40 Burst results for "The Last Year"
Over the Next Hill Fitness
Miles of Marathon Motivation With Jeannie Rice
"Tell me um about your marathon journey how many marathons have you ran so far weeks ago three weeks ago ready yeah I did that was my 131 Wow and then 30 first marathon so you know it's interesting it's a funny actually I told my friends and family when I when I reach hundreds marathon I'm gonna stop running a marathon not that I'm gonna stop running I'll stop for marathon and I'll do the half marathon and I'll continue to run so 100th math and I went to Boston again Boston is very special I guess because I was qualified night very beginning so I went there right after my hundredth marathon I'm thinking already next math and I couldn't so many I still want to do so now since then I've been 31 again 31 more so I am you know still have several math and I want to do so I you know is it easy no training is the hard part as you know anybody can train I mean you get to the starting line we can all get through it math either faster or slower but to get to that point you have to train so train for so weeks train is a tough you know I run 50 miles a week all year round either I have a marathon schedule or not so I am pretty much marathon ready whenever I want to run math and I just picked the one and then I do so 50 miles a week a pretty much six seven days a week once in a while I'll take the day off but you know my day off can be real easy one you know three four mile or none but normally six days a week I run all year round so what made you decide to go from that 5k to a marathon what was there any transition in there any like a 10k then a half or anything like that or you just went from 5k to I think I went seven weeks in a row 5k but 5k is like my speed world to me I am more you know distance runner although I do have a world record 5k I don't consider myself a fast but fast enough for my age division you know I broke the world record on 5k 10k even 1 ,500 meter and one mile this past this year I got all this world record time but marathon is the one I really you know a good at it because a marathon time when I first broke a world record when I was 75 years ago in Chicago and I broke the world record by seven minutes yeah those seven minutes the German lady had it for five years nobody broke until I did it and then I broke that year and then year later I went to Berlin marathon and I broke my own record by three minutes so I have a ten minutes in between so but there's a couple ladies are chasing of course it's fun about it we are not pro runners but you know they are chasing my record and record will be broken some sooner later just like I did this year now I'm move up to 75 and I broke 75 years old record mm -hmm so Chicago I only broke by four minutes so I mean I said only because I was hoping for seven minutes just like I did five years ago but this way I can break my own record again because I didn't run as fast as I want I plan to and I was hoping to so now next big race will be London and that's what I'm going for okay so you're going for all the world majors yes yeah yeah I don't have any marathon plan before then I do have a USATF cross -country that's only 6k 6k in December and I have a math half marathon in December Jacksonville and then in Naples in January that's a big race I go to Naples during the winter time mm -hmm I live in Cleveland Ohio during the summer but it's cold in here so I'll be heading down in a week or two to Florida and I stay there till April so but there's a big half marathon in Naples in January which I do that every year and I belong to running club down there it's a huge race people come from all over so that's my my schedule but I do a lot of 5k if it's a local 5k there is 5k I run anyway because to me that's my fun run and it's a speed work mm -hmm and I'm not really good at going to track every week like some people do I used to when I was younger and I don't do that and I still go once in a while with the friends if they want me to go I'll go but my speed work is local small races or I do on the road by doing this you know running schedule
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "The Last Year" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Of the stolen items was worth more than $25 most were snacks and drinks while making the arrests police say they recovered a BB gun and amphetamines DC traffic deaths are up more than 60 % this year from the time same last year the highest total in 16 years that's according to Axios DC which reports 45 traffic deaths in the city that includes 17 pedestrians and two bicyclists the increasing death toll comes despite vision zero that's the name of DC's 8 year old plan to make roadways safer with investments in bike lanes lowering speed now a look at the top stories we're working on at WTOP a truce between Israel and Hamas has expired and Israeli air strikes have hit targets in Gaza this could be the last day on the job for Republican Congressman George Santos and an unusual debate between two governors last night was loaded with insults keep it here for full details details on these stories in the minutes ahead 518 traffic and weather on the 8th Rita Kessler's watching in the traffic center looks like we have a late to clear work zone in Virginia on 95 this is after the Prince William Parkway headed toward Dale Boulevard the left side is still blocked with the work at one point it is two right lanes getting you by at one point still just a single right so it looks like they may be picking up some cones area in that still seeing some delays northbound looks good out of Stafford crossing the Occoquan into Springfield no problems along 395 northbound headed to the 14th St. Bridge we had an earlier work cruise southbound before the 14th St. with Bridge a single lane getting you by watch out for any cones that may still be there not seeing a delay eastbound and westbound 66 running now well if you're on the Beltway inner and outer loop still in good shape through both Maryland and Virginia the earlier rec reported on the outer loop near Braddock Road they didn't find anything there so not seeing a delay in Maryland southbound 270 that's still at speed out of Frederick into Rockville to the lane divide now in Waldorf it is route 5 matter woman in town road that is shut down at pine field road for the crash possibly a crash investigation not quite sure when they're gonna get lanes reopened expect the redirection also southbound 202 or Landover Road is shut down at 75th Avenue and Kent town place for the crash investigation you're under police direction there found however you will find northbound 202 is open 50 in the BW Parkway still looking good trying head to into the district whether you're going on to New York Avenue or on to DC 295 I 295 is running well from Beltway the to the 11th Street bridge no problems reported along the Suitland Parkway between Branch Avenue and the Douglas Bridge we also still have the work in northwest northbound Connecticut Avenue at Florida Avenue the lanes are blocked with the utility work watch for any crew redirection drought war and rising food prices have devastated families in poverty $50 provides a food kit to feed a family for a month just text the word radio to 97646 I'm Rita Kessler WTOP traffic and your forecast now from seven news first alert meteorologist Brian Vandegraff clouds went went out today temperatures low 50 some showers particularly for midday through the afternoon
Over the Next Hill Fitness
Hear 75-Year-old Jeannie Rice's Inspiring Journey to Marathon Success
"To the show Jeannie. It's so nice to have you here. Well thank you for having me. Jeannie I read your story in runner's world so I really was excited to have you agreed to come on the show. So how did you get started in running? It's a long story but I'm gonna make it short. Like 41 years ago, it's going on 41 years already I've been running, I made a trip to my hometown Seoul, Korea and I came home a few extra pounds. I would say five six pounds because I was just traveling and visiting family and you know even every day it's like a feast right? So I am a short person I'm only 5 '1 and the five six pounds was a little I felt like I was a little chubby so I started jogging around the blocks and then I got hooked and I decided that I am pretty good at it running before you know it and I was in a five mile race in local race and then I did very well at the time I was 35 years old and I was a brand new runner I just starting to jog a couple three months and I came in fourth in my age division it was a big race actually so I thought oh if I train I guess I can run faster so that's how I got hooked so a year later I did math on 1984 1983 I start running 1984 I did my first marathon and six months later first marathon was 345 and then six months later I did 316 which qualified for Boston at the time I was only 36 years old so I did go to Boston 1985 that was my first marathon and I got hooked so I've been running since then and my children were already older a lot of people a lot of girls I would say when they start younger age we know they get married they get you know have a children's they take some time off between their pregnancy or whatever but I was already I had two boys already they were already older so I just never stopped as I've been running 41 years straight Wow and your time hasn't really changed now has it because I looked at some of your times yes you know it's interesting um a lot of people my competitor now and they used to be some of them I mean one you know particular lady and from London she was Olympian years ago she was her best time is like a 240 something but now she's running my pace 330 ish but I never was there faster so I haven't slow down much let's I'll put it that way my first marathon was a 345 and then I got better to 310 but I never went under three hour so now I slow down a little bit 1015 minutes 40 years later I'm still running 330 math that's so incredible
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Fresh update on "the last year" discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"They'll just be impotent for an hour and then all of a sudden they'll heat up again and you can kind of see when he's getting into rhythm. The biggest disagreement I had with this was Gino at number 12, because I just don't think he's been very good this year and I don't think that team's been very good. Now they've lost Walker. They can't run the ball anymore. I don't really love their offensive line. Metcalf's been disappointed in this year. You can make excuses, but he just to me does not look like the same guy that he was last year. I think that's fair. I think he definitely has regressed over the last month and I think it's in the same way that he kind of regressed last year when the offensive line kind of broke down and that's when he saw the mistakes happen. I think it's more a statement about what's behind him in the quarterback rankings. There was a clear divide in the grades. Before CJ Stroud really started to elevate himself over the last month, it was like Jared Goff was the line and there was a five point drop in the grades to the next thing. And I just don't think there's anyone that's leapfrogging him yet. I think that's what it is more so than him maintaining the spot. His grade is actually dipped, but no one has leapfrogged him. I would have had, I can't believe I'm saying this. I probably would have had Wilson a little bit higher. You had him 16. You could even talk me into flipping him and Geno. Wilson's at the point now, I don't know how he got there, but he knows exactly what he can and can't do. He's got the old dad playing golf, hitting the drive into the woods that bounces back onto the fairway. He has two of those throws a game. He's got a nice sense of, it seems like he's about to get strip sacked, but he doesn't anymore. I just, I like how the, and it seems like his team actually kind of likes him unlike last year when they despise them. So I just like how he's playing. No, I do think he's, he has more self-awareness. I do think like that's the difference between this year and last year. And you could kind of see it over the last couple of years in Seattle when he was like, I want a different offense. I want to play like a Drew Brees, Tom Brady. And it's like, that's not, you're never going to play like that. That's not your style. And I think when he got to Denver, he was finally able to do his own thing and we saw the results. And I think it kind of humbled them in a way. And Sean Payton, I think is just the perfect coach because he's proven, even at the end of like Drew Brees' career, we saw him like coach up Teddy Bridgewater and win games. We saw him coach up Taysom Hill, a totally different quarterback and win games. And he's proven it once again with a totally different quarterback. So I give Payton more of the credit, but I do think Russell Wilson has adjusted. I just not as impressed by those adjustments as you are.
