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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsOn speech, Donald Trump is making a mess, for himself and the country.Narrated by Jared MooreMore at www.Racket.news

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsFrom AI chats to the new AP stylebook to a long list of political crazes, online America is constantly looking for ways to put words in your mouthNarrated by Jared MooreMore at www.Racket.news

The federal student loan system has been a rigged game for decades — colleges raised tuition without consequences, handed out credentials with little real-world value, and left students and taxpayers holding the bag. On this hard-hitting stand-alone episode of The Right Side, Doug Billings breaks down President Trump's groundbreaking new Earnings Accountability rule and the Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) that's finally putting the Big Education Racket on a performance plan.Doug explains how the rule works (program-by-program earnings tests, warnings, and consequences for failure), why it's not a ban on any major, and the crucial distinction between real learning and expensive credentials. He delivers the analysis you won't hear anywhere else: how federal loans insulated universities from market discipline, the human cost of the debt crisis, and the hopeful path forward for families, students, and America's future.This episode cuts through the noise with clear conservative insight on accountability, opportunity, and restoring common sense to higher education. If you're tired of worthless degrees and runaway tuition, this is must-listen content that empowers better choices for the next generation.✅ Timely Trump policy breakdown✅ Beyond the headlines analysis✅ Pro-student, pro-taxpayer, pro-opportunitySubscribe to The Right Side for more unique conservative commentary that teaches you how to interpret what's really happening in America.Prayerfully consider donating to the show at: www.DougBillings.us#TrumpEducationReform #StudentLoans #CollegeAccountability #BigEducationRacket #HigherEducation #AmericaFirst #ConservativeCommentary #StudentDebt #TheRightSide #DougBillings #FYPSupport the show

Crime and Science Fiction on a TuesdayFirst,  a look at this day in History.Then, Dragnet starring Jack Webb,  originally broadcast  July 21, 1949, 77 years ago, City Hall Bombing.  Vernon Carney is threatening to blow up City Hall with a bomb if his brother isn't freed from jail by nine o'clock.  The story would be reused a year later and on the Television show. Followed by The Big Story, originally broadcast July 21, 1948, 78 years ago, The Lottery Racket. The "big story" of Keeler McCartney of the Atlanta Constitution, who attempts to clean up a lottery racket and nearly gets killed for his efforts. Then, Calling All Cars,  originally broadcast  July 21, 1937, 89 years ago, Alibi.  A dangerous hold-up man is wanted. He has held up a streetcar motorman. Followed by The CBS Radio Workshop, originally broadcast July 21, 1957, 69 years ago, Green Hills of Earth starring Everett Sloan.   The beautiful Robert Heinlein science fiction story about Reisling, the blind poet of the spaceways.  Perhaps the best adaptation of the story. Finally, Claudia, originally broadcast July 21, 1948, 78 years ago, You've Seen One Baby, You've Seen Them All.  Kathryn Bard and Paul Crabtree star. Thanks to Bill B for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamFind the Family Fallout Shelter Booklet Here: https://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/the_family_fallout_shelter_1959.pdfhttps://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/fallout-shelter-handbook-1962.html

Hollie Hughes has questioned who Chris Minns would form a coalition with, as she points out no party in NSW could form a majority government. She's also told Clinton Minns' front bench seems to be the only place you can't get fired from!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Film critic Amy Nicholson joins host Michael Phillips to test a set of unofficial Hollywood axioms: Preston Sturges’ 11 Rules for Box Office Appeal.Written (or so the story goes) in the early 1940s, the list is equal parts joke and provocation, a series of blunt, sometimes baffling claims about what makes movies work. But taken together, the rules point toward something more coherent: a theory of cinema built on movement, rhythm, and the constant opening of possibilities.Amy and Michael dig into what still holds up and what these rules reveal about the way comedy — and movies — create momentum. Is Sturges simply being playful? Or is there real wisdom hiding inside the punchlines?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to The Movie Racket, a new Filmspotting production hosted by Michael Phillips. Each week, we’ll test a so-called "law" of cinema — a bit of received wisdom about how movies work, or don’t. For our debut episode, actor Michael Shannon joins the show to examine a provocative claim from François Truffaut: that every film about war ends up being pro-war. Is it true that a movie about combat, survival, and heroism can never escape the pull of spectacle and the way cinema inevitably renders violence compelling? Shannon reflects on that inherent tension and revisits his experience working on Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor, a film that presents this question of representation head-on. So: was Truffaut right? Or does cinema allow for something more complicated than a binary verdict? Join the conversation at movieracket@filmspotting.net.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The burst of strikes between Iran and the US has died down but the Strait of Hormuz has seized up, with shipping coming to an almost complete standstill on the southern non-Iranian route. On today's episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey and Roland Oliphant discuss how this is exactly what Tehran wants. Meanwhile, Israel has revealed that Donald Trump is the subject of a “new and specific” assassination plot by Iran, and Ali Khamenei has finally been buried - with his son Mojtaba Khamenei still nowhere to be seen. Plus, what does this week's Nato summit in Ankara, Turkey tell us about the future of the alliance and the trans-Atlantic security relationship? Rachel Ellehuus, director-general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), gives her analysis of Trump's Greenland comments, how Ukraine was the real winner, and why America's aggressive global force posture review is a "protection racket". HighlightsIran's Trump ‘assassination plot' revealed as Strait of Hormuz closes upRUSI chief Rachel Ellehuus on Trump, the Nato summit and GreenlandCONTRIBUTORS:Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiaraineyRoland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign analyst @rolandoliphantRachel Ellehuus, RUSI director-general @rach_ellehuusWATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dkCONTENT REFERENCED:What I saw behind the scenes at Nato's tumultuous summithttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/09/behind-the-scenes-nato-turkey-summit/Trump ‘forced to use old Air Force One over security fears'https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/07/09/trump-forced-to-use-old-air-force-one-over-security-fears/Millions block streets for Khamenei burialhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/09/iran-us-war-latest-news-strikes-strait-of-hormuz-nato/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hettie O'Brien, author of The Asset Class, on the private equity racket—who they are, what they do The post The private equity racket appeared first on KPFA.

Going out can get expensive fast. By the time you pay for tickets, food, drinks and parking, a single outing can easily cost $100 or more. Most of us don't want to stop having fun — we just want to spend less doing it.MPR News host Angela Davis continues her “Cheap Week” series with a conversation about ways to enjoy summer — for less, or even for free. Angela and her guests talk about bargain summer festivals and live music, museum deals, affordable date nights, budget recreation and ways to have fun at home. Guests: Jessica Armbruster is a co-owner and editor at Racket, a Minnesota online news and culture website. She compiles the weekly Freeloader Friday listing of free events. She was previously the arts editor at City Pages. Alex V. Cipolle is a senior arts reporter and critic, covering arts and culture for MPR News. She previously covered the arts in the Pacific Northwest and southwest France and has written for publications including The New York Times, Fast Company, Frommer's and Hyperallergic.

First, we speak with The Indian Express' Purnima Sah about a fertility racket that has been uncovered in Maharashtra, where financially vulnerable women were made to donate their eggs multiple times for a payment of Rs 20,000 to Rs 35,000. She talks about the network, how it operated and the investigation.Next, we speak with The Indian Express' Jayprakash S. Naidu who talks about a series of eight murders that took place in Chhattisgarh's Kharve village and how the police realised all these murders were related. He talks about the incidents, the common link and more. (18:14)Lastly, we talk about an open letter by 117 signatories for PM Narendra Modi and PM Shehbaz Sharif urging them to take steps towards restoring peace and normalcy between India and Pakistan. (22:21)Hosted by Niharika NandaProduced by Shashank Bhargava, Ichha Sharma, and Niharika NandaEdited and mixed by Suresh Pawar Links for our episodes with Mobile Creches:Episode 1Episode 2Episode 3

A new lawsuit claims RAM prices are being driven by a conspiracy to fix supply, but is that the real story, or just cope?

Janice Tjen speaks after a stunning Round 1 victory over Leylah Fernandez, opening up about the match, her racket specs, and what it means to represent Indonesian tennis on one of the sport's biggest stages.

