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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Catechism of the Catholic Faith, which I believe based on.
This is just kind of like a very pared down
version of the big thing he gave me. Isn't that
what this kind of looks like, Matt? Well, you ask
for spark notes, cliff notes. There you go, it's literally
a book version of it. Ask and you shall receive.
What should we ask for next? A genie that could
grant a million wishes?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We're all for two remembering this gentleman's name. It wasn't Bob.
We don't think it was Bill.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, we're not answering the door, so it's not our fault. Well,
I want to go ahead and make there's no note.
So if the mystery person who's sending us these books
at the door and it's being caught by a person
that is, you know, not us, it's not our fault
that I didn't get the name. I'm trying to remember
a lot of stuff here. I got a lot of
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stuff on my mind.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Hey, look, you're taking it personal. I was just providing
an anecdote to the story of our lives.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Two hundred How are sins remitted? The first in chief
sacrament for the forgiveness of sins is baptism for those
sins committed after baptism, Christ instituted the sacrament of reconciliation
or penance, through which a baptized person is reconciled with
God and with the Church. That's a yeah, and that
summarizes numbers nine seventy six through nine eight and nine
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eighty four to eighty five. Very nice.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I would like breadsticks now, maybe with some marinara.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Sir, this is a Wendy's It's four ten, okay, let's uh,
why do Why don't we talk about the thing that
you talked about for We do a Friday for every
single Friday. But this isn't that. It is kind of
like that though. The concept is like that, except we're
looking for the facts. We're not looking for not looking
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for just like a you come up with your opinion
of the list. I think we're trying to find the
real list here. Who are the foremost important people in
the world? Who are the foremost important or influential people?
How do you how do we define this?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
How do you define the pope? Is the pope one
of the foremost influential people people in the world?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think you got to put them up there. Yeah
with who with well, the president of the United States,
just the president of the United States. I mean obviously
for US that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, but for the world it does too, does it?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
The whole world is watching us, man, I know, but like,
look at how the markets get affected by this stuff
we do.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, but that's trade, right. So I mean, like if
Donald trum would have showed up and did nothing Jimmy
Carter style, Like, would anybody know who he is?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
New Zealand did all this tariff stuff? Do you think
the world would even care? They'd be like, what's New
Zealand doing next? No, we do all this weird tarist
stuff and the world starts freaking out.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, because we're one of the biggest buyers and sellers
of things.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And so the ruler of that well why not system
would be a pretty big deal. By that theory, then
China should be there. Yeah, I would agree. So we
got three. Really, the Pope, the leader of America, and
the leader of China. Really, you're asking me, you just
put them on the list. You want to take them off,
We could take them off.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I'm just saying if the United States is there, then
you got to put China there for the same reason.
I see.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, I understand. So you're question both at this point. Yeah, okay,
so let's try to top both of those guys.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
All right, So who's influential? Are we going to like
somebody who's in entertainment, somebody who's just insanely famous.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, Zindeya is in everything these days.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, I don't think anybody wants to see her anymore
as the problem, so she doesn't go on them on
the mount rush. How about that? She's the kind of
person you put in a movie and people actively don't
see it because she's in it, Taylor Swift, That's what
I'm saying, Like, is there a person of a certain
level of fame that what her doings are or him
his doings matter to people? Like like they have reporters
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following her around to report on what she's doing, Like
she's some sort of royal family, But.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What does she do? Okay, there are a few people.
There are few people that could buy the stroke of
a pen or something they say out loud massively impact
what's going on in the global sphere, if that's a
real word. And one of them is definitely the President
of the United States, okay. And another one is definitely
the pope.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, are you sure? Yeah? Are we sure?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Okay, Taylor Swift, I don't think so. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Now, people care about what she says, but she doesn't.
She doesn't control policy. She could try. She tried to
when she advocated for president. That didn't work.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah. How influentially can somebody be if everything that they
suggest loses?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Well, I don't think every and I wouldn't say that everything.
I just I just don't think that she could fit
into this category that we're establishing.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
What are we establishing here? The most influential, the most consequential,
That's what I'm saying. We have to define that. You
think the pope is the most one of the most
important people? Well, what is important?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Influence? Influence across the world. And I don't disagree with that.
So what's influence? How many followers do you have on Instagram?
The ability to affect change positively negatively? Just things changing
by by the actions that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You do, or is influence people just doing what you
say to do, because there are things that like this
is why somebody like Taylor Swift shows up in Capital
one commercials is because Capital one sees her as a
brand that can help sell capital one cards.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
She she's very influential, but not nearly as much as
the pope or the president of the United States. That's
how That's the way I see it. And then again, yeah,
I would probably say the leader of China too.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Just because of the sheer size of their economy, their market,
and if they decided that they wanted to be first
in line to starting trade wars with everyone in the world,
that would shake everyone up. And is there another religious leader?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I'm a Western hemisphere guy, so I don't know how influential.
Maybe you know a religious leader would be over in
the Eastern hemisphere. Is there someone there that you'd put
on that list? Because it's either someone in that realm
or a politician. That's kind of the only options. I
feel like you can't put like the King of England
at one time, maybe you could, but not anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Who are I'm gonna expand the list of five just
for I'm gonna ask artificial intelligence who are the five
most influential people on planet Earth right now? And I'm
sure I'm gonna get some sort of yeah, it says oof.
