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Monitor Show 07:00 09-28-2023 07:00
"Do you need a better way to respond to FAQs so your staff doesn't go crazy answering the same questions over and over and over again? Vonage does that. With the ability to have AI -powered conversations in over 100 languages, Vonage virtual assistants can instantly connect to your contact center and answer calls, providing answers any time of day. Your live agents can be free for more complex cases. Learn more about the benefits of conversational AI and see everything Vonage can do for your business at Vonage .com. It's too early? I think you have to be very valuation sensitive in this market. Buying duration in here, we're about to start swimming downstream again. I don't think that you're going to re -enter a bear market in equities. I think there's a lot getting built in that's momentum right now. This is Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Kean, Jonathan Farrow and Lisa Abramowitz. So much feedback on Dan Ives's shirt this morning, live from New York City. Good morning, good morning for our audience worldwide. This is Bloomberg Surveillance on TV and radio alongside Tom Kean and Lisa Abramowitz. I'm Jonathan Farrow. Your equity market just turning positive at the close yesterday. It continues this morning. In the last one hour or so, we're up by 0 .1 % on the S &P. Elsewhere, new cycle highs in the bond market on a 10 -year, on a 30 -year. $95 crude briefly on WTI. And in the past day or so, Tom, we've got DXY highs we haven't seen for at least 12 months. It's good to go to DXY. Blended major trading currency about 54 % Euro, 106 level, unimaginable 90 days ago. John, I just would really emphasize on a Thursday with massive economic data at 8 .30. What I would emphasize, it's an equity market with a VIX of 18 .18 removed from the turmoil in bonds in FX. Big turmoil. I'd put it that way, Tom, and I'm with you. Away from equities. We've talked about this already this morning. Worth going over again, Brahmo. Stocks have been a bit of a snooze. 7 % move. Yes, it's sizable. It's noteworthy, but based on what you're seeing in treasuries, you already haven't seen for 15.
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Ethereum Daily
A highlight from CCIP Goes Live On Base Mainnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here is your latest for Wednesday, September 27th, 2023. CCIP goes live on base mainnet, Pimlico releases a typescript library for ERC4337 operations, Michael Igorov fully repays his Aavev2 position, and Rated Labs raises 12 .8 million dollars. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants round is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Chainlink's Cross -Chain Interoperability Protocol or CCIP is now live on base mainnet, an OP stack chain by Coinbase. Developers can now build CCIP -powered cross -chain solutions on base, including arbitrary messaging, cross -chain transfers, cross -chain collateral, and cross -chain account abstraction. CCIP also provides simplified token transfers, a bridging solution that uses audited token pool contracts for burning and minting tokens. Several projects have already integrated Chainlink CCIP on base, including Raft, Noun, Folks Finance, and Polychain Monsters. CCIP was first launched to mainnet in July of this year. Pimlico, a provider of account abstraction infrastructure, released Permissionless .js, a typescript library that functions as an SDK for handling ERC4337 user operations, bundlers, and paymasters. Permissionless .js is built on VM, an alternative Ethereum typescript interface to Ether .js and Web3 .js. The library is designed to eliminate complexity by using small bundle sizes, optimized network calls, and improved type safety. Developers can integrate the library into their existing VM client using a single command. Pimlico already offers developers an ERC20 paymaster and ERC4337 bundler written in typescript. Curve Finance founder Michael Igorov has completely repaid his Curve collateralized position on ClickOnChain, Igorov deposited 68 million Curve tokens into Silo Finance as collateral and borrowed more than $10 million in Stablecoin, which he used to clear his outstanding AveV2 position. Over the summer, Igorov partially repaid various DeFi positions amid a decline in Curve's price. Due to the potential risk of bad debt on the protocol, Ave considered suspending Curve as a collateral type on AveV2. Igorov still holds over $40 million in debt that is collateralized by Curve tokens spread across Silo Finance, Fraxland, Inverse Finance, and Cream Finance. And lastly, Rated Labs raised a $12 .8 million Series A funding round led by archetype. Rated Labs is the project behind validator rating platform Rated Network. The project plans to use the fresh capital toward improving existing products, extending support to new proof -of -stake chains, and upholding transparency and data integrity. Rated Labs has also collaborated with the Liquid Collective to establish standards for monitoring performance and governing active validator sets. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also, subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io.
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"Street East that too was all cleared and your drive time from Bellevue to Seattle through 90s at 15 minutes and through 520 at 12 minutes. Our next Northwest traffic at 454. And our forecast is sponsored by Northwest Crawl Space Services. We're going to see showers again today. There is the possibility of a thunderstorm high in Seattle of 61. Tonight showers, thundershowers continue low near 50 tomorrow. We're going to start off with some showers but then partly sunny by afternoon as you get ready for the weekend looking for a high around 60. Mostly sunny, nice break from the for rain the weekend with highs in the low 60s. Right now in Seattle, mostly cloudy and 54. Newsradio 1000 FM 97 7
Coronavirus
A highlight from CCIP Goes Live On Base Mainnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here is your latest for Wednesday, September 27th, 2023. CCIP goes live on base mainnet, Pimlico releases a typescript library for ERC4337 operations, Michael Igorov fully repays his Aavev2 position, and Rated Labs raises 12 .8 million dollars. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants round is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Chainlink's Cross -Chain Interoperability Protocol or CCIP is now live on base mainnet, an OP stack chain by Coinbase. Developers can now build CCIP -powered cross -chain solutions on base, including arbitrary messaging, cross -chain transfers, cross -chain collateral, and cross -chain account abstraction. CCIP also provides simplified token transfers, a bridging solution that uses audited token pool contracts for burning and minting tokens. Several projects have already integrated Chainlink CCIP on base, including Raft, Noun, Folks Finance, and Polychain Monsters. CCIP was first launched to mainnet in July of this year. Pimlico, a provider of account abstraction infrastructure, released Permissionless .js, a typescript library that functions as an SDK for handling ERC4337 user operations, bundlers, and paymasters. Permissionless .js is built on VM, an alternative Ethereum typescript interface to Ether .js and Web3 .js. The library is designed to eliminate complexity by using small bundle sizes, optimized network calls, and improved type safety. Developers can integrate the library into their existing VM client using a single command. Pimlico already offers developers an ERC20 paymaster and ERC4337 bundler written in typescript. Curve Finance founder Michael Igorov has completely repaid his Curve collateralized position on ClickOnChain, Igorov deposited 68 million Curve tokens into Silo Finance as collateral and borrowed more than $10 million in Stablecoin, which he used to clear his outstanding AveV2 position. Over the summer, Igorov partially repaid various DeFi positions amid a decline in Curve's price. Due to the potential risk of bad debt on the protocol, Ave considered suspending Curve as a collateral type on AveV2. Igorov still holds over $40 million in debt that is collateralized by Curve tokens spread across Silo Finance, Fraxland, Inverse Finance, and Cream Finance. And lastly, Rated Labs raised a $12 .8 million Series A funding round led by archetype. Rated Labs is the project behind validator rating platform Rated Network. The project plans to use the fresh capital toward improving existing products, extending support to new proof -of -stake chains, and upholding transparency and data integrity. Rated Labs has also collaborated with the Liquid Collective to establish standards for monitoring performance and governing active validator sets. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also, subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io.
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The Financial Guys
A highlight from Rising Auto Theft Rates: Urban Consequences and Solutions
"Well, you see how easy this is now. Now you look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks, this is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporations, but guess who's getting the guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton Foundation gets paid the rebuild Welcome right. to the podcast. We are in the same studio today, which is kind of nice. So thanks again for downloading. If you're just listening, if you're watching or watching the clips, uh, thanks for watching as well. And just for a quick mention, so I don't forget, if you haven't downloaded our app yet, I'm noticing we're getting a lot of downloads and the cool thing is when the morning Mike's program is going Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I'm the, seeing the view count go up and up and up, which is awesome. So I know we're only, you know, we're still in the dozens. I'd like to get into the hundreds and eventually thousands, um, but it's a cool program. If you haven't listened to it, it's a quick 15 minutes to quick by morning, run down three days a week of the top five topics, three minutes each. Do a great job. They do an awesome job when we're, when we fill in the stuff. We screw the whole thing up. Yes. Yeah. We, we blow the whole, the whole, uh, the schedule, but, um, but they do awesome and they're funny. I love it. It's a quick, you know, down and dirty 15 minutes, top five items of the day. And now you get your day started off on the, uh, they, you know, I think on the right foot, they were saying this week, like, Oh, it's so negative all the time, but I think they're hilarious. They take the negative stuff that's going on, but of course the negative stuff isn't the news. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we're seeing. I mean, carjackings again, Rochester had another, you know, record night. I mean, it's incredible how that was going on. And so it's amazing is, is like the Democrats just sit around and watch this happen in every city and every city. It's insane. Yeah. I sent you an article earlier this morning about Philadelphia. Let's see. I can find it. It's, uh, not that it's anything out of, you know, anything that we don't know about, but let's see here. Philadelphia swarmed by alleged juvenile. Come on, come on. Juvenile looters targeting the Apple store, Lulu lemon and footlocker. Yeah. So, cause they're starving. They're starving. They just, just need a little piece of ham and some Turkey. They need clothes and food. That's, that's only fair. I mean, they, you know, and once again, I know we've all heard this joke, but footlocker is not missing one pair of working boots. No, no, all the Nike's, all the Nike. Yeah. Well, some of those Nike's, I mean, Oh my God. Crazy. You know, talking about like, you know, thousands of dollars for a pair of, thousands, thousands of dollars. I was talking to my daughter and she said to one, one of her friends has a, as a pair of shoes were $1 ,200. I'll never forget the most expensive pair of shoes I ever bought. We were just starting a business. This was like 30 years ago now. Right. Crazy to think. And I remember somebody told me that maybe my dad was like, you got to have a decent pair of shoes. Right. And so I went up and I bought a pair of Justin and Murphy's. They're like 120 bucks at the time. Yeah. The most money I have ever spent on a pair of shoes. Now boots, I've spent more money on since because boots are more expensive, you know, hunting boots. Well, there's a purpose to them. I still don't spend more money on shoes. Like I'm wearing like Skechers or like $40. Like some of these Nike's $500. You can't tell me you're running faster. It's different when you're going to go out and buy a pair of like waders or something. You're going to use them. First of all, you're going to use them for the next 30 years. Right. And there's a purpose to them, right? Like, okay, they're more expensive, but I can walk through the water with them. Right. But if I bought like, if I had five, 600 hour pairs of shoes, I'd be afraid to leave the house. I wouldn't, I wouldn't get off the carpeting. Well, they're targeting the Apple store here, Glenn, because they'll buy jobs. And that's the only way to get a job is to make sure you've got an Apple iPhone. So it'll be like Chicago. We talked about this the other week with, with, uh, with Mike Speraza, Chicago is now forced to open or, or just talking about opening, you know, a, a government run grocery store in the inner city because they've all that. Well, they're going to, so they're going to, they're going to, the plan is to fight the communism with more kind of communism, right? That's going to work really well. But could you imagine how inefficient, first of all, Walmart's pulled out, Costco's pulled out, all the stores have pulled out because now target, have you heard targets now closing stores across the country? So target is now going through and discussing all the stores across the country, liberal target, liberal target. They put a black lives matter that they ripped down the smash of the window. I thought that'd be some sort of a shield or that we're just going to put up this, uh, this plywood and we're going to spray black lives matter on it. Hashtag hashtag BLM. And we'll be safe as they rip it out and use that same plywood to smash the window with. It's pathetic. There'll be nothing left in these inner cities. The problem is when it starts to spill over into the, into the, Oh yeah. This is, this is where it gets ugly. Well, they want it. That's what they want. That's, that's why people like, uh, the governor of New York, uh, you know, Kathy, the ice queen, Kathy Hochul is, is, you know, they first tried the push for section eight housing in the suburbs because that was only fair. Yeah. Now they couldn't get that through because the people in the suburbs are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now they're busing in illegal immigrants in the middle of the night. And I tell you something, if these Democrats like Mark Poland cars were proud of what they were doing, they would have a welcoming party at noon at noon, high noon. They'd have a press conference welcoming our newest community members off the bus so that the whole community could see these family units that are getting off. You got the husband, the wives, the two kids, you know, the things that we see in our country, right? No, it's not happening. They're bringing them in at two o 'clock in the morning. So nobody sees, they're all, they're all 23 year old males, right? Or 18 to 25 year old males. Some of which are from the Congo. I don't know about the, uh, you know, the, some of the social norms in the Congo, but I'm just thinking that maybe they're a little bit different than the Western world. I don't know. I'm just thinking maybe not. Maybe they're exactly like us. I don't know. But they're exactly like us. Why would they want to come here? Why are they aspiring to come here? I don't know. Anyway, it's a fentanyl fentanyl up again, by the way, there was another report. I think it was on a Fox news. Well, good for the Republicans. I mean, at least part of them, I should say good for the five or six Republicans that are the extreme right wing, according to the media, that's holding this garbage up. No, shut the government down, shut it down, shut it down until there's no more money. Take the money, go into Ukraine and send it to Texas, which they did right to the border, which they didn't do last time. Right. Kept it open. That's what do you need? What do you need? We're out of control. The founding fathers gave the power of the purse to Congress and the, and the Pentagon, the Pentagon goes, yeah, you know what? We're just going to exempt Ukraine funding from the budget. So ha ha. We just went over 33 trillion. If you go online and look at the clock, it's moving fast, right? So we're on our way to 34 or 35. Can you even see the numbers anymore? They just blur blur now. So, so fast. Oh no. And, and good news, by the way, we're refinancing this debt at 5 % now, not at 1 % or zero like we were doing. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense. Yeah. It'd be great. Yeah. The fence talk about keeping rates higher for longer. I don't know. They're not going to be able to do that. They'll be cutting interest rates by next year. Mark by where? And the number one reason I say that is because when you talk to every economist, I say, that's not going to happen. And they are typically wrong. So if you take the, it's like saying betting against the casino, it's like saying, you know what? I don't think MGM is going to make money in the sporting books next year. Ma, they're going to figure out a way to make money. They'll rechange the lines, right? Well, you, all you need to do is look at it and get a bunch of economists in a room and ask them where they think the market's going to be and then do just the opposite and you would be way better. Yeah. Pretty much that's usually the way to go. No doubt about it. So the, the, the, the Pelosi, we were talking earlier about the Pelosi stock trader. Yeah. You can follow online. Now, some of these folks, we did the game show game last week. We talked about the, uh, the net worth. I picked the poor ones too. They were like 23, 21, you know, $20 million. Some of these folks are amazing. I mean, really just, you know, the wizards of smart on some of these are just really, timing is impeccable up here. This is somebody who is selling some software that I'll track it, which you can, you, you've pointed out, you can get it for free online, but, but the, the numbers are really astonishing. This Democrat Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million. That was just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Well, by the way, why, why do they own these big $25, $36 million homes? Well, a big, big part of it is because the taxation of it, right? So a Feinstein who's telling you your ordinary income tax rates are too low. She's shifting that to a capital asset, which is going to create a capital gain in the future or no gain. Or no gain. I mean, they're 10, 10 31. This is why when Donald Trump looked at Hillary Clinton right in the eye and said, you will not get rid of the carry interest deduction and you know it because all of your, I use it, of course, all of her bigger donors donate money to Hillary Clinton. And this is exactly the truth, right? They will never get rid of some of these things. Like they talked about, we're going to get rid of the 10 31 exchanges. Yaha. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. So the big developer strokes a giant check to the, to the Democrats off the table. Let's listen to her success though. Amazing. A Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Only two years earlier, Diane Feinstein has been a member of the political scene for 32 years and her salary is only $130 ,000 per 130 grand a year. Now it's more now. That's a little bit dated, but it's up, it's up to probably 180 now. But, but listen to this. First of all, if it was up to 580, you're not buying $23 million homes, $36 million homes. No, no, we're going to put in multiple homes. We're going to, we're going to put the Paul Pelosi onto our research committee. You make a million dollars a year. First of all, most of, most business owners that make that kind of money, they didn't make it throughout their whole life, right? They didn't start making a million dollars at 20 years old. They started making a million dollars at 50 years old and it took 30 years to get to that point. Right? So my point is, you're not at a million dollars a year at age 50. If you did it the right way, the hard way, and you did it yourself, you're still not affording a $23 million home, right? Multiple ones. Yeah. Multiple, multiple. Right. Those aren't even her primary residence. Those are her vacation homes. She lives in, she lives in California. Listen to this though. And it's, it's all of them. It's all of them now. This is a, this is from Nancy Pelosi, stock trader. Uh, this is a tweet, uh, a Twitter feed. You can follow Pelosi tracker is what it's supposed to track or underline or something like that. You'll find it. Anyway, uh, three weeks ago, sitting politician bet against the U S economy so far. He's been right. Tom Carper bought $45 ,000 of PSQ and inverse ETF on the tech sector on eight 23, August 23rd. Since then he's plus 3 % while the market is negative 4%. Go figure. Wow. Go figure. Man, these guys are so good. Yeah. And they're not by, they're, I mean, these are, that's some pretty technical strategy. You started getting into options strategies and stuff. I mean, yeah. Yeah. These guys have become very, very slick. It's not just about buying a, you see, it used to be, okay, I'm going to buy X, Y, Z. Then I'm going to vote for or against something. You know, I'm going to short the stock and then I'm going to vote against them for both that, that, that. So the stock goes down or I'm going to vote for something, knowing that it will benefit the company. The stock will go up and in a sense front running. No, they're, they're in the options strategies now. They're in the market. Yeah. They're doing butterfly spreads. Yeah. Crazy stuff going. They're very sophisticated. They shouldn't be allowed to two things. When you go into Congress, I, you know, I would love to have a Congress person run on or present around the following platform, right? Number one, term limits, term limits, top of the list. Number two, though, while you're in Congress for the eight years, or wherever we allow you to serve 10 years, 12 years, whatever it is, you could not invest in a stock market at all. All your investments are frozen or your choices, a model, some kind of a model liquidated go to cash, or you could buy the fidelity balance to counter. You could buy the, you could buy the T -rope price, you know, target retire, whatever, you know, or you go to goes into a blind something or other where you have no idea. Right. It just goes into what you picked a one through five tolerance for risk and somebody else invest. Maybe it's just broad indexing. Maybe that's it. Right. Something that doesn't allow this kind of garbage to go on where, you know, they buy, you know, Tesla stock and then approve a huge, you know, oh, we're going to, guess what? We're going to build a, you know, for government funded battery stations all the country. Of course, Elon comes out and goes, we already got those, you idiots. I did that like four years ago, you morons. Amazing what Elon can do and what the, what the government can. Going back to target for just a second, not to digress, but I found WGRZ, thankfully came up with a list of the, uh, the target stores that will be closing, Mike, the full list of locations all in, all in Republican run. You'll be shocked. Yeah. Yeah. Right in the, uh, the thriving, the, uh, you know, thriving, the Minneapolis, uh, location, the retailer said the decision, the close was really difficult. I wonder if that was after half. That was the one they put the BLM on. Yeah. Oh, that was the one they put the sign on that said, please don't burn our store down. We love you. I hashtag BLM lit it on fire. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Uh, let's see. I'm shocked though. I wouldn't, I'm surprised you wouldn't stay. I mean, you know, like just collecting, you love them. You love, you support them. This is what you supported. Remember you, you, you raised money, you gave money. Yeah. And guess what they did with that money. They agitators hired to whip up people in the community to smash and burn down your store. You idiots. So there you go. There you go. Nice, nice work. What else do you think, Mike? Uh, New York city's East Harlem neighborhood. That's going to be one that's goes down. I wonder why. Chicago, San Francisco for sure. San Fran. Yeah. San Fran. Uh, by the way, before I forget San Fran, Democrat San Francisco mayor, announces plan to require drug testing, which is good in an effort to, if you're going to receive homeless benefits. Right. But the funny thing was in this same passage, they're going to Texas to try to recruit police officers. The funny thing is is that the people they sent from San Francisco to try to recruit people. They didn't come back. They defected like North Koreans. Some of them got jobs. They get over the wall. They come out, they get over the wall. It was hilarious. No, they didn't go back. Well, the other five stores, Mike, three in Portland, Oregon and two in Seattle, five, three in Portland. They're pulling out of Portland together. All of these inner cities folks will be food deserts. You're going to hear that term. It'll be business deserts. It'll be nothing. Well, business deserts, nothing left, but there'll be, but target, don't forget target. Does target sell food? Yeah. Well, yeah. They sell food. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Well, I don't go on target. So Walmart I know does Costco for sure. Costco is a food store. I don't think target is as big as Walmart as far as like fresh fruit, but definitely frozen food, all that kind of stuff. You know, aisles of pop and water and chips and right, right, right. And all that kind of stuff. But you can definitely frozen food. You can buy bulk frozen food there. So, so there's going to be food deserts, all over the place, business deserts, whatever you want to call them. You know, it's amazing because you know, the, there's no policing. And the sad thing is that is the problem. It's not, there's no policing. I shouldn't say that. Excuse me. No, you're policing your asses off. I get it. There's no ability. There's no prosecution. There's no bill. You guys are arresting people, putting them in and they go right back on the street. They're getting, they're getting appearance tickets. It's a joke. Your point is no, there is no policing anymore because of the system, the Democrats put together where the police officers aren't going to bother. If you're a police officer and you know that somebody is going to be this, this carjacking or whatever is robbery. And you know that there's a potential, you're going to get an altercation where you're in New York state. There's two police officers that have been brought up on charges recently with almost a hundred percent chance that if you do catch that person, that person will be right back. Yeah. A hundred percent. Why would you bother? Why would you bother? You're not going to put your life in line. No way. You want to go home to see your wife and kids too, and your mother or your husband or whatever. You want to be able to spend your Christmas with your family. Why would you do that? And they know that, right? The Democrats know that. This is, you can't be this stupid. I mean, who allows these people to go right back on the streets and say, this is a good idea without correcting this right away. You can say, okay, bail reform. Our intentions were one thing, but when you look at the fact that in New York state, we are now breaking records in towns like Rochester and Buffalo for the most amount of vehicles being stolen. We can say, okay, look at bail reform, put it in place. It clearly did not work. It's been a total disaster. These towns have turned to shit. We absolutely need to go back in the other direction. They're not doing that. They don't care. They want to, and they're doubling down, tripling down on it, tripling down. We invited this liberal on, you actually were on the show with him and he said, things are actually safer since bail reform. That's what his argument was. His argument was, and by the way, his argument was if we have even less police officers, cities like Buffalo will get safer. Well the thought was less police officers, less arrests. Less arrests means less crime. Dude, you got the whole thing backwards, bro. And not only that, but now we know that, right? Now we know, now you can, I mean, literally auto thefts are up 360 % in Rochester. They're not up 3%. You can say, well, you know, in Buffalo and we're in second place. And they can't play, they can't play in COVID. They're trying to like, well, it was a lockdown. People were at pent up, whatever. Remember that was the, that was the reason for the rioting and the ballooning and burning like, well, people had a lot of pent up. We probably should have locked them down. That was a little bit of the reason for the increase in suicides. You guys, you guys increased suicides because you locked kids in their homes, but it wasn't the reason that they went and decided to steal Nike sneakers from a footlocker. So check this out. Speaking of COVID, this is huge. This is, I don't know if you saw this or not, but this is absolutely ginormously huge. Dr. Fauci was smuggled into CIA headquarters without a record of entry where he participated in the analysis to influence the agency's COVID -19 investigation according to the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. Did he need to do much with these left -wing CIA agents? Probably not. No, no, no. That's what they're smuggling him in for. Well they smuggled him in because they didn't want anybody to know that he was part of the PSYOP operation, which was hydroxychloric. By the way, the I think it was a Mayo clinic and some other hospitals now have come out as well as the CDC and said hydroxychloroquine, yes, indeed is an effective treatment for COVID. Oh, by the way, ivermectin also an effective treatment. The CDC now approving that. Now mind you, we're going to keep in mind that if there was any other treatments that couldn't get the emergency use authorization for these vaccines that clearly don't work. Amazingly, I'm still seeing people online go signing off my sixth booster on our way for the sixth shot, proud to get our sixth shot. How about how about one the other day, local left -wing nut job got her sixth booster shot, six shot and she still got COVID and then she said, well, I was so good hiding and it got all my shots and then I went to a concert and I got it at this concert. Well, first of all, you don't know that, but second of all, if you have six shots and you six shots and you still got COVID and you actually think that was a good idea, you don't need a vaccination. You need a mental, you need a mental check. I tell you, I know people during the during the COVID, the height of the COVID that were older, some of our clients actually that were prescribed by a doctor a hydroxy quirk when they were taking it once a week as a as a preventative measure. Yeah. And they, to this day have never had COVID. Yeah. And it's, it's, I mean, so it, but the sad thing is again, you know, we couldn't, it's all about the money now. And that's, you know, when people talk about the evils of capitalism, you're seeing some of that. Now, capitalism is the best thing on the planet, right? As far as, you know, lifting the masses out of poverty and creating amazing amounts of wealth. But the problem is this isn't, this isn't capitalism. What's going on. This is cronyism is what's going on. It is, Hey, look at, I will give you these government dollars. You're going to get this patent. You're going to get this. Unholy marriage between business and government. Mark my word. We were talking about Feinstein selling 25, $30 million homes. This Fauci will be on the board of Pfizer. He'll be on the board of Moderna. He's going to get shares of those companies. He will be blessed with with with millions and millions of dollars. His family watch and see, we'll be talking if we're, if you and I are fortunate enough to be around 20, 30 years from now, we'll be talking about the Fauci trust and watch and monitor that trust and see how big that family trust. Well, you see how easy this is now. You look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks. This is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporation, but guess who's getting the, guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton foundation gets paid to rebuild it. Right. And guess who's going to get the contracts to rebuild. Oh, that'll be probably one of the Biden family members or somebody else's politically connected. Right. Remember it was, it was a Joe Biden's brother who got the contract, the multi -billion dollar contract to rebuild Iraq. No building experience, never been a contractor, right? No idea. Right. This is why these projects cost 500 times what they're supposed to cost. This is why when money comes into Buffalo, for example, $25 million to build homes, five get built. And you were, wait a minute, five, are these $5 million homes in the East side? Each of those homes would have been built for a quarter million dollars or less. And yet where did the rest of the money go? And the, the answer is never, we don't know. We don't know. We can't account for it. Or we'd have no idea. Or I mean, how many times have we've seen that in so many places that whether right down the local level or God forbid at the federal level between, you know, Iraq and others. I was telling you last week on the radio, I was reading an article about the grants that were coming into the city of Buffalo to plant trees. And I thought, okay, wow, like this could be sweet. Okay. You know, like I'm a big tree guy. I love trees. I plant trees every year. I do think, okay, that's one way to, first of all, I think it's one way to make a community look great. When you, when you drive around, let's say North Buffalo, all the streets are all tree. They look beautiful. You drive around the East side, it looks like shit, right? So, okay. You're going to take some of my tax money and you're going to directly plant trees. Okay. It's a win for the environment. It looks nice. It's going to bring things together. I'm like, well, where's the catch? This is a government agency. Where are they going to screw it up? You read through and you find out that they're paying $1 ,000 a tree. Now you and I both know that if they're saying it's $1 ,000 a tree, by the time it's done, it'll be two to $3 ,000 a tree. Now you, you're talking about $13 million worth of trees. You and I just planted trees. Every year we plant a few trees around our office, you know, three, four in the spring, three, four in the fall, just so they can start to grow and work their way in. And then, you know, plant more. We pay $250 a tree, plant it. Right.
The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
Fresh update on "12%" discussed on The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
"Yes. So it is. And it'll introduce you. And if you want your own show, as we mentioned, you can have your own broadcast. So it's no better than that. So we're really excited about that. So we're going to weigh in. We're going to be talking about the Salon TV Network tomorrow. We got a lot today. I have a huge big day. I'll be focused on some community follow up right here in Brooklyn, New York. Where I'm an appointed New York City public official. I am working on the board, the community board, where I represent 200,000 folks along with my board members. And I'm super excited about that. We have a big meeting today. So I'll be working on that. Furthermore, I'll also, also, the whole rest of the day is devoted to making tomorrow's three hour broadcast a memorable experience. Wonderful. So I'll be writing tomorrow's show, which is a huge, huge show. Yes it is. So it's our broadcast number 900. The only thing that's going to be bigger will be when we reach show 1000.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 12:00 09-27-2023 12:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. CEDO and it looks nice. It's on nine acres and she would have cool neighbors like Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt. Yeah, she's pretty cool too. Yeah. So is Orlando Bloom. I guess. I prefer John Mayer. This is Bloomberg. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Markets with Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller. We got a lot of green on the screen here, but the volume is light. We constantly underestimate the strength of the U .S. consumer. This is a market that's much more optimistic or bullish than maybe central bankers are. Breaking market news and insight from Bloomberg experts. There's still some concern out there in the market that there is room for things to deteriorate a little bit more than what they're indicating. As small and medium -sized businesses struggle, they don't present as much competition. The supply chain has still got dislocations globally and here in the U .S. This is Bloomberg Markets with Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Radio. All right. Coming up in this hour, we're going to do a deep dive on the bond market. Who better to do that with than Jerry Cudzel. He's a General's Portfolio Manager at TCW. That's Trust Company of the West folks. They have a lot of assets under management. Then we're going to check in with Brett Ewing, Chief Market Strategist at First Franklin Financial. Get his thoughts on this marketplace. Is there a constructive call on this market right now? Then Eileen Mullaney. She's Workforce Transformation Lead at Vialtro Partners. Discussing this whole back -to -work hybrid. Where are we in that whole...
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Fresh update on "12%" discussed on a16z
"What does the year 1999 mean to you? Well, it happens to be the year that Bluetooth 1.0 was released. And it took a few decades for this technology to really proliferate into the hands or the ears of the masses. But now this technology allows us all to listen on the go, absorbing information as we run, cook, clean, you name it. Well, this back-to-school season, we are giving away 12 A16Z-branded AirPod Pros to podcast listeners like yourself so that you can continue joining us as we take you into self-driving cars, down to the factory floor, and straight to the people designing new materials and data centers, all while on the go. This is the final week that you can enter this giveaway, and there are several methods of entry, like leaving a review or sharing your favorite episode. You can learn all the details at a16z.com slash podcastgiveaway. Again, that's a16z.com slash podcastgiveaway. Back to the show.
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
A highlight from 6 Tips to Stay Sober on Vacation
"Do you want to stay sober and still travel and have amazing vacations? Maybe you're newly sober and worried about taking your first trip without alcohol, or maybe you've been sober a while, but you have a big trip coming up, a bachelorette party in Vegas or a wedding in Mexico, and that's making you anxious just thinking about doing it without drinking. From pub crawls to beach parties to boozy boat cruises, the thought of traveling can be a major trigger. Whatever your situation might be, you can be a person who travels alcohol -free and still has the time of your life. Hey everybody, welcome to the Addiction Unlimited podcast, where you get to learn everything you want to know about addiction and recovery. I'm your host, Angela Pugh, co -founder of Kansas City Recovery, Life Coach, and Recovering Alcoholics. To learn more about me, you can listen to episode zero on your podcast app, or find us on the web at addictionunlimited .com. What do you have planned for your next trip? A family vacation, a family reunion, a work trip, a camping trip? You're probably thinking days on the beach, nights on the town. It's hard to imagine doing any of it without a drink in hand, especially if you're new to sobriety or if you're facing your first ever sober travel. Going on vacation usually means relaxing and being carefree, and for many of us, relaxing meant excessive consumption of alcohol and or other substances. I was exactly the same way. Every trip I ever took was a drinking trip. I mean, honestly, everything I ever did was about drinking, whether it was a trip or not. But one of the greatest things about being sober is that my whole world expanded, and I mean that literally. I've gotten to travel the world, see beautiful places, have phenomenal experiences that I never could have done in my drinking life. When I was drinking, I would always talk about all the traveling I wanted to do, all the places I wanted to go and see, but I couldn't actually do any of it. I was a bit lucky because I lived in Southern California, and there are a lot of fun things you can do spur of the moment. And I promise you, I have had my fair share of last minute decisions drunken to drive to Vegas after work at 3 a .m. with all my drunk friends. But as a sober person, traveling is full of triggers, and that can feel daunting. And that's one of the main reasons I wanted to start hosting sober vacations. It's so much to think about if you're going on a work trip or a family trip where you may be the only non -drinking person. It's like every event every day comes with its own special side of anxiety as you obsess about getting through each thing without drinking, also without looking like a weirdo being the only one not drinking, and at the same time trying not to be overwhelmed by FOMO and somehow still manage to have some fun. Wow, sounds great, doesn't it? So my first sober vacation group trip is just around the corner, and the next sober vacation with me is in Bali in 2024. So I thought this would be the perfect time to do an episode about traveling and staying sober while you do it. So if you've got a vacation coming up or you're just thinking about traveling or you're traveling with me, here's my advice for taking an epic sober trip. Number one, this is not going to surprise you. If you've been following me for any length of time, you probably know this is going to be the first thing I'm going to say. Plan ahead. Okay, think about what parts of the trip will be most challenging. Will it be the packing, the planning, sitting at the airport, being on the plane, the layover, right? Think it through. What is going to be the most challenging part of the journey for you? And then create solutions for those hardest parts. And one thing you're going to hear me stress throughout this episode too is to do things differently. Okay, your brain makes thousands decisions of all day, every day. So it goes on autopilot a lot, right? Any things we do that are regular we're doing day in and day out, your brain will go on autopilot. Like when you drive to work. Have you ever had one of those moments you start your car and you go and all of a sudden you're at work and you don't really remember the drive because you're on autopilot and that helps your brain conserve energy. So when you're making changes in your life, it's hugely important to do things differently because it snaps you out of that autopilot mode so you don't end up with a drink in your hand. So think this through. Plan ahead. What's going to be your hardest part and then create solutions for the hardest part. Don't just do things on autopilot the way you've always done and then expect to have a different result. If you do everything exactly the way you've always done, you're going to end up with a drink in your hand if you're used to getting to the airport and having a drink in your hand. So do things differently and think this through for when you get there. Also, do you have a hard time in the evening at dinner or is it lunch time? If it's lunch time because you're usually laying on the beach getting your food and drinks served to you, then don't just lay there on the beach like you did in your drinking life. Get up, go for a walk, schedule a surfing lesson, take your own drinks with you. Whatever you need to do, just do it differently. If it's dinner time, schedule an activity for early the next morning so you have something to look forward to and a reason to go back to your room and go to bed early. Do it differently but think through those pieces of the journey. What is going to be most challenging for you and create some solutions for those time frames? And we're going to talk about some of those solutions moving forward. The next one is the flight part. Be prepared to fly. Airports and airplanes are full of potential triggers from long security lines to the liquor they serve during the flight. Try to distract yourself from temptation along the way, right? Buy a yummy coffee or some kind of fruit drink or something after you go through security. Get a treat to make you happy and take your mind off a drink. For me, it's gummies. I'm gummy obsessed. I can buy a bag at the airport. I can keep them handy. I can munch on them while I'm walking around the airport shopping or while I'm working, waiting for my flight. And one of the biggest things that saves me in this whole travel journey and I've traveled a ton. So I'm not super triggered by traveling. I'm an introvert. I just get quiet. I go inside my head in my own little world and I can do it pretty easily. But one of my saving graces is earbuds, right? Put your earbuds in. Take out a good book. Play a game. Listen to podcasts. Listen to music. Anything to keep you occupied throughout the duration of your journey. But be prepared. What is that going to look like? Again, know what the most difficult parts of your journey are going to be and make sure you have things in place to get you through those times. For on the flight, this is the next one. Make an in -flight toolkit. And this is a lot of things I just rattled off. Being on the airplane has its own special brand of triggers, because it's really stressful. It takes a long time, especially if you are impatient and judgy and you're sitting there watching everything everybody does, just tearing them down and being mad that people are taking so long and they're not doing it the way you would do it and the way you think is right. If that's where your thoughts are, listen, you're going to be irritated. Also, the other part of in -flight is airplanes are essentially a giant bar flying through the sky. And if you previously relied on drinks to get you through the airport and or the flight, then I definitely recommend making an airplane toolkit, especially if it's a long flight. You can sleep on planes, then bring the stuff that will make you comfortable to sleep on the plane. Research the best neck pillow and get it. Maybe you already have it, so don't forget it. Take a really good eye mask to block out the brightness of the plane. Also creating some privacy, right? I think all of us know when you look at your neighbor and they've got their earbuds in and an eye mask on, you're not going to be talking to that person and trying to carry on conversation, right? But if you are a person that's an extrovert and you want to chat it up, you want to talk to the people around you, then don't put in your earbuds and put on your eye mask yet. But have your pillow, if it's super long flight, have some compression socks, have plenty of food and snacks in your bag. Have your tablet, you know, an iPad full of books or movies or tv shows. I always take my favorite thermal water cup. It goes with me everywhere in my life and I take it when I travel also. Obviously it's empty. I throw it in my carry -on duffel bag and when the flight attendants come offering drinks, I just hand her my water cup and say, can I get some water? And they fill my water cup, I'm good to go. I also always plan on in wi -flight -fi. I just plan on it. I don't care about the expense. I get a lot of work done when I'm flying because I'm a captive audience, right? There's nothing else. It's not like when I'm at home in my office, like where there's a million distractions and things to do and it's like, oh, let me cook this or start some laundry or make this phone call or take a lunch break, right? When I'm on a flight, I'm captive and that is a beautiful time to get a ton of work done. So I just plan on getting the in -flight wi -fi. I don't care if it's ten dollars for the day or whatever. I'm just doing it. Also, when I have wi -fi, I can log on to any of my streaming services and watch my favorite stuff or I can go on YouTube and put on one of my favorite long podcasts, right? There's all kinds of podcasters that have these super long podcasts like Huberman who I love, right? Huberman Lab. His stuff is like two freaking hours long, but that's a great thing to do in a flight. I've got my earbuds in, log on to YouTube. I can start a Huberman or Lewis Howes or Jay Shetty and I can listen to that while I work and do my thing. Earbuds, earbuds, earbuds. I also take my iPad and I have my favorite game on my iPad. I love playing match 3D and I just went to Phoenix a couple of weeks ago. It was brilliant. I went to see my best friend and his family and it was the first time I ever like took my iPad to play my game, but it was amazing, especially when you're sitting in your seat and you're waiting for everybody else to board. All that impatient judginess I was talking about, distract yourself from that. Don't put yourself in a bad mood or cause yourself unnecessary stress or create a bunch of negative thinking. It's just not worth it. It's dumb. It's pointless. It's a waste of your energy. So I just sat there and opened up my iPad and I played match 3D and that's what I did and it was perfect, especially until we took off and then I got on my computer and whatever.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Episode 12 The Drama of Atheist Humanism Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J., Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce FBC Podcast
"Welcome to the Foreign Book Club where David Duda, Joseph Pierce, and I, Father Fassio, continue to discuss Henri de Bloch's classic work, The Drama of Atheist Humanism, where he takes three great figures of the 19th century, whose thought influenced the whole of the 20th century, and is still influences now. We've covered Nietzsche, and then Feuerbach Marx, trying to take it as one moral person there. And now we're about to finish, the least known, I believe, in America anyway, Auguste Comte, who is the father of sociology. We're on page 248, in this chapter, positive transpositions, that is positivism, which was the form of thought and practice that was developed by Auguste Comte, transposed many elements of the Catholic church into its own humanist church. And we'll continue seeing how that happened on this section called Sociocracy, page 248. In the middle of that page, Lubbock says, in the last analysis, Christianity in general had been looking forward to the kingdom of heaven. Positivism in general, in the last analysis, an organization of the kingdom of the earth. That kind of sums it up. And then at the bottom of that page, the last word, if, and to the next page, if the advent of sociology had meant the elevation of politics to the rank of an exact science, the advent of sociocracy was to be the religious consecration of the said politics. It becomes a religion. Joseph, you're leading us in this book. Yeah, well, that's actually a good introduction to the first thing I had highlighted, which is really just three words, but I think very, an ominous few words. This is the middle of page 250, where Comte says that he has given his creed, that the motto order and progress, both words are capitalized. And in one sense, if you're going to look at those words sort of amorphously or ambivalently, everybody believes in order and progress, in the sense that the Catholic church will say an ordered life is a virtuous life, and that's progress towards the kingdom of heaven. No one's going to argue, if we're going to use the words very amorphously, what that means. But when you capitalize them as something subject to this sociology, the order is going to be state imposed order, and the progress is going to be worship of a utopia in the future for which everybody can be sacrificed. And that's what happens when you suck the divine out of notions of order and progress. So the next thing I have is 253, so I don't know if anybody beats me there. Well, the very last line of 252, I just barely squeezed in ahead of you, Joseph. The box says, since nothing could be done unless a, quote, proper nucleus of true sociocrats, those quotes, was formed. But in the field of action, the watcher was politics first. From the very outset, the new system must seek to lay hands on power. And, well, you, you may have done the same thing I'm going to do, so you take it away with 253, Joseph. Well, yeah, I mean, just commenting on that, that's the whole point is that we saw this with Nietzsche and with Marx, that it's no longer about truth, objectively understood, but about subjectively applied power and that in itself. But what I felt further down here is very interesting. This is different from Marx. Marx obviously believed somehow that the working class were going to be the people that would gain power, at least in theory, were very much an elitist. And for him, halfway down page 253, and this is ominous, it's almost like exactly what we're seeing in the capitalist ideologies, bankers. So it's actually the international financiers, the super rich, like the George Soros's. These men possessing great wealth must, provided they keep us to the pitch of their social vocation, also have the leading part in the government, that they are naturally trained for this role, by their habit of seeing things in perspective and by the spirit of calculation, that the middle classes are to disappear, leaving only a patriciate and a proletariat, that for the whole of the West, with its 120 million inhabitants, the patriciate is to number 2000 bankers. So he's actually saying that we're going to hand over the government of the world to 2000 super rich financiers. That's his idea.
