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"This is the Art Beauty podcast where we are always reaching for truth in beauty. Remember, the brands on here are not paying to be here, so we get to ask the questions that you want answered because you deserve to be informed so you can make the best decisions for yourself. With that, I'm Amber. I will be your host today. And my fabulous co -hosts are Chase Sim and Nadia Kozlova. They are the founders of Victor Michael, a line that is created just for post -injection care. We're going to be talking all about that. But before we do, welcome to the show, ladies. Thanks for being here. Thank you, Amber, for having us. Where are you? Where are you guys located in the country? We're in Seattle, Washington. Okay, great. And now, you know, before we get into these products, because I do want to talk a little bit about post -injection care, why it matters, what's going to sort of set this apart. But you both have a very interesting and sort of long history in the beauty market. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Absolutely. I was wondering, I was looking at that, I was like, okay, usually that's cute. So Nadia and I have been in the medical spa industry for over 23 years. We opened up our own three clinics back in 2010. So we've had the pleasure of seeing the bad, the good, the ugly from all aspects of the med spa business. So we're just really lucky to have entered this industry and this space back when we did. And Nadia, where were you guys? Just the owners, like it's Cucumber, right? Was the name of your med spa? Cucumber and Lounge. Yes, Cucumber and Lounge. And were you both aesthetic? Like, were you nurses? Were you doing injections? Or were you sort of the brains behind the spas? Believe it or not, we just came up with this amazing brand. We've been in medical aesthetics for 23 years. A side note, a fun note is that we actually were one of the first people introducing Botox and injectables into the market back in the days when nobody knew what these injectables are all about. In the beginning, I didn't even know how to pronounce it the proper way. So it's been a long, long journey, but we're not injectors. We're not estheticians, although we probably were in the past life at some point. But we know how to do it. We just don't practice. Gotcha. And you've probably, Shay, seen thousands, if not tens of thousands of injections being done. Oh, absolutely. And having them done, yes. So let's talk a little bit about injections. When we get things like Botox, I've had Botox myself before. I know bruising is common. What are some of the other symptoms that you were really seeing people have in your med spas? I think, I mean, it can get as bad as it can potentially get. We are talking bruising, swelling, inflammation. And that's all without the potential of contraindication, right? Because that can happen too. But just the basics. If you get your lips done, it looks like a murder scene at some point the next day. And we have some photos to show that. You will swell up. We don't care how amazing your injector is. This is what we always say is that injector could be the most amazing person and having the most amazing technique. But that's just how the body is wired. This is just how we respond. So even in our clinics, we say, hey, we're awesome. You will swell up. You will bruise up. But now you got a tool to work with. You know, I've got to be honest. So I work with New Beauty magazine as well. And one of the doctors had pitched us and said, hey, Amber's never had lip injections. What if we did a first time lip injection video with her? And when I saw what the recovery is like for that, I said, no way. I'll just deal with my thin lips. Because really, no matter what, I haven't seen anybody who doesn't swell. And the swelling can be very vast. And that kind of lasts, what, three to five days, Shay, would you say? It could be three to five days up to two weeks. So like who doesn't want to go out? And it looks like you've got punched in the mouth or like you went to a really bad injector at first, correct? I mean, they swell. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It could be terrifying. It could be very minimal. And it could be pretty terrifying. You know, and Nadia, I know too, whenever I go get Botox, for me personally, I make sure I do not drink anything. I know they say for 24 hours before. But for me, I found that if I don't do it three to five days before, that's when the bruising really has a big difference for my personal skin. Have you found that kind of across the board? Oh, absolutely. Before coming up with Victor Michael, and that's kind of what led us to it, is that we know all the tips and tricks on how to make you go with less swelling, less bruising, so no drinking. And I understand what you're saying. Because I would have to literally do it for like a week prior to just to get my body prepared to it, right? And still, if they get a little blood vessel somewhere, I still bruise up right on the spot. So you kind of know walking out of there what's going to happen. Yeah. And you know what? The more I'm thinking about it, it is more like a week if you want no bruising. But for injectables like fillers, I'm sure that's a little bit different, correct? You probably have to have a little bit different. Shade, for people who are listening and who might be considering injections, without getting into specific products, do you have any tips for people at home for things that they can do to help minimize the swelling? Absolutely. So you want to definitely stop all supplements, just not knowing exactly what supplements can trigger the bruising and the swelling. So we always advise just stay off of everything for at least 24 hours, right? Next thing is don't be afraid to start taking some Arnica or Arnacare before. And of course, obviously, we can get into other products and everything. But prepping the body when you know that the needle is going to be hitting the skin. It's inserting the skin. And this is kind of what we go back to. It doesn't matter who your injector is. A needle is puncturing the skin. We are causing a wound. And anything to prevent that wound, such as taking an oral Arnacare, that's typically what we would have recommend or some bromelain. And then after, just don't touch. Don't touch the skin. And everybody wants to touch. Everybody wants to remold. And they're like, oh, I can help with swelling or something. It really comes down to just take the injector's direction and try to prevent by not taking anything as far as supplements. Maybe no alcohol prior. But that's all you can really do. And listen to your injector. Yes, absolutely. And of course, it goes without saying, no smoking. Don't go out in the sun. All these things that you should probably know better. But sometimes we need a gentle reminder, right? That's okay. So prior to having skincare or Victor Michael, which is a skincare line designed specifically to help minimize this sort of post -injection, bruising, swelling, what was our only options? Ice? That's pretty much it. So and that's why that was sort of a hard question to answer. Because your really only option was stop taking supplements. And here's your ice pack. And here's some Arnacare. Those were your options. So Shay, what was it that made you the sort of the lights which go off and say, well, we need something? And then how did you figure out what you needed to do? So being on the backside and the front side of medical spas and injections in general, right, we work with the patients first and foremost. And the number one deterrent when it comes to injections is the fear of downtime. And anybody will walk in, I want fillers, I want Botox. But the second question that always follows up is, what is my downtime? I have an event schedule. We have holidays coming up. My husband's going to be gone on a work trip. How do I schedule this in? I got three days to recover. So in our world, if you have post care for lasers, you have post care for peels, you don't have post care for injections. Why is that, right? After 23 years of Botox being introduced to the market, Cosmoderm, Cosmoplast being introduced back in 1999, 2000, why don't we have a pre and post injection care recovery system, right? So what we've done is we've taken what all of our amazing injectors have given our customers. That is the directions of go to Rite Aid, get your RNA care, go to the next Rite Aid or Target, go get your bromelain, go pick up whatever you can do to help prevent bruising, swelling, inflammation. So we took this recipe list that we were sending all of our customers to, and we said, let's put this in a bottle. Let's make this magic happen. Let's figure this out. What can we do? That's where the experiment started. And it worked. And we're like, holy cow, this is amazing. We need to now take it to the next level. So then that's how Victor Michael was created. Amazing. And Nadia, Shay mentioned some of the ingredients, but can you tell us a little bit more about what decided you to put into these formulas? So we've got two products here. What goes in them? What is sort of the magic, the secret, and the sauce? So the secret of the sauce is our patent pending injection care complex. We're obsessed with it. If I could, I want to bathe in it. It is a combination of Arnica, Dragon's Blood, Babassu oil, and bromelain. And in the serum, you have it at the highest levels where Arnica is at 15%. And this is probably the purest, the most amazing thing you could do for your skin. It's a phenomenal serum. I call it my little liquid gold, and I use it every single day, although you don't have to, but it's just the purest forms of all these amazing ingredients combined. Yeah, it's so good. It's beautiful. Yeah. What's funny is that it's now trending for a makeup primer. So who would have known that we're going to do that, right? Because it goes so well in your skin. We have formulated with everything with EWG in mind. So everything is great. It doesn't leave any of the residue on the skin. It goes on like it's a matted finish. So it's just really good for you. It's so funny that you said that because when I tried it the first time, first of all, I love the way it smells too. When I tried it the first time, to me, I really got this feeling. I was like, oh, this feels like a primer. It's hard to sort of tell here, but it almost has that smooth, sort of like a siliconey base, which I love that's perfect for makeup. Good to know. So is this something that people should be using only for injections or is it skincare that you can use all the time? Shae, do you want to add? Absolutely. What we consider, Victor Michael's sort of the beauty blender of the makeup industry. We blend in with every single skincare, first and foremost. So it doesn't matter what skin regimen that you're already using. We could just sneak that little serum right in there. Two is you absolutely can use this without injections. So when we're talking about the injection care complex and those main ingredients, not only are those main ingredients in the formula, but we've also added a ton of other resources in there as far as antioxidants go to help protect the skin, hydrators to keep that skin super moisturized. So what we're noticing is that your skin just feels amazing before and after, and people are continuing to use the product way after. Unfortunately, we have a lot of people sending us a lot of UGCs about, oh my God, we're using this for a sunburn. We're using this for some dry skin. And we're like, can we focus on injections? Right. Well, listen, it's good though, if people kind of understand and like they're falling in love with it for reasons beyond injections, because for most of us, injections are like every three to six months. So you want something that maybe people could use a little bit more. By the way, I love the packaging and I love the names of this. So taking this back, there's only two products in the line right now, right? The serum and the mask. So this is the Chow for Now mask. Tell us a little bit about what's in this. So the mask is a callan clay based mask. It has ginger root extract, apple fruit extract. It has some watermelon extract. It also has some red illness in there. This mask is a recovery mask. You can pre -treat with the mask too, but it soothes on contact. It cools and calms the skin. Oh my gosh. If you just put it on, you feel how it just chills and really just soothes. So imagine getting your fillers done and you are just, you're inflamed, you're sore, you're tender, and you put that mask on and it's like, oh, this feels so amazing. We have people who sleep in this mask and we're like, okay, yeah, I need my mask. It's okay. They sleep in it. I feel like it would get all over my pillowcases. It would be everywhere. I'm a tosser turner. Right? Is it even on when you wake up? I don't know. But we use it also called the Zoom Ready mask now. That's sort of what everyone's using because when you wake up and you're puffy, so regardless of injections, you fill that mask on and it just really helps soothe the skin. So it's pretty amazing. And Nadia, is there a right way to use this? So I was looking because it's not just, it is post -injection care, but you actually should start using this before the injections, correct? Can you tell us a little bit about the right way to use the system? Absolutely. You can. Well, if you're not me and using it every single day, then what you should really be doing is getting ready for your injections, right? So you can start it as soon as three times prior to the injections. And then you can technically pre -treat with both the mask and the serum. But we kept it super simple because we didn't want to have these crazy instructions for people to get confused with, right? So start with the serum three days prior to get your injections. And then a few hours later, start using your serum again and then add the mask as a booster. For comfort, you can actually stick the mask in the refrigerator, get it a little more cold so it's a little better for you, but it also has some built -in cooling in there. So it would go as well just as is for you. So just follow up with the serum and the mask and then use it as needed. Typically within three days, you're good to go. But if you needed to use it for a little longer, then just continue using as needed. And is the mask a daily use or is that kind of used like once after the post -injection and then maybe just keep it up with the serum? We would recommend using it morning and night. Yeah, for myself, when I get injected, I blow up, guys. I swell up, I blow up. We're chasing inflammation the second that needle gets into my skin. So I'm one of those really crazy patients with a lot of anxiety that goes into that chair. So I start using the mask maybe every two, three hours on the first day, yeah. And then afterwards, just maybe at night, morning and night, that's what the instructions say, but as needed, I would say. So definitely more than just twice a day. Amazing. And now, Shay, is there any thoughts? I imagine that you can probably use this around the lips. It might not be super comfortable to be putting serum and mask on the lips. We started talking about lips. Is there anything that you're thinking of specifically for lip care? Absolutely. So actually, our lip product will be out in the fall. And it's actually one of our very first SKUs we started working on. And it has probably been the most challenging because to try to get all of our amazing active ingredients in a beautiful lip product and not compromise the efficacy has been the biggest challenge. And we've nailed it. So we're finally in the stage to get this ready for launch. So we're really excited for lip. I have it on right now. I wear it every single day. It's a beautiful neutral color. And the lip name is called Nipple Nude. Oh, so it's actually going to be in a color as well. It's a very, very mauve -y, nipple nude tint. Nipple nude. I love that. So ladies, I have to ask, if people are interested in finding your products, where should they go? Well, there's a few places they can find us at right now. Obviously, our website, victormichael .com. Victor was a K. And then we're also launched with Moda Burandi. We're incredibly excited about it, as well as Shen Beauty out of New York. So you can find us on Moda Burandi on our website. And then we have a ton of retailers that we are aligning with as well for later launch. You know what? Before I let you go, I forgot the most important thing. What have been the results of this? What have people said after using this? Has it reduced the time? Do you have any sort of concrete facts on that or figures? We have actually done a perception study, blind study testing. And we had scored up in the 97, 100 % consumer test panel saying that has been the number one best pre and post injection care they've ever used. 97 % of the panelists said that by day two, their redness, swelling, inflammation has been reduced by over 50%. So yeah, our studies have been just absolutely mind blowing. But let me just share. Amber, the number one feedback that we get and that we are absolutely in love with is the testimonials that we received from the consumer panelists that we got after the study. And they said it was life changing. That having a product like this going on their injection journey for them to know that they have something, because sometimes it's just more than just the vanity, right? It's all about just how they feel. And for them to now get injections and to know that they have something to help comfort, to reduce the swelling, not because somebody is looking at them, but because the way it makes them feel, it has been life changing. So that has been the best feedback we've received. Well, I love to hear that. Always exciting to see new products coming into the market. And thank you for being sort of having the foresight to think, hey, this is a need that we need to fill, pun intended, and that we've done that. If people want to know more about you, where can they go? Right now, they can go to our website, www .victormichael .com, modaoperande .com, shenbeauty .com, and cucumberskinlounge .com. Amazing. And Nadia, if people are in the Seattle area, can you give a little bit of a shout out for your spas? Where can they find them? Hi, team. So we have three locations. You can find us in Bellingham, in Bellevue, and in Seattle. And just come to our medical spas. And Cucumberskin Lounge has a ton of it to Michael. So amazing. Wonderful. Well, I want to thank you both for being on with me today. Really appreciate you coming here. If you're listening at home and you have questions that you want me to pass on to the team at Victor Michael, I'm always happy to do so. You can email me at hello at artbeautypodcast .com. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube at Art Beauty Podcast. And as always, we'll see you next Tuesday, hopefully with a little less swelling and bruising. Bye. Thank you. Bye. Internet built for tomorrow today. Cox, bringing us closer. In Cox serviceable areas, speeds vary and are not guaranteed. Cox terms apply. Other restrictions may apply.
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"Say goodbye to your credit card rewards. Big -box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets. Senate Bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it. If you love your credit card rewards, visit HandsOffMyRewards .com and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition. And here's your prescription. I know just the pharmacy to get this filled. Who are you? A pharmacy benefit manager. A middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get, what you pay, and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to. Why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood? Because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own. No one should stand between you and your medicine. Visit PHRMA .org slash middleman to learn more. Paid for by pharma. Welcome everyone to the number one daily Bitcoin pod. Let's get it. In today's show we'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis as Bitcoin recaptures $28 ,000. In this just in, Japanese 10 -year bond yields are surging, hitting the highest levels not seen in a decade. Max Kaiser's response, the yen -carry trade borrowing yen at virtually zero and investing in higher yielding currencies is broken. This has been the mother of all Ponzi schemes funding global financialization for 30 years and now it's moving in reverse. He also says the Bitcoin is a state of heaven that exists entirely beyond anyone's reach except the owner preach. Also in today's show VanEck, Ethereum strategy ETF set for the CBOE listing. We'll also be discussing FTX founder Sam Bankman -Fried. Mold giving Donald Trump five billion dollars to not run for president. That's right. We'll also be discussing Grayscale submits and SEC filing to convert the Ethereum trust to a spot ETF. I'm also going to be sharing with you a Bitcoin price prediction model which suggests $170 ,000 per BTC in 2025 as well as skybridge capital's Anthony Scaramucci says Bitcoin ETF can push the Bitcoin price much higher in early 2024. In fact they'll be sharing with you Scaramucci's $400 ,000 Bitcoin price prediction alongside 1 billion Bitcoin users. We'll market all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo what's good crypto fam. This is first and foremost a video show so if you want the full premium experience with video visit my youtube channel at Cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's Cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome everyone just joining us. This is pod episode number 1419. I'm your host JV. Today is October 2023 2nd as the October pump continues. Let's freaking go. Shout out to everyone today in the live chat. Make sure to let me know where you're tuning in from. Of course at the end of the show I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud as this is a live and interactive show. Seven days a week and the after party FYI will be on rumble. So let's get it. Let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day shall we. As you can see here on coin 360 we got Bitcoin up roughly 3 % for the day trading at roughly that 28 ,000 mark just under it. We have Ether consolidating trading under $1 ,700 while BNB, Cardano and Solana are all in the green and checking out coinmarketcap .com. We're finally climbing again at a market cap of 1 .09 trillion. We've been stuck around this 1 trillion level for quite some time. We got roughly 46 billion in volume in the past 24 hours meaning volume is up roughly 60 % and Bitcoin dominance is massively on the climb. I think the bull market is in full gear 49 .6 % for BTC with the ETH dominance at 18 .3 % and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers in the past 24 hours Satoshi vision leading the pack up 23 % trading at $39 .37 followed by e cash up roughly 9 % followed by Bitcoin cash. Now it's interesting that the Bitcoin forks are the top gainers for the day. I think anything associated with the name Bitcoin is pumping. It is what it is and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week Satoshi vision lead in the pack here up 23 and a half percent alongside our LB up roughly 12 % and XCC up roughly 9 % and checking out the crypto greed and fear index we're dead in the middle 50 which is neutral yesterday was a 48 last week a 47 and last month a 39 in fear. So there you have it fam how many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto now that we in October let me know and make some noise and put God candle and maybe the Satoshi and God's watching above will send it let's freaking go and with that being shared fam now let's dive into today's Bitcoin technical analysis and check out some of the charts and what's popping with the king crypto where Bitcoin is likely to go next Bitcoin aim for 25 at the October 2nd Wall Street open at a bullish start as the month continued which you can see here in the Bitcoin one -day candle chart data from Cointelegraph and trading view showed Bitcoin price action staying strong into October's first US trading session Bitcoin made swift gains into the weekly close following a contrastingly cool monthly candle completion that saw Bitcoin finish at 26 ,000 970 now popular analyst right capital says this monthly close despite now being more than 5 % below the spot price called for caution quoting him here Bitcoin performed a September monthly candle close below twenty seven thousand one hundred and he also said technically that black line was solidified as resistance for September so he acknowledged the October breakout but said this would invalidate the bearish predicament should it endure now he also says because the Bitcoin monthly closed below the black line there's always going to be a chance that this price action could end up as an upside wick as he shares here alongside this chart Bitcoin offered upside wicks of up to 8 % long before but right now Bitcoin is up four and a half percent this month so technically anything up to twenty nine thousand four hundred could theoretically end as an upside wick so there you have it let me know if you agree disagree with the analysts say goodbye to your credit card rewards big box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit handsoffmyrewards .com and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition now closer to home market observers noted the ongoing encouraging signals on the exchange order books quoting jelly here spot bid continues while funding is negative this reeks of disbelief and as he shared here Bitcoin still spot -driven perhaps haven't done much yet to be honest yeah so Bitcoin shrugs off fresh US dollar surge just as eager to hit new local highs in the day was the US dollar after Congress avoided a government shutdown the US dollar stays the sharp rebound from losses seen late last week and at this time the DXY circled 106 .7 barely point two points off its recent 2023 highs and for crypto analyst Nebraskan Gooner a breakout from here would put 108 in play mark in new 11 -month highs as outlined right here now it's interesting the Bitcoin is pumping alongside with the dollar is usually it's inversely correlated maybe it's a sign of the times now together with the hype on yields and the oil prices economist Mohammed el -irian described the DXY strength as neither the US economy nor the markets enjoy Bitcoin nonetheless remain unfazed let's freaking go and as Kaiser points out here well he responded to this news the Japanese 10 -year bond yields are surging hitting the highest levels not seen in over a decade max responded the yen carry trade borrowing and at virtually zero and investing in higher yield currencies is broken this has been the mother of all the Ponzi schemes funding the global financial ization for 30 years and now it's moving in reverse and quitting max again Bitcoin is a state of heaven that exists entirely beyond anyone's reach except the owner preach that's why everyone needs to be stacking them sass and with that being shared fam now let's break down our next breaking story of the day a theorem ETF futures launch today October 2nd that's right check it out investment management firm Vanek is set to launch as a theorem strategy ETF today October 2nd with the product now listed on the website under the ticker EF UT and set for trading on the CBOE the Vanek a theorem strategy ETF will look to accrue capital by investing into a theorem futures contracts and has no direct exposure to eat the fund will expose cash settled eat futures contracts on CFTC regulated commodity exchanges Vanek also touts the benefits of the product being a C Corp structure which includes tax benefits the long investors compared with registered investment company structures here's the announcement here on X from Vanek when you are ready enter the ether how many of you have seen this commercial let me know in fact they launched two of them they're quite fascinating the investment manner has been advertising the launch of the East spot ETF on its social media accounts over the past few days with to enter the ETH themed TV commercials promising the upcoming launch now Vanek also announced that intends to donate 10 % of all their profits from its upcoming ether futures ETF to a theorem core developers over the next decade and as reported 15 different ether futures ETFs from nine issuers are currently awaiting approval from the US SEC and I guess they have until the end of September of 2023 analysts cited sources with the SEC of saying the regulator wanted to approve either future ETFs before potential US government shutdown but meanwhile bitwise asset management confirmed that trading for its to ether if futures ETFs would commence October 2nd as well with investors getting access to eat futures trading on the CB OE so there you have it we all know that futures are not in investors best interest in fact investors are most likely going to get wrecked we want the real deal baby which is the spot ETF and a little later in the show we're gonna be discussing grayscale converting their product to not only a Bitcoin spot ETF but also a spot a theorem ETF here in just a little bit but first we have some breaking news coming in surrounding FTX founder Sam Bankman freed I mean you can't make this stuff up he allegedly was trying to bribe Donald Trump with five billion dollars to not run for president good freaking Lord check this out how many of you seen this story let me know former FTX CEO SPF once looked into paying Donald Trump not to run for president of the United States according to Michael Lewis the author of the new book documented the rise and fall of SPF Michael Lewis author of going infinite the rise and the fall of a new tycoon spoke about the former crypto billionaire and the FTX founder in a 60 minutes interview yesterday October 1st one of the revelations in the book is that SPF looked into paying Donald Trump to not run for president that only shocks you if you don't know Sam as Lewis added the following Sam's thinking that we could pay Donald Trump not to run for president like how much would it take the number that he was kicking around was five billion dollars and he added before saying that SPF was unsure if that number came directly from Donald Trump and here's your prescription I know just the pharmacy to get this filled who are you a pharmacy benefit manager a middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get what you pay and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own no one should stand between you and your medicine visit ph RMA org slash middlemen to learn more paid for by pharma SPF was also looking into the legality of it according to Lewis who added that they were still having these conversations when FTX blew up it just didn't happen because SPF didn't have the five billion any longer very interesting if you haven't watched the video check the show notes below the video in the description and after the show you can catch it out this clip taken from 60 minutes now according to Lewis SPF saw Trump as trying to undermine the democracy of the United States thinking he belongs on a list of existential risk crazy Lewis spent more than 70 days in the Bahamas on a dozen different trips to visit SPF in 2022 and the pair became close I would say in spare bedrooms I had codes to every room including the penthouse he told the Wall Street Journal and speaking on the fallout between the collapse of FTX in November he shared it was like the aftermath of Pompeii clothes and belongings left behind frozen in time many headed to the airport leaving company cars with the keys inside at the curb now Cointelegraph contacted legal representatives for SPF and Trump mark botnik who handles communications for SPF case said there was no comment from his legal team and according to the trial schedule calendar released last week the high -profile SPF trial begins October 3rd which is tomorrow less than 24 hours out with their jury selection the trial then begins on October 4th so it's going to be an interesting week the trial will involve seven fraud cases against SPF two substantive charges where the prosecution most convinced the jury that Bankman freed committed the crime and five other conspiracy charges so there you have it I wouldn't put it past Bankman freed whatsoever he was supporting the Democratic Party making mass donations to the Dems in support of Biden and heavily against Trump so I mean good lord could you say fraud I mean I could see Trump saying hey give me you want to give me five billion and not run for president sure let's make it happen but fortunately enough Sam Bankman freed didn't get away with that particular crime that we are aware of as he lost the company and the company went kaboom thanks to CZ calling him out firsthand on his FTT scam tokens but anyways fam let me know if that's surprising or shocking to you or you're not surprised at all now let's discuss the etherium spot ETF which is way more significant than any futures ETFs will ever be let's break this one down following the approval of the first ether futures exchange traded fund grayscale investments is looking to convert its grayscale aetherium trust to a spot aetherium ETF kudos to them because they're doing the same thing with their Bitcoin product as well they want to spot Bitcoin ETF the new New York Stock Exchange arca filed the conversion with the United States SEC October 2nd today grayscale's existing trust invested in ether futures contracts as an indirect means of exposure to aetherium but a spot ETF will invest in the underlying asset itself that's what makes it that much greater it's not derivatives or paper it's the real deal they have to hold the underlying asset as Michael Sun and shine shared here grayscale has filed to convert their grayscale aetherium trust to a spot ETF thank you for your continued support we can't wait to get started yeah so he also says as we file to convert the ethe to an ETF the natural next step in the products evolution we recognize this as an important moment to bring aetherium even further into the u .s.
