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A highlight from SBF TRIAL: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial Defense Episode 2
"The most important thing is, you know, just because a lawyer tells you something is okay, that's not a defense. Geez, he said it. He seemed to think everything was okay. Yeah. That's not an advice of counsel defense that negates criminal intent, that's an excuse. In part two of our series digging into SPF's defense, we dissect Sam Bankman -freed's claims that his lawyers played a larger role in FTX's collapse than he did. It might sound like a stretch, but there is legal precedent behind it. SPF also says he was pressured by counsel into turning FTX over to their hand -picked successor. In this episode, we sit down with Mark Litt, the prosecutor who took down Bernie Madoff, Travis Kling, a fund manager who still has millions of dollars tied up in FTX, and Mr. Purple, a pseudonymous crypto investor and fellow FTX victim, to see if there's any legitimacy to SPF's claims that lawyers who were there for FTX's rise are now primed to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees. Money that SPF says should be used to pay back depositors. I'm Zach Ousman, you're listening to the SPF Defense Podcast, a coinage investigation. SPF's position is that FTX would have made it through the crisis if not for his lawyers, which conspired to steal the company out from under him, cover up their role in its operation, and siphon hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees from the bankrupt estate. SPF even names one lawyer in particular, Ryan Miller, who joined FTX US from the law firm's Sullivan and Cromwell, and planned on returning there after his time at the exchange, according to an affidavit from FTX's top lawyer. SPF says Miller conspired to hand the company over to Solcrom and their chosen agent, John J. Ray III, who also handled Enron's bankruptcy. And whether you come to believe Sam's claims or not, Solcrom and Ray clearly won. If FTX's bankruptcy process takes the two years like Enron's did, it's on track to cost over $800 million. And Solcrom's relationship has already been called out by more than just Sam. It's even been raised as an issue by senators and 18 state regulators. But could SPF be right about Ryan Miller and Solcrom's nefarious motives? And even if they did do some evil lawyer shit, will it be enough to get SPF off the hook? To fully understand this defense strategy, it helps to start with SPF's story behind his attempt to plug the now notorious multi -billion dollar hole at FTX back in November's collapse. As the story goes, he was preparing to handle the liquidity crisis by courting Nomura, Japan's largest investment group, and the crypto company Tron, who had pledged billions of dollars in liquidity to FTX, while other investors were still deliberating. SPF had said he planned on giving away most of his equity in the company, and therefore most of his wealth, in an attempt to make customers of FTX International whole. SPF has always maintained that FTX US remained completely solvent right up to the end. But SPF says his rescue plan failed because Ryan Miller and Solcrom agents at his company, including Tim Wilson, another FTX lawyer with a past at Solcrom, pressed him repeatedly to sign the company's over to John Ray in bankruptcy, and even implied that if he refused, they could have him arrested and quote, change control in order to authorize a proper insolvency process. SPF said he changed his mind within 10 minutes of signing, but it was already too late. And he says his lawyers reneged on their promises to let him select a board share, blocking him out of his accounts and refusing to communicate further. As soon as John Ray was installed, he chose Sullivan and Cromwell as FTX's primary counsel. To be fair, SPF actually has a point when it comes to the sketchiness of that process. Even outside legal observers have taken issue with Solcrom being tapped as the firm to manage FTX's bankruptcy. In fact, a bipartisan group of two Republican and two Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren, sent a letter to the judge overseeing the case, urging him to appoint an independent examiner rather than Solcrom, which worked with FTX and Alameda before the collapse, bringing in $8 .5 million in legal fees. The senators argued, quote, given their longstanding legal work for FTX, they may well bear a measure of responsibility for the damage wrecked on the company's victims. Regulators from 18 states echoed that issue, saying appointing an independent examiner wasn't just right, it was also legally required. But back in February, the judge in the case threw out those requests, saying it would cost too much money, though we should note FTX's lawyers also charged the bankruptcy estate $21 ,000 over 20 days just for meals, which apparently isn't too much to spend. And if you ask the victims in FTX's collapse, this is all pretty important, considering it's their deposits and claims at stake. And if their money is being drained in broad daylight by a law firm who also helped FTX pre -collapse, that might not sit any better than Sam spending it. We talked to Travis Kling, who lost his crypto investment fund in FTX's collapse, and asked him to weigh in. If you ask me at the very beginning, do you think this is going to be one of the most expensive bankruptcies in U .S. history, I would say yes. Yes. You know, it's enormous. There's a ton of fraud, and it's magic internet money. Trying to kind of Monday morning quarterback this and say, oh, Sam would have been better off not filing for bankruptcy. That's not something that I feel very strongly about. And Solkrom's outrageous fees aren't the only reason for concern. SPF also claims Solkrom gave a clean bill of health to Alameda's trading accounts on FTX in a report with the CFTC just months before the collapse. Furthermore, in his affidavit, Dan Friedberg, who was both FTX's chief compliance officer and Alameda's general counsel until he stepped down following the crisis, says Miller only included FTX U .S. in the bankruptcy proceedings precisely because Miller knew it had the funds to pay Solkrom for its work, which backs up what SPF said about how FTX U .S. was never insolvent. So this may be a case of the fox guarding the henhouse. Solkrom denies any of this, of course. The firm's top bankruptcy lawyer, Andrew Dietrich, who told other lawyers FTX was rock solid in an email just days before the bankruptcy, said he only spoke with SPF twice. The FTX debtors also countersued Friedberg to seek damages, alleging he breached his fiduciary duties. We can't say much more beyond that because Solkrom never got back to us when we asked for a comment. But one thing is clear, what guidance Sam's lawyers gave him, and particularly what they knew about the business, will become integral to SPF's defense at trial. Even if you asked Ryan Miller before the collapse, the laws are pretty simple for any business, crypto or otherwise. Here he is explaining that concept at an MIT Bitcoin meetup in July 2022. Don't do fraud, don't lie, don't release materially incomplete statements. That then creates a basis for liability, liability from a criminal authority, be it a Department of Justice or liability in a civil context. Yet according to Caroline Allison's guilty plea, they had trouble following even those rules. In her sworn testimony, she said, quote, I agreed with Mr. Bankman, Fried and others to provide materially misleading financial statements to Alameda's lenders. Could Miller or any of SPF's lawyers, for that matter, be one of those others? Sam's other allegation that Miller contacted the DOJ to turn over documents that led to his indictment days before SPF linked, which controlled the company, makes Miller start to look even sketchier. But even if Solkrom really does have a true conflict of interest, could SPF really use their role in everything that happened to get an acquittal? Given that I'm not a lawyer, we pose that defense to Mark Litt, the prosecutor who took down Bernie Madoff. Can a lawyer be a criminal? Sure. Yeah. Can a lawyer be part of a criminal enterprise? Yes. Do they often go down? I don't know a lot of reputable lawyers who are going to bless lying to investors, lying to banks, intermingling funds, lying to auditors. If he happened to find one who knew all that was going on and blessed it, then maybe as a defense. But I tend to doubt it. You can't think of it as, well, oh, well, you know, Sullivan and Cromwell was involved or a former Sullivan and Cromwell lawyer was involved and, geez, he said he seemed to think everything was okay. That's not an advice of counsel defense that negates criminal intent. That's an excuse masquerading as an advice of counsel defense. Advice of counsel defense is very specific and narrow. You need competent counsel and they'll stipulate that any lawyer at Sullivan and Cromwell is competent in the subject area that they're being asked about. Second, every material fact has to be disclosed to them. Third, you have to seek their legal opinion on a subject. And fourth, you have to follow the advice. So if the defense can make out those elements, I would think they'd be able to present the defense and it might have a shot of winning. So Sol Cromwell might not be saints, but as we covered last time in episode one, SPF isn't exactly facing a trial over FTX's collapse. He's charged with a lot of things that led up to FTX's collapse. Arguably, what's alleged to have happened post -collapse matters more for FTX's victims. And if you ask them, the reviews are mixed on exactly what's played out thus far. If I'm going to judge Sullivan and Cromwell and John J. Wray from my purview of being someone who's seen these things in bankruptcy, I would give them a very low grade because you can say, oh, this is crypto, it's difficult, but it's not that difficult. And sometimes the devil you know is better than the one you don't. I will say that these debtors are extremely bad in my professional experience. That was Mr. Purple, a pseudonymous crypto investor who has experience following bankruptcy proceedings. For former FTX customers like him, Sam's spat with Sol Cromwell matters very little, as long as the firm can help achieve a meaningful recovery of their funds. And despite the fact that legal fees are stacking up, the bidding market for FTX customer claims is showing a growing hope they might not be stuck with pennies on the dollar. Another way to frame it is, you know, there's a claims market for FTX claims, trade claims, trade actively. There's a little niche of traditional finance that all they do is go around to different bankruptcies in all industries and they buy claims. This is this is a, you know, a subsector of of investing. And this is a huge bankruptcy. So this has been a very big liquid market. Right. And the first, you know, we're a very big creditor in this. So, you know, I'm in active conversations in this claims market. First, first bid we saw was in Thanksgiving and it was like six cents. That was the first bid. Six cents on the dollar, six cents on the dollar. And now now it's like 40 cents. And so it's gone from six to 40 cents. So then I'm like, OK, well, that feels quite good. Yeah. And OK, these guys are charging a load of money for that, but they have taken us from six cents to 40 cents. With both FTX's bankruptcy case and SPF's criminal case unfolding in real time, one may very well impact the other. We filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the CFTC to share the report. Sam says Solkrom filed to support that FTX's structure was above board. The agency denied our request, saying it's unable to share documents that, quote, could interfere with the conduct of federal agency law enforcement activities. And of course, as long as Solkrom selected John Ray is running the show at FTX, it's unexpected anything comes out to support SPF's case. FTX, too, didn't get back for comment. So unless SPF has direct evidence of lawyers being aware of FTX's shaky financials and helping for years to cover it up, it's hard to judge SPF's advice of counsel defense or the idea that he thought he was in the clear leading up to the collapse just because his lawyers said it was fine. As Litt said, that sounds more like an excuse than a defense. As a community owned Web3 media outlet, Coinage will be breaking down everything we've learned together through this series and curating still unanswered questions at Coinage .Media. I'm Zach Guzman. This was the second part of Coinage's investigative series covering SPF's defense. Stay tuned for episode three, where we'll explore another pillar. Of SPF's defense. You've been listening to the SPF Defense on the Coindesk Podcast Network. Follow the Coindesk Podcast Network to get all the Coindesk shows in one place and head over to Coindesk .com for all the Sam Bankman freed coverage. Thanks for listening.
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Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from News Block: Shocking Lawsuit Against SBF Parents, UAW Strike, Anti-Bitcoin Senator Indicted, Housing Crisis Ahead?
"Welcome to the CoinStories news block. I'm Natalie Brunell, and in the span of just 10 minutes, roughly the same time it takes to mine a new Bitcoin block, I'll provide you with concise, insightful updates on Bitcoin and the global financial landscape so you're well informed on the week's top stories. Everything you need to know, in one place, in one block. Let's go. Let's begin this block with shocking new information coming from the FTX bankruptcy. In a court filing last week, managers of the bankrupt FTX estate sued SPF's parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, who happen to both be renowned legal and ethics scholars and professors at Stanford Law School. The lawsuit alleges that millions of dollars were fraudulently transferred to SPF's parents from FTX Group, and lawyers want to claw those funds back. The filing describes in detail how SPF's parents were more deeply involved with FTX than many people suspected, with SPF's dad routinely calling it a, quote, family business. The filing says Bankman and Fried exploited their access and influence within the FTX enterprise to enrich themselves. It alleges SPF's dad acted as a de facto manager, hand -selecting recipients of charitable contributions, directing hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, hiring and firing employees, and overseeing key investments for FTX. In one exchange, he was upset about his $200 ,000 a year salary and told his son he needed it to be a million a year, even saying, quote, gee, son, I don't know what to say here. This is the first I heard of the 200k a year salary, putting Barbara on this. SPF's father appears to have been richly rewarded for helping to perpetuate the FTX fraud. He flew in private jets, received millions of dollars in cash and real estate, and even appeared in a Super Bowl commercial. He also used his insider status and wealth to influence his circles, including his employer, Stanford University, and various political groups. Stanford has said it will be returning millions of dollars worth of, quote, gifts it received from FTX. Among the most shocking revelations was that it appears Joseph Bankman understood that FTX was nearing insolvency and transferred funds into assets like primary residences so they would be protected in the event of bankruptcy. This included transferring a $16 .4 million luxury property in the Bahamas to himself and his wife. Now, SPF's mother, Barbara Fried, was also deeply intertwined with the FTX scheme. She was the beneficiary of cash and properties and appears to have been the mastermind behind the illegal political donations. Barbara Fried was described as SPF's primary political advisor and allegedly pressured FTX insiders to, quote, unlawfully avoid federal campaign finance law. She pushed FTX employees to use straw donors, which are people who illegally use another person's money to make a political donation in their own name. And lawyers say more than $100 million was stolen from FTX customers to make political donations, making FTX the second largest donor organization behind George Soros Fund management. Although SPF's parents have not been formally charged with anything yet, this lawsuit provides shocking evidence of their involvement in the crypto criminal enterprise. Let's turn now to Robert Menendez, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey who has been indicted on bribery charges. According to the indictment, Bob and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bribes in cash, gold bars, mortgage payments and a Mercedes Benz convertible. What makes this particular bribery case notable in the crypto community is that Senator Menendez has been a long time outspoken critic of Bitcoin. Specifically, he has voiced concerns about corruption in Bitcoin and its use in illicit activities. In 2017, the senator wrote a letter stating that the, quote, anonymous nature of Bitcoin transactions makes it an ideal choice for criminals. Menendez was also one of the three co -sponsors of the Accountability for Cryptocurrency in El Salvador Act, which sought to, quote, mitigate risks of El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin. When it comes to Bitcoin critics in Congress, it's really best to focus on what they do, not what they say. Senator Menendez's charges are just the latest development that supports a 2021 report from former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell, who found that criminal activity that takes place using Bitcoin is negligible compared to what transpires within the traditional financial system. This news only further speaks to the corruption present in our political system today and how criminals still prefer good old cash over Bitcoin for illicit activities. Now, speaking of Congress, the clock is ticking to pass yet another new funding bill to prevent a government shutdown. Congress has until October 1st to pass new funding legislation, but Republicans and Democrats are not even close to making a deal. So how could all of this impact the economy? Well, under a government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal employees would be sent home without pay. Also, government services like the court system, national parks and economic data reporting institutions would be suspended. According to The Wall Street Journal, government spending makes up about a quarter of U .S. GDP, so a sudden slowdown in spending can impact the economy significantly. But get this, in the event of a government shutdown, those workers won't be paid. But the Pentagon has announced that Ukraine operations would be exempt from any potential shutdown and will go forth fully funded. And that is making a lot of people very upset out there.
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VUX World
A highlight from The uniphore approach to conversational automation with Kim West
"All right. We are live and kicking, I believe. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Should have sorted my windows out before I started this broadcast, but there we go. Hello. My name is Caine Sims, as always. And as always, this is VUX World. I'm delighted for you to join me. Thank you for joining me. And today we are joined by Kim West, who is a director of product marketing at Unifor. A lot of you probably know Unifor. Unifor has been around for a long time, actually, and has been through various guises and is now definitely one of the leaders in the conversational AI space. And so we're going to be picking Kim's brains around some of the successes that Unifor have had, some of the tips and tricks that she might be able to share with businesses that want to try and capitalize on what is now probably the biggest growth industry going. Since last November, conversational AI is looking good. And so, yeah, excited for this conversation with Kim West. And so without further ado, let's bring Kim on, shall we, Kim? Welcome to VUX World. Great to be here, Caine. Thank you for joining me. All the way from Canada. All the way from Canada, Toronto. Nice, nice. Representing. Lots going on in Toronto. Like, it seems to be that, you know, I say this every time someone from Toronto is on, which seems to be fairly frequent enough, but yeah, Toronto is a happening place in the AI space right now. It is. We like to say in Canada that we are part of the sort of creators, the place to be. Yeah, yeah. A lot of exciting companies in Canada as well. Cohea is based in Toronto, I believe, actually. They're doing very well. Yeah. So yeah, there you go. Thank you for joining me. So tell us about yourself then, Kim. How did you get into conversational AI generally? Yeah, no, great question. I always like to say that I am a former agent, actually. So Unifor itself started in the contact center space thinking through how do we actually improve communication. I was an agent 20 years ago, came across these companies that were actually doing cool things in the contact center space, and so found Unifor about two and a half years ago, and loved that they were looking at the full experience. So not only the back end in terms of tools for agents and then not just QM, QA for quality management, but they're looking at analytics in a unique way, and then really looking at the front end. I was like, wait a minute, if we can improve what's happening on the call or in the chat, we have some analytics, how do we then improve that front end self -service experience that a lot of customers are looking for? When we think conversational AI, we think of that front end, but it really blows throughout every part of the interaction a customer has with any brand that they're talking to. Interesting. Definitely get into analytics shortly, because it's definitely a topic well worth exploring and underexplored, actually, in lots of cases, I think. So you were a customer service agent, so you're answering phones at one point 20 years ago, you said? Yes, so I know the pain. I did it for three years, and I understand the sort of strain that happens with that in terms of you have to be efficient, you have to hit certain metrics, you get rated on how you're doing on a daily basis, sometimes weekly, in terms of did you do the opening welcome call, did you do all of the authentication, and then on top of that, did you upsell, cross -sell. So there's a lot that a customer service agent actually has to know and manage in one time, and the idea that for so long they were just doing it on their own is fascinating, and I think it's a great training ground for anybody that then later on wants to go out professionally into any role. I speak to myself like the reason why I have comfort speaking at all times in any medium is partially because of that experience. Yeah, and that's evident because I sprung on you that this was actually going to be a live broadcast about 10 minutes ago, and so adaptivity is also something that you learned there. It's interesting because we had the conversation with Sham Aziz from Selfridges last week on the podcast, and it touched on these exact issues, not issues, but these exact points, which is that having that foundation in customer service, answering calls, speaking to customers, teaches you so much about business in general and gives you a load of foundational skills that you can use for everything else beyond that. And in fact, Sham was saying that he thinks that spending time in customer service should basically be either an apprentice or a mandatory requirement of entering the workplace in general because of how much value there is to be learned there. Completely agree. There's actually a company I know based here in Canada, regardless what level you are, when you join the company, two weeks of the sort of onboarding is that you actually need to either take calls or need to do side -by -side shadowing of the customer success team, so you have a strong understanding of the customer base, their pain points, what the company actually does, regardless if you work in finance or if you work on the tech team. Yeah, exactly. I agree with that. And the other thing we were talking about is how customer service as a job isn't what it was kind of assumed to be before, which is like, so growing up and going to college, going to uni or whatever, at that kind of age between 16 to 20, early 20s, lots of friends had jobs in call centers and stuff like that. And it was always seen as a similar kind of job to working in a corner shop, which I used to do, or working in a bar, which I also used to do. It's almost like that entry level kind of job for lots of people. But the conversation I was having with Sham last week was that actually you've just named a load of stuff that customer service agent needs to do. Multiple systems, you need understanding of technology, you need to understand people, you need to have relatively not just thick skin as in not to take offense when you're being shouted at, but also the skills to be able to navigate that negative conversation into a positive conversation, which is a tremendous social skill to be able to have. And so it's kind of like, yeah, although there is these entry level jobs, customer service shouldn't really be one of them because it is quite a complex area. Especially not anymore. I think what's so fascinating is that now they're actually looking for people. So if I look and I think about our client base, our customers are looking for people who actually have post -secondary education and have some sense of being able to absorb a lot of new information because that adaptability and being able to understand what the company does really appeal to that customer, navigate the different issues that they have, maybe transition them into something else that they weren't even calling about. So yes, you resolve their base issues, but can you now maybe upsell, cross -sell them into something? Can you inform them on something new that's coming in the next six months? You're kind of getting that sort of seed planted. There's a number of things now that I look at it as becoming more and more of this professional training ground more so than just entry level. And you could have tiers now within the contact center of like, yes, come in entry level, great way to sort of just get started. But then there's growth potential even before you get to the next levels of supervisor management. And then it helps you if you want to continue throughout that company. Because most companies, if you think of the ones that have contact centers, are large global brands that we're all familiar with. We've all at one point had to call into a contact center because of some issue. And so those companies have fast departments and other areas that that person could work in as well. Mmm. Olya is shouting Shopify on the chat on LinkedIn. I don't know. That's because is Shopify one of the companies that mandates people spend time in customer services when people begin? I don't know. That'd be interesting. I wouldn't be surprised, actually. I know that they do encourage their employees to actually build their own retail store. So I could imagine they might be something similar like that. Just it's the empathy piece at the end of the day. I think the biggest thing, what I find funny actually with all things AI coming into our space is the emphasis on being human. And it's almost like we had to get the reminder that we shouldn't just be going through the motions for the longest time. When it came to customer service contact center, it was like the necessary evil. Like, let's have this thing. Let's make sure people are getting their answers. But now we're stepping back and rethinking it and saying, wait, how can we be more human if all of the other stuff that was like drudgery and time is being handled by the tech? How do we show up to be empathetic, personal, connect, actually build a relationship? And we know that gives you a lot more in terms of what everybody wants. Long -term customer value and pieces like that. Definitely.
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The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from The productivity trap
"In this episode I speak to Kate Cocker about the productivity trap and the importance of everyday happiness for leaders focusing on mindset and effective communication. We discuss the importance of maintaining a positive mindset and finding happiness in your work, realising that happiness is a personal responsibility and that taking control of your own happiness leads to a more fulfilling and productive work life. In this conversation we also look at the importance of communication and understanding expectations in the workplace. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Kate Cocker, how are you doing Kate? I'm good thank you Judith, how are you? I'm good and it's very warm here. It's very warm. I've just come back from Kenya and I can report that it was cooler there than it is in the UK right now. That is absolutely crazy talk. I know, I know. Crazy talk. So Kate, what makes you happy in life? What makes me happy in life? My brain immediately goes to being on the water. So I love my paddleboard, I like going out on my paddleboard and spending time on the water just being able to think and empty my brain and that makes me happy and my family make me happy as well. And also just feeling like you're being productive, I don't know if you have that, that productivity hit that you could sometimes get. Feeling like you're moving forward as well. But yeah, my happiness is really, you know, if I think about the things that make me happy, my brain goes straight to the water. That makes sense because it's so peaceful and there is a thing about being in nature isn't it that makes a big difference. Yeah, and I think as well, like if I ever get to do some open water swimming with friends, I'm always quite alarmed by how the world looks different when you're looking up at a duck. That makes sense. When you talked about happiness and productivity, it's interesting because that doesn't make me happy, but it would make me unhappy. So if I was not doing things in a productive way, I would be unhappy, but it wouldn't be a source of happiness. That's interesting, isn't it? So talk to me a bit about that. So what makes you unhappy about the productivity element? Like not achieving that, sorry. Well, it's just a waste of time and effort, isn't it? It's just like, what's the point? I'm very much one of those people that I don't run lists, so I don't do lists of it. I put it in my diary, right? So if it's not diary worthy, then I'm not going to do it anyway. And if it's in the diary, I like looking in the diary and going, right, today there's these things and here's the time, which of the times I'm going to do it, and I just do it. I run by the diary and I just don't like lists because it feels like lists are running me rather than I'm running the list. And almost everybody I know who runs lists never complete them. So again, for me, it feels like a waste of time and effort to write down a list of stuff to do, which you're not going to do, it seems a bit silly. Whereas I guess for me, I make the decision, I'm going to do something as I put it in the diary. Yes, I'm led by my diary. And it's funny, I've got friends who say, you know, they have other friends who will say they're going to do something and then don't, but if it goes in the diary, I'm almost like I'm controlled by the diary. I'm like, I'm there, I'm committed and I'm in. And if I don't make it, I move it. But you move it. You go, I can't do that today. So I'll move that. Yeah, absolutely. But I am a list maker as well. I've definitely had to learn that there are two things. One is that really there should only be two or three things on your list, right, each day because then you actually do feel like you tick them off. But the list is always going to be there. So I seem to have wrestled with that slight disappointment of not getting things done is now replaced by, you know, it's okay to step away from the list. It's almost just a tool for me to remember, you know, I'm actually more afraid of forgetting. That makes me unhappy when I forget. So actually having the list is a useful tool, I suppose. Yeah, I think for me, the very few times I'm on a list is if there are things that is a discrete thing, so like if I'm designing a new website, and then I might start putting things on the list of things to do, but in my head, I call them, it's my snagging list. Yes, I like that. So it's things that is like, you know, it's the snagging list as opposed to a list of stuff to do, but then that maybe that's just the way my brain works. Yeah. And you have to find that. I mean, I do think that there's a level of, especially for business owners, we do fall into the productivity trap, don't we, in terms of having to get things done, like feeling like we've moved the needle every single day is the key to the happiness. As you just said then, like if you have a list and you don't tick things off, it can be a real source of disappointment and unhappiness. So whatever works for you, really, you know, the biggest trap that people fall into, I think, with lists is that you write this huge long list and you forget to do what you do, which is allocate the time to the task. And then it's always very frustrating when it takes a lot longer than you were expecting it to, you know, but at least if it, you know, I am exactly like you, if it goes in my diary, it gets done. And if it's on the list and it doesn't get done, well, you know, it'll find a place in the diary and wait till tomorrow. I think that's what you said. There was a key, allocating time. So I think I've got a project to do. I will allocate the time and put multiple points in the diary of the amount of hours I think it would take. Yeah. Whereas I think you're right. You look at a list and somebody says, I don't know, I don't know what people list like, clean house or something. It could be 10 minutes or five days, couldn't it? Yeah. And that's where the frustration comes because, I mean, it's the time management thing, isn't it? It's like, I remember starting in work and having to learn how to manage my time by writing lists of, well, tracking what I was doing in the day versus how long I think things took me. And that's where the wrestle, I think, of unhappiness comes because you can only disappoint yourself when you're setting yourself up to fail. If you haven't actually assessed what it is that you want to achieve and how long that's going to take you and have got good at understanding yourself, then that's when the disappointment and the unhappiness flies in, I imagine, because you're constantly just looking at all the things you've not achieved.