Crypto Curious
A highlight from 97 - NFTs Are Dead - AGAIN, Amazon's AI Race Aids FTX Creditors and Immutable's Rise
"This is an Equity Baits Media podcast. ACAS powers the world's best podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend. Tell me about your mama's kitchen. That simple question opens up a flood of delicious memories and it's at the center of my new Audible original podcast called Your Mama's Kitchen. My mama's kitchen was chaos. This teeny tiny little room was where we did everything. We grew up there. We became teenagers, adults in that small space. I'm Michelle Norris. The kitchen is usually the heartbeat of our homes. It's the place where we're nourished physically and spiritually. Our loudest laughter is in the kitchen. But so too are some of our most vulnerable moments. Each week on Your Mama's Kitchen, I'll talk to guests, actors, authors, chefs, musicians and more about how the food and the culinary traditions of their youth shaped their lives in interesting and sometimes surprising ways. One of the big questions is, what is money? For practical purposes, it exists in a series of heterogeneous databases, very different databases. Do you believe in crypto digital currency? It may be an answer, but it is the highly respectable disaster. I'd go on a quick one. There is no second best. Welcome to the Crypto Curious podcast, proudly brought to you by the Bamboo app. Crypto Curious is your go to source for all things crypto currency, whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the world of crypto, we've got you covered. Each week we'll break down the top news stories of the past seven days, giving you the information you need to stay on top of the latest trends and developments. Plus we'll share quick bites of news and insights that you won't want to miss. If you're new to crypto, we recommend starting with our early episodes, we'll break down the basics and give you a solid foundation to understand the crypto world. Join us as we explore the ever evolving world of cryptocurrency and educate ourselves along the way. On today's episode, we'll discuss the supposed death of NFTs, how Amazon's race for AI affects FTX creditors. And we'll talk a little about the mover and the shaker this week, plus loads of short sharp news bites. So let's get on with it. My name is Tracy and I'm joined by my mates Blake and Craig as we catch up on the crypto news. Hey guys, how are you going? Very well, Trace. Good to be back. How are you? Yeah, very well. How are you going Craig? Very good. Thanks, Trace. I've just learned that tomorrow is 200 days until the halvening, which is very exciting. It is very exciting. Is it speeding up or is it just me? I don't know. It is speeding up. But have you guys noticed that it is popping up in a lot more fees and news at the moment? Like it's getting a little bit more traction now? I haven't noticed, but that wouldn't surprise me. I think until there's 100 days left. Oh, yeah. It's going to be good. There is a counter that you can get on Google, but I think there are a few more counters that pop up as we get a little bit more excited. So at the end of the year will be about 100 days. And I think that's when people will start to realize that the countdown is coming to an end. Exciting. Alrighty, let's jump into our first news story of the week and what was dominating headlines over the past seven days. There was some research put into the world recently, and like I said, it's made headlines in the crypto sphere, but filtered out into the normie news as well. I saw it covered in some mainstream news publications. It was on the project, Rolling Stones grabbed onto it as well, did a big story. And it was a big story because it had great headline pieces. 95 % of all NFT collections have zero value. NFTs are officially dead. These are some of the headlines that came. So NFTs have seen a bit of a boom and bust, especially over the last 12 to 18 months. The market has been flooded with a lack of buyers. But what has brought on this headline over the last week? It's a study that encompassed over 73 ,000 NFT collections and found a massive imbalance in the market and showed that 95 % of these collections had a zero value, Craig. That's right, Trace. The articles called it Debt NFTs, the Evolving Landscape of the NFT Market. It was by this group called DAP Gamble, which is a community of experts in the finance space. We'll chuck it in the show notes below. But I think looking back, as you just said, 73 ,000 NFTs, most of them were probably just art collections of apes, penguins, space aliens. Like we had peak euphoria. And I had me and my mates getting up at 6 a .m. for a Zoom call for mints on Solana. That doesn't scream peak euphoria. I don't know what does. But, you know, as it said, 95 % of these NFTs are worthless. But there seems to be a smaller pool of collections that people are still paying quite a bit of money for. Bored apes are still going for 24e. The nouns. The pudgy penguins are still going. Nouns, exactly. Yep. So this is a misleading figure, I feel. Well, of course, it's a misleading figure. You know, in the peak ball run, everyone's trying to figure it out. Every man and their dog was launching an NFT collection. I even had a mate that launched one. It was just peak hysteria, peak euphoria.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Soul Winning 101 - The 5 W's of Evangelism
"All right, hey folks, good evening. This is Daniel Karzewski coming to you live from Washington, D .C. again. Here on tonight's episode, we're gonna talk about soul winning 101, or also known as evangelism 101. And so, first of all, there's five basic questions that you have to answer, and that's the five Ws, the who, what, where, when, why. And what are we doing this for? So, number one, what is evangelism or what is soul winning? It is going out and snatching the souls out of the gates of hell, or out of the pits of hell. But furthermore, what is evangelism specifically? And it comes from the root of the Greek word angel, which also means messenger, or also known as the act of sharing the message of God's word. And that's where we get our commission and our commandment from in Matthew 28. And we're supposed to go forth and share the gospel, which means the good news with everybody, because sinners need to have their sins forgiven, and lost people need to know that they're lost, and they need to know that they can get a savior, and they know that they can get out of their wicked, wretched lives that they're living that's not taking them anywhere, especially not in eternity's sake. And then number two, why do we evangelize? Well, number one, we're commanded by God there in Matthew 28, like I just mentioned, and then also for the glory of God and the good of man, and 2 Peter 2, 9 tells us. Then where are we to go, and where are we to share it? Well, everywhere, near and far, indeed, the whole entire world, just like Acts says in chapter one, verse eight. And then, when are we supposed to do it? Anytime, anytime the Lord leads us and tells us. I think it's almost always that we've got tracks on us, and we're handing them out to everybody that we meet. We don't even know these people, but God knows them, God sees their heart, and God wants to save them. In 2 Timothy 4, verses two, that's where it tells us, anytime. And then who are we supposed to do it with, and who are we supposed to share it with? To everyone, to all, to all people in the whole entire world Mark 16, verse 15 commands us. And then, of course, there we've got some different tools in the toolbox, we've got spiritual warfare, we've got different equipment, different weaponry, and Ephesians 6 that we see putting on the whole armor of God, using prayer as a weapon, as a sword. Then we've got apologetics in 1 Peter 3 .15, be ready to answer every single man. And then we've got different techniques, we've got Jesus's example, we've got different ways to relate and create and convict and reveal to people. Then we've got one -on -one situations, we've got tracks, we've got door -to -door, we have different events and signs, public proclamation that goes out, we've got people that go out and play music and dramas and do skits on the street, in churches, whatever the case may be, there's all different types of ways to do it. And then, what's the biblical method of the gospel presentation? Well, I mean, it's just like, what would Jesus do? Ray Comfort has a great ministry called the Way of the Master, and he goes out every single Saturday, matter of fact, I've been out there with him on occasion and seen him and got to pray with him and got to watch him, and it's really just such a blessing to be able to see that man's ministry the way that he does it, and that's the same way that we're trying to do it. And if you're looking for a good example of a way to evangelize, follow Ray Comfort's way, the Way of the Master, and it's the biblical way, and it's the law in the evangelism, because you've got to get the sinner lost, oftentimes, before they can realize their need for a savior. And that's just like John 4, verses three through 30 tells us, it tells us we need to use the law in the evangelism, as opposed to some type of life enhancement where it's Christianity and getting saved and Jesus Christ on the cross, it's some good luck charm that we wear on our necklace, and that gets us saved, that couldn't be farther from the truth, and so we need to get people out of that thinking, and we need to use the law to convict people that they are sinners and that they are in need of a savior from hell and eternal damnation and hell fire and brimstone and get them to realize that heaven is so much better. I mean, we shouldn't have to scare people into heaven, but it says, just like in Jude, verses 21 through 23, that there are some that are saved by fire and some that are saved by compassion. And God tells us unto the proud man, he's gonna receive judgment and rebuke and reproof and condemnation and judgment. He's gonna receive the word of God because he's not understanding the spiritual things. He can only understand the natural things of man. But then under the humble, he receives grace and mercy, love and kindness, forgiveness, and he's willing and ready to receive, you know? And I've seen people like that on the street before. And then who is to evangelize? Who is qualified? What are the qualifications? Ephesians chapter four, verse 11 through 12, and then we've got the examples in all of scripture, Moses, Gideon, Jeremiah, Peter, James, John, Paul, and the list could go on. We could go on all night listing every single person in the Bible who was somebody that was out there evangelizing and witnessing and using God's word as a message to reach the loss for their generation. And that's what we're called to do. We're called to reach our generation for the loss. However many years that may be, I don't wanna go another day without telling somebody about Jesus. I mean, life is a vapor, and what are you gonna do? You gonna get to 80 and, oh, well now I'm gonna start working. And matter of fact, I've seen that. I've seen a 72 -year -old woman get saved, and she said, wow, I wasted 72 years of my life, and nobody wants to be like that. I sure don't wanna be like that, you know? In the 30s, thinking about, man, okay, well, what should I do for the next 40 years? Should I just waste them and see as much gain as I can get? Well, I mean, Solomon told us that all is vanity. He was chasing after the wind his whole entire life. He strived after every pleasure he could possibly get his hands on. And he said all was vanity. And the end of the preacher is to do God's word, obey his law, be righteous, and worship God and serve man. That's the end of the law. That's the end of God's word for man, is to obey him and worship him and serve others. And that's the 10 commandments. That's the whole entire word of God summed up. It'd be Jesus said it too. He said, love God with all your heart, mind, soul, body, spirit, and love your neighbor as yourself. And if we do those things, we've done all the law and the prophets, praise the Lord. And then finally, evangelism and you. There's different styles of evangelism. Everybody can evangelize in some way, shape, or form. You don't have to talk, but I remind you that Moses and Jeremiah and many other preachers and prophets said, Lord, I can't speak, I'm a small person. I mean, David started out small too and we all start out somewhere, but there's different types of serving. You can just give somebody a bottle of water and a track, whatever the case may be. Anytime we give food to the homeless, we always give them a track with it because you never know. We don't give money unless we're given to specific charity or we're given our time or we're given to a local New Testament church that's gonna gain, gather food and we're gonna go out and serve the food ourselves. And I really don't give to a lot of big charities out there because unless I know that they're extremely reputable and they're serving the Lord Jesus Christ. I mean, I know my friend Matt, he's down in Malawi, South Africa. He's doing the Lord's work there. He takes 12 disciples every three years and disciples them and sends them out as pastors. It's a perfect biblical ministry and I love it and I love supporting him because every time I send them 50 or $100, I know that's gonna feed one of their students for a month or two on end. It's gonna be wonderful. And so there's a great need for evangelists and the urgency of evangelism in today's day and age. And so that is Soul Winning 101 wrapped up. I love y 'all, God bless. Like, comment, subscribe, send us a note. We love you all, take care and God bless. We'll see you next time.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Wednesday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast
"A time of Lectio Divina for the discerning heart. Wednesday of the 25th week in ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard deep within your heart. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke chapter 9 verses 1 through 6. Whatever house you enter, stay there, and when you leave, let it be from there. As for those who do not welcome you, when you leave their town, shake the dust from your feet as a sign to them. So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere. What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you. Jesus called the 12 together and gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. He said to them, take nothing for the journey, neither staff nor haversack nor bread nor money, and let none of you take a spare tunic. Whatever house you enter, stay there, and when you leave, let it be from there. As for those who do not welcome you, when you leave their town, shake the dust from your feet as a sign to them. So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere. What did your heart feel as you listened? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, through him, with him, and in him, listen to the word. Jesus called the 12 together and gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. He said to them, take nothing for the journey, neither staff nor haversack nor bread nor money, and let none of you take a spare tunic. Whatever house you enter, stay there, and when you leave, let it be from there. As for those who do not welcome you, when you leave their town, shake the dust from your feet as a sign to them. So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere. What touched your heart in this time of prayer? So so What did your heart feel as you prayed? So what do you hope to carry with you from this time with the Lord? Let us now close with a prayer to the Father that Jesus gave us. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
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Monitor Show 23:00 09-27-2023 23:00
"Interactive brokers' clients earn up to USD 4 .83 % on their uninvested, instantly available cash balances, rates subject to change. Visit ibkr .com slash interest rates to learn more. Big step goes for the FTC. Thanks so much, Jen. That's Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, Jennifer Rhee. For more of Jen's analysis, go to BI Go on the Bloomberg Terminal. I'm June Grosso and you're listening to Bloomberg. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. The Writers Guild of America strike is done. After 148 days, the board of the WGA West and council of the WGA East voted unanimously to lift the strike, effective at 12 .01 Pacific time Wednesday. A judge is ruling Donald Trump and his company are liable for fraud in a lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General's office. The judge in his ruling found Trump made false and misleading valuations for his real estate assets over the years to secure loans and insurance deals. United Auto Workers President Sean Fain says the union isn't letting up on its demands amid an ongoing strike. He spoke to MSNBC Tuesday, the same day President Biden stood alongside members on the picket line in Michigan. The members, you know, being out there standing up for their future are what brought the president here and it's a great testament to see him come here. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says it would be very important to have a meeting with President Biden to prevent a government shutdown and address the border crisis. McCarthy is hoping to pass a bill that would pair a short -term government funding extension with a series of border policy changes backed by Republicans and opponents.
