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A highlight from Zechariah Evangelism
"Good morning. Our third Sunday sermon series through Zechariah is coming to a close here. I'm not sure if we'll have another message after this one. Usually, after I get to the end of a book, we'll go back and do a review message, which was last month, and then a message relating, whatever the book was, to evangelism. So that's today. Zechariah evangelism. And so let's pray that God will bless us today. Lord God, we thank you that all of your Word is an evangelistic tool, for faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. And we know that we see scriptures that we can identify better as evangelistic, but we know that all of your Word is truth, and truth convicts of sin, and conviction of sin then can lead to repentance. And so we pray, Lord, that you would make us wise evangelists. And so help us in that today. We ask it for Jesus' sake. Amen. The book of Zechariah is a revelation or a revealing of Jesus the Messiah. As such, it is a good resource for evangelism. Today we utilize Zechariah for evangelism in the form of a letter to an unbelieving friend. So I hadn't done this before, so it may seem a little bit strange. It's going to seem a little strange to me. But I have always found that evangelism encourages the saints to say, well, I don't need to come to faith in Christ, but I love hearing, well, it's kind of like the hymn, isn't it? I love to tell the story. I love to hear the story of unseen things above. And so if it just falls flat, then I know you all will still love me. And you'll just say, don't do that again. That was silly. Just send your letter to your friend and preach us a regular message, OK, if it doesn't work out. But I think it's going to encourage you. OK. Kids speak. Kids, what book are we looking at today? Zechariah. What are we going to do with Zechariah today? We're going to use it to write a letter to a friend telling them how important it is to trust Jesus. So I sent you an email with this without anything but the letter. So if you actually wanted to use it and instead of friend put somebody's name, you could do that. Dear friend, would you allow me to share some observations about a certain book in the Bible? I have found this book particularly beneficial, and I believe you may benefit from its content as well. It's the book of Zechariah, the second to the last book in our English Old Testament. God showed Zechariah some strange things, and probably many today would think he wasn't quite in his right mind when he saw them. But all his visions had their basis in what Moses and the preceding prophets had been shown. First, though, a little historical setting for the book. It was written when the Jews came back from captivity in Babylon. God had allowed his own people to be defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. That was because they had done just about everything he had told them not to do and had stopped doing the things they were supposed to do. As Zechariah reminded his audience, the Lord of Heaven's assembly said, exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other. You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the resident foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow citizen. But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear. Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the Lord of Heaven's assembly had sent by his spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the Lord of Heaven's assembly has poured out to great wrath. You can see that God had given them very sensible directions for treating each other right. Who would not agree that these rules were fair and just? Yet they had turned a deaf ear mistreating one another. And even though we agree that compassion and helping the disadvantaged are right, would it take much digging to where we too have turned a deaf ear to divine instructions? Kids speak. Kids, God gives us the rules for how to treat each other right. But have we broken those rules? Yeah. Do we need God to forgive us? Zechariah had opened his message with a similar reminder. He didn't place the responsibility in the past. Rather, he laid the impetus to respond on his own generation. Therefore, say to the people, the Lord of Heaven's assembly says, turn to me, says the Lord of Heaven's armies, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of Heaven's armies. Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, this is what the Lord of Heaven's assembly has said, turn now from your evil wickedness. But they would by no means obey me, says the Lord. God told the people to turn to him, even though it appeared that they had already started obeying God again, since they had made the dangerous journey from Babylon to rebuild a burned -down Jerusalem, the walls of which had been completely leveled, exposing them to dangerous enemies. But God saw that their hearts were still not turned to him. Even though they were facing many difficult and discouraging circumstances, God knew that no obstacle could be greater than having their attention divided from him. Kid Speed, if we obey some things, God says, does that mean we obey everything he says? No. All of us probably could say we obey some things. He told them if they turned to him, he would turn to them. Well, that's certainly a square deal. Before God gave them into Babylon's hands, he had spent generations trying to turn them from their misdeeds. Now he was patiently starting over with them again. And how did they respond? Zechariah 1 .6, and they turned and said, the Lord of Heaven's assembly planned to do with us according to our ways, yes, according to our deeds, so he has dealt with us. God told them to turn, and they turned. Zechariah's audience responded favorably to his message of repentance, at least at first. They took responsibility for their waywardness, and they accepted God's gracious invitation to fellowship, that he would turn to them as well. Now they were ready to hear how God would bring them a final deliverance from all danger. It would come through a single man. Kids speak. Kids, the people Zechariah was talking to knew that they hadn't done what God said, so they turned back to him. Is that what we should do, too? Come on, nod your head with me. They were rebuilding Solomon's temple, but Zechariah had a message of another temple that would have to be built if they were going to be finally saved, Zechariah 6 .12. This is what the Lord of Heaven's assembly says, here is the man whose name is the sprig. He will branch out from where he is and will rebuild the temple of the Lord. They were rebuilding the temple, so it must have been a surprise to hear about someone else who needed to come and build another new one. Ezra and Zerubbabel were leading the present rebuilding effort. Who was this other man in such a strange name, the sprig? But Zechariah and his colleagues had already been told about the sprig. They had already been told that the sprig had something to do with the priesthood. God had spoken to their own high priest, Joshua, not the Joshua of the book of Joshua, Zechariah 3 .8. Listen, high priest Joshua, you and those companions of yours who sit with you, for these men are a sign that I am presenting my servant the sprig. The very fact that God's people needed a new high priest every time the last one died showed that a final permanent priest was needed. The fact that they had a day of atonement every year showed that their sins were not being removed permanently. They needed a once for all payment for sin. That was apparently going to be the work of the sprig. And why call the sprig? Simply because he would start fresh. He wouldn't build onto the existing structure of the Levitical priesthood, and that is exactly what has come about. Jesus came from the tribe of Judah, not Levi. Yet he acted as a priest, offering himself as a sacrifice for sins. Kids, one of the names for Jesus in Zechariah is sprig. What's a sprig? Well, it's a plant when it first starts growing. Why was Jesus called sprig? Because he had to do everything over right from the start. We had messed everything up, so he had to start all over like a little sprig. God then immediately added a new name to Christ the sprig, calling him a stone. For he grew from his small beginning to become the sacrifice for sin, both permanent and solid qualities a stone represents. Zechariah 3 .9. Look, the stone that I put in place in Joshua's presence, on that one stone are seven eyes. And look, I will do the engraving myself, declares the Lord of Heaven's assembly. And I will remove the perversity of that land in a single day. There's one of the strange symbols of Zechariah, a stone with seven eyes. Of course, it's figurative. The mental image of a seven -eyed stone probably confuses us at first, but the stone is made less mysterious in light of the engraving, an engraved stone. The eyes most simply symbolize sight. Really the most elusive aspect of the image is the seven. That one takes a little bit of biblical familiarity. We find by induction, looking at places where seven occurs, that seven connotes completeness. So seven eyes indicate complete sight. The stone then is a figurative way to tell us that the Messiah would be omniscient. To see everything is to know everything. In other words, the Messiah would be God. Kids speak. Kids, another name for Jesus in Zechariah is the stone. Why is he a stone? Because he stays the same, like a rock, when he says he will save us. That word is as firm as a rock. Well, what about the engraving on the stone? Well, in light of the prompt removal of the land's perversity, the engraving is most likely the engraving of the land's perversity into the stone. It's an engraving God does himself. And isn't this what God the Father did when Jesus was on the cross, engrave his people's sins into him? Kids speak. Zechariah calls Jesus a rock that God carves on. Well, what did God carve into Jesus? Our sins. When our sins were carved into Jesus, did that take the sins away from us? Yep, carved onto him. That's how it works. This sprig who became the stone was God's way of explaining to Joshua the high priest what had just happened to him. So rewind to the beginning of the chapter, Zechariah 3, 1 through 4, and he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of the Lord, and Satan was standing on his right to accuse him. But the Lord said to Satan, the Lord rebukes you, oh Satan, the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you. Is this not a stick snatched from the fire? And Joshua was clothed in filthy garments and was standing before the messenger. And he answered and said to the one standing before him, saying, remove the filthy garments from him. And he said to him, see, I have taken away your guilt from you and will clothe you with rich garments. The high priest, the man in Israel who presided over the sacrifices for removing sin, he himself stood unclean before God. Satan was there accusing him. But God did not argue the basic fact of Joshua's defilement. No, in fact, God's rebuke of Satan got right to the matter of Joshua's deficiency. He called Joshua a stick snatched from the fire. Joshua was like a stick that was going to burn, but God had pulled him out of the fire. Kids, God said that Joshua the high priest was like a stick that was about to burn, but God pulled it out of the fire. Is that what God does when Jesus saves us? Pulls us out of hell? Yeah. We were headed right for hell. So, wow, we should really thank Jesus, shouldn't we? Ah, dear friend, I can tell you that describes me as well. I was a stick ready to burn, already as good as it ignited. Yes, that has me listening to God's words as closely as I'm sure Joshua was. Remove his filthy garments. Men on earth couldn't see the dirty clothing, but there in heaven we see the reality. Joshua already believed that he needed spiritual cleansing, otherwise he would not have made the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement for his own sins. But now he got to see how his defilement looked in God's presence. Satan didn't even have to lie, though he's good at it. A defiled Joshua was his exhibit A, and he needed no further proof. Friend, if the highest religious official amongst God's people was tarnished by sin, everyone else on earth was as well. The high priest needed the engraved stone to be engraved with his own sins. That's why God showed Joshua that vision, so that Israel's high priest could model for the nation their need to hope in God's final high priest. I have that same hope. I have trusted in Jesus of Nazareth as the sacrifice that covers my sin, dear friend. Kids, if Satan came before God and said, look at Pastor Cain, he's a dirty sinner, how can he be a Christian? What would God say? He would say, but I cleaned Pastor Cain up by what Jesus did on the cross. You can say the same thing for you, right? You may have noticed that I am referring to Jesus as both the high priest and the sacrifice. That is correct. He is both. If our sins were engraved into him, that makes him the sacrifice. But he was the one who offered himself up to be sacrificed. He is also the priest. In fact, Jesus fulfilled virtually every aspect of the temple, the furniture, its procedures, and the priests processing them. He puts the fill in fulfillment. I have been to your ear a long time. Thank you for your patience. I will bring this to an end. Zechariah 12, 10. And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer, then they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn over him. Jesus was a Jew, and he came to his countrymen first. They passed him by. But one day God promises that they will recognize him. Zechariah 13, 1. On that day, a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and from impurity. And they will recognize their Messiah. They will recognize what he did for them. Kids speak. Another thing Zechariah says Jesus is like is a well. Why is that? Well, because you can wash with water from a well just like you can have your sins washed away by Jesus' blood. Until then, that same well is open to all men. Zechariah 2, 11. Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on the day of salvation, and they will also be my people. And here we are. Christ's saving message reaches more and more people groups year by year. But the end gathering will not last indefinitely. Christ will return to finalize his work on earth. Zechariah 14, 4. On that day, his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives. That was the location from which he left the earth in the sight of his apostles ascending into heaven. That is where he has an appointment to return. Kids, where is Jesus right now? Heaven. Will he always stay there? No. He's coming back here to be king of everybody in the world. Oh, that'll be a great day, won't it? Dear friend, there is a sacrifice that washes away our sins and renews us. Do we need cleansing and new life? Zechariah, like the rest of scriptures, tells us that if we have dishonored God and broken his commandments, we need Jesus' purifying sacrifice. I pray to God that you will join me as one who confesses Christ as Lord and Savior. For the walking wounded, as 1 Thessalonians 5, 14 says, uphold the strengthless. It's easy to forget that when we first came to God, we were complete spiritual invalids. I think most of us continue to think, hmm, I don't think I've changed much since then, but we're supposed to mature. All scripture is profitable for teaching, for conviction. The gospel is good news. May fear not cause me to hesitate in telling it as though it were basically bad news. It does contain bad news, but the gospel is basically good news. If you just tell good news without contexting it with the bad news, unless the person already gives you that and says, oh, I'm a defiled sinner. What can I do? Well, of course, you can just march right into, here's the means of cleansing. But if not, you need to let them know that, yes, we are sinners headed for hell. But the gospel is basically good news, which is how we should present it. All scripture is profitable for correction. I will remember that the good news is what properly contexts the bad news of our sinfulness, our enmity with God, and our coming judgment. God justly put all these aside in the cross. And all scripture is profitable for teaching, conviction, correction, for schooling in righteousness. Nothing wrong with asking God to just drop witnessing opportunities into our lap rather than worrying about segues. How do I get from a regular conversation into a gospel conversation? And, of course, we want to be able to do segues, too. But in the meantime, it's a good thing to ask every day who knows who I'll meet today. Maybe the door will just swing wide open, and I need to be ready to walk in. Wrap up, Colossians 4, 5, and 6. You can see it on the left side there. Walk in wisdom toward those on the outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. And then breaking it down phrase by phrase, walk in wisdom toward those on the outside. God give me a special wisdom like a person on a mission. Redeeming the time, God give me sufficient urgency. Let your speech be always with grace. God give me words that make good transitions to the gospel. Having been seasoned with salt, God give me a bright countenance and inviting words that you may know how you ought to answer each one. God give me increasing sensitivity to see particular burdens in the lives of others that I may point them to the burden -bearer. Amen. Let's pray. Lord God, thank you for your words. We pray, Lord, that you will grant a day of revival when the subject of God and of being right with God is simply part of the national conversation. And we know that you have done this before in days of revival, that people simply become curious again. And you pique their curiosity and we can simply walk right into witnessing situations. But until then, Lord, we pray that we would remember Colossians 4, 5, and 6, that we would walk in wisdom towards them, that we would seek out opportunities, that we would always have gracious speech, and that we would season it with salt and make it attractive. And that you might help us better and better to recognize needs in people's lives that will present the gospel's introduction. Lord, bless these, your people, all your people here on earth, worshiping you today. In Jesus' name, amen.
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"Drives them. Watch The Circuit Thursday nights from Bloomberg Originals. You can catch it at 10 p .m. Eastern on Bloomberg TV and on the Bloomberg app and Bloomberg .com and download The Circuit Companion podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Markets, headlines and breaking news 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com on Bloomberg television and the Bloomberg Business app. This is 940 on Wall Street. I'm Doug Krisner in New We York check markets for you throughout the day here on Bloomberg. We've got a little bit of a rally going on in the Japanese currency where the dollar is concerned 148 .45 that for a gain of around a half of one percent. Certainly there has been no shortage of volatility where the yen has been concerned this week. Tuesday morning US time the yen touched 150 per dollar and then a very sharp reversal. We strengthened against the greenback by around two percent. Now yesterday a top currency official in Japan was basically declining to confirm whether or not there had been in fact mention on the part of the Japanese Ministry of Finance and earlier today Asahi the Japanese newspaper was saying that move may have been triggered by an algorithm not intervention. Certainly helping out declining
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"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. Maybe I don't know, something that's just completely divorced from all of that. But look at the data that we got this morning, guys. What does that tell you about economic conditions and what's the setup then as we head into Friday? We got an awful day yesterday, but clawing back some of those losses here on this Wednesday afternoon, so a bit of a reprieve here to be sure. The Dow Jones Industrial Average looks like it's going to finish out the day higher by more than 100 points, up about four tenths of a percent. The S &P 500, which yesterday was flirting with a break below the 200 -day moving average, now trying to create some distance between the two, higher by about 34 points or eight tenths of a percent, while the NASDAQ is going to close higher by 1 .4 percent. And let's check in on the Russell 2000, because the cyclical trade had started to gain a little bit of steam. You did not necessarily see that today. The Russell is your relative laggard on the day, only higher by about a tenth of a percent. All right. So let's dig a little bit deeper into the S &P 500, and it probably looked a lot different certainly earlier today. But right now, Scarlett, you've got, what, almost 400, 377 names to the upside in the S &P 500, 125 to the downside. The S &P 500, which is skimming along that oversold RSI level, you know, as soon as it hits it, it just kicks to the upside. You find buyers coming in. And we closed near our highs. It's notable that the last 35 minutes of trading or so, it's pretty much it feels like it was a straight line up. When you look at the sector breakdown, I mean, just 30 minutes ago, this was pretty mixed. At least at midday, it was definitely flirting with a lot more red. In the end, you have autos and components, software and services and media entertainment all gaining at least one and a half percent. Look at autos, up 5 % as a group. And then on the downside, energy stocks lower by more than 3%, telecom stocks, utilities.
