35 Burst results for "Trinidad"
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan Bongino: The Cryptic Four Fingers
"And I remember my buddy saying brother embrace the sock we're here we got a job to do We got to get it done No one really cares if you're feeling sick And I needed to hear that Like just shut up and get it done You know I remember being in Trinidad I got sick in the upside down hotel over there It's built into the side of the mountain You come in at the top floor So it's actually upside down to go to the top floor You have to go down They call it the upside downhill And I'm sitting there and it's the last day of my advance It's probably a 100° of sweating listening to Obama give a speech I've been throwing up all day I probably lost ten pounds of fluids I had IVs and everything And we're going up in the elevator on wide as it goes I'm in this packed elevator with Obama the sack and the elite advance this guy Steve And he looks over at me and he sees like I'm about to throw up and this elevator with Obama 'cause I'm so sick And he sticks up for fingers folks Really deep down by his waist like he doesn't really cryptic He's got a suit on him right by his belt line He looks down at his hand so I'll look at him And he's got four fingers up You're watching on Fox nation just like this Like you were given the middle finger with four And I'm looking and puzzled and I'm like what's that So he waves me off like you know it's the elevator Like we'll talk about it later So trips over finally we Obama gives a speech leaves in the limo I'm throwing up like crazy I just pass out I think I slept for 24 hours I said to him later I go Steve what was that for You were doing He says the fourth quarter brother It was the end of the trip You stay in that damn game you know what I mean You don't come out of that game in the fourth quarter That's embracing the suck But that's embracing the suck in a positive way
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
'Two (But Not Three) Cheers for Colonialism'
"Several years ago, I wrote an article, it was initially published in the chronicle of higher education, subsequently in the San Francisco Chronicle. It was called two cheers for colonialism. And I kind of stole the title for more of a crystal who once wrote a book called two cheers for capitalism. And it's significantly two cheers and not three, because I can see that the motives of the colonialists were to sort of take advantage of the countries that they subdued and ruled. I'm not claiming that colonialism to that degree was benign in its motive. But what I am going to claim is that colonialism, although it was harsh for some of the people or many of the people who lived under it, nevertheless proved beneficial for its descendants. Now today, if you go around India, yeah, in the universities you're going to find a few people who are basically well similar to here, they've been sort of brainwashed into this kind of reflexive, everything western is bad, you know, hey, hey, Ho, Ho, western cultures got to go all this kind of nonsense. But the typical Indian does not feel this way. The typical Indian today very different than the typical Indian of my youth. Basically recognizes that India is in many ways better off because of colonialism that if India had never had, let's say India had not had any western influence at all. Until the 20th century. India would be a latecomer to a western technology, India would be a latecomer to principles of human dignity, human rights, separation of powers, checks and balances, western courts of law, India has all that. The English language, the best writers in the world today come not from Britain per se, but they often come from the far flung colonies of Great Britain people who are natives, people who come from places like Trinidad and places like India who have learned the English language in a sense as one of the legacies of colonialism.
Revision Path
"trinidad" Discussed on Revision Path
"And had to phase one, which is usually sending creating a document to send options for them, whether it's one option based on their budgets and what they sent, whether it's two options, whether it's three options, and I go through this process of research based on the industry, the great thing about what I do is that I got to learn about all of these different fields and life and businesses that I would never otherwise have been exposed to. So one day I'm looking up all of the information about NFTs the next day I'm looking up real estate and how that works on Trinidad. And so I just go like a deep dive. And so whatever the industry is so that I can understand it, I can see the trends. So the great thing about this is that I got to go this deep dive into different industries, what people are doing, and so I research the trends within the industry. I research things like what colors do people use, what are different styles? I am really good at observing patterns for some reason. I feel like that's like a little secret thing that I have. Maybe not maybe that's what all designers do, and I just am giving myself more important than necessary. I tend to just pay attention to all the trends, pay attention to all the details. And then go back to the original notes that the client gave me of what they want, what they want to achieve, and kind of marry at all together to kind of achieve this perfect for them. Outcome. I send that off, then comes the pin stick and part of waiting for client feedback. Which I think is always the best part of the project for me, at least, because it can go either way. It can go..
The Larry Elder Show
EQT Corp. CEO Toby Rice Defends U.S. Natural Gas Prices
"Now, Toby rice is a CEO, oil and gas, listen to this. It's an old stale left wing argument. It's like gas stations are going to collude to have higher prices. But have you responded to that or what would you say if she comes at you for that? If referring to Kamala Harris also talking about price price gouging on the part of oil and gas companies. I think it's an amazing argument. It's a tough argument to make because the reality is natural gas is a commodity. The price is set by supply and demand. And if people were able to set the price for this product, tell that to the dozens of energy companies that went bankrupt over the last 24 months. Clearly there's no ability to control gas prices. But what people can do to influence gas prices is what a lot of anti infrastructure people have done, which is prevent our products from getting to market. And it's as simple as blocking pipeline infrastructure, and this is a reason why Elizabeth Warren is importing gas into her state of Massachusetts and by the way, penguins, international prices. When she's got the biggest natural gas deposit in the world, 200 miles away in Pennsylvania. It's all about just connecting this market with the demand. Isn't it Russian gas? By the way. Yeah, it's Russian gas and actually a lot of it's coming from Trinidad and Tobago. So we're talking about moving gas 3000 miles away to get it to actually my mom's where my mom lives in Boston. It's completely ridiculous. Actually, when you think about it, we're exporting around 12 and a half BCF of gas a day. That's an amazing thing. But our tankers with LNG are passing as they're heading to as they're heading to Europe. They're waving as Russian LNG cargoes are bringing gas to Elizabeth Warren's home state. I know it's a remarkable bizarre approach. So when the prices go up, the left accuses the olding gas company of price gouging when the price goes down. Well, they change
Filipina on the Rise
"trinidad" Discussed on Filipina on the Rise
"I don't feel like you have to make things perfect before you launch because your own ideas of what perfect is may not actually be what it is year again to learn that people think differently in the faster you fail the more you have insight on what you can incorporate your business. Welcome to the filipino on the rights. Podcast i spotlight filipino. Women doing big things and making an impact. I'm christopher avella. And i aim to promote tonight activists empower our community through art stories while talking about it and so what means to be a today. We're talking to bianca. Trinidad young is a growth market in tech space entrepreneur an autism warrior and founder flavors of business securities filipinas of vice matchboxes serving. Those missing taste of home looking to discover. New favorites are starting to learn about filipino culture. She was born and raised in manila philippines and moved to the bay area and twenty twelve first of all happy american history month. Something that comes up for me. This month is what our way. I can celebrate and embrace my history and heritage more as a tribute to her brother who's in the autism spectrum. Not americans bring impact here and back in her homeland. So in this episode we talk about bianca's moving stories starting philly flavors when her brother was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and they moved to the us to provide him with a better life while the jury was not easy. You what kept him going with food. That reminded them of home. This is what inspired her to start. Philly flavors she started this well working fulltime in the tech space. And we discuss the journey of starting a business on the side while you have a full-time roll around a lot of entrepreneurs take and how it can be very smart and strategic and let you approach your new business idea really mission driven and community focused. We've talked about the impact and being conscious of supporting philippine small businesses and she ends advice on business challenges she overcame and we of course celebrate and we of course celebrate how we of course celebrate. How filipino treats bring this daljit and love our culture at any age anywhere. You are in the world. This talk is so juicy with so much good advice. Given you're gonna feel like you just finished a whole delicious knack box. I had the joy of media bianca in person at the conference other weekend. And she's such a powerhouse and a gym. This episode is sponsored by one export filipino. Start at the helps. Philippine businesses export their products to the rest of the world. They export to twenty three different countries and serve retailers such as seafood city recently launched an e commerce platform called caravan where filipinos in the us can resell awesome. Benoy product in his episode will discuss how you can start her own business through an export and basically have your own hustle or side hustle and expand filipino food and flavors to the world. They actually sent me a caravan box. Which i have an opening video of on instagram. You have to check it out into all the delicious and creative iligan snacks awaiting inside. I'll also be doing a box opening video soon for philly flavors so check that out. Thank you so much again. One export for sponsoring this episode. Here we go the good. Walk into the levine on their aides. Podcast thank you so much for coming on. Yeah thank you so much crystal I appreciate you having