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"yannick" Discussed on 60 Minutes
"I would love that when I finish my time on earth that no one ever says again. Oh, classical music. It's not for me. It's for the educated. It's for the rich. It's for the white. Whatever it is, you know, I want everyone to feel, oh yeah, I could like it some of it. I don't like Mozart, but I like bland shirt. Fine. But at least you feel that you could go there because there would be something for you. What would puccini and verdi and Wagner make of all this? Once a specs, they would join in the applause. They, after all, were once musical boundary pushers too. Tonight's story about the sperm whales of Dominica recalls another maritime adventure. In the fall of 2019, we reported on the sometimes uncomfortable comeback of great white sharks along the Atlantic coast. Bill Whitaker went to Cape Cod with a Massachusetts department of marine fisheries and a Nova Scotia with the research organization O search to see the giant predators up close as they are tagged and equipped with satellite tracking transmitters. Transmitters attached, this 12 foot shark now named Sydney was back in the water and its tracker showed heading south for the Carolinas in Florida. Although Sydney signal has been lost, O search reports 87 other sharks it tagged are beginning to swim north again for the summer. I'm sure in alfonsi, we'll be back next week with another edition of 60 minutes. Prime members, you can listen to 60 minutes ad free on Amazon music, download the Amazon music app today, or you can listen ad free with one plus an apple podcasts. Before you go, tell us about yourself by completing a short survey at 1° dot com slash survey
60 Minutes
"yannick" Discussed on 60 Minutes
"Someone able to synchronize? I can't deny that it's a very demanding schedule and even the word schedule, if should I ever retire? I want to ban that word from my life. Do you have a favorite child among the three orchestras you conduct? You can not ask me this. Yet one child in particular, and isn't this always the case? Demands extra attention and TLC. Can we have more importance in the third party? At the myth, the country's largest performing arts institution, we watched him wrangle 250 musicians and singers for a production of Wagner's low and grid. A stalwart opera that gave us the bridal chorus. In naysay Sagar's interpretations do right by the masters. What I want is to respect what Wagner wrote in the score. So it's very poetic and magical. What's really individual is me being completely at the service of the composer. Janik took over the podium here in 2018. After his predecessor was fired for allegations of sexual misconduct. Facing weak ticket sales and perpetually strapped for cash. The Met has had a hard time rebounding from COVID and is dipped into its endowment to cover around 10% of its $300 million operating budget. Maestro to the pit, please. They've tried courting a younger, more diverse crowd here before, but needs a sag doing it prestissimo. Speeding up the tempo of change. He's betting that new composers and contemporary operas, some adapted from bestselling books in Hollywood hits will bring in a wider audience and shore up the bottom line. And early results suggest tease right. A recent premiere of the opera fire shut up in my bones based on a memoir by journalist Charles blow in composed by jazz legend, Terrence Blanchard, sold out an outsold verdi's classic rigoletto here that season. What's more, half the seeds were filled by first time met goers. It's great. Such a success, and yet I'm thinking that means that all of these people never felt compelled or dare I say welcome to come here. And that is my mission. The first timers were 50%. You saw that as both a triumph, but also sounds like an indictment. Mostly it's a tremendous encouragement to continue in that vein. The Met will put on 17 new and recent works over the next 5 seasons. This at a place at once went near decades without staging a new opera. This spring brought champion, another Terence Blanchard composition based on the complicated life of Emil Griffith, a bisexual prize fighter. What can't you write an opera about? Nothing. How do you thread that needle between experimenting and bringing in new audiences, but also not upsetting the traditionalists? The truth is, I'm not necessarily concerned about not upsetting traditionalists. I think people who love our art form are still going to love it because we're still going to play some puccini and verdi. To me, it's never about not upsetting. And if some people are upset, well, too bad, they just don't have to come to everything we do. And that's about as prickly as you'll hear him get. Beyond Yannick's musicianship, his real hallmark might be his light touch. Okay, let's do it one more time. Take this rehearsal for champion. The first time the orchestra rhythm section and singers played the piece together. But also that rare collaboration between a conductor and a living composer. He gets it. Terrence Blanchard, a 7 time Grammy winner, is the first black composer in the Met's history. He gets the story, he gets the whole notion of bringing these different styles of music together. One of the rehearsals with the orchestra. He said, listen, don't follow me, listen to the drums. Most conductors don't do that. I'm there for you. Okay, cool. We saw firsthand Yannick's responsiveness when soprano latonya Moore asked him to slow
60 Minutes
"yannick" Discussed on 60 Minutes
"He founded the pristine seas project in 2008. It combines sea exploration, scientific research and public policy, and has worked with 17 countries to turn these large swathes of the ocean into marine protected areas. In Dominica, scientists estimate the sperm whale population declines by 3% each year. Sala says a preserve would protect them from their greatest threats. Not those pygmy killer whales we saw or wailing, which has been banned for decades, but plastic trash, ocean noise pollution, and ship strikes. If they continue with the status quo here, what happens? If nothing is done, the population will probably continue to declining. So reducing those threats, hopefully will allow the sperm whale population to rebound. And the more oils that are, the more benefits Dominica and the local communities will obtain. Hurricane Maria devastated those communities in 2017. Today, the island is continuing to rebuild and prepare for the future. Francine Barron heads the agency in charge of that effort. What was it about hurricane Maria that made the leaders of this country say we have to do something we really have to act? We suffered the equivalent of 226% loss of GDP. So we could see the trend and we realized that we needed to become much more resilient. When Enrique Salah came to you with this idea of creating a sanctuary for these whales, what was his pitch to you? We see will watching as an important part of our tourism product and it's something that needs to be protected. And the idea of creating a greater protection for the wheels is something that Dominica is very open to. And we were very pleased with the suggestion that enric made to create a recognized sanctuary for the wheels. Enrique Saleh compares it to a model that has worked in Rwanda, where protecting mountain gorillas helped bring tourism dollars to the local economy. You're going to find out some whales. Sure. All right. Captain Kurt Benoit was born and raised in Dominica and has been in the whale tourism business for more than two decades. We set out on his 30 8 foot lady rose from a small fishing village on the West Coast. Our government permit to swim with the whales was good for 6 days. Captain Benoit uses a homemade device that picks up the distinct clicking of sperm whales as far as 11 miles away. We got wheels in the south. Every three miles, we check to see if we were getting closer. It's come to papa. That is here. Tell me about this really high-tech device you've got here. You have all the water microphone, which picks up song from 360. So what I did, I took a salad bowl with neoprene. So the hydrophone is kind of hidden. So as it goes out, it actually brings you straight to wherever you hear the sound. So this is a salad bowl from your house. Yes. What