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77WABC Radio
"upton" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"A so called bipartisan group of moderates Our talking quietly behind the scenes About making Fred Upton the Speaker of the House Fred Upton is a liberal Republican from Michigan who of course voted for Trump's impeachment Exactly what I've been concerned about Now the boneheads can't control what's going to happen Even if they're joined by ten or 20 of their friends they can't control what's going to happen Even if they're joined by one of my buddies chip Roy they can't control what's going to happen As I told you yesterday the moderate Republicans really the liberal Republicans They're not going to roll over and play dead while all this is going on They're watching this drama And they're trying to exploit it Exploit it You can always remove a speaker John Boehner was removed In part due to us right here behind this microphone in this audience But that's not the point The point is McCarthy is not Boehner He wants Jim Jordan to head the House judiciary committee He wants comer who we've not met yet Maybe we will at some point To run the House oversight committee And these guys have to hit the ground running Because they only have two years Effectively we don't know what's going to happen two years from now Meanwhile the FBI and the Justice Department under the corrupt meritless Garland and that administration they're plowing ahead Meanwhile we have tens of thousands of illegal immigrants coming into this country every single week
Mark Levin
'Bi-Partisan Moderates' Discuss Fred Upton for House Speaker
"A so called bipartisan group of moderates Our talking quietly behind the scenes About making Fred Upton the Speaker of the House Fred Upton is a liberal Republican from Michigan who of course voted for Trump's impeachment Exactly what I've been concerned about Now the boneheads can't control what's going to happen Even if they're joined by ten or 20 of their friends they can't control what's going to happen Even if they're joined by one of my buddies chip Roy they can't control what's going to happen As I told you yesterday the moderate Republicans really the liberal Republicans They're not going to roll over and play dead while all this is going on They're watching this drama And they're trying to exploit it Exploit it You can always remove a speaker John Boehner was removed In part due to us right here behind this microphone in this audience But that's not the point The point is McCarthy is not Boehner He wants Jim Jordan to head the House judiciary committee He wants comer who we've not met yet Maybe we will at some point To run the House oversight committee And these guys have to hit the ground running Because they only have two years Effectively we don't know what's going to happen two years from now Meanwhile the FBI and the Justice Department under the corrupt meritless Garland and that administration they're plowing ahead Meanwhile we have tens of thousands of illegal immigrants coming into this country every single week
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Can We Celebrate the Death of the RINOs? Rep. Matt Gaetz Weighs In
"We're celebrating the death of the rhino species in D.C., but they're not going to go away that quietly, are they? Well, we have seen a number of victories that together show us where the real enthusiasm is in the political right. You know, if Liz Cheney was the only person who voted for impeachment to be rejected by voters, we might view that as just Liz Cheney's complete betrayal of Wyoming, her unwillingness to ever talk about Wyoming, values the fact that she's actually from Northern Virginia, not Wyoming. You could point to those things, but you see Joe Kent defeat Jamie Herrera butler. You see Adam kinzinger quite literally just avoid the judgment of his voters by not seeking reelection. You see someone like Fred Upton certain to face defeat against a candidate that was more pro Trump choosing to forgo reelection. And so I think there's a pattern here that shows how narrow any path is or any constituency is for the reconstitution of the establishment.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"upton" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Donald Trump will be hard to stop as the presidential candidate in 2024 That's according to congressman Fred Upton appearing on CNN State of the Union the Michigan rep says former president Trump still has a lot of voters on his side You've got the base voters that are really upset that things didn't go their way and their loyalists can be However he still thinks some GOP lawmakers will be willing to stand up to Trump Upton was one of just ten Republicans who voted to impeach the former president America's observing the first federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery many will mark Juneteenth tomorrow with marches rallies and celebrations from New York to Texas from California to Washington D.C. was made a federal holiday when President Biden signed the legislation last year Tennessee Secretary of State is facing DUI charges after being pulled over after leaving the bonnaroo music festival late Friday night Police say 53 year old Trey hargett was stopped and given a blood test before being booked he was released after posting bail I'm Brad And I'm susannah Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom Bitcoin has gained about 9% today after dropping below $18,000 yesterday for the first time since 2020 Ethereum is up about 14% in today's trading Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly two to one margin yesterday joining a growing push across the U.S. retail service and tech industries to organize for greater workplace protections The Apple retail workers in house and Maryland voted 65 to 33 to seek entry into the international association of machinists and aerospace workers SpaceX has successfully launched its third rocket in three days The falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida's cape canaveral Space Force station early this morning carrying a communications satellite into orbit The first stage of the rocket came back to earth for a vertical landing on a SpaceX drone ship off the Florida coast Yesterday SpaceX launched an earth observation satellite into orbit from vandenberg Space Force base and on Friday SpaceX sent 53 Starlink satellites into low earth orbit from the Kennedy Space Center It's day two of early voting in New York polls are open until about 5 p.m. tonight ahead of the June primary election on June 28th You can cast ballots for governor lieutenant governor state assembly judges and party positions Glencore's first half profit from trading commodities will be bigger than it typically reports for an entire year Bloomberg's Greg Jarrett says this puts the resources giant on course for a record 2022 as it cashes in on soaring prices and volatility The commodity trading industry is enjoying its most profitable period ever as Russia's invasion of Ukraine sparks wild swings in markets that were already at or near record even before the war started and this has created opportunities for those traders who transport the world's resources Bloomberg's Greg Jarrett global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in.
The Bad Crypto Podcast
"upton" Discussed on The Bad Crypto Podcast
"System, because you have the upgrade ability, you have the ability to change things, you have the ability to customize the experience. You can't do any of that when it's on a blockchain with a smart contract. You know how hard that shit is to update? Like, use cases that people come up with. I'm always like, why can't you just do that on a website or something? Some cases you can. And every single time it's like, well, then I'd have to actually build it or something. We verified Jimmy songs. NFTs. What's that? You screenshot NFTs, we know you do. Right click save. I don't. Why do I need to write some of you? Yeah. All of these use cases that people come up with are way better centralized. There's no reason for these things to exist, except to pump the coin. The underlying coin to scam people to get people to think that they own something that is valuable when in fact it isn't, it's all a scam. So to me, justifications along these lines are really just that. They're justifications for scamming. I really don't understand people that are doing it. And I guess it's like what Upton Sinclair said. It's hard to convince a man against well, of something if their job depends on them not understanding it. And I feel that for pretty much everyone that's an NFT, because they will defend that blockchain to death, right? Wherever their thing is, it's like, okay, gee, I wonder why they made the NFT thing up here because once you get the artist into the NFT ecosystem, now they will defend whatever the ecosystem is. To their dying breath because it's, oh, yeah, you know, I don't care that Ethereum had a 70% prima. Because, you know, I'm making money. So therefore, it's good, right? And everybody has like the starving artist friend, you know, the talented musician that can't seem to catch a break. The talented artist that struggles to make ends meet and everything else. And I have sympathy for them. But this is not your solution. This is a bribe by the people of that ecosystem to get you on board. So you will say good things about them. To make it seem like they have utility when they really don't. Let me ask you this question, Jimmy. You just said that quote. Is it possible? Is it in the realm of possibility that you don't understand? I definitely understand it. You're defendable. NFTs were possible on Bitcoin in 2013. I coded the freaking thing. So they'll tell me I don't understand. I didn't say that. I said, is it possible? Is it in the world? I definitely understand it. And I think you're trying to cast shade in my direction because I'm beating you guys so badly over the head on how this stuff is such a scam. Guys, it really is and until you understand that and 5, ten years from now, people are gonna be like, oh, remember those guys, you know, they were pumping NFTs or whatever. Ten years from now, when NFTs are still around, can we have you back on the show? I mean, I'm sure sir. Are we somewhere is gonna be all right? I'm saying it's not gonna have the cultural cultural, like, oh, you know..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"upton" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Business is keeping you up at night Are you seeing it come back at all At least you have company You're hoping to get political pressure Do you expect the Euro to strengthen Why even have this hearing Bloomberg radio Bloomberg the world is listening World markets headlines and breaking news 24 hours a day at Bloomberg dot com the Bloomberg business app And at Bloomberg quick take This is Bloomberg 11 three O Now a global news update President Biden is calling on former New Orleans mayor Mitch landrieu to spearhead the execution of his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure Bill in Sunday's announcement The White House says land drew will oversee the most significant and comprehensive investments in American infrastructure and generations as a senior adviser and infrastructure coordinator Biden is set to sign the infrastructure Bill Monday at The White House a moderate congressional Republican is weighing whether or not to vote Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress We had to let the sunshine in be fully transparent and that means get to the truth Find out exactly what happened On scene in the State of the Union Michigan representative Fred Upton says he's going to wait to hear what the January 6th select committee will do first former White House chief of staff Meadows is risking contempt of Congress for reportedly refusing to honor a subpoena from the house January 6th committee Upton voted in favor of contempt for former Trump adviser Steve Bannon I'm Chris courage This is Bloomberg intelligence with Alex Steele and Paul Sweeney on Bloomberg radio You can't talk about supply chain issues without looking at the shipping industry I mean freight costs have just gone bananas this year Around record highs even if they've come off the highs a little bit they're still so elevated So I'm joined now by Stefan kovachev a Bloomberg intelligence credit analyst So let's talk about the freight industry Have we seen the peak How are they doing We are there We are at the peak Alex and we think it may get worse before it gets better I think a record freight rates are here because of a supply and demand imbalance On one hand we've seen finished goods which have been in demand on the back of the pandemic as people were saying at home and buying furniture As opposed to traveling and going to restaurants and on the other hand on the supply side there about 6000 container ships in the world and it takes two to three years to build a new one So it takes time to add capacity which means that as GDP expectations for next year are strong We may see a continuation of these relatively high freight rates If I said something like we'll return to normal What is this new normal potentially look like I think as economies reopen we may be more tempted to go back to travel and spend more on entertainment as opposed to goods But I think the whole shift to buying online and just because it's more convenient as opposed to actually going into the store and the whole stay at home and work from home will be to some extent the new normal going forward So I think the supply chain issues may continue because of strong demand We've seen congestion at many ports et cetera So if demand remains strong and supply of new ships takes time to come on board it may be a very tense environment for freight rates in the coming year Do you think let's pretend like we could get all the freights we needed all the vessels we needed tomorrow Does that solve the problem Or is it really then also a port issue You're right It's very much a port issue and we've had a variety of different bottlenecks built lack of truck drivers in the U.S. It may be up to 80,000 truck drivers which are missing So yes you're right Even if we have magically all the ships we need tomorrow the problem is that currently if we like the truck drivers we can't get the goods to the shops So there are a lot of problems which optically will reduce the amount number of available ships if they are stranded in outside of Long Beach for instance So yes there are a lot of other bottlenecks that need to be resolved and this will take time What do you think companies solution to this is going to be I mean our company is going to build their own vessels So they don't have to worry about this Some companies have tried to charter vessels and operate their own fleet But it's not that easy of I think it's a very complicated industry to operate It sounds easy as in the container It's a very standardized You put them on the ship and load them at destination But in order for the companies to be profitable in this environment the ships need to be filled pretty much at capacity So if the ship is 80% full it loses money if it is 90% forwards break-even and then let's say 95% mix a good amount of money So I think the bigger companies are in a better place to make sure that their ships are full Especially as we have this just in time supply chain that has been quite successful up until now Your credit analyst So what is the credit market telling you about the winners and losers in this space Well I think CMA CGM French company number three in the market has been one of the biggest winners so far And to put it simply because they have been more aggressive in the past in terms of net leverage in terms of debt usage But the way they have been positioned is that they have more exposure to more profitable routes such as Asia to North America And they have also bought a logistical company fever I was actually just before the pandemic which helped them diversify revenues And to an extent prepared for the pandemic So looking at the credit market the biggest gainers have.
