35 Burst results for "Will Rogers"
The Dan Bongino Show
Snapshots and Sound Bytes: Why Liberals Are Now Shaking
"The Dan Bongino show so I started out the show today talking about the orchestra pit theory I was Roger Ailes theory you can be the greatest singer in the world have this amazing performance and boom fall you in the orchestra pit and nobody remembers a damn thing about it other than you fell in the orchestra pit they will remember the biggest loudest moment is the gist of that and that's why like people Trump and Malay scare the left Javier Malay in Argentina because they're big because they're loud and they break through the liberal self -imposed fog of stupid they keep liberal voters in and people wake up and see the fog clear for the first time because Trump and they are that's what freaks them out about these types of people believe me it's not their policies oh no it's their policies it's not there's nothing to do with that no liberals didn't like the Trump tax cuts really then why are the same liberals arguing for a tax cut for rich people in wealthy leftist states that have high tax rates right now after the salt deduction give me a break is something to do with any of this it's a sheer power play alone they need people to taste to stay and stupid when they when they see people who understand the
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Roger Stone
"Lots of channels. Nothing to watch. Especially if you're searching for the truth. It's time to interrupt your regularly scheduled programs with something actually worth watching. Salem News Channel. Straightforward, unfiltered, with in -depth insight and analysis from the greatest collection of conservative minds. Like Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Sebastian Gorka, and more. Find truth. Watch 24 -7 on SNC .TV and on Local Now, Channel 525. Folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit LegacyPMInvestments .com. That's LegacyPMInvestments .com. Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob starring Steve McQueen? The blood curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because The Blob was supposed to eat him. But he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. Eric Metaxas! Welcome to the show, folks, in the year of our Lord, 2023. I am still in Dallas. I can't explain it. I live in New York, yet I find myself in Dallas. Very happy to be here and happy to have as my guest for this hour, our friend Roger Stone. Roger, welcome back. Eric, it is always great to be with you. You're fun to talk to. That's like my greatest compliment because we can talk about very substantive things we do, but it's also fun to talk to you. I don't know where to start. How about if we start mocking tonight's debate? Can we do that? I think that's an excellent place to start because the debates for president who have declared against President Trump are debate might be, I will be down the street with President Donald J. Trump at a gigantic rally in Hialeah, Florida, which promises to be one of his biggest rallies of all time. Recent polls show, of course, that he is routing the sitting governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, right here in the state that both men call home. I feel very strongly, Eric, that it's time to end this charade. Trump is not leading by 10 points or 20 points or 30 points. He is leading in some places by as much as 60 points among the rank and file Republican primary and caucus goers across the country. This is his party. This is his nomination. This is his destiny. And these other candidates, frankly, are wasting time. They're wasting resources. And in the case of Governor DeSantis, he is now creating and providing talking points for Joe Biden in his harsh attacks on the man who single handedly is responsible for making him governor, which seems to me to be extraordinarily ungrateful at a minimum. I just want to put my cards on the table as a serious journalist, which I am not, that I am. Most people know that I'm a I'm a Nikki. I'm a Nikki Haley guy. And if you're if you look at the camera right now, folks, you can see that I'm a big I'm a big Nikki Haley guy. I believe in foreign wars. I believe in the deep state. And I just want to say I'm not down with this crazy mega stuff. In seriousness, all this the GOP debate tonight, I you know, it's hard for me not to mock it only because Trump is so far ahead in the polls. But you realize that what the people involved, maybe not all of them, but most of those on that debate stage are going to say is wait till Iowa. Wait till Iowa. Iowa is going to be a game changer. Oh, you'll see. You'll see. That's really. And you realize, Roger, that that genuinely speaking, they're they're hoping that everything changes and that there's going to be momentum that, you know, probably Governor DeSantis thinks that he will win in Iowa or do something to kind of change the narrative. I don't even remember. When does Iowa happen? When is one of the Iowa caucuses exactly? Iowa happens very early next year. But look, this is a situation in 1980 when I was for Ronald Reagan had a point lead in Iowa, but he took that lead for granted. He only visited a couple of times. He gave big picture, big event speeches. He didn't do much.
Daily Crypto Report
"'The Simpsons' takes on NFTs" Nov 06, 2023
"It's 8am eastern November the 6th and this is your daily crypto report. Bitcoin is up slightly at $35 ,218, ETH is down slightly at $1 ,898, and Ripple's XRP has overtaken Binance Coin by market cap and is up slightly at $0 .70. While XRP has saw a big spike in the past 24 hours, the price increase appears to be driven by spot trading with no immediate catalysts identified that may be related to two positive developments for Ripple. Last week, the firm received approvals to operate in Georgia and Dubai, allowing licensed firms in Dubai's financial center to offer XRP to clients. Additionally, Ripple is collaborating with the National Bank of Georgia on a digital currency project. While the Bank of England and the UK's FCA are seeking feedback on their proposals for regulating stablecoins, they're concerned about the potential risks for financial stability posed by payment systems using stablecoins if widely adopted for retail payments in the UK. They aim to regulate operators of systemic payment systems using stablecoin issuers and wallet providers to support safe innovation while ensuring public confidence in digital money and payments. Feedback from the public and industry is welcomed until February 6th of 2024. The latest episode of The Simpsons called Wild Bart's Can't Be Token features blockchain and NFTs. In the episode, Bart gets accidentally turned into an NFT and Marge goes on a blockchain adventure to rescue him. The episode references NFTs and artists like the Bored API Club and Beeple. It also pokes fun at the speculative nature of NFTs. The show previously explained blockchain and crypto in a 2020 episode called Frink Coin. Crypto entrepreneur Roger Ver has sued Matrixport subsidiary Smart Vega Holding Limited for $8 million over frozen funds. Ver alleges that Matrixport's founder froze his funds due to a dispute related to losses at Coinflex. Matrixport claims that the freeze resulted from an investigation into Ver's margin trading irregularities on Bit .com. And finally, the number of Bitcoin addresses holding at least $1 ,000 worth of Bitcoin has reached a record high of $8 million. Bitcoin's recent price increase and optimism surrounding the potential approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs by the US SEC have contributed to this surge in adoption. Well, that's all for us today. Visit us at dailycryptoreport .io and listen to us everywhere else you podcast under Daily Crypto Report. Welcome to As a Woman, Fertility Hormones and Beyond. I'm your host, Dr. Natalie Crawford, and I am a fertility physician and co -founder of Fora Fertility in Austin, Texas. We will talk about a wide range of topics, including the menstrual cycle, your hormones, infertility, IVF, mental health, and well, beyond. So join us and become part of the community of collaboration that amplifies others as a woman. In season two of Missing Pages, we'll take a look at what happens when an old system faces new challenges. This is what happens when you involve money. I'm Beth Ann Patrick, your host of season two of the Missing Pages podcast. We'll dig into these stories and talk to authors like Jodie Pico for their firsthand experiences. You can childproof your world, but you can't worldproof your child. Listen and subscribe to season two of Missing Pages wherever you get your podcasts.
RADCast Outdoors
A highlight from Reeling in Records: Patricks Wyoming World Record Catch
"Fish on! Hey, Radcast is on. And welcome to the show Mr. Jim Zumbo. Gentlemen, I am pleased to be here and I use that term loosely when I say gentlemen. Al Winder. Just want to welcome you to the show. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to hang out with us on a podcast for a little bit. I am looking forward to it. Nothing makes me happier than a coke in Minnesota. If I can't be out fishing, I should be talking about fishing. Hailing from Wisconsin, Janna Waller. Thanks so much for having me. It's Radcast. Hunting, fishing, and everything in between. Powered by Bow Spider. Brought to you by PK Lures and High Mountain Seasonings. And now here's your hosts, Patrick Edwards and David Merrill. Well welcome to another episode of Radcast Outdoors everybody. I'm Patrick Edwards. And I'm David Merrill. We had a cool thing that happened over the last couple weeks we want to tell you about. We are now on Carbon TV, right David? Yes, this will be one of the episodes you'll be able to listen to on Carbon TV. We're super excited to be on that platform. I've been poking around and checking out all the other content on there and there's a lot of it Patrick. Yeah, it's pretty extensive. I was surprised at all the different shows that they had available and it was an inspiration to us to get on there after having Christy Titus on who's Pete Rogers as well. So maybe we should be on here since this is where a lot of our audience would be, right? Correct. It's exciting to be on there. It's exciting to see the growth. This is, we're starting November. We'll be starting year five, Patrick. We're climbing episodes for sure. Getting up there. Still getting out and about. It's not hard water season yet. I wanted to let everybody know we have one more exciting piece of news talking about fishing and out and about. I did see a post in a picture that it's official. We do have a world record holder on the podcast. Thank you. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I got notification after six months of waiting in agony about my world, pending world record. It happened. Have a, have an old time. The old record, it wasn't an ounce, right? It was almost a pound. The state record I smashed, the world record, I actually tied the guy. We co -hold the record, but I also had 0 .4 ounces on there and they round down. So I'm about half an ounce. I want horseshoes out of moms and hanged in raids. That's where it counts in close. Yeah, no, it's pretty cool for the state of Wyoming too, because we only have one other all tackle world record and the only other one is the golden trout, which I would much rather have that one, but I don't. So I'll take what I can get and having the white sucker all tackle world record is pretty cool. That means it's the biggest of mine, rod, reel, any of that. So it's pretty cool. Oh, you were talking about all tackled world record is held in here in Wyoming. So we need to get a few more of those shovel meadows needs to come here. So you got work to do. That's what I would say. Yeah. I was doing some research on that just the other day, just for fun. And so I had the world record or the world fishing hall of fame, freshwater fishing hall of fame. I had their book out and I had the IGFA book out. I'll tell you what, man, there's some really tough ones. It's going to be really hard to break some of those. I was, although for the IGFA, there there is some hope for some of the younger folks. So like our kids, they have a juniors division and then they also have a small fry division for kids. And there's several species in there that are vacant. Like no one has a record of any kinds and their species have to catch a fish. Yup. And their species that we have here in Wyoming. So it's potentially one of our kids could be an IGFA world record holder. They, it wouldn't be an all tackle, but it'd be for their age group and their division. That's definitely a doable thing if they wanted to do it. That'd be really exciting. If one of the kids was a world record IGFA holder, that's, that's actually, there's a potential. So everybody else, your books and you might not be able to get in the adult division, but to take a kid, put the rod and wheel in their hands and see if you can get them a record. Yeah. And it's funny, you can see which species are super popular because the walleye has a whole bunch of different records. Walleye being one of the most popular game fish in North America, largemouth bass. There's a bunch of them that have records, but then you start getting into the more obscure things like tiger muskies and tiger trout and stuff like that. And there's a lot less of them. If you're going to go break a world record, maybe that's something you look for. Some species only have the all tackle division open. So if you look at IGFA, the white sucker, that's all they do is the all tackle. But if you go to the freshwater fishing hall of fame, you can do the all tackle and all the line class records too. And so it's based on the type of line you're using and you have to send all that in and get it tested for break strength and a number of other things, but you can get a world record that way. So there's, and Danny, his name is in that line class world record book a lot. He's in there a whole bunch, which was cool to see that he still has a whole bunch of golden trout records and mountain white fish and other cool things that we have here in Wyoming. That's pretty neat. When we were elk hunting, we took the kids to elk camp for about three days. I would say elk hunting was on pause, but we were at elk camp and certainly it was a, it was a good time. Took the kids fly fishing in the stream and caught a lot of trout. That's awesome. What was the, was it all like brook trout or what? We can at least get over some of the particulars about how to do a world record and all that. Basically the idea of how to go about finding a world record that you can break and then going after it. How's that sound? Yup. I can even lead when you hit the flag button and tell me when you're ready. Go for it. Patrick, for everybody out there, how do you go about, you've identified that there's a flawed or a species that you like to fish for. We've talked about getting it weighed and certified, but how would you go about identifying a potential species to go after and what would you do if you were going to truly do that? Yeah, so I'd say it's going to vary by individual, but like for most people, you just have to get an awareness of what the records are. There's a lot of records out there and you also have to look at who the, you know, issuing agency or organization is. So there's the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame. They have their own record book. It's totally independent of the IGFA. And so what I would recommend is you can go online and you can go to their websites and you can scour and look and see what some of those records are or you can do like I did and pay a membership and get the books so that you can see what they are and just easily flip through them, highlight and just see who's got what record. Then the other thing is you got to look and see what are the species in my area that I could potentially break a record, right? Golden trout in Wyoming, you could potentially break that record because we have golden trout here. If you're living in a state that doesn't have golden trout, it's going to be a lot harder, right? So that's just common sense. But you want to look for the species that actually grow big and you're part of the United States or abroad and start working on that, especially if you have a body of water that's close by. But it's important for a lot of reasons. I think it brings excitement to fishing, right? It gives you something fun and exciting to chase after. And I also think that it shows that conservation efforts are working because people keep saying, oh, there's not going to be any more records for this kind of fish or that kind of fish. And yet every year you have different records being broken. Like I was talking to the guy from the Game and Fish that was interviewing me about my two state records and he said, I'm just so surprised at how many state records there have been lately. And it's surprising, but not like I feel like conservation efforts and fish biology has come a long ways and we're growing bigger and better fish. And so I think that having world records, having ultimate angler programs, master angler programs, it goes a long way in just helping to raise awareness about growing some of those bigger fish and really encouraging people to be good stewards of what they have. We've talked about that on lots of levels. And I understand from the hunting aspect a little more, but I would say the biologists are doing a more holistic approach to reservoir stream management. And whether you're a catch or release or a catch and take, we won't get too far into that argument, but those creel limits are set and are pretty well monitored anymore. You don't have the good old days where people just went out and caught what they caught and did what they did. It's a little more regulated for sure. And that the benefit of that is we're seeing higher quality fisheries across the nation. Yeah, I would agree with that. And I think if the fish biologists are doing their due diligence and doing their job, the bodies of water that need you to come and catch and take, they're going to encourage that by setting creel limits that are very liberal, right? So that people can take a lot of fish. Maybe they have a slot limit where you can only keep them at a certain size. Those kind of things, I think, really help fish populations grow and help you grow record size fish. The ones that just stay the same all the time, they don't really pay attention to them because there are some places like that's where you have a problem. And I think like just here locally here in Fremont County, like we have an opportunity to grow some really big fish, because we have biologists that are paying attention. And it's really cool to bring a world record to Fremont County, especially from one that was in Minnesota. Minnesota is known for fishing, right? I would say Wyoming is more known for its hunting than its fishing. But we have some incredible fishing here. And so it's pretty cool to bring a world record back to the state and to see our fisheries biologists get really excited about it. I thought that was pretty cool too. So explain to me, what is a slot limit for somebody nomenclature who's never heard that term before? Yeah, so it's basically just saying like, certain size fish you can keep certain size you can't. So in some states, like if you catch a walleye between 15 inches and 20 inches, you can only keep two or three of those. And then you have to throw back everything under that size. And maybe they'll let you keep one over that size. So they're regulating the population based on the sizes that they want. So Flaming Gorge is an example where they want you to keep lake trout under 24 inches or 28 inches, something like that. But they want you to release the bigger fish because they have too many of the smaller fish in the reservoir to feed. And there's only so much food in that body of water. So that's essentially what slot limits are designed to do is you want to keep a lot of those eaters that people can take home. And by doing that, you reduce the amount of biomass or the amount of mouths to feed in that body of water, thus sustaining a better, healthier population where fish can actually grow to behemoth size. And I would say, thinking about it, it's pretty easy in the hunting world to do that kind of regulation. Well, it's a lot limit. Sometimes they say three point minimum, sometimes it's antlerless only, sometimes it's antlered only. And they have a whole bunch of reasons why they're putting those limitations to achieve different outcomes, right? Either reduce herd size, increase quality, increase male to female. But in fishing, it's a little harder to, especially freshwater fish, to really sex those fish and say, oh, that's a male, that's a female. During spawning time, potentially, yes. I think of salmon. It's pretty easy. When they're getting ready to spawn, they run up the river going, oh, that's a buck, that's a hen. 365, catching a walleye out in the lake. I could, until it's filleted, I couldn't really tell you what it was. Yeah, some fish species is pretty hard to tell the difference. And like you said, some of them, it's super easy. But some states go to, out in the Midwest, you have states that have fish openers and closers, like they have closed fishing season certain times a year for certain kinds of fish or certain drainages. Even in Wyoming, we have certain drainages that are closed at certain times to protect those spawning fish. And then again, it all goes back to that stewardship piece. What they want to do is have a good successful spawn so that we have lots of fish in the future. And I'm all in favor of that as long as it's not too restrictive. And it's actually based on what's best for that fishery. But yeah, quite a bit different bodies of water sturgeon might be protected certain times like around here, sauger if protected on the Wind River at certain times. And so you just have to pay attention and make sure that you're abiding by those regulations and that you're doing it right. It's all for the betterment of those species. And it's important to pay attention to that because we want good fishing for our kids. Oh, yeah. A world record I'd love to go chase would be halibut, right? But to sit here in Wyoming and say, you know what, I'm going to go break the halibut world record. It's 400 million pounds and there's been halibut are not a difficult fish species to target. They just aren't. If you've cat fished, they're similar to that. They're gonna eat bait that's on the bottom. Getting bait in front of them is the important part. Getting in on the fish is like anything you'd you could be in the same body of water on two different boats and one guy's limited out one guy doesn't catching fish. So part of it is just where you're at, right. But for me to sit here and say, Oh, I'm going to go get that record. You got to catch a lot of halibut and let a lot of halibut go and you're going to spend a lot of time and halibut lives coastal water specific and Atlantic. I'm a long ways from either either ocean. Realistically for me to sit down and say I'm going to get the next world record halibut. That's not a great goal to set for myself. However, if I want to set golden trout, shovelnose sturgeon, maybe even sucker. I know where a world record sucker is caught. I think there might be another one out there. There could be. And that's the thing. I've had a couple of people message me. They're like, we're going to come for your record. I'm like, do it. That's that's the point is that records are meant to be broken, right? And I'm sure it'll happen at some point. But this IGFA record has stood for almost 40 years. That's a long time. But if it stands for six months or if it stands for 60 years, you've got the piece of paper, you've gone out and accomplished it and done it and given recognition to that fish species. And part of that shows that, again, that ecosystem, that habitats got to be healthy if it's producing quantity and quality at the same time. Yeah. And I've told people for a long time, we are really lucky to live where we do because there are some massive fish here. You look at the state record walleye over 17 pounds, the yellow perch over two pounds, crappie over two pounds. There's some big fish in this area. And the potential for world records exists not just with white sucker, to your point. We could get a world record sogger here. We could do a world record a lot of things, but it just depends, again, on the body of water, the environmental conditions. But what's really cool is that I think everybody across the country has an opportunity. You just have to go and see what species of fish that you have that you could potentially chase a record for. It's fun to think about and something fun to try. It's always good to have goals. It's usually mine is like master anglers or I want to catch a new species or I want to catch a new fish to try to cook. And all that culminated in this world record because I wouldn't normally target sucker. I don't target sucker on purpose very often. And it's just another really cool species to go after. Again, if you're going to call yourself a great angler, which I hope to be able to do someday, you really got to be able to catch all the fish and learn how to catch all those fish. And that's part of the fun. You got to be multifaceted. And as you talk about that, I think about bear hunting, very specifically, carnivore hunting, but bear hunting, you've got to set goals, right? And if your goal when you first said, I'm going to break the world record, black bear, good luck, go ahead, have fun, right? I'm not going to say you shouldn't have that goal or somebody shouldn't. For me personally, if I wanted to get a bear, then I want to get a lot of bears, then I want to get a big bear. And now I just want to interact and see and be within bears territory, bear country, and be able to know what that bear is going to do before he does it right. Oh, he's going to use this saddle, he's going to use that edge of timber. Oh, he's going to come back out here. And the next goal is wolf. And then the next goal is mountain lion. And then the next goal and there's, you can keep setting those goals. And you don't have to be for lack of a better word, back east whitetail hunter and say, I'm going to break the county and state and the world record in inches of whitetail. It can just be, I'm going to break the record of how many deer walk under my stand this year and don't notice that I'm there, right? It could be a catch or release. How many rainbows can I catch or release on this body of water? And I think of couple reservoirs that are close to us on the right day on the right time. Boating 15 or 20 rainbows is a fun day. Oh yeah, it's so much fun. And giving yourself something to chase after is always a good thing. And no matter what you do in podcasting for us, it's how many episodes can we put out that are compelling that people want to listen to? How many different states can we hit people in to listen to it? You got to have goals for everything that you do in life. And I think for me for fishing, there's lots of different reasons that I do stuff like my kids, I want them to catch master anglers because I want them to get to catch all these cool fish and I want to do it too. And it's just a fun thing that we can all do together. But I think another cool part of it for me, especially over the last several years, has been, can I catch this fish and what does it taste like? Can I make with it? And that's where the whole sucker thing started was Jim Zumbo talking about how you can do this with them and you can do that with them. And I've never really tried that same thing with carp. Like I tried a bunch of stuff with carp this year I would have never done. I don't ever target carp specifically until this year. But it is fun to expand your horizons right and see what kind of angler you are see what you're made of and then of course see what that resource is all about see what that fish brings to the table quite literally that could be interesting or new and it's good to push yourself to try those new things.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from Tom Emmer Pro-Crypto Vote Tomorrow! | DO THIS NOW!
