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I'm your host, Kathleen Walch. And I'm your host, Walter Melzer. And you know, we really have enjoyed listening to some of you tell us about how you're using some of the content not only from our AI Today glossary series, which is not only available here on our podcast, but also on our website. If you go to cognolytica .com, we have our, in our resources section, this big AI glossary. It's got hundreds of terms. And you know, we update these terms. It's not like we write it once and we forget it. We find ourselves constantly updating them, especially as terms and terminology do continue to change, or maybe we make some clarifications, and of course, we add new terms all the time. So that's part of why this glossary series, you know, will continue for a while. So if you're not already subscribed to the AI Today podcast, you should be, especially if you're enjoying this specific content on the glossary series as we dive into terms. And you know, we're going to continue doing that on today's podcast, but I wanted to let you know that, you know, we also have some great interviews. We've already had some in the past with folks who are doing AI and implementing AI Today, some of our CPMAI practitioners, but also we have lots of things to share about use failures cases and of AI, and you know, we're entering some interesting times with AI, you know, successes and failures, you know, things that we thought might be great, turn out not to be so great. And then also things that we didn't really expect to work out are working out. Here we are, you know, six years after we started AI Today podcast, still talking about AI and not running out of things to say. As a matter of fact, in the early days of AI Today, we were a weekly podcast. Now we were like biweekly, sorry, semi -weekly. We're like twice a week. So, you know, that means that we got a lot, even a lot more to say nowadays. So stay connected, be part of our network and keep yourself informed and successful on AI. Exactly. And subscribe to AI Today if you haven't done so already, because as Ron mentioned, we have a lot of podcasts still queued up that we, you know, potential interviews, interviews that we already have lined up. So definitely subscribe to get notified of all of our upcoming episodes. But sticking with our AI Glossary series, we want to sometimes present just one term, sometimes present a grouping of terms so that you get a better understanding of how these terms kind of group together and why we're presenting them that way. So in today's podcast, we're going to go over data science, data scientist, and also the term citizen data scientist or citizen developer and data custodian, so that if any of these come up, at least you'll have a high level understanding of what they are. So data science, what is it exactly? Well, it's the domain of study focused on using scientific, mathematical and analytic techniques to extract useful information from data and translate business and scientific informational needs into the specific requirements for data analysis. So there's methods and approaches and tools that are focused on extracting, you know, those informational needles from data haystacks, and it's applicable to a wide range of business problems from descriptive to predictive to projective analytics. And if you're not familiar with those, we'll link to that podcast where we went over all the different types of analytics. And, you know, the idea and the domain of study for data science, it really deals with information at small scale as well as very large scale. And it does things like leverage statistics and mathematics and computer science, big data analytics and data wrangling to be able to provide answers to analytical questions. So as you can imagine, that's kind of the domain of study. But then what are data scientists? Yeah, and I think, you know, the data scientists obviously, you know, perform the role of data science, right? They are focused on the collection and analysis of data to solve these business related problems using these data driven techniques. So data scientists, you know, sometimes actually have that title data scientist, right? Sometimes they perform the role of data scientist, even if that's not their title. So really, it's more like the sometimes it's the mindset and the tools and the techniques, right? That's important. So what data scientists do is they translate business requirements into specific hypotheses or analytic ideas, and they go and extract useful information from data to provide the solution to those requirements. And so there's a couple of sort of tools and techniques that data scientists use to address these big data analytic requirements. Obviously, there's statistics, probability and math. Math is the language of data science, statistics and probability, and having a firm grasp on that and all those concepts, right? Then they also need, to some extent, ways to actually access and tools and technologies from manipulating, collecting and preparing large data sets. We had talked about in previous podcasts, data science notebooks as sort of the environment of choice for data science and tools like Python and R as languages, as well as even languages like Julia and Scala, but primarily Python and R for data science and data scientists. And then, of course, a grasp of algorithms and computer science methods for deriving insights, right? Building models, using algorithms and training data to do whatever the analytic task is, predictions. That's what machine learning models do, classification, regression, clustering, all those things, right? And then, of course, some grasp of data centric approaches, including data centric methodologies like CPMAI for running data projects, but also methods for understanding how to deal with testing and validation and data preparation. So there's a lot of stuff there. Sometimes you'll see data science as an overlap, a Venn diagram between skills and math on the one hand, skills in computer science and IT and another, and then certain amount of business and domain expertise that overlap is the data science and data scientist role in your organization. Exactly. And so sometimes, you know, you may not be formally trained as a data scientist or have that in your specific title. And this term citizen data scientist or citizen developer has started to come into the lexicon. And it's this concept that your primary role is not that of a data scientist. So that's not your official job title or you're not a machine learning engineer or data engineer, but you create machine learning models and other data science outputs through the use of no code and low code approaches. And so we had a podcast on no code and low code. Basically, they're using these tools, a citizen data scientist is using these tools to come up and help with, you know, creating their own machine learning models, but they're not necessarily formally trained and that this isn't their primary job. So you may hear this term citizen data scientist or a citizen developer come up. If it does, then you'll at least have an understanding of what it is. And there's also a term data custodian. So a data custodian is a person or group of people that are responsible for the safe storage, transfer and use of data. The data custodian is not a data owner, so it's important to understand that, but it just serves as an administrative role over the data. So some organizations may have a data custodian, and if they do, maybe you have data custodians at your organization. It's just really responsible for that storage, transfer and use of data. You want to make sure that you're doing it safely. So that's what the data custodian is. And we again want to present these terms at a high level so that if they come up in conversation, then you can say, oh, OK, I've heard of the term data science or data scientist. I know what that means or a citizen data scientist. But of course, understanding these terms at a high level is one thing and understanding how to put them into practice is another. And that's really where CPMAI methodology comes into play. So I know that many of our podcast listeners are CPMAI certified and we have thousands now across the globe that are CPMAI certified. If you're interested in learning more about what CPMAI is, I encourage you to sign up and take our free Intro to CPMAI course. 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The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
Fresh update on "walter" discussed on The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
"And anyone who tries to put together something like this without images, it just, I mean, it's just very difficult. And what people, when we went to the printers in Ohio who manufactured this book, one of the young men, I don't know how long he'd been working there, but maybe a decade or two or close, 15 years maybe, and he was just talking with him and he says, yeah, he says, when I came in this morning, I thought I was working on a National Geographic project. And so the collection is made up of over 3,000 items, done two exhibits at the United Nations, made over a million visitors, done three in concert with the White House, done two at the Clinton Presidential Library, done a number with Secret Service at their headquarters in DC and a number of other venues around the country. And it's just been wonderful. And when Walter called me about this project, I didn't even have to think about it because I knew intuitively that, you know, I had been building this collection and it's perfect for a curriculum in terms of the way, the types of items. I would pass over 200 items to get to that 201st item that would help tell the story. And so I was very selective about the items that I collected and brought together. So it's kind of a unique type of collection and I think when people get the textbook and they start looking at the images, especially the first two units, because the first two units are about ancient Africa and slavery and the slave trade. So I have a number of items. For instance, I have one item when I was in Almena Castle in Ghana on the banks of the Atlantic Ocean. And I met with the village elders there and they voted unanimously to donate a set of shackles, an actual set of shackles from Almena Castle. And I was truly humbled and honored by that because I don't think they did that very often. And so those are the kinds of stories behind many of the pieces of the collection. Just had over 75 given to me and had to acquire a lot of things myself. But this gentleman, his father worked for TWA Airlines. Well, so did I. Wow. Oh, really? Yeah, small world. So he was responsible for all the continent of Africa back in the 40s and I think the 50s right in that range. And he had, of course, working in the airline and into Africa, he had many people sourcing original artifacts. We're not talking about stuff for tourists. I mean, original doors on a chief's hut and shackles and masks and figurines and all sorts of items. Well, his dad passed away. Of course, his dad, working at the airline, could ship it back to California. And when he passed away, my friend told me, he said, I'm going to make sure that there's a number of these that are in your collection. He had this sense of urgency. And my friend Pat passed away about three months ago. And he had this urgency to get these items to me. And he wasn't even sick. You know, just had a massive heart attack and he was gone. And so I feel very honored in holding those items very carefully. And we have some of them pictured in the textbook in honor of him and his family. Wow. That's very nice. I have to say, just when I look at this amazing book, Black History 365, and you mentioned 1,248 pages, I have to wonder about the schools. Like, how have the folks received this book, the textbook? Dr. Nelson, let's ask you that. How has it been received by the teachers and the students for that much? They have received the book extremely well. Many of them are not only saying that this is for ninth through 12th grade students. Many of them are saying this engages all ages. This should be a book that's in every household across this country in particular and in general across the world. Because it had so many features. It really does. Also, Morehouse College down in Atlanta is going to be one of the first colleges launching the textbook in January. We are also in a conversation with Hampton University in Virginia that's going to do that. And then we have had a number of people who have purchased personal copies of the textbook. So we believe that it has this book throughout the pages. It's a healing mechanism. I just want to quickly go back, if you can indulge me for a quick second, to talk about these images. And I don't know if I've ever shared this with Joe, but it was an extremely tedious task to find the images. And he, like he said, he would go through 200 images just to get to that 201 to say, hey, this is it here. I mean, it wasn't anything that was easily done. I mean, it was arduous and it was daunting. And in some cases, I saw and felt the pain that he went through just to make sure that it was beyond excellent. Because the images not only tell a story, the images bring the words alive of that book. Wow. I'm just blown away. I love just as you respond to this and you're just painting an amazing picture of Black History 365. Now, how do folks find this book, Dr. Milton? How do folks get their hands on a personal copy or an edition for, like you said, should be in every household? Absolutely. Well, we're asking the world to go to bh365.org. That's bh365.org. And one of the major features that we have in the book besides the many QR codes, because we want it to have a strong integration of technology, we've also embedded music in the book from award-winning Grammy producer by the name of Dr. Kevin Kates, affectionately known as Kao. And Kao has developed 40 songs. He's a producer for Jay-Z, T.I., Rick Ross, Drake, Snoop Dogg, and a host of others. So we have an expert who has put together amazing songs, and he got the words from the text. And they are just powerful. I mean, they would be curious to ask. Is it kind of like a soundtrack for the book? Yes. Yes. You can definitely say that. And as Joel said, we have a Hamilton in the making. I see. Wow. I call it an anthology of Black History, because basically what we've done is he's doing a song for each chapter, lifting lyrics from the text itself. And the concepts surrounding the text. And so you start in ancient Africa and bring it all the way up to George Floyd, some of the things that are happening in our culture today. It's like ripping pages out of the headlines, the way we've done it. And then we have an e-book version that is available. And so that will allow us to even add more items as things happen in our culture, so that we can continue to keep it updated in the e-book version. And that's important, right? Always to make sure that, you know, I keep going back to Professor Potato's book, but I like that word, living, like living history. It just keeps on going. And I love that. I have to tell you, this is just amazing. We're talking with the authors of this amazing book, the folks behind Black History 365, this amazing, incredible book. We're talking with Dr. Joel A. Freeman and Dr. Walter Milton, Jr. So we're real excited to have them with us today. 1,248 pages, this is a huge book, but it is packed with so much information and knowledge that we need. And I can't say it enough, I really can't. I think this is a game changer out there. Dr. Freeman, why was this so necessary, though? You know, there are tons of books folks will say. You know, I saw the books that were out there when I was in school, and those history books seemed just fine. What do you say to folks who say something like that, Dr. Freeman? Well, every time there is a racially charged incident in America, there are some very smart people passionate people who get on TV. You know, we affectionately call them talking heads. And you can almost, if you're running a betting game, you could bet that someone's going to say, in so many words, we need to have a national conversation around the topic of race relations in America. And one gets the sense that three months from now, a year from now, two years from now, five years from now, ten years from now, perhaps that same person will be saying the same thing. And, you know, people protest in different ways. We have comedians who use comedy expertly to protest. Some write books. Some will write poetry. We remember the protest songs of the 60s and the protesting in rap music and hip-hop music. And some protest by demonstrating, marching. The way Walter and I protest is by putting in the two-and-a-half years, 12, 16-hour days to come up with a solution to the education gap in America. Our protest is, we look at it in terms of solutionist approach so that we can start these conversations. So we have something in the textbook that is proprietary to BH 365 is we have something called the elephant experience. Now, the elephant experience, and we could spend a whole show just talking about the elephant experience, but it's the whole idea of, okay, we have these topics that people don't like talking about. It's uncomfortable. And topics that cause some people to talk at or past each other. Some people block each other on Facebook or other types of social media. And so what Walter and I wanted to do is to come up with a process. Why an elephant? You know, connection with Africa. Hey, there's an elephant in the room. Probably your favorite joke in second grade was, hey, how do you eat an elephant? One spoonful at a time, one bite at a time. So there has to be a process, a schema, a methodology for dealing with the elephant. And then, of course, the hippocampus of an elephant is extremely large, and their EQ matches and rivals that of chimpanzees and some species of dolphins. So it has to be something that's sticky, something that engages, not just momentarily but for the long term. So that's what we did. So topics such as three-fifths of a human being, Uncle Tom, the N-word, reparations. Are we in a post-racial society after having a black president for two terms? Can a white person ever truly understand the black experience in America? Scientific racism, lynching. And should we tear the statues down? Things like that, topics like that, that we have a certain process that is a healing process, not a divisive process, where students can be, where we have professional development trainers that train the teachers in setting the environment so the students can create an environment that allows for these topics to be dealt with in a way that is beneficial. And where there's a binary choice, we have QR codes that provide the pro and the con, you know, the for and against views. And so it invites people outside of their confirmation bias bubbles and gets them into a realm where they begin to see the other side or at least hear the other side. And then using the Socratic method, the students engage around it and come up with individual or perhaps even collective understanding about something. So it's a, why, you know, to get back to your original question, the need for something like this and the response we're getting from principals, from educators, from superintendents, from people who have, from, you know, historians. I was talking with a historian the other day, and he was saying he's up to page 500 already in the textbook. And he was saying that he was just delighted. He said, oh, my goodness. He's checking out the QR codes. He's engaging with it. And he just said, I just cannot believe a resource like this is finally available. This is what I've been talking about all my life on a resource like this. So, you know, when it comes to the distinctives, we believe that we have something that is very uniquely crafted. It's designed for healing. It's truth-centric. It's, you know, it has the music attached to it. It has QR codes, so it's engaging with technology. We started in ancient Africa, so we're not reinforcing implicitly or explicitly the notion that black history started slavery. So we bring all these elements together that we've discussed, and we brought it into one textbook. Now, you know, we're also planning to create a K-8, so K-2, 3-5, 6-8 grade bands. Those are coming. And we're using the 9-12 textbook, which, by the way, engages all ages. We're using that backbone information to then be contextualized in the 6-8, 3-5, and K-2 programs. So now, getting back to how I started this response, now we're starting to get people, to kids, to start talking about the tough topics in a contextualized manner from kindergarten on. And hopefully, we'll be able to measure results with the students, the teachers, and perhaps even the parents, and, you know, three years from now, five years, 12 years from now, to see what kind of impact this can have on our society that is so polarized politically and to really get people to engage, coming through the lens and the gateway of history, an inclusive account of a history, so that we can somehow see healing happen in our country. I totally agree. I was thinking, as you were just explaining that, I was thinking to myself, as well, you know, that's the thing. We're all, you know, when we look back at how, you know, when we were in school and taught history, and it really does, I hate to say, but it really, that's kind of where you, what you get is, you know, you know, for black history, anything that's relating to black culture is usually starting with slavery. And so I so appreciate what you have just described in Black History 365. I so appreciate it because, just to be able to connect back to Africa and just see a place in, you know, how, you know, folks of blackness and just, African descent, rather, just figure into everything. So it's amazing to me, and I'm kind of blown away just to talk to you about it. So I'm excited for folks to get their hands on Black History 365. It is important. It's an important, important book. So what else is there out there? And Dr. Billson, as you mentioned, there is music involved in all of this, as well. Can I get my hands on some of this so I can play some of those songs on the radio recording show? We'd love to get some of those music files over here. Well, it's probably, the music is so good, and I can't wait till you hear it. And I think that maybe Joe and I could send you a demo copy for your ears only, because it's going through the process of being produced and recorded, and so we're going through all the legal aspects of that. But in the meantime, we can give you something that you can look forward to coming out, and I think that we would love to have you, once we get the green light, to play it on your show because it's going to be a Grammy Award-producing set of music. And I give all the accolades to God first, but I give them to KO, who was used by God to do this work. I mean, the music is incredible. And as the kids say, it is highly dope.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Shouting Down Charlie
"What am I oh yes last night I was speaking I was actually having a dialogue with Dr. Simone Gold frontline doctors for the Children's Defense Fund or no no it's the Children's Health Defense sorry that is a Robert F Kennedy Jr.'s group and I'm just offering this in passing in case you're ever challenged. If you say that truth is not a left -wing value, it is a liberal value, and it is a conservative value, but it is not a left -wing value, it never has been. Truth does not matter to the left. It matters to liberals, not all but many, and to conservatives, not all but many. At least it's a value in those two groups. So, this I found to be very effective. If the left believed in truth, would they say, men menstruate? That is, I think, the most powerful example you could offer, that truth is a joke, is a farce, is an impediment to leftism. That's it. Just give that example. If you do not say, men menstruate, you are considered by the left to be a hater, a bigot, and anti -science. But every single one of you listening knows it is an enormous lie, men do not menstruate. It is a gigantic… You can't say anything. If you said the earth is flat, it would be equivalent and probably truer because the land you are on now, the floor you are on now, is flat. There are vast numbers of places on earth where the earth is flat, but there is no place on earth where a man menstruates. If your child comes home and says, men give birth, or men menstruate, you know that they have been poisoned to the extent that they regard truth as a farce. It is an irrelevant question. Is it true, irrelevant? Just like, was it irrelevant that it was a lie that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia? It was a lie. It was as enormous as men menstruate. And they got Pulitzer Prizes at the Washington Post and the New York Times for perpetuating that lie, which the Columbia Journalism Review, Columbia is about as woke as you can get, but for some reason, God bless them, Columbia Journalism Review actually was committed to truth and said it wasn't true. It was a terrible time for American journalism. A terrible time for American journalism started very early. The New York Times reporting that there was no famine in Ukraine in 1932. Corrupt, despicable Walter Duranty was basically bribed with room and board and women by Stalin to report lies on behalf of the Soviet government. The New York Times never returned that prize. The Pulitzer Prizes never announced that they have rescinded it. Now they will say, well, it wasn't given for that, but I find that to be as farcical as the original reporting. Charlie Kirk went to Northern Arizona University and the reception is very scary. It is scary. We have young people who have been trained to be like the Soviet Youth League, come some old, brainwashed drones of evil. Well, Charlie Kirk went to speak and they were screaming, F .U., of course, they said the word fascist. Charlie Kirk drowned out by protesters on Arizona college visit, I'll be with Charlie at Arizona State University next week. Next week, if you have a seventh cousin who attends ASU, have them come to our speeches. Next Wednesday night, that's a week from today in Phoenix, Charlie Kirk laughs his mob of smelly overweight. Okay, I'm not going to read that, that's a tweet, we don't need it. F .U. fascist, you fascist. The screaming, I tell you, the screaming, why don't right wing students scream and curse at left wing speakers? Even they when constituted half the campus or even a majority of the campus, did they ever do this? I'm asking a question, they may have, I'm simply not aware of it. It's like, do any adult children who are Republican refuse to speak to a parent because the parent voted Democrat? You certainly have left wing children who don't speak to a parent because the parent voted for a Republican, but it doesn't work in both directions, does it? So again, we will be there next week. Charlie sent me a very long report on this from Mediaite, it's longer than the one from Daily Beast.
