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through her child from a burning building to a crowd of bystanders. to save her. so the queen call joe joe and i was waiting for them to come together then after the baby. now let's gay the big when they can see who should be no. gonna, my niece was always holding my head like those as arm local setup road blocks that a friend the neighborhood. we follow a police operation to catch polluted and a miraculous escape for passengers on board a russian playing the cross lands off the disappearing off right off over. so i'd be rid picture heading away in just a few moments time for those of you watching in the united states. it's the news with rick sanchez. we're back in our time with the latest join us again that are on this week show all our lives music has been free on radio, but our congress and big corporate record labels hastening the day. the music died

. stay tuned, but 1st the lawyer is in the meter is off. i'm holland cook in washington. this is the big picture on our t america. oh, oh. much of life moved online during the shut down and much of it will stay there tele health visits, spirit, as those old magazines, and the doctor's waiting room and 4 other service professionals forced to innovate . similarly, online delivery has brought growth. is this channel opportune for attorneys? let's ask one attorney sarah pap antonio of the 11 pap antonio rafferty law firm. sarah, even if legal zooms shares didn't job 35 percent on it's recent i p o

date c e o dan, we're in a cost smells money. listen to this, be there, have a very low cost solution which doesn't provide any guidance, or you have to go all the way to the extreme of now you have to pay for an expert and you're worried about the time you're spending with the expert. and so we try to like get right in the middle of those 2 opportunities and use technology really to make the expert that much more efficient. the market itself is extremely large. we're talking about a 50000000000 ish, sam. and, you know, today the digital consumption is extremely low. so, you know, when you think about legal services, we only have, you know, 8 percent of our services are delivered online versus other categories like accounting, where you see much more adoption of online solutions. so that's, that's the opportunity that's in front of us and when we get really excited, sarah, to part question for which if any legal services is online delivery useful,

and for which is it a false economy? and how has this zoom era changed your firm's practice? well, calling legal team is a great way. it's going to be great for small businesses. great for people to avoid spending money on paper pushing type lawyers, you know, these are gonna be the lawyers who we pay huge field fields to fill out documents or through a state planning business formation taxes. all kinds of things like that. we pay tons and tons of money to these lawyers to do things that most of us could probably just figure out with a little bit of guidance. and this company is providing that access and they're providing that guidance to people through affordable legal services. i think are going to have some lawyers who fear that this platform is going to take over the legal field entirely, but i don't see that being the case. this is very innovative. it's never going to be a full substitution to legal representative. and that's because, you know, lucky for us lawyers, while makers have made laws very difficult to gras, they've given us a lot of job security. and so they've made the law very nuanced. so legal zoom this,

this program is going to be so great for small businesses with heavy paperwork who are who you know, who just need that extra push, but legal team is never going to get up and be able to are you ok surgery? they're never going to be able to fight a motion to dismiss on a multi $1000000.00 corporation. but the thing that we need to grab from legal zoom is how important it is. the point is, is that we as warriors are so behind the curve in terms of adjusting to the legal we're or the zoom world adjusting to the technological world. like we heard only 8 percent, 8 percent of our services are done online and that's just not ok. see where we are in, you know 2021. and we have got to make these adjustments and i think legal zoom. this program is going to push our industry into making those adjustments. so in the end, i think those programs are very good for the industry. we've seen how important it is through this massive pandemic and through the zoom error. so we certainly are

going to try to take as much advantage of it as we can and push it. we've all gotten virtual during the shut down. has your firm increased what it does online? absolutely, you know, we right now we're living in the area of the era of zoom, depositions, zoom trials. and what we found is it gives us a lot more time and efficiency to focus on the science and a lot more time spent working on the case. we're not traveling, we're not spending all of this time, you know, talking to just wasting time. the virtual world has done so much for our legal profession. it's made us so much more efficient. so we can't stop using it. well, you know, we've got to keep pushing forward and our law firm certainly is taking full advantage. we are speaking with attorney sarah pap, antonio and sarah, this is the 1st chance i have had to ask you since the big story broke recently. why is bill cosby free? i got to start by saying, you know, and i truly do hate to say this,