"All right, so the speaker battle is heating up right now, and what looks and appears as though maybe Tom Emmer is going to be at the front of the pile. We'll see how all this plays out because we're going to get a vote tomorrow. We'll break that down, but give you guys some insights why this could be good for crypto. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back into Tech Path. I want to get us started today, but I do want to thank our sponsor, and that is Tangem. If you're looking at going into self -custody, this is, I think, one of the best platforms out there for self -custody. It's a card platform that you can use. If you go over to their website, you can go into the simple do -it -yourself card, which is going to auto -generate your seed phrase, or you can get into a version that's going to give you a seed phrase option. So you've got both options. Make sure and get the three -pack. Use our code down below. It's going to give you an additional 10 % discount. So that does help the channel out. All right, let's get into a couple of things here today. I've got a few clips here to play out. To give you one, a recap of where the speaker is and why this is such an important role, especially for crypto. Let's play this first clip. Two would -be candidates, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, ended up withdrawing their names after not having the votes they needed. The standstill preventing Congress from taking any action on crucial issues. Nine candidates filed to run by Sunday's deadline. The highest ranking among them, GOP whip Tom Emmer, has already earned the endorsement of his former boss. This is not a time for a learning experience as speaker. Tom would be able to walk into the job and do it. A secret vote with the GOP conference is scheduled for Tuesday. Congressman Mike Flood is encouraging Republicans to sign a unity pledge, promising to support whomever wins that vote. He can only afford to lose support from four of his Republican colleagues. In a letter Saturday promising to always be honest and direct and never make a promise he can't fulfill, Schultz says Emmer represents a compromise candidate for a divided Republican party, adding that Emmer appears to have plenty of support and respect among Republicans. All right, so, I mean, it looks rosy for Emmer, however, there is and most likely going to be some pushback. This most likely will come from the MAGA side of what's happening in the House. I want to go to this next clip on what happens tomorrow in terms of the vote. Listen in. I think we will know probably by one o 'clock tomorrow who that speaker nominee is and how close they are. Will they be able to start legislating again quickly or is there going to be too much back and forth? I think that right now we're in a situation where if a speaker does not come out of this around here, I think it increases the pressure to come with some kind of an agreement about a temporary speaker. There is a lot that the House needs to get underway. And of course, getting a speaker in line is very, very critical. Here was a clip on Ken Buck, kind of because he was one of the first to actually flip on Jordan and be pro Emmer, listen to what he had to say. He did not vote for Congressman Jim Jordan, instead voting for Tom Emmer. Well, I guess my first question is, do you really want Tom Emmer to be speaker? No, I don't. I don't like Tom Emmer. I figured this would be the worst job in America. This is a terrible job. So just to underscore that you voted for somebody because you don't like them. I voted for somebody because I wasn't going to vote for Jim. But but you. All right. So you can kind of see the quandary that the House is in. They don't want something so far right. But at the same time, they're not necessarily, you know, positive on what Emmer's stance is, because remember, Emmer is a very pro digital assets lawmaker. And I think his position right now will start to really press the House in terms of things going forward. Politico had an article right here. Trump's tells allies he didn't support Emmer's speaker bid. So this is already starting a little bit of a kerfuffle with not only within the House itself, but also some key components of we'll call it the MAGA machine. I want to go to this next clip that is kind of interesting. This is Steve Bannon talking about Speaker Emmer. Listen in. Remember, Tom Emmer's the biggest of all the never Trump congressmen out there. He's a guy who hates Trump, a super bad guy. If you take out Emmer, you look at the other eight. Hey, there's some good people there. The first thing to do is to stop Emmer today. Once Emmer stopped. Just want to repeat this. You have decapitated decapitated you. This audience did that. Nobody else did that. You did this. So interesting stuff there from Bannon. Again, you know, obviously a very pro MAGA position here again was Roger Stone. If Republicans are going to select Tom Emmer for speaker, why not just reinstall Nancy Pelosi? They're saying, I think that this is the problem that we face right now in the House is that there's so much of this political infighting right now. We can't get these things done and it represents an opportunity for us to get when I say us meaning the American people get a pro digital assets lawmaker in a position of power. Not that the majority of whip is not a position of power, but the speaker of the house is a position of the power and could help really move things through from a regulatory standpoint. I want to jump over to this next clip and this goes into why MAGA is not in line with what Emmer is all about. Listen to that. Is he too moderate? And I put that in quotes. Is he too moderate for House Republicans to unite behind? Absolutely not too moderate. They are all extremely hard, right? Tom Emmer would be the natural pick in a moment where everything has collapsed and you just reach for a consensus candidate. The problem is, Katie, he is one of the members that voted to certify the 2020 election. And so Donald Trump is suspicious of him. It only takes a handful of people who say, OK, Mr. Trump, I'll oppose Emmer. I agree. Emmer is probably the front runner, but Emmer get 217 votes on the floor, not if Donald Trump says don't do it. That is going to be the question here, because if he doesn't win over some of the Republicans and there's only a handful that he has to be able to do this with, then he's going to lose out. But I think we as the American people will lose out just equally as well. Here's why, though, it's so important to the crypto community of why Emmer should be the speaker listening. Crypto saying this whole industry is a fraud, is a scam. It offers no value. It's all play money, et cetera. And then you get to the very end, say the future of our finance in this country is going to be Fed now and the CBDC. Right. Wait a second Fed now. Oh, yippee. I think Fed now will probably work about as well as the post office. All right. You will not have real time clearing. And if you do, you got to worry about everybody who's watching that transaction and scraping data out of that transaction on behalf of your government. The Republican Party has always had its issues with a party purity, right, constitutional purity. And I'm better than you and I'm more in the religious right that factors into it. So we have all these, if you will, melting pot of these different political persuasions. But you've got some good Democrats. I'm going to tell you right now, by the way, their political persuasion probably leans even farther left than I would care to acknowledge. But it's not about their political leanings, just like it's not about Tom Emmer's political leanings. This is an area of finance that literally defines our freedom. I got news for you. That's not a Republican or Democrat thing. That's an American thing. And whether it's Richie Torres, whether it's Darren Soto, who I do a bunch of different bills with, whether it's Ro Khanna, I think you've got to be a little patient with them and I'm not here to to defend them. But I think you've got to be a little patient with them because maybe they are measuring their words because they happen to be under a Democrat administration that they disagree with. Quite frankly, this is what frustrates me with Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren, if she truly believed in the American value of self -determination, if she truly believed in individuals right to make their own decisions, would she claims she would champion crypto? It's very clear to me that she's nothing more than a big central bank power hungry leader who sees her power essentially being diluted and taken away by this decentralization of our financial system and our financial transactions. And she's desperately, along with the establishment, the institution, she is desperately clinging to hold on to that central banking thing, because that's where their power is. This is a good example of some of the things that are happening right now in our traditional banking system. And these are the things that decentralized assets, especially around digital assets, could solve. And one of those, of course, right here from The Daily Hodl, JP Morgan, of course, coming in now, being sued allegedly for terminating accounts, failing to return about 1 .1 million. So this was purchased through CDs to a couple, individually purchased some CDs at a branch, at a Chase branch. The bank basically closed their accounts and the bank said it mailed out checks to them, but they never got them. And then it all went into, well, give us the check numbers and they couldn't provide those because they never got the check. It ended up having to result in a lawsuit to be able to just get those assets back. These are the kind of things that are happening in traditional finance. And this is just one of many things that are going on out there within TradFi. And I think that's the point that Emmer was making with Elizabeth Warren. But more importantly is that we need to get to a point of decentralized assets as an option that isn't being pushed down by overreach by the SEC, etc. Even Trump, ironically, has an Ethereum stash and it's growing or continuing to grow whether he wants it to or not. The idea of him doing NFT drops and his concept around what he's doing on his collectibles is kind of unique in the sense that he might be against a speaker that's actually pro digital assets, which would be beneficial for him. All right. So whoever does win the speakership, the issue is going to be going through these eight Republicans. So if you if you recognize one of these people and I'll put the names down here in a second is now go out there with StandWithCrypto, I'll show you the website in a second. You can get more information on each one of these. But the list is right here. Let's going to zoom in on it. You got Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken Buck, Colorado, Burchetta of Tennessee, Eli Crane, Arizona, Matt Gaetz, of course, Florida, Bob Good, Virginia, Nancy Mace, South Carolina, and then Matt Rosendale of Montana. So what I would do is just go right over to StandWithCrypto. You can go over and actually search out each individual person. It will give you the ability to call your congressman right there. You can get started. It's going to give you a little script and it's going to give you ability to actually stand up for what's happening in crypto right now. We are close, maybe the closest ever to getting a pro legislator in a position of power to be able to get some of this stuff through and really change, I think, the future of innovation around all of this. Now, not everything is great right now in terms of the House. And we're going to have a lot of situations, especially hearings, coming along this week. This is one of the things that is going to be happening is going to be a hearing examining the SEC's agenda, unintended consequences for the U .S. capital markets and investors. So that's one. Let me kind of zoom in on that for you guys. This one right here is happening on October 24th. Then we also have this hearing right here, which is the Modernizing Financial Services Through Innovation and Competition, another pro independent finance. And this will happen on the 25th as well or the day after. Then we have two hearings that are extremely negative to crypto. This one right here, which is the hearing entitled How America and its allies can stop Hamas, Hezbollah from invading sanctions and financial terror. You know that crypto is going to come up on that. I hope that we get a lot of the on -chain data analysis that has been put out there to show that they've been wrong in accusing crypto of contributing to that. And the last one that you have to watch for this week also is moving the money, understanding Iranians' regime access to money around the world. This is going to go back into the scenario of how are they getting cash. You know crypto is going to be coming up in that as well. So there's some very key hearings that most likely are going to have bills attached to this that are critical to the future of how this market is going to be flowing out there. So just be aware this is a big week in D .C. With a speaker, a couple of hearings on both the good side and the bad side of crypto. And I think after this week, we're going to know a lot more going forward, especially around legislation. Here's our S &P. This is on the four hour. So you can kind of see that clip right there on Thursday, the 27th. And then we've seen that bit of a downturn. You look at gold also, which has been on the rise, but has started to stabilize right here around the 1900, 1950 range, which is interesting because with Bitcoin continuing to fly right now, the question mark is, is this the top? We're going to be doing a video on that, so be on the lookout for that. Of course, if you guys are not in the diamond circle, make sure and get in now. 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The Breakdown
A highlight from The Latest Attack from Elizabeth Warren's Anti-Crypto Army
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, October 19th, and today we are talking about the latest salvo of Elizabeth Warren's anti -crypto army. 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. Hello friends. Today is blissfully not a Sam Bankman free trial day, and instead we're going to be talking about the other big topic that has lurked for the last couple of weeks, which is of course crypto's role in terrorism financing. Now as was completely expected, Senator Elizabeth Warren has used the Warren Israel to renew her calls for tighter anti -money laundering controls to be applied to the crypto industry. On Tuesday, Warren wrote letters to both the U .S. Treasury and the White House calling for officials to quote, take strong action to thoroughly address crypto illicit finance risks before it can be used to finance another tragedy. Alongside Warren, over 100 lawmakers co -signed the letter. These signatories were largely Democrats from both the House and the Senate, and the letter said, as Congress considers legislative proposals designated to mitigate crypto money laundering and illicit finance risks, we urge you to swiftly and categorically act to meaningfully curtail illicit crypto activity and protect our national security and that of our allies. The letter leaned heavily on Wall Street Journal reporting from last week, which had framed Hamas as quote, one of the most sophisticated crypto users in the terror finance domain. Also unsurprisingly, Warren's letter did not mention that Hamas had announced the suspension of their use of Bitcoin to receive donations in April, citing concerns that the ability to easily trace Bitcoin transactions would put supporters at risk. It did however acknowledge that authorities have successfully seized dozens of crypto accounts owned by terrorist groups over the past year. The letter set out a series of questions, quote, regarding Treasury's plans to address the serious national security threats posed by the use of cryptocurrency to finance terrorism. The questions largely related to steps currently being taken and asking for the administration's estimates of the size of the problem. Wall Street Journal reporting had estimated that over 130 million in crypto had been raised by Hamas and the affiliated terrorist group Palestine Islamic Jihad since August 2021. Now it is notable that support for this letter was much broader than Warren had previously gathered for her crypto anti -money laundering efforts. For example, crypto -friendly Democrats Josh Gottheimer and Jake Auchincloss were included in the ranks of co -signatories. Republican Roger Marshall, who has provided support across the aisle for Warren's anti -money laundering bill, also signed on to the letter. And as an indication of support within senior Democrat circles, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown also signed. Brown will of course be a significant decision maker on whether the Warren bill progresses through the committee stage, and he tweeted yesterday, Hamas's terrorism is fueled by cryptocurrency. We need to crack down on illicit crypto and stop terrorists from moving money around, evading sanctions, and funding their acts of evil. We must curb this emerging threat and protect our national security. Now alongside the letter, Warren penned an op -ed in, once again, the Wall Street Journal with Roger Marshall as a co -author. The article laid out what has been reported about the use of crypto and terrorist financing to date. It claimed that, quote, Crypto has become a crucial pipeline for financing terrorist organizations, and researchers agree that the publicly reported numbers are likely a small percentage of the actual total. This revenue stream demonstrates the dangerous gaps in our oversight of international money flows. Terrorists, rogue nations, drug traffickers, and other criminals are using cryptocurrency to endanger our allies and U .S. national security. It's past time to apply the same anti -money laundering rules to crypto that already apply to banks, brokers, check cashers, and even precious metal dealers before these loopholes allow terrorists to finance more attacks. The lawmakers asserted that, quote, Decentralized finance companies should be subject to the same anti -money laundering rules as banks. Now that is essentially the proposal in the Warren -Marshall bill. The DeFi protocol should have KYC requirements placed on them in line with the rules applied to banks and large financial institutions. Industry figures have called the proposal entirely unworkable for small DeFi startups. And of course, it's generally believed that the bill would be more likely to result in U .S. users being banned from accessing DeFi rather than leading to ubiquitous on -chain KYC. Today's episode is brought to you by Kraken. For far too long, the whole financial system has been standing still. Too slow. Only on for certain hours. Overly designed for some types of people, but not for others. Crypto, at its best, represents progress. It asks the question, what if? It invites people in instead of leaving them out. It's on 24 -7, 365, and moves at the speed of real life. Not everyone believes it. We've got our fair share of detractors. But that's the way it always is when you're building something new. Kraken is a crypto company that has been through the highs and lows of the industry, facing forwards towards progress throughout. And now they're inviting us to see what crypto can be. Learn more at kraken .com slash the breakdown. Disclaimer, not investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss. Cryptocurrency services are provided to U .S. and U .S. territory customers by Payword Ventures Inc., PVI, DBA, Kraken. As you might imagine, the industry had a lot of commentary on this letter and the surrounding issues. G. Kim, the head of policy at the Crypto Council for Innovation, said, In the U .S., we have clear AML -CFT rules and requirements for U .S. exchanges. From there, Kim pushed back on Warren's bill, noting that the issue is largely an international one which isn't addressed by domestic laws. He said that the crypto industry wants to work with lawmakers to, quote, stamp out illicit activity and that, quote, the industry can be a helpful partner. Then there was Norbert Michel, who wrote a piece for the Cato Institute this week called A Crackdown on Crypto Won't Stop Hamas. A key quote from the piece was, In a perfect world, it would be out of bounds to use incidents of horrific violence against innocent people to revive an otherwise unrelated political agenda. Nonetheless, it seems that Senator Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues are going to use the recent violence in Israel to gather support for the Digital Asset Anti -Money Laundering Act, a bill Warren's been hawking for months. Now, one really important thing to note here is that this bill is not focused on exchanges that have been caught processing Hamas transactions. It's about a seemingly unrelated issue of forcing KYC onto DeFi protocols. Former CFTC commissioner and now head of policy at A16Z Crypto Brian Quinten said, No serious policy maker would take a view on crypto and illicit finance without addressing the arguments of this piece. But maybe serious policy isn't the goal of some in D .C. when it comes to crypto. Alexander Grieve, who does government affairs at Paradigm, wrote, Crypto opponents will continue to tie crypto to illicit finance, despite that being a small subset of a larger industry and an order of magnitude difference relative to illicit finance in opaque tradfi in order to fit their narrative. Regardless of these opponents' motivations, however, crypto needs to play our part in pushing out any bad actors. So it is up to us to come up with policy solutions and practical technical ones where possible. Until we do, we're going to keep seeing these kinds of letters. Austin Campbell responded, The irony is that cracking down forces more of this offshore, which is where the problems are. Hamas has a nexus to offshore exchanges in Tether, not onshore. Just ban things is the tech -illiterate answer. Blockchain Association wrote a long thread, basically saying that of course the crypto industry does not support terrorist activity, but that Warren's letter was just wrong. They write, Here are the facts. Claim, crypto financing is responsible for the horrific actions of Hamas. Fact, crypto networks are transparent and for this reason Hamas ceased to accept Bitcoin earlier this year, citing the success of law enforcement efforts to track down donors. Only a small fraction of Hamas's funding has come from crypto. And what portion of that small amount was directly used to fund the attacks is unclear. Claim, Hamas evaded U .S. sanctions by raising millions of dollars in crypto. Fact, Hamas and non -U .S. entities have no obligation to follow U .S. sanctions laws. And they go on, but you get the gist. Now, one thing to note is that if you think it's just crypto folks who are making some of these arguments, assistant law professor at Willamette, Rohan Gray, who's no big fan of crypto but is a big fan of privacy, wrote, It's bad that we haven't built such a perfectly surveilled financial system that oppressed groups cannot fund themselves is not the progressive angle on this issue in my opinion. This isn't a Hamas -specific issue, it's an architectural issue. In the 1950s, it was the NAACP getting donations and the racist governor of Alabama trying to use that process as a weak point to demand donor lists and harass its supporters. In a separate tweet, Gray said, There are significant civil liberties costs and broader social risks of repressing dissent and marginalized communities by building a financial system that allows centralized actors to surveil and censor all transactions. We've been trying to make this point to the Warren wing for a while. Unfortunately, most of them are too busy hating on crypto to realize they've taken the wrong side of the financial privacy debate. I don't have all that much to add here, other than the things that people have already said. It is clearly on the face of it preposterous to say that these attacks happened because Hamas had access to money via crypto. It's just not true. It's not true in terms of a percentage of money that Hamas had from crypto in general, and it's certainly not true that they have some magical insight that those dollars were used to fund this attack. Using that sort of rhetoric is clear political opportunism, but it's very unlikely that a lot of people are going to call it out given the sensitivity of these issues, which is exactly why folks like Elizabeth Warren use these opportunities. Frankly, this is exactly the type of interaction that shows why people get so frustrated with American politics, but I digress. Now, speaking of sanctions, on Wednesday, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control once again expanded the sanctions list in response to illicit crypto usage. While Hamas is already designated as a terrorist group, this update added 10 new members, operatives and financial facilitators operating in Gaza. Crypto wallet addresses were identified, including one Bitcoin address owned by a Gaza -based exchange known as Buy Cash Money and Money Transfer Company. The business, along with its owner and primary operator, were alleged to, quote, be linked to Hamas and were also added to the sanctions list. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement, Now, blockchain analytics firm Elliptic reported on Wednesday that several designated terrorist groups had used that particular exchange. They claimed that over $25 million in Bitcoin and Tether had been moved through it since 2015. At the same time, as some pointed out, one of the sanctioned wallets has around $16 worth of value in it and made its last transfer 18 months ago, bringing up the question of just how much this is for show versus an actual effective policy. Speaking of just for show, on Wednesday, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis published a blog post titled, Correcting the Record, Inaccurate Methodologies for Estimating Cryptocurrency's Role in Terrorism Financing. Chainalysis is, of course, one of the premier firms for providing statistics on illicit funding flows through crypto networks, as well as in assisting authorities to disrupt, freeze, and seize assets. Their blog post stated that, quote, Chainalysis noted that terrorism financing is, quote, They recognized that, quote, And yet, in spite of this, they point out that, quote, Chainalysis walked through the newly sanctioned exchange by cash as a case study. They dug into specific transactions flowing to and from the exchange and concluded that it functioned more like a street -level money changer rather than being exclusively used for terrorist financing. According to Chainalysis, 82 million had flowed through the recently sanctioned address since February. Of those flows, Chainalysis found that only 450 ,000 worth of crypto was transferred to other addresses affiliated with terrorist financing. They noted that rather than the full amount which has been cited in recent reporting, Neeraj Agarwal from Coincenter summed it up this way, It looks like those estimates assume all flows through service providers that process illicit transactions are illicit. That's probably not the case. To simplify, if there's a rogue exchange that does a billion dollars in volume and they process one $1 ,000 Hamas transaction, it shouldn't be counted as $1 billion to Hamas. Neeraj also poured some cold water on a statistic that's been floating around that suggests that the UN estimates that cryptocurrencies account for 20 % of terrorist financing. Neeraj said, Basically, a senior legal official at the UN Counterterrorism Committee, Svetlana Marinovay, said in an interview from last year that a few years ago, 5 % of terror attacks were believed to be financed using crypto and she added that, In other words, this thing that is reported as fact is just a made -up source. Now, whether or not there is dubious information going into all of these things, it doesn't matter in how it's impacting crypto's place in Washington. A new research report from Berenberg Capital Markets claims that the reported use of crypto to fund Hamas may have set back crypto lobbying efforts in Washington. The report stated that efforts to pass crypto legislation could be quote, Complicated by recent media reports that put a spotlight on Hamas's use of crypto as a means of fundraising in recent years. And that quote, So friends, there you have it. If that's the latest, what we will be keeping an eye on is the extent to which this picks up particular momentum or whether this was the type of thing that was a one -time flag signaling for these 100 signatories who just wanted to be associated with the anti -terrorism team, which is how this letter tried to portray itself. To the extent that this does pick up and this bill becomes more of a going concern, I will of course let you guys know here. For now, I appreciate you listening as always. And of course, one more big thanks to today's sponsor Kraken. Go to kraken .com slash the breakdown to see what crypto can be. Till next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 120: Part 2: Tim Cardwell is a Top Cop for Drug Interdiction but Nearly Loses His Life
