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"taft" Discussed on WTOP
"Is WTO P news. D.C. is responding this week after another tragedy at the taft bridge, another person reportedly died by suicide just this week by jumping off the bridge, marking the second suicide there in less than a year. It's led to a public response from D.C.'s Department of Transportation, which says the latest suicide underscores the urgency to install suicide prevention barriers at the taft bridge. The department says it's working on the design and securing funding for the project right now. Chelsea van Thoth lost her part of the suicide last year when he jumped off the bridge, she says she's cautiously optimistic, seeing the D.C. leaders are speaking out. My first gut reaction was don't get your hopes up. I believe the barrier will be there. I just hope it's there in time that we don't have to lose more people. Nick alley, WTO P news. And if you or someone you know is struggling, please call the national suicide prevention hotline by dialing 9 8 8. That's the national suicide prevention lifeline by dining 9 8 8. Despite a call from D.C.'s delegate recently to do away with them, the national zoo says timed entry passes are here to stay. D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton in a letter to the zoo on Monday says she's concerned the passes for which you need a computer or smartphone to get, maybe limiting access to the zoo. Now the zoo is responded, making a case to keep the passes. A director of the zoo brandy Smith says the past is allowed for the zoo to better manage visitor capacity and limit traffic congestion in the area and to that Norton says. First of all, I said the wintertime. I'm not sure that this such crowding of the zoo at this time of the year. The director also says now on the zoo's website, a better spells out that there are some same day passes available. Norton says her next step is having the zoo here directly from residents on this at an expected town hall with the zoo, though no date for that has been set. Mike Murillo WTO news. Some local colleges in Maryland are agreeing to delay billing or provide alternative payment options for the spring semester all in response to a letter sent to universities by a group of state senators concerned about recent problems with distributions in the state's 5 29 college savings plan. It's called Maryland 5 29. It says the problems were due to an internal calculation issue that's resulted in some families not being able to access their accounts and pay for tuition. Presidents of all 16 Maryland community colleges are agreeing to delay the bills, the university of Maryland is also considering the request. If you're happy and you know it, it could lead to better health in your later years, more on a new study from CBS News correspondent about piper, teenagers who feel loved, happy or optimistic, are in better health when they're in their 20s and 30s. The American Heart Association study says the link was especially strong among black youth that the way they feel about their lives in a positive way may just help prevent cardiometabolic disease as adults. Researchers actually examine data from nearly 3500 U.S. high schoolers back in 1994 and were followed for more than two decades, the most recent data collection occurred in 2018 when their average was 38. You are listening to one O 3.5 up in the WTO E dot com. By the time now is 1125 money news, we bring you a 25 and 55 on WTO P. Without finished Wednesday up 269 points the NASDAQ gained more than one and a half percent. Tesla will invest $700 million to expand its Austin Texas plant. Kite pharma is expanding in Frederick Maryland adding a hundred jobs to its existing 400, the company develops cell therapy for cancer, George Washington University is named Ellen gramberg. It's 19th president. Gramberg is GW's first female president. She's currently senior vice president at Rochester institute of technology. Jeff claypot, double TLP news They are as cards for kids. With car prices at an all time high, our donors are now getting highest receipts ever. Donate at cars
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"taft" Discussed on WTOP
"This is WTO P news. Four 23. Following reports of another person jumping to their death at the taft bridge in northwest, D.C. leaders are responding, saying they are in the process of adding suicide prevention barriers there. This is a very important step. Chelsea van Thoth lost her partner to suicide last year when he jumped off the taft bridge, so the news this week that another person died the same way brought back tragic memories, though she was encouraged to see that D.C.'s Department of Transportation released a statement saying it's working to install suicide prevention barriers at the bridge. Them making a public statement did give me a glimmer of hope. I remain cautiously optimistic. The department says it's currently working on the design and securing funding for the project. Nikai and LA WTO news. If you or someone you know is struggling, please call the national suicide prevention lifeline by dialing 9 8 8. It's four 24. The people running the national zoo are responding to a request by D.C. congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton that they stop using timed passes for admission. Zoom manager say time admission lets them control capacity, reduce traffic congestion, and provide for an overall safer visit. Norton argues timed passes discriminate against people without smartphones, and those who don't use the Internet. She also says the system discourages people for making spontaneous visits to the zoo. The zoo says it's now changed the language on its website to better explain the availability of same day passes. Rising egg prices are not going over easy with consumers as some inflation hiked food costs go down. The price of eggs remains stubbornly high. It turns out the avian avian flu is devastated chicken flocks this year putting a strain on supply. The Washington Post was with us last hour. Experts don't really know if this is going to be contained. And they've compared it in a lot of ways to the coronavirus pandemic in humans, where we had some really, really bad months starting in 2020. And now it's a little more manageable, but there's always some variant that could come back and threaten things again. Bellware says the avian flu hit egg prices hard back in 2015, but this year's strains have spread into more flocks. At four 25, we've got money to use a 25 and 55. Let's go to Jeff clay ball. The Dow finished the day up 269 points. The
Mark Levin
More Proof That Pelosi Was More Responsible for J6 Riot
"More proof that Nancy Pelosi was more responsible for January 6th riot than Trump writes Victoria taft In an outstanding peace over at PJ media The little notice bill passed before Christmas Shows that the United States Senate knows Nancy Pelosi Had more to do with the U.S. capitol breach on January 6th Than anything president Trump did that day Indeed Pelosi could be crowned queen of the mob Since her actions led to the crashing of the perimeter fences general dysfunction and deaths of Trump supporter of a Trump supporter that day Even after the one sided January 6th committee left Pelosi's role in the cutting room floor there's one inescapable conclusion if she had done her job there would not have been a riot no deaths of a Trump supporter no show trials No political prisoners sitting in a solitary confinement in a D.C. gulag for two years awaiting trial There would have been no need for federal agents She writes to orchestrate arrived Pelosi was more responsible for the marauding mob at the capitol that day Than anything president Trump did to incite quote unquote his huge crowd of supporters which he provably did not write staffed and here's how we know this On Monday night December 12th senators unanimously passed a measure to remove authority For calling out the National Guard from politicians like Pelosi He gave it over to the capitol police They took it from Pelosi and gave it to the cops
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Craig Shirley: No Potential Successor yet for McConnell
"They always say you can't beat somebody with nobody. Is there anyone within the 49 member GOP caucus who could get 25 votes so that Mitch McConnell is edged to the side? I don't know. You know, I don't have a broke my crystal ball site. I can't see in the future. But you raise an interesting point over the last question, which is that about a division in the Republican Party. This has happened. Unlike the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party since 1932 and Franklin Roosevelt the new deal has generally been the party of government and in fact big government. And they've been that way for the last 70, 80, 90 years. Whereas the Republican Party has gone for from being a me too party under Eisenhower to a revolutionary Conservative Party anti government party under Reagan. So the Republican Party has had many fights in many fishers over the many years. You had Eisenhower versus taft and Nixon versus Rockefeller and bold water versus Rockefeller and then Reagan versus Ford and again with the bushes who moved the party back toward a big government party. Is that these fights have gone along in the Republican Party? And I think we're going to see it again. The party is going subdivide itself and it's going to go through another evolutionary change and you're going to see more House members emerge as conservative leaders fighting for a conservative answer to Biden and big government and all the wasteful spending.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Examining Eisenhower's Final Address to the Nation
"And coming from Eisenhower, a man, a general who led the troops, the frame allied commander in Europe, led us to victory over Hitler. Someone who had spent his entire live adult life up until now in the military and dealing with these elements of war, peace and battles came to this conclusion that he said that we needed to be very wary of this new industrial or military establishment. He said in this quote, he said a vital element in keeping peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. That is strength. That is fighting from strength. This is the Reagan doctrine. It is the Trump doctrine. It's been the doctrine of most every president from, you know, from Johnson, the two Kennedy is to project a position of strength. We've seen that deteriorated here in recent years, we've seen a more isolationist mint, which is why Eisenhower actually ran, by the way, over analyzed statements in one who was moving, they were moving away taft, the Democrat was actually wanting to move to an isolationist advance. And again, in Eisenhower's true form, said there had to be a balance. He saw this coming. But what he said later on, he said, but the military our military organization bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors and peace time or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea. This is what we talk about earlier about how the military has changed to what we see as the more modern military of today from what he knew before World War II where we were not ready for war. We were not ready to engage Japan or Germany. We had to ramp up that system very quickly. And that is exactly what happened during World War
Dennis Prager Podcasts
How Can People Who Love Freedom Support Progressives?
"It's very, it's very interesting that the people of the freest, most affluent country in the history of the world would vote for progressives. Ruminate on why that might be why do people find Wilson and why do people find leftism in America? I understand around the world, but wouldn't Americans in their DNA recoil? You would think so. We had about a 20 year progressive trend that really started with Theodore Roosevelt. Taft and then of course Wilson really put it on. Well, those two were Republicans. And progressive. They were certainly different than Harding. There's no question about that. This is when you start to see a little bit of a shift in the parties.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Chicago Tries to Take Down Turning Point USA
"Right wing groups attempt to open at Chicago high school, rejected. After talk of starting a turning point USA chapter at taft high school, the school's principle said that they will never tolerate student groups that go against the school's values. Chicago sometimes writes that administrators at Chicago public schools high school have shot down an attempt by a right wing group to form a chapter on the northwest campus of quote an organization promoting racial and tolerance. Wonder who he's talking about. Meanwhile, Chicago police said their investigating, a social media post by longtime Chicago police department sergeant that praised the efforts for the students trying to start the group turning point USA I'll get to that in a second. Taft high school principal Mark Gresham, or Grisham, said in a letter to the school community earlier, this month that he was disturbed by efforts to launch a turning point chapter at taft high school. The right-wing organization claims to have a presence on thousands of high school. No, we do have the presence on thousands of high school and college campuses, including in the Chicago suburbs. The organization was founded in 2012, but Charlie Kirk Baba am a Trump supporter who considers critical race theory and the concept of white privilege is racist against whites, and it is. The group's key principles he says are rooted in capitals of U.S. Constitution and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world. He grew up in the northwest suburbs and attended wheeling high school. At least they got that part right. Grasshopper said in his note that the group doesn't support diversity and inclusion. You hear that that we don't support diversity inclusion, and they're the ones that block our group from coming. We're the ones that are not inclusive, we're the ones that don't support diversity because we want to have a group of ten people at a left wing high school in downtown Chicago. He says that turning point USA contradicts the school's mission statement to quote educate global citizens to create a better world. Quote, police know that the staff and administration at tap will never tolerate the formation of any group that doesn't support these values. No please mister Gresham, tell me what we've ever said or ever done at turning point USA that is against the values of trying to educate global citizens create a better world. Have you ever gone to a turning point USA event? Can you name one thing that we do at our organization? Promoting racial intolerance. We're the ones that just did an entire campus tour, trying to say that critical race theory is actually incredibly racist and destroying our country from within.