That's how it responds to me. Oof, it says oof,
big question. Influence can mean political power, cultural reach, tech dominance,
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or even moral leadership. Do you put Elon musk on there?
You know the the five that it gave me? Can
I guess? Yep?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Okay, I'm gonna guess the pope? Yep, I'm gonna guess
the President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Nope. No, he did not make the list. He didn't
make the list. Didn't make the list.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Wow, don't tell him? Uh wow, that changes everything.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
He was an honorable mention. Huh. So what do we got? Celebrities?
Just keep keep guessing. You said you wanted to guess. Okay,
you got pope to be rich people that really really deceased,
But it put Pope Francis at number five, oh, number five?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, so I'm guessing just very wealthy people. Bill Gates No, nope, nope.
So it's got to be celebrity.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Then, No, it's it's a mix. It's a mix. A boy,
Come on, don't think too hard about this. Don't think
too hard. Swift Taylor Switch is on the list. Come on, chat,
GPT get at it. Who else I have I said?
You said? You said the names you said two of
these names. The King of England. Now what you didn't
say that, I said his name. I don't think he
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belongs on the leg. He wasn't on the leg. The
ruler of China. Yes. Number one in Ping, President of China.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Okay, don't so trump this list. He's gonna it's gonna
be a bad evening.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Controls the world's second largest economy and largest military by manpower,
and influences global trade, technology, and geopolitics from Africa all
the way to the South China. See his policy shaped
the global balance of power, especially in the US China rivalry.
Number one z Jimping, President of China. Number two GPT
hold on Sam Altman, who also was in the list
of the honorable mentions. Oh, Sam Altman, that's what I
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want to know. Hey, he's he's putting a billion dollars
into the AI infrastructure of the United States. Take it easy.
Number two is a guy you mentioned his name and
and Elon Musk interesting that that's probably right, right. Everything
that guy kind of gets involved in is a big deal.
So number three is it a rich person or a
celebrity Nope? Or an athlete nope? Or a politician yep. Oh,
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is it old Vlad the Impaler out there? Nope, No,
Lad the Impaler or Vload the paper voldemortload Emir z A. Lensky,
He is an honorable mention. Oh what about Putin? Putin
was not on the list. See there you go. I mean,
I don't know about this list. Number three is the
only one you're missing. And it's not Taylor Swift. She's four.
(08:32):
She's four. Yeah, Pope francis number five. So Taylor Swift
more influential than the Pope. That's all you need to
know this world. I told you, if you thought about
it like this, I think you could make the argument
that she kind of is.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Okay number three just on the sheer work this guy does.
I've been told he never stops, never stopping, and he's
one of our own.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Ryan Seacrest, Oh stop, no, it is Mahindra Mody, the
Prime Minister of India, India, World's largest democracy, most populous country. Okay,
and then the honorable mentions Trump, Zelensky, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos,
and Beyonce. Well that's a huge fall off there. That
is a huge fall off. Is it bad that it
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asked me if they wants me to turn this into
a Friday for it knows me well enough. It's just like,
do you want me to just like make a Friday
for out of this? It's like no, no, no, stop,
leave me alone, I asked. Anyway, they want to know
the criteria. I don't trust that list influential? Is that
what you put in influence? I said, who are the
five most influential people on planet Earth right now? And
of course this would have been yesterday that the Pope
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is still alive. But it said jijinping elon Musk no
rendra modi, Taylor Swift and Pope Francis. So you're telling
me that Taylor Swift could cause a greater impact to
this world by doing something than the President of the
United States. I don't buy it. She can't invade a country.
Give me a break, get her off the list.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Hey, no offense, no offense to Swift, but give me
a break.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
In multiple countries? Okay, with her music exactly, That's what
I'm saying. Anyway, I gotta take a break. Oh, we'll
unpack more of this, I guess when we come back
on news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Em Marie Sunger on News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'll tell you why it didn't have an accurate listing.
But real quick, I want to take Tom's phone call here. Tom,
thanks for being on the show today. What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Well, I thought you missed a really influential person you
didn't touch on Jerome Palsa, chairman of the Federal Reserve,
and he controls the money supply and the interest rate
in the US.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, and I had an email from Amber who also
said the exact same thing. That's a really good point, Tom,
and I appreciate you calling that out. Thanks for being
on the show.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Do it all right?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So there you go. That's another good one. Hey, Matt,
all right, you asked for a definition of influence. Yeah,
it said, all right, let's get surgical definition of influence
for our list. It means the ability to shape global event.
It's public behavior, political outcomes, technological development, or cultural norms
at a massive scale. It includes reach, how many people
they affect, power, ability to make decisions with real world impact, relevance.
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Their actions changed the course of history now, not just
symbolically and durability. Influences in a flash in the pan.
And then it doubled down on the list, said j
Jimping number one, Elon two, Mody three, Taylor Swift four,
and then put Sam Altman at number five instead of
the Pope. Sam Altman, the founder of Open AI. Oh
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would you look at that? And then I mentioned why
is Donald Trump not on the list, and then it
was confused saying well, he's not in power yet, so
I had to say he's actually in power. And it's like, oh,
you're right, he is in power, and then it changed
the list. What yeah, So it whatever model I'm playing
with here on Chad GPT, it thought we were still
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in twenty twenty four for Trump, but in twenty twenty
five for everyone else. What happened? Idea? So I said
that and then it was like, oh, yeah, you're right.