Mark Levin
These Are the Republicans to Defeat in the House
"Now who are the Republicans in the House and voted for this All of them should be defeated All of them Katko bacon van drew Young Upton king singer Gonzalez read Chris Smith embarrassing Garbarino militas and Fitzpatrick I saw militas of course she's on CNN defending this That she feels we really put the progressives in a box Now that's not why you voted
My Worst Investment Ever Podcast
"upton" Discussed on My Worst Investment Ever Podcast
"Went from did you can their attention attention to me to some degree. So you can sort of see you at a person has the potential legislative in my opinion. But i'm gonna give me. But i see say up. Upton can be a fairly innovative and have stone leadership qualities. But not the person i see. You should not be managing knew. Sorry you're not hope for the world of is about placing people in places and then if north or the just no no and not. Everyone is supposed to be up ns because most people fairly net Journey it's okay. Give one example. He seventy that someone and do. It's an idea some engine. Okay so i just. I just see a bit of the one of the key people. I see still a long way for the personal make. Money makes soon as many as i saw there. I wouldn't even shit. That's a fuss indicate. The second indicate that. I see on early saw beat. So just looking at this ma'am. By then i when i see see that the decision will not even do invest. I'm not even doing monthly messing. The company was. I see a unlikely to make money. If the the main person is unlikely. I mean i. I don't see the show. The person making savings from me doing despicable fine as ain't doing this cycle of this size we won't even touch. You know i have a. I have a story of a friend of mine. Who despite being very very talented is extremely poor. I mean in the area of his talent. he's gotta be within the top one percent in the world. He is extremely talented but he can't get money and he can keep money. And i had spent two hours talking about till we went back to history and all that and then i learned some things about his pass that shaped the way he thinks about money and the way he reacts to money and what i realized after this long discussion was that he's never going to have money. His mindset has been set.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Media Propagandists Are Not Driven by Profit, They're Driven by Power
"People will say the media only cares about click bait getting traffic to their websites and making money. Now that might be true if they're writing about donald trump that might be true if they're writing about conservatives but that is not the primary motive for the regime media for the people that run apple news for the people that run washington the washington post. Run the new york times for the people that run. Cnn what is the incentive structure for the people that control the major places of distribution. It's not profit. You see the propagandists in the media are not driven by profit motive. They are driven by a power motive. They want to get keep the current ruling class. They do not want to do muckraker. Journalism like either be wells. They do not want to reveal the corruption or inequity to use their own word. Like upton sinclair did instead the media they have become the pretoria guard for the people that are the most powerful now they will go after conservatives. That are powerful. They'll go after people that love their country that are powerful but they will not lay a glove on the fda on hhs on pfizer. Madonna astrazeneca instead. They will pledge fealty to those organizations. And i know this to be true. Because i have been stunned at even at how some conservative organizations have been ignoring the project. Veritas story i think most conservatives are ignoring the project veritas story because what is being revealed by. James o'keefe makes people very uncomfortable that you're public health agencies in the fourth branch of government that is unelected unchecked and filled with unknown administrative state paper shovellers in the bureaucracy
AP News Radio
Trump to Endorse GOP Challenger to Liz Cheney
"Hi Mike Rossi are reporting an AP source says former president trump will endorse a challenger to Republican U. S. representative Liz Cheney a person familiar with the decision speaking on condition of anonymity tells the Associated Press former president Donald Trump plans to endorse Wyoming attorney Harriet Hageman in a bid to unseat U. S. representative Liz Cheney Cheney is one of trump's most vocal Republican critics and she was the most prominent Republican member of Congress to vote for trump's second impeachment trump has already endorsed challengers to several GOP incumbents including Alaska senator Lisa Makowski representative Fred Upton of Michigan representative Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio and representative Jamie Herrera Butler of Washington all voted in favor of impeaching trump for his role in inciting the January sixth insurrection at the U. S. capitol Mike Rossi out Washington
WIBC 93.1FM
"upton" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
"Pictures of Kate Upton. There's Brandon Loves Twitter feed. Brandi Love Twitter feed, but it's all for the show. All for the show. Uh, speak of females in sports. We have been in a, uh Long form conversation today about women announcers in male sports, and Matt Matt Walsh, who mock has an issue with over the years made a statement that he does not like women doing play by play or an analyst or sports broadcast. You of course, watch probably more sports than anyone. How do you feel about it? If they're good, do the job. Really, But don't place them there. Just because you're trying to look woken progressive doors. Doris Burke knows the NBA. She is a good broadcaster. She can do an NBA basketball game better than any man or just as good as any man. Now what? That being said. When you're watching another game, and somebody says we want to look really progressive. So we're going to put this woman in this spot and not give it to someone else then I don't know. I think that's kind of weak. Like Curt Schilling is a great example to me. He was awesome at doing baseball for ESPN. They didn't like his politics. They fire him. And then you have all these other baseball players who played major league baseball at your disposal, including Hall of Famers, and you put a woman on the broadcast. You're You're throwing it in my face at this point. And would it be the same as Let's say you're watching a woman sport you're watching women's golf or the W N B A or something? You would probably want to hear from somebody who's played that sport and broadcaster who's tied in right? Probably a woman. Yes, I really enjoy, you know, watch the Solheim Cup I enjoy because of women's golf is different than men's golf. You can say it's the same sport. Chicks who hit 230 Yard drives are not playing the same game. Bryson to Shambo is is playing. And so I enjoy hearing women because women golfers, professional golfers actually play the game closer to what, like I would play as an amateur because you hit the ball, you know, somewhat similar links, so it's more interesting to me. I think I think I agree with it like I would. I would rather see and hear from women during women's sports and men during men's, and there's nothing wrong with that, because usually the people who have done that are the most quality. Fight to talk about it, and even from a play by play perspective, if you're just going to be the play by play voice, not the analyst right. The analyst is usually a former player of said sport. If you're just a play by play voice, you better be better than or just as good as anybody else. Not just there because your man or a woman Now, I will say, I think it's a little more of a conversation to have about sending a woman into a man's locker room or a woman into a man's locker room after the game because I've done that locker rooms have you been in a woman's locker room after a game? I've been into a WNBA's. They let you in a woman's locker room, but it's completely different rules, right? So They shower dress. And then afterwards, there's media. Okay, because I used to be the locker room guy for another radio station. So I did all this stuff the Pacers, the Colts, the fever, you name it. I had to do all that kind of stuff. And it's crazy. The different rules in each sport like in the NBA and the W. N b A. You have to have at least a towel on for the dudes. And the women have to be completely addressed The NFL It's the wild wild west of Dawn, You turn to your left, You turn to your right, Dong dong. It's just all over the regardless of whether you're a male or female like reporter person, So if you know, maybe it's changed since when I was doing it, you know, in the Peyton Manning era, but let's say, Mark, you had credentials to go in the Colts locker room. Talk to players after the game. You talk to you naked? Yes. Wow, who? Not that you would be noticing or scoping it out. But was there One. That was overly impressive that you said congratulations, Shaquille O'Neal. Really? I had to step over it. Excuse me. I'm gonna I'm gonna go try talk to Kobe.
The Dystopian Republic
"upton" Discussed on The Dystopian Republic
"The things Upton did for Austin were larger number, striking and scope, and went back to when they were both minors. Their long distance affinity won them, and her cousins, many things, and saved them from plights that could have taken their lives. Those wins and saves were the food and water that nourished their mutual attachment. The returns to their rooms were of no bother to the deep sleeps their other halves were in. Slowed down briefly by hesitation, their stomachs grew upset as their blazers and dresses came off. The cousin's mouthed to their other halves that they were sorry, that they loved them, and that hopefully their next lives will meet under better circumstances. At that point in time, they stifled their partners noses and mouths, cringing at the fights. They put up. Not saying a word or muttering a sound, the cousins suffocated them as hard as they physically could, pleading for them to quit fighting and pass on. Their pleas for them to hurried their deaths up, took a full ten minutes to almost be answered. They tightly cuddled their loves bodies, hyperventilating until their griefs were little more than depressed stupors. Pink in the face reading the eyes and in a humid sweat, the cousins put their clothes back on, and left the school without telling anyone. As they got closer to home, the business of killing Maya reinjured their soft spots. Austin filled a syringe within illicit cocktail of mercy killing drugs. Her flicking of the needle shook her and her cousins uncontrollably. They lurched into Maya's room and saw her sleeping beautifully with the help of her oxygen concentrator their noiseless tiptoes over to her bedside down a burst of all the times they had with her..