The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
Fresh update on "walter" discussed on The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
"And we also quote from a gentleman on the back cover. He's quoted on the back cover. His name is James Baldwin. He said, American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. And that's really when Walter and I saw that quote, we just said, that's got to be on the cover. Because that encapsulates what we have done. Absolutely. Absolutely. I have to say, as a matter of fact, Dr. Muppin, I was going to ask you, being, of course, an educator as you are, and being out in the school system, how did that play a part? Because I just imagine that you had a real front row seat to what the kids needed, to what the students needed to learn. So I'm going to ask you, how did that play a part, or did it play a part in how you decided to come up with this idea that you guys have worked on? Well, it played a major part. What I saw in my years of education and what I still see now in working with school systems across the country is that there's a direct correlation with the lack of culturally competent instruction and educational approaches to the negative impact that has on student achievement. We also discovered that the lack of historical content has been a significant influencer of negative outcomes for black students and communities, including lack of self-awareness, lack of self-esteem, lack of intrinsic motivation, decreased academic achievement, truancy, discipline referrals, and even, in some cases, some criminal activity, because what we found, when our young people, not only black children, but all children, when they have an understanding of who they are, where they came from, and the impact that their ancestors have made on this world, it just increases all the negative things to turn right into the positives, because we make that connection. And so what we found and discovered that the world, particularly America, is begging for something like this because of the past, our history that we have, and how those things still impact us to this day. So we wanted to really look at those things. We really wanted to look at the whole impact of the incarceration system and how that connected to education. And what we found is that there's this critical gap, and we believe that we have a solution for this gap. One of the things that we really focus on, and Joe will probably talk about that a little later, I'll just introduce the concept, but we said we need to develop critical thinkers, compassionate listeners, fact-based, respectful communicators, and action-oriented solutions. And we believe that BH 365 will serve as an impetus to make that happen and to make our world a better place here in America and to bring about a great deal of healing because we clarify things and misconceptions that we've been operating on for many years. That's just, I'm blown away. And I have to say, Dr. Milton, and I was really touching, I know we're here, we're going to absolutely get into every single aspect of Black History 365, you guys' new book, which is being used in the schools. But I have to draw some attention to, when I came across one of your earlier books that talked about this, the title is A Matter of Life or Death, Why Black Men Must Save Black Boys in America's Public Schools. And I know you've written a couple of books. But that was, I read a little bit of the synopsis, and I was just very impressed. So thank you for all the work that you are doing that both of you are doing on this incredible, incredible topic that, believe me, even, you know, I could put this on every day, you know, for years, and it would still just be scraping the surface of what needs to be done. But it's a wonderful thing to do as much research, and you guys can hear it. You've done a lot of research. I see the work, and it is incredible. It is absolutely incredible. So thank you both for that. Thank you so much. Yes, well, very much welcome. Well, listen, if you guys, if you're just joining us, you're listening to the all-new Hair Radio Morning Show. I'm Kerry Hines. It's my pleasure to welcome these two incredible educators to Hair Radio. And Dr. Joel A. Freeman, he's been with us before. We're so excited to welcome him back. It's been five years, and he's joined, of course, or we're joined with Dr. Walter Milton, Jr., who we're also excited. A New Yorker, a fellow New Yorker to the broadcast. And now, Dr. Freeman, you're in Maryland area, correct? Aren't you still out in Maryland? Yes, not far from Annapolis. Okay, and so we have a lot to talk about because just trying to catch everybody up a little bit, and then I have some more questions for you, Dr. Milton. But just to kind of bring everybody up to speed, Dr. Freeman, I recall that you started off early on, and you were a chaplain for, wasn't it, the NBA? And you did all these amazing things and just had such a, just a, I think it was, well, it seemed on that interview, just a deep understanding for folks at an early age. And that's what I got from that, and I was just quite impressed. And went on to create that whole space with all these artifacts that you have that chronicle the lives of folks all the way to Africa and here. And so I'm just very impressed and, you know, just happy to have you here. So what can you tell us about your collection these days? Anything, of course, we've got your book, which is going to be a big part of that Black History 365, but what else can you tell us about the collection that you have amassed all of this? And I know you have pictures inside the book, inside of Black History 365. Yes, yes, it's a big part of the book and a big part of, I think, the contribution because it's exclusively available to the book. The images is now the 4,000 high-resolution images.
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A highlight from MONEY REIMAGINED: CBDCs Unleashed: Changing Finance for All!
"You're listening to Coindesk's Money Reimagined with Michael Casey and Sheila Warren. Hello and welcome to Money Reimagined. I'm Sheila Warren. A reminder, you can listen to us weekly on the Coindesk Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts. And we'd love to hear from you. Tell us what you think. You can email us at podcasts at coindesk .com with the subject line, Money Reimagined. I'm in Washington, DC this week at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual legislative conference, which is taking place at Walter Washington Convention Center. The theme is curing our democracy, protecting our freedoms, and I am extremely grateful to be invited to participate in this event. But our topic today is much broader than that. I'm joined by Carmel Cadet, who's the founder and CEO of Mtek, which is a New York -based fintech startup with the goal to rebuild central banking infrastructure for the Web3 era. Now, Carmel and I have had the opportunity to speak many times in the past, including when she was instrumental in developing the world's very first national digital currency, the Bahamian Sand Dollar, which many of you will be familiar with from discussions we've had on it on this show. That was her first big government project. But since then, she's signed on six other central banks in the Caribbean and Africa and has plans to onboard more to their platform and their regulatory sandbox design offerings. I'm really looking forward to Carmel joining me today to talk about the advances in central bank digital currencies and CBDCs, particularly how they're being used by diaspora populations and how we're thinking about this opportunity and this technology in spaces that don't necessarily get the attention of groups like the Bureau of International Sutterments, the BIS, or even, frankly, the U .S. government. So, Carmel, welcome. Let's start off by just a little bit by way of background. Tell us, this is an interesting thing, an unusual thing to have gotten so deeply engaged with. And what was the moment when you kind of realized, hey, digital currency is something really critical and important? Your background, of course, you grew up in Haiti. I'd love to hear a little bit about how all that came together to make you the ambassador for this technology opportunity that you are today. Yeah, I never thought I would actually play that role, but I'm happy to be here. So, as you mentioned, my name is Carmel Cadet. I'm the founder and CEO of EmTech. It started really with my story. I'm originally from Haiti, born and raised. And when I migrated to the U .S., I became fascinated by the concept of financial markets, the access to credit cards, the access to mortgage, and car loans, and student loans, and realized that how access to capital and access to money really impacts lives. So, when you think about helping people out of poverty, it's one thing to do aid, but it's another thing to really build a better infrastructure that are more long -term, better institutions, and better access to financial markets, more importantly. So, I was really curious about that, but I didn't know what to do about it at the time I was 17. So, my mom told me to go to school and get a job. In the meantime, as I figure it out, but sure enough, my background is in corporate finance. I ended up lending. But before that, one of my first job was as a teller at a credit union. This is one of those jobs you get to see how people experience money. Day -to -day, paycheck to paycheck, every Friday, every two Fridays, people have a different experience in how their lives are changed with the fact that they get paid, or sometimes when they lose their job as far as how that impacts their lives. Then I got into mortgage underwriting, got to see how the credit system works in the U .S. How do you provide credit? How do you buy houses? How do you get home equity lines of credit? And how do you build value and invest in other properties? I've seen so many different lives changed by financial services. Yet again, I did not know what to do about it, but I landed an internship at IBM. I spent 10 years at IBM. This is where I fell in love with technology. So marrying the two, fast forward to around 2017, IBM was launching the IBM blockchain division. For me, I heard about blockchain before I heard about Bitcoin, believe it or not. The ability to use a technology that really flattens out the intermediaries or the models that you get access to financial services is something that I really, really got excited about because a lot of the policies over the years have changed the makeup of the financial industry in a lot of emerging markets. If you think about Basel III, if you think about the de -risking of a lot of countries, I've seen the results of that, kind of how more and more people in emerging markets did not have access to banking services. And that impacted my family. That impacted how we sent money and how much it costs us to send money back home. And the idea of using technology, I got to see that from IBM. IBM builds just amazing, big technology that impacts the world, so much so that you don't even feel it. You don't even see IBM everywhere, but IBM runs just about everything that we run on and that we use. I fell in love with that concept and blockchain for me was the first technology that really made sense for me for how to do that. So the very simple concept that ignited my curiosity to go into this space is to say, you know, we've been waiting for the banks to bank the unbanked. This is something that different policies and different efforts have tried to drive. And even if you think about Senator Sherrod Brown's bill around fed dollar accounts, the idea of forcing the banks to provide a digital cash or a fed dollar account to unbanked users or low deposit holders, it was a debt on arrival type of proposal because commercial banks would never have the incentive to do something like this. And the fact that I worked at a retail bank and a commercial bank, I understood the business model very clearly. So what blockchain represented for me was really an idea. What if we take the most used asset that people use every day and trust every day, especially those in emerging markets, which is paper cash, what if we digitize it with blockchain? Could we provide financial inclusion by design and having people be part of a digital financial service infrastructure that could be built on and give them an access to a new world? And that's around the time where I got the opportunity. I saw the RFP from Central Bank of Bahamas. And of course, I'm from the Caribbean. I got super excited. I cannot tell you. I remember the first time meeting that RFP, when Central Bank of Bahamas said that they're looking for a blockchain solution to modernize their overall payment infrastructure to drive financial inclusion across 700 islands that make up the Bahamas. I don't think most people know that. It seems like one island is 700 islands. So that was a moment for me. And sure enough, with no architecture, with no reference at the time, me and my team at IBM got together, found partners to work with, and really pitch an idea that the Central Bank of Bahamas ended up really selecting and has now deployed. And I just came back from the CBDC conference in Istanbul, where they were presenting their efforts and their progress. And I think they're one of the shining stars. Yeah, well, I would agree in part because they were the first in part because to your point, it really was about inclusion by design, not just laying over, I use this example a lot, the way that roads were built in Boston and Cambridge is they just saw where the cows were walking and laid down concrete, basically, right, or whatever was used at the time paving. And I think the Central Bank of the Bahamas did not do that. Their goal was actually to create a system that was better in some ways, not just digitize the existing system. And I do think we've seen some other efforts at CBDCs really just digitizing existing systems, not interrogating those systems in the way that I think you and the bank did. But I've got a million directions we could go. But let's start with let's start with this. Because it would be interesting, actually, I could see how you'd be interested in something like a Bitcoin or something like that. Instead, the idea of paper cash was the most compelling thing. Can you just talk about how a how you see CBDC is playing out in the broader digital currency landscape? But also, why that? Like, why fiat, right? Like, why your approach focusing on that specific opportunity as opposed to the broader, let's say, you know, crypto opportunity, or even, I mean, as we were so ended up in the IBM Blockchain division, looked at blockchain in different use cases, so global trade, food provenance, and different application of technology. When it came to financial services, of course, Bitcoin was the first use case that really broad gained visibility and broad access and even fame, if you will, as a token, but in itself, what we continue to see is one, the learning curve on how to get into Bitcoin. I remember how proud I was when I was there. Oh, yeah.
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Upcoming Book Signings With Mark Levin in NJ, VA & CA
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Session 9 Evangelism
"We are at Methods of New Testament Evangelism, number 2, page 26, and we have small letter A, Personal Evangelism, pair in one, examples, I've already given them to you before, I'll add one to it, Andrew brought Simon Peter to the Lord, and Philip brought Nathaniel to the Lord, another one is Paul led Onesimus, Philemon 10, Paul called Onesimus his son in the faith, and of course Paul called Timothy his son in the faith, and so you have those. Now the impact of these, number 2, the impact of these examples, the impact of personal evangelism is the very basic method of evangelism. That is basic, one on one, and reaching souls that way. If your church wins people to Christ, believe me, it's going to be one on one. They're going to be saved during the week and they just step forward on Sunday. Now I do believe it's important to have them step forward on Sunday, have them make a public profession, but you're not going to get very many who walk in the door and come forward and accept Christ. You get some, you're going to get them through personal witness during the week, and it's always good to get up and preach and know there are two people out there today going to come forward, because they've already been led to the Lord that week, and so the secret is getting people out there witnessing to them, getting people out there that will win them to Christ and bring them forward and see them come to know the Lord. And then we have public meetings. Right here is the, I forgot about this again, pardon me, now we're catching up. Public meetings, we'll catch you down on impact here. Public meetings, right here is the place where we make a big mistake. So often we've come to believe that unless a person comes to Christ through a public service, he'll not be saved. I don't know that that's plaguing any of you. In fact, many a believer depends on the services of the local church to do the work of the responsibility to be a witness. Now that is true. They figure we'll invite them to church, but it'll be the job of the church and the preacher to win them, and my responsibility is done with inviting them. Now they ought to invite them to church, but we need to train our people to witness and be witnesses for the Lord Jesus Christ, and so very, very important to do that. And any public service, if the public service is the instrument that brought them to Christ, now I was brought that way. I got saved in a public service, but I had a mailman get out of his mail car on the farm and walk out across the field and stop me on a tractor. I pulled back the clutch on the John Deere and stopped and talked to the mailman, and I respected him, and he didn't witness to me, but he did invite me to Christ. Had anybody witnessed to me? Yes, they had. I had an uncle in Kansas City, and that uncle had gotten saved, and I saw the change in his life. My parents had put me on a train in Colorado to go down to Kansas City to see my uncle and aunt, and I think when I was 11 I went down, 12, 13, 14, right in those years. My uncle had a dime store business, and he was seeing it go forward in a tremendous way, and he was just so involved in it, and he had a series of dime stores that he sold out to TGNY, and he had a number of dime stores, had a couple of dry goods stores, and I went down there when I was 12, and he went to Lutheran Church on Sunday morning, and then Sunday afternoon I'd go to church with him, Sunday afternoon they'd have sandwiches for Sunday dinner, eat quickly, and then pull all the blinds in the house and turn on the lights, have it dark in there, and then they'd have the money bags, and they'd pour out the bags on the dining room table, and we spent Sunday afternoon, all Sunday afternoon, counting dimes and quarters and nickels and pennies and dollar bills, but primarily the small change. We'd count and count and count. I'd take an afternoon, and then he'd pack it up in bags and take it to the bank on Monday, and man, that really impressed me as a kid, wow, all that money, I thought maybe that's what I wanted to get into, was a dime store, and I was 13 and I went down, and on Sunday morning we went to the Lutheran Church, Sunday noon we had a Sunday dinner, Sunday afternoon they didn't draw the blinds, they didn't pull the shades, they didn't pour out any money, they didn't do anything like that. He said, let's go in, we're going to sit down and read the Bible, and he read the Bible to us, and then he said, now, you boys, I had two cousins there, and you can do some things outside, but we'll go to church tonight. That night, got in the car and we drove over to Central Bible Hall, Kansas City, where Walter Wilson was the preacher, and I heard Walter Wilson preach. As the first time I ever heard a sermon about the blood, he preached, tonight I'm going to speak on the blood of Jesus Christ, and I thought, blood, what an awful subject, and in church, and I decided I wasn't going to listen, I was going to go to sleep, which I can do pretty easily, I can relax and fall asleep, and so I tried to sleep, I was sitting right between my aunt and uncle, and I was about to fall asleep, and I'd nod my head this way, and she'd nudge me, and up I'd come, and then I'd need the other way, and he'd nudge me, and there I sat, the whole service, and heard the message about the blood. I didn't get saved, I never forgot it. My uncle witnessed to me, he'd take me on his, as he drove from one dime store to the other and looked him over and told him what he wanted, drove to his warehouse, he'd talked to me about the Lord. He had been genuinely converted, and changing his life, and became a right good preacher, a lay preacher, he became a very good preacher. He told me one time, he said, I held every position in the Lutheran Church except pastor. He said, I've been a member of the Synod, I've been the treasurer, I've been the chairman of the Synod board, I've had every position that's possible in the Lutheran Church except pastor, and I wasn't saved. So he witnessed to me, he would write me letters, and beg me to accept the Lord. There was another man that witnessed to me. I was about 18, 19, I was out of high school, and I wasn't able to be in World War II, I wanted to be and never got to be because I was injured on the farm in a bad accident with a runaway team of horses, and my heart was so damaged I couldn't, and my lungs, every rib in my body was broken, and so I never got to be in the service.