Mark Levin
Hear From Dr. Yechiel Leiter, Father of Fallen Soldier Moshe Leiter
"Man his background his history and I wanted you to come on the program and tell millions and millions of Americans what this is like what's happening what's happened to your family and what about the future sir well thank you mark good evening thank for you the opportunity to address your audience my son Moshe was my oldest three eight children he was also my best friend he spent 15 years in the shaldad unit which is the Israel equivalent to the Delta Force actually he trained for some time with the with the Delta Force at at the age of 33 decided to go to medical school because he was intent on helping people and healing people he was about to start his experience clinical on October 8th but October we know what happened Hamas stormed into our communities slaughtered 1200 hundred people and he immediately went back into a reservist position he had spent even during the training the medical training he had spent 80 90 days a year doing reserve duty because he was a real expert field fox he understood the battlefield very well and that's why when he went back into his reserve in the reserve unit on October 8th and organized the his soldiers prepared them for war he was actually put at the command of the point squadron which which led the division the first division to enter the northern community in in Gaza from which the Hamas terrorists would fire missiles into our cities sometimes thousands of missiles at a time and he was killed when he led the operation to discover peers tunnel peers that would lead to terrorist headquarters and to their ammunition sites it was booby trapped a very heavy booby trap and he was killed along with three of his soldiers and three were injured seriously they lost their legs so it was a great loss for me personally I think for the IDF we we had thousands of people during our shiva the mourning period for him thousands and and many of prime mr. visited us the president of Israel I say about half the cabinet because he was very very well known he was very well liked and he was a major who had mastered a so masterful reputation half my heart bleeds for my son and my best friend and half my heart is very proud that I had a son who led the battle a civilizational battle against evil and sitting here listening it's very emotional obviously I don't know you I didn't know him and I'm thinking of the great men who have to go off to war whether they really want to or not but in times like this they're called to do duty and they go and they do so without objection and then I'm thinking about the leading politicians in my country here and how they never talk about the idea of soldiers they talk never about who they are they don't show their photographs they don't talk about their backgrounds their families what they've gone through and I assume you find that incredibly disturbing
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Fresh update on "the last year" discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"And that's when I watched that film. And before I watched that film during the off season, I was low on Jordan Love, just like everyone else's because we hadn't seen him play. And I saw that and I was like, hold up, there's something here to him. And then I went in to interview a lot of Packers and that locker room loves it, man. That locker room loves him. They will do anything for him. So he checks that box, he checks the confidence box. He obviously has the talent. I think with him, it's just filling into those gaps. And I think the problem is you're gonna have those moments, like you said, when you're gonna have dips, it's not linear with him. And obviously not being able to start your first couple of years delayed that development for him. So I think that's even rougher. I think it's another one that they always say the locker room loves him. So you have Mahomes one, Allen two, you're just not gonna quit Justin Herbert, he's three. You don't have crunch time in your rankings? Just, I had the ball last and my team lost again. Is that a ranking for you or no? I'm assuming you saw the Packers game when he puts it right on the guy and he drops it. He scored, his problem is he has to do two game winning drives. He has to do the first game winning drive with three minutes and then when Staley's defense gives up the lead, he has to do the one with one minute. And that's the one he can't do. I love it. The Herbert fans are the best. Lamar four, Burrow five, Lawrence six, and then Dak Prescott seven and Hertz eight. Now Hertz being eight, when he's probably gonna win the MVP was the one that jumped out. But I have him on all my fantasy teams and I've watched a shitload of Eagles. And first of all, he's definitely hurt. They finally admitted it last week. They're like, oh yeah, he has a bad knee laceration that he got in week six. It's like week six, it's week 12. You're telling us now. So he's been pretty careful. But I think that that tush push thing, that weapon is still the best weapon at anything other than whatever the hell Mahomes does. You think it's him though? I do because I watch other teams try to do it. And they're the only team that can do it because of how strong he is. When you watch the other teams do the tush push, half the time it's a catastrophe. And with him, it's like every time it just goes forward. I agree with that. But I think I've seen other teams that have coaches from that coaching staff like the Cardinals. The only team that was better, when I wrote about the tush push last month, the only thing that was better statistically than the Eagles were the Cardinals who had Josh Dobbs. And Josh Dobbs is not Jalen Hurts. So I think there's so many elements that go into it. It's like, you can't discount Kelsey. You can't discount the line. And then another element that I think other teams haven't really picked up on and why the Eagles are so good at it is because they don't huddle before they do the tush push. So the defense can't substitute. Other teams, for some reason, they huddle. So you can anticipate and you can adjust and you can put in a different lineup. The Eagles don't let you do that. So I think it's not only hurts. I do think hurts. I think some of them are hurts, but I think most of them are the offensive line, just the situation. But I do think it's more replaceable than what you realize. I don't know. Maybe I'm not giving them enough credit, but I don't know. I saw the evidence. He hasn't impressed me as a passer. Like when you watch him as a passer, I honestly think he's worse this year than he was last year. Maybe it's the injury. But like you said, it wasn't on the report and I can't account for that in the rankings if we didn't know about it. Yeah, he's turned in kind of heat checky with the passing.
Mark Levin
Four Killed in Hamas-Claimed Terror Shooting at Jerusalem Bus Stop
"The in highest American deficit history this year next year will be the highest deficit. We owe ourselves tens of billions of dollars and if you take the off -budget items like so -called entitlements we what's going to happen nothing good. the There's constant government's going to shut down the government's going to shut down the government's going to shut down. The government's going to collapse the economy is going to collapse that's going to make 2020 and the riots and pandemic the look like small potatoes when people lose everything and they're
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Fresh update on "the last year" discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Going through your rankings, Jordan Love up to 21. And I think if you're talking about fast risers over the last couple of weeks, I've been really impressed. I was kind of completely out on him about four weeks ago. Just didn't seem like it was going to happen. And now it feels like not only are the throws there and they're figuring out using better and the receivers are healthy again, but his charisma came back and his charisma kind of disappeared in October, but now I feel like it's back. So do you see him ever getting higher than 21? Oh yeah, I definitely do. I think he has top 10 potential, honestly. I wrote about him before the season. I went to Green Bay's training camp and I interviewed him. I interviewed some players. I interviewed the offensive coordinator and they said a big moment for them was last year when he came in on that Sunday night game against the Eagles. And this speaks to what you're talking about with the charisma, where it wasn't like a rookie, he's not a rookie, but a guy that's playing for really the first time, going into a hostile environment on the road in Philadelphia, Sunday night football. And he came in and he was throwing no-look passes and hole shots.
Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
Dr. Raymond Moody & Paul Perry Join Melisa to Discuss What Happens When We Die
"So I have Dr. Raymond Moody and Paul Perry. Raymond A. Moody Jr. MD PhD is the leading authority of near -death experiences and the author of several books, including the seminal Life After Life. The founder of the Life After Life Institute, Moody has lectured on the topic throughout the world and is a counselor in private practice. He has appeared on many programs, including Today and Turning Point. Paul Perry has co -written several New York Times bestsellers, including The Light Beyond and Evidence of the Afterlife. He is also a documentary filmmaker, and for his film and the book about Salvador Dali. He has been knighted in Portugal, oh, that's interesting, a groundbreaking book, this is, that combines nearly 50 years of afterlife and near -death experience research to provide proof of the existence of the soul and life after death from psychiatrist and bestselling author of Life After Life. Dr. Raymond Moody and New York Times bestselling author, Paul Perry, after spending nearly five decades studying near -death experiences, Moody finally has the answer to humanity's most pressing question, what happens when we die? And in this book, Proof of Life After Life, both authors reveal that consciousness survives after the death of the body, featuring in -depth case studies, the latest research, and eye -opening interviews with experts. Proof explores everything from common paranormal signs to shared death experiences and much more. And you can learn more about each of these authors if you go to lifeafterlife .com or paulperryproductions .com. Welcome gentlemen, thank you so much for being with me today. Hi, thank you, nice introduction, appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much. So, first of all, okay, so, Raymond, you've been doing this since the 70s, am I correct in that? I'll just ask you each, you've been doing this work since the 70s? And what got you into wanting to explore near -death experiences? Well, fortunately, I was not exposed to religion when I was a kid, except very minimally. And so, I grew up with no idea of an afterlife. And so, I went to the University of Virginia at age 18 with intending to study astronomy, but took a philosophy course and immediately got hooked. And particular the book was Plato's Republic, which is, oddly, about a near -death experience. It culminates in a near -death experience of a warrior. And not just having no idea that anybody took the notion of an afterlife seriously, I asked my professor and he said that early Greek philosophers knew about cases of people who were believed dead and resuscitated. But had I no idea it still applied, but in 1965, in Charlottesville, I met a man who had such an experience, he was a professor of psychiatry there, and that really got me hooked and subsequent to that time, through my PhD in philosophy and then three years of teaching philosophy at a university, and then going to medical school and ultimately going into forensic psychiatry. But throughout that career, I've interviewed thousands and thousands of people who came to the brink of death and had these astonishing experiences. So that's how I got into it. It's amazing. It's really interesting. I can imagine it is a long process. And Paul, I'm going to ask you the same question. What made you interested in exploring this? Well, I was editing American Health magazine in New York City, this was in 1988, and Raymond and I shared the same agent, same book agent. One day our agent, Nat Sobel, called me and he said, would you like to write a book with Dr. Raymond Moody? And I said, I have no idea who Raymond Moody is. And he said, well, he's a man who named and defined the near -death experience. And I said, I'm sorry, I don't know what that is. And he said, well, you know, for a guy who's the editor of a major health magazine, you really need to get educated on things like the near -death experience, which was an offhand insult for an agent to talk like that. And so I said, sure, OK, I'll go meet Raymond. And Raymond was living in Georgia at the time. And I flew down to meet him and, you know, Raymond is an amazing person from the first time you meet him. And so we started writing this book called The Light Beyond, and I just got entranced by Raymond's account of near -death experiences and the stories we would hear. People would come by his house and tell their stories. And it just got amazing. So anyway, we wrapped up the book, The Light Beyond, and there was, in my estimation, a piece missing. And that was there was nothing in the book about children and near -death experiences. And Raymond said, well, nobody's done much research on that yet, except for one guy, a pediatrician in Seattle, Melvin Morris. And he connected me with Melvin. And I did a book with him called Closer to the Light. And it's all about children and near -death experiences. And after that, I wrote that book and then I thought, well, there's something missing here. There needs to be a larger study about people who have had near -death experiences and how they affect them during their life. So we wrote a book about that and on and on. Every book I would write, I would find a gap that needed to be filled. And that's gone now through, I think, 15 books on near -death experiences.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Fresh update on "the last year" discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Henry Kissinger thank you for your time it's a magnificent book on China I hope to talk with you again further about it sometime in the future thank you folks America's colleges and universities today are less concerned with critical thinking and with indoctrination no wonder that so many young Americans embrace cancel culture deny free speech to conservatives and celebrate actually celebrate terrorism but I'm happy to report there is a college where students debate ideas openly and honestly when they pursue truth together with their professors and where America's great heritage of College as stated in Hillsdale's founding document in 1844 Hillsdale's original mission was to offer the kind of serious liberal arts education needed to preserve the blessings of civil and religious liberty across the land and this mission continues to guide Hillsdale College today you can learn more at Q for Hillsdale comm that's Q for Hillsdale comm there you'll find a short video it's just over a minute long showing how Hillsdale's work not only on its Michigan and Washington DC campuses but also across the nation is effective in defending American liberty take some time to watch today at Q for Hillsdale calm that's Q for Hillsdale calm hi it's Hugh Hewitt for prevent government shutdown calm the House of Representatives and the Senate acted responsibly last week the new Speaker of the House and the long-standing majority in the Senate got it done one thing we know is that we are not headed towards another government shutdown and that's very good news but governing from crisis to crisis and deadline to deadline is not a good idea doesn't give conservatives leverage prevents us from focusing on issues that matter most to America all we end up with is trillion-dollar boondoggle stuff with special interest giveaways passed into law before anyone has a chance to read it as long as the threat of government shutdowns loom will keep repeating this crazy cycle the folks over in Americans for Prosperity America's largest conservative grassroots organization are fed up with it they have a simple principled idea to fix it take shutdowns off the table once and for all if Congress can't agree to a budget spending automatically continues at last year's level period Congress will then be compelled to debate funding bills and pass them on their merits if you're tired of the shutdown circus check out AFP simple permanent solution go to prevent government shutdowns calm that's prevent government shutdowns calm down dr.