The Outspoken Oppa
How Chaos In Afghanistan Emboldened Terrorism - burst 1
"Chaos in afghanistan upton as president biden withdrew military forces leading to a forceful takeover by the taliban today august seventeenth. We will dive into one of the greatest foreign policy. The buckles in modern history. Good afternoon. i'm meeting. Kim and this is the outspoken oma quote. Joe biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy national security issue over the past four decades and quote. Who said that not trump not a partisan congressmen or republican operative. That was robert gates. The former secretary of defense under president obama for three years and today as we see significant foreign policy the buckle unfolds in afghanistan that quote is once again reaffirmed now quickly dive into some basic background information as to what is transpiring in afghanistan back in mid april president biden announced immediate withdrawal all american troops from afghanistan by september eleventh. Twenty twenty one. Obviously september eleven was chosen dates because that was to recognize the anniversary of the september eleventh terrorist attacks and which led to the immediate was occupation of afghanistan because at the time afghanistan was harboring osama bin laden on august fifteenth. The taliban took over the capital of kabul effectively toppling. Afghanistan's governments later afghan. President ghani fled the country right before taliban leadership storm the presidential palace and thousands of afghan citizens fled to kabul international airport to skip the taliban. Now while oldest was transpiring. President biden was in camp david and he was strong criticized because he didn't have a strong message or strong immediate message in response to all of this so he traveled back to washington. Dc to address the nation from the white house one of the biggest elements that he was criticized for in the speech was the blame game in which he played and one of the obviously notable people in which she blames forwarded the buckle in afghanistan was trump and sort of implied some blame to bush and obama. He said quote when i came into office. I inherited deal that president trump negotiated with taliban on the his agreement. Us forces would be out of afghanistan. May i twenty twenty one. Just a little over three months after i took office. Us forces had already drawn down during trump administration from roughly fifteen thousand five hundred american force to two thousand five hundred troops in country. The taliban was strongest militarily. Since two dozen one the choice i had to make as your president was added to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season and quote. And but if you actually look at the deal that trump's state department may with taliban it's not what biden actually described in his address at a nation. Mike pompeo who was secretary of state under president trump said in a recent interview that the deal of the taliban was strictly conditional which meant that deal was was strictly predicated on the taliban committing to a peaceful transfer of power in order for america to withdraw after that commitment to a peaceful transfer of power appel said in a recent interview quote we would have demanded the taliban actually deliver on the conditions that we let out in the agreement including the agreement to engage in meaningful power sharing agreement some that which we struggled to get them to do but made it clear it was going to be required before we completed requirements to fulfil foley withdrawal and unquote. And you know there are some criticisms of the deal. Mike pompeo made with the taliban. Obviously the taliban actually pursuing a peaceful transfer of power from the afghan government was not going to happen. I mean we actually thought. That was being overly idealistic. So people had that criticism upon pales deal but even if biden did not agree with the policy that trump's state departments made in efforts to come to some sort of consensus with the taliban he kind of reversed it. I mean he was president for seven months. Which meant that. He'd independence day department and independence defense department and he could have used his powers as the chief executive to to reverse a deal that the previous administration made i mean for his entire time as president of the united states reversed nearly every single policy. That trump did while he was president. So this is no exception. I mean he should own up to the flaws of the policies in which he tried to pursue in addition to to trump he also blamed the afghan military. He said quote. The truth is but this did on for the more quickly than we had anticipated. So what happened. Afghanistan political leader escape up and fled the country the afghan military collapse. Sometimes we're not trying to fight if anything developments at the past week reinforced the ending. Us military involvement in afghanistan. No was the right decision. American troops cannot ensure not be fighting a war and dying in award. Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves and quotes. This is honestly one of the most politically cynical things that i've ever heard biden say the afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. Fifty thousand afghan military soldiers died in darndest entire two decades of us occupation of afghanistan. And the reason why they cannot successively defend themselves against the taliban was because biden himself pulled out a contractors and basically destroyed the afghans dependency on us military which are obviously undermined the ability of afghan military to counter act opposing taliban forces. According to the wall street journal quote in the wake of president biden's withdrawal decision the us pulled its airports air support intelligence and contractors servicing afghanistan planes and helicopters. This meant that afghan military simply cannot operate anymore and quote. Admittedly afghan leadership was significantly underprepared in the wake of the draw because as by afghan officials did not believe america will draw however according to andrew watkins a senior analyst for afghanistan and at the international prizes group research advocacy organization. There was no evidence that the taliban significantly increased their manpower and argue. The only reason why there's summer offensive was successful was due to a lack of us. Air strikes which meant that biden's administration shorter significant blame for the dismantling of the afghan government. What biden actually expect to happen when he pulled the entire the tire. Us presence from afghanistan if the afghan military dependent so much on the us occupation of afghan for the viability of their own independent military force. Then of course when they pulled out of afghanistan. The afghan military by itself was not sufficient enough to defend against the taliban if you're pulling out intelligence contracts that were vital for the dependency of the afghan military than have military is expected to fall when the taliban was advancing to the nation's capital and one of the other things that addition to buy actually blaming everyone except for himself for the marco afghanistan biden also discussed casualties in the in the afghan occupation. He said quote. Lemme ask those who wanted to wanted us to stay. How many more how. Many thousands more of american daughters and sons are willing to risk and quotes according to abc news. There's not been a single american combat death since february eighth twenty which was eighteen months ago. That's not to belittle the two thousand three hundred twelve american soldiers that lost life in afghanistan. But it is the suggests that thousands of stationed american soldiers in the lead up to the afghanistan pull out were not being bogged down by precipitous warfare in combat honestly by contrast more than fifty one thousand taliban fighters were killed by american armed forces which shows a major power imbalance in military superiority between taliban in american forces but aside from that by reportedly sent five thousand additional troops back in afghanistan to aid withdrawal despite his call for not putting sons and daughters at risk he just said that it was egregious to put american sons and daughters at risk for filled mission. So what is different about the five thousand additional troops. He sending back into afghanistan. Aren't those sons and daughters. Also at risk and to add insult injury tens of thousands of american citizens have been left behind it in afghanistan in the withdrawal according to the washington according to wall street journal an estimated ten thousand fifteen thousand new citizens remained in afghanistan so yes it is tragic. Every single american soldier died in. afghanistan is a tragedy. No one is disputing dance but suggests that afghanistan was a present danger to the current military soldiers. There from february twenty is simply not true and biden. Really closer to speech with i think when idiotic things that he said in his entire speech close with kohl's diplomacy he said quote. We will continue to support the afghan people we will lead before. Diplomacy or international influence in or humanitarian aid will continue to push for regional diplomacy and engaging prevent violence and instability will continue to speak out for the basic rights at the afghan people of women and girls just as we speak all around the world and quote and my question is just how. How can you negotiate with radical barbaric terrorist group that subject it's ethnic religious and gender minorities to brutal torture and murder. How can you negotiate with democratic for cystic regime. That is responsible for thousands of american lives. I mean honestly gonna ask nicely are gonna get on your knees and begged them to treat the afghanistan woman fairly. I mean i don't understand why biden continues to believe that's diplomacy instead of for actually using military forces is the correct way to go and this brings us back to. What was this for honestly at the end of the day with withdrawn. Us military forces from afghanistan he effectively reversed two decades of foreign policy and the initial mission of counter terrorism and preventing a staging ground for al-qaeda according to the pentagon united states government has been eighty three billion dollars in bolstering the afghanistan government and which is effectively gone to waste. I mean we spend easily billion dollars to bolster an afghan military but the afghan military is so reliance on the american forces to to help them to secure them. But when the american forces are removed from the afghan military to aid them than the billion dollar investment goes down the drain and now according to you defense and state department officials six billion dollars in military equipment including eight hundred fifty mine-resistant ambushed protected vehicles were abandoned in withdrawal which six billion dollars in. Us military equipment is now in the hands of taliban and other terrorist organizations additionally chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley addressed congressional leaders and said that they will move the terrorist threats in afghanistan from medium according to axios which meant that. Obviously you're going to see a rise in terrorism and afghanistan and now that the taliban effectively controls its governments and to add insult injury the inside reports that taliban militants released thousands of prisoners from afghan prisons with links to islamic jihadist groups and al qaeda. So what has changed in the past two decades. We've tried to counter terrorism. We tried to decrease the the influence of kind of effectively imprisoning or killing al qaeda militants. We tried to decrease the the power of the taliban and we tried to effectively counteract attacks by the islamic jihadist groups. But it seems to me after this withdrawal after the dust settled what is going to be. The state of afghanistan will be similar to the state of afghanistan when we first invaded and his brings me to a new york times article which discussed heavier mackey. Who was a former first class army. Special forces soldier with several afghanistan deployments and will shot twice and he said in an interview with the new york times quote. I sacrificed a lot. I saw death every day every year. And the guys. I soaked with new would probably come to an end like this. But the chaos and made his andre after everything we gave. I just wish that had been away to leave. With honor and quote for people like mackey. There is a question that rang in numerous veterans. What was it for the situation. Afghanistan has become similar to america. I evaded two decades ago. All the bloodshed in lives lost in pursuit of counter-terrorism only define the terrorism revitalize. This president has trade the continuing efforts of veterans and committed a damaging dereliction of duty as commander in chief of the armed forces is devastating. What is happening in afghanistan and we can only hope citizens in afghanistan. Remain safe in this critical juncture. All right before we signed off. I like to extend a special. Thank you to my uncle. Who has made this podcast possible and untitled one of my greatest supporters okay. Today's episode the spokane podcast. You could read articles on a variety of important topics at outspoken opa dot com and follow us on instagram twitter facebook and linked in. Also if you'd like to show want to support it. Please go vis a five star review on apple podcasts and listened to our other episodes wherever you hear your podcasts. I'm thinking in. This is the outspoken oba. The outspoken oboe. Podcast is hosted by ethan kim directed by luc him and added by actually awesome the podcast independent production by the elbow from above. 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What Bitcoin Did
"upton" Discussed on What Bitcoin Did
"A lotta right to where if you act first union advantageous position. So i think that's where we you know. It's not going to happen in a binder binary fashion. Bitcoin occurs in fits and starts and so that's racing this'll be more of like no central banks have it and then within like three weeks all the central banks talking about it or maybe buying it but they've always talked about it because they're like oh this week. Russia announced that they had bossard billion dollars with the bitcoin. It's like what's the chinese and american statements on that so then it sort of kicks off the theory but you know even before then. It's likely that news would leak. You know if that news leaks then people will be or or a rumor then. The other central banks might be like well. We don't know are for sure but we know that they could be so maybe we should and so. I think that that can happen in. That could be one of the huge price surge moments of bitcoin. Central banks are the biggest purchasers in the world right. They allocated fifty billion or a hundred billion dollars or trillion. So that would only happen. I think in very late stages like when bitcoins in the multi trillion market cap like three to ten trillion and. We could see something like that happen. Where best central banks start to fomin. But i think we're a little bit of stage but it could occur decently quickly i mean it could occur in the next couple of years or to take five or ten years. Well an nation upton as legal tenders happened way ahead. When i thought it would be. I thought we'd have another cycle. Till then i thought this would be dominated by companies treasuries but we now have a first nation and we have others boom owed some politicians talk about it I think there's a different incentive structure though for thanks to a central banks to a nap it..
Windows Weekly
"upton" Discussed on Windows Weekly
"Is not really an abattoir but no. It's an app as kind of a service. There's the xbox console which used to be sort of like the xbox app and then there are Things related smart screens. Some other stuff family settings enough this other xbox nervy says there's other things a lot of experts that so i think they're trying to again consolidate single app. This app almost certainly. I am speaking off the top ahead so it could be but it's probably a reactive app so it's itself kind of web or literally web-based But if you meet all those requirements xbox game pass alternate xbox insider xbox controller are compatible withdrawn. And you have a windows computer. You can access xbox gaming again a feature of experts in kesselman on windows today in beta beta asterix appendages. Everything that's happened. So i was gone. I don't have a control. That's frustrating i would. This is something different test. Yeah well especially where you are. I mean you. I'm sure you have much better bandwidth in laura. Interestingly so in this in this hotel. I do have a fast dallas speed. But this hotel has a faster upload speed. That's interesting and surprising. you know. it's not surprising. I think we are not unique but we are almost states that we have asymmetric which is weird thing that a lot of the world doesn't have yes if you're on files for example whatever download metric. That's that's exactly what you wanna and it has become increasingly important for things like this of really good points. Yeah it's important for the podcast. I mean i. I i need more than thirty gig megabits or to do a podcast but i mean there's a lot i mean. That is a lot. Three thirty down is a lot more. And if you know rather have the upton have three hundred thirty up so when will the x club gaming app be available on. Lennox is my question. I'm going to say probably never but you can access it from xbox dot com slash plan. You do the web thing so for the most of the world. It'll still be a web based and not quite as performance and not as flexible in chromium based.
