summon Adonis instead of our Lord, and Venus rather than our Lady. He who desires that the young of his flock should be like Jacob's, fair and ring -streaked, must set fair objects before their eyes, and he who would find a blessing in his marriage must ponder the holiness and dignity of this sacrament, instead of, which too often weddings become a season of mere feasting and disorder. Above all, I would exhort all married people to seek that mutual love so commended to them by the Holy Spirit in the Bible. It is little to bid you love one another with the mutual love. Turtle doves do that, or with human love. The heathen cherished such love as that. But I say to you in the apostles' words, Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church. Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as unto the Lord. It was God who brought Eve to our first father Adam, and gave her to him to wife. And even so, my friends, it is God's invisible hand which binds you in the sacred bonds of marriage. It is He who gives you one to the other, therefore cherish one another with a holy, sacred, heavenly love. The first effect of this love is the indissoluble union of your hearts. If you glue together two pieces of deal, provided that the glue be strong, their union will be so close that the stick will break more easily in any other part than where it is joined. Now God unites husband and wife so closely in himself that it should be easier to sunder soul from body than husband from wife. Nor is this union to be considered as mainly of the body, but yet more a union of the heart, its affections and love. The second effect of this love should be inviolable fidelity to one another. In olden times, finger rings weren't want to be graven as seals. We read of it in holy scriptures, and this explains the meaning of the marriage ceremony, when the church, by the hand of their priest, blesses a ring and gives it first to the man in token that she sets a seal on his heart by this sacrament, so that no thought of any other woman may even enter therein so long as she who now is given to him shall live. Then the bridegroom places the ring on the bride's hand, so that she in turn may know that she must never conceive any affection in her heart for any other man so long as he shall live, who is now given to her by our Lord himself. The third end of marriage is the birth and bringing up of children, and herein, O you married people, are you greatly honored in that God willing to multiply souls to bless and praise him to all eternity? He associates you with himself in this his work, by the production of bodies into which, like dew from heaven, he infuses the souls he creates as well as the bodies into which they enter. Therefore husbands, do you preserve a tender constant hearty love for your wives? It was that the wife might be loved heartily and tenderly that woman was taken from the side nearest Adam's heart. No failings or infirmities, bodily or mental, in your wife should ever excite any kind of dislike in you, but rather a loving, tender compassion, and that because God has made her dependent on you and bound to defer to and obey you, that while she is meant to be your helpmate, you are her superior and her head. And on your part, wives, do you love the husbands God has given you tenderly, heartily, but with a reverential confiding love? For God has made the man to have the predominance and to be the stronger, and he of his flesh, taking her from out of the ribs of the man, to show that she must be subject to his guidance. All holy Scripture enjoins this subjection, which nevertheless is not grievous, and the same holy Scripture, while it bids you accept it lovingly, bids your husbands to use his superiority with great tenderness, loving -kindness and gentleness. Husbands dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel. But while you seek diligently to foster this mutual love, give good heed that it do not turn to any manner of jealousy. Just as the worm is often hatched in the sweetest and ripest apple, so too often jealousy springs up in the most warm and loving hearts, defiling and ruining them, and if it is allowed to take root, it will produce dissension, quarrels and separation. Of a truth, jealousy never arises where love is built up on true virtue, and therefore it is a sure sign of an earthly sensual love, in which mistrust and inconstancy is soon infused. It is a sorry kind of friendship which seeks to strengthen itself by jealousy, for though jealousy may be a sign of strong hot friendship, it is certainly no sign of a good pure perfect attachment, and that because perfect love implies absolute trust in the person loved, whereas jealousy implies uncertainty. If you, husbands, would have your wives faithful, be it yours to set them the example. How have you the face to exact purity from your wives, asks Saint Gregory Nazianzen, if you yourself live an impure life? Or, how can you require that which you do not give in return? If you would have them chaste, let your own conduct to them be chaste. Saint Paul bids you possess your vessel in sanctification, but, if on the contrary, you teach them evil, no wonder that they dishonor you. And you, O women, whose honor is inseparable from modesty and purity, preserve it jealously, and never allow the smallest speck to soil the whiteness of your reputation. Shrink sensitively from the various trifles which can touch it, never permit any gallantries whatsoever. Suspect any who presume to flatter your beauty or grace, for when men praise wares they cannot purchase, they are often tempted to steal. And if anyone should dare to speak in disparagement of your husband, show that you are irrecoverably offended, for it is plain that he not only seeks your fall, but he counts you as half -fallen, since the bargain with the newcomer is half -made when one is disgusted with the first merchant. Ladies, both in ancient and modern times have worn pearls in their ears, for the sake, so says Pliny, of hearing them tinkle against each other. But remembering how the friend of God Isaac sent earrings as first pledges of his love to the chaste Rebecca, I look upon this mystic ornament as signifying that the first claim a husband has over his wife, and one which she ought most faithfully to keep for him, is her ear, so that no evil word or rumor enter therein, and not be heard save the pleasant sound of true and pure words, which are represented by the choice pearls of the Gospel. Never forget that souls are faithfulness lead to familiarity and confidence, and saints have abounded in tender caresses Isaac and Rebecca. The type of chaste married life indulged in such caresses as to convince Abimelech that they must be husband and wife. The great St. Louis, strict as he was to himself, was so tender towards his wife that some were ready to blame him for it, although, in truth, he rather deserved praise for subjecting his lofty, marital mind to the little details of conjugal love. Such minor matters will not suffice to knit hearts, but they tend to draw them closer and promote mutual happiness. Before giving birth to St. Augustine, St. Monica offered him repeatedly to God's glory, as he himself tells us, and it is not a good lesson for Christian women how to offer the fruit of their womb to God. Who accepts the free oblations of loving hearts and promotes the desires of such faithful mothers? Witness Samuel St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Andrea Deficile, and others. St. Bernard's mother, worthy of such a son, was wont to take her newborn babes in her arms to offer them to Jesus Christ, thenceforth loving them with a reverential love as a sacred deposit from God. And so entirely was her offering accepted that all her seven children became saints. And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis her son. Witness her oft -repeated words, My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin, words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind and strengthen him in treading God's ways. We call races and generations, houses, and the Hebrews were to want to speak of the birth of children as the building up of the house, as it is written of the Jewish midwives in Egypt, that the Lord made them houses, whereby we learn that a good house is not reared so much by the accumulation of worldly goods as by the bringing up of children in the ways of holiness and of God. And to this end, no labor or trouble must be spared, for children are the crown of their parents. Thus it was that St. Monica steadfastly withstood St. Augustine's evil propensities, and, following him across sea and land, he became more truly the child of her tears in the conversion of his soul than the son of her body in his natural birth. St. Paul assigns the charge of the household to the woman, and, consequently, some hold that the devotion of the family depends more upon the wife than the husband, who is more frequently absent, and has less influence in the house. Certainly King Solomon, in the book of Proverbs, refers all households' prosperity to the care and industry of that virtuous woman whom he describes. We read in Genesis that Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren, or as the Hebrews read it, he prayed over against her, on opposite sides of the place of prayer, and his prayer was granted. This is the most fruitful union between husband and wife which is founded in devotion, to which they should mutually stimulate one another. They are certain fruits like the quince, of so bitter a quality, that they are scarcely eatable, save when preserved, while others again, like cherries and apricots, are so delicate and soft that they can only be kept by the same treatment. So the wife must seek that her husband be sweetened with the sugar of devotion, for man without religion is a rude rough animal, and the husband will desire to see his wife devout, as without her frailty and weakness are liable to tarnish an injury. Saint Paul says that the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband, because in so close a tie one may easily draw the other to what is good, and how great is the blessing on those faithful husbands and wives who confirm one another continually in the fear of the Lord. Moreover, each should have such forbearance towards the other that they never grow angry or fall into discussion and argument. The bee will not dwell in a spot where there is much loud noise or shouting, or echo, neither will God's Holy Spirit dwell in a household where altercation and tumult, arguing and quarreling, disturb the peace. Saint Gregory Nenzen said that in his time married people were wont to celebrate the anniversary of their wedding, and it is a custom I should greatly approve, provided it were not a merely secular celebration, but if husbands and wives would go on that day to confession and communion, and commend their married life specially to God, renewing their resolution to promote mutual good by increased love and faithfulness, and thus take breath, so to say, and gather new vigor from the Lord to go on steadfastly in their vocation.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #433 Carl Osburn People of Divine Naples The BEST Barbeque Master in SWFL that been rubbing the meats over 20 years with secret spices, love and gentle hands. His KNOW HOW brought lot of people together around his Table with slab of ribs. THANK YOU CARL
"Welcome to another podcast episode named People of Divine Naples, today you will hear an interview that was done on the very beginning of our Divine Naples podcast, this was the second interview I have ever done in the United States on 14th of January 2018, this interview was never published but for many reasons today I have to bring it to your ears, you will hear voice from my dear friend for 22 years, my neighbor for 18 years, the businessman that you should have known and the person that will be missed by many, if you are one of them you will always find his voice here speaking, enjoy the show. Hello all divine people, welcome to episode 433 named People of Divine Naples, I have the great pleasure to welcome person that decided to dedicate his 22 years of passion for people, he enjoyed to make them happy through taste buds and good vibration, he started experimenting in Naples 2001 with Chicky Hut where he blended in community immediately, after that he opened best rated and most successful barbeque restaurant in South West Florida, Black Eyed Pick and he built from scratch Franklin Social, here is one and only Carl Osborn. Hey Rich, how are you today? I am doing great, good to have you, you are comfortable? Yeah, oh good. Yeah, and our bar is serving good? Yeah, beer is good, check that out. We like to have interviews relaxed so we are prepared with whatever you wish as drinks, so if anybody want to come over and do the interview, so make sure we get the right information. So you are sitting here in a very humble studio, I hope you are feeling comfortable and good, whether it is cold outside, it is good, probably a good time to maybe do barbeque, a lot of people maybe do barbeque because it is Sunday today and you have been doing this for 15 years, isn't it enough of barbeque right now, you still going to continue? Yeah, we are just getting on a good roll right now, we are actually at the restaurant, we are in year 10 right now, but I had 5 years prior doing outside stuff. The question was, you know, if you still like it. I still like it, I love barbeque. That is good, let's just tell everybody what is the name of your restaurant, where you are located, so we can start with that and let's just roll. We are at the Black Eyed Pig Barbeque, it is 5307 Shirley Street in Naples, just off Pine Ridge Road between Airport or Naples Boulevard and Goodlett Road. It is hard to find, so you guys have to get on that road and it is a very short distance from Pine Ridge and you will see from a long way the pig eye, the design on the building. So it is barbeque with a big pig face. Yeah, it is a very inviting pig face. I wanted a big pig to put on top, but they won't let me do that. Oh really? Yeah. But you can smell it from a long distance. Yes. All right, you end up in Naples when? When did you come here? 2001, came down from the Orlando area. Oh really? So you lived in Orlando before? I did, I came to Orlando in 1986 with the Olive Garden. Oh really? So I didn't even know that. I know you for a long time, I didn't know you were in the Olive Garden. I was with the Ruby Tuesday prior for four years and came with the Olive Garden in 1986 to Orlando when they had four restaurants I think. So there is a long way, you are the expert in restaurants, you picked up a lot of practice there. Yeah, I've had a lot of practice closing restaurants and opening restaurants and lots of employees. So you know how to do it? Yes, absolutely. And you know there is a reason for probably keep it on the size you have it because it's very limited on seating, it's very limited with employees, so you can focus on the quality and there is probably, the end is, you've been voted, as many people say, the best barbecue in Naples, so what is the special on that? Well, we decided in the beginning, the building was a breakfast lunch restaurant when we bought it and I've never been open for dinner, so we started opening lunch and dinner and we got rid of everything that we don't do, we got rid of salads, so we're basically just barbecue. If you smoke it, we got, so we just sell what we do. We don't try to be everything to everybody, we do barbecue, that's it. That is very simple? Yes. And you do the hot sauces? Everything is yours? Homemade sauce. Recipes? Everything. Really? I just have to tell everybody who is listening right now, we don't talk ordinary barbecue one like you can buy in the Costco and you roll it out at your parking lot, load it in your SUV, this is serious business. Your barbecue is probably 10 times maybe more bigger, now you bought another little barbecue I would say, right? Specialty built for you, for your business? Yeah, we've got a competition smoker now that we're going to start with this spring, but we use it on a lot of caterings. But going back to the recipes, I've got a great friend of mine who I met here in my first business venture here in town, which is a little bar, he's from Oklahoma and his family has been in business since 1930 in the barbecue business. So a lot of my recipes came from him, so they're well tested, they've been there 85, the one on 88 years now. So, would you say this is like Saturn taste or what is this exactly? Well, Oklahoma, it's a dry rub, everything's dry rub and hickory smoke. Never baked, never boiled, it's just smoked. How many hours do you have to smoke like ribs? Ribs are around three and a half to four hours depending on the size. We do baby backs and St. Louis as well. St. Louis are the ones that came out of Oklahoma, we kind of threw the baby backs in for the East Coast kind of people. And what's the best seller? They sell about equal, we sell a couple of hundred racks of each a week, we have 35 seats, so we stay pretty busy. I think you did really well when bikers start showing up because they love the type of food and I think there's always a lot of bikes on your parking spaces. There's a lot of bikes, there's a lot of guys, golf outings, we always get the guys, we're a big guy hanging out for lunch and then they all bring their wives at dinner. Okay good, so you do what, I mean you do pick, you do chicken, you do sausages, just tell us a little bit. So everybody who's listening, their mouth is already watering right now. We do pulled pork is our specialty, we call ourselves home to pulled pork.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #433 Carl Osburn People of Divine Naples The BEST Barbeque Master in SWFL that been rubbing the meats over 20 years with secret spices, love and gentle hands. His KNOW HOW brought lot of people together around his Table with slab of ribs. THANK YOU CARL