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Fresh update on "15%" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
"Entire energy group in Japan is down more than 4 .8 percent. Meantime in Sydney the energy group down about 3 .4 percent and that's helping to send the ASX 200 to a of loss about 1 .4 percent right now. US Treasury yields remain elevated. We have the combination of hawkish Fed speak and some upbeat PMI data here in the US. Ten -year Treasury 468 a two -year at 511. We'll take another look at markets for you in about 15 minutes. Back to Hong Kong. Thank Brian. you Doug, thanks very much. We heard earlier from the UAE Energy Minister Suheil Al Mazruway and he rebuffed concerns about rising oil prices. He argues that crude prices need to be high enough to justify making new investments. The Minister spoke with Bloomberg's Yousuf Gamal Eldin at the annual Adipac summit in Abu Dhabi. The last thing we want is to lose the demand. We as producers we care a lot about that the price is right for the consumers, but right for the consumers for a very limited time is a very short site. If I can pick up on the demand point that you're making and I know you've been quite actively engaged in this, but
The Breakdown
A highlight from Bitcoin Pops As Uptober Returns
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, October 2nd, and today we are talking up -tober. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find the link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, today we are doing our normal slate of news, but we are couching it in a slightly different framing, which is, of course, up -tober. Now, to understand what I'm referring to, let's look at a tweet from StackHodler who writes, Welcome to up -tober. 8 out of the previous 10 Octobers were positive for Bitcoin. Average gain, plus 22%. Looming bullish catalysts. ETF approval leading to Bitcoin marketing push by BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, etc. Bond markets forcing central bank intervention. Awareness of US debt spiral spreading. Search for a hard asset alternative to bonds. Overpriced equities in real estate still priced for 3 % mortgage rates. Looming halving in early 2024. The weak hands have been brutally shaken out. If you held through the bear market, your patience has been tested. Bitcoin's volatility is designed to scare off everyone who doesn't understand the asset. But in the end, Bitcoin always rewards the patient long -term thinkers. StackSats enjoy fall. So today what we're going to do is look at the news of the last couple days, but in this framework of October. And sure enough, October got off to a hot start on Sunday with Bitcoin, Ethereum and numerous alts pumping hard on Sunday night. Bitcoin surged by 3 % in just 15 minutes, while Ethereum gained 4 .7 % across the same timeframe. Now part of October's history with Bitcoin can probably be explained by how dismal September tends to be. Over the past 10 years, for example, September has seen an average loss of 5 .6 % for Bitcoin. Although this time around, September was actually slightly positive with a 3 .9 % gain. That could reduce the tailwind of mean reversion for crypto markets, which would leave any bullish momentum reliant on a strong narrative push. Now when it comes to bullish narrative, of course the last week has been all about Ethereum and the imminent launch of new exchange -listed products. Nine of those products, specifically Ethereum Futures ETFs, were slated to begin trading this morning. Competing products from asset managers including VanEck, Bitwise, ProShares and Valkyrie battled it out for a share of the first -day inflows. Giving a preview of the day, Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balcones tweeted, All right, we got nine funds ready to go in the Ether's Futures ETFs derby which begins 9 .30 a .m. Monday. This is totally unprecedented to have so many ETFs doing the same thing launching the same day. Going to be a fascinating experiment and great foreshadowing an undercard to the spot Bitcoin ETF race. I'm setting the over -under for total AUM for all of them at the end of the week at 200 million. Logic being that Bitcoin Futures did 1 billion and ETH funds globally have 20 % of the assets under management of Bitcoin funds. Also, I think issuers will tap their client list to get as much volume and flow as they can get early. Now, at the time of recording, it was a little lackluster. Again, Eric Balcones tweets, Pretty meh volume for the Ether Futures ETFs as a group. A little under 2 million. About normal for a new ETF, but versus BITO, which did 400 million in first 15 minutes, it is low. Tight race between VanEck and ProShares and the single ETH lane. Now, going into a little bit more about some of the specific products that launched. One of the Ethereum ETFs that began trading was a strategy change from Valkyrie. The asset manager had been granted approval to convert its existing Bitcoin Futures ETF into a mixed Bitcoin and Ethereum fund. The ETF, which trades under the ticker BTF, had struggled since its 2021 launch, gathering just 25 million in assets under management. As a Bitcoin -only fund, the Valkyrie product had launched several days after the offering from ProShares. That gave ProShares a dominant first mover advantage, allowing it to gather a near monopoly in the market for Futures -based Bitcoin ETFs. Now, on Thursday, Valkyrie had begun accumulating a small amount of Ethereum Futures positions ahead of their strategy change becoming effective. Although this move appeared to be technically allowed, analysts noted it gave Valkyrie a jump on the competition. On Friday morning, Valkyrie announced, however, that it had reversed course and would not continue accumulating Ethereum positions. It would also unwind all existing positions that had been entered on Thursday. Bloomberg ETF analysts speculated that the SEC must have threatened them to get them to reverse course. Now, moving out more broadly, once it became clear that multiple Ethereum ETFs would be launching on the same day, analysts noted that the battle lines would be drawn against two dimensions, fees and marketing. It's very clear that the companies, very clear that however these initial results look, the companies are going to be pushing very hard. From a fees perspective, VanEck is at 66 basis points compared to 85 from Bitwise and 95 from ProShares. That said, due to a difference in structure, the VanEck ETF will have a less different tax treatment, which could make the savings and fees slightly less appealing. However, on the marketing side, VanEck premiered two 30 -minute advertisements on Thursday in anticipation of this week's launch, mostly to positive response from the crypto community. Bankless co -host David Hoffman said, Now, in seeming recognition of that, on Friday night, VanEck had... Now, in seeming validation of that point, on Friday night, VanEck announced that they would be donating 10 % of profits from their ETH ETF to the Protocol Guild, a group of over 150 Ethereum core developers.
Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
Fresh update on "15%" discussed on Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
"15 news radio 1000 FM 97 7 your station information sponsored by muckle shoot casino and thanks for joining us this evening i'm kim shepard bill o 'neill at the editor's desk and here's what's happening the first day of former president trump's trial civil in fraud new york is over arriving at the courthouse in manhattan this morning trump called the proceedings a disgrace new york attorney general latisha james accusing trump and his family of inflating his net worth to get better terms from lenders the city of seattle has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a man who died of a heart attack after first responders were mistakenly told he was a danger to emergency crews the black listing was for another person who had previously lived at the house it was a last minute scrambled at congress has managed to pass a measure to avoid a government shutdown at least abc's temporarily i could not use joining us on the northwest news line so what's in this measure that was passed over the weekend so essentially what we know right now is that at nine minutes before everything was actually going to go toward a shutdown the senate approved that stopgap funding bill and what essentially will do is provide 45 days of payment for the government to be able to run itself but we all know that will end on november 17th now this final bill that passed it includes disaster relief which is very important a lot of things that lawmakers were looking for but one things thing that it doesn't include is aid for ukraine this is something that now a majority of republicans in the house are voting for they want to see congress stop providing money for ukraine which goes against the what was overwhelming consensus from the lawmakers on capitol hill now we're starting to see a turn of that we see democrats and republicans blasting the decision to leave out aid for ukraine in this spending bill but nevertheless we now have 45 days until house speaker kevin mccarthy has to travel down this well traversed road once again when government the is threatened to run out of money again and kevin mccarthy's future as speaker is hanging in balance here and we're hearing something about a closed door discussion between mccarthy and president biden regarding ukraine funding what do you know about that we've actually asked white house press secretary corinne john pierre if there was kind any of deal we know that we heard a possible quib by president biden saying that he's made deal a with house speaker kevin mccarthy but the white house refuses to confirm that there's been a bipartisan focus and agreement to continue the funding for ukraine that is what we're looking at that is what we're into and that's what we're going to see it is appearing that the two parties will eventually meet this try to figure out some way going to to come out with this but we do know that this mere fact of working with democrats is something that representative matt gates thinks is good enough to trigger that vote to oust house speaker kevin mccarthy from his position from his post a lot of those far -right republicans are seeing willingness to be bipartisan as a threat to their agenda which is why they're threatening that vote to oust representative mccarthy from his speakership and what is this about a democratic representative pulling fire a alarm that's right uh... near congressman jamal bowman was actually seen on on security footage pulling a fire alarm from the cannon office washington d c now he's come out and assumed responsibility saying that it was his fault showing accountability but he said that he was trying to figure a way out of the door as that crucial senate vote to approve this forty five -day stopcat was being voted on he uh... now said that he thought that it was some kind switch to open the door however it is important note that switch was very bright red it did save fire alarm on it nevertheless that's going to be left up to the capitol police because they've now announced that they're investigating matter the and will soon have an answer but it is important to note that the canon office building that representative bowman was in is actually twelve hundred feet away from the capitol building where the actual vote was was taking place so it wasn't as if that fire alarm disrupted anything that was going on at the vote still nevertheless a moment caught on camera and could be rather embarrassing abc's i could jochee joining us the on northwest news line and it's 6 20 time for your stockcharts .com money updates with with some last minute buying helping the picture u .s. stocks finished narrowly mixed in the first session of the fourth quarter the and s p five hundred ended virtually flat the down industrials slipped seventy four points while the nasdaq composite rose eighty eight united auto workers union expanded its strike last friday and now general motors announced more furloughs the detroit automaker said it is indefinitely laying off about one hundred sixty workers at plants in indiana and ohio because of the impact on some of the company's facilities of the now two and a half week old strike these latest cuts affect workers at metal centers in parma ohio and marion indiana that's your money money now money news at twenty and fifty past every hour and coming up the food fighters going on tour tell you when they're coming to to seattle make any speaker smarter with trusted information from northwest newsradio online your on smart speaker on the northwest news radio app the news you need from the people you trust northwest news radio am for
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Dennis & Julie: For Goodness Sake
"Hey everybody, Dennis and Julie, Dennis Prager and Julie Hartman. And I hope you enjoy this as much as we do. Isn't that something we do? What number is this? Like 80 something? 80 something. Yeah. 82. Yep. Holy moly. The first one, Julie, was in eighth grade when we began. Julie was a senior in college. I think it was March of my senior year. Here is my prediction. I remember making it to you was how rapidly college will seem far distant. Was I right? Don't tell me to make me feel good. It actually scares me a little bit because I'm 23 years old. I feel old, but I know intellectually I'm not old yet, but I feel like college is so in the rear view mirror. The other day I was actually quizzing myself where certain buildings are that I used to go to in college or names of the buildings and names of professors. And it's amazing how quickly you forget. Well without dwelling much on it, it's not only true about college. When something ends any period of life, I mean, when I got divorced, that marriage seemed like it was so long before. When you make, it's a radical change to leave college, right? It's a cocoon. It's its own world. Now it's gone, completely gone. And so that's the way life works. If something's over, I wonder if that happens with regard to loved ones. I can't answer that because I haven't lost, I've obviously lost my parents, but that's part of life in a normal scheme of things. But I wonder, you know, let's say there's so many widows and widowers out there. Does their married life with them seem like the far distant past within a few months? I don't know the answer. I don't either. Question for you. I talk about this a lot with some of my former classmates. I have many friends from college, I feel very blessed, and I have many friends from high school who went to different colleges and we discussed this. Really kind of ending the college years and being catapulted into quote unquote real life is a daunting and at times difficult experience. I mean, that's not exactly new. People talk about that. But I'm wondering, do you remember that transition? Because one of the things that we discuss, especially for people who I went to high school and college with, because we all kind of had similar upbringings where we worked super hard in high school, did sports, you know, we're getting straight A's to get into a good college and we were in college, we were also trying to get really good grades, trying to do all these activities. I am a very ambitious, motivated person and a lot of my friends are similar in that we're very hard workers. But now that we're in real life, we talk about how it's much harder to define success and define happiness because for the past 10 to 15 years, the path was prescribed for you. You knew that you had to get good grades, you had to have good activities, you had to get into a good college. Of course, that's the milieu that I was in. That's not the case for everyone. I'm just talking about my cohort, to use your favorite word, which, by the way, Dennis and Julie Listeners, thank you. They always take my side on that one, the cohort issue, just saying, just saying.