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
Horace Fletcher: 'The Great Masticator'
"Born in lawrence massachusetts in eighteen forty nine. Horace didn't play an instrument or hustle. Amateurs at chess no. He didn't cobbled together. Shoes in italy. Horace fletcher like the chew. As a young man fletcher traveled around performing odd jobs following his interests he worked as a writer and artist and even managed in new orleans opera house for a time. He loved to read and he indulged in many of life's pleasures mainly food. It was this pleasure. However that inflicted some of the worst pain he'd ever experienced in his life for one. As he got older he struggled with obesity and it side effects such as chronic stomach pains he also found himself being refused coverage from a life insurance policy or rejection. That sounded alarm bells for him. He quickly realized it was time to make a change one day while traveling to chicago on business the middle aged fletcher began chewing his food. He'd always shoot his food before but this time was different. He kept chewing and chewing and chewing until all that was left was a liquidity goo on his tongue. He believed that this was the key to proper digestion and weight management according to this new practice which he dubbed fletcher ism. All food needs to be chewed until it has been turned into liquid. Any solid particles were deemed unnecessary and could be spat out. It sounds absurd today. But at the time fletcher ism caught on. He became known as the great mass decatur and argued that his practice could increase a person's strength despite reducing the amount of food they actually eight. He also had strict rules about win. To consume sustenance followers. Were instructed to avoid eating when they were sad or angry and to wait until they reached the point. That fletcher called good and hungry. No midnight snacks for him. He started touring the united states giving lectures on his methods methods which were scoffed at by doctors and scientists as nothing more than self-important hokum. That didn't matter. Though fletcher ism had reached far more important spokespeople than doctors celebrities and titans of industry had begun shoeing with wild abandon among them. Were john d. rockefeller and author upton sinclair. Even mark twain was considered a friend
Automated
"upton" Discussed on Automated
"I think it's perfect place to end up doing well. Thank thank you very much for sharing that future vision. It's it's definitely one that i would not have thought of kind of goes contrary to a lot of the ideas that i was thinking so i always i always love hearing other people's perspectives. On kind of what's going to happen for this sector that we're talking about now. I'm just really curious for you thinking everything's apt delivery on line up. Yeah yeah. I was thinking i was thinking way more Efficient and productivity would kind of the the baseline aspects and that the human would be kind of taken out of these These experiences especially as i think amazon's like Experience experimenting with like drone delivery. And there's a number of these like drones startups that are actually delivering in urban centers. But again this is all like you know very early pilot stage so who smell great. I see that our time is up. i mean you. I know that you have a video kind of all over the place on most social media platforms. Where would you like people to go to to follow your work and see what other kind of interesting tech and business things that you talk about. Yeah absolutely so. I make three videos a week about tech money in cultures across all platforms. So wherever wherever you like to spend the most time i appreciate the follower the subscribe so on youtube. Youtube is just very easy to dot com slash upton. Up t i n and actually it's the same for facebook. Instagram tiktok Slash upton on all of those platforms so yeah Would love to to connect with people and People can follow Work they're terrific trophy wall. Have all those links on the on the show notes So people can check it out in an easy. click Upton thanks for coming on to the podcast it was great talking to you and thanks for sharing your experience with this kind of interesting future stores which As i mentioned before. I don't think too many people have seen so i think it's quite interesting for them to hear about. They haven't seen him yet. Mark thanks so much for having me enjoyed this right on.
You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
"upton" Discussed on You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
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KNBR The Sports Leader
"upton" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"And I were just talking about wander Franco, the number one prospect in baseball who made his debut yesterday with the Tampa Bay Rays, the Rays man If you're a baseball fan like I am, you've got to seek this stuff out The res play incredible baseball, and they just brought up Maybe one of the most young, exciting players we're going to see for a long time. They just continue to get to the big leagues younger and younger and younger, 20 years old yesterday wander Franco in his second plate appearance. I guess it's technically first official at bat since you were walking his first plate appearance. He hits a home run from the right side. He's a switch hitter. He's maybe get a more powerful swing from the left side, which is crazy. They call him El Hefei the boss 20 years old. He's not even the youngest player in his own franchise history for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. B. J. Upton. Melvin Upton Jr is what he became. He had hit the The Youngest home run in Tampa Bay Rays history anyway, Dave and I were talking about the the young players to hit home runs. Tommy Brown 1945, the youngest player in baseball history to hit a home run in a major league game at 17 years old Mel Ott, Dave pointed out, Hit a bunch of home runs at 19 years old. I want to say Mickey probably had a home runner two at 19, right. We have to check Juan Soto. I think he came up with 19 probably hit some home runs at that age. He had to it because I used to talk. Juan Soto is One of the best young 19 year old players. Anyway, I said to Dave, How about Eddie Goodell? He wasn't He wasn't three years old, but he looked like he was three years old. Had one plate appearance. Way back when we're the number 1/8. Anyway. Shout out any Goodell and then we can talk about them on the on the leadoff spot. Dave, you get something for me, Dave says a rod also at 19 years old. Pop on Dave. What did you What was the what was the the The number there. You got it for me. Dave says a rod hit hit tasted a rented home runs is a 19 year old and a 40 year old. There you go. Hey, we made the connection now with Fabian Cardio covers the Dodgers for the athletic used to cover the Anaheim Angels as recently as this season, And then he jumped on the freeway. And he, uh I don't know which freeway that is. They jumped out the 10. The five What do they get on there? Dave? The 57 to the 2 10 is what Dave says. Who's right on past the Kellogg Mansion, Dude on your way to Anaheim. That's where you go anyway. That's what we're finally in. Our diet is now covering Dodger baseball. So we can talk about the Dodgers and the Giants with him as well as Shohei Otani, who we covered in Anaheim until earlier this year. Great to have you and Fabian we've had John before. Welcome back to the show, Man. How are you? Good. Thanks for having me. Dawson. Glad to be so useful to bring utility guys. You're the Chris Taylor here trying to play all over. So I think I had John maybe a month or so back two months back. And you had just made the switch over from the angels to the Dodgers, and I want to get into that and the angel stuff in just a minute, But Albert Pujols, they followed you over right? Like you left Anaheim. You get to Dodger Stadium in, like two days later. Here comes Albert Pulismen. How has that been covered him both in Anaheim and now in Los Angeles. It's funny because I feel like there's like a two week stretch there. I wasn't sure if he knew I made the switch over either, because, uh, But then once on field access happened like you saw me. I said Hi. Josie followed me over and It's been interesting. At least I mean, helps. Definitely for me like writing about him having a familiarity knowing more intimately like well, it looks like watching them play every single day at the stage of his career and obviously is performed better than anyone could have expected for the Dodgers. They basically used them exactly how they hope to basically Against left handed pitching, and he's Done quite well Latina pitching this year since with relatively successful speaking of left handed pitching, I saw the Padres Dodger game on Monday night and Julio Urias out there just didn't appear to have his best stuff. I know immediately now when pictures have been Pitching really well, and then they don't have their best stuff or spin rates. Look down. We immediately assume now it has to do with the sticky substance. The Dodgers kind of an under the spotlight for this stuff, just because Trevor Bauer just by the nature of him coming over from spin sanadi from last season and a bunch of the Dodgers having high spin rates, it doesn't appear to have affected their ability to score runs or keep runs off the board. What's the deal? As far as the sticky situation with the Dodgers? Is it something that's becoming an issue? Are we hearing guys talk about it? It's Trevor Bauer considerably different now that maybe he's not using that stuff. What's been your sort of scope on how this has played out with the Dodgers. Well, listen that we talked about with smart prior over the weekend was just sort of like, how much is this going to change things? Three guys way he described. It was. It's just like anything else. Live figure ice sliders working on a given time with you Just adjust and you tweak it. I think you sort of seen a little bit with some guys like Anna Bauer through more change ups than he has all season. In his last start, Bunker builder has been going to sink her for the first time a little bit more often, since he was into my leagues like I think you're seeing guys maybe tweak their arsenals. It could be just like mid season adjustments anyway. But I mean your resource seeing that for stuff and I think to go to his spin rated hasn't dropped like significantly since the initial memo even came out or even when the owners started discussing that first stuff, but he has struggled of late, he said. This stuff has not been quite where he wants it to be. But Spin rate hasn't had a notable jump. I think league wide we'll see. Sort of like we're pretty clear cut group of evidence, basically half of the season where guys are using you have it season where some guys are, and I think we'll see. Sort of like, how much of a difference that really want to make him for a lot of God. What did you think about the sort of the first couple of days of it? I guess Monday would have been the first day where across baseball we saw guys like Jacob deGrom get check. Sort of, like T s a padded down. We're seeing him check the hats and the belts. I saw you had a good name for it. On Twitter. You said somebody got a goop chick, which I thought was pretty funny. Are we? Are we coming up with an in clever to call these sort of I don't know. Umpire check downs or pat down to the pictures. I hope we don't get to the point where we do. Let's hope that we get to a point where, like, should we get used to them and sort of like, Don't notice them as much like It's definitely interesting. I think it's funny like the first night, but that was applicable. I mean, they were. I think it was like Joe Kelly tongue off the mound. They didn't just check his belt, his club and its hat. They also check the goggles, the words to boy. I guess they're making sure that they're relatively thorough. I guess. Sometimes they're more thorough than others, like sometimes, like the checks are like a second long and sometimes are actually sitting there for a second or tune. Have any conversation, but most of the time like they're laughing it off. I think until someone actually gets caught objective suspended, I think until then, it sort of just the elite agency and Maybe it'll just fade into the background. That thing I think we're all just kind of hoping at some point it fades into the background is just one more layer of a funny stuff going on in baseball, and maybe one of the funniest things happening in baseball is happening in the National League West. It's the Giants still out of nowhere, like 10 weeks into the season, maintaining their hot start. It's not just a hot start. Now. They're good baseball team and the Giants of the Dodgers are still up at the top there. Dodgers a couple of back Of the Giants in that series with San Diego earlier this week, and so I'm wondering, you know, so much was made coming into the season about the Giants being I mean, not even maybe the third best team in the division, probably even behind Arizona..