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Crypto Cafe With Randi Zuckerberg
A highlight from What You Need to Know This Week (September 21stth)
"Hello, and welcome to the Crypto Cafe with Randi Zuckerberg. I'm your host, Randi. And in this cafe, we embrace newcomers and experts alike to all things at the center of tech disruption and innovation and where that meets up with art and creativity. Our recurring theme is what you need to know this week in the world of tech and creativity. And we like to do it all in 10 minutes or less. I'm delighted to be joined by two of my amazing teammates from Hug. Would love if you would check out thehug .xyz to see how we empower artists and provide tools for artists to take their practice into the next level using technology. But first, let's meet our guest contributors. First, we have Tina Lindell, marketing manager at Hug. Hi, Tina. Howdy. Hello. I'm so excited to be here again this week, Randi. I love it. I love having you back on the show. I'm also joined by Michael Liddig, who is a multidisciplinary artist himself and director of creator programming at Hug. Hi, Michael. Howdy, Randi. All right. So we before get into the topics that both of you brought to the table this week, which are fascinating topics in the world of tech and creativity, I just wanted our audience to know that I'm joined by some extreme athletes here from Hug. So Tina, maybe you could talk a little bit about your kind of epic hiking and climbing adventure in Peru. And then Michael, you can talk a little bit about our epic race that we did this weekend. So Tina, talk to me. I'm so impressed by what you did. So my fiancé is Peruvian, so we had it on our list to go to Peru and hike the Incan Trail, which was amazing. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. I was a fool. I didn't train for it. I still survived. And the way you see the world when you're kind of totally remote, there's no Wi -Fi, there's no computers, there's no TV. It's just you out in nature, hiking through different ecosystems, seeing different kinds of plants, trees, and going up so many stairs. There's more stairs than I've wished to climb again in a lifetime. But kind of you walk for four days and at the end of it, you get to the Sun Gate at the Incan Trail and you can see Machu Picchu. And there's so many things that you can do. It was absolutely incredible. Michael, you're the athlete here. You did something crazy recently, if I'm correct. Well, Randy convinced me to do something crazy, which was do a half marathon up a 5 ,000 -foot mountain, which is such a metaphor of living in the unknown, as Randy could talk about more too, which is when you think you're done with this mountain, there are more mountains ahead of you. So it was a wild, wild adventure. It took Randy and I six hours to do, but we literally, literally crawled through mud together and that will be one of my greatest memories of all time. It was, Michael, I think like crawling under barbed wire through a mud pit with you while like 50 people sang you Happy Birthday has got to be just like one of the greatest memories that I will hold on to. It was amazing. But you know what? I feel like these things show us that, you know, if an idea comes to your head, like hiking the Incan Trail or climbing a mountain and an idea comes to you that gives you butterflies in the pit of your stomach, it kind of means you have to do it. Like if something scares you and makes you a little uncomfortable. And I feel like that's at the root of where we all are at HUG also. There's a lot of things in tech and art that make all of us deeply uncomfortable and it just shows that you're on the right path. So let's get into our topics for this week. All right, so our first, dun dun dun, someone got in trouble. Tina, you wanted to talk about how the SEC came for one of the big digital art projects. So let us know what's on your mind. Yes, so someone did get in big trouble. So the SEC has charged the NFT product and web series Stoner Cats for conducting an unregistered offering of crypto asset securities. So Stoner Cats is a, or was, is a six episode series about talking house cats. It was actually founded by Mila Kunis and was set to star a bunch of celebs, including her husband, Ashton Kutcher, Jane Fonda, Seth MacFarlane, and even Gary Vee and the founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin. It was interesting. What the SEC is citing is back in 2021, Stoner Cats raised $8 million through NFT sales and they sold out in only 30 minutes, which is crazy. Now it's not unusual to see NFT projects promote the utility of ownership is the verbiage we're used to seeing. Where they're getting in trouble is their marketing campaign for Stoner Cats explicitly stated that owning their NFT would promise profits from secondary sales. That is not good. That is exactly why they're in hot water. Now what is interesting, and I want to talk to you guys about, is the SEC actually is citing and targeting memes shared from the Stoner Cats Twitter account as a violation. And what I think is funny is when we think of marketing, we think of TV commercials, we think of banner ads. We think of all kinds of memes. And I think that memes are a very powerful way to leverage visual language and common culture to spread a message. And that's exactly why brands and businesses and individuals need to be careful about what kind of memes they share. So what do you guys think? It's so fascinating. And you know what, honestly, I had a lawyer on the show a few months ago who was saying that you can't even use a rocket ship emoji in a press release or anything because even these visual images that we've gotten so used to using can connotate profits and success in business that you can't guarantee. So I think it is wild that we're now having to think about memes and emojis. And is that over promising things in business? But Michael, over to you. I'd love your thoughts. Yeah. I count this to be something of people were really excited about a new technology, which was the use of NFTs that you could sell them on the secondary market. And I remember when this came out, I was so excited that artists could be able to actually raise money on their projects in a more, what I thought was effective way. And so while I agree with what the SEC is doing, and I think it's good to put these guardrails on, I also think it will in some ways give us more opportunity in the future to really determine what does an NFT do, which is it provides utility, that's it, bar none, nothing else. And so it can challenge us to say, what does that utility unlock? Is it simply just art? Or is it something that unlocks something? So yeah, it's a complex thing, right? Yeah, very, very complex. And, you know, in some ways, I think it's a good thing that we're seeing more regulation in the space, because there were a lot of bad players and a lot of what kind of just blatant money grabs that were going on. On the other hand, I'm not sure that it's like the best use of anyone's time to be policing the use of memes and emojis. So hopefully we'll come to a happy medium in between these things. But Tina, thanks for bringing such a fascinating discussion topic to the table. And for our listeners out there, I'd love to hear what you think about the use of marketing materials and memes and emojis that could potentially get a company in trouble. All right, Michael, over to you. You wanted to talk a little bit about AI chatbots and how it's getting harder and harder to actually tell if you are chatting with a human or AI. Tell us more. Yeah, so talking about creativity, you know, an article just came out that AI chatbots on average showcase creativity rivaling most human participants. So that's pretty amazing, right? So we're saying now that the tools and the technology we've created on average is about the same type of creative thinking. Here's the caveat. It did not outperform the top creative thinkers. And so when I think about this, I'm thinking about how technology and tools is enhancing our creative thinking, but not taking it away. I remember like, you know, 20 years ago, when I wanted to go work on an artistic project, and I had to go to the library, wah, wah, wah. And I had to go to this thing called the image library in New York City. And I had to like go in the stacks and find all these images. Cut to five years later, I could literally Google that and Google image and find all those images super, super quick. So I'm seeing that these things become more efficient over time and challenges us to ask better questions to think in broader terms when it comes to our creative thinking. And so I think this is a good thing. Tina, your thoughts? Yeah, this is so exciting to me, because it brings me back to a quote I haven't thought about in a long time. And it's creativity is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it becomes. And we're seeing here, whether you're an individual or even an AI, the more you kind of work this creative muscle, the better and, you know, more imaginative it's going to become. So me, I'm a creative, I love to write poetry. So how do I get started writing poetry, I read a lot of poetry. And so this is exactly what these AIs are doing. They're taking in a lot of information and then creating output from that. That's exactly what humans do. So I see it as a challenge that if there's a world where AI is outperforming creativity, that tells me I should really work harder on my creativity. So I can become that top performing human that AI can't beat. Brandy? Yeah. Okay. It's so interesting because I remember, I mean, even back in college, we were studying, you know, like what happens when you are like, it was almost like can computers think that question, you know, posing that question. It's like, if you can't tell if you're having a conversation with a human or computer, does that mean that the computer is thinking? And how do you know? And I feel like now AI is raising all these same fascinating questions about just like what humanity means. And what like thought in conversation and creativity. So sorry, I'm clearly just having an existential crisis over here. I'm not really like answering either of your questions. I'm just spiraling. But it is it's both exciting and terrifying, don't you think? Oh, yeah, I think of like, Yuval No Harari's book Homo Deus, which is this ultimate potential question of are we are we going to merge with machines like this week, this week, Neuralink got permission to do human trials. Can you imagine? So people will now be able to put the Neuralink brain chip into their head. So what does this mean? Are we are we be like you said, Randy, am I having an existential crisis? Are we becoming half robot, half human? I mean, I kind of welcome our robot overlords, you know, like just bring it bring it on in our final moments together, because we have promised our listeners 10 minutes and I could talk to you guys for hours. Michael, tell us a little bit about what you're working on at hug right now and what you're excited about. And then we'll over to you, Tina. Yeah, super excited about a few things. One is a big partnership. You know, I lead education at hug. So I'm always thinking about what kind of insights can we provide artists around selling their work, getting their work out there networking. And we've been working hard as we shop around how we can educate creators around how to use this more effectively and diversify their income. So that's where my brains at a lot these days. What about you, Tina? Well, kind of piggybacking on your comment about this print shop we're launching. So we're inviting guest curators to help us pick the art that will be sold in the print shop. And today we just opened a call to look for spooky, scary, like Halloween art. To sell in October. I'm so excited. I love fall. I love Halloween. I love ghosts and scary things. And we've invited one of my favorite artists, Mumbot, to guest curate for that. She's so much fun. She has these ghost characters in her art. She originally made these characters to share with her children. And so very excited to see what kind of spooky, scary Halloween art comes her way. I am all about the spooky, scary Halloween art. So I'm going to be all over that that print shop and everything else. Thank you both so much. Tina, Michael, always a pleasure to chat with you about everything from the SEC cracking down on memes to A .I. chat bots becoming more human like to all of our extreme athletic adventures together and apart. Wonderful to chat with you both. Definitely encourage everyone to check out Thehug .xyz. Tina, Michael and the rest of the team are doing an extraordinary job bringing opportunity and resources to artists of all kinds out there. Join us next week for a brand new episode of What You Need to Know here in the Crypto Cafe with me, Randy Zuckerberg, and my incredible Hug contributors.
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Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Robert Kiyosaki: Buy Bitcoin NOW, Before Market Crash | EP 828
"Yo, welcome to Simply Bitcoin Live, we're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution, we cover breaking news, culture, and medic warfare, we will be your guide through the separation of money and state. Robert Kiyosaki, he is the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, it was one of the most influential books that I read in my professional career, in fact it was one of the first books that I read in my late teens, early 20s, I dropped out of college so I took the non -normal path, the path where my parents are like, you're never going to make anything of yourself, and that book was a big inspiration for me, it motivated me and it really kind of changed on my mindset what is money, what is entrepreneurship, what is wealth, so I highly recommend that book if you haven't read it, and the reason I'm talking about this individual today is because he's pretty base, he likes Bitcoin, he likes Bitcoin a lot, and he tweeted something, something actually that he's been tweeting for quite a while, and essentially what he's saying is, you better get yourself some gold, you better get yourself some silver, obviously I don't agree with the gold and the silver, it's not that gold in itself is bad, I just think that the gold market is captured because of gold centralization, because of its physical characteristics it leads to a lot of people cussing their gold, and I think that inevitably leads to rehypothecation, that inevitably leads to manipulation. So, yeah, I think Bitcoin is the insurance, but most importantly, if this news was just on itself, you would say, Niko, this is a bunch of noise, what does it matter if another person is saying to buy Bitcoin? Well you guys know the deal, what we do here at Simply Bitcoin, connect the dots, remember all the people that are saying, buy Bitcoin, the other day I think it was yesterday's episode, you had Jordan Peterson, so you have another influencer, you have another person who has a huge following, who's the author of a very, very famous book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, it's a very influential book, also saying the quiet part out loud, buy Bitcoin as insurance, get on the life raft, so that is awesome, we're gonna talk about that today, and also in the European Union, European Union passed DAC8, and essentially what that would do is it would force crypto service providers to report all transaction information on EU clients, which is something very, very similar to the Elizabeth Warren bill that we covered on yesterday's episode, so yeah, we covered Jordan Peterson on Monday, we covered the Elizabeth Warren stuff yesterday, so you could see where all these countries, the direction that all these countries are heading, as the separation of money and state accelerates, and the nation state tries to maintain that privilege, the privilege, the control of money, the monopoly over money, but I don't think you can stop an idea whose time has come, so they're gonna have a very, very hard time stopping that, I'm very excited for today's show, it's Wednesday, we're halfway through the week, it's time to bring up my legendary co -host, who is literally smiling and laughing, this is Ati all the time, how you doing brother, what's up? I'm doing great, I'm just laughing at you, because like hey, you know, I was joking before the show, I was like okay, let's just get the show done, and you're like, I live for this stuff, this is what I do, and it still works, but we love to do this man, and yeah, to your point, you know, I remember reading Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad, my early days right before I found Bitcoin, and it was definitely one of those defining books in my life that, you know, I think I've come a long way since then, but it was one of those books that definitely got me reading, or at least thinking about money correctly, anyways, on that point, last week we had a kneel on, and someone asked, what are some of the Bitcoin fundamentals, and so I went on my Noster yesterday, and I asked people what they thought are some Bitcoin fundamentals, and shout out to Darth Coin, our simply Bitcoin Telegram group moderator, and he gave me one of his articles, so I'm gonna use that as a jump off point, so hopefully some new people that are in the chat, I saw someone say they just got their first, you know, their first Bitcoin, they just started stacking, so you know, we're new people in the Simply Bitcoin YouTube that maybe aren't as familiar with everything that we know, we're trying to get them on board, you know, I know you guys, I can hear you guys saying, you know, Opti repeats himself so much, but hey, we're trying to get everyone on the same page, not everyone understands as much as you do, and as I jokingly say all the time, I think I've forgotten more about Bitcoin than I remember, but all you need to remember is, stack sad, stay humble, stay solvent, take your Bitcoin off the exchange, keep it simple guys, so we're gonna kind of get back to some fundamentals, give you guys some, as Darth Coin says, some Bitcoin commandments, and we'll kind of have a little chat about that, I'd like to get, or pick Niko's brain about what he thinks are some of the fundamentals as well, so we got a good show, I think actually it's gonna be a fitting show with the Robert Kiyosaki news as well. Robert Kiyosaki man, it's absolute legend, love, love his work, love the book that he wrote, also guys if you're enjoying the show, help us break 100 likes within the first hour, I think yesterday, or the day before, we broke 200 likes, so if you're watching the live stream right now on Rumble, YouTube, Twitter, make sure to smash that like button, also join Simply Bitcoin's Telegram group, it's absolutely free, we're almost, we're about to hit a thousand people in there, so just go to t .me slash simply Bitcoin TV, join it, it's a party, you can tag Opti there with some memes and he'll feature them on the show. Alright everybody, no more delay, let's jump straight into the numbers, we got a lot to talk about today, let's check it out. The Bitcoin Numbers Is your Bitcoin and cold storage really secure? Is your seed phrase really secure? 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That will continue to go up if Bitcoin reaches the gold market cap, that is 500 million dollars sorry yes, 500 ,000 dollars per Bitcoin, rough estimate. So and we all know that Bitcoin is better than gold because of its physical characteristics. Again I know a lot of people that like gold in the chat and I appreciate you all and I'm a fan of gold too, gold bar like physical gold I'm a big fan of but problem is that most people don't like they don't they don't buy physical gold, they buy paper gold. That's the issue right? With Bitcoin you know it allows you to take self custody of your Bitcoin extremely easy, you know you don't have you don't have to wait for it to get physically mailed to you. If you go to El Salvador where Bitcoin is legal tender and you go to a McDonald's you know you could pay with your Bitcoin because Bitcoin has a bunch of decimal places you know it's divisible it's goes through the internet if you use lightning network it's instantaneous you know the main chain writes roughly 10 minutes settlement but you'll still see the transaction immediately.
Capstone Conversation
What Makes One City Better Than Another? Broker Ed Del Beccaro Weighs In
"From a broker's perspective, what makes one city better than another? Talk specifically about that approval process. Let's talk about that. First, we should talk about regional. So my workforce, we use what we call the phrase 360 commute shed. So depending upon the kind of tenant, so the original migration of tenants in the 80s and early 90s was from San Francisco to the greater East Bay. That's why you saw all the buildings built in San Ramon, Pleasanton, 680 Coroner, places like that. And one reason they moved is their workforce was there. So they followed the workforce in that case. So it wasn't that they didn't like San Francisco. So that's Chevron. That was Wells Fargo. That was B of A, Metropolitan Life Insurance, all the big users in that area. So they actually followed the workforce. And one reason why you follow your workforce, there's studies that if you have a one way commute of over an hour and 10 minutes or an hour and a half one way, you're going to lose 40 to 50 percent of your workforce. Therefore, I might love San Francisco or might love downtown L .A., but I have to go where I think I can get my workforce. And where's my workforce of the future? So first of all, it's a regional decision before it's a city decision. So even if I locate in a city as central as Walnut Creek, I might have some of my workforce coming from Fairfield, Benicia, Richmond, Oakland, South San Francisco and Tri -Valley. So what then? So therefore, the first question is, where is my workforce? Where is my future workforce? To answer the second question of where is my future workforce? I have a salary range that I can afford as a company. And the current insurance and banks are usually in the 60 to 130 thousand range. You then work that backwards. And if I hire somebody for one hundred thousand, one hundred twenty thousand, will that person be able to pay rent or buy a house in a given region? If they can't, if their average rental, if the average apartment rents are forty thousand a year, if the average mortgage is five thousand a year, five thousand a month, rather, then I have to move further afield. So that's why you see companies now leaving the inner bay, going to Sacramento and Austin region. Then within a region, once a decision is made that I can, my current workforce is in a given region, let's say East Bay. Then let's say the second thing is I know that I can afford my workforce over the next 10 years to live there and pay them the market rates. Then what city do I go to within a sub region? There, every city is the best when you ask the cities, but then we make decisions based on location to transportation, locations relative to interchanges, locations relative to barred mass transit. Because again, if I have people coming in from 360 degrees, 20 miles, let's say to 40 miles away from any given point, if I'm in Fairfield, how do I get to East County? If I'm in Fairfield, how do I get to San Ramon? If I'm in Tracy, how do I get to Walnut Creek? Or if I'm in Fremont, how do I get to Walnut Creek? So then we tried to centrally locate where most of those workers are. And then within that region, what cities have the better approval process? Because the new kinds of tenants that are coming into the region are not the back office tenants. That was pretty simple build out. Cubes, called them Dilbert Farms. That's what you saw the original migration wave. Now we have laboratories, we have more involved IT, more involved investment in infrastructure and more complicated uses. So then the question is, if we're going to grow and expand, what city next to a transportation central can best accommodate our strategy of expansion and with approvals? And then second, what's the business environment? Some cities, unfortunately, in our area have raised their business payroll tax to extraordinarily high. They're in effect, some companies won't go there. You go next door.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Major hotel property takes service to next level with E-Metrotel Galaxy Expand, Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller, and I'm very, very pleased to have with us today Yash Gauda, who's the General Manager of Marriott Courtyard in Brampton, Ontario, which is in the Greater Toronto Area. Yash, thank you very much for joining me today. Pleasure, pleasure, Steve. Thank you. Well, you know, this is something I don't get to do that often. Instead of my usual interview of people that are professionals inside the telecommunications market and the IT market, this time we're bringing our listeners and watchers a special podcast of somebody very special who runs an organization, runs a hospitality organization in a major metropolitan area, and basically can give us some insight on the impact of how a change in the use of technology impacted the function of that technology itself and also helped the organization overall. So we're going to be getting into that in just a second. What we will be talking about specifically is how eMetroTel's GalaxyExpand replaced a previous Mitel product. So Yash, you're the General Manager of the Marriott Courtyard, and your hotel basically implemented this new phone system. Can you tell us a little bit about your Marriott facility? Yeah, sure, Steve. Again, my name is Yash, the General Manager at Marriott Courtyard, Brampton Hotel, and we are one of the biggest hotels in Brampton in terms of rooms or inventory. We have 160 rooms with a huge banqueting space. So we are one of the upscale hotels in Brampton. So that's very interesting. You're a very prominent property. It's something that people like to use and so on. So you know, what I want to understand a little bit to begin with is, why did you make this change? Oh, the moving over to eMetroTel? Okay, this is a pretty, like, how do I say it was a coincidence that got through Joseph. So eventually we had Mitel as our telecommunication system, and all of a sudden our voice messaging system went down in the hotel. So all the back office phones or even the guest phones, if someone had to leave a message to them. So yeah, the whole system went down and we had an old partner who used to service Mitel and I was trying to reach that particular gentleman, Myron, like several times a day. And like, I think nonstop, tried reaching him at least every day for a period of 15 to 20 days. And one day, but the irony was, his phone was ringing. And one day the phone was answered and it was answered by Joseph. So then I started talking to Joseph and then I told him that I need to get in touch with Myron and this is our situation. And then I came to know that Myron had passed away and Joseph took over his accounts. So then that is the time that where I established a connection with Joseph and I briefed him on our issues that was happening in the hotel. And he immediately put me on to his other colleague, Rakshith, started to helping me out in rectifying the current issue that we had. And this is how we got into e -metro rel and they tried to resolve it remotely, but it couldn't happen because the server was down and they never knew it. So Rakshith passed by the hotel. He had a look at the entire existing system. And then I think so he did try to reach out to Mitel and see what was happening. And again, the system, since it was outdated, Rakshith and Joseph came up with a new proposal with e -metro tel and that's how it started. So it literally sounds like a very interesting story of literally going from one generation to a new generation of product and thinking and outlook. So now you're talking to basically company representing e -metro tel. So how did you end up migrating to the e -metro tel system that you chose? The first when I started communicating with Joseph and Rakshith, even though they are not one of the key players in our industry, but their integrity, their honesty in helping me out, that is what influenced me to go with them, because that is one thing that I truly believe in, even though they are getting into new without any experience having done any prior work with hotels and so on. But what influenced me was their honesty and integrity to help the clients. So that is where it started. And they gave me a couple of proposals with the e -metro tel itself and then went through the proposals with our corporate office. And the best part was, again, for us, without even redoing a lot of wiring work, just working at the back end with the server room and changing the main equipment itself. That was awesome. The interruption was bare minimal. If you don't mind, take a closer look at that, because I think all those points are very interesting one by one. So to begin with, as a customer and as a non -technical person, did you expect that there was going to be sort of a physical replacement of the same thing, one with another? Was that initially what you thought would happen? I was thinking, yes, it was going to be a swap of the machines, but when they proposed me with the different equipments and so on and what each functionality would be, then I was like, yeah, I was able to understand it much better. So I think initially this is very interesting. There's no rewiring and you were able to keep basically your bell phone lines in place. Everything was intact. Only the thing that was moved was all the Mitel equipments was switched to e -metro tel, keeping all the wiring, everything intact. So that's a lot less disruptive, probably a lot less expensive in terms of actually implementation. And then I understand that the solution that ultimately came in is basically on one rack, just one box. Yes, just one rack. Yes. Okay. And is that actually like literally the footprint smaller than whatever was there before? Oh, yes. Before, like again, this was an old system and these were like a huge system. There were multiple of them, like four or five of them, but now everything is consolerated to one. And one. And then let's talk about what you've got there. So basically it has the PBX functionality that you had before. Correct. So that is, I think we have an Infinity 5010W console and expansion, I guess. And then actually it solves the problem that initially started this whole thing. The voicemail is operating. Correct. And there's a lot less space, probably a lot less heat and energy being used. So let's sort of bump that up to how it impacts your job. Your ultimate job, I take it, is to make the people that are staying at your hotel happy. Has it really impacted that? Has it impacted your ability to do that? Yes. The important thing is like we are a hotel and the phone has to be buzzing all the time. So if the phone doesn't buzz, that means something is wrong. So earlier we had the issues where the phone was not working and so on. And even the functionality of the new console and even the back office phones are all, it's amazing. We should stay on this point because as a hotel manager, you have the burden of being, it's not just like an office, people in a sense are residing there at least for an evening or two. And so there's all sorts of safety and other issues that are involved in making sure that the phone is perfect. Correct. So, you know, e -metro hotel is a network of certified resellers. Was the migration process that you're describing, was that difficult or hard? No, no, very, very easy. To be honest, like once the new system, the back office phones were shipped to the hotel, so it was like I could install it myself with the help of Rakshith and Joseph. Because they had programmed the phones prior, I guess, and when it was shipped to us. So then again, I was with them on the call and he was guiding me how to activate it and so on. It was easy. Like me not being a technical guy, like installing the phones at the back of the offices was easy. You know, yours is a very difficult job because you're literally running a 24 -hour business, 24 hours a day, 24 -hour desk, residents are coming and going and so on. So how fast, you know, how fast did this all happen? Like the downtime, I can say about the, see, I would say the important thing is the main console. So when that was being like 10 minutes, I guess. 10 minutes? Yeah, 10 to 15 minutes. That's it. And you know, you came in to the office one morning or one afternoon. Was it the same shift that you began and then later at the end of that shift, there was a new phone system in place? Yes, it's like it was Rakshith who was there in the property from his solution. So yeah, I was with him. So he came in the morning, started working one thing at a time. And then yeah, it was the same as I came in the morning. No interruption. As I said, when the telephone, the main console was being put in place, so it's about 10 to 15 minutes for it to reboot and restart and so on. So yeah, maximum. And since this has been working, has it actually worked better for you than the old system? Yes, Ali, in terms of options -wise, yes, this has been worked out much better. So, you know, you were mentioning earlier, you gave us a little bit of background how you ended up back with the ACE security services implementing the solution. And I was interested in understanding that, you know, there was a technological and there were product choices and so on. But I was fascinated by the fact that it ultimately came down to people. Correct, yeah. It is like, see, you need to give options to the new people who are getting into entrepreneurship and so on. Because again, they have the zeal, you know, to excel. So when you go with the bigger companies, what happens is then again, the same process. It's just that, okay, the code, the shipment and all that thing and the scheduling of the people and so on. But here is a new company, ACE solution. Again, as I told you, I was fascinated even before we could get into an agreement. As I said, once the voice messages was down, Rachit was already on top to help me out even without knowing. You know, your industry is so important to so many people. It's such a big employer. It's part of everyone's lives. It's a leading organization. You also work for a leading organization in the world. You know, with all that in mind, do you have any recommendations for people in the position that you're in when it becomes time for them to replace an old system? I would strongly recommend all my fellow colleagues within the same industry and who has outdated versions of a telecommunication system and trying to upgrade their systems to the newer versions to definitely reach out to a solutions and look into e -metro tel. Yash, it's been a real pleasure getting to know you and giving us an insight that we normally don't get the perspective of a person not in the telecommunications industry, but a person actually that uses these products and services and what the outcomes were. I really appreciate your time and I hope to encounter you again. I hope to stay over some time when I'm in Brampton. Sure, sure. Anytime, Steve. It will be great to host you. All right. Well, I'm looking forward to that, but for now, thank you very much. Thank you, Steve. You take care.
