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Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is a Lifeline | EP 835
"It's all going to zero against Bitcoin. It's going up forever, bro. Bitcoin! You're against Bitcoin, you're against freedom. Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live. We are your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution of corporate breaking news, culture, matic warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state. Sailor tweeted something very interesting yesterday. Anything when it when you tweet a picture, I really call it a meme, right, because memes are a form of, you know, graphics, memes, they're really what they're forms of transmitting information, transmitting data, right? So I'm just going to call it a meme, even though, you know, by the usual definition, it's not a meme. It's a bunch of statistics, a bunch of data. But for the sake, just to simplify, it was a meme, tweeted a meme about the inflation rates of all fiat currencies around the world. And what he said, the tweet that he said is, if you don't have access to dollars, Bitcoin is a lifeline. I mean, and it's very interesting because if you don't have access to dollars, thing is like, if you have a bunch of piles of crap, right? The dollar is the smallest, less smelling pile of crap, right? It's still crap, but it is the least worst of all of them, right? And what I think is happening, especially in the global south, the developing world, is you are seeing a lot of people adopt alternatives to state money. But the pattern that you're seeing is people aren't really adopting Bitcoin per se. Of course, there's a percentage of Bitcoin adopters, but what you're really seeing is people adopting stable coins, specifically USDT or, you know, the USDC or whatever, any specific type of stable coins that is a US dollar stable coin. And the thing about those things is that they provide a false sense of financial sovereignty. Number one, because they can freeze it. And number two, because I think eventually, due to its centralization, they will inevitably be co -opted. And they still have inflation baked in, right? So like it's a multitude of factors, but this is why this whole thing is going to be multi -generational, right? I truly believe. And the analogy that I always, always use, and I know it's cliche, the movie The Matrix, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but this analogy is so useful. Nio was just exposed to The Matrix and Morpheus and Nio are in the construct and Nio goes into denial and he's like, no, this isn't real. And he goes crazy. They pull him out. He gets out of the chair and he just collapses on the floor and, you know, and he just, he just passes out. He can't believe he can't, it's too much for him to take. And then the next, the following scene, Morpheus is standing over Nio while Nio wakes up and Morpheus looks at Nio and he says, Nio, I apologize. After a certain age, we don't pull people out of The Matrix because it's too much for their minds to, for their minds to handle. And I think it's a very fitting analogy to the fiat matrix. If you've lived the majority of your life using paper money that has faces of old people on it or faces of structures or faces of things, you're used to state issued money. You're used to banking. You're not used to taking self custody of your wealth. It is a very, very radical idea. It's not to say that you can't do it, but it's you have to go through a process of unlearning and then learning something new versus what Naim Bukkela is doing in El Salvador, where he's teaching the next generation about Bitcoin right off the gate. So it's not a process of unlearning. It's a process of learning something new. Now, in my specific career, and I know Opti, I'm pretty sure I'm pretty confident he's experienced the same thing before I bring him up. You know, I've been in Bitcoin basically a third of my life. So I had no idea about the traditional financial system. And so I started making Bitcoin content. And I thought, you know, when you start making Bitcoin content, OK, you're just going to talk about Bitcoin. No, it ends up being this macro geopolitical, you know, because Bitcoin is fundamentally going to change the world. That's why we say in the beginning of the show, separation of money and state. And you have you're forced to learn about the traditional financial system. And holy cow, are you just like in awe, you're just like, do things really work like that? That's absolutely insane. Right. So that's what I got to say is yes, absolutely. If you don't have the dollar, Bitcoin is definitely the lifeboat. But that's not to say that people are choosing Bitcoin. People are using or choosing stable coins, again, because I think that they've been conditioned. Right. I think that they've been conditioned to this, to the belief that the dollar is very, very strong. And in the global sense, like before Bitcoin, you could have made that argument and would have been a solid argument. But I'll ask you guys, it's a very simple question. If you have a currency that is designed to inflate and lose purchasing power over time and can also be censored and confiscated easily by the state versus a currency that is designed to increase in purchasing power over time is censorship resistant. I mean, what what do you think people are going to choose eventually? Incentives matter and Bitcoin incentives are the best. And that's truly believe. That's why I truly believe over the long run, enough people will wake up to that fact and adopt it. Right. Anyway. So we're going to talk about all that today. I know I rambled on for quite a bit, but I want to welcome my very special co -host, always optimistic. He had a dream. You had a dream, bro. You had a very interesting dream. You know, I started the Chrissy thing as a joke. I didn't think it was going to end up here. Yeah. Well, guys, if you didn't see my Twitter and I didn't even make this up, I legitimately had a dream last night that I was battling Christine Lagarde and she was a praying mantis and Claus Schwab was a locust. And I had to. That was a third one. I can't remember the third person. Yeah. I don't remember who it was, to be honest, but there was someone else there and I had to battle them. There was like a full Mortal Kombat scene in my dream where I was battling the unproductive parasite, Sat B. Yeah. I can't make up. This is where my life is. Actually, I mean, I think it's because I watched Prometheus again last night trying to unplug and there's that one scene of like the human spider thing. Anyways, anyways, anyways, that's totally not here nor there. To your point, Nico, it's funny that once I look through the world, through the Bitcoin lens and trying to understand Bitcoin and its place in the world, you start to learn a lot about the traditional financial system, global geopolitical macro. And I think we were having this conversation yesterday. It's like being in Bitcoin is just a crash course in how the normal world works, how all of the adult adults in the room see the world and how the financial system works. And then it's just funny because we always filter everything through that Bitcoin lens. And you're just like, we were saying it to each other, it's like Bitcoin changes everything and it's so simple and everything's so convoluted and so complicated in the traditional financial world. And it's just like, I don't know, fix the money, fix the world. It's just so simple. But it really gives you a crash course on life when you start to understand Bitcoin and you start to understand how Bitcoin works and why the fiat system is broken. And yeah, it just it blows my mind that we have learned about the traditional financial system through Bitcoin. And I never learned that before I found Bitcoin. It blows my mind. One hundred percent. I mean, again, like it's like we didn't have to in a way, you know, like and then I can't even imagine our children like they're going to be born in a world where Bitcoin has already existed. Right. So it's just it's just crazy to think. It's like when we think about our parents, like they were born in a world where the Internet didn't exist. You know, like people still read newspapers. That blows my like I can't even conceive of like, you know, of of that world. But I think the paradigm is is going to be so great because I don't think we've ever lived in a world where the money wasn't issued by the king or the emperor or the state or the government, you know, or the, you know, the democratically elected body, whatever this ruling class of people. And every single time throughout history, the ruling class of people manipulated the money to benefit themselves at the expense of the populace, at the expense of the public. Now you have something like Bitcoin where they can't do that. Right. It kind of levels the playing field and it kind of changes the power dynamics of the whole structure entirely. It's very, very fascinating, the entire thing. But you know, what turned from a joke into a meme ended up in Opti's dream. And I think Chrissy as a praying mantis, if anyone could make that A .I. picture of that, that would be dope. Please send it to us. We'll put it on the meme review. Anyways, everybody, let's jump straight into the numbers. We have a lot to talk about today. Let's check it out.
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh update on "third one" discussed on Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"John rama norway's victor hoblin the european team races out to a banding six and a half to one and a half lead over the americans largest day one margin in writer cup history one game out of a playoff spot with three left to go the mariners dramatic three to walk -off victory last night over texas keeps them close to houston for the last day a wild card julio rodriguez had a solo home run he was on deck when jp crawford spanked the game winning double uh really really fun you know he's always pulling putting up up good at bats he's not giving anything away so uh he's always competing out there and that's that's something that kind of like shows every time we saw the game with him j -rod and the mariners face texas all -star pitcher nathan iovaldi tonight at mobile t park rookie brian wu gets the biggest start of his seattle career the seahawks hope to see a bevy of players healthy enough to practice today they get ready for monday night football against the giants in new jersey safety jamal adams full practice thursday as he points towards playing in a game for the first time in a year student huskies try to stay up top the pack twelve football standings tomorrow night when they take on the wildcats at mona and a preseason hockey seattle beat vancouver three one cracking against edmonton monday night sports with sports at 10 and 40 after the hour northwest newsradio are you curious about who offers the best deals on top -rated samsung lg and sony tvs the answer is surprising it's not online and it's not the warehouse clubs the best deals on top -rated tvs are at video only don't believe it then check out the trade -in deals at video only how about five hundred dollars your for old tv try doing that online before you buy that new tv drop into video only if you don't you'll be sorry at glp attorneys we help those who have been wrongfully injured get from injury to recovery with justice i'm john weber one of our 30 attorneys who live and work right here in the pacific northwest glp attorneys provides compassion commitment collaboration and creativity so our clients receive the compensation they deserve let glp help you get from injury recovery with a free consultation learn more at glp attorneys .com there's nothing more beautiful than the colors and shapes of japanese maples and right now
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SBF TRIAL: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial Defense Episode 4
"But the at end, they're going to be like, hey, count one. What do you say? Guilty, not guilty. Count two, guilty, not guilty. And I don't know, push comes to shove. I don't know what those elements that are going to stand out at trial that sway jurors are going to be, but to Mark Litt's point, you might only need one person to say, I'm not convinced. And the advice of counsel stuff is tricky because according to the filings going back and forth, there are big differences between if you tell a lawyer, go and handle this for me, and the lawyer commits a crime, versus if the lawyer was just in the room when you discussed committing a crime and you took their silence as implicit endorsement of the legality of your actions, that does not hold up in court. There are specific precedents that say you can't get away with that. So again, those three deputies that may have been in the room with Sam and his lawyers from the firm Fenwick and what is it, Fenwick and West, or Ryan Miller who has a past at Sullivan and Cromwell, or Dan Friedberg, who was the top lawyer at FTX for a long time, testimony from all of these people and the exact phrasing and intentionality of what was in the room could end up being important. I mean, I think all of that will end up being important for sure, one way or the other, depending on how much is allowed to be discussed at trial. If Judge Kaplan says, yeah, I'll let you try it, then yeah, maybe some of it starts to appear. But I do think that was interesting because to your question on how much has changed since we started digging into Sam's defense, given what he's provided to us directly, there wasn't a lot of mention about Fenwick and West. There was way more about Sullivan and Cromwell and this idea of, hey, you promised me a lot of things before I turned this company over to John Ray, your chosen hand -picked successor to me. And then he turned around and chose Solcrom, that's now on pace to make almost a billion dollars through all this. And that as a defense kind of, again, you can start to see the pieces come together. As Marklet told us, on the other side, the government wants to include the bankruptcy facts, the facts at FTX eventually because of all of these things wound up in bankruptcy with a huge hole, is because of all the things that came before it and it completes their story. I think it's kind of interesting that we didn't see, I mean, he mentions Fenwick and West in here, but what he filed in his idea of advice of counsel leans way more in that direction than anything against John J. Ray and Sullivan and Cromwell. So I think that that's kind of, if you think about my discussion with him as a snapshot in time of his defense at that moment before he's in jail to where kind of the advice of counsel argument is moving now, I don't know if that like completes his story to kind of use the parallel grading metric. And if you're a juror, I don't know if the big bad boogeyman of my quote unquote lawyers told me I was fine. I don't know. But I don't think it's as neatly presented that way. So will it hold up? I don't know. But those are essentially the two pillars. And then the third one's not even really a defense in the courtroom at all, which is, hey, CZ wasn't exactly helping me out here when he triggered a bank run on FTX. And that also should be talked about, which I think actually probably should be talked about, which is why we talked about it in this series. But looking ahead, Abrams, when you think about what is to come and how these are going to go, as we discussed, 150 years for Bernie Madoff. For Sam, he's facing seven counts. And how the jury rules on it could determine some things. Right. I've heard a theoretical maximum penalty of 115 years. That's what the Justice Department said back in December, I believe. And you think about good behavior, bad behavior, sentencing, and how all this is going to go past whatever convictions happen.
Simply Bitcoin
Fresh update on "third one" discussed on Simply Bitcoin
"It's all going to zero against Bitcoin. It's going up forever, bro. Bitcoin! You're against Bitcoin, you're against freedom. Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live. We are your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution of corporate breaking news, culture, matic warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state. Sailor tweeted something very interesting yesterday. Anything when it when you tweet a picture, I really call it a meme, right, because memes are a form of, you know, graphics, memes, they're really what they're forms of transmitting information, transmitting data, right? So I'm just going to call it a meme, even though, you know, by the usual definition, it's not a meme. It's a bunch of statistics, a bunch of data. But for the sake, just to simplify, it was a meme, tweeted a meme about the inflation rates of all fiat currencies around the world. And what he said, the tweet that he said is, if you don't have access to dollars, Bitcoin is a lifeline. I mean, and it's very interesting because if you don't have access to dollars, thing is like, if you have a bunch of piles of crap, right? The dollar is the smallest, less smelling pile of crap, right? It's still crap, but it is the least worst of all of them, right? And what I think is happening, especially in the global south, the developing world, is you are seeing a lot of people adopt alternatives to state money. But the pattern that you're seeing is people aren't really adopting Bitcoin per se. Of course, there's a percentage of Bitcoin adopters, but what you're really seeing is people adopting stable coins, specifically USDT or, you know, the USDC or whatever, any specific type of stable coins that is a US dollar stable coin. And the thing about those things is that they provide a false sense of financial sovereignty. Number one, because they can freeze it. And number two, because I think eventually, due to its centralization, they will inevitably be co-opted. And they still have inflation baked in, right? So like it's a multitude of factors, but this is why this whole thing is going to be multi-generational, right? I truly believe. And the analogy that I always, always use, and I know it's cliche, the movie The Matrix, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but this analogy is so useful. Nio was just exposed to The Matrix and Morpheus and Nio are in the construct and Nio goes into denial and he's like, no, this isn't real. And he goes crazy. They pull him out. He gets out of the chair and he just collapses on the floor and, you know, and he just, he just passes out. He can't believe he can't, it's too much for him to take. And then the next, the following scene, Morpheus is standing over Nio while Nio wakes up and Morpheus looks at Nio and he says, Nio, I apologize. After a certain age, we don't pull people out of The Matrix because it's too much for their minds to, for their minds to handle. And I think it's a very fitting analogy to the fiat matrix. If you've lived the majority of your life using paper money that has faces of old people on it or faces of structures or faces of things, you're used to state issued money. You're used to banking. You're not used to taking self custody of your wealth. It is a very, very radical idea. It's not to say that you can't do it, but it's you have to go through a process of unlearning and then learning something new versus what Naim Bukkela is doing in El Salvador, where he's teaching the next generation about Bitcoin right off the gate. So it's not a process of unlearning. It's a process of learning something new. Now, in my specific career, and I know Opti, I'm pretty sure I'm pretty confident he's experienced the same thing before I bring him up. You know, I've been in Bitcoin basically a third of my life. So I had no idea about the traditional financial system. And so I started making Bitcoin content. And I thought, you know, when you start making Bitcoin content, OK, you're just going to talk about Bitcoin. No, it ends up being this macro geopolitical, you know, because Bitcoin is fundamentally going to change the world. That's why we say in the beginning of the show, separation of money and state. And you have you're forced to learn about the traditional financial system. And holy cow, are you just like in awe, you're just like, do things really work like that? That's absolutely insane. Right. So that's what I got to say is yes, absolutely. If you don't have the dollar, Bitcoin is definitely the lifeboat. But that's not to say that people are choosing Bitcoin. People are using or choosing stable coins, again, because I think that they've been conditioned. Right. I think that they've been conditioned to this, to the belief that the dollar is very, very strong. And in the global sense, like before Bitcoin, you could have made that argument and would have been a solid argument. But I'll ask you guys, it's a very simple question. If you have a currency that is designed to inflate and lose purchasing power over time and can also be censored and confiscated easily by the state versus a currency that is designed to increase in purchasing power over time is censorship resistant. I mean, what what do you think people are going to choose eventually? Incentives matter and Bitcoin incentives are the best. And that's truly believe. That's why I truly believe over the long run, enough people will wake up to that fact and adopt it. Right. Anyway. So we're going to talk about all that today. I know I rambled on for quite a bit, but I want to welcome my very special co-host, always optimistic. He had a dream. You had a dream, bro. You had a very interesting dream. You know, I started the Chrissy thing as a joke. I didn't think it was going to end up here. Yeah. Well, guys, if you didn't see my Twitter and I didn't even make this up, I legitimately had a dream last night that I was battling Christine Lagarde and she was a praying mantis and Claus Schwab was a locust. And I had to. That was a third one. I can't remember the third person. Yeah. I don't remember who it was, to be honest, but there was someone else there and I had to battle them. There was like a full Mortal Kombat scene in my dream where I was battling the unproductive parasite, Sat B. Yeah. I can't make up. This is where my life is. Actually, I mean, I think it's because I watched Prometheus again last night trying to unplug and there's that one scene of like the human spider thing. Anyways, anyways, anyways, that's totally not here nor there. To your point, Nico, it's funny that once I look through the world, through the Bitcoin lens and trying to understand Bitcoin and its place in the world, you start to learn a lot about the traditional financial system, global geopolitical macro. And I think we were having this conversation yesterday. It's like being in Bitcoin is just a crash course in how the normal world works, how all of the adult adults in the room see the world and how the financial system works. And then it's just funny because we always filter everything through that Bitcoin lens. And you're just like, we were saying it to each other, it's like Bitcoin changes everything and it's so simple and everything's so convoluted and so complicated in the traditional financial world. And it's just like, I don't know, fix the money, fix the world. It's just so simple. But it really gives you a crash course on life when you start to understand Bitcoin and you start to understand how Bitcoin works and why the fiat system is broken. And yeah, it just it blows my mind that we have learned about the traditional financial system through Bitcoin. And I never learned that before I found Bitcoin. It blows my mind. One hundred percent. I mean, again, like it's like we didn't have to in a way, you know, like and then I can't even imagine our children like they're going to be born in a world where Bitcoin has already existed. Right. So it's just it's just crazy to think. It's like when we think about our parents, like they were born in a world where the Internet didn't exist. You know, like people still read newspapers. That blows my like I can't even conceive of like, you know, of of that world. But I think the paradigm is is going to be so great because I don't think we've ever lived in a world where the money wasn't issued by the king or the emperor or the state or the government, you know, or the, you know, the democratically elected body, whatever this ruling class of people. And every single time throughout history, the ruling class of people manipulated the money to benefit themselves at the expense of the populace, at the expense of the public. Now you have something like Bitcoin where they can't do that. Right. It kind of levels the playing field and it kind of changes the power dynamics of the whole structure entirely. It's very, very fascinating, the entire thing. But you know, what turned from a joke into a meme ended up in Opti's dream. And I think Chrissy as a praying mantis, if anyone could make that A.I. picture of that, that would be dope. Please send it to us. We'll put it on the meme review. Anyways, everybody, let's jump straight into the numbers. We have a lot to talk about today. Let's check it out.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from A Dame Trade Deep Dive With Ben Thompson, Plus Seth Meyers and Million-Dollar Picks