Here's the new list in Trump's number one, okay, see,
and Z's in Ping number two, Elon's three, Modius four,
and Taylor Swift is five.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
So okay, I'm taking a victory lap and you owe
me an apology. Yeah, I didn't know. You spent the
whole last segment saying I was crazy for my list.
It turns out chat GPT thought it was last year,
and guess who didn't make the list in last year's
Chat GPT's most influential piece people Joe Biden, go figure.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, well you want to know why he didn't even
know he was alive? Stale Yeah so so. But on
your perspective, literally, the top four people, if we just
stuck to four, like we talked about American President, Chinese
President Elon Musk, Prime Minister of India are the top four.
So the three, the five. Taylor made the five. But
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but that's us, you know, Like, is the Pope bigger
than Taylor Swift? Is the Pope bigger than Elon? Is
the Pope bigger than the Prime Minister of India? Those
would be the conversation that we would have to have.
I'm just not so sure. I'm not so sure that
we can do that. By the way, it was Bob
who gave us the books. Oh so we were right
the first time. Yep, Bob said, thanks for the opportunity
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to give you those books. Today, I'm a regular listener
and a parishioner, a catechist at Saint Margaret Mary Catholic Church.
Do you have any questions, feel free to give me
a ring. Thank you, Bob. There we go, Bob thank
you so much, really appreciate that. Four twenty nine. You
got more on the way on news radio eleven ten
kfab Emrie Sunger on news radio eleven ten kfab. Matt
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case is my producer. Matt, give you a couple of
clues as to who won the last couple of contests
West Coast.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
West Coast, West Coast. Okay, I'll say Santa Clara.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
No close. One of them is very close to the
Santa Clara area, going over to thank this San Jose. No,
that's not close to saying Santa Clara. I don't even
know where Santa Clara is in southern California. When in
San Jose it's more like central to north. Huh. It
is like next to San Francisco. Yeah, San Francisco. Where
far in your hair? Oh yeah, good tune, you know.
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And it's sad.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Now I'm not gonna say do it. No, yeah, no,
I'm not controversial.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You gotta do it. I am a neutral party. You
cannot just say. I just think of all the.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
People who listened to that song and made their way
there and now they're homeless.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I was thinking you were thinking all the people that
thought Santa San franciscould be awesome. And then they went
and watched like saw human feces everywhere. I thought you
were gonna be a little more literal.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
You're going to San Francisco where has Matt And don't
go out past nine.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That's not nice, that's not the right. I've never been.
I've heard it's beautiful. Yeah, I've also heard that it's
kind of cold. You can bring a sweatshirt first in
San Francisco. Yeah, really it's cold like all the time,
oh at night. Okay, that makes sense, Yeah, exactly, That's
what I meant. Don't stay out past nine. It wasn't controversial.
Mm hmm. Anyway, No La Los Angeles, Angeles, California, Ryan
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Seacrest and then Portland, Oregon. Those are the last two. Okay,
we'd like to get one though, we sure would. And
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a thousand buckeroos. You sure could. There you go, all right, Uh,
finish this conversation here of the most important influential people
in the world and trying to figure out where the
pope fits into all that. How do you grade the process? Right? Like?
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Is the is there a Is there a bigger deal
globally than the selection of a new pope? Is there
something that all the world all over the place care
about so specifically and you could say, maybe be president
of the United States in our election? I think you'd
be wrong. I don't think people in Australia, Italy, turkeya Azerbaijan,
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name a random country, uh, Chad. I don't think people
of Chad are waiting with baited breath to see who
wins our elections. Well that's just my just my take.
They may say they have an opinion about it, but
I don't think they care that much. I think they
care more about their government, right, Yeah, I just I'm
so happy there's a country in this world called Chad. Okay,
I didn't, I don't care. I get sidetracked. It's the
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one I think of it's not. I'm just so glad
all the names out there we named a country after
a dude named Chad. We didn't do that. What No,
don't do it. Don't ruin this for me.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It's gonna be some that ruins it for me that way. No,
it's it's named after Chad Kroger.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That's it. No, that's it. It's aid Chad GiB said,
great question, And no, it's not named after your buddy
from college who were backwards a visors see chat gpt
for the ruin today ruins everything. Chad comes from Lake Chad.
It's a large, shallow lake in the western part of
the country of Chad. The word Chad comes from the
Kanuri language and word sadei means large body of water
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or simply lake, and over time Shadai got arabbicized, arabicized arabitized.
I thought the way you said it first, a rabbiticized
to Chad. The European colonizers adopted that version when naming
the region. It makes sense.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
However, I'd rather it be named after that frat bro
who does kegstans, you know, and then flips into the pool. M.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Well there you go, now, you know, What were you
talking about before you derailed us?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, the most important things that you do, like like
like events. Uh, Prince William and cap Middleton's marriage. That
wedding was a big deal. You remember how big of
a deal that was. It was a big deal for
pop culture, but it was a big deal. Did it
influence people?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Did that?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Family doesn't even matter anymore like governmentally? They literally could.