The Audible with Feldman And Mandel
"taft" Discussed on The Audible with Feldman And Mandel
"So we haven't had a chance to talk about the big news from Monday that Nebraska is bringing back Scott frost. I seem to have been more shocked about that than you or frankly, most of the state in Nebraska. So Brian asked from mallard Nebraska. There seems to be a lot of support for Scott for us in the state from fans despite the poor record. He's right about that by the way. One of the Omaha world hald writers did a Twitter poll. And it was like 60% supported bringing him back. One of the rationales is that they fire across who would want to come here. I don't agree with that sentiment. So I'm asking the experts. Let's say trev Albert's does fire Scott frost, presumably next year who was once considered to be the ideal candidate. What type of coach would Nebraska be an awning? Can they find a better coach than the one who hasn't had a winning season in four years? Let's talk about Nebraska before we get to Brian's point of question on that is Scott frost basically fired his entire offensive staff, and this is a big pay cut. Yeah, well he will now be on his third offensive coordinator in three years. He brought his entire staff from UCF and the defensive side of the ball. Has done a really good job. I think they're very good on that side of the ball. Offense and look, Scott Ross isn't offensive guy. That has been an issue. The thing that I wonder about with them. And we don't know yet who he's going to hire as his OC and how involved how hands on he's actually going to be. But like, I mean, do you look at the personnel and go, oh, they are, you know, a new offensive coordinator is going to come in and all of a sudden they're going to turn into a top 15 team. I mean, I don't know. I'm interested to see how this is going to work out because usually somebody doesn't hit the reset button a third time and it works. You know, it's usually doesn't at that point. At least, at least I don't think so dramatically kind of thinking about different situations like that. But maybe right now, Trump alberts has bought himself another year to go through this process. You and I both talked about wake forest and Dave klos and we have a lot of respect for him, what he's done there. I have no idea if he'd want to be at Nebraska where it's honestly it's not that easy to me to expectations at this point. I don't know if the window will be gone about Matt Campbell. Will USC hire him away? I think Matt Campbell would be a terrific hire for Nebraska, but the timing might not work out. He might not be at Iowa state anymore. Maybe he will be, but I don't know. Beyond that, I'm not sure I'm looking at somebody it's okay. There's a fit of a guy that is going to jump to Nebraska. You know, I don't see Luke fickle wanting to make that move. I don't think it's a big enough step up at all, especially now that Cincinnati is going to be in the big 12. I don't see it. I just like, I think right now they went for a home homegrown guy who knows the program in and out had success at the group of 5 level like there's nobody I look at unless you're gonna say, hey, we're gonna give Jim Leonard a chance. Say, what are you gonna do on offense, but we really like what you've done as a defense coordinator Wisconsin in the same division. Beyond that, I don't know what they do. You know, there's not an obvious name, but at the same time, I think people are underselling that job. For instance, you just said, well, Luke fickle, I don't think you'll want to go because they're going to the big 12. The big 12 is going to be somewhere between power 5 and group of 5 in status in a couple of years when Oklahoma and Texas lead. The Big Ten is the Big Ten. The Big Ten Nebraska is going to be soon getting a $60 million a year check from the Big Ten. Because of what we just talked about Jenny, if so many people watch their games. And you've got massive fan support, great tradition, all those things. Is it, are you going to win a national championship there like Tom Oswald did? Probably not. But you can be a lot better than they are. And they fire coaches for winning 9 games a year. Oh, well, they did that, yes, but don't you think this has been a bit of a reality check, where it's like, oh, maybe that was. Now look, both Bellini, I don't know, I don't really have a problem with them firing him at the record he had just because he was just so divisive. I mean, he was caught on tape cursing out the entire fan base. Like that relationship was so fractured. But I you know, I think this all can be traced to when they fired Frank soloist for going 9 and three. And that was Steve Peterson, who was in one of the most incompetent ADs and I would encourage you to read the mid Sherman max Olson deep dive on that coaching search. But let me ask you real quick, you love to play this game. You love to put me on the spot with percentages. What's your percentage chance that Scott frost will still mean Nebraska's coach in 2023? I will say 34%. 34, that's very specific. Yeah, I was going to say one in three, I'm like, no, let me go a little stronger than that. The problem I have a little bit with it is I don't, you know, you and I are very divided on Adrian Martinez. I'm not saying Adrian Martinez should be a Heisman or anything like that. But I think he is a one man band for them. They have so little skill talent around him. You know, we've obviously heard that he's played with a broken jaw and he's played with an ankle injury. It was like as mediocre as they are, I think they would be like, they wouldn't even be competitive in a lot of these games if they didn't have him. And so I don't know what they have in the wings. That is gonna make me say, oh yeah, now all of a sudden there's going to be a new offensive coordinator. Like their margin for error to me seems very slim, especially when, you know, they make all these self inflicted mistakes with penalties, they miss their bad and the kicking game. It's just,.
The Audible with Feldman And Mandel
"taft" Discussed on The Audible with Feldman And Mandel
"I was talking to the officers on the field and they said, they really don't think anyone will storm because the ad Michigan state at Spartan stadium. It's so high up for the fans to drop down that it's really dangerous. So it actually worked to our advantage. We didn't have to deal with that. But the idea started when it was actually Oregon, Ohio State. So sue, when I saw you, someone from our Fox social team just randomly started filming me because it really is chaos, right? And in that moment, organs celebrating. It's such a moment whereas you feel the Ohio State fan base just such a letdown. And seeing them behind the scenes, the video did really well on TikTok. And I just have fun with the behind the scenes because I get so many questions. And it's all about the behind the scenes. When someone writes in on social, they just want to know what the day to today is like, they want to know what skip and Shan are like here. They want to know how we prepare. And I think it's unique to see that adrenaline of a postgame interview, which is truly what I love most about being a sideline reporter are those moments when you catch a coach or player coming off an incredible Kenneth walker after that game. I mean, the emotion and his teammates were chanting, Heisman Heisman. So I love just being able to capture that and show it an alternate view because the broadcast is one thing. And, you know, I love I just love a good postgame interview. So just try to offer something fun and unique to the broadcast. Okay, so I want to share the counter to that because I've been in that position and the thing that I probably most admire about Jenny is she is unflappable. I feel like I've never seen her have a seemingly nervous moment. I'm guessing this is probably like the duck where there's a lot of stuff going on underneath the water, but you don't see it. So I got two questions for you. One, we share the same sideline producer does prince yell at you as much as he yelled at me because I find it hard to believe that he does. And two, so this is a situation where everything has happened on the fly. Sometimes you don't know who's going to win the game till the very last second. So and I made this point to stew on some of my sportswriter colleagues a lot. Postgame, if one of us asked a really stupid question on the field as a sports writer, pretty much the only one who might know it is the other sports writer who might be around. Because usually the player or the coach is too caught up in the moment they don't really care if you ask, can you talk about something else? But you ask it or I ask it if I'm on TV, all of a sudden now, everybody's picking it apart. So what, you know, how are you parsing in your head asking a reasonable smart question in the moment, but also doing it on camera where you got the producer in your head, you got chaos around you. So how are you managing all that? Well, thank you, Bruce. I appreciate that I don't seem to flappable in those moments. And I do take them, I put a lot of pressure on myself to ask the right questions. And I sometimes almost get frustrated that the viewer doesn't realize I'm being told you only have time for two, right? Because sometimes there's so much more to get to. And two questions can never feel like it's enough. So sometimes if it's a two question situation, my first will be more open ended and broad because I want to hopefully get a lot more out of that. But I tend to follow the theme really just to the best of my ability throughout the game. And that's with anything, but I think a great example of that is Michigan, Michigan state where we had kind of established this theme of a heavyweight fight and Gus kept going back to it and Mel Tucker and our interview kept talking about we're going to punch harder, like we're going to fight. We're going to come to come to play. And it was this theme that was established. So I was thinking about that the whole time, and that was kind of the way I set up the Tucker interview. And I do find it's always helpful as a sideline reporter to use something that coaches have said. It creates like comfort. They're listening to you. I heard you say that. I brought it up with coach day last week. You know, he had described March he had described November football as March badness. I used that in one of my starting points for a question because I always find that it makes them feel comfortable to your list and you're paying attention to what they're saying. Lincoln Riley this weekend, I'm already thinking he calls it championship, November. So how are you going to create that theme in your questions? And I do ahead of time. Think of numbers for example, coach day stays undefeated last week against Big Ten opponents. I know that going in, I have notes that I've thought about. So if he continues, that's an easy segue to start a question. So I would say I plan ahead, but by no means are the questions scripted because you clearly can't. But I do think of themes ahead of time because if not, you're scrambling and like you said, you can't ask a bad question anymore. That's exposed to everyone. And I take it very seriously and I think some are better than others, some are smoother than others, but that's kind of what I enjoy most about it. So you've had the good fortune to see. You mentioned that Michigan, Michigan state game. By the way, the selection committee last night, apparently decided it never happened. What happened that day? Wasn't the highest watch called football game, right? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. 9 million people or something, watch that, but apparently not the committee. So you've seen them, you've seen Ohio State you've seen Oklahoma, you're going to see Oklahoma again. Who's impressed you the most? If Jenny taff was the selection committee. I think it's a really good point about Oklahoma because I can not wait to see them again. I mean, the last time I saw them, that was Nebraska at Oklahoma. A lot has changed. We clearly know Spencer's no longer the guy. So I haven't seen Caleb up close and personal. And as we all know, Lincoln is being very protective of this freshman QB, not allowing media and I tried all the Jenny charm this week to getting Caleb interview and I was unsuccessful, but we do have them next week. So let's see what let's see if I can work my magic this week. I'm like Lincoln, if he's gonna start with anyone. It might as well be me. It'll be a very comforting comfortable question. I can tee you up on what Alaska ahead of time, but he's got to learn how to do these interviews. So hold me to it. Maybe next week I'll get him. So yeah, I need to see about close to personal, but I talked to Marvin mims on the phone yesterday. He really blew me away on the phone and obviously what he's been doing on the field and I talked to pat fields as well, one of their senior captains. And I like where their leadership is at. And they claim to not be fazed by the playoff and kind of being underrated at this point. But they need to continue to win out much like all of these teams, which we know. It's the same with Ohio State. If they went out and they control their destiny, I think, well, iOS 8 was a bit unconvincing in their win last week, which we all saw. I'm look, Nebraska. We know the close games they've had this year and close enough to keep coach frost as we all saw that announcement this week. And I'm actually happy for him that he's going to have the opportunity to keep this thing rolling. Because I do believe in the process that they've had and they have fought hard. I mean, these guys weren't quitting. And that's one thing about Nebraska they're really impressed me. But I don't know. Ohio State, Michigan, things get really interesting for that one. But before we see the buckeyes in that big game, they still have to handle. I have to handle Michigan state. So I like ten right now. I have still questions and CJ was missing Garrett Wilson last week, which played a role..