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The Coming Wave: Mustafa Suleyman Discusses His New A.I. Book
"Joined now by Mustafa Suleiman. He is one of the people who John Ellis says is the half dozen or so who actually understand artificial intelligence and what we're facing. He's also the author of this brand new book, The Coming Wave. The Coming Wave is, I have to say, sort of epic. Good morning or afternoon, Mustafa. I'm not sure where you are. Where are you today? Good afternoon, Hugh. Great to be with you. I am in New York today, so it's a lovely sunny afternoon. We are in the same time zone. Then I will let people know. We are taping this on Wednesday, September 6th at 5 in the afternoon. I'll play it on my radio show tomorrow and make the transcript available. Thank you for joining me. I did not plan, it wasn't planned, that you would come on to talk about The Coming Wave at the same time that Time Magazine has Elon Musk on the cover talking with Walter Isaacson about artificial intelligence. Did you have that planned that way for the rollout of the book? That was not planned, but you know, the timing is going to work out just fine, I think. It's pretty funny to see that come out. Very interesting. The synergy is very good. Now, when John Ellis, and I don't know if you know John, but he's a newsman's newsman. When he says a half dozen to eight people understand AI and lists you in that, is that hyperbole or is that an accurate statement? Well, I mean, I think there are lots of people who understand AI very deeply. I mean, the field is huge now, and you know, there are many, many people who've been working on it for some time, actually. I'm among the group who has been working on AI, you know, in the earlier stages in this new wave. So, you know, I started DeepMind along with two friends in 2010. And, you know, I guess it's almost been sort of 13 years or so at this point working in the field. But there are many luminaries above and beyond me, you know, many professors who have been in the field for 30 years or so toiling away. So I'm really part of the new generation.
Art Beauty
A highlight from Get Ready for Laser Season: Dr. Macrene Alexiades on Everything You Need to Know
"This is the RPD podcast where we are always reaching for truth and beauty. Remember, the brands on the show are not paying to be here, so we get to ask the questions you want answered because you deserve to be informed so you can make the best choices for yourself. And with that said, I'm Amber, and today my fabulous cohost is Dr. Makreni Alexiadis. I hope I got that right. She is a fabulous Greece native. By the way, Greece is one of my favorite places in the world. But a Greek name, so I'm hoping I'm pronouncing that right. She also holds three degrees from Harvard, is a practicing dermatologist in New York City and an all -around amazing, brilliant woman. I'm so honored to have you on the show today, Dr. Makreni. How did I do with the pronunciation? Like a native. Like a fellow Greek, I'm so honored. I mean, so, you know, prior to this, you know, when we were just chatting a minute ago, Greece is one of my favorite places in the world. I've been there three times now. Never to skiros where you are, but it is just magical. Are you? You were actually born in Greece. I wasn't born in Greece, but I'm a dual citizen. I spent half my life here, half my life in America, back and forth. And so that has really inspired me and given me a worldly view and a balanced view. And the Greeks, we were taught the Socratic method from birth, which is to question and to probe and to find the meaning of life. So it has really benefited me as a physician and a scientist and a creative and an artist. And I'm grateful to be able to bring that kind of global viewpoint to everyone. I love that. And again, I find that the Greeks of all the places that had been were the most familial, the most warming, the most, you know, come on into my house, come do this. And also the best tomatoes I've ever had in my entire life. Like it's just the best food ever. Thank you. Well, it's sun and believe it or not, not that much water in the summer and soil makes for fruits fantastic and vegetables. So delicious. You know, so listen, full disclosure, we are recording this. It is still summer, but this will air in September. So with that said, you know, I'm so excited to have you here because you are truly an expert in everything lasers. In fact, you told me you were writing a second textbook while you're there in Greece. Yes. I usually take this time when I'm not seeing patients to work on my academics, which is particularly textbook writing, which requires undivided attention. My first textbook is Alexiadis's cosmetic dermatologic surgery that was published by Walters Kluwer. You can get it on Amazon and it is the first of its kind. It's a disorder based text that takes the reader down an algorithm of the best medical cosmetic, which includes injectables, heels and lasers and surgical treatment options. And it's good for both patients as well as colleagues, dermatologists, plastic surgeons, physicians, who really need to know what the gamut is, the panoply of treatment options that are available. And then my second textbook is on photodynamic therapy. That is with the publisher of Selvia. That is the book that I'm finishing right as we speak. And that is an area of specialty of mine as well. In addition to lasers, it's the use of light to cure disease. Oh, I love that. We've been talking so much about different light therapies, red light therapy, blue light therapy. But I'm hoping that today, that you are really known as a laser expert. And since, by the time this airs, last weekend will have been the unofficial end of summer, even though summer doesn't end for like another few weeks, this is a really great time for people to start thinking about different sort of laser therapies that they can do, right? And so I'm just wondering, when we hit the fall, what are some of the most popular things that you were seeing in your offices? Great questions. And you are right. My patients are planned out months in advance. So I do my fall laser planning in the spring. So patients come in the spring, they start to complain about the things that start to present themselves when we start to get sun exposure, such as brown spots, melasma, hyperpigmentation. And those are not conditions you want to treat in the summer, particularly with lasers, because lasers kick up the heat in the skin, and you can get a tanning like result from that. So we pause on the use of lasers for pigment until the fall. So it starts back up pretty much end of September, beginning of October. And the other is, is that lasers against pigment are not as effective in the summer when you're getting all your sun exposure. So it may actually be working, but it looks to the patient as if it's not working because they're tanning in the summer. So all my laser cases are already fully booked all the way through to the holidays. I mean, yes. And you do have, I don't know, are we allowed to name drop? Can you tell any of the celebrities? Well, I think it's like public knowledge. I leave it to my celebrities. If my celebrities want to mention me and give me some love, and some of them do like Sienna Miller, Brooke Shields, and those guys, it's wonderful, Nikki Hilton. But I really adhere very, very, very strictly to HIPAA. And I know like, I mean, people have called me a billion dollar box office success, which I cherish that title. But my lips are sealed and I just, but I derive a great deal of satisfaction, pride and joy actors at keeping and models in their business, in their work, well until their elder years, which is really a source of pride for me. So on that, do you feel like there are certain things that you recommend kind of everybody does? Of course, we all have different skin types. We all have different conditions, but are there certain procedures now that you were loving, especially coming into the fall, clearly we are too late to book with you, sad, sad, but are there things that you are kind of loving out there for people to be doing this time of year? And are there certain treatments that you love for this time of year? There is no end to what I can do. I mean, I have to say, I was at a dinner party that night and one of the ladies was saying how plastic surgeons or dermatologists told her there was like nothing to be done for her. I have to say, I mean, I am fortunate that I have the embarrassment of the riches of knowledge and experience in both injectables and devices, but really there is no end to what I can do. I can treat in the summer. I am just saying that there are certain devices you do not want to do in the summer, such as fractionated devices, Q -switch devices, picosecond technologies, those are better done in the fall, but I have great treats for everyone all summer long. One of my current favorites is radiofrequency microneedling, which I am honored and acknowledged as, single -handedly, the dermatologist, scientist, and laser specialist who brought this whole genre to market. I sought and attained the FDA approval between 2006 and 2010 for the prototype radiofrequency microneedling device. That one was called the Profound. And since then, we have had a huge crop, a whole generation of devices, such as Morpheus is one that people know about. But there are many different types of genius, infamy, intensive, they are utilized in a way that is safe for all skin colors, all skin types, and can be used in the summer months. So that is one of my all -time favorites for skin tightening, wrinkle reduction, rejuvenation, all summer long, with no risk of downtime or hyperpigmentation. Okay, so let's go back to the fall now, right? So because that's what we're kind of, the season we're coming into, good to know though that radiofrequency can be done year -round, what are your fall -specific treatments? What are the things that you're starting to address now, you know? Okay, so come September, you're done with your summer, Labor Day is over, now we're in the saddle, we're looking at this rung of treatment that is really dedicated to this time of year. When you're in September, be aware that there's still this delayed what we call seasonal lag. You can get this first week in October that's very sunny and warm and it really helps you to be outside. So please delay a little bit in treating your brown spots and hyperpigmentation with devices until October, however, in September, I do start to do some rejuvenation on people who I trust and know are really not going to go out in the sun, so that might include intense pulse like IPL, that is great for getting the summer off. All the sun damage you've accrued over the summer, you can start treating in September and if you're somebody who really is not going to go out in the sun, whether it's because you have kids in school or you yourself are working and you know that even if it's an Indian summer, you won't be outside, then you can treat with rejuvenation lasers such as fractionated resurfacing known as Fraxel, picosecond lasers such as Picogenesis or its predecessor, Genesis laser. These are all devices that are great for rejuvenation, for getting rid of sun damage, which you've accrued over the summer in short order so that especially if you can do a trio, which a lot of times these devices are done three months in a row, a month apart, three treatments. If you do September, October, November, you're ready for holidays. You're ready for Thanksgiving and winter holidays. Now I have to ask you, and I don't want to put you on the spot because do you have a lot of these devices in your office? Oh yeah, I have over 50 lasers and devices in my office. So here's where I'm going to put you on the spot then. Is there one that's like kind of your favorite? It's like asking who is your favorite child. Oh no. No, I mean, you know, my girls will tell you, like they're all my favorites. For example, I have specific devices that are my go -to and my favorite for eyelid tightening. So my claim to fame is that I replaced the plastic surgery with devices and injectables, right? And I'm replacing cosmetic procedures with active ingredients through my macrine actives. So that's been kind of the progression of my career over the last, and I have to say I've been in science for over 40 years, so I've been working really hard for many decades, but the progression was initially replacing plastic surgery with devices and injectables. And I go through phases of what my favorites are and then taking all that knowledge and translating it into active ingredients. So ultimately we can do all this at home, but I will just give you some of my highlights. All right, so if you don't want plastic surgery, be on the lookout for skin laxity, in my opinion, other than like having brown spots and sun damage, which of course does, you know, make you look not so great. I think it is equally important to keep an eye out for jowls and loss of the beautiful like elasticity of the skin that you want, especially in the jawline and neck. If you start to see jowls, if you start to see laxity, intervene earlier with non -surgical alternatives so that you don't end up needing surgery. Give you an example, I've been taking care of a classmate of mine from Harvard undergrad that we were class of like 89 and she doesn't look any different than when we were in college. Why? I have her face memorized and she believes in me so much and in the science and what I've done. She comes every four months like clockwork for all these years, 20 years, getting skin tightening with me with radio frequency devices, infrared light. She doesn't have any jowls, of course, a little bit of filler. And then she uses my actives. So if you were to really prioritize devices in my practice, I would say you want to keep on top of two classes of devices. One are the skin tightening technologies, whether it's around the eyes, jawline or neck or body, if you're down to body now. And then the rejuvenation technologies that we just talked about, IPL, fractionated technologies, genesis type devices to keep the sun damage and wrinkles at bay. And then if you need something more aggressive, you can always go to a CO2 laser, which I'm a specialist specialist in that as well. And that really is in my hands, an art form. I tailor the carbon dioxide and the erbium lasers, which are really our Cadillac devices for those who have more significance on damage in most cases or wrinkles and aging. But honestly, even people who have very light skin that starts to wrinkle a little bit prematurely in their 40s, maybe candidates already. And that, too, prevents the need for, say, blepharoplasty, which is eyelid surgery. It may prevent the need for a facelift because it'll give you enough of a strong rejuvenation.
