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Capstone Conversation
Capstone's Jared Asch and Jim Wunderman Discuss the East Bay's Biggest Growth Hurdles
"What do you see as the biggest challenge for continued growth in the East Bay? Sounds like transit is one, economic development. But what do you see as some of the challenges ahead and maybe some of the solutions, some that could come from Sacramento or D .C., even? Yeah, look, I think the East Bay grew up kind of fast. Some people feel impacted by local traffic, things like that. There's a lot of newbies in East Bay. They just are. They're used to the place being the way it is and they don't need any more of it. And so they're reluctant. So I think there really needs to be a movement that the elected officials can get behind and get excited about and that their leadership can really drive the growth and the improvements and the new what's to come rather than them being dragged to vote against investments and improvements, because people with a similarly colored T -shirt all get up at the council meeting and scream, no way. And so that's where I think the opportunity is to come together. And let's just agree that a lot of what's in the East Bay was built at a time that was a different time. So now we need to rethink some of these areas. The way we did them just really isn't consistent with what we need now. We need something different. I look at it as I drive about. I see a lot of aging kind of strip mall centers and I see a lot of stores that are out and I have a feeling nobody's coming in and we probably need to repurpose a lot of that and do it thoughtfully. And that could provide a lot of housing. It could provide entertainment. It could provide new lifestyle opportunities. And these places tend to be in the central part of cities. So they're often very well located. I was talking to two different mayors that said one of the biggest problems that they're having with some of those shopping centers you're talking about that are nearly dead is that it was owned by grandpa in the 1960s or something, and now it could be 10 or 30 entities, family members that have a share in it. And so what they have found is they have one anchor store and one or two other stores that come and go, they're still making cash flow on those because property taxes hasn't changed much and things haven't changed. So if you have an anchor that's giving you cash flow, even if each family, if you have 20 or 30 families, is still making two grand a month, but maybe they're also getting losses from the vacancies that is equal to 20 ,000 or 30 ,000 off their W2 taxes. It's a win for those people. And when developers have come in and tried to buy that out, they can't even get 20 percent of the families to come to a meeting because they're just happy with the status quo, where if even if those families developed it themselves, you've got to bring everything up to code. You've got to really invest in it. And there's been this laissez -faire approach and people could probably name half a dozen in Concord, one or two in Pleasant Hill. I'm sure we can go throughout the whole Bay Area and name them. But that's a big problem. I don't know if you have thoughts on that. Well, momentum is is important. And once you start seeing something, when I started, I've been in this job 20 years. So when I came, we were talking about my predecessor was a woman named Sunny McPeak, who was a Contra Costa supervisor and had this job for a bunch of years and then went on to become Arnold Schwarzenegger's secretary for business, transportation and housing at the time. So she was very well -known in planning circles and is very influential, I think, lead in the area. And she was all about transit oriented development. I think she might have invented the term, but there was really not a lot of examples of it around at that time. And it was a lot of resistance to it because you're basically going into a suburban area where it's all single family private homes and say, we're not going to do that over here because there's transit here. So we want to densify that area. So she was able to accomplish that at the Contra Costa Center, Pleasant Hill, Bart Station. Then we had at least one that was under construction. It was happening. And then a couple of others. And then before you knew it, they were popping up like all over the place because there was momentum.
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "the 1960s" discussed on Mark Levin
"Is that like like the jew hatred so i'm just confused you know if they really care about the muslims then would that take to you the streets and pick you know raise the yemeni flag raise the you know the iraqi flag or you Syria for crying out loud exactly look at what's happening in Syria and no one is talking look what's happening in china towards other people no one says a word about it so i'm just just confused man i'm just i'm just so tired of the hypocrisy and i'm just calling them out because even if they're my my same religion i gotta call them out man because i don't care who you are if you are you know standing for something that that wall i'm gonna call you out you know i i really can actually feel for you and with you here because when i've called out what i call self hating jews who are basically mouthpieces for what hamas is doing it takes their data and regurgitates it and so forth and starts condemning israel and connecting them left and right and i don't think legitimately in many of these cases i'm called an anti -semite can you believe that are you called like an anti -muslim or something do you get the name calling too oh man forget about the name calling i get death threats i literally get death threats if you see my if you see my dms if you see my dm box it's disgusting and this is happening in america you know um so that's why i mean we live i keep saying that we live in the best country in the world because if i was anywhere else in the world i would be shot already you know um but even if there is like a danger of me getting shot i gotta call them out because that's what my faith to islam tells me to do stand for what's right you know even if it means sacrifice and everything um so that's why so what you know you you off were cut of the mba and basketball and so forth so what do you do now you go speaking you try to you're mission oriented that sort of thing so i want to actually i'm starting a new project so uh it's going to call a triple a abrahamic athletic course abrahamic athletic academy actually so we are literally bringing uh kids from different religions different colors and we're gonna play basketball and i want to take those kids to places like israel you know places like dubai places like rome and actually show them and show them themselves you know i want to show i them say look you've been taught your whole life to hate israel hate jewish people hate this and that see it yourself you know um so i'm really excited about it it's an amazing project because it's literally bringing all the abrahamic religions together and play and we've got to play basketball we're not going to talk about no place no war nothing i just want them to be friends and you know be be friends and and i think rest the is going to take care of itself um but other than that right now i just go around and do speaking engagements uh especially colleges right now it's very very uh a nasty place unfortunately dangerous happening in america yes very dangerous so i go to college campers campers and speak and i just want to say man that if you're a college student do not get your information from tiktok this is like literally people don't read anymore they go on tiktok and they get their they get their source and literally that's their source and they get the daily news from tiktok and obviously the propaganda is brainwashing app and they think they know everything now and they go to colleges and then they threaten other people and tiktok is obviously uh the the the baby of the communist regime in china that's trying to promote conflict and ethnic wars and all the rest of in it order to advance their agenda and so forth well i want to thank you and when are you going to launch this because when you launch it i want you to come back let us talk figure out how our audience can help of course i'm thinking about launching it in um in summertime in 2022 and 2024 and i think it's going to be an amazing time man because right now there's so much anti -semitism and somophobia out there and i think we need some kind of project like that so i'm excited about it all right man well god bless it take yourself and thanks for reaching out of course all right be well that's a good man he certainly means well and he's trying to do his best he's on a hit list turkey in some of these other countries if hamas or anybody else of that nature could get a they'd murder him and of course he was attacked by uh fellow nba members because it's easy it's easy to talk it's easy to uh to be part of the uh of the course he's none of that i want to start something and i probably have to carry it over to the next segment again from the democrat party hates america but you don't have to buy it right i'm telling you of some the things that are in it because it's important although the democrat party has calibrated its modern racist targets like democrats of old remains the party party of anti -semitism as the democrat party's marxist corps continues to emphasize i finished this book mr producer in may may so does its anti -semitism for example the current leader of the house democrats and speaker grin -waiting -in hakeem jeffrey strongly defended his bigoted anti -semitic uncle leonard jeffrey's when hakeem jeffries was a leading activist in college cnn reports that leonard jeffries quote faced spread backlash in the early nineties after comments he made about the involvement of rich jews in the african slave trade any conspiracy planned and plotted and programmed out of which we executives said were responsible for denigrating black americans in films what's interesting about that is the patriarch of the kennedy family joe senior said the same thing about jews and christians another jew -hating anti -semitic who sympathized with the third reich it was so bad fdr had a yank em back he was ambassador of england sending messages through back channels to the third reich none of those democrats dr leonard he's administer lawrence farrakhan have come under intense fire wrote hakim jeffries in february 1992 what do you think their interests lie doctor jeffries has challenged the existing white supremacist educational system and distortion of history his reward has been a media lynching complete with character and erroneous inflammatory accusations anyway obviously defended also defended farrakhan it hasn't hurt his career and the republican party of somebody supported somebody of this ilk with a different ideology but still an ideology of anti -semitism and bigotry destroy his career they keep trying to dig up stuff on mike johnson the new speaker of the house is as clean as they they come and they keep trying to destroy him and distort his record and everything they never bring up hakim because of the media they're corrupt our victor davis hanson explained in national review that the new anti semitism they grew up in the 1960s keep in mind he wrote this some time ago and i wrote the book some time ago he said was certainly in part legitimized by the rise of overt african bigotry against jews and coupled by a romantic affinity for islam was further nursed on old stereotypes of cold and callous jewish ghetto store owners e .g the pawnbroker character and expressed boldly the assumption that black americans were exempt from charges and bias and hatred and by the late 1970s israelis and often by extension jews in general were demagogue by the left as western white dancers israel's supposed victims were romanticized abroad as exploited middle prisoners by extension jews were similarly exploiting minorities at home soon it became for self -described black leaders to explain to amplify you know people like sharpen who's on msnbc now there are people like joy reed the list is a long one to contextualize or to be unapologetic about their anti -semitism in both high brow and low brow modes james baldwin quote negroes are anti -semitic because they're anti -white louis farrakhan quote when they talk about farrakhan call me a hater you know what they do call me an anti -semite stop it i am anti the jews don't like farrakhan so they call me hitler well that's a great name hitler was a great man and
WTOP
"the 1960s" Discussed on WTOP
"Annapolis man is now the new president of the Boy Scouts Roger Crone a retired businessman and Eagle Scout grown is taking over after that 2 .4 billion dollar sex abuse verdict that led the organization to seek bankruptcy protection 80 ,000 young men were affected by scout leaders and others grown as retired as the president of Leidos a defense contractor based in Virginia membership in the South is now half of what it was before that sexual abuse scandal there was a big in Royal Hall of Fame Missy Elliott Cheryl Crow and Willie Nelson are among those in the 2023 class entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Soul Train creator Don Cornelius Chaka Khan and the late George Michael were also inducted last night other honorees include the spinners Rage Against the Machine and DJ Kool Herc the ceremony lasted more than four hours and Missy Elliott had the whole audience out of their seats for a medley of her greatest hits including Rain the and Get Your Freak On as her all gold suit glittered on the stage New Edition did a medley of the spinners greatest hits with Bobby Brown taking the lead on Could It Be I'm Falling in Love Alison Keys CBS News Oscar winner Brie Larson has a new miniseries Lessons in Chemistry it airs on Apple TV Plus. Menace A Chemist loses her job only to host a TV cooking show in the 1960s. I'd like to cook. It's just Mystery. Let's begin shall we? After blockbusters like Captain Marvel Brie Larson reminds us of her Oscar winning acting chops in room processing past trauma through intentionally robotic dialogue with a clinical view of the world. the Along way she finds eternal love with a fellow chemist Bill Pullman's son Lewis Paulman who introduces her to jazz and rowing jogging with his dog named 630. It's no surprise the dog is voiced by BJ Novak as showrunner Lee Eisenberg wrote and directed episodes of The Office but now proves his versatility with a period piece drama that pulls the strings. I'm WTOP film critic Jason Fraley giving lessons in chemistry five out of five stars. Another reminder that night it is the weekend that we turn back our clocks fall back an hour daylight saving time for many it means an extra hour sleep Sunday morning but you're going to pay for it in the form of darkness much earlier in passing measures pledging to switch to permanent daylight saving time if Congress changes the rules to allow such for an action most of your devices your cell phone your smart TV will make the change automatically slowdowns expected on the American Legion bridge this morning We're tracking a big storm expected to hit the Washington region this afternoon. WTOP reports new crash tests could affect your next car decision survey shows student absenteeism for DMV area kids is skyrocketing. President Biden and Republican
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "the 1960s" discussed on Mark Levin
"Points out over ten years ago the utter fabrication with malice a forethought about the Republican parties and Democrat parties says he the nominee for the worst of them is the popular but indefensible belief that the two major US political parties somehow switch places vis -a -vis protecting the rights of black Americans in development believed to be roughly concurrent with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the rise that have Republicans let Democrats get away with this is a symptom of their political fecklessness and in letting them get away with it the GOP has allowed itself to be cut off rhetorically from a pantheon of Republican political heroes from Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass to Susan B Anthony who represent an expression of conservative ideals as relevant today as in the 19th century perhaps even worse the Democrats have been allowed to rhetorically bury their Bill Connors their long -standing affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan and their pitiless opposition to practically every major piece of civil rights legislation for a century very important what he writes very important here republicans may not be able to make significant inroads among black voters in the coming elections but they would do well to demolish this myth nonetheless even if the Republicans rise in the south had happened suddenly in the 1960s which it and even if there were no competing explanation there is racism or more precisely white southern resentment over the political successes of the civil rights movement would be an implausible explanation for the dissolution of the Democratic block in the old Confederacy and the emergence of a Republican stronghold there that is because those southerners who defected from the Democratic party in the 1960s and thereafter did so to join a Republican party that was far more enlightened on racial issues than were the Democrats of the era and had been for a century. In other words he's saying it makes no sense why would they leave the Democrat party to go to a Republican party that's always opposed to slavery and segregation and so forth and so on. There is no radical break in the Republican civil rights history from abolition to reconstruction to the anti -lynching laws from the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Civil Rights Acts of 1965, 1957, 1960 and 1964 there exists a line that is by no means perfectly straight or unwavering but nonetheless connects the politics of Abraham Lincoln with those of Dwight Eisenhower and from slavery and secession to remorseless opposition to everything from reconstruction to the anti -lynching laws and that includes FDR. The 14th and 15th Amendments, the Civil Rights Acts of 1875, the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, there exists a similarly identifiable line connecting John Calhoun, a racist segregationist, and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Supporting civil rights reform was not a radical turnaround for congressional republicans in 1964 but it was a radical turnaround for Democrats. The depth of Johnson's prior opposition to civil rights reform must must be digested in some detail to be properly appreciated. In the House, Johnson did not represent a particularly segregationist constituency. It made up for being less intensely segregationist than the rest of the South by being more intensely anti -communist as the New time, let's put it at