The Audible with Feldman And Mandel
"taft" Discussed on The Audible with Feldman And Mandel
"And so I was thinking about who we should get. And I was like, you know, we got some tweets about Sunday's episode. You were usually worked a little blue there. You worked a little blue, you're unusually, I mean, you just seemed really angry. I don't know what had gone on there. So who is never angry, would never say a bad word, Jenny taft. Yes, the most definitely the most delightful person in the Fox Sports family by miles, I would go further than that, she might be the most life full person I've ever met. And she's extremely important guest to have on this show because she does the biggest game in the country almost every week. Through that big new package. So we're going to ask her about that. We're going to ask her about curb. She has some firsthand experience with that recently. And a lot of other great things. Here's Jenny. Pleased to be joined now by our friend Jenny taft. You know her from, I mean, this is a college football podcast. You all know who Jenny taft is, because you've seen her on some of the biggest games in the country this season. In fact, Jenny, I got a press release this week that the big noon package is the most watched college football broadcast window. Of the season. Higher than SEC on CBS, higher than ABC prime time. I mean, you guys are superstars now. It's pretty wild. Well, first of all, thanks for having me on guys. I love both of you. I feel like I don't see you enough in person. Nowadays, but yeah, what an honor. I mean, I think the big new strategy is so unique because there was definitely criticism and hey, there's still criticism about that time slot. But what's so special is that we've kind of owned it and taken over in that time frame. And I personally love it. I mean, I think it's fun to have that new window and we've kind of been able to brand it as foxes and I'm not gonna lie, getting home Saturday night. Kind of won't win win. Especially you guys know I work on understood during the week. So Sundays are very sacred and there's not a lot of moving from the couch for me. So I'm all in on the new and I really I really enjoyed it. And hey, I wake up at four every day of the week anyway, so. Can we, before we get into the actual football stuff? I want to touch on that. So I am a get up at four a.m. for schedule once a week. It's for that Saturday for big noon. You regularly do it. And how do you manage it where there are some Monday nights? I'm like, why am I falling asleep at 8 20? You know, it's like, or even Sundays, the same thing. So how do you manage it in football season where are you just always on east coast time? You know, I don't even think about time zones, which is funny because I think I'm always tired. So there's a level of I'm no matter where I am, I'm going to try to be going to bed. I think probably like all of us Friday night, I stay up too late because I'm still prepping and I always feel like there's more I could read about and study about. So I don't go to bed earlier than midnight really ever on Friday. So I tend to be more tired Saturday morning no matter what. But then during the week for a disputed, I do wake up at four, four 15. And you know, that shows, I can't believe it, but I've been doing it for four years. So it's routine in the morning. It's not like I'm cramming whereas a college football game we all know. It's different every time who my interviewing, what's my report, you're still, it's just a different level of intense in the morning. Here it's really just getting to the lot and it consists of watching all the games the night before. So that's what we're already doing as it is. And I am not, I'm not a morning person. I wish I could say like, oh, it's so natural, but every morning I wake up and I just even today I rolled out of it, I'm like, God, rather sleep, you know? My husband and dog are just lounging right there and I'm getting up, but I love doing both the show and I love being on the road. So I wouldn't change that at all. But I truly like Sunday if you want to hang out, I'm not available. I don't make plans. I mean, I've been the Vikings are coming to town this Sunday and I'm like, oh, I really want to see them, but should I go on a Sunday, so it's just a grind and then, you know, we'll sleep in January, right, guys? I'm getting exhausted just listening to this. The idea of waking up at four a.m. is even even like once a month with terrifying. By the way, Jenny's from Minneapolis. That's why she's talking about the Vikings. There you go. That is the only reason to point that out right now. Considering the ups and downs they've had me on. This season and I guess my entire life. So you've had just off the top of my head. You had organ Ohio State. You had Red River, which was a classic this year. Not this year. No, we didn't have it this year. Never. Unfortunately. Scratch that scratch. I know. It would have been a classic. That was habit thinking. I always just I guess ever since dicker, the kicker, I just, it's in my brain that you guys have that game. All right. That lives on, that moment, right? I mean, that's one of Gus's consolation. The big noon game in that window was actually not Jenny's game. It was the clunker that me Brock and iron goldsmith did at Ohio State where it was like, a blowout, my brother's texting me updates on the Red River game and Maryland's getting beat by like 40. So. Yeah. That wasn't unique weekend. You're right. I think we dragged the big new window average down in a big way that day. I'm gonna ask you a completely different question. You're very active on Instagram on social media and you had a video this week where you chasing down Ryan day, I believe. And showing a giving us a little bit of a behind the scenes window into what that frantic sequence is like at the end of the game. Talk us through, that's the probably I guess the most important part of the game, right? Making sure you get the coach on camera at the end of the game. Have you had any have you had any close calls this year where it almost didn't happen? It's a really good point. This year, no, in the past, yes, I've definitely had moments where storing of the field is a concern. And you want to make sure you get everyone in time this year for that Iowa game, Penn State, Iowa. I mean, I don't know. Iowa shouldn't have probably stormed the Iowa fans are listing thinking, yeah, we can, but then, you know, that game. Anyways, we know what happened after that one. But we did have a plan with the team that I would interview coach parents in the tunnel. If that were to happen. So they anticipated it. And thankfully, that was set up because those are I love a good adrenaline rush, but at the same time, that would have been really challenging to find him in time. And if you don't have a plan, it can be more complicated. Like Michigan state Michigan, just last week, I was talking a couple weeks ago that we know how great that game was..
The One You Feed
"taft" Discussed on The One You Feed
"That can and I were talking about such as Adriano, or into tantra, these non dual traditions, they've kind of formalized that in a sense where, you know, there's actual practices you're doing every minute. I mean there's practices for eating, you know, which might be something akin to just praying before you eat something that we would recognize from Midwestern American culture, but then other weird stuff like praying when you go to the bathroom and you know, praying when you're beginning a trip, and it's not praying always, sometimes it's doing some kind of big complex ritual. It's much more built in methods of attempting to contact that sacredness of every moment even the very mundane moments. For us, in the modern west, it's probably not going to look like that because unless we create each one of those for ourselves, you know, we don't have ready made rituals for all those things, but on the other hand, that doesn't impede the direct seeing of that digging into or bathing in or saturation with this sacredness that's available in every moment. Yeah, I think one of the questions I've become increasingly really focused on and really working on in my mind and in the programs that we offer is how do we take that insight and awakening that we're having while we meditate, and how do we infuse it through more of the moments of our lives, and I agree with what you're saying about in certain cultures or traditions, it sort of done for you the danger as you just start going through the motions, but there is a plan and a well thought out structure to life that makes it more likely that's going to happen. I feel like that's missing to a large degree in so many people's practice in our current world..
The One You Feed
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"So we don't separate and say there's these good feelings and good emotions and bad things and bad emotions. Our job is to just wash out the dirt and only focus on the good stuff. It actually includes every part of life even the most difficult stuff. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. As many of our listeners know my side hustle outside of the one you feed podcast is that I have some rental properties, and I kid you not that I have installed well over 30 of our.
The Autosport Podcast
Tonio Liuzzi on His F1 Career
"Today i'm joined by two special guests. The first italian driver who started his home pre five times between two thousand six and two thousand eleven in three different teams for going onto rice in twelve endurance. Championship super-g t on formula e v antonio While concern you drank your mess You i'm the second-guessed jonathan. Oh boy who covered. Tony are in formula one at the time And i guess the first time you would have been counted him would be back in two thousand and two macau pre. Yeah i think so. I mean high high tiny macau macau. I've done we'll try to help with coach times but tried to just to kind of meet a lot of the the young rising hotshots coming up and remember much of two thousand and two i think. At the time tonio beat michael schumacher that karting world championship. Macau such a such a big race. Although it wasn't one of his one of his best we can in terms results is always a great great experience race. In macau isn't i think he's one of the race. You can never forget the management the once and it was really shocking experience. 'cause michael is a really unique circuit. I was coming from Wait betty seasoning from what the german former the and whenever after macau and they said the circuit as a while was reading. Grandma goes you can expected to dugan southie like that because there's no more nicole in comparison do my cow that can be For the ball goes. Mcconnell is really unique is really scanty when you're driving with a former foam tree that these much slower than a foam once by taft It wasn't incredible experiences. I was lucky that we can cause in for session. Also sabido many steak because they wanted to offer that acting the first session and Michael the the The the let me do it. Because i i guess the i manage blue there for station in this white or the remaining as was climbing up in terms of speed
Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"taft" Discussed on Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
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"taft" Discussed on Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"Are a few. That come up has resting in that. Not knowing. always been very natural for you michael or was that something that came over time no. It's painful and scary. Yeah if in san shameful and all kinds of stuff. We're supposed to know. And i'm a. I'm a arrogant. Know at all to begin. With if i wanna be the one that knows and so it's really difficult but over time you just see you. It's like i remember being in chemistry class. And you know you gotta keep your lab bej clean and you gotta keep all the glassware clean or just fox of the experiment and it's the same thing if i come into all these interactions knowing it's like there's a bunch of chemicals left all over the bench in the glassware and it just messes up the experiment and so it's like you keep it as clean as possible and so over time with just like in in chemistry lab after the ninetieth time. You've messed up your experiment. You realize you gotta keep it clean and in the same way. It's like oh. I gotta come into this just not knowing or it's gonna go wrong but also when i do it. It actually really helps things start to go much better. Are there things you do inside of your mind to make it easier to get there to get to that place of entering with not knowing night. And i asked this in a very real lived away for me as a as a fellow arrogant know at all which is definitely my personal orientation i can find a really challenging sometimes to relax around that and i'm just wondering how that happened for you. Just organically over the years. I think psychedelics helped tremendously Especially multiple second because you really see your own mind again as from the outside. And you see that. Hot constructions are thought constructions. You get that thought. Construction's never equal reality. they're just like a gloss or some kind of very rudimentary map of over trying to do and so over time than a combination of that plus a lot of meditation on the deep emptiness of plus just a lot of embarrassing experiences thinking. I know just just totally being wrong eventually. Live that life. yeah eventually. There's this quality called humility that's decree in there and say hey arrogant know at all. If you want to. You know have a better experience. Why don't you just relax little bit open and let things be a little less constrained by that so. Those kinds of experiences have contributed to this. I would say if i were attempting to do it on purpose right now i would just go directly to the ground being type thing where it's like Being his fundamentally mysterious unknowable and that is actually a more pleasant experience than knowing and is also much. More alive with possibility and relational capacity. And so what do you mean my the ground of everything. Well what do you mean by it now. So but i would say let. Let's say a something close to it. Is that vast spacious of weirdos that is not located anywhere in his itself empty and yet is knowing and loving knowing that meaning knowing something but is is conscious and awake and his loving so that but it's fundamental fundamentally mystery right. There's no way to ever really know what that is and yet connecting with that so delicious and so over time you to start to get into. It feels better to be in the not knowing you know it starts to be more creative interactive relational loving possibilities opened up instead of possibilities closing down mega that quote from here. We are in the bay area. All of us suzuki From zen center way back in his mind beginner's mind book to says in the experts..
Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"taft" Discussed on Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"I had to every single thing on my own and it turns out that asking for help is not only necessary. Supplies really helpful really actually fund brings you at least for me about me into. Let's say zones of discomfort that turned out to be really really generative positive and useful. You know so asking for help. You don't know at all another one and this is crucial. And you can't see it till you can see it and that is understand that everything's schema. I mean you are looking at world through lenses. That are highly skewed all the time. If you think. Lenses are clear and unscrewed. That's a problem and so it's very very important to understand what lenses you're looking through into really be able to see those all the time and like i say it's the sort of thing that you can't do until you can do. But once he can do it. You just realize that it was like you were completely operating inside. You're blind before not totally but it's just so important to be able to understand the scheme as you're working through even very very deep deeper than what that term usually means but the fact that there's always lenses and being able to see that in yourself and what's your buying for these lenses what's what emotions are holding them firm. What emotions are the are keeping them in place and so another thing is having a fearless commitment to letting go of those you know of the emotions that are holding stuff in place and being okay with the discomfort that comes up and the and the not knowing and willing to be wrong in other words. A huge part of this is wanting to be right wanting to be consistent wanting to all that kind of stuff and it's like total summary of everything i've seen. It is total fearlessness with inconsistent. The different parts of your experience don't have to blend together. In a seamless model of the world. The blend together as a story of your life. But it's just really to to see what's there right now authentically for you in this moment so and then i would say for me. It's always been about really deeply understanding that. I don't know like total respect for the fact that i don't know and because when we come into situations and come into experiences and coming to spirituality knowing a lot it just all gets in the way and it gets in the way in a fundamental way it blocks everything and furthermore it's not just some strategy like pretend not no so i had better outcomes after a while you realize you really don't know Like i don't know how the universe works. I mean we might know some stuff about some parts of it but deep deep yours i mean who knows. I definitely know that. I don't know that. And when i come into an experience pretending i know that all i'm doing is gang in the way and it's the same thing you don't know what other people's experiences are you don't even really know about a lot of your own deep experience. So there's i would just say this is a big one unhealthy abiding respect for your own not knowing.
Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"taft" Discussed on Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"We're gonna finish up pretty soon and i wanted to see if i could slip in. Maybe two questions before were down. That are kind of personal. One is when you look back on everything you've done on the one hand. I can really acknowledge the woven togetherness of it. The unification of at all on the one hand on the other hand are there some key elements that really stand out for you when you look back on your own journey that have been particularly important principles insides ways of being a. Maybe even ones that you might want to call out as a teacher that would be a value to others too. I can answer it a little personally as an example. And i'm not saying this would be for you a key headline for me along. The way was the fundamental notion that i could actually learn grow and help myself in those ways like that itself was really useful being able to step back from my own mind and witnesses and disengaged from it and decide identify from super fundamental. Most recently over the last. I'd say several decades concentration practices have been really helpful around steadying the mind and appreciating some of the possibilities in deep meditative. Absorption valuing emotionally positive experiences as aids to practice in a larger context that is fundamentally unattached to them but appreciating emotionally positive experiences as skillful means. And then i would say definitely Recently the value of love the fundamental of love and in some ways. Aided by you my call last. I'll just say an appreciation of the ground. Really the the ground of one's own being as the ground of all being so those would be things i might call out for myself as important in my own journey and i'm kind of asking you a question like that about your own. Yes so on thing. I would start out with is to And thank you for sharing that. That was very interesting and start out by saying ask for help. This is a huge principal. I'm one of those people that felt..
Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"taft" Discussed on Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"You can also find both rick. And i pretty easily on facebook and you can also find me on youtube where we've started to post video. Versions of all the podcasts episodes. Now back to the show queuing off of that a little bit one of the things that we've been talking about here kind of unwittingly like. I didn't know that we were necessarily going to get into this when we started having. This conversation was about ego construction and ego. Disillusion when your your sense of the south becomes a little bit more firmly more versus less firmly more with that means what it implies for person. The challenges people can experience when going through that. And i don't know if this was a characteristic of your experience at all but we've had people on the podcast in the past Roger walsh who did some of the early research on psychedelics. Dr david data and he works at the johns hopkins center right now for psychedelic sciences and psychedelic studies. And you described early intense experiences with lsd. And how you had kind of an inflection point experience where from there. Nothing was the same in general in those experiences. Was there in ego aspect of it that that helped you with whether like seeing the filming of things or some sense of ego dissolution or was it something else that you got out of that all of that started out with some ability to see the ego as an object from the outside like just right away which is already a big deal all the way to like total ego dissolution in a way that never reconstructed. I mean there's there's just a tremendous range that can happen there but it certainly experienced. I think a lot of it outside of taking massive doses of lsd. Which you know is a way and of course but like are their that you've done with people to help them get a sense of the south as more constructed or seeing the south from the outside like. How do you help people into that if you will from different traditions. We have many different ways of digging into the deconstruction so for example. If we're doing terabyte type practices. We're gonna go in with pasta and look at you. Know four foundations of mindfulness. We're gonna look at the body sensations. We're gonna look at emotions. We're gonna look at the mind we can look at you know thinking and that's a kind of deconstruction and then of course even the whole idea of the five scon- does is a kind of deconstructed process. So the whole model is deconstructing. The south each level of that has a lot of practices. Were doing to facilitate that deconstruction. But notice it's systematic like okay star with what it feels like to be in your body then go toward feels like to have emotions.
Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"taft" Discussed on Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"Don't wanna be melodramatic but kind of the classic dark night of the soul where it's like well. If there isn't even a me. Why should i care about improving me. Have you either gone through that. Experience yourself for people in that and do you have any thoughts on it or kind of commentary around. I've seen it very very commonly and in one way it's the natural stage. You know you've been believing yourself to be this concrete ego along when that fractures dissolves and there's just space there. There's a moment of extreme disorientation or just before it really dissolves a moment of extreme fear where it's like oh the thing that's me is dissolving. So there's existential fear which is acute. And that's where this all comes from even if the person is not aware of that existential fear that hang hanging on starts causing all the difficulties and there can be a for some people some of the time. It's important that people hear those qualifiers for some people some of the time once it really does dissolve all the way there can be a day or we months or maybe a couple years even where they're not as motivated because they can't find what to hang onto their they were used to hanging onto the sense of ego. Now that's dissolved. But what else is there. But you know this is a phase. And i think that with a good teacher that fees would be very short no way would it be years the best. It's like the end of the retreat. It goes on for a couple of weeks or something like that. And instead you start to realize that that's still coming from the ego little tiny bitten looking for that kind of motivation to grab onto and like instead it slightly. Further dissolving stuff's to starts arising out of the emptiness right it's always been just arising out of the genus and so we look to see those surges of energy or movement or whatever that are just coming out of the void and that that begins a whole new way of.
Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"taft" Discussed on Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"Of concepts right yup and and that tangle of concepts is attached to another tangle of reactive emotion in if that's in our way and it's invisible we just know that were having all these intense interactions and reactions and reactivity to stop when we see it. Clearly we begin to be able to deconstructed in. Get that tangle out of the way now you rick are master of reconstruction right like oh. Let's improve the tangle and that's necessary to cause. I don't think we can't walk around without models and of how to interact with people and stuff. So it's not like there's this mode where there's no models. Excessive kamei ornamentation cushion with. Your eyes closed for a minute. I would contend that. There's even some thin models but you know some deconstruction is not enough. We also have reconstructed so all your were positive. Psychology and all that is about Harboring happiness all those things. That's reconstruction right.
Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"taft" Discussed on Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"Okay now it's coming back because again the whole spectrum of one's personality wants to be expressed. I don't think of these as different truths about the universe. I think of these as different models or mind states are ego states that i take on just like sometimes you're at work and you're performing a a role or sometimes you're at home in relationship. You're performing a different role and we don't find any problem with that. We can change roles. We can also change mind bottles eagle models about what's going on in order to just better get into certain experiences. I mean if i'm going to do something that Let's say is requiring more. Let's say materialist rationalists kind of perspective on enter that way of thinking. But if i'm doing some particular meditation ritual or something that's the wrong mood and so just move into this other mood and so i don't think of them as competing truths because no map is ever true. As far as i'm concerned it's always only partially true so they're not in competition rather they're just different maps. We take on for different expressions different appropriate facility and so on. I've come to questions connected to this affair open to talking about it. Because i'm just really curious in my own journey which has a certain similarity to yours. I think that i was raised in a fairly secular environment and leaned more and more and more into scientific materialism as time went on. And have as i've gotten a little older started to kind of fuss. The borders of it may be a little bit more. The first is that in the more spiritual aspects of your life. Is there a part of the secular brain that is bothered by the lack of evidence basis for some of fat. Or is that just like a big shrug and and it's all comfortable inside of you know it's more that in all those years of doing all those practices and and being in these other cultures and so on nive seen so much freaky that usually it's the other way around like yeah..
Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"taft" Discussed on Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"Can you then give us a summary of the next thirty years of Stuff you've done. We one of the things that i really enjoyed About you and i've learned a lot from you is just the freaking breath of your own experience. Scholarly here deep meditative. There does the whole kit and caboodle. Can you give us a quick summary. A yeah basically boils down to a period of practically daily e large dose. Lsd us for like years however you them in college. But we're talking. You know massive amounts often for a long time and actually had some very very significant breakthroughs on that. Because i was using it partially recreationally. But also with a view to having a breakthrough and that So eventually i moved from out of college. I moved to japan and was doing a bunch of meditation and a had quite a major. Lsd experienced that really unlike all the other ones changed me but this one was like nothing has ever been remotely the same from that day. It was a big one. And i feel like it still was the most significant thing back. Then that was twenty. Four and i has already meditating a lab but that really really got me much deeper into meditation still in japan. Doing a bunch of meditation led to temples and so on but mainly on my own hardcore and then coming back to the states continuing to do that eventually. Got involved in a condo delaney yoga tradition not three at the turbans and so on but a hindu tantric collini tradition very very serious somewhere around the late nineties in. You have to picture that while. I'm doing all this. I'm reading a lot from every tradition. I got involved because of working at sounds true. I got involved with shinzan because you know it was interesting. All the teachers that came through. Sounds i was like. This is the one who's teaching all the stuff that i'm missing. Shinzan young yeah. Yes on young amazing guy. I love his work. I love him. He's an amazing being. What what a weird wonderful guy. He just had the scholarly breath in the linguistic background. And the multicultural background. And that to that. I was like that's the direction i've been going in not finding other people who really have that kind of mind so i started working with him and because of the sounds true connection the publishing connection between me and him which i haven't fully impact here but we had a connection is able to talk to him every single day for years. really really get in there with lots of questions lots of guidance and that because he quite secular that got me more and more secularized until somewhere in the early two thousands..
Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"taft" Discussed on Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
"Hello and welcome to be well. I'm forrest can't if you're new to the podcast. This is where we explore the practical science of lasting wellbeing. And if you've listened before welcome back. i'm joined today as usual by dr rick hansen. So dad how are you doing today. I'm really good. And i'm particularly tickled. We have this chance to talk with my friend. Michael taft yeah so today's going to be a fun episode. I think as we're joined by both a longtime editor and a longtime friend of yours and mine as you said michael taft. Michael is a meditation teacher bestselling author and neuroscience junkie. He's been practicing meditation for over thirty five years and specializes in teaching secular mindfulness based practices. He's the author of several books including the mindful geek and non dulas them a brief history of a timeless concept and was also an early reader and editor of one of your book stat. Hard happiness michael's taught meditation at google. He's worked on curriculum development for the search inside yourself leadership institute and finally. He's the founding editor of the mindfulness meditation blog. And podcast. deconstructing yourself. So i'd like to start if you're okay with michael with a quick background on you for listeners. And particularly. I'm wondering why you were drawn into meditation practice particularly as a very secular person and having a very secular orientation in your own life. I wasn't always super secular person. I grew up with a lot of science and read a lot of science and did quite a bit of science in high school and university. And so on. So i do have a science background to a certain extent but In my family it was definitely very non secular both a lot christianity and a lot of really wild out there stuff right under the surface it wasn't like visible but you know my mom was really super interested in everything psychic powers and follows and so that was always being talked about in all that so i wouldn't say that my initial take on the world was just science if anything. It was the opposite in a huge part of my family. Back then was very engaged in christian spirituality now even more so in my family. Some people were going through some very serious mental health issues while i was a very small child and that affected me in some pretty predictable and extremely unpleasant ways so that by the time i was in high school i was experiencing immobilizing anxiety attacks all the time which is really no fun. in that sort of nineteen seventies michigan like middle-class world. We weren't just going to therapists there. There'd be was crazy people and it just didn't exist. So i just on my own and and i was reading reading and eventually in some like magic book or something. I mean it was very non-secular reading llewellyn. But from the seventies talking about astral projection or something. They mentioned how to do this progressively lexington meditation. And so i was doing that and others other things like that and i noticed it helped me to overcome anxiety and i also started doing some of my own just working with my own head just out of my own creativity like why why i have anxiety. What's coming up and seeing that it was about imagining the future beyond twenty four hours from now and so i just started just saw that on my own and started restricting. Like if if i would feelings eighty coming up making sure i was only thinking about the next twenty four hours in that was amazingly powerful between doing these guided meditations and kind of working with my own head. I was able to overcome a lot of anxiety and then you know pain. Relief is a very big motivator. So i was hooked but hooked in super non-secular way. Let's do some astral projection talkers in prayer and as far as gets..