me here. So i'm just a quick background about myself. Bianca trinidad i was born and raised in manila. Moved to the us to provide my brother a better life so he was diagnosed with autism spectrum before i'ma fintech marketer bright trade entrepreneur in an advocate of women autism in filipino food and culture by passion Yeah and in terms of my missions who might dream is really for businesses to an instrument in providing philipino food and culture representation in the us also providing awareness. resource isn't opportunities for people with autism. And i know that there's a story behind how you combined this passion and this this desire to bring like the the authentic flavors and experience of the philippines with Giving back to the community and you didn't start off as an entrepreneur but here you are. You know working fulltime tech role and reading business and i love seeing Filipinos doing that. I think it's it's so creative and it shows what we're capable of survey can you take us back bianca. Kind of to the very beginning Where you grew up how you got into the tech industry and where this spark really happened to see. You know this caused that you cared about your brother and wanting to start to really dive into philly flavors. Yeah absolutely so. I would say like ever since when i was younger. You know back in manila in the philippines. I really love creating things that i could sell. So they sold like accessories to food too close to my classmates even at work. Just as a side hustle. Also take a passion for creating something So my first job in the philippines was actually in h. r. But i had a lot of friends in marketing. So i kind of saw like what they would do in a lake. They would work on ads in. I just felt like it was so finding like i will get to be creative. I didn't get to move to marketing right away. So i i handled a key account management role for san miguel which is a corporation in the philippines and they have blake different types of products from beer to food to banking etc. I had to move to the us at less than a year after joining the account management rule. So you know like moving to the us was mainly to provide my brother better life. It was becoming really expensive To raise him in the philippines because of school in therapy insides. So yeah so we moved here. We didn't have a plan. Unlike most people who move here. Who who do it for school or work so first few years was really just survival mode. They even had a point where i had three jobs. So the first job i joined was retail. I was trying to keep that marketing dream alive. So i i was working For a small business in the city also filipino owned in. I would do their marketing. Social media like emails at nighttime. At the same time. I also picked up another job at a bank so i was thinking. Like this isn't sustainable. So i need to find like one job where i could move up fast in. You know be able to like really grow my career so i ended up. You know like working for the bank. Full timing. I got promoted to levels above my level shortly after fintech company reached out and they were asking if i wanted to join. It was mostly lake in the operations team. in is still kept continuing keeping that marketing dream alive in. I started using my lunch times to network with people so a bunch of people from other teams started to get to know me and eventually there was an opening in marketing in. I got the role so myrow has expanded from just working on creative strategy for direct mail channel to being able to handle blake all of our pay channels rate now like paid surge baid social display et cetera. And i.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vox Contradicts Their Own Arguments When Roasting Nicki Minaj Over Vaccine
"Vox dot com. Vox yet. Vox dot com. Writes this article going after nikki. Manashe the title is nicki. Minaj is an anti vacs. Exactly that's why her vaccine resistance is so concerned and i just this might be a typo might be a typo but in this article they show how silly their arguments so i'm going to read this paragraph just to spell it out known side effects talking about nikki manashian cousins friend who got issues impotency issues. Just the spell it out known. Side effects of the cova nineteen vaccine. Do not include testicle swelling. Although unfounded concerns about the vaccine and female fertility have circulated. Now just want to say we receive thousands and thousands of messages of young ladies. That are having major issues after getting the vaccine. That's all. I have to say without more context about montages cousins friend illness. It's impossible to know more but it's highly unlikely his situations anything to do with cove in nineteen who said anything cove in nineteen. Do see how they do that. They're in the article. No we're talking with the vaccine cove. Nineteen so the article says well it's not at its side effect of covert not saying that we're saying. Is it a side effect of this vaccine and by the way. If they're in trinidad. What vaccine did they take. That's the other question
Majority 54
"trinidad" Discussed on Majority 54
"We have the segment. We we used to call arching corner. Which i think we may call quarantine corner again soon if these trends continue. But we've been calling it art relatable corner essentially it's star way to talk about something in our lives outside of politics end. Just bring it to the table Jason i hesitate to ask you about your baseball goods but i do. Want to hear about this If you're if you're talking about You know true. And i went to go a little league team in we geared. You know we got everything ready to go to his literally game last night and i. It's personally my fault. I didn't lock the iva cover on my on the back of my truck. But i didn't lock the tailgate. I forgot and i went to open the tailgate and somebody stole all are literally equipment including pitching machine generator all sorts of stuff but also like priceless things like glove and also the glove that i've had since i was eight years old that my dad gave me and so it was it's very upsetting and so true and i were both sad about it and we decided we'll we're just gonna go to the game and we'll be sat afterwards and we. We picked up a used glove at a store on the way for him and he played well with it and it was fine but we get in the car and he goes and he had a good game. We get in the car in the truck to go home and he goes dad. Can we be sad about it now. Yeah we can't and i and i am. This sounds so ridiculous. I am going through mourning process of that glove that i had for thirty two years. If you had asked me like if there was a house fire after you got your family out. Are there anything she would go back into. Get and it was. It would be like my mind and my kids gloves would. That's nearly sad. Yeah it is so bummer. But anyway nadine okay. I'm this is maybe more like a plea to listeners. Which is like. I read this book. Called fleishman is in trouble by taffy brokers or actor last summer and i think it was like a bigger book last summer and i had such a fun time reading it. It was like one of those books. That's like it's literary fiction but it's still like turn your brain off and just think about this one guy and how was getting a divorce like it was like kind of a book about nothing that was political nothing that you know what i mean. It was just a fun book to read. He goes on some internet dates. You know what i mean. It's like whatever but it was well written. Well received whatever i just been chasing the high of a book like that for just to like tone out. I have a toddler So the thirty minutes a week. That i get to do now when i am not on toddler suicide watch. I like to be able to read something that makes me feel kind of like nothing so i'm looking for recommendations for that. If anyone has any. I am so ears. Hit me up on all of the social media that we shouldn't be looking at. Can i ask you what the term toddler suicide watch. Because does that. Because that's funny either way because that is either i have a toddler so i'm on suicide watch or and i think that's what you mean. I have a toddler which means i have a child who doesn't really understand that now that they're mobile. There's things all over the house that they kill themselves me night. That number two is mostly where i was coming from with. Like with the dash of number one. But yeah she. This lady will just climb whatever you know what i mean. She'll grab like knives that you're like. I put this on top of the refrigerator. How did you grab this knife. You know what. I mean like joe's i don't even know how or where i just felt like during the pandemic having one having her as a child felt like having five children she somehow took the space of five children and so it's a tough time. That's his think i've ever done it cetera etcetera etcetera etcetera true. But also come on. What are you doing in my life. Hard hard to top. That i'm just gonna give an update to my last week Share which is. I shared this that. I've been falling in love with this formula. One show on netflix. And i've gotten so much feedback from the audience. Seems like a lot of artists loves show. And i've been thinking about it since. And i almost feel guilty about it because of course as a as a democrat instead of like liking nascar or are going to like say i. I'm gonna to fall in love with racecar driver but not the kind of race car driving. That's going to like actually put me shoulder to shoulder with the kind of people that we talk about it in this show right like i'm not. I'm not actually going to embrace the american racecar driving which is overwhelmingly conservative audience. I'm going to go to europe and like fall in love with this elite. Like ben's ferrari show so i've been doing some reflecting and i'm gonna try to figure out nascar to and like hey like it seems very similar and takes place mostly in this country so nobody's giving me this feedback. Just been thinking about it. It's just made me laugh. And i'm like of course like i've just skipped nascar and gun rights to to formula one. An ex boyfriend of mine. I once conflicted formula one with nascar knowing nothing about either of them and he lost his mind like that formula one has nothing to do with nascar and it was like what does it really not any. Isn't it both car racing. I'm gonna report back. I don't jason may know the answer to this. I don't know enough yet to answer that question. But i'm going to report back to the audience i know enough to be dangerous and basically basic- basically what it comes down to is. Is that as you pointed out in the show last week. Formula one is much more about a team in engineering a car. The driver obviously is a factor but engineering a car t to optimize it in such a way that you can beat the other cars. Nascar has rules in order to make it so that no car can have too much of a competitive advantage of another so it mu- it puts a much greater emphasis on the skill of the driver. Basically i can't salmon nascar fan i would say nascar conversationally proficient and and so..