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 122 - Sweat Economy - Building The Economy of Movement with Web3
"Whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that is considered standard. In our world, the trade -off is if you want to be healthy, if you want to be active, you got to pay. You got to buy a kit, you got to get your membership, you got to do all of these things. How can you be physically active if you're not paying? Actually, because it's beneficial to you and to a lot of people, we believe that you should be paid for it because it is incredibly valuable. Welcome to the Crypto Altruism podcast, the podcast dedicated to elevating the stories of those using Web3 for good. I'm your host Drew Simon from CryptoAltruism .org. Now, before we get started, a quick disclaimer. While we may discuss specific Web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on investment opportunities or any opportunity, including its legality. And now, let's get on to the show. Welcome and thanks so much for joining. Whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that's considered standard. I think that bears repeating and I can't think of a better example of this than Move to Earn. For too long, exercise has seemed like more of a chore for many and a very expensive chore at that, with the pricey gym memberships, expensive equipment, you name it. With the advent of blockchain, however, there is a unique opportunity to disrupt this and transform exercise from a chore into a rewarding and income -generating activity. To dive into this, I'm excited to welcome Oleg Fomenko, co -founder of Sweat Economy, an OG in the Move to Earn space with a mission to reward movement to inspire a healthier and wealthier planet. We discuss how Web3 tools can incentivize healthy actions, the evolution of Move to Earn, onboarding hundreds of millions of users to Web3, and much more. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Oleg to the Crypto Altruism podcast. Okay, Oleg, thank you so much for being here today on the Crypto Altruism podcast. Such a pleasure to have you. Thank you very much, Drew, for having me. Very nice to meet you, Drew. Thank you very much for having me. So excited to have you. I had mentioned this before we got on the call that I've been following it for quite a while, and I'm really fascinated by this whole Move to Earn movement that's going on and how Web3 tools can really change how we get people to be excited about wellness and making healthy life choices. So before we get there, I want to learn about your aha moment that got you excited about Crypto and Web3 in the beginning. I learned about Bitcoin in 2011 from a childhood friend who described what it was, and that definitely perked my interest. Stupid as I was, well, stupid as I am, I got really, really hooked on technology. And I read an awful lot about how it works, the white paper, the Byzantine generals problem, and just basically as much background as I could. In 2011, there wasn't an awful lot. Then I have installed BT Guild. That was the first sort of pool mining software on my old laptop and put it in the corner, and it was sort of chugging along there for about a month, and they mined a few satoshis. Well, actually quite a few satoshis, but because the price was like 20 cents, it wasn't even covering the electricity that I burned on it. And I just threw away a laptop's hard drive for quite a bit right now these days. So I got hooked on tech, and despite the low prices, I actually didn't buy an awful lot of Bitcoin back then. And I had a very interesting sort of music streaming startup back then, and I was trying to figure out how we can do something in crypto, but at best we could just accept Bitcoin payment, which was cumbersome, slow and not terribly interesting, and just handful of people even knew what it was. So opportunity represented itself in 2014 when I started talking to my co -founders about the problem of why are people not as active as they want to be? How come that I used to run some crazy distances and climbing some of the highest mountains in the world, and all of a sudden I couldn't even complete 5k. And, you know, kind of one conversation after another, we very quickly realized that the reason why 100 % of people want to be more active, but they can't, is because nature didn't build us to be active. Nature built us to survive, which means preserving calories rather than spending them. And nature was so serious about it that it gave us this behavioral feature that helped us surviving back then, but right now it's probably a behavioral bug that prevents us from being able to burn those calories called present bias that stops us from, you know, kind of moving and forces us to sit, unless there is a mammoth on the horizon that, you know, that we need to run and kill, or there is something about to make us into food and then we need to run away. And we realized that there is only one solution to present bias, instant gratification. So we kind of went, ooh, so can we actually create instant gratification for every step you take? And that's the story of Sweatcoin. As the name would suggest, we were thinking about building it on blockchain back then, but forking Bitcoin was slow, cumbersome and expensive. Building on Ethereum, we discussed with Vitalik in 2015. We met with him in London. That wasn't really an option because it was just too early. It was a research grade code back then. And we launched in 2016 centralized. And we thought, you know what, give us six months, maybe 12 months, there will be some wonderful blockchain that, you know, we're going to migrate onto. Little did we know that it would take until 2021 for blockchain to get fast enough and robust enough to be able to hold our scale. So, you know, we looked every year and we analyzed everything that was sort of popping up. And until 2021, the answer was consistently, no, we were processing more transactions per second than theoretical throughput of any chain. And in 2021, all of a sudden there was this explosion, there was Algorand, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB, well, BC back then, and Flow and Celo and, you know, kind of all of a sudden it just sort of, there was a rush of these new technologies. And we got really excited and put a team on this and analyzed more than a dozen different chains. And sort on of after spending, I think, four or five months, we made a decision that we want to build on near. And yeah, the rest is history. We launched last September and it's going incredibly well, incredibly well. I'm sure that we're going to have an opportunity to talk about some of the numbers and metrics and, you know, sort of, yeah, totally. Definitely. I mean, you've had quite many, many, many achievements and it's really grown at an incredible pace and the amount of people that you have engaging with this platform now every day. And, you know, it's good that you really took that time to kind of like, you know, think and make sure that you had the right blockchain, the right timing. And it sounds like you made a good choice there with Near. And sustainable business model as well and token economics. Yeah, for sure, for sure, which is great. And so you talked a little bit at a higher level about sweat economy, but do you mind giving an overview to our listeners of, you know, what it is, what the mission is of your organization? Sure. The mission of the regional sweat coin and that's what economy is to make the world more physically active. And, you know, it seems like it's sort of a tree -hogging mission. And the reality is it couldn't be further away from truth because we actually realized that physical activity has tangible financial value. When I say that your physical duty has value, everyone nods, like you just did right now. But if I ask how valuable it is, people kind of go, could you reframe the question? Could you use different words? I'm like, no, I don't have to. Typically, if something is valuable, it has value attached to it. And here we have something valuable, but we cannot attach any number to it. Maybe there is an opportunity there. And then we started thinking there is an interesting economy that draws parallel with physical activity. It's attention economy by some estimates attention economy now is about $7 trillion business, all the Googles, Facebooks, everything advertising related sits in there and actually quite a lot more. And the interesting parallel between physical activity and attention is that like attention, physical activity is valuable to you. You know, when you pay attention, something starts, you know, you can engage with something, you can get new idea, you can meet somebody, you can, you know, potentially entering some sort of a conversation transaction and purchase something. Very similarly, physical activity is a better physical state, it puts you into a better mental state, it extends your life. And like attention, physical activity is beneficial for a lot of other parties, a lot of other participants on the market, starting from your family that is, of course, would prefer to have you physically active rather than not because they want to enjoy your company for longer, they want you to be in a better mood. Your healthcare provider, your insurer, your employer are all interested in you being physically active and actually prepared to pay for it. Especially insurers, they know very well that your health insurance and your life insurance, if you're physically active, should be a lot cheaper because you're a lot better risk and you genuinely a lot better business for them. Now, attention economy exists and it's $7 trillion, movement economy or physical activity economy doesn't. There is absolutely nothing there. We can talk about it, we can discuss these use cases, but it doesn't exist. And then we thought, hang on a second, in order for humanity not to spend 200 years building this economy, why don't we actually think of creating a token that is tokenizing your physical activity and makes it into a liquid asset that you can exchange with other parties? That's how the concept of Sweatcoin and now Sweat was born. So coming back to your original question, Sweatcoin is our health and fitness app. Despite the name, it's actually not crypto because for eight years we couldn't operate in crypto. We got 240 million users using this application. And when we could move to Web3, to blockchain, it was too late to tell everybody, like, look, from tomorrow, it's going to be completely different game. tokenomics is going to be different. You can't do that. So we had to put out a new token that's called Sweat and it is a crypto token built on NIR. And effectively the way the two businesses work together is you choose, you either play Web3 game and you just create your crypto account and then your steps are converted into Sweat. Or as a lot of people, you know, kind of choose to, they don't opt in and then they get Sweatcoins, which is a centralized points, think of it like air miles that you can gather and you can use inside Sweatcoin, but they cannot be traded on exchanges. They are not real crypto and not as liquid as Sweat, the token. And of course, these two tokens have very, very different token economics. Sweatcoin, for every 1000 steps, you earn one Sweatcoin and Sweat is constantly demanding an increase in number of steps in order to meet next Sweat. This way, supply dynamics are a lot healthier and we have become deflationary already from the month of July. So July and August circulating supply has been slowly shrinking. Wow. Interesting. So much going on there and like incredible. First of all, with the amount of folks that you've been able to onboard the love, the idea of like offering, you know, Web3 and Web2 version, because it might just be those people that maybe aren't quite ready yet, but want to experiment a bit, want to learn about the technology first, then it gives them an easy kind of entry, you know, accessible entryway, which is great. And so you talked about the Sweat token, which is the built on the near blockchain. And that's kind of the for the Web3 version, the currency that kind of behind this whole movement economy. So you talked about that users will get this, they'll earn this from from walking, engaging in that physical activity. What can they do with these with these tokens once they actually receive them? What's the like utility of them? Yeah, no, there is there is plenty. But actually, if we take a step back, because I think in the crypto world, a lot of people are sort of obsessed with the word utility. I actually think that the more important question is, if you ask somebody, why is this token valuable? Yeah, what is the answer to that question? And I have answered to both of these questions. But I would like to start with the one that I think is more relevant in long term, why is Sweat valuable? And the reason why Sweat is valuable is because it is produced by your verified physical activity. So when you move, and if you try to cheat, it doesn't work. In fact, if somebody is trying repeatedly to kind of break into the system and you know, sort of game it, then we just disable accounts and they can never return. But if you put in genuine physical activity, so you sweat it, then we verify it. And we issue with this token that is tokenized physical activity of yours. And because of that, there is no single question in people's mind that it is valuable. It's a very, very different relationship to a string of numbers that sort of miraculously appeared out of, I don't know, nothing, airdrop, I don't know, whatever activity. And then people, majority of people, not crypto natives, but crypto curious are wondering, why does it have any value at all? Why is it not zero? And that is an extremely difficult question to answer. Now we don't have this problem. However, crypto educated or crypto informed you are, that's my physical activity. That's my sweat. That's not zero because, you know, it cannot be, you know, can I sweat it over it? Right. And this is an answer to the longterm question. So in five years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years time, when people are going to be talking about why is sweat valuable, they're going to say, are you kidding me? It's a tokenized physical activity. How can it be zero? However, it doesn't stop there. You know, in order for us to build movement economy, in order for us to feel sweat with this meaning that it is tokenized physical activity, in order for us to establish financial, you know, kind of number or just a value to it, we need to play a game in the interim that is effectively creating utility and demand drivers for sweat. For a lot of projects, that's all they do. We do have a longterm vision that I've just described to you. The short term vision is extremely simple. You need sweat in order to participate in our kind of network in our platform, you stake sweat, and you earn interest by taking sweat, you also have access to a lot of rewards that are linked to health and fitness, well being fashion, etc. So this is an extremely engaging thing for our users, you are also earning sweat from our learn and earn. And because 90 % of our users are brand new to crypto and web3, they are seeking and are very interested in information. So what is taking? How does it work? You know, how do you transfer? How do you receive crypto? So we are building this whole ecosystem of effectively onboarding products and information, how do you become a proper crypto native? Last but not least, are a lot of functionalities that are being rolled out right now as we're ramping up for our US launch. The most exciting one is Sweat Hero. It's a free NFT game that effectively, if you engage, come in, we give you an NFT of legs. Because, you know, we're about walking and running. Yeah. And, you know, you get the NFT and you can play with other people, literally walking, I'm not going to go into mechanics, if you're interested, you can sort of go and look at it yourself in Sweat Wallet app. Or if you are in the US and you can't still use all the functionality, then you can just go on YouTube and put Sweat Hero and there are plenty of screenshots and screencasts from users that have been participating in beta testing. So you basically go into battle and the game and I battle you and I put 10 Sweat, you put 10 Sweat, the winner takes 80 % and the 20 % goes into what we call a battle fee, which is effectively a token sync that community votes on later on. And that brings me to your one of the first and earlier questions, you know, about move to earn and sustainability of the business, because we're frequently asked, you know, how are you different from, you know, kind of other projects out there? And we say, well, tens of millions of users is one thing, nine years of history and therefore ability to spend time thinking about building sustainable business and sustainable token economics. And what we are doing right now by scaling and not going into that spiral is evidence that we know how to build sustainable businesses that really function. More than that, as I already mentioned, in July and in August this year, Sweat has already become deflationary. So the sources of demand on a monthly basis are higher than emissions of token by you walking, plus all unlocks, users, team investors, and everything. So the number of tokens that hit the market is lower than the number of tokens that are extracted from the market, which in web two world would basically be definition of profitability. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Very interesting. Yeah. So much on the go. And, you know, I love this idea as well of the Sweat Hero NFT game. I think that's a really fun way to engage people in a different way and to bring NFTs in the mix as well. You mentioned move to earn in there too. And so I know that obviously Sweat Economy kind of is a great example of that, you know, move to earn ecosystem fits within there. You know, there's, it's a pretty early stage space for sure. You know, fairly nascent, a couple projects for sure, like yours that are really growing at a rapid pace, but still very early. Where do you see things when it comes to move to earn in the future, let's say five to 10 years from now? What do you think? How do you think it'll shape, you know, the overall wellness sector in the coming years? I mean, there are several very interesting things here. One is, whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that, you know, is considered standard. You know, for example, internet broke this trade -off where you could deliver rich message, but very few people, or you could deliver extremely poor message and extremely narrow message to a lot of people. Reach and richness was a trade -off. Internet broke that and the rest is history. You know, you can talk to individual with extremely rich message and sometimes screw with their heads as well as Cambridge Analytica has proven, right? So it's a double -edged sword, unfortunately. So in our world, the trade -off is, or if you want to be healthy, if you want to be active, you got to pay. You got to buy kit, you got to get job membership, you got to dress, you got to do all of these things. You know, how can you be physically active if you're not paying? Actually, because it's beneficial to you and to a lot of other people, we believe that you should be paid for it because it is incredibly valuable. Like in attention economy, you are given free products in exchange for your attention. Why wouldn't we be doing exactly the same thing in exchange for my physical activity? So move to earn is breaking this trade -off and I believe that it is going to become a more or less standard approach because if physical activity was only valuable to me and me alone, I would need to pay. But given that it drives an incredible amount of value for everybody, including countries, I mean, if you're physically active, you're going to be more economically active for longer. The tax revenues from you are going to be higher. It's good business. You know, even if you're looking at it in the dry light of day, obstructing yourself from taking care of people, making sure that, you know, this country is a good place for them to live. But even just in financial terms, it's good business. So this is the first thing that all the businesses in move to earn are doing, regardless if they're Ponzi or non -Ponzi actually think that it's great because businesses are reminding people that their physical activity has value. Bingo. That moves this whole idea of movement economy forward. The other trend that I see is that we need to get fewer people who are focusing on crypto natives, which is the case with a lot of other products and are focusing on mass market, because the value is not in making very, very narrow field of already reasonably rich and wealthy people more physically active. The real value to humanity is going into the lower social stratas, because that typically is where behavior change is most needed. If you look at dominant in A and B social groups, but it's starting to ramp up as you go lower down the income tail. So we need to start focusing on these people. We need to start developing propositions that are absolutely free, that are extremely simple to engage with, like what's what economy is doing. Because a lot of people are asking me, crypto, web3, what's your advice? And my simple advice is, look, we're so early, I can't even point a finger where to go. But if any of you remember internet of 96 and 97, you would remember that, I mean, there was Yahoo, right? There were very, very early businesses. None of them are really sort of dominating. And the opportunity is still there. And the opportunity number one is we still don't have an email for internet. We don't have an ubiquitous use case for web3. That email became for internet. That's what we're focusing on. Can we develop something that every single person on planet earth would be interested and benefit from if they engage with? And if you have legs, and if you can take steps, you know, you can engage with sweat economy. And I think we're on the right path there. The other thing that I would say is that if you actually look at the overall web3, and all the different tokens that exist, I see right now only three use cases or three classes of tokens that can be explained in a very simple fashion. Why on earth do they have value? Case one, Bitcoin digital gold, inflationary protection. It's capped supply. Everyone is paying attention to it. Everyone is in because of the first mover advantage. Therefore, it is playing the role of digital gold and probably is replacing gold as that inflationary protection asset. Case two, layer ones, computers securing asset ownership on the internet. Like electricity powers computers, like tokens, like ETH, like NEAR, like Avax, like MATIC. You need to have them in order for these computers to work for you and secure ownership of assets. And case three is tokenization. And here there is kind of wide range. The most simple one is tokenizing fiat currency, USDT, USDC. Basically, you are turning an asset that already exists into a token to make it more liquid, easier to transfer, easier to exchange with a lot more censorship resistance and with fewer parties being able to tell you can you or cannot you conduct this particular transaction. And there is a lot of experimentation with other assets like TDELs, for example, kind of tokenizing them. And we are pushing absolutely boundaries of that because we're not tokenizing an asset that already exists, that already has markets that can be exchanged. We're creating new asset class because as I said, everyone agrees that physical activity has value. It should have been an asset, but actually without blockchain, it cannot be turned into an asset. And we are creating new asset, new asset class, and the whole new industry that cannot be created without blockchain participating in this.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 12:00 09-26-2023 12:00
"Today, ophthalmology residents use Fundamental VR and Orbis International's virtual training tool to practice surgeries. Dr. Renee Badrow says, with Fundamental VR, I can virtually practice cataract surgeries over and over in the metaverse. More training hours in the metaverse means increased access to quality care for patients in need. These are the ways surgeons are using the metaverse today. Learn more at meta .com slash metaverse impact.