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Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from No Flights
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Mark Levin
Fresh update on "15%" discussed on Mark Levin
"She was bragging that 15 of the 18 candidates that the Congressional Progressive Caucus backed had won. And she says, there's no question this will be the most progressive Democratic caucus in decades. And of course, she's tied in with Bernie Sanders. That hole marks his crowd. Who Matt is working with behind the scenes. And Matt, if you want to lie, you ran and I'll prove it. For once, somebody has to hold you account to because you're misleading millions and millions of people. A small percentage of whom think you're a God. Now, that was a bad blow those midterm elections, don't you think? The congressional so -called Progressive Caucus, AK, the Marxist, their numbers keep growing. The voting systems are changed. They help these people get elected. They're backed by Soros. They're backed by these hardcore leftists. I want you to hear Mr. what Montana Conservative had to say. Matt Rosendale. Matt Rosendale, Mr. Montana Conservative who once ran for the Senate of Montana and got his ass kicked. But that's okay, it happens. And this is from, I believe I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Montana Republican Representative Matt Rosendale told top Conservative donors last week that he was rooting against Republicans winning as many house seats as possible during the 2022 midterms according to video obtained by, the yes, messenger. Okay, so now we have one guy that's working with the Marxists and we have another guy that says, I'm glad we didn't win most of those seats. Addressing a close briefing, Rosendale said he hoped for as narrow a margin in the house as possible so that a small set of conservatives could, quote, drag the conference over to the right. Sound good to you? The Montana made comments the last week as he and a small band of House Republicans attempted to steer the federal government into shutdown. a I do not mind shutdowns. This spending is unsustainable. That's exactly why I supported the 30 % cut and securing the border. It's all unsustainable. The Republican is considering a rematch with Montana Democratic Senator Jon Tester in 2024. He already lost to the guy. This would be a disaster, these guys. A decision that would lead him to face off for the top Republican recruit, who I don't even know. Caroline Wren, who works as a fundraiser for both Gates and Rosendale, organized the event and described it to The Messenger as a virtual briefing for around 50 top donors. Wren also spent a top fundraiser for former President Donald Trump. Rosendale did not respond to The Messenger's request for comment. But Rosendale staring straight into the camera at times, so he knew he was being videoed. He said, because I recognized that the small majority was the only way that we were going to advance a conservative agenda. And if it was the right majority, that if we had six seven or very strong individuals, we would drag the conference over to the right. We were able to do that. He's such a liar. Like, nobody ever heard of Rosendale. The people of Montana barely know who Rosendale is. So he is saying, I'm the architect, he's saying. I, Rosendale, I'm the architect, as blustery as this is. He said, I'm the architect of the failure of the Republicans to really blow out these marches. I did that. I'm over here. And for that, I want the Republican servers to donate to me. Is that nuts, Ms. Rudeus? Although Republicans won't control the house. And by the way, I know the vast majority of you do. I really do. But this needs to be discussed. Because these people are pretending to represent you. These people are pretending that they are the real heroes in the conservative movement cause. and the These guys are the dumbest group did The Democrats not support the 30 % They cut. did not support securing the border. And yet, these idiots threw in with the Democrats. There's no attempt at a rational argument that supports this. None. Particularly when it's part of a broader plan to get conservatives in the Senate something to These guys have no plan. Although Republicans won't control the House, they expected a lot more than 222 Republicans and 213 Democrats. Anyway. So you've got one, the ringleader, Gates, who's now working with Jayapal and Tlaib and AOC are, either all of them, and certainly some of them, if not directly, he's working with that to try and get the votes. So who is it that's Democrats in Congress. It's you, Mac. You need to put your country ahead of your own personal hatred, man. You gotta get control of it, brother. But he won't. And so this is what we're going to hear for the next two, three, four, five, six weeks, over and over over and and over again. Not the Democrats on defense in the House. Not the Democrats blamed for spending. Not the Democrats blamed for an open border. Not the Democrats blamed for climate change. And the Democrat Party media loves this because this is what they're going to headline day in and day out and day in. And this apparently is what Gates wants. So. If we lose the next election, in part, it's it's on these guys. And I don't just mean the House and the Senate. I mean the president. About this. And the chairwoman chairman, the chair it, I guess, proper way to phrase it now. Jayapal are on exactly the same in the House. And, you know, Rosendale had this backbencher and he had it so perfectly measured that they'd only have a five he knew going in. It shows you how demented these people are. No, he didn't. but he not only takes credit for it, he's raising money on it. Jayapal's raising money to elect more Marxists on the fact that they were very successful in 2022. Rosendale's raising money with so -called conservative donors on the fact But Republicans didn't win enough But it's not just Republicans. Conservatives went Real conservatives. Then he got another one of these five. Ken Buck. Ken Buck opposed Roy's Chip amendment, his spending amendment, that would prevent the Department of Defense from funding, ready for this? Drag shows. Ken Buck voted against that. By the way, so did Nancy Mays. She's a mess. She's a head of view. She's all over the map. But Ken Buck, Mr. Fiscal Responsibility. But that's one area fiscal responsibility he couldn't support. That is, ensuring your that Defense Department doesn't spend one penny on drag queens. Many of put you who your names out on social media, you're making asses out of yourselves. When you support this kind of Tom McClintock, who's been a conservative forever. for He's from California. He's one of the leading has been. And I believe he ran for Governor But he is a member of the House and he's very, very solid. And I guess today he to be would a be neo -con rhino, according to the pro -progressive caucus, I guess, Republicans out there. The Uniparty, what's you know funny about that phrase, the Uniparty. You're watching the Uniparty with Gaetz and Jayapal, with Rosendale, who agrees with And it's good the Republicans didn't win as many seats as they should have. There's your Uniparty right there. That's a freak show. That's a freak show. I'm not like other hosts, America. I'm not like other conservatives who are scared their of own shadows, may turn off a tiny percentage of the base. That's not my base. Being stupid is not my base. Thank you. Now, here's Tom McClintock on the Yet now we are faced with the threat that a Republican will move to vacate the Republican Speaker of the House. It will only require four other Republican members to join the Democrats to achieve this result. The immediate effect will be to paralyze the House indefinitely the House. Your business can be taken up until a replacement is elected, just when we are on the verge of completing leading the appropriations process that in turn will finally initiate discussions with the Senate that are vital to change the dangerous path that our country is on. I cannot conceive of a more more and counterproductive self -destructive course than that. supreme The irony is that this is being initiated by self -described conservatives. Do they honestly believe that when the Democrats side with them to remove Republican speaker that they will then side with them to name a more conservative replacement? Of course not. The Democrats will certainly recruit most the liberal Republicans to establish a left of center coalition to run the House. This is exactly what happened in California in 1994. A coalition speaker will move the administration to the sharply House to the left and effectively end the Republican House majority that the people elected in 2022. I implore my Republican colleagues to look past their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views, and to make a wise decision when it's needed most at this critical in the life of our country.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IP#502 Adam Blai The History of Exorcism, Part 2 on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com presents inside the pages insights from today's most compelling authors I'm your host Chris McGregor and I am delighted to be joined by Adam Bly who is a church to create expert on religious demonology and exorcism for the Pittsburgh Diocese he's helped train exorcists for over 15 years and has attended hundreds of solemn exorcisms his journey started in brainwave research and psychology and is now focused on the spiritual realities of miracles angels demons and possessions he's also the author of several books including the exorcism files with Adam Bly we go inside the pages of the history of exorcism published by Sophia Institute press we now continue with part two of our conversation a lot of times we look at those things that the action of the enemy that is what 90 % is temptation the our father lead us not into temptation but also as we just said the oppression and obsession those are things that can be dealt with especially in the sacramental life that we have within the mass within confession isn't it been said Adam that one good confession could be worth of a hundred exorcisms these are all just kind of turns a phrase but essentially yes for the average person the average Catholic who has access to the sacraments deliverance comes primarily through the sacramental graces and that means baptism confirmation confession and the mass those are the the mechanisms that sanctifying grace comes into your life for the average person and then of course matrimony for some people people underestimate the importance and power of the sacramental graces and they want the drama of the exciting prayer thinking you know you'll do this kind of magical incantation and make these problems go away versus the person doing the the work of conversion in themselves of making it to mass of having a good confession of doing the work of building a daily prayer life all of those things are actually what lead to deliverance primarily it's not just the exciting prayers if a person is unwilling to make any changes in their life is an unwilling to walk away from sin is essentially unwilling to have conversion in their life usually the prayers don't work because Jesus is looking for conversion and change so if somebody has done something to get into trouble spiritually they can't just come to the church and say well wave the magic wand and make the suffering go away I don't like it but I'm not gonna change my life because Jesus knows our hearts and so I've seen this over the years that even in the case is a full -blown possession he wants to see spiritual growth in the person he wants to see a movement towards him and trust and love and a turning away from sin in addition to coming to the church for prayers and so the sacramental grace is for the person that isn't possessed actually that is the engine that drives deliverance it's so important that in your book you have a section called Jesus as exorcist and that ultimately that's the lesson is the turning towards him right summately and that's what the team in their particular response to the individual is helping that individual to turn towards them it's not so much it is the actions of what they're doing during the liturgy that's what it is exorcism is a liturgy but it's that reception of that person to a life of faith is that a fair way of saying it yes that's that's a big part of it they also are repenting of their sins through sacramental confession if they're Catholic and then another important piece that most people don't think about is they're forgiving the sins of others and so a demon can hold on to or it gets traction from our sins that we're unwilling to let go of or keep trying to let go of and get away from but they can also hold on to when we are unforgiving of the sins of others that have hurt us and so as we know from the our father forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us we know that God wants us to forgive as he forgives us you know the parable of the king who forgives the debt of the one slave and then that slave goes and beats up another slave and says give me you know the little bit you owe me and then when the the king finds out about this he throws the first guy who he had forgiven who's now being mean in turn in jail so we see this played out time and time again God expects us to be merciful and that that is part of it and then you know in an interesting twist sometimes the unforgiveness towards yourself becomes a stumbling block to total freedom because if a person feels they deserve to be punished and suffer and they're not forgiving themselves even though they know they've been sacramentally forgiven they even understand and believe Jesus has forgiven them but if they feel that they can't forgive themselves and that they deserve this that also gives the demon traction to hold on so there's kind of a pastoral process that is woven through exorcism over time working with the person outside of the sessions before and after and chatting with them and you know basically spiritual direction and that's the part that's missing in the movies oh yeah that's an incredible part of it because as I alluded to earlier you know it's the opening of doors I mean we can for example I have priests come through our house and bless our homes place Benedictine metals at windows go through the whole ritual as family but then we go downstairs and put on a television screen or open up online and allow something that's evil in character into our house or to do actions what was the point of the of the prior blessing I don't think we appreciate the fact that there is a need for repentance and a conversion of action not just of words and correct yeah and again Jesus knows our hearts so we can't just give lip service to these ideas because he knows what's going on with us for real and he's looking for real conversion and so you know it's just so important because ultimately he doesn't allow this stuff just because he wants to allow it you know he doesn't enjoy the fact that we're suffering but he allows it as a corrective experience so we realize the thing that we're embracing and we turn and run back to it so ultimately he's looking for closeness with us and possession is something that happens to people that generally are running away from Jesus and are far from him and specifically are embracing demonic spirits in some way and so he's not allowing this to be mean he's saying I'm gonna let you see the monster that you've chosen hoping that the person will then turn away and come back to him no I thought it was really important in that particular section in closing from the exorcisms by Jesus that you point out that he does Commission the 12 but in the 72 as well to go out but it's important that it's not only the priests and the bishops who have the authority to cast out demons and that would be revealed over time but it took centuries in a way for the church to find the need to limit the exercise of the use of exorcism and you really broke that open I thought that was so fascinating the research you did on that well it was a journey the church went through and you know one thing we have to remember in the very early church it was just apostles and followers you would have the equivalent of a bishop in your city or your region who would be you know the current apostle but there wasn't this whole hierarchy of you know deacons and priests and formal offices within the church because we're you know for the first 300 years the church was under terrible persecution it wasn't this big wealthy institution with buildings and schools and everything else it was it was a struggling little movement and so we have to remember in those very early centuries there weren't priest exorcists because there weren't priests in the very beginning it quickly came about but again with the persecution in the early church things just weren't that organized and then as the church spread around the world communication wasn't there we didn't have an internet letters could take weeks months or never arrive you know sending information around the world at that time and so it was a very different world it took centuries for the church to figure out this ministry and then through hard experience and seeing how difficult the ministry is and how it can chew people up and how it can lead to pride which leads to destroying people and causing heresies to develop and all kinds of other problems the church wisely said we need to regulate this so that qualified people are doing it it's not just you know somebody deciding they're gonna pick it up because they'd like to the church wanted to make sure people were qualified and then had kind of a proper context to keep them safe and effective essentially yeah it isn't a game and there isn't something that you oh I'm fascinated I'm curious about this I want to explore more yes reading your book is the great way to do that if you have that inkling but the actual ministry of it there is so much involved and you go into the different types of exorcism and how they developed for anybody who wants to understand more about the free masonry dynamics that are addressed by exorcism that's fascinating but also it's a very real issue isn't it yeah so the minor exorcism what's sometimes called the Leonine exorcism because Pope Leo the 13th wrote it in 1890 was originally explicitly directed against Freemasonry it wasn't a general exorcism against the devil it was it was against Freemasonry and Freemasonry since it's you know within 20 years of it coming into existence in the world in the early 1700s the church was identifying it as the church's greatest enemy in the world and there's been you know papal statements I think there's at least seven different popes have made formal bulls and statements about Freemasonry condemning it reminding Catholics that their ex communicated if they become Freemasons which is still the case by the way and so yeah the the minor exorcism actually was all about Freemasonry and that's why I took that kind of a side in the book to explain the history of Freemasonry and where it came from so that we could see it kind of from the church's perspective and imagine you know how they were seeing Freemasonry and why that may have led to this prayer being written we'll return to inside the pages in just a moment did you know that discerning hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite discerning hearts programming father Timothy Gallagher dr. 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CoinDesk Podcast Network
SBF TRIAL: 10/02 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. It is officially trial week and as Bloomberg's Joe Wiesenthal would likely put it, this is why we get up in the morning. It's been exactly nine months and 20 days since Sam Bankman -Fried got arrested at his then home in the Bahamas. Today marks the last day before he is set to start the trial in which he will win back his freedom or be locked up for what a federal judge says could be a very long time. Thousands of pages of evidence ranging from internal documents to audio recordings will be presented and fought over in the next six weeks as US prosecutors try to prove that the former FTX founder knowingly defrauded customers and business partners. Arguably the most damning evidence or lack thereof could come from the recollections and personal opinions of Bankman -Fried's former colleagues, friends and housemates. Caroline Ellison, Nishad Singh and Gary Wang were close friends and roommates of Bankman -Fried as much as they were colleagues. Ellison was emotionally invested with the FTX founder and troubled by the former couple's on and off relationship which according to a diary entry from her slowly fizzled out in February 2022. Prosecutors also say they intend to call up FTX customers and investors including non -US customers over the course of the trial. On another note, do you remember when FTX suddenly announced it was hacked and lost some $600 million worth of crypto? This was the same day it filed for bankruptcy last November. A decent portion of those funds sat in a wallet for a few months and then started moving this weekend. Around 15 ,000 Ether worth around $26 million at Sunday night's prices moved out of a wallet through various routers and privacy tools between Friday night and Sunday morning. We never got an explanation for what exactly happened and how the exploit was carried out. I imagine federal investigators are probably closely tracking this episode. On a logistics note, Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled in favor of the DOJ's motion to prevent Bankman -Fried from getting into the weeds on what his lawyers may or may not have said about FTX's operations in his opening statement. However, Bankman -Fried's defense team can still raise the advice of counsel defense later on with notice to the court and DOJ. In court filings, the defense said the argument would be that FTX's in -house and external lawyers were part of decisions to use auto -deleting messaging platforms, set up legal entities in the US, loan funds to FTX and Alameda executives, and other aspects of the FTX -Alameda relationship. Want to follow along? Sign up for CoinDesk's new daily newsletter, The SBF Trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the CoinDesk Podcast Network. Thanks for listening.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from Real Estate Market (Crashing)? Price Reduction Scripts & Systems
"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. And we are back. Now we're going to be really drilling down over the next five podcasts on pricing listings to sell, but also getting price reductions. There's a lot of technique to the things we're going to be sharing with you guys. A lot of scripts, a lot of systems. It's very important that you use the notes that are below. Obviously we try to, I think almost always put all of our notes, right Julie? In the show description below. So scroll down, all the notes are there and we're going to be really getting into the weeds with all of you so that frankly you can start pricing your listings to sell. If you have listings now that are overpriced, then you can get them repositioned on the market so they correctly reflect the market's expectations. That was a script. Did you write it down? Snuck that in on them, didn't you? I did. And when your hunting expires, as all of you will be doing, you're also going to be knowing how to get the prices adjusted accordingly so the properties will sell. So this week is very intense, really focused on pricing properties to sell because it is going to become very, very tricky in many markets. Now I'm going to start out with a little bit of, we need to I think have a common understanding of the difference between value and price. And I'm reading your notes and I see what you're about to talk about so I think this will fit in perfectly. It's a good intro. Right. Well, we'll see. Back to you. Yeah, exactly. So I was thinking about this last night, how to explain. So Julie and I, when we socialize with people and go to parties and just talk with all of you guys, just run across everyone. People make the mistake constantly of saying there's some sort of or alluding to or believing that there's some sort of big price or value erosion that's going on. Value erosion, not price erosion. Value versus price. That's where I'm going with all this. Because back in 2007, 8, and 9, there was value erosion. The values of the properties actually dropped below what people paid for them. So there's a difference between pricing and value. So get this clear in your head and then I think it'll give your mind room to be open to the thoughts that we're going to be sharing with you in a second. So if you have, like I'll give you an example, Julie and I had, let's say if we had a car for sale and let's say we put the car for sale for 50 grand and even though the market tells us that the car is worth 30 grand, like every single comp, every single thing that's out there is telling us that car is not worth 50, it's worth 30, right? You guys with me so far? And then we eventually, in order to get the car sold, we have to adjust the price down to 30. Did we lose 20 grand or did we just finally price the house correctly? Do you guys get the difference? And so what a lot of people are believing is because they have to price their properties correctly that the properties have lost value. No, they didn't. They lost value maybe in your head, right? They didn't actually lose value. The difference between, so for example, if we'd bought that car for 30 grand, let's say, and we were selling it for 15 grand, then yeah, we lost 15 grand. That's like what was happening in 2007, 2008, 2009, well, mostly seven and eight. The definition of a short sale, you're selling it for less than you owe. Well short sale, you're selling it for less than you owe, or exactly, assuming you owe like you just said. So yeah, so that's the whole moral of the story here. So please don't think this is anything like the previous market, which I'm teeing you up perfectly. Exactly. As we have said, pricing is the hot topic all week because it's a big hairy topic. We'll take a look at the factors causing price reductions, what to do from a listing agent's perspective, as well as what to do when you're representing a buyer. And we're going to dive into some price reduction scripts and give you the confidence you need to navigate the changing market. So let's first take a look at what's happening to prices right now. And no, by saying that, we are not talking about the market crashing. Just as Tim said, the market is not crashing, it is simply normalizing. So here are the facts, hot off the presses. Nationwide, one in every 15 listings had a price reduction in the past 30 days. That's about six and a half of active list, six and a half percent of active listings in the country. However, some markets have seen 50 % of active listings get a price reduction in the past 30 days. So let's compare those two. Nationwide, it averages out to six and a half percent of actives got a price reduction last month. But there are many markets that it's quite a bit more severe. But so what this is, when you see this kind of statistic, we've seen this before. Julie and I have been doing this for decades. And what this is kind of a, I don't even want to, I don't want to be overly critical, but this is essentially sellers who have unrealistic expectations as far as what their homes are worth. We call it aspirational pricing. And frankly, this is evidence of agents that don't know how to actually properly price properties. In other words, they're just taking the listing at an elevated price. Maybe they don't know how to go about setting the price correctly in the first place, or maybe they don't want to, they don't have the skill set being blunt to get the property priced correctly in the first place. So when you see these kinds of widespread statistics and especially something like 6%, which is a pretty meaningful number, honestly, when you see numbers like that, that is essentially the market still adjusting to the new reality. That's the sellers adjusting to the new reality. And that's also the agents having to learn how to adjust to the new reality. And then, you know, doctor filling their sellers, you know, learning how to write exactly this, this type of information. When you see these types of statistics, this is 100 % proof that the market is still very much adjusting. Now, also taking the time, you know, take when you're considering all this, what time of year it is, what's the, you know, what's interest rates are doing. And so these types of things in a cyclically adjusting market, the numbers will go up and down pretty radically pretty fast. So just adjust accordingly. This information is as of two days ago. That's right. Now, the five metro areas with the highest percentage of listings that got price cuts, this is the percentage of listings that had a price reduction. When I give you these stats, these percentages, that doesn't mean they're coming down by that percent. That's just the percent of overall actives that had to have a price reduction. So that's Wenatchee, Washington State, Idaho Falls, Idaho, Carson City, Nevada, and Austin, Round Rock area, and Waco, Texas. Those were all in the 50 to 54 percent of active listings came down. Again, that doesn't mean they came down by 50 percent. It just means half of the actives had a price reduction. Now she took that sort of sampling because obviously price reductions were happening all over the country, but she was using that to show the fact that it's happening in these completely different unrelated markets. That's right. So unlike before, you know, when the market was super hot for several years, kind of the whole country moved about the same way. We were all going rapidly up in price. We all had multiple offers basically on anything. All it had to do was be available. Well, now we're seeing markets kind of stretch apart, and what's happening in the ones I just rattled off is different than, say, Florida, which still is pretty strong. So you have to know your actual market. Now, this is all happening, all these price reductions are all happening at the same time that prices are still up by at least 3 percent this year and are expected to end up averaging about 5 percent higher by year's end. This figure shows you that we are normalizing, not crashing. A crash would not have price increases. Okay, so that's worth, we really need to drill down on that. So listen to what Julie just said, be very, very clear in your head. There were no price increases, there were no value increases that were happening, it was value basically, that were happening during 