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"tang" Discussed on The Christian O’Connell Show
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Tech Path Crypto
Fresh update on "tang" discussed on Tech Path Crypto
"But again, the question is, is this more of a long-term play on Bitcoin as a price trajectory or is this simply going to be one of those pump and dump opportunities around selling the news? James Lop, or excuse me, James Safer kind of hits in on a couple of points right here. GBDC is trading at a record low discount. Very bullish signal. If you think about this for the last few years, around 8.6, its official closing right now is around 9.7. It hasn't been this close to parity since July of 2021. GBDC, if you don't know that, is the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust. And with their recent win over the Fed, how this may play out in the SEC, how this may play out going forward, at least in GBDC being turned over to an actual ETF is the question. And I think maybe this is why we're seeing so much market action right now. TED Talks macro kind of hits on a couple of points. If you're doubting the ETF narrative is driving the market right now, then this chart should change your mind. You can kind of see right here, here's Bitcoin and then here's the altcoin runs that we've seen. And we have not seen a big move in ETH or a handful. Now, granted, there has been some pretty positive moves in some of the super degen tokens that have moved a little bit over the past couple of weeks. And then outside of Solana coming up to around 60 bucks, Avalanche, you know, bumping in on 22, there's been a handful of tokens that have continued to fly. We haven't seen the numbers that we've seen in previous altcoin runs in the past. Doesn't mean that we're even in altcoin season right now. Cathie Wood is also rumored at selling some of her Bitcoin holdings reduction, sparks a little bit of market speculation. I don't necessarily think this is a big deal. 700,000 shares of BTCG or excuse me, Bitcoin Grayscale Trust. And I think the the point on this again, remember, 21 shares. What we're going to see with ARK in terms of an offer around an ETF for Bitcoin. Sure that could play into this, but I think this is her just leveraging into other asset classes within her innovative funds, which she still puts blockchain as one of the key factors for innovation funds. And a couple of points within this article, the tweet drew parallel similar scenario in 2021 when Woods encouraged people to buy Tesla. And then same time price targets 3000 while covertly reducing their positions around 84. So I don't know. I'm not saying that that's what she's doing here, but there are questions. So it is raising some questions about the transparency of Woods investment strategy and the potential of impact on ARK's investment overall performance. So you tell me, how do you think this signals, if any, that Wall Street is doing these kind of moves around, especially around Bitcoin related investments. This came in from Eric Malchunas. Just another article on how ARK is selling GBDC and how that means they aren't really bullish on Bitcoin if they're making room for ARKB. Neither is true with ARK. You got to look at the weightings. This is something we've talked about quite a bit is the weightings on that innovation side of what ARK is really about. And I think that's kind of where it's playing because, you know, they, they continue to press on around diversification and it's been their strategy, I think is pretty clear for quite some time. I want to jump over to Binance because Binance is still in the news. Couple of points right here. First blog, of course, from Mr. Tang is coming in as the CEO and there's a few points he hit on right here within the blog. As an industry, we require more focus than ever on collaborating with policymakers. That's a very interesting statement coming from Binance because they've kind of dodged it for quite some time around the world, not just here in the U.S. I'm eager to work with peers across the industry, critical effort, know our voice will be heard more loudly if they're united. I would agree. I think Binance coming to terms with the U.S. around what's happened in the past few years is a good sign in the direction that Binance might be coming of age as an exchange within the United States, especially, which will be one of the leading factors around their growth and whether or not they'll be able to go head to head with Coinbase. Most importantly, we take our responsibility as a custodian very seriously and maintain a one-to-one backing for every user asset. So your assets are protected. I mean, listen, we've heard this from a lot of people in the past and it hasn't been true. I'll say that it's not true, but just take it with a grain of salt. We understand this is going to take some time to really kind of correct. I want to jump over to a clip from Brian Armstrong that kind of references this a little bit. But listen, this is vindicating of our strategy and I think it's good for the industry to to sort of turn the page, make sure that we're following the laws where it's clear today around AML and KYC, and then also make sure that we're getting clarity about the areas of the law where it's not yet clear in terms of commodities, securities and there's new legislation on the horizon that I think Congress can help with there. Yeah, well, obviously, it's important for people to remember that these two things are apples and oranges. Ours is a civil case over some technical issues about what is a commodity and security. And as I mentioned, we're availing ourselves of the court here to go create that regulatory clarity for the industry. And so almost regardless of the outcome, at least we'll finally start to have some clarity from the court. The Binance case here was a criminal matter, obviously, with much different facts and circumstances and a huge dollar amount is quite a bit different. So, I mean, I think that Brian kind of hits it on the point, one, they are polar opposites in terms of the case scenario. One company registered as a publicly traded company in the United States has been abiding pretty much all the way through not only the regulations that have been available, but also the way that they presented their business model in the IPO itself versus what we saw with Binance and, you know, Binance obviously a criminal case. So if you look at what's happening here from the DOJ, this I thought was interesting because I'm kind of struggling on this because it looks to me like they lured CZ in and then kind of shut the door behind this. Or is it that maybe Binance is, I don't know, maybe there's something else working here with Department of Justice and what we might see within regulators around Binance coming back to the U.S. as a certified or at least a licensed, you know, money operation. I don't know. This is going to be a very interesting, just some very interesting moves right now I think overall. Obviously, CZ now considered a white risk, so that is intriguing to say the least. I know he was tweeting and he put up a blog post. There's been a few things that he's kind of not completely let go of. And I think this is one thing, once you get in these kind of situations, the best thing to do is just shut up, just be quiet. The best way to deal with it. What isn't being quiet is the fact that we have some markets that are on the move. And these markets are important. And the reason they're important is because they've started to embrace what we know here in the U.S. as being the eventual outcome, which is that we're going to see Web3 and a lot of the crypto and blockchain projects come to life here in the United States once we see some regulation. Japanese market embraces USDC as Circle and SBI set the stage for Web3 kind of run up here. And this is an important note here with what's on this article. I want to kind of jump into a couple of points within this. SBI Holdings joined forces with Circle to promote USDC and Web3 services in Japan. Obviously, this is all capitalizing on a lot of the regulatory changes there within Japan. And they aim to boost USDC adoption in Japan. Very interesting there as well, considering what's going on in the Japanese market. To achieve this, SBI Holdings is actually seeking registration as an electronic payment instrument service, pending approval from Japanese third. If they get approval, and you bring in this kind of partnership level with USDC, this is only going to bolster the position that we talk about all the time, and that is the call on where the market is going. Banking services to support USDC access, SBI will now provide banking services to Circle. This will move, will obviously enhance the access for liquidity of businesses in Japan. This is the same thing that I think will happen here when we get stablecoin regulation. 70% of USDC adoption is taking place outside the United States. That's right, outside the United States. Remember, Circle is an American company that holds a peg to the US dollar. 70% of its growth is outside of the United States. This should scare a lot of politicians around how many of these companies could and will be continuing to grow. Another tweet here I wanted to hit on, this is one from Jeremy Allaire, USDC. He's announcing basically this deal with SBI.Let me kind of zoom in on this, there's a couple of points here. June, Japanese government laid out a vision for the growing Web3. That was the thing, the situation where they put into effect the stablecoin laws. This is a thing I think will happen here in the US. These changes, they've dramatically opened up opportunities here for stablecoins and Web3 in the world's fourth largest economy with what's happening in Japan. And then further on, dollar plays a crucial role in cross-border payments. This is in FX trading, especially in the Japanese market. This will extend into the adoption of digital dollars used on blockchain networks. That's another big reason that USDC will continue to do very well there. What you're seeing here are fruits of major governments who have established regulatory clarity for stablecoins, good actors working together across traditional. This is the normal course of business. And this is the thing that I feel like is continuing to hold up the United States. And man, I just feel like we are at a position right now where we are absolutely going to just skyrocket once we get some sort of alignment here. Here was a layer also kind of toning in on a tweet from Mark Cuban, and this is really about what Web3 could mean to the industry as a whole, meaning it's got a lot of use cases and utility outside of just, you know, NFTs and gaming. The on-chain economy is coming. Fansful ideas a few years ago can now be clearly articulated based on tech that is here today and emerging regulatory clarity. And this was in reference to Mark Cuban saying, hey, you'll have smart contracts on ZKL2s, which will check a construction permit being issued, talking about real estate being utilized in blockchain and NFTs and especially on smart contracts. All this tying into it. And I think what Alair is referencing here is that, remember, the last bull run that we had, none of this tech was really ready, nor had it been really built on to scale. That's changed in this one. I think all of this is coming to a head at the right time for sure. Hey, listen, if you guys are not in the diamond circle, make sure and jump in right now. It's another place you can get some additional content. We have a couple of shows over there. You don't want to miss them. Of course, the Web3 blockchain gaming show by Kyle. He does a great job. Make sure and subscribe to the diamond circle. You get additional alpha. We'll leave a link down below. Very simple. Of course, you guys can catch me out there slashing on X. I'm Paul Baron. We'll catch you next time right here on Tech Buy.