The Tennis.com Podcast
A highlight from Eric Diaz's Journey From the University of Georgia to Coaching Rising American Alex Michelsen
"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. We are here with Eric Diaz. You remember the name? Eric is son of Manny Diaz, coach of Alex Mickelson, Werner Tan, and right now has his own thing called tier one performance out in the Irvine area. Welcome to the show, Eric. How's it going? Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. It's great to be on. Great to be on. So I interviewed your dad probably about 2 months ago. That was, you know, we were poking fun about him redshirting Ethan Quinn, you know, not choosing not to play Ethan Quinn later. You know he wins NCAA the next year. It was kind of like, what were you thinking, right? Yeah, one of those tough ones. Oh yeah, it was kind of like, did you think he wasn't ready? Was he, did he think he wasn't ready? Like, you know, you probably could have won NCAA twice. That kind of thing but you obviously came from good tennis pedigree. So, I guess the first obvious question was what was it like growing up with your dad being Manny? You know, because I, it's hard not to take work home, right? Let's just put it that way. You're a tennis coach and a child of a tennis dad. Yeah. You know, I don't know. I think anybody that's been in tennis for a long time knows it's kind of a lifestyle a little bit. You know, there's definitely being the tennis coach and kind of, you know, working toward things but it's also, I don't know, the sport takes so much of you that sometimes, you know, it just feels like, you know, it's second nature. It's kind of a part of it. So, I mean, growing up in Athens, growing up around Dan McGill Complex was always a treat. That was back when NCAA's were kind of always hosted in Athens. So, I got to watch, you know, all the college greats. I grew up watching the Bryan brothers get, you know, sadly then they were kind of pegging some of our guys in doubles matches but, you know, it was really cool being able to sit court side, watch those guys and then, you know, be able to watch them on TV a little bit later. Really cool. Really cool experience growing up. Now, from a junior career, did your dad coach you your whole career or did he hire private coaches to sort of teach you technique? Because I know, you know, coaching at a program like UGA, it is very demanding and sometimes the children of the tennis coach lose out to the actual players and the people who are paying. So, did he coach you? How was that? You know, he coached me. I think he tried to coach me but at the same time, he also didn't want to put too much pressure on me to like, you know, really play tennis and go in. So, he kind of let it be my own thing. I started, I actually went to Athens Country Club, great little spot on the outside of Athens. Alan Miller was the main coach there. So, he helped me out a lot. He actually, he was on my dad's first, you know, assistant coaching team where they won a national title. I think he paired with Ola who now obviously has been with USGA for a while. I think they played doubles and I think they won a doubles title as well. So, I think Alan was a part of the first team championship and then he was also, you know, he won a doubles title there too. I think he might have won two. So, I spent a lot of time around him which was also, it was really cool. You know, it was a guy who was a part of the Georgia tennis family. Athens is really tight -knit like that and so it's special to be a part of that family both, I guess, through blood and through, you know, the alumni. It's cool. Now, let me ask you, did you ever consider going anywhere else, right? I mean, successful junior career, one of the top players in the nation, tons of options. You know, it could be like, you know, there's always sort of the, oh, his dad's going to give him a scholarship, right? You saw with Ben Shelton, you know, Brian Shelton. Obviously, he's going to look out for his kid. Did you ever aspire to like go to another top program or UCLA or Texas or Florida? I think growing up, you know, because I got to see all those teams play. You know, I remember in 1999, I looked up this guy who, he played number one for UCLA. I don't know, this guy showed up. I'm a little kid and he had half of his head was blue and the other half was gold and, you know, UCLA was firing it up. They were really good at the time. I remember that was my dad's first national title in 99. And, you know, ever since then, I really, you know, I looked up to the guys. Every now and then, I got to sneak on to a little travel trip and, you know, I got to see what it was like. But, I mean, for me, it was always Georgia. I thought Athens was a special place, you know, getting to see the crowds that they get there and being able to kind of just see the atmosphere of everybody caring about each other. You know, it was cool looking at other teams. You know, the Brian brothers had the cool Reebok shoes, you know, the UCLA guy with the different hair. But at the end of the day, it was always the dogs. It was always Georgia. So, I was really lucky when I got to be a part of that team and I got to kind of wear the G that, you know, through my junior years, I was always wearing it, you know, but I guess it was a little bit different when you're actually, you know, on the team and representing. I think it's a different feeling. Yeah. So, if you didn't go into tennis, what else would you be doing? Like, you know, I didn't, you know, I'm obviously coaching now, but I didn't go right into coaching. I went to work into pharmaceuticals like marketing, sales, you know, finance. It's always, I always find it interesting to say if I wasn't coaching, I got my degree, I would be doing this. Yeah. You know, if I was a little bit more prone, I think to just loving schoolwork and loving studying, you know, everybody's always told me that I would make a pretty good lawyer just because I'm a bit of a contrarian. I like to argue. I like to challenge everybody that's kind of around me. So, I'm always looking for a good argument. So, I'll go with that. Everybody's always told me, you know, maybe you should have been a lawyer. You argue a Hey, lot. well, I'm sure, I'm sure your tennis parents, right? The parents of the academy probably don't like that one, right? They like to be in control. They have the last say and be contrarian. A lot of the time they do. A lot of the time they do. Yeah. So, you're sort of like stepping out, right? Out of the shadow and you're now on the west coast out there in the with Irvine area tier one performance and quite honestly, making your own name. I know you've had opportunity to coach Alex Mickelson as well as, you know, Lerner, Tan who are both like doing real well, both like main draw this year at US Open. Tell me about the process of moving way west. Yeah. And starting your own thing. Well, you know, it kind of started with, you know, I took that leap and I moved away from home for, you know, the first time because obviously being born and raised and going to school at UGA. I took my first chance and I went to Boise State and I worked under Greg Patton for a year who I'd heard great things about and, you know, all were true. He's a great guy. I thought it was a fantastic experience. So, I did that for a year and then over the summer, the UGA swim coach's son that I kind of grew up with, he was in Newport and so I kind of came to visit and then, you know, all of a sudden the opportunity to be coaching out here, you know, came about and, you know, I did my due diligence a little bit. You know, I looked at the old tennis recruiting pages and, you know, I'm looking at all the talent over the last like 20 years and, you know, statistically, you look at the list and you're like, okay, you know, if I'm in this area and I give myself, you know, the right opportunities and I, you know, learn how to coach properly, you know, I feel like I've had some pretty good experience from some good mentors. You know, then I kind of thought, you know, okay, maybe I can kind of control my own destiny out here a little bit and, you know, over time, it's taken a lot but, you know, over time, I feel like I did get myself some pretty decent opportunities. So, when you first laid eyes on Mickelson, how old was he? He was 12. He was coming out to some point place. It was the first place I kind of rented courts. It was this old rundown beat up club but beautiful. There were some trees there. Nobody wanted it. The courts were kind of run down and everyone's like, oh no, nothing there and I was like, I'll take it. So, you know, it gave me space. It gave me courts. It gave me the ability to kind of try and market. I made things cheap so I could get a lot of kids out there and try and get a competitive environment going and luckily, you know, had a good bit of talent out there where, you know, the kids kind of attracted the kids and I was this young coach, 23, 24 and, you know, over time, you know, people started to kind of gain trust and realize, you know, this guy isn't that bad. So, you know, over time, it kind of, you know, worked in my favor and, you know, everything kind of worked out. I eventually switched clubs to a nicer one and, you know, you move up. You earn your stripes. Now, when you saw him, did you initially see, you know, like super talent because he won our ADK this summer and, you know, it was full of Steve Johnson, Su -Woo Kwong. It was Ethan Quinn. It was other names, right? Kanee Shakuri. And Alex, okay, you know, he got the USTA wildcard. He's a young kid. You know what I mean? Like, sort of under the radar and then he wins the whole tournament in finals Newport on the grass like a week later. So, did you see it right away? Was he like a typical kind of 12 -year -old throwing his racket, having tantrums? What was he like at 12? Alex has always turned on tantrums. But, you know, when he was 12, he was good. But, you know, I'll be honest, there were a handful of kids out there that, you know, Kyle Kang, who's had a lot of success. I saw him. Sebastian Goresney, who Alex won doubles with. There were a handful of others and, I mean, Alex, they were, he was good. If I thought that he would be this good, you know, at this point, I think I'd I don't think I saw that. But, you know, you definitely see that this kid's capable of playing at a pretty good level while he's young. And then, you know, as the years kind of go and then as you sort of see him and his personality kind of develop, you kind of recognize, you know, this, you know, this isn't too normal of a 16, 17, 18 -year -old kid. And then, you know, sure enough, eventually the results followed, which was pretty fun to watch. Yeah, I mean, I felt it was interesting because he was here with like his friend. Yeah. You know, not even like a coach, trainer, physio, nothing. Like him and his homeboy. Yeah. He didn't look like he played tennis. You know what I mean? So, yeah, it was like, it was interesting to show up without, you know, completing against guys who are here with like coaching that they're paying six -figure salaries and who are scouting, right? And for him to kind of move through the draw, honestly, I mean, you know, maybe he split sets once. Yeah. It was actually really interesting. He's an extremely competitive kid. And so, you know, throughout the last few years kind of as we've traveled to some events and as he's gone to some like by himself, you know, the whole understanding is, okay, how well do you really understand, you know, your day -to -day process? How well are you able to, you know, nowadays, you know, with challengers, everything you can stream, you can watch. So, you know, both myself and, you know, Jay, the other coach that's here and helping him out, you know, we watch, we communicate. But, you know, at the end of the day, you know, it was one of those big decisions, okay, are you going to go to college or are you going to go pro? And he's kind of weighing those two things. And it's, you know, if you really think you want to be a pro, show me. And so it's one of those things, luckily, when he's young, you know, you have the, you know, it's kind of freedom. If he loses some matches, okay, you're young. If, you know, you win some matches, okay, great. You're young. So it's one of those things where, you know, we really kind of wanted to see, you know, what he's able to do sort of on his own. How well can he manage emotionally? How well can he, you know, create some game plans and stick to his day -to -day routines? And he, I would say he passed. And did he officially turn pro? He officially turned pro, yeah. Yeah. So I know UGA was going to be where he was going. I know he was undecided this summer, but UGA was going to, was there a little bit of an inside man kind of happening here, right? You know, I mean, you know, I think that, you know, I'll definitely say, I think he had some exposure to hearing about, you know, some Georgia greatness. I think that for sure. But, you know, I'll say it was his decision. Ultimately, I tried to not put too much pressure or expectation on where he was going to go. You know, I think Georgia has a lot to offer. So I think, you gone that route, I think it would be, you know, I don't think we can really fail if, you know, you're going and you're trying to be a tennis player and that's a place you choose. I think it's a pretty good place. Now tell us about Lerner Tan. I'll admit as a player that I hadn't had the opportunity to watch too much. I had not watched him in the challenges at all. But was he also sort of in the program at a young age or did he just sort of come later on? My partner actually, you know, kind of helped him when he was young because Levitt Jay used to be incorporated at Carson, which was kind of where Lerner kind of had his, you know, beginnings. He was a little bit more, I guess I'll say, you know, his talent was Federation spotted, I guess you could say as to where Alex was kind of, you know, the guy on the outside a little figuring his own way. Lerner was kind of the guy that everybody kind of thought was, you know, the guy. Right. And so, you know, it's been fun kind of watching him, you know, see his transition, you know, from juniors to now, you know, kind of becoming, you know, the top of juniors, you know, winning Kalamazoo the last two years and his transition. It's been fun to see. So, you know, I've seen a lot of him out of the last, you know, two and a half to three years. So it's been, it's definitely been a different transition. I feel like, you know, it's a little bit fire and ice there. You know, Alex is the fiery one screaming a good bit and Lerner is the silent killer. So it's, they're definitely different, which I think, you know, is pretty refreshing and it's kind of cool to see them both have success in their own accord. So tell us about Tier 1 then. So how many courts, obviously you grew up, I mean, like, you know, I started in the park years ago, right? In Chicago Park, right? And now I got 27 courts. But tell us about Tier 1 performance now. Where are you? How many courts do you now have? How many kids are you serving? Yeah, we're in Newport Beach right now, which is great. Weather's nice. We have, right now, we're running our program out of only five ports. It's not that big. You know, we take a lot of pride in just kind of being individually, you know, development based. I feel like if you're in our program, you're going to have, you know, a good bit of time from the coaches. You're probably going to have a chance to hit with some of the top guys. We try to be really selective with who we kind of have. Just because in Southern California, it's really difficult to, you know, get your hands on a ton of courts. There's so many people in tennis. There's only a few clubs now. You know, pickleball, even at our club right now, you know, pickleball is booming. You know, so many people are playing. It's keeping clubs alive, which, you know, I think is nice. But at the same time, I would love to see, you know, a lot of tennis courts and tennis opportunity. But, you know, it is what it is. Yeah, man, pickleball is definitely taking over. You see clubs getting rid of one court, two courts, and they think that it's not that big of an impact. But I mean, two courts really makes a difference in terms of being able to spread kids out, get them more time, get more balls and more balls at the time. But it's, you know, I think in tennis, if we want to fight them off, we've got to market better and we've got to grow, right? They're in this growth sort of stage and we're sort of stagnant, you know, so it's not like we're not leaving the club with a lot of choices other than to diversify, you know what I mean? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So, let me ask you that. So, you've obviously had two kids that are going on. What do you tell that next parent, whose kid's 14, right, may get to see learner Alex come to the academy and number one, they want to homeschool, right, or ask you whether or not they should homeschool or B, you know, whether or not they should choose to go to college or, you know, turn pro. How are you advising parents? Because I get the question all the time. Should we homeschool, right? Should we do whatever? And I always, you know, the answer is always, it depends. Yeah. But what would be your answer in terms of homeschooling to train? Well, look, I definitely think that if your primary goal is to be a tennis player and I think, you know, if you're an athlete and that's kind of what you want to do, I think there's a lot of benefit in homeschooling just because, you know, it enables you to travel. You know, if I get to the ITF level, you know, I need to be able to travel. Those tournaments start on Monday and they go through Friday. So, you know, if I'm in a regular school, if I'm a high school kid, you know, that's a pretty difficult life for me to be able to justify or to, you know, be able to get my excused absences and stuff like that. You know, we're definitely big. You know, if you show me a 14 and under kid and I feel like I had pretty good experience in this just because I saw a lot of kids from the age of 12 to 14, you know, I got to see an entire kind of generation out of SoCal and a lot of them were pretty good. You know, the one thing I think, you know, when you're 12, 13, 14 years old, I think the primary thing kind of for level, obviously it matters how you're doing it, but I think the primary thing is the repetition. You know, I saw a ton of kids where they had a bunch of practices and I knew that that kid probably, you know, had 30%, 40 % more time than some of the other kids. And, you know, sure enough, that kid is more competent at keeping the ball in play. You know, they're able, you know, they've just seen and touched more balls. So, you know, they're going to make more balls. I think it's a balance. I think it really depends on the parents. I think it really depends on the kid. And I think it depends on the environment that they'll be in if they are going to be homeschooled. You know, I will say that, you know, we've had a handful of kids kind of switch from high school to homeschooled and they're in our program. But I feel like there's still strong social aspects in our program. You know, all the boys are tight. They compete a lot. They, you know, I feel like they get their social, you know, they go to lunch. And just kind of our standards are really high. I think this past year we had five kids that graduated that all went to IVs. So, you know, it's totally possible whether you're homeschooled or whether you're in school, I think, to, you know, kind of pursue academic excellence. I think, you know, just because you're doing one thing and not the other, I don't think that that necessarily, you know, takes that away from you. I think tennis can open a ton of doors. And I think I kind of, you know, we've kind of seen that in the last few years. I've seen a lot more tennis kids choosing IV ever since 2020, I feel. I feel like the IVs have been pretty hot, especially for some blue chip players, which I think, you know, if you look prior to 2020, I think the percentages took a pretty drastic jump, which is interesting to see. Yeah, you know, it's funny, you know, in some markets you see people playing for the scholarship and in some other markets you see them playing for entrance, right, into the Princeton, the Harvards. And one of the myths, like, I think if you think about basketball or football, right, the better basketball football players are obviously choosing the SEC, right, Pac -12, whatever that is. But in tennis, you know, I think that, you know, your academics and your tennis have to be, like, at the top scale to go, just because you're not like a bad tennis player if you go to Harvard, you know what I mean? Like, the kid that goes to Harvard or makes the team probably could have gone to PCU, right, or Florida or whatever, you know what I mean? And so it is interesting to see the number of people who say, yes, I've spent 30 grand on tennis for the past eight years and I'm still willing to pay for college, right, because I got into Princeton, Harvard, Yale, etc. But I think it's a big myth where, you know, the United States is so basketball focused, we see Harvard basketball as, like, okay, that's everyone that didn't get chosen by the Illinois, the Wisconsin, the Michigan. And it's not the same, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's different for sure. So when you think about, like, the Ivies, right, you see a lot of kids go to East Coast and you think about, you know, COVID obviously changed something with the home school, you know, sort of situation. People who never considered that it was possible were like, okay, well, we've been living at home for a year and a half and doing online studies, it's not that bad, you know, they're more focused with their time. Did you see more people from families who you thought would not have done it try it post COVID? Yeah, definitely. I think the really popular thing that a lot of people are doing now is kind of a hybrid schedule, which I actually really like a lot. At least in California, I don't know if the schooling system is different everywhere else. I know it was different where I was from. But a lot of these kids, you know, they'll go to school from 8 to 1130 or 8 to 12. And, you know, they have their three hours where, you know, I don't know how they stagger their classes and stuff like that. But I know that pretty much every kid at every school in SoCal is at least able to do this if they so choose. And so they're able to get released around 12 or something. And, you know, they're able to be at afternoon practice and get a full block in. You know, for me, that still enables you to get the hours you need on court and to be able to maintain some of that social. And, you know, if you become, you know, really, really good, I guess, okay, by junior year, maybe you could consider, okay, maybe I should take this a little bit more seriously, maybe I should go full time homeschool. Or, you know, a lot of these kids are in a place where it's, you know, I'm comfortable with my tennis, I like where it's at, I feel like it'll give me opportunity in college. My grades are great. And, you know, maybe that person's a little more academically inclined. And, you know, they want to have a career and they feel like tennis is that great stepping stone. Which I think is a really cool thing about our sport is it just opens a tremendous amount of doors. I feel like if you figure out how to develop and be a good tennis player and how to compete well in tennis, you can you can apply that to almost everything in life. Yeah. So you talk about opening doors, right? When Alex or Lerner were sort of deciding whether to walk through door number one, which is college, or door number two, which is which is obviously turning pro. Right. How did you advise them? You know what I mean? If I say, hey, you know what? Take a couple wildcards. If you went around or two, maybe you go to college. If you win a tournament, maybe you stay out there. If an agency locks you into a deal, right? Then, you know, they normally know what good looks like and they normally have like the ear of the Nike, the Adidas, right? Then you turn pro. What was your advice in terms of if and when, right? Yeah. For those who ask. Well, they were both in different places. I'm gonna start with Lerner cuz he's younger. He actually, you know, did a semester in college. You know, Lerner finished high school, I think, when he was sixteen, sixteen and a half. And so, obviously, your eligibility clock starts, you know, six months after you finish your high school. So, for him, it was, you know, he was so young, he didn't really have much pro experience at that time. You know, he did great things in juniors. You know, he won Kalamazoo. He got his wild card into the men's that year and then, you know, he played a little bit of pro kind of and then, you know, that that January, he went in and and did a semester at USC which I think was a good experience for him socially. He had some eligibility problems which, you know, only let him play about five, six matches toward the end of the year which was kind of disappointing and then, you know, he won Kalamazoo again and so, you know, that was the second trip there and then, you know, by then, he had a little bit more exposure with, you know, agencies and brands and kind of, you know, the stuff that you'd like to see that'll actually give you the financial security to kind of, you know, chase your dream and pass up, you know, the the education, I guess, for the time being. So, you know, I felt like that was really the security was a big was a big thing for him. You know, prior to winning Kalamazoo for the second time, you know, he still had Junior Grand Slams to play. He wasn't playing men's events. So, for him being that age, you know, it was, well, you know, I'm I'm not in a massive rush so why not get a semester in and I think he had a great time. He really liked it. I mean, he he speaks pretty positively about the dual matches. He actually follows college tennis now a little bit more. You know, he will talk about some dual matches which I think is pretty cool and you know, I think it gave him some confidence getting to play for university, getting to represent, you know, seeing that university promotes you. I think there's a lot of benefits there and now, you know, he's got an alumni base. You know, people talk about all, you know, he's a USC Trojan and stuff like that. You know, you see it at all different tournaments. You know, guys are wearing a USC hat and, you know, hey, learner, da da da and you know, I think that that's pretty cool to be a part of, you know, a big family of people who are proud that, you know, they can say they played in the same place and then Alex. Alex was, you know, he was a little old for his grade and he was one that he committed and, you know, the whole time him and learner kind of, you know, talking and, you know, about going pro and da da da da. You know, obviously, it was their dream. You know, I just kept telling Alex, you know, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it until, you know, it's a real problem and so, you know, he gets to 400 in the world and, you know, it's what you do. You get to 400. You know, it's good but at the end of the day, you know, you're not, your life's not changing because you're 400 in the world. You know, so he's 400 in the world and he's, you know, saying stuff to me and I'm like, I could not care less you're going to college and then it was, you know, this was probably in January, February, you know, he starts to kind of do a little bit better and I think at that point, I recognized that he was better than a lot of the guys kind of at the challenger level. You know, just from my perspective, I was seeing kind of what it was, what it was to be 300, what it was to be 200 and I think at that point, like February, March, I fully knew that he was good enough to be there and to be winning those matches but at the same time, you know, having financial security, having set, you know, all of those factors that kind of go into whether I'm going to pass up my education and go pro. You know, it's a big decision and so I remember we were putting it off. I just said, you know, nothing till US Open. I was like, we're not, we're not talking about college till US Open. I said, you know, when we get to US Open, you finish US Open, you have that exposure, you know, we see what happens in those two weeks and then, you know, then we'll kind of make a decision but until then, like, don't even think about it. Don't talk about it. Don't care. You're going to school and I think that mentality really helped him kind of just play free. He was, you know, I'm not playing to go pro. I'm trying to do my job in school, finish my high school. I'm going to tournaments, playing great, just trying to compete and, you know, lucky for him, you know, well, I guess it's not lucky at all. That kid worked his absolute tail off but, you know, he had that success in Chicago at your club and then, you know, he made that little Newport run and I think by then, that was his third or fourth former top 10 win and, you know, he won his challenger. He final the challenger. He'd semied another one. He had kind of shown and, you know, some people have gotten attention and they started believing in him and so then, you know, that's when that big decision kind of came but I feel like for him, he really established himself, improved himself amongst pros which I think is an interesting thing because a lot of the time when you see these juniors kind of go pro sub 18, a lot of the time, it's because they had tremendous junior success which then made them, you know, they had grand slam success and stuff like that but Alex didn't have any of that. You know, Alex was kind of the late bloomer that, you know, in the last year when he was already 18 and aged out of ITF, the kid really just took it to a new level and, you know, I think he really showed that he's kind of ready for what the tour has to offer.
