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The National Weather Service calls for rain today with a high near 40. More rain possible overnight with a low around 37. In news, a man wanted on a Florida warrant was arrested after barricading himself in Wheatfield home. A 24-year-old Buffalo man was charged in a fatal 2024 shooting in Elmwood Village. A Georgia man was sentenced to 41 years to life for a 2023 Niagara Falls murder. And a former Tonawanda man is facing decades in prison after being found guilty of Predatory Sexual Assault Against a Child and other charges. In sports, the Bisons were rained out again on Thursday. They play tonight at 6:05 and will make up Thursdays game on Sunday. The Sabres, meanwhile, lost 3-2 to Columbus Thursday night. 

In this episode of Welcome to Cloudlandia, we start by unraveling the intriguing concept of global time zones. We humorously ponder the idea of a unified world clock, inspired by China's singular time zone. The discussion expands to how people in countries like Iceland adapt to extreme daylight variations and the impact of climate change narratives that often overlook local experiences. We then explore the power of perception and emotion in shaping our reactions to world events. The conversation delves into how algorithms on platforms shape personal experiences and the choice to opt out of traditional media in favor of a more tailored information stream. The shift from curated media landscapes to algorithm-driven platforms is another key topic, highlighting the challenges of navigating personalized information environments. Finally, we tackle the critical issue of government financial accountability. We humorously consider where vast sums of unaccounted-for money might go, reflecting on the importance of financial transparency. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS In the episode, Dan and I explore the concept of a unified global time zone, drawing inspiration from China's singular time zone. We discuss the potential advantages and disadvantages of such a system, including the adaptability of people living in areas with extreme daylight variations like Iceland. We delve into the complexities of climate change narratives, highlighting how they often lack local context and focus on global measurements, which can lead to stress and anxiety due to information overload without agency. The power of perception and emotion is a focal point, as we discuss how reactions are often influenced by personal feelings and past experiences rather than actual events. This is compared to the idealization of celebrities through curated information. Our conversation examines the shift from curated media landscapes to algorithm-driven platforms, emphasizing how algorithms shape personal experiences and the challenges of researching topics like tariffs in a personalized information environment. We discuss the dynamic between vision and capability in innovation, using historical examples like Gutenberg's printing press to illustrate how existing capabilities can spark visionary ideas. The episode explores the complexities of international trade, particularly the shift from tangible products to intangible services, and the challenges of tracking these shifts across borders. We address the issue of government financial accountability, referencing the $1.2 trillion unaccounted for last year, and the need for financial transparency and accountability in the current era. Links: WelcomeToCloudlandia.com StrategicCoach.com DeanJackson.com ListingAgentLifestyle.com TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Dean: Mr Sullivan. Dan: Yes, and I forgot my time zones there almost for a second. Are you in Chicago? Yeah, you know. Why can't we just all be in the same time zone? Dean: Well. Dan: I know that's what China does. Yeah, Well, that's a reason not to do it. Then you know, I learned that little tidbit from we publish something and it's a reason not to do it. Dean: then that was. You know I learned that little tidbit from. We publish something and it's a postcard for, you know, realtors and financial advisors or business owners to send to their clients as a monthly kind of postcard newsletter, and so every month it has all kinds of interesting facts and whatnot, and one of them that I heard on there is, even though China should have six time zones, they only have one. That's kind of an interesting thing. Imagine if the. United States had all one time zone, that would be great. Dan: Yeah, I think there would be advantages and disadvantages, regardless of what your time system is. Dean: Well, that'd be like anything really, you know, think about that. In California it would get light super early and we'd be off a good dock really early too we'd be off and get docked really early too. Yeah, I spent a couple of summers in Iceland, where it gets 24 hours of light. Dan: You know June 20th and it's. I mean, it's disruptive if you're just arriving there, but I talked to Icelanders and they don't really think about it. It's, you know, part of the year it's completely light all day and part of the year it's dark all day. And then they've adjusted to it. Dean: It happens in Finland and Norway and Alaska. We're adaptable, dan, we're very adaptable. Dan: And those that aren't move away or die. Dean: I heard somebody was talking today about. It was a video that I saw online. They were mentioning climate change, global warming, and that they say that global warming is the measurement is against what? Since when? Is the question to ask, because the things that they're talking about are since 1850, right, it's warmed by 0.6 degrees Celsius since 1850. We've had three periods of warming and since you know, the medieval warming and the Roman warming, we're actually down by five degrees. So it's like such a so when somebody says that we're global warming, the temperature is global warming and the question is since when? That's the real question to ask. Dan: Yeah, I think with those who are alarmist regarding temperature and climate. They have two big problems. They're language problems, Not so much language, but contextual problems. Nobody experiences global. That's exactly right. The other thing is nobody experiences climate. What we experience is local weather. Dean: Yes. Dan: Yeah, so nobody in the world has ever experienced either global or climate. You just experience whatever the weather is within a mile of you you know within a mile of you. That's basically and it's hard to it's hard to sell a theory. Dean: That, you know. That ties in with kind of the idea we were talking about last week that the you know, our brains are not equipped, we're not supposed to have omniscience or know of all of the things that are happening all over the world, of all of the things that are happening all over the world, where only our brains are built to, you know, be aware of and adapt to what's happening in our own proximity and with the people in our world. Our top 150 and yeah, that's what that's the rap thing is that we're, you know, we're having access to everybody and everything at a rate that we're not access to everybody and everything at a rate that we're not supposed to Like. Even when you look back at you know, I've thought about this, like since the internet, if you think about since the 90s, like you know, my growing up, my whole lens on the world was really a, you know, toronto, the GTA lens and being part of Canada. That was really most of our outlook. And then, because of our proximity to the United States, of course we had access to all the US programming and all that stuff, but you know, you mostly hear it was all the local Buffalo programming. That was. They always used to lead off with. There was a lot of fires in Tonawanda, it seemed happening in Buffalo, because everything was fire in North Tonawanda. It still met 11. And that was whole thing. We were either listening to the CBC or listening to eyewitness news in Buffalo, yeah. But now, and you had to seek out to know what was going on in Chicago, the only time you would have a massive scale was happening in Chicago. Right, that made national news the tippy top of the thing. Dan: Yeah, I wonder if you said an interesting thing is that we have access to everyone and everything, but we never do it. Dean: It's true we have access to the knowledge right Like it's part of you know how, when you I was thinking about it, as you know how you define a mess right as an obligation without commitment that there's some kind of information mess that we have is knowledge without agency? You know we have is knowledge without agency. You know we have no agency to do anything about any of these bad things that are happening. No, it's out of our control. You know what are we going to do about what's happening in Ukraine or Gaza or what we know about them? You know, or we know, everybody's getting stabbed in London and you know you just hear you get all these things that fire off these anxiety things triggers. It's actually in our mind, yeah that's exactly right, that our minds with access to that. That triggers off the hormone or the chemical responses you know that fire up the fight or flight or the anxiety or readiness. Dan: Yeah, it's really interesting. I've been giving some thought to well, first of all, the perception of danger in the world, and what we're responding to is not actual events. What we're responding to is our feelings. Yes, that's exactly right, yeah. You've just had an emotional change and you're actually responding to your own emotions, which really aren't that connected to what actually triggered your emotions. You know it might have been something that happened to you maybe 25 years ago. That was scary and that memory just got triggered by an event in the world. Dean: Yeah. Dan: Yeah, and the same thing with celebrity. Celebrity because I've been thinking about celebrity for quite a long time and you know, each of us you and I, to a certain extent are a celebrity in certain circles, and what I think is responsible for that is that they've read something or heard something or heard somebody say something that has created an image of someone in their mind, but it's at a distance, they don't actually meet you at a distance. And the more that's reinforced, but you never meet them the image of that person gets bigger and bigger in your mind. But you're not responding to the person. You're responding just to something that you created in your mind. Dean: I think part of that is because you know if you see somebody on video or you hear somebody on audio or you see them written about in text, that those are. It's kind of residue from you know it used to be the only people that would get written about or on tv or on the radio were no famous people yeah, famous, and so that's kind of it. I think that the same yeah, everybody has access to that. Now Everybody has reach. You