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A highlight from 1278. Gensler LOST AGAIN! | Judge Shreds SEC Appeal! | XRP Update
"Let's get into some XRP news today and talk about the SEC taking another black eye. These guys are taking round after round from the judge, and it's going to be an interesting one for sure. You don't want to miss this show. All right, my name is Paul Baron. Welcome back into Tech Path. Let's get into it. A couple of topics that we'll break down from the judge, but also the kind of impact this could have for the overall crypto markets, even the Coinbase case. We'll give you guys kind of a rundown. One thing I do want to do is thank our sponsor, and that's iTrust Capital. If you guys are looking at going into long -term investing into crypto IRAs, this is one of the vehicles you can use, and it's very simple to do it. Easy to start up, there's no monthly fees, and all you have to do is you can do your own self -directed trading. So if you want to get into XRP or others, you can do that right here within the iTrust Capital IRA. Very easy to join, and you'd be joining 200 another ,000 accounts that have already created IRAs there with iTrust. So check the link down below. You get a $100 funding reward if you decide to do something there. Helps our channel out. Appreciate that. All right, so let's get into a couple things here. I want to go over to the PDF here. This is the judge response, and there's a few points. I'm going to kind of zoom in on this a little bit for you guys. There's a few spots in here. There's going to be a lot of scrolling, but the point is we're going to get to a couple of points here. I want to go down here to page five. All right, so let's get into this. First, SEC has not presented a pure question of law. This is one of the things that the judge has already pretty much put in in the judgment on the first ruling, and of course, kind of them just saying, hey, this is, you're still in the same position here. In fact, the court specifically rejected defendants' essential ingredients, the legal test, and applied the SEC's legal standards. So this was where the SEC was essentially trying to create their own rules. Judge says, nope, not going to work here. Further into the document, the SEC seeks to appeal question C, and issuers offers and sales of crypto assets and trading platforms create a reasonable expectation of profits based on the efforts of others. But the court did not hold that offers and sales on a digital asset exchange can create a reasonable expectation of profits based on the efforts of others. So I think that is pretty much the same kind of scenario that's playing out in the Coinbase trial that we will most likely, I think we're going to see a win there as well. Ripple's programmatic sales were blind, bid -asked transactions, same as almost every crypto transaction out there. Ripple's programmatic sales represented less than 1 % of the global XRP trading volume, did not make any promises or offers, and the SEC failed to provide evidence. The SEC failed to provide evidence, and she just keeps on, failed to provide evidence over and over on all of this. So really kind of hitting home on the SEC, just not holding up their end of being able to even prove that XRP or other digital assets are securities. Further in this document, it says the SEC failed to provide evidence and the development of use cases for the XRP ledger, which constitutes a tangible and definable consideration to Ripple. That's important. Court also rejected the SEC's argument that XRP provided Ripple employees as compensation and bonuses satisfies the Howie's first prong. So getting into a lot more detail here, and I think this is going to flow into the rest of the civil cases that are still out there against Garlinghouse and Larson. All right, so court rejects the SEC's remaining argument that the courts have accordingly found section five violations where unregistered crypto asset transactions occur not between the issuer and the investor, but through intermediaries, including on trading platforms, keyword on trading platforms. That is Coinbase in a nutshell. And I think that's the scenario. Digital assets I think are getting ready to fall outside of the guise of the SEC. Court rejects the argument that there is a substantial ground for difference of opinion, meaning it doesn't matter what you think the court has a rule of law to go by and we're going to affect it. And, uh, the SEC is not creating their own law, which is the other scenario. Okay, so further in the court, uh, in the document, the court cannot draw any conclusions about library's core reasoning, uh, to an issue because it was never litigated. Therefore the SEC fails to point to any digital asset cases which conflict with the court's holding as to the other distributions. If you don't know about what happened in the library case, this was a really a milestone event for the SEC, but now the court is pretty much saying, man, not really. Listen into this clip right here. After the blockchain was launched and we didn't do an ICO and this was during the ICO boom and then we said we were trying to be a conservative company and eventually the SEC sued us and they declined to actually bring the trial until shortly before the statute of limitations was going to hit on our, on our first buying time. Yeah. We came in and we did a whole presentation and they just used that stuff against us. Never answered a single one of our questions. We've said we'll destroy the entire company. We'll give you our entire pre -mon. You can have every dollar in our bank accounts, right? But what we want is the status that Bitcoin has, right? If I have to blow everything up, if that's what's somehow the difference here. Okay, fine. Just tell me that that's what I have to do. They won't tell you that. They'll say you're, I mean, seriously, it's so it like gives me an energy. That's crazy. I mean, that would be in the founder of library talking about how much pressure and just gravitas that the sec is wielding out there on small companies. And that's the problem of overreach that we talk about all the time. All right, so let's go back to, actually there's another clip I want to play for you. This is John Deaton. Listen to this one. The judge agreed with me, promised me, assured me that he was going to make sure that the world knew that his decision did not apply to secondary market transactions. And that was a very important point because judge Torres in the ripple case cites that hearing Jeremy Kaufman and library spend between one and $4 million and they spend another couple million dollars in legal fees. The sec spends ungodly amount of hours taxpayer money. And when it's all said and done, the government protected us by getting $111 ,000 in legal fees. From library. Well, we've successfully destroyed them financially. We did what we told Jeremy Kaufman we were going to do when he argued with us and we said, we will bankrupt you pal. What happened is the library is appealing the decision by the judge granting summary judgment to the sec. I think that they have been emboldened, if you will, because of the grayscale ruling by the ripple decision by maybe even the Uniswap decision by judge failure and hopefully a really good decision that comes down in the Coinbase motion to, to dismiss. Remember people, there's not a case in 80 years that supports taking an asset that may have been an investment contract in the beginning and then calling it an investment contract. The underlying asset forever. None. Yeah. So Deaton pretty, pretty benefit. I'm pretty passionate about that. And I think he does kind of hit that point home is that the sec kind of plays unfairly, not surprising and to anyone out there. But the good thing is, is now the courts are starting to rule against them. And this seems like they are finally in a position where they're taking the bully to class here further in the conclusion denied at the sec's request for a stay is also denied. So this court basically just lashed everything down. This is an interesting statement at the end prior to the final pretrial conference council for both parties along with parties themselves shall meet in person for at least one hour to discuss the settlement of the match. So they are really meaning the court is really pushing to get this done. This of course is Annalisa Torres, judge Annalisa Torres, which I think is the one that has pretty much outlined that the sec has no case here for digital asset control and most likely is going to fall under, under outside the graces of the court when it comes to the, to the Coinbase, uh, case as well. All right. Just a couple of tweets here. Uh, corrupt sec got an effort fail on their appeal. Judge Torres wrote the fail 10 times. Uh, here's Stuart Alderati, of course, the ripple attorney courts, um, July 13 ruling was and remains law of the land XRP is not a security. Jeremy Hogan comes in and says, Hey, okay, look here. A couple of things here that I want to note. Uh, and that is really this statement right here. This is a disaster for the agency. I'm going to mark that just it's there. This is a disaster for the agency, but I think this is, this is a good thing for crypto in general and digital assets. But more importantly, I think for digital asset technology and how all of this is moving forward, keeping government overreach out of industry and innovation is important because as you know, Deaton kind of mentioned, they went through all that, you know, millions and millions and millions of taxpayers money for $111 ,000 for a library case, which is probably going to get overturned out. So not a good one. Here was Scott, Scott Chamberlain, uh, further talking about the XRP case and he kind of hits something here. So there's a lot in change. SCC failed to prove its case. Now it has to push not something nice uphill with a pointy stick if it wants to win. So they have a huge boulder in front of them to get this done in being able to win. I think the SCC has lost this and I think it's going to start either looking very bad for Gensler or the SCC is going to start to pivot their position. Now you look at it politically, that could be the case because we're starting to see some things in DC that could also kind of tie into this. I want to go over to this last clip, which is Deaton talking about this a little bit further into what this might mean. Listen in. She said some XRP holders, no doubt bought XRP for speculative reasons and they may have relied on the efforts of Ripple, but the SCC didn't prove that. Programmatic sales of XRP on exchanges are not securities. XRP itself is not a security. And what she did in this decision was solidify it. And I'm telling you it's untouchable. It cannot be touched. She even said, look, I never said that it's impossible for some crypto token to still be a security when it's bought on an exchange. I've just said that XRP in this case with these facts are not period. She even made it more clear that as of right now on this day, excluding Bitcoin, XRP is the only one clearly, with legal clarity. I'm really hoping that judge failure comes through on the Coinbase decision because I think that will be when Gensler is forced to pivot. And that's when Elizabeth Warren has to accept that her anti crypto army is a bunch of old people about to die. All right, there you go. Anti crypto army dead. Uh, and I think back to my point is that I think that Gensler is going to pivot. He has to, this is starting to impede political positioning. It's also impeding the benefits of what the SCC is going to try to do in really the work they should be doing, which is real securities law. And that is the challenge because right now it's just overreached. This is just power grabs. You look at what Graywall was saying here. Of course, this is the Coinbase attorney. SCC just filed its opposition motion to dismiss their case. This is the opposition to the motion for Coinbase trying to get this dismissed. This is going to take on a light of its own. If you look back down here at the end, it says, we look forward to filing our reply in October 24th. So as always, we appreciate court's consideration. So this is probably going to move into November, but the key here is the SCC continues to lose and they're losing in very, very grandiose ways. And this is not good for anything from a governmental overreach standpoint. I think it's even worse for the political position of the SCC. And this also starts to change things dramatically, I think in digital assets as a whole. Most likely Coinbase is going to come out of this. Coinbase is going to look really good pretty soon. So, all right guys, we're going to get into that more. We're going to be covering more of this. Obviously we had the speaker house change up this week. There's a big implication there on crypto and digital assets as a whole. We'll cover that. Make sure and stick around on the channel. If you're not subscribed, make sure and subscribe right now. 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Monitor Show 15:00 10-04-2023 15:00
"This week is the week of Perks at Potbelly. Think of it as a delicious sandwich holiday from October 2nd to October 6th, where Potbelly drops a new gift every 24 hours, exclusively for Perks members, which means a new festive way to enjoy legendary toasted sandwiches at Potbelly. And no, it's not a religious holiday, unless your religion is sandwiches, in which case, it's the most religious holiday there is, Potbelly. We bring the hot. At Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act, this is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Business Week, insight from the reporters and editors who bring you America's most trusted business magazine, plus global business, finance and tech news as it happens. Bloomberg Business Week with Carole Masur and Tim Stenebeck on Bloomberg Radio. And a very good afternoon, everybody, live from the Bloomberg Interactive Brokers Studio streaming on YouTube. And of course, oh, he's on Bloomberg Originals. It is Wednesday, October 3rd, 2023, Carole Masur along with, nope, not Tim Stenebeck. He is off today. But joining us is Bloomberg News economics editor Molly Smith. And Molly, it's a day where it does feel like the markets, both the equity side of things and the bond side of things, taking a little bit of a breather from some of the trend lines that we've seen as of late. Right. I mean, yesterday was brutal. I mean, some of the scopes on some of those bond yields, I mean, recessionary levels. So I think everyone's taking a bit of a breather today, but still a bit on edge. Yeah. I feel like very data dependent, which is something we're going to get into in just a moment as well. Also coming up, we've got a great check on the global economy. We've got Brad Jacobs with us. He is executive chair, founder of the logistics and trucking company XPO, understands the corporate culture. So we're going to talk about the economy. We're going to talk about some of the big trends when it comes to running a business. We're also going to talk to him about his next acts.
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Monitor Show 14:00 10-04-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. 24 hours and we thank you for our signature panel here at Bloomberg Politics Contributors. Rick and Jeannie, I'm Joe Matthew in Washington, Kaley Lyons is on the way in next, we're just getting started. Hour 2 of Sound On starts right now. This is actually what will decide this race. Bloomberg Sound On, politics, policy and perspective from DC's top names. Federal spending combined with too -lax monetary policy has produced this 40 -year high on inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew and Kaley Lyons on Bloomberg Radio. We have a race for speaker. Welcome to Hour 2 of Sound On as Congressman Jim Jordan and Congressman Steve Scalise, the majority leader, announce runs for the gavel just a day after Kevin McCarthy lost his. Got a week left to a scheduled election in the House and we'll talk this out in just a moment with Terry Haynes, the founder of Pangea Policy, was a senior staffer in the U .S. House when the continuity of government plan was drafted and something we'll talk to him about straight ahead. Later, we'll look inside the race for speaker and the role that Donald Trump made.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from IMMINENT Stock Market MELTDOWN Could Take Bitcoin To $42,000!
"Listen, if you're in crypto, you need to watch today's show till the very end, because yesterday was a huge turning point for crypto. Most people aren't going to admit it, but that's because they don't know what's happening under the hood. But let me show you a few things that build the case. So first of all, yesterday, we had the stock markets absolutely obliterated yesterday, everything was red. While this was happening, we were getting a credit meltdown. This is a TLT bond, which shows 10 to 20 year credit. And this shows a capitulation candle in the credit rating. But while this was going on, something very interesting happened in Bitcoin, Bitcoin was flat and up. In fact, Bitcoin didn't respond. Now, as I said to you, most people will say, well, this is a coincidence. It's just, you know, Bitcoin's had its day and it was it. But I'm going to show you today why anyone who says that just hasn't got their eyes on them all, doesn't really know what's happening under the hood. I'm going to show you exactly what's going on and why Bitcoin held and actually started climbing when the stock markets and the credit markets were starting to collapse. Also today, we want to talk about another big coup for crypto that happened in the US government. Because if you weren't paying attention, this is what happened yesterday, a historical day in the US government. On this vote, the yeas are 216. The nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The of office Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. And just like that, Kevin McCarthy, who was the Republican Speaker of the House, was fired from his role. And now we have a new Speaker of the House who's very, very, very pro crypto. This could be a massive turning point for crypto. And if you want to talk about another third big event that happened yesterday, we should talk about what happened in the XRP case or the Ripple SEC versus case, because that was another massive win for crypto. So all in all, yesterday was a big turning point for crypto. Today, what we're going to do is analyze why. And I'm going to show you why I think that this rally is actually going to continue. So let's go. Tell you one thing, if we were in the midst of a Uber bull market yesterday, the market, the crypto markets would have had their biggest day in a long, long, long time. But because we've reached a stage where people are getting apathetic, we didn't get the pump that we that we that we were waiting for. And I think if I understand what's happening in the crypto markets, a lot of people are actually getting flushed out of the crypto markets because what's happening is every time these people start to trade or every time it is another green candle up, people try and trade as we get the reversal, they get messed up again and they lose their money and they get flushed out the system. And after that happens five or six times, they kind of say, look, we're not coming back to crypto. We hate crypto as an asset class. You just lose money and they start feeling almost like an apathy. And if it's not an apathy, it's almost like an anger or resentment towards crypto. Now that's the natural market mechanism to get people flushed out. If you're feeling that like that, be careful that you're not falling into the market cycle, because that's what the market cycle is trying to do at this part of the cycle. We can talk about that today. I'm going to show you how this part of the cycle is designed to get the last of the weekends out before we actually go into the raging bull market. I'm going to show you where we get into, why, where and why we get into raging bull market. And I'm going to show you how the fundamentals and the technicals align exactly to show you that this is what's going to happen. When I was preparing the show and I realized what was actually going on, I was like, Holy shit, I cannot believe what is actually going on here. I think yesterday was one of the biggest turning points that we've had for crypto. And I think we need to analyze why yesterday was such a big turning point for crypto. So if you're here and you haven't been shaken out by the markets, let me know that you're still here. Design entity is still here. Chuck Strickland is still here. Lindsey B is still here. Space is Vibes still here. There are a lot of us who are still here and I mean, some of our friends have been flashed out and that's okay because that's what markets are supposed to do, but you're here and you're present. So let me know if you're present. Also, if you're not already subscribed to the channel, you know what to do. Subscribe to the channel. Now's the best time to do it. We're also going to bring you another channel. We've got another channel called Banta Plus, which I think you should subscribe to. There's a link below. Go and subscribe because there's a lot of additional content, premium content that's going to be on that channel.