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"Welcome to The Crypto Show, your podcast for everything around crypto, blockchain, bitcoin and more. Here is your host, international blockchain expert, serial entrepreneur and investor, Dr. Julian Hasp. Are we seeing some of the biggest risks ahead for bitcoin, for crypto as a whole? Hey and welcome to today's video. My name is Julian. On my channel, it's all about making you crypto fit. I discuss the beautiful world of decentralization, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, much, much more. I try to kind of look at this from various angles. Obviously, on the one hand, as the CEO of the cake group, talk from the retail side, enterprise side, the R &D side, as an investor, personal investor, obviously also from the regulatory side. A lot of authorities we also talk to. And yeah, not only from crypto, but also from macro. And so from all of this, I do actually foresee that over probably the next 12 to 18 months, we may have some of the biggest risks for bitcoin ahead in a long time. Now, I don't think these risks are bigger than what we have seen maybe in its very early years, but probably if I look at over the past couple of years, I do think we have some major risk ahead. And in this video, I really want to highlight that. I want to explain that. I want to talk to you about price targets or potential price targets and really kind of dig a bit into the nitty gritty. Maybe at the beginning, think about it. What's the biggest risk in your side or your opinion? You can let me know either in the chat here or you can also let me know in the comments afterwards. No peeking, no cheating. Maybe be creative yourself. Now, obviously, we have seen a lot of things happening. We have seen collapses from FDX, from three hours capital, from Terra Luna. We have had all the Tether FUD with regulation, SEC crackdowns. Now, what if this is all small to what may be ahead in the next 12 to 18 months? Let me start with cargo cults. Cargo cults, if you don't know, actually stem from the Second World War. Actually, after the Second World War. And what happened there was the US was fighting back the Japanese and they were going from island to island. And so, obviously, these islanders, very, very basic. They didn't really, they haven't really seen those airplanes. They didn't really understand what was all happening. But basically, the Americans, they all came in. They had to build the landing strips, the launching strips for the airports. And way the this name came was what these Americans obviously did. After they had built all those things, they all came there and they kind of, when the planes came, they had to kind of help the planes land and, you know, they built the towers and then they put all the special gear on and they helped the planes land. And then the planes threw off the cargo and the cargo obviously fed the soldiers and the soldiers wanted to be really kind to the islanders and they kind of gave all this cargo a lot of things to the islanders. So for the islanders, this was almost like God. And so what the islanders thought, what was happening was, they looked at the actions that the Americans did and they tried to replicate that once the islanders, once the soldiers left, especially after the war because the cargo didn't come anymore. And the islanders then went and they tried to kind of replicate what the Americans did because they thought if they were to stand there and kind of give the landing signs and put on a special hat and kind of, I don't know, sit in the tower and kind of talk into something, then maybe those planes would appear again and would drop off the cargo. And now obviously we understand that this didn't happen. But the crazy thing, and that's where the name comes from, there were these gurus, right? There were people who said, oh, I can predict what's going to happen and I'm the one who has the wisdom and literally cults were built around these people. Oh, it's not going to happen today, it's going to happen in a month. Oh, it's going to happen in a year or it's going to happen in 10 years, right? It became a sect -ish following and the crazy thing, it's even lasting almost until today. There's cargo cults on those islands still today. They almost looked at like gods and it's insane to kind of think of that. And so obviously looking at this from the outside, it's very easy to kind of understand what went wrong. And what went wrong was that the actual causation, the reasons weren't truly understood. And that can be extremely dangerous if you don't really understand why things have happened. And so one of the easiest things, in my opinion, very easy for cargo cults to kind of fall for is chart analysis. Because in a technical analysis, what you do is you kind of go and you say, look, in the past this is what happened and so we're seeing a similar pattern right now, so next the same thing is going to happen. What you should be doing is you should be looking what happened in this point in time. Is it likely that this thing happens again? So the same thing as basically the islanders went. They went there and they kind of made all these signs. That was irrelevant. What they should have done is they should have looked, is the US still fighting the war against the Japanese in the Second World War? And so they should have realized that it's a different pattern, not because the pattern makes the price, but because the events make the price. And so to me, this is so fundamentally important. And what I have seen, sadly, over the past couple of years, we've seen this with stock to flow, with Bitcoin. We have seen this with, doesn't matter, in El Salvador with the volcano bonds. And we've seen this with so many things, right? We've seen this with store value. We've seen this with, I don't know, these four -year cycles. We have seen this, oh, the 200 -day line is never going to get broken. Then the 200 -week line is never going to get broken. Then this thing is never going to get broken. But at the end, right, you need to understand that this is just a cargo cult. It's nothing else. You need to understand what happened at that point that it turned around and what's going to happen today. Is it going to be the same event that's going to make something turn around? And so to me, the biggest issue I see right now in Bitcoin, actually, are these cargo cults. It is that people don't fully reflect and think what made the price go up. In the past, is this the same thing that is going to happen right now? I actually think this is fundamentally the biggest risk. To me, that's a bigger risk than Tether. I think the Tether risk is there, but I think it's not relevant enough anymore, especially with these interest rates. I don't think that the risk is Satoshi or, I don't know, having some elliptic curve that, I don't know, was designed by the NSA and it's just there to kind of steal money from you. I don't think a potential Binance blow up or a Quobee right now, I don't know, I don't think these are massive kind of issues. I don't think if the ETF, for example, doesn't get approved, I don't think that would be such a massive issue. I think the issue is if people don't fundamentally understand what actually drove interest in the past and is this going to drive interest right now? And you have to be fundamentally honest to yourself, and I think that's just the hard part. And what people do is just like in these cargo calls on the islands, they're going to come up with something new, they're going to procrastinate, they're going to delay, they're going to say, you know what, this time it didn't work, but the next time it's going to work. And obviously, people all being hungry, all waiting for the cargo to come down again are just going to follow and they're going to believe the gospel without actually reflecting honestly and realizing, huh, maybe this is actually a bit different. So this to me is the biggest danger. And the biggest danger comes down to one fundamental thing that I've been trying to say for, I don't know, for years I would say, but I've been very vocal about this over the past couple of months especially, and that is that I fundamentally don't believe that Bitcoin is a currency, it's not a cryptocurrency, I don't think that's a metric to look for or something to strive for. And it has become very clear and there's also something that, I don't know, I think the first time I discussed this was probably in 2017, also a bit of an inflation topic at that point, I discussed it, that I don't think Bitcoin is an inflation hedge. For me, it was always digital gold, meaning not gold as an inflation hedge but more of a hedge against Wall Street, against kind of the insurance of the centralized kind of banking system. So nothing about money printing per se, nothing about inflation, none of those, not a store of wealth or like this safety storage, all these things, it's not backed by any data to do that. And I know people keep selling this or keep talking about this but it's actually not true and that's the same thing with the cargo cults. It's such a fundamental problem. So what the data actually shows and that's basically the two things to me that always kind of showed what is going to drive the Bitcoin price. Number one, that's been the main driver right now, has been speculation. And speculation obviously has a lot to do with M2, simply not so much because of inflation but because people having excess liquidity, right? Inflation is actually not what's going to give people extra money. It's going to give them extra numbers but these numbers tend to go up slower than their living cost. So they tend to have subjectively less purchase power, right? So they have more currency but they have less purchase power. And so during times of speculation, they actually have the exact opposite or they try to kind of squeeze extra currency out, kind of forgave on something else and just kind of double down on speculation. And we have seen this, right? We have seen this during the 2016, 2017 kind of rally with ICOs, like extra liquidity in the market. We've obviously seen this with 2020, 2021.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from Finally End Phone Fear Forever! (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. We are back and Julie, I have to say the feedback we've gotten on this topic was, is fantastic. Yes. It seems that we might be onto something. For those of you who are willing to accept the fact that you might be a little reluctant to have actual conversations with people and maybe just maybe that reluctance is leading you to have results that you're not that proud of. Well, guess what? Continue listening because you're going to love part two. We're going to start digging into the specifics of not just the psychology of call reluctance, but also really I think what we could argue would be the very practical application of picking up the phone and having meaningful conversations. And this is part two. If you did not listen to part one, please go back and listen to part one now because I think it will make all these extra points that we'll be sharing with you guys today even more useful to all of you. And as always, thank you for listening to our podcast. Thank you for keeping this number on listen to daily podcast for real estate professionals in the United States. Our way of thanking you every single day is giving you the notes from today's show. The notes from today's show are down below. If you just if you're on YouTube or if you're on iTunes or Stitcher or Spotify or all the billions of places this podcast is listened to, open up the description and you'll see all of our notes there. And while you're there, also, you're going to see some links specifically. Look for the link to join Premier Coaching. It's the next natural step for all of you. You love this podcast. This is the part. You know, this is from all measures that number one listen to daily podcast real estate professionals at least the United States. If you love the podcast, which we know you do, because many of you listen every day, you will not believe the value you get in Premier Coaching. So scroll down below. Click the link to join Premier Coaching. Julie, let's roll in and talk about point number one. Yes, that's right. So again, this is part two yesterday. We got your head straight. So if you missed part one, then you know, you know what to do. So assuming that your mindset is adjusted for success, let's get to the real work of real estate, the work that leads to appointments to contracts and to closings. Point number one, this is the real work time guys, make a minimum number of contacts daily. Remember that a contact is a conversation with a decision making adult about real estate. That number of contacts should equal the number of transactions you need to do this year to meet or exceed your financial goals. For example, if you need 12 deals, you must make at least 12 contacts daily. As your skills increase, that number typically shrinks. Agents with prospecting skills who have overcome their call reluctance can usually set one appointment for about every 10 contacts or so, assuming that they're making contacts with the likely to most likely to list prospects and not just doing something like circle prospecting. Now what Julie just said, I hope you guys are breaking down what she's saying. So the first thing is, if you're a real estate treasure map, you're filling a blank business plan which you get as the first level of premier coaching, once you complete that, if you determine that you need Julie's example, 12 deals in order to, you know, earn enough money to have all your financial needs once and desires fulfilled, well, then you're going to have to make that number of contacts a day. Contact is a conversation with the decision making adult where you're, you know, essentially answering their question, maybe following up to answer a question, maybe you're just having a conversation over at Orange Theory, but you're going to ask for business. Now as you become more professional and prolific, what you're going to realize is the conversations are going to have to start focusing more on actual people who actually have their hands up in their air who are actually looking to transact. Now here's the magic of all this. When you're getting started, it's what Julie said, the number of contacts equals the number of transactions you want to do, but as you start becoming a listing agent, then the number of contacts you make per day, you can adjust that to be the number of listings you need at all times as far as whatever your, again, it's all part of the real estate treasure map which you get as a part of the first level in Premier Coaching, but one of the outputs of that or one of the results of completing it is you're going to know what your number of listings you need at all times, not just transactions but the number of listings because we want to gear you guys towards being listing agents. So let's say in your marketplace, if you had five listings at all times, you know pretty much like clockwork, three of them would be in contract at once, maybe only two let's say. Well, your average commission is $10 ,000, you're making $240 ,000 a year if you have five listings at all times. So you're going to start out by making more contacts, but once you build up to your magic number of listings, then what you're going to do is the number of contacts you're going to make per day has to be at least the number of listings you need at all times to immediately exceed your goals. We take a very numerical, drilled down, common sense, practical, no BS approach to all the coaching that we provide for you guys, so hopefully this will, frankly, make things a lot more clear and easy to understand and mostly apply in your business. That's right. It actually makes it far more predictable than most of you think, right? You actually can apply numbers and make that work. But isn't ultimately what we're working on here with these guys is that they don't have to wait around for the business to come to them and I'm reading your future points. They can actually go to where the business is. Like some of you have this, really it's bad information and really bad training around the idea that you're supposed to do marketing, branding, passive email marketing, passive SMS, all this other stuff, waiting for people to call you. You consider a win when you create a lead. That is not a win. Leads have no value. Pre -qualified motivated leads have value. Stop giving yourself a win in your head psychologically when it all is just a stinking lead. That is the biggest mistake and it's frankly bad training the agents have been taught and it's not just the last 10 years, it's really the last 30. You created a contact. You didn't create a lead. Yeah. Who cares? You're building your phone book. I mean, well, a lot of these guys don't know what phone books are, but I mean... Your contact database, your CRM, you're collecting names and numbers of people. That does not necessarily mean they're going to transact with you. We said this yesterday and we say it a lot and it is true and again, it's worth repeating because it's such, I think, different information for all of you. Your goal is not to have a ton of leads. That is an enormous mistake. Your goal is to have a handful of leads. Then those leads are all pre -qualified and primarily listing leads and they're ready to list their homes. Maybe the contracts are signed. Maybe they're going to sign the contract in the next 60 days. The point is, is your goal is not to have 20, 30, 40, 50 ,000 leads. Your goal is to have a few leads, mostly even our top producing agents, less than like 15. And when Julie and I are having a lead coaching call and we ask about their leads, if they're giving us a long list of leads or they're saying, well, you know, screenshotting their database with the number of like 42 million, with the number of leads they're dripping on, no, that person is not doing their job. Well, they didn't actually understand the question if they're doing that. Right. You don't know what a lead is. A lead is a pre -qualified, ideally using our scripts, buyer or seller, ideally a seller, who you know what their motivation, you know what their timeframe is, you know what their half to sell is, you know everything about them. That's a lead. Also, they know who you are. And there are tons and tons, millions and millions of people out there that are actually able to be called pre -qualified at that level to list their homes sometime in the next 12 months or less, ideally 90 days or less. You just have to be willing to have the real conversations. Stop burying your head in the sand thinking that a massive number of leads is somehow going to cure your lack of actual skill and your unwillingness to have these actual conversations. It is critically important that you move past the belief that this is a, you know, sort of mass numbers game. It is, of course, a contact sport. That's what real estate and mall sales is. But it's a contact sport that results in you having a pre -qualified lead. Be very clear about that. Which means you have to get over your call reluctance. And point number two, in part two, is to focus on the person you're speaking to more than you're focused on your thoughts and feelings about being on the phone. You're calling to be of service. Maya Angelou famously stated, they'll forget what you said, but remember how you made them feel. So be fascinated by them. Remove the words I, me, my, and mine as much as possible to avoid making it all about you. Ask more questions and make fewer statements. Resist interrupting and sounding anxious to get to the next question. I had someone message us on Instagram that basically said that we're in conflict when we say, because we do say both things. Our highest and truest purpose in this planet is to be of service to others, and at the same time, we will occasionally say the other truth, which is everyone's primary motivation is themselves. Everybody is mostly focused on themselves. Both of those things are true, and here's how they're both true. Because I do accept the fact that everyone, if you're focused on, and everyone is naturally this way. What's in it for me? How does this make me feel? You can't really move past that, and to think or to try to guilt people and to not, it's the Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged kind of thing, right? But to have people believe that their highest and truest purpose is not primarily the betterment of themselves is complete out of alignment with how, frankly, humans are actually wired. But have you to accept the fact that the way you better yourself is by being of service to others, and then those two motivations are in alignment. You guys get it? So if your highest and truest purpose is to take care of yourself, to make your life better, to take care of your family, really, that is where your primary focus always is, whether you go down and admit it or not. Okay, that is not in conflict with what society wants you to do, which is to be of service to other people, because by being of service to other people, you actually are improving your own lot in life. You're becoming the best version of you as a real estate professional, and a real estate professional is here to be of service to other people. Hopefully you guys now understand that, that our philosophies are in perfect alignment with how a lot of you guys already naturally think. That's right. So it comes down to reminding yourself, when you're over your call reluctance and you're on a real conversation with a real person, pay attention to what they're saying. Don't just ask the script questions, listen to their answers. So Julie also said something in that, and I want you guys to think about this. She said, without using these words, she said, remove personal pronouns when you're talking to people. Why? Everyone's favorite topic is themselves, remember what I just said. Everyone wants to talk about themselves. Everyone wants to have other people show interest in them.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Has A New Super Whale! (2024 Bringing Explosive Gains)
"Good morning, everybody! It's time to discover crypto. It is September 25th. It's 1133 A .M. Eastern Standard Time. It took us a few minutes to get ready today, Tim. Was it your fault? Probably, yes. It's probably his fault. We got Drew on the ones and twos. And, Tim, how are you doing today, Drew? Oh, I'm doing great. Couldn't be better, honestly. Alright, me and Drew were talking. We might try to get that MRV video out today. Folks, I might also put out my cold plunge footage. I got to upload that and everything. So, it's going to be a good, good show. Today, we're talking about MicroStrategy. Just bought more Bitcoin. We're talking about how much Bitcoin does Coinbase hold. It's a whole lot and it's a lot more than you thought. Also, we're talking about the Expiry on Friday, Tim. Yeah. Now, what are your thoughts on the Expiry? I mean, it's going to be a little... It's a lot larger than the last one. I think it's about 4X the amount of money that's in this week's. Yeah, it's a very large one and it's going to tell us a lot. There's two things I really take away from it. First of all, it kind of gives us a good indication of what price is going to do this week. And then we got to wait to see what happens on Friday, but we'll talk about that level later, I think. If we don't get to that level, we could see that move below $25 ,000 we've been talking about for a while. And also, we're going to talk about Chainlink, everybody, and some fake Aptos floating around. So, that's going to be a pretty fun story there. Alright, let's refresh. Make sure we got the freshest crypto pricing available. And it looks like the market cap is down, folks. We are down 0 .8%. We're coming in at $1 .08 trillion, 24 -hour volume, $32 billion. And Bitcoin dominance coming in at $47 .2. Gas is almost triple what it was Friday when we were doing this. It was 29 Gwei today. It was 11 Friday afternoon. Bitcoin is bouncing a little bit on the hourly. Same for Ethereum. They're up 0 .5 and 0 .3. But down for the 24 hours, you see Bitcoin down 1 .4%. Any levels you're looking at, Tim? We got Mr. T .A. Tim here. For Bitcoin specifically or for anything? Yeah, for Bitcoin. So, again, we'll talk more about those levels. But there's something about that options expiry and that level being $26 ,500. I'm not expecting price to go too much away from that. I think there's even a point where in the week we could get a little over that, then come back down. This happens a lot when there's a big number for options expiry. Price doesn't get that far away from it because the traders want to keep it right there. But then watch right before the expiry happens. My suspicion, Deezy, is it's going to be below. It's going to be bad. And I think we might have a good little fall on Friday. And, well, depends where we're at because a lot of times it acts as a magnet. It wants to pull the price to $26 ,500. Right now, we're at $26 ,200. So I expected to end up getting pulled to that price like a magnet towards the end of the week there. We have Rice hanging out. Hey, what is going on, Rice? Rice in the chat. Hey, make sure you go follow. If you see him in the chat, go click on it. You see his channel. Make sure you're subbed if you're not already. We have ETH down 0 .6%. We have BNB down 0 .8%. XRP leading the losers of the top 10. It is down 2 .3%. And Cardano, in a weird way, besides Solana, performing pretty decently here. It is only down 0 .2%. Solana is actually up 0 .3 % while Ethereum is down 0 .6 % and Bitcoin down 1 .4%. But let's look at the top gainers here. Oh, I see a good juicy Chainlink pump. What is going on, Drew? Yeah. You're feeling good about it. I'm feeling good about it. I've been telling people to buy Chainlink. My 3 .2 should have been 4 .2, man. I'm missing out on that one Chainlink pump. I know. My heart goes out to everyone distracted by drama because Chainlink is crushing it. Yeah, yeah. Me, I'm focusing on crypto prices. I'm focusing on crypto news. And I'm focusing on bettering my situation as we get closer and closer to the halving and then beyond. I think the next 12 months after halving will look pretty good for Bitcoin. All right. Well, let's look at the top gainers. We have Aptos leading the way. Aptos is up 3 .7%. There were some counterfeit Aptos tokens. Is this, you know, maybe the team, the community pumping the token? That way, if you see, oh, a bunch of bad Aptos news, let me look into it. Oh, it's the best gainer of the day. Oh, it must not have been anything. Maybe there's a little element of that going on. Number two, though, we have Chainlink. Chainlink pumping up 3 .2%, up 8 .2 % for the week. Frac shares up 2 .9%, and ImmutableX is up 2 .2%. Was 3 .7 % just an hour ago. I actually have two of the top four coins here. I can't believe it. I'm assuming I'm going to have zero losers in the biggest losers of the day. Can I get any thoughts on SEI from JA? Get forward. Well, one, you got to get a Chevy or a Honda. That's your first problem. SEI, I don't really have any. We'll look at it as the top losers and the top gainers. All right. After that, though, we're seeing ImmutableX, then ThorChain, then Law Enforcement Officer token, then we have Bitcoin Cash up 1 .7%. But after that, it's going below 1 .5%. Really not seeing anything too crazy. Now we're going to the losers. We want to make sure your coin is not in the biggest losers of the day, and the best way to make that happen is to hit the like button. That's what I've heard. I don't know if it's true or not. Whoo! Radix is down, and it is down heavy, folks. It is down 11 .9%, and WeMix is up 65 % for the week, but it is down 8 % for the day. You can see it just cracking in the top 100. That's why we haven't really been used to seeing WeMix. It looks like it's just now getting in the top 100. Then we have Render, then we have Optimism, then we have EOS, then we have XRP. I have a small bag of XRP, but I have nothing in the top 5 there. Radix, have you been ever trying to trade? Radix get in and out. You always see it in the losers and gainers. No. So one of the problems with trading altcoins, especially when you're using TA, is some of those altcoins, they can move very quickly without TA helping them. So those ones, you definitely have to get in, be aware of what's happening with adoption, be aware of what's happening with stories. The charts still help, but the charts can't give you the complete picture. And I don't do a lot of digging on little altcoins like that. Yeah, Radix down 12%, but up 6 % for the day. So people got in a week ago. They're still looking good, even though they're down almost 12 % right now. Let's see. So what was that? The Super Chat coin there again. SEI. SEI. I don't know how to pronounce it. I always see it up there. Well, it's a newer coin, correct? Yeah, it's a newer coin. I mean, it's a new coin. It's going to be too soon to kind of give it any real data if we click. I just want to get that spike off the axis there. I mean, it looks like it's bouncing off that level. I mean, very, very limited TA. Looks like market buyers are buying it when it hits that level. So maybe they'll continue to buy it, but maybe they'll quit buying it. Maybe it falls through that support. Yeah, the charts. There technically actually is a little bit of bullishness about it going on. Definitely hitting in a place flashing oversold.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SPECIAL REPORT: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial Defense Episode 1