BrainStuff
"tang" Discussed on BrainStuff
"You. This is Kevin Costner, and if you're an avid traveler like me, you've got to download my new app atio. That's audio with a T AU. Enjoy a new way of traveling with stories activated by your location. So when you're driving through a new town, discovering a national park or just curious about the origin of your city's name. You can listen to a quick three to 5 minute story, covering our history from the first peoples to famous places and insights only locals would know. Welcome to brain stuff, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, brain stuff, Lauren vogelbaum here. What cool whip? Kwikset Jell-O. Tang. Pop rocks. These are the packaged foods that shaped and were shaped by generations of Americans coming of age in the 1960s to the 1990s, and they were all invented by one guy. William a Mitchell, a research chemist who's 35 year career at general foods corporation, coincided with America's mid century fascination with convenience foods. One Marv Rudolph worked with Mitchell for 6 years at the company. In an interview with great big story, he said, Bill was the inventor at general foods. He knew what amplified flavors, what colors to use to make something more attractive. If you had a problem, he was the guy to go to. Management tried to promote Bill many times, but he said, no, just keep me in my lab. It's what I want to do. Mitchell was awarded more than 70 patents for foods he invented while working there. But his success was not a given. He was almost killed in an explosion before he ever had a chance to concoct some of the world's favorite junk foods. Born to a Minnesota farm family in 1911, a Mitchell was no stranger to hard work. His father died while he was still in elementary school, so Mitchell harvested peas and beans for area farmers to help supplement the family income. And by the time he was a teenager, Mitchell's family had relocated to Colorado, where he earned money by trapping muskrats and harvesting melons. During high school, he worked in overnight shift operating the sugar crystallization tanks at the American beet sugar company. And, after his shift, frequently caught a scant two hours of sleep before classes began. A Mitchell worked as a Carpenter to pay his way through undergrad in Nebraska, I went on to earn a master's degree in chemistry from the university of Nebraska, then stepped into a research chemist role at the agricultural experiment station in Lincoln. A not long after he started working there, a laboratory explosion from a heating a cracked beaker of alcohol, left him with second and third degree burns over 80% of his body. After months of recovery, he returned to the lab. This time as research chemist at general foods corporation in White Plains, New York, where he would spend the next 35 years inventing one unique convenience food after another. One of Mitchell's first food stuff inventions was a replacement for tapioca, a stapled helped quell the hunger of American forces fighting in World War II. To combat a shortage of naturally occurring tapioca, which is a starch extracted from the cassava plant, a Mitchell developed a tapioca adjacent product, derived from the starches of more readily available grains and gelatin, which soldiers nicknamed Mitchell's mud. In 1957, he went on to create a powdered drink that would eventually wind up in space. Tang. A Tang was composed primarily of sugar with a bit of vitamin C and some additives thrown in. Owen mixed with water, it turns into a bright tangerine colored drink that tastes strongly of oranges. Although sales of the drink powder were initially lackluster, it captured the imagination and taste buds of many Americans when it went into orbit. A Tang was used in 1962 to make the water more palatable for astronaut John Glenn's mercury space flight. It masked the metallic flavor of the stored liquid. Tang was subsequently brought aboard more space flights, and by the time the Apollo 8 mission was televised in 1968, a Tang was the major sponsor of ABC's space launch broadcast. Though astronaut Buzz Aldrin, much later admitted, and I quote, Tang sucks. Even as Tang was taking American shopping lists by storm, a Mitchell had set his sights on food inventions that would make meal preparation faster and easier for home cooks. In 1967, he patented a quick set form of Jell-O that could be made with cold water rather than hot, saving a step and a bunch of setting time. And just a few months after that, Mitchell came up with cool whip. The first freezer safe non dairy whipped cream. Unlike dairy cream whipped into a foam, which would collapse or even separate if it freezes. A cool whip is stabilized, so it can be stored frozen, making it easier to ship and saving consumers from the labor involved in making fresh whipped cream. Cool whip also starred in many recipes of the mid 20th century, like flag cake and Mississippi mud pie. Nowadays, cool whip does include some milk and cream, as American consumers tastes have swung away from artificiality. Though, of course, we still like to save time. Perhaps Mitchell's most endearing invention was pop rocks, from 1956. It came about when he was experimenting with ways to add carbonation to powdered Kool-Aid. The carbonated drink mix didn't quite work as hoped, so Mitchell gave up on it. But 20 years later, another scientist tweaked the formula, and the result was the explosive candy called pop rocks that crackles and fizzles inside your mouth. By the way, contrary to the popular myth, consuming pop rocks along with soda won't make your stomach explode. General foods had to take out full page ads in newspapers in the 1970s to refute that claim. But it was this commitment to the science of discovery and his willingness to fail that made Mitchell's career accomplishments so enduring. Take, for example, his efforts to create dry alcohol by mixing wet alcohol with an intensely processed absorbent starch called maltodextrin. It didn't work out, but each discovery was a learning experience that informed his future efforts. For the article this episode is based on, how stuff works spoke with clear Khan again, who's the associate director of content at data essential, a food and beverage market research and intelligence platform. As she said, pop rocks was an attempt at instant soda that found a different purpose. Tang was made to simulate fresh orange juice via flavor crystals, making it easier to transport and longer to store. A cool whip was made to ease the hand whipping cream process for people and to allow it to be stored frozen. They all remain nostalgic today, and are often reintroduced to new generations by their parents or grandparents who are nostalgic, or appreciate the convenience. Mitchell retired from general foods in 1976, and he passed away in 2004. A father of 7, who was married for 60 years, and whose daughter Cheryl became a food scientist too, he was remembered in his obituary as a devoted stimulating and loving parent. Of course, he's also remembered, even if not always by
Bloomberg Surveillance
Fresh update on "tang" discussed on Bloomberg Surveillance
"Squeezing out a little strength against the dollar again. 109 .55. We're essentially unchanged on that currency pair on the session. Anything but on the month. The euro positive by something like 3 .5 % on the month so far against the dollar. And a quick sneak peek of crude Tom and what's happening in commodities. We're up here by $75 about 1%. and about 60 cents. I'm glad you mentioned it. I think it's one of the stories underplayed here is I looked at the Bloomberg commodity index today and I'm sorry John all in it's a low global demand disinflationary trend you blend it all together you know I get it cocoa straight to the moon you orange see juice tang sales income substitution effect people are piling to tang off the orange orange juice surge but everything else is flat out I'm not sure if that's true what what you had to say just then it's true but coffee yeah coffee up by 23 but nevertheless the bloomberg come out i'm never sure i'm never sure i'm never i'm pretty sure that there is no tang index that so we that can no no there's a substitution come on but i'm not sure it was like it was sort of like a made -up story for children yeah well you know that's what we do with an unclear message that's what we okay good i think we're done i think we're done right now we're gonna look at bitdog we do the 37 000 here and what's important here is to look at what people that are thinking about this think will be a constructive outcome i'm going to play this off my book of the year years ago ken roger's very courageous the curse of cash he's writing about where we are with digital currencies what the bank of international settlements in geneva thinks what central banks is he was at the new york fed things bill dudley joins us right now writing an important on c b d c central bank digital currencies bill dudley very valuable and thought -provoking uh... did this morning we just saw criminal else verdicts guilty maybe appeals involved but are we getting presumed the criminality punishment the secrecy that ken roger fed the courage to talk well i think that the uh... crypto spaces in in disarray right now and the real question now is our central banks are on the world according to introduce central bank digital currencies to sort of take up that slack uh... i think that's going to happen probably evolutionary because revolutionary it depends on what payment system you're starting with anywhere central bank digital currencies could play a very important role this is highlighted in the paper that we put out by the brentwood committee is really on cross -border payments we had a system of central bank digital currencies where the interfaces were harmonized you could probably execute payments on a cross -border basis at a fraction of the cost today for a lot of migrant workers when they're sending the payments abroad it costs over five percent of the value of the payment just to execute the payment it's very slow so we can certainly do a lot better than we're doing right now now in this process the fit is you know very far far behind in terms of their work on central bank digital currencies and in the u .s there's a quite bit of skepticism about the need for central bank digital currencies why is this working continue well that's the heart of the matter i'm going to go to rafael auer owns the high ground on this at bis he's documented the incredible friction of transactions in the real world we all thought we'd be trading bitcoin at you know john would be down at selene trading bitcoin for a sweater but the answers were not we can really get down to where this this is efficacious for central banks we could really squeezes down to where the friction transaction although obviously always get a little bit of transactional friction but we can do a lot better than we're doing right now mean in in in theory central bank digital currency should be a pretty significant improvement over cash i'll be just the safest cash but but in terms of default risk because you'll be guaranteed the by sovereign nation but you don't don't have worries about storage you don't you can transact with digital cash across you know long distances so to me it's like cash plus it's superior to cash and it's something that we that the U .S. should start to innovate on. There's a concern, Bill, that as you disintermediate banks essentially are those agents that really capitalize from those frictions that exist that some of the functioning of markets that traditionally has supported things like treasuries starts to ebb away. How concerned are you as you start to adopt new less friction -filled methods and as capital markets slow in the wake of rate hikes how much does that really disintermediate banks that really are still essential for the functioning of the treasury market? It really depends on central bank digital currency design and I think there you want to have a two -tier system where the banks continue to own the customer relationships. Central banks don't want to have customer relationships with hundreds of millions of households so they should hand that off to the banking system. The second thing you want to do is make sure that the central bank digital currency doesn't interest. pay If it doesn't pay interest it's basically used for payments not for investment so that preserves the role of commercial banks as intermediaries. So I think if you do those two things you essentially protect that the commercial banking system is providing financial intermediation services but the central bank helps provide a better payments medium. The reason why I ask this on a broader sense away from digital currencies currencies is there is increasing concern about how much of the risk -taking activity and how much frankly of financial market functioning has moved outside of the highly regulated banks into the private sector. Earlier this morning UBS chair came out warning again that there's a bubble in private markets and that there's risks building there there is an increasing amount of lending moves to that area. Are you concerned about that? Do you think that there is this sort of situation forming on the heels of rate hikes, on the heels of the more tightly regulated that deserves greater scrutiny? Absolutely I think this notion that all we need to do to fix on March of 2020 in the banking system is to pile a lot higher capital requirements on the largest banks. I think that's misguided. Increase the capital requirements on the biggest banks you're just going to push activity out into the non -regulated banking sector and that's going to make the financial system less secure, more than the current regime. So I think we need to think really hard about what were the problems in March 2020 and how to address them. Bill, for thanks catching up with us. Give us your view on that. Bill Dudley there, the former New York Fed president. We were talking about this in the commercial break. I remember that paper that Andy Haldane over at the Bank of England years ago, Tom, put out on this. Perhaps, and this is a lot of people are very, very suspicious of government moves in this area. I remember Andy talking about if you banned cash, what you could do is you have money on deposit at banks and you can have deeply negative interest rates force that people to spend their savings. That's just one example of why people are deeply suspicious about moving in this direction. Rogoff's compromise on that is to always have modest amounts of cash efficacy within the system.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Chris Kohls and Sebastian Discuss Powers Boothe in 'Red Dawn'
"The performance from past booth? Well, here's the thing. They needed a character like this. Yeah, totally. Because otherwise it's just a bunch of kids and it's crazy and it's not particularly controlled. You bring in this guy who says, you go, okay, this guy is a real soldier, and he respects these folks. He grows to respect them. And he trains them a little bit and he helps them out. And it becomes a much more believable story this way. Right. So you need this sort of like not Obi-Wan Kenobi type figure, but you know somebody who can come in and train them up a little bit. And yeah, he's the perfect actor for he does a great job. There's a little bit of a weird relationship with him and Leah Thompson. There was a scene that was cut out. Were they going to make love? So who's been raped by the Soviets, totally damaged woman, and then she latches onto him and then they remove that. I think they should have left that in. It was allowed her to sort of recover psychologically, maybe it kind of shows that. And then tell the story. Did you catch the funny story of his death scene what he said about the line milius gave him he said, I can't deliver that line. Did you catch that in the making of? Yes. So everybody cheered for him. He's on the turret. He was throwing the hand grenade in to the Tang. And they get it in the gun him down. And he's like, dying, his death last words is the smoke grenade is billowing around him. He says, shoot straight for once. You army pukes. And he said, I can't say they can't be my death live. And he delivered it and he said in the movie theater. The air force hates the army, it's hilarious.