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Monitor Show 13:00 10-04-2023 13:00
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CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Bitcoin Resilience in the Face of Macro Turmoil
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Wednesday, October 4th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto as Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about bond market alarm, Bitcoin resilience, Ripple, jobs, and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. Now a markets roundup. Debt markets around the world are in turmoil. But before we talk about that and why it matters for crypto, it's worth talking about how well crypto markets are holding up. Given the meltdowns and melt ups going on in traditional assets, you'd expect them to be down by even more. According to Coindesk Indices, at 10 a .m. Eastern Time this morning, Bitcoin was trading at $27 ,428, down half a percent over the past 24 hours. Ether was at $1 ,636, down 1 .4%. Bitcoin continues to lead the market. Its dominance index, known as BTC .d, measures Bitcoin's market cap relative to the total crypto market cap. When Bitcoin is outperforming the rest of the market, this goes up. Yesterday it climbed yet again and is now at 50 .5%. Bitcoin now accounts for more than half of the whole crypto market. Bitcoin's strength is surprising given the colossal tightening effect of rising bond yields around the world, a rising dollar and a rising oil price. Tightening especially impacts risk assets, and crypto assets are arguably the riskiest in that bucket. Were typical correlations to hold, Bitcoin would be suffering. But so far, it isn't. It is easily outperforming most stock indices, even those considered less risky, such as the Dow Jones. This suggests that there is meaningful support in the crypto market. But rather than seeing it in price increases, we're seeing it in prices not falling by more. Ripple was a strong outperformer in crypto markets today, up more than 4 % to trade at 53 cents. This boost comes from two pieces of good news for the network's XRP token. One is securing a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, allowing it to keep providing digital payment token services in the region. The other is the denial of the Securities and Exchange Commission's request to appeal a recent call ruling. I'll be talking more about this in a moment. Moving on to strong signals in the macro market. Earlier today, the US 10 -year yield almost reached 4 .9%, while the 30 -year yield broke through 5 % for the first time since 2007. There seems to have been a pullback over the past few hours, but markets are spooked. It doesn't help that Fed officials are out on the speaker circuit repeating the mantra that rates may have to go up some more and at best will be higher for longer. It also doesn't help that global confidence in the US government's ability to function took a hit. Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to oust the speaker for the first time in history. It also doesn't help that the higher US debt yields go, the more the US government will be paying in interest expense. This is triggering doubts about the US government's fiscal health. The price of insurance against a US government default has more than doubled over the past month and is now at the highest levels since the aftermath of the banking crisis earlier this year. What we are seeing is not just about rising interest rate expectations. That explained much of the climate yields over the past month. What we are seeing now is more about confidence, or rather, the lack of. The jobs market delivered some positive data this morning, however. This has allowed the bond markets to come down a bit and stock markets to recover some or all of the day's losses. The ADP non -farm employment report is a narrower, private version of the official report we will get on Friday. This morning's release of the employment change for September came in much lower than expected, an increase of less than 90 ,000 compared to consensus forecasts of over 150 ,000. This suggests that the US job market is finally starting to cool down, which means that the Federal Reserve might be able to ease up on interest rates ahead of expectations. The official report due on Friday does not always move in line with the ADP version, but we may get some good news then as well. Over in stocks, this economic data point has given markets some breathing room. US stocks were a sea of red yesterday, with all three major indices down more than 1 .3%. The NASDAQ led the decline with a drop of 1 .9%, its biggest daily drop in two months. So far today, however, the losses are much more muted, with NASDAQ gaining 0 .3%. The S &P 500 is still up almost 10 % year -to -date, although its gain is rapidly disappearing. The NASDAQ is holding onto its lead with a year -to -date gain of over 23%. And a sobering statistic for those that are still betting on a soft landing for the US economy – the Dow Jones index is now below its January level. Major European indices were also hit hard yesterday, with declines of more than 1 % across the board. Both the German DAX and the broader Eurostock 600 indices are at their lowest levels since March. The yield on the 10 -year German government bond, considered the safest bond in the European market, broke through 3 % earlier today for the first time since 2011. This morning has brought some signs of relief with more muted losses from the main indices. In Asia, the decline in Japan's Nikkei index accelerated in today's trading with a drop of 2 .3%. This brings the accumulated drop for the month so far to 4%, but the index is still 18 % up year -to -date. Japanese investors are not just spooked by moves in global bond markets – they're also keeping a close eye on currency movements. Yesterday, the yen -US dollar exchange rate broke through the symbolic level of 150 for the first time since late last year. Shortly after, the currency saw a sharp recovery, leading many to speculate that the Japanese central bank was again intervening in the market. That's possible, but it would be unusual for the Bank of Japan to do so without an announcement of some sort. Central bank intervention would be a big deal. It's more likely, at least for now, that it was some buying triggered by the decline in anticipation of eventual intervention.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Bitcoin Resilience in the Face of Macro Turmoil
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Wednesday, October 4th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto as Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about bond market alarm, Bitcoin resilience, Ripple, jobs, and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. Now a markets roundup. Debt markets around the world are in turmoil. But before we talk about that and why it matters for crypto, it's worth talking about how well crypto markets are holding up. Given the meltdowns and melt ups going on in traditional assets, you'd expect them to be down by even more. According to Coindesk Indices, at 10 a .m. Eastern Time this morning, Bitcoin was trading at $27 ,428, down half a percent over the past 24 hours. Ether was at $1 ,636, down 1 .4%. Bitcoin continues to lead the market. Its dominance index, known as BTC .d, measures Bitcoin's market cap relative to the total crypto market cap. When Bitcoin is outperforming the rest of the market, this goes up. Yesterday it climbed yet again and is now at 50 .5%. Bitcoin now accounts for more than half of the whole crypto market. Bitcoin's strength is surprising given the colossal tightening effect of rising bond yields around the world, a rising dollar and a rising oil price. Tightening especially impacts risk assets, and crypto assets are arguably the riskiest in that bucket. Were typical correlations to hold, Bitcoin would be suffering. But so far, it isn't. It is easily outperforming most stock indices, even those considered less risky, such as the Dow Jones. This suggests that there is meaningful support in the crypto market. But rather than seeing it in price increases, we're seeing it in prices not falling by more. Ripple was a strong outperformer in crypto markets today, up more than 4 % to trade at 53 cents. This boost comes from two pieces of good news for the network's XRP token. One is securing a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, allowing it to keep providing digital payment token services in the region. The other is the denial of the Securities and Exchange Commission's request to appeal a recent call ruling. I'll be talking more about this in a moment. Moving on to strong signals in the macro market. Earlier today, the US 10 -year yield almost reached 4 .9%, while the 30 -year yield broke through 5 % for the first time since 2007. There seems to have been a pullback over the past few hours, but markets are spooked. It doesn't help that Fed officials are out on the speaker circuit repeating the mantra that rates may have to go up some more and at best will be higher for longer. It also doesn't help that global confidence in the US government's ability to function took a hit. Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to oust the speaker for the first time in history. It also doesn't help that the higher US debt yields go, the more the US government will be paying in interest expense. This is triggering doubts about the US government's fiscal health. The price of insurance against a US government default has more than doubled over the past month and is now at the highest levels since the aftermath of the banking crisis earlier this year. What we are seeing is not just about rising interest rate expectations. That explained much of the climate yields over the past month. What we are seeing now is more about confidence, or rather, the lack of. The jobs market delivered some positive data this morning, however. This has allowed the bond markets to come down a bit and stock markets to recover some or all of the day's losses. The ADP non -farm employment report is a narrower, private version of the official report we will get on Friday. This morning's release of the employment change for September came in much lower than expected, an increase of less than 90 ,000 compared to consensus forecasts of over 150 ,000. This suggests that the US job market is finally starting to cool down, which means that the Federal Reserve might be able to ease up on interest rates ahead of expectations. The official report due on Friday does not always move in line with the ADP version, but we may get some good news then as well. Over in stocks, this economic data point has given markets some breathing room. US stocks were a sea of red yesterday, with all three major indices down more than 1 .3%. The NASDAQ led the decline with a drop of 1 .9%, its biggest daily drop in two months. So far today, however, the losses are much more muted, with NASDAQ gaining 0 .3%. The S &P 500 is still up almost 10 % year -to -date, although its gain is rapidly disappearing. The NASDAQ is holding onto its lead with a year -to -date gain of over 23%. And a sobering statistic for those that are still betting on a soft landing for the US economy – the Dow Jones index is now below its January level. Major European indices were also hit hard yesterday, with declines of more than 1 % across the board. Both the German DAX and the broader Eurostock 600 indices are at their lowest levels since March. The yield on the 10 -year German government bond, considered the safest bond in the European market, broke through 3 % earlier today for the first time since 2011. This morning has brought some signs of relief with more muted losses from the main indices. In Asia, the decline in Japan's Nikkei index accelerated in today's trading with a drop of 2 .3%. This brings the accumulated drop for the month so far to 4%, but the index is still 18 % up year -to -date. Japanese investors are not just spooked by moves in global bond markets – they're also keeping a close eye on currency movements. Yesterday, the yen -US dollar exchange rate broke through the symbolic level of 150 for the first time since late last year. Shortly after, the currency saw a sharp recovery, leading many to speculate that the Japanese central bank was again intervening in the market. That's possible, but it would be unusual for the Bank of Japan to do so without an announcement of some sort. Central bank intervention would be a big deal. It's more likely, at least for now, that it was some buying triggered by the decline in anticipation of eventual intervention.
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Monitor Show 12:00 10-04-2023 12:00
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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/04/23
"The dis in functional, don't we? I have to tell you, I just want to just offer the floor to you and say, how did yesterday afternoon work out for you? Well, there's so many fascinating layers and aspects to this. First of all, I think, and before we even get started in this huge history making move yesterday, kudos to the good old Atlanta team who came to Tampa Bay yesterday and walloped the Tampa Bay Rays. They had a toast to the Rangers for game one. Did you just refer to them as an Atlanta team? I started to say Atlanta. Listen, this was a late night. What the hell's the matter with you? It was a late night. Do you have a stroke? Obviously, the Rangers, excuse me. Thank you. I did. I'm smelling burning toast. Tracy's there. Did you burn the toast? What happened again? That's all right. Who ordered the field cutlet? No, I'm sorry. No, no, it's quite all right. But I did want to give kudos to the Rangers because, listen, and you know why Tampa Bay lost? Guess how many people showed up at that pitiful field. I know it's the worst facility in sports, but the Rays are really good, have been good all year. They're in the playoffs. The capacity of the trop is probably about 45 ,000. How many were there? The smallest playoff baseball crowd since game seven of the 1919 World Series. That's the Black Sox, right? Yeah, 19 ,000 people showed up. It was 3 o 'clock in the afternoon local time. But everybody plays hooky, exactly right. You bring that game here and we'll cram globe life a few. It's the weirdest thing I've ever experienced when I moved here and I kept saying, why doesn't anybody support this team? And all they keep telling me is, because everybody hates the owner. Well, what the heck? Who cares? You might go to the World Series. Well, I mean, Rangers might have something to say about that. Well, maybe so after yesterday. I mean, now Tampa Bay's hanging on by a thread, which would be awful because Tampa Bay came out of the gate strong. I mean, man, oh, man, they were looking like they were 10 -0. I think they won their first 10. And they're certainly one of the four or five best teams in baseball, but so were the Rangers for much of the year. And now they've decided to awaken. Nice 4 -0 shutout. And I would love for Tampa Bay's season to end this afternoon at about five because game two is today at two, our time. Well, congratulations to the Atlanta Rangers. Exactly. Go Braves. All right. Now, let me go through some takeaways from yesterday, which I think are, first of all, to me, the biggest story that was not covered is it was the immediate action, the first official act taken by Patrick McHenry, the acting speaker. Did you see what he did? Oh, no, but to Pelosi? The first action he did was to evict Nancy Pelosi from her cushy private office that she was given, I guess, as some kind of a courtesy, right? And first thing he did was get out. Now, it was pretty rough because she's in California for Dianne Feinstein's funeral. She's not even in the building. And he said, hey, we're going to re -key the locks Wednesday morning, get out. But here's what that tells me, Mark, and I think it's significant. Why didn't McCarthy do that? I don't know. If that's not symbolic of what we're talking about here, there's another narrative here. The narrative is, I know you're not going to want to hear it, and I get it. Everybody's all up in arms and everybody's realizing there's gridlock. Listen, everybody's got to put down the smelling salts for a moment. Do you think we're in bad shape if Jim Jordan is the speaker of the House going into the 2024 election? Do you not like Jim Jordan as the speaker? I love Jim Jordan as the speaker. I believe he's unelectable as the speaker. Well, who's going to be electable? Steve Scalise probably has the best chance. And Steve Scalise reportedly doesn't want it. The reporting is that physically he's got a lot of – he's asking for it. He was lobbying yesterday, but is that just window dressing? Is Steve Scalise the fighter that we want for Jim Jordan? I mean – Listen, electability, you could say all day you want. Things can get done, and if – why wouldn't the Republicans unify behind Jim Jordan? Because there are 200, 212 of them, right? Because for many of them, Jordan's a little too spicy.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SBF TRIAL: 10-04 Update
"Welcome to The SBF Trial, a Coindesk Podcast Network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk Podcast Network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. Sam Bankman -Fried had a grin on his face as he entered court on Tuesday morning, clad in a black suit and an uncharacteristically tame mop of hair. After nine long months, the disgraced crypto founder will finally have the chance to defend himself against a wide array of federal fraud and conspiracy charges tied to the collapse of FTX, his crypto and futures exchange, and Alameda Research, the crypto trading firm he founded and, according to prosecutors, used to illegally reinvest FTX user funds. The first day of the Bankman -Fried trial was all about jury selection, the process by which a judge, defense, and prosecution worked together to filter more than 80 New Yorkers to a final group of 12 jurors and six alternates. Judge Lewis Kaplan, the judge overseeing the case, peppered the jury pool with questions. Underscoring the trial's location in the heart of New York's financial district and the scale of Bankman -Fried's once -giant crypto empire, the initial list of potential jurors included people whose professions overlapped with Alameda and FTX. One potential juror said she had worked until recently at Signature, the crypto -friendly bank that crumbled earlier this year and had ties to Alameda and FTX. Another member of the jury pool said her employer had invested directly in Alameda and FTX. Did your employer make or lose money as a result of their investments? asked Kaplan. Lost money, said the juror. The goal of Kaplan's questions was to suss out which of the many prospective jurors would be able to serve impartially, a particularly complex endeavor given the headline -grabbing nature of Bankman -Fried's crypto collapse, as the judge acknowledged at the start of jury selection. It would not surprise me if some of you have heard about this case. When Kaplan asked if anyone in the room had seen a recent 60 Minutes segment, an interview with author Michael Lewis about his just -released book about the rise and fall of Sam Bankman -Fried. At least seven jurors raised their hands. Most members of the jury pool were stationed in an overflow room on the first floor of the courthouse. Bankman -Fried sat silently between his attorneys throughout the bulk of the jury selection process. Mostly he spent his time pecking away at a laptop keyboard. His attorneys have previously expressed concern that he would not have enough time to review materials or otherwise work on his defense after his bond was revoked in August, and he was sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center. Despite the seriousness of the accusations facing Bankman -Fried, his mood from the court's overflow rooms, where press was sequestered, seemed to range from neutral to positive. The judge himself cracked a few jokes during the jury selection process, though he hammered certain prospective jurors who appeared to be trying very hard to avoid serving for the trial. One prospect tried three different sets of excuses, none of which appeared to convince the judge. The judge also spoke to Bankman -Fried directly at the beginning of the day, letting the FTX founder know he had the right to testify in his own defense, even if his attorneys didn't expect or plan for him to do so. The decision is up to you, the judge said, before telling Bankman -Fried how to alert Judge Kaplan that he wished to testify should the defense rest without calling the FTX founder. It's unclear if Bankman -Fried will actually testify. Jury selection should conclude Wednesday, according to Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the trial in the Southern District of New York Courthouse. There are around 50 potential jurors remaining, after he dismissed a few dozen during yesterday's jury selection. Of the remainder, 12 will become jurors, and six will be named as alternates, potentially as soon as Wednesday morning. The process will see the jurors talk about themselves and their backgrounds briefly so the various attorneys have a better understanding of who they are, the judge said. The judge expects opening statements to kick off Wednesday. One prosecutor said he expects the Department of Justice's opening statement to last no longer than 30 minutes, while the This means we could begin hearing from witnesses by Wednesday afternoon. A pair of FBI agents were present in the courtroom Tuesday, though it's unclear if they will be the DOJ's opening witnesses. Want to follow along? Sign up for Coindesk's new daily newsletter, The SBF Trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the Coindesk Podcast Network. Thanks for listening.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from URGENT! How To Get Your Real Estate Listings SOLD NOW! (Part 2)