know to be to the meritocracy of that because it used to be curated, right that there was some, there were only, so somebody was making the decision on who got to be famous. Like that's why people used to really want to own media. Like that's why people used to really want to own media. That's why all these powerful people wanted to own newspapers and television and radio stations, because they could control the messaging, control the media. You know? Dan: Yeah, it's really interesting. Is it you that has the reach, or someone else has reach that's impacting you? Dean: Yeah, I mean I think that we all have it depends on whether you're on the sending end or the receiving end of reach. Yeah, like we've seen a shift in what happens, like even in the evolution of our ability to be able to consume. It started with our ability to consume content, like with all of those you know, with MP3s and videos, and you know, then YouTube was really the chance for everybody to post up. You know you could distribute, you had access to reach, and in the last 10 years, the shift has been that you had to in order to have reach, you had to get followers right. That were people would subscribe to your content or, you know, like your content on Facebook or be your friend or follower, and now we've shifted to every. That doesn't really matter. Everything is algorithmic now. It's like you don't have to go out and spread the word and gather people to you. Your content is being pushed to people. That's how Stephen Paltrow can become, can reach millions of people, because his content is scratching an itch for millions of people who are, you know, seeking out fertility content, content, and that is being pushed to you. Now, that's why you're it's all algorithm based, you know, and it's so. It's really interesting that it becomes this echo chamber, that you get more of what you respond to. So you know you're get it. So it's amazing how every person's algorithm is very different, like what shows up on on things, and that's kind of what you've really, you know, avoided is you've removed yourself from that. You choose not to participate, so you're the 100%. Seek out what you're looking for. It's not being dictated to you. Dan: Not quite understanding that. Dean: Well you have chosen that you don't watch news. You don't participate in social media. You don't have an Instagram or anything like that where they're observing what you're watching and then dictating what you see next. You are an active like. You go select what you're going to watch. Now you've chosen real clear politics as your curator of things, so that's the jump. Dan: Peter Zion. Dean: But you're self-directing your things by asking. You're probably being introduced to things by the way. You interact with perplexity by asking it 10 ways. This is affecting this or the combination of this and this. Dan: Yeah, I really don't care what perplexity, you know what it would want to tell me about. Dean: You just want to ask, you want to guide the way it responds. Yeah yeah, and that's very it's very powerful. Dan: It's very powerful. I mean, I'm just utterly pleased with what perplexity does for me. You know like you know, I just considered it. You know an additional capability that I have daily, that you know I can be informed in a way that suits me, like I was going over the tariffs. It was a little interesting on the tariff side because I asked a series of questions and it seemed to be avoiding what I was getting at. This is the first time I've really had that. So I said yeah, and I was asking about Canada and I said what tariffs did Canada have against the United States? I guess you can say against tariff, against before 2025. And it said there were no retaliatory tariffs against the United States before 2025. And I said I didn't ask about retaliatory tariffs, I asked about tariffs, you know. And that said, well, there were no reciprocal tariffs before 2025. And I said, no, I want to know what tariffs. And then this said there was softwood and there was dairy products, and you know. I finally got to it. I finally got to it and I haven't really thought about it, because it was just about an hour ago that I did it and I said why did it avoid my question? I didn't. I mean, it's really good at knowing exactly what you're saying. Why did it throw a couple of other things in there? Dean: Yeah, misdirection, right, or kind of. Maybe it's because what, maybe it's because it's the temperature. You know of what the zeitgeist is saying. What are people searching about? And I think maybe those, a lot of the words that they're saying, are. You know, the words are really important. Dan: Not having a modifier for a tariff puts you in a completely different, and those tariffs have been in place for 50 or 60 years. So the interesting thing about it. By the way, 50 countries are now negotiating with the United States to remove tariffs how interesting. And he announced it on Wednesday. Dean: Yeah. Dan: He just wanted to have a conversation with you and wanted to get your attention. Dean: Yeah, wanted to get your attention. Yeah, have your attention, yeah, okay, let's talk about this. Dan: Yeah and everything. But other than that, I'm just utterly pleased with what it can do to fashion your thoughts, fashion your writing and everything else. I think it's a terrific tool. Dean: I've been having a lot of conversations around these bots. Like you know, people are hot on creating bots now like a Dan bot. Creating bots now like a Dan bot. Like oh Dan, you could say you've got so many podcasts and so much content and so many recordings of you, let's put it all in and train up Dan bot and then people could ask they'd have access to you as an AI. Dan: Yeah, the way I do it. I ask them to send me a check and then they could. Dean: But I wonder the thing about it that most of the things that I think are the limitations of that are that it's not how to even take advantage of that, because they don't know what you know to be able to, of that. Because they're bringing it, they don't know what you know to be able to access that you know and how it affects them you know. I first I got that sense when somebody came. They were very excited that they had trained up a Napoleon Hill bot and AI and you can ask Napoleon anything and I thought, thought you know, but people don't know what to ask. I'd rather have Napoleon ask me questions and coach me. You know like I think that would be much more useful is to have Napoleon Hill kind of ask me questions, engage where I am and then make you know, then feed me his thinking about that. If the goal is to facilitate change, you know, or to give people an advantage, I don't know. It just seems like we're very limited. Dan: I mean, you know, my attitude is to increase the engagement with people I'm already engaged with. Yeah, like I don't feel I'm missing anyone, you know? I never feel like I'm missing someone in the world you know, or somehow my life is deficient because I'm not talking to 10 times more people that I'm talking to now, because I'm not really missing anything. I'm fully engaged. I mean, eight different podcast series is about the maximum that I can do, so I don't really need any. But to increase the engagement of the podcast, that would be a goal, because it's available. I don't. I don't wish for things, that is, that aren't accessible you know, and it's very interesting. I was going to talk to you about this subject, but more and more I've got a new tool that I put together. I don't think you have vision before you have capability. Okay, say more Now. What I mean by that is think of a situation where you suddenly thought hey, I can do this new thing. And you do the new thing and satisfy yourself that it's new and it's useful, and then all of a sudden your brain says, hey, with this new thing, you can do this, you can do this, you can do this, do this, you can do this, you can do this. And my sense is the vision of that you can do this is only created because you have the capability. Dean: It's the chicken and the egg. Dan: Yeah, but usually the chicken is nearby. In other words, it's something you can do today, you can do tomorrow, but the vision can be yours out. You know the vision, and my sense is that capabilities are more readily available than vision. Okay, and I'm making a distinction here, I'm not seeing the capability as a vision, I'm seeing that as just something that's in a very short timeframe, maybe a day, two days, you know, maximum I would say is 90 days and you achieve that. You start the quarter. You don't have the capability. You end the quarter you have the capability. Dean: And once you have that capability. Dan: all of a sudden, you can see a year out, you can see five years out. Dean: I bet that's true because it's repeatable, maybe out. Dan: I bet that's true because it's repeatable, maybe, so my sense is that focusing on capability automatically brings vision with it. Dean: Would you say that a capability? Let's go all the way back to Gutenberg, for instance. Gutenberg created movable type right and a printing press that allowed you to bypass the whole scribing. You know, economy or the ecosystem right, all these scribes that were making handwritten copies of things. So you had had a capability, then you could call that right. Dan: Well, what it bypassed was wood printing, where you had to carve the letters on a big flat sheet of wood and it was used just for one page containers and you could rearrange the letters in it and that's one page, and then you take the letters out and you rearrange another page. I think what he did, he didn't bypass the, he didn't bypass the. Well, he bypassed writing, basically you know because the monks were doing the writing, scribing, inscribing, so that bypassed. But what he bypassed was the laborious process of printing, because printing already existed. It's just that it was done with wood prints. You had to carve it. You had to have the carvers. The carvers were very angry at Gutenberg. They had protests, they had protests. They closed down the local universities. Protests against this guy, gutenberg, who put all the carvers out of work. Yeah, yeah, so, yeah. Dean: So then you have this capability and all of a sudden, europe goes crazy take vision and our, you know, newly defined progression of vision from a proposition to proof, to protocol, to property, that, if this was anything, any capability I believe has to start out with a vision, with a proposition. Hey, I bet that I could make cast letters that we could replace carving. That would be a proposition first, before it's a capability, right. So that would have to. I think you'd have to say that it all, it has, has to start with a vision. But I think that a vision is a good. I mean capabilities are a good, you know a good catalyst for vision, thinking about these things, how to improve them, what else