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsAhead of America's 250th, the beautiful people have brought anti-patriotism fully back into styleNarrated by Jared MooreMore at www.Racket.news

Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Season 22 bonus episodes 65-88 # Name Author Description 65 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe A gothic tale of a decaying family, a decaying mansion, illness, obsession, and a terrible burial mistake. 66 What Was It? Fitz-James O'Brien A strange invisible creature is discovered in a boarding house, turning supernatural terror into a problem of observation, capture, and proof. 67 The Upper Berth Francis Marion Crawford A passenger aboard a ship investigates a cursed cabin where something horrifying appears from the sea. 68 The Death of Halpin Frayser Ambrose Bierce A nightmarish tale of murder, memory, and supernatural revenge, centered on a man lost between dream, guilt, and death. 69 The Mark of the Beast Rudyard Kipling A colonial horror story in which a drunken insult to a sacred image brings a hideous curse. 70 The Captain of the 'Pole-Star' Sir Arthur Conan Doyle An Arctic ghost story about a doomed captain, an obsessed expedition, and something haunting the frozen wastes. 71 The Yellow Sign Robert W. Chambers An artist and his model become drawn into a decadent supernatural mystery involving a sinister symbol and the King in Yellow. 72 Xelucha M. P. Shiel A lush, strange, morbid tale of obsession, death, and uncanny beauty, written in Shiel's dense decadent style. 73 The Red Room H. G. Wells A skeptical man spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers terror without needing a visible ghost. 74 The Shadows on the Wall Mary E. Wilkins Freeman A domestic ghost story where grief, suspicion, and a strange shadow reveal something dreadful within a family home. 75 The Harbor-Master Robert W. Chambers A weird tale of coastal mystery, pursuit, and monstrous transformation, mixing adventure with uncanny horror. 76 The White People, Pt 1 Arthur Machen The opening of Machen's occult horror story, framing forbidden knowledge, childhood innocence, and hidden pagan mysteries. 77 The White People, Pt 2 Arthur Machen The central portion of the story, presenting a young girl's secret diary of strange rites, hidden places, and uncanny encounters. 78 The White People, Pt 3 Arthur Machen The conclusion of the tale, where the innocent-seeming account becomes something much darker and more spiritually dangerous. 79 Lost Hearts M. R. James A young orphan comes to live with an elderly relative and uncovers a cold, scholarly evil involving missing children. 80 The Willows, Pt 1 Algernon Blackwood The beginning of a cosmic nature-horror story about two travelers canoeing down the Danube into a remote and hostile landscape. 81 The Willows, Pt 2 Algernon Blackwood The travelers become increasingly aware that the landscape around them may be alive, watching, and spiritually alien. 82 The Willows, Pt 3 Algernon Blackwood The pressure of the place grows unbearable as natural details become signs of a vast, inhuman presence. 83 The Willows, Pt 4 Algernon Blackwood The conclusion reveals the full terror of the willows: not a simple haunting, but contact with forces beyond human scale. 84 The Hashish Man/The Unhappy Body Lord Dunsany Two short Dunsany pieces: one dreamlike and visionary, the other a strange fable about the body, identity, and dissatisfaction. 85 Fishhead Irvin S. Cobb A grotesque backwoods horror story about an outcast man with fishlike features and a reputation for uncanny violence. 86 The Hashish-Eater, or the Apocalypse of Evil Clark Ashton Smith A visionary prose-poem of cosmic horror, decadent imagery, and apocalyptic evil unfolding through drug-induced revelation. 87 Seaton's Aunt, Pt 1 Walter de la Mare The first half of a quiet psychological ghost story about a boy's unsettling visit to his friend's house and his terrifying aunt. 88 Seaton's Aunt, Pt 2 Walter de la Mare The second half deepens the dread around Seaton's aunt, leaving the horror ambiguous, oppressive, and emotionally cruel.

Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Season 22 bonus episodes 65-88 # Name Author Description 65 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe A gothic tale of a decaying family, a decaying mansion, illness, obsession, and a terrible burial mistake. 66 What Was It? Fitz-James O'Brien A strange invisible creature is discovered in a boarding house, turning supernatural terror into a problem of observation, capture, and proof. 67 The Upper Berth Francis Marion Crawford A passenger aboard a ship investigates a cursed cabin where something horrifying appears from the sea. 68 The Death of Halpin Frayser Ambrose Bierce A nightmarish tale of murder, memory, and supernatural revenge, centered on a man lost between dream, guilt, and death. 69 The Mark of the Beast Rudyard Kipling A colonial horror story in which a drunken insult to a sacred image brings a hideous curse. 70 The Captain of the 'Pole-Star' Sir Arthur Conan Doyle An Arctic ghost story about a doomed captain, an obsessed expedition, and something haunting the frozen wastes. 71 The Yellow Sign Robert W. Chambers An artist and his model become drawn into a decadent supernatural mystery involving a sinister symbol and the King in Yellow. 72 Xelucha M. P. Shiel A lush, strange, morbid tale of obsession, death, and uncanny beauty, written in Shiel's dense decadent style. 73 The Red Room H. G. Wells A skeptical man spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers terror without needing a visible ghost. 74 The Shadows on the Wall Mary E. Wilkins Freeman A domestic ghost story where grief, suspicion, and a strange shadow reveal something dreadful within a family home. 75 The Harbor-Master Robert W. Chambers A weird tale of coastal mystery, pursuit, and monstrous transformation, mixing adventure with uncanny horror. 76 The White People, Pt 1 Arthur Machen The opening of Machen's occult horror story, framing forbidden knowledge, childhood innocence, and hidden pagan mysteries. 77 The White People, Pt 2 Arthur Machen The central portion of the story, presenting a young girl's secret diary of strange rites, hidden places, and uncanny encounters. 78 The White People, Pt 3 Arthur Machen The conclusion of the tale, where the innocent-seeming account becomes something much darker and more spiritually dangerous. 79 Lost Hearts M. R. James A young orphan comes to live with an elderly relative and uncovers a cold, scholarly evil involving missing children. 80 The Willows, Pt 1 Algernon Blackwood The beginning of a cosmic nature-horror story about two travelers canoeing down the Danube into a remote and hostile landscape. 81 The Willows, Pt 2 Algernon Blackwood The travelers become increasingly aware that the landscape around them may be alive, watching, and spiritually alien. 82 The Willows, Pt 3 Algernon Blackwood The pressure of the place grows unbearable as natural details become signs of a vast, inhuman presence. 83 The Willows, Pt 4 Algernon Blackwood The conclusion reveals the full terror of the willows: not a simple haunting, but contact with forces beyond human scale. 84 The Hashish Man/The Unhappy Body Lord Dunsany Two short Dunsany pieces: one dreamlike and visionary, the other a strange fable about the body, identity, and dissatisfaction. 85 Fishhead Irvin S. Cobb A grotesque backwoods horror story about an outcast man with fishlike features and a reputation for uncanny violence. 86 The Hashish-Eater, or the Apocalypse of Evil Clark Ashton Smith A visionary prose-poem of cosmic horror, decadent imagery, and apocalyptic evil unfolding through drug-induced revelation. 87 Seaton's Aunt, Pt 1 Walter de la Mare The first half of a quiet psychological ghost story about a boy's unsettling visit to his friend's house and his terrifying aunt. 88 Seaton's Aunt, Pt 2 Walter de la Mare The second half deepens the dread around Seaton's aunt, leaving the horror ambiguous, oppressive, and emotionally cruel.