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. Welcome back. Today is day two, how to get your real estate listing sold. So Julie, without any further delay. Yes, that's right. So this is the continuation. We did points one through five. We're starting on six today, about 11 unexpected ways in addition to a price reduction or instead of in some cases to get those listings to move. And remember this is point number six. So if you've not heard the first few points, make sure you go back and listen to those points because they're really critical that you are tuning your mind to the fact that there are a lot of ways to get properties correctly positioned on the market so they meet the buyer's expectation, i .e. priced correctly. And also if you happen to have a listing that is out of alignment with the market's expectation, how you can make it more competitive in addition to or maybe instead of, thank you, a price reduction. So make sure you read our notes. All of our notes from today's podcast, all of our notes from every podcast are down below in the show description. If you're on YouTube, it's very easy. Just click Show More or on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, all the billions of different places you guys listen to us. Scroll down, read the notes. They're all there. We obviously include about 1 ,000 % more in addition to the notes. When you were listening, you were noticing that Julie and I, because in the comments I'm reading what you guys are saying, we often do talk about things that are I think more drilled down than what our notes are. But the notes are there for you to use to remind you to essentially what to say, how to say it when you're speaking with your sellers or buyers or whatever's relevant. But also there's a link for you to join Premier Coaching. Thousands of you have joined Premier Coaching in the last year. From what we understand, it is the nation's number one coaching program. Why are so many agents joining Premier Coaching program? Well, a whole bunch of reasons, but the best reason is because it's a coaching program designed for this new market, for the agents that are willing to do what they don't want to do and they don't want to do it at the highest level. As a result of that mindset, on the other side of that mindset, when you have the skill set necessary, you're going to experience success at levels that you can only dream of because how do I know that's true? Because we have, guess what, thousands of coaching clients that are telling us that. So the link to join Premier Coaching is below. So scroll down and click the link or just go to premiercoaching .com. Take 17 seconds to join. Yes, we've timed it. If you type faster than me, you could probably do it in 10 seconds, but the link to join is right there and you have immediate access to the entire first level of Premier Coaching. All right, so again, this is part two, starting on point number six, 11 unexpected ways to get your listings to sell faster. Now, any of these ways can happen upfront as soon as you take the listing. They can also be added to the comments after you've had the listing for a while, as some of you are sitting on listings you're surprised that haven't sold yet. And we can also do more than one of these points at the same time on those listings. So you have some flexibility on this. All right, so other ways to add some perks and get these listings to go faster. Point number six, add a $1 ,000 commission bonus to a buyer's agent if it's pending by a certain date. Now, if it is more expensive, you could add a $5 ,000 bonus. You can add a $10 ,000 bonus if it's over a million dollars. If it's over $5 million, adjust accordingly, but add a commission bonus to the buyer's agent if it's pending by a certain date. The builders are doing this. You better do it as well, especially if you have a lot of builder competition. I know, I saw, I think it's from Lenar, it might've been KB homes in San Antonio. There are some agent bonuses as high as a 6 % to the buyer side. That's amazing. And it's not just on one house either. There's like lists and lists of this stuff. Do you remember, Julie, back in 2007, 2008, we had coaching clients who their sellers had like, I remember one in particular is a Lamborghini. It was like a year old Lamborghini and it was during a hard time for the seller and the car had depreciated. The house was, they still had equity, but they wanted to sell the house before the house was worth less than they owed on it. This was a totally different market, not work that we're experiencing now. So they actually included the Lamborghini in the sale of the property and the buyer's agent that ended up buying it, ended up representing the buyer to purchase it, took the Lamborghini in lieu of their commission because the buyer didn't give a rat's, you know, what about a car? I know. Well, I mean way to be creative, right? Right. I recently saw back and forth on one of the Facebook agent pages where an agent was talking about how their broker had invested in some kind of thing where it was like a vacation voucher that they could use on any listing. And you know, I was, what was crazy was the, the other agents on this social media thing like piled on, well, if you have to do that, you must have overpriced it and that seller must be crazy. And what is this, a timeshare? And it was like insane back and forth. And go you, whoever posted that, who said, no, actually we feel it's a smart thing to do to put on all of our listings, to have a little extra something to make sure that we're shown first. I mean, that was a very professional response. There were two vacation vouchers. One was for the buyer's agent. One was for the buyer and they didn't have to use it, but it was like X percent off of their travel. I thought it was pretty crafty. Okay. So along those lines, hopefully we're motivating you guys for what we're motivating you towards is wanting to sell more expensive listings because the tchotchkes obviously are better. Well, they get better. If our first two stories didn't do it, this one might. So Ben Salem, I know you're going to mention this. Yeah. Well, cause he sells a lot of beautiful luxury real estate and he works with a lot of, you know, high end, not in Los Angeles, exactly, uh, buyers and the bird streets and the rest of it. And he's not very, I, Ben's one of my favorite coaching clients of all time cause he's not high profile and yet he sells a lot of expensive homes and he doesn't, you know, he's not, he's not peacocking around about his success. He just gets the job done. That's right. So, uh, one of the things he did on a particular really weird house that was owned by a, I won't mention who is, it was a celebrity, uh, well fallen celebrity, I should say a fallen star. In any event. So this property in particular was very difficult to sell, had a lot of condition issues, um, the whole thing. And so what Ben did is he put an incentive on it that he would pay for the buyer's agent. It was all disclosed. Everyone knew about it. Nothing under the table, nothing like that to take a private jet and fly to Las Vegas stay at the wind and he was going to pay like the whole thing. It was just some ridiculous, some sporting thing or something. I don't remember. You know, I think it was not related to some event. It was something. Yeah, something like that. Anyway, that's what he ended up doing and he took a bunch of pictures and it became a big, you know, hoopty do for the buyer's agent. And it was something that got Ben's name on the radar for other listings that may have been a little cantankerous to sell and he got more listings from it. Point being, if you're in a marketplace where something isn't selling, the answer isn't always lower the price or if it is, it's lower the price and do some things that are more creative to hype up the listing, especially true in upper end listings where the house needs a lot of repairs, updates, that type of thing. Yeah, that's right. One of the problems with big luxury homes is there's more to do when it gets outdated and it's more expensive. You know, I can just see, I can just, I feel in the collective unconscious of all of the, you know, worn out buyer's agents from the previous market. They're like right up, you know, about time we get a few perks out of this, right? We feel you guys, we understand. So we were talking about doing a commission bonus. Always do a new seller's net sheet when you're adding any of these sellers concessions to the transaction. Make sure the seller knows how their bottom line will be impacted. Many of these concessions will actually cost less than a price reduction would have or make the price reduction smaller when combined with the concession. But make sure you're translating it into actual dollars so your seller's not surprised. And you know, again, advanced coaching here, but sometimes you can get your title escrow company to actually make those for you. So they're actually seeing all the expenses. I'm not saying your net sheets aren't accurate, but it's a little bit more authoritative in some sellers eyes when it's coming from the title escrow attorney type thing. So another thing you can do to give yourself a more professional veneer in the marketplace where it's the agent has the skill set that's going to get the listing. So don't avoid doing a seller's net sheet just because you don't know how to do it. Get some help. And there are some MLS is that allow you to plug in those numbers and they know how to figure your taxes and all that. But I agree with you. The title or the closing attorney can certainly do that for you. And it's not weird to ask them to do that. That's normal. Okay. Number seven, seller does not require inspections waived. Again, a new concept that replaces the old markets as is requirements. We talked about that a lot yesterday, so make sure you go back and listen to that, especially at how we tied it in at the end of yesterday's podcast to buying a home warranty at the time you take the listing and including seller's coverage and then having the house pre -inspected and having the repairs on the property done. So that when the buyer walks in, they're seeing that the property was pre -inspected, the repairs are done and the house comes with a home warranty. We are trying to position you so that you can compete against not just other resales, but also new construction. Very well put. Point number eight, have your favorite lender create a rate sheet to give away at showings and open houses. The rate sheet should show three different ways of purchasing the home. You can also attach that to your home brochure in your home brochure box. You could do a 30 year fixed, a 321 buy down, a 723 adjustable or a 525 adjustable. All of these can get a lower interest rate and lower payment. My favorite one is to just buy down points like the builders do and to lock in a lower rate for a 30 year fixed. But there are other creative ways to combat higher interest rates. We didn't say this yesterday, we should say it today. When you're doing things like what we suggested yesterday and today and you're being more creative and the seller is contributing money to buy the points down, in the description you can say at list price seller agrees to buy the points down, making the interest rate in a 30 year fixed rate mortgage, this payment range and that type of thing. So at list price, you can buy a little bit of insurance for the seller so that if the buyer comes in low and the seller is even inclined to accept it, that they're not also then going to have to concede to all those other concessions that they used as incentives to get the offer in the first place. Great point because you don't want to sign the seller up to both have to take something lower and to contribute 10 ,000 in closing costs or what have you. But don't be surprised when you do have, especially in a market where listings are harder to sell, where the buyer's agents do come in and they do ask for a lot of different things, you're just going to have to work through it. And again, we teach you how to do that in Premier Coaching, except the old days of throwing a dart against the board to price it and then waiting for the offers to come in over list price or long over. You have to have the skill set now, not just to list properties correctly and get them sold, but also how to counsel your buyers to get the properties. This is a new market. This is a skills -based market. Those of you are willing to learn the skills and do what you don't want to do and you don't want to do at the highest level, you're going to have an unprecedented, massive, unbelievably exciting real estate future. Yes, you brought up a little minor but important point because we're working through the transition of a super hot seller's market on every single listing that hits the market, no matter where you live, to a more adjusted, more reasonable, more normalized market. Now, we've been talking about how to buy down interest rates and do some more creative financing, which freaks some of you guys out. It makes you think, oh, I heard about that during the housing crash and adjustable rates are evil and we can't do that. I've seen some of this manifest in things like a seller will have an offer brought to them by their listing agent where the buyer is asking for closing costs. And the seller and the listing agent, their reaction is, well, if they need closing costs, they must not be a very strong buyer. That's a weak, truthfully, that's a weak agent. But you understand where they're coming from. Totally, completely. You understand why that's happening. But that's a weak agent who did not properly position the seller when they put the house for sale. This goes back to skills, guys. Now, I even have an instance of that, Federico in L .A. had a builder react like that when somebody asked for closing costs, even though they came in at list price doing what the builder asked because they asked for some closing costs. Builder was like, well, they, you know, why would I take that? They must not be very strong of a buyer. Just because somebody asks to get help getting a better interest rate does not mean they are a weak borrower. It means they're actually pretty smart about what they're doing. So you'll have a choice, Mr. Seller. You either lower the price by $30 ,000 or we actually give concessions to the buyer so that they can buy the interest rate down or cover the buyer's closing costs. Because the buyer is using all of their money, they need all their cash basically as their down payment to qualify for the mortgage. Now interest rates went up, they're going to need concessions to basically buy the rate down so they can afford the payment, qualify for it. Or Mr. Seller, you can just lower the price by 30 grand and we can hope and pray that we get another offer six months from now. It's up to you. Right. And in fact, if the seller were to counter it, you know, up for 10 grand and I'm going to pay 10 grand in closing costs, their net, you guys get focused on the wrong thing sometimes. Do the net sheet. The net to the seller is list price minus coming down 10 grand minus 10 grand to closing costs. Isn't that the same as taking a price of 20 grand less? It is. But that's, by the way, one of the techniques we show you when you have someone that's trying to fight with you over your commission is you don't get them to focus on the commission. You get them to focus on what their net is and in a marketplace where what almost all the houses, well, most, most, all real estate in the United States, according to Julie's statistics two days ago on podcast has increased by at least 45, 49 % since 2019, 49 % okay. So here's the thing. If they have to come down 2%, they're probably going to be okay. And if you're having them battle you over price or I'm not paying the $360 for a home warranty, you need to move their eyes to the bottom of the net sheet and circle with a red pen, their net, and then you need to get, have them understand that they've won the real estate lottery. Congratulations. Exactly. Okay. Number nine, find out if your seller has an assumeable mortgage. What's the rate and what are the requirements? Advertise this in your MLS description as well as in your home brochures. all Just note FHA, VA, and USDA mortgages are assumeable and some other loans are as well. All you have to do to find out is call whoever's servicing the mortgage. There are ways to look it up online as well, especially if it's FHA and VA, you can go to hud .gov and look it up by loan number. My beautiful wife, what are you, what assumption are you making? That they even know what an assumeable mortgage is. Correct. You're assuming, you're assuming they knew what an assumeable was. You were making an assumption. Well, I'll explain it quickly. So basically, someone's taken out one of these FHA, VA, USDA mortgages and let's say they have a fixed interest rate of say 3%. And let's say the property is worth, they paid $400 for it and now it's worth $500. If the buyer comes up with $100 ,000 or whatever the spread is between the market value and what they own the loan and they qualify with release, in other words, the FHA, VA, USDA has to, the person has to have decent credit and obviously... They have to be able to qualify for the mortgage. They can assume, they can actually assume the mortgage of that seller. So they themselves can have that ridiculously low 30 -year fixed rate mortgage. Now I'll even make it more interesting for you. Let's say your buyer only has $50 ,000 down, the house is worth $500, the USDA mortgage is only $400, the interest rate is 3%, the payment's obviously a heck of a lot less than it would be if they went out into the marketplace now and got a