Greg
Appearances
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
The one with the Romanian accent is the real one, just to set that up front.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Go into every single version that was released into the credit screen. And on the programmer, there's only one name ever. There's also multiple Romanian quotes from BUG Mafia. It's quite obvious that the author is fucking Romanian.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Because it was just me doing everything. The whole source, I was in possession of it the whole time.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
I learned Delphi by working on Sub7. It was my very first project. It was spaghetti code. That was the main reason it wasn't shared. And every single version was dedicated to BUG Mafia. How do you explain that, Greg?
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
This was at the very end. After I left the scene, there was one version released by Reed101. That's what you're bringing up?
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
How do you explain B.U.G. Mafia in the credits? Can you answer the question? The band... Because they're... Yeah, the band, the Romanian hip-hop band that was mentioned in every single release. It's the band where the nickname Mob Man comes from. How do you explain that? Let me pull up the videos of... We used to listen to them. Videos of what?
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
In 1999, first version that does mention it, BUG Mafia didn't even have any songs online, man. I brought tapes with me from Romania. They were only on tape. You could not have heard of them on the internet in 1999 when this was put in the About credits. It just doesn't make sense, man. Like everything.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
You mentioned that you made it for some Ultima Online things, like to steal credits or something. What was the story, Jack? Because he mentioned it on your podcast.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
It was all an Ultima Online thing. You would find traces of it looking up Ultima Online EXE or INI or something. You could open it up because the server opens up files and you can find those file names if you open the EXE in a text editor. So you'd find it had a method where it would modify win.ini to start up. So you could find that reference in the EXE there. If
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
none of the versions have any sort of reference to any Ultima Online things. Files or EXEs or program names. The stuff that you came up with doesn't make any goddamn sense, man. I'm surprised that it lasted this long, honestly. I'm surprised you were able to push it for this long.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
The master passcode has my birthday in it. That's another one. It has my birthday in it. Are you born in October 15, 1980? How do we know that that's your birthday? I'll send you a picture of my driver's license.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
I highly doubt that it says that. I doubt that you're born on October 15, 1980. Okay. You show me a picture.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Oh, is that what started the whole thing? The whole stealing the identity because the birthdays matched?
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Because it was mentioned. It's on the sub-7 wiki, man. It was a known fact.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
So on the official Sub7 website, there were multiple references to Romania and Craiova, the city where I'm from.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
This is related to the birthday. I'm just going back to the Romanian thing. Like, There's multiple verses in Romanian in the about screens, in a couple of the different versions.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Yeah. So how, like what? It's obviously a Romanian that made it. Not some great guy from Florida.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
And also, yeah, speaking of which... The first five or six versions, the first thing that the About credit said was from Windsor, Ontario. Were you ever in Windsor, Ontario?
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Yeah, you can get any of the versions. Download any of the old versions. There's multiple. There's 12, 15. Do you have them all? Every single one, you can go to the About screen. Yeah. And the first five or six say from Windsor, Ontario, dedicated to BUG Mafia. And some of them have quotes in Romanian.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
They don't let me go to Canada. I know they don't because you have a record. How do you explain that then in the credits? You can't, dude. You can't. You can't come up with bullshit fast enough. I'm missing the Euros for this. You're what? You're wasting Euros for this? I'm missing the Euro 2024 soccer game. It's a long game. You'll be all right. I'm just kidding. Romania played yesterday.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
What does a Delphi function start and end with, if you're such a good person?
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
A function. What's the first thing you do after the function? What is the beginning and the end of the block of code? How is that denoted in Delphi? No. How do you define the beginning and the end of a function? You know in C you have the curly brackets? What do you have in Delphi? Like, Jack, this is ridiculous, man. I doubt this guy even touched Delphi, you know?
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
So let's say you define a function. You type the word function and then you put the function name. Then what's on the next line? You begin, you end, you do stuff. That's what I was looking for, man. The beginning and the end. I don't know, it just sounds pretty basic. So you don't even know basic stuff, man?