The Greg McAfee Show
Business by His Design With ServiceTitan's Chris Hunter
"Titling this business by his design on purpose Chris and So I've got Chris Hunter Chris You know, we've talked a little bit about our Relationship with Jesus and running a Christian business, which we both take serious and So I want to start off with a couple questions As far as when we talk about our Christian walk and we refer to Jesus and Bible scriptures Could you share a little bit about your walk You know, when did you become a Christian and why? Yeah, well first, let me let me just say thank you so much for inviting me on man. I'm a huge fan Followed you for a long time and a lot of what even led me originally to you was your your strong faith and you wasn't ashamed of it and I respected that and I've always tried to Find other leaders and mentors that that I knew were were following that same path and that I could learn from right? So I I don't know. I can't remember how exactly I first heard about you But a longtime fan and a glad glad to finally connect like this and you sent me a book I really appreciated that that was it's a great book that you have as well So, oh and I remember let me let me think back way back when you had a game that I bought and then we played at our shop and it was a Basically teaching the technicians and everybody had a all about business, but it was in a game format and I love that So yeah flashback there. I just remembered that yeah, that was called top gob and it was stood for the open book game of business and Yeah, I just I wanted to let Technicians and installers and everybody else know just a little bit about making decisions in a business. So that's a pretty cool game Yeah, it was excellent. But yeah, so so back to some small walk So let me give you the short version. So I was really blessed man. I grew up with In the in the church grew up my mom was a strong believer always a taught me the right things and and All that stuff my dad as well, but I remember at 11 years old. I kind of had my first taste of Mortality like what in the world so I had my my stepdad at the time was killed in a car accident And it just opened up a whole lot of questions for me, you know, like oh my what does that mean? Where do they go? What happens? You know? And all of that since happened and and and at that point time is when I kind of hit that. Oh my goodness I need a Savior, you know, and I remember My mom to tell me all about it as well. And and I even had grandparents that always, you know, modeled it as well So at that point time I become a believer But now fast forward. I was a typical teenager man. I'm telling you Greg. I ran hard had a lot of fun did a lot of things and and and Lo and behold kind of fell fell into the trap of just living my life my own way For for a while and even in business, but then in at some point I want to say was probably around 2010 2011 I really had a Awakening, you know, like oh my goodness This is my my chance to live a godly life Pass on a legacy and really make a difference So at that point time is really when it turned for me and I went all -in as as you can say, yeah that's that's a great story and you know, I think we all need to There's gonna be a time in everyone's life where they realize they need something more There's something else out there there. We can't do it on our own every time we try it fails and And we can only create temporary happiness so long yeah, and and when I say, you know, a lot of people have the have the conversion story of all they were Doing drugs and drinking and all this stuff. So I'm necessary. I wouldn't necessarily that I wasn't all To the outside looking in. Oh, wow a great guy, you know, look at him, but you know what? I just was very apathetic. I wasn't I wasn't being intentional. I wasn't trying to to use my influence I wouldn't try to Do anything that God blessed me with these gifts for so so it was I was living Chris's way But it was very apathetic and so the conversion to going all -in wasn't necessary like oh my goodness You were terrible and now you have you've completely turned around but in all sense of the world I was being very very complacent and apathetic with the responsibility God had given
The Greg McAfee Show
How Faith Has Helped Chris Hunter in His Business Journey
"You share a specific challenge or a difficult moment in your business journey and how your faith played a role in overcoming it? It's a great question. I mean so for me, I can't tell you how many times I mean Even the smallest challenge. Yeah, I would I would pray daily, you know, it forever little thing So, I mean it wasn't just a matter of the the big ones for me. It was a Matter of just leaning on on a God's wisdom all the time but but I'll tell you what one one significant one for me and this was wasn't necessarily a challenge, but it was an opportunity and So At one point in time I was approached by a franchise group, right? This was early in my business and they were they had this model where they wanted to give you a bunch of money They wanted to write you a big check and then essentially you convert over to the franchise And then and you know operate that way. Well, they flew us down and wind and dined us, you know and all the stuff They're really oh, it just looks like an awesome thing and they were prepared to write us a million dollar check Hey just cash this check it's yours and to me, you know I'm from a small town in Oklahoma and I don't care what you say million dollars my eyes just got huge You know, it was a lot of money. I couldn't even imagine at the time having a million dollars You know like that and and I was gonna take it, you know, I'm like me my wife both were like, yeah Hey a million dollars would be a fool not to do this deal. And then I remember praying about it. I'm like God just don't let me mess this up, please, you know, I mean make it either Yes, or no, just help me Don't let me get in the way of this thing and I sure enough man my gut hit and it twisted I could just feel it and it said no, you know don't and I was and so I'm thinking okay we're really gonna turn down a million dollars because You're prompting me to say no So for me that was like a huge like line in the sand Are we gonna take the money the million or say no because of prompting by my God to tell me hey This ain't the right time. And uh, so me my wife both decided you know what let's let's let's roll with it Let's trust trust what's in store for us and we said no And turn that deal down now fast forward a few years later several years later Our business took off the private equity boom came in and we were able to sell the business later on for for much much more than that, but uh it was it was but that was a pretty key time for me just to say would you turn down a million dollar check if God told you to say no, and I don't know how many people could say that but uh Made for a very real decision to make you know Yeah, and if you were out there on your own and you didn't have the relationship With God with Christ as you do You would have said yes, and then who knows who knows where you'd be a million a million is still a lot of money But boy it spent pretty
The Mason Minute
66 Million Years Ago (MM #4635)
"I've said this before, but I'm a sucker for anything dinosaur or fossil related on the internet. It's not something that was a subject I enjoyed in school, but I'm just fascinated by how fascinated people are in the subject of dinosaurs and or fossils. Just the other day, research comes out finally saying that for 66 million years, people have been thinking that an asteroid explosion is what caused the end of the dinosaurs. An asteroid changed everything for a moment and it killed all the dinosaurs off. And now it looks like that may be part of the issue, but it all came down to climate change. It gets into this whole big debate and discussion about volcanic eruptions that may have thrown the whole ecosystem of the world off. These volcanoes happened and it caused a big change in the atmosphere, a big change in the temperatures around the world and the conditions which dinosaurs needed to live. So yes, while an asteroid may have been a part of why dinosaurs became extinct, it looks to be good old climate change. Yes, 66 million years ago, we lost all the dinosaurs. What's our climate change going to do? It's anybody's guess at this point.
The Mason Minute
66 Million Years Ago (MM #4635)
"I've said this before, but I'm a sucker for anything dinosaur or fossil related on the internet. It's not something that was a subject I enjoyed in school, but I'm just fascinated by how fascinated people are in the subject of dinosaurs and or fossils. Just the other day, research comes out finally saying that for 66 million years, people have been thinking that an asteroid explosion is what caused the end of the dinosaurs. An asteroid changed everything for a moment and it killed all the dinosaurs off. And now it looks like that may be part of the issue, but it all came down to climate change. It gets into this whole big debate and discussion about volcanic eruptions that may have thrown the whole ecosystem of the world off. These volcanoes happened and it caused a big change in the atmosphere, a big change in the temperatures around the world and the conditions which dinosaurs needed to live. So yes, while an asteroid may have been a part of why dinosaurs became extinct, it looks to be good old climate change. Yes, 66 million years ago, we lost all the dinosaurs. What's our climate change going to do? It's anybody's guess at this point.
The Mason Minute
66 Million Years Ago (MM #4635)
"I've said this before, but I'm a sucker for anything dinosaur or fossil related on the internet. It's not something that was a subject I enjoyed in school, but I'm just fascinated by how fascinated people are in the subject of dinosaurs and or fossils. Just the other day, research comes out finally saying that for 66 million years, people have been thinking that an asteroid explosion is what caused the end of the dinosaurs. An asteroid changed everything for a moment and it killed all the dinosaurs off. And now it looks like that may be part of the issue, but it all came down to climate change. It gets into this whole big debate and discussion about volcanic eruptions that may have thrown the whole ecosystem of the world off. These volcanoes happened and it caused a big change in the atmosphere, a big change in the temperatures around the world and the conditions which dinosaurs needed to live. So yes, while an asteroid may have been a part of why dinosaurs became extinct, it looks to be good old climate change. Yes, 66 million years ago, we lost all the dinosaurs. What's our climate change going to do? It's anybody's guess at this point.
The Mason Minute
66 Million Years Ago (MM #4635)
"I've said this before, but I'm a sucker for anything dinosaur or fossil related on the internet. It's not something that was a subject I enjoyed in school, but I'm just fascinated by how fascinated people are in the subject of dinosaurs and or fossils. Just the other day, research comes out finally saying that for 66 million years, people have been thinking that an asteroid explosion is what caused the end of the dinosaurs. An asteroid changed everything for a moment and it killed all the dinosaurs off. And now it looks like that may be part of the issue, but it all came down to climate change. It gets into this whole big debate and discussion about volcanic eruptions that may have thrown the whole ecosystem of the world off. These volcanoes happened and it caused a big change in the atmosphere, a big change in the temperatures around the world and the conditions which dinosaurs needed to live. So yes, while an asteroid may have been a part of why dinosaurs became extinct, it looks to be good old climate change. Yes, 66 million years ago, we lost all the dinosaurs. What's our climate change going to do? It's anybody's guess at this point.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Spent $400 BILLION on Illegal Immigration?