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We did the big chill. It was very, very exciting. I have Kyle Brandt coming on Monday's podcast. I'm just gonna tell you the movie now because it is gonna be the best moment of your weekend if you spent two hours watching this classic. We're doing Toy Soldiers. It really brings everything possible to the table. So if you wanna watch it ahead of time, there it is. That podcast is going up Monday night. If you wanna hear stuff about the debate, we have Tara Paul and Mary's podcast, Somebody's Gotta Win. That reacted to it as well as the press box with Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker. So there you go. Our debate coverage has been on point. Also, higher learning. Van and Rachel had Larry Elder on this weekend. It made a lot of noise, man. That podcast is great. I hope you check that out as well. Hope you're checking out theringer .com. And on this podcast, gonna talk about the dame trade at the top. We're gonna bring in Ben Thompson from the Techery newsletter, which he's been on this podcast I think four weeks ago. And he's a huge Bucks fan. He's gonna give the Bucks fan side of things. We're gonna do million dollar picks. And then old friend Seth Meyers talking about a whole bunch of stuff. So really good podcast. It's all next. First, our friends from Pro Jam. What's up? All right, I'm taping this on Thursday afternoon. Normally when there's a big MBA trade, I always do the emergency trade reaction right after the podcast. But we just put up a podcast on Tuesday. So I decided to play it a little differently this time. I wanted a little distance, I wanted to listen to stuff, read stuff, and try to form some big picture opinions coming out of this. So I have four smaller ones, then one big one. First one, I thought Portland did an incredible job with this trade. I really liked this trade, especially everyone was trying to bully them in June and July about, oh, you got to take Miami's offer. You just got to. It's where he wants to go. It's the only offer you're going to get. And guess what? They waited. They played it perfectly. They stared Miami down, and they got a much better deal. First of all, they get the Drew Holiday piece that they can flip into a bunch out of their stuff, which we'll talk about in one second. I love the DeAndre Ayton gamble. As you know, on this podcast, I am a big DeAndre Ayton guy. Not in the sense of I'm the biggest fan of his in the world, but I'm a fan of the asset. I just think I love the valued assets, no matter what it is. Whatever market we're talking about, DeAndre Ayton, 18 and 10 for his career, 60 % field goals percentage, 25 years old. He's played in 45 playoff games. He played four rounds in the 2021 finals. Last year, he got his ass kicked by Jokic. Oh, sorry. Like, that never happens. And Phoenix just sold on him, which I can't wait to talk about. But just from a Portland standpoint, they not only get Ayton in whatever they get for holiday, they get the 29 first, they get the two swaps, and they dump Nurkic. Nurkic hasn't had a healthy start to finish all the way through the playoffs here since 2018, which I'm positive was a long time ago. He's basically 12 and 8. He's, you know, a 50 % shooter. I made a list of the top 30 centers. I encourage you to do this at home, because what's more fun than making lists of NBA centers? I can't imagine anything. I made a list of who I thought were the best assets of the center position for talent, contract, everything. He was 29th on my list. The only person I had ahead of him who's technically a starter, unless you start talking about the Detroit or Charlotte guys, was Zubats on the Clippers. I thought he was the 29th best center asset in the league. And Phoenix, you know, just quickly to go to them, they're trying to win this year. They got worse. They turned Ayton's money into Nurkic and Grayson Allen and Nasir Little. Grayson Allen, we already know with him, he can't play in playoff series. We saw him 22. We saw it last year. I heard and read in some places like that, I got two rotation players. Did they? Is Nurkic a playoff rotation player? Is Grayson Allen a playoff rotation player? Because I'm positive he's not. So for the same money that they were spending on Ayton, they got three guys that I don't think are going to help them. In 25, the money comes down a little bit to 23 million just for Nurkic and Little, which is 7 million less than Ayton. And then in 26, that money goes up to 25 .5. But I don't understand what Phoenix was doing. Why not wait to see if Ayton clicks with Vogel? Vogel has such a good history with centers. He rejuvenated Dwight Howard on the 2020 Lakers. He basically created Roy Hibbert's career in 2013 with the defense verticality thing. I thought he was going to do a good job with Ayton. I'm stunned that they gave up on him. I'm almost waiting for one of those, now they tell us stories when, you know, that's where Brian Curtis calls them, where like a week after something happens, there's this kind of notebook dump where it's like, here's seven terrible DeAndre Ayton stories. So maybe that'll happen. But for Phoenix just to be like, cool, we locked this down, man. We got Nurkic. You're trying to win the title. You have KD and Booker and Beal. And like, what are you guys doing? Anyway, from Portland's standpoint, I love the Ayton thing. I love that they didn't get bullied. And I know they're going to turn Drew Holliday into something. So this to me was at least an A minus for them, for where they were two months ago, where Dave's like, I want to go to Miami. That's it. And if you don't trade me there, that's kind of fucked up. And they made this work as it got reported that, uh, I think in the athletic, that he expanded his list to Brooklyn and to Milwaukee in the last two weeks. And that's what Portland was waiting on. You know, they were banking on the fact that he's a competitive dude. He's one of the best 75 pairs ever. He wanted a situation settled. So, you know, you wait, you wait, you wait, they expand the list and then you go. Uh, there's a Drew Holliday piece to this. That's awesome. He becomes a contender prize. I wouldn't call this a Drew Holliday sweepstakes. I reserved sweepstakes for the superstars, but it's a mini sweepstakes. This is somebody that could have a huge impact on the playoff race. You know, not only the usual suspects, everybody's talking about Boston, ironically, Miami is a really good fit for him. And in some ways, um, I'm a little more scared of them with Miami than Dame in some ways, especially at a much cheaper contract with giving up less and keeping some of their assets. Philly, if they could pull it off, they have to be in there in Golden State, Minnesota. I think I have to mention Sacramento, I think is a team that if they could figure out how to get Drew without giving up their core, which is basically Keegan Murray and Sabonis and Fox, like that's, you know, could Davion Mitchell be in that trade with some, with a salary and some picks, who knows. The team that I love for Drew Holliday is OKC. I have OKC, you know, I started doing my MBA research for the over -under spot and I haven't landed on a number for them yet, but to me, they feel like a high forties team with Chet and with the growth of their young guys. And if you just like, let's say they traded Lou Dort and a bunch of their picks, maybe two firsts and two of their lesser picks or three firsts and a second, whatever it is. And they just say, fuck it. And they get Drew and you put him with Giddy and SGA and Jalen fucking awesome Williams and Chet Holmgren and all these other dudes they have, that might be a top three team in the West. I mean, that, that's starting to give me some early 2010s OKC vibes. So where he goes is going to be important. I just feel like there was so much Drew Holliday slander the last couple of days. You know, he's one of my favorite players. Even Haralabob, who was the chairman of the board of the Drew Holliday fan club for years and would have the benefit dinners there and, you know, just did a lot of yeoman's work on that front. And even he was like, yeah, yeah, Dame's better than Drew. That trade makes sense for Milwaukee. I was hurt, Haralabob. I was 100 % hurt by that. But you know, Drew got his ass kicked by Jimmy Butler in the playoffs last year. I get it. It happens. Jimmy was unbelievable. I feel like he would have kicked anybody's ass. By the way, why is Drew Holliday guarding Jimmy Butler? That speaks more to some of the issues with Milwaukee. He was never supposed to be a point guard and a creator. I think he was always better as an off -the -ball guy. We saw that with Rondo and New Orleans and just in general. I want to see him with a point guard. I want to see him just being unleashed, not having the ball a lot, just worrying about hitting threes, being an occasional, you know, make -shit -happen guy and being like the third or fourth best guy on a team without having the offensive responsibility to have. All their half court issues got blamed on him for the last couple of years. And I get it. They weren't like an awesome half -court team, even the other one in the finals, but I really value that dude. I had him, even I did the trade value list in August and I had him 37th and I had Dame 23rd. I think he's one of the best 30 players in the league still. He's 33 years old, which, you know, I'm going to talk in a second about when guards hit their mid -30s, but just in general, I think he's a real asset. If he goes to a team like the Celtics and they can keep Derek White and Tatum and Brown in the center, it's like, look out, man. So little mini sweepstakes, rarely do we get the trade, but then we still get another asset to talk about. Thank you for everyone involved in the trade. And then the fourth small point is just that, you know, not rocket science, Milwaukee bought some Giannis time here. They have one of the best 20 players of all time. They were staring down the barrel of a situation that was not good. I was talking about it on this podcast in late June and early July. I thought he was going to put them on the clock. I thought Mark Lasry selling his stake was a really bad sign for all of this because that dude is smart. As I laid out in June, that guy is really smart. And if he's feeling like, you know what, it's time for me to sell my buck stock, that makes me nervous. And then all the stuff that Giannis said and did, which I thought he did really fairly and really smartly. And I think that dude's about titles and that's it. And I know we say that about players, but I think in his case, I don't think he cares about, you know, what's my legacy, how do I compare against Dirk DeWhisky, any of that stuff. I just think he wants more rings. I mean, think about the guys who have won two rings out of the best 35 guys on my list of my pyramid. Those are all guys in my top 35 that won multiple wings. You go to the one -ring side, Jerry West, Oscar, Moses, Dirk, Jokic, Giannis, Pettit, Garnett, Kawhi, Rick Barry. That's the list he's on now. I certainly don't think he's looking at that list going, I got to get away from these guys, but it's a slightly different list. I think when you win multiple rings in multiple situations, it elevates you in a certain way. I think he fundamentally understands that at least a little bit. I want to be the best player since LeBron James. I think that's a thing that he wants. How am I going to do that? I need more rings. I need more finals trips. He knew from last year and maybe even the Boston series that they just weren't good enough. Whether this trade is going to be the thing that propels them, we'll find out, but he's been in the league 10 years, two MVPs, five first teams, two second teams, and now we have this little two -year window. Kawhi and the Raptors was a one -year window. This is a two -year window, I feel like. With Giannis, he's got two years left in his deals. So does Lopez. Middleton has two in a player option. Dame's got two, and then this crazy $120 million player option extension thingy that he has that just keeps going and going. It's probably two years. There's a world where this could go terribly this season, at least for what the expectations are, and then maybe it becomes Kawhi, Raptors. Maybe Giannis is like, you know what? That didn't work. Trade me. And the Bucks, who have no picks left and no future, they look at it next summer, and they go, all right. We tried it. Giannis, what can we get for you? Dame, what can we get? And they just do a reboot, rehaul. Remember, they won in 2021, which just takes so much pressure out of this. It's so much different than the Clippers situation, where they went all in on Kawhi and Paul George. They give up all those picks and SGA, and they've gotten nothing out of it. They haven't even made the finals. So it's got to happen. I think they at least probably have to make the finals. If they get bounced in round two, do I think Giannis is going to stay because they made this Dame -Mower trade? Probably not. So that leads to the big question, is how good of a trade was this? So there's a big picture angle on Dame, and it's going to sound negative, but I really don't want it to sound negative because I think Dame, I voted for him for NBA Top 75. I think he's been one of the best guards in the last 15 years. I think there's a ton of great things you can say, and there's a chance that he goes to Milwaukee, and this thing is fucking awesome. I know any Celtic fan I've talked to, including Isaiah, who's helping produce this podcast today, the Giannis -Dame pick and roll is just terrifying. Other than Jokic and Murray, it's going to be the single most unstoppable offensive play in the league. It is. We are conceding that point. The spot Dame is in right now, big picture -wise, it's weird. He's a superstar, but he's not, and we've seen guys like this before. I judge superstars by, do you have the resume statistically, and is your team succeeding consistently at a certain level? You can't totally say that about Dame. He's never been on a 55 -win team. He's missed the playoffs completely four times in 11 years. He said three first -round exits. He made the Final Four once in 2019, which was really lucky because Golden State and Houston were the two best teams, and then they got smoked. He's never been on a true contender ever. Instinctively, you go, well, that's not his fault. Who's he played with? Well, he played with LaMarcus Aldridge and CJ McCollum and a couple other guys, but not really anybody. The reason I'm putting this up is there's a success element that he has not had yet that for somebody with his resume is actually kind of unusual. I went and I looked up how many guards in the history of the league averaged 22 points a game for their career and played at least 700 games. I thought the list would be like 20. I didn't know. I didn't know what I was walking into. Only I think 75 guys have averaged 22 a game. So I went and I looked up the list, and it was 10 guys, 700 games, 22 a game for their career. There were some guys who came close like David Thompson, who I think is one of the best guards I've seen in the last 45 years, but had a short career and had some drug issues. He didn't make it. He didn't play enough games. Pete Maravich, 24 .2 points a game, but he didn't play enough games. Kyrie hasn't played enough games yet. Bradley Beale is five games away. I'm actually kind of glad the cutoff's at 700 so we don't have to talk about him. And then Mitchell and Trey Young aren't there yet. There's only 10 guys that made it, and the 10 guys are all fucking awesome. And again, I mentioned this in the context of Dame, who we think he is versus the success he's had. So the 10 guys, Michael Jordan, 30 .1, Jerry West, 27 .1, Allen Averson, 26 .7, George Gervin, 26 .2, Oscar Robertson, 25 .7, Kobe, 25 .0, Harden, 24 .7, Curry, 24 .6, Wade, 22, barely made it, and Russ, 22 .4, and then Dame is at 25 again. All right, what does he not have that those other guys have? Well, MJ, don't need to talk about him. Don't need to talk about Jerry West, who's the freaking logo. Allen Averson, pretty good comparison, right? Big stats, really memorable player, but not a ton of success. Here's the difference. Averson made the finals once. He won an MVP. Dame has done neither of those things. George Gervin was the best scoring guard of the 70s. He made two final fours. He had some bad luck. He really, in 79, really should have came close. And some of it's on him, right? He could have come through. Bobby Dandridge is the one that ended up coming through for the Bullets. They lose. But two final fours, he had four top five MVP finishes, five first teams, four second teams. He was just unassailably the best guard in the league until MJ. Oscar Robertson, don't need to go through him, but he won a ring and an MVP. Kobe, five rings and an MVP. Eleven first teams for Kobe, by the way. James Harden, three final fours, an MVP, six top five MVP finishes, six first team MBAs. And even though Harden has never made the finals as the best guy, he made it with OKC as the sixth man, you could build a contender around Harden. We saw it. We haven't really seen it with Dame. I think that's a fair thing to bring up. Curry, four rings, two MVPs, you know, the Curry thing. Dwayne Wade, three rings, two top five MVPs, two first teams, three second teams. He's more in the Dame waters a little bit, but he had the 2006 finals and he was the second best guy with LeBron on those heat teams. And then Westbrook, who you would say, well, Dame had a better career than Westbrook. Did he? Westbrook made the finals in 2012. He was second best guy on that team. Almost made the finals in 2016. He won an MVP. He had two first teams and five second teams. It's at least like a real argument. And I think when you look at Dame, he only had that one 2019 round three, got bounced. He's only had one top five MVP finish. He's only had one first team MBA and four second team MBAs. Really, really good top 75 career. But the piece that's missing is, have you been on a really good team? Have you made a real run at it? Which is why, you know, I think this Milwaukee trade is so much fun. This is his real chance. I get nervous about a couple things with this trade. One is that, you know, if you look at the 33 and older guards who average 22 points a game in a season. Jordan did it twice. Curry did it twice. Still going. Kobe did it three times. Jerry West twice. Sam Jones once. Hal Greer once. That's the entire list. Now the NBA is different. We have more three -pointers now. It's easier to score. Scoring is the easiest it's ever been. Guys can play at a longer age. So I'm not ruling out Dane being good for the next three years. But just pointing out, history is saying, be a little nervous. In general with guards, like Chris Paul, we saw from age 35 to 36 to 37, like it just dropped. But that's two years older than Dane. Maybe it's fine. I just worry about guards. We have not a lot of instances with guards in their mid -30s of them either peaking as players or being able to sustain whatever success they had during their prime. It always starts to go down with really no exceptions, except for Steph Curry. He's the only non -exception. So if your case is Dane's as good as Steph Curry, or Dane can be as potent as Steph Curry on a winning team, like, you know, Steph Curry is better than Dane, but I'm not going to argue that he couldn't do a lot of the stuff that Curry did in Golden State. The bigger issue for me, the age I'm definitely worried about. Dane has not been healthy the last couple of years, and we have not seen him play nine straight months at playoff basketball with a big bullseye on his back. Everybody coming after you, you're the best team. We haven't seen him do that ever, much less than the last couple of seasons. So can he stay up? Can he stay healthy? That's one thing. The defense with Dane just got kind of swept under the rug the last couple days, and I don't really understand it because there's five categories of defensive player I feel like. There's excellent, there's good, there's average, there's not so good, and then there's bad. And I think Dane's a bad defender. I think the stats back it up. Like, his defensive rating last year was 245 out of the guards. He's the 245th guard for defensive rating. You know, 117 .4 individual defensive rating is 483 overall. Portland's team's always defensively, it was the Achilles heel for them. Partly because of Dane, because he couldn't guard anybody. He's too small. And, you know, think about what we saw from the playoffs the last couple years. I think about the 2020 bubble Celtics playoffs, not infrequently, because I think that team had a chance to potentially win a title. What happened? Everyone hunted Kemba Walker. It was hunting season. It's like, where is he? Got to get a switch. Got to get Kemba Walker guarding somebody who's bigger, or got to beat him off the dribble, and it just became a hunt session with him. And basically, he got played out of the league. He's not in the league anymore. You know, we had this with Isaiah Thomas, too, in the mid -2010s. I think it's been an issue with Kyrie Irving. The Celtics certainly went at him in the playoff series with Brooklyn a couple years ago. Curry, you saw, who I think is a better defender than people give him credit for, but the And he's a much better defender than Dame is. Jordan Poole is somebody that got hunted in playoff series recently. Chris Paul, obviously, is a big one. Jalen Brunson, remember what the Heat did to him? Mitchell, when he was on Utah, this was a huge issue. And then Trae Young, obviously. My fear with Dame is he's a DH, and I think in Portland, part of the reasons he was able to put up the stats he did was because he wasn't playing defense, right? It was just, how many points can I score? My team isn't very good, and I'm just going to do my thing. He's an incredible offensive player. But how much of a trade -off is the defense, right? Well, you think, all right, well, Milwaukee, they're really good defensively. They'll be able to protect him. Here's the team. Giannis, Dame, Lopez, Portis, Middleton, Conaton, Beauchamp, Crowder. Who's guarding Trae Young on this team? Who's guarding Jason Tatum? Here's a partial list of guys that I don't think this team will be able to guard this season. Devin Booker, Tatum, Butler, Trae Young, Kyrie, Curry. Who's going to be chasing Curry around the screens? Dame lowered? Good luck. SGA, Luca, Mitchell, Murray, Edwards, Brunson, Ja, Garland, Fox, Halburn. Are they going to be able to cover Derek White? I don't know. The way this team is constructed, they are not going to have the ability to guard other guards at all, which means they're just going to have to be in a shooting match with them, right? It's going to be not much different than what's going to happen with Phoenix, where they're just literally going to have to outscore the other team. I've just watched too much playoff basketball over the last couple years, where it's like, if you have that weak link on defense, and you're playing a team that's smart enough, they're going to go after that weak link. Like, think about them against the Lakers, right? The Lakers figure their crunch time. Let's say they make the finals. It's Milwaukee and the Lakers, and Lakers crunch time. They're going to have LeBron and Davis and Austin Reeves and, I don't know, a shooter and a point guard, whatever. All they're going to be doing is trying to find where Dame is on the court and going after him. What about when they play Boston? Boston puts out White and Brogdon and Tatum and Brown and a center, and all they're going to be doing is trying to make sure Dame is covering somebody who has the ball who's now torturing him. I think it's a real problem for them. And what's funny is they gave up Drew's defense and, you know, they, what they gave up on defense, which is significant, and they gained an offense, it might end up just being a wash and they might just be a different version of the same team where they still have a huge flaw. It's just on the other end of the court. I'm just shocked that nobody brought up the defense. I agree he's an amazing offensive player and what's cool about this trade and what I'm excited about as a basketball fan is, can he go up a level? Right? A lot of these stats he put up, especially the last couple years. They didn't mean anything. They were, he was on bad teams. Like, who cares? Ultimately, Bradley Beal scored 30 points a game on the Wizards. Who cares? I think most really good offensive players, if they're on a bad team, can get between 25 and 30 a night. Can you do it nine months in a row? Can you do it when you're getting hunted on defense all over the place? How much can Milwaukee protect him? And what does he have in the tank at age 33 with 900 plus games on the O 'Dominor already? I'm still afraid of the Bucks, but people have, like, FanDuel had them as best odds in basketball and I think most people feel like they're the favorite now. I don't feel like there's a favorite. I think you can go through every team. Boston, I could, I'm scared of Porzingis. What's going to happen with Jalen Brown out there? He has contracts. Can Peyton Pritchard, all these different things. Philly, God only knows. Miami, they're unquestionably worse. Yeah, Milwaukee is going to be really good, but depending where Holiday lands and how this all plays out, I just think it's still wide open. And the other piece, so if you're just talking Boston, Miami, Tatum kills Milwaukee. I have no idea why. Boston is kind of built to at least stay with Dame and, you know, Derek White is about as good of a person you're going to have to try to keep Dame in check, at least. And Boston's done a really good job of guarding Giannis over the years. They don't have Grant Williams this year, but I just don't think, I think there's as many ways this goes wrong as it goes right, I guess would be my final thought on this because for what they gave up, especially with that 29 unprotected and the two swaps and, you know, they are all in on this team. And you know my theory, when you go all in on a team, you better think you can win. Not positive, but it's an awesome trade. It really is. It makes the league so much more fun. Dame and Giannis together. I'm going to enjoy watching Portland. I still have my eating stock. Watching Phoenix fans slowly realize that Derkiszna isn't the answer is going to be fun and then we'll see where Drew Holliday goes. So really fun trade. We're going to talk about it a little bit more with Die Hard Bucks fan, Ben Thompson in one second. Let's take a break.
