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My latest book, "The Nation We Knew," has enjoyed amazing success--not just because it's a good story, but because it's making people think about things just a little bit differently. That's always been my goal; I never want to change someone's mind about something, I just want to broaden it a bit. The responses to the book have been wonderful--and, in some cases, a bit negative, because it pokes at the status quo just a bit too much, apparently. And for that, I'll take full credit. This is one of those 'I couldn't help myself' episodes. Call it editorial, call it storytelling...call it whatever you like, but the message is important. Thank you for listening.

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Andrew sent us this question, 'I was wondering how the intertwining of heroic figures into people's lineage, was viewed by the common people.' Murray gives us his opinion. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast Ancient Warfare Magazine: https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/ancient-warfare-magazine

Homily #1 John 6 is the place in the New Testament that Jesus teaches most extensively about the Eucharist; every Catholic should know this chapter of the Bible. "For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him." (John 6:55-56) "'I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.'" (John 6:51) "Then the LORD God said: 'See! The man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil! Now, what if he also reaches out his hand to take fruit from the tree of life, and eats of it and lives forever?'" (Genesis 3:22) The fruit of the Tree of Life, Catholics believe, is the Eucharist. It is the memorial of the death of Jesus Christ. When you come to Mass, you are at the crucifixion of the Son of God mystically and sacramentally. Homily #2 If you are a real Catholic, a question that you cannot help but ask yourself is "Lord, what do you want from me?" "So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma." (Ephesians 5:2) prosphoron (Greek): a grain offering | thusia (Greek): a blood sacrifice We all know if you play by the rules — go to Mass on Sunday, try not to commit the big sins, even give a tithe to the Church —those are all good things. But something is missing. -Fr. Brian Larkin "For you do not desire sacrifice or I would give it; a burnt offering you would not accept. My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; a contrite, humbled heart, O God, you will not scorn." (Psalm 51:18-19) "For this reason, when he came into the world, he said: 'Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight in. Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll, Behold, I come to do your will, O God.'” (Hebrews 10:5-7) There is a danger in the Christian life where we can say "God I'll follow the rules. I'll offer my sacrifice. I won't live the way the world lives. I'll go to church. I'll give to the Capital Campaign, I'll tithe. Don't ask for my heart." Of course the other danger, there's people out there who think "If I give God my heart, I don't have to do the other things. I don't have to go to Mass on Sundays, as long as I love God, why does He care?" The Eucharist takes those two things, and it perfectly unites and fulfills them. -Fr. Brian Larkin If you know the love of Jesus Christ poured into your heart, you can offer a sacrifice. Not detached from your heart, not cold, not rigid, not mechanical, but one that says, "Here I am, oh God, I come to do your will." -Fr. Brian Larkin "a fragrant aroma" (Ephesians 5:2) — this phrase is used 40 times in the Pentateuch. St. Paul says if you are united to Jesus in that one sacrifice, you become a fragrant odor before God.

As promised, we were not willing to give these two anymore of our airtime, so two episodes in one week is what you get!   Join us for part two of Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo or “The Ken and Barbie Killers”. Following an early life of attacks on young, local woman in the Scarborough area, Paul and Karla team up to pray on not only the unsuspecting, but Karla's own sister. Come follow along as we discuss their crimes together, ultimate demise and the infamous “deal with the devil”.    This week we take you further down the rabbit hole into the duo that is "Kaul".  IYKYK   xo -K&O   Rate, Review and Subscribe on the platforms of your choice.   Check us out on Instagram to join in the discussions about the case! Comment on the case related post, we can't wait to hear your thoughts.    Intro music made by: https://soundcloud.com/aiakos    Sources: Serial Killer Couple Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo (thoughtco.com) Timeline - Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka (weebly.com) Murder of Leslie Mahaffy - Wikipedia APCJ Fall 2014-Allison.pdf_1418672997.pdf (cjcenter.org) Our Story | Mission & History | Kristen French Child Advocacy Centre Niagara (kristenfrenchcacn.org) Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka Case | The Canadian Encyclopedia Key events in the Bernardo/Homolka case | CBC News Paul Bernardo, notorious killer and rapist, denied parole | CTV News Killer rapist denied parole, Paul Bernardo, had plans to relocate to Kelowna – Nanaimo News Bulletin (nanaimobulletin.com) Karla Homolka: 15 Things Her Victims' Families Want You To Know (babygaga.com) Karla Homolka Now: Where Is the Accused Serial Killer Today? | Heavy.com 'I cry all the time': Bernardo denied parole after 25 years in prison | National Post https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bernardo https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/teen-killer-and-serial-rapist-paul-bernardo-again-denied-parole-1.5480350 https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/paul-bernardo-and-karla-homolka-case https://buffalonews.com/news/graphic-video-shows-sexual-activity-between-bernardo-ex-wife/article_3e3d8acc-63c8-50de-ad44-53b2fd1bd016.html https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bernardo-paul.htm    

3CDC's Steve Leeper says the next major Downtown development priority needs to be the area around the Duke Energy Convention Center. The aging convention center is surrounded mostly by blighted properties and surface parking lots. The old Millennium Hotel is in the process of being demolished, but there's no plan for a new convention center hotel. Leeper, the development organization's president and CEO, had plenty to say about that area of western Downtown as this week's guest on The Enquirer's "That's So Cincinnati" podcast: "We should strive to do better. I think there's a movement (afoot) that we do that and start thinking that district is critical to Downtown. When visitors come into our community, we need to show better than we're showing right now.  "We ought to start looking at the bright side of this, and that we now have a lot property under (public) control. Let's not do anything stupid here. Let's think about this and be bold but fiscally responsible. I think you can do both. Everybody is on the same page here. Our political leaders are actually trying to think about this in a comprehensive manner. They're excited about the potential. We ought to be excited about something instead of tinkling on each other." Leeper said it's a "viable option" to build a new convention hotel on a site directly south of the convention center across Fifth Street and preserve the old Millennium site for a potential future convention center expansion. "I don't think it's the only option," Leeper said. "The site to the south, quite frankly, I think it's big enough for not only a (hotel) but other uses. It could be more residential. It could be more hospitality. It could be entertainment. There's all kinds of possibilities here. We just need to get off our butts and start focusing on it."  The problem: There's no funding source for a new hotel or convention center expansion. And who's going to lead any of those projects has not been determined, though Leeper said conversations have been positive among political, business and development leaders. Meanwhile, a block east of the convention center, 3CDC continues to make progress on overhauling the building that once housed the Fountain Square Macy's store. It was announced last week that Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse will be relocating to the building, known as The Foundry, once the $51 million mixed-use project is finished. In the podcast interview, Leeper told the story of how Ruby's decision came about unexpectedly from a conversation between Jeff Ruby's CEO Britney Ruby Miller and 3CDC Executive Vice President Adam Gelter. Said Leeper: "Britney, with a colleague of mine, Adam Gelter, were walking down to the site. We were actually talking to another restaurateur at the time, and Adam was asking Britney about this restauranteur, what she knew about him. She said, 'Well, why?' He said, 'Because we're thinking about moving them into this spot.' She didn't know we were redeveloping the building at the time. (Jeff Ruby and his team) took a look at the site and said, 'I'd like to come here.' "

Things You'll Learn in this Episode of Doing it Online:   The 3 questions to ask yourself after a “failed” launch. How to self-audit a launch that didn't run to plan so you don't throw away the elements that actually were working.  Why community is key when it comes to launching...   If you've had a “failed” launch at some point, you'll know that it can trigger the disaster thinking 'I suck, my offer sucks, my business sucks!' Etc. BUT! Before you go down that train of thought, grab a pen and paper and sit down with me for a moment while we go through a few questions…   Because in today's episode, I'm going to take you through how to self-audit your launches (especially the ones that really didn't go to plan) so you can pin-point exactly where things are going wrong.    And more importantly, where things are going right, so you don't chuck away something that's actually amazing!    Failed launches suck, sure. But there's actually no such thing as failing, only learning. (Don't roll your eyes at me.)    So, come on, let's do this together and we'll pin-point exactly where things are going off the rails for you, so that you can hold onto the pieces that are working, tweak the ones that aren't and work towards your best launch ever. Want More? Make more course sales than ever before when you steal my exact funnel at stealmyfunnel.com Want access to my 5-Day eCourse MBA (Mini Business Accelerator) for FREE? Just leave an honest review and then submit your details at katesbonus.com (and our favourites each week will win an exclusive Doing It Online camper mug as well!) Want more funnel goodies? Head to hellofunnels.co/podcast

To find out more about Casey Berman, please see the links below.LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseybermansf/Website (Leave Law Behind) - https://leavelawbehind.com/about/meet-casey/Website (Casey Berman) - http://caseyberman.com/To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose Highway™ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.HIGHLIGHTS03:23 Becoming a lawyer and realizing the unhappiness09:15 "I feel therefore I am" and opening up minds to new entrepreneurial horizons13:10 Getting in the zone and exploring feelings instead of just logic17:32 Working in the service road rather than the purpose highway23:06 Destiny: Does it define your life or can you choose your own?28:00 Every human being matters32:00 Cloning Gandhi, MLK, Mother Teresa: Finding a beacon who loves 35:07 Connect with Casey and Leave Law BehindQUOTES08:39 "You can't unring a bell. Once I saw that there were just other things out there, or once I saw that there was things that I didn't really like, that weren't that beneficial, not to be a diva but I just had to do something about it."16:18 "I encourage really everyone to not just rely on the intellect, not just rely on 'I think therefore I am' because if you're doing that you are missing out on a whole portion of yourself which is feeling." 25:08  "What it turned was not that I need to have success, I need to see it in my material world before I have confidence. But what I flipped was I have the confidence now and the success will show."31:37 "We're different geysers, if you will, but we all come from the same water running underground. And when you realize that you realize that, at the end of the day, you're talking to yourself."33:38 "Fear is not just being afraid but it's anxiety, depression, unhealthy competition, looking at things for stature, feeling lack, and all that. And love is collaboration. It's not just romantic love. It's collaboration, it's connectedness, it's being abundant, it's being confident."

''I would, but my damn mind won't let me..'' It was the title of this book that instantly grabbed my attention, because we can all relate to this, right? You hear ''think positively'' or ''just relax'', but instantly your brain resists and sometimes makes your thoughts and feelings even more overwhelming and intense! Once I'd finished reading this book, I finally had the answer as to why this happens - and how to change it, so you can take control back over how you think, feel and experience your life! It's filled with ALL the psychology and brain lessons we SHOULD have been taught at school to better manage our emotional lives, so that's why I am so excited to be bringing on the mutli-award winning author of this book - Jacqui Letran. Jacqui is a teen confidence expert, who's knowledge on how the mind works and how to take back control of the way you think and feel, will BLOW YOUR MIND. I learned SO much for Jacqui and can't wait for you to hear her life changing wisdom too! This episode is your solution to ending the constant self-sabotaging and helplessness you can feel when it seems like your mind is against you! So don't wait a minute longer, tune into my episode with Jacqui now and let's take our next step towards greater confidence and fulfiment in life.  Check out Jacqui's awesome freebie, ''6 Simple Ways to Defeat Your Inner Critic'' here: https://www.jacquiletran.com/ And purchase her AWESOME books on Amazon HERE.

Dan O'Connell's career is an impressive display of how hard work can catapult a person from the bottom of the sales hierarchy to the very top of business leadership.Having started as an account coordinator at Google AdWords in 2003, Dan has climbed the corporate ladder — eventually becoming the CEO and President of TalkIQ in 2017. Now, Dan serves as the Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Revenue Officer and as a board member at Dialpad, a company creating an AI-powered cloud communication suite.On this episode of Go to Market Grit, Joubin and Dan discuss Dan's experience selling online advertisements for Google in the early to mid 2000s, Dan's experience of becoming a CEO, and the importance for senior leaders to make an effort to connect with employees.In this episode, we cover: 'Shooting fish in a barrel': Dan's experience working for Google and selling online advertisements in the early 2000s. (5:00) 'I wanted to do more': Taking risks and avoiding career complacency. (7:36) Identifying skilled salespeople when demand is insanely high — and the moment when Dan realized Google was a big deal. (12:45) The key character traits of people hired on Google's go-to-market team — and how to identify ‘coachability' in a job candidate. (22:31) Why Dan decided to become CEO and president of TalkIQ in 2017 after working in sales — and how his father's example motivated him. Humility, ambition and optimism: The qualities Dan would want his children to have — and the role of parents in encouraging new opportunities and growth. (34:10) 'An awesome experience': The complexities and fun of being a tech CEO. (37:02) Dan's current company, Dialpad, and its AI-powered cloud communication suite — and how he deals with the transition from CEO to a lower senior position. (43:47) The skills and qualities of a successful business manager. (47:48) What the word grit means to Dan. (51:35) Links: Connect with DanLinkedIn Connect with Joubin Twitter LinkedIn Email: gtmg@kleinerperkins.com  Learn more about Kleiner Perkins

Ephraim's treachery and folly. 'I and the Father are one.' My reflections are searchable by Bible chapter here: https://audio.alastairadversaria.com/explore/. If you are interested in supporting this project, please consider supporting my work on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/zugzwanged), using my PayPal account (https://bit.ly/2RLaUcB), or buying books for my research on Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/36WVSWCK4X33O?ref_=wl_share). You can also listen to the audio of these episodes on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/alastairs-adversaria/id1416351035?mt=2.

- Press the PLAY button to listen to the catechesis of the day and share if you like -+ A reading from the Book of the prophet Hosea +“So I am going to attract her;I will lead her into the desertand speak tenderly to her.There I will give her back her vineyards,and I will make the Valley of Trouble a door of hope.There she will respond as when she was young,as when she came out of Egypt.”The Lord says, “In the future she will call me ‘my husband;'no longer will she call me ‘my baal.'I will never let her say the names of Baal again;people won't use their names anymore.At that time I will make an agreement for themwith the wild animals, the birds, and the crawling things.I will smash from the landthe bow and the sword and the weapons of war,so my people will live in safety.And I will make you my promised bride forever.I will be good and fair;I will show you my love and mercy.I will be true to you as my promised bride,and you will know the Lord.The word of the Lord.