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Interview With Actor, Producer, Jason Blum
"Great to speak with you. Jason thank you for making the time. And i guess just to start at the very beginning. Can you share with our viewers. Where were you born and raised in. Did your folks do for a living sure. I was born actually in los angeles. I moved to new york when i was very young. My dad was an art dealer. Had a gallery in l. a. Actually called the ferris gallery. Which is my middle name gave warhol his first west coast show. Showed the soup cans there ferris gallery and my mother was not historian They're both still alive. My mom was a professor of art history. She taught different here in l. A. sheets sutter riverside and on the east coast. She spent most of her time teaching at a suny purchase. She's retired now But i definitely grew up with artists than in the arts and with two parents who were in the arts and had not had those parents. I probably would have been doing something else so i guess you know i know that you eventually went off to vassar but before that if you can think back to your adolescence and there may be people at that stage who are watching or listening or whatever. I'm just curious. Do you remember what your interests and passions were as as a kid. Sure i definitely do I've actually been thinking a lot about my adolescence. Because i just read this great book which i would highly recommend to all all of you Fellow zuma's out there called notes on silencing and it's By by a woman named lacey crawford i met her the other day and It's about her experience at saint. Paul's not a good experience. But it's it's it was it. May i've been thinking a lot about my adolescence. Because i went to boarding school as well. I went to go called taft before that went to public school outside of new york city. I grew up in a little town called dobbs ferry
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What airlines, other industries got in $900B relief bill
"Is help for the airline industry in the pandemic release build again hasn't been signed yet by the president but is out there. Our next guest points this out, taxpayers are putting up almost $500,000 for each laid off airline worker to have three months of employment while cooks and waiters get nothing. In other words, airlines air outranking restaurants in relief money. Jonah Sarah Bloomberg opinion columnist joins us Now Joe did thought, go into this. Or was it a simple matter of the airline lobby being more powerful than the restaurant lobby? Well, they're barely is a restaurant lobby. Let's start there. Whereas airlines have been, um Taft up. You might want to say for many decades because airlines have had dealings with the federal government from that many decades between the FAA and, um You know, various various airline regulations and so on and so forth. So so you know you start there. I mean, restaurants are just is just defused. Organization. They're not large companies and even you know, restaurant chains. I mean, putting McDonald's aside, you know, in a city like New York, you know Danny Meyer. It was probably the best known restaurant tour in the city. You know, he has maybe 20 restaurants. And that just doesn't give them the clout that the airline industry has, even though they employ more people. And even though their people are really, really hurting, So, so this is a searing column by you kind of comparing and contrasting the airline industry with the restaurant business. So the restaurant's obviously it is a you know it, Z. It's a diffuse industry. Lots of independent operators historically has had not been a push to kind of organize better this industry that it's so important to many people's daily lives. Where there is a restaurant lobby of sorts, the National Restaurant Association, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of clout for whatever reason, um after the pandemic. After the first round of stimulus, the P P p program, there are a bunch of independent restaurant towards tried to start an organization called the Independent Restaurant Coalition. And they had a lot of success. They got they have they have a bill that would cost $120 billion, which is a lot of money, And the idea is that instead of trying to do it, like the P P p You know, the restaurant industry would get money based on last year's revenues, pre pre pandemic revenues. And believe it or not. The bill passed the house in October. Actually, by quite a quite a large margin, it had more than 50. Sponsors in the Senate, bipartisan But, you know The Senate is run by one guy, and his name is Mitch McConnell, and he was more interested in that three martini martini lunch tax break with he claims will help restaurants. But no one in the restaurant industry seems to think it'll make much difference, at least not in the short term. I mean, at the very least of people start flying again, they will need to go out restaurants at their destination. But it's really a long time before people really start flying in numbers again, Joe, particularly since you know the vaccines are into out there yet so You know what is the thinking behind this? It was thinking there's there's two things. There's two things going on here. Um, uh, The first is that airlines Um You know they will be bringing people back to work. It's easier to give money to a large company that could do one thing that can bring 15,000 people back to work thing. Bring 20,000 people back to work. It's easier, whereas you know, giving money to restaurants is that is a kind of a messier proposition because they're all so many of them and they're so small and it will be. You know, there's that, But the thing you have to remember about restaurants, it's not just a place to eat. Every major city in the United States. Restaurants are at the core. Of their vibrancy and their downtown area. And you know, if you're gonna build a new suburban area, it's going to be built in large part around restaurants. They player hugely important role. In the life of cities. And so ignoring restaurant is really a damn damaging America's cities, and that's what breaks my heart about this more than anything else. So, Joe. I mean, what's the guess? The fate of the U. S restaurant, if you will. I mean, you know these, I'm gonna call them individually owned Mama Pop if you will, but you know that the non chain owned Restaurants. The numbers were seeing and not just New York City, but a kind of across the country are staggering In terms of Harmony or likely have gone out of business are likely to go out of business. How bad is it? Gonna get right? 110,000 are estimated to have gone out of business in the U. S. That's a lot you walked. I mean, and look, I'm a New Yorker. So I walked down the streets in New York City, and you just see them closed up everywhere. Um, you know, some of them will survive. You know, there certainly were. There are restaurants. It'll survive. There's no question about that. Some of them have learned to shift to take out. Even even if the very high end I get I get notices from Daniel Balu, who is one of the great chefs in America. You know, get get our Christmas dinner for $75. We'll drop it off at your house. That kind of thing. So the you know, some restaurant restaurants will survive. But I think what you're gonna see Is that when the pandemic ends, and people can start going to restaurants again, um you'll see a lot fewer restaurants and it will take. I think a generation for restaurants to build up to where they were. This because they'll be so little capital left in the industry. Right? And and you know, as we've been saying all week if you've seen your restaurant closed down if you've had to lay off stuff If you've worked for years to build up a successful restaurant, do you really have the fortitude? Never mind the capital. Actually startle that whole process again. So, Joe, I was listening to Carl Drega Donna speaking with the guys a little earlier on today, and he was talking about his better stake a scattergun approach than a rifle approach. And I'm paraphrasing. But in a sense, this is a rifle approach. Right? As you said, you could re employ a lot of people. If you target just even one airline, where is targeting restaurants is more scattered on. It's definitely a lot more difficult to put together. Absolutely that 100% And I think that the P p p p p experience. Excuse me. The P T P experience has not Been all that satisfactory for Congress. I mean, so many so many, uh, cos got left left out. Somebody felt like you know, larger companies got money that didn't really need it and so on and so forth. So it's really hard to put together a program that would work. I mean, I do think that the program the restaurant industry put together would have worked if had if it had been tried, But of course, we'll never know because it didn't get tried.
Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast
How to Work with a Professional Tiny House Mover: Pricing, Timing, and Logistics with Taylor Tefft
"Tell Taft. Welcome to the show. Great. Thank you so much for having me. You're very welcome I was hoping we could just start by maybe you could tell us how how you got into this moving tiny houses and and how long you've been doing it. Yeah. Absolutely. So in two, thousand, eighteen My father and dumb a good close friend. had. Stated that you know they wanted to get into the logistics business and really just start moving. Cars and trailers in different units all over. And You know I I wanted to work and do it. You know and help them. So when I first started out, I did a lot of research and obviously you know instagram facebook user big time in I started seeing these tiny houses that people were building and then I saw you know sometimes people moving them I was like, wow, that'd be really super interesting to help people move these generate. Deliveries to people. All over the world. and. You know about I'd say about six months in I really started getting in touch with tiny house builders on liberation top a top line of ours I reached out to them and just told him a little bit about our. You know our our company in really it just took off from there. That's awesome. So The company has been around for a super long time, but it sounds like you kind of specifically decided to focus on on tiny houses, which which is awesome. We need tie the tiny house movement needs companies to focus on US and provide solutions. Yeah absolutely we could see there was a need for there was definitely a demand and you have to make sure you have the. The right movers move your tiny home. You know that's your. That's what you're going to be living in. You know. Yeah absolutely. Yeah making sure you have the right trucks in. Took practice runs and learning the INS and outs of different homes but eventually you know you. You start to learn it. Awesome to maybe you could walk me through. What the process is like forgetting a tiny house moved I mean. We could almost pretend that that I'm your client. My tiny houses is ear inn in Burlington Vermont and and I want to get it moved to another state. Yup. Absolutely on so it really starts off just like that. Most people either call or email they find us on you know online on Google or they are recommended to us which we get a lot of those. So the first thing I would ask for is you know he'll built the tiny home and All the dimensions of the tiny home itself. You know what's the length of the unit is at standard legal with? In is it standard legal height and transport it? Would also ask for the weight. So. Does it matter if it's self built versus professionally bill? Though it really depends We generally ask for a photo of the unit just because we have experienced obviously some tiny houses are self felt. That may need a little bit more tension and you know than others, but ultimately we try and you know stay. Open minded and still generate a inefficient WHOA for them. Got It. So it's about evaluating the do. So what? Yeah. Actually what, what do you look at in those photos? What are what are the things that you're kind of looking at? As a transportation specialist to to decide you know. What you can do? Yeah. Good, question. So I asked to send you know as many photos as they can. So I can generally kind of take a look at you know the silent trailer that they use them. Only notice a lie on sell built trailers is still. Alive people, purchase old mobile trailers, which they don't realize you know a lot of times. They don't have breaks out they don't have lights. And Mobile home tires are not the same as like sander tiny house trailers that had entered tires on them. There's a large difference dot it. Yeah. Well, if if they're listeners to this show or have read any of my books or resources, then hopefully they're not buying a used mobile home trailer 'cause that that I agree is is not usually a great idea to take a plastic and aluminum mobile home and then build a stick framed tiny house on that foundation. I agree yeah. I know a lot of people they don't realize that or you know sometimes we do have people who contract with like self builders and just wanted me on my late builders in building their backyard which again, that's totally fine. But you know with that being said, we have to think about how many tires are gonNA blow when we're pulling a mobile home trailer across the entry in. and getting magnetic lights to attach to the trailer and. All kinds of sorts of different things. But ultimately, we'll still move the unit as long as we feel it's safe and You know still do everything we can.