They might as well be a family of tortoises. They'd
have the same influence on people, right, they just live longer. Yeah,
they speak less. And for Megan Markle, that might be
a good thing. I didn't mean that. I didn't mean that.
Take it back. I think her Netflix show, which I
have not watched I just saw the preview of, looks
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like it is very genuine. Does it look demure? I
don't know what that means. People say that. I still
don't know. I'm not even gonna ask chat to you.
To you that means, do you think they take a
trip to Chad? No, they do not. She's in there,
she's cooking things, and she's having famous friends over and
they're just hanging out and talking about things. It seems
to be one of the least narcissistic things she's done
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since she got back in the limelight post suits. I mean,
you're in the limelight when you're acting, but she's in
the limelight in a very different way as a real person.
Now when she's in suits, she's just the hot girl
in the show. Now she's like, oh, she's married to
one of the princes from Princess Diana. Wow, it's crazy.
There's another one, Princess Diana. If she survives. How influential
is she on this list? Would she have become the queen? Yes?
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But I thought that she uh you know, uh yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
she would not have. Actually she would at that point
that would.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Not have happened to you.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You're right, Yeah, she still held her she was still influential, right,
people still cared about what she said. Yeah, but nobody
thinks about like that with Kate Middleton or Megan Markle.
Taylor Swift is on these lists before they are well, yeah,
she's big time. So is the election of the Pope?
And I hate calling it that, but it kind of is.
Is that the biggest event or like ritual in the world.
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I guess that's the question. Can you name a bigger one?
Call us if you can four two five five eight
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line open four two five five eight to eleven ten.
We were talking about influential people, influential processes. Let's go
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ahead and talk. Dean's on the phone line, Dean, what's.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Up, Megan, Mark, Prince Harry got money from USA AI
D How can that be for what I for being
a kissask with the Democratic Party?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh, that can't be right.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yes, it is right. That's the thing is. You know,
that's what they're protesting is you know how bad Elon
is for exposing all these people?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Right? Well, hey, I got to tell you that. I mean,
when you put it that way, woof. You can't be
just giving people money like that, especially rich people like them.
Dean appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, Stacy Abram getting two billion dollars?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, two billion?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
What about that?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
That's crazy? Well, Dean, I got a couple of other calls
I want to try to get to, but I do
appreciate the call today. Thanks man. Paul's on the phone
line four two, five, five, eight eleven ten. What's up, Paul?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Uh? The most influential guy actually is a guy that
was elected president of Greece about two weeks ago. Have
you heard of him?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
No, Yeah, his name is Harry Partestes.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Okay to uh five to five, eight to eleven ten, Steve,
what's going on?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Hey, I promise not to go where the last guy went.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I'm glad, thanks, go ahead? Was on your mind?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Right?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
So, once upon a time the Beatles said they were
they were more popular than God. But but actually I
wanted to talk about event. Yeah, I mean biggest is
probably big events that affects everybody on a regular basis
throughout the world would be the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You know, that's true, and everybody pays attention to it,
which is also pretty interesting. And I had a message
from Steve who said, what about the World Cup, which
is also an event that everyone generally would be paying
attention to? And he I mean that we don't think
of athletics. I mean, we love to watch them, but
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we don't think of them as super influential. Those two
events they are because it brings people from all corners
of the world together in the same place. So yeah,
I think there's a lot to that. See.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Yeah, I mean sometimes politics gets in the way, like
eighty and eighty four, But otherwise, I mean people even
even in conflict with each other, will still show up.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, that's one hundred percent true. And it's a way
to kind of you know, I know people are super
passionate about it, but it's kind of a fun way
to be passionate about your country and have some national pride,
and I think that that goes a long way. Steve,
I appreciate the call today. Thanks for listening. Yeah, yeah,
I see you later. Wow. That's a that's a good point.
It's good point. I love athletics and anytime that they
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can bring people together, I think it does that better
than most any other uh a att before I know,
I know you got to duck out here. Is there
any other countries you want to know where the name
came from? Ooh, good question. How about Trinidad and Tobago.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I love the name of that country and I think
it's I'm curious where it comes from.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Trinidad and Tobago. Please, okay, I mean I wasn't expecting
you to go there. I was thinking more like, why
is England in called England? No. It was named by
Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in fourteen ninety eight.
He saw three mountain peaks as he approached the island,
named it la Isla de la Trinidad, which is translated
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to the Island of the Trinity, for the Holy Trinity
and Columbia. Columbus promised to name the land after he
saw after the Trinity when he spotted those three peaks.
That's how Trinidad was born. And the name Tobago comes
from the word tobacco, which Spanish explorers borrowed from the
indigenous Arawak or Tino people, which referred to with widely
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shaped pipe. Locals used to smoke leaves what we call
it tobacco. Now, so there you go, Trinidad and Tobago.
Catechism of the Catholic Faith, which I believe based on.
This is just kind of like a very pared down
version of the big thing he gave me. Isn't that
what this kind of looks like, Matt? Well, you ask
for spark notes, cliff notes. There you go, it's literally
a book version of it. Ask and you shall receive.
What should we ask for next? A genie that could
grant a million wishes?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We're all for two remembering this gentleman's name. It wasn't Bob.
