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"Or if you're going to go out this weekend, say to Costco or Walmart, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million, BJ's, Sam's Club, any independent book store, these various warehouse stores and so forth. You can pick up a copy. You can actually page through first, it take a look at it. And don't be afraid to pick it up because of the title and liberal is going to give you a look. Who cares? And if you go into one of these stores and I haven't they put it out yet. And I ask you to tell them to put it out and ask them why they haven't. Because I can tell you this, their headquarters want these books out. They've ordered a lot of them actually. And so this is an opportunity for us really to dig in, to spread the word, be the Thomas Pains. All the work's been done. It's between two covers. I think you're going to be extremely impressed and I think you're going to be so informed that you're going to be excited about communicating what's in the book including the family and friends and others. And it's the kind of book also that you may want to give to somebody else and say, hey look, before you have an opinion will you read it? I can tell you right now. I have a couple of friends who, they're not acquaintances. And I know they're Democrats. And some of them are African Americans. So I said to them, I want you to do me a favor. Before you read any other part of the book, read chapter 2. Go back to chapter 1, but I want you to read chapter 2 because I want to really hook them into what's taking place here.
Bloomberg Businessweek
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"This year has been a different story for Dollar General, at least from a stock market perspective, where the shares have come way down. They've cut profit the forecast a couple times. One of the big problems, obviously, is just the financial pressures on their customer base, which skews towards the lower income end of the spectrum. They have said, however, that they're going to spend more on labor. That's certainly an acknowledgment that the store conditions are not where they want them, and that they're deciding to spend money to try to improve things this year. Another thing that's driving that, I think, is just a stepped -up competitive threat. For years, Dollar General was known as the big successful dollar store chain. Dollar Tree, its sort of an also -ran. That company is in the middle of a turnaround, and so seems to be becoming a stronger competitor. And then you've got Walmart, which lost some ground to the dollar stores in the wake of the Great Recession, really doesn't want that to happen again if the economy slows down, and is rolling out a lot of initiatives, whether it's pricing or delivery services that are designed to sort of counter competition on the lower end. Hey, Brendan, and the stock, as you said, down more than 50 % this year, you know, trading at a 52 -week low. What does the company say about this. all of They reported earnings a couple weeks ago and again cut their profit forecast. And interestingly, they had initially said they were going to spend an extra $100 million on labor this year. They moved that number up to $150 last month. So clearly engaging with the idea that for their own customers, their own workers, you know, there are some things that are falling short right now. Whether that's enough remains a big question mark. But what I mean about all these specific things, I mean this is pretty gross for workers and unsafe for workers. And you know, we talked about the New Orleans worker who were blocking the fire exits. And there was a fire. Unfortunately, nobody was there. But this stuff continues. And I'm curious if the company addressed any of these specifics. We sent them a very detailed inquiry. They got back to us with a significant reply that, you did things they've said in the past, which has to do with them saying that they want to provide stores that are safe to work in. They want to provide opportunity for their workers. I think that a lot of the details in the story show the ways in which they've come up short in those goals. The extra investment they're making suggests that they're sort of acknowledging some of the shortcomings. But again, again, whether that turns out to be enough to really kind of turn things around, I think the will proof be in the pudding. That was Bloomberg News, U .S. retail reporter Brendan Case and Business Week editor Joel Weber on this week's cover story. The new issue of the magazine is available on newsstands now online at bloomberg .com business week and always on the terminal. You're going to want to read every line in that story because there's so much in there that you're just going to kind of like say, wait, what? All right, everybody, you're listening to Bloomberg Business Week coming up, the story of how the late writer Tom Wolfe managed to create the world's most famous fictional bond trader. Then on one of the letters, Tom starts drafting a reply saying, you know, your friends were fascinating and they clued me into this world that I knew nothing about. So I put all this together and I said, wait a minute, this guy, Kurt Matern, is the guy who was responsible for Sherman McCoy becoming a Wall Street trader. The bonfire of the vanity's backstory explained. That's next. This is Bloomberg. Bloomberg radio on demand and in your podcast on the latest edition of the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast, former St. Louis Fed President Jim The Ballard. committee left the additional rate hike this year in that plot. I think that may be a good thing to do as insurance to make sure that core inflation especially continues to come down at an appropriate pace so that the committee can get back to two inflation in a reasonable timeframe. I think the risks are building that inflation could hang up at a higher level or even go higher based on the idea of a inflation in the U .S. economy. So you have to take account of that probability when you're policy. making I think the committee has done that here. One of the interesting questions is about the forecast. John was just talking about it. You've got the Fed saying
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"We're talking animal infestations, blocked fire exits, expired food and meds, and that's just scratching the surface. Bloomberg's Josh Idelson and Brendan Case co -wrote the piece. Brendan joins us along with the editor of Bloomberg Business Week, Joel Weber. We've talked, I think, for generations now about how big of a presence Walmart has had in America. It actually is like the story that Walmart sort of propelled into America with these big box stores and changing small town America. Dollar General has actually taken a lot of that farther now. The stores have a much, much, much smaller footprint, which we describe in the story. The price points are amazingly affordable and seemingly inflation proof as we also point out in the story. The cost of all of this, though, is that it turns out to be a really troubling place to work and the people who actually work in the stores, retail a job. Wow. The stuff that they've gone through. So, so Brendan, Josh Adelson but was lead writer on this. Brendan Case also intimately familiar with it. Brendan, what was the reporting tidbit that made you and Josh just really want to dig into this? There were a couple of things and one of them was what we say at the very beginning of the story, which was that if you look at a lot of the fines that that the labor department through OSHA has levied against Dollar General, one of the things that keeps coming over up and over again is blocked exits, which obviously matters a lot to OSHA. It harks back to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York, one thing that surprised us was talking with an employee in New Orleans who said that in his case the blocked exits were no accident. in fact, a manager had told him to purposely block exits to try to cut down on shoplifting, make it harder to get out of the store. That was one thing. Another thing that jumped out was just the lack of heating and air conditioning and we talked with people who had put ice packs down their pants when it got hot, wore for coats multiple and layers when it got cold, and one regional manager who you know, it was fairly high up in the company who told us that she was just really shocked by how difficult it was to get funding for basic maintenance, basic upkeep. On top of all that, there's this sense that Dollar General has just been in this incredible growth strategy. So talk about how it's kind of swept the country. Yeah, and it's really it's really amazing how fast it's grown. To your point, it's a little bit sort of a creature of the Walmart era. You know Walmart comes been and it wipes out a lot of retailers across the country and leaves a landscape that if you're not close to a Walmart or have an easy access to a car. You might not have as many retailers as as you had before. And so in Swoop's Dollar General and many of its possible opens and up stores to the tune of typically a thousand a year. And so, You know, they've got more than 19 ,000 locations around the country right now. You compare with that a little more than 5 ,000 for Walmart including the Sam's Club locations. And you to start get a sense of how ubiquitous it is, especially in smaller towns about about 80 % of its stores are in towns of 20 ,000 people or fewer. And, you know, if you drive through, you know, through the countryside in many states, particularly the Southeast, but in many other parts of the country as well, you'll see, you know, store after store. We talked about the block fire can we also talk about the back Juana? Because there's some of that in the story. I was waiting to do that transition there. How crazy are some of the reporting details that you found? The issue of animals getting into the stores and befouling the merchandise is something that also came up over and over again. You know, there was one, there was one case in in Oklahoma, where birds got in and, you know, used sections of the store as, you know, as a bathroom and the store manager there told us that he was told to just take the merchandise home, wash it in your washing machine if you have to and bring it back and put it back on the shelves. You know, there was another instance in which there was an Iowa store, there was a worry about asbestos, but after inspection, you know, some state inspectors found out that it wasn't asbestos. That was the good news. The bad news was that it was stains from bad feces. I mean, this is all over a wall. It's pages and pages of disturbing anecdotes, disturbing experiences that employees have had. I mean, one thing that really stuck out to me was the employee who, you know, if there's one employee in the store, the employee asking a customer to watch the store, well, he or she went to the bathroom. I mean, the thing that I was thinking throughout this piece that is this is working for Dollar General. They're making a calculation that they can allow their stores to reach this condition, pay their employees this wage, have this few of employees in a single store, because it's worked, especially over the past five years. Yeah, it's really worked for a long time. And they've had, you know, from a financial a really strong record of sales increases and profit increases. One thing they're good at doing, and this is not true of all retailers, is opening new stores and fairly immediately having them open. Now, this year has been a different story for Dollar General, at least from a stock market perspective, where the shares have come way down. They've cut profit the forecast a couple times. One of the big problems, obviously, is just the financial pressures on their customer base, which skews towards the lower income end of
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Bloomberg Businessweek
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"Coffee because you're gonna want to listen to all these stories. And first up this hour, we've got the Bloomberg Business Week cover story. It happened also to a be Bloomberg big take from this past week. It puts a spotlight on low cost retailer Dollar General and not in a good way. Turns out the company with the most brick and mortar retail locations in America has a series of workplace hazards to match. We're talking animal infestations, blocked fire exits, expired food and that's just scratching the surface. Bloomberg's Josh Idelson and Brendan Case co -wrote the piece. Brendan joins us along with the editor of Bloomberg Business Week, Joel Weber. We've talked, I think, for generations now about how of big a presence Walmart has had in America. And it actually is like the story that Walmart propelled into America, like these big box stores and changing small town America. Dollar General has actually taken a lot of that farther now. The stores have a much, much, much smaller footprint, which we describe in the story. The price points are amazingly affordable and seemingly inflation proof, as we also point out in the story. The cost of all of this, though, is that it turns out to be a really troubling place to work. And the people who actually work in the stores, a retail job, Wow, the stuff that they've gone through. So, Brendan, Josh Adelson was lead writer on this, Brendan Case also intimately familiar with it. Brendan, what was the reporting tidbit that made you and Josh just really want to dig into this? There were a couple of things. And one of them was what we say at the very beginning of the story, which was that if you look at a lot of the fines that the labor department men through OSHA has levied against Dollar General. One of the things that keeps coming up over and over again is blocked exits, which obviously matters a lot to OSHA, it harks back to the triangle shirtwaist factory fire in New York. One thing that surprised us was talking with an an employee in New Orleans who said that in his case, the blocked exits were no accident. In fact, a manager told had him to purposely block exits to try to cut down on shoplifting, make it harder to get out of the store. That was one thing. Another thing that jumped out was just the lack of you know, heating and air conditioning. And we with talked people who had put ice packs down their pants when it got hot, wore, you know, multiple coats and layers when it got cold. And one regional manager who, you know, was fairly the high company up in who told us that she was just really shocked by how difficult it was to get funding for basic maintenance, basic upkeep. On top of all that, there's this sense that Dollar General has just been in this incredible growth strategy. So talk about how it's kind of swept the country. Yeah, and it's really, it's really amazing how it's fast grown. To your point, it's a little bit sort of a creature of the Walmart era. You know, Walmart comes in and it wipes out a lot of retailers across the country and leaves a landscape that if you're not close to a Walmart or have easy access to a car, you might not have as many retailers as you as you had before. And so in swoops Dollar General and many of its rivals and opens up stores to the tune of typically 1 ,000 a year. And so they've got more than 19 ,000 locations around the country right now. You compare that with a little more more than 5 ,000 for Walmart, including the Sam's Club locations. And you start to get a sense of of how ubiquitous it is, especially in smaller towns about about 80 % of its stores are in towns of 20 ,000 people or fewer. And you know, if you if you drive through the countryside in many states, particularly the Southeast, but in many other parts of the country as well, you'll see, you know, store after store. We talked about the block fire exits. Can we also talk about the back Juana, because there's some of that in the story. So it's been saying a lot since he came in this year. I do that transition. How crazy are some of the reporting details that you found the issue of animals getting into the stores and befouling the merchandise is something that also came up over and over again. You know, there was was one there was one case in in Oklahoma where birds got in and sections used of the store as, you know, as a bathroom. And the store manager there told us that he was told to just take the merchandise home, wash it in your washing machine if you have to and bring it back and put it back on the shelves. You know, there was another another instance in which there was a an Iowa store. There was a worry about asbestos. But after inspection, you know, some state inspectors found out that it it it wasn't asbestos. That was the good news. The bad news was that was stains from bad feces. I mean, this is all over a wall. It's pages and pages of disturbing anecdotes of disturbing experiences that employees have had. I mean, one thing that really stuck out to me was the employee who, you know, there's one employee in the store, the employee asking a customer to watch the store. Well, he or she went to the bathroom. I mean, the thing that I was thinking through throughout this this piece is is that this is working for Dollar General. They're making a calculation that they can allow their stores to have condition, this pay their employees this wage, have this few of employees in a single store because it's worked, especially over the past five years. Yeah, it's really worked for a long time. And they've had, you know, from a financial standpoint, a really strong record of increases sales and profit increases. One thing they're good at doing, and this is not true of all retailers, opening is new stores and fairly immediately having them contribute to the bottom line. Now, this year has been a different story for For Dollar General, at least from a stock market perspective, where the shares have come way down, they've cut the profit forecast a a couple couple of times. One of the big problems obviously is just the financial pressures on their customer base, which skews towards towards the lower income end of the spectrum. They
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"Hello to all you generative AI news fans out there and Voicebot Nation, this is Brett Kinsella, host of the weekly generative AI news rundown. Today we take you into the deep recesses of generative AI land with my co -host, Eric Schwartz and a featured guest, Alan Furstenberg. Alan is a Google development expert. He's got deep knowledge of conversational AI and generative AI, so it was great to welcome his insights this week. As always, you can just listen here or you can watch the recording on YouTube. We have visuals this week, but I don't think the visuals are that critical to the conversation. So it's really up to you. If you do want to watch on YouTube, please go to Voicebot's YouTube channel. And while you're there, give us a like, maybe subscribe if you haven't already. That'd be great. Top stories this week, ChatGPT Enterprise debuts and shows how OpenAI is going to service big companies as an application provider. Google Cloud Next introduced dozens of new generative AI announcements. We talk about more than 15 in today's rundown. We go really deep on this. And so if you want some Google news and you want the perspective of Alan, Eric and myself, that will be the place to get it. The funding fountain also gave us some big news. Hugging Face landed over $200 million in giant new valuation. AI21 Labs took down $155 million in established unicorn status. We'll talk about that. CoreWeave is flirting with a two to four X valuation increase. This is like many billions of dollars and that's just since April in five months. It shows how important access is to the latest GPU chips right now. We also have product news from Meta and EncodeLlama, AI21's word to him. A new Harman smart speaker. Yes, a new smart speaker with a feature no one was expecting. ConverseNow's new LLM based chatbot, Gupshups, domain specific LLMs, GM, Walmart, and a bit more. We finish up with a generative AI winners and losers of the week. Next up, Google, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Meta, Walmart, and much more. Generative AI ends the summer with a bang. Let's get started.
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"In with America former USTA chief Katrina Adams. Plus, why there's literally a trillion dollars at stake as global companies search for the correct return to office strategy, and the story of digital marketplace FlashFood, whose founder is on a mission to reduce waste and save grocery shoppers money. This is Bloomberg Business Week. I'm Tim Stenebeck, stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is a Bloomberg Money Minute, as you've probably been hearing about, rising theft is stealing profits from many retailers. Organized retail crime is certainly a part of it. Dana Telsey is founder, CEO, and chief research officer at Telsey Advisory Group. It is a real headwind. It's probably the highest rate of shrinkage that we've seen in quite some time. Telsey herself says she witnessed retail theft on the West Coast that surprised her. You better be careful and be aware of your surroundings. Nordstrom, Dick's Sporting Goods, Ulta Beauty, Target, and Walmart, all saying theft or shrink is hurting the bottom line. The National Retail Federation says theft cost retailers almost $95 billion in 2021, but Telsey says retailers are determined to keep brick and mortar stores open in key locations. Retail and physical footprints have more relevance than ever in order to create the environment and the engagement. Telsey also says retailers are in discussion with high -level government officials on clamping down on retail theft. Denise Pellegrini, Bloomberg Radio. Sometimes it seems the crises just keep coming for children. COVID, war, drought, and famine. They can seem downright relentless. But you know what? So can our response.