does this, all the questions that come with a new capability, are really vision. They're all sparked by vision, right? Yeah, because what would Gutenberg? The progress that Gutenberg have to make is a proposition of. I bet I could cast individual letters, set up a little template, arrange them and then duplicate another page, use it, have it reusable. So let's get to work on that. Dan: And then he proved. Dean: The first time he printed a page he proved that, yeah, that does work. And then he sets up the protocol for it. Here's how we'll do it. Here's how. Here's the way we make these. Here's the molds for all these letters. He's created the protocol to create this printing press, the, the press, the printing press, and has it now as a capability that's available yeah well, we don't know that at all. Dan: We don't know whether he first of all. We have no knowledge of gutenberg, except that he created the first movable type printing press. Dean: Somebody had to have that. It had to start with the vision of it, the idea. It didn't just come fully formed right. Somebody had to have the proposition. Dan: Yeah, yeah, we don't know. We don't know how it happened. He know he's a goldsmith, I mean, that was so. He was used to melding metals and putting them into forms and you know, probably somebody asked him can you make somebody's name? Can you print out? You know, can you print a, d, e, a and then N for me? And he did that and you know, at some point he said oh, oh, what if I do it with lead? What if? I do it with yeah, because gold is too soft, it won't stand up. But right, he did it with lead. Maybe he died of lead poisoning really fast, huh yeah, that's funny, we don't know, yeah, yeah, I think the steel, you know iron came in. You know they melted iron and everything like that, but we don't know much about it. But I'll tell you the jump that I would say is the vision is that Martin Luther discovers printing and he says you know, we can bypass all the you know, control of information that the Catholic Church has. Now that's a vision. That's a vision Okay. That's a vision, okay, but I don't think Gutenberg had that. I mean, he doesn't play? Dean: Definitely yeah, yeah, I know I think that any yeah, jumping off the platform of a capability. You know what my thought is in terms of the working genius model, that that's the distinction between wonder and invention. That wonder would be wonder what else we could do with this, or how we could improve this, or what this opens up for us. And invention might be the other side of creating something that doesn't exist. Dan: I mean, if you go back to our London, you know our London encounter, where we each committed ourselves to writing a book in a week. Dean: Yes. Dan: You did that, I did that. And then my pushing the idea was that I could do 100 books in 100 quarters. Dean: Yeah, exactly. Dan: Yeah, I mean, that's where it came from. I says, oh, you can create a book really fast to do that. And then I just put a bigger number and so I stayed within the capability. I just multiplied the number of times that I was going to do the capability. So is that a vision, or is that? What is that? Is that a vision? A hundred books, well, not just a capability right. Dean: I think that the fact that you, we both had a proposition write a book and we both then set up the protocols for that, you set up your team and your process and now you've got that formula. So you have a capability called a book, a quarter for 25 years you know that's definitely in the, that that's a capability. Now it's an asset your team, the way that you do it, the formatting, the everything about it. But the vision you have to apply a vision to that capability. Hamish isn't going to sit there and create cartoons out of nothing. Create cartoons out of nothing. You've got to give the idea. The vision is I bet I could write a book on casting, not hiring, how I'm planning on living to 156. So you've got your applying vision against that capability, yeah. Dan: It's interesting because I don't go too far out of the realm of my capabilities when I project into the future. Yeah, so, for example, we did the three books with Ben Hardy, you know and great success, great success. And then we were going further and Hay House, the publisher, started to call us, you know, after we had written our last book in 23, around the beginning of 20, usually six months after. They want to know is there another book coming? Because they're filling up their forward schedule and they do about 90 books and they do about 90 books a year. And so they want to know do we have another one from you? And we said no not really. But then when I did Casting Not Hiring as a small book, and I did Casting Not Hiring as a small book to write a small book, in other words, I'd committed myself to 100 books and this was number 38. I think this was in the 38th quarter. And then Jeff Madoff and I were talking and I said you know, I think this Hay House keeps asking us for another book. I think this is probably it and we sent it to them. I think it was on a Thursday. We had a meeting with them the next Wednesday, which is really fast. It's like six days later I get a meeting and they love it, and about two weeks later the go-ahead came from the publisher that we were going to go with that book. Two weeks later, the go-ahead came from the publisher that we were going to go with that book. And so I've developed another capability that if you write a small book, it's easy to get a big book. Yeah. So that's where the capabilities develop now. Now when I'm writing a new quarterly book, I'm saying is this a big book? Is this a big book? Is this the yeah? Dean: well, I would argue that you know that you've established a reach relationship with Hay House. Dan: Yeah, yeah, because they're a big multiplier. Dean: That's exactly right. So you've got the vision of I want to do a book on casting, not hiring. I have the capability already in place to do the little book and now you've established a reach partnership with Hay House that they're the multiplier in all of this right Vision plus capability, multiplied by reach. And so those relationships that you know, those relationships that you have, are definitely a reach asset that you have because you've established that you know and you're a known quantity to them. You know. Dan: Yeah, well, they are now with the. You know the success of the first three books, yeah, but it's really interesting because I I don't push my mind too much further than that which I can. Actually, you know, like now I'm working on the big book with jeff jeff nettoff and with the first draft, complete draft, to be in a 26, and we're on schedule. We're on schedule for that. You know. So you know. But I don't have any aspirations. You know you drop this as a sentence. You know you want to change things. I actually don't want to change things. I just want to continue doing what I'm doing but have it more productive and more profitable. Is that a vision? I guess that's a vision. Dean: Yeah, I mean that's certainly, certainly. I think that part of this is that staying in your unique ability right, you're not fretting about what the you've made this relationship with a house and that gives you that reach, but there's nothing you're and they were purchased. Dan: They were purchased by random house, so they have massive bar reach. Dean: Wow yeah. Dan: I don't know what the exact nature of their relationship is but things take a little bit slower backstage at their end now, I've noticed as we go through, because they're dealing with a monstrous big operation, but I suspect the reach is better. Yeah, once it happens, right. Dean: And resources. Yeah, yeah, cash as capability, that's a big, you know that was a really good. That's been a big. Distinction too is the value of cash as a capability. Cash for the c, yeah, a lot, as well as cash for the k. But cash for the c specifically is a wonderful capability because with cash you can buy it solves a lot of problems. You can buy all the vision, capability and reach. That was a lot of problems. It really does. Dan: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was out at dinner last night with Ken and Nancy, harlan you know, you know Ken, and and we were talking. He was talking about he's. He's 30, 33rd year and coach and he started in 92. And coach, and he started in 92 and and he he was just talking about how he has totally a self-managing company and you know he has great free days, and you know he just focuses on his own unique ability. You know so a lot of strategic coach boxes to check off there and he was talking and he was saying that he's been going to some other 10 times workshops. You know where people are and he spoke about someone who's actually a performer musical performer and he just saw himself as back in 1996 or 1997 as the other person spoke, and and, and he asked me the question he says when is the crossover when you stop being a rugged individualist and then you actually have great teamwork around you? Dean: And I said it's a really interesting question. Dan: I said it's when it occurs to you, based on your experience, that trusting other people is a lot less expensive than not trusting them. Dean: Right, that's a good distinction, right. That people often feel like I think that's the big block is that nobody trusts anybody to do it the way they would do it or as good as they can do it or they don't have it. You know, I think, even on the vision side, they may have proof of things, but they're the only one that knows the recipe. They haven't protocol and package to, you know, and I think that's really, I think, a job description or a you know, being able to define what a role is, you know, I think it's just hiring people isn't the answer, unless you have that capability, that new person now equipped with a, with a vision of what they, what their role is. Dan: You know yeah, yeah, I said it's also been my experience that trust comes easier when the cash is good. I think that's true right? Dean: Yeah, but they're not. I think that's really. Dan: I think the reason is you have enough money to pay for your mistakes. Dean: Yes, exactly, cash confidence. Yeah, it goes a long way. Dan: Yeah, I was thinking about Trump's reach. First of all, I think the president of the United States, automatically, regardless of who it is, has a lot of reach. Yes, for sure. Excuse me, sir, it's the president of the United States phoning. Do you take the call or don't take the call? I think you're right, yeah, absolutely. Take the call or don't take the call. I think you're right, yeah, absolutely. He says he's just imposed a 25% tariff on all your products coming into the United States. Dean: Do you care about that or do you not care about it? I suspect you care about it. I suspect. Imagine if he had a, you know if yeah, there was a 25% tariff on all strategic