Fox News Rundown
The relationship between Justice Scalia and RBG
"Lies in state in the Capitol today, the first woman ever given that honor in the first Supreme Court justice since William Howard Taft and he'd also been the president. Justice. Ginsburg's casket was at the court for two days for people to pay their respects, including President Trump, and the first lady booed when they got there. The president has had nice things to say about Justice Ginsburg since her death, you may agree. You may not disagree with her, but he was an inspiration to a tremendous number of people. I say all Americans, and now, he says, it's his job to fill that seat on the court. I think it's very important that we have nine justices. And I think the system is going to go very quickly. The president plans to announce his nominee tomorrow. Joe Biden, and a lot of other Democrats say he should fill that seat if he wins the election in light of Republicans blocking President Obama from filling a seat in an election year, the seat President Obama would have filled incident. Scalia's went to Neil Gorsuch instead of Merrick Garland. For all the fighting. There's been over Justices Scalia and Ginsburg in life. They were very good friends. People always find it surprising that they were such good friends, Christopher Scully's the Eighth of Incident. Scalia's nine Children. There's a new collection published of his father's writing called The Essential Scalia. Their friendship went back. Really to the early eighties, when they were judges together on the D C circuit Court of Appeals, which is kind of like the second most important court in the country, and they they had a good working relationship that which really started back then they would help each other revised their drafts and their opinions. Apparently, the other judges on that court really didn't like getting advice about their writing and how to improve the clarity of what they're writing in the force of their arguments. But Justice Ginsburg liked getting and receiving that kind of advice, and so did my dad, and they formed what he called a mutual improvement society during their time on the court there. And And they had other things in common. They were they had similar backgrounds and that they were both New Yorkers grew up in New York around the same time, different boroughs but around the same time and shared a love of opera. Good wine eating good food. Both of their thousands were excellent cooks. Marty Ginsburg, in particular, is kind of a legendary cook, who would put together wonderful meals every New Year's Eve and they would celebrate New Year's Every every year is well. So you know, despite all their differences, and all the many things they disagreed about, including a number of opinions in this collection. They had a wonderful friendship were able to kind of focus on the things they had in common. Your dad in Justice Ginsburg, I don't know the statistics on how often they concurred or dissented on cases. But I imagine that they disagreed. Maybe as much as any two Recent justices have my right. Yeah, I think that that sounds right. I don't know the statistics, either. I think people would be surprised by how often they agreed with each other. But on the real hot button cultural cases, they often disagreed one of her most important, most famous opinions. Was Virginia Military Institute case from the mid nineties. And my My father wrote a dissent to that case, which is in this collection, the essentials, Scalia and it was hey actually gave her the draft of that descent a little bit earlier than one usually does just so that she would have more time to kind of Deal with it and grapple grapple with his arguments. And and, yeah, some of his most staying the sense we're in response to opinions. She didn't necessarily right but but joined, And I think that's probably true. Vice versa. Tell us very about the big bouquet of roses she got from him. My dad would get her roses for her birthday and I guess the Ah, I think the last time he did that. So the year before he died, one of the editors of the Essential Scalia Judge Jeffrey Sutton was visiting my father in chambers on on Justice Ginsburg's birthday. And he saw that my dad had two dozen roses for Justice Ginsburg and Judge Sutton started teasing Dad saying, You know, I haven't even gotten my wife two dozen roses over the course of our entire marriage. Why would you do this? And besides, When was the last time she cited with you on a really important 54 decision? You know, he's poking fun, You know, not not really being serious, but My dad gave a serious answer, which was some things are more important than votes. As I think I just kind of a great encapsulation of their of their relationship of their friendship they had they had Very different opinions of politics and of their jobs as a zoo judges and of what laws, men and with the Constitution, man. But, uh, how they voted wasn't the biggest factor in their relationship. It wasn't that those opinions didn't matter. And it wasn't that they compromised their beliefs for each other. But they didn't let those very strongly held beliefs undermine their very deep friendship collection of Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia is writing sort of like a greatest hits album. It's opinions and other writing about the law and the Constitution again called the Essential Scalia. This is really just a collection of his greatest Legal writings, opinions, speeches, essays and they collected together give a really good sense of white. Exactly. He was such a significant Supreme Court justice on it. They're having in one collection really makes it tangible for anybody understand that we'll just as a legal reference work. You've got to think it's going to end up being bought by or four A lot of lawyers and judges know absolutely in law students. I hope you know that he he wrote. Clearly, he wrote, Hey, had so many memorable phrases and his opinions. His logic was so strong and convincing that people just kind of they often went to his opinions first. And so it's good for people to kind of have that as a resource to keep going to those opinions. Even you know, even after His passing is also besides the legal community. It's also like you said. It's very readable, even for non lawyers for just a general interest audience who might, but he was just simply a very, very good writer. Yeah, it's exactly right. He hey, wrote. For? I guess we would now call it out of transparency. You know, Even when he was writing Supreme court opinions, he understood that they should be understood themselves by everyday citizens, not just legal eagles and people with legal degrees. He kind of a recurring theme of his opinions. Is that people should know what the court courts are doing and people that the court should not usurp power that properly belongs to the people. And I think that kind of reverence for the Democratic order is is kind of manifest in his in the clarity of his writing a lot of times if he had a vote, a personal vote on how a case would turn out it may or may not a lot of times did a line with how he ruled, But sometimes it probably wouldn't have right. Yeah, I think that's true. And that's especially true in one example is when he sided with the majority in a flag burning case. The majority ruled that, um, it was constitutional sorry from burning the flag was constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment so prohibiting that in the state law was unconstitutional. My father often explained that he did not like Three idea of flag burning. If he were a king, he would ban it. But clearly to him falls under the protection of the protection of the First Amendment, and a lot of conservatives to this day do not like that opinion. My father thought the Constitution was clear about that. There are many examples in this collection, the essential Scalia of instances in which he stands up for the rights of the accused defendant's rights. There's a famous case in here where search and seizure cases as well there a couple of those in here where he just thought, you know the police do not have authority, for example, to use Scans of houses, Tio identify Marilou who was growing marijuana without that was an illegal search examples like that s so if he could just pass a law That was one thing, but actually sorry, there couldn't be even be lost for that because they so clearly violated the Constitution, even though obviously he wouldn't have approved of those particular actions. Sure. Hey, was also notice the talker during oral arguments. He has asked a lot of questions and clearly sometimes, though, they weren't really questions. They were just arguments he was making to his fellow justices. Do you think he went into most cases with his mind made up based on the briefs, and the president is a bad thing, but not usually the case. I think that the justices, you know, I can't say for certain, but my hunch is that they often have to go in with a pretty good idea, but I think for the most part, they do ask questions, not just Not just to be heard or not just to make arguments, but because they want to really engage with the arguments that the lawyers are making in the forward to this collection, Justice Kegan first of all, very happy that she agreed to write this beautiful forward, But she she says that she says just that, you know, Dad would ask these questions because he loved argument and kind of loved mixing it up. It wasn't just kind of wasn't just for show though he did. I think you're right. He was very kind of an engaging speaker and There was some study years ago that that found he was. He was the funniest justice by the standards of he drew the most laughter from the courtroom during oral arguments, which obviously isn't the most important thing to do, but just shows how much he he enjoyed that process that love for debate. Did it? Was it a two way street was? Was he persuadable? Absolutely. That's something justice Kagan mentions in her forward. She doesn't say when she ever changed his mind, but says They change each other's minds at times. Well, Christopher Scalia, It was great to talk, Teo, The book is called The Essential Scalia on the Constitution, the courts and the rule of law. Chris Scalia. Really good to talk to you. Thanks so much, Thanks so much appreciate your time.
AP News Radio
Thousands expected to honor Ginsburg at Supreme Court
"Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects to the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court where she will lie in repose for two days her casket arrives today for a private ceremony inside the great hall with their Supreme Court colleagues family and others close to her then it will be moved outside for public mourners in line with coronavirus guidelines on Friday Ginsburg will lie in state at the capitol the first woman to do so and only the second Supreme Court justice after William Howard Taft who'd also been president Rosa Parks a private citizen was lain in honor at the capitol next weekend's Berg will be buried beside her husband Martin in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery the feminist icon and leader of the court's liberal bloc died last week from cancer I'm Julie Walker
Glenn Beck
Republican wins special congressional election in California
"It looks like Republicans win two special elections for house seats one in California's replace Katie hill she resigned Democrat Christy Smith looks to be losing Republican Mike Garcia Republican state legislator Tom Taft defeated democratic law school professor Trish is encore in Wisconsin's seventh congressional
WTOP 24 Hour News
Man throws dogs over apartment balcony in Arlington, Washington D.C.
"A twenty six year old Arlington man has been arrested after police say he tossed two dogs to their deaths from his apartment balcony after about two thirty yesterday afternoon in an apartment building on north Taft street police received a call about the dogs being thrown off a fifth floor apartment balcony at the meridian building Zachary Hanson has been charged with animal cruelty is being held without
WTOP 24 Hour News
China sees 242 coronavirus deaths, nearly 15,000 new cases in one day
"The fight against the novel coronavirus took a turn for the worse Wednesday night as Chinese L. officials and who a province reported two hundred forty two new deaths and fourteen thousand eight hundred forty new cases of the flu like virus Bruce Taft is struggling to get back to the United States after traveling around Asia right now we know for a fact that we're gonna get physical assessments before we get on the plane to the Philippines worldwide there are more than forty five thousand cases the BBC's Nick beak is in Hong Kong it seems that many more people have been getting the corona virus than we thought send the explanation we're getting from the Chinese state media and also the officials is that what then now doing is there including the number of people who have called corona virus at school without an official test so in other words they bring to see the dog to the doctor's done an X. ray he'll look to that Simpson's and say yes this is coronavirus all those cases and now being included CBS news update on that
PODSHIP EARTH
Satellites Track Status of Nation's Food Supply
"Have you ever wondered. How much food is growing right now? Across the globe. Satellite data is for the first time giving us nearly real time data. Uh on which trump's are being planted which crops might fail because of climate impacts like drought or disease and how many because of rain for us to being cut down for grazing land. Using this information we can better path famines reduced price volatility and work out how to feed a planet of nine billion people by twenty fifty. That's a WHO small undertaking and it will have huge impacts on everything from water usage to soil health to help us. Navigate is fascinating new science. I sit down with Dr Inbound. Becca Russia the director of NASA's food security and agricultural programmes. Dr Becca Russia is also the CO director of the center of Global Global Agriculture Monitoring Research and the University of Maryland in bow was rented by the US State Department for her work on food security and Technologies winning being the US Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Science Prize Innovation Research and education awarded by the White House's John Holdren the former assistant listen to president. Obama for Science and technology in bows background does in soil scientists in remote sensing and she received a PhD in Geographical Sciences. His from the University of Maryland in bows one of the world's leading experts on using remote sensing for global crop forecasting in addition to being achieved the balance. My cousin and one of my favorite people ever in Bell and her husband Dr Guido Portillo a molecular physicists. have to amazing daughters Natalie and I need it. I caught up with him about last week in Tel Aviv. which is where she was born? Yes born in Israel shortly after moved to the states until I was five and then came back from age five to eleven then moved to Kenya and then moved to the states in one sense cents. I feel very much like an outsider. In a very in another sense I feel very much home like I never left. And it's the first time I bring my two daughters here which is quite emotional for me for to have them here. Seeing where I grew up and a big part of my life and who I am so do you speak Hebrew with them in bow I do. I speak Hebrew with them and so for them. I think it's been An interesting experience to come to a country where everybody speaks what we speak at home and usually nobody else speak so kind of our secret language. So it's been fun to to see them connect and in some way feel very much also that this is part of of who they are two and what things you miss the most about Israel the sun in the winter having twenty degrees in January or end of December the familiarity of people and kind of the directness of people. Anything I missed that I also kind of get confronted with it and in other ways my friends really good friends. Family food vegetables fruit the so Tokyo food food in battle. One of your your light. One of the leading experts in the world on remote sensing in crop prediction. Why full you is is crop and food security such a big issue on a planet which currently has seven and a half billion people on it food security is probably one of the biggest challenges we face in this coming century today day? There's over eight hundred twenty million people food insecure around the world. That number is on the rise again. Due to several reasons one is increasing populations and increasing in demand on meet another big driver's been climate extremes and large droughts as we look forward and and different forecasts predict that we need to increase our food production fifty percent by twenty fifty and there's some variability around that number. But I think some of what's been driving that is one increasing populations to increasing middle middle classes in places like India and China which means there's a much bigger demand for meat. And if you think about the amount of food you need to produce meat versus Vegetarian anti at that obviously has big demands. It's quite an alarming trend and at the same time. Obviously there's a lot of technologies and changes in terms of our production. What we need to do is to be able to increase our food production on the same amount of land? There's not a lot more land that we can really bring into cultivation to meet that demand so that's pretty alarming like increasing food supply by fifty percent by two thousand fifty which is only now thirty years away with how growing the amount of land. How are we going to do that? Part of it is increasing increasing. The intensity of of our captivation of it has to do with the technology of seeds. And I think we're continuing to see increases in yields are low. Not as fast as that was in the past. Some of the big increases we're seeing today is from increasing the number of seasons since I think if you look at Brazil for example with two mays seasons. That's increased tremendously the amount of food. That's being being produced looking at different varieties and more whether it's drought resistant varieties. That's going to get as part of the way there at least to your specialty is helping countries knit together. Analyses of determining what the future food production season is going to look like. Why is that important to know a lot of what I do and try to understand what food production is GONNA be for this current season as it's developing and that's really important because today our world is it's very much globalized interconnected? So what's the quantity of of wheat that's going to be grown in. Russia has an impact not only in Russia but it really has a global impact. Let's really important taft. Transparent information to have global information of how much food is being produced at at any given time that has an impact on how a government decides to to plan their actions. I am policies. It has an impact on humanitarian organisations and trying to forecast where there might be food shortages. And how do you mobilize as soon as possible. and has obviously a big the impact on markets and international food prices given the importance of all that. How did we use to track? Whether it's a country that has a system of farmers. There's reporting everything that they grow in tracking it that way. Various statistical surveys to make sure that there's a statistical representation to that and obviously some countries do a better job at that in a better accuracy and timeliness than other countries. Do I mean the start of satellite monitoring for agriculture. Goes back nearly as early as satellite. Remote Sensing doesn't in general in the seventies and how the US got involved in. This was a big drought in Russia. One of the big wheat production next countries at the time of USSR the US wasn't aware of that drown in that impact and in what ended up happening is the US sold. We'd at subsidized prices. Essentially and then had to fight back in the international markets at much higher prices because there was was a shortage who was I did at Sparta Program at the time that Usda and NASA had together called Lacey and the objective of that really was to try to monitor what was going on outside of the US in the major food production especially we at the time we in corn production and the idea was that satellites were really the only way ah the US could look at other countries in the world getting a sense of what they were producing. And if you look today at what. The vision is for Satellite Remote Sensing and agriculture. It's not all that different. Then when it was over forty years ago. What is different? Today is our capability to finally reach that goal. So you had this vision forty years ago being able to know what another country's crop would yield like what change in satellite so that we now actually have that granular level detail to be able to know with better accuracy. So few do things. One is the quality of satellite data itself the frequency the resolution and resolution. If you think about it is what objects you can discern on the ground from a pixel which is how we look at the imagery. It's the satellite data being open and free at at multiple resolution. New satellites that have come into play both from the European side. Something called the sentinels which today imaging the world at ten meter resolution close to every three to five days which is looked along with land sat satellite for example from the. US giving US close to every three days view the world. So where would you say ten meters just to break it down to that. Means every pick cell is ten meters. That's right it's ten by ten meter resolution. So that means you can can discern quite a lot and if you think about looking at the whole world at ten meter resolution. That's a huge amount of information. And so we've had huge advances in terms of the satellite data also commercial satellite and a lot of cubesats that are going into space which are now giving us close to daily data three-meter resolution and then our compute power to be able to process that kind of imagery and advances in modeling and computational technologies to really be able to utilize that data has been a huge revolution in terms of what we're able to do so go all these lights. NEW ONES IS ACCU- ones. Those are like really teeny little satellites. That are going out. That's right. So they're often termed as shoebox size satellites. They have been sending up in in fleet so I think today. They're close to four hundred or more earth-observing satellites that are called cubesats so the data quality is not as high. They don't have as many spectral bands for example as as some of the other satellites but they're cheap to send up and they've also revolutionized the space of commercial satellite. So those aren't free. They're much more affordable than than they would have been in the past. What are you looking for right? So we're trying to basically look at signals us of crops so one of the things we're trying to understand is where are the crops of the world being grown and there's still huge certainty around that one would think that we would know that very well and And there's still a lot of room for us to improve that second of all is which crops are being grown wear and if you think about it every year that's changing so there's a lot lot of crop rotations and so what that really means you want to be able ideally to know what's being grown in each field during the growing season so that's one of the the big objectives is to be able to classify Within the season where things are being grown to be able to both discern how much of an area is being grown. That's one part of the production equation and the other side is what the yield is going to be and so what we WANNA do. It's really important to have time series of data to look at it through time to look at the volition of the development of crops. But but when you said earlier that we don't actually know where food is being grown. What does that mean if you think about it as a map of where the the world's croplands we have several of those maps but we're trying to continuously increase the accuracy of that? And if you think about crop expansion or changes in where croplands are for example title Brazil and and huge expansion of croplands. There is really important to be able to update that as frequently as possible in particular in in areas where there is a lot of change and we still need better information on where the global croplands are and then more specifically within season a crop type maps.