AP News Radio
Laureano HR, Nifty Catch in Return, Streaking A’s Top Angels
"The athletics have a six game winning streak after Ramon Laureano homered and made a Homer robbing catch in his return from the injured list highlighting an eight four win over the angels Laureano had missed seventeen games with a strained right hip he timed his jump perfectly to reach over the fence and catch Justin Upton's fly ball in the fourth half inning before going deep manager Bob Melvin says Laureano didn't show any rust you've come back and you're off for a while and you know little uncertainty when you know you haven't had too many bad sin and then you go out there make a play like that you know Homer so I think he's he feels pretty comfortable that also singled twice in a six run sixth and finished three for four with an RBI Shohei Ohtani homered for the second straight day giving him nineteen on the season for the angels I'm Dave very
Atlanta's Morning News
Liz Cheney ‘Wouldn’t Be Surprised' if McCarthy Was Subpoenaed by Jan. 6 Commission
"She wouldn't be surprised if House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is subpoenaed by the commission investigating the U. S. Capitol riots very clearly and said publicly that he's got information about the president's state of mind that day. That's where maybe sees this week McCarthy lead the effort to Al Cheney from her leadership role a bill forming a bipartisan commission. Looking into the riot could hit the House floor this week. Michigan Republican Congressman Fred Upton
Z104
"upton" Discussed on Z104
"If this Upton Upton Upton, stuff comes up, it's up. It's up, then stuck up, Dennis Dennis stuff. Got a place safe. No face Nok 7 40 here on this same morning zoo. So the pendant I love reading stories. Now that they're like, well, now that the pandemic is ending now they were reaching the end of the pandemic. So I want to preface this. By saying, It's a good thing that we're reading stories that begin with the phrase now that the pandemic is winding down, because this story might seem like it's a kind of a negative story, but it's actually actual survey. Really It's discussion and read it right now. People are answering the question. What will never be the same again once the pandemic is over and again. I know it sounds a little negative, but let's remind ourselves. It's awesome that we could have these discussions now because we're so close to the end of this thing. What will never be the same. Well, things will that Will everything go completely back to normal or something's be forever changed. You consider something like 9 11. And one of the things that never changed after 9 11 is how we do air travel security. You know, we security is a lot different than it was before 9 11 a lot different, and that will probably never change. So here are the things that people suggested, will still still never be the same once a pandemic is over. Number one sitting in a doctor's office waiting room when you're sick. What, Jay and understand what would change, Mother. Maybe I think people will still wear masks. Maybe while you're waiting in a doctor before you probably didn't dragging yourself to work when you're sick If I wake up and I'm like sick, feeling sick, they're not coming. I don't care if I don't have a fever, but I'm not gonna and I think that's also because we no, no That there are so many contingency plans in place for our work when we can't come because we've all had to not come to work in a risk getting other sick shopping for groceries in person, and I guess if that's a line where you cross over from, I still go to the grocery store versus I order everything delivered to me now or you do the pick up where you don't go inside the store, but they bring it up to you. Eating at buffets. I think that's gone, right? I don't know if I want to go to Captain George's to you. If you asked me to go to Captain George's on Friday, I would go absolutely. Snow days. Yeah, I think they're gone way did yeah. I think they're gone forever. Dick, no matter how you gonna do everyone virtual learning now. Um and you're really sucks. I bathe. The teachers will still have to come in. Oh, yeah. Do your classroom maybe not know they could do it from home as well. Everybody from your coach boundaries between work or school and home. I don't know exactly what that means. But Commuting every single day. I think we'll get back to that. I think there will be time soon. Probably this fall where you will get up and go back to work every day like you used to. And so you are ready to go to G Beach and Independence Boulevard around 2 32 4 o'clock any day of the week and everybody is driving again, Okay? On then the last one the blissful ignorance of sticking my fingers in a random bowling ball and then proceeding to eat food without a care in the world. Getting your fingers and things. Yeah, I guess that's a good one point there. So just like shopping carts and stuff, too. Yeah, I was wondering if you had any of your own that you thought would Will you ever be able to touch us that shopping without disinfecting it first or wiping things always? I've always grabbed a wipe and wipe the cart handle. I've always believed in doing it, but I don't really practice. Yeah, but you're right. You should since we got little ones don't touch everything. And then the hands go write their mouth or like little ones with sticky ins are sitting in the seat and touching and I don't want touch. The other little one whole shit is gonna get back to a point where you can really look a door knob and not worry about nothing. Over the fun day. You know what they didn't find out that they made in the U. K this week. The UK just said they've hit the point in the pandemic where casual sex is okay again starting in one week. First of all, why do you have to announce said You think Joe Biden's gonna come on ago? We can all start having casual sex starting next week. I do think that he will come on. And if you do make that announcement, I mean, how many people are at the starting line like this? Ready to go? Ready to go? The freaking dress out the closet and just ready to put it back on somebody it was talking about. Harris Teeter their salad buffet is back and stay with the whole foods. Their whole build your lunch section. Whatever it is Was closed like they only had like packs of soy sauce, But now there's food all throughout it, So it's like you're so self served Big one. So I think that's kind of a sign of Getting back to normal, so we come back next. The reason the trainer of the Kentucky Derby horse that cheated says it's all a fix or it's rigged. And the boyfriend who got busted because instead of taking a picture, he took a live picture by mistake. This is a great story.
Bernie and Sid in the Morning
Opt-In Period Begins For Students To Return To New York City Schools
"And as of today, New York City public school parents have Just a two week period to up their Children into in person Learning schools Superintendent Misha Ross Porter says This Upton period is for now limited to pre K K Elementary and District 75 special needs student member. We want every single child who wants to attend school in person to have the opportunity to do so. And as we shit last week, there is a lot to do to get ready to do that, and we are clear about that. Eric City married Bellagio says Upton will be expanded at a later date a higher grade levels and that's something we continue to add onto because we want is many kids as possible in that Five day a week status. The option period ends April 7th. A change comes about after the CDC Friday announced three FT. Distance in guidelines and grades K through
REAL 92.3
"upton" Discussed on REAL 92.3
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Newsradio 700 WLW
"upton" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"All eyes are on Republicans in Congress, with House members being told to vote with their conscience during Wednesday's vote on impeaching President Trump for inciting insurrection when his supporters violently stormed the U. S. Capitol, leading to five new deaths. A top GOP member of the House says she's voting to impeach the number three Republican in the House declared she is voting to impeach Congresswoman Liz Cheney declared the president of the United States some into this mob assembled this mob and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. The president could have immediately and forcefully intervene to stop the violence he did not, Cheney added. There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his oath of office and his oath to the Constitution. ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl for Republicans have now made it known that they plan to impeach President Trump tomorrow. Michigan's Fred Upton joining Cheney, John Capital of New York, and Illinois's Adam Kinzinger in announcing they would vote for impeachment, reports say. As many as 20 more Republicans could vote to impeach Trump. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly said impeachment would make it easier to purge Trump for the Republican Party. The New York Times said two people familiar with the matter when it reported that McConnell is pleased with the number Democrats latest impeachment efforts. Times also says McConnell is told US associates that he believes President Trump has committed impeachable offenses for his role in last week's violence. The House tonight plenty to vote on a resolution that would call for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment, with the Cabinet, removing President Trump But Pence in the letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
Can We Health You?
"upton" Discussed on Can We Health You?
"To the same school and i had to read it. Well okay have you read the jumped at. Do you know what i'm talking about. I don't know about upton sinclair road at all it's about meat packing plant in the early nineteen and he went in and he impressed or he worked there but then he basically wrote a book about what was going on and on my god signer. Yes so you knew. It was having like fingers. Were getting grounded a meat and it was like it was the same like bad practice practices. I stuff just stopped eating pork barbecue after reading it against eating meat altogether i love pork barbecue sandwiches. I stopped eating appropriate after Fried green tomatoes. I'm surprised that didn't stop me. And when they make ground up the murdered like i don't know where he went. He's not here on the actually. That's a great movie. I never read the book. But yes so after reading that i was fifteen and i see having pork barbecue which is a southern dash. Never again never again. Don't get no. But i did get like Heart bits phone. Somebody's being earmarked. God's anyway sorry to interrupt you so there were certainly after. This book came out then regulations. That was created things like that to to mayor right before that happened. Okay yeah in the likely you know eighteen. Yes this week. Nineteen fifty-nine ish. Yeah around there Also then like the refrigerator didn't exist at this time ray. This canning inauguration time. I'm so industrial standards. Were not like in place so it was common for a contaminated cantaloupe. Its way onto the shelves of the little grocery store your corner country. Yeah and you don't know until you open add maybe eat a. Yeah so. I thought in my head that can like the wagons. Further journey was filled with canning. Supplies saw there. But they're too heavy. Oh were too heavy. So they didn't really load up their wagons to travel west the canned food as much because of the weight of them. They really started canning once they got settled. Okay to preserve the food which we'll talk about for later okay. So what did they bring with them. So they brought with them also can't items were expensive them and it was still new. Technology is always more expensive. Yeah so Some people did have can usually the upper middle class that had decided to go took some counts with him. So but the regular folk impact mostly. They're still go against. Were packed with food. Some brought they started out like wholesome families that wanted to bring their all. Their belongings started out with like food and furniture pictures chairs. Yeah but they were pretty quickly like a thrown to the side along the trail all the furniture because they had to make way for the food right. A typical food cost for four people for six months which was like the journey time and their head at least until they got to a spot where they could consider settling one hundred fifty dollars and a typical load of food. Now here's a list would consist of two hundred pounds of flour. That's like four huge fifty pound bags thirty pounds of hard tack which was eaten so like tech. I've heard it and i guess i feel. It's like something my grandparents enjoy now. Hard tech yeah. That was kind of like almost like peanut brittle but harder. Yeah it's a type of late cracker. Oh yeah made from flour water and sometimes saw but they made a bunch of it..