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A highlight from Growing Unease: Current Administrations Approach to Security and Travel with David Bellavia
"What do you think they're doing with cash, right? What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? Yeah. What do you, it's, this is a state sponsor of terrorism. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens. America's comeback now. starts right Welcome back Financial Guys podcast. Mike Speraza in studio live today with a guest in the studio. I haven't had this in a long time. Staff Sergeant medal of honor recipient David Bellavia joining me for about a half hour today. David, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Absolutely. So I'm going to stick based on your background. I'm going to stick with a lot of military stuff today and I want to start, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of the Joe Biden presidency. The Afghanistan withdrawal, in my opinion, did not go very smoothly. I'm sure many people listening agree. What were your overall thoughts of that withdrawal and how it actually ended up happening? I know we lost, you know, sadly lost 13 soldiers in that, in that withdrawal. People say we went off the wrong air base. People say that we shouldn't have gone out in the middle of the summer. There was a lot of different things there. What were your overall thoughts on that? I think it's like the worst day in American history since Market Garden. Just absolutely. And the reason why it was so difficult was it was totally unnecessary. So let's rewind to the Obama trade, Bull Bergdahl and the three first round draft picks. They get Marshall, they get MacArthur and they get Patton that end up the resurgence of the Taliban. These men not just go back to the enemy, they go back to the battlefield. They're in power when the government falls. You have misinformation coming from the White House that the president of Afghanistan is leaving with billions of dollars on his plane, which wasn't true. And then you leave the equipment, the cash. There's no recovery. We're getting reports of sales of American equipment left in Afghanistan in Southeast Asia. We're moving material across the globe. Our children will fight and pay and have to atone for these miscalculations. Let's talk about that. You being in the military and you knowing that area too, why did they just find it the easiest way out to just say, you know, just leave that billion dollar billions of dollars of equipment there and not think, again, if it was me and I'm speaking that someone that's never been in the military, but if it's me and I'm the president, I'm thinking, OK, I don't want to leave all our weaponry there. I don't want to lose any of my men. Number two. And number three, I want to make sure that everybody knows when and how we're getting out of there. And it just felt like poof. One day they said we're getting out of here. Well, it's because the military didn't make any of those decisions. I mean, look, Millie, it can criticize him. You can criticize Secretary of Defense worthy of criticism. However, none of these individuals are making decisions. This is about NGOs on the ground. This is about the State Department. So you've got Bagram Air Base, the equivalent of JFK. You've got Karzai International Airport, the equivalent of Teterboro. Right. Why would you ever do an exfil out of Karzai International Airport? It makes absolutely no sense. It's tactically unsound. But and then you've got all the ISIS -K. We retaliate from the murder of 13 of our bravest and we drop a bomb on a guy delivering water. He's on our payroll and we kill children on that. Then we take out Borat on a tuk tuk driving around like that wasn't even really what was happening. It's just a den of lies. And Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, all the heroes that brought us, you know, the Bergdahl deal, the Iran nuke deal. This is these. They the State Department is running all foreign policy, including what the DOD used to run. Well, that's I was going to say. I mean, I know Biden's the president, but do you blame him at all or is it everybody underneath him that, you know, maybe was giving him bad information? And again, some of these decisions, David, is Biden even involved in some of these decisions? Like, I don't even know anymore. Is he around? Is he paying attention to anything going on? Well, I mean, just from the press conferences, it was apparent he didn't know what was going on. And the great irony is that they actually were predicting that Ukraine was going to be invaded and, you know, no one believed them. So it's like you can't influence your friends. The allies don't trust you. The enemy doesn't respect you. You know, I mean, you've got Ben Rhodes is really proud of this State Department. Susan Rice loves what they're doing. But, you know, again, Americans died. And, you know, and what is the perfect culmination of the adventure in Afghanistan? Looking at your watch at Dover Air Base when bodies are coming home. I mean, nothing could you couldn't ask for a just it's it's a debacle. Yeah. And it's sad that that's that's the leader of our country there. Let's move in. You brought up the Ukraine there. So the Russia Ukraine conflict will get to Zelensky in a minute. He is as we speak in New York City right now. But so Trump's in office. We don't see many of these conflicts or any conflicts actually started under his watch. And then we have the Biden administration come in. And a year later, we have Russia invading Ukraine. Why did this happen and why? Why the timing of February of 2022? So let's go back to when we were fighting ISIS. Trump engaged and destroyed estimated some say 300 members of Wagner forces. But those were Russian nationals. We engaged. We destroyed them. What was the response from Putin? Nothing at all. So what do people in that section of the world, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, what do they respect? They respect power. They respect authority. You're not going to get any respect if you don't engage the enemy when they present themselves. I don't understand the calculus of again, I'm trying hard to figure it out. I don't get it. I don't. You know, Romania and Hungary and Poland, you're letting them unilaterally decide whether or not they want to send reinforcements into Ukraine. That's an act of war. If NATO members engage the enemy, all of NATO is engaged against the enemy. Poland doesn't unilaterally make that decision. Hungary and Romania don't unilaterally make that decision. We can't even articulate what the mission is. And if you look, go to the Institute for the Study of War, there's a plug for them. Check out their overlay from when the battle started, when the war started with Russia. And tell me what success this offensive in Ukraine has produced. I mean, let me ask this question, because I get confused. The answer is nothing. I asked this on Twitter, X, whatever it's called, all the time. What is the end game and how do we get there? Because all I see the answer is, hey, just blank checks. Hey, just write a check. Hey, here's a billion. Hey, here's 20 billion. Hey, here's another 10 billion. I don't actually see a look. I mean, like anything, right? If I write a business plan of what I want to do in 2024, my goal is X. I write down my steps to get X. I don't just write down X and say it's going to happen. I don't really know. And then the answer always is, well, we have to fight. We have to back Ukraine. Okay. But when does that end? Because the Afghanistan war and the war in Iraq lasted 20 years plus, right? And was there a real end to it? I don't know. That's where it gets frustrating for me, Dave, where I'm like, how do we know what the end game is? Do you win or lose? When does that happen? I don't know. I don't know. At least you're thinking about it. And I have fear that our leaders aren't, and that's the problem. So here's what this comes out. You're going to get a negotiated settlement out of Ukraine, right? But you talked about the billions of dollars that we're spending and giving to Ukraine as a blank check. First of all, Zelensky visited Ukrainian soldiers in the United States. Did you know that there were wounded Ukrainian soldiers in the United States? I did not know that. Well, today he visited them. So what's happening there? So that's a cost that no one is putting on the ledger. So now let's look at the blank check that Ukraine is getting. And by the way, I'm pro Ukraine. I want to fight communists all day and night. So let's punch Putin hard in the face. However, you're giving them a blank check and you're giving them munitions. Now here's the problem. We have to replace those munitions. Those munitions were purchased for 20 year global war and terror. And let's be honest, inflation is involved. So what you purchased for $10 is now $17. So you're not just giving them the money. You're giving them the equipment and the munitions that you have to replace yourself at the value of what is valued today. We haven't scratched the surface for the amount of money. CBO absent at the wheel. No one is tracking this. 2024 can't get here fast enough. How does this work, though, when you talk about some of these NATO nations coming together and making decisions, but us not just giving weaponry, giving everything money, whatever we're giving there? Is that not an act of war, too, though, David, at some point? We're continuing to fund Ukraine continuing the war in Ukraine. I mean, that to me seems like we're backing a war. Well, I mean, by the letter of the law and NATO charter, it's not. But here's the problem. It's schizophrenic because we were told that what was an offensive weapon was going to mitigate, you know, that wasn't going to help peace at all. So we went from, I don't know if they should get tracked vehicles to I'm not sure an artillery piece is what they need to high Mars rockets being launched. And let's be honest. I mean, the Ukrainians are I mean, the payload that they're going through, what you would have to have cataclysmic casualty numbers to be able to to the spandex that they're doing on the ground that they need to replace Patriot. If you're going through thirty five Patriot to, you know, missiles, I would expect to at least the C 20 makes that are shot down. They're using them for air artillery. They're using there for indirect fire. I don't know what they're doing, but this is going to end with Don Boss going to Russia. This is going to end with that land chain that Putin wanted through Crimea. And again, our friends in NATO, what are they even doing for Ukraine? What? Look, if you they said that Trump wanted to kill NATO, Biden did it. Right. Biden did it. And now Germany. And so Putin was selling oil at thirty dollars a barrel. What's it at ninety six? Yeah. He's making more money than he did before. And he's financing a war and killing innocent people. You mentioned before, too, and I think this is a good point. Everybody on the left and I'll say the media, the establishment, whoever you want to say, says that if you don't agree with the war in Ukraine, you're like pro Putin. Right. And that's just the most outrageous thing in the world, because I agree with you. I feel for the people of Ukraine. I don't want this for them. I don't want this for innocent people. However, at some point, the world's every every one of the world's problems can't be America's problem when we have a border crisis. And then I think they said yesterday ten thousand people came across. They got, I think, eight thousand of the ten thousand. But you see the numbers day over day. It's a problem. We have crime that's rampant. We have overdoses that are at record numbers. We have we have suicides at record numbers. At some point, we have to maybe just think about ourselves and not everybody else, because if we fall, sadly, I think the world falls at that point. Amen. The thing that I would add is I love the way the Ukraine refugee has been crowbarred into the migrant crisis in the United States. New York leaders from the city to all over Kathy Hochul, the governor of the state of New York, mentioning that, you know, like the Ukrainians in Poland, the the Polish have no intention to keep Ukrainians forever. That's a temporary you know, they're leaving a conflict to return to their country after the conflict is over. Again, this is just we're we're putting a round peg into a square hole and just hammering it away. But but there's no the media. There's you're our destroying military. I go to parents all the time around this country and ask them to give us their sons and daughters to join the military. And the one thing they bring up is Afghanistan. It's not about anything. It's Afghanistan. How are you going to assure us that you're going to maintain your commitment to our son and daughter when you betrayed us in Afghanistan that has lasting effects? And there's not a I'm trying to find a segment of our of our of our nation that's functioning. I don't know what it is. I saw in Chicago, they're going to have municipally owned grocery stores. Maybe that will figure it out there. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Real quick, do you think and we'll finish up on this topic, but do you think that they will we will ever have boots in the ground on Ukraine? I mean, I hope not, because I just don't know what the I mean, look at I'm I'm we're getting ready for China. We're trying to revolutionize everything. I don't know what the what the plan is. I mean, again, if you want to put a base in Ukraine, and you want to make that a sustainment operation going forward, that I here's the point. I don't understand what the inactive ready reserve call up was for. Why are you bringing those troops in the non combat support? Why are they going to Ukraine? What are you building infrastructure there? Here's what I do know. We're talking a minimum of $11 trillion to build Ukraine back. That is cataclysmic amounts of money. There isn't water, electricity, internet, you know, you want to help Ukraine. You're going to Russia is not paying for that if you negotiate a settlement. So I don't know what the plan is. But I hope we never see boots on the ground. I could guess what the plan is. I won't I won't say for sure. But I could guess that we'll be paying a chunk of that. And I do have one last one. So I did interview Colonel Douglas McGregor a few months back. And he talked about he's a real optimist. But he is really very, very bullish on Ukraine. Yes, very, very optimistic. I'm dropping some all over the place. But he brought up some staggering numbers, though. And even if they're half true, it's a problem. The amount of casualties and wounded soldiers on the Ukrainian side that we're not hearing about the media. I don't know if you agree with some of those numbers or not. But he's saying, I mean, it's people are acting as if this is an even war right now. And it's not even close. First of all, McGregor's a stud. I mean, he's an absolute, you know, that we're glad he's on our side. He's a military mind. I don't know if those numbers are accurate. I could tell you they're juxtaposed to almost everything we're hearing from every institution that we have, including a lot of our intel from Germany and England. But again, I don't know what to believe. So when you don't have when you don't have transparency, when you're not holding regular press conferences, when your Pentagon spokesman is now working in the White House and now you're getting a triple spin. I mean, the U .S. Open double backspin. You've gotten so many spins on the narrative. I don't know what to believe. But if he is even close to what is a segment of truth, you know, then look, Ukraine needs an investigation. There's a lot of investigations. We've got to start on Afghanistan. We were promised that by Speaker McCarthy. We need a hot wash on Afghanistan. And then we need to go to what who is oversighting the money that's going to Ukraine. And what have we got for our return on investment? Yeah, I'm not asking for much. Really, all I'm asking for in this conflict is can we just talk about what the end game is? And to your point, can we get an accounting of where the money's going and what's being spent in a real accounting of it? The Iran deal that just happened last week. First off, the fact that that was negotiated and completed on 11th September to me is just the ultimate slap in the face. But you again, you know more about this than I do. We do a five for five trade. OK, I'm going to use sports analogies. We trade five for five. And then we also approved of six billion dollars that apparently wasn't ours, but it was in a fund that now they can release to Iran. How are we winning on that one? Well, first of all, I was hoping that at least it was a digital transfer. The fact that it went as euros in cash through Qatar. And OK, so what happens the 24 hours after that deal is made? We're now getting issues in the West Bank. We're now hearing about issues in Yemen. We've now got Hezbollah that's reinforced. I mean, look, what do you think they're doing with cash? Right. What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? What do you it's this is a state sponsor of terrorism. They haven't changed. By the way, their president is now in New York City addressing the United Nations. This guy's killed 6500 of his own people. He admits to it. He killed the students that revolted and wanted democracy when we did nothing. He killed 5000 of his citizens in 1988. He's killed over 300 Americans. There's no accountability whatsoever. I don't understand what it is about Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken that believe that Iran is a partner. All you've done 10 years ago, they were refining 10 percent of their oil. And now they're a force. Now they're working with Maduro in Venezuela, and they're a huge part of their members of of the international community. They're in good standing there. I don't get it. Does anyone believe that the Iran nuke deal? Look, we got hit with cruise missiles under Trump in Iraq. How did they have those cruise missiles? Those cruise missiles were illegal under the Obama nuke deal. So how are you refurbishing missiles in two years? Do we believe that their centrifuges have stopped? That they won't have a program if they don't have one already? No, I mean, I guess my question, David, is how I mean, I know that you pay a lot of attention to this stuff, but how do people like in the media not ask these questions? Right. I mean, these are legitimate. I mean, we just traded to I put this on my notes here. This is on the heels of trading a WNBA basketball player for the Merchant of Death like six months ago. Right. I mean, and again, I'm glad Americans are coming back to America. I don't want to sound pessimistic on that. That's great news. But we also I mean, this this stuff just seems like I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. It warrants questions, but nobody seems to care. I'm in the world that if you take hostages, we take hostages. You want to exchange people? We'll exchange people. You know, we definitely have the partners in the area to do that. For whatever reason, this administration, they're they're they're contrarians. They're contrarians to you know, they claim Bush and Cheney are their best friends, yet they just go 180 degrees from that doctrine. I don't know what the Biden doctrine is. I don't know what Bidenonomics is either, but I could tell you that they believe that Iran is a partner. Now, here's another thing. Our envoy to Iran not only is no longer the envoy, he doesn't have a security clearance. Does anyone curious at The New York Times as to what happened to the lead negotiator in Iran that is escorted off a bus, taken into American custody, given a job at Yale or Princeton or wherever he's working now? I've never heard of a person going from top secret classified negotiations to no clearance whatsoever and in the custody of American intelligence community. No one cares. No one cares at all. It's fascinating. And again, for me, I mean, these are big decisions that we're making. And correct me if I'm wrong, but it used to be, you know, maybe we did a two for five deal and then we made the six billion. Now we're like, we're giving stuff away and we're on the losing end. Correct me if I'm wrong, but America was never, you know, America losing. It was always America winning, right? America getting the best of deals. At least McDonald's has a five for five. We didn't even get that. You know what this does though? Honest to God, if you're thinking about traveling overseas, things go sideways, cartel, South America, Mexico, wherever you're going, you have a price in your head now. No one in their right mind is going to bring you back whether it's Haiti or wherever you are, you're worth $1 .25 billion. And thugs and scumbags are going to take advantage of that. I mean, that's a great point too. Do you think about leaving the country? I don't know anymore. That's a little bit concerning. I don't care where you're going, right? That's concerning. This one I just had to bring up because it happened two days ago or yesterday. How do we lose a plane? And I heard that's like a third one in the last six weeks that something like this has happened. How are we losing $80 million planes? Well, they're not $80 million anymore because they've got a new engine and all this other stuff. Look, the F -35 program is a complete disaster. You want to talk about why our allies think we're crazy. We sold them a plane. This program has been around since the early 90s and we've got nothing on return for it. So basically two planes are flying in a buddy team. They're doing training and a guy punches out. We don't even know why he punched out, but that plane could have easily hit a building. It didn't, thank God. But the wingman didn't follow where his buddy went. So what is he doing? He just kind of went on and did his own thing. And now the Marine Corps put a Facebook post like a dog is missing. We're expecting the Ukrainian farmers to carry the F -35 out with their tractors. I don't know what the point of it's wild. Look, stop embarrassing us. Just stop humiliating us. That's all I'm asking. Just be the army and the Marine Corps that we know our men and women are capable of being. Get out of their way. This gender garbage, this social experiment nonsense, stop humiliating our military. That's all I ask. Why can we not get the... I mean, I know why we can't get the answer, but I'm asking this to you. But why can't we, at a press conference at the White House, why can't we say, I want to talk to the guy that was in the other plane, or you can tell us the transcript of what happened when that happened. Talk to the guy who jumped out of the plane. Why did you do that? And again, I'm not trying to put our military on the spot, but these are kind of big questions to ask, right? I mean, if I do something in my business, I have to go face the music on that. Why doesn't everybody have to face music for their decisions or why things are happening? I think it's kind of important. Well, you don't want to talk to generals because they're going to tell you the truth and they won't be generals anymore. True. And you don't want to talk to enlisted people. Because look, I mean, let's be honest. How many people are... Is this a merit -based military anymore? Do we have a meritocracy? Are we promoting people based on pronouns? Go figure. When we're putting politics above military strength, accidents happen. We don't know the facts, but the fact that nobody cares about getting to the bottom of it, the day of the Pentagon paper reporters are gone. Yep. Yep. Let's just talk about the 2024 race quick, and then we will wrap up for today. So your thoughts on the Republican primary so far, I'll stay away from the Democratic side till the very end, but your thoughts on, you know, there's obviously Trump who is now in a, has a huge lead. Ron DeSantis seems to be crumbling underneath himself. Vivek Ramaswamy has jumped up in the polls. Nikki Haley's there. Tim Scott's there. A few others that probably aren't going to get a lot of votes. Chris Christie's the anti -Trump candidate. Mike Pence is, I don't know what Mike Pence is. I'm not really sure. Your thoughts about the whole field so far? I mean, look, it's impressive. They've got a deep bench. There's a lot of diversity. I, you know, none of it matters. Trump is the guy. The more you indict him, the more you empower him. You know, I'd like him to work on his communications a little bit better. You know, but if Trump is Trump, Trump is a Frankenstein monster of Barack Obama. As long as you have that faction, you're going to get, you know, Trump is going to be empowered. I just don't want to see Governor Noem anywhere near the White House. And I, if he's going to pick a running mate, you know, it's hard to find an ally here, you know. But it would be nice to find a governor. I don't want to take anyone from the Senate. I don't want to take anyone from the House with the margins that tight. But I mean, the idea that Governor Noem is being floated right now. I mean, I'd rather take North Dakota. Yeah. A little sled there. You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I saw a lot of that this weekend. I mean, can we just, for lack of a better term, keep it in our pants for about a year and then do what you got to do? It really is. I mean, every time you turn, somebody's doing something idiotic, whether it's Boebert. And again, I say this, David, a lot of people know who you are. A lot more know who you are than they'll ever know who I am. But when you go out in public into a movie theater like that, and I'm going to Boebert, not Noem for a second, you're, you're extremely well known. I don't care if it's dark or if it's as light as it is in the studio right now. What are you thinking? I, you know, she's, she's, she's an embarrassment. She is. She's bad, too. Who would have thought that Marjorie Taylor Greene would have been the, the oasis of the Maryland? I mean, seriously, I, again, you're, you're in Congress every day. You're out in public, you're on the job. You know, at least she wasn't wearing a hoodie, you know, that's all in shorts. She was at least dressed for the occasion, but I, it was, it's wildly embarrassing. Vaping, singing, whatever you're doing. Getting groped. Yes. Who is your VP candidate then? Because I think, you know, you have names thrown around. There's, there's, the vague has been thrown around in there. You know, Byron Donald's has been thrown around in there. Carrie Lake has. I don't know. I love Carrie Lake. I just don't know that Trump needs to go with somebody so divisive there. I think he's got to go with somebody that's, that's firm in their beliefs, but also not maybe going to turn off half the country. Well, you know, it's, it's impossible. One of the, one of the problems with making Trump, you know, the, the enemy of the state that the left has done is that you've really made it difficult for him to even put a cabinet together. You know, I mean, what are you going to do with it? You've got a lot of loyalists out there. You know, the vague is, is I think maybe the most intelligent dynamic candidate we've ever seen run for president, but experience does matter. But you know, I love the way he thinks. I love the movement. I don't know if he would even take the job to be honest with it. I don't think he needs it. But you look at a Tim Scott, I think Tim Scott is, you know, there's a whole lot to his message and I think he's, he's got the experience in the Senate, but honestly, you could literally take the Clint Eastwood chair and, and throw it in there as vice president. I'm going with that because this, this from top to bottom, we have to have seismic change in 24. Do you think he would ever choose Kristi Noem at this point with all that now? Yeah, no one knew Mike Pence was a, was a 24 hour story and then he was the vice president candidate. So who knows? I mean, a lot can happen between now and then, but I just, I don't need, you know, let's just pick people on their merit. Let's pick people that are ready to be the president. Imagine this, imagine picking a vice president that can lead the country. If something happens to a 75 year old president, you know, like Kamala Harris. Yeah. Someone like that.
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Targeting Evolving STEM Education Standards With Alex Reader, Founder of STIIX
"EdTech technology landscape is constantly evolving. So how do you ensure that hands -on experience provided by Stakes aligns with educational standards and goals of school districts that you work with? And how do you keep Stakes at a forefront of innovation to ensure students receive the best possible learning experience? That's the question that the administration is going to be asking you. And I'm pretty sure you've experienced it already. Totally. Yeah. I never take anything away from any of the other companies in the EdTech world. There's so much cool stuff going on. And I always leave calls and meetings with people and conferences as well. I always say I'm so jealous of kids these days that when I was going through school, we had none of this cool stuff. And there's been so many cool strides taken and just the things these kids are exposed to. I'm jealous, frankly. Thank you. They're lucky. They're lucky ducks. And yeah, I was just talking about my favorite part of the job conferences, developing these fun projects. That's my least favorite, actually, is the standards. And although we totally align, we align to all kinds of national and state science and CTE and STEM standards. And I've actually grown to like it a little bit, but these projects do align. It's that open ended design or open ended design challenge nature of them do align to a lot of those problem solving skills. And when you get into the stoplight project, like I was showing you, it aligns with some of those electricity and magnetism related standards that you that you encounter when you start to get to the fifth grade middle school. We totally align to all the standards. It's important, right? If you want to be if you want to be working with schools and helping them and all their cool initiatives, you got to align to them. And as far as just the technology related part, it's funny you mentioned that right after I mentioned our app. So that's something we're working on and that's something that we're trying to be innovative through. And of course, I mentioned it's a free resource. So that's where we really have. We've got a cool platform online, right, where we share cool videos, well done videos. But it's augmented reality stuff and virtual reality. I've always thought that the best use case for it was education. So now we're swimming in that space a little bit. So we have got this app that we've developed where each of our projects is going to have a module. And within that module, three different career strains the kids are going to get to check out. And so one's kind of your engineering related career. So for your bridge project is the first one we've developed. That's your civil engineer. And then we have a technical related career strain in there as well. So that's a bridge welder. And then the third one, we try to bring in a business oriented career and we're doing like a management. And for each one of those, you're going to go through you're going to learn a couple of things, watch a couple of videos, hear about common personality traits and statistics. Frankly, what do these people make as on average? Because it's tough to know and there's no reason to hide that. And then they go in, they reflect on questions. They have they do a cool augmented reality activity in each just to spice it up. What a day in the life is. And it's just a cool tool. And that's something we're really proud of. That's where we're trying to be innovative and do some cool things in a free way as well.
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Mark Levin: Praise to Lawrence Jones, Brian Kilmeade & Jesse Watters
"Now going to be airing on Saturday at 9 p .m. Eastern Time following my show and I think that's a fantastic one -two punch Mr. producer don't you? So it's a great honor for me to have Brian with me on Saturday nights on our one -two team and he's the nicest guy in the world too. There were a handful of people who congratulated me when I expanded our program from once to twice on the weekends actually I didn't Suzanne Scott did and Brian Kilmeade was one of them. Of course brother Hannity. And the third one there may have been one or two other but the waters. There's another fantastic guy and really just has a lot of class So I just wanted to point that out. Most of the accolades came from people like you you folks out there and you know people from everyday life and I just want to thank all of you very very much. By the way Mr. Producer did Colby Hall Did Colby Hall aka Colin Hall? Did he even mention it? You know I'm desperate to be mentioned by mediocre right over there which is founded by Dan Abrams. You can't miss Dan Abrams. He is the Seinfeld of the courtroom.
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A highlight from AI x Crypto
"AI is very much a technology that thrives and enables top -down centralized control, whereas crypto is a technology that's all about bottom -up, decentralized cooperation. One of the points of NFTs was to support the artists, but if the artists themselves are now machine learning models, then who exactly are we supporting? One of the things that will become important in a world where anyone can participate online is to be able to prove that you are human for various different purposes. If we're going to incentivize people to contribute data, basically we're going to incentivize people to create fake data so they can get paid. So we have to have some sort of a mechanism to make sure that the data you're contributing is authentic. Hello everyone and welcome back to the A16Z podcast. This is your host Steph Smith, but today I'm passing the baton back to longtime host Sonal Choksi. This, of course, is also a crossover episode from our sister podcast Web3 with A16Z, which Sonal now hosts. There are few technologies over the last few years that have quite captured the zeitgeist like crypto and AI. So in today's episode, Sonal sits down with guests Ali Yahya and Dan Bonet to explore the ways in which these two emerging technologies oppose yet also beautifully augment one another. And they attack this from both directions. How crypto can help AI, like how crypto acts as a decentralizing counterweight to the somewhat centralizing force where AI models with more data, more compute, and more complex models do tend to win. But also how AI can help crypto. For example, are we at the point where LLMs should be writing smart contract code? And what about all these deepfakes we keep hearing about? Let's find out. Welcome to Web3 with A16Z, a show about building the next generation of the Internet from the team at A16Z Crypto that includes me, your host, Sonal Choksi. Today's all new episode covers the convergence of two important top of mind trends, AI, artificial intelligence and crypto. This has major implications for how we all live our lives every day. So this episode is for anyone just curious about or already building in the space. Our special guests today are Dan Bonet, Stanford professor and senior research advisor at A16Z Crypto. He's a cryptographer who's been working on blockchains for over a decade. And the topics have a strong intersection between cryptography, computer security and machine learning, all of which are his areas of expertise. And then we also have Ali Yahya, general partner at A16Z Crypto, who also worked at Google previously, where he not only worked on a distributed system for robotics, more specifically as sort of collective reinforcement learning, which involved training a single neural network that contributed to the actions of an entire fleet of robots, but also worked on Google Brain, where he was one of the core contributors to the machine learning library, TensorFlow. And actually, Dan and Ali go back since Ali was an undergrad and master's student at Stanford. So this conversation is really more of a hallway jam between them that I asked to join. And we cover everything from deepfakes and bots to proof of humanity in a world of AI and much, much more. The first half is all about how AI could benefit from crypto and the second half on how crypto could benefit from AI. And the thread throughout is the tension between centralization versus decentralization. As a reminder, none of the following should be taken as investment, legal, business or tax advice. Please see A16Z .com slash disclosures for more important information, including a link to a list of our investments, especially since we are investors and companies mentioned in this episode. But first, we begin with how the two worlds intersect with the quick sharing of areas or visions that they're excited about. The first voice you'll hear is Ali's. There is a really good sci -fi novel called The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson in which there is this device known as the illustrated primer. That is a kind of artificially intelligent device that acts as your mentor and your teacher throughout life. And so when you're born, you're paired to an AI, essentially, that knows you really well, learns your preferences, follows you throughout life and helps you make decisions and steers you in the right direction. So there's like a sci -fi future in which you could build such an AI, but you very much wouldn't want that AI to be controlled by a monopolistic tech giant in the middle because that position would provide that company with a great deal of control and solve these kinds of questions of privacy and sovereignty, and you'd want to have kind of control over it. And then also, what if the company goes away or they change the rules or they change the pricing? It would be great if you could build an AI that could run for a very, very long time and could get to know you over the course of a lifetime, but have that really be yours. And so there is this vision in which you could do that with a blockchain. You could embed an AI within a smart contract and with the power of zero knowledge proofs, you could also keep your data private. And then over the course of decades, this AI can become smarter and can help you. And then you have the option to do whatever you want with it or change it in whichever way you want to shut it down. And so that's kind of an interesting vision for long running AIs that are continually evolving and continually becoming better. It'd be better if it were the case that they weren't just controlled by a single centralized company. Of course, it's a very science fiction idea because there are lots of problems, including the problems of verification and the problems of keeping data private, using cryptography and still being able to compute on top of that data, maybe with fully homomorphic encryption. All of these problems continue to be outstanding, but it's not something that's inconceivable. Wow. I love Ali's vision there. I love it too, especially given that quote, I think it was Asimov that today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact. Ali, I know you have a meta framework for thinking about all this stuff that I've heard you share before. Can you share that now too? Yeah, there is this broader narrative that has existed for quite some time now that's only becoming much more accentuated now with the development of things like LLMs. Actually define that really quickly, just for listeners who aren't already familiar, just as context. So an LLM stands for large language model, and it uses some of the technology that was developed at Google back in 2017. There's this famous paper known as Attention is All You Need. That was the title of the paper and it outlined what are now known as transformers. That's the basis basically of some of the new models that people have been training these days, including chat GPT and so on. All of these are large language models or LLMs. There was that famous, I think 2018 line from Peter Thiel that AI is communist and crypto is libertarian. That line is like very on point actually because AI and crypto in many ways are natural counterweights for one another. And maybe we can go deep over the course of the podcast into each one of these as we go through examples, but there are four major ways in which that's true. The first is that AI is very much a technology that thrives and enables top -down centralized control. Whereas crypto is a technology that's all about bottom -up decentralized cooperation. And in many ways, actually you can think of crypto as the study of building systems that are decentralized that enable large -scale cooperation of humans, where there isn't really any central point of control. So that's one natural way in which these two technologies are counterweights for one another. Another one is that AI is a sustaining innovation in that it reinforces the business models of existing technology companies because it helps them make top -down decisions. And the best example of this would be Google being able to decide exactly what ad to display for each of their users across billions of users and billions of page views. Whereas crypto is actually a fundamentally disruptive innovation in that it has a business model fundamentally that's at odds with the business models of big tech companies. And so as a result, it's a movement that is spearheaded by rebels, by the fringes as opposed to being led by the incumbents. So that's the second. A third one is that AI will probably relate and interplay a lot with all of the trends towards privacy because AI as a technology has built in all sorts of incentives that because we will have companies that want access to all of our data and AI models that are trained on more and more data will become more and more effective. And so I think that that leads us down a path of the AI panopticon where there's just collective aggregation of everyone's data into the training of these enormous models in order to make these models as good as possible. Whereas crypto moves us towards the opposite direction, which is a direction of increasing individual privacy. It's a direction of increasing sovereignty where users have control over their own data. And those two trends I think will be very important. And this is just another important way in which crypto is the counterweight for AI. And maybe the final one has to do with this latest trend in AI. The fact that AI is now very clearly a powerful technology for generating new art is now a creative tool that will lead us to infinite abundance of media, infinite creativity in many ways. And crypto is a counterweight to that because it helps us cut through all of the abundance and helping us distinguish what's created by humans versus what's created by AI. And cryptography will be an essential part of maintaining and preserving what actually is human in a world where 1000x more of the content is actually artificially generated. So these are all things that we can talk about, but I think that there is this important meta narrative and these two technologies are very much diametrically opposing in many respects. So to add to that, this is a wonderful summary. And I would say also that there's also a lot of areas where techniques from AI are having an impact in blockchains and vice versa, where techniques from blockchains are having an impact in AI. I'll give a brief answer here because we're going to dive into the details in just a minute, but there are many points of intersection. I guess we'll talk about applications of zero knowledge for machine learning in just a minute, but I also want to touch on all these applications where machine learning itself can be used to write code. So for example, machine learning can be used to write solidity code that goes into contract. It can be used to find maybe errors in codes and so on. There's points of intersection where machine learning can be used to generate deepfakes and blockchains can actually help to protect against deepfakes. And so I guess we're going to touch on all these points, but the interesting thing is that there's really quite a lot of intersection between blockchains and machine learning.
