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In this episode of Gangland Wire, Gary Jenkins sits down with author Craig McGuire to discuss his gripping book, Empire City Under Siege, a deep dive into three decades of FBI manhunts, mob wars, and organized-crime investigations in New York City. Craig explains how the project grew out of his collaboration with retired FBI agent Anthony John Nelson, whose career spanned the most violent and chaotic years of New York's Mafia history. From Nelson's early days as a radio dispatcher in 1969 to his transition into undercover and frontline investigative work, the book captures the gritty reality of law enforcement during the 1970s and 1980s. We explore how Nelson's career mirrored the evolution of organized crime and law-enforcement tactics, including the rise of undercover stings, inter-agency cooperation, and the increasing role of technology. Craig highlights the close working relationship between Nelson and NYPD detective Kenny McCabe, whose deep knowledge of Mafia families and quiet professionalism led to major breakthroughs against organized crime. He tells how these two investigators wathced and uncovered the Gambino Family Roy DeMeo crew under Paul Castellano and Nino Gaggi. Throughout the conversation, Craig shares vivid, often humorous slice-of-life stories from the book—tense undercover moments, dangerous confrontations, and the emotional toll of living a double life. These anecdotes reveal not only the danger of the job but also the camaraderie and resilience that sustained agents and detectives working in the shadows. The episode closes with a reminder that Empire City Under Siege is as much about honoring unsung law-enforcement professionals as it is about mob history. Craig encourages listeners to support true-crime storytelling that preserves these firsthand accounts before they're lost to time. 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. 0:02 Welcome Back to Gangland Wire 2:14 The Journey to Anthony John Nelson 4:46 The Life and Work of Law Enforcement 15:00 Inside Anthony Nelson’s Early Career 26:49 The Dynamic Duo: Nelson and McCabe 30:16 Tales from the Underworld 35:55 The Tragedy of Everett Hatcher 39:12 The High-Stakes World of Undercover Work 40:56 Closing Thoughts and Inspirations transcript [0:00] Hey, all you wiretappers. Good to be back here in studio of Gangland Wire. I say the same thing every time. I hope it doesn’t bore you too much, but I am back here in the Gangland Wire studio. And I have today an author who interviewed and wrote a book with an FBI agent named Anthony John Nelson, who was one of the premier FBI agents in New York City that was working the mob. And even more interesting about him to me was he formed a partnership with a local copper named Kenny McCabe, who you may know the name. I had read the name before several times as I started researching this and looking at the book, but he was a mob buster supreme and Agent Nelson really formed a dynamic duo. But first, let’s start talking to Craig, your book, Empire City Under Seize, Three Decades of New York FBI Field Office Manhunts, Murders and Mafia Wars. How did you get involved with Anthony John Nelson? [0:55] Hi, Gary. Thanks for having me on your show. Big fan. Appreciate the opportunity. Very interesting and winding path that led me to Anthony’s doorstep. I also previously wrote another book, Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys, which was about an enforcer in the Colombo family during the Third Colombo War. And I was introduced to Carmine Imbriali through Thomas Dades. Tommy Dades, he’s a famous retired NYPD detective. So after the success of that book, Tommy introduced me to another member of law enforcement. I started to work on a project that sort of fell apart. And one of the sort of consultants, friends that I met with during that was Anthony Nelson. And then one day as that, due to my own fumbling, as that project was falling apart, I had a delightful breakfast with Anthony and his wonderful wife, Sydney, Cindy, one Sunday morning. And Anthony’s pulling out all these clips of all these investigations and all these Jerry Capiche gangland clips. And it was just fascinating. And so I started to realize that there’s something here because I’m also a true crime fan and I remember many of these cases. [2:08] So it took a while to get Anthony to agree to write a book. He’s not one for the spotlight. He’s really your sort of quintessential G-man, modern G-man. It’s also somewhat of a throwback. But he eventually was interested in doing a book if we didn’t just shine the spotlight on him. Gary, you should know the original, the working title of the book was In the Company of Courage. And that’s really the theme that Anthony wanted to bring forth. You’ll notice throughout the book, there are some vignettes and some biographical information about many of the members of law enforcement that I interviewed, but then we also covered and who are no longer with us. It was my privilege to write this book sharing Anthony’s amazing history, 30 years at the FBI and then several years at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office as an investigator. And just like one of the themes is just to really shed some light on the valuable work that members of law enforcement, including you, sir. Thank you for your service. And we think too often these days, members of law enforcement are maligned and there’s a negative light cast on them. It’s the most difficult job in the world. And we just want to make sure that we’re shining some light on that valuable work that the thousands of members of men and women in law enforcement do every day protecting us. [3:24] I appreciate that. I’ll tell you what, all the way from the rookie on the street making those domestic violence calls and party armed calls and armed robbery alarms calls that are, there’s nothing there the first five times you go. And then all of a sudden there’s a guy running out with a gun all the way up to the homicide detectives. And even the people that handle the budget, they all paid their dues out on the streets and organized crime investigators, of course, and narcotics. I really appreciate that. It’s a thankless job for the most part. Once in a while, you get a little thanks, but not much. As we used to say, it was fun. I can’t believe they pay us to do this. [4:01] Gary, it’s like you’re repeating some of the lines of Frank Pergola to Al King, just like that. And that’s key, that thankless piece. I remember interviewing Frank Pergola, just famous New York City detective, worked on Son of Sam. He also worked on solving 79 homicides related to the Gambinos and the DeMeo family. And he echoed those same sentiments. While you’re investigating a case, it’s the victims’ families and the victims, their nerves are so fraught. It’s such a stressful situation. And the members of law enforcement bear the brunt of a lot of that frustration. [4:41] And too often, there’s no thank you at the end. And it’s not that they want to thank you. It’s just that they want the sort of closure, not even the recognition, just some sort of realization that they did a great job. And it’s unfortunate that they don’t, that doesn’t happen as often as it should. I appreciate it. Let’s talk about Anthony Nelson. He sounds like a very interesting character. Talk a little bit about what you learned from him about his early career. And I want to tell you something, that recalcitrance, I believe that’s the word, $25 word if I’ve ever heard one. His refusal to really make himself a hero or the center of attention. That’s pretty common among cops and FBI agents. I’ve noticed we’ve got, I’ve got a good friend here in Kansas City, wrote a book about the mafia in Kansas City called Mopsers in Our Mist, but he refused to put himself into the book. He had a publishing company that wanted him to do it and was going to pay him to do it, but it had to have him as a hero. He said, we have to have a hero in this book. He says, I won’t do it. So that Mr. Nelson, Agent Nelson, that’s not that uncommon. So tell us a little more about some of his early cases. [5:49] Anthony Nelson, interestingly enough, his career trajectory and really his life tracks with the latter half of the last century. And a lot of the technological evolution, the rise of organized crime post-prohibition, these themes of urbanization, radicalization that came out from the starting in the middle of the century. But really heating up as a young Anthony Nelson joins the FBI in 1969, really mostly in administrative roles, radio dispatcher first, eventually he’s an electronics technician. So I’m sure, Gary, you can reflect on, and some of this will resonate with you, just how archaic some of the technology was. Oh my God, yeah. Yeah. Back then, we have some fantastic anecdotes and stories in the book, but just also like, for example, when you’re responding to a hostage crisis and you don’t have a cell phone, you don’t have minimal communications and talking about, you better make sure you have a pocket full of dimes and knocking on a neighbor’s door because time is of the essence and to establish contact. So just some of this great, really interesting material there. Eventually, Anthony was sworn in as an agent in 1976, and he entered the FBI Academy at Quantico, graduated in 77. [7:13] And interestingly enough, Anthony reflects like some of his fellow graduates, perhaps were not as keen on going to New York, one of the larger field offices, perhaps wanting to cut their teeth at a smaller office, but he obviously wanted to go home. So he was, and he jumped right into the fray, really assigned to hijacking. And he was an undercover operative in Red Hook during the 1970s, like the really gritty. And from the stories and from the various folks I interviewed, this really was gritty New York back then with the economy failing, crime on the rise. [7:48] Gary, you look, I heard an interesting stat last week where you had, there was almost a record setting that New York City had not reported a homicide for a record 12 consecutive days. And that had not happened in decades. So when Anthony joined the FBI, they were recording five homicides in New York City. And also during the 70s, you also had this, when you talk about radicalization, with 3,000 bombings nationwide, corruption was rampant. You had credit card fraud was just kicking off. You had widespread bread or auto theft and hijacking. Again, at the street level, Anthony was the front for a Gambino-affiliated warehouse where he had first right of refusal, where some of the hijackers would bring in the loads. And he was doing this on an undercover basis. So he jumped right in. They set him up in a warehouse and he was buying like a sting, what we called a sting operation. He was buying stolen property. They thought he was a fence. [8:50] Yeah, they started doing that in the 70s. They hadn’t really done, nobody had done that before in the 70s. ATF kind of started sting operates throughout the United States. We had one here, but they started doing that. And that was a new thing that these guys hadn’t seen before. So interesting. He was that big, blurly guy up front said, hey, yeah, bring that stuff on. Exactly. If you look on the cover, there are three images on the cover, and one of them is following one of the busts afterwards where they tracked down the hijacked goods. I believe it was in New Jersey. So you could get the sense of the volume. Now, think about it like this. So he’s in Red Hook in the mid-70s. This was actually where he was born. So when Anthony was born in 49, and if you think about Red Hook in the early 50s, this was just a decade removed from Al Capone as a leg-breaking bouncer along the saloons on the waterfront. And this was on the waterfront, Red Hook eventually moved to Park Slope. [9:49] And this was where Crazy Joe Gallo was prompted, started a mob war. And this was when any anthony is coming of age back then and most of his friends is gravitating so to these gangster types in the neighborhood these wise guys but this was a time pre-9-1-1 emergency response system so the only way to report or get help was to call the switchboard call the hospital directly call the fire department directly so you had the rise of the b cop where it wasn’t just the police they were integral part of the community and there’s this really provocative story Anthony tells the first time he saw a death up close and personal, an acquaintance of his had an overdose. And the beat cops really did a sincere effort to try to save him. And this really resonated with the young Anthony and he gravitated towards law enforcement. And then a little bit, a while later as a teenager, they’re having these promotional videos, these promotional sort of documentary style shows on television. And Anthony sees it, and he’s enamored by it, especially when they say this is the hardest job in America. So he’s challenged, and he’s a go-getter. So he writes a letter to J. Edgar Hoover, and Hoover writes him back. [11:03] So it’s a signed letter, and now Anthony laughs about it. He says it was probably a form letter with a rubber stamp, but it really had an amazing impact. And this is at the time when, you know, in the 50s, you really had J. Edgar really embrace the media. And he actually consulted on the other famous, the FBI television show, several movies, the rise of the G-Man archetype. So Anthony was fully on board. [11:28] Interesting. Of course, J. Edgar Hoover wanted to make sure the FBI looked good. Yes, exactly. Which he did. And they were good. They had a really high standards to get in. They had to be a lawyer or accountant or some extra educated kind of a deal. And so they always think, though, that they took these guys who had never been even a street policeman of any kind and they throw them right into the DPN many times. But that’s the way it was. They did have that higher