With the 2026 World Cup having started in the USA, the brothers welcome Abdullah Al-Arian, Chair of History at Georgetown University Qatar and editor of Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game. We talk about how football shapes Arab identity, including the role of diaspora, and how it is instrumentalized by Arab states. We also talk about the controversies and politics of the World Cup, including the journey of Team Palestine during a genocide, and discrimination against Iran's team and fans from across the global south. We wrap by discussing the question of FIFA Eurocentrism, corruption, and double standards, including FIFA's cowardice in not banning Israel. For the record, we all try to predict who will win the World Cup! Date of recording: June 19, 2026 Follow us on our socials: X: @MakdisiStreet YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Insta: @Makdisist TikTok: @Makdisistreet Music by Hadiiiiii Consider supporting the showwww.patreon.com/makdisistreet  

EPISODE SUMMARY Guest GM and Game Designer Edward Spence leads us through character and world creation for Force of Extinction! SHOW NOTES Force of Extinction One Shot News & Updates One Shot Patreon One Shot TWITCH Ultimate RPG Villain Backstory Guide Follow the cast here! Dillin Apelyan Edward Spence Candace McAfee Drakoniques ----------------------------------------------------- Support WotC staff as they try to unionize! Find and call your representatives and be heard (US) Find and call your members of Parliament and be heard (Canada) Find and call your members of Parliament and be heard (UK) ---------------------------------------------------- Music Used in This Episode Absynth, Elision Frantic, Hill High Octane, Rhythm Scott Antenna's Racket, Sam Barsh Editing and sound design by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shaghik Manè. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EPISODE SUMMARY Guest GM and Game Designer Edward Spence leads us through character and world creation for Force of Extinction! SHOW NOTES Force of Extinction One Shot News & Updates One Shot Patreon One Shot TWITCH Ultimate RPG Villain Backstory Guide Follow the cast here! Dillin Apelyan Edward Spence Candace McAfee Drakoniques ----------------------------------------------------- Support WotC staff as they try to unionize! Find and call your representatives and be heard (US) Find and call your members of Parliament and be heard (Canada) Find and call your members of Parliament and be heard (UK) ---------------------------------------------------- Music Used in This Episode Absynth, Elision Frantic, Hill High Octane, Rhythm Scott Antenna's Racket, Sam Barsh Editing and sound design by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shaghik Manè. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drama on a ThursdayFirst, a look at the events of the day.Then, Encore Theater, originally broadcast  June 18, 1946, 80 years ago, Yellowjack starring Ronald Coleman.   The story of how Dr. Reed discovered the cause of Yellow Fever. Followed by Boston Blackie starring Dick Kollmar, originally broadcast June 18, 1946, 80 years ago, The Hooded Gang Protection Racket.   A masked society of extortioners has been formed, which Blackie tries to break up. Then, Calling All Cars, originally broadcast June 18, 1935, 91 years ago, The Chinese Puzzle.  A Chinese merchant has been found hatchet murdered in his San Diego store.  Followed by I Was a Communist For the FBI starring Dana Andrews, originally broadcast June 18, 1952, 74 years ago, Tight Wire. The FBI assigns Cvetic the job of bugging a Communist Party meeting hall.Finally, Claudia, originally broadcast June 18, 1948, 78 years ago, The Crossroads of the World.  David's brother Hartley comes for a country visit. Kathryn Bard and Paul Crabtree star.  Thanks to Debbie B. for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! If you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old-time radio shows 24 hours a day

Epstein's final days inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center. How the Trump family rakes in hundreds of millions in cryptocurrency licensing fees and sitting on advisory boards of unregulated offshore prediction markets like Polymarket. David Ellison's controversial, DOJ-approved purchase of Warner Discovery In this episode: How Trump and Barr set conditions for Epstein's "suicide" inside MCC — and why no one in that jail's history died that way ⛓️ Stochastic terrorism: you don't pull the trigger, you just make it easy

Tonight on Brett Orchard's Old Time Radio Show, we're winding down with a classic slice of radio espionage — Dangerous Assignment: The Smuggling Racket. Brian Donlevy stars as Steve Mitchell in this golden age spy thriller packed with secret missions, shadowy enemies and sharp vintage suspense. Whether you're easing out of a busy Wednesday, listening with a late drink or looking for a little night-time company before sleep, this is a cracking old time radio adventure to settle into. Subscribe for classic radio drama, vintage mysteries, spy thrillers and calm late-night listening. dayslikethis.life #DangerousAssignment #OldTimeRadio #ClassicRadio #SpyThriller #BedtimeListening

Hour 3 of the Bob Rose Show, on the latest breaking Iran details. The stunning probe into fraud by the Southern Poverty Law Center, including use of funds to support extravagant leaders' lifestyles, payoffs for affairs, and threatening groups with racist accusations. Plus, all of Wednesday morning's biggest news stories for 6-17-26.

SUMMARY: Jonas Woolverton returns to the show as The McEnfro Show is playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Jonas goes to new heights to show off his manspead and you should see what he can do with a tennis racket! Also, Matt's corporate gig takes an unexpected turn, and an Obelisk that tries to take its shoes off!

Aujourd'hui, Mourad Boudjellal, éditeur de BD, Joëlle Dago-Serry, coach de vie, et Charles Consigny, avocat, débattent de l'actualité autour d'Alain Marschall et Olivier Truchot.

Exposing the Matrix, Part 5: The War Machine pulls back the curtain on one of the most powerful forces shaping modern history. Drawing from my twenty-four years in the U.S. Army and multiple combat deployments, I examine the intersection of war, politics, intelligence agencies, defense contractors, debt, propaganda, and theology. From Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex to the Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq's WMD claims, no-bid contracts, Christian Zionism, dispensationalism, and the human cost paid by soldiers and their families, this episode asks who truly benefits from endless conflict. Most importantly, it honors the men who never came home and challenges listeners to question the narratives that repeatedly lead nations into war while demanding a return to truth, accountability, and the teachings of Scripture.Email: thefacthunter@mail.comSubStack: https://thefacthunter.substack.comExposing Dispensationalism: https://a.co/d/0ct6PesaYou Are Not Who You Were: Learning To Walk With Jesus (Foundations in Faith): https://a.co/d/08hPkLJVWebsite: https://www.foundationsinfaith.net

Merci à Daniel Riolo, consultant de RMC Sport et l'After Foot, est venu faire un point sur les histoires secrètes du football français.

If you want to work with me one on one, visit my online academy here:https://www.skool.com/stokke-doubles-academy/aboutFor 10% off your next ADV purchase, click here:https://www.advtennis.pro/JONATHAN70538We talk:1:12 Red clay vs green clay2:34 Keeping your balance on clay4:27 What makes the clay at Roland Garros special5:53 The heat in Paris8:05 Racket tension12:04 Tactics in the heat13:40 Covering the slice lob18:22 Return variety19:50 Playing in the big moments

Here is roughly how every conversion rate optimization project I take on begins. We get through introductions, I sketch out an approach, everyone nods politely, and then, usually about forty minutes in, someone leans forward and asks the question. The quick wins question. The "what can we do this quarter" question. The "what's the easy thing we can ship before the board meeting" question. I always nod sympathetically. I always say yes, of course, there are some quick wins we can target. I always deliver them. And for a long time I told myself I was being responsive to client needs, which is the polite consultant phrase for "I know what they want to buy and I'm cheerfully selling it to them." But after enough years of this, I've started to notice that the clients who fixate on quick wins don't actually win much. The ones who do best treat quick wins as the opening move and then get on with the actual work. So, awkwardly, here we are. A grudging defense of quick wins I should be careful here, because it would be very easy to read what follows as "quick wins are bad and you should feel bad for wanting them." That isn't quite the argument. What quick wins actually do well Early in an engagement, a few well-chosen tests genuinely earn their keep. They build trust with stakeholders who've spent years being told that CRO is a black art performed by people who own too many ergonomic chairs. They prove that experimentation actually moves the numbers, which is how you get budget approval for anything bigger. They drag a team through the discipline of hypothesis, test, learn, iterate, which a surprising number of teams have not actually done before. And they cough up early data you can wave at finance when you eventually ask to look at the difficult stuff. That is a perfectly reasonable amount of value. The trouble starts when "a few quick wins to get us going" quietly becomes the entire strategy, and we all agree, very politely, to pretend that's fine. Why we end up here (and yes, that includes me) Clients call us in too late There's a timing problem sitting underneath all of this, and it's worth naming first. By the time a company calls someone like me in, the conversion rate has usually been quietly underperforming for a year or more. People will tolerate a slow leak for ages and then panic the moment it becomes a flood. Of course they want quick wins at that point. They want the bleeding to stop, and they want it to stop yesterday. Which is rational, in its way. But it biases the whole engagement before it's even started. We're not having a calm conversation about long-term value. We're triaging. Stakeholders are responding to terrible incentives It's tempting to roll one's eyes at stakeholders for being short-sighted, but honestly, they're not being stupid. The problem is that their incentives are just appalling. Quarterly bonuses reward this quarter's number. Senior leadership wants to see green arrows every month. Championing a structural fix that takes nine months to land is a career risk in a way that "we lifted click-through by three percent" simply isn't. Small experiments feel politically safe. Big bets feel like the kind of thing that ends up in a LinkedIn post about your unexpected career pivot. Agencies and consultants are complicit And while I'm cheerfully pointing fingers, some of them point straight back at me. Agencies and consultants are part of the problem. We are, in fact, a substantial part of the problem. Our business model rewards short engagements, monthly reports stuffed with reassuring green ticks, and the constant low-grade panic of needing to demonstrate value inside ninety days. We are structurally set up to find things to optimize. We are not structurally set up to walk into a steering committee and say, "Look, your returns process is the actual reason your customers leave. None of us can fix that with a button test. Sorry about that." The slow, accumulating cost The trouble with an all-quick-wins strategy is that the damage compounds out of view. The easy wins run out For a start, the easy stuff gets used up. Most pages have already had their obvious tests run, so what's left tends to move the needle less and less. Diminishing returns are a real thing in CRO, and I'm always slightly amazed we don't talk about them more, given how much of our work rests on the cheerful assumption that they don't apply to us. The structural issues never get touched Meanwhile, the bigger problems never get looked at. Refund policies, product photography, page weight, customer service quality, the post-purchase experience. These are the things that actually move lifetime value, and they sit serenely untouched while we hold a fourth meeting about whether the button should say "Buy now" or "Shop now." UX debt accumulates quietly But the cost I find most uncomfortable is the slow accumulation of UX debt. Take any homepage that's been A/B tested for eighteen months and look at what's actually there. Urgency timers. Exit-intent popups. Social proof badges. Micro-copy nudges. A polite little chatbot that won't go away. Each test won in isolation. The cumulative effect is a confused, faintly manipulative mess that erodes the trust we are theoretically there to build. Nobody owns the whole picture, because nobody's job is the whole picture. Which is, when you think about it, a slightly concerning way to run the customer experience.