TOPIC SOURCES BELOW: TO SUPPORT PURCH' SOME MERCH' 20 lb SLEDGE If you appreciate the content please support by sharing, and please consider a financial contribution to help us do our part to promote sanity in a world where people boast in science, while saying gender is fluid. Or support right here for a dollar a month, five or ten! Just remember freedom isn't free and it cost to defend sanity! Also, Rock the gospel with my music project, 20 lb SLEDGE Please follow link to support if ya see value in this effort to promote truth! You can support right here where you're listening! Click here to Purch' some Merch'! Click Here for Arcadian Buffalo Soap TOPIC SOURCES: LINK TO THE ARTICLES OBSERVED IN THIS VID, BELOW. TO SUPPORT MY WORK: https://www.bronzeserpentmedia.com/donationsLINK TO PURCH' SOME MERCH': (AUDIO BOOKS, MUGS, SHIRTS, MUSIC https://www.bronzeserpentmedia.com/store LINK TO 20 lb SLEDGE: https://www.bronzeserpentmedia.com/20-lb-sledge Arcadian Buffalo Soap: https://www.arcadianbuffalo.com/apps/webstore/ Black congresswomen are leading the fight against eviction — https://thegrio.com/2021/08/03/black-congresswomen-leading-fight-against-eviction/ HUGE: Nearly 65,000 Americans Submit Censorship Stories for Trump Big Tech Lawsuits https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/casey-ryan/2021/08/05/huge-nearly-65000-americans-submit-censorship-stories-trump Democratic Rep. Cori Bush defends hiring private guards while seeking to defund police. https://justthenews.com/government/congress/suck-it-democratic-congresswoman-defends-hiring-private-guards-while-seeking Manchin confronts the Fed with concerns about inflation https://justthenews.com/government/congress/manchin-confronts-fed-concerns-about-inflation#article An irate Geraldo Rivera lashed out at Dan Bongino again on Fox News, calling him 'a punk' and hurling a wad of paper at the camera: 'I'm sick of you!' https://www.businessinsider.com/geraldo-rivera-dan-bongino-argument-fox-news-video-sean-hannity-2021-5 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alfonzo-rachel/support

August 6, 2021: Taking a look back at Team USA's medal wins, the (still running) gold medal count, when to watch Team USA Men's basketball finals, what to expect on the final day of competition in Tokyo, and how to watch the 2020 Olympics closing ceremony, on the final special Olympics edition of 3News Now with Stephanie Haney. Need a break from bad news? Watch It's All Good (News!) with Stephanie Haney, every Wednesday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlsEZMe42E Like this show? Check out the 3 Things to Know with Stephanie Haney podcast: http://wkyc.com/3thingstoknow Connect with Stephanie here: http://twitter.com/_StephanieHaney http://instagram.com/_StephanieHaney http://facebook.com/thestephaniehaney Read more here: All the medals the US has won so far at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/olympics/all-the-medals-the-united-states-has-won-so-far-at-the-tokyo-2020-olympics/97-957e1a2c-ec21-4f38-9875-7d4fd56e0a01 Welcome home, Simone Biles! Gymnast gets a hero's welcome in Houston https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/olympics/watch-live-simone-biles-returning-to-back-home-in-houston/285-9990faec-b689-4beb-9e2d-537d0a5a305c When, how to watch US in Olympic men's basketball gold medal game https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/olympics/us-gold-medal-mens-basketball-when-to-watch/507-6dae4b61-2464-4460-b563-76110681e8de 'I feel just ecstatic': Olmsted Falls' Katie Nageotte talks with 3News after winning gold medal in pole vault at Tokyo Olympics https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/olympics/olmsted-falls-katie-nagotte-talks-with-3news-after-winning-gold-pole-vault-tokyo-olympics/95-f2ac0f4b-6b79-45db-ba0d-95c39168857a 'Cleveland, this is for you!' Katie Nageotte channels LeBron James after gold medal-winning jump https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/olympics/cleveland-this-is-for-you-katie-nageotte-lebron/95-02d4044d-ae5e-47f3-aad3-48a565dba164 Tokyo Preview, Aug. 7: US women in basketball, water polo gold medal games https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/olympics/the-daily/preview/tokyo-olympics-preview-saturday-aug-7/507-c04284cd-e926-40e3-8edb-5ca0251548da How to watch the Tokyo Olympics Closing Ceremony https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/olympics/how-to-watch-tokyo-olympics-closing-ceremony/507-ad02b917-019e-493c-81d3-7ee8188e62f3

'I can't guarantee you the court won't rule that we don't have that authority, but at least we'll have the ability to, if we have to appeal, to keep this going for a month, at least. I hope longer.'

''I just started drawing at a very young age and stuck with it'' [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2021/08/06130340/AMA_0608.mp3"][/audio] In the hot seat for Ask Me Anything this week, it's the turn of popular Irish Graffiti artist Omin.  Omin ha a chat with Dermot and Dave about working as a graffiti artist in Ireland, being stopped by the public who think he's up to no good and the fear of heights. You can listen to the full chat by clicking the Play button.

''I'm just trying to spread the love guys''  [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2021/08/06125734/SpeedoMick_0608.mp3"][/audio] You may have spotted this man walking along the roads of Ireland in nothing but his Speedos. Well, if you did, I can assure you it's not just some crazy man, It's Speedo Mick and he's walking around Ireland and the UK all for a great cause! Michael Cullen A.K.A Speedo Mick, joined Dermot and Dave to chat all about his charity walk which will see him walk over 2'000 miles. He's some man for one man! You can listen o the full chat by clicking the Play button. 

Does what you do actually matter if you can't explain the impact you have on the people you work with? On this episode, Eric Forney and Michael Bounds discuss how important it is to be able to communicate what you do to your clients. They break down how it is more valuable to be able to explain the impact you have than literally explaining what you do. They discuss ways to effectively get your point across by focusing on more 'you' statements than 'I' statements, helping the client understand how you will solve a real or imagined pain, and how to explain why you're best helping them without directly being involved in all the details of a transaction. To watch full episodes of the podcast, check out the YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTz80Sf-vkaLV0aILIUVpxg

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Today, Dwight Beal and Bruce Snoap read and reflect on John 6:35, 41-51. For the full VP Bible Reading Plan, head to https://victorypoint.org/next-steps/bible-reading-plan. For more on the context of today's passage go to https://bibleproject.com/explore/book-overviews. To find out more about VictoryPoint Church go to victorypoint.org. If you have comments on this episode or podcast send us an email at info@victorypoint.org. And be sure to subscribe to this podcast! Here's the full text from today's scripture: 6:35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 6:41 Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." 6:42 They were saying, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?" 6:43 Jesus answered them, "Do not complain among yourselves. 6:44 No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. 6:45 It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. 6:46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 6:47 Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. 6:48 I am the bread of life. 6:49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 6:50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/biblereadingplanvp/message

In this episode, I am joined by Business and Mindset coach Johanna Buss. She is a serial entrepreneur, time management guru and productivity queen. She is the mom of three AMAZING children age 6 and under, owns three business, has a full time job and is known for helping boss mamas ditch their excuses, breakthrough their barriers and OWN their journey to creating consistent income while working less and LOVING life more. We talk through 4 powerful mindset shifts to live by in your life and business that will help remind you of your self worth daily, turn anxiety into excitement, & help us manage overwhelming thoughts throughout the day as we care of our kids, and balance all the plates as entrepreneurs.  1. Simple way to turn anxiety into excitement. 2. How to flip your inner monologue! 3. One easy way to increase your self worth daily 4. How do you fight overwhelm when you have a full plate?   So, How do we turn anxiety into excitement? Seems too simple, right? When we are starting something new, you always have those doubts, those fears where you're like, "yeah, this is gonna work." So how do you use that? You get into this negative mode asking yourself if its EVER going to work out. And before you know it, you quit? And you didn't even really try?   Your brain actually does not know the difference between anxiety and excitement you teach. It doesn't know the difference. It's the same receptors. It all works. You literally have to tell yourself, that you're excited about it. And guess what? It's going to change into excitement. I know, it sounds really simple and probably a little like crazy. Like, I'm just going to tell myself and it's just going to magically be better. But it's crazy how well it works and how much control we actually do have over our thought life. Because like I said, your brain has no difference. All it knows is what you're telling it. So if you teach it that that feeling is excitement, guess what, every time you feel that feeling, you're gonna feel excited about something, you're gonna be ready to go. If you say, oh, that feelings always anxiety, you're going to live in anxiety ridden world where everything can make you feel anxiety.   How do we flip our inner monologue. There is a mean girl inside all of us. What do you notice about everything this girl is saying to you, it all starts with you. Right? You're not good enough. You can't do this. You are crazy.. instead, learn to recognize the mean girl talk and turn it into 'I am good enough, God is equipping me, I CAN do this. It takes practice but what we say to ourselves matters.    Next, one easy way to increase your self worth daily is to decide what area's of your life you want to improve on. Waking up earlier to get things done, working out, eating better. And when those things come up and they are hard and you wonder why you're doing it, Say to yourself "Because I am worth it!" Put the reason back into perspective.    Last, what can we do in order to feel less overwhelmed? For me its the chores.. I HATE dishes and laundry. Always have & probably always will. However, when I made it a challenge to get it done in a certain time frame or do something I love like watch Netflix or listen to worship music while I'm doing the "not so fun chore", it really helps motivate me to get it done. Also, think about how good it will feel to have a clean kitchen, or clean clothes!    You can connect with Johanna Buss  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johanna_m_buss/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johanna.m.buss/ Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/nextlevelbossmamas   Let's Connect!  APPLY FOR THE 4 WEEK CLARIFY YOUR PASSION & PURPOSE WORKSHOP 2021. STARTING 8/19 @10:30AM CENTRAL   HURRY! ONLY ACCEPTING 20 SPOTS.    https://bombshellbosslady.com Step 1: Schedule a FREE Clarity Session with me to get clarity on your God-given purpose, goals, the right business for you, and to process where God could be calling you. Step 2: Download 4 Steps to Clarify Your Passion & Purpose Workbook!  Step 3: Join The Bombshell Boss Lady Facebook Group for a tribe of support as you grow this season!  To Start YOUR Podcast: Sign up for Instant Access go to PLAN YOUR PODCAST.      

I didn't see any protest or anger by Savarnas against EWS quota. No one wrote: 'I will not get treated by a doctor who did their degree under EWS reservation.'----more----Read Anurag Minus Verma's article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/obc-medical-quota-indians-flawed-merit-argument-reservation-debate/708045/

THE OCEANIA MINISTRY OF PODCASTS HAS DEEMED THIS PODCAST APPROPRIATE FOR CONSUMPTION. WE ARE AWARE IT IS DISCUSSING A DIFFERENT BIG BROTHER, AND HAVE DIRECTED THOSE WHO ASKED TO THE MINISTRY OF LOVE FOR RECONDITIONING All eyes are on us this week as Spencer Frankeberger (@spencer101f) joins us to discuss Big Brother, the long running, multi-national, mildly Orwellian reality series that honestly kinda stresses me out a little bit. We go deep on how the show was restructured from its slower, European format to the more brash, Survivor inspired American version, the psychological tolls this show can take on its contestants, and Spencer tells his use incredibly detailed thoughts on what sort of contestant he would be. Plus, we pose the eternal question, "What's wrong with Brandon saying 'I'm tired of plugging myself?'" Leave a rating and review for us on Apple Podcasts, please! :)

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 3, 2021 is: berate • bih-RAYT • verb : to scold or condemn vehemently and at length Examples: "Don't berate yourself over canceling plans," the lifestyle expert said. "It is sometimes more important that you allow for time to take care of yourself." "During Russell's tirade Wednesday, he didn't shout at any particular player, but his team as a whole. 'I would never single someone out and berate them,' Russell said." — Shaun Goodwin, The Kansas City Star, 17 June 2021 Did you know? Berate and rate can both mean "to rebuke angrily or violently." This sense of rate was first recorded in the 14th century, centuries before the familiar (and etymologically unrelated) rate meaning "to estimate the value of." We know that berate was probably formed by combining the prefix be- and the older rate, but the origins of this particular rate itself are somewhat more obscure.

This episode is guest hosted by Natalie from Talk Murder With Me. I encourage you to subscribe to her podcast and follow Talk Murder With Me on social media. Links to all of that are below.Thanks!Joe Chuluota, Florida. January 25, 2019. When Cody Amato did not turn up for his shift at Orlando Regional Medical Center, his co-workers were worried. Cody had not missed a shift in the last five years. They called the police, asking if an officer could perform a welfare check at the Amato home. When the police arrived, the house appeared silent. No one came to the door when they knocked, so they forced their way inside. In the house, they found the deceased bodies of 61-year-old Margaret, 59-year-old Chad and and 31-year-old Cody. 29-year-old Grant Amato, Chad and Margaret's youngest son, who also lived in the house, was nowhere to be found. Find my blog post on this case here ( https://www.talkmurderwithme.com/blog/2021/6/29/grant-amato ). Instagram: @talkmurderwithme ( https://www.instagram.com/talkmurderwithme/?hl=en ) Facebook: @talkmurrderwithme ( https://www.facebook.com/talkmurrderwithme/ ) Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/talkmurder Sources for this episode: Obsession, money, lies tore Grant Amato's family apart. A jury will decide whether he killed them ( https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-grant-amato-trial-preview-20190712-2yr25pmbyrbi7jljdf2e2ehupa-story.html ) Police: Man accused of killing family over $200,000, Bulgarian call girl, also stole hospital drugs ( https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/national/police-man-accused-killing-family-over-200-000-bulgarian-call-girl-also-stole-hospital-drugs/Jj8vD5XsmbQXoIb6ca3rKK/ ) Man accused of killing parents, brother admits concocting false life in letter: 'I hate myself for what I did' ( https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-grant-amato-discovery-release-20190412-story.html ) Worried co-workers led to slain family's discovery, 911 calls show ( https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2019/01/31/worried-co-workers-led-to-slain-familys-discovery-911-calls-show/ ) Grant Amato charged with murdering his family over $200,000 obsession with Bulgarian 'cam girl' ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/29/he-spent-bulgarian-cam-girl-police-say-obsession-led-massacre/ ) Grant Amato trial: Family was desperate to help before killings, sole surviving sibling testifies ( https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-grant-amato-trial-day-4-20190726-yaywqa5afrfdfewuvsmn7dpe4m-story.html ) Grant Amato trial: Jurors see Bulgarian webcam model at center of triple-homicide case ( https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-grant-amato-trial-day-5-20190729-vqofadivrfg6bc3a25v7pupuyi-story.html ) Expert: 3 guns recovered from Seminole County home, none used in the killings of Amato family ( https://www.wftv.com/news/local/expert-3-guns-recovered-from-seminole-county-home-none-used-in-the-killings-of-amato-family/971246692/ ) Grant Amato's brother testifies for prosecution in death penalty case ( https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2019/07/26/grant-amatos-brother-testifies-for-prosecution-in-death-penalty-case/ ) Jurors see interview with Grant Amato day after family found slain in Chuluota home ( https://www.wesh.com/article/jurors-watch-interview-with-grant-amato-day-after-familys-bodies-found/28510370 ) Records provide glimpse into relationship between webcam model, Chuluota man accused of killing his family ( https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-grant-amato-records-release-20190529-fy76awysaffwhfcdp5qjhq7hsi-story.html ) FL v. Amato: The Defense's Case ( https://www.courttv.com/news/fl-v-amato-the-defenses-case/ ) Grant Amato found guilty of killing mother, father and brother ( https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2019/08/01/grant-amato-found-guilty-of-killing-mother-father-and-brother/ ) Grant Amato gets life for killing parents, brother over Bulgarian webcam model ( https://www.theledger.com/news/20190812/grant-amato-gets-life-for-killing-parents-brother-over-bulgarian-webcam-model ) Video: Grant Amato begs

"I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds; that is not how you learned Christ, assuming that you have heard of him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus, that you should put away the old self of your former way of life." (Ephesians 4:17, 20-22) "'Would that we had died at the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our fleshpots and ate our fill of bread!'" (Exodus 16:3) "Jesus answered them and said, 'Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled. Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you.'" (John 6:26-27) "So Jesus said to them, 'Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.'” (John 6:32-33) Life is not just about food and other concerns, but it's about seeing a bigger picture. This life is just a pilgrimage toward eternal life. —Fr. Witold The Eucharist isn't a free lunch. It's not free. Our Lord offers it Himself, and He expects you to believe in this. He's expecting our faith and holiness, and He pays for it. —Fr. Witold First there is faith, and then you can understand. We need to first believe in the Eucharist, then we can kind of understand it. —Fr. Witold "So they said to him, 'Sir, give us this bread always.' Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.'" (John 6:34-35) We can never lose sight of our ultimate need: God. And the means God has given us to fulfill it—believing in His son and receiving Him as the bread of life. —Fr. Witold

In the second sermon in his Bread of Life series, Pastor Jim Somerville extends an invitation to become more and more like Jesus and to be truly satisfied as we take Him in as The Bread of Life.  "Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.'” - John 6:24-35 August 1, 2021 © 2021 Jim Somerville