"Let's kind of pull on that dope thread a little bit, because you get onto the, you survive the academy, obviously. So you graduate, you get out, you start working. As you're working, we want to talk about now what leads you into doing drug interdiction. So obviously, when you start off, you're with a field training officer, you go through your training phase, then you get out on your own. What kind of things were you doing initially when you were out on your own? How does North Carolina do it? I mean, you train for a while, then you're out. And standard -like what? Traffic enforcement, work accidents? Yes. Pretty much, is that what you were doing? Change tires, go get gasoline. I warned you, Murph. Don't go there. One of these days, we're going to be driving, there's going to be Murph on the side of the road. You go, hey, can you help me? I go, no. Hey, Steve and I have had many of these constant back and forths on this exact thing. But yeah, so when I graduated the academy, it was 20 weeks, reported to my first duty station and did have a field training officer actually. What was that at? It was in Asheboro, North Carolina, Randolph County, which is on the south side of Greensboro. It was about an hour and 15 minutes from where I grew up, but it was still within the same troop, which was most state agencies have that similar structure where you have a troop and then you have districts within that troop. So that was my first duty station and I had a primary and a secondary training officer and went through, I'm thinking it was at the time, maybe six or eight weeks field training. And my primary field training officer, his name was Wayne Brumley, just a jewel of a man, wonderful training guy. And my secondary, his name was Tony Miller, who later he rose to the rank of major within the organization. He was a young guy who was been on about five or six years when I came on. So I had a good mixture of, you know, youthfulness as well as very veteran experience. And the shift I was on, it was similar type makeup. And so going into the field training officer, you know, having some of that law enforcement background, I had become pretty good at catching impaired drivers at the police department. And so it was a natural... Wait a minute, all the impaired drivers were at the police department? When I worked at the police department, I should say, I apologize. But it was just something I thought, you know, this is where I want to go. And so, and my training officer, he was one of the leading impaired driver troopers in the district and he really focused and was successful with that. He taught me a lot, but, you know, in the beginning, doing the traditional trooper type efforts, that's what my goal was. I really enjoyed it. It's what I wanted to do. And, you know, there's some funny stories in there, but one in particular that my training officer shared at my retirement luncheon and he would share with you today was, this was just kind of an internal trooper agency thing. I don't know if you did this, Morgan, or not, but when you would encounter in the old days, somebody whose license were suspended roadside or whatever, you would take their license there on the spot and you would put it over your driver's side window along the headliner there. Just slide it in there or you'd keep it over your sun visor. And my training officer had tons of those and it was just always something I remember Roger Smith having. So it was one of those little symbolic visuals that I thought, I want that. So I kind of set out on a mission, you know, to see how many licenses I could collect roadside in. So I made a comment to my training officer at the time and he said, you know, there are more trouble than they're worth. You have to keep up with them. And I said, well, that's what I want to do. So he handed me a handful before I got out of training and said, here you go, maybe this will help you feel like a real trooper. And so it was just one of those little symbolic things that I connected with. But in that, you know, his nickname was Brutal Brumley. He was a former military guy, about six foot, six one, thin guy, was very physically fit, marathon runner, still runs today and he's mid to late seventies. developed But he that nickname because of, you know, some roadside encounters, obviously through the courts. And I saw it in action during training. We stopped a gentleman for speeding one day late evening and the gentleman didn't initially want to cooperate. And this was when he had turned it over to me and he was just watching from a distance and, you know, trying to find my way through. This guy wasn't the most cooperative after a couple of requests. So next thing I know, my training officer commences to removing the gentleman from the car and not in how the gentleman wanted to cooperate. And this guy was twice our size. And so I saw firsthand in action, you know, how he earned his nickname. But he was very fair. And anyway, when we got the gentleman under control and took him to jail, he had a long conversation with me about taking control. He said, you cannot let anybody else get the upper hand on you out here. It's because of survivability. So it was a valuable lesson taught at the time. But, you know, I've seen him encounter so many situations where he showed a lot of compassion through accident investigations, as well as roadside stops for different violations. And so he was well -rounded and gave me a good lesson. And but at the time, interdiction was not even in the culture of the Highway Patrol, wasn't even thought about. It was just traditional trooper work. And the county that I went to had eight miles of interstate. But where we worked was non -interstate. And so that leads me into once he cut me loose, passed all my training, I started doing traditional trooper work. And at the time when I joined the patrol, I kind of have to go back here. There we patrol the troopers that have, you know, gotten killed in action. They kind of came in clusters, two and three at a time. And just before I joined patrol, we'd had three members that were killed roadside. And two of those were on interstate highway. And where I grew up, we didn't have interstate highway. So I didn't have any familiarity to it. And so I was like, you know, I don't want nothing to do with that. I just want to be a traditional trooper. But I was very proactive. I was finding a lot of stuff, roadside. And, you know, when I would make an arrest for driving one paired, I took the time to go up and search the car. And if I found anything else, I was making charges. And so I kind of developed the desire to do that. And then in our patrol office one day, my secondary training officer, the gentleman I mentioned to you earlier who had been on last time, he had attended our first interdiction training course, which was taught internally. And I remember him talking about it. And for some reason, it just connected, you know, I connected with it, the stories he was telling, the lessons that they were talking about. And when our agency started the interdiction effort, it was in partnership with DEA. And they had started the experiment on Interstate 95 down in Fayetteville. And the troopers that were working it down there had had a lot of success. They were kind of the first generation interdiction troopers. This is, you know, the mid and late 80s. And so a couple of gentlemen by the name of Chris Dew, who had a first K -9, and Terry Isaacs, who was really the one who was making a lot of seizures at the time, they taught that course. So anyway, he comes back to our district and is talking some about it, and it just captured me. And he had a bulletin that they had given him in that school, and it was an epic bulletin. It was a teletype that would list, you know, seizures from throughout the country of seizures that made the threshold. And so I started reading it. And for whatever reason, it just connected with me. And that's how I began, you know, pursuing the interdiction efforts. Oh, I remember reading those teletypes, too. You know, those were very interesting. You get the law enforcement officers killed summary and then the teletypes. But you mentioned something, too, I want to ask you about. You said that they traditionally didn't work interstate. You know, is that just because of like you're talking about the danger or was it because C is kind of the opposite, a lot of troops where I was at. We had a lot of Tulane, in fact, all of my stuff was Tulane, and you would have killed to be up on the interstate where you thought all the action was. Why did they keep you away from the interstate or why did you stay away from the interstate just because of part of the danger factor or something else? Well, I think it was a combination of reasons. Again, going back to where I said I grew up, non -interstate, a lot of secondary roads. That's just what I was familiar with. And, you know, those folks that had been like Roger Smith and a couple of his workmates, that's where they worked and built their reputation. And so, you know, trying to follow that lead, I think that's why I did that. And my training officer, he worked some interstate, but he wasn't in the interdiction area. He was just, you know, regular trooper enforcement. But that's the way he operated was secondary roads. You know, in that day, you were heavy on looking for impaired drivers. Then, you know, looking for the under the influence drivers, especially on Friday and Saturday nights on evening shift, it was a lot of priority placed on that. And so just trying to fall in line and follow their lead, I think is why I did that. And, you know, but what I quickly learned was what the interstate did bring you was if you were low for the week as far as, you know, number of citations or activity that you had to turn in at the end of the week for the supervisor to see, you know, you could go out there and with high volume traffic, you could quickly pick up on some of your total numbers for the week. And wait a minute, did the North Carolina Highway Patrol have a quota? No, we did not have a quota, but I will say the supervisors did monitor your number of contacts per hour of preventive patrol. That's how it was worded. And you had better be in that district average of what everybody else had. So, you know. I had somebody asked me that one time, do you guys have a quota? Said, no, sir, I can ride as many as I want. How many would you like today? Good response. Yeah, so that, you know, that was kind of my introduction. And then, you know, with my training officer, my secondary training officer introduced me to that. It just kind of took. And so I started going out there and trying it and having little success. Really didn't know what I was doing, but it was just a process of learning from there. And, you know, I was a very proactive trooper. I, you know, did a lot of high production. Got unmarked a car at a young age, young in my career. And anyway, the next time the next class came open internally, my then district first sergeant asked me if I would be interested in going. I said, yeah. And I remember sitting through that class with those troopers teaching it, and it just captivated me. That's, I mean, that's the simplest way. You know, they were given some of their case studies talking about, you know, what their findings were and some of the follow -up results. I thought, that's what I really want to try. And so I came back and started trying to apply. So you started doing this. So what was your first, what was your first big seizure? What's the one that cracked the, because, you know, you have to go, we started it. I was part of a four -person team, four -man team at that time. We started our interdiction unit. And so when you start off, you don't really like say, know what you're doing. You get a few things here and there. We were working 54, which if you remember, the Pipeline Operation report out of Epic, Highway 54 that came up out of Texas and Oklahoma and through Kansas, that was a major pipeline. They were making lots of arrests. So we started working that area. You know, we were stopping everything in sight, you know, trying to look for stuff. But you always kind of start off small. What was that watershed event for you? What was that thing that kind of cracked it open that once you get that first one, it's like, I got this figured out. Well, so this was in 1988. Again, it wasn't the culture of the Highway Patrol. It was just kind of getting started. And so there really wasn't a lot of information to pull from or, you know, a lot of guys saying, hey, let's go out and work this road and look for this. It was just kind of, you know, an individual effort, so to speak. And at that same time, one of the troopers I mentioned early on Interstate 95, Chris Dew, he had had our first canine on the patrol, but it was just a narcotic dog. It was a Beagle. And, you know, some about that during the training, listening to him talk about, you know, the role the canine played that interested me. So when I came back to the district, not long after that, requests came through patrol headquarters or troop headquarters, any troopers interested in having a canine, you know, submit your interest. So I thought about it and I did. And the district commander at that time or the troop commander at that time, who was very much old school, was not on board with this, he was passing it along from patrol headquarters. When I submitted my name, he sent a message back that said, if you want a canine, I think I can find somewhere else in a different place to get you a canine assigned to you, meaning, you know, I'm going to transfer if you really want this canine. And again, you got to understand the internal culture of the organization. So I said, no, sir, no, sir, I'm not interested in one. So anyway, there was another supervisor who had been involved in the early stages of it. He said, I thought you expressed interest in this. I said, I did. But here's what, you know, what I was told. And he said, I'll take care of that. And I was like, oh, no, please don't get me in trouble here. You thinking Lumberton? Here I come. You know what, Trooper Cardwell just told me there for sergeant. And so anyway, you know, next thing you know, I got word that, hey, if you want a dog, we'll assign you one. We're going to send one to the central part of the state and one east part of the state. And you report to this canine school, which was actually in Greensboro at the time. And so we did. And anyway, the school was about 10 days, 11 days. You know, again, patrol hadn't had a program at that time. They were just starting to get into it. And so getting the dog really helped as far as going out roadside, learning what I was doing. And so I had made some phone calls to troopers that I had learned about on this epic Operation Pipeline Bulletin. There was a couple of guys that I kept consistently reading their names. Do you remember a guy named Jeff Faison out of Florida? Yeah, I remember his name. He was kind of the first generation that came along at the time. These other troopers I mentioned that taught us. And then there was some in the area, neighboring states, Mike Ralston and Georgia State Patrol, Benji Hodges, Georgia. And there were some others throughout the country. But I can't remember what it was that caused me to reach out to Mike one day, because I had expressed interest in getting more training. But again, it wasn't the culture. So somehow I made contact with Mike. He worked north of Atlanta on Interstate 75. And where I worked was Interstate 85 and Interstate 40. And I just cold -called him and introduced myself. And anyway, I told him what I was seeking. He said, sure, you're welcome to come down and ride with me if you'd like. I had to take vacation time because I couldn't get approval to go on patrol time. So I went down there and rode with him, spent my own money. And he took care of me really good. He showed me a lot. And then I come back. And we had had another gentleman by the name of Ed Lowry, who had worked on Interstate 95 in Fayetteville in our agency. I had gotten approval to go ride with him. But I had to take vacation time, too. So I went and rode with him. And this was the watershed moment that you're speaking of. While riding with him on 95, he was kind of the hottest guy at that time consistently making cases. And this was when everything was flowing out of South Florida, back when Steve was, you know, he was familiar with all the importation through South Florida. Well, everything those guys were getting was Miami -connected in some way, shape, form, or fashion. And I remember getting in a car with Ed. And he had just come off some days off. And says, he Bo, I don't know if we're going to have any luck. And that's what he called everybody was Bo. I don't know why. That was just the habit of his. But he said, but we're going to go out and try. I'm going to see if I can get you something. Well, the second car that he stopped, it was like that epic bulletin teletype operation pipeline played out before my eyes. The second stop, he gets a four -door, I believe it was a Buick old four -door sedan coming out of Miami, registered out of New Jersey, male -female occupant, and found a compartment built between a rear seat and trunk. And it had like five kilos of Coke. I thought I was just, I was seeing it play out before my eyes. And that just, that was my watershed moment. I was like, this is what I want to do. I had been trying it up to that point with minimal success, but between him and Mike, it really opened my eyes to other things that I really had not been paying attention to, human behavior, the importance of the interview. And anyway, so when I left from there, I was really energetic. And so I come back and started applying it. And having learned to operate my canine, I started looking at things differently as far as my approach and how to talk with people and what to look for roadside interview -wise. And so that first big seizure was a U -Haul that had come out of South Texas, which obviously still is today, but then the major source for our area, it was a U -Haul and it had about 850 pounds of marijuana in it. And once I got that, I was hooked. I mean, I was hooked a hundred percent. Well, let's go back to that seizure of Coke. When you opened it, did you know, I mean, when you saw the bricks, obviously, did you know what it was at that time or did you kind of have to go, okay, wait, you know, I'm just kind of like, whoa, what is this? Oh no, I know what that is. Kind of, yeah. I had never seen a kilo in person. And obviously it had, but I had not. I'd seen many pictures. And so I'm like, well, that's what it really looks like, I guess. So yeah, it was a really good learning experience. Now, so the 850 pounds of weed, that wasn't the case that you and I worked on, was it? No, this was a brother and sister that had come out of San Antonio and they were delivering somewhere in, I think around Richmond, Virginia area. But it's an interesting story on that. We had not had that kind of seizures go through our court system. And when it went for first appearance the next morning, the judge who was listening to the probable cause hearing, he said, he pulled me to the side before the hearing. He said, now, from what I'm told, you can't do this. And I said, well, what do you mean? And he said, you can't just go in and start searching somebody's belongings. And I said, well, I didn't, sir. I said, they gave me permission. And he was like, what? And I said, yes, sir. He said, they gave you permission to search their truck, knowing that they were carrying this? I said, yeah. And he's like, oh, okay. So it was a learning experience for a lot of us through the court process and myself. I love the way the judge was having a preliminary hearing out in the hallway before anybody was even sworn in. Well, again, it's a small community. And anyway, everybody knew everybody. And I'd built a good rapport with this judge. And I just remember that conversation. And once I said that, he said, wow, can't believe somebody would do that. I said, well, he said, where'd you learn to do this? And I told him. And he said, so they tell you to ask people to search the vehicle if you think you're suspicious to want to look for something else? I said, yes, sir. And he said, and they actually do? I said, yes, sir, they do. It's unbelievable. It is. It goes back to your point you were making. If you understand human behavior, if you understand how to talk to them and set the right circumstances, I mean, even to this day, Murph and I were talking about it on our Patreon channel, but at the time, it was the largest seizure of cash in Kansas. But it was only a quarter of a million. I mean, they've gotten much bigger stuff now. And people are going, I mean, they let you search the car. The guy I remember to this day, his name is Brian Lacy. I looked at him. I said, now, do you have anything that would be illegal in the state of Kansas? Guns, drugs, large amounts of cash. He says, no. I said, would you? And one question, one thing I learned to ask was not can I search? Because people always want to say no. I said, would you have any objection if I search for these items? And they would say, no. Well, no meant yes. And he even offered to show me, hey, I got a briefcase here. I opened up the trunk. There's the cash. And in his briefcase, plans for a methamphetamine laboratory. He had a marijuana press. It's like, you dumb son of a bitch. All you had to say was no. And we didn't have a canine at that point. There's not much I could have done. Yeah. It's amazing. I was just thinking, Tim, remember Dave Wilhelm with customs? Yes. Down in Charlotte. And he was murdered in Atlanta. So God rest him. But he called me one day, and I can't remember if it was Asper. I think it might have been Randleman. And he called and he says, hey, Murphy. He said, I got a tip. This trailer out in the country, some Mexicans are in there. Supposed to be sitting on a big stash of weed. He said, I need somebody to speak Spanish. So I met him down there. We took some people with us and walked up to this trailer. I remember that it was a huge lot with these big, tall pine trees. But there were no limbs from like 10 feet, 12 feet high before the limb started. So you had this wide open, we think of as a killing field that you have to go through to get to that front door. But we have no reason to be pulling our weapons out. To go up, like we're going to do a tactical entry. We knock on the door and I get up there and do use my Spanish. And they're like, yeah, come on in. We go inside. I forget how many is 1 ,200 pounds of weed or whatever they'd been using saws to cut it up. But there was an AR -15 sitting behind the front door. I mean, they pulled out and wiped us all out. But it's just amazing. They're sitting on the dope and they're like, sure, come on in. You know, and Tim, I don't know if you remember seeing this video if it was a Texas DPS trooper, but he's on the side of the road and he's talking to this guy in that Texas draw going, now son, you got anything that's illegal? You got, well, and so he's talking and you can see it's the old dash cam. This kid's getting nervous. Now, do you have anything in the car that's illegal? No, he's like, would you mind if I checked your car? And this kid just vapor locks and passes out into the ditch. He goes, well, I'll take that as an admission of guilt.