"Dan bongino so i told you before the break when i played a clip let the fox business report they told you what illegal immigration is costing us per year and it is an absolutely ridiculous obscene four hundred and fifty one billion dollars let me say that is off by ten percent and it's four hundred billion dollars four hundred billion dollars to pay for illegal immigration now again again because i'm interested in the truth and honesty you shouldn't be here illegally we we did it the right way my family my wife and you should do with two it if you first act in the united states is to flip us the double barrel middle finger and break the law you don't deserve to be here but from a strict economic perspective are these costs real certainly sounds like it the problem is over time people can mean productivity so let's hey this if gets a little complicated i'm not doing it intentionally say it costs us four hundred and fifty one billion a dollars year to process i don't know three million people that are in the country illegally and probably another five five hundred thousand that are got a ways we don't even know about but we're still paying for anyway that that cost would go down each year why because people would start to work not everyone's gonna stay on on government benefits people would eventually i'm not apologizing for illegal immigration so don't please don't send me any nasty grams i'm simply giving you a pure spreadsheet take on it over time it costs less by the time you get to the second generation typically that generation works they go to school they produce it probably cost you a lot less the problem we have with biden and if god forbid this guy gets re -elected or any democrat for that matter is is that this a recurring
Capstone Conversation
Jared Asch Asks Loella Haskew and Cindy Darling: Is "Measure O" Working?
"Let's get local and talk about Walnut Creek for a minute. It's been about a year since we've the people of Walnut Creek have voted in Measure O. Talk to us. It's an additional sales tax to provide benefits for the city. Is it working and what are we doing with the money? What are the priorities? Start Cindy Ann and you can fill in the gaps. Yeah. OK. So the first thing we did to promise the community is to find an oversight group so that they look at what we've done to make sure that we live up to our promises of what we and we were going to do when we started the Measure O process. Interestingly enough, when I first ran in 2012 or 2011, I ran on a half cent sales tax increase and I got the more votes than I ever did since then. I think there were a group of people who knew that we weren't quite we needed a little extra oomph in our spending. We've done some additions at the police department. We've made some spending for attracting more people downtown where we're doing things, a lot of things in and around it. But the biggest project is the one that Cindy Darling is working on. And so I'm going to let her take over. One of the reasons I ran for council is it's important for a community. My kids loved growing up in Walnut Creek. They swam, they played Little League, they played this, they played that, they did this art class. And a lot of the facilities that they were accessing were built back in the 50s and 60s. And we all know things that were built in the 50s and 60s are now starting to fall apart. And we need to pay it forward to the next generation. And that was a big driver on Measure O. The Clark Swim Center and Heather Farm is one bad accident away from its pumps not ever running again. So we are working on a new community center and a new aquatic center to carry on the traditions in Walnut Creek. And that was one of the bigger drivers of Measure O. We are in the planning phase right now and we have a lot of active, robust public input coming into the process. We have a survey out. You can go to the city councils with the city's website and take a survey on what you want out of that community center, what you want out of the aquatics facility. And we're going to be working to get it so it's up and operational by 2027 and it's going to be cool. Yeah. And there's there's some concern over the money from Measure O coming up on the ballot. Do you I don't want to take up too much time going into every detail on it, but can you talk about what is coming up in 2024 and what impact that might have on Measure O as well as a number of other regional measures? There are two things to be addressed by the population. The first one is how many votes do we need to do to get permission to have an additional sales tax? If we go out for a specific purpose right now, you need two thirds of a vote of a community and it's incredibly difficult to get that. If you go out for a general measure, you only need to get 50 % plus one vote. There is a measure being brought forth by a business council that wants to remove so much freedom with what we local people can do with taxes. And so they want to make every vote a sixty thirds vote. And the thing that is most concerning to us because of our position is they can claw back a vote that happened in 2022 and say you have to run it again and get the two thirds vote. So so we're nervous about the business one. And we're also thinking it's 10 % of people will vote no on any thing that has money to do with money. And that's in order to get 65%. You've got to work really hard. And so a lot of cities don't have the capacity to get important things done because they can't get out there and get this full measure of voters to pay attention.
Capstone Conversation
Capstone's Jared Asch Welcomes Loella Haskew and Cindy Darling of Walnut Creek
"Jared Esch, the host of The Capstone Conversation. Today, we are joined by not one, but two awesome women from the city of Walnut Creek. And we are going to hear about what inspired them to run for city council. What are some things that they want to encourage in other candidates who are considering to run or not to run as you make the decision ahead of next year's elections? And that applies to people throughout the whole East Bay area. That's not just here in Walnut Creek. So hopefully their message will resonate with people throughout. So first thing we will do, Mayor Pro Tem Luella Haskiw, do you want to go ahead and tell us a little bit more about yourself? In my career, I was a CPA specializing in tax, but I also did family law consulting and other business consulting. And I was inspired to run for a couple of reasons, one of which is I was close to many of the people who were on council and I just absorbed a lot of what they could accomplish by talking to them and watching them work. But also, I believe that we were going into an interesting economic cycle and maybe somebody who had my experience would be a good addition to the council. And our next guest is Councilwoman Cindy Darling. Cindy, tell us a little bit about your background and what convinced you to run. Well, I'm one of the newest members of the council. I was elected in 2020. Before that, I'd served 10 years on the planning commission for Walnut Creek. So I'd seen a lot of the issues that were working in the development end of things kind of bubbling up that were going to council. And I was interested in having a bigger voice on those than you just have a planning commission. I'm also a small business owner here in the city, and I spent most of my career working on really tough, naughty environmental problems around the Delta endangered species. And I felt like I developed a lot of skills there in helping people work together and solve problems creatively. And I wanted to take those skills and bring them to the council and help move Walnut Creek in a great direction. That's great. I appreciate that. Luella, you've been mayor two times, including 2020 during the start of the pandemic. Pandemic issues, businesses shutting down and then lots of looting here in Walnut Creek. What was it like to be mayor during that time? Can I say that the first round was was sweet. I really enjoyed the first time when it wasn't quite so stressful. But I will say about 2020, whenever I've talked to anybody who have had been mayor in Walnut Creek the last year to have been assigned a job with mayor, there were so many issues. We had a police shooting that was under scrutiny. We had looting. And I'm not even sure anybody knows to this hour what triggered the big looting that was at Broadway Plaza. It could have just been the gangs that were beginning to form and take over other places. But we forgot about Walnut Creek has some really nice high end stores to do. And then they all came. I don't think it had anything to do with the political choice. Nevertheless, it was incredibly damaging to the people who were at Broadway Plaza and it didn't stop there. Other people were involved in it. I make a joke about the fact that when George Floyd had been killed and people were really involved in making protests, a whole group of people showed up at nine o 'clock at night on a Wednesday and had a riot in our front yard doing a significant amount of damage to our garage doors, burning flags, scaring the bejeebers out of our neighbors. The police did call us and say, get out of the house. So we were safe, but it was an ugly experience for the neighborhood trying to find the best of the worst. We did have to buy a new garage door and we now have a battery pack up. And then I made it onto the news the next day. So good spads, but it was tough and the fiscal issues were tough. We started out with anticipating a comfortable excess budget. It turned out that when everything had to close up, sales tax went away and then we had to figure out what to do about that. And we got lucky that we came upon the pop -ups, the restaurant pop -ups, and we tried every way we could to save all the businesses, did away with our now famous parking meters and let people park. There weren't that many people using the parking meters. And so it was a very difficult time. Nevertheless, a sense of proportion, a great council, a great staff got the city through probably one of the most difficult years the city had to survive.
Dear Chiefs Podcast
A Young Fire Spouse's Journey With Her Husband's Cancer Diagnosis
"A few episodes back we sat down with Diane Carter and she shared her story of her husband's line of duty, panther diagnosis, and her relentless pursuit of making turnouts safe and just exploring PFAS and all that fun stuff about exposure in the workplace. If you haven't listened to that podcast, we definitely recommend it. And today we actually have another first responder spouse, Brittany San Pedro with us to share her story about her husband's line of duty cancer diagnosis. Brittany, welcome. Thank you for having me. Brittany San Pedro is a speech therapist assistant, wife to a firefighter and a mom. She has been with her husband for 10 years and has an 18 month old and another one on the way. In late October of 2019, Brittany's husband at the age of 30 and 10 years into his career noticed a small lump on his collarbone. After several tests, he was diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was the first line of duty cancer diagnosis in the history of Greeley fire department. Since then, many changes to screening and early detection have been made as a department. As a result, several malignant polyps, skin samples and ultrasound readings have potentially saved the lives of other firefighters within the department. Today, Brittany is sharing her story to help anyone who may feel alone or scared, especially after a health diagnosis. She also wants to encourage change and promote the importance of regular screenings and early detection. Okay. So tell us your story a little bit, the whole thing. We want to hear it. My husband came home one day and just kind of mentioned like, Hey, I got out of the shower at work and I just noticed I had a bump on my collarbone. And he's like, you know, I haven't had my yearly physical. I'm going to go in, have it checked out. And you know, none of us, we weren't really worried. And we were just kind of like, okay, he has a bump. We're going to go check it out. And his general practitioner ran blood work and then started him on antibiotics thinking it was just an infection. His body was fighting something and blood work came back fine. It didn't go down with the antibiotics. At that point, they did an X -ray. Everything looked fine. The blood work looks fine. And his general practitioner asked him what he did for a living. And you know, you fill out that survey, you tell him what you do. And he's like, you know what? We're going to, we're going to keep going. We're going to keep looking. If you're fine with that. You're a firefighter. It just makes me sit better if I, if I keep digging a little bit. And he kept going in for appointments. He then got an ultrasound done. After the ultrasound, he scheduled an appointment for a biopsy to have it looked at. And at this point we hadn't even heard the word cancer yet. I at the time was a special education teacher at a school across the street from the hospital where he was having the biopsy done. He texted me and let me know he was going in. He was super nervous. I let my co -teacher know, Hey, my husband doesn't usually have his feelings out like that. And lets me know that he's there. He's like, that's fine. Go. I ran across the street and he went back. Everything was fine. He came back out and then he just had this look on his face that I'll never forget his eyes started welling up with tears. And I guess the doctor who performed the doctor tech who performed the biopsy, you know, before his doctor had a chance to say anything told him, yeah, this is pretty typical for lymphoma. And both of us were just kind of like, what is happening? What's going on? We were hit by a bus. We didn't even know that this is something that they were looking for. And we called our closest friends, our little mini fire family. And we were like, Hey, we need support tonight. And in a minute, everybody was together at one of our friends house and everybody was just talking trash about the guy who stepped out of his scope of practice and said some things he maybe shouldn't have. And we were like, it's not going to happen. He's too young. He's healthy. There's no way. So a couple of days went by, we got a phone call saying that the doctor wanted us to come in, even though it was his day off and usually not a great sign. So we were a little nervous going in. And then when we sat down, he let us know that they, they did find it to be Hodgkin's lymphoma and that they needed to start figuring out what stage he was at coming up with a plan, trying to figure out everything. And we were both strong until they asked us, you know, are you guys, you guys are young. You guys just got married, just bought a house. Like you, are you guys wanting to start a family at some point? And I just started bawling because I already knew what was coming. And he said, I recommend that you reach out to a fertility specialist, if that's something that you would want to do. And you start reaching out to all your resources. And we did, after that, he started chemo in like less than a week. It was probably like four or five days. And he had chemo, he had it on Christmas. He had it, like he started in November, had it for about six months and then took a little bit of a break and then started radiation. And then after he went through radiation, his end date was March 14th, 2020. And then right after that, the next day the world shut down, but it was just, you know, for us, it was just amazing because he never, we never went to an appointment alone. It was just such a somber time. We were just had this dark cloud of stress and not knowing and anything. And at the same time when it was so dark, such a beautiful thing, because we had the department bringing rigs and down we packed that cancer center and, you know, we had some of his best friends, like his best man and another Lieutenant was there at every single one of his chemo appointments. And, you know, everybody kind of band together for him. It was kind of, it was a beautiful thing to see everybody supporting each other and making sure that he was never alone. You know, the Terry Farrell Fund reached out right away. You know, they did a cut it for cancer for him. It was just something that they hadn't ever experienced before at the, this department. And we were, we were just kind of overwhelmed with all the support that we had,