Telecom Reseller
Major hotel property takes service to next level with E-Metrotel Galaxy Expand, Podcast - burst 1
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller, and I'm very, very pleased to have with us today Yash Gauda, who's the General Manager of Marriott Courtyard in Brampton, Ontario, which is in the Greater Toronto Area. Yash, thank you very much for joining me today. Pleasure, pleasure, Steve. Thank you. Well, you know, this is something I don't get to do that often. Instead of my usual interview of people that are professionals inside the telecommunications market and the IT market, this time we're bringing our listeners and watchers a special podcast of somebody very special who runs an organization, runs a hospitality organization in a major metropolitan area, and basically can give us some insight on the impact of how a change in the use of technology impacted the function of that technology itself and also helped the organization overall. So we're going to be getting into that in just a second. What we will be talking about specifically is how eMetroTel's GalaxyExpand replaced a previous Mitel product. So Yash, you're the General Manager of the Marriott Courtyard, and your hotel basically implemented this new phone system. Can you tell us a little bit about your Marriott facility? Yeah, sure, Steve. Again, my name is Yash, the General Manager at Marriott Courtyard, Brampton Hotel, and we are one of the biggest hotels in Brampton in terms of rooms or inventory. We have 160 rooms with a huge banqueting space. So we are one of the upscale hotels in Brampton. So that's very interesting. You're a very prominent property. It's something that people like to use and so on. So you know, what I want to understand a little bit to begin with is, why did you make this change? Oh, the moving over to eMetroTel? Okay, this is a pretty, like, how do I say it was a coincidence that got through Joseph. So eventually we had Mitel as our telecommunication system, and all of a sudden our voice messaging system went down in the hotel. So all the back office phones or even the guest phones, if someone had to leave a message to them. So yeah, the whole system went down and we had an old partner who used to service Mitel and I was trying to reach that particular gentleman, Myron, like several times a day. And like, I think nonstop, tried reaching him at least every day for a period of 15 to 20 days. And one day, but the irony was, his phone was ringing. And one day the phone was answered and it was answered by Joseph. So then I started talking to Joseph and then I told him that I need to get in touch with Myron and this is our situation. And then I came to know that Myron had passed away and Joseph took over his accounts. So then that is the time that where I established a connection with Joseph and I briefed him on our issues that was happening in the hotel. And he immediately put me on to his other colleague, Rakshith, started to helping me out in rectifying the current issue that we had. And this is how we got into e -metro rel and they tried to resolve it remotely, but it couldn't happen because the server was down and they never knew it. So Rakshith passed by the hotel. He had a look at the entire existing system. And then I think so he did try to reach out to Mitel and see what was happening. And again, the system, since it was outdated, Rakshith and Joseph came up with a new proposal with e -metro tel and that's how it started. So it literally sounds like a very interesting story of literally going from one generation to a new generation of product and thinking and outlook. So now you're talking to basically company representing e -metro tel. So how did you end up migrating to the e -metro tel system that you chose? The first when I started communicating with Joseph and Rakshith, even though they are not one of the key players in our industry, but their integrity, their honesty in helping me out, that is what influenced me to go with them, because that is one thing that I truly believe in, even though they are getting into new without any experience having done any prior work with hotels and so on. But what influenced me was their honesty and integrity to help the clients. So that is where it started. And they gave me a couple of proposals with the e -metro tel itself and then went through the proposals with our corporate office. And the best part was, again, for us, without even redoing a lot of wiring work, just working at the back end with the server room and changing the main equipment itself. That was awesome. The interruption was bare minimal. If you don't mind, take a closer look at that, because I think all those points are very interesting one by one. So to begin with, as a customer and as a non -technical person, did you expect that there was going to be sort of a physical replacement of the same thing, one with another? Was that initially what you thought would happen? I was thinking, yes, it was going to be a swap of the machines, but when they proposed me with the different equipments and so on and what each functionality would be, then I was like, yeah, I was able to understand it much better. So I think initially this is very interesting. There's no rewiring and you were able to keep basically your bell phone lines in place. Everything was intact. Only the thing that was moved was all the Mitel equipments was switched to e -metro tel, keeping all the wiring, everything intact. So that's a lot less disruptive, probably a lot less expensive in terms of actually implementation. And then I understand that the solution that ultimately came in is basically on one rack, just one box. Yes, just one rack. Yes. Okay. And is that actually like literally the footprint smaller than whatever was there before? Oh, yes. Before, like again, this was an old system and these were like a huge system. There were multiple of them, like four or five of them, but now everything is consolerated to one. And one. And then let's talk about what you've got there. So basically it has the PBX functionality that you had before. Correct. So that is, I think we have an Infinity 5010W console and expansion, I guess. And then actually it solves the problem that initially started this whole thing. The voicemail is operating. Correct. And there's a lot less space, probably a lot less heat and energy being used. So let's sort of bump that up to how it impacts your job. Your ultimate job, I take it, is to make the people that are staying at your hotel happy. Has it really impacted that? Has it impacted your ability to do that? Yes. The important thing is like we are a hotel and the phone has to be buzzing all the time. So if the phone doesn't buzz, that means something is wrong. So earlier we had the issues where the phone was not working and so on. And even the functionality of the new console and even the back office phones are all, it's amazing. We should stay on this point because as a hotel manager, you have the burden of being, it's not just like an office, people in a sense are residing there at least for an evening or two. And so there's all sorts of safety and other issues that are involved in making sure that the phone is perfect. Correct. So, you know, e -metro hotel is a network of certified resellers. Was the migration process that you're describing, was that difficult or hard? No, no, very, very easy. To be honest, like once the new system, the back office phones were shipped to the hotel, so it was like I could install it myself with the help of Rakshith and Joseph. Because they had programmed the phones prior, I guess, and when it was shipped to us. So then again, I was with them on the call and he was guiding me how to activate it and so on. It was easy. Like me not being a technical guy, like installing the phones at the back of the offices was easy. You know, yours is a very difficult job because you're literally running a 24 -hour business, 24 hours a day, 24 -hour desk, residents are coming and going and so on. So how fast, you know, how fast did this all happen? Like the downtime, I can say about the, see, I would say the important thing is the main console. So when that was being like 10 minutes, I guess. 10 minutes? Yeah, 10 to 15 minutes. That's it. And you know, you came in to the office one morning or one afternoon. Was it the same shift that you began and then later at the end of that shift, there was a new phone system in place? Yes, it's like it was Rakshith who was there in the property from his solution. So yeah, I was with him. So he came in the morning, started working one thing at a time. And then yeah, it was the same as I came in the morning. No interruption. As I said, when the telephone, the main console was being put in place, so it's about 10 to 15 minutes for it to reboot and restart and so on. So yeah, maximum. And since this has been working, has it actually worked better for you than the old system? Yes, Ali, in terms of options -wise, yes, this has been worked out much better. So, you know, you were mentioning earlier, you gave us a little bit of background how you ended up back with the ACE security services implementing the solution. And I was interested in understanding that, you know, there was a technological and there were product choices and so on. But I was fascinated by the fact that it ultimately came down to people. Correct, yeah. It is like, see, you need to give options to the new people who are getting into entrepreneurship and so on. Because again, they have the zeal, you know, to excel. So when you go with the bigger companies, what happens is then again, the same process. It's just that, okay, the code, the shipment and all that thing and the scheduling of the people and so on. But here is a new company, ACE solution. Again, as I told you, I was fascinated even before we could get into an agreement. As I said, once the voice messages was down, Rachit was already on top to help me out even without knowing. You know, your industry is so important to so many people. It's such a big employer. It's part of everyone's lives. It's a leading organization. You also work for a leading organization in the world. You know, with all that in mind, do you have any recommendations for people in the position that you're in when it becomes time for them to replace an old system? I would strongly recommend all my fellow colleagues within the same industry and who has outdated versions of a telecommunication system and trying to upgrade their systems to the newer versions to definitely reach out to a solutions and look into e -metro tel. Yash, it's been a real pleasure getting to know you and giving us an insight that we normally don't get the perspective of a person not in the telecommunications industry, but a person actually that uses these products and services and what the outcomes were. I really appreciate your time and I hope to encounter you again. I hope to stay over some time when I'm in Brampton. Sure, sure. Anytime, Steve. It will be great to host you. All right. Well, I'm looking forward to that, but for now, thank you very much. Thank you, Steve. You take care.
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from News Block: Bitcoin Outperforms Other Assets, FTX's SBF Jury Questions, Binance vs SEC, Anti-CBDC Bill, Grocery Inflation
"Welcome to the CoinStories news block. I'm Nathalie Brunel and in the span of just 10 minutes, roughly the same time it takes to mine a new Bitcoin block, I'll provide you with concise, insightful updates on Bitcoin and the global financial landscape so you're well informed on the week's top stories. Everything you need to know in one place in one block. Let's go. Bitcoin started the week with a nice little green candle. But zooming out, Bitcoin is officially the best performing asset class in seven of the last 10 years. That's according to data shared by market strategist Charlie Bilello. Between 2011 and 2023, Bitcoin's annualized return was about 145 percent. Compare that to the Nasdaq 100 index at 17 percent, the S &P 500 at 12 .5 percent and gold at just 2 percent. Sorry, Peter Schiff. And for those lucky enough to buy Bitcoin in 2011 and hold, their cumulative return exceeds 8 million percent. Wish that was me. More institutions are eyeing a spot Bitcoin ETF, the latest being Franklin Templeton, another giant asset manager with 1 .5 trillion dollars in assets under management. Franklin Templeton's application joins BlackRock, Fidelity, ARK Invest and several others. As I've reported here on the news block, a spot Bitcoin ETF would make getting exposure to Bitcoin as easy as buying any other stock or bond in a traditional brokerage account. It would increase access to Bitcoin and make it easier for funds to flow into the space. But of course, that's dependent on approval from the SEC, led by Chairman Gary Gensler. The SEC's main complaint for why it has rejected spot Bitcoin ETF applications is market manipulation and fraud. In a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs hearing last week, Gensler answered questions related to the SEC's oversight of the entire crypto industry. Gensler testified, quote, given this industry's wide ranging noncompliance with the securities laws, it's not surprising that we've seen many problems in these markets. Thus, we have brought a number of enforcement actions, some settled and some in litigation, to hold wrongdoers accountable and promote investor protection. Gensler is continuing to hold the court decisions for him in the SEC's lawsuits against Grayscale and Ripple Labs. And when pressed in the hearing about how the SEC will protect investors from crypto fraud, Gensler responded by saying these companies need to be compliant with existing securities laws, adding this. But right now, unfortunately, there's significant noncompliance and it's a field which is rife with fraud, abuse and misconduct. We saw some of that fraud and misconduct with the high profile downfall of FTX. FTX founder Sam Bankman -Fried's case is set to go to trial October 3rd. But this week, a story gaining attention is related to the proposed questions SPF's lawyers want to send to potential jurors. And prosecutors are trying to stop this. The would attribute a crypto firm's failures to the owner of the firm and why, and whether they think it's wrong to donate large sums to political candidates and lobbyists. Another question was about SPF's effective altruism, the idea that he only wanted to amass wealth to give it away and improve the world. And yet another was about whether the juror had experience with people with the medical condition ADHD. Now, the DOJ's prosecutors are worried these questions are aimed at getting jurors that would see SPF in a sympathetic light and have written a letter to the judge to remove these questions entirely. SPF faces more than 100 years in prison if convicted of a number of charges, including fraud, conspiracy and money laundering after he allegedly stole and lost billions of his customers' funds. Meanwhile, Binance, another exchange in hot water with the SEC, also made headlines this night, including the CEO, the head of legal and the chief risk officer. Binance US has also cut a third of its staff. Binance issued a statement blaming, quote, the SEC's aggressive attempts to cripple our industry. Now, the layoffs arrived just as the SEC is accusing Binance of not cooperating with its ongoing investigation. The SEC says Binance US has failed to hand over proper documents that ensure that its customer assets are safe and in sole control of the organization. The recent resignations of Binance US leadership, including CEO Brian Schroeder, only added to the growing concerns. Binance CEO CZ responded saying, quote, there has been some speculation regarding recent management changes at Binance US. Brian Schroeder deserved a break after accomplishing what he set out to do two years ago. Ignore FUD. Keep building. Binance makes up about half of Bitcoin's trading volume, so the government complaints and investigations could delay any spot Bitcoin ETFs from being approved. So I'll be staying on top of this developing story. Now, in other news, in an industry first, Swann Bitcoin announced its plans to launch a Bitcoin only trust company with crypto custodian BitGo. This comes after Swann's former custodian Prime Trust filed for bankruptcy in August, and its current custodian partner, Fortress Trust, was acquired by Ripple Labs. The creation of a Bitcoin only trust company is a positive development given the risks that we've seen arise when custodians hold other cryptocurrencies or do business with companies that handle them. Let's turn now to a bill reintroduced by House Republicans that would outlaw a central bank digital currency or a CBDC. Last week, Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, along with forty nine co -sponsors, reintroduced the CBDC Anti -Surveillance Act. The bill aims to prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital dollar due to the risk it imposes to privacy and individual freedoms. Tom Emmer tweeted, quote, if not designed to emulate cash, a government digital currency would dismantle Americans' right to financial privacy and embolden the administrative state. I won't let that happen. Specifically, the updated bill prevents the Federal Reserve from issuing a, quote, intermediated CBDC, which would be a digital currency issued by the Fed but managed by retail banks. This is a similar system to what's currently being deployed by China with its digital won. Congressman Emmer adds that this bill puts a check on unelected bureaucrats and ensures the U .S. digital currency policy upholds our American values of privacy, individual sovereignty and free market competitiveness. Whereas Republicans are focused on stopping a CBDC, the Fed is only concerned about bringing down inflation. But this past month, inflation was on the rise again. CPI rose to three point seven in July, and that's mainly driven by rising energy and food prices. But don't worry, economist Paul Krugman, the guy who famously said the Internet was a passing fad, notes that if you exclude everything people actually need, like food, energy, shelter and used cars, inflation is actually down. But here in the real world, people continue to struggle with the rising cost of essentials like groceries and gasoline. And instead of taking responsibility for their inflationary policies, some politicians are identifying scapegoats for the rising cost of living. In a speech last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed grocery stores for price rises and said the companies could be hit with new taxes if they do not take steps to control food prices. And let me be very clear. If their plant doesn't provide real relief for the middle class and people working hard to join it, then we will take further action and we are not ruling anything out, including tax measures. Leaders of the Canadian grocery store chains responded by saying they are not profiting from inflation because although prices have risen, so have their costs. Grocery store profit margins remain razor thin. In fact, the CEO of one major Canadian grocery chain, Loblo's, said that on a customer's $25 grocery basket, they earn just $1 in profit. Performing price controls or taxing these companies would only negatively impact the available supply of food even more and risk putting these grocers out of business. But once again, government policies are threatening to worsen the problem they helped create in the first place. This is true in America, too. Grocery store profit margins remain some of the lowest in the economy, averaging about 1 to 3 percent. Some grocery stores are struggling to keep their doors open here, especially in big cities amid massive waves of theft. This has even led to cities like Chicago proposing to open government -run grocery stores. Will this help the inflation picture? Doubtful. Of course, inflation isn't the result of grocery stores profiteering. It's the result of central banks and governments injecting trillions of dollars into the economy since 2020. As politicians continue to blame inflation on everything but their spending and central banks continue to raise interest rates to try to bring it down, inflation continues to erode the savings of every household holding the currencies that these institutions manage and control. Bitcoin fixes this. All right, let's wrap up this news block with the craziest Bitcoin headline of the week. It was reported that Paxos accidentally paid more than $500 ,000, that's more than 19 Bitcoin, in a transaction fee. Bitcoin fees are up in 2023, but not by that much. Now, the good news is the mining pool that won that block is going to refund that payment to Paxos. That's got to be a relief. If you want to learn more about Bitcoin fees, full blocks, and what Bitcoin block scarcity means for your investment, don't miss my latest Coin Stories episode with Bitcoin miner Bob Burnett. That's it for the news block, your weekly Bitcoin and economic news update. I'm Nathalie Brunel. Make sure you're subscribed to Coin Stories so you never miss an episode. This show is for educational purposes and should not be construed as investment advice. Until next time, keep stacking.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from MARK CUBAN HACKED! CRYPTO STOLEN & IS BINANCE US DEAD??