are the whales sound like? It's like a horse's galloping on a hot surface. So if you have several of them, that means there's a lot of whales there. Let's keep on going, man. I'm gonna find this guys. All right. On the second day, a water spout. See it? It's right here. Look guys. Sam, you can see it's tough. Look at him. Oh my gosh. No. Swimmers in the water. Males here live with their families until their teen years. Then they roam mostly alone, swimming thousands of miles away. Caribbean male sperm whales have been found as far away as Norway. Returning here only to mate. Our cameraman got lucky enough or unlucky enough to have the whale poop on him. So whales go down, they hunt squid. They come back to the surface. They breathe. They rest, and they poop. And that poop is full of nutrients, which fertilizes the shallow waters. So a good thing, I guess. It's a good thing. Come on people, we're looking for spots. But our luck didn't last. Okay guys, nothing is there. We spent the next day searching for sperm whales and the next. Nothing at all. And the next, not a single click. You guys are pretty quiet. And then, in the last hour of the last day of our trip. They're coming back. But I'm getting songs 360. So that means the whales were above them. We're right there. Let's do it. Go, go. Instead edge coming to you. It's coming to you. We jumped in the water and a young female swam right to us. She came within feet at first, her size was terrifying. She made a sound like a creaking door hinge. It's one of the ways whales communicate and socialize. With eyes on the side of her head, she stared right at us. She had squid in her mouth, left over from lunch thousands of feet below. She stayed and rolled around and her jaw was wide open. She was using echolocation, bouncing those clicks off of us trying to figure out what we were. You could hear the clicking. You could hear her. Once you were really close to her, you could. You could hear that. I could feel like my bones. You grabbed my hand. You could tell I was nervous. I was excited too. They are huge. You have to respect them. You have to respect them. There is a sense of awe that comes with being in there. She was looking right at us. And she loved us a souvenir. Piece of squid. Sperm whales live in Shane giro is another National Geographic explorer. He started the Dominica sperm whale project, and over the past 18 years, he's identified more than 35 families. Did you recognize the whale that we saw? The animal you met belongs to the EC2 clan. The other clan of whales that we've known exists in the Caribbean, but we haven't seen all that much. And those groups identify themselves by making specific patterns of clicks called codas. It's a part of who they are, where their grandmother grew up. And so it really ties the animals and the place together. What is the coda of the EC2 sound like? They make the 5 R three coda and it sounds like this. 5 slow clicks. And she came up to you and made this 5 R three coda, saying, I am from the EC2 clan, are you? She was rolling around and she kept coming back. But does that me assigning human characteristics to a whale or is she actually a playful animal? These are the animals that are holding the largest brain to ever exist. Maybe in the universe. And they use that for complicated thinking and behavior. Absolutely, this was an animal that was playful. And that curiosity of the animal actively coming towards you just shows that this is an animal that's investigating something in its world. And most people don't know back on the dock. There is a treasure here. Enrique Salah says, it's that world he's trying to protect.
60 Minutes
"yannick" Discussed on 60 Minutes
"Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints collects $7 billion in contributions from its 17 million members. The church has its own investment firm. But there are questions now about how millions of those dollars have been used by the famously private church. What about the idea that secrecy builds mistrust? Well, we don't feel it's being secret. We feel it's being confidential. What's the difference? What's it like to be in the water with them? Magical. Tonight, 60 minutes is eye to eye with the wail of Moby dick legend. But Melville's novel was fiction. Sperm whales are especially maternal. Generations live together while taking care of their calves, and they have the biggest grain in the animal kingdom. And they sleep like this. You'd be forgiven for double checking your ticket to make sure you weren't at Madison Square Garden. This is New York's metropolitan opera. And in this corner, the Maestro, Yannick deze Sagan, only the third music director in the Met's 140 year history. These AC Gans eyes reach musicians in the pit in vocalists on stage, seemingly all at once. The mountain is baton, consecrates every note. I'm Lesley Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. I'm Sharon alfonsi. I'm Jon wertheim. I'm Cecilia Vega. I'm Scott pelley. Those stories and more tonight on 60 minutes. If you're struggling with stress, burnout, anxiety or have trouble sleeping, cerebral can help. Cerebral offers 100% online personalized mental healthcare plans that include therapy and medication management. You can choose your clinician from cerebral vetted and trained team of experts and attend to all your sessions from the comfort and convenience of your own home. Get started with or without insurance and only pay one flat monthly rate. And for mental health awareness month, this may, you can get an exclusive 50% off your first month with cerebral dot com slash wandering. That's cerebral dot com slash wondery for 50% off your first month. There's nothing like getting lost in a great story, but sometimes we just don't have the time or energy to read, with the audible app, you can take stories from across every genre with you wherever you go. They even offer guided wellness programs, theatrical performances, and a plethora of exciting original content. Next on my Tulsa list is The Sandman based on the riveting DC Comics series of the same name about an immortal king who's imprisoned on earth. It features familiar voices like Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings and Andy Serkis. Plus, a score by award winning composer James hannigan. I'm so excited to get started on this one. As a member, you'll have access to audible's ever growing library, which features thousands of titles. You even get to keep one of your favorite titles from the entire catalog every single month, including the latest bestsellers and new releases. New members can try audible free for 30 days, visit audible dot com slash pod, or text one to repot to 505 hundred to try audible for free for 30 days. That's why POD. Audible dot com slash wondery pod, or text wonder reply to 505 hundred to try audible for free for 30 days. Every religion has its mysteries, one of the closest guarded secrets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints has been its wealth. Tonight, you will hear for the first time about its remarkable size from a former manager at the church's investment firm. David Nielsen says that during his 9 years managing money at the church firm, the value of its investments, balloon passed $100 billion. That would make it the largest treasure held by any religious fund in America. But instead spending that money to do good, David Nielsen alleges it was used in ways that bent the law and broke his faith. I thought I was going to work for a charity. I thought that's what my skills were going to do. What has helped build the charity and do good with things? And the funds were never used for that. It was really a clandestine hedge fund. Clandestine hedge fund. Yeah. How so? Those funds weren't used the way they were appropriated to be used. So how were they being used? Well, once the money went in, it didn't go out. David Nielsen was a senior portfolio manager for the investment arm of the church called Ensign peak advisers. In 2009, Nielsen, who says he was a devout Mormon, was recruited away from a lucrative job on Wall Street to work for the firm. A block from church headquarters in Salt Lake City. You know this Wall Street, you spend your skills working to make really rich people a little bit more