Majority 54
"trinidad" Discussed on Majority 54
"Go from a relative sense now but like what if facebook acquires twitter. What if and so the i back to your earlier. Point like yeah. I don't think amazon's should be this big for like a whole host of reasons. And i don't think facebook should have been able to acquire instagram and like we have these antitrust laws. We don't use them because we go. Oh well somebody's being responsible for the moment. Yeah but like what happens when they get a new leadership and it's also there's also a cultural component to all of this that you know like there's a point in our history where we may have said something like there's no alternative to my space you know like people went around saying that and they're obviously were alternatives for my space and just the cultural moment moved away from my space and i feel like the cultural moment ease shifting away from facebook initial delete. Facebook thing came around a bunch of my friends. Just did it. They just delete a facebook. I mean facebook for some quarters of the american population is just like a non entity you know a wonder if cultural pressure on just regular people can force it to become less used less popular. Can we get the ants of america to use a platform. You know what i mean. I'm looking at you to my aunt. But britain into your point like the cultural shift is really a generational shift which is why it's dangerous. That facebook acquires instagram. Right right and and and so you know because then you have the same leadership potentially making the same decisions either question. I'm often wondering what has facebook innovated on. Since the core idea that zuckerberg potentially took from somebody else right at the beginning like what. What really have they done you know they were able to. I don't wanna like sidestepped. The fact that it definitely took some vision and insight and talent to to grow that company in the beginning and when they did acquire instagram. A lot of people thought they overpaid for it and it was crazy and all that. But you don't monopoly are anti monopoly. Laws aren't just about like the question of what happened at the point of acquisition but what happened subsequent to that and it's really hard to avoid these platforms. If you want to communicate with your relatives your friends are you. Want to grow your business. Etc and objectively as they have been under more and more scrutiny publicly paid more and more fines their revenues have grown well beyond the point where these fines even make a difference to them to the point. Now where they're worth over a trillion dollars. They continue to grow as a company and so they they seem immune to consequences unless the consequence is you no longer exists in the form that you're like there's almost no fine or other consequences that they would even take seriously at this point which they have armies of lobbyists in dc fighting every potential regulation against them. Yeah i just don't understand how we had a big lawsuit to say. Microsoft is not allowed to sell windows with netscape already in it but facebook can buy everything else. It doesn't make any sense to me. It doesn't make any sense for just not we're just not we have laws in place like you're saying we have laws in place and we're just not it's sort of like how we we do have taxes in place for wealthy people. They somehow are able to skirt them right. We just don't collect so. This is another one of those examples of like we have antitrust laws where why aren't we Enforcing them well. Let's talk about another fund subject. Let's bring it back to tucker carlson. I saw tucker. Carlson has been using his platform as show to basically encourage the forging of vaccine cards by a fake. Vaccination card is not a quote serious crime. It's not even close to a serious crime. Buying a fake vaccination card is an act of desperation by decent law abiding americans who have been forced into a corner by tyrants. I just wanted to bring this to the two of you because this is fox news. Tucker carlson this is the law and order crowd and i. I know this isn't the first or and it won't be the last instance if chrissy here. But no is this notable that we have The people who get up in arms over you know. They play every clip of like somebody going into a dwayne reed and san francisco and stealing goods and walking out or whatever and that they they make those viral flash points at the same time are encouraging people to break the law and lie about the fact that they are more likely to transmit a deadly disease. I mean like in my wrong to be a little appalled by this a lot also. It's totally appalling. But it's also a weird it's like are. Are you proud of your position of not having a vaccine or you're not proud like us vaccinated in terms of like what he's saying is his listeners. It's like i thought the whole point was that they're proud that they're not part of it is that they're not vaccine. They're proud that they're upholding their whatever it is about the vaccine against i mean so it's like then telling them but then lie to everybody. Pretend like you are back seen. It's like well no. Do you believe in your convictions or do you. Not i don't understand. And and are you the party of like strengthen your convictions. Which i feel like they often talk about or are you not. It's like it's weird to tell people to lie about a up deeply held belief. Yeah i totally agree. That's what confused me about. It was like the. You don't understand civil disobedience like this you know i mean this is this is like if instead of you know. Refused to sign up for the draft during the vietnam war. It was like pretend you already did a tour in vietnam. It doesn't make any sense. it really doesn't. They need to read a henry david. Thoreau just one more time as we have already once just another time. Yeah well. I'm curious what else tulsa and thinks is appropriate to do out of desperation. So if you're a parent for instance you lies about your address to send your kid to the fancy suburban school and the district next to where you live. Is that acceptable. If you're someone who doesn't have money and you go into a local grocery store and steal groceries. Is that acceptable to. I'll welcome him to that resistance crossing crossing the border. Yeah right right right. It's a slippery slope tucker carlson Watch out what. you're what you're suggesting..
Majority 54
"trinidad" Discussed on Majority 54
"Let's talk about this week in misinformation longtime liz. I'm obsessed with facebook. I there was an article in the wall street journal. Great investigative piece which seems like it's going to be part of a longer series where Wall street journal has been given access to some confidential documents from a whistleblower inside of facebook. And this is the first of that series and this article goes through a series of documents and internal accounts about the fact that facebook has had a program it was a system that exempted high profile users from summer. All of its rules. And it's a program called cross checker x. Check which was initially intended as a quality control measure for actions taken against high-profile counts including celebrities politicians journalists. Lots of times. That people who are in this program didn't even know it like institution you might even be in this program. You don't even know it because they dare classifying. People should maybe so using facebook. Take take advantage of your position. Well it turns out jason. You can be as offensive as you want. Because what was happening here is they were they. Were calling it internally. That people were white listed and they're rendered immune from enforcement actions while others. You know the common person of the three of us. I think probably. That's the list that they put me on like the white. How can i just. I just want to point out. How fucked up is that. The special privilege list is the white list like weird. It is weird a little on. The nose is what i'm saying. Anyway go ahead we can. We can have that sort of postmodern linguistic discussion. Another time about the way we use language to reinforce bias. But this is pretty nasty though. Because what's happened here is that they've allowed people who are exempt to to do some pretty heinous things. A good example is or bad. Example is neymar. The brazilian soccer's star was accused of rape and then used his platform on facebook and instagram. To show pictures and messages from the accuser he was able to to post a nude photo of his accuser that stood up long enough for many many millions of people to view this before it was taken down and it was actually left up in part because he was part of this program. Other inflammatory claims have been allowed to make it through because of this program including the wall street journal talked about claims that hillary clinton covered up a pedophile ring misinformation on vaccines and other claims that donald trump is made in calling refugees animals etc. Is this this like what do we like. This seems like every week. There's a problem with facebook I know that it's almost tedious. At this point what do what do we do about this. You know we're we're we all use this their platforms out all of us but most people who are even critical of it used the platform. They seem to continue to make profit. They seem to continue to make to to be a powerful company. Continues to grow. What do we do and lest we forget that. Facebook also owns instagram. And what's app so few think you're on your posting your stories and you're you're doing the right thing because you're not on facebook. You're still doing the wrong thing because you're on facebook as am i And i would put it adds to the original facebook i. I'm just surprised that anyone is using it. Who is not my one aunt who seems to be on there all the time So that's always surprising to be. But i you know it's what's also strange is that republicans and democrats both are frustrated with facebook and it seems like it'd be a great moment of bipartisanship to like. Let's get together and like regulate what these people are doing. You know They're having an outsize impact on our politics or having outsized influence In an you know an negatively on showing that photo you just mentioned of a of an accuser and nude photos over accuser of a famous. I mean soccer star. Like that's heinous. So i feel like this could be a moment for that. I don't know is there. Just no political will does it not is it that we're in the middle of a pandemic still so it's not rising to the the level of urgency. I mean what. What does it take to get some to get some action on that on a policy for it i think to me what's frustrating about it and the lack of of bipartisanship when it appears that there would be is like. It's like a lot of issues where it seems to me that the left is interested in regulating facebook and the large social media platforms basically because the left believes that there's a role for government regulation of really outsized corporate entities period. Or you know including in the case of something like facebook where it has orange platform and then the right is interested. It seems to me in threatening regulation in order to intimidate facebook. In or and i think in order to shape the content that's allowed but possibly is interested in actually regulating. But again i think in order to sort of censor the content and so to me. It makes it hard to to see how it you know. It reminds me of is like like this. These attempts that like compromises on voting rights. Right where it's like. well okay. We both seem to agree that there needs to be some changes to the voting system. And then you scratch the surface and you know we want to change the voting system and and they want to make sure that fewer people of color vote so it's like we have different aims. But we're making the same. Sounds right. I i'm with you like we've talked about this before like i don't fully trust where the josh holidays are coming from on this so i i do understand it. A certain sense why. It's been hard for the two sides to come together to regulate I also wonder whether how much different would this be if facebook didn't own instagram. And what's right like if we if we had the the power to go to all more alternatives And hold them accountable whereas right now if you were to pursue an alternative really the only the only two alternatives that are out there to facebook. are tick-tock which like lord knows the problems with the ownership of that company and ethical choices that we make there and also. It's not a one comparison or twitter. Which i honestly trust the leadership of twitter. They've been better on a host of these issues than facebook. But it has its own toxic culture so it doesn't really seem like they're approaching monopoly here. It's like really hard to avoid using facebook. If you wanna stay in touch with your family members on social media and that seems that feels to me like it approaches a monopoly. That's where the breaking i to me. What it all comes back to is what we've talked around the ship before that. There's a reason that we have antitrust laws right like and i think the fallacy or the mistake that we repeatedly make is we think about the current situation with leadership of a given company right. Like if you look at google and you look at the way. The leadership of google has evolved from the motto. Don't be evil to like. We're gonna figure this out with the chinese government. I we're gonna you know we're all going to work together and then you look at Amazon right where people are like. Okay well we've got a lot of questions issues with bazo and like let's be honest. Meanwhile during the pandemic everybody's got amazon boxes stacked up on their on their porch. In my point is like twitter and jack dorsey misery in good now right. It seems to be pretty responsible as these things..