loan. But the buyer only has $50 ,000, but other than that, they qualify. You can get the seller to give them a second mortgage for the $50 ,000. And I don't want to get into the weeds on that, but this is something we talked about in Premier Coaching and we talked about in previous podcasts, but you can make deals happen where other people don't even see opportunity. That's called skill. Yeah, and that's even better than doing a rate buy down or an adjustable. I mean, potentially it's pretty killer. Just to overview, if you want to, you know, hopefully some of you are having some sparks fly in your minds, what would happen is the seller would give the buyer a second mortgage, I'll stick with $50 ,000, that is an actual lien against the property. So that means every month the buyer is going to be making the payment, now the owner of the new house is going to be making a payment on the first mortgage and on the second mortgage. You can do, and you will use an attorney to do this obviously, but then what will happen is the second mortgage, let's say the first mortgage is 30 -year fixed, the second mortgage might have a three -year arm. In other words, they're going to make the payment on that $50 ,000 for three years and then they have to pay the seller back the $50 ,000 or refinance it or there could even be a covenant in there, a carve out where if the seller agrees, you know, they can continue the mortgage, right? It's not just a balloon payment. It could be essentially... You can write it however you want. Exactly. You can write it however you want and if the interest rate makes sense and the payment's been made on time, I bet you that a seller is going to be more than happy to continue to have that $50 ,000 paid over terms because maybe the interest rate is great and they're making more money on it than they would investing in other places. You have just put a buyer in a house that they normally wouldn't have necessarily been able to buy because they didn't have the down payment and now you put them in a house or they can get the mortgage assumed. The reason that this is very powerful because a lot of the properties that are FHA, I'm not going to say VA, but FHA, well, I'll just lean into USDA. They're going to be more rural type properties and some of them are going to be working farms and small farms and things like that where you're going to have to be more creative to get the property sold. This is the type of information that gives you an unfair advantage and every marketplace makes you more confident, makes it so that when you wake up every morning, you're bouncing off the walls wanting to share with the world your real estate knowledge. I have seen some of these assumables already happening because smart agents have figured this out. I have a question for you. Maybe you don't know. I need to research this. Let's say that you have a seller that has an FHA assumable, but they've owned the house for like five years, which means they only owe 25 years. If I assume that, you pick up a 25, that's another advantage, right? I mean, that's huge. Yeah. You've just shaved off five years that you don't even have a 30 year. You've got a 25. They don't recast the mortgage, Julie. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure I had it right. But the same goes true. Like when you and I started selling real estate, there was a whole bunch, well, they were hard to find, but they were just sweetheart deals. And there were assumables out there where people had paid off half the loan. It was a 30 year and it was 15 years left. You'd pay them their equity and you'd basically have a 15 year loan. I know. It's amazing. And I was just reading, I think on housing wire, that a surprisingly large amount of this recent, you know, when we had all these low interest rates for several years, a lot of those, and some of them will be assumable, because rates were so low, people got 15 year loans when they refi'd or when they purchased in the first place because the payment was, you know, normally you wouldn't do a 15 year because the payment is higher, but with rates the way they were, it made sense to do 15 year. How are you going to use this information? First of all, ask your seller what type of mortgage that they have. Don't assume, here, I'll give you, assume they have an FHA mortgage or a Fannie or Freddie until proven otherwise, or a VA or, you just assume that they have a mortgage where there's a carve out for it to be assumable. And if you're in a marketplace where things are hard to sell, you can find out if they do because I promise you again, your sellers won't know. Find out if it's assumable. And then if it is, you have the ultimate unfair advantage when getting that property sold. A hundred percent. Because again, back to our example from yesterday, if it's that listing, which is an assumable at some outrageously, now outrageously low interest rate, and you're advertising that in your agent comments and there's four other homes that meet the buyers criteria, who do you think is going to get shown first? I'm going to even take this to the next level. If you are smart, which all of you are, otherwise you would be listening to our podcast, you're going to think, well, how can I pick up rental property this way? Because a lot of these mortgages, FHA, VA, USDA, the mortgage criteria to qualify in the first place is a little lower. You can actually use what would have been your commission as a, towards your down payment. And you can assume these low rate mortgages and you can actually start walking into rental properties. There you are. See? All right. So point number 10, use 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE on your for sale signs to generate leads and possibly sell your listing yourself. One of the best solutions to a listing sitting on the market too long is to sell it yourself. 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE .com. So also refer to past podcasts about that system. We're not going to dive too deep into that today, but capture unlisted phone numbers, answer zero transfer calls, or immediately call the prospect back. Secret, many of your initial calls will actually be from neighbors of your listing. Those are also listing leads guys. And that website, by the way, and the product is getting totally revamped. So anyway, go to 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE .com. Full disclosure, Julie and I own 50 % of that company. Yes. With a partner with one of our original listings, oddly enough. Actually, he was our first seller, wasn't he? Oh my gosh. We forget that sometimes. I know. Well, it's all related, right? Yep. Okay. Point number 11, use a home brochure box next to or attached to your for sale sign. There is an art to the home brochure. Of course, highlight all the attributes of your listing using 800 -HOME -HOTLINE and including your email address. But in addition to this, there's lots of different ways you can utilize the home brochure to make your phone ring. Now we have a podcast that we've done two or three times in the past called How to Hot Rod Your Real Estate Sign or Your Brochure Box. So there's all kinds of things that we did in a dedicated podcast on that. This is all about the fact that in many cases, you're going to have to sell your own listing because the buyers, agents, you know, a whole bunch of reasons. I'll give you guys a really good example. You'll remember this. It was our neighborhood in New Albany Country Club and there was a listing that was for sale when we moved there, expired, got listed with somebody else and expired again. I remember. And it was like caddy cornered to our backyard and they were moving back to Hungary. I think it was Hungary. Something like that. Yeah. And they're the nicest people ever. Super nice people. So we ended up listing the property and I was shocked the house hadn't sold. Me too. It's a good house. It was great. It was a typical expired where it basically gets a lot of activity when it's new. The local agents, you know, stopped showing it because there's other new listings, the whole thing, right? If you look at the curve on showing activity, it's really, you know, two weeks, three weeks and after that it starts to drop off pretty precipitously and after it's been for sale for 30 or 45 days in virtually all markets, the showing activity stops. Well that's what had happened to this property. But even worse, or I should say better for our advantage, even worse, the local agents were assuming that the house had some sort of problem, otherwise it would have sold. And how do I know that? I had, Julie and I had that listing. This listing I remember was five or 600 grand and this was back in. And so this house was, we had a for sale sign obviously and we had 800 home hotline. There was somebody parked in front of the listing.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from BIG RIPPLE XRP NEWS! JUDGE DENIES SEC GARY GENSLER APPEAL! RIPPLE SINGAPORE LICENSE, SEC VS COINBASE & BINANCE
"Welcome back to the thinking crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. Please also hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms. Well, folks, as you can probably tell by my voice, I am sick. I'm under the weather. I think I picked up something at the ripple proper party, but it was certainly worth it. The ripple proper party was incredible. It was amazing to meet many of you in person and to chat with you all and then get to know you a bit better. Thank you all for your support. It was just an awesome experience. Well, folks, let's jump into the news. The SEC's motion to appeal the loss in the ripple case has been denied. Judge Torres once again denying the SEC and scumbag regulator Gary Gensler. Gary Gensler's lies, failed talking points and bullshit are not, of course, going to be holed up in court so he can continue going on TV and telling lies. But it's not going to happen with the judiciary branch. This is great, folks. We are seeing a government agency that is run by a corrupt bureaucrat being put in their place. They've obviously fallen far from their core mission of protecting investors. They become political and they are trying to go beyond above and beyond what powers have been given to them. Their goal is to protect investors, but they're doing all kinds of nonsense. We know Gary Gensler is a puppet on strings trying to protect the trad fi banking incumbents who are being disrupted by cryptocurrency and blocking companies. So this is amazing. Let me give you some details. So district judge Annalisa Torres said in that brief ruling Tuesday that the SEC had failed to meet its burden under the law to show that there were controlling questions of law or that there are substantial grounds for differences of opinion. So Gary is getting shut down. You know, there's obviously going to be a trial next year, but we'll see. There could be some sort of settlement here wrapping this up because I don't think the SEC can continue to take losses like this. Here's what Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse had to say on the matter. The SEC's request to file an interlocutory appeal is denied. I am not a lawyer, but it seems the court just told the SEC, you asked me to apply the Howey test. I did. And like it or not, you lost. Exactly. Stuart Alderadi, chief legal officer at Ripple said the court's July 13 ruling was and remains the law of the land. XRP is not a security. Here's what John Deaton's crypto law highlighted. In footnote six of her ruling today, Judge Torres raped the SEC for shifting the inconsistent arguments as to its legal theory about other distributions. This is in line with Judge Netburn's earlier admonition on the SEC's lack of faithful allegiance to the law. So you have a government agency that doesn't even respect the law folks. They use our tax money to do their jobs, right? That's how they're funded primarily. And they don't even It's unbelievable. This is why we need a total revamp. And if you've seen my interview with Congressman Warren Davidson just a few days ago, he has a bill called the SEC restructuring act or whatever it may be, where it would eliminate that chair role and add another commissioner to bring more balance. And I think we need something like that because clearly, I mean, whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter if you just look at this reasonably, you see something is wrong here. There's this agencies rotten at its core. Here's what attorney Jeremy Hogan had to say. The SEC's motion for interlocutory appeal denied, which means the case either goes to trial in April or goes away. And this order allowed the judge to explain parts of her ruling even better, making the appeal that much harder for the SEC to win disaster for the agency. Now, quick word from our sponsor, and that is uphold, which makes crypto investing easy. I've been a user of uphold since 2018. So I can vouch for this platform. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus cryptocurrencies, and they're available in 150 countries. You can also trade precious metals on here as well as 37 Fiat currencies. And you can very easily switch between the Fiat precious metals and cryptocurrencies. So that's a very unique feature to this platform. If you'd like to learn more about uphold, please visit the link in the description. Now, attorney Fred Rispoli also weighed in on this, and I've had him on the podcast many times. He said XRP community, the big win was on July 13th, of course, but this is a but this is also pretty sweet options for the SEC are dwindling at a rapid pace. This opinion to me oozed with contempt from Judge Torres for the SEC for wasting her time and in a disrespectful way. I still maintain it all went south for the SEC the day it took such widely hypocritical positions in the Hinman email saga. What an epic fail decision for show me the De Niro to narrow the TLDR of this order to me is the footnote six that first sentence the court further notes that in its summary judgment briefing, the SEC presented shifting and inconsistent arguments as to its legal theory about other distributions. This statement was completely unnecessary for Judge Torres to make and only exists to jab at the SEC out of character for Judge Torres but fully necessary. The SEC may seek an emergency writ to the Second Circuit, but that will be denied. It would waste time and money. So I cannot put that at a zero percent probability. The order's many references to facts yet to be decided was saturated with implications by Judge Torres and that any and all arguments by the SEC will be greeted from a starting point of being non -credible. Wow folks, these judges are taking the SEC out to the woodshed and it's Sarah Netburn going back to saying the SEC has no faithful allegiance to the law. Even recently in full of it. Like what are you trying to tell us what is the security and what's not? Obviously they can and they greenlighted Coinbase to go public. So I think these judges are seeing this is nonsense. What are we doing here? Right? The SEC is not abiding by the law. Now Neil Hartner of Ripple highlighted the following. He said, by my count, the SEC got an F on their interlocutory 10 times in her 14 page ruling.
The Bad Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Breaks $28,000! - Bad News for October 4, 2023
"Are there signs of life in the crypto market? Is the bear thinking about going into hibernation so the bull can run once again? Or is this upturn just another head fake? We'll take a look at the latest news in the Bitcoin and blockchain world to make sense of it all, and we're going to do it while dealing with the fact that there are less than 7 weeks of shopping days until Christmas. May this coming season find us saying, instead of, oh no, no, no. On our bad news, episode number 698 of the Bad Crypto Podcast. Are you crypto curious? Are you crypto serious? Or somewhere crypto in between us? It doesn't matter. You're in the right place because you are in the Republic of Bad Cryptopia with Sir Lord Joel and Sir Lord Travis. Your guides, your what are what are some of the things we call ourselves? I just went blank. Metaverse morons, web meanies, blockchain blockheads, that's it. I think the best way if we were in Australia would be, hey, we're the crypto cunts. Oh, my God. If we were in Australia, but we're not in Australia, so we're not going to say that. That's like, you know, in America, that is in America, that is such a strong word, right? People that is like one of the most disgusting things you can call somebody in Australia. If go you to Australia, that's like their favorite word. Yeah, they're all that. I love it when they go, yeah, good cunt. Wow, thanks. I don't know. Take that, brother. This episode marked with explicit rating courtesy of Sir Lord Travis, right? Man. So we have news for you guys. And I think it's time for us to get into it. Insert transition music here. All right, looking at CoinGecko .com here, checking out. In the last seven days, Bitcoin's been up about 5%. Yeah, we went about to $28 ,400. I'm not sure what set it off. The current crypto market cap here, time stamping on the 3rd of October, 1218 PM EST is $1 .12 trillion. Bitcoin currently pulling back a little bit. The last 24 hours, about 2 .5 % to $27 ,386. Ethereum also popped up to like $1 ,750 and then took a sudden dive back to $1 ,650. BNB, $2 .13, XRP, $0 .51, Solana, $24, Cardano, $0 .26, and Dogecoin rounding out the top 10, $0 .06. By the way, you may have noticed I've quit saying stable coins that are in the top 10. I think three of them are stable coins or staked Ether. What's the point? Because you know what the price of those is going to be. So let's just talk about it. You just kind of ignore those and you get a couple of other ones. Polygon had a pretty decent week, but Solana had a really big week as well. So there's a couple of things that's popped up on those that we will get to as well. Was there some big winners? There's some big winners. Solana was probably one of the biggest winners. Bitcoin SV was a big winner. Thor Chain Gala also had a pretty big week. Roll Bitcoin that I've never even heard was the big winner this week with about 37 % up. Not a lot of big losers this week though, Joel. Nope. Just some people that I know. Yeah, but we're not going to shout them out. We're not going to say their names, but one name we will say is John McAfee. And this news on protos .com says that the crypto legend John McAfee's suicide has been confirmed by Spanish courts. So there you go. You can trust them, guys. They're saying that it was a suicide, even though that he said he would never be suicidal. And even though Janice has said that he was not suicidal, they're saying that he was suicidal. He literally said, no, that if I hang myself a la Epstein, it will be of no fault of mine. Literally said it. He literally said that on October 15th, 2020, on June 2021, he was found dead. And why is it, Joel, though it's October 2023. Why did it take them, you know, 28 months for them to declare this like that? And why is why does Janice never got the body or whatever? There's a lot of weird stuff going on with that. I'm not so much of a conspiracy theorist around this one because there's not really much of a theory. It's they offed him. He had shit he was going to say and they offed him and they call it suicide because that's what they do. Because that's what they do. They suicide you. So moving on, the Daily Hobble says that more more than eight hundred ninety two million dollars were lost in exploits involving Oracle networks. What's the story all about, Trev? So, you know, oracles are connecting blockchains with external data and then it allows the smart contracts to execute certain tasks and defy. It uses oracles to really grab the prices of those particular cryptos.
Crypto Critics' Corner
A highlight from Are NFTs securities?