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A highlight from Ep374: Gary Vees Tips To Help You Avoid Business Failure
"You, who's listening, if you want this to work, you probably need to do both. You probably need to have your podcast. You probably need to stay with your podcast, launch your podcast, grow your podcast, keep having interviews, keep having solos, whatever it is for your podcast. You've got to do it. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And today I get to talk about somebody that I look up to, somebody that I respect and admire and follow his advice. And frankly, wish you as my best friend, because this guy is a bad -ass. He's just great in all of the ways. His name's Gary Vaynerchuk, Gary V. And many, many years ago, I was a high -end restaurant person. So I managed a French restaurant. I did serving and I did the bar manager. And then I did regular general manager and loved a lot about working in fine restaurants. One of my favorite things is we did wine tastings all the fricking time. And I just really fell in love with wine. And now I actually collect wine. I've got more than a hundred bottles, easily more than a hundred bottles. Some of them are expensive. Some of them are cheap. I can't only do expensive bottles because sometimes I drink two or three bottles with my friends in one night. So I collect everything and it's not always the price that makes good wine. And Gary Vaynerchuk taught me that a long time ago. And most of you don't know this, but prior to him launching what he does now, which is an advertising agency, coaching, mentoring, running masterminds, the stuff that he does now with his agency, the one day VIPs that people come in and spend a shit ton of money just to be with him for a few hours. Before he did that, he ran his family's wine shop. And before anyone else was really putting their wine online on the internet, they only had the shops. Gary Vaynerchuk said, dad, I'm going to sit down with a table and I'm going to put two or three wines in front of me and I'm going to taste them and I'm going to spit them out. And he spat them out right there on camera. And he would talk about wine in a very general way. In a way that's not looking down your nose like those people. And I loved it. So what I would do is I would get ideas. I would go and look at Grenache and Syrah and Movedra and Cabernet and Cab Franc and all these other grapes and the years. And I would watch him, listen to him and I would try to buy the same wines and I would try to taste them. And he's like saying, this one's got strawberry or this one's got plum or this one's got peach or this one's got blackberry. This one's got tar. This one's got tobacco. This one's got smoke. All these different notes that he said he either smelled on the nose or he tasted on the tongue. And so I loved what he was doing. And then he switches directions. Gary switched directions and his dad's company was making fine. They now were selling, most of their wines were being ordered and they didn't even have to stock the wine because they would just make the order for the client, for the customer And it would be dropped off or delivered by somebody there, or it would be shipped another way directly to the doorstep of that person. And all of a sudden they make a lot more money. And he learned something and that's what we're getting into for today's episode. Gary V learned something. He learned that you got to be active on social media and you're like, oh no, what do you mean? Gary Vaynerchuk says you got to be active on social. It's like a business card. One of the first takeaways that he said, you got to be active on social. It's a business card because of this. When your person who wants to work with you is going to vet you, they are going to search for you on LinkedIn and Facebook and other platforms. They're just going to type in your name and see what comes up. If nothing comes up, they don't trust you. They go with the other person. If nothing comes up, they don't trust you. They have to see what you're about. They want to know, is this person reckless? Are they going to spend all their money on this one thing? Are they the same faith as me? Do they believe in the same nature as me? Do they believe in the same God as me? Do they believe in mountain biking like I do? Do what I get along with this person? Is this the kind of person that I could trust? They find that stuff out by going to your social. So Gary Vaynerchuk said a couple of things. He said you had to be active on social and he said that you have to put out content with a podcast. So in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, I was all about wine and I was following Gary V. 2015 comes around and I'm going back to my entrepreneurship. I'm going back to being full -time in real estate, launching different businesses. And Gary Vaynerchuk says, I think it was 2015, perfect timing for me. He goes, if you're not active on social media and have a podcast by the year 2023, you will fail in business. So that brings us to what Gary Vaynerchuk said. What did Gary V actually say? Gary Vaynerchuk says that you who's listening, if you want this to work, you probably need to do both. You probably need to have your podcast. You probably need to stay with your podcast, launch your podcast, grow your podcast, keep having interviews, keep having solos, whatever it is for your podcast. You've got to do it and you've got to have your social going. You've got to be on LinkedIn and or Facebook or TikTok or Instagram. What's that other one? There's more. There's a lot more. But you should be on at least two of those platforms and have your podcast. And by doing all of this, your business won't suffer. So if your business is suffering today and you don't have a podcast, start your freaking podcast. Your business is suffering today and you're not active on social media. You're not posting on social media. You have the account, but you never post. People aren't going to trust you when they search you. So you need to start being active on social. And Gary Vaynerchuk also said jab, jab, right hook. He wrote a book about jab, jab, right hook. What does jab, jab, right hook even mean? It means the boxers, when you're fighting, they don't just throw these big giant blows. They throw quick, quick punches to surprise their opponent. They jab them. They tap their face a few times. And when it's time, when the punch will land, they take the extra efforts and inertia and time that it takes them to throw a big right hook with all their might. It would be a freaking waste of time to throw your right hook before that happened. At the wrong point in time, they would just dodge it and then you would use all of this effort and then you would line yourself up in a bad way and you would be the one who got punched down. So you got to put in those jabs. What does that mean on social media? I think it means, and what Gary Vaynerchuk has said, is that you can't always just be selling only. You've got to be giving, and this will depend on the platform. If it's YouTube or if it's TikTok, for example, you can do a lot more right hooks where it's content, content, content. But think of it like this, the jabs are the fun content that help people and the right hooks are after you've brought them in, after you've gotten a feel for what's going on because of the jabs. Now you can have them hire you or you can throw that right hook with, hey, I can help you, the links in the show notes, for example. I can help you. The link is below. So the jab, jab, right hook on Facebook might be a little bit different. Most of the time you talk about your hobbies and your children and your travels. So my hobby might be bodybuilding or taking ice baths or yoga or mountain biking or CrossFit or art, crafts or piloting, air flight. I would constantly post about my kids. I would constantly post about when I'm on a vacation just to let people know what's in person. Those are the jabs. Talk about piloting, CrossFit, mountain biking, your kids, your travels, whatever. And then the right hooks are about your business. So you might put up a testimonial, hey, got a great testimonial from one of my clients and I wanted to share it on here. It meant a lot to me. And that's the right hook. That's the right hook, meaning a way for you to jab, jab, right hook. So Gary V says what? He says, first two things, you got to be active on social media or you're going to lose in business by the year 2023 and wake up folks. We're already at the end of 2023. Like 2024 is happening and before we know it, 2025 is happening. And if you didn't do this, if you're not doing this right now, you've lost in business. Your clients are going to the other person who's active on social and has a podcast. Next thing that Gary V says is jab, jab, right hook. Don't always sell. Don't always make it hard on other people to be at that content. Give them some stuff, give them some value, value, value, and then let them know that they could hire you. Tell them about your hobbies, your kids, let them into your life, and then tell them about your business. And when Gary V was writing his book called Jab, Jab, Right Hook, that rhymes, I was like, did I say that right? Jab, Jab, Right Hook is the book that Gary V was writing. And when he was writing it, he was hoping that he could call it something with a lot more jabs and then the right hook. But his writing team said, no, it'll sell better with just two jabs. And he almost said this, I remember watching an interview, he goes, I said, if it didn't have like 20 jabs, I wasn't going to do it. And he lost that battle, still published the book. But here's the point. Here's the learning lesson in that. It doesn't mean that you have to go one, two, and then sell, give, give, sell, give, give, sell. That sounds like that one song, goon, goonch. You know? Anyway, it doesn't mean give, give, sell, give, give, sell. It doesn't mean that you have to do two thirds and one third, one, one, two. If you go with the advice that Gary Vee really wanted you to think of, he has a lot more jabs. It's a lot more value, value, value. How can you support your person? How can you help your person? Who's on your social media or who's on your podcast on LinkedIn or whatever? How can you give, give, give before you ask for that sale? Think about it as multiple jabs and then the right hooks. That might actually make it easier on you because I've had a lot of clients that came through and I used to just teach social media. I had a business to teach social media, taught, teached or taught. Obviously I'm not a teacher that way, but I had a business that where I basically consulted only with a few high level people. So it was $40 ,000 to work with me for a year. And then anytime they would post, they would send the post to me first and I would tweak it for them and send it back and they would get like lots and lots of likes and comments. And in doing so, I would teach this jab, jab, right hook as well to them. And I would say, you're going too much about the business. Let people in first. I also had a couple of people that came to me and they were very afraid of the business. They didn't want to throw a right hook. They didn't want to. And so I had to talk him into it. I had to say, don't worry, you can do lots of jabs. One guy, he's all about something called earthing. There's another term too, grounding. And so basically every weekend he goes to the same park, he takes his shoes off and he grounds himself to the earth or he earths. He walks on the beach and basically I'm not going to teach the entire thing, but it's supposed to be very good for you. And I practice it as well. And he was passionate about that, but he wasn't really passionate about like multifamily syndication and asking people for money. And that's what he wanted to do is ask people for money. So I worked with him. I said, don't worry, it doesn't have to be two jabs and then the right hook. It can be like six jabs, seven jabs, and then the right hook. That worked for him. I think it was 68 and he ended up turning 70 recently. He was like 68 at the time. And although he's in great health, he looked like he's 25, his physical fitness as he was doing jab, jab, right hook, he didn't even want to post on social media at all. And he only bought into it because he didn't have to push his business down people's throats. And that's the takeaway for you too, is you don't have to push your business down anyone's throat. You don't have to shove it there. You can just share the kind things and nice things, the value and about your hobbies and it'll all work out. So make sure you got your podcast. Make sure you're active on social media. Use the jab, jab, right hook, and I will see you on the very next episode. Don't go away. We'll be right there. This is serious. Don't go. Now that you've gotten whatever value that you feel that you got the actionable takeaways, you need to implement the stuff that you learn. If you remember me talking about bird church once and they learn how to fly and then they walk home, I don't want you to walk home. I want you to fly home. So take the steps, take the actionable steps for your benefits that you can become a better podcaster. That's the only thing that I ask of you. And I'll see you for more actionable tips on the very next episode.
¿Dice Así? Podcast
A highlight from Estad firmes en la libertad | Glatas 5 con Hernan de Juan1Uno
"Saludos, saludos to all those who have listened to this. It is a pleasure to be able to be here with you to simply discuss the book, the book, the book, with the point of view or the way in which each one of us we interpret the book, and today we want two things, first of all, we want to thank Emmanuel for not being with us because of the fact that he was a member of his team, and, as always, with us, it is our pleasure to introduce David Lopez, Andres Marin, Alejandro Pizarro, and one of our executive producers, Paola Reyes. And this is very special, because we have with us the author, Hernán Dálvez, the author of the book, Mission, Gracias y Libertad, and the author of the book, the reform of the IAEU Argentina Uruguay, director of publications, Juan Uno Uno Publishing House. The author, Hernán, welcome to the show. Yes, it is a program where, when I met Hernán Dálvez, I said to the group that we invited Hernán, we wanted to discuss it, we wanted to share with us the impact of the literature and the context in which it was formed, and it is a place to be. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I hope that you have enjoyed it, and with the help of the book, I would like to thank you. I am the author of the book Mission, Gracias y Libertad, and this book is another author. I am the author of the book, The Hero of the IAEU, which is the book that is used in the United States in the country of Uruguay. I have a congregation called San Lucas, which is one of the largest congresses of our church. We are talking about the book, Galatas, and we are in the capital of the U .S. No, no, we are talking about Galatas, I just wanted to comment. I think that the first time we had one person, Hernán, was relevant during this program because he did not want to be able to express the love of the pastor, who is also a pastor, Hernán, obviously. But I think that the work of writing, literature, alternatives to Latin America, has been much more relevant than the mission of a pastor. But I don't know if I would want to be able to express the love of the pastor, right? But I... The love of the pastor, Hernán. It has been a lot of love, but I think that it has been more than that for the rest of the day, because in the editorial, Hernán is one in Latin America. Wow, that's great! Thank you very much, Hernán, that's great! No, no, Hernán. Hernán, well, at the end of the day, Hernán, we are fans of the idea, we are the ministers, we are the leaders who are really trying things that are not one other editorial to introduce. Well, Hernán has done a lot of things. Well, Hernán has done a lot of things. Because I would like to test this idea of this monopoly of theology that existed for years in Latin America where it was only introduced by theology, because the other is inconvenient. And, God help me, thank you, Hernán, for the work that you are doing, there are so many things that are really alternatives. And one of the most important things is that Hernán... Warren, for example, there are so many things that don't exist anymore. I don't know, I don't know if people, I don't know, I don't know if people are more savvy and with the realm of, I don't know, psychology, there are so many people who are doing excellent work but they don't have the strength that the famous pastors have. And the famous pastors are not interesting. It's true, for the world. It's true. Well, thank you very much. I mean, it's... I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. If it's not for the mind, not for the theology. If it's very interesting, what we do in Spain, it's really the aside of us. And also, there are so many things that don't have anything to do with the air in Spain. One of them is the control of the society. If you are in a city where the confectionary is appropriate, if you are publicly, solely, you are not allowed to talk with anyone, you are not allowed to talk with anyone. Nobody is an authoritarian person. Also, I would like to publicate the right, which is an Anglican, I would like to publicate Richard Rourke, who is a Roman post -apocalyptic person, because we are in a conversation about the origins, about the people of the world, and of course, one of the things that comes to mind about their own national or doctrinal space, or their own ideology, which is what I have to say about the land, is that there is no material there. And of course, I don't have to talk with the people of the world that we have to publicate, but we have to publicate the necessity of having a conversation about it. That's a very good question. The question is, why do you have to do something to be able to work on the pen? Why do you have to do something that no one wants to do? do I can the work of my sociopaths, I can do the work of my time. But to be able to do these things, I don't have to talk about the pen, no? Well, of course, but we hope that it will be more. Yes, yes, more, more, more, more. For this year, it's three. It's three. One, I would like to say, the day that I was born here, in Gueses, the day that I was born, in Gueses, I think it was in the academic collection, and it was a dictionary of the same words about the sexuality of Renato Linz. So, in Spanish, as in English, the same words about the sexuality that in the book define a dictionary. These are the words that are in this year. We'll talk about some of them later. How do you like the books? Ah, well, I've had a lot of conversations. I've always thought that the first function of the book is pastoral. The first book that I published, I didn't know it was central to Marko's book. And as I started to ask some questions about the pathetism of the dead, or about the substitution of pen, including with gala, the book that's written in gala, for the first public book that I read, that came out of the space, was very evangelical and very fundamentalist. It was a book that allowed me to exchange a cost for the middle class. We had a book for the last 20 years of the reform, that was made in the core areas, where we participated in different South American parties. There was nothing in Latin America, without nothing, except for the five souls. There were many books that were promoting the reform, but nobody was talking about the five souls. So there was a distinct thought, that we would write about one of the souls. There was also the man with a christological name, a non -Christological name, and we said to the public, this is what I want to say, this is what I want to talk about, and for me, it was a book that had more rights than what we have known for a long time. And think I it's like... The perception? One of the ones in the middle, no? Like Pivote, or one of my ideas, or the other one. What is the meaning of the Christianism? And the friend of mine, I think, that he needed to take care of his behavioral level, for the sake of Chile, in some way, and to support the institutional revolution. It was the first four years, when one of the religions came out here to do something more. And they gave us two letters, two letters and some were written in the name, to what was the third letter. The first, Patrick, is very local, he doesn't have a lot of sense in Latin America. The third one was written all over the world. It's not a bomb, in the name of the reform of sexuality. We had some corridors, but not in the same world all over the world. And the most successful was with the we had to go there, and with this letter we had a lot of sense. It was a very difficult problem. A lot of problems. What? In the end. And this letter was, as I said, when one wrote it, the last letter. Yes, it was a letter from when one wrote it. From when one wrote it. Not too much, but it was written by the people of the city. Fair. But it didn't exist properly. Well, the first letter was written by Richard Rohr, because if it was written by Richard Rohr, we couldn't have written it in the editorial. It's the event, event, event, event, that is universal. Fair. All of them were succeeded by Richard Rohr. We wrote a book, that has been written for 30 copies. In two years. And how did you write it with him? With his book? With Nadiya? No, with his book. The book at the moment of Jesus. Well, the first letter, thank you, was given a nomination to David Cameron Cyrus, and we were at a scene of the recognition of S .E. Sanchez, who was also at the New York Public Library. And it was this invitation, because there was a Congress of Vibilistas, there was a section of the book, and it was written, it was, well, thank you, thank you, thank you, but S .E. Sanchez, Robert, Vibilistas, Vibilistas, and we decided, and we told them, as two years ago, to do it, so we decided to do it, and they asked us to publish this book, that they wanted to show us, and they said that it was written in a book that was always written and they told us that they wanted to publish it. So they told us, they didn't know what it was, they told us, they told us a copy of the book that they wrote, and we proposed that there would be a book that would be that you wouldn't be able to read, and they told us, so they wrote the number, as well. So that's what happened with the book, it was a good one. We'll see. So, and it was a very interesting conversation, it was, It was. It was. I am trying to read the book that will be released in the future, in a book I can't read. In the future, dude! No, but, but in theory, it's really interesting that they told us, and thank you for all the support and for allowing me to do it, I had no idea how much they would allow me to do it, and I was like I can't read it, but But thank you for maintaining yourself and for continuing, Hernan. I want to thank you for the invitation and the desire to receive a message that, in the conviction of the Corazón, the truth is that if others have access to the land, there will be a difference in life. And for that, we thank you very much. So, how do we start? I thought you said you were going to be terminated. No, no. It's only in vocation for the conversation that, as I said, it's my pleasure to talk to you in our conversation, so that people can know the best and know what is important. That is what is important.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from Let Go Of What You Think You Need
"Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for you to break it down a little more, take it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know. Let's go. Sometimes you can tell how significant your calling is. By how much the enemy is intimidated by you. And you can tell how much he's intimidated by you, by how much he's talking to you. God said, I've tried to talk to you through an angel. That didn't work. But now I want you to go listen to your enemy. And Gideon goes down to the outpost, verse 11. I almost missed it again. This is the big verse, verse 11. And you shall hear what they say. And afterwards, your hand will be strengthened to go down against the camp. Did you catch that? God didn't say your hand will be strengthened when you hear what God says about you. Because the angel's been telling Gideon, you're a mighty warrior. The angel's been telling Gideon that God is with you. The angel has been saying, God is going to deliver the people through you. Gideon doesn't believe any of it. He said, so if you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe the enemy. Go down and listen to the enemy for a minute. And after you hear what your enemy is saying, your hand will be strengthened to go down against the camp. And then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the men who were in the camp. And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley like locusts in abundance. Ooh, there's a lot of them. And their camels were without number, so there's a lot of them. As the sand is on the seashore, in abundance, there's a lot of them. Everybody said there's a lot of them. Look, there's a lot of reasons to be afraid. There's a lot of reasons to fear. If you start listing them, you'll go crazy. But watch. When Gideon came, verse 13, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, behold, I dreamed a dream. And behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian. Ooh, barley bread. Not very threatening, huh? And it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned upside down so that the tent lay flat. And his comrade answered, this is no other than the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp. You've got Gideon's hand, which is trembling. He's afraid. You've got Midian's hand, which has him trapped. And you've got God's hand, which is trustworthy. And God says, I am giving them into your hand. I don't know who this is for today, but God is saying, I want you to let go of what you think you need. I want you to let go of what you thought you were. I want you to let go of what you can't over. I want you to let go of it. I want you to go down toward the next thing I've called you to do. And watch what Gideon does. Gideon gets encouraged. He hears that. He's like, wait a minute. They're talking about me. I'm the barley. Yeah, that's not very impressive. No, no, no. It's not what the barley is. It's what the barley does. And he goes from trembling to tumbling. God said, let's go. That's the third one. Let's go.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 288 - From Stress Relief to Joyful Moments: The Many Roles of Music in Caregiving
"The music is always changing so some songs are triggering a memory and others maybe they're just tapping along to and so it's probably the same you could experience this for yourself if you just played a a set list of songs from an era gone by songs you haven't heard in 10 or 20 years some of them are going to make you pick up and go oh this yeah i remember this one and some of them will make you sing along but others you might just kind of enjoy in the background and um and so that's kind of what's happening it's the amount of stimulation is completely personal and experiences like Roy's are unfortunately not that common they happen i'd say five to ten percent of the time um but for everybody we see lifts in mood improvements in sleep um and and those a reduction in those things like anxiety and aggravation and so on music can uniquely transport individuals with dementia to specific moments in their past eliciting reminiscence and triggering positive emotions it can reduce anxiety and agitation creating a calming and soothing environment caregivers often use personalized playlists incorporating songs from the individual's youth or culturally significant music to promote engagement and spark memories but what if you can't find the right music to connect with your loved one that was my situation which made me the ideal person to chat with steven hunt of vera an app that helps you find the specific pieces of music that will likely invoke all of the positive benefits that i just listed welcome to fading memories the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia i'm your host jennifer finke my mom had alzheimer's for 20 years and when i went looking for answers i had to start a podcast to find them join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving through personal stories expert interviews and practical advice we'll explore effective communication strategies stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey this podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment let's share our experiences find solace and discover the strength within us get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with fading memories if you're looking for additional advice be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter it's brief gives you great advice you can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link in the website on the show notes we're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out unfortunately it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society with modern technology scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before americans over the age of 65 especially those living with alzheimer's and dementia are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week that's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones even worse nearly 10 of 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from the it's kind of exciting to talk to somebody on the whole other side of the world with me is stephen hunt he is the co -founder of music health it's an app that is designed for many mental health purposes but it's also got a connection for those of us taking care of a loved one with dementia so thanks for joining me stephen do you go by steve or stephen uh steve okay stick with that jennifer a little zoom box says steven so so tell me about yourself before we were before i hit record you were giving me the details on your family history of lovely diseases like mine so start wherever you'd like to start with yeah well i'd like to start with um so music health as a as a company we started it with a mission to reintegrate music into health care and the premise here is that if you look at any ancient human civilization whether it be the aztecs the incas or the indigenous people of australia they all use music to heal and so this has been going back over 40 000 years in fact the indigenous people of australia used one of these it's the oldest recorded form of music therapy which takes back 40 000 years and we've forgotten all about that because we invented pharmaceuticals and we just now prescribe a drug and hope that's going to fix the problem uh but we really see it out in our company that there's an opportunity to reintegrate music into health care very broadly and we're starting with dementia because in than any pharmaceutical and as we know most pharmaceuticals aren't really making any difference with dementia we're nowhere near a cure nothing's really cutting through we're kind of just treating little symptoms here and there and and often the people that we start to work with have this massive cocktail of drugs they're on that are trying to compensate for each other's side effects and it's just their brains are even more scrambled um so but we've seen with music that it can completely transform them and i guess what drew me to this is as you said a personal connection my grandfather experienced alzheimer's disease when i was in my teens and i was watched him go through that progression with my grandmother who was caring for him and as i'm sure everybody who listens to this would know that's really heartbreaking for anybody to experience and incredibly difficult um but i was a musician as you can see i've got a few instruments behind me and um and i used to play music and it used to soothe him and kind of change and transform him and at the time i had no idea why i didn't know the science of it but but anyway but my grandmother also developed dementia but lived to the age of 100 so i think she was entitled to lose a few memories there um and um and yeah and i i was working in the music industry and a good friend of mine who was a who's now my co -founder nick um came to me one day with the film alive inside and i don't know have you ever seen it um i haven't seen it but i actually did an episode about it with a gentleman that was involved amazing so it's if you don't want to watch the whole thing which i do highly recommend bring the tissues um but if you don't have time even just going on youtube you can watch a few short clips and you'll get the idea um but that film was demonstrating the music and memory program which um which is incredible and that inspired us so what you what you see is this transformative effect of someone who is experiencing dementia is quite lost in space and time they don't know where they are um they don't know who their carers are they're probably feeling a little afraid and and that fear can manifest into either you know regretting regressing sorry into anxiety and depression or expressing in a much more aggressive and agitated manner and and neither of those are good um but both are very difficult to manage for carer and when they play music to these people that is from their past that's personally significant to them they become alive and hence the name of the movie it it quickens and they they seem to come back they seem to get a better use of their faculties they can move their body they can talk they can swallow and eat um and they can remember faces much more readily because what's happening is the music is stimulating their long -term memory and for some reason alzheimer's and dementia doesn't really affect the musical memory that they remain intact same with poetry it's kind of two really weird things like you'll find people who can't remember their wife and can't even remember their own name can just recount poems if they've learned them and sing along to songs and um and it's beautiful to watch and and when we get them into that stimulated state inviting them to maybe come and do hygiene care in the somebody who is much more aware of where they are in space and time they're much less likely to feel anxious and and scared and therefore you can actually engage and interact with them much more readily so so we created an app called vera and that's our first product which is designed for the carers of people living with dementia to be able to get this effect as easily as possible and do it as often as possible as well and and we see in a really advanced state that the carer is using the music when the person wakes up to help them get dressed and out of bed and get them moving they're using it to set the scene for for meals they're using it to to set the scene for washing and hygiene as i said um all these different things and even conversing and spending time with people because when these songs come up that they recognize they bring along beautiful memories and um and we can talk about those and relive them with the person and some of the most beautiful things i've seen in my work are when the family members are hearing memories for the first time that the songs have triggered and they're like oh we didn't even know about that you know and that's such a beautiful thing to get when you know your family member often at that stage can't even remember who you are um so so yeah that hopefully gives you a bit of a summary of the journey so far and what we're trying to do well and we're going to get into it a little bit more but i truly wish you guys had been around when my mom was still alive i had talked to a musician he was also a singer and we we talked about my struggle of finding music that my mom connected to i tried you know the era that she was in high school and maybe music that i remembered being played in the home when i was a kid although i think most of that was my dad and it just he suggested this one past guest he's like well you'll probably have to go through a hundred songs to find you know five to ten and i was like i can't even come up with a hundred songs that seem to be even close so that was the first struggle i did have a little success when i i thought back to my childhood and what my grandmother played when we were at her house i figured if i could remember it then maybe it would work with my mom and it it had it was better than the