Season 26, Episode 16 - Shaun Boyce, Bobby SchindlerSummaryIn this episode, Warren Robinson explores the future of racket sports, focusing on tennis, pickleball, and padel. Warren shares insights on industry growth, coaching certification, and strategies to make sports more inclusive and accessible.Key TopicsGrowth of pickleball and padelCoaching certification pathwaysInclusivity and accessibility in sportsKeywordsracket sports, tennis, pickleball, padel, coaching certification, sports industry, inclusivity, infrastructure, USTA, grassroots developmentSound Bites"Pickleball needs a structure to grow.""Padel is coming globally, and it's exciting.""The program aims to develop industry leaders."Full YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/XUBw_askQ-EWarren's King of Tennis Answer: https://youtube.com/shorts/YHRSHG5HAQoLearn more about Warren: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warren-robinson-tennis/Contact Our HostsShaun Boyce, RSPA: shaun@americanracketsportsassociation.com | https://americanracketsportsassociation.com/Bobby Schindler, RSPA: schindlerb@comcast.net | https://letsgotennis.com/windermereGeovanna Boyce: geovy@regeovinate.com | https://regeovinate.com/GoTennis Website: https://letsgotennis.com/Learn more about the Marc Kaplan Media Excellence Award we (the GoTennis! Podcast) won from USTA Georgia: https://letsgotennis.com/captivate-podcast/gotennis-podcast-wins-the-marc-kaplan-media-excellence-award/Join Our CommunityCheck out the GoTennis! Atlanta Facebook page for deals, updates, events, podcasts, news, stories, coach profiles, club information, and more.Support the ShowDonate Directly: https://gotennispodcast.captivate.fm/supportCrypto Donations: Get into crypto with https://coinbase.com/join/PEWRLWK?src=referral-linkStart Your Own PodcastConsidering your own podcast? We recommend Captivate: This podcast is hosted by Captivate, try it yourself for free.

durée : 00:03:29 - Par Jupiter ! - par : Charline Vanhoenacker - Cyril Hanouna fait carrière dans le padel à haut niveau, il est 151è au classement français, mais le journal “Ouest France” nous apprend qu'il a acheté sa place au classement. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

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Illie Balaj - founder of Healthillie and one of the most relatable voices in the wellness space - joins Dr. Will Cole for a conversation that covers everything from the Kellogg's artificial dye protest to two years of navigating an unexplained fertility journey. They talk about the tribal pushback that followed the food dye movement, why the dietary guidelines function more as a lobbying tool than a public health document, the SNAP junk food debate, and how to stay grounded on the biohacking spectrum without going neurotic. Illie also shares her experience with the conventional IVF model, how she found a NAPRO technology doctor who actually looked at her labs, why silent endometriosis may be behind far more fertility struggles than anyone is talking about, and the tools - neurofeedback, adrenal cocktails, homeopathy - that have made this season manageable. For all links mentioned in this episode, visit www.drwillcole.com/podcast.Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.Sponsors:Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at SHOPIFY.COM/WILLCOLE!Refresh your wardrobe with Quince. Go to Quince.com/willcole for free shipping and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too.Go to weareohho.com and use my code WILLCOLE for 20% off your order - ships straight to your door!Get 20% off at BUBS Naturals by using code WILLCOLE at checkout! BUBSNaturals.com! Produced by Dear Media.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What if the arms race isn't a problem to solve — it's the business model? Paul Jay, founder of theAnalysis.news and director of the upcoming documentary How to Stop a Nuclear War, breaks down the machinery behind Golden Dome, lunar data centers, AI militarization, and the trillion-dollar boondoggle playbook that's been running since the Cold War. Plus: why "corruption" misses the point, the Pentagon as America's largest socialist institution, and what a bipartisan Senate committee concluded in 1933 that nobody wants you to remember.

well well well, nothing like talking about movies on a podcast. The big Racket (76) and Remote control (88) are on the docket this tome around.

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The Deep State just got caught red-handed in a delicious twist of irony, massive state-managed fraud rings are being dismantled, and the high-stakes chess match over Iran is reaching a boiling point. Today on The Adult in the Room, Victoria Taft breaks down the stunning federal indictment of high-level DOJ prosecutor Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, who was caught stealing and hiding sealed documents from Judge Aileen Cannon under the file names "chocolate cake recipe" and "bunt cake recipe." Next, we look at the massive federal raids in Minnesota dropping the hammer on multi-million dollar daycare fraud conduits like the infamous "Quality Leering Center." We also dive into the Howard Lutnick Epstein deposition transcripts, Spencer Pratt's shocking fundraising lead in the LA mayoral race, and a fiery history lesson from Senator Ted Cruz. Plus, we feature two crucial interviews: geopolitical expert Edmund Fitton-Brown breaks down the truth behind the Trump-Bibi tension, and SF street reporter JJ Smith exposes a horrific cash-for-identity voter and Medicare scam running unchecked on the streets. Finally, we remember motorsport legend Kyle Busch following his tragic passing.Support the channel! Like, subscribe, and share the truth across YouTube, Rumble, and Spotify.TIMESTAMPS:00:00 - Welcome to The Adult in the Room02:15 - Minnesota Daycare Fraud: The "Quality Leering Center" Indictment08:45 - 15 Arrested: The $90 Million Balcony-Jumping Fraud Raid13:10 - Epstein Files: Howard Lutnick Deposition & Ro Khanna's Blunder22:40 - The "Epstein Class" Rhetorical Trap Explained25:15 - Middle East Meltdown: Interview with Rabbi Michael Barkley36:00 - Iran Sit Rep: Interview with FDD Expert Edmund Fitton-Brown45:10 - Caught on Tape: Interview with SF Street Reporter JJ Smith58:30 - The "Chocolate Cake" Indictment: DOJ Prosecutor Exposed1:12:15 - Spencer Pratt Outraises Karen Bass in LA Mayoral Race1:23:40 - Ted Cruz Masterclass: Dismantling Mazie Hirono on Race History1:35:10 - Tragically Losing a Legend: Rest in Peace, Kyle BuschAll statements and opinions expressed by guests of the Adult in the Room podcast are strictly their own and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or opinions of the host, producers, or advertisers. All interviews are presented in their most complete possible form in the interests of free speech. No statements should be interpreted as financial, legal, or medical advice. Listener and viewer discretion are strongly advised.