"Welcome to another podcast episode named People of Divine Naples, today you will hear an interview that was done on the very beginning of our Divine Naples podcast, this was the second interview I have ever done in the United States on 14th of January 2018, this interview was never published but for many reasons today I have to bring it to your ears, you will hear voice from my dear friend for 22 years, my neighbor for 18 years, the businessman that you should have known and the person that will be missed by many, if you are one of them you will always find his voice here speaking, enjoy the show. Hello all divine people, welcome to episode 433 named People of Divine Naples, I have the great pleasure to welcome person that decided to dedicate his 22 years of passion for people, he enjoyed to make them happy through taste buds and good vibration, he started experimenting in Naples 2001 with Chicky Hut where he blended in community immediately, after that he opened best rated and most successful barbeque restaurant in South West Florida, Black Eyed Pick and he built from scratch Franklin Social, here is one and only Carl Osborn. Hey Rich, how are you today? I am doing great, good to have you, you are comfortable? Yeah, oh good. Yeah, and our bar is serving good? Yeah, beer is good, check that out. We like to have interviews relaxed so we are prepared with whatever you wish as drinks, so if anybody want to come over and do the interview, so make sure we get the right information. So you are sitting here in a very humble studio, I hope you are feeling comfortable and good, whether it is cold outside, it is good, probably a good time to maybe do barbeque, a lot of people maybe do barbeque because it is Sunday today and you have been doing this for 15 years, isn't it enough of barbeque right now, you still going to continue? Yeah, we are just getting on a good roll right now, we are actually at the restaurant, we are in year 10 right now, but I had 5 years prior doing outside stuff. The question was, you know, if you still like it. I still like it, I love barbeque. That is good, let's just tell everybody what is the name of your restaurant, where you are located, so we can start with that and let's just roll. We are at the Black Eyed Pig Barbeque, it is 5307 Shirley Street in Naples, just off Pine Ridge Road between Airport or Naples Boulevard and Goodlett Road. It is hard to find, so you guys have to get on that road and it is a very short distance from Pine Ridge and you will see from a long way the pig eye, the design on the building. So it is barbeque with a big pig face. Yeah, it is a very inviting pig face. I wanted a big pig to put on top, but they won't let me do that. Oh really? Yeah. But you can smell it from a long distance. Yes. All right, you end up in Naples when? When did you come here? 2001, came down from the Orlando area. Oh really? So you lived in Orlando before? I did, I came to Orlando in 1986 with the Olive Garden. Oh really? So I didn't even know that. I know you for a long time, I didn't know you were in the Olive Garden. I was with the Ruby Tuesday prior for four years and came with the Olive Garden in 1986 to Orlando when they had four restaurants I think. So there is a long way, you are the expert in restaurants, you picked up a lot of practice there. Yeah, I've had a lot of practice closing restaurants and opening restaurants and lots of employees. So you know how to do it? Yes, absolutely. And you know there is a reason for probably keep it on the size you have it because it's very limited on seating, it's very limited with employees, so you can focus on the quality and there is probably, the end is, you've been voted, as many people say, the best barbecue in Naples, so what is the special on that? Well, we decided in the beginning, the building was a breakfast lunch restaurant when we bought it and I've never been open for dinner, so we started opening lunch and dinner and we got rid of everything that we don't do, we got rid of salads, so we're basically just barbecue. If you smoke it, we got, so we just sell what we do. We don't try to be everything to everybody, we do barbecue, that's it. That is very simple? Yes. And you do the hot sauces? Everything is yours? Homemade sauce. Recipes? Everything. Really? I just have to tell everybody who is listening right now, we don't talk ordinary barbecue one like you can buy in the Costco and you roll it out at your parking lot, load it in your SUV, this is serious business. Your barbecue is probably 10 times maybe more bigger, now you bought another little barbecue I would say, right? Specialty built for you, for your business? Yeah, we've got a competition smoker now that we're going to start with this spring, but we use it on a lot of caterings. But going back to the recipes, I've got a great friend of mine who I met here in my first business venture here in town, which is a little bar, he's from Oklahoma and his family has been in business since 1930 in the barbecue business. So a lot of my recipes came from him, so they're well tested, they've been there 85, the one on 88 years now. So, would you say this is like Saturn taste or what is this exactly? Well, Oklahoma, it's a dry rub, everything's dry rub and hickory smoke. Never baked, never boiled, it's just smoked. How many hours do you have to smoke like ribs? Ribs are around three and a half to four hours depending on the size. We do baby backs and St. Louis as well. St. Louis are the ones that came out of Oklahoma, we kind of threw the baby backs in for the East Coast kind of people. And what's the best seller? They sell about equal, we sell a couple of hundred racks of each a week, we have 35 seats, so we stay pretty busy. I think you did really well when bikers start showing up because they love the type of food and I think there's always a lot of bikes on your parking spaces. There's a lot of bikes, there's a lot of guys, golf outings, we always get the guys, we're a big guy hanging out for lunch and then they all bring their wives at dinner. Okay good, so you do what, I mean you do pick, you do chicken, you do sausages, just tell us a little bit. So everybody who's listening, their mouth is already watering right now. We do pulled pork is our specialty, we call ourselves home to pulled pork.
podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
A highlight from LGM Podcast: Talking Football with Rich Brooks
"The football isn't going to change it because the mighty dollar is doing it all. The greed and, you know, let's face it, players are getting paid, coaches are making exorbitant salaries that make no sense, really, that make no sense. This is the Lawyers, Guns and Money podcast. Hello and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns and Money podcast. My name is Rob Farley. Here with me is my colleague Eric Loomis. Eric and I have the tremendous honor to have as a guest on this Guns and Money podcast, Coach Rich Brooks. His biography is long, but it involves being the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats. It involves being the head coach of the St. Louis Rams, and most notably for us, the head coach of our beloved Oregon Ducks. Sir, it is a tremendous honor to have you here with us this afternoon. It's a pleasure to be with you. I wanted to start just by asking, I know that you live back in Oregon, and I hope that your place is safe from the fires. We have had a lot of smoke. I have a son that lives up the McKenzie River about 25 miles, and his house burned down in the fires two years ago, and the fires are close to his house again, but the good news is he can't get to it because everything else is burned around it, but it's been pretty smoky, and the wind has changed, and it should be a good day for Oregon football on Saturday when they open, as long as the wind continues from the north or the west. Well, let's hope so, and you know, part of the reason that we wanted to talk to you is this is such a transformative moment in college football right now. I mean, you of course coached Oregon for 17 years. You also played at Oregon State, and the fate of those two schools in the current conference realignment has differed, and Oregon and Oregon State, after playing against each other for over a century, all of a sudden that may not happen anymore, and I'm wondering from your perspective, what your thoughts are about realignment and the ways in which it's affecting these two schools that mean so much to you? Well, you know, people don't remember, but when I went to play at Oregon State, graduated Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, California in 1959, and played freshman football that year, and then varsity football 60 -61 -62, and had the pleasure of playing on a pretty good team with Terry Baker, who won the first Heisman Trophy west of the Mississippi, but in those days, Oregon State was independent. It was not part of the PAC -8 at that time. The league broke up over money.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Self-Defense Laws and Online Radicalization
"I believe they want to save the environment. The fact of the matter is none of the results of everything they do doesn't help the environment. Like you said, that guy just donated all these money to environmental causes. That money is going to go so these people can strap themselves to something on a highway instead of planting trees. All righty, welcome back. Mike Lomas, Go Legal Financial guys. I should have asked you. I guess I'm hosting. I just opened my mouth. Not that there's like a host here because we don't take commercial breaks, but we are the financial guys. It's a place where money meets politics and thanks for tuning in to a... I love these podcasts, by the way, between morning mics, podcasts, and radio shows. We're doing what we love to do, which is really cool. And I love the 45 minutes and out, 40 minutes and out, no commercial breaks. It's pretty good. It's nice. So I don't know where to start. Western New York here. Glenn, you're down in our Florida office now, but we'll be back here shortly. I'm in our Western New York office. I'll be down to Florida shortly, so back and forth. But Florida is all about hurricane, hurricane, hurricane. I love these environmentalists. So they're like, oh, by the way, every hurricane is a once in a lifetime storm. It's like, okay, I think they go the last... This has never happened before. Well, coming into like the Gainesville area, well, actually it was 170 years ago. Now, hmm, what did we not have 170 years ago? Oh yeah, the freaking automobile, right? Like they want to blame all this on climate change, but it happened 170 years ago. Because it's hitting that part. It's now global warming. And it's so stupid, right? I remember when we were talking to Congressman Chris Collins on the air one time and we were talking about, he was talking about Marco Island, houses on Marco Island. Just bought there. He just bought a house there and he bought there because there was no way that anything, though, the hurricane had never, ever, ever... Because of the way that... Let me back you up for one second. No, no, no, no, no. Let me back you up for one second. As we were doing that, because you and I, we have offices down in Palm Beach, the storm was heading right for Palm Beach. And he said to us, he said, that's exactly why I bought a Marco Island. When I kid you not, we got off the air two hours later. The storm had gone south around the tip of Florida and back up in Marco Island. It literally did. It jogged left and it curled around and it came right back and whacked Marco Island and went right across Naples and right across Lake Okeechobee. I know God's got much bigger things to do than listen to the financial guys at a Saturday afternoon. However, however, it was sort of weird that at 301, as soon as we got off, that storm turned. Really, you guys, karma right there. But the point is that storms, they do whatever. They hit different parts. It's not because of global warming. It's just stupid. Honest to God, what a dumb statement to make. We've been warm, cold, ice ages. We've had hurricanes that have hit the panhandle, Louisiana, Texas, because it just hasn't hit that particular exact spot of the coastline. Are you out of your mind? It has. 170 years ago. That's what's funny about it. 170 years ago it did. So really it did. But not within the last, you know, not since 1974 when they started to keep statistics on it. It's just stupid. These people are lunatics. By the way, we were talking for the show, you know, Patagonia, the guy who created the clothing brand Dives, right, left almost all of his fortune to environmental groups. That and along with Hollywood are the people that are funding these whack jobs that are putting other people at risk. Let me ask you this, though. Everyone's seen this video by now, right? The tribal police, they literally, they take the truck. I love it. They just run over the thing. They clear the road. They arrest everybody. We're not in violence. We're not in violence. Here's the thing, though. Let me ask you this. These are, are these, are these all beta males in that line? Because I got to be honest, if I'm anywhere near visibility of the front, I'm probably going to walk up there after a while, I'm going to probably pull off the road and maybe take a walk or drive down the shoulder. If I can see what's going on and I realize there's a protest, I'm rallying like, you know, half dozen, dozen other rednecks in that line. How long would it take to walk down the cars and grab, you know, nine, 10 other, you know, guys and just say, okay, we're moving. And when they say they're nonviolent, well, you're, you're holding up a, you're holding up miles and miles of people in the desert, right? I mean, look at, I drove, I drove through the desert a few weeks ago. It was a hundred degrees. If that 110 actually during the day, if I'm stuck on that road and there's nothing else, by the way, I can't like turn my car off and just sit there without air. I've got two kids in the car, right? There's people that have animals, pets in the car, right? So you turn that car off, you don't get air conditioning, you die. If you run the car, you eventually run out of fuel. I mean, they are a real threat. They are a real danger and they may not be violent, but it doesn't mean they're not putting people at risk. I tell you how many people could die at 110 degrees. I tell you what, you can be as nonviolent as you want while I'm kicking your head in to get you off the road. I gotta be honest. In the middle of the desert, you blocked the road in the middle of the desert. I'm finding as many of the rednecks as possible and you're getting an ass whooping. I gotta be honest. You're getting out of the road. They needed that. I'll give you 10 seconds to get out of the road or you're getting an ass kicking. Fortunately, it was on tribal land as we were talking before because had it not been, you'll get some liberal piece of shit prosecutor that will now charge the police officer instead of saying thank you for saving the lives of all these people that could have burned to death in their cars. That's the game now, right? That's why George Soros funded all these, right? You remember those folks in St. Louis, the attorneys who protected their home with an AR -15 and a pistol. Now, I don't agree with the woman waving it around like a pointer. That was clearly... But she didn't have the proper skills to let it go. That was her property. You can wave the damn thing any way she wants. Get off her goddamn land. She had the right to defend it. Get off her land. Get off her land. And they prosecuted her. They went after her, right? So all these people in these states, if you're a non -friendly state like New York, you have to really think twice about defending yourself. Think about this. I know. Somebody breaks into your home at two o 'clock in the morning. Think about this for a second. You're by yourself in your home. You don't have your kids. You don't have your wife. You have nothing to worry about to protect. You have an opportunity to go out the back door and get out of your home. Now, however, in New York State, you have every right to defend your home. Is it worth it? I mean, think about that for a second. I'm going to stop and think about that when I'm in New York now. Do I just leave the... I'm going to leave the house and let my guest just break into my home because otherwise I'm going to get prosecuted. Or at least I'm going to get investigated. What if you can't leave? What if you can't leave? What if they have you at gunpoint? Well, then I'm defending myself. Well, then I'm defending myself for sure. I mean, but that's ridiculous. It's to the point where it's just so asinine. I mean, the old saying, rather judged by 12 than carried by six, right? But still, you shouldn't have to think like that. In Florida, you don't have to think like that. In Florida, you can be in your car and have somebody threatening you in your car and defend yourself in your car. I .E. Florida's at a 50 -year low when it comes to crime, 90 -year low in Miami. Because the criminals know it. The criminals know it, right? They know. By the way, it doesn't make it. It's perfect. But I'll tell you what, it's a hell of a lot better. You know, look at... We own a financial company. When your crimes are up 50 % in one state and down 50 % in another state, those are pretty telling... That's a pretty telling tale, right? Like, you know what? Like when we pick stocks, we look at numbers and like, gosh, boy, those numbers are really good. Well, I think let's do more of that, right? Let's maybe buy some of that company, right? I mean, just sad where we are in the states like New York and California. How do you not look at the crime? By the way, I said to the group the other day, it was Chicago. There was a bunch of reporters who actually got mugged as they were doing their online report. The report. It's crazy. And like you said... I did a charity golf tournament with a client on Monday. He was part of our team. A police officer. And he said, he goes, Mikey, he goes, it's absolutely disgusting to see these same people that we arrest time and time and time again. One of the illegal aliens who was out on a bail to rob some cars. Illegal. In the country, illegal. He's out on cashless bail. A joke. A joke. But yeah, here we are now in the national media for the rest of the week and the weekend we'll focus on this tragic shooting in Jacksonville, right? This is one tragic shooting amongst many, many, many tragic shootings. The manifesto will be released right away, I'm sure, right? He's already is a white supremacist, 21 year old young kid, and you'll say, well, we should not have the guns. Okay. So he, instead of walking with an AR, he could have walked in with a pistol, done the exact same thing. But here's the thing that at some point, are we, I mean, are we actually going to have an honest conversation about what is radicalizing these kids? You know, whether it's on the right or the left, on either side. The mental illness problems, which we continue to say something, but we refuse to look at any of that, right? You've got a huge homeless problem in this country. Part of it is caused by the welfare. Part of it is caused by the massive amounts of mental illness that's out there. And instead of getting these people in the right spots, getting them medicated, you know, getting them in the right direction, we just let them back out on the streets because boy, they can't have that on their record. If they have mental illness on the record, they'll never recover. Well, guess what? If they have mental illness, they'll never recover. Right. Well, this kid, like this kid was the Asian one that's mostly white. Did you see that? That was a different one. Yeah. Yeah. The mostly white Asian. That was another, another classic headline from CNN. Right. The mostly white Asian. No, this one was the Jacksonville kid, a 21 year old and tragic. Yeah, sure. So anyway, so the, but the thing, they're all, everyone's out there immediately. It's like, we've got to do something about the systemic racism in the country.