previous attempts but it was it was so frustrating and so i didn't get what you were talking about just a moment ago so i gave up but yeah you guys i think have solved that problem to some degree and the other challenges i know when she was living in the care home they didn't i don't think they played the right era of music now my mom was on the younger end they did have residents there that were probably 20 25 years older than my mom my mom died at 77 so you know it wasn't too terribly difficult to be 20 years older than her 15 years older and so i don't think she connected to any of that but in getting ready for this talk i was telling my husband i think that tomorrow's guest is from australia that'll be interesting and we were talking about the music and he's like well mom really loved big band and i'm like yeah she did but that's not necessarily from her era it's not the era that i would have picked yeah but then when he said that i was like why didn't i try that or did i try that so why don't you tell us how the app makes all of that easier absolutely i i think firstly i'd love to say that playing any music is great like music is absorbed by the brain it comes into our ears actually it has to cross the hemispheres and then there's about five or six different parts of the brain that have to work in concert to interpret what we perceive as music it's not just you know hearing a sound and making a quick response um it's so a bit of a brain workout and it's why we generally feel quite pleasurable when we're hearing something especially if we like it of course there's taste and we'll get get into that in a second but but first and foremost even if you don't know exactly what to play playing something is better than nothing generally and then um the second thing i wanted to sort of say first is that that's what music and memory started to do like decades ago so they've been going around with um volunteers and musicologists and trying to do exactly what you were doing them manually getting to know the person researching them working out where they lived and then what songs might have been big in that location at that time when their musical taste was forming and generally the the kind of key age you want to try to get back to is 15 through to 35 now the problem with 15 through to 35 for someone like yourself is you probably if you were alive you probably were for a little bit you weren't really old enough to remember much and most of your mom's music experience that you would have been um in knowledge of was when she was a parent and she'd been playing music probably for you and um and also that gets into a very different time where we started to get um moved away from records into cassettes and things like that if we go back into when your mom would have been 15 through to 35 there's a chance she might have had some records at home to play for herself but i would hazard a guess that most of what she did here came through the radio and either that or it was what she was exposed to in the town that she grew up and so what we do is we analyze some really simple bits of information so where was the person born where did they live when they grew up from 15 through 35 and you can put multiple countries multiple places because obviously not everyone stays in one place um what languages do they speak because that can be really interesting and um and then from there with that information we actually can build a pretty good starting point of looking at what was popular either on the charts we could look at what was popular from touring bands we could look at what was popular from radio plays and we've created a massive database that syncs up all of that information attached to every song from the universal music library which is the world's biggest music library um and it's got millions of songs so that's that's our secret sauce in the back background that has taken us um a huge amount of technology to build it actually takes AI to technology to listen to the song and to decide if it's going first of all if it's going to be relaxing or energizing or you know what what kind of emotional response will the song elicit that's the first thing we work out and then the AIs are also scraping the internet looking for that other information about popularity all the time and building up richer and richer strings so then when we get to those questions I asked um in the onboarding which are where was the person born when were they born and where did they grow up we can very quickly understand what were the popular songs around them in that place during those years and then if we know we ask do they have any favorite genres do they love classical or blues or reggae or rock and do they have any favorite artists sadly we don't often get that information if the family aren't involved and quite often in the residential aged care settings they're not and so that's a real shame but as I said as a starting point anyway we'll have a collection of songs which are separated into three stations one is to help that person relax another is to help that person get energized and motivated to get up and move and then a third one is to help that person reminisce and and find their own memories and they get presented from just those basic questions and then you've got a thumbs up and a thumbs down of course so that if a song creates a really great reaction the person knows the words and they're clapping along we hit like and if we want to we can also leave a little note and say oh they loved it they were clapping along it reminded them of their wedding day whatever it may be and we can save that song and every time we do that it gets pulled into the playlist so we can go back to those songs we know they know we know they love and we collect those over time but we're constantly trying to find more through the energize and relax playlists as well which are um pushing forward new songs so with that we tend to find that we we get about 50 to 75 percent hit rate um in the first go and then we're refining over time but but it really is simple it's just understanding the music that was really popular around that person in that stage of their life um but to do that because we've got customers who were born in china we've got customers who were born in japan in italy in france in yugoslavia you never all over the world so we've had to do this globally and look at this popularity metric across all genres all songs and all places and that's been really the hard part but now that we have that the the experience is simple and easy my mom might have been a little easier she was born in northern california lived her whole life in northern california not all the same town but the same region basically the san francis the greater san francisco bay area perfect i'm trying to remember yeah nope never lived anywhere else so but i'm i'm as you're talking i'm remembering stories so my maternal grandfather was an army chef during world war ii he had damaged his trigger finger with a um a saw i don't know what the it's not maybe it was a hacksaw um it didn't stop him from hunting but it stopped him from being shipped overseas my grandfather could open the fridge and most people would open the refrigerator and say oh there's nothing really much to eat in here and he could whip out the best sandwiches you'd be like i didn't see that tomato where'd you pull that tomato out of and i have inherited that so obviously he his family also owned a restaurant and a bakery so that that comes up through the genetics i'm assuming but when he was not home my mom would run up to other soldiers and and go daddy daddy so the as we were talking earlier you know my husband was like oh she your mom liked big band music which not wasn't necessarily her era um she graduated from high school in 1960 so 15 to 35 would have been um i should probably use the calculator for this math but she would so been 1960 like 1957 through i'm not sure when she was 35 she was born in 1943 i can't do math that fast in my head that's um 1958 should we start and then we're looking another 20 years so 58 to um 78.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 288 - From Stress Relief to Joyful Moments: The Many Roles of Music in Caregiving
"The music is always changing so some songs are triggering a memory and others maybe they're just tapping along to and so it's probably the same you could experience this for yourself if you just played a a set list of songs from an era gone by songs you haven't heard in 10 or 20 years some of them are going to make you pick up and go oh this yeah i remember this one and some of them will make you sing along but others you might just kind of enjoy in the background and um and so that's kind of what's happening it's the amount of stimulation is completely personal and experiences like Roy's are unfortunately not that common they happen i'd say five to ten percent of the time um but for everybody we see lifts in mood improvements in sleep um and and those a reduction in those things like anxiety and aggravation and so on music can uniquely transport individuals with dementia to specific moments in their past eliciting reminiscence and triggering positive emotions it can reduce anxiety and agitation creating a calming and soothing environment caregivers often use personalized playlists incorporating songs from the individual's youth or culturally significant music to promote engagement and spark memories but what if you can't find the right music to connect with your loved one that was my situation which made me the ideal person to chat with steven hunt of vera an app that helps you find the specific pieces of music that will likely invoke all of the positive benefits that i just listed welcome to fading memories the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia i'm your host jennifer finke my mom had alzheimer's for 20 years and when i went looking for answers i had to start a podcast to find them join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving through personal stories expert interviews and practical advice we'll explore effective communication strategies stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey this podcast is your 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from the it's kind of exciting to talk to somebody on the whole other side of the world with me is stephen hunt he is the co -founder of music health it's an app that is designed for many mental health purposes but it's also got a connection for those of us taking care of a loved one with dementia so thanks for joining me stephen do you go by steve or stephen uh steve okay stick with that jennifer a little zoom box says steven so so tell me about yourself before we were before i hit record you were giving me the details on your family history of lovely diseases like mine so start wherever you'd like to start with yeah well i'd like to start with um so music health as a as a company we started it with a mission to reintegrate music into health care and the premise here is that if you look at any ancient human civilization whether it be the aztecs the incas or the indigenous people of australia they all use music to heal and so this has been going back over 40 000 years in fact the indigenous people of australia used one of these it's the oldest recorded form of music therapy which takes back 40 000 years and we've forgotten all about that because we invented pharmaceuticals and we just now prescribe a drug and hope that's going to fix the problem uh but we really see it out in our company that there's an opportunity to reintegrate music into health care very broadly and we're starting with dementia because in than any pharmaceutical and as we know most pharmaceuticals aren't really making any difference with dementia we're nowhere near a cure nothing's really cutting through we're kind of just treating little symptoms here and there and and often the people that we start to work with have this massive cocktail of drugs they're on that are trying to compensate for each other's side effects and it's just their brains are even more scrambled um so but we've seen with music that it can completely transform them and i guess what drew me to this is as you said a personal connection my grandfather experienced alzheimer's disease when i was in my teens and i was watched him go through that progression with my grandmother who was caring for him and as i'm sure everybody who listens to this would know that's really heartbreaking for anybody to experience and incredibly difficult um but i was a musician as you can see i've got a few instruments behind me and um and i used to play music and it used to soothe him and kind of change and transform him and at the time i had no idea why i didn't know the science of it but but anyway but my grandmother also developed dementia but lived to the age of 100 so i think she was entitled to lose a few memories there um and um and yeah and i i was working in the music industry and a good friend of mine who was a who's now my co -founder nick um came to me one day with the film alive inside and i don't know have you ever seen it um i haven't seen it but i actually did an episode about it with a gentleman that was involved amazing so it's if you don't want to watch the whole thing which i do highly recommend bring the tissues um but if you don't have time even just going on youtube you can watch a few short clips and you'll get the idea um but that film was demonstrating the music and memory program which um which is incredible and that inspired us so what you what you see is this transformative effect of someone who is experiencing dementia is quite lost in space and time they don't know where they are um they don't know who their carers are they're probably feeling a little afraid and and that fear can manifest into either you know regretting regressing sorry into anxiety and depression or expressing in a much more aggressive and agitated manner and and neither of those are good um but both are very difficult to manage for carer and when they play music to these people that is from their past that's personally significant to them they become alive and hence the name of the movie it it quickens and they they seem to come back they seem to get a better use of their faculties they can move their body they can talk they can swallow and eat um and they can remember faces much more readily because what's happening is the music is stimulating their long -term memory and for some reason alzheimer's and dementia doesn't really affect the musical memory that they remain intact same with poetry it's kind of two really weird things like you'll find people who can't remember their wife and can't even remember their own name can just recount poems if they've learned them and sing along to songs and um and it's beautiful to watch and and when we get them into that stimulated state inviting them to maybe come and do hygiene care in the somebody who is much more aware of where they are in space and time they're much less likely to feel anxious and and scared and therefore you can actually engage and interact with them much more readily so so we created an app called vera and that's our first product which is designed for the carers of people living with dementia to be able to get this effect as easily as possible and do it as often as possible as well and and we see in a really advanced state that the carer is using the music when the person wakes up to help them get dressed and out of bed and get them moving they're using it to set the scene for for meals they're using it to to set the scene for washing and hygiene as i said um all these different things and even conversing and spending time with people because when these songs come up that they recognize they bring along beautiful memories and um and we can talk about those and relive them with the person and some of the most beautiful things i've seen in my work are when the family members are hearing memories for the first time that the songs have triggered and they're like oh we didn't even know about that you know and that's such a beautiful thing to get when you know your family member often at that stage can't even remember who you are um so so yeah that hopefully gives you a bit of a summary of the journey so far and what we're trying to do well and we're going to get into it a little bit more but i truly wish you guys had been around when my mom was still alive i had talked to a musician he was also a singer and we we talked about my struggle of finding music that my mom connected to i tried you know the era that she was in high school and maybe music that i remembered being played in the home when i was a kid although i think most of that was my dad and it just he suggested this one past guest he's like well you'll probably have to go through a hundred songs to find you know five to ten and i was like i can't even come up with a hundred songs that seem to be even close so that was the first struggle i did have a little success when i i thought back to my childhood and what my grandmother played when we were at her house i figured if i could remember it then maybe it would work with my mom and it it had it was better than the previous attempts but it was it was so frustrating and so i didn't get what you were talking about just a moment ago so i gave up but yeah you guys i think have solved that problem to some degree and the other challenges i know when she was living in the care home they didn't i don't think they played the right era of music now my mom was on the younger end they did have residents there that were probably 20 25 years older than my mom my mom died at 77 so you know it wasn't too terribly difficult to be 20 years older than her 15 years older and so i don't think she connected to any of that but in getting ready for this talk i was telling my husband i think that tomorrow's guest is from australia that'll be interesting and we were talking about the music and he's like well mom really loved big band and i'm like yeah she did but that's not necessarily from her era it's not the era that i would have picked yeah but then when he said that i was like why didn't i try that or did i try that so why don't you tell us how the app makes all of that easier absolutely i i think firstly i'd love to say that playing any music is great like music is absorbed by the brain it comes into our ears actually it has to cross the hemispheres and then there's about five or six different parts of the brain that have to work in concert to interpret what we perceive as music it's not just you know hearing a sound and making a quick response um it's so a bit of a brain workout and it's why we generally feel quite pleasurable when we're hearing something especially if we like it of course there's taste and we'll get get into that in a second but but first and foremost even if you don't know exactly what to play playing something is better than nothing generally and then um the second thing i wanted to sort of say first is that that's what music and memory started to do like decades ago so they've been going around with um volunteers and musicologists and trying to do exactly what you were doing them manually getting to know the person researching them working out where they lived and then what songs might have been big in that location at that time when their musical taste was forming and generally the the kind of key age you want to try to get back to is 15 through to 35 now the problem with 15 through to 35 for someone like yourself is you probably if you were alive you probably were for a little bit you weren't really old enough to remember much and most of your mom's music experience that you would have been um in knowledge of was when she was a parent and she'd been playing music probably for you and um and also that gets into a very different time where we started to get um moved away from records into cassettes and things like that if we go back into when your mom would have been 15 through to 35 there's a chance she might have had some records at home to play for herself but i would hazard a guess that most of what she did here came through the radio and either that or it was what she was exposed to in the town that she grew up and so what we do is we analyze some really simple bits of information so where was the person born where did they live when they grew up from 15 through 35 and you can put multiple countries multiple places because obviously not everyone stays in one place um what languages do they speak because that can be really interesting and um and then from there with that information we actually can build a pretty good starting point of looking at what was popular either on the charts we could look at what was popular from touring bands we could look at what was popular from radio plays and we've created a massive database that syncs up all of that information attached to every song from the universal music library which is the world's biggest music library um and it's got millions of songs so that's that's our secret sauce in the back background that has taken us um a huge amount of technology to build it actually takes AI to technology to listen to the song and to decide if it's going first of all if it's going to be relaxing or energizing or you know what what kind of emotional response will the song elicit that's the first thing we work out and then the AIs are also scraping the internet looking for that other information about popularity all the time and building up richer and richer strings so then when we get to those questions I asked um in the onboarding which are where was the person born when were they born and where did they grow up we can very quickly understand what were the popular songs around them in that place during those years and then if we know we ask do they have any favorite genres do they love classical or blues or reggae or rock and do they have any favorite artists sadly we don't often get that information if the family aren't involved and quite often in the residential aged care settings they're not and so that's a real shame but as I said as a starting point anyway we'll have a collection of songs which are separated into three stations one is to help that person relax another is to help that person get energized and motivated to get up and move and then a third one is to help that person reminisce and and find their own memories and they get presented from just those basic questions and then you've got a thumbs up and a thumbs down of course so that if a song creates a really great reaction the person knows the words and they're clapping along we hit like and if we want to we can also leave a little note and say oh they loved it they were clapping along it reminded them of their wedding day whatever it may be and we can save that song and every time we do that it gets pulled into the playlist so we can go back to those songs we know they know we know they love and we collect those over time but we're constantly trying to find more through the energize and relax playlists as well which are um pushing forward new songs so with that we tend to find that we we get about 50 to 75 percent hit rate um in the first go and then we're refining over time but but it really is simple it's just understanding the music that was really popular around that person in that stage of their life um but to do that because we've got customers who were born in china we've got customers who were born in japan in italy in france in yugoslavia you never all over the world so we've had to do this globally and look at this popularity metric across all genres all songs and all places and that's been really the hard part but now that we have that the the experience is simple and easy my mom might have been a little easier she was born in northern california lived her whole life in northern california not all the same town but the same region basically the san francis the greater san francisco bay area perfect i'm trying to remember yeah nope never lived anywhere else so but i'm i'm as you're talking i'm remembering stories so my maternal grandfather was an army chef during world war ii he had damaged his trigger finger with a um a saw i don't know what the it's not maybe it was a hacksaw um it didn't stop him from hunting but it stopped him from being shipped overseas my grandfather could open the fridge and most people would open the refrigerator and say oh there's nothing really much to eat in here and he could whip out the best sandwiches you'd be like i didn't see that tomato where'd you pull that tomato out of and i have inherited that so obviously he his family also owned a restaurant and a bakery so that that comes up through the genetics i'm assuming but when he was not home my mom would run up to other soldiers and and go daddy daddy so the as we were talking earlier you know my husband was like oh she your mom liked big band music which not wasn't necessarily her era um she graduated from high school in 1960 so 15 to 35 would have been um i should probably use the calculator for this math but she would so been 1960 like 1957 through i'm not sure when she was 35 she was born in 1943 i can't do math that fast in my head that's um 1958 should we start and then we're looking another 20 years so 58 to um 78.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Matt gave you twice from this mic. Rich researched 5th Ave and found out that a lot of women have a headache. Matt and Rich will be on a new calendar for car accessories. Matt was in the studio but his brain was left behind. He was saying that it was on the way but it never made it. One guy wanted to order Lasagna with a side of Kung Pao and call it Fusion Cuisine. Episode #418 August 19th. 2023
"That's episode 399. That episode is in my ears until today. But let me just tell you one more thing and that is, uh, I want to just give shout out Cape Coral. Cape Coral has been hit by the hurricane so bad. So let me give you five restaurants, just quick, um, you know, uh, restaurants that you can visit and they call them best hole in the wall restaurants. Okay. So Cape Coral, go Ford's garage. That's always not to be disappointed. Um, then, uh, go to, uh, let me just scroll down here. Vino's Picasso. That's another one you want to try it out. The third one is, uh, the Boathouse Tiki Bar and Grill, Buba Roadhouse and Saloon and Papa Joe. Papa. Papa Joe. Yeah. That's the Italian. So, you know, just, uh, give them, give them try as well because they've been, they've been in worse situation than us and everybody needs, you know, somebody sit in there and in their chair. Do you think if you went to one of those with the Italian, you could get like a lasagna with, and then in a side of Kung Pao, try it. I mean, I'll tell you what, that's fusion to me. Let me tell you it's bringing two worlds together with two of my favorite foods. Let me tell you something. One time I made a joke similar to what he just said. And since that time, I'm not going to do any jokes in restaurants anymore. It was, I was maybe like, uh, I was a DJ and a lot of times after the shows, I took friends, uh, you know, in the city in middle of the night and we went, uh, to, to restaurant, you know, for drinks and for food, we went to, uh, the city and everything was closed except one hotel restaurant, which was like one o 'clock in the morning we opened. And, uh, we had this very popular movie when there was a, um, challenged person and they took him for dinner. And the only thing he always ordered in the restaurant was a bread roll. And in Europe, you know, you don't get bread and butter for free. You have to pay for it. And the restaurants, they don't have bread and butter. They, you know, they don't normally serve it. So, um, you know, we went to the restaurant in the movie. He always went to restaurant and bread roll, bread roll, you know, it was just a joke. So we went to this hotel one o 'clock in the morning and I said, Hey, listen, if I get my bread roll, I pay for everybody's drink and everybody's food. So everybody's ordering. And he came to me and I said, bread roll. And the guy, he knew there was a joke. He knew that joke was from that movie because everybody was watching it. It was very popular movie. He got me just a small plate. I got a bread roll and butter. And when he brought it in as a last meal, everybody was laughing so hard. And that caused me so much, most expensive bread roll I ever ate. Couldn't have happened to a better guy. So I don't go to restaurant anymore to make jokes because I tell you what, if it's the right businessman and you have the right mind and somebody comes to you and willing to joke with you, then you make him pay because you make it happen. And somebody will ask me, Hey, make me a kum pao and make me this. I will make it because you know what? I can make money on it. I'll sell it. Yeah, there you go. So, you know, I would not try it again. No more jokes for me in restaurants because then kum pao can be very expensive. With the pasta in the same plate.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from James Lindsay
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Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
A highlight from How to Avoid Relapse in Sobriety
"Hey, everybody, welcome to the Addiction Unlimited podcast, where you get to learn everything you want to know about addiction and recovery. I'm your host, Angela Pugh, co -founder of Kansas City Recovery, Life Coach, and Recovering Alcoholic. To learn more about me, you can listen to episode zero on your podcast app or find us on the web at addictionunlimited .com. You've heard it before, right? Relapse is a part of recovery. So how do you actually avoid relapse? Hello my friend, Angela Pugh here. Welcome to another episode of the Addiction Unlimited podcast. I'm super excited about this episode because it's all about relapse prevention. You probably already know this is a huge topic and the truth is the vast majority of people relapse in their first year of sobriety. I've heard statistics that range anywhere from 85 % of people relapse to as high as 95 % of people. And I know through my own experiences and those of my clients that understanding relapse and having a plan in place to overcome it can dramatically change your life. What does that plan look like? How do you make a plan? We're going to get into some strategies and specifics today to help you get your head wrapped around where you want to focus in terms of your relapse prevention efforts. This episode is all things relapse prevention, not just because it's a huge topic, but because it's something we need to continually talk about to make sure you're putting your efforts in the right place and moving forward in your sober life. So tell me this, what are you currently doing or maybe not doing to ensure that you avoid the dreaded relapse day in and day out? I bring this up now too because we're transitioning into a new season, which brings new stressors. And stress is the number one reason for relapse. So summer is wrapping up, it's back to school time. Whether you have kids going back to school or you're a student yourself or a teacher, you don't need me or anyone else for that matter to tell you how critical it is to have a crystal clear understanding of how to avoid relapse. Also with a simple but powerful plan to make you successful. I know you're thinking like, thank you, Captain Obvious, you already know this. And by the same token, still about 85 to 95 % of people are relapsing. Most people are still struggling to avoid relapse and build a true alcohol -free lifestyle in a smart and sustainable way. Maybe you've had some small successes from listening to podcasts or reading books and maybe you've managed to stay sober for a few weeks or a month here and there. Or maybe you had a bad night and really embarrassed yourself and you stopped for a few months or half a year just on sheer willpower and shame. All of that is good. It's getting you closer to where you want to be. But it's still a far cry from having a simple plan and being consistent in your sober efforts so that you build a sober lifestyle that you and your family can rely on. Trust me on that. That's why we need to have this exact conversation today. I want you to feel confident to double down on your strategy to avoid relapse with a plan you feel good about. It's personalized, it fits your life, it accommodates your family and what you need and you feel really good about it. That's where I want you to be. I want to get you fully up to speed on the three pillars of relapse prevention and the exact strategies for each of those pillars so that you can focus your time and energy only on what you really want to be working on and you'll get the confidence you want to feel good in your life and not to feel like you're constantly looking over your shoulder waiting for a relapse to take you down. Instead of going down the rabbit hole of anxiety and overwhelm, waiting for the other shoe to drop, I want you to feel confident and empowered. Alcohol can't pour itself down your throat. You have a lot of power in this situation. That's what this episode is all about. I think it's important too that you fully understand where you want to go with this. Before we get into any of the how -tos, we have to set a foundation so that you feel really up to speed in terms of what to do and what works and what you're excited about implementing in your own sober strategy. By the end of this episode, my hope is that you'll have a really good understanding as to where you've gone wrong in the past and where you need to put a little more effort and focus now to make your relapse prevention plan stronger than it's ever been. Let's get into these three pillars of relapse prevention. These are the three most crucial areas to focus on and then we're going to dig into each one of them with some real strategies. What do you need to do in each of these? Number one is having strategies. You have to have specific strategies that can help you recognize and manage your triggers and cravings. Number two is a strong support system. Having a support system will significantly improve your sober efforts and your sober life all the way around. The third one is lifestyle changes and self -care. Remember when I said a minute ago that stress is the number one reason people relapse. Stress can come from all different areas of your life. My six -week program clients, the people that work with me privately, know we focus a ton on this part. We have to manage our stress. Again, there's a million different ways to do that and it's different for each of us in our lives. That's why it's important to have a customized plan and know what works for you and how to build that plan for your life and how you do life day in and day out. Going back to number one, relapse prevention strategies. You have to actually have some strategies here. The first part is identifying your triggers. You have to recognize situations, people, places, feelings that are triggering for you. A great way to do this is just start with a list. I also did an episode about triggers, specifically about triggers. I'll link it in the show notes if you want to go back and listen to that one. There's probably more than one, but there's one that's really standing out to me and I'll link that in the show notes for you. Make a list of your triggers. Maybe it is certain places. Maybe it's your drinking friends. Listen, if your drinking friends are triggering to you, it doesn't mean that you can't be friends with them anymore or that they're bad people or that you think you're better than them, that you don't hang out with them anymore because you're not drinking. It doesn't mean any of that. It just means you have to be more mindful. I definitely had those people that I always drink with, that our relationship really was focused around drinking together. We didn't have deep friendships and deep conversations, except like those drunk conversations, which barely count because most of the time you or they don't remember it anyway or parts of it, but those were triggering people for me because our whole involvement as friends revolved around drinking. I want you to keep this in perspective too because this is the same situation in a million other situations in your life, meaning that just like when you have coworkers that you really enjoy and maybe you have lunch together every day, but the bulk of your conversation or your connection is around your workplace because you work together. Maybe a lot of your conversations really revolve around complaining about your job or who you don't like or talking about other coworkers.