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A highlight from The Urgent Need for a Leadership Change with Chrissy Casilio
"Well, everybody now has been saying, oh, he had a really bad August. No, he's had a really bad 12 years. But the difference is he now has an opponent that's shining a light on it. That's that's the difference. Obviously, it has been a particularly bad. But but like you said, there's been a pattern for 12 years of this type of incompetence. Welcome to another Financial Guys podcast with Mike Haeflich and Mike Speraza. Today, we are extremely pleased to welcome Republican challenger to Mark Polenkars for Erie County Executive Chrissy Casilio live and in studio. Chrissy, welcome and thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for having me. I feel a little odd that I'm the only one here not named Mike. Yeah, well, that's a problem in our office. There's a lot of problems between Lomas Haeflich, Mike Shaver, Mike Zimmer. We dominate the office. There's a lot of Mike. Yeah, that's right. And we're sorry if you get whiplash because you feel like you're watching a tennis match here today because you're sort of sandwiched between the two of us. That's OK. So so I knew of your last name, at least just from a lot of the business that your family has done. But can you just tell our audience, our listeners a little bit about yourself? Because I think some might feel like me, like, geez, Chrissy Casilio. OK, let me start Googling and let me just Google the Casilio name. Yeah, of course, you find things on a very highly successful business that you've had based out of clearance. Right. Yes. Yeah. So tell us about yourself. So I'm actually not involved with the family business. I decided to do my own thing. I have my degree in journalism. I thought I was going to be the next Oprah Winfrey. And although maybe not her, maybe she's not a good example. Yeah, she's she's she's getting canceled right now. I don't know. Pre -cancel Oprah. OK, I got it. I have my degree in journalism and I thought I was going to make a career in that. I had worked with WBEN and very quickly I learned where the money actually is, and that was in marketing and PR. So I had the opportunity to switch over. And within my first year of working in marketing at the radio group, I very quickly realized that this was my thing. Fast forward, I have owned Casilio Communications for 10 years. It is a marketing communication agency where clients hire my firm to manage everything for them. All of their marketing, all their communications, internal communications, external communications. We do it all. I'm very proud that the business is 10 years old. I've been doing this for 15 years. And so my business is actually one of the reasons that opened my eyes to everything that was going on. And I'll tell you why. Do I need to tell you about my family or do we skip that over? It's up to you. They're probably really nice people. I mean, I don't want to dismiss them and ignore them. I didn't want to get too far without acknowledging that I'm married to my high school sweetheart. He is a pharmacist. He is a saint. And I have three small kids and they're all excited. What's nice is that they're young enough that they don't really know what's going on. They just know that they think that mommy's a superhero. Lots of excitement. The parades, I'm going to have to do parades no matter what for the rest of my life, for the kids. So I have three small kids. I have a wonderful husband. That aside, my business, one of my clients is a nursing home group. And this is what really was the catalyst in opening my eyes to how things were being run in this community. And I'll tell you why. I have been with them my entire career, before, during and after COVID, and I knew the numbers from what I do because I'm on the communications team, on the PR team. We work together as a team. There's a handful of us. And when Andrew Cuomo had that nursing home order, it was like the grim reaper went through the facilities. And they say, once you see it, you can't unsee it. And when that happened, besides it being tragic enough in itself, I saw Mark Poloncarz and Dr. Bernstein, who I call Dr. Overtime, I saw them do absolutely nothing about that. And I felt like I was going insane because I knew they knew the numbers. I knew that they knew what was going on. And then I knew that they were doing absolutely nothing. And what was astounding to me, I mean, you don't have to be the director of health to know the type of care in nursing homes. It is the most intimate type of care that you will ever, I mean, you're getting your teeth brushed, you're getting dressed. These residents aren't even getting out of bed unless somebody is physically lifting them out of bed. And you're getting help in bathroom situations, right? You're getting hugs and compassion and love. I mean, these people are angels. And so then for some reason, at some point, it got, besides the horrible idea from Andrew Cuomo and the state people, then we had our own Erie County leaders, quote unquote, fail us. And then what bothered me even more than that. So I'll give you then a number of examples. So besides the fact that we were giving them the numbers and I saw they were doing absolutely nothing about it. But, you know, so Poloncar has had his daily COVID briefings and, you know, he'd yell and scold and talk to us like we were children. And he must have gotten some sort of rush being in that type of position. A lot of them did, including the former governor. It definitely went to their head. But I remember this one time that, and I'm going to be careful protecting my client, but I remember this one time he was doing his press conference and he was talking about that there was an outbreak in one of the south towns and he started scolding them. And he was threatening to shut down schools and, you know, putting curfews in place. And I don't even know what at the time it was like, we're going to go and level C, three, four, like blah, blah, blah. And I remember looking at the numbers that he was putting on the screen and I remember the numbers that we had submitted to the county and all but maybe one or two was from that facility, from the facility. That facility was having an outbreak at that time. And he never shared that information. He didn't have to name the facility, but there's a different story, completely different story. If you are giving numbers that there's a case and saying, hey, we might have to get ages your 85 up and they're all at this one facility, but you're going to close on your schools and close on mine, it would have told a completely different story. And he would have been more transparent of what was going on. But here's what I it's funny, some of the stuff you said, because Mike and I just did a morning show and we said the same thing like, are we missing something? Where is the data that we're supposed to be seeing that would change our minds? Because I just haven't seen it yet. Still, it's been three years. I still don't have any data yet that tells me, Mike, shutting down schools was a great choice. Mike, shutting down the economy was a great choice. Mike, you know, doing whatever was a great choice. The only choice that was actually should have been made was the one they didn't make, which was nursing homes. That was the one they should have made. Don't put sick people back in nursing homes. They did that. Remember, though, at the same time, they told us that we killed grandma because we didn't get vaccinated or we don't wear masks. I do want to go to Mark Poloncarz because I think he's a house of cards, obviously. But Mark, Mark has had a lot of opinions on a lot of issues. And for the most part, he's been wrong. Right. And one thing Mark doesn't do, Chrissy, is say I made a mistake. I was wrong ever, ever. I've never heard him say that once. I my one question before we get into his job performance is if you're in that position, let's say, and you may if you're the Erie County executive, you're a governor, you're whatever and you make a mistake. Are you one that would sit there and say to yourself, you know what, I'm going to go to the podium and I'm going to admit my wrongs and I'm going to work on it and get better at what I made the mistake on, because that's what we have to do. I have to call clients all the time and say, I am sorry. I told you I just did it last Friday. I told you a number and it was a different number based on this factor. And I had to man up to that and own that. That's what people have to do in business and life and relationships. Is that something you're willing to do? Have you ever made a mistake? You have to. You have to. Because similar to me, and this is where my business experience comes in. I'm in the same boat as you. Now, I very rarely make mistakes with my clients. I don't know. I would agree. I agree. But you do. But the times that I have I'm I'm my success is based on job performance, not the single mistakes. It's the overall pictures of are my clients satisfied with my performance? And what's amazing to me is how for some reason that doesn't apply in government. Ever. You can mess up time and time again. You can never take accountability. You can never own anything, but you'll get reelected. It's astounding to me. But if I were to do have if the performance of Mark Polancar was happening in a private sector, he would have been fired 11 years and six months ago or his business would have closed or his business would have closed because because people would have been like, no, you you're not good at this job. But that's the sad thing is that money, money speaks. You know, it's tough with incumbents. You're definitely in a position where you have influence and your head gets bigger and bigger and your confidence gets bigger and bigger. And then what happens is that you're no longer serving the people. You're just serving the. What do I want to say? I feel like themselves, like they're serving themselves in their little inner circle, like I think they're so afraid they're going to let their their friends, their family down at the expense of of all of us. Right. The people that they're really supposed to be caring about. Well, I will say what I have found, particularly with Polancars and again to my earlier statement, once you see it, you can't unsee it. And decisions are being made for climbing the political ladder. Decisions are being made to appease Albany, appease the federal government so that he can feel good about going and saying, I have a good relationship with Albany. I have a good relationship with the federal government, but completely ignoring the fact that that relationship is actually causing this community more harm than good. Right. Right. And now, I mean, just let's bring it up to basically today, we are now hearing reports, 52 people that were housed in a cheek to our hotel are now being relocated to an Amherst hotel because of a broken sprinkler system. The reporting and again, we're not there to tell you this is right or wrong, but the reporting is that illegal immigrants were hanging clothes lines off of sprinkler systems. And now you've basically turned that hotel into a mess. It's uninhabitable. Correct. Right. So nobody can even be in that hotel now because they have to make repairs. It's not a place that any human being can actually even be in. So now they're going to relocate these people to Amherst. Before that, Republic Steel is going to leave 178 people now seeking jobs. We heard Mark on a Friday afternoon try to justify the what they called the blizzard of 2022 after action review by basically, again, not apologizing and not saying he'd have done anything differently, but by saying, you know, you know, there are some things that have gone wrong of late. But how about this and how about that? And how about you give me a break, essentially? Right. You forget. That report was bizarre. It wasn't actually a report. It was just a pile of papers that have been sitting on his desk for seven months that he just then made public as if that was supposed to mean anything. But like you said, there was no reflection of, OK, from this report, this is our next step. This is our action. There's nothing. I mean, yes, he has said things here and there, you know, but at the end of the day, you had 12 years to do even half the ideas that you were thinking of and you didn't. You got caught being incompetent again and you're just trying to brush it under the carpet. Forty seven people died, right. Forty seven people. That's double what what happened in the blizzard of seventy seven. I was like nine years old. The blizzard of seventy seven had twenty three people die. This was double. And you knew days before that this massive storm was coming from the west days before. And he waits and waits until Christmas Eve. And then he shuts things down. Then he says, oh, we have to shut things down. But by the way, we can't even get emergency vehicles out. So guess what? You're on your own, folks. Like that's essentially what happened. And like I was going to say that to the deaths are tragic enough and sad enough of what happened that day. But then you add into the fact that he told emergency personnel, including police officers, by the way, nobody will be patrolling the streets. That was a legitimate thing that he talked about during this whole thing. Nobody will be patrolling the streets. They're not going to go out. OK, then you have businesses in Buffalo, one of which is a client of mine, get looted and there's food getting stolen. There's anything getting stolen from you. You can't have it both ways, right? You can't say we're going to shut the city down. We're going to shut the counties down. Oh, and then we're also not going to have anybody around to help if somebody's sick or injured or if somebody's business is open or business is able to be looted. And that's what happened. And he took no responsibility for that either. That to me is just as bad as anything, because you essentially told people, we're not here to help you at all. There's another important factor, too. It seems like people are forgetting about November 2014 when we lost, I think it was 14 people then. How many storms are we going to go through where people are stranded, having to spend the night on the Thruway where people are dying? I mean, this this is western New York. It's it's like Florida being caught off guard if there's a hurricane. It's so bizarre. How is there not an action plan in place that's just just like Florida? I mean, you go down there, you see the signs for the hurricane routes. They have the protocols of this. People know what to do. How is it that we just don't have because systems like that need to be in place so that we don't have politicians like Mark Poloncarz putting commerce over the safety of the people. Right. And the systems are there and then you need someone to say we're activating the system. It's like we are now using this this emergency plan. The task force is now out and ready and helping. And but you don't have a guy like him. He slept through the night when he should have probably the day before, maybe even by 10 o 'clock that previous night said we are now shutting the Thruway. We need everyone off the Thruway while they can get off. I mean, I get so fired up over that. I get fired up over the nursing homes, the assisted living. My mom was in assisted living at the time that all happened. And I thought to myself, great, if you want to have people wear masks, hazmat suits, for God's sake, in nursing homes and assisted living, I'm all for that. The little paper masks are probably not even close to being enough in those places for those very, very vulnerable people. And Mike, real quick, I'll say that not even just for covid, for anything. Right. I mean, like those people, if they got a basic flu or a stomach flu or something, they could they could pass away. Sadly, like their their their immune systems are so compromised at that age when they're in there. Like, if you're serious about covid, then be serious about covid. That's my problem with all these people. If you're going to get serious, get serious. If not, don't waste our time with it. Right. And I'm sorry, all I was going to say is I mean, this all seems to culminate into an idea of patterns of behavior, patterns of horrible, horrible job performance behavior. And yet he's still sitting there in office and he still gets a pass by his supporters. I just I just wanted to add to because, again, I was in the thick of it. You had you had your mother, you said that I had 19 facilities across New York State where I'm overseeing the communications of it. I'm I'm receiving the messages of the website of people talking to their parents, of people dying. I saw firsthand the people dying. I saw the messages coming in. Mom, we can't see you. We love you. But the thing that also, you know, I can't speak for the rest of the state. I kind of can. But if you look at Erie County, we had the convention center empty. We had our schools, our universities closed down. We had surgery centers not operating. It's not like we needed to put them in nursing homes. And you think it have the spine and the leadership to say we're not putting them in nursing homes. We have these other options. But it was just this blind like whatever comes from Albany. That's what we're doing. And that's continuing to happen. It's funny because the Buffalo, well, everybody now has been saying, oh, he had a really bad August. No, he's had a really bad 12 years. But the difference is he now has an opponent that's shining a light on it. That's that's the difference. Obviously, it has been a particularly bad. But but like you said, there's been a pattern for 12 years of this type of incompetence. Yeah, here's what I'd say, because I'm going to get into the the second part of Mark Poloncarz himself personally and his attitude and his personal issues. I think you say 12 years, Kristine, I agree he's been here for 12 years and he's been doing certain things for 12 years. But realistically, you only have to look at about the last year, the last eight months to get a picture of who Mark Poloncarz is. And is this who you want as your leader? Right. And we're going to look at here we go again back in January and that's now coming to light. We have we have numerous issues with Mark Poloncarz and, you know, assault. We have been threatening to shoot a process server. Now we have a relationship issue. Look, I've been you said high school sweetheart. I've been married to my high school sweetheart now for five years. I've been together with her for 14. I have never once even as a college and high school kid told her she couldn't leave somewhere. She didn't want to go or or screamed at her outside my home. Yes. Do we argue with our spouses? Of course we do. The last thing I do when I argue with my spouse, I was getting her face. I'm usually like 20 feet away being, you know, we're going back for nothing ever like what they said. That's what rational normal people don't do what he just did this week. And they brush it off like it's OK. Yeah. Like my husband and I, maybe we're the weird ones. We don't even say the F word to each other because you have we set up these boundaries because you have this level of respect and love for each other. And there's no reason to if you're really that mad, you know. Take a break, work it through. It's bizarre. And what's interesting is that since becoming a candidate, it's amazing how one once story comes out, suddenly more people feel comfortable coming forward. And the story is now starting to pour in, not necessarily about the personal matter, but just his overall demeanor of now everybody's coming up to me. Yeah. He's been a bully forever. Yeah. That's his personality. He has a hot head. This and then the stories. I was at a restaurant. He did this. I was here and he did that. Like it's a pattern of behavior. You have to have a certain type of personality. Yeah. Some type of anger issue to be treating people that way. No doubt. And I'll say this, Mike, you and I, you know, have people that we work closely with this office. You do not want a leader that's like that getting angry or upset about things. I have no problem with that. Being irrational and almost crazy is a problem to me. Right. Like, again, I would I if Mike Lomas, I'm going to use Mike Lomas as one of the founders of the firm. If I saw him and his wife yelling and screaming at each other and report came out and said, Mike Lomas cornered his wife in the home, of course, we would have a conversation with Michael. We'd be like, what's going on here? No doubt. Mike Lomas doesn't do that. Why? Because he's a rational, normal person that understands how to live day by day. Right. Same thing with Glenn. Mike, same thing with you. That's that doesn't happen to normal people. It doesn't matter if you're Republican or Democrat. That should not happen. And that is a crazy thing. When you think about that guy's running a whole county. Yeah. Well, and again, the pattern of behavior. And yes, that's a domestic issue. And we talked about shooting the process server. But look at how he lashed out at Hannah Buehler from Channel 7. Look at how he got all angry with Byron Brown. The head on to where we began about Stefan. The headlines of that storm very quickly turned to that spat and how he treated Byron Brown. Name any natural disaster in all of the world where the story was. Look at these elected leaders bickering. And that was such a time to shine as the city. Good neighbors. It was a time for them to say, hey, they did the storm. But look at look at how they came together. And instead it was this pissing match between it. How embarrassing. I will say Byron Brown didn't really even I feel like go back. He was just like, whatever. I thought he actually handled it well. He did. Yeah. I give him a lot of credit for that. Yeah. If anything, I mean, you'd say to each other, you know what? We'll do this later. Like right now, this is what we have to do. We have to figure this out. We have to save people's lives. We've got to put that other stuff aside for now. But to your point, Chrissy, you know, when you you see someone behave this way, like if I witnessed someone be that way at first, I'm thinking it's like a one off bad moment just happened to me. But when you start hearing story upon story, to your point, yeah, it is a behavior. The other thing is when you get to the point where you are doing that, you are chasing someone down to get your cell phone back. You might allegedly got physical to get your phone back and then people are screaming around you. To me, that's a sign, that's evidence that you don't have the capacity to sit back, be patient and be thoughtful and actually figure out a better way. And that goes back to job performance, but also personal behavior. If you are flipping out, the first thing you do is flip out and then you're seeking forgiveness for that. That's a problem. And that's Mark Poloncarz. And if people continue to think, heck, 12 years of this and we want more, you might have a problem, folks. You might you might seriously have a problem if you don't think you need to make a change. Let's go to this. I mean, you know, I've seen over the years you see Lynn Dixon, the last election, loses by about seven points before that, Ray Walter, 2015, he loses by only getting about a third of the vote. How can you win? How can you win against him in a in a in a county where you feel like his supporters will just continue to forgive, keep giving him a break? And then here he is in office again. Yeah, that is undoubtedly something that can't be ignored. I I'm not stupid. I know that this is David going after Goliath. I know this is my first time running. I went from zero to one hundred. I get that. But I also know that I have the leadership, the personality, the demeanor to keep fighting until we cross the finish line. To put your answer your question in simple terms, I think people are starting to wake up. I think people are fed up. I think they're tired of what's been going on. One of my lines that I've quickly learned from this past month is Nimba, not in my backyard.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from Season Finale #12
"And really America's the bad guy. But who knows? I personally believe that a lot of the Nazis, they got into very, very powerful places in government right? And slowly over time instilled people, certain people with their ideologies all around the world. So Britain, Russia, America, Germany. And that is how certain things, that's how certain types of groups formed. You there? Do you think America will split? Yo, what's up? Not much. I didn't think you would get in. Oh, yeah, no. Yeah, I had to do a couple things too. You know, today, I'm not going to lie. Today was pretty much not my day. But you know, it is what it is. When's our day? Let's talk about how we can be compressed and how we can take over the White House. All right. I'm going to show for once. I'm going to be specifically careful what I say. Because I'm not going to lie, there's still things I want to do before we make this happen. I know. In life. I know. Be careful what you say. We all have plans. Yeah. I have plans to build a bloody monopoly. I'll just say that. I'm kidding, of course. But anyway, so you said something about taking over the White House? I mean, by running in 2040. I mean, taking over by running. Yeah, no. I think we need to run for government. I think we can do a lot more better things. We can basically help the country to an extent more than what Biden can do. But I'm not going into it that I've asked. I have no power. I don't have no power. The President has more power than you when he makes on. But yeah, let's dive in. Anything you want to say, Eric? All right. What happened? Anything you want to say? Nah. Nah. Not at this moment. Not at, like, right now. I can't really think of anything right now. Just one more time. Who do you think will win 24? At this point, I'm thinking Trump will win. Do you hope? Yeah. Yeah, no. Yeah, I wasn't saying that in like a negative. Oh, Trump's going to win. Like, yeah. I would hope. But... The ideological crazy left seeing how bent on fucking getting this guy arrested. Even if he's done fucking nothing wrong. If you're going after him, you need to go after Biden. There's evidence... They're not going to go after him. Eric, there's a partly document saying that he apparently had a secret email. Really? Called Peter something. Peter, right? Why is he called Peter? Why is he called himself Peter? I think it was Howson or something like that. Do you remember the photo where it said, you know, Peter? Yeah, yeah. Peter. Wow. I wonder what he had on that email. My suspicion was he probably was doing certain type of deals with people. So that was probably the email that he probably used to talk to his son about certain deals with China, Romania, Ukraine, Russia. He did deals with a lot of people. Was this when he wasn't... This is when he was vice VP. Oh, VP. Okay. And for God knows, this could be when he was president as well. For all we know. Apparently Obama has a brother. Does he? I mean, I saw it on Illuminati, but he said his brother said he sold his soul. He sold his soul pretty much, which he did. But, you know, it is what it is. I'm pretty sure everybody that is in Hollywood... I'm pretty sure we would have to sell our souls. We really want to get off their power. Yeah, we would. But I'm not sure I really want to do that. Yeah. Yeah. We would definitely have to do that. I'm going to shoot the Pope sold his soul. Clearly he was almost trying to suck the dick of the Rothschilds. And the Rockefellers. It's unfortunate. But now we know who he battles down to. He was kissing the ass of world leaders and they were just getting very fancy with those guys. Okay. Do you think at one point his intentions were genuine and they got something on him and now he's doing that? Yep. They probably got dirt on everyone. The ones that watch him. I've realized long and long ago that every agency, every thing, they don't work for the people. They work for the deep state. They work for the people that actually control the world. They keep us in line. We've got to watch what we say because let's be real here. Some bastard will take out contacts and probably we could get raided. We'd put past them. I think we could do some very good things in the White House and I think we'd make a very good team. I think we could make some positive changes alike. So let's run through some bills we want to do. Number one, we want to investigate. We don't want to invest that way. We want to prosecute big pharma for COVID. We want to prosecute them for literally doing zero trials on COVID, tests on COVID. We want to prosecute them on literally drugging the entire population of America. We want to basically, we want to go after these companies to make healthier foods and have less carbohydrates, certain things in it. In the food that basically puts so much chemicals in food and makes people fat in America. Yeah, and it makes men grow and it makes men get titties and lose testosterone too. It wouldn't surprise me. Number three, we would like to reaffirm the constitution and make it and basically undo any of the bullshit that is going to get pushed through by the Joker administration. Number three, Walter, how are we going to lower the debt of this country? I don't, I'll be honest, it would take... Yeah, it's impossible. We would objectively have to restart the whole thing. It is what it is. I mean, we could try and pay it back, but it would take... So what would happen in that aspect? Would everybody lose their money and would everybody lose their shares? We would probably try and put it in a way where people don't lose their money. We would just say like, you know, look, you know, you can't use your money. You can't use your money for a couple of days or a week. We'll try and make it a week. What if we backed it by a... Actually, no. We would tell them to take out a good amount of money that you can live off of. Take out most of your money. Basically take out all of your money. We're going to back it. What if we backed it by something else? What if we backed it by Bitcoin? Yeah, that's a great idea actually. Back the currency by Bitcoin and basically for everyone... Basically one dollar is backed by one Bitcoin. So for every one Bitcoin and basically the money would stay on the ledger, right? So basically it could be backed by Bitcoin or we basically make a hash or we basically make another version of it or we basically make a separate version. That basically follows Bitcoin, right? But it's not 100 % backed by it but it's 80 % to 90 % backed by it and it's also backed by movie reserves of maybe like silver or gold.