"FTX collapsed this week from crypto king to criminal suspects. The less generous view is that you have committed a massive fraud. I mean, I'm deeply sorry. Saying sorry means nothing. I made a series of mistakes that seem they don't just seem dumb. They seem like the type of mistakes I could see myself having ridiculed someone else for having me. I'm Zach Guzman. You're listening to the SPF defense podcast, an exclusive coinage investigation. I've met SPF in person three times. Once when he just bought the naming rights to the Miami Heat's arena, once in the Bahamas at their huge extravaganza with Tom Brady, and once at his parents' home under house arrest, ankle bracelet included. In fact, I was the last journalist to interview him before he was sent to prison for breaking his bail agreement. I showed up to his parents' house near Stanford's campus on a Sunday and was immediately greeted by a security guard who informed me I'd have to leave all my electronics with him outside. I had interviewed Sam plenty of times, just never after being wandered down with a metal detector, and certainly never while he was under house arrest. Three hours later, Sam agreed to answer questions from the coinage community and surprisingly handed me about 50 pages of documents outlining his defense strategy, and exactly what he says led to FTX's downfall. After reading it through and realizing neither myself nor anyone at coinage is an attorney, we brought in the best person we could think of, Mark Litt, the government's lead prosecutor in his case against Bernie Madoff. This is part one of our series investigating SBF's upcoming defense. In this episode, Mark Litt provides his unique insight on the unanswered questions surrounding the relationship between SBF and Caroline Ellison, his girlfriend turned cooperating witness. You were one of the former lead prosecutors on the Bernie Madoff case, one of the biggest Ponzi schemes, not the largest Ponzi scheme in American history. When you look at that case and compare it and contrast it with what's being alleged that Sam Bankman Fried did to St. Alameda and FTX, what do you see? Here, the government is alleging among other things that promises were made to investors and promises were broken, and the promises were material. So there's a couple of charges relating to derivatives, trading fraud and conspiracy to commit that fraud. There's one I think for conspiracy to commit securities fraud and the substantive count of securities fraud. There is money laundering attached to those. So it's not a Ponzi scheme, but it's fraud. It just happens to be in a wrapper of cryptocurrency, which is novel. Well, just start on what you would do if you were Sam's attorney. Well, what I would have been doing and what I would be doing right now is developing whatever I can to cross the cooperators who are going to be critical to the prosecution. When you look at what's happening here and the fact as this goes to trial that you're going to need to convince 12 jurors that a crime was carried out, how does that element of cryptocurrency or the fact that maybe it's not as simple as an outright Ponzi scheme, what does that do to the prosecution side, defense side when you think about what's going to happen in this case? I don't think it changes it all that much. In a trial involving an equity stock or a bond, you may have to do some explanation to the jury about some of the terminology they're going to hear about. Cryptocurrency is newer. You might have to do a little bit more of that to provide context. But the case isn't about cryptocurrency. It's about, again, representations made and not kept. It's about taking money from one pocket and using it for purposes of another company in another pocket without the investor knowing that. That's not hard for a jury to understand. The defense may want to make it about cryptocurrency and go off on a tangent about the intricacies of trading and all of that, but it's not really relevant to the charges.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
"12%" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Briefing
"I think his tweets have been a pretty important in driving traffic to Twitter. The company, of course, has been lost making for many years. And in many ways, Elon Musk was a great ambassador for Twitter before he was even considered spending $44 billion buying it. So of course he has driven a lot of publicity and a lot of traffic to Twitter, albeit with a lot of controversy as well. You and pots as ever, thank you so much for joining us on Monaco radio. You were the briefing. Finally, on today's program, violence against women is endemic in Austria. The numbers aren't clear, but it's estimated that since 2010, more than 350 women have been murdered, including 8 already this year, mostly by their male partners or close family members. In 2021, Austria was the only EU country where more women were killed than men, activist groups say there's an average of three women are killed in the country every month. Well, after years of official neglect, there are signs that the authorities are finally taking note. Monocles Alexei Coriolis in Vienna brings us this report. Here, just in front of this corner and the whole neighborhood knew her. She was a 35 year old woman and one of the centers here and
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"12%" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"And Addis Ababa 7 16 a.m. here in London, you're back with the globalist. Now 5 months ago, Ethiopia's government and forces from the Tigray Region agreed to stop fighting. At the time, the Ethiopian government had enjoyed the support of regional special forces who had helped in the fight against the tigrayan rebels. Well, now the Ethiopian prime minister has announced that these local militias will be brought into a centralized state security structure, and there have been protests against it. Well, joining me on the line from Nairobi is Patricia Rodriguez, his associate directorate control risks, a very good morning to you Patricia. Good morning. I just explained to us just a little bit of context first. The truce was crucial after two years, wasn't it? Because that war had killed thousands and displaced millions. A complete agreed, so the truth that came into place from in November last year has had a few ups and downs, but broadly both sides have been committed to ending the fighting integral, but there was a crucial part that was missed out in that these regional forces such as the empire regional forces, as well as the Eritrean forces weren't involved in any of those peace talks. So what we're starting to see now is that lack of involvement slightly coming to the head. Almost a delighted to say we're joined on the line for an Addis Ababa by Samuel guercio, who is a journalist based in Ethiopia. Good morning to Samuel. Just build a little bit on what Patricia was saying there was how important for the Ethiopian government was this help from these regional militias. Well, there were really helpful. The finals complemented the Ethiopian forces in terms of trying to defeat what they saw as a terrorist organization, which is to grab people's liberation front. They played a very paramount role in what a year it has been. Now they're fighting they're trying to fight against the wishes of the Ethiopian government, which has been an ally to them for the two years of the Civil War in the northern parts of Ethiopia. So Patricia, this decision by the prime minister abiy Ahmed to bring these local militias into a state security structure. It's understandable why this is being seen as such a difficult choice, isn't it? What is it that made him do this? So essentially, Abby has always advocated for a stronger role of the federal government and his administration largely views the fact that each regional state has access to and control over its own sizable regional force is a potential threat to the national unity of Ethiopia. So in Abbey's mind, one of the ways to bring Ethiopians closer together is to make sure that all these different regional states are essentially working a lot closer together, especially on the security side. So this move is really intended to bring a greater sense of unity and to in some ways decrease the authority and power of regional states in the security sector specifically. But this unity that Abbey wants Samuel isn't happening, isn't in fact, in fact, it's created quite the opposite. It has your guests said RB wanted a much stronger federal force. But harass our feeling that they might be attacked from the TPLF from the northern side from the oromia side. And they have been saying that there is a sense of amhara genocide which they've highlighted. There's a sense that being attacked all over the country. So they feel this is targeting them hard as per se. And this is what a bee wants is really, again, it's an interest of them, how are people that they've unleashed? That's why much of the protest is happening. The roads are opening up this morning, but they've been closed businesses have closed, and the people determination is there to really defeat what RB wants to do, which is try to take the power from the regional forces. Staying with you. On that point, the prime minister abiy Ahmed has said that he's going to go ahead with these plans, even if a price had to be paid. What do you think that price could be? And when you are walking around at a sababa and people are saying, you know, this is affecting our business. I mean, do people genuinely believe that his move is worth it? Well, you know, there's a sense that Ethiopian society, the open society, rarely compromises are saying they're going to fight on obvious saying there's going to be a price if there is a price he's going to go forward and really fulfill the mission that he said you will do. But there's a sense. It's not just an all over amhara regions that all the businesses have closed some of the most important foreign investments in the country are in Deborah brahan where much of the protest is happening. The beer companies from Europe are in Debra Han, the coffee farmers that really supply much of the coffee that Ethiopia exports to European countries are in amhara. So this is really a fake tea. Not just the everyday businesses, but also for an investment, which is really important to a country like Ethiopia. Patricia is a chance that this could destabilize the peace treaty that had been so hard fought for. The short answer is maybe. So on one hand, I'm racial forces and politicians weren't really involved in the peace agreement between the tigray and forces and the federal government. So this as Samuel had said has really triggered this backlash, especially in amhara who feel like they're being betrayed, could it upset the peace deal Integra, it's highly unlikely mostly because that peace deal was not signed by any of the empire forces. However, there are some unconfirmed reports that this is really trying to pressure horror forces to withdraw from parts of tigray, which they are already are, or which they have been heavily deployed in during the conflict. So in that sense, this push to try and get them to withdraw from tigray could be a potential spoiler for the peace deal, but ultimately this peace deal was signed between two different parties. So the tigrayans and the federal government with the empire regional forces not really involved. And in a wider context family, if you are living in Ethiopia, bordering the likes of Somalia, if you don't have these local militia to protect you, where are you going to see greater areas of risk? Well, if you're speaking to someone from the perspective of the prime minister, he would say that he's going to implement a stronger force that will defend the interests of Ethiopia. Also, I would like to highlight there is also a disputed land between the tigray forces and the amhara forces in the borderline between amhara and tigray, that have taken over from the tigray side, which they claim is theirs. So there's a fear that this land would be transferred to the tigray side, and they fear that unless they have their own forces, the Ethiopian government might compromise and give it back to the great region. It's been a disputed area for generations. And amharas feel that it's theirs as much as the Tigris are claiming it's theirs. From Arizona, Samuel gets to choose thank you so much for joining us and to Patricia Rodriguez on the line from Nairobi, thank you. Still to go on today's program, the IMF says economic turmoil is on the way. I'm Chris treme in Washington and I'll be looking at the International Monetary Fund's warning of a global financial crisis, and what central banks should do about it. Stay with us on the globalist. UBS has over 900 investment analysts from over 100 different countries. Over 900 of the sharpest minds and freshest thinkers in the world of finance today. To find out how we could help you. Contact
The La Jolla Cosmetic Podcast
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"Hello and welcome. I'm your hostess Monique Ramsey. We are back with our 12 days of beauty, and this is our 14th annual, by the way, 12 days of beauty.
Chats With Cats Podcast
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"That warm fuzzy feeling warm very warm discussing feeling anxiety it now. It was anxiety times. One hundred hours absolutely horrified the fun. This car was shaking and stopping. A pulling over. The car is done. it's a remember it's gas it's not right and i'm thinking i i on the job. How can i get out of this. So i call my girlfriend at the time dad. Who knew a bit about everything. And i said this is a situation. How can i get his lot. Can you get someone and get them to fill up. Your tank with petrol is what you're fucked. Oh i had to hang up and co the bus on the first day and tell him hello. This is mark the guy that you just employed like twenty four hours earlier. The car has ran out of gas. I missed the survey that you told me to get to. What the fuck do i. I had to get a guy to come in toy the fucking car from where i was the closest which was about forty ks. So he came. We got the fucking car todd on their sitting in the front seat. You just a fucking idiot but to myself we get the car off. We fill it up with gas of draw ended up being about three or four hours light. That was my first night work and sure enough. Three is lighter always like working healthcare. I've got this job at ashford hospital. I wanna work there but if ever you need me to work for you just let me know. And he's like show minorities sure enough never heard from probably received that going. This is the best thing ever you telling me that you can no longer work for me and if you ever need work just let me know. I didn't even have to fire. It would have been anyway anyway so my friends gave me. Nickname feud is around. Told them i couldn't believe it. Like the gasman unika because can come. I had the nickname the gasman a few months. It was horrible. That's embarrassed fuck up more on a scott more attention and i guess again that you want unless you paying attention who could it be.
Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast
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"Not not just at the surface you now as if you were a animal so we used it certainly for spearfishing but you know for example. Let me give you. This is probably the highlight of the month for me mice skipper. David took me to Like his passageway and there were a bunch of waves. And as i get off the boat like okay like what we're gonna die. You're gonna die here. But i could tell something was different. He didn't drop the anchor. He wasn't getting in the water. So as me it wonderful gabriella push us off. And i can see the current. I'm like. oh it's kind of it's moving fast. And then i looked down on the water. And i realized that it's like it's not moving fast it's ripping ripping essentially like a rip current So it's called called the drift dive. Dri drift dive. And we're like if you've seen finding nemo or or When they're in that rift all the way to australia. That's what it was so for like five minutes. We are under the water. Imagine being sucked. Horizontally a perpendicular to the ocean floor site laterally parallel today. But you're able to hold your breath for a minute or two so you're just like being shot through a canon. The fish swimming with you swimming against you like a seat third are all around so you get to experience the ocean and nature. In a way you've never seen before Similar to scuba diving but different because scuba you still kind of feel like separate you have this thing on your face. You feel less natural when you're down there without any that fish wanna play with you. And they're curious they come up to do it like who the hell are you and you can like make sounds on rocks. You could throw up sand and they all start circling around you. So it's really special. And i think it opens a whole possibilities. How are you finding the masters. Because that's another part of this like the skill like you doing. The skill is one part but the masters and as you mentioned the stories that these people. I like david furnish canadian who got sick of life in canada and decide to come down and taught himself like that. You're finding really unique people. Because you're immersed in a subculture that you had no idea existed had weren't a part of before and all of a sudden. You're like whoa. There's some interesting characters here. How are you deciding who the masters are going to be. And then follow up question. Would you can answer. How are you getting how you talking to them in saying. Hey i'm just as dude coming for a month that i really wanna learn this. What's what's the pitch or are most of them just like this is a cool project like i wanna be a part of. That was so finding the guys on the kind of person. That's not a planner in. Yeah we understand that four days you wanted to come to north carolina between behind. That was a plan for. You gonna make a plan with traffic four days in two of the four countries. I just showed up and i didn't. I didn't have anyone lined up. A bitterly started asked rump local seeing who was available seeing who would take me and just you know like for example in brazil found mastered. Start i who. I tested out. Didn't really connect the way i wanted to. So i had the other guy on standby. He ended up being exactly what i was looking for. So i'm not actively searching beforehand scrubbing the internet for like the best the best the best the kinda just presenting themselves in a really special way part of that. I'm sure is due to the few people that are traveling now so anytime i've walked up to one of these folks or made contact in advance. They've been super excited because they haven't had businesses so long So so their schedules are more open than they might. Otherwise be so. I think i'm getting a bit lucky. you know again. I do trust in the universe to large degree. So i think that that's part of it in a wet whether you call it. Good karma but frankly i've been growing global network for the last fifteen years nonstop travel living the road so i will really robust a human network that i trust so i definitely ask people for recommendation. They put me in touch with the right people so far so good i think it comes down to you. Know who you know and and it will come yet. You mentioned the one in kenya being the the one specific one that you really needed to do some planning ahead of time right so talk us through how that came about because that is one that you couldn't just rock up. Say hey i want to learn this. And i think that might be the same with treasure hunting. For example you know cooking. Italy and sailing in france. I could maybe not selling transplant but with africa. So me and my One of my best buddies. We hosted a travel conference for high end luxury properties of Luxury properties in morocco every year and one of the women name robin represents a company called secluded africa. And she her and her family have a number of beautiful. Like sustainable. eco. Friendly lodges all throughout kenya and other parts of southern africa. So she heard about what i was doing. Just from the graham. And she's like mike you know if you if you want to come to africa. I'm gonna go now. Look that the plan was to become a masai warrior one of the ones like red robes into spear and she goes well. Yeah you could do that. But she's like. I think i have something that might interest you even more And that's when she sorta pitched me on the conservation ranger concept but our first call actually have filmed we face them. She goes mike like this is just so you know it's no joke like you're going to be out in the wilderness. These guys are going to put to the test. Normally in six months of training they're going to consolidate at for you into one month's and your final tests may very well be being out in the in the seren getty by yourself for a weekend surviving amongst animals and you might not come back. She's like do you really want that. And your camera persons. I know this is your dream mike. Not mine has been a little bit of that at So yes she's lined up. She got special permission from the conservation group. In and i think the government as well and She's going to dial it in us because when you told me about that i actually thought oh well. That's i didn't know what it was. i was like. Oh that's kind of boring and like that. That's not going to be very hard or very dangerous or anything like that and you were like no. Actually this is probably the most dangerous thing that i will do because of animals but also because poachers it's essentially special forces training. Your firefighter policeman your first aid. You're you're you're all of it in the wilderness by yourself that any support systems. Have you had any times where you've been given pause a bit either for these last four or anything coming up where you think aright that might be debt. Might be too far like it. Might be too hard and i might. I might just not be able to complete it or it might just push me too far that that i'm endanger too much genuinely that were pause. I'd probably have never thought about that word in my life. I'm not even making like a funny joke by model for many years was go go go. You can't go any faster. Go when you can't go any further. Go faster i've since changed it a little bit but no look. I have concerns. I reflected think about things. But i've not. I've not said no to anything because of fear. Were doubt if i don't accomplish something i don't care frankly if you watch any of these episodes or follow me. I'm terrible at all of the things that i start other than sauce. That was pretty good. Start in that one out. But i'm a complete embarrassment in its struggle bus usa. There's a lot of doubt and.