My Movie Fix is a place where I come to get...my movie fix. I have takes that need taking, and this is the place to hear my deep dive discussions on new movies, as well as thoughts on other content in the media world. Ending as always with a sendoff to help lighten your load this week. Today's guest SAM, from... THIS podcast? We discuss the new Amazon Prime release "The Tomorrow War"! Sam gets her fix by discussing her dislike for the dumbing down of films, I get my fix by venting about Dom's child's name in the Fast franchise. Sam recommends 'Night Stalker: The Hunt For a Serial Killer' available on Netflix. I discuss 'Halt and Catch Fire', 'Sex/Life', and 'I think you should Leave' all available on Netflix. For our final sendoffs Sam recommends you spend some time GAMING, Mass Effect specifically. I recommend you listen to some Jaden (Smith) "How you like them Apples?" - 2:30 Recommendations - 11:45 Review - 26:15 Spoilers - 45:55 Sendoff 70:15 Follow Sam on Instagram @JustBass Follow Me @MyMovieFixPod on Twitter. Right now. Yes, you. I only have 8 followers as of this post. Be 9. Credits: Email questions/comments/concerns/Apples to MyMovieFixPodcast@Gmail.com Edited by Jenny, if you like the quality and are looking for an editor she can be reached at "jennyscott1701@gmail.com" Outro music by Xander --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mymoviefixpodcast/message

This week, Lee talks to Craig Dean, a LinkedIn expert and coach, about how we can better use LinkedIn to leverage connection, and in doing so, create clients and leads so as to fortify and grow our business. KEY TAKEAWAYS Many believe that a LinkedIn profile is some kind of resume for a job. If a profile is tailored this way, then it can be a barrier to gaining clients. It needs to be repurposed. Building a client base through LinkedIn is the art of building rapport, and starting conversations that begin connections between people. Connecting with people on LinkedIn should be treated the same way as a real world interaction. Consider the way in which we connect at networking events, and treat the conversation the same way. Never underestimate the power of a powerful banner. Catching the eye immediately is crucial as it makes you instantly memorable. BEST MOMENTS 'I love helping people to achieve more' 'You take people from cold to sold' 'I help people to generate leads by teaching people how to start a conversation' 'The person on the other end is a person, and not a pound sign' VALUABLE RESOURCES Business Problems Solved Podcast         Craig Dean LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-dean-influxeo/?originalSubdomain=uk ABOUT THE HOST For the last 15 years, I have been a multi-sector internal or external business improvement consultant, building the improved capability of individuals, teams and businesses. In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my two young children Jack & India. I also enjoy listening to and reading business & personal development material. Lee Houghton is “THE Business Problem Solver”, a Management Consultant, CX Specialist and Keynote Speaker. CONTACT METHOD You can contact Lee Houghton on 07813342194 Lee@leehoughton.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/lhoughton/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this penultimate episode of Arthro-Pod's 6 part series on the history of insects defeating Napoleon, we travel to Russia! Over the last four episodes, we've discussed the French Revolution and Napoleon's rise to power, the French invasion of Egypt and their encounter with plague, and the Haitian Revolution and crushing defeats the British and French faced due in large part to yellow fever. Now, hear this one on the effects of typhus on Emperor Napoleon's campaigns near Russia and how he was thwarted by bugs and perhaps a little hubris! Napoleon leads his troops during the Battle of Austerlitz, which is often regarded as the finest military victory of his career. "The Battle of Austerlitz, 2nd December 1805", 1810, by François Gérard. Via wikimedia, in the public domain. Napoleon reviews his troops before the Battle of Jena. "Bataille d'Iéna. 14 octobre 1806", 1836, by Jorace Vernet. Via wikimedia, in the public domain.Execution of Spanish resistance by French forces during the Peninsular War. "The Third of May 1808", 1810, by Francisco Goya. Via wikimedia, in the public domain.Napoleon as he appeared in 1812 before his defeat in Russia. "The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries ", 1812, by Jacques-Louis David. Via wikimedia, in the public domain.Heavy 12 pound cannon being serviced by two French Guard Foot. Artist unknown, 1808. Via wikimedia, in the public domain.The French Empire  at it's greatest extent in 1812. Dark green areas were under direct control of France while light green areas were client states. By TRAJAN 117, via wikimedia, used under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license."Napoleon's retreat from Moscow", 1851, by Adolph Northen. Via wikimedia, in the public domain.Retreat of the French Grand Army from Moscow, intercepted by Russian Cossack, 1812. 1813, by Edwd Orm. Via wikimedia, in the public domain.Marshal Michel Ney, who begged Napoleon to commit the Imperial Guard during the Battle of Borodino and saved the western bridgehead, and so Napoleon and what remained of the French army, during the Battle of Berezina. "Marshal Michel Ney, duc d'Elchingen, prince de la Moskova", circa 1805, by François Gérard. Via wikimedia, in the public domain. Attrition in the French Grande Armeé during the 1812 invasion of Russia. While the popular focus is often on the death and privation during the winter retreat, the chart clearly shows how the army was severely weakened even before reaching Moscow. Width of the colored areas the chart correspond to troop strength (1 mm = 10,000 troops). Geographic distance is shown by the scale in the center right ("lieues communes de France" = common French league) =  4444 m  or 2.75 miles). Temperatures (in Réaumur scale) on the bottom of the chart correspond to the black line of retreat. (multiply Réaumur temperatures by 1¼ to get Celsius, e.g. -19 °R at Smolensk = -23.75 °C = -10.75 °F). By Charles Minard, 1869. Via wikimedia, in the public domain.Human louse, the vector of epidemic typhus and trench fever. Photo by Gilles San Martin. Via wikimedia, used under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license.Macular rash caused by epidemic typhus. Illustration by George Jochmann, 1914. Via wikimedia, used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.Questions? Comments? Follow the show on Twitter @Arthro_PodshowFollow the hosts on Twitter @bugmanjon, @JodyBugsmeUNL, and @MSkvarla36Get the show through Apple Podcasts!Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!  We're also on Stitcher!This episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

No other podcast with four dudes in a booth goes longer, faster, or harder than the World's First Quantimino™ Powered Podcast. Bring a change of clothes. Double X Quantimino. Burrito's Thoughts on Godzilla Singular Point. Thom Yorke's Idioteque Dance; Radiohead's music is a metal blanket. Santa Claus is a kaiju. Home Improvement. Researchers explore employee perceptions of bullshit in the workplace with the “Organizational Bullshit Perception Scale”. Brian's Couch: P-in-V sex isn't that good. American Men Suffer a Friendship Recession. Brian's Fingerhut. True or False: Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches, Snoop Dogg's Daughter. This Is The Newz. Arizona Woman Arrested For Using Craiglist To Find A Horse To Have Sex With. (Dental talk interlude) Fuming mum interrupts young daughter's eulogy as fiancé, 68, lists her 'flaws'. 'I make jewellery from the teeth of dead loved ones to help people grieve'. Wakefield kitten born without an anus saved in emergency operation. (My Gato Needs An Assholo) Video shows woman taped to seat after trying to open plane door on American Airlines flight. (The No McFly List) SF/Fantasy Bookstore Sues Neighboring Hotel, Includes Comic Book Version of Factual Allegations in Amended Complaint. Robot Cockroach Features Engineering that Does Not Get Crushed, Moves Fast like the Insect. (Upskirt Insect) Burrito's Nippon Newz. Japanese sento bath house creates a genius system to show how busy the baths are. New Silent Theater in Tokyo lets you lounge on couches with headphones while watching movies. English teacher arrested in Japan for smuggling cannabis oil inside hair treatment bottles. Japan created its first law requiring permits for crossbow possession. You can now visit Evangelion's Misato's apartment dining room in real-life Tokyo. New Godzilla mobile game lets you raise your own Godzilla, race it against other monsters. More Newz. Which bottle of wine at a restaurant has the biggest markup? The answer may surprise you. This ‘Chinese Lego' Brand Takes Its Toy Space Mission VERY Seriously. 3 shot outside barber shop after argument between 2 men over who won a foot race a month ago. An unopened Legend of Zelda game from 1987 sells for $870,000. A Sealed Copy Of 'Super Mario 64' Has Just Sold for $1.56 Million USD. Would You Eat This KFC Cheesy Zinger Triple Down? What I Had For Lunch. Deepfake Sponsors: Julio Tejas, Booba Gettz The Crazy One, Daddy Juice Energy.

'In the dog days of the pandemic,' writes John Connell, 'I decided the place to recharge my spirit was the mountains and oceans of Ireland's west coast.' John sets off in the footsteps of the famous Irish monk and journeyman, St Brendan, in an attempt to recover a sense of 'wonder'. Producer: Adele Armstrong

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Day 30 Proverbs 30 http://89days.net/podcasts/ Voice talent by Don Bratschie 30:1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle: the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal: 30:2 "Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding. 30:3 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One. 30:4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know? 30:5 "Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. 30:6 Don't you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar. 30:7 "Two things I have asked of you; don't deny me before I die: 30:8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me; 30:9 lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is the Lord?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God. 30:10 "Don't slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty. 30:11 There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother. 30:12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness. 30:13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up. 30:14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men. 30:15 "The leech has two daughters: 'Give, give.' "There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don't say, 'Enough:' 30:16 Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.' 30:17 "The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it. 30:18 "There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don't understand: 30:19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden. 30:20 "So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.' 30:21 "For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can't bear up: 30:22 For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food; 30:23 for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress. 30:24 "There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: 30:25 the ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer. 30:26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks. 30:27 The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks. 30:28 You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces. 30:29 "There are three things which are stately in their march, four which are stately in going: 30:30 The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn't turn away for any; 30:31 the greyhound, the male goat also; and the king against whom there is no rising up. 30:32 "If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth. 30:33 For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife."

"Start making lists of ways that you can be generous. When you make a list of ways that you can be generous today, you uncover gifts that you might be skipping over. I want you to think of three people who you could give to today. Maybe you send a card, maybe one of them loves your biscotti. Because the more you are available to be generous, the opportunities that come are going to blow your mind. You're going to be like, 'I can't believe that I was just offered this role or this job or this thing. All because I showed up.'" - Download the free Dream Goal Tracker Worksheet! http://cathyheller.com/dream

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July 29, 2021: Chardon's Matt Ludwig has been called from his alternate spot to compete in the men's pole vault at the Tokyo Olympics for Team USA, The Bachelorette's Michael Allio reveals he told Katie Thurston he won't leave Ohio, Cleveland Browns' Baker Mayfield is focused on the future, the Cleveland Indians trade Cesar Hernandez to the Chicago White Sox, and more on 3News Now with Stephanie Haney. Need a break from bad news? Watch It's All Good (News!) with Stephanie Haney, every Wednesday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cLWHNWHY-8 Like this show? Check out the 3 Things to Know with Stephanie Haney podcast: http://wkyc.com/3thingstoknow 3News Now with Stephanie Haney is also available as a podcast https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/now-you-can-get-your-3news-now-digital-updates-as-a-podcast/95-e4d5a072-b625-4180-9f8e-733ab730ee90 Connect with Stephanie here: http://twitter.com/_StephanieHaney http://instagram.com/_StephanieHaney http://facebook.com/thestephaniehaney Read more here: Team USA pole vaulting alternate Matt Ludwig of Chardon called to compete in Tokyo Olympics after Sam Kendricks tests positive for COVID-19 https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/olympics/matt-ludwig-chardon-pole-vault-tokyo-olympics-sam-kendricks-covid-19/95-d4ecee67-35b3-4168-853c-d77aaf27b332 Suni Lee wins gold in gymnastics all-around at Tokyo Olympics https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/olympics/womens-gymnastics-all-around-final/507-e4b3ea3a-c641-4e4f-b74b-afa97c8bee0a Cleveland Browns DE Myles Garrett on Simone Biles' Olympics withdrawal: 'I don't like that she did it, but I believe that it took a lot of courage' https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/nfl/browns/myles-garrett-simone-biles-opinion/95-5e50b8ac-2bdd-41e0-a6df-5e1849a2d1ee The Bachelorette's Michael Allio reveals he told Katie Thurston he won't move out of Ohio https://www.wkyc.com/article/syndication/podcasts/3-things-to-know/the-bachelorette-michael-allio-reveals-he-told-katie-thurston-he-wont-move-out-of-ohio/95-a538652f-cbc5-44c7-aefe-73c88b899324 Bachelor franchise's Blake Horstmann talks Michael Allio leaving The Bachelorette, ahead of coming to Cleveland to DJ at Barley House on Friday https://www.wkyc.com/article/syndication/podcasts/3-things-to-know/bachelor-franchises-blake-horstmann-talks-michael-allio-leaving-the-bachelorette-dj-set-at-barley-house-cleveland-on-friday/95-6cf9615a-6031-4153-8a93-9dccbe147134 Disney World to require guests to wear masks indoors, on rides regardless of vaccination status https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/walt-disney-world-mask-mandate/67-451c47e9-b56a-4bd5-a234-308865c93d6c Why did the CDC label 4 Northeast Ohio counties to a 'substantial' level of COVID-19 spread https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/cdc-4-northeast-ohio-counties-substantial-covid-19-spread/95-e5bef0ec-97ef-4db0-aed3-571f1e98ea8c Cleveland Browns QB Baker Mayfield: 'I can play a whole lot better than last year' https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/nfl/browns/baker-mayfield-play-better-browns-2021/95-9eb45a0f-6e9b-42dc-b900-463b42265029 Cleveland Indians trade 2B Cesar Hernandez to Chicago White Sox for minor league pitcher https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/mlb/indians/cleveland-indians-trade-cesar-hernandez/95-4ccc9804-4466-44d6-9d60-ce5c1c4bd00f James Gunn, 'Guardians of the Galaxy' director, supports fans' calls to make Groot, Rocket the Raccoon Cleveland's new MLB mascot https://www.wkyc.com/article/entertainment/guardians-of-the-galaxy-james-gunn-supports-cleveland-indians-rename-to-cleveland-guardians-wants-groot-rocket-the-raccoon-to-be-teams-mascot/95-0d6065b5-24f1-48e8-9893-58af69f8fb6e