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A highlight from Erase PTSD Now! Dual Sympathetic Reset Procedure (DSRP) Removes Chronic Pain, Anxiety, & PTSD To The Pre-Trauma State - Dr. Eugene Lipov & Jamie Mustard
"All right, I'm here with Dr. Eugene Lipov and Jamie Mustard, best -selling authors of The Invisible Machine, the startling truth about trauma and scientific breakthrough. I'm sorry, a scientific breakthrough that can transform your life. Both pioneers in the area of dual sympathetic reset procedure. Guys, welcome to the show. Thanks for having us. Yeah, thank you so much for having us on. It's a pleasure to be here. Now, Dr. Lipov, I just finished your book just the other night, and I was just blown away at really how you kind of stumbled upon this procedure that's been going on since the early 1920s, but now it's like been revitalized. It seems like there's like this new resurgence of it, the Renaissance, if you will, of doing it again, and you're like the pioneer really spearheading that, and it just always blows me away. Like, that's great, but how did you get here? How did you get started and learn about this procedure being an anesthesiologist, I believe? I, thank you. Well, first of all, yes, I am definitely an anesthesiologist, for sure. Well, I would say it's not a resurgence. I think it's repurposing. What's new about it is we're repurposing the procedure for mental health. So typically anesthesiologists like, such as myself, who specialize in pain medicine, take care of pain medicine. So the history of the procedure was the first time Stelling -Ingdon block was ever done. That's one level injection here, 1926 for asthma. Since - What were they noticing, sorry to cut you off, but what were they noticing back in the 1920s that if you do a Stelling -Ingdon block here, and that's when you're pointing to the neck, for the people that are just listening to the audio, they may not be able to see, you're kind of pointing to the neck area. Are you, is that, would that be what I think is in the book is you talk about C3, the cervical spine, and C6 a lot. Is that kind of what you're talking about? And what was it doing for asthma back then? I don't even know how the correlation would be. That's a tremendous question. So, well, first of all, there are seven vertebrae in any mammal. Giraffe has seven, we have seven. So C7 is the bottom of the neck. C6 is right above it. C3 is almost up to the skull. So the standard technique was C6 or C7 Stelling -Ingdon block, one level. So they were doing it, they found that if you do an injection for asthma, it takes away asthma away. It's a really complicated reason. I actually wrote a paper on that a couple of years ago explaining a lot of the effects. It's crazy how that works, but that's outside this realm. Anyway, so we started doing it, we being anesthesiologists pain doctors. So as pain doctors, we have been doing Stelling -Ingdon blocks for arm pain, burning hand primarily since the forties. The first time I ever did the Stelling -Ingdon block was 1987 for CRPS or burning of the hand. And then, you know, I've been doing it for a number of years and then I had a patient that had hot flashes and we treated her hot flash using stellate. Actually, my brother came up with the concept because he thought, you know, hot flashes, everything is hot, burning hand, same thing. And I said - His brother's a physician, by the way, he's not a random guy that came up with the idea. He's a very smart dog. Anyway, we did the procedure and took away the hot flashes. We published and that worked well. Then Chicago Tribune came by to do a paper on me, basically saying how it's working. So they said, yes, it's working, but basically you're an incompetent hack because you don't know how, you don't know why it works, so you shouldn't be doing it. So I didn't disagree with that, shall we say. And they, what I tried to do is figure out why it worked for hot flashes. So I came across one paper from Finland where they were putting a throw card on the chest, putting the, moving the lung out of the way and clipping the nerves in the chest. And they were doing it for hand sweats. They found PTSD went away. So I wrote that paper and I thought, that's crazy how that works. I didn't, whatever. Anyway, so I looked at the anatomy. Turns chest out nerve goes to the neck nerve. From the neck it goes to the brain and that affects PTSD. So I called up my brother. I said, send me a patient's PTSD. He had one like that who was robbed at gunpoint and all type of bad things happened. Two months later, he was on his way to his psych ward. So we did an injection on the neck and his PTSD went away. That led to my first publication in 2008 and then that led to people following my work in Walter Reed, the Navy. I gave testimony in front of Congress and off we went. And then as we progressed, I'll give you more information later, but we found that when you do an injection two levels, C6 and C3, that's called DSR, dual sympathetic reset, because we're doing two levels inside of one that seems to be more effective. So that's our current latest and the greatest technique. Yeah, so amazing. I follow, you guys know my background and just I'm into this health. I'm into the biohacking. I understand a lot of this. And until reading your book, I never heard a DSR. And so I'm just so grateful that you are putting this out there so that more people in the world can learn. And I'm hoping that this podcast and many others will help promote it because it just, after reading your book, there's just so much transformation that can be done as you know, through just the PTSD or PTSD is referred to the book, the injury, because that's what it really is. Not a disorder for most people. It's an injury. And guess what? When you change the input that the body receives, the body can heal. It just needs the right input. And that's what you guys are doing. So yeah, so grateful. Can I tell about the PTSD thing, where that came from? Please. So there is an amazing psychiatrist out there. Thankfully, he's still alive, Frank Uggberg. He was number two man for NIMH, which is National Institute of Mental Health. He was part of the terminology development in 1980 for PTSD. So he came up with the term Stockholm syndrome. You may have heard of that. That's his terminology. So in 19, I think 2005 or 2006, he started to propagate this concept, PTSI, post -traumatic stress injury. Basically, if there is an emotional trauma, not physical trauma, no blow to the head, the brain changes. And we know that based on advanced scanners, such as PET scan and FMR, things like that. So when somebody says PTSD is invisible wound, my answer is you have the wrong scanner. If you have the right scanner, you'll be able to see it. Let me, can I comment on that? About Frank Uggberg, he coined the terms post -traumatic stress injury because post trauma creates a biological change in the body. Dr. Lipov in the early 2000s figured out a way to reset the body to the pre -trauma state in a simple outpatient procedure over one to two days. In 1970, Mr. Ockberg wrote a book with a bunch of Stanford scientists called Violence and the Struggle for Existence. Coretta Scott King did the forward to that book because it was two years after Martin Luther King was assassinated. And there's a chapter in that book called Biology and Aggression. And one of the things that they're proposing in that book, this is 50 years ago, is that we know that trauma is biological. And the reason we know is because if you traumatize an animal, a cat, a goat, a sheep, any animal, okay, it changes. It either gets very hostile or very timid. It's not, doesn't have a disorder. We've changed its biology. And, but they just didn't know how. So when, but Dr. Lipov with his dual sympathetic reset, he basically 35 years later, found that mechanism of what is causing that change towards timidity or aggression from trauma and the symptoms that make one act that way. And he's able to reset it in a simple outpatient procedure without drugs that is 85 to 90 % effective in the relief of the worst symptoms of post -traumatic stress. It's amazing. Jamie, and actually on your note, I was just thinking, and I can't remember if this, I've read so many books now, I'm getting them all mixed up, but I think maybe in the book you guys talk about, speaking of animals, if a duck or an animal gets stressed, right, they will shake, they shake because with the shaking actually pushes that stress out of the body. And I can't remember if it was your book or not, but they were talking about like, but if a duck or whatever they get in a fight, they'll just, they'll shake it off. And then they come right back into their clan or wherever they're at, and it's gone. They're back into it. But so I was just thinking about the whole biology, but you're right. We all think of this psychology, it's a psychological issue, it's a mental disorder. No, there's visible trauma, as you said, from Dr. Amen talking about spec scans and FMRIs and all those kinds of things. Yeah, I mean, you can see it on, I'll say this in my layman's terms, and then you can fix me. What Dr. Lipov is talking about is if you were using an FMR scan on somebody that has post -traumatic stress symptoms, feels it in their body, you would see overactivity in their amygdala, and you might see decreased blood flow to their frontal cortex, okay? So he goes in, he does this injection. It's the same $2 amount of anesthesia that goes into an epidural. So the pharmaceutical companies will never back it because you don't need to be dependent after you do this, right? And he basically, it's like rebooting a computer. He turns off the sympathetic nervous system with this anesthesia. It reboots 15 minutes later. It takes a few hours for it to wear off the day, but it really reboots about 15 minutes later. And when it comes back online, it comes back online at baseline, pre -trauma state. So what's really important about what you said earlier, Joel, about when you would talk about post -traumatic stress disorder or mental illness, is that's not what's going on when you see a traumatized person. When you see a traumatized person, you have a person with a broken leg you can't see. It is a physiological injury that we can now see and treat. And calling it a disorder or calling it mental illness, A, it's scientifically false, it's not true, and B, it's incredibly stigmatizing and it doesn't open up an opportunity for progress or fixing it. I believe that Dr. Lipov's innovation, he may, he'll find this incredibly, he's humble, but I think it is the most important medical innovation since the discovery of penicillin in 1928. In terms of the numbers, far more outweighs, if you look at how many people a year were saved by the polio vaccine in terms of lives lost, you might look at 50 ,000 people a year. If you look at people that do, even from the mildest forms of post -traumatic stress to suicidal ideation, you really, when we could talk about what the symptoms are, people that do this do not end up committing suicide. You know, the amount of lives saved from lack of suicide, less suicides alone, let alone all the various physical disease that's caused by the sympathetic nervous system being stuck in front of flight, the amount of lives saved by Dr. Lipov's innovation profoundly dwarfs even the polio vaccine. Well, so, hold on. So now I have to speak kind of medical science, right? I mean, that's essentially true. We don't have, I don't have, you know, if somebody asked me, it's like, show me the evidence, show me the evidence of success rates. So success rates are 80 to 90 % is about right.
The Breakdown
A highlight from PayPal's Stablecoin is the (Second) Biggest Crypto News Story of the Year
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, N .L .W. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, August 8th, and today we are talking about PayPal's new stablecoin. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, today we are talking about the big PayPal news, which was announced yesterday, and it hits at what I think is one of the biggest themes of the year, which is TradFi coming into the absolute utter wreckage of this industry after the last year plus of bad behavior and positioning themselves to take over like adults compared to some children who have lost their privileges. We'll get into that a little bit more, though, so first, let's talk about details and the reactions from the community. So PayPal is launching PayPal USD or PYUSD, a stablecoin that is issued by Paxos. It will be fully reserved using bank deposits, short -term treasuries, and other cash -like instruments. Initially, the stablecoin will be only available to U .S. customers. In one of the bigger parts of the announcement, PiUSD is an Ethereum -based ERC20 token. That means it will have compatibility across the Ethereum ecosystem from day one. Customers will be able to transfer the stablecoin between PayPal and Ethereum wallets, person -to -person payments will be enabled, the stablecoin will be integrated into the existing PayPal checkout process, and it will also be convertible into other cryptocurrencies already available on PayPal's platform. Now, while the stablecoin will be redeemable for U .S. dollars on a one -to -one basis, that feature will be intermediated by PayPal. What's more, this is happening right away. The rollout to U .S. customers will happen gradually over the coming weeks. The company also said that support for cross -platform payments with Venmo users will be coming soon. Now, there doesn't appear to be any way to prevent non -U .S. residents from getting access to the stablecoin on Ethereum, but details on that point haven't been made clear yet. There's already a smart contract deployed to the Ethereum network to operate the stablecoin, although there hasn't been any activity so far. PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said in a statement, Now, a stablecoin has been a long time coming for PayPal. The company first hinted at plans for this in early 2022 and obtained a full -bit license from New York State later that year. Indeed, along those lines, pretty much every step of the way, PayPal has gone to pains to ensure their crypto products are well -regulated and authorized. Schulman said that PayPal had extensively discussed their plans with regulators, stating, We are in a place right now in these conversations that people feel comfortable with a respected, well -regulated U .S. financial entity moving into the stablecoin space, and I think it's an important initial move. Put a big ol' pin in that point, as I think it is extremely, extremely telling. In their communications about the news, PayPal highlighted their choice of Ethereum, basically saying that they wanted it to be easily plugged into the existing ecosystem of developers' wallets and Web3 applications as well as exchanges. Now, on the back end, Paxos will be providing all of the infrastructure for the stablecoin and will begin issuing monthly reserve reports starting in September. Walter Hesseert, the head of strategy at Paxos, called this a watershed moment for the stablecoin industry when it comes to regulatory compliance. He noted that unlike some rival stablecoin issuers, Paxos is regulated as a trust company by the New York Department of Financial Services. Hesseert said, The difference is significant because we have a prudential regulator. In our case, you have a regulator overseeing every activity involved in the issuance, including the reserve management. This means no matter where you are in the world, anybody who has this token is protected by the oversight and the rules that are set for us by New York. Now, speaking of Paxos competitors, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said of the launch that, quote, It is a strong signal that near -instant, borderless and programmable payments in the form of stablecoins are here to stay. He also said, I'd like to congratulate PayPal and Paxos for the launch of PiUSD. It's incredibly exciting to see such a significant internet and payments company entering the stablecoin space. This is what happens when we start to get regulatory clarity. And with the Payment Stablecoin Act, this can open up a free and competitive market for dollar stablecoin issuers with strong supervision, allowing the U .S. to compete with digital dollars that are uniformly safe, transparent, liquid and supervised to Fed standards. Stablecoin laws are arriving in Japan, the U .K., EU, Hong Kong, UAE, Singapore and the U .S. Customers will know who they are dealing with, and firms that can survive scrutiny by central banks and prudential regulators will thrive. That's the market in 2024 and 2025. Now, staying on this regulatory theme for a moment, Patrick McHenry, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, had a strong opinion on the PayPal stablecoin launch and what it foreshadows for crypto in the U .S. He said in a statement, Now, it's notable not only that McHenry has been consistently one of the most steadfast advocates in Congress for rational crypto legislation, but that much of his work over the past 18 months has been focused on brokering bipartisan agreement on what stablecoin regulations should look like. Now, as a little aside, it is pretty remarkable to think about how different this response is as compared to the last time a big tech firm attempted to roll out a stablecoin. I'm referring, of course, to mid 2019 when Facebook announced Libra. That announcement was met with incredible skepticism and Zuckerberg himself was hauled into Congress to explain. Now, there are a bunch of reasons why this is different. One notable one was that Facebook wasn't a U .S. dollar stablecoin, but was a Bancor style basket of global currencies in which the U .S. dollar represented only 50 percent of the reserve. Second, Zuckerberg was planning to set up in Switzerland rather than the U .S. Third, it was Zuckerberg who was already in hot water for different reasons for both the Republicans and the Democrats. And of course, on top of all that, ultimately, Facebook wasn't first and foremost a financial services company, although PayPal is also nominally a technology company. It's never been anything but a financial company. There is also the fact that simply put, we're four years on. That's four years for Congress to have learned about and be able to distinguish between. Moving on, though, let's talk about what the denizens of crypto Twitter thought about this. One of the biggest themes of conversations was talk about potential restrictions, potential censorship and whether this is just a central bank digital currency by another name. Lawyer Sasha Hodler says, I just read the PayPal USD terms of service, full KYC, custody by Paxos, tied to your PayPal login, PayPal can reverse any transactions, claim to be fully backed by actual USD. All the censorship capabilities of a CBDC, but launched by big tech instead of the government. Riot platforms VP of research, Pierre Richard echoed those sentiments, saying so -called stable coins are permissioned fiat corporate versions of CBDC. Mark Jeffrey from Boolean Fund said, so basically the PayPal stable coin is a CBDC wearing tether lipstick. But what about specific concerns? Well, the big one was summed up by Crypto McKenna, who wrote, the PayPal stable coin has the ability to freeze your account and wipe your balance. I assume all payment processors will be forced to implement the CBDC type functionality. Now, others had issues with PayPal specifically. Chairman Burr Bernanke wrote, ah, yes, PayPal, the noble crusading company that stands for free speech, financial access for everyone and free flowing capital. Notably, they've never debunked anyone or frozen anyone's funds for activity they deemed not illegal, but immoral. There's absolutely no cases of PayPal demanking anyone. And when they've accidentally frozen accounts, they've been very quick to resolve the issues and have no track record of simply keeping your money. I can't think of a safer place to put my funds. Obviously, that commentary was being very sarcastic. Now, Bitcoin or Walker writes, can't wait to not use PayPal's new stable coin because I already deleted my PayPal when they said they would steal twenty five hundred from people for misinformation. For those of you who don't remember, that was a policy that was discussed in October of 2022. Now, others are sort of surprised that people are surprised that PayPal would act like a centralized company. Bernals writes, wait, people thought that the PayPal coin wouldn't be centralized? It's a fully backed stablecoin issued by a highly regulated TradFi entity. If you thought they weren't going to ham handedly bake in token freezes, I don't know what to tell you. ChainlinkGod writes, yes, PayPal's new centralized PiUSD stablecoin has centralized admin functions, as does USDT, USDC, USDP and all other pre -existing centralized stable coins issued by trusted third parties. It's not really that surprising, given the regulatory compliance requirements around handling fiat with consumers. Honestly, I'm surprised they actually went with the traditional stablecoin model of blacklist versus a more aggressive model of whitelist. Austin Campbell echoed these themes, saying the New York Department of Financial Services guidance for licensing stablecoins literally spells out that BSA, AML and sanctions compliance is required. This is probably the lightest touch way to do that versus a whitelist or something. The cost of doing business for a fiat backed coin. Former chief information security officer at A16Z Crypto Naseem wrote, I