Veteran on the Move
A highlight from WIN Home Inspection with Jeff Starr
"Episode number 500 is up next on the veteran on the move podcast Ten years of podcasting 500 interviews with the veteran community great military veteran military spouse entrepreneurs out there Holy cow, I can't believe it's ten years in 500 episodes. Thank you for listening. Thank you for all your support Looking forward to another 500 episodes another 10 years Jeff star with win home inspection is up next on veteran on the move Welcome Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that J -o -b trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success And now your host Joe crane Whether you're taking a trip to relax or see somewhere new You deserve a travel card that does the work for you for more on Navy Federal's flagship rewards visit Navy federal org Coastguard veteran Jeff star from win home inspection Jeff 30 -plus years in the Coast Guard. That's awesome Looking forward to talking about business and entrepreneurship what you're doing these days. So take us back Tell us what you did in the Coast Guard Hey Joe, thanks for having me on your show. Well, it actually started in high school I joined the Missouri National Guard when I was 17 went to boot camp in Portland win, Missouri Graduated from that went back to high school and did my senior year and then moved on to AIT which is the training for the army and I was a tactical radio communicator So basically I carried a backpack radio and worked on their radios got a chance to go to Germany For a large NATO US exercise and kind of opened up my world view and my eyes a little bit You know as an 18 year old coming out of Missouri central, Missouri There's a you know, I lived in farmland. So I got to see what was going on there now I'm in another country traveling around with people that are a lot older than me that been around so Got a got a good view into a little bit about what the world was going what was going on in the world So fast forward I decided to go to college I'm in college pursuing a degree in aviation and Too much college activities and not enough good enough grades and they they gave me the invitation not to return You gotta see MSU Yes, yeah, right there in Lawrenceburg. Yep Yep, so great program great school Just it wasn't a good time for me at that time too. I wasn't ready So now I'm deciding what am I gonna do am I gonna join the army and Start seeing some commercials about the Coast Guard on TV. I'm like in Missouri You don't see a lot of Coast Guard, you know, because we're in the center of the country. We're landlocked There's there is a Coast Guard there. I found out later on but not to my knowledge at the time So I get in my car. I live in Colombia and I drive to st. Louis to see a recruiter I get the recruiters office goes. Hey, thank you for your interest But I can't recruit you you live on the wrong side of the Missouri River you need to go to Kansas City So now back in the car driving to Kansas City and Get all the stuff done and there's an eight -month wait list to get in so I go ahead and sign the paperwork and delay entry finally getting the Coast Guard and After graduating boot camp, I end up going to Tillamook Bay, Oregon So basically they've got a motor lifeboats that are like the tanks in the water They're meant to take 30 40 foot waves you get there the windows are made of bulletproof glass 300 bulletproof glass you get into the boat and You strap in with a helmet your dry suit and the seat belts and buckle in And you go out there and take waves and try not to take waves But sometimes you have to for the fishing boat to fleet that's coming in So what an exciting job, you know at 21 years old you're out there charging these giant waves Get in beat up by the waves and pulling people out of water and rescuing them It could have ended right there. I could have stayed in that job forever. It was it was amazing. It was an adrenaline rush But I wanted to do aviation still So I put my name on the school list to go to aviation the Coast Guard and I went to Elizabeth City, North Carolina for and Electronics avionics Had to wait a year for that school, so I got to play around in Oregon for a while the school 38 weeks Learn how to do all the component repair of all the electronics on the plane Graduated from there and get my first units in Traverse City, Michigan like where's Traverse City, Michigan and it's all the way up north and As far it's in the northern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan So and at the time they were flying Of course each series or what the army would have or other services BC Kings or or Jolly Green Giants So I get there and I learned that after going to school all this time. I really don't know anything So it's time. It's time to start learning. You're an apprentice. So, you know, you start learning everything about the plane and the organization And Soon as I learned everything about the HCI thought I needed to know we transitioned to 60s So then we get the Seahawks the Coast Guard version of the Seahawk so got to do that and so spend eight to ten years Learning, you know my craft and trade and and just enjoying the Coast Guard You know the camaraderie the people in the organization the mission And then took a took my next tour to Alaska So I got to go to Kodiak, Alaska and help them transition because nobody was qualified to fly the 60s yet only the first units so I got to go up there and help stand up the program and Start, you know training everybody and flying that mission with the 60 But they didn't have the 60s yet. So I had to go back to the X trees and fly that again So it's kind of flying in both at the same time. So it was nice I mean I was getting you know, three and four hundred hours a year flight time and You know, it was Alaska some of the most beautiful flying you can imagine we do stuff that you know, I couldn't pay for So got to do that And then after leaving Traverse City or after leaving Kodiak my transition again to another helicopter I moved in Detroit and we moved to the Eurocopter 65 Which is a smaller business corporate helicopter that the Coast Guard uses for its ship based operations so I got to do that and then I'm starting to roll up on my my my 20 20 years it's gonna be coming up here pretty soon. I'm at 15. I'm starting to think what am I gonna do? So I started doing, you know different college programs. So they give my associate degree Well, I got my associate degree knocked out while I still in Detroit and then we go back to Alaska where? I'm within a two -year window now so planning on Transitioning out at 20. I go ahead and get my my Microsoft engineering degree And then that takes a year to do that so the tour in Alaska is only three years so back to Traverse City and I'm looking at getting out at that point in time and that's where I start my first business up there I started business in 2002 building computer repair computers and servicing Computers for large corporations. Yeah, where did the where the desire to where the desire to search your own business come from? Um, well, I knew I needed to get out and I didn't really want to it was gonna be hard to replace an organization I'm already in I didn't necessarily want to work for a company Yeah, and so doing my own thing in my own, you know not have to rely on somebody else To get the job done because I know I can do the job and I wanted to do it myself So there was a desire. I did that job for about four years and then Lo and behold I promoted myself out of my position. I was in in Traverse City So it was either I was in you seven at the time and I was gonna make a yay So like okay, where can I go and you know make that kind of money? I'm not I'm not generating that kind of income at this point in time So kind of put that in the back burner and shelved it for a while also, I was seeing I'd get my Microsoft degree and I saw that everything was getting outsourced and Working on hands -on technology You're always chasing the certification because everything's changing so quickly within the computer industry I wasn't sure how how much I wanted to stay continually chasing that certification So decide to go back to school we transfer to Miami at that point and That was a Big culture shift going from Alaska to Traverse City down to Miami because the missions are different. Yeah cold to hot Right. So I went more from more of a search and rescue law enforcement to more of a law enforcement search and rescue So the emphasis was more on law enforcement down in Florida with the international treaties and border protection type mission So I started going back to school again get my bachelor's degree and Finished up that and then again, so I wasn't looking at getting out at that point. We're at year 24 at that point Promoted again made Master Chief for E9 and was waiting and Wanted to go back to Detroit fortunately, nobody else wanted to go back to Detroit and I was able to pick up that job as The command enlisted advisor working for the CEO in Detroit What great job great experience wonderful people I worked with and then at that point I started working on my master's degree and business with Masters in health care administration some kind of shotgunning, you know the different things I'm planning on doing when I get out I want to make sure I could cover all the bases. I had done troop the teacher signed up for it Got a degree in history got a degree and business and then what got an MBA and then an MHA and Didn't do any of that when I got out So, what was your transition like you end up getting the JOB and was it smooth on the way out because I mean you're you're prepared educational wise but What was the twist in turn? Yeah, it's interesting because you know and it's not from the organization you don't hear but I think ourselves we underestimate our Capabilities when we're in we're thinking hey, we're in this job We've been doing the same job on the military side But when I get out I'm gonna I don't I can't how do I deal with and how do I work in that? Organization, you know, how do I fit in and how do I provide value? Yeah, and hey Jeff before before we get too far? let's take a quick break and Re -attack this on the way back Getting a new car is exciting and you deserve a hassle -free buying experience You can get a decision in seconds and enjoy great rates with everything You need in one place Navy Federalist Car Buying Center is your one -stop shop for researching Financing buying protecting and enjoying your next car you can search for new and used cars access vehicle history reports enjoy discounts on auto insurance and more and you can make the most of your time on the road wherever you go with our flagship credit card whether you're taking a trip to relax or see somewhere new You deserve a travel card does the work for you in my 33 years as a Navy Federal member I've had the flagship credit card since it first came out and we use our travel points all the time flagship credit card will earn you three times points on travel plus up to $100 in statement credits towards TSA pre -check or global entry and a free year of Amazon Prime With two times the points on all purchases outside of travel the rewards don't have to end where your vacation does For more on Navy Federalist Car Buying experience and flagship rewards visit navyfederal .org Open armed forces DoD veterans and their families credit and collateral subject to approval Navy Federalist insured by NCUA Visa is a registered service mark of Visa used by Navy Federal under license All right back talking with Coast Guard veteran Jeff Starr from Wynn Home Inspection so Jeff anyways failed to mention We talked about this for you at the record button your episode number 500 Which is a major milestone for any podcast or any podcaster So I wish I had a door prize for you or something, but I just didn't acknowledge Yeah, you're one of the few coasties I've had on the show.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Mining Update with Adam Denver, Anthony Power, BlockBain, and Nuclear Bitcoiner - August 21st, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. Good morning, Sam. What's up, man? Thank you for for hosting. While Alex is away, I know it kind of caught you by surprise this morning, but how was how was your week? Were you in New York? I saw you at PubKey last last I heard. Yeah, yeah, so I got in back to St. Louis yesterday from New York. I had a good trip to PubKey. PubKey is great. Like if anyone is in New York, I want to check it out. I mean, it's just like a good dive bar, Bitcoin themed, great folks that run that place. There was a cool meetup that I was at. Alex Gladstein talk, gave a little talk. I shot at Swan Signal episode with Jimmy Song and Anita Pausch upstairs above PubKey, and that was a great episode. So you can check that out. We really focused on emerging markets and for human rights and kind of education in those countries that really need the most. So Anita works a lot in Zimbabwe. Jimmy has been traveling the world recently with his family. So there's a lot of interesting insights in there. So, yeah, it's been a good good couple of days. Happy to be here. Yeah, I went to PubKey once I met Brekky and John up there and it was cool. I wore a stack chain shirt and hoping that that would kind of have some people ask me what it was, but no one did. But it was a good time. I bought a big orange hoodie, which I'm excited to to wear in the wintertime. So good, good times. Did you go to the just just PubKey or did they have a actual like bit devs up in New York at that time, too? No bit devs, I did go to the Wolf facilities. Which was insane, that place is so nice and such a cool accelerator that they're building there. You know, Ross Stevens and crew, Kelly Brewster, Alex Betsing gave a talk there, too. And they're gracious enough to invite me over there and to check out the facilities and stuff. So, I mean, it's really cool talking to those teams that are part of the Wolf pack, the second cohort of builders in that accelerator, kind of talking with them to see what they're building. Shout out to all those guys. They're coming up on their last about they got like 10 days left until the pitch day. So it's the end of their eight week program and they're just building really cool stuff. I mean, it was very inspiring to be around them in that facility. I mean, it's just gorgeous. It's in like the 64th floor. It's got these crazy views. And I mean, it made me want to pick up programming just so I could be a part of that program. It was so cool. So that was probably the highlight of the trip was going to the Wolf facilities. It was pretty phenomenal.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from The TRUTH about Sam Altman and WorldCoin