level of recruit because of that. So, Anthony, was he a lawyer or accountant when he came in? Did he get in after they relaxed that? Oh, that’s spot on. I’m glad you brought that up. So now here’s a challenge. So Anthony needs that equalizer, correct? So if you’re a CPA, obviously a former member of the military, if you’re a successful detective or a local police force, one of these type of extra credentials. [12:20] Anthony’s specialty was technology. Now, when you think of technology… Not the ubiquitous nature of technology nowadays, where you have this massive processing power in your phone, and you don’t really have to be a technologist to be able to use the power of it. This is back in the 1960s. But he always had an affinity for technology. And he was able to, when he, one of the other requirements was as he had to hit the minimum age requirement, he had to work for a certain amount of time, he was able to get a job at the FBI. So he was an electronics technician before he became an agent. [12:59] And he had all of the, and back then this was, it was groundbreaking, the level of technology. And he has some funny story, odd, like man on the street stories about, I’m sure you remember Radio Shack when there was a Radio Shack on every other corner, ham radio enthusiasts. And it was cat and mouse. It was, they had the members of organized crime had the police scanners. And they were able to, if they had the right scanner, they had the right frequency. They were able to pick on the bugs planted really close to them. And he tells some really funny stories about one time there was a member of organized crime. They’re staking out, I believe it was the cotillion on 18th Avenue. And then I believe he’s sitting outside with Kenny McCabe. And then one of this member of organized crime, he’s waving a scanner inside and he’s taunting them saying, look, I know what you’re doing. And so it was that granularity of cat and mouse. [13:55] Rudimentary kind of stuff. Yeah. We had a guy that was wearing what we called a kelk kit. It was a wire and he was in this joint and they had the scanner and so but they had to scan her next door at this club And all of a sudden, a bunch of guys came running and there’s somebody in here wearing a wire. And my friend’s guy, the guy I worked with, Bobby, he’s going, oh, shit. And so he just fades into the background. And everybody except one guy had a suit on. Nobody had a suit on except this one guy. So they focused on this one guy that had a suit on and went after him and started trying to pat him down and everything. Bobby just slipped out the front door. So amazing. I mean, you know, Anthony has a bunch of those slice of life stories. I also interviewed a translator from the FBI to get a sort of a different perspective. [14:42] It’s different. Like the agents a little bit more, they’re tougher. They’re a tougher breed. They go through the training. Some of the administrative professionals, like the translators. So this one translator, it’s a pretty harrowing experience because remember the such the insular nature of the neighborhoods and how everyone is always [14:59] looking for someone out of place. So she actually got a real estate license and poses a realtor be able to rent apartments and then she spoke multiple dialects and then just to have to listen in and to decipher not only the code but also the dialects and put it together when you have agents on the line because remember you have an undercover agent if they get discovered more often than not the members of organized crime are going to think they’re members of another crew so you’re dead either they’re an informant if they think they’re an informant you’re dead if they think you’re an agent yeah just turn away from you say okay we don’t deal with this guy anymore if you think you’re informant or somebody another crew or something trying to worm their way in then yeah you’re dead exactly so interviewing maria for this you get that sense from someone who’s not in like not an agent to get true how truly harrowing and dangerous this type of activity was and how emboldened organized crime was until really the late 90s. And back then, it truly was death defying. [16:02] Oh, yeah, it was. They had so many things wired in the court system and in politically in the late 70s and early 80s and all these big cities. No big city was immune from that kind of thing. So they had all kinds of sources. They even had some clerks in the FBI and they definitely had all the court. The courthouses were just wired. And I don’t mean wired, but they had people in places and all those things. So it was death to find that you got into these working undercover. Ever. Hey, you want to laugh? I don’t want to give away all the stories, but there was a great story. I remember Anthony saying, they set up a surveillance post in an apartment and they brought in all the equipment while they were, then they got the court orders and the surveillance post actually got ripped off twice. So while they try, like after hours, someone’s going, yeah, ripping off all the FBI equipment. So you have this extra level of, so that gives you like, It really was Wild West then. Really? [17:00] So now he gets into organized crime pretty quick, into that squad and working organized crime pretty quick. I imagine they put him in undercover like that because of his accent, his ability to fit in the neighborhood. I would think he would have a little bit of trouble maybe running into somebody that remembered him from the old days. Did he have any problem with that? I spot on, Gary. I tell you, this was he. So he’s operating in Red Hook and actually throughout the next several years, he’s periodically flying down to Florida as a front for New York orchestrated drug deals. So he’s going down to Florida to negotiate multi-kilo drug deals on behalf of organized crime. But at the same time, he’s an agent. He eventually rose to be supervisory special agent. He’s managing multiple squads. So there did come an inflection point where it became too dangerous for him to continue to operate as an undercover while conducting other types of investigations. [18:02] Interestingly enough they opened up a resident agency office the ras are in the major field offices in the fbi they have these they’re called ras i’m sure you’re familiar these like mini offices with the office and they’ll focus on certain areas of crime more geographically based so they opened up the brooklyn queens ra and that really focuses heavily on organized crime but also hijacking because you had the, especially with the airport over there and a lot of the concentrations of, especially in South Brooklyn, going into Queens. So he worked there. Also the airport. Also the mass, you have this massive network of VA facilities. You have the forts. So you need these other RA offices. So you have a base of operations to be able to investigate. But Anthony has such a wide extent of case history, everything from airline attacks to art theft heists to kidnappings, manhunts, fugitives. There was Calvin Klein, the famous designer, when his daughter was kidnapped by the babysitter, it did do it. Anthony was investigating that. So it’s just, and while he has this heavy concentration in organized crime. I mentioned that. What’s this deal with? He investigated a robbery, a bank robbery that was a little bit like the dog day afternoon robbery, a standoff. What was that? [19:30] This was actually, it was the dog day afternoon robbery. They based a dog day afternoon on this. Exactly. What you had, and this was before Anthony was when he was still in his administrative role. So he had a communications position. So he was responsible for gathering all the intel and the communications and sharing it with the case, the special agents on site. So what you had was like, he’s with the play by play of this really provocative hostage. It was a bank robbery that quickly turned into a hostage crisis. And then, so throughout this whole, and the way it eventually resolved was the perpetrators insisted on a particular agent. I apologize. It slips my mind, but he’s a real famous agent. So he has to drive them to JFK airport where they’re supposed to have a flight ready to fly them out of the country. And what happens is they secrete a gun into the car and he winds up shooting the bank robbers to death. And there were so many different layers to this bank robbery. It eventually became the movie. And a funny story aside, the movie, while they’re filming the movie, Anthony’s at his friend’s house in downtown Brooklyn. It may have been Park Slope. And they’re calling for extras. His friends run in and say, hey, they’re filming a movie about this bank robbery that happened on Avenue U. You want to be an extra? And he said, nah, no thanks. The real thing was enough for me. [20:55] I’ll tell you what, it wasn’t for a New York City organized crime and New York City crime. Al Pacino wouldn’t have had a career. That’s the truth. [21:05] Now, let’s start. Let’s go back into organized crime. Now, we’ve talked about this detective, Kenny McCabe, who was really well known, was famous. And during the time they worked together and they were working with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. Is that correct? Were both of them working for it? Was he at the FBI and Kenny was with the Brooklyn DA’s office? [21:26] When you think about thematically, in the company of courage, Kenny McCabe was really close. This was a career-long, lifelong, from when they met, relationship, professional relationship that became a deep friendship between two pretty similar members of law enforcement. [21:46] Kenny McCabe had a long career in the NYPD as organized crime investigator before he joined the Southern District Attorney’s Office as an investigator. So the way they first crossed paths was while Anthony was working a hijacking investigation. So he gets a tip from one of his CIs that there’s some hijacked stolen goods are in a vehicle parked in a certain location. So he goes to stake it out. Like they don’t want to seize the goods. They want to find out, they want to uncover who the hijackers are and investigate the conspiracy. So then while he’s there, he sees a sort of a familiar face staking it out as well. Then he goes to the, he goes to the NYA, a detective Nev Nevins later. And he asks about this guy. And so this detective introduces him to Kenny McCabe and right away strike up with his interesting chemistry. And they’re like, you know what? Let’s jointly investigate this. So they wind up foiling the hijacking. But what starts is like this amazing friendship. And I’ll tell you, the interesting thing about Kenny McCabe is almost universally, he’s held in the highest regard as perhaps law enforcement’s greatest weapon in dismantling organized crime in the latter half of the 20th century. For example, I interviewed George Terra, famous undercover detective who eventually went to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. [23:12] And he had a great way. I hope I don’t mangle. Kenny knew all the wise guys and they all knew Kenny. And when I say he knew all the wise guys, he knew their shoe sizes. He knew who they partnered with on bank jobs years ago. So he knew who their siblings were, who their cousins were, who they were married to, who their girlfriends were, what clubs they frequented. For example, during the fatical hearings, where they would do sentencing, often the defense attorneys would want the prosecutors to reveal who their CIs are for due process, for a sense of fairness. And they refused to do that, obviously, for safety reasons, and they want to compromise ongoing investigations. So in dozens, perhaps so many of these cases, they were bringing Kenny McCabe. He was known as the unofficial photographer of organized crime. [24:07] For example, I think it was 2003, he was the first one who revealed a new edict that new initiates into Cosa Nostra had to have both a mother and a father who were Italian. Oh, yeah. I remember that. Yeah. He was also, he revealed that when the Bonanno family renamed itself as Messino, he was the one who revealed that. And then when Messino went to prison for murder, his successor, Vinnie Bassiano, Vinnie gorgeous. When he was on trial, that trial was postponed because so many of law enforcement leaders had to attend Kenny McCabe’s funeral, unfortunately, when he passed. So this is such a fascinating thing. Now, why you don’t hear more about Kenny McCabe, and I interviewed his son, Kenny McCabe Jr. Duke, is like Kenny McCabe like really issued the media spotlight. He would not, he wasn’t interested in grabbing the microphone. So you have almost no media on Kenny McCabe. If you do a Google search for him, I believe the only thing I ever found was a picture in his uniform as an early career police officer. [25:19] So it’s really hard to even do a documentary style treatment without having any media because B-roll is just going to get you so far. So really what Duke has been doing over the last two decades or more is really consolidating all of these as much material as he can. And I think eventually when he does put out a book, this thing’s going to explode. It’s going to be like true Hollywood treatment. But now going back to the mid-70s, so these two guys hook up. You have the FBI agent and you have the police detective. [25:49] Craig, what you always hear is that the FBI is suspicious and doesn’t trust local authorities. And local policemen hate the FBI because they always grab all the glory and take everything, run with it. And they’re left out. And I didn’t have that experience myself. They’ve got the case. They’ve got the laws. We don’t locally, county and statewide, you don’t have the proper laws to investigate organized crime. Yes, sir. But the feds do. So that’s how it works. This really blows that myth up that the local police and the FBI never worked together and hated