don't get all the fuss around PayPal's PiUSD having a centralized supply management. They are a financial institution whose goal is to make money move faster and more efficiently, not to be decentralized. People need to internalize that blockchains can be very efficient, interoperable rails for many use cases, regardless of the ethos alignment. Technology is rarely used for its original author's purpose, just like mobile phones or the Internet. David Morris from Coindesk puts it really simply, saying PayPal USD will be the most censored and seized centralized cryptocurrency of all time. Not even saying that is a sweeping condemnation. It just is what it is. Shapeshift founder Eric Voorhees agreed, but put a positive slant on it, saying you should assume that all centralized stablecoins can do this. Still, the launch is hugely positive, further helps the world move into crypto and from centralized crypto, people discover and become familiar with decentralized crypto. And that, of course, gets us to the takes about how this is, one, good for Ethereum and two, good generally for crypto mainstreaming. And of course, a lot of that is about scale. Business analyst Ethan Hughes writes, over the last 30 days, Ethereum has peaked at 556 ,000 active addresses. PayPal has 435 million active users and just issued their own stablecoin as an ERC 20 token on Ethereum. PayPal has 782 times more users than Ethereum. If only one percent of PayPal's users onboard to crypto through the stablecoin, that would result in 8x more DeFi users than we have peaked over the past month. Now, I could read one of a million other bullish tweets as well, but you get the idea. And I think it's pretty crisply put. There obviously are big implications if people actually choose to use this thing. Now, still, when it comes to the big themes that we've been talking about this year, I think one of the biggest discussion points are the regulatory implications. Crypto lawyer at Wilkie Farr, Mike Selig, writes, banking regulators have essentially said banks can only issue stablecoins on private blockchains. PayPal will issue its stablecoin on Ethereum. This regulatory arbitrage has to put pressure on Congress to pass a stablecoin bill ASAP. Austin Campbell quote tweeted that and said, I've been saying for a while that stablecoins are coming whether the banking regulators want them to or not. Fighting on the hill of defending a wildly antiquated system that rips off consumers is not going to end well. We need to embrace technology and empowering the end user. Jason Yanowitz from Blockworks writes, PayPal taking on USDC, love to see it. It's easy for regulators to be anti stablecoin when shadowy supercoders create them, less easy when it's major US financial organizations. Get ready for the stablecoin narrative to shift in DC. Now, speaking of a shift, Nick Carter, one of the most careful trackers of Operation Chokepoint 2 .0, definitely sees something significant here. He tweeted, PayPal news is the first positive piece of news I've seen in the Chokepoint 2 .0 category since January. Paxos BUSD was ground zero in terms of extrajudicial coordinated cross agency regulatory harassment. The fact that PayPal was able to get this through with Paxos is telling. Hal Presett, Northrock Digital puts it even more simply, tweeting, Paxos works with finance, send them a Wells notice and shut it down. Paxos works with PayPal. We approve. Clear trend here from US regulators to try to marginalize those they feel are shady bad actors and bring in large US institutions to run the show instead. This has implications for ETFs. And this, of course, gets to what I think is the big, big theme here. The incredibly clear trend right now is that all of the big companies, the big traditional financial institutions who spent the last bull run dabbling and starting to get aware and learning and preparing themselves and who had started to spend the beginning of this bear market building infrastructure, all of those firms saw in the collapse of FTX and the following regulatory response, not a reason to leave the space, but an incredible vacuum in which to operate. The thinking has to be from these players that crypto native institutions and startups had their chance and they biffed it. So now the maturation of the assets and the growth of interest among consumers in them and on the other, the regulatory disfavor of a lot of the institutions that those consumers were dealing with. What's the answer? Of course, it's for TradFi to come in and clean up. It is not an accident that the thing that set off the recent shift in spot Bitcoin ETFs was BlackRock entering the space, the world's biggest asset manager. PayPal's announcement of their stablecoin is absolutely part two of that trend that started with BlackRock's ETF proposal. But in no universe is it the last version of this that we're going to see. Now, ultimately, when it comes to the influence of the PayPal stablecoin itself, it is very easy to do the math on the total addressable market and come away salivating. But at the end of the day, it will be a test as much as anything about whether regular people have uses that they want to use stablecoins for. Is this, in other words, just another stablecoin competitor for the crypto natives, or is it something that brings more people in? For that, we will, of course, have to wait and see, but damn, this is a spicy and significant announcement, I would not sleep on the significance of it. Appreciate you guys listening, as always, and until tomorrow, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Thomas Howard (Encore Continued)
"Did you ever hear the expression, if life gives you lemons, make lemonade? Well, when Eric Metaxas was little, he had his own lemonade stand. And he sold so much lemonade, he became rich beyond his wildest dreams. Now he's able to do whatever he wants, and he's now the host of a big -time radio show. Welcome the guy who's oh so lemony sweet, Eric Metaxas! I am right now going to air an interview I did with my friend Tom Howard about one of the best books I have ever read in my life. It's called Chance of the Dance. He wrote it, and this is my Socrates in the City conversation with the great Tom Howard at his home. Do not miss it. Welcome to another Socrates in the City event here at the home of Thomas Howard, the great author and, I'm happy to say, my dear friend. He has written many books. In part one of this Socrates in the City interview with him, we talked principally about his book, Chance of the Dance, which I could rave and rave about and typically do. hour, In this I want to talk to him about lots of other things. My conversations with him over the years have been so fascinating that I really just wanted to share some of that with my Socrates in the City audience so that you could also get a taste of Tom and of his mind and be intrigued to want to read his books. So we're here without a studio audience. You're the audience, and so hold your applause. But I do have to say that it means so much to me that Tom and his dear wife Loveless have led us into their home with all these cameras and microphones and things, but it's a privilege for me, and I hope you'll enjoy it nearly as much as I do, so stay tuned. Tom, let me start with this in the second part of our conversation. You know that I love you, and I can say that to you because you have an understanding of that word. My understanding of that word comes from things I've read by you and C .S. Lewis. But you know that I love you, and it's such a joy to be with you that, as I think I said before, I could almost talk to you about anything because I enjoy talking to you. That's mutual, I have to say. I hope that doesn't embarrass you too much. But I revel in you and your emails and your letters and things. And actually, maybe a good place to start would be, we were talking before about your relationship with Lewis, and I asked you whether you'd kept any of the correspondence with him, and you said you thought it was in the Wade Center at Wheaton College, and you were at least slightly incorrect because in the other room, I just happened to find a framed letter from C .S. Lewis to Tom Howard. I think you're the Tom Howard in the letter. Dear Mr. Howard, Maudlin College, Cambridge. Oh, Cambridge, this was in 1958. He said both. And when I read this to you earlier, you almost memorized it. I just can't believe, first of all, his handwriting. What the heck? Amazing. It's beautiful. Right? Legible. It's legible. Dear Mr. Howard, oh, but believe me, you are still only paddling in the glorious sea of Tolkien. Go in for the hobbit at once. Go on from the hobbit. Go on from the hobbit at once to the Lord of the Rings. Semicolon. Three volumes and nearly as long as the Bible, but not a word too long. Three volumes and nearly as long as the Bible and not a word too long, parentheses, except for the first chapter. Which is a botch. Which is a botch. Don't be put off by it. This is hilarious. Is this in Walter Hooper's volumes of his letter in there? I don't know. I mean, the idea that, it's just delicious, that Lewis is calling the first chapter of Lord of the Rings a botch. A botch. But he loves the rest of it as much as anything. Then he says, the hobbit is merely a fragment of his myth, detached and adapted for children. And losing much by the adaptation. And losing much by the adaptation. The Lord of the Rings is the real stuff. Thanks for all the nice things you say about my own little efforts. Little efforts. Yours sincerely, C .S. Lewis. This is, how much can I pay you for this? Would you take, would you take a, no? What do you say? That's, I mean, you, look, I neglected to say this in the first hour. You taught at Gordon College for a long time. So you were a professor at the college level for a long time. And maybe I assume people know that, but many wouldn't. You taught English literature. Did you teach Tolkien? The English syllabus, I had to follow it. And I'm not sure that I ever actually did formally get the section, which I would have loved. But isn't it because when you were teaching college, maybe they wouldn't have thought of Tolkien as being worthy yet of being part of the canon. Yeah, I'm not sure. Right? I mean, that's my guess. Maybe they even think of Lewis as being worthy of being part of the canon. Even in a Christian college like Gordon. But I think I could have made it worthy of the canon. I mean, I think they would have, you know, eaten up if you really unpack what the Lord of the Rings is all about. Well, okay, then what is the Lord of the Rings all about? Is this where I get to admit that I've not read it? Yes, but you can still get into heaven, possibly. I've read Chance of the Dance many times. Just by being Eric, yeah. So what is the fascinating, I mean, there are many people that rave and rave about Tolkien. And there are many people that are unaware of Tolkien. I've heard people rave about him. I feel like I know lots about him. I know that he was instrumental in leading C .S. Lewis to faith in Jesus, which is an outrageous and amazing thing. But what is it about Tolkien for you? Well, I think he does an almost incredible job, piece of work, by opening out for us deprived, benighted moderns. Opening out the world of myth, of saga, of the ancient glory of narrative. I think that's what, you know, his work is, I would suspect, is unique in the modern epoch. Yeah. I am struck, very struck, by reading this letter, the way Lewis writes about the Lord of the Rings. I confess that I wasn't aware of his admiration for it at that level. Yeah, yeah. What do you think it is about Tolkien that Lewis so loved and admired? I think it's a tribute to Tolkien's own capacity of soul to see and love magnificence, which one is drawn into in the saga of the Lord of the Rings. Do you remember when you read the so -called space trilogy, when you read those books? You mean Lewis's... Lewis's The Anselm and the Paralandra and That Hideous Strength? It must have been while I was still in school. I'm not sure whether I had gone on to college by that time. I was a slow starter. Yeah. I often think that Paralandra is maybe Lewis's best book. I've never heard anyone share my opinion, but I think that well of it. Well, I couldn't disagree with you. I mean, it's a terribly hard choice, you know. What's Lewis's best word? Right. Well, there are passages toward the end of Paralandra which are just flights of beautiful language like I've never read. I mean, people crave about Gabriel Garcia Marquez or, you know, I've never read anything better than some of the passages there. But even the idea behind Paralandra, I mean, I think of it as I assume you taught Milton over the years. Yes, yes. So I think of Paralandra as his response to Paradise Lost and it ought to be taught in classes. In tandem with that, yeah.
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On this week's AP Religion Minute, the archbishop of Chicago wants more information from the Illinois attorney general about newly uncovered cases of abuse.
"This week's AP religion roundup. The archbishop of Chicago wants more information from the Illinois attorney general about newly uncovered cases of abuse. In an interview with The Associated Press, archbishop blaze sewage urged the attorney general to provide information about 125 newly uncovered cases of priests, who sexually abused minors. It really does highlight the terrible tragedy that took place in so many lives by priest who acted to responsibly, but also leaders in the church who did not respond appropriately. Cardinal sewage says he would gladly include the cases on his list of credibly accused clergy if the claims were substantiated. In his first interview, since the report was released, the cardinal expressed surprise that the report contained names he had never heard of. We are genuinely perplexed by the use of the word undisclosed reports because as far as we know and we verified this also with the state's attorney, we have gone ahead and been very careful about making sure that any accusation any allegation of sexual abuse of someone in the church has been reported to the state's attorneys. The nearly 700 page report said investigators found that more than 450 Catholic clergy and Illinois 6 diocese had sexually abused nearly 2000 children since 1950. It depicted the problem as far worse than the hierarchy had acknowledged in 2018 at the start of the state's review. The newly revealed cases wouldn't necessarily have been handled by the archdiocese, but rather the religious orders were the pre served. During the 5 years, we have constantly asked the attorney general. If you come across any accusations that have been substantiated, that we don't have who are religious orders or others, please tell us, and we will look into it and do it. So we were surprised by the new names on there. We thought we had that kind of relationship with the attorney general. And so our disappointed that we're hearing these for the first time. Super acknowledged that the report laid barrow problem in the way the Catholic Church has handled abuse cases. Religious orders such as the Jesuits franciscans and Maris often escaped scrutiny since they keep personnel files on their priests, not the diocese and leadership. I'm Walter ratliff.
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AP Religion Roundup interview on a Chicago church abuse investigation
"This week's AP religion roundup. The archbishop of Chicago wants more information from the Illinois attorney general about newly uncovered cases of abuse. In an interview with The Associated Press, archbishop blaze sewage urged the attorney general to provide information about 125 newly uncovered cases of priests, who sexually abused minors. It really does highlight the terrible tragedy that took place in so many lives by priest who acted to responsibly, but also leaders in the church who did not respond appropriately. Cardinal sewage says he would gladly include the cases on his list of credibly accused clergy if the claims were substantiated. In his first interview, since the report was released, the cardinal expressed surprise that the report contained names he had never heard of. We are genuinely perplexed by the use of the word undisclosed reports because as far as we know and we verified this also with the state's attorney, we have gone ahead and been very careful about making sure that any accusation any allegation of sexual abuse of someone in the church has been reported to the state's attorneys. The nearly 700 page report said investigators found that more than 450 Catholic clergy and Illinois 6 diocese had sexually abused nearly 2000 children since 1950. It depicted the problem as far worse than the hierarchy had acknowledged in 2018 at the start of the state's review. The newly revealed cases wouldn't necessarily have been handled by the archdiocese, but rather the religious orders were the pre served. During the 5 years, we have constantly asked the attorney general. If you come across any accusations that have been substantiated, that we don't have who are religious orders or others, please tell us, and we will look into it and do it. So we were surprised by the new names on there. We thought we had that kind of relationship with the attorney general. And so our disappointed that we're hearing these for the first time. Super acknowledged that the report laid barrow problem in the way the Catholic Church has handled abuse cases. Religious orders such as the Jesuits franciscans and Maris often escaped scrutiny since they keep personnel files on their priests, not the diocese and leadership. I'm Walter ratliff.
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German prosecutor says clues to McCann child disappearance possible at dam site
"A German prosecutor says clues to the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British child who went missing in 2007 in Portugal a possible at a Portuguese dam site. The latest search for clues regarding the disappearance started on Tuesday, following a quest by German authorities, some 30 Portuguese German and British police are taking part in the search operation at the dam, which is located about 30 miles from the resort of pra da lush, where the three year old girl was last seen 16 years ago. In Germany, prosecutor Christian Walters told German broadcaster NDR,
The Breakdown
Binance Accused of Co-Mingling Customer Funds With Company Revenue
"Hello friends. Well, this morning as I was prepping the show, news broke from Reuters. Walter Bloomberg on Twitter said, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance co -mingled customer funds with company revenue in 2020 and 2021. In breach of U .S. financial rules that require customer money to be keep separate, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. So let's go through this, let's try to get a sense of how serious this is, let's see if there is another Sam -type situation on our hands. First, let's talk the accusation. Well, it's pretty much right there in the headline, Binance co -mingling customer funds with company revenue in 2020 and 2021, the sourcing, three sources familiar with the matter and Reuters, but let's try to get a few more details. From the Reuters piece, quote, one of the sources, a person with direct knowledge of Binance Group's finances, said the sums ran into billions of dollars and co -mingling happened almost daily in accounts the exchange held at U .S. lender Silvergate Bank. Reuters couldn't independently verify the figures or the frequency, but the news agency reviewed a bank record showing that on February 10th, 2021, Binance mixed $20 million from a corporate account with $15 million from an account that received customer money. Reuters found no evidence that Binance client monies were lost or taken. So there's a bunch that's important here. One is that Reuters couldn't verify the figures in total and that they really only had this one particular bank record showing a mixing. Now, what did Binance say? Well, in a statement to Reuters, they obviously denied this. Spokesperson Brad Jaff said, these accounts were not used to accept user deposits. They were used to facilitate user purchases. There was no co -mingling at any time because these are 100 % corporate accounts. Reuters goes on.
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On this week's AP Religion Minute, a new film explores faith and growing up, and CeCe Winans talks about her career in contemporary Christian music.
"I'm Walter ratliff with the religion minute. Dear lord. Laurel par Metz directorial debut, the starling girl puts the viewer in the modest shoes of a 17 year old named Jim. The main character has grown up in a conservative Christian community. Ren Schmidt plays Jim strict mother. She says the film explores how everyone's lives are shaped by beliefs. All of these characters in a way are held back or confined by their belief system. I think that's definitely something that we can all identify with. The starling girl is in wide release this weekend. CC whine and singing career spans more than 40 years. She says being authentic has been her key to longevity. For me, I just pray lord, what is your will for me? And I've seen through the years that when I live in that posture of listening of being surrounded by young people at all times, he's always given me songs throughout the years that reached people right where they were. I'm Walter ratliff.
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On this week's AP Religion Roundup, a new film explores faith and growing up, and CeCe Winans talks about her career in contemporary Christian music.
