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Mark Levin
Chris Christie Goes From Unpopular to Despised With Latest Gaffe
"Was but spanky was kind of the leader of so you can imagine what Chris Christie went through as kid any would honestly who's as wide as he is tall but I don't say that to demean people who have weight issues I have weight issues constantly trying to lose weight I just lost believe it or not I've lost I was 237 pounds mr. it is six feet tall I'm down to 231 I want to get to 220 and that's it my wife says 185 I said not in this lifetime that ain't happening but it was my Christie understanding had the band you know in the tummy and all the rest of it and he's got a I think an issue he's got an issue so of self -confidence so he overcompensates for mark since when did you become a psychologist isn't everybody a psychologist do I have to go to school to be a psychologist and you psychologists who support the show there's no offense I'm sit there and listen with that weird look on your face excuse me that would be a liberal psychologist none of you in the audience all right anyway but Christie's not running to be president because he wants to be a statesman because he wants to be a leader because he has an essential agenda for the nation Christie will not be president he couldn't get elected governor again in New Jersey of his life depended on he's very unpopular but he's reached the point from unpopular to despise and of course like most cards he won't come on this program that's alright but I want you to listen to this he's on CNN and here's what you need to understand most of Sunday these shows except for Shannon Breen of course the lowest of the low lives go on these Sunday shows the lowest of the love the Romney's Romney was under he won't vote for Vivek or Trump he'd vote for Biden instead who asked him who cares well CBS cares Friday I guess they did the reason Romney's not running again is he couldn't get elected in the most Republican or one of the most Republican country we call it Utah so here he is this was Dana Bash there was an IQ of a lobster boiled Dana Bash can anybody tell me why Dana Bash has a program anybody raise raise your hand nobody raises their hand all the intrigue that goes on or used to go on behind the scenes at CNN this one dating this one this one marrying this one this one cheating on this one not Dana I'm not talking about her but all kinds of people there that that that day of course let's listen to this cut five go governor I want to ask about the spike in hate against Jews in the United States you told you the New York Times that you believe former President Donald Trump's quote intolerance for everybody has contributed to the surge in anti -semitism and Islamophobia stop stop here stop here I told you when I thought of what Joe Scarborough said you what the former senator from saying the slob and now Christie that the reason we have all this anti -semitism in America and even Islamophobia is because of Donald Trump literally so in a handful of days on MSNBC Trump wants to execute people Trump Trump is worse than Hitler and Mussolini then we go to CNN and we listen to the Cape Mayorka Chris Christie remember the the remember empty the beach I talked about that Mr. Brutus remember the sperm whale he and the little ones and the wifey beach the beach is cleared out but there he is the sperm whale all by himself of course Christie is a member he doesn't get that decide I get to decide whether he's a member I get to decide whether he's a member he's a member of Fatties United or FU so FU Chris and there he is saying that Trump is responsible go ahead when you show intolerance towards everyone which is what he does yeah you give permission as a leader for others to have their intolerance come out and so you know intolerance towards anyone encourages intolerance towards everyone and that's exactly what's going on he's not qualified to be president he's not qualified to be anything we have a real problem in this country with anti -semitism and to lay that on Trump I can give you an arm's -long list of the things Trump did for the state of Israel and to protect Jewish people in this country I can't tell you thing one Chris Christie has ever done that said we have a real problem with Jew haters in this country with tenured professors were people coming into this country with open border people carrying the Hamas they flag hate Trump they're not gonna vote for Trump for president they're gonna vote for Biden you you and so for this slob to go on CNN and say what says he he just playing to a very small niche out there ladies and gentlemen small niche out there he's running very very hard in one state New Hampshire he's incoming second maybe tip the the scales a little bit and then everybody you start talking about Chris Christie great
The Greg McAfee Show
Mike Agugliaro: To Scale a Business You Have to Scale YOURSELF
"So what would you, what do we tell the company that the business owner who's been doing, you know, somewhere between two and four million and he's capped out and he's burned out and he's not charging enough. What kind of advice do you understand it? He's good at what he does, but he doesn't understand a lot of the business side. What kind of advice do you give that guy? Well, I mean, the first thing everybody should write down, that's listening to this to, to scale anything, you have to scale yourself. And I think people don't spend enough time investing in improving themselves. They, they carry these belief systems that they've been programmed with. Like my dad, you know, he, he told me when I was a kid, he programmed me with money doesn't grow on trees. And after I was doing about 20 million in business and just anybody listening, I went from under a million to 32 million in less than 10 years. So I had 165 service trucks on the road all over New Jersey. You know, we, we did 40 ,000 customers a month. So we did a fair amount of customers, 200 employees, double digit profit. And what's that? What year? That was 2017. And I sold it in 2017, which feels like yesterday to me, I sold it for a sign my name and walk away deal at one of the highest multiples, not compared to what's happened through this last roll up, but one of the highest multiples, I was like the cat's meow, you know, and my dad, I went to him and I said, dad, you were right about one thing and wrong about another. And of course, my dad's a big Italian guy. He wants to know what he did wrong, right? I said, first, you told me money doesn't grow on trees. I said, but if I had lemon trees and apple trees, I could pick that and sell it for money. And he said something to me that changed my life forever. He said, you know what, son, I only told you what my dad told me. And in his dad told him, I started to question myself, how many people struggling in business in the world today for whatever they want to do, because they keep following beliefs that might have some value, but may not have what you need today. So then, of course, Greg, you're probably wondering, my dad's like, oh, well, at least what did I tell you that that was true? I said, well, you told me you didn't own the utility company, shut the damn lights off. And I said, you were right. You still don't own you still don't own the utility company. And then I became just like my dad, my kids, my whole life telling them shut the lights off, right? I don't own the utility company. So I think that's part about business owners today is to sit there and say, hang on, maybe I don't know. The next one, I'd say probably number three here is I am such a believer in coaching. Not because we do forms of coaching. I've had seven coaches is the most I had at one time. I had spiritual coach, relationship coach, marketing coach, business scaling coach. I have seven. I am a big believer that you're investing in solving your most immediate problem. And you probably heard this phrase. Everybody heard it like success leaves clues. But like who has time to be like when my daughter was little, she used to watch Dora the Explorer for anybody that knows that like who has time in life, Greg, to go run around and play Dora the Explorer and look for a clue. I want someone to give me the clue right now and say, look, here's what I want you to consider. If you do this and this, you're probably going to get that. And we've proved that over time. So those three, those couple things there can change everything for everyone.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan's Northvale, NJ Book Signing Was an Epic Success!
"That for this weekend special so a lot happened since I've been with you last first we had a book signing Friday in Northvale New Jersey I expected like 350 people 500 people showed up it was crazy the nicest people huge shout out to the cops and a lot of people showed up I I had some DEA guys FBI guys couple of 75 precinct guy ESU SWAT guys there and one guy came up to me and said Dan I love it when you give shout outs to the truckers and the HVAC guys and the carpenters and the electricians and the steam fitters but you got to mention this railroad guys shout out to the railroad guy and railroad guys out there we love you too but seeing everyone up close and personal is crazy we were there three and a half hours guy said the book signing was nuts our last book signing for a while little while probably not the last one but for a while is this week in Dallas so this is kind of a weekend update on Diana Ball here Dallas this Friday November 17th 2pm local time Grapevine Texas at the Books -A -Million don't miss it we will be there their WBAP audience Jim is saying this is going to be the most packed one yet we've had anywhere from 300 to 800 people these things they're always crowded I don't know we'll see Jim's saying yes WBAP audience represent Grapevine Texas this Friday November 17th 2 p .m. local time book signing at Books -A -Million and Grapevine if you want the deets it's on my Instagram Twitter and true social just scroll through you'll see a lot of them there that's pretty cool so that happened and I want to thank the guy who his gave up parking spot in front of the bookstore they forgot to save us a parking spot so we there was not a single spot in this entire parking lot and the guy in the black truck who he's I said listen if we get you line in first will you give us his spot I had
a16z
A highlight from The Worlds She Sees with Godmother of AI, Fei-Fei Li
"That just kind of changed me to this day. Physics is still, you know, first love. Learning is organic, learning is messy, learning is big data, learning is reinforcement, you know, trial and error. It took me two years of agony. It's hard to resist Stanford and Silicon Valley when AI was taking off. Not a single university today in America can train a chat GPT model, not even probably GPT. Sweet. The quest for artificial intelligence has spanned for decades, with the field really kicking off in the 1950s. Each era was marked by unique breakthroughs, and despite the recent flourish of advancements, the foundational work has long been underway by a cast of characters dedicated to pushing this frontier. One notable figure, some even referring to her as the grandmother of AI, is Fei -Fei Li, a professor of the computer science department at Stanford University and co -director of Stanford's Human -Centered AI Institute. And in today's episode, we have the pleasure of her joining Bio and Health founding partner Vijay Pandey to discuss her journey through the years, from uprooting as a teenager from Chengdu, China to Persephone, New Jersey, and barely speaking English at the time, all the way to building ImageNet, an instrumental project taking computer vision projects from tens of thousands of images to tens of millions. Throughout the episode, you'll also hear many of Fei -Fei's very human stories, like running a dry cleaning shop while she was at Princeton to her mother's role in allowing her to pursue physics, all of which helps to shape her vision for the very technology that she helped bring to life. Fei -Fei also just released her new book, The Worlds I See, that dives even deeper into her history and relationship with technology. You can find the link to that book in our show notes, and I can tell you as a daughter of two immigrants, this story really resonated. I hope it does for you too. And this episode comes from our sister podcast, BioEats World, so make sure to go check that out too. Let's dive in. As a reminder, the content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security, and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund. Please note that A16Z and its affiliates may also maintain investments in the companies discussed in this podcast. For more details, including a link to our investments, please see a16z .com slash disclosures.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from What Turning Point Action is Doing to Win with Tyler Bowyer and Rich Baris
"Dr. Peter McCullough says the most common question he's asked is how do I get this out of my body? Spike support formula is the only product that contains ingredients researched to block and dissolve spike protein in the bloodstream. So whether you got the shot, had a bad bout of COVID, or are worried about shedding, there is something you could do now to protect yourself. Head to twc .health slash kirk to buy the wellness company spike support formula and get back to feeling your best. Use promo code kirk at checkout for 10 % off your order. That is promo code kirk for 10 % off your order. Hey everybody, it's in The Charlie Kirk Show. Tyler Boyer joins us as we talk about the disappointing election results and the RNC. Rich Barris also, what are the big takeaways? Was abortion really the big loser? We talk about it with Rich Barris. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com and subscribe to our podcast. Open up your podcast application and type in Charlie Kirk Show and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is .com. tpusa It's already a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Tyler Boyer is with us who runs Turning Point Action. Tyler you got the sun's jersey and the mega hat. Yeah this is my uh this is my hope outfit. Oh that's interesting. Yeah it's kind of two different things that are gonna crescendo in 2024. Two of the biggest alpha males that exist are Devin Booker and Donald Trump. Is Devin Booker an alpha male? I yeah yeah have you I like Devin. I don't I casually he's pretty he's pretty alpha. Doesn't doesn't he uh date Kendall Jenner? No they broke up. See I'm really behind him. Yeah and all this stuff. Yeah he's he's a single man. Is Chris Paul still playing? Yeah for the Warriors now. No he got traded? Yeah he got traded. See I got we got Bradley Beal on our team now that we play as Chris Paul and he's been hurt so Bradley Beal might be coming back tonight. Chris Paul's had one of the longest NBA careers it's amazing. All right so Tyler people are mad. People are upset, they're demoralized. Yeah I think we've seen on Twitter I was just telling you before the what's going on on Twitter. I don't I don't have it's a war zone TwitterX .com and it rightfully so because it's uh we've got everybody is like astonished still this is like now like we're like four elections deep uh since the like people started paying attention and now they're like astonished at how how do we not have this stuff figured out and the RNC you know as a member of the RNC that represents the state of Arizona everybody that listens to the show knows that we've been the most observant and critical of the things that the Republican atmosphere isn't doing the right way and that starts with the RNC. You can't say it doesn't start with the RNC it has to start with the RNC but it's the NRSC, it's the RGA, it's the NRCC.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Abortion Wins Again
"Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here, wonderful to be with you. Fascinating how you have this gigantic demonstration of Israel destroyers and America haters in the United States. It's not even widely reported. Imagine if it were MAGA supporters in front of the United Nations, excuse me, United States, White House. Amazing to correlate the UN and the White House. That's Freudian, if there ever was one. Well, of course, it's a non -event. It's domestic terrorists, MAGA. Make America great again, Americans, they're the enemy. Not these vile people calling for the annihilation of a state called Israel, a state the size of New Jersey. The hatred of Israel is overwhelmingly because the Jews made something out of that desert and the surrounding states made nothing. That's it. Syria, oh, Iraq, Lebanon. Lebanon was going to be something, but then the Islamists took over. When it was half Christian, it was sort of Shangri -La in the Arab world. That's where Arabs went to vacation, to have a good time in a freer society. But the Islamists took care of that and Hezbollah destroyed Lebanon. How many people know that? People don't know. If you want proof that the issue is that Israel is Jewish, here's the proof. There is zero interest in the, oh, not zero, one, one percent. From one to a hundred, there is about, or one interest in the sufferings, even the deaths of fellow Arabs or fellow Muslims. Nobody talks about the creation of Pakistan, how's that for an esoteric bit of history happened at the same time as Israel, 1947, 1948. There was no country in the history of the world called Pakistan. It was part of India. Israel existed twice before in that exact area where it exists now, but Pakistan never existed. It was ripped out of India to make, guess what, a Muslim state. Now, let's talk a few figures here, okay? The number of Palestinians, then known as Arabs, there was no term, the word Palestinian referred to Jews actually, ironically. Guess how many Arabs died when Israel was made and it was, they all died because the Arab countries invaded the brand new state of Israel. Guess how many, 10 ,000, okay? And the number of refugees, about 700 ,000, exactly the same number as Jewish refugees from Arab countries. You don't hear about that either. So again, 10 ,000 Palestinians, slash Arabs, or Arabs, slash Palestinians died when Israel was created and about 700 ,000 refugees. Now, when Pakistan was created, which nobody talks about, what were the numbers? Let's see here. Okay, I'm looking for the exact, I want to be precise. So the number of deaths was between one and two million, not 10 ,000, as a result of the creation of Pakistan. Do you know how Bangladesh was created? Bangladesh was eastern Pakistan. Pakistan was in two very far away places, western Pakistan and eastern Pakistan. Eastern Pakistan, their ethnicity is Bengali, which is the state, the Bengal state of India in that area. They share ethnicity with the Bengals of India, they don't share religion. The Bengals of India are largely Hindu, the Bengals of Bangladesh are Muslim. The amount of murder, I don't have that piece of data in front of me, I will supply that. But people, they don't even know, people don't even know about Pakistan and Bangladesh. Because the issue has nothing to do, the concern is not with Palestinians. Egypt doesn't want to take one Palestinian, why doesn't Egypt take over Gaza? It did, it's one point, it doesn't want it. Jordan didn't want the Palestinians either, so they simply said, go, go, bye bye. Massive attack on Palestinians because of the rupture. The Palestinians have a record of utter destruction, a mass amount of destruction in Lebanon, massive amount in Jordan, a massive amount in Egypt. I don't know why, it's an interesting question, but that is the case. The whole thing is about destroying Israel, and part of the reason is theological, contrary to the lies told, it was never a paradise for Jews under Islamic rule. At times it was certainly better than under Christian rule, at times that's correct. But it was a time of massive, and the word was used by the Muslims, the humiliation of the dhimmi, dhimmi were Christians and Jews, the non -dhimmi, non -Muslims were largely killed. The ignorance, the left has created ignorant robots in the education system. Ami Horowitz was on my show yesterday, he went to Columbia University where there was And I asked him, what did it look like breakdown in terms of white and Middle Easterners? He said 50 -50, which is probably true for the White House as well. When President Trump said, let's have a moratorium, he never said a full ban, but a moratorium on from immigration Muslim countries. Of course he was called Islamophobic, a hater, a bigot. It was round the clock attacks on the President. But his argument had nothing to do with ethnicity, it had to do with values. We don't want to bring people into the society that don't share our values. Is the society not allowed to do that? England has not been transformed in this way. Sweden, Sweden essentially had no violent crime, had no rapes. It does now, because the liberal, the leftist was thrilled about this. The liberal was just the usual naive. Naive and liberal are synonymous. The left wishes to destroy and the liberal is naive about the left. That is the calamity in the United States. If liberals didn't look, look at Virginia yesterday, it's amazing to me, amazing. Both houses of the state houses went, are Democrat. Because they do so much good for the country, the Democrats. The cities of the country are thriving under Democratic Party rule. The country is thriving under Democratic Party rule. These are all well educated. No, that's a poor term. These are all well indoctrinated people. Just remember Pakistan, okay? Why is Pakistan legitimate and Israel is not? That's a question that most people arguing pro -Palestinian positions would not even know what you are referring to. So teach them. Actually have an article on it from what year? 2015. From eight years ago, why is Pakistan more legitimate than Israel? Yeah, look it up. Gold dealers are a dime a dozen. They're everywhere. What sets these companies apart and whom can you really trust? This is Dennis Prager for AmFed Coin and Bullion, my choice for buying precious metals. When you buy precious metals, it's imperative that you buy from a trustworthy and transparent dealer that protects your best interests. So many companies use gimmicks to take advantage of inexperienced gold and silver buyers. Be cautious of brokers offering free gold and silver or brokers that want to sell you overpriced collectible coins claiming they appreciate more than gold and silver. What about hidden commissions and huge markups? 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The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from An NBA Power Poll, Plus Malcolm Gladwell Plays Sports Czar
"Coming up, an NBA Power Poll, Malcolm Gladwell. This podcast is an A plus. Next. This episode of the Bill Simmons Podcast is presented by Airbnb. Maybe you're traveling to see friends and family for the holidays. When you're away, your home could be an Airbnb. Whether you could use a little extra money to cover some bills or for something a little more fun, your home or spare room might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at Airbnb .com slash host. We are supported by McDonald's. This month, McDonald's is upping its game by introducing two beloved sauces to its lineup. Mambo sauce and sweet and spicy jam. Hmm, why do I love these? Well, they both pack a spicy punch. They let you switch up the flavors in your usual order. I like having more choices. You know what, if you're gonna give me eight choices, why not give me 10? The sweet and spicy jam sounds delicious. These two sauces are only available for a limited time and participate in McDonald's. So make sure to try them while you can. Tap the banner to learn more. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. If you missed it, we started, wait, that movie made how much money? Month last night on the rewatchables. We did Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, me, Chris Ryan, Van Lathan, it was a wonderful experience for all of us. Van looked at Chris at one point and he said, everything I do, I do it all for you. Oh no, that was Bryan Adams, but we had a great time. Coming up on this podcast, I'm gonna do an NBA Power Poll at the top because there's no games as I'm taping this on Tuesday. So let's, where are we after two weeks? I tried to fly through this. I limited myself to 22 minutes. I think I went two minutes over, but I flew through it, tried to get off as many comments as I possibly could. And then our old friend Malcolm Gladwell is gonna come on and do some sports hour stuff. There's some things that he's noticed about direction sports are going in that he doesn't like, and we're gonna try to fix it. So that's the podcast, first, our friends from Pearl Jam. Here we go. All right, I'm gonna throw an NBA Power Poll at you. I'm not sure I'm gonna do this every Tuesday, but I definitely wanna do this some Tuesdays. I'm gonna go through all 30 teams as fast as possible. And I'm gonna throw things out that I feel like are important when necessary. Pot shots, important comments, things I've noticed, some fake trades, you've known me for a while. It's gonna be all the typical stuff. Going backwards from 30 to one, I'll give you the groups as we go. The first group is called the Dregs. That's Washington number 30. They are 30th in defense. And the only reason they're 30th in defense is because we only have 30 teams. I actually think there's some way they could have been 36th in defense. They're the only team in the entire league that I do not wanna watch on league pass for any reason at all. They're one and five, 15 .6 point differential against them. Shoot this team into the sun. I cannot believe House thought this team was gonna go over 24 wins. They might not go over 14 wins. They're awful. I never want them on my TV. Next group, probably the lottery. I say probably, but I'm gonna zip through these teams and then go back to somebody. 29 Utah, 28 Portland, 27 Detroit, 26 San Antonio, 25 Charlotte, who is way more fun than I expected they would be to watch, and 24 Chicago. It just feels like the lottery's in the future for all these teams. I wanna talk about San Antonio really quick. Three and four, kind of a sneaky, tough schedule. They played Phoenix twice, the Clippers, Dallas, that goofy Indiana team, Houston, and Toronto. They're minus 8 .6 point differential because they've gotten blown out a couple of times, and they're 29th on defense, which I was surprised by per 100 possessions. The thing that I wanted to point out here, because this one Benyama thing is super important. This is the best teenager that's come into the league, at least since LeBron. We can debate. LeBron, I think in year two, for two months at least, was a teenager when he was putting up 27, seven, and seven. When he started his 27, seven, seven cycle. Wembe might be the best teenager I've ever seen. They're starting Jeremy Sohan at point guard, and Pop's been transparent about this. No, no, we know we're gonna take some lumps. We're trying to figure this out. I went to the game when they played the Clippers, I talked about it in a previous pod, and it was just an absolute debacle, watching poor Sohan try to run the offense, bring the ball up. Now we're seeing teams starting to pressure them because he's not a point guard. He's a small forward. There's crazy stats now. Trey Jones, just by being on this team and not being Jeremy Sohan, is now one of the best advanced metrics point guards of all time. Right now, his per 100 on -off is plus 28 .3 because Sohan is minus 22 .7. That's how disparate the two things are. Which brings me to my point, this is too important. You have the best teenager maybe ever. You have one of the best league pass players already in the entire league in Wimby. I have no idea how long he's gonna stay healthy, knock on wood, hear me knock really loud. I just got my dog going. No, that was me, dumb ass. They need one more point guard. TJ McConnell is on Indiana, and they have Halliburton, who's averaging a 24 -12. He's awesome. They have Nembhard, who's great as a backup. McConnell's like, he's 13 minutes a game. He's clearly a trade piece for them. Just go get him. I'm not saying San Antonio has to make the playoffs, but they need to be entertaining, and Wimby needs to play with point guards. He clearly needs just to play off people, high screens, all that stuff. They need one more point guard. TJ McConnell is my choice. They have all their own firsts. They're not gonna trade those obviously, but they have some goofy picks. They have Charlotte's top 14 protected first. They have a pretty good Chicago first that I wouldn't give up. They have a first swap with Boston. There's ways to do this. I would just put that Charlotte pick next year on the table and just grab them because you guys hit the lottery. Literally, with Wimby -Dyama, literally hit the lottery. You hit the lottery and you hit the lottery. Get to do two point guards. We're not asking for much here. I wanna watch this guy. I wanna enjoy him play basketball. All right, next section is panic time. Number 23, Memphis. They're one and six. They finally got out to Schneider. And number 22, Sacramento, who lost twice to Houston in three days by 18 and 25. No Darren Fox for either game. Panic time in this respect. I know we're six games in the season, seven games in the season, but the West is one of those things where you're gonna look up and the car is left. The car has left the driveway and your family is gone. You're gonna be basically Kevin and home alone if you don't get your shit together. And I don't even wanna be two games under 500 in the West. That's how deep and good the West is. So when you're one and six, like all of a sudden two and 12, two and 13, Sacramento could all of a sudden be three and nine. I would just be nervous constantly. This is not like last year when the Lakers started out two and 10 and ended up making the playoffs. Nobody is doing that this year. The cutoff line is gonna be 46 wins. Memphis looks, they just can't score. And I think it's gonna be really, we talked about this verno last week. It's gonna be really hard for them to crawl back and be at least like 11 and 14, something like that by the time Ja comes back. The Sacramento thing, we predicted this when we did the over -under preview, like the conference is way better and they stayed basically the same. And now Fox is hurt. So it can take Fox going out for 10 games and all of a sudden you're not even in the playing game. I would just be nervous, so it's both of those teams. Again, it's early. Next group, friskier than we hoped. We have number 21, Brooklyn. Ben Simmons averaging almost 11 rebounds and seven assists a game. And yet you can't play him at crunch time, bizarre. Number 20, Orlando. Number 19, Houston. Number 18, Indiana. And number 17, Toronto. Just quickly on Houston, a delightful league pass team. I had no idea. It's like being at a buffet dinner and somebody brings like some, have you ever had a fried oyster? It's like, great, I'll try that. And then it's delicious. They play hard. I like watching them. And I did not expect a Shungun to be a potential all -star, but that's where we are. They're three and three. Again, they beat Sacramento twice, we'll see. But Orlando at number 20. Every time I do this, I'm gonna have a BS all -star of the week. I used to do this when I wrote my column back in the day. I used to call them the Bill Simmons all -stars, just people that I just liked for whatever reason. I love Jalen Suggs. I don't really know fully what he is. He tries harder than everybody on every other team. He really gives a shit. He feels additive in all these different ways. And yet at the same time, he'll absolutely like airball a three in one of the biggest moments of the game. But that guy cares. I watched a game where he got this hustle rebound. Can't remember who they, they lost at the buzzer. Get this hustle rebound and dribble back out and took a three and missed it and put his jersey over his head for like the next minute and a half. I actually think he might've been crying. He was so upset they lost. He is the most competitive random guy in the league. I love Jalen Suggs. Oh, as Saruti said, it's the Laker game. I love Jalen Suggs. I don't know what he is. He might just end up being like a seventh man on a championship team at some point. He's gonna have a moment on a good team. I don't know if Orlando's gonna be the team, but it's gonna happen for that dude. I also really like Anthony Black more than I thought, but we'll see. It's early for this team. Palo hasn't gotten going. Somehow they're four and three. We'll see when the schedule gets harder. Toronto at number 17, just the Lakers miss Schroeder. And I like what Schroeder's doing in Toronto. They're three and four, but they easily could be five and two. I've been watching them because I have their over under, I bet on. And I like where Toronto's at. I think they're better than they were last year. I think they're at least a playing team. Number 18, Indiana though. So their second in offensive rating and 25th in defense. In the 25th, I was actually surprised it wasn't worse. They can't guard anybody. They're shooting 43s a game. Their top six guys are all over 40 % three point shooting. They're kind of like the 80s Nuggets, but with threes. And they just play with a certain pace. And some days it's going to be bad. Like the Celtics put 155 points on them and it probably could have been 160 if they'd made some shots. Hal Burton's special. He's a 24 -12 this year. But the crazy thing about their offense is that Matherin's been terrible. And Matherin was a guy that they were like, this is going to be our guy. He's making a leap. We're going to trade Buddy Heald. We got to give the card keys to Matherin in that spot. And he's been bad. And their offense has still been pretty good. This is a team that anytime you see them, I don't know if you bet basketball, but if they're like plus 11, plus 12, it's like they could beat anybody any night. I'm just telling you. I'm not saying they're going to win a round in the playoffs, but just night to night, that's a team that they could just go 22 for 45 from three, make some shots. And Hal Burton, they actually should be five and two. Hal Burton blew the last possession against Charlotte the other night. But I've enjoyed watching them. I've watched an insane amount of basketball, by the way. All right, next group, the wildcards. I don't have a lot to say about these teams, but we'll go in order. Number 16, New Orleans, just seem jinxed. I'll come back to them in a second. Number 15, Cleveland. I want to see them with Garland and just, I want to watch them for a couple of weeks. I like the Struce edition, but we'll see. The Knicks, they're three and four. Nice win against the Clippers. The Randall thing continues to be nuts. Now he's taking out guys in the other team. Clippers 13, just traded for Harden. We talked about the Knicks and Clippers last week. Look, the Clippers, they played one game and they got killed by the Knicks. They're worse. I told you that last week. Still feel that way. Guess what they can't do now? Any transition stuff. The Knicks, 26 to six in fast break points last night. Rebounding. They got out, rebounded by 17 by the Knicks. Harden just brings so many things that you don't want in a starting five, but then he brings the great passing and the scoring and he can have the ball all the time. They don't need anyone to have the ball all the time because they have all these other guys who need the ball. I just don't like the trade. I continue to not like it and I don't understand it. I actually liked the team they had before they made the trade. So congrats again, Clippers. Number 12, Miami. 