Dear Chiefs Podcast
Brittney Sampedro on Husband's Line-of-Duty Cancer Diagnosis in Colorado
"So lymphoma is a very common cancer in the fire service, right? I did a little deep dive, maybe not super deep dive, but I definitely looked at some of the statistics for firefighters specifically. It's crazy. If you ever research it, which I'm sure you probably did at this point, the female firefighters, I did not know how like a 600 % increased risk of breast cancer. That's wild. Wow. And then firefighters have obviously a significant increased risk of cancer as they progress throughout their career. So at the 20 year mark, gets a little more at the 30 year mark, it gets a little more. So cancer is not uncommon in the fire service at all. But you said that the department specifically would never say for certain that it was because of his exposures to chemicals on the job or their gear containing the PFOAS. So was he eligible for any kind of benefit or anything from job related cancer? It's not covered under like a workman's comp type of thing. Colorado has something called the Colorado Cancer Trust. So it's departments that elect to put money into an account that say like, there's an eligibility criteria. He had been a firefighter at that point in 2019 for 10 years. So he was eligible to say like, yes, he's had enough exposure to have been at risk to have this type of cancer that is known or more common for firefighters. So lymphoma was on there. I know testicular cancer is a big one too for men. I didn't know breast cancer for women, but there is an eligibility criteria. They don't come out and say that this is work related. And the department and the everybody who works for Greeley Fire was amazing. They all covered his shifts. So he was able to go through treatment. He had to step offline for a while. And then when the pandemic hit, he kind of was forced to sit at a desk for a little bit just because his immunity was still really low. But I don't even think that there was something written out that like, what happens if a firefighter has cancer? It was just kind of like the guys, everybody at the department banding together and being like, I got your shift. I got your next shift. And they got it all figured out for us. But there was never like a, like, this is work related is workman's comp. It's a, it's a work related issue. It was kind of a separate, you know, like having the cancer trust and then having the Terry Farrell fund reach out to, knowing that it could be a job related cancer. So Colorado is not a presumptive cancer state then. Yeah, that's what it sounds like. And it's crazy to me that in 2023, after all of these studies that there are States that don't have that presumptive cancer legislation. It blows my mind.
The Dan Bongino Show
The REAL Reason Dan Was Banned From YouTube
"From I am HO in my opinion the real reason I was banned from YouTube is because was I an investor and a rather large one in their competitor which is rumble where my podcast and Steven Crowder's is hosted so the strange thing happened this weekend that yesterday I see account tweets out that he's got another strike from YouTube two strikes for having me on he tweeted out YouTube wants is dead they just hit us with two strikes one on the main channel one on Crowder bits just for having Dan Bongino on we're one strike away from being permanently banned he notes this is why we have mug club and rumble it's the only way to support support the mission can you imagine being a trillion dollar company alphabet google that owns YouTube finding a little old Dan Bongino so scary that he goes on Steven Crowder show which makes its way onto YouTube and you threatened to ban him permanently from the platform and issue them two strikes for doing it folks listen there's a serious uh there's kind of a serious off ramp to this highway I'm on here the reason I'm telling you this story is can if happen it to me it can happen to you I had an option when YouTube started relentlessly attacking my channel for telling you the truth about COVID I had prepared myself by going over to not only investing in rumble but to bringing my audience over to rumble we had 800 ,000 subscribers on youtube we now have 2 almost .97 3 million subscribers on rumble so it's not even close so I had a backup what I'm trying to tell you is if we lose this next election and they know they've got the censors and the Biden regime and the been in charge for the next four years folks I'm warning you right now you're next you are running out of opportunities to set up a presence in the parallel economy I'm not telling you to get off youtube or or twitter or anything like that or twitter is actually ok now but facebook I'm telling not you I'm on Facebook I'm not time we talk on Facebook a lot of us matter of fact the guy who couldn't figure out if you know you know was on Facebook right I'm not telling you to get off it stay there I'm simply telling you you are insane to not set up a separate and distinct profile for yourself in the parallel economy I'm telling you even even relaxing lady Rachel's telling
The Mason Minute
Movie Marathons (MM #4633)
"I realize the way we watch television has changed a lot over recent years, and it's all because of the streaming services. But I really think they overdid things over the holiday weekend, where a lot of the channels were running marathons of holiday movies. I know a lot of it was TBS and TNT, but they ran 24 -hour straight versions of Elf and Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story, and I know I'm forgetting a few, but a lot of Christmas programming over the Thanksgiving weekend. Now, I understand why they do this. In years past, marathons were kind of left to the days when people weren't really watching. For example, Christmas Story has been running a marathon every Christmas Eve to Christmas Day for decades now. But it looks like we're going to be seeing more of that because we can watch Christmas Story year -round now. We can watch any movie, any TV show, year -round. People aren't watching cable TV or the TV networks quite as much, so they're looking for ways to get people excited. It's easy, it's cheap. How many more times can you watch a Christmas Story, Elf, or even Christmas Vacation? Just a matter of time for some channels or 24 -hour marathons all the time.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
"the last year" Discussed on Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
"Historically, a lending model without ring-fenced risks is viable only when a lender of last resort exists, such as the Federal Reserve in the context of traditional banks. This backstop doesn't exist for Bitcoin, which means the industry needs to develop a new model, one that doesn't lean on government or state institutions. Many investors have reaped impressive returns on their Bitcoin and other digital assets via yield offerings. Such services allow digital asset holders to generate passive income, mirroring the benefits typically enjoyed by investors in traditional finance. Predominantly, these yields are a result of lending assets to institutional market makers. Bitcoin lending has not only facilitated capital access for market makers in the Bitcoin derivatives domain, that is futures and options markets, but has also been instrumental in the sector's growth. Derivatives, which give investors the options to buy or sell based upon prearranged agreements and were first used to hedge risks of agricultural harvests, has contributed to reduced Bitcoin price volatility and helped keep more consistent prices across exchanges. By capitalizing on price discrepancies between different exchanges, market makers have been exceptionally effective in narrowing the bid-ask spread over time. This efficiency directly benefits consumers, ensuring they receive more dollars when they sell, and more Bitcoin when they buy, and helping to stabilize Bitcoin's price. The lending market accelerates settlement processes among entities and offers a host of other benefits. Specifically, Bitcoin lending gives the opportunity to earn yield, ensure narrower spreads for Bitcoin transactions on global exchanges, stabilize Bitcoin spot market prices, provide a healthy spot short market for honest actors to hedge positions in a tax-efficient manner and create more efficient hedges for Bitcoin miners. The 2022 events highlighted several systemic risks that need addressing, including the ring-fencing of individual product risk. To give a general rundown of how firms like BlockFi, Celsius, and Voyager failed, it has often been the case that crypto credit providers intertwined client assets with the risks of the company's yield products. This means that the client's loan, backed by Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency, was in jeopardy if a company's yield initiative failed and led to bankruptcy. Another hazard lies in concentration risk from lending counterparties, or the firm's crypto lenders would work with to generate yield on client holdings. When promised rates become unsustainable, these platforms face a dilemma. Restrict lending to manageable limits and reduce client rates, or continue unchecked lending despite surpassing comfortable risk thresholds. Proper management of this concentration risk is fundamental to risk management. Transparency can make or break these relationships. Take Voyager, for example, which reportedly tied up nearly 58% of their loan portfolio with three arrows capital. Alarmingly, to our knowledge, 3AC did not provide essential financial statements to their lenders, a fundamental requirement for any lender to properly assess the financial health of their counterparties.One can't help but wonder, would clients have been so keen to lend to Voyager if they had the full picture from the start? Other firms had similar concentrations with Genesis and or Alameda Research. After the roller coaster that was the past 18 months, digital lending platforms are stepping up their game. Here's the lowdown on what's changing at some firms. The two account system, imagine having two wallets. In one, you simply keep your money safe with no fuss. In the other, you decide to invest a bit and hope to see it grow. That's what platforms are doing now. They're offering a safe account where digital assets remain largely untouched. Then there's a more adventurous yield account. Here, assets get lent out to generate returns. Of course, there's some risk involved, but it's all transparent from the get-go. This way, clients can pick what suits them best. To generate interest in the yield account, loans have to be made, which carries risk and why people get paid interest at all following textbook economic theory. A key distinction from this new model is that the benefits of loaning funds, that is, earning yield, and risks of the loans are ring-fenced to the yield account. In theory, clients that are not participating do not face any risk of loss from the yield account loans and are ring-fenced from the platform as well as any insolvency risk, for example, what happened with Celsius and BlockFi. Another change is a big push for transparency. Many platforms have heard loud and clear that clients want to know what's happening with their money and are rolling out regular, easy-to-read reports. It's like a window into the lending world. You get to see who's borrowing how much and for what and smart and diversified lending. Learning from the mistakes of Voyager and 3AC, firms are being much more cautious in extending too much credit to any one group. By lending little bits to many, the risk tied to one rotten egg doesn't mess up the whole dozen. The world of digital asset lending is growing up. Platforms are taking the bumps from the past, learning and building better. It's a sign of things moving in the right direction, with more transparency and smart choices leading the way. Let's embrace this shake-up and its lessons. The Wild West was fun while it lasted, but now it's high time for the age of enlightenment in digital asset lending. And that's our show for today. Thank you for listening. I'm Michelle Musa with Markets Daily. And for those of you who are still with us, we'd love to hear what you think. You can email us at podcasts at coindesk.com with the subject line, Markets Daily. This episode was produced and edited by Eleanor Paul with executive production by Jared Swartz. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
"the last year" Discussed on CoinDesk Podcast Network