"On this week's AP religion roundup, a new film explores faith and growing up and Celine and talks about her career in contemporary Christian music. Dear lord. I want to reflect your holiness. Laurel par met's directorial debut, the starling girl puts the viewer in the modest shoes of a 17 year old named Jim. The main character has grown up in a conservative Christian community. He lies a scanlon who plays Jim, says the movie tackles sensitive subjects. The film in a greater sense, I think, explores abusive relationships and I think it does a really good job at not falling into a stereotype. Ren Schmidt plays Jim strict mother. She says the film explores how everyone's lives are shaped by beliefs. All of these characters in a way are held back or confined by their belief system. I think that's definitely something that is something that we can all identify with. The starling girl is in wide release this weekend. Lord we are ready for more Cece wine and singing career spans more than 40 years, recording and performing both as a solo artist and as a duo with her brother Bebe. AP's Hillary Powell spoke to sisi during her first tour in a decade. So many songs have gotten people through, including goodness of God. But there's also like a contemporary nature to your music as well. How has that kind of helped maybe speak to different audiences? It wasn't a strategic plan to be played outside of the walls of church, but we loved contemporary music and not just contemporary we loved it all. But BB and I chose to go that route because as he would write and we would sit down and see how these songs would go, it just became our style. And I think that proves that God is for every part of our lives. Cece winance has sold 17 million records worldwide, and won many awards, but she says spending time with her grandchildren tops the list. I'm Walter ratliff.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"walter" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"And we've got a lot going on this hour of the program. I want to share some info from our good friend, congressman Jim Jordan, a chairman of the House judiciary committee. And by the way, he will be on the program tomorrow. To talk about this very disturbing information involving the Catholic Church and new documents that Jim Jordan has been made aware of reveal the FBI tried to develop sources inside local Catholic churches. Remember back around 9 11 when the FBI was trying to infiltrate the mosques to root out to root out the terrorist. Well, that's what the Biden administration is doing with the Catholics. Jim Jordan revealing the FBI relied on information derived from at least one undercover employee who sought to use local religious groups as new avenues for tripwire and source development. The proposed outreach plan included contacting mainline Catholic parishes and local diocese and leadership. And the document reveals the FBI also expressed an interest in leveraging existing sources. To report on suspicious activity, what kind of suspicious activity within the capital church this is bonkers. But I guess it now makes sense as to why they decided to evict the Catholic priest from Walter Reed medical center right before holy week. I want to go to the patriot mobile to use maker line good friend of this program. You see him all the time on newsmax. Hogan gidley, who is also the senior adviser for comms over at America first policy institute, Hogan, good to have you with us today. Great to be with you, John. Thanks so much for having me. You know, this latest information coming from Jim Jordan and we're going to have him on the show tomorrow to talk about this incredibly disturbing that the administration now appears to be considered Catholics to be enemies of the state. Where's Nancy Pelosi on this, by the way, didn't see a quote unquote good Catholic? Where's Joe Biden the president of the United States on this? In equal unquote, a good Catholic. Wouldn't he be trying to get to the bottom of the fact that a three liter agency is again trying to weaponize its power to go after a particular religion to go after people who miss country the way that it has unlawfully unconstitutionally and I would argue something in a way that's un American. This is the type of thing that you've seen with the weaponization of government that has been on the steady increase, really for years in this country, but definitely after 2016 and Donald Trump's election. They were so angry at the thought that their power and that their fiefdom would be taken away from them that they decided to go after people who dared threaten that gaining and maintaining of power. And you know, I hear people say it all the time that if they'll go after Trump, they'll ask us, they're already going after us. And this particular instance is another example of a way where they're going after an entire denomination. To try and get rid of a Catholic priest from Walter Reed deny that access to wounded veterans is unbelievable, unconscionable and quite frankly, heads should roll and the administration should answer. Yeah, this is just mind boggling and again, all of this information coming out of the Richmond office so our listeners on WR VA there at enrichment what a horrible thing to imagine that the FBI may have infiltrated your church and apparently they're being triggered by one of the concerns is these masses that are being held in Latin Hogan. It's almost laughable, but we're talking about the largest, the largest denomination in the country. I mean, the Catholic Church, this is massive, and of course we know they've also been going after Southern Baptist and other denominations, but it's clear to me this is a continuation of a policy that was started under Barack Obama interrupted by Donald Trump, and now has been reinvigorated again..
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"walter" Discussed on Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
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Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"walter" Discussed on Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"I'm Megan Lee, and I'm Lucy Henson. Fairytales are both timeless and personal. We see their themes and motifs repeated in stories spanning the centuries. But while the characters and scenarios might be familiar, the morals change over time. The stories message may change depending on who is telling that story and who is listening. In particular, women's roles and sexuality have been modified to what the authors or the fairytale collectors. Think is suitable for the intended audience. We're lucky to have so many talented authors reinventing fairytales for the modern world. Throwing away outdated morals and giving us characters that reflect what society is today, or possibly what we hope it will be. One of those writers is Heather Walter, who has penned a retelling of sleeping beauty in her duology, malice and misrule. Heather, thank you for joining us. Please tell our listeners a little bit about yourself. Hey, I'm Heather, and I wrote the mouse and misrule duology in my day job. I taught English for a while and then I switched over to librarianship. I've always been a very heavy reader writing here and there until I finally kind of circled back and decided to get serious about writing books. So I always love stories, especially fairytales. I've always kind of been drawn to the fairytale retelling, that genre, any kind of historical retelling, anything of, like you said before where a story that we know is told from a different point of view, I think it's so interesting how stories can change based off who's telling them. And so when I decided to write malice that's exactly what I was going for, a story that we know, but a completely different vantage point on it. So, I mean, sleeping beauty is a story that we're starting to see quite a few retellings of, as people become more aware of the issues of consent. So what was it that drew you to reinvent this story in particular? The sleeping beauty, I always really liked it, not so much the princess. I screw up watching the animated version, there are some old live versions that I really liked. And it wasn't really the princess that drew me to that story. It was more at the dark fairy, the full character that I really, really liked..
Underrated
"walter" Discussed on Underrated
"They're like guess what here we are paying it off and they pay it off at the mike the last in the movie. And it's just so simple as just walter. It's just and it's like we were talking about taking pictures not of the show that you're watching but of your friends like being at the show that quintessence of life at the end was walter himself just kind of like looking and just it's like it says on the cover like life dedicated to the people who made it and it's exactly what you're saying about you know having about capturing the snow leopard. That's not the ultimate cover ultimate cover is just like the people around us and like walter just being a person and that is i'd say amazing to me that they pulled off in like build this thing up and then delivered on it like that's what really all these things in the end. The whole thing was chomping at the end and then just like being like yeah. This is the cover. It's about the life of walter mitty and that was such a powerful moment and powerful ending. That really just delivered on this thing. That seemed like they wouldn't be able to So it it really. It really hit me and just made just it was a perfect just like little dislike way to go out like there's no other way that it could end it. It was perfect. I highly agree. Like one of my favorite All of us are really big movie fans and always excited for comic book adaptations and another photo of trying to keep was one of my favorite things. I saw a promotional image was for scott pilgrim way back in two thousand ten. I kind of really couple of the key first comics. That are the graphic novels. They were the first to at the time. And then i kind of forgot about it. And they're like. Hey we're making scott pilgrim house like oh shit okay cool and there's this promotional image and that was it it was just they didn't show anything else. You know. you already know that this move is going to be.
Underrated
"walter" Discussed on Underrated
"I feel like because i'm a big danger man like you said derek Writer myself a right off the excuse me as you do but daydream a lot and i do get caught up in daydreams a lot and the thing is there is some parts of those daydreams where you go. Whoa this is really hitting really close to home. And there was something about like the christmas of the film and the clearness that you just kind of go to real an aunt an aspect and then later on in the film where walter finally dives and he goes you fuck it. I'm going to take those risks. And i'm gonna go ahead first and you know i'm gonna go to greenland i'm gonna. I'm gonna find sean and all that stuff and any kind of upsets you a little bit like it kind of that. That's where the melancholy kicked in for me because now it gets even more real because it's like now he's doing it because the problem the thing with people as i'm not trying to attack anybody i'm not trying to like you know like resource up or anything but the thing is with people is that people love to talk about what they want to do. People love it. They thrive on being like get one day. I'm gonna travel one day. I'm gonna make all this money or one avenue or that. But they don't do it and that's the reality and i think that's where it may be. Some people might have taken offense to it. This is just my personal opinion to it. But i did feel the sense of melancholy. Where like he's going out and he's doing all these things that it's all wonderful and stuff because the thing is you know that there's people that do that you that there's people that can finally decided to fuck this office job. Fuck working at this place. Fuck working at mcdonald's. I'm gonna go dive in and i'm going to travel the world woman.
Underrated
"walter" Discussed on Underrated
"To see the world thinks dangerous to come to see behind walls to draw closer. Hey everybody welcome to. The podcast is the pike castle where we discussed films that we feel are underrated under appreciated. Those have slipped under the radar and pass most people by This is a collaboration of friends and together. We are the under company. I'm joined by as always by. Derek and allen was going on today we're gonna be talking about the twenty thirteen version of a secret life of walter mitty. I say this version because it's the the original iteration was a short story written by james thurber and had a previous nineteen forty seven film starring the iconic actor danny kaye. Who would start. His daydreams with a pocket pocket pocket of All all the versions are vastly different But and have over compensation story storylines but all of them are stemming from the idea of an over imaginative man escaping his reality through his many fantasies This film unfairly received iran score from critics and while audience liked it with a seventy one percent in seven point. Three on imdb. This film deserves so much more from the amazing dual performance and incredible. Jackie from ben stiller. Who in my opinion is an underrated director in an himself with that. Yeah and an incredible cinematography. I mean oh my gosh. This film is such an incredible story of Of telling have how to regain yourself and so and how to truly live your fantasies So i just want to start this conversation because like What really watching for today. I'm like i think this is my speed racer where i have known understanding why this movie does not get more. Recognition is such a beautiful movie. It's it's messages so touching ben. Stiller is so transformative in this movie You know seen him in the beginning in his his journey at the end and just going on this journey with him have having seen the original danny kaye movie. This one just blows out one out of the water and like getting it..
The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast
"walter" Discussed on The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast
"A new book called a reporter's life. it's a beautiful book that chronicles his life as a newsman. You speak in the book. Reports life about your first encounter with racism. Oh my gosh. it's it was traumatic lasted with me since we moved to houston texas from kansas city. When i was ten years old. And they're i'm sure it's a black problem. If you call it a problem there must have been obviously but it did. There weren't that many americans there and was i wasn't aware of it at all. I think i knew one very nice. African american worked from my grandfather's drugstore kansas. If we moved to houston kansas city got to houston and the very second night where there my father was a dentist His sponsored brought him down there to be in the office with a and a teacher to dental college there. had dinner out at a very fancy residential area of houston wherever out and there that time it'd never conditioning didn't have freezers. Can believe it or not. You call it the drugstore. You got ice cream delivered. After dinner and the delivery boys were all black motorcycle. The boys we were sitting on the front porch having a nice talk with dr smith. I'll call him. I wouldn't want to embarrass any ayers. Yeah sure it should embarrass him to wooden than at any rate. The boy came on the on the motorcycle and he was a boy. Not not a man maybe seventy seventy and he obviously was looking for a way to get to the back door at a flashlight looking around and there was a new subdivision. That didn't have the kind of normal driveways. You'd have that kind of a strange entrance to an alleyway. Couldn't find it and finally he started walking up this long front walk to the front porch. And dr smith is sitting there in iraq. Or i'll remember and as the boy started up the walkway. Every step void took. Smith would move forward just a little another inch or two and you could feel tension building but i had no idea why and the boy came and as he put his foot on the step for one of the four steps coming up with the porch speth came out of his seat. Like polaris missile with his hand already. Cocked in a fist. And he hit him in the middle of the face. Middle of the face knocked him back onto the onto the grass ice cream flying out of his hand of course in the sack and he said excuse horrible word but he said that'll teach you nigger. Never put your foot on a white man's front porch. Well that did that did it. I was just watching this amazing scene of forty import of it did strike me at the moment but horrible to see anybody hit. I don't think i've ever seen anybody get before like that. My father though. Got up and said walter hudson. We're leaving and started down the front steps. And dr smith said. Wait a win. Well what's the matter what what's the matter. He didn't no matter. Even my father said we're leaving and he said i'll get my car. I got my car other than answering. Wouldn't answer we walked out into the dark of strange city. Strange neighborhood away from the downtown section where we were staying hotel and walked down that street. My father seething and my mother saying what are we gonna do. What are we going to. Do you know out in this dark area. We waited for the past a couple of houses. Open there'd be a light there. We could call a car or something and find one. Went to shepherd drive and hitched a ride. Finally getting downtown and it was only. In retrospect that i realized i would never prouder my father then that moment but gave.
The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast
"walter" Discussed on The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast
"So what would our part of the pie and we just fell on faces was substantial and satisfactory was granted some of the very first television interviews with john f. kennedy before and after he was elected president or interview with the senator will be entirely i. It will be spontaneous. It will not be edited. The questions have been submitted to mr kennedy in advance. I will be asking them of them for the first time. I had the painful task of also telling america. The news at no one wanted to hear remember. We all remember this and this is where we heard it from from dallas texas. The flash apparently official president kennedy died at one. pm central standard time. Two o'clock eastern standard time. Some thirty eight minutes ago was that one of the hardest things you've ever had to do. are they. Probably so you know we news people. I've always felt we were like other emergency. Personnel policemen firemen emergency room. We have a job to do in the story breaks. And we'd do it. Had rented flows faster. The emotions catch up with a little bit later and all the morning the first hour so he was the hospital job just was almost automatic. You know what you do have to do. But knowing you're communicating to the nation. The fact that he was dead finally irrevocably that was It was a tough moment. I choked up. We could tell you. We're trying to hold it together to. I tell walter trying to hold it together. It was what made us all lose it. You know i tell them my book about getting off their improve six hours of that going into my class boost office off the newsroom. And i've been telling all afternoon about how the telephone circuits. Were tied up all over america and i wanted to talk to my wife friendly voice. I've been hearing nothing but official things today. I wanna to talk to her. But i wanted to i room and i had to full and with six lines coming in. I suddenly realized they were all busy. And i was having the same problem. Everybody else couldn't get a fine out well. One of came open that woman. I grabbed that line quickly and as happens with the automatic phone boards. The line of calls incoming come through to whatever line is available and there was some woman on the lawn hill in this terribly kind of phony boston park avenue accent and and i i said hello and she said i'd like to speak to someone at cbs. And i said this is cbs. And the news. Department please i said this is a news department. And she said well..
Harvard Classics
"walter" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"The discovery of jonah by sir walter raleigh. Although as i am persuaded deonna cannot be entered that way yet. No doubt the trade of gold from thence it by branches of rivers into the river of amazon's and so it death on every hand far from the country itself for those indians of trinidad have plates of gold from ghana and those cannibals dominika which dwell in the islands by which are ships pass yearly to the west indies. also the indians of perria. Those indians called to curry's choji apple. Tomio cumana go tos. And all those other nations inhabiting near about the mountains that run from pari a thorough the province of venezuela and in morocco pana and the cannibals of guana pa. The indians called asa. Why coca i j and the rest. All which shelby described in my description as they are situate. Have plates of gold of jonah and upon the river of amazon's the vet right that the people wear croissants of gold for of that form the guangan's most commonly make them so as from dominika to amazon's which is above two hundred fifty leagues. all the chief indians. All parts where of those plates of jonah undoubtedly those that trade with amazon's return much gold. Which as is aforesaid columnist by trade from jonah by some branch of a river that followed from the country into amazon's and either it is by the river which passed by the nation's called his nato's kerry puna i made inquiry amongst the most ancient invest traveled of the orinoco caponi and i had knowledge of all the rivers between can amazon's and was very desirous to understand the truth of those warlike women because of summit is believed of others. Not and though. I digress from my purpose yet. I will set down that which has been delivered me for truth of those women and i speak with a cacique or lord of people that told me he had been in the river and beyond it. Also the nation's of these women are on the south side of the river in the provinces of taipei go and their chief est strengths and retracts are in the island. Situate on the south side of the entrance. Some sixty leagues within the mouth of the said river. The memories of the like women are very ancient as well in africa. As in asia in africa those that had medusa for queen others inside the ah near the rivers of today's and third madan. We find. also that lambeau marcy..
Harvard Classics
"walter" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Introductory note sir walter. Raleigh may be taken as the great typical figure of the age of elizabeth courtier and statesman soldier and sailor scientists and men of letters. He engaged in almost all the main lines of public activity in his time and was distinguished in them. All his father was a devonshire gentleman of property connected with many of the distinguished families of the south of england. Walter was born about fifteen fifty two and was educated at oxford. He i saw military service in the huguenot army. In france in fifteen sixty nine and in fifteen seventy eight engage with his half brother sir humphrey gilbert in the first of his expeditions against the spaniards after some service in ireland. He attracted the attention of the queen and rapidly rose to the perilous position of her chief favourite with her approval. He fitted out two expeditions for the colonization of virginia. Neither of which did his royal mistress permit him to lead in person and neither of which succeeded in establishing a permanent settlement. After about six years of high favor raleigh found his position at court in danger by the rivalry of essex and in fifteen ninety. Two on returning from convoy Squadron he had fitted out against the spanish he was thrown into the tower by the orders of the queen who had discovered an entry between him and one of her ladies whom he subsequently married he was ultimately released engaged in various naval exploits and in fifteen ninety four sailed for south america on the voyage described in the following narrative on the death of elizabeth rallies. Misfortunes increased he was accused of treason against james the first condemned reprieved and imprisoned for twelve years during which he wrote his history of the world and engage in scientific researches in sixteen sixteen. He was liberated to make another attempt to find the gold mine in venezuela but the expedition was disastrous and on his return raleigh was executed on the old charge in sixteen eighteen in his vices in his virtues. Raleigh is a thorough representative of the great adventurers who laid the foundations of the british empire..