rich. But there is something different about the prospect of putting your skills to work for something that you think is really going to build the kingdom that's really going to make a difference. But Nielsen says he grew troubled by what he saw at enzyme peak. He says the firm used false records and statements to masquerade as a charity. Stockpiling money and misleading church members. Every year, the church collects an estimated $7 billion in contributions from its 17 million members. The church expects members to contribute about 10% of their income, a practice known as tithing. Explain how the tide that's supposed to be used. Tithing is what's used to build buildings. It's what's used to pay light bills, tithing is what's used to operate some of the church's programs. Whatever's left over, about a $1 billion a year is put into a reserve fund at Ensign peak and invested. Because Ensign peak is registered as a nonprofit, it all grows tax free. David Nielsen says, since it was created in 1997, the reserve fund has swelled beyond $100 billion twice the size of Harvard's endowment or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It could solve big problems with a $100 billion. And is that the thing that bothers you about all this? I thought we were going to change the world. And we just grew the bank account. Did any of your former bosses explain how the money was going to be used one day? The answer was always the second coming. And it's a bit tongue in cheek. But deep down, I think a lot of the employees really did believe that. Publicly, church leaders called it a rainy day fund. But in 2013, Nielsen says one of his bosses shared this document at a meeting that showed $1.4 billion from the fund went to a mall being built on land owned by the church, and $600 million was used to prop up a for profit church owned insurance company called beneficial life. Look, I'm not an expert on charities, but I ain't been around the block enough to know that charitable organizations can't bail out for profit businesses. And maintain their terrible status. And so when they gave this money to bail out a for profit venture, what was your reaction? What are we doing? Like, how is this okay? David Nielsen says he hit his breaking point in 2018 after a website called Mormon leaks linked church members to companies that existed only on paper. Those shell companies held billions of dollars in stocks and bonds. What nobody knew outside church leadership was those assets were actually controlled by Ensign peak. Nielsen says the firm called an emergency meeting. What was the explanation? These entities were to hide the assets from the members. The chief investment officer said that if we were
Bloomberg Radio New York
"yannick" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"And restaurant tour. Yannick Benjamin, he joins me, Tim and our Bloomberg TV colleague romaine bostick, and how becoming paralyzed at age 25, motivated him to help other disabled people through his culinary platform. You know, what we notice, or I noticed along with the cofounder of the nonprofit, is that there are other individuals in the same rehab unit, and they just weren't getting the same love care and support as we were. And so we said, what do we start an organization or react as a secondary family where we provide them to help them achieve their objectives? And they're not like the forgotten people. And so that's the population that really focus on. It's really just being able to use our resources to help others that have less. And your restaurant at least a newest restaurant. I mean, it takes that to heart there. I mean, the way you built out that restaurant, it is designed to make sure that it is all inclusive. 100%. And up next are Intrepid Bloomberg pursuits editor Chris rouser is with us. He takes us down the path to vacation bliss with a guide to some of the best places in the world to visit. I will go to any of these. We're looking at pictures to run of Kyushu, which is this volcanic island. They've got these crazy fruits and vegetables that grow there. And we're looking at one of the town's Babu. And there was all this smoke coming up from different places in the city, and it looked like the city was on fire, but what it actually was was onsens, which are these spas that people go to. And it was steam coming out from all these different little places to go and relax and unwind. It feels like such a nice place to go. And it has new hotels opening a new and new onsen resorts. And one of them even kind of in the Woods near the city. The website when you go to it, it says the dress code is naked. Time to get your bags packed
The Tennis.com Podcast
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The Tennis.com Podcast
"yannick" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"Yeah, so you will be right now we have pretty selective scenarios that basically cover a lot of the situations that you want to put it out there. But we are coming up to become more and more customized. So this in 2023, early 2023, we're going to be releasing a way for you to grid any scenarios that you as a player or use a coach can put that player to it. So like if it's, I just sat on the very pro level, it gets more and more specific. And I think, you know, but that can be applied to anyone junior recreational players and so on that just situations that either, as you said, it's my habits and I would say it's the 21st century of visualization. Back when I used to play my coaches would tell me, hey, close your eyes and imagine you going through the situation over and over again. But you can tell me come out how many juniors or even pros at this point have the ability to do that, right? So I think there's just a new form also to engage. But also to create that self theme, self confidence of those situations that you just mentioned. So it changed your questions. Yes, well, we're working on it. And then the beautiful thing is that we're going to be releasing new futures every couple of months that one of them includes this being which would go through any situation that you want. So we're hopefully working on an aspect of getting that video that you just played that match and being able to watch from a first person view. Instead of just watching the match and breaking down, right? Like, okay, I want to see 30 year old word in my opponent's serve. How did I return? But then it becomes much more interactive than just watching on a computer or in your phone, or television, and you're sending to as long, hey, watch this 30 points.
The Tennis.com Podcast
"yannick" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"So it's fair focus a lot also from a junior use perspective because their brain is developing a lot during that point. From the 11 to 16 year olds were called sponge time, you know, when you're just getting so much into their brain. And basically this allows you to work on really on this what we call this part of the game of the mental side that will show that has been neglected for a lot of years and feel that really it's what is being able to take players to the next level. I think at this point where you see technically all players have a good forehand good fact and could serve and you have resources such as great coaches for you to work on that. The physical part and since the 80s 90s at this point in 2022, I would say that 95% of the players are fit that are in the pros, right? On the college level, it even high level junior. And then what we see really making that small difference, right? It's really getting to that mental aspect. But I also, how do you get those extra reps without burning out? How can you go through a visualization without having to be on court and working on that return or on that passing shot or on that approach without that body there per se. So this is really what I believe virtual reality has been able to allow athletes to take to the next level and really create that longevity part of it as well. And as you know, virtual reality has been on for a really long time already, especially on high risk industries such as military medical fuel Formula One, right? And then you have the ability to now do any sports, which I think the performance of that will increase with the players.