"Historically, a lending model without ring-fenced risks is viable only when a lender of last resort exists, such as the Federal Reserve in the context of traditional banks. This backstop doesn't exist for Bitcoin, which means the industry needs to develop a new model, one that doesn't lean on government or state institutions. Many investors have reaped impressive returns on their Bitcoin and other digital assets via yield offerings. Such services allow digital asset holders to generate passive income, mirroring the benefits typically enjoyed by investors in traditional finance. Predominantly, these yields are a result of lending assets to institutional market makers. Bitcoin lending has not only facilitated capital access for market makers in the Bitcoin derivatives domain, that is futures and options markets, but has also been instrumental in the sector's growth. Derivatives, which give investors the options to buy or sell based upon prearranged agreements and were first used to hedge risks of agricultural harvests, has contributed to reduced Bitcoin price volatility and helped keep more consistent prices across exchanges. By capitalizing on price discrepancies between different exchanges, market makers have been exceptionally effective in narrowing the bid-ask spread over time. This efficiency directly benefits consumers, ensuring they receive more dollars when they sell, and more Bitcoin when they buy, and helping to stabilize Bitcoin's price. The lending market accelerates settlement processes among entities and offers a host of other benefits. Specifically, Bitcoin lending gives the opportunity to earn yield, ensure narrower spreads for Bitcoin transactions on global exchanges, stabilize Bitcoin spot market prices, provide a healthy spot short market for honest actors to hedge positions in a tax-efficient manner and create more efficient hedges for Bitcoin miners. The 2022 events highlighted several systemic risks that need addressing, including the ring-fencing of individual product risk. To give a general rundown of how firms like BlockFi, Celsius, and Voyager failed, it has often been the case that crypto credit providers intertwined client assets with the risks of the company's yield products. This means that the client's loan, backed by Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency, was in jeopardy if a company's yield initiative failed and led to bankruptcy. Another hazard lies in concentration risk from lending counterparties, or the firm's crypto lenders would work with to generate yield on client holdings. When promised rates become unsustainable, these platforms face a dilemma. Restrict lending to manageable limits and reduce client rates, or continue unchecked lending despite surpassing comfortable risk thresholds. Proper management of this concentration risk is fundamental to risk management. Transparency can make or break these relationships. Take Voyager, for example, which reportedly tied up nearly 58% of their loan portfolio with three arrows capital. Alarmingly, to our knowledge, 3AC did not provide essential financial statements to their lenders, a fundamental requirement for any lender to properly assess the financial health of their counterparties.One can't help but wonder, would clients have been so keen to lend to Voyager if they had the full picture from the start? Other firms had similar concentrations with Genesis and or Alameda Research. After the roller coaster that was the past 18 months, digital lending platforms are stepping up their game. Here's the lowdown on what's changing at some firms. The two account system, imagine having two wallets. In one, you simply keep your money safe with no fuss. In the other, you decide to invest a bit and hope to see it grow. That's what platforms are doing now. They're offering a safe account where digital assets remain largely untouched. Then there's a more adventurous yield account. Here, assets get lent out to generate returns. Of course, there's some risk involved, but it's all transparent from the get-go. This way, clients can pick what suits them best. To generate interest in the yield account, loans have to be made, which carries risk and why people get paid interest at all following textbook economic theory. A key distinction from this new model is that the benefits of loaning funds, that is, earning yield, and risks of the loans are ring-fenced to the yield account. In theory, clients that are not participating do not face any risk of loss from the yield account loans and are ring-fenced from the platform as well as any insolvency risk, for example, what happened with Celsius and BlockFi. Another change is a big push for transparency. Many platforms have heard loud and clear that clients want to know what's happening with their money and are rolling out regular, easy-to-read reports. It's like a window into the lending world. You get to see who's borrowing how much and for what and smart and diversified lending. Learning from the mistakes of Voyager and 3AC, firms are being much more cautious in extending too much credit to any one group. By lending little bits to many, the risk tied to one rotten egg doesn't mess up the whole dozen. The world of digital asset lending is growing up. Platforms are taking the bumps from the past, learning and building better. It's a sign of things moving in the right direction, with more transparency and smart choices leading the way. Let's embrace this shake-up and its lessons. The Wild West was fun while it lasted, but now it's high time for the age of enlightenment in digital asset lending. And that's our show for today. Thank you for listening. I'm Michelle Musa with Markets Daily. And for those of you who are still with us, we'd love to hear what you think. You can email us at podcasts at coindesk.com with the subject line, Markets Daily. This episode was produced and edited by Eleanor Paul with executive production by Jared Swartz. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
"the last year" Discussed on CoinDesk Podcast Network
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Sunday, September 10th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. Hi, I'm Michelle Musso here with your featured story. On today's show, we're taking a dive in how crypto lending contributed to last year's collapse and what could be done to fix it. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Today's piece comes from Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, the co-founder of Ledin, a digital currency lending company. We'll be using Wondercraft AI to read the story. The piece is titled, Crypto Lenders Caused Crypto Contagion Last Year. How is the industry rebuilding? Loans are as old as money. Throughout history, whether seeds or gold, every form of currency has had its lending market. Now Bitcoin, with its decentralized and transparent nature, has staked its own claim in the financial landscape. And just like the currencies that came before it for Bitcoin to truly thrive, it also needs a robust lending market. However, thus far, most attempts to create a Bitcoin credit market have failed spectacularly, with disastrous repercussions. The demand for Bitcoin and digital asset lending services surged during the 2020 run-up, with tens of billions of client assets flowing towards both centralized and decentralized lending platforms. Fueled in part by lax macroeconomic monetary policies and the crypto sector's explosive growth, this environment allowed bad actors to operate recklessly, misleading consumers without facing significant checks and balances. This lack of oversight ultimately led to the collapse of the digital asset lending industry beginning in 2022, including the cascading bankruptcies of lenders including BlockFi, Celsius, and a unit of Genesis. Although accusations of fraud in some of these cases will be a matter for the courts to decide, the sudden domino-like collapse of dozens of digital asset lending firms highlighted an underlying flaw. Their operating structures were inherently unsustainable. These structures lacked a crucial ring-fencing of lending risk. And lenders did not provide the transparency needed for clients to understand their credit underwriting process, or the concentration risks in their lending activities. This outdated structure, coupled with insufficient risk management, was akin to dry wood, eagerly awaiting a spark. And Terraluna, 3 Arrows Capital, and FTX were an entire box of matches. Meet the all-new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools, all in a redesigned, modular trading interface. So head to pro.kraken.com and trade like a pro. Not investment advice? Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits, maybe subject to capital gains tax.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
"the last year" Discussed on Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Sunday, September 10th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. Hi, I'm Michelle Musso here with your featured story. On today's show, we're taking a dive in how crypto lending contributed to last year's collapse and what could be done to fix it. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Today's piece comes from Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, the co-founder of Ledin, a digital currency lending company. We'll be using Wondercraft AI to read the story. The piece is titled, Crypto Lenders Caused Crypto Contagion Last Year. How is the industry rebuilding? Loans are as old as money. Throughout history, whether seeds or gold, every form of currency has had its lending market. Now Bitcoin, with its decentralized and transparent nature, has staked its own claim in the financial landscape. And just like the currencies that came before it for Bitcoin to truly thrive, it also needs a robust lending market. However, thus far, most attempts to create a Bitcoin credit market have failed spectacularly, with disastrous repercussions. The demand for Bitcoin and digital asset lending services surged during the 2020 run-up, with tens of billions of client assets flowing towards both centralized and decentralized lending platforms. Fueled in part by lax macroeconomic monetary policies and the crypto sector's explosive growth, this environment allowed bad actors to operate recklessly, misleading consumers without facing significant checks and balances. This lack of oversight ultimately led to the collapse of the digital asset lending industry beginning in 2022, including the cascading bankruptcies of lenders including BlockFi, Celsius, and a unit of Genesis. Although accusations of fraud in some of these cases will be a matter for the courts to decide, the sudden domino-like collapse of dozens of digital asset lending firms highlighted an underlying flaw. Their operating structures were inherently unsustainable. These structures lacked a crucial ring-fencing of lending risk. And lenders did not provide the transparency needed for clients to understand their credit underwriting process, or the concentration risks in their lending activities. This outdated structure, coupled with insufficient risk management, was akin to dry wood, eagerly awaiting a spark. And Terraluna, 3 Arrows Capital, and FTX were an entire box of matches. Meet the all-new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools, all in a redesigned, modular trading interface. So head to pro.kraken.com and trade like a pro. Not investment advice? Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits, maybe subject to capital gains tax.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
"the last year" Discussed on The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
"You have bad luck. It's because you haven't done the work to believe in yourself and your own abilities. Really think about that. Okay. So this next point here is I got this quote from my girlfriend Jada. She's the best. And she actually wrote it down for me and I have it on my keyboard at work. So I always look at it when I'm writing a script or whatever I'm doing. And it's a constant reminder to keep myself going. And that quote is the best way to predict your future is to create it. I absolutely love that quote. And so what do I mean by created? I mean, manifest what you want. Like your dreams will only ever be dreams. If they only exist in your head, you need to write that down. You need to make it real. I love that story with Jim Carrey. When Jim Carrey wrote himself a check for $1 million. He made it real, even though he couldn't go cash it in and get a $1 million by writing it down. He set that intention. He manifested his reality. He made it real. And guess what? And not too long after that, Jim Carrey is who we know today. So take a page out of his book, and if you have big dreams, if you have big ideas, if you want to make it, write it down, make it happen, and at least you can see it on paper you make it physical, it enters the physical realm and no longer just exists in your own head. So when you do that, that's when you have to start prioritizing your goals. And when you prioritize your goals and you prioritize your time, like listen, when I was studying in crypto, let me tell you a little story about myself. I broke my left arm racing motocross. And I broke it in half, I have a rod in my left arm that will be there when I die. And by the time my fingers started working again, COVID happened. And that was the amount of time I spent studying crypto day in and day out. And when I mean studying crypto, I mean, I wrote down every I planned every minute of every day exactly what I was going to do. I set my goal, I figured out the time I need to study and I did it. And I stuck to it every day. Not only did I create my goal and make it real and manifest it, but I was also disciplined enough to follow through with the goal I wanted to achieve. And that is how I was able to get to where I am today because I made it real. And this brings us to point number 5. Probably the most important point besides point number one and point number 5 is to chase your dreams. Listen, the clock is ticking, so you have to live with complete abandon. If you're going after whatever it is you're going after, don't make excuses. Make it happen. Give it your 100%. Because if you don't do that, you're not going to make it. It's as simple as that. I don't want to be rude. I don't want to be that guy, but I'm saying that you have to give it your all if you want to make it in crypto. And you know, when I first got into crypto, you know, probably 2016, 2017, ideally dallied around. I did this. I did that, but I wasn't actually trying. I wasn't actually putting in the work and learning. It took a lot of me breaking my arm in like kind of being put in a pressure situation for me to realize what I had to do to make this real. And here we are. You know, Bitcoin Miami. And then, you know, it is possible. If I can make it, you can make it. But if you want to make it, you have to chase your dreams. My name is AJ rice crypto and have yourself a great rest of your day. The new Chevy Silverado HD puts you in command. Own strength with its enhanced available Duramax 6.6 liter turbo diesel V8. On the Lake, with its available advanced towing technology, and own technology, with an available 13.4 inch diagonal touchscreen. The new Chevy Silverado HD own work, own play, own life. Learn more at Chevy dot com, find new roads, Chevrolet.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