We don't think it was Bill.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, we're not answering the door, so it's not our fault. Well,
I want to go ahead and make there's no note.
So if the mystery person who's sending us these books
at the door and it's being caught by a person
that is, you know, not us, it's not our fault
that I didn't get the name. I'm trying to remember
a lot of stuff here. I got a lot of
(00:46):
stuff on my mind.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Hey, look, you're taking it personal. I was just providing
an anecdote to the story of our lives.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Two hundred How are sins remitted? The first in chief
sacrament for the forgiveness of sins is baptism for those
sins committed after baptism, Christ instituted the sacrament of reconciliation
or penance, through which a baptized person is reconciled with
God and with the Church. That's a yeah, and that
summarizes numbers nine seventy six through nine eight and nine
(01:16):
eighty four to eighty five. Very nice.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I would like breadsticks now, maybe with some marinara.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Sir, this is a Wendy's It's four ten, okay, let's uh,
why do Why don't we talk about the thing that
you talked about for We do a Friday for every
single Friday. But this isn't that. It is kind of
like that though. The concept is like that, except we're
looking for the facts. We're not looking for not looking
(01:44):
for just like a you come up with your opinion
of the list. I think we're trying to find the
real list here. Who are the foremost important people in
the world? Who are the foremost important or influential people?
How do you how do we define this?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
How do you define the pope? Is the pope one
of the foremost influential people people in the world?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think you got to put them up there. Yeah
with who with well, the president of the United States,
just the president of the United States. I mean obviously
for US that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, but for the world it does too, does it?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
The whole world is watching us, man, I know, but like,
look at how the markets get affected by this stuff
we do.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, but that's trade, right. So I mean, like if
Donald trum would have showed up and did nothing Jimmy
Carter style, Like, would anybody know who he is?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
New Zealand did all this tariff stuff? Do you think
the world would even care? They'd be like, what's New
Zealand doing next? No, we do all this weird tarist
stuff and the world starts freaking out.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, because we're one of the biggest buyers and sellers
of things.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And so the ruler of that well why not system
would be a pretty big deal. By that theory, then
China should be there. Yeah, I would agree. So we
got three. Really, the Pope, the leader of America, and
the leader of China. Really, you're asking me, you just
put them on the list. You want to take them off,
We could take them off.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I'm just saying if the United States is there, then
you got to put China there for the same reason.
I see.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, I understand. So you're question both at this point. Yeah, okay,
so let's try to top both of those guys.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
All right, So who's influential? Are we going to like
somebody who's in entertainment, somebody who's just insanely famous.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, Zindeya is in everything these days.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, I don't think anybody wants to see her anymore
as the problem, so she doesn't go on them on
the mount rush. How about that? She's the kind of
person you put in a movie and people actively don't
see it because she's in it, Taylor Swift, That's what
I'm saying, Like, is there a person of a certain
level of fame that what her doings are or him
his doings matter to people? Like like they have reporters
(03:34):
following her around to report on what she's doing, Like
she's some sort of royal family, But.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What does she do? Okay, there are a few people.
There are few people that could buy the stroke of
a pen or something they say out loud massively impact
what's going on in the global sphere, if that's a
real word. And one of them is definitely the President
of the United States, okay. And another one is definitely
the pope.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, are you sure? Yeah? Are we sure?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Okay, Taylor Swift, I don't think so. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Now, people care about what she says, but she doesn't.
She doesn't control policy. She could try. She tried to
when she advocated for president. That didn't work.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah. How influentially can somebody be if everything that they
suggest loses?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Well, I don't think every and I wouldn't say that everything.
I just I just don't think that she could fit
into this category that we're establishing.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
What are we establishing here? The most influential, the most consequential,
That's what I'm saying. We have to define that. You
think the pope is the most one of the most
important people? Well, what is important?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Influence? Influence across the world. And I don't disagree with that.
So what's influence? How many followers do you have on Instagram?
The ability to affect change positively negatively? Just things changing
by by the actions that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You do, or is influence people just doing what you
say to do, because there are things that like this
is why somebody like Taylor Swift shows up in Capital
one commercials is because Capital one sees her as a
brand that can help sell capital one cards.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
She she's very influential, but not nearly as much as
the pope or the president of the United States. That's
how That's the way I see it. And then again, yeah,
I would probably say the leader of China too.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Just because of the sheer size of their economy, their market,
and if they decided that they wanted to be first
in line to starting trade wars with everyone in the world,
that would shake everyone up. And is there another religious leader?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I'm a Western hemisphere guy, so I don't know how influential.
Maybe you know a religious leader would be over in
the Eastern hemisphere. Is there someone there that you'd put
on that list? Because it's either someone in that realm
or a politician. That's kind of the only options. I
feel like you can't put like the King of England
at one time, maybe you could, but not anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Who are I'm gonna expand the list of five just
for I'm gonna ask artificial intelligence who are the five
most influential people on planet Earth right now? And I'm
sure I'm gonna get some sort of yeah, it says oof.
That's how it responds to me. Oof, it says oof,
big question. Influence can mean political power, cultural reach, tech dominance,
(06:11):
or even moral leadership. Do you put Elon musk on there?