28th offensively. Kind of feels worse when you watch them. They haven't had their full team for a couple weeks. I'm not gonna judge them at all until December. I'm not gonna judge Dallas either. Dallas I have at number 11. They're six and one, fourth in offense. They've had a really easy schedule. So that's why, let's see what happens. Their one loss is to Denver. Let's see what happens when they play some tough teams all in a row and have one of those four games in six nights or three on the road. One of those situations. But they are in better shape than they were last year. And you look at the Grant Williams piece, which I'm not spiteful when I watch my old players. I'm rooting for Grant Williams. It's like seeing somebody you dated that you still have a good relationship with. It was nice to see him do well for them. Derek Lively seems like they have something. We talked about him last week, but he's at least like a rim runner in that kind of Nick Claxton world, but maybe a little more violent alley -oop or a little young Clint Cappelli. The Kyrie thing is the piece that I'm really interested in this. He finally had a good game last night, but for this season, 24 % shooting, 3 .8 free throws a game, which are always the two numbers to look at with Kyrie. What's he shooting threes? Is he getting in the line? And so far it's been neither, but he seems happy. When you watch them, they've been a surprisingly pleasant watch, and he seems like in a good spot. So I don't want to jinx it because as annoying as he's been over the years, and you know my stance on Kyrie, I just don't trust him. And I just feel like a seven -year track record of imploding kind of has to start to mean something after a while, but it is fun to watch him play basketball. And it does feel like he's got a specific spot on this team. They don't have to rely on him too much. It's very similar to where he was in 15 and 16 and 17 with the Cavs where he could kind of float in and out like a cat with LeBron. It's like, I'm feeling it. Oh, all right, let's give Kyrie the ball. The shooting going down though, it's a small sample size, but they also haven't been playing tough teams yet. And I'm just monitoring that because with guards, it can kind of sometimes go sideways pretty fast, and you don't realize it happened until after it happened. Just quickly going backwards to number 16, New Orleans, because they lost Ingram, they lost McCollum already. And they have this Hawkins who they drafted that everybody liked coming out of the draft, but the fact that he can play right away has actually kind of saved them a little bit. I just, I still feel like we need to do some sort of ceremony or something with them. Like we need the people from the Conjuring to just do something with New Orleans basketball. It just shouldn't be this bad every year. Your team shouldn't have two, three major injuries every year. You should have good luck at some point. And this goes back to the seventies. Remember, when they moved, when they became the New Orleans Jazz, their first major, major giant trade was for Gail Goodrich with the Lakers. They had to give up two first rounders, and he immediately blew out his Achilles. He played, I'm gonna say, less than a season. And one of the picks turned out to be Magic Johnson. So that's where we started with New Orleans, and it's been awful ever since. Nothing good has happened in this team other than they've won a couple of lotteries, but even the lotteries they won, the Davis, Anthony when they were in Charlotte before they got to New Orleans, they bring him to New Orleans and he wants to leave. And then they win the Zion thing, which seemed like the luckiest thing that ever happened to them. And meanwhile, we're still waiting for him to play two straight months. So Conjuring people, something. We need something to happen with that team. All right, the top 10. We're at a good pace right now. Where are we at? Yeah, feeling good. This is working. Young and hungry is the next thing. We got Oklahoma City at number 10 and Atlanta at number nine. If you remember, Atlanta was one of the, these are the two teams I was going nuts for before the season for their over -unders. I love the Atlanta over -under. I love the New Orleans over. And I like what I've seen from both. OK sees four and three, Atlanta's four and three. Atlanta's sixth in offense. And that's notable because Trae Young has sucked again shooting west. He's 28 % from three. Last year's 33 % from three. This might not be happening the next Steph Curry thing. Like what age does he have to hit where we have to go? All right, he's not the next Steph Curry. Because I think I hit that age last year at age, when I was age 53. I think I hit that for Trae. They killed Minnesota, which is notable. We'll talk about Minnesota in a second. But they really, I watched that game and they really, really, really handled them. I like this Atlanta team. And I think there's a path for them to be a three or a four seed if Trae can get going. And then OKC, trade for a big already. You're a guy short, like stop. You guys have a chance to be like a 50 win team. What are you doing? I want to see what's going on with Josh Getty in about two weeks. Whether it looks different than it has for the first couple of weeks here. I don't like, he's not going in the free throw line at all. 1 .3 a game. 26 % three point shooting, which we knew. He can't shoot threes. But there's also like the Chet piece of it. Seems like it's throwing them off. And I've watched games where they've taken them out at crunch time.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Murderers Manifesto
"We get it. You're busy. You don't have time to waste on the mainstream media. That's why Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, the next D 'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch any time on any screen for free 24 -7 at snc .tv and on local now channel 525. Hello, my friends. I'm Dennis Prager, and I hope you had a good weekend. I have delved into the question of how good a weekend or a good any day one could have when the world is so filled with evil and one has to try despair as a sin, as I have noted on a number of occasions based on my Bible commentary. Hi, everybody. Good to be with you. This is late breaking. I normally don't have the show driven by news as it breaks, but this is an important—many of them are important, but this is, I believe, worthy of immediate attention. This is from Newsweek. Conservative social media personality Steven Crowder teased the release of a manifesto allegedly written by an accused school shooter in Nashville, Tennessee, where six victims died earlier this year. Boy, I'll tell you, Newsweek is really—this sentence is so gingerly phrased. Let's see. The manifesto is allegedly written by an accused shooter, not the shooter. Six million victims died, not were murdered. In a video posted Monday, that's today, to YouTube, Crowder said the manifesto was leaked and shared screenshots of portions of the document which was believed to be written by Audrey Hale, 28, whom authorities identified as the shooter. They also said Hale, who died at the scene, once attended the school. By the way, that is interesting that they say allegedly. You say allegedly when somebody is about to stand trial, but if the person was shot at the scene, you don't say allegedly. What was Audrey Hale doing there? Checking out school curricula? No, it's a little too ginger. Anyway, I will be reading the manifesto here on this show. I wish that I wouldn't have to, Crowder said in the video. In a post to X, formerly Twitter, Crowder shared other images of the manifesto, including one part that said, I hope I have a high death count. Newsweek has been unable to independently verify that Metro Nashville Police Department spokesperson told Newsweek that the police are unable to confirm the manifesto, but said they are actively looking into the matter. Here's a question for Nashville police. Why didn't you release it immediately? Some authorities had it, and my suspicion is because the manifesto reveals, as was suspected, a left -winger and it was a trans person. So the left sort of has the view, padona misa gosh, there are no enemies on the left. And whereas if the manifesto were some racist, anti -black screed, we would have known about it immediately. So three children and three adults at Nashville's Covenant School were murdered. She later died from gunshot wounds. Shortly after the shooting occurred, this is again from this Newsweek article, police said that they had recovered a manifesto believed to have been written by hell. So why, why was it never released? The ongoing investigation into the March 27 murders of six persons inside the Covenant School continues to show, from all information currently available, that killer Audrey Hale acted totally alone. That's not the question. Well, I'll report to you. There is a report somewhere, but since I haven't seen it, I can't, I won't report it yet, about what it revealed. And it seems to me that if the report is correct, it was a big anti -white kid screed. All right. So we live in an age of moral confusion, as I have warned all of my life. And the charge against Israel that it commits genocide against the Palestinians which a charge that has been made for decades, this is not new to the current war against Hamas, is another gigantic lie of the left. But the truth is not a left -wing value. So I have data here from Statista, which has no political bias that I know of. You agree with me? I don't know. Okay, fine. Statista Infographic Newsletter. Statista puts out statistics. So this is from 2020. Growth of Palestine. Let's see now. The need for peace continues to grow in urgency as Palestine's population is growing at a larger rate than Israel. Jewish and Arab populations are on a collision course of parity in the coming decades, with Arab Israelis also growing faster than Jewish Israelis and gaining more voting power. Then there's a chart, Growth of Palestine. It begins in 1960, and the green is Palestine, the blue is Israel. They have gone from 1 .1 million to 5 .1 million in 2020. So there is a growth of essentially five times growth quintupled since 1960. The Jewish population has quadrupled, has gone up four times the Arab population of the area five times. Have you ever heard of a genocide where the people being genocided have a population growth of 5x? The lie is so grandiose, but you have to know something. The people screaming it believe it, especially those who are Palestinian or from other Arab or Muslim countries. They believe their lies. Read David Price Jones' book, The Closed Circle. You'll see that he's an Arab expert. He lived an exaggeration and lies as being very frequently in the public sphere conflated. Anyway, we're catching up. The truth is that a left wing value in the left wing dominates academia and the media. So much for the charge of genocide. The only attempt at genocide of the Palestinians and their Muslim supporters around the world, they wish to commit genocide against the Jews of Israel, perhaps all Jews in the world, but certainly Jews of Israel. That is the only genocide that can be alleged in the Middle East. Well, there was one, but I don't know. Yeah, I guess you'd call it the Middle East, of course. Do you remember the Yazidis, how they were wiped out by ISIS? Well, virtually, yeah. There was a real, let's put, an ethnic cleansing, let's put it that way. Genocide. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free is a call for genocide. It is a call for the eradication of the Jewish state. There are 22 Arab states, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, but there's no room for a Jewish state the size of New Jersey. People just always need to remember that. Should there be a 24th Arab state, one that never existed in the history of the world? I hear some Palestinian speakers actually saying, we are the descendants of the Canaanites. Did you know that? You can meet a living Canaanite. Can you meet a parasite and a Jebusite? He said he was a Jebusite? Is Arafat said he was a Jebusite? I didn't know the man had a sense of humor. And this is what your kids are learning at college. We return. Gold dealers are a dime a dozen. They're everywhere. What sets these companies apart and whom can you really trust? This is Dennis Prager for AmFed Coin and Bullion, my choice for buying precious metals. When you buy precious metals, it's imperative that you buy from a trustworthy and transparent dealer that protects your best interests. So many companies use gimmicks to take advantage of inexperienced gold and silver buyers. Be cautious of brokers offering free gold and silver or brokers that want to sell you overpriced collectible coins, claiming they appreciate more than gold and silver. What about hidden commissions and huge markups? Nick Grovitch and his team at AmFed always have your back. I trust this man. That's why I mentioned him by name. Nick's been in this industry over 42 years, and he's proud of providing transparency and fair pricing to build trusted relationships. If you're interested in buying or selling, call Nick Grovitch and his team at AmFed Coin and Bullion, 800 -221 -7694, American Federal dot com, American Federal dot com. spoke Barack Obama to his hundreds of his former aides with regard to the Middle East. And the New York Times reports he urged his former aides to, quote, take in the whole truth, seemingly attempting to strike a balance between the killings on both sides. Would he have done that in World War II? Strike a balance between the killings? Look at how many German civilians we killed. Look at how many Japanese civilians we killed. Would he have said that? I don't know, but to me it would be the same thing. The moral difference between the allies and the Nazis and the allies and the Japanese was no greater than the moral difference between Israel and Hamas. We live in the age of moral relativism. It's infected almost the entire intellectual class. I saw it when I was at graduate school at Columbia University, and professors generally equated the U .S. and the Soviet Union. It was not a battle, the Cold War in their view, between freedom and tyranny, or between, if you will, light and dark, with all the darkness that exists, obviously, in everyone and in every country. There was an unbridgeable gulf between light and dark between the United States and the Soviet Union, but they would not agree to that. It was a superpower battle or a battle of two economic systems, communism and capitalism, as if they are morally equivalent, let alone just equally effective. Well, there are people who build their society with communism and slaughter tens of millions of their people while doing it, and there's another free society which is infinitely wealthier. I remember that when I wanted to get soda from a soda machine when I was there during the Cold War, and I as know that I speak Russian, and so the machine would say, госированая вода, gas gaseous water, meaning like sparkling water. The machines were quite common in Moscow, I don't know about the rest of the Soviet Union, and there was a plastic cup like you would have in a house there, and everyone who got the sparkling water used that cup. Isn't that fascinating? One cup. I drank from it, you know me, I mean, you know, they reported internationally that I, for fork drops in a restaurant, I will actually use it. I am not, shall we say, a hypochondriac, struck but it me as an example, they didn't have the money to have a paper cup used every time and thrown away. Incidentally, I'll tell you what else moved me. I will acknowledge this, because truth is the number one obligation. Nobody stole the cup. I found that fascinating. Here's this former aide to take in the whole truth, unquote. This is Barack Obama this weekend, seemingly attempting to strike a balance between the killings on both sides. What Hamas did was horrific and there's no justification for it, Mr. Obama said, and what is also true is that the occupation and what's happening to Palestinians is unbearable. Really, what is happening to Palestinians that is unbearable? I'm not talking about the current war in Gaza, which they brought upon themselves just like the Germans did and the Japanese did. Unbearable? Really? Has he or anybody he talked to gone to visit the West Bank? Is life on the West Bank unbearable? Didn't strike me as that way, been there a number of times. All I remember was a lot of cranes building new buildings. And they're obviously having a lot of kids. Generally, having a lot of kids in an unbearable situation tend not to go hand in hand. What is true is that there are people right now who are dying, who have nothing to do with what Hamas did. There were Germans who died who had nothing to do with what Hitler did. That's correct and you blame Hitler for their deaths. You blame Hamas for the death of Palestinians in Gaza. All their money is used to buy rockets and dig tunnels everywhere, including right under hospitals. If there is such a thing as evil, Hamas is it. But after all, if you raise a generation to believe that America is evil, then evil loses its meaning, doesn't it? That is what has happened. Okay. There are no comments. It's interesting they don't have comments on me on this particular story. Dennis Ross is a major figure in Middle Eastern diplomacy. For 35 years, this former U .S. envoy to the Middle East, who has generally been critical of Israel, not anti -Israel, but critical of Israel. For 35 years, I've devoted my professional life to U .S. peacemaking policy and conflict resolution planning. Nothing has preoccupied me like finding a peaceful and lasting solution between Israel and the Palestinians. In the past, I might have favored a ceasefire with Hamas during a conflict with Israel, but today it is clear to me that peace is not going to be possible now or in the future as long as Hamas remains intact and in control of Gaza.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S14 E10: Authors, Novel, and Consultancy
"Hello, welcome to The Eloni Show. I'm your host, John Marr Eloni. In this episode, we don't have any regulars, because reasons, I guess. As for our guests, one is from New Jersey. He is a writer and consultant. And the second guest is from Missouri, Coorion, Florida, and he has written a book. What book would that might be? Well, you're about to find out. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Frank Giammanco and Brian Elman. Hello. Hello. Hello, lads. So, how's life for the both of you? Brian, you want to go first? How's life? Well, pretty good. Tallahassee, a beautiful day. We finally got some cool temperatures. Oh, you're up in Tallahassee. Yes, Tallahassee. Been here since 2012. Actually, no, excuse me. Yeah, 2012. Are you involved with government? No, I'm retired. I'm a retired computer science professor. Oh, wow. I retired. I retired early in 2012. Well, good for you. That's terrific. I'm sorry, John. What did you ask? I was asking you, Frank, how's your life going? How is my life going? It's good. It's good. You know, I published my first novel in December. It's called Lord of the Wood. It's effectively about Bigfoot. And it's been getting some traction and, you know, picking up some good reviews. And I also write business books. I'm writing a memoir right now for one of the luminaries of the industry I used to cover when I was in business to business publishing. All right. Very good. And have you, lads, been up too much recently? I'm up to 5 '7". Oh, cool. What about you, Brian? Hello. Are you there, Brian? He was. And now he isn't. Oh, he'll join back. Well, it says he's still connected. Yeah, I think something's wrong with his mic or something. He can hear us, but he can't hear us. So, well, Brian gets back on. Yeah. So what inspired you to become a writer and or consultant? Well, basically, I've worked my entire career in the publishing industry, principally publishing, you know, in the business to business market sector and more specifically for people in the excuse me, the vision care fields. And I started a business in 2000 to publish in that industry. And we did very, very well. We sold the business in 2017. And at that point, then I sort of opened another chapter and became not only a writer, but a consultant to a lot of the companies that I had been calling on for advertising and such for many years. So that's that's that's the background. But I mean, since I was a kid in elementary school, I've always kind of fancied myself a writer. During a Thanksgiving holiday period, when I was in elementary school, the teacher asked us all to write an essay about Thanksgiving. I wrote a story instead about a talking turkey. And she was so impressed with it. She made me read it to the to the class. And then she held me back, you know, as class adjourned. And said, you really have to consider becoming a writer. And so there we are. So writing has always been a function of my my skill set, so to speak. And and publishing. Oh, fantastic. What do you see yourself 20 years from now? Oh, you think 20 years from now? Yeah, maybe dead. Well, I'm kind of joking, but, you know, 20 years from now, I'll be a little on the oldish side. So. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know where I'll be, to be honest with you. OK, I see that. All right. Are you going to ask me again where I want to live? Did I ask the question where you want to live? You asked me the last time we spoke. Oh, yes. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? And I think I said to you, Hawaii. And that was before our our our brief exchange was was kind of compromised. Yes, until the incident happened. The incident? Yes. But, yeah, no, I love Hawaii and I don't know, I think. I'd want to live there as much as anywhere else, you know, with its great weather and. You know, all kinds of stuff, of course, now that you know, they've had had that calamity in Maui, it's, I guess, a little bit more challenging. Ah, OK. If someone wrote a book about you. Yes. What do you think its title would be? What would its title be? That's a good question. How about just thanks for the eggs? Sounds good. And you want me to explain that to you? Yeah, I actually like to hear the story behind that. When I when I was a small kid, I was maybe about five years old and I was, you know, going to regular catechism and trying to live life as a good Catholic. And, you know, every time we'd have breakfast as a family, I would, you know, engage my parents and my daughter, my daughter, my sister in in going along with the prayer. And so my prayers tended to be a little long winded, which people say that I often am. But in any event, my sister got very my sister is was three at the time. She got very frustrated because she wanted to eat. And she said, oh, just thanks for the eggs. And so that's, you know, that's come to be kind of a catchphrase with us and my family. And I don't know what else to say about it. OK, I like it. What items do you carry with you every day? Let's see, my wallet, my car keys.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
"History That Doesn't Suck is a bi -weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HGDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck. It's a cool autumn morning, November 3rd, 1918. We're aboard one of the Imperial German Navy's pre -dreadnought battleships. The SMS Lothringen, currently lying at anchor in the harbor of Kiel, Germany. And Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf is heading to his quarters to put on his parade uniform. Once dressed appropriately, he intends to go ashore and into town to join his fellow frustrated sailors. They will parade. They will march. They will demand better. And Richard is here for it. Okay, time out. Let me fill you in on the situation. For years now, the German Navy has underfed and overworked its average sailors. Meanwhile, these somewhat abused seamen have little to show for their suffering. Indeed, apart from submarine warfare and the 1916 Battle of Jutland, German warships have largely spent this war hemmed in by Britain's effective blockade. With a coming armistice then, one that may well effectively end the German Navy, the Imperial Naval High Command believes that the answer is to sail forth and meet the Brits in battle. Better to meet a glorious death and a watery grave than to be ended by an armistice. Ah, but their hungry mistreated sailors see it differently. Why on earth would they want to go on a suicide mission merely to save the pride of their egotistical admirals? Thus, upon receiving orders a few days ago to engage the Brits in an epic but deadly throwdown at sea, Stokers aboard a few ships responded by intentionally allowing the Boilers fires to go out. Full on mutiny sees the dreadnought class SMS Hegoland and SMS Thuringen. The crew of the latter even locked up their petty officers. The Navy answered by locking up hundreds of these mutinous sailors and keel. And that's why today, Richard and hundreds of other sailors are taken to the streets to protest the incarceration of their naval brothers. And with that background, let's return to the story. Down in his quarters, Richard and other sailors are nearly done dressing. But as they buckle belts and button coats, a few officers enter asking what they can do to appease the men. Sympathetically, Richard answers, we have nothing against our officers. Nevertheless, we shall parade in the streets to obtain our rights. Nearly the whole crew agrees. The SMS Lothringen all but empties as sailors make for shore. Reaching Keel's Old Port Barracks later that afternoon, Richard is astounded. Everywhere he turns, he sees endless droves of sailors and on one side, a long line of rifle bearing Marines who've joined them. Damn, this parade has gained traction. Departing from the parade ground, the sailors and Marines make their way to the flagship now at port, the SMS Baden. After a brief shouting match between the crowd and the captain, a full third of this dreadnought battleship's crew join its ranks. Continuing on, an impromptu marching band gives some semblance of order while another 40 men fall in as they reach Pieterstraße, that is, Peter Street. But soon, our narrator, Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf, realizes that they do indeed only have a semblance of order. That they're turning into a leaderless mob, and he worries that things might get out of hand. It's now 6 p .m. The boisterous throng of servicemen are in front of the city's Marine barracks. Within a moment's time, they rip the gate off its hinges. The flustered, angry sailors then pour through the opening. One elderly major dares to oppose them. Several men surround him, take his gun and ride his epaulettes. Richard looks on, aghast. He feels sympathy for the elderly officer only trying to do his duty. This isn't what Richard had in mind when he came to heel to march for his rights. Freeing a few men being detained at the barracks, the mob of sailors continues on. Politically on the right, Richard grows uneasy as one speech giver calls out that they should hang the Kaiser. His discomfort grows as red cloths and a red bed sheet make for impromptu flags. He's appalled at a dock worker who takes the quickly raised speaker stand near station headquarters to call for the establishment of a Soviet republic. But despite his fellow sailors communist sympathies, or should I say Bolshevism, as these communist minded Germans are inspired by the recent Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Richard is pleased to see how relatively nonviolent things have stayed. Well, if only he knew what was going on elsewhere in Kiel. It's now just past 7 p .m. Among the thousands marching through the streets tonight, a different group far from Richards is approaching the military prison where the stokers who let their ship's boilers go cold are being detained. And these marchers are determined to see these men freed. They howl, shout and yell. Their angry cries are greeted by soldiers loyal to the Kaiser. Troops quickly choke off the street. The commander orders the advancing sailors to stop, but they ignore him. The officer then orders his men to fire above the sailors heads. The throng is undeterred by these warning shots. The endless mass of men continues to advance toward them. The commander orders another volley, but this one is no warning. Bullets tear through flesh. Some sailors fall dead, others screaming agony, while still more return fire or throw stones. This is no longer a mere parade through Kiel. This is the start of the German revolution. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. That violent confrontation on the streets of Kiel left eight sailors dead and 29 more wounded. But the Kaiser soldiers weren't without their losses either. Their commander and one lieutenant died, both taken out by knives and stones. Clearly, Germany isn't only struggling on the front, it's struggling at home. It can no longer sustain this war. And that brings us to today's story. The armistice that, after four long, blood -soaked years, will finally silence the guns of World War I. To properly contextualize this hallowed moment, we'll start at the same place Germany does as it seeks peace, by looking to US President Woodrow Wilson's proposed path to peace, his 14 points. I'll remind you what these are before we listen to Woodrow pitch them in a September 1918 speech. We'll then follow his back and forth with the Germans and follow other discussions among allied leaders, all of which will ultimately lead us to a cold and fraught moment of diplomacy between four Germans and four allied leaders, and Marshal Ferdinand Foch's train carriage, somewhere secret, in France's Compiègne forest. With no leverage and a revolution consuming their nation, the German delegates are in a tough spot. But ultimately, we'll see an armistice struck. We'll then end this war, this brutal, awful war, as we watch it continue to take lives right up to the moment that the armistice takes effect at 11 o 'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. But having done all of that and taken stock of all the loss, we'll see the joy and relief that washes over all the soldiers, allied and German alike, as their nightmare ends. Well, ready to experience one of the most intense moments in the history of diplomacy? Then let's get to it, and we start with our professorial president, waxing eloquent with his 14 points. Rewind. Woodrow Wilson is no fan of war. On the contrary, the former New Jersey governor and Princeton professor and president turned US president is a proponent of peace. We've seen that in several past episodes. In 132, we heard that effective, if boring, campaign slogan, he kept us out of war, and witnessed how pained the professorial president was to ask Congress to declare war. In 133, we caught the full contrast between him and his hawkish predecessor, former President Theodore Roosevelt. And in 136, we got a taste of Woodrow's 14 points, which, if adhered to, he hopes will ensure a lasting peace after the Great War. But do we remember just what these 14 points are? Well, here's a quick refresher. Woodrow first presented his 14 points while speaking to Congress at the start of this year, on January 8th, 1918. The professorial president called them, quote, the program of the world's peace, the only possible program, close quote. His right -hand man, Edward House, better known by the honorary title, Colonel House, described the 14 points as, quote, a declaration of human liberty and a declaration of the terms which should be written into the peace conference, close quote. The first five points are rules that Woodrow wants all nations to follow. No secret treaties, freedom to navigate the seas, free trade among all nations, signing the coming peace, arms reductions, and finally, an adjustment of all colonial claims that takes the will of colonized peoples and questions of their own sovereignty into mind. Points six through 13 call for specific changes to the map of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, none of which are surprising if you recall the territorial throw downs that helped cause the war. They include the central powers evacuating Russia, Germany evacuating a restored Belgium, Germany returning Alsace -Lorraine to France, an adjustment of Italian borders along nationalist lines, self -determination in the Austro -Hungarian Empire, new borders drawn in the Balkans, a Turkish state with free trade in the Dardanelles, and finally, an independent Poland. As for his last 14th point, Woodrow wants to see an end not just to this war but to all wars. He wants an organization, say a league of nations if you will, to ensure that everyone, big countries and small, are treated fairly. Huh, that's very New Jersey plan of you, Professor Wilson. Constitutional convention jokes aside, Woodrow Wilson believes his 14 points are the way to a lasting permanent peace. In fact, he's so sure of it that as the beleaguered central power of Austria -Hungary tries to initiate peace talks on September 14, 1918, Woodrow quickly rejects them. In the president's mind, there's nothing to discuss. He's already made the terms clear. Austria -Hungary can get back in touch when they want to agree to his 14 points. But is it wise to take such a hard stance on these points, especially when his points are well -meaning but vague? After all, who decides what a quote -unquote impartial adjustment of colonial claims looks like? Who defines self -determination and other such terms? Those questions aren't important to Woodrow. As America enters the Meuse -Argonne campaign, its largest battle to date, one that will send tens of thousands of young doughboys to their graves, Woodrow wants their blood sacrifice to mean something. This war must be, to borrow a phrase recently coined by English author H .G. Wells, the war to end all wars. Thus, the idealistic president is ready to pitch his 14 points to everyone, including the American people.