coach enrollments or members. Dan: Yeah Well, that's an interesting thing. None of this affects services. Dean: Right. Dan: Yeah, Because it's hard to measure Well first of all, it's hard to detect and the other thing, it's hard to measure what actually happened. This is an interesting discussion. The invisibility of the service world. Dean: Yeah, it's true, right. And also the knowledge you know like coming into something, whatever you know, your brain and something going across borders is a very different. Dan: Yeah it's very interesting. The Globe and Mail had an article it was in January, I think it was and it showed the top 10 companies in Canada that had gotten patents and the number of patents for the past 12 months, and I think TD Bank was 240, 240. And that sounds impressive, until you realize that a company like Google or Apple would have had 10,000 new patents over the previous 12 months. Dean: Yeah, it's crazy right. Dan: Patent after patent. Dean: Yeah. Dan: And my sense is, if you measure the imbalance in trade let's say the United States versus Canada there's a trade deficit. Trade. Let's say the United States versus Canada there's a trade deficit. Canada sells more into the United States than the United States sells into Canada, but that's only talking about products. I bet the United States sells far more services into Canada than Canada does into the United States. I bet you're right. Yeah, and I bet the services are more profitable. Yeah so for example, apple Watches, the construction of Apple Watches, which happens outside of the United States. Nobody makes a profit. Nobody makes a profit. They can pay for a job, but they don't actually make a profit. All they can do is pay for jobs. China can only pay for jobs, thailand, all the other countries they can only pay. And when it gets back, you know you complete the complete loop. From the idea of the Apple Watch as it goes out into the world and it's constructed and brought back into the United States. All the profit is in the United States. All the profit is in the United States. The greatest profit is actually the design of the Apple Watch, which is all done in the United States. So I think this tariff thing is coming along at an interesting period. It's that products as such are less and less an important part of the economy. Dean: Yeah Well, I've often wondered that, like you know, we're certainly, we're definitely at a point where they were in the economy, where you could get something from. You know. You know I mean facebook and google and youtube. You know all of these companies there's. No, they wouldn't have anything that shows up on any balance sheet of physical goods. You know, it's all just ones and zeros. Dan: Yeah. I mean it doesn't happen anymore, but because we have. You know, nexus, when Babs and I crossed the border, we have trusted, trusted traveler coming this way which also requires us that we look into a camera and then go and check in to the official and he looks at us and all he wants to know is how many bags do you have that have? Dean: been in. Dan: And we tell him. That's all we tell him. He doesn't tell us anything we're bringing into the United States and he doesn't tell us anything we're bringing into the United States. And then, when we come back to Canada, we just have our Nexus card which goes into a machine, we look into a camera and a sheet of paper comes out. And the customs official or the immigration official, just you know, puts a red pen to it, which means that he saw it, and then you go out there. But you know, when we started, coach, we would have to go through a long line. We'd have our passport, and then the person would say what are you bringing? And then we'd have to fill in a card are you bringing this back into canada? Dean: exactly, yeah, you remember the remember and what's the total. Dan: You know the total price of everything that you purchased, everything. Dean: And I used to think. Dan: I said you know, I was in Chicago and I just came up with an idea. It's a million dollar idea. Do I declare that I had the good sense not to declare my million-dollar idea because then they would have taken me in the back room. You know, if I had said that, what are you? Why are you trying to screw around? Dean: with our mind. You'll have to undergo a cavity search to. Dan: So what I'm saying is that what's really valuable has become intangible more and more so just in the 30 years or so of so of coach you know that and it's like the patents. Dean: you know we've had all the patents appraised and there's an asset value, but yeah, because this is an interesting thing that in the or 30 years ago you had to in order to spread an idea. You had to print booklets and tape. I remember the first thing what year did you do how the Best Get Better? That was one of the first things that you did, right? Dan: Right around 2000 or so. In fact, you're catching me in a very vulnerable situation. That's okay. Dean: I mean it had to be. Dan: Okay. Dean: But I think that whole idea of the entrepreneurial time system and unique ability, those things, I remember it being in a little container with the booklet and the cassette. Dan: You know crazy, but that's but yeah, because I think it was. I think it was, was it a disc or a cassette, cassette? So yeah, well, that would have mid nineties. Dean: Yeah, that's what I mean. I think that was my introduction to coach, that I saw that. Dan: but amazing, right, but that just the distribution of stuff now that we have access yeah well, it just tells you that the how much the entire economy has changed in 30 years. From tangible to intangible, the value of things, the value of what do you? Value and where does it come from? Dean: And yeah. Dan: I think all of us in the thinking business. The forces are on our side, I agree. Dean: That's such a great talking with Chad. Earlier this morning I was on my way to Honeycomb and I was thinking, you know, we've come to a point where we really it's like everything that we physically have to do is being kind of taken away. You know that we don't have to actually do anything. You know, I got in my car and I literally said, take me to Honeycomb, and the car drives itself to Honeycomb. And then, you know, I get out and I know exactly what I want, but I just show them my phone and the phone automatically, you know, apple Pay takes the money right out of my account. I don't have to do anything. I just think, man, we're moving into that. The friction between idea and execution is really disappearing. I think so. So the thing to be able to keep up, it's just collecting capabilities. Collecting capabilities is a. That's the conduit. You know, capabilities and tasks. Dan: Well, it's yeah and it's really interesting. But we're also into a world where there's two types of thinking world. There is there's kind of a creative thinking world, where you're thinking about new things, and there's another world thinking about things, but you're just thinking about the things that already already exist yeah, my feeling is and usually that requires higher education college education you know, and all my feel is that they're the number one targets of AI is everybody who does a lot of thinking, but it's not creative thinking. Ai will replace whatever they're doing. And my sense is that this is why the Doge thing is so devastating to government. I mean, I'll just test this out on you. Elon Musk and his team send every federal employee and at the start of the year there were 2.4 million federal government employees and that excludes the, the military. So the military is not part of that 2.4 million and the post office is not part of those are excluded from. Everybody else is included in there. And he sent out a letter he says could just return by return email. Tell us the five things that you did last week. And it was extraordinarily difficult for the federal employees to say what they did last. That would be understandable to someone who wasn't in their world. And I think the majority of them were meetings and reports, uh-huh. Yes, about what? About meetings and reports, uh-huh. Dean: Yes, about what? About meetings and reports yeah, we had the meeting about the report. Dan: Yeah, and then scheduled another meeting To discuss the further follow-up of the report. Dean: Yeah, At least in the entrepreneurial world the things are about you know, yeah. Dan: I mean if you said I sent the memo to you and said, dean Jackson, please tell me it would be interesting stuff that you wrote back. I mean the stuff that you wrote back and you say just five, just five. You know, I can tell you 15 things I did last week, you know, and each of them would be probably an interesting subject. It would be an interesting topic is the division between that bureaucratic world. The guess coming out of the Doge project is if we fired half of federal government employees, it wouldn't be noticed by the taxpayers. Dean: Right, it's like a big Jenga puzzle. Dan: How many can? Dean: we pull out before it all crumbles. Dan: Yeah, because there's been virtually no complaints, like all the pension checks came when they should. All the you know everything like that. The Medicare, everything came. Dean: But what? Dan: they found and this is the one, this is the end joke here that they just went to the Small Business Administration and they examined $600 million worth of loans last year and 300 million of them went to children 11 years or younger who had a Social Security number. Dean: Is that true? Dan: Yeah, and 300 million went to Americans older than 120 who had an active Social Security number. Dean: Wow, now, that's just. Dan: Yeah, but that $600 million went to somebody. 0:48:51 - Dean: Yeah, it went somewhere. Dan: right, they were checks and they went to individuals who had this name and they had Social Security number. We had this name and they had social security number and those individuals don't those individuals. The person receiving the check is not the individual who it was written to. So that's like 600 million. Yeah, and they're just finding this all over the place. These amazing amounts of money and the Treasury Department last year couldn't account for $1.2 trillion. Dean: They couldn't account for where it went.2 trillion, you know. Dan: You know, that seems dr evo's one trillion exactly. Yeah, well, it's going somewhere, and if they cut it off, I bet those people are noticed yeah, I bet you're right, I think there's. This is the great audit we're in the age of the great. We're in the age of the great audit. Anyway, I have daniel white waiting for me, okay this was a good one, daniel yeah, it was good, this was a good one. This tangibility thing is really an interesting subject and intangibility Absolutely. Dean: All right, thank you, dan. Say hi to Daniel for me Next week. Dan: I'm booked socially all day, so take a two-week break.