2007, 2008, quite the opposite, right? Properties in some markets dropped by, you know, 40 plus percent. That is not what we're experiencing. Year over year, what Julie just explained to all of you guys, is that in many markets prices went up, values of properties went up by at least 5 percent. So despite what the headlines and all the click -baity things on all the news channels and all the rest of it are leading you to believe about real estate, guess what? If you own a home, it went up by probably at least 5 percent this year. Exactly. Okay, now, remember, again, we're proving the point that we are adjusting and normalizing, not crashing. Remember this, at $52 trillion, the total value of homes in the U .S. is up, get this, 49 percent since before the pandemic. That truly is insane. Yes, 49 percent. So these price adjustments won't be catastrophic to most sellers. We're a very long way away from short sales, so don't go thinking the sky is falling. Okay, so again, worth drilling down. Prices are up by almost 50 percent in the last... It's since 2019. Now what you're seeing now with the price adjustments or the price reductions essentially that many markets are now experiencing, remember that you still had 5 percent increase in value in the last 12 months. So you're looking at properties in many markets that have increased by at least 50 percent since 2019? Yeah, since pre -pandemic. Okay, so that is a substantial massive increase. Now, the value of those properties, there's no reason to believe, and it's incredibly important you're really clear in your head about this, that the values of the homes are going to somehow regress back into say 2019 values. And I read that sometimes from people that are, I don't want to come off overly negative, but they really piss me off because they don't use any real factual information. No, they're only using their thought that, well, you know, prices were going really high in and 2006 5, and so then there was a crash, and since prices have gone up, there must be a crash. That's not based on any underlying factors. It's just basically, well, that's what it did before, that's what it's going to do now. It's basically yo -yo thinking about, you know, there's going to be another bubble that's going to burst. There's no reason to believe that's true. The same people who've been predicting that since, again, 2019, they've been wrong year after year after year after year, and they're going to continue to be wrong because nothing is the same as it was back in 2007. Well, that's why we're facting them, right? Okay, so look at the runway, though. Okay, so a 49 % increase since pre -pandemic, and you know, the average, and not every single listing is having a price reduction, but when they do, they're still only coming down by less than 5 % on average, so you've got that remaining, you know, 44 % left to go before you're even Steven with 2019. There's just so much runway there. Now, are there isolated instances where people refinanced, took a bunch of equity out, didn't have a very big down payment in the first place, and maybe are behind on payment, and that makes them even very, very, very randomly, literally less than, I think it's like 3 .5 % of the market of closings were even short sales. So along those lines, again, you'll have this memorized because that is what you do. Possibly. We'll see. No, she will. You watch, listeners. So what percent of all home inventory is distressed? almost It's like 4%, but it's less than 4 % overall. Which is a record low for what period of time? Forever. Yeah. Literally forever. It is a record low since they started recording it, I think back in the 80s. You remember when all the - And actually, it's gone down. It was a previous low, and it's actually gotten lower in the past quarter. Remember when all the naysayers were saying, well, when the COVID - Forbearances. Forbearances. There was going to be a foreclosure wave. There's one thing after another, after another, after another. Okay. So the forbearance naysayers, there's going to be this awful backup of foreclosures due to forbearances. Well, they also said there would be a silver tsunami when all the baby boomers just had to sell their houses all of a sudden. And they also thought there would be an Airbnb bust. And now the new thing is, as soon as somebody has to make their student loan payments, well, that means they're going to miss their mortgage payments from one drama to the next, but not based on facts, which we like to sprinkle upon you. Again, the reason that we're so adamant about you guys getting these facts and the reason that we spend so much time on this podcast and our coaching program to make sure you have the actual information is because if you operate with bad information, you're going to then pass that bad information along to your customers. You're then going to, you know, it always comes down to the same thing. If you don't believe that tomorrow is going to be better than today, you're not going to take the actions today that would have made tomorrow better than today. In other words, if you believe the sky is falling, you're sure as hell not going to do what you don't want to do when you don't want to do at the highest level, you're not going to learn to price properties correctly. You're not going to learn how to get prices, you know, lower prices on homes. Why would you bother after all tomorrow? It's going to be, you know, some sort of, you know, locust apocalypse, so you're never actually going to make tomorrow better than today. So that's really the reason that you want to purge from your mind all of these naysayers, all of these snake oil salesmen that are trying to sell you into the belief that there's any sort of anything other than frankly, amazing things that are going to happen in the real estate markets. And here's a little foreshadowing, and we're working on a podcast about this. If you look purely at the demographics of what the United States is experiencing over the next 20, 30 years, it's extraordinary and it's going to do nothing but maybe even increase the demand for housing by something like five to seven X. So that's how many home sales and how much new construction is going to have to be built just to meet demand and it's going to be built and that demand will be met and you are going to be a beneficiary of that provided that you are taking the right steps now to, you know, stay relevant in the real estate. That's right. And provided that you make it through this next three to six months because it is going to be more challenging than you're used to. That's why we're talking about price reductions because we've seen, you know, we've gotten texts, we've seen videos online, we've seen stuff on social media where agents were losing their minds over having to do price reductions, hearing about price reductions, having to ask a seller to come down.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from How to Turn $3.2K to $313k with Crypto (Altcoin Degen Tales)
"A trader flipped $3 .3K up to $313 ,000 in just 19 days. This is crazy money, and ex -user dealer .eth shows us how they made it happen. Watch until the end for how I plan to integrate this strategy into my trades. Let's discover crypto. These trades were insane, and they were all in meme coins. It's the Vegas casino of crypto where you either get rich or get wrecked, and there are only a few people who really know how to do it. This trader got in early, and I think the reason they were able to do this is they were watching live pairs for new coins, doing some easy research and just simply buying early. Now, no one is sure, but this seems to be the most likely way this person was able to make a 1000 % gain in just over two weeks. So what happened? It started with a big buy. Six billion fined tokens on the second day of listing, making five purchases totaling about $30 ,000 that ended up netting him just under $149 ,000. This mega swing trade took about seven days to make a huge profit. They sold and then bought another fine specimen of blockchain tech called Real Smurfcat. This one they bought within its first hour of listing. It 3Xed $18K into well over $50 ,000. Real Smurfcat went on to do another 150 % move to the upside from there, but this trader had already moved on to greener pastures by then. This shows you you don't have to time the exact top or even close. They then bought $8 ,000 worth of Super and $15 ,000 worth of Curve NU plus a few extra random meme coin tokens. A few of them popped while some of them went back down to the gutter they crawled out from. These are meme coins, so as always, the wins can occasionally be huge, but the mini losses are generally bigger. The token Curve NU generated 150 % gain while Super or Supermarket price, it fell flat. The action in meme coins is light right now, but there are gains to be made and, of course, heavy losses, too. Now, this trader is an outlier because it's almost all losses in S -coins. The huge wins are the glory stories, but the losses can leave you reeling. So back to it. The rise of Pepe was the last mega meme coin pump, but sh** coin groups are still out there pounding the pavement trying to find the next big win. Now, this is not financial advice. You should know that already. I personally don't really trade meme coins unless the meme's power is just undeniable. Like I said, most people that buy meme coins at the very least get wrecked and the price goes down. Sometimes they even get honey potted and can't sell once they buy or even click the wrong approval and get their wallet drained of crypto and NFTs. It can happen, trust me. If you want to go to the crypto casino, many traders just go to dextools .io, live new pairs tab, but rest assured 99 .9 % of them are going to zero, so be careful. Trading new live pairs is like touching a live wire. It's basically paying the ETH gas fees to try your luck on a new token that just hit the Ethereum blockchain. Almost all of them are scams, but it is possible to find a good one that has an active community, committed devs, a website, and social channels in place to drive up the price. Looking at this wallet, I'm guessing that's how they turn $3 ,000 into $300 ,000. But the size of the bets is telling me they knew they picked coins that had a chance of winning. Whether that's from doing research or being part of a meme coin community is speculation, but live pairs is definitely the way to get in early. And again, in case I haven't driven this point home enough, it's also the way to get wrecked. So, yeah, it's a mean world out there, but occasionally there is serious money to be made. Crypto is full of possibilities. Look, that's all I got for now. I'll see you at the top.
VUX World
A highlight from Customer journey analytics with Tim Friebel
"Hello there, ladies and gentlemen. Boys and girls, welcome to Vuex World. I'm your host, Cain Sims, and today we're going to be talking about customer journey mapping, analytics rather, customer journey analytics, I should say. There is a massive gap right now in the field of conversational automation and customer experience automation in general. A huge gap when it comes to analytics, in my opinion. Every single thing we work on, always you can't work on any conversational AI initiative without analytics, both interaction analytics as in what is this conversation successful? Is it achieving the goals that the business and customer needs? But there's two other layers that I don't think many are looking at. There is the customer journey layer, which is where are people coming from? When they're in that conversation, are you actually resolving the issue? Are they calling back four days later? Are they switching channels and trying to do something else on another channel? Is this the first time they're talking to you in a period of time or have they spoke to you every week for the last three weeks? There's a whole load of stuff that goes into understanding whether your efforts of improving customer experience are actually having an impact on you, so you've got to understand the customer journey. And then the level above that is the business. Is this thing actually contributing to the business? Is it generating revenue? Is it streamlining processes? Is it saving money? Whatever your goals are, you need to be able to measure it, quantify it, and tie it back to the conversations that you're having. These are the areas where I think there's huge gaps in many organisations' understanding and also their active implementations. People are beginning to get better at understanding the interaction level, understanding your NLU confidence scores, understanding turn -based analytics, looking at that fallback report. People are starting to get there. But the other two layers of journey and business analytics couldn't be further away. And so an expert in customer journey analytics is Tim Freewell from Genesys. He's currently the global experience transformation lead. He's got a wealth of experience in this kind of stuff, and he's going to join us today to walk us through some of the key considerations, some of the benefits, and also maybe some of the challenges that you might have in trying to implement all of this stuff. So without further ado, please welcome Tim Freewell to the UX world. Tim, welcome. Thanks, Kate. Pleasure to be here. Pleasure to have you here. Thank you for joining me. I know it took us a little while to set this conversation up, so I appreciate your patience and yeah, excited to get into it today. So where abouts are you going in the world? So I'm in St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis, Missouri. Right in the middle of the United States. Most people, or some people, especially in Europe are like, where is that, right? So yeah, middle of the United States. Nice. That sounds good. That sounds good. And so how long have you been at Genesys for? So I've been at Genesys about five years. A number of different roles. Started as a business consultant, really focused on artificial intelligence for the contact center, focused on conversational AI for a couple of years. And then we actually acquired a customer journey analytics software called Pointless about a year and a half ago. And coincidentally, prior to Genesys, I worked in the customer journey analytics space for a little over a decade with a company that was kind of at the forefront of that. Frankly, we're too early to the market. The company was called Click Clocks. It's not really around anymore. But obviously, whenever we made that acquisition, it made sense for me to kind of slide over and help that team as well. So now really focusing on helping customers understand where they start from their AI strategy, but also how do we apply customer journey analytics to understand business impacts of these things that we're implementing. Nice, nice. So when you first began, then, the whole process with what did you call it? Click Fox. What was the situation then? What were the sort of like, I suppose, best practices quite a while ago now looking at your LinkedIn profile, like what was some of the best in class sort of like technologies, I suppose, at the time? And what did journey analytics look like then as compared to what you have now with Pointless? Yeah, no, it's a good question. I'd say the problem statement is still the same. We started with a perspective of, we actually had a product called customer experience analytics, right? And then through partnering with some of the big management consulting firms out there, the journey term started to take flight. So we latched on to that. And so you had, like I said, the problem statement is still the same. You still had analytics tools out there that were focused on maybe one piece of the journey. It was like, for example, Omniture, who was ultimately purchased by Adobe, was focused on the web and mobile customer journey piece of it. They're usually focused on the sales funnel. And then you'd also have people that were kind of doing reporting in the contact center. You'd have the voice of the reset, NPS, that type of thing. And really weren't connecting those things together. Fundamentally, it's hard to do, right? Because you have data coming from many different data sources that you're trying to connect together. So the problem statement was largely the same, is that how do we really see what customers are doing across all these channels and across time? So instead of it being just looking at one piece of the journey that's occurring within a couple minutes, potentially you're looking back six weeks or even six months. What's this customer experience as they're onboarding, things like that. So the problem statement is largely the same. The approach that Pointless took to it is very similar. Obviously, technology has evolved a lot to make the data collection piece easier, running in the cloud, all those kinds of things. So the how change involved, but ultimately the business problem statement was still the same. That makes sense. Yeah. And I suppose even today, perhaps the challenge is still kind of there, isn't it? I mean, if you look at something like Google Analytics, for example, or you mentioned Adobe Analytics there, like those analytics tools today are pretty good at focusing on one channel, web analytics, mobile analytics, and they can map a journey from the perspective of, okay, a customer comes from a search engine. They then go on this page, that page, this page, click this button, scroll to this depth, fill in this form, and then that's it. So I suppose when it comes to, especially when it comes to conversational AI, tying a conversation that might happen in an IVR system over here, or a chat bot on your website here, or a WhatsApp conversation over there. And those interactions are not just the only interactions that customers have. Maybe they start on your website, then call your contact center. Maybe they call your contact center and then try WhatsApp later. So in this sort of like omni -channel world, I suppose, would you think, would you agree with that actually it gets more complex to actually track the customer journeys in its entirety? Yeah, 100%. And because of all the systems that you mentioned, they kind of have all their own unique identifier for the interaction. So if you think about what, how would we identify the connectivity between these things, right? The contact center is going to have like a call ID or whatever the term is that you want to use within contact center platform. For the interaction itself, you're going to have the same thing with maybe a cookie ID on the website, as well as an interaction ID, et cetera. When customers authenticate, you get additional pieces of information, right? You might get their account number, their phone number, their email address, whatever. So there's all these pieces that are there, but sort of the secret sauce is being able to tie those things together across channels and have a cohesive view of what the customer's doing across the channels. Yeah, absolutely. We have some customers that we actually ingest like greater than 50 different data sources. So you're thinking about connecting together, billing data, potentially, I mentioned kind of voice of the customer, CSAT data, et cetera, even declines, ATM things like that. So you're really looking at a really granular level of the events that are occurring across all these systems. And then putting the business lens on it is what's this customer in the process of doing or trying to do? Are they trying to pay a bill? Are they new? Are they onboarding or trying to add a product? And those things, again, can take over time. Those things can take maybe a couple of weeks, depending on what type of journeys you're talking about, right? So you got, so it's not only the data connectivity piece, but it's also looking at it from the lens of the business to say, customers typically have, our customers, I mean, not the end customer, but typically have 10 or 15 core journeys, like what are the core things you can do with a brand? Like I mentioned, paying bill, onboarding, et cetera, et cetera. And so it's a different mindset of thinking about how do we actually run our business by that concept? Like how good is our onboarding journey, understanding that a customer might sign up for a new product online, maybe they need to go and create an online profile, then they've called the contact center, et cetera, over the course of those six weeks, right? So it's really kind of a different perspective to think about how are we looking at this customer experience. Yeah. And so do you tend to look more at analytics for exploratory purposes or or diagnostics analytics for measuring impact? Because suppose you could do this, you could do both, couldn't you? And that picture you were painting there of you've got 50 different data sources all plugged into one place. That seems to me a little bit more kind of exploratory and diagnostic based, like let's just ingest it all. Let's try and find the patterns. Let's try and find the issues. Then we can resolve something versus we've implemented something. Let's measure the impact of it. Like I'm wondering if you can give us a bit of a flavor for based on the customers you work with, where is most of the activity that you find that you're working on? Yeah, it's a really good question. And the perspective is it depends on where you're starting. And we always see, say the enterprise customers that have kind of grown to think about it as like enterprise journey management, they usually started with a specific problem and then added data sources over time because the questions they want to ask changes, right? So maybe where you start is probably the most common thing is let's look at what web pages or mobile pages are most likely to drive a customer and make a phone call at the end of the contact center or chat with the phone because then you're looking at upstream to say, are there areas to optimize that experience in the web and mobile channel that are actually going to reduce those interactions to the contact center because the customer was probably trying to self -serve anyway. But then over time, so to start that, you're starting with web and mobile data, maybe some contact center data. But then the next thing you might do is say, well, how was that experience on the web and mobile channel actually impacting CSAT? So let's pull in the voice of the customer data so that now we can start to look backward. And then from a, to use your word, a diagnostic standpoint, if we think about bots in the VUX context, I am a regular listener, by the way. If you think about conversational AI and bots, like that's one step in the experience. So inside of those tools, you have tuning and training tools. How do we actually make the bot? How do we optimize the bot? Did it do what it was supposed to do? But then taking a step back and seeing what impact to our business did that bot experience have? Like if we put a new intent in and we built out the fulfillment capabilities for that bot, did it actually reduce cost to the contact center? Did it positively impact our customer satisfaction, et cetera? So it's, you do have the diagnostic sort of in -channel focus from an analytics standpoint, but then you also want to take a step back and see, did it actually have the impact on our business that we expected it to have? Right. Absolutely. Yeah. What are kind of some of the challenges that, are the challenges the same today as you were alluding to earlier on in terms of kind of setting some of this stuff up? Cause you mentioned there, for example, you might start with website data and then you might try and put an intervention in on the website that then tries to reduce contact on the, in the contact center, but then you might pull in voice of the customer data. The challenge that I can sort of see there is these, I suppose, what's the word I'm looking for? These kinds of like numbers that you see on the website data, cause you might not necessarily be able to tie it to a specific individual. You've just got data, but then you've got voice of the customer data. And so it's tied that together, isn't it? To say, okay, this group of people on the website here had this impact on the CSAT. And it's the challenge for me seems to be like tying it all together. Cause you need to tie it to a customer level, something record in order to aggregate it, you know, to understand it at high levels. Are those challenges still challenges that you see? Yeah, absolutely. You know, so, and that is kind of the, you know, secret sauce. So whenever, you know, I talked about how the problem statement is the same that we've been looking at for, you know, nearly two decades to date myself a little bit, is the same, but you know, method that you're doing, you're doing that connectivity across the channels has changed and gotten a little bit easier. One of the kind of the proprietary things inside of the Pointless platform that was different, you know, is really what we refer to as dynamic identity resolution. So you're essentially building a living profile of the customer. So any ID that we might connect, collect from any channel we're adding to that customer profile. So that when we go do analytics in real time, like whatever we know of the customer at this time, we can use that and almost think about it as like, you know, not to geek out and talk about, you know, writing SQL queries, but you know, if you think about it as a join condition, right, depending on the analytics that you're doing, you might want to look at it from a different lens. So if I have, if the customer is authenticated in the, you know, in the mobile channel, in the IVR, et cetera, we're also probably going to be able to tie the account ID together with the voice of the customer data. And that's one lens is to say, let's use the account ID as the join here. But we also might want to look at it a little differently. You know, I could also maybe look at it by phone number, because that could be different people potentially.
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Monitor Show 07:00 10-02-2023 07:00
"Now through October 13th, you can join Planet Fitness for just $1 down, $10 a month. With free fitness training and most clubs open 24 hours, it's the most convenient place to get that big fitness energy. Join for just $1 down, $10 a month, no commitment, cancel anytime. Deal ends October 13th. See you. Vote for details. This is Bloomberg Radio. In the U .S., we see inflation cooling, we see the economy slowing. Disinflation, it has been very consistent. The transmission of higher rates really didn't flow through with the normal four to six quarter lag that we were expecting. I think we've seen the beginnings of an unraveling. We continue to think that the Fed is at a peak. We also continue to think that the Fed is going to be cutting interest rates next year. This is Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Kean, Jonathan Farrow and Lisa Abramowitz. Let's get your week started. Live from New York City this morning. Good morning, good morning. From our audience worldwide, this is Bloomberg Surveillance on TV and radio alongside Tom Kean and Lisa Abramowitz. I'm Jonathan Farrow. Your equity market pop didn't last that long. We are totally unchanged on the S &P 500. Crisis averted avoided TK, at least for now. Yeah, widely predicted. I think our Washington coverage has been great on this. Some real humility about, you know, don't do this theory, that theory, the other. But what a shock three hours before whatever it was, he did a John Boehner and got the Democrat vote. It's something we've talked about here a lot. We can do it all over again over the next month into November 17. It's just, you know. Anne -Marie coming up in about 15 minutes. She'll bore you with that. Then Congressman French Hill, lots to talk about leadership in the House a little bit later. French Hill, 7 .45 Eastern Time. I looked at the votes in the Washington Post all laid out and the first one I went to to see what the gentleman from Arkansas did. I knew what he would do, but I actually went to see what French Hill's vote was. We'll catch up with French a little bit later. 165 the estimate for Friday.
The Mason Minute
Monk Mode (MM #4576)
"Since social media is what I do for a living, I pay attention to a lot of social media news and just kind of try to keep up with the trends. And a recent trend I've learned about is called Monk Mode. It's basically a social media detox. And it's not a long term, it's not a week, it's not a month. It's when people have projects they need to get done and basically make it so they don't go on their social media apps. For many, social media has become almost an addiction. Now, it's funny. I work in social media. I've been working in social media now for over 15 years. But I can go a day if I have to without checking my Facebook feed, without going through my Instagram. I don't like to because I enjoy it. It's something I enjoy in my spare time. But when I'm in work mode, when I've got things to do, when I'm on deadline, I don't feel that need to see if anybody's liked something I've posted. Everything else gets dropped, no big deal. But for some people, going Monk Mode, blocking their social media apps, blocking the internet for whether it's a day, whether it's 12 hours, whether it's six hours, is something more important. I never thought social media would get to be that way. I knew it was a powerful tool, but for some, it may be too powerful.
The Mason Minute
Monk Mode (MM #4576)
"Since social media is what I do for a living, I pay attention to a lot of social media news and just kind of try to keep up with the trends. And a recent trend I've learned about is called Monk Mode. It's basically a social media detox. And it's not a long term, it's not a week, it's not a month. It's when people have projects they need to get done and basically make it so they don't go on their social media apps. For many, social media has become almost an addiction. Now, it's funny. I work in social media. I've been working in social media now for over 15 years. But I can go a day if I have to without checking my Facebook feed, without going through my Instagram. I don't like to because I enjoy it. It's something I enjoy in my spare time. But when I'm in work mode, when I've got things to do, when I'm on deadline, I don't feel that need to see if anybody's liked something I've posted. Everything else gets dropped, no big deal. But for some people, going Monk Mode, blocking their social media apps, blocking the internet for whether it's a day, whether it's 12 hours, whether it's six hours, is something more important. I never thought social media would get to be that way. I knew it was a powerful tool, but for some, it may be too powerful.