Mark Levin
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"So you're not willing to work with Democrats, even if it means avoiding a shutdown? Oh, no, I'm absolutely willing to work with Democrats. They're not willing to work with me. I'm willing to work with Democrats. They're not willing to work with me. He says the bottom line is can't we keep spending the amount of money worth spending. How about an 8 % kind of domestic spending? Just for continuing a resolution, just for starters, you support that? Because you can't you even agree with freedom caucus conservatives on that. It's just shocking to me. Let's see how this plays out. You watch. The 14th amendment is going to come up again. The Democrats are going to claim that a constitution of separation of powers is. That has specific powers given to each branch of government. And Congress has the specific core function of taxing, spending and borrowing. And even more specifically, it's the House of Representatives that start such bills. Then under the 14th Amendment, ladies and gentlemen, Section four, the President of the United States has the power of Congress won't act to spend, to borrow and tax. So when they pass this, what we call one of the Civil War amendments, they intended America to completely blow out representative government to completely blow out the power of Congress and more specifically the of House that Representatives would now seed taxing, spending and borrowing power, that is debt, to one man, the President of the United States. Is there a shred of a syllable anywhere? In our history, during the debates over the 14th Amendment that even suggest that, not one, just as with their ballot removal issue on section of the 14th Amendment. Clearly the language, clearly the language in Section 4 deals with the debt related to the literacy, just like Section 3 applies to insurrection and sedition related to the Civil War and the Confederacy. Nothing more, nothing less. There are to be no payments, none, to cover any debt that was used to support the Confederacy in the Civil War that Section means. However, all debts that were incurred to support the war against the Confederacy by the Union are to be honored. That's what that means. It's simple. But now we're going to get into that stupid debate yet again too. I'll be right back. Mark Levin. On WABC. We all hear the radio ads about the our side. They tell you to be afraid, to be scared, and they try to frighten you into calling. I'm not here to do that. thief advocates is different. TRA is here to tell you that if you owe money to the IRS, whether it's 5 ,000, 50 ,000 or ,000, 500 we have a solution. It doesn't matter if you're sitting in your car, at work, or with your kids, no matter where you are, call now. 800 -579 -9068 Don't lose hope. TRA can eliminate or reduce what you owe to the IRS. There is zero risk to you. If we can't reduce your debt, tax then you pay nothing. Our passion is taxes and helping individuals fix their IRS problems. a We have five -star rating on Google and Yelp and an A -plus with the Better Business Bureau. You don't need to be afraid of the IRS any longer. End your tax nightmare today by visiting us online at TRA .com or call 800 579 -9068. That's 800 -579 -9068. Tax Relief Advocates. Real solutions for real people. Did you know you can get your prescriptions for less at your local pharmacy? You can with GoodRx. It's the free app that can save you money on your medications. Just search for your prescription, choose the pharmacy and the price that works best for you and then show your GoodRx coupon to your pharmacist at the drop -off counter. GoodRx works at over 70 10 ,000 pharmacies including Walmart, Rite Aid and Walgreens and it works whether you have insurance or not. It's easy to save. Next time you drop off your prescription check GoodRx. To start saving today go to GoodRx .com. GoodRx not is insurance. Go with your gut. Your dog's immune system is based in the gut.
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A highlight from #431 Matt came in the studio with an orange head and almost killed Rich. Dating a Columbian is serious business especially when she is on the east coast. Rich spent sunset with Matt 2 and Matt 1 got jealous. We have an informant from the inside and Matt called him a rat. Watch the turtles when you are walking on the beach. Idalia stole sand and we think we know where she put it. Episode #431 September 1st. 2023
"Yes it Divine again, Friday and today is September 1st, 2023, this episode is 4 .31 from this Mike Rich, from this Mike Mah, and we are in September, that's how easy it was, well it's it's also September 1st and it's small Saturday, oh small Saturday yes yes yes, that's two times in a row that you've missed it, oh yeah, two weeks in a row, no no I would bring it up, third week is strike three you're out, I'm sorry, well but I can't really do that because I there's not a replacement for you, although I'd like to replace you, you sure, it's just not gonna happen, won't be the same show, well you know, there's a lot of things I'd like to do with you, like what, I don't know, go out trolling in an airboat out the Everglades, I'm kidding, well I love you to death man, I would never never want anything to happen to you, really, well I'm here, yeah and you're here on small Saturday, and I'm here, I almost died, you did, yeah, oh I feel bad now that I just gave, you almost killed me, a rant on how I wanted to take you out the Everglades in an airboat, well you almost killed me what, 15 minutes ago, how, I was laughing so hard that I almost died, why because I came in looking like, no I'm just wondering what is wrong with your head, is it St. Patrick's Day, have you ever seen that comedian Carrot Top, no, yeah, you'll have to look him up, he's famous, you want me to tell people, redhead comedian, well I came in as a big joke, because today I decided, because sometimes I bleach my hair, and you know, just to have a different look, and so I, different, yeah, it's different all right, and I, and you look at the box, I really, I tried to do it too quick and bought one of those boxes off the Walmart deal, and they don't have the most expensive bleach items there, so you read on the book, and they tell you the amount of time you should leave it in there, and well, you fell asleep, no I left it the amount of time, went into the, showered it out, then about 10 minutes after dried it, came out a little more orange than I wanted, in fact it came out orange, and I didn't want any orange, I think if somebody look at you, they know which party, political party you're going for, yeah, but it's not like orange, it's not like the whole, the whole head isn't orange, I mean actually if we wanted to, we could make a Irish flag out of my head, I just, because I got white on the sides, yeah, and then there's the top, in the middle there is orange, if we just went and got some green dye and did like a mohawk strip in there, we'd have all the colors of an Irish flag, I can roll with that, you just look like a guy who's standing in the rain waiting for the bus and get rusty, that'd be an awful long time, buddy, if somebody asks you what the hell is wrong with your hair, just say this is a primer, actually some people liked it or whatever, it's not like really carrot topish, and like I'm like some kind of redhead or whatever, but it's noticeable, let's just say that, and so this whole experiment, it's not like my first rodeo, dude, I've done this before, so I got to go make a trip to Sally's Beauty today, because I had to get the professional coloring, so that after we do this podcast, I'm gonna go home and fix it, oh my god, let me just explain what happened, so man walks in, and it's dark in the hallway, so I open the door, and then he comes to me making coffee, and I burst and laugh, I almost end up on the floor, laughing for what, 10 minutes, oh yeah, I couldn't get you to stop, I thought I was gonna have to call, you know, EMTs, yeah, because his head is completely orange, yeah, it's not, come on, that's how I see it, I know, I am so happy that he prolonged my life for 15 years now, just like, thank you, well, you know, they say that laughter is medicine to the bones, yeah, well, my bones are fine, except that you were laughing so hard, they're rattling, you may want to go get a check, he's taking the dating so serious, he's going over a complete overhaul, no, I mean, I was gonna do that, whether I was going over to South Beach to see this Colombian or not, yeah, well, it's just like, oh yeah, I mean, I don't know, she might, you know, after, you know, spending a half a day with me, it might be the, you said, only half a day I ever see her, you said you don't like hippies, so you look like one now, that's for sure, oh yeah, yeah, that's so awesome, I took a picture, I'm gonna save that picture for the rest of my life, you need to, every time I'm gonna have to be down, like, mentally, this is what I need to see, that's gonna lift me from any type of dirt, yeah, ah, thank you, that was really nice, you're welcome, we have, we have Matt here with the primer on his head, you're painting cars, so he painted first rusty, so you know what he's painting over, I mean, that's a great idea, you just say, hey, I'm gonna color my head, so I want to know, I don't want to miss any place, no, or I could just be a walking billboard, for Rust -Oleum, just so awesome, if nothing works, I could go out there and just stand on the corner with a, with a can of Rust -Oleum, that'll get rid of the, hey, look at this, and get, turn it white again, it's just, if nothing works, home people will fix it, what do you think, how would I get Rust -Oleum out of there though, would I have to use like lacquer thinner, yeah, just, like, yeah, can you imagine, that'd be worse, you think, bleach burns, no, that was burning a little, you just spray lacquer thinner, maybe when it was starting, my head was starting to burn a little an itch, I might have thought to get into the shower, you just burn it, yeah, yeah, that's what happened, last time I told you about a story, when teacher was pulling my hair in the first grade, and he said I would go home and shave my head, that's what I would, maybe, that's the time, that's what I would have done in defense of no more hair pulling, yeah, but it might be a good idea, no, I don't need to, because I just got done buying $40 worth of stuff that'll fix it, yeah, just send me a picture before you go there, so I'll give you a stamp of approval, okay, so I don't want you to get depressed, yeah, I'll just wear a beanie, maybe, I'll be the only guy in South, South Beach with a beanie, beanie's those little, you know, the only idiot in Miami, 90 degree weather, and I'm in a beanie, you know what the, the Haitian, Haitian mamas, they, they have this shower head, oh yeah, when they go to Publix for shopping, I call them Haitian mamas, yeah, big ladies, they come and they have, they're wearing this awesome, it's all right, man, I, it's not my first rodeo, I've done it before, so, I love it, some people liked it when I was in Cali, they just, you know, it didn't, it wasn't that orange, and they kind of blended, this one might have a little more red, I know, you're not, you're not going that direction, like, you know, then the, in the male's direction, but California would accept anything, right, that's probably these, anything other guy, except poop on the street, I mean, my hair's, nothing, nothing, yeah, well, let's go to officials, and that is Julian Bruce, TeraKitara Apache Music, we thank you for all the tunes, because we are so grateful for the intro song, Divine Aprils was written and produced by them for us, exclusively, we're looking forward to see you in the town very soon, they are right now having a concert and zoo in Minnesota, and then they, in the winter, that would be our season, they will be here in Botanical Garden, playing almost every night, as always they do every year, so, you can find them, TeraKitara Apache Music on Facebook, or if you like to have the CD, we have 12 different CDs they produce available for sale in our Divine Aprils Coffee and Wine Bar, right on, sponsor of this show is Divine Spa, we talk about it, the month of the Wellness Month is behind us, which was August, but that doesn't mean you should stop taking care of your body, or send some loved ones for a little massage, or flexology for treatment, and don't forget your trail mix, we talked about that yesterday, and Beach SOS, weekend's here, Friday, small Saturday, we are here, and we are ready to deliver anything from our items that are available at beachesos .com, no delivery charge, and takes us maybe 30 -45 minutes to get you and meet you at the entrance to the beach, and if you're working in the office in zip code 34102, get ready, we're going to be delivering lunches to offices for $10, yeah, delivered between $10 and $12, right to your desk, nice fresh organic salads, sandwiches, European sandwiches, and many more, just wait for us to wave the flag, we're working on it very hard, it's going to start $10 lunch, we just want to take care of our local people, I'm so happy to do that, right, why are you, why do you have to deliver to their desk, don't you think anybody down here in the zip code doesn't work at a desk, maybe they don't have desk, you're right, maybe somebody in the garage, well I mean you've kind of narrowed it to where you've got to be in a desk, I'm sorry, let me take it back, we don't deliver to the desk, we deliver under desk, and anywhere, so if you're changing oil, we're just gonna put it on your tire, yeah, that's it, just on the ground, yeah, so we're done with that, right, yeah, well I tell you what, you have a competition to do, yeah, yeah, why, somebody take, I just spent, I just spent today because we're taping it on a small Saturday, Friday, it's after 9 p .m, I just spent a beautiful sunset with nice looking fella, oh really, yeah, it's just like you, good looking, same name, right, yeah, oh wow, yeah, and really hard working and honest, really, yeah, nice, so just, just be careful, as opposed to me, yeah, well, exactly right, just be careful, you're not the only one here, okay, yeah, you better step up your game, I will, yeah, because he's single too, by the way, okay, right, maybe we can collaborate together and go to, you know, check out some, some places together, this is Matt and Matt, you made your choice, yeah, you choose, you want Matt or Matt, well I have a new intel for you, okay, about the situation on the beach, so first of all, there's a reason why some of our beaches are closed, right, I cannot tell you which, you know, which person gave it to me and, you know, but we have intel from the first hand, right, and in other words, we have a rat, I'm sure he's gonna appreciate that, I'm kidding, no, they have to be careful, let's call it more politically correct informant, right, and here's the deal, is that they have jobs and need to keep them, and I'm just joking about that, you know, they know what's in the know, and I think that the public generally has a right to have that knowledge, I mean, this isn't like we're setting up some kind of missile defense, no, it's public knowledge, but I just never got to it, because we are busy with other things, so we, they, they drug a lot of sand to the beach, they want to, you know, restore the beaches, we paid x amount of money, and they wanted to make it nice and pretty for the season, guess what, this hurricane came and the sand is gone again, oh yeah, it's back in the water, unbelievable, yeah, so that's what we're dealing with, now the beach entrances, they're all the damage that was, and I'll give you a list of the beaches that are closed, because there's not many that is left as a shutdown, but I want to ask public, if anybody listening to this, which I hope there are, there is people, and we know there are, please do not climb over the fences, because we can get, first of all, hurt, and we just had a situation when somebody got hurt, and EMS was called, because they were climbing over the fence on the beach, which says no trespassing, right, like, you know, why would you do that, that's kind of evident, big fence, yeah, signs that say don't go on beach, that means climb over, right, yeah, or, or it means that somebody wasn't using common sense, which is the theme of this week, and will be the theme of this show, fraternity, yeah, exactly right, common sense, because we have it, coming together as a community, right, using common sense, did I, let's look, let's be clear, so don't climb over the fence, because we just had person hurt themselves, EMS was called, so big show about that, and very important thing that people don't understand, and I didn't know that either, because that's also a lot to do with the closures of the beaches, is we had a lot of turtle nests, and that's why people, and we are asking them, you know, don't put lights on, on your houses, so if you like, if you're the luckiest person that have a beach house, then we're gonna ask you turn off your lights, or dim them on the evening, so you know, we don't have even more turtles getting lost on the shore, but 29, let me repeat this, 29 out of 32 nests, turtle nests, are gone, oh wow, or at least they're still trying to locate if there's anything, from that last hurricane, yeah, those, you know, the wooden spokes that they marked them with, they're all gone, so they now trying to find out if there's any eggs left, and if they found them, they put them, and they take them into a place that helps them to patch the turtles, yeah, and I didn't even know that, this is very interesting fact, that turtles always comes in the same place, yeah, it's kind of like salmon on the west coast, it's almost like you, you come always here, I can make as much as I can, you'll be back, you take the abuse, and you always come back, because we have free coffee and cookies, right, yeah, so that's, that's the same, so technically you're a turtle, you know what I'm saying, yeah, yeah, why not, yeah, you're also orange, no, at least from the head, you know, from the top of my head, yeah, I don't want to know more, so there's all those things that now they're dealing with, and you know, it's kind of sad, but also it's good to know that there are people here in the city, and especially employees of the city, they work hard, and for that reason, in Diva Naples and Coffee and Wine Bar, we made the promise from beginning of, before we, and if we can go and listen through our podcast, you're gonna hear our voices saying it, three, four years ago, we always said, anybody in uniform that shows up, and we always treat them for free, right, because we know they go above and beyond, and I'm just so appreciative that we have a lot of people working here that, that make this city safe, clean, yeah, and the way it is, because it could easily turn into Miami, and we would have this party and everything else, but you know, it's just thanks to those people working in certain departments, you know, that's why we don't have mess on the street, that we don't have crime, the police department, so yeah, we really appreciate, appreciate, you know, that every department do their part, and you know, we just want to make them feel like they are appreciated, so that's one of the things, and let me just tell you about the closure of the beach, so North Lake Drive is closed, 2nd, 3rd Street South, 10th, 14th, 16th, 18th, and 33rd Street South, they're all, or actually avenues, I'll take it back, they're all shut down, you can park your car there, but don't so there's not, it's not banded, you cannot park, you can park, make sure you pay for parking, because they'll still give you the 250, they are very active, and you know, for the obvious reasons, and you know, this just, we have parking around the city free, so let's just say those things that you want to pay for, that's the only way, you know, we, you know, keep the streets clean, and so on and so forth, so 32nd Avenue South just been opened, and that's a good news for our residents, because a lot of the local people go there, they fish, they, you know, chill, because it's far away from pier, and we just enjoy those entrances, so just that's another very good news, swimming advisory is lifted, so now we had little situation there, there was some bacteria in the water due to hurricane, but that's all gone, so we are clear, we have the clearance, we're good, we're good to go, right, yeah, you get everything you say to that, no, just that you can go down the beach now, and dip your toes in the water, so why you don't do that, I got my, my little wading pool at home, my baby pool, yeah, yeah, how that works for you, I'm all good with it, yeah, and sandwich with that, yeah, I have sandwiches once in a while, all right, good, okay, well just checking, which is still on the same schedule, same on, same program, fantastic, so now we have new segment, and this what, well, it's, we know what Tim Atten doesn't know, but I got it, I got a better way to say it, and it's, we know everything, that the guy who knows everything, doesn't know, there you go, did you follow the logic, yeah, I mean, it sounds like making fun of the the gentleman, the name Tim Atten, oh, it sure does, yeah, why sound like that, I don't know, because maybe you are, no, we're not making fun, no, we're just at play, we're making him famous, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, he should thank us for making him recognize even more, once they start listening to this podcast all the time, and it starts blowing up on Facebook, it'll be, you know, we're, we're, he's technically our colleague, he doesn't really respond too much to us, yeah, I mean, he's too busy writing articles, maybe some people aren't reading, yeah, we are not, we are not good in writing, so that's why we talk a lot, that's right, yeah, exactly, although we, we proclaim I'm a wordsmith, yes, you are, depends on the mood that we're in, so let me bring some news, what's going on around the town, because that's why Divine Naples Podcast is, we want to let you know what's going on, we want to bring you stories of our business people, so if you have somebody who want to share stories, if you have something interesting, events or anything like that, you can send us email info at divinenapels .com, or you can hit us on any social media under handle Divine Naples, and I just wanna, I did some research and digging, and there's so much we're gonna cover today and tomorrow, because we're in September, so we are preparing for season, season's coming, and there's a lot of going on, one thing that I'm not particularly happy is what's going on in Everglades, did you know that Everglades City, 100 year old building is coming down? Really? Yeah.