You know the the five that it gave me? Can
I guess? Yep?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Okay, I'm gonna guess the pope? Yep, I'm gonna guess
the President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Nope. No, he did not make the list. He didn't
make the list. Didn't make the list.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Wow, don't tell him? Uh wow, that changes everything.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
He was an honorable mention. Huh. So what do we got? Celebrities?
Just keep keep guessing. You said you wanted to guess. Okay,
you got pope to be rich people that really really deceased,
But it put Pope Francis at number five, oh, number five?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, so I'm guessing just very wealthy people. Bill Gates No, nope, nope.
So it's got to be celebrity.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Then, No, it's it's a mix. It's a mix. A boy,
Come on, don't think too hard about this. Don't think
too hard. Swift Taylor Switch is on the list. Come on, chat,
GPT get at it. Who else I have I said?
You said? You said the names you said two of
these names. The King of England. Now what you didn't
say that, I said his name. I don't think he
(07:13):
belongs on the leg. He wasn't on the leg. The
ruler of China. Yes. Number one in Ping, President of China.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Okay, don't so trump this list. He's gonna it's gonna
be a bad evening.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Controls the world's second largest economy and largest military by manpower,
and influences global trade, technology, and geopolitics from Africa all
the way to the South China. See his policy shaped
the global balance of power, especially in the US China rivalry.
Number one z Jimping, President of China. Number two GPT
hold on Sam Altman, who also was in the list
of the honorable mentions. Oh, Sam Altman, that's what I
(07:47):
want to know. Hey, he's he's putting a billion dollars
into the AI infrastructure of the United States. Take it easy.
Number two is a guy you mentioned his name and
and Elon Musk interesting that that's probably right, right. Everything
that guy kind of gets involved in is a big deal.
So number three is it a rich person or a
celebrity Nope? Or an athlete nope? Or a politician yep. Oh,
(08:09):
is it old Vlad the Impaler out there? Nope, No,
Lad the Impaler or Vload the paper voldemortload Emir z A. Lensky,
He is an honorable mention. Oh what about Putin? Putin
was not on the list. See there you go. I mean,
I don't know about this list. Number three is the
only one you're missing. And it's not Taylor Swift. She's four.
(08:32):
She's four. Yeah, Pope francis number five. So Taylor Swift
more influential than the Pope. That's all you need to
know this world. I told you, if you thought about
it like this, I think you could make the argument
that she kind of is.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Okay number three just on the sheer work this guy does.
I've been told he never stops, never stopping, and he's
one of our own.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Ryan Seacrest, Oh stop, no, it is Mahindra Mody, the
Prime Minister of India, India, World's largest democracy, most populous country. Okay,
and then the honorable mentions Trump, Zelensky, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos,
and Beyonce. Well that's a huge fall off there. That
is a huge fall off. Is it bad that it
(09:15):
asked me if they wants me to turn this into
a Friday for it knows me well enough. It's just like,
do you want me to just like make a Friday
for out of this? It's like no, no, no, stop,
leave me alone, I asked. Anyway, they want to know
the criteria. I don't trust that list influential? Is that
what you put in influence? I said, who are the
five most influential people on planet Earth right now? And
of course this would have been yesterday that the Pope
(09:37):
is still alive. But it said jijinping elon Musk no
rendra modi, Taylor Swift and Pope Francis. So you're telling
me that Taylor Swift could cause a greater impact to
this world by doing something than the President of the
United States. I don't buy it. She can't invade a country.
Give me a break, get her off the list.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Hey, no offense, no offense to Swift, but give me
a break.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
In multiple countries? Okay, with her music exactly, That's what
I'm saying. Anyway, I gotta take a break. Oh, we'll
unpack more of this, I guess when we come back
on news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Em Marie Sunger on News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'll tell you why it didn't have an accurate listing.
But real quick, I want to take Tom's phone call here. Tom,
thanks for being on the show today. What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Well, I thought you missed a really influential person you
didn't touch on Jerome Palsa, chairman of the Federal Reserve,
and he controls the money supply and the interest rate
in the US.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, and I had an email from Amber who also
said the exact same thing. That's a really good point, Tom,
and I appreciate you calling that out. Thanks for being
on the show.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Do it all right?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So there you go. That's another good one. Hey, Matt,
all right, you asked for a definition of influence. Yeah,
it said, all right, let's get surgical definition of influence
for our list. It means the ability to shape global event.
It's public behavior, political outcomes, technological development, or cultural norms
at a massive scale. It includes reach, how many people
they affect, power, ability to make decisions with real world impact, relevance.
(11:11):
Their actions changed the course of history now, not just
symbolically and durability. Influences in a flash in the pan.
And then it doubled down on the list, said j
Jimping number one, Elon two, Mody three, Taylor Swift four,
and then put Sam Altman at number five instead of
the Pope. Sam Altman, the founder of Open AI. Oh
(11:32):
would you look at that? And then I mentioned why
is Donald Trump not on the list, and then it
was confused saying well, he's not in power yet, so
I had to say he's actually in power. And it's like, oh,
you're right, he is in power, and then it changed
the list. What yeah, So it whatever model I'm playing
with here on Chad GPT, it thought we were still
(11:55):
in twenty twenty four for Trump, but in twenty twenty
five for everyone else. What happened? Idea? So I said
that and then it was like, oh, yeah, you're right.