the time, but Johnson was practically antebellum in his views. Nevermind civil rights or voting rights and Congress Johnson had consistently and repeatedly voted against legislation to protect black Americans from lynching. As a leader in in the the Senate. Johnson did his best to cripple the Civil Rights Act of 1957, not having the vote vote sufficient to stop it. He managed to reduce it to an act of mere symbolism by exercise in the enforcement provisions before sending it to the desk of end to the death of President Eisenhower. Johnson's democratic colleague Strom Thurmond nonetheless attempt to block the bill. Reformists came back in 1960 with with an act to remedy the deficiencies of the 1957 Act and Johnson's Senate Democrats a record -setting filibuster. In both cases, the master of of the Senate LBJ petition, the northeastern Kentucky Kennedy liberals to credit regretted him for having seen to the law's passage, while at the same time boasting to Southern Democrats Democrats that he had taken the teeth out of legislation. Johnson would later explain his thinking thusly, quote, these Negroes, he said, they're getting pretty uppity these and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before the political pull to back their uppity -ness now we've got to do something about this we've got to give them a little something just enough enough to quiet them down not enough to make a difference it did not spring up from the Democrat soil one day out of and turn around and turn around his views not one Democrat in voted Congress for the 14th amendment not one Democrat in Congress voted for the 15th amendment not one voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1875 Eisenhower as a general began the absence of desegregating the military Truman his president formalized it but the main reason either had to act was that President Woodrow Wilson the personification of Democratic progressivism had resegregated previously integrated federal facilities including the military if the colored people made a mistake in voting for me they ought to correct it he declared Klansman from Senator Robert Byrd to Justice Hugo Black held prominent positions of the Democrat Party and Wilson chose the Klan epic Birth of a Nation to be the first film ever shown at the White House Lyndon Johnson himself denounced an earlier attempt civil at rights reform as the n -word bill the n -word bill so what happened in 1964 to change Democrats mind in fact nothing Johnson was nothing if not shrewd and he knew something that very few popular political commentators appreciate today the Democrats began losing the solid South in the late 1930s at the same time as they were picking up votes from northern blacks the Civil War and the sting of Reconstruction had indeed produced a political monopoly for southern Democrats but for decades the New Deal had been polarized it was very popular much of the country including much of the South Johnson owed his selection of the house to his New Deal and Roosevelt connections but there was a conservative backlash and that backlash eventually drove New critics to the Republican Party likewise adherence of the isolationist tendency in American politics which never is very far from the service looked askance to what Bob Dole would later famously called Democrat Wars and it goes on and it's worth reading and it's in my book the Democrat Party runs from its history it is a political party today as it was before it lies about its history lies about American history it turns American against American it will say and do whatever it has to say and do to acquire power to maintain power and to keep power that is what it's doing now that is what it's doing now the patient MAGA of seventy -five eighty million people the marginalization of a former president by trying to convince you that he's literally worse than Adolf Hitler these are the people that supported slavery these are the people who supported segregation these are the people who supported eugenics oh I don't support it today I'm a progressive Democrat you align with a political party that's its history and that's a fact I'll be right back WABC on 77 this week listen to sit -in friends in the morning your for chance to win tickets before you can buy them to see sticks and foreigner with special guest John ways coming to PNC Bank Art Center July 23rd two of my favorite all -time band sticks come on come sail away foreigner cold as ice to box hero urgent are you kidding me I'm giving away tickets on my show so come sail away with me tickets on sale this Friday at live nation comm brave
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Doug Giles
"Welcome to the Eric Mataxas show. We'll get you from point A to point B. But if you're looking for point C, well buddy, you're on your own. But if you'll wait right here in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now here's your Ralph Kramden of the Airways, Eric Mataxas. Folks, welcome back. In this brief segment, I'm going to talk to the author of a brand new book. Now the title of the book should be obvious. In fact, not only should it be obvious, it is obvious. The title of the book is obvious. Albin Sator is the author, obviously. Albin, everything in the book is the statement of things that we've got to say over and over because they're true and we're living in a time where people are trying to shove lies down our throats. So the book is humorous, pithy, and unfortunately important. Obvious, seeing the evil that's in plain sight, doing something about it. There's something in here. The beautiful part of this book, one of the beautiful parts of this book is your kindergarten picture. You actually, in the book, there's a picture of your kindergarten class. I could cry. It's so cute and beautiful. I know. The children are so cute, especially those two twins in the back row. I'm telling you, they're the cutest. Are you one of those twins? I'm guessing. I might be. And my identical twin brother is standing right next to me. I think. I can't tell because I can't tell us apart. Wait, are you both identical? Yeah. My mother and father assured us, let's just put it that way. Because it doesn't really, if only one of you is identical, then you can't be identical twins. That's just the way it works. There's a mirror at the end of that aisle. And I think it's just, but anyway. It's a picture of your kindergarten class. You and your twin brother are in the back row. So go ahead. Yeah. And this is okay. I'm going to give a little bit about my age here. This was the East street school that doesn't exist there anymore. They tore it down for I -279 or something like that in Pittsburgh. Anyway, but we're all lined up. This is May of 1960. Okay. This was as early as you can get in the sixties. And I talk about the specific things in the photo itself. It's besides the fact that everybody's cute and none of the kids is overweight. We're all, you know, we're all in our Sunday best as it were. There's like 22 of us. And there's another era. None of these kids is doing blow. I mean, it's an era where kindergarteners are not doing cocaine. But seriously, it's such a beautiful picture. I really could get choked up looking at it. Yeah. And I it's so funny because I'm even looking at the little girl that I found so cute. I was like, boy, I'd like to marry that one down there. And here I am five and a half years old, of course. And there's even in the middle, there's even, this is 1960 folks. There's a black baby doll among the toys in the front of the picture. I thought Mattel in 1990 came up with black baby dolls. What they had them actually in the 1960s. Oh yeah, folks. And there's like four black children in the group. And then, you know, at the time it was probably, I don't, you know, which was about, what is that about 15, 20, 20 % of the children. And we're in a neighborhood. It's like the lower middle -class neighborhood where that kindergarten was. So it was representative. And this is 1960 folks. Remember what happened at the end of 1960, how all H E double toothpicks broke out. Yeah. But anyway, that's why I love that picture. You should really spell out the word toothpicks, if you don't mind in the future. Well, or, or hockey sticks too. Either way. So this is a picture of your kindergarten class and what is the larger point that you're making? Because that's, I mean, the title of this chapter, these are all very short chapters, is what a difference a decade makes. Yes. One of the obvious things I'm stating, and the reason why I have the children there, there's an article that goes along with that. And it, I think it's titled one of the chapters racism is for losers. And my, when my mother was picking us up at the kindergarten one day, another mother, I overheard this said to my mother, Oh, look at, look at your twins. They're playing with that little black boy over there. And I talking about because our best friend, there was one of the little black boys in the school. And we didn't, we're not aware of him as being black. He was just your friend. Yeah. Because he played with the same toys and had the same, you know, kind of sense of fun that we had because we were children and nobody was saying, Hey, you know, you may think you're a little boy, but you twins, you're not identical twins. Want to use a little girl and want to use not a little girl. You see what we're talking about? Nobody was shoving any of this stuff down to anybody's throat back then. This is 1960 folks. What happened at the end? Where are we today? How far are we come? Like how far backwards have we gone? And I get fired up about this stuff, right? Well, no, it is, it's just astonishing that the, the innocence, this is one of the great crimes of our time. And this is why, ladies and gentlemen, you need to be doing your part in the war against evil, whatever that means. Running for school board, homeschooling your kids, being a poll watcher, whatever God calls you to do. Cause God has a job for every one of us, but to combat the lies, you have to face the fact. And again, this is one of the points of the book that one of the things that is obvious is the loss of innocence. And that to me is one of the most heartbreaking, maybe the most heartbreaking thing is the loss of innocence that little kids, because of the madness on the left, they're growing up in a world where they're being made aware of things that they should never be made aware of at a young age. They should not hear about this at a young age. They shouldn't be confused about sexual identity. It shouldn't be even introduced to them. And little kids are being forced to deal with this. They're being forced to deal with the concept of racism. It is so wrong to impose this kind of stuff on children. It's bad enough when you try to impose it on adults, but the idea, just looking at that picture in the book, that it really was a more innocent time.
WTOP
"the 1960s" Discussed on WTOP
"1960s and 70s has passed away Washington Senators slugger Frank Howard was 87 years old keep it here full details on these stories in the minutes ahead on WTOP traffic and weather on the 8th Rick McClure in the WTOP traffic center. Capital Bellways still rolling at speed most of the way around in In fact all the way around through Maryland and Virginia despite the work zone set up on the outer loop Virginia side near Georgetown with two left lanes getting by Maryland I -272 and from Frederick you're good I -70 no worries there VW you're Parkway good through Prince George's and Howard Counties and I -95 work zone set north that the harbor tunnel through way through Elkridge last check the left lane was affected Route 50 still at speed both ways both inside and outside the Beltway and to the Bay Bridge three lanes west and two lanes east across and over in Virginia 66 west at Route 50 of the Fairfax County Parkway couple of work zones set on the right lane on set works east before the Beltway ramps with a single lane getting by and west inside the Beltway through Roslyn near Route 29 that work zone blocks the left lane had a work zone on the northbound side of the Fairfax County Parkway was affecting both ramps to and from 66 east and west I -95 through Virginia work zone set in both directions at Route 17 through Falmouth single lane getting by and closing the southbound ramp to Route 17 most of the delays along that stretch is in the northbound direction I -395 you're good wind warnings in effect still on 301 across the nice Mack Middleton bridge high -profile vehicles beware Rick McClure, will you TLP traffic 27 news first alert chief meteorologist Veronica Johnson drying out behind the rain and I don't see any more rain coming our way this work week what I do
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from The Compton Cafeteria Riot
"Following in your parents' footsteps is never easy, especially when mom or dad happen to be superstar athletes. What kind of lessons do Hall of Famers like, oh I don't know, NBA legend Tim Hardaway and NFL icon Kurt Warner impart on their kids as they chase professional sports stardom? How do they teach them the importance of prioritizing health and how to overcome adversity? Well, you can join Heart of the Game as they explore these questions and more with some of the greatest families in sports. Listen to Heart of the Game on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get ready to dive into the future with Technically Speaking, an Intel podcast. The groundbreaking podcast from iHeart Media's Ruby Studios in partnership with Intel. Each episode unveils the incredible ways AI technology is transforming our world for the better. Join host Graham Klass as he speaks with the experts behind the technological advancements that are powering a brighter and more accessible future for everyone. Listen to Technically Speaking, an Intel podcast, on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. And this is Stuff You Should Know. It's one of our overlooked history editions. And Chuck, this is your pick and hats off to you. Wigs off to you. Yes, it was my selection to pass along to Livia to help us with, but this is a listener suggestion. This came from Gigi Cowland. And big thanks to Gigi because I, and I'm sure you will agree with me, found that not only is the story of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot interesting in and of itself, but sort of the larger story or a part of the story is the fact that how we preserve history because Compton's Cafeteria Riot happened in 1966 and was almost lost to history. Yeah, I agree with all that. Which is crazy to think about, something that happened in 1966 in San Francisco could be lost to history, but it almost was, if not for the efforts of one Susan Stryker. One person. Yeah, this may have really gone away. Oh, totally. I mean, it had gone away and she managed to clutch together a bunch of just different tiny little scraps of mentions of it or like the neighborhood and just over the years cobbled together all this little stuff and finally got an idea of it and was able to corroborate it. Like, it was Gonesville until Susan Stryker came along. Yeah, and we'll talk about what Susan Stryker did with this information, but hats off to you Susan Stryker and to Gigi and here we go with the almost forgotten Compton's Cafeteria Riot story. Yeah, and the reason why it's significant that it's almost forgotten or it was forgotten for a while is that the Stonewall Uprising, which was a really great episode we did on that too, that's considered like the watershed moment of gay rights in history. Like the riot at the Stonewall Inn, that was it, that was what started it all. The thing is, when you think of things that way, it erases the stuff that came before that. And one of the things that came before Stonewall was the Compton's Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco in 1966. And there wasn't a lot of difference between the two. It was based on, it was a reaction and a response to police harassment that had been building over the time. It was a multiracial group of LGBTQ people like fighting back against the police that spilled out into the streets, like it bore a striking resemblance to Stonewall and yet, like you said, there are reasons that we'll talk about that it was just pushed into the dustbin of history. It's very interesting. So as a way of setting this up, we'll talk a little bit about the area at the time in San Francisco called the Tenderloin. This was in the 1960s. The Tenderloin has long had a reputation and even still does today in some ways. In the 60s, it was a place where you could go buy drugs or deal drugs. You could go do some illegal gambling. You could get involved in sex work on either side. It was a neighborhood that didn't have a lot of money. And it was a neighborhood that attracted transients, people that, teenagers namely, who were either, you know, run out of their hometown because they were LGBTQ or maybe even run out of their family or maybe even run out of a different neighborhood in San Francisco to sort of collect in the Tenderloin where they could turn to sex work because they couldn't get other jobs. And they could turn to each other for support in community. Yeah, community developed of essentially what one of the people Susan Stryker interviewed described as like the lowest drawing on the ladder of not just society, of like including LGBTQ society at the time. These unhoused were teenage street trans people. And like they had no rights. They had no respect from anybody. And yet they still came together and looked out for another and formed that community you were talking about. But they lived in really dire straits day to day and yet they still formed that community. And the reason why they all kind of ended up in the Tenderloin is because there was a few square block section of the Tenderloin that that was the only place they could live. And even there they got harassed. But like if they strayed out of it, they were beaten. They were, you couldn't leave that area if you were trans in San Francisco at the time. And I think Susan Stryker compared it to a ghetto, essentially, that was a trans ghetto in San Francisco in the 60s. That's right. And just the myriad people that were interviewed from the time, it's clear that the cops basically could do whatever they wanted in there. They could arrest someone for, quote unquote, female impersonation. One was arrested, I believe, Amanda St. James, who was a trans woman there, ran a residential hotel, was arrested for obstructing the sidewalk. I saw in this documentary that we're going to talk about later, you know, any kind of cross -dressing or drag, they could arrest you for having the buttons on your shirt on, you know, what they deemed the wrong side because, you know, traditionally the buttons on like men and women's shirts and clothing is reversed. I never understood why. Was it to draw a distinction between the two when you're shopping? I think it's just to be difficult.