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A highlight from #431 Matt came in the studio with an orange head and almost killed Rich. Dating a Columbian is serious business especially when she is on the east coast. Rich spent sunset with Matt 2 and Matt 1 got jealous. We have an informant from the inside and Matt called him a rat. Watch the turtles when you are walking on the beach. Idalia stole sand and we think we know where she put it. Episode #431 September 1st. 2023
"Yes it Divine again, Friday and today is September 1st, 2023, this episode is 4 .31 from this Mike Rich, from this Mike Mah, and we are in September, that's how easy it was, well it's it's also September 1st and it's small Saturday, oh small Saturday yes yes yes, that's two times in a row that you've missed it, oh yeah, two weeks in a row, no no I would bring it up, third week is strike three you're out, I'm sorry, well but I can't really do that because I there's not a replacement for you, although I'd like to replace you, you sure, it's just not gonna happen, won't be the same show, well you know, there's a lot of things I'd like to do with you, like what, I don't know, go out trolling in an airboat out the Everglades, I'm kidding, well I love you to death man, I would never never want anything to happen to you, really, well I'm here, yeah and you're here on small Saturday, and I'm here, I almost died, you did, yeah, oh I feel bad now that I just gave, you almost killed me, a rant on how I wanted to take you out the Everglades in an airboat, well you almost killed me what, 15 minutes ago, how, I was laughing so hard that I almost died, why because I came in looking like, no I'm just wondering what is wrong with your head, is it St. Patrick's Day, have you ever seen that comedian Carrot Top, no, yeah, you'll have to look him up, he's famous, you want me to tell people, redhead comedian, well I came in as a big joke, because today I decided, because sometimes I bleach my hair, and you know, just to have a different look, and so I, different, yeah, it's different all right, and I, and you look at the box, I really, I tried to do it too quick and bought one of those boxes off the Walmart deal, and they don't have the most expensive bleach items there, so you read on the book, and they tell you the amount of time you should leave it in there, and well, you fell asleep, no I left it the amount of time, went into the, showered it out, then about 10 minutes after dried it, came out a little more orange than I wanted, in fact it came out orange, and I didn't want any orange, I think if somebody look at you, they know which party, political party you're going for, yeah, but it's not like orange, it's not like the whole, the whole head isn't orange, I mean actually if we wanted to, we could make a Irish flag out of my head, I just, because I got white on the sides, yeah, and then there's the top, in the middle there is orange, if we just went and got some green dye and did like a mohawk strip in there, we'd have all the colors of an Irish flag, I can roll with that, you just look like a guy who's standing in the rain waiting for the bus and get rusty, that'd be an awful long time, buddy, if somebody asks you what the hell is wrong with your hair, just say this is a primer, actually some people liked it or whatever, it's not like really carrot topish, and like I'm like some kind of redhead or whatever, but it's noticeable, let's just say that, and so this whole experiment, it's not like my first rodeo, dude, I've done this before, so I got to go make a trip to Sally's Beauty today, because I had to get the professional coloring, so that after we do this podcast, I'm gonna go home and fix it, oh my god, let me just explain what happened, so man walks in, and it's dark in the hallway, so I open the door, and then he comes to me making coffee, and I burst and laugh, I almost end up on the floor, laughing for what, 10 minutes, oh yeah, I couldn't get you to stop, I thought I was gonna have to call, you know, EMTs, yeah, because his head is completely orange, yeah, it's not, come on, that's how I see it, I know, I am so happy that he prolonged my life for 15 years now, just like, thank you, well, you know, they say that laughter is medicine to the bones, yeah, well, my bones are fine, except that you were laughing so hard, they're rattling, you may want to go get a check, he's taking the dating so serious, he's going over a complete overhaul, no, I mean, I was gonna do that, whether I was going over to South Beach to see this Colombian or not, yeah, well, it's just like, oh yeah, I mean, I don't know, she might, you know, after, you know, spending a half a day with me, it might be the, you said, only half a day I ever see her, you said you don't like hippies, so you look like one now, that's for sure, oh yeah, yeah, that's so awesome, I took a picture, I'm gonna save that picture for the rest of my life, you need to, every time I'm gonna have to be down, like, mentally, this is what I need to see, that's gonna lift me from any type of dirt, yeah, ah, thank you, that was really nice, you're welcome, we have, we have Matt here with the primer on his head, you're painting cars, so he painted first rusty, so you know what he's painting over, I mean, that's a great idea, you just say, hey, I'm gonna color my head, so I want to know, I don't want to miss any place, no, or I could just be a walking billboard, for Rust -Oleum, just so awesome, if nothing works, I could go out there and just stand on the corner with a, with a can of Rust -Oleum, that'll get rid of the, hey, look at this, and get, turn it white again, it's just, if nothing works, home people will fix it, what do you think, how would I get Rust -Oleum out of there though, would I have to use like lacquer thinner, yeah, just, like, yeah, can you imagine, that'd be worse, you think, bleach burns, no, that was burning a little, you just spray lacquer thinner, maybe when it was starting, my head was starting to burn a little an itch, I might have thought to get into the shower, you just burn it, yeah, yeah, that's what happened, last time I told you about a story, when teacher was pulling my hair in the first grade, and he said I would go home and shave my head, that's what I would, maybe, that's the time, that's what I would have done in defense of no more hair pulling, yeah, but it might be a good idea, no, I don't need to, because I just got done buying $40 worth of stuff that'll fix it, yeah, just send me a picture before you go there, so I'll give you a stamp of approval, okay, so I don't want you to get depressed, yeah, I'll just wear a beanie, maybe, I'll be the only guy in South, South Beach with a beanie, beanie's those little, you know, the only idiot in Miami, 90 degree weather, and I'm in a beanie, you know what the, the Haitian, Haitian mamas, they, they have this shower head, oh yeah, when they go to Publix for shopping, I call them Haitian mamas, yeah, big ladies, they come and they have, they're wearing this awesome, it's all right, man, I, it's not my first rodeo, I've done it before, so, I love it, some people liked it when I was in Cali, they just, you know, it didn't, it wasn't that orange, and they kind of blended, this one might have a little more red, I know, you're not, you're not going that direction, like, you know, then the, in the male's direction, but California would accept anything, right, that's probably these, anything other guy, except poop on the street, I mean, my hair's, nothing, nothing, yeah, well, let's go to officials, and that is Julian Bruce, TeraKitara Apache Music, we thank you for all the tunes, because we are so grateful for the intro song, Divine Aprils was written and produced by them for us, exclusively, we're looking forward to see you in the town very soon, they are right now having a concert and zoo in Minnesota, and then they, in the winter, that would be our season, they will be here in Botanical Garden, playing almost every night, as always they do every year, so, you can find them, TeraKitara Apache Music on Facebook, or if you like to have the CD, we have 12 different CDs they produce available for sale in our Divine Aprils Coffee and Wine Bar, right on, sponsor of this show is Divine Spa, we talk about it, the month of the Wellness Month is behind us, which was August, but that doesn't mean you should stop taking care of your body, or send some loved ones for a little massage, or flexology for treatment, and don't forget your trail mix, we talked about that yesterday, and Beach SOS, weekend's here, Friday, small Saturday, we are here, and we are ready to deliver anything from our items that are available at beachesos .com, no delivery charge, and takes us maybe 30 -45 minutes to get you and meet you at the entrance to the beach, and if you're working in the office in zip code 34102, get ready, we're going to be delivering lunches to offices for $10, yeah, delivered between $10 and $12, right to your desk, nice fresh organic salads, sandwiches, European sandwiches, and many more, just wait for us to wave the flag, we're working on it very hard, it's going to start $10 lunch, we just want to take care of our local people, I'm so happy to do that, right, why are you, why do you have to deliver to their desk, don't you think anybody down here in the zip code doesn't work at a desk, maybe they don't have desk, you're right, maybe somebody in the garage, well I mean you've kind of narrowed it to where you've got to be in a desk, I'm sorry, let me take it back, we don't deliver to the desk, we deliver under desk, and anywhere, so if you're changing oil, we're just gonna put it on your tire, yeah, that's it, just on the ground, yeah, so we're done with that, right, yeah, well I tell you what, you have a competition to do, yeah, yeah, why, somebody take, I just spent, I just spent today because we're taping it on a small Saturday, Friday, it's after 9 p .m, I just spent a beautiful sunset with nice looking fella, oh really, yeah, it's just like you, good looking, same name, right, yeah, oh wow, yeah, and really hard working and honest, really, yeah, nice, so just, just be careful, as opposed to me, yeah, well, exactly right, just be careful, you're not the only one here, okay, yeah, you better step up your game, I will, yeah, because he's single too, by the way, okay, right, maybe we can collaborate together and go to, you know, check out some, some places together, this is Matt and Matt, you made your choice, yeah, you choose, you want Matt or Matt, well I have a new intel for you, okay, about the situation on the beach, so first of all, there's a reason why some of our beaches are closed, right, I cannot tell you which, you know, which person gave it to me and, you know, but we have intel from the first hand, right, and in other words, we have a rat, I'm sure he's gonna appreciate that, I'm kidding, no, they have to be careful, let's call it more politically correct informant, right, and here's the deal, is that they have jobs and need to keep them, and I'm just joking about that, you know, they know what's in the know, and I think that the public generally has a right to have that knowledge, I mean, this isn't like we're setting up some kind of missile defense, no, it's public knowledge, but I just never got to it, because we are busy with other things, so we, they, they drug a lot of sand to the beach, they want to, you know, restore the beaches, we paid x amount of money, and they wanted to make it nice and pretty for the season, guess what, this hurricane came and the sand is gone again, oh yeah, it's back in the water, unbelievable, yeah, so that's what we're dealing with, now the beach entrances, they're all the damage that was, and I'll give you a list of the beaches that are closed, because there's not many that is left as a shutdown, but I want to ask public, if anybody listening to this, which I hope there are, there is people, and we know there are, please do not climb over the fences, because we can get, first of all, hurt, and we just had a situation when somebody got hurt, and EMS was called, because they were climbing over the fence on the beach, which says no trespassing, right, like, you know, why would you do that, that's kind of evident, big fence, yeah, signs that say don't go on beach, that means climb over, right, yeah, or, or it means that somebody wasn't using common sense, which is the theme of this week, and will be the theme of this show, fraternity, yeah, exactly right, common sense, because we have it, coming together as a community, right, using common sense, did I, let's look, let's be clear, so don't climb over the fence, because we just had person hurt themselves, EMS was called, so big show about that, and very important thing that people don't understand, and I didn't know that either, because that's also a lot to do with the closures of the beaches, is we had a lot of turtle nests, and that's why people, and we are asking them, you know, don't put lights on, on your houses, so if you like, if you're the luckiest person that have a beach house, then we're gonna ask you turn off your lights, or dim them on the evening, so you know, we don't have even more turtles getting lost on the shore, but 29, let me repeat this, 29 out of 32 nests, turtle nests, are gone, oh wow, or at least they're still trying to locate if there's anything, from that last hurricane, yeah, those, you know, the wooden spokes that they marked them with, they're all gone, so they now trying to find out if there's any eggs left, and if they found them, they put them, and they take them into a place that helps them to patch the turtles, yeah, and I didn't even know that, this is very interesting fact, that turtles always comes in the same place, yeah, it's kind of like salmon on the west coast, it's almost like you, you come always here, I can make as much as I can, you'll be back, you take the abuse, and you always come back, because we have free coffee and cookies, right, yeah, so that's, that's the same, so technically you're a turtle, you know what I'm saying, yeah, yeah, why not, yeah, you're also orange, no, at least from the head, you know, from the top of my head, yeah, I don't want to know more, so there's all those things that now they're dealing with, and you know, it's kind of sad, but also it's good to know that there are people here in the city, and especially employees of the city, they work hard, and for that reason, in Diva Naples and Coffee and Wine Bar, we made the promise from beginning of, before we, and if we can go and listen through our podcast, you're gonna hear our voices saying it, three, four years ago, we always said, anybody in uniform that shows up, and we always treat them for free, right, because we know they go above and beyond, and I'm just so appreciative that we have a lot of people working here that, that make this city safe, clean, yeah, and the way it is, because it could easily turn into Miami, and we would have this party and everything else, but you know, it's just thanks to those people working in certain departments, you know, that's why we don't have mess on the street, that we don't have crime, the police department, so yeah, we really appreciate, appreciate, you know, that every department do their part, and you know, we just want to make them feel like they are appreciated, so that's one of the things, and let me just tell you about the closure of the beach, so North Lake Drive is closed, 2nd, 3rd Street South, 10th, 14th, 16th, 18th, and 33rd Street South, they're all, or actually avenues, I'll take it back, they're all shut down, you can park your car there, but don't so there's not, it's not banded, you cannot park, you can park, make sure you pay for parking, because they'll still give you the 250, they are very active, and you know, for the obvious reasons, and you know, this just, we have parking around the city free, so let's just say those things that you want to pay for, that's the only way, you know, we, you know, keep the streets clean, and so on and so forth, so 32nd Avenue South just been opened, and that's a good news for our residents, because a lot of the local people go there, they fish, they, you know, chill, because it's far away from pier, and we just enjoy those entrances, so just that's another very good news, swimming advisory is lifted, so now we had little situation there, there was some bacteria in the water due to hurricane, but that's all gone, so we are clear, we have the clearance, we're good, we're good to go, right, yeah, you get everything you say to that, no, just that you can go down the beach now, and dip your toes in the water, so why you don't do that, I got my, my little wading pool at home, my baby pool, yeah, yeah, how that works for you, I'm all good with it, yeah, and sandwich with that, yeah, I have sandwiches once in a while, all right, good, okay, well just checking, which is still on the same schedule, same on, same program, fantastic, so now we have new segment, and this what, well, it's, we know what Tim Atten doesn't know, but I got it, I got a better way to say it, and it's, we know everything, that the guy who knows everything, doesn't know, there you go, did you follow the logic, yeah, I mean, it sounds like making fun of the the gentleman, the name Tim Atten, oh, it sure does, yeah, why sound like that, I don't know, because maybe you are, no, we're not making fun, no, we're just at play, we're making him famous, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, he should thank us for making him recognize even more, once they start listening to this podcast all the time, and it starts blowing up on Facebook, it'll be, you know, we're, we're, he's technically our colleague, he doesn't really respond too much to us, yeah, I mean, he's too busy writing articles, maybe some people aren't reading, yeah, we are not, we are not good in writing, so that's why we talk a lot, that's right, yeah, exactly, although we, we proclaim I'm a wordsmith, yes, you are, depends on the mood that we're in, so let me bring some news, what's going on around the town, because that's why Divine Naples Podcast is, we want to let you know what's going on, we want to bring you stories of our business people, so if you have somebody who want to share stories, if you have something interesting, events or anything like that, you can send us email info at divinenapels .com, or you can hit us on any social media under handle Divine Naples, and I just wanna, I did some research and digging, and there's so much we're gonna cover today and tomorrow, because we're in September, so we are preparing for season, season's coming, and there's a lot of going on, one thing that I'm not particularly happy is what's going on in Everglades, did you know that Everglades City, 100 year old building is coming down? Really? Yeah.