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A highlight from 146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
"History That Doesn't Suck is a bi -weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HGDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck. It's a cool autumn morning, November 3rd, 1918. We're aboard one of the Imperial German Navy's pre -dreadnought battleships. The SMS Lothringen, currently lying at anchor in the harbor of Kiel, Germany. And Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf is heading to his quarters to put on his parade uniform. Once dressed appropriately, he intends to go ashore and into town to join his fellow frustrated sailors. They will parade. They will march. They will demand better. And Richard is here for it. Okay, time out. Let me fill you in on the situation. For years now, the German Navy has underfed and overworked its average sailors. Meanwhile, these somewhat abused seamen have little to show for their suffering. Indeed, apart from submarine warfare and the 1916 Battle of Jutland, German warships have largely spent this war hemmed in by Britain's effective blockade. With a coming armistice then, one that may well effectively end the German Navy, the Imperial Naval High Command believes that the answer is to sail forth and meet the Brits in battle. Better to meet a glorious death and a watery grave than to be ended by an armistice. Ah, but their hungry mistreated sailors see it differently. Why on earth would they want to go on a suicide mission merely to save the pride of their egotistical admirals? Thus, upon receiving orders a few days ago to engage the Brits in an epic but deadly throwdown at sea, Stokers aboard a few ships responded by intentionally allowing the Boilers fires to go out. Full on mutiny sees the dreadnought class SMS Hegoland and SMS Thuringen. The crew of the latter even locked up their petty officers. The Navy answered by locking up hundreds of these mutinous sailors and keel. And that's why today, Richard and hundreds of other sailors are taken to the streets to protest the incarceration of their naval brothers. And with that background, let's return to the story. Down in his quarters, Richard and other sailors are nearly done dressing. But as they buckle belts and button coats, a few officers enter asking what they can do to appease the men. Sympathetically, Richard answers, we have nothing against our officers. Nevertheless, we shall parade in the streets to obtain our rights. Nearly the whole crew agrees. The SMS Lothringen all but empties as sailors make for shore. Reaching Keel's Old Port Barracks later that afternoon, Richard is astounded. Everywhere he turns, he sees endless droves of sailors and on one side, a long line of rifle bearing Marines who've joined them. Damn, this parade has gained traction. Departing from the parade ground, the sailors and Marines make their way to the flagship now at port, the SMS Baden. After a brief shouting match between the crowd and the captain, a full third of this dreadnought battleship's crew join its ranks. Continuing on, an impromptu marching band gives some semblance of order while another 40 men fall in as they reach Pieterstraße, that is, Peter Street. But soon, our narrator, Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf, realizes that they do indeed only have a semblance of order. That they're turning into a leaderless mob, and he worries that things might get out of hand. It's now 6 p .m. The boisterous throng of servicemen are in front of the city's Marine barracks. Within a moment's time, they rip the gate off its hinges. The flustered, angry sailors then pour through the opening. One elderly major dares to oppose them. Several men surround him, take his gun and ride his epaulettes. Richard looks on, aghast. He feels sympathy for the elderly officer only trying to do his duty. This isn't what Richard had in mind when he came to heel to march for his rights. Freeing a few men being detained at the barracks, the mob of sailors continues on. Politically on the right, Richard grows uneasy as one speech giver calls out that they should hang the Kaiser. His discomfort grows as red cloths and a red bed sheet make for impromptu flags. He's appalled at a dock worker who takes the quickly raised speaker stand near station headquarters to call for the establishment of a Soviet republic. But despite his fellow sailors communist sympathies, or should I say Bolshevism, as these communist minded Germans are inspired by the recent Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Richard is pleased to see how relatively nonviolent things have stayed. Well, if only he knew what was going on elsewhere in Kiel. It's now just past 7 p .m. Among the thousands marching through the streets tonight, a different group far from Richards is approaching the military prison where the stokers who let their ship's boilers go cold are being detained. And these marchers are determined to see these men freed. They howl, shout and yell. Their angry cries are greeted by soldiers loyal to the Kaiser. Troops quickly choke off the street. The commander orders the advancing sailors to stop, but they ignore him. The officer then orders his men to fire above the sailors heads. The throng is undeterred by these warning shots. The endless mass of men continues to advance toward them. The commander orders another volley, but this one is no warning. Bullets tear through flesh. Some sailors fall dead, others screaming agony, while still more return fire or throw stones. This is no longer a mere parade through Kiel. This is the start of the German revolution. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. That violent confrontation on the streets of Kiel left eight sailors dead and 29 more wounded. But the Kaiser soldiers weren't without their losses either. Their commander and one lieutenant died, both taken out by knives and stones. Clearly, Germany isn't only struggling on the front, it's struggling at home. It can no longer sustain this war. And that brings us to today's story. The armistice that, after four long, blood -soaked years, will finally silence the guns of World War I. To properly contextualize this hallowed moment, we'll start at the same place Germany does as it seeks peace, by looking to US President Woodrow Wilson's proposed path to peace, his 14 points. I'll remind you what these are before we listen to Woodrow pitch them in a September 1918 speech. We'll then follow his back and forth with the Germans and follow other discussions among allied leaders, all of which will ultimately lead us to a cold and fraught moment of diplomacy between four Germans and four allied leaders, and Marshal Ferdinand Foch's train carriage, somewhere secret, in France's Compiègne forest. With no leverage and a revolution consuming their nation, the German delegates are in a tough spot. But ultimately, we'll see an armistice struck. We'll then end this war, this brutal, awful war, as we watch it continue to take lives right up to the moment that the armistice takes effect at 11 o 'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. But having done all of that and taken stock of all the loss, we'll see the joy and relief that washes over all the soldiers, allied and German alike, as their nightmare ends. Well, ready to experience one of the most intense moments in the history of diplomacy? Then let's get to it, and we start with our professorial president, waxing eloquent with his 14 points. Rewind. Woodrow Wilson is no fan of war. On the contrary, the former New Jersey governor and Princeton professor and president turned US president is a proponent of peace. We've seen that in several past episodes. In 132, we heard that effective, if boring, campaign slogan, he kept us out of war, and witnessed how pained the professorial president was to ask Congress to declare war. In 133, we caught the full contrast between him and his hawkish predecessor, former President Theodore Roosevelt. And in 136, we got a taste of Woodrow's 14 points, which, if adhered to, he hopes will ensure a lasting peace after the Great War. But do we remember just what these 14 points are? Well, here's a quick refresher. Woodrow first presented his 14 points while speaking to Congress at the start of this year, on January 8th, 1918. The professorial president called them, quote, the program of the world's peace, the only possible program, close quote. His right -hand man, Edward House, better known by the honorary title, Colonel House, described the 14 points as, quote, a declaration of human liberty and a declaration of the terms which should be written into the peace conference, close quote. The first five points are rules that Woodrow wants all nations to follow. No secret treaties, freedom to navigate the seas, free trade among all nations, signing the coming peace, arms reductions, and finally, an adjustment of all colonial claims that takes the will of colonized peoples and questions of their own sovereignty into mind. Points six through 13 call for specific changes to the map of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, none of which are surprising if you recall the territorial throw downs that helped cause the war. They include the central powers evacuating Russia, Germany evacuating a restored Belgium, Germany returning Alsace -Lorraine to France, an adjustment of Italian borders along nationalist lines, self -determination in the Austro -Hungarian Empire, new borders drawn in the Balkans, a Turkish state with free trade in the Dardanelles, and finally, an independent Poland. As for his last 14th point, Woodrow wants to see an end not just to this war but to all wars. He wants an organization, say a league of nations if you will, to ensure that everyone, big countries and small, are treated fairly. Huh, that's very New Jersey plan of you, Professor Wilson. Constitutional convention jokes aside, Woodrow Wilson believes his 14 points are the way to a lasting permanent peace. In fact, he's so sure of it that as the beleaguered central power of Austria -Hungary tries to initiate peace talks on September 14, 1918, Woodrow quickly rejects them. In the president's mind, there's nothing to discuss. He's already made the terms clear. Austria -Hungary can get back in touch when they want to agree to his 14 points. But is it wise to take such a hard stance on these points, especially when his points are well -meaning but vague? After all, who decides what a quote -unquote impartial adjustment of colonial claims looks like? Who defines self -determination and other such terms? Those questions aren't important to Woodrow. As America enters the Meuse -Argonne campaign, its largest battle to date, one that will send tens of thousands of young doughboys to their graves, Woodrow wants their blood sacrifice to mean something. This war must be, to borrow a phrase recently coined by English author H .G. Wells, the war to end all wars. Thus, the idealistic president is ready to pitch his 14 points to everyone, including the American people.
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A highlight from Episode 129 - Oct. 29th, 2023 - Special Guest Lady Lilly The Wise Guys Corner Episode
"I got some popcorn for you. I live the life. I live the life. I'm sorry Listen if you're going to be spontaneous on those days, you usually got me during the week and early mornings. There's nobody there See one of those awkward foreign films You know, it's wild though Usually during those days it's almost like nobody there except for maybe one or two old couples. Yep So it's just a wild thing to be doing Yeah, me and this girl want to see the third anniversary of do the right thing It's like me her and some hasidic person in the crowd A jewish guy I messed up that's two curses Uh, they're in the theater only three of us and we were having fun when the guy was like look at the movie Oh my god, these are racist like shut up And we girl having fun and watching the movie and we're talking mad Having a good time. It was dope. We actually had fun another one for the guy Wait, I didn't curse Did I curse no, no. Yes, you did It's like a sign. Yeah, he did. So we had bad fun. We're talking we're talking ish and we're having fun nice If you're going to be frisky and do hanky panky just make sure it's not a harvey wants to Say wow, let's just say All right, put a tarantino film. We got options out here. Don't be doing a Terrible Not me harvey's terrible terrible. Okay, so that was number six So movies for the first day Because also think when the movies you can't you're not talking So you want to communicate with the person you're with During the day so so so you're not going to be into that level of attraction of her focus Versus her asking a bunch of questions and you miss it on the movie Either way the first day for movies is a bad idea No, no, it is it is it is about myself. Honestly. Yeah, you want to get to know the person exactly I want to get to know you so that was that was six, right? Well, that was seven. That was baby. You know your house. No the movie. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. It's number five olive garden I Endless pasta is bad Now wallow you what you're hitting I look at it for mom Three tor Italy for 28 dollars best three She don't fancy the garlic bread with the olive oil I watched some girls on tik tok bring the little tub of what exactly For the endless pasta That's hella great for days. Exactly. That's a big bag. It's a great show, sir Like I said before Didn't get to run up the tab What you mean? Yeah, so you can do it right get up right you walk away and say I gotta get the bathroom The classic dine dash there's nothing wrong with olive garden on the first date No, I like the olive garden. I ain't gonna lie. I don't I don't I don't condone dining dashing But if a girl's being difficult, sometimes she worth it. Oh, oh We're at video we saw in atlanta that girl who polished four dozen oysters And then she said then she said I have my money you damn right you have your own money, you know spend it Because you're a poor you're gonna go out like who's a first date You're living in a dream world mom. Stop it. No, that's lasagna. It ain't more seasoning, but she's living in the loo Especially when they have like the uh, the tortellini joint. Oh my god, or the endless pasta joint with the different flavors I don't know. I mixed the match. I love me some tortellini You did good stuff I had to mix it before and then because I knew the person kind of hit the new person over there And besides you get endless salad exactly Now my breadsticks again like and you can take a free set of breadsticks home, too But but it goes back to like, you know, are you are you here for the meal or are you here for the date? I'm here for both, you know and stuff like that. That's why I brought you to the olive garden We're gonna have a good time sit down and have it and show it to ourselves Dude, you know Even if you have a gluten sensitivity You can get gluten -free pasta from them too, sir. Yeah, sir It's too cost -effective. I done told you this. Well, that was it. Guess what? You can stay on star gates I'm, thanks. Ramadan. Ramadan season, you know what i'm saying? Okay, so that was number five number four was chipotle Overrated Hey, don't rate though, but why overrated? Kedobah's better Because chipotle is like restaurant prices. Yeah, but you're paid for take on me in the fake off me Listen the matter times when I was watching bad tv, um, i .e love and hip -hop anytime. Mr Chipotle around since antenna she got happy as hell People like chipotle she's oh we're going to chipotle. I got a friend of mine Who is number three? I think in the region, but chipotle That's how much chipotle this guy buys. Oh my god I'm, like bro. Did they give you like a plaque or something? No, it's number three They should they should give him a plug But no, I as a first date But I do like to put like I feel like you get chipotle after I don't know a walk in the park or when you do extraneous activity or after your gym date, you know You don't just go to chipotle and then leave listen You set the tone on the date where you where you decide to fly her out to monaco And have champagne and things that you can't pronounce and stuff like that Genuinely don't know where you're finding these women and and then and then and then and then by the third day you try to go Say they're like say to go like in and out burger It ain't happening see what you said about finding these women i'm a dj So i've seen all aspects of women that i've come across i've seen the low of low and the highs of highs So that's why I can I can relate with this country because i've seen girls like i'm not going to chipotle in my first day I'm, not going over here. Hell no, he got taken over here. Um Uh, uh Some some like chain restaurant. No not chain Fancy steakhouse new york city. If you want to take me out, you gotta go here Excuse me. Excuse me Listen, does it come with a bj and a little little tug at the end of the night? you know because Okay, what you got to tell them is listen if at any point you wore timbs in your life and they said you got a Rainbows don't tell me where you're not going Don't tell me where you're not going Okay, i'm sorry You ain't got to go nowhere. You can just fast Dude, yeah, that's my accident. So tell me where you're not going. So so that right there. Nah, shoot And I and I don't even excuse this it'd be one thing if you were a silver spoon kid and all you know is Freaking caviar and stuff like that and you and you're just born in a lifestyle where you where you're accustomed to high fine dining It's a whole nother thing Where where you're like a block away from death and you stepped and got a rainbow something where you're not going And you're and you only when you go to your spot your matches on the floor who you talking to mom who are you? Who are you? Remember calling calling for you by drake. She hit on the oxtail. She ate it on the dough to drink chicken She liked it. She got flown out. She's in a nice spot. She complained about good food and she won but meanwhile aubrey's a villain So that so that right there for number four number three is chilies Listen, I had chilies for the first time again in florida And i'm not gonna lie had a good spread of food got some ribs some chicken tenders some elote For those who don't for those who don't know mexican corn with that cojito cheese And you know, it was decently priced food I have no time for these goof troops who got something against the southwest mac and cheese with the jalapeno when it was available I have no time for it Two for 25. That's all you say Three for ten chilies for the first day If you if if you don't have the funds for like to go out something's really nice and you want to really break the ice Let's go to chili and they got good drinks. You don't gotta go. I'll just go on my own have a good time I can't understand why because It gives like a college vibe. It is a college vibe. But here's the thing Most these women are here talking are young like these are young So what are you talking about? My if you don't if you can't afford it Would you get them at me full of a body for you? You know why because they they got flew out one time and they went to a nice place and all of a sudden That's got to roll with the car bowls. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm at car mines. Yeah Yeah, right here. Yeah, we know it's all over your IG story. We didn't ask for it. Yeah, they just brought it back So that was chilies number number two was applebees. I know this I just I agree. You know, why those dollar dollaritas? Yeah, that's a that's dangerous for a woman. Yeah Them dollaritas are applebees now. Yeah And this I thought you were coming at me personally. I don't know what happened. No, no, no, I burped. I thought that's all it was I burped that's all I said. Excuse me applebees. It's the first date It's like going to chilies. I don't mind it. I have a very special place in my heart for applebees because Not the dollaritas the dollaritas were mid but they have good drinks nonetheless And they have not better than fridays, but we're actually I don't know anymore I haven't that's fridays back in the day Coming up. What's this ish? You remember back in the day how fridays was oh, it was lit. It was litty man I actually haven't been to friday I'm happy friendlies. It doesn't exist in the capacity. It was because the gloves is gonna the gloves is gonna come off It's a fast food chain. Remember, you know, that's what it is. I see I see one before last week What I see the friendlies last week Well, the one that suffered is now panera, but yeah, no, I mean actual friendly. No, no, we was in New jersey Listen I still enjoy my strawberry shake. I still enjoy that strawberry You know, I I love friendly. Listen. Listen, you could be a bad whatever you want. You know, you don't have to go I know I know i'll be there, you know, to be honest with you. No, no, you'll be friendly yourself You know, i'll enjoy the waffle fries. I'll I'll enjoy the chicken So that so that was that was number two Now the last one on the list, which is number one was cheesecake. Hey, you got to play child play You got to talk about this game. You want to stand down? Why why you gotta argue with me and cheesecake bro? Yeah Where they bring families? I dude was chatting. He's speaking. He's speaking to the field. Let me tell you something ladies and gentlemen out there Okay Oh, there's nothing wrong with cheesecake absolutely not there's a variety list of menus The menus is about the size of an nfl place There's so many selections you can go with listen man somebody scaliwags, you know some avocado toast to the face that's the problem you can't get No, no, no, no they need it to the face But there's a lot even if you don't want cheesecake the next step up from crete from cheesecake is grand luxe exactly They also have prosecco there. I know So they also have good drinks. Yes Yeah, so what are we what are we getting at here? Don't worry. You can get moscato over there, too You know, is it because it's a chain? That's where you feel like that. Oh my god And the cheesecakes are huge. So what what are we doing here? Listen speaking for myself and myself only I was denied Cheesecake factory cheesecake as a child for the longest. Oh So now as an adult I you indulge I oh my god, if if if a man were to ever tell me he's taking me to cheesecake factory, that's a wrap He's getting it plain and simple. Listen, hey there Billy will the person I I I ain't got time for I got some I ain't got time for negative man Somebody turn it red I ain't got time for negative man sees Breathe Debbie downers with me you turn it red. I've never seen you turn it. Yeah, this brother's thirsty Yeah, there's something going on here I don't know about but you know a lot of inside jokes going on right now Get you some cheesecake my guy There's so many different options man, they got some really good cheesecake NFL there playbook are so many selections to pick from what are you talking about? Do you like cheesecake? Even if you do not like cheesecake they have other options for desserts Sure, like there's just there's just happiness happiness happiness. I mean, you know, I mean, it's it's like it's like some women Who are not happy when a guy comes back because he had a good time. That's all it is That's all it is, man So cheesecake to me that that one that you're delusional ma Of course delusional. Yeah, exactly. Ain't no reason why people want to talk about cheesecake about of them Not wanting to go to cheesecake because no why it's not exclusive They can't put it on the ig stories. Oh, we're the cheesecake girl and flex on the other people These type of women that made this list are girls that want to flex on the gram They're the same women that agree with with surely I was whining about trying to go cheesecake. They're like, yeah They're the same type of girls. I'll go to cheesecake. Don't listen to him. Yeah, you know, he got he got No, no, I'm walking. She was she was she was late It messed up the reservation. No, it's taking zero accountability and it's not so dude said f and we're going home Like oh, well, no, no, no, no, no, you're good. You're good. You're trying to shame on camera. You're good You're going home. We're gonna see what the update was next week because I want to hear about the same people, right? They were they were traveling right? But soon to get back home. They have zero dollars in their bank account They're the same exact people. They're like, oh, man, I would travel this there and there and guess what? Damn, bro 25 cents Listen, then the red zone not gonna lead quarterback sometimes But they gotta think out loud and just So cheesecake now, I don't know what you're talking about man. I like cheesecake leave my cheesecake Why we gotta fight for cheesecake great said it Thanks good old -fashioned oreo cheesecake. Let's talk like, you know, dude A question now, let me ask you a question. Yeah Which cheesecake is better juniors or cheetah factory, you know That's a great question because I don't know about juniors anymore, man, because I feel like it's losing its edge Wait, what what were the two juniors juniors or cheesecake factory cheesecake? Okay. I recently had juniors This year you never had juniors because I can't talk on it a friend of mine invited to eat at juniors And so I had their cheesecake because i've never been there as a new yorker Never been there, but that was my first time having it. It's very good. I have not had cheesecake cheesecake in a very long time so Based on my recent knowledge I would have to say Juniors because of the softer filling because I feel like sometimes Cheesecake cheesecake tends to be a little firmer Not necessarily hard but firmer But I do like both I will eat both i've given to me I prefer the cheesecakes cheesecake I mean they have like 10 ,000 different flavors. That's what i'm saying. They have 10 ,000 different flavors You can't go wrong with juniors You know, it's like if we're talking classic cheesecake, that's my answer But since cheesecake has like I love their oreo cheesecake their oreo cheesecake All right, yeah about that time Said he said give him your hand on my boy city 55 my private page city POV my public page and tik tok hasheem eight four five Is my name? There you goes guys. You can now send him to at least one now Give me the tik tok in the social media. I'm gonna slap you with my okay Emperor key man. Give me your hand, bro. Uh emperor key Yeah emperor key you say he wasn't gonna do it, right? I'm good out here I'm good. I'm good out here I am won't man. Give me your handle, bro. Oh, man. Um, I am underscore W -a -l -4t is at the end. Uh -huh. Oh what else my rmb is dead page And my alt is the motion page Okay I am at oh, sorry, uh lady lily Uh, you don't have to you don't want to I don't i'll come back when I want to. Okay, there you go Follow me at dj intense. That's dj I -n -t -e -n -c -e Follow the podcast pager on the record pod. Follow my business page on the record Uh, this is another lovely episode quite long. But hey, man, that's what it is, man. It's good times here good energy Have fun you think you want to split this in two episodes or no? Okay, no i'm saying like two separate ones we have the stories of one half and then we have this the second year So keep it Keep it here. I'll make a special one that has just this one. All right, y 'all see you guys next week And happy halloween be safe out there. Please. No drinking and driving um, it's not fun being inside the uh, the jail The holding room for two days remember waiting for the judge to come back on monday take printed candy. You had a knife in it It would be delicious Yeah, and avoid the stranger's house. That's that's willingly running outside giving you candy Because you know kids don't trick or treat this year. There's gonna be that one guy like come on Take my candy, man. I bought 55 pounds of this stuff I'll trick or treat and i'm grown Here you get the white stuff. Here's a white powder. Trust me. It's good for your nose. Okay. See you guys next week. Bye You all crazy Don't don't listen to emperor key it's nonsense What good night y 'all yeah, we're gonna split in two episodes. See you later.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
A highlight from Bucks Extend Giannis & Pre Season Storylines
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Valid one time per day. Excludes $1 to $3 menu. It's the crossover. Sports Illustrated's NBA show. Breaking down the latest news, rumors, and everything in between. Here's your host, Chris Mannix and Rohan Nadkarni. This is the Crossover NBA Podcast. I'm Chris Mannix joined this week by my colleague at Sports Illustrated, Rohan Nadkarni. And Rohan, it's always good when we have some breaking news on the podcast. We are recording this on the day the NBA returns. Tuesday night, double header, Warriors Suns, Lakers Nuggets. That's going to be a lot of fun to watch on Tuesday. But the big story over the weekend was Giannis Atentecumpo once again saying, Milwaukee, you are my home. Giannis agreeing to a three -year, $186 million contract extension. We'll get into kind of the nuances of why this extension makes sense financially right now. And why he would do it now. And what kind of contracts he can sign in the future. But this was something I think that Bucs fans and the Bucs front office was optimistic about in the aftermath of Milwaukee acquiring Damian Lillard. But now, here we are with Damian Lillard under contract for the next four seasons. Giannis Atentecumpo under contract for, I believe, three of the next four seasons. I'll get the numbers right. But the last year's a player option of that deal. But he's under contract at least until his early 30s, putting him through his prime years in Milwaukee. Your reaction to this deal getting done at the 11th hour before the start of the season? Pretty surprised only because Giannis himself kind of mentioned early this summer why financially it wouldn't make the most sense for him to do it now. As you alluded to, there is some kind of not quite complicated math, but a series of steps that Giannis can undergo to kind of maximize the financial impact of taking this deal now. So he's still coming out ahead money -wise. I mean, I wrote when the Damian Lillard trade went down, I should say, that this was a huge win and it only becomes a bigger win for Milwaukee if Giannis signs. And that's what happened. And I think, listen, this team, the expectations still win a title, all those things. But for the city of Milwaukee, for the franchise, even if they don't win a title now, if you get another three or four years of Giannis at Centecumpo, you get his entire prime in Milwaukee. You put off the conversation, at least for a couple years, about whether he's leaving, etc. That's a huge win. It makes the Lillard trade a win already. It's really incredible work by their franchise. I mean, we sat here, Chris, I'd say at the beginning of the summer, kind of wondering aloud what moves are on the table for the Bucks because they looked a little bit boxed in at the start of the summer in terms of what they could do to improve the roster around Giannis. To go around and get Damian Lillard and then sign Giannis to an extension the same summer, when no one was expecting either of those moves, it's an unequivocal, unqualified, total home run for the Bucks. No, I tweeted this in the immediate aftermath. This was an executive of the year stretch for John Horst. Not only does he get Damian Lillard into the fold, which makes the Bucks better in the short term, he ensures long -term viability by getting Giannis' name on a contract. Just to clear up the math here and sort of explain what kind of deal Giannis has signed. He is under contract now for the next four years. This year's age 28 season, he's going to make $45 .6 million. Next year, he'll make $45 .8 million. The new deal kicks in in the 25 -26 season, which will put Giannis at $57 .6 million that year, $62 .2 million in 26 -27. He has a player option for 22 -28, which would be year five of this new deal that he's operating under, which is worth $66 .8 million. The reason that he signs this contract right now, and I want to give credit to Bobby Marks, the ESPN front office insider, because he's been able to explain this in a way even idiots like you and me can't understand. It's mutually beneficial for the two sides to do a deal like this right now. Because of that over 38 rule that exists, Giannis could sign a short -term extension again with Milwaukee in 2026, and then a four -year extension with the Bucks in 2028. What this deal is effectively doing, or the message it's sending, is that Giannis is a buck for life. He's going to be alongside Damian Lillard for the next four seasons. That's a guy we've talked about a lot. He likes Damian Lillard, and he wants to play with Damian Lillard. Not only is Giannis getting himself financially set up for the short term by signing this three -year extension, he is putting the dominoes in place to make the max possible amount of money over the next 10 years of his playing career. Anyone that might have been wondering if Giannis is going to be a buck over the long term, it sure looks right now that Giannis is going to be playing in Milwaukee for the entirety of his NBA career. I think we're looking, Rohan, at another Dirk Nowitzki. I think this is kind of a Dirk -like situation where the Bucks have shown Giannis enough. They've shown Giannis enough that he is willing to commit to this team long term. Absolutely. And I'll just leave a little bit of room. Our old friend Howard Beck wrote about it today for The Ringer that everything is great right now. Up until things change, if this flames out, whatever, we've seen stars request trades, etc. I'll leave a little room for that, but I'm with you. And I think it's great for the NBA. I really do. I want to see Jokic in Denver for his entire career. I want to see Giannis in Milwaukee for his entire career. We've kind of lost that the last few years with guys moving around teams so much. There's been this conversation this week, should Kevin Durant have his jersey retired in Golden State? I think it'll happen and I think it's fine, but it's just not the same. It's not the same as a guy like Giannis staying in one place for his entire career. It's refreshing to see. I think it's just so good for the league. I'm excited, man. I'm excited to see him battle with the Celtics this year. I miss the days when it felt like you could think these two teams are going to have to get through each other for the next few years. We're setting up for that with Giannis and Tatum for the next few years. As a basketball fan, I'm just really excited. I think you hit the nail on the head. I think he's going to be kind of remembered as this generation's Dirk for just how synonymous he is with Milwaukee. The fact that Giannis said the things he said earlier this summer, he said he wants to play for a winner, and backed it up, I just think says a lot about the kind of person he is. That was not just posturing or whatever. Milwaukee made some good faith moves, and he signed a good faith extension in return. To contrast this with Lillard's situation in Portland, Lillard committed to the Blazers, but he didn't demand action out of them before he committed to them. Giannis came out this offseason in multiple interviews and said, I'm paraphrasing, of course. You've got to make sure that you have a championship roster around me. He put a lot of pressure on the Bucs to get something done. To the Bucs credit, for the second time in three years, they pulled off a deal that made Giannis happy. Drew Holiday, his acquisition a few years ago, that made Giannis happy. Now, Damian Lillard bringing him in, that makes Giannis happy. He was able to use his status with the team to push them to go all in for a championship. Once they did, he committed. He was true to his word, and said he would commit to the Milwaukee Bucs. I do think that's commendable for Giannis as well. I think, short term, if you're looking for questions about the Bucs, there are a couple of them. Chris Middleton is the most glaring. I have no idea what to expect from Chris Middleton this year. He missed half the season last year. Then there's that weird, vague pre -season talk for me. Well, I'm going to get to that. I'm going to get to that. I like the coaching stuff. Chris Middleton, his status is a big variable here. I think with a healthy Chris Middleton, the Bucs are the number one team in the East. It's still close, because I think Boston is really good, obviously. But with Middleton, I think they're number one. Without him, I think they're number two. I'm anxious to see how healthy he is at the start of the season, and how healthy he can be throughout the season. The other part of it is coaching. This Terry Stotts story has kind of gone away over the last couple of days. Frankly, who really cares about an assistant coaching change on an NBA team? This is a real thing. Terry Stotts was given a hands -on role to effectively be the architect of this Bucs offense. We know this, because Damian Lillard came out last week and said, Look, this is the same offense I ran in Portland. The guys that are veterans on the Milwaukee team were coming to him and saying, Well, what about this? What about that? What's the right way to run this particular play? Terry Stotts was not just a sage voice on Adrian Griffin's bench. He was someone that was intimately involved and integrally involved in what this team does offensively. We've seen the reporting that there was some kind of public blow up at a shoot around or a practice between Terry Stotts and Adrian Griffin. I had not heard about that. I had heard in the hours after Stotts decided to leave the team that he just wasn't comfortable being Adrian Griffin's assistant coach. That's kind of what it came down to. Terry Stotts has been head coach in the NBA for a long time. He has had some levels of success as a head coach. Adrian Griffin came in and Adrian Griffin, people have told me he rides his assistants out there. He makes them work pretty hard. Adrian Griffin worked under Scott Skiles for a while, worked under a number of different coaches in different situations. Adrian Griffin had high expectations and demanded a lot from his assistant coaches. The way I was explained to me was Terry Stotts just wasn't comfortable with the dynamic, didn't like the dynamic with Adrian Griffin. Maybe that dust up in practice was the straw that broke the camel's back, but it felt like the people I talked to that it was coming. I don't think this is inconsequential. I really don't because now everybody else on that Bucs staff gets bumped up a seat. Now you don't necessarily have the guy on the bench with that kind of gravitas is the right word, but certainly experience that Terry Stotts brought to the table. I don't think we can dismiss his exit as nothing because I do think it's something. Yeah, not to mention his relationship with Damian Lillard, right? I mean, that's something that I think was probably providing Dame some level of comfort. He obviously posted a photo of them together on Instagram after. Take that for what it's worth. I mean Terry Stotts and Damian Lillard will always have a great relationship. Terry Stotts empowered Damian Lillard over nine years. Like took him on as a rookie and helped develop him into the player he became. So I can understand the loyalty between Lillard and Stotts. The one interesting thing about the Bucs and Celtics, I'd say, is the questions around their coaching staffs. You know, Missoula had to deal with it a lot last year, especially during the playoffs. Now listen, at the end of the day, he came within a game seven and Jason Tatum maybe not turned his ankle of making it to the finals. So maybe that stuff was overblown. But, you know, there's been a lot of talk about the assistance the Celtics added this summer and the reasons they needed to do that. Bringing in a guy like Jeff Van Gundy, for example, to consult with them. And the importance of that experience that it's a lot of pressure on Adrian Griffin in his first year to deliver a team with title expectations. And now he's losing his most experienced assistant coach. It's going to be very interesting. I think that's a serious variable for the Bucs. We've seen it cut both ways. I mean, we've seen Nick Nurse have a lot of success. We've seen Emei Yudoka have a lot of success. Other times it doesn't go as well. So I think it's going to be very interesting keeping an eye on just how the coaching staff in both Milwaukee and Boston ultimately affects what those teams do. I think one of the undercurrents of the Celtics summer, for example, was maybe moving on from some of the guys that didn't fully buy in with Missoula. Guys who necessarily didn't have the best relationship with him. So I don't know that it's going to make a huge impact because they're just so much more talented than the rest of the conference. But I'm interested to see how that plays out. Yeah, it certainly adds a wrinkle to what Milwaukee's trying to do this season. I think with such a slim margin between the Celtics and the Bucs, anything can make a difference. So that's worth keeping an eye on this year.
Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
A highlight from Ep 190: Nonprofits Turn Cities Into Communities (with Mayor Ras J. Baraka)
"If I asked you how many nonprofits there are in the town or city you live in, I guarantee you would underestimate. I argue that way too often nonprofits are hidden gems, the best kept secrets in our society. Well, if you ask me if it's a gem, it shouldn't actually be hidden. And nonprofits are gems, an essential ingredient to community building. And by the way, in a city of over 300 ,000 people, that is one hell of a big job. I wanted to explore the impact of the nonprofit sector on a big city. So speaking of big jobs, I asked Mayor Ross Baraka to join me today. He is the mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Read about his accomplishments, and there are many, and you'll know that before he even starts talking, that this is a man who believes in the power of community and the power of partnerships. Way too often nonprofits are short -sighted. They think of the big fish around them, corporations, government, as funders, or as in some cases, the bad guys. What if we just all thought of ourselves as partners? What could that make possible? Mayor Ross Baraka is about to tell us. Greetings and welcome to Nonprofits are Messy. I'm your host, Joan Gary, founder of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab, where we help smaller nonprofits thrive. I'm also a strategic advisor for executive directors and boards of larger nonprofits. I'm a frequent keynote speaker, a blogger, and an author on all things leadership and management. You can learn more at joangarry .com. I think of myself as a woman with a mission, to fuel the leadership of the nonprofit sector. My goal with each episode is to dig deep into an issue I know the nonprofit leaders are grappling with by finding just the right person to offer you advice and insights. Today is no exception. Ross J. Baraka is the 40th mayor of the city of Newark, New Jersey. Elected in 2014, Baraka has served as mayor for nearly a decade. He's a Newark native whose family has lived in the city for more than 80 years. Mayor Baraka's progressive approach to governing has won him accolades from grassroots organizations to the White House. With a forward -thinking agenda that reduced crime to its lowest levels in five decades, addressed affordability while maintaining steady growth, lowered unemployment, returned local control of schools after more than two decades, Baraka has defied expectations since taking office in 2014. Mayor Baraka's futurist agenda has included the implementation of a groundbreaking partnership called Hire, Buy, Live Newark, a program that marks the first time that any U .S. city has sought to transform its economy by combining employment, procurement, and residential strategies. Mayor Baraka is recognized nationally as the thought leader in the space of urban revitalization and his commitment to reducing crime in Newark, reimagining public safety, tackling the city's housing crisis, and developing innovative and community -driven approaches to income eliminating inequality has solidified his status as one of the country's most progressive elected officials. Thank you, Mayor Baraka, for your work on behalf of the city of Newark and all of us who live here in the state of New Jersey. Welcome. Thank you for having me. So, Mayor Baraka, I believe that nonprofits are vital and possibly undervalued for the power and influence they have in our society. I think they turn towns into neighborhoods and residents into neighbors. I wonder if you agree and how you've seen that come to life in a city of over 300 ,000 people. Yeah, I absolutely agree with that. That is more than true. Especially during COVID, we learned that many of the things that we were trying to do as government was almost impossible to get done without the insistence and assistance of nonprofit organizations in our community, whether it's getting messages out, making sure we were translating language to parts of the community that could not engage with city government. We were able to go into households that we would never be able to reach as government to tell people about vaccinations, to tell people about testing, to give people basic information in a place where everybody does not have social media, more than half of the residents don't own cars. And it became crucial for us to lean on the organizations that had a foundation in the very neighborhoods that we were trying to reach. And those nonprofits helped us do that without them. The work that we've done during that period would have been impossible to do. And besides that, just the neighborhoods that have strong, stable nonprofits in them, development corporations, social service agencies, a nonprofit in those communities are better off because of them. So we rely on nonprofit organizations for in everything this city, from schooling and education, to food distribution, to teaching people about the city services and government, to job training, everything. There's nothing that we could do without them. It's interesting, having coached CEOs and worked with nonprofits during the pandemic, it's kind of stunning the extent to which our society, and as you made the point there, city government relied on nonprofits, that they were needed more than ever before, and frankly, were probably under -resourced or constrained more than ever before. It seems to me that there's this sort of bizarre juxtaposition, is that the more you need a nonprofit, the less likely they are to be fully resourced to meet that need. Right, right, right. Even the smaller kind of nonprofit organizations that dealt with healthcare and health delivery services helped us tremendously, you know, setting up small shops to do the things that the larger things that we usually think about could not achieve. Mayor, do you think that there were aha moments for New York City government coming out of COVID in terms of its relationship with the nonprofit sector in Newark? And maybe you could just kind of, you know, I think for many people, it was an aha moment to see that nonprofits weren't these hidden gems, but were in fact sort of leading in the pandemic. And I just wondered if it shifted attitudes or behaviors in terms of how you thought about nonprofits as partners in this sort of post -pandemic world. Absolutely. In fact, the most salient point is that, you know, government is this kind of big, awkward, kind of difficult object to move around easily. Nonprofits are nimble and flexible, and they can get in the places that we can't get into and collectively they represent a larger and more real kind of idea of what the community is really like. So, but ultimately us funding nonprofits during COVID and partnering with them to get things done really changed how we look at the delivery of service period in terms of partnering with nonprofits throughout every kind of thing that we want to do to make sure we have a deeper reach into the community, more and specific direct opportunity to talk to neighbors and get things accomplished that we can't really, really make happen. We can always do this big, broad approach and hope we hit as many people as we can, but when we partner with nonprofits, we actually become more particular and more poignant about the things that we want to do and where they actually end up. So we're doing that now with violence prevention. We're doing that with some of our other healthcare proposals and notions that we're trying to put delivery of service and healthcare in particular neighborhoods and particularly particular communities. We're doing that with that. And we're doing that with recreation and all kinds of other things. So the things that we can accomplish, we partner with nonprofits and fund them to do the work that they've been doing for a very long time without the resources. It strikes me in reading about you and your history and your, you know, and having been in the trenches of Newark and your family for so long, that you have a pretty keen understanding and passion for hearing the voices of the community members, those neighbors in those neighborhoods that we talked about. Right, no, absolutely. We, it's the only real way that you can get your bearing, right, to understand where you actually are, especially in this thing where there's a lot of cloudiness, confusion, and noise. And in order to get your bearing, you have to really have a relationship and attachment to people in these communities and hear their voices, or you'll be listening to, you know, headlines and poll data and all this other kind of stuff. And you really get lost in the middle of all of this if you don't hear the voice of somebody's grandmother in their living room telling you really what to say. Exactly. I heard you use the word partner. I heard you use the word funding. And I was curious about your observations about how nonprofits think about city government in Newark or how they should be thinking about them perhaps, right? I often think that nonprofits have a, are so resource constrained that every interaction they have with a government official or a private partner or any of those is about how can you actually, you know, sort of increase my financial resources. And I wonder if you experience nonprofits in that, of course you experience them in that way, but how should they think about working with city government, right? If they think about city government as simply a potential checkbook, I think there's missed opportunities. Would you agree? Oh yeah, absolutely. And I've dealt with nonprofits that are just, have just started or trying to start to ones that have been in existence for 50 years. You know, people that are trying to get together in terms of building a nonprofit from the ground up because they are actually doing the work but in order to get the resources to further their work, they need all of the infrastructure and they just don't know, they don't have that. And so sometimes engaging city government can also help you get the kind of technical support and strategic support that you need in order to build a stronger foundation for your nonprofit, you know, create the kind of other relationships that you need to have with other people, introduce you to other folks, can be a conduit for you to go from one kind of level that you are to another kind of level. And it's not always about money, it's also about people, it's about information, it's about all these other places that you can be, you know, sometimes just a conference that the city is putting together, you should probably be there so you can, you know, grab a relationship with somebody else that would be more beneficial to you than a relationship that you'd have with the city any day. Yeah, I mean, I think the other thing that's really interesting about the conference piece of it, Mayor, is that nonprofits have a lot to teach, right? They have a lot to share. It's like when I coach a CEO and they're talking about even like foundations, right, is you have as much to teach that program officer at that foundation as that foundation has to provide you with the resources. It'll make them a smarter. And the same is true in city government is that if you share your expertise widely in the community, right, the sort of the ripple effect of that is quite significant in terms of sharing your expertise about that particular element of the sector in Newark with a broader range of people. Right, no, I agree. It helps people like city government, folks in city government, to kind of focus their resources and funding in the areas they need to focus on and be able to extrapolate data from you that helps us have a greater understanding of what the problems are exactly, which gives us the opportunity to get closer and closer to the solution to those problems as well. So they get to test the waters for government and sometimes we don't have the opportunity to do that. And when they do that, they can give us information based on their journey. I often see in larger communities and cities this notion that there's kind of a three -legged stool of and government private partners and nonprofits, and that a city is arguably, and you tell me, but arguably stronger when those three legs of the stool are in relationship. Absolutely. As a matter of fact, the things that we get done quicker are done when those three things are operating in bed. Worked for a number of years with Henry Donohue, who is the CEO of Save the Music. And he worked with Newark City government and private partners to really create a very vibrant program and sort of change the landscape around music in schools and have seen firsthand what that looks like when those stool legs are working together. Right, right, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So I, before becoming somewhat of a champion and evangelist for the nonprofit sector, I ran an LGBTQ advocacy organization for about 10 years called GLAAD. We often didn't make friends in government. We pushed them to do more, to change policies. And I always thought that outside voices were important and powerful. And so you've talked about social services and education. Let's talk about advocacy for a moment. What's your approach to organizations with loud voices that are doing their job by pushing for change, being what some might say highly critical of your administration? I'm guessing that there have been at least one or two in this last 10 years. Oh, absolutely. You know, and I think that those organizations are part of what makes democracy rich and gives us the opportunity to challenge the notion, the notions that we have and the things that we think are working, right? Gives us the opportunity to kind of juxtapose that against what people are saying and what they think is happening. And if you have to pivot, it allows you to pivot, right? And I think it's important to hear people's voices and allow those spaces to be available for folks to do that. And we deal with, like, so there are nonprofits that we work with, whether it's Ironbound Community Corporation or Southwell Promise Neighborhoods, or UVSO, or La Casa de Don Pedro, or folks like that who push us all of the time, environmental organizations who push us to do more, to do better. A lot of people might not look at them as partners, but I do. I look at those organizations as partners because there are some things that they can say outright that sometimes we can't say outright and they can do it and get away with it without a reporter sticking a microphone in their face. They can get that done. And gives us really the latitude to be able to do the things that we really need to do. It gives us the support, the backdrop to kind of create the things that we need to create. And without those voices, it would probably be more difficult for us to go as far as we need it to go in some of these instances. I love that. And I think that, you know, I always felt when I was advocating for change that I was doing my job and the person I was advocating to, they were doing their jobs, right? And my job was to try to move the needle, right? My job was to try to give as much visibility to the issues I was advocating for as I possibly could. That's what my donors expected of me, right? And to do so in a way that got through to people like you, Mayor, right? That actually enabled you to hear me and to really understand, right? The issues that we're facing our community, for example, right? And to help bring to life the challenges that our community was facing as a result of a policy. And so I think that, clearly I think that that's a very powerful voice in the orchestra of democracy and critical to your ability to sort of navigate the different needs of different constituents. Oh, absolutely. It is very critical because most of the power that you get to do these things that you wanna do rests on the people's will and ability to see those things into fruition, right? And if you don't have the support of people to get these things done, then it fails. It fails, right? At the end of the day, democracy is about giving agency to people's voices, right? On either side of an issue, right? And I think that that's kind of what we're talking about here. So let's bring this to life for just a few minutes. In so many of the initiatives that you've created, community seems to be a centerpiece. Perhaps because you grew up here, you know that, and we've been talking about the voices of people here mattering so much to you, and that you also believe in the power of partnerships. I wondered if maybe you would talk for a moment about an initiative that you are particularly proud of that bring these values of community and partnership to life that also involve a nonprofit organization in the city. Yeah, I think there are many instances. One is the guaranteed income, where we sat down with at least 15 nonprofits in the beginning to really figure out how we should do this and who we should target and where we should raise the money from and if it's something that we should actually be engaged in upon. So we did that and that helped us begin to identify about at least 400 people in the city that we gave us money to unfettered, no strings attached, dollars, and we measured that. We're still measuring it. This is the last year we'll be giving it out for two years. A part of the Mayors for Guarantee didn't come across the nation. Just the lives and the stories that have told us as a result of this money changing their lives was incredible. And nonprofits helped us, A, to come up with that, two, to disperse the money, three, to identify the people who should actually get it and to measure it when it's all over, to measure the effects of it. So I would say that that's incredibly important, something that we were doing. And the work around violence, the violence intervention and violence prevention is being solely led and executed by nonprofit organizations and some startup nonprofits that just begun in the city to do this work, build the infrastructure themselves to be able to get the agency to execute the things that we want them to execute. And it's been enormous for us. I would say that that is at least a dozen or so nonprofits are really attached to that and a part of making that thing happen for us. What I heard in that story, Mayor, was the notion that the nonprofits were a part of the whole journey, right? From the very beginning, right? Needs to assessment identifying the clients to helping the city to measure the impact to presumably make a case for support to continue the program, right? That is not, I need city government to write me a check so that I can act. That is, you are my trusted thought partner. You know this issue better, as well as I do, if not better, be my partner and build this with me. And I think it stands as an ideal model for how nonprofits should be thinking about city government, how it should be thinking about working with the private sector and their needs and values that really, if you think bigger, bigger things happen. That's right. Yep, if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Yeah, there you go. Perhaps your administration has had a challenging relationship with a nonprofit or two. And I wonder what would make that relationship challenging? And for the purposes of our listeners, what might that nonprofit have done differently? And you can obviously talk about that in the abstract, but any lesson about what not to do can also be really, really valuable for nonprofit leaders who may be listening. Well, I think the key to any relationship period is just communication. And that's incredibly important. So the inability to communicate, even with people who you are, like you're challenging or pushing, so they have to communicate, you have to communicate what your objectives are, what the end goal is for you, what your interests are. And ultimately our interests and end goal may be the same. We may be, the tension may be and the contention may be around the steps we're taking to get there or people believing that you're not doing enough or whatever it is. What we can do is begin to talk about how we move forward with the things that we can move forward on and continue to struggle around the things that we have issue with. And there's nothing, I think people have a problem with doing both at the same time. People believe that because we disagree means that we have to be disagreeable. We have to walk away from you. Like my father used to say, there's 10 items. We might agree on eight of them, but we always focused on the two we don't disagree on, that we don't agree on and then we walk away and nothing gets done. There are eight items on the table that we agree upon. Let's execute those and get those accomplished. We can struggle around the two. Maybe you're right, maybe I'm right, whatever it is, we can struggle around the two until we get to a point we can finally agree. Or maybe we may never agree. We may fight on those forever, right? I'm sure there's some things, you and your partner, we gonna fight about these things forever, but there's some fundamental things that we agree with and we should be trying to make those things happen more than anything. But I think communication is the key. Yeah, in listening to you Mayor, I'm also thinking about building and nurturing and cultivating a relationship, right? Is I'm not just telling you what I need. I also need to hear you. And the key to a good partnership is yes, being clear about what you need, but it's also about hearing the other person, right? And I think that this notion of moving from a transactional point of view to a relational point of view is something that nonprofits would benefit greatly from is just really thinking about what are your needs and to your point about the two, like what are the values you share? What are the things you do have in common and how do you build on those? I think we initially believe like a lot of advocate and community -based organizations, like I was a part of it. So we believe that ultimately they believe from the beginning that you are completely opposed to everything that they want. And there's no way for me to really know that because I've never had a conversation with you. We've never sat down and talked about any of this stuff. We just went at it, which kind of puts barriers in a way to prevent us from ever doing that. I think all of it has to begin with the point of that we have to communicate what we want and what we need from the very beginning and how we share or not share some of those items. Then we can go to our corners. But at the end of the day, we have to meet in the middle.