Here's the new list in Trump's number one, okay, see,
and Z's in Ping number two, Elon's three, Modius four,
and Taylor Swift is five.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
So okay, I'm taking a victory lap and you owe
me an apology. Yeah, I didn't know. You spent the
whole last segment saying I was crazy for my list.
It turns out chat GPT thought it was last year,
and guess who didn't make the list in last year's
Chat GPT's most influential piece people Joe Biden, go figure.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, well you want to know why he didn't even
know he was alive? Stale Yeah so so. But on
your perspective, literally, the top four people, if we just
stuck to four, like we talked about American President, Chinese
President Elon Musk, Prime Minister of India are the top four.
So the three, the five. Taylor made the five. But
(12:55):
but that's us, you know, Like, is the Pope bigger
than Taylor Swift? Is the Pope bigger than Elon? Is
the Pope bigger than the Prime Minister of India? Those
would be the conversation that we would have to have.
I'm just not so sure. I'm not so sure that
we can do that. By the way, it was Bob
who gave us the books. Oh so we were right
the first time. Yep, Bob said, thanks for the opportunity
(13:15):
to give you those books. Today, I'm a regular listener
and a parishioner, a catechist at Saint Margaret Mary Catholic Church.
Do you have any questions, feel free to give me
a ring. Thank you, Bob. There we go, Bob thank
you so much, really appreciate that. Four twenty nine. You
got more on the way on news radio eleven ten
kfab Emrie Sunger on news radio eleven ten kfab. Matt
(13:40):
case is my producer. Matt, give you a couple of
clues as to who won the last couple of contests
West Coast.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
West Coast, West Coast. Okay, I'll say Santa Clara.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
No close. One of them is very close to the
Santa Clara area, going over to thank this San Jose. No,
that's not close to saying Santa Clara. I don't even
know where Santa Clara is in southern California. When in
San Jose it's more like central to north. Huh. It
is like next to San Francisco. Yeah, San Francisco. Where
far in your hair? Oh yeah, good tune, you know.
(14:13):
And it's sad.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Now I'm not gonna say do it. No, yeah, no,
I'm not controversial.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You gotta do it. I am a neutral party. You
cannot just say. I just think of all the.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
People who listened to that song and made their way
there and now they're homeless.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I was thinking you were thinking all the people that
thought Santa San franciscould be awesome. And then they went
and watched like saw human feces everywhere. I thought you
were gonna be a little more literal.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
You're going to San Francisco where has Matt And don't
go out past nine.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That's not nice, that's not the right. I've never been.
I've heard it's beautiful. Yeah, I've also heard that it's
kind of cold. You can bring a sweatshirt first in
San Francisco. Yeah, really it's cold like all the time,
oh at night. Okay, that makes sense, Yeah, exactly, That's
what I meant. Don't stay out past nine. It wasn't controversial.
Mm hmm. Anyway, No La Los Angeles, Angeles, California, Ryan
(15:05):
Seacrest and then Portland, Oregon. Those are the last two. Okay,
we'd like to get one though, we sure would. And
you know how you play. You go to kfab dot com.
As long as your ad blockers off, you'll get to
see the thing pop right up when you get there.
The box that you put the word in, you just
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on the app, you certainly do. It's pretty easy, doesn't
(15:26):
cost you any dollars at all, and you could win
a thousand buckeroos. You sure could. There you go, all right, Uh,
finish this conversation here of the most important influential people
in the world and trying to figure out where the
pope fits into all that. How do you grade the process? Right? Like?
(15:47):
Is the is there a Is there a bigger deal
globally than the selection of a new pope? Is there
something that all the world all over the place care
about so specifically and you could say, maybe be president
of the United States in our election? I think you'd
be wrong. I don't think people in Australia, Italy, turkeya Azerbaijan,
(16:09):
name a random country, uh, Chad. I don't think people
of Chad are waiting with baited breath to see who
wins our elections. Well that's just my just my take.
They may say they have an opinion about it, but
I don't think they care that much. I think they
care more about their government, right, Yeah, I just I'm
so happy there's a country in this world called Chad. Okay,
I didn't, I don't care. I get sidetracked. It's the
(16:32):
one I think of it's not. I'm just so glad
all the names out there we named a country after
a dude named Chad. We didn't do that. What No,
don't do it. Don't ruin this for me.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It's gonna be some that ruins it for me that way. No,
it's it's named after Chad Kroger.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That's it. No, that's it. It's aid Chad GiB said,
great question, And no, it's not named after your buddy
from college who were backwards a visors see chat gpt
for the ruin today ruins everything. Chad comes from Lake Chad.
It's a large, shallow lake in the western part of
the country of Chad. The word Chad comes from the
Kanuri language and word sadei means large body of water
(17:11):
or simply lake, and over time Shadai got arabbicized, arabicized arabitized.
I thought the way you said it first, a rabbiticized
to Chad. The European colonizers adopted that version when naming
the region. It makes sense.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
However, I'd rather it be named after that frat bro
who does kegstans, you know, and then flips into the pool. M.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Well there you go, now, you know, What were you
talking about before you derailed us?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, the most important things that you do, like like
like events. Uh, Prince William and cap Middleton's marriage. That
wedding was a big deal. You remember how big of
a deal that was. It was a big deal for
pop culture, but it was a big deal. Did it
influence people?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Did that?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Family doesn't even matter anymore like governmentally? They literally could.