The Mason Minute
Pay A Deposit (MM #4545)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Walmart is putting together another experiment. They're experimenting with shopping carts. They're doing this in one of their Kentucky stores in Mayfield, Kentucky, and they're building different kind of shopping carts. They're now deeper. You can put more stuff in them. They have a built -in cup holder and a built -in phone holder, making it more convenient for you to walk around. But here's what's interesting. The one thing that got people really upset about these shopping carts, you have to put down a deposit. Much like when you go to Aldi, it's like, what, a 25 -cent deposit to be able to get the shopping cart, and you get the money back when you put the shopping cart back? Well, Walmart has had a problem with shopping carts disappearing over the years, as do most grocery stores, as do most big box stores. Well, they're making you put a dollar inside a machine, and if you don't put the dollar inside the machine, you can't take the cart. You get the dollar back, but people are upset, and now you have to put a deposit on the cart, and you have to self -checkout. I think the self -checkout is the part that's really got people upset. We went into Walmart the other day, and there was only one checkout open, but like 30 self -checkouts. They're trying everything to cut costs. They're going to lose customers, too.
The Mason Minute
Pay A Deposit (MM #4545)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Walmart is putting together another experiment. They're experimenting with shopping carts. They're doing this in one of their Kentucky stores in Mayfield, Kentucky, and they're building different kind of shopping carts. They're now deeper. You can put more stuff in them. They have a built -in cup holder and a built -in phone holder, making it more convenient for you to walk around. But here's what's interesting. The one thing that got people really upset about these shopping carts, you have to put down a deposit. Much like when you go to Aldi, it's like, what, a 25 -cent deposit to be able to get the shopping cart, and you get the money back when you put the shopping cart back? Well, Walmart has had a problem with shopping carts disappearing over the years, as do most grocery stores, as do most big box stores. Well, they're making you put a dollar inside a machine, and if you don't put the dollar inside the machine, you can't take the cart. You get the dollar back, but people are upset, and now you have to put a deposit on the cart, and you have to self -checkout. I think the self -checkout is the part that's really got people upset. We went into Walmart the other day, and there was only one checkout open, but like 30 self -checkouts. They're trying everything to cut costs. They're going to lose customers, too.
The Mason Minute
Pay A Deposit (MM #4545)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Walmart is putting together another experiment. They're experimenting with shopping carts. They're doing this in one of their Kentucky stores in Mayfield, Kentucky, and they're building different kind of shopping carts. They're now deeper. You can put more stuff in them. They have a built -in cup holder and a built -in phone holder, making it more convenient for you to walk around. But here's what's interesting. The one thing that got people really upset about these shopping carts, you have to put down a deposit. Much like when you go to Aldi, it's like, what, a 25 -cent deposit to be able to get the shopping cart, and you get the money back when you put the shopping cart back? Well, Walmart has had a problem with shopping carts disappearing over the years, as do most grocery stores, as do most big box stores. Well, they're making you put a dollar inside a machine, and if you don't put the dollar inside the machine, you can't take the cart. You get the dollar back, but people are upset, and now you have to put a deposit on the cart, and you have to self -checkout. I think the self -checkout is the part that's really got people upset. We went into Walmart the other day, and there was only one checkout open, but like 30 self -checkouts. They're trying everything to cut costs. They're going to lose customers, too.
The Mason Minute
Pay A Deposit (MM #4545)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Walmart is putting together another experiment. They're experimenting with shopping carts. They're doing this in one of their Kentucky stores in Mayfield, Kentucky, and they're building different kind of shopping carts. They're now deeper. You can put more stuff in them. They have a built -in cup holder and a built -in phone holder, making it more convenient for you to walk around. But here's what's interesting. The one thing that got people really upset about these shopping carts, you have to put down a deposit. Much like when you go to Aldi, it's like, what, a 25 -cent deposit to be able to get the shopping cart, and you get the money back when you put the shopping cart back? Well, Walmart has had a problem with shopping carts disappearing over the years, as do most grocery stores, as do most big box stores. Well, they're making you put a dollar inside a machine, and if you don't put the dollar inside the machine, you can't take the cart. You get the dollar back, but people are upset, and now you have to put a deposit on the cart, and you have to self -checkout. I think the self -checkout is the part that's really got people upset. We went into Walmart the other day, and there was only one checkout open, but like 30 self -checkouts. They're trying everything to cut costs. They're going to lose customers, too.
The Mason Minute
Pay A Deposit (MM #4545)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Walmart is putting together another experiment. They're experimenting with shopping carts. They're doing this in one of their Kentucky stores in Mayfield, Kentucky, and they're building different kind of shopping carts. They're now deeper. You can put more stuff in them. They have a built -in cup holder and a built -in phone holder, making it more convenient for you to walk around. But here's what's interesting. The one thing that got people really upset about these shopping carts, you have to put down a deposit. Much like when you go to Aldi, it's like, what, a 25 -cent deposit to be able to get the shopping cart, and you get the money back when you put the shopping cart back? Well, Walmart has had a problem with shopping carts disappearing over the years, as do most grocery stores, as do most big box stores. Well, they're making you put a dollar inside a machine, and if you don't put the dollar inside the machine, you can't take the cart. You get the dollar back, but people are upset, and now you have to put a deposit on the cart, and you have to self -checkout. I think the self -checkout is the part that's really got people upset. We went into Walmart the other day, and there was only one checkout open, but like 30 self -checkouts. They're trying everything to cut costs. They're going to lose customers, too.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 19:00 08-29-2023 19:00
"More with Walmart. We expanded our hours and we'll be able to reach a lot more of the Dallas -Fort Worth area. All right, that was, of course, the wing CE, chief financial officer. This is, of course, Alphabet's wing unit. Shannon Nash, chief financial officer of Alphabet, wing unit there, speaking to our very own Caroline Hyde and Ed Lullo. The next hour of Bloomberg Daybreak Asia continues right after this. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Daybreak Asia for this Wednesday, August 30th in Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 29th in New York. Coming up this hour, bets on a US rate hike are being scaled back after disappointing economic numbers. A court ruling paves the way for the first Bitcoin ETF, and China's largest banks are preparing to cut interest rates on existing mortgages and deposits to help shore up the economy. Vladimir Putin will be heading to China. Hurricane Idalia continues to strengthen in the Gulf before hitting Florida tomorrow. The 10 drugs the government will negotiate prices for have now been named. While in sports, round one of the US Open continues in New York. I'm Dan Schwartzman. I'll have news and sports coming up. That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia. On Bloomberg 1130 New York, Bloomberg 99 .1 Washington DC, Bloomberg 106 .1 Boston, Bloomberg 960 San Francisco, Sirius XM 119, and around the world on BloombergRadio .com and via the Bloomberg Business Act. Could be a risk on day for markets in the APAC. It's a little past eight in the morning in Tokyo. We'll have trading in Japanese stocks in about an hour from now. We'll also get the action underway in less than 60 minutes.
Evangelism On Fire
A highlight from Mark Thomas Shares 3 Recent God Stories
"Welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. My name is Mark Thomas, an ordained pastor, a teacher of the bestselling book of all time, your host, and most importantly, your evangelism coach. In each week, I bring you an on fire message to empower and coach you to live the most exciting life God has created you to live by actively sharing your faith in Jesus with others. I'm so thankful for our time together today. It's such an honor spending time with you evangelism on fire nation. This podcast will truly inspire you and I believe that it will inspire so many people that you know. And if you're inspired and feeling moved to share this, then please message some friends post this on social media and let people know about this episode so we can get this message out there more. I appreciate you and everyone listening right now and a quick reminder. Please subscribe to our evangelism on fire over on Apple podcast right now and leave us a review at the end of this episode of the part that you were inspired by the most and spread the message of evangelism on fire forward. Before we jump into today's pot show episode, you want to hear something crazy amazing. You have a chance to go the extra mile and partner with us to help save souls globally and right here in our own city of RVA by becoming a podcast episode sponsor today. Listen, families are in need of having peace security and love in their life. We provide this by introducing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ and give them materials to help them learn how to overcome life's greatest challenges. Here are the podcast sponsorship level options. You can sponsor a 15 minute podcast for $25 a 30 minute podcast for $50 or a 60 minute podcast sponsorship for $100 just select the podcast link that you would like to sponsor and go to our show notes click on the given link and sponsor a podcast episode today by becoming a podcast episode sponsor of the evangelism on fire podcast. You are helping us spread the message of Christ to a wider audience. Your sponsorship allows us to continue producing high quality content that inspires and empowers listeners to share their faith with others. Your contribution helps us to cover the cost of production, equipment and hosting fees, allowing us to focus on providing valuable Christ centered content to our listeners. We are so thankful for you going above and beyond supporting evangelism on fire ministry podcast. Welcome to evangelism on fire. I am your special guest cohost Rick Plunkett here with your regular host Mark Thomas and our current series called God stories. Speaking of God stories, Rick evangelism on fire nation. If you haven't heard Rick Plunkett's God story episode from last week. Look, make sure, Hey, go to the episode right now and then jump back to today's episode or listen to today's episode. Go back to last week's episode and listen to Rick Plunkett's God story. Got to hear that. However you want to do that. Make sure you catch his amazing God story. Hey, I want to thank you. You're our special cohost today. Thank you for having me. I have a question for you, Mark. Oh, you get, you get, you want to get right into it, huh? Oh yeah. Okay. Do you have any current God stories that you would want to share with evangelism on fire nation? Man, I have a cool God story from today. All right. I had a meeting right before our podcast recording and my meeting was at Panera Bread. And when I was meeting, I had someone come up to me that I had been praying for recently for a couple months. You know, I know a family member of hers and she asked me to pray for her and her family praying for all of her family, for those who may not be saved, those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. So I've been praying for this individual for a couple, a couple of months and I haven't seen her since high school, Rick, and then she comes up the next table next to me where I'm having a meeting and she said, Hey Mark, is that you? And I look over and I said, Hey, what's going on? So I knew Rick, I knew right away that God answered my prayers. I knew that my mission was to share the gospel message with her. I shared the gospel message with her and another friend of mine who I haven't seen since high school, they were sitting together and I had the opportunity to share the gospel message with them. Turns out that both of them have given their life to Jesus. You know, they're born again believers. So we got the opportunity to just talk about how good God is. Oh, so that, that just happened today, Rick, that just happened today before the time of this recording, but let me tell you about something that happened yesterday. So I've been out evangelizing to, for the last two and a half weeks, I would say to multiple people and no one has been interested in hearing the gospel or knowing that I've had the opportunity to share the gospel with, have accepted Jesus as her savior. So I've been planting seeds, right? I've been planting seeds, but I'm telling you about two and a half weeks. No one out of all the individuals I spoke to share the gospel with has accepted Jesus as her savior. So I've been on this mission to persevere and not stop and to continue to share the gospel message with people, you know, and, and two, I find that one, that one person who's ready to receive Jesus as her savior and man, let me tell you something. There's a cool God story that happened yesterday. So I'm walking into a food lion and on the way in, I'm praying that God will connect me with someone who's ready to hear the gospel message and to receive Jesus as their savior. And as I'm walking in, you know, I'm praying this prayer because we, we know, Rick, that prayer is the secret sauce when it comes to anything relating to the Christian life. Right? Absolutely. Yeah. Right. Absolutely. And it's this power when you're evangelizing. So I'm calling on the Holy Spirit to lead me to that person as I'm walking into food lion and I see this girl walk in and man, I just got a sense, Rick, I got a sense that this was the person that I was supposed to witness to. So I went up to her and I asked her the big question. I said, Hey, I'm taking the, do you want to hear what I asked her? Absolutely. So this is what I asked her. This is how I broke the ice. This was how I decided to approach her. I went up to her and I said, Hey, I'm taking a poll. Would you like to give me a couple of minutes of your time so I can ask you a question about this poll I'm taking? And she said, sure. Yeah. Yeah. And I said, cool. I want to ask you the big question. She says, what is the big question? So I responded by asking her if she knows about God's amazing love for her and his plan for her eternal salvation, man, Rick, when I asked her that question, she was interested. I share the good news, you know, the gospel of Jesus Christ with her. She had a couple of questions and I answered the questions. She shared with me a period in her life that she had recently gone through that, which is painful times in her life where she wanted to give up, where she had no hope. And when she started hearing about God's amazing love and how he has died, Jesus has died for her to give her that free gift of salvation, she was just captivated when I was sharing the gospel with her. And she believed the gospel message, you know, and she accepted Jesus right in the middle of the aisle and food dying. I mean, Rick, this is like, this was a time where people were getting off of work and they're coming in there and they're shopping. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Right. This young lady named Phoebe, man, she had a bonus to listen to the gospel. She didn't care what anyone around her thought. She was so captivated by the love of God. She was captivated by the gospel message that she was just laser focused. She was undeterred by anyone around her and she wanted to hear the good news. And when she heard the good news, she believed the good news. And I had, you know, I had an opportunity to be the one that led her to Jesus in the middle of a food line, you know, a grocery store. How cool is that? That's awesome. Yeah. So that's a, that's a couple of God's stories that, you know, I want to share with you, but I'll think, I think the biggest God story happened recently, a couple of weeks ago, a young man by the name of Jamal Alfred, he's 18 years old. And remember, I guess it'd been like a month, month and a half ago, Richmond, Virginia, where we live RVA experienced its first mass shooting. Oh yeah. I remember that day. It was a tragic day in the news. Yeah. Just tragic. Right. And evangelism on fire nation. Here's what happened. There was a high school graduation that occurred in our city, a school called Huguenot High School. And after the graduation, people were coming out of the building and there was a mass shooting. Some students that just graduated from Huguenot High School got shot, killed. And there were some other injuries in the chaos of this mass shooting. So as I approached this young man, okay, I'm going to Walmart. I'm going there for one purpose. I'm going there to set some intentional time aside to go share the gospel. All right. One thing I love about the Holy Spirit, Rick, you know this man, but when the Holy Spirit, you could be anywhere, the Holy Spirit just puts on your heart to share the gospel message with someone on the spot unplanned, right? But I also am mindful and intentional on making time, intentional time, scheduling time, you know, putting it on my calendar to go out and share the gospel message with people. All right. This is one of those times. And I heard this guy pumping his music, man. He was in the parking lot, in his car, just pumping. I don't know what kind of sound system this guy had in his ride, but brother, let me tell you something. He was pumping. He was pumping. And then I'm listening to the music and I'm like, first I'm thinking like, man, this guy's cranking this music and it sounds so good. His system is awesome. But I started listening to the words and the rap music was talking about life. It was talking about purpose in your life. It's talking about finding who you are, what you were created for. And the words drew me in. So I looked at this young man and as I'm looking at him, I start to pray for him. As I'm praying for him, the Holy Spirit puts on my heart to go and speak to him. Okay. And I go up to him and I wanted to know, man, I wanted to know what that music meant to him. All right. This just wasn't a rap song for pure entertainment. This rap song, man, this rap was laying out some heavy duty, profound thoughts, right? Yeah. So I go up to him, Rick, and I'm like, Hey man, what's your name? You know? And he says, Jamal. And I asked him, I said, Hey, what does this music mean to you? And he started just really telling me, Hey, I'm really thinking about why I'm here. What is the purpose for my life? How did I get here? What's going to happen to me after I die? You know, and I'm thinking, I said, Jamal, you're, you're, you're thinking about some serious stuff. Not many people think about these things. Right. Right. And I asked him, I said, why are you thinking like this? I think there's something that has happened to you that has made you really start thinking deeply about these things. You know? And he told me, he said, yeah, man. He said, I, I went to, I just, I went to my high school graduation. I graduated from Huguenot high school after the graduation. You know, there was a mass shooting. I said, yeah, man. I heard about that on the news. And this is why he told me he was thinking so deep about his life. Not just about his life on earth, but what happens when he leaves this earth? So Rick, he asked me, Hey, I'm thinking about how did I get here? Number one, what my purpose is in this life that I'm living. Number two, and what happens to me after I die? Right. He's thinking about these things. And he goes on to