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Of course you don't. I have notes. I have multiple backup CDs that I burnt with multiple stages of the source. I have a hoodie that I used to sell back then in the store. I took pictures of it. I have the source code. I have multiple proofs.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
At this point, you're just bullshitting. Because there's no GitHub. There's no source. Or if there is, it's definitely not a sub-7 source.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
okay it's zero zero proof it's all talk i have multiple things that i've put out there i gave him all to ill will and he posted them on his twitter there's notes there's little handwritten notes with with ideas and because i worked on this like four years i put a lot of hard work into it this wasn't just some script to to steal ultima online credit like really dude
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
That's the only actual proof he came forward. And that was never actually owned by the real mob man. Never. It's not documented anywhere. I never owned any domains back then because I was trying to stay anonymous. Everybody else was buying them. So all he did is he bought an expired domain. So in the credits also, there's a Gmail account as well.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
How long has it been? It's hilarious. I feel sorry for you, man. Like your biggest accomplishment is impersonating somebody else. Like, you know, I feel sorry for you.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Oh, is that why you go to all the conferences saying you're a mob man? You don't even tell anyone? I don't, because a lot of people don't even know what it is. It has pictures of you at DEFCONs, multiple DEFCONs, when you're going around with mob man and telling everybody you made sub-7. But now you're saying you don't tell people. Come on, dude. Just come out with it.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
I'm saying it right now. I'm coming out and saying, you're the creator. This guy's unknown.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
You have been coming out and saying the truth. Are you going to stop going to places and claiming you're a mob man?
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
You can say you're a mob man, just not the one that made Sub-7. Big difference.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Can we agree on that? Come on. You know you want to. You've been living a lie.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
If anybody, like, for the listeners out there, right, like, If you think you can challenge me or anything like that, or if you knew me from back in the day, just send a message. We'll talk it out. I'm not hiding anything. I can show all the stuff that I talked about. The CDs. I still have the hoodie. I can put it in pictures. I can meet you up if you come over here. I'm still in Windsor.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
To see the proof, right? To see the proof. If anybody wants to challenge me in any way or wants to actually see all this stuff that I'm talking about. I didn't think you were going to show up, honestly. Because really, what could you have said?
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Because you're being outed. Because you're being outed for how much bullshit you've been spewing.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
For something you don't care about, you sure as hell spent a lot of time and effort. This isn't just some fad.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
You've been going around giving interviews as the author of Sub7. How is that not effort put into it? You've been going to DEF CON conferences.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
You're really going with this, man? Like, really? What source code? Why do you keep going back to it? I thought we agreed on you're not going to claim that no more.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
You said sub-7 source, so I'm not going to let you bullshit right now because that's not the sub-7 source. That has never left my hands until it was released by Illwill on GitHub. Never. You'll not find a copy of it anywhere in the world, on any website, on any backup, except the ones I have. So, like... As soon as you said sub-seven source, like, no, dude, stop. You got to stop.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
I made this Sub 7. It's a remote access tool. And it was a Trojan horse virus.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
You could open and close the CD wrong. You could flip the screen. You could hide the start button. You could move the mouse on their screen and click around. You could open up their C drive, change their wallpaper.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
1999, I want to say. And what is the meaning of it? It's... it comes from a rap band a romanian rap band called bug mafia it's a bucharest underground mafia that's their name i'm a big fan of them and when i was thinking coming up with a new nickname it just had a nice ring to it mob man you know yeah yeah i like it yeah
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
It wasn't really a hacking thing. It was more of a programming thing. I taught myself to program when I was very little. I did a whole bunch of little games. This was back when I was still in Romania. So in 97, moved to Canada with the whole family. Then I found out about Delphi. I wanted to start learning in Delphi. So I just happened to pick a rat to work on, basically.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Yeah. Well, it all stemmed from Netbus, right? It preceded Sub-7. It was one of the original Trojans. It was called NetBus, so I played around with that a little bit, and that's kind of what inspired me to create something similar. What did NetBus do? It was the same thing, a remote access Trojan, a rat. It had a little UI and a server. You would send somebody and then connect to them.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
So that's kind of what I was trying to emulate when I started. And then... After I got a couple of features going, I packaged it up and uploaded it to a hacking site. That started picking up steam. I had my contact details on there. And people started sending me emails contacting me. Oh, can you add this? Can you add this? Can you add this? So that's kind of how it grew from there.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