Majority 54
"trinidad" Discussed on Majority 54
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Majority 54
"trinidad" Discussed on Majority 54
"And it's interesting. Because i also think it'd be it would be really easy if there was just a couple of reasonable republicans out there double ours if you will reasonable. Republicans who could just say. There is a super duper patriotic. Message in here that if that getting the vaccine is a patriotic duty. It isn't america first. Approach you know to keeping everybody alive and healthy and the economy growing I wonder if like if pe- people on the ground like ashley started talking about the patriotism of the vaccine. If that could be a thing. I don't know throwing out ideas. I mean to that point. If people can google like inoculations that were mandated by george washington. I mean it's it's one of those things that started as a medium and then everybody was going wait is this real and there was like an because it threatened the strength of the army like george washington was like no no. No you have to be inoculated against things because we're not gonna have people dying of diseases. Smallpox actual thing at the beginning of the republic and they had to they had mandates are as old as the constitution. I mean so literally the the you know. It's it's it's questionable the way we revere founding fathers but if you buy into the whole because frankly if you're talking to somebody who's sounding like ashley parents probably they are not like you know we really should cancel george washington. That's probably not where they're coming from. And so you could just lean into literally the founding fathers who founded this whole deal because they were breaking off from what they cut considered overreach by government. We're like yeah but you gotta you gotta get a knock in our hopes for these reasonable republicans that you're talking about. Certainly don't seem to be born out in governors mansions around the country. Some of the some of our leaders across the country. Really push back on this. I think even more aggressively than we've seen in the past. So governor henry mcmaster south carolina said rest assured will fight them to the gates of hell to protect liberty and livelihood of every south carolinian governor camp of georgia said i'll pursue every legal option available to stop this blatantly unlawful overreach Those are just too. I mean you. Can google find many more violent and also ravi. Don't forget governor at large a fox. Tv tucker carlson's really salient. Argument about nikki. Menages cousins friends testicle size as being a antitax argument coming from a man who is himself of exited. So i thought that one was really fun. I couldn't bring myself to to watch this. So can you unpack that moment before we get to. The governor's explain this to me as a jason will tell you i don't i go. Maybe once a month or two on on twitter. So i kind of miss this. I've only healthy person. I've only picked it up on an ether. can you explain to me. And i probably our audience. There's some people probably in my shoes who who don't understand the role of nicki minaj. Cousins france testicles in our national debate yet. So can you explain to me. What's going on here first of all before you explain it. I'll just say. I'm glad that you brought up. Because it makes the comment. I made about five minutes ago. Mcclain's cousin in trinidad was going to be my fourth example about mandatory. Go for it. I mean i look at. I just wanted to say for the record. That i am i. Don't you know. I don't typically watch tucker carlson and that when i saw his name trending on twitter. I very begrudgingly clicked on it Read that he was that he spent minutes of his television. Show talking about nikki. Massages cousins friend. In a it was in trinidad who had swollen testicles as a result getting the vaccine and using that as an argument for like you know not getting the vaccine or making. Your team is tweet presence. Which is also she was like. Hey i have a cousin in. i have a friend. It's six exactly. It was two degrees separated from even nicki minaj herself. And then three degrees separated from tucker. Carlson tweeted it. Lets you so. I i really. She tweeted it which was also irresponsible can can can i read. I read the tweet grace. Makeup this but nicki minaj says my cousin and trinidad won't get the vaccine. Because his friend got and became impotent. his testicles became swollen. Now we get to the interesting part. That i think tells a deeper story. His friend was weeks away from getting married and now the girl called off the wedding. And then it goes on you. Pray on it and make your decision carefully. And all that. But first of all. I feeling nicki minaj in the writing of that tweet was also pitching a romantic comedy. So there's that aspect of it. That i feel like tucker. Carlson missed in his analysis of the tweet. But it's like this kind of anecdote all data but people. I use data in quotes like the people. Keep using is just ridiculous. And which would israel rich coming from me because i talked to my friends anecdotally who have businesses. But it's just like. I don't know doctor dr nikki. Moniz is just not someone. I generally go to for medical advice. I kinda wanna do a whole separate episode on why this cause somebody to call off a wedding but if you want to be insensitive but it sounds like he. He may be deflecting from his own behavior or done with serious medical emergency. That has nothing to do with the covert maxine that he may want to check out but it could be both of those. But back to the governor's i think it's enough testicle. Talk for today but governor's although we were ten to fifteen minutes on testicle material. So did you quarantine corner so you'll free to whatever you want. So we have governors pushing back and biden said and i kind of liked this this kind of bravado coming from biden. He said it on the legal challenges. What can we expect here. Yeah biden was taken a nice tough position like Go for it. And i think we see from the aclu again. I am what they call a dirtbag comedian so do i understand the legality of anything. Probably not. But i would say just just reading that. Aclu piece that there isn't very many. There is much constitutional grounds. They listed a bunch of cases. And just fun. Just nerdy legal stuff in that op. Ed pizza they highly recommend people look at you know that basically made it seem like there aren't very many legal grounds for opposing this vaccine. Yeah i think. I think the lawsuits are there. Just political statements. Their press releases filed with courts. Right i mean like here in missouri. Eric schmidt is the attorney general. He running for the us senate. He's in a primary. So i mean just to demonstrate how political this is not how it's based in law. He i believe has sued like china. I think he's one of these people who's like i'm suing china over cove. It right. well okay fine. He's also sued the cities in state who have mandated masks. And he's like you can't mandate masks so it's like china's at fault. I'm suing them for it but also i'm suing the cities. Which by the way. If you if you thought your lawsuit against china had any merit you would really be screwing yourself over by suing on the masks. Because there's this requirement under the law when you actually sue and try and get damages to mitigate your damages if you can't show that you tried to do something anything just reasonable steps to keep it from being as bad as it was like whether it's a car accident or a slip and fall or a pandemic then like you really hurt your case. I mean to me it demonstrates that these are all political and they don't think any of them are gonna work. Yes we close out this conversation. Let's come back to the politics of this. The long term. And i think listeners really need to to strap in here and get ready for what i think is going to be a nasty six months plus of kovic politics. If you thought it was bad already just wait to what comes next now. The good news is that there's so much to support both biden's policy for a substantive perspective like this is the right thing to do goldman sachs for instance came out with a report that said that this this will likely lead to something like twelve million additionally vaccinated and help improve our economy There are a ton of companies already..
Majority 54
"trinidad" Discussed on Majority 54
"Yeah i think one question folks should ask. Is how many swing voters. i know. It's crazy to even talk about swing voters right now. We're still very far away from the next presidential election and even pretty decently far away from the the midterms but you know just playing. You know the the perpetual game of political punditry who how many swing voters are there that are unvaccinated because the data here is very clear that this public as a whole supports these mandates pretty strongly the axiom poll yesterday but there's also a morning concept poll from august at both show strong public support for these kinds of mandates. So the public writ large and including any possible segment of the swing. Voters are strongly supportive of this. And that's before potentially it gets worse like jason. You've been talking about for awhile. What happens when this pandemic enters the realm of children which is where we're heading right now and some of the polling including that morning council poll shows it. It's not just that people are supportive of these mandates but defying the conventional wisdom which is that republicans right now are the they have the highest enthusiasm. Right now is is what i think. Most people have been pointing out over the past few months They're the people who are most rabidly anti biden and most animated which tends to happen into a mid-term. Actually the data shows that the people who are pro mandate are actually more enthusiastic in their support for the mandates. That people are post them now. One big caveat is now that we own the policy that could flip right now when you see people losing their jobs and people being fined and businesses Being punished for these mandates the republicans are agents of chaos. Here so they're going to be doing rallies and they're going to try to lay that chaos at the foot of biden and say this is as afghanistan was biden is the owner of chaos country. And that's the realm of politics. I think we're going to be entering now but also you know. I don't know if this is moving at all for ashley frasca. His parents and people liked them. But you guys sent around a piece that i thought was really great about the aclu. And the aclu basically pointed out that you know constitutionally speaking of vaccine mandate is not at all a violation of civil liberties you know this kind of like freedom bodily integrity freedom argument that's being made on the right Is not a constitutional win because those rights aren't absolute the because they don't include inflicting harm onto others which is basically what happens when you're unvaccinated. Get sick and then spread the disease. You're inflicting harm onto others.