Northwest Newsradio
"third one" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Three one mariners here the eights wow that's dave simms of rude sports on the call the m's tack on insurance runs driven in by ty france kade marlo and dylan moore to on go to win six one that's seven wins in a row matt brash earned his eighth win in relief the m's are still two games toronto behind for the final american league wildcard spot today is an off day than the american league east leading baltimore orioles are in town for three games starting friday michael lerenson of the phillies threw a no hitter during a seven nothing victory over the nationals it's the season's third no hitter shohei otani led the angels to a 401 win over the giants he the earned win is now the first player in major league baseball history to hit forty home runs and record ten wins as a in pitcher the same season and the sea oxos the vikings in preseason football tonight kickoff is seven o 'clock sports ports of ten and forty past the hour eric eintz northwest news radio stay with us for more coverage of the morning's big stories kiera has a graphic update and we found our willie will have the conclusion of the search for a beloved rodeo mascot when the morning is it's five forty one we're with dr andrew kopstein from k2 vision rle dr kopstein is a true fifty percent of americans have their lenses replaced by the time they're seventy five as we near fifty our eyes natural lens starts to become dysfunctional if you've now added readers to your need classes for and contacts it's a sign the quality and function of your natural lens is fading and it's a steady decline towards cataracts don't go another twenty plus years with poor vision hassling with contacts and readers choose choose a quick painless refractive lens exchange from k2 vision rle and start enjoying great vision now our new lens technology is truly amazing after replacing over a hundred thousand lenses we have the experience to guide each patient to their best solution even if that's recommending you wait a little while before rle k2 vision rle can restore distance and near vision permanently plus never develop a cataract read reviews and schedule a free zoom consult now at k2 vision rle .com rv buyers don't miss open road rv's tenth anniversary sale going on now until sunday august get huge discounts on all of the hottest models from forest river rockwood thor and much more once in a decade offers up to forty percent off purchases include up to two thousand dollars in gas cards or accessories the open road rv tenth anniversary sale going on now until sunday august twentieth open road rvcenter .com that's open road rvcenter .com rvcenter .com rvcenter .com solutions has helped thousands using our innovative
Cyber Security Weekly Podcast
A highlight from Episode 375 - Generative AI technology
"This is Jane Lo, and I'm at the World AI Show here in Singapore at Marina Bay Sands. With me today, I'm very pleased and very privileged to have Miao Song, who is the Global Chief Information Officer with GLP. She will be sharing with us the highlights of her talk earlier during the show about generative AI, a topic that is of great interest to everybody now with GPT and all that. So thank you so much, Miao, for your time today. Sure, thank you. Thank you for having me today. So today I'm going to share with you probably the use case of Gen AI, as what I shared in the AI show that this is a humongous opportunity for organizations for early adoption. That's right. You share a very fascinating adoption journey for your organization. I think a lot of our audience have no questions about what AI in general means, but I think from your experience, what is the common question that people would have that needs maybe more training or awareness around AI? I actually think this general awareness has to be built across society because whether you like it or not, the technology revolution is coming. This time it's quite different because for the first time, the AI technology, because it's basing LL model, large language engine model, so you basically can actually summarize and generate more content, new content, which is very different than the traditional AI and machine learning. I actually think a lot of areas for early adoption to drive efficiency and also help human beings to do the work better. Obviously there's downside of this area as well. A lot of people are concerned their jobs potentially might be replaced by AI in the very near future. I think that's one question that I think many of our audience would also have. You talk about its ability to summarize tags and also its ability to do searches very quickly. So we can think of many industries or many kinds of jobs that will be potentially complemented if not replaced by AI, right? Yeah. So this is something I think we as human beings have to look at both sides of the story. So there's a very positive side that the efficiency automation will be hugely adopted through AI technology. On the other side, there are some concerns around how to regulate AI because if you don't regulate or you don't control the way it goes, it could be easily out of human being control. So that's the downside of that. Plus there might be some concern around security, risk management, etc. So I think basically what needs to happen is that we look at this positively while we manage the risk of AI. It's not that we can completely stop it, right? So you can't stop it from happening. Any jobs, for example, if you do repetitive jobs, you just repeat whatever information. That might be replaced very quickly by AI because that's a typical use case of AI. On the other hand, AI can help human beings to do jobs much, much better. For example, in the healthcare, in fact, AI can actually assist the doctor to do a better job. For example, to read radiology information and help doctor make a better decision. So we position AI as helping people to generate more benefits through AI adoption rather than say hey, this is very negative, let's stop it completely. So talking about adoption then, for organizations looking at AI, I think it's very tempting to just jump onto the bandwagon and say, this sounds really exciting and really sexy and glamorous, let's just do some AI. But I guess when it comes to technologies and innovations, one of the important lessons that people have is don't force the technology into anything, but think about your problems and use the technology. That's right. So the first thing is you have to understand the space. It's actually pretty tacky. So it's not very easy. It's not like you have a conversation with chat GPT, your business problem will be solved. You need to have someone who really understand your business use cases, where is the pain point of your business opportunity and the business opportunities, but also you need to have people who understand technology deeply and how to translate the business opportunity into technology adoption in this space. So need we people who understand data, but also understand technology to build it very quickly. And this is very different than a traditional large IT project. Traditionally, when people did large IT project, huge consultants form, you have very linear approach for years, this is not that way. It's very agile, you need to brainstorm, you need to test and learn because none of us is sure at the moment where it leads to us. However, if you don't do things earlier and you may be lagging behind as an organisation. You have a very fascinating story that you told whereby you brought along your organisation, your staff, your board members onto this AI journey to get everybody up to speed in terms of what the technology is capable of. Can you share with us some success lessons that we can all take from that? So I think the first one is education is important, to make sure that people have some real life experience to play with AI in the enterprise environment. So basically, you have to set up a secure environment for people to test and learn. So that people have, I call it playground, when you have a playground with AI, people have a sense around what it can do, what it can't do. The second one is, I also think each organisation needs to define the guidance to people. What you can do, what you can't do, for example, cyber security concern, you can't put the most confidential business information to play with AI, personal information, you have to be compliant with the national security law everywhere. All of these organisations need to define some standard and guidance and communicate actively to people. So that's what we did in our organisation, educate, educate and educate. The second one, I also think the technology people have to be more hands -on to learn quickly. There are many ways of learning this. You can learn from doing, but you can also learn from getting to know more information and you build your use cases. So that's how you learn quickly. You need to have that type of technology, folks, to be immersed into your business in order to adopt this new technology, but also build your live AI cases. So it's a reiterator of test and learn all the time. Right, okay. So it's not something that, I think many people who are playing with GPT will immediately think, okay, let's just attach or plug in the application and then everything will be like magic. But it's not. It's not. It's quite techy, actually, because if you want to build a proper capability in the organisation, use the right AI. You need to think about what is your data structure, what is your architecture, overall technology architecture in a secure environment. So in fact, how you structure your technology stacks is a key. So it's, yes, you can have a conversation with Chad GPT, but that's not how you're going to run your business securely, right? So that's the thing. Therefore, I see a few key capabilities in the organisation has to happen. The first one, people who really understand the space, hands -on, who can build that use cases in the new technology. That's very techy people. Second one, overall architecture people on the data, especially on the data architecture. How you actually structure your data is a key as well, right? What type of data you want to feed into AI to generate the insights. So it's a science, it's important. The third one, I think, again, back to the security space, and then you need to also looking at the security and compliance requirements for your business to make sure you don't have any security incident, you don't disclose any confidential information, or you don't have any decision made by AI, which led to fraud or wrongdoing for your organisation. Right. I think we can, you know, devote another one hour to talking about the necessary data architecture to ensure that we embed the security and all that kind of concerns, but I think we are running out of time. So thank you so much for sharing some of the very important tips for our audience who are keen to adopt the technology and some of the things that they need to think about, and that is not a magic, that there's a lot of hard work going on behind the scenes to get it to work. And this is definitely the technology trend, right? If you look at years ago when we moved from analogue time into digital time, you see how many organisations they couldn't identify the trend, they couldn't follow the trend. No, they were gone, right? So to think about it, I think that, again, this is at the time for both technology revolution but also I think maybe it changed the way people think, it changed the way people do their job, it even changed their lifestyles, right? I personally use Jenny already in my day -to -day life to help me to be faster, so it's a positive side, right? Yeah, those appointments and all those appointments. Yeah, exactly. I think it's something that we cannot deny or see under the carpet, it's definitely coming to Disra Online, so we have to be prepared for it. Yeah, and it's also changed the way in many industries, healthcare industries, education, so how we educate our next generation, because traditionally we ask our kids to memorise the knowledge, but with Jenny and I, maybe they don't have to memorise those types of information, yet they focus on more importance on innovation, generally creative ideas for the future, who knows, right? It's a good question to ask ourselves what it leads to us, where it leads to us, and how we deal with this situation. So thinking about that, maybe the next podcast that I do with you will be, I don't know, Avatar or myself, and you'll be talking about Avatar! You never know, it's going to happen very soon. There technologies are around voice AI, facial recognition, voice AI, Avatar, everything's happening next to us. I'll be disrupted away. Yeah, it is. I hope it's disruptive in a very positive way, in our lifestyle. So thank you for the opportunity to talk to me before I'm disrupted away. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.
WCPT 820
"third one" Discussed on WCPT 820
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Gospel Received
"We've been in the last couple of weeks doing a study on the gospel. The gospel proclaimed, the gospel received is what we're going to do tonight. The last couple of weeks we devoted the subject matter to what the gospel is and we've simplified it if that's a good word to use to Christ prophesied, Christ crucified, Christ raised, and Christ exalted. And I've been going through Acts and finally I'm putting it in a chart of all the evangelistic sermons and then how each one of these, do they fulfill these and how many of them fulfill all of them. And it's a very revealing chart and I'll probably eventually make it known so that you can take a look at it. I think it would serve as a good study guide. But it is truly amazing when you look at the content of the gospel. It is a historical fact rooted in what God has done through Jesus Christ and it is in preaching that truth that God has promised to be the power to save men. He uses the gospel to save men, the preaching of the gospel. I was visiting with someone last week and they told me after these messages on what the gospel is, she said, I've been in a Baptist church 24 years, she said, I've never heard that. I've never heard in those terms that that's what the gospel is. She said, I didn't know that was the gospel. If anything, does that not tell us we are in desperate need in our day and age to understand what the gospel is? That we could go 24 years in a Bible -believing church and not know and not hear what the gospel is. I think it's radically important that we understand what the gospel is. Paul summarizes the gospel in 1 Corinthians 15, 3 and 4 and I went back and saw how he just puts in a nutshell the gospel and the only element that is missing from that in those three verses is really Christ exalted. Christ prophesied, it is according to the Scriptures, Paul says. Christ died and was buried and on the third day was raised again. Three elements right there. It's later on in verses 25 and 27 where Paul gets to Christ exalted. So he covers all four aspects in the kernel of the gospel that he explains there in 1 Corinthians 15. I want to look tonight at the gospel received. It's one thing to preach the gospel. It's another thing how the gospel is received. I have entitled this series, Evangelism Revolution, not because of anything revolutionary about me but because I believe the message itself is revolutionary. I believe it's revolutionary when we look at the content of what the gospel is and what the gospel has become today. I believe there's no less of a revolution when we look at what the Scriptures say about receiving the gospel, how it is received and how it is received today and how people think it is received today. It's revolutionary. It's probably a truism which means a truth that doesn't really need to be explained. It's funny you have to explain what a truism is, but truism is something that you don't really need to be stated. It's so obvious. All efforts of evangelism really culminate in the sinner receiving Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. And almost without exception today, probably over the last 100 to 200 years, those efforts are in culminated the sinner asking Christ to save him through some type of sinner's prayer. I mean, that's just almost universal, the practice today. And there's various forms of it, and I've been in situations, and so I've experienced probably most of them, I've been in situations where the preacher will get up and he will have the whole congregation say the prayer with him. And then after everyone has said the prayer, he usually pronounces some type of benediction that those that have said it for the first time and really meant it are now saved. Welcome to the family of God. There's another version that would have you walk the aisle to come forward to receive the gospel, to meet with counselors who will almost universally lead you into some type of prayer wherein you ask Jesus to be your Savior, confess your sins. It's ironic, I've talked to enough people who have gone forward and have met with counselors who haven't even been led in the prayer or really nothing was said. They were comforted for coming down and, you know, glad you came down and kind of encouraged them but really received nothing at all when they came forward. Then I've been in situations where the prayer has been offered, the suggested prayer has been stated and then if you've said it, you're asked to raise your hand and acknowledge that you've said the prayer. And then almost again universally, and at least in all the tracts, just about every website that you could find about the gospel and preaching the gospel, almost universally after you have said the prayer or indicated that you have said the prayer, then some type of assurance is given that those who said the prayer and said it sincerely are saved. You're part of the family of God. I wanted to just read to you a few of the very common excerpts from tracts, from websites, from various publications, I'm just going to read four of them. They go along something along this, after having said the prayer, the first one here says, if you have taken the sinner's prayer above, then know the angels are rejoicing in heaven. Another one says, if you have read the sinner's prayer and truly believe the words you read, then praise the Lord as you have been saved and your name will now appear in the Lord's book of life. The third one, if you've prayed this prayer of salvation with true conviction of heart, you can now, you are now a follower of Jesus. This is a fact, whether or not you feel any difference. If you have prayed the prayer of salvation, the Bible tells us that your eternal salvation is secure. These aren't just far out examples, I mean this is common, accepted, biblical theology for the evangelicalism today. Another one here just says, saying the sinner's prayer is simply a way of declaring to God that you are relying on Jesus Christ as your Savior. And then a very important phrase, there are no magical words that result in salvation. It is only faith in Jesus' death and resurrection that can save. But then interestingly it says, now if you understand that, here is the sinner's prayer that you can pray to God. And then it gives the prayer, which then it asks, like all the others, did you pray the sinner's prayer and truly understand and believe what it teaches? If so, please click on the I have accepted Christ button today. If you would like us to contact you, please enter your email address and do so.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Rich asked where all the LARD is going and Matt had to think about it. Irish thing to do is to give a kid 3 first names to make life easy. Kiss that did not change the frog into a prince. Episode #402 August. 1st. 2023
"And hello on Tuesday August 1st, 2023 episode 402 from This Mike Ridge and from This Mike Ridge. It's the day after my birthday. I survived. And I even shaved for you. I know and you're wearing a sporty red shirt. Yeah, you said I haven't. Don't talk about the red shoes. I retired. You said I have one tire. The red shirt hides the tire. Man, you're getting in shape though. I need to take that back. You're all right. You're all right. You know what? It's not like I called you fat. Exactly what you called me. It doesn't matter what it is. You have one which is yellow. Let me see what it is. It's chocolate you have. I like chocolate, but you know I eat chocolate all the time. No, not yet. Really? It looks like it's got chocolate in too. Hazelnut. Yeah, that's mine. Oh my. You know how much I love hazelnut. I can't do that on purpose. That's too bad. What country is this from? Well, you can tell them. You can read the manual in the bag or the bird's head ticket. That's pretty good. I just see a bunch of ingredients. You've got to fold this thing all over to try to find it. That's the bird's head ticket. I don't see it. That's a European. That doesn't have an evil in it. Dude, I can't even read this language. That's fine. So this is made. Well, let's see. Well, I can tell you right now. This is just read the name. I don't know how you write. You just read the way you write. Tatranka. Tatranka. Tatranka. Tatranka. Tatranka. Oh, there I got it now. It doesn't sound Russian to me. No, it's not. But go ahead and stuff your face. Why don't I see? Is it from the Balkans? No, it's not. It doesn't matter. It's country. We're not going to say where Alan is from. Say Alan, thank you. Alan, this is delicious. There's not many people that think about us like this. Oh my gosh, that's delicious. I'm so happy he brought it in and he enjoyed our forecast, you know. I mean, when we had shut down and Fauci virus, people, you know, appreciated. They brought us cookies. That's why we have two tires now. No, you're down to one. Yeah, you're down to one. But that was really nice. I stopped chewing because you started rebuking me yesterday. You know what? Telling everybody, hey, if you hear a bunch of noise in the background through the mics, it's him munching on his cake. Yeah, because he sounded like that animal. It is you that brought me the birthday cake while we're taping. It's the appropriate thing to do, right? Right, but you don't scold somebody and give them a bunch of guff because he's eating during the show. That doesn't mean you have to bury your face in it like a piglet in the ground. I actually did that thing. Exactly what happened. That spoon was like a shovel right in the mouth. I didn't stop. That whipped cream was delicious. I tell you what. Episode 402. Four hundred two. I still cannot like the four on the beginning. Is it 402 or is it 401? That was yesterday. Are you sure? Yeah, I know what's going on here. You don't know. You just come here to feed yourself and get a coffee. Occasionally you open your pie hole and you say something smart. And you sound really good on that. Yeah, so we have a lot of things. Just stick with this. We have a lot of things that we found in the news. And we want to share with you what's going on in Naples and what's going on around here. But before we start, we have to say Julian Bruce again. Thank you for the music. We've been singing in your intro because we just love that energy. We love the Divine Naples song and we love us in our life. Official sponsor or unofficial sponsor, whatever you want to say it. The sponsor of the show is beachesos .com. And that's the only service that you're going to get if you go to the beach and you forget something. Or you're hungry on ice cream or you need drinks. Alcohol, cocktails, beers, wines, champagne. You know, whatever you wish for. There's 250 items to choose from. Plenty of sandwiches. I think 75 different sandwiches. Can you believe it? We've got croissants, desserts, everything. Yeah, everything. Snacks. We bring it swiftly in what? Our red fire truck with a big, huge Julius Meinl coffee cup on top. You can't miss it. And another thing, if you need to print some money, you can do it at home. Yes, you can. And legally without a federal government being involved with that. And it's called coupons. That's because it's not called legal tender. It's a coupon. And we have $500 in savings for you and a website. divineapals .com forward slash discount dash coupon. Again, divineapals .com forward slash discount dash coupon. Yep. So go ahead and print them off and you won't have any visitors from the Treasury Department knocking on your door. Yeah, we don't get on bank to anything, you know, the weather because that's just nonsense. I've been repeating same numbers every single day and every single day is more than those numbers. Let me guess. It's going to start out 91. Yeah, that's what I say. But when you get outside, it's like somebody slap your face with a heated hand. You know, it's like you get this, you know, like somebody take iron and just slap your face with the iron. Oh my God. That's a little rough. Well, that's how it feels like. It does. Maybe to you. I kind of like it. You do. Yeah, but I'm kind of a different type guy. Yeah. And when end of the day, like when you're on the outside all day, do you have any greasy spots on your clothing? No. No? So you're not melting away? No. No? No? Well, that's funny. Not at all. Yeah. Well, it's... So where is that lard going then? Maybe because it's all disappeared. Oh yeah, vaporizing it. It's vaporizing. I don't think so. I don't think so. You got something? No, you said you had a few things to share with us. I have so much. Later, I have a few national days I want to share with everybody if you're all right with that. So you want good news or bad news? I... You know, I... I have one bad news. Okay, one bad news. Go ahead. We don't really want you to do this, but I think paying tribute to some very important people that have been through our lives in history and we just shouldn't just forget about them. We need to acknowledge them and maybe hopefully before... What did you say today if you die one day? I said... It's like a epitaph on your stones and it's like, here lies Matt. He made a difference. I mean, just make a difference in people's life. What did I say? There's a Matt, clean your shoes. You're not supposed to step on somebody's grave and you're told to walk on you. But just your name itself, you know, you have three first names in your life. It's an Irish thing, you know, I don't know. Maybe they just got confused. Matt, Patrick, Kenny. Which one is it? And you have no idea. Sometimes the times I get called, hey, Kenny, like that's my first name. And then, you know. It was like there was one policeman, a very good friend of ours, he moved away. His name was Chris Travis and everybody called him, hey, Travis, that's your last name. Because it could be, Travis is the first name too. And he goes like, yeah, I'm used to it, you know. I don't think you would want to walk around with your last. I'm not going to say it. My last name? Yeah. It's simple. Yeah. Say it. But you're not going to. It's not Mueller. You don't even know who. Yeah, that just reminds me of Ferris Mueller. It's Miller. Ferris Mueller's day off. It's German name, Miller. Yeah. Yeah, that's what it is. Okay. So don't screw my name. I won't. Please. Yeah. I have class. I won't. What class? Well, I have class. I don't have any class. You made the class like, am I going to school somewhere? Or the type of class like, you know. Yeah, you probably confused because you went to class and now you think you have class. No. You barely have any class. Yeah. You are able to destroy everybody with your tongue very quickly. No problem with that. Oh my God. You do it your way. I tell you, I have to give you credit. Very intelligently, if somebody has not that level, they really don't know what you said. Right. But when they do, they know. Yeah, then they know what's up. They know what time it is. So, let me bring the bad news and that is, you know, PV actor? Pee -wee Herman? No, I don't. What happened? Well, his name is Paul Reubens. Yeah, Paul Reuben. Unfortunately, we have to announce that he died yesterday of cancer at 70 years old. Really? Pee -wee Herman. Yeah. What show? I mean, what shows? It was a movie, but I think it was some kind of morning show that it started. We'll have to. I tell you what. I see his picture and just like, I don't know. I think he had that character in the movie and he was living that character for the rest of his life. The haircut and everything else. So, unfortunately, we lost another one. We lost Pee -wee Herman. What am I going to do? I don't know. We can replace him. It should be easy to have that look. Thanks a lot. Now you say I look like Pee -wee Herman? That should bring me all the ladies in to find out who this single guy is behind here. Hey, let's go. I'm going to go date Pee -wee Herman. Yeah, exactly. But anyway, I like his stuff was pretty funny. What was the name of the guy that we celebrated the other day? The exercise guy? Richard? Richard Simmons, man. Between Richard Simmons and this Pee -wee Herman, you probably get idea what he's mad. Oh, thanks a lot. Something in the middle. Oh, that's great.