but the court in so cause this case was right, procedurally, constitutionally speaking, he's, he's free on constitutional grounds and, and that's because you can't promise a person that they will not be prosecuted and then turn around and prosecute them. that's exactly what happened in the bill cosby case, but you know how in here we really can't blame the court for upholding the law. who we need to blame is the prosecutor who failed to uphold the law. he was too afraid to uphold the law. see this, this prosecutor in, instead of upholding the law for the filing charges, pursuing criminal action, what he did is, is promise a sex offender that he would not prosecute him promise bill cash or bill cosby. he would not be prosecuted and then turned around and encouraged him to testify in a civil case. so based on those assurances of the prosecution cause we testified in that civil case where he admitted to drug in women. but holland, because of that promise, because the d a promise not to prosecute. none of bill cosby should have been

testimony should have been admissible in a later criminal trial. see, once the promise not to prosecute was made, the prosecutor had invoked bill cosby is constitutional, right? called due process. and so the ruling by the supreme court in bill cosby case to release him is sadly, procedurally correct, but it's only because our criminal justice system made such a bad call. and frankly, they were just too scared to rise up against a man in power and bill cosby. i guess sometimes the wrong thing can happen for the right reason. even before donald trump lost his re election bed and he did lose a social media post by don junior, we're raising eyebrows. i don't think joe, it's part of be like, hey, let's send them all the trail. don't hack the mcdonald's own dc. i mean, why don't we just give bruton like, i don't know the keys to the nuclear football? what's the list don't?

heck. one joe's basement, 200 businesses, 300 laptop, 10 percent for the big i for don't have that. the world watched as whitney houston and amy winehouse, self destructed in plain sight, and in the 1970 s. i was stunned when i met karen carpenter as she was starving herself to death. and yet the conservatorship, britney spears described, sounds like prison. sarah. when legally is intervention justified? so we'll, intervention is typically what we call a last resort option. it's justified only when someone does not have the mental capacity to manage their day to day lives. you know, these are the people who have no concept of reality. no ability to judge their finances and who really just can't take care of themselves. and when we're talking

about a conservatorship, the court, that's the court taking power away from you and giving it to someone else. so the big question here in britney's case, and in the case of, of legal intervention, is, can they take care of themselves? can brittany manage her own finances? and, and you just have to look at it for what it is. and it looks like she can use a and one in one day. we have britney spears, who for the last 10 years has been going on tour, who has been, has a residency in las vegas who's been hosting shows and in the other. but and people are saying she can't manager in finance, she's made $138000000.00 in the last 10 years. and they're telling her she's not capable of managing that. but in the other main, you've got, you know, don junior, just looking like a crazy person and no one's telling him, but he can't manage his finances. no one's telling him that they need to take away his money. so when a legal intervention is right, i don't really know what can answer it because it's applied so badly in these

settings. could these videos that trump junior is posting, come back to haunt him as evidence? i think they certainly can, but when we're talking about, you know, someone's mental state, it's just so difficult to establish what true mental and competence is. and so i think they certainly will come back as evidence of you know, who he is. i don't know that they'll hold much weight or value time will tell. thank you sarah pap, antonio, 11 pap antonio rafferty law firm and pensacola, appreciate your time here in washington. democrats and republicans agree on very little, but both sides have a bone to pick with facebook. much of the controversy you've heard concerns so called section 230 social media clean, do protections as impartial platforms, while editing, light publishers do. and now in and ugly truth inside facebook's battle for

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coming up when government deregulation ran a mock in the 1990 s radio disc jockey cease to being an opportune career path. now corporate record labels and some in congress or even threatening the robots. you know, here's spinning that hits on f. m. how long will music be free? this is the big picture on our t america. ah . join me every thursday on the alex simon show, and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me. we live in an age now where the supply side of the equation is broken,

knower entering into the supply shocks where there could be micro chips for example, or basic commodities or sharply. and there's a food insecurity now by hundreds of millions of people around the world just emerging over the past 12 months because of it's runaway inflation because of the runaway money printing as we've been bank for a few years. so now people are really coming to grips with the fact that yeah, as the reports been right about it, what i classic rock trivia question. what was the rolling stones very 1st single in 1900. 63. it was come on a truck barre song, and mick jagger recalled the 1st time he heard it on radio. he said the label told