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dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook | Twitter   Troy Mangum   Troy Mangum is an author, speaker, podcaster (The Kindling Fire), and men's advocate. He is a Lumbee Indian tribal member. Troy lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife Kathy. He has two sons, two daughters, and one son-in-law. A former YWAM missionary, hardcore punk singer, substance abuse counselor, busker, longboarder, exotic fruit farmer, vert skater, singer-songwriter, software engineering manager, traveling hitchhiker, and seminary dropout.   FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS   —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/   Show Notes:   Text “DAD” to 651-370-8618 to join the text list and for all dadAWESOME day updates! 2:14 - Troy Magnum is author of Fatherhood Face Plants  3:50 - How to be a difference maker/fire starter. 4:29 - "There are so many men that are dads that are fatherless and and they need to know that they can become amazing, incredibly amazing fathers with God training them as father." 8:25 -  "So we all have a back story that God, if we're willing to let God take us there, he'll take your treasures out of you. That will be so deep and rich because it's a generations before you. It's not about you. It's about you inheriting something God put back way back in generations before you." 11:35 - "A lot of what the book is about is about, you know, that whole idea of getting back up and becoming the dad your kids need so much of the storyline with God is to get back up, to receive forgiveness, to seek reconciliation, to receive wholeness, to do whatever it takes to become a man that God wants you to be for your children and for your own self and marriage and et cetera. And so that is such a crucial crossing point because men so many times out of guilt and shame, they retreat and and the kids are just like, OK, I guess I guess this whole dad thing's over for you now, huh?" 13:04 - 1 Corinthians 1:27 - "But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong." - But God.... 13:29 - Telling the story of a two year separation and then reconciliation with his wife. 15:04 - "You pass on as a dad, you pass on who you are more than what you know. You can know the right things to do. You can know the scriptures that say you should do this, you can know a lot of things, but you will pass on who you are..." 19:03 - A wall or wind - Are you going to be a wall your kids need to scale to get to what God has called them to be, or are you going to be wind in their sails? 21:50 - "You pass on who you are more than what you know you want to be the whole, the most whole, healed, healthy in every sense of the word, man that you can pass on." 22:29 - Stepping into the frontier and letting God teach the skills you need. ..."are you willing and aware that this is offered to you, this training module? You look in any scripture, any man in the Bible, you can say they went to training... And a lot of that training has to do with difficulty sometimes and challenges and putting yourself in the frontiers of 'I've never been here. I've never done this. I don't have the skill.' None of that intimidates God. And if you yield yourself to God, he will put you in situations that are above your head, above your pay grade, above your talent, above your skill intentionally to help you learn skills, talents, abilities, confidence, [so he can expand your influence.]"   Episode Links:   https://thekindlingfire.com/ Troy on Instagram Troy's Podcast: Apple Pod Troy's Book - Fatherhood Faceplants  FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript    