AP News Radio
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"AP sport time Josh Brown tree. We started college basketball where there were four top 25 matchups throughout the country Tuesday. In Manhattan, Kansas K state dropped 9th ranked Baylor more from correspondent Greg eklund. First year head coach Jerome Tang and assistant coach at Baylor for 19 years, savored Kansas state's 75 65 win over the bears. It's not the who we played or winning that, but the environment tonight and just to turn out the crowd, the energy, I mean, every coach's dream K state trailed by three at halftime but came out firing in the second half behind chianti Johnson, who scored a game high 25 points, 16 of the second half. While Kant's point guard marquise Noel chipped in with 1410 from the free throw line, but he also had ten assists and no turnovers. Elsewhere 8th ranked Texas roughed up Iowa state 72 54, wade Taylor the fourth scored 25 points as 25th ranked Texas a and M, dropped 11th ranked Tennessee 68, 63, tenth ranked marquette got by 19th ranked creighton 73 71, and in their first home game since an on campus mass shooting 8 days prior, Michigan state knocked off 17th ranked Indiana 80 to 65. On the ice Carolina took down St. Louis Tuesday, four to one, a goal in two assists from Andrei svechnikov. There's been a while for me, like I said, and whatever is called a score and gives you a little bit conference and you just tried to boss out there and knowing the creative and more chances. That's what I was doing today. The red wings dropped the capitals three one as suitor scored twice for Detroit. Well, I mean, every point mathers ever get matters and you think it's just also building something how we play how we win games and just trying to continue that. And in the NBA, the Atlanta Hawks fired head coach Nate McMillan on Tuesday, less than two years after he guided the team to the Eastern Conference Finals. I'm Josh rowntree, AP sports.
AP News Radio
Johnson leads No. 14 K-State to 75-65 win over No. 9 Baylor
"First year head coach Jerome Tang and assistant coach at Baylor for 19 years, savored Kansas state's 75 65 win over the bears. And it's not the who we played or winning that, but the environment tonight and just to turn out the crowd, the energy, I mean, every coach's dream K state trailed by three at halftime but came out firing in the second half behind chianti Johnson, who scored a game high 25 points, 16 of the second half. While Kant's point guard marquise Noel chipped in with 1410 from the free throw line, but he also had ten assists and no turnovers. Greg eklund, Manhattan, Kansas
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Electric Boats-Boat intro and wrap
"Startups are competing to bring electric boats to the waterways at big cities for use as water taxis, California based navier makes electric hydrofoil speedboats that lift the hull above the water's surface at higher speeds. You're gliding above the water, so there is no seasickness. It's just a smooth like smooth right quality. You don't feel the waves. It's like you're on a jet plane. CEO San priti batra says it's ten times cheaper than using a gas boat and can travel about 75 nautical miles on a single charge. Jeff Watson with the national marine manufacturers association disagrees. Just the amount of energy that it takes to move a boat through the water to propel a boat through a water requires a lot of batteries. As you add more batteries, you add costs. Electric boat competition is heating up, including from Tang Wei de la motte company, candela. You can actually have a decent day out on the water on an electric boat. Electric boats have been described as teslas of the sea. I'm Ed Donahue
Bloomberg Radio New York
"tang" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Russian soldiers while being called dirt Ukraine's foreign minister Dmitry koliba says but just the beginning we're going to see more NATO secretary general young Stoltenberg says the war could go on for years French president Emmanuel Macron according to his office has told China's foreign minister Wang Yi that China needs to stop echoing Russian propaganda India says it is optimistic about the U.S. Military cooperation despite U.S. criticism of it not speaking up about Russia and Ukraine Brown Jackson has been confirmed to the Supreme Court Senate vote 53 to 47 Republicans Collins Murkowski and Romney voted yes Collins now has tested positive by the way for COVID Shanghai authorities have ordered no more than 40% seat occupancy on incoming international flights And let me see Taiwan is reporting that the head of tourism Keith Tang and a Bloomberg interview television interview says it's going to take several years for Singapore to get back to any form of normalcy regarding travel U.S. delegation to Japan and Taiwan has been postponed as House speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID She was in close contact with the President Biden yesterday but so far he has tested positive European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has tested positive for COVID And UK rate for COVID-19 hospital admissions in England is at the highest since January of 2021 In San Francisco I'm at Baxter This is Bloomberg Bloomberg opinion informed perspectives and expert data driven commentary on breaking news It is 8 52 p.m. on Wall Street time to check in with Bloomberg opinion and today we're joined by opinion columnist Daniel moss who's writing about Singapore's reopening and how that's been met with less joy and more vigilance we just heard Dan from Singapore's tourism tourism board saying that it will take a few years to return to pre COVID tourism I noted as well that to yesterday was two years since we went into that very harsh lockdown and it's been just under two weeks I guess since we reopened some wash although when you look around most of the rest of the world excluding Hong Kong and China are reopening is still very very minimal And as you say it's being met with quite a lot of caution Yeah just to get back to the comment from the Singapore official about years to get back to pre COVID travel That doesn't mean there's not been relatively significant progress recently I was at Singapore airport on Monday It looked busier than it did a month ago when I went to Australia and way busier than it did in December When I went to visit family in the United States So sure it's not back to pre COVID levels And that's not in sight But we've had some pretty significant developments lately We'll talk us through those developments because as I say it's probably kind of sounds a little not that strong when you look at other countries that are completely open we've still got group sizes limited at ten We've still got masks indoors but it is a huge pivot for Singapore Singapore doesn't do sudden workers Most things are mapped out and planned out But they're pretty significant Look several things have happened in the past week or ten days Number one you can get a drink in a bar after ten 30 p.m. Huge Go back before COVID Juliet You know Singapore had a strategic goal to be an F and B hub in Asia So it's good to see that getting back number one Number two masks not required outdoors You know masks have just become the symbolism haven't they globally of whose type on COVID and who's relatively relaxed So Singapore sort of seeking some pragmatic middle ground there And yeah the groups of ten versus groups of 5 ten might not sound like much but it's only a few months ago you could only have 5 visitors to you or a house in the entire day So things are coming along I'm in Malaysia right now By the way Malaysia still requires masks outside So Singapore is ahead there I wanted to ask you about that because that's a pivotal point that came through a week ago the reopening of that land border between Singapore and Malaysia It's not just important in terms of reuniting a lot of families people live in Singapore their family stay in Malaysia so they can send money back but also because the state of johor which I believe where you have been accounts for a large part of Malaysian GDP It accounts for pretty significant chunk and among the Malaysian states it has been the hardest hit by COVID In large part because of its vulnerability to what goes on at the border with Singapore So yes as of a week ago thousands of people streamed across the land border Many were visiting families They weren't there yet yet to spend money When I talked to business owners in johor bahru the city just across the border this week they've seen some uptick for sure and they're happy about it The really big lift the big momentum that hasn't happened yet but they sense it coming What do you think is going to be the impact for F and B here in Singapore who've struggled to get labor now that we have that border reopened Yeah the labor is a great question Singapore imports labor along with electricity and water and a bunch of other things from Malaysia You know when I talk to restaurant owners and my wife and I went out a couple of times last week just to road check.