"Set summer in motion with the most adventurous Honda vehicles yet, like the Passport and Pilot Trail Sport and the Ridgeline, built for better off -road performance and engineered for more adventure. Summer is here. For a limited time, well -qualified buyers can get a 3 .9 % APR on a 2023 Honda Pilot, a 2 .9 % APR on a 2023 Passport and a 0 .9 % APR on a 2023 Ridgeline. Buy online, reserved from select dealers, or visit your local Honda dealer today. See dealer for financing details. My worst fears are that we cause significant. We, the field, the technology, the industry, cause significant harm to the world. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. Artificial generalized intelligence. If you haven't heard of that before, well, I'll bet you probably have even heard of or used Chat GBT, midjourney or any one of the dozens of AI tools that have been taking the world by storm this year. In this video, we're going to be taking a closer look at the man behind the curtain, the mysterious wizard of Silicon Valley, Sam Altman, and we're going to be getting to the truth about him, his companies, what they're building, and, most importantly, what it all means for you and the future of humanity. This might be the most important topic in the world right now, so we want to make sure to bring the BitSquad up to speed. Let's get it! Welcome to BitBoy Crypto! My name has been today. We're doing a deep dive on the king of AI, Sam Altman, finding out what this awkward -looking startup junkie is really all about. Samuel Harris Altman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He got his first computer at the age of eight. This was back in the 90s when computers were still using dial -up and Pets .com. In 2005, young Samuel dropped out of Stanford after one year studying computer science, co -founded LÜT, location -based social networking mobile application. Go ahead and smash that like button and turn on the channel notifications, which puts you in the BitSquad. Make sure you stay up to speed with the latest crypto news so you don't drop out of all the best gains in the next bull run. But as the CEO of LÜT, LÜT Altman raised over $30 million in venture capital at the business -savvy age of just 19 years old. Imagine being so rich, you think it's a good idea to give $30 million to a 19 -year -old. Anyways, LÜT failed to gain traction, but Sam was still able to sell it in March 2012 to the Green Dot Corporation for $43 .4 million. Not bad for a first -time failed startup. Just one month later, the dropout failed. The founder co -founded another company, Hydrazine Capital, with his brother Jack. And in February 2014, Sammy's startup was named president of Y Combinator. In 2014, Sam claimed that the total valuation of Y Combinator companies has amassed 65 billion. Their catalog is much more impressive than Sam's resume and includes Airbnb, Dropbox, Coinbase, Instacart, OpenSea and Stripe, among countless others. Altman set a target for Y Combinator to fund 1 ,000 new companies per year, which is so many it makes it seem like Sam is just slinging more and more bad ideas at the wall to see what sticks. In 2015, Altman donated $10 million to start Y Combinator Research, a nonprofit research lab that Sammy funded to research basic income, the future of computing, education and building new cities. All these topics seem related, almost like they're part of a larger plan. Sam co -founded OpenAI with Elon Musk in 2015 and in 2019 announced that he would be stepping back at Y Combinator to focus on being CEO of OpenAI. OpenAI has several products including Doll -E, a generative text -to -image AI tool, Whisper, an AI -driven speech -to -text tool and Codex. But the most famous AI tool that OpenAI built is called ChatGPT. A generative AI tool that returns text, images or videos in response to user input prompts. Now, you input your like and subscribe to the channel to get the latest in crypto news. About 27 % of y 'all aren't subscribed. I don't get it. Now, I don't have time to get into exactly how all this AI stuff works, but just from some basic understanding, generative AI is a broad term for any AI system that primarily creates content. Large language models or LLMs are a type of AI system that works with language and draws from a large set of data and computational power. These can create a foundational model which is a term for AI systems that can be applied to a range of purposes. So ChatGPT is a foundational generative AI model that's based on a large language model. Okay, so sorry if that was confusing. I think this stuff is pretty cool, and it's important to understand what all these geeks are talking about with this stuff. I got to research it. I guess they know it intuitively. Moving on. ChatGPT was so popular that it reached 100 million users just two months after launching in 2022, which set an all -time record for user adoption. In response to this unprecedented user demand, Microsoft, a longtime investor in OpenAI, decided to increase their investment and extend their partnership, announcing in January 2023 that they would be investing an additional $10 billion into OpenAI. By now, you might be wondering, Ben, that's all great, but what does Sami have to do with crypto? Back in 2019, when he stepped away from Y Combinator to run OpenAI, Altcoin Altman also co -founded Tools for Humanity, the company building a global IRIS -based biometric cryptocurrency system called Worldcoin. What is Worldcoin? Well, according to Sam, Worldcoin was conceived as a prototype for universal basic income, which Sam sees as inevitable due to the rise of the technology that Sam keeps building himself. Also, it seems like if he would stop building all these things, then we won't have to depend on him to protect us from them. So weird. Sam tried to keep this project quiet at first, probably because it sounds so evil, but the idea simply is this. Users get paid in Worldcoin in a wallet they can use in the Ethereum ecosystem and runs on Optimism's tech stack. WLD tokens will be claimed by people and to verify your identity and unique personhood, Worldcoin wants to scan your IRIS using a super evil -looking silver camera called The Orb. I swear you can't make this stuff up. Worldcoin has a kiosk in Barcelona, offering free french fries in exchange for scanning your IRISes. Good thing I only eat freedom fries. Some offer a $10 rebate on purchases. Some offer a chance to win a new car. Where's Bob Barker when you need him? But whatever paltry bribe Sam Altman and his Worldcoin henchmen are offering, I guarantee you that it's not worth it. Details on this project are still deliberately being kept under wraps, but basic human intuition should tell you whatever they're up to, it's dystopian at best and an evil conspiracy to control the world at worst. My friends at Altcoin Daily said it well. Your eyes will be scanned. You will give up your biometrics data. You will accept your UBI and WLD coin. Sounds like exactly what the World Economic Forum has been planning for years. The scariest part? It's working. Hundreds of thousands of users are being quietly onboarded to Worldcoin in exchange for one of Sam's silly little bribes. According to Nansen, Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, Optimism Arbitrum surpassed in daily transactions for the first time since January. The spike in activity began on July 24. The same day Worldcoin token went live on the Optimism mainnet. Although Worldcoin is careful to try and hide this information, they definitely do not advertise what's really going on. If you look close at the privacy deep dive section of their website, you'll see they say they're collecting a lot more than just users' irises. They need lots of data to make sure that the orbs are trained to recognize eyes regardless of who had scans. Initial scans targeted mostly children in developing countries like Chile, Indonesia and Sudan. I'm all in favor of decentralized digital identity, but there are a ton of great projects that are working on solutions for that. And none of them have relied on this creepy system of bribing poor children in third world countries so they can harvest their biometric data. There has to be a better way. Now, if you're like me, this kind of behavior by one centralized company, especially a company run by Sam Altman, the man trying to build the world's first AGI, it should worry you. Apparently, it worries European regulators too. Last week, French privacy watchdog group said the legality of this collection seems questionable as to the conditions for storing biometric data. They're coordinating their ongoing investigation with German authorities as well. Britain's information commissioner's office also confirmed that it was making inquiries. Even Ethereum co -founder Vitalik Buterin warned Worldcoin has major issues and pointed out that iris scans could inadvertently expose a person's sex, ethnicity and maybe even their medical conditions. Talk about a privacy risk. How many of you incels living in your mom's basement want people to know that you never even had sex? Oh, that's not what they're talking about? Despite what seems to be nearly universal concerns about Worldcoin's operations, Altman says they're going strong and onboarding one new verified person every eight seconds. That's a bull run. A bull ride. Crazy to think about, but at that rate, it would take them five years to get to 20 million users. So Altman's plans to 5X Worldcoin's onboarding capacity, well, it's going to be done by the end of the year. And now we get to the most interesting part of the story to meet anyways, and that's Altman's ongoing and highly public feud with the Dogefather himself, Elon Musk. A short version of how this conflict started is in 2018, Elon approached the other founders of OpenAI and expressed concern that the company had fallen hopelessly behind Google in the quest for AGI. Musk proposed that he take over OpenAI in order to catch up. The other founders rejected his bid. Musk eventually left the company and withdrew his funding. Altman eventually took over, and the two have been in competition and even some conflict ever since. When Chat GBT launched in November of 2022, OpenAI instantly became the hottest name in tech. Musk was reportedly furious. In December 2022, Musk pulled OpenAI's access to Twitter's data, ending a contract sign before Musk acquired Twitter. February 17, Elon tweeted, OpenAI was created as an open source, which is why I named it OpenAI, non -profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source maximum profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. On March 15, he tweeted, I'm still confused as to how a non -profit to which I donated about $100 million somehow became a $30 billion market cap for profit. If this is legal, why doesn't everyone do it? That's Bill Gates. He does it. Altman finally fired back in an interview saying about Elon, I mean, he's a jerk, whatever else you want to say about him, but I think he does really care, and he is feeling very stressed about what the future is going to look like for humanity, which is very interesting because a lot of this sounds exactly like conversations I had with Sam Bankman -Fried around the time of the FTX collapse. Things he said about me to me and to other people was he knew that I really cared about the stuff that I was talking about, but I just was going about it the wrong way. Very eerie similarities there. The reason for their dispute though seems to come down to both men wanting to prove themselves. Elon wants to be the man who took down Google and Twitter, and Altman seems to just want to make up for the fact that his first startup would fail. He tweeted in February, I failed pretty hard in my first startup. It sucked! And I'm doing pretty well in my second. The thing I wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do and that as long as you don't psych yourself out, you can try again. It's crazy the two guys with such big brains can be still so small -minded. So we talked a lot about Sam Altman, but what's the takeaway here? What's really at stake in this story? Well, I think it goes back to where we started. Fear. Altman is a prepper. He said in 2016, I have guns, gold, potassium, iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force and a big patch of land and big shore I can fly to. What is he prepping for? Well, he doesn't say. But the key is the answer to that question was asked in Congress on May 16, 2023. What's his biggest fear? My worst fears are that we cause significant. We, the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. So it's clear that Sam is consciously aware of the risks of what he's doing, but he's doing it anyway. He's taking an attitude of technological determinism, the idea that anything can be done will be done. So why not do it first? Why not create the tools for a dystopian nightmare future and then have all the power you need to avoid it right there in your hand? There's just one problem with that. If you believe in technological determinism, you also believe that the path of technology is the same for everyone, which means that anyone else could go down the same path and beat you to the prize at the finish line. And what's that prize? Well, if you ask Sam, artificial general intelligence, AGI, which means a piece of software that combines solutions to new unfamiliar tasks, basically code that can actually think. It's likely that the creation of such a piece of technology would lead to what's known to sci -fi nerds as the technological singularity, got in a box. The singularity refers to a point at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to humanity and civilization. OpenAI published a paper in April concluding that the latest OpenAI model exhibits many traits of intelligence, including abstraction, comprehension, vision, coding and understanding of human motives and emotions. In June, The New York Times published an article alleging that many leaders of Silicon Valley are becoming concerned that the singularity may already be here, and we just haven't realized it yet. Altman himself stated during his recent appearance on Lex Freeman podcast that he believes that multiple teams will create AGI while working on different projects in different parts of the world at roughly the same time. In other words, Sam isn't just worried that he won't get to the singularity first. He's worried that even if he does, his creation still won't be enough to save him from itself. And that's Sam Altman's worst fear. Sam once tweeted, AI is the tech the world has always wanted, but we don't want it if it means we have to let him scan our eyes and unleash something on mankind that has the power to take over every aspect of our lives before we even realize we've lost control. Let me know down below in the comments what you think about Sam Altman and his plans to control the future of civilization. And let me know what you think about AI and which projects are using it in creative ways that might give them an edge in the next bull run. And most importantly, Sam Altman vs Sam Bankman -Fried in a cage match, who wins? That's all I got. Be blessed. BitBoy out.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from James Seyffart Interview - BlackRock Bitcoin Spot ETF Approval Chances, ETH & XRP ETFs, Grayscale vs SEC, Gary Gensler