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Congress has conducted at least eleven bipartisan hearings to investigate the security failures that permitted a mob of American citizens to riot inside the Capitol Building and successfully disrupt Congress while they certified the 2020 election results on January 6, 2021. In this episode, hear key highlights pulled from over 30 hours of testimony to understand exactly what happened that day. 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Mark Grods U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, June 28, 2021 Defense Timeline for January 6th Examining the U.S. Capitol Attack: A Review of the Security, Planning and Response Failures on January 6 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Committee on Rules and Administration U.S.A. v. Christopher Alberts U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, January 27, 2021 U.S.A. v. Lonnie Leroy Coffman U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, January 11, 2021 U.S.A. v. Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Charles Donohue U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, January 8, 2021 Video: Seeking Information: Pipe Bombs in Washington, D.C. F.B.I., January 5, 2021 Sound Clip Sources Hearing: USCP OVERSIGHT FOLLOWING JANUARY 6 ATTACK, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, June 16, 2021 Watch on C-SPAN Witnesses: Michael Bolton Inspector General of the US Capitol Police Transcript: 36:40 Michael Bolton: To me the biggest failure is that because we have allowed certain elements within the Capitol Police to be autonomous, they conduct their own training, okay? That's the issue. Whereas you if you have a Training Services Bureau and let's call it an office of training that is fully incorporated, they handle all the training they conducted. They make sure you get the training, they hold your officials accountable, your people doing your training, guess what, we're sending a letter to the chief and they can no longer work until they get required or what have you. Hearing: The Capitol Insurrection: Unexplained Delays and Unanswered Questions (Part II), House Committee on Oversight and Reform, June 15, 2021 Watch on Youtube Witnesses: Lt. General Walter Piatt Director of the Army Staff General Charles Flynn Commanding General of the US Army Pacific Chris Wray FBI Director Transcript: 30:41 Lt. General Walter Piatt: My involvement with our response to this emergency began shortly after entering the Secretary of the Army's office at 2:20pm to provide a report of a suspicious package. While I was there, a panic call came in reporting several explosions in the city. To understand the situation, to indentify, what was needed from the army Secretary McCarthy convened a conference call. During this call DC and Capitol authorities frantically requested urgent and immediate support to the Capitol. We all immediately understood the gravity of the situation. Secretary McCarthy went down the hall to seek approval from the Acting Secretary of Defense. Before departing, she directed me to have the staff prepare a response. I communicated this on the conference call. But those are more and more convinced that I was denying their request, which I did not have the authority to do. Despite clearly stating three times that we are not denying your request, we need to prepare a plan for when the Secretary of the Army gains approval. 1:46:02 General Charles Flynn: There's four things in planning that we could have done. And we should have done. The first one there should have been clearly a lead federal agency designated. The second one is we should have had an integrated security plan. The third one is and much of this has been talked about already is information and intelligence sharing on criminal activities before the sixth of January. And then the fourth one would have been, we should have pre-federalized certain National Guard forces so that they could have immediately been moved to the Capitol and had those authorities in place before this happened. 2:09:30 Rep. Kweisi Mfume (MD): So that's what we are trying to do, keep our republic and to keep it from those who tried to overthrow this government who wanted to kill members of Congress, who wanted to hang Mike Pence. 2:43:37 Rep. Michael Cloud (TX): You mentioned domestic terrorism that this would qualify as that, would the riots that we saw across the cities for nights and nights and weeks and weeks on even months on end, qualify as domestic terrorism as well? Chris Wray: We've been treating both as domestic terrorism and investigating both through our Joint Terrorism Task Force. 2:51:19 Chris Wray: Among the things that we've taken away from this experience are a few. One, as you heard me say in response to an earlier question, we need to develop better human sources, right, because if we can get better human sources, then we can better separate the wheat from the chaff in social media. Two, we need better data analytics. The volume, as you said, the volume of this stuff is, is just massive, and the ability to have the right tools to get through it and sift through it in a way that is, again, separating the wheat from the chaff is key. And then the third point that I would make is we are rapidly having to contend with the issue of encryption. So what I mean by that is, yes, there might be chatter on social media. But then what we have found and this is true in relation to January 6th, in spades, but it was also true over the summer in some of the violence that occurred there. Individuals will switch over to encrypted platforms for the really significant, really revealing communications. And so we've got to figure out a way to get into those communications or we're going to be constantly playing catch up in our effort to separate as I said, the wheat from the chaff on social media. 3:01:00 Chris Wray: We consider the attack on capital on January 6 to be a form of domestic terrorism. 3:16:00 Chris Wray: As for social media, I think there's, there's it's understandable that there's a lot of confusion on this subject we do not we have very specific policies that Ben at the Department for a long time that govern our ability to use social media and when we have an authorized purpose and proper predication, there's a lot of things we can do on social media. And we do do and we aggressively do but what we can't do, what we can't do on social media is without proper predication, and an authorized purpose, just monitor, just in case on social media. Now, if the policies should be changed to reflect that, that might be one of the important lessons learned coming out of this whole experience. But that's not something that that currently the FBI has the either the authority or certainly the resources frankly, to do. 4:06:00 Rep. Pat Fallon (TX): Has anyone been charged with inciting an insurrection? Chris Wray: I think I responded to an earlier question. I don't believe that that has been one of the charges us so far. But again, with that many cases, I want to build a little room for the fact that I might not know all the cases. Rep. Pat Fallon (TX): So right as of right now, the answer would be no, fair to say? Chris Wray: That's my understanding. Rep. Pat Fallon (TX): Okay. Has anybody been charged with sedition to your knowledge? Chris Wray: Same answer. Rep. Pat Fallon (TX): Okay. No, again, Has anybody been charged with treason? Chris Wray: I don't believe so. Rep. Pat Fallon (TX): Okay, has anyone been charged with illegal possession of a firearm inside the Capitol? On that day? Chris Wray: I believe there has been at least one instance of someone arrested with a firearm in the Capitol. And there have been a number of arrests of individuals either en route to the Capitol or near the Capitol for the for the siege. 4:11:00 Rep. James Comer (KY): On December 31, Mayor browser requested DC National Guard assistance with the planned protest for January fifth and sixth, correct? Lt. General Walter Piatt: Correct, sir. Rep. James Comer (KY):And was that request for assistant ultimately approved by the Secretary of Army? Lt. General Walter Piatt: It was approved by the Acting Secretary of Defense as well. Rep. James Comer (KY):Were restrictions placed on that authority upon the request of Mayor browser and if so, what were those restrictions? Lt. General Walter Piatt: She had requested that they be unarmed and it did not take a place in any law enforcement activities. Hearing: The Capitol Insurrection: Unexplained Delays and Unanswered Questions, Committee on Oversight and Reform, May 12, 2021 Watch on Youtube Witnesses: Chris Miller Former Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Contee Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department Transcript: 00:22 Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY): Today the committee will examine one of the darkest days in our nation's history. The January 6th insurrection at the United States Capitol. On that day, a violent mob incited by shameless lies told by a defeated president launched the worst attack on our republic since the Civil War. 00:42 Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY): We watched as the temple of our democracy, a building whereas familiar with as our own homes, was overrun by a mob bent on murdering the Vice President and members of Congress. 21:21 Chris Miller: I want to remind you and the American public that during that time, there was irresponsible commentary by the media about a possible military coup or that advisors the president were advocating the declaration of martial law. I was also very cognizant of the fears and concerns about the prior use of the military in June 2020 response to protests in the White House. And just before the electoral college certification 10 former Secretaries of Defense signed an op-ed published in The Washington Post warning of the dangers of politicizing inappropriately using the military. No such thing was going to occur and my watch, but these concerns and hysteria about them nonetheless factored into my decisions regarding the appropriate and limited use of our armed forces to support civilian law enforcement during the electoral college certification. My obligation to the nation was to prevent a constitutional crisis. Historically, military responses to domestic protests have resulted in violations of American civil rights and even in the case the Kent State protests of the Vietnam War, tragic deaths. In short, I fervently believe the military should not be utilized in such scenarios, other than as a last resort, and only when all other assets had been expended. 26:02 Chris Miller: I stand by every decision I made on January 6th and the following days. I want to emphasize that our nation's armed forces are to be deployed for domestic law enforcement only when all civilian assets are expended and only as the absolute last resort. To use them for domestic law enforcement in any other manner is contrary to the constitution and a threat to the Republic. I ask you this consider what the response in Congress in the media had been if I had unilaterally deployed 1000s of troops into Washington DC that morning against the Express wishes of the Mayor and the Capitol Police who indicated they were prepared. 40:52 Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY): Mr. Miller, you were the Acting Secretary of Defense on January 6th, did President Trump as the commander in chief of the US Armed Forces call you during the January 6 attack to ensure the capital was being secured? Mr. Miller? Chris Miller: No, I had all the authority I needed from the president to fulfill my constitutional duties. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY): Did you speak with President Trump at all as the attack was unfolding? Chris Miller: On January 6th? yes. Chris Miller: No, I did not. I didn't need to I had all the authority I needed and knew what had to happen. I knew what had to happen. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY): Did you speak with Vice President Pence during the attack? Yes or no? Chris Miller: Yes. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY): According to a defense department timeline, it was Vice President Pence and not President Trump, who called during the siege to say the Capitol was not secure. And to give you the direction to quote, 'clear the Capitol.' What specifically did Vice President Pence say to you that day? Chris Miller: Vice President's not in the chain of command, he did not direct me to clear the capital. I discussed very briefly with him the situation. He provided insights based on his presence there, and I notified him or I informed him that by that point, the District of Columbia National Guard was being fully mobilized and was in coordination with local and federal law enforcement to assist in clearing the Capitol. 1:05:28 Chris Miller: I think I'd like to modify my original assessment. Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA): Why am I not surprised about that? Chris Miller: Based on as Chief Contee said, we are getting more information by the day by the minute about what happened and the highlight some other observations that were made. It's clear now that there were organized... Although we're going to find out through the Department of Justice process in the law, and the legal system, it seems clear that there was some sort of conspiracy where there were organized assault elements that intended to assault the Capitol that day. Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA): Reclaiming my time, I'm just asking you the same question you've answered before. Did did the President's remarks incite members to march, the people in the crowd to march on the Capitol, or did they not? Chris Miller: Well, he clearly said offered that they should march on the Capitol. So it goes without saying that his statement resulted in that... Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA): Reclaiming my time. Let me just share with the committee what you have said before. This is your quote. This is your quote. What anyone? Would anybody have marched on the Capitol and tried to overrun the Capitol without the president speech? I think it's pretty much definitive. That would not have happened. Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA): I think now, I would say that this is not the unitary factor at all. What's that? Chris Miller: I would like to offer I have reassessed. It was not the unitary factor at all. There was no...it's seems clear there was an organized conspiracy with assault elements. Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA): In your testimony for today. Reclaiming my time again, for your written testimony for today. For today, this morning, you stated the following about the President's quote, I personally believe his comments encouraged the protesters that day. So this is that this is that there's a very recent reversal of your of your testimony. Chris Miller: Absolutely not. That's ridiculous. Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA): You're ridiculous. Chris Miller: Thank you for your, your thoughts. I also want to highlight... Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA): No wait a minute, reclaiming my time, reclaiming my time. 2:06:30 Rep. Glenn Grothman (WI): Has there been any progress made it all on on? Who would have put these bombs there? Robert Contee: No arrests have been made no suspects identified, working without partners on the federal side. There's been surveillance videos that have been released publicly showing that individual placing the pipe bombs, but no arrests have been made at this point. 3:01:05 Rep. Andrew Clyde (GA): Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos and pictures. You know, if you didn't know the TV footage was a video from January the sixth, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit. 3:12:18 Sen. Hank Johnson (GA): Were you ordered to delay deployment of troops? Chris Miller: 110% Absolutely not. No, that is not the case. 4:41:42 Chris Miller: If we had a valid request and a necessary requests from your body, I guarantee you that the Department of Defense would have been there in strength as required. Rep. Mike Quigley (IL): So when you would acknowledge we lost the battle we lost for the first time since 1814... Chris Miller: Horrifying. Rep. Mike Quigley (IL): And it was everybody else's fault but DoD. Chris Miller: I absolutely disagree with the statement that it was... Rep. Mike Quigley (IL) I'm paraphrasing you the only way that makes sense when you say 'you wouldn't do anything differently, you wouldn't do anything differently.' Okay, that implies what I'm saying that it was everybody else's fault in your mind, because it was a catastrophic failure. Chris Miller: And I just had an obligation to protect and defend the Constitution and guarantee that the armed forces were used appropriately, and not in a manner that would be seen as extraconstitutional. Rep. Mike Quigley (IL) Look, the Constitution is not a treaty of surrender. It affords you the opportunity to do what's necessary to defend the people in the democracy of the United States. I mean, if looked upon the destruction afterwards, looking back, you say, 'well, at least I defended the Constitution' is another perverse way of looking at this. Nothing was DoDs fault. And at least you did, in your own mind, defend what you thought was right for the Constitution. Never mind how many people got hurt and how much damage was done to our government in the meantime. Chris Miller: I will absolutely take that on and take that as a compliment. Because the armed forces of the United States was completely prepared and ready to respond to any valid request from any department or agency or local or federal law enforcement office. Rep. Mike Quigley (IL) You lost and you don't have the Intellectual fortitude to own up to your part of the responsibility. And I get it, a lot of people screwed up, you're one of them. I yield scaled back. Madam Chairman. Chris Miller: I respectfully disagree in that. Rep. Mike Quigley (IL) I was in the room, you weren't. Hearing: State and Local Responses to Domestic Terrorism: The Attack on the U.S. Capitol and Beyond, House Committee on Homeland Security: Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism, March 24, 2021 Watch on Youtube Witnesses: Dana Nessel Attorney General, Michigan Aaron Ford Attorney General, Nevada John Chisholm District Attorney, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Transcript: 07:19 Rep. Elissa Slotkin (MI): The post 9/11 era of security where the threats come from abroad is over. In the 20 years of the post 9/11 era, they came to an end on January 6th, the new reality is that we have to come to terms with is that it's our extremists here at home, seeking to explain internal divisions that pose the greatest threat. Hearing: JANUARY 6 ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Committee on Rules and Administration, March 3, 2021 Day 2 (March 3, 2021) Day 2, Part 2 (March 3, 2021) Witnesses: Robert Salesses Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense and Global Security at the U.S. Department of Defense Major General William Walker Commanding General of the DC National Guard Jill Sanborn Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division Federal Bureau of Investigation U.S. Department of Justice Transcript: 06:42 Sen. Gary Peters (MI): But the January 6 attack must mark a turning point. There can be no question that the domestic terrorist threat and cluding violence driven by white supremacy and anti government groups is the gravest terrorist threat to our homeland security. Moving forward, the FBI, which is tasked with leading our counterterrorism efforts, and the Department of Homeland Security, which ensures that state and local law enforcement understands the threats that American communities face must address this deadly threat with the same focus and resources and analytical rigor that they apply to foreign threats such as ISIS and Al Qaeda. 30:19 Robert Salesses: Over the weekend of January 2nd and third, my staff contacted the Secret Service, the Park Police, the marshal service, the FBI, the Capitol Police to determine if they planned to request DoD assistance. None of these law enforcement agencies indicated a need for DoD or DC National Guard Support. 30:45 Robert Salesses: After consultation with the Department of Justice, the Acting Secretary of Defense approved the DC government request for National Guard personnel to support 30 traffic control points and six metro stations from January 5th to the sixth. The Acting Secretary also authorized a 40 person quick reaction force to be readied at Joint Base Andrews. 31:17 Robert Salesses: On January 5, the Acting Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army received a letter from the mayor of DC, stating MPD is prepared and coordinated with its federal partners, namely the Park Police, the Capitol Police and the Secret Service. Based on these communications with federal and local civilian authorities DoD determined that no additional military support was required on January 5th, and 6th. 32:20 Robert Salesses: At approximately 2:30pm, the Secretary of the Army met with the Acting Secretary of Defense and other senior leaders of the Defense Department. After this meeting, the Acting Secretary of Defense determined that all available forces of the DC National Guard were required to reinforce the DC Metropolitan Police and the US Capitol Police and ordered the full mobilization of the DC National Guard at 3:04pm. 33:08 Robert Salesses: After reviewing the DC National Guard's missions, equipping and responsibilities to be performed at the Capitol Complex and supported the Metropolitan Police and Capitol Police, and conferring with the DC Metropolitan Police at their headquarters, at 4:10pm, the Secretary of the Army received the Acting Secretary of Defense's approval at 4:32 and ordered the DC National Guard forces to depart the armory for the Capitol Complex 49:59 Major General William Walker: The District of Columbia National Guard provides support to the Metropolitan Police Department, the United States Park Police, the United States Secret Service, and other federal and district law enforcement agencies in response to planned rallies, marches, protest, and other large scale first amendment activity on a routine basis. The standard component of such support is the stand up of a off site quick reaction for us, an element of guardsmen held in reserve with civil disturbance response equipment, helmets, shields, battons, etc. They are postured to quickly respond to an urgent and immediate need for assistance by civil authorities. The Secretary of the Army's January 5th letter to me withheld that authority for me to employ a quick reaction force. Additionally, the Secretary of the Army's memorandum to me required that a concept of operation be submitted to him before the employment of a quick reaction force. I found that requirement to be unusual, as was the requirement to seek approval to move guardsmen supporting the Metropolitan Police Department to move from one traffic control point to another. 54:50 Major General William Walker: So the memo was unusual in that it required me to seek authorization from the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of Defense, to essentially even protect my guardsmen. So no civil disturbance equipment could be authorized, unless it was came from the Secretary of Defense, now the Secretary of the Army, to his credit, did tell me that I could have force protection equipment with the guardsmen. So we do have helmets. shin guards, vest, we did have that with us. But that came from the Secretary of the Army. The Secretary of Defense told me I needed his permission to to escalate to have that kind of protection. 55:50 Major General William Walker: What it says, without my personal authorization, the District of Columbia National Guard has not authorized the following to be issued weapons, ammunition bayonets, batons or ballistic protection equipment such as helmets and body armor. Now, again, to be clear, the Secretary of the Army told me to go ahead and issue that equipment. So we never were going to have weapons or ammunition and we no longer have bayonets. But we do have ballistic protection equipment, helmets body armor, and so I did have that with each guardsmen. 57:02 Major General William Walker: And at that time, Chief Conte and Chief Soon passionately pleaded for District of Columbia National Guard to get to the Capitol with all deliberate speed. So the Army senior leaders did not think that it'd look good. It would be a good optic, they further stated that it could incite the crowd. So their best military advice would be to the Secretary of the Army who could not get on the call. So we wanted the Secretary of the Army to join the call, but he was not available. We were told that he was with the Secretary of Defense and not available. But the Army Senior leadership, expressed to Chief Conte, Chief Sohn, Dr. Mitchell, the deputy mayor and others on the call, that it would not be their best military advice to have uniform guardsmen on the Capitol. 58:26 Sen. Gary Peters (MI): General Walker was the issue of optics ever brought up by army leadership when the DC National Guard was deployed during the summer of 2020. Was that discussed? Major General William Walker: It was never discussed. The week of June it was never discussed July 4, when we were supporting the city was never discussed August 28th when we supported the city. Sen. Gary Peters (MI): Did you think that was unusual? Major General William Walker: I did. 1:00:32 Major General William Walker: So I had them ready to go shortly after the phone call. So I brought, at 1500, I directed that the quick reaction for us that was based at Andrews Air Force Base, leave the base, get to the armory at all deliberate speed. I had a police escort bring them to the armory. They returned to the Armory in about 20 minutes. So we had them sitting there waiting. And then, in anticipation of a green light, a go, we put guardsmen on buses, we brought them inside the armory, so nobody would see them putting on the equipment and getting on the buses, and then we just waited to get the approval. And that's why we were able to get to the Capitol in about 18 minutes. Sen. Gary Peters (MI): What time were they on the buses Ready to go? Do you recall? Major General William Walker: By five o'clock, but at five o'clock, I decided, hey, you know, there's got to be an approval coming. So get on the buses, get the equipment on, get on the buses and just wait. And then a few minutes after that we did get the approval. I was on a secure video conference when the army leadership conveyed to me that the Secretary of Defense had authorized the employment of the National Guard at the Capitol. So my timeline has 1708, 5:08pm is when is when we wrote down that we had approval and read was about eight people in the office with me when I got that. Sen. Gary Peters (MI): How many guardsmen were ready. You said write a video earlier and they have gotten 155. So you could have sent 155 much, much earlier, what would have been the impact of sending those 155 right around that two o'clock timeframe? Major General William Walker: Well, based on my experience with the summer and I have 19 years, I have 39 years in the National Guard, and I was in the Florida guard Hurricane Andrew I've been involved in civil disturbances. So I believe that number could have made a difference. We could have helped extend the perimeter and help push back the crowd. 1:13:49 Robert Salesses: The only decision makers on the sixth of January were the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy. There was a chain of command from the Secretary of Defense, to Secretary McCarthy to General Walker. That was the chain of command. 1:15:39 Sen. Rob Portman (OH): This morning, you have testified that you received this letter from our secretary McCarthy on January 5, so just the day before the attack on the Capitol. In that letter, did Secretary McCarthy prohibit you from employing the National Guard's quick reaction force without his authorization? Major General William Walker: So I have the letter in front of me, and his letter does not but it is the Secretary of Defense says that I have to use it as a last resort. But the Secretary of the Army told me and it's, I have the letter that I couldn't not use the quick reaction force. It would it would he with I'll just read it. Yeah, 'I withhold authority to approve employment of the District of Columbia National Guard quick reaction force, and will do so only as a last resort, in response to a request from an appropriate civil authority. I will require a concept of operation prior to authorizing employment of a civil- of a quick reaction for it. 1:16:05 *Major General William Walker:** Now a quick reaction force normally is a command was tool to go help either a civilian agency, but more typically to help the National Guardsmen who are out there in need, need assistance. 1:16:58 Major General William Walker: Just to be clear, the Secretary of Defense said I could use it as a last resort, right. But the Secretary of the Army says that I could only use it after he gave me permission. And only then after a concept of operation. Sen. Rob Portman (OH): Right, and we talked about the chain of command earlier, so your chain of command is both of these gentlemen. In other words, you you didn't have the authority to deploy that quick reaction force based on either the letter or the earlier memo that went from the Secretary of Defense, Acting Secretary defense to the Secretary of the Army. Is that correct? Major General William Walker: Yes, sir. 1:17:23 Sen. Rob Portman (OH): Yeah, I also thought it was odd and I think you said was unusual and very prescriptive that the January 5th letter required the Secretary of the Army to approve the movement of deployed guardsmen from one traffic control point to another. Did you find that unusual? Major General William Walker: In 19 years I never had that before happened. So on that day, the Metropolitan Police as they would any other day requested that a traffic control point move one block, one block over. No traffic was where they were. So they wanted the traffic control point to move one block. I had to get permission. I told him, I'll get back to you. I contacted Lieutenant General Piatt, who contacted Secretary of the Army, I had to explain where that contractor control point was in relationship to the Capitol. And only then did I get permission to move the three national guardsmen supporting the Metropolitan... Sen. Rob Portman (OH): These are three unarmed National Guardsmen who are helping with traffic control in parts of that Metropolitan Police can do other things. And they were not permitted to move a block away without getting permission from the Secretary of the Army. Is that true? Major General William Walker: That's correct. Yeah. 1:18:52 Sen. Rob Portman (OH): That January 4th memorandum from Acting Secretary Miller to the Army Secretary required the personal approval of the Secretary of Defense for the National Guard to be issued riot gear. Is that correct? Major General William Walker: That's correct. But but the secretary army told me to go ahead and put it into vehicles. So I give him credit for that. 1:19:08 Major General William Walker: Normally for a safety and force protection matter, a commander would would be able to authorize his guardsmen to protect themselves with helmet and protective equipment. 