him that the record would be played that weekend. bye bryan matthew. on the big saturday morning b. b. c. show called saturday club. jagger said i was glued to the radio at 10 o'clock and there it was. we were. how does it go over the moon for a century now? recording artists and radio stations have literally made beautiful music together. air play, turn the merging accent the superstars and drove the record in birch and die sales and sold concert tickets. and if you're my age, you went through lots of 9 volt transistor radio batteries during the british invasion. and when mo, town and the beach boys became the soundtrack of the sixty's, composers have always earned royalties. but artists have settled for exposure until now, streaming services and i tunes and amazon a record labels which now want radio to cough it up to at their be has congressman ted deutsche, florida democrats and darrell ice, a california republican,

have introduced what they called the american music fairness act, which would impose a new performance fee on local radio stations war playing artist songs. and here's the lesson in washington speak fairness versus freedom. as in the local radio, freedom act, supported by a bi partisan house majority, which would prevent congress from imposing any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge upon a m r f. m. stations. if these new fees do fly, the bigger the station, the bigger the cost and on stations behalf, the national association of broadcasters points out that the $3.00 largest record labels are foreign owned, sony music, universal music group, and warner music group, which account for 70 percent of all recorded music revenue and have a combined market cap of almost $170.00

b $1000000000.00. by arguing that the a, m, f, a, only target's big station groups. the record industry also says to broadcasters, especially minority broadcasters. you can be little, but you can never be big. could new royalties cost us free music on radio? let's ask too long time broadcasters, david bernstein as manage some of radios, most respected stations. and now teachers, media studies at the university level. and paul glazer owns stations in texas, and like you are affable host, they are both long ago radio d j's as i as i understand the threat stations with an annual revenue under a 1000000 and a half box would have to pay $500.00 a year doesn't seem crippling or with ad revenue clobbered during the pandemic and

stations under attack from pandora, and the other new tech competitors. could this be the straw that breaks the camel's back, paul? several years ago, you switched your old the station to sports? did the looming royalty threat figure in and even of the fees are low for the little guy now? is the genie out of the bottle? i think the genie is out of the bottle holland that i think there's i oppose. and i stand with my industry association hosing these fees in recognition of probably coming anywhere because radio has to my great regret a bad then the value proposition to the record labels that through a large extent by. busy taking away what made radio unique watch, which was the duration of music that only live local radio to do radio is turned into a rather or music appliance, and there are better music appliances. and all those music appliances are paying

the fees to those of us who remember personality, d, j, i think wolf, man, jack, in american graffiti. it all sound so robotic now. and david as a university professor, you walk among the young who are big streaming consumers. if the music disappeared from fm would 19 year olds, even notice they wouldn't care. they don't care where they get it from. they care what they get. now most people have been and still are listening to fm radio. if they're listening for music, but they're not getting the music that they used to get used to f m radio. now you will hear by virtue of any format, hit songs. if you're listening to a spanish station, you'll hear the spanish. it's song. if you're listening to, well you name the format and they play the hits. and so where do you get new music from? and because most f m stations refused to go there. that's where the streaming stations

are. let's take a look at what we have as far as stream. this is most people have do the streaming on there for. so let me tell you i'm of the age where i wouldn't stream that much on the phone. but i have apps that include pandora, youtube music tune in sirius x m radio garden, itunes, spotify, jango, apple, music. speaker, live by live, i heart music, stitcher, and sound cloud. and that's for somebody who listen to a lot of talk radio gosh, but when i was music i want one i want to get and i'm going to more likely get it from there than from any place these buttons you've just recited to are now all over the dashboard, a new car is crowding out. the m f. m buttons. we're speaking with esteemed radio executive turn media studies professor david bernstein and paul glazer,

who in addition to owning radio stations is himself a popular conservative radio and tv ponder his blog is you tell me texas dot com. david and paul both appeared at the recent talker as conference at hoster university, as did bill o'reilly without rush limbaugh, who is really the leader of it. no doubt the rush limbaugh was the leader of the conservative movement in america. there's no politician came close to him and there's nobody on television that can touch him. and he had built that up over decades and his reach was so vast and for 3 hours day, you could count on him putting forth what the conservative point of view was. that's gone. so now you have it's balkanized now. yeah. instead of one standard, barry at 10. david and paul, we 3 met here a couple of months ago is various would be rush replacements. were carving up the map of his hundreds of affiliate stations. and paul,