I was like, hmm, I wonder if I can do this in Delphi. So I would look into it, do some research, see if I can find it out. And if it was possible, I would just do it.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
It was all fun at the beginning and for the first many versions, it was all just fun. Having fun with people, you know, playing tricks on them, pranks and things like that. That was the whole motivation behind it and everything else. But then started hearing all these stories about people using it for malicious purposes.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Always in the back of my mind was sort of like, well, there's many of these tools available. They just happened to pick the one I made. They would have just picked a different one if it wasn't for Sub-7. So, I mean, it's part of why I left, I guess, in the end. I wanted to get into something else, some sort of different.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Throughout the whole thing, I've always tagged as a hacker, you know, but I was just a programmer. I was trying to learn to program.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Some of the most popular features in it were the ones just for fun, like the Matrix one. You just turn your whole screen black and you type letters one by one. It was basically a chat, but you couldn't get out of it. You couldn't do anything. You would just chat back and forth with whoever was on the other end.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
The very first time I heard about somebody impersonating my name and taking credit for all this stuff was stemmed from your podcast. I had a local friend, Sebastian, we call him Septa, that is a big fan of your podcast and heard that you had an interview with Mob Man. Obviously, he knew what that was, you know, and was looking forward to listening to it and listen to it.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
And he's like, what is this? Who's this guy? He sent me a message. He's like, yo, I listened to the podcast expecting you. And there's this other guy talking about some random stuff. I don't know what's going on. That's how I found out first. And then a couple of months later, Illwill contacted me. He's the one that started the whole process.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
He sent me a little zip file with a couple of details about me. He had a picture of my car. And he was like, the password for the zip file is your full name. So if it's really you, then you should be able to open it. He's like, I'm 99% sure that it's you, that I've traced you there. And I replied, I said, well, you're right. You can be 100% sure now. And he was the one that kind of
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
not convinced me because i was a little bit indifferent right like i this was a long time ago i don't know if i really want to get back into any of that but he made a good point like a lot of people have made their start with this you know and it's not right to have somebody else take the credit like History should be set straight.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Because the whole thing was I didn't want to publicly say who I was. You know, I didn't want to publicly admit all this stuff. Why was that? I don't know. I don't know. After a really, really long time, it didn't really make any sense to still stay hidden.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
People started getting in trouble for making tools like that at that point. Like you said, you know, like just for making them, not for actually using them. So that contributed to like, I need to get out of here.
Darknet Diaries
150: mobman 2
Yeah. No, no. I never got into any actual trouble or heard of anything, but I kept everything private, like everything. Nobody knew my name, even the people that are closest to me, closest to me in the scene, like part of the crew and things like that. Nobody actually knew. They knew the city I was in. The very first version said the city I was in said from Windsor, Ontario.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
Well, I'm all funny. I don't have a boring moment. Our first date was us going hiking, okay? Like, I'm not boring, and I'm not going to sit there and just make half-attempted jokes. I'm a funny guy. I like to make jokes. I like to laugh. We get one life, and we should be laughing the entire time through it, not connecting with what. I don't even understand what that is.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
Like, laughing is the best way to connect with people. So I don't know what you're even – find your accountant or your tax guy, then, and have fun.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
Well, you know what? That's fine by me. After hearing why you're ghosting me, which, by the way, like, ghosting somebody and not being honest with them, that's pretty kind of messed up on your end, and I find that pretty boring myself. Like, talk to people, all right? So, yeah, that's fine that you don't want another date.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
I don't have time to talk about tax codes or about accounting numbers or any of that nonsense. Hey, can I do an impression real quick? Sure, Greg. hey i'm taylor i went on a date and i didn't laugh once but you know what i saved a bunch of money on my car insurance hey what's up y'all this is eric andre well i made a podcast called bombing about absolutely tanking on stage
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
Yeah, I sent her a couple text messages. I even reached out this morning and I sent her a good morning text message with a picture of a sunrise and got nothing in return.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
Yeah, so we went hiking, right? She picked out this really beautiful killer spot that had this really incredible view. It was really beautiful. It was a nice hike. We reached the top, and, you know, we had been talking throughout the hike, and I thought, hey, this is the perfect moment for, you know, a little nomad, right? So, you know, we get to the top.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
We're looking at this beautiful view, and... I made a joke that, hey, if we fell off this mountain right now, at least we go out with a view. I thought that was pretty funny. And she laughed, but then things got kind of quiet after that. We did kiss after that, though, when we were on top of the mountain. So in my mind, I was like, all right, well, at least it's still a win.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