"This content is brought to you by Uphold, which makes crypto investing easy. I've been a user of Uphold since 2017. They're one of my go -to exchanges. You can buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies on Uphold. You can also trade precious metals and equities. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus cryptocurrencies, and they're available in countries. 150 As with all exchanges, you can buy and sell on them, but I highly recommend you custody your own crypto, not your keys, not your coins. If you'd like to learn more about Uphold, please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is James Safert, who's an ETF research analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. James, great to have you on the show. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to it. James, I saw a tweet from you showing that the percentage increase of the chances of an approval of a Bitcoin spot ETF has been increased by you and the folks at Bloomberg. And I was like, I got to get you on here to talk about it because everybody's waiting in anticipation for a spot ETF approval. But before we get there, tell us about yourself. Where are you from? Where did you grow up and your professional background? Yeah, so I'm a New Jersey native born and raised all the way through. I went to college at the College of New Jersey, studied finance and accounting and started working at Bloomberg right out of school. Ironically, I'm not in New Jersey on these coasts right now. I'm actually in St. Louis, which we were just talking about beforehand, but visiting my girlfriend who's out here for residency.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Brock Pierce Interview - Bitcoin, Tether, EOS, SEC Ripple XRP, US Crypto Regulations, CBDCs, Metaverse & NFTs
"This content is brought to you by Uphold, which makes crypto investing easy. I've been a user of Uphold since 2017. They're one of my go -to exchanges. You can buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies on Uphold. You can also trade precious metals and equities. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus cryptocurrencies, and they're available in 150 countries. As with all exchanges, you can buy and sell on them, but I highly recommend you custody your own crypto. Not your keys, not your coins. If you'd like to learn more about Uphold, please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Brock Pierce, who's an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, co -founder of Tether and BlockOne, a former presidential candidate, and a former child actor. Brock, it's an honor to have you on the podcast. Well, I'm grateful to connect with you and, you know, thank you for spreading the good word and, you know, going through the process of asking interesting people questions for the benefit of others. You know, it's such an important thing today. I mean, look at what we've gone through in terms of major media companies, censorship, certainly for those of us working on censorship, resistant technologies, you know, kind of the importance of, you know, where are you getting your information from? You know, as much as we're building trustless systems, trust is still a critical component of everything we're building here. You know, there are still people involved. For sure. And Brock, you were the pioneer for many great crypto solutions. You're obviously involved with many different companies, but I want to get to know you a bit better, you know, outside of the Wikipedia stuff, you know, where you're from and where'd you grow up? Well, I was made and born in Minnesota, right outside of Minneapolis in a small town called St. Louis Park. I started acting at the age of three. And I started making my first movies at the age of 10 and then ended up moving out to California as a result of having done Mighty Ducks and a bunch of the local films in Minnesota, then moving out to Los Angeles temporarily to film Mighty Ducks 2. I ended up moving to Southern California or to Hollywood when I was 13, just turned 13 years old. And what made you transition from acting, leaving Hollywood to go into tech and Well, investing? I come from the first generation of kids that, you know, generally grew up with video games in the home, the beginning of sort of computers, home computers, the beginning of sort of the consumer internet, you know, your prodigies or even the school systems in the US were distributing some of this stuff, you know, to the AOLs. And so I'm a byproduct of the first generation that had access to tech, you know, as kids. And so it was obvious to me that technology was going to play an important role in our future. And so I grew up starring in movies. I decided I didn't like being famous and, you know, going out places and everyone wanting to take the picture with you, sign an autograph. It's like, you know, anonymity, you know, is, you know, an incredible form of privacy. Being a movie star is, you know, complicated. And so, and I also was like, I'm busy reading other people's lines. You know, I want to be the creator. I want to be the producer. I want to be the person that makes and invents the things. And so I just decided I didn't want to act anymore. I still did it for a little while as I was figuring out what I wanted to do next. And when I was 16, I made the final decision to quit acting and pursue an entrepreneurial sort of internet career. You know, at the time, everybody thought I was crazy. They're like, what university did you graduate from? What are your qualifications? What makes you think that you can go start a business? And, you know, because at the time there were no teenagers. I was, I'm pretty sure the youngest internet entrepreneur there is, you know, I mean, at the time, you know, back then, if you didn't graduate from the right fraternity, you couldn't access capital. I mean, it was far more a club then, and it was that internet, you know, the wave of the internet is really what kind of opened up the market for entrepreneurs that didn't, you know, come through sort of your conventional path, you know, which in many ways has paved the way for those of us that work in, you know, call it blockchain or cryptocurrency technologies, but a bunch of industries, you know? And so that's, that's how I made that transition. And my first business having come from entertainment was a focus on streaming video. And so started a company that was really the precursor to YouTube, Netflix, Hulu.
Jess Get Hired
A No-Bull$hit Approach to Coaching With Adrian Koehler
"Just Get Hired podcast fans, I'm excited to welcome in Adrienne Kaler, who I think is a pioneer in delivering a no -bullshit approach to coaching. So welcome, Adrienne, to the Just Get Hired podcast. Thank you so much. Great to be here. I'm excited for our conversation about coaching and your message around it. So before we kind of get started, I want to, instead of the usual things that people can read on the internet and doing a boring intro, I would like for you to maybe tell our audience a little bit about yourself in a different way. So maybe tell us about maybe the people that are in your life they're and how a part of who you are and what makes Adrienne Adrienne. Sure. Well, so where to begin? Yes, I'm married, an amazing wife, who was a very successful founder of a business called Drybar. She's in kind of round two of her life. She had a great exit, and now I'm with her and helping her figure out what that is. That means we're in lots of projects together helping and her sort out what she wants to do with her world. That's a big part of my life. Together, we've got four kids. She's got two from her first marriage, 18, 16, two from my first nine and seven. So that means lots of sporting events, lots of extracurriculars. So I'm really all over the place. Got three animals. I'm looking at two of them as we speak right now, sleeping in puppies. So anyway, we keep a lot of commotion around here. So I'm a family guy first. I think family is the center of anything that's worth having is the quality of the relationships you have right next to you. So that is a main focus of my life is doing everything I can to keep tilling the soil here. So great things can grow and legacy happens right here. So that's a big part. I mean, I live out in Los Angeles. I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Illinois. Two phenomenal parents, they're still married, both school teachers, both pillars of their community, got a brother in St. Louis, and his great family. Anyway, I'm a family guy first, I ex athlete type guy played ball and college play football in college. So drawn towards extreme stuff, love pushing myself to limits. And athletically, I'm 42 now. So that looks different than it did when I was 18. Everything looks different now. Everything looks. That's right. That's right. And I operate family across the board. I mean, I've got a business partner at take new ground or coaching and leadership training company. And he's a mentor of mine. He's 67. And I'm 42. So he's ob one and I'm Luke Skywalker in that. And he's phenomenal. As soon as I met this guy, Dan takini, I thought I want to learn how to do what this guy does. And so I was running a foundation at the time we were doing work in training, doing essentially intervention type work with people coming out of gangster lifestyles. So my first coaching clients were literally with murderers in prison.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Shocking Article Reveals Why America Is "Trash"
"Topia you get the exact same articles I get from my producer They're worth it. Not only because they're terrific Choices of subject but because of his piffy comments The piffy comments are worth the price of Prager Topia so he sent His number one send was a New York Times piece, which I read No sparklers for these folks Whether because of crowds politics or loss of patriotism some Americans are conflicted about Celebrating the 4th of July, but I'm only mentioning that Because I already talked about that in brief because of his piffy summary No, July 4th weekend would be complete without New York Times trashing America The actually if you I read the article you read the article Somebody did call was it it was it a congressperson who said America's trash Trash yeah, who was it? It was Cori Bush Congresswoman from st. Louis She called America trash This is another person Who only God knows how she would have made an income if either politics or academia Enable the fool to make a living and even have prestige America is trash
Mark Levin
Stephen A. Smith: When Will We Look at Ourselves?
"At black Americans. Thanks That's not where I'm going. What I'm saying is, where's the due diligence when it comes to to putting a spotlight on what we're doing to each other because this is pissing me off. 53 lives 53 in one weekend. It's not It's been happening year after year after year, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, the list goes on and on. Where's the noise at? Where's the protests? Where's mainstream media talking about that? Where is it? That's what I want to know. Because let me tell you something. Nothing else matters if we're dead. We're killing each other. Well, it's something we've been saying here, but if you're on ESPN and honestly, black Americans. And this guy's guts, he's got courage. Again, you don't have to agree with him, but he says what he believes in. He's right. 100 % right. I've been there needs to be more leadership in every community, but especially the black community that's facing this down. Because this is the great civil
AP News Radio
The latest in sports
"EP sports, I'm Josh rowntree, a busy night on the diamond and we start in Canada where the Blue Jays dropped the brewer 7 two. Alejandro Kirk and Vladimir Guerrero junior each had three hits and Kevin biggio had a pair and drove in a run. In Seattle, the Yankees beat the Mariners tend to Aaron judge homered for a third straight game in Houston, the Astros topple the twins 5 one as Alex Bregman, hit his 7th home run of the year. The Orioles dropped the guardians 8 5 Anthony Santander with three hits and three RBIs got our Henderson also drove in three runs. The Padres topped the Marlins 9 four, the rangers out slugged the tigers ten 6 Cincinnati edge Boston 9 8 things to Jose barrero Grand Slam. The mets blank the Phillies to nothing, St. Louis got by the royals two one, while the cubs beat the rays by the same score. The Dodgers beat Washington 9 three and a big change to one of the NBA's marquee franchises, bob Myers departing as president and GM of the Golden State Warriors after winning four titles in an 8 year span. I'm Josh Brown tree, AP sports.
ExtraTime
"st. louis" Discussed on ExtraTime
"I'm looking forward to heading out to CMP for the home opener against LA. Hopefully we can finally get that first goal and hope was dashed for poor Adam in Kansas City who did not see that but saw a ton of shots. There were some decent opportunities, but Willie agata's not with like the same player. He had one or two in this game that he would like him to do better on. What do you think Doyle is it gonna be fixed when these guys come back or? I mean, it's what I was saying about Dennis Blanca four hours ago on this same show. When you have Jimmy Kimmel, when you have guys who are getting into good spots and just aren't finding the final touch, but who are proven goal scorers, you trust those guys to eventually figure out how to put the ball in the back of the net. Obviously, they would be in better shape if they had any of their three DPs available. And we still don't know when that's going to happen. But based upon what we saw from sporting in this game based upon what we saw from them last week, the goals are going to come probably sooner than later. He's also Adam in case you happy for the neighbors in St. Louis and for their success and contributions to soccer in the U.S. but he says it is crazy that they get the city moniker because Kansas City has city in their name and they actually own it. So I just wanted to give Adam his moment but there are a lot of lose at home to Austin Owen wolf scores. Under his Gomez first start for ourselves, let's take this straight into CCL because that's really what matters on Tuesday for Austin down three zero on aggregate to violette. 8 p.m. eastern for this game. It seems like it will happen. If you let the signing former U.S. based pros to fill out their roster, Dave, what do you know about what's going on here? And we're all really dog. Probably knows my guy saatchi hot and FC Motown announcing that one of their players is going to head down to play for violette. I guess you're allowed to register players after the legs have started, which seems a little bit odd. But it's three zero. Yeah, Austin are still in it. This is a team that scored a ton of goals. They had did he win the Golden Boot last year? No, honey won the Golden Boot. I can't remember. But they have tsarist truly fagundes. John Gallagher's left foot, which is the second best foot on the team next to John Gallagher's right foot. So yeah, this is an explosive team they're going to play at home. They're going to have their crowd clearly via let's say are in a tough spot. So they have every potential to come back and when this game didn't we see LAFC right before COVID, they were down two zero to Leon and came back and won it three two at home so what you've seen stuff like this before. Clearly Austin have not put themselves in the best situation to get there and I am curious what the reaction will be. If they go out in a bad way just to a club that says they want to challenge for trophies. Like this is your first opportunity and this would be a pretty embarrassing way to go out. Credit to them though both times they've been punched in the mouth this year obviously against St. Louis and then in Champions League they rebounded from both of those.