"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. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google or wherever you get your podcasts, be sure to hit that five star rating. All right, folks, first up, I want to let you know about a big interview I have this week. This week, I will be interviewing Kevin Mull, who's the head of global digital assets at Western Union. So we're going to learn how Western Union is going to leverage crypto for payments and much more. Recently, Western Union conducted a retail CBDC pilot with a digital dollar project. So Chris Giancarlo will also participate in the interview. And Kevin was actually formerly at Ripple, so he knows a lot about payments. This should be a really great interview. Make sure you got that notification bell enabled, folks, and that you are subscribed as well as you're subscribed to the newsletter, because this is going to be a really great interview. Obviously, Western Union, one of the largest payment companies in the world. So it's going to be very insightful to hear how they are leveraging crypto and blockchain. All right, let's jump into the news. Mark Cuban loses $870 ,000 in a hot wallet hack. Mark Cuban confirmed that he was hacked, but doesn't know precisely how. Folks, when I hear news like this, look, it does get my alarm bells going, because you never know what these hackers are up to. And even the most sophisticated users in crypto, those who may be OGs, have to make sure we do our due diligence and we go through our checklist of security layers to make sure everything's up to par, because these hackers, that's their job. They do it all day looking to hackers. The other day I told you guys about, I got a phone call from a call center, a scam call center, and the number appeared as Chase Bank, but they said they were from Coinbase and that someone was trying to log into my account, but I knew that was fake. And the good thing is they gave me my public email. They're like, oh yeah, someone was using, or we know your email address is this and this. And I was like, yeah, whatever, that's my public email. That's not even the log in the email I used to log into the platform. So you want to make sure you have the different security layers folks. So independent blockchain sleuth WAS, was the first to spot the hack on September 15th at around 8 PM UTC after they highlighted suspicious behavior with one of Mark Cuban's wallets that the 65 year old hadn't interacted with for roughly five months. So according to the transaction history on Etherscan, several batches of assets, such as USDC coin or USDC tether and Lido staked ether. So S T ETH were suddenly withdrawn from the wallet within a 10 minute window, adding complexity to the matter. Another $2 million worth of USDC was then also withdrawn and sent to a different wallet leading WAS to suspect that Cuban may have just been moving assets around. However, a few hours later, Cuban confirmed to DL news that he had gone on MetaMask for the first time in months and vaguely suggested that the hacker or hackers may have been watching and waiting for a moment to pounce. Cuban added that he had transferred any remaining assets to Coinbase custody, essentially confirming that the $2 million USDC transaction was him. In terms of the hack, members of the community were quick to point out that as opposed to hackers watching Cuban's activity, he must have done something that led to the security breach. Some suggested that Cuban may have mistakenly signed a malicious transaction while others asserted that his private key was compromised, given that the funds were directly transferred out of the wallet.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1403: This Will Send Bitcoin to $1,000,000 - Max Keiser
"In today's show, I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis, as well as breaking news just in. The former SEC and Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Norman Reed, announced as the new CEO of Binance US? Like, what? Serious? We'll also be discussing the latest from Max Kaiser, who recently shared, we helped boost El Salvador's bonds 90 % this year. We can help Javier Malay escape the IMF, central banking terrorist, and get Argentina's economy rocking. Hope to be landing in Buenos Aires soon. Let's go. He also says that President Bukele plus Bitcoin have reinvented the nation state. Governance is being redefined in the Bitcoin age. A true meritocracy and universal economic freedom is rising in El Salvador. Socialist ideas are on their deathbed. Can the Bukele model of Bukelenomics be exported to another country? We will go to Argentina and discuss this with Javier Malay. Can't freaking wait. Also breaking news, Mark Cuban loses $870 ,000 worth of Ethereum in his MetaMask hot wallet with a hack. Rough. Also in today's show, Gemini legal team accuses DCG, the digital currency group of gaslighting Genesis creditors. We'll also be discussing BitGo and Swan unveil plans for a Bitcoin -only trust company. That's right, the trust company will target institutional investors in the United States as asset managers line up for the Bitcoin spot ETF. Send it. We'll also be discussing Bitcoin price all -time high will precede the 2024 halving according to this latest prediction by Bitcoin. Quitting him here, no, Bitcoin is not going to top before the halving. Yes, it is going to reach a new all -time high before the halving. No, Bitcoin is not going to 160 ,000 because the magnitude of every pullback is large. This means it will peak after the halving in 2024. And yes, the target price is around $250 ,000 per Bitcoin. I'll also be sharing the latest predictions from Max Keiser with the Bitcoin price action I recently transcribed his most recent interviews. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again, that's cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome everyone just joining us. This is pod episode number 1403. I'm your host JV, and it is stat stacking Saturday. So let's get it. It's September 16th. So you already know we're halfway through the September before October. So let's bring it. Let's start with our market watch. As you can see here on the screen, we're back in the green. Bitcoin up a half a percent for the day trading back above 26 ,500. We also have Ether trading above 1600. And checking out coinmarketcap .com, we're sitting just above that trillion dollar milestone with roughly 22 billion in volume in the past 24 hours. Bitcoin dominance is 48 .9%, and the Ether dominance is 18 .6%. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours, TonCoin leading the pack up 17 .5 % trading at $2 .42, followed by ThorChain up 9 .5%, trading at $1 .91, followed by Flow up 8 .5%, trading just above 46 cents. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers for the past week, we have a sea of green, which is a beautiful omen for the altcoin market. We have coins such as TonFlow, Rune, and Ave all pretty up between anywhere from 8 to 13%. And yeah, so there you have it. How many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto, and how many of you are anticipating a further dip? Let me know your insights. And at the end of the show, I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud as we do each and every day in the Q &A session. Now, let's dive into some technical analysis from Glassnode, one of my favorite analytics platform. The past few days have been relatively positive for the price action for the king crypto, which has been increasing since Tuesday, September 12th. At the time, Bitcoin is sitting just above 25 ,600. Now in this prediction, the co -founder of the popular crypto analytics resource, Glassnode, outlined that the US CPI jumped by 0 .6%, which led to some fluctuations of the Bitcoin price. And indeed, the core CPI, which excludes more volatile sectors such as food and energy by design, has noted a yearly increase of 4 .3%. But interestingly, the CPI itself clocked in at 3 .7%, while the estimations were for it to be 3 .6%. So initially, the news didn't really have any impact on the price, which beyond the expected initial turbulence, settled at where it was trading just before that. So here's some price predictions coming from the Glassnode co -founder. He pointed out that crypto reclaimed the support above 26 ,000 and is now eyeing a potential break beyond 27 ,000. This would help it escape a multi -week range. He went on to share, risk signals nose dive into the 60s around ,400 27 and 28 ,200. But this climb seems poised as a step before tackling the psychological barrier at $30 ,000. So there you have it. Let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts. And are you currently more bullish or bearish on the King crypto for the short term? Please do let me know. And breaking news just came in before I went live. And I'm like, it's hard for me to even accept this, but this is what it says. Former SEC and Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Norman Reed, is announced as the new CEO of Binance US. You can't make this stuff up. Folks, what is the SEC doing? Now, Max Kaiser recently tweeted, I'm sure you know, there was a Tucker Carlson interview with the pro Bitcoin presidential candidate of Argentina, who's currently winning the polls for the presidency. And fantastic, almost 400 million views within the first day. Max went on to share, we help boost El Salvador's bonds 90 % this year. Facts. We can help Javier Malay in Argentina escape the IMF central banking terrorists and get Argentina's economy rocking. Hope to be landing in Buenos Aires soon. So the million dollar question, do you think Max Kaiser will orange pill Javier Malay? I sure hope so. He even recently tweeted here, President Bukele plus Bitcoin have reinvented the nation state. Governance is being redefined in the Bitcoin age. A true meritocracy in universal economic freedom is rising in El Salvador. Socialist ideas are on their deathbed. Can the Bukele model of Bukele -nomics be exported to another country? We will go to Argentina and discuss this with Javier Malay. And quoting El Salvador's fearless leader, Bukele, old ideas and institutions crumbled and a new generation is called on to remake the world based on the human right of financial freedom. Preach. Now, Max also shared in regards to this headline, Janet Yellen says Ukraine aid is the best boost for the global economy. Now this is hilarious and also sincere at the same time. Bitcoin monetizes war and violence by being finite and uncomfortable as this ugly, what? Illustrates money monetizes war by violence by turning humans into disposable garbage central bank Ponzi scheme. Preach Max Kaiser. Greatly appreciate all the work you're doing. You're truly doing God's work. You and Stacy's a massive shout out. Now let's discuss the latest with the hack from Mark Cuban. Now this is alarming, but at the same time, it's Meta Mass. I've been telling you guys to stay away from the Meta Mass wallet for quite some time. And also they didn't hack Bitcoin. They hacked Ethereum. I personally don't trust Ethereum or Meta Mass. So interestingly enough, so to read this story, let's break this down. Check this out. Nearly $900 ,000 worth of Ethereum was reportedly drained from one of the hot wallets belonging to investor in Dallas. Mavs owner, Mark Cuban, the man that once said Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and that bananas are more valuable. Yeah, right now, independent blockchain sleuth was the first to spot the hack September 15th at around 8 PM. So that was last night after they highlighted suspicious behavior. What one of Cuban's wallets that the 65 year old had an interacted with for roughly five months as he shared here on X LMAO did Mark Cuban's wallet just get drain wallet inactive for 160 days and all of the assets just moved. And according to the transaction history on Etherscan, several batches of assets such as USD coin, USDC tether, and Lido staked Ether were suddenly withdrawn from the wallet within a 10 minute window. Now adding complexity to the matter, another 2 million worth of USDC was also withdrawn and sent to a different wallet, leading Woz to suspect that Cuban may just be moving some assets around. However, a few hours later, Cuban confirm to DL news that he had gone on metamask for the first time in months and vaguely suggested that the hacker or hackers may have been watching and waiting for the moment to pounce. Cuban added that he had transferred any remaining assets to Coinbase custody, essentially confirming that the $2 million worth of USDC transaction was indeed him. But in terms of the hack, members of the community were quick to point out that the opposed to the hackers watching Cubans activity, he must have done something that led to the security breach. Some suggested that Cuban may have mistakenly signed a malicious transaction while others asserted his private keys were compromised given that the funds were directly transferred out of his wallets. What do you guys personally think chat? Please let me know in the comments below. This is not the first time Cuban has been taken a hit on the crypto market. Back in June of 2021, Cuban Lawson unspecified amount of capital on what he called a rug pull after the algo stable project called iron finance imploded amid a supposed bank run. So there you have it. Mark Cuban has a bad track record in crypto. Just pointing out the obvious fam, how many of you guys think that it was a legitimate hack? Let me know your thoughts or how many of you think he maybe have just moved it around and don't want to claim it. Who knows? I mean, there's infinite possibilities. No one really knows, but I'll be keeping you posted with the latest developments. We all know Mark Cuban is a multi -billionaire. So obviously a $900 ,000 loss is not going to affect him. He's not going to lose any sleep over it. But what if you were to get hacked worth of $900 ,000 of crypto? So again, red alert, be very careful with wallets such as MetaMask. Just saying. Now for the latest between the digital currency group in Gemini with the ongoing saga as it continues, lawyers representing Gemini Trust have pushed back against the plan proposed by DCG for the creditors of Genesis Global in the filing yesterday, September 15th in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District in New York. New York, where you at? The legal team accused DCG of gaslighting Genesis creditors through contrived, misleading and inaccurate assertions and a recovery plan. Now the plan filed in Bankruptcy Court September 13th, three days ago, claimed unsecured creditors could have a 70 to 90 % recovery with a meaningful portion of the recovery in digital currencies, while Gemini earned users would expect an approximately 95 to 110 % recovery for their claims. This seemed like a red flag when I initially read the story. I'm like, how are they going to get back 110 %? Does that make any sense? So now I'm starting to understand maybe they were gaslighting. What are your thoughts, chat? According to the legal team, DCG was attempting to bait the Gemini lenders into accepting the deal that would allow the company to pay less than it allegedly owed. Lawyers called on the firm to significantly improve the terms of the loans provided to Genesis and not use Genesis' bankruptcy proceedings to cover for justifications of the recovery plan, quoting them here, to distract the Genesis creditors from the inconvenient facts of its facially inadequate and inequitable proposal, DCG touts proposed recovery rates that are total mirage, misleading at best and deceptive at worst, said the filing yesterday, September 15th. Make no mistake, Gemini lenders will not actually receive anything close to the real value in terms of proposed recovery rates under the current agreement. In principle, so a bunch of more shenanigans, to say the least. The legal battle involved entanglements with crypto exchange Gemini and DCG over the Gemini Earn program. How many of you have lost crypto from Gemini Earn? I'm curious. Please let me know in the chat, fam. Financed in part by Genesis, Genesis halted withdrawals as we know November of 2022 in the wake of the FTX collapse, citing unprecedented market turmoil at the time and filed for bankruptcy later on in January of this year. According to the court filings by Gemini, Genesis owed more than $3 .5 billion to its top 50 creditors at the time of their Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The crypto exchange filed the claim in May, aimed at recovering more than $1 .1 billion worth of assets for roughly $232 ,000 Earn users and filed a lawsuit against DCG and their CEO, Barry Silber, in June alleging fraud. Barry was not the only architect and mastermind of the DCG and Genesis fraud against the creditors. He was directly and personally involved in perpetuating it, said Gemini co -founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss back in June. The US SEC filed a civil suit against Gemini and Genesis in January for allegedly selling unregistered securities through the Earn program. The two firms filed a motion to dismiss the case in May, but it is still ongoing at this current time. How do you think this is likely to play out? I just hope that the investors get their money back as they deserve because we all know with lawsuits, the biggest losers are always the investors. The biggest winners are the lawyers and the courts. That's just facts. So we'll see how this plays out as well. And again, they're attacking and going after all of the yield programs for crypto with Gemini Earn being a pretty large one. Why? It undermines the banks, right? If you can earn a five or 10 % yield putting your cryptocurrency on their platform, it basically tells you that why would you even waste your time with fiat currency in your bank when you're losing more than the actual appreciation of interest because the interest is virtually nothing while you're losing 20 % in inflation on an annual basis. It just makes no sense. So it seems if I had to guess, that's why they're attacking all of these yield programs. But what are your thoughts, chat? Please do let me know. I'm going to read those comments out in a little bit. Now let's discuss the latest with Bitcoin Trust. That's right, BitGo and Swan unveiled plans for their Bitcoin -only trust company. This is breaking news as well. The US may soon have a Bitcoin -only trust company according to plans disclosed by BitGo and Swan yesterday, September 15th. The joint venture is pending regulatory approval, the company said in the statement. Now I love the word joint venture because hey, JV, just saying. The forthcoming entity will handle similar activities of a trust company, including Bitcoin custody, administration and management on behalf of its beneficiaries. And according to Corey Clipston, CEO of Swan, the solutions intends to offer Bitcoin custody without the risk of having other altcoins under the same roof. As you know, Swan is Bitcoin -only and they're pretty much anti everything, not Bitcoin. Quoting him here, for years, we have heard from major clients, partners and other Bitcoin companies that they would prefer a Bitcoin -only software and services stack that is focused strictly on the best custody and leverages of Bitcoin's unique features. The companies are in contact with state regulators about the plans, but have yet to file regulatory approval. Clipston told Cointelegraph we're evaluating acquisition options first, he disclosed as he announced here through the Swan Bitcoin team on X. As part of our long -term vision to advance Bitcoin adoption, we're announcing a major step forward for Swan and the entire Bitcoin ecosystem. BitGo and Swan announced plans for USA's first Bitcoin -only trust company. Let's go USA. BitGo offers digital asset security and custody, supporting over 700 cryptos as per its website. And in contrast, Swan's business is fully dedicated to the king crypto, allowing users to only invest in Bitcoin via a one -time and reoccurring purchases, with custody of records held at Fortress Bank and Bakkt, while BitGo acts as a cold storage for Custodian. Now, didn't Fortress Trust just go bankrupt or get acquired by another company? Was it Ripple? You guys let me know in the chat. I know there was something major with Fortress Trust. Now, the new venture will target institutional investors such as asset managers, pension plans, and family offices, along with governments and company treasuries. It will offer cold storage, fraud prevention, anti -money laundering, and know -your -customer protocols, amongst other Bitcoin -related services. Institutional investors in the crypto space are at a fast -growing market in the US, especially as the world's largest asset managers seek regulatory approval, which includes BlackRock, the largest. For a spot Bitcoin ETF, we also have several large Wall Street players offering crypto custody solutions to institutional investors, which include the Bank of New York, Mellon, as well as Deutsche Bank, quoting them here. We believe there is a high likelihood that several ETFs are approved in 2024, and thus a new round of entrants to the Bitcoin market seeking mature, reputable, technology -proficient partners for a range of needs, explained the Swan CEO. The SEC delayed decisions on the spot Bitcoin ETF product. Analysts predict the regulatory regulator may postpone a decision until early 2024 as the deadline fast approaches, quoting them again. Our teams have worked closely together for nearly a year on stronger, qualified custody models. Early in 2023, we recognized the opportunity to establish a Bitcoin -only custodian, combining the unique capabilities of each company and supporting the innovators that will be at the forefront of pushing Bitcoin adoption, noted the CEO of BitGo. So there you have it. I am curious, by a show of hands chat, how many of you have purchased or acquired Bitcoin using Swan Bitcoin, and how many of you are familiar or ever used BitGo? Let me know in the chat. Now let's break down our next breaking story of the day, and that's the Bitcoin halving, which should be on everybody's mind, because it's only six months out, estimated to take place sometime in April of 2024. Now guess what? What if we hit a new all -time high pre -halving, because that's what this prediction suggests. Let's break this baby down, shall we? Bitcoin has a $250 ,000 target for after its next block subsidy halving, but a new all -time high will come sooner. Let me know if you guys agree. That is the latest Bitcoin prediction from BitQuant, the popular social media commentator who sees a rosy future for Bitcoin. In his latest post on X on September 15th, synonymous central banker and Bitcoiner revealed a pre -halving target of 69 ,000. That's what makes this individual interesting. He is a central banker and a Bitcoiner. I didn't even know that was a possible combination, fam, just saying, but he wrote, no, Bitcoin is not going to the top before the halving. Yes, it is going to reach a new all -time high before the halving. Now Bitcoin has just over six months before the halving, the event that cuts the miner rewards, as we know, per block by 50 % every four years. Analysts argue that the resulting emission restrictions have a cathartic impact on the Bitcoin price performance, acting as something of a springboard in advance of Bitcoin seeing new all -time highs. But for BitQuant, the analysts, that alone is not bullish enough. Not only will Bitcoin beat its current record set in 2021, which we all know the current all -time high is 69 ,000, before next April, it'll go on to hit $250 ,000 per Bitcoin after the next halving cycle begins. That's what he says here. No, Bitcoin is not going to 160 ,000 because the magnitude of every pullback is large. This means it will peak after the halving in 2024, and yes, the target price is around 250 ,000, which is outlined right here in the chart. Let me know if you agree or disagree with this crypto analyst, BitQuant. Now, market participants are highly divided when it comes to how the Bitcoin price action will play out into the halving and beyond. Some agree that the higher levels are possible by April, but plenty of conservative voices obviously remain, especially bears, right? Last month, Bitcoin investor and author Jesse Myers dispelled any idea that Bitcoin will be trading at six figures between now and then, and in a subsequent interview, meanwhile, Philby Philby, the co -founder of Trading Suite, decent trader, gave a pre -halving Bitcoin price ceiling of 46 ,000, quoting him here, assuming no Black Swan event, around 35 ,000 by the end of the year, and possibly as high as 46 ,000, sometime pre -halving in quarter one of 2024. So there, you freaking have it. And as he shares here, I'm going to read you his particular post on X coming from Bitcoin. Again, this is the central banker slash Bitcoiner. He says, no, Bitcoin is not going to the top before the halving. Yes, it is going to reach a new all -time high before the halving. No, Bitcoin is not going to 160 ,000 because the magnitude of every pullback is large. This means it will peak after the halving in 2024. And yes, the target price is around $250 ,000 per coin. So there you have it, fam. Again, let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts and where do you feel the Bitcoin halving, which is around the corner, is likely to take us. As you know, the two most bullish catalysts in the market, Bitcoin halving as well as spot Bitcoin ETF. I hope they both get approved and take place. We already know for certain the halving will take place, but there's a 95 % chance of the spot ETF approval in the United States, according to top ETF analyst, Eric Balchunes of Bloomberg. Now for the moment you have all been waiting for, the latest from Max Kaiser. I recently transcribed, actually today, his most recent interview in Bitcoin price predictions, very powerful words to share. So let's break this down. So first and foremost, he says, the world is a very different place and everyone will say nobody saw it coming, but it is clearly been brewing now for many years. And it's like every single day you can just see the catastrophe inching toward the abyss. You know, it's we're at the zero line preach. He also says it is a global fiat money game and you see different countries where fiat money regimes are collapsing in real time, right? Facts. Argentina, you know, the countries like this or like Lebanon recently had a complete collapse or a central bank collapse. That's right. And inflation is definitely an indication that your fiat money regime is in dire straits and inflation is breaking out in a big way. It is not going to return to where it was before this latest inflation break inflation and the collapse of fiat money is here. Now people are feeling it right now. And the quality of life all over the world is being impacted by it and it's being impacted in the United States. You know, people can't buy a home. People can't afford food. The economy is starting to ramp back up again. So it's playing out right now. And there is nothing that can be done to stop this inflation because the economy is completely out of control. So even the interest on the debt in the United States is now over one trillion dollars. So I think it is the biggest line item on the budget, bigger than the military. What we were told for decades was, oh, you know, it's trickle down economics or what you have, what not. I mean, and he goes on to share with Bitcoin. It's kind of the end of price discovery because everything will be priced in Bitcoin preach. eventually Everything goes to zero against Bitcoin. And so for someone like myself, who has been following this for 40 years, finance markets, technology, Bitcoin is the holy grail. It is the end all. I would say my compatriot in all of this is the one and only Michael Saylor. When you hear Michael Saylor talk, he talks about the aesthetics of Bitcoin, the beauty of Bitcoin. And he speaks about it in a way that I think carries the torch from the Max and Stacey from 2011. He started buying it, I guess, when it was 10 or 12000 a coin or so in 2020 era. So we were from 2011 to 2020. I think he's kind of carried the torch from 2020 in a lot of ways and introduced Bitcoin to massive pools of capital. I am surprised that more companies haven't followed his lead, giving up the break in inflation we have had exactly as Michael Saylor predicted, the melting ice cube, as he called it at that time, is exactly what happened. Well, I guess we can say now we're in a new era where BlackRock and those other major institutions are now looking at Bitcoin. So his work on the institutional level, I guess, is now bearing fruit. Three years later, I see in the Middle East, they are starting to recognize Bitcoin. So that's a huge pool of capital. I think all of that oil money will find its way into Bitcoin and be a huge catalyst for the prices. It is a natural way for the oil industry to diversify their portfolio because Bitcoin is essentially energy and the energy eventually gets priced in Bitcoin. And there is a marriage between these two in a big way. So I think that's kind of the answer. I have always been fascinated by price discovery in markets and the architecture of how markets work under the hood. And Bitcoin is such a pristine, perfect money. And I think it is something that humans have been searching for since forever. And now we're seeing it change society on a really fundamental level with the introduction of Bitcoin. And a lot of people are freaking out because of it, because it destroys the status quo. And a lot of people who have been waiting for it to come along have had the faith that humanity can be saved. They see Bitcoin in those terms. So you have this split going on, which is very exciting. So it just continues on and on. And you cannot, how could you not be interested in it? I think the people who were into it earlier and just walked away just never got it from the beginning. Once it's characterized as an asset class, we have nothing to do except position ourselves in this asset class. Either we are going to be a small position or a big position, but we cannot ignore it. We cannot not have a position. Now check this out. So even 1 % of that multi -hundred trillion dollar funds available moves the needle on Bitcoin and it moves it up considerably. He's referencing the 700 trillion dollar plus total addressable market. And he continues, so if we get into the 5 to 10 % range, then you start to really see it raise ahead to the seven figure type predictions that people have been making, including myself, because Bitcoin is an asset class preach. And on the flip side, we have what we saw in the gold market, which is the ability to control the price discovery and manipulate the prices. It's real through the derivatives markets. So the price of gold has been lagging inflation for 20 years because the governments around the world don't like gold making their fiat money look bad. That's right. So they make it easy for the huge funds to manipulate the price of gold and to scalp it, to continuously skim profits off of gold, which is what they do almost every single day. You can watch it and see it. That's pretty clear. And they are very good at keeping the price of gold and silver down. There's something like for every ounce of silver, there's probably 50 ounces worth of derivatives floating in various exchanges around world that are used to keep the price of silver down because governments don't want gold to race ahead and draw capital out of their fiat money scam into gold. He's preaching. Now with Bitcoin, we have the ability to pull our private keys, which is not really available with gold. Technically people can take delivery of gold on these exchanges, but there has never been an organized attempt to do so. We tried to do it a few years ago with crash JP Morgan, buy gold and silver because after the 2008 financial crisis, when JP Morgan ended up buying Bear Stearns effectively for nothing, they inherited this huge multimillion short silver position that Bear Stearns was managing at the behest of presumably the government. The government likes to stay involved. And so I did some calculations and it became clear that if this short position was not covered, the price of silver could go to 60 to $70 an ounce, and it would bankrupt JP Morgan Chase. Take that Jamie Dimon. So we started this crash JP Morgan buy silver campaign, and we got the price of silver from $15 up to $50. So we got it up to $50 level. And then the Fed of course came in, they changed the laws overnight to make it possible for these banks to have and carry a much greater short position and silver. So they printed up a lot of paper, silver derivatives, and they stopped the run on their bank. And the price of silver went back down to $15 or so. So we've seen that it is possible to force capitulation in that silver market. But at the end of the day, because the ability to pull private keys is not like it is Bitcoin, I don't think it'll ever succeed. Whereas with Bitcoin, you can pull your private keys. Now, I mean, he is speaking facts right here. Warren Buffett and his own words has said, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. The central bankers are using it to manipulate the markets. That's what they're doing with silver. That's what they're doing with gold and precious metals. And Max makes a great point. They don't want the gold and silver prices to rise up. It undermines the US dollar. They're trying to keep a strong dollar, right? So that's why gold has been pretty stable at like $2 ,000 and unable to really climb much above it. I think it's been pretty stagnant virtually for the past decade. So with the dollar inflating from them continuing to print trillions of dollars, the fact that gold isn't just continuously going up, it proves that the market is manipulated. You also got to consider as well, there is no scarce asset like Bitcoin. Bitcoin has a finite limited supply of 21 million coins. Yeah, gold may be rare or scarce, but they dump a new supply every year into the market. They can control it. They could invest more into discovering more gold. As Jack Mallers pointed out, Elon could maybe discover more gold on Mars. Who knows? Bitcoin, you can't say the same thing. Bitcoin is perfect money. It's incorruptible. It's unconfiscatable and the list goes on and on. So if you had the choice to put your wealth somewhere, what asset class would you choose to put it in? Let me know, fam. And don't forget to check out cryptonewsalerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/15/23