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
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"Today's episode you guys. I'm pretty excited about this. This is going to be cool and honestly you can thank my assistant reagan for this one because you guys probably have figured out that i am very much a type a personality right. I'm a list maker. i am a planner. And i will have all of these ideas of content. I want to create all these lists of podcast topics Things topics. I wanna do about many courses. I wanna create masterclasses. You know i love doing all those things. Webinars do all these things with you guys and so i just have all of these lists of topic ideas and content ideas and it gets really overwhelming for me. You know because reading through all these endless topic ideas and possible titles for episodes and and i can get really overwhelmed. I'm like oh my gosh. I don't know if that's a good idea. That's a bad. Do they want to hear about that. They want me to talk about that. Does that sound dumb. You know. I have no idea so a while back. I sat down with my assistant in handed her. This list and i was like pick ten things off this list that you think sound cool now. My assistant is not an addicted person right. She is a totally non addicted. One of those weird people and god bless her. I love her. And i just wanted. I have to get it out of my head in out of my control. You know because. I'll just second guess everything and talk myself out of it and and i don't know always what will be cool to you guys you know so i just hander. This list i go. I want you to pick ten things off this list. That sound cool. That sound interesting to you that you might like to know more about For me to record podcasts.
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
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"Hello lana. I am so excited to do this. Show with you. I have been searching everywhere for a relationship expert to talk to myself and my listeners. About relationship stuff in a lot of my listeners know relationships are the other thing that i study a lot too as well as addiction. And i was telling you before we started recording because those were my two biggest struggles in life right addiction in relationships. So that's it's something that i've always been so curious about and how to be better at it myself and more understanding and patient and all of those things so i am so excited to get into this conversation. This is lana lana. Why don't you take a second and let everybody know a little bit about you. Well beforehand went to say thank you for inviting me angela. And so excited to be here. Having mazing conversation die really deep and explore this very important powerful topics. I am on a relationship intimacy. Experts and i mostly work with women and couples on their relationships and my angle is to help couples to create the deepest level of intimacy and sustain. so basically. we're working a lot on leasing. All social cultural conditioning. Healing wounds between feminine and masculine creating a to france more customized unique relationship containers where we can be ourselves. You know on explode with through truth between us and how we can grow together. So they're different layers into this work and I'm really excited to take this path and explore how it can be connected with addiction. I think that's an exciting topic.
Discover Music Channel (Discover Music Channel)
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"Break debbie. Somebody got a problem with yourself. Fed up because i got little shot at him without speaking nappy. Young rapper his net me monday. Go big more money. It's ice cold bills distraught. Walk watch doctrove. Debbie nice kulsum. Nice clean bird ethnic rumble. God no you waited in the wings.
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"12%" Discussed on Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"Down three things you want to get done today. I didn't even realize this was down this list. Because i've said it like two hundred times so again being intentional you know i post it. Notes that sit right next to my bed on my bedside table. So that's where i write down my three things. I want to get done that day. Because i have to sometimes do it the night before and i'll put that post it note on my lamp or i'll put it on my phone or i'll put it on my bathroom mirror right so i see those three things so i remember that those are the three things i wanna be focused on but is a great practice. I have to do this to keep me focused. Because you know like i said it's distraction city in my life so write down three things you want to get done today in and keep those close to you and last one number twelve so freaking important. Make the decision that today will be amazing. I really want you to sit with that for a minute. Because i see all these posts everybody uses the word. Hope i hope. I have a better day. I hope this gets better. i hope i don't relapse listen. I hope i win the lottery. Hope is not getting you anywhere. Being intentional with your actions is what will get if i want ten million dollars. It ain't gonna happen in the lottery. It's gonna happen by me being intentional. In how i live my life in the moves i make every day. That's how get there right if you wanna stay sober. Then you get intentional about how you spend your time and what you're doing and where your little feet take you and you get intentional about the activities you partake in to stay sober. You don't hope you take action so make the decision. That today will be amazing. Don't hope for a good day have a good day. Think in your head get intentional. What could i do to make today. Great.
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
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"My journal entry starts with today was a shit show. You know like it could be anything. You guys don't over think it. Just sit down and write. You know what. I feel good today. My mood feels light today. I'm looking forward to today. I'm going to see my girlfriend for launch. I can't wait for that today. Whatever keep it simple. you're practicing. Don't blow it out of proportion to make it something. It doesn't have to be spend a few minutes and just jot down a few things in your journal. If you have some down energy right about that for a minute and then write about some solutions. don't ever stop on a downside back it up with a positive side. My anxiety is a little bit high today. So i'm gonna make sure i take some time to do. Deep belly brushed throughout the day. I know that will make me feel better. There's a journal entry okay. Number seven eat a healthful breakfast. Now i get up super early in the morning. I do not eat breakfast when i get up. I'm not hungry. i'm not interested. I am very focused on getting things done that early in the morning like i said i try to do a lot before the rest of the world wakes up. Because then it's distraction central in my life. So i don't eat when i get up. I do have breakfast. But it's typically after. I get home from the gym Which is like mid morning which is just a regular time by the way. It's probably regular breakfast. Time for other people to ten thirty that i get home from the gym but i make sure that my first meal of the day is healthful again. I am intentional about what i eat as my first meal of the day. I make sure i have something healthy. Good protein packed because that sets me up for success for the rest of my day because afternoon and evening time is when i struggle to eat. Well you know once it's late afternoon like three four five o'clock that is my danger zone. That is my food danger zone. So if i can start from my very first meal being healthy and a lot of protein which makes you stay fuller longer than i'm setting myself up to do better in my few hours that i'm gonna struggle right so eat a healthful breakfast and i always make sure i drink a big loss water and i take my vitamins. Then number eight gopher a short or long walk either way short or long walk. Walking is so freaking good for you and you can have a conversation with the committee while you're walking if that's your thing i love being out when it's cool and crisp in the morning love. It love walking my dog. It's so nice. I don't care how far you go. I don't care if you walk down to the end of your street and back. I don't care if you walk to the of your driveway in back. Go for a walk take some deep belly. Brett's get some fresh air. Have a conversation with the committee while you do it. Walk out and get the or walk out and get the newspaper. What do people have the newspaper anymore. I'm sure they do. I don't know but those few minutes you can be intentional. How you use those few minutes game changer..
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
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"I live by these videos. You know that. I talked about all the time i listen to every single day. I listened to a video whether put on my car. I know it's a video but you don't have to watch them. Watching them isn't the important part. It's listening to them. The ones i listen to its listening. That's the important part. So i can do my car i can do it. When i'm on the treadmill i can do it while. I'm brushing my teeth. I can do it while i'm in the shower. Whatever see the showers and other time that you can use with intention because you're already in there. This is one of the best times for me. Because i'm trapped. I'm already in the shower. I make captive audience. There's nothing else i can be doing in time. I can't be multitasking right. So whatever is on has my full attention. That's being intentional. I used that time intentionally. Okay so reader. Listen to something inspiring again. This can be three minutes. Don't blow it out of proportion. Drink a big glass of water. I try to why don't try to do every night. Glass of water is the last thing i have before i go to bed every morning when i get up. A glass of water is the first thing i have before i start my day before. Brush my teeth or do anything. I have a glass of water that sits on my nightstand. Soon as i get up. I drink my first glass of water again. When thus on my nightstand right i get up on time during my glass of water to victories. In thirty seconds to victories i'm already crushing it and i haven't even gotten out of bed yet. That's big you guys. All right number four. Have a conversation with the committee to plan your day. This is the conversation i'm talking about. Why brush my teeth. I have that conversation with the committee. This i want my day to go. I need to make sure i do this. This and this..
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
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"Morning routine ideas one get up on time. Don't hit the snooze. Why do i say this. Because you're going to feel so freaking good about yourself. If you get up on time it is a game changer. It starts your day with a whole new energy instead of waking up. Lay being irritated..
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"Teeth. That's it bam that's simple it doesn't have to take time the other thing. I wanna talk about morning routines to you. Don't have to do the same exact thing. You gotta give yourself some wiggle room because everybody's going to be different on this. Some people love to do exactly the same thing every day all the time and they're very comfortable with that. If you're that person perfect do that but if you're a person that catches your self struggling to stick to one thing every single day the same thing then you switch things up or you do it a different way. I love to meditate. That doesn't mean. I meditate single day of my life or that i meditate in the same way every day of my life. Sometimes i'll sit in a different room. Sometimes i'll go on youtube. And i'll look up a new meditation. Sometimes i'll listen to something completely. Different or do visualization or. I'll do walking meditation. Because i can only do the same thing for so long so for me. It's like batches you know like. I'll have a few months that i do this. One thing like podcasting. I'm sure you guys are the same way like all few months that all i do is listen to podcasts constantly. Podcasts all the time. And then i kinda get out of that phase and it'll be audiobooks in all be reading books constantly all the time and then on grew out of that. It'll be youtube. And i'll be watching videos all the time you know so you have to have different things to plug in. It doesn't have to be routine. Doesn't mean the exact same thing all the time. It means that you have a routine that you're going to do something intentionally to care for yourself and put yourself in a good mind space. That's the routine. It's not about the specific actions. It's just that you have a routine of doing things to be happy healthy and make yourself a better human and to be more productive in your life. Okay let's get to these twelve things twelve morning routine ideas again. Don't blow this out of proportion. Don't think you have to do all twelve of these. I'm saying pick two maybe three. That's all in. None of these should be more than ten to fifteen minutes they can if you're at a different place if you've been practicing longer and you're more disciplined in. You can do longer. Like i promise you when i started morning routine thing was probably three minutes now. I can do more stuff. Because i'm more disciplined. I've been doing it longer. I have more practice. So but don't blow this out of proportion and think that you've got to do each of these things for an hour apiece. No dude no do each of these things for a few minutes again. The key is that you are consistent. It's not how long you do it. You can build on. How long you do it once you get better at it and more comfortable doing it but in the beginning keep it small bite sized pieces because i want you to do it consistently so make it make it fast make it easy twelve.
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
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"Telling you. I watched three shows last week in all three of them have a main character main storyline around addiction recovery. And i was like. Wow this is crazy in. it's so beautiful too. Because they're all high functioning successful people married with families not homeless not uneducated not poor. Not all those things that people think you have to be. These things to have addiction rightly are just regular people. And i got this warm and fuzzy feeling you guys because i love it when they put us out there in such a realistic composite way. We are everywhere. People with addiction are everywhere. There's nothing weird about us. There's nothing different about us. We're just regular people living life in doing all the same things that everybody else is doing. And what a beautiful thing to see that portrayed on television instead of just the insanity of drunken party lifestyle that we've been so saturated with for so many years you know like i just love this and you know my favorite show. My favorite favorite show is a million little things. One of their primary characters is an addict. He was alcoholic and that has always been a story line in the show and he had an injury pain pills and now it's this current storyline of the world. Right injury surgery pain pills addict so i just love seeing this and this is one of the things also. I can get a little protective of a when people say they go to a and don't connect or i went to a and it didn't work for me and i can get my feelings hurt by that. Sometimes because i think about the people in those rooms in that we are the same people that you encounter everywhere in your life we are the via the vp. Of your bank. We are the person in the checkout line. Ringing up your groceries we are your real estate agent. We are the person sitting next to you at church every sunday. We are the people that you are surrounded with everywhere you go so it seems weird to me when people say oh i went to a in. I didn't connect or i went and it didn't work for me. I'm like how does it not work for you. We're the same. We're the same people that you were drunk with at the bar or at your office party like. How do you not connect. You know it's like you don't connect because you don't want to connect because we are just regular people. We are hilarious. We are really smart and we're the same people that you see everywhere you go. I promise you every day when you're standing in line somewhere. Hopefully socially distanced in line around you. I promise you is a person because we're everywhere but anyway i just wanted to bring that up. All of that that that. That stigma is being broken down. It's okay to have addiction. It's okay to be sober. It's okay to just be who you are in to be okay with that within yourself is the first step to getting acceptance in feeling accepted in the rest of the world. You have to accept yourself and that is a big piece of my morning routine. You didn't think i was going to be able to tie that all together did you. But here we are my morning routine.
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"12%" Discussed on Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"I was with those people. And that's when it dawned on me. I was like. Oh my gosh. That is not how i want people to feel when they hang out with me like that is not the effect i wanna have on the world so i knew i had to make some changes and i want to be a positive force in people's life right. I want you when you hang up the phone with me or walk away from me after having dinner or even clients you guys doing group coaching in the vip sober society. When those calls. And i want you to feel good because all the energy in that room has been good. That's why i focused so much on the positive side of thing and celebrating victories instead of being constantly in the problem. And what's not working. What's working against me. And what's so hard. I don't wanna focus on those things. I want to focus on the victories to focus on the solution. Because that's how you create change and that's how you feel better. I hope all of that makes sense before. I get into these two deep. I want to say one other thing. I was noticing last week. You know there are so many of us out in the world who really are core belief and desire is to create change around the negativity of sobriety right like. There's no reason that we should feel weird for being the nondrinking people in the group right because it's so common for that people drink and it sucks that. There's this weird stigma around sobriety. I don't even care about the stigma of addiction or alcoholism because really that's breaking down so fast if you're still a person that has the thought in your head that being an alcoholic means you know you're homeless. Listen a hot mess. And whatever like that's your old school stuff that's not reality and that's not what the majority of people think. I think everybody's pretty clear at this stage of the game that alcoholism and addiction can take down anybody in everybody..
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"12%" Discussed on Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"Hey everybody welcome to the addiction. Unlimited podcast where you get to learn everything you want to know about addiction and recovery. I'm your host. Angela pugh co founder of kansas city. Recovery life coach and recovering alcoholic to learn more about me. You can listen to episodes zero on your podcast app or find us on the web at addiction. Unlimited dot com. Hey there welcome to episode number one hundred fifty eight of the addiction unlimited podcast. I'm your coach angela. Pugh thank you for spending some time with me today. Listening to the pod..
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"12%" Discussed on Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
"I want to start with. I wanna play this snippet for you of matthew mcconaughey. And a talk he did. He is an amazing speaker. And any of you that have done my mindset makeover video series. He's in a couple of the videos. I share with you during that mindset makeover and that's totally free five day of video every day to your inbox but i wanna play the snippet for you because this is exactly what we're talking about in. This is what i want you to think about is just as important where we are not as it is where we are. Look the first step that leads to our identity. Life is usually not. I know who i am. I know who i am. That's not the first step the first step. Usually i know who i am not process of elimination defining ourselves by what we are not is the first step that leads us to really know who we are a group of friends that you hang out with their they really might not bring out the best in the gossip too much kind of shady <unk>. Gonna be there for you in a pinch about that bar. We keep going to that. We always seem to have the worst hangover from over that computer screen right. The computer screen keeps giving us an excuse not to get out of the house and engaged with the world. It gets real human interaction. I bet that food that we keep eating stuff taste good. Going down makes us feel like crap. The next week we feel when he put on weight will those people those places those things stop giving them your time and energy. Just don't go there. i mean. put them now. And when you do this when you put them down when you quit you quit giving them your time you inadvertently find yourself spending more time and in more places that are healthy for you that bring you more joy. Why because you just eliminated the who's the wears the once in the winds that were keeping you from your identity. Trust me too many options. I promise you there's too. Many options will make tyrant of is. All i get rid of the excess wasted time. Decrease your options. If you do this you will have accidentally almost innocently put in front of you. What is important to you process. Elimination how about that. I love this thought process in. This is so much what i think about. When i'm thinking about changes that i wanna make or when i'm thinking about if my anxiety is extra high or i'm feeling uncertain which guesses anxiety to right but this is what i think about like. What are there things in my life that are causing me more anxiety and discomfort in disease and this is people places and things we talk about this in twelve step programs a lot and again when you want to change something when you want something in your life to be different. Then you have to do things differently and often times. That's going to mean making decisions differently. It's going to mean different people. Different places different things. Have you ever thought about it this way about moving things that don't serve you rather than adding more things. i think. We have a tendency to add more things. Like we're always in this quest for happiness and it's about stuff and things wanting to add things to distract us right in. I'm all about distraction especially in the throes of a craving or high anxiety or when. You're super upset. I think in those moments one of the best things you can do is kind of distract yourself until some of that emotion comes down in then. You can figure out really how to cope with it and often times. That quest for happiness is more about removing things. That aren't serving us. And that's really what i want to get into in some changes that i did in twenty twenty. That made a big difference for me and it just food for thought some things that you can think about again especially going into this new year this fresh new perspective the next version of you that you're going to build the next level of your sobriety your life your relationships. I want you to think about some of the things that you can take out of your life. That just don't serve you. Well the first things that i really started to cut down on in the beginning of corona virus was news in negative information. And this isn't just about corona virus but also this kind of place together but also the political part of everything. The last few years has just been super toxic and weird and divisive and i. I don't like divisive anyway. So i don't like to play into that. That news just got super overwhelming to me now. Obviously i check in. We have a