tell me that when this shooting went on, he saw when the gunman took the gun out, when he started shooting people, that's going to be scary. And Rick, when he's telling me this, I'm looking on, just looking at the facial expressions and it's like, he's reliving this fear, you know? And he says, I said, well, what did you first do? And he, you know what he told me, he said, I hate to admit this, but I was so fearful that all I knew to do was to run away. He says, I started running and I started running faster. He said, then I tripped up and then he fell down. And he said, when he fell down, Rick, he's telling me that he could hear a bullet whiz by him. And he said that I know if I didn't fall down, I would have got shot and maybe even killed. And he said, he's been thinking that he's alive for a reason and that he's alive because he has a second chance. And he's trying to figure this out. He's trying to figure out what all this means, right? Oh yeah. And I said, man, I believe I know exactly what it means. And I started asking him, I said, do you think that you falling down could be the creator of the universe, God protecting you for this very moment for me to share with you the good news of Jesus Christ and how you come into relationship with God and how you accept Jesus as your savior so you can start a relationship with God and you can have eternity in heaven with God. And I said, do you believe that you're created in God's image? You're created to live for an eternity. He said, yes. And I went on to share the gospel message with him. He asked me some questions and I answered the questions for him and he believed the gospel message. And I think the most powerful thing that he believed was he believed that God loved him so much that God protected him by allowing him to trip up. He didn't get shot that he believed that God gave him a second chance. And he believed that Jesus is his savior, that Jesus died on the cross for his sins, demonstrated his love for him. And he believed the full gospel message. And I told him this, Rick, after I shared the gospel message with him, I said, you know what, you believe the gospel message, but before you receive Jesus Christ as your savior and the leader of your life, he's going to want you to repent, to turn away from your life as you're living it right now. And I have a question about that for our listeners that are non -relievers. Explain to them what repentance is, you know, and a couple of sentences if you can. Repentance is the number one great question. Repentance is this, to turn away from the life you're living right now and to live the life that God wants you to live and has created you to live. So I told Jamal, I said, look, before you make the decision to accept Christ, he wants, I said, he loves you so much that he gave his all for you, that he expects you to give your all to him. And this just isn't a prayer that you say. God wants you to accept him. Jesus wants you to accept him as your savior and leader. He wants you to repent from your life the way you want to live and live the life that he's created you to live. And I said, that's when you find true, the true meaning of life. And I said, before I lead you in this prayer, I said, are you willing to do that, Jamal? And his response to me, his answer to me was this. Yes, I know God has kept me alive to live my life for him. He has given me a second chance and I choose to repent from my way of life and to live the life that God has kept me alive to live. So that has been one of the most amazing God stories that I've experienced. And I'm so thankful that you're here co -hosting today because I'm trying to have Jamal come on to the show for him to share his God story of that event. He's introverted, right? Oh, yeah. And he's thinking about it. He's praying about it. And I'm hoping, you know, if it's God's will, he'll definitely be on. So I'm hoping that he'll come on to, you know, our podcast and he'll share not only that that, day you know, we met the day that he heard the gospel and, you know, when he made the decision to follow Jesus that day, but also, man, I would love for him to come on the podcast and just share more in detail with Evangelism on Fire Nation, the events of that day. I mean, man, I'm hoping that he'll come on and, you know, Evangelism on Fire Nation will get to hear his story of those events and what he was thinking, what he's been thinking ever since that mass shooting and just hear his story. And then also, man, I would love to hear how God has changed his life since that moment that we met and since that time that he accepted Jesus as a savior and his leader. That would be great. That would be awesome. So, you know, let's continue to pray about that. If it's God's will, Jamal will be here. Evangelism on Fire Nation. First of all, hey, Rick, I want to thank you for coming on and being our co -host today. Thank you for having me, Mark. You're welcome, brother. And thank you for giving me an opportunity to share my God stories. Evangelism on Fire Nation, keep Jamal in your prayers. Look, I believe God is going to do some great and mighty things with this man. He knows he has a second chance given to him by the one that created him. There's no more powerful revelation than that. So, Jamal, I'm thinking about you. Rick's thinking about you. Evangelism on Fire Nation is thinking about you and we're praying for you. And if you're listening to this, my brother, hit me up and let me know when you want to come on to share your amazing God story of when you accepted Jesus as your savior and the story of how you're overcoming that traumatic event at that mass shooting. And Rick, thanks again, man, for having me on today's episode and being our co -host. I appreciate you, brother. Thank you, Mark. I appreciate you. So as we close out today, what do you think is the best way for us to close out today's episode? You're the co -host, so... In prayer, just for those that are looking for a relationship with Jesus, a day of prayer, bringing him into their life. And I want Mark, as he usually does, to lead it. I think that's a great way to end it. For those out there right now, hey, I say this on most of our podcast episodes. This is a Christian podcast, but there's always people that are listening who have not accepted Jesus as your savior. There's always people out there who are getting ready to make that decision today at the moment of listening to this podcast episode. So if that's you out there and you know you haven't accepted Jesus Christ as your savior and you know that there's just something missing in your life, you know that there's a void that cannot be filled. And you're listening right now. You're listening to the story of Jamal. You're listening to the story of Phoebe. You're listening to the story of my friend that I met, my friends that I met today at Panera Bread that I haven't seen since high school. You're hearing this story and you're thinking to yourself, I have not made that decision. I am thinking about making that decision. But how does that work? Well, how that works is if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is your Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you'll be saved. So if you believe that right now and you're thinking, I want to be in a relationship with God, I want to accept Jesus as my savior and my leader. I want to have God transform my life into the life that he has created me to live. Man, now is your time. Right now is the day of your salvation. So if you want to make that decision, just repeat this prayer after me. Lord Jesus, forgive me of all my sins. Come into my heart. Take over my life. I receive you as my savior. Take all of me. I repent from my way of life. Not choose to live the life that you created me to live. I receive you and your free gift of salvation. And I thank you for saving my soul. I thank you for raising from the dead on the third day, coming back to life, proving that you are God, the one and only true living God. I thank you, Jesus, for saving my soul. Amen. And look, Rick and I, we congratulate you on making the biggest and the best decision of your entire life. This is what I want you to do next. Go to evangelismonfire .com. That's evangelismonfire .com. Go to our homepage. Scroll to the bottom. There's a comment section. Leave us your name. Leave us your address. And we're going to send a free Bible and free book called Begin. It's going to break down the steps on your new journey with Jesus Christ. Listen, we're going to equip you immediately as you've made a decision to follow Christ. And listen to this. You're not an improved person by accepting Jesus as your savior. You are a new creature in Christ. You are born again. So go ahead and leave us that information. We'll send a Bible and that begin book to your front door, and we're going to invest in your relationship immediately. And again, congratulations and God bless you. And look, evangelism on fire. Have the best week of your life. Thanks so much for your time with me today. It's been an amazing time and thank you so much for listening. 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Latina to Latina
A highlight from How Cece Meadows Built a Cosmetics Line as an Homage to Indigenous Beauty
"C .C. Meadows has survived a lot. Ovarian cancer, domestic abuse, a period where she and her kids were homeless. Today, she runs a makeup line, Parados Beauty, and as you're going to hear in the telling of her story, all of that hardship and all of that struggle only doubled C .C.'s commitment to giving back. C .C. shares how her indigenous roots informed her vision of beauty, the financial mechanics of fulfilling huge product orders, and how her retail partnership with e -commerce site 13 Loon and JCPenney catapulted Parados Beauty into profitability. C .C., thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me. So, C .C., you grow up outside of Yuma, Arizona, the eldest of four children, and you describe it as a pretty rough upbringing. Can you give me a sense of what that looked like and the lessons that you were growing up with? My parents were fairly young. I think my mom was 17 when she had me. My dad was like a cowboy on a cattle ranch. He started working there when he was like 14. We didn't really have a lot. I remember my parents telling us that we were rich in love because we had each other. I think that that's like a normal thing that you say to kids because you literally have nothing. My grandparents were a big, big part of my childhood growing up. I actually didn't even speak English when I went to kindergarten because I was raised pretty much in my grandparents' home and they only spoke Spanish and like traditional Yoemi language, but I loved school because, you know, we had breakfast and lunch and then eat dinner at my grandparents' house and saw these three jolitos and rice and squash. I hated squash for the longest time because I ate it so much as a kid, but, you know, we didn't really have a lot. It was really rough. The way you tell it, I mean, it feels to me like your life sort of took off like a rocket ship in the sense that like a lot of kids who are living in homes that are under resourced, school for you becomes a refuge and you do really well in school and school is a place where you thrive. You even become the first person in your family to graduate from college. You get big jobs out of school. You're making six figures working in finance. You get married, you have a baby girl, and then things are going up, up, up, up, up, and then you get sick. Tell me how you go from being a self -described successful person to being absolutely broke. Yeah, so I had just separated from my first husband. I got married super young. I was 21 years old when I got married, divorced, you know, or separated at 25. Between 25 and 27, like I continued working in finance and being successful and learning how to shuffle a co -parenting schedule with him and he was great. He's always been great, but I started dating somebody after my marriage ended and it was great when it was great and it was awful when it wasn't. And so I'm a survivor of domestic abuse and I feel like being in that relationship was just the kickoff of this domino effect of just unfortunate circumstances that started happening in my life. I'm diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 27. I've always had like women issues, menstruation issues. I would get ultrasounds pretty often and they were just following, you know, you get polyps and you get like cysts and things like that. They were following just one that just kept growing and they're just like, you know what, we're going to have to go in and biopsy this, like it looks like it's growing. And so they caught it very early. I'm super lucky, but I did one round of chemo. I didn't have the long -term disability option to just stay home and so I went back to work, you know, I was wearing my scarves and I just was too sick to work and I had to stay home eventually and I just didn't have the resources to be able to live. And so I ended up going through remission and then I had my son the following year. He was just a little bit over two months and I moved in with my ex and he was an alcoholic. And I found myself holding a newborn baby, being kicked out of the house and the only thing I could grab was, you know, a box of diapers that were by the door and I didn't have anywhere to go. Ultimately, that led me to being homeless and sleeping in Walmart parking lots just because I literally had nowhere to go. How do you begin to pull yourself out? Oh man, a lot of hope and a lot of prayer. I had a 2006 Super Sport Monte Carlo and it had a moonroof on it and we were sleeping in a Walmart parking lot and it had just stopped raining and the clouds kind of opened up and you could see the stars and, you know, I'm holding my baby and I'm looking at this moonroof and you could see the stars so clearly and this is like in the Salinas, California area and so it's like always foggy and you don't really get like a clear view of the stars but I remember my little girl looking up and she was like, oh, look, it's the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper and she just, you know, she was only five and I always, you know, would talk to her about how we come from the stars and I remember her placing her little hand on my son, placed it on top of his head, I was holding him kind of like this and she looked at me and she said, Mommy, we're not really camping, are we? And think I for me, as a mother, there was no like other feeling to feel like a failure in that moment and I thought to myself, she's watching me, she's watching what I'm doing and she's watching what I put up with and she's watching where I brought her and, you know, kids are so resilient and you can like try to hide things from them but there was no hiding that from her and it was in that very moment that I decided that I needed to pull everything that I possibly could out of like myself, what I had left, what little I felt inside of self -worth and self -love and I needed to really focus on that because what I was doing was I was allowing a life, you know, time of, you know, at 28 years old, I was letting 28 years of things just fester and not getting like the therapy that I needed for myself so that I could learn what had happened to me and why and how I needed to stop it with myself so that my children didn't have to suffer the way that I was at that moment and so I ended up calling a friend of mine who was also having a hard time and I asked her like, hey, where did you go, you know, to get help? I was ready to go stay like in a homeless shelter and she was like, you can actually go stay with me at my brother's house if you need somewhere to go and I remember all I had was my two kids and like a laundry basket that I kept in the back of my car a couple of days just turned into us staying in an empty room that they had for a little bit over a year and I started going to cosmetology school.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from China's #1 Altcoin! (VeChain Price Prediction)
"Welcome to BitBoy Crypto. My name is AJ and this is the price prediction department. I'm really excited to get into today's video because when I think about all the projects in crypto and the difference they make in the real world, a real difference, a few projects come to mind and one of them is definitely VeChain. Let's get it. So let's start at the beginning. Founded by Sunny Liu, a man who worked high up the ladder at the Chinese branch of Louis Vuitton founded VeChain in 2015. It was launched on Ethereum at first, but eventually it migrated to its own proof of authority public based blockchain. It's important to know that VeChain was specifically built as an enterprise grade solution to help alleviate problems with supply chain management, logistics, and product authenticity verification. So why does this matter? Well, look at it like this. I'm sure most of you remember when COVID -19 absolutely decimated global supply chains, especially food. And with that said, not many companies capitalized on this issue like VeChain did. It's common knowledge that VeChain has a lot of Chinese backers, Chinese investors, and there's a reason for that. For the record, VeChain conducts business worldwide and has many international offices, but I specifically want to zoom in on why China needs VeChain. If you look at China as a whole, a country with that many people, with that many goods, with that many supplies, they need a more efficient way to handle their logistics and supply chain management. And think about the margin of error here. When enterprise grade company imports and exports millions and millions of units of goods and services around, some of those things tend to fall off the back of the truck, so to speak. Think about all the products that went missing or were sent to the wrong place. And if some of those products have expiration dates, like food, these companies were letting millions if not billions of dollars slip through the cracks every year. When I read this next statistic, it blew my mind. According to a 2020 report by Cointelegraph Consulting and VeChain suggested that 300 billion worth of food would be tracked and traced on the blockchain by 2027. In an industry surprisingly rife with fraud, the use of blockchain tech would reportedly save 100 billion per year by ensuring the products that land in stores are legitimate. So when you run a company on that large of a scale, you know that you're going to take on risk and you know that there's going to be a certain percentage of those products that go missing or go bad or get lost. And at this large of a scale, the profits are made in the margins and VeChain solutions are saving these companies billions and billions of dollars every year. And I'm not talking about any small companies here either. I'm talking companies like Walmart, BMW, H &M. VeChain has a partnership with the UFC. I remember when I was watching a Comms Out Chimaia fight and a VeChain logo was on the mat. How cool is that? And obviously, VeChain has partnered with a plethora of massive Chinese companies that you probably never heard of. Companies like the National Research Consulting Center or Directed Imported Goods or BYD or Build Your Dreams, which is one of the largest manufacturers of electric cars and batteries. The list goes on and on. And in terms of a crypto project integrating with real world companies with a product that delivers, I can see why so many people have been asking for this video and are bullish on VeChain. I'm not kidding. In the comments of the past couple of videos, I've seen a lot of people asking for a VeChain video. This is why beyond just supply chain management, VeChain also facilitates high speed, low cost payment settlements, which is a must have for upper echelon companies. And of course, it wasn't that hard for these companies to adopt VeChain into their system because VeChain uses pre -existing infrastructure familiar in the supply chain management world. You know, like QR codes or RFID, NFC, things like that keep track of your inventory so you know exactly what step of a delivery a product is in or stops food from going bad. We're talking quality, storage, geolocation, temperature, authenticity, and the list goes on and on. On top of all the traditional tools used in supply chain management, they're adding blockchain technology on top of this to ensure that extra layer of immutability, transparency, speed, and everything else that comes with it. What I like most about VeChain is that it was made for enterprise grade companies to and utilize as a crypto that we can use and trade, not the other way around. It's not like they made the crypto first and then tried to puzzle piece a utility. They started with the utility and we can also trade