Q
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Review
"Star Wars the rise of sky Walker opens in theaters tomorrow the third and final film in the latest Star Wars trilogy the end of the road in so many ways for Star Wars especially for this storyline involving Luke Skywalker which all started with the first Star Wars movie back in nineteen seventy seven which I guess in terms of the Star Wars story is actually the fourth chapter and if you find that a little bit confusing you probably still have absorb some of the famous lines from the movies like use the force or do or do not there is no try or Luke I am your father which I know I know the line is actually no I am your father you can tell I'm sort of like walking a tight rope today because I feel like I have two of the greatest Star Wars fans in front of me right now but outside of that JJ Abrams is the director of the rise of sky Walker and just imagine that kind of pressure he's got the tough job of bringing it all in for a landing as I mentioned chasing Garber and Kathleen Newman remaining they went to a special preview screening of Star Wars yesterday before virtually anybody else they're here live in the studio dying to tell you all about it hello my friends Hey how's it going I feel like I said I don't have any good Star Wars greetings is there a good star was greeting hi yeah Jason is wearing a full tee shirts and has the charger beings Baba bobble head well the characters where's your yak give anything Kathleen you know and it's all in my heart something deep down yeah the forces in me so let's talk about this you get a chance to go to the press screening for the new Star Wars yesterday you guys go to these things all the time dozens even a week Jason where even the jaded film critics of Toronto a little bit excited to see Star Wars I mean look everybody's little **** it only comes of this but I think this is actually pretty good to go into this film with a certain level of trepidation I think that if we go in sort of too excited him to sort of objectivity we should be open to its terms I think that a lot of the film critics don't Nestle do that all the time but I think that most people when I'm with the appropriate level of a mix of objectivity in slate excitement of their there for an event Kevin were you excited I was very excited I got there a little bit later than Jason and I felt a little bit of the excitement but once the movie started it was dead silent like this is not a spoiler but when Landau courtesy and gets on screen for the first time Billy Dee Williams I lost my mind and everyone else is like silent which is what it's about which is a huge advantage I mean that like obviously leasing again with public and this is very much I mean it's like man to man the phones at Taft if you see them press for him to kind of a miserable experience you just have to get used to that but a film like this if you're ever going to see this movie theater on the big screen the because you can with an audience to get in the indictment so let's do it I can tell you I can hear you yelling your radio right now Jason I'll start with you Star Wars the rise of sky Walker how was fine suddenly I called the crime you went on Twitter for those over and it look let's let's be one hundred percent clear this is kind of the second and a half ending we've had we had returned the jet I which ended everything and we had episode three which was supposed to end everything Lucas's and then kind of the last job I had a great ending it's like the work done that of those you should go see it I'm not going to worry about it was the last movie that the the universe was going to be bigger and that we weren't going to be focused on the small story and then within us there was the whole notion that the myth of Scott Walker would continue as you see the kids playing with action figure and the kid who picks up the broom with a force you realize that this is not something that's patcher or matrilineal that is going to be bigger than this one little family we did have a question that comes by way remember these characters you really left we're gonna bring those back and focus entirely on that I'll make the story in some ways smaller so it's galactic in scope and yet smaller narrative scope and that is it's doing what it's supposed to do he was hired to do a job which the cap off this saga and it does it and it's fine but that makes it a little bit less interesting a commitment let's get into that in a second Jason says fine Kathleen I mean I think shockingly Jason I kind of agree here I'm I liked it I was very entertained I had a good time even with the jaded critics who were not like matching my energy level I agree that it's not great there is a fine as to what I do think that there's there's a little bit of like a course correction and that they seem to be doing with the last chat I so yeah he JJ made the world a little smaller and really abandon some of the really interesting stuff that Ryan Johnson had set up in the last chat I which is frustrating and makes it not a great movie I think he was trying to please everybody and trying to please those fans that were so upset at the last I and in doing that the narrative suffered and it's also just trying to be a lot try to be a lot of things to a lot of people and then I think it is in any of those things to anybody for example are two foot to a deep in the weeds and lord knows I cut but the way the blade of grass scene six so when I saw the fact that was not mentioned I'm a little upset and the deal is that let people think that this was structured that they knew exactly we're gonna beat I mean they always talk about Lucas having these twelve movie idea sort of written out for some of these are complete stripped away from looks as vision bat that goes without saying but what happened was JJ wrote the the force awakens as an empty are there was no ending there's going to jail just fantastic to look at openings right everybody knows that what has what he's really good at is setting the stage not traded endings hi everyone also knows self admittedly I mean he got in all those interviews actually talks about how this was going to be real tons of room because then he never was supposed to direct the film right other directions where involved actually like a so the deal is that when he wrote the first film they didn't know where it was going to go and it was one of those hand off it's like I'm going to set up the stage hand it off to you and you're going to finish this the second verse of the song that's what Ryan Johnson does run Johnson took all these ingredients and did something for many of us super interesting in super a complex and did essentially ministry talked about what is it to be found the end of of the force awakens is ray handing a lightsaber Luke Skywalker legally saying let's go and the opening shot of last chat I is illuminated at one yeah the last film the film after that episode eight is Luke Skywalker take fully superimposed over shoulder in other words I've been handing off the story to you and Ryan's first thing he does like let's not worry about this story that's not the interesting thing the interesting thing is getting into the nature the metaphysics of the deeper stuff but the force this film goes okay I can't remember the last thing you said okay we're not going to worry as much about this stuff remember these characters you're like let's get him together with all gonna be the same ship they're all gonna gonna ventures together but I want to point out the Kathy when you say that JJ Abrams who has had the incredibly unenviable task of trying to finish Star Wars trying to and Star Wars I I want to really highlight there that is an unenviable task it's even if you're not great even if you're amazing endings try ending the greatest film franchise in history so how does it do Kathleen as an ending to the Star Wars story that we now I mean I thought it was satisfying it's an it's an ending and it answers a lot of questions and as we know Los fans I feel you like we know that change is not answering questions and doing and ray yam asset is flying in and I think that this is just whether you like this ending and the answers that they give you but they give you answers and they give you a very definitive ending and you know some people already have set hi stag JJ Abrams is over party was trending on Twitter yeah it's I mean no one's gonna be happy about anything but I think that he did a good enough job I was entertained and it is it like a nice wrapped up and is it is no one going to be happy with this look at there's always gonna be people upset about this because we care right through well for lots and lots of reasons to ours is pretty fundamental to popular culture and the people have a vested interest and they have in a typical fan communities not everybody but a very vocal minority believes they have ownership over these characters and when they want things to go at a certain way this feeling as for this film actually goes towards a certain direction of giving them what they want and then they end up not wanting what they will think that they wanted that's one thing but I will say that these two fundamental things about changing his his course one lens flares you dialed the heck down with one foot above is one thing I'm like okay I I love that you love letters was god bless you but there's a big thing is he's a red herring you talk about lost as he's a guy who like put a shark and have a logo on a shark and they only got this has to mean something smoke monster has to mean something that's just his step he's trying to trick you a little bit and this film would be much more interesting of those red herrings were not red herrings but actually things that happened so what happens is he consistently in this film gives you something and it's one of those moments the other two phones have moms like oh my god you can do that all my god you can shoot a laser blast haven't hang in the air that's kind of cool all my god you can take a ship and light speed through another ship I never thought you could do that and this film every moment but there was like oh my god that's don't know let's start back that isn't what you think it was ha ha ha I'd something I went I was gonna say second I was going to say that I thought that was but it was it was actually the opposite of this but it makes me really excited to watch it to figure out what the red hearings are and and or not yeah that's not as well as a good teams but I will say that some of those those on inspiring moments that you felt like we're missing I felt them I felt like I was a kid again watching some of this these action sequences and some of that the lights ever seen her so beautiful and big and yeah will transfer to transport you back to your child because I was going to ask if we what we talked a little bit I should stress to set this up by the way I'm I'm speaking which is a corporate Cathy Newman remaining ever talk about the new Star Wars movie rise of Scott Walker what to do right I think the cast is so strong and I think that Jason alluded to it but putting them together like you've got Oscar Isaac daisy Ridley and John by a guy as fan PO and ray and they're together for most of the film and that is a
NPR's Business Story of the Day
White House Says Phase 1 Of Trade Deal With China Is A Big Win
"The trump administration says phase one of a trade deal with China is secured. It is done. We don't yet know everything that's in the deal but the president said China has agreed to make massive purchases says of US agricultural products US trade representative Robert Lighthizer told CBS's face the nation on Sunday. That the deal will nearly double. US exports to China over the next ext two years. Here's what's in writing. We have a list that will go manufacturing agriculture services energy. And the like there'll there'll be a total for each one of those overall. It's a minimum of two hundred billion dollars. Keep in mind. By the second year we will just about double exports exports of goods to China if if disagreement is in place so the administration is characterizing. This as a big win. But is it Robert. Daily of the Wills Wilson Center or is here in studio with me. He's a scholar on us. China relations and he also served as a US diplomatic Beijing. Good Morning Good Morning. Our president trump said from the beginning that he wanted China A to change the way it does business with the United States. He wanted big structural changes to the way it deals with a I P intellectual property technology transfer. Does this agreement do that. This agreement doesn't treat any of those big structural issues including intellectual property and the Chinese government support to state enterprises. We're not not there yet. So what does this. What does this deal do in this deal? China has agreed to buy more from the United States agricultural products but other other products as well the exact the numbers are somewhat in debate of the US administration saying forty to fifty billion annually total in agricultural products China is indicating. It's more like thirty two. So there's some disagreement there and in exchange for more purchases China. Get some Rollback of American tariffs. They're still tariffs in place. But about one hundred twenty billion in In Chinese exports. That were taft. In September the tariff on those will go from fifteen percent to seven point five percent then there was another tranche of tariffs that was to have gone into to affect over the weekend on one hundred sixty billion in Chinese imports. Those have been postponed. Why did this deal happen now? It happened I think largely usually for political reasons on the American side reasons that were well understood by China and therefore gave it more leverage on October. Eighth Larry cudlow Lawrence could low. Who is the director? The White House Economic Council had a meeting with President trump at which he brought in some outside economists who explained that going down the path of imposing all scheduled tariffs might be recessionary and it would also make the costs to American consumers undeniably clear in a way that could have an impact on his reelection chances in twenty twenty and it appears that from the time of that meeting early October the administration was Gogo. Wanted something that could be called a deal and it also worked out well such the last week it could be engineered to coincide with the passage of the US NCA NAFTA to deal between the United States Canada and Mexico so in the week in which Joie the articles of impeachment went forward president trump was also able to present himself as a great deal maker to two big wins as so to speak on trade. I mean a question. It seems worth asking given that economists came in and told the president like listen. This is hurting people. It's GonNa hurt people Could we have had the same deal with China twelve months ago. There's there's considerable evidence that we could have. China made an offer to purchase a comparable amount of agricultural products back in two thousand eighteen. So with this deal we have to ask what's in it. We don't really really know yet. And there's disagreement. Chinese leaders have announced in China that the United States has already agreed to gradually eliminate all tariffs. That came out as part of the trade war for ambassador. Lighthizer has said No. There's no such agreement so both sides are telling domestic audiences. What they want to hear? What's in it? What will China actually do you? And what would China have done anyway. Because China continues to reform its economy. We talked to Texas farm bureau President Russell Bain. And here's what he said about this trade deal. It should just help the price of commodities the jury's still out on how much roughly thirty percent of farm income is from exports in the United States so Anytime you have someone. As big players China that gets back in the market tariffs or or removed. It's just a good thing. It's just a good thing he says which which for him for agricultural producers is true but we should say this trade war cost this country a lot over the past two or so years? Will this deal make up up for that by the numbers. Well certainly not in the first year. Americans have already paid eighty eight billion dollars in tariffs and those were paid by American importers and in some cases passed onto American families to the tune of about an average of one thousand dollars per family in addition to eighty eight billion. We have paid American farmers twenty eight billion in subsidies subsidies to compensate for their losses. So this has been very costly and we don't know where it moves going forward. The United States and China are still an intent increasingly contentious relationship and decoupling on the tech side On some commodities and possibly on the financial side is still ongoing. So this is a pause at best pause at best Robert Daily of the Wilson Center. Thank you so much for being with us today thank you.