"the last year" Discussed on The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
"This entire week has just been a dream. We woke up this morning and saw Eric Weinstein from the intellectual dark web, you know, say his piece about Bitcoin and just such an intelligent guy and then to go from like him, being in a really high matrix to listening to the tribal mindset of like the max Kaiser and like don't get me wrong, I love Bitcoin, but that doesn't mean you should shun everyone who likes Ethereum or cardano. Like we're really all in the same boat here and so like make it so we're arguing against each other is counterproductive but I do see some of his points and I respect him but at the same time like we should all be Friends to be honest. But anyway, so Tim Tim Warren is one of the newer employees at BitBoy crypto. And him and I had this really good conversation about like the surrealness of this whole situation. And his question to me was if you could go back in time one year ago, what are 5 things you would tell yourself? And I actually took a really good bit of time to chew on that conversation we had. And I wanted to share with you what those 5 things are. So the first piece of advice and the reason it's the first piece of advice because I think it's probably the most important is slow down. What's the rush? No big deal. Like just because you miss a pump doesn't mean it's the end of the world just because you didn't get in on a meme coin. It doesn't mean you're never gonna have generational wealth. Like slow down. Like you don't have to get rich overnight. Like yes, it does happen. It happens to people in this room. But that doesn't mean it's going to happen to you because you can be more strategic and more realistic about this and still make it happen in due time. And a part of that with taking your time to do this the right way is to not kind of go into the room and chat everyone zero. Go into the room and listen more than you talk. Take that time to learn. When you slow down, you take your time. Take that time to learn. And that brings me to point number two. Is to never be the smartest person in the room, okay? So when, you know, if you're out there in the world somewhere and you are the only crypto person and your group of friends, you need to do some serious networking and you need to get a circle of people around you to do this with. Crypto is very, very difficult. You know, if you're watching this video because you've chosen to, you know, I'm going to go full-time crypto. I'm really going to do this thing. I'm going to make it. If you feel that way, right now, watching this video, you have to surround yourself by people that are doing the same thing that have the same goals. Never be the smartest person in the room because if you are, you will hit a ceiling. Crypto is difficult and I could not imagine doing crypto by myself. Absolutely not. Because you know, if you are looking at a chart and you want to get into a trade, well, you should run that chart by a friend. You say, hey, is this a good idea or a bad idea? Have a conversation with someone before you get wrecked. I'm telling you, having a good circle around you is everything. It's very important. Having a good circle around you is very important and community is everything. Before I get to point number three, thank you to state dot com for sponsoring this video. Point number three is to live in a higher matrix. I want you to know that your words are more powerful than you think. And the most important conversation you can have is with yourself, okay? I listen, I was one of those people that said, oh, I always lose when I do this. Oh, this always happens to me. Why can't I ever win like these very like this or that black and white mentality? That is not it. You have to have positive self talk. You have to believe in yourself and your abilities and you do that by having positive interactions with yourself. You have to cut out all that negative talk. You have to stop making excuses and you have to start. And that comes with taking your time and having being surrounded by positive people. And when you do that, you feel better about yourself because if there's no rush and it's all good, you have time to actually reflect and to feel good about the things you're doing. And that's the thing. If you're
Bloomberg Radio New York
"the last year" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"To last year. But it's still early stages. Overall, there was 1.5 trillion of total loans done and only 93 billion of that was sustainability linked, So it's still in early days. But definitely there is a lot of interest from the banks and participate in because they can also show in front of their stockholders or regulators that they're doing something on the SD front, and they're kind of prompting companies. To to participate. What's so interesting about this story? Is that to me? One of the takeaways I have is, It's a story about incentives because the incentives are supposed to be there for companies to have these s G goals, but It sort of. Seems like the incentives aren't quite aligned between the companies that are being loaned the money and the banks because the banks don't want to loan money for, you know, an interest rate that is too low because then they won't make as much money talk a little bit about the misaligned incentives here because they're just slightly misaligned. Yeah, I think everyone is facing a dilemma here. So what we found in the story is that actually a quarter of the loans that we reviewed have no penalty whatsoever, And the incentive is only one basis point. So that's like $100 for every million dollar tiny. It's like tiny. These companies have hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, if not billions of dollars, in some cases, so The size of the incentive is incredibly small, and there's a few reasons why that is one. The company may be reluctant to commit to very ambitious goals. They obviously want to maintain their cost of capital within a certain range, so they may not want to go out of the way and include massive adjustments. But at the under of the other end of the bargain is a bank and they make Money by making loans and these products, revolving credit lines and term loans that specifically revolving credit lines tend to be lost, making for banks to start with, and so any additional basis point that they give up as an incentive for the company to meet their goals. Is the basis point that don't make that they don't make in profits. It's a nominee. Where do we go from here? I mean, our US regulators looking at this and these toothless targets and potentially getting upset, Or are these banks and companies technically not doing anything wrong? For now. The sense we regard in our reporting is that regulators are really focused both in Europe and and on the U. S on the investment management site, So if there is You know, fund management companies that are marketing to their investors s G funds or green products, and those claims are not substantiated. That's what regulators are looking at. In this case, it's mostly between the banks. And the companies and so no third party investor really is is involved. Deputy Just the last 30 seconds that we have with you. What did you hear from banks? When you reached out to them about this The view from banks generally is that they are trying to help their clients do the right thing. It's one tool in a bigger toolbox that companies have And they're happy to do their part. Um, you know, some recognize that this want changed the world, but they say it's a small step in the right direction, and it's worth pursuing. All right. Well, the story continues, and it will certainly continue with Davide. She'll use a corporate finance reporter at Bloomberg News. He's joining us live from the Bloomberg Interactive.
Pickleball Therapy | In2Pickle
"the last year" Discussed on Pickleball Therapy | In2Pickle
"And so you know, it's really important to not play pickleball because of what I say or anybody else says. But because of what you want, what you want to accomplish. Where you can use information that you receive from someone like myself or CG or VI pick a ball or something like that or YouTube channels is you've made the decision, I want this in my game where I want to do this. And then use us as a tool basically to help you get to where you want to be with your game. As opposed to, you know, we say, you know, this is important, right? Or this is something that we think should be added and you just say, okay, I'm gonna add it to my game because I heard it from Tony or CJ. So at the end of the day, I think that the important thing here is play the game the way that's right for you. Do what's right for you and your game. Don't worry so much about what others think, including us, you know, basically what's right for you and then we'll be there for you to help you develop into the big wall player that you want to be. So I thought that episode was a pretty, pretty important one. It kind of sets the tone for a lot of what we talk about in this in this podcast. The other series was we did an interview with coach Peter scales called mental and emotional training..
Celtics Beat
"the last year" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"If like, I like a new fan-favorite Yama doors on this roster or something, but those three guys in particular, what your hope is. For them offensively not necessarily just this year, but just in their growth and their development wage is there room, you know, is there is there room for those guys to go out there and be as impactful to develop as much as you would like them to or as Brad really swung the other way in in trying to load up the the back half of this roster with veterans. I I happen to agree with you on that in the fact that you have too many of those guys. Or to have a couple of good young players over there, sitting on the bench, chomping at the bit. Where are they going to get their time? I mean, that was one thing that Brad did if I was being for the court. Brad was off when he had that great. She was like, he was trying to play everybody. You cannot play everybody. You gotta get your rotation of maybe seven eight, guys, and then everybody else is going to take a little bit for a while. So I think their development as players. Those guys, you mentioned Pritchard, Naismith is probably going to be signed me because they won't get off that amount of time. Especially the way this team is constructed right now today. Yeah, I wonder what it looks like going forward. I really do. It's going to be interesting. I mean, I think it'll be a fun team to watch. I just think there's there's there's a lot of depth in depth. That's a good thing because there's there's injuries who-knows-what covid-19 for won't present the you know, the Delta very and whatever other variants that come along along the way you can never have too much depth, but I just wonder, you know, how long I'll be really curious just like we saw what Brad did? We suffer eight years with Brad did? We don't know how he may have joke is going to run this ship, and I'm curious to see what this looks like..
Celtics Beat
"the last year" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"To to say, do you think about you had any four million dollars in your hands? Yeah, it off. I don't want that. But what I want is I want six million dollars through so give me improved deal agree with you. I mean is I mean we've all been there was that one in the hand and two in the bush. Yeah, I mean that to me was like Something just say right with me when the that decision and just like it. But when Celtics it is absolutely a great deal to bring in a quality player like him. Who is worth 84 million and you get him for six million. What did you just do? You just instead of going to Stella buying your stuff and Nordstrom's Rack, you know that same product at T.J.Maxx. That's what that's what you're telling you in the numbers thing, you know the same quality, but you bought it for lunch or for Less. So how do you like his fit with this team? And and we don't know if this team as it's currently constructed is going to stay like we've said before but let's say you have schruder, you have smart, you have done, you have Pritchard, you have, you know, all these guys and I don't want to say that they all replicate one another. They don't, you know, and in many ways they don't but across this Ross, Like right now, we just we just have way too many bodies. Like someone's going to go someone's you know, whether it's like a grant Williams, whether it is done. Whether it's Carson Edwards, this this roster as we look at it right now as it exists in this moment, is not going to be, obviously, come the regular season. So, how to shoot her Finn with, in the in, with this group. Do you do you salary aside just to fit as an offensive? Contributor is a starter vs as a reserve as a Defender. How do you like what he brings to the team? I like what he brings to the team. As as a Defender. I like his troops, the things that was mentioned as as you know, when he was in in Germany, it was always said that he was the German Rondo. Is, it's a leg for looking at the game II, the game, not that, you know, he's not going to beat you with blazing speed, but he's quick enough to get by you. He plays angles wage is not a bad shooter from the three-point line. His best years to me probably work in as much as he played in the land, his best years actually when he's in Oklahoma, coming off the bench, where he's off the Six Million of the year. He played that well, so I think that there's his intellect for the game. His ability to compete is going to be good too because if you have them for one year, so now he's trying to prove everybody on the other side that I'm worth that $84 million dollars. So there there's some qualities about him that I absolutely love and he is not going and I've always seen him never that down. You know, you're always talking about those guys for my fight and my phone. Jumped a little nasty little dirty to you true. There is heat schruder. Is that, you know what? You've been out sometime during the summer time and it will not fire under the thing is like what the heck? True there is like that on the defensive being where he gets into people's heads and sometimes takes them away from the game because he anticipates so well. And he slides his feet really. Really. Well. He's a lot like Marcus Smart irritant on the defense. So I'm like that. Yeah, that's me outside. 5 p.m..