it. Yeah, sure. It was designed for supply chain management, but over time it has developed into a platform where you can create and execute smart contracts and dapps as well. And because of this development, they have everything to offer any other layer one would have to offer like, you know, DeFi, gaming, trading, NFTs, the list goes on and on. And if you want to check out NFTs on VeChain, I highly suggest you go over to vc .io. They have some really cool stuff on there and I'm not even just saying that. And you also have to appreciate that VeChain is a carbon friendly blockchain. And according to their website, the one year carbon footprint of their 101 authority knows is equivalent to one gasoline powered vehicle driven for one year. Impressive. And they have a lot more to offer on the horizon as well. Their new white paper was recently released earlier this year. I will link that in the description if you want to read it. They have a new web three service platform called vorge, which actually uses the interplanetary file system that we learned about last week in our file coin are we video. Be sure to check out vorge if you haven't already. The new V world self custody wallet looks promising, although it's only in beta. And it will be a great way to interact with VeChain's entire ecosystem. I'm not going to lie here. If you haven't spent hours and hours learning about VeChain before in the past, it is an intimidating project to really get into because there is so much to it. But I promise you take a deep dive for a couple days in a row and you will look up and be very impressed on how versatile and how much VeChain really does have to offer. And because there is so much to it, the new 2023 roadmap for VeChain is also linked in the description. Be sure to check it out. So as we approach the tokenomics section, I just want you to know that VeChain is different. Unlike most coins, VeChain has a unique two coin model, VeChain and VeThor. So there's VeChain or V -E -T, which we're doing the price prediction on, and then there's VeThor and the ticker is V -T -H -O. And that's more like the incentives, payments, gas fee type token. There's a lot to this. And the short version is, you know how if you do a transaction on Ethereum, you pay your gas fee in Ethereum? Well, if you do a transaction on VeChain, you're paying that gas fee in VeThor, not V -E -T. And this is good for the supply because VeChain burned 70 % of the transaction costs paid in VeThor. To be clear, they are only burning VeThor, but there's a big but here, the VeChain foundation does big buybacks of the V -E -T token, which acts as a burn mechanism. Well, the coins aren't actually burned or set on fire, but they are used to generate more VeThor tokens, which incentivizes the devs. And then the cycle happens all over again. And you might be thinking, AJ, where do I get VeThor tokens? Well, if you bottle VeChain, you get a small, small amount of VeThor added to your wallet every day. Like I said, it's not much, but if you hold a lot of VeChain, it will add up over time. Speaking of things adding up over time, I need to call Gary and ask him a question. What's the number again? Oh yeah. Six, six, six. Okay.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Rich may buy a horse and name him Humpty hump. Matt is a dancer now and his humpty dance may get him into the dating scene. Mans lifespan depends on who he is married to. Matt is wondering how to become a certified installer of sunblock oil on males. Rich knows what happened at 3AM but Matt has no idea because he was sleeping ! Episode #415 August 16th. 2023
"And for the sunshine and rain today, it's August 16th, Wednesday episode 415 from this And this is Matt on this mic on Hump Day. Hey, have you ever heard a… talking about a hump day, have you ever heard a Humpty hump? What is it, horse? Humpty hump man. Is it horse? No dude. Because that would be a perfect name. He was a rapper. Shock G. He was out of Oakland. Where are you bringing this paper from? He had a hit song called the Humpty was the best life. We had sausages, potatoes in the fire, you know what I'm saying? They didn't feed us with, what do you call that? McDonald's. No, those things that you burn over a fire with the chocolate in the middle. Oh, the s'mores. Yeah, we don't have that chemicals. You missed out. I don't think so. I don't miss them at all. Yeah, you haven't noticed that the average lifespan of man has increased. Yeah, and it's all been with preservatives, we've been eating it. I tell you what. What are you, a dietician now? No, I think it has a lot to do with the guy Mary's. Oh, that might be. Remember what my friend Roman said? Yeah. My ex -wife, she was specialist. She find problem for every solution. Remember that? Yeah, that was good. That's what shortened my life for 30 years. Yeah, well, you know. Yeah, what? Don't worry about it. I'm not, I'm just, I don't have that problem. Anyway, it's hump day, we're celebrating Humpty hump. What do you got for us? What I got for officials. Yeah. Julie Ambrose, thank you, thank you for the music, the tunes, man. The song that we have on front, Divine Naples, Sunshine, you know, it just tells you everything. Don't worry, we're not going to change it with the Humpty dance song. No, no, but it always, when I see you close your eyes and humming here. Yeah, it's a happy song. Yeah, I always recording your humming. I'm going to make a song out of it. Oh, great. Yeah, it's gonna be, we got selling number one on the chart. It's gonna be single. Since we have, we have now connections in the Bezos industry, we're going to get to it. Yeah, that's awesome. Then, you know, maybe we're going to get you a little further. Now, Bruce and Julie, that's a Terracitara band that plays music behind our voices. So if you want to buy their CD, go to Terracitara .com or come to our Divine Naples Coffee and Wine Bar. We will gladly sell you one of their CDs. Yes, we will. BeachSOS .com, that's our official sponsor. So if you're sitting doing nothing, which you know, people do on the beach, then let us know. If you can fill your belly with something good, we have it. 250 items to choose from, from a bottle of wine to dessert sandwiches and baby wipes. So you just tell us. If you need to apply sunscreen, I'm volunteering. If you're female, if you're male, you're out of luck. Yeah. I mean, I'm not certified. That's a good, good call. We are not certified for males. Yeah, that's okay. Uh, you know, what can you do if you're not certified? Maybe you should get certified. Is there any kind of training where you can put oil on men? I don't know. Is it? I don't know. I'm signing up for it. So how'd you learn how to do it? I was watching YouTube videos. Oh yeah. Well, there you go. You can learn everything. I learned my accent there too. That's good. It's a Kentucky accent. It's a beautiful Kentucky accent. Thank you. divineapals .com forward slash discount dash coupons. That's where all the discounts in the amount of $500 waiting for you. So get your printer ready. Maybe, you know, send yourself email. You don't have to print anything. And don't forget this wellness month. We still have 14 days left, right? So you have plenty of time to book your massage. Even though you can do it after, if you're busy or not here in our spa, which is Divine Spa. That's pretty much what I have to do as officials. And this is Rob with that. We can go to our business. Yeah. Why don't you get right to the business? Yeah. So business is very simple. What is it business? You know what happened in three o 'clock in the morning when you were sleeping? I don't know. I was sleeping. I mean, it makes sense that I wouldn't know. I know. I know what happened yesterday. We didn't know anything either. Oh, we did know though. What? Yeah, we know. Now we know. Yeah. So since we know and I know since three o 'clock in the morning, but you don't know. And now I know. Now you don't know yet. You will know and everybody else will know too. We are live with our podcast in Bezos heaven and also Spotify. Oh, look at that. Yeah. So we got invitation email for a podcast to be published in Amazon music. You know, so we are since three o 'clock in the morning and also on Spotify. You can find us on those two platforms, which I think is a fantastic. Yeah. That is really millions and millions of listeners. So we're going to get our voices five million, I think in the Amazon one. Yeah. We're going to subscribers. I don't know. Yeah. 55 million subscribers. Yeah. It's a small that's chump chain. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, we're going to ruin 55 million lives. I don't want to be responsible for that. Oh, you don't want to be responsible for anything, but I can see the, uh, except for putting sun tan lotion on people. Yeah. I'll take the responsibility for it. It's easy. Yeah. So, um, since, uh, Mr. Bezos was so generous and send us that invitation email, I want to just, you know, pay forward and give him a little shout out here on that very valuable, very important and very famous podcast from divine Naples. And that is that, uh, Mr. Bezos, when he gets his, uh, uh, items back, uh, when somebody returned them and that they don't want them, uh, he needs to get rid of them. So he established businesses and one of them is called hot bins. And that is in, uh, in Fort Myers. And, uh, I'll tell you what, it's actually a very interesting business. They get, uh, all these returns from a big corporations and big, uh, back stores like Walmart, Kmart, and, and, uh, while targets and Amazon and everything, they pack them in the bins and they change the price daily. So I guess, uh, I think Tuesday is the day when they bring new merchandise and the price is certain amount for each item is same price. Wow. That sounds like shopping. Yeah. You don't have to do your window shopping shopping. Let's go, honey. Yeah. Uh, that's exactly right. What I would say if I go and your wallet's going to be a little lighter when you get home, but maybe the trunks are going to be heavier. I don't know. You got, can you fit a lot of junk in here? Yeah. Talked about junk the other day. Well, junk. I have a big garage. Yeah. And then you do the garage sale. That's exactly right. Now I feel, I feel where you're going. There you go. That's exactly what the American economy's on. Somebody spends the money. So you just get done yesterday or the day before. I can't remember. I can't remember what, you know, five minutes ago, uh, you just got done telling people to, to, to not shop and fill their garage stores, but now you're telling them to go up to Fort Myers and binge shop. It makes so much sense. And then when you get done binge shopping and get home and look through all this stuff and use it once you can go, I don't really need this. Put it in the garage and go ahead and pay a couple of months on the interest and that type of stuff. And then just open up your garage door in two weeks and start selling it for about 10, 10 % of what you bought it for. But that's exactly what I said three days ago. And you look at me that I'm crazy because and now you're using it against me. Don't, don't, don't store up a bunch of stuff in your garage, but you got to go binge shop. Anyway, it makes all the sense in the world to me. I'm just, you said that's your, that's your favorite sports garage sales, but it's like with my ex wife, I was like, Oh really? And we got to go out and do this garage sale thing again. And then, you know, it was always never just thinking about what's good for the other person. I should have just said, Hey, if that, if she's into that, let's go and do it and make the best of it. And then if I was smart in those times, like you tell everybody I lived in caveman days. So I'm going through the garage sales. I could have found some things of value. I mean, you go out to the Valley where they grow stuff. I'm not saying, I mean, your dad and you are farmers. I'm not saying all farmers are kind of low IQs or anything, but they got stuff in their garage. That's worth money. And if I would have just been a little smarter and educated on what you could find in the golf, uh, in a, in a garage sale, I might've made some, some money anyway. So everybody go been shopping, but you have this rampage here, which is a point is taken, but you have to understand my reasoning. Yeah. Okay. My reasoning is I'm trying to kill, uh, with a two flies with one shot because I, I trying to save some energy over here. Right. So stroke Bezos.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 286 - Taking Control of Your Brain Health: Assessing Your Risk of Alzheimer's
"Anybody from anywhere in the world can spend time with me or one of my board -certified colleagues. We can really discuss any aspect of dementia or any other neurological condition that is of concern. And if that individual wants to have access to that Geno score test, we can send it out to them because that test is only available through a doctor. Unfortunately, you can't go Walgreens or CVS or Walmart and buy the test. And it takes about four weeks to come back, the test results go to a laboratory and that laboratory does its sophisticated testing to identify and put together these 100 ,000 different gene products that contribute to the overall Alzheimer risk. And then we circle back with that individual and we discuss what that Geno score means and what we can do to intervene and mitigate the risk of dementia later on in life. You know how passionate I am about brain health. Taking control of your brain health is crucial, especially when it comes to assessing your risk of Alzheimer's disease. Understanding your individual risk factors empowers you to make informed decisions and take proactive steps to preserve your cognitive function. So I am pleased that on this episode, I am joined by neurologist Dr. Jeff Gelblom. He is dedicated to discussing risk factors and what we all can do to mitigate our risks of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"walmart" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Into the holiday season, Walmart is starting a platform for social influencers. This is another step in Walmart's efforts to tap into all of the new ways that people are communicating. Sort of Walmart trying to join the cool kids. Bloomberg reporter Brendan case says Walmart is looking to cash in on social media as more consumers look to celebrities and content creators for cues about what to buy. Maybe they're really into clothes or they're really into kitchen appliances. And what Walmart is trying to do is to sort of shorten the distance between the recommendation from a trusted influencer and Walmart's website. Influencers or creators as Walmart calls them will have access to tens of thousands of items from food to apparel and can earn commissions on sales they refer. Case says the program will start small. Walmart's going to accept a pretty limited number of people. They'll try to get some performance measurements of what works and what doesn't. And a broader rollout is planned for next year. Larry kofsky, Bloomberg radio. What is dedication? The thing that drives me every day is dead is very un we call them day to day for short. Every day he's hungry for something, whether it's attention, affection, knowledge. And there's this huge responsibility and making sure that when he's no longer under my wing, that he's a good person. I think the advice I would give is you don't need to know all the answers. The craziest thing was believing that your dad knew everything. So as a dad, you felt like you had to know everything. You had to get everything right. It's okay to make mistakes. As long as it's coming from love, then, you know, it kind of starts to work itself out. I want him to be able to
Bloomberg Radio New York
"walmart" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In Home Depot and Walmart to the likes of Lowe's or target, for example, which are seen as perhaps slightly more expensive alternatives to those two. Yeah, that's a very fair point. And when I look at Home Depot, I think one of their competitive strengths is just the fact that they have so much exposure to the professional group. It's about 45% of their sales are for those kind of professional contractor types. So that is an inherently different in terms of comparison against a Walmart or even a lows. And so I think that I think when we look at Home Depot, the business seems pretty well positioned. Some of the weakness today is really that they didn't change their outlook for the year. The sort of reiterated, there's expectation that the industry will go through some slowdown because there are some housing indicators that aren't the greatest. But for now, they seem to be holding holding fairly well. It's a question of how well they're going to manage through this higher bump in inventory. You know, Paul, it's interesting. Growing up near a Walmart, I was also right next to a Home Depot. And what I didn't know was that they do that on purpose. They actually locate the stores, Walmart and Home Depot next to each other because of shopping trends that they noticed. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. Okay, good stuff. All right, a little retail analysis there by creating a group that we appreciate that contribution. Hey, Jen, thanks so much for joining us Jen bartas. She covers all things retail for Bloomberg intelligence kind of running through some of the numbers from some big, big players in the retail space, Walmart, and Home Depot. Good top lines for both, which suggests the consumer is still out there spending, and that's kind of what the read
Sky Blue Radio
"walmart" Discussed on Sky Blue Radio
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Bloomberg Radio New York
"walmart" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"A Bloomberg money minute. Walmart has tiptoeing further into the finance world with a move to offer checking accounts. Walmart is very keenly aware of what all of its customers really need and kind of the gaps that can be filled. Jenny so rain wrote the story for Bloomberg news. It's the idea that when you're a consumer, you can go to Walmart now and basically get anything, not just your groceries or your gas, but also your bank accounts. And to make checking accounts available to customers and workers, Walmart will lean on a new venture. The way they structured this is super interesting, so they set up this outside FinTech. It's completely independent, but they are the majority shareholder, and they're also a lot of their executives are on the board of this outside FinTech. So they have a vested interest, but it is a separate effort. Sources say in coming weeks, Walmart will start offering the accounts to thousands of its workers and a small percentage of online customers as part of an initial beta test. I'm Charlie pellet, Bloomberg radio. The Alzheimer's association and the ad council present the story of Tom and Levi. Tom is the smartest man I know. He's been a professor at two major universities been a teacher for over 40 years. One day, he told me that he was having problems in his classes. I think one of the students had asked the question and he didn't remember the answer. I also noticed that he was letting his class out earlier than they were supposed to let out. And he was telling them that he was doing it as a favor to them, but I think in reality he just wanted to get out of there. I was really starting to worry because I saw something was wrong. Levi and I talked about how it would change our lives. But he was there beside me. And my love for him was just
Bloomberg Radio New York