Today, we re-visit the topic of intuition, if you've ever been a victim of identity theft, and round things out by talking about yesterday's Town of Tonawanda Board Meeting where the Town of Tonawanda Police Club issued their first ever vote of no confidence in Chief Jim Stauffiger. Tonawanda residents, what's up with the Town of Tonawanda police?

Community Beer Works Exits Elmwood-Bidwell Project Nearly two years after announcing plans for a taproom at 976 Elmwood Avenue, Community Beer Works has officially pulled out. Director of Operations Chris Groves says CBW hasn't been involved in the project for over a year and will instead focus on optimizing their Chandler Street location and other existing sites. No plans have been announced for their former 7th Street taproom.CollaBEERation V Tickets Still Available Limited general admission tickets remain for CollaBEERation V on April 5 (2-6pm) at The Powerhouse. The festival features unique collabs from WNY breweries, cideries, and meaderies, with food vendors like Pizza Plant, Britesmith, and Brisket Love BBQ. The theme is “Hollywood,” and costumes are encouraged. GA tickets are $70 (includes unlimited pours and commemorative glass); DD tickets also available.Tap That Tap Room Anniversary – Win Free Beer for a Year Tap That Tap Room in Tonawanda is turning one and giving away free beer for a year to 10 winners. To enter, follow them on Facebook or Instagram, share their contest post, and tag a friend. The anniversary celebration happens Saturday, April 5 with live music (Sonic Legacy, 4–7pm), Orso Nero pizza, and a Buffalo Bandits watch party at 9pm.Rusty Nickel Launches Buffalo What? IPA + Bandits Watch Party On April 5 at 8pm, Rusty Nickel Brewing will release Buffalo What? IPA, a lightly hopped American IPA. It's the second in their lacrosse-inspired series, following To The Box Lager. Stick around for a Buffalo Bandits watch party at 9pm for their game against the Colorado Mammoth. Both beers will be available on draft and in 4-pack cans.Bev Depot Beer Store Opens in Cheektowaga Bev Depot has officially opened at 2190 Walden Avenue in Cheektowaga. The 6,000 sq. ft. store offers over 2,000 SKUs of beer, with a strong focus on local craft. “We're proud to support local breweries and offer the lowest prices in Buffalo,” they shared online. Visit bevdepot.org or find them on Facebook and Instagram for more info.Kleinhans Rhythm & Brews Returns – May 9 The annual Rhythm and Brews fundraiser at Kleinhans Music Hall is back on May 9 (6:30–9pm). Enjoy tastings from local breweries and cideries, with food from Oliver's, Britesmith, Creekview Restaurant, and Marcato by Oliver's. GA tickets are $45 and include a commemorative Belgian beer glass; VIP ($85) includes early access, first pours, and reserved seating.Science After Hours: To Infinity And Beer-ond – April 25 Presented by the WNY Brewers Guild, this 21+ event at the Buffalo Museum of Science features tastings from Big Ditch, Brazen, Rusty Nickel, and Spotted Octopus. Explore astronomy exhibits, make mission patches, taste freeze-dried treats, and more. Tickets are $39 and available online. Planetarium shows are already sold out—don't wait!For more local beer news and events, visit BuffaloBeerLeague.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andy Thompson of the Town of Tonawanda Police Club on Taylor Law violation notices going out to officers full 376 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 07:48:38 +0000 HPUTzZcRyUZPlE8vn6cX1oenSZStUhN0 news & politics,news WBEN Extras news & politics,news Andy Thompson of the Town of Tonawanda Police Club on Taylor Law violation notices going out to officers Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News & Politics News False