AP News Radio
White House Offers Nicki Minaj Call to Answer Vaccine Questions
"The White House has offered to school of rap star after she posted incorrect information about the cool bit nineteen vaccine the Biden administration is trying to get Nicki Minaj back on key when it comes to claims about side effects of the coronavirus vaccine not got attention this week by posting an unverified claim that a cousin's male friend in her native Trinidad took the shot and ended up impotent and with swollen **** infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci says there's no way that's possible and the White House is looking to seven on straight it's part of an effort by the feds to address lingering concerns about the vaccine or not says she is open to talking with health experts I'm Oscar wells Gabriel
Mike Gallagher Podcast
The Johnson & Johnson Booster Shot Conundrum
"Minaj. The big rap superstar has expressed vaccine hesitancy. Something about her cousin and trinidad. I mean i don't mean to be vulgar here. But it has something to do with her cousins friend. In trinidad and his swollen testicles. I don't know i. She thinks maybe the vaccine caused and listen. I don't want any. That's not what i don't want. Swollen testicles okay. I draw the line that. I'm against that so i would like not to get that but now i'm struggling with having to get the booster. 'cause i got the j. and j. shot. The single dose new york. Times had a big article this week. What about everybody. On the johnson johnson regimen with nobody ever talks about the booster shots for us and now. There's a suggestion in the new york times anyway. The doctors who have gotten the johnson and johnson single-dose are going to get a single dose of the pfizer or moderna vaccine as a booster. Now i'm no doctor. On a like the idea of mixing up vaccines swollen testicles. Might be the least of my problem after i get all these vaccines merged.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Nicki Minaj Stayed Home From the Met Gala For a Very Ballsy Reason
"We haven't even gotten to nikki. Montages cousins swollen testicles from the vaccine. Now if you don't think i'm going to cover nikki. Massages cousins swollen testicles. You don't know me. I mean you don't you don't know this show very well. Of course we're going to have to cover that. Of course we're going to have to discuss nikki massage refusing to go to the met gala. Last night here in new york city because there was a vaccine requirement. And she has a cousin. I think in trinidad who got a vaccine and has swollen testicles and other side effects and her line was listen. I if i get the vaccine. He said the ma- the met gala has a vaccine requirement. If i get the vaccine it's not going to be to go to the met gala. She's got a point like they think they're so important over there those liberal elitist wealthy crazies
Hard Factor
"trinidad" Discussed on Hard Factor
"The met gala because right before it started noted bernie sanders supporter nikki manashe revealed that she isn't vaccinated and she's had cova nineteen in the past potentially recently and that's why she did not go to the mat gala and the internet when she made this announcement via twitter directly before it started went ape shit over it. Just absolutely bananas nikki tweets. They want you to get vaccinated for the met if i get vaccinated. It won't be for the met. It'll be once i feel. I've done enough research. I'm working on that now. In the meantime my loves be safe. Where the mask with two strings. Grips your head and face not the loose one prayer emoji hard emoji. So that's just nikki. Given out medical advice unsolicited because She's she knows because she is a girl. Let's get that picture sweetie backup. That's what's your marshall wing. Yeah no mark you're gonna wanna see. Nikki tweeted twenty minutes later. She followed up with a clarification on a little bit more about why she hasn't got the jab yet. she says. My cousin trinidad won't get the vaccine because his friend got it and became impotent. His became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married now. The girl called off the wedding. He's just prey on it and make sure you're comfortable with your decision. Not bullied because gas ballsy marrying. You gotta break that down. We gotta break that down. Line by line says so pat. Her cousin in trinidad won't get the vaccine. Same her because his friend got it. And then blamed. This is a joke. Made almost a year ago on the show. Saying some guy with e- especially when you look at the second part of the statement. What was coming up right. So let's assume that this guy might have been a pious gentleman not not having sex with his fiancee marriage. Sperm will know what i'm saying is the second part informs the first part and said respects because he got he had he had the right and the wedding was coming them was really hanging over his head. You know what i mean like. That's a tough date on the calendar. If you can't get it up and you haven't bangor yet very tough. Yeah had to come clean. And the vaccine was out out and then her fiance. Now it's on blast. Look i know that triggered the small country right. Nicki minaj is like she's like the president of trinidad. Everyone in trinidad knows this guy right. Blown up and then this woman has blown. Yeah is like a total coldhearted bitch right that she's bouncing on e d allegedly. I think that you guys are right though. He's probably just using. The vaccine is an excuse for his gigantically swollen testicles if they even are right she should tweeted a picture. Next complete the hat-trick pat a lot of people were calling for the picture and didn't provide value. The story was enough for her. It was over everything else mark. That's that's that's on god mark. This got a lot of buzz. Obviously a ton of randy marsh means you see here. Everybody's saying this. Mickey nikki massages friend with the giant nuts. It's marsh people claiming to be the anonymous man with the giants will nuts in trinidad. Vp of factor. Football operations pfc commenter. He made that claim a list of many people who were on that list. But here's a great reply directly to nikki's tweet. That i thought really summed up a lot of people were feeling jennifer priori replies in all caps she says omg nikki. My husband got vaccinated. But i love his balls so much and now. I'm afraid i really need that. Big round balls. No so too big now. She likes the way they are there. Perfectly big round now. I mean he's really caused a stir and people are upset about this guy's balls and trinidad castigating their balls checks left and right. He's got to show us. You offer any like Like i don't know like Different remedies for for taking care of it like some vicks fake vapor rub or maybe some colgate some patterns remedies taking the vaccine is. She's like now he's going to have to get covert the only way to reduce swelling hurting her. Her reasoning about code was also pretty funny. She's like i had it. And i had all the same symptoms that the vaccine people got so yeah her. Her research consists of firsthand cousin. Experiences totally shuts it firsthand and trust by friend consists of who sent to the message. Exactly what has the most emojis golf. I mean in the books scientific guys and you could tell. That's why that's why the internet is pretty upset because research is going to take thirty years. I mean she's thorough. She's very thorough as a researcher. That's for sure. Step one caller cousin lasko out his friends balls are yeah i mean i think you guys are right. We need a picture of the nuts or nash. Tell you what she would've got onstage. My sweetie so probably a good thing. She skipped out on the michael. She wasn't going to outdo that dress. Rick i'm just so happy that like her cousins friends testicles just like completely overshadowed the like nothing's compared to this dudes nuts wonder what he's doing right now. He's so sweating. He's responding to texts knows lou talking about he's like no they're going down a little bit. It's not even. I don't wanna talk to nikki about it. He's heartbroken man his his his left. We shouldn't have lied to her. He had no choice. The i did don't if if you're going to go all the way to the wedding and then you wanted pretend like cova gave you impotency. You're saying that he should have just come clean. Show to come clean impotent. And it's not the right and my balls are gigantic. They're like bigger way bigger than normal balls. The vaccines a perfect. Excuse for impotency glasses. A wedding photographer on viagra. He doesn't like to see people. Disrespect all the way up to the wedding like this. I mean i mean it's beautiful for me. i get to keep the deposit. But that's true. Remind washington shit on. This is similar to me to that. Like two hundred page anti vaccine. Pdf that like had texted to me by vac anti vaccine friend that claimed d. amax as one of the casualties of taking vaccine. Oh i was reading through. Page one through nine was like yeah okay. These people may have died related to the next thing and it was like an page twelve m. x. and then i got news for you i don't think it was covert or the next thing that got the amax so much shit and his body that take a look at this point. R.i.p dialects are are be. It's a mess fellows with this whole balls. Vaccine situation hopefully get sorted out and that's today's cup of coffee in the big time. Which was brought to you by full-bore barbecue the official barbecue sauces and rubs of the harto hive full-bore barbecue.
The Mason Minute
2020 Olympics (MM #3776)
"The Maison with Kevin Nation, the 2020 Olympics are finally here and I'm sure you're going to expect me to talk about covid-19 and how they've been delayed for a year, but I don't even care about that. I'm questioning the viability of the Olympics in our current world and I mean, partly political, but I mean, partly the world. We live in today, back in my youth seeing all these athletes from all across the world. People you'd never seen before was interesting was special but now thanks to worldwide television. Thanks to numerous twenty-four-hour. Sports networks, I can pretty much see any athlete any day of the week, no matter where they are on earth. There's always a camera to catch what they're doing. So are the Olympics still viable today? Does it really matter if we choose the greatest athlete in the world, from whatever particular country? It is. Now I spoke the other day about a Nashville athlete, she could make the US team. So she's going to be a part of the Trinidad and Tobago team. My wife's tired of hearing about this, I won't be watching any Olympics just because I don't understand what the big deal is anymore. Am I wrong?
The Mason Minute
2020 Olympics (MM #3776)
"The Maison with Kevin Nation, the 2020 Olympics are finally here and I'm sure you're going to expect me to talk about covid-19 and how they've been delayed for a year, but I don't even care about that. I'm questioning the viability of the Olympics in our current world and I mean, partly political, but I mean, partly the world. We live in today, back in my youth seeing all these athletes from all across the world. People you'd never seen before was interesting was special but now thanks to worldwide television. Thanks to numerous twenty-four-hour. Sports networks, I can pretty much see any athlete any day of the week, no matter where they are on earth. There's always a camera to catch what they're doing. So are the Olympics still viable today? Does it really matter if we choose the greatest athlete in the world, from whatever particular country? It is. Now I spoke the other day about a Nashville athlete, she could make the US team. So she's going to be a part of the Trinidad and Tobago team. My wife's tired of hearing about this, I won't be watching any Olympics just because I don't understand what the big deal is anymore. Am I wrong?