"walmart" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Thank you so much. Well, shares of Walmart, I think little changed on the day at least when I checked it last. This is the world's largest retailer gets ready to offer up. Checking accounts. Yeah, this is a really interesting story, Jenny serene is with Ashish finance reporter for Bloomberg news. She's with us in the Bloomberg interactive brokers. I mean, it kind of makes sense when a company like Walmart wants to continue to grow. It has to get into other parts of business. The question that I have is who are these checking accounts meant for these bank accounts spend for Walmart has more than 1 million employees, have they been kind of like trialing this with the employees? What's going on here? Yeah, so that's what we're actually expecting to see in the coming weeks. So Walmart last year actually set up this outside FinTech startup and they've been super secretive up till now and we're basically expecting them to roll out these new bank accounts in the coming weeks to for now a small set of Walmart's employees here in the U.S. and even a small percentage of their online shoppers. So it's kind of intestine learn mode right now, but pretty soon they are expecting to roll this out to 1.6 million Walmart U.S. employees and all Walmart shoppers as well. First of all, kudos to you. It's an exclusive. It's among the most read on the Bloomberg, so really, really well done. What's interesting to me, and it also speaks to me that it's they're going after what many would say are an underserved part of our population when it comes to the financial infrastructure here. It's kind of super smart. Yeah, I think that's exactly right. Walmart is very keenly aware of what all of its customers really need and kind of the gaps that can be filled. And so they've talked a lot about how they want this to be something that's affordable. So you can imagine that they're probably won't be a lot of fees attached to this new account. So yeah, I think it's a very interesting move for them. I will say they've tried this in the past. So this is not Walmart's first foray into finance. And they haven't always been successful. So I think they're taking another whack at it. They're trying to go a little bit more digital a little bit more flashy, so we'll see if this time makes a difference. How long ago was their last attempt, do you know? It's been a while. So they currently have a bevy of financial services products. So you can get a relatable debit card. You can change money. The reason I ask is because we're in a mobile first world right now. And that's a big part of the quote unquote disruptors who are coming into FinTech and Jenny, you've written a lot about these companies like companies like Dave and chime and other one word so called neo banks, right? So even though it could be a smart move from Walmart, this is a really crowded field already because a lot of companies are going after that underbanked consumer. Yeah, no, that's exactly right. I do think the fact that they so one of the big problems facing those other companies right now is they have to spend so much money acquiring customers and these guys have kind of the built in advantage. They've got the world's largest retailer with 5000 plus stores ready to advertise this, put this in front of their shoppers, put this in front of their employees. So that helps a lot. It means they're expenses will be a lot lower, and maybe they can spend that money on something else. All right. Can I just share with the audience that before we got going, you and I were talking, we were talking about Shark Tank that while I was home, I kind of did a little bit of a deep dive into a little bit of binge watching. I like Shark Tank, but I feel like Carol's vacation. Binge watching Shark Tank. 'cause this is so much the backbone of our country and our economy, these all these small companies, but so much they talk about customer acquisition. And I think if I am an individual and I shop at Walmart, I know the brand, it's a company that's been around for a long time. And I would be, first of all, comfortable with it. And then I think about for Walmart, the right there, it's not going to cost them a lot to get to these additional customers for financial services. Yeah, no, that's exactly right. I mean, I think one of the most interesting stats was Walmart has more locations than most of the major all four of the major biggest banks in the country. Closing them. Exactly. So, you know, if you really thinking about a subset of customers who want mobile first do like that kind of in store experience, this kind of checks all the boxes for them. Okay, so I don't know. You're just dumbfounded that I liked it a deep dive on Shark Tank. Yeah, I don't know. Jenny and I are bonding on this. Anyway, go ahead. Jenny like Shark Tank tissue. I know, it's fascinating. Everyone like Shark Tank. So what does this end up looking like for Walmart's bottom line here? Because this is something that investors certainly want to know about. And in the past, large companies getting into financial services didn't always end well in talking about GE. Yeah, no, that's actually a great point. I think the way they structured this is super interesting. So they set up this outside FinTech. It's completely independent. But they are the majority owned shareholder or majority shareholder, and they're also a lot of their executives around the board of this outside FinTech. So they have a vested interest, but it is a separate effort. So I think we'll see it. I can't imagine that right now, the financials are what's most compelling. I think it's the idea that when you're a consumer, you can go to Walmart now and basically get anything, not just your groceries or your gas, but also your bank accounts. So I think for now in the car. Is that
Bloomberg Radio New York
"walmart" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager. And I'm Karen Moskow. We are just about four hours away from the open of U.S. trading. Let's hit you up to date on the news you need to know what this shower will begin in the nation's capital where much of the focus will be today on former president Trump is returning for the first time since leaving office and the Federal Reserve's two day meetings kick off today. The Central Bank is set to raise rates as it looks to tamp down inflation. Well, U.S. futures are lower this morning Karen as markets get ready for the feds next move. Lisa Erickson, senior vice president with U.S. banks, says she's preaching caution on stocks. We are more defensive right now. Again, while in the near term, we see some of that underlying fundamental strength that we came into the year as preventing the worst case scenarios. Lisa Erickson with U.S. bank says the U.S. will narrowly avoid recession as inflation begins to recede. Well, turning to oil now, Nathan, crude is advancing for a second session signs of a tight marketer offsetting concerns about an economic slowdown and checking prices right now and I'm excrete oil at 1.7%. Up a dollar 63 at $98 30 cents a barrel Brent is up 1.4% at a $106, 63 cents. My corporate earnings are in focus as well Karen shares of Walmart are down almost 9% this morning after the company lowered its forecast for the second quarter. Bloomberg's ronita young joins us live with details good morning Renee. Good morning, Nathan. Analysts say Walmart's warning gives more insight into the health of the U.S. consumer. That's likely to signal more pain ahead for retail stocks as they take on food and gas inflation. Morgan Stanley cut its price target for Walmart and says it challenges the broker's view of the retail giant as a safe haven play. City analysts didn't think Walmart would be hit as hard as others. And say the news is a sign that marginally higher income consumers are feeling the pinch from inflation. But piper Sandler says it's too early to take a more constructive view on Walmart, so analysts, they are waiting on a more broad earnings reset industry wide. Live in New York, I'm ranita young Bloomberg daybreak. All right, we need to thank you over in Europe, UBS reported weaker than expected profit for the second quarter. The global market sell off kept wealthy clients on the sidelines as a Swiss bank saw outflows of $12 billion, and UBS shares are down more than 5 and a half percent. And we get earnings from Microsoft today. Here's Bloomberg's Jeff Bellinger. Bloomberg intelligence notes that half of Microsoft's total sales come from outside the U.S. that makes the software giant more susceptible to foreign exchange movements and the stronger dollar may have weighed on the company's bottom line. Sales of consumer PCs may have slowed, but BI expects to hear that overall sales increased 14%, Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg daybreak
Bloomberg Radio New York
"walmart" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Recently announced better than expected quarterly earnings and delivered an upbeat outlook for U.S. same store sales in this fiscal year despite rapidly rising inflation Bloomberg opinion columnist Andrea felstead says that's not really surprising because Walmart is structured to thrive in an inflationary environment Tell us about Walmart's earnings Walmart earnings were pretty good And they were pretty upbeat about this year which isn't really surprising given that they're likely to be one of the big beneficiary of inflation Tell us why Walmart is benefiting from inflation Because it's the world's biggest retailer So it has lots of scale That should give it lots of power with its suppliers and it's already talked about speaking to its suppliers to see if they would be prepared to sort of give it good prices so that it and them can gain market share That's the first advantage It's really known for competitive prices So you know when people are under pressure and they trade down it's one of the places that's going to win And the company actually said that when there are periods of inflation it's not just lower spending consumers that pull back middle income earners wealthier families they all become more price sensitive and that works in its favor And a lot has to do with the fact that people trust the Walmart brand that's right You know it's a whole ethos is about low prices So that comes into the own at this time What kind of challenges could Walmart face in the next 6 months or so The big one is retailers that are priced even lower than it is And that would include the dollar stores but it would also include our little that the U.S. arms of these big German discount retailers and they're both expanding in the U.S. How these big national many years little more respect and they're both set less start on the U.S. market Now what happens around after the financial crisis in Britain is the discount is really set of sites on Britain And the British state market didn't react quickly enough What they did and Walmart is in danger of doing this as well They put their base prices up And what they did that they sort of punctuated that with promotion the higher price higher prices discount higher prices discounts on what the German discount were able to do was give very consistent low prices and the other thing they're really good at learning about their market and they really improved their offering So what shop was a finding in Britain is they went to Allergan and they paid the same price as they would pay for the value ranges that opening price point the lowest here but they were getting the quality of the middle range So this is a really good offer And this basically you know almost destroyed the British grocery sector So Walmart the other big big market for really got to be on the guard in this inflationary environment that they don't get undercut by our legal because they are a really dangerous force And everybody gets back with Amazon that is a real risk that they all focus on Amazon and miss these kind of bricks and mortar very back to basic retailers What about wages will Walmart have any challenges connected to pressure on wages I think all retailers are going to have pressure connected to wages and in recruiting staff I think that's going to be right across the board The question we've waged for consumers is as wages go up but as the cost of living goes up is that household budget we So I think there are pressures on both of those fronts So would you say that Walmart is in a great position and just has to watch its back from the German discounters I think it is in a very good position if it can keep its prices low if it sticks to its mantra of everyday low prices rather than this sort of dangerous strategy of raising base prices and introducing lots of special offers It doesn't want to make the mistake that it made with asda in the UK which is now sold a majority share But it made it that mistake with asda and as before a lot of its sales migrate to the German discount Thank you Andrea That's Andrea Phil said calmness for Bloomberg opinion Let's turn now to personal finance There's been a huge shift in the way people date over the last half century Pasta university associate professor Carol limo says there are still many enormous landmines successful women have to navigate in their romantic relationships She argues the way to eliminate them is to change cultural norms and expectations Tell us about the phenomenon known as assortative mating Well this is the phenomenon that people tend to marry people with similar levels of education and earnings So in the past in the 1970s the stereotype was that successful men married their secretaries Now people are more likely to marry people with similar educations than earnings but there's a huge caveat here And I think that because people have come to appreciate this what we don't realize is that smart successful women still face enormous landmines in their romantic relationship Tell us the story that Maureen dowd wrote in her book So in Maureen dowd's book are men necessary She wrote that on the day one of her women Friends won the Pulitzer Prize The woman called her in tears saying that now she would never get another gate And it's this worry that somehow she was going to intimidate men There's also a federal judge Frederick block who wrote in his book that Sonia Sotomayor actually considered turning down her nomination to the Supreme Court because she knew that taking the job would be bad for her dating life And of course to state the obvious you know we don't hear successful men making this complaint very often And you write that a woman is also less likely to marry a man if she makes more money than he does One would think that that would be an advantage So it's definitely not an advantage for most women in their romantic relationships to out earn their partners Studies find that first of all in places where the average woman out earns the average man She's less likely to get married at all And I should point out that not all women want to get married of course right So we're only talking about a problem that affects women who do want to be in romantic relationships with men But that's a significant number of women Not only that but if a woman does get married and she has the potential to out earn her husband she's less likely to work at all She's more likely to do even more house work center husband to make up for it in some sense if she does out earn her husband She's more likely to have stress in her marriage and she.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"walmart" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Story we continue to watch Amazon has settled a huge dispute on payment fees with Visa The ecommerce giant was considering a ban on UK issued Visa cards but will now accept Visa cards across the global network And Amazon will no longer charge an extra fee to customers in Singapore and Australia who use Visa cards on its site Meantime some surprises from Walmart today the world's largest retailer posting better than expected quarterly profit And unveiling an upbeat sales forecast for the current fiscal year despite cost pressures and flagging consumer sentiment Bloomberg's Brendan case joins us now with more Brendan what does this tell us about inflation and consumer sentiment You think that's coming out of Walmart today is that U.S. consumers are hanging in there You know they're coping with higher costs and there's no doubt that comparable sales at Walmart stores this year are going to slow down compared to what they were during the pandemic But that said you know Walmart sees a pretty healthy consumer And they're certainly not noticing any signs of consumers absolutely slashing their budgets They are seeing some trading down to other goods They flagged pretty strong sales in apparel which probably means that people are picking up some clothes along with their groceries at Walmart But all in all you know they've got a pretty upbeat view on consumers this year Is Walmart worried about inflation and costs going up It's clearly very worried in a couple ways One is just in terms of its own costs One can only imagine the discussions that Walmart's having with its suppliers right now about keeping keeping prices down how much they're going to pay And they've also still have they also still have a supply chain issue which is going to pressure their costs And then in terms of their pricing you know they have passed through some price increases to customers It's not as if they're completely holding prices steady What they need to do is strike a balance that draws people into the stores keeps the whole idea everyday low prices high end consumers minds but without denting their own profit margins too badly We just saw Amazon raised the price of prime even as prices are rising across the board How is Walmart doing versus Amazon You know the word Amazon didn't come up on the call which is sort of funny because everything Walmart does They're thinking about what Amazon is doing There were two interesting developments in the call and one is that Walmart talked about its advertising business and said it got about a $2.1 billion boost from it last year This is digital advertising Now that's just a fraction of what Amazon is making in digital advertising But the fact that Walmart was talking about it at all kind of suggests that they're pretty confident in that business growing You know the other the other item they talked about was Walmart plus which is their subscription offering Sort of a response however incomplete to Amazon Prime And Doug mcmill on the CEO of Walmart said that he wasn't ready to talk about how many subscribers they've got so far But it did kind of hint that he might do that eventually And so I think that they're probably looking to boost those numbers up a bit Shore up that part of the business and get it expanding a little more and we might learn more about it later this year Bloomberg's Brandon case Thank you for that update Coming up going further even further.
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
"walmart" Discussed on Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
"Before I let you go, a couple of housekeeping things, please send me your dear doctor banting audio if you have not heard me talk about this. I am collecting from you what you would say to doctor Frederick van ding, the man credited with the discovery of insulin, of course, there were many people helping him, but the banting house museum has an exhibit of print dear doctor banting letters. I thought it'd be really fun to do an audio version. So let me know, I'm gonna link it up in the show notes. There's a whole blog post on diabetes dash connections dot com about how to do it very easy just use your phone, but you gotta get those three by the end of September. And looking ahead, I'm doing a little bit of where are we going because we're starting to go places again? A little bit here and there. I got some virtual and some in person stuff coming up delta permitting. So the virtual stuff, I'm really excited. Next, Tuesday, so if you're listening as this goes live, it is Tuesday the 21st. My JDRF local, but I think this is open to everybody nationally and I'll put this in the Facebook group. JDRF is starting something for older people with type one. And I say older, very judiciously because I believe I'm in this group with not what the diabetes but in the older. You're basically there's a lot of issues that people are facing as they hit middle age and older age and it's not just Medicare. I mean, you know, but there's a lot of questions people with type 1 may have, and interestingly, I do a lot of research for this show, my listenership very dedicated older folks. Again I'm in this category now as I'm turning 50 and the month of October. But who are interested in issues pertaining to type one in their health as they get older? So I'm doing all of this to say next Tuesday the 21st JDRF has an online event that you can join in. I'm going to be doing a little bit of my in the news for this group, but it's going to be news that I have curated that is all to an older crowd. And I'm probably going to do it for 60 65 and up. I think that the insurance cut off their makes perfect sense to try to find things that work for that group, but there is a Facebook group I believe that they've started as well. So more info on that, and then later in October, we've got the sheep podcasts conference out in Scottsdale, Arizona, that's the other group that I take part in quite a bit. I'm helping them out. It's women podcasters, obviously. Big group really excited to hang out with them. And we'll see in terms of how many in person events happen in the weeks and months to come. Hopefully they start picking up again. But lots of virtual stuff going on as well. So if you want me to come speak to your group online or in person, please let me know. I'm always excited to do that. And we gear it to, you know, whoever I'm talking to parents or adults with type one, whatever you need. Thank you as always, to my editor John Buchanan from audio editing solutions. Thank.