The Plant Movement Podcast
The Importance of Iguana Control With Michael and Michelle
"Me some of the things that iguanas do rather than just hanging out because they hang out most of the day in the shade. Well, that's the reason we wanted to come with you guys and help educate South Florida about the iguanas. They are causing a huge negative impact to our ecosystem, to our native species. You know, one of the things you want us to do, they like to dig burrows, you know, so by them digging burrows, you know, it could cause structural damage. You know, I know there's a story in the Fort Lauderdale, I think it was that they are digging burrows under like a dam and they cost the city $1 .8 million in damage. Wow. And that's from digging burrows, you know, so what happens when they dig the burrows with time, you know, with the rain and the conditions, it gets, it gets erosion, you know, so imagine $1 .8 million in damage, you know, from lizards. No, from lizards and the lizards too, they're also messing up, you know, the ecosystem of the wildlife. Exactly. You know, from, from other, from turtle, turtles is what I read and also, also owls and other animals like that as well. Yeah. The, there's an owl called the burrowing owl and this owl, what he does is he digs tunnels as well, burrows, telling his eggs, you know, and sometimes. That's a native bird. And that's a native bird that's close to extinction actually. Oh wow. Yeah. So, it's, you know, very important that we take care of this issue to avoid, you know, our native species getting extinct because of the iguana that's not native to here. Sometimes they go in there, they might mess up the, the, the eggs they have, you know, there's even stories I've heard, don't quote me on this, that they've eaten their eggs before, you know, even though he ones that are vegetarian. Yeah, the herbivores. The herbivores, you know, there are known some, some stories that they have, you know, eating bird eggs. Oh, I'm sure. But it's not common, but it has happens, you know, turtles, owls, you know, bird species as well. Oh, they go in there, they sit on them, they break them, they hit them with their tail. Yeah. Yeah. That, that, that's their, basically their defense mechanism is their tail. Their tail, yeah. They're making whippy really nice. Yeah. Real nice. I've gotten whipped a couple of times. Oh, I'm sure you're in that world. So, you know, out of a thousand catches, you're going to get whipped probably at least a hundred. It hurts more than my wife whipped me, you know. Michael, Michael. Whip it real good. Oh yeah, whip them hard. Okay. Do one for me. I'll get it for you. Yeah. So there's actually another species that the ones that are affecting, it's called the Miami blue butterfly. The Miami blue butterfly lays their eggs on a plant called a nicker bean. I think it's called nicker bean. And what happens is they want to eat those plants. So what happens is that the butterfly can't eat, can't lay the eggs on those plants because there's nothing to lay it on. Is it, what is it? The milkweed? No, no, it's called, I think it's called nicker bean. Nicker bean plant. I think it's called nicker bean plant, if I'm correct. So in Bayou Honda, down in the Keys, they're well known in that area, you know, and they started seeing less and less of these butterflies. So they did research, they found out that the ones are eating all those plants. So they have nowhere to lay their eggs. And the Miami blue butterfly is a native species, which is a beautiful butterfly. Do you know how they got here? Iwanas were first noticed in South Florida in the 1960s. Pet trade market had a lot to do with it. Okay. Same thing with the pythons. Same thing with the pythons. You know, they brought them as pets, you know, they got too big. Residents let them go because they don't know how to handle it or how to take care of it, or they couldn't take care of them. So just releasing, releasing, releasing, you know, eventually they become a infestation, you know, they start mating and they're like, you know, Iwanas lay 20 to 70 eggs a year. Wow. And there's thousands of them. Yeah. So imagine one female laying 20 to 70 eggs a year, multiply that by how many females are in South Florida. It's not something let's say that people want to do, go and catch iguanas and control them. It's something that has created a problem that if they don't stop it and there's not more of you guys or guys that do what you do, then it becomes a really massive, huge problem for South Florida. Yeah. I mean, since we started, we've removed over 3000 Iwanas.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E16: Oliver: Writer, Producer, and Novelist Spotlight
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Mayolone. In this episode, don't have regulars, because raisins, as always, unfortunately. As for our guest, he's from Portland, Oregon, currently living in Los Angeles, California, and he is a film producer. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Oliver Tutill Jr. Well, thank you, Peter. It's actually Ted Hill Jr. But thanks for having me on your show. I'm excited to be here. Anytime. So, how's life? It's good. It's really exciting. I love the film business. I've been in the business for quite a while. And it's very exciting meeting different people, talking to different producers, actors, filmmakers, editors, composers, business financing. It's all very exciting. You meet a lot of very interesting people that are very involved in their work and are very creative. Ah, very good. And have you been up to much recently? Yeah, we've been pretty busy. My company's name is Cinema Development and Writing Services. And my business partner is Tara Walker. And what we do is, when we started out, we've had our business about a year now. And anybody that's curious, they can just go to cinema wds .com. That's our website. And what we do is, we work with novelists, and we adapt their novels into screenplays. And then once we've adapted them into screenplays, we've been asked by our clients to, well, can you place this with Hollywood companies? And we said, well, yeah, we probably can, you know, we weren't doing that. We're primarily focused on writing, but we started packaging, which means that we started putting together like a deck of electronic brochure that shows the actors we thought might be good for the role, and what the director is. And then we present it to different production companies, different producers and finance companies in Los Angeles, and sometimes in New York as well. Okay, very nice. And what inspired you to start all that? Well, I think I started out in the business, and so did Tara, we were both actors. And we enjoyed that. But it's, it's very, very tough. Getting regular work as an actor, you go through good times, and then there's these long stretches where you don't have much work. And so we said, Well, how can we get more involved in business? And so we both decided, well, why don't we become producers? So Tara started her own production company years ago called Alpenfest films. And then I started, I started out making a production company called Autumn Tree Productions, where I, at that time, this was in the late 1980s, I pretty much focused on making educational films, and actually was pretty much on emotional child abuse. And I did that for 10 years, I had a lot of success. A lot of my films, educational films are used in universities and colleges and many institutions. And after doing that for 10 years, I wanted to segue over into doing commercial motion pictures and, and documentaries. So I started a company called Bluewood films. And under that name under that company, I produced quite a few films and documentaries and pleased to say that some of them are on streaming platforms now where people can can see them. I just have my newest release was just last month. It's called Crazy Horse of Life, featuring Russell Means, the late Nakoda actor who did very well. Right, then. Very good. And have you ever considered like, releasing any of your work on an international level? Yes, I mean, Crazy Horse of Life is available internationally. They can definitely time to be TV so anybody can go to to be TV and anywheres in the world basically and watch it for free. It's ad supported. And then we've got another film called the right to bear arms, which is a dramatic crime feature starring john savage. And that's available on Amazon Prime and Amazon freebie and also on to be TV. And we've got another film that's distributed internationally. It's also on to be TV. It's called the Loch Ness Monster of Seattle and it features Graham Green, the Academy Award nominated actor from Dances with Wolves. It's been doing very well. My distributor is very pleased. He just sent me a letter the other day and he said how happy is that how well it's doing. So those those three films are available now. We've got new ones that are going to be coming out later this year. We're excited about. Wow, fantastic. So where would you see yourself 20 years from now? Well, that's a good question. And 20 years is a long time. But I would say in 20 years, I'd probably see myself and Tara, my business partner, our own company now, but probably producing eight to 12 motion pictures a year. Also, I'm a composer too. So I probably, I haven't been doing my composing recently, but I've, I've scored a lot of motion pictures and documentaries. And it's a matter of fact, Crazy Horse of Life. The score I did that score and I did actually I wrote the score years ago, but it's used in this big feature now and I scored the movie right to bear arms as well. So but 20 years, I want to still be producing movies and helping actors and helping create jobs for people that work in the industry. You badly because they can't get work. Yes, of course. So I want to provide jobs for people. And also, I'm a novelist as well. And I hope to have a few more novels released. I just had my first novel released by awesome Achilles publishers, which is their home offices in London. So it's definitely an international release. And it's called when the sunlight goes down, goes dark, excuse me, when the sunlight goes dark. And it's about a young, young boxer living in Los Angeles, who has to deal with unscrupulous promoters. And one of the one of the supporting characters in the book is a man from England who who wins one of the heavyweight titles. It's also a book that it also covers worker exploitation, family dysfunction, spousal Okay, fantastic. Yeah, let me just mention, Peter, that people can look at it to go to the website for the book. It's when the sunlight goes dark .com. That's the website for the book. And it's also available on amazon .com and Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, any bookstore, you go into any reputable bookstore, and they can order it for you. All right, then very good. So in terms of your written work, besides what, besides the novels you've just written, are there any more novels you're yet to write or have released? I do have one novel. It's called primordial division. I'm searching for the right agent to rep it. It's kind of a crime horror novel. It's also set in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. And it's about a woman who has the ability to see the future. She's kind of one of these mind readers and the kid, the male protagonist is able to, he's got the power of telepathy. Very good. And it's set in the context of the entertainment industry. Oh, nice, nice. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? I'm sorry, say that again, Peter, a 14. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? Oh, a 40 minute presentation? I could give it on, definitely, I could probably give it on, I made educational films for 10 years. So I could do on an education, I could do one on the film business. They cover all the aspects of the film business from development to pre production to production to post production, exhibition and distribution. I could do that for you. I've been in the music business since I was a kid. So probably give you a one on that as well. So, okay, very good. What which recent news story have you found most interesting? That's a really great question. The recent most recent news story that I found the most interesting probably would be what's going on with our climate and what's happening to the earth in regards to the climate crisis that's happening in the world today. That's that's one of them, I guess I know it's a big topic, but it definitely stands out. I'm also fascinated by what's going on in American politics today, who's running for president and what's going on in Congress in the Senate. And I'm also very concerned with the state of our country, you know, and how divided people are and how unhappy so many people are. Yeah, absolutely. I was gonna also say to my friends who are very struggling because they have kids, and it's hard for them to get daycare for the kids. So I have one friend, she had to give up work because she, she couldn't afford to hire a babysitter or a nanny or daycare. So yeah, she had to give up her job. Oh, no, that's just sad. Very sad, very sad, the income inequality in this, in the United States. I'm not an expert in your country, but in the United States, it's very sad to see so many people that are divided by class. Wow, I thought the UK was bad. I didn't know that the US has got bigger problems given its size. Yeah, there's a lot of problems. Definitely. We've seen the erosion of the middle class here. You know, it's been kind of disappearing for years. And the income inequality that exists in this country, it's pretty bad. And as well as you know, there was a, I was watching, I was watching News Nation the other night and the big story presented by Chris Cuomo, who's an interesting newscaster, whose brother to his brother to the former governor. And he his top story was these kids that these babies, basically, the toddlers and daycare that died from fentanyl overdoses. And he's all over that. And I'm thinking, yeah, that's, that's tragic. But a lot of people don't want to address what's happening kids into this country, they have many kids suffer from abuse, and how they it's very difficult for them to thrive and survive become and constructive citizens. That that puts something into the country that helps it grow more. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I can share one thing with you, I used to be a teacher. And I taught drama at a film school and a college, as well as film production. And I had a class, this is in Seattle, Washington. And I had a class where I had a quite quite a number of kids that were African American. And I'll never forget this, Peter, because like, they would come to class, sometimes the girls would be crying and go, what's wrong? She go, Well, Joey got killed last night. He said, What are you talking about? She goes, Yeah, Joey, you know, he got on the top of he got on the roof of Dan's car and Dan shot him to death. I said, Oh, you don't read about that in the paper. And then then another day, a girl came into class, she was weeping. I said, What's the matter? And she's when my sister was killed last night. I said, Well, what happened? She said somebody shot to her living room window, and she was killed. You don't read about it in newspaper. Just people don't know about that. Exactly. Yes, indeed. It's the media these days, they only want to show what they really want to show. They don't show the important stuff that goes on like poverty, financial crisis or things that impact a lot of people in this world. Absolutely correct. Yes, you're right, Peter. They don't know it's funny, funny because Chris, it's not funny, but I found it interesting. Chris Como mentioned one night on his show on news nation, he, he mentioned that people don't want to talk about class warfare in this country, you know, what's going on between the classes between the wealthy and the poor, or the struggling lower middle class, you get an idea of it. And now with all the strikes that are going on, you get the writers Guild of America on strike. You've got the screen actors Guild that's going on strike. Now you've got the United Auto Workers going on strike, and it's getting bigger, that strikes growing. And if that strike goes all out, it's going to, it's going to play havoc on the economy here. Yeah, absolutely. What do you disagree with most frequently? What do I disagree with most frequently? Probably people that say everything's going to be great. You know, you just have to hang in there. And also, I find myself disagreeing a lot with financial advisors who say, just, you know, keep it where it is, you know, don't sell, just stay steady, keep your bonds, 40 % bonds or 60 % bonds, 40 % stock or 40 % bonds, 60 % stock. I disagree a lot with financial advisors. Not that I'm an expert in finance, but I'm fascinated by it. I read about it. Absolutely. How much time do you spend on the internet? How much time do I spend on the internet? A fair amount, because I do a lot of research on the internet. And while I'm something to do research on something particular, then then you find, wait a minute, I've got to have to research this more. Then you find yourself going to another page, finding more things to read about. And then you realize you're going to be searching even more on the internet. So and to be honest with you, I spend so much time on the internet as it is on zoom calls. I'm tired of looking at the internet. I prefer reading books. So I read a lot of books. But I've got to use the internet a lot to do research. You know, especially I work with a lot of people that I've got to find out what their background is, you know, in the film business, and the financial business. So I do spend an enormous amount of time on the internet. I imagine you, you do yourself, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Hours upon hours. Yeah, it's a it's a necessity. It's a necessity today without a without a cell phone or computer. It'd be very difficult to survive. I do know some folks in their 70s and 80s. They don't use computers, they don't use cell phones. I do know one young guy who doesn't use a cell phone, but that's very unusual. But it's very hard to survive. I couldn't stay in business if I couldn't use a computer and cell phone. Oh, yes. Sure. It's the same for you. Yeah, of course. The internet is such a necessity. It's part of our lives, in a way. Absolutely. Yes. It is. It's built in. And you read about these kids, you know, they get addicted to their cell phones and computers. And there's so many psychologists that predict they're gonna have trouble with their personal relationships in looking at a screen. They don't spend time in person a lot. I don't know how that'll play out, but it makes sense in a lot of ways. What a world filled with clones of you, what would a world populated by clones of you be like, a world populated by I'm sorry, what what would a world populated by clones of you be like? You mean point of view? And a world populated by clones of you? What would it be like? Oh, clones of me? Yes. Okay, what would I think it would probably be a pretty peaceful world. To be honest, I don't think there'd be any wars, I think war would end. I think children would, we'd set up some type of educational system and change some values in the government in the country so that kids don't get abused, that parents are afforded the education and the training, starting in high school. Probably actually, I take that back, starting in grammar school. How to parent, how to treat other human beings, learning about themselves, becoming self intelligent, learning emotional intelligence, understanding their emotions. And growing up to be citizens that are productive and have empathy for other people. And if this happened, we could, I believe we could end this may sound naive, but I do think we could end poverty in this country. But there's no will to do that. There's no will to help kids because children can't vote. And they're not members of political action committee. So I would, I would make sure that their political action committee is available for children. I would allow children at a certain age if they can show that they have some knowledge about the political system, to have a say in voting, to see who represents them. And I believe with education, and with treating people well, with respect and compassion, having people trained for the type of work that they want to do, that poverty could could be eliminated. And so there are a lot of clones to me, there would be no more wars. And there would be a lot less suffering in the world. Yeah, that sounds that sounds like a very good reason. Thank you. Welcome. What's Education is the key. Education is the key and law. The merging of law and education. And again, unfortunately, the people in power, the bureaucrats and politicians don't have the will or the desire to bring about the needed changes. Yeah, it's so sad. What is your favorite quote? Yes. And probably, I guess it's a quote that is on my mind a lot now, because it's a quote I used to open my novel when the sunlight goes dark about the boxing family in Los Angeles, and the quote is, Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am so meek and gentle with these butchers. And it originally that quote is taken from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar when Mark Anthony is standing over the dead body of Julius Caesar and Caesar has been assassinated. by members of the Senate. And he's bemoaning the fact that he's so meek and gentle with these butchers because he's kind of going along with them at the time. And it's just a quote that just stands out to me because I've used it in my book because I my books about worker exploitation in one way because a lot of these boxers are exploited. And a lot of them end up in not very good shape. Because people aren't looking out for him. So I guess for today, that's my favorite quote. I mean, I have others too. But I guess for today, that's the one that would be my favorite. All right. Very good. And I could you could use that metaphorically, too. I mean, the sense that, you know, Oh, pardon me, you know, why aren't the people that are running the government trying to help the people? Yes, that's a very good question. I'm sure you've run into very similar situations in England. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All the time. What's improved your wife quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? I'm sorry, Peter, you have to say that one more time. All right. What improved your life quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? well, Oh, I would I would say I spent a lot of time in therapy. I came from a very dysfunctional family. I suffered a lot of abuse, I was put into a private boarding school where kids got regularly beaten very badly. One of the lucky ones, really, I never suffered any permanent physical injury. But I think if I hadn't gone into therapy, and I was in therapy for decades, I'd say that probably the key to my being a functioning productive adult today, that in a book I read, called compassion and self hate, written by Theodore Isaac Rubin, that book changed my life. I never thought a book could change my life, but that one did. Yeah, of course. That and of course, if you're going to be successful, you have to you have to work hard, you have to know where to put your effort, you have to work hard and you have to think smart. I mean, that old saying about if you work hard, everything will fall into place is not necessarily true. I've known, I've had guy friends that have worked hard all their lives, and they've got nothing. Yeah, absolutely. So you got to work smart, as well as hard. Yes. But the more success you realize, it just adds to your happiness and your fulfillment. Yeah, of course. But people need the basic necessities have to be taken care of. You got to have clothes, you got to have proper shelter, you got to have decent physical health. I don't think I've ever met anyone that's happy if they haven't had good physical health. Yeah, of course. How did you spend your last birthday? Well, my last birthday, I had dinner with my business partner and my best friend, Tara Walker. We went to a really nice restaurant down on the beach, had a great dinner. And then went home and watched a really great movie. And it was a great day. And you know, I talked to a lot of friends and family too. I got a lot of calls. Okay. That's cool. It was fun. Oh, yes. It was quite a time. Yeah. You like birthdays? Yeah, I like birthdays. It's pretty cool, I guess. It's funny. I was just reading about Jimmy Carter, you know, the former President of the United States who is a president. And he's going to be turning 99 here in a couple days. And someone called him up, one of his family members said, I wanted to wish you a happy birthday. And he said, that's, that's not real good. I'm not really excited about this birthday. I didn't know you even make this far in his life. Yeah, he's going to be 99 years old. And you know, he's been in hospice for seven months. Everyone thought he was going to pass in about two or three weeks and he's still going. Madness. Amazing man. Absolutely. We could use a young Jimmy Carter today. That's for sure. Uh huh. Yeah. That'll be something. It would be. Yeah. Yeah. What's the best way to start the morning? The best way to start the morning is to eat a good breakfast. I know so many people that don't eat breakfast. They have health problems, they're overweight. And I don't mean starting breakfast, you know, eating junk food. You gotta eat something healthy for you. Eat something healthy. Write down the things you need to do today if you have to make a list. Yeah, it helps me a lot before I go to bed to write it to do this. So when I wake up in the morning, I know exactly what I got to do. And I got to feel the body first. You got to take care of the body. I have a friend of mine who's, he had a stroke and he's in the hospital now. He can't barely move. And, you know, he, he didn't have the right diet and he's still a fairly young man. It's very tragic. So feel the body and feed it well. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure you know, because I could tell you put a lot of hours on your show. Oh yeah. It's, it's quite a process, but it's definitely worth it. Yeah, it's enjoyable. Yeah, sure is. If you could travel back in time, what would decade you want to live in? There's so many decades I would love to live in. There's so many centuries I'd love to live in. It's really hard to pick one, but if I had to pick one, I'd probably say the early 1960s. Sixties? That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's when Muhammad Ali came on the scene and that's when the Beatles came on the scene. To me, that's, I think we'll never see the likes of the Beatles or Muhammad Ali again. Yeah. So one of a kind, they always say. Yeah, but I, believe me, Peter, I'd love to live, I could go back to ancient Rome and be fascinated. Of course, your life expectancy wasn't very long. Oh yeah. Cause Sanitary wasn't up there and the advancement technologies got in the way. Yeah. Everything's like, ugh. I would love to live the life of a Plains Indian in 1840. I think that would be fascinating. It's freedom that people can barely conceive of today. And what a great, got the kids, Indian children back in those days, man, talk about having a great childhood. Yeah, absolutely. And that is all we have for this episode. It was great having you on Oliver talking about your works. You're welcome. And until next time, stay tuned for more.