AP News Radio
Wu-Tang Clan Album Sale Pays off Martin Shkreli's Court Debt
"The single copy of the unreleased album by Wu Tang clan that was owned by entrepreneur Martin Shkreli has been sold for an undisclosed sum I'm marquees are loaded with the latest who has the once upon a time in Shaolin album by Wu Tang clan there's only one copy and Martin Shkreli A. K. A. pharma bro bought it for two million dollars in twenty fifteen he was convicted in twenty seventeen of securities fraud federal prosecutors sold the album Tuesday to satisfy Shkreli seven point four million dollar forfeiture order while prosecutors will not say who is the new owner or how much that person paid they will say the sale covers the rest of what Shkreli owed the album came in a silver jeweled box and all thirty one tracks have never been played in public
Fore The People
Boo Weekly Came up Against a Fist Fighting Orangutan
"All right, boo. All right, we got a million questions for you tonight, but the one that's pressing. The one that everybody wants to know about, the one that we've had probably 15 answers to on social media. Do you know what it is? Now, come on with it. Is that orangutans? You got to tell us. You got to tell us how you beat the hell out of an orangutan. That thing beat me, man. That's not even beat me. All right, but look, from the first from the first go, give us the whole thing. Man, is our hat when we was in high school, dude. I mean, like, I mean, you know, we're young tonks. I mean, you gotta think about it. We young punks, you know? I thought I thought I was a strapper back then. And, you know, we tried it out and pulled up back to county fair and everything's going good and we had a big party down the sandbar and when we was part that the road went down to a sandbar in the river, so everybody pulled up. They couldn't ride a car down into the sand bed. So we drove our trucks down there, but when they had the bear going on that, we pulled up there, we waiting on the cars, no gals at the time. Little high school girls and all of a sudden this truck pulls in and you know, he pulled around and was like, what in the world is he doing? And he unloads his tray. And when he unloads the trailer, he starts hollering fire for 50. And we're like, what is he talking about? And all of a sudden, he walked back and he pulled this orangutan out in the back, like a double cab like an actual, I don't know. How you call it a little like an 18 Wheeler, but it wasn't a fool like team Wheeler. And he pulls his orangutan out and he walks him over to that cage, and he starts hollering fire for 50 again. Well, a couple guys as we were sitting there, we thought that, you know, it's for the kids to be able to walk up there and just, you know, paid it, touch it, you know, just like you see, like, you know, little pony rides at the failure, dude. We found out that all of a sudden a couple people get off in the cage with it. And rang a Tang is punches them. I'm like, holy shit. Check this
Pop Culture Leftovers
"tang" Discussed on Pop Culture Leftovers
"That's going to happen like the big paperwork that he showed and they're like oh that's parley track of like everything that they've said. Yeah it was real. Call back to the first episode to old school typed out paper with what they were saying on it. And he's reiterating the fact that basically like nothing has been free will. It's all been determined by by king this king and so i wanna look at that poem again. I talked about the poem by maya angelou and it says you may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies. You may trod me in the dirt but still like to style rise so when you break that down you may write me down history with your bitter twisted lies. That sounds like everyone who's kind of like been manipulated and has had their free will taken away by tang and the creation of the and the next part reads you may trod me in the very dirt but still like dust. I'll rise so if you're the heroes in this story and you want your free will you can rise against the dictatorship of caring and get the yours or you can.
AP News Radio
Chinese Astronauts Make First Spacewalk Outside New Station
"Two astronauts have made the first at the space walk outside China's new orbital space station the two men you bombing and Tang Hong Bo was shown on Chinese state TV climbing out of the adult as US road possible Hein then the task was to set up cameras and other equipment using a fifty foot long robotic com the astronauts spent eighty seven now is outside the station they arrived June seventeenth for three month mission aboard China's that orbital station the expedition is part of an ambitious space program that landed a robot rover malls in may I'm Karen Thomas
Black Girl Nerds
Sung Kang and the F9 Breakdown
"Song. Tang song how're you doing. Wonderful how are you today. Thanks for having me on so good. Thank you for joining me. It is absolute pleasure. You guys cannot see me but ibis mile in iran that. I'm gonna talk to this guy. Because i'm such a fan of this franchise. Would it means the cars. The fast life everything han did you look at it. That's how i'm going to say honda song. Did you know that she will always be part of the fastfamily. What's your favorite part about playing on a no. No i mean this is all fairytale. Hollywood stuff ryan you know the idea of being in a franchise. That's you know twenty years and playing a character. That's past the way and resurrected by hands. I tell hollywood fairytale that you read about our scene documentary And and so you know each time that. I was able to participate in one of the fast movies. You know it was like the gift that just never stopped giving it's like I felt like it was a privileged place to learn. You know working on a fast movie is like going to the newsmen park and and the resources are there to give you the opportunity to do the best work. You can't as an actor on under craft just focused on that it's pretty liberating when we come from indie filmmaking. Justin man director of s nine in tokyo drift You know we started our careers. Together we came from nothing came from a credit card movie. The the the journey that you we get to together as friends you know. It's like it's nice to be able to recall all the you know the experiences we've had from indie films to all the cool things on the fast moving so it's just been a blessing over and over and over so it's really been cool.
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
South Africa to Impose New Restrictions as Cases Surge
"Battling a fast increasing. Surge of covid nineteen cases south africa has reintroduced tough restrictions including a ban on alcohol sales and an extended nightly curfew. The delta variant i discovered in india appears to be driving. South africa's new increase. President cyril ramaphosa said on sunday night announcing the return to strict measures south africa recorded more than fifteen thousand new cases on sunday including one hundred and twenty. Two deaths bringing its total fatalities to near sixty thousand. Go tang the country's most populous province which includes the largest city johannesburg and the capital pretoria had the brunt of the current surge accounting for about sixty six percent of new infections health. Authorities are concerned that the country's eight other provinces likely to soon see spikes in cases to match those in go tang well. Hospitals are running short of covid nineteen beds and patients being taken to health facilities in other provinces neighboring zimbabwe namibia and mozambique also fighting growing numbers of cases hospitalizations and deaths south africa's vaccination rate is slowly picking up speed by sunday. Two point seven million people had received at least one jab more than nine hundred and fifty thousand of south africa's one point two five million healthcare workers have been vaccinated said ramaphosa as a new surge of the disease. Sweeps across africa's fifty four countries about one percent of the continents. One point three billion people have received at least one vaccine dose according to the africa centers for disease control prevention. South africa's rampant corruption has also become a factor as the health minister has stepped down because of reports his family members benefited from inflated payments on contracts related to covid nineteen.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"tang" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"You need to make this person comfortable. Not being judged and the question. Chicken nick bob. So we change society not the judge also. We actually be speaking out so which comes first. That's a tough question. I would say this my actual experience in this regard is as a retired baptist minister many my guests. Most of my honest are secular. They're not christian Most of the people. I meet now and so they already started with negative opinion. Okay so i don. I don't know what you thought i told you. I wanted to interview. But i said but then i surprised them because on thoughtful. I did my homework. I read your article. I thought about right. I have a sense of humor. I am interested in what you have to say. I'm curious about learning new things and more often than not as i. Use my voice from those kind of places that don't have a positive regard. People have been pleasantly surprised. It's almost easier to impress the like. Wow i never expected Former baptist minister to actually know what i'm talking about. You know and i really enjoyed this conversation. I wasn't expecting you know and and so in that sense. That's what i would say. Chris is like you can still speak from that voice but do it in a way. That's engaging spreaker of is so. I think that is.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"tang" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"More leadership positions. Then they can actually get illustrate is hey. I was on the board member for this fullback. I was book matt. And i on the board for a maybe the vp this organization. So in the case it actually illustrates that you have is kind of leadership skills because you may not be able to get in the coppery the ships yet but this could be a circuit. It could be a proxy. So i think that it's good training. So that's why. I think that the the asian american also need to change as well but yes if the kids want to go into politics encourage that because we need more people like john enter yet site andrea exactly so we need the anger. More people aren't wise as a community. We never got that. So i think that we diversify our strategy within the api community. I would one more piece to that. Would you sketch out a great picture. I developed classes on american leadership that i taught the graduate level and one of the things that i emphasize was find out what your voice is. What you sound like on any issue. Don't sound like nothing and don't sound like your hero or everybody else. I said you need to find your own point of view perspective new. You need be able to back it up. So that's authentic day and then use it because whatever it is your ethnicity your gender your sexuality your your generation wherever you find yourself that all contributes to the sound of your voice okay. I agree so you you'll stand can't of so let me ask you that. This are considered negatives being on white not tall. Lgbt and all the saints female disadvantage. Do.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"tang" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"Of all. I think we also need to change. It may change. We need to encourage out children to pursue if interest non. only it's academically. It can also be music with these. Sports could be encouraged that explore also autumn. Push them to just go to the top schools because most asian. Oh well if you don't get into. You know the see sanford harvard. Your failure no actually both the executives in the Five hundred only one went up. Arrests went to public school interest. Cost his why because expose children to a wide spectrum of diversity because when the local leaders they wanted someone is not from a elite. School will only socializing with the elite class. They wanted east actually understand a much broader spectrum issues. That's on the what was. Especially if you grow up with so much privileged. Well how much exactly right. So who is said this. We also need to encourage kids. Not just focus on academics. A focus on your own benefits do mobile than perry. What seen museum migas momentary work can help them develop leadership and helping out then they see other people also struggle and actually the volunteer work.