MSNBC Morning Joe
Booing The President, What Goes Around Comes Around Politics And al-Baghdadi's death
"Trump was at the game last night where he was greeted with boos when his attendance was announced during the game accord the Washington Post the crowds sustained booing hit almost one hundred decibels and was followed by chance of lock him up impeach trump when he was introduced after the third inning he good morning and welcome to morning Joe it is Monday October twenty eight and with us we have MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle White House reporter for the Associated Press Jonathan Lemere president of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the bulk a world in disarray Richard Haass columnist and Associate the Washington Post David Ignatius and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Retired Four-star Navy Admiral James to Rita's he's chief international security and diplomacy analyst for NBC News and Msnbc it was sort of startling and sad to hear those chance of lock him up Saturday from the crowd I do no pleasure in that it really was there have been many traditions that have been brought about Donald trump and his supporters and people around that are UNAMERICAN of even fascist like a chance of lock her up the sent her back but the lock lock her up about Hillary Clinton repeatedly has become a centerpiece and that's what that's what dictators they take over and then they start talking about imprisoning others and it's un-american it's it's here here playing chant here aw that's that's unfortunately it's been fad to America's political system through Donald Trump and last night it was turned against him it but again it's it's it's un-american and the people in the stands that were doing it last night shouldn't have done it in fact they learned they have learned from Donald Trump that's what you do to political opponents I hope that Donald Trump after saying that he could be facing this entire campaign will cut it out we'll cut it up because this is I remember when Barack Obama was leaving office a lot of liberals wanted George W Bush tried by some international tribunal. I remember saying don't do it because it will be you on the other side of the presence he didn't have to worry about retribution from person that you follow yeah of course you don't you never think Mike Barnicle nobody everything's said anybody's ever going to follow them as president the United States when they first get in just like Donald Trump it's never he's never imagined it but live by the sword die by the sword and sure enough now you have donald trump having bar conduct an outrageous an outrageous investigation against Barack Obama and Donald Trump even calling the forty fourth president United States treasonous it's like this guy is just not smart enough to figure out that it goes around comes around and what he dishes out to others will be dished out to him that's why everybody has to tone it down stop chance stop with fat stop with fascists like tactics and the rhetoric it's just on I'm American and it's just not right yeah Joe and you know if you know this I mean most people know this what of people in this country just want the entire situation calmed down they want the country to come down they want candidates to come down be tough to have the crowd last night come down because really into it unfortunately but I think it's important going forward especially today as we talk about the events that occurred over the weekend that we take the time and the fought to separate it donald trump and whatever you feel about Donald trump to separate him and how he behaves in how he speaks from the actions of the Delta Force team the special operation now flew in and conducted that mission is to separate things and the best of the best of who we are and what we do around world's in why so much of the world still relies on this was in operation over the weekend Jonathan Lemaire you can speak to that but also last night yeah I mean it is certainly an American tradition to boo politicians who go to baseball games there's there's a rich history of the American president seeing the American pastime William Howard Taft was the first president throwing the first pitch I remember the Barco was there and every president since has at some point this accident has not yet not since taking office but he went last night I think the people around him we're hoping it could be part of the victory lap after announcing the death of album Dotty earlier in the day that of course was not the case but let's remember he's deeply deeply unpopular in the district of Columbia itself received about four percent of the vote there in two thousand sixteen obviously it's a little bit of a different crowd last night the world series it's more out-of-towners more corporate types still he was going to get booed and he was but certainly it comes at the end of what his administration feels like a a a significant watershed day for him to be able to make this announcement of the death as Mar Mike said you could separate the president and feelings towards him with what happened the day before in Syria this leader of Isis killed this is just gives president an image he thinks to put alongside President Obama's announcement of the death of Sama Bin Laden and it certainly comes at exactly the right time his people feel for it's an undeniable triumph to happen during the midst of the impeachment inquiry and it allows him to defend his Bryant C. and Syria just somebody Republican senators critical we know we're here we can we get we're GonNa get to that right now get Sewri obviously just follow pro Jonathan said there is a very long enrich fish presence it sporting events most of them do all different but now but again I speak to the lock him up chance again I it's just un-american it started with Donald trump in fact he's made it the centerpiece of his campaign rallies we find it sickening when it happened rallies Kinda sickening it's we we are Americans and we do not do that we do not want the world hearing has chant lock him up to that he created this president or any president that's all I'm saying let's hope is move forward maybe this one US fascist tactic he and his supporters us during chance that you were going to actually imprison your political opponents so let's evatt behind and just I don't we'll see we'll see if the astros possible going to finish it off in Houston I don't know if Max can pitch game seventy it's possible that's what she will tell me before we came but I said President Trump yesterday confirmed the death of Isis later Abu Baqer al-Baghdadi following a raid this weekend in northwestern Syria by US special operations forces president trump tease the announcement in the tweet on Saturday night writing quote something very big has happened God I know by the way they had not confirmed it happened at the time as the Washington clown show post points out the White House script on the death of brutal terrorist Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi was short but president trump turned a somber announcement into a vivid forty minute news conference that included bravado detailed descriptions of military option rations questionable statements and self promotion from the first day I came to office and now we're getting close to three years I would say doc where's al-Baghdadi I want al-Baghdadi and we would kill terrorist leaders but they were names I never heard of they would names it weren't recognizable and they weren't the big names some good won some important ones but they weren't the big name I kept saying where's Al Baghdadi and a couple of weeks ago they were able to scope amount you know these people are very smart than not into the use of cell phones more than not they're very technically brilliant you know they use the Internet better than almost anybody in the world perhaps other than Donald Trump but they use the Internet incredibly well and what they've done with the Internet through recruiting and everything and that's why he died like a dog he died like a coward he who is screaming and crying and frankly I think it's something that should be brought out so that his followers and all of these young kids WANNA leave various countries including the United States they should see how he died now Admiral S- Ravidas ah yeah we'll we'll see we'll get to the the strategic importance of what we get to but again just underlining un-american language and and the sound of tyrants again he died like a dog died like a coward upbringing screaming it's just can you please explain to maybe three of Donald Trump supporters who fist when they hear that the downside of that ny the forty four American presidents who preceded him did not talk about casualties on the ward even if they were the most heinous casualties like Osama bin Laden are are are you name it or Japanese opponents at war are not cease why we we didn't talk that way or Qaddafi in Libya for example In every case Joe the problem here is there's is that internal desire to kind of take victory lap but it's counterproductive it comes across as unprofessional it's spiking the ball in the end zone and here's the real problem it's motivational for the other side make an argument that it's a deterrent I don't think so I think that that tape will be played particularly that image of the dog in the Arab world is well known as as an extremely negative and that'll become a recruiting tool that the Islamic state uses on the Internet and for the record I'd say they're better than Donald Trump there managing apparently to conduct a global operations without owning a shred of territory in Easter after we took away the caliphate from them which was another good accomplishment they still conducted a massive attack in Sri Lanka using the Internet to recruit proselytizing conduct the operation they will use this footage to motivate their followers to recruit more. It's really not how we WANNA play the Yes it is it is actually a much smaller level it's what you call basically press clippings from from locker from for locker uh-huh where somebody on the other side said something you cut out the press clippings you put it up and you used to inspire other people in something we don't want here let's let's let's let's go Richard Haass go to and talk about the impact of the death and we'll we'll get into some of the other things I obviously I remember us being celebrating at least most Americans Saar cow was killed I believe it was in two thousand six two thousand seven thinking that the guy that really was the inspiration for Isis and of course that just lead to more silence splinter groups we of course all celebrated we had our on the deck of the Missouri moment a little bit when Osama bin Laden was killed and two thousand eleven we're all cheering but of course out of that came the rise of Isis and so I'm wondering it's we see very important death but do we make the same one man is going to end the movement that he was so successful in spreading the short answer is yes there's no such thing as decapitation when comes to dealing with terrorists because whether you call them networks of movements they're not narrow organizations that are highly structured we're getting rid of the leadership essentially Abel's all the fighters they'll they'll reform they may splinter and so forth decentralisation there in formality in some ways is is a degree of strain so I think we've got to keep the accomplishment as meaningful as it is in perspective and more important justice important you've got to take steps back and say are we putting ourselves in a position where we can do this sort of thing again and again as we will need to do and there I think the jury's out or you've got to say it's going to become much more difficult we're not gonNA have the forces on the ground collecting the intelligence we're not gonNA have partners like the Syrian Kurds and other Kurds doing so much there's still questions about the willingness of this administration to work closely with its own intelligence community so again yesterday was an important day but we shouldn't exaggerate it and I'm really worried about going forward whether we're going to be able to repeat this because we're going