yours was one of those stations. how is life after limbaugh going there in east texas? so far so good, but it, so that's a chapters still being written. we don't know the long term impact of the absence of rush. we're still in the process of having that story written. i can't tell you, but still a year from now, what the impact of rushes absence is. we're going to feel it. we won't have the kind of numbers that we had with rush without rush. i can tell you that will the format continue? absolutely. will people still come to talk radio to get their, their conservative fix? absolutely. but i don't think there's ever going to be a guy like rush again. i don't think there's going to be one guy that is the absolute definition of the format. again, the way ross was, you went with fox across america with jimmy failed and your advertisers stuck with

your correct? yes, so the clients are happy and they're they this radio station, they like the radio station. there's a lot more of this radio station than just rush limbaugh. and that's true here. it's not necessarily true and a lot of rush limbaugh already a lot of rush stations in the rush station, and that's all they got. we were careful to make sure that didn't happen here. david, i am dating myself. when i wax wistful for the talent you use to manage a w o r a new york back when you're a line up included with he wise? personal finance? talkers. cannon diary, a dolan advice. guru, dr. joy, brown and neal try at looking at the law. another, a political talkers are i p can and joy and neil, but david can lifestyle talk live again. must talk radio. just be this on your trump railway. we now here know if it has to come back. there cannot

be the same drum roll on and on and on and on. even if you buy into it, even if you believe it, even if you love it still more to life and just that. and if radio is the great entertainment media, that it is, and it is, and we have to get broader, we have to be able to provide all kinds of lifestyle issues that affect everybody. it's arguable that a virus is not political. now, it became political. but the fact of the mattress people still needed information in didn't matter which political party they felt they are affiliated with. the fact is that the wife continues with many, many tentacles coming out from r b. and where those tentacles reach will be determined by what receptors are out there. if there is talk radio receptors out there and they're willing to take him

lifestyle issues, important issues, by the way. it's not that politics is the only important issue and everything else is not important. we're talking about all of life's important issues and they're different to different people. and we as talk, radio must serve corporate radios. bloodletting has been brutal for talent are age, but there can be oppertunity at entry level deva that just got about 30 seconds. so don't over think this right off the top of your head. gimme adjectives describe the budding broadcaster for whom these could be opportune times. profile him or her and what a key skill should be prominent on that resume. he or she needs to have a something to say be, be a likable. ready individual and see, be willing to listen because as information comes in, you form not new thoughts and then you can share it with people,

open their eyes and they'll be with you every single day. and paul, quickly a digital skills or an hour much, it's not just the live real time on air show, correct? absolutely true. yeah. and these kids have their native, these are the young kids, they're learn them in school. i mean it's, it's magic to us for these. it's native to the, to the current generation. there are teaching us, but i would add to what, what david just said the of the, you the so called youtube and the instagram stars are tomorrow's discharge. manage has to come back if music radio is to survive, you're right. that is the farm team, david bernstein. paul glides there. thank you for stepping into the big picture and thank you for watching the big picture. we're going to be back same time next week . if you're watching real time, and if you set your d v r or on direct tv channel 3 to one dish dish where 280 are live stream it's and

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tire max kaiser. this is the kaiser report. did you enjoy those summer solutions? yeah, i know i did. well, it's time to get back into the problems. so let's turn to stacey. right. well, you know, the fad had better hope the solution to inflation is just time because remember, they keep on saying it is transitory. well, their usual solution is giving more and more money. the treasury is always giving more money, congress more and more money. so we're going to look at what some of the results that have come out while we've been gone for the past 2 weeks there. see now the inflation numbers have over 5 percent. the highest and a very long time since 2000 they but container freight rate spike to new extremes, up 500 percent for asia, us asia use as early 2020. and the worse is still ahead and we'll factor uses

a quote from jerome. pow, just under this, it turns out as a heck of a lot easier to create demand than it is to bring supply up to snuff. so we'll go over some of the details on these rates, but they're pretty shocking mac. right? yeah, that's a good comment by well f rector about demand, you know, that was spoken about in keynes in economics corners that they need to stimulate demand by printing money. but we live in an age now where the supply side of the equation is broken. so we're entering into the supply shocks, whether it could be micro chips, for example, or basic commodities or up sharply. there's a food insecurity now by hundreds of millions of people around the world just emerging over the past 12 months because of this runaway inflation because of the runaway money printing, as we've been saying for

a few years. so now people are really coming to grips with the fact that yeah, because.