It was kind of a dark humor joke, but I thought, hey, it's still a win. We kissed. The thing about her is that she's got this very, like, don't mess with me vibe. And I dig that. I love a strong woman. It's really great for me. Again, the hiking was awesome. But then she cracked a joke about how she doesn't kiss on first dates. And I thought she was kidding. But we did kiss.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
She kind of laughed at my joke. And I thought, hey, we went on a really great hike. I thought it was a really good time. So I don't know. She just hasn't talked to me since then. I don't know what's going on.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
I don't want to, like, make assumptions, but, you know, I can assume, you know, it's a situation where it's like, hey, it's the first date. It's kind of a dark humor joke. Maybe she's not super in a dark humor or maybe she thought something differently, you know. For me, I was just like, look, this is a beautiful view.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
Like, if we fell off right now, you know, at least we'd go out seeing a beautiful view. For me, it was just a silly, dumb, dark joke. Right.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
Yeah, like, she kissed me, so, you know, I thought, all right, it was a dark joke. She got kind of quiet, but we did kiss. So, like, in my book, that's a win. Okay. Girls will kiss a guy out of just pure survival to get it over with. Yeah. I'm hoping it wasn't out of fear and survival. I was hoping she was, I mean, again, I thought we were digging each other.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
I thought it was something, I don't know. We were flirting. It was a great hike in my mind. I thought it was something good, but she hasn't talked to me since then. And so I'm now I'm wondering like, Was my joke too far? Did she take it too seriously? Did she kiss me at a survival, as you said?
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
I would, I guess, I mean, I'm thinking about it. I mean, I might have overshared a little bit too much, you know, for a first date. I talked about this meme page that I run on the internet. It's a niche page. So I sent her one after the date. And in my opinion, my humble opinion, it was one of my best memes. But she didn't react. She didn't say anything back. She didn't nothing.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
No, not even like a like on the Apple. You know what I mean? Like how I messaged you can like like it or hard. It didn't do any of that either. Was it about death again? It was just a meme about like cat.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
no no no no it's a bunch of different memes and a bunch of different things uh but that was just the the joke that i happened to send her because again we made a couple cat jokes as we were walking up i'm a dog person personally myself so you know she said that she likes dogs and she likes cats so i figured hey this would be kind of a funny meme to keep the jokes going all right well we'll see if we can figure it out for you then we'll play a song come back and then call her and see if she'll tell us why she's ghosting you and maybe get you another date if you still want one okay
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
Yeah, we went hiking last week. It was a really great time. I made a... a joke about if we fell to our death, at least we'd have a great view. And so I thought it was really great. I send her a meme of a cat, a cat meme after our hike. She didn't react to it. I sent her a couple more messages, including one this morning, and she still has not said anything back to me or responded or anything.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
Okay. Well, that's just me. I'm a funny guy, all right? And I thought we were having a good time, right? And also, just for the record for everyone listening, my meme page is hilarious.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Greg Said What On Their Hike?
Oh, so you like boring, dude. I make a lot of jokes. People love my jokes. You just want to be with some boring guy that doesn't make comments about anything? Come on. I'm hilarious. Hey, I'm Steven. I do taxes. I wear a tweed jacket when I go to work, and I don't make jokes about anything. Who can do it?
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
I will definitely do that. So your background in employment law is super fascinating. What got you on that path? And then talk to me about how through the years this has worked your way into inspiration for the book.
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
So what do you recommend to business owners, leaders, etc., when they're in this pressure cooker? How do you get them to start thinking differently? It is exhausting. It takes a lot more energy. How do you get them to start thinking differently?
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The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
People are just burning out. They're stepping out instead of working through that. So we've talked kind of high level on some things. I want to get into a little bit more boots on the ground. Let's say I am a small business owner. Five things that I should have to protect my business, my assets. I come to you, hey, I'm starting this business where I've got it up and running.
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
We're a couple million in revenue. What do I absolutely got to do?
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
Super helpful. So that opened up a whole nother can of worms for me. I have like 10 more questions. Again, I think the book itself is going to be critical, both quite frankly, for employers and employees. I'm a big believer that, you know, knowledge is power.
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
Well, I love that. Super, super fascinating. Like I said, I've got so many other questions I'd love to ask, but I want to be respectful. And if I've learned anything about attorneys over the years, it is how important time is to them. So I sincerely appreciate your time. You obviously have a passion for what you do. I thank you very much for giving your valuable time with us today.