They might as well be a family of tortoises. They'd
have the same influence on people, right, they just live longer. Yeah,
they speak less. And for Megan Markle, that might be
a good thing. I didn't mean that. I didn't mean that.
Take it back. I think her Netflix show, which I
have not watched I just saw the preview of, looks
(18:17):
like it is very genuine. Does it look demure? I
don't know what that means. People say that. I still
don't know. I'm not even gonna ask chat to you.
To you that means, do you think they take a
trip to Chad? No, they do not. She's in there,
she's cooking things, and she's having famous friends over and
they're just hanging out and talking about things. It seems
to be one of the least narcissistic things she's done
(18:38):
since she got back in the limelight post suits. I mean,
you're in the limelight when you're acting, but she's in
the limelight in a very different way as a real person.
Now when she's in suits, she's just the hot girl
in the show. Now she's like, oh, she's married to
one of the princes from Princess Diana. Wow, it's crazy.
There's another one, Princess Diana. If she survives. How influential
is she on this list? Would she have become the queen? Yes?
(19:02):
But I thought that she uh you know, uh yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
she would not have. Actually she would at that point
that would.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Not have happened to you.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You're right, Yeah, she still held her she was still influential, right,
people still cared about what she said. Yeah, but nobody
thinks about like that with Kate Middleton or Megan Markle.
Taylor Swift is on these lists before they are well, yeah,
she's big time. So is the election of the Pope?
And I hate calling it that, but it kind of is.
Is that the biggest event or like ritual in the world.
(19:34):
I guess that's the question. Can you name a bigger one?
Call us if you can four two five five eight
eleven ten. Four two five five eight to eleven ten.
We'll do more next. On news Radio eleven ten KFAB
and Marie's songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB phone
line open four two five five eight to eleven ten.
We were talking about influential people, influential processes. Let's go
(19:55):
ahead and talk. Dean's on the phone line, Dean, what's.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Up, Megan, Mark, Prince Harry got money from USA AI
D How can that be for what I for being
a kissask with the Democratic Party?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh, that can't be right.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yes, it is right. That's the thing is. You know,
that's what they're protesting is you know how bad Elon
is for exposing all these people?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Right? Well, hey, I got to tell you that. I mean,
when you put it that way, woof. You can't be
just giving people money like that, especially rich people like them.
Dean appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, Stacy Abram getting two billion dollars?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, two billion?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
What about that?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
That's crazy? Well, Dean, I got a couple of other calls
I want to try to get to, but I do
appreciate the call today. Thanks man. Paul's on the phone
line four two, five, five, eight eleven ten. What's up, Paul?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Uh? The most influential guy actually is a guy that
was elected president of Greece about two weeks ago. Have
you heard of him?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
No, Yeah, his name is Harry Partestes.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Okay to uh five to five, eight to eleven ten, Steve,
what's going on?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Hey, I promise not to go where the last guy went.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I'm glad, thanks, go ahead? Was on your mind?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Right?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
So, once upon a time the Beatles said they were
they were more popular than God. But but actually I
wanted to talk about event. Yeah, I mean biggest is
probably big events that affects everybody on a regular basis
throughout the world would be the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You know, that's true, and everybody pays attention to it,
which is also pretty interesting. And I had a message
from Steve who said, what about the World Cup, which
is also an event that everyone generally would be paying
attention to? And he I mean that we don't think
of athletics. I mean, we love to watch them, but
(21:47):
we don't think of them as super influential. Those two
events they are because it brings people from all corners
of the world together in the same place. So yeah,
I think there's a lot to that. See.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Yeah, I mean sometimes politics gets in the way, like
eighty and eighty four, But otherwise, I mean people even
even in conflict with each other, will still show up.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, that's one hundred percent true. And it's a way
to kind of you know, I know people are super
passionate about it, but it's kind of a fun way
to be passionate about your country and have some national pride,
and I think that that goes a long way. Steve,
I appreciate the call today. Thanks for listening. Yeah, yeah,
I see you later. Wow. That's a that's a good point.
It's good point. I love athletics and anytime that they
(22:31):
can bring people together, I think it does that better
than most any other uh a att before I know,
I know you got to duck out here. Is there
any other countries you want to know where the name
came from? Ooh, good question. How about Trinidad and Tobago.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I love the name of that country and I think
it's I'm curious where it comes from.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Trinidad and Tobago. Please, okay, I mean I wasn't expecting
you to go there. I was thinking more like, why
is England in called England? No. It was named by
Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in fourteen ninety eight.
He saw three mountain peaks as he approached the island,
named it la Isla de la Trinidad, which is translated
(23:12):
to the Island of the Trinity, for the Holy Trinity
and Columbia. Columbus promised to name the land after he
saw after the Trinity when he spotted those three peaks.
That's how Trinidad was born. And the name Tobago comes
from the word tobacco, which Spanish explorers borrowed from the
indigenous Arawak or Tino people, which referred to with widely
(23:32):
shaped pipe. Locals used to smoke leaves what we call
it tobacco. Now, so there you go, Trinidad and Tobago.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!