1:25:57 Sen. Roy Blunt (MO): General Walker if the restrictions on your authorities hadn't been put in place by DoD, what would you have done when Chief Sund called you at 1:49 on January 6, with an urgent request for National Guards assistance? Major General William Walker: I would have immediately pulled all the guardsmen that were supporting the Metropolitan Police Department. They had the gear in the vehicles, I would have had them assemble in the armory, and then get on buses and go straight to the armory and report to the most ranking Capitol Police Officer they saw and take direction. And just let me add this, so one of my Lieutenant Colonel's on his own initiative, went to the Capitol, anticipating that we were going to be called, so he would have been there and he met with Deputy Chief Carroll of the Metropolitan Police Department who asked them, where is the National Guard? How come they're not here? And this Colonel said, Well, I'm sure they're coming. And I'm here to scout out where they're going to be when they get here. So that was the plan. I would have sent them there immediately. As soon as I hung up, my next call would have been to my subordinate commanders, get every single guardsman in this building, and everybody that's helping the Metropolitan Police. We mission them to the Capitol without delay. 1:32:11 Robert Salesses: That's when the Secretary of Defense made the decision at 4:32. As general Walker has pointed out, because I've seen all the timelines, he was not told that till 5:08 that's what Sen. Roy Blunt (MO): How's that possible? Mr. Salesses, do you think that the decision in the moment we were in was made at 4:32 and the person that had to be told, wasn't told for more than half an hour after the decision was made? Robert Salesses: Senator, I think that's that's an issue. 1:37:13 Sen. Maggie Hassann (NH): Looking back now, what might have made a difference in being able to move against some of those individuals sooner? Jill Sanborn: Yeah, I think that's great question. I think it's twofold. So it's the complexity of trying to gather the right intelligence that helps us predict indicators and warnings. And I spoke earlier about while there's a volume out there of rhetoric, trying to figure out that intent is very challenging for us in the intel community because it happens on private comms and encryption. So that's one aspect. And then the other aspect is of the people that we were investigating. So predicated investigations, we don't necessarily have the ability to mitigate the threat they might pose by travel if we don't have a charge. And so I think you're tracking that we were aware of some of our subjects that intended to come here. We took over action by going and talking them and trying to get them to not come and that worked in the majority of our already predicated cases. 1:49:46 To review the timeline at 1:49 Chief Sund contacted you. At 2:15 the capital was breached. I think in your testimony you said you had available 340 DC National Guard troops Is that correct? Major General William Walker: Sir, it was actually half of that. So, so half were on the streets helping the Metropolitan Police Department. The other half would have came in to relieve them, but we would have called them in to come in. 1:50:33 Sen. Ron Johnson (WI): How quickly could have you gotten? How many people to the Capitol? Major General William Walker: 20 minutes? Sen. Ron Johnson (WI): How many people? Major General William Walker: 150 1:56:47 Jill Sanborn: We're seeing people that got caught up in the moment got caught up in the sort of the energy etc. and made their way into the captain on those are probably the ones that you're seeing the charges simply of trespassing and then we're definitely seeing that portion that you're pointing out which is small groups and cells now being charged with conspiracy that coalesced either on site or even days or weeks prior and had sort of an intent that day and they to probably caught people up in the energy. PART 2 23:00 Jill Sanborn: The piece of information we received, again, was a non attributable posting to a message board. And so very raw, very unvetted, we actually didn't receive that information until late, very late in the afternoon on the fifth and almost into the evening. And because of our emphasis on we need any intelligence, even though it was raw and attributed, and unvetted, the Norfolk office quickly wrote that up specifically in a document following our processes to disseminate that. So a situation information report is for the intentional purpose of sharing that with state and local partners. Not only did they write that up, because they knew how important that was to get that information out into the hands of folks that might need it, our state and local partners, within 40 minutes, they sent an email to the Washington field office with that information and Washington Field Office also then followed up with an email to all Task Force officers. And so several different mechanisms were happened here. And you know, we'd like to use the phrase 'belt and suspenders' we didn't want to make sure that one method of communication failed. So we wrote it up in the document for dissemination. We sent it in an email to all taskforce officers in the National Capitol Region, and that does include Washington Metro as well as Capitol. But again, not wanting to rely on those two mechanisms only it was then briefed verbally in a command post and interagency command post that we were doing briefings every couple of hours, though, that every agency in that command post have what we call a common operating picture. Knowing what all of us knew at any given time, it was briefed at 8pm on the evening of the fifth, and then taking it one step further, because we didn't want to limit our aperture to just the National Capital Region, because there's collection opportunity out there for all state and local partners and federal partners to help us, we loaded that suspicious information report into what we call the Leap Portal. And that is accessible by all state and local partners. So we really tried in various ways to make sure that we did not rely on one communication mechanism and really tried to rely on several so that the information would get to the right people. 34:46 Sen. Rand Paul (KY): We can talk all we want about January sixth, but really it's the decision making leading up to that. Someone made a bad judgment call and we need to be better prepared. If we're gonna fix this in the future, it isn't about calling the National Guard out quicker. It's about having 1000 people standing there before the riot happens to the riot doesn't happen. Hearing: U.S. Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms, Security Failures on January 6, House Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, February 25, 2021 Watch on YouTube Witnesses: Timothy Blodgett Acting Sergeant at Arms; U.S. House of Representatives Yogananda D. Pittman, Acting Chief of Police, U.S. Capitol Police. Transcript: 09:11 ** Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (CA):** The United States Capitol Police Force is not meant to be an army, expecting 1600 officers to hold back an unruly mob of eight to 10,000 people, many of whom were armed and had their own homemade explosive devices or had came with or weaponized, everyday items. It's not a position we should ever have to be in. 20:51 Yogananda D. Pittman: There's evidence that some of those who stormed the Capitol were organized. But there's also evidence that a large number were everyday Americans who took on a mob mentality because they were angry and desperate. It is the conduct of this latter group that the department was not prepared for. Hearing: Dollars Against Democracy: Domestic Terrorist Financing in the Aftermath of Insurrection, Committee on Financial Services, February 25, 2021 Watch on YouTube Witnesses Iman Boukadoum Senior Manager, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Lecia Brooks Executive Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center Daniel Glaser Global Head Jurisdictional Services and Head of Washington, DC Office at K2 Integrity Senior Advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Board member at the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority Former Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of the Treasury Daniel Rogers Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer at Global Disinformation Index Daveed Gertenstein-Ross CEO of Valens Global Transcript: 03:28 Rep. Jim Himes (CT): In the wake of the attacks of September 11th, we recast the entire federal government and worked feverishly to defund terrorist streams. To effectively disrupt domestic extremist groups, we need to better understand their financing. 03:54 Rep. Jim Himes (CT): Unlike ISIS, for example, these organizations are not pyramid shaped where funding comes from a handful of easily disruptable areas. An online fundraising drive for a legitimate charity, and one that helps support an extremist group can look very similar. 04:57 Rep. Jim Himes (CT): We need to conscientiously be mindful of the civil liberties concerns at play here. Unlike international extremist groups, law enforcement is constrained by the Constitution when dealing with domestic extremists, balancing the desire to give law enforcement the tools necessary to disrupt these groups with the need to respect the rights of all Americans and the Constitution to which we have all pledged an oath is essential. 05:36 Rep. Jim Himes (CT): While we all live through a brutal event on January 6th, undertaken by right wing extremists, no location on the political spectrum has a monopoly on extremism or violence. 10:08 Rep. Maxine Waters (CA): We're here against the backdrop of the January 6th insurrection. A deplorable yet predictable display of white supremacists such as the Proud Boys, the oathkeepers QAnon and others and nationalist violence incited by President Trump against the members of this body and against democracy itself. 12:51 Iman Boukadoum: Last month violent insurrection heavily fueled by white supremacy and white nationalism shocked the world. 13:52 Iman Boukadoum: We know, however, that even well intentioned national security laws are invariably weaponized against black, brown and Muslim communities. And that white nationalist violence is not prioritized making that policy failure the fundamental reason for what transpired on January 6th, not lack of legal authority. For this reason we oppose any legislation that would create new charges for domestic terrorism or any enhanced or additional criminal penalties. The federal government, including the Treasury Department, has many tools at its disposal to investigate. And also the FBI and DOJ have 50 statutes, at least 50 statutes and over a dozen criminal statutes, 50 terrorism related statutes, excuse me and over a dozen criminal statutes that they can use. They just need to use them to target white nationalist violence. 19:33 Lecia Brooks: Today, some white nationalist groups and personalities are raising funds through the distribution of propaganda itself. In November SPLC researchers reported that dozens of extremist groups were earning 1000s of dollars per month on a popular live streaming platform called D-Live. 20:21 Lecia Brooks: Crowdfunding is also being exploited by hate groups to earn money in this new decentralized landscape. Crowdfunding sites played a critical role in the capital insurrection, providing monetary support that allowed people to travel to Washington DC. They've also played a crucial role in raising hundreds of 1000s of dollars in legal fees for extremists. 20:43 Lecia Brooks: The violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6 should serve as a wake up call for Congress, the Biden administration, Internet companies, law enforcement and public officials at every level. 23:11 Daniel Glaser: Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to talk about how the US government can employ similar tools and strategies against white nationalists and other domestic terrorist groups as it has employed against global jihadist groups over the past two decades. 23:33 Daniel Glaser: During my time at the Treasury Department, I fought to cut off funding to terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda, the Islamic State and Hezbollah, as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bush Administration, and eventually as the Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing in the Obama Administration. My primary responsibility was to lead the design and implementation of strategies to attack the financial networks of these groups and other threats to our country's national security. And while we should never let down our guard with respect to those still potent terrorist organizations, it has become tragically clear that there are domestic extremist groups that in some ways present an even greater threat to our ideals and our democracy. We have the responsibility to target those groups with the same determination, creativity and sense of purpose that we displayed in the years following 9/11. 27:42 Daniel Glaser: Potential measures in Treasury's toolbox include the issuance of guidance to financial institutions on financial type policies, methodologies and red flags, the establishment of public private partnerships the use of information sharing authorities and the use of geographic targeting orders. Taken together these measures will strengthen the ability of financial institutions to identify, report and impede the financial activity of domestic extremist groups and will ensure that the US financial system is a hostile environment for these groups. 30:10 Daniel Rogers: These groups leverage the Internet as a primary means of disseminating their toxic ideologies and soliciting funds. One only needs to search Amazon or Etsy for the term q anon to uncover shirts, hats, mugs, books and other paraphernalia that both monetize and further popular popularized the domestic violent extremist threat. Images from that fateful day last month are rife with sweatshirts that say, Camp outfits that until recently were for sale on websites like Teespring and cafe press. As we speak at least 24 individuals indicted for their role in the January 6 insurrection, including eight members of the proud boys have used crowdfunding site gifts and go to raise nearly a quarter million dollars in donations. And it's not just about the money. This merchandise acts as a sort of team jersey that helps these groups recruit new members and form further hatred towards their targets. We analyze the digital footprints of 73 groups across 60 websites, and 225 social media accounts and their use of 54 different online fundraising mechanisms, including 47 payment platforms and five different cryptocurrencies, ultimately finding 191 instances of hate groups using online fundraising services to support their activities. The funding mechanisms including included both primary platforms like Amazon, intermediary platforms, such as Stripe or Shopify crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe, payments facilitators like PayPal, monetized content streaming services, such as YouTube, super chats, and cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin. All of these payment mechanisms were linked to websites or social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, telegram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, gab, picshoot and others. The sheer number of companies I just mentioned, is the first clue to the scale and the scope of the problem. 31:40 Daniel Rogers: We also found that a large fraction of the groups we studied have a tax exempt status with the IRS, a full 100% of anti muslim groups. 75% of anti-immigrant groups, and 70% of anti LGBTQ groups have 501-C-3 or 501-C-4 status. Over 1/3 of the militia groups that we identified, including the oathkeepers, whose leadership was recently indicted on charges related to January 6, have tax exempt status. This status gives them access to a whole spectrum of charity fundraising tools, from Facebook donations to amazon smile, to the point where most of the most common fundraising platform we identified across all of our data was Charity Navigator. 32:30 Daniel Glaser: I think it's important to remember that if you want to be able to use a cryptocurrency in the real economy, to any scale, it at some point doesn't need to be converted into actual fiat currency into dollars. That's the place where the Treasury Department does regulate cryptocurrencies. 42:10 Daniel Glaser: Cryptocurrency exchanges are regarded as money service businesses. They have full customer due diligence requirements. They have full money laundering program requirements, they have reporting requirements. The US Treasury Department just last month, issued a proposed rule relating to unhosted wallets of cryptocurrencies. And that's out for notice and comment. Right now. It addresses the particular issue of, of wallets that are not hosted on a particular exchange. And I think it's an important rule that's out there and I do encourage people to take a look at it, the comment period closes in May, and then hopefully, Treasury will be able to take regulatory action to close that particular vulnerability. 42:46 Rep. Jim Himes (CT): Mr. Glaser, you you, though suggested something new that I'd like to give you a maybe 30 seconds, 42 seconds I have left to elaborate on you said you were taught you were hopeful for sanctions like authorities against domestic actors. You did not to constitutional civil liberties concerns. But give us another 30 seconds on exactly what you mean. And perhaps most importantly, what sort of fourth amendment overlay should accompany such authority? Daniel Glaser: Well, thank you, thank you for the question. The fact is, the Treasury Department really does not have a lot of authority to go after purely domestic groups in the way that it goes after global terrorist organizations that simply doesn't have that authority. You could imagine an authority that does allow for the designation of domestic organizations, it would have to take into account that, the constitutional restrictions. When you look when you read the a lot of the court decisions, there's concerns could be addressed in the statute, there's concerns. A lot of the scrutiny is heightened because sanctions are usually accompanied with acid freezes. But you could imagine sanctions that don't involve asset freezes that involve transaction bounds that involve regulatory type of requirements that you see in Section 311 of the Patriot Act. So there's a variety of ways that both the due process standards could be raised from what we see in the global context. 44:37 Daniel Rogers: The days leading up to the insurrection, the oathkeepers founder Stuart Rhodes appeared on a podcast and solicited charitable donations to the oathkeepers Educational Fund. It can only be presumed that these funds which listeners were notably able to deduct from their federal taxes, went to transporting and lodging members of the group slated to participate in the ensuing riots. 46:06 Rep. French Hill (AZ): Daveed Gertenstein-Ross: In looking at the draft legislation that the majority noticed with this hearing, one bill stuck out to me and I think it's a good follow up for your from your most recent exchange. It seeks to amend title 31 to require the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program to allow designated employees of financial institutions to access classified information related to terrorism, sedition, and insurrection. Now, over the past three congresses, we've talked about the concept of a fusion center, not unlike we do in monitoring cyber risk and cyber crimes for this terror finance arena. We've never been able to come ashore on it legislatively. So I found that interesting. However, I'm concerned that when you deputize bank employees without any oversight, as to how the information would be protected or if there's really even a need for that. 46:53 Rep. French Hill (AZ): Could you describe how banks share information with law enforcement today and how they provide feedback on how we might change these protocols or if they're if that protocol change is necessary. Daveed Gertenstein-Ross: Thank you ranking member, there are four primary ways that banks share information now. The first is suspicious activity reports or the SAR. Financial institutions have to file these documents with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or FinCEN. When there's a suspected case of money laundering or fraud, the star is designed to monitor activity and finance related industries that are out of the ordinary are a precursor to illegal activity, or can threaten public safety. Second, there's law enforcement's 314 a power under the Patriot Act, in which obtains potential lead information from financial institutions via fincen. Third, law enforcement can use its subpoena power, if a court issues a subpoena pursuant to an investigation, or to an administrative proceeding and forth where there are blocked assets pursuant to OFAC authorities, sanctions or otherwise, banks are required to report block assets back to OFAC. The information sharing in my view is currently quite effective. Treasury in particular has a very strong relationship with the US financial institutions. 48:24 Rep. French Hill (AZ): On 314 in the Patriot Act, is that a place where we could, in a protected appropriate way make a change that relates to this domestic issue? Or is that, in your view, too challenging? Daveed Gertenstein-Ross: No, I think it's a place where you could definitely make a change. The 314-A process allows an investigator to canvass financial institutions for potential lead information that might otherwise never be uncovered. It's designed to allow disparate pieces of information to be identified, centralized and evaluated. So when law enforcement submits a request to Finicen, to get information from financial institutions, it has to submit a written certification that each individual or entity about which the information is sought is engaged in or reasonably suspected of engaging in terrorist activity or money laundering. I think that in some cases 314-A, may already be usable, but I think it's worth looking at the 314-A process to see if in this particular context, when you're looking at domestic violent extremism, as opposed to foreign terrorist organizations, there are some tweaks that would provide ability to get leads in this manner. 1:15:15 Iman Boukadoum: What we submit is that the material support for terrorism statute, as we know, there are two of them. There's one with an international Nexus that is required. And there's one that allows for investigating material support for terrorism, domestic terrorism, in particular, as defined in the patriot act with underlying statutes that allows for any crimes that take place within the United States that have no international nexus. And we believe that that second piece of material support for terrorism statute has been neglected and can be nicely used with the domestic terrorism definition as laid out in the Patriot Act. And we hope that statutory framework will be used to actually go after violent white nationalists and others. 1:50:25 Daniel Rogers: I think there are a number of regulatory fronts that all kind of go to the general problem of disinformation as a whole. And I don't know that we have the time to get into all of them here, but I think they, they certainly fall into three three big categories, with the one most relevant to today's discussion being this idea of platform government and platform liability, that, you know, our data is showing how what a key role, these sorts of platforms play in facilitating the activities of these groups. And the fact that the liability is so nebulous or non existent through things like Section 230 and whatnot, which what we found is that there's there's already policies in place against all of these hate and extremist groups, but they're just simply not enforced. And so updating that kind of platform liability to help drive enforcement I think is one of the key areas that that that we can focus on. Hearing: JANUARY 6 ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Committee on Rules and Administration, February 23, 2021 Day 1 C-SPAN Witnesses Captain Carneysha Mendoza Field Commander of the United States Capitol Police Special Operations Division Robert Contee Acting Chief of Police for the Metropolitan Police Department Paul Irving Former Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives Michael Stenger Former Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate Transcript: 27:11 Captain Carneysha Mendoza: On January 6th, we anticipated an event similar to the million MAGA March that took place on November 14th, where we would likely face groups fighting among one another. 39:21 Robert Contee: MPD is prohibited by federal law from entering the Capitol or its grounds to patrol, make arrests or served warrants without the consent request of the Capitol Police board. 39:32 Robert Contee: The President of the United States not the Mayor of the District of Columbia controls the DC National Guard. 39:57 Robert Contee: Since Mayor Bowser declared a public health emergency last March, the district has not issued permits for any large gatherings. Although the district and MPD take pride in facilitating the exercise of first amendment rights by all groups, regardless of their beliefs. None of the public gatherings on January 5th and sixth were issued permits by the city. 47:13 Steven Sund: The intelligence that we based our planning on indicated that the January six protests were expected to be similar to the previous MAGA rallies in 2020, which drew 10s of 1000s of participants. 55:33 Paul Irving: We began planning for the protests of January 6th in December 2020. The planning relied on what we understood to be credible intelligence provided by various state and federal agencies, including a special event assessment issued by the Capitol Police on January 3rd. The January 3rd assessment forecast at the pros tests were ‘expected to be similar to the previous million MAGA March rallies that had taken place in November and December 2020.' Every Capitol Police daily intelligence report between January 4 and January 6, including on January 6th forecast the chance of civil disobedience or arrest during the protests as remote to improbable. 56:29 Paul Irving: The Chiefs plan took on an all hands on deck approach whereby every available sworn Capitol Police employee with police powers was assigned to work on January 6th. That meant approximately 1200 Capitol Police officers were on site, including civil disturbance units and other tactical teams. I also understood that 125 National Guard troops were on notice to be standing by for a quick response. The Metropolitan Police Department was also on 12 hour shifts, with no officers on day off or leave. And they staged officers just north of the Capitol to provide immediate assistance if required. The plan was brief to multiple law enforcement partners. Based on the intelligence we all believed that the plan met the threat. 1:00:57 Steven Sund: I actually just in the last 24 hours, was informed by the department that they actually had received that report. It was received by what we call, it's one of our sworn members that's assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is a task force with the FBI. They received it the evening of the fifth, reviewed it and then forwarded over to an official at the Intelligence Division over at the US Capitol Police Headquarters. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN): And so you hadn't seen it yourself? Steven Sund: No, ma'am. It did not go any further than that. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN): Okay. And then was it sent to the House and Senate Sergeant in Arms? I don't believe that went any farther than from over to the sergeant at the intelligence. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN): And Mr. Irving. Mr. Stanger, Do you did you get that report beforehand? Mr. Stanger, Did you get the report? Michael Stenger: No. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN): Okay, Mr. Irving? Paul Irving: I did not Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN): Okay. 1:05:36 Sen. Klobuchar: Mr. Sund, you stated in your written testimony that you first made a request for the Capitol Police board to declare an emergency and authorized National Guard support on Monday January 4th, and that request was not granted. Steven Sund: That is correct, ma'am. 1:05:47 Sen. Klobuchar: Your testimony makes clear that the current structure of the Capitol Police corps resulted in delays in bringing in assistance from the National Guard. Would you agree with that? That's one of the things we want to look at. Steven Sund: Yes, ma'am. 1:06:02 Sen. Klobuchar: Do you think that changes are needed to make clear that the Capitol Police Chief has the authority to call in the National Guard? Steven Sund: I certainly do. I think in an exigent circumstances, there needs to be a streamlined process for the Capitol Chief of Police for the Capitol Police to have authority. 1:07:23 Sen. Klobuchar: Mr. Sund your written testimony states that you had no authority to request t