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
Very neat. I'd be curious, with that 30 years plus of experience, how have you seen the environment between employee and employer change?
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
I'm going to go on the flip side of this coin. What have you seen stay the same? What issues are you still dealing with today that you got introduced to 30 years ago?
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
That is definitely one of my favorite topics. What else would you say are some of the common workplace challenges, especially if you're a small business owner or if you're in a leadership role where you have responsibility and authority? What are some of the other common challenges, workplace issues that we're facing today?
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
I hear you talk about communication. And one of my favorite sayings is good communication is as much about the communicating as it is the comprehension. You know, you've talked about the quality of recruiting. You've talked about retention.
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
So you're in Memphis.
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
How does the laws, the employment laws that we have and that we're working towards, how does that weave in to help with communication and comprehension and retention and recruitment? Pull those together for me.
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
I don't know if you are familiar with this place, but there's a house there that's kind of well-known. There was a singer back in the 60s, I think.
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
Oh, yeah, that's the one. Yeah, neat town you got there.
The Action Catalyst
The Law at Work, with Alan Crone (Legal, Employment, Management, Business)
No, I think there's an opportunity for a mental shift as well is, hey, what if you never get to fire anyone ever? How would that change your behavior in terms of how you dealt with folks? But if we could take a step back and say, hey, let's take a different vision. It sounds like we could solve a lot of these problems. But that's really hard to do.
The Basement Yard
#491 - Joe's Birthday Episode
But again, we don't know. Maybe this dude Montoya deserves it.
The Brett Cooper Show
Can b00bs Save The Planet? | Episode 15
Armed with a pickaxe and sledgehammer, these two fellas went to town on this Tesla. We don't like what Elon Musk is doing. This man would only give me his first name. Greg. Greg. Greg. But says he actually owns the white Model S. I bought it just to destroy it. And Greg says he coordinated the stunt with his friends because he doesn't like Musk.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
You know what? Let's do that. I'll get my publisher right on that. I have a box of books, but I ain't giving any away. I'll tell you that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yes. I have not, you know. Five years ago. Yes or no? Greg, Greg. Hold on, five years ago. No, no, no. Long story.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm always late on my Christmas shopping. Let's put it this way. I'm haunting Amazon right now. And the first thing I look at is not the product or the price. I'm like, is it going to be delivered before Christmas? If it says you'll deliver it, prime delivery, whatever it's called, if I can get it tomorrow, I'll buy anything. You know, I'll buy anything. It just depends on the delivery date.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm a little behind on my shopping, but I'm feeling good. I'm buying gifts. They're showing up on my doorstep.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
I'm a little behind.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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No, that's not true. I enjoy gift giving. I really do. And I'm a champion rapper. The gift, I make a gift look better than it is by my wrapping acumen. That part is true. He's a great rapper. That is a stunner. So you enhance a bad gift by wrapping it well?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Example, in the White Elephant sale, in the White Elephant party we're about to have later today, my gift will stand out because of the wrapping. That's all I'm going to say.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Don Levitard. I heard that as a woman faking pain. I didn't think that sounded real. I really didn't. You know, it was not fake. It was in no way fake.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Stugatz. Yes, I can. Yes. Expert. I've been married 40 years. This is the Don Levitas show with the Stugatz.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Use as little tape, scotch tape, as possible. Put an appropriate bow on just about every gift except a stocking stuffer. You bow? I don't bow. I bow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
I'm a big bower, and it has to fit. It has to fit. The colors have to coordinate, the bow and the wrapping. And there's an art to it. I love wrapping more than I love giving or getting gifts. I love the wrapping process.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
That's a tough art to master. Because if it snags. If it snags and it rips, it just ruins everything. The scissor has to be, and why is it always plural? I'm only holding one pair of scissors.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
But if it's not a particularly sharp scissor, you're screwed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
Yeah, that's true. That's fair. That's a fair comment. I could give a seminar on gift wrapping. I really could.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
I'm against them. Really? Yeah. It's the easy way out. You know? You're cutting corners.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
You should make the kids kick a 30-yard field goal to get a toy. Save money. Right, get all the toys.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
Yeah, dream on. No, I'm just kidding. It's just a joke. It's not a joke, though. You're not joking.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
I think the holiday party has a bad rap. I think at a lot of companies, big companies especially, the holiday party is sort of an obligatory thing that's dreaded. In this case, you know, it's a fairly small crowd. The only weird thing about today is that right after the show, we have like a white elephant gift exchange, and then hours later, we reconvene for the party.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
I was probably like, that kind of thing. Something. Okay, no. The home run call was that kind of swing, that kind of thing. Stugatz. Oh. That's a good call. Thank you. And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. Like, you're not tailoring it to a particular name. You know, all that jazz. You know, you don't got to do that. Oh, that would be a great call.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