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"tang" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"Find out maybe some leadership people over app so you can develop the pipeline so down the road that would be more people of color in the senior and executive positions. He put asian american. A the doesn't matter so just like what you said you want to perish or something in. Wow this could be booby-trapped because is set up so if you want is white and then suddenly some different. How can you bridge the gap. Right so i think they need to take a long-term view how to develop john especially when the asian american is a fast growing racial group in the united states. Yeah yeah there is another experience i had. I was on the board of trustees of historic white national christian organization. And that was already throwing me out of my element now. I'm in a room full of well dressed very well heeled very wealthy white people. I was one of the first if not the first asian-american to sit there and so there's a whole culture here. That is foreign to me let alone. I'm feeling like i can't write big checks like the rest of and there was no one to coach me and i had to kind of sit there and i think wasted years as i learned the acronyms as i learned the culture and as i got over the imposter syndrome right where i said you know what i do. Have something to contribute. There was a reason that the president and the and the board wanted me to join. Its because i bring a perspective. But i have to speak up is not enough to sit at the table or to be on these committees. Okay i was there serving for ten years. They have a triennial conference that would attract twenty thousand college students and they paid my way to go expires this so i. I was marinating for ten years. And after ten years after a worldwide search they picked me to be the main speaker at the next training conference now up until this time chris it was only british american or there was a one south asian person very academic not like not like a pastor and a preacher and so i was having panic attacks after they picked me i was like i'm gonna fail in front of twenty thousand people because i'm not an academic. I'm not gonna read some academic paper undo it in a narrative style in a more asian american style. Right when i fail. All the asians there and twenty five percent of the attendees are asian emerges. All the injured gonna feel shame right. So i would. I was losing waking up with chest pains shortness of breath pain context as all i. Finally i went to the speakers treat and i was honest with the directors and they said look. It's an honor that you picked me but no one before me has ever been like me okay. And so they said look and this is huge for me. They can the reason why we picked. You is because you're not like them. Say and i don't know if that this is happening in these corporations ensues they said we see a paradigm shift among the college population. And the way you speak in a more narrative style is actually what is compelling to them so if you came into all of your condemning voices and you show up as a chinese american version of the british guy. It's like it's going to be a total loss of the whole process. And so i did it my style for five days and at the end i told the president as i was walking off the stage the last time and i still meet people twenty two years today. Who say. I still remember what you talked about gay. I said i want you to understand something. You groomed me for ten years by the time. I stepped into that scary place. Everyone on stage was my friends already. Like our de. I was stepping not as outsider stranger. I was working with colleagues and we had grown to love and respect each other. So i just want to encourage you. That's what i was talking to encourage you whether this was a super master. Plan your your point. Chris of a long term thing. I said you groomed me so that i wouldn't face your man taw as visionary but most couple elitist even our organization leaders they are not experience is not unique and but you experience is wonderful and at exactly.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"tang" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"Executive level who are asian americans. So at least. I think this is a positive step to create awareness and used the number to stop the conversation now. I would imagine that some who are lawyers or cpa's or medical doctors that's all they wanna do like they don't wanna be in senior leadership sort of thing but then there are those who have all of those professional skills but also uniquely gifted and equipped and experienced to lead at a higher level. Let me insert here an experience that i had recently at. What am i alma. Maters graduate school where they were doing an executive search to fill a provost position. Associate provost now. I got my doctorate there. I got my master's there. And i'm a person of color so they go. Hey ken we'd like you to be on the search team for the new associate provost said. Do i know what that person does know. But okay so i'm glad that you're trying to diversify even the search process so i go in there and the white male who was leading this team he turns to me and i'm the only person of color there's a woman who was a high academic person and then there's a couple of other people right all right but i'm the only person so he turns to me and he says can we want to have the most diverse possible pool of candidates. So can you give me the names of four or five. Asian americans who have earned. Phd's from prestigious institutions in long distance learning. Okay to me in my brain. I'm thinking that's like a white person asking me. Oh you're chinese. Do you know schenk. Just because i'm asian. Like i got a theology degree right and it's like this is this is common. Can i tell you when example this one example but you in canada is actually is very cupboard. Let's take a look at the mass shooting in atlanta gay. It was such a sat and arithmetic situation and press biden wanted to go to atlanta and he wanted to reach out to the asian american community. Question cool should rally up. The asian man brooke meet with as advisor. Then they discover that is zero. Recent asia in the white house tap zero entire house a few hundred people. Not one yeah. He was a wakeup call. So i had to give. President biden rabbits in april immediately in april because the shooting was in march and april. He appointed erica. Maurice sukhpal to represent as a deputy assistant to the president and the asian american and pacific islander senior. They had zero so chat means up shooting the ask anyone any asian american. We are not visible at all best. Buy that even not. We do not excess. So that's why. I think it's the asian americans also need to take steps to make sure that we have some representation. We have some disability so for example whenever the shooting about against blacks we know will be on tv sure. Jesse jackson is at a shelter right. Yeah something asian can do. We anybody nobody. That's the.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"tang" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"Think a lot of time. It is a typing issues because the public. They do not understand asian americans because i'll skin color facial features. We are always receive as perpetual ordinance. The real different bent is beautiful along time. Asian americans always been as outgrow is not ingram. If you're white european descent even you from europe. They don't know but because then he's always aware up. Do they understand us. Even though a lot of asian americans or second third of generations they add exactly. Yes we look different. That is the problem. Then when you're not majority you always minority that's pondering what Number two is and when you become the multi minorities. Hey ken is doing great work. He's not complaining sleeping alone. he's not masking promotion. He's not pushing at the other group. They keep on screaming requesting more then is quite natural for the senior managers out. Let the squeaky wheel right. So that is your one one element. The second element is at this. I think a lot of Senior management executives. They also think. Oh we don't see the asian americans being active beating projects. They don't exert leadership skill be. They cannot know how league teams and we have not seen too. Many leaders were asian americans so therefore maybe they up to the task. But doesn't chick club chance how they practice. If they don't be seen as elitist in many organizations nowhere to be seen of course there was none so therefore we need to change that. You didn't name what the other groups of color were that. Were making more complaints now. I think it's safe to say it's it's more black. Americans and brown americans right. The latin x what are the percentages of them in the workforce and them being in the c. suites compared to the asian americas that you just rattled off well according to the study connected by ascent said on organization is san francisco. Then they it actually for the black brown and also the letting externalities relative to entry level actually on betta than the asian american level and actually's was asian female. A day was the worst group. Now is very interesting. The female group because at the eye movements and the white female.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"tang" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"At extra stoddart's i wrote a piece about eight gram against asians two times but it was rejected. Hey chris i notice a you at the business group. Faster is set atop top rate about racist. Wipe you talk about discrimination at the workplace because the business best how it got started. Okay okay well. There are a lot of pieces out there about the hate crimes. But i felt like you still found a way to insert your original article intention. Be and that's what really intrigue me because you're saying right. It's really timely. That we're now focusing not just asian americans that many americans are focusing on this terrible scourge of anti asian racism and hatred. Hey folks there's a quiet peace that may not be violent but it is nevertheless very very prevalent. And it's been going for for a long long time and you call it the glass ceiling. I think other people call it. The bamboo ceiling and i never put those two pieces together. I was aware of workplace discrimination preventing asian-americans very qualified for rising up into the c. Suites but i never thought of putting that together with anti asian racism. And that's what really intrigued me. Thank you well. I think that's racism is really about discrimination prejudice.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"tang" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"Do for people who really need our assistance. Only give birth makes. What am i routinely after get up is to brush my teeth. Make my coffee and then sit down with my digital apple news platform and a headline popped up. Not long ago early may an op-ed piece was just put out in the la times and it's titled really intrigue me why successful asian-americans are penalized at the workplace. In the subtitle because of bias and stereotyping asian americans are the least likely racial group to be promoted to management and executive positions. The writer of that op. Ed piece is my guest today. Dr christopher s tang he is a distinguished professor at the university of california los angeles and edward w carter chair and business administration at his anderson school of management. I wanna thank you so much for coming on the program. Actor tank is my pleasure. Thank you for having me. And now i've got to ask you. Did you come up with this idea for the bed. And then you approach the la times or someone from the paper. Reach out to you. Excellent question this has been in my mind a long.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"tang" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"I made this trip to the island of kawai who where my wife is from while we were over there. I decided to look up. This white pastors name is ralph mawr and he had started hope chaplain hermosa beach. And we're not friends. We know each other. He's older than i am. And he had done his doctorate at fuller as well. And i just thought i'd drop in seattle. Because he had started his hope chapel ministry over there so he went to his office and he says so Can i understand that like me. You are pursuing a doctorate ministry at fuller. So how's it going. And i just kind of leaned back in my chair in his office and i said well. Here's the thing. I just really don't feel like it's a big deal that i finished it. And then he leaned forward in his chair ban on his desk and he looks at me and he says i'm not hundred percent. Sure but i think this is a word from god to you from idiot and you're supposed to finish that degree unlike And he says yeah and it's because there are mona maniacs and they are laser focused. There's only one thing that they can see that they wanna do. I said wait. Wait wait what you're describing. I'm not a bona maniac. I got lots of things to do and he says no. I bring that up. Because i am a moment when i was your age and i was kind of spinning my wheels trying to start what became hope chapel knowing. We'd give me the time of day. Because i don anything. No one knew about me. And then there was this very prominent pastor in our denomination who came alongside me and he knew enough about me new enough what was on heart and my mind and then he vouched for me and he went to bat for me and doors began to open. And i just wanna say he was my champion and you need to get your doctorate. You need to finish that thing not because you need it academically. Not because it's so important that you write your dissertation but because especially in the asian culture especially because in the asian american culture. From what i understand. I mean having educational attainments achievements. It gives you more ravi toss. He says now in my beach culture. The i mentioned that. I have a doctorate knowing. Calls me doctor because it's almost like the opposite reaction but he says you know from what little i know of you. A lot of people. Hold you in high regard. And i wanna encourage you that by finishing your doctorate. God's gonna be able to use you to champion the mona maniacs. The younger ones coming behind you. Who don't have the kind of position and don't possess the keys to open certain doors and so you need to get back on your horse. You need to finish that outstanding work not because it adds another feather in whatever had you're wearing but because there are people that are going to be counting on you. Maybe they're not even born yet but there are people that are gonna be counting on you to help open those doors and provide those ways for them when no one else will give him. The time of day. All i can say is i took him to heart and at age sixty six. I can truly say that. I have embraced the role of being a champion for those very modal maniacs. It was talking about and like you said some of the ones that i've champion dame weren't even close to being born when he and i had that talk in his office in the late eighties. I bring that up. Reshare that story because one of the cool things that dr tina talk about is if you're out there and you're not a champion but you need a champion. Maybe you're not even a mony but you need a champion in your workplace in your profession. Don't be afraid of looking for one and if you happen to find yourself in that champion potential role realize like i came to realize it's not about me. It's about what we can.