"Welcome back everyone, I am Cas Pianci. I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime. We've already recorded one today. I'm not going to play pretend and say, I haven't asked you how you're doing. You're doing good. I'm doing good. We're going to be talking about NFTs and whether or not they're securities, or at least whether or not the SEC thinks they're securities, when they think they're securities and why they think they might be securities, right? And the reason this got brought into everyone's sort of line of sight is because an NFT collection called Stoner Cats that had been started, or at least co -founded by Mila Kunis, and I think Ashton Kutcher was in on that as well. I'm not, I don't remember. I think Mila Kunis was the face of it, but I think they were both involved. And some other co -creators created this thing called Stoner Cats. And now Stoner Cats was this collection of images of what it sounds like. Stoned cats. I am cool. Haha. Super, super awesome. Weed and cats, very funny. And they decided they were going to do a show, a web series based on this. And they, I went through the documents, actually, they'd, they'd promised some pretty specific things, including that they were going to do at least one episode for three seasons, something like that. Obviously they, they didn't do that. And part of the issue appears to be that the way these NFTs work, and many NFTs for that matter, is that they offered royalties to the initial founders and creators of these NFTs. What that entails is that every time someone buys one of these NFTs, they get like a 2 .5 % kickback on that sale, which doesn't sound like much right out the gate, but considering volume and all of this other stuff, you end up going like, oh, they made like a half a million dollars in royalty like that, which it's a lot of money. They also sold out of all of their NFTs when they put them on the market, whether or not they bought a bunch of those, I think is up for debate, but basically the SEC said, Hey, you guys are doing these royalties on these NFTs. This is a security. And to be clear, the people who did this said, Oh no. Okay, well we're done. You win. We're not going to admit fault. We're not going to admit guilt here. You guys can just take some money. We'll pay the fine and we'll stop doing the sonar cap. For what it's worth, I don't think you can actually buy them anywhere right now. Maybe it's just because there's none up for sale. After the SEC took this action, the floor price increased 250%. It's still up 175 % since before the SEC action. And the volume went up, I think almost 3000%. So everyone started buying it and trading it and moving them around. As soon as this SEC action was, was pushed out. I think this kind of SEC action is similar in my mind to the EOS action that took place in case anyone is unfamiliar with EOS. This was a Brock Pierce and Daniel Larimer project from years ago that was going to change the financial system and raised $4 billion from their ICO and then got fined by the SEC, I believe it was $24 million. Who gives a shit? No one cares about that $24 million fine when you've raised billions of dollars. And I think everybody understood that when it happened. And to me, this feels kind of similar, right? So these guys raised, I believe it's something like eight to $9 million, including these royalties that they got. And they were fined, I don't know, a few million. They made a profit for sure. They profited on this 100 % sure. And what they're getting out of it ultimately is that they don't have to fight the SEC now. They don't have to pay legal fees. And the SEC gets, oh, look, see, they're not willing to fight us on this. So this means NFTs are security. That's not the full story, Bennets. Why don't you jump in here now? What's interesting, so Stoner Cats is the second NFT case that the SEC pursued. Like a week or two weeks before they pursued Stoner Cats, they went after Impact Theory, which was a smaller NFT project, less illustrious names involved. And the creators of that NFT project kept telling their investors that they could get tremendous value and that they were going to make sure that we do something that by any reasonable standard, people get a crushing, hilarious amount of value. And they even told these people buying their NFTs that these NFTs were the mechanism by which communities will be able to capture economic value from the growth of the company they support. This one, again, settled with the SEC and may more clearly be a security than Stoner Cats. And I think this is what kind of gets interesting here is even in the Impact Theory case I just discussed, there were two SEC commissioners who disagreed. Commissioners Peirce and Ulleda did not support this and wrote their own digression. And they highlighted that the SEC does not routinely bring enforcement actions against people that sell watches, paintings or collectibles, along with vague promises to build the brand and increase the resale value. And what I thought was interesting and what you and I had a brief conversation about is Preston Byrne, who we've had on the podcast before, wrote a blog post taking a look at these two cases. And his stance was basically that the Impact Theory I, when I just discussed, did seem more clearly like a security in the way it was marketed, in the way it was sold, and in the expectations investors reasonably had. But he thought that the Stoner Cats one was less clearly a violation of securities law. Peirce and Ulleda again highlighted that this was an example of fan crowdfunding. And Preston pointed towards how this was not presented in that same way to purchasers. And so I think Stoner Cats is one where they kind of wanted to go after it because there were so many celebrities involved. Mila Kunis was involved, as you mentioned. Ashton Kutcher was an actor. Chris Rock was an actor. There were names involved here. And you want to discourage that caliber of name from doing this type of projects. You go for a ticky tacky settlement. But more broadly, what we're looking at in both these two cases is that making your badly formed project in which you hope to return value to people who give you money, an NFT instead of some other form of token, does not mean you'll avoid the SEC's attention. And so I think a big part of this has been the royalty aspect the SEC has been honing in on. And I want to be clear here for everyone, because I think it's a pretty important distinction in my mind. And we'll see, I don't know if this will actually play out in court. It might be that what I'm saying is totally off key and wrong. Again, we are not lawyers. Two industries that instantly come to mind when I think of royalty, and that is TV and movies and music, right? In those two industries, royalties play a pretty big role. We're watching a WGA strike, a Writers Guild of America strike go on right now, particularly because of royalties. The writers can't get royalties on streaming anymore, because these streaming services don't offer the market data to even give them any of these royalties, right? But this has been livelihoods for decades for actors, writers, producers, whatever. They all have been able to make money on these royalties forever. There's a fair argument to be had that if your NFT is a TV -like thing, which I guess you could argue Stoner Cats was, that the royalties, in a sense, make sense. I think that you need to do more probably than seven episodes. I don't know. It would be up for debate. I don't know where that would come in. But the second one that I want to talk about is musicians, where like, again, record sales indeed do give you royalties for the rest of your career if you have the rights to the songs and all of that. And I know someone on that I follow on Twitter, who actually I like a lot of the songs that he puts out there, Jonathan Mann. I follow him. I find a lot of his music entertaining. It's silly. And he turns a lot of it into NFTs. He does royalties as well for that. And I get it. I actually get that. I'm like, oh, well, that makes sense. Counter to this is the sale of art pieces, is the sale of painting. If I buy a painting from a painter, you know what happens when I resell that painting? Whether I resell it for a profit or a loss, do you do you want to guess how much of the money I make on that resale the painter gets? Zero. Zero. They do not receive anything for it. Collectibles, you want to talk about Pokemon cards? How much does Namco get when I resell a Pokemon card? Zero. Sure. They don't get anything. So the royalties in that aspect, I do understand why they're trying to say they're a security. It's a dividend. And Preston highlights part of this in the blog post. And like, imagine I paint a picture and there's someone who wants to buy it for $10 ,000. And I say, what if instead I sell it for you for $1 ,000 and 10 percent of any of whatever you end up selling it for in the future? Right. That doesn't make the painting itself a security. Right. And I think... How many of those agreements exist? I would love to know, because that is not a common agreement. The answer is probably non -zero. Right. And often that's not how artist kickbacks work, right? The way it generally works is an artist sells some pieces to a collector at a lower price and then one like Halo piece at a higher price, which then re -values the entire collection. So then the collector is able to make the money on that. And the artist is then able to sell future pieces at a higher price. Not that that's a good... Changing the terms of that arrangement in the way I describe make it necessarily a security. The art market is bred for money laundering and tax evasion. Like that's that's what the art market is for. I mean, we literally just described market manipulation. Yes. That's what I just said. It's just not illegal because it's a collectibles market. And the tax, the tax shit, donating it to museums, doing all the all sorts of weird scammy shit in the art market. I'm not trying to deny that at all. But if we're going to try to make kind of strict lines in the sand about what a security is, I do want to say that when you're getting kickbacks on every sale of a painting, that sounds so much more like a dividend to me and a securities offering than it does the way a normal art market works. And royalties don't sound that way to me. They really don't. Right. It's a dividend, but it's not. It's not. It's basically saying like, OK, you did this work in this thing years ago. And if you have to repay a whole team because it's not it's not an individual taking full credit for it. It's writers, actors, producers, directors. It's the grip. It's the lighting guy. It's everybody. And the same for a musician as well, usually. I think that's democratized a bit. But for a musician as well, you're going into a studio, you're working with a producer, you're working with a whole band, you're working with all of these different people who hopefully are going to be receiving some sort of monetary compensation forever for the work that they've done for this thing. And again, the art market is not the same as that. Maybe we see some changes in this. Maybe it becomes less regulated. Maybe they or they regulate the royalties aspects of these industries further. I don't know, but I'm trying to explain there is there is a difference between these industries in the real world. Sure. I think kind of just to put a cap on this, there's two things I want to kind of accentuate. Stoner Cats to me seems like the SEC trying to make a case, like we said, because there's these names involved and they want to discourage that kind of thing. I think the art market gets away with a lot because everyone involved is probably like an accredited investor. The SEC's rules, they're already kind of loose, so they're not they don't really care. This is open to retail, you know, so they care a little bit more. The other thing I want to emphasize is there's some amount of ambiguity here in terms of whether or not this type of structure is or is not a security. But broadly, many NFT projects now need to deal with the reality that they may be considered a security by the securities regulator and need to deal with either litigating that or otherwise dealing with the consequences. Well, that's going to do it for this episode, everybody. If you want to support us, obviously there's doing the normal thing of like liking the video, rating it and reviewing it. But alternatively, we're putting out a new Castcoin Cats collection. It's going to be an NFT thing. It's really cool. Cost 10 Castcoin each for every Castcoin Cat. And what you get is unlimited access to the new Castcoin Cat TV show. Anyway, there's a 10 percent royalty that gets kicked back to CCC. So we're going to be seeing a ton of money from that. And we're kind of banking on that for the future of the show. Remember, look it up on on Blur and on OpenSea. OK, guys.
10 Things To Tell You
"10" Discussed on 10 Things To Tell You
"Thought it if you spend while it's time to just go through everything in your closet and take it all out and start asking yourself questions about the pieces that are in there. Have i worn this in the past year. is it a classic piece. That's gonna stay in style is still in good condition Can i paired up in more than one way. Do i feel good when i wear this. Does it sit and and importantly like this is. This question will get you off the emotional fence. Would i buy this again. You know a lot about hold onto close because they remind us of a point in our lives or some kind of memory or some reason why we're holding onto it but it's not necessarily serving you sitting there in your closet and if you need to put in storage for a while that's okay. You know we all go through ups and downs through the years. Maybe you wanna hang on some other sizes. That's just fine but take out of your closet for now. You can actually see what you have and then start filling in the gaps on what you need okay. That last thing is so important about like removing it from your daily eyesight. So i have closed. That are sentimental to me or you know. I paid a ton of money for and so it's just would kill me to donate it. You know what i mean. Even if it's a size i'm never gonna wear again or a style that i don't think i will wear again i. It's really hard for me to get rid of those things. While we moved. Recently we moved houses. And i set aside all of those things and i did it. I didn't donate them for all these reasons that i just gave kept them but i removed them from my daily line of sight and it was huge. It was a huge mental thing. I didn't realize that. I was holding onto emotions. Those things were carrying emotions for me. That was not serving morning. It was not serving my getting ready time because it was either making me feel bad myself or it was making me feel nostalgic in a way that i don't need in my tuesday morning or whatever you know what i mean like us. You don't have to get rid of these things you don't have to give up the dream or you don't have to beat yourself up for spending too much money on them or whatever whatever your thing is but just removing them from your daily i line really. It really matters. It made me feel better to have to start fresh in this new closet. I know not. Everyone's going to move. But i hadn't moved in eleven years. It made me feel so much better to like every single thing that was hanging there. I totally totally with so much emotional baggage in our closets. We don't realize. I think you and i moved right at the same time and i did the same thing i took it out. I boxed it up. And i forgot about it. That was the funny thing you know. All these pieces. I thought i needed to have in my closet. I don't even think about them anymore. I was able to box it up. Donate it and move on. But it just makes such a difference. You just feel like when women go through this exercise a lot of times..
10 Bestest
"10" Discussed on 10 Bestest
"Mean some for everybody here. I would love to be in the room with the people who are coming up with. These ideas. might be out of vogue as their camera but Yeah some good ones here. Yeah the average kids. So now i will look after the show i will not belabor this bar but i'll see if i got one of the super rare ones because like that atom bomb so the number one of the first series that's whereas if it's meant condition were ten thousand dollars on ebay for ten grand so these guys are like an all of course all the ones i had since throwing them away longtime can they'd be real money they sure are so you have some of those eighties. Kid i have some. You might be checking on ebay zones. Yeah they all. They're not all were ten grand but a lot more for a couple of hundred bucks. There's lists of you know which ones are rare on craziness. I don't know why i thought of it. Well i know why because comic book that actually made in which i immediately my childhood friend still my best friend immediately. Send him a text and said i just met someone and took a comic book how to make a comic book class from someone makes garbage bill kids and e immediately we're forties news like no way. Cnn's i can't believe it. I still have a line so now mike you better check those other mobile were yeah. Oh wow yeah so crazy. Thank you for that trip down memory. Yeah like i said very very different from yours but hey we got lightning lillian..
10 Things To Tell You
"10" Discussed on 10 Things To Tell You
"Even if i didn't kill it. I got through it and i learned something so i'm going to reward myself now. I'm not a huge reward person really. I've learned some from some of my other friends. Who are more about a reward system for yourself and i think that it is effective like i've been implementing it more my life than i ever have recently to be like i can get through this task if i can finish this thing. I get a reward. You gotta stay in a healthy mindset around it right but hosting people in your home. It's just no small thing. It takes a lot out of you. It usually up costing money definitely costs time and so having something to look forward to on the other side of it is just good planning if you ask me. So i've done all of these things. I have learned all ten of these tips by complete trial and error by twenty years of introverted anxious. Me having tons of people in my home and for the most part loving it. I've bungled it all kinds of ways. Bungled it but rarely. Is there anything that happens. That really truly ruins a whole time together. you know. Look if you burn the meal that you were so excited to make will throw some frozen pizzas in the oven. Mississauga chance to say always. Have that type of backup food. Frozen pizzas sandwich. Bread peanut butter like have backup food if at all possible noodles. There's just not a ton that you can't like. I said comeback from that you can't salvage or reroute or pivot because hopefully what matters the most about the whole thing even if the trip or the visit is really based around a very specific event or location or something really what matters most is connection and relationship and if you get to the end of a time together and you realize that maybe staying in the same household wasn't great for your relationship and this is a thing that happens it just. Does you have this realization of like you know next time. Maybe we should look into getting you a hotel or an airbnb or next time. I don't think i'm the best host for this time together. That's okay you learned from it and that should be considered a failure. It's just knowledge it's just data and now you know if it is just gonna knock you flat. You're just really. It's just going to be too stressful too. Expensive too much effort. There is no rule that says you ever have to host. You are absolutely not obligated to say. Yes because someone has asked if they can come and stay because what are. We learning number seven. You are in charge. I hope that this episode empowered you. I hope that it gave you some fun and practical ideas for the next time that you have house guests or for the next time that you are a house guest in your sort of thinking about it now from a different side. Perhaps i really love this topic. I actually had no idea how many words i had to say on this topic. But apparently i did. We are going to continue this conversation as we do every week in the connection group on facebook again you can find that by searching ten things to tell you connection in your facebook. App will also be on instagram as always at ten things to tell you tom. Tell me your tips if you have them come. Tell me if you disagree with anything that i said i would absolutely love to hear from you. So thanks for listening to my wordy manifesto about having houseguests. Now it's your turn to.
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"Choose the restaurant or the activity. If there's not like a plan already in place if i don't already have something in mind because i feel like well. What if i choose the wrong thing. Like i don't know what i'm doing. I don't know how far away this neighborhood is like. I don't know anything. Like i'm much more comfortable with the host. Just saying hey. Why don't we try my favorite neighborhood restaurant or if everyone's trying to get on the same page with saying there. Is this mexican restaurant and this chinese restaurant. Which are you in the mood for. And they already have like specific places in mind and then they let me choose something like that but do not leave your guests totally to themselves. Because chances are they're the ones traveling and while it's taxing to be a host you know it's a lot of work to be a host. It's also taxing travel and so they're probably not sleeping as well in your guest bed as they are in their own bed. They're probably or having a lot of feelings about being in someone else's space. They're not eating their normal food or having their normal routine and so it's taxing on the travelers end as well even if you are you know treating them like royalty and so unless it's going to be a big hullabaloo remember that you're in charge and be in charge. Don't not make a plan for a meal or an activity time or something and then end up with everyone just twiddling their thumbs or something ending up happening. That's really half-hearted. Now i know some of this goes a little bit against everything. I've already said about building downtime. And all of that. I don't think you have to plan it perfectly to the nines and with every single meal and our scheduled but just like a gracious host will fill in a lull in the conversation. If you will and toss out a new topic or redirect how a conversation is going to go do the same in the hosting decisions if there's a law in what needs to happen next..