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 125 - Ecological Benefits Framework A new paradigm for global carbon and ecological benefits markets
"People want to feel that they are part of a solution. I think we have been framing our approach to some of the biggest challenges on the planet completely wrong. Look at what we have. We have carbon markets, and we have ESG reporting. And if I was to tell you that we're about to be in 2024, and if I was to tell you that we have water scarcity, we have incredibly accelerated biodiversity loss on the planet, we have desertification, and all the problems of climate change, and if I'm telling you that our biggest idea that we've come up with as a planet to address that is a carbon market and ESG reporting, I mean, it's laughable. It's incredible. It's insane. We have to create a different framework for how we want to address the greatest problems on the planet and we need to work collectively. Welcome to the Crypto Altruism podcast, the podcast dedicated to elevating the stories of those using Web3 for good. I'm your host Drew Simon from CryptoAltruism .org. Now, before we get started, a quick disclaimer. While we may discuss specific Web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice and please make sure to do your own research on investment opportunities or any opportunity, including its legality. And now, let's get on to the show. Welcome and thanks so much for joining. Let's face it, ESG is broken. We've all seen it over the last few years, whether it's the corporate greenwashing or the net zero pledges based on questionable frameworks and flawed carbon offsets, the world desperately needs a new framework that creates alignment across sectors and transforms how we view ecological benefits. To dive into this, I'm excited to welcome Douglas Gaten, chief investigator at the Lexicon, a nonprofit that helps people pay closer attention to what they buy, how they live and where their responsibility begins for creating a healthier and safer planet for all. We discussed their game -changing ecological benefits framework, the growing regenerative finance movement and much more. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Douglas to the Crypto Altruism podcast. Okay, Douglas, it is a pleasure to have you here on the Crypto Altruism podcast today. Thank you so much for being here. Absolutely. Yeah, you know, I'm really excited about the work of the Lexicon and I'm just fascinated by the work you're doing. I've been following the ecological benefits framework that came out recently. I just love the way that you're, you know, focusing on bringing so many different elements of regeneration together through that framework. And so I'm excited to dive into that, but before we get there, I'm curious to hear your kind of introduction to the world of Web3 and blockchain, because I think that everyone comes from such interesting backgrounds. So what would you say was your aha moment that first got you excited about the potential of blockchain and Web3? You know, I think it was maybe in 2017 or 2018, I was approached by a bunch of folks that came out of financial markets that had all of these analytical software that they wanted to apply to the food sector. And they said to me, you know, there's this thing called blockchain where we can look at something that's grown in the field and we can see like the moisture that's in the soil and when things are applied to the crops, you know, like these nutrients, and when it's harvested, and then it goes into a truck, the temperature in the truck, how much light's in the truck, and we can put sensors all the way until when it goes to the market. And I thought to myself, wow, that's incredible, because often, you know, our food system is so opaque, we have no idea how something's grown or, you know, and so when you have the information, it's really amazing. And then I remembered back to my wife had an ice cream company and we made goat milk ice cream, and we would always get these calls once a year, it'd always be at like five in the morning, and there'd be some truck driver in the Midwest who had checked into the motel when he was taking our ice cream from California to New York and gone to sleep and woke up and the freezer in the truck had broken down. And there'd been no sensor in the truck, and then there was melted ice cream all over the ground in the parking lot. And we'd get those calls once a year. People don't, you know, historically have not had a way to track things that way. So when I heard that this was possible in the food industry, I was just so amazed. So I began working with that company. We actually worked on the first blockchain projects related to food, it was a company called Right by O. So I got a really intimate understanding of two things. One, how amazing blockchain is for creating a way to really understand a food product across the entire, you know, supply chain from the ground to the store. But the second thing I also learned is it's really hard, because you have to have sensors everywhere and you're only as good as the ubiquity of the data collection that you have. Then the third thing I learned is just the cost of that data collection. Who is creating all those sensors, paying to install them, paying to maintain them? Because once you identify a cost associated with putting things on a blockchain, the people realize there's a lot of energy and effort and cost to put that information there and they want to somehow get that money back. So then you suddenly start creating firewalls of information of people not wanting to fully reveal all the information that they have and they suddenly realize that information has value and information could be valuable even enough to sell to somebody else. So my first exposure to blockchain was in a very concrete way, you know, walking across fields in Massachusetts and seeing really the cost of that data collection. So it's always stuck with me. Now the work that we do, you know, we work with all kinds of folks that are working in blockchain across Web3 and they even fund our work. And so I have a deep appreciation for the complexity of what they're trying to do. Yeah, totally. Well, that's amazing. I think the way you explain that is so interesting. And, you know, food is something I've always been passionate about. I've volunteered for a couple, you know, food security organizations in the past as like a board member and volunteer and something I'm really passionate about. You know, and I think that food is something that we take for granted, many of us take for granted. I know I certainly do, right? And I rarely see the full story of where our food comes from and the true cost of that food getting from Point of Harvest to their table. What are some of the challenges that exist in current food change that the average person needs to be aware of? Well, first of all, if you wanna get a really quick understanding of true cost accounting, you could just type that into your Google search bar and you'll see a short film that we made for PBS that explains the subject. But basically, what true cost accounting means is that we are not paying the real price for the food that we eat. Because a lot of the costs of, let's say, growing corn are externalized, meaning that we don't actually pay. So we're not paying for all the environmental degradation that happens with conventional corn production, all of the waterways that become contaminated with phosphorus, let's say, or with nitrates like nitrogen. So when we buy that cheap food, we're actually paying for pollution that defiles the Mississippi River. We have dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico every spring from all of those, from all that phosphorus and nitrogen that are the size of New Jersey, right? That kill all fish that are in that region. There are all these unseen costs that we don't pay for the food that we eat. Now you have something like the circular economy that tries to take even a more holistic model, looking at the entire chain of something at every point, all the external costs that need to be internalized, because we're not paying the real price for things. But it was that frustration I had with models like true cost accounting and the circular economy that focus on a negative that really led us to think about how do we focus not on the negatives, but focus on the positives? Because people don't get up in the morning and say, oh, I gotta really get rid of all these negatives. But they will get out in the morning if they're like, I'm contributing to cleaning up our air or our water or all these things. People wanna feel that they are part of a solution, right? And so I think we have been framing our approach to some of the biggest challenges on the planet completely wrong, right? Look at what we have. We have carbon markets and we have ESG reporting. And if I was to tell you that we're about to be in 2024, and if I was to tell you that we have water scarcity, we have incredibly accelerated biodiversity loss on the planet, we have desertification and all the problems of climate change, and I'm telling you that our biggest idea that we've come up with as a planet to address that is a carbon market and ESG reporting. I mean, it's laughable, it's incredible, it's insane. And not only that, as we see carbon markets crumbling and the voluntary carbon market just collapsing, and we see people understanding the extraordinary limits of ESG reporting, a vacuum has been created. We have to create a different framework for how we wanna address the greatest problems on the planet and we need to work collectively. We can respect that people have their own paths that they wanna take, but we have to at least agree on the destination. And the destination, what we've learned is these six areas, air, water, soil, biodiversity, equity and carbon, what we call ecological benefits. Fascinating. Well, I'm really excited to dive into that because I think that, yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. I think the last couple of years have shown us very clearly some of the issues that exist with the current ESG systems, a lot of greenwashing, a lot of problems with verification and quality and carbon markets and these sorts of things. So that's another reason I was very excited about the work that you're doing within the ecological benefits framework. And before we dive into that, let's take maybe a step back to the lexicon, which is the organization behind all this work. So do you mind giving listeners a high level overview of the mission of the lexicon? Sure, we're an NGO, we're based in a farming community about an hour north of San Francisco in California. We began by simply wanting to explain to people how their food system worked. And we thought the most provocative thing, the most radical thing that we could do is to teach people words. Because if I can give you a word that you didn't know and explain to you that word in a way that makes it meaningful in your own life, you now have a new idea, you've expanded your vocabulary, your ability to see vistas that go beyond what you currently see. So teaching people words could be one of the most radical things that you could do, expanding their language, their vocabulary, making them more literate. And so we began the lexicon of sustainability by saying, who are the most knowledgeable people on sustainability in the world? What can they teach us? And then that became TV shows for PBS, it became, we've had about 2 ,000 pop -up shows of our work. We've done multiple books, Curriculum for Schools. And so it's really expanded from first, just the storytelling of what it was, and to then aligning all those experts that we've met in our work and building consensus around how to approach big problems. That led us to Google, where Google for the past five years has funded what we call an accelerator for good ideas. That we've covered dozens of areas across the entire space of food, agriculture, and conservation. And about 1 ,000 companies and organizations, everybody from the largest food companies in the world that you know, to the WWFs, to government agencies, all collaborating. And that work really was amazing because it all had a common denominator. People are ultimately less interested in certifications. It's really important, but it's not the goal, right? What they all, the goal for everyone is, how are we going to change the world? How can we, through our activities, have positive impacts? And what's crazy, whether we were working in food as medicine, or agri -biodiversity, or regenerative agriculture, alternative proteins, it always ended up being the same thing. That people cared about the same six things. Air, water, soil, biodiversity, equity, and carbon. It was like a parlor trick, where I would, we would always end up with the same result. And when I said that to Google, they were amazed. They're like, that's really wild. So they even brought companies together to Mountain View and asked them, can you explain your ESG reporting? And they could not explain their ESG reporting outside of these six things. So that's when we knew we were onto something, and that this was something that was really worthy of a deeper dive and further exploration. Yeah, definitely. And that's a perfect segue into the ecological benefits framework. So I appreciate you sharing all that, and sharing the background that led you there. And so the ecological benefits framework, collaborative effort, many different players from different sectors recently launched, and it serves as that framework for diverse investors to create the positive impacts in those six areas that you mentioned of the air, water, soil, biodiversity, equity, and carbon. So tell me more about this. So what happened was, in that work that we did in these activators with Google, we had this outcome, right? So we learned this thing, but it's like, what do you do with it, right? Like, okay, well, now that we, it's a good thing to know, I guess I could tell somebody at a dinner party, and they would go, huh, interesting. But what we realized was there had to be some use for this as a framework, you know? And then at that same moment, surreptitiously, and you know, I'm always amazed when these things happen in life, but we were approached by a company called Ripple. And Ripple, if you work in the financial sector, they have XRP, you know, talking about blockchains. And so XRP's, Ripple said to us, hey, have you thought about taking this model you have of how you organize people, and like, how would you approach carbon markets differently? And we said, well, you know, the problem with a carbon market's a fraction. And when you're a system thinker, you think in terms of the whole. So we wouldn't really be able to work with a carbon market because it's just a fraction. And the worst thing that you don't wanna do is you don't want to solve one problem and then create unattended, you know, have unintended consequences elsewhere. And so when you only solve for one part and not the whole, you're playing the game of whack -a -mole. You're just gonna be constantly hitting at these different things. Or you could look at it holistically and try to figure out how they all feed into each other. And so we said to Ripple, we should really try to build a framework around ecological benefits. So Ripple funded us, a group with a group called Ripple Impact, funded us super supportive and super generous to really take a deep dive into this. And we put together what we thought was a really comprehensive model to explain this, starting with Biochar. And the reason why we started Biochar is because when Biochar in 2020, when Microsoft in 2022 began buying carbon credits, they did a lot of carbon credit purchases on Biochar. Why? Well, they even put out a press release to explain it. They said, we're buying these credits because of all the other co -benefits that Biochar provides. So that was a really powerful moment. We said, Microsoft does not have a way to explain those co -benefits. There's only the carbon part, but yet there's an air quality, there's an air part, there's a water part, there's a soil part. All these other parts, there's no mechanism that allows you to express that. Well, if you can't express that, it's lost, right? It's like, I like to refer to things as seafoam. Like all these descriptions that you make, it's like that foam that rolls up onto the beach with a wave and it looks really beautiful, but then it slowly evaporates and disappears, right? If we don't have a way to hold, a way to capture and explain these benefits, then they're lost, right? And they also don't provide a motivation for others to provide movements in that same area. So we did that first phase of work supported by Ripple Impact, and then a group called the BXE, Blockchain for Climate, and the GBBC stepped in and said, you know what? This is a really efficacious way to explain the power of Web3 and Blockchain. This is why you would want to have it, because you could actually explain all of these benefits in a way that can have people support those positive impacts. So then they also got behind the work as well. So it's been really amazing to see people who are at the center of transformation within carbon markets and with Web3 as being core supporters of the work. For us, it's been very validating. Yeah, yeah, definitely. And so let's talk about that then, about Web3 and Blockchain. How is that technology being implemented and embedded into the ecological benefits framework? Well, you know, if you want to look at Blockchain at its most basic, right, it's a neutral technology, right? It will simply do what you're asked to do. But often, people don't understand the value of having data that is verifiable, right? The value of data. So, you know, if you don't have a way to capture information that can be transparent and secure, then you don't have trust. And we've learned from the previous iterations of carbon markets, carbon credits, now information is stored, that we need to have trust as a foundational principle. And so by having a really motivated group of people from Web3 as some of the architects of EBF, we really are designing a bottom -up system that can encode trust. And I think that if you look at the first carbon markets, they were very top -down in their architecture. The actual market would define two project owners, what their projects would be and what information they wanted to gather and what information was of value. I think the next generation, which Web3 is going to make possible, is more of a bottom -up model. And that bottom -up model is going to allow project owners to express what is most important for them. You know, if you think about 80 % of the globe's biodiversity is entrusted to a very small group of people who are not being renovated for that, you have the wrong economic model at work. You've gotta create a new model that empowers those people that we are asking to safeguard and steward our most valuable resources, a way to express the value of their activities so that they can participate in the global marketplace and be renumerated for what they're providing us. And so blockchain is gonna be that confidence layer that is currently lacking in our markets. Yeah, I love that. And you know, I think the importance of that can't be understated, right? So I appreciate you sharing all that. And we'll be right back after this short message.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 120: Part 2: Tim Cardwell is a Top Cop for Drug Interdiction but Nearly Loses His Life
"Let's kind of pull on that dope thread a little bit, because you get onto the, you survive the academy, obviously. So you graduate, you get out, you start working. As you're working, we want to talk about now what leads you into doing drug interdiction. So obviously, when you start off, you're with a field training officer, you go through your training phase, then you get out on your own. What kind of things were you doing initially when you were out on your own? How does North Carolina do it? I mean, you train for a while, then you're out. And standard -like what? Traffic enforcement, work accidents? Yes. Pretty much, is that what you were doing? Change tires, go get gasoline. I warned you, Murph. Don't go there. One of these days, we're going to be driving, there's going to be Murph on the side of the road. You go, hey, can you help me? I go, no. Hey, Steve and I have had many of these constant back and forths on this exact thing. But yeah, so when I graduated the academy, it was 20 weeks, reported to my first duty station and did have a field training officer actually. What was that at? It was in Asheboro, North Carolina, Randolph County, which is on the south side of Greensboro. It was about an hour and 15 minutes from where I grew up, but it was still within the same troop, which was most state agencies have that similar structure where you have a troop and then you have districts within that troop. So that was my first duty station and I had a primary and a secondary training officer and went through, I'm thinking it was at the time, maybe six or eight weeks field training. And my primary field training officer, his name was Wayne Brumley, just a jewel of a man, wonderful training guy. And my secondary, his name was Tony Miller, who later he rose to the rank of major within the organization. He was a young guy who was been on about five or six years when I came on. So I had a good mixture of, you know, youthfulness as well as very veteran experience. And the shift I was on, it was similar type makeup. And so going into the field training officer, you know, having some of that law enforcement background, I had become pretty good at catching impaired drivers at the police department. And so it was a natural... Wait a minute, all the impaired drivers were at the police department? When I worked at the police department, I should say, I apologize. But it was just something I thought, you know, this is where I want to go. And so, and my training officer, he was one of the leading impaired driver troopers in the district and he really focused and was successful with that. He taught me a lot, but, you know, in the beginning, doing the traditional trooper type efforts, that's what my goal was. I really enjoyed it. It's what I wanted to do. And, you know, there's some funny stories in there, but one in particular that my training officer shared at my retirement luncheon and he would share with you today was, this was just kind of an internal trooper agency thing. I don't know if you did this, Morgan, or not, but when you would encounter in the old days, somebody whose license were suspended roadside or whatever, you would take their license there on the spot and you would put it over your driver's side window along the headliner there. Just slide it in there or you'd keep it over your sun visor. And my training officer had tons of those and it was just always something I remember Roger Smith having. So it was one of those little symbolic visuals that I thought, I want that. So I kind of set out on a mission, you know, to see how many licenses I could collect roadside in. So I made a comment to my training officer at the time and he said, you know, there are more trouble than they're worth. You have to keep up with them. And I said, well, that's what I want to do. So he handed me a handful before I got out of training and said, here you go, maybe this will help you feel like a real trooper. And so it was just one of those little symbolic things that I connected with. But in that, you know, his nickname was Brutal Brumley. He was a former military guy, about six foot, six one, thin guy, was very physically fit, marathon runner, still runs today and he's mid to late seventies. developed But he that nickname because of, you know, some roadside encounters, obviously through the courts. And I saw it in action during training. We stopped a gentleman for speeding one day late evening and the gentleman didn't initially want to cooperate. And this was when he had turned it over to me and he was just watching from a distance and, you know, trying to find my way through. This guy wasn't the most cooperative after a couple of requests. So next thing I know, my training officer commences to removing the gentleman from the car and not in how the gentleman wanted to cooperate. And this guy was twice our size. And so I saw firsthand in action, you know, how he earned his nickname. But he was very fair. And anyway, when we got the gentleman under control and took him to jail, he had a long conversation with me about taking control. He said, you cannot let anybody else get the upper hand on you out here. It's because of survivability. So it was a valuable lesson taught at the time. But, you know, I've seen him encounter so many situations where he showed a lot of compassion through accident investigations, as well as roadside stops for different violations. And so he was well -rounded and gave me a good lesson. And but at the time, interdiction was not even in the culture of the Highway Patrol, wasn't even thought about. It was just traditional trooper work. And the county that I went to had eight miles of interstate. But where we worked was non -interstate. And so that leads me into once he cut me loose, passed all my training, I started doing traditional trooper work. And at the time when I joined the patrol, I kind of have to go back here. There we patrol the troopers that have, you know, gotten killed in action. They kind of came in clusters, two and three at a time. And just before I joined patrol, we'd had three members that were killed roadside. And two of those were on interstate highway. And where I grew up, we didn't have interstate highway. So I didn't have any familiarity to it. And so I was like, you know, I don't want nothing to do with that. I just want to be a traditional trooper. But I was very proactive. I was finding a lot of stuff, roadside. And, you know, when I would make an arrest for driving one paired, I took the time to go up and search the car. And if I found anything else, I was making charges. And so I kind of developed the desire to do that. And then in our patrol office one day, my secondary training officer, the gentleman I mentioned to you earlier who had been on last time, he had attended our first interdiction training course, which was taught internally. And I remember him talking about it. And for some reason, it just connected, you know, I connected with it, the stories he was telling, the lessons that they were talking about. And when our agency started the interdiction effort, it was in partnership with DEA. And they had started the experiment on Interstate 95 down in Fayetteville. And the troopers that were working it down there had had a lot of success. They were kind of the first generation interdiction troopers. This is, you know, the mid and late 80s. And so a couple of gentlemen by the name of Chris Dew, who had a first K -9, and Terry Isaacs, who was really the one who was making a lot of seizures at the time, they taught that course. So anyway, he comes back to our district and is talking some about it, and it just captured me. And he had a bulletin that they had given him in that school, and it was an epic bulletin. It was a teletype that would list, you know, seizures from throughout the country of seizures that made the threshold. And so I started reading it. And for whatever reason, it just connected with me. And that's how I began, you know, pursuing the interdiction efforts. Oh, I remember reading those teletypes, too. You know, those were very interesting. You get the law enforcement officers killed summary and then the teletypes. But you mentioned something, too, I want to ask you about. You said that they traditionally didn't work interstate. You know, is that just because of like you're talking about the danger or was it because C is kind of the opposite, a lot of troops where I was at. We had a lot of Tulane, in fact, all of my stuff was Tulane, and you would have killed to be up on the interstate where you thought all the action was. Why did they keep you away from the interstate or why did you stay away from the interstate just because of part of the danger factor or something else? Well, I think it was a combination of reasons. Again, going back to where I said I grew up, non -interstate, a lot of secondary roads. That's just what I was familiar with. And, you know, those folks that had been like Roger Smith and a couple of his workmates, that's where they worked and built their reputation. And so, you know, trying to follow that lead, I think that's why I did that. And my training officer, he worked some interstate, but he wasn't in the interdiction area. He was just, you know, regular trooper enforcement. But that's the way he operated was secondary roads. You know, in that day, you were heavy on looking for impaired drivers. Then, you know, looking for the under the influence drivers, especially on Friday and Saturday nights on evening shift, it was a lot of priority placed on that. And so just trying to fall in line and follow their lead, I think is why I did that. And, you know, but what I quickly learned was what the interstate did bring you was if you were low for the week as far as, you know, number of citations or activity that you had to turn in at the end of the week for the supervisor to see, you know, you could go out there and with high volume traffic, you could quickly pick up on some of your total numbers for the week. And wait a minute, did the North Carolina Highway Patrol have a quota? No, we did not have a quota, but I will say the supervisors did monitor your number of contacts per hour of preventive patrol. That's how it was worded. And you had better be in that district average of what everybody else had. So, you know. I had somebody asked me that one time, do you guys have a quota? Said, no, sir, I can ride as many as I want. How many would you like today? Good response. Yeah, so that, you know, that was kind of my introduction. And then, you know, with my training officer, my secondary training officer introduced me to that. It just kind of took. And so I started going out there and trying it and having little success. Really didn't know what I was doing, but it was just a process of learning from there. And, you know, I was a very proactive trooper. I, you know, did a lot of high production. Got unmarked a car at a young age, young in my career. And anyway, the next time the next class came open internally, my then district first sergeant asked me if I would be interested in going. I said, yeah. And I remember sitting through that class with those troopers teaching it, and it just captivated me. That's, I mean, that's the simplest way. You know, they were given some of their case studies talking about, you know, what their findings were and some of the follow -up results. I thought, that's what I really want to try. And so I came back and started trying to apply. So you started doing this. So what was your first, what was your first big seizure? What's the one that cracked the, because, you know, you have to go, we started it. I was part of a four -person team, four -man team at that time. We started our interdiction unit. And so when you start off, you don't really like say, know what you're doing. You get a few things here and there. We were working 54, which if you remember, the Pipeline Operation report out of Epic, Highway 54 that came up out of Texas and Oklahoma and through Kansas, that was a major pipeline. They were making lots of arrests. So we started working that area. You know, we were stopping everything in sight, you know, trying to look for stuff. But you always kind of start off small. What was that watershed event for you? What was that thing that kind of cracked it open that once you get that first one, it's like, I got this figured out. Well, so this was in 1988. Again, it wasn't the culture of the Highway Patrol. It was just kind of getting started. And so there really wasn't a lot of information to pull from or, you know, a lot of guys saying, hey, let's go out and work this road and look for this. It was just kind of, you know, an individual effort, so to speak. And at that same time, one of the troopers I mentioned early on Interstate 95, Chris Dew, he had had our first canine on the patrol, but it was just a narcotic dog. It was a Beagle. And, you know, some about that during the training, listening to him talk about, you know, the role the canine played that interested me. So when I came back to the district, not long after that, requests came through patrol headquarters or troop headquarters, any troopers interested in having a canine, you know, submit your interest. So I thought about it and I did. And the district commander at that time or the troop commander at that time, who was very much old school, was not on board with this, he was passing it along from patrol headquarters. When I submitted my name, he sent a message back that said, if you want a canine, I think I can find somewhere else in a different place to get you a canine assigned to you, meaning, you know, I'm going to transfer if you really want this canine. And again, you got to understand the internal culture of the organization. So I said, no, sir, no, sir, I'm not interested in one. So anyway, there was another supervisor who had been involved in the early stages of it. He said, I thought you expressed interest in this. I said, I did. But here's what, you know, what I was told. And he said, I'll take care of that. And I was like, oh, no, please don't get me in trouble here. You thinking Lumberton? Here I come. You know what, Trooper Cardwell just told me there for sergeant. And so anyway, you know, next thing you know, I got word that, hey, if you want a dog, we'll assign you one. We're going to send one to the central part of the state and one east part of the state. And you report to this canine school, which was actually in Greensboro at the time. And so we did. And anyway, the school was about 10 days, 11 days. You know, again, patrol hadn't had a program at that time. They were just starting to get into it. And so getting the dog really helped as far as going out roadside, learning what I was doing. And so I had made some phone calls to troopers that I had learned about on this epic Operation Pipeline Bulletin. There was a couple of guys that I kept consistently reading their names. Do you remember a guy named Jeff Faison out of Florida? Yeah, I remember his name. He was kind of the first generation that came along at the time. These other troopers I mentioned that taught us. And then there was some in the area, neighboring states, Mike Ralston and Georgia State Patrol, Benji Hodges, Georgia. And there were some others throughout the country. But I can't remember what it was that caused me to reach out to Mike one day, because I had expressed interest in getting more training. But again, it wasn't the culture. So somehow I made contact with Mike. He worked north of Atlanta on Interstate 75. And where I worked was Interstate 85 and Interstate 40. And I just cold -called him and introduced myself. And anyway, I told him what I was seeking. He said, sure, you're welcome to come down and ride with me if you'd like. I had to take vacation time because I couldn't get approval to go on patrol time. So I went down there and rode with him, spent my own money. And he took care of me really good. He showed me a lot. And then I come back. And we had had another gentleman by the name of Ed Lowry, who had worked on Interstate 95 in Fayetteville in our agency. I had gotten approval to go ride with him. But I had to take vacation time, too. So I went and rode with him. And this was the watershed moment that you're speaking of. While riding with him on 95, he was kind of the hottest guy at that time consistently making cases. And this was when everything was flowing out of South Florida, back when Steve was, you know, he was familiar with all the importation through South Florida. Well, everything those guys were getting was Miami -connected in some way, shape, form, or fashion. And I remember getting in a car with Ed. And he had just come off some days off. And says, he Bo, I don't know if we're going to have any luck. And that's what he called everybody was Bo. I don't know why. That was just the habit of his. But he said, but we're going to go out and try. I'm going to see if I can get you something. Well, the second car that he stopped, it was like that epic bulletin teletype operation pipeline played out before my eyes. The second stop, he gets a four -door, I believe it was a Buick old four -door sedan coming out of Miami, registered out of New Jersey, male -female occupant, and found a compartment built between a rear seat and trunk. And it had like five kilos of Coke. I thought I was just, I was seeing it play out before my eyes. And that just, that was my watershed moment. I was like, this is what I want to do. I had been trying it up to that point with minimal success, but between him and Mike, it really opened my eyes to other things that I really had not been paying attention to, human behavior, the importance of the interview. And anyway, so when I left from there, I was really energetic. And so I come back and started applying it. And having learned to operate my canine, I started looking at things differently as far as my approach and how to talk with people and what to look for roadside interview -wise. And so that first big seizure was a U -Haul that had come out of South Texas, which obviously still is today, but then the major source for our area, it was a U -Haul and it had about 850 pounds of marijuana in it. And once I got that, I was hooked. I mean, I was hooked a hundred percent. Well, let's go back to that seizure of Coke. When you opened it, did you know, I mean, when you saw the bricks, obviously, did you know what it was at that time or did you kind of have to go, okay, wait, you know, I'm just kind of like, whoa, what is this? Oh no, I know what that is. Kind of, yeah. I had never seen a kilo in person. And obviously it had, but I had not. I'd seen many pictures. And so I'm like, well, that's what it really looks like, I guess. So yeah, it was a really good learning experience. Now, so the 850 pounds of weed, that wasn't the case that you and I worked on, was it? No, this was a brother and sister that had come out of San Antonio and they were delivering somewhere in, I think around Richmond, Virginia area. But it's an interesting story on that. We had not had that kind of seizures go through our court system. And when it went for first appearance the next morning, the judge who was listening to the probable cause hearing, he said, he pulled me to the side before the hearing. He said, now, from what I'm told, you can't do this. And I said, well, what do you mean? And he said, you can't just go in and start searching somebody's belongings. And I said, well, I didn't, sir. I said, they gave me permission. And he was like, what? And I said, yes, sir. He said, they gave you permission to search their truck, knowing that they were carrying this? I said, yeah. And he's like, oh, okay. So it was a learning experience for a lot of us through the court process and myself. I love the way the judge was having a preliminary hearing out in the hallway before anybody was even sworn in. Well, again, it's a small community. And anyway, everybody knew everybody. And I'd built a good rapport with this judge. And I just remember that conversation. And once I said that, he said, wow, can't believe somebody would do that. I said, well, he said, where'd you learn to do this? And I told him. And he said, so they tell you to ask people to search the vehicle if you think you're suspicious to want to look for something else? I said, yes, sir. And he said, and they actually do? I said, yes, sir, they do. It's unbelievable. It is. It goes back to your point you were making. If you understand human behavior, if you understand how to talk to them and set the right circumstances, I mean, even to this day, Murph and I were talking about it on our Patreon channel, but at the time, it was the largest seizure of cash in Kansas. But it was only a quarter of a million. I mean, they've gotten much bigger stuff now. And people are going, I mean, they let you search the car. The guy I remember to this day, his name is Brian Lacy. I looked at him. I said, now, do you have anything that would be illegal in the state of Kansas? Guns, drugs, large amounts of cash. He says, no. I said, would you? And one question, one thing I learned to ask was not can I search? Because people always want to say no. I said, would you have any objection if I search for these items? And they would say, no. Well, no meant yes. And he even offered to show me, hey, I got a briefcase here. I opened up the trunk. There's the cash. And in his briefcase, plans for a methamphetamine laboratory. He had a marijuana press. It's like, you dumb son of a bitch. All you had to say was no. And we didn't have a canine at that point. There's not much I could have done. Yeah. It's amazing. I was just thinking, Tim, remember Dave Wilhelm with customs? Yes. Down in Charlotte. And he was murdered in Atlanta. So God rest him. But he called me one day, and I can't remember if it was Asper. I think it might have been Randleman. And he called and he says, hey, Murphy. He said, I got a tip. This trailer out in the country, some Mexicans are in there. Supposed to be sitting on a big stash of weed. He said, I need somebody to speak Spanish. So I met him down there. We took some people with us and walked up to this trailer. I remember that it was a huge lot with these big, tall pine trees. But there were no limbs from like 10 feet, 12 feet high before the limb started. So you had this wide open, we think of as a killing field that you have to go through to get to that front door. But we have no reason to be pulling our weapons out. To go up, like we're going to do a tactical entry. We knock on the door and I get up there and do use my Spanish. And they're like, yeah, come on in. We go inside. I forget how many is 1 ,200 pounds of weed or whatever they'd been using saws to cut it up. But there was an AR -15 sitting behind the front door. I mean, they pulled out and wiped us all out. But it's just amazing. They're sitting on the dope and they're like, sure, come on in. You know, and Tim, I don't know if you remember seeing this video if it was a Texas DPS trooper, but he's on the side of the road and he's talking to this guy in that Texas draw going, now son, you got anything that's illegal? You got, well, and so he's talking and you can see it's the old dash cam. This kid's getting nervous. Now, do you have anything in the car that's illegal? No, he's like, would you mind if I checked your car? And this kid just vapor locks and passes out into the ditch. He goes, well, I'll take that as an admission of guilt.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Does The DOJ Has An Obligation to Investigate The Pro-Hamas Hate Groups in This Country.