The Mason Minute
Sweaters (MM #4588)
"The Nason Minute with Kevin Nason. I attempt to pay attention to fashion trends, at least for the fat man. Now, I've never worried about being in style. I have my own way of doing things, I have my own style, if you will, and it works. But I found out this year, sweaters are back in, which I'm actually okay with. Now, with that said, I wear sweaters all the time because I don't like to wear jackets. When you're my size, wearing a huge jacket, a 4XL, 5XL jacket, gets to be kind of heavy. So you layer up and use sweaters. Now, I have some nice sweaters, I have some sweaters that are getting old, and I'm always on the lookout for sweaters. The only problem? They're all pretty boring. This year's supposedly the cardigan sweater. The button -up cardigan is back. Great! I have one that I've had for probably 20 years and I still wear it all the time. Just a simple black cardigan sweater. I haven't been able to find a button -up Mr. Rogers -type sweater in years. And now they're back. So I went to the big man store, and they only have navy blue. That's it. Of course, they didn't have my size either. They can be a fashion front. They were back in the days of the Coogie sweater, but some people loved those or hated those. When they come back, I got a bunch of them and I'll be ready to go.
The Mason Minute
Sweaters (MM #4588)
"The Nason Minute with Kevin Nason. I attempt to pay attention to fashion trends, at least for the fat man. Now, I've never worried about being in style. I have my own way of doing things, I have my own style, if you will, and it works. But I found out this year, sweaters are back in, which I'm actually okay with. Now, with that said, I wear sweaters all the time because I don't like to wear jackets. When you're my size, wearing a huge jacket, a 4XL, 5XL jacket, gets to be kind of heavy. So you layer up and use sweaters. Now, I have some nice sweaters, I have some sweaters that are getting old, and I'm always on the lookout for sweaters. The only problem? They're all pretty boring. This year's supposedly the cardigan sweater. The button -up cardigan is back. Great! I have one that I've had for probably 20 years and I still wear it all the time. Just a simple black cardigan sweater. I haven't been able to find a button -up Mr. Rogers -type sweater in years. And now they're back. So I went to the big man store, and they only have navy blue. That's it. Of course, they didn't have my size either. They can be a fashion front. They were back in the days of the Coogie sweater, but some people loved those or hated those. When they come back, I got a bunch of them and I'll be ready to go.
The Mason Minute
Sweaters (MM #4588)
"The Nason Minute with Kevin Nason. I attempt to pay attention to fashion trends, at least for the fat man. Now, I've never worried about being in style. I have my own way of doing things, I have my own style, if you will, and it works. But I found out this year, sweaters are back in, which I'm actually okay with. Now, with that said, I wear sweaters all the time because I don't like to wear jackets. When you're my size, wearing a huge jacket, a 4XL, 5XL jacket, gets to be kind of heavy. So you layer up and use sweaters. Now, I have some nice sweaters, I have some sweaters that are getting old, and I'm always on the lookout for sweaters. The only problem? They're all pretty boring. This year's supposedly the cardigan sweater. The button -up cardigan is back. Great! I have one that I've had for probably 20 years and I still wear it all the time. Just a simple black cardigan sweater. I haven't been able to find a button -up Mr. Rogers -type sweater in years. And now they're back. So I went to the big man store, and they only have navy blue. That's it. Of course, they didn't have my size either. They can be a fashion front. They were back in the days of the Coogie sweater, but some people loved those or hated those. When they come back, I got a bunch of them and I'll be ready to go.
The Mason Minute
Sweaters (MM #4588)
"The Nason Minute with Kevin Nason. I attempt to pay attention to fashion trends, at least for the fat man. Now, I've never worried about being in style. I have my own way of doing things, I have my own style, if you will, and it works. But I found out this year, sweaters are back in, which I'm actually okay with. Now, with that said, I wear sweaters all the time because I don't like to wear jackets. When you're my size, wearing a huge jacket, a 4XL, 5XL jacket, gets to be kind of heavy. So you layer up and use sweaters. Now, I have some nice sweaters, I have some sweaters that are getting old, and I'm always on the lookout for sweaters. The only problem? They're all pretty boring. This year's supposedly the cardigan sweater. The button -up cardigan is back. Great! I have one that I've had for probably 20 years and I still wear it all the time. Just a simple black cardigan sweater. I haven't been able to find a button -up Mr. Rogers -type sweater in years. And now they're back. So I went to the big man store, and they only have navy blue. That's it. Of course, they didn't have my size either. They can be a fashion front. They were back in the days of the Coogie sweater, but some people loved those or hated those. When they come back, I got a bunch of them and I'll be ready to go.
The Mason Minute
Sweaters (MM #4588)
"The Nason Minute with Kevin Nason. I attempt to pay attention to fashion trends, at least for the fat man. Now, I've never worried about being in style. I have my own way of doing things, I have my own style, if you will, and it works. But I found out this year, sweaters are back in, which I'm actually okay with. Now, with that said, I wear sweaters all the time because I don't like to wear jackets. When you're my size, wearing a huge jacket, a 4XL, 5XL jacket, gets to be kind of heavy. So you layer up and use sweaters. Now, I have some nice sweaters, I have some sweaters that are getting old, and I'm always on the lookout for sweaters. The only problem? They're all pretty boring. This year's supposedly the cardigan sweater. The button -up cardigan is back. Great! I have one that I've had for probably 20 years and I still wear it all the time. Just a simple black cardigan sweater. I haven't been able to find a button -up Mr. Rogers -type sweater in years. And now they're back. So I went to the big man store, and they only have navy blue. That's it. Of course, they didn't have my size either. They can be a fashion front. They were back in the days of the Coogie sweater, but some people loved those or hated those. When they come back, I got a bunch of them and I'll be ready to go.
The Tennis.com Podcast
A highlight from Roger Smith's Journey From The Bahamas to Pro Tennis: Beating the World #1 and Teaching The Next Generations
"Welcome to the official tennis dot com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader, Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis dot com podcast. I'm your host, Kamau Murray, and we are here with the man, the myth, the legend. A graduate of The Ohio State University, former ATP pro, a coach to many, a mentor to many, father of great tennis player, former USTA coach, worked for Federation, from the Bahamas, former Davis Cup player. If you name it in Tennessee, he's done it all, knows everyone. Everyone has great stories about him, and we're going to hear some of his great stories today. We are here with Mr. Roger Smith. Roger, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, Kamau. I really appreciate this opportunity to speak here, man. So I'm glad I got you on the show because, you know, when we think about Bahamian tennis, the first person out of everybody's mouth is Mark Knowles. And then I got to correct him and be like, hey, what about Roger? What about the brother Roger? So, you know, you grew up playing tennis from in a small island, but, I mean, that island's had a lot of success reaching the same world group as the US back in the day. Tell me about how you got in the tennis from that small island and how you were able to sort of progress to come into play at the top level NCAA, you know, top college in the States from the Bahamas. Well, if you have all day, I can tell you that story. I'll do bits and pieces as we go. Yeah, I'm from a small island, obviously Grand Bahama in the Bahamas, but I'm actually from a very small settlement called West End. The population was probably three thousand. And in that settlement, you know, obviously, tourism is the main industry. And we had one resort down there called the Jack Tower Hotel. And remember, I'm old now, you know, I came from the days where, you know, the bosses and the powers to be were obviously, you know, we were a British colony. So obviously the white British guys were in charge. And coming from an island where there was mostly, you know, black people, we could only go so far, you know, working at that resort. You know, we could be maitre d's, you could be pool attendants. Most of us couldn't even show our face at the front desk, per se. So growing up in that environment, I kind of knew from a young age, I'm saying six years old that, hey, there's something bigger and better for me out there. You know, because all my friends growing up, all they wanted to do is be bus boys and maitre d's where they can get $40 tips and so forth. And I was like, nah, man, there's got to be something bigger than that. And so I despised that. I remember back in the day where the bosses, white guys would, you know, word would go around that they were coming into the village, per se, to eat and dine and drink a few. And everybody in the village would pretty much cook their best food. You had to dress up in your Sunday best. And if there were like three, 30 restaurants, per se, maybe they would go to visit two or three, right, during the course of the evening. And everyone would be so disappointed. All the restaurant owners or the bars would be so disappointed. I mean, the look on their face, man, was just terrible, you know, in disappointment. And I just despised that, man. And that motivated me. I found my purpose at a young age. I was not going to get caught up in that stuff. I knew there was something bigger and better out there for me. I didn't know what it was at the time. I was six years old. But, you know, I took a bold step to just strive for something better. And even if I so -called failed to end people's eyes, it didn't matter. My purpose was so deep that it just didn't matter, man. I was going for it. I didn't know it was tennis. But we eventually moved to Freeport, where my mother, we moved to this condominium, and they had tennis courts and they had a tennis wall. And it was so bad. Come on, man. None of the kids would play with me, man. And mostly white kids, you know, expats. One of them would play with me. And there happened to be one kid I went to school with that taught me how to score, taught me the rules of the game. And, man, I just became a fanatic. I fell in love with the sport. And I played a lot of other sports, you know, basketball, baseball, you name it, track and field. But I just fell in love with tennis, man. And I just played on this wall all day, all night. I wouldn't even get in trouble with my mom, man. I'd come in after dark and I'd lose a million balls. I'd be climbing fence to find balls, man. But I got good. And three months later, I played my first tournament. And back in the day, junior tournament was just 18 and under. No age group. No age group. Right. Yeah. And I got to the quarterfinals, you know, just on fight. My strokes were terrible. I could run. I hate to lose. Like I said, I had a purpose, man. Now, were you self -taught at that point? Did you receive any form or training? Or was it just you and the wall? Just me and the wall. Self -taught. And everybody that would hit with me, man, I wanted to go all day. They would hit for 10 minutes and quit. I was just getting so pissed, man. I wanted to just hit all day. I'd line them up, man, hit with three people. And after like an hour, they quit. I had no one else to hit with, man. So I would just go on the wall. Right. And I, you know, I just learned. I just didn't want to miss. I just got consistent. And I got to the quarterfinals, like I said, beat a couple of good guys. And then I lost in the quarters to this kid who was 18. And he had a beard, man. Big and strong. Good strokes. Lost six points a third in a three and a half hour match. And then all the kids wanted to play with me. And then some men saw me play and they invited me to their club. And they were like, look, it was hotel, really, not the club. And come play with the men. So I started to play with the men and they would beat my butt, man. I'd be crying because I want to win so bad. They would tease me. But I forgot the kids, man. You know, I didn't play with them. I just learned how to compete, you know, just learn how to compete through everything. And a year later, man, I played my first 12 and under national tournament, which was in Nassau now, where Mark Knowles is from. And I won the 12 and unders. And that was like within six to eight months after I first started playing tennis. So that's how I got started, man. That's how I got started. But I was like a court rat, man. Anyone would tell you, man, if you want to define Roger Smith, he was at the court at this one hotel called the Princess Tower. And going further, you know, the Princess Tower was where they had the superstars. I don't know if you remember the superstars back. That might be before your time. That's before my time. Yeah, but you heard of it, right? That's when they had all the superstars of every sport come in and compete against each other in different sports. To see who was the best. And this guy saw me play, and he loved the way I played, man. He saw me hitting other courts and he said, hey, who's your coach? And I said, man, I don't really have a coach. And he said, I'm going to come back in two weeks, man. I'm going to get you some coaching. And I go, okay, man, you're going to come back in two weeks. I'll be ready. So an hour later he came back and he shook my hand. And he says, look, man, you ready to go? I mean, I mean, this is how serious I am. And he gave me a hundred dollar bill. And a hundred dollars back then is a lot of money. And it was a big guy, man. You know, and he just had this certain look about it, man. And a strong male figure, you know, but I didn't know who he was. Gave me a hundred dollars. Show enough, Kamal. Two weeks later, he came back and he said, you're going to be ready to go on Sunday. This is like Thursday. And I'm like, damn, he's serious. I'm like, yeah, I'm going to be ready to go. And he says, but I got to meet your parents. So I go, I get you. You're not going to meet my dad. Because remember, my dad passed away when I was 11 months old. So I never really knew my dad. So it was all my mom, you know. And so I told her, look, we got to go to dinner to meet this guy. He's going to take me to Florida to get this coaching. She's like, man, get the hell out of here, man. You crazy. I was like, no, man, no. And she's like, I ain't going. I was like, no, you're not going to kill my dream. You got to go. So she came. We went, we met him at the hotel. She saw him. I said, there's the guy right there. She says, do you know who that is? And I go, no, I don't know who that is. She said, that's Jimmy the Greek. And I'm like, Jimmy the Greek? I don't know who that is. And she said, man, that's Jimmy the Greek. So anyway, we went. You know, Jimmy the Greek, man. You know, he was the big Vegas odds man there with sports and stuff. You know, he did Monday Night Football. He was huge. And so anyway, long story short, she gave me $200 to go with him on Sunday. We get to the ticket counter and I said, hey, Mr. Snyder, because his name is Jimmy the Greek Snyder. Here's my $200 for the ticket. He said, man, keep that money in your pocket, man. So we get on the flight, man. We go to Miami and we get there and we're met by like a group of like seven, eight people. And you could tell they were someone, you know, and a limousine. And we go to the limousine and I'm really nervous because I'm like, our bags, man. I need our bags. And he's like, oh, don't worry about the bags. I'm like, no, no, no, you don't understand. That's all the clothes I got. I need my bags. So we get to his condominium and we went to this place called the California Country Club, which is where I was going to train with Gardner Malloy. But he had a condo there and it was owned by Cesar's Palace. And so we go up to his condo. We get in there and our bags are there. I'm like, damn, is this magic? What the hell? How did we get our bags blown away? But it was my first formal experience of life of the rich and famous. You know what I'm saying? Damn, these guys got magic, man. I mean, we ain't got it like that. I don't have it like that in the Bahamas, you know what I mean? So I got my first coaching experience from Gardner Malloy, the great Gardner Malloy. You know, obviously, and he was great. He was stubborn. He was mean, but he meant well. And I was not going to blow my chances at this chance to play tennis. Yes, I was going to ask you that because, you know, a lot of like we always talk about people from Barbados, from the US version of the island, from the Bahamas, finding their way to Florida at some point. Right. Yes. So comments on the island. And at some point, somebody makes a phone call, sees him at a tournament, sees him at ITF. And before you know it, they are one of the academies in Florida. So is that when at 11 years old, is that when you made your move to Florida? It was at 12. I had my first experience with coaching with Gardner Malloy. Yes. And I would. And the very next year at 13, I went for the summer and then I actually went to a military high school in Florida. I played state championships, got to the semifinals in Florida and everything. I was highly recruited in Florida. Florida State, Florida, Stetson, you name it, UCF. Didn't really want to stay in Florida because I don't really like Florida, believe it or not. Southeastern Oklahoma State University. So there were a lot. I got accepted at USC, but not a scholarship, obviously, because remember, if you're from the islands, you can't play the national tournaments. You have to be an American. So if it wasn't by word of mouth, you weren't getting in. And that's exactly how I got to the Ohio State University. Just by word of mouth, man. And they flew me up, man, for a visit. The minute I hit ground, that was it. Decision made. Now, that's interesting you say that because a lot of people don't really understand that. That if you are from one of the smaller islands, you aren't playing Kalamazoo, San Diego, none of the USTA, Midwest, all that kind of stuff. Florida sectionals. And so it is about word of mouth and relationships and just international relationships between college coaches and coaches overseas and in Mexico or the Bahamas to actually