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If it's free, it's for me — that's one of my mottos. And that's why I love free samples. But free samples are universally adored, and in recent years the customers getting the goods aren't the only ones who are benefiting. Ecommerce companies and retailers alike are using samples as a way to raise awareness, convert more sales, and drive traffic to a product or webpage, and it's working. On this episode of Up Next in Commerce, guest host Albert Chow talked to Doug Guyer, the Co-founder and Director of Strategic Development at Brandshare, the company that brings many of those free samples to your door. Doug explains that sampling is a tool that any brand can take advantage of, and if they do, they could see 97% of people who get the sample try it out, and 32% of those folks actually convert into buyers. It's a massive opportunity, but Doug also says that most brands out there don't know that this is possible. How has Doug and the team gotten the word out — including the story of how they landed their very first campaign with Tylenol — and what should brands be thinking about when they engage in the sampling strategy? Find out on this episode!Main Takeaways:It's Worth A Try: Very few marketing tactics are as effective as free samples. Reports from Brandshare indicate that well-run sampling campaigns see 97% try rates and as high as 32% conversion rates. Consumers are more willing to try something that is of no cost to them, and brands will be rewarded with both awareness and increased sales by making a relatively small investment in samples.Building Trust: When a brand gives a free sample, or includes a related free sample from another brand in a customer's order, the original brand is seen as going above and beyond. Customers view the sample as a sort of curated experience that was sent just for them, and it creates more brand loyalty.Not a Cureall: While sampling is effective, it can't solve all of a brand's problems. A struggling company or a business that simply doesn't have a good product will be negatively impacted by free sampling.For an in-depth look at this episode, check out the full transcript below. Quotes have been edited for clarity and length.---Up Next in Commerce is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Respond quickly to changing customer needs with flexible Ecommerce connected to marketing, sales, and service. Deliver intelligent commerce experiences your customers can trust, across every channel. Together, we're ready for what's next in commerce. Learn more at salesforce.com/commerce---Transcript:Albert:I'm sorry. You're going to cover Brandshare after my intro. Welcome everyone to another episode of Up Next In Commerce. And today, I have a special guest, Co-founder and Director of Strategic Development at Brandshare, Doug Guyer. Doug, welcome to the show.Doug:Thanks Albert. Honored to be here.Albert:Right out the gate Doug. What is Brandshare and what does it do?Doug:What is Brandshare is a great question. We have an E-commerce Media Network and we've built that over 37 years. And then people say, what is an E-commerce Media Network?Albert:That was my next question.Doug:And of course it's a consortium of 800 different Ecomm retailers that collectively ship out 75 to 80 million e-commerce order packages every month. What we do is we took those 800 Ecomm retailers, categorize them into 42 different lifestyles and then embed a product sample or brand experience insert into each outgoing FedEx package so that consumer, that online buyer gets a surprise and delight in their package when they receive it the next day, after order. I would say it's a delivery vehicle for the brands, for the CPT brands, OTC brands and a variety of brands to infiltrate the consumer's home with their product.Albert:Okay. Now is it done? I mean, back up a little bit because I to make sure everyone understands what we're doing here. You're not a shipping fulfillment network. You don't ship and fulfill orders for the brands. Is that accurate?Doug:That's correct.Albert:Okay. So it's not on the order level, it is like when I literally get samples in my mail from a brand, Brandshare might be part of that, is that accurate?Doug:That's not accurate. Only because our samples are our brand experience inserts right along with that FedEx order package. Give you an example, you order your bed linens and bath towels from www.bedbathandbeyond.com.Albert:Okay.Doug:You order today, tomorrow, there's a package on your front door. You come home from work, you open up that package. You know what you ordered, you just spend a 100 dollars and ready to go. You need these bath towels. And there in the package, there's a Tide PODS Downy fabric softener product sample in there. You didn't buy it. You didn't expect it. It's a surprise and delight to you the buyer because it makes synergistic sense to ride along with washables from Bed, Bath & Beyond. That's the customer experience we bring to the brands and to our Ecomm retailers and ultimately to the consumer in home.Albert:Talk a little bit about the value. I understand that... Later on in the conversation, I certainly want to dive in and understand like how these relationships are felt because I find that fascinating because it sounds like a retailer would then offer, it's like an end gap. They let little other brands bid based on their end gap. But talk a little bit about the power of sampling because this is something that I definitely can see working. Less people go into retail stores, especially the last year. Most people tend to buy things that they can touch, feel, look at. And so on. To be introduced to a new product digitally, kind of hard. And you're not as quick to consume a product digitally. I would assume.Albert:And then I was thinking, the other thing that's another value plus is I don't recall ever getting a sample and not trying it, literally every sample that's ever been sent to me, I tried it. Whether it was gum, whether it was whatever. I've tried literally every single sample, including, as you said, if it's a laundry detergent that I don't currently use, I'll do one load with it just to... Why not? It's a two-part question. I'd love to hear, understand a little bit about, why this has become so important in your perspective and then also give us an idea of what value does it really bring to the retailer from any case studies or results that you have?Doug:Yeah. Sampling is not a digital tactic. We made it an e-commerce digital tactic by partnering with Ecomm retailers back in the 70s, oh God. I'm sorry. The 90s, because we started in 84, we worked with catalogers, catalogers morphed into Ecomm retailers instead of Cabela's sending out 140 million catalogs a year, they're now send out 5 million. Why? Because they were very well-perceived or situated to have a fulfillment center and didn't have to build the postponement centers like the www.petsoftheworld.com did. And they were making money as catalogers and morphed beautifully into Ecomm retailer.Doug:And then so many of catalogers that we dealt with in the 80s and 90s are doing so well today because of the backend. What we did is pivoted from catalog to Ecomm retail and built that media network, Ecomm media network for the benefit of the brands. To instead of solo direct mailing a sample or instead of being in gyms where their sampling, instead of being in store with their sampling. In store sampling will always have a place with many brands but this is to supplement that not to replace that there's a place for in store and there's a place for in home.Doug:Where in home, via that FedEx Ecomm meets media package so that's a beautiful thing for a brand, because why? Because there's comfort, there's safety, there's privacy in your home. When you can try that sample, whether it's shampoo or detergent or makeup or something for your kids, whatever it may be. You don't have to stand in front of anybody else and do this. Awesome. But it's also good for the Ecomm retailer. Ecomm retailer gets a sample that aligns with them and obviously they have every right to say yes or no to that sample. And it's our job to vet out the properly aligned products and or brand experience inserts from Disney or HelloFresh or whatever it may be, that can sample but they can really put a beautiful educational booklet of their product or service into the packages as well.Doug:When that happens and it's properly aligned and executed flawlessly, the consumer is the one that wins. Because he or she is going to try that product. Like you said, every sample you've gotten, you've tried. Because why? Because it's no cost. It's a no cost experience for that consumer to try it, especially if it comes from the privacy and safety of their home. And then if the product does their job and it's a good product, hey, you're going to convert a certain amount of those. You're going to convert the 8%, 14%, 32%. We're in that top tier of conversion from a trial and conversion standpoint because of our targetability our scalability and our delivery vehicle.Albert:Wait. You're saying for some of these samples, they'll convert 32% of the packages. If I send a million, 320,000 people are going to live by this product that I just gave them a sample, is that accurate?Doug:Yeah. That's... The one step before that is how many tried. Is it 80% that tried and then you take 32%? or is it 97% that tried? And a good program will have 80% or so try it.Albert:Well, how do you know that if someone tries it? I mean, that's...Doug:I'll walk you through that.Albert:Yeah.Doug:It's 80% trial, 10% conversion, that's a nice sampling program. A very well done, flawless executed sample program should have 95, 97% trial. And it really should, based on the target ability of that same big program, whether it's grand shares or anyone else's, is the derivative of that 14 to 32% or 8% or 2%. We're driving as high as 32 but some at 14%, some at 18%, some at 21% got 95, 96. To answer your question, a million... Hey. 97% of that is 970,000. If it's a max conversion of 32%, yeah. It's close there 320, it's 316 or so. Between a 60,000 conversion, that's a beautiful thing.Albert:That's substantial. Those numbers are staggering. It's pretty darn impressive. I can totally see a 97% try rate because that's like I said, I've literally tried every single... Or my house has tried every single sample I've ever gotten. You know what I mean? You sent me a snack, I'm going to eat it. I mean, I guess the only time I don't try it, if it's damaged. I wouldn't try if it was damaged. Talk a little bit about how do brands get in to these sample packs, because there are a lot of brands and what's really fun about Up Next In Commerce is we get to interview companies that are small, we get to interview with companies that are just starting, we get to interview companies that have reached massive size and scale. Whether I'm consumable, I guess most people sell... I guess that's a great question to start. Are most of these product samples done by people who have consumables. Like coffees, soap, shampoos. I don't think YETIs sending tumblers. I mean...Doug:But there's an opportunity for that and that's a different world but the majority of our business is from, I'll use the term CPG, Consumer Packaged Goods and OTC Over The Counter goods. To a lay person, any brand, when you walk into a grocery store or you walk into a drug store, any brand that's on the shelf is basically a brand prospect of ours that we call on, we talk to, whether it's the Unilever or the Proctor & Gambles or the Campbell Soups or whoever they may be areour clients. And we educate them on the opportunity. Many brands have never heard of what we do and how we do it.Albert:Really?Doug:And when we describe that and they're like, 'I had no idea you could do that. Wow. That's really awesome." And it's not super expensive. We're not the low cost provider for sampling, we're not the high cost. We're super effective, we have clients that are been with us since the 90s because of that and it's not like a brand sample's every month, they advertise every month or market the same brand every month.Doug:But typically they'll sample when they have two things. They want to defend their legacy brand against come challenge innovative brands, look at the Tylenols of the world. You have those legacy brands that have a new formula, new shampoo and conditioner that's a little different than it was before or new flavor, a new texture for skin cream. Something that when the consumer tries it, it's going to make a difference. When they try it once, they give them enough cream skin cream, let's say to try for the week and it makes a difference and they see the difference. And then they have that trial conversion and the lifetime value of a new buyer who's going to buy from them once a month, once a quarter, twice a year, whatever it is for how many years.Albert:Let's say for example, let's walk our audience through an example, let's say I'm an energy... There's a lot of energy drinks out there. Let's say I'm an energy drink company. Been around for a little bit, hovering right around a couple million dollars in sales but I haven't broken through. I think I need to reach new markets, new people and I discover that gamers are an untapped market. They tend to drink energy drinks, they stay up late at night, but there's a downside in energy drinks.Albert:And they don't want to be twitchy. Let's say for example, because red bull makes me twitchy, they want to be... We have a smooth energy drink so we keep you smooth but focused because so you can game all night long. And they come to you and they knock on your door and they say Doug. I want to get this in the hands of gamers. Is that how it works? Do they already have a target audience in mind where they come to you and say, who could we possibly bundle with? Or are they even more specific and say, I want to get into retail box of X. How does this work?Doug:It's the former. And it's Hey. I hear you. If they're knocking on our door, they've heard from a podcast like this or some of them are marketing communications that we have an Ecomm media network that has 42 different lifestyles. They're like, "is one of those 42 lit lifestyles appropriate for my brand because my brand is gamers, my brand targets gardeners, my brand targets diabetics or pants conscious woman. We have a network, we'll pull the network down and say okay. For the want to be red bull that you described, who is... could be a DTC challenger. And they're not in Walmart or they're not in Kroger, they're not a shelf but they're just shipping direct to consumer. You can buy a four-pack APAC case, whatever it may be. We can arrange to put their sample in the outgoing FedEx packages of who? Newegg.com [inaudible].Albert:Name your computer [inaudible]. Yeah.Doug:Products, cables, you name it. In there with a cart open. That red bull, or I'm sorry. That energy drink will have a neck hanger on it and or sometimes cut a little piece with it that tells that consumer why this is good for you. It's not just chemicals. It's 12 different sets of vitamins or whatever the case may be and then what? And then what do you want them to do with direct result of training? You end up buying it and we'll make it easy and convenient. We'll put a QR code on there that directs them right to the site or right to, if there are in retail to Amazon, to Walmart.com to buy. And with one click, with click to cart technology so it's easy and convenient for that person to sit there, try it or like it, buy it right on the phone.Albert:That is sweet. Tell me a little bit about what are some of the success stories that you may have from this? Because I have a feeling some of the brands that you've worked with in the past they plateau or whatever and they just need more people to try it. And they hit the right demographic and it pops, I'd love to hear stories that you have of brands that once they got into the right partners, the right demographic, things just fundamentally transformed for them.Doug:Yeah. It becomes a not a promotion, it becomes part of their advertising. It does become a staple in our advertising because they could test. Much like could tests anything to see how it works, whether you're testing digital, you're testing DM, direct mail, you're testing outboard, there's some type of call to action that makes it accountable and responsible to the dollars and the resources you're investing in that marketing tactic. In this case, yeah. That want to be a red bull, that's two million but wants to be two billion plus with a 100,000 and have that clear call to action of how many cases did I sell with this QR code versus the QR or another type of call of action to use them with another vehicle and they can track accordingly. We've had a hundred thousand campaigns turning to 600,000 of carted value.Doug:We've had $250,000 campaigns turned into $1.9 million of carted through the cart technology. And why? Because we're delivering that single solo sample, not with a collection of samples. That single solo sample, to FedEx and UPS right into the person's home, where again, the trial rates are going to be at their highest because they're in the privacy and comfort and safety of their home. No one's around him. And that really came into play with COVID. I get it but those nuances of privacy safety and [inaudible].Albert:Okay.Doug:Fine. Are going to keep going throughout COVID. They were always part of our program before COVID and COVID just kind of made it more prevalent to the branch to say, I really want to be in there now.Albert:Do you have any brand stories that you're able to share?Doug:Well, the Tylenol story is a great one. We were one of the original testers or if not the original tester of Ecomm and back then, it was not even Ecomm. It was just little packages with the L.L.Bean, Eddie Bauer, Cabela's and Sportsman's Guide. We did 200,000 pieces, 50,000 each, coded each UPC code accordingly because back then was just coupons. And the redemption rate was so high that they thought there was an issue. There wasn't an issue and they rolled out to 4 million pieces immediately after that. They went from 200,000 to 4 million pieces why? Because your case, they saw it work and they wanted to be there before competitors, the Advil and Aleves of the world got into it. That was a springboard for them and they've been a client ever since J&J and McNeil pharmaceutical.Doug:There's many. We don't lose clients, which is a nice thing about what we do. It works. It works for two sets of clients right? We've got the brand client and the Ecomm retail client but it's got to work for both parties. Because this has got to be a surprise and delight for the Ecomm retailers customers that we're riding along with and it's got to work big time for the sampling customers. Because they don't just have what? They don't just have the cost of distribution, they have the cost of the goods too.Albert:Cost of goods sold. Yeah.Doug:Cost of goods sold. They're giving that away. 100,000, 500,000, 14 million pieces. And that's some costs of goods that has to be regained by additional sales.Albert:Yeah. And when it comes... I mean, for a CPG product, it makes total sense because we as people, we're creatures of habit. Once we buy a