Art Wheaton from Cornell in Buffalo says places like the Ford stamping plant in Buffalo and the Tonawanda engine plant will take a "huge hit" from tariffs.

Episode 515 - Andrew Sillen - Kidnapped at Sea - The Civil War Voyage of David Henry WhiteAbout the authorAndrew Sillen (B.A. Brooklyn College '74; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania '81) is a visiting research scholar in the department of anthropology at Rutgers University. He has authored or co-authored over 50 academic and popular articles on archaeology and human evolution. Sillen was formerly Professor of Paleoanthropology and the founding Director of Development at the University of Cape Town; and subsequently Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Brooklyn College. He lives in, and writes from his hometown of Brooklyn, New York.Book: Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White The true story of David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor enslaved on the high seas during the Civil War, whose life story was falsely and intentionally appropriated to advance the Lost Cause trope of a contented slave, happy and safe in servility.David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor from Lewes, Delaware, was kidnapped by Captain Raphael Semmes of the Confederate raider Alabama on October 9, 1862, from the Philadelphia-based packet ship Tonawanda. White remained captive on the Alabama for over 600 days, until he drowned during the Battle of Cherbourg on June 19, 1864.In a best-selling postwar memoir, Semmes falsely described White as a contented slave who remained loyal to the Confederacy. In Kidnapped at Sea, archaeologist Andrew Sillen uses a forensic approach to describe White's enslavement and demise and illustrates how White's actual life belies the Lost Cause narrative his captors sought to construct.Kidnapped at Sea is the first book to focus on White's actual life, rather than relying on Semmes and other secondary sources. Until now, Semmes's appropriation of White's life has escaped scrutiny, thereby demonstrating the challenges faced by disempowered, illiterate people—and how well-crafted, racist fabrications have become part of Civil War memory.https://a.co/d/e2UKuCvSupport the show___https://livingthenextchapter.com/podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/Coffee Refills are always appreciated, refill Dave's cup here, and thanks!https://buymeacoffee.com/truemediaca

North Tonawanda's city council voted unanimously Tuesday night to prevent the use of alternative energy in the city. Mayor Austin Tylec tells us why.

Tonawanda Town Supervisor Joe Emminger with an update on efforts to start up a municipal ambulatory service later this year full 329 Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:30:35 +0000 DLLjY3uBzbBJ7aFZ3SYBuEgATN0niuxM news,wben,town of tonawanda,joe emminger WBEN Extras news,wben,town of tonawanda,joe emminger Tonawanda Town Supervisor Joe Emminger with an update on efforts to start up a municipal ambulatory service later this year Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False

Tonawanda Town Supervisor Joe Emminger following the second meeting of the Sumitomo Rubber Closure Task Force on Thursday full 177 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:00:17 +0000 d0aUD92mr2B4wZ4WLjxURByuNhw2vbE4 news,wben,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber,joe emminger WBEN Extras news,wben,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber,joe emminger Tonawanda Town Supervisor Joe Emminger following the second meeting of the Sumitomo Rubber Closure Task Force on Thursday Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False

State Assemblyman Bill Conrad following the second meeting of the Sumitomo Rubber Closure Task Force in Tonawanda on Thursday full 239 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:15:12 +0000 dEzyrcCH26kfr30NzZpqh6qDVuO4lFVs news,new york state,wben,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber,bill conrad WBEN Extras news,new york state,wben,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber,bill conrad State Assemblyman Bill Conrad following the second meeting of the Sumitomo Rubber Closure Task Force in Tonawanda on Thursday Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News Fal

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz following the second meeting of the Sumitomo Rubber Closure Task Force in Tonawanda on Thursday full 764 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:45:34 +0000 R4UYd9xYV4rmIBQAEw1nkFDVOIqsv8SG news,wben,mark poloncarz,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber WBEN Extras news,wben,mark poloncarz,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz following the second meeting of the Sumitomo Rubber Closure Task Force in Tonawanda on Thursday Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News

Second meeting of the Sumitomo Rubber Closure Task Force in the Town of Tonawanda full 2345 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:00:04 +0000 eHuAJvgZEe2m38bgheXtukNrtU8nIqJB news,wben,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber WBEN Extras news,wben,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber Second meeting of the Sumitomo Rubber Closure Task Force in the Town of Tonawanda Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False https://pla

Chief Economic Development Officer for Erie County, Zaque Evans on the second meeting of the Sumitomo Rubber Closure Task Force in Tonawanda on Thursday full 347 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:45:44 +0000 T1iJsBk0pZdk8BvET7AJL3h5I8ijxRzM news,wben,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber WBEN Extras news,wben,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber Chief Economic Development Officer for Erie County, Zaque Evans on the second meeting of the Sumitomo Rubber Closure Task Force in Tonawanda on Thursday Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News

WBEN's Zach Penque on Tonawanda Police Club investigation full 67 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:15:00 +0000 2ewM5MnvpCCf4m3UE8Vk0zsIRbEmHrp8 news WBEN Extras news WBEN's Zach Penque on Tonawanda Police Club investigation Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.

Tonawanda Town Supervisor Joe Emminger on Officer strike full 566 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:15:13 +0000 r0gBQsDscCPbfeIADWHviP7hYickWMjc news WBEN Extras news Tonawanda Town Supervisor Joe Emminger on Officer strike Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.c

Town of Tonawanda Board Meeting full 3790 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:15:27 +0000 aGP4erHvbwgPat4uKjsHcO12EKAmmBY3 news WBEN Extras news Town of Tonawanda Board Meeting Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%3A%2F%

Tonawanda's Town Board voted to pursue charges against the Tonawanda Police Club, alleging some officers participated in an illegal strike by refusing to issue traffic tickets during a three week period earlier this year. Supervisor Joe Emminger explains the town's perspective.

North Tonawanda Mayor Austin Tylec on the vote over a on controversial energy law being pushed back to mid-March full 326 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:00:56 +0000 P07PkvuhTjaE5TSy4n9YkSElFnHhA7lT news,wben,north tonawanda,austin tylec,digihost WBEN Extras news,wben,north tonawanda,austin tylec,digihost North Tonawanda Mayor Austin Tylec on the vote over a on controversial energy law being pushed back to mid-March Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False

North Tonawanda residents voice concerns over nuclear power being used at local crypto plant full 68 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:36:47 +0000 m0JUmOi0ZXifI6u7x2zUUwIFYHAW7iKy news WBEN Extras news North Tonawanda residents voice concerns over nuclear power being used at local crypto plant Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False

The city of North Tonawanda is considering changes to zoning laws that wouldn't let certain energy facilities be built within city limits. Mayor Austin Tylec tells us more.

The City of Tonawanda is shortening Canal Fest to six days. It will remain an eight day event in North Tonawanda. Mayor John White explains the decision.

Tonawanda Town Supervisor Joe Emminger reacts to American Rock Salt's progress report on supplies full 394 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:24:29 +0000 c0ebjNpxhW4EJf2lSQmuP77sxpEr7oUD news & politics,news WBEN Extras news & politics,news Tonawanda Town Supervisor Joe Emminger reacts to American Rock Salt's progress report on supplies Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News & Politics News False

Tonawanda Supervisor Joe Emminger says the town continues to work with Sumitomo on a future use of the site, and some suitors are interested.