each other. [26:25] I’m so glad you brought that up because this was very important to Anthony. He has so many lifelong friends in the NYPD, and I’ve interviewed several of them. And just this sincerity comes across, the camaraderie. In any walk of life, in any profession, you’re always going to have rivalries and conflict, whether healthy conflict or negative conflict. [26:46] Even more, you’re going to find that in law enforcement because the stakes are so high. But it’s a disservice to… And what we want to do is sort of dispel the myth that there was no cooperation. Why there were very well-publicized conflicts between agencies prosecuting certain cases. This was the time where technology was really enabling collaboration. Remember, and you had a time, if you had to investigate a serial crime, you had to go from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and you had to interview investigators. You had to comb through written records to piece this together. So it really was not conducive for collaboration. [27:22] So what you saw was the rise of, and then you had these investigative tools and these legal tools like RICO, while they were still trying to figure out and to build. So now you had the litigious tools where you could build conspiracies and prosecute them. So this sort of helped ferment this sort of collaborative interagency, which eventually led to these joint task force that were very successful. What I really love is this microcosm of Anthony Nelson and Kenny McCain. Now, Anthony Nelson was issued a Plymouth Grand Fury with the full police interceptor kit. If you’re familiar with that make and model, no automobile ever created screams cop-mobile like the Grand Fury. And so what you had was after hours, Anthony and Kenny would join up and they would go prowling the underworld with the Grand Fury on purpose. They wanted to be as conspicuous as possible. to the point where they would park in bus stops across the street from these social clubs. And when I say social clubs, they were… [28:29] Everywhere. There were dozens of them all over Brooklyn and Queens. And these are cafe, social clubs, bars, restaurants with heavy OC presence, blatantly conducting their business. So you have these two, Anthony’s always driving. Kenny’s always riding shotgun with his camera. I assume it was some sort of 35 millimeter hanging out the side, taking down names, license plates. Just a great story. You had Paul Castellano in front of Veterans and Friends on 86th Street when he had Dominic Montiglio start that social club so he could have more of a presence in Brooklyn on the street so that he actually crosses the street and he goes to Kenny and Anthony. And he’s saying, guys, you don’t have to sit out here. You could come down to Ponte Vecchio in Bay Ridge. I have a table there anytime you want to talk to me. So it’s that level of bravado. But pretty soon it changed. Once more of this intel started to build these real meaningful cases, Castellana put an edict, don’t talk to these two, don’t be photographed. What came out of that was an amazing partnership where they gathered so much intelligence and Anthony is very. [29:46] Quick to have me point out, give more credit to the investigators, to the agents, to the detectives. They gathered a lot of the intelligence to help with these investigations, but you had so many frontline folks that are doing a lot of the legwork, that are doing the investigations, making the arrests, that are crawling under the hoods. So it’s pretty inspiring. But then you also had some really good, and I don’t want to share all the stories [30:12] in the book. There’s a great story of Kenny and Anthony. They go into Rosal’s restaurant because they see this. [30:21] There may have been a warrant out on this member of law enforcement. So they had cause. So they go in and there’s actually some sort of family event going on. And they’re playing the theme song of The Godfather. As they go in and then they have to go into the back room to get this member of organized crime who’s hiding. So it’s these kind of really slice of life kind of stories that just jump out, jump out of the book. Really? I see, as I mentioned, they had some kind of a run-in with Roy DeMeo at the Gemini. You remember that story? Can you tell that one? Yeah, there’s, so Kenny and Anthony, throughout the hijacking investigations. [30:59] Were, they were among the first to really learn of this mysterious Roy. And his rise. And then also Nino. Remember Nino Gadgi was the Gambino Capo who took over Castellano’s crew, Brooklyn crew, when he was elevated. And then Roy DeMeo was really this larger than life maniac serial killer who formed the Gemini crew, which was a gang of murderers really on the Gemini Lounge in Flatlands, which is really close to Anthony’s house. And Kenny’s not too far. Didn’t they have a big stolen car operation also? Did they get into that at all? Yes. Stolen cars, chop shops. Remember, this is when you had the introduction of the tag job, where it was relatively easy to take the vehicle identification numbers off a junked auto and then just replace them with the stolen auto, and then you’re automatically making that legitimate. And then, so they’re doing this wholesale operation where they’re actually got to the point where they’re shipping hundreds, if not thousands of these tag jobs overseas. So it was at scale, a massive operation. Roy DeMay was a major earner. He was such an unbalanced, very savvy business for the underworld, business professional, but he was also a homicidal maniac. [32:22] Some say they could be upwards of a hundred to 200 crimes. Frank Pergola alone investigated and So 79 of these crimes associated with this crew. And it got to the point where, and he had a heavy sideline in drugs, which was punishable by death in the Gambino family, especially under Castellano. So then what you had was all these investigations and all this intelligence that, and then with this collaboration between the FBI and NYPD. Oh, wow. It is quite a crew. I’m just looking back over here at some of the other things in there in that crew in that. You had one instance where there was a sentencing hearing and of a drug dealer, I believe, a member of organized crime. And Kenny McCabe is offering testimony to make sure that the proper sentencing is given because a lot of times these guys are deceptive. [33:16] And he mentions DeMeo’s name. So DeMeo in a panic. So then maybe a couple of nights later, they’re parked in front of veterans and friends. And DeMeo comes racing across 86th Street. Now, 86th Street is like a four-lane thoroughfare. It’s almost like, oh, I grew up in the air a few blocks away. So he’s running through traffic. And then he’s weaving in and out. And he’s screaming at Kenny McCabe, what are you trying to kill me? Putting my name into a drug case? They’re going to kill me. And so it’s that kind of intimate exchanges that they have with, with these key members of organized crime of the era. [33:52] Wow. That’s, that’s crazy. I see that they worked to murder that DEA agent, Everett Hatcher, that was a low level mob associate that got involved in that. And then supposedly the mob put out the word, but you gotta, we gotta give this guy up. But you remember that story? Now, this is another instance where I remember this case. And I remember afterwards when they killed Gus Faraci. So what you had was, again, and this is very upsetting because you had DEA agent Everett Hatchard, who is a friend of Anthony’s. To the point where just prior to his assassination, they were attending a social event together with their children. And he would also, they would run into each other from time to time. They developed a really beyond like camaraderie, like real friendship. So then, so Hatcher has, there’s an undercover sting. So there’s Gus Faraci, who’s, I believe he was associated with the Lucchese’s, with Chile. [34:55] So he gets set up on the West Shore. And so he’s told to go to the West Shore Expressway. Now, if you’ve ever been on that end of Staten Island, that whips out heading towards the outer bridge. This really is the end of the earth. This is where you have those large industrial like water and oil tankers and there’s not really good lighting and all this. It’s just like a real gritty. So he loses his surveillance tail and they eventually, he’s gunned down while in his vehicle. So then Anthony gets the call to respond on site to investigate the murder. He doesn’t know exactly who it is until he opens up the door and he sees it’s his friend. And this is the first assassination of a DEA agent. It was just such a provocative case. And the aftermath of that was, again, like Gus Faraci, who was, he was a murderer. He was a drug dealer, but he did not know. He set him up. He thought he was a member of organized crime. [35:53] He was just another drug dealer. He did not realize he was a DEA agent. And then all hell broke loose. And you had just the all five families until they eventually produced Gus Faraci, set him up, and then he was gunned down in Brooklyn. [36:06] Case closed, huh? Exactly. Yeah. And as we were saying before, I don’t remember it was before I started recording or after that. When you’re working undercover, that’s the worst thing is they think that you’re an informant or a member of another crew and you’re liable to get killed. At one say, I had a sergeant one time. He said, if you get under suspicion when you’re like hanging out in some of these bars and stuff, just show them you’re the cops. Just get your badge out right away because everything just, all right, they just walk away then. It’s a immensely dangerous thing to maintain your cover. Yes, sir. Anthony was always good at that because tall gentleman has the right sort of Italian-American complexion. He’s passable at Italian. So with some of these folks, especially from Italy that come over, he could carry a conversation. He’s not fluent. [36:56] And he just walks in and talks in. It’s a different… George Terror was a fantastic undercover detective. And you talk to some of these undercovers, it’s like you have to be… There’s sort of this misperception that the organized crime members are like these thugs and flunkies. These are very intelligent, super suspicious, addled individuals that are able to pick up on signals really easy because they live on the edge. So you really can’t fake it, the slightest thing. And again, they’ll think that their first inclination is not that you’re a member of law enforcement. Their first inclination is that you’re a member of a rival crew that’s looking to kill me looks at looking to rip me off so i’m going to kill you first it’s just it’s just a wild and imagine that’s your day job oh man i know they could just and i’ve picked this up on people there’s just a look when you’re lying there’s just a look that just before you catch it quick but there’s a look of panic that then you get it back these guys can pick up that kind of stuff just so quickly any kind of a different body language they’re so good with that. [38:02] And he’s also, he has to be able to say just enough to establish his connection and credibility without saying too much that’s going to trip him up. And that’s like being able to walk that line. He tells, again, I hate giving away all these stories because I want readers to buy the book, but he has this fantastic story when he’s on an undercover buy and he’s, I don’t know if it’s Florida, if it’s Miami or it’s Fort Lauderdale and he has to go into a whole, like the drugs are in one location and he’s in that with the drug deals in one location and he’s in this location and, but he knows the money’s not going to come. [38:42] So he has to walk into this hotel room with all these cartel drug guys who are off balance, knowing that he’s got to figure out, how do I get out of this room without getting killed? And once I walk out, will the timing be right that I could drop to the floor right when the responding FBI agents, again, these are FBI agents from a different [39:08] field office that he perhaps doesn’t have intimate working. knowledge of. I got to trust that these guys got my back and they’re not distracted. So I can’t even imagine having to live with that stress. No, I can’t either. All right. I’ll tell you what, the book, guys, is Empire City Under Siege, the three decades of New York FBI field office man hunts, murders, and mafia wars by Craig McGuire with former retired FBI agent Anthony John Nelson. I pulled as many stories as I could out of the book from him. You’re going to have to get the book to get to the rest of. And believe me, I’m looking at my notes here and the stuff they sent me. And there are a ton of great stories in there, guys. You want to get this book. [39:50] I also want to say there’s something special going on at Wild Blue Press. My publisher specializes in true crime. And it’s just, they’re so nurturing and supportive of writers. Just fantastic facilities and promotions. And they just help us get it right. That’s the most important thing, Anthony, accuracy. So if there’s anything wrong in the book, that’s totally on me. It’s really hard to put one of these together, especially decades removed. But then I’m just thankful for the support of nature of Wild Blue and Anthony and all the remarkable members of law enforcement like yourself, sir. Thank you for your service. And Anthony, and I’m just so inspired. I just have to say, they’re like a different breed. And you folks don’t realize how exciting. Because there are so many stories like Anthony would come up with and he would say, do you think readers would be interested in this story? And I fall out of my chair like, oh my God, this could be a whole chapter. So it was as a true crime fan myself of this material, it’s just, it was a wild ride and I enjoyed it. [40:56] Great. Thanks a lot for coming on the show, Craig. Thanks, Gary. You’re the best.