WTOP
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"Falling three one at atlanta united washington spirit they'll beat angel city two one battlefield at out nats losing skid is up to six lost at atlanta six four breaks at two two run home resolve losing picture mackenzie gore in the second inning stone core garrett rather solo homer for that to try to avoid the sweep on sunday afternoon in the eighty l french open men's final tomorrow morning novak jokovic casper rude joke it's going for his record twenty third grand slam title virginia baseball stays alive in the super regional beating duke fourteen four to force a decisive game number three delay going vegas three to two lead over florida stanley cup finals with about a minute left frank hann ran wtop sports coming up on wtop former president donald trump alleges the cases against him are politically motivated and ted kaczynski the man also known as the unibomber is dead it's ten fifty six it's hi i'm patricia ferrick president of f b c bank we are a community bank serving businesses of all sizes from baltimore to dc to northern virginia and all areas in between you owe it to yourself and your business to discover the many convenient online options at the c bank offers its customers you need a customer focused bank visit f b bank c dot com that's f b c bank dot com member fdi c do you find yourself stuck in a timeshare get the real facts about the timeshare industry and your options for cancellation chuck mcdowell founder of wesley financial group has put together a free information guide that reveals these secrets the timeshare industry doesn't want you to know including the five ways to get
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". The lights there's a Peter Gabriel dot com. 7 38. Traffic and weather on the 8s we've been talking about 95 all morning Jack Taylor how's it going? Hey, once again, we'll be what leads us in this morning. We are still very heavy and extremely slow. It is obviously it's going to cost you extra time this morning as you leave Dale City, headed down to the police activity in Quantico, taking away the two right lanes of three, one to the left will continue to get you by. It is obviously very, very slow. Also, you'll find avoidance traffic, southbound on route one, still a little bit slow. You should try to make that trip go in southbound northbound. There was a little rubber necking as you approached, then again, a slight delay in woodbridge, there had been a crash up at the Prince William Parkway that's gone. Down in falmouth, northbound route one near lay hill road, that wreck is along the left side of the roadway. Three 95 getting slower now as you approach duke, headed to king street, then again to cross the 14th. Slowdowns on the George Washington Parkway move in northbound beyond, one 23 through the long term work, 66 east, some spotty delays in manassas then again near the fairfax county Parkway heading toward 50. Inner loops, a little sluggish now coming out of the Springfield interchange, slowing near Braddock road headed up toward two 36, expect delays in Maryland on the beltway inner loop south of town after saint Barnabas road down toward the Wilson bridge. Topside outer loop slowed from 95 to Georgia avenue, then briefly in the big curve, inner loops get a little slower though, moving into and through college park, the crash on two 70 south was after montrose road last heard sitting over on the right shoulder. The wreck that was in Hagerstown, 70 eastbound, after exit 32, listener updates all that activity is cleared and the delays are easing. Trouble up in millersville on 97, I 97 south after three and 32, word of a broken down vehicle. We'd also had one in upper Marlboro. This was on three O one southbound beyond crew road. It had been down there and blocking that far right lane. Slower traffic riding into the district on D.C. two 95 coming south toward east capitol street. Watch for redirection in northwest, southbound 6th street is blocked at M street. There we do have a crash again, you're under direction. Super Saturday. Get super mattress deals at Ashley, save up to $900 off Ashley sleep adjustable sets. Plus, up to 60 months, no interest financing and rapid delivery. This Saturday, and Ashley, Jack Taylor, WTO P traffic. Ten out of 7 news first alert chief meteorologist Veronica Johnson. Dry here in this morning at least for your early commute even midday. I think we'll be dry but some showers thunderstorms
WGN Radio
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"Flabbergasted, and robust. I'll make the list. A lot of you are calling in with words you like to say or hear. Who knew? Three one two 9 8 one 7 200 if you don't get in on the phone, you can call or you can text as well. I see the lines have just literally lit up all sorts of words. The one that I was trying to think of. And now I remember it. It was from Juno Elliot Page, then, said, the word shenanigans. And I love that she said it. It came from her and it was so fun. I'd heard it before, but it sort of jump started my use of the word shenanigans. And I know I use that now a lot more than I used to. I've got a guest on an educator, in fact, in one minute. Let's just plow through a couple of real quick calls to finish that segment. And we will start on line three with Barbara. What's the word you like to use her here? Say it again? It is a method for cooking chicken. And the best part of making the recipe is you could say we're having spatchcock chicken or I'm spatchcocking the chicken. I've never heard that turkey. I just wanted to make sure I heard it right. Spatchcock. And especially I had turned it down that way. Cut out the backbone of the chicken, and then you flip it over, and then you push up on the chest and flatten out the chicken. Ah, all right. It's really quite good. It sounds not only good, but healthy. You get a workout. Barbara, thank you. I've never heard that word before. Cacophony, John. I like to say the word malarkey and skedaddle. Skedaddle is fun. Let's talk to Stan real quick. What's your word, Stan? You like to hear it or say it? What is it, you're on WGN? Big John, I use crap tastic. I say, let us have a crap tastic day so you have a fantastic one only from sunny acres pet waste remove a lot of Joliet. At Stan, and one more call here, let's talk to is that what is that name on line 5 K? Hey Kay, you're on the air. What's the word you like? Hey, they're radio. Whoo. Malarkey night. Which is the stuff you put in your soil, right? Yeah, you wanna know what I really think it is? Sure. Human way. I don't think it is. Still put it in your soil. Well, I really appreciate the phone call. Yeah. In the drawing room, a group of suspects gathered, the detective has solved the mystery. Ladies and gentlemen, the butler did it. You'll never catch me. To his getaway car. But what he didn't know is
WGN Radio
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"Going through a cold spell, and even Arizona is going to be cold. And that's just kind of a quick one and done though in Arizona. You don't even really get to. No. No. Well, it'll be interesting though. New arena. And new hotel are staying in a completely new different area of the Phoenix and surrounding areas. So it's like a whole new team. It's like a whole new team playing in a 4748 hundred seat arena. 13 rolls is all they have. John's excited to get the broadcast position. Yeah, you guys respect him. It's going to be perfect. It's going to be everybody that we've talked to, just raves about the abroad broadcast positionings. It does sound cool. It does sound unique. I feel like it'll be a lot like the setup in Milwaukee. But Milwaukee was way bigger. That's true. I'm just talking about broadcasts. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, true. Way up. All right, Troy, we'll enjoy Dallas, enjoy the trip to gloomy San Jose, and we'll talk to you on Saturday. What are you paying a beautiful picture? Hey, you're the one that's been building up this road trip. Well, I know. All right. I do appreciate that. Absolutely great, great job, Troy, great job, John. We'll talk to you guys over the weekend. All right, thanks, Joe. Good job, buddy. Thank you. That is Troy Murray. He and John Weidman with the call. It's the Blackhawks take down the Dallas stars four three down in Texas, the hawks have won four straight games. They hand the stars their 5th straight winless game Dallas now O three and two over their last 5 games and they are on quite a spell. This one had to have hurt quite a lot. I think Troy is right with his assessment of they weren't taking this game lightly. I don't think they were coming in here thinking, all right, locks are in town. This is going to be just a breeze. They got off to a three zero lead and as Troy mentioned that Jamie Ben tripping penalty negates the man advantage for Dallas, it eventually turns into a power play for the hawks, max domi scores, hawks are on the board. They pump a little life, and then before you know it, the game's tied because domi and Philip koresh have our teaming up with Patrick Kane, and then the hawks take their first lead in the third period, and then all the pressure is on Dallas. And interesting thing about their schedule is they've had one home game in their last entire month. They will have another home game on Saturday, they're taking Vegas rather taking Vegas on the road on Saturday, but before the all star break, they had a few home games after the all star break they had a handful of home games, so they had one road game in Minnesota last Friday. They lost that game in a shootout. Since the all star break, they beat Anaheim in a shootout, they beat Minnesota, but then this is when the losing stretch started Dallas lost to Tampa Bay three one, they lost an overtime to Boston, lost to Minnesota in the shootout on the road, and then lost four one at the Columbus blue jackets at home last Saturday. Now they cough up a three goal lead to the Blackhawks and they've got to wait a little bit to take on the Vegas golden knights and the golden knights are a good team, even though the hawks just dispersed them last night as well, but just a couple of things. Hawks are rolling right now once again, this is an example of what they're capable of when they play to their full potential, and they get things rolling. Now, I really don't think you can say they caught these other teams at a rough time because pretty favorable spot for Dallas. They've had three days off. The Vegas golden knights just come to Chicago. They handled the hawks quite easily the first two matchups, and then Toronto two, same thing. The Maple Leafs beat the black hawks last week in Canada. And just weren't able to muster up the same type of effort, the next go around on Sunday at the united center. You got to give this Blackhawks team credit, especially for all the people that are so critical about the black hawks each and every night, which is fair. This is the first year of a rebuild. There are going to be a handful of losses. There are going to be some really rough games, but if you are that same person criticizing this team who is not quite built to be winning every single game, then you've got to give them credit in these types of scenarios. And for all the jokes of, hey, the rebuild is off. Or for the people that are posing the question, whether it's sarcastic or not, well, winds aren't good right now. I will still fight the fact that winning some of these games is so important for the group for the culture they're trying to develop and just to sustain the morality for the entire season. It's got to be tough for these players each and every night when they're on losing streaks when they're taken on tougher opponents almost every game to just muster up the energy to play a good game. These are the types of games that keep them going. And these are the types of games that allow them to have a short memory. Because let's face it, this four game winning streak started in the third period on the road in Ottawa when the black hawks were down by two goals. They had no business when in that game. They easily could have just rolled over the final ten minutes of their road trip. They were basically on their way to an O four and O road trip up in Canada. But they stuck to it for the final few minutes, they come back, they win that game, and now they've won four straight. That's just the game a hockey sometimes. And now it's going to be interesting to see how much longer it can last because the next three opponents are more towards where the Blackhawks are right now. The San Jose sharks, the Anaheim ducks, and the Arizona coyotes. Now, the next time the Blackhawks face the Dallas stars next Thursday, really interested to see what type of performance we see from the stars in that game. We're taking this postgame show up to midnight. If you'd like to join us
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"May is being knighted, he was one of over a thousand people included on King Charles the third's first honors list since taking the throne may receive the title of knight bachelor for his services to music and charity. He took to Instagram to share a video thanking fans for their love and support. In addition to his music career, may is an astrophysicist and vocal supporter of animal rights. And on this date, back in 1973 in music history, kiss made their concert debut performing with blue oyster cult and Iggy Pop at the Academy of Music in New York. I'm Chris gracio. And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom. Chinese president Xi Jinping said China has entered a new phase in its fight against the coronavirus and tough challenges remain. It was his most Frank public comment on the reversal of the COVID zero policy that's resulted in nationwide outbreaks in China and tested the health system and economy. She spoke in a new year's address today. State attorney general Todd rokita of Indiana announced that Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state's lawsuit against the technology giant, all this over allegedly deceptive location, tracking practices, rokita says he filed a separate lawsuit against Google when negotiations between the company and a coalition of state attorneys general stall. They were states have agreed to a 391 and a half $1 million settlement with the company in November. The company issued a lengthy statement Friday saying that over the past few years, Google has introduced more transparency and tools to help users manage their data and minimize the data it collects. U.S. shale executives remain concerned about the outlook for rising costs going in 2023 as they continue to struggle with hiring and retaining workers. More from Bloomberg's Charlie pellet. Well, that's according to the Federal Reserve bank of Dallas, a majority of respondents polled in the bank's latest quarterly energy survey say they expect to increase capital spending slightly or significantly in 2023 compared with 2022 levels. Most also see West Texas intermediate crude oil at $80 a barrel or higher by the end of 2023. Charlie palette Bloomberg radio. As electric vehicles grow in popularity and EV is set to rank among the top 5 vehicles sold worldwide. More from Bloomberg's Larry koski. Tesla's model Y is expected to move up in this year's automotive ranking with 760,000 vehicles sold, passing the Toyota Camry and Nissan sentra. But that's not enough for Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, who's aiming for the top spot with plans to put a million model wise on the road in 2023. Bloomberg says it won't be easy given the weakening economy and the model lies high price compared to other leading models. I'm Larry kofsky, Bloomberg radio. Elon Musk was the second person to ever amass a fortune of more than 200 billion, breaching that threshold back in January 2021. Months after Jeff Bezos, the Tesla CEO has now achieved a first of his own, being the only person in history to erase $200 billion from net worth. Musk has seen his wealth plummet to 137 billion after Tesla shares tumbled in recent weeks, including an 11% drop on Tuesday. That, according to the Bloomberg billionaires index, Musk's fortune peaked at $340 billion on November 1st of 2021. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I'm susannah Palmer. This is Bloomberg. This
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"May is being knighted, he was one of over a thousand people included on King Charles the third's first honors list since taking the throne may receive the title of knight bachelor for his services to music and charity. He took to Instagram to share a video thanking fans for their love and support. In addition to his music career, may is an astrophysicist and vocal supporter of animal rights. And on this date, back in 1973 in music history, kiss made their concert debut performing with blue oyster cult and IG pop at the Academy of Music in New York. I'm Chris gracio. And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom Chinese president Xi Jinping said China has entered a new phase in its fight against the coronavirus and tough challenges remain. It was his most Frank public comment on the reversal of the COVID zero policy that's resulted in nationwide outbreaks in China and tested the health system and economy. She spoke in a new year's address today. State attorney general Todd rokita of Indiana announced that Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state's lawsuit against the technology giant, all this over allegedly deceptive location tracking practices. Rokita says he filed a separate lawsuit against Google when negotiations between the company and a coalition of state attorneys general stahl. They were states have agreed to a 391 and a half $1 million settlement with the company in November. The company issued a lengthy statement Friday saying that over the past few years, Google has introduced more transparency and tools to help users manage their data and minimize the data it collects. U.S. shale executives remain concerned about the outlook for rising costs going in 2023 as they continue to struggle with hiring and retaining workers. More from Bloomberg's trolley pellet. That's according to the Federal Reserve bank of Dallas, a majority of respondents polled in the bank's latest quarterly energy survey say they expect to increase capital spending slightly or significantly in 2023 compared with 2022 levels. Most also see West Texas intermediate crude oil at $80 a barrel or higher by the end of 2023. Charlie pellet Bloomberg radio as electric vehicles grow in popularity and Evie is that you rank among the top 5 vehicles sold worldwide, more from Bloomberg's Larry koski. Tesla's model Y is expected to move up in this year's automotive ranking with 760,000 vehicles sold, passing the Toyota Camry and Nissan sentra. But that's not enough for Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, who's aiming for the top spot with plans to put a million model wise on the road in 2023, Bloomberg says it won't be easy, given the weakening economy and the model lies high price compared to other leading models. I'm Larry kofsky, Bloomberg radio. Elon Musk was the second person to ever amasa fortune of more than 200 billion, breaching that threshold back in January 2021, months after Jeff Bezos. The Tesla CEO has now achieved a first of his own, being the only person in history to erase $200 billion from net worth. Musk has seen his wealth plummet to 137 billion after Tesla shares tumbled in recent weeks, including an 11% drop on Tuesday. That, according to the Bloomberg billionaires index, Musk's fortune peaked at $340 billion on November 1st of 2021. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"France in the quarterfinals happening on Saturday after the holders progressed with the three one victory over Poland, Raheem Sterling did miss England's game to deal with a family matter back here in the UK. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries, am Leanne guerin's, this is Bloomberg, Stephen. Sport on this program Leon guerin's so today is Japan Croatia and Brazil, South Korea, which one of those you think is going to be there. Japan Croatia. Japan versus Croatia, Brazil versus South Korea. I mean, I would normally win. Do you know how to get my cheese coming back? Yeah, I have to get my tea leaves out. You know, you know how they normally work on an animal like is the octopus gonna choose, you know, we always have that kind of threat. I don't know actually it's you know what it is with the World Cup, Steven. We just don't know. But there's always lots of surprises. I mean, Germany or out some of the big top teams, so we'll have to wait to see. Leon garon's great to have you with us for our top stories coming up next if you're hearing from our interview with Larry summers, stay with us for that. This is Bloomberg. This is Tom Keene. And I'm Jonathan farrow, join us later this morning, football Bloomberg surveillance. The tension of next year, China, and America, a new book from Stephen roach of Yale University, and then joining some BNB Paribas on the shock of the job report. Linda surveillance starting at 7 a.m.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"A day on air Hannah Bloomberg quick take where powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries I'm John Tucker This is Bloomberg Nathan Thanks John Almost 6 ten on Wall Street time for the Bloomberg sports update with John stenson They think of the hockey shootouts rangers and bruins at the garden U.S. and Slovakia and Beijing rangers won there as they scored on their first two attempts of the shoot out make his advantage at and then our temi Panera and then 6 straight misses before Andre Miller scored giving the rangers a two a thrilling two to one win Their first game in two weeks at the Olympics U.S. led two one final minute scene ready to advance the semifinals Slovakia scored in the U.S. went zero for 5 in the shootout gets eliminated after going three and zero in the preliminary round Back in the NHL islanders and Devils both lost by the same 6 to three score both gave up three goals in the third period of the aisles in Buffalo to save savor score three times in the last three minutes Devils blow a three one lead fell to Tampa Bay also last night's Sidney Crosby career gold under 500 for Pittsburgh and NBA below our red hot Celtics won their 9th in a row in Philadelphia by 48 James Harden watched from the Philly bench He has an injured hamstring said he was happy to leave Brooklyn harden was asked without playing with Kyrie Irving who had refused to get vaccinated only recently started playing and only in road games A really good friend you know whatever he was going through It was still going through That's just a personal preference But it definitely did impact the team because originally you know obviously me Kyrie and Katie on the court you know and winning covers up a lot of that stuff That's why a road game tonight but it's in New York against the Knicks vaccine mandate means Irving can't play college hips fordham lost other win for iona their 21st Olympic disappointment in hockey with the U.S. won gold and silver freestyle ski John stash hour Bloomberg sports All right John thanks futures down two tenths percent across the board with S&P futures down 7 points down futures down 63 NASDAQ futures are lower by 25 points Ten year treasury yield 2.03% this is Bloomberg Welcome back bayside Streaming only on peacock Can't wait to start junior year Saved by the bell is back And taking school spirit are rivals just destroyed our mascot We're gonna crush valley To the max If we don't learn from the past we are doomed to repeat it That's why we have all these reboots of teen shows from the 90s You.