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
A highlight from AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Extract Transform Load (ETL)
"The AI Today podcast, produced by Cognolytica, cuts through the hype and noise to identify what is really happening now in the world of artificial intelligence. Learn about emerging AI trends, technologies, and use cases from Cognolytica analysts and guest experts. Hey, AI Today listeners. Want to dive deeper and get resources to drive your AI efforts further? We've put together a carefully curated collection of resources and tools handcrafted for you, our listeners, to expand your knowledge, dive deeper into the world of AI, and provide you with the essential resources you need. From books and materials, ranging from fundamentals of AI to deep dives on implementing AI projects, to AI ethics, tools, software, checklists, and more, our resources page will help you on your AI journey, whether you're just starting out or you're well on your way. Check it out at aitoday .live slash list. That's aitoday .live slash l -i -s -t. Hello and welcome to the AI Today podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen Mulch. And I'm your host, Miles Schmelzer. And we've had some recent podcasts where we've interviewed some of our CPMI certified individuals or some of the practitioners we had who are implementing AI Today, which is part of what we do here in the podcast. And if you've heard those, you may have heard that a lot of people are still dealing with some fundamental issues of data. Yes, this podcast is called AI Today. You are tuning in to the AI Today podcast. But why are we spending all this time talking about data? And you might think, wait a second, this doesn't have anything to do with AI. The answer is, of course, it has everything to do with AI because AI systems are built on a foundation of data. Without data, we can't do anything with AI. And if you have data problems, you can't do anything with AI. So you might think that organizations have their acts together. You might think, how can this big company or this big government have big data problems? The answer is yes, they do. That's the answer. So tune in, listen to some of those interviews. If you haven't listened to some of our other glossary entries where we go over these key terms of AI, machine learning and big data. But understand that all of these problems kind of sit together in the same corner that we solve as we solve problems of big data, we solve some of our problems. But the AI and machine learning. Exactly. And if you are working at a large organization, you may be laughing when we made that comment, because sometimes the larger the organization, the more, you know, challenges they have around their data. So on today's podcast, we're continuing with our AI glossary series. And we put together a very comprehensive AI glossary that we'll link to in the show notes, or you can find at cognolytica .com because we wanted to define at a high level terms related to AI, machine learning and big data. Maybe you've never heard of these terms. Maybe you're not exactly sure how they fit into this, you know, AI landscape. So that's what we wanted to do. We wanted to kind of break it down and help educate you there. And since we put this together, we said we might as well make a podcast series about it so that our AI Today listeners know that we've put it together and we can do a little bit more explaining. Again, these podcasts are at a high level. We don't dig too deep into these topics. But it's a little bit more than the glossary entry that we have. So on today's podcast, we're going to be going over the terms data warehouse, extract, transform, load, ETL and data lake. So let's start with data warehouse and kind of talk a little bit about how we got here, because, you know, we've been dealing with data for decades, really, since we first had our first data processing systems. If you want to think of it that way, we think of computers as computers. But, you know, in the in the realm of data, the term is honestly is often used data processing because not one computer or one server, we're all trying to connect together. And we have a bunch of computers and maybe we're storing the same data in some central place. A long time ago, if you want to be nostalgic, we used to store all these data and these real to real tape things. Remember, like if you go back, look at these old things, these things spinning around. That's was that's where the data was. That's where the data was stored. And you actually had to go find the reels or maybe these drums where you'd have to like store it on these drums. Of course, we've evolved quite a bit from those 1960s, 50s era of data storage. We have databases and we have all these places. But the thing now is that we have so many places where data is stored on your laptop, in your phone, in the cloud, here and there, that trying to do analysis on it has is a challenge. So one of the movements that came about really kind of in the 80s, 1990s, was this idea of the data warehouse. And the concept is that the data warehouse is a system for storing, analyzing and querying large volumes of data using a structure. So it comes up with that. We talked about structured data, unstructured and supervised, semi -structured data, mixing a couple of things. Not supervised and unsupervised machine learning. It's semi -structured, structured and unstructured data. And we centralize it in one place. That's why it's called a warehouse. If you think about like, you know, when you're shipping goods around the country, you know, if you think about what those warehouses do, like an Amazon warehouse. Well, the warehouse isn't where the original products are. It's just that they get shipped from wherever they're coming from. You know, the books and the electronics and the food. And it all goes from the original place and all goes into this warehouse, physical warehouse. And then Amazon or whoever then packages it all together when you order and then ships it to you and you're the customer. And that's actually a really nice metaphor for thinking about a data warehouse, because a data warehouse takes data from its original sources. Could be a customer database or financial data or maybe some system somewhere, a bunch of sensors or, you know, some laptops or whatever. And it aggregates them together like in this little warehouse. Right. Just like a shipping warehouse in its particular structure so that then when somebody needs to do some analysis or querying, they query the warehouse instead of having to worry about querying all these different sources and worrying about their availability and their structure and their format, which you may not be aware of. You don't know how the customer system works or the ERP system works or how the supply chain management system works. But if all you need to know is how the data warehouse works. And it's a very powerful idea. If you think about it, it kind of kind of makes sense, doesn't it? It's like, yeah, that's kind of a logical way of dealing with the needs to querying a lot of data from a lot of data sources is do that. In order to make it work, there's some critical components because each of these original sources of data, they have their own formats. They have their own specific capabilities. We need to need to extract the data. We're going to get into this in a moment from those systems and then we need to get it into the format that the data warehouse understands because it only understands its format. And then we need to sort of load it into those data warehouses, which may be one or more data warehouses. Right. So we've got to get it in there. And on top of the data warehouse, we can build these analytical tools. There's a name for it. There's online analytical processing called OLAP, if you want to be super technical about it. And the reason why it's called OLAP is because it's sort of this idea that we're building tools that are operating on data that's kind of like not being changing a lot. There's this alternate idea called OLTP, transactional processing, where we're dealing with data that we're going to update or change or do all that sort of stuff. That's for the transactions. And that's not what we're doing here when we're doing analytics. We don't want the data to be changing while we're trying to do some reporting on it. Right. So data warehouses are very popular. They're very powerful. They're in pretty much every major organization that you're working with. And it really has these two main goals of separating these sources of data that have to do with the transactional stuff, the purchasing and the customers and the finance. Right. From the needs for analytics, which are different needs, reporting and insights and all sort of stuff. That's one goal for data warehouses. And the second one is that by having this warehouse, just like the Amazon warehouse, we can just build one set of tools for the warehouse and we can have these specialized tools without having to worry about all the differences from the original formats that put their data into the data warehouse. Exactly. And so Ron had kind of alluded to ETL and what it is and why we need it. But the idea behind it, this extract transform load, is it's techniques and tools required to collect data from their original sources. So however that data was originally sourced and collected, modify that data to suit specific needs and then place the modified data into systems such as data warehouses that can store, analyze, process and perform queries on that data. So the need for ETL happens because, like I said, you can have data from multiple different sources. Maybe you have CRM data, you have a bunch of different other types of data. So you need to extract the data from its original systems, then somehow transform it so it formats the need that it needs to go into for the data warehouse. And then you can actually load it into the data warehouse. So it's just really what needs to happen from getting data from its original source to being able to put it into your data warehouse. Yeah, and it's a powerful idea, but it has limitations. This might think, oh, that data warehouse idea just sounds great, what could possibly be wrong with it? Well, there's a bunch of challenges with the data warehouse. One thing is that is that it's very much a structured system and that things need to kind of be structured just like an Amazon warehouse. You can't just put anything anywhere in the Amazon warehouse. It has to go in a very specific shelf. They have these little bots that move things around. You can't just have a big disorganized array. And while that might work for physical goods, it doesn't work so well with data because data has so many different formats and it's constantly changing in the process of having to get it into the data warehouse format itself is complicated. And we have all these rules and those rules have to be modified. So I actually have more code, I have more complexity, I have more brittleness. So there's this alternate idea philosophy called the data lake. So the data lake kind of is it's not a really it's not a product as much as it's a philosophy for data storage is it's a repository that stores a large quantity of data in its original and varying formats rather than first transforming that data to load into a traditional warehouse. So you could think of a data lake as like a centralized repository that allows you to store all of your structured and unstructured data. That was the real issue is really the fact that we had all this unstructured data that doesn't work so well with the data warehouse, you know, and put all of that into this big data lake. And then we worry later about transforming it for an analysis project. Right. So you can store the data as is without having to first structure it and then run different kinds of analytics, dashboards, visualizations, big data processing, machine learning applications, real time analytics on top of that original data. So as long as you have access to the data lake and as long as we have some tools that we can use because we still have to transform it at the time we need to use it, then we can make use of the data lake. So basically the data lake is extract load. So we extract it from a traditional data source. Like I think all those trucks with all their specialized products going to the Amazon warehouse. But instead of putting it in the really well organized shelves, we put it in a big collection bin and then later when someone has different needs, they pick from that bin and they transform it when they need to use it. So it goes from extract, transform, load to extract, extract, load, transform. And, you know, data lakes are good for good for their purposes and data warehouses are good for their purposes. And I would say if you have a lot of structured databases and you need to do a big analytical task across all those structured databases, a data warehouse is going to be just fine and just great. And it still will work for banking applications and finance and customer management, all this sort of stuff where the data is already structured. It's already structured in its various columns. But when I want to do analysis task across sensor data and text and image and documents that are constantly coming in, trying to jam it into a data warehouse is probably going to be a lot more effort than it will work, than it's worth. So we should have a data lake approach where we can put all those documents somewhere and then later figure out how to extract them for whatever purpose. In some cases, we may need our, say, emails that we're going to use for an NLP application, natural language processing, and they may use one set of tasks. But maybe I'm going to use the emails for something else, maybe sentiment analysis, and maybe I need a different transformation. So each application may require different transformations. So hopefully you understand at a high level, we're giving you a mental model for which is an requirement to really use these data warehouses and then this idea of the data lake, which allows us to deal with this broader scope of data in a constantly changing world. Exactly. So, you know, as we say, understanding these terms at a high level is one thing. So now if they come up, you've at least heard it before. You know what it is. I know that many of the folks that have gone through CPM AI and others as well that we talked to some customers, they maybe weren't familiar with some of these terms, especially with data lake, depending on where they sit in the organization and what industry they're in. So we wanted to make sure that we did present these terms on a podcast. And as I said, of course, knowing them at a high level is one thing. So now you can understand if it comes up in a conversation. But being able to put it into practice is a whole other thing. And that is really where CPM AI comes into play. We want you to be successful with your AI projects. We, you know, really value educating our listeners and our audience because, again, we want you to be successful. We don't like these high AI failure rates. So if you're interested in learning more about CPM AI, see what it's all about, how you can apply it for AI project success, you can take our free intro to CPM AI course. Go to AI today dot live slash CPM AI and you can register right there. If you'd like to dig a lot deeper into the subject, you know, really go through a comprehensive training on CPM AI and then become CPM AI certified. Go to Cognolytica dot com slash CPM AI. We'll link to both of them in the show notes. I know that many of our listeners have reached out to us. Some of you have taken the free intro course. Many of you have become CPM AI certified. So, you know, we love we love our CPM AI community. It's really, really been growing quite fast. So thank you, everybody, for supporting it. And if you're interested in learning more, we'll link to both in the show notes and you can just click on the link and it'll take you to the courses. Like this episode and want to hear more? 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Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Short Stuff: History of OK
"You know, there are some things in life you just can't trust, like a free couch on the side of the road, or the sushi rolls from your local gas station, or when your kid says they don't need the bathroom before the road trip. But there are some things in life you can trust, like the HP Smart Tank Printer. With up to two years of ink included and outstanding print quality, you can rely on the HP Smart Tank Printer from HP, America's most trusted printer brand. Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, too, standing in for Dave, and that makes The Short Stuff OK. Thanks to Dave Ruse and howstuffworks .com and Grammarly for this, because we're talking about OK, which some people say is one of the most versatile and one of the greatest words in the English language. And I don't disagree. I don't either. I say like more, but I think OK is probably second in my vocabulary. Yeah, absolutely. Grammarly will tell you that OK can be used in myriad ways, and it's a very versatile word. It can be used as an adjective. Oh, that's OK. Yeah, that's just OK. Like how was it? Eh, OK. Right, exactly. It can be an interjection. OK. OK, let's talk. Or someone's talking too much, OK, OK, right? Yeah. It can be used in the verb sense, like give me an example. That guy's really OK -ing that boat all over the lake. OK, that's not right. More like it's being OK -ed as we speak. Oh, good, yes, thank you. All right. Or it can be used in the noun sense. You want to try that one? I'm having an OK for breakfast. Nope. We got the OK. It's all good. Ugh. I know, so boring. OK. No, it's not boring. I'm just disgusted with myself. So very versatile word, and the origin of OK, I don't even think we should go over all what kind of dumb ideas people have had, because we're pretty sure we know where it came from, right? Oh, OK. See? OK. So, yeah, we know where it came from, almost certainly, thanks to an etymologist named Alan Walker Reed, who at some point apparently put down his insects in his lab and started researching origins, I don't know why. But Reed was working back in the 1960s, and he essentially, through really hardcore, old -timey, pre -internet research, traced back the origin of OK, the letter O and the letter K, and the meaning of it as we understand it. And it's got one heck of a rump -slappin' origin, if you ask me. Yeah, he also had a newsletter called Stuff You Should Know that ran for 15 years, but he only put out four topics, because it took him so long. Yeah, took a while. But this is the 60s even. That joke was not OK. It was OK. It was OK. So what he found out is the following. In the early 19th century, when printing was sort of a new, sort of, not new, but it was cheaper to do than it had been previously, and there was an explosion of printing. And one of the things that people started putting out were something on the penny press, like these, sort of, rags that had a little bit of news to them, but also some opinion stuff, some jokes, this is what's trending, this is a little witty poem, you know, just little things like that. Dave kind of likens it to the internet of the 1830s. And there was a lot of back and forth about this stuff through the editors of these penny papers. I guess they would, they would sort of respond to one another through their own penny papers. Yeah, they would trash talk one another, kind of like how our old stale rivalry with John Strickland. Oh, gosh. Kind of like that, right? So there was that trash talking or that joking, in -joking back and forth between editors of these penny papers coincided with a trend that Reed called a craze in, starting in the summer of 1838, that's how good this guy's research was, he pinned it down to that, starting in Boston, that people started using abbreviations for everything. It was like they thought that was so hilarious in 1830s Boston. Yeah, which is funny, like you think, you might think now is so over abbreviated, like this point in time with texting in the internet, with LOLs, and like I don't even know what half of them mean, I feel like. LOL means lots of love. Lots of love, okay, that's what I thought. But the craze started back then, and here's just a few examples that Dave dug up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Anti-Conservative Defamation League with Will Scharf