The Mason Minute
Monk Mode (MM #4576)
"Since social media is what I do for a living, I pay attention to a lot of social media news and just kind of try to keep up with the trends. And a recent trend I've learned about is called Monk Mode. It's basically a social media detox. And it's not a long term, it's not a week, it's not a month. It's when people have projects they need to get done and basically make it so they don't go on their social media apps. For many, social media has become almost an addiction. Now, it's funny. I work in social media. I've been working in social media now for over 15 years. But I can go a day if I have to without checking my Facebook feed, without going through my Instagram. I don't like to because I enjoy it. It's something I enjoy in my spare time. But when I'm in work mode, when I've got things to do, when I'm on deadline, I don't feel that need to see if anybody's liked something I've posted. Everything else gets dropped, no big deal. But for some people, going Monk Mode, blocking their social media apps, blocking the internet for whether it's a day, whether it's 12 hours, whether it's six hours, is something more important. I never thought social media would get to be that way. I knew it was a powerful tool, but for some, it may be too powerful.
The Mason Minute
Monk Mode (MM #4576)
"Since social media is what I do for a living, I pay attention to a lot of social media news and just kind of try to keep up with the trends. And a recent trend I've learned about is called Monk Mode. It's basically a social media detox. And it's not a long term, it's not a week, it's not a month. It's when people have projects they need to get done and basically make it so they don't go on their social media apps. For many, social media has become almost an addiction. Now, it's funny. I work in social media. I've been working in social media now for over 15 years. But I can go a day if I have to without checking my Facebook feed, without going through my Instagram. I don't like to because I enjoy it. It's something I enjoy in my spare time. But when I'm in work mode, when I've got things to do, when I'm on deadline, I don't feel that need to see if anybody's liked something I've posted. Everything else gets dropped, no big deal. But for some people, going Monk Mode, blocking their social media apps, blocking the internet for whether it's a day, whether it's 12 hours, whether it's six hours, is something more important. I never thought social media would get to be that way. I knew it was a powerful tool, but for some, it may be too powerful.
The Mason Minute
Monk Mode (MM #4576)
"Since social media is what I do for a living, I pay attention to a lot of social media news and just kind of try to keep up with the trends. And a recent trend I've learned about is called Monk Mode. It's basically a social media detox. And it's not a long term, it's not a week, it's not a month. It's when people have projects they need to get done and basically make it so they don't go on their social media apps. For many, social media has become almost an addiction. Now, it's funny. I work in social media. I've been working in social media now for over 15 years. But I can go a day if I have to without checking my Facebook feed, without going through my Instagram. I don't like to because I enjoy it. It's something I enjoy in my spare time. But when I'm in work mode, when I've got things to do, when I'm on deadline, I don't feel that need to see if anybody's liked something I've posted. Everything else gets dropped, no big deal. But for some people, going Monk Mode, blocking their social media apps, blocking the internet for whether it's a day, whether it's 12 hours, whether it's six hours, is something more important. I never thought social media would get to be that way. I knew it was a powerful tool, but for some, it may be too powerful.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from The Professors Disillusionment
"Welcome to Gospel in Life. This month we're looking at directional signposts through history that point us to Christ. All through the Old Testament from Genesis to Jonah, you see signs that point us to Jesus. Listen now to today's teaching from Tim Keller on Pointers to Christ. Verses 15 to 26. Then I thought in my heart, The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise? I said in my heart, This too is meaningless. For the wise man, like the fool, will not long be remembered. In days to come both will be forgotten. Like the fool, the wise must die. So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I hated all the things that I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun? All his days, his work is pain and grief. Even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless. A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God. For without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and happiness. But to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after, the win. This is God's word. one Now, of the things that an awful lot of people have said is that Ecclesiastes is a great book. In chapter 97 of Moby Dick, I know it so well, Melville says the truest of all books is Ecclesiastes. Thomas Wolfe in a pretty well -known American novel, You Can't Go Home Again, he says, one of his characters says this, Ecclesiastes is the greatest single piece of writing I have ever known, the noblest, the wisest, the most powerful expression of humanity's life on earth, the highest flower of eloquence and truth. There's an awful lot of people who talk like that, say this is the best book in the Bible, this is the truest, this is the greatest. But I can almost guarantee you that none of them felt that way the first time, not the first time they read it. Because what you have when you first read Ecclesiastes, what you're struck with, is a teacher, a professor, as we'll see, in absolute despair. The very first verses, the first few lines of Ecclesiastes go like this, meaningless, meaningless, utterly meaningless, everything is meaningless. And of course, the passage I just read is just the same. And so you have someone in utter despair with the bleakest view of life, and the reason people generally get very confused when they read it, people who are believers, people who believe in God, people who have the traditional faith, they say, I'm confused because it seems like he's contradicting everything the rest of the Bible says. And people who don't believe or have trouble believing or who are not as believing, when they read it, I'll tell you what they say. What they say is, who needs this? They say, this guy is a professor, this is the kind of guy who drinks himself into a raise on the left bank talking about the meaninglessness of life, this is the kind of guy who makes these art films that, you know, are so bleak and terrible that play in obscure little corners of Greenwich Village. Of course, the world has people like that, but most of us aren't like that, we don't see life like that. Who needs this rant? Who needs this pessimism? Now, the reason why it's so confusing is because a couple of things are missed. The first thing is because people don't realize the instructional approach. We don't exactly know who wrote Ecclesiastes, I won't get into the debate, it's debatable that Solomon writes, it doesn't matter because in the very first line, he calls himself a teacher, a word that can mean a professor. And if you read Ecclesiastes, you'll realize that this man, and it's the only book like this in the Bible, this man is running a seminar. He's not lecturing, he's not preaching, like a good philosophy professor, he's running a seminar. He is making you think. He is goading you with questions. Ecclesiastes, unlike any other book of the Bible, is not pedagogy, it's andragogy. Pedagogy literally means child instruction, memorizing, wrote, you see, drill, spoon feeding. Andragogy is a word that means adult instruction. Goading, asking questions, getting people to look at their own foundations, discovering truth for themselves. That's one of the reasons why Ecclesiastes seems so odd. But the other reason it seems so odd is because people, I don't think notice, unless you look clearly and I'm going to try to show you this morning, that the teacher is looking at life all the time. He's always saying, I see, I see, I saw this, I looked at life and I saw this, but he looks at life in two different ways and he goes back and forth between them. Let me show you the first way he looks at life and the second way he looks at life. It'll teach us a great deal. The first way he looks at life, in the first view, let's say how he looks and what he sees and why he sees it. Now, the first way he looks at life is he looks at life under the sun. You notice how three times in this passage, verse 17, 20 and 22, he says, I found this meaningless under the sun. I saw all my work under the sun was meaningless. This is a term that's used 30 times in the book. This is a term that is not used anywhere else in the Old Testament, so it's clearly critical to and very important to the whole book. And what he means by this, almost all the commentators I've ever read agree, what he means by under the sun is life here and now considered in isolation from anything else. Life under the sun is, he says, I'm going to look at the world as if this life under the sun is all that there is. I'm not going to look at life above the sun. I'm not going to think about God or eternity or heaven or hell, see. I'm not going to think of anything beyond. I'm going to look at life as if this is the only life we have, at least the only life we know. You know Carl Sagan in the beginning of every one of his Cosmos PBS segments, in the very beginning you'd hear Carl Sagan's voice come on and he would say, the cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Now most people are not atheists in the strict sense like Carl Sagan. What Carl Sagan is saying is, this life, this world, there is no heaven, there is no hell, there is no eternity, okay? There is nothing but this life, life under the sun, there's nothing else. Most people aren't atheists. Most people would say, well, I believe in God, but the modern person says, I believe in God or something, but we can't know. We can't know God's will for sure. We can't know about the after. We can't be sure. And so essentially the modern person says, we have got to live life as if this is the only life we know. And the teacher says, deal. I'm going to look at life as if it's the only life we know. That's how he's looking at it. That's the first way he looks at it. I'm going to look at life under the sun. But what does he see? What he sees is absolute inconsequentiality. Now, he kind of looks at it in several ways. He notices the injustice. If you look down, he says, it's unjust. Some people work very, very hard and never enjoy the fruit of their labor, and other people who don't deserve it at all enjoy it. And then he says, and worse than that, it's possible that you could work very hard to accomplish something in life, and then when you die, not only don't you get it anymore, but some fool comes along and takes over, and next thing you know, everything you've worked for is gone. You build an institution. You establish a school of thought. You do some good deeds, and somebody else comes along afterwards and just ruins it. But you see, that all is just, those are all just symptoms. Because up in verse 15 and 16, he really gives you the bottom line. In verse 15 and 16, as I read, he says, the fate of the fool will overtake me also. He says, therefore, this is meaningless, for the wise like the fool will not long be remembered. Now what he's bringing out here is something, again, incredibly modern, but something he's trying to grab you by the scruff of the neck and show you. And we're going to talk about why, but for now, let's say the what. We'll talk about why he's doing this, but right now, let's say what he's looking at. And what he is saying is, a wise life, a wise action, or a foolish life, a foolish action, a compassionate life, a compassionate action, a cruel life, a vicious action. In the end, makes no difference at all. None at all. If it's really true that life under the sun is all there is, if it's really true that when we die, that's it, and eventually the solar system dies, in other words, eventually something will sweep everything away, civilization will all be swept away, it won't make a bit of difference how you've lived at all. And therefore, there is no way, if you realize that life under the sun is all there is, that you can say one action is more significant than another, because it makes no difference in the end at all. Now, that's very bleak, you say. And the question comes up, why, you know, we're all smart people, we walk around, why is it that the average person, and the average person in Western culture who shares the teacher's premise that this life is all we know, but they go on out there and they don't feel that life is meaningless, they don't say one thing is as insignificant as another, that everything is ridiculous, everything is meaningless and vain and futile, no. So why does he, and here's the reason why. He looks at the whole of life, the big picture, and we refuse to. The key is, take a look at this question that he brings out, I have been meditating on this question for some years, and I just saw something this week that I'd never seen before. Here's the question he asks, and he dares you to ask the question. He says, down here in verse 22, what does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun? That's the question. Every word is significant. First of all, he says, assuming that this life is all there is, first of all, he says, what is the gain? What do you get? What is the difference? Now, why do you ask that question? Because he's really showing us that you ask that question about any individual piece of your life, do you not? If somebody says to you, I would like you to go to the corner of so -and -so place, and I would like you to stand there for an hour tomorrow, you would say, for what? Well, the person says, I don't want to tell you, I'd just like you to do it. And you say, no, no, no, no. I want to know what difference it'll make, what gain there will be, otherwise it's a waste of time. You would never do anything. If it made absolutely no difference at all, if nothing came of it at all, you'd never do anything. But the thing that, in other words, we look at every part of our life like that. But the reason that the teacher comes to despair, existential despair, is because he uses a little word in that question that is so critical, and that is the word all. What do you get from the whole of your life? And the reason the average person shares the teacher's premise but does not share the teacher's despair in this world, in this Western culture, is because we refuse to use the word all. See, the average person, I mean, there's probably a lot of people right here listening to this, and you're going to sit through the 30 minutes or whatever, but you would never sit through 30 minutes personally with somebody. If somebody sat down and said, well, what do you believe about life? And you said, well, I'm kind of an agnostic, I'm kind of a, I sort of believe in God in general, it might be true, but the one thing is all we know is that we're here, we don't really know for sure why we're here or where we're going or, you know, we can't be sure. Now, the person says, well, in that case, you must, you have to look at life and say that nothing means anything, that there's no right and wrong ultimately, there's no significance between one action over another, that no one action is more meaningful or more significant than the other. And you wouldn't stand for that. You would say, oh, give me this, I took philosophy 101, this meaning in life, so philosophers need this, philosophers ask the big questions. The average person, the average person lives for the daily things. Sure, I don't know, I'm an agnostic, but I'm optimistic about life, why? Because when I take a boat ride in Central Park, I feel good, it's meaningful. When I hug somebody I love, it's meaningful. When accomplish I something at work, it's meaningful. When I do a compassionate deed as opposed to a selfish deed, it's meaningful to me. I'm having a fine life. You can't throw all this on me, you can't put me back into philosophy class. Now, you know what you're doing? You're refusing to ask the word all. There was an old Mutt and Jeff cartoon some years ago. Remember Mutt and Jeff? And at one place, Mutt, Jeff comes up and there's Mutt, and right in the middle of a street, right in the middle of a, you know, a road, a street, he has built a very, very tall pile of stones, and at the top of the pile of stones, there's a lantern, and Jeff says to Mutt, oh, Mutt, why did you build this pile of stones? Oh, he says, that's easy, so I could put the lantern up there. So that it's up high so that it gives a lot of light. Oh, okay. Why did you put the lantern up there? Well, I want the lantern up there so the cars will see the pile of stones and they won't crash into it. Why did you put the pile of stones there for the car to crash into? Well, so that I could put the lantern up there. Now, what is he doing? It's very simple. He's finding meaning of one part in the meaning of another part, but he's refusing to ask the question, does the whole thing have any use, or is it just stupid? Why do you work? Usually, a person says, I'll tell you why I work, so that I can do things that I like to do. I have avocations, I've got hobbies, I've got leisure, I like travel. Why? Well, that really recharges my batteries. Why? So I can work. See, the lantern is for the stones, the stones are for the lantern, and if you refuse to stand back and say, but what is the whole thing for? What is the whole thing for? How do you know your whole life isn't stupid? That your whole life isn't pointless? How do you know your whole life is not just a very, very large stone lantern in the middle of a highway? How do you know this? Now, here's what the teacher is saying. The teacher is saying, grow up. This is not pedagogy, this is andragogy. Don't be an ostrich. Ask yourself the question. If you would never do one thing, if it made no difference at all, okay, it would be meaningless, it would be a waste of time, unless it made a difference. What difference does your whole life make? What are you living for? What difference does it all make? Now, the average person just does not want to hear this. I had a little conversation with somebody, by the way, I know very well, I'll get back to why I think this was a valid conversation, but it's a dangerous one. I had a conversation not too long with somebody I knew very, very well, and this person had just said, what he said was, he says, you know what, the way you know what's right and wrong is, there's no reasons for it, there's no way to know what's right and wrong, you just have to know what's right and wrong in your heart, and if you know in your heart, then it's right, and then you just need to do it, and that's how you live, that's how you find meaning in life. And I said, well then, what do you say to Hitler? He felt it real hard in his life, and he did it, so that was okay. Oh no, my friend said, well you know, he says, the trouble is, most of the people's hearts in the world know that what Hitler was doing was wrong, therefore it was wrong. And I said, well you know, up to 150 years ago, most of the hearts of the world thought slavery was just fine. Do you think slavery was just fine? No. Why not? And he just looked and he shrugged and he says, you know, these things are so complex, if you think about this, you'll just dig a hole. Now this is a person I knew a very long time, and it was very, very cordial. Now here's the question. The teacher is saying, when someone says, I don't need to ask this question, I don't need to ask this question, what you really are saying is, my optimistic agnosticism, and that's the worldview the teacher is trying to absolutely smash, my optimistic agnosticism will fall apart if I ask that question. It can't deal with that question. It is demolished by that question. It is absolutely inadequate to that question. Optimistic agnosticism. Life under the sun is all there is, but there's moral truth. There's human rights. There's human dignity. Listen, if your origin isn't significant, you come from nothing, and if your destiny is insignificant, you're going to nothing, have the guts to admit that your life is insignificant. And stop talking, as if, on the one hand, you feel like you can poke holes in other people's inconsistencies. You'll poke holes in Muslims who say, I believe in God, but then they do something wrong, or Christians who say, I believe in God, do something wrong. You'll poke holes in everybody else's inconsistency, but you won't look at your own. You know, Jean -Paul Sartre made a very interesting statement. His most famous essay was right after the war, 1946. He wrote his essay called Existentialism and Humanism, and this is what he said. He says, God does not exist, and we have to face all the consequences of this. The existentialist is strongly opposed to a certain kind of secular ethics which wants to abolish God with the least possible expense. The existentialist, indeed, thinks it is very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding any values disappears with God. There can be no a priori good, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. So nowhere is it written that we must be honest. Nowhere is it written that we must not lie, because the fact is we're on a plane where there's only us, human beings. Dostoevsky said, if God didn't exist, everything would be permissible. That is the very starting point of existentialism. If God does not exist, there is nothing within or without that can legitimize any conduct. Now, you know what is very interesting to me? Sartre took this idea, life under the sun is all there is, and you know what he says? He says, don't talk to me in any way that says that you believe that one kind of conduct is more legitimate than any other kind. One of the things that's come out recently, he died in 1980, one of the things that's come out over the last few years is what a misogynist he was. Jean -Paul Sartre was very bad to women, the women he knew, and he was very misogynist, but you know what? Whenever I read the people who accept his premise about life, and then get very upset about it, if he was alive, he would rise up, and he was only 5 '2", so that's, he would rise up, and he would say, please. He would say, you want to be free. You want to say, I am free to do what I want to do. You want to be free. As far as I know, this life is all there is. I'm not controlled by eternity, by moral absence, by God. I want to be free. Then you have got to have the guts to accept the utter meaninglessness of all distinctions. You want to be free, fine, but you have to accept it. Meaningless, meaningless, utterly meaningless, everything is meaningless. Come on. You know, Christians look like real hard -nosed skeptics compared to a view that says, life under the sun is all there is, but I'm optimistic. I have meaning in life. I can enjoy things. I know some things are right, some things are wrong. I know it's better to be compassionate than to be violent. I know these things. Talk about blind faith. Talk about naive religiosity. why Now, is he doing this? Because he also tends to see life, the preacher, the teacher, the professor sees life in a different way. One of the biggest obstacles for people to believe in Christianity is that they think they already know all about it. But if we look at Jesus' encounters with various people during His life, we'll find some of our assumptions challenged. We see Him meeting people at the point of their big, unspoken questions. The Gospels are full of encounters that made a profound impact on those who spoke with Jesus. And in His book, Encounters with Jesus, Tim Keller explores how these encounters can still address our questions and doubts today. Encounters with Jesus is our thanks for your gift to help Gospel in Life reach more people with the amazing love of Christ. Request your copy of Encounters with Jesus today when you give at GospelInLife .com slash give. That's GospelInLife .com slash give. Now, here's Tim Keller with the remainder of today's teaching.