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"trinidad" Discussed on Bro Bro Bro Bets
"Ten play the super dfs play. I'll let you outta here on this. If it's not brooks who do you. Have the most confidence in taking home declared joe other than jon rahm honestly guys a guy like a lot is patrick. Can't lay he's thirty five one. I like can't late lack this week. And if you want a little longer shot. I like hires english. He sixty two one that you could play in really good form but just remember this for betting purposes. If there's no land in his plan really easy black bet more cala if there is win playing really difficult take a lot to look look at speeds and patrick ry those guys playing well inside condition. So that'd be my advice reliability. Jeff we can't thank you enough. Tell them how to subscribe so that they can get your tax to live bet on sundays. It's been on fire please. You guys just check out the cut maker. Pipe dot com at maker pot on on twitter. Just text the word golf eight five five and for the price of large pizza you all every play. We make all weekend long wise. Live betting golf. Where at folks so rich you guys. Let's us go come through with a win. If not a who. We live in another along the way. Good luck this weekend. We appreciate it. Thank you thank you thank you. You're gonna watch the euros this weekend over british open tony. We fucking rub my nose in it. I didn't do. I would never do such a thing so you got jeff on it. Gives out his. He texas every single weekend brighton. Bright and early. I mean they're going to be. They're going to be late coming in late so we got toward junkies coming on at four thirty so in between then what you wanna do. What is its own. Do you want to look at some premier league week. One line for tonight for soccer gold collar on here. Trinidad and tobago salvador. Tnt salvador won their first game to nothing. Guatemala trinidad and tobago tied mexico. Real trinidad tobago. Double chance minus one. Sixty t and t. I will take mixed. At and t. tonight against l. salvador explosive they can play utah mexico. You can play some mexico already has a draw in this world cup gorka. That's what i meant. Yeah so there's people will reeling from their loss in the concave See i don't know. I haven't looked did mexico's roster i don't know if it's a dozen feel like even canada didn't brings. I doubt he's probably playing in the. Mls rate is that. What does that no. Yeah he's playing galaxy o how the mighty a phone. It's mit actually. Lets you always do is take a look at game for it yeah. We got the nba finals. We do have the reason that is flying under the radar. I don't know if it's flying under the radar for everyone while considered said the vegas was considerably said that after the euro's daphne's fucking cleared out and no one was there for the nba finals game. Nba's die that's not true. That's very well the ratings as well my friend well 'cause they're happening on twitter mostly they just need to figure out how to better. Okay speaking of nba. I lost last night team. Usa did cover. They were due to anybody in the well. You know what. I fucked up. I look at argentina's roster before to nobly wasn't planning generally wasn't playing lewis skull. It looks like michael now and you know who's leading that team fucking composite who i talked. Shoot about on the nuggets for a month. Either best word. I think so so. That is tough. That was on me tonight. Sons plus four and a half bucks minus four and a half. I'm not touching that line for a while the over under sitting to twenty for a long time. It's now at two twenty one minute. What are you doing for tonight's game. I'm going with the box. And i'm gone with the over. We're getting back to the well tonight. Let's go you've turned on the sun. Rays is raising. Just all said that wrong and we said that wrong you taking the sons and the points. I'm taking the sons and the over up to twenty. Let's go. i'm also taking the signs on the money. Line one sixty eight on the plus you taking a parlay with capita. I have no. Because i have a same game pilot of the over. The over of eight points the over of aids rebounds the over booker's points and the over of chris paul's cysts and phoenix to win and the over on the team total. I have same game partly. It's plus three thousand. So i looked at minutes from the game that the sons one because i figured maybe they'll try to replicate the minutes from that game. Took whoever played the least amount of minutes took their unders. And i took the minute. I looked at the minutes from the last game. That milwaukee one. I said you know they're probably gonna play similar in sub sub pattern and stuff like that. So i'm going under six and a half point cam johnson. This might get me. Because he's been shooting. Well cam johnson under eight and a half points bobby. Portis under six and a half and then brook lopez's under points rebounds and threes the the bucks when small ball and they played. Well so i'm thinking maybe hopefully brooks brook lopez doesn't see much you see this comeback booths for tonight. I did what do you think don't hate it. Made use it. I yeah. I can't hate it. They'll come back both. Yeah i kinda hate it. Talk years three does logos taco and We got another guest coming on at four thirty. We're gonna fill up the lines. Connor said he would go back around. Four twenty five. And then we'll take your calls after toward junkies on eight three three four one eight three three four six two three three three. That's one eight three three four six two three three three. If you wanna call the money line we'll get to you after toward junkies. One eight three three four six two two three three three daikin caller to dive into a few. Epl real quick before you get off the boost in the nba game three by two. It's double time tonight. Also throw in that. Let's go to first and second half plus four hundred gs. There's a boost phoenix. Cover and chris paul to score twenty plus nope and then janas minus sixteen and a half combined points rebounds in assists versus devon booker. That's a lot of this law. They always way too much. I mean the honest. There's no one that stopping you honest right now. I thought jae crowder made but no one stopping us. Right now Yeah what do you got this week. One yes sorry not week one match day. One there you go. These are ones that you just want to look at. I mean there's no shame in hopping on them now. Man cities modest one sixty against tottenham. I've no idea what this team is going gonna look like Sonny boy started is every cain they're like hurricane needs a little bit of rest. Okay just let him rest..
Revision Path
Interview With Visual Design Student, Cherry-Ann Davis
"All right so tell us who you are and what you do. I m cherian. Davis and i am currently a masters students at zurich university of the arts studying. Visual communication. Design and zurich. That's zurich in switzerland correct. Yes rica's onset salon. I left my good hot. I land in zurich. Another parts of do that. I've not been before. Well first of all. I never left my country for longer than a week before moving to switzerland. Wow yes and you've been there. I think you told me earlier. You've been there. Since february of last year yes february. Twenty twenty. I moved to hyperactive my four suitcases. It's everything that i wouldn't. And i hold their in my life and i brought with me so many books and i came by myself in a new field. How's it been adjusting to everything. Well one months after arriving. There was a global lockdown. So that's a judgment period was quite hot. Because i didn't know anybody person that i knew he kinda like drop me as soon as i got to switzerland's in up on them iq by myself not knowing anyone in flatwoods to other people upstairs on the people who were on my floor left. They went back to their countries to spend quarantine or their families to spend that time. And i was just by myself. Yeah being new to school not even having time to meet my classmates. I'm gets new them. It was rough. It was real hard. My goodness i can only imagine. How did you get through that while. We're still getting it right. I am still getting true. North brands like i prayed a lot and i spoke to my therapist a lot. Because as much as you think that as much as i was repaired mentally too moves another country. I was not prepared mentally. It's a move to another country and be in so much isolation. Although i lived on my own and i was back in trinidad i. It was something that i could not comprehend
Voice in Canada
Amazon Sidewalk Launching in the US
"Today. I wanna tell you about a new feature. And i'm going to be straight up front with you right now. This feature is not coming to canada. Initially it's being launched in the united states but it is quite a controversial feature for lexi and it is creating a lot of buzz around the internet. And so i do. I wanna just mention it to you. This is the feature or the the product or the service amazon sidewalk and the best way to describe. This is for those of you that have like a wifi mesh network at home where you have multiple Individual routers multiple devices around the home which basically crew blankets. Your home in a stronger wifi signal amazon is doing not to a greater degree with neighborhoods by using your actual devices as those devices that put out the signal. No it's not. It's not a wifi signal. It's a different type of signal but the idea. Is that if you have an echo device or you have a are ring camera or doorbell These devices can theoretically communicate with each other and blanket neighborhoods with a signal that then allows others in the area to us. Four things such as Beacons so i'll give you a use case because it'll probably make things a little more concrete. Let's say you have a pet and you choose to put this device on your pet. Nath your pet is walking around the neighborhood and these devices that use amazon sidewalk are active throughout the neighborhood. They have a wave communicating with that beacon. And telling you where it is. It's kind of like the apple app like find. Find my phone right where you can see where your phone is the differences with amazon sidewalk. It is using the technology to communicate with devices that are native to amazon now. There's a lot of controversy about this is a good thing. It's a bad thing. One of the things that has come up is that by default it is on so you do. Have the option trinidad off. It is not available in canada right now but it is such a hot topic that i wanted just mentioned it to
Hogsmen Podcast presents Talk To The Hog
"trinidad" Discussed on Hogsmen Podcast presents Talk To The Hog
"Trinidad music so you guys for having me on blast kind of reminiscing and got we. I think we have twelve one stories for days man so this may have to jump back on down the road. I definitely enjoy data listening to your your show sincere in and i just i love i just loved episodes with with such a good storyteller and but man i think he has for having me on. Of course do we go. We wanted to have you on for the longest time and obviously we have the perfect opportunity. I'm i'm glad you took time away. And we were able to talk to us just for a little bit and i really appreciate it in a miss. You like crazy. You're one of my very few friends. Still i don't have i don't have But you want. I consider you one of my best friends in a you know i love you. View in the family are doing extraordinary. Same here let me too bud. Alright all right. So adam Next week you'll be mania and next week we'll have a special guest Another special guest. I'll get that That i picked up during the week. Here Thanks everybody for listening to watch the episode on youtube as the augments podcast. It'll be available tomorrow on. Spotify and apple podcasts angelo. Thanks again and sorry adam. Enjoy your trip. thank you. And that is the last word.
Hogsmen Podcast presents Talk To The Hog
"trinidad" Discussed on Hogsmen Podcast presents Talk To The Hog
"Now i'm gonna. I'll get those ones these ones sent out for you. 'cause you you appreciate it more than you know i would especially gotta i actually got a care package from from the other day. That included this gem rare. Yes that hogan card nice. Nice little Ken griffey one tops and in chipper jones rookie card. Oh you are welcomed for the millions of dollars that are going to be in your bank account my friend. I appreciate those. Those are worthless those are going to be worth a lot of money. I think those are the ones. I would definitely send it talking with. Michael kevin the other night were debating whether we eat the gum. That's in the packages of the. Don't do it. I i did the first night i opened it. It it just in your mouth yes. It's it's really gross surprised. I'm not that saw the end. Talk about your your your weekly. Excuse me your weekly rips on On facebook I always tune in for that What are you gonna be opening up. monday so this monday. On my facebook albie ripping doing is twenty twenty Ellen and so scary here is after the The model after like tobacco expects so. I'll be opening that on monday around five. Pm ish this might be a little bit later of a long day at work on monday. i Do a weekly monday night. Rip on facebook facebook dot com slash angelo trinidad music and more often than not. Open up some mail to where you i know you get your clark r. I get my cards from walmart or target which target never has Where do you go to get your stuff now. Especially in california. Why am swimming that it's more popular than here in pennsylvania. Yeah so. I try target and walmart. I've never found any cards at walmart. Sometimes that target that it'll be there when the when the vendors stocking up a majority of my cards buy on the secondary markets on And i also local card shop in laguna hills called. Mvp sport shop Sports cards that..