ExtraTime
"st. louis" Discussed on ExtraTime
"I think this is what excites me about it, is there's really no, you know, it's an expansion team. If they win, they win, if they lose, they lose, if they finish bottom of the east they do. For this team, you can tell you can see the fight in their eyes. You get even the coach at the end of the match, grabbing the players saying like, let's beep and go. I won't say the word because I got beeped out in my first episode already, but the passion and the willingness to fight for their team. And you saw that in Portland. You have Klaus that is in the 87th minute running back and covering the top of his own 18 yard box. This team is willing to fight for one another. They know they don't have those big superstars that maybe have those in game changing moments if you're team is playing like crap that they can step up like. A Carlos Bella. Thank you. Carlos vela. I was going to say Emmanuel reynoso, but it's not even here. But a game changing player that can change a moment in a game. So I love this team. I think what they're building here is incredible. I think it's very different than what maybe we had seen in an expansion team in a really long time in Major League Soccer. And I think the ownership group, I think the coaching staff have completely got it right, and I'm not saying their games have been left back passes, okay. But you make your own luck. And I think they're making their own luck in Major League Soccer, and now I think when teams look at this team, they're thinking, oh, I don't really want to play this game because they're going to outwork us. They're going to out hustle us. And they're going to put bodies on us and not scared to get stuck into tackles, which I love. I'm all about, I feel like I'm Taylor twellman right now. I'm sorry, guys. But I love you. I feel like coming through. Look, it's got to be intoxicating. Not just for the players and the coaches, the support, for everybody in St. Louis. I mean, I had my neighbor back in Kansas City who's a St. Louis guy, but not a soccer guy. Texting me about this. It has to be just absolutely elated to be in this position to not know what's going to look like and to have just one home game so far. For it to be a complete party and then have the results follow. But we've all been sitting on pins and needles. We are all wondering how tall do you think gel Klaus is David goss. I didn't look it up, but I'm guessing 6 three. Give it to us, Anders, what do we got?
ExtraTime
"st. louis" Discussed on ExtraTime
"He's not willing to go back to your point, what Toronto is just win to win. He wants to win and he wants to play beautiful football and I'm good with this. I love this from a manager. I love that you have tactics. You have a playing philosophy and you're not willing to accept mediocre performance because they have the players to do it. And that's what I think Toronto needs to do. They can't just accept mediocre performances because they have the players to do and play beautiful football. For me, if a manager has some of the best players in Major League Soccer with some of the highest transfers, he's not the right manager for the job if he's not being able to get results. So I think Wilford Nancy for me is a manager that we've seen in Montreal. I mean, we saw how successful he was there. Obviously Montreal losing all those players. But this Columbus team excites me and I think the second performance kind of showed, you know, they still definitely have work in progress to do, but I do think they have a hate even using the saying all the tools in the toolbox to get the job done. But I completely. I completely agree. I thought one thing from your column Doyle that really resonated with me was what nanse got from guys like Georgie and now what he will be able to get from similarly with cucho and zarian and others of like, I know exactly how to get the most out of your particular skill set. We will have the ball and get you the ball in positions to do what you do best. And this is just the start for the crew. All right, New England three, one of the unbeaten Houston dynamo zero. This is an incredible stat. Again, from opta, revs when they're first two matches of a regular season for the first time in their 28 year history. Wow. That is a long story. It was, I think it was a great tweet from one of the people at the regeneration of the bent musket, which I bought this shirt to support them because a lot of the SB nation blogs not getting funding so if you like your MLS local coverage, please see how you can go support. I saw the mainland put out there as well. They were like, congratulations to us in St. Louis. It took them two weeks and it took us 27 years. Latifah. Is the new one?
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"st. louis" Discussed on ExtraTime
"Is it me? No. Well, I'm so surprised. Honestly, I didn't know. Whoever made that choice. Let me show you this. Currently checking. We all put our teams down somewhere, so we would know that I need to put it on like a whiteboard above my desk here, so I can remember. It's fine. I'm just gonna win off cucho, assists. Exactly. Doyle, best thing you saw. I'll stick around in Ohio. The postgame press conference with wilfrid Nancy, he really went in depth, talking about what he wants to see from this team talking about how there were moments where they were playing too fast, there were moments where they were playing a little bit too urgently. And he wants less of that. He wants them to be methodical. He wants them to draw the opponents upfield and then bypass them with third line passes and he really was specific about what he was seeing. And then the other team in Ohio, Cincinnati, they didn't have as good a performance, but pat noonan really went in depth talking about what was going right with his Cincinnati team compared to last week and what was going wrong. And why he was happier with the draw than he was with the home win last week. And specifically how he was setting up his forwards to eliminate easy distribution into Pereira in the central midfield for Orlando. There was a level of detail and level of transparency transparency from those two guys in particular, but we saw it. I think from Bradley carnell somewhat, talking about the difference between the press and the game press with St. Louis and we saw it from lucci Gonzalez as well. Guys really opening up and saying like, okay, if you ask, we are going to give you the blueprint. We are going to tell you what we were trying to do, what worked, why it worked, what didn't work, why it didn't work. And we haven't always gotten that over the years. So a round of applause to those coaches I named and probably a half dozen others who really went out of their way to sort of paint a picture of what they were trying to do tactically. I certainly appreciate it. But you guys all look a little bit bored. I'm not bored at all. I guess I'm wondering because I remember in the Greg berhalter era, Greg coming to our offices in New York City and literally diagramming play. And his mode of play for you and Bobby. And then he sort of drew that back over his time with the national team. And I always wondered if maybe he realized it wasn't going to benefit him as much to be as open and I am by no means encouraging any coach to be less open about how they want to play in this league. I just wonder what you would think about whether or not how much it benefits those guys. I think it benefits them a lot. I think there is still a chance to make the conversation smarter and you do that by trusting fans. You do that by giving them the tools to have more educated conversations about the game. I don't think that berhalter really drew it back all that much over the course of his four years. I thought he was pretty consistently the most open head coach at the national team has had even though he did dial it back from like week. And it did make the discourse worse in the U.S. somehow, but I guess I'm a starry eyed optimist when I say that coach is doing this is a good thing.
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"st. louis" Discussed on ExtraTime
"If they're looking to refurb, they're going to look at St. Louis and be like, I want to create something like that as well. So, and players are going to want to play there now. You want to play for good fans. You want to play for incredible stadiums. You want to play and train on the best training facility. So it's not going to be hard to get good players that want to go play for St. Louis. I also think this is just the beginning for St. Louis. We've sort of looked at their roster and been a little bit skeptical. And some of that comes down to spend, but you look at what they did spend on the facilities on getting this up and running, and they did it during the pandemic, by the way, when kos got crazy as well, and I was talking to Taylor. The other day and he was like, this team can be really good. He's like, but watch him 5 years, watching three years. Watch what this organization does to build. We're just seeing the baseline here. I'm also gonna go Simba and rafiki on the baby lift. You know, like that's what I was thinking of. I don't know why it is that parents and I'm guessing I might have this instinct as well. Like an exciting moment happens. I don't know why the first thought is like, I'm gonna hoist this very delicate child high into the air, but it made for some incredible scenes. Doyle, best moment. What did you take away from this occasion? I think you guys all covered a lot of it. The important moment to me was that it felt like a culmination. And we saw some of this in the postgame quotes, Bradley carnell talked about how his team needed to manage their emotions because they understood that this was like a 70 year journey. Back when soccer was dying in the United States, it was still thriving in St. Louis. And through a lot of the things that you talked about wavy. Major indoor soccer league or the old NASL teams, but even before that, back in the 50s, when the U.S. made the World Cup and beat England in that famous game, half the team was from St. Louis. The semi pro leagues in St. Louis were legendary. And the game was still vibrant there where it was dying everywhere else. So in a different world, St. Louis is the first MLS franchise. So for just someone who's been around the game for 40 years now and who knows pretty deeply and appreciates the history of the game. Here in the states, finally getting there, I was more emotional about this than I thought I would be. That's one. And the other thing I took away was 85th minute, whatever it was, I realized the entire crowd was still standing. Like nobody took a seat and that entire game. And we don't really see that too often. It was a scene. It's going to be tough to replicate that for whoever is the next one in as an expansion team, whether it's San Diego, Sacramento, Vegas, Phoenix, Detroit, whoever, the bar, I think, has been raised a little bit higher this year with what St. Louis just did. To add to what Doyle said and obviously going to what I'm passionate about and sort of what Taylor mentioned, but Miguel Perez coming on as a homegrown.
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"st. louis" Discussed on ExtraTime
"His excitement, his enthusiasm, his joy, and I know that this was all a build up for him. He was in Austin, but I reached out to him. I said, what was the singular moment that you remember? And he said, the moment that sent chills down his spine was the STL chant that broke out the moment the players took the field for the first time. It was the fans just unable to hold anything back and wanting to explode for their guys. He said it was louder, more powerful than any sporting event I've ever been to. You knew we'd arrived in the place was exploding. It was all imperfect you to send a proclaim to the entire world that St. Louis was here. I mean, he is one of thousands that experienced it that way. And we've been to these before, the first ever game, home game for expansion teams. It's once in a lifetime. It will never happen that way again. Even though St. Louis will obviously keep raising the level for themselves as they settle into that building into their team, but congratulations, everybody who was there. I am so happy to see St. Louis in this league. Try following up on that ranch. It felt good. It felt good like the game did. That was like, it felt like a big moment. It felt like a big game. I don't know if you guys saw Friday night. They had a huge party outside, concerts. It was packed. This is one of those things. We saw it with Charlotte last year. You know, it's not brand new, cities while on MLS, but obviously you talk about that history and that connection. Another thing had to be generated. It feels like and not taking away from anything the St. Louis staff has done, but you build the right building, you put a team on the field like this city was waiting for it and craving it. And so this was one of those events. I think everyone was sort of keen in on this game this weekend and it completely delivered and now it's like, yeah, if St. Louis is playing at home, I want to watch that game. Like I want to watch that atmosphere from home and I want to go. Yeah, MLS so excited to welcome them that they're just providing gifts coming bearing gifts of back passes and such. What was your favorite moment? Kalen, what was the moment like watching the highlights of the game or being in studio for almost 360 where you were just sort of gobsmacked? The baby. I wanted to be the baby that was lifted up like little baby Jesus with the beer sprayed all over and not crying, by the way. I mean, I have two kids under the age of four. My kids would have been bawling being like, make me home, what is going on? The kid was smiling. I mean, it was insane. And watching that and just watching the growth. I mean, it started in the Vancouver white caps organization. I've seen Major League Soccer transpire into these incredible stadiums. These incredible training facilities. And now to have one stadium, one training facility stated in the center of St. Louis. Women driven as well. I mean, for me, that for a female, I'm just taking the women aspect of it. That is amazing. I obviously I have to use my words wisely because I don't want to be beeped out again. I've already been beeped out once early on in this podcast 20 day one, but I just think that's just so incredible to see and it just raising the level of Major League Soccer for when more teams want to come in or even teams want to change stuff in their own training environments.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"st. louis" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Seat with you guys. The MLS season is officially underway, and this year the leak introduced a new expansion team in St. Louis. The expansion side made history as the St. Louis SC rallied to be Austin FC three to two in the inaugural match. And he pokes it into the nets as St. Louis city going to the lead with 5 minutes to play. The Brazilian intent on setting yet more history of the opening night of the season for the newest team in MLS fantastic summary there, joining us now to speak about all of this is Carolyn Kendall. She is president and CEO of St. Louis city SC, the newest club in the MLS, Carolyn, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for having me. So you are a newcomer to soccer, but not St. Louis because you've got deep, deep roots in the city. And I know that you've been trying to bring a protein to St. Louis for a while now. Why soccer? Why MLS? Well, I think you sort of a great question to sort of introduce this whole concept. So my grandfather, Jack Taylor, founder of enterprise holdings, really believed in giving back to the city of St. Louis that supported us all these years. To make enterprises successful and he had passed us through the generations. So my mom and my uncle and my aunt certainly myself and my cousins. And so one of the things that this family and the entire ownership group was very excited about was really what it could do for the city of St. Louis. And so when we started thinking about as the Taylor family, what was the next big project? And what would be a great way to elevate the city of St. Louis back to an international stage, everybody kept saying soccer. And so it began in 2018, summer of 2018. But we really started to kind of do our research and we found out that obviously soccer is an international sport, has a great fan base, demographics are quite different from some of the other sports. We have here in St. Louis, but we thought it was a great way to really bring all of the micro communities in St. Louis together to support their official soccer football team. Carolyn is Stan Schwartzman, first off, congratulations on getting the franchise up and running there. You know, you look at that city and it's a great sports city. The Cardinals have such a classic historic fan base, the rams didn't leave because they didn't have fans. There was a lot more to it. The blues obviously are also a team with a deep fan base. When you project attendance figures as the years go on, what are you looking at here? Are you looking at kind of a Columbus model 1820 25,000 or do you think you guys can grow into more of a major market like the New York team's LA? So our stadium holds 22,500 currently. I think our plan is to sort of hold it that number, at least for 5 to 6 years. Because what we really want to do is make sure that we're filling our stadium for every match. Obviously, you're inaugural year. You don't really about ticket sales or filling that stadium. But we want to make sure that between certainly the product on the pitch, but it's also more than that. We want to offer an elevated food and beverage service. We partnered with 25 local restaurants to make it truly a unique experience. And so you as a person and individual can find different ways to enjoy match day. So whether it's through music, whether it's through food and beverage or whether it's through the sport, we want to make sure that we're constantly refreshing the products that we have to offer. So it is more than just a match. So Carolyn, you know, I want you to take me through what it's like to be one of the few majority owned female teams in all of sports. And look, I understand Jack's your grandfather, by the way, for all our listeners, enterprise holdings, if Alamo rental car enterprise rental car, that's Carolyn's family, just to be clear, but you also bought the team alongside the Kavanaugh family and Jim Kavanaugh. If I'm not mistaken once played soccer for the LA lasers, a major indoor soccer team with upon a time and I'm curious, what's their involvement here? What's it like to be one of the few female majority on teams in professional sports? Well, I think it starts really with a great foundation of two really strong businessmen. So yes, Jim Kavanaugh was a very successful soccer player, but he also founded cofounded a very successful business here in St. Louis. And so when you really look at the majority female ownership, I sort of joke around a little bit because that really was just how my family was constructed. My uncle Andy at was the last mail born into the family and all the generations below him. But when you look at it from a business perspective, what better than to have two very strong successful families come together. And so it's certainly about sport, but it really at the end of the day is about a business. And so one of the things I think we're very happy about is we try to be very thoughtful about hires diversity and all sense of the word, however you identify what community you come from, there's a role for you to play here. But more importantly, if you are the best in that position, we're so excited to have you be part of city SB. I'm curious also how that translates into the planning and the execution on everything related to the club, including the infrastructure. I'm thinking about city park as the first post pandemic stadium built to avoid long lines and crowd surges, but as a woman, I'm thinking it should have more female bathroom stalls than most stadiums because women end up in these long lines while men move through very quickly. So I'm happy to confirm that we do have far females, bathrooms. Thank you. My friend jokes around that she's clearly you helped design the stadium that might be one of the most beautiful public restrooms I've ever been in. But no, I mean, in all honesty though, I think having that female majority ownership, there are certain things that we think about. But I think it's also important to point out that we've really tried to engage people from the community. And from all communities really, because we really want to understand how people are going to feel safe and comfortable and really appreciate and look forward to coming to city park, whether it's match day or not match day. Carolyn, the league has grown exponentially obviously over the years to where you have the first $1 billion franchise now according to Forbes. That is LA, of course. One of the two and the