The Tennis.com Podcast
"yannick" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"But I think of that year, instant classic. I mean, that was just amazing. And what about wild rides, right? Because you see tournament, you see like these runs by improbable improbable situations. I remember Caroline Garcia's run in Beijing, where she went always in the final half of the year. That would, to me, was like, I didn't see that coming, right? It was just sort of a wild ride. What tournaments were you souping? Being a supervisor, where you from start to finish was like, oh, wow, I just saw history unfold. Man, I think that was really hard. I think from my side. That I can remember, you know, it was 20, 2020, yeah, 2020 during COVID, where events were just coming back in Strasbourg. So it's a two 50 actually in France. Everything was still very tough. And I remember that match there was this curl called Diana yacht shrimp, I know which a lot of people didn't know about her at that one still. You know, and then she just comes out and, you know, did something blank with what she did to lean, you know, so they just has this amazing run and she basically weighing determine and you just see it this girl like she was that thing at that .18 or 17. Of this younger players that has a huge potential, which I think are probably a lot of people don't know about R but I think for me that was just very memorable because you see her and her mom, my coach in just as a teenager is still winning those type of tournaments at that age, it has to be something that just flows her mind and how do you deal with that. So I think for me it was just seeing that in which maybe in 5 years you'll see her exploding and she laptop ten and stuff like that. But for me, it's still strong folds. But yeah, I think for me that was one bigger that I saw a player such as that unfolding. Yeah, I remember that. I remember that. And then I was wondering, could when you see that it happened a week before a slam? It's almost like the curse, right? It's almost like, all right, you just want to turn them in. You stayed in that city longer than anybody else. You got to the slam late, right, or the day before, whatever. You ask for a late start, but in the slam, you don't get delayed start because top half player one time, bottom half, so depending on what half you get there. Yeah. You gotta be ready to play right away.
The Tennis.com Podcast
"yannick" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"There will be times that, you know, and it's all about communicating, how the player should prepare. And you know, as a coach, you know, if you knew that your player would be playing a night session, two days before, it's better than just getting to know to our support, right? Now go deep into the TV, just gonna be clear on the TV part, because I think the way I think it works is, you know, if we're 8 hours ahead, right? We're in London or whatever like that, right? We want to let America wake up. Yeah, right? Yeah. So we put the Americans on later in the day. The American player, there's American starliner. We play them later in the day, right? Because tennis channel says, we gotta wait till California wakes up. So that they can see this player that's from California, right? And then the player comes to you and says, don't play me last. I don't play well at night, right? And then it goes comes to you and says, can we play first? Because it's supposed to rain and I don't want to be stuck in this rain delay, right? That's what you're talking Yeah, and it goes to time zones and every before every event, there is what we call a max schedule plan. Where there are lots that you know which television channel is going to show that match, right? Because sometimes tennis channel might not show every single match of that tournament, but they have choice lots which they will be thinking about their time zone. So if you determine in Europe, I'm like, okay, I'm going to get the last two matches. Because those are the matches that most people will watch in the United States. Therefore, now I hope that it's Americans that will play on those matches, right? And that's sort of the thing because it's hard because you only see the draw. A day before you need to start making schedule. Therefore, you need to really think on your toes is not that the jaw is made two weeks before and then you can plan everything on. So you've obviously as a tourist supervisor, you've had a chance to see a lot of tournaments, right? You spend what 38 weeks on the road, hard to have a family, hard to have kids, that kind of thing. Tell me about one of the most memorable matches you got a chance to see. I think how I've seen most memorable matches, the thing with everything that happened, it was in Montreal, 2019. After final, I can't remember if you were still gone, but it was Simona and Sloan and the final. Oh, best women's match of that year. 2018. Best women's match
The Tennis.com Podcast
"yannick" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"And then yes, I think there is that aspect of being able to capitalize on the local market more. But also at the same time, not only having live matches that people but how do you create highlights that are being able to distribute it through different streaming services to TV and get that exposure more and more because I think as you said and that's one of the hardest things because it's individual. So you're cheering for that one player that might not be playing every single torn, right? So I think there's all these different challenges, but again at the same time, there's beautiful opportunities is just there are multiple ways that I'm sure you know being involved in tennis, you have been exposed to 50 different ideas on how the structure of tournaments and level tiers players and so on can be. Because there needs to be, I guess, a concrete way for me as a fan to watch and I'll get confused. Sometimes it's hard to see there's three tournaments going on. And then top 20 players are planning different parts of the region and you're like, for me, if I'm not a huge fan of tennis, but I like to watch, I will be confused, right? Yeah, and I think one of the things, you know, like I've got, you know, I was in tennis, and obviously they had friends and supporters when I'm coaching, they like to keep up and watch. But one of the things I think we start to do better is to be able to tell the story of a match in 15 minutes. So like if I'm scouting like, you know, my players next opponent, I'm gonna go on YouTube and I'm not pride not gonna watch, like the kiss of death is when I pull up a YouTube video and the only video is two hours and 21 minutes. I'm like, I'm not gonna watch all two hours, right? But I think the tour they gotten better on trying to tell the story of the match within 15 minutes of video, right? And I think there is a fan base. Let's say, you know, if I got like four of my best friends playing the NBA, right? They're not gonna watch what happened in Beijing, right? But they will watch the story of the match. I'd be like, you know, I talked to him like, oh man, how'd it go? Why I saw what happened in that 5 four. I'm like, oh, okay, you know, so they kind of can get into the match if it's told right. Mister Wright's story. And if it's told concisely, conversely, as a coach, the person that's choosing eclipse, if I'm using that clip for scouting, that could be the wrong clip I want to see. That could be like, yeah, long story of the match. And it's been a few times with a full match wasn't available. And I'm watching the highlights. This is not happening in a way that, you know what? That's what I'm tricky, but I understand what you're saying in terms of this thing on TV for one second.