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
"walmart" Discussed on Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
"Can verify insurance coverage for the patient and work with the prescriber on is it appropriate to switch to private branded novolog or to remain on the insulin that they're on today. So we can't interchange with the novolog branded products themselves. But for other products, it would be a conversation between the pharmacist patient and prescriber to make sure they're getting the right insulin at the best cost for them. Mike, you're going to have to forgive me as we move forward. We're going to start moving into more of a cynical part of the questions here because as you've already alluded. Not a problem. This is the rabbit hole. And you know, I mentioned novolog and humalog. I mentioned that our insurance doesn't like humalog to the point where and I've shared this story on the show. My son has done really well with it for many years . So when we changed insurance, I did not want to change insulins. So we took it took a long time and some fighting, but I was able to use the coupons for humalog, and we get humalog for about $35 a month for all of the insulin that my son needs, which would be less, I believe than if I were to use my insurance coverage and get novolog or rely on at Walmart. I still feel like even though this will save some people some money. It just kind of feels like we're moving pieces around on the board. I guess my question would be for Walmart is how did you arrive at this price? Did you have to and do you know did you have to set at a certain way to get the deal with novolog? This is going to sound terrible. Do you throw darts at a board? I mean, because for some people, it's going to be more expensive than what they're paying now. And I get some people will save money. But how did you come up with the price? Yeah, so for us, we are one piece of the equation, as we've mentioned, healthcare is very complicated, especially the financial flows of healthcare. And so Walmart is one part of the financial equation as the dispensing pharmacy. We also have a distribution network and other assets that we utilize within Walmart. And so what we have done is taken all of our assets tried to remove as many of the middle man as possible and put all of that back into customer savings customer pocket. We can't control all the levers there are in healthcare, but where we can, we put it right back into the customers price. We truly mean it and Walmart and especially Walmart health and wellness of the lives better and save money. Save money live better, Walmart from the core. It's the only way that we could do so was to take where we could remove some of the excess costs and put it into that cash price. Very complicated on the back end of who's making what decisions on formulary.
Streams of Income
"walmart" Discussed on Streams of Income
"Buying all kinds of stuff in keyboards a lot. Like it is on amazon. And so in december we sent out Two thousand six hundred forty three packages in our biggest day. We had one hundred ninety eight packages that we sent out on one particular day. Now we're back to sell it on amazon. So we're still you know. We still had some packages to sit out on amazon. On our biggest day we had to take two vehicles up to the post office. We had so many And i don't think we. I don't think i ever had a A day in all of my career in public education. Where i made fifteen hundred dollars in one day But but i did on walmart dot com. So i mean that. Just kinda shows you. You know what's possible and obviously not every day that let you know we got some really slow days in january okay but it more than makes up or if we can do that kind of volume in order for. I mean that'll carry you. Don't care you a long way and so just real real quick. I've got us some arline numbers there you can look at those You can look at our margin numbers but at at the end of the day. It's like you know. Are we able to make money doing this. And the answer to that is yes and you know. I think our numbers are good. I think they speak for themselves. if you're on the line as to whether or not You want to jump on walmart dot com just know that There is potential again. There's so many people who who did so much better on amazon than what we did. You take that knowledge from amazon. Imbredded it over to walmart dot com. I know you're going to do really really well. So the question is is selling on walmart dot com right for you and that's the decision. Of course you have to make but if you already know how to merchant will feel on amazon if you already know how to how to pack and ship items out then why not get an account on walmart dot com and. I think you'll see that. I mean it worked for us. I think it's gonna work for us. Well so some of the reasons. Why i think you might be interested in it There is less competition on walmart. Dot com just the other night. I was looking at a product anna on on amazon forty sellers on and sold. Well good and i went over. Looked at walmart dot com. There were seven seven people selling and so. That's an item. I'm going chest. i'm gonna get get some of that and put it on there and see if i could make it They have a very large catalog on walmart. Almost all the time when i scan something yet. It's there there might not be anybody selling it. But it's part of their catalog and you can list on that list One of the reasons why. I think it's good to sell on walmart. Dot com is what i call customer loyalty. There are people who will shop on walmart dot com. The won't shop anywhere else and it's because it's the millionaire to them. They're used by in their groceries Their toys their different products at the local walmart.
All Markets Summit
"walmart" Discussed on All Markets Summit
"What has been walmart's role throughout the social unrest. We've seen in. Recent months was a company as you. Probably know from following so closely. We've been working on diversity equity inclusion forever. And when george floyd was murdered it served as a moment for everybody. I think and inside the company the conversations that we're having escalated and we started trying to figure out. Okay what more can we do. Clearly there are inequities here and too. Many of our systems are generating those inequities. The numbers speak for themselves. If black and african americans could participate in our economy at the same level that others do. It'd be a boost to gdp growth. What what has to happen underneath all of this police. In reform and things related to criminal justice but the financial system the education system healthcare. What has to change in those complex systems. And what's the what are the underlying routes that we can get at that will create more equity on the other side and at walmart. What we've done is create four different teams that are led by african american officers focused on those systems that i just mentioned in parallel business roundtable. The ceo's decided to do the same thing. So we had a of ceos mary. Barra craig arnold jamie dimon and many others. They got involved in understanding what these systems look like learning from experts and coming back with changes that we can make inside of our companies or policies that we can recommend to government that would create more equity on the other side in addition to that walmart did set up one hundred million dollar center for racial equity. That'll help support some of this change. But the core systems work reminds us of the environmental sustainability. Work that we've done if you can find ways with our purchase orders. Think.
All Markets Summit
"walmart" Discussed on All Markets Summit
"In oracle not walmart. We're focused on the front end. And how users might be able to interact with tiktok and when they see something they want to buy. Do it in a simple fund seamless way and have a good back and experience because of our fulfillment capabilities. So that's an interesting relationship that could end up impacting more than just the united states. Now it's pretty cool. When would a new form of marketplace. When would that the live is that within the year. Can you bill de quickly. But there are forms of social commerce. That are happening already around the world. You can see that maybe most prominently in china but whether it's tiktok or facebook instagram. In some ways google the digital front ends that exists in our case. We have one with our app. In addition to the ways that we interact with others will become kind of seamless people as they want to buy merchandise and have that experience. So i think you can start to see some of the signs of that today with marketplaces that are being built in. What with what. We're building. But i think it will progress. It'll become more pronounced across various channels and become more pronounced geographically as it grows. So how has it been worth it to go through all this Walmart's been the headlines has been dragged through the mud a little bit With regards to tiktok but just listening to you it sounds like that is okay because the longer run opportunities still pretty big yeah. I think there's been criticism of the deal and it's been complicated in some ways because the governments are involved but i don't have any concern about the way that we've been treated our our focus here is i. Described earlier is really simple. We wanna play any commerce role in help users and hopefully something can be worked out. Let's switch gears here again. Some social issues. What has been walmart's role throughout the social unrest. We've seen in. Recent months was a company as you. Probably know from following so closely. We've been working on.
All Markets Summit
"walmart" Discussed on All Markets Summit
"The pandemic as if it wasn't hard enough to manage that you're also have made a play for tiktok along with oracle. What's the latest on that we've had an ongoing conversation with bytedance for a while. Now and basically what we would love to do is to play. A role in the e commerce fulfillment payment and some to some degree advertising aspects of that relationship so the national security concerns in the us and china. Those will be resolved by government officials in oracle not walmart. We're focused on the front end. And how users might be able to interact with tiktok and when they see something they want to buy. Do it in a simple fund seamless way and have a good back and experience because of our fulfillment capabilities. So that's an interesting relationship that could end up impacting more than just the united states. Now it's pretty cool. When would a new form of marketplace. When would that the live is that within the year. Can you bill de quickly. But there are forms of social commerce. That are happening already around the world. You can see that maybe most prominently in china but whether it's tiktok or facebook instagram. In some ways google the digital front ends that exists in our case. We have one with our app. In addition to the ways that we interact with others will become kind of seamless people as they want to buy merchandise and have that experience. So i think you can start to see some of the signs of that today with marketplaces that are being built in. What with what. We're building. But i think it will progress. It'll become more pronounced across various channels and become more pronounced geographically as it grows.
All Markets Summit
"walmart" Discussed on All Markets Summit
"Follow you on instagram. And i have for for some time. What are you telling employees. You have just following your account. You're still you've been going to stores talking with employees. What have you told them about their interactions with with consumers. I imagine they've been scared to get up close and personal with consumers. I think the steps that they are taking and that we've taken as a company of helped social distancing wearing facial coverings using plexiglas washing hands. All those things. It's a combination of things that have to be done to keep people safe and our associates have done a great job in that respect. And when i'm visiting stores and clubs and distribution centers during this period of time i'm basically maybe just two things one is. Thank you there being so courageous so dedicated really do have a heart to serve other people on those that need to take leave because they may have a pre existing condition or need to take care of their family. The company has lee policies. That enable people to do that so quite a few of our folks have gone out on leave but the vast majority of them are coming to work. And making it happen. We've also hired quite a few people during the course of the year Globally last number. We shared publicly is that we've hired over half a million people vast majority of those being the united states to help offset the demand pressure that we're feeling and take the place of those walmart associates at have gone out on leave so the first thing i'm doing is saying thank you and the second thing is asking. What do you need. A what more can we do to help. Keep you safe help. Keep customers safe and serve them effectively and the number one answer getting back right now is help us within stock. We need more inventory back to your original question but as it relates to safety people feel like we've done everything we can think of to do at this moment. Now we'll keep learning and if there's something more we can do to help keep people safe. We'll do it
Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"walmart" Discussed on Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"Absentee co tank printers will but target WalMart and it s and dot com slash ico tank Kim All right, Let's start with five things that you need to know, because let's just face it. Tech influences every aspect of our lives, so so you need to know what's happening in the tech industry. So that's why I go out all during the week and I find out just five things that I know that you're gonna be really astounded by like, for example. How many hours do you think? You're actually looking at a straight and how many hours does that translate into years in your entire life? We'll market research company. One poll recently conducted a survey asking 2000 Americans How much time they spend on their gadgets. Okay, Here's what they found. The average American spends about five hours a day on the laptop followed closely about 4.5 hours, staring at their phones. Not a surprising that there's another 4.5 hours watching TV, and for some, there's three hours on a gaming device. So if you add all of that up, it comes to more than 17 hours a day on digital devices. Who it's a lot now you take it further. That's 6300 hours of screen time per year. You factor in the average amount of time that Americans live as adults, which about 60 years It means that the average American spends About 44 years of their lives, looking at screens and by the way, that survey didn't take into account any habits that probably increased screen time during the pandemic, So my New Year's resolution is that I'm going to read more so I'm going to start turning on the television Subtitles. All right, Let's go to number two. You'll be paying more for that screen time. 18 T they own direct TV satellite new verse. Internet TV service just.
NPR's Business Story of the Day
"walmart" Discussed on NPR's Business Story of the Day
"An npr investigation has found that pharmacists. Working for walmart tried for years to raise the alarm about the company's sale of highly addictive opioids. walmart says it broke no laws and acted responsibly. The company faces lawsuits including a complaint. By the justice department. Walmart has been an npr underwriter which we cover like other company and npr addiction correspondent. Brian man has the story to understand. The rule pharmacists and pharmacy chains like walmart played in the opioid crisis. It helps to look at one walmart. Customer a woman named christina dine. She was in her twenties when a doctor ohio prescribed her. Large doses of powerful opioids at the highest. I was prescribed three thirty milligram. Oxy code on a day with two fifteen milligram. Koto kind of thrown in there for quote unquote breakthrough pain. Dine had been diagnosed with bositis painful but not the sort of ailment were a highly addictive narcotic is generally recommended under federal law after a doctor writes the prescription especially one like dines that poses a serious risk of addiction. The pharmacist is also required to play an important gatekeeper role. It's a big part of their job to make sure powerful drugs are only dispensed when there's a legitimate medical purpose dine. Says she had her. Opioid prescriptions filled repeatedly for two years at a number of pharmacies including her local walmart. No one warned her about the danger. I never once had a pharmacist or any other pharmacy staff question. It questioned me. Ask me any questions whatsoever. Dine became addicted to pain pills and later heroin. This was twenty twelve and at first she didn't realize she was part of an opioid epidemic. Already killing tens of thousands of people year by the time dine fell into addiction. Walmart was doing business shipping. Hundreds of millions of opioid pills every year to its chain of pharmacies. The country a shawnee sheeran is a pharmacist. Who saw this happening in walmart. Stores where he worked in rural michigan. He says there were often lines of people. When the store opened waiting to buy opioids i see that bishops. Fifteen to twenty are already lined up to get their prescriptions. Filled cheering told npr. He saw things that scared people who looked healthy. We're getting a lot of pain pills. They were traveling hundreds of miles to fill their prescriptions at his walmart store when he tried to call doctors to find out what was happening. He often couldn't get them on the phone. He was so troubled. He sent warnings to walmart's corporate headquarters in arkansas. So i send the email to walmart executive levels. And i explain them that. Their large number of controlled substance and the narcotics dispensed not for genuine purpose. Which are for distribution on the street. Cheering says nothing happened to fix the problem. And that made him angry so he kept trying warning warnings managers at walmart. Pharmacies seemed to be feeding a black market for opioid pills. They told me. Do not reach out to the da or do not. Call the police if you're going to do so your employment. Going to be terminated immediately records show sheer did contact local police and the drug enforcement administration. He was suspended by walmart. And later fired. He sued the company under a federal whistleblower. Statute a case still pending. Npr tried to ask wal mart about this. The company declined repeated interview requests and didn't respond to a list. Detailed questions it turns out sheeran wasn't the only pharmacist. Raising alarms internal company documents made public in lawsuits against walmart. Show pharmacists all over. The country kept warning. Company executives about opioids and about pill mill doctors sending patients to walmart. There was no oversight from a top of out the over dispensing of controlled substances. This is a pharmacist. Who worked for walmart in the south. Who says he left a couple of years ago voluntarily take another job. Npr agreed not to use his name because he fears a family member. Still employed by walmart. Could face retribution. He says walmart pharmacies kept doing business with doctors. Even when there were clear signs. Things weren't right. They were primary care doctors. They weren't like paint management doctors. They weren't oncologists and they were prescribing. Large amounts of opiates now again as part of their gatekeeper role. All pharmacists have the authority to reject suspicious. Prescriptions and walmart points out in public statements. This does happen at its pharmacies but as walmart shipped and sold hundreds of millions of pills a year industry experts in the pharmacists. Npr interviewed said. There was enormous pressure at walmart to say yes to dispense opioid pills quickly. You know they the walmart didn't make it so that it was easy for you to say no or to do the right thing. Another thing. we've learned from court documents filed in lawsuits against walmart. Is that pharmacists. Weren't the only ones raising alarms. Federal regulators also kept telling walmart it system for managing opioids and keeping patients. Safe wasn't good enough under pressure from the. Da walmart signed an agreement. Way back in twenty eleven promising national reforms the pharmacist. We talked who said things never improved. Again walmart declined. Npr's interview requests but the company has created a public campaign to explain. its opioid practices. This video posted last year. On walmart's website. We all have a responsibility to dispense opioid appropriately. And so when somebody comes star pharmacy and we're going to dispense them a medication we're gonna do it responsibly. We wanna make sure that they're safe and legal filings. Walmart attorneys acknowledged the. Da warned the company about red flags patterns of prescribing behavior. That could mean opioid prescriptions. Were unsafe or illegal. Walmart's has those advisories work legally binding and says government guidance on opioids was often confusing and contradictory. The company also argues. It was the government's job not walmart's to crack down on dangerous pill mill doctors. These arguments will be tested in courts around the country as lawsuits against walmart and other pharmacy chains move. People like christina. Dine will be watching. After filling her first prescription for oxy codeine pills back in twenty twelve dina says it took years to put her life back together. I i got sober and two thousand fifteen. After my daughter's father overdosed died. A kind of went in and out. I struggled for a bitch but <hes>. I've been sober. Since two thousand seventeen dine is doing better now working as a recovery nurse helping others with addiction but more than two hundred and thirty thousand americans have died from overdoses. Linked directly to prescription opioids. Brian man npr news.