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RSS/iTunes/Spotify Check out the full Wild in the Streets archive right here On a pulse pounding returning WILD IN THE STREETS Fabio Testi is trying to take down the protection racket in Rome but is up to his elbows in red tape, but after one incident too many he’s fired and has to assemble a crack squad of cons to take down the baddies in Enzo G. Castellari’s action packed THE BIG RACKET from 1976. Full of wild set pieces and some particularly nasty moments, it’s an over-the-top romp with a final bloody action sequence inspired by The Wild Bunch! But how do our oh-too-sensitive hosts deal with all this? Let’s find out!The post Episode 326 – Wild in the Streets – The Big Racket (1976) first appeared on Cinema Smorgasbord.

Welcome to episode 251 of Sports Management Podcast. In today's episode, we are joined by Daren Hornig, CEO of Courts App — a marketplace often described as the "Expedia for racket sports," helping players find and book courts anytime, anywhere. In this episode, we spoke about: Building a two-sided marketplace for racket sports How AI is transforming sports facility access The explosive growth of pickleball and padel Why most sports careers aren't what people expect Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction to Courts App 00:19 What Is the "Expedia for Racket Sports"? 01:12 The Problem: Unused Courts 02:17 Why Technology Was Missing in Racket Sports 03:36 AI Integration & ChatGPT Booking 04:24 AI Concierge "Hey Courtney" 05:19 Tech Background & Startup Lessons 06:56 Why He Entered Racket Sports 07:48 Marketplace Model Explained 08:31 Growth of Padel & Pickleball 09:17 Transition from Real Estate to Tech 10:53 Building the Right Startup Team 11:45 Challenges in a Fragmented Industry 14:58 AI, Free Time & Sports Growth 16:29 Dynamic Pricing & Increasing Participation 27:58 Why Working in Sports Isn't What You Think SPONSOR: Listeners of the Sports Management Podcast get an exclusive 20% off on SportsPro+ with the code SMPOD20. All you need to do is head to sportspro.com/membership and start exploring today. Follow Sports Management Podcast on social media Instagram Twitter LinkedIn YouTube www.sportsmanagementpodcast.com

Unity Without Compromise with Dr. Steven LaTulippe – America faces a rising culture of violence, political rage, and moral disorder as self-control gives way to destructive impulses. The message calls for discipline, accountability, Christian conviction, and courage against forces that excuse bloodshed, weaken justice, and normalize chaos while urging citizens to control themselves and defend God, country, peace...

Unity Without Compromise with Dr. Steven LaTulippe – America faces a rising culture of violence, political rage, and moral disorder as self-control gives way to destructive impulses. The message calls for discipline, accountability, Christian conviction, and courage against forces that excuse bloodshed, weaken justice, and normalize chaos while urging citizens to control themselves and defend God, country, peace...

Want to be featured on the next Q&Andy? Send us a video on our socials or email us at askandy@servedmediagroup.com Andy Roddick dives into all things tennis rackets. He breaks down the racket and string tech that shaped his career and changed the modern game. Andy explains why he trusted his stringing team with almost complete control and what really changed when Roger Federer made his famous racket switch, including why Rafael Nadal called Federer's 2018 version the toughest he ever faced. He also gets into string tension strategy across different surfaces and weather conditions, reveals that James Blake secretly used Dunlop rackets inside a Prince bag for years, and argues that strings, not rackets, have been the biggest revolution in modern tennis power. Andy then reacts to his brutally accurate PS2 ratings in Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2, where the game nailed his serve and roasted almost everything else.