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"All right. So we're taping part one here. It is a little past 4 o 'clock Pacific time. Just watch the Pats completely shit the bed. We're not going to talk about that. That'll be part two. Part one. Ryan Russilla was here. We're talking Drew Holiday. The big trade. How is the NBA different for you right now, and are we done? Do we finally have the 30 rosters? Is this what we're looking at? Do we know who's going to be on everybody's team, or are we somehow not done? I never think we're done anymore in the NBA, and I know you're being a gracious host here, but you and I talked for five minutes today. I think you have the headline take on this, okay? I think you have the headline take on what the top of the league looks like. Are you ready to share it this early? I think Boston has the best top six. I did not feel that way 24 hours ago. I did not feel like there was a clear best. I trust this team in crunch time, and if Porzingis stays healthy, which is a huge if, I think they have the best six, and they can fill around, and they have the most ways that they can play whoever in the series. So from that vantage point, you had to do the trade. And they gave up a center who has been hurt every single year, and I don't fully trust that he's ever going to be out there when it matters. Brogdon, who was hurt, who was mad at the team, and two picks. And you get Drew Holliday, who was a 2021 Finals hero, who's one of the best defensive guards in the league, who's still really good, and just raises their ceiling. Now you can go white Holliday, Tatum Brown, and a center at crunch time, and you're good. You can switch on almost everything, especially if you get anything from Horford. So were you similarly enthused? Yeah, I love Drew. There's some stuff with his shooting in the playoffs where it's been pretty bad, or you're like, is that just because you can't make shots at the playoffs, or is it just what happened statistically? I mean, it does happen. I mean, if I'm getting the negative parts out of the way, like, yeah, sure, he's a little bit older. The big situation is a huge question mark. I can't believe what they got from Horford last year. So I don't know if you can just pencil that in, because he was way beyond expectations, at least for me, or for what I had for him. But when you can add Drew for those pieces, and I'm with you, when Rob Williams is right, it's really, really nice. But you can even tell when he's out there, you're like, is something wrong with him again? The number of times that I've watched Rob Williams in Celtics games, I'm like, I know he's out there, but wait, something. And every time, I thought Marcus Smart was trying to end his career with some of those Valley U passes, depending on how he lands, like, wait, is this going to be the last one we ever see from him? So to me, it makes a lot of sense. By the way, on that Rob point, my dad texted me after the trade, he's like, oh, I hate giving up Rob. I'm like, you complained about Rob more than anybody I know in my life. You would text me from the games going, oh, Rob's just off in the, Rob just walked in the tunnel again. I don't know what happened. I like just Brian Barrett had a tweet, 32 games, 29 games, 52 games, 61 games, 35 games. Those are Rob Williams' last five years. It just wasn't reliable enough for a team that's trying to win a title. I interrupted you. No, you didn't, because it's a it's a really good point, because what's going to happen? I mean, you know, it's just there's there's definitely like if Prozingis is hurt, it feels like the whole thing is screwed up and there's a really good chance that that could happen. But if you're talking about like the allocation of minutes and the talent that's getting those minutes, well, the talent that's getting those minutes just went up with Drew Holiday. And that's, I think, the simplest way to look at it. So they they turn Marcus Smart and Grant Williams and Brogdon and Rob Williams into Drew Holiday and Prozingis, more Derek White minutes, more Peyton Pritchard minutes. And then there's a little bit of an X factor with who's going to be like that ninth man, tenth man, kind of big four slash five person, maybe, or somebody you trade like that. I feel like that's the easiest position to pick up in January and February. The big thing for me is I think White was ready for a bigger role. I think White and Holiday together is magnificent as a as a backcourt. And I read some stuff today. They think White's going to come off the bench. I don't know if I see that. I think I would come out of the gates with White and Holiday and Tatum and Brown in the center and maybe bring to your Horford point, like maybe bring Horford off the bench and try to really try to rest his minutes during the season and be careful with him and make him a bench player. And then the playoffs reassess. But I think that having those four guys all together, they complement each other so well. You can play basically any kind of defense against any perimeter guy in the league. Those four guys and they're just better. I mean, there's there's just no way around it. They're better. He's a much better player than Marcus Smart was last year. And you know, you made that point about the shooting. He'd have those games. He'd go 5 for 22 in a playoff game. You know, he'd eat. But I do feel like he was asked to do a little bit more than maybe what he's supposed to be doing. I don't feel like he's a pure point guard. Right. Now you have White who can handle most of the ball handling. He could play off the ball and they're going to get the best version of him. Awesome locker room guy, too, by all accounts. I mean, really like a beloved teammate wherever he went. And I think they wanted to change the chemistry a little bit. I think this was an unhappier team than maybe they led on to the outside world last year. Yeah. Look, I definitely like him more than Smart. And you know, to be totally fair, when I'm looking at like the Lillard side of this trade last week before we knew the second piece of Drew and upgrading from Drew to Lillard, I'm going, OK, well, now you're top two in Milwaukee's like in the argument for the best two in the NBA. OK, that's that's really what this league has been about now post the teens decade where it was the arms race for your top three. It's you look around the league, you go, OK, who's got the two best? Like, let's come up with the five teams who have the two best. And with Lillard and Giannis, that's like a whole nother level. So when I was looking at it, it's like Lillard compared to Drew, you know, Drew is not somebody you're expecting to break down a defense off the dribble. Right. Oh, we're stuck into the shot clock, like make something happen where Lillard can literally do anything right in the final second of the shot clock and still you feel like it's still a decent look. So that part of it's a huge upgrade. But he's number three to four as far as an offensive option. He also and I don't know, this is just me talking out loud as I thought about the trade. It's pretty clear that when Boston's offense gets into trouble in the playoffs, like Tatum and Brown haven't figured out a way to kind of unlock it other than just like I can already picture my head like I know what the Tatum move is going to be. I already know what the Jaylen Brown move is going to be. And I don't know if Smart was able to make their life easier with the playmaking. And then sometimes I even think Smart would go like, well, if you guys are going to screw around, like I might just I might just be green light on this possession. I don't think Drew necessarily plays that way. So, you know, it's probably silly for me to think that like Drew is going to be the Steve Nash type who comes in and sets up all these great late playoff possessions. But there may be something in lessening the burden of those guys feeling that they have to do or defaulting to just forcing the issue as much as they do in the playoffs. I like how much ball handling they have, to your point, because they were talking about experimenting a little bit more with Tatum as a point forward this year, which makes me nervous a little bit just because, you know, he's six foot nine. I'm not sure that's the best use of him, but they seem pretty adamant. Like we feel like he could be a little bit more of a creator. And then you think White can do that. To me, White is the key to this season now, because if, you know, other than the Porzingis health thing, which I almost I'm going to knock on wood, but part of the reason they made all this movement and they got rid of Brogdon and Smart was I think they really wanted to push White to be the lead ball handler for them and a creator. And there's some unbelievable pick and roll stats with him. And just if certain people set him a pick in the way, even in the Miami series, he was one of the only guys who could create offense. So I think they have that plus they have Drew. And the reality is for Drew, this is this might be the deepest offensive team he's been on. Right. When you think back to like it was on some pretty weird Philly teams and some pretty weird New Orleans teams, and even when Milwaukee was at its best, it was really just Giannis, Middleton and Drew. And that was it. This is there's more shooting and playmaking around him than I think we've seen. Maybe it'll be a slight upgrade on the flip side. He doesn't have Giannis, who was the second best player of the century, probably, but I like the spot for him. It seemed like he really wanted to go to a contending team and I don't really know who they were competing against because for reading through some of the reports, it just seemed like Philly. I don't even know what the trade was for them. Portland wanted at least one piece back, probably two that they could do their keeper package. They wanted picks back. Golden State wasn't even in it. And it didn't seem like OKC ever threw their hat in the ring, which I was shocked by because I felt like OKC was the sleeping giant of this whole thing with Dort and some picks and just say, fuck it, let's let's see if we can be really good this year. So it seemed like it was down to Boston. The Clippers, they just had more assets. I don't know if Portland keeps Rob. He's on a good contract. They already have Ayton. My guess is that they're probably spinning him. Does it make sense that both of those guys? My sense is they're going to try it out, you know, but, you know, the thing with Rob is like, if you think he's an awesome defensive player that's just out there, like he's awesome when he's used a certain way. And once Boston unlocked that two years ago, where they stuck him on a non shooting big and then you could see other teams adapt to it, it's like, well, let's stop giving them an out where Rob can just roam off of this dude that's not a shooting threat, because I think that, you know, this is just going to turn into like now that he's not here. But I mean, have you listened to us talk about Rob Williams at all last couple of years? He you know, I don't I don't think he's I know what the defensive metrics are. I know the on off stuff. It's a big reason why I think the analytics models always love Boston. Like sometimes you look at him and be like, hey, I think this team's good, but like these numbers are overwhelming. This is like, yeah, it's it's so far like as if there's this huge gap between Boston and everybody else, which I never really felt going back these last two years. But you're if Chauncey Billups and you think like, OK, Rob Williams is going to go out there and like wreak havoc, it's like, well, he has to be used a certain way. So maybe they feel like that's in defensive support to Aiten. And with Aiten, you know, I have I'm not quite sure what to expect. Well, this is the one thing he's probably going to put up huge numbers because he's not going to have older dudes that have a higher status in the league that go, I'm sick of passing it to you. So he's probably going to get more touches. We'll probably see like early Aiten numbers and like twenty to ten for the first six weeks of the season. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah. Like he'll he'll he'll put up some big numbers there. But, you know, defensively, it's really about his competitiveness because there were times I think going back two years ago when we were thinking about him with that run of the Suns, the finals, you're like, look at this guy. Like he can switch out on the smaller players. You can rotate. But it's all about the way he's wired. And I think long term, unfortunately, like we already kind of know the answer there. Like I don't think all of a sudden now you start playing with some fierceness after being in the league this long. So he was the fifth option on that team and there seemed to be real resentment toward him in that whole Phoenix culture of like, why doesn't he just realize we don't need his offense? We need him to basically rebound and block shots and crash the offensive boards. I think his attitude was probably twenty five years old. I want to be the best player I can be. I already went to a finals. I don't that's not I think I could do more than that. So I don't I don't think anyone was necessarily wrong. As I said, on my Thursday pot, I just hated the trade for Phoenix. I just thought they got the poopoo platter back. You know, they got some some some spare ribs back and a couple of egg rolls and and that's it. But they did not get an entree back. And I think he's an entree on the right team, whether he's a guy that made sense for them. I don't know. But I know that they didn't get a good haul for him. I think Rob, for his contract, for what his talents are, is a really intriguing piece for them or for another team, because you could trade for him. And it's not like a daunting salary. Right. I think he's in what is what is it, like 15 a year or something like that? No, it's a really good. Yeah. I mean, it was a really low cost extension and he's still a pretty young guy. Yes, so.
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"I remember one day that he got upset with the youth pastor or something and we had a meeting. And he began to say, Well, you're just too legalistic. And the things he was saying, I said, I know what's happened to you. You've read Chuck Swindoll's book, Grace Awakening. That's what you've done. You're talking just like he talks in that book. And he said, Well, you've hit it right. I've been reading that. And I said, Now, look, you need to be careful. You're going to head the wrong direction. He said, Well, I'm going to a church that isn't as legalistic as this one. And he went. He went to another church, another fundamental Baptist church in town. But it doesn't hold our position and it does use their fundamentalists but they do use the wrong music and are heading the wrong direction. And all along he was out of that church and out into sin to move to California and we got word that he was really just gone into drugs and going wrong. And then one day we got word he's been arrested and he's in jail for a good while. I got the name of the jail and I wrote him a long letter and said, I'm praying for you, brother. I'd like to see you get right with God. And if you've not been saved, get it settled. If you haven't been saved, come back. Praise God. A month ago he was in our service. And when I closed the service, he walked down the front and he said, May I say a word? And he looked at the crowd and he said, Folks, I've been saved but I've actually, I've lived a terrible life. And I've got it settled. In the jail cell I began to realize where I was. And I got it settled. And I've asked God to forgive me and I've come to ask you to forgive me. What should we do? We ought to forgive him. And praise God our people all said, Amen. And I said, Do you forgive him? Yes. Amen. Amen. And I believe he's going on. I believe this man, he's now talking about that God's dealing with him about the ministry. And I believe he's going to go on for the Lord and be used in the ministry. But this matter of just going on in sin, he had to forgive. And there must be a recognition and there must be repentance in our lives consistently. Now the second thing here, repentance is not penance. That's a ritual or a form. Repentance involves a change of heart. Penance is a ritual in the Roman Catholic Church. Repentance, number three, is a work of the Holy Spirit and not a work of man. Only the Holy Spirit can bring repentance. John 16, 8 and 9. When he is come, the Holy Spirit, he will reprove, he will convict of sin, the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment of sin because they believe not on me. Of righteousness because I go to the Father and you see me no more. Of sin because the prince of this world is judged. So here again we have it now. Now we have John 16, Acts 26, 1 Thessalonians chapter 1. John 16, the Holy Spirit convicts of sin. In Paul's preaching, that brings repentance and the results in Thessalonians, it's a turning from idols. The Holy Spirit convicts of righteousness. That is a turn to God and in Thessalonians, a turn to God. The Holy Spirit convicts of judgment to come. That is, the person says, well I want to please the Lord with my life. I've been saved and I want to live for the Lord. He does works meet for repentance. He serves the living and true God. And so there's a change in his life. Now repentance is a change of mind. Do I have that on? Yeah, I do have it here. Repentance is a change of mind and oh, what a change. Yes, you may. Alright, we'll go ahead and stay there. Are we ready to move on? Almost. Wait a moment. Anybody have an objection to move on? Go to the next one. Yeah, he does. Hold it. Yes, sir. The Holy Spirit must do it. Are we ready? Okay, change. Repentance is a change of mind, now change again. Repentance involves the following. The mind. Understanding the knowledge of sin. The emotions. Pain or grief over sin making one willing to turn from sin and idols. The will. A change of direction. Works meet for repentance and serving the true and living God. Old Testament verse. Let me read it to you. It isn't on there, is it? Isaiah 1 16. Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings before mine eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn to do well. Seek judgment. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow. Now that's the entire verse. I've broken it down here. The change of mind. That parenthesis should be on the other side there, too. Change of mind, internal purpose. Wash you, make you clean. That fits with turn to God in Acts 26 and 1 Thessalonians 1. Change of life, lifestyle, external living. In Isaiah 1 16, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Change of life. Change of direction. A new life. And in Isaiah 1 16, Cease to do evil. Learn to do well. Seek judgment. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow. That fits with do works meet for repentance and serving the living and true God. And so there's a change. What a change it is. God does it by the power of the Spirit of God. We'll wait for you if you want to write that out. And if you want to get this lecture, a copy of it, we'll be glad to get it to you. We're ready to change? Would you be interested in having our email to email those to us? Yeah, I probably ought to get email from every one of you and that wouldn't hurt to have that. Then we could possibly email it, yes. Remember, okay, here it is. Remember, repentance is not just a one-time act essential to salvation but is a continuing work in our lives. That is shown by Paul calling on the Corinthian believers to repent in 2 Corinthians 7. Further, please note that of the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3, five of them were called on to repent. All except the second one, Ephesus, Smyrna, and the sixth one, Philadelphia. They were not called on to repent. But of those churches, that's church age. Of those churches, they were called on to repent. Now, Romans 4. Repentance in relationship to faith. Here are the verses we've read before. Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. By the way, in the verse right before that, he said this, how I showed to them first in Damascus and then... I'm not quoting it right. Let me get it here. Acts chapter 26. Acts chapter 26, 19. I mean 20. Here we go. Showed first unto them of Damascus and at Jerusalem, that's Gentiles and Jews, and throughout all the coast of Judea, that'd be Jews, and then to the Gentiles everywhere, that they should repent and turn to God and do works meet for revenge. So the whole world is involved, Jews and Gentiles. And they should do... and then he comes and says, verse 21, and do works meet for repentance. I'm giving you the right verse up there. Oh, I'm in Acts... this is Acts 26. Now let's go back to Acts 20. Yeah, pardon me. Acts 20. Acts 20, 21. He said, I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you and have taught you. Testifying that, that's a whole verse there. Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance and faith work together. They are not different. They are different, not synonymous. Both must work together. Faith and repentance fit together as a hand in a glove. If it's biblical faith, it'll involve biblical repentance. And biblical repentance requires biblical faith that two must go together. If repentance is scriptural, there'll be scriptural faith. If faith is scriptural, there'll be scriptural repentance. They'll be together. Both must be involved. The sinner is brought into contact with the holiness of God and repents. The sinner is brought into contact with the love of God and believes. The sinner is brought into contact with the power of God and is regenerated. Now there are some times that it appears repentance preponderates and sometimes faith preponderates. In other words, sometimes people get the idea that that fella didn't repent, he didn't cry enough. I remember one time I was holding a meeting and two children came to be saved. My wife and I led them both to the Lord and one man stayed to wait. When they came out, I said, are you saved? We talked to them and this man got angry. He said, those two children are not saved and you are a false prophet telling them they're saved. I said, why? He said, because they didn't cry like I cried when I got saved. They didn't weep like I wept. Now I remember a pastor telling me one time that twin brothers came down the aisle and accepted the Lord in his church. They used the altar and they nailed at the altar and one of them just wept and wept and wept and cried. The other one just quietly accepted the Lord, never wept. He said, when we went home that night, a lot of us said, boy that one guy really got saved, didn't he? I wonder about the other guy. He said, do you know the opposite was exactly the truth? The guy that didn't cry and did it very quietly went on to live for the Lord and his life was different. He's a deacon today and the other guy has never lived for the Lord. Repentance involves doing works meet for repentance and serving the living and true God. Yes sir? That's supplemental. I haven't heard of that. If a person doesn't cry when they're not saved, does that mean if a widow doesn't cry, he's not dead? That's interesting. Thank you. Now, do we have any questions about this matter? Yes sir? I have quite a few questions actually. Hopefully I'll remember them. My professor, my undergraduate Lord, I remember him specifically tell us this from a fundamentalist school. Be careful, never add anything to salvation in addition to faith. That's something that's always kind of stuck in the back of my mind. I guess what I'm trying to understand is when you say part of repentance, biblical repentance is doing works meet for repentance, but yet repentance is necessary for salvation. How does that square with Ephesians 2 that works are apart from our salvation? No, repentance is not a work. Repentance is a recognition that we're sinners that produces a change of life in our lives. And I'm sorry that you were taught that, but let's get to the Bible. What did Paul say? I testified both to the Jews and to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. So we say, wait a minute, Paul made a mistake. We erase repentance there because we've got to have faith only. No, I think it fits perfectly with Ephesians 2, 8 and 9. The salvation is not by the work man has done. Repentance is not a work. It's a work the Holy Spirit does in our hearts and we admit that we're sinners and we put our faith in Jesus Christ. And I don't believe that you can... Ephesians 2, 8 and 9 stays in the Bible, so does that. Yes, sir? We'll come back to your other question. Yes, sir? You had Ephesians 2, 10, that completes the picture. Alright, sure. Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, not of work should any man should boast, for we are his workmanship in Christ Jesus. Under good created in Christ Jesus, unto good work. It would be a fair summation of your position to say that, why you definitely have said that faith and repentance are like prior restatement, it's not synonymous that they are simultaneous in salvation. Yes, I believe that. Yes. Yes, sir? I think along that same line, it helps to understand that in the Gospel of John, the word faith is never used. That the word belief also talks about the change of life then. But I would say that belief would be the matter of faith. Yes, but it's a belief that changes the life. Yes. Now back to any more questions you had. I understand everything that's been presented. As a matter of fact, I agree with everything. But I guess in the practical realm as far as witnessing to someone, typically what you hear is trust in the Lord as your Savior, believe on Christ. I guess what I'm trying to share is how do you practically address, without saying you have to do this, this and this to be saved or there has to be this change, how do you practically tell somebody repentance is a part of your salvation? In other words, it's not just easy believism. All right, why not just this? The outline for salvation, the first point in my outline for salvation is the fact of sin.