Southern Tomfoolery Plays
"upton" Discussed on Southern Tomfoolery Plays
"Upton.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Austria To Allow Skiing Starting On Christmas Eve
"Breaking ranks with other european nations. Austria will allow skiing mus eve but will limit the capacity of ski lifts and keep restaurants and hotels closed. This isn't ideal for business but it is something and afforest believe it is completely safe. Monaco's alexi corey. love explores. How australia is getting ready for. Its strange new ski season. Australians don't normally disobey orders but try and take away one of their favorite hobbies and see what happens. What are they doing are they. Bringing via the slopes are close but many of those people don't care and they're just just. That's me playing the mountain range with police show donnie general manager of strategic popular ski resort located around one hundred kilometers south of vienna. Because there's so many people like one forty calls per day just with people trying to get into mansion. Saw on the day i'm visiting. The sky is a dazzling blue with fluffy white clouds skidding overhead any other winter. That'd be hundreds thousands more people in the piece from the to trespassers. We've just seen but this year is different now. Austria will open. Its slopes christmas. Although even then it won't be business as usual the conditions on the which we are out to open them are kind of crazy because there's not going to be any hotels open. They're not going to be in a regular operation of restaurants. So i mean you have to imagine that people even if they just come here for day. They're going to spend the whole day on the mountain. They're not going to have the possibility to get indoors to to warm up like a. Maybe we'll find a solution how they are going to be able to to get some food takeaway style but they have to eat that food outside. We not in the city where in mountains area temperatures are going to be quite different whether you face in of for example. So it's kind of crazy because cover garment on the one hand says okay you. You're going to be able to open. But the conditions impose province for us concerning organization is focused just as neat and san viet. We infer young. Upper is sorted and crazy. Not but this man. Chancellor sebastian courts is determined to save christmas. Upton fianc hundred sixteen detail when the answer name fine with some bash chief on the mortgage the meat the asian befo cone in germany. France and italy have all forbidden skiing holidays fearing that would push up infections but australia has refused to toe the line however it will require people coming from abroad to go into quarantine and with hotels closed. This effectively leaves austrians as the only customers. But that's still welcome news for greece for the upcoming holidays. We're going to lose People coming from abroad so that's thirty percent of customers. also one day customers. They're coming from hungary from check. Republicans ocu- so we are going to lose them because it's not going to be easy to get into australian and other australia again so we're going to lose them but we expect to gain some customers from those types of skiers who usually would have gone to scares in the western part of austria which they cannot do knob would too far for for one second further on up. The slope brings explains heltzel to work on old the situation. We're going to face when it comes to take away operation of the restaurants on the mountain because people went out and found out. No that's not our restaurants but it's a it's a. It's one of the big ones in the mountain. Well you get the slopes you get the chair lift like with the bottom station in mountain station you get lots of people And not too much space to let. The people consume their their food the food they bought outside. So that's one of the challenges we're facing with the current government regulations because people are not going to be out to use the the space within fifty meters from the restaurant Which is quite a problem if you if you imagine having three to four hundred people standing around and they should not stand around At the slow because obviously there are skiers coming down so yeah. That's quite complicated. And that's why. I asked most of what the government thought creating those regulations for monaco. I'm alexi thank you alexi.
WBZ Morning News
5 Teenagers Hurt In Rollover Crash In Upton, Southwest of Boston
"Teenagers hurt in a rollover crash in Upton. Police tweeting the rollover on Hartford Street early yesterday involving teenagers between 13. And 15 3 of them ejected from the vehicle, police said. Those three taken to local hospitals with non life threatening injuries cause of the crash is being investigated
Everything Everywhere Daily
The Last US Civil War Pension
"Triplet was born in Nineteen thirty in Wilkes County North Carolina Sixty five years after the end of the civil war. How she ended up receiving civil war pension is one of those stories that you wouldn't believe if it wasn't true. But when you do the math, it actually does workout. Her father was most triplet was a veteran of the civil war. He had the distinction of having fought for both the confederacy and the Union. He was a member of the fifty third North Carolina infantry who fought in the battle of Gettysburg. On the way to Gettysburg most fell ill and was hospitalized the illness probably saved his life because most of his unit was either killed or wounded during the battle. After he recovered, he deserted the confederates and joined up with the third north, Carolina mounted infantry which fought for the union. The unit was known as Kirks raiders after commander Colonel, George Washington. Kirk. After the war Mos- returned to North Carolina got married and started a family his wife Mary passed away in one, thousand, nine, hundred, ninety. As with many older civil war veterans, they would often take younger second wives especially during the Great Depression as their pension was considered a source of stable income. In one, thousand, nine, hundred, eighty, four at the age of seventy eight MOS married his second wife Alita who was twenty nine years old Mohsen Alita had five children. One of them Irene was born in one, thousand, nine, thirty when Mos- was eighty-three. Irene was just eight years old when her father died at the age of ninety two after returning home from a civil war veterans reunion. Irene had a cognitive disability which made her eligible to continue to receive her father civil war pension after his death as a quote, helpless child of a veteran. She received her father's pension of seventy three dollars and thirteen cents every month from her father's death in one thousand, nine, thirty, eight to her death in. Twenty twenty. The amount was never for inflation. The entire time it's estimated she received approximately seventeen thousand dollars over the course of her life. In addition to having received the last civil war pension, she was also the last child of a civil war veteran. The second to last child of a civil war veteran also had an interesting story in two thousand. Eighteen Fred Upton passed away at the age of ninety seven. His father was William H Upton. Who is a civil war veteran and the former governor of the state of Wisconsin who was elected in eighteen ninety four. Because of the occurrence of young women marrying much older men with pensions, the passing of the last civil war widow wasn't that long ago either in two thousand and eight motty Hopkins died at the age of ninety three in thousand, nineteen, thirty, four at the age of nineteen she married eighty six year old William Cantrell who served as a sixteen year old soldier in the confederate army. Blast Union widow was Gertrude Janeway who passed away in two thousand three. The last surviving documented veteran of the civil war was Albert Wilson who died at the age of one, hundred, six in one thousand, nine, hundred, eighty, six he was a fourteen year old drummer boy in the first Minnesota. Heavy. Artillery Regiment. In one, thousand, nine, hundred, eighty, six there was an episode of the TV Game Show I've got a secret with a ninety five year old man named Samuel Seymour. The panelists had to guess what the guest secret was. Samuel Seymour. Was the last surviving witness to Abraham Lincoln's assassination. He was a five year old boy was taken affords theater and said in the balcony across the theater from the present it. there. Is a clip of the appearance on Youtube and I highly recommend viewing it if you're interested in such things. The. Last surviving person who was born as a slave in the United States was Peter Mills who died in Nineteen seventy-two he was born into slavery in eighteen sixty one and live to be one hundred, ten, one person was both born into bondage and live to see the moon landing. The last surviving veteran of the Revolutionary War was John Gray who died in eighteen sixty, eight at the age of one, hundred four he's one of the only people who live to see both the revolution and the civil war oddly enough he was born on George Washington's estate Mount Vernon and his father died in the revolutionary. War. The, last surviving veteran of Napoleon's army was a Polish man Vincent Markowitz who died at one hundred and eight in nineteen three and the last veteran of the war of eighteen twelve was Hiram Cronk who passed away in one thousand, nine, five at the age of one, hundred and five. In Two thousand eleven at the age of one hundred and ten American Frank. Buck was the last surviving veteran of World War One in the world to pass away. Demographers estimate that the last veteran of World War Two will pass away sometime around the year twenty, forty four. It will probably be someone who fought at a very young age and lives to be at least one, hundred and ten. It's amazing how the lives of some people can span such incredible lengths of time and how we can have lives that overlap them. We think of the civil war is being a long time ago. Yet we're only two or three generations removed from people who lived through all of these events.
Ruby on Rails Podcast
Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene's Path to Coding
"To the show. Curtis thank you for having me. I appreciate it wonderful. So Curtis what is your developers story. Yes so I suppose. I started off by playing these text based multiplayer games when I was younger when I was around eighteen. Seventeen They're called Meshes. Just think of it now as tabletop but with Zork really old school stuff and I wanted to build my own games. Those world knows and those required learn how to code and the language that was used on these servers. The service rid themselves written often and see your Java because interest what you wrote back then but they had their own internal language. That was really A lot like list but worse in that you could only have you only have twenty seven variables total and also no white space. You couldn't have any whites. Macy's all single line It was horrible but I learned to build some things and eventually Someone came along my early mentor. Mike Richter who currently lives like leaving of Wuhan China He was like. Hey you should actually learn a real language. And so he presented me with like erling and Haskell in Ruby much as a grant I chose Ruby and started building websites Sinatra. I remember an early memory of Talking to communicating with Constantine The creator of Sinatra and the former CEO Travis ci about Sinatra and building things in. I built this template I guess. Yeah template for Sinatra buildings not up sites. That's all you had to do. I just dipped it up in. Send it to him And that was my first experience with sharing code with someone but then eventually got a job writing ruby software in Eugene Oregon while places for thirty two thousand dollars a year and I thought that was an incredible amount of money. Actually didn't I didn't consider my background. I didn't know what that when he said he just said thirty two thousand dollars. I didn't know what that meant like. Obviously he wasn't paying me thirty thousand dollars an hour. That'd be ridiculous but It was my first shop. And I I I completely I was very bold in what I told them. I knew about rails because that's what they're hiring. They were hurting for junior to help her. So that probably helped by definitely told him. I knew more rails than I did. That was interesting through shop and that was the start. That's that's what got me on. That is so awesome. What we what a cool way to get into programming so my original next question was how much has ruby on. Rails made an impact on your career. But before we get into that. I'm curious. What led you down to Sinatra before you saw rails. Which is I think. Different than what most programmers to listen to this. Podcast have experienced sure so yet. Understand this before Padrino rb. I don't even know if Ruby developers no between rb is anymore between RB was A. It's not you're it's not your based but rails everything else like I had the whole Shebang but Sinatra was bare bones and I knew from talking not only to my mentor. Who while he got me in he was more of a best friend Wade phrases? He was like a lighthouse more than anything else. He didn't guide me through things. He just told me what to avoid. And he gave me a blueprint for how to act he was of a very disgruntled man. Who who he had originally done software for a weather agency. I remember him. Tell me a story about how. He was being forced to write bad software for the weather system in Canada and he refused and had to quit because he didn't want to kill anybody. Now Hell Upton early impact but he was. He was at a soccer at that point other than like playing with two other languages like fourth or a prologue. I knew I had this idea from early. Star that to be an important programmer you had to have important opinions. And I knew that an important opinion to have at the time was whether rails was too bloated magical or if you could just you Sinatra because I remember an ad talk recently talked to someone at hub or former employees burly in their career early in their career. Get up get a whole bunch of Sinatra services like these standalone release thin services and and as from that era was the discussion was. Oh you know. You shouldn't use rails to big employers too much you you know if you go off the magical path you'll You'll get you won't be able to do what you need to do. You should not because thin light and I saw that opinion. I didn't understand it at all. Like like from fundamental level. But I knew it was an important to have and I knew that engineers had talked you. They had very angry opinions. And if I wanted to be an engineer I also had to have an angry opinion so I picked Sinatra with no other reason than it was the underdog and that was a compelling story. I love that I am definitely going to be stealing the terminology of an important opinion because I think it summarizes so many thoughts that you see out there on twitter and get hub issues and sometimes justified. Sometimes they're not but I think that's such a great way to get into development and so I'm guessing now you've explained that you did eventually get into ruby on rails with that junior development job so day by day is your first inclination to reach for rails or do you reach her Sinatra I. I haven't touched Nayarit in ages which is not a indication of Sinatra being bad. In a way it's still up masterful piece of software for Especially for given the early Nisa Ruby at the time. But I if I'm building a new project these days is going to be a phoenix. Honestly because I'm really enjoying it but I I'll be honest. They will never be appointed the rest of my life where I won't get offered or rails job or will be comfortable getting into a rails project It is it is the staple of my existence and our ability to to write software. I feel the exact same way so I just returned back from Paris. Rb where I gave a talk highlighting several tools and one of those tolls was VCR. Which I see you are a current maintainers so first off. Can you explain to me what? Vcr says sure So I who the best way I can explain to be CR. It's IT'S A. It's a library that shouldn't exist. Which sounds like a flippant or Insulting to Myron early work a Original author is Hiran Marston genius. Engineer one of just one of the best ruby developers around there It's a way to make through a ACP mocking library like web. Mock or Fake Web deprecated now It's a way for your program to make. Hcp requests and capture them before they go out and either stop them or respond with a fake response is a mocking library for for the engines out there. Who understand what Mommy Library? It's a mock library to specifically for the complexities of But largely it is a last ditch effort in your test suite to Prevent real requests going out from your test week In reality though I am a big opinion that it should be. You should be moccasins. Closer to home like maybe before the the ACP layer. But if if you need to if you need to to prevent real requests from going out and then playback or request when you've written or one that you've recorded from previous requests than VCR's had to