In this episode of Gangland Wire, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins interviews Eddie Inserra about the Boston Mafia. He is the author of Confidence of the Mob: The IRS Agent Who Took down the Mob – Then Advised Them, a deeply researched account of his grandfather, Fred G. Pastore, a key figure in early IRS efforts to dismantle organized crime. Fred Pastore was part of the IRS's early “racket squad,” targeting Boston Mafia enterprises. His work paralleled the groundbreaking financial investigations that helped bring down figures like Al Capone, demonstrating how financial crimes could succeed where traditional policing struggled. Then, he leaves the IRS and advises the Boston Mafia. Eddie recounts how he uncovered his grandfather's story through a remarkable archive of family documents, photos, and recordings. These materials revealed a complicated dual life: Fred was both a relentless investigator and, later, a trusted confidant to certain Boston Mafia figures. This paradox sits at the center of the book and this conversation. A major focus of the discussion is the “pinball racket”—a widespread illegal gambling operation hidden in plain sight within bars and storefronts. Fred's investigations exposed how these machines generated significant underground revenue streams for organized crime, particularly in Boston. Eddie details the innovative and often risky techniques the IRS used to infiltrate these operations, including undercover work within corporations like Raytheon, where illegal gambling rings had taken root among employees. The episode also explores the institutional challenges Fred faced. His aggressive tactics and unconventional relationships eventually brought him into conflict with IRS leadership and political figures, forcing his resignation. In a striking turn, Fred leveraged his deep knowledge of organized crime to advise former mob associates—highlighting the blurred moral boundaries that often exist in this world.   Eddie adds a personal dimension, sharing memories of growing up around his grandfather and describing the cultural landscape of Boston's North End, where family, community, and organized crime often intersected. These stories provide insight into how relationships between law enforcement and mob figures could be shaped by proximity, respect, and shared environments.  The conversation concludes with a look ahead at Eddie's upcoming podcast, which will expand on these themes through interviews with former IRS agents, mob associates, and others connected to Fred Pastore's extraordinary life.   This episode offers a rare look at the gray areas of justice—where the line between hunter and ally becomes increasingly difficult to define. Check out the book: Confidence of the Mob: The IRS Agent Who Took down the Mob – Then Advised Them, Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Gary Jenkins: [00:00:00] hey, are you wire tapers? Good to be back here in the studio. Gangland wire. This is Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective. Glad to be back in the studio. I have a man on the line who’s written a really interesting book called Confidence of the Mob, the RIRS agent who took down the mafia and then advised him. So that’s what’s interesting about this. Here’s a man. The, it was part of the early racket squad with the IRS intelligence who were the guys that went after the mafia and in all the different cities, most famously in Chicago, and took down Al Capone, and he ends up in a conflict with his bosses over informant and then. He goes into business as an accountant and ends up advising Jerry Angelo and some and childhood friends, really. ’cause he grew up in the north end of Boston. So this is his grandson Eddie and Sarah. Welcome Eddie. Eddy Inserra: Hey, thanks Gary. Glad to be here. Gary Jenkins: All right guys. Now there’s the book and I’ll have [00:01:00] links to it in the, the show notes as well as you can see the book over Eddie’s right hand shoulder there. You’ll get it. Now. First thing I wanna bring up about this book, Eddie, is I’m gonna ask you a little bit about how you got into this, but about this QR code you have in there, guys, there’s a QR code in there. I don’t know, about a quarter of the way in. Tell us about that and what was your idea to do there? Eddy Inserra: Yeah, so the QR code takes you to our website, which is it links to confidence of the mob.com. And this project started off as me interviewing a bunch of people about. My grandfather’s story. So I have all these audio clips, I have all these documents that I found in the box that my mother gave me that really had my grandfather’s complete career in there. So it’s more of a evidence-based website where if you scan that QR code, you can access some of the documents. Listen to some of the clips by the book, just learn more about the story overall. So it’s, the QR code is meant to be interactive, so you can take from what’s on the book into your phone and just explore more, [00:02:00] right? Gary Jenkins: Really interesting that with the new internet and you can do so much more and make your, what used to be just a hardcover. Paperback or hardcover piece of, a bunch of papers together and you can go onto the internet and you can find so much more with really not that much effort and a little bit of effort on your part. I know that I did something like that with a book I did. And it is a little bit of effort, but it’s not as much effort as is really, I think for that to further instruct people, teach people what that life was like for your subject. ’cause that’s what you’re trying to do, is you wanna tell people what. Your grandfather’s life was like, and so that’s I think it was just ingenious of you to doing that. I haven’t really seen that. I don’t think there’s probably other books that I didn’t notice, but I had not seen that before. Anyhow Eddie, let’s let’s go back. You’re the grandson. Fred g Pastor, tell us how you got into this, your earliest memories of this. Did you know your grandfather when you were a little kid and probably didn’t get the stories you wish you’d gotten? More than likely [00:03:00] I’d have him. But tell us a little bit about that. Eddy Inserra: Yeah, so he actually passed away when I was eight years old, so I got to know him for eight years. He passed away in 1988, and then, I knew my grandfather was always, when you see your grandfather, he is always happy when you’re, a little kid. One side of him, always happy, generous smile on his face, always laughing. Typical grandfather give you candy when no one’s looking. Things like that. So typical grandfather, I found out later on that his life was much more complex than I had thought. And when I was younger, he had an office. So I’d go into the office and I’d, everybody would be doing accounting work. He’d have probably about, he had about six or seven employees, maybe more at some, sometimes I’d go into the office and I’m just a kid running around the hallways and sitting at the desks. My father worked there as well. And yeah, I’m just watching them push papers and write down numbers and stuff like that. So I didn’t think it was too, I thought it was pretty boring. It was cool, but it was boring. But later I found out much more about him. Gary Jenkins: Interesting. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. Gary Jenkins: So later on in life, how did you stumble [00:04:00] across this whole dualistic life He had in a way I would maybe dualistic not at the same time but these two careers that he had how did you stumble across that? Eddy Inserra: There was a box that my mother had in her attic, and it was a, an old Florida citrus oranges box carton and overflowing with papers. And she, about 10 to 12 years ago, she gave it to me and said, Eddie, I want to give you these documents that your grandfather’s documents. I don’t know what’s in them, but there yours now. So I said, okay, great. And I pulled out a couple of documents and I looked at them. One was like an accounting ledger. E exactly what I expected. Some, some numbers and things like that. And I put ’em back in the box and I said, lemme put this on the shelf and I’ll take a look at the other documents some other time. So a couple weeks later, I go back into it and I pull out some papers and I start seeing profiles for big names and organized crime that I had heard of in the past. Jerry Angiulo, Raymond Patriarchal profiles on Racketeers Bernie [00:05:00] McGarry, doc Gansky, all these huge. Folklore names from Boston gambling and numbers and mafia times from the 1950s to the 1960s. I started piecing it together and I said and then I find a telegram in there to, to the White House Bobby Kennedy and JFK from my grandfather saying, I need to meet you at the White House right away regarding this Bernard Goldfine case that I’m working on. And I just started piecing this together and I said whoa. I never knew anything about the IRS side, but. He was really the tip of the spear. You mentioned like Elliot Ness, Al Capone earlier. It was the same sort of division, the intelligence division that he was working in, but he was in the Northeast District and it was, this was obviously after Capone that era, but next generation of, racket squad leaders, and he was the tip of the spear in Boston and the FBI didn’t have jurisdiction at that time to go after these racketeers. It was the IRS at that time. Later on, after he switched sides, so to say the FBI took over, but at that time, the IRS was the [00:06:00] potent weapon against these racketeers. So I’ve got all his documentation on investigations, case notes commendations it’s just really a treasure trove of, his whole career. And I pieced this together over years. There’s hundreds of documents, had to put a timeline together. Gary Jenkins: Really. Eddy Inserra: You’ve done investigative work, you know how that stuff works and I didn’t know anything about it, so it was just complete disorganized mess and had to pull it all together. Yeah. Gary Jenkins: The first thing you have to do is get a timeline. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. Gary Jenkins: That is paramount. When you’re doing something like that, you have to get a time. In order to keep things straight. Otherwise, it just becomes a, it’s just, you can never get it straight in your mind. Interesting. You know that the IRS back in the day was the premier organization that, that and the the the Federal Narcotics people were the ones that went after the mafia, whereas the FBI wasn’t, and you know what people don’t understand about the IRS many people, the IRS is just this big, huge. Organization that’ll come down on you when you [00:07:00] cheat on your taxes. But it’s really two divisions. There’s a civil division, but then there’s this criminal division, which was called the Intelligence Unit for a long time. And then I think your grandfather what I read in your book was he went into some special squad within the intelligence division called the Racket Squad. Is that right? Eddy Inserra: Yeah, that’s correct. The Racket squad was a specialized division inside of the Intelligence Division. Okay. Which only went after high profile Racketeers. And there was even an old TV show if you go on YouTube and look up Racket Squad. Yeah. There was a TV show about that. Yeah. Gary Jenkins: I remembered. I think no, it was gangbusters on the radio, but Racket Squad was on tv. Interesting. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. Gary Jenkins: So he grew up with a lot of the mobsters in the Boston area. Correct. Eddy Inserra: Correct. He was born in 1919, the same year as Jerry Angiulo. They were the same age which you’ll hear that name a lot and a lot of your listeners know. Jerry Angiulo was the under boss of Raymond Patriarch in Boston. And so they grew up right across through the bridge. [00:08:00] So Fred grew up actually in East Boston and Jerry grew up in the North end, and I confirmed that they did know each other when they were kids. I don’t know how deep that relationship went, but they did know each other when they were kids. And there was another man who ended up becoming partners with Fred later on in his post IRS career who he grew up with named Guy Spano. And he was also in East Boston at that time, and they were all this they knew each other, Gary Jenkins: interesting. Fred, knowing all these people, he knows about the bars and stuff and I noticed one of the things that was interesting, one of the things looked like early cases. He went after the pinball racket. Guys back in the day, every corner store bars, they all had pinball machines and they were a great way. To launder money and get all this cash money in and not pay their taxes on kinda like a cover charge that strip clubs get today. Whether there’s a way to, to get line cash money in that didn’t really go through the cash register. Tell us about that pinball racket. Eddy Inserra: Yeah, the pinball racket was a big deal back then. There was a lot of paperwork in [00:09:00] his box about that. There was a map that he had inside that box that showed all the different places he was raiding in Massachusetts just for the pinball machine. Pinball machines and the pinball machines back then were a game, not a game of skill because they didn’t have flippers on them. So the flippers that, that came on later, then it became a game of skill and it wasn’t actually just throwing your money away and gambling, so to say. So they weren’t able to go after them after they added flippers to the machines. But before the flippers interesting. Gary Jenkins: Yeah, I did, I didn’t really realize that I saw one of those when I was. You my late teens over in Kansas City, Kansas, and now I didn’t really realize what the deal was. What it was if you play it so much and get lucky and your ball goes to a certain place, then you win. But if it doesn’t and there’s no way to have it, is all pure luck. That’s the difference. I’ll be darned. I never thought about that. Interesting. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. Gary Jenkins: Of course from then, that’s gambling and that’s where the money is. So he [00:10:00] continues on going after mobsters, Italian mobsters in that area of the country in organized, more organized gambling. So tell us a few of his other organized gambling investigations. Eddy Inserra: Yeah, he went after the Italians. He also did go after a lot of the Irish too that in his paperwork too. Wimpy Bennett, Walter Wimpy Bennett. There was a lot of, in Jewish DKI, like I mentioned. Yeah, a couple other too but yeah, one, one big investigation that really put him on the map was. The Raytheon investigation. Raytheon we know as a big defense company and they’re headquartered in Massachusetts. They always have been, I don’t know if they still are, but they have been up until a few years ago. But huge corporation and during that time was the Cold War. So they’re supposed to be building missiles, but they called the IRS saying, Hey, listen, we’ve got a problem. Our production, our manufacturing floor, everybody’s supposed to be working, but. They’re all not on the floor and they’re gambling somewhere. We don’t know where, we don’t know the root cause of this syndicate, but it’s in all of our buildings and people are consuming their time, playing the [00:11:00] daily numbers, betting on sports, all kinds of stuff. And they couldn’t really get to the root of it to root it out of the system. So they called the IRS, they assigned Fred, my grandfather to the case, and he took the lead. He ended up sending a bunch of his agents in undercover as janitors, and they had to go through the whole process, the whole hiring process as a normal, employee would try to get hired. So they’d have to submit an application, go through the test, all that stuff. Because the, it was just so embedded in Ray Raytheon that someone would. Tipped them off. So he got a bunch of these janitors in and they ended up finding out that the, there was long lines going to the bathroom all day long. And that’s, they were making the bets, taking the bets in the bathroom stalls in multiple locations. They rated them all at the simultaneously and they got a bunch of leads after that for more mafia stuff, but it was a big mafia gambling syndicate embedded in the US government sort of defense contractor. So that got him, that was on the cover of the newspapers. It was in. Magazines. It was a big deal. [00:12:00] So Gary Jenkins: Interesting. After that is that he gets crossways with. His bosses and with the US attorney’s office eventually. Was there any other cases I see on the headline here, Pastore names Paul’s, me and politicians behind the bookies. So how did he get into to finding who the bookies were paying off? Eddy Inserra: So he, he had an undercover confidential informant, I should say, who was giving him a lot of information. And we were real in the book. Who that was, we didn’t know at the time. Nobody in my family knew until a few years ago, and that’s, we’re talking 60, 50, 60 years ago. And even the president and RFK at the time wanted to know his confidential informant. So Fred was getting some really good information. They didn’t know where it was coming from. And Fred had made a deal at the time with Eisenhower and the chief of the IRS that. He’d keep this confidential informant on his, on the payroll, but the only people that would know about it was Eisenhower, the chief of the [00:13:00] IRS under Eisenhower and Fred. And then JFK came in, RFK came in as the Attorney General and they wanted to know whose confidential informant was and he would never give him up. So that, that caused some tension between Fred and RFK. Before that there was another case. With a man called Frank Aya. I don’t know if you’ve heard of him, but he’s out, he was out of Worcester part of the, actually, gen Outta Worcester. Yeah, outta Gary Jenkins: Worcester. Okay. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. Part of the Genovese faction so New York, but I, their territory went all the way up to Worcester. And the FBI was actually investigating him for the Brinks robbery in Boston. Gary Jenkins: Oh, Eddy Inserra: really? At the time. So they were looking for leads because they had understood that one of the guys was from Worcester. They’re, they assumed so they went interrogating him, and he said no, I’m not a criminal. I’m just a bookmaker. And as soon as he said that I guess Hoover didn’t want anything to do with Bookmaking at the FBI. So they just threw their hands up and they threw it at the IRS and [00:14:00] that fell in my grandfather’s lap. And so he started digging into IAC and he, he actually built a case against him. He ended up going to jail. But during that process, when he was investigating Ioni, Ioni gave up another man. His name was Bernard Goldfine. Wasn’t in the mafia. He’s a big businessman. He owned all these textile manufacturing companies. And he kept getting the contracts for all the US government, military uniforms every year. So no one else would ever win. And my grandfather exposed that there was some bribery and corruption going on. Between him and Eisenhower’s chief of staff named Sherman Adams. Gary Jenkins: Yeah, Eddy Inserra: I Gary Jenkins: remember, I remember that. Sherman Adams he went down. I remember that. Eddy Inserra: Do you remember the Una coat? That’s what that was the big Gary Jenkins: thing. Yeah. I forgotten about that. Somebody gave me this Una coat. I never was sure what a Una coat was, but yeah, I forgotten about that. The Vicuna code and he and everything, they found all these papers that be. For Eisenhower to four eight C, it’d have to say [00:15:00] KSA Sherman Adams. That was a big deal. While he was spooning feeding Eisenhower all the, anything that he wanted to have. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. That’s funny you remember that because that’s, yeah. Gary Jenkins: Yeah. That was huge at the time in the fifties. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. For some reason, he bribed him with a lot of things, hotel rooms, cash, all these things. But the Vicuna code, for some reason, stuck in the media, and that was my grandfather’s work, was exposing that and yeah. That was a big deal at the time and after he exposed that and with him not giving up that confidential informant. RFK wanted Fred out of Massachusetts. Pretty much out of the cross heads. We can get into that if you want, but yeah that’s the next Gary Jenkins: thing. What would he want? We, because Kennedy’s of course, were Boston area, new England based, and a lot of their people probably could then get in trouble with because of Fred Pastore and his bulldog attitude towards enforcing the law. Was that the deal? Eddy Inserra: Yeah, Fred would follow the money. I know that’s a common thing, but he really would follow the money. And from what I [00:16:00] understand, I wasn’t there, I didn’t live at that time, but from what I understand, he followed the money and wherever it led him and that led him right up to the White House. You know how politics are there, it’s a dirty game. So I’m sure that might’ve been someone who gave money to the candidate, maybe even the same guy, Bernard Goldfine or somebody. And if Fred dug that up, they could get. The same treatment Sherman Adams did. Gary Jenkins: Yeah. Yeah. Eddy Inserra: They wanted Fred out of there. Yeah. Gary Jenkins: So what happened then? They it seemed like they, they repressed him to reveal his informant or something like and he ended up, either I quit or, I have to give up my informant. Is that, was that what it came down to? Hobson’s choice like that? Eddy Inserra: Yeah, it came down to that. They tried to actually reassign him to Syracuse. New York was really, it was a demotion in pay and in actually title as well. So he would’ve been brought down. He wouldn’t have been in the rack racket squad. He would’ve been down to a special agent again, and would’ve been a step backwards and they would’ve had him out of the mix in Boston. And that’s really what they wanted to accomplish is silence Fred. Yeah. [00:17:00] So he was faced with a decision, do I take that demotion and that’s the end of it, or. Do what he actually did, which was, took him back to his up upbringing in East Boston. Tough poor kid when you actually have to face the bully, I think. And that street grit that he actually said no. You know what? He held his own press conference in downtown Boston and he said, I’m resigning from the IRS today. And I’m opening up my own tax fraud defense firm right across the street. He wanted to view them out the window every day. He had a chip on his shoulder. And so he ended up advising the same kind of people and some of the same people that he was previously going after at the IRS. And he was like a super weapon for those guys because he knew all the legalities and the loopholes and how to structure your businesses and things like that. So Gary Jenkins: yeah, I noticed there was like a Fred Angiulo was that Jerry’s brother then. Eddy Inserra: I don’t know if there was a Fred, if there was Gary Jenkins: a wonder. I thought it, it was Fred. I may have got [00:18:00] that name wrong, Nick in the Nick in my head, because your dad, your grandpa’s name was Fred Pastor. But anyhow, there he defended Angiulo and some of their people, he, he knew everybody went to North End at eight and, they were socially compatible, if you will. So tell us a little bit about that, what you learned about those, that part of his life. Eddy Inserra: Obviously post IRS career, I learned that from my mother and other people, that on the weekends Fred would go on Friday night. Him and his his daughter whose youngest daughter is