WMAL 630AM
"walter" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"Walters, your husband's company. Good morning. Good morning to our next guest who is a candidate for lieutenant governor in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Head of the Republican Convention set to take place tomorrow. Winston Serious joins us. Good morning wisdom. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, so good to be on your show. It's really great to have you with us. I I'm interested in I I see that you Virginia pilot quotes you as saying that you think that there are some politicians specifically in Virginia that benefit when citizens are at each other's throats that they're crewing political power unto themselves by making people fight With one another. How would you be different? Should you become the lieutenant governor? Because that's not the way I roll. I am trying to be a true servant leader. You know, I'm from Jamaica and I see what happens when people get power and too much power. When I was in office because I am the first black Republican woman ever elected to the General Assembly, and so I tried to be a servant leader. I tried toe ensure that the citizens Of the 90th district, which I represented parts of Chesapeake, Norfolk and Virginia Beach. I wanted them to understand that the power that I had comes from them. That they have the power. The seat does not belong to me, and when I'm no longer there that they should always demand of their leaders through servant leadership, So that's what I modeled when I was there. As we've been talking to different candidates throughout this process leading up to the GOP convention tomorrow, lot of we've had a lot of discussions about schools, but you are very specific. You want school choice in Virginia as a way to combat this indoctrination, give parents a choice. So instead of having to constantly fight and have these kids subjected to things that they don't want you said, give them the choice. How would you do that in Virginia? Yeah, you know, um, one of the things that the Democrats like to tell us is that they love everybody more than the Republicans ever could. And yet, what I see from them. Their love is poisonous. For example, you see what's happening at Thomas Jefferson High School where 73% of the population of that school is Asian, and so instead of us asking What are the Asian parents doing? What air the Asian kids doing that causes them to be selling so much? No. Instead where, Uh, we're dumbing down by saying we're going to keep some of these kids out these Asian kids. And then we're gonna institute quotas so that we can bring other kids in. And so we think that this is going to make everything better. So I'm saying if we had had full choice Then all of this nonsense would have gone away because you see, the parents would have been able to decide, especially those who don't have the resource is would have been able to decide. I'm going to take my kids somewhere else. I'm going to take the money. Somewhere else so that they don't have to be subjected to this nonsense And so they can excel in life. And it's the same thing with critical race theory. You know, I was vice president of the State Board of Education and Let me tell you something. The kids weren't learning. Then they're not learning now, and they're really not learning now because of province. And we already know. For example, in Fairfax, Our kids are failing. I can tell you in Chesterfield, one out of six high school students are failing. They're just failing all around, and so You know this cove, it is so is so smart. It does not affect private schools, apparently because private schools have been open five days a week all year long. So there's something wrong there and we need to be able to have the money. Follow the child instead of the money being given to the brick building over there. Yeah, maybe with those private schools Cove it is on the waiting list. Just like everybody else I can't get. It s so winsome steers. I want to ask you about your running for lieutenant governor. I wanna ask you about the current lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax. You know he's running for governor. He made some news recently when he compared himself to George Floyd and Emmett till during a Democrat gubernatorial debate, suggesting that several women who had accused him of sexual assault on that made him basically the same as Emmett Till as as a black woman hearing this What did you think of Justin Fairfax taking that position? Please, please. What you're hearing is a drowning man who was trying to save his political career. And you know you ought to be making those choices before you take certain actions not trying to associate yourself with through injustice. And many of us black. Uh people were very much offended by it, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. He needs to go home and figure out what he's going to do with his life because of decisions that he's made. And you know, and stop this trying to curry favor. We don't want that kind of leadership here. We've already had black face. Um North, um, with his incident and fantasized views, and we've already had blackface, Harry. They all need to go home and figure out the choices of May. We need some different leadership here. This critical race theory, for example. That their past that they have passed and which is now supposedly to help people who look like me. US black folks, You know, it's It's a farce. The kids aren't learning. Do we really have time to teach reading? Writing and racism? You know China is going to eat our lunch, Vince. It is going to they're going to either life. They are scheduled China to be the number one superpower in 2030. Do you know they have more honor students than we even have students and we have to have time to teach. That all white kids and all white people are bad and everybody else is good. What is that going to do for the morale in the school? You know you just you brought up the three R's and I was so interesting. They've suddenly changed to reading writing and racism. You're totally right. Thank you. Winston Sears. Good luck this weekend, a part of that GOP convention running for lieutenant. Governor. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. Thank you. All right, 6 44. I'd give you a male sometimes, like things just the way they are. I take your order, please. I'll take the usual Big three and pick forward from the Virginia Lottery. Sometimes you just got to spice things up a bit. Would you like to add Fireball? What's that replace any of their lottery, drawing numbers with fireball for the chance to create new winning combinations. Just double the cost of your plate. It's the extra spicy way to ignite your game. Sir. 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AXE TO GRIND PODCAST
"walter" Discussed on AXE TO GRIND PODCAST
"Walter this. This is a highly specific question. I think you you have operated on a higher level than anything. I've done and i don't just mean 'cause you got the the the the status from these bands that are now legendary. I mean also the major label thing at a time that that really meant something you know did did So i i wouldn't know the answer this without asking did a time. Come where you felt like failing would come with real cost because gb you could have gone sideways in any which way and the stakes were. Just your pride at that point. But i imagined by the time that that quicksand was or rival schools was really you had. I have to imagine. Correct me if i'm wrong. You had your future hinged on in some way whether in actuality or just in your mind and Did it did the pressure because it seems like. You've experimented a lot. Sorry for going in a lot of different versions but it seems like you've experimented a lot but i always wonder about that moment where an artist is in the studio would like to do something peculiar and then says i gotta rain at end. Because i'm going to. I just got too much riding on this decision right now. Did did the later. Bands reach that point. No i think i would. I think i've probably really would have been smarter to think along those lines. That i have been but i just kind of. I always think it's weird like that. I like for example. You guys to have question about moondog. Like everyone loves moondog. But i totally want to hide it like i don't want anybody hear it in adjuncts right. That's how i think you know what i mean. So it's like when You know i i. I don't think on like that as much now. But i think that there's there's I think i had a good sense. Not always. But i'm willing to like kind of i generally think i have had a sense of like who likes what i do. What is it about what they like. And how can i take him to the next place to show something About me that. I want to express that may be like there's some commonality there That keep it interesting on an if you're following me which i'm not easy to follow really like if you're following a thread like what the commonality is and like how each one is kind of maybe reacting to the last Trying to find some different way. I think if there was you know we're talking about the gbi secondhand like if we just kind of stuck on that like kind of you know did even better than you You know like albums like maybe we would have. We would have had a different kind of success. But that just wasn't who as i got like more of a handle and again i think what you're saying is like the stakes. Dan were not super high. I was just planning to go to college. Get on with my life I think quicksand making me like pro or creating these sort of expectations like showing up and.
AXE TO GRIND PODCAST
"walter" Discussed on AXE TO GRIND PODCAST
"And exist and therefore none of their influences exist and no no bans that came from them exist and he chose youth today and in. My brain almost exploded. Because i was like if there was no youth of today that that's a pretty crazy thing to think about walter. It was it was funny we so he said youth today because this friend of ours is a very he came up youth crew guy very disillusioned with it right at the moment and he was to be the next day. I think he's back. It's all right okay. So he was to him. That was killing the head vampire. You know that that was okay. He doesn't realize how much of a head vampire was. Walter would gorilla biscuits today. Yeah would olympics gets have existed without this. This guy was was used crew at one time bands and stuff like us crew bands like he loved it and he loved all the parts of it. That are like profoundly stupid to me. But he he always found comforting and fun right like like almost pokemon like nature of of youth crew clothing. You know what i mean. Like the collecting nature of things. He loved all that found found it to be super fund for his whole youth. Now he's a grown man and he feels very disillusioned from it but that's in part because he doesn't realize that you're going to go through anymore you you're gonna you're gonna go through a period of you're you're not youth anymore for sure but you're gonna go through a period of your life where people just aren't making the type of music that hits your brain and it's partly you and it's partly them and then we're gonna come back around when the influences sense to you or something wild that you've never thought of comes up and he's but he's in that that trial right now but he what he's youth crew now. I wanna get ready yet. It sounds like a. I've seen before. It's a assaulted and crew. I've seen it happen before and from albany. I remember thinking. Remember the first time. I went to albany where semi feeders from forty. From more when i when i first met sam i don't know i didn't know or or anything like that remember he. Has this really cool. Dag nasty shirt on and his hair was blonde and everybody been in. Albany was like really into youth group like super. I mean you know it wasn't like this. Like t shirt branding that you could like reflect upon yet. It was just like we were all doing something. We're all into something and the motivation of this thing is ha's activity and and Friendship and anti-racism. All these things that like we can embrace and get behind but yet they're still great mosh parts and all this shit and then i remember years later. Sam you know moving to new york and taking the absolute opposite tact to where he had become completely disillusioned with this thing that he had been a part of and and then you know kind of shoe. Horned that into warn against who. I loved i thought. Warn against their amazing But it was like it was such a reaction to the popularity of of what i youth crew had had kind of taken over or dominated and even with obviously with my own participation in it. You know that's war but but like we actually there was so much about You know this thing. That just was really happening. It was like now it seems so like in away like amazingly calculated or Together a masterminded and yet it was like just us like doing things you know and And so like n it became really popular. And so you have all these like little markers of record collecting t shirts Messenger bag you have like your sneakers..
Hysteria 51
"walter" Discussed on Hysteria 51
"Prison and reason robs be so you know. He's upstanding guy well he's got this idea see. He believed that former inmates out for revenge against him may have kidnapped his son and there were no witnesses and no proof that it occurred but he worked in the prison and was in control reporting on other inmates. Surprise spoiler alert. I know if you know this or not. They don't like that tends to be found upon. But do they kidnap your kid or just rape or shank you in the shower. That's a solid question. And i think that the the police at the time took the heart because they did not put much into that they didn't know it almost re we read various accounts of the story. He the the father pops animals like wait. Something's going on. I could attach myself to this one. All right yeah they probably they probably wanna know walter because a me again. We're we're reading. Third hand information from eight years ago but Well more than two years ago eighty. Yeah it's almost a hundred andrea so so obviously it's out of context. It's just kinda fell to me the way the story pans out right so anyway we're at. We got lots of leads no action as far as really finding them. Walter is missing and time is going by in keeps going by and then five months later yeah five. Long months later they get a big break in the case. Now remember. how is that. The police had made a nationwide effort to find. That was a big thing in this will in august the same year in a far off. Land of dekalb illinois nine far from the lower fourth here yeah there was a boy bearing a striking resemblance to the missing los angeles boy and he turned himself into this saying he was the missing collins. All walter made his way all the way from california to illinois and then he's like. I'm ready to go home dan john. What luck. yeah yeah and and there's a d this part of the also has disparate reporting some say that Police picked the boy up. And said what's your name..
WGBB Sports Talk New York
"walter" Discussed on WGBB Sports Talk New York
"A sports illustrated that was something special for me. How many of those would you have in the house. I probably got about thousand. Oh i've got a couple of 'em blow the polticised man. Yeah nice though. Not too many guys are on the cover. That's for sure. Walter what are you. What are you doing these days white. now i'm retired. I'm all i'm into real estate. I'm doing. I got a lot of business. I got my cbd business. I'm involved with the cd business That's doing really well. You could go to truth and wellness dot com and check my business out The cbd trooper wellness businesses. What i'm in two now and tell us how that works. What what is it. Work for and How how do you see. Cb they come in gummy farms. They come in cream and they come in drop. And i'm explained the gun. These i the gummy goes something that if you haven't been sleeping you got stress any of this stuff. The gumy's take all of that away and you can get a great night's sleep but the cbd's gummy and it takes stress off you. Also and the drops does the same thing and the crane has more also pain cream like you got. You got some your knees evolving your back bothering you. You put some of this cream on your back. I'll tell you a coupla hours you feel like a new man. And and i'm i'm.
Meet the Thriller Author: Interviews with Writers of Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense Books
"walter" Discussed on Meet the Thriller Author: Interviews with Writers of Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense Books
"And so you know so opened up though you know. I find a lot of people years ago. i've suddenly jonathan demme. Wanted to a movie about the linden mcgill service and he says you know i'd like to do is concentrate too much on the racial conflict in there and you know and i can see you know 'cause for him this. It's overdoing it. It's like the other. I'm writing a tv show right now and enters a a lovely young black woman in the hood of in a big city and you know. She's walking down streets now. She's a lovely young black woman. Men are stopping her every block every two blocks. They're talking to earn one guy. Is you know you're doing too much of that. And i said that's right. It happens too much but it does happen too much. You know the thing is is that. Are you going to say what it's like or are you going to say. Well you know one guy it another guy get it and she didn't like it it now so no it's different. You know one guy did another guy. Good guy did it. She's damn that's where we wanna go telling process right. You always say that like right really happening. What's really going on in in in the in that world. Those things that are important. You know the things that are really happening. they're important. I'm not gonna sit and talk about how many people are talking on cell phones because that's not important but of course that's another thing that's happening all over the place you know and you mentioned that with the easy rawlings series that is it's not spending like twenty thirty years and how do you keep track of all that is that they have like a big serious bible document or no. I know more or less what. I've gone where i'm going i'm not. It's not too repetitive. I'm not making too many mistakes but you know it's true about everything. You can't be perfect. Idea of worrying about perfection In in film in in writing a painting and any kind of art thing to say. Look i'm creating an image that you're seeing and imagining. You know the the fact that there might be a mistake here there. That's that's being human and being human is what we are you. Such an influential writer and What's read influence you when you were a because you start to the thirties right. I mean it's true. I didn't i didn't start reading. It's interesting you know..
thebuzzr pod
"walter" Discussed on thebuzzr pod
"Even call one of the best kept secrets in the industry. Can you tell me about that. And why yes so. It all started. So when i was known here. A lot of people knew my name but they didn't know my face in there. Used to be a. I think it was called the twin cities hip hop awards here and i didn't even know that i was nominated as the best kept secret but i ended up winning. Had no idea and then. Dj de mille. I think he's i think this was at the end of mayes space. I think so. He sent me a message. Was like dude. You want house like one. What and so that kinda m. Because i wasn't there just made everyone look me up online and then it kept on going where there's a producer native missed reporter. Which is a eminem's hype man in one of his close friends and he's been making beasts wherever he's won grammys and everything last year. Me and him actually collaborated over gene. So a lot of people know my name. They definitely don't know my face so the whole best kept secret thing just keeps on like traveling through while you're definitely making noise and you're definitely gonna have one grumpy lady in minnesota. That's for sure. Yeah so did he. Pandemic affects the sound of this track. All knaw. It's it's weird. Because i like a when i made the song i didn't know what is going to be big because might previous singles. I've one other single. That's like a throwback hip hop song. But the rest are kinda like hard to describe. They were kinda like experimental tracks. They weren't really big. That's why i'm shocked. This is my biggest song. Because i wasn't sure if the classic hip hop sound was gonna be like accepted concern like all the music. That's out now. So i wasn't sure but definitely it has impacted might sound 'cause. I'm really just focused. Like i have else to do so. I'm really focused on just bringing back that classic pops now. I think that definitely is time for people. Start hearing that again on the air same. So let's talk about the other clouds you did. You've worked on a lot of tv shows and you're singles are going to be featured on them. Yes it's Vh1 those love and hip hop shows in the housewives shows. Yeah i got a contact from a producer. She wanted eat. So i sent. I sent her. Like a hundred. And some beets and then along with songs. And i didn't know if they were going to be used in the next thing you know i get an email saying over half have been new so i mean i really don't watch those shows but it's kinda cool that a lot of reality shows are going to be playing. My songs is pretty cool. And it's actually adds that opportunities coming to you because that might be a way for artists to supplement their income until they started in the live games festivals. And stuff like that. Yeah and actually because of those shows Even since the last time we talked. I've been contacted by three or four management companies as well trimmed china's time signed me but it just wasn't a fit a musically mlive lansana on it they artists they manage are like the newer ones like the young kids like the trap style and has to. This would not be fit the sound that you wanna bring bad you'd rap. Yeah well what did your breaking news. New tracks with the class grab. I'm sure you'll get the attention of people. Like dj premier and lena definitely so what can fans expect next from half walsers on. I'm actually releasing ep. Hopefully i want to release the january but it might end up the february. It's called of shots It's just three songs pretty once produced by mean once produced by like i said static selected the witches. I'm lucky to even have him on there. I don't know how it came about. But he's on there in my body A well known you'll to be maker so that'll be coming out. I wanna release it in january but it might end up. being february. The album's how many tracks three be called a ocean thoughts. Look forward to hearing your. I'm excited so for every goal. Happy walters lead us to the best way to fall. You get your by your mates You can find me on. Every music platform. Youtube social media just type in happy. Walters and i will pop. That's awesome. Well thank you for joining our chat today in me. I love your sound things so much and the chat today was grey new. All y'all fair take the track i fan. You could easily see why once you start listening to it if you like the artists influences. You're gonna love happy. Walters he definitely is one of the best kept secrets in the industry pays. Thank y'all for joining happy. Walser an eye on the buster pod today next episode. We go across the pond. Tastic maidstone new k. Indie guitar band joins us. The former member band has has successful singles. Prior to the release of sad is which we will listen to on the show air rocking up the spotify bladeless and were have had radio play including bbc radio london. The shop window joins us january. Twenty six. catch you next. Episode subscribe fees sir at the buzzer. Pau dot com cheers..