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"Podcasters just envisioned blue. Yes lots of blue you can hear the blooms and purple. Yes yeah colorful patients. I know now that we have some visuals. We can have some of that. Yeah all right. I love it thank you. You're welcome docks like okay so moving on to my next cool shades. I'm going to be talking about something that is health related and this comes from the fact that i just recently found out that my dog is arthritic and so when i posted something on facebook i heard from a lot of people which was so kind also much love being sent to me in griffin and and that included someone telling us about The golden pace turmeric recipe. So i'm as of miles. And so i went in and looked more into it and i found out a lot more information and that includes things for humans so little shout out to brian talked about golden milk and episode sixty six. But there's a little bit different than that and it's more focused on arthritis and not just four dogs but other animals as well so this comes from doug english. Who's a veterinarian in australia. He's been using turmeric successfully for years with all sorts of different animals so benefits that can decrease inflammation and so that's where the arthritis comes in also itchy skin and it's also a powerful antioxidant so that then of course helps with aging overall health and it's also i didn't know this is an anticoagulant so that's something that can lower the risk of blood clots so turmeric has been used for four thousand years india all over. It is very safe and so he is a veterinarian. He has used it on dogs. Humans he doesn't use on humans but he acknowledges that humans use it all the time horses cattle sheep. Crocodiles reptiles chickens ducks cage birds cats. I'll talk guinea. Pigs rabbits excetera so as we can we can use it but i was really focused on using it for griffin. So here's the question doesn't cure arthritis. No but it reduces the inflammation and so because that is contributing to joint damage. Then it can really help with that. So i also see this as something where you could use it to prevent so the The recipe for this. It'll be in the show. Notes will be a link. It is so easy though. It's basically it's turmeric and then we've got an oil and it needs black pepper. Black pepper helps with absorption. So there is your golden paste short. Sean very cool yeah. Cash turmeric is just magic. Does amazing things. It's it's incredible it like to say it is really is i mean. Yeah and it's funny because as you were talking about golden pace. I immediately thought of two things scalded milk. And i'm like i talked about that and then also have you ever tried using to merick. Brush your teeth and it makes your teeth whiter. I've heard what doesn't it do. But yeah so even though and it's super stains really quite quite a bit but on your teeth and it will make your teeth orene. Have you tried wild. I haven't tried it okay. i'm me. It's weird that i haven't tried it. I've tried it. Maybe i've i don't think i have. But you wipe it away in supposedly. Your teeth are like way white. So i'm just wondering about your lips like if you get all load i don't think okay. Maybe that's why i haven't tried it lower. I would be willing to try. Like maybe on a friday when i knew money for days. Give yourself a little bit. But i would not be surprised. Well i'll put it down. oh turmeric. Yeah it's unbelievable. Yes so yeah. So i'm excited for griffin. I am also. I mean i've been taking for a while but i'm now thinking maybe i should be taking more or taking it more often to have it on a regular basis almost every day it used to a little bit more even add to merick tablets took anyway. I kinda stopped doing that. Because i always put it in my coffee i like. Oh yeah yeah. Thanks so much for sharing my next cool sheet is going to be a podcast and this podcast is a film spotting which is actually one of the flagship film. Podcasts out there. But i haven't even heard of it until about three weeks ago when one of my friends mentioned it to me and i started i dove in and it is certainly one of the better ones out there. A slate magazine. In fact named twenty five best podcasts of all time. has over four hundred ninety eight episodes on the app but their number system says eight hundred and thirty four. So i think that's because they renamed in two thousand and five when it was founded by adam kempner and sam van hongren the actually was called sin cast so then then pass the reins over to mattie robinson. He now produces the show. A mattie robinson's then handed the reins over to josh large larsen in two thousand and eleven. Okay so this is a review podcast. They review movies. They review current movies. Classic movies all everything in between and they have a lot of top five lists so anything from top five movies about movies which was very first episode. Two top five beach scenes. Top five whatever it is. they've probably done in over eight hundred episodes. I can't even imagine doing a one hundred episodes. We just gotta and doing two hundred. And i thought that was a lot But the reason why. I like these films. Are these podcasts. It's all about personality. I've said this before The people just seem like they're really fun hanging out with. They're very knowledgeable about film of course but they're not to hoity-toity or snooty about film The film certainly. They know a lot about film. But they're also film lovers and that really shines through on both of their personalities of the current host. I highly recommend the podcast film spotty. Oh i can't believe they've done eight hundred. That's incredible all sounds amazing. You mentioned i mean..
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"Were army to as well. I do not have an aura. Ring abuts i've fellow. I slept well. And then i felt really good. The next it doesn't leave. You groggy implements. They are anti melatonin. All of those other so the only thing Yeah and they really is a really good episode of the podcast that they go into the details of why because doria was i mean. She's a neuroscientist and they're both scientists both know a lot about certain. You know certain people can take it or it's not good to take all of the time there's just various side effects this you can. You can take it every day if you want. It's just from a plant you can. Also you will have withdrawals or anything like that. If you don't take it you won't feel you will not be able to fall asleep later. Your body doesn't depend on it so that was really cool. And i've done that. I've forgotten to take it. And i've is his great say enough. Good things about it. So it's we're grand since it's cheap. You could just try it and if you like it works. It's amazing and if it doesn't work you have to worry about it right. You spent ten bucks or something on it. That's great and it's funny that you're talking about it because i just assumed you'd already talked about it because you've been talking up about so it's good for all of you that you are hearing about it because it is really great so thank you woke and they give giving gifting me one of that rate. Yeah really really helpful okay. So we are now to my last cool sheet and i am going to be talking about psychology terms and it's really focused on something called emotional synchrony but i also have some other terms that i will be defining for you that. Come from this article. That i read it from which is what to do when everyone seems happy. Except for you so. This article comes from a former cool sheet the aesthetics of joy. It's a wonderful website. I love this website. And so i've really enjoyed. I think it was a couple of years ago when i talked about it. But i enjoy all these articles that come out and i wanted to talk about this. Because of all of these different definitions. That i found to be really helpful for defining things that i i kinda knew to be true but didn't really know what to call them. So this idea of emotional synchrony. This is when we spread our emotions to those around us and we do that through tone of voice. Our gestures posture facial expressions. And even our gate can signaled these emotional states that we have so evolutionary early there. Is this idea that this capacity was really important for the adaptive nature of humans so especially if there was something like There's a predator coming and so the group then needs to pass on this idea like. Oh no what are we going to do and so wordlessly. Doing that was really helpful. But now we're in day and age when we just do it and it happens automatically so a few more throughout the course of this article of humour definitions one. Is this idea of meta emotions. And this is our feelings about our feelings and these can actually affect. What are true feelings are so an example of this is when we feel negatively about our positive emotions and that can cause dampening of those positive emotions so an example of this might sound like. Why would anyone ever do that. But an example is during the height of the pandemic. There was a phenomenon happening where people who were doing really well. Despite the challenges started second guessing themselves and they started feeling like they had the strange form. Of survivor's guilt there are a lot of other definitions in this article. It's really interesting. And i highly recommend reading it short. Sean i was gonna say what the name of the article was but it was so long. I don't remember it off the top manhattan. Check it out on the show notes. I yes exactly what to do. When you're feel a well let me tell you. This sound super fascinating. I boy that feeling about your feelings. Men everyth- also. I love when you talked about gate because there is like wonder in someone's gave was a former casino viewers right. There was something about gap appreciating other people's gay. Yes so instantly. Took me back to that. Because i get member i am. Yeah yeah no. That one's stuck with me too so this is really cool. These are the kinds of things that i really liked to nerd out about so i can't wait to dive into this. This was an article gets an article. And it's really short. It's a great even better. Yeah i might be able to get through i. The squirrel actually read it. And it's not a video but there's all right. Thank you so much for sharing that. You're welcome arrate. My last school sheet is going to be a website and i briefly hinted about this on our last episode and i was talking about supplements how to find the right supplements but i do.
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"Cool all right. Thank you for sharing that mannlicher. Cool sheet is going to be Weather i'm going to be talking about. The weather is kind of wild. And i'm gonna talk about the different kinds of fog. Because i did not know that there. You might know this scientists karen near smart. But i didn't know there's nine. Different kinds of fog is so wild to me Background studying for my uav certification getting my drone licensed essentially and. There's a lot of details a lot of things that you have to learn and one of the things that i found the most fascinating was weather. Because i've i know whether i know what it when it rains. I know that i get wet. Now things like that. And i talked about petra corn and some other like more interesting things at a fascinating what. I've never really thought about fog as much and and all the different kinds so talks about a really quickly. The different kinds radiation fog bali fog precipitation fog affection. Fog steam fog upslope fog freezing fog and ice fog. According to weather dot gov. That's the nine different kinds. So that was kind of the most like it was funny. Because as i was searching i think in my drone study program. They only talked about. Maybe six different kinds or something like this. And then so. When i googled different types of fog than in someone was like eight. Then i was like oh wait. There's more than six and then this one had nine so it's so fascinating that there's all these different fogs it makes sense. You know. they're not all. Fog is the same because this is happening in different environments. And it's really cool. You know how the fog forms what happens to it. you know. it's temperature in the do point region. The do point in doing all these things but just definitions of like steam fog is only in cooler climates and on bodies of water. Upslope fog is usually because it's going mountains and things like that so it's kind of cool too because then when you where you live when you see fogging oh august this and try to figure that out. It's so.
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"For talking when the stakes are high and this is actually by a bunch of authors kerry patterson joseph granny ron mcmillan. Al switzler maybe even more. But that's at least. When they ran out that i saw it has four point seven out of five stars and over seven thousand ratings. And it's that high on amazon over four million copies sold so this book is. It isn't just me that this is a game changer. This is kind of a paradigm shifting book when it came out i think over ten years ago and it kinda revolutionized the way people communicate when the stakes are high and emotions are running strong and especially now i mean this is always important and i read it maybe five or so years ago and no actually. Maybe it was closer to ten. Maybe it was when it kinda came out. Because i i'm piecing together my life when i remember using it and i immediately use the principles and i immediately had better dialogue when again kind of the stakes were high and the thing is. You don't always know when that's going to happen. It can just happen. Someone can come up to you and say hey this really bothers me when you do this or whatever they say or you feel that way and you. Maybe you don't wanna talk to someone about it because you don't like confrontation and you know like and that's the thing it's not about. Oh just get over your fear of confrontation and attack them. You know it's totally different. It's a totally different approach. And how to do it where it is kind of that win win situation where you're really listening to someone seeing their point of view but staying firm on your beliefs and helping them see your point of view. I've already ran at a time. It is seriously a game changer. Checkout this book. Crucial conversations okay. You've convinced me so. I got this book whenever six years ago. Maybe and i have not read it. Yes oh yeah. It's so good. I heard it was good. Yeah and then. I never read like i said i read it. Apparently right when it first came out and yeah game changer. At the time i was well. I'll just say i was on the board of roller derby league here in town and i loved. It was great but roller derby. Women are very strong awesome. And that's why i love him. That's why i want to be on the board but they will challenge you at every opportunity. So i was constantly in these not you know. Everybody's definition a crucial was different. But they were very passionate and these were important things that we were trying to decide on the board and it really helped me navigate that in a very positive way for the betterment of the league and everybody felt good. It was amazing when it did. And you know especially now there's like people can barely have a conversation with someone else if they don't agree with you so right now. I think it's even more valuable than it used to be. It's so good. Like i said i immediately i want to re. I read it again as a nice low refresh. And now i need to like seriously like take notes and implement like the key ideas and and really start practicing because they are. They are so good. That's amazing and that is something like that. That's something you have to keep practicing. Yeah for sure totally makes sense and you re reading out of practice you can get out of all of the time and it's just who doesn't want to communicate better with people and even when it's things that are difficult because that will happen like i said it happens all the time and if you just keep it bottled up or don't you know something's gonna burst at some point either you're gonna blow up on someone and ruin a relationship or who knows what could happen. The consequences are co worker. There are so many different ways that it can help you. It's just it's so. I can't recommend enough. And maybe i'm just thinking maybe this is the perfect time for everyone to reread it because everyone's separate and like Social norms forget how to interact with people. Yeah i certainly had some moments. Wow i kind of forgot to have active people. When sticks are low rate your there that was just like a that i would say something weird like humans yes That's great okay. Going to read it. Yes good enough okay. Cool a rates. Mine close sheet. I'm going to be talking about a legend and this is all about the tree that self and this is something that's even on wikipedia. It is well known. And it's so. I just found this so fascinating so people aren't sure if it's true or how true it is and yet it's made enough. You know enough people know about it that it's somewhere close to legend but possibly could be true but in any case as the story goes this is way back eighteen hundreds and so there was someone who wanted to give away his landon. He had these. These cherished childhood memories of this tree and so because he wanted to protect the tree he then deeded to the owners it its ownership to itself so that the tree could then hence the term the tree that owns itself. And there's this whole thing about now how this tree has itself and then something happened where the tree died and then but the tree had acorns and so then. Now it's the son of the tree and so because it's because it's the Offspring of the trees so now that owns itself and this whole thing. It's it is so fascinating. As soon as i saw this. i was like okay. I have never seen anything like this in my entire life. This is a cool. She took and i what i find fascinating about. It is how in depth this whole story is. That is this borderline legend. And they say well. We can't really prove it's true but there's so much information on and how well known it is so i just found that to be very interesting so again this is. I'm going to call it a legend. It is the tree that owns itself. That's so funny. So it's funny. Because when i said i'm going to be talking about a legend like oh usually we say human but you're going to this person that no no lie my mind immediately person. That's so funny. And i'm like larry bird what that was his nickname anyway. Sorry this don't think. I know that much. No i hadn't either it was actually. Ntv wa who told cool and this is down in georgia by the way There you go. Yeah very cool. Well that's neat. I like a good legend. Yeah in fact this. This tree should have a story walk around yes absolutely and speaking of aided by the tree. Oh yes yes So if you do want nodes links to any of the things we talk about in this particular episode you can go to ten. Bestest dot com. That's one zero. Bestest dot com slash story. Walk cool all right..
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"Affect love school choice all right. Well thank you so much for sharing my third cool. She is quite different than war to. This is an article and this is ten. Popular foods once considered unfit to eat. So i don't know how i stumbled across this. I really laughed. Because and i don't know what it says about me but these are a lot of my favorite foods. It's a number. One is potatoes so the in the eighteenth century people thought the potatoes led to leprosy and rampant unchecked sexual urges so they were actually banned in france for awhile. You couldn't even grow potatoes because you didn't want have one of those two things. The next one is tomatoes so tomatoes were thought as poisonous in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and they had a reputation of killing elites of society. So not just to kill people but the rich people and so they definitely outlawed. Those another one is tuna. They used to think that that was a junk fish because people actually preferred later. Meet one two surprise that back in the day we we liked even our meat to be a lighter. Only go in any more of that but lobster also considered unfit for human consumption. And now one was the only one in this whole list that actually remember hearing about that. That was what they would always they give to the prisoners or the poor and now it's i don't know how much twenty bucks a pound or something wild only rich people. Hamburgers steak was popular but The ground up was viewed as unclean and again food for the poor and it was actually white castle that kind of rebranded ground beef. And that's what i like about this though it or not only goes to food that was unfit than how it changed and society to. I'm already out. I'm gonna just spit ball. The rest of them oatmeal peanuts garlic portabella mushrooms and chicken wings are also used to be unfit now. Some of my favorite foods and probably a lot of other people's check out this article. Ten popular foods once considered unfit to. I think i could be wrong on preacher. The first meal is that what is called the first thanksgiving. I think it was lobster. Dear is what they would have had more they. Yes yeah by the way you said junk fish. That's a great name for band..