The Tennis.com Podcast
"yannick" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"But my transition was that I worked on the operations department, which it takes a lot of the entries withdrawals, all the rooms, the Dow was very, again, on the back end, where you see all the players entering the tournament that withdrawing, why not getting the quotes from the agents, getting calls from the coaches, how much are they going to get find and all those fun stuff? Which continue to intrigue me, okay, you know, hopefully the next step will be to actually be at the tournaments, facing those people which actually growing up, you see and you want to either be there or be a part of it. And I think I had a great chance where did it say allowed me to start as a player relations, which basically you were there to be the player's voice within the tour. So you travel a lot to the tournament, be there for just talking to players about new rules, coming in, your businesses coming into the getting their feedback and portraying back to the management of the WCA to hear, okay, what are the players thinking? And then after that, which was my final two years and a half headed a route, I went on to be a tourist supervisor, which then, you know, it's more on the aspect of doing this schedules. Making sure that the tournaments are up to a standard dealing with players, coaches, agents, which has definitely brought me a lot of learning life and great networks such as yourself. Well, let me ask you this because when I view college tennis players, right? I think all of us, we all go out and we try to play a few tournaments. And then that doesn't work out for us. And then we try to find a job in tennis. And for me, it was like, how do I delay entry into the real world? Like, how do I not move to New York? Go for Goldman Sachs. Work 18 hours a day. Go to sleep, do it all over again. How can I kind of like
The Tennis.com Podcast
"yannick" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"When I was sort of a fresh out of fish out of water and kind of green and looking for somebody to talk to, trying to find somebody at the bar to, you know, decompress with, he spent 9 years on tour. As a WGA supervisor, and we'll get into how that happened because that's sort of improbable. And then now works for a company, you know, which we'll talk about as well. So the technology company that just diving in tennis. His name is Yannick yoshizawa, Yannick, welcome to the show. Hi, Kamal. Thank you. Thanks for the nice introduction. I like that thing to say. So appreciate you having me here. Well, you had to be a friendly face. Because you were WTA player relations for a long time. So, you know, the players walking your office with a list of complaints, you know, you got to kind of take it up with a smile, right? And so the response or communicate that up to up the food chain, but tell me how you got into this sport because I think, you know, when I think of WTA Tour, I think it's, you know, naturally for dominantly run by a lot of users are run by women, right? And I mean, obviously we got Steve Simon as the CEO. What do you think of tourist supervisor play relations? The media, it's primarily women. So how did you get into this? Tell us about your background in tennis and highlight into this. Yeah. No, well, I think for me, I grew up playing times from Brazil originally. Site ten is my whole life as a junior, went on to come to the United States to play college tennis in our South Florida without really knowing what was going to happen after. And as he came in on my fourth year playing for the school and starting to figure it out, okay, oh my gosh, you know, what's next? You know, I played a couple of pro events during summers, but I knew that one, I didn't have the level, I guess. But my preference is starting to change. And I think a little bit of luck, a little bit of connections, I graduated from South Florida that is in tempo. The doublets, which I didn't really know, it wasn't the same creators were the headquarters in two way graduated. And I granted with finance and management degree. And they had a finance internship open. Unpaid, and as basically, as an international student, I guess I got lucky because it was something that I wanted to do. But I also didn't really care at that point. So it started as a financing time. Therefore, three months, and then luckily, as an international student, you know, we have one year to work, and then you better get quote unquote a job that is sponsored, you allow it to stay in the U.S. or you got to go home. So it was very fortunate that after my three month internship did I would say offer me a job and allowed me to stay for another 9 years within a confidence. So it was a long ride after those three months. Now let me ask you this because you're like the second or third person I've heard about getting their start playing college tennis and getting their start in like an unpaid internship, which I think in today's world is phenomenal because these kids today will not do that, right? They want to get paid right away.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"yannick" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In the world of sports. I'm Michael Barnes. I'm scarlet fu. Coming up on the show, we're going to be talking with legendary media executive dick Emerson. He is the former head of NBC sports co creator of Saturday Night Live and creator of Sunday Night football. We're going to talk about his incredible career and his new book from Saturday night to Sunday Night. Straight ahead on the Bloomberg business of sports show, but first, let's look at some of the top stories of the week starting with the U.S. open wrapping up. And there is so much excitement around this U.S. open because it was Serena Williams last U.S. open, given that she's retiring. And we have two new champions. Unfortunately, neither of them are Serena. Number one seated ika Xian tech took home the women's championship and number three, Carlos alcaraz won the men's final. Bloomberg's Kathleen Hayes caught up with former tennis pro and broadcaster Patrick McEnroe to talk about some of their favorite moments of this year's open. Going into this, the story was, oh, Serena's retiring, a new era, one year is ending another one starting what's going to happen with Novak Rafa Federer, they're closer to the twilights of their career. Looks like maybe the new era has started. What does it look like to you? It looks unbelievably exciting, athletic, inspiring, charismatic would be a few words that would come to mind. Serena has done so much for tennis, obviously, and for a lot of other things as well. So it was fitting the way she went out. She went out swinging as she has done throughout her career. But to see the young players step up, obviously on the men's side, Carlos alcaraz and Yannick center played one of the greatest matches I've ever seen that ended at about three in the morning. Just a shot making the athleticism from those players was off the charts. And then you've got obviously Francis tiafoe, the first black American player to get this far at the U.S. open since Arthur Ashe and just to first American period since Andy Roddick. So the Friends at tiafoe store is an incredible one. It's like an American fairytale, really. That was Bloomberg's Kathleen Hayes with former tennis pro and broadcaster, Patrick McEnroe. Yeah, you heard right. He's one of the Mac and rose. And of course you can take a look back at all our coverage of this year's U.S. open, including a great conversation
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"yannick" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"Well, you know, and I went through that and my number one option if I am Bill Belichick, I'm eyeing a tag and trade. And I looked back, it's gone basically crazy in the last two years. That and I have the wrong year on Jarvis lander getting traded. But there have been 5 tag and trades in recent years in the NFL. You know, you had Yannick in gawk way, went for a second and a 5th judeo and Clowney went for two players, a third round pick, Frank Clark, and a third went for a first a third and a second, he got an extension from Casey, it would be the same sort of thing because you have to in a tag and trade, you have to factor in. All right, well, this new team is going to have to give him a new deal to make it worthwhile for them. It's going to have to be in place. They're going to have to talk to Jackson and his representatives. So you're going to have to have a good extension in place. D Ford got an extension from the going from KC to San Francisco. Went for a second round pick. Jarvis Landry went for a fourth and a 7th got an extension going from Miami to Cleveland. So this has been happening more and more. Of late. And what's going for the Patriots is that, look, we've seen it all this year. There is a dearth of good cornerback play in this league. Every team has some sort of cornerback needs, even the Patriots. There are not enough to go around and so if you're a team who perhaps is a little bit more sold on JC Jackson off the field or willing to take the risk, then you say, all right, well, look, I can get a starting caliber cornerback right now. A good starting caliber cornerback at the very least, who could grow to be more. He's 26. He's coming into his.