specific brand, when I buy a certain soap, I buy that soap every time. If I buy a shampoo, I buy that shampoo every time. I buy anything, even tape. [inaudible] scotch tape. We're like we're going to buy gorilla tape or whatever. Everything we buy, humans are creatures of habit. If you can get that habit to develop, the lifetime value's substantial.Doug:That's exactly it. The lifetime value is not about the one-off, one-time buy, it's hey. You took little buying cadence of toilet paper, of skin cream, of shampoo, of toothpaste, of whatever it may be is based on the product category it's going to be what it is. It's once a month or once every six months, a bottle of Tylenol, maybe once a year. If that, you don't get that many headaches. With 60 tablets in there, that might be once a year. That better be good. Because next year you with it and that medicine accounted for the next 12 years instead of one year.Albert:Yeah. And so talk to me a little bit about for the retailer. The retailer of course, they're going to want to know that QR code, that discount, whatever the buy add to cart, as you suggested is done through their cart, for sure. They're not going to want no... Let's just get serious. Nobody wants their customer to go shop at Amazon. That's a fact of life. Of course you, I would love if you had... Do you have any numbers as to like how many people will just continue buying from the retailer? Because it does make sense that they would, since they bought it from them to begin with. For example, like in your Bed, Bath & Beyond, if I ordered linens, clearly I'll shop there but then I get the soaps and shampoos or whatever I need maybe I add them to my basket the very next time I go back there, what percentage of people redeem directly at the store and then yeah. I'm curious for the retailer perspective, how does that look?Doug:The majority of the brands samples for products that we embed into the Ecomm packages are not driven back to that Ecomm retailer, because that Ecomm retailer like Zulily yet they sell merchandise, they sell apparel, shoes, accessories for moms and kids. They're not selling Tide PODS, they're not selling [inaudible].Albert:Okay.Doug:we're okay to them to a Walmart.com or Amazon.com to buy that product. It's a good CX for that customer because they're trying to buy the product being sampled. When you're dealing with a larger Ecomm retailer, like a walmart.com, they will allow a sample in their outgoing packages but that has to be bought at walmart on www.walmart.com. That's really the only one Ecomm retailer that it has that scenario that you just described where it's driven back only to that one Ecomm retailer.Albert:No. That makes total sense. And then from your perspective, I guess, I'd love to hear, what does the retailer gain? Is like the Zulily example?Doug:Yeah.Albert:I sell moms and kids products, I'm allowing sampled products to ride my, I call it riding rails but travel along my package. And like you said, there might not be a direct benefit immediately because I don't sell whatever product that is part of the package. How do you convince them to say yeah. You can do that to my customer base. Is it just solely on a guaranteed customer experience or yeah. How does that work?Doug:Yeah. There's two answers to that. One is there's a revenue standpoint from that. The brand pays us and we pay the majority of that fee to the Ecomm retailer.Albert:Got you.Doug:The Delta is our management fee for doing that. Yeah. Sometimes it's life-changing money, other times it's not based on the quantity of samples or our products that were running through an Ecomm retailer, but it's incremental revenue from an untapped resource for sure. The bigger part of that is the pleasurable customer experience that Zulily or Reulalaa is giving to their customers. It's other Ecomm retailers are not. They're able to give a Revlon eyeliner to a person at Ruelalaa to someone who's buying a dress for Saturday night or some L'Oreal shampoo and conditioner that they want to try and makes their hair look great for Saturday night. The customer doesn't typically think L'Oreal, they thank Ruelalaa. Ruelalaa gets organic post of thank yous of. Hey. You did a solid from me. Thanks for going above and beyond. The Art of Shaving starter kit, went into www.brooksbrothers.com packages and I got my $89 shirt but I also got this awesome starter kit from the Art of Shaving. Isn't that awesome? Thank you very much Brooks Brothers. They'll thank Brooks Brothers but they'll buy from the art of shaving.Albert:Interesting. It doesn't have any brand conflict because it actually creates even more brand loyalty. They almost view the retailer as like a personal buyer or something like that.Doug:That's it. And they do know, they being the customer of the Ecomm retailer that hey. That Ecomm retailer, one of my favorite retailers is vetting out products to give to me. Because they're not going to allow anything in there. It's got to have a perfect fit. And it's our job to make sure that when it's a perfect [inaudible], we send it over to our Ecomm retailer partners for review by marketing legal and fulfillment to make sure all three approve and are okay. Not just okay but want that in there.Albert:Yeah. I'd love to hear a little bit about how you guys built this business over the years because one of the things that's clearly evident talking to you is this is a business that requires scale. I mean, You need to be able to be in a lot of... Or a lot of homes as you said. If these packages aren't going a lot of homes that it defeats the purpose, talk about how these partnerships and stuff were built over time. I mean like you mentioned you'd been there since the beginning co-founder right? Was this the always the intent like hey. We're going to build this giant consortium of retailers and e-commerce brands or how did this business start? I'd love to hear how it evolved because I imagine it'd be extremely, almost impossible to knock on everyone's door and be like hey. I want to interconnect everybody in this network and then I want to let products and brands ride our packages into consumers homes. It'd be like, what are you talking about Doug? Who are you?Doug:And I'll tell you Albert, so many companies have tried over the years when they saw what we were doing and tried to build the same type of Ecomm media network and for a lot of reasons, it's so tough to do. You can have a couple of relationships with Ecomm retailers but to have 800 plus is really tough to do, manage and fulfill and make them all happy. We have a team, we've with two folks here. How we started is, me being the co-founder and another co-founder is my dad. And he's still with us, not in the business but my role was to talk to catalogers and say, hey. Would you accept in your upcoming packages an insert or sample that would make you extra money? It wasn't about the CX for them. That's when we recruited about 50 to do this and our very first campaign was with Tylenol like I told you with 200,000 pieces for a sample. Very first sampling campaign. Because before that it was American express application. Matching that up with high worth sharper images of the world. You were too young to remember Sharper .Albert:No. I remember Sharper Image, there's the catalog of gadgets and stuff. And we were going to storage, like all these gadgets and gizmos, like hey. This is a neon toaster. I'm like, I don't know why I need one but it looks cool.Doug:Exactly. With the success of Tylenol, it really opened us up to the CPG world of hey. Let's knock on Purina's door. Hey. Let's knock on Procter & Gamble's door. And started doing work with Cheer and Gain, and P&G and Olay and a Secret. And it just kept working for every brand. It really became a really nice situation for the brands, a really nice situation for the Ecomm retailers and me as one of the founders, it made me jump out of bed in the morning why? Because you're dealing with happy customers or happy clients who are on the Ecomm retailer side and on the brand side. We built the company around that and now put some digital... Not some but a digital stack with every campaign so that consumer knows that they can with a QR code, click the cart to order that product if they so desire. And a fair number of more are doing just that and that's what makes that ease and convenience for the consumer to go, wow. This is really nice. I'm doing it in my home and it takes just 30 seconds to do.Albert:No. That is pretty cool. I mean, but there's a little bit in that story that I can't quite comprehend, which is how did you guys convince Tylenol to take such a gamble on you guys? I mean, it seems like a gamble to me, right? What was that first conversation like?Doug:This is the story on that. Is, I'm at a conference and it's the largest marketing conference in the world. And back in the day, this is in the 90s. And it's a three-day conference. We're a young company. We can only afford to send one person out 10 by 10 booth. You've been there.Albert:Yeah.Doug:There's 1500 booths and there's 30,000 people walking in the house. Last day, last hour. All the other booths are, pull their booth down. And I'm like, I'm standing. This is in San Francisco. We're in Philadelphia. This is in San Fran. I'm standing here. I'm going to get the whole hour. The last 10 minutes, 10 to seven on a Thursday night, this gentleman walks up and he's suited up and I'm suited up and everyone else is pulling down and he goes, "what do you guys do?" And I tell him what we do. He goes, "have you ever done a sample?" I was like no. But I think we can do that.Doug:A sample in the package. Before that, it was brand inserts, the American Express inserts. We did that test and that's where it happened. That's where it started. With that gentlemen from J&J and McNeil said direct mail is not working for him anymore, this is not working for him anymore. Response is going down. Can I try something new? And we tried the catalog FedEx packages, which again, morphed into Ecomm packages and they went from 200,000 to 4 million. When Pepsi did their [inaudible] from RX to OTC, they went from zero to 14 million pieces because they knew that the tactic worked. The in-home tactic where again, privacy, safety and comfort is perfect in-home versus out-of-home and taking it when it's appropriate for them. It's a really cool success story that I can talk about for hours because again, because why? Because it works. It's not like it works a little bit and only works with these types of brands when it's properly aligned and logistically executed flawlessly, it works wonderfully.Albert:I mean, because now this business has been around since then you mentioned 30 plus years. I mean on the surface, just talk to you, makes total sense. You have a product, you haven't been able to get penetrate or convince enough people to sign up and buy it digitally, especially now, today digitally right? Because reality is how I got to I imagine it's really hard to convince somebody to try something they've never tried before, especially if they already have an incumbent CPG they use. I use Dr. Squatch for example, Dr. Squatch of course has made a huge splash with marketing and it's soaps. It's really expensive soaps but even as great as Dr. Squatch does, you and I know this, made and a drop in the market compared to like Dove, you know what I mean?Albert:There's so many people that use Dove and Dial and all that Lever 2000, all those soaps right? And so a company like Dr. Squatch, it makes total sense that they need more people to try it so that they know what it smells like, how it washes you, whatever the product we need, is just products that just have to get in the hands of people. I'm curious. What would you say the repeat rate is now, with the last five years of brands when they come to you or you go to brands whatever, when they do the sampling, how many of them repeat? Because I don't give a great indicator for our audience. Like how successful this is?Doug:I'll tell you exactly that. It's 93%.Albert:93%.Doug:93%. and there's 7% that don't come back. Hey, it worked well but our brand overall is failing. Just sampling alone is not going to save this particular brand. Dr. Squatch, which is already a successful brand by itself, DTC, innovator, challenger brands, to all the men's grooming brands. I love the brand and I've received the sample of it in a subscription box. That's how I found out about it and I went online and saw one of the videos and it's really well done. But if they did a subscription box that had 25,000, that I just happened to be one of the 25,000, that's nice. But how can they get to 250,000 or 2.5 million? That's where, in addition to what they're doing, they could do some things with a company like us or others. It could be around what we do but we have the scale and the target ability to do 2 million in a monthly basis or based on a certain target.Doug:Men's grooming or men's apparel or the www.fanatics.com. Let's say, they can do for a number and they don't have to do a huge number to test. Let's make sure it works for you. We're in no rush, we want to make sure it works for the brand. Let's do a small number, a hundred thousand. Hey, that's going to cost you roughly $50,000 and based on the size and the weight of the sample and make sure that their return on ad spend is there.Albert:That makes total sense. 7%. when you said that the brand was already struggling, I'm not going to say these were the brands that did it but that would be like, let's bring some scope for people. It'd be like back in the day when Kodak started to fail, had they sent film to people, probably still wouldn't have worked. That's one of the samples people wouldn't have tried. They're like, I don't know what to do with this.Doug:That's exactly it. They tried and that's where if you're going to sample, you better have a good product. Because that's going to expose your brand in awesome ways or if it's not a good product it's going to, oh my gosh, that tastes horrible or that gave me a rash. That skin cream gave me a rash. The trial and conversion rates will be high even if it's a great product. And if it's a not a good product, don't bother obviously.Albert:Yeah. Don't bother. Great point. Doug. It was awesome having you on the show today but before you go, we have to ask you a couple of questions from the lightning round. The lightning round is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. And what we do here is we ask you quick, rapid fire questions and you give us quick, rapid fire answers. Try not to spend more than a minute on each one. You ready? This is so our audience to get to know you a little better and know how you think.Doug:Cool.Albert:All right, what's the one thing that's going to have the biggest impact on e-commerce over the next year?Doug:New tech platforms that make it even easier and more convenient for the consumer to buy.Albert:Yeah. Anything that makes it easier to buy?Doug:Last three years. This is last three years, including COVID. The number one driving factor of consumers going into e-commerce and buying more and more e-commerce is I saved time, not I saved money, I saved time. If you're not making it easy and convenient for your customer, Mr. ER, Mr. Ecomm retailer, you better get Shopify or you get to get Shop Pay or you better get something from a tech platform that is one click and you're done.Albert:Makes total sense? What's the weirdest free sample you've ever sent out?Doug:Well, we've been asked to send out some weird, not so much weird ones but condoms of the world and which stands for Victoria Secret and [inaudible] Hollywood, et cetera but even they said no. Thank you. [inaudible] do that.Albert:Yeah. It's like, this is necessary in society. Like yeah. We just don't want to baggage it with our...Doug:No. They get one consumer complaint, that's too many.Albert:Yeah. That makes total sense. What's the one thing from 2020 you hope that sticks around in 2021?Doug:2020. Yeah. Well, I think a lot of the consumer buying behaviors will stick around in 21 and beyond. And that's from online grocery buying. Buying your groceries online, some people never heard of that. All of a sudden 2020, it went from what 16% to 42% of certain amount of your groceries were being bought online. Not all of them. How much of that will continue on. It is a celebrated online grocery by six or seven years. That's going to stick around. And I look at it much like the adoption, the slow adoption of E-ZPass back in the day. E-ZPass pass [inaudible].Albert:Yeah. Wait a second. That was picked up slowly?Doug:Slow adoption. Horrendously slowly. I mean, why? Because a lot of reasons from taking jobs away from the toll booth workers, but once someone got an easy pass and they looked at the lane on the right-hand side where people were still waiting in line to give the guy a dollar, they'll never do that again. When they saw... When consumers in 20 recognized how easy and convenient Ecomm and online grocery is to... Whether it's my beer, wine or spirits, I can get delivered by Drizly. Okay. Or I can get my dinner delivered by DoorDash. Okay. Then continue those buying behaviors in addition to not just in total replacement of going in store but in addition to, you'll see that you already saw the celebration of Ecomm by six or seven years.Albert:It's funny how you mentioned them at grocery because I think back to pre COVID, you go into a Whole Foods, it's of course slammed with the buyers. People shopping for their homes. Now you go to whole foods, it's still slammed but it's like with Packers. People that aren't... There packing orders for other people to be picked up by prime delivery or Instacart or even Curbside, it doesn't matter how someone's picking up. The point is there's people are literally people pushing those carts with tons of grocery bags. It's like the store is still packed, it's still full but they're all pickers and Packers, they're not actual people buying for themselves.Doug:Yeah. Would you rather spend an hour in a grocery store with your kids running around or an hour playing with him at the park? Kind of a no brainer.Albert:I'm curious for yourself, one of the things that's really cool about your story about getting started was meeting a person by chance. Great relationship was a spark, an igniter for your business. I'm curious if you could meet with anyone today and have a sit down conversation. Who would you want to meet?Doug:Nope. Mark Lore from Walmart.com previous with Diapers.com.Albert:jet.com.Doug:Jet of course. He is a guy that I have met a couple of times but real in passing and we had nice quick conversations. We did a lot of business with a lot of his direct reports. There's a guy want to have beer with or have a glass of wine with one day and really pick his brain about what he sees going in five years, because he is truly a visionary and just freaking smart.Albert:There you go. Doug, I appreciate you joining us today on Up Next In Commerce. We'll see what we can do about connecting you with Mark Lore. He has not joined us on the show so Hilary let's go invite him. Doug. Thanks for joining us on Up Next In Commerce.Doug:Awesome. Had a great time Albert. You were awesome. Thanks very much.

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