Celtics Beat
"the last year" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"So talking about this roster, Max you brought up in a counter. Now, I like Evan. If Evan Valenti were here with us for this show. Evan was not excited about the the cancer re-signing said, I can't do anymore, enes Kanter minutes, you know after what he saw in Boston a couple of years back. I for one, you know at a certain point in time Max you look at roll. You look at salary, you look at all of it, you know putting a team together and enes Kanter for one year in the Veteran's minimum wage. What two point seven million dollars for what he can do off pensively for what he can do. As a rebounder. Yeah. It's not the best defensive player. He's not even a good defensive player. But for what he can do in those other areas and plus as a glue guy, a lock room, Gaya, podber teammate, all that when there was reported friction in the locker room. Tristan Thompson among others last season. To me. It's just such an easy value-add. It's such an easy value-add and if he's, you know, for for any reason unplayable in the mind of, who dhoka, because you need to crack down defensively and you just, you can't put them out on the floor, you don't? You don't because like you said, you got William shank. Well, you got a boyfriend and be off each X the boxes to me. Yeah, because you said, you know, just playing defense, maybe not have nothing but offensively getting second-chance opportunities. Tough off-set mean pics. Locker room guy, great guy. That really his teammates have been braced him. 2.7 million a note for for you. That's low peanuts. But oh, yeah, in that in that respect. I think it's a steel. Yeah, Springer. And he was already familiar with the guys who he he's playing with now in brown and Tatum. So I I love his pickup. I love the fact that you bring him in and said that you may be moved on. You know, the one guy I'm going to miss a little bit. It's going to be semi you shoot me over your way. Yeah, cuz I think he was With bands and everybody else. I think he was a little underrated because he was, he was solid. He was a solid Defender. We we we did. Mike do wage, didn't like the fact he was shooting threes all the time. We wanted them to go towards.
Celtics Beat
"the last year" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"I said there, sometimes for me with Tatum as great as he is when he has the ball in his dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble dribble, dribble down. In the defense becomes more entrenched and you don't move. Then he says to me, which I thought was true. Unless they now Jalen on the other side. I said he is quick. He's a fish is up, is out. I'm going home. I'm I'm out the door. You made a good point with me. He said, take them has to put the ball on the floor a little bit more. He doesn't have that in his game like brown. He's going to try to beat you to his office, with other step dribble. He's going to try to beat you, you know, stepping away from the rim and it takes two or three more dribbles to do that. That is what was my concern. So I think that there's there's Points for improvement. But both these guys, I probably like you did not like the fact that, you know, I'm not going to speak for you, but I didn't like the fact that I should take them, went to the Olympics. God blessed me one. He want to go metal but with the shortened season. Yep. With him having cold it. I just wanted him to bed rest and wanting him to take a time to be away from the game and just rest his body and rest his mind. Now you come off the Olympics. You got less than a month to get prepared. Again. That crank your body back up and I have the same, any rest, your body or your body's going to arrest you. And what I mean by that was some kind of injury, so I'm not saying he's going to happen, happen to him, but I just really wanted him to get a loop step back away from the game and look at it from afar and be more analytical. In his mind instead of physical. Now, there's some things I think he learned, you know, in the Olympics by playing with some of those great players. There were times when he was he turned out to be the show off in the Olympics. So in bolded, well, I guess in that other side for him to play in it and and kudos to him for what he end up doing. Just that, I understand what you're saying for sure. It's something we've talked about on this, this show in weeks past, but do the pros outweigh the cons, the cons, obviously everything that you just outlined in your dead on, but the pros of The Experience playing in that stage playing with those guys like you said and and potential recruitment down the road. I mean, who the hell knows, we know the way this league Works. Obviously, we know how some of these super teams have been formed in the past would be great. Obviously if you had Bradley Beal there with him as originally designed but it's not like those two need to get to know each other better. We all know what, you know what the objective seemingly is between the two of them, but I, you know, being able to play more than he already has for Gregg Popovich and learning from him being there with every step of the way. Even though we do code, was the assistant coach..
Celtics Beat
"the last year" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"I'm right there with you on Marcus Smart, but there are a lot of people, as you know, that gripe about the three pointers, the early shot clock, shots, the, you know, bad shots. He checked, shots all that stuff. And I never got mad about it. And here's why it was outwardly. It was openly encouraged by Brad. What I, you know, it's like that point. You're just doing what your coach is telling you to do. I wonder if he may have joke is going to rain that in a little bit, because it, I don't think Marcus is nearly as bad as shooter as a lot of people think he is. I think he's an average shooter wage. Find shooter. I don't need him out there, taking seven, 3-pointers a game, you know, versus you know, taking shots in some cases away from guys who are better Shooters. And I'm not just talking about, obviously like Jayson Tatum Jaylen Brown. I mean, Peyton Pritchard, our Nesmith guys like that. You don't need smart, taking all, those shots on average every single game. That, excuse me. That being said, You may can shape him, he can mold him in his vision because you don't listen to the coach. You know, your that doesn't. That doesn't go well for you, you know, as you certainly know as a former player. So you gotta talk to your coach, You Gotta Buy into the new voice. I'm wondering if he may odoko changes his style, just a little bit, not all the areas. You just outlined. You want all that to continue but offensive lie, in terms of the way, he shoots and the freeway in which he shoots. I think that everybody should be on that same page mean as much as we think that Tatum has a green light or brown has a green light there. A lot of times when I am screaming yelling. How about 2 points? How about taking the ball towards the rim? So I think that he may is going to hopefully want to change that vision of attacking the rim a little bit more Jayson..
Celtics Beat
"the last year" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"They had just the second round, pick beggar on there from France, who are not going to see this coming year and just a, a flurry of offseason movement, that even who dhoka alluded to while in Las Vegas watching the summer league Squad. May not be done, obviously a wage before the season starts. So what if you made of of, of this retooling this transition we've seen. Well, first of all, I would go with the first part with Danny Ainge stepping. Now, I'm surprised and I don't think any of us, saw it coming and then more surprised when Brad stepped into the position. Had a chance to talk to Brad when they would suck. To do the same a at the practice facility and I said, who would be better? Buying the groceries and somebody who has done and had this team underneath watch for the last six seven years and Brad, totally looked at me said, yep, you're right, you know, he would know the strengths and the weaknesses better than anybody else of this team. So I'm I'm I look at that and I'm I'm happy you make coming in is, you know, this is going to be a work-in-progress for you who who really knows, perhaps, you know, first-time head coach coming in the suburbs have put their marbles in the ownership, you know, loves him. He seems like, you know, that kind of guy off that is going to, when think he said, you talked about Brown and Tatum..
Celtics Beat
"the last year" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"Everybody, here we go off. Welcome and another nice. New addition to Celtics. Beat Adam Kaufman with you and joined by a guy. That is just honestly, he's he's an even better guy than he gets credit for which is saying something because everybody says what a great guy he is and it's true. Cedric Maxwell an NBA Finals MVP part of the clns media Network here. And also, of course the long time radio analyst of the Boston Celtics home. The various platforms most recently and currently 98.5 The Sports Hub. Max. How are you buddy? I am doing just fine. It is always enjoy when they get on your show with you that long cuz it up and talk about NBA basketball or whatever. You know, we wonder into we have to do that sometimes. Yeah. Yeah loving the fact that I am having a great summer so far. We do wander, there's no doubt about in fact, let's wander right off the Hop, you know, we have plenty of time to get into Celtics and summer league, which I know you've been keeping an eye on, of course, offseason moves a month since our last show the Celtics added Dennis Schroder will get into that. But but let's, let's Veer for a second. So this is, this is a reward for those who are watching versus just listening. I'm wearing one of the one of the great homage. As, as the company is NBA Jam. Sure, it's not show you this. Can you see this Max? Yeah, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, obviously, you know, the game NBA Jam. It's got the ratings dead. On speed and three pointers, and dunks and defense. I feel like and and I'll tell you for people that can't see in or just listening Mikhail has looks like he was kind of disrespect in the dunk category. I mean, he's got just a little sliver of green and that a whole lot of red. He was a better dunker than that way. He was about to Duncan in Larry. I can definitely say that and I think something like three-quarters of the bar and I'm like, you look at Larry. Oh, so that was defense. I think that Kevin.
Caffeinate & Conquer: The Podcast
"the last year" Discussed on Caffeinate & Conquer: The Podcast
"That's a symbol line. It's three words. There's no visualization no real world life behind them see the difference. The same works in our professional lives as business owners employees and self employed hopefuls. Now while you have that clean slate not only for today and tomorrow but for an entire new year. it's important to take the time. Now to be introspective. Find that space where you can comfortably and confidently uncover what your professional intentions are. What do you want this year. What does it look like. What does it feel like hell. What does it smell and taste like if you're like me and it helps you. Visualize things make a vision board. Collage that shit out. I personally like to set intentions. Not only for the year but for each quarter month and week health. Sometimes when i'm feeling especially overwhelmed or unproductive all set an intention for the morning and yes. It may be something as simple as to have enjoyed three cups of coffee and crafted to captivating blog posts when the clock strikes noon..
Caffeinate & Conquer: The Podcast
"the last year" Discussed on Caffeinate & Conquer: The Podcast
"Twenty twenty one and despite predictions from such reputable sources as the jetsons were still here on earth. Living our lives without robotic maids or flying cars. Although i will say the roomba has definitely been a giant step in the right direction. Instead of excitement and shenanigans that usually accompany the start of a new year. We've all been stuck at home. Inundated with the countless seemingly never ending memes and gifts flooding our facebook walls on instagram streams. Since that's how we communicate now new year new you boo welcomed level. Thirteen of jumanji. Fuck off twenty. Twenty bring it on twenty twenty one. I want to refund. The images may differ slightly. But they've all got the same route message. Hey sorry you're last year with shit but as soon as the clock struck midnight and the calendar page flipped. Everything is better now. I'll apologize in advance for bursting your bubble and raining on your parade. But that's not how this works. Yes it's a new year. It's twenty twenty one. A new set of twelve months which for most of us restarts the cycle of seasons tax records and grand workout.