"I thought I was having a stroke. I think, is that me talking again? That was the previously on the Mike and Mark segment, because we got through all the important stuff, because there have been some things going on. But then I didn't really get to the part where our plane got hit by something during our sojourn in New York. What did your plane get hit by? What kind of thing hits planes these days? A bird? Bingo! Bird strike. Now, here's the good news. We were not on the plane. So what do you mean, our plane? So we're at DFW, getting ready to board for New York on Thursday afternoon last week. And then the word comes from the gate. It's never a good thing like, flight, we got a special announcement, draw near, light a fire, here we go, we got info. And it was, there would be a delay because on the way in the flight, which usually would turn around in about 45 minutes, yeah, that wasn't going to happen because there was a bird strike on the way in. And it was American. And listen, you've done a lot of travel and I have too, somewhat less, when they tell you the delay is going to be an hour and a half, you know it's going to be five. You know, you may not get out that day. Actually, the delay really wound up being about close to an hour and a half and American actually handled it very, very nicely. I'll tell you what they did, they put us on another plane, which I'm thankful for because I believe that the technicians and the workers would all get in there and make sure there's not, you know, a nest of birds in the turbine engines or so. I mean, but I was glad to be on another plane. But that gets me to question number two for my travel oracle, Mike Gallagher. You're both a travel oracle and a dog lover, right? We all love travel and dogs, correct? At the same time on the list of things we love travel. So it's a fixture now. Everybody's got, and I'm not talking about a support peacock or any of this idiocy, but actual service dogs are a common thing. And I love that when I see somebody, I know they got something going on and it just makes me feel, you know, empathy and love toward one. I sat in front of one yesterday, beautiful dog, well behaved, and a lady with special needs. You could tell she, I think she was with her daughter and that, and it was a big dog, but they were at her feet and just sleeping all through the flight and just as docile and peaceful and beautiful as can be. So here's the question I have, where do they poop? If you've got a service dog and it's like, well, it's going to be four hours. Now, some airports, DFW among them have places, I think, where you can go take the puppy when puppy has to pop a squirt. I mean, I totally get it. Lord knows if I do, it's right there. But what if a Rover has one in the chamber and I mean, we're sorry, your flight is going to be four hours. How in the world? And I've never, now that you mentioned with all the travel I do, I've never, ever heard of any kind of an accident on the plane with a service dog. Well, maybe, maybe they just have doggy bags. Would people have carry doggy bags with them? And they're able to scoop stuff up. You know, I mean, you talk about travel challenges though. My friends, Joey and Peg took three days to get back from New York to South Carolina. This is what they do. Walk. No, it was the flights were canceled because of weather on Sunday. Then they were all sold out on Monday. Then they got back on a plane Tuesday, and then it stormed again on Tuesday. They finally got in a car, tried to drive from New York to South Carolina, made it to Philly, and then were able to get on a flight from Philly into South Carolina. And that's a normal thing, though. When you say an hour and a half, believe me, tell that to Joey Hudson. It took three days. He would have killed to take an hour and a half. One of the last thing, truly last thing, because this ties into technology you talked about yesterday. We were talking about the wonderful story of the electric vehicle caravan that just was destroyed by the facts of life and Jennifer Granholm because they couldn't find a charging station, blah, blah, blah. And you talked about the Tesla experience where the, where your car knows where the charging stations are, knows how many people are at the charging station. And so that put very front of mind the notion of modern technology and how it knows where people are. Surely you've done this. That was my first experience. Again, at DFW, one of these stores, it's run by Amazon. It's called Grab and Fly, which is a very uncomfortable title where you walk, you go bloop, you scan your credit card. Then you go through a turnstile, walk in, buy, pick stuff up and walk out. And it knows what you have and hits your card. And I asked the woman, I said, how does it know that I have a magazine and a bottle of water? It just knows. And it knows where you are. It senses what you have. It senses where you are. It follows, it tells you, it tells you how long you were in the store to the second. I mean, cause, cause I just experienced my first Amazon pop -up store last week in New York. They have one right across from the hotel. You feel like you're shoplifting because you don't even walk out. You don't even have to put it. You don't even have to, or you could just carry it all out under your arms like a shoplifter. Like you're in San Francisco. It's another day in New York city. I mean, you'd walk out and then about five or 10 minutes after you leave the Amazon store, you'll get a note on your, you'll get an email and you'll get a notification on your Amazon app. Okay. You had a 33 ounce bottle of water. You had a bottle of two bag of chips. You have it. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. I totally love it. I love it until this technology is suddenly turned against us, which could happen at any moment. I'm thinking so. Now, speaking of technology, how much have you done with AI? How much have you done on air about artificial intelligence? Have you talked about it? Okay. In terms of talking about whether the answer is a little in, I can give you a 30 second summation. I'm fascinated by perfect framework because I'm fascinated by it. There are parts of it that are really cool. I think it's making students lazy cause they're getting it to write compositions for them, but you can always tell when AI has done it because it's kind of passionless and unartful. I farted around with a stupid chat GPT thing. I remember I had it write a promo for your show, which was actually pretty good and et cetera, et cetera. But the whole notion of surrendering to artificial brains, all manner of things is a little daunting to me. Now, when you asked me about it as a topic - Well, let me tell you what I'm getting to. When I bring it up - Instead of your dissertation, let me tell you why I'm asking you about it because we got a big problem on our hands. I'm going to tell you right now, and your indifference to it has been my indifference to - I'm not indifferent. No, no, no. I don't mean indifference, but I'm with you. I'm exactly the way you've been. It's like, oh, okay. It's kind of cool. Let me tell you something. It's bad, and they're holding hearings on Capitol Hill, Mark, and let me tell you how it hit us yesterday, a dose of reality that applies to what we do for a living because this is not chat GPT. This is real potential for some serious mayhem and Armageddon. Let me tell you what happened. I'm on the show yesterday, and I can see, I don't know how your setup is in your studio in Dallas, but I can see the incoming calls that Tracy is getting when they call the show. Line four lights up. It's Los Angeles. I see Tracy because we're all on camera in this setup we have, and I can see her eyes get real big. She puts the guy on hold. She says, oh my gosh, it's Bill Maher on line four. I said, Bill Maher? She goes, yeah, and I look up, and she's got Bill Maher on the screen, line four, Los Angeles. I said, it's not Bill Maher. She goes, I'm telling you, I'm talking to him. I know what he sounds like. It's Bill Maher. I say, Eric, talk to the guy. See if it's Bill Maher. And supposedly, he's calling a few select talk shows that he respects to explain why he's bringing his show back to HBO despite the writer's strike. And he is bringing his show back despite the writer's strike. That's a story. Good for him. It's a cool story because he's telling them, you know what? I got people that got to pay the bills. And here we go with 46 % pay raise, and they want to work one less day a week and 90 weeks of vacation. Oh, yeah. Other than that, they're fine. I'm going to take the labor side in a minute, but finish. Oh, please. Well, let's not get distracted with that crap. A little bit. Go ahead. A labor side. Yeah, you take the labor side. I'm going to have some love for the law workers. You go demand, Jeff Mitchell, you want a 46 % pay raise tomorrow. Give me a break. Give me a break. It's not the same thing. Don't be a pro -union. Come on, give me a break. I'm the last person to do that, but those workers were told certain things and had certain things happen and they've been screwed to a degree. But they want a 46 % pay raise. They want a 32 hour work week. They want 40 hour pay for 32 weeks of work, 32 hours of work. They want, give me a break. They're greedy. They might be entitled to something, but they ain't entitled to what they're demanding. Don't take the side. Okay, Richard, Jimmy Hoffa, knock it off. Don't squirrelly on me. Oh, golly. Focus, focus. So Bill Maher. Well, yeah, you tell him good. Be pro labor. Yeah, you'd be pro labor. So anyway, Bill Maher. So I say, Eric, get on the phone. Talk to the guy. Eric has been at this for 25 years. Yes. He is a veteran. He comes back to me, eyes bugged open. He said, Mike, I'm 95 % sure that's Bill Maher. I said the final. It was responsive. He asked it. He asked it questions and he asked the question and the guy answered. Now I say, finally, we see the number on the screen. We have caller ID. I said, what's the, what's the number? We ran it. We run a check on the number. Oh, it's, it's Bill Maher. So the guy, so I'm thinking, I think it's him. So I went on the air with him. Listen to what it sounded like. No. Okay. Listen to what? Well, listen, why not? Bill Maher's calling the show. Because you know, it's fake because I don't know it's fake. Bill flipping Maher is not going to cold call radio stations. He's going to have three, three production assistants call your people and that's how it's going to go. Okay. So listen to the exchange. Listen, listen to the exchange. We're all mystified by this. I'm going to, we're going to probably get burned on this. Uh, I got, and the problem is I got 30 seconds left in this segment. So we're all, we're all taking bets as to whether or not you are really Bill Maher. Is this Bill Maher? Yes, it is Bill Maher. Thanks for letting me come on.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Michael Saylor: Bitcoin to $5 Million is Inevitable | EP 824
"It's all going to zero against Bitcoin. It's going up for everyone. Bitcoin! You're against Bitcoin, you're against freedom. Yo! Welcome to Simba the Bitcoin Live, we're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution cover breaking news called dramatic warfare will be your guide through the separation of money and state today is September 14th 2023 another day in Bitcoin another day on the Bitcoin roller coaster they don't call the Bitcoin roller coaster for no reason there's ups and downs we hit 25k we're back to 26 ,697 but if you zoom out if you zoom out in the grand scheme of things if you believe in the meme 21 million divided by infinity or infinity divided by 21 million I think it is we all know we're early but there's something I want to talk about today specifically there was a very famous spaces that Michael Saylor did and I think he did it with some some legacy media people there's a huge spaces and there was three things that he said needed to happen in order for Bitcoin to 10x and then during that spaces he even said if these thing if these three things happen Bitcoin will inevitably hit five million dollars per coin now what were those three things first thing was the changing of the FASB rules right with the accounting the fair value accounting rules and that happened not too long ago we broke the news I wasn't there I had some swan duties that day but Opti and I think it was Rustin were holding it down so we covered that and then number two was large banks right I'm not talking about like small banks or you know these these Bitcoin crypto focused banks I'm talking about large banks offering institutional custody of Bitcoin of digital assets for their clients check that off that's happening you have banks all around the world whether it's Panko Santander the news that came out today which is I wanted to cover this is Deutsche Bank is applying for a license to custody digital assets for their customers and then there and the third thing which has been like the big news of this year is the BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF or now I would even I wouldn't even call it the BlackRock just a Bitcoin spot ETF those are the three things that Michael Saylor said needed to happen in order for Bitcoin to just go parabolic into this five million you know etc etc and those things are basically already happening like the FASB check that off right that was a huge does a massive deal so check that off the list that doesn't start that doesn't start going into action until the year 2025 then you have so that's the FASB ruling then you have banks large banks cussing Bitcoin check that off the list as well really the only thing out of those three things is the BlackRock spot ETF or sorry the spot I keep saying BlackRock maybe it's a Freudian slip the spot Bitcoin ETF how long will Gary Gensler be able to delay this he got absolutely hammered in in Congress there was a hearing this week so yeah I mean this is pretty crazy and it's really interesting if you've been here for a while you know Opti and I are class of 2016 Opti's class of 2017 but it's the same epoch really you know one of the narratives that existed when Bitcoin was falling you know it fell from 20k back down to 3k and one of the coping narratives all the way down was the institutions are coming the institutions are coming the institutions are coming I think you could say without a doubt that the institutions are here you can't deny that now the thing is do the institutions have the necessary infrastructure to onboard on to Bitcoin and I think that's an open question but you can't deny that the institutions want exposure to Bitcoin that's undeniable right we broke the news the other day that BlackRock had a lot of micro strategy had a lot of exposure to public to publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies as well right so it's some very interesting stuff now here's the thing though right so yes this number go up whoop -dee -doo but remember the revolution is individuals taking back financial sovereignty by taking Bitcoin into self -custody so just because you're buying a Bitcoin spot ETF for BlackRock's Bitcoin spot ETF do Charles Schwab or Robin Hood or whatnot that that isn't real Bitcoin that's paper Bitcoin that's an IOU the only way that you get true real Bitcoin is by you know buying Bitcoin earning Bitcoin mining Bitcoin and taking that said Bitcoin into cold storage right and then preferably the step after that is stop trusting someone else's copy of the blockchain run your own run your own node the one I recommend personally because it's the one I use is start 9 they're freaking awesome so definitely check them out if you're interested in running a Bitcoin node but yeah it's a very interesting times that we're living in but uh you know I don't think I've ever been so bullish how you doing Opti and we're in the the simply Bitcoin merch today bro you're modeling I love it yeah yeah it's uh it's raining right now it's it's officially hoodie season so you're raining but you're inside yeah whatever I feel like wearing a hoodie today if it's nice it's comfy I'm wearing this all the time get yourself one at simply Bitcoin calm yeah man it's hey let your boy live for once geez yeah crazy you're not in uniform bro you you went from collared shirts to hoodies what happened you're regressing well suits coming soon I had a conversation with Chris yesterday I missed that episode man I love Chris shout out the coin shout out our boys over a Bitcoin mag but yeah crazy uh crazy developments and we really talked about it yesterday as well pretty pretty extensively on the show of how it is undeniable that the institutions want your Bitcoin there is so much institutional investment and there's just so much capital waiting on the sidelines for everyone for to get a shirt into Bitcoin you know like all the biggest asset managers well not all of them but many of the big asset managers of the world are looking to get exposure to Bitcoin we're seeing huge banks do the same thing and it just goes to show you that you guys are early and we are on the precipice of an amazing bull run as far as I'm concerned and now is the time to be stacking sats it's still what 26k so like we got the best opportunity ever and I know everyone is losing their mind because this bear market's been so long but this is where legends are made anyways on today's culture I saw this a couple tweets from Tom Luongo and if you guys aren't familiar with him he's a great I guess you call him like he is kind of low -key a gold bug and I know he's kind of maybe loosely understands Bitcoin but he created this meme in and I really wanted to touch on it today because it kind of changed my views on what we've been talking about we're always talking about you know the normies out there or in the not so nice way you know the sheeple out there and he coined this new phrase about like the masses comfortable are our wolves and I really want to cover this because I think it does change the framing and it's a little more positive view on what's going on in the world and we talk about it constantly that people need to feel pain and once they feel that pain and they wake up man shits gonna get really crazy and it really does feel like this is where we are right now so you know just prepare yourself it's it's you know are we on the precipice of a global recession who knows are we you know are we currently in a depression I don't know the official numbers are lying to us but we know that inflation is higher than they want and your purchasing power is going down the drain and I have these conversations with a bunch of my Bitcoin friends and we're all feeling the same thing it's like man dude things are getting more expensive and it's only a matter of time until people start to ask what the hell is going on right now and this is why we keep planting the seeds here on the show you know in personal conversations with people in real life and it's like we have built the foundation for people to protect themselves to get on the exit boat get on the safety net which is Bitcoin 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no risk of the plate breaking apart and pieces falling everywhere titanium stamp seeds will survive nearly triple the heat produced by a house fire they're also crush proof waterproof non -corrosive and time proof all things that paper is not allowing you to huddle your Bitcoin with peace of mind for the long haul stamp your seed on stamped seed that's right ladies and gentlemen don't put yourself in a position where you have to explain to your grandchildren while you lost your generational wealth because you decided to store it on paper store your generational wealth on titanium one of the strongest metals on planet earth you could scan the QR code on your screen right now to take you directly to stamp seed website use promo code simply get 15 % off at the time of recording the Bitcoin price is twenty six thousand six hundred and forty sats per dollar three thousand seven hundred fifty four block height eight hundred thousand eight hundred and seven thousand six hundred fifty blocks to having thirty two thousand three hundred and fifty having estimate April 22nd 2024 total lightning Network capacity four thousand seven hundred seventy six Bitcoin capacity value a hundred and twenty seven million US dollars realized monetary inflation 1 .75 % the market capitalization of Bitcoin five hundred and nineteen billion dollars with a B Bitcoin versus gold market cap four point zero seven percent very very very nice all right good numbers overall you know I love my favorites that I always tell you guys this is the realized monetary inflation of Bitcoin 1 .75 % that number is going to continue to go down forever so it continues to take fiat currencies absolute school even if they get it to their targeted Holy Grail 2 % inflation you know it's not even gonna come close anyways I do have some ways you got my favorite number is block height cuz that number is going up forever Laura that that that number just it just makes an all -time high every ten minutes the matter what next block it's almost like a coin walk next block anyways here's a clip I have two clips for you guys here's a clip from SEC chair chair Gary Gensler and he said some interesting things at the hearing we're gonna play you some clips of this hearing as the days go by though so let's check out this clip and I have another one then we'll talk about it and help protect Americans from the crypto abuses that cost consumers billions if they were to live up to the investor protection built into their current laws it would help investors but right now unfortunately there's significant non -compliance and it's a field which is rife with fraud abuse and misconduct and help protect Americans from the so I I want a friend two things right I agree in a way and I agree in the sense that it is full of fraud it is full of abuse it is full of misconduct now the initial part and help protect Americans from the crypto abuses that cost consumers billions I'm gonna reframes that right from the crypto abuse that cost consumers billions fine you could say shit coins you could say this what about from the governmental inflationary abuse that cost people all around the world millions if not billions of dollars why is that never talked about and that brings me to one of Tucker's episodes that he did in Argentina he did an episode about a 10 -minute episode covering what's happening in Argentina he's gonna cover he's gonna interview Javier Maly Javier Maly is he is he's a hardcore Austrian economist libertarian he wants to end the central bank you know he wants to cut down on the administrative state all of that stuff he said some pretty crazy stuff not gonna lie Tucker's gonna interview him tomorrow but what was really interesting about Tucker's opening monologue which we're going to cover extensively tomorrow is he said the quiet part out loud the invade and inflation is deft politicians aren't productive the way that they raise money is through direct taxation but they could only do that for so long until people revolt so they do that through the hidden tax of inflation we must continue to chip away at this like you know peacefully of course but Chico chip away at this move the Overton window start get start getting people to ask the question what is money why does my money lose purchasing power is it necessary for my money to lose purchasing power that's when people are gonna start asking really big questions and remember they do not have a response to this anyways talking about shifting the Overton window here's Joe squawk five years ago you would have never have believed this we did have a a Bitcoiner who was a writer for Forbes and he got a bit upset when I said that the legacy corporate media changed their tune because of the black rock spot ETF and he said no that's not true I was working at Forbes from before okay I take his word for it he's a cable are news you trying to tell me that the interest from black rock to launch a spot ETF has not influenced their change of tune whatsoever I don't know about that anyways here's Joe squawk it's about a one -minute clip and then we'll talk about it and move on to crypto if you'd indulge me for a second because we always have these crypto conversations and there seems to be this thing happening I don't know Joe we were talking about $25 ,000 with Bitcoin meanwhile black rock and all these folks all the folks that we thought were never gonna do this are now doing it and yet it's not moving at all well it's moving today well I mean sure 26 this is 26 it was for when when we started saying it wasn't going anywhere 4 ,000 oh okay but so but the question is is this now a risk on a risk off thing what do you how do you even correlate this to what's happening with the Fed because for a long time used to talk about crypto in regard to the Fed so I think crypto settling as part of the ecosystem I think people have recognized it is not the new global currency people have also recognized not going to disappear tomorrow is becoming institutionalized and I think actually if I were a crypto person I think this maturation process is a good thing where it moves from day to day is I can't really comment on that I still think it's outperformed every asset one year five year and ten year I mean I think I think he's pretty jaded a little bit right like you know it's going to zero at 4 ,000 and mind you like Pete Russo does a great job doing this but like he goes back in time and finds like original posts of people which is why it's so important to zoom out when in doubt of people posting a Bitcoin isn't going anywhere and Bitcoin was at like $100 Bitcoin was at like $200 at the time right so like when in doubt zoom out obviously Joe is completely converted he's like why have we been talking about the short -term volatility when we started when we started covering this it was literally at $4 ,000 it's at 26 ,000 at the at the you know depths of bear market he gets it I mean and this is actually one of the things that has helped me orange pill as many people as possible it hasn't been me saying the bitcoins better money it hasn't been me saying like oh look you know separate money from state hasn't been me saying you know it's a deflationary currency blah blah blah blah blah blah you know it's been the biggest converter of people you plant the seed you say Bitcoin right they ignore you for like a couple of years and two three years later pass number goes up and all of a sudden you get that text from that friend that you haven't talked to you in a long time and he's like hey about that Bitcoin thing ng you is the biggest converter of people it is the biggest orange pillar in my opinion is the most effective way and clear you could see that with Joe right he was like hmm yeah I mean we started covering this was at 4k I don't know why you're talking about the short -term volatility what the hell's wrong with you anyways why are you pulling that up Opti oh it's from wine it's from wine anyways why what's why you know all the disgrace you've ever done and all the controlling calling me why it might be the worst no I'm just trolling love you wine anyways first and foremost you know shout out the Joe Kernen absolutely love to see him just constantly battle the corporate BS FUD around Bitcoin and and I say this all the time you know like number go up love it or hate it is the fundamental thing driving all a Bitcoin adoption there's that and then on the negative side all of the crazy stuff coming out from you know the bureaucrats out there we covered the g20 stuff where they're trying to roll out a digital ID CBDC central bank digital control mechanisms and these two things together are in my opinion the driving forces for Bitcoin adoption it's like you we say it all the time and and the memes been catching on Nico I don't know if you've been seeing it on Twitter but Bitcoin is slavery it's starting to catch on and people are starting to notice that it's not even hyperbolic anymore but anyways starting with the first video I totally agree with that congressman or whatever like crypto is full of fraud like what a hundred percent agree hence why we're Bitcoin only like there's Bitcoin and there's shit coin and it triggered the thought in my mind about I think I brought it up last week it was the idea I forget what video it was but we played something on in the numbers about the the scene versus the unseen consequences of economics and it's very clearly visible the scene consequences of crypto scams and it very easily noticed and you know it's always rolled out as like the detriment to the whole Bitcoin industry and those are the scene consequences obviously there's been a lot of people getting rug pulled getting you know losing their their life savings because of shit coin scams and so it's very easily an emotional thing you can roll out so people are like ah let's protect the little guy but as we've going to cover and I really thought you were gonna play that Tucker Carlson video that you put on your Twitter I'm sick dude I mean so I was divided I was divided about what I wanted to make the show I was like I was like are we gonna make it about Tucker are we gonna make this about the sailor I think the sailor thing I was I was much more excited about the sailor thing it's a little little thing came out in my head I'm like holy cow the three things that Michael sailor said needed to happen for Bitcoin to hit five million all of those things have happened they've all happened right so I was like we have to cover this we will cover Tucker tomorrow's really actually made a thumbnail for everything it was awesome but I guess I guess you know we'll put we'll put a pin on that thought but tomorrow remember we're gonna be talking about the unseen consequences of money printing and that always gets obfuscated it always gets lost on people because it's not like a linear connection you know like you you gotta you know there's some nuance to this and most people can't think past like 20 seconds you know ADHD or whatever like we're all being inundated with so much dopamine from from social media that we either tune out or it just like it doesn't seem like it's important and and I can see people in the chat saying the same thing that we always hear is like once you start talking about Bitcoin once you say the B word people instantly tune out and it's only a matter of time until people wake up to what's going on here so you know plant those Bitcoin fundamentals into people's minds without using the B word usually helps and and goes a long way and then you find like hey you know have you heard about Bitcoin here's the pill take it but yeah man it just it just goes to show that the world is waking up and every metric that I'm seeing is pointing towards the fact that I think in 2025 more people are going to wake up to the scam that is Fiat and of course the safety boat that is Bitcoin and hey we're here for it so I'm I am super excited yes yes hold on hold on Arthur you can buy our merch with Bitcoin if you so want to yeah exactly go and go click scan the QR code it'll take you directly to the website and you could you could pay you pay in Bitcoin I think a lot I think wine set up the lightning yeah yeah yeah we got you got we got you guys back we got you guys rep some simply Bitcoin merch anyways so yeah man it's a really really exciting stuff alright guys let's jump into the news we got a lot to cover today before we get into news actually right now we are currently sitting pretty at 70 likes help us maintain our streak let's break a hundred likes within the out first hour of the live stream so if you're enjoying the show make sure to smash that like but it smashes mess mess wait wait wait can we do a legacy smash the like button Nico something like that anyways guys let's get to the news the daily news I want to give a shout out to our sponsor foundation devices it's self -custody done right 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Crypto Cafe With Randi Zuckerberg
A highlight from What You Need to Know This Week (September 13th)