"Isn't it kind of funny how sometimes when you pray for something, God, you know, gives you what you're asking for. Sometimes he doesn't. I have found myself many times in prayer saying, please, please, God, if it's your will, make this happen. And when he doesn't, it's important, it's imperative that we don't lose our faith, that we don't bail, that we don't forget that he's got this, that he's in control, that it's all his will. Sometimes he gives us almost exactly what we wish for, what we pray for. And I can't wait to give you the big reveal over what you have done to support the victims of the Hamas terrorists in Israel. International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and The Mike Gallagher Show partnered and oh my word, I didn't give you a number yesterday because I thought, could we get there by Friday? Could I give a number that is going to just knock everybody's socks off? God heard our prayer. God touched hearts and minds. And once again, you've shown that you've got the biggest heart of any talk show audience in the country. More on that in just a couple of moments. Stay tuned because I've got some great news to share with you. In the meantime, last night, Senator Josh Hawley asked a very good question about these pro -Hamas speakers on college campuses. Remember after 9 -11, there was a debate about whether or not Muslims cheered 9 -11? And of course, the media narrative is, oh, that was all debunked. It wasn't true. There weren't Muslims on roofs somewhere in New Jersey cheering 9 -11. That was an urban legend. It didn't happen. Well, no urban legend this week. We've heard a lot of anti -Israel, pro -Hamas rhetoric in the streets of America. And don't be telling us down the road that that was debunked. I don't need to trot out all the filthy, disgraceful, pro -Hamas speakers that we've heard on college campuses and in communities like Dearborn, Michigan all week long. So riddle me this, Batman, if we're going to track down participants of January 6th, if the Justice Department and the FBI and law enforcement are going to target people who were at the Capitol on January 6th, are they doing the same for people who have cheered the slaughter of innocents, the massacre of babies, the decapitation of infants, the rape of young women, the horrific brutality that Israel is experiencing? And if people stand around in America and say, go Hamas, go, are we going to investigate That's what Senator Josh Hawley on Sean Hannity's show last night on Fox News Channel wants to know. And that same institution, Sean, as I recall, was quick to fly the flag of Ukraine over Harvard Yard. But now when Israel is under attack, their terrorists are murdering children, cutting off the heads of babies. They want to wipe Israel off the face of the map. Let's be honest. They want to make would kill every Jew in the world if they could. That's what these terrorists want. And to be silent in the face of that or to celebrate it as these crazy student groups are doing. What I want to know, Sean, is who's funding these student groups? I hope that the DOJ is investigating where the money is coming from. Are there terror groups who are part of these networks who are infiltrating our campuses? I mean, this is crazy stuff that we're seeing on these campuses and for these administrators to have their hand out to take federal money, taxpayer money, and at the same time be silent or silently condone this kind of terrorism is just it is grotesque. He's right on the money. Did you hear what he just said? And I want to start the hour by directing that statement from Josh Hawley to you. Are there terror groups who are part of these networks infiltrating our college campuses? You know, this is supposed to be the global day of jihad. A lot of big cities are on alert, extra police presence felt in major American cities. There are massive protests taking place right now in the Middle East because some ex -Hamas official said today ought to be the global day of jihad, whatever that means. And who knows? I would tell you right now, have your eyes open. I would tell you right now to have situational awareness, be alert, and be safe. And I am absolutely devastated by hearing pro -Hamas speakers in this country. So let's dive in together as we welcome you aboard on a Friday in the Relief Factor Studios. It is October the 13th, 2023. The P .H .D. weight loss and attrition phone number is 800 -655 -MIKE, 800 -655 -6453. Do you wonder who's funding these pro -Hamas speakers on college campuses? Are you as distressed and concerned and frustrated about these pro -terrorist speakers here in America as I am? There's no urban legend, so spare me the malarkey that it didn't really happen. Oh, it's happening all right. We got people on college campuses today. We've got people in Michigan today cheering the incineration of little babies. That's a problem, don't you think? Give me your answer. Let's flood the zone. I want as many phone calls on this as we can. This is a caller -driven show, and I want to look up and see our lines jammed because when we come back, I'm going to give you some good news. When we come back, I'm going to give you the up -to -the -moment total of our International Fellowship of Christians and Jews campaign and share with you what Mike Gallagher Show listeners have done, an extraordinary moment in the history of this show. That great news and more all coming up. In the meantime, join me. Tell me what you think about what you're hearing in the streets, not of Yemen, but in the streets of the United States of America. I hope you join me, 1 -800 -655 -MIKE. Three pastors risking it all for their faith. 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Bloomberg Radio New York
"u.s. jersey" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"How are you? I'm great. Thank you so much for having me. Thanks for joining us. Um, what are you thinking right now? How are you feeling? Oh, man, I'm feeling good. I think, you know, we're fortunate and blessed with there's so much obviously turmoil in the world. And so we can't start a conversation about how we're feeling without giving acknowledgement to what's happening in the world and praying for peace and praying for hope. But we feel fortunate as business to be in a very good position and we're really excited about the marketplace that we invest in and engage in. And so, yeah, feeling good. First, I got to ask you, I'm a New Jersey girl. Yeah, Jersey girl. Yay. You're like still in New Jersey. You like, you've never lived anywhere else. New Jersey's, no, it's a pretty incredible state. Great tomatoes. And more. So tell us about that mix of being based there. You also have, you know, in offices on the West Coast, but what that, well, how that kind of shapes your view of the things you want to invest in. Absolutely. So I have to give you an honest truth. Don't tell me you hate New Jersey. Oh girl, I'm a Jersey girl convert, but I'm really a New Yorker. Okay. Okay. You know, growing up as a New Yorker, it's a little sacrosanct to come across the Hudson, but I love Jersey and I've inherited Jersey in a special place in my heart. We're based in Newark, New Jersey, proudly based in Newark, New Jersey. And a lot of that was because we saw the incredible connection in New Jersey's revitalization between arts and culture and how they're thinking about the next generation of development in Newark, New Jersey. So we're so excited to be there. It's actually a very natural adjacency for our business to be based in Newark or right across from the Prudential Center, right across from the Grammy Museum. So we're really excited to be there and to be a small part in the overall value creation for the community, for its presidents and participants overall. And so we think that we're in the center. You know, the truth is, like for all of us old history buffs that actually New Jersey was Hollywood East back in the day. That's right. So for us, newly found Jersey girl, I grew up in Queens, so don't hold it against me. But for us Jersey girls, right, you know, Hollywood East was New Jersey. So very excited and proud to be there. So are you finding opportunities there? Or do you have to travel to New York? So our business is global and digital, right? We can engage with anyone around the world without actually having to move that much. But a lot of people do come to us, we invest specifically in the broad entertainment and media sector, our first vehicles, or to invest in and acquire music catalogs, we've bought a lot of music catalogs across a wide range. You're not the only ones. I'm not the only one, but I'm one of the original. Is it getting more expensive? You know, one of the beautiful things about music is how non correlated it is to the broader economy. And that's because music is pervasive. It's part of our life, right? We've all probably engaged in music today without even trying. And so the value of music continues to expand as the ways to engage in music continues to develop and over time. So, you know, 10 years ago or 15 years ago, we didn't know or have the forms to digitally engage in music on a daily basis. So yeah, it gets more expensive as more monetization things come online. But it's also been again, you know, a pretty defensible relative to the last four years of massive market disruption that we've seen from the pandemic through to a rise in rates. What are your thoughts when you see big private equity firms go after the same music assets that you're going after? I mean, these are companies that don't necessarily experience when it comes to entertainment. Yeah, well, listen, I mean, I think we partner like one of our first investors was Apollo Global Management, we have an excellent relationship with and it's been a stalwart for our firm. So we're really excited about with partnering them. We believe they did it right. In partnering with firms like ourselves that are experts that are really engaged in the marketplace that know how to engage the audience, be real translators for creators. I mean, that's really important to us. What does that mean? So to me, what it means to be a translator to creators, creators don't, you know, like just my job is not to create the next hook in the next record. They aren't as facile and familiar with how to think through investing, how to navigate and negotiate with large scale investment platforms. Where our firm fits in is that we know that world. Like we come from strong credit backgrounds. We are investors at our core in our heart, but we are also industry experts deeply engaged in the broader entertainment media market. Know the business, know what's on the minds and hearts of creators. And that stems probably largely from, you know, we've a really great team, but all of us have some connectivity to the creative industries overall. So that allows us to be translators. What do you think is ending most the value of media and entertainment content right now? I mean, I think there's so many themes that are happening, I believe. And we were talking about it earlier during the panel or not really panel, the but conversation that we curated here at Screen Time around the future of content and capital, we're really talking about how value creation for music, you know, was sort of really well defined after having its Napster moment and the business really having the shift. I do think in, you know, media, media is going through its Napster moment right now, which is, you know, really shifting how monetization is going to need to take place, right? Like we're seeing all that, how large scale infrastructure that's around the business needs to maybe be repurposed and rethought about for this new environment that we live in. what's Well, your prediction about what that Napster moment looks like on the other side? Man, I don't know if I had that like, listen, I'd be a rich girl. And if I told you, I'd probably crowd out my, you know, I'd be feeding my competitors. But I do think that there's a real cool opportunity that will emerge, especially as we've seen that from a consumer perspective, they sort of hit their ceiling on how many subscriptions are going to have on the visual content side. We're talking about like Netflix, Netflix, I'm talking about subscriber growth, you know, slowing that growing as fast where it was once upon a time.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"u.s. jersey" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Get to it. Let's make some sense out of it what you need to know Today's trade Bloomberg News chief correspondent for global macro markets Liz McCormick with us Jersey on and zoom in then right here New in our interactive broker studio Bloomberg News deputy team leader for US equities Jess met and Jess I want to Start with you talk to us quite a bounce back. If you look at the equity trade, although I feel like it's a Treasury Day story we're going to get to that in just a moment but equity set the tone because we have definitely come off our lows here. Yes and especially when you're looking at what's happening more broadly in the stock market I know you've talked so much about what's been happening in the banking sector as well as the financials but more from a perspective of coming into August I mean this is the second worst month historically functionality wise if you look at the SEAG go function in the terminal right behind September. So coming into this month Not not only was seasonality a headwind but you were just pointing out Carol about how much the NASDAQ 100 has been on on a tear this year. My 401k is not a 40%. No exactly and especially when you think about what's been happening with these chip names specifically this year that's been a huge part of the bump that we've seen in the NASDAQ 100 if you look at the SOX the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index that's up about 45 % this year it had more lost than a third of its value last year so not surprisingly when you think of names like Nvidia which is reporting on the 23rd right so we still have those earnings coming up with the last of the magnificent seven but a lot of this has to do with also the positioning coming into this and then the huge run -up we've seen in these more tech and growth -oriented corners of the market so what I've been speaking with my sources a lot of them have been using reasons as excuses like this to take some profits so that once the valuations come off of some of these right off to your stocks they can come back in and buy people do take profits that and for let's bring in Liz McCormick Carol already introduced her but worth introducing her one more time she's Bloomberg News chief correspondent for global macro markets as Carol mentioned Liz this is absolutely it's a absolutely story about the bond market today it's a treasury story give us your interpretation of what's going on because when I see the yield on the 10 -year fall what 10 basis points in a 24 -hour period there's a story there yeah it's been pretty mind -spinning and Carol my 401k it's not a 40 % either you guys got to go to the you guys got to invest with John authors capital I feel like we're fairly you intelligent people guys just didn't go all in on video I guess not I guess yeah we we miss that trade but um but yeah the bond market has been all over the place and today like you said it's yields are down and you know we had the first of this big wave of auctions you guys have been mentioning and the three -year went really well I mean to be honest that was the one of least concern for folks because it's the shortest duration and Thursday we have the gummed up thing of a 30 -year coming auction after the CPI which we don't know how a CPI will be but yeah the Treasury saw a really demand great at the three -year auction and that helped bring yields down after after the fact the auction wrapped a little after one so yeah I think the market like just was talking about positioning we have a lot of that going on too because you know we got the kind of speculative leverage accounts are short so if you'll start going down too much then you you see see some short covering and then we saw last week yields just take off so I think what I keep getting from investors is just that the only thing they know for sure is that volatility is gonna persist they don't see it going away for a while. That's what I wanted to ask you Liz is it a case of just volatility you know we're back I mean I feel like you go back a few months that's right we were constantly like I feel like day -to -day or week -to -week swings were pretty dramatic but is it a case of are seeing you signs in the Treasury trade of this higher for longer you know narrative we keep it feels like getting from various Fed members and certainly from Jay Powell right you know so we have this mix like everything like today we had two different Fed officials you know saying one saying you know we're probably about done and even talking about like what would cause easing next year another saying you know more to do so the Hawks are fighting the doves bit a which is normal but I think for the bond market for a while it seemed like and we probably talked about it oh everyone thought we saw peak rates in October the worst is over and then we all kind of got slammed partly because of the combination of the extra supply we knew supply was coming but Treasury announced more thought than we Fitch downgrade kind of caused as we know gyrations and I think so the Treasury and then the J we had last week right you know kind of tweaked the yolker policy a bit so I now I think the bond market felt oh like it's more of a two -way trade you know could rates keep breaking higher things have come off the boil today I but don't think anyone is so willing to say the worst is over even if the Fed might be done because like you said Carol the if the higher for longer camp wins then you know staying at over 5 % on the funds rate pretty is high right and again on the flip side we have this kind of what are we calling it now I'm losing track the the let's just say the recession people are getting pushed off into next year and there's you know the soft landing gang is gaining traction so that's not good for yields right you know more it's good for the economy and jobs but not as much for the treasury yields yeah I mean when Jess and I were anchoring together yesterday Carol our drive to the closed guest was was really on team like hey we're not thinking that there's actually gonna be a soft landing we're 65 % you know everybody jumps in in that bag man it makes me that's exactly what I said to Jess I was like well maybe this is sort of a contrarian here indicator right that you know everybody's sort of getting on that ship so Jess let's talk a little bit about what happens later this week when you do get and CPI what your sources are telling you about what could do to the equity market if it could be one of those surprises that could change the the way that Fed is thinking about what happens in September at their next policy meeting or the way that Chair Jay Powell talks about things in Jackson Hole later this month what are you hearing right so we still have two CPI reports before the Fed decision on September September 20th as well as two more PPI reports producer prices on Friday and then of course another when you're looking at what's happening with consumer prices as well as their PCE indicator the Fed's preferred gauge so when you're looking at CPI have
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"When you look at the financials of some of the companies who are looking to take over Premier League sides, Clear Lake, even though this hasn't gone well for them, they have a bunch of cash and a bunch of money and a bunch of cash not doing anything else. So I think probably, you know, these are Todd Burley stepping back and doing less, you know, it's a good thing, that's a net positive. I think the fact that he's realised, wow, this is hard, and maybe I don't want to be, you know, the butt of almost every joke on men in blazers, not that I'm saying that's a big drive for him, but that sort of thing. By the way, I think he listens. It's a, I think that's a nice thing. And, you know, yes, they splooged an insane amount of cash, but I think what we're gonna find next season is some of that cash they splooged will end up paying off, will end up being pretty decent. It was sad for me. Look, just you say what I experienced today, this was arguably one of Chelsea's best performances of the season today. And watching a player like Ruben Loftus -Cheek who grew up, joined that club, I think maybe 10 or 11 years old, you know, local South London boy for me, followed him his entire career, watching him walk off and, you know, a very emotional farewell to the players. He'll go to past his new next year. There's just gonna be a clear out, a monumental clear out at discount rates. This is like, you know, it's gonna be Amazon Prime Day every single day for Chelsea for the next few weeks. You know, Christian, you know, came on late, missed a great chance, but, you know, I don't think we'll see him in a Chelsea shirt. I don't think we'll see him in a Chelsea shirt again. You know, Maduke looked fantastic. Enzo, we'll see, you know, how he turns out. I think that's gonna be an important player for them going forward if they're gonna be, if they're gonna be a good team. But yeah, it's gonna have to be a very new season. Pochettino, the right man for the job, but, you know, let's see if Todd Burley really does step back and let's have them bring in a great head of business, managing director. Somebody's gotta come in and run that, run those transfers. I think Burley's got his eye on cousin Greg from succession. He's big, he's popular, he seems to know his way around the real business. God, just Christian Politic, can we just say, as you say, probably played for his last time in a Chelsea shirt, four seasons, 146 games, 26 goals, four managers, the word delirious highs. Youngest of American all time to score in the Champions League semifinals, also the oldest American to ever score in the Champions League semifinals because he's the only one that's ever done it. But there were lows, there were injuries, there was awarenesses. He missed a lot of awarenesses. Yeah, 55 Chelsea games he missed. I won't forget, Davo, that dizzying day when he scored a hat trick against Burnley. I think it was a natural hat trick too. I was in North Carolina with JDubs for the NWSL final and we looked at it from the bar in the hotel. It was in the morning and it just felt like everything, everything felt possible. And I won't forget the joy and pride of it. He donned the US jersey in his moment of Champions League victory. I think he could definitely do it. I'm surprised he didn't leave last summer. Still don't quite understand why he didn't leave last summer. He could definitely do a very fresh start. He's still only 24. I have no doubt, no doubt, there is still more, much more to come. Yeah, fantastic player in a US jersey. Had occasional flashes of brilliance in a Chelsea jersey. And I think he was, to some extent, the size of that transfer and the size of those wages made it very difficult for him to leave because there weren't great opportunities for him to go and play and to make that same amount of money. We'll see what happens in this offseason. We'll see where he lands, but, you know, wish him well. By the way, it would not be a tragedy for me personally to see him playing under Mauricio Pochettino. I think he's a good player for that manager, particularly if a number of these other Chelsea players clear out. And finally, Brentford won. Manchester City, nil. Still hope Arsenal fans. I jest, I jest and bye -bye, Jacca. In the most wonderful way. I'm just sorry, Jacca, by the way. Arsenal Magnificent today didn't go off in the way it should have done, like a Viking funeral with a hat trick and an own goal and a red card, but you can't have it all. But Godspeed, Brentford. Best top flight finish in 85 years. Magic Bees. City, early Harlan on the bench, didn't come on. But we do need to acknowledge and cannot normalise early Harlan season, scoring 36 goals, sweeping all the Player of the Year awards. Player of the Year, young Player of the Year won our wrestling belt, the oar. Only three young players have ever won the Premier League Player of the Season and the young player at the same time. Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, and now Erling Harlan. And by the way, Ronaldo and Bale, zero wrestling belts. But Harlan David, between the trophies, the awards, the heads of his fallen enemies, just overflowing with honours. In earlier centuries, I do believe Norse legends would have been written about this man, a bit like Ragnar Lodbrok, but even better. You know, maybe in decades to come, there'll be a History Channel documentary about Erling Harlan too, David. And we're going to see his difficult second season album now, but it has been magnificent. We do need to acknowledge Manchester City have won the Premier League, could make it a double next weekend if they beat United in the FA Cup and a treble in a fortnight if they add the Champions League. On the field, they are magnificent. In a league of stars and a league where we have seen just outstanding stars come in and play so well from the continent, where we have seen some incredible clubs go through Premier League seasons and dominate against other really good clubs, I'm not sure we've ever seen anything that approaches Erling Harlan or Manchester City Football Club. I know that there are a lot of potential asterisks to put on Manchester City, the financial fair play violations hanging over their head, just the very nature of their nation state ownership, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But the football they have played under Pep Guardiola this year, and we always talk about the pressure that Arsenal were under. Manchester City were under considerable pressure again and again and again in competition after competition after competition. The kind of football they played, the way that Harlan succeeded in his first year, playing a position in a league, we've seen the difference. We've seen so many players come in from Germany who've been dominant in Germany and they failed to go and make it in the Premier League. This was just extraordinary what we saw from Harlan. And I think Harlan himself, if given that credit, would immediately turn it over to his outstanding teammates and this outstanding manager, this outstanding team. I think it's a little bit too early to completely pay off and honour Manchester City because as you said, they've got a potential double next weekend. They've got a potential treble, a treble we've not seen in 20 years the weekend after. But I think we're witnessing one of the greatest teams in the history of English football, maybe one of the greatest teams in the history of world football and just the beauty of their play. They've converted me. I mean, I am just all in on how good this football team are. I'm not just all good. I've always known how good they are. I'm all in on just the beauty of the football they play. I just
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"Western Saginaw, old man Tim re bawling it up. We're following at the tip of it all, just savor that surge of joy. It's lovely to dream, but recognize all of it for what it is. We've got to stop saying, oh, we can't. I feel sorry for other teams. We're going to be did our stick because if I lost World Cup cycle has proven anything to us, should be that this young generation of footballers that we have in our U.S. Jersey. There you have just delirious amounts of talent. But talent and its development see dest, McKinney, geo. It's never street line. It's always filled with ups and downs, moments of wonder, moments of challenge. So let's revel in this news following is a true upgrade in a position that if anything the United States World Cup campaign was essentially an infomercial that we cried out before we scored just three goals. One stunning one crotched and won a total fluke. So follow it as young, he will have watched that. He knows we need him. He is a massive, massive edition. He has a massive upside. But the decision over he'll be the next U.S. men's national team coach, which I believe should be imminent, that's the one to obsess about. In terms of your question, who would bring as a Mario party ally from the England squad? Simple Jack Grealish always DJ grills, but it's because I think he's possibly the most American minded non American in the Premier League. And grills doing Concacaf would just be chef's kiss. Adore that man, but let's see the ballagan for now and not be greedy. Let me sit going. Finally. Godspeed to follow in and his family make you thrive in our colors and talking about throwing in our colors. We have made emblazoned one two webby's two, not one, two. Almost did the treble. This week, we weren't for the best partnership and collaboration for our podcast series will corrupt, which we take with my friends, Tommy Vitor and crooked media. That showed landed both the webby winner and people's voice trophies when you win a webby. The tradition is you give an acceptance speech, but it can only be 5 words, that's all they allow you. And here was mine. U.S. win World Cup 2026. Get in. May the U.S. men win the World Cup in my lifetime, as are women have back to back in this week. We shot an interview, a beautiful interview with a remarkable Juliet. Fresh back with angel city and I hope the U.S. women's national team at this World Cup in an interview which will be released this Saturday, Julie taught with true beauty true human insight into the experience of becoming a mother as an elite athlete and the emotions for through 611 long days out of the game. Also taped with Becky saru episode two of route to the cup, which was slice of beauty and I'm gonna leave you with a burst of Juliet's. By the way, one quick note I talked in Monday's pod about the tragically early passing of my cousin danke, a Liverpool journalist, a hillsborough campaigner, and that little post game on Saturday is memory will be honored and feel will erupting the applause and as I said, Dan has so few members of his family left alive to celebrate his achievements. I will say this moment this weekend that Anfield is beyond meaningful to Dan's memory and the selfless grueling work he did in the fight for justice. And like Dan, for damp, let's make great memories together through football this weekend. And not take a second for granted. This is rod, saying big love and courage and his Juliet. Last question for you, Julie. The World Cup as we pod just 66 days away. The end point possibly of a long journey. Honestly, many weren't sure we'd find you on again, and the squad has not yet been announced. We have no idea who will make it, but there is the distinct possibility of magically wearing that U.S. crest again. And I'm wondering, when Madden is a ten years old, how would you explain this chapter of your remarkable journey to Madden and what you've learned from it to him when he's older? Well, I feel like I would have to thank him for allowing me to fall in love with the sport like childlike again. You know, when you're like super young and it's because like seeing through his eyes of just almost the innocence of him and the beauty of life and kind of through the ups and downs and the hearts, whatever, there's always like joy because he's like always our joy. He's like the new additive, you don't sleep, you don't do this, but you have this beautiful child that just smiles and loves you. Obviously I gotta continue and prove my worth to be there and that would be my dream to be on the roster. But even so just the journey of watching myself get back and training and being able to play this sport that I love. It's really like a thank you to him for allowing me to find balance in a sport that sometimes is so chaotic of life that you keep me sane. Like in the sense of just finding joy because he's our joy so it's like in every way it's like how do I add Madden in my life to add a balance and that's just been I think the key. Two more joy Julie you are such an inspiration. Millions across this nation are rooting for you are inspired by you to you to your family to Madden angel city and the United States godspeed and thank you. Thank you. You were amazing, courage. Hey prime members, you can listen to men
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"Had a solid game closing down the back. Look, honestly, I don't know if you can tell. It's hard to get two worked up over the whole thing. This was our interim team under an interim manager play in Earth. That's Mexico and to be honest. My big picture and I don't know about you. There were players I was excited to watch, Brandon Vasquez. Caden Cal, Jordan Morris, by that one pass. It didn't exactly step up the game and just grab it. I did expect. It was one of those three. Did you just say, you know what? This is my moment. I can define this game. I will teach chances. I will create, I will assert myself. They will fear me. And I will make a big announcement and this game that I bloody belong. That didn't occur. And the biggest theme, I guess the loosest theme was felt for MLS. The United States, this is fascinating, just played its first starting 11. It got a mediocre hullabaloo there. Just played his first starting 11 with zero MLS authors in it. Since the league was founded in 1996 and there's no doubt that the balance of power of talent has shifted from young American men to Europe in a remarkable way over the last 5 years. And I wanted a player. I wanted players to step up to know each. And I wanted them to dazzle us to wink at us and say, you know what? This is wreck a park and I am going to bring my gaze in watch me hoop. I'm going to show you that the London dollar option of a very bloody good player remaining in MLS can whenever they want flicker switch and thrive in a U.S. Jersey. And tonight, I didn't see that. I don't know if you did. I definitely didn't see that. The real trophy, the chance to use the term market of a finish or that and put 1 a.m.. One final U.S. note, I had the honor and it really was a bloody on that. Let's be candid to spend time this morning, 330 million people in America. And only me, JW's, my producers, the great Randy Kim. We're able to get on the zoo with Fulham's Anthony Robinson and Tim ree. What an incredible human being. Legion united western McKinney and port role Pelé apron and aronson, we got on with them all at once and we cut a hilarious, wonderful, honestly, quite soulful conversation ahead of this Saturday's Fulham leads clash 7 30 a.m. Eastern Time. I'm still buzzing. I've got to be candid to have the opportunity to take with four of our American gents, all of whom are grinding out in the biggest league in the world and feel their joy of being together and talking together. It was really a delight to be part of that conversation or come out as a pod on Friday and on YouTube shortly afterwards. I can not, I can not wait for you to hear it. A couple of quick updates on what else happened today. I mean, I know we had everything pales in the shadow of the all state continental classic. But I'm going to suddenly myself by talking briefly about the lesser Champions League in which Manchester City drew one one would buy an in Germany to cruise through full one on aggregate, buying what eager Leroy Sami blew a one on one early. And it felt they set a tone ruthless buy in just was not present. There was some joy watching building Holland blaster penalty over the bar, which, as even as I saw it, I was pretty sure that he did that only to try and trick us and make believe that he is human and people on land. People listening to this podcast do not fall for that because he soon bullied poor hookah McCarthy. If you don't know what that means in French, that word, it's French for Everton football club. What a game you put McConnell had in just a truly traumatic sense. But Karla laid on a hesitation shuffle and then last to you can hear his cackle into the Munich. From feeling outside my window here in New York, 35th champions, the goal, team number is Neymar, the netted is just 27th career Champions League games for Harlem. 48 goals in 41 games, as Manchester City. Star striker this season, kid is 22. Utterly killed off the tie, made a late image penalty irrelevant buying two off to a one win in first 5 game star. I don't know how you say Potter in in German, Google Translate tells me that it's tough. As for Manchester City, they're into the second street semifinal while they'll meet their slayers from last season. Defending champions Real Madrid Ancelotti Ben's moderate lie between Pep Guardiola and his white whale the champions the trophy. And the other game interval I made sure will not only have an Italian team in the final, but that semifinal. This is truly incredible. We'll be in all Melania fair three three on the night, but enough to emerge 5 three victors over Benfica and feed A.C. Milan who dropped neutral stalling, Napoli, in Napoli, A.C. Milan defended with confidence and one incredible layout run set up handsome handsome Olivier Giroud for the only goal of the night. So we've got the only call from Milan that they needed of the night Napoli equalized late, but we're going to Derby Delano Nina semifinal two legs of the sun zero. That place will be on fire quite literally. The tifos and flames alone are worth tuning in for the football one behalf bad either. And we take this week Ivan gazidis, pod special, Ivan, you may remember what an incredible journey for MLS to arsenal football klebsiella to restoring transforming A.C. Milan to their current status.