Patriots Beat
"yannick" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"So you better team a team may look at you just said he played a solid 18 games before this season. They look at that and say, hey, it's just a slump. Here's a chance for us to get a starting caliber left tackle for a discount because like if you need a lot of tackle and you don't have a top ten draft pick, you're gonna be paying a lot more than $10 million to get your left tackle. So a chance maybe you move on from a player or a pick or whatever and a chance to buy it. I guess starting caliber tackle. I think he I guess what I'm saying is is I understand it from the other team's perspective more, but the Patriots are selling low on a very good asset. I mean, what are the Patriots going to get back in return for Isaiah win? I think it's a real conversation. I'm all set. I don't want Marlon Mack. You don't, they need another, whether it's Marlon Mack, whoever they would have rather give up a day three pick from Marlon Mack than trade my starting left tackle for him. I understand why everybody's so soured on win and he didn't even play it in this game, so I don't want to talk about this all that much. But I just, I really think that this is like getting extremely ahead of ourselves with Isaiah win because he played a couple of bad games in the first month of the season with a new left guard next to him. A rookie quarterback in the pocket. We're getting way too crazy. Wait, we're really jumping the gun on this issue. And I look at the ovens of mine that played on Sunday. And the two guys that really, really stood out to me, I have something publishing tomorrow about evaluating all of them. We're just in her own and Ted Keras. I think both of those guys played at his starter level. Yadi could choose has extremely streaky tape. He has moments where you say holy crap this guy's amazing, right? Blocks in the second level, athletic plays in the run game, being able to mirror guys and pass rush situations, some really, really good moments from Yannick juice, but the consistency and the technique is not there. He's just very, very raw at this moment in time. So his time, I think could come down the road. I think we're still premature to put Yannick inducing the starting lineup. Justin her on the conversation that I would have with him is he played left tackle in college, almost exclusively, is he a better left tackle than he is a right tackle, and that's why he's not playing as well on the right side when they put him over there because he was really solid at left tackle against the Texans. So this is kind of what I'm saying with win. It's not so much about me wanting to give up on win. It's that if him in Heron or wash, why doesn't that make one of them expendable? The problem is that you have, you have to start somebody at right tackle also. So open winner. So you think that the line should be harran Karis Andrews mason on when you're throwing out Isaiah win already. I'm saying I would I wouldn't lock into it. I'm not trying to do that today. I'm saying I would try it again and see how it looks. Because that might with Trent Brown out that might ultimately be. That might be their best 5. That might be their best 5 right now..
The Trendzone
Raiders Concerned Marcus Mariota, Yannick Ngakoue May Have Suffered Long-Term Injuries
"Yeah then the raiders. On monday night had a huge win but they lose denzel good. Acl he's out for the air. And then john gruden in gakugei. Marcus mariota and jerry mccoy may have long-term injuries. We haven't heard the extent of it yet. I'll just brutal. For the raiders but man. What an epa
31 Thoughts: The Podcast
Pittsburgh Penguins GM Jim Rutherford Resigns for Personal Reasons
"Question today is who's going to be the next fulltime general manager of the pittsburgh penguins wednesday jer mother furred suddenly and abruptly. We understand resigned as gm of the pittsburgh penguins. Your wide brush thoughts when you first heard it shock. I think everybody was shocked. Someone told me that. An email came from rutherford a company wide. Email came from rutherford to everyone about an hour it was announced and people were just slack jawed. They couldn't believe it. And i think the other thing too is that the penguins signed yannick weber on wednesday morning. 'cause their defense just so battered and rutherford was involved in it he did the signing and then one hour and a half later. It was announced that he was out. So i think it caught a lot of people by surprise. You know. there's a couple of things here. Initially there was a concern that it was health related. If you've been familiar. Jim rutherford's in his seventies and he's been very careful during the time of corona virus. He's mainly stayed out of the public which is perfectly fine. There's nothing wrong with being safe. It's the smart and responsible thing to do for yourself and your family so there were concerns about health. But david morehouse the president and the ceo made sure to point out at the beginning of his. Call that you know. It was not health related. You know something happened monday night. Where rutherford are tuesday. Night where rutherford told the team and they check with them again on wednesday and he decided to do it. I do think there was some kind of philosophical difference about where the penguins were going or how they were like everybody wants the penguins in the organization to continue being in that win now mentality. I don't think anyone disagreed with that. But i think there might have been a professional disagreement on how to get there. The thing that is kind of interesting to me about it is that david. Morehouse his media availabilities. Said it wasn't anything there wasn't anything that you wouldn't normally think was unusual or different like a. Basically disagreements happen all the time and you don't necessarily think they're going to lead to that. And i just wonder if the organization saw one way and rutherford saad another way and he's been quoted as saying it was time and i just think that happened. I think he got to a point where he said. We don't see this the same way and times were challenging. I don't need to tell anybody that and it's just time. And i think that's kind of what happened now. His contract was up. I don't think the penguins and said to him. We're not bringing you back. I don't think there'd been any conversation really about. The contract is a lot of teams right now. And we see it with travis green and vancouver who are kind of saying like during this these financial times. We gotta be careful. So i don't think the penguins had said were not bringing you back. I just think they really kind of punted towards the end of the year and said they talk about dan. So that's kind of where i think it was. I think that there was a philosophical disagreement and about just where they were going. The penguins didn't think it was necessarily a big deal because these kinds of conversations happen all the time. And rutherford just said okay. We just disagree on the vision. It's time for me
The Vance Crowe Podcast
"yannick" Discussed on The Vance Crowe Podcast
"Because you know i i i want to know as As part of you know what i do but besides that. Yeah i don't i don't i don't even follow nike but i i think they're probably one of the brands on twitter but very selective who i follow. I also think that they're like so. So how do you get your news. How do you decide who you follow. How do you decide what's worth your attention. Yeah that's a good question I do too. So i'm also a little bit selfish. As in i look at how many followers another person has no. And but i also look at you know you have a lot of people that just replied to tweet. Wow this is great fantastic blah blah and. I think well thank you for the compliment. But yeah but you can also just like my tweet and i'm looking for people that also add value to the conversation. You know i. i also don't know everything. And if i can learn something from somebody else you know. That's that's yeah. People put great threads that i that i love. I re tweet and usually follow those people. Because i think yeah have something worthwhile to say. Do you ever put content out that you'd find some people disagree with so he s and have an interesting example. That as i tweeted something once. What exactly i tweet something like. Don't talk but don't quit like a little girl and the little girl part that was you know i get. I got a lotta from that tweet. They were saying now it was it was really about a gender thing you know and so I got a lot of replies a tweet saying man your effing up your your You said that you know your your brand personal i guess. Wow yeah people damning the and yeah so yeah you sometimes have to be a little careful about what you tweet. I think you can be a little bit controversial because that also gets you engagement on twitter. But on that account and i've had people messaging me before saying what you're saying but on this account i decided actually delete that tweet even though i have a six year old daughter. It wasn't about boy or girl who was more about you. Know yeah. Turn a phrase turn of phrase butts..