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"Repentance is primarily a matter of fact of your seeing that you have a sinful nature and that you need to repent of sin. It's repentance of sins in your life. They come out of that nature. You see, when I got saved, there were things in my life that didn't change immediately and I began to realize I needed to have them change. Let me give you this illustration. I get up in the morning and it's dark. It's dark in my room and I look around the bedroom and I think, man, this room is neat. Not a bit of dust. I don't see anything wrong in the room at all. Of course, after a while the sun comes up and begins to shine in the room. It's starting to come up. The light comes in and I notice, look here, on the dresser there's some dust. That wasn't here a little bit ago. I didn't see it. And it gets brighter and I begin to see dust other places. After a while the sun is up in full orb and it's shining through the window and there's dust bouncing in the air. I can just see the dust particles bouncing up there. I said, man, this room got dirty, didn't it? No. It was there. I just didn't have the light to see it. And so as I grow in the Lord, I get the light to see the sin in my life and ask God to cleanse it. And now there are some things I need to constantly ask God to cleanse. I think rather than ask any more questions right now, let's stay on this until we get through and then I'll hold your question unless you think it's absolutely essential that you ask the question right now. Let's stay with it. Okay, Roman numeral three, repentance, what is it? The Greek word is metanoia, afterthought. An afterthought, literally a change of my mind. Now, it's defined by two passages. We will read both of them this afternoon. Somebody open your Bible or you can all do it. It might be good for you all to do it. Acts 26, 19 to 20. And who will read those two verses? Acts 26, 19 to 20. Thank you. Read them. Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision, but showed first unto them of Damascus and at Jerusalem and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. Alright, Acts 26, 19 and 20. Let me see what we have on your notes. I'm not sure what's down here. Do we have any of that? Yes, you have any? Alright, now I'd like for you on your notes to write down these three statements of Acts 26, 19 and 20. Three statements, and we'll look at them on the slide here in a bit. Three statements. Number one, repent. Three words or statements of words. Repent. Number two, turn to God. And number three, do works meet for repentance. Oh, here they are already. Did you jump some stuff? There they are. Repent, turn to God, do works for repentance. What's repent? Change of mind. What's turn to God? Convert. And number three, have a life that is changed. That's what he's saying. I'll have you back here read it. Now here are three statements again. How you turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God. Repent, in Acts chapter 26, 19 and 20, is the same as turn to God. Repent, it should be from idols. And turn to God, turn to God, those should be switched down here. And then have a life that is changed, do works meet for repentance and serve the living and true God. So Paul's preaching was, repent, turn to God, do works for repentance. And the Thessalonians from idols, and I put in parenthesis there, turn from idols, that fits with repent. Under turn to God, they both say that, turn to God, conversion. And one says, do works meet for repentance, a life that proves that there has been repentance. And the other says, to serve the living and true God. So those two passages fit together very well and this was Paul's ministry. He applied it in this way. The Thessalonian believers saw they needed these changes and so they had them. Now, no change of mind can be called repentance that does not involve all three of them. It can't be called repentance. If it's just I turn from idols but I don't have a new life and manifest a new life, I'm not really repentant. And if I turn to God and the sins have not dropped off, then there's been a lack of repentance. No change of mind can be called repentance that does not involve all three. Repentance is recognizing sin, turning from sin to God, and then manifesting a changed life. Capital letter C. What repentance is not, and I know you know these things already, it's not just a sorrow for sin. I'm sorry I've sinned. It's what the old-time evangelists used to say, sorry enough to change, sorry enough to be made different. Sorrow for sin is a part of repentance, but being sorry is not enough. The first person must be sorry enough to change needed godly sorrow. 2 Corinthians 7. I rejoice that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance. For ye were made sorry after a godly manner. So what is needed is godly sorrow, that ye may receive damage by us in nothing. What is godly sorrow? 2 Corinthians 7. For behold the self-signed thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort. Now listen to it. What carefulness it wrought in you. We're talking about repentance now. There's an earnestness, a diligence in that godly sorrow. What clearing of yourselves, a statement that you've gone through and thought it through and you're going to have a life that's different. Indignation. What indignation? Irritation and vexation over sin. Fear. What fear? Reverence for the Lord. What vehement desire? Longing to see that I'm made right, that my life is changed. What zeal? A fervent spirit to do right. What revenge? Endeavoring to do justice in every situation. A total change. And of course that's a very quick understanding of that verse. I recommend you study it and preach it. 2 Corinthians 7.11. That's godly sorrow and that's the sorrow we need. Now I think many of you have preached enough in jails to know that guys will come to you and say, I'm so sorry. But they're not repenting. They're just sorry. They're caught. There needs to be that godly sorrow involves all that's involved in 2 Corinthians 7.11. I'll wait for you to write all of that down. This passage in 2 Corinthians 7, what's it in relation to? It's in relationship to their dealing with a man who was disciplined out of the church in 1 Corinthians 5. And then he repented and came back and what did Paul say in chapter 2? He said, Receive him. And he said, Beware that you do handle this right, lest Satan should get an advantage of us. So if somebody comes in the church with repentance, we need to be ready to forgive them. I mean if it's genuine repentance. Had a case of that just this last month. Had a young man come to our church. Under all of our telephone calling, we contacted a certain family and that family started coming to church. They hadn't been there 2 or 3 weeks. Well, they hadn't been there a week, I guess. I was at their door. My wife and I were knocking on doors and we were out visiting. Anybody that visited, we were there when we started the church. They're going to meet the pastor also, personally. And so we were at the door and they said, You know you've got a young man coming. Adam Roland was coming from Clemson to work with us. And they said, Do you suppose he could work with our son? We've got a son that's coming out of Lynchburg, Virginia and he'd been in a home there and he's come to live with us and he's been a problem. Do you suppose your youth man could work with him? And he did. We tried to help him but the boy didn't want to go on. Claimed to be saved but didn't go on. And it wasn't long. He dropped out of church and was out living a terrible life. One night he was in a car wreck. He was walking down the road. And a car, and it's been almost definitely proven the car did it deliberately, some car ran over him and just broke his legs terribly. I heard about it. He was in the hospital. And I went to the hospital and I saw him and I said, Josh, let me ask you a question. Are you saved? He said, Yes, I am. I said, That's too bad. And he said, What in the world do you mean? I said, It's because you're saved and the way you're living God is spanking you and Well, he didn't say much but he got well enough to be on crutches and he started coming back to church and one night on his crutches he hobbled down to the front and said, I've been away from God and I'm coming back. And oh, he lived. He was on fire for God for a while. I mean, the guy was at visitation. He was reading his Bible. He was growing.
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"From that time, this is his first sermon, and from that time Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. So he began his ministry with repentance. First sermon. From that time he began. His last sermon was the Great Commission and that as given in Luke reads, Thus it is written and thus it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day and the repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem. So it began, his ministry began with repentance and it ended with repentance. I believe that puts a very definite importance on it. Now I want you to see the next verse. Matthew 21.32. Somebody look that up and read it for us. Who's going to do it? Hold up your hand quick. I don't want to end up quick enough. Yes sir. Read Matthew 21.32. It makes clear that repentance is necessary for one to believe. Yes sir, read it. John preached and the Pharisees wouldn't believe it but the publicans and sinners did and ye after ye had seen it repented not that ye might believe. Jesus said that. He said you didn't repent so you could believe.
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"Christ's righteousness is revealed by faith and his salvation is made possible through faith. The truth of salvation by God is summed up in these two verses. The truth of the Gospel of the death and resurrection of Christ is the power of God that saves. So there we have some definition of the Gospel. Now, Roman numeral II. Three truths that must accompany the preaching of the Gospel. The Bible fact of man's lost condition, we've already touched on that. The souls to turn to the Lord, they must recognize that they are sinners and I believe it's important for them to see that they are spiritually dead. You hath equipped and you were dead in trespasses and sins. And the Bible fact of hell. This morning somebody mentioned that Billy Graham is no longer, says that he doubts that hell is real and has doubts about the fire of hell. And we need to preach the Bible fact of hell. I started out in revival work when I graduated from Bob Jones and I endeavored to preach a message on hell in every meeting. Then I took a pastorate and then went back in revival work and took another pastorate and stayed there 30 years. Went back in revival work in 1990. And in those meetings I again decided I better preach on hell. This was the shock that came to me. I would preach on hell in a church in the last decade. I would preach on hell in a church, fundamental, independent, Baptist church. That happened time after time after time, believe me. And someone or some several would come to me after the service or during the week and would say, boy did we like that sermon on hell. It's been a long time since we've heard a sermon on hell. That startled me. It just amazed me. I mean I was in Bible preaching churches and I'd get that comment again and again and again. I'm afraid we have somewhat abandoned the idea of the necessity of preaching on hell. Now to give you some quotes from Billy Graham from this independence you can see in a bit. I'll give you some quotes from Billy Graham. I think that hell essentially is separation from God forever. And that is the worst hell that I can think of. That is a hell really. But I think people have a hard time believing God is going to allow people to burn in literal fire forever. I think the fire that is mentioned in the Bible is a burning thirst for God that never can be quenched. The Bible calls it fire. That's Orlando Sentinel, April 10, 1983. Here we are from a biblical standard for evangelists, a commentary on the 15 affirmations made by participants at the International Conference for Itinerate Evangelists, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 1983. Jesus used three words to describe hell. The third word that he used is fire. Now this is Billy Graham in those affirmations. The third word that he used is fire. Jesus used this symbol over and over. This could be literal fire as many believe, or it could be symbolic. God does have fires that do not burn, and also there is the figurative use of fire in the Bible. I have often thought that this fire could possibly be a burning thirst for God that is never quenched. What a terrible fire that would be never to find satisfaction, joy or fulfillment. And this is in Time magazine, an interview with Richard Oslagan by Billy Graham, November 15, 1993. The only thing I can say for sure is that hell means separation from God. We are separated from his light and from his fellowship. This is going to be hell. When it comes to literal fire, I don't preach it because I'm not sure about it. When the Scripture uses fire concerning hell, that is possibly an illustration of how terrible it is going to be. Not fire, but something worse, a thirst for God that cannot be quenched. Number two, some deny hell by ignoring it. In 1986, Martin Marty, senior editor of the Christian Century, stated, The passing of hell from modern consciousness is one of the major but still undocumented modern trans. Want to hear that again? The passing of hell from modern consciousness is one of the major but still undocumented modern trans. Houston Chronicle, May 1986. This is a serious neglect today. There are many more similar quotes that could be given. We'll use only these two. We will not discuss this matter any further here. I think I may have a paper on it. I may not. I'm not sure. When we come to another one of them, I'm not sure whether I do or not. I believe we ought to preach hell. I believe we ought not abandon it. We ought to preach that hell is real. There will be hell for those who refuse to accept Jesus Christ. Yes, sir? Just a comment. A friend of mine, one of the pastors over at Mt. Calvary here in town, Robert Vinson wrote a doctoral dissertation on the doctrine of hell in church history. If you're interested in further... Who was that, did it? His name is Robert Vinson. Okay. And doesn't Dr. Minnich have a pretty good little booklet on it, too? Yes, okay. The Bible truth that repentance is essential is what we're coming to now. Repentance is essential. I've centered my words here, repent or perish, and I'm presenting you this paper on repentance that I've talked about. Critical issue. Hear me. It is critical. Guys are discussing this among fundamentalists all the time now. What camp is that guy in? Is he a repentance camp or not? And we need to get a proper understanding of what repentance is. Repentance is a vital part of a proper message for salvation. I believe that. I believe that repentance is involved in salvation. Herewith I break my outline and will present a paper on truths about repentance, repent or perish, Luke 13, 1-5. Twice in that passage, the Lord Jesus said, except you repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Repentance, is it required? Some say repentance is not necessary. It is not for this age. I want to get one of the sheets you have because I don't know what's on your sheet. I got the wrong one. I've got one here. Thank you. Repentance, is it required? Is the quote from the Irish Study Bible here? No. I'll give it to you. It means you'll want my lecture on this. You can write this out. It's rather brief. Irish Study Bible. Section. Synopsis of doctrine. You can look it up. Synopsis of doctrine. Under the doctrine of salvation. Roman numeral VI. The condition for salvation. Page 1,842. Irish Study Bible. Capital letter B under Roman numeral VI. The false additions to faith. The false additions to faith. Number 3 under that. A false addition to faith. Repentance. This is a valid condition for salvation when understood as a synonym for faith. It is a false addition to faith when understood as a prerequisite. Repentance. This is a valid condition for salvation when understood as a synonym for faith. Faith and repentance are not synonyms. It is a false addition to faith when understood as a prerequisite requiring the cleansing of the life in order to be saved. So he says it's a false addition to faith when it is preached as not a synonym but something that goes along with faith for salvation. That's a false addition. When it's understood as a prerequisite requiring the cleansing of the life in order to be saved. Comment on the above. I do not believe that repentance is a synonym of faith. I do believe it is a valid condition for salvation. It is not a false addition. Rather, it is a necessary adjunct to faith. I don't believe that's up there. It's a necessary adjunct to faith. Later on, we'll give the verse I gave to you this morning, Acts 20 and 21. Paul said in verse 21, I preached unto you repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. So Paul didn't say repentance toward God or faith because they're synonyms. No, he said repentance toward God and faith. The two go together. It's an adjunct, not an addition. From these verses, we see that repentance and faith are to go together. Capital letter B, argument from silence. Now those who argue against repentance as being a part of salvation give you the argument from silence. First of all, they say the word repentance appears only once in the book of Romans. And so because Romans is so silent about it and it's the book of justification, then it must not be needed. Only one mention in Romans. Romans 2 verse 4, Now that doesn't say you shouldn't repent. It does say that the Romans did repent. The goodness of God had led them to repentance. So it's not an argument against, it's an argument for it, literally. There are many implications in the book of Romans that indicate that Paul believed in repentance and I've got your references up here. Romans 2, 21 to 23, Thou preacheth that a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Thou that makest thy boast of the law through breaking the law, dishonor'st ought not to steal, that stealing ought to be out of their lives when they come to Christ, that adultery ought to be gone, that idolatry should be gone and they ought not continue breaking the law. In other words, he said, the implication is you need to repent and turn from sin. We'll see what repentance is after a bit. Romans 6, 1 and 2, What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Shall we say that we ought to continue in sin? Paul is saying if you come to Christ, there ought to be a difference. Don't continue in sin. Romans 12, 2, Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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"The title of this lecture is The Essential Message for Effective Salvation and we'll turn to I Corinthians 15, 1-11. Let's open our Bibles to that. The subject of this passage is the Gospel of course, this whole passage here. I declare unto you the Gospel and that Gospel in verse 1 was received of the Corinthian believers, the effect of the Gospel received of the Corinthian believers. And it was so received that they stood on the truth of the which you also received and wherein you stand. This was genuine conversion. The Corinthian believers believed, were saved by believing the Gospel by which also you were saved. If you keep in memory what I preached unto you unless you have believed in vain. So there are those that undoubtedly made a profession and really hadn't been saved. The believers were saved through the Gospel. The only way to be saved is through the Gospel. Number 4, Paul's salvation was assured by his receiving the Gospel. Verse 3, I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received. And then he gives the definition of the Gospel, how the Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. So Paul's salvation was assured by his receiving the Gospel and the Gospel is identified there. How the Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. That is the Gospel message. Then Paul was compelled to preach the Gospel. I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received so he delivered it. He took that which he had received and did what the Thessalonians did. Then of the 12, above 500 brethren. And we'll come on down to verse 8. And last of all he was seen of me also of one born out of due time. Verse 10, By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all. Yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believe. So he received the Gospel, miracle power of God, and he gave out that Gospel. He was compelled to preach it. Capital letter C. In the book of Romans, there should be a title there, Paul's definition of the Gospel. No, pardon me, we don't need that yet. I'm mixed up myself here now. Is it the importance of the Gospel? Let me see, where are we? It doesn't jive with my notes. In my notes there is a separate matter here. I'll just follow this. Paul's definition of the Gospel, the message that Christ died for our sins as we gave it, that he was buried, that he rose again the third day. The resurrection is the principle truth of the Gospel. From verse 4 through 8, Paul wrote of those who gave testimony of his resurrection. These testimonies involve those of all the apostles. We read all that. In the book of Romans we will note two verses by which Paul tells us of the importance of the Gospel. I think we should have another letter there. First, in Romans 4.25, we understand that Christ's death and resurrection are sufficient for our salvation, who was delivered for our offenses, but raised again for our justification. Our offenses, that's our sins, are covered by the blood. The only hope of salvation is through the blood of Christ. Hebrews 9.22, without the shedding of blood there is no remission. Ephesians 2.13, But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were afar off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 1 John 1.7, The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. And our justification is guaranteed by the resurrection, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, and believe in thine heart, that Christ God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. So there is the Gospel. Second, in Romans 1.16, we see that the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. So the Gospel, we have the power of God unto salvation and our evangel, our Gospel, is the truth of Christ's death and resurrection.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"Gonna be like a different you don't care about her all the more in the world now where do we stand on this very two time winner, it has happened before. Somehow feels almost unsporting in some way. I don't mind people having multiple tilts at the big prize, but should maybe winners retire from competing in your vision. What would you say to that? Well, I agree with you. There's something a little bit boring about having a repeat winner. But you know, it doesn't happen very often. So it's just joanie Logan and luring. So it is a rare fit, and she is very much loved by the Eurovision crowd. And even in Sweden, 'cause let's be honest, Sweden, they take it very seriously. So this song tattoo was number one on the Swedish charts, even before your vision started, even before we started to discuss in Eurovision this year. So you know what, I think she deserves, but some people are finding very suspicious that aba one would want to learn 74 and next year is going to be 50 years celebration of that. And guess which country is hosting? Back in the motherland of much of this sort of soft pop. Let's jump across a border or two and talk a bit more about Finland. Your favorite, I know you bumped into Carrie, didn't you? And it just wandering around which is quite funny for more. In my first ten minutes in Liverpool, I bumped into cardi and actually I don't usually ask for portraits, but I said cardiac, I'm a big fan, please. Let's do it. And tell me, should the, I don't know, it was obviously the crowd favorite, but the sort of judging panels went in a different direction. Is that how it should be phase? Shouldn't there be more scope for that sort of momentum on the night, the obvious popular choice? That should take greater affection. I don't know. What did you make? Well, you know, it's an interesting one. I'm quite conservative on this. I like the way things are half. Of the votes are from the jury in half are from the public because otherwise I fear that there will be a social media star that will get the public vote and that wouldn't be fair. I mean, I have to say Kari almost won. I mean, it was kind of fairly close. But the public also liked loring, she was the second most voted on the television. So, you know, did had a chance, but it was almost there, but on our explain why he's so brilliant, it was original, honestly, I never heard metal hip hop EDM cha cha cha singers dancing like they're in a horror film. Green boleros. I mean, it sounds truly over Fernando. Should we expose our listeners to a little bit more? Please. Give me a couple of submit them. Excited don't see my child just trying to get me back that morning people talk to my daughter about maybe so far your heart yeah, there we are. The energy. I'll give it my energy. Fernando, I heard almost like a little voice in the back of my head it could have been a fin in the control room of our studio saying apparently within Finland, lots more conversation about this. Was it a dozen or more countries that had that as the number one pick? I know you said it was fairly close, but I think Finns feel that doesn't really reflect the prevailing public view across the block, which was that carrier was a bit of a clear winner. Though it doesn't, you would be a better story if cardi would win, but as I said, I am worried about the public vote at times, not this year because this year I am agreeing with the public. But I think the public votes quite emotionally, you know, they will vote for the most fun, but perhaps they would forget people with amazing vocals in amazing performance. And if that happened last year a little bit, I know this is maybe a bit too soon to say, but absolutely. They had a record that actually I think had a 439 votes from the public, which was president and president. I must ask you quickly. These are this was the top tunes battling it out for the big prize. There's always a few absolute turkeys. I don't know. Were you expecting the UK entry sort of co host or whatever we were? I'm not quite normal, but not far away. Had you seen that one coming? Well, it was a bit of a surprise in the sense because I think the song is quite good, but the performance felt a little bit flat. You know, it didn't have enough props. I think there was some issues with her voice. You know, it's not great. That's not great, but the song is good, so it is a shame. So I think the UK's learning of in the UK is back. He's carrying a lot about your vision. Look at Sam Ryder. I mean, he was second last year. He was almost the winner. But one thing that I'm surprised Germany at the bottom again, and again, I think the band a lot of the fly, something like that. Actually, even I forgot the name, maybe they're so forgettable in that sense. But poor Germany, Germany has are the ones that they have to be worried about because they've been being at the bottom for quite a few years now. But yeah, I mean, Belgian, again, did so well. And people were saying, oh, it's almost a forgettable song, at times, but then the public loved it. I loved it as a felt very 90s retro. So sometimes, you know, in the big finals where everything's decided, that's why the UK didn't do well. Can be some surprise. Look, you already mentioned 50 years. I'm just terrifying. 50 years since Waterloo next year will be in Sweden. What are the hints and tricks? The Swedes are pretty good at putting this event on. I think they've hosted it as many times as anyone else. Is that probably about right? I think it's in numerical terms. Any secrets does well. I mean, you already started by talking about how well Liverpool did. What did our Swedish brothers and sisters need to be thinking about?