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
New Tesla Powerwall, China Protest, Volkswagen Investigation
"Year and stay. We've got some news. On tesla energy. A new energy product actually called the power while plus we'll go through the details on that then we also have an update on the situation on the protest in china and some news on volkswagen slash volkswagen. I stay for tesla stock today especially in a downmarket. Tessa finishing up almost five percent. I green day sense earnings to seven hundred nine dollars. Forty four cents that compared to the nasdaq down about nine tenths of a percent. Interestingly on the rise today this was the highest volume day for tesla of the week and sense earnings about forty million shares trading hands. Even though fridays in general tend to be about five to ten percent less volume as we learned during the s. and p. five hundred inclusion analysis period. So interesting to see that. I didn't see a whole lot of news that would have driven the stock today. But oftentimes things that are not. News-based are what's driving the stock right. So let's talk about the power wall plus this was posted yesterday on reddit by user tang. Who said that they were just finalizing their designed for tessler today in san interesting thing power while plus they have shared at the spec sheet for the power while plus and this is a different product than tesla shows online with the power while to now a lot of the specs are the same here but what it looks like tesla has done has integrated some of the components that previously would have been separated in what looks like a continued effort to increase the ease of insulation. We heard yulon talk a lot about this. On tests earnings call and of course we had heard from on the week prior on twitter that tesla solar whether the solar glass roof or rooftop solar would only be sold with an accompanying power wall on the earnings call. Ilan said that he believes this is the most important thing about the solitary of situation noting that installations would be much easier because power from solar would only ever go to the power wall then the power. Walt self would be the only thing that we need to interact as a power supply to the house. Or interact with the grit. It sounds like increasing. The power capability of the power wall was also a key component. Here so not changing the energy but allowing it to provide greater power to be able to handle peak power
Good Life Project
Wu-Tang, Power And Possibility With Sophia Chang
"So my mother tokes. Chang was born in north korean. Nineteen thirty two. We share a birthday which is kind of extraordinary. Yes i was my mother's birthday gift and She fled north korea. When she was fourteen she was one of nine siblings and her two brothers had procedure the eldest children. The two oldest brothers had preceded her than shoot. She and her older sister were the next age down and they followed them and the assumption was all of them would follow and so she went on this heroin. They went on this harrowing journey. They got to the train station. They were supposed to get off at she and her sister and they got off a stop too early because there was a north and south which they didn't realize and as soon as they got off the police were there because they were already anticipating the people were going to try to be escaping and you the country had already been kind of divided you know the north of the communist and then the south would be with the americans and so a lot of people were fleeing and she also came from a relatively wealthy family and they also knew what this means is all this is going to be taken away so they get off at the wrong stop. They get taken in by the police and interrogated there two teenagers. I mean she's fourteen. Her older sister sixteen. They didn't arrange a story. They separate them and of course they don't come up with the same store and they said okay. You're trying to escape. We're gonna send you back on the first train tomorrow morning and there was a man in the station who overheard it and he was clearly somebody greater authority and he said what are they get back to the hotel and in the meantime i'll give them a tour of the city and so he gave them a tour of the city while they're walking around the city. The actually see the name of the hotel that was supposed to sneak them self and so they. They clocked it that night. They go to the hotel. My mother's sister gets incredibly ill. The police come the next morning to take them to the train station. And they see how she is and they say we'll give you data rest will take you tomorrow morning.
Good Life Project
"tang" Discussed on Good Life Project
"So my mother tokes. Chang was born in north korean. Nineteen thirty two. We share a birthday which is kind of extraordinary. Yes i was my mother's birthday gift and She fled north korea. When she was fourteen she was one of nine siblings and her two brothers had procedure the eldest children. The two oldest brothers had preceded her than shoot. She and her older sister were the next age down and they followed them and the assumption was all of them would follow and so she went on this heroin. They went on this harrowing journey. They got to the train station. They were supposed to get off at she and her sister and they got off a stop too early because there was a north and south which they didn't realize and as soon as they got off the police were there because they were already anticipating the people were going to try to be escaping and you the country had already been kind of divided you know the north of the communist and then the south would be with the americans and so a lot of people were fleeing and she also came from a relatively wealthy family and they also knew what this means is all this is going to be taken away so they get off at the wrong stop. They get taken in by the police and interrogated there two teenagers. I mean she's fourteen. Her older sister sixteen. They didn't arrange a story. They separate them and of course they don't come up with the same store and they said okay. You're trying to escape. We're gonna send you back on the first train tomorrow morning and there was a man in the station who overheard it and he was clearly somebody greater authority and he said what are they get back to the hotel and in the meantime i'll give them a tour of the city and so he gave them a tour of the city while they're walking around the city. The actually see the name of the hotel that was supposed to sneak them self and so they. They clocked it that night. They go to the hotel. My mother's sister gets incredibly ill. The police come the next morning to take them to the train station. And they see how she is and they say we'll give you data rest will take you tomorrow morning.