Gastropod
The United States of McDonalds
"For ME GROWING UP IN CHICAGO. McDonald's was always around. We had birthday parties at McDonald's because her apartment was on on the small size I went to McDonald's after work in high school and after school. It was the go-to meal when my mom Um and I were driving far distances and we needed something to eat and so I have probably spent most of my life inside of McDonald's so the fact that I wrote a book about McDonald's. McDonald's is actually not that surprising. This is Marsha chatwin. She's a professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University and her new book. The book about McDonalds. It's called franchise the Golden Arches in Black America and speaking of the Golden Arches. There's another new book out called drive through dreams. James A Journey through the heart of America's fast-food kingdom it's by journalist. Adam Chandler the Golden Arches are thought to be according to independent survey more recognizable as a symbol. Both then the Christian crosses around the world recognizable or no. I didn't imagine we'd ever focus an entire episode on McDonald's but here we are Dr Together. Adema Marsha Taylor story about McDonald's that is about much more than McDonald's making it perfect for gastropod and we of course our guest repod the podcast. That looks at food through the Lens of science in history. I'm Cynthia Graber and I'm Nikola twilly and this episode. We're getting to the bottom of how McDonald's took over America. The story starts with WHO invented the hamburger burkart. And how did it become so ubiquitous that it gets bigger from there this episode. We're asking his McDonald's basically America's national cuisine and if it is is what can it tell us about who we are as a country less. How did the tax payer ended up funding the spread of McDonald's in the inner cities and why we're civil rights groups on board? Well whatever idea you have of of. How huge fast food is you should double or triple in your mind because the statistics are bonkers? They're completely bananas us. Eighty percent of Americans eat fast food every month. Ninety six percent of them eat fast food every year which is more than the number of Americans that participate participate on the Internet atom. Says there's not a single place in America that eighty percent of Americans go to at least monthly not a library or Jim or any house of worship according according to the Centers for Disease Control which is not happy about this stat. More than a third of American children eat food every day and for the population as the whole. It's roughly the same thirty six percent of us. Eat it every single day out of all the fast food available to us in the US. The biggest I the most popular chain the one that serves literally one percent of the world's population every day of course it's McDonald's which according to somewhat recent stats sells seventy five burgers every second and Serbs sixty eight million people per day. There is no real way to get your head around numbers that large. But what's weird is that's is makes McDonald's the biggest almost everything everything. It does so marshalled as the McDonald's is even the largest distributorship toys in the world just because of happy meals. At how do they get that big to answer that we we have to go back to the beginning. It all starts about one hundred years ago with the invention of the hamburger. Well there is a lot of debate as is debate about anything culinary in this world about who invented invented any particular item there are many authors but a lot of historians culinary or otherwise. We'll give credit to Walt Anderson. And he was a fry cook in Wichita who one day in one of those kind of Isaac Newton Aha moments got really frustrated when he was cooking a meatball on a griddle and smashed it flat right with the SPATULA and the result was a burger that cooked through really quickly and he put them in these specialty buns. And that's sort of the most recognizable version of of the Burger that we have well Anderson's meatball. Smashing moment was a breakthrough. He went onto lunch white castle. And that what is believed to be the very first fast food chain in the nineteen teens and twenties. There weren't fast food chains. Americans lived in a very different world less connected less cosmopolitan. I'm a politician. Even as late as nineteen twenty five only half of all the homes in the United States had `electricity even fewer had indoor plumbing. People weren't used to dining finding out regularly. Generally speaking there wasn't a unified culinary culture. There wasn't one item. We had ethnic enclaves that had their own specific blends of items that that were cherished and part of a tradition but in the nineteen twenties America was starting to change. The model t was becoming more affordable and the number of people who owned cars more than quadrupled. Adam told us that nineteen twenty was the first year that more Americans lived in cities the not the US was starting to become urban. The First World War was the first mechanized war and the nineteen twenties. He's was the machine. Age Technology promise to streamline and modernize every aspect of American life the nineteen twenties was also. The beginning of radio's Golden Age and more and more people started to tune into music and mystery and comedy shows. Radio started to create a national culture at the end of World War One reserved this unifying aspect to American elect. Technology was bringing about and the hamburger was part of that was part of finding a national diet. The hamburger did have one hurdle to overcome Americans. At the time. I'm was scared of ground meat. They were scared of it. Because they'd all read the jungle by Upton Sinclair and they were nervous about the quality of the food. The jungle was a really important book from the Early Nineteen Twenties. We talked about it in our episode. On the history of preservatives. It told the tale of a semi-fictional worker in a Chicago. Slaughterhouse and the nightmarish conditions there for both the workers and the resulting meat while Anderson than meat ball smashing genius behind the hamburger. He was fully aware that Americans thought ground meat was likely full of dirt and and dead rats and even workers fingers so what he did was he designed these stores that all look the same. They had stainless steel interiors white tiles and they look like castles and white castle was meant to kind of convey this stately safe grandeur of a place where you could go and it would be the same everywhere you went so it was meant to reassure consumers. Who didn't really know what was safe to eat? And that really set the tone for what would come in the future of these industries of franchising of seeing something wherever you are in saying. Oh I knew it. I'm going to get here. This is familiar to me. White Castle was the first to open in franchise fast food restaurants. But it isn't the biggest today as you all know. That title goes to McDonald's. McDonald's brothers were these two men from New Hampshire sure who had kind of seen the extremes of the great depression and they headed out to California to see where they could strike business. Gold Dick and Mac McDonald headed West in nineteen thirty. They were in their twenties and their thought was. Maybe they can make it big in the movies. That didn't find as much success as they'd hoped they were two sons of a shoe factory foreman and they found success more for in the business side of production the catering. They went from that into the restaurant business. They opened up a barbecue. Stand in nineteen forty and southern California and and it was one of the drivers of the era. That people are often familiar with car. hops in major at boots and a young guys cruising in in cars and people hanging out and just kind of a big scene and they were successful. First restaurant was called McDonald's and it was in San Bernardino which is just east of La. It's meaningful that. McDonald's started in southern California because southern California was really where a lot of changes that overtook. America were happening kind of on on steroids by the early nineteen forties. The Great Depression was finally over. San Bernardino is shifting from being farming town to more of a manufacturing and service industries industry center people were moving their into the growing city and suburbs and increasingly. They had a little disposable income but also San Bernardino was on route sixty six and so it was a place where a lot of people were traveling throughout California as well through as the rest of the country. So Dick and Mac McDonald. Were doing pretty well for themselves. But but then after eight years in the restaurant business. They surprised everyone by deciding to close their popular successful restaurant and entirely revamp it. The re diagram to what the kitchen would look like they use this assembly line model that White Castle and kind of employed and they cut the menu items from twenty five to nine. They also fired all all of the young women who are car hops because they felt like they were flirty and they would distract from the work that was happening there. They also wanted to pivot away from being a teen hangout to family friendly place. They got rid of silverware because people would steal it or break it and they went to wrapping Burgers in paper and they wanted to create the most efficient kitchen possible in order to serve as many people as possible. And so the revision of the McDonald's drive in is what we are living with today a highly automated mechanized kitchen and that is able to produce high volumes of food and a very short period of time. What they did was they basically just souped up the kitchen and turned it into a factory? An assembly line dusted with Hollywood magic. And the result was they could serve food for cheap even cheaper than their previous menu items had been. I didn't know what to make of it but it caught on very quickly. This new McDonald's factory style restaurant didn't just catch on with eaters. It became a total phenomenon. Within the restaurant industry. Eight people were coming from all over the country to kind of hear and see what was going on because there were these whispers in the industry about this place that was so popular and and you know there were long lines and people were talking about this place. That was not just serving a lot of people but serving a lot of people quickly so eventually the founders of Burger King Taco bell a couple of other chains that didn't quite make it ultimately stopped by and they copied with McDonald brothers. Were doing as Z.. Listeners know some of those copycats are still around today. One of the businessmen who came to see it was none other than Ray KROC. He was a salesman and he sold the mixing machines machines for milkshakes and the McDonald Brothers had bought a shockingly large quantity of these machines so great thought he'd go and see what they were doing with them. Ray had been in nearly every kind end of commercial kitchen available. At the time. He'd played jazz at speakeasy. During prohibition he'd sold kitchen and restaurant supplies around the country so he came to the McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino we know and he saw the crowds and he was completely blown away by it and so immediately said this needs to be national. This needs to be everywhere. Ray convinced the brothers. Let him start working with them before long. He bought them out. And the tool that ray us to fulfil his dream of taking this model national and then global global was the franchise so franchising is this concept that a parent company provides all of the blueprints and the instructions and the recipes for a product or service and the Franchisee pays Hayes for the right to deliver that good or service to an audience. Ray KROC didn't invent this franchise model White Castle had already been using it and in fact many experts think that at the root of the idea goes back to the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages tax collectors did the work of the church and collected tithes and the kept some of the money for themselves at the start of the twentieth century. Rick Coca Cola had used the franchise model to make their sugary drink available at drugstores across America. But it was ray KROC who really took this franchise idea and ran with it. The franchise model. I think is amazing because it allows companies to pass on all of the liability to this other party so so that was sort of the way in which McDonald's grew really quickly and also took a lot of the risk out from opening places and this is the way they maintained control over franchisees so it was consistent. You didn't have rogue franchisees trying to sell Pepsi when you had a contract to sell coke and so it was a complicated system. But it's what turned McDonald's into the the biggest in the fastest growing fast food restaurant. The
Caught Offside
West Ham United: Hundreds of Hammers supporters stage protest against owners