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"Price war and airlines price war color Ryan air, for example, that could cause some very interesting work because I think in relations. This tourism gambit is huge. If he can pull it off, it will be enormously helpful to his efforts to reform to revolutionize Saudi Arabia not just the economy. But the society and the way people think and the way they see themselves and the way the world looks at them. I think again, so much hangs on this mercurial, very clearly, very intelligent. Young man reckless, oftentimes brutal character and whether he can succeed. You know, I think that the jury's out. So we'll read our targeting the soul domestic audience, or do you think it will try to attract foreigners on those flights as well? Well, I think that they're talking about a hundred destinations. So clearly they want to bring foreigners in. I think he wants to get the UK crowd the Western European crowd. He wants to get those people in. So yeah, I think they will target outside of Saudi Arabia, but I think if he's sharp and he is, I mean, look at all of those millions that go up to Hajj and say, suggest them well after you've done your religious duty, want to stay on for a few days and go off to see a Lula, which is an extraordinary, beautiful site in a desert and of course there's other opportunities good idea that's entertainment city. He's building outside Riyadh, you know, he's got the money. He's got the money to do this. But is it going to help catch the liberal European audience, for example, I'm thinking about, you know, LGBT people, I'm thinking about women, do you think there will be queueing to catch these flights? Yeah, good question. LGBTQ, no, I don't think so. I think that's women. Well, you know, it's been a huge sea change in the way that women are treated in the kingdom. However, of course, women who try and agitate for their rights are treated horribly. We know that Luciano has imprisoned tortured many other women sentenced to huge a hugely long jail terms for tweets suggesting that perhaps a little more freedom and rights for women. I think that's going to be an issue, I think. But on the other hand, you know, if you look at the United Arab Emirates, they've got an atrocious human rights record. People have basically turned a blind eye and said, you know what? I'm going to go to Dubai for the weekend. It's a great place. Don't know too much about this human rights staff, not to concern. So sadly, I think the human rights issue will get rather pushed to one side. Well, you know, if you look at our governments, we've already made that determination. We're not terribly concerned about human rights issues and also why should we expect our tourists to be more concerned than our own government? I mean, it's a shame. I don't want to dismiss it in any way, but I don't think that's going to be an obstacle, sadly. Thank you very much for the insight. Bill law there, and you are with the briefing. You asked, we delivered. Welcome to the
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"Taxpayer money simple as. However, 15 minute cities will cost us our personal fleet and that can not be right. Listening to that was monoclonal editor in chief and also the host of our cities podcast of the urbanist welcome to the briefing and true, what is your reaction to what you just heard? Well look, he doesn't come across as the best orator that the person best able to explain this concept or kind of unpack it for his audience. But he's not wrong in two or three interesting ways. So first of all, urban planning is not free of politics. Urban planning all urban planning is driven by politics. And by the needs of city leaders to meet political aims to deliver on climate change. So there is politics at play and the 15 minutes that is fascinating. So Carlos Moreno, the guy who came up with the concept, he has been shaped by his life. So he was raised in Latin America. He was at one point a member of the anti government M 19 guerrilla group in Colombia. He had to go into exile in France, where he kind of changed sides and started working for the government doing everything from nuclear power to surveillance. So then he came out the other side to gain back into academia, where he undoubtedly sits on the left of politics. So when Nick Fletcher says it's a conspiracy and all these things, that's daft. But the ideas for the 15 minute city do probably have some socialist bedrocks in them. Well, if you look at the concept, obviously, the idea of 15 minute cities is that residents can walk or cycle to the nearest shop cafe school or any essential service in a quick and easy manner. It makes life easier. What is controversial about that? Well, there's two things that are controversial about it. But the idea is if it's super successful, is he's not right that you're implying you're going to be locked up in your neighborhood and you won't be able to go and do other things. That's not true. But what the ambition of it ultimately is is that you don't leave your neighborhood so often. Is that you buy your food a few hundred meters from your house. The green space that you need to exercise is but two or three minutes from your front door. So the outcome of making a 15 minute city undoubtedly takes us back to the old city of the 1617 hundreds where cities were tended to be interlinked small villages and is going back to those routes. So again, it is a bit dark, but the outcome of it is, yes, cities do want you to travel a little bit less because they don't know how to meet the demands of creating a greener economy and delivering more sustainability. If you continue to go and get in your car, if you continue to travel around the city by car, those things are going to really trip them up. So they are encouraging the design of cities so you have to make fewer journeys and certainly fewer longer journeys. What does this kind of comments mean for the future of city planning? We've been seeing we've seen quite a few controversies here in London for example already, for example, where I live, the low traffic neighborhood concept is very controversial when it comes to driving is not encouraged to basically driving around where I leave is a bit more difficult and now we're hearing from NPN ink Fletcher about why he's opposing the idea of 15 minute cities. What does this mean for the future of city planning? Do we see these officials having to communicate better? So I think you have to focus on the outcome. So the truth is you are going to lose some personal freedoms because you're not going to be allowed to travel as much by car. That is if you see that as a personal freedom. But then what is the gain? The gain is that maybe your kids when they go to school, they don't have their lungs filled with petrol. Your health of your kids improves because they're walking and they're cycling a bit more because they feel that that's safer. So one person may lose what they see as their personal freedoms. But if the gain for the majority is much larger, then unfortunately, these are the kinds of payoffs that you have to get to when you're thinking about urban design and making better cities. How fast do you think this thing move on how far will the concept of 15 minutes it is good to give it a few years? I think that I think is embedded already in the city plans in many places for example and hidalgo in Paris has been an early adopter of it. You're seeing it picked up in cities here. But I would just say that there are a few battle lines ahead for urbanism. Urbanism will get more and more political because we're coming up to this deadline in many European cities 2035 when you will not be able to drive a vehicle unless it's electric. And lots of very ordinary people won't be able to meet that target. So expect urbanism to stay a rambunctious, aggressive, sometimes chaotic scene. I also expect the urbanist team of fireworks being very busy and months and years to come Andrew tuck, thank you very much for joining us here on Monroe 24. The concierge from Monaco brought to you an association with Allianz partners is coming soon to monocle 24 and all good audio platforms. Just
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"The world is to show that the Russian army is not actually as strong or as powerful as it tried to project its image in the years leading up to the war. It's actually been shown to be a second rate army. And so if it was second rate in the early days of the war, bring in a whole lot of conscripts who don't want to be there, that we know there's been squabbling amongst the army and the so called private military company Wagner and others. This is not a healthy army. This is not an army which is actually enjoying the combat. Now, Ukraine has been asking for faster deliveries of military equipment. There's wide concern. About what is happening next week when it's going to be the first anniversary of the invasion and Russia is expected to have a new massive push are worried are you. I am worried as someone who I nail my colors to the mast. I think there's any sensible person does. The realizing that this was an unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine. And yes, I want to see Ukraine win. I wanted to see Ukraine drive the Russians out of their country. So yes, I'm worried in the fact that there is all this talk, but I'll take you back to another point last year. Before May the 9th, which of course is a huge holiday in Russia, the anniversary of the victory in the Second World War for the Soviet Union. There was a lot of talk then that might be a nuclear attack might there be a massive push. There were a lot of words actually more than anything else and Putin tried to play up the war. He hadn't got what he wanted when he invaded three months before. Again, I think that people have latched on to this anniversary and when I say people, I mean the Ukrainians as well, not surprisingly. It's coming up on the 24th of this month. To say, well, Russians like to latch on to these particular dates. If the Russians try a massive push and they're not properly prepared for it, they will be repelled at the same time, Ukrainians undoubtedly could do with those promises of particularly of the tanks which they've been having they promise has been coming from the west now for three weeks. They need them. They need them as soon as possible. That undoubtedly is the case. And once they have them, particularly the German leopard twos, if they have those in large numbers, a hundred or so would be a really good start. Then they are going to be in a position to resist any Russian attack. How much more equipment can the west provide in the long run? The rest can provide quite a bit. Of course, all the equipment at the moment is weakening western stocks, but they'll say, well, you know, we're not actually fighting a war at the moment so we can afford to do that. The crucial question and I think it's one that will be answered in the next few weeks is fighter jets, particularly the American F-16 fighters. Do you think that's going to happen? I think it is. I think the reason I think it is is because for months, the Germans in particular were saying, no, no, no, we're not going to send tanks, we're not going to send out, and suddenly the tanks are on their way. I think the fighter jets, particularly the F-16s, are the next step, and I think the fact that the barrier was broken by having the tank said, I think the west doesn't want to advertise too much to the Russians, but I think we will see fighter jets going to Ukraine before too long. Just quickly, how big of a game changer would that be? Oh, huge. It would be, I mean, we've already seen with the tanks. The kind of rhetoric that came out of Moscow changed. They were terrified. Terrified of these tanks. They said, oh, they burn like any other. No, no, no. They're much better than anything the Russians have got. And the F-16s are better than anything the Russians have got. And a combined arms push back by Ukraine with those tanks with F-16s really would be a game changer. Steven deal, thank you very much for joining us today. It's 12, ten here in London. Here is Monaco skeletor rebel with a day's other new set lies. Thanks, Marcus. Turkey has turned his focus to reconstruction where president Recep Tayyip encouraging those in earthquake hits areas whose buildings have been deemed safe to return home. The combined death hole in turkey in Syria has climbed over 41,000 and millions are in need over humanitarian aid. Australian and European Union negotiators believe they are getting closer to a free trade agreement as they race to meet a midyear deadline. It's understood officials are finalized to each chapters of the agreement on competition telecommunications and maritime services, but prime minister Anthony albanese's government warns it will not sign a deal for the sake of it. And Air India has struck a record aircraft deal which has put the tatter group owned airline in the league of aspiring global carriers. It provisionally agreed to acquire almost 500 jets from Airbus and Boeing to take on domestic and international rivals. Those are the days headlines back to you Marcus. Thank you very much, Carlos. Scotland's first minister Nicholas sturgeon personalist she will resign after more than 8 years as head of the Scottish government, Stewart June has been the first minister in the November 2014 when she took over from Alex summons, following the independence referendum. For the latest, I'm joined by teres Diaz ne political journalist and author welcome to the program and good afternoon. Terry, what did sturgeon say when she announced her resignation? Well, this resignation really came quite unexpectedly today. Only a few weeks ago, Nicholas sturgeon had been saying the tank was full that she wanted to continue. But she said she was proud to be there as the first female first minister, the longest serving incumbent. But she said also that it was part of serving well to know she said almost instinctively when the time has come to stand down and she said that she in her head and her heart she knew that the time was now. She will stay in politics, there will be a process of electing a new party leader she'll stay on until her successor is elected. But she really had some quite interesting words about the toll that the job has taken on her personally about not having privacy about the brutality of life as a politician and really the physical and mental toll that the pandemic had taken on her as a leader personally. It's the impression that this resignation is not in connection to any reason controversies we've seen. Well, I think she was really trying to give the impression that this was primarily a personal decision that she'd done something out of duty and out of love and she said it wasn't a reaction to short term pressures because she said, well, there are always short term pressures in that job. However, we should point out that there have been two really difficult issues for the Scottish government recently. One of those is the UK Supreme Court which said that Scotland couldn't hold a second independence referendum unilaterally without the agreement of Westminster and the second has been over the controversy about gender recognition. So Scotland passed a law on this making gender recognition changing gender easier. The UK Rishi sunak said he wasn't going to accept that Scottish law and he was going to block it. So obviously our two big obstacles there in the way of greater Scottish independence and things that have been big debates in Scotland. So certainly those political pressures are there. How would you describe the reaction in the UK to her announcement? Well, I think it's interesting quite how much the SMP under Nicholas sturgeon has dominated Scottish politics, she's been on the scene for a long time. I think one of the things that she showed today was that she is really a pretty good communicator. I think people thought during the pandemic that she was able to talk to people quite sort of clearly and in quite a personal manner. You know, she was talking today about how she was never off duty. But then she also admitted that herself as a personality could be quite sometimes override the merits of the arguments that people had a fixed view of what she was like, whether they like to whether they dislike her. And she's saying that that actually made debate about some of the issues more difficult. So I think she's been certainly a big personality in Scottish and in British politics, and it's not quite clear to see who will succeed her. Couldn't just tell water will happen next. So yes, what happens next is the SNP will go through the process of electing a new party leader to replace Nicholas sturgeon. As we know, it's not very clear that at the moment is likely to be. She says she will remain in office until that selection successor has been chosen. She says, some people will cope with that news just fine. But she said that she will stay on in politics as a member of the Scottish parliament. She believes she's still got a lot to contribute. But she just feels that she has really given the job everything for a long time and doesn't feel able to carry on doing that over the next few months and years.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"Much a drama of the age. It's a multinational drama with the main character based in Norway. And it's going to reinvent a novel from a decade or so earlier. The premise of that drama, the swarm, is that a series of seemingly unconnected events have scientists race around the try and figure out what's going on various disasters around the world. And I think that reflects another point about what audiences are now ready to see. I think in the week of things like the pandemic and other complex phenomena, audiences now seem willing to take a bit more science on board as part of the dose as the broccoli if you like, in addition to all the drama. So I think that's something to look out for as well. I mean, as you say, these stories are very much of the moment they're very current, but also some of these themes are as old as storytelling itself. That's right, interestingly with the swarm, the premise of that is something going on at the depths of the ocean. And the scientists are trying to figure out why Microsoft changes in the ocean's bed are having these massive effects. And I think, yeah, as you say, there's a long-standing history of the ocean being a dark and dangerous place for since at least Homer's Odyssey. What's different now, potentially, is that the morality of it is a bit different. It's not necessarily the human hero who's traversing the dangerous waters. Actually, it's the ocean trying and other parts of the natural world trying to tell us something about what we're doing, which I think flips the equation on its head in quite an interesting way. I mean, do you think that shows about our imminent self destruction could be classes a form of self punishment? I think it's tempting to see it anyway, isn't it? Yeah, I think certainly the idea of having a completely utopian drama with nothing goes wrong has never been very dramatically interesting. But the closer you can get to the truth of the situation, the more uncomfortable you can make audiences feel, the better. I think the trouble with climate change is that it has historically been quite a gradual phenomenon. You know, it's not like a nuclear disaster such as Chernobyl or a terrorist attack or anything like that. Generally, it's been a case of slowly increasing temperatures, but only now are we seeing the real impact of those slowly increasing temperatures now fast increasing on the natural world and all these different ways. I think the fact that we have these multifaceted dramas emerging like this now is really a sign of the times. Absolutely. And just briefly, Josh, how useful are films like this in terms of educating the public? Well, I think it really does get a message across and the ideas contained in things like the swarm and the last of us do speak to some quite complex phenomena, such as how different seemingly disparate systems of the world interlock in ways that we may not yet understand, which I think at the very least shows us the limits of a knowledge, even if it's not teachers anything necessarily new. Josh calls, thank you very much, indeed, and if I could just recommend a book to you, it's called bernan wood. It's by the Booker prize winning Eleanor Catton, and it features a billionaire tech giant drones and a guerrilla gardening group and so it sort of brings together everything that you Josh are interested in. I have to say it's the best book I've read all year, although it is only February. Do look out for an interview with Ellen coming soon on meet the writers. That's all for today's program. Thanks to our producers, Emma Sel and Sophie monaghan coombs are researchers Lillian fawcet and Andre Nikolai parmigiana and our studio manager at norah. After the headlines, there's more music on the way, and the briefing will be live at midday in London. The globalist returns at the same time tomorrow. I'm Georgina Godwin. Thank you for listening.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"Now there seems to have been a proliferation of eco thrillers in film and television recently, multiplying at the rate of the deadly fungus in the last of us. It turns out that our go to tech man Josh Cole's is also a clip specialist. So he joins me now to examine the phenomena. Josh, good morning to you. Thanks for joining us. What is behind all this entertainment rooted in environmental issues and climate anxiety? What does it say about our society? Yeah, good morning, Georgia. I think what it really says is that things are changing quite quickly. As you say, the speed of these clarify dramas to have emerged in recent years and the high profile attention that they're getting really does, I think, reflect the uncertainty and the fear that many of us feel with respect to how the real world is changing the real planet is changing over time. Clearly, we can look back to earlier instances where real world events have affected what's portrayed on the big and small screen. You can think of the revival of superhero dramas following 9 11. And I think certainly climate change is now entering that level of public consciousness that there is an appetite or theater a conflicted one for dramas of this sort. What are some of the big ones that we ought to be watching? Well, certainly, the last of us is making some serious waves on HBO at the moment. That's getting a lot of attention a week by week and being praised as one of the finest dramas of the year. But also the swarm, which is upcoming, it's going to be premiered later this week and we'll be released some mainstream audiences in the spring. I think it could also be a big hit. This is very much a drama of the age. It's a multinational drama with the main character based in Norway. And it's going to reinvent a novel from
Neon Shadows: An American Noir Tale
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"Come you'll senses have you. I trust you brought the key. Yeah it's right here but remember our deal andress address. I plan on holding my end of the bargain. Cordelia pulled out a key. I previously seen in frank's hands. She was portraying us trading in the key. Frank was hiding for what a couple bucks power i thought i'd started to see a new side the cordelia but she never changed. She selfish. it always will be Yes it's so beautiful. You really can't tell when something isn't made in this realm can't you. It has a certain sheen whatever. Take it and leave me alone alone. I may require more of your procurement skills how about you work for me on retainer how about you go fuck yourself. I'm done with this. All of it acted tough but it was all bravado. She was shaking. What did he offer her. That was worth her risking. Her life endre grabbed a poker from the rack next to the fireplace. You're one of the few who know anything about the box. Old key wouldn't want that inflammation in the wrong hands. Endre raised his weapon in his hand preparing swing. I'm sure you agree that loose ends are messy right dusty. You should have brought better backup cordelia. I'm afraid neither of you stand a chance stopping. You thought to ambush me. I can see through your have caught plans a mile away. Stop it shut up. Boy wait your turn. He gestured at the hallway behind me. And i heard the door closed. I turned to look at the door. It was no longer there. You continue to be cordelia smiling. His blood trickled down his face. I felt red hot with rage. My skin was electric fire. And i yearn for a way to release it. I said and what is this. Someone fouled looks cheap trinkets despite only making guttural noises on the outside. Since training with ulysses. I had a better handle on the stamina of my consciousness. I wasn't afraid of the wolf. Now and i can somewhat control my actions it feels like trying to dictate a dream though almost like the wolf itself has a partition of my mind. I grabbed andres by the throat. Slamming him into the chimney. She portrayed act mccowan she was going to happen. Each one of you debate lying. No no no. that's the. She portrayed you she called lady killed. She abandoned euless. She's a scar upon the world. If you got this abscess from guys bosom he was right she did betray us time and time again in one way or another my grip around undress loosened as he fell to the floor. Good little off now so that we may all be free of estimates my claws race. But it wasn't me. It was the wolf. I felt at tugging at my soul. Seizing control my hand. Came down furiously but not to cordelia. My fingers were slicked with demon blood. Oozing down my arm. The wolf made the right move hell. It was smarter than me. There's no way. I could think that fast on my feet and let andrea think. He was successfully manipulating me. His look of shock almost made me pity him. My hand became a ball as i grasped ripping outward address unholy guts onto the floor. You wish you hadn't done that bad dog. He dropped on the floor with a rising pool of crimson. That changed back into human form on this. He immediately fast. What do you mean. Pick me up. I'll be back soon. He's dead got him and doesn't work like that kid. We gotta leave. Ito don't wanna be around. It's backup sure enough. As i looked over at the blood started seeping back into andros through the wounds i caused. I grabbed cordelia. Rust out of the room. The heck is he. Come back after. A total disembowelment dusty. Here i can't be trusted with this any longer. I almost got us killed. He's too ruthless stricken deal with. I was just hoping if you'd free remiss until he dies. We're going to be constantly looking over her shoulders. I'll take the keith. But only. Because i know i can hurt him if he attacks me in. Just because you're doing it for our benefit doesn't make it okay. It was reckless. Frank in ulysses will not be happy. We can always keep it between us between your broken nose and my torn clothes. I don't think they'll buy it besides. Haven't you lied enough well stranger. We appreciate you stopping by to spend some time with us in the shadows if you want more neon shadows ten over two at neon shadows pot on all social media and check out our patriot patriot dot com slash. Neon shadows pod. Subscribe to us on apple podcasts. Spotify or wherever you listen. The cast of this episode was dusty willis voiced by dan faulkner cordelia voiced by amber ren frank dixon voiced by an knowles andros voiced by tim. Duplicity ulysses voiced by. Sean goodrich the theme song is neon. Shadows performed by amber ran written by tyler brown and he knowles. Neon shadows was created and written by an knowles. All rights reserved copyright blunderbuss studios twenty twenty one re ussery production of our content is strictly prohibited..
Faffing with Friends
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"Yeah. Both working both just angered the world. I'm kidding just looking into two different. Mike's just two different accounts. This is the second run to the other side. That is a long standing theory that happening experience. It's just one person guy. Colds thailand. Now you know more and more likely than ten male stop kunia Session please feel Before we move on your specs how do you feel about like intel becoming the worst in worse like sia. as time has be going heats. It really depends on your bill because if it's if it's if you look at more specialized stuff than Yeah it's it's on the slack if you will coming from a completely commercial perspective where you'll just need a laptop to general what staff or just general things. Intel's is lot more stable compared to a whole different tune. Amd and intel was chilly due to the cash slides. Yeah thing amdi wanted larger cash until wanted smaller. And that's that's the main divergence but there's a whole lot of different things on my touch. Those reasons are taking though aren't they. Yes the whole thing with the With the ram sixteen eight eight. You'll get by sixteen. Yeah i would say if you add it. As often as i do may get a bit more just for when stuff starts really trying to put in an hour long recording into a Edita than. I'm not surprised as self because you're trying to learn all of that into memory you usually recommend cutting it down and then editing it but if yeah i made that mistake of trump foggy video into an editor egypt broke but yeah sixteen is usually the sweet spot if you need more than that usually. You're not