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP Show
Washington, DC - Minnesota Vikings send Yannick Ngakoue to Baltimore Ravens for a third-round pick
"And Ravens are finalizing a trade to send Janek and God way to Baltimore for a 2021 3rd round draft pick in a conditional fifth rounder in 2022. He'll fly to Baltimore in the next 24 hours to go through Kobe 19 testing so he can join the Ravens after the buyer and get ready for week eight against the Steelers.
Best Week Ever
Yannick Ngakoue has traded from the Jaguars to the Vikings
"And Janek and Ga Quay is traded from the Jaguars to the Vikings. That report from ESPN is Adam Schefter. Minnesota gets an elite pass rusher to pair with the deal Hunter to give the Vikings one of the top defense is in the lead. And the JAG Wars get more ammunition in the 2021 draft, in which they now will have picks in the first five rounds. Adam Schefter on best week ever in that deal, Jacksonville gets a second round pick next year and a conditional fifth rounder in 2022 got away had said earlier he would not sign a long term deal. With the Jaguars, where he's piled up 37 a half sacks in his first four seasons
The Tennis Podcast
Yannick Noah Interview
"We've had a week off and. Has Gone to get his haircuts. Catherine's been hanging out with Magnus. The dog I've been stressing about my football team west from job in as they try to throw promotion away. That may or may not mean something to you, and we will be back with tennis podcasts over the coming weeks and months altogether chat in as we normally do, but today we have a very very special interview with the French Open champion of nineteen eighty-three, the world's number three as his highest ranking, but that really doesn't tell the story of Yannick who is unquestionably the coolest man I have ever met Davis Cup winning captain. Three Times Fed Cup winning captain as well and had a hugely successful music career. Once his tennis stays had come to an end I had the chance to meet him just over twenty years ago when he joined the champions tour. Tour retired players who just traveled to will played matches against one another him and John McEnroe and beyond bog, and all these greats of the game, and just got to know him a little bit at that time. He was always suggest to me. I haven't seen him for about ten years, but I managed to get in contact with him through a couple of other people when we were researching and trying to set up interviews full at tennis, relived series, particularly the French Open, so that we could tell that story, and you'll have heard an excerpt perhaps of this interview when we covered his run to that nineteen, eighty three French Open title, but the entire interview. It's just joy, and it will improve your mood, and if you do enjoy the into you tell your friends family, let your social media, and what's that group's now about it because it will just leave them happier than when they started listening to. It has Yannick Noah. I'd like to go right back to the beginning of your of your career, and even before your career and the reason for your career and. I believe a meeting with Arthur Ashe. Yep Absolutely. Our used to leave the group in Cameroon, Africa and We were I was playing detail club tennis was. Not, very, big in Cameroon in the whole country, back nine court, so to play tennis was very privilege radio privilege so. so we used to go to the club at night, but at that time my parents couldn't afford a racket in one day. When I heard that? Some Americans were coming to the club saw. Americans you know so. So Marty Riessen Charlie Pasarell, Tom, ochre, and Arthur Ashe where doing tour in Africa. And they happen to play one day my club. During the clinic they decide. They played with the kids. And I played with Sir and Liked what he saw. I was slim press. You know he was my heroes. At the end of the clinic gave me a racket is racket. Head competition that worth like. Probably Probably what my parents would making every month. and it was you know it was like a dream for me to meeting. Dr Racket Sonya poster. Saying To Yannick I hope I'll see one that. So that was very funny. But the next thing that happened is after this story went to the French Open and he talked to shut. It was the president of the Federation. I told him that he was a little kid was playing. Or was in French. Speaking. Country and And I I. The scholarship came to friends because of author I played in niece for few years. And? The first time I played in Wimbledon That was nine years after we met was in Wimbledon because as for wild card. That was accepted and we play doubles on center court. So that was a beautiful story, so yes, the so mean Africa. And he was a big part of my story. Because and after that you know. For some reason, he was always like you know. Not Too far helping me when I was younger growing up, and then you know played with him at Wimbledon, the first tournament. Back in the days. It was called Super Seris. I was playing Richmond Virginia where he was born. And that was the first tournament I one. Super Series and As I was you know going through the tournament semifinal quarterfinals? Semifinals Playing Roscoe Tanner and these gentlemen comes into locker room sold demand. It comes. It goes Yanic if you win. Arthur is coming tomorrow SEO really worrisome. Is Dad. So that was that was something I beat Roscoe and An author flew to Richmond I played Yvonne in the finals. Won The won. It and Arthur gave me the cup in his hometown, so that was really special.