find players. You know, it ain't just, let me go play Kalamazoo, somebody's going to see me. By the time they get to Kalamazoo, they already got somebody from Europe that they saw, you know what I mean? Or the Bahamas. Right. And then back then, remember, the ITF junior tournaments were done different because it was done by invitation. Well, certain countries had certain allotment, right? Like the United States would get like 10 players in the slams, in the junior slam. Islands like the Bahamas got like one player invited. And of course, I never got invited. For whatever reason, we're not going to get into that. Players before me got invited. My turn, nothing. Players after me got invited. And I was always one or two in my country. But anyway. So you go to the Ohio State University. Did you do your recruiting visit when it was snowing or when it wasn't snowing? You know, we know we see guys in the Midwest trying to fight to go to Florida, UCLA, Texas, TCU, and you went from Miami to Columbus, Ohio. I went luckily in March. It was turning a little, you know. And you know, it was cool, man, because they had block parties and everything, man. And I mean, I was in awe because 64 ,000 students, man, you know, that's the population of my whole island. And I was like, I'm going to go to university with 64 ,000 people. Dang, that was amazing. And I always wanted to go to a big school. So, but never thought of Ohio State. All my friends that played football obviously wanted to go to Ohio State. So they were jealous when I went up there and came back and told them how great it was. Now, how good was the school back then? Were y 'all continuing for a championship? Were y 'all, you know, top 25? What was the story? No, man, we weren't even, we weren't even top, we weren't even top, I don't know, we were top 80, man. You know, we had a good three, four players and we fell off at five and six. And then we had maybe one or two good doubles team. And then we had some injuries on our team that hurt us also. So you can't win with four players. You know what I mean? You need a six players, but the team was great. And I got what I wanted. You had Ernie Fernandez, who was a graduate, would come back and practice and train with me. I had pros that would come in and I was able to hit with them. So to keep myself going. Now, one of my best coaches and persons instrumental in my development, Ron McDaniel, was there at Ohio State with you. So, you know, he always tells us these stories about how great he was. How good was Ron? You know, and by the time he started coaching me, you know, he had the braces on his knee. He had surgery. You know what I mean? So he'd stay in the corner and bang with me cross court. You know what I mean? Yeah. Ronnie was good, man. Ronnie was good. Serving volley. He had a great serve. He had good hands. Ronnie was good. In fact, Ronnie beat me in our challenge matches. It was the only match like I lost in challenge matches. It was Ronnie that won that. We became real tight, real good friends. That was my boy in college, no doubt about it. You know, we still talk tonight. No, he was good. He was good. He did get injured. Unfortunately, we were playing Harvard one time when an overhead came down. And we needed him, man. If we had him, we could beat top 50. One player. But it was unfortunate, man. I felt bad for him. Reboot your credit card with Apple Card. It gives you unlimited daily cash back that can earn 4 .15 % annual percentage yield when you open a savings account. A high yield, low effort way to grow your money with no fees. Apply for Apple Card now in the Wallet app on iPhone to start earning and growing your daily cash with savings today. Apple Card subject to credit approval. Savings is available to Apple Card owners. Subject to eligibility. Savings accounts by Goldman Sachs Bank USA. Member FDIC. Terms apply. So you go from Ohio State who wasn't top 25 in the country at that time. Now they're just a perennial powerhouse, right? And then you take that and you get top 100 in the world and make it on the Pro Tour. Yes. And we've seen players win NCAA's and never become top 100. Right. So what made you believe you could make the transition? What was the switch that happened as you go to what then, obviously Ohio State's a big school but a small tennis program at the time, right? To really make that transition. Well, we had a good schedule, number one, which was good. And remember, I found my purpose early. So you know what, when you find your purpose, and I teach this all the time Kamal, nothing's going to stop you. It doesn't matter where you go to school. It doesn't matter if you really want it, you're going to find a way. And my purpose was so deep. I don't care where I went. I was going to find a way to do it. Obviously, I wasn't worried about my tennis. I kept developing and stuff. And I was top 20 in college, despite being at Ohio State and not a powerhouse, I was top 20.
Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from Aurelia Rogers, Founder of Primary | An Interview with Emily Cushing
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The Breakdown
A highlight from Macro Signals Are All Flashing Warnings
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me and LW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, October 6th, and today we are talking about the just unbelievable variety of deteriorating economic indicators. 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, welcome back to The Breakdown. No updates on FTX today. As I am recording this, Gary Wang, the CTO and co -founder of FTX is on the stand, and I will say only that if Adam Yedidiah's testimony yesterday didn't look good for Sam, Gary's testimony yesterday and today looks even worse. I will quote from Matthew Russell Lee at Inner City Press on Twitter, who is, by the way, the single best person to follow for play -by -play coverage of this. The attorney asks Gary, did you commit crimes at FTX? Gary responds, yes, with Nishad Singh, Carolyn Ellison, and Sam Bankman -Fried. Rough. But what we're actually talking about today is the fact that outside our little corner of the economic world, basically every indicator is going to hell. Summing it up, Arthur Hayes says it's about to be rectober. So let's start with bonds because that's what everyone's talking about. A massive sell -off is underway in the long end of the U .S. Treasury market. The yield on the 10 -year Treasury note touched 4 .8 % on Wednesday, while the 30 -year note breached 4 .9 % briefly. Both are marks that haven't been seen since early 2007. TLT, the ETF which tracks the price of a basket of long -term bonds with maturities over 20 years, has continued its multi -year drawdown. The most recent leg has seen over 15 % of value wiped out in long -term bond investments since July. TLT has now lost almost 50 % of its value since the top in July 2020. By way of comparison, the 2008 crash saw a 57 % collapse in the S &P 500 across two years, while the dot -com crash of 2001 featured a 50 % decline in the S &P. The losses accrued during the current bond market route are twice as large as those during the bond collapse of 1981, when the Paul Volcker Fed hiked the interest rate to almost 20%. Now note, TLT is not a small ETF. It's one of the top 30 ETFs in the world in terms of assets under management, about a tenth of the size of the SPY S &P 500 index ETF. Now interestingly, although TLT has been getting pummeled, traders continue to flock in. The ETF has seen $33 billion in inflows since the Fed began hiking rates in March 2022. More than half of inflows have come this year. Assets under management have more than doubled despite the aggressive drawdown in price per share. As ETF store president Nate Gerasi put it, TLT has been a quote, cash incinerator. So what's causing this huge flow of funds into a collapsing bond market? TLT represents just one part of a massive collection of interconnected markets exposed to price action in U .S. treasuries. So it's impossible to know all of the positions being taken just by looking at one ETF. Part of the increased demand for treasuries comes from asset managers running fixed income portfolios. For example, pension funds, insurers, and bank balance sheets are some of the major investors who hold long -term treasuries. A paper loss on bond investments isn't typically a big deal for pension funds and banks, as long as they can continue to hold those positions to maturity. But as we've seen repeatedly over the past few years, holding to maturity is not always possible. Now, although these structural buyers are part of the story, many believe they don't explain the large increase in volume for TLT. Eric Balcona, senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg, wrote in a Twitter post that TLT investments quote, have cost traders $6 billion, but they keep coming back because it has to work. This is arguably the new fighting the Fed trade. When asked if he thinks it's just portfolio rebalancing, Eric said, that could be part of it for sure, but based on the elevated volume, it would indicate its traders betting. Now, one of the known bets being done in size is the basis trade. Basis trades in general are when an investor takes one position in spot markets offside by an inverse position in a derivative market to capture the price spread. In this case, hedge funds and other professional investors are taking long positions by buying bonds outright and then shorting futures. Short interest in U .S. Treasury futures is currently at all -time highs, recently exceeding their late 2019 peak. Importantly, a basis trade in U .S. Treasuries was widely blamed for the repo spike in September 2019. This trade is generally seen as a cause of systemic risk due to the massive leverage involved and its location close to the heart of the global financial system. The Fed, the Bank of England, and the Bank for International Settlements have all recently published papers warning of the risks of this arbitrage trade and noting its resurgence. Goldman Sachs, on the other hand, is much less worried, publishing a note last week which stated, we do not think the trade poses a major risk to treasury markets in the near term. Leverage in the system is materially lower than it was in 2019 -2020 as a result of a series of initial margin increases and price declines. Still, the BIS paper from last month said the basis trade, quote, is a financial vulnerability worth monitoring because of the margin spirals it could potentially trigger. Now beyond the trade, some believe this price action is simply the bond market pricing in higher for longer. At last month's meeting, Fed officials stood firm in their higher for longer rate forecast. Markets seemingly for the first time this hiking cycle are actually listening. Nick Timmeros, the Wall Street Journal's resident Fed whisperer, tweeted on Thursday, is the Fed finally getting tighter financial conditions? He attached a quote from Dhalip Singh, a former New York Fed official and now chief economist at PGIM Fixed Income, which said, these types of things often take on a life of their own until they self -correct, either through weaker economic data or a more sinister mechanism such as a financial stability scare. Either of those two developments would mark an inflection point back towards lower yields, but we're not there yet. Timmeros also noted that this is the first hiking cycle out of the past five where the without seeing a collapse in longer term bond yields. He wrote in a Twitter post, this time has been different. Investors had priced in and are now pricing out a recession with a quick turn towards rate cuts. However, in an appearance on CNBC earlier this week, Jim Bianco had a slightly different take on reactions to last month's Fed meeting. He said, what you're seeing in the bond market is a capitulation. Basically, most of the year, bond managers have been long in trying to argue why we're going to have a recession, why there's going to be a rally, and they've been having their brains beat in. If the Fed is done and the market senses there is still some inflation left, they don't want to touch bonds. I don't think the Fed cares about volatility in the bond market yet. They're asking the question, is it slowing growth in the real economy? Others noted that rates have hit a point where they are likely to cause a major problem for U .S. government financing. The Congressional Budget Office recently updated its forecast to note that interest expenses are set to reach 20 % of tax receipts by 2032 if they remain on current trajectory. Economist Harold Momgren said, the rise in long rates is primarily being driven by the huge and growing U .S. budget deficit. Added Jeffrey Gunlock of DoubleLine Capital, Now, former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes has published a new essay and has a strong view on how this bond market dysfunction ends. He argues that, quote, Hayes' point is that the large imbalances always resolve in one way. Printing money, he writes, Now, this bond market route has had Arthur banging the table all week. He has been pointing to the current yield curve move, known as a bear steepener, as basically unprecedented. A bear steepener is when long -term interest rates rise faster than short -term rates, un -inverting the yield curve while keeping rates high across the board. Arthur explains, As the 2s and 30s curve steepens alongside the 2 -year and 30 -year rates rising, fixed -income trading desks start bleeding money and can't figure out why. Due to the leverage and nonlinear risks embedded in banks' portfolios, they will begin selling bonds or paying fixed -on interest rate swaps as rates rise. More selling begets more selling, which is no bueno for bond prices. The faster this bear steepener rises, the faster someone goes belly up, the faster everyone recognizes there is no way out other than money printing to save government bond markets, the faster we get back to the crypto bull market. So that is some of the story in bonds, obviously. Not only could we talk about more, every cable news economic show is exclusively talking about that. But let's go to some other indicators in the macro economy as well. On Wednesday, the ADP published their private payrolls report. The payroll processing firm said that job growth for September had come in way below expectations. It saw just 89 ,000 jobs added for the month. This was down from an upwardly revised 180 ,000 in August and well below estimates of 160 ,000. This was the slowest job growth in the ADP figures since May 2020. ADP also said that annual wage growth had cooled to 5 .9%, the 12th consecutive monthly decline. Job gains came almost exclusively from the service sector, which saw 81 ,000 net jobs added almost entirely from leisure and hospitality. Major net job losses came from professional services, transportation and manufacturing. Now a lot of people said that this should give the Fed leave to continue its pause trajectory. However, this morning we got the release of the non -farm payroll report and it told a very different story. TLDR, September payrolls increased 336 ,000. The estimate had been 170 ,000. So basically we beat it to the upside by double. That means that this indicator that Jerome Powell has been looking at for a year and a half, which is tightness in the labor market, is still incredibly tight, which frankly gives the Fed leave and even potentially a mandate to increase rates even more. As Adam Cochrane wrote, In terms of GDP numbers, last week the U .S. Commerce Department published its final revision of second -quarter GDP, holding steady at a 2 .1 % annualized growth rate. Below the headline, the data showed a large downwards revision to consumer spending growth from 1 .7 % to just 0 .8 % on an annualized basis. This is 80 % lower than the consumer spending growth figure for Q1. Given that consumer spending accounts for around 70 % of U .S. GDP, the revision could speak to a troubling trend as the U .S. consumer cuts back. Claire Lee, vice president of credit strategy and research at Moody's Investor Service, said, Now, as an unconventional economic indicator, outgoing Nestle CFO Francois Xavier Roger had some troubling comments about the state of the global food market. He said that the total amount of food and drinks sold globally has been steadily falling since the beginning of the year. Roger said, Some pointed to, as a culprit, the recent adoption of new weight loss drugs. During an interview on Wednesday, the CEO of Walmart said, Now, while junk food purchases are unambiguously decreasing, many suggested the explanation is far more obvious and troubling than the adoption of weight loss drugs. Jeff Snyder tweeted, They're struggling to afford food, credit card debt is skyrocketing, and much more. What happened to the booming economy of just a couple months ago? Contributing to this notion of the consumer economy running out of steam, in September consumer delinquencies rose across the board. Auto loans, credit cards, and other consumer loan delinquencies have been steadily rising since late 2021 and have now reached decade -long highs. Credit card delinquencies are now at a little below 4%. And while that's nowhere near the 7 % seen in 2009, we are also well past the last peak in 2020. Now, mortgage rates have also been spiking alongside the rapid increase in rates for long -term treasuries. The average for a 30 -year fixed -rate loan hit 7 .49 % this week, according to Freddie Mac. That's the fourth straight week of increases bringing the average rate to its highest level since December 2000. What's more, some markets flashed rates above 8 % late this week, indicating that there are no signs of mortgage rates slowing down. Sam Cotter, Freddie Mac's chief economist, said, Unsurprisingly, this is pulling back home buyer demand. Now that lack of home buyer demand has been met with a slowdown in new listings as homeowners stay put. New listings declined last week, with this year exhibiting one of the lowest rate of home listings in recorded history. 2020 saw huge numbers of households refinancing into long -term loans at or below a 3 % rate. For many households, that historically low mortgage rate has made selling a financial impossibility with new loan rates as high as they are. So friends, that is the look at the macro. It is dicey out there. There isn't a lot of consensus about exactly what's going on. There is only consensus that it's getting worse, not better. Obviously, all eyes will be on Jerome Powell and the Fed and any indications that they give around their thinking is headed after this non -farm payroll report. And I, of course, will keep you updated as the picture becomes clearer. For now, I hope you are headed into a wonderful weekend in one of the best months of the year. And so until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Are Conservatives Not Listening To The American People When It Comes To Kevin McCarthy Being House Speaker?