"Hello, and welcome to Crypto Cafe with Randi Zuckerberg. I'm your host Randi and in this cafe we embrace newcomers and experts to all things art, innovation and technology disruption. Our new recurring theme of this weekly podcast is what you need to know this week in the world of innovation in 10 minutes. I'm joined each week by amazing teammates from our team at Hug to break it all down for you. If you're not familiar with Hug, I encourage you to check us out at thehug .xyz. Our mission is to democratize access to art using technology and education. We educate people on all of the latest and greatest around AI, digital art, NFTs, you name it. We have tons of free resources and a really loving, wonderful educational community. So again, check us out at thehug .xyz. Each week on Crypto Cafe we provide what you need to know this week to be an interesting conversationalist, to sound smart at cocktail parties and to know everything you need to know in the landscape of AI blockchain, you name it. So let's jump right in. I want to introduce this week's guest contributors. I'm joined first in the Crypto Cafe here by Hug contributor, Tina Lindell, Marketing Manager at Hug. Hello, Tina. Welcome back. Howdy. Hello. It's good to be back. I'm excited. You did such a fantastic job last week that we, you know, Debbie better watch her back or she's going to have a, you know, permanent replacement here on the show, but it's great to have you also joined by Crypto Cafe staple Michael Liddig, Director of Creator Programming at Hug. Hello, Michael. Hello. Hello, friend. All right. So we are going to get into all what you need to know this week in the world of creativity, innovation and technology. And the first is we're going Justin Bieber. I, you know, I have to say that Justin Bieber has been at the forefront of a lot of innovation over the course of his career. But Tina, you specifically want to talk about how he's selling royalties for his song that's coming up as NFTs. Tell us more. Yes. So this is very exciting news for all the Beliebers in the metaverse. We have a writer and producer, Andrea Schuler, AKA Accident is selling NFTs for Justin Bieber's song Company, which was initially released in 2015. There will be 2000 NFTs available, each priced at the equivalent of about $28 in Ethereum with the total sum of those representing 1 % of the streaming rights. Buyers of this NFT get the utility of part ownership to the song streaming rights means that when the song makes a profit, if you own the NFT, you get a little piece of that too. Now, where this brings me where I'm excited is that many people believe that creator royalties are one of the most exciting parts about blockchain technology, which automatically send a percentage of profits from a sale to the creator. While blockchain based royalties have been life changing for a lot of independent artists, there are challenges with marketplaces like OpenSea and Blur not enforcing them. So back to the Justin Bieber stuff, whether you identify as a Selena Gomez or Hailey Bieber kind of girly, it is exciting to think about how these royalties cannot just empower the artist, but also their fans too. So Michael or Randy, what do you guys think of all this? Yeah, Michael, weigh in first and then I'll jump into some thoughts. Yeah, first of all, shout out to the Beliebers out there. I just wanted to say that on the radio. So first of all, second, Justin Bieber is always at the forefront of innovation. So hats off to Justin Bieber. I actually ran the numbers on this because I wanted to really kind of understand what this looked like. So essentially, if you were to buy this NFT, you would get 0 .0005. So three zeros and a five of the percentage of the stream. So let's just run a number. Spotify pays artists about 0 .003 cents per stream. So Justin Bieber has gotten up to 1 billion streams, which means that he gets paid $3 million in royalties. Now the producer has a little bit of share of that. So let's say 20%, around 25 % is going to be around $750 ,000. So if I own that NFT and I'm getting a percentage of these random numbers I just put together, I'm going to get about 375 bucks if there are a billion streams. Now, I think that's pretty awesome. Listen, to pay 20 bucks and to participate in the success of this art piece, I'm all for it. So yes, yes, yes. First of all, I love that we just did a math equation on the podcast right here. I'm so here for that. I know. I feel like that needs to be on a standardized test. It's like, okay, if Justin Bieber sells this many NFTs and there's like this many streams on Spotify, like the most tech savvy math question. But I love this and I love this for so many reasons because we've already seen this real shift towards creative projects being funded through crowdfunding. We've seen movies go to the Sundance Film Festival that have been crowd funded online. And I think this is the next evolution. If consumers are going to put money towards creative projects to help them get made, why not actually have a stake in them and participate in the upside of those projects? So I'm really excited about this and I'm excited for a huge performer like Justin Bieber to be doing it. All right, Michael, on to you. We talk a lot about AI here on this podcast, on my live Sirius XM show, and you wanted to bring an article to the table about how open AI is a little bit failing. So tell us more. Yeah, so basically when ChatGPT launched, all these universities, all these schools were like, oh crap, what are we going to do? No one's going to do their homework anymore. How can we know if someone wrote that article? And they said, well, you know what? We have these writing detectors that can detect that whether it was made by AI. And guess what, y 'all? It doesn't work. They don't work. They're all false positives. So what's happening actually is that the US schooling system is now beginning to embrace AI and ChatGPT. So up to many universities are starting to actually teach ChatGPT as a part of their framework, really looking at, as we talk about on this podcast, AI as a tool, as a collaborator. And so I wanted to bring this to the table, one, so you can just start to encourage your students. Yeah, you can use ChatGPT. In fact, it's going to be how we use ChatGPT. It's going to determine how we use communication in the future. So better get started now. I love it. I'm envisioning like the future greatest writers of our country, like in the principal's office being accused of using AI for their writing. And they're like, no, I actually legitimately wrote that. And they're like, no, human could never write that. Tina, what do you think? Do you think that schools will embrace this? Or do you think that there's going to be really kind of a push pull for a while? You know, this really brings me back to when I was in high school, and we were not allowed to use the internet to write papers.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from Real Estate Agents Money Making New Construction Plan (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. We are on to day two and we're picking up where we left off yesterday and we're talking about how to make money with new construction. If you didn't listen to yesterday's points, make sure you go back and listen and I know a lot of you will find, by the way, the show we did prior to yesterday is the day before will also be, I think, a very big eye opener for many of you with regards to the different types of mortgage financing that's out there. But without any further delay, Julie, let's just roll right back in and let's talk about the easiest, the most advanced ways that agents can work in new construction. That's right. So we're going to start with something a hundred percent of you can do to get your feet wet with new construction and then we'll end with the most advanced iteration of making money with new builds. So point number one, work in a new construction model home during the hours the builder doesn't build with that builder or don't build it at all. They might buy new construction, for example. Think listing leads, new construction buyer leads, et cetera. And in fact, I think you know this, we have several of our coaching clients who have worked out deals with even some of the bigger builders. I know one of our coaching clients in Texas has a deal worked out with KB Homes, which by all means is kind of a production builder. They've got tons of different neighborhoods. Well, when one of them is about to be done and the next one is just starting, they don't go around. Coverage being that there's not enough new build reps to go around to all the model homes that they have available. That's right. Or maybe the hours that they work doesn't work all the time. Maybe there's just one day a week that you can do this. Anyway, our coaching client worked out a deal where she makes a certain percent if she sells one of their new builds. So she's basically acting like a sub for the new build reps when the new build reps can't or for whatever reason don't want to be at that particular new build model. Now, it's important though to explain this why the new build reps want to do this. Because they're going to get paid regardless of who brings the buyer, so they don't care. And new build reps, especially using Julie's example KB, they're not going to be listing resells. They're only selling the product that that builder has for sale in that particular subdivision. Most of the new build reps aren't even allowed to sell across subdivisions. If there's five KB Homes developments and I'm thinking of Keith Moulton and his great new EXP group and Inkeny, Iowa and all that whole big area of Iowa where they are, they're all those large new build constructor guys. They list the mid -tier ones and they list them within their EXP group, but the upper tier ones, the really large national ones, it's exactly like what Julie and I are describing. So what Julie is saying with point number one is, again, get off your duffs, get away from your keyboard and go out and befriend the new build reps and then offer to basically be their sub working in the models. They are going to say yes, provided they respect you and they know that you'll represent them well. They might have to ask for permission, but in a lot of cases they won't. And you will, guess what, sell new construction, but you're also going to pick off some resale leads. In other words, someone's going to walk in, they're going to want to build with that builder and they're going to have a house to sell, you're going to get that lead. And why is it that the new build reps aren't licensed? It's very obvious. The new builder pays them a salary, pays them a commission, doesn't want their loyalties divided, but also doesn't want that new build rep to then start, well, this model is not good for you at XYZ homes, I'm going to take you across the street and sell you one from ABC homes. They want that particular staff member only selling that particular product. That's where you can come in. Point number two. Well, that's right. And let me just point out why this is number one. Remember, we're going from easiest to most advanced. Notice that here you are not asking for a listing agreement. You are not, I mean, you can write the buyer side, which they're already prepared to pay. All you really have to do is learn a little bit about their product and how a builder contract works, which is generally more simple than your normal contract. Actually even simpler than that, Julie, because what you just said is going to intimidate about 90 % of them if you think about what you just said, right? Even simpler. Just be the meter and greeter and the police fill out your information or, you know, that's it. And then turn over the lead. Don't even do anything other than meet them and greet them because guess what? You met that buyer when they walked into that model, you're going to get the commission. Let them walk through the model. Let them walk through several models, maybe some specs. As long as they've registered, if those people decide to build with that particular builder, you will get paid whatever the co -op commission is. So open your eyes to how easy this can be for all of you. That's something a very low skilled new agent can easily pull off. I think of new construction model homes as kind of like the best buyer mousetrap ever. If buyers are searching, and we know for a fact with lower inventory, buyers are going to these new builds on their own, they're finding the inventory, you might as well be the one between them and the house, right? I mean, we're going to belabor this point too long, but this is something else. It's very rare that you see a new builder up that has an assistant. So if somebody walks in, and they want to see a spec that's maybe 10 minutes away in the subdivision, that means they lock the door to that model home, which means any subsequent buyers that pull up, which may have been equally as motivated, are going to get, you know, they're going to leave and they're going to go next door, they're going to maybe even leave the whole area. You guys get the point. So what the new build rep wants to do is sell more new construction. What you can do is cover them when they're not there. Maybe just act as their assistant on the weekends, and you will pick up sales that way. We've had lots of coaching clients do this over the years. I will say a funny story, I remember this. We had a coaching client that would go to this new build model area where it was a, I think it was a gal actually, and she knew this builder rep only worked on Saturdays. She knew that, guess what, most of the buyers were coming out on Sundays, and they never were there Monday through Friday. So what did she do? She went out and made camp, basically. Go where the buyers are. And then she just waited for the buyers to pull up, and then she was selling the new build rep's models, and she was obviously pulling off other business from that. I mean, talk about a great, a very ambitious, very proactive lead generator. Which, by the way, didn't cost you a referral fee, or a impression fee, or any other kind of paying for your leads fee. And you didn't have to make a TikTok video to get the sale. Not even that. Okay. Imagine if you will. All right, point number two, how do you make money with new construction? Create a relationship with those new build reps, and or the sales managers at different projects, where they refer the resale listings to you. Now, if they are licensed, and remember, they aren't always. It's very, very rare, only if they're really, really small builders, that you'll find a new build rep that is licensed. But we just belabored this point exhaustively, I think. We rolled that into point number one. Anyway, if they happen to be licensed, you can pay them a referral fee. If not, you can do gift cards and other things. But the flip side to it is, is a lot of times, and you and I did this when we sold real estate, we've coached our other agents to do this as well. Let's say you do go to one of those small or mid -level builders, and there's, it's frankly, usually the person that's the build rep is the wife or the husband of the actual builder, And so what you can do, as opposed to having any sort of financial exchange, what they're going to want to do is they're going to want to thank you for selling that particular house by giving you the listing on their next spec. And that's something you can do mostly in the really high end. So if you approach a builder that's specing on a really high end build, and they're still out there, plenty of them, and you're going to say, well, I have a potential buyer or buyers for this property. In the past, when I've worked with other high end builders, the arrangement we've had is I help them sell this particular house to one of my buyers. And then when they build another spec that they'll list that house with me. So then obviously I can help them sell that property as well. And you'll be surprised how that domino of buyer to listing, buyer to listing, buyer to listing, that can last you your entire real estate career. Yeah. It's a beautiful relationship and you can have more than one with more than, you know, different builders. Right? So that kind of leads us into that third point, list the spec homes. Now we've been throwing around that term. What is a spec home? A spec home spec stands for speculation and they come in two flavors. One is the builder is building a home that does not have a contract on it yet speculating that they will. That's why it's called a spec home. And the other way spec home happens is if somebody was in contract to build with that builder, but for some reason, either they backed out, they lost their financing, they lost their will to sell. Somehow the deal came apart and it becomes an inventory home. Sometimes they're called inventory homes instead of spec homes. We're going to share with you guys now, like normal price range stuffs in normal price range, let's say even nowadays, what the hell is normal pricing, right? A million or less. Generally speaking, it's very easy to get out of a new build contracts because the builder knows they've got a hundred buyers that one particular house, but the more expensive stuff when you starting into multimillion dollar spec homes, what happens a lot of times is the builder will ask for the buyer to, in essence, have 20 % hard money into the house. In other words, let's say the buyer is buying a $5 million house and the builder is going to ask for, and usually two deposits, a million dollars. And if the bill, if the buyer doesn't close that a million dollars stays with the builder, you see? So these are just different little things you're going to learn as you climb the ladder. We've had coaching clients, we coach agents to sell new construction, all different price ranges. So you need everywhere from, you know, big old ranches and land, raw land, trees, forests, all the way obviously to ultra luxury homes. So all these skills are applicable to all markets and all price ranges, which leads me to a friendly reminder. The notes for today's podcast are down in the section below. So if you scroll down under the video, if you're watching on YouTube or if you're over on iTunes or Stitcher or Spotify, just go down there and open up the show description. You'll see all the notes as Julie and I are presenting them for the most part. And you're also going to see a link to join Premier Coaching. Now Premier Coaching is, from what we understand, the nation's number one selling coaching program for real estate professionals. And the best part is, I think all of you will agree, is you can join Premier Coaching right now for free. It's a next natural step for all of you in your real estate careers. We know you love this podcast. It's the number one listen to daily podcast for real estate professionals in the United States. You won't believe what you get as part of being a coaching client. This is training. At the best we can do in the 20 or 30 minutes we have you every day, it's training. Coaching is what you get when you join Premier Coaching. So click the link below or you can go to premiercoaching .com or of course you can text the word Premier to 47372. But remember when texting message and data rates may apply. That is going to be homework from this podcast and every podcast after that. Next point Julie. Point number four, list every listing the builder has representing them on the whole development or the whole building if it's a condo building for example. This may include both lots to sell to other builders and or the actual homes or condos being built. That's where you you have the relationship with the builder. So I'm thinking about people like Lance and Karen Kenmore out in Washington state who have been coaching clients for a long time. They have multiple builders, different developments where they represent the entire thing. So they have signs on lots. They can sell those to other builders. They have signs on lots that they're representing the builder. It's not built yet. They have half built homes. They have spec homes. They have everything. One of their builders is going to do a town home project next so they can do different products as well. So another little idea of spinning off Julie's point number four is if you for example have the opportunity to list a parcel of land, a big swath of land that might be great for a developer. There are people that do the developing. There are people that go and essentially have if necessary the zoning work done. They'll put in the sewers, the electric. They'll even subdivide all the lots and all the rest of it and then they sell those off to builders. A lot of times some of these land developers, all they'll do is identify the lands and they'll sell some of the land to somebody to develop the land all on up. So what you're going to discover is from a big old farm field to new construction and a big huge subdivision, there are different levels of businesses that are involved. Now how do you stay involved if you're the one that happens to cross the big old soybean field as was the case for Julie and I sold real estate. All right, so you find the big parcel. Let's call it, you know, 25, 50, 100 acres, whatever it is. You then will list the property and then you will then find the people in that particular market that do the development and then the developer, if the lots are then sold as a whole off to a new builder, which is usually how it actually works, try to stay attached to the transaction every single deal, every time the property changes hands. Make it so that you're part of the deal every step of the way. I'll give you an example. There's a friend of Julie and I's in Houston, his name is Vinod, he owns a place called Urban Living and in its day it was a massive brokerage and what he would do is he goes out and identifies, well he would find a parcel of land in Houston, the zoning laws and this is, you guys are going to think I'm making it up but it's true, in Houston you can actually have a commercial building right by a residential building and so it's not uncommon when you're driving around certain areas of Houston where you see like how the hell is there a church's chicken right next to a, for example, a literal home next to a condo building, next to a car wash.
The Tennis.com Podcast
A highlight from Dissecting Djokovics Reign, Cocos Title & the 2023 US Open With Craig OShannessy
"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. I am your host Kamau Murray and we are here with one of our usual suspects. We always have to do our Masters 1000 Grand Slam wrap up with Mr. Data, Mr. Analytics, Mr. Guy in the bunker with his pen and pad, Craig O 'Shaughnessy. Craig, welcome to the show. Pleasure to be here. Pleasure to be here. I just got back from the US Open. I was there for two weeks. It felt like eight. It's the most draining slam of all. It was a good tournament, some great matches. It's tough, I think way tougher to be there for the duration than any other tournament that there is. 100%. You survive. And the matches, the tournament goes so late and the process to get to and from the site makes it just a haul, right? And it makes the day just long. At an hour and a half to the front and the back of your day, in addition to sitting there watching matches and this thing. Before we get to Coco Sabalenka, because that'll take up the whole show, right? You and I normally, we dibble and dabble on the girls and then we dive into the men's. I want to do the reverse. I want to dibble and dabble in the men's because I don't think anyone's surprised about what happened because if we start talking about Coco and Sabalenka now, it'll just be the whole hour. So when you look at a whole two weeks, right, and I was there for the first part of it, seeing the energy, talking to the players, touching, feeling them, seeing how them and themselves A, were enjoying the atmosphere, sometimes a little too much, B, managing the atmosphere or C, trying to just control their bubble within the atmosphere. And I think that process probably, those three sort of situations probably cost Francis a further run, right, kind of getting caught in the matrix, right, absorbing a lot of atmosphere. And then Ben, with the experience of his family, his dad, controlling the atmosphere, probably had a lot to do with his long run. But I think the match that I think had the biggest impact on the tournament was definitely Novak versus Jerry. Did you see the match? What did you think when Novak left the court, down sucess to love, goes to the bathroom and looks himself in the mirror, what happened? Yeah, when he left the court, you know, it was, he's down two sets to love, Jerry's controlling the back of the court with his backhand, his backhand was the best shot on the court in the first two sets. But to be honest, even then Novak goes in, he's still the favorite, still the favorite down two sets to love. He's done it before, you know, it's one of those things where can your opponent play three blinding good sets out of five? Maybe not, probably not, when Novak goes in, you know, you just kind of reset, look in the mirror. He did exactly the same thing against Tsitsipas at Roland Garros, came out and just mowed over him in the last three sets, mowed over Jerry in the last three sets. It was a carbon copy, it's like Novak looks in the mirror and goes, okay, we've got that out of the way. Whether it's a combination of Novak being a little tight, playing, you know, a fellow countryman, it's a combination of early rounds being a bit tight. It's a combination of the opponent just playing spectacular tennis, but you can see right from the start of that match, Novak wasn't, his A game did not turn up right at the beginning. He was pushing, he was prodding, he was spinning, you know, just watching him play a thousand matches, you look at him and say, well, he's not there yet. And even after two sets, he's not there. But you know, sometimes for players, when you get down, it can relax you. It's like, well, I can't fall any further down this hall, I'm two sets to love down. May as well relax, may as well chill out, may as well believe in myself, may as well hit the ball, and Novak's the master of that. So I'm not so, I'm not surprised by the final result. And I think overall, it really helped Novak to play such a quality match and have to overcome some adversity early on. So I agree with you, very pivotal match for the men's draw. Well, let me ask you this, because from a coach's standpoint, when I see, when I see that type of performance, my mind goes to, it wasn't ready to play, right? When I look at like Francis and Ben Shelton, it looked like Francis wasn't ready to play. When I'm sitting in a coach's box and my player goes down 3 -0 or 4 -1, and they're like, deer in the headlines, don't know what to do, it was like, what was not clear prior to the match? You've spent a lot of time with Novak, Novak's got one of the best teams out there, he's the most methodical and committed to his regimen. How does something like that happen to a player who's number one, Jerry is Serbian, right? So you knew who you were playing, right? How did you come out not ready to play? I mean, is there a chance that at this big of an event, at this point in the event that he just wasn't ready or wasn't clear on what to do or from being close and inside, what do you think? Yeah, I think if you look back to Novak's seven matches, I think he will have a slightly different explanation for how he started in all sevens. You get all your ducks in a row, you watch the video, you talk to the team, you get the game plan, but at the start, it was like Novak, in that match, he may walk out there and sometimes he feels the energy of the crowd and it excites him. Sometimes you feel the energy of the crowd and you may go away a little bit and then come back. But I thought that he was attempting to work his way into this match, to start off even to let his resume do the talking early, let the other guy go away, let the other guy spray balls and it didn't happen. It just didn't happen. So all of a sudden, the opponent's not missing a thing, the opponent's playing at a much higher level than Novak was and you're just not ready for that. He's not ready for that. You're going to play a match like that. In the course of a season where these guys are playing about 80 matches, you're going to have these subtleties with how the opponent's playing, how you're playing, are you really ready, are you working yourself into the match, are you coming out guns blazing? And it was just a bad combination of layers for Novak where Jerry threw the first punches, Novak's tasting blood, and it took him a couple of sets to recover, but there was never any doubt in my mind that he would still win that match. And I think that's the oddest thing. I think the odds makers, after being two sets, Novak was still the favorite and I was like, wow. That's probably the first time that I've seen that, I'm not a better, but the odds makers were still favoring Novak. So let me ask you this. Another pivotal match in the tournament, I think, was TFO Ben Shelton. Yeah, I was at that match. I think we all knew Ben Shelton could play. I thought it was very impressive, him beating Tommy Paul, right? One of the things, and I don't know the reason for this, is when he beat Tommy Paul, the crowd, obviously they had to choose, both Americans, Ben and Tommy, but when Ben beat Tommy, I was a little disappointed that the crowd was kind of quiet, right? But we don't have to hop on that, but I do want to point it out that the crowd was eerily quiet after the win of that. But with him and Francis, one of the things that concerned me about Francis was in that New York environment, with all the celebrities, with all the kind of like, and I mean, first of all, we got to keep it going. More non -tennis people, more non -tennis athletes, musicians, entertainers, artists showed up to the US Open this year than I can ever remember. And we need to do that for the sport to grow. But you still got a tournament to play, right? And this generation who loves that, loves the attention, will have to learn to balance how much is too much, how much gets me off kilter, and how much gets me off track. And I thought that the day before the Ben match, you saw Francis with Bieber. I thought that that was a little too much and perhaps maybe took for granted that Ben would shit his pants, and he didn't, right? You know what I mean? Because when you get to that point in the tournament, when you are the veteran, you kind of expect the young guy to give you a couple, like, ah, if I just play solid, he'll know who he is, and the shock factor will cause him to make a few unforced errors or some bad decisions, and it didn't happen. And to me, that goes in the book of, Francis didn't look ready to play, and I think he'll learn from this experience on managing the energy, managing his energy, for that late in the tournament. But I mean, Ben brought it. What was your take on Ben now when you look at the stats, when you look at the 149 mile an hour serve, what is your take on him now having seen him play six matches? Well, the Tommy Paul match was really good. I liked how he managed the ability to say, okay, this is a ball to pull the trigger on. I spoke with his dad at the start of the tournament, and I mentioned possibly our discussion that we've had in other ones is that I think Ben's maturity is going to come from figuring out when there's one more ball that needs to be hit. There's just one more ball. And I think maybe I talked to you about it last time, but it goes back to me to the 2000 Australian Open final. Agassi beats Kefalnikov in four sets. Agassi's one in the world, Kefalnikov's two. Agassi goes to the post -match interview. Bruce McAvaney is interviewing there, and they're watching some film, and Agassi's just going, you know, Kefalnikov moves well, he lights the ball up, the surface helps him, and he throws this line in there, he goes in the middle, he goes, and he's only looking to pull the trigger one time in the point. So he's a really tough opponent. And that just has always stuck with me. And that's what I said to Ben's dad is that Ben needs to just go, I could pull the trigger on this ball, but it's not quite the right one yet. I could pull the trigger on the next ball. Literally, you could pull the trigger on every ball he hits. But growth, his his maturity, his tennis development and tennis IQ is getting better because you're hitting a ball that makes the opponent uncomfortable, you're hitting a ball that can extract an error, and you don't always have to hit the winner. So Ben's development is going to be predicated on one more ball in the court and making a better decision on when to pull the trigger. And I thought he did a great job in the Tommy Paul match and a great job in the Francis Tiafone match of not pulling too early. And then he went and played Novak and just everything went to hell in a hand basket. And it didn't. But that was, you know, I was for the Tiafone match getting back to that. You know, I'm watching at the start and the first kind of 10 minutes, it looked kind of even, you know, good decisions, both sides, good points, both sides. Francis was so quick coming to the net. He does such a great job of, you know, hitting a ball and he's already leaning on it, you know, with his short little backswing on the backhand. And all of a sudden he's almost leaning over the net, spiking these volleys. I'm like, oh, my God, this guy has figured out, you know, the only person I saw that really blew me out of the water with that was McEnroe, John McEnroe. He looked like he went through a time warp, whereas it takes, you know, all of us 1 .5 seconds to move from the baseline inside into the service box. But he goes through this time warp that looks like 0 .2 of a second. He's like, how does he get in there that quickly? Francis showed me that early on. But then the focus, the concentration, the locked in, the decision making started to erode at around the 10 to 15 minute mark, and he never recovered from that. Yeah. So you get Ben has Novak in the semifinals. And I think that Novak, I mean, just has this ability to you know, it's what I was it's kind of what Coco did. I call it cumulative pressure. And it is. I'm going to run the ball down, I'm going to make you hit an extra ball, I'm going to make you play one more ball every point on your serve so that later you feel it. You may not feel it now, but later you feel it. And that was an example of what I call cumulative pressure that kind of got to Ben. Yeah. What was your take on what Novak did to Ben or vice versa, what Ben did not do that match that he did the previous matches? Yeah, good point. That was that was a really fun match to be at the energy, the atmosphere, you know, the old guard, the new guard. You're exactly right. There was, you know, on that court in twenty eighteen, I worked with Novak to defeat Del Potro. And a lot of the commentators, when you go back and go through that match, they're like, Del Potro is dropping 135, 138 and Novak's putting it back in his shoes. And the commentators are like, how in the world is he doing this? Well, there's only one way that you do that is that you study Del Potro's patterns and you know what to say. When Del Potro needs a point in the juice court, he's going to and when he doesn't need a point, he's going to go, why? Novak's sitting there on it. And I felt the same thing is that Ben's dropping heat on especially on first serves. And Novak is putting so many balls back in play that you're exactly right, that it just kept accumulating and accumulating. The other thing that really stood out to me. That I don't know why is that Ben sliced so many returns, just this slow, just not even like a Federer kind of knifing, dark slice, it's this blocking slow slice that's not as good as Wawrinka's. It's not within a meter of the baseline. It's there was once he's just too defensive. So he's putting no pressure, no pressure on Novak because because he overdid the slice. Now, all of a sudden, he's got to deal with so many serves coming back and then the decision making. Then he starts, you know, the fingers kind of on the trigger, then he starts pulling it too much. And then, you know, Novak knows why this kid is potentially a real problem for me. But I've already figured him out about 15 minutes in. He's not doing anything against my serve. I'm doing everything against his serve and putting times back. I'm just going to press cruise control and take a nap for the next 30 kilometers. Yeah. And I think that was probably the one mistake and probably a tactic that was misinterpreted was, hey, if on his serve, put pressure on because you get racket on every ball, not to bunt every ball. Right. Because Novak is the is the history, the best returner in history, but he's not the best server in history. And he I don't want to call it vulnerable, but you will have an opportunity or two against Novak on his serve in a five set match. And I thought, Ben, with as great of a service he had, with as big of a service he has, he didn't take enough risks on the return gains and he didn't play. Correct. And when I say aggressive, I don't mean like crazy out of this world, we're winners, but controlled aggression. There was no reason Novak serving a buck 21, a buck 22 for you to block the serve back. You can have plenty of time to take a full swing and at least send a message for the rest of his career that your serve doesn't bother me. Right. Part of being a young guy is how do I apply cumulative pressure that may not work this match, but in three or four matches from now in the next semi? Right. Because you still got to go through Novak that shows them I'm not bothered by your serve and you better be you will be bothered by my serve. Right. And I think that was sort of a missed opportunity for Ben to take some cuts at Novak serve. And I think that set the tone for the match that allowed Novak to kind of steam roll.