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"Ladies some queen named Joy Chavis. Even though it's Chavous. We are like people try to make it special. It's Chavez. Let me find out. She's from Montebello or something. Probably bro. And apparently, this is about walls. I hate the word baby mother, but child And future and I thought we thought Gideon Power friends. So apparently for Didi, it's okay. Even though it goes against what a lot of us call bro code or even grow Co. To date, somebody that used to date somebody you care about and called a friend ever. Okay, The first thing is we have to define and we've been trying to figure that out. Here is what is considered a friend. Do we really know? If did he about our like? Actually friends? Are they like industry Associates? Also, Joy is trying to get her bag right now and all love to her. I mean, listen, if she has to rich baby daddies and going to get a third one let that girl live her life billionaire billionaire, right? Not to mention somebody else's X Could be my future soulmates. Okay with that I'm okay with that so weird to me because it's a guy I'm like. No, that's not. I don't want no guys leftover. Everybody is a left. Imagine this, So all right. So imagine These are left or right bar. Imagine, uh, taught me two of our coworkers. You know, somebody worked within the black reporter. Maybe North somebody years later there and God forbid. I don't want to wish this on anybody. There was somebody else. Yeah. And then you meet them and they're like you. You go look at now and tell her you do that, right? Not going to look at all right now. This is what you exactly need to give them because you know why Hold on. Because you are a good person, And when I said that you felt shame, you.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"third one" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Myself the stress that people put on you because they They're so proud of you. They want you to go places like your You want to do it, But it feels like you're doing it for them more than you're doing it for yourself. Like I can't make beyond a room for the rest of the year like I have to make a honor. If I don't make on a road, because that's going to be a problem. I was expecting to be in school and get help with my college applications. No, I had to figure it out on my own. Pretty much like the colleges are gonna look at that and be like, Oh, she's not. She's not on top of the game, and my G pH. Already had a 3.57. That's a sap that is a solid G p A, though Because asking questions about college applications over the phone. Is so frustrating like it'll make you lose your mind and thus That's really good. I appreciate that. But it wasn't supposed when your standards are as high as they are. I get it. It's not good enough for you. But I'm saying that that's that is something to be proud of. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. So what are your Where are you applying? Um Howard Clark in Spellman. Oh, man, Howard. Such a lost in school. Spellman also and what was the third one, Clark. All really, really great schools. So if you ever need anything or have any questions about that reach out, Okay. I'm definitely going to reach out. But thank you so much. You're so welcome, and I'll see you next week for sure. Parent ship. I'm on my okay, bye. Mm hmm. I hate School. Why did I did a.
KOA 850 AM
"third one" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"Guy interested piqued my interest there because two weeks ago I lost in court and I, you know, I felt like I made a strong, passionate case for Shawn Watson, but unfortunately, it obviously didn't work out my favorite but now knowing where the judge was leaning, it feels as though if I just would have had one small piece of information that Shawn Watson had interest in the Broncos. Their honorable Judge Steve Atwater might have swayed his vote a different direction. Well, not necessarily because it still is going to come down to what is it gonna cost? And if it's gonna cause to three first rounders, I'm out. I'm out, man. I mean, it was gonna cost three first rounders. I mean, those could be like, basically late first rounders coming up here. I mean, your honor. Let's be honest here, you know? Yes, it's a top 10 pick this year. But if you are a team that's vying for the playoffs over the next couple years after that, I mean, those were basically seconds, aren't they? No. Yeah, look at him trying to sell you hear my my thing about this and our good buddy Larry Twitter put the same thing out as if you the end of the day. You know, if you it was better that Shawn Watson or Pat Mahomes. And if you think the answers Pat Mahomes, and why are you blowing your entire team up to go get to Shawn Watson. So you so that you bring him over here, Where is the second best quarterback And then you can't even put the same amount of players that Kansas City has around him in order to be able to compete because you traded away all your picks and players. To me like I just feel like that's a losing proposition. If you had a quarterback like for instance, Dak Prescott, who was sitting there as a free agent, and you want to go get him. I'm all for that, counselor. You already won. You don't you don't have to bring this back up. Look, I just wanna make sure you don't relitigate the e want to make sure I'm gonna make sure that your appeal here doesn't go through either by appeal is gonna be with the information tomorrow. Yeah, right on the appellate court is Andrew Mason. He's coming on the show tomorrow. He's gonna be in the building and we're gonna talk to Andrew Mason. Yeah, bruv, and I have a feeling I have a feeling information might feel a little bit different than the honorable Steve at work. I'm just saying that the Supreme Court Justice Steve Atwater eyes all decisions are final and cannot be undone. Yeah. You know, it's a whole different trial over there would base man. No, no, no, no. It means run up over there. She's gonna lower court's first round. Yeah, maybe could be paid off, too. But I can't be bought. Oh, okay. To be paid off wasn't really if you want to get my phone with that. I e. Not just asking for a friend. Yeah, there's a whole $75 Steve. Good to have you on the program is always my friend. Thanks for the time. Hey, you take a look at Patrick Stewart. Have you already taken a look at Patrick's entertain or not? Here we go. Yeah, look them from all right. Well, let's get a deeper dive on him. Also take a look at J. C. Horn. That that is my dude. That is my that is my dude. So, yes, Trade back in the first round. Get Jacy Horn. That's who I wanted Cornerback. Now just go take a look at it. Yeah, borderline borderline first round or probably probably in that 20 to 25 range somewhere in there, so go take a look at him and report back to us on Tuesday. What you think about Jason Horn and Patrick Sartain? All right, gents. A man re being all that you guys have a great one. Thank you. We love you on the man, Steve Atwater. Greatest. Yes. Love him every week. Broncos country tonight on Kayla News, radio and everywhere on the I Heart radio app. Tomorrow.
860AM The Answer
"third one" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"Back to my conversation with Wilt Chamberlain. You know, I looked up. I was asking curious. Okay. How much of the mobile operating system share Do Google and Apple have because it seems like a lot just intuitively. The number is 99.8% of the United States. You don't even know you know what the third one is? It's Samsung. You've never heard of the Samsung store, but they actually have their own little OS that has like 10.1% of the American market. 99.8%. And four years ago, 80%. Even four years ago, 80% of social Media consumption was on mobile. So if you have a social media app that isn't on mobile. It's done already from from conception. It won't be competitive. It's doomed to obscurity. And so if Google and Apple Act in concert, they can make any social media app disappear and be not commercially viable. Uh, that's there is no way entrepreneurship can solve that problem in the medium term. There is no way building your own exactly right? Yeah, there's there's no way that is, I mean, now that there's an antitrust issue, right if they're collect, you know they're acting in concert and restraint of trade. There might actually be under current law. Some antitrust I comply, said this all along that the discrimination route. Is never going to pan out. Well, for us in the courts go after how these companies are trying to stifle competition in the market. There's lots of law around that, right? Yeah. Undercurrent logs. I would agree with you completely right? We don't have the law written now to win and discrimination safer. Maybe in like some state courts where there's light we need to. We need to pass those in the state legislatures. Quick, right? Right like we need. We need to change the law. And as it goes as regards discrimination under current law, anti trust is is the best available alternative. But even then, I mean antitrust. There's a lot you know. Antitrust law has been Largely due to the conservative movement and shaped in a way to be very favorable to the larger companies because they used to be on team, right? Yeah, exactly exactly. And so The parlor thing I know they're scrambling over there. They might go to rack space and so just so everyone understands kind of what happens here. So if you're going to build a nap, you actually need servers to do this? You need physical servers. I know this is a hard thing for some people. Understand this. It's all up in the cloud. Like many other clouds, actually in Some like rural facility in Utah. Okay, That's where your social media accounts and so Amazon in the late 1999 times, 19 nineties, I should say they were not a very valuable company. But Bezos Bought something called merchant dot com, and they start they wanted actually create what is now called Shopify and they in 2000. They slowly realized that most of the interest in most of the infrastructure for the Internet has been built yet. And that they just started buying up server space wildly, and it really wasn't successful until 2013 now what happened in 2013? What happened in 2013 was the APP explosion, right? Uber snapped. These super data intensive APS started to come on, and they needed places to be hosted. I mean way more intensive than just traditional websites, right? And so, But Amazon was sitting there with this Web service, where they actually helped other companies grow in the early two thousands and now half of all exterior Web services on servers has done through Amazon Web Serb and they are the gold standard. There's Microsoft and minute call it allude a or something There's Google. Facebook has their own servers, but the gold standard is Amazon, right, and it's cheaper. They're able to do it quicker. Better, faster, Cheaper and everyone celebrated. This myself included a couple years ago. Like how awesome is this? You can do your own thing. And you were the first one to really worry about this alongside other people. Well, hold on a second. What if Amazon gets taken over by a bunch of French revolution types, and they say, Cut off the server space? Where do you go? Then? Everyone kind of life that and I didn't take it seriously. And so parlor. The entrepreneurs like Let's Go use Amazon Web services, right. They're never going to kick us off. I mean, come on. I don't think cross their mind till recently. And then they get the app out to the Google store and the apse, the Apple app store and I'll be honest will Two weeks ago. I don't even think that getting dropped from Amazon Web services was a threat. I mean, this is I've not heard of them. Do this for anyone? Yeah, another via. Not for the way. I think maybe they did it for Gabby. I don't know. You know, I think maybe maybe right But Gabai thinks no one rack space for something. Yeah, and I don't know, like I mean, maybe we I think everybody needed to take that red alert more seriously, that like once, it can happen to them that will create right, like assume. Because you know, people would always make. Oh, well, that's a slippery slope. They won't do that. I mean, how slippery has that slow? Proven to be? You know, we were gonna logical fallacy. Yeah. No. Yeah, That's a good point, right? I was like, people always say that's a fallacy. It's like No, it's a prediction. Predictions are not policies. It's a predictive measures. Actually, we know where this is headed. And so the issue now is parlor, which is supposed to be a competitors and was having massive amounts of traffic coming to do. It might collapse at any moment because they don't have server space. Think Amazon is granting them a couple days to go find new servers. It's not that simple. Yeah. Migration, the replication. No one really knows what's going to happen at this. I've been talking to some programmers there like Yeah, The whole thing could just like, follow part or just you know, someone with 4000 followers could end up having 400,000 followers, like nowhere old thing could get messed up in that kind of a migration right? And so that's not easy at all. And so the question is, then what do we do about this? The president is now been completely kicked off of all these platforms. I'm starting to try to I went on an investigative hunt will in the last 24 hours of any entrepreneur that's trying to create any wacky thing either have created hardware or servers. And quite honestly, I shouldn't be doing this four years ago, but I was too busy, you know, building turning point, But where were our VC is going out and doing this for five years ago? Right? I mean, we just We assumed it wasn't necessary. People it had never been to happen before. You know, we assume that they wouldn't discriminate this badly. We were wrong, or, you know, I mean, I was, you know, I predicted some of these things. I didn't predict. All of them right. Like, you know, I thought I never thought that parlor would get kicked off these Google announced right? And I didn't assume that is that is unbelievable. Right? Like in my analysis was always I mean, I always saw an issue. With parlor like once I started using it, and the alternatives had had some issues to them. One of the big issues I thought, especially with Gabby was their incentive structures messed up with the guards. The conservative movement writ large because they do better when we are getting more censored, which is not not ideal. And I think gabs leadership at one point was actually pushing to try and get people blocked on Twitter so that they could Right over to, you know, rather work out, and I always thought it was more important like we didn't want to fight to be segregated in our own like second rate social media services. I thought we should always fight to be where the debate is happening where everyone is and fight for our right to be a part of that. Um, but I still didn't predict. You know, like any even the hint of competition from parlor and band. They're just part of everything. I didn't see that coming. Um But it definitely means like, well, what this does show me will is that this and the Shopify things really, really scary to is. They're not going to stop and they've already they already kind of showed us the payment processors. The banks. That's the real one..
KOA 850 AM
"third one" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"I heard Radio AP poll Question For today all about the inauguration of the 46, president of the United States. What is your level of excitement? For Joe Biden taken over as president. Excited beyond belief. Wait and see. This is bumming me out. You can vote at Kaylie, Colorado can also in our text line of 566. I know Early results are Kouf This is a very tight pull one of the tightest that we've ever had We already up over 100 votes, and right now there is a tie between excited beyond belief. And this is bumming me out each have 34.3% and then in second place, wait and see as 31.4%. So this is a very, very title. Okay, You continue to vote over the next 24 hours, and we'll know what the Winner of the poll. Question is tomorrow. Do we know how the poll results ended yesterday, Kouf? We do not. But I could look that up s O. Coover normally would be on the other side of the glass eye being able to handle all these sorts of things, but now he's also over there, pushing the buttons at the same time. We got a boy be large, who's standing behind him? He's kind of been following along to see how exactly complicated it is dealing with us on the other side of this glass of which could be a challenge. What was the poll question yesterday? Yesterday's poll. Of course we had George Payton on yesterday. The new Broncos GM And it's surrounded him and his decision coming up If you were George Payton, would you trade three first round draft picks? Andrew Lock for two Shawn Watson and we had a ton of oats and yes, came out on top. It's 63.7%. No, was 36.3%. I'm going to say this right now. We have an intelligent audience that rolls with us that votes on those poles. Because let me tell you something. There's nothing like settling your franchise quarterback position once a quarterback knows how to play. You can depend on that guy for at least 10 years. I mean, 10 years of stability at that position, and you don't have to even worry about it anymore, so Um, I agree that if that was offered up, that would be a good exchange. And here's what's interesting about it. Because I've been keeping my ear to the ground. A little bit is damn quiet. But when it's quiet like this, it does tell me that there's probably some stuff that's going on in the background. And I don't mean with the Denver Broncos. I mean in general. It's gotten pretty quiet. But here's what I can tell you. I just talked to a buddy of mine who does a show down there in Houston. Uh, who told me today? That, um Shawn Watson has said even if Eric the enemy Is hired his head coach. He's still going to need some time to think about. The front office and what's going on there? So I mean, this thing is, I mean right now, from all accounts, the New York Jets Um, Miami Dolphins. Those two franchises are in the hunt. But here's one that I heard that I thought was really good. Well, did you see that The Broncos were like 13 Odds Hold hold on 30. And I'd like to be in this equation. But this is the one I heard that I thought was the best. Urban Meyer as the number one overall pick. The number one overall pick. Do you want this Shawn Watson or some unknown commodity? No. You would want You would want to show Watson do you? Do you want the unknown commodity? That's you know, in trouble lines. Um, who's widely accepted as the number one overall pick. And two number. Just call it too. Number ones from the Jacksonville Jaguars two number twos from the Jacksonville Jaguars. And they get the John Shawn Watson. You like that trade? Yeah. Ah, lot. That's a great trade. That is a really good trade. Well, that immediately makes it Um Because you don't again The unknown commodity is still you just don't know And you don't know if you've got the right personnel around how that quarterback's gonna perform at that level. So there's a bunch of questions that Are still going to be unanswered until you answer that one. You put a bonified starting QB one in that questions answered. You also know how he plays. So therefore, you know, if you've got the personnel or now you could build around what you need to do around a guy like that. So I would say, get that by the way, That's way too smart. It's never gonna happen, E. Do you know what I'm saying? That's way too smart to say we're gonna have There's a lot of maybe it's quiet around here now that, uh George Payton has been introduced. But I'm just letting you know, man. They're gonna be a ton of bids for the services of the Shawn Watch in the Bronco should be involved. I'm just letting you know the Broncos should be involved. And I don't think that number nine pick And you know, we would have to give up three number ones. The three first round draft picks in three second round draft picks. I mean, that's a lot, and that's by the way in for Brandy general manager that has been highly successful building the team through the draft. Those things carry a lot more value to a guy like that, then they made to others. If your legacy is leaving the team in good standing and in good order, Let's just say George Payton has his job for six years. Let's just say there's a ownership change. Okay, let's just say that That's a possibility and we haven't ownership change and we have the Shawn Watson and we have a new direction for the entire franchise. Uh, what's what's the issue what we're talking about here? I mean, what are we talking about here? I mean, we're talking about an unprecedented time in the NFL What we have to NFL franchises that don't have A new owner for say, Now we understand the Green Bay Packers is owned by the public city of Green, right? Well, just the fans, the fans. But two NFL teams are like What the Broncos are in. It's the Broncos and the Titans, where they don't have a single head of the Um, organization to say yes, I know. Because You know the Titans with the Adams family and the Broncos with the bowling family. They haven't come together and said, This is the person that's gonna lead so the NFL is saying it's time now. So I looked for a movement. I look for movement on both franchises in the next year. I agree. I think I think is, you know the NFL came out last year and said that You know, said as much way have to get this resolved. It's been going on way too long. So If you're the new owner, Would.
710 WOR
"third one" Discussed on 710 WOR
"R. Whoa! We got lots to get to today. Impeachment beginning this. How many impeachments is this? Is this the third one say I can't keep track of a lot of these impeachments all the time. It's getting to be spring. It must be impeachment time. So look over. All of that will go over the vaccine. The governor now saying people over 65 can get it. On, then announcing he didn't have any, but you can you're eligible. But Stephanie, but hopefully that will change. We'll get to all of that will get Tonto. We'll get to a lot of TV stuff that we have to get to. We'll get too crazy Michael Cohen and what he's up to. And Tiger Woods. Oh, I don't like what's coming here, but So, Joe Bartley. What exactly happens today? They're debating the rules of the impeachment. Now, how long does it take? Two hours. Okay. So figure eight hours. Thieves like guys paint your house if they say two hours figure four days Uh, They do these impeachment all the time. Don't you think that the rules set You would think you would need two hours to debate the rules? Yeah. 10 spaces. You're they've impeached him before this. Get the rules from last time. Whatever that was, why don't you save them? So we'll see with Prince. What do you think's gonna have? Mitch McConnell is saying, Hey, here, he may vote to convict Donald Trump. You know what? I wouldn't be surprised if that happens. Because you got to remember all these guys. They're swamped guys. Most important thing back to business as usual back to the swamp. That's what they want. They want to get rid of, and they've not. We want to get rid of this guy. They want to make sure that nobody else from the private sector ever tries this. You know, we always heard that for years. Wouldn't it be great if one of our great business minds they used to say about Lee Iaccoca, Jack Welch or somebody like that run for president. It sounds good on paper because they managed to government better things would get done. We do the government be more efficient. But there's another side to that. What happens to all the donors and the lobbyists and all the Mitch McConnells and all the Nancy Pelosi's and the Chuck Schumers? These companies won't be writing those huge checks to the lobbyist that go to them. And their campaigns. Instead, they'll just call the president that work out whatever they work out. Uh, so it disrupts the business model of the swamp. They don't like this system. They like the old system. You said if you're a big company, you ready check for 100 million to some lobbyists. They distributed to everybody in Congress for their campaigns. That's a better system. And you know what? Corporations like it a little better because you're gonna get you know, they don't mind paying 100 million in lobbying fees, They'll get something for it. The problem with the Trump system And he says all these CEOs we have trouble or come in and talk to me. Call me We'll discuss it. They don't want to discuss it. Just one e just want to get what they want. So they like the old Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer Swamp system. So don't be surprised if these Republicans all turn on him because that's the only reason to do this impeachment. It serves no purpose now. But it would if they could convict him. He is it Detective Lee the law that he can't run again. I guess it is. If you're convicted you Well, if you're impeached, Yes. That's part of the impeachment is that you are banned from holding public office ever again. Yes. So it would be the only in President. Peach twice would be the only was it that way. I think we had one president convicted, didn't we? No. No, None of this is the other No. Andrew, both of them were accorded to trial. Okay, so he'd be the only president Peach twice would be the only president convicted. He'd be the only president thrown off Twitter. He'd be the only president who had this YouTube account closed. They're closed this YouTube account. What was the justification for that? I don't know. I mean, Twitter did it to tell you know that he was thrown off Spotify. And he was banned from Pinterest last week. Imagine they told him and he said, I'm banned from what the hell is Pinterest? I've been on Pinterest for 10 years. I still don't know what the hell it is. I still can't figure out what it's for. He's banned from Spotify. How will he continue in life without Spotify? So what do you think he should do in all this has been very quiet for the last few days. He spoke yesterday. I think the most important thing you need to do is toe say, I don't want violence in my name because this stuff is ramping up. And he's doing nothing to kind of settle it down. I really think he has a responsibility to kind of let stroll off the dogs. Yeah, No, that's true. But some people would argue two things one. There's nobody thinks he's for violence. But more importantly, a lot. People think it wouldn't make any difference. I mean, you should do it should do it. Everybody should do it, Mitch McConnell. Everybody should do it. But would it really make any difference? You got first We get a lot of you said if you're listening, there's all kinds of protests and rallies. Don't go to any of the stay the hell away from all that stuff. Don't get near any of that. Especially now. But you're gonna have a lot of outside agitators, and you never know who's stirring the pot, whose You know, in a Twitter. Well, all these companies Apple and Google is one of the reasons we had get rid of parlor is killing on. It's Cuban on and that's an every trump supporter is saying to themselves. What the hell is cure? None. Have you ever heard of cute? I may have heard the name Q. And how do you actually know what it is? No, not really. Just some crazy. So any idea what you've heard The limousine heard the name is Apple keeps promoting a Twitter keeps promoting it. Google keeps promoting at CNN and MSNBC keep promoting this Cuban and I don't know what it is. If I wanted to go look for it. I wouldn't even know where to go. Look, but they're promoting the hell out of it. Nobody ever heard of until they started promoting it. And that's the problem. Q. And on Whatever it is, I had to know what it is, but Apparently so, Yeah. I mean the Guess the president should say something. But I don't know that it would help and I otherwise it But that's a good point. But the other point is Why has he been so quiet through all of this? Why is he speaking all the time? Every day about this again. We can't because they shut him down on Twitter. Yeah, That's the other thing. They blocked him from speaking anywhere, and then another demand to know why he's not speaking out. But they can't. Yeah, you're right. Where would he speak? Well, I got to the press office. He could go down to you know, the press obviously talked to reporters there. He did that yesterday. You know, he was going to Texas and on the way out, he stopped and he did questions and talk to reporters. But very few people saw that video. Nobody showed it. If they did show they doctored it up and took one sentence out of it. And so that's the problem. He should speak out. But How would he reach these people You're talking about? Easy to speak out to stop these crazies. Yes, from yes. Oh, that's a good actually say, I don't want violence in my name. No, I understand that. That's a good point. But Most of his supporters. 99% aren't violent, so that's not gonna come from them. It's going to come from the extreme crazy element. That's where you're talking to. The problem is, I don't know how he could reach them. The those kind of you know what call Q. And on whatever the hell that is. These those types they don't watch Anderson Cooper. They're not watching the evening news with Norah O'Donnell. This is not something they ever do there on Lee Online. They're only on Twitter and reddit and parlor and all that. So if you can't go on there, how you gonna reach them? Those people do not watch network television or cable news, so this and he has no way to reach them at all, and we'll see what happens. The Here's I think there's somebody said yesterday on the impeachment. It's really a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics. It's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous..
Beam Me Up: A Star Trek Podcast
"third one" Discussed on Beam Me Up: A Star Trek Podcast
"They even mentioned a third one. Earlier that i didn't really play a part in. This episode was vanik. Lena mike i i write down these name just in case they come up again. But it's like i there's plenty of addicts around man just because it was sealed by doesn't mean it was your guy. It just wants you to think that anyway. Like i said i knew all the evidence was going to point towards him. I knew it was gonna pointing that. Yeah browse your guy too bad but wait for the twist. Wait for the twist. it's coming. And yes i love. The classic monk vetted confidentiality agreement like that. That's a new one. i mean. obviously you can compare to anything we want. We most often hear it in the medical field. Like doctor. patient confidentiality lawyer. Client confidentiality now. Yeah confidentiality like. It's going to be the closest comparison narrates. They're using their made upward. As far as i know because made up right. Yes yes that's not an actual position in some religion that i don't know To my knowledge okay. It's possible but not to my knowledge. No i if i were writing star trek. I'd make something up as well so you don't. You're not like specifically pointing someone out and saying hey we're writing about you know. I will always love seeing oto doing his job. Sh okay. whatever it is. You're you're oto fan. You're not a big fan of cure. But you like oto fair enough. I like oh do i like his job. Hit like his personality. I think and the way he. He tends to be a little more abrupt with people and just straight to the point. I mean like he does he read at the end right he. He's like you humanoids. He he claims to basically know everything before humans catch on right. I appreciate that about him. When the the line here that i really caught onto the was curious like he says he's not guilty. I know he's not guilty and then odor chimes in your freight he's guilty that that's good right in there. Yeah i like that. Yeah so they had a moment to moment broom talking. Yeah it was a moment. Talk to me about it. Matt about what i don't know what did you see. What did you catch. What did you tell me talked me..