"We are representing a second whistleblower from the FBI, Marcus Allen. Due to whistleblower retaliation by the FBI, I've been suspended without pay for over a year. Because of you, ACLJ donors, you get the best attorneys in the world. Hello, everybody. I am back. What is the ADL? The Anti -Defamation League actually engages in more defamation than not. ADL .org. We talk about that with Will Scharf and how they are suppressing the US Constitution. Email us your thoughts, as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. Get involved with our education movement, Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. The most important movement in America, tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at andrewandtodd .com. Over the weekend, an internet campaign started to push back against the Anti -Defamation League, the ADL. Now, if you do not know what the ADL is, they're one of the most powerful organizations. They used to be nonpartisan. They used to say, hey, we're here to fight antisemitism. But that's changed. The ADL is nothing more than a weapon of the Marxist left run by a man by the name of Jonathan Greenblatt. Now, if you go to their website, ADL .org, it's hard to find anything you disagree with. They say, unless you go further, they say, we fight antisemitism. In fact, their byline is fighting hate for good. ADL .org, run by this guy, Jonathan Greenblatt. This goes to a theme, though, is that there's a supply and demand issue with hatred and racism in America. The same goes for the civil rights machinery or Leviathan that was built in the 1960s and early 1970s. We start to see that you build these massive institutions all around trying to fight racism and fight injustice and fight antisemitism. And eventually, you realize the country that you're waging this war in, it's actually a rather decent country. So you have to come up with hatred where it doesn't exist. So ADL .org, their entire mission statement to their donors and to their employees and to their members is that there's more hate than ever before and give us more money so we could fight hate for good. And they call themselves the anti -defamation league. Now, ironically, they actually do more defaming than almost anybody else. They smear, for example, libs of TikTok. They slander decent people. They have a whole page on Turning Point USA, actually, ADL .org. They run advertisements against Turning Point USA trying to say that we are, you know, all not alt -right, but we play footsie with the alt -right and that we are akin to radical right -wing forces. We have a whole page right here on ADL .org. Key points goes through all the different activities. Charlie Kirk promotes Christian nationalism and activism. TPUSA and right -wing extremists, TPUSA and racist bigots. Goes on and on and on. So this is a multiple page thing at ADL .org. And they pick their targets and they smear you relentlessly. Not really hasn't bothered me or bothered us at Turning Point. Yes, they run SEO ads trying to misrepresent us. But they do this, and this is the important thing, is they believe they are untouchable. They believe that you cannot criticize the ADL or the Anti -Defamation League. You're not allowed to push back on them. You're not allowed to say, hey, what you're doing is wrong. Now, understand this is their business model. The business model of the Anti -Defamation League, the ADL, is they will go after voices, companies, and they will try to destroy them if they do not suppress speech that they don't like. So this all bubbled up when the head of ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, met with the head of X, or always be Twitter to me, Linda Yaccarino. And when that meeting happened, all of a sudden this erupted on social media saying, hold on a second, we know what the ADL is trying to do here. The ADL is going to try to pressure Twitter to shut up shadow ban and blacklist dissident voices that they don't like. Now, the ADL does this all under the guise of fighting anti -Semitism. They basically say that you are not allowed to criticize the ADL or any of their activities, and if you do, then you must hate Jews. Now, let me just say this. This is one of my most frustrating developments in the modern narrative war, how you're somehow not allowed to criticize an organization or a person, because all of a sudden they'll say, well, I'm Jewish, you're not allowed to say anything. This goes with George Soros, for example. Any time that you criticize George Soros, they say, oh, you're an anti -Semite. No, actually, George Soros is, first of all, not serious about his Judaism. Second, he's an atheist. Second of all, we're not criticizing him because he's Jewish. We're criticizing him because he's evil. Now, the ADL has in the last couple of years taken even more radical turn. They've become vicious. And quite honestly, they themselves have become a hate group. They wear the costume of, quote, fighting hate for good. ADL fights all forms of anti -Semitism and bias using innovation and partnerships that drive impact. And they might say, well, Charlie, how does this impact me? We might have this tape here. We'll find it. Jonathan Greenblatt argues, he brags in his Zoom calls, that they talk to the FBI every single day. The ADL is an adjunct to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, telling them of what extremists to find, what people that you have to try to suppress. You go to the ADL website. For example, they say hate on display, quote, a hate symbol. It's okay to be white. If you say that, it's a hate symbol. They argue that child pornography or pornography for children is perfectly fine. In fact, it's phenomenal. ADL .org. Children's literature can open doors to exploring important topics and concepts. ADL Education has compiled a list of LGBTQ Pride -themed books for Pride Month. The resource also includes discussion guides for educators and families. There is far radical left on the cultural Marxist spectrum, as you could imagine.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Believe Anything
"Well everybody, welcome to the Monday show. As usual, I hope you have a good weekend. A rare thing happened in the elevator coming up to my broadcast floor. Oh it's Tuesday. Yes, you see that the mind works logically but not accurately in this case anyway. The logic was it's my first day back at work so therefore the brain says it's a Monday. That's that's what happened. I still hope you had a good weekend. I hope you have a good day. But to this woman's credit, a middle -aged woman, she looked at me and she said perfect. A tall purple shirt. How's that? Had I been given eternity to anticipate or to predict what this woman would have come out with, eternity would not be long enough. Hi everybody. I am going to open your eyes with one fascinating insight that I picked up reading over the course of this weekend. This will help you understand a great deal. A woman aged 107 just died. She was a lifelong communist and she married a lifelong communist and they lived in China and were one of the few westerners allowed access to the higher echelons of the Chinese Communist Party. Let's be clear. Two have been in China during the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward when approximately 60 million Chinese were starved to death and otherwise murdered. In the Cultural Revolution where people were denounced and humiliated en masse and sent away to rural areas if they were an intellectual at a time when intellectuals fought for liberty and still remain a communist means you were a real sick morally sick person. So I want you to hear how sick this woman was, morally sick, named Isabel Crook. This is from the New York Times obituary. The Crooks became true believers in Chinese communism. Their faith remained unshaken. Even after David, the husband, David Crook, was charged with espionage and imprisoned between 1967 and 1973 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Mrs. Crook insisted he was innocent but her defense backfired and she was kept under house arrest for several years. Now please understand their communist beliefs were so deep. Their support for evil was so religious in its implementation, in its genesis, in its etiology that even when her husband was but six is enough. And imprisoned in China in the late 1960s was a very very bad thing. They remained true believers. I have often said the truth is not a left -wing value. More than often I say it every day. It isn't. It's a liberal value and it's a conservative value. It's not a left -wing value. That's not its biggest problem. Its biggest problem is that it's related but it's not the same. They believe what they say. They believe that kids under 10 can decide that they are the opposite sex. They believe it. It's very hard for those of us who live in both moral and factual reality to appreciate that. But many of them, many of them don't. Many of them are just destroyers because they have nothing better to do with their bored secular affluent lives. But for many this is as communism which is indistinguishable morally from leftism. And again it's distinguishable from liberalism but not from leftism. That is a religious belief. The people who gave secrets to the atom bomb to Joseph Stalin, the second greatest mass murderer in history, Mao won Stalin too in terms of numbers. Then followed by Hitler who would have caught up but didn't have the time that Stalin and Mao had. They believe these are true believers. The people who believe America's systemically racist, they may not have in the beginning but they have convinced themselves of it that a woman can become a man. They believe this. Not all but many. The woman's husband was arrested for no reason and put away for six years in China and she continued to support the Chinese Communist Party. It's like the communists, the early Bolsheviks who were thrown into prison under Stalin's regime and then said to the people torturing them, if comrade Stalin only knew what you were doing to me. They thought comrade Stalin would object. Comrade Stalin was the reason these people were being tortured. If there is not much you can do, clearly logic is irrelevant, reason is irrelevant, morality is irrelevant. When you have engaged what Eric Hoffer, the great philosopher of the mid -20th century, who was a longshoreman by the way, I'm not sure he went to college, called the true believer. When you encounter the true believer, you have to be very afraid. If a woman is okay with her husband being sent away for six years to some awful Chinese prison, then you know you have encountered true believers. As many of you know, every year, this will be I think the 17th year, I conduct the most high holy day services known as the high holy day services in Judaism for three to four hundred people. If you're interested in attending, people fly in from all over to do so. I explain everything and it's a beautiful, beautiful service of music as well. Go to PragerHighHolidays .net for information. You can also watch it through the Salem Network. Go to PragerHighHolidays .net.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"the 1960s" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In the 1960s or before like... I don't know like PBM's always had a role here? Well I mean one thing is you know the role that prescription drugs play in healthcare has grown incredibly in that period right there are more new drugs more expensive drugs every year you know in the 1960s I don't have it in front of me but the prescription prescription spend was you know much less than it is now so part of this is like an evolution to new innovation on the pharma side that's very expensive here in the United States where you know we have a free market for healthcare and the drug drug makers can set their prices as high as they want and so this is sort of an industry that's evolved in response to that but you know there are there are increasing questions around you know how it actually works and whether they are you know whether their clients the employers are fully capturing the value of the discounts that they get. Okay so FTC has waded into this and subpoenaed affiliates of PBMs called purchasing group organizations. I don't usually think of the FTC and you know drugs being in the same place I think usually more like kind of big tech crackdowns but what is the FTC's interest here? So the FTC has subpoenaed the the PBMs themselves and then these affiliates the group purchasing organizations as well. You know I think as a regulation regulator they have and particularly under Lina Kahn they have sort of taken a close look at this industry they're doing what is essentially a study of legislation so it's not an enforcement action they're kind of gathering information and will presumably produce a report at some point you know but again there has been a tremendous amount of consolidation in the industry I think you know and these are companies that have a lot of influence what over drugs are available well and I also feel like rebates is a loaded word it just sounds like getting I'm a rebate like something's got to be good about it but when I hear a rebate I think to myself okay this is you know a way to get you to buy something with the hope of you not actually cashing in this rebate well the thing about a rebate is by you the time get it you've already paid for it right that you're not it's it's not an upfront discount although there are those to its you know so and then what happens to those dollars when they do back flow to the plan how much goes to the actual patient who paid maybe the full cost of the drug if they have a high deductible that's what I wanted to ask you executives from the three the three big PBMs this is in your story said that they pass almost all the rebates they receive from drug makers back to clients but we don't really know that do we well or do they they say they do and in some programs like in Medicare there are regulations around requiring them to do that but the other thing that we've sort of come to learn is that even as they say they're passing back almost all the rebates or all the rebates in some cases there's other money they are getting from drug makers that is not called a rebate so it's called a manufacturer administrative fee or an inflation protection fee or a data fee or you you know five or six other different terms that show up is this what this is like like all these crazy little fills anyway it sounds like it well right and so I mean one of the questions employers have is you know how much money are these companies making from pharma companies and it's money that is tied to the prescriptions that you know you and I are filling right and so where does that go and that's sort of the big unanswered question in all of this where does it go where does it go yeah there is a bipartisan interest in perhaps regulating this space is this one of those areas that everyone in DC actually gets along about I think there is a lot of agreement you know we've seen bipartisan bills both in the House and in the Senate from several committees you know one thing just the political context here is you know last year in the inflation reduction act that took kind of a big swing at pharma because Medicare will be able to negotiate drug prices for the first time and PBMs are sort
The Mason Minute
Skunk Season (MM #4535)
"Is there such a thing as skunk season? Over the course of the last 6 -8 days, I've encountered a lot of dead skunks. Now I wouldn't think hot weather, middle of August, skunks being killed. I wouldn't think them out and about searching for food. But here in the neighborhood, a couple over the last few days. Driving up to Indiana with family over the weekend, skunks a couple of times in Kentucky, once or twice in Indiana. So I'm thinking it's not just Tennessee. It's all over the place. And again, I was just driving up the interstate. I don't know if this is the time of year when skunks are mating or skunks are looking for food or exactly what's going on. But all I know, a lot of dead skunks. And let me tell you, when it's nearly 100 degrees outside, you smell it a lot and for a long way. I've never understood why skunks have that scent. Why skunks try to keep their prey away with that smell. Man, it's one of those most vivid smells that you know. Well, I can go back to the 1960s and remember skunk smell. Back when we lived in Wyoming, traveling the highways before there were interstates in some areas. Maybe the middle of August is skunk season, and I just didn't know it.
The Mason Minute
Skunk Season (MM #4535)
"Is there such a thing as skunk season? Over the course of the last 6 -8 days, I've encountered a lot of dead skunks. Now I wouldn't think hot weather, middle of August, skunks being killed. I wouldn't think them out and about searching for food. But here in the neighborhood, a couple over the last few days. Driving up to Indiana with family over the weekend, skunks a couple of times in Kentucky, once or twice in Indiana. So I'm thinking it's not just Tennessee. It's all over the place. And again, I was just driving up the interstate. I don't know if this is the time of year when skunks are mating or skunks are looking for food or exactly what's going on. But all I know, a lot of dead skunks. And let me tell you, when it's nearly 100 degrees outside, you smell it a lot and for a long way. I've never understood why skunks have that scent. Why skunks try to keep their prey away with that smell. Man, it's one of those most vivid smells that you know. Well, I can go back to the 1960s and remember skunk smell. Back when we lived in Wyoming, traveling the highways before there were interstates in some areas. Maybe the middle of August is skunk season, and I just didn't know it.
The Mason Minute
Skunk Season (MM #4535)
"Is there such a thing as skunk season? Over the course of the last 6 -8 days, I've encountered a lot of dead skunks. Now I wouldn't think hot weather, middle of August, skunks being killed. I wouldn't think them out and about searching for food. But here in the neighborhood, a couple over the last few days. Driving up to Indiana with family over the weekend, skunks a couple of times in Kentucky, once or twice in Indiana. So I'm thinking it's not just Tennessee. It's all over the place. And again, I was just driving up the interstate. I don't know if this is the time of year when skunks are mating or skunks are looking for food or exactly what's going on. But all I know, a lot of dead skunks. And let me tell you, when it's nearly 100 degrees outside, you smell it a lot and for a long way. I've never understood why skunks have that scent. Why skunks try to keep their prey away with that smell. Man, it's one of those most vivid smells that you know. Well, I can go back to the 1960s and remember skunk smell. Back when we lived in Wyoming, traveling the highways before there were interstates in some areas. Maybe the middle of August is skunk season, and I just didn't know it.