The Conservation of Charge and the Practical Genius of the Lightning Rod. Richard Munson discusses how Benjamin Franklin was an endlessly busy experimenter who began his famous work by studying the Leiden jar, a rudimentary battery. Franklin conducted fundamental research and developed the law of the conservation of charge: the idea that positive and negative electrical charges always seek balance. On Christmas Day 1750, he exposed himself to danger by touching the terminals of two Leiden jars, which violently threw him across the room. In 1751, Franklin published his pamphlet, Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made in Philadelphia, America, which generated international fame before the kite experiment. Franklin sought a practical solution to the danger posed by lightning, and his experiment confirmed the connection between lightning and electricity, leading to the invention of the lightning rod, which became a great practical discovery saving lives and buildings. Franklin also invented the Franklin stove and refused a patent, viewing the invention as a public benefit. He pursued observation and experimentation with "joyfulness," viewing unexpected results as new possibilities.

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Mike Matthews investigates the fascinating news from the beginning of the week and Mike answers what is happening in the odd world of over the top weddings. Join Mike as he podcasts live from Café Anyway in podCastro Valley with Benita, the Disgruntled Fiddle Player, and the Brewmaster. Next show it's Madame Rootabega, Valentino, and Bison Bentley.

Mike Matthews investigates the fascinating news from the beginning of the week and Mike answers what is happening in the odd world of over the top weddings. Join Mike as he podcasts live from Café Anyway in podCastro Valley with Benita, the Disgruntled Fiddle Player, and the Brewmaster. Next show it's Madame Rootabega, Valentino, and Bison Bentley.