Sorry. I apologize. I can't be perfect. Who was it?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
It was my doctor. I got an appointment tomorrow. I get a robocall reminding me about an appointment. Like it's not on my calendar. Like I'm going to forget. Continue. Because you've never canceled a doctor's appointment before, huh? Well, I canceled this one. It was Tuesday, and they snuck me in Friday. Oh, got it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
You were cooking, Dan. I'm sorry.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
Continue. Go back to the stove. Flip those jacks.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
So the logistics of that make it a little difficult, but I'm looking forward to it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
You don't see the crowd because they're just off camera. People were lined up for miles.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
It's always going to be a football town, and I said that 10 years ago when the Big 3 Heat were a thing. It's always going to be a football town. I do think the Panthers have the chance to be the second biggest pro team in the market. with the Panthers just being great.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
Second biggest. Best already.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
No, you should do it, Dan. Instead of writing a check, anybody can write a check. You need to be hands-on in the toy store, picking out every gift.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
My book's in the way here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
Back in my day. Well done. My new book is getting in the way of my sweater. It's a Miller Lite sweater. We love Miller Lite a little too much.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
I got to learn the art of that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
It has. It's a phrase from my ute. And I credit, I don't know if anybody out there old like me remembers Mad Magazine and Alfred E. Newman. That was one of their catch words, catch phrases was maniac. It was very popular in the 60s. If someone was acting crazy and you wanted to like criticize them, but in a funny way, you are a maniac. You're acting like a maniac. People don't say that anymore.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
I want to bring it back. It's like groovy. Jack.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
I'm mailing it in, like you said before.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Florida Panthers The Biggest Thing In Town?
You're mailing it. Somebody give me a stamp. It's almost Christmas. What am I doing working here? I'm in a Christmas sweater. I should be Christmas partying right now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
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Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
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Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
I want to tell you a story. I'm serious here. My wife and my two daughters, they begged me to buy a Peloton. So I bought a Peloton. And then I watched that Peloton sit in my office and stare at me. So you know what I did one day? I looked at it. And so I decided to get off my ass and I jumped on the Peloton because no one else was using it and I paid for it. I mean, so why not?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
Then I realized eventually that they bought it for me. And I got to tell you, way more challenging than I could have ever imagined. Peloton coaches are walking the walk. I love the coaches. I do the Grateful Dead one. It's fantastic. They have a sub three hour marathon runner, military trained athlete, a former college basketball player, and so many other well-rounded coaches on their team.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
All this experience really shows in their classes, which are never short of challenging, especially for me. So I jumped on it that first time. It was challenging, more challenging than I thought. Then I wanted to beat the bike, and so I kept jumping on it, and I absolutely love it. I mean, I'm the only one who uses it, but again, they got it for me. I mean, I had no idea.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
It's the holidays, a time for peace, for love, for presents. And do I have one for you. It's Poppy's Fifty Shades of Christmas. You're welcome.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Thank you, Papi. See, Greg? That's how it's done.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
And this is happening quickly, lots of moving parts, and it's really the first major foreign policy initiative in the Trump administration. And let's listen to what Secretary of State Rubio had to say.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
Yeah, highly unusual. You would be looking or expecting it to be on some neutral ground or semi-neutral ground in Europe, especially when you're talking about the war in Ukraine. But, you know, President Trump just does things differently. And it looks like perhaps a couple issues at work here. We saw Vice President J.D. Vance
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
be sharply critical in a speech in Europe, of Europe, saying that it wasn't doing what it needed to do. So at one level, having this meeting in Saudi seems another jab at Europe, a message that European states don't need to be deeply involved. Again, a sharp contrast to the Biden administration, which built a coalition of 50 countries, mostly European, to assist Ukraine.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
They gather monthly, either in person or virtually, to talk about or coordinate efforts on Ukraine.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
And of course, Franco, what you said is very much the fear of Ukraine, saying that the initial war began in 2014. It did halt, but it just allowed Russia to rearm and prepare for a much larger invasion later, which came in 2022. So this really is a great Ukrainian fear in the past, and it continues to be now. A European fear. Oh, absolutely.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
And that was exactly the kind of phrase that the Biden administration would use, nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine, that they would be there. And again, we've just seen this complete flipping of the way things are done with the Biden administration, working very closely with Ukraine to put pressure on Russia.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