Bloomberg Radio New York
"st. louis" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In Europe as well. The most extreme cases in the UK, which has been our preferred European market, was the best performing major index last year. We still think there's a lot of upside. Goldman's Peter Oppenheimer spoke exclusively with Bloomberg from the Goldman Sachs global macro conference Asia Pacific. Here more of that interview in just a few minutes here on Bloomberg daybreak. Well, Nathan will get more clues on the direction of interest rates when the fed issues minutes from this month's policy meeting at Bloomberg's Michael McKee has a preview. The surprise is gone now that the presidents of the Cleveland and St. Louis fed banks have said they saw a case for a half percentage point increase at the February 1st meeting. If there were a significant number of others who felt the same way, that could influence views of the fed's next move, given the strong data we've seen since then. Moreover, at his post meeting news conference, fed chair Jay Powell teased a discussion on the path forward for rates that we'd learn about when the minutes were released. What might have been said about how high rates will need to go, how fast, and for how long. A lot of that will depend on how fed officials felt about the prospects for inflation, another discussion to watch in the minutes. Michael McKee, Bloomberg daybreak. I'm Mike, thanks, turning to geopolitics, President Biden is wrapping up his trip through Eastern Europe marking a year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He'll meet with leaders of the so called Bucharest 9 nations that have aided Ukraine with weapons and refugee assistance. In a major speech in Warsaw, the president said Ukraine's fight has united the west. President Putin is confronted with something today that he didn't think was possible a year ago. The democracy of the world have grown stronger, not weaker, but the autocrats of the world have grown weaker, not stronger. Former U.S. ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker says that strength will be tested as the war continues. So much of the speech sounded like we're already declaring victory that, okay, we've succeeded here. But the war is far from over, Russia is still recruiting people and throwing them at the front line. We have not given the ukraines the longest range munitions that they need. We've not given them any aircraft. So there's a long way to go, former NATO ambassador Kurt Volker spoke with our Washington correspondent Joe Matthew on Bloomberg's sound on, catch the show weekdays at 5 p.m. eastern on Bloomberg radio or listen on demand wherever you get your podcasts. Meanwhile, Nathan, China's top diplomat is calling relations with Russia, quote, solid as rock, Wang Yi was in Moscow to meet with the secretary of the Russian Security Council. And the high level support might not end there, The Wall Street Journal is reporting Chinese president Xi Jinping is preparing to visit Moscow. We get more from Bloomberg's John Liu in Beijing. At the end of last year, December 30th, she and president Putin did have a phone call and during that phone call president Putin did say to Xi Jinping that he looked forward to she visiting Moscow in the spring. So we've been looking for a visit of some sort. It has not been confirmed or acknowledged by the Chinese side. And Bloomberg's John Liu reported she has yet to talk with Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky since the invasion, he spoke with Russian president Vladimir Putin at least four times in the last year. Let's turn to corporate news now, Karen. McKinsey and company is known for devising plans to cut workers for its clients now, the consulting firm is taking the axe to some of its own. We get more from Bloomberg's Doug prisoner. Mackenzie intends to eliminate about 2000 jobs in one of the firm's biggest rounds of cuts ever. The plan has been dubbed project Magnolia. It's expected to focus on support roles that don't have direct contact with clients. The aim is to help McKinsey's management team preserve the compensation pool for its partners. Over the past decade, the firm has seen rapid growth in headcount. Now it's looking to restructure how it organizes support teams and centralize some of its roles. The plan is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks in New York. I'm Doug prisoner Bloomberg daybreak. All right, Doug, thank you while job cuts aren't the only recent trend for many companies so are pay cuts, but at least one Wall Street CEO is bucking the trend. Citigroup's Jane Fraser collected 24 and a half $1 million in compensation last year and we get more from Bloomberg's Charlie pellet. It makes her the only major American bank CEO to get a bump in compensation for the year. According to a filing in her first full year atop the company, Fraser was granted stock awards totaling about $19.6 million, a cash bonus of 3.45 million and one and a half $1 million in salary. The move comes after rivals, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs cut CEO pay, while JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo left theirs unchanged. In New York, Charlie pellet Bloomberg daybreak. And Charlie and other Wall Street firms cracking down on artificial intelligence, Bloomberg news has learned JPMorgan Chase's curbing staff use of the chat GPT chatbot sources say it's not triggered by any specific event, but normal controls around
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"9 in the morning in Hong Kong the equity market will trade at the bottom of the hour last day of the week in terms of trading So it'll be very interesting to see what happens on the Chinese mainland and in Hong Kong after a little bit of weakness in those Chinese ADRs here in the U.S. If you are joining this morning from the pack grim good morning I'm Doug prisoner at the Bloomberg interactive broker studio in New York And I'm Juliet Sully in Singapore where we have markets coming online this hour along with the Taiwan and Malaysia and Doug we are seeing some gains coming through in the early session We are indeed particularly in Tokyo where the nikkei is now rising by about four tenths of 1% If you look at the function on the Bloomberg terminal its utility and energy shares leading this advance to be fair though the market may be held back just a bit by strength in the yen right now Vis-à-vis the greenback where one 23 80 again here of about a tenth of 1% Meantime in Sydney the ASX 200 is head by about four tenths of 1% material and energy shares leading this advance in Seoul however the Cosby is showing a little bit of weakness we were down about a tenth of 1% We just now have the market online in Taiwan the Thai X higher by about 6 tenths of 1% and in Singapore the straits times weaker by about two tenths of 1% A lot of the focus this week has been on the U.S. yield curve we moved up in terms of the rate on the ten year treasury by 6 basis points in the New York session after we heard from the head of the St. Louis fed bank Jim bullard will unpack that story in greater detail momentarily Right now the ten year is at two 64 so we're down about a basis point in the Tokyo session a two year at two 46 and crude oil building on gains that we saw early in Asia right now 96 55 we had been down though in New York trading for a third straight session as the market continues to digest new supply as the result of strategic reserves being released by members of the international energy agency We'll take another look at markets in about 15 minutes Julia Well Jim bullard the head of the St. Louis fed says that interest rates should rise sharply to counter inflation He favors increasing the fed funds rate by 3% in the second half of the year Bullard says that the fed has to move forthrightly in order to get the policy rate to the right level to deal with inflation However calling inflationary pressure may be difficult for the fed he is former IMF chief economist Olivia Blanchard I'm not as optimistic as his most people I still think it's going to be very very tough I think inflation has a lot of momentum I think wage growth is a very tight labor market which coefficient is strong The fed is going to have very hard time slowing down the machine And it has to admit that it has to store the machine a lot And we don't want a recession We also heard from fed presidents Charles Evans of Chicago and Raphael bostick of Atlanta both favor raising rates to neutral while monitoring the economy's response to those hikes One of the driving forces behind rising inflation has been war in Ukraine And now the European Union is moving to ban cold imports from Russia This is the EU's first move aimed at Moscow's energy revenue Now the block is also banning most Russian trucks and ships from entering the EU Until now the EU is withheld from targeting Russian energy industries Germany and Hungary resisted given their reliance on Russian fossil fuels and now German Chancellor Olaf scholz says his country will make use of Russian coal during a transition period We're also told the EU will begin debating Russian oil imports in the coming days and we just heard a short while ago that Japan will reduce imports of Russian coals and eventually find some alternative Well it is four and a half minutes past the hour Time for global news.
Newsradio 700 WLW
"st. louis" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"Busch Stadium in ST Louis. And to get things started will be Joey Votto mentioned celebrating his 38th birthday today. Enjoy the off day here in ST Louis. Yesterday, the wind and the left hander fires and Lester pours lowing outside Ball one to Votto. Hitting 2 69 29 home runs and 86 RVs for Votto. One. Oh pitch, and Votto pulls it sharply on the ground of the right side and we handled by Edmund, who has shifted over into the right field grass. He makes the play Bartos out number one and let's pause. For station identification on the Cincinnati Bell Red Radio Network. Clear tonight. Low 58 Sunny and 84 tomorrow warmer for the Bengals game Sunday. No rain in the forecast until Tuesday night. Right now. 75 degrees at the home of the Reds. NewsRadio 700 wlw Cincinnati. Nothing. Nothing is Hey, you! Hey, neo Suarez stands in the second with nobody on and one man out. Poirot is up there with the 1 73 average 25 homers Those 69 driven in and he misses off the inside corner for ball one as we take a peek at our Cincinnati Bell trivia question of the game. Cincinnati Bell. Imagine the possibilities. If everyone had fiber Internet Here's the one Oh, Outside to know Pete Rose is baseball's all time career hits leader and the Reds all time franchise leader in career hits, obviously during his Reds career. Rose had 9 200 hits seasons. Only two other Reds in franchise history and multiple 200 hits seasons during their Reds careers. Pitch is a strike two and one They depends on who had 4 200 hit seasons as a red is one of them. Who is the other Line by the lefty Lester the 21 pitch swinging a miss, too. And to any ideas before I give you the clues. No, no names are popping into your head right away. Oh, We'll give you your choices. I'll take my choices. A Jake Daubert. The pitch. Suarez swings drives one high and deep left center field. Way back Gone. Suarez hits one halfway up the bleachers in left center field. His 26 film run of the year, his 70th run batted in, and the Reds have a one Nothing lead. Oh, you had to know that that matchup favored Suarez in a normal year, and it has been anything but a normal year for a U N e O Suarez. But boy, it sure looked normal on that swing.
Newsradio 700 WLW
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"Between the Reds and the ST Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in ST Louis. Don't forget Chick Ludwig has the Kelsey Chevrolet extra inning show. After the game. Congratulations goes out to read shortstop Kyle Farmer. His wife, Courtney gave birth today. So Kyle goes on the three day paternity list and shortstop Jose Barreiro has been brought up. Meanwhile, Happy birthday to a future Hall of Famer Reds first baseman Joey Votto. He turns 38 years old today. Good for him would be great. If what we saw on Wednesday could perhaps be the beginning of something big over these next three weeks. There was a stretch this summer. We talked about it a lot. I wrote about it. Uh, it was a major talking point this summer and It was a lot of fun. The resurgence of Joey Votto him having that incredible stretch where he homered in seven straight games, and this team offensively was fine early in the year, especially with Winker and Castano's carrying the load and you know, as the season evolved, we saw the emergence of Jonathan India, but This. This club really felt like it took off offensively when Joey Votto started to hit and when he did while you really didn't think he was going to be able to keep up the pace he was setting in late July. You kind of felt like God. You know what if if you can combine what he's doing with Winker and Castano's and India's rookie season and you can get any production from third base Boy, this team offensively can really get going and Well, Joey Votto has slowed the pace and what you hope is the home run that he hit on Wednesday night. Could be the beginning of something since there's swoon started, which was the previous road trip. When they went to Milwaukee. They have lost 10 out of 15. Five straight series since the beginning of that 15 game stretch. Uh, Joey Votto is production has dipped dramatically. He's batting just 1 78. His on base percentage is right around 300. He has just five extra base hits and 56 plate appearances. He has struck out a bunch. Um, I don't know if it's him wearing down. I don't I don't know if it's the number of lefties this team has faced recently, and Joey has a time looked awful against some of those lefties. The reality is this, Um was was Joey's resurgence in the middle of the summer ever going to point towards an MVP type season for Joey, either this year or next or next? Not necessarily. But this team needs Joey Votto to hit occupies a prominent place in the batting order. Aside from occasional days off, he's not going to sit. I know he sat on Monday, but he's he's going to be in the starting lineup every single day and We saw with this offense is capable of doing. Jonathan. India has been fantastic this year, setting the tone at the top of the batting order, but he's a rookie. Uh, Vados resurgence coincided with Nick Castellanos not being available right after the All Star break. You don't have Jesse Winker right now, the guy you point toward, and you're almost counting on no production from third base. I hate to make any team's offense issues about one guy. And I hate to point the finger right and Joey Votto and go. Well, you're the reason why this team offensively hasn't been getting it done. But if you're looking at somebody that could potentially dig this team out, the Duke can hit for power. The guy can get on base. He's supposed to be able to hit against righties. He's supposed to be able to hit against lefties. It's Joey Votto. And so, in addition to just hoping that maybe somebody else could do something offensively Besides Joey when he hit the home run on Wednesday night, I watched that through the lens of maybe, just maybe that can be what gets him going. We'll see if it is and if it continues, then it'll be a swell 38th birthday for the future Hall of Fame Reds first baseman We have a ton more to get to give you tonight's starting lineup when we come back first. The 7 30 news. This is the R and L Global logistics Inside Pitch on 700 wlw..