Mike Matthews investigates the fascinating news from the beginning of the week and Mike answers what is happening in the odd world of over the top weddings. Join Mike as he podcasts live from Café Anyway in podCastro Valley with Benita, the Disgruntled Fiddle Player, and the Brewmaster. Next show it's Madame Rootabega, Valentino, and Bison Bentley.

​Mike Matthews investigates the fascinating news from the beginning of the week and Mike answers what is happening in the odd world of over the top weddings. Join Mike as he podcasts live from Café Anyway in podCastro Valley with Benita, the Disgruntled Fiddle Player, and the Brewmaster. Next show it's Madame Rootabega, Valentino, and Bison Bentley.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mike-s-daily-podcast--609595/support.

​Mike Matthews investigates the fascinating news from the beginning of the week and Mike answers what is happening in the odd world of over the top weddings. Join Mike as he podcasts live from Café Anyway in podCastro Valley with Benita, the Disgruntled Fiddle Player, and the Brewmaster. Next show it's Madame Rootabega, Valentino, and Bison Bentley.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mike-s-daily-podcast--609595/support.

What's up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Moni Oloyede, Founder at MO Martech. Summary: Your buyers can't remember why they bought from you, our brains physically can't store that information correctly. But we've built elaborate attribution systems pretending otherwise. Moni helps us understand why we need to stop crediting random touchpoints and start measuring how effectively each content piece performs its specific job in moving people through your funnel. We also cover why not all marketing activities need to drive revenue, why you shouldn't ditch ideas just because you can't track them and why GTM engineering is just job title inflation. About MoniMoni started her career at Sourcefire, a cybersecurity company where she dabbled in everything from Eloqua, Salesforce and AdwordsShe shifted to the agency world and joined a revenue marketing agency and later a growth consultancyShe went back in house in cybersecurity where she would spend the better part of 5 years becoming a Director of Marketing InfrastructureToday Moni (moo-nee) is the founder of MO Martech where she teaches and runs workshops to help business that struggle with marketingMost Tech Stacks Are Stitched With Duct TapeBorn in the prehistoric age of marketing automation, Moni witnessed marketing technology evolve from early concept to tablestakes. Her first employer, a cybersecurity company, maintained such intimate ties with Eloqua that they earned a literal place in the vendor's office. "I cut my teeth in the early days of lead scoring and nurturing, like all those concepts were new," she recalls. While most marketers today inherit established systems, Moni helped build the prototype.Those early days bristled with raw technological potential. Her CMO burst back from a conference, wide-eyed about "this new thing called the Cloud." Marketing teams fumbled through uncharted territory, concocting solutions with no rulebook. Moni found herself repeatedly cast as the test subject for nascent concepts:* Early lead scoring algorithms that barely understood buyer intent* Rudimentary nurture campaigns that seem prehistoric by today's standards* Primitive ABM approaches before the category even existed* First-generation dynamic content that barely qualified as "dynamic"Her technical immersion might have continued indefinitely, but a pattern emerged across agencies and client engagements. The technology consistently underdelivered on its promise. "We seem to get to a point and then we can't ever get to the promise," she explains. The gap between vendor slideware and actual results remained stubbornly unbridgeable regardless of budget size, team composition, or technical architecture.This revelation propelled Moni toward the marketing roots beneath the technology. She uncovered the industry's dirty little secret: nobody has their marketing technology working smoothly. Not even close.> "Everybody always thinks that other people's tech stacks are perfect. You attend webinars and listen to podcasts and think, 'oh my gosh, that brand has it all figured out. Why don't I have it figured out?'"Pull back the curtain on these supposedly perfect marketing technology implementations and you'll discover chaos. That Fortune 500 company presenting their "integrated customer journey orchestration"? They can't even track basic lead conversion properly. That unicorn startup showcasing their "AI-powered personalization engine"? Most of their segments contain default content. The larger the company, the more chaotic the implementation. "The bigger the company, the more mess it is," Moni confirms. "It's more duct tape and glue and just hobbled together things."Marketing technology works as an amplifier, not a miracle cure. "Technology is not automagical," Moni states bluntly. "It can only do so much, and if the marketing's bad, the technology is not going to fix that." Her journey from tech specialist to marketing strategist stems directly from this understanding: fix the foundation first.Key takeaway: Stop comparing your messy marketing stack to the sanitized versions presented at conferences. Even the most sophisticated enterprises run on cobbled-together systems and manual workarounds. Focus first on creating marketing that resonates with real humans, then apply technology selectively to amplify what already works. You'll save yourself the frustration of trying to automate broken processes while building something sustainable that actually delivers results.The Marketing Ops Identity ParadoxMarketing operations professionals inhabit a peculiar career limbo. You build the systems that power modern marketing, yet find yourself trapped by your own expertise. Moni, a 16-year marketing veteran, captures this frustration perfectly: "For at least 10 years I've been doing my damnedest to try to run away from marketing ops, and it won't let me go."> "No matter what I do, I can't get away from it even though I've tried forever."This career quicksand pulls you back each time you attempt to climb out. Your specialized knowledge becomes both your superpower and your career ceiling. While executives strategize future campaigns in boardrooms, you transform their whiteboard sketches into measurable reality. The truth? Marketing strategy without operational execution amounts to wishful thinking on a slide deck.The operational brain works differently. You see systems where others see individual campaigns. You spot integration failures where others blame the platform. Your value comes from this unique perspective—connecting dots across the marketing ecosystem that others don't even know exist. Moni describes this experience viscerally: "There's so much nuance into making it work that they don't get or understand unless you're in it or have that historical knowledge."Marketing ops professionals often bear the weight of accountability without corresponding authority. When campaigns fail, executives look to you for answers. As Moni explains, "Since you're responsible for the results and the analytics, you feel like it's on you. When it doesn't happen, they come to you." This creates immense pressure: "You feel that pressure and it's like, 'but you gave me a crappy campaign that doesn't have good messaging and doesn't make sense to anybody. I'm not a magician.'"Rather than fighting this identity, Moni transformed it into something bigger. She embraced her role as a "marketing educator" focused on teaching fundamentals to a generation that reduces marketing to:* Getting attention* Creating content * Generating leads"That's the result," she argues. "That's not what marketing is." This educational perspective allows her to leverage her operational expertise while addressing systemic issues in marketing practice.Key takeaway: Your marketing operations expertise gives you unique system-level insights nobody else possesses. Stop trying to escape this identity. Instead, use your operational knowledge to command respect by translating technical realities into business language executives understand. Create clear boundaries around what technology can and cannot solve. When handed unrealistic expectations, respond with specific prerequisites for success. Your value comes from connecting strategy with execution; making you the bridge that transforms marketing from theory into measurable results.Stop Crediting Random Marketing Assets For ConversionsThat gnawing feeling you get when reviewing complex attribution reports should be trusted.. Your instincts know something your dashboards don't. Moni cuts through years of marketing dogma with a refreshingly brutal assessment: "I thi...