"This is your source for breaking news and what to make of it all. This is the Mike Gallagher Show. The DOJ has told Letitia James to make my father's life hell, to keep him tied up in a courtroom, to cost him tens and tens of millions of dollars to distract him. I have a lot of advice for my house colleagues, other than this, follow your heart, but take your brain with you. The best option I think we have is Jim Jordan, the Ohio senator. Now, from the ReliefFactor .com studios, here's Mike Gallagher. Man, I knew people were going to be upset over what happened with Kevin McCarthy, but people are taking this so personally and it's, I hate, I hate to be the adult in the room here. Put your big boy pants on and move on. Let's get another speaker elected. It may very well be Jim Jordan and I'm hoping it is. Do you know what Democrats, what keeps them up at night having to, having to tangle with speaker of the house, Jim Jordan, do you know what a warrior he is? I don't love the removal of Kevin McCarthy. I don't, they're calling it chaos. Spare me the chaos nonsense. It's a disruption. It's an inconvenience. It's a distraction. It's momentary. This is a blip in time. Guess what? Guess what? We're going to get over this and then we're going to beat the Democrats in 2024 because the Democrats, the Democrats are wrecking America and everybody knows it. But the whining and the belly aching and the attacks, the personal attacks on Matt Gaetz and Nancy Mace and I admit I'm surprised by her vote. I don't want to spend too much time on this, but I saw her, a clip of her on CNN last night. She basically said, yeah, I'm fundraising. Yeah, I need support. They're coming at me from all sides and I'm, I'm representing the views of my constituents. What a crazy concept. We got a poll up at mikeonline .com just asking people if you favor the ouster of Kevin McCarthy or not. It's about 80 % yes, 78 I think to be exact, 78 % of the hundreds and hundreds of people who participated in the poll at mikeonline .com have said yes. I wonder if Nancy Mace was able to pull her district because I guarantee you most of her constituents, here's what, here's what the, my dear friends on the right don't understand. They don't seem to recognize the vast majority of our base, of our audience, of our voters, of our tribe, admittedly are perfectly fine with this. You're going to complain about speaker, Jim Jordan, give me a break. But I'm telling you, this is personal to them. You got to hear an exchange between Brian Kilmeade on Fox news. Now this guy, I tell you what, I guess he's turned on Trump. I don't know. I don't, I don't like picking few, picking fights with people in broadcasting. We all have enough challenges as it is. But what I witnessed yesterday in an exchange between the Fox news channels, Brian Kilmeade and Congressman Tim Burchette of Tennessee was as disgraceful an exchange as anything I've ever seen on that network. I'm going to play this for you and I want to get your reaction to find, I want you to tell me what you make of a supposed conservative broadcaster mocking a Congressman for acknowledging that he prayed before what had to be a very difficult vote. Listen to this. And then I want your reaction. Do you think it's going to do for the Republican party and chances of holding onto leadership in the majority when it looks like you're having, you're the ringleader of a circus led by Matt Gaetz who likes to blow things up but not offer any new ideas? Are you happy following Matt Gaetz? Is that your leader? I'm not following Matt Gaetz. I made my own decision. I didn't ask Matt Gaetz to challenge. You wouldn't get a challenge. Do what? If Matt Gaetz didn't stand up, you weren't going to challenge. You know that. I believe I, I believe I would have. Oh, come on. And there, and there. Oh, well, please, you know, playing about it one minute, the next minute you're going to lead an insurgency. So you don't think that praying about it's important. Is that what you're saying? One minute you're praying about how you're going to vote with Matt Gaetz. And the next minute you're going to lead an insurgency? Listen, you got a predetermined answer to everything. No, I have an opinion about what's going on. Do you have an opinion too? And you talk over me every time I try to make a point. Make your point. The point is, is that we're $33 trillion in debt. This speaker was woefully, woefully lacking in leadership skills. He always placed the blame somewhere else. America is going to be better off with new leadership. And that's the bottom line. And who is it? Possibly, possibly it could be Steve Scalise. It could be Elise Stefan. It could be Roger Williams out of Texas. It could be Mark Green out of Tennessee. So they all supported, they all supported Kevin McCarthy, including the most conservative guy. I know Jim Jordan. Why are you smarter than Jim Jordan and the 210 plus Republicans? Why are you smarter? I represent my district, brother. And why are you smarter than me? You're condemning me because I stand up on my own. And that's, that's what I do. I'm not condemning you. I'm questioning you. You don't like being questioned? You're, no, you're just, you're, the line of questioning is very negative and you know that. And I know that you, and when this is all over with, when this is all over with and we have a new speaker and we're running smooth, let's have this conversation again. Were you happy with John Boehner? I wasn't here with John Boehner. Paul Ryan? They're both rhinos. I mean, why do you, they're not, they're not in my camp anyway. So I, but I wasn't here when they were here. So you had 15 yeses for every round you voted for Kevin McCarthy, but you think he's the problem right now? I sure do. It's part of it. He's part of the, this, this whole problem. When you don't, when you deny that there's a problem when in this dysfunctional Washington brother that you didn't, you know, there's a problem. You can't, you can't take, get past the fact we take in 5 trillion. We spend 7 trillion and this and, and leadership. I'm fascinated. I'm fascinated the way you blame Kevin McCarthy, that you're, that you're $33 trillion in debt, but you're going to get a new leader. I'm sure he's going to solve everything. Well, I'm surprised that, that you give him full credit for all the successes that we made. I don't think you should take all the blame. Well, why, why are we backing it up? We had nine months. Exactly. That's a great point. Why do we wait nine months to do something about the wall, something about the budget, something about, well, we never did anything about term limits, which we promised the American I watched him for an hour and 15 minutes. He was doing a, he was doing an awful lot, but not enough for you. Uh, Tim Burchett, uh, Congressman, thanks so much. Now as if that wasn't wild enough, you want to know something wilder? Brian Kilmeade posted that on his Twitter account on X. He was so proud of that condescending, disgraceful treatment of a United States Congressman. He posted it. Now he might have people that do it. I don't know, but I, I would want to scrub that from existence. Surely that guy isn't proud of the way he insulted and berated. I guarantee you I'm, I, I've watched Fox for years. Brian Kilmeade doesn't normally interview people that way. He doesn't insult and, and, and, and have a smart aleck, interruptive that that's not him. It's personal for these folks. And what, what Tim Burchett was trying to say is I'm representing my constituents, brother. Nancy Mace is saying, I'm representing what my constituents want, not what you want. Funny that Brian Kilmeade brought up Paul Ryan. I'll bet he defends Paul Ryan, especially now that Paul Ryan is one of his bosses over at Fox news. Wow. I mean, I'm sorry. That's, that's just wild stuff to see that happen like that. Give me your reaction. 800 -655 -MIKE. We're in the relief factor studios for a Thursday. The PhD weight loss and nutrition phone number is 800 -655 -MIKE. I mean, why is this so, why is this so personal to these guys? Why do you think it is so devastating that we're going to have a new speaker in the Republican caucus? Why are they so depressed and angry and filled with rage? Help me understand it because it's a mystery to me. 800 -65, I mean, I appreciate being disappointed. I get not wanting chaos as they put it. I get not wanting the disruption. I get it. I do appreciate that. But to go Defcon one like that and to rip into one of the, the eight congressmen who voted to oust McCarthy, was anything that happened on Capitol Hill this week, deserving of that kind of a treatment by Brian Kilmeade at Fox news. Wow. 800 -655 -6453. I hope you join us. Your call, your voice, your reaction coming up. Want to know what happened this week? Subscribe to the Mike Gallagher show. We can review every important event and conversation of the week. All in one podcast. Find it at Mike online .com, Salem podcast network .com or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Friday. Subscribe today and never miss the Mike Gallagher show week in review. My pillow is having their biggest sheet sale of the year. You've helped my pillow become one of the most extraordinary success stories in America today. Well now Mike Lindell wants to give back exclusively to you, a Mike Gallagher listener. 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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Roger Stone
"Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to listen to a man of grace, sophistication, integrity, and whimsy? Well, so are we. But until such a man shows up, please welcome Eric Mataxas. Well, ladies and gentlemen, do not adjust your TV sets. I'm wearing a different kind of wig today, and I know it's jarring, but let's just go with it. The wig master. Yeah, he's outdone himself today. I was going to say he was taken ill. He was taken ill. But in any event, enough about my wig. Chris, what about your wig? is My wig an original. Listen, today is, I believe, Tuesday, right? So we should probably tell people who's on the show, and then we're going to joke around more. Who's on the show? In a couple of minutes, probably not wearing any kind of wig at all, will be my guest, Roger Stone. Roger Stone will be talking about the Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz battle. McCarthy and Gaetz. If you're wondering what to make of that, and you don't have time to listen to the show, Gaetz is right. McCarthy needs to be kicked out. But that's just my opinion. We'll see what Roger Stone has to say. He is a genius, political genius, and I'm excited to hear what he has to say. It kind of reminds me of the old Star Trek episode where Kirk and Spock have to fight each other to the death. It reminds everyone of that, but please continue. Spock was kind of under a spell. He wasn't himself, and they had to fight each other. Right. Kirk didn't want to hurt Spock because he knew that, you know. But maybe it's a bad analogy. It's just like that. Ladies and gentlemen, it's just like that. If you don't have any more time, just take that home. It's on In hour two, we're talking to Doug Grothheis. That's a Dutch name. I want to say up front, I hate the Dutch. I despise you people. And I'm going to bring it to Doug Grothheis. Enough with the Dutch stuff. But we're going to talk to him about theological stuff. We're going to talk to Roger Stone about political stuff in a couple of seconds. Before that, we should mention several things. Number one, I've been working on a sequel to Letter to the American Church. It's called Religionless Christianity, God's Answer to Evil. Working on a book is very stressful on me. That's why I'm wearing this wig because the eczema and psoriasis really flare up, and you've got to cover that up just from stress. So I'm working on that book. I'm doing a lot of travel. The Letter to the American Church book, some of you know, there's a study guide that goes with it. And we've mentioned that the documentary film, there's a documentary film. And I think we're pushing back the release date. The film is just about ready to go. But I think we're trying to set it up as a fathom event. I will be screening it in churches around the country. But we don't book. It's not about a movie. It's about saving America from sliding into the abyss. It's very, very bleak. If you pay attention to what's going on in the news, most of it seems unbelievable, the evil that we're facing and the silence of the church in the face of evil. So stay tuned on that. The way they attack President Trump, the way they attack Mike Lindell, what's really gross to me is there are people out there who don't care. And I think to myself, who are you? Do you understand what kind of a country this is? In this country, we don't play those political games. We actually have justice under the law. We're supposed to have those things. And you're supposed to care about those things. I don't care where you are politically or who you like or don't like. So it really is amazing to me where we are. So we're going to be talking obviously to Roger Stone about that in a few minutes. But let me ask you again to support Mike Lindell, please, by going to mystore .com or mypillow .com and using the code Eric. But what he's going through, even yesterday, I read a whole new thing that they're attacking him. It's just despicable that we're at that point in the country where that kind of stuff is happening. I mentioned I was traveling. I was. You remind me of that. I forget the name of the song. It's a classic rock song about the guy who's on the road every night. He's going to town to town. You're kind of like a 70s rocker.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Doug Groothuis
"Hey, you have you checked your bucket list lately? Are you ready to take care of item number seven? Listening to the Eric Metaxas show? Well, welcome. Tune in and then move on to item number eight. Skydiving with Chuck Schumer and AOC. Here now is Mr. Completed My Bucket List at age 12, Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome back. In a few minutes, I'm talking to Doug Groth -Heiss. We're talking about seven sentences on world religions. This is going to be fun, I guarantee it, but right now I get to continue talking to Roger Stone because my producer was out of the room and he couldn't stop me. Roger, it is so much fun to talk to you. You were just making the point about DeSantis and the loyalty thing. Look, I take that very seriously. I don't think DeSantis is a bad guy. I think he's been a great governor, but I really think that it was a tremendous miscalculation on his part. Probably, and you know this, it's not even probably, people with a lot of money who really hate Trump, they did the hard sell on Ron DeSantis. You must do this. We will back you. You can't fail. But he does seem not to have the je ne sais quoi that you have to have if you're going to be a force in politics in America. And he does come across as wooden and I just think it's a pity. I hope he remains governor of Florida for a long time. He's a wonderful governor. But it is so strange to me that people who just can't abide Trump did this and really put all their eggs in that basket. I guess I would argue, first of all, that likability is an absolute key factor in American politics. Ronald Reagan had it. Donald Trump has it. Ron DeSantis does not have it. There's nothing likable about him. There's nothing warm. He's socially awkward. He's very, very strange. He's either an introvert in an expert's business or perhaps he's on the spectrum. I'm uncertain, but it's impossible to warm to him and his physical mannerisms are very weird. The other thing, though, that is even more problematic is I'm going to argue with the assertion that he's a good governor. He took nine and a half million dollars from Florida Power and Light and we got a 22 percent electricity increase, the largest single increase in state history. If your home was destroyed in one of the two recent hurricanes and you don't like what your home insurance company is offering you to replace your home or, say, your roof, you no longer have the ability to sue them. That's because of a bill that Governor DeSantis signed after taking four and a half million dollars from the insurance companies. He's been a he's missing in action as governor. The state has an insurance crisis. The state has a malaria crisis. The state has a growing crime crisis. And the governor is in Iowa trying to make his last stand. By the way, he's term limited, so he's in his final term as governor. He cannot run again. And I think he's very badly damaged his brand back here in Florida. Now, I did not think that the voters would care about the loyalty factor, but I was entirely wrong about that.
The Paul Finebaum Show
"will rogers" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"At Arkansas. I think he gets overshadowed. Sometimes I don't know exactly why, but I think he does. He's a bulldozer with an arm. But he's such a good, strong runner. I think sometimes people forget about how efficient he is as a passer. This is a guy last two seasons has completed 68% of his passes. I think there are debates for several other quarterbacks, whether that be Jayden Daniels, we know Will Rogers has been a stat stuffer for Mississippi state. Maybe you like the Carson Beck transition at Georgia or maybe you're encouraged by Joe Milton in the orange bowl Tennessee. I think it is a good debate. I would lean toward KJ Jefferson. And it's cliche to say having a great quarterback impacts your success. But when you look at it, Paul, I went back and figured in the last 17 seasons, teams that produced the first team, all conference quarterback, first team all SEC, and that 17 year span they won 85% of their games. Four of those teams won national championships, 15 of the 17 finished ranked in the top 25. So we can debate who the best SEC quarterback is, but I tell you, whoever it winds up being, their team, you can bet is going to have a lot of success this season. Fascinating staff here by Blake taught Meyer, who we always enjoy visiting with thank you very much, Blake, great start to the Thursday show. We're off and running your phone calls around the corner. You were listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. Guys, fellas, men. Are you Roman ready for the weekend? Right now, generic Viagra,
The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
"will rogers" Discussed on The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
"It's the story of the holiday wood wants to make the latest rocky sequel scene more diverse. Thank you very much. I shouldn't have ended on that one. It's okay, Walter. I have a question. I have a feeling that Jeff is the puppet now and Walter is running him because Jeff looks younger than he did 20 years ago. What's happening there? We have a good filter and we're in a trailer park, so it makes me look better. You look so you look super healthy and look great, Jeff. Congratulations on studying. You know what happened? I never say this in front of my audiences, but my wife, wow, did you see that Walter disappeared? That was cool. You know what it is. NSA figured out I'm making fun of Biden. Anyway, no, my wife, you know, my wife is 100% vegan. And so there's no animal food around this house anymore. There's no, it's all plant based stuff. So I do when I'm on the road. And you know, I got a crew of 12 guys. We got tour buses and they have catering, so every once in a while, I'll still have a nice piece of meat now and then, but yeah, thanks for the thanks for the compliment, but I don't know. There's something there's something to all this stuff where I'm eating a lot of vegetables. Well, it's working for you. You know what's weird is I went to the go to the eye doctor like once every three years and I went in and he goes, your eyesight has gotten better. And he goes, you do anything different. I go, yeah, even a lot of vegetables, he goes, you know, that actually works. So I don't know. I don't know. All I'm saying is I love a steak better than the next guy, but I think I'm a cheat and vegan. That's what I am. You mentioned that you've got 12 crew members going out with you. How many of your friends will be with you other than Walter? You're assuming a line. He calls this fringe. We're employees. We're in a box. You know, the guys that have been in my act for a long time though. Jose jalapeno on a stick has actually been in the show longer than any of my other characters. I came up with him in 83 when I was in college. And then there's peanut, there's Walter, peanuts, a little purple guy, and then there's bubba Jay, the guy behind me in the strat here. And my redneck character. And then achmed the dead terrorist. And you know, augmented with dead terrace has been a long time, and people keep saying, aren't you having trouble with that? No, because my audience come out, and they know what we're doing. We don't make fun of anybody's religions. We don't make fun of anybody's preferences. It's just good fun comedy. And you know I say this, I don't want to get on a soapbox here, but I say that every night for the show, then what's happened to the comedy in our country, and I, you know, I don't know what's happened with the late night guys where they've picked sides and they call the other size idiots and morons and all that. And you know, you go all the way back to Will Rogers, Bob Hope, Carson, Leno. You never knew what their preferences were politically, and they just made fun of who was in office and what was going on. And I'm just going to keep doing that because I know my audience is trust me and they pay good harder hard earned money and I just make fun of who's in office and what's going on when Trump was there. I had a lot of fun with that. And now, you know, how can you not? But it's good natured fun. The comedy used to be good and everybody was okay with it. And now it's just turn kind of nasty. And I think that's one of the big problems is that the comedy has just gotten into a pep rally instead of stand up. We'll have a silly time with Jeff Dunham and I would ask if I could talk to Walter for just a second. You seem like a pretty clever guy, Walter, why don't you make a puppet of Jeff? Kind of like an aging Jeff Dunham. So he could be like the old Jeff Dunham. I think it's a genius idea that trouble is he would break my lap. Once again, the stops include, as I mentioned, the finale, if you will, a whole bunch of shows in Vegas coming up in May and also later on in September, October and December. A whole bunch of shows up for sale actually right now. But the immediate tour is Green Bay, Madison, Springfield, Illinois, Jackson, Mississippi, Atlanta, Fresno, Lincoln, Eugene, Tacoma, Rochester. And you know what's fun about these shows is that these are not small rooms. These are big arenas still, and it's great. In our show, still average between 6 and 10,000 people. And we've got a 50 foot video screen. It's like a giant comedy club and it's, you know, it's a lot of fun. Oh, they always ask us is our show family friendly. Friendly, the answer is, it depends on your family. Well, on that note, we'll leave it there. Jeff, it's always a great pleasure. Thank you for your time. Have a great tour and go check out mister Dunham live. I was good seeing you guys. Thank you, sir. Thank
Bloomberg Radio New York
"will rogers" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Where they held just one week from today, so we're going to devote the entire hour to them who's ahead and who's behind what they mean for the country and for the presidential election two years from now. And the host of security issues front and center. From the Bloomberg Washington bureau, welcome to the second hour of bounce of power. I'm David Westin. Well, we're all getting ready for those midterm elections held a week from today. But in the middle of all of it, a horrific incident happened on San Francisco, of course, with the attack in his home of Paul Pelosi, with a lot of people reacting one way or the other to it, but raising larger questions about the quality of the discourse and even incitement of violence that some people are taking away from some of the more extreme rhetoric. To give us his perspective on this, we welcome to Doug hi, he's Republican strategist and former communications director for the Republican National Committee. Great to have you here in Washington. Great to be with you in person. So you wrote a fascinating piece actually on this because when you were, I believe communications director at the RNC, you actually had a program of communicating the fire Pelosi. It was the banner that you had. Tell me about that. What were you doing? Yeah, so we launched what was called fire Pelosi. The night that the House passed the ObamaCare Bill. By just a few votes and one of the things that Republicans will tell you privately is they don't think Nancy Pelosi's incompetent. Any efforts that we've had against Nancy Pelosi, because she's very good at what she does. As that vote showed. And it was a financial boon for us. We actually had a pretty limited goal. We wanted to raise $400,000 on what we called a money bomb. To kind of galvanize some support. It ended up being a 1,000,000.4 that we raised that led to a bus tour, a fire Pelosi bus on the side of the bus, where we took the chairman to 48 states, the lower 48, all 48 of them, and was a galvanizing message for Republicans, and just last week I was emailing with a couple of old colleagues and asked what happened to the banner that we used to have because on my last day at the RNC in 2011, I stole it. I brought it with me. And I ended up giving it to the NRCC in 2016, where they used it. And then two days later, the attack happened on Paul Pelosi. And it got me thinking of while I don't draw a straight line to the fire Pelosi campaign from 12 years ago to what happened to him, you can certainly draw a crooked line. Or a dotted line to it. And as we see so often, our rhetoric is getting hotter and hotter and it's getting hotter from Republicans certainly, Donald Trump put that in overdrive. It's getting hotter from Democrats as well. And so we see these violent attacks that have happened to Gabby Giffords, which happened when I was at the RNC and one of my closing days there. On Steve scalise, the kidnap plot of Gretchen Whitmer, somebody being arrested in front of Brett Kavanaugh's home. And the bad news on this, David, is that so far we've been lucky. One of these attempts is going to be successful and when that happens, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat, our collective ability to spin each other up and cause that rhetoric to get hotter and hotter, puts us even closer to a tipping or an unraveling point. And that's my ultimate fear. So is it that from as you watch it, is the change in the level of the rhetoric that is to say it's more inflammatory than it was before, whereas the change in the audience and people in the audience receiving this rhetoric who are more likely to actually act on it in a rational awful horrific criminal ways. It's both of that and it's the speed. You know, there's that old line I believe it's Mark Twain or Will Rogers who said that it takes a long to essentially it takes a long time for the truth to be told, but a lie can cross the world and in a day. The reality is it can cross the world instantaneously. And we now filter and we all self select or algorithms do it for us. The news that we receive the commentary we receive, so we all get mad or faster. And all it takes is one unhinged person to go to a congressional baseball game practice. And to find out where they practice, which I didn't know where they practiced, and I'd gone to those games, almost every year. Or to go to a meet your congresswoman event in Arizona with Gabby Giffords, or what we just saw on Friday. And that's why I think it's incumbent on all of us and why I try to be self reflective in the piece that I wrote for The Washington Post to do better. And it's not enough to just say, no, the other side needs to do better. We all need to do a better job, and that also means calling out ourselves and our own team, and when something like this happens to try and quell as we did, the Saturday morning when Gabby Giffords got shot. I went straight to my office and we were I was on a conference call with colleagues and House Republican leadership in a very somber call about what kind of statements we put out and how do we quell what we call the loudmouths. To somebody who's going to say the wrong thing at the wrong time
WIBC 93.1FM
"will rogers" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
"Too late for many of the clients I've worked with during prior market crashes. Will Rogers once said that shrewdness in public life all over the world is honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded. In other words, if you tell the truth People will think less of you than if you demonstrate power. I don't think anybody would argue that in today's world, the power of persuasion is dominating and honesty is being swept aside. Let me be clear. I'm not questioning the intentions of fake news promoters. It's impossible to always know someone's intentions. Person could be completely well intentioned but also ignorant and still do massive amounts of harm. To those that follow their advice. Dennis Prager once said intentions don't matter. Like Dennis Prager or not, That's a true statement. If I don't intend to run a red light, but I do and cause an accident. I can still hurt someone just the same as if I ran the red light on purpose. Fake news is fake news, regardless of intentions. Here's something that's not fake news. My baby Boomer Retirement Bootcamp book. It's a must have retirement educational tool full of common sense advice. Also, make sure an ask for your very own customised Retire Shield kit. Common sense. Isn't that common in today's world?.