The Voice Tech Podcast
Investing in Voice - Yannick Oswald, Mangrove Capital
"Had a chance to really talk about voice dot at funding before. and familiar nego very interesting. Take on it as well one of the ambassadors for the voice I movement in the funding world. Maybe kick off by just telling us a little bit more about Mangrove I gave the intro that but tell us. What kind of things did you get involved in the the clients in the deals? He'd be doing recently mortgage from that. So. We Peeing Stage Venture Fund. A. Little bit specialists that we have always two hundred million funds, but we have very concentrated portfolio, so we do around. Thirty investments, meaning sixty seventy dozens purpose. And we always believed meaning. We get in very early and we on active cheerleader if Pronounce. And we have data handled so review, so we're going down with the doper -tunities. Investment checks the. Half a million up to five ISH Huffman up to five million, so this is seed funding on it as a stage code precede as well, do you do both of those you say early stage you could clarify the difference between those and you guys lie on that. Yeah, we don't really kissel much work. At the moment being put on the rounds. TAME Long thirty percent. Meaning as a product out there, people. We don't cast much rather is the and do that? It descend bit more. Odious. Companies has revenues and the stage where. You. Go Raisin. Yeah right right excellent, and what part of your portfolio is comprised by voice technology companies in particular. You guys focus exclusively on that a new interest for you, so it's getting your interest I think we actually stop it looking at the space, the ALF. Ago. Since then we've done one investment in staged company called. See Better in Paris. Essentially pump needed to reinvent entertainment by beating rebate access to high-end. Brilliant way we can dig into that a little bit and a second in general. What's the feeling in the investment community? You guys one of the earliest thing you really leading the charge on this or the other firms that are now dipping their toe in the water, and and showing interest in voice so us both bedrooms looking at the space in year but say. If, it of all investments that have been done net probably. Three to four venture funds that are looking at the space, but we definitely say. Would I one getting excited about it? Nice there any particular characteristics that you look for then in voice tech companies. A wide range of different types of products that are being launched. People are trying different things. I've some patterns just from interviewing people on the PODCAST, so I'm sure you've noticed some some trends as well as the types of companies will the type of use cases that voices being applied to the tend to do better from attraction, point of view, or from evaluation, point of view while other typical kind of the cases, all the areas potentially industries that are most interesting to you right now. Footed that into that? It's space so initially why we got interested in it is because it's so consume ass, using voice, technology and data, so basically used, but engagement conversion rates were extremely. Good. Instead of this, tell me us. They're ready. Use this new in. An extra enjoying it and they communicate engages. More than if they have to use the keyboard to put in data, so that will finish. Starting point where we realized, is this voice? From that what we having at we have the platforms via the voicing visit lodge and the platforms notables assistance. Everybody's involved home the next size this. Specific Arab just for us. But we are more than at all. Kinds of flux is use voice to enhance US experience into his. Business that at the end of the day eighty percent of the directions be has. Can Be done by boys, so we take him to do that. It's vision. We share absolutely the keyboard. It feels so antiquated. The fact that lasted so long crying out for. Crying on the alternative and one that's love it more human as well.
Phil Valentine
Group intentionally crashes drone into nuclear plant to reveal security vulnerability
"Designed to be non lethal that's right yankee dog your head just catch on fire but did not kill you don't worry then blow up in front of you heck catch on fire but did not lethal i promise the weapon is designed to do things such as setting fire to illegal banners at a protest or setting fire to the hair or clothing of a protester it is not designed explicitly for killing like a gun that uses bullets and cannot cause the instant carbon ization of human skin and tissues he says it's a fifteen millimeter caliber weapon weighs about six and a half pounds has a range of twenty six hundred feet can pass through glance and other transparent obstacles so there you go i mean not that you would need this to suppress your population or anything you know in case they have banners that are like i don't know against the country you know against the government i don't know what else you would need this but don't be worried about it in the meantime ladies and germs greenpeace has crashed a drone into a french nuclear plant video released by the environmental group shows the zone zipping through restricted airspace above the buggy plant about sixteen miles outside of leo before crashing into a building on site it said the drone struck a storage pool for spent nuclear fuel next to the reactor one of the most radioactive areas of the site according to yannick rousselet head of greenpeace france antinuclear campaign said this is a highly symbolic action it shows it spent fuel pools are very accessible this time from the year and therefore extremely vulnerable to attack on that they are right i mean you know somebody probably needs to do something about it if you can just run a drone into it with no problem i mean you probably do have a security problem i would think richard branson ladies and gentlemen you know him as the head of virgin records virgin air virgin anything but he's anything but virgin one solution to income inequality he says is giving out free cash that's right a basic income should be introduced in europe and in america he told the new york times he was responding to the question what do you think those in positions of power should do to address social problems like income inequality a report published in january the global charity oxfam found that eighty two percent of the growth in global wealth from the previous year went to the top one percent of individuals ranked by riches meanwhile the bottom fifty percent had no increase in their wealth it's a disgrace to see people sleeping on the streets with this material wealth all around them he says as he flies in his private jet from town to town what is what this guy the guy's worth billions i would think at least hundreds of millions and he's saying but you yanks you need to be giving people money just hand out money on the streets is here's the deal folks and this is something that liberals don't quite understand and i don't understand it especially the rich ones richard branson made his money and he has he has put together some very successful companies why virgin records was probably i wasn't before virgin airlines that's how he made his money right in the record business he was probably that snooty guide the record bar you know there would always roll his eyes anytime you brought the album up to the you know you're buying their and that's probably how he started anyway so he starts off in the record business and then he introduces airliners and everything else and he's been very successful he's building a hotel here in nashville they tore down a beautiful historic house to do it but hey you know it's progress folks i mean we need another hotel another cat condo like a hole in but we got it but here's the deal with folks like branson and he lon mosque and the rest of these people they starting to feel guilty about everything but they don't feel guilty enough to liquidate everything they've got to help alleviate poverty so they suggest that the governments do it you see that way they can feel real good about themselves and advocate that the governments do this that or the other and then when the government started to do it they get their cpa's to find ways that they can pay less in taxes it's hypocrisy what they should understand as business people who have built businesses is that anybody can do this but not everybody's going.