Bills fan Patti Bax from North Tonawanda at the airport to welcome the team home after Sunday's loss in the AFC Championship Game full 188 Mon, 27 Jan 2025 07:30:58 +0000 oFWChRmaHs0Z6NubaWVRMq6l751rQYuK nfl,football,buffalo bills,news,wben,kansas city chiefs WBEN Extras nfl,football,buffalo bills,news,wben,kansas city chiefs Bills fan Patti Bax from North Tonawanda at the airport to welcome the team home after Sunday's loss in the AFC Championship Game Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News

Bills fan Bob from Tonawanda at the airport to welcome the team home after Sunday's loss in the AFC Championship Game full 322 Mon, 27 Jan 2025 07:15:08 +0000 VagjP4YBsPcFPoiYTBx3uQwBgj2D6Jmb nfl,football,buffalo bills,news,wben,kansas city chiefs WBEN Extras nfl,football,buffalo bills,news,wben,kansas city chiefs Bills fan Bob from Tonawanda at the airport to welcome the team home after Sunday's loss in the AFC Championship Game Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False

Town of Tonawanda Supervisor Joe Emminger on reduction of rock salt use in his town full 223 Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:55:23 +0000 QdBV7bZsqoD233VJVHLa4s71GdwtXK68 news & politics,news WBEN Extras news & politics,news Town of Tonawanda Supervisor Joe Emminger on reduction of rock salt use in his town Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News & Politics News False https://p

North Tonawanda Fire Chief Joe Sikora on preparing firefighters for the extreme cold this week full 246 Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:30:12 +0000 wLQksIUevdYK8VVgYGKc7ERJx8BERyx5 news,weather,wben,north tonawanda WBEN Extras news,weather,wben,north tonawanda North Tonawanda Fire Chief Joe Sikora on preparing firefighters for the extreme cold this week Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False

The Tonawanda Kardex, a team with the shortest franchise history in professional football, is the focal point of this podcast episode. Originating from the All Tonawanda Lumberjacks in the early 1900s, they played only one game in the 1921 season before fading into obscurity. Host Darin Hayes invites historian Ken Crippen to share insights about this little-known team and its connection to the early days of the NFL from a recording made in 2021. The discussion delves into the challenges faced by the Kardex, including financial struggles and competition from stronger teams like the Buffalo All-Americans. Listeners will also learn about the broader context of football in Western New York during that era, including the impact of weather on games and the unfortunate fate of similar all-star teams.PFRA historian originally from Western NY Ken 's Website Join us at the Pigskin Dispatch website and the Sports Jersey Dispatch to see even more Positive football news! Sign up to get daily football history headlines in your email inbox @ Email-subscriberDon't forget to check out and subscribe to the Pigskin Dispatch YouTube channel for additional content and the regular Football History Minute Shorts.Miss our football by the day of the year podcasts, well don't, because they can still be found at the Pigskin Dispatch website.

Cryptomining company Digihost is looking at bringing nuclear reactor technology to its North Tonawanda plant. Darlene Bolsover says a city of 30,000 people is not the place to test the technology.

Town of Tonawanda Paramedic Supervisor Matt DeRose on hiring for the town's new ambulance service full 160 Tue, 24 Dec 2024 09:00:04 +0000 TLiDzxzaiW8ONJPQYXk8d4Invwu56Qpr news & politics,news WBEN Extras news & politics,news Town of Tonawanda Paramedic Supervisor Matt DeRose on hiring for the town's new ambulance service Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News & Politics News False

Ely S. Parker was instrumental in both the creation of President President Ulysses S. Grant's “peace policy." Parker was Seneca, and he was the first Indigenous person to be placed in a cabinet-level position in the U.S. and the first Indigenous person to serve as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Research: ·       Adams, James Ring. “The Many Careers of Ely Parker.” National Museum of the American Indian. Fall 2011. ·       Babcock, Barry. “The Story of Donehogawa, First Indian Commissioner of Indian Affairs.” ICT. 9/13/2018. https://ictnews.org/archive/the-story-of-donehogawa-first-indian-commissioner-of-indian-affairs ·       Contrera, Jessica. “The interracial love story that stunned Washington — twice! — in 1867.” Washington Post. 2/13/2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/02/13/interracial-love-story-that-stunned-washington-twice/ ·       DeJong, David H. “Ely S. Parker Commissioner of Indian Affairs (April 26, 1869–July 24,1871).” From Paternalism to Partnership: The Administration of Indian Affairs, 1786–2021. University of Nebraska Press. (2021). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2cw0sp9.29 ·       Eves, Megan. “Repatriation and Reconciliation: The Seneca Nation, The Buffalo History Museum and the Repatriation of the Red Jacket Peace Medal.” Museum Association of New York. 5/26/2021. https://nysmuseums.org/MANYnews/10559296 ·       Genetin-Pilawa, C. Joseph. “Ely Parker and the Contentious Peace Policy.” Western Historical Quarterly , Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer 2010). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/westhistquar.41.2.0196 ·       Genetin-Pilawa, C. Joseph. “Ely S. Parker and the Paradox of Reconstruction Politics in Indian Country.” From “The World the Civil War Made. Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur, editors. University of North Carolina Press. July 2015. ·       Ginder, Jordan and Caitlin Healey. “Biographies: Ely S. Parker.” United States Army National Museum. https://www.thenmusa.org/biographies/ely-s-parker/ ·       Hauptman, Laurence M. “On Our Terms: The Tonawanda Seneca Indians, Lewis Henry Morgan, and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1844–1851.” New York History , FALL 2010, Vol. 91, No. 4 (FALL 2010). https://www.jstor.org/stable/23185816 ·       Henderson, Roger C. “The Piikuni and the U.S. Army's Piegan Expedition.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Spring 2018. https://mhs.mt.gov/education/IEFA/HendersonMMWHSpr2018.pdf ·       Hewitt, J.N.B. “The Life of General Ely S. Parker, Last Grand Sachem of the Iroquois and General Grant's Military Secretary.” Review. The American Historical Review, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Jul., 1920). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1834953 ·       Historical Society of the New York Courts. “Blacksmith v. Fellows, 1852.” https://history.nycourts.gov/case/blacksmith-v-fellows/ Historical Society of the New York Courts. “Ely S. Parker.” https://history.nycourts.gov/figure/ely-parker/ ·       Historical Society of the New York Courts. “New York ex rel. Cutler v. Dibble, 1858.” https://history.nycourts.gov/case/cutler-v-dibble/ ·       Hopkins, John Christian. “Ely S. Parker: Determined to Make a Difference.” Native Peoples Magazine, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p78, Sep/Oct2004. ·       Justia. “Fellows v. Blacksmith, 60 U.S. 366 (1856).” https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/60/366/ ·       Michaelsen, Scott. “Ely S. Parker and Amerindian Voices in Ethnography.” American Literary History , Winter, 1996, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Winter, 1996). https://www.jstor.org/stable/490115 ·       Mohawk, John. “Historian Interviews: John Mohawk, PhD.” PBS. Warrior in Two Worlds. https://www.pbs.org/warrior/content/historian/mohawk.html ·       National Parks Service. “Ely Parker.” Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. https://www.nps.gov/people/ely-parker.htm ·       Parker, Arthur C. “The Life of General Ely S. Parker: Last Grand Sachem of the Iroquois and General Grant's Military Secretary.” Buffalo Historical Society. 1919. ·       Parker, Ely S. “Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.” December 23, 1869. Parker, Ely. Letter to Harriet Converse, 1885. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-to-harriet-converse/ PBS. “A Warrior in Two Worlds: The Life of Ely Parker.” https://www.pbs.org/warrior/noflash/ ·       Spurling, Ann, producer and writer and Richard Young, director. “Warrior in Two Worlds.” Wes Studi, Narrator. WXXI. 1999. https://www.pbs.org/video/wxxi-documentaries-warrior-two-worlds/ ·       Vergun, David. “Engineer Became Highest Ranking Native American in Union Army.” U.S. Department of Defense. 11/2/2021. https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2781759/engineer-became-highest-ranking-native-american-in-union-army/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul Morrow from WNY Collectibles Inc. in the City of Tonawanda on the store and the popularity of vintage sports items this holiday season full 550 Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:30:36 +0000 BSrSEPFKkMAcnLtei05ptLDtK3ACUBvj sports,buffalo bills,buffalo sabres,news,wben,city of tonawanda WBEN Extras sports,buffalo bills,buffalo sabres,news,wben,city of tonawanda Paul Morrow from WNY Collectibles Inc. in the City of Tonawanda on the store and the popularity of vintage sports items this holiday season Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News