The Mason Minute
Skunk Season (MM #4535)
"Is there such a thing as skunk season? Over the course of the last 6 -8 days, I've encountered a lot of dead skunks. Now I wouldn't think hot weather, middle of August, skunks being killed. I wouldn't think them out and about searching for food. But here in the neighborhood, a couple over the last few days. Driving up to Indiana with family over the weekend, skunks a couple of times in Kentucky, once or twice in Indiana. So I'm thinking it's not just Tennessee. It's all over the place. And again, I was just driving up the interstate. I don't know if this is the time of year when skunks are mating or skunks are looking for food or exactly what's going on. But all I know, a lot of dead skunks. And let me tell you, when it's nearly 100 degrees outside, you smell it a lot and for a long way. I've never understood why skunks have that scent. Why skunks try to keep their prey away with that smell. Man, it's one of those most vivid smells that you know. Well, I can go back to the 1960s and remember skunk smell. Back when we lived in Wyoming, traveling the highways before there were interstates in some areas. Maybe the middle of August is skunk season, and I just didn't know it.
The Mason Minute
Skunk Season (MM #4535)
"Is there such a thing as skunk season? Over the course of the last 6 -8 days, I've encountered a lot of dead skunks. Now I wouldn't think hot weather, middle of August, skunks being killed. I wouldn't think them out and about searching for food. But here in the neighborhood, a couple over the last few days. Driving up to Indiana with family over the weekend, skunks a couple of times in Kentucky, once or twice in Indiana. So I'm thinking it's not just Tennessee. It's all over the place. And again, I was just driving up the interstate. I don't know if this is the time of year when skunks are mating or skunks are looking for food or exactly what's going on. But all I know, a lot of dead skunks. And let me tell you, when it's nearly 100 degrees outside, you smell it a lot and for a long way. I've never understood why skunks have that scent. Why skunks try to keep their prey away with that smell. Man, it's one of those most vivid smells that you know. Well, I can go back to the 1960s and remember skunk smell. Back when we lived in Wyoming, traveling the highways before there were interstates in some areas. Maybe the middle of August is skunk season, and I just didn't know it.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"the 1960s" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Classic examples were Russia in 1960 when it was seen as going to surpass us in 1980 or Japan in 1990 when people expected that it was going to surpass us. So it's a pretty good rule that when American high school kids rush to study foreign a language that's about when the country's economy is peaking. So you've got that. Then you have a variety of near term challenges and the kind you just referred to financial strains in China Coming from excessive reliance on real estate and the drying up of export markets. Then you've got some fairly bound fundamentals adverse for China. The fact that Chinese parents had only half as many kids last year as they did six years ago. The fact that there's large amounts of people with money in China who are very, very eager to get which it is always a sign of impending difficulty in emerging markets. So I would not be confident at all that China will be a faster than average growing major economy over the next decade. And that's obviously a big difference from the world we've been living with for the last 40 years. So just a personal note Steve, let the record reflect that Larry's right rule in his of thumb. I studied Russian in high school in the 1960s. So certainly here's one anecdote that supports you Larry. So you're an investor in China. You've spent a lot of time there. They were there fairly recently actually. What do you make of what we're seeing right now? Well first of all look I have been more optimistic about China in the past and I will say that I have recalibrated my views. I mean it is definitely going through a tough period. I don't think I'm as pessimistic as Larry is. I would just mention for example that they may not make their 5 % GDP growth number this year. Maybe it'll be four maybe it'll be four and a half. It'll still be probably twice what ours is. So I don't think we can yet sort wipe China off the blackboard. But look they have a lot of problems and I've put them in a couple of buckets. One it was clear on my trip there that the sanctions that we've imposed and the whole de -globalization phenomenon and the fact that business feels that they have to be more careful about their supply lines has taken a toll and it's definitely affected their exports and their general mentality in their business. The second big problem they have is Xi who has reasserted his control over the economy who many of our investors that we talk to feel doesn't even understand economics and you can by their policy actions so far I think you probably agree with that and so you've got really bad government policy on top of a bunch of difficulties whether it's the property sector whether it's export exports whether it's whatever but I would I would say I'm not completely going to wipe China off because I think you have to recognize that you do have a lot of tools for example everybody talks about their debt nobody talks about their assets the IMF just came out paper with a in the last few days that basically tried to look at the balance sheet assets and liabilities of the Chinese government and while their net assets have been coming down they're still substantially positive I think if you went through the same exercise for the u .s. you'd find a different result their central government debt to GDP is only about 30 % they have plenty of scope to do something on the fiscal side to both stimulate the economy as well as solve some of the problems that the provincial governments do have with debt which are very meaningful So Larry, to pick up on one thing that Steve said there, if President Xi is part of the problem, could he be part of the solution? I guess that's a way of asking are there things he could do we saw some actions even this week where he tried to put some more money into the economy although it's not clear the consumers have enough confidence to start spending it but are there things that President Xi could do or are we seeing larger structural factors that you suggested that are outside his control? I think it's a combination of both I think by the way there are a lot of questions about Chinese economic statistics we talk about smoothed earnings of U .S. corporations I would politely suggest that that is as nothing compared to a fair amount of what goes on in Chinese statistical reporting I thought it was interesting this week when the Chinese authorities who had been facing very grave youth unemployment figures announced that youth unemployment figures weren't going to be published anymore going forward so I think there are a lot of questions about what the real growth rate is beyond that there are obviously things that China could do that would substantially stimulate demand but here's the core problem or a core problem there's a basic tension between the politics and the economics in Chinese political economy is control going to rest with the hundred million people who are members of the party or the 1 .2 billion Chinese citizens who are not members of the party the expansionary fiscal policy consumption led growth agenda is basically an agenda of spreading money all over the place and shifting it from the control of the Communist Party to the control of regular people who aren't part of the Communist Party Steve, Larry makes an important point that I've always wondered about as an investor in China how do you trust the numbers I mean Larry points out that they've decided they're not going to report the use of unemployment because it was over 20 % it's not a good number so how do you have confidence in the numbers as an investor well remember there's a difference between not reporting a number and making up a number and I don't disagree with Larry about the statistics that they may be managed but I would just make that distinction they were reporting youth unemployment numbers they were huge numbers so they decided not to report them anymore but the macro statistics are just a piece of what what we think about when we invest there we're investing in companies or managers who are investing in companies and the the question is what are the prospects of the companies and obviously the fundamentals of the country do relate to that but that's not the only piece of how we go about investing but I would say just a couple things about what Larry said uh and I don't disagree again with well we might disagree a little bit about this look I think fundamentally the deal between the Chinese government and the people has always been we're going to make you rich and let us control and you know you're going not to have free speech you're not going to have this you're not going to have that but you're going to get into the middle class and so forth Larry if China continues to struggle economically the way they have and Steve points out they're still growing more than we are but still struggle compared to where they were is that good for the United States and the rest of world or is it bad do we need a strong China economically or a weak one it's it's too edge it's good when your customer prospers and it's bad when your competitor gets hyper for efficient so it's a two -edged thing I am concerned that we will become the object of frustration and that will tempt them to ash out I think we need to be very careful in our approach to China at a moment of this kind of difficulty and we need to be more attentive than I think some of the policy advocates in Washington are to avoiding a situation where we terrify China with the potential economic damage that we're going to do to them. 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Bloomberg Radio New York
"the 1960s" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Russia in 1960 when it was seen as going to surpass us in 1980 or Japan in 1990 when people expected that it was going to surpass us. So it's a pretty good rule that when American high school kids rushed to study a foreign language, that's about when the country's economy is peaking. So you've got that. Then you have a variety of near term challenges of the kind you just referred to financial strains in China coming from excessive reliance on real estate and the drying up of export markets. Then you've got some fairly profound adverse fundamentals for China. The fact that Chinese parents had only half as many kids last year as they did six years ago. The fact that there's large amounts of people with money in China who are very, very eager to get it out, which is always a sign of impending difficulty in emerging markets. So I would not be confident at all that China will be a faster than average growing major economy over the next decade. And that's obviously a big difference from the we've world been living with for the last 40 years. So just a personal note, Steve, let the record reflect that Larry was right in his rule of thumb. I studied Russian in high school in the 1960s. So certainly here's one that supports you, Larry. So you are an investor in China. You spent a lot of time there. They were there fairly recently, actually. What do you make of what we're seeing right now? Well, first of all, look, I have been more optimistic about China in the past. And will I say that I have recalibrated my views. I mean, it is definitely going through a tough period. I don't think I'm as pessimistic as Larry is. I would just mention, for example, that they may not make their 5 % GDP growth number this year. Maybe it'll be four, maybe it'll be four and a half. It'll still be probably twice what ours is. So I don't think we can yet sort of wipe China off the blackboard. But look, they have a lot of problems and I will put them in a couple of buckets. One, it was clear on my trip there that the sanctions that we've imposed and the whole de -globalization phenomenon and the fact that business feels that they have to be more careful about their supply lines has taken a toll. And it's definitely affected their exports and their general mentality in their business. The second big problem they have is Xi, who has reasserted his control over the economy, who many of our investors we that talk to there feel doesn't really even understand economics. And by their policy actions so far, I think you probably agree with that. And so you've got really bad government policy on top of a bunch of difficulties, whether it's the property sector, whether it's export, exports, whether it's whatever. But I would I would say I'm not completely going to wipe China off because I think you have to recognize that you for example, everybody talks about their debt. Nobody talks about their assets. The The IMF just came out with a paper in the last few days that basically tried to look at the balance sheet, assets and liabilities Chinese government. And while their net assets have been coming down, they're still substantially positive. I think if you went went through the same exercise for the US, you'd find a different result. Their central government debt to GDP is is only about 30%. They have plenty of scope to do something on the fiscal side to both stimulate the economy as well as solve some of the problems that the provincial governments do have with debt, which are which are very meaningful. So Larry, to pick on one thing that Steve said there, if President Xi is part of the problem, could be he part of the solution? And I guess that's a way of asking, are there things he could do? We saw some actions even this week, where he tried to put some more money into the economy, although it's not clear that consumers have enough confidence to start spending it. But are there things that President could Xi do, or are we seeing sort of larger structural factors that you suggested that are outside of his goal? I think it's a combination of both. I think, by the way, there a are lot of questions about Chinese economic statistics. We talk about smooth earnings of US corporations. I would politely suggest that that has nothing compared to a fair amount of what goes on in Chinese statistical reporting. I thought it was interesting this week when the Chinese authorities, who had been facing really very grave youth unemployment figures, announced that youth unemployment figures weren't going to be published anymore going forward. So I think there are a lot of questions about what the real growth rate is. Beyond that, there are obviously things that China could do that would substantially stimulate demand, but here's the core problem, or a core problem. There's a basic tension between the politics and the economics in Chinese political economy. Is control going to rest with the 100 million people who are members of the party, or the 1 .2 billion Chinese citizens who are not members of the party. The expansionary fiscal policy, consumption -led growth agenda, is basically an agenda of spreading money all over the place, and shifting it from the control of the Communist Party to the control of regular people who aren't part of the Communist Party. Steve, Larry makes an important point that I've always wondered about. As an investor in how do you trust the numbers? I mean Larry points out that they've decided they're not going to report the use of unemployment because it was over 20 percent. It's not a good number. So how do you have confidence in the numbers as an investor? Well remember there's a difference between not reporting a number and making up a number, and I don't disagree with Larry about the statistics that they may be managed, but I would just make that distinction. They were reporting youth unemployment numbers, they were huge numbers, so they decided not to report them anymore. But the macro statistics are just a piece of what we think about when we invest there. We're investing in companies or in managers who are investing in companies, and the question is what are the prospects of the companies? And obviously the fundamentals of the country do relate to that, but that's not the only piece of how we go about investing. But I would say just a couple things about Larry what said, and I don't disagree again with, well, we might disagree a little bit about this. Look, I think fundamentally deal the between the Chinese government and the people has always been, we're going to make you rich and let us troll, and you're not going to have free speech, you're not going to have this, you're not going to have that, but you're going to get into the middle class and so forth. Larry, if China continues to struggle economically the way they have, and Steve points out they're still growing than more we are, but still struggle compared to where they were, is that good for the United States and the rest of the world, or is it bad? Do we need a strong China economically or a weak one? It's too edge. It's good when your customer prospers, and it's bad when your competitor gets hyper -efficient. So it's a too -edge thing. I am concerned that we will become object of China's frustration, and that will tempt them to lash out. I think we need to be very careful in our approach to China at a moment of this kind of difficulty, and we need to be more inventive, and I think some of the policy advocates in Washington are, to avoiding a situation where we deny with China the potential economic damage to do to them. Thank you so much to both of you for joining us on Wall Street Week. That's Larry Summers of Harvard and Steve Rutter of Willard Advisors. Coming up, bringing puppies into the fight against inflation. That's what The Business News Wall Street depends on. Under surveillance this morning, China sliding into deflation. And the insight that only Bloomberg can provide. To me, the real news this morning is the German 30 -year yield. Bloomberg surveillance with Tom Kean, Jonathan Farrow, and Lisa Abramowitz. Listen to surveillance Bloomberg live weekly mornings at 7 Eastern. How sticky is this story going to be? Or on demand on Apple, Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts. 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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Eric and Chris
"Folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit LegacyPMInvestments .com. That's LegacyPMInvestments .com. Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever? Wise beyond your years and good at checking a thesaurus for synonyms. Well, then you've come to the right place. Here now is the handsome, attractive, striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly, breathtaking Eric Metaxas. Hey, Chris. Hello. I'm back. Welcome back. How was your trip? You went around the world in 80 days, I believe. Not exactly. But I am tan, and I wanted that to be the most important thing that I covered. I've been away for about three weeks. And the main thing that I did was work on my tan. And obviously I went to a clinic in Mexico and got hair plugs. And I wanted that to be all healed by now, but it got infected. And so that's why I'm wearing this wig. Yeah, the wig looks great. Whoever. Well, it's the same old wig that I've always worn on this program. But I wanted the I wanted the hair plugs to be ready now, but it just got it was not a good clinic. It was a hair plugs in Mexican. I don't know. I don't know. OK, so I hope I'm joking. I really am tan because I was in Greece. And today today is going to be a tough day. Today is like reentry, you know, like into the Earth's atmosphere because I've been away for quite a while. I needed this vacation. Now, if anybody who gets my email, if you subscribe to my email from Eric Metaxas dot com, I have shared a lot and a lot of photos, a lot of crazy stuff that's happened in the last three weeks, which I want to share on this program. But if you've gotten the emails, you've seen the photos. And that's you know, I think the cliche that a picture is worth a thousand words is kind of true. Like there's there's some fun pictures, but most people who listen to this program don't follow me on Instagram and probably don't get the email. Now, of course, you can get that. It's free. It's no commercials. Just go to Eric Metaxas dot com and we'll send you these emails once or twice a week with these most of the interviews and stuff. But I, I shared a lot of this stuff, but I wanted to share on this program today kind of where I've been for people who don't get my emails or who haven't been following me on Instagram, which, again, I think most people who listen to this as a radio program or podcast follow me in those ways. So the first thing I would add, I would add that this is kind of like, you know, you have a friend, the neighbors who go away on a trip and the cliche is they come back with it used to be on the slides and you would come over and they would show you their vacation photos and you'd be polite, but you really didn't want to sit through so many. But your trip was really actually very interesting. And I think your listeners actually do want to hear what you did. So this is the audio version of that. Oh, you're you're you're exactly. Well, listen, anybody who's read my book, Fish Out of Water. I don't think I say it in the book, but we had neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Right. They passed away many years ago. But I remember they came back from a vacation and they invited the neighborhood kids over. This was like 1973, I think, maybe even 72. But they wanted a vacation. They invited us over to see the slide. So that's what this is going to be like. Now, let me start. Instead of starting at the beginning, I'll start at the end. We flew in from Athens yesterday. And I don't know about you, but like overseas travel, when you get back, it's an 11 hour flight from Athens. We got back, we were totally fried. We were so fried last night that normally you'd want to stay up to a certain hour, but we couldn't do it. So we went to sleep way too early. Like I think I was in REM sleep by six thirty last night. Which means what? Which means I woke up at about two fifteen a .m. today. That's right in time for an early morning breakfast. What do you do at two fifteen a .m.? Well, you try to pretend it's not two fifteen and you try to sleep a little longer, but your body won't go to sleep because you've had your sleep. So what I did is I turned on the TV and Turner Classic Movies is featuring in the middle of the night Czech cinema from the 1960s. So I saw a 1963 film called Something Different, and it actually was amazing. I never thought I'd be talking about Czech cinema. New Wave Cinema from 1963 on this program. But it was actually bizarrely good. And what's the tone of these films? Are they comedies? Are they romances? Action? What is it? This was a film by a woman director. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to talk about my vacation in Greece and London and on the Queen Mary to with Suzanne. I'm going to talk about that in a minute. But I'm just telling you, so last night we went to bed so early that I woke up so early that I know to do with myself, turn on the TV. And I'm watching Czech cinema, 1963. And it was it was really like, you know, when you recognize a film, when you basically say like, I know this is good. Like there were things about the direction of it that I thought this is next level. It was in some ways so bizarre. It was two stories. They kept cutting back and forth between them. And they were not linked. But one was about a gymnast. Am I really talking about this on the program? It was it was I'm all in. I'm intrigued. One was about a real gymnast. I can't think of her name right now, but she was a big deal gymnast. She competed in the Olympics in 56 and 60. And her father was a gymnast. Again, Czechoslovakian. And I got to tell you, they they made an actual film with her. It was a film, wasn't a documentary. So she's playing the role of a gymnast in the film. But it's like very intense and stuff. And then they had this other story of a woman and her husband and their young kid. It was just just bizarrely compelling. And it wasn't meant to be funny, but it was just good. I think my problem is that when you come from Europe to America, you just my body's not here yet. So I think this was the name of the film is called Something Different, which this segment is. And the gymnast was Ava Bosakova. That's correct. He was a gold medalist. Go to the head of the class. So, yeah, but but it's that's half of the story. But it was filmed very interestingly. I mean, filming her routines and stuff, as though it's part of like an actual movie versus a documentary film. Anyway, that's what I did in the middle of the night, because you wake up in the middle of the night. What do you do? I turn on turn to classic movies. And so I've been up for hours. I ran four miles in Central Park. Like basically, I'm ready to go to bed now. And and the show is just starting. So, OK, I want to tell the story of my vacation. We were we spent the last day, 10 or 11 days in Greece.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"the 1960s" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"They saturated the language about white supremacy, systemic racism, white privilege starting in about 2015. That became the discourse on the left, I mean it really saturated all of the thinking on the New York Times op-ed page and other places and then you had COVID which increased the pressure on people psychologically and then you had the moment of George Floyd's death which we've known since the Black Panther Party in the 1960s, images of police brutality are the number one way for left-wing radicals to recruit, to build power and to foment violent revolution in the streets. They said it rather very clearly in the 1960s, our number one recruiting method for the Black Panther Party is by baiting the police, goading them into violence and then turning the narrative against them. Within the age of smartphones, the speed of that happened even more quickly but then what happened was really brilliant on their part politically to give them credit. In the 60s and 70s, the government, the law enforcement agencies, the corporations, even the New York Times was against the left-wing radicals, was against the Black Panther Party but in 2020, everything had changed, universities, school, media, churches, New York Times op-ed page all knelt before the ideology of BLM and that was the moment when they revealed this change. They had conquered the institutions from within. Everything had changed in that moment and what I try to do in the book is explain exactly how we got there because as you said, we cannot defeat this movement unless we understand it but we also cannot go back to the status quo of the past. Conservatives have to roll up their sleeves and get ready to fight because the only way out is through.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from America's Cultural Revolution with Chris Rufo
"We have a great guest for the full hour, really smart man, Christopher Rufo, author of a very important book that you should purchase, America's Cultural Revolution, by Christopher Rufo. Christopher, thank you for joining the program again, the subtitle of the book is How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. I have been encouraging our audience, it's about Mao, it's about Mao, it's about Mao, you know, kind of in politics, we talked about Stalin or Hitler and Mussolini, I think too much. Mao doesn't get as much attention. Before we talk about America's Cultural Revolution, catch us up to speed about Mao's Cultural Revolution and what can we learn from it and how does it apply today? Well, Mao understood, you know, Mao was of course the great Chinese communist military hero who led the communist forces on their long march and then conquered the country, established a Marxist -Leninist state. But what he realized by the 1960s was that leveling the economy, reshaping everything on an economic front and a political front was not enough. And that in order to get the true communist utopia, he believed, you had to also level all attachments to the prior culture. You had to really wipe out the connection between the people and their cultural history and replace it with left -wing Marxist ideology, which then became known as Maoism, famously made concrete in his little red book of quotations that was spread around the country at that time and still to this day. And in America, though, what's happening is something very similar. The radical left realized that they could not bring a socialist Marxist working class revolution to the United States. In fact, most middle class Americans and working class Americans were totally against that kind of movement dating back to the 60s and 70s. And so they said, what we have to do is infiltrate the institutions of culture and turn those great institutions against the American people to change how they think about their past, their present in order to influence their future. And so now you're talking about America's cultural revolution. When did it start? And we could talk about how they've conquered everything as you throw out because your book is super smart and you make a lot of great points. When would you say was the beginning of America's cultural revolution? The beginning point is actually quite clear. It's in the year 1968. That was when the so -called new left came to prominence. You had student activists and left -wing intellectuals mobilizing in the universities at the same time that you had what was thought of as the underclass mobilizing through riots in America cities, more than 100 different cities around the country. And this is the genesis of this coalition that has stuck around to this day. You have the intelligentsia working ideologically, trying to reshape people's opinions, attitudes and beliefs. And then you have the streets, the inner cities, what was called the lumpen proletariat, the people at the fringes of society mobilizing in a physical and violent way. And so what you saw established, that basic dynamic in 1968, all of a sudden you fast forward 50 -some years to 2020 with George Floyd and you see it emerging again. You have the editorialists at MSNBC and the elite left -wing media working with the BLM movement that was really mobilizing people to violence in America's cities. It's the same pattern over and over and over. These folks have been doing it not by accident, but very deliberately. They had a plan to get the institutions to march all the way through America's prestige economy and then to turn these ideas on using events like the death of George Floyd as a focal point in their campaign. So in the book, I'm really glad you start, chapter one, Erbert Marcuse, the father of the revolution. This is a name that most Americans aren't familiar with. Politically involved people would maybe know Saul Linsky, right? Maybe Antonio Gramsci. But Marcuse, elderly philosopher, took the dialectics of liberation, you write. What did he believe? What is the Frankfurt School? And I'm told, Christopher Rufo, by the media that the Frankfurt School is a conspiracy theory. Christopher Rufo. Yeah, I guess it's a conspiracy theory, but it's quite interesting because left -wing intellectuals prior to maybe 2015, 2016, they celebrated what they called Western Marxism or Cultural Marxism. And they said that that was a line of thinking in the academic literature that was highly prized at the time. And then all of a sudden, once it became well known and it became unpopular because these insane, ideas are then they said, no, no, no, we can't talk about that anymore. That's a conspiracy theory. And they tried to take all their own work and kind of hide it in the corner. But Herbert Marcuse is really important and his name should be just as prominent as Saul Linsky's name. And I, because I think he's actually more important because while Saul Linsky was a master tactician, he knew how to play the game of activism at the tactical level. Herbert Marcuse was really the intellectual godfather of the modern left. He realized that the traditional Marxist revolution was a failure. He looked at the Soviet Union and realized that that could not work, wasn't working in the Soviet Union and wasn't working anywhere in the West. And so all of the ideas that Marcuse originated, the ideas of the new left, the idea of the high -low coalition, the idea of changing cultural perceptions in order to change politics, the idea of using extra -parliamentary power, meaning street activism and the threat of violence in pursuit of political activism, the idea of repressive tolerance, meaning repressing certain ideas, all conservative ideas in places like universities and forcing left -wing ideas into the discourse. All of those ideas that you see all around us were already written about, thought about and originated and perpetuated by Marcuse in the late 1960s. So if you want to understand our current moment, you have to understand this man, you have to understand his ideas and you have to understand his strategies for achieving power.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Gone up 50 % back in the 1960s. He's actually arguing that the Thatcher major era, there were large numbers of employees who got share options in their company, Stephen, that they worked for. They actually felt a part of it. But he said that is now just currently eroding. Yeah, I mean, it's really interesting because of his comments to around AGM, something that he actually spoke to Caroline about when she spoke to him for this programme only a couple of weeks ago as well. And the idea that, you know, AGM's need to become accessible more for people and having them online. Yeah, absolutely. He spoke about that as saying it's very important. But another thing he spoke about with Caroline too, which I think is interesting, are these annual reports. are just You know, they hundreds and hundreds of pages long. He says it's unsuitable for private shareholders. We should move to posting them online to help people access them more. A bit like AGM's, make it more accessible for people who want to be involved. The Telegraph meanwhile has this headline on China having penetrated every sector of the British economy. That's a warning from MPs. Yeah, it is indeed, Alex. And basically it's a report from Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee and it is absolutely scathing. It says China's ambition to become an economic superpower is presenting the greatest risk to the UK. But they are basically warning that the government has been asleep at the wheel it when comes to this. They've been slow to wake up to China who has successfully penetrated every sector of the British economy. The committee said the country was seeking to control key industrial and civil nuclear energy assets here in the UK. The committee chaired by Julian Lewis, the MP, warned that the UK must stop security concerns being trumped by economic opportunism, which I think is very a interesting article to read about how the UK government is succeeding when it comes to China It's actually a sort of story that Bloomberg has covered to very great effect outside of the UK. have Do a look for our coverage on Huawei in Denmark and China's Coca -Cola espionage. Thanks, and this is Bloomberg. Bloomberg Bloomberg radio on demand and in your podcast feed on the latest edition of the Bloomberg Daybreak US edition podcast a conversation with Senator Elizabeth Warren on why she thinks the Fed should stop. My message is take yes for an answer, Chair Powell, and let's stop with the rate increases. The Fed's vice chair of supervision Michael Barr has recently laid out proposals to strengthen capital requirements the for largest banks out there. Most importantly, are you satisfied with his proposal and do you think he has the authority within the Federal Reserve to see it through? He clearly has the authority to be able to put in higher standards and to be able to enforce those higher standards. And the second part is Barr is headed in the right direction. Is it enough? No, we still have a lot of
WTOP
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"Say 15 % on Long Fence decks, pavers and fences go to longfence .com today and schedule your free in -home estimate money news at 10 and 40 on WTOP this is a Bloomberg money minute Tesla's superchargers are well on their way to becoming the industry standard for electric vehicle charging in the US GM is following in Ford's footsteps announcing that it will adapt its EVs to the Tesla standard beginning next year the gender pay gap is narrowed since the 1960s but its cost to women is staggering the Center for American progress estimates the cost at 61 trillion dollars since equal the pay act was signed in 1967 as of 2021 women who work year around and full -time earned 84 cents for each dollar earned by men it was just 59 cents in in the 1960s it was a rough day at the Supreme Court for the maker of a dog toy made to look like like a Jack Daniels whiskey bottle in the unanimous ruling the court said Brown Foreman could revive trademark its lawsuit against the maker of the toy from the Bloomberg Newsroom I'm Larry Kofsky on GOP the Wizards introduced their new brain trust and the thrilling finish to game 3 of the Stanley Cup final in sports Florida in 10 minutes on WTOP hi I'm Rich McKenzie owner of Metropolitan Bath & Tile you've seen those ads where a company covers over your old bathtub and tile walls with a old plastic tub here's a fact that might surprise you in most cases Metropolitan can remove your old tub and tile and install a new porcelain on steel bathtub with new ceramic walls for the same price so call us at 1 -800 -NEW -BATH or visit us at MetroBath Bathroom remodeling it's what we do it's all we do as a public servant your priorities have real human impact that's why Deloitte makes it our priority to design AI solutions to empower you and your mission so if your focus is combating fraud waste and abuse
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Tina Turner, unstoppable superstar whose hits included 'What's Love Got to Do With It,' dead at 83
"Singer Tina Turner has died after a long illness at her home near Zürich Switzerland, according to her manager, Turner was 83. And marches are a letter with a look at her career. Tina Turner's life was a roller coaster, hit songs in the 1960s, leaving an abusive marriage, becoming a superstar in her 40s and having her life turned into a hit movie. She recorded songs like proud Mary, nutbush city limits, and river deep mountain high with her ex-husband, Ike Turner. Turner's first solo album flopped, then she released private dancer and her career was bigger than ever. Angela Bassett played her in the film what's love got to do with it. Turner said in a 1993 AP interview she instructed Bassett that the dancing should be energetic, not raunchy. Because she was a few times going to the front. No, no, no, no, no, not from the front. Always to decide
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Jim Brown, all-time NFL great and social activist, dead at 87
"Pro football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor, as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s has died. He was 87. A spokeswoman for brown's family said he passed away peacefully in his Los Angeles home on Thursday night with his wife Monique by his side. One of the greatest players in football history and one of the game's first superstars, Brown was chosen the NFL's most valuable player in 1965 and shattered the league's record books in a short career spanning 1957 to 65. I'm geffen ghoul ball.