Charmin, which is my mother. Oldest daughter’s, Pam and my grandmother is Nina. And they would go into Boston to the north end and they’d go down there for, to go to the bakery sit out front. The women would sit out front eating pastry, and Fred would go out back for about 15 minutes and. To me it was him giving advice maybe face to face. To, to Jerry and he’d come out 15 minutes with a paper bag from what I’ve heard. And and that would be it. Then they’d go to the fruit market and then they’d go home and they’d go out to Stella’s. [00:19:00] Restaurant in the North End on Fleet Street at the time, which is a famous spot. Even, JFK, they used to go there. But it was a real famous spot. Fred would be there a lot with the family. And on the weekends my mother remembers. So the Injus, by the way, Jerry and Jula, there was five brothers who really ran their empire together. But Jerry was the head of it and the genius with numbers. And he shared that with Fred. They both had a genius with numbers. So that was some that was interesting. And Nick would, his brother Nick would go to Fred’s house on Sundays, and my mother would call him Uncle Nick. He’d always bring something. One time he brought a pet dog for them. They had a dog, and he’d bring all kinds of gifts and they always saw the nice side to these people. Even in the office, when I went to the office and I met a couple of these people when I was young, I didn’t know who they were, but I, you’d always see the nice side because. Gary Jenkins: Yeah, Eddy Inserra: Fred was the golden goose helping them keep their money, but most importantly keeping them outta jail. So Gary Jenkins: interesting. Huh? That’s a, that’s quite a career switch. [00:20:00] The were you in 98 Prince Street? The famous 98 Prince Street. I went to the north end, went around, took some pictures and stuff. It’s nothing like it, it’s described, but back in the day, other than, it’s really cool, those little narrow brick streets and restaurants and everything. Talk about the north end over there. Eddy Inserra: The north end is that’s the Italian enclave of the city. Boston has different enclaves, different cultural enclaves I should say. And the North end is the the Italian, it actually was the was the Irish before the Italian. So a lot of people don’t know that. But I didn’t know that. The Italian section, and that’s where there’s, world class Italian food restaurants, every 10 feet. And. It’s a tight knit community. Everybody knows everybody especially back then. So you walk down the street, you’ll see people hanging on the corner and if when you’re, when you were a kid you’d go get your fireworks there at the park and, illegal fireworks and get whatever you want. But yeah, 98 Prince Street was where Jerry ran his sort of headquarters out of there and they called it the doghouse. That was, [00:21:00] they knew they had eyes looking out for them as well being there. So the whole neighborhood was really looking out for them. And eventually the FBI caught them by wiretapping a vehicle up front. Yeah. So inside. But yeah, it’s really tight knit Italian. If you come to Boston, I really recommend you go, especially if you want to eat some nice food and see how this still some remnants of how it used to be, like you said, those brick roads and things like that. It’s pretty nostalgic and interesting. Gary Jenkins: Yeah. Yeah, it’s really cool. I’d highly recommend any of you guys. You go out to, you, go to Boston, go to the north end and eat and just walk around. It’s really nice, although it’s pretty busy on the weekends, so a lot of people down there, man and some of the restaurants, there were long lines to get into ’em around dinnertime. Eddy Inserra: Yeah, try if you can make a reservation, try to, if not. Gary Jenkins: Yeah. Yeah. Good bakeries too that the nicer places. I can’t even remember the names of ’em now. I had ’em that day. But anyhow, so I have to, I’m gonna flip back just a little bit. I made a jotted down a note [00:22:00] about Frank, the cheese man c Chiara, who was at Apple Lake. He did he who was the consigliere, I think for Patri arca. I believe your grandfather went after him or had some dealings with him. Do you remember that? Eddy Inserra: Yeah, he, there was some documents in the box about him and they were telling him he was definitely the concierge for arraignment at the time. And there were documents that Fred’s team was actually tracking him. They were watching him, he was going to Cuba back and forth to Cuba at that time. And so they thought he was moving money or just setting things up with a casino and things like that down there. They couldn’t, I don’t know if they actually got him to go to jail. I don’t remember if they were able to prosecute him, but they were checking him at the airport. I remember they checked his passport. But he was the, he was a money man as well, so he was known to be like the bank at that time. Gary Jenkins: Did did your grandfather have any trouble? His own troubles with the IRS af? Did they come after him or try to go after him at any point in time? Later in his career? Usually they [00:23:00] do. Yeah. They could be pretty vindictive. I’ve seen it here where an FBI agent then becomes a white collar crime lawyer. And boy, I tell you what, his old buddies, he was, they, he, a friend of mine went like that and he was surprised. He was shocked how p how his old friends from the bureau treated him. So did he have any problems like that? Eddy Inserra: In fact, he had a big problem like that as soon as he wouldn’t give up, his informant’s name. That became a problem actually. The the FBI called him in one of the documents that I have. It’s a memo that he wrote right after he came back from the FBI interrogating him. So he was told to report to the FBI in Boston by himself. And this was from his IRS superiors that say that, they want you over there, you gotta go talk to them. And so he went over there. And there was two agents in the room with Fred and they interrogated him asking if he had taken bribes at all. Yeah. And Fred used he, he outwitted them saying, I can’t say anything. This is an on ongoing investigation. If he, if you want me to say anything about this, you’re gonna have to get my [00:24:00] superiors to sign off on this. And, whatever the process was. And he felt like it was unbelievable because he said, who’s accusing me of this? They wouldn’t tell him. But eventually he figured out that it was this textile manufacturer that I mentioned earlier, Bernard Goldfine, his sort of right hand woman, her name was Mildred Paperman. She had she’d already been convicted and so was Bernard Goldfine, but they had said that Fred was taking bribes from them. So they’re taking this information from convicted, felons. And she said she had proof of it. So she had a check made up to the initials, FGP and who else, that’s Fred’s initials. Yeah. Fred G passed story. So Fred started laughing when they pulled that out. He said, do you guys have any idea who this is? It’s not me. And it was for Maine Senator Frederick g Payne, with the same initials. And that was easily documented in his paperwork that he was accepting bribes from gold mines. It’s really interesting how he outsmarted them [00:25:00] and I guess they didn’t do their homework good enough, but, they went after him hard and even after he left the IR Rs they tried to, I think one of, one of the documents says you didn’t report $2 of your tax income or something like that. Just busted his dogs. Oh my Gary Jenkins: God. I’m in a heap of trouble then. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. But the thing that he did have. And I, I can’t say it for sure, but he did have, in his back pocket, was a list of police and politicians that did take bribes. And that’s what up in, in that newspaper behind me, he was supposed to release this list. There was the media believed that he was gonna release these names during his press conference. He didn’t, and I believe that was an insurance policy that he kept in his pocket to keep them away. That’s my belief. I can’t confirm that, but that’s my sort of theory on that. Yeah. Gary Jenkins: Yeah. I tell you what in Boston, greater Boston, that area, having a list of policemen and politicians that have been taking bribes, that’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Just take out about 10 out and name the rest. Eddy Inserra: I tell you what, [00:26:00] I do have that list. It was in the bar. Gary Jenkins: Oh, do you? Oh really? Yeah. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. Is Gary Jenkins: that gonna be on your website? Is that gonna be on your website or are you just keeping that to yourself? Eddy Inserra: I thought long and hard about that, and I don’t think it’s fair to ruin or tarnish any family or anything like that. So I, that’s not gonna come out. Gary Jenkins: Yeah. Interesting. Eddy Inserra: That has nothing to do with me. That’s not my, Gary Jenkins: I, I’d have to agree with that, that those were different times, different days. Yeah. And there’s no use hurting in what would be innocent people today with that kind of information, especially Boston seemed like it’s a. A small community in, in, in a way, it’s not like New York where you’re spread out over all these boroughs and Los Angeles, where you’re spread out over, 25% of the state. It’s more like Kansas City, more like a small area that is Boston. And so a lot of people, everybody knows each other in some manner. Eddy Inserra: Yeah exactly. Couple of degrees of separation if that. Gary Jenkins: Yeah. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. Gary Jenkins: Interesting. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. Gary Jenkins: All right, Eddie and [00:27:00] Sarah, confidence of the mob, the IRS agent who took down the mafia and then advised them. So a really interesting book. Guys. I’ll have links to the website or to the Amazon page where you can buy this book. I’d highly recommend you buy it and when you do, go in there see, I don’t know, it’s about a quarter of the way in and find that find that QR code and. Go to that website and listen to some, I listened to a couple of three of those interviews. Really interesting stuff. That off the stuff that you can’t get everything in, but it’s interesting. I understand about that. Eddy Inserra: Thanks Gary. Yeah. That’s a upcoming podcast. We’re gonna have all full interviews and all that stuff with all. Oh, Gary Jenkins: Are you gonna do one yourself or with somebody there in Boston? Eddy Inserra: We’ve, it’s not gonna be a live podcast. It’s actually a bunch of clips thrown together. So it’s, oh, Gary Jenkins: I see. Eddy Inserra: Okay. Yeah we put it all together. It’s taken a couple years, so far, 12 episodes. We’ve got IRS agents in there, mafia members. We’ve got Fred’s ex clients and family. It’s really interesting. So you can check [00:28:00] that out on the website. Gary Jenkins: Yeah. When is that coming? Eddy Inserra: So we’re shooting to start releasing the end of May. So last week in May. Okay. Gary Jenkins: I love board. I always need another podcast to listen to myself. Eddy Inserra: Yeah. Yeah. Only gonna be one season. It’s not gonna be a multiple season thing. Gary Jenkins: That, that was my next question. It was gonna be a limit limited edition, if you will. Limited season. You’re not gonna keep going year in and year out like I do. Eddy Inserra: Yeah, no, there’s not enough content, but we’ll do behind the scenes and we’ll do some live stuff in Boston and things like that. Yeah. Okay. If anybody knew Fred or of him, please contact me too on the website. Okay. Love to hear about. Gary Jenkins: All right. Great. Alright Eddie and Sarah, I really appreciate you coming on the show. Eddy Inserra: Thanks, Gary. Great to meet you.

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