The Tim McKernan Show
"st. louis" Discussed on The Tim McKernan Show
"Especially recently. They're like they're like if they can make it till september still an then their content. Maybe not happy but you know it's also double edged sword because you know we listed off. All the accomplishments of the past twenty years and atomic of those are playoff appearances and ought not. I say only like it's bad but two championships. So you know obviously the goal was championships by making. The playoffs goes on goes on the accolades. Right yeah i guess the way i look at it. There's a lot of division championships in there. Because the first ten years anyway yeah Two thousand two thousand to two thousand four two thousand five two thousand six in two thousand nine role division championships. I but i mean listen. You're in the game for world championships. Here's the point is we're sitting here talking. Twelve or thirteen games. Out of the brewers and that's how far behind they are a team that is behind the dodgers. I would give the higher chances of winning the world series than them winning the central this year The math actually is similar recording. Actually is that that far back. Yeah and i know a lot of people agree with this. The thing that people don't agree with where i am in the minority on it is people agree. They're not good Okay not really hot. take People but i think people are so scared i think this is a social media concoction to people so scared like having what happened to the plow hawk when he's talking about trading tarasenko in january of nineteen. They were awful. Yeah now then then you have now audio four months later five months later they win the stanley cup and now it looks like but i get where he's coming from share you know so you don't wanna be the guy saying oh my god. They should train them. They wind up winning the world series. But it i'm sitting here saying can of course happened but the math is over so if you sitting there and you have a chance to bet and you can bet whatever dollar ten bucks fifty bucks hundred bucks. Whatever it is that the cardinals gonna win the world series. What are you going to bed you in if you say okay well now you gotta pay off five to one that the cardinals win the world series. You go on my me ten to one the cardinals when the world series. You probably go. I'm by me. I mean why am i gonna pass up on a free ten bucks free hundred dollars. I know that it can happen. And so if you're an organization y. With this opportunity to to to move on and turn the page especially when. I do believe that they're going to be aggressive. I think for twenty twenty two in part because a million i would imagine wainwright i would imagine and also aren't auto and goldschmidt. I mean michael as weird as it is and the flaherty clock is ticking to her share not age wise but time in saint louis wise time. Yeah i mean miles. Mike list is celebrating his either thirty or thirty third birthday as we speak today that they're gonna you know it's going to be shorts too. I'd have to say they're going to tend to shortstop or middle infield in some capacity may be young somewhere else. I don't know That that you gotta make a move but part of making moves is also taking a step back.
NewsRadio WIOD
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"ST Louis, Missouri on a mission to explore the northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned his private secretary Merryweather Louis, William Clark, an army captain to lead an expedition into what is now the northwest of the United States. Almost two and Half years later, the expedition returned to ST Louis, bringing back a wealth of information about the largely unexplored region jumping way ahead this week in 1965, in what may have been the most ridiculous waste of taxpayer money. The FBI laboratory declared that the lyrics of the song Louie Louie by the King's men to be officially unintelligible. Based on an outcry from parents who bought into what may have started as an idle rumor. The FBI launched a formal investigation in 1964 into the supposedly Pornographic lyrics of the song Louie Louie. This'll Week in 1973. Skylab, America's first space station is successfully launched into an orbit around the Earth 11 Days later, U. S astronauts Charles Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul Whites made a rendezvous with Skylab, repairing a jam solar panel and conducting scientific experiments during their 28 Day stay aboard the space station on this week in 2014, broadcast journalists and TV personality Barbara Walters retires from ABC News and is the code Most of the daytime program the view in a landmark career that spanned some 50 years on the air, Walters blazed a trail for women in TV news. And that's what happened. Thanks for listening to this week in history on my heart radio, your news starts now. Good morning. I'm Natalie Rodriguez. Plenty of sunshine on this Friday Eve top stories that we're following for you, including preteens now eligible to get their covert shots more on that and the Middle East violence coming up, But first, you gotta check from the hysteria Insurance traffic center. Good morning. We have a multi vehicle wreck on the Sawgrass South bounded Commercial. Two left lanes are closed. Traffic is backed up now to before Atlantic Boulevard also broken down car stuck in the traveling south bound on the palmetto right before 74th Street and the right lane still shut down north bound on the Don Shula after Snapper Creek Expressway. Your next update in 10 minutes on.
The big d zone
"st. louis" Discussed on The big d zone
"Okay press daingean well announced today. But i feel like i am pretty low on oxygen. I dunno want And i feel like even heavy a little bit but fail on option. I thought i would come on. And just to go to autumn autumn in an auto all the persons. It's a very long lot. Laura more people Running for mayor and all men den and then in then in tola because some places have Someplace that had three two an three again and Man was pretty Pretty be the play fall man saw. I'm just gonna take my time. And i i already did the mayor and controller on the first part of the abdulle today so and this is what all of the one hundred percent of reporting and i and i may met up with somebody. People name that some of his own men Racer so We're going to go with world war one first and The first two. That's going to definitely be the running. Our yolanda brown and sharon thai thai thai us. I hope Named i forgive me if i did Photo the two top top ten To top two candidate that will go on in d. able election. I can't karen tall straight now. This has gone back when i was looking for. Wd too but it went to w d three right straight through. We skipped but we already had the to going through way. There's only to an already. I don't understand the both going through all this We have abandoned bosley and command us. Benton bentham ho by his name. i Okay so then we had all all all all men Four and a gorgeous three people money and the top two that i see if Unders say evans and edward evident at one because some of the parts of name. I will not screw up. I will not put you no. No the last name is evan ending. The first name is edward. That the part of the name that i'm going to be announcing okay. So then this Four five on this Page on and then we got. We still another goal. So and i'm confused with this one so like do two people running on what five. But it was jane page and And barred hubbard must be county. Because i heard a paid for but anyway Wd seven is still automan And only two again. It's definitely Jack Kotaro and i'm gonna say kelly jack. Kelly is going to be running war. War dream What seminars just say One nine or wd nine So the two people will definitely be dan and and gunter game to get into dan and then Can i just gonna say dan and ken. So many weird names Just gonna say for for ward eleven is going to be martin is gonna be in ward eleven For twelve i'm gonna say sickie and began bill as they one one. Those are the two top runners on there. Okay and i don't know what this is putting saint. Louis county just said So confusing and one has a lot one of the county Wd twenty one. That one has the Weird thirteen So we have murphy and That's thirteen for all the men We skipped award again. This is the one. I don't like Not this is what kills me off when they go out to order like this. It told me off. I mean even better. When when i'm trying to predict wrestling keeps throwing the all but I do a lot better than wrestling and football. Everything's in the right order and everything like that and then won't tell me off but this one is just oh my god. It's hard to read and it's just tired. I'm trying to give a coverage lesson coverage floor. You hear anthony lewis and While making it easy for you flee For your Prestige as anyone. I'm just gonna say for war. Thirteen green and jennifer green and jennifer. Those were the top two. Vote-getters.
KTOK
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"Erupted yesterday to ST Louis jail by more than 100 inmates. They set fires for windows and caused flooding on multiple floors. One corrections officer was hurt but thankfully released from a local hospital with only minor injuries. As a result, 120 inmates have been transferred to other facilities. The detainees claim they were fed up with conditions during the pandemic boxes. Actually Strohmeyer damage to the jail building was extensive. Churches in California, breathing a sigh of relief after the Supreme Court ruled that the state cannot completely ban indoor worship amid the pandemic, But the justices declined to stop a ban on endure singing and chanting San Francisco Archbishop of Salvador Joseph Cordy Loney Congregational singing, It's allowed to have Ah cancer, for example, singing in a separate section, so that is still a problem. That's still a concern for us. I think there are ways that we can sing safely. Justice. Was also ruled the state can cap indoor capacity 25%. The band was put in place last summer after was determined that singing can release tiny droplets that carry the coronavirus with the Super Bowl. They're always big parties, but not this year. And the CDC recommend against gathering with people not in your immediate home. The CDC even published guidelines about having Super Bowl Sunday. Fun like doing virtual meet ups with your room decorated with team logos or start a chat, thread and text about each play in real time. Reminder. One doesn't need a large group of people to eat nachos. Evan.
Scoops with Danny Mac
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"Off in other words. The radio thing didn't necessarily feel like work but the tv thing did. And i can attest to that. And so you know doug a cat would be like oh. I don't have tv today. I have the day off but yet they're saying that in a commercial break while we're doing the show and what that speaks to is how much we just enjoy sitting around and be asking like this. You know what you. And i are doing right now. I can do this. If i didn't have a call coming up in what we talked about at the beginning and i have twenty seven minutes i would. I could sit here and do this for two hours. I did a podcast last week with action jackson our new producer Who is. I'm a huge fan of and i i hesitate to give him my endorsement because i know for the people who hate me now. They will hate him by proxy. But i'm a big fan of his. And i think he could be with us For a good long while but we i. I went for three hours. Twenty one minutes. Three hour i just got done doing in. Jackson is really kind of you know he's in it. Don't get me wrong but the you know if it's a pie chart i'm ninety five percent of the pie and he's five percent so i love just having conversations with people. It's what i love doing. I can do if you like. Hey what can we do three hours. Not that you would ever ask that but if you ask that i'd be like sure if somebody said to me doug hey today we need you guys for charity to go from seven. Am to five pm. Doug would have a coronary. But there's no doubt in my mind we could do it and do it. Pretty effortlessly i love just be asking and i love getting people's different perspectives to so whether so yeah. We haven't had for the most part real cardinal season since this all started up and we kinda had that shell of a blues playoff series. And now you've got a few games back. I don't really feel like it's impacted what we do and what i do on the podcast and i know it really hasn't for what you do as it may be would if if we were at a different place or doing a different kind of thing whether it be in television radio and that's because of what you said at the outset which is which is chemistry and just people getting together and be essen and you don't necessarily need to break down the blues comeback win over the sharks last night to fill segment. You know what i mean. Yeah one hundred percent and dan actually with Scoops with danny mac. The tv series which i had episode two on sunday night. You know it's not game driven a result driven it's having great conversations with people and you know when you're gonna have great conversations with people and sometimes when there isn't a game to talk about i find the conversations even better yep. I agree with you on that as well. I love it man. And and you and i were saying this before we got started of how you doing the radio show on comrex and i've been doing that for my house.
KOMO
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"Say he would contest congressional certification of Joe Biden's win, reportedly fired out of fundraising text just before things went sideways of the U. S Capital on Wednesday used the fundraising text to promote his objection to the results that he is working to ensure everyone has a voice at the ballot box organization called Wind. Red, Distributed Holly's text, which was obtained by Camellia Television, ST Louis Meanwhile, former Missouri Senator John Danforth, an early backer of Holly called his support for Holly the worst mistake of his life. Danforth called his former proteges plan to object to the election radical and dangerous. A B C's can't Martin Separately, publisher Simon and Schuster announced It's canceled Holly's plan book, saying it can't support him After his role in what became a dangerous threat to democracy and freedom. Holly called that Orwellian on the pandemic. Top government infectious disease doctor, Anthony Fauci addressed Washington University in ST Louis. He expressed astonishment. There are still people who consider the pandemic a hoax. That to me is unimaginable that that is going on in the United States, you know something almost as unimaginable as what happened last night. In my town here of Washington, D C. Something that you say. How could this possibly be going on the covert tracking project reported a new first more than 4000 dead in the latest reporting period. This is ABC News. Come on his time, 10, 04 and traffic every 10 minutes on the forest from the Dubin Law Group Traffic Center J. Phillips. In the Seattle wanna remind you that everything is clear on MLK. Wait South Norfolk. We had a collision, blocking both directions completely. All lanes are open. Now Sterile 5 to 9. The Snohomish River Bridge is back open to vehicle traffic. After Marine Crossing Tonight at 11 O'clock south on Highway 167 will close completely at East Grandview Avenue until the 4 a.m. hour for construction work currently in Lakewood, the south bound by five on and off ramps at Thorne Lane. Are closed overnight. Your next report at 10 14. J. Phillips Cuomo News. Shannon.