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from News Block: FASB Change Bullish for Bitcoin, Surging Oil Prices, America's Savings Slump, FTX Liquidations & Ripple Acquires Fortress
"Welcome to the CoinStories news block. I'm Nathalie Brunel and in the span of just 10 minutes, roughly the same time it takes to mine a new Bitcoin block, I'll provide you with concise, insightful updates on Bitcoin and the global financial landscape so you're well informed on the week's top stories. Everything you need to know, in one place, in one block. Let's go. Fair value accounting is officially coming to Bitcoin and this development could mark a turning point for the adoption of Bitcoin at the corporate level. The Financial Accounting Standards Board, better known as FASB, voted unanimously to adopt new rules that would require businesses to report their Bitcoin holdings at fair value, meaning at the current market value. This is a major improvement that will allow companies to recognize both losses and gains on their Bitcoin holdings, just like other financial assets such as stocks and bonds. Prior to this recent FASB decision, companies had to treat Bitcoin as an intangible asset and the way those are reported require the company to record the price it originally paid for the asset, so in this case Bitcoin, and then reassess the value each quarter. If the asset value goes down during that time, the company has to mark the loss on its balance sheet. This is called an impairment loss. But if the value of that asset increases during that time, companies cannot mark the value of the asset back up, so they get hit with all the price drops and don't get to benefit from any of the price gains. And for an asset as volatile as Bitcoin, this has made holding it very prohibitive for companies. When companies have to mark down the value of an asset on their balance sheet, it negatively impacts their earnings report, and earnings often drive a company's stock price, valuation, and overall performance. This problem prompted Bitcoin industry leaders to request that FASB create new rules that would require businesses to use fair value accounting. After FASB declined this request on three separate occasions, it is finally voted to change them. Businesses holding Bitcoin will now get to mark their Bitcoin holdings when the price goes up and down during a quarter, eliminating some of the impairment losses on their balance sheets, and allowing them to more accurately report the value of their Bitcoin. The new FASB rules will become mandatory for all private and public companies beginning in 2025. What used to be a barrier of entry for companies considering buying Bitcoin is now close to becoming a thing of the past. And it's developments like this in the bear market that lay the foundation for the coming bull market. Okay, so soon it will be easier for corporations to put Bitcoin on their balance sheets, and many will need to as we enter what many analysts believe will be a more inflationary decade. A major factor that will influence the inflation picture moving forward is the price of oil, and lately it has been surging. Crude oil is up nearly 25 % in the last three months alone and recently hit a 10 -month high. One reason for the price increase is the combination of increasing demand and falling supply. Last week, OPEC +, the organization of the petroleum exporting countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, announced they will extend their production cuts until the end of the year. This latest OPEC Plus announcement comes as global oil supply is at the lowest level since 1985. At the same time, world oil demand recently exceeded pre -pandemic levels and continues to rise. If the demand is rising and supply is dropping, the price will likely continue to go up. And oil is strongly correlated with CPI inflation because it is an important input in nearly all sectors of the economy, from the direct production of goods to transporting them and helping power global supply chains. And when oil prices rise, gasoline prices at the pump typically follow suit, and that's exactly what we're seeing today. The cost of gasoline is a significant expense for households, and prices at the pump have increased year over year for the first time since February 2022. This latest surge in the price of gasoline doesn't bode well for the White House or the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation. Last time gas prices rose, the White House fought that increase by draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to levels not seen in 40 years. And that's our nation's stockpile of oil reserves, meant to be used in case of emergencies. Now the SPR remains depleted, with gasoline prices rising once again. The price of oil remains an X factor in the inflation picture. If these supply and demand dynamics do not improve, we could be entering a period of sustained higher inflation, and in that environment, owning scarce hard assets like Bitcoin is one way investors could potentially protect their savings. And speaking of savings, U .S. households badly need the ability to save and store value into the future. Saving rates are at the lowest level since the global financial crisis. Despite this, people are still out there spending, even though things are getting more expensive. Credit card debt is now at record levels, and the average interest on those credit cards stands at a ridiculously high 28%. This is a worrying trend, and this only serves to increase the fragility in the overall financial system. People are putting things on credit cards because the level of excess savings accumulated during the pandemic has been dwindling. During and even after lockdown, stimulus checks and various fiscal programs sent money directly to consumers, resulting in about $2 trillion in excess savings for U .S. families. This cushion was super useful, especially as the cost of living began to soar over the last three years. But that cushion has been deflating. Households have steadily drained their excess savings for 23 straight months, and now, if the current rate holds, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco expects these savings to run out in the current quarter. If we reach a point where these savings run dry, what happens next? More than half of respondents in a recent Bloomberg survey expect personal consumption to shrink by early 2024. This isn't great news for a consumer -driven economy and, ultimately, for employment. It has never been more evident that these households desperately need a money that holds its value over time and cannot be inflated away. And finally this week, let's touch on some crypto news affecting Bitcoin. Bitcoin's price remaining volatile, dropping back down toward $25 ,000. Some analysts are speculating this is related to fears over a potential liquidation of more than $550 million in Bitcoin connected to the FTX bankruptcy. On September 13, the U .S. Bankruptcy Court will decide whether or not to grant approval for FTX to liquidate billions worth of assets, including everything from cryptocurrency tokens to Bitcoin to beachfront real estate in the Bahamas. Many are speculating that FTX will obtain the green light. In July, FTX stated its intent to repay customers through a liquidation of its assets, so Bitcoin's recent price action could be related to the market beginning to price in this scenario. Another story that is increasing fear in the market is related to cryptocurrency custodian Fortress Trust. Surprising news came out last week that Fortress will be acquired by Ripple Labs, the issuer of XRP, for an undisclosed amount. The question became, why did Fortress sell now? News outlet The Block reported Monday that acquisition talks accelerated after it was revealed that Fortress client funds may have been compromised in a security breach involving a third -party analytics vendor. Fortress reported the incident in a string of tweets on September 7, stating that four Fortress customers were impacted by a security incident, but that no funds were lost. A spokesperson from Ripple told The Block that despite the security incident, the opportunity to buy Fortress made sense for Ripple in the long term, adding, Luckily, Ripple was in a position to act quickly to step in and make customers whole. That statement contradicts what Fortress has said publicly. So was there no loss of client funds as Fortress claims? And what would have happened to Fortress if Ripple had not been ready and willing to acquire the custodian? Now listen to this. BitGo CEO Mike Belshe summarized what happened on X, saying, When Fortress lost funds, they chose to omit facts about what happened, downplay the event, and conclude, most importantly, no funds were lost. Obviously, we now know this was not true. I guess what they meant to say is we believed we fixed the problem and we have taken steps to make sure clients are made whole, but those two statements are not even close to being the same. Now this situation certainly raises a lot of questions. In the aftermath of other high -profile cryptocurrency exchange and custodian bankruptcies, the market's appetite for this kind of news is extremely low. Some of Fortress' clients, including Bitcoin -only exchange Swan, confirmed that their customer's Bitcoin remains in insured cold storage wallets and did not move during this incident. Now we are still waiting for the full details of this acquisition and what exactly happened, but this serves as another important reminder of what can happen when investors trust third parties with their Bitcoin. We will say it again and again, not your keys, not your coins. Taking self -custody of your Bitcoin is the only bulletproof way for you to know with certainty that your Bitcoin is safe and free from counterparty risk. That's it for the News Block, your weekly Bitcoin and economic news update. I'm Nathalie Brunel. Make sure you're subscribed to Coin Stories so you never miss an episode. This show is for educational purposes and should not be construed as investment advice. Until next time, keep stacking.
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"The best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less ever wish you could listen to your favorite interview or segments. Do you enjoy doing older shows for the first time in years but by parents moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. He's just would you need. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. That's right this is the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes. I'm your host john solberg. Today's episode is being brought to you by the butcher shop. Prayers of highly sought after one percent australia. Non cross brad to y lara nine briskets and has always. They are handpicked just for you. The butcher shop has been retailing the finest meats for the past fifteen years every week. 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I haven't had my beat by him several times. But i feel that. I can cook a great. Usda choice or prime brisket. And i cook it to the best of that need is i can turn me be presented and i can get the flavors. I need right there. I don't feel that. I need to step up in. Cook away gu I think that cooking away groom if you can cook a great brisket out of the other briskets viable. that's wonderful. I think you can step up your game but if you can't cook her normal brisket great stepping up to that all you're gonna do this cook a real fine brisket mediocre. I don't think that's going. That's not that's not a guaranteed win. And that's where people have perceived that i've got to by ragu brisket that's gonna get me into the top five. The brisk won't get into the top five. You still got to cook it. You know one of the things that i found interesting. Was you know yourself. You had mike wozniak from rod gray from pellet envy at least those two. You're still holding true to what you were saying in the past. But those who were always very staunch advocates of just taking you know what's in the sam's case or nothing better than cab and didn't really understand what this foot raghu. Yes don't don't get. Don't get me started on the program. That is one of the biggest jokes. Put out there Don't get me started there. That is absolutely nothing. But a marketing ploy sorry Certified angus beef. Okay angus beef by the. Usda standards is sixty percent of that. I'm sorry fifty. One percent of that skin has to be black they then say that there's enough angus bloodline that they can still call that angus. There's several breeds of beef out. There that are not angus. That can fall into the cad program. Black bauby's Belted galloway there is hosting beef. That's a lot of black in them. There's there's there's some black santa gertrude us there's a lot of fees that are not angus but according to the usda there's enough black on their skin that they can still say somewhere. In the in the history of that animal there is angus that can call it. Angus that doesn't mean that it was a certified angus beef that means the packing plant. Said it had enough black on the skin. So i think if you're going to buy into a program by two s certified angus farm program by into a Grading system program. Xl has a grading program called the sterling silver. And what that is is they grade they pull out the top Ten percent of their choice briskets and say that's the highest marbled choice. We have they. They sell it. That way Creek stone briskets Is the brand. That i use their out of right here. At wichita kansas their farms are certified angus farms. That's all they kill us from their own farms but i don't buy into certified angus beef programs. That's there's too many loopholes in it's being used in i know the producers. That are doing them. So i don't buy into that. Sorry i'm off my soapbox. No not at all i mean would it be so it would only be true then me if if there was if it was just one hundred percent certified i mean is there an angus tattle out there. Like all one hundred and believe it or not there's red angus there's black angus But the one that about he pushes the black angus at certified angus beef. So does that mean as red angus or blacking They predominantly go with black. But that's not that's not the way it's it's road out so it's hard to hard to actually say all right so let me finish the question. I was going to ask you before we got this great information that i had no idea. You're gonna go on what you see. You know to pitmasters like that. Who had made such advocate for just stuff that you could get off the shelves go to now ragu style briskets are they trying to amp it up a little more or do you think that they're kind of falling into some of this non-real listrik glorification of what this raghu can do. Find out what. Dave ed say over the bbq sample show dot com lincoln. Today's show notes. We'll take it to the rest of this episode. This is referred to as the fabulous cab rant. It's a good one. go check that out. Thank you so much for listening today. And until next time on the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. I'm your host. John solberg you know. I look forward to talking to you against him..
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"Industry forward. The answer to that is yes to joining me here on the show. Mike you know you mentioned a number of contests you know. One of the things that i wonder about. Is you have a local qualifier. That also gets you points to. Kcbs team of the year so there were some teams that were just going to take place in that local kcbs qualifier whether they finished in that top six to move on to the regional was really insignificant to them. They just wanted the point. Is there a way or has there been any talk about giving team of the year points to kcbs teams. That are there that are moving on to a regional or a finals round or is that just something that can't feasibly happen because if you're not moving on all teams just can't enter in one of the most important barbecue competition series in the history of competition barbecue. Meteoric rise epic fall and crash super loved super. Hated the only place that the entire history of the sam's club series has been captured is right here on the barbecue in central show. I guarantee you when historians in barbecue search back to find out what happened. In sam's club there number one source is going to be the barbecue central show. That's add head over to the bbq central show dot com. Listen to the rest of his episode. There's a lincoln today's show notes going to take your right there. Thanks so much for listening until next time on the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less i am host john solberg. I look forward to talking to you again soon..
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"Satisfying is it for you. I don't know we're talking. This is all in the past already. But i mean how satisfying to watch this past weekend or two weeks ago and see yourself getting moved on to that final round i. We're real excited We get to see the show the same time everybody else does. You never know how they're gonna portray you or anybody else that you're cooking with. I'm just glad to see them. Keep everything Very professional 'cause. There's things that happen in these shows that i think that would make good. Tv and they're just putting in it. So hey kudos them. You don't have to meet head on a little bit ago. And he said you know they're trying to show the things that he thinks might be most entertaining as far as television experience aspect or visual experience aspect for the for the watcher. Do kind of side with that agreement with what you're seeing left out of it. Yes and no. There's things that's left out. That would have been more exciting for television that his left out of it because it did take some of the cooks down just a little bit. There's been fires from other cooks. There's been people dropped their food. There's been things like that to happen. That's that's not coming out on the television. So they're still keeping it to where. Oh how can i say it still looks like pitmasters. And they're the best pitmasters possible linear actually from sugars. Barbecue obviously similar today. The obviously wanted to win this thing. That's why you start in the first place but seeing yourself being able to move on into the final round this past weekend. How satisfying is it for you to be able to go up against the teams that you have and kind of advanced this final round. Now it's been it's been amazing. I mean we corey and night when we got together. Incentives audition tape in january Middle of the wintertime We had no idea how far we would go with this thing. You know it was about it was about going in there and taking a chance and having fun and traveling across country. Wherever was they sent us the first time around and meeting some great teams and And just and just doing what we do weekend in weekend out but in a different format you know knowing where we needed to be but not knowing we're cooking who cooking against and And being put in position. But you know if you took the cameras. Away and microphones away The producers away. I mean it was a contest. And that's what we did and We sort of worked our program as best we could always figured it out and had a great communication style so so so it was incredibly satisfying and of course each time. They play a repeat which is often you know my phone goes bonkers and my facebook page goes bonkers and all the rest of it. It's it's it's been incredible. You know what. I had dave on the first time talking about his local wind. Lena he had said that you know. It's it's even more of a pressure cooker. Competition that he's used to. Would you say know given your experience over competitions where you don't have all of this stuff. Is it amped up a little bit more given the stakes and all these other things that you have to contend with that you wouldn't normally on a weekend said before that You know it's like a regular contest sort of in two weeks but but then you're miked up and then you have a producer asking you questions every thirty seconds and so Wanting you talk your way through the entire thing why did you do this. I noticed you did this and Putting your meat on the cooker several times and putting in the cooker several times and talking about things and and it and it gets us kind of knocked up your game. You know by and large. When i'm competing generally kinda quiet i generally compete by myself or with one other person so i'm not used to talking so much and This is a whole different thing. I mean the cameras didn't bother me per se. That was fine. They were gonna make me look the way they made. And that was fine but But yeah definitely pressure cooker. I mean I agree a hundred percent. it was definitely Very out of your element although very familiar at the same time. Dave seen you operate at competitions. And i mean obviously when you here on this show as a guest. You're talking because i need you on here to talk. When i was observing you down in miami oklahoma in march i mean you kind of struck me as a person that might of keep to yourself during that competition process especially when it counts. I mean what kind of a transition or a ramp up time. Is it for you to get used to those people that are around you. If that's not something that you're used to well. Yeah i do keep to myself doing competition because it's a competition but we signed on no one what we're getting into and you have to make good. Tv or d. tv time. You're not gonna be on there. And and i did it for myself. The family the kids and grandkids are having a great time seeing me on television. And so it's been fun So yeah i'd say. I opened up a little bit more for tv. Absolutely when you had your semi-final cook. Dave when you saw what was in the cooler. I know you're very comfortable with. What was there that opening round but going into the second round where you just comfortable seeing what was available to well obviously other than above long. I had never cooked buffalo before. But it's nothing that's stupid. It wasn't something exotic like ostriches or rattlesnakes. Or anything like that. But i would say that. Yeah i a ham ham. I could dozens and hundreds pounds a week of them so i know what a ham is and The buffalo is just a matter of of getting cooked. So i wouldn't worry about it. What about you name. And you seemed on camera to be pretty pumped up about what you had in the cooler. Was there any trepidation at all when you open it up and so we had to work with no not at all. I mean you know from the get go. We get our as much research as we could. Try to be as prepared as we could Taking an arsenal of rubs and and you know saucers and ingredients and things like that way more than we really needed. And just on the lark that we get something like meatloaf and And it's true to form. I don't travel to a contest without at least a couple of packs vacant in my my My coolers it's just something. I always have something that was talked to me a long time ago. You never know when you can use his or not Sometimes i put it on my brisket For a couple of hours and take it off. And and sometimes i'd use it for other things so So it was just natural to you know for me to to utilize that in the meatloaf and take that meatloaf up a notch. I mean you know jeff eventually and and and and and Earn amazing amazing cooks And they weren't going to let anything slide so the pressure was on Pork shoulder. I've cooked the death and times. That's not a big deal Although it was definitely a challenge. I think everyone's temperature down away from them that day. Well they didn't show on the tv was they. They had in front of those coolers for quite a while Is filming just the right sequence of events for us to open those coolers well at the same time we had our our our pits going climbing. All of our pits were climbing We were looking back and back and back and we had to actually take a break to go. You know a control the pets and And i think that's when jeff kind of realized that his got away with him way with it and I've never used to see. Oh before but But apparently they're they're you know they're you know without electricity. They don't like they don't like that so but it was definitely You know we were prepared. And that was the main thing For anything so But i was excited. Open air and see that that rinky-dink you little silly grinder. all that meat chunks. It was perfect. I knew exactly what we had. Were you surprised that the other two didn't seem to really have a grasp on you know meatloaf when it comes to barbecue pits. I thought that was like a very common thing to learn. And do what just even the basic barbecue stuff. I thought it was to find out what they had to say about meatloaf two of my favorite guests right. They're getting together and dave. I'm telling you to fantastic given beans and it gives us my theory that no-one in barbecue is more than six degrees removed. From dave bosca. So my game is the six degrees of david. Bosca or bosca's law. You don't know what that means and you wanna know what that means. Let me know. And i'll let you know what that means. Shoot me an email anytime. John j. o. N. john at the bbq central show dot com love to hear the good bad or indifferent and until next time on the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. Like you said. I'm john solberg and you know i look forward to talking to you again soon..
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"On the team. Besides logan and chris on your ryan because i hear from a lot of the pitmasters that i talked to. It's either themselves and a significant other or there's a team of like four or five or six other people to kind of have their own stations almost like a military operation. Do you find that it actually works better to have more than less. Oh absolutely absolutely you know. We've got A specialist for each category and Since we've been running the team that way. And i say we you know they master ryan amos Really there's four of us That's the way i like to see it and And you know as a unified front You know all four of us have been bringing a much better product to the table Versus just matt and myself alone. So let's let's be honest here and don't like no you wanna. When somebody who has been determined as the ribs specialists the brisket specials if they're dragging behind and they're the low man on the totem full for weeks on what kind of lashing in an ass whooping are they taking by the other teammates and specialists. I don't mind telling you. I had no idea that the team hot grill on grow accent was on pitmasters season two. I didn't know because i've never seen an episode of pitmasters. You may know. I'm saving it. I'm saving that. Probably the walking dead barbecue crawl what else i'd never mind. Hey go check out the rest of this show over at the bbq central show dot com. If you don't already subscribe to the barbecue central show via podcast just search the bbq central show. It's going to pop right up. You have never missed an episode of this show or the really big show again until next time. I'm the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. Thank you so much for listening. I'm your host john solberg. I look forward to talking to you again soon..
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"Guys didn't wind every week. That's i don't think they want you know they. They went around on. I think that was one of the problems with so expensive. And you know you're you're you're telling the public of the greatest people and you don't win every week. Some people win a lot more than others. you know. i got a pretty good idea. What my batting averages. And if you're going to build it just for winning a threat for free competition cooking wise and we were hitting it here just a couple minutes before we got on the tv tirade in regard deflator. Tirade i love barbecue. Well ray takes me. I'm talking about passionate. Talk here when i talk about the flavor profiles. It seems like when i first started following you know barbecue. In general and then i learned there was a competition. Seen that there was really kind of a premium put on the pitmasters that would kind of always be on the cutting edge of changing things up and then there seemed to be a point in time when things started to vanilla out a little bit and really seems to continue a little to this day. Do you think that you know holding to this. What's winning standard. A flavor profile is stymie stymieing any type of creativity or are you seeing more and more people get a little bit more crazy when it comes to flavor profiles to push that box now by invites you to find out what sterling head to say over at the bbq central show dot com. I don't know i'm gonna have to find out myself but people getting more creative at barbecue. Contests who man. I could take a wild guess. Give me three guesses and the first two won't count but you need to go find out for yourself. You can also get this wherever it get your favorite podcast. Just search the bbq central show. All the archives are up there. Make sure you just subscribe and your podcast feed. Never miss an episode of this show or the really big show again until next time on the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. I'm your host shots over. I definitely look forward to talking to you again soon..
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"And the ultimate grill and smoker. Ultimate smoker and grill came from the do grades. Actually you know. I used to do thousand people every saturday and sunday. April tober timber in october. We have five hundred fifteen thousand so i needed additional smoker and difference me and everybody else is. I just don't have a box while. Live outside the box. And i said let's build it as big as you possibly can to be legal in texas and i originally concept was smoker would seven thousand pounds of brisket at one time head But it cost me so much. I had to put it to work I was gonna use it the month. I wasn't needed to rain. Can use the market the dig rich honey marketing and It caused me so much build. I gotta deal for a couple of years. you know. Couple of big companies do cheek in johnson johnson. Martin i knew i had was getting ideal but i had to show a day early. Just smoke everything. So i said we'll talk thing with thirty minutes that's going on and so two thousand to a modified it and that took it from being the world's largest smoker today they world's larger smoker and grew because there's a couple of people out there that have one johnson via brought grills forty four foot long if somebody had one Smokers forty foot long minus fifty seven feet seven inches long mass large. It's bigger than most drive in trailers. So i've been using it for marketing. Ever since i started the company in two thousand to the smoker and grill. I've traveled the country for companies. Like mrs bertie bread or we even name it. We've done it. And i was on tour right brain baking in history jail family and they wanted to do across country. Cook out to been about twelve months together and we've been doing past two years. We're on a journey cut nail. It's ninety days ten thousand dollars thirteen cities. Where are you at right now. Where are you at right now. Trae sat right then. I don't know. I think honestly that's been lang pretending to be trace. Been lying is head over to bbq central show dot com search ben laying in the search box. While you're over there. You can listen to this complete episode. There's a lincoln today show notes. It's gonna take you right there just a barbecue character. I don't mean that. In a bad way i just don't know how else to describe. It dude ranch. Was it a dude ranch. You're over there on the internet's make sure you check out the butcher shop facebook dot com slash the butcher shop shop. His spelled s. h. o. p. p. mentioned the barbecue central. Show for ten percents off your entire order until next time on the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. I'm your host. John solberg alad forward to talking to you again soon..