Hogsmen Podcast presents Talk To The Hog
"trinidad" Discussed on Hogsmen Podcast presents Talk To The Hog
"You know. The return is going to become a is going to be great. Actually have the second cards. I want to send in right here. Okay so So i wanted to send in my Luis robert tops chrome rookie. And some of the other top rookies from from last season as well also have a yordan alvarez and a lewis rookie of the year But yeah also. I did have a lamelo. I wanted to send. Nba hoops but pulled this in a redemption card on the beer baseball broadcast. It's a rod karoo seventy-one bat relic and you write your hand numbered two twenty five foil stamped but then there's some cards like i had no idea like so this carter here. This is jordan. Love in twenty twenty dollars optic and at lloyd. Yeah how good carter was. I mean i know. He's one of the most sought after rookie cards out there. But this green bay pearl. At the time when i looked it up the closed listings. We're going for one hundred bucks. Why didn't know that but the one. I really wanna get graded. I pulled this also in two thousand twenty dollars. Optic retail as aaron rodgers downtown. This is going for like two fifty to three hundred on ebay ungraded. This is the one in every case. So i got case it for retail out of that so spencer torkelsson autograph so i definitely have carton and i don't necessarily want to get them graded increase their value. I wanna get upgraded. Because i like how they other slabs right. This is an older degraded cars in the background are those are all joe. Adele graded cards but this is first bowman graded nine mint so but they just look so clean so nice so you could put him on in display Very nicely on your little shelf right there behind you. You like lows baby lows. I learned that on the project guy had on youtube. I should have done it in. Said look this mitch. This is better But so so that. Aaron rodgers cardiac optic in now. You said that you said to to to fifty that's raw. That's just outright. Not even that's not that's just what now if it was great. It's a comeback as a ten. What would what would you think the value would be at that point. Maybe four five hundred five yet and the should pulled. I should have pulled the gun last night on a card Last night obviously today being thursday last night. Wednesday night was when lin door Signed his big contract with the mets. So i went on ebay. I wanted to see what kind of linda rookie cards are out there. And they had a a atop. Update two thousand fifteen Francisco indoor rookie card. And it was the sparkle and it was just it was just raw and the guy was selling it for twenty five bucks. I was like wow okay. You don't really see those because you normally just base cards in a pack and every now and then you get refractory. Something and then i saw what they were selling floor when they came back is a even a psa nine or a psa ten east cards. Were worth three fifty up to five hundred dollars..
Breaking Green Ceilings
Environmental Consultant Stacey Isaac Berahzer Is All About Water
"My name is stacey isaac raza. I run a stall environmental. Consulting firm called ibm environmental. We only like released added in september two thousand and two but it's been a funding so far i got into the field of voice against the movie was in my undergraduate degree where i had an internship during the semester and ended up doing what follows the stuff i did. Different things that boost. But or woulda i ended up on everything from yeah into of indexing different streams or what bodies within the us different shopping segments into of the solid With anything different refinements ec had put a designated saddam will not and so that's probably rare relieve loyal insufficiently symptoms. And you also have an interesting background. You're from trinidad. And most people probably don't know much about tim's of its water issues to my kind of giving us a bit of an overview of the water situation there absolutely. I didn't grow up. Include noninvasive tobacco. Which is an island. Republican the caribbean to in small islands in the tropics through a good bit of rainfall but in terms of the island environment awards the russia's off the land pretty quickly storing capturing and storing it for human is is enforced sunday challenge also the high volumes of reform that we have signed in an island environment trindad coupled with developments and develop lines construction on even navas mountain range the the non arranging and of course issues flooding on the last couple of decades
Short Wave
Bring Me Chocolate Or Bring Me Dead Stuff
"All right emily kwong lay some of that chocolate goodness on me. You got it because chocolate is the true meaning of valentine's day only chocolate. This pure can be this. So i love you but lactose intolerant. Why are you doing this to me. I thought about this. The thing that gives chocolate. Its flavor is dairy free. Did you know cocoa comes from a fruit that grows these amazing looking multicolored cacao pods and i was. Cd's read things hanging from the trees. While what are these things. This is food scientists. Darren ostrom suka at the cocoa research center at the university of the west indies. Speaking with simmons safety and our friends at life kit about his fascination with cacao pods. It's like it's like a football shape. Fruit it can be smooth. It can be wate. it can have ridges. Darren saw these pods all over the place. Growing up in trinidad and tobago. They grow on the couch. Frey or theobroma cacao in under story crop of the tropical rainforest meaning they grow pretty close to the ground and the exterior of these pods is hard like it's tough but not so tough that critters can't break it open to go on a little cow binge correct if i was a squirrel. This would be what i would do. I mean absolutely. Darren breaks open a pod with a special tool kind of like a dull michigan it resists when gives time what it feels very satisfying on. Then when you twist the blade you hear a sort of crunch on you see opening insite describes the inside of the pod like a sticky cobwebs it has rows of caucases which he calls beans covered in this gummy white pulp called musa delicious mm-hmm usage and the aroma hits immediately. I'm spending my and it smells. Citrusy like like citrus flowers. It's like a subtle perfume Yeah there's so much flavor potential in these cacao beans at this point once the pot is opened fermentation begins so after. The seeds are removed from the pod. They're collected and transported to an area where they can ferment for days. Yeah and naturally occurring microbes breakdown. Those beans unlock their flavor notes. I i did not know that. Quang i mean for meditation gotta love it. Kind of sounds like like wine a little bit. Maybe a little bit. Yeah kinda if you think of cacao beans grapes and the tastes does reflect the ecosystem from which it came. The beans are then sorted roasted and sold to chocolate-makers to become the chocolate. You know and love. it can be fruity. it can be floral. It can be bright. So i like to think of a flavor profile that cuckoo offense to be like a good piece of music is we. What makes a good piece of chocolate is a harmonious 'presentation of flavor notes that in balance with each other at the coco research centre. He works on the level of genetics and with farmers to optimizing flavor and adopting their crops to climate change and disease. Darren even works with the cacao. Farm used to pass as a child. Chocolate is something he just can't stay away from is like with ocala. Florida is she. You can check out anytime you want. But you've been the relieve gets on the skin and it becomes your positive your consciousness so for me. I don't really work at a job. I work at
KCRW
"trinidad" Discussed on KCRW
"Up, darling. KCRW music. Something here called Next Blue from Harrison. Mr. Easy gave us poor me. Water fantasy dubbed new music. That's where I teach. Universal featuring Bob Acela cannons in the seventh Fire for you, Russian Murphy give us incapable and new music from Imperatori said. The top voodoo is the cut is the lazy wax remix questions questions about the two niche jams. Feel free to holler on me directly at Garth Trinidad on Twitter and IG is the best way way. You can email me too. That's also cool. I'll get right back garden dot Trinidad kcrw dot org Get you taken care of.
KCRW
"trinidad" Discussed on KCRW
"Belonged to my mother. You don't rob, I got my comfort. Nice idea. Yeah, Tonight's up to the judge. Be It's KCRW music for your Thursday night. Garth Trinidad Live and direct from the KCRW's studios and Santa Monica, California All Obama lonesome, keeping it extra clean. No, I mean Dove on them are organ trio right here with from.
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"trinidad" Discussed on KCRW
"KCRW music. Tuesday night affair Garth Trinidad with you hear back from my two weeks stretched during the Rhona rotation. Like my man child's. Peterson likes to say connecting the dots. His chemists would go out and dance. Thundercats gave us fair chance. It's a remix by floating points featuring time dollar signs and little bee Little Bee. Marcus killed more featured on drums for this new single by Taylor McFarren. It's called Chance to say My piece recently released new tailor McFarren. These sacred souls definitely. Favorites of 2020 Give us justice. Classic James Brown. It's a man's man's man's world. It's the one with three man's And classic Lula read to begin your key Don't fit. No more words. Lots and lots and lots and lots of good music to share as usual. Stay tuned. A lot of white evangelicals have stood by President Trump for the past four years. One.
KCRW
"trinidad" Discussed on KCRW
"Year, everybody. Garth Trinidad back from my two week stretch as the Rhona rotation continues here on KCRW for any Howard remix bomb, Bony bear. We heard short and sweet. Hope women with something new that's kids falling in love. L A bamboo gave us more. Harris The Bongo hap with Agua Fria on a brand new manga Rama LP from Jose Resource crew, talented cast of players in heavy hitters, including a man James Saville ETA on the mic for the title track. Of the album, Maddie Process contained music to round out the first set from my Dear friend Al Jacks, three a k A. Al Jackson, who I found out late last night. Way lost so starting out the scent tonight, very heavy hearted, having shed a lot of tears in the last 24 hours. Al Jackson, along with the soul, Children created worlds of beauty and positivity that defined an era of L. A dance culture, especially for those of us that found comfort and attending the juju. After hours, parties and Mid city and Lamarque Park and Inglewood, Jackson had ears of black gold as a DJ he attained Sole controller status. He was one of my Yoda's. I'll was one of the most gracious, kind, considerate, positive human beings I've ever had The pleasure of knowing and he will be sorely missed, and I'm sending peace and love to family and friends of Al Jackson. Dude, you forever stay tuned a little bit later on. We pay. How much a little tribute to MF Doom. Who I recently found out past is well on Halloween of this last year anyway, Thanks for joining us, it's KCRW music. No. Tomorrow on press play. A few years ago, the half brother of.