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
Notable Developments on the College Basketball Coaching Carousel Scuttlebutt
"A lot of movement on the coaching carousel. Over the past couple of days the big. One of course was indiana firing archie miller. After four seasons. We talked about that on a previous podcast. So go find it. We're not going to spend any time on that here but let me walk you through the other notable developments richard patino out at minnesota and as up tuesday morning. He's the new coach at new mexico. State has quote parted ways with steve. Prohm depaul finally took. Dave laid off the hot seat list. Boston college hired earl. Grant penn state hired mike castrucci berry dead leg spin a pretty good right now. It's spinning man. Yeah listen we give the. We are gearing up for this tournament. We got we got more than forty eight hours till. We're gonna tip the first game here so as expected. We've had some movement on the carousel. So we'll let's get into a little bit of this This scuttle but here kind of take it job by job. Best job openings indiana. Let's kind of go in order. I guess second best job. That's open. I would say iowa state is a better job than minnesota steve. Prohm gets fired late monday night. His jamie pollard was on the selection committee so he traveled back as he should have to meet with promo person and do what he what needed to be done You and i both seven the podcast in january. We expected steve prone to return next season. But we also didn't expect iowa state to never win a game like he just got to an irreversible point. so he's done. He put out a classy statement on tuesday morning. And i don't know whether or not steve prohm will land somewhere else head. Coaching position this coaching cycle but he will be a head coach again. He did take iowa state to three inch tournaments he was really good prior to that at murray state and certainly qualified for. It's just a matter of Is there anything out there. That he would be offered or anything out there that he would want as for the job. The candidates we're early. But i'm told that this is certainly a coach that you know quite well as well i'm told jamie pollard definitely will be considering. Unlv head coach. Tj burger near the top of his list. I can't say that he is the favorite. I just think that it's objectively true. That tj also burger will be under consideration for the iowa state job along the likes of. You're going to hear puerto moser connected to multiple jobs on this podcast because let's face it especially if he wins at least one tournament game. He's just a hot name. And he's going to be attached to iowa st paul minnesota. I i don't know if you'd be a favorite for state. But i think his name makes sense. I think utah. State's craig smith might make sense and then a high. I do have a wildcard one. Uab's andy kennedy has gone to the sec. Good job at ole miss. He's just one year and at uab but he had he had a really good year. In fact i think he won more games in his first season. This past season than just about anyone. Maybe all of all of the first year coach coaches. So i think that's a fact no first year coach at a new program. One more games this season than ak i. It's just i'm lobbying out. There is a name that should be considered. And then i did see fran for shila tweet this and i do. I do think there's something to it. Like a baylor is a one seed could be in the final four. Hey first time since bill henderson all that good stuff tang is a is a high level power conference assistant that is deserving of an opportunity would come at a power conference level. I don't know. But i think it's only a matter of time before jerome tank. Its job as well. So i'm just tossing him in knows the league as potentially someone that They should consider or at least at the very least interview sets an initial pool of
The DeMaio Report with Carl DeMaio and Lou Penrose
Zoo vaccinates great apes against COVID-19
"The San Diego Zoo is protecting its great apes in the Corona virus, ate gorilla's got the virus back in January and recovered that they don't want to see any other animals test positive. So far for a Rainha tangs and five Binnebose have been given an experimental vaccine initially made for pets. Zoo plans to vaccinate more apes if they get more
Sex with Dr. Jess
Sexual Initiation Techniques That Actually Work
"This person rates in from denver. He says i'm fifty nine. She sixty one been married for twenty. Six years were empty nesters. Living in cova times frequency is about two to three times a month. But it's gotten very pretty predictable. Can you help me with sexual initiation. I want to keep things fresh mo. We can try brandon. How do you initiate sex. Oh jeez sometimes. I'm very lazy. And i do the what is it. What do you call it the poco. I know you're there. And the other times i find that i do have to kind of push myself. I know that i enjoy sex. Knew that that. I know that you enjoy sex so i know that if i push myself to initiate that it's going to likely be a win win for all part but how do you initiate so. Yes the puck from behind like especially in the shower lately. Come into mcdonald's tang my towel on that. Just hold my towel. How old do i initiate. You feel like you're putting me on the spot. I mean the pope from behind his goto. What else do i do. You tell me so. I i tend to initiate sex by Touching caressing kinda stroking your body. I think that that's what works. And it's funny. Because as i'm saying what i do. I know that that's what works for me. Like i know that that sensuous touch is what relaxes me and kind of gets me into the head space physically and mentally into sex. Why do that when we're trying. I'm trying to initiate sex with you. Yeah you're very you're definitely physical. I think most people sink physically when they think about sexual initiation you. I guess i want to begin by talking about planting sex seeds. So this is from our latest book the book that i wrote with marla the ultimate guide to seduction and four play. And i make sure. I plug it so that you know that this is marlins work too because succeeds are actually her creation in. She describes them as seductive clues about what is to come in a future sexual experience so they can be planted in the morning. If you wanna get busy at night or you can plant them throughout the week before you meet and you know she says to really consider what type of sex. Your lover likes. So do they like it romantic. Do they like to be filmed. Are they publicly. Experimental and really think about an aerobic activity that you can plan on your own and plant a seed to set the tone so if your partner likes to be spanked. Maybe you're leaving a spanking instrument in their car like a paddle spoon from the kitchen. Or maybe you leave a photo of it in their purse or their briefcase or maybe you leave them a note in their lunch bag and text them a photo of it in your hands. You're the ideas. You're watering the succeed. Kind of leaving additional clues. And i know people aren't really going to work right now but still you have different areas of your home you can use and it. It's interesting 'cause marla reminds us that this whole process of planting succeeds can kind of offer a distraction to reduce stress overall. And help you to kind of weave eroticism throat your day to day interaction so i think the most important thing that i would want to emphasize that initiating sex can't really happen on the spot right. It is really about the way you interact at breakfast for the evening or on monday for
KNBR The Sports Leader
"tang" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"Guy I used to go. Now be my guest. Don. Ah! First off. You were right. You gotta add sugar. Of course you do. I didn't know better that figuring it out, right. I stand corrected time work related water, and there's no sugar. I just mix isn't like a powdery mix. And then you know, it says here you to put the Kool Aid mix in the large future and then add sugar and using the cup to measure out a cup and a half of sugar rod goes three. You're on cop. Just pour it in there till it feel good. So, like dog food, he was, like, four. No bowl, you know? Sounds like sweet tea. Okay? Just after while you develop a kind of 1/6 sense about windows, enough sugar in the cooler. It comes with experience. Let's put it did ring. I hit me a little bit. I thought, Of course, there's sugar that thought back to my cool ideas. You know what? I think you're right. I don't think there was sugar in that. Don't look. There was sugar in the mix. They let you a sugar it up. Exactly. You wanted a sugared up. I always had the Kool Aid Man was the picture. Carrying the Kool Aid but only carried Kool Aid. Like if you try to put something else in it and kill you like he was just he was there. Okay. He was it was liver. He was He was there to deliver diverticular mailman, diabetes in different colors to young kids across the nation. And it was only going to be cooling. Do you want to see the Kool Aid Man? Frown attempt to fill his picture up with something too late? Yeah, you put water in the Kool Aid man's picture. You're cruising for a bruising, You'll grow whole wizard out. I don't care. You can't put that You tried to put that country time as lemonade in that picture done If you didn't die, you tell you something, If I remember now I love history. Lemonade. That was good stuff, man. Maybe this is an urban legend. But I heard as a child that Kool Aid Man killed a family of four when the matriarch of the family attempted to put Tang in his picture. Very, very, very ugly situation that never like Tang Tang with him like terrible, bad orange juice, So I got to say I wasn't a Kool Aid guy. If I had to go fruit punch and started disappointed. Larry hated country time. Lemonade. That was that couldn't stand that one. Yeah, I think even an early age is kind of a snob about my lemonade and want the pattern lemonade. But but my favorite Tommy wanted artisanal eliminators Did I really did very hard to find in the 86 78? That's true. Hey, bro, It's all we got for you. What damn sucks. Uh, but my favorite like, drink sugary drink concoction with Hawaiian punch that that's the one who that was. That was my favorite one. So that can't Premix though You can hide. Yeah. Came in there. Remember running came in the can. You had to use a can over to the opening and you had to him both sides. Yeah. Life is a mess, like relieve the pressure you could pour cause if you just did it on one side. It was like, Hi, C remember. I see used to come in those same cans, right? If you get it on one side and take you a half a now our 2 ft class up Could Bingo, Boop. You gotta have the air. It was like drinking like dude who gets going Thursday. I need this sugar. Give it to him. And then you like got soda O J two kinds of Sonny. Like No, Sonny, we're talking about Sonny. The light that you could put some serious alcohol in the Hawaiian punch, though, man, Sunny.
WBZ Midday News
Two new groups are now eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Boston
"And in Massachusetts, students are starting to make their way back to class in person, including in the city of Boston, But teachers in the hub said they need more protection before that happens in force. They want to be vaccinated under the state's phase one of the vaccine plan right now they're in phase two teachers union President Jessica Tang making that case last night, Right here on WJZ school nurses have been bumped up into phase one. However, for teachers, they still remain a part of phase two, which has them being vaccinated. Starting February, 1st. Boston Teachers Union President Jessica Tang, telling Dan Ray having teachers bumped up into phase one is just another part in keeping them safe. Protecting surveillance testing and absolutely vaccines are critical piece of getting as many students back into schools as possible to that last part, their teachers say, is also what's important. More teachers being vaccinated quicker students are back in the classroom. Unclear right now, if that will happen. The plan is to have teachers and phase two with workers and transit restaurants, grocery stores and other utilities beginning a week from
Pantheon
"tang" Discussed on Pantheon
"Them as they appear as a group or are you including knob outs. All all all around. If if i line up all my solo records. I've got. I've probably actually right. I have all of db's i've got all of ghost's face. And i think. I've one of methods and have qualms he dropped off me with a mobile larry that that was gonna keeping there is only produced like the first cup. I one up for most of them now but they don't get into that this is just about the genesis of tang. They don't get into the whole decline in fall. Measure great documentary. I think it's showtime of my is great for part That's well worth watching. But like like like he was saying. I teased already. Like the big one of the biggest things left out was that resent ages had both had so a careers. Jesus the genius on coal chilin. You know the story level brought his rededicating biz markie and then Rizzo was transfer keam on tommy boy. At if you watch that video era.
Pantheon
"tang" Discussed on Pantheon
"Welcome to let it. Roll the podcast. About how and why popular. Music happens hosted by nate wilcox. Follow the let it roll podcast on twitter at let it roll cast and check out our website at let it roll. Podcast dot com. Let it roll. Is a pantheon podcast. You can listen to great podcasts. At www dot pantheon podcasts dot com. Today we continue our special eight episode miniseries on netflix's hip hop evolution documentary. Natives joined by alexi old and eugene robinson. His cohorts from youtube show. If the shoes fit this week they discuss season two episode for of hip hop evolution. New york state of mind which covers the new generation of new york hip hop including gnaws the wu tang clan and notorious big pop in those earbuds and enjoy its tunnel.