"Know you've been very into what's it's been happening with West Ham and their family. They're protesting again this time. They're not doing on the field. We don't have people making incursions onto the hallowed turf at the London stadium but There was a protest that the weekend organized by Fans Group Hammers. United and coincides with that Sullivan and goals tenure anniversary. When they took over the club at the group are unhappy with the club's current position to places on one point above the relegation zone? I get that but it's it's it's most fans wouldn't be happy with that but it's larger. They say there were made it promises surrounding West. Ham's controversial move out of Upton Park in two thousand sixteen which have not been kept at. They're worried about the money that the owners are taking to the club. They're worried about the way they've spent hundreds of millions and it's just not off Showing any sign on the field that they've done so and and also I guess since they've moved they believed that the sense of community and togetherness round. The club has dissipated. This is a situation rivaled. I would say maybe only by new castle where you have a fan base in an ownership group that are truly not on the same page. That happens a lot where the word owner's interest in a fans interests don't align but I think it's. It's a much more profound way that that's that that's kind of taken form with this club. This was a fan base. Ace that had no interest in leaving their stadium and it's an ownership group that had a lot of interest in going into a bigger stadium. That could make more money into a different part of town like this is the this fan. Base has just not been happy since they left. The boleyn ground their statement said the sacrifice that we made was made on the understanding that more more a lot more would be forthcoming than just the survival of the club. They really saw the move to the London stadium as a move towards competing for top four. Not who thought that the in West Ham fans. That's what they were sold. They were told that would be the only thing not gotten them on board with like that because that was the point the sacrifice was leaving their their community. I said this though that it was such a unique place that they played at it was going to be you. You weren't going to be able to replicate it at the London stadium so they better win and they haven't won no no they have
Skimm'd from The Couch
Kate Upton; Model, Actress, and Founder of Strong4Me
"Welcome to skimp from the couch. I'm so excited to be here okay. So we're going to jump in Skim your resume for us. It's been a crazy awesome journey. I started modeling when I was fifteen. I am like a real adventure heart and convinced my parents Let me travel the world at fifteen and working to get yeah. I couldn't convince them to let me stay out to Oleg. I had like my big break at eighteen when I met with. MJ Day. Ah and was a part of the sports illustrated family and went to meet with and work with some of the most iconic people in the industry you know from Ana Wind Tour Tony Goodman Steven Meisel Corinne Rafael Steven Gan. It's just been an awesome journey and made me. I understand my body like I'm losing the skin part of my resume. Um made me really understand my body starting from the place ace of just being the typical model which was like skinny skinny skinny and I wasn't enjoying my life. I didn't have energy on set and I didn't have a whole life but I didn't have enough energy. Gee to go out with friends or be the best girlfriend. I could be so asserted working with Ben Bruno and we find the best way to ultimately love your body. Love your unique differences from everyone else and find your strongest bestself Matz ultimately why I wanted to launch strong for me is bring all that information to the everyday woman. So what is something that is not on your wikipedia page. We should know about you. There's a Lotta lies on I. Look Oh my God. What's the top lie that you're how did someone even make that up that I was a violin player and he's just own that for sure just I would hate to go to a party without a violin? They'd be very disappointed. Well lucky for you. Maybe not like he found while. I know you brought your sister here today and shouldn't have told us as your disturbed. So what is something. We should know about Kate. Sister did remember one thing that was on your wikipedia pedia pages that you graduated from Indiana University. which funny enough is where brother goes now? I didn't even realize that something that we should know about her. That like like no one else does. What was she an annoying younger sister? Oh Okay I was always motivated and driven and so sweet One thank you know. She did. HAVE MOM walk into school every single day. Try Yeah I mean at least fifteen into what do you mean literally until my mom was like I refuse to. IQ It'd be fifty. Yeah she's like you're embarrassing Scott. Housley I don't care where you and Marissa your mom then had to go to school every single day and like did you walk ahead while I was in college college. Yeah so yeah I mean. She's other people thought she's like come on mom. We're going to do you. I WANNA be the emotional support. Yeah I one of the most support I love just like you know having a little chat with her it has. It is one of the things that I don't often say that I have things in common with. I'm excited remodels. But before you were you. You were a competitive horseback rider. Yes and I couldn't compete but I grew up horseback riding and and love it. Yes she compete in college. I was on. I was on my college equestrian team for half a semester. So how old were you when you started competing. I think I was ten years old. When I started competing I really feel like the foundation of being around? Horses has helped me so much in my life. which is the hard work and being ready to get dirty and really put in the effort and learning about something new and the travel at winner on with competing? It's so cool at a young age that you were a pretty accomplished competitive horseback rider and then went on to have this career. Both things are very individual sports which interesting. Obviously there's a horse may have to have a connection. But how do you feel like that. Set you up to do what you went on to do. I mean I feel like it really helped because I was constantly meeting New People while traveling I was constantly out of my comfort zone in new cities. He's and competing. And then I did the same thing in modelling and I think individual sports which I've really learned from my husband is a whole different mindset. Where were you know I really had to get used to the whole team thing can be? Would you like to tell our listeners. Who Your husband is Justin Bieber Lambert? I feel like it's just a completely different mindset that I was able to fall right into and an individual sports jobs you have to represent yourself you are. You're you're only advocate and I was very used to doing that whether it was with horse trainers or judges or anybody in the industry so my modeling agencies definitely were a little shocked that a fifteen year old had as many opinions. I did especially where my career going before you were even able able to give those opinions to the agencies. You had to convince your parents that you're fifteen. You're getting literally walk to your classroom every day by your mom or your like totally really trust me to go across the world completely fine. How did you convince them to the greatest fun fact? I presented them with a five year. Plan I was like I am going to make a career out of this or go to college so I decided if I started at fifteen eighteen I was young for my grade and I could still be in my same age group going into call it a workout. Yep We're GONNA take a break from competing eating horses because it was very stressful a lot on the economy and everything and then that's when I was like great like I'll just go make my own money. Then ah I convince them and they came on a lot of jobs. My mom him down to Miami. I started in Miami with me a lot and she refused to go into my job though which was actually really great. Those probably the right. Yeah like she knew out but she was really wanted me to learn how to represent myself. If your mom's in a room you're going to depend on her we would have prep interviews or prep castings exactly how supposed to act or what I was supposed to say a walk with me so I could handle it myself and make it a career. I did she tell you to say I mean I was fifteen so from everything like how to be professional national how to respond like got into trouble like so. You're at an age where most people are in high school all but also starting to like go out and be social and you are living in an apartment with other models and your mom is there. Sometimes WHOA I was that age like for you because here you are doing something that is GonNa be the backbone into your career and you sound very driven and at the same time you are our young and beautiful and making money and living with a bunch of other girls away from your parents. What was your life like? I worked every single day and ultimately our still proving to my parents that I wasn't moving to Miami just to party so I was paying my own bills and working constantly and I always say models roles who get the reputation of partying doing drugs or either the ones not working or so rich. They're only working a few days year because otherwise you're so exhausted working working twelve sixteen hour days every single day. I remember asking to get days off when I got my period of like. I'm so tired. Tired conversations go agencies like just let us know if you need a day off. I'm like actually I need a week. I'm really curious because it is obvious. How driven you are in Daniel? Just said like clearly from your question career and into into modeling what obviously modeling is infamous for how harsh the criticism is internally. And you know this kind of striving for perfection and these ideals of perfection and we'll talk about the public criticism that you received which is ridiculous. I'm just curious what it was like for you emotionally every day at work to be told turn this way. Look this way. Don't smile like that like what did that do to you. It puts you in a different mindset mindset because suddenly you almost have to remove yourself from your body and just blackout and do what they say and it also leads. I think angrily young models to do that in their everyday life and just do what is being told of them because you can't really especially being a young model have have an opinion on set. It's it's definitely kind of a crazy mindset that puts you in a very very vulnerable place so when the outside critics came in it was so hard on me because mentally. I wasn't strong to handle when you think about you today as now a businesswoman. How do you translate those experiences at that? Young Age. Chew the businesswoman. You are today. Did it feel you did help you. compartmentalize where do you think it laid the foundation for you today. Yeah definitely only fueled me. It made me learn that I really need to speak my mind and that my opinion does matter because of all those experiences and you know there was so how many times onset when I'd be like way more efficient if they would just do this or if they would just shoot me from this angle. 'cause I already know that lightings bad it it's GonNa take three hours by would just keep my mouth shut because no one wants to listen to the model onset and now I'm like no. My time is worth something and I'm going to say it and we're going to move on. We're going to get this done right. Did you feel like you had a support system in those early years. You weren't the household name and you had those opinions. I mean my family was a huge support system for me but ultimately nobody in my family was involved in industry previously so they could only give me advice from their personal life experiences so I felt a little bit lost becoming well known it was like how do I deal with anything. Everybody was overwhelmed. No one really knew the advice to give me and then shooting the other woman cameron and Leslie gave me like just so many life lessons. That was such a fun movie to watch. I had fun and watching it and it seems like you guys had fun filming it so much fun. Filming US shade you find mentorship from Rotary with other models that were coming up at the same time or is it pretty competitive. I feel like it's not as competitive as people think because when you're a model it's up to the client. I'm maybe the only place that it gets competitive is your agents like Oh is my agent giving me those same opportunities or I should be doing this. I never felt like I was competitive. Have with other girls and you ultimately do work with other models so you become friends. You're in the same place. I mean everybody. She has jealousy but I didn't feel like it ran friendships or
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Why do some people love cruising so much?
"So let's talk about cruising there's a huge upwards of thirty million Leeann people this year are going to cruise. It is definitely a subculture. Why do people love cruising so much? It's not really a subculture. What happens is someone takes it's a cruise and in they cruise on the right experience for them they become cruisers for life So it's not a subculture. Yeah is actually everyone. Yeah could be cruisers for life if they cruise in the first place so under penetrated in every market in the world. And we're GONNA be under penetrated us one point four billion estimated travelers year. Half a billion vacationers a year in the world thirty million cruisers so really small part of the market all the cruise ships added together at Upton less than two percent of hotel rooms in the world one of every two people cruise with us. So we don't even consider all the cruise lines as competitors because I we're gonNA chase the other one percent and we're gonNA chase the ninety eight percent. Yeah it's not that as cruises for certain types of people is that there's a certain cruise for every person if you're with a bunch of college friends different way the kids with you a different one different destinations. If you're dying to go to eighty that's GonNa be a certain choice but the reality is at any moment in time there's a Reich cruise experience for what you're looking for Socialization Fun Excursion Adventure. Sure whatever it might be and if you get that experience in that moment you're looking for it you realize cruises just the best way to travel all right just a quick update from your perspective have on the heels of Hurricane Dorian that ravaged the Bahamas. How are the Bahamas you know the Bahamian people are extremely resilient we have a lot of operations in Grand Bahama almost wish was hit by during we have a shipyard there we have a new project? We're building a new destination there. That's GonNa Continue. The shipyard is up and running not only is up and running but while also providing technical support and manpower to help get the water system you know for the area for the general population reinstituted and we're also helping with the hospital spill to get the hospital up and running but the shipyard is already backed up. We have private islands there. We have a destination throughout the Caribbean but to private islands and the Bahamas Half Moon Cay and princess key. Both of those are up and Robin already and we have another project a new project we have one in half moon cay well established but a new one. We're GONNA continue with that so we see a good recovery. Our job is to bring commerce to help that recovery accelerate and then the provide the support that that we can through that and through the rest of the community