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Send us a textWe thought we should take aim at AI because recently it has been discussed by the people around us, particularly our last guest, Dan.We don't pretend to know much about AI, just some basics.  But it has had some influence in our lives.  Besides, it's good to steer off course sometimes, and dive into discussions outside of one's immediate field of knowledge.

► Get a free share!This show is sponsored by Trading 212! To get free fractional shares worth up to 100 EUR / GBP, you can open an account with Trading 212 through this link https://www.trading212.com/Jdsfj/FTSE. Terms apply.When investing, your capital is at risk and you may get back less than invested.Past performance doesn't guarantee future results.► Get 15% OFF Finchat.io:Huge thanks to our sponsor, FinChat.io, the best investing toolkit we've discovered! Get 15% off your subscription with code below and unlock powerful tools to analyze stocks, discover hidden gems, and build income streams. Check them out at FinChat.io!https://finchat.io/playingftse/?lmref=iQl2VQ► Episode Notes:Who's been adjusting numbers this week? Find out in this week's PlayingFTSE Show! It's been a short week between recordings. But there's still plenty of time for the Steves to have been making portfolio moves and paying attention to stock market news.The Spring Statement this week brought some interesting news. In the short term, growth is set to fall and inflation is set to rise, but is there anything positive to report?Steve W finds the Chancellor sticking to her principles and looking to keep borrowing under control admirable. But it's hard to be that positive about the UK at the moment.It's been a few weeks since Steve W talked about Associated British Foods. But we've had a request from a listener to take another look. The company is driven by Primark, which has performed poorly recently. At the moment, though, it's trading at a price that might well reflect this – so is it a buy?Shares in Vistry fell sharply this week when the company's latest trading update turned out to be… as bad as everyone expected. But they weren't obviously any worse.Steve D has the news and still has a positive view on the business. With the stock down, the ongoing share buybacks could be about to make a big impact on the stock…Cohort is a military technology conglomerate that we haven't talked about on the show before. But Steve W has been looking and thinks there's a lot going for it.With the UK government set to increase its defence spending, the company stands to benefit. The share price, though, is up over 100% over the last 12 months, so is it too late?Shares in Ashtead Technology have been rising after the company's latest trading update. Steve D has the news and it's very impressive. Revenues and profits are up and they're up by a lot. So with the stock at a P/E ratio of 15, is Steve W about to let this one slip away?Only on this week's PlayingFTSE Podcast!► Support the show:Appreciate the show and want to offer your support? You could always buy us a coffee at: https://ko-fi.com/playingftse(All proceeds reinvested into the show and not to coffee!)► Timestamps:0:00 INTRO & OUR WEEKS5:10 SPRING STATEMENT18:20 ASSOCIATED BRITISH FOODS29:40 VISTRY38:55 COHORT50:35 ASHTEAD TECH► Show Notes:What's been going on in the financial world and why should anyone care? Find out as we dive into the latest news and try to figure out what any of it means. We talk about stocks, markets, politics, and loads of other things in a way that's accessible, light-hearted and (we hope) entertaining. For the people who know nothing, by the people who know even less. Enjoy► Wanna get in contact?Got a question for us? Drop it in the comments below or reach out to us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/playingftseshow Or on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/playing_ftse/► Enquiries: Please email - playingftsepodcast@gmail(dot)com► Disclaimer: This information is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always consult with a qualified financial professional before making any investment decisions.

1020 - Top 5 non-rudimentary ways to call into work full 915 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:07:00 +0000 PTOPCy3JgMAXQyfkviDSRZ1csTLiAWzY sports The Fan After Dark sports 1020 - Top 5 non-rudimentary ways to call into work The Fan After Dark includes a rotation of hosts offering a truth-telling sports entertainment experience that gets listeners right on the biggest sports topics in and around DFW, across the country, and around the world. Focusing on the Cowboys, Rangers, Mavericks, etc., The Fan After Dark airs M-F from 7-11 PM and is the only live and local sports radio show in the MetroplexCome 'Get Right' with Reg on The Fan, and be prepared for sports talk on a whole new level. You can follow Reg on Twitter @regadetula © 2024 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?fe

Are you in the real estate game, chasing the big bucks, but are not actually building anything? Spinning your wheels, hoping for a lucky break? Or, do you need and want a proven Creative Real Estate step-by-step system you can easily follow that will print out cash while you are still learning? Forget all the fluff and the GURU pipe dream. Let's talk about the bear-bone-basics you need to actually move the needle on your income, and success. And I am not talking about fancy strategies or complex maneuvers. It's about understanding the fundamentals while maximizing your returns on effort and time. Today's framework and formulas will clarify where to put your time and resources for gargantuan deals the others only wish they had. But we are not going to sugarcoat it, this is about putting in the correct, exact work so you can reap profits within the next 30-days. If you are serious about replacing income and building wealth, this is the first podcast episode of many to come with new technology in today's economy. So let me show you ...

New season, new format, and new us! What does that mean? We're onto some new bullshit in the form of 1991's Cool as Ice; a movie that Machine Gun Kelly probably unironically thinks is the coolest thing ever. There's no way to prove this statement, but we feel it in our hearts. Let's do this! Rudimentary raps from a ridiculous race-robbing cradle robber! Jacking a Jill's journal! Fucking for forgiveness! Floor-humping a female fresh from high school! Hopping a fence, harming a horse, and hurting a hottie! Flicking the finger water! Whack-head tried to play baseball with my home-boy's bike! Construction yard cassette tape kidnapping catalysts! Schlinging a schlong, and much, much more on this week's episode of The Worst Movie Ever Made! www.theworstmovieevermade.com

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In this episode, Amy gets back to basics with "rudimentary", while Ryan swimming upstream, but along a bank, and always staring side-eyed across to his "rival". Lexitecture is a podcast about etymology (the linguistics study of the origin and history of words). In each normal, increasingly infrequent episode, a Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (Amy) each present their current favourite word and talk about its origins, current use, and try to puzzle out how it may have gone from A to B. If you love thinking and talking about words, word origins, or just random bits of head-scratching language trivia, this may be the show for you! Please subscribe to us on Spotify, Google Play Music, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts or wherever you get your podcasts!   Find us on Facebook, or on Twitter, or on Reddit, or join our Word Nerd HQ Facebook group!   Also, if you enjoy what we do, please give us a great rating wherever you can - it's a huge help in letting other people know we're worth listening to.   Finally, to support the podcasting work we do, please consider becoming a Patreon sponsor at www.patreon.com/lexitecture   Thanks!

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Missions director Tim Dodd and Pastor Fred Kiyingi discuss a range of issues in Uganda, preceding Brother Tim's upcoming trip there. The latest revival in which 350 were Baptized is described, as well as past victories, and current challenges. New shipments of Church Ages Books, Bibles, and the Hebrew's Series have been exhausted quickly by the growing population of Believers. Rudimentary church buildings with their necessary latrines are being constructed as quickly as funds allow.  All the while, new harvest fields are opening up. 

MEET THE ROBINSONS (2007) - This week the OGIPs are BACK to talk about potentially their favorite film from the Dark Age. Listen as we discuss the strong connections to Walt Disney, The great design, and the questionable music choice. Although the time travel rules might not make a ton of sense, the film has a ton of heart.