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"Let's put it that way. Not a lot of minutes sprinkled in there. My heart have to acknowledge, did break for senior death during the national anthem. I don't know about you, but he was the only non MLS player borrowed a couple of league of MX Americans in the squad. The only ones to start for the United States and the agony was really starting for the United States in a friendly on the day that his club team Milan qualified for the Champions League semifinal just in agony. I imagine and a reminder that in real life as opposed to our fan dreams, the journeys of our American players are never going to be straight line godspeed genio. Anyway, we kicked off for this one. U.S. unbeaten in four games against Mexico. And it was really from the off a helter skelter game. A game that embraced its own chaos, Jordan Morris bursting through early 8 goals in 8 games in MLS he's essentially MLS hall and right now and he lost control at the vital second. It ricocheted off M Diego Costa gold style, but just wide of the post. I thought James sands back from rangers back in MLS was spraying the ball around, a bit like a Roy New York cost in Reeves, U.S. had plenty of possession in the opening exchanges in that final third, but none of the ability to actually connect across as Mexico opened by pot shotting Sean Johnson, Chavez lassing just wide with a daisy cutter. The game settled into a kind of pattern you'd expect when two squads of replacement players who've never really played together as a collective and didn't have the chance to train too much to gel took the field. Let's be honest, a lot of scruff, while a Sean Johnson trying to play nervously with his feet out the back, a lot of unnecessary boot and rush and press and concession of possession. And if you, like me, watch Manchester City and buy and play early in the day. This 90 minutes was, well, quite different. Mexico started to dominate possession towards the end of the first half working that right hand side relentlessly and tuna relishing the opportunity to test dest. But Boston and his galaxy boy Juliana Rao overlapping with vigor in the U.S. for the airport completely unable to complete a pass in their opponent's area. But the first off stats were bloody dire, neither side had a short on target in the first half. The U.S. fell to muster a shot of any kind at all, my hob led for HBO. All they want is a bloody good game. They want to highlight. And I was begging, I was begging for any kind of moment, one tool U.S. defender. Would one of you please pass a smaller Mexican opponent on the head or something? Why don't we watch football? If not for the feel good memes, second half. I had to sit there for the first 45 minutes. And I did wonder in my game notes, which team will inevitably make a mistake and give their opponent the goal. Daniel conceived diagonal backwards, ball, and tuna read the past quicker than anyone. The gen, honestly, had so much time as he charged from the halfway line in his own head to blue the chance that Sean Johnson left his near post open and the cruisers all attack a rolled the ball home. And I was like, relax America. This game's like the Florida cup of U.S. Mexico games. Honestly, didn't even feel like much of a spiky rivalry until deep in extra time when there was a Mia's doing spidery bhaji. But ray the death when we were all writing the obituaries on this game, there was an incredible passage of play. First, college Rodriguez octopus of a curly drive off the U.S. crossbar with Sean Johnson flailing and I don't know how you say cool and ambulance but not for me in Spanish. But that's what ensued. He sensed the opportunity, God bless you, charge through in transition, collapsing the Mexican midfield upon in France and Europe. We worked the ball to Jordan Morris, God bless him, threaded a fine pass with the outside of his boot, as he the Mexican defender Chavez had the chance to clear it, but you could just see he was just paralyzed by the fear of an own goal and only succeeded in poking it right to his use Ferreira, please rate time, suddenly became that he's used Ferreira of Greg Burton's imagination and rolled it in 8th U.S. goal for him, really a merkin ever finished, but a mood changer suddenly, the Americans in the crowd sounded the loudest, and the little felt like we might well find out, which U.S. player was wearing the man in the mirror T-shirt under their Jersey. But it was not to be one one U.S. continue their unbeaten run against Mexico, but to be honest, this was an odd one. The should probably and I say this is as an American fan should probably be included for real with an asterisk when we boost it. We're 5 games unbeaten, but that's it. We share the inaugural all state continental classic. We got those bragging rights, the all state continental classic out bragging rights. We got the true fee or half of it. I hope there's a trophy that we can cut into two biggest winner probably still box fresh Mexican coach Diego kulka by virtue of not losing. I feel for that guy. He has been in the spirit, I guess. It Mexican national team football and the immense pressure. A couple of games into his tenure. He'll have a hope breathing room, tiny crevice abbreviating room after this. Yes, the ego, your D team, drew of our C team for the U.S.. What positives emerge from this? Honestly, the biggest one for me is and this gave me incredible enormous pleasure. It's great to know we have multiple morrises on our team when we need them a Morris came in alongside J Morris. It was a great, it was a ballet year for Morris's in a U.S. Jersey. I thought Zimmerman,
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"They dropped drug in the air. The air was a morning. The final whistle on what historians will surely hail for generations as the inaugural all state continental classica was just wrapped late kick-off football going up against the NBA playoffs, full move. Luckily, this one was a bond stormy, yeah. One one, yes, our nation's get to share the all state continental classico. As we will, the 2027 World Cup, please God. Oh, so much to break down. This is going to be an hours long podcast as we do a tactical analysis. On all that we've seen, GFP at T Wiley 93, summed up the game is a singly called the Elk replica. I jest. I jest. Honestly, spend huge tracks of that second half wondering if really that age old American sports philosophical question. We always ask ourselves about it, what if our best athletes played soccer tonight was really, what if our best socket players played soccer? We will break it all down with your questions in a moment because we're here to do it all. Men in places after dark MIB AD and if you win of this on amp AMP right now, request a call it. Come on up to the stage. Mostly because I don't really know what to talk about after what we've just watched. And if you're not here on amp, do you even Diego? Download the app. Link is all over our social click the link on our social to listen on your desktop. You can always listen by saying, hey, Alexa, not Lexie Lewis. Hey, Alexa. Play men in blazers. This is essentially just a bunch of die hard football fans who've wandered into the diner after the pubs closed. And just they want to eat something. They don't know what the hell they want to eat. As long as it's got some hash browns smothered and covered, if we get into a fight, that's great if we play the jukebox, that's great. It's just rocket. Let's just do it. This may be the drunkest move surreal sloppy and of all time. I've got to tell you, I'm here for it. I want to start with Greek seriousness, raising a third first buddle light of the day of the night of the day to perhaps the biggest news out of U.S. soccer tonight and it is magnificent. And on HBO, Cindy co U.S. soccer president announced ahead of the game that the United States and Mexico are going to bid to host a 2027 FIFA World Cup, the Women's World Cup. They had been thought to be looking at the 2031 World Cup, but they've shocked everybody by putting in a bed at the deadline 2026 men's World Cup already coming to USA Mexico, Canada. I'll just say the prospect of going back to back with world cups in this nation. And they could really help me could happen. I mean, you look at fee for what do they like? Do they like? Back to back world cups, they don't care about back to back world cups. They hear about money. And there's probably no better place to make money with the women's game right now than in the United States, but think about how that will propel this sport to unprecedented levels in our nation. Sport of the future, no longer baby. Godspeed to all who are handling that bid okay. To USA Mexico, live from Glendale I was able to finish just minutes ago. I just thought when the players took the field, my lord, I better can smell GJ, what's aftershave wafting in over that stadium. And this was, honestly, let's be candid for from first string for either team. This was a very surreal USA Mexico rivalry, almost like what splendor is to sugar, just a substitute of a matchup, a talked about this in the podcast yesterday that I taped with her Gomez, where we talked about how the genesis of this game really lighting commercial reasons Mexico federation contraction, the obliged to play the United States. I think both teams wanted to do this with real 18s in the November 1 day, but the Concacaf Nations League precluded that. So this was kind of just jammed in there. This is not a FIFA window. This was essentially an MLS Liga MX All-Star Game. But I have to say this, I spoke to western McKinney, Tim Marie mantine Robinson and Brendan aronson today ahead of Leeds Fulham this weekend. And they were pretty clear. Anytime you play Mexico, wearing a U.S. Jersey you feel the stakes and you feel alive. And this one raucous crowd in 60,000 plus going to be said heavily green. This was some crucible, even on whom turf for a rule U.S. squad averaged 70 caps. Thing each of the U.S. squad were part of the World Cup. But when you looked at the actual minutes that they played in at tournament, it was, it was definitely, it was definitely not the strongest side we could have put out. Let's put it that way. Not a lot of minutes sprinkled in there. My heart have to acknowledge, did break for senior death during the national anthem.
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"u.s. jersey" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Hence this jammed into a non FIFA window on one level it's a bit like a hip Broadway show which is so excited to go and watch on these to find out that all of the actors are understood. But what you're saying is, as a player, both sides, their mindset, yes, it's always incredible to pull on the U.S. Jersey or a Mexican one. Even though this is kind of like the NBA G league of U.S. Mexico rumbles, you say mentally, those players at game time will be utterly locked and loaded and it will not feel ersatz. Yes, and maybe different levels of pressure and what I mean by that. Let me talk Mexican side first at mentality. There should be a generational change going on right now. A shift, they should be after that failure that was Qatar 2022. The first time they didn't advance from the group station since 1986, I mean, it was just them in Brazil, that amazing record. They honestly should be changing. There should be a changing of the guard. But they're very hesitant because they've struggled against the U.S. because they struggle in Concacaf because they don't feel or Diego coca the new Mexican manager. He doesn't have that time. He doesn't have that luxury. So if you're one of these young players that he's called in, you're really under an immense amount of pressure because you have to prove that not only is this generational change or this shift necessary, but that it could be smooth and the transition won't be as rough. You won't lose for the 6th time or you hopefully won't go 6 games without winning against the U.S. men's national team. So there's a lot of stake here for these guys and mentally, it's a lot of pressure. Now, if you're somebody like Jordan Morris, I mean, who's been more criticized by his own fan base than Jordan Morris, you'd leave late Major League Soccer right now with 8 goals. You're coming off winning the Concacaf Champions League first time for a U.S. team to do it in this modern era. You're coming off a World Cup. You should be on an absolute high. You've already had interest from European clubs. You've already won Major League Soccer. The MLS cup, you shouldn't be fighting the way you're fighting and here you are fighting for respect, so anytime you're on the field, you have to command that respect and, well, he happens to have had a little bit of success versus Mexico, he debuted versus Mexico in the Alamo dome as a player that was still in college for Stanford and scored a goal. So there's a lot of stake and mentally, the stakes are high for each player. Each player has something to prove here. God, it is hard to believe that Jordan Morris is already 28 years old. It felt like yesterday we were interviewing while he was still at Stanford and had final paper worries that was big as those of the opponents he was about to face. But let's go a little deeper. Both of these teams in transition, we can unpack both of these narratives, the transition, the flux. Let's look at the United States squad the first interim coach and noted dog lover Anthony Hudson still chugging along. I mean, this is now really for the medium term. The United States Anthony Hudson is our man, our gent, who's going to lead us into the Concacaf Nations League final later this year and the gold cup this summer. You know, and I listened to him in these press conferences. It's a very tough job. You know, a very tough role. He seems dedicated. He seems to be giving us all, but he's also I think attempting to be honest about how hard how surrealist challenge of essentially being a night watchman is for him personally, professionally, where are we in this, this pokes burr halter limbo? Are we even post Boer halter? Great question, right? Are we even post burr halter? Until somebody states that he's no longer a candidate, you're not post burr halter, so you're still in this limbo. I was at the gold cup draw here in Los Angeles, California. And SoFi Stadium. And rajib and at this game quite a while. You ever have that moment where you know that somebody has heard what you said. You know that somebody watches your content. You know that somebody has been paying attention to you. I had that moment with Anthony Hudson. You know, the extra long handshake a little firmer than normal. I know that he listens that he pays attention to what's being said. And we had a good conversation. I came away from that with a great deal of respect for this man. What he's doing is not easy. He knows he's in a position where he's most likely not going to be the U.S. miss national coach. Maybe he won't even be part of the program. He doesn't know that's up to the new sporting director and coach, whoever that is to see if they want him on the staff or not. He even confided me that he felt strange holding the go cup trophy when he was there. So just to go show you the mentality of his psyche and how difficult things must be for him. But he's been doing, I would say more than an adequate job of trying to hold things together with just a cluster fucking a shit show that it was. I mean, this whole situation. And in doing so, I think he's gotten better as an individual, but to answer your question, you're still in limbo. And you'll still be in limbo until there's a sporting director until we know who that sporting director is and the profile coach is looking for until we know all of this, we're in the same place if not worse than when Dave sarek and took over and was kind of babysitting these kids, winning for Greg berhalter to finish out the his season with Columbus crew. You're probably in a worse situation because you don't know who the coach will be. And while you're waiting, maybe quality candidates are taking other jobs. And even if you can get a quality candidate, we don't know what the sporting director is going to have to play with. The amount of money. I mean, Greg berhalter was making 1.6 million. I've thrown around the name Josie Mourinho as my dream candidate. He makes 16 million at Roma. He's not going to come if they're offering anywhere what they were offering for Greg berhalter. So it's a state of limbo in a frustrating one at that. There is he there is a pathway and Anthony Hudson passed away that's all very 1998 again. But that post 1994 World Cup U.S. lost their manager and gave the job temporarily to a rule out of his depth coach young guy Steve Sampson had been in the system for the previous regime really an assistant for Bora militar to he needed an American who could speak English to his squad. That's how he got the job in the first place. And in the interim role, Steve went on to win a couple of games and just because, yeah, properties 9 tenths of the law, he ended up earning the job permanently and then went on to utterly completely crap the bed to the out of his depth disaster. I made a whole podcast series about it. You can Google it American fiasco. And we know rationally, rationally, this game tonight is meaningless. But if Anthony had some wins, does this an point real point is a positive way where he could Steve Sampson his way into making this permanent, you know, it's funny you say that because that was one of my big concerns when he took over that he would do well enough for them to just give him the job. It happened with not only Steve Samson, it happened with bob Bradley, not saying bob Bradley's tenure was a negative one, but that's how bob ended up taking over the job. Things like this happen. It would be a mistake on U.S. soccer's part to give it to Anthony Hudson. There needs to be a certain pedigree with this next coach. We heard reports per the athletic during the World Cup or before the World Cup that most players wanted a coach with European pedigree. So these European players would take the coach seriously enough. But there is truth to a more respected coach does better in a bigger locker room. There's truth to that. Anthony Hudson right now is an impossible position. It's been great at the moment, but the first time things go negative, a loss versus Mexico, or a candidate, or a poor showing, how will that locker room respond? How will they treat him? Will they still view him as the assistant coach to Greg berhalter?
30 For 30 Podcasts
"u.s. jersey" Discussed on 30 For 30 Podcasts
"Its way into the system. Here's Dawkins talking in an interview on YouTube about how he got started in the business. Once you're around towns that people who are worth money to entities and businesses, I mean people figured out that I could be, you know, beneficial to their businesses and it kind of blossomed from there. Dawkins had been working as what's known as a runner for a prominent agent who paid him to recruit young basketball players with pro potential. But around the time of his meeting with Augustine, Dawkins had a new plan. He wanted to start his own financial adviser business. He would steer kids to particular schools and then take the athletes on as paying clients once they turned pro. Here's Myron medcalf again. Christian Dawkins represented himself as someone who could help teams get players. Someone who could make moves, someone who could be a go between to the top talent in America and the top programs in America. Those sorts of claims are often exaggerated. Dawkins needed connections like Augustine to deliver. You better believe about 25% of what you hear on the air you circuit. 'cause the other 75% is probably BS. And if you're Christian Dawkins, you're trying to figure out, yeah, I want to build these relationships, but I'm also trying to move up the food chain too. And I'm not moving up the food chain without somehow being a power player. In this business that people can turn to when they want to land top prospects. Understanding the payoff for people like Dawkins is key to understanding the bag game. Sometimes go betweens like Dawkins would get a fee for recruiting a player for an agent or a shoe company. But that's not a sustaining income. So what's in it for them in the long run? According to Matt Babcock, the former agent we met last episode, it comes down to what's known as a point or a percentage of an athlete's pro contract. The terminology, they want to point, which means they want 1% of your agent fees. That's a very common sort of standard request from AU coaches handlers. Even parents. And I think the guys that have probably done this the most successfully are the guys that have long-lasting relationships with schools, agents or shoe companies that they do take those deals and they write it out the long term. So where does that actually written down? Is that in writing anywhere? Probably not. I think a lot of those are just sort of wink wink, time deals. So how often do the players even know this is happening? I'd say in most cases they don't know. So that's the long-term strategy for people like Dawkins. He positioned himself as someone who could deliver top players to agents, apparel companies, and colleges. Augustine and Dawkins frequently talked about where showtime hoops players wanted to go to school. See, AAU coaches have a lot of influence on their players college decisions. College coaches can't just talk to high school players whenever and however they want. The NCAA controls that. So the AAU coach is the go between. 20 plus years ago, if you wanted to go and get a top player in America, you went to his high school coach. That's not the case anymore. I mean, you're going to the AAU coach. 9 times out of ten. So I mean, they're powerful. If coach K wants players, he's got to call you. Bill self has to call you. Augustine helped Dawkins by steering his program's top players toward colleges that wore Adidas, like the university of Miami. I was looking at it like, okay, if the kids kind of leaning toward Miami, well, we need Adidas to step up. Right? If we're going to help the brand, which a 5 star kid going to one of your premiere schools helps the brand. If he's going to help the brand, I'm going to Christian what I'm saying, man, like what's up? Like, we need to be taken care of. Augustine had influence over where his players decided to go to college. And if it worked out, he was hoping to get points on their eventual contracts. For me, it was a long-term play of okay. Nasir is going to be our first pro, right? That's going to change the game for our program. Because this kid is going to end up signing a shoe contract one day. And we're going to write it into his rider that our program is taken care of through the shoe company. As their relationship grew, Dawkins introduced Augustine to people at Adidas. So, just like he had with Under Armour, Augustine asked for a shot. For showtime hoops to prove itself. This time on Adidas gauntlet circuit. Just let us play on the circuit and give us product. Give us Jersey shoes, bags, and backpacks. I don't want anything else. And let me prove myself. And they agreed to it. Augustine seized an opportunity to attend an Adidas director's meeting in Las Vegas early in 2017. That's where shoe company executives and AAU program directors would meet and talk about the year ahead. And it's where Augustine saw how the big apparel companies saw things. You weren't sitting in that room. If you didn't have a player that there's an outside fringe possibility that at some point they were going to be a professional basketball player. And let's be honest, like if we're approaching it from a capitalism standpoint, it's brilliant. How did this shoot company reps communicate that to you? Were they subtle about it or how did they deliver that? I mean, it was pretty direct. I mean, guys, we're here for pros. That's what we're here for. If you don't deliver, you're done. You won't be in this room next year. And again, there was nothing. There was no naivete about it. That's what shoe company basketball is. Nike's not funding a team here in Orlando because they think it's the college. They don't care. They've got four or 5 kids on their team that could be NBA players at some point. That's the model of their business. Augustine thought this time, he did have a guy. Nasir little, and a strong program, and he needed Adidas money because he was burning through his own. So I would say I probably walked out of that Under Armour year 15, $20,000 in credit card debt. My check came in and it had to go to the house and it had to go to the bills, and when literally whatever was left over, went back into the program. Augustine was sinking deeper into debt, but he didn't see any alternative. When you've got 30 young men that are looking at you, it wasn't just like, oh, this is gonna be embarrassing for me if I don't pull this off. These kids and these families and these coaches are depending on me to come through. So now to be in that position, I mean, I was terrified. Augustine got the team through most of the season. But with one tournament left in Las Vegas, he was all out of cash. Augustine put all his hope in Christian Dawkins. Christian had been telling me he was going to get me some money for about a month and a half, and I hadn't got it. But he told me he was going to get it to me in Las Vegas. And so I said, I need you to be positive about that because I'm going to fly my team out there and I'm not buying I can't afford round trip. So I'm going to buy one ways. Once there, he got a call from Dawkins inviting him to a meeting with an investor at the cosmopolitan hotel. So he calls me and said, hey, we're going to go meet this guy. He's got the money for you.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"u.s. jersey" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"Thank you. Thank you, doctor. We went from the improv. I heard that the original cast was leaving Saturday Night Live. That's Gilda Radner. That's Chevy Chase. That's John Belushi. That's Billy Murray. My hero, Danny aykroyd. And they were looking for cast to replace the original Saturday live. And I wanted nothing to do about it. NBC did a go round of all the comedy clubs. They never picked anybody. I got a call from a friend who was writing on SNL on the new SNL. He got a writing job. He told gene dominion produced at the time. You got to see Joe Piscopo. He does impressions. I would do impressions. I was doing the Frank Sinatra president on stage. I would do Tom Snyder. Remember Tom Snyder said that day was great. And I would do all of that on the stick. So they brought me to NBC. I went up to the 17th floor. I did an in studio kind of audition for gene domain and she said, okay, you know what? We're going to put you on tape. We're going to put you on tape. Come in this date. So I bypassed a lot of auditions, but I went in, I got down to the last few hundred, and I went into what it was David Letterman studio in the 6 a, I believe it was at NBC. And I just riffed on camera. Now, I was so cocky back then. I was young number one, number two. Who wants to replace the original cast of Saturday Night Live? But I did the old man, this is Sinatra. I did all the impressions. They left. They liked it. They hired me as a utility guy. They needed somebody to do the impressions right there. They hired me. And so we went in. And if I could cut to, we did about ten shows on SNL. Gilbert Gottfried was in the cast. There was some great chemical. Billy, the gili, I came up with Gilead to comedy club. Then as we were casting the show about to mount the show on the air, I walked up to the 17th floor one day and someone said, I want you to meet a kid from Long Island comedy clubs. I was in New York City comedy clubs. We didn't know the Long Island comedy clubs at the time. I walked in and as a young kid sitting down and they said, Joe, I want you to meet Eddie Murphy. And I sat with this young kid who was 19 years old, 19 years old. And I immediately talked about connection, you were gracious enough to make the introduction. And the connect with Eddie, the laughing, we just joked around, what are we doing here? We just hit it off. Then the check is out, please, if I may. We did an audition. Eddie and I together did the Richard Pryor Chevy Chase audition. It was word association where Chevy would say something and did prior would react to it. And it got to honky, and he got the dead honky. And I can't even tell you now your show that Doc, because it was so politically correct. Eddie and I did that sketch in front of the producer and the staff of the new Saturday Night Live. And as I was doing this, I said to myself, this guy is the next prior. This is, it was Eddie. And the rest is history and literally two days ago, we just reviewed the OG Beverly Hills cop. That's how Joe met Eddie Murphy so much more to say, but first things first go to Joe Piscopo U.S. Jersey Joe Piscopo on Twitter, a.m. 9 70 the answer. I'm Sebastian goal, because this is a very special one on one. If you enjoy what we do here with the real news makers the true experts, the fun guys and girls, make sure you are subscribed to the podcast. It's absolutely free to go to whichever channel whichever provider you prefer, Spotify Apple podcasts that you subscribe. It's free. Leave us a 5 star review and share the links with your Friends. They are literally, we have, I told you busted all sales records because of what happened in Manhattan just a week ago, the I stand with 45 Trump 2024 flag in T-shirt. Everyone wants one, get yours today, stand up for the truth against political persecution..