State Assemblyman Bill Conrad on Amigone being forced to relocate its crematory on Sheridan Drive in Tonawanda full 187 Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:45:56 +0000 KlBxolVhi2mx4ZYsp76Q5FNkhbOKOybU news,wben,town of tonawanda,amigone funeral home,bill conrad,news & politics WBEN Extras news,wben,town of tonawanda,amigone funeral home,bill conrad,news & politics State Assemblyman Bill Conrad on Amigone being forced to relocate its crematory on Sheridan Drive in Tonawanda Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News & Politics News False

Sabres' Director of Community Relations, Rich Jureller at Turkeys for Tickets in Tonawanda full 172 Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:15:10 +0000 HkK3q296iRh1EdKQNWsuFO74ytoU1REE buffalo sabres,audacy,buffalo,news,wben,feedmore wny,turkeys for tickets,buffalo city mission,tops friendly markets WBEN Extras buffalo sabres,audacy,buffalo,news,wben,feedmore wny,turkeys for tickets,buffalo city mission,tops friendly markets Sabres' Director of Community Relations, Rich Jureller at Turkeys for Tickets in Tonawanda Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False ht

North Tonawanda Mayor Austin Tylec on a State Supreme Court judge's ruling that forces the Public Service Commission to reconsider Digihost's application to take over the former Fortistar plant full 332 Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:00:39 +0000 vvCkI3c1noZZUMRjQtHXz2AjAkgJFtin news,wben,north tonawanda,cryptocurrency,austin tylec WBEN Extras news,wben,north tonawanda,cryptocurrency,austin tylec North Tonawanda Mayor Austin Tylec on a State Supreme Court judge's ruling that forces the Public Service Commission to reconsider Digihost's application to take over the former Fortistar plant Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc.

Town of Tonawanda Supervisor Joe Emminger on overnight winter parking rules being pushed back full 230 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:00:13 +0000 JDv3hkSe6sJswtIkX6RtYikQ2UkGc8Zn news & politics,news WBEN Extras news & politics,news Town of Tonawanda Supervisor Joe Emminger on overnight winter parking rules being pushed back Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News & Politics News False

Today, we re-visit the topic of smart meters, as they made their way back into the news today with the announcement from National Grid of their two year smart meter deployment plan for Western New York customers. What has your experience been with the much maligned smart meters? Also, Bauerle spends some time talking about the Hamburg man who was arrested for a fatal hit-and-run in Tonawanda last night.

City of Tonawanda Police address car chase Monday night (Courtesy WKBW) full 870 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:28:47 +0000 1OfNtL8OxGa1A0lVr6KA113H0DIQ03xP news & politics,news WBEN Extras news & politics,news City of Tonawanda Police address car chase Monday night (Courtesy WKBW) Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News & Politics News False https://player.amperw

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul addresses the Sumitomo Rubber plant closure in Tonawanda full 174 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:30:13 +0000 06C71nVnWxHiPpVZ7b6Gq2UdSe4oqZ0t news,kathy hochul,wben,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber WBEN Extras news,kathy hochul,wben,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber New York Gov. Kathy Hochul addresses the Sumitomo Rubber plant closure in Tonawanda Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False https://p

In continuing the coverage of the sudden closure of the Sumitomo Rubber plant in Tonawanda, we speak with Dave Wyse, who spent 25 years working at the plant and attended a rally this morning at Aqua Lane. Also, in the back half of the program, we re-visit the topic of the American diet and how the food we are eating is slowly poisoning us.

Today, we received the terrible news that the Sumitomo Rubber plant in Tonawanda closed it's doors, leaving in excess of 1,500 people without a job. Have you been impacted by this, whether you worked there yourself or had a family member that did? We also hear from David Bellavia and Robert Boreanaz on the matter.

Local workers are sunned by the sudden closure of the Sumitomo Rubber plant in Tonawanda, Over 1,500 are now without jobs. Todays program features extensive reaction and discussion about the plant closure.

Tonawanda Town Supervisor Joe Emminger reacts to the closure of the Sumitomo Rubber plant on Sheridan Drive full 235 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:00:56 +0000 1mC4YtUgpH0f1vpEipqftXVOBxyYA08V news,wben,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber,joe emminger WBEN Extras news,wben,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber,joe emminger Tonawanda Town Supervisor Joe Emminger reacts to the closure of the Sumitomo Rubber plant on Sheridan Drive Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and deputy county executive Lisa Chimera react to the closure of the Sumitomo Rubber plant in Tonawanda full 716 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 17:30:12 +0000 e73HFWWa3nTuemAD60wKTeSmoEl8wI06 news,wben,mark poloncarz,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber,lisa chimera WBEN Extras news,wben,mark poloncarz,erie county,town of tonawanda,sumitomo rubber,lisa chimera Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and deputy county executive Lisa Chimera react to the closure of the Sumitomo Rubber plant in Tonawanda Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News

Medal of Honor recipient and weekday 10a-2p host David Bellavia joins the show to discuss with Bauerle the closure of the Sumitomo Rubber plant in Tonawanda from the political perspective, is there anything that President-elect Trump and his administration can do to help or reverse or remedy this situation?

Robert Boreanaz, Labor and Employment Attorney and partner at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP, who represents some of the unionized employees of the Sumitomo Rubber plant, joins the show to provide some insight on the closure of the Sumitomo Rubber plant in Tonawanda, and how the WARN Act could play into this situation.

Erie County Legislator Frank Todaro (R) reacts to the closure of the Sumitomo Rubber plant in Tonawanda full 202 Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:55 +0000 iuSFa1SLb9vHaNFFe4cl8URl369vFuBc news,wben,town of tonawanda,erie county legislature,sumitomo rubber,frank todaro WBEN Extras news,wben,town of tonawanda,erie county legislature,sumitomo rubber,frank todaro Erie County Legislator Frank Todaro (R) reacts to the closure of the Sumitomo Rubber plant in Tonawanda Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False

On October 9, 1862, David Henry White was kidnapped at sea from the United States merchant ship Tonawanda by Captain Raphael Semmes of the CSS Alabama. The young man was from a free, black family of Lewes, Delaware, and was employed on the Tonawanda by the Cope Line as a passenger cook. Dr. Andrew Sillen, author of Kidnapped at Sea, discusses the story of David Henry White, his life while enslaved on the CSS Alabama, and the Lost Cause myth proliferated by the memoir of Semmes. For images and sources, please visit https://shipwrecksandseadogs.com/blog/2024/10/19/kidnapped-at-sea-david-henry-white/. For ad-free listening to Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs and many other fantastic history podcasts, subscribe to Into History at IntoHistory.com/shipwreckspod. You can support the podcast in multiple ways! Make a one-time donation at buymeacoffee.com/shipwreckspod Subscribe to Into History at IntoHistory.com/shipwreckspod Buy some Merch! Follow on Social Media @shipwreckspod Tell a friend! Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs is written, edited, and produced by Rich Napolitano. Original theme music by Sean Sigfried. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Town of Tonawanda settles a $480,000 lawsuit over a warehouse project. The Buffalo Common Council approved nearly $400,000 for emergency stabilization of two historic Cobblestone District buildings.