Everyone running a business has an obligation to keep up to date records of their finances to satisfy tax law. However, not everyone has accounting or record keeping skills or are organised enough to keep on top of the task. Neil explains the basics of what is required for you to be able to rest assured that you are covering all the legal bases.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Please don't ignore these requirements as ignorance is no defence against the tax man. Consider your business as separate from yourself. Business money and personal money should be kept apart. Keep basic records as you go. Keep it simple, just a monthly A4 page or spreadsheet. BEST MOMENTS ‘Johnny tax man is armed to the teeth and can make your life hell if you ever get on the wrong side of him.' ‘The first thing I want you to do is open a separate bank account that's just for your tutoring money. If you're a sole trader you can use a simple personal bank account for free and there are some free business banks out there.'  ‘Once a year I will also add an extra entry on to the cash sheet which is the HMRC yearly allowance for home use.' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Tutor Podcast  www.Neilcowmeadow.com ABOUT THE HOST Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years' experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil's invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS! CONTACT METHOD info@neilcowmeadow.com    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever been held back from a goal or dream because it seemed too overwhelming?  This week I chat with Eric and Michele Hall about their journey of finding their feet (literally and figuratively), reaching a goal, and realizing it wasn't as complicated as they thought. After a harsh realization with his health, Eric decided it was time to make a change. So he did, and now he and Michele help others find their feet and reach their goals. You can connect with them on their website at: www.therudimentarylife.com or on Instagram @the_rudimentary_lifeI so loved this conversation and I think you're going to love Eric and Michele!

Here's what we're talking about today: Updates on Russia's Invasion of UkrainePutin's Comments on the Invasion (via NY Times)Updated Civilian Death Count in Ukraine (via NPR)Updates on the Brooklyn Subway AttackMain Story via NPRAdditional Reporting by NY TimesNew York Lt. Gov. ResignsVia NY TimesOklahoma Signs Anti-Abortion Bill into LawMain Story via AP NewsMarsha Blackburn Needs a Geography LessonVia TwitterA Pre-Riot Call for the Jan 6th RiotVia NY Times

Here's what we're talking about today: Updates on Russia's Invasion in UkraineRussian Forces Have Shrunk (via NY Times)Biden to Request More Russian Sanctions (via Reuters)Confirmation Hearings for Judge Jackson ContinuedVia NPRPositive TestsHillary Clinton Tests Positive (via The Hill)Jen Psaki Tests Positive (via The Hill)Disney Employee Walk OutsVia CNNUtah Governor Vetoes Transgender-Athlete BillVia NY TimesNo Survivors in China Eastern CrashVia NY TimesRoad Closure to Protect ToadsVia Good News Network

Kenny Rogers wrote this. Not Dylan! Cool little cover of Ruby. Interesting song. Fun cover to play!

I love you, brother. Thank you for guiding me. Dad always said, “hey kid.. don't forget… you are expendable….. but not to me.”Ps: 1/24/22- I got the sign… pre title nine.. timing was impeccable. Wink.  And I also got the memo… AM's and God show up in your likeness… racism and sexism and classism and homophobia and xenophobia etc doesn't exist in that realm, only here. To perpetuate it in any form hurts Them greatly and it hurts Us more.   Basic lesson. So basic. Fundamental. Rudimentary. Primary. Essential. Key.… kindergarten rules. How do I know? it's our birthright. Try.  If God elevated me this much, how low was I? It couldn't have been good.   Told you I was near death…no bueno.I'm grateful for my intuition and instincts. And if you play your cards right, lessons become blessings too. You have to have faith that it's all part of God's design. Yes, even little  ole you… I promise you. I'm nobody. Power is love and love is truth. We are terribly off course because of greed. One thing I do know is if you're on top and abusing your power… you will get sentenced more lifetimes and next lifetime, you get to experience powerlessness and poverty. isn't it all so simple?. Buddha taught me the laws of karma and to harness my sexual energy. My long game is strong. Someone once told me, you can't run a marathon… so I did (That's the energy we should embrace) ….Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Einstein  1/27/22 In Islam, 5 is a sacred number. 5 pillars of Islam, prayers are said 5x a day and 5 law giving prophets ( Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammed) Fascinating, isn't it? I got Jesus because he likes how I take care of him, I got Muhammad because I surrender I opened the floodgates and got Noah, I split us down the middle I got Moses (Everyone knows that I love Moses) I got Abraham, but I'm not sure what he does, I'll google it…  And  she bows down to kiss their feet ( blech! I hate doing that, but I do it because it's respectful in their eyes) in  an act of love. Clean sweep. I trust and believe in you too. Enormous gratitude.  It baffles me. Another star?  Or ~Jesus and Muhammed=8 ( rebirth # of angels carrying gods throne). I can relax because they too will watch over me.5  holy wounds, brother. I went for a walk, I heard owl. They hooted five x's.  I waited after the 5th until waiting turned into discomfort which then gave way to more waiting. 5 hoots..5 salutes.  Maybe it was a pentagon. I need to  ask more . What in the actual  f is this? Prophet Abraham had faith in Allah's promise… Lisa , God's promise.The act of faith. I need to learn .. too tired for a kid..  Educators, we need to be 5 star generalists. Wink . I learned the pick and roll. Thor brings the thunder, Zeus brings the lightening.  I play life. I'm a Chasse.  1/30/22(10)-7 - movement 8- number of angels moving Allah 6-Ibrahim the prophet I wasn't familiar with . 786. In the name of compassionate Allah. God is good. 1-8  done. At ease, gentlemen. Get Patton. NOW.  Lux? Oh I'm an enlightened one? Eyes cast downward, no smile, far away gaze..whisper..thank you.  No more please. Why am I being guided to the eye?  Patton, Bavaria, buried in Lux locked, light. I'm not going there. I want nothing to do with it!  Jesuits .thieves.. illuminati, (do I have a death wish?) ATTENTION! Curse broken. Unlocked the warlock.Black Madonna 5x 4U I nearly died.With Lisa Chasse swagger and a firm resolve:  “I'll take my seat now. “Dad : if anyone challenges the score, you send them to me. You're not dealing with their petty bullshit. if they are disrespectful, you let ‘em have it. Lisa: okay Dad. 

Jenny is a communication and presentation skills coach, gym owner, personal trainer, and educator. She is obsessed with communication and has dedicated her career to exploring, practicing, and teaching what she knows. Episode Details:Communication and Effectiveness How can fitness professionals and coaches alike be more intentional with their communication?How do we make GREAT first impressions?Presence - Verbal and Non-Verbal SkillsIn person vs. VirtuallyActive ListeningAsking focused and earnest questionsListening in difficult conversationsEmotions and conversation via textsHow does ego play a role within communicationHow do you identify who you are talking to?Rudimentary vs. Intellectual CommunicationFiller WordsWhat If you lose your thought?PausingKnowing what to say but not planning itArticle Referenced: https://betterhumans.pub/how-to-remember-everything-you-want-from-non-fiction-books-df17096d517fTo learn more about Jenny and her coaching, you can find her at https://fit-to-speak.com/ @fit_to_speak

"Epic vs Apple" has finally arrived, and as Tim Sweeney now famously said, we're in for some "fireworks"! On day nine, economists try to explain to the Court why *the other one* is the stupid one! It's time for some finger pointing economists...in Virtual Legality. CHECK OUT THE VIDEO AT: https://youtu.be/gmM1qik0EmY #Epic #Apple #Lawsuit *** SUPPORT THE CHANNEL PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/VirtualLegality STREAMLABS - https://streamlabs.com/richardhoeg STORE - https://teespring.com/stores/hoeg-law-store *** CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 01:09 Day 9 Live Tweets (Adi Robertson) 02:10 A Successful App Store is a Value Creating App Store (Hitt) 07:13 When Did Apple Use Monopoly Power? (Hitt) 09:23 The Choices of Developers (Hitt) 13:45 Tables and Charts (Hitt) 16:26 The Cost of Friction (Hitt) 19:32 Streaming, Netflix, Patents, and more (Hitt Cross) 29:16 Substitutes and Complements (Cragg) 32:18 Console Games vs Mobile Games (Cragg) 38:19 What About Other Consoles (Cragg) 39:31 Resumes, Charts, and Rudimentary Analysis (Cragg Cross) 46:23 Conclusion (Judges judge) *** Discussed in this episode: "An Antitrust Epic" YouTube Playlist - Hoeg Law https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1zDCgJzZUy-lb7ReoUqL5_dTcM8ngmfV "Epic v Apple: Just the Trial" YouTube Playlist - Hoeg Law https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1zDCgJzZUy-TrSXpg6irNK7kbZt-NY0O "Day 9 of Epic v. Apple starts a little after 11..." Twitter Thread - May 13, 2021 - Adi Robertson https://twitter.com/thedextriarchy/status/1392854413983817728 "Michael Cragg Rebuttal Opinion Summaries" https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.364265/gov.uscourts.cand.364265.376.6_1.pdf *** "Virtual Legality" is a continuing series discussing the law, video games, software, and everything digital, hosted by Richard Hoeg, of the Hoeg Law Business Law Firm (Hoeg Law). CHECK OUT THE REST OF VIRTUAL LEGALITY HERE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1zDCgJzZUy9YAU61GoW-00K0TJOGnPCo DISCUSSION IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS LEGAL ADVICE. INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN THE LEGAL TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS VIDEO SHOULD CONSULT WITH THEIR OWN COUNSEL. *** Twitter: @hoeglaw Web: hoeglaw.com