Men In Blazers
"u.s. jersey" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Remember before the World Cup, you know, with Chelsea were fumbling, there was just some reason he was the lightning rod for Chelsea vanity trot on mostly for ten minutes at the end of the game. It came out my club. Game out at Mike. You don't hear that anymore. There's so many problems all over the field. Politics boy is just not even on the agenda. And I think what I feel for him, I feel for Christian and who Andrew millington's Chelsea fan equivalent. It's probably saying he's not even really on Chelsea training videos at all anymore. Unless they're doing bleeding appeals to American fans, whether they're just going to post him arriving in his Porsche. And then we all go crazy for that. It's a wild and complex elaborate play for tour the long play I think these players are just the smoke screen for poorly take some of that heat off him. It is deeply deeply confounding. But Felix, I've got to say, is why do we watch football, we watched a film alive and there's few footballers that makes me feel more ecstatic, a sense of possibility, a sense of joy. So watching, watching our Felix is like being in Viking times and you encamp and everyone's had a few drinks and the fires there. There's a few balls that are spinning round, no doubt the battle has been won. And then the poet child gets everyone cheers as the poet child gets on the shoulders of the giant warrior and just unleashes in human form free spitting out the rhymes and the instant ballad of the battle we yearn for this man. He didn't win the fight. No, he didn't win the fight. I'm not even sure he could lift the warhammer, but my God, when he speaks, it feels like molten gold is pouring from his lips and I'm there for that child. I am there for that child in the same way as I'm there for Joe Felix. So godspeed have faith get a bloody striker whose name is not uba Yang. By the way, I do believe there's a great bloody football team. I want to be clear Chelsea fans who are frustrated. I feel you. Chelsea fans who are down. I feel you. I think it's incredibly sad that a new owner, enjoying his hobby, his pastime getting his yucks as kind of giving you a year of dismal impotence football. I do wait for that, but I do believe also. I think this is going to be with the right decision with the right management decision, which is why originally they said they were going to peace themselves. It was going to be a quote exhaustive search. Now they're crapping their pants clearly because they hear the hooves of Real Madrid and PSG and the other alphas will pluck their man so they've got to go quickly get nargles month offering some zoom time with Tony Hawk if he signs for Chelsea football club. I hope it's not hurried. I hope it's not a hoop it's management appointments are like donor organs. They can be rejected by the host body like Graham Potter was. When 35 he's in a quiet taste, I hope they make the right choice. Because there is there is a bloody good team to be found in that squad. That is it for the night before we go. I want to thank you for being with me on this night and night. I was really looking forward to that Chelsea Liverpool game. It was so bloody flat. I've still got like the hangover of wonderful last night, but before we go, we want to remind you of everything that's coming up for men and blazers, world headquarters this week powered by Buddha I easy to drink easy to enjoy. Wednesday. We have a massive, massive, massive interview. On our YouTube channel, where that king of joy, Marcus Rashford, go to our YouTube page, please subscribe so much content going up there right now. I'm trying to work out how to do more and more and more on that platform Thursday. Hurt Gomez returns with vamos presented by. Oh, that fine libation, but light another quite stunning episode. Hook's going to debate whether there's now an unfair stigma around MLS players. Who pull on a U.S. Jersey, which is actually a fascinating concept. Talking to the U.S. men's national team, make sure to sign up for our American states united newsletter, created by our producer Randy Kim, which provides a weekly roundup of how all our U.S. men, women, coaches, fare in global football's biggest leagues next edition flies tomorrow Wednesday morning. And I want to finish with a shot of jagermeister, this bot of human emotion in a shot glass of raise it, turn the Bay Area, which today became the latest expansion city for NWSL, a consortium led by four former U.S. internationals, Leslie Osborne, Danielle slayton, Ali Wagner. Brandy Chastain. Oh, they've led a charge of investors who put forward and $25 million, largest institutional investment in women's soccer today. That investment in 53 million expansion fee with a remainder to be spent on the training facility and the build out of the team, the infrastructure, the staff, I adore the Bay Area. We all did. We've always loved playing it live. The passion for elite football in that region is immense roll on 2024 when they'll join this ever strengthening league that we love to you all will be back
Men In Blazers
"u.s. jersey" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Here? Cross and dead season 9 again. Donovan is gone. Can you believe this go go USA? Certainly through it's incredible. You could not write a script like this. It's roger. And this is episode two of go, go, USA, a passionate fans history of American men's soccer. This 6 part series that delves into our nation's rich soccer history on the men's side ahead of this year's men's World Cup, and if you're new, we've been expecting you and we're so bloody glad to have you on this journey along with us, but we might want to suggest you start with episode one in which we covered the inception of football in the United States through the stonewashed denim tinge delirium of 1994 and on to the cataclysmic disaster that was 1998. Today, we forge ahead into fresh waters 2002. And 2006. That's right. The M and M's show was topping the charts, MySpace was hot in the streets, and none other than Bruce arena was at the helm, and joining me to break all this down is my partner, oh, in this series True Detective style, the Bruce arena to my bob Bradley, the Jay burr Holter to you know him as coach beer from Ted Lasso. I know him as a gent whose instant recall of American football he'd call heroes and referees who've wronged this is, well, paralleled. It's the one. Mister Brendan, hunt. It's an honor. It's also a burden, but I'll carry this gracefully if I possibly can. It's a joy to be back, especially after an episode, one might just have solved the U.S. Jersey design problem forever when he declared, let's just get John cougar mellencamp to design them all. I'm telling you, guys, John Cooper Mellon camp, and just to really cook the rivalry. We'll have Canada's be designed by Brian Adams. Nickelback erasure, and I will not stand for it. I cut like a knife, as a nickelback. But anyway, if you're listening to a lot of melancholy, since we last podcasted, I'm wondering now you've got me wondering Brendan hunt. When mellencamp wrote in Jack and Diane, Jack, he's gonna be a football star. Did he mean soccer right? Who would have thought so? Back at the time. Certainly John cougar could not have had the bravery at the time to come out as it were as a soccer fan. So he would have had to be subtler about it, you know? That's amazing. I do love the fact that like maybe please God, our children's children will hear that song will love it as much as I do, but we'll just assume that Jack was just like playing defensive midfield, shielding that back forth from all that was coming and just leaving America to World Cup glory. To 2002, the first World Cup Brendan hunt really, truly. I believe watch them start to finish. Take us back to where you were then, a 29 year old Brendan hunt, describe your big picture viewing experience. I've been in Amsterdam for two and a half years. And this is the first World Cup I've had build up toward. I haven't just opened the paper the day of the opening ceremony and found out that the World Cup is starting. I had been tracking qualifying, which I didn't know that you had to qualify for World Cup. And this is not, of course, something that happens just by dint of becoming a soccer fan, but by the unique circumstances of living in Amsterdam, I had a friend who was on the national team, an American named John O'Brien, was playing for ix, met him at the one bar in town that would show NFL games, met him through Jason Sudeikis, actually, 'cause Jason knew that the IX player was here and John was playing pool. His buddies, so Jason comes up to me, which is my ear. I just put a quarter down in the pool table, get ready. We're going to play with the ix guy. And now, to this day, John and O'Brien and I are friends. Holland, who I was devoted to as much or more because that actually gone to their games at that point, did not even qualify due to the hubris of Louisville, don't get me started. Yeah, it's a redundant sentence. It's just due to Louis van gaal. Who was just implicit. And the theater I worked, boom Chicago. Everyone had become a bit of a soccer fan. We were all going to watch the USA's first game against the mighty Portugal. The team that had eliminated the hubristic Louis Vuitton again, redundant. And I get to the bar that day and it's like 11 a.m. on a Thursday and none of my Friends are there. Except my friend Doug and his dog, Doug's not in boom Chicago. Where is Jordan Peele? Where is my now teles partner Joe Kelly? Where is Josh Myers? And I text them. They've decided on that day to go to an amusement park. And what they miss is the single greatest possible launch into truly loving my national team that I could have ever devised, written, imagined, or experience. When not only do we defeat the number 14 in the world, a seeming World Cup favorite Portugal, by a decisive three to two, but also our buddy. The guy who lives a ten minute walk from us. Scores the first goal in the fourth minute. I made the right choice that day, and they all chose poorly. Yeah, I like to think that somewhere in the United States, Jordan Peele is keeping the podcast really enthusiastic. And he's just as passionate about amusement parks as you become about football, but it was an incredible campaign. We got to touch on the qualifying experience for a moment because the USA back then qualifying was never a given as we've learned qualifying is never a given. Brendan Concacaf really is the Star Wars cantina of football confederation. 100%, now they're trying to duplicate that at various Disney parks. And you know, they get the music right, but they don't get the bags of urine as authentically as you would like. They'll bags of your own being flung at our American corner kick takers. The first game in Guatemala in the guatemalans put the game in mazar tenango, a three hour bus ride from the airport, deep in the jungle, near active volcanos, 40 commandos in ski masks followed the players around everywhere, nice touch, local radio, blaring music and air sirens out that they once thought hotel. Booster reader does not do one star hotels and the U.S. barely escape with their lives, never mind a one one draw, but they did counter with some of their own home filled gamesmanship, Brendan. This cycle was the beginning of the dosa sero tradition where we hosted Mexico in the Arctic Columbus Ohio 29° below freezing, the Mexicans called de la guera, freer, the Cold War. I think the U.S. had not beaten Mexico and qualifying since 1980. Jorge campos wore so many layers of clothes. Brad friedel laughed at he looked like the steep puff marshmallow man. How much pleasure does a good old dosa sero give you? Because it is a truly important U.S. soccer tradition. It is a thing of beauty. No one could have known at that time they would have known obviously the significance of finally beating Mexico and qualifier, but that does Sara would become a thing that fortress Ohio would become a thing that even still today we are laying in the glorious aftermath of dosa sero. To have a intrinsic chant, you know, because we're not great. We're not great at terrace. We don't have the cleverness of English clubs. It's too high a bar to even compare ourselves to. We do things on repeat, we do loops, we do samples. But dosa is organic. It is factual. It is taunting, and it is glorious. And it
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"u.s. jersey" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"In. We talk about locking in rosters of me and a few of my friends. We're already talking about World Cup roster and who should make the cut who shouldn't and all that kind of stuff. That's going to be that's going to be another aside. But another thing that we're going to be digging into here in the next few months is we get ready to finally be back in the World Cup. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, I'm psyched, man. I can not wait. I have only a few bastions of irrational fandom left. In the U.S. men's national team is one of them. Actually both the men and the women. My daughter's favorite team in the world is the U.S. women's team. So we spend a day watch any game that we can that they're on TV and enjoy the whole thing, but it is, but with them, sometimes it's not the most suspenseful. They might be teams you know, the boy was a 13 nothing or whatever it was in the last World Cup. So what would the man, man? I believe before I pass from this earth. We will win a war cut. I truly believe it. We can not have this many good athletes with the investment in resources we put in a sports in this country that we will that we will never compete and win a World Cup, but we'll see. I mean, that's just probably dreaming a little bit there, but man, I passionately root those guys on. And this seems not bad. No, they're not bad. They're 15th ranked in the world as of today because it's what's at the bot. So yeah, I am hoping when they pull the first name out to be in the group with Qatar. USA, right? Is in that group because then all of a sudden you start to feel like we got a shot. Let's go. We won't be able to advance out of knockout. And once you're in the knockout round or anything, anything else. Anything can happen. Yep. For sure. Yeah, I'm thrilled. In fact, maybe tomorrow I'll have to wear my U.S. Jersey on the show. There you go. Here it is. Our last thing, we got a wage bomb about loads. Yeah. It's a new deal with ESPN. Yeah, I mean, he's going to be sticking around for a while now, staying with ESPN. We'd always jumped around a little bit, but it seems like he's landed here and he's going to be sticking with ESPN breaking news for them. Which means I guess we're going to get more interesting ways to spoil draft picks without technically spoiling traffic. But I mean, he backed off that a little bit a little bit. I think there are like, forget it. If we're not all going to do it, then let's go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, multiyears. They didn't say how long my guess is. Things generally run four or 5 years with that. But yeah, it's this is pretty cool. For anybody who loves this stuff, you know, when you have the best in the world of what they do on the biggest platforms, we all win. Because we continue to do what he does, and continue to go. So yeah. This is good news. Speaking of which, help us grow our platform. Make sure you make sure you do subscribe and turn on notifications right here. The NBA front office YouTube channel. If you're listening to the podcast version, make sure you leave us a review and a 5 star rating over an Apple podcast. We certainly appreciate it. It's Spotify as well, wherever it is that you listen to podcasts. We appreciate all the support that we've gotten from everybody as we've been building this and growing. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, we can. Thank you guys and all, you know, for the reviews, the comments, everything..
Men In Blazers
"u.s. jersey" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"It's very often what disappoints me as a you know reading the so-called experts who cover the us men's national team the journalists and just reading how Prescriptive they are. I always load the arrogance of the english. Press when i would go to wolf cops. English press you know sitting around acting as though they rooted you everything about football. They should be managing the teams themselves and there are a lot of us journalists. Who in that dangerous place right now of acting. Just fanning to report on what they're saying insulting to prescribe As though they themselves would be able to do this job. Much up and I think it's an criticizing the players. Also which i never enjoyed great question on the krisztian issue. I want to say this is a guy that needs to yet again for the twenty seven. Tell him prove himself for. Chelsea is coming off cove it. He probably just desperately wants to get back in one piece to chelsea and foolish and he's playing concha calf where opponents are allowed to do with the world watching the referee laughing and i was blown away by him tonight when he got kicked the crap out of the reality is he could have just taken himself off immediately but the fact that he kept trying to play. I mean this is a guy who who fails the pressure of two thousand seventeen. He knows what it's like for the team to miss world shout and i loved the in that moment iranian tried to play on. He was clearly in a bad shape and huge huge off to chris. christie attempt to be questioned. I tweeted after the game. That this is a great way in a mood changing win but should mask the serious self reflection. It needs to occur for this program and gentleman twitter whiskey. Retailing it One can only hope but the rhetoric on twitter the munza movement of self reflection for fans who pile a hopes dreams ever emotional baggage onto twenty year olds who will inevitably stumble and struggle from time to time. I think it's so wise. I was really blown away. But that's the reality. Say you know the stuff. It's not about the play as is all about the football. The joel came on. Our show are say this very quickly. Johanna became a chef. Said this a couple of times and we want some west. Mtv clips of a west ham fan mouthing off about some terrible thing a player done and when we cut back to jolt job. This look to this engage. I don't play who hadn't given the found that shoe itself gauge should. They should have given me sure that. I'm john this goes. I don't think cher was really the issue about found and there is a law vote project there is a logo projection. I understand that twittering carriages. You know we all do stupid. We will say stupid things. We'll have terrible takes. Us football psychologist amongst shave. Tell us right to us. Why is it the which remedial former of the us team what we what are we projecting. What are we really yearning for on the on the level i would love to know you know a psychologist all that we know Say we'll have we'll have left the whole rest and wait for wise ahead. You are amazing. To you'll in nashville. Thank you for hosting in such fine style who you get a will cup hosting juicy. Our loves not sissy. We wait to be back to quick questions before we go. Dave drew come on a may where you from. What your question Thanks guys drew. From austin texas More money off scenery later my question in the first half. We clearly like gaping chasm between our frontline. And what should have been tolerated. The six will just gloss over that horrible decision. But who do you think can play in that linking role If mckinney's has to be held out for a bit as a result of his actions this window. I'm i've missed Eunice right roach. I've missed him playing for the us. He's applying who blew me away. When i first saw praying for the united states and i think that he's a guy who in the middle part can do a a phenomenal job. I do think that the distances between the lines in the first half tonight was awed. An either that is placed as not listening to their coach. Or it's a coach trying to get them to recognize something very different than going on honduras just again and again and again through The lines of the us and just ran at them and caused enormous problems And these are looked. Hondurans are skillful. Football is but they're not elite class or not blessed with incredible speed and and superb technikons great strength and they just ran circles around the us the spaces between the us midfield attack in the us midfield and defence So i think you know getting that sort of between the lines right not just with the ball but when they're without the ball is a huge huge policy for the us. Unfold yunus mussa. I've gotta say what a what a ridiculous is. What your half term. I know we had a a drop off law season after making his debut nor connected to making his baby still young still rule but when he gets up full turns out full speed almost instantly which is something. That doesn't look difficult on television. But it's insanely difficult unisys. Oh gifted at the drive in into the of an opponent's defense in a way that very few or and i would love love. Love this love to watch gentleman in the us jersey loss question on the night. Because you've all been so bloody gorgeous as we approached the wee hours often claw come on. You've been super patient can be tell us way you all what she questioned. A gentleman Evan i'm here in chicago illinois. Not we're we're waiting to be quads where whereas chicago gaber. What neighborhood less. Lincoln park may can mentally picture gave. I can smell up pizza. Watson out your neighborhood. Tell me tell me what she question two things. I thought watching that game. Thank god we got the got the win but to me. It felt like a game that we won in spite of Greg it seemed like we set up in the first half Basically to show off team that desperately needed west mckinnon. So did you guys to get that takeaway. How do you feel about that. In to how long until brennan aaronson is playing lights.
Men In Blazers
"u.s. jersey" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"So rule. A me el salvador. They were meant to be one of the worst. He was left in the tournament first time. They made the final round the two decades. We've told they would just happy to be there. My told the crowd the way. They sang the national anthem. Likey eleven. Gdp phones and then the american anthem began. This was so symbolic they. How the whole weeks because the very first line. Oh say. Can you see the camera zooms in on young. Gm raina now fire crackers off somewhere in the crowd and the kid just understandably flick is really. That was a newman of all. It was to come. David was who i mean just the unpreparedness for the star. Wars cantina the concacaf before it even kicked a bull bumpy bouncy pitch fireworks olin's rate armed please slash soldiers all around the ground plastic chairs which is a requirement in in any coca calf gay. You've gotta have plastic launch around. No one ever uses the loan chas. But i believe somewhere in the regular i bet you. The president of concacaf owns a plastic loan check because always just read them. The key for you play football without random scattered golden further. Joe always always of course poggioli rayner gonna take his first quarter immediately three riot policemen surrounding shields up. I love that l. Salvato what you to be. You want to be in the anti fruit squad. The narcotic no. I'd like to be in these special division that we have to use riot shields to try to flick bags of pissed through to the american football player. Be when i grow up. I mean as all say chaotic. it's a imperfect and by the way we want to say perfect. I don't just mean when they're on the road. The failed in nashville is we will discuss was was bloody awful and rotating cutting out within minutes. This is the opposite of european football of it's pristine conditions and it's just great infrastructure and these players mentally prepared for it physically would help prevent a got away for point on the road. Which is what you wanna do. In cohen calf. But it didn't feel good. El salvador had all the ideas all the organization older shape. We were reduced to just what you senior dash dribble into into traffic. O or just dumping the bull seating possession confused lack of confidence in chaos. Having said that point on the road it is what you want all told home games home games. That's what's important and whatever oddly shaped tore them were playing in coca cam winning home games and everything and we left san salvador little worried about australia striker issue slightly stunned by the incipient play from the lake suggest the big picture. We wanted to see if the team had an idea. A plan going forward in our hungry and david. They don't worry this. This is legit. Triple g called it. A must win. One hundred percents of us win against a team made it to exactly we'll cut nineteen ninety-six hadn't won on us since fifty-seven before that game. David were you like okay. This is our moment of truth. Well i mean actually. I was pretty worried after that Opening game I do think that el salvador just just look to me to be one of the weaker teams in the group and yes draws on the road. A very good almighty. Us soccer media came out in defense. They almost the headlines. It's like they'd won seven nil like the lessons learned by this young team. These babies just the lessons learned. They day one nine nell in terms of lessons. Learned you then go on the twitter. The us soccer twitter. And it's a little bit different. You could see that the fans were starting to get like an iraq wrestler ought to get a little concerned about this stoller football the bell halters you know trying to play and the thing that i was struck by in that first game raj you know and i'll just using the -nology not because england are these necessarily the nation for the us to follow. But i think a lot of our listeners will be familiar with familiar with the plans familiar. What i'm talking about but who the players really stepped up helping and you know this summit. It was hurricane and sterling veterans. Who are able to deliver those big moments. Him studying came on as a young player. He debuted down in that awful performance by england in the two thousand fourteen copy become a season international his international record as he's got older. I look tat. Yes it's amazing young team. But who the veterans who are going to step up. What landon and clinton and brian mcbride and so many great americans were able to do for so long. They were just veterans. Who knew how to play these tough circumstances and you look around that side and you're thinking oh my god whereas the veteran leadership and that's what people that i've spoken to who were down in el salvador said the wom- voice. They heard enough. And this is more of a segue post-game screaming at the us After the performance it was west mckinney screaming at the players and this was not good enough. This is not who we are segue segue segue to game to the game dominated by who was not playing. Zack stafford vaccinated zach. Stephan i with sheer raina. Note tagged with a hamstring injury in d- surreal uncertain unsettling news that weston mckennie our initially for unknown circumstances at the time. I'm will impact this post game in real time. It was bewildering before kick-off mainly because of the complete lack of communication around that in the moment actually took western to post on the stories that he'd broken caveat protocols of any even heads of what happened that we'll bring the story down later in the pod adding what we now know but man gametime kickoff felt like it felt like a massive sudden absence and a woeful lack of focus ahead of a an enormous game for your national team. The started staley. We gave ourselves no favours nashville turf. So bloody conquer caffeine dave were. Why can we not muster a proper fail to play big games on this nation. I genuinely not trying to be funny or snide. I am so completely confused for a team. That's trying to play passing. Football constantly puts itself on tape. Stadia not fit for purpose. I think this is where traveling. The games around is just still has to be held in question. We don't have a home national team stadium where we can consistently dominate and play the kind of football. You know where we the clearly berhalter wants to play And you know. I gotta tell you from the from the opening whistle and anybody who's watched canada play over the last couple of years and certainly that first result they managed to get you know against the us you know two years ago. We're seeing a vastly improved canadian side. And you could see that. From the opening whistle you could say the. Us steroid slowly lost possession. Lock police it clearly. Still lingering impact couldn't enforce himself on the game with canada and a hacker shack on him and no one else really stepping up to try and create. But you're right. It was astonishing from the off these. Us players over the course of both games. Us players who who really into drink the kool aid impress post concacaf nations. That can go cup. Glory seemed completely unprepared for the first ruler. Concha it's actually the second one. The plastic chaz has you first ruling on capita rule number two coca cafes every one of your opponents doesn't just want to be when you pull on a us jersey. They want to kill the because a great game for let's say an our salvadorian against the us could get limited. Mls contract could change their lives and the us players seeing the both games for stretches to just be wondering around like you know who i am here to referee or to their opponents expecting particularly el salvador game them to rollover and this is what pissed me off what genus gay was. How fun so davis tour desk light. Lukac pablo marei honestly startling because canada do one thing really well. They counter attack at speed on the flanks. How fun say is a world class pace merchant with guile and craft and intelligence and the us. Dave this is if they had no watch game film. Canada ray able to loft balls over the top twelve say well..
WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"u.s. jersey" Discussed on WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"The beauty of baseball is these jerseys the way these guys look open air Summer nights on grass lights are on plant against the very best of that's the beauty. That's the aesthetic beauty of baseball. When you look at a tiger's uniform. It's so simples it It's so simplistic, and it's so beautiful. That old English D and the dark blue and the white. It's just perfection. The Dodgers, the Yankees, the Cardinals, These are gorgeous aesthetic moments that you're looking at their best players on the biggest stage, you're gonna gab it up and goop it up with that. Where it looked like somebody made a mistake with their type setting. And that the American League's weren't blue pants, blue pants. The problem is, Don't let there be okay. Don't let a passing grade. B. Okay, make them be their best Selves. Their best Selves are what gorgeous. Traditional baseball jerseys are The Royals have a beautiful jersey. But instead Salvador Perez looks like he just got pajamas from Victoria's secret. Mayor and passing grade is not what the All Star game has to be, and that's the problem. Our What we believe. Baseball or NFL or NBA is expectations should be We don't hold them to that. They can just be passing. It could just be whatever We've let them get away with so much that they'll take every inch and make it a mile and that's what they did last night. Not only did they rob us of baseball's beautiful jerseys on the grandest stage, something that's happened for 90 years, but they also gave us jerseys that were at best math at worst, Gross. That's the problem. It was all of the above. Peyton Manning yesterday. Said. On MLB network. That he doesn't think that Aaron Rodgers is going to be traded from Green Bay. He He wants to see him stay in Green Bay and does not think he's coming to Denver and said, By this point in time, you don't change quarterbacks three weeks before training camp And the way Peyton Manning said it Sounded pretty confident that it wasn't gonna happen. And I think Peyton Manning probably has some pretty decent insight into the matter. My guess is that Peyton Manning? If he didn't talk to Aaron Rodgers directly. As an agent or a friend. Or somebody, a co worker or somebody. He knows that he trusts that has some type of of insight. Don't think Peyton Manning, who's as connected as he is doing stuff for ESPN. Still obviously around the game. Is certainly kind of one of the mount rush more quarterbacks of all time and of his era. I don't think he doesn't have any idea What is happening is just shooting from the hip about Aaron Rodgers. I think what you heard from Peyton Manning is little insight. It's not gonna happen. If it didn't happen already. It's not going to happen. I think that's what he's telling you. Now he could be completely just guessing could be Don't think so. When I heard that I said this doesn't sound like just a guess. Peyton Manning doesn't usually just spout does it usually just guess he's not kind of a hot take guy doing every interview? You don't hear about a million talk shows or hot take shows or debate shows. You know, he picks and chooses his spots, and when he does, he's usually pretty measured. He's not a guy that That shoots from the hip. When he says, I think the Broncos quarterback Teddy Bridgewater and Drew lock and you're not going to really change quarterbacks three weeks before training camp and Think that Aaron Rodgers is going to be a Packer. It's telling us what I've sensed all along. If the Packers had the appetite to trade Aaron Rodgers, it would have happened in April. When this first started, Remember when Rogers tried to drop the bomb on the day of the draft by leaking whatever he leaked or give you the green light to Adam Schefter to report what Adam Schefter did. He wanted the trade, then. The Packers didn't trade him, then. It was April. Kept barking or kept making things uncomfortable in May didn't trade him, then didn't fire gun t guarantee my man? He didn't fire him. It's now beyond June and now into July. We're crawling at a training camp. You can't tell me that the Packers suddenly are going, You know, it's probably good idea to trade Aaron Rodgers. Now they could get to a break point of Rogers sits out they could get to a breakpoint if Rogers refuses to come in. It could come to a break point if it really gets ugly. Like season kickoff week to something like that, But at this point in time, I don't know the Packers have any interest in doing so. And this is why I said Rogers is Going to do the match and be let go when his opening day or when do we play the bears? Or who are the Bears? Or I'm having a great time in Hawaii. Note how these great pictures came out. And joke around with Kenny Mayne on SportsCenter. And then you know, say that he's trying to just get his mental health right. The reason is doing so is to to hold some control. Over his situation if he can't get out And he's not going to retire, which I don't think he is. And he can't get Guti Guti, my man. Fired. The only semblance of control he has is. I'm having a great time and I'm going to make some decisions when I want to make decisions, Gun T my man. Not a lie. Yesterday. I'm heating up. My lunch. And my wife is out of town. It's alone. It's solo. It's me, and there's Rosie the cat in the kitchen. And I am I'm opening up the Tupperware to put in the microwave. And for some reason, I just said to Rosie Rosie. The anti gun, t my man gun, t my man and then clicked 30 seconds on the microwave and just kept saying it because for some reason, gun T gun team, my man. It's just really fun to say. Like Vince Quinn said it a couple of weeks ago, Brian Good accounts. Gun team, my man. I'm just gonna go on my gun. T gun t my man Dunty Gun T for short Gun T for short. Dont whatever he gun T You know? That gun T guy Brian. Good accounts, Gun, T my man. Gun team, my man. Andrew Bogus, joins us this morning on the show for updates and a B You've got a bone to pick about last night's All Star game. I said part of the problem for Major League Baseball Is this conundrum of with your jewels showcase event? 75% of the players nobody's ever heard of. Yeah. I think that still is a factually incorrect ST sentence. I mean, go go back through. The line up the box score last night. Are there people that you never heard it before? Sure, But Adam Frazier and Brian Reynolds are the exception. Not the rule Last night. 75% of those players never heard of before. Let me tell you Casual sports fan, Not you, not I not more As a casual baseball fan sits down last night. You tell me, they know Raphael Devers. No. Do they know Marcus Simeon? Casual sports fan? Absolutely. Yes. I mean, probably not. Marcus Simeon. No, T Esko Hernandez zero Chance Cedric Mullins..
New Jersey 101.5
"u.s. jersey" Discussed on New Jersey 101.5
"Know what? The freezer burn has got to be the most painful song ever recorded them when you listen to it. Does the lyrics can mean the lyrics can mean so much? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's great. It's beautiful. It's pretty amazing that they pulled it off. Actually, you know, you being someone who creates music, You know it had to be because all they had to work with was a cassette. Yeah, and they added to it, they they actually wrote parts of the song that John Lennon didn't have you know, they added B section and it's pretty great. I saw one thing on the other Beatles anthology where, uh, George says Everybody's saying all that sounds like the Beatles. Sounds like it sounds like the Beatles because it is the Beatles. Oh, in that in that way that he has I want it noted 2831 a 1.5 glen Burnie gets here. He's going to be at the land this theater in violin, uh, doing all his own music You're gonna love this is February 19th 8 P.m. Go to the Landis Theater. Got calm and get take US jerseys, opening lines stick around. The latest New Jersey News from N G one on one find Don Kam sentencing that was delayed multiple times since last January, sometimes due to the pandemic is finally taken place. Former Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam getting 30 days in prison, followed by 11 months of house arrest for admitting he stole $87,000 from a youth basketball program he himself had founded. New Jersey sharing network has set a new record for organ donations in 2020, a milestone that President Joe Roth says was achieved despite restrictions at the pandemic placed on organ donation in this state. It was an 8% increase of organ donors. 2019 was in all time record of 206. So we went up to 2, 22 and 572 organs were transplanted. You can register to be an organ donor and NJ sharing network dot org's A New Jersey state police trooper is being called a hero for saving the life of a 44 year old man who collapsed on the floor of a restroom and a garden State Parkway service area. Trooper John Taggart of home Down, responded.