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"And so. That is what allows us carbon dating. It's called allows us to also figure out like how old is that rock howell. The are the you know. We're drilling for oil and figure out. How old is that oil. Yeah dinosaurs and from whatever else. So that's interesting. Because they made they also. They mentioned that in about twenty thirty. The carbon that was produced from these town atomic bombs. Was it more or was it something. Because they're like about twenty thirty it's all going to be gone and the scientists really scrambling to try to find out as much as they can. I sit because of the level or something. I'll have to listen to that episode to find out what they're talking about. Yeah because i do. I teach radio activity in carbon dating in my class about that. But i'm sure there's something going on there. Yeah that alters and you know what is wild is okay. So this originally aired in august twenty three two thousand and fifteen but as the day. We were recording. What are we recording on this march. Twenty six they re aired that episode yesterday. Oh interest so. I already had it in my notes. I was already stoked about it and then i was like i was like oh i need to research a little more and i'm like when did it come out. And they were like march twenty fifth to twenty twenty one an-an-an-and an and our own that's not right and then like i like i had to really dig and like actually look at wikipedia when the original original episode aired and yes so now that holy right. Yeah yeah this whole episode is really tripping me. Oh my gosh so yeah so yeah you can listen to it. Could you imagine it came out yesterday. So it's very easy for you to find radio labin. It's the current. I can't wait so yeah and it's so good it holds up just as good as two thousand and fifteen because i've listened to do it two more times since i planned on talking about it and every time i learned something new because it's so dense and that's why i loved radio like it was so scienc- deep into it that i it just blew my mind all the time. So yeah you'll love it. I think you'll know more you'll know even more like what they're excited. And i do have to go back and correct myself because something came out of my mouth. That was incorrect. It said something about dating rocks and there are ways to date rocks bets. not carbon. Dating carbon dating is all done on things that used to be living. Gotcha okay yeah. Because they're they're assimilating they're assimilating the carbon dioxide essentially shirt atmosphere okay. 'cause they're eating plant yeah or they are plans either one. Okay cool cool. Wow is it my turn now. It's your turn okay. This is weird. I mean everything's weird. So why do i even say that. I almost never talk about a single podcast episode. And guess what. I'm going to be talking about a podcast episode and you talked about a podcast upset so another reason a trip out. Okay this is from a show that is very well known. Fresh air on npr and this particular episode is. It wasn't terry gross actually. It's one of her subs. But the title of it is the age of automation is now. Here's how to future proof yourself and as we all know you know you go to the grocery store and you're scanning and there used to be checkers. That were doing that and they're still are checkers. There are fewer and this whole idea comes from a book that's written by and this is really funny. His name is kevin roofs. And i read and i read this article and i listened to it and i found out more about him and then discovered. Oh he's the developer of the rabbit hole. Podcast turns out so that and rabbit hole is a podcast. The brian talked about in. I don't know what episode that was. Really interesting connection. But in any case in this he's going through these various issues. These problems with it and one of them. That's really obvious. Is that the bureaucratic bots. They're going in and they're saying okay. There's some government assistant programs and so now you just put in your information and then the robot figures out whether you're eligible and that doesn't work because we have seen that there's in michigan and other places where people then got kicked out of his system that they weren't supposed to so their issues like but what he then goes onto his okay. There's a problem. Well what can you do. And so it's it's happening. So what kinds of jobs could you look into. So he goes through these different kinds of categories and one of them's called social jobs and essentially with that he's saying become more human if robots are doing these things. You're human if you're going towards any kind of job that requires you to be even more human than that's going to be one of them. He goes through quite a few other ones. So i highly recommend if you're interested to go back and you can either read it or listen to it whichever strikes your fancy so again. This is a fresh air. podcast episode. The age of automation is now. Here's how to future proof. Yourself short sean. Whoa that's cool. That's interesting that you did. Yeah because. I don't think you've ever done a senior episode. But it's a single episode of a super famous podcast but not the the main host. Kinda while i know isn't that because i was interested in that one. Yeah yeah i actually no. No i mean terry gross. She's amazing. Oh yeah i like icon but but this is interesting. I know i know. It's like sorry. Terry rate i love you but just happen to be that. That's cool too. yeah he. I knew that that susie said the name. I didn't know because me names. I was like. Oh that's really familiar. Where do i know that it's like. Oh yeah okay there you go so i definitely would like it. It's all the things that i like. And i will have to check it out. Is it a recent one is it relatively recent Our find it all on our show. It's from March sixteenth twenty twenty. One yeah pretty. Recently with time of taping. So that's great okay. Cool thank you. So much for sharing that pleasure array well. my next one is I think i said it up. It is another Just a singular episode of radio lab. But i talked about it because it does relate to this last one and this one is actually the entire episode and all elements is good. This one's called memory and forgetting on this one they ask. How does our memory were. Is it a memory palace where there's these filing cabinets you know and with people have talked about that theory and i love it or are we more like a hard drive or we kind of have this data ones zeros. And things like that and you can you have to maybe a race to make room for others. That seems more like me. But no actually. They're saying no these scientists were like. No it's neither one of those and memory is actually an act of creation is how they kind of started off so again. Hooks me in want to learn more. It's more like paintings or sculptures. So i was like well. This is wild. So scientists started doing these experiments on goal for i go vision mice aretz and i know that's animal testing and there's going to trigger some people but anyway they replay this town and then shock them and they would play the tone.
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"Compared to you know dump breath mcduck don't don't as yet the dog. should we put own readiness. Put brad's full. Greatest of all time since bradman above houston boat. Oh wow that's the problem you say. Tougher z so close to it whereas to be old pele selling a penalty could be full polite football biggest shoots globally. It world months played most watched. Most i guess it argument. La full okay. So now i think. Komitch maybe serena phelps for the down so we've got roger bolt and tougher rodman toppers toughest in the top ten toughest choice. What's your eyes suffers. Bratton said before. I'm going roggio five. I would love roger to be far. Yeah bolt six. Aw i i think if roger five serena's song clive's out go about the olympics the world comes to a standstill doesn't it the olympics. Come serena but i i think you know superstock loop personality. Anyone concern up to paris sparks on an avenue rice. Who's going to be not made any wanting to world could run that rice. Is everyone in the world. Okay the gun. I've got you. Side boat came defensively with that yet. But i think i i know you. You're very keen on. Bramble up would put serena then nothing. That was a close call. But i would put serena seven yes phelps coming at yes yes that. That appeals appeals. Okay so yet. Dominated dominated the spo. 'bout ropes combination rodman. I just don't see. I don't know enough about don bradman. I hear what you're saying. But i probably go phelps communist brandman. Who before you do that. Have a look at the list. The nearly list lomu gret skin lewis. Hamilton senna shula hamilton. Yeah i mean he tough as they can you don bradman statement a statement the dot but goes i am. I'll be asking you to change your mind but that gap between those three or four two then the seven that we've got just because then number ten on this list means that they are you above lomu. Apn gretzky so. I'm just. I'm just thinking of phelps fails to me three gold medal or of your more of a great than common etch from yes. The yet meets bradman. I'm not sure where that sits where that sits above fell. I think across a game of coarser. A spall i would probably have bradman above phelps then show and then nobody full low move gretzky. Ap lewis center just miss out so let me read them all and there's always going to be it's going to be when they all the all the greatest within this sport but comparison so much these so.
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"In the game of rugby. Who could be a greatest of all time. Lots of llosa try. Scores love supplies. The of you know had good career as the rest of it. It's a tough tough. Isn't it with a team gain to get the greatest of all time warmed squad jonah. Lomu as we discussed in your leg now made when i first saw just went out on a minute. This bloke's quite a different guy. Just amazing as you say has been of not not a freak but you have to pay. It was just yeah. I've never seen this happened before i remember. We'll call in calling him a freak. When he was interviewed after that semifinal win joan run over everybody. And also when you when you're playing computer games sporting computes again. Not only was the game named after joan lomu but when you were playing against joan malone with his character was twice the size of everybody else's character and i think a little bit like or lucky swallowed a gold coin or something but i i can't say i can't think of jonny wilkinson you've got dan carter yet that right plas- gripe players but did they genuinely shift the dial of the game across the world to say nobody can stop this guy dan. Carter is a great player. Scored low points oded jonny wilkinson but journal. Yeah mean if rugby was gonna be on the list. I would have to say is going to be joan because of what he brought to the game at the now. Let's see whether he'll make on a top ten or not at the moment. We've not definite of ali. Phelps arena and tiger. Let's start trion with lows four down to one two three four before we even start debating. The rest only will number one for me. I got beeped. There are also people out there who are undefeated as boxes not necessarily the whole profile. And you know. Have you everything that comes with as you say Having our labianca remember the head waking me three in the morning you to watch ali fraser and everything. It was just epic staff. But i made he having a with you with ali. I mean he just. He was just fantastic. Bobby he he did get pregnant. Who he was he was up against was just awesome as well. I mean they would they could have been. They were legends but would have been throwing my with highs in fact put the cat amongst the pigeons. Go get me covid. Only ease alleged. Avoid you all some really good points is because you have. We got whisked away by the pr and the romance and the brilliant stories that early created. We did transplant. The spore is a lot of people that love our later. Have nothing to do with boxing. Don't know anything about boxing. Is he going up against. We've mentioned ebb. Woods is all based on success. Phelps you've mentioned about all the medals serena with record ready to be broken cost topping in. I'll be tempted. Them for an is not massive spoke at a are following. I bought the With michael phelps would phelps being known worldwide ahead of serene tiger and ali will know but then we young Shifty of shifted now of shifted about. Hold on a minute. This bloke. Absolutely wiped the floor with everyone for ages heavy olympics..
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"Had a really good insight into the relationship was three without us. See i would always say. I'd love to roger federer at great stool tom. We've always called him. The is nicknamed the goat. But now that raffles up level with him on twenty seventy think who will end up the graceful time. So i didn't feel comfortable putting one ahead of the other at the moment because knows how many ten eleven twelve thirteen one to thirteen thirteen french. I well again. If we're talking about who transcends the sport. I think that roger and rafa are so famous you know off the court as much as not so much novak although he will probably end up with more grand slams than either of them. It's just tricky. I mean i. I would put them. Maybe in a different category. I think women's tennis men's tennis is is a different sport. So i would consider maybe roger refer another one. Oh what about your boat. No he he quit as the system. He quit twenty five beyond you know. He said he couldn't twenty-five walked away. Didn't hated the fame. Two two hundred girls sitting outside his hotel room and found that stressful album of air out out to make a pair of trainers did go into the independent business after. Let's throw a few more sports at you in a few names that you want about. Michael phelps how can we know in thorpe michael. I'd still go with michael michael. Sally minks metals across the board as well. Was it evidently butterfly evid. Sometimes you got to think about. If if they're at advisory was on this call you know how are they going to argue that cohen. I can't imagine any swimmer ever coming on. The paul and zion always felt yet evidence yet. Rockefeller she's cost irony. I think so i think. Tell me what i think. something like. Twenty eight medals olympic medals. Something like twenty three of them were gold coming grady. Any formula one formula one but it'd be living schumacher schumer and senator hansen center for things. One though on the lewis he's gonna be doing. His name is is coming up to beat in Ozzy were debating shula level. So what we talking about his answers. Well so that cena cena for me. Our made token about races but lewis was a rice. It wasn't giving give me give lewis a any circuit but if it was damp when they really up against it in the skills need to be to the max people are going to go. He's gonna win that race. All diallo then are we. Are we getting into the same with the jockeys you are you talking about the horses all the cars that your yes. That s individual does that come into. Yeah i think it's quite as ambitious the right word. I know you're my my dictionary. Go we all struggle. That's why i think about you know about racism in the us the best racer and they add an icon of all. Do go back to edson. You're not talking about the cars necessarily. You didn't necessarily wasn't the best call. Was i mean they may not make the top ten. I mean we can keep senate lewis and schumacher and think about that as we go. Because we've we've got. We think of muhammad ali definitely and we doing phelps definitely with the most decorated. Yes so at least. We've gone to not necessarily in that order. You happy for me to put serena in. Yes woods in and okay. I wasn't sure whether you know his autograph with nicholas was going to sway. Mvp so we've got four..
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"Hardly i just listened to a series. You said there. I mean he. He made me what athletics are. Was you also athletics. But there was something magical about the moment the end in atlanta that gold. Shoes all the way anyone who puts ova paragon shoes before. They've what the gold as garvey. Good okay we'll keep. We'll keep netflix. And what about football. Let's think of football immediately as bring donna yet. Renaldo grenell a messier. Don't best george best. Who i mean without winning the world cup can you. Can you be great without winning. The world cup Actually one son. no. I'm just using that because renaldo renou is one of the year rose neighbor hasn't won the world cup. So y- is economically. I think just talking about the effect so there as well. I mean i remember. Pele that brasilia strip. You know that gold and ally blue and it was just a different. Y of playing. Football wasn't in a main unite. The pass in the movement. I just use a straw around backpack bank bang. You know it was amazing to watch yet penny would be followed off. I think it'll be a generational thing as well wounded because the youngsters will have our watching far more of you know the the magic of messy and and the skill of rinaldo and all of that for me. I think i'd be siding towards pele. A wise what. What makes you. What makes you say palo just because of the person and what he's done within the sport unit of the support and everything that he's given since you know the person that he's being senses will a lot of people who say lock people were say maradona's yeah. Yeah a lot of people. They're going to say that purely purely on football obviously because of this controversy that this sort of followed him around in his life whereas right pele isn't necessarily had that bombing. He saw my of the club. Sue these single-handed low. That was even hard choice of words..
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"Surprise topic is to decide the top ten greatest old time. This is world wide old sports. This is going to be a bit of small topic topic. There suit may have a little disagreement in this one but phil. We'll let you stop. I got one for me straight off the bat. Literally don bradman okay. Don't bradman in cricket. Don't brandman i was. I was just expect you to say muhammad ali for some reason. But that's fine or we'll just going for cricket. Yes it's it's roughly. What about a dog. Bradman averaged nearly a hundred ninety nine point something or other all these guys nowadays arrive rigid. You know the best in the world's a ravaged sore certainly high fifties round that kind of area so it's almost twice as many as the likes of ted. Don't know easy. Yeah well we'll see necessarily the you can put things in errors of your rockets. What you're up against. What the bats would little eagle three hundred a day or something somewhere in other legs out. You know. Just just just to get things moving. He has averaged virtually twice as much as anyone who has ever played the game. I mean that's just a credible as got cricket guru yes. I'm pretty comfortable with that dome. Bradman homemade kroenke. How could you surpass that if anyone they averaged one hundred that's anyway can be back brandon. I'm i'm though saying. These is not a great of cricket. Yeah but this. The list is long of bradman. Ask people in other sports moon exactly. So let's think of who the definite answer doors. Who would be a definite on your list. Michael jordan okay. Oh yeah quite show. He would be on minus well revolutionized the game as well out of physical happy about myself. That shouts office overseas. Like doing this show your turn. Tough curability won't say we've already had earlier. We so you throw us okay. Then you sane. Bolt albert carl lewis. I think lewis michael johnson. Ed who says is also. There's a lot of athletes that we can debate. I mean i think..