Now, the Trump administration is sort of working initially with Russia, and Ukraine feels very very much under pressure. We did hear Marco Rubio say no one is being sidelined. Ukraine will be included. But the Ukrainians are certainly not feeling that at the moment and are feeling very, very nervous.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
I'm Frank Ordonez. I cover the White House. And I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
So they took place in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. And these are the most extensive, formal, diplomatic talks the U.S. and Russia have had since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost exactly three years ago in February of 2022. The U.S. was led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And the most immediate issue on the agenda is trying to find a way to end the war in Ukraine.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
Well, if that happens, then Ukraine simply couldn't carry on fighting the way it's done for the past three years. Ukraine is outnumbered and outgunned. It's been losing territory over the past year. The U.S. military support has allowed Ukraine to limit those Russian gains. And there's still a bit of the U.S. assistance that's in the pipeline from a big package that was approved last year.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
But when that runs out, which will be fairly soon, Ukraine could lose its biggest single source of foreign military aid. Europe is helping both with military and humanitarian assistance, but Ukraine would be in a very tough spot. It would have to consider how long it could carry on the fight.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
And would it have to make bigger concessions and make them sooner rather than risk a rapidly weakening military position that just keeps deteriorating?
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
What Trump is doing is really looking at the world in a way that was sort of pre-World War II, early 20th century, even 19th century, big powers with a sphere of influence and would expand their power in that region and respect the power of others.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
So again, we should be looking for Trump trying to work directly with Putin in Russia, with President Xi Jinping in China, with the Saudi leader and some other leaders that he considers to be regional powers. Now, many foreign policy analysts say, you know, a lot of these institutions that the U.S.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
helped build after World War II, United Nations, NATO, World Bank, they were fraying and at minimum they needed to be revised and updated. Trump is really challenging them and in a way even more so and more aggressively than in his first term. And we're seeing this very clearly now in Europe, Ukraine in particular.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
And what happens in this specific episode is likely to set the tone and be a template for how he'll pursue U.S. interest in other parts of the world.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
But Rubio said there are even larger goals here and they include trying to normalize and stabilize the U.S.-Russia relationship. looking for ways to possibly improve economic and geopolitical ties. And Sarah, I can't emphasize enough, this is absolutely a 180-degree turn from what we've seen under the Biden administration.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
And I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security.
The NPR Politics Podcast
Roundup: Congress Works On Budget; Cabinet Meets; Good TV
This is Greg, and I am in beautiful Snoqualmie, Washington at a health care conference. And I just finished listening to a keynote address given by one. That's me. It's not a recording. And it was great. This podcast was recorded at 1137 a.m.
The NPR Politics Podcast
Roundup: Congress Works On Budget; Cabinet Meets; Good TV
Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
Yeah, yeah. I think this will be better than an Applebee's commercial that
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
So, yeah, I'm a youth pastor in Wichita, Kansas, and about seven years ago, eight years ago, I was meeting with a guy and discipling him, and just we were getting into a place where we were starting to share personal prayer requests, and one of ours for my family was we had a daughter that was a few years off from going to college, and we started saving, but we had a desire to see them
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
Both of our kids graduate debt-free, and the plan was we would pay 50% after a scholarship, and they would pay 50% after a scholarship, and beginning to go, hey, how are they going to do this? And so just praying about our kids taking their mowing business to the next level. My son was mowing three yards. He could basically put a mower in the back of a minivan and go a few doors down or a
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
We're praying about buying a truck and a trailer and a mower at some point, but the truck was definitely felt outside of her reach. Well, three, four months after we began to pray, I got contacted by my friend, and he said, hey, my wife and I would love to stop by the church today. We just have a brief meeting with you. I was like, hey, I'd love to do that, but I can't today.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
We have a meeting at the church called Perspectives, and They were like, hey, we'd love to come. It literally will take like two minutes. And so it was like 9.30, 10 o'clock at night. They took me to the back of the church, and they said, hey, check that out. And it was a 2013 black Ford F-150 with a trailer and a brand-new John Deere 48-inch engine. zero-turn mower on the back.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
Blew us away, and man, God's generosity through them, but then just the way the moving business took off. We actually had somebody give us 10 yards. They were moving, and Normally they might sell it, and they said, hey, we want to give these to you and your kids.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
And so they started with about 15 yards, and during the next six or seven years made over $100,000 and were able to graduate college debt-free, both of them.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
Very cool. They loved college and are, you know, still growing. But, yeah, they've turned out well. And not only did they graduate college that free, but they just worked hard. And I just saw their generosity through this.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
just mowing free for people and mowing for a pregnancy crisis center.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
Yeah, and just it's cool to see what God has done in their life as they look back and just can't help but notice this generosity.