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"will rogers" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"CJ Verdell. With three rushing touchdowns for the visiting decks, including the 77 yarder and CJ Stroud for Ohio State, two touchdown tosses. Number 13, Florida enjoying its state and Tampa at South Florida, leading 35 3 over the Bulls late second quarter number. 25 Auburn, shutting out Alabama State in the 3rd 41 nothing and number 19 Virginia Tech scoreless first quarter at home against Middle Tennessee coming up later on ESPN television. Four P.m. Eastern women's final at the US Open, the two unseeded teenagers Leila Fernandez going up against Emma, Can you of Great Britain on the men's side? Novak Djokovic going for the calendar Grand Slam? First one to do it since Rod Laver and 69 if he gets it in ESPN Guy Macro thinks he will. Roger Federer never did it. Rafael Nadal never did it. I believe Novak joke. Djokovic is going to do it. It is astounding when he's been able to accomplish the level, the intensity the balance that he's found. On and off the court of helped him considerably. This is historic. I feel privileged to be able to sit there and watch this guy perform at this level. It will be four P.m. Eastern on Sunday Cristiano Ronaldo two goals in the triumphant return to Manchester United after 12 years. 41 win for Manchester over Newcastle. We're back on Monday after a week one and the Bears. That's right. The bear's face to rams. We'll tell you how Matthew Stafford.
850 WFTL
"will rogers" Discussed on 850 WFTL
"Sunny 179 playing the greatest hits of Queen. Yeah. Buddy. You're a boy. Make a big nice screen in the street. Gonna be a big match something you got mud on your face. You big disgrace kicking. You're trying hall over the lady singing you will rock you We will rock you. Buddy are a young man on match shopping industry Gonna take all the words from now You got blood on your face. You big disgrace waving you off. All of it. We will rock you. Sing it. Oh, right. You buddy are unknown Mind poor man pleading with your eyes Gonna make your zombie stop there. You got mud audience face. Big disgrace. Somebody better put your bag into your place. Away. Will Rogers saying Oh, you will around you, Everybody will..
The WDW Radio Show - Your Walt Disney World Information Station
"will rogers" Discussed on The WDW Radio Show - Your Walt Disney World Information Station
"Package of course before we get to this week's question we're going to go back review last week's end select winner so in honor of this week being july fourth an american independence day. I thought ask you a question. Specifically about not just america but the true american adventure in epcot center and last week said that when the american adventure was being developed in addition to ben franklin and mark twain there was actually going to be planned for a third host and warranty or tell me who that third host was going to be. I thanks to the hundreds of you entered. Got this one correct and knew the answer was will rogers. Now you might even be saying who is will rogers. I don't mean william buck rogers. But i mean will rogers the actor the cowboy the columnist social commentator. He was many things including actually being a cherokee citizen born in the cherokee nation indian territory was actually known as the cherokee kid in his early career and the original idea was that ben franklin would represent the eighteenth century mark twain would be the nineteenth century and will rogers which ought to be the commentator and spokesperson for the twentieth century. Imagine you're randy bright. Who was the show producer and the writer for american adventure was actually a big fan of will rogers and wanted him to represent the twentieth century but when they ran. This idea passed a group of political science college. Students only about five of them. Who knew will. Rogers was so there was a learning opportunity there and they decided to wait. And then maybe possibly later on bring somebody more contemporary into that role but as of now remains ben franklin and mark twain. I took all the correct entries randomly selected one and again last week. You're playing for a wwe. Oh pin and keychain and a surprise bonus gift as well and last week's winner randomly selected is rozonda voulez so rosanna congratulations. You use the form. I have your mailing address. I will get your price back out your right away if you play last week didn't win that's okay because here's your next chance to enter in this week's walt disney.
WCBM 680 AM
"will rogers" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM
"Called backs for the wind incentive program. And now I'll talk about get free tacos. Uh so that, uh, I don't know if either as an incentive, we're not. I don't like that because I had my shots and I got nothing You got no, no prize. No incentive. No, I got nothing right? Well, it did in Florida. You have a lottery? Yeah, I know for the vaccine. No, no. Okay. When Maryland played baseball, Santa's land Yeah, At least you have a chance to win something in nearly $40,000. Day being given away up until July, 3rd. And then I figure is what 400 grand is The big enchilada. Yeah. Cinnamon toast, crunch cookie dough and symone roles are here for limited time. So if you like that kind of thing That's out there. Seven lemons Free Slurpee Day usually is on July the 11th 7 11 this year. It's been extended to the entire month of July. So you get free Slurpee every day. That's pretty good. Yeah, it is a good deal. Brain freeze every day. Okay, you know you fix brain freezes. Have you take your tongue and you lick the roof of your mouth of the where the soft palate is apparently works. I thought you'd put a hot biscuit in your mouth. Either. Would would suffice. Because that way it falls out your brain. Chick fil A's bringing back peach milkshakes for summer, much anticipated favorite one of their all time fair. It's good, though. Beach more trigger of, uh, if you like peach. It's delicious, uh, prepared to crave a cinnamon bun because we have some Cinnabon news for you. The bakery restaurant expanding in stores yet again, But this time, it's the beverage category. They now have a cinnamon Uh, Cinnabon about flavored A nutritional drink a protein drink. How nutritional is, would you like? Yeah. So here it is. 240 calories, 10 G of protein 21, vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin D Yeah, in your Cinnabon protein drink. And finally, Chuck, you got some. You got your work cut out for you. Thank you. Headquarters of the Girl Scouts have announced this was in New Mexico. By the way, I saw this story 15 million boxes of unsold cookies this year, Right? 15 million. What do they normally sell for four box? You know, I haven't bought him in a long time. I thought it was like $5 a box, wasn't it? I'll off from a buck 50 free for all 15 million. No, no, no, I'll get my break. Uh and I'll buy 10 boxes. Oh, yeah, Of course. He's quite the philanthropist, isn't it? Yes, I'm helping by 10 bucks is at a buck 50 Girl Scouts take a loss on that, chuck zero gonna be stale in about six weeks. So dollar 50 or nothing. We told you say, we'll call him up and off of that. And the link it back to, you know, they'll take it. You think so? Oh, yeah, but I want to drive boxes times, 2 to 1. So when 30 boxes were buckling first of all, does anybody actually believe Chuck is going to actually paid cash? For any of these girls go well, now that deal. Alright, let's let's be real here. Just that's never happened. I'll give you some spots. Why would like Disneyland tickets and dog? Yeah. Brought to you microscope cookies, right? There will be a new on each report This report writing my thin mints. This report. What do you buy Somalia's report brought to you by Tagalongs that's checking the box on talk radio. 6 80 wcbm. Somebody get a milk man. 52nd year broadcasting the high store still around. Yes, good. Then we'll get high to bring the milk. All right. The log it Kristen. He's off. He's off the charts this morning. All right, Chuck. We'll see it A couple Alright, 6 49 you're listening to K C and company talk radio 6 80 Wcbm, a 99.9 FM in Harford County. The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse. Every time Congress meets his famous Will Rogers saying is more true now than ever. Congress recently passed trillions in stimulus spending with possibly more to come. This is on top of an already massive death of over $28 trillion It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that there is a potential tax storm on the horizon. Your taxes could be going up, and it may be sooner than you think. At a time when so much seems out of your control. When it comes to taxes, you may have more control than you think. Can you avoid the tax storm? Find out today with Flora and DePaula Wealth Partners free tax guy. Get your copy now and avoid the.
WBAP 820AM
"will rogers" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"I mean, do you think I'm stretching this? I mean, you think I'm I'm out on a limb here. Oh, Steve thinks no. Think some stretching and push the button. You nailed it. This okay? I'm going to make sure I'm not blowing this way out of proportion or not, And I had to tell TV anchor wife Deborah Ferguson. You know, this is a big event this weekend. She goes the NASCAR race ago. Well, that's a big event, but they've also got the event if you love to fish, and it might be the bigger event, and if it's a big event, that means big Billy kinder, some part of it, and he's able to hop on with us this morning. How you doing, brother? I'm good man. We are all over this thing. You're right. It's huge. They do call it the Super Bowl of bass fishing. It's the World championship. It rotates around the nation every year, and this year it's on Lake Ray Roberts, Texas, So North Texas bass fisherman are all abuzz. So it's the 2021 Academy Sports and Outdoors Bassmaster Classic and they really kind of tied into Fort Worth. You mentioned the fact that it's at Lake Ray Roberts. But the ceremonies away and all that all that stuff is going to take place at Dickie's Arena, right? Absolutely Yes, it's actually threefold. Anytime you go to a Bassmaster classic you want to take in the entire experience, and I would urge folks to grab the family and go. It's all three absolutely free. It's an early start to your day, but the launch on Lake Ray Roberts and I'll do Boy State Park that's on the south side of the leg. Uh, at state Park there, they're going a lot. At 6:15 A.m.. But be there early. Get there in the dark and look at the spectacle, the parade of boats and and the, uh, the national anthem and the kickoff ceremonies every day are just Spectacular guys, then make your way down to Will Rogers and forth worth for the Expo. It's everything Fishing times, 20. It's unbelievable. All of the manufacturers will be there. If you like striking rulers, they're going to have a giant. Store built inside the Expo and Berkeley and they're going to give away boats and motors and clothes and lures and rods and reels and stuff. It's just phenomenal celebration of Fishing in general, Uh and that's phase two. You got to take in the expo at Will Rogers and then over to Dickie's arena. I think the doors open at 3 15 or so for the general public every day. Riding Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For the way in which is an incredible show, too. They parade the guy's through with their big giant bass that they've gotten. See who is stacking up to win that 300 grand first place money on Sunday afternoon. Will there be anyone there, though? That can help Sean? Not Bird's Nest of bait casters? No, that's impossible. There are things that are impossible. Okay? I was just curious. I haven't I haven't looked at the list of the people that will be at the will Rogers. But tell me that the guys from Whopper Popper will be there. You know, they're going to be their whopper plot more right? Yeah, but it's bass fishing. They'll be there. Dude you need you can I'm gonna be there in dollar lures to throw up in a tree. I've done it. One more. So how many people how many folks will be participating in this? Bassmaster? How many? How many? I'm going to call them athletes because they are because they're gonna be out there all day. How many of them will be on boats? There will be 56 fishermen to start this thing when they kick it off on Friday morning, they'll fish all all 56 anglers that have qualified for this event will fish Friday and Saturday then after Saturday's way, and they'll narrow it down to the top 25 on Sunday. And that's when the drama starts to unfold and guys will come in. There's been so many great stories unfold on the stage of Bassmaster classics through the years if you win one of these You are set for life with endorsements. You're you're you walk off that stage an instant Multi millionaire, Uh and there have been some incredible stories through the years, one of them. Is Rick Clon. He's 14 vast master classics in his illustrious career. He's now 73 years old, something like that, and he did not qualify this year. But he's still out on the bow that both banging away and fishing this thing every year. Are there local guys and familiar will there be some local guys here? Yeah. Cody Bird from down in Granbury has qualified Cody as I believe 56 years old. He's been fishing a long time. He's never made it to this level. It's his first Bassmaster classic, so Even though Cody has been a pro angler for more than 20 years. He's as giddy as a school kid this weekend because it's the vast master classic. He's made it to the game. When we get giddy every Saturday morning, five o'clock for kinder, outdoors, Big Billy Kinder outdoors here on W B A P, who is empowered by this week. Well, it's powered by some good folks like Purina Pro Plan for your dog. There's nothing better. That kid that won the Heisman A couple of years back. His parents fed him pro plan all of his life. Yeah, it worked. Guys. Just Yeah, it worked Big Billy. We always appreciate the time a great weekend. Coming up, dude. Enjoy and have fun with me. Hey, everything you need to know about this kinder outdoors dot com. There you go, even had to untangle the bait Caster. If your child chess game so excited Whopper popper. I'm going to get bass fisherman. I know Bass fisherman love the time they spend in their boat, but they must also love time spending in the card. It's about an hour hour and a half drive between that lake and Dickie. Exactly. I know that's a hall. Steve keeps saying Whopper popper. That's something sounds like studios. Plumbers need to fix, Right. Okay, exactly, Uh, trying to come back and fix your walk for blocks. Exactly. This flower is so cool when it goes through the water. Yeah. Check it out. Is it a lure or stomach issue? That's right Traffic right now. Here's money could monitor the activity Still on the high 20.
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"Earthworm. Ps worm poop. Yeah, e like that castings word. We're at the compost festival here at Will. Rogers Gardens Village. Julia, Jamie Ashmore. I'm Gwen Falconer Lippard. The plan to the week has not even had a guest yet. What is that? What is that about the ultra Botanica plant of the week? Eyes a annual tropical You can grow it outside in a pot, but you have to bring it inside in the winner. Full sun, part shade. It's not grown for its flowers, but they are very nice. Great, fragrant foliage. Different types of something and that blooms in the steps of fragrances. It's actually renowned for having like tons and tons. Victorians loved it. And I think during Victorian times, there was over 600 different no varieties of scent. And now it's down to what? Like, maybe 80, Mrs. Fine. Wow. So, but, yeah, it comes in like every type of fragrance. Wow. Yeah, I remember when I was in college. I worked in the gardens and and we had, like, three. And those surprise Still the three most popular. Yeah, I know. She rubbing the leaves. Is that how you smell it? Yeah. I mean, you could. You could rub the leaf and small belief that It When you touch it, it the oil comes off on your skin. It's just easier to easier just to smell your hands. But because it's a fragrant this this is a plant that I like to plant along. Garden Pass. So that when you brush up against it, it releases the scent. And I put it on pots that on my porch where I sit and rub. Yes, yes, because all the gardeners anybody he's grown. This once will keep prepping believe and smelling your fingers. That's not so good. Okay, well, see, now I think of geraniums like that, because I will do a geranium. But I don't know about this. I don't see the bloom there. I see no blue. No, no, that's just green. It does bloom, but he'll be it's a glimpse for serve a short period of time in the middle of summer. Yes, Who's there? Michael? John. Hello, John. You're on the Garden party. Welcome. Good, right? How are you today? Good. I have a question to this. This hard freeze. Kill our crepe myrtles from the top. Oh, it's it's a game we play. John, That's way play. I think that I mean it. Actually, Texas ain't him is saying Wait until June. I just saw someone takes a telling people that tune. It seems so long. Wait, I think, just go ahead. Let's go and kind of get back. It said There's no way that they're gonna There's no way that you look good. Thanks. Yeah, they're gonna look funky if you let him grow, and I told the group Julia just cut him back. Come on, back down, and then, um, training every train pick up, pick out your The suckers that you like and make it a multi trunk or if you wanted to, You could do a single trunk that you may have been bail be like least three years of cutting all the suckers off, But I've done that with the biotechs before. So I mean, I had standardized ones that we lost this year, you know, but I will be weeping because I love those bear stands. Oh, But you need cut him up and then get him all nice and plump just in time for the crape myrtle scale to come in, But nobody actually seriously watch up look great moral skill because It is going to be old sort of succulent new growth. And that is gonna be nice and juicy for the great moral skill, So just watch it. It'll look like a little like almost like a little turtle show on top of the plant. And if you see that on there, you can spray of a dormant oil in the winter. It's kind of a light gray color, isn't it? Yes. Yeah. So, like, great little tiny, teeny little shit their season the good. I've got something weird. That happened today is Jamie. My my parasol tree is I was thought it was completely dead. But I just saw the one that Roy Rogers this leafing out finally. And it leaked out this week. Well, you might myself alive. Your parents. Yeah, I think it would turn from green to silver. Okay, We're gonna have to take a break. We're at the compost festival that will Rogers Gardens in Oklahoma City. 36 the 9 44. We would love for you to come see us. Listening to the Garden Party on 1000. Katie. Okay, I think one of the worst.