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"This is the best moments of the barbecues central show in ten minutes or less ever wish you could listen to your favorite interview or segments. Do you enjoy doing older shows for the first time in years but by peirce moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. He's just would you need. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. Hello john sober here. Thanks so much for stopping by the best moments of barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. Today's show is being brought to you by the butcher shop. Purveyors of highly sought after one hundred percent australia. Nine cross bred y lara plus briskets and has always going to be handpicked just for you. The butcher shop has been retailing the finest meats for the past fifteen years every week they ship out competition quality meats too many of the biggest teams in the competition seen across the nation simply put teams who's butcher shop win and they win often not a competitor but still have an eye for the finer cuts great news. The butcher shop is shipping some of the finest prime dryades australian wag japanese wag stakes to people just like you and me who aspire to be the kings and queens of there so call to sack. That's right. The butcher shop always has berkshire compared dirac allegiance dirac and perry fresh all natural pork in stack and again. It's just a few. You might be saying john. All this sounds great. But what about. Some exotic stuff will rest easy knowing the butcher shop will get you your next steak or camel roast and they're gonna ship it out promptly. Let's review the best competition. Briskets check forks selection. Check giving you better overall options to cook at home. Check so give the butcher shop a call today. Eight five zero four five eight eight seven eight two eight five zero four five eight eight seven eight two mentioned the barbecue central show for ten percent off your entire order. Each and every time can also interact with them on facebook. Facebook dot com slash. The butcher shop shop spelled s. h. o. p. p. e. the butcher shop home of the one hundred percent australia non crossbreed y lara briskets in. Here's what's going on today. We're going to go back to april and twenty thirteen. Greg's going to talk to robin windows about a interesting article that was written about her in the huffington post. We're kind of running out of time here. Robin i apologize. I didn't want to get to this and it's not. The medicine may stuff actually really cool. But i'm jealous. Because i'm not the one doing it but what is going on with women hating on other women Last week i was given a link to a huffington post article on a a women this this lady was talking about grilling and like land lakes. And somehow you get dragged into it and be. You're being accused of hot and fast and low and slow being sexy stuff. I mean what's going on over that lady. I think are gonna come back and bite her in the ass. Because she's royal you know what but See you she's a royal you know. See you next. Tuesday right that to exactly and i really think that the timing. What happened is I'm doing a gig with land-o-lakes i'm their outdoor grilling spokesperson doing a quote unquote women's grilling clinic. Where the media in new york city which you know it will kind of like mike name so on land helix sent out an invite and they had done. Some kind of this is plenty cheesy. Melinda lakes me cheese up it was kind of a cheesy survey about law blah blah. You know some eighty x percent of women feel intimidated by the grill in a way to inch bro into my grilling clinic. While i think this This having to post lady needed some women's lib content in took that like reworked it into the title of the article that lindow flakes thinks. Women don't know how to grill and then she goes on to this like women's lib article and about. Oh you know. I it's bikini season and we're not good enough now now. Lindell excels us. We don't know how to grill. And grilling is that sexist in Grill within the lady goes and takes all of these things out of context on our website. so am i referenced. Hot bat like that. I enjoy on bass. I appreciate low and slow and she goes in pulls all this stuff off my website at says that i'm relating grilling to be conducted totally Under the bus it was just ridiculous in bad journalism because everything she talked about she did what she was talking about. Didn't reference it correctly What i find a rock ironic about the article is that she's like i can't believe they're saying women don't know how to grill and blah blah blah. She's obviously a woman and And then she takes all these really common barbecue terms of my website in obviously has no idea what they mean so she proves that she herself has no idea what she's talking about including anything related grilling so she really defeated the whole purpose of her article by making yourself look like an idiot was there's two things we know for. Sure she's probably a vegetarian. Secondly and probably more importantly she's probably big fatso and you know when you're fat you are angry and you start taking aim at anything that you can possibly put your sights on and you just probably happened to fall under that and butter of course butters probably your favorite dish fried butter passably. Well i actually looked up. And she's actually a good looking enough but she's she's I know she's a lesbian. Not is probably a vegetarian to just be eater. But we gross up to stick stick together to do with growing clinics which is all about just getting together with girlfriends and having kind of like You fun classes learning some cooking skills and turned it into a negative thing. So it was kind of a bummer. But i was appreciated. All my barbecue community really stood up for me like john. Dawson and even meathead rights for up close in you. Of course you should tell people to look at your comment because it's hilarious posted. Yes it did. Oh please go look everybody look. It's awesome be on When i read it that morning i was like. Oh my god. That made my day. Because i've been kind of like. Why did this choose to bash on me but Made me it made me feel good to have all the support barbecue people and You know what is it. They say that all pr is good pr. So as long as i spell your name right. It's all good all right quickly before we go. We got about a minute left. You're going to be doing some work with the national pork board and memphis in. May this year wanna hear the rest of this episode head on over to the bbq central dot com. You want to read that article in the huffington post search huffington post robin windows. It's still there. Couldn't find greg's comment though but i'd like to haywire in on back while you're on the internet's make sure you check out. The butcher shop hold around their facebook page facebook dot com slash. The butcher shop shop is spelled s. h. o. p. p. e. Please be sure to mention the barbecue central show and they're going to give you ten percent off your entire order. Thank you so much for listening. Don't forget some days. Words are hard and until next time on the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. I'm euros john solberg. I look forward to talking to you again soon..
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"This is the best moments of the barbecues central show in ten minutes or less read. Listen to your favorite interview or segments. Do you enjoy doing older shows for the first time in years but by pass moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. He's just would you need. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. Welcome to the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. I am your host. John solberg and today's show is being brought to you by the butcher shop. Purveyors of highly sought after one hundred percent. Australia non bred y lara nine plus briskets and has always handpicked just for you. The butcher shop hasn't been retailing the finest meats for the past fifteen years every week. They're shipping out competition quality meats many big teams in the competition seen across the nation simply put team use the butcher shop win and they went often data competitor but still have an for the finer cuts and life great news. The butcher shop is shipping. Some of the finest prime dryades australian wagon japanese web stakes to folks jizzle. Iq and me who aspired to be the kings and queens of their backyards. The butcher shop always has berkshire dirac allegiance dirac and prairie fresh all natural pork in stock. And it's always going to be handy for you now. You might be asking yourself. Hey all this sounds great. What about some exotic stuff while. Here's what i gotta tell ya. The butcher shop can get you an elk state. They can get you a camera roast. They can get you other exotic things. Yeah they can get your camel. Let's review all this. The best competition briskets check the best pork selection shack giving you over all options to cook at home check. Give the butcher shop a call today. Eight five zero four five eight eight seven eight two. That's eight five zero four or five eight eight seven eight to mention the barbecue central show and they're going to give you ten percents off your order each and every time you can also reach out to them on facebook. Facebook dot com slash. The butcher shop shop is spelled s. h. o. p. p. e. the butcher shop home of the one hundred percent australian nine cross bred wildfire up briskets. And here's what's going on in today's show. We're going back to april. The third two thousand twelve. Greg's going to catch up with twenty year. Old pit master brent. Richardson broadcasting live from the barbecue central radio network studios in cleveland. Ohio religious names barbecues central radio. Show once again. Here's your host gray right. Welcome back coming up on fourteen past the hour that portion of the shell being brought to you by the hotline eight seven seven four four eight three. Don't forget we have survey tuesday questions as well. What your favorite meat of the four traditional categories favorite tv chef. And what is your guilty pleasure but we will stand all of that now as we raised to the hotline and bring a master of slabs of approval first to the show went richardson went. How are you doing great. How's it going doing absolutely fabulous brennan appreciate making time for the shell Get your picture up here. So we can go. Split-screen brent. You're looking like the most dapper gentlemen probably at an awards here on this picture. Where was this taken. That was actually a pleasant hill. This weekend really. Yep all right. So a very current shot of the pitmasters slabs of approval. Brent probably fifty different places that we could start here tonight. And i appreciate make time for the show First of all a competition barbecue is obviously something that you have been around. Probably not even by choice for any number of years. I mean stephanie. Wilson steve fair and a kyle of all means some of the top people in the industry. you know or are related to How does your twenty years old. So i mean it's not like you're forty five or fifty year old just getting into this so i mean you're relatively younger in life. What's it like growing up around barbecue in a barbecue stayed in a barbecue city and around the competition. I mean it's not any different from being you know just a regular kid. I mean you know some kids have now. They grew up playing football for you know middle school high school and i grew up. You know doing barbecue you know. I had the choice of doing football in high school. In said you know. Can i get weekends off. And you know games are on weekends. So i said no. I'm i'm a barbeque man. You know is it just because you were around it and it's kind of like second nature or is it something. Look because i look at you and obviously you know your mom's kind of involved in invested within a very successful team And then i look at other people like You know jack's newsouth you kind of had this. He's twenty years old too. So you have a group of like newer pitmasters popping up around different parts of the country. Who have been involved in competition barbecue whether they kind of have wanted to or not so. I wonder you know as you're looking. Is it just something natural because it was something you grew up with. Did you have a point where you were going to be able to diverge. And just say you know what i i would rather do football or baseball or not. Any of around played nintendo all day long. Yeah it's just it's pretty much naturally now During the sells five. You know the kids cues from five to fifteen and you know once you get your first ribbon. You know the age of five or six i. It's been a long. i don't even remember. It's just you know it's the thrill and you know meeting all all my friends that i've met throughout the whole you know barbecue travels in. It's just you know. I mean yeah you get close to a certain number of people. Doing you know football and stuff but look at all the people that are doing. You know competitions. You know around the united states and all the people you can meet and it's just you know it's it's it's a thrill it's arash pretty much. Renton richardson joining us here. On the show pitmasters slabs of approval. Where did the name come from slabs approval. I was hoping you'd ask. Actually slabs approval consist of four people. me my cookie partner austin hall loren coleman and my aunt Valerie wilson Pretty much right. Now it's just me austin val Mourns actually going to the institute of america new york and you know. She's going to college doing her thing. And pretty much austin and lauren. We're actually with the team squeal of approval which is know betsy analysis. And all that and we You know the squeal of approval slabs dot com and we just pretty much slabs of approval. And it's just been like that ever since two thousand six aren't so you've been competing since two thousand and six but you obviously you've mentioned been doing it a lot earlier What easy to cook for you. I mean is it something that because you've been around it there the learning curve or you kind of have built in prose. I guess in the family to kind of help rant that learning curve up as compared to some of the other folks that are out there. I really don't have a pro. I don't have. I don't have you know it. It all depends on the weekend. And what i like. But if i had to pick one thing it would definitely be chicken wings. That is the number one thing. I know how to cook. Now are are you. You're also just doing the regular for me. Categories events to now right. Yeah definitely all right so you know when you're going to a competition. Are you able to go out and pick your own competitions that you wanna do now. Are you typically traveling. You know where slabs is going to be competing as well. I picked pretty much wherever. I wanna go most of the time. It's going to be where the slabs go. Because i don't have the money to go to certain areas psalm. Sticking around saint joseph. You know some in kansas city missouri. And i'm i'm in the sam's club in the lenexa and if i go further than that then i'm definitely going to be traveling to saint louis and hopefully onto. Uh oh.
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"What idea is there. Any apprehension getting into a market where there just seems to be quite a selection to choose from not only in the supermarket. But of course you get on the internet and then anything's available Was there any trepidation. When he got into that that you might be Getting into a market that is somewhat saturated at this point. I don't think so. There were couple advantage. We had one. We're not paying our mortgage with this business so you really get a lot of freedom to do whatever the heck you want and what you think as well But the the other thing is that most people specifically do not have brand preference to people if they like bacon the rare person will say no most people say yes. But if you ask them what brand. Making those say whatever's violent. Get one free so that phone is that there's probably much like Craft beer growth. That you see going on right now. People are passionate about baking are about good beer and yeah nobody really could tell you a good brand so we thought that there was possibly a a a market gap that wasn't being filled by an artist and company. I think we relax. Couple years there bob toward neck. Brian cohen. joining me. Tonight bob drawback obviously from the barbecue guru and brian. From bespoke bacon. Bob if i could ask you in regards to you know making a relationship with an artisan bacon producer and it seems to be going very well obviously The alpha rub bacon is out now. Is there a particular website that people can go as we're listening tonight. That maybe they want to jump on some of the alpha bacon or is that going to be made available to sale to the general public. If it isn't currently it is. It isn't made available public. Actually if you go to these folks faking dot com. you'll find it there. He just go to a store and our links are door. Trump is fake dot com. You can find us on facebook at facebook dot com slash vacant. There's a link directly to our or our actual web store. And but if you want to go right through to shop dot this big a baking right there on front page of that still bob. As i'd mentioned you have seen a bunch of success on the competition trail over the years with your products with the cookers. Now with bacon at your at your arsenal as well. How do you like to use the speaking. To what are some of your favorite uses for this bake and not only at home. But how do you see yourself working with it at competitions gonna lie. I think greg was surprised that brian was actually. I'm the line. He was excited. I'm i'm happy that he was excited anyway. Would you like to hear the rest of this episode. Head on over to bbq central show dot com. Look at the show. It's it's gonna take your right there while you're over there. Why don't you subscribe to the barbecue. Central show newsletter. It's going to hit every tuesday. You're gonna know what's going on every tuesday on the really big show. Do me favor subscribe. You won't get spammed promise while you're on their nets. Make sure you check out the butcher shop at facebook dot com slash. The butcher shop shop spelled s. h. o. p. p. e. and until next time on the rest of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. I'm host john solberg. I look forward to talking to you again soon..
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"Pants on and not have to answer to anyone. We call that porcupine barbecuer. I come from a way to clint. Can't we'll joining me or clint. So you spent some time. Maybe a day at the national barbecue association convention b. a. or whatever For the fo an. I have had a long standing self conference with me. Is this something that i want to go to something that. I don't want to go to when i talk to people and there like anything for you and other people like you should go to. That is good for you. And so i trust your opinion and value your opinion on that So i guess for me personally is something that i should attend a and then b maybe set the stage on what it is and kind of what your take was the whole deal. This was the first time that i. I've i've heard great things about heard. It was in nashville this year. Which is only about a three hour. Drive from me from memphis. Plus she had this other expo going on so it was perfect storm to hit up to nashville and check it out a. You'll me personally. I don't know if it was the best fit you know. I don't have products. I don't have a restaurant. I don't cater anything. Like that and a lot of the conference was focused on on trying to build up brands. So you know for me personally. As a media person at a lot of stuff already knew was far social media reaching traditional media how to promote your brand etc But it's also good to go and see some familiar faces and and hang out From restaurants standpoint or somebody that has sauces and rubs. I think it's tremendous. They had some really great speakers. Dr greg blonde us you know me. Ted's scientists did an amazing discussion. The actually went on for about half an hour. Forty five minutes longer than he was post to They had things on copyright and trademark. The beef checkoff people did our discussion on the cuts of beef. You can be looking at now. That beef prices are so high One on on catering waste to step up your catering game like i said Media stuff all of that so it was cool stuff but more geared to somebody that either has product or is in the business. I'm the whole. Yeah i mean i think I wasn't there for the keynote speech. But myron mixon sensually said we can talk all day about how passionate we are about barbecue. How much we love it. The community and all of that but at the end of the day you wanna to get paid and that's what most of these seminars were about. Is how to pay to get paid how to how to maximize profit. Yeah exactly true or false barbecue. Legend myron mixing has fallen into barbecue. Alumina true or folks whoa. I'm not touching that one but if you want to find out the answer over to the bbq central show dot com in the show notes. We'll take you to this complete episode. Glenn can't well one of the lesser known but most prolific as that cropper one of the most prolific barbecue content creators. ever go. Check out what he had to say. a lot. more in this episode meathead. I think chad words in here. It goes on and on and on playground. That's make sure you check out. The butcher shop on their facebook page facebook dot com slash. The butcher shop shop spelled s. h. o. p. mentioned barbecues central show. And you're gonna save ten percents off your order from them and until next time on the best moments of barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. I'm host john solberg. I look forward to talking to you again soon..
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"Byron forget the franchise stuff with franchise. You gotta do things the way z. The franchise owner wants you to do. I mean they're they're standards you. You know if you're if you're a burger king for example you're not gonna fry your burgers no matter what i mean. You gotta do it their way and we have developed over the past five years of doing competitions and playing we've developed our own rub we've Created our own sauce. We have our own kind of techniques and signature items that if we were going to succeed at this we really had to do what we do and not what somebody else wanted to teach us to do. And you know we're learning not everything we do is is a humongous success. But people seem to like what we're doing We have a bean recipe. That we've got some some elderly gentlemen from the apartment complexes around the store that come in just to buy the beans. So i guess we're doing something right there and You know whatever it is. It's going to be my wife and my you know my wife has developed the the rub and the sauce recipe and and she does most of the prep by kind of a fireman. And and we have just developed such a team effort between the two of us. That I don't know that we could go in and do it working for you know essentially for somebody else doing it their way aside from the barbeque catering and the competition stuff. Did you have any prior food. Industry experience My wife and i both have at times Between radio jobs. I've done some Fast food management and also Managed a cafeteria beef packing plant dodge city kansas. Many many moons ago My wife has managed pizza restaurants and and actually resigned job as an assistant manager at a subway restaurant in order for us to To go full time so we we've had the experience we've had business experience. It was just a matter of making the commitment to take the risks to do it for ourselves and go for it. And i don't regret it it's been it's been a lot of fun with steve. Forman owner of cowan sow to wile barbecue restaurant out there in topeka slash google kansas. So steve i mean what are some of the biggest hurdles that you face. Since you've opened. What do i want to head over to the bbq central dot com. And i'm going to listen to the rest of this show while i'm over there i'm gonna hit facebook and i'm gonna go check out. The butcher shop at their facebook page facebook dot com slash. The butcher shop chop being spelled s. h. o. p. p. e. I might order me. Some juara lara nine plus brisket. And i'm going mentioned the barbecue central joe and you're gonna give me ten percent off and that's real cash. You should try. That all works for you until next time on the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes. I'm john berg. I can't wait to talk to you again soon..
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"This is the best moments of the barbecues central show in ten minutes or less you could read. Listen to your favorite interview or segments. Do you enjoy doing older shows for the first time in years but by peirce moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. He's just would you need. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. Hello welcome to the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. I am your host john over. Today's episode is being brought to you by the butcher shop. Purveyors highly sought after one hundred percent australia. Non cross bred. Y lara nine plus briskets and has always. They're gonna be handpicked just for you. The butcher shop has been retailing the finest meats for the past fifteen years every we'd they're shipping out competition quality meats to many of the biggest names in the competition seen across the nation simply put team use the butcher shop win and they went off and not a competitor but still have an eye for the finer cuts. Great news for you. The butcher shop is shipping some of the finest prime dryades australian wagon and japanese raghu stakes to people just like you and me who aspire to be the kings and queens cult zach. The butcher shop always as berkshire competent durant allegiance to rock and berry fresh all natural work in stock and again big for you. Well you might be saying john. All this sounds great but what about some exotic stuff whereas easy. The butcher shop will get you your next elk steak camel roast hongqiao stretch. They're going to get it out promptly. Yes they got camel. Let's review the best competition. Briskets jack the best pork selection. 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A maybe a quick abridged version of kind of you got started in the barbecue business and more importantly how you've successfully grown into what it is today. well As far as we started in competition i And folks who started like in our food because we do a lot of people's choice competitions so they were asking us to cater and we started Doing little things and because competitions cost so much. My wife told me home where you need to start selling something to pay these competitions. 'cause cutting into my shoe money so We started doing you know selling that her job in my job and then we decided. Hey let's try and farmers markets and we did and they just started growing and eventually i quit my job. She quit her job. But we won't do it full time. Now i mean was it your initial interest and barbecue. I mean was. She like yeah. Let's do competitions. Or was she just kind of along for the ride. Seems as well for the ride with me. It was i was into the barbecue. She was just like whatever But like i said it started costing money. So she said okay. Let's make some money so you can go do your thing. Does she have some type of a flip when she sees it's becoming successful where she leaves her job then to to get into the barbecue businesses. Well well the the flip came when we start. We started doing the farmers markets and I went and i post job. I was working as a banker at the time and I approach my job. And say hey. These farmers markets are growing. I need to cut back on my. I was okay. I work monday wednesday friday. That way you know you can cut cut back on salaries but you still have somebody that can manage these portfolio and they never got back to me about it. So wife said. Hey we've we've auditor replacing the salary. Just quit so i did. And then about a year and a half later. She quit magic ever since okay. Let's call it that. Think mr joining me here on. The show's website big a mist. A big mr dot com. Neal was just talking about here before he jumped on the phone. But you know for somebody like yourself who has kind of made it in a good way. Through the farmer's market does does the farmers market segment or the open air facility. Get enough attention. When compared to the traditional brick and mortar storefronts. I mean is that a good way to kind of the test the water as it were instead of just jumping in and getting into a restaurant. I think so Of course the outline. I'll lay as much less You know the main thing is all they wanna say if you have a thing. That's the big thing do you ever think. And do you have insurance after that. They don't really care. You know so you get in there and you start selling To grow you know people start talking about you. Hopefully you know everything takes off. So you're going to be making this leap into the restaurant business. When did you decide to make the jump. Thin kind of where are you right now. In that process. Actually we were approached by There the building that we're moving into. It's a multi use building. So they're like a hundred condos that are all full at the top of this building and to retail floors at the bottom and they decided they want to do something through retail floors and the guy that runs a lot of the farmers market. Here is actually the one doing this project. So he wanted to pull in some people he knew so he approached me by. Hey i really want you in here. I like your product to do you have a following. You know. I wanna put you in one of these spots so and so it you know. They approached us about it. We weren't really thinking about we. Were just trying to grow a catering business. Aside from mrs missed number one of course who are you holding council with if like this is the best decision for you guys and and white items are you talking through. Give yourself the best chance at success at this As far as the business side Miss must've went through a program called ten thousand small businesses and businesses and the program put on by american express and There was another group by american express. Put this off anyway. She went through this whole program. And it talked about financing loan marketing. Everything assoc- you know a lot of current stuff. You know you can go to school but this is really current stuff stuff that people are doing now and they're a lot of other business owners that are in and so she made a lot of context they're also As far as you know been cooking. So i'm actually run the kitchen I have a chef friend that i've been consulting with. He works at a restaurant out in the valley. And then You know. I've talked to some local barbecue folks. I've talked to folks cross country. You know i've been talking to everybody that hit your everybody. Your i can pool Melissa talked to chris. I've talked tuffy I've talked to killing the down there in houston. So you know we've been you know just trying to tap every resource began trying to get information. Cam walton From queuing for you up in Clovis.
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"This is the best moments of the barbecues central show in ten minutes or less you could read. Listen to your favorite interview or segments. Do you enjoy doing older shows for the first time in years but by pass moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or less. He's just would you need. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show greetings. Welcome to this edition of the best moments of the barbecue central show in ten minutes or time. Your host sean solberg. Today's edition is being brought to you by the butcher shop. The butcher's shop is purveyors of highly sought after one hundred percent australia. Non cross bred. Laura nine plus briskets and is always there handpicked just for you. The butcher shop has been retailing the finest meats for the past fifteen years every single week. They're shipping out competition quality meats too many of the biggest teams in the country simply put teams that use. The butcher shop win they went off. 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That's eight five zero four five eight eight seven eight to mention the central show. They're gonna give you ten percent off your entire each and every time can also get a hold of them over at facebook. Facebook dot com slash. The butcher shop the butcher shop home of the one hundred percent australia. Non cross bred y lara nine plus briskets. Hey what are we gonna talk about in. Today's show day bosca stopping in. After greg talks a little fat thing here just here. We go all right. Here's the bottom line folks. Paula deen has diabetes. This should come as no shock to anybody. You ever watch her. Show you ever watch your ingredients you ever watch. With the fact that she cooks with fat and lard and butter and real cheese and real eggs and cream hol- cream butter cheese five. Nothing light in her menu. How the hell. How the hell is this. A surprise people that are so quick to judge people. That are so quick to judge paula. Deen for not coming out three years ago and saying she has diabetes. Who cares wouldn't change. Any diabetes take responsibility the american public as a society. Not everybody. i'm not. I'm broad stroking here but please hear me out. I'm sure most of you agree because we're more like minded than we're not the majority of the consuming public out here in america is so i need to place the blame and will not take accountability for one god. Damn it's everybody else's fault all the freaking time. Guess what people reach down men between your legs and grabbed you. Got a pair of those are called testing. take responsibility for your actions. She's getting flagged for sandbagging the info for three years. Most don't like it because she signed these new tv show. She made money not telling anyone that she had these diabetes. Look it's no surprise again. If you are a fan of polythene you know. She doesn't use healthy choice. Ingredients if we're gonna cook like she cooks. Then you are going to reap what you so if you continue to eat fat and lard and full oil in cheese and don't use things like fruit or light or fat-free ingredients you too will end up with type two diabetes you fat you fat all right. Let's go and race over. The headline sponsor of the shell friend of the show. Dave bassett joining us here. Dave how are you buddy. Doing slight head cold apologize now but while i appreciate you People don't know there's with. Dave you're doing me a solid because that's scumbag. Scott nelson decided to back out on the last second racially have filled the segment. So i am ever indebted to you for doing this for me but dave let's go ahead and review a few things before we get into some of the stuff that i wanna talk about. They've just had a very Long winded rant about paula. Deen and the fact that she's fat and she cooks with a lot of i guess unhealthy ingredients and that this should come as no surprise. Anybody that you get diabetes eating this way. Do you have any opinion on that whatsoever thank. She's a great host. I think she brings a great view of southern cookie to the screen I think the term business if If she's got a sickness she wanted to hold it for two years three years or two days or three days. It's i mean heck. It's none of our gun business where she wants to do I respect for. She's ordered compost kind of jealous. I didn't do it in the first place. -solutely bosca joining us here on the show butcher. Bbq dot com. The website had the class last week. Obviously read the email from a guy that flew in for montreal. Give us a little recap of the class. How you thought it went i. Obviously you did a lot of preparation for it. Things unfold did go according to plan. They go better than plan things that you like things. You'd like to improve on for the next class. I i really liked the class. The setting I worked with their local chamber of commerce. They got building for me. We had Had a all show of at one o'clock in the afternoon. I normally start at noon. Eleven to i told him that but for travelling purposes we started from our later. The normal We started writing pork butts briskets. Ribs trimmed a chicken We kinda broke and had separate. We fixed a whole hog. Some baked Barbecue beans some potato salad rolls salad with the fix and no one have to leave Then went back that evening. chicken and i'm sorry butson Briskets on the cooker east after chicken for the evening by then go on home back at six thirty we at breakfast with some home. H dickey bone. Sweet cinnamon rolls wise made up. A bunch of tatum casseroles We had all the beer. And sodas and i or i sort of could drink Breakfast got started at seven. The next morning. went nonstop. There's a little downtime in there but more to do with the contest you hurry up you wait. Hurry up then you wait so. We had our downtime net.