The Ramsey Show
If You're Intentional With Money, You Can Win With Money
Hey, Dave, how are you doing? Better than I deserve. What's up? So I've gotten myself into a situation where I have a couple hundred thousand in credit card debt and loans that I've let go delinquent. And my question is, do I let it? sit there and fall off my credit report. My research showed maybe it falls off in seven years or do I attack it?
The Ramsey Show
If You're Intentional With Money, You Can Win With Money
And the reason I ask that is we're kind of attacking my wife's debt and my truck payment. And those debts are about a hundred thousand and we're using a snowball method starting that now to, to attack those debts. And I just cannot afford to pay these other debts. And part of my question may have been answered Saturday. What the flip did you buy for $200,000 on credit cards?
The Ramsey Show
If You're Intentional With Money, You Can Win With Money
And my wife is 52. It's our second marriage.
The Ramsey Show
If You're Intentional With Money, You Can Win With Money
She is a nurse. She brings home, takes home $7,500. And right now, unfortunately, I'm in between jobs laid off. And so I'm driving Uber and probably make four grand a month doing that.
The Ramsey Show
If You're Intentional With Money, You Can Win With Money
On average, it fluctuated since we've been together the past five years. On average, it's $85,000. We bought a house in January of 2021. How the heck did you get a house? Well, I had great credit before all this. So I had outstanding credit my whole life. I had an 800 credit score and wasn't delinquent on anything. So I bought the house. When we got into the house, it was a new build.
The Ramsey Show
If You're Intentional With Money, You Can Win With Money
The payment was around 3K. And then we got hit with the fact that the first year it was assessed on land value, so it shot up. And then we got... The county appraisal went up the first year before we were protected by Homestead, 60%. We appealed it, and like all our neighbors and in-laws, so the house payment shot up from $3,000 to about $4,200.
The Ramsey Show
If You're Intentional With Money, You Can Win With Money
Since then, it's appreciated quite a bit, so we removed the PMI and got it down where it's about $3,500 right now. Now, what's it worth? Um... That's the only good decision we made. We owe $432,000, and it's worth on the low end probably $625,000 or $650,000. Cool.
The Ramsey Show
If You're Intentional With Money, You Can Win With Money
No, that's like my wife's card. Some of my wife's credit cards and loans before we got married. How much is your wife's car debt? No car debt for her. Oh, how much is your car debt? That's the first stupid decision I made.
The Ramsey Show
If You're Intentional With Money, You Can Win With Money
No, we have discussed that.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Hi. How are you guys? Can you hear me?
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Hi. Good afternoon. And my name is Greg. I'm 26 years young. And I have... A lot of credit card debt and on top of that, collections as well. So in total, I have $13,105 in credit card debt. Okay. Split between four different cards and $1,760 with collections. Okay. My question is, should I pay the collections first or should I try and attack the credit card with Discover?
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
because they are giving me a lawsuit for attorney, so I don't know which one I should be paying first.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
I have two in collections. One has been in collections for about a year and a half, and then the other one is in collections for around four months.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Right now I'm making $21 per hour, but it's more so part-time.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Josh Gad
Last one I think is sound the most believable and I don't hear any audience. I guess the audiences don't only help They decided collectively 600 people he gets nothing I
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Josh Gad
Sleep. Sorry, sorry. What's the answer? It's so obvious to everyone else. Watching movies. Yes, watching movies, Rachel.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Josh Gad
Hi, my name is Greg, and I'm calling from Daytona Beach, home of Embry-Biddle Aeronautical University, where I work.