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"Not the ones I'm related Toc that wonder twin powers twice. That would be Bella, Julia Laughlin and Jamie Ash more and we're here at the Compass Festival at the Will Rogers Gardens. And Calvin, right has made it. Oh, wonderful, And it's just so fun to be here. Good to see you. Bella. Julian's looking forward to this. Yeah, really was it's It's not raining. But it's pretty hot. It's perfect. Always think gardens. Look because we're Roger's Gardens. I think gardens look prettier on cloudy days. I think the colors are just more saturated. Vibrant. Yes, And actually, it's It's better to take pictures on cloudy days. Yeah, because of colors and cut flowers well, and the fun part is I got to watch Jamie in his element over there, selling the master gardeners on plants that he has brought to sell, which is fantastic. If you're selling him for the Extension. The master gardeners air here with the booth of really unusual plants that Jamie actually picked out most of them. I think I'm Valerie. Valerie. I picked him out. Yeah, I guess I helped last year when you picked up this year. It's the same thing we like. We like the same place like the same. I know weird perennials. Everything is there's money. There's a few angles over there. There's the Senegalese, holiest real pretty son Daniel. But eight you'd indifferent to unusual and then I want to mention that Will Rogers Friends of real. Roger's Gardens is here with plants, too. Yeah, and their stuff is real meat. What did I get a desert bird of paradise. And where were you plant your desert bird of in the holes? Yeah, on the surface of the sun always say, like Things that grow on the surface of the sun is definitely one of them. So it would be a good plan to have faith on a west facing front porch. Yes, against a brick wall. Yeah, frying pan. The reason that I say that is because I've had several places in my landscaping. I've had to move him to more sun to make him flower. Good. I mean, if anything, they just want tons of sun, So that's a good one. But the thing about it is it's kind of unusual perennial. Wouldn't you say, Jamie find it just anywhere so If you're out today and you want to come. We're here together, not sold out yet. Well, they do so that my one o'clock No. Can you take some of that s come to save me one I bet I could get you wear your business here here as you all remember Julia Laughlin was the garden delight her for years and then went on to become the Oklahoma County Extension, Horticulture educator. So she's in charge, right? I'm just a teacher of gardening is and Jamie is one of her master gardeners and a former student and the curator of special And I don't think you could have had a better day. There's a nice breeze. There's enough owner. It's not gonna rain. I know it's beautiful. And I've been invited to tour the memory garden at after this, which I would love to say Yes. I haven't been out here very much. I know why this park and Jamie lives nearby. Yes, this couple blocks neighborhood part for him, but It's got a lot of history. When I think you know that it was mainly built by the Works, Progress Administration and what's the other organization works, progress and Asked. The W P A sneer just makes you feel. Yeah, This is one of four The four Corners Gardens, which I think it's cool to Grand Boulevard. Yeah, Stars and Stripes. What is it? Well, Rogers almost went to the east. It's certainly t Yeah, Trust yes, and what's the fourth one not visit by alters That's South. But when? Well, maybe someone who's listening in a great way back win 584. Oh, 1000? Yes, way back when that was that was the outskirts of a Queen City. One of grand designs Just watched. Uh oh. Dr Bob Blackburn did a special With the city. And it was about the parks of Oklahoma City, and I watched it this week. And how the grand design around Grand Boulevard and the four part I mean, we were way ahead of our time. Well, I did an article for the Oklahoma this time last year before friends of Will Rogers event that they had last year And I didn't know. You know, I'm not a true Oakland City girl. I'm a transplant transplanted. So, yeah. Waiting for your gnocchi now, Yeah. I've been where you can be in what? You just had the glamour of being from hatch. Well, yeah, Absolutely. But the point is good, because I didn't know that history and I was fascinated by it that we were so progressive for a Prairie town. I mean, start yes. Well, there's a special Um, I think YouTube through the history center with the city, and it explains about all the parks and each week there. Oh, I know it's through the neighborhood association that that's actually where I got my information from my article. Georgie Rasco with Dr Blackburn and he's Yep, it's really fascinating. When I wrote my article, I went to that had pictures and everything It's really need. Yes, yes. Well, we need to give some clues for the ultra botanica plant of the week. All right. Did she recall Julia? Bella? Julia was the one that started this wonderful concept And I thought, Oh, my people will know this. Oh, my goodness. Do they ever and they live for this moment, So, Jamie Did you enjoy your collaborate on them? Trying to trick me like he always trick inner truth to that 60 meeting of this actually, most of time..
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"They just crawl out of the ground. They shed their shells. Then they go up into the trees, and they begin that singing ruckus. That's their mating call. They made Lee eggs die, and that's it for the For the Takeda. So sounds like a couple of friends. Not quite not quite as complaint is your rotation shark, but it's up there. No, it's that's how I started my career back. Two years ago, you died. Then you went into traffic right? That came out of the ground did a few traffic reports went up a tree? Okay. And then an airplane. All right? Yeah. Don't remind me. We'll see the double 6 49 11 minutes now, before the hour of some of the clock Still to come here, The bpd releases the body cam fail, fail stream or fax shaming and naming. What here with Amazon is doing. We got Dr Fauci with a complete confession once again, showing that he's an absolute lawyer. So 6 50 you're listening to K C and company on wcbm. The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse. Every time Congress meets his famous Will Rogers saying is more true now than ever. Congress recently passed trillions in stimulus spending with possibly more to come. This is on top of an already massive death of over $28 trillion. It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that there is a potential tax storm on the horizon. Your taxes could be going up and it may be sooner than you think, at a time. When so much seems out of your control. When it comes to taxes, you may have more control than you think. Can you avoid the tax storm? Find out today with Flora and DePaula Wealth Partners free tax guy. Get your copy now at avoid.
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"In place until 65% of all residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine. This means master still required at all city, indoor and outdoor venues by everyone older than five and requires masks be worn on public transportation and churches and at the office. Mayor Brandon Scott was joined by members of the Maryland congressional Della Great delegation to discuss plans to get rid of 1.5 mile stretch of US route. 40 called the highway to nowhere that was never completed. Scott said. The roadway cuts through West Baltimore dividing neighborhoods and displacing residents and businesses. Southern district police investigating the shooting yesterday afternoon of a man in the 200 block of Harrison Street police found him suffering from a gunshot wound, rushed him to shock trauma where he later died. Investigators say they have no motive or a suspect just in time for an uptake in air Travel. Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Has cut the ribbon on an expanded a gate area. The multimillion dollar project took three years to complete. The expanded terminal area comes as B W. Y officials report an increase in air travel WCBM news time 11 31 Sports and the Weather Channel forecast Next. The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse. Every time Congress meets this famous Will Rogers saying is more true now than ever. Congress recently passed trillions in stimulus spending with possibly more to come. This is on Top of an already massive death of over $28 trillion. It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that there is a potential tax storm on the horizon. Your taxes could be going up, and it may be sooner than you think. At a time when so much seems out of your control. When it comes to taxes, you may have more control than you think. Can you avoid the tax storm? Find out today with Flora and dipaula Wealth Partners free tax guy. Get your copy now.
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"Reported seeing scratches on his face around the time of the murders but he passed several lie detector tests and claimed that the scratches were from shaving. Warren intensified the investigation of the man in strangely wieger happily cooperated with him or maybe not strangely if he was truly innocent He surrendered a piece of buckskin jacket that he owned so that some suspicious dark stains on it could be examined it later turned out to be human blood but back in nineteen sixty it could not be typed in matched to a specific victim. Warren had also asked her to submit to further polygraph tests and again wieger agreed. He was given entire series of tests and he had failed them. All who wants. The jacket was determined to be stained with human. Blood are also. Remember this detail about the jacket as well. We will come back to that up noting it warren. Put the former dishwasher under constant surveillance by the state police in warren. Along with dumb it in house began checking into whitacre's pass and also into similar crimes in the area which might have escalated into murder dumb. It came across a reported rape and robbery that took place in nineteen fifty nine in matheson state park which is about a mile away from starved rock state park with warren's approval. He approached the young female victim with a stack of mugshots as she slowly sorted through them she began to scream as she came across the face of chester wieger. She and her boyfriend were bound with the same type of twine. That was used to tie two murdered women just eight months later. Don't know how they know that unless they kept the twine for some reason which is possible But also again just little questions. That i had throughout reading the story that i didn't really get clear answers to okay with this positive identification. Warren could easily ordered wieger arrested but he was forced to wait. A new problem had reared its ugly head with all the time and energy involved in the investigation. Warren had worked very little on his campaign for reelection if he booked wieger and murder charges before the election. Defense attorneys with simply say that he had done so as a stunt to retain his job he loved weaker not wanting to jeopardize the case against him with the election confident of his record of cleaning gambling and prostitution lasalle county during his eight years in office. Warren let his past actions speak for themselves. Unfortunately his opponent left the bungling of the starved rock murder case to speak for him and out of the sixty thousand votes that were cast in the election. Warren loss by nearly thirty five hundred votes will down. It was close so disappointed by the election. Result warrants still had time in office to pursue the case against wieger. Although his evidence was not as strong as he you would have liked. He obtained an arrest warrant against weaker for the nineteen fifty nine rape and ordered house in dumb it to pick him up. He believed that when he saw all the evidence mounted against him we are..
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"At the same time in Oklahoma, as well as tractor doubt farm fields across the state. As all that reached their devastating Xena's in 1934 Marlin campaign statewide for governor on a platform of bringing the new deal to Oklahoma. That's right. He's already a congressman. Now he's running for governor. The new deal was liberal Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt's comprehensive federal program that aims Leverage. The government's resource is in a far more aggressive manner than ever before into pumping life back into the struggling American economy. Well. Oklahoma's little new deal played well. At first, it swept Marland in the office in a landslide in into office and the governor's house. But when the more conservative Legislature in general public realized how much money his grandiose notions for rescuing the state from economic calamity would cost And that little of it actually had tax revenues to pay for it again. Remember, we're in the depths of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. Well, they turned away and he lost popularity. Marlins. Little new deal proved to be somewhat exactly that and the questionable judgment he frequently exhibited short circuited his electrifying political career. You lost one bid for the United States Senate. But he brazenly engineered right in the middle of his gubernatorial term. In 1936. He lost another run for the Senate in 1938 2 years later during the final year of his term, limited four year gubernatorial stent. Then he lost a subsequent 1940 run for his old congressional seat. But despite Marlins failure to imbue the state with Roosevelt's new deal He did have major political triumphs. These included establishing the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, and it's now legendary Highway patrol a pension system for the elderly. Hydro electric dam on the Grand River, the Red River, Dennis and Damn and helping birth, the Interstate All compact Commission, which is just right down the street from the state capital and the Oakland A History center even today. Gwyn. I know you love the golden threads of Oklahoma history, which connect the past to the present. Before we get to tonight's Golden Nugget. Let's look at at the rest of the story is, Paul Harvey would say at one of the most memorable golden threads if not tw, Marlins most enduring legacy. Certainly is most visible is the 40 FT High Pioneer Woman statue and Park, a city in 1926. He launched a nationwide competition among America's greatest sculptors, toe honor, in the words chiseled in the monuments, Large stone base, the heroic character of the women who braved the dangers and endured the hardships. Incident to the daily life of the pioneer and homesteader in this country. Trying to symbolize the Pioneer Woman of America. Wrote English born sculptor Bryant Baker, who won the epic five year contest. He identified the statues book as the Bible. The Bible, Bryant said, was a vital factor in building up this country. And it often was the one indispensable book recording the facts of the family, life of births, marriages and deaths and often the only reading material available for mothers to teach their Children to read and write in those days. Will Rogers dedicated it and President Herbert Hoover and Oklahoma Secretary of War for the United States. Patrick Hurley beamed in on radio the Pioneer woman statue. Well, Gwen if the famed Pioneer woman statue proved Marlins most memorable legacy beautiful Lady Roberts. Marlon remains perhaps is most haunting. Marlin and his wife, his first wife, Mary, sorr, no Children of their own. They adopted their nephew, George and niece, Lydia's Children, Marlin, lavished love, gifts and comforts on both. After Mary died in 1926 Marlin quietly annulled his guardianship of lady. He married her in 1928. While age 54. She was 28. They barely moved into his great park, a city mansion, though, which we know still now as the palace on the Plains when the loss of marlin oil and financial ruin forced them into a nearby structure that was built. We're servants after his 1941 death that a VW Marlin lady lived for some years in a small cottage built for workmen, the only property to Marlin still retained. Then she simply disappeared for over two decades periodically sided it, such as a 1967 anti Vietnam War protest in New York City. She returned a punk, a city is UN announced that she had departed sometime in the 19 eighties. Oklahoma City business later, and philanthropist Richard Anderson, a conical executive were.
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"Started this half hour with the question. What is it about storytelling that captivates us? Is it the tail the tone or that dynamic person stitching the past to the present and yes, tonight we want to love Congratulate. So many different people for what they've done. Dr Prentice Scott and the other young man that like wrestle Perry and all of the others that had mentioned from our first segment, But I also want to congratulate John J. Dwyer for his fourth Will Rogers Medallion. It's a literary contest. He won a medallion for publishing. He is one a medallion 43 of his literary works, and they are short grass Mustang and the Oklahoma It's The Oklahomans part. One is where we got many of our stories for Oklahoma Gold. And now John J. Dwyer is working on the Oklahomans. Part two that will come out later this year. If you would like to know more about John J. Dwyer, you could go to his website, John J. Dwyer. Dot com and Dwyer is g. W Why, er John Jade wired dot com and you can see all of the books listed there that he has written. Mustang. Short grass, The Oklahomans a study guide for the textbook, The Oklahomans When the blue bonnets comma, the war between the states the war between the States study guide Robert E. Lee stonewall faith in Gods and generals. And he has this three dimensional storytelling ability that makes you understand what was going on at the time and what is going on. With the people that he recognizes or that he portrays or the stories I know that you have enjoyed with me tonight. This special Black History Month edition of Oklahoma Gold and every week at seven o'clock, thanks to Atwood's We are here on 1000 Katie. Okay. Also, you can go to John J dwyer dot com and listen to all of the Oklahoma goals where we've done 18 now. Ah, and we would love for you to listen to them. One of the things I really like about what we see there on Oklahoma goal is he has put incredible pictures, the pictures from his books. They're so not only can you hear this incredible story that he's been weaving with me each week, But you can also see photos of Dr Prentice got or the different people from the high school game of the.
Newsradio 600 KOGO
"will rogers" Discussed on Newsradio 600 KOGO
"Himmel is a household name for many San Diegans. But for those who are new to the area who is Larry Himmel, where he was perhaps an eagle's greatest storyteller? He did so On several platforms. Hey, originally came to San Diego as a performer on radio and worked at various stations, including KGB and Katie. Oh, and eventually Han be 100, various other stations in San Diego on the radio and through his radio exposure. He was asked to Do some work on local television stations, including Channel Eight also, Cassidy, and in doing so, he created this feature called Larry Hamels neighborhood where he would just tell stories. Ballots, Interesting San Diego's or Sandy against that he found to be interesting and a lot of times he would tell story about small businesses or various causes that were going on in the community. But he did so from a sense of humor. He was True humorist, much like, you know, Will Rogers or Mark Twain that was just able to kind of weave a clever story and Hey, was asked once about why he did what he did, and Larry said. I think my purpose is really to make San Diegans feel better about the place they call home and Dave tell me about this restaurant assistance program that the foundation has set up. We sent out a press release and, um, received a lot of attention. Initially. And we're able to tell the story and I believe that was on Monday. The 21st and By Wednesday. The 23rd we had she distributed about $20,000 in the systems to various restaurants. Um, and we did so, um, initially with $5000 donations There was a restaurant down and kind of trying. Mesa called the Landing Strip. It was kind of around the brownfield area, and they had invested a lot of money and trying to comply with the county health order. And they were really facing, you know, have the shut the doors and potentially go out of business. We awarded them, uh, some funds $5000 to them, and they were very grateful for it. Well done. Another restaurant in Chula Vista that have done extensive decking and taking over some of the parking spaces on the street in front of the restaurant helped him kind of afraid that cost there was a restaurant called Uptown Cavern in the Hillcrest area. That the owner said, Listen, I've had 40 employees. I'm down to 10 now, but I'd like to help out all the employees that have worked for me over the past year and, um, can you help And so we gave him $5000. Then the investors in that restaurant matched that money, and they were able to give Every employee that worked for my beliefs throughout the course of the year $500 check right before Christmas. And so we thought that was pretty cool. We've helped out several other restaurants in San Diego and the donations continue to come in. We're just gonna Basically take the money and then send it back out into the restaurant community. What do you think Larry's reaction would be if he was alive today to see what you're doing with this foundation and how it's helping his community? Well. I think he would be very humbled by the San Diegans, whose stories he told who are now giving back In his name where he was very kind and generous, and, um, likable person. People loved to be around him, and people genuinely felt that Larry was his friend. He was one of those larger than life personalities. That kind of For? Yeah, I relate to that guy. I like to hang out with that guy. And so when we decide Tol help anyone, we always kind of put it through the filter. Would Larry want us to do this? And I think you'd be really proud of the efforts, the foundation that he is named after it is doing. How can people donate when they move Art Foundation with Larry Himmel Neighborhood Foundation, and you could simply go to Larry himmel dot com. Or Larry Himmel foundation dot or g'kar. Either. One of those, uh, websites will take you right to a donation page and we always welcome donations for this program would be terrific. It'll go right back into restaurants or for any future programs that you want to be involved with. Foundation. That's Dave Smith, president of the Larry Himmel Neighborhood Foundation, discussing the restaurant assistance program to help struggling eateries. Joshua Lipton Kogo News From the helpful San Diego Honda dealers. Traffic center freeways moving along in excellent shape some 15 before Mission Watch for a bale of hay in the slow lane.