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"The first bill that I'll be signing is SB two 66 And what this does is reorient our universities back to their traditional mission and part of that traditional mission is to treat people as individuals not to try to divvy them up based on any type of superficial characteristics We're going to elevate merit and achievement above identification with certain groups And in order to do that we had to look at this new concept relatively new concept called diversity equity and inclusion And I didn't know much I mean this is something relatively recent I mean Chris ruvo can talk about when this really started to percolate I think it had probably been there a few years ago but then kind of the post BLM rioting and the George Floyd summer of 2020 It all started really in the 1960s and the 70s 1960s and 70s It wasn't called DEI per se but that's what it was Go ahead And on its face I mean I see when I see diversity I think different viewpoints have a robust academic discussion in the university isn't that what they're for In reality what this concept of DEI has been is an attempt to impose orthodoxy on the university and not even necessarily in the classroom but through the administrative apparatus of the university itself And that manifests itself in a number of different ways but this is basically been used as a veneer to impose an ideological agenda And that is wrong And in fact if you look at the way this is actually been implemented across the country DEI is better viewed as standing for discrimination exclusion and indoctrination And that has no place in our public institutions
Fix It 101
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"This whole job opportunity. I know my mind doesn't have it in there. All right, so I've got an email here. My name is Ana Elizabeth, and my question is about attic ventilation. Now, we get into this every time Timmy comes here, somebody sends an email that he and Jeff can arm wrestle over. I own a 1960s home with a well working whole house attic fan. It is wonderful to have as we can open windows, screen doors in the spring and fall and enjoy a nice breeze throughout our home. We also have three unsightly dormers in the front side of our roof as well as two turbines. It is time to replace our roof and we would like to update the look by removing these. What would be the best option for venting to keep the effectiveness of our attic fan? Hold on. After doing the math, this is in the email. After doing the math on CFM and square foot and cubic foot of home and attic space, we need approximately 12 ft² of attic venting. We have 63 feet of ridge on our roof, but I've been told that a ridge vent and power vent complete compete with one another. Thank you in advance. I always enjoy the information you share, and Elizabeth and starkville. Jeff, wanting to look at me. It is real simple. Okay, okay. Okay, let's go ahead. I'm gonna reference put a
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"From the ad council. This is the Bloomberg green report. The last two years have shown the challenges that face officials when they must deal with compounding or co occurring disasters, floods extreme heat and wildfires coincided with a global pandemic. Clear Knox at the university of Central Florida is an expert on emergency and crisis management. She says systems designed to handle one disaster at a time are being stressed, with climate change hazardous weather events increasingly trigger subsequent events. Bad situations can snowball into catastrophes known as cascading disasters. Extended heat and drought are twice as likely to coincide now as in the 1960s and 70s, and when they coincide each event drives up the intensity of the other and creates fuel for wildfires. A study by Johns Hopkins University found that during last year's record setting heat wave in the southwest, the severe drought in the region likely drove temperatures up an extra 4°. Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg radio. Burden LLP accountants and advisers presents industry chat, with Tony Gallo, principal of concept fund services, a division of burden accountants and advisers. In today's demanding and competitive environment, it is essential for business leaders to remain focused on developing and implementing a strategic plan that leads to continued growth and success. Outsourcing the financial and accounting functions of a business not only helps to reduce overall paywall and employee expenses, but also
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"When it will start If it didn't start last week it was going to start early next year At this start last week and we expect that to continue next year to keep up with a with inflation and be with higher rates in advanced economies Yeah thank you for sharing some light on the nuances of the EM story that says he had the chief emerging markets economist I want to get you a bit of a preview of well what are the central banks that are on the list They're going to make some decisions this week They've got a lot to juggle This is not going to be straightforward for any of them We start off on Monday with the bank of Israel and then on Wednesday the RB and Z which has already seen quite a bit of reprising both in the bond and in the local currency market South Korea dealing again with a rise in COVID infections also serious cases at the same time as well that's going to get factored in and then sweeten kind of caps it out later on Thursday With that in mind I'm also looking at one of the most red stories on the Bloomberg and I mentioned this in the last hour I'll mention it this hour as well and that is a new Ferrari that's been inspired and modeled after a particular model of the 1960s as we prepare for Christmas and as we generate some ideas for Manus as soon as he gets back from his holiday This is something that he can pick up on the price tag here of $2.26 million per car and only 599 will be made That's something to think about This is Bloomberg The only way to start the morning He's with optimism The jobs.
Tribe Talk Connection
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"Which is the united states knows that israel is pursuing a nuclear weapon. The agreement is that the united states will not stop israel pursuing a nuclear weapon and israel at the same time will not say that it has the weapon so the non-proliferation treaty can be sent to still be in effect but israel can move ahead and get the weapon on the upside of this whole episode of courses that today israel is a nuclear israel has nuclear weapons and a whole array of places it does not commonly admit that but it's very well known that it has them including them other things on submarines so that even if israel were to be taken out by an immediate strike of the people on those submarines will be able to figure out where that strike came from and will do what needs to be done to make it clear that this was the time that the jews were not going to go down quietly. Hopefully that will never happen but that again just like nine hundred fifty six changes israel standing in the middle east the fact that israel is now a nuclear power changes everything as well so many else happens in the nineteen sixties. We need to look at quickly. Which is the birth of the palestinian liberation organization or the p. l. and all i mentioned the o. very briefly it's formed essentially in one thousand nine hundred four It's formed again in sixty four. Which is before nine hundred sixty seven before the six day war before there's an occupation before there is a conflict with the palestinians and what those up much carry who will eventually become the peel. Those chairman say about that second round that they're getting ready for he says quote in the event of a conflagration. no june's whatsoever will survive period in other words. The plo is not about restoring lands to the palestinians because his doesn't have any lands of the palestinians. The pilo is explicit that its purpose is to destroy the state of israel to make sure that there is no jewish entity anywhere between the jordan river and the mediterranean sea and that in the process no jews central carry will be left alive. Where are we today almost sixty years after that well. It's my elf aena. Who was the prime minister of hamas or gaza said a few years ago. We were going to liberate palestine in its entirety from the mediterranean to the jordan river hezbollah till this very day. Which is the terrorist organization. Lebanon says that it's about eliminating israel..
Tribe Talk Connection
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"Is enraged not just annoying but enraged and at the zionist congress at the end of nineteen sixty he actually says you know what who cares about american jews they are gonna disappear in a sea of assimilation anyway. This is a shameful group of people who don't know how to stand up for themselves. And i make a point of mentioning this now not because been going on spoke wisely but because want us to understand that the lack of patience american jews with israel and israelis with american. Jews is not a new thing. It's not a result of the occupation. It's not a result of the conflict with the with the palestinians in one thousand. Nine hundred sixty there is no occupation in nine hundred. Sixty israel does not have the west bank in nineteen sixty. There is no palestinian issue and yet americans. Susan israelis are already at each other's throats in this particular instance because of the question who says you israelis actually speak for american jews. Those are the highlights of the eichmann. Trial of course eventually convicted and israel hangs him and then he is actually cremated and his ashes are spilled at sea outside israeli territorial waters because israel does not want him buried anywhere so that his burial place could become kind of a place to go for nazis neo-nazis or anything of the sort in nineteen fifty three already a sham had been created so israel is beginning already to come into scholarly way to terms with the holocaust and more and more of the holocaust will become part of israel's national curriculum. Today most israeli high school students actually go and visit poland not all but the vast majority of israeli high school students go and visit poland and in the better schools they learned first about what european jewish life was before it was destroyed and then they go and see what actually happened one of the very sad dimensions of the holocaust in israeli life today and this is something that has actually i think shameful and i think many israelis agree with me is that a terribly..
Tribe Talk Connection
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"Building a new kind of jew and these jews. Who has they said. Of course not us. But as they said went like sheep to the slaughter that was the opposite of what we wanted us to be and these scientists in israel had really very little interest in hearing that story. There was another reason of course that they were very ambivalent about hearing that story for a long time which was because they've been unable to do anything. They were impotent. When it came to the holocaust they were in the issue they were in the issue of numbering hundreds of thousands. They were building the hug. Annan that we're building the edsel. They were building the left fame but what were they really gonna do against the nazi onslaught and therefore even though in palestine in the issue they felt increasingly. Powerful and assertive. There was nothing that they could do about europe and that actually reminded them of their own weakness so for all of those reasons israelis in the early years of the state just did not want to hear about the holocaust but the capture of idol. I've men who was then sneaked out of argentina by israeli security intelligence forces and broth israel and held trial in jerusalem. The trial of adolf eichmann which survivor after survivor after survivor was brought to testify about what she had endured what he had. Endured israelis. listen to the radio day. In and day out we know from the diaries of israelis back then that they would schedule their work hours around the trial that they would not go out. Renault obviously portable radios back. Then they wanted to be home in near a radio to hear this trial and for the first time the horror of the nazi genocide really begins to sink into the israeli consciousness. You're healed the enor- who was one of the people who gave testimony actually fainted when he was giving testimony after we had called it a different planet. He said anybody who wasn't auschwitz couldn't begin to understand it. Had its own rules of nature and describing what it was that he had endured in front of cameras. And in front of microphones. He literally topples over from his seat onto the floor from the witness stand in an image that most israelis even to this day half ingrained in their memory of only from the internet that they can never forget and olof life minutes there during this whole while he is sitting in a glass cage guarded by israeli guards to protect him. I guess from the people there but also to make sure he doesn't go anywhere. And this is the turning of the tables because now those men and women who had tattoos of numbers on their arms and had not that many years before been wearing striped clothing. If you can call it that given to them by nazis they are testifying. In a sovereign jewish state while the highest ranking nazi official then known to be alive is sitting in a cage waiting to be judged. It changed everything about the place of the holocaust in israeli life with also very interesting about the eichmann. Trial of force about which entire books have been written because it's an exceedingly complicated and long trial. What's fascinating about the trial. Is that well. Rank and file american. Jews were not celebratory but deeply satisfied when they also heard that. Ben gurion had announced the capture of america's american judaism's leadership was actually infuriated. I know that it's hard to imagine that today but we have to kind of wrap our heads around it..
Tribe Talk Connection
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"Address anti-semitism and feel empowered in their jewish identity from before they go off to college and through their college years and beyond and now dr gorgeous high in previous segments of our history of zionism and israel. We've covered the nineteen fifties both internally. What was happening inside. Israel and externally especially in terms of israel's beginning to develop a more professional army taking a little bit more of an adversarial approach to its enemies and finally culminating in the sinai campaign of nineteen fifty six. Now let's turn our attention because we're really going at thirty thousand foot level here. Very very briefly. Let's look at the nineteen sixties nineteen sixties. Really begin with an extraordinary announcement in may of nineteen sixty. There was a rumor that they ended been boring on. Who is the prime minister of. Israel has a very important announcement to make. Nobody knows what it is. But the knesset building of that time which is not the knesset building of now is completely packed. And they've been worrying. Enters the plenum of the knesset and he reads the following very brief statement. I have to inform the knesset that a short time ago one of the great nazi war criminals out of men. The man responsible together with the nazi leaders what they called the final solution which is the annihilation of six million. European jews was discovered by israel's security services if men is already under arrest in israel will be placed on trial shortly under the terms of the law for the trial of nazis and their collaborators and with that ben-gurion walked out of the knesset and it was silent in the knesset silent as people began to internalize the enormity of the magnitude of that statement because thank for amid how many people in that plant them had lost parents or siblings or spouses or children or extended family to the nazi onslaught against european jewellery. An inordinate number of people in that room were either orphaned or widowed or whatever because the nazis had slaughtered their family and now comes david been going on and he says a mere twelve years after israel was created because this is may nineteen sixty so it's exactly twelve years after israel is created. David green is announced that the existential condition of jewish people on planet earth has changed which is to say you can no longer commit genocide against the jewish people and then go live out your days in peace and quiet in the suburbs of buenos aires in argentina. But they've been grown has essentially said. Is that the long arm of israel in some way shape matter or form will find you the days when the zoos are victims simply waiting for you to do whatever it is that you would do. Those days are long over. And it was literally as i said. Silent in the knesset until spontaneously. The knesset broke out in thunderous applause. And remember the same thunderous applause. That we'd heard in eighteen ninety seven when or hertzel took the podium in basel switzerland and announced that those two hundred and seven delegates had gathered to build a jewish home for the first time. In two thousand years the eichmann trial which then proceeded was the really the first time that israeli society heard the gripping details of what had happened in the holocaust. Many of us now talking together today. No those details much better than israelis did now we have the videos and we have the testimonies and we have all the recordings. That stuff wasn't available back in nineteen sixty and then in addition to that. Many israelis really didn't want to hear the story. They thought that those people who were quote unquote lead like sheep to the slaughter were the antithesis of the muscular confident bronze tone that zionists who was working the fields in the galilee by and guarding them at night the words the scientists in it'll in israel or palestine back in the day..
True Mysteries of the Pacific Northwest
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"Also known as mutual dreams are when two people or more a dream experience at the same time the degree to which the dream is shared could vary from having common elements or events. That happened in each person's dream to the entire dream being identical. Imagine a shared dream. Where the dreamers. Don't know each other but both go to the same counselor. The dream environment for each was the same solely populated with the other dreamer. The counselor and the observer never revealing that the person occupying the dream was not a figment of the imagination but another client one male one female in the man's dream. he is pursuing the female. In the woman's dream. She is being pursued by the male. This was a strange case at oregon. College counselor was confronted with a nineteen sixty seven during each visit by the man. It was confessed that in his dream he was more bold in his pursuit of a woman. Who woman confessed that. She feared the outcome. If the man in her dream should catch her with scary after questioning each dreamer about the environment. It was determined that neither new location but from where the descriptions provided by each the counselor was able to pinpoint london from the description of the streets buildings pollution and the roads. She was estimating about the mid early eighteen eighties. The counselor was concerned that the activity in the two dreams was becoming more interwoven yet to pass. The dreamers waking lives never crossed when the activities in the dreams became so intense that it was affecting daily activities of both dreamers. The counselor believed it was time for an intervention. still why london. Why early or mid eighteen eighties. She requested detailed family histories from each client. The man's family ancestry ended abruptly with the adoption of his great grandfather whose occupation was as a physician in london during the eighteen eighties. The woman's family line ended equally abruptly one. Her grandmother was murdered in white chapel region of london side. The counselor was shot at the seemingly coincidental location and year of family tree of each dreamer. And how they were twined crossing campus. She picked up. A newspaper was sad to see that. A series of brutal murders had taken place in a nearby town and a gun unsolved. She didn't approve of the woman or the victims occupation they will prostitutes but no one deserved to be murdered in such a horrible manner eviscerated and gutted she read the article is she. Approached and walked toward the trash can but stopped short of dropping the newspaper into the garbage when she got to the part that compared the murders to those committed by jack the ripper and the white chapel district of london in eighteen eighty eight she decided after reading about local murders based on how disturbed her clients were by their dreams that an intervention would be past life regression. She was convinced that by standing the rationale for the dreams she would be able to resolve the stress associated by them. The man was scheduled to see her two days before the woman she placed him in a hypnotic transit allowed her to regress him when she questioned him about his environment is verbal response was rude in his accent. Difficult to understand. I when she questioned him about the young woman. He became so agitated with descriptions of action violence he would dispatch her with the counselor immediately. Brought him out of the trance. She made no mention of what he had revealed to her for. Fear of upsetting him over the next two days. She read several accounts of the ripper murders. They were so close to the description. Of what the man describe while experiencing past life regression that she decided that no matter what was revealed when she hypnotized she would hold back nothing. Maybe even warn her. The young woman was easily hypnotized and under pointed question. In revealed her name is catherine. Does the counselor noted the name during the session. She was surprised when the young woman rolled bucked on the couch thinking. She was having some kind of seizure. She sat down notebook with the intent of bringing her out of the hypnotic state but stopped when it became apparent that the young woman as catherine eddoes was having sex when the gyration stopped. She quickly brought her out of the trans before leaving the office and after considerable questioning the counselor learn that her client was the great granddaughter of the fourth victim of jack. The ripper and yes. Her great grandmother had been a prostitute so shocked was the counselor that she led the woman lever office without a warning. When the school year came to an end both clients graduated and left the area. She had no idea where the young woman was headed. But the man was headed to a cupertino california. Small town in san francisco south bay. He was going to be a teacher. She took the summer off and travel returning to a position as a counselor at the oregon university early in the first semester. She was crossing campus and purchase a newspaper from the stand outside. The bookstores was custom folding. And talking under her arm she proceeded to her office where she would read it while waiting for client on the third page that picture of the young woman she had counseled a year before was described as a latest victim of a series of brutal murders. Were the share dreams of the counselors to clients and almond of some kind had past life. Regression revealed the spirits of jack. The ripper and his fourth victim were destined to meet against seventy nine years after the first meeting and could the council have stopped a series of murders by revealing. The man's past will never know. The counselor passed away at the age of seventy three and two thousand ten. The story i just related was found among the letters by our daughter research by ryland anderson and written by his team. Urban legend.