Ace and TJ
4% say they dodge a major cleaning task by moving, study
"Get a new house but then you ultimately end up having to clean it anyway. I would think because you got to get the stuff out of there to move. But as they reminded me. You remember when you and i were Baby dj's trying to make it in this Crazy biz we call radio and we were roommates living that Apartment in the sketchy part of town and In i rarely did laundry. And i'll just have piled up shoveled in my closet right. There were times when i When i was going somewhere and i needed a good shirt wear some say. I say i have me a date would say it loud now i would just go over to To the mall across the street and buy a shirt instead of you know planning ahead of time and actually doing some launch. There were times not all the time. There were a few times that i would have to go into his bedroom with empty. Davis said come home and get these kinds of doors. Close if you would and he would. I would hold the door. He would push the clothes back. Anyone say okay one two three and then he would put his hand. I would slam the door shut. The close would fall back. positive closed. Room looks clean nice. But it wasn't that. I didn't have clothes. I had a lot of close enough close. They wouldn't be out of the closet but we didn't have our own private washer and dryer in the apartment. He had to go down the walkway. They're inside the apartment complex to a public Washer and dryer. And you had to sit there with them the entire time because somebody would steal them. If you didn't ace has gene stolen one night. He was doing laundry and all of his jeans got stolen. Yeah so i would. Just wait until i had some time to drive back to my parents house and do my lawn. My mom didn't do. I wasn't that i wasn't taking it back and going here. Mama brought him a laundry. My mom hadn't done my laundry since i was thirteen. Because she was messing up my good stuff. They took a velour shirt. It was kicking at the time. He was hitting in wrung it out. I said you can't put that in the drier. okay and then just wrung it out like a rag. All out i remember. If it's forty dollars. Admit i have bought them a lure shirt my own money my best velour shirt address. The band out around the bottom of into was just hanging. Mom's not doing my my laundry anymore. Tang nano but maybe she did that just because she didn't want to do it anyway. I would go. i would go. I say all the way homes an hour but most of the time. I was working on the weekends. You know we're trying to we're trying to get a foothold in this crazy. Be as we call radio. So i've been working every day so i didn't have time to go home do laundry and i remember when jodi and i i got to that point where we were. All exclusive in in really Digging each other and she said okay. I'm coming over to your apartment with laundry baskets and we're gonna load up all of that laundry and bring it over here to my parents house and you can do it over here. So that's when. I finally a according to this with these people did ace and i would have just gone and gotten another apartment. Yeah that's crazy And it wasn't that. I didn't know how to do it. I just didn't wanna sit there. I didn't have the time to sit there in the laundry room of the apartment complex with those people those apartment people i when i say it was a good place. It was not a good place case in point. I had three pair of jeans to them. Were stolen the only ones that weren't the one dollars wearing and who's stealing my jeans. I was six four two hundred pounds. Who's who nobody's wearing my jeans there. Yeah and not to mention the The shootout between police and the guy selling crack out of the apartment next door. That saturday night. Yes we have plenty of room. Yeah it was an old lady tweet us. So you see. Regan's we came from nethon. Yeah our careers. Didn't start a big time. Syndicated radio show like yours did right. We had to build it. Yeah a lot of elbow. Grease and bullet dodging yep. That's what we did and velour in balu yet or bluer. Yes i want that shirt. Now i bet if you brought out the velours or be the drip drip drowned and had a hearing Gold chain nugget hanging from it. Oh i'll get mama messing
Rhythm and Pixels Video Game Music Podcast
Zelda & Chill with Mikel
"We're gonna. We're gonna i don't think we can last longer than the simpsons but maybe we can last longer than a true crime. Podcast guys at the bar lower. Get behind that. Maybe we have more memorable characters like his leg in forni gumbo. We'll get there but yes. Thank you everybody for listening. We have a special show for us because we have a special guest show We've listened to some of the music in the past. I know i have mentioned the album's in the past. So on the label game chops we have The the producer the musician of the album. Zelda and chill and most recently zelda and chill part two which is a lo fi. Sell the series. We have michael all the way from germany. Joining us on the show. Michael thank you for joining us for big show So yeah i love. How and for me. It's a fairly recent thing of seeing not just a lo fi hip hop or hip hop instrumentals becoming so popular on the internet and worldwide. But seeing a lot of a video game arrangements insi- within hip hop within the lo fi. Can you tell me a little bit about how you got interested in hip hop and then how that intersected with with zelda yeah. I got interested with hip Pretty early when there was five or six. I rap songs and thought i always loved the beats and stuff but when it was i think whether it was fourteen was when i started making own beads. I've always liked sorry. The i've always liked zelda games and games in general and soundtracks and think about two thousand and eight. When i started making music i made my first remixes but i didn't release them and I think two thousand seventeen when notify was a bit bigger. That was when i did it again. 'cause these were finally hippies got really fit to yoga music yes i feel i feel that and i'm not sure if this is the same for a lot of people that i feel like my musical tastes have suddenly become mainstreamed more popular so the instrumental music that i really enjoy suddenly. There's there's an audience audience for it. And say i can also say that people like me who weren't generally into that style of music when you cross sect it west v. Gm which. I am a fan of It has a way of getting you in the door to appreciate what you were missing out on before the now definitely before we get into some original game music some music that we really enjoy. I'm curious about some of your musical influences. You said you you listen to a lot of got interested in rap music at a younger age while we're some of the the early artists and songs that really got you interested. Well i think the biggest inspiration was abducted raped western east coast hip hop in the nineties. Yes and then. The eminem fifty cents and a lot of german rep. Oh yeah. I'm not familiar with a lot of german rap. Artists is are there any names that maybe we could take note of and explore Seo the is He also reps on these Boom bap beats yes. Yeah and kinetic also from my hometown. They think mostly inspired by now. We have a friend of our show who lives in the uk in britain and he also has a podcast of music. And do you know of the wu tang clan playstation game. So there's a fighting game but all of the characters are members of the wu tang clan and they did it and they wrote a soundtrack to the game. You might be interested. It's it's very instrumental. But there's a few there's a few vocal tracks cetera. Okay sounds cool. Hundred very quick the only game villain. No of his Def jam york. That's with a lot of weapons and stuff up when the kids out there. It's always so it kind of makes sense that they would fight each other. But at the same time i always imagined. The wu tang clan working together. You know is the main story mode is exactly that like pointing games. Do it where they'll start out with a they're just fighting because they're trying to figure out what's going on here eventually. Learn that the band is making them. Fight was something with thirty six yards. They had to fight their way through so elena. We chose specifically zelda music for today and sort of to celebrate yourself in chill albums and we ask for you to bring some music that maybe you really enjoyed or were inspired by.
Smash Boom Best
Pandas vs. Penguins
"Hi i'm molly blue. And this is smashed boom best the show where we take two things smash them together and ask you to decide which one is best. Today's debate is between two totally adorable. Extremely popular animals known for their fashionable for and frolic. Some feathers it's pandas versus penguins. Which team will win cuddly. Bamboo munching pandas. Or waddling penguins. We have marin here to help us. Decide hello marin so marin before we dive in i would like to know if you have any particular relationship to pandas. Any feelings about them to begin with. I mean are just so spiritually relatable. I feel like to so many people. They just eat and sleep all day. That's the life. I wanna live. And what about penguins. How do you feel about those cuties. I've had such a childhood connection to them. Since i watched the hit animated movie. Happy feet I don't know i'd say it's equal feelings. Familiarity with both animals so it case people haven't seen happy feet but it's about penguins who wanna dance. The one penguin who doesn't have a song but he has a dance. Oh do you have any tips today for our debaters about how to win you over. I would say be clear and concise about your logic. I love it. Well here to defend peace loving roly-poly team panda. It's katy mcveigh. Hello katy hi there. Katie in just a single sentence. why are pan. Does the smash boom best fashionable amazing idols. Fantastic thumbs. I mean. it's not a sentence so much is feeling of vibes. But that's what the pan is about the vibe and here to rep witty winsome team penguin. It's brandy brown. Hi brandy h-have so brandy tell us why are penguins the cooler creature in one sentence. They've got it all. There are the full package. Pandas penguins might be known for being black and white. But this debate is going to be anything but before we begin. Let's review each round. I we've got the declaration of greatness in this round team panda team penguin will deliver a statement in defense of their side. Their arguments will include emotional stories stunning facts and steely logic. After each declaration the opposing team will get thirty seconds to make a rebuttal. Then we've got the micro around. It's a creative. Both debaters have prepared for in advance. The third round is the sneak attack. It's a surprise challenge. Each team will have to respond to on the spot and for the fourth and final round. It's the final six. Each side will have six words to persuade the judge that their side is the smash boom best. Marin will award two points in the first round one point for the best declaration and one point for the best rebuttal and then one point for the winner of each subsequent round listeners at home keep track of your points as well download a score sheet from our website at smash boom dot org or grab a pencil and paper and make note of team panda and team penguins. Best and worst arguments all right brandy and katie. Are you ready to rumble. Yup yes much panda. I'm fueled up and ready to stare. How about you mark. Are you feeling ready to judge this debate. I'm feeling an excellent that it's time for round one. The declaration of we did a coin flip in katie europe first. Let's hear your declaration of greatness for pandas pandas. We've all seen them with their keith. Faces and stylish looks black always stabbing white. Very crisp and combined terrifically tasteful. I can't wait to tell you all about them but first let's respect. How she they are. Can you imagine them on the fashion runways of paris. Coming down the runway in the latest black and white ensemble. It's the giant panda. I've heard the smokey eye. But the hand i e. We're seeing it today. Black ears to match giant black circles around the eyes with anke black arms upper chest and legs and then snowy white everywhere else with a look like this. Can she ever not be noticed. Won't notice me. She's done it again. Confession time when. I was first invited to this debate. I wasn't a fan of the panda. I thought that they were one. Trick wonders adorable. Bears cute is roly poly stomachs and bamboo. Chomping snouts cute but boring. But wow was i wrong. Pandas are cultural concepts scientific 'nigma 's and environmental ambassadors. Let's talk first about their cultural impact. As far back as the tang dynasty china has utilized pandas as diplomatic ambassadors or representations of the nation china has given panthers to other countries as a gesture of friendship and goodwill panta postage stamps commemorative gold panda coins. Pandas the logo for the olympics. China has gone all in on pandas