Building a house takes two things: Money and a solid plan. The same is true for IT modernization. Now, thanks for a ballooning technology modernization fund, agencies will have the money they've said they need. Their plans, though, need a little work. That's according to the director of the information technology and cybersecurity team at the Government Accountability Office, Kevin Walsh, who spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

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Embodiment 2/2 (Teil 1 zum Thema = Folge #81) Gefühle und Gedanken äußern sich in unserer Körpersprache: Wenn wir traurig sind, lassen wir die Schultern hängen, unsere Mundwinkel gehen nach unten, unsere Stimme wird leiser. Menschen, die lächelnd und tanzend durch den Regen rennen sind dagegen vermutlich eher gut gelaunt. Da würde wohl keiner von uns widersprechen. Aber geht das Ganze auch andersrum? Können wir unsere Gefühle auch durch unsere Körpersprache beeinflussen? Kann man Körper und Psyche überhaupt trennen? Mit all diesen Fragen beschäftigt sich das Forschungsfeld „Embodiment“. In dieser und in der letzten Folge stellen wir euch einen Haufen spannender Studienergebnisse aus diesem Feld vor. So gibt es Hinweise darauf, dass wir durch Veränderung unseres Gesichtsausdrucks unsere Stimmung beeinflussen können, dass wir unbekannte Schriftzeichen anders bewerten je nachdem ob wir den Bizeps oder Trizeps anspannen oder dass das Halten einer warmen Tasse dazu führt, dass wir Personen als warmherziger bezeichnen. Klingt verrückt? Dann hört doch mal rein! _Infos und Quellen für Streber: *Maja Storchs Vortrag zum Thema Embodiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eOTCsYtrQY *Alle Studien aus den letzten beiden Folgen: *Studie Stift im Mund: Strack, F., Martin, L. L., & Stepper, S. (1988). Inhibiting and facilitating conditions of the human smile: a nonobtrusive test of the facial feedback hypothesis. Journal of personality and social psychology, 54(5), 768. *Studie Gesichter nachstellen: Kleinke, C. L., Peterson, T. R., & Rutledge, T. R. (1998). Effects of self-generated facial expressions on mood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(1), 272. *Bizepz-Studie : Cacioppo, J. T., Priester, J. R., & Berntson, G. G. (1993). Rudimentary determinants of attitudes: II. Arm flexion and extension have differential effects on attitudes. Journal of personality and social psychology, 65(1), 5. *Warmer Kaffee vs. Eiskaffee: Williams, L. E., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Science, 322(5901), 606-607.

In this episode I explore the idea that is advanced by many nondual teachers that the brain does not produce consciousness. They say that consciousness exists separate from the brain. One person compared the brain to a radio receiver that picks up the radio waves of Cosmic Consciousness. They use out-of-body experiences, Near Death Experiences, and past life memories as evidence that consciousness exists independent of body. Many think that when the body dies there is no significant change in consciousness. We continue to exist as we always have, only without a human body. I disagree. Consciousness is caused by the brain. That is the consensus of medical science, and I have no spiritual reason to challenge it. The human brain along with the central nervous system produces consciousness. Out-of-body experiences, Near Death Experiences, and past life memories are simply the brain at work producing experiences. They say nothing about the independence of consciousness from the body.The real questions that should be asked is what is the nature and origin of this consciousness that is produced by the human brain - and which is produced in other living creatures as well? Consciousness seems to be a characteristic of matter. As small as you can get into the microscopic world, you would find evidence of consciousness. Probably also at the atomic and subatomic level. I do not pretend of understand quantum physics, but it seems to me that the randomness and unpredictability at that level is an expression of consciousness. Physicists have found that observation of quantum phenomena can change the result. That seems to imply consciousness even at that level, which may be where all consciousness originates from. Rudimentary consciousness in the earliest one cell organisms did not appear by magic. It was somehow already present in the matter from which they emerged. To me that indicates that matter is consciousness. I would go so far as to say that the universe is conscious or that it is consciousness. Consciousness is the essence of existence. That consciousness is what we fundamentally are. We are consciousness expressing itself through a human organism. It is the nature of Reality to be conscious, and the universe evolves forms of life to produce that consciousness. That is what our human bodies are. They are consciousness producing organisms, which evolved self-consciousness-producing organs called brains. It is likely that consciousness is expressed in a nearly infinite number of ways in this universe beyond life on earth. Together it is one infinite consciousness. That infinite consciousness is our essential nature. As the Upanishads say, “That thou Art.” We are one with and identical to that Consciousness. This consciousness is Unitive Awareness, or nondual awareness, or Cosmic Consciousness.

Rudimentary Odd Meter Drums AUDIOSTRiKE | 14/08/2015 | MULTi: 2.52 GB | KONTAKT: 1.26 GB Rudimentary: Odd Meter Drums draws outside the lines when it comes to traditional time signatures. These drum and percussion loops have been recorded in 3-4, 5-4, 5-8, 7-4, 7-8, 9-8, 11-4, 11-8, 13-4, 13-8, and 15-8 time signatures with BPM’s […]

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How do you know if you're being a really nice and giving person, and engaging in people pleasing? Overcommitting, not having enough time for yourself, feel consumed by your job or your relationships; these thins may take a toll on your health. Just because you have the time does NOT mean you have the capacity. Sally's message to all the people pleasers of the world: Practice saying no and remember that you're kind of being an asshole when you're always saying yes. It can be difficult to identify feelings, even for adults. Rudimentary engaging with your body and mind may be a good place to start. One of Sally's favorite times to find stillness is in the morning. Side note: This may feel awful for an anxious person. If this is you, try a little therapy! People pleasing moves us further toward invisibility. If you're invisible, you can't be criticized, and for some criticism can be debilitating. Practice taking up space! Sally recommends standing up in the middle of a movie and walking out of the theater. Without being rude, practice inconveniencing and possibly bothering others. If you're always putting yourself in other people's shoes, and you're unable to show yourself the same kind of compassion, this reinforces the story of ‘I'm not worth anything.' What is the opposite of invisibility? Being seen? Being heard? To be known and loved for who you we truly are with all of our flaws and vulnerabilities! It's not in the disappointments, but in the reparations that creates resiliency in relationships. We have two voicemails this week and they're SO GOOD! If you'd like to record a question or a comment for a future episode, give us a ring on the Bananphone at 725-FEELING, that's 725-333-5464, or you can use the voice memo app on your phone to record your question and email it to us at thefeelingsclubpodcast@gmail.com. We'll also take all your jokes!

Andy Schrieber and Vinnie Tortorich host this Wednesday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast. The two discuss how gyms have changed over time, brought to you by our sponsors, Pure Vitamin Club, Villa Cappelli, and Squatty Potty. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR Pure Vitamin Club OLD GYMS Gyms used to have names like "Vinnie's Gym" Gyms were often separated by gender Women had a few hours they would work out Men had the rest Gyms used to be like very large work out rooms with few machines and steam rooms and pools etc., separate section for men and women Rudimentary squat rack, punching bag, rope, pull up devices NEW GYMS Vinnie still marvels at all that gyms like 24 hour Fitness have By and large, a lot of trainers at gyms are not the best trainers Crazy stuff at new gyms, elliptical machines that work muscles you hardly need People doing exercises that they don't really need and disrupt other people in the gym People pushing around plyometrics boxes around for exercise when you have a million machines that do the same things better Concept 2 Rower -- how to use a rowing machine correctly