Black Women Travel Podcast
The Story of The Wandering Pier
"Thanks so much for joining us today. Can you please tell us your name where you're from your current shin and the name of your business. This this pair. I'm from trinidad. And tobago and london. And i'm currently located in nine malaysia. And my business. I work in the english language department. So i am an esl teacher at the moment. And when i'm not doing that. I'm traveling the world. Not in twenty twenty and when you say traveling the world like you mean literally taraborrelli. I think it would be easier for you to tell us where you have not been not yet not yet. I mean it's easier to tell you. I have been i don't know all were for. You've been out there so like i've been poking around in your life and a source he started like your blog. Mama sita garcia in twenty eleven on instagram and twitter. You're wondering pierre the wandering deer so you've just been like document team your travels from time and so now also also for those don't know trinidad. is just off the coast of venezuela So you got your little south america on a little bit too so okay just okay. Let's just go back. Just go back like just tell me all the things like when did you find your wanderlust. i would say that. It really came into play once i started. No actually that was more. Solo travel some jumping ahead there wunderlist. Last i think became more of a thing when travel became easier for me and that was in the form of my british passport so i have dual citizenship with the uk and trinidad and tobago and prior to that. It was just very restricting. You know like when you need a visa at just odds so much to To the plate when you want to travel somewhere. So i think because of that i had travelled you know Since i was young i had been to england and had been to the us. My mom made sure that we got to see a little bit of the world where she was able to make that happen And when i moved to england. I really do that much i. I went on a school trip to spain. And that's when i decided. I'm kinda live in spain. One day of but yeah generally it was. It was more when my passport opened up the doors to do it more freely and so it meant that in especially as a unique students i think. When did i get hospita. Gosh i can't remember probably like two thousand end saechsische ish somewhere around there maybe and Yeah just through. Uni knows before that story and then through union we would take these short trips because myth ryanair and easyjet is confined like super cheap flights. We wanted to explore more of the uk. But the costume. Going to like scotland would like the same cost is going to stockholm. So so we were. Just go out. And that's when it was really ignited. I would say the more i did it the more i wanted to do it and it was just really accessible in uni when that student loan came through i would pay what needed to be paid so like my accommodation any books any fees and then whatever was left was like right. Where can we go. Even if that meant a cades gonna be beans on toast for for the rest of the tim. The hours balanced the way it went so we would like and squeeze in trips here and there
Revision Path
Camille Selvon Abrahams on the animation industry during COVID
"I am also the founding director glenn emissions do so we are continuing work work from home and i think that's what is happening a lot with animation studios. That's what i'm hearing from my international friends. Who are doing these sort of things similar to what we are doing that. We are working from holes. And i think animators maybe creative on a whole we kind of okay with that. You know we we at least from me my experience being anonymous you enjoy that into law saying you enjoy going in yourself. So working from hall is not a big deal for us so a lot of will now actually is going on from whom we doing. A lot of commercial syllabi actually. Doing outsourcing from international students from various small jobs that we actually functioning. So it's a good thing for us. We were able to adopt nice earlier on in the year. I talked to a guy are is. He has a animation studio in tokyo and he was sort of saying pretty much the same thing like they've been working from home some of them do come into the office. I think when. I talked to him. He was in the office. They were only him in like one other person but yes seems like for animation. It seems like that's actually preferable because it's so detail oriented. Yes yes actually works. I spoke to one of the big agencies that the sofa toon boom animation in canada and they said because of this shift companies are now thinking. Well okay we just continue like that. In covert or no covert will king from whole final mission and game and game. It's looking for the industry. No you founded full circle. Animation studio like several several years ago. How has the company really changed over the years quite a bit. When i returned from london i studied that. Goldsmiths mincy on i. I made a decision to come back to the caribbean. That was a big step because trinidad and tobago. We are oil and gas country. That's what economy is based on me coming back and windy creative digital type correa. Abviously was a challenge. Because that's not what we are accustomed to so coming back with. Difficulty took about previous to kind of get on my feet as far as the studio on after the ten ta gratin business now his name is jason lindsey who had a very strong business background so without sort of thumb partnership where you have decreased if any business it really really supported the studio from becoming micro stew into a relatively successful outsourcing to handy caribbean. So that's kind of how it's moved and now we are. We are considered one of the outsourcing studios in the caribbean. We've outsourced with pro. Hbo's of our. Will you know you see on each be on cotton. We've we actually have a one hundred and international productions
Latino Rebels Radio
Black Lives Matter In Belize
"Once again, this is Oscar Fernandez today on the show we put the spotlight on Belize and how the black lives matter movement shines a light on how believes is history has been excluded from Central American history, and so we're joined today by Nicole Ramsey who's a Candidate in a Department of African. American and African Diaspora studies at UC Berkeley she has an article that came out last month in medium entitled as Remind Central America to think outside the box she joins us today over the phone. Welcome to show Nicole Ramsey. Thank you for having me. Excited to be here is good to have you with us. I couldn't my introduction brief because actually pulled it from your article regards to Belize Central America. Once again, the Arctic was entitled Belise Remind Central America to think outside the box and when the central arguments you make in your article is that the black lives matter movement and I took this directly from your article shines a light on how belise history has been excluded from Central America. So, with that in mind, let me just go right there to the beginning and ask if you could elaborate and state your argument by what you mean by the black lives matter as pertains to beliefs which in turn pertains to Central America. Yeah for sure. So what envisioning what I was in? When I came up with the article title you know those with everything that's going on. There's been a lot of discussion and in terms of black lives matter and what that means for black population living outside the US I find a lot of conversations especially. I'm really interested in like conversations that happen online. I was really I guess interested in how people were conceptualizing black lives matter as mostly an African American movement which you know there's a particular history and reasoning of why how black lives matter came in to being. particularly in the US. but it was it was just very interesting to see how mostly folks from Latin America. Caribbean. Europe other places. Outside saw that as distance from what was going on in their particular countries. So. In the case, of Central, America you know black lives have always mattered. There's always been struggles of On, the ground with black people fighting again, know the colonial administration and anti-black midst especially what's going on with Garifuna communities across central? America. So that's what I was thinking about. That's what I had in mind when I, came up with this article and it was just kind of talk about it later too because it's kind of like this long history of exclusion in the region and the region and how people conceptualize Central America so I thought in order for us to. Even. Delve into what You, know black lives. Matter Movement Looks Central America certainly have to acknowledge. Black Communities and black histories in the region I. so that's kind of where I was getting at and I'm a fan of history off it's kind of like a title things together. Absolutely we just had a show last week on the Gutty Funez on Duras and in a large way they play a central role. Belize as well. So we'll get to them once again during the course of the conversation. But with that said, there are other groups that make Belize very complex as far as this community is concerned, there's some other groups that need to be recognized. So I wonder if you could also explain the complexity of the Afro Belizian community in believes because not every black person in Belize is necessarily a Gutty Fuda, their other complexities and needs to be addressed here. Correct. Yes for sure. And that's even including myself I'm not guarantee now I'm what you would consider creole. So depending on. The vantage point, but you look at central. America play believes etc. Gua. Even think accent complaints with endurance creole just like black. Identity of black population mixture of blackness feeding back to the enslavement of large populations in the business. So thinking about that identity in believes to historic. Black Group are black creoles. And the Afrin Vision is getting food and I say black correal's because it's. It's common to meet somebody blond-haired blue-eyed of like, who visually looks why to also call themselves. And it's also the language that they also speak in believe. So there's a lot of complexity there and fusion So I really like to say black creoles because also like the history of creoles and believe ties back to kind of that enslavement period. And of course. When I was there last full for feel work you have legal whole bunch of other. black groups that are that have been in believe for quite some time you have like a very Pan Caribbean. migration and group within believe. So you can meet somebody from Jamaica. You can meet somebody from Barbados Trinidad. So that's also present there. and then recently you have a lot of immigrants from. The continent diamond a few people from Nigeria I. Think someone someone from Ghana, and then of course, from Haiti as well. considering migration Haitians to central. So there's like different levels of that. But in terms of like historic, it's black KRILL and offering digits Garifuna and I do like to. Talk about them within the compass of affable believers because there has been like a mixture between two. It's not unusual to meet somebody with a creole mother and A. Father vice versa So it kind of intertwined throughout but the cultures are very distinct and that's important to note they have a different history different time line of you know. Experience within the country which kind of work to conceptualize how they're viewed within beliefs but I think that's very important to also considering language racial formations. So yeah.
AP News Radio
Trini Lopez, 1960s-era singer mentored by Sinatra, dies
"Singer and actor Trini Lopez has died from complications of covert nineteen in palm springs California he was eighty three I marches are a letter with a look at his career limb there Trinidad Lopez the third was told to change his name to help his career he said no because he embraced as Mexican American heritage his first gigs as a guitarist were playing in Dallas night clubs that did not allow Mexican Americans he was famous for his versions of the songs lemon tree and if I had a hammer he crossed over into acting appearing in the dirty dozen movie and TV's Adam twelve rock musicians the edge and Dave Grohl were among the fans of the guitars that Lopez designed
AP News Radio
Trini Lopez, 1960s-era singer mentored by Sinatra, dies
"Singer and actor Trini Lopez has died from complications of covert nineteen in palm springs California he was eighty three I marches are a letter with a look at his career limb there Trinidad Lopez the third was told to change his name to help his career he said no because he embraced as Mexican American heritage his first gigs as a guitarist were playing in Dallas night clubs that did not allow Mexican Americans he was famous for his versions of the songs lemon tree and if I had a hammer he crossed over into acting appearing in the dirty dozen movie and TV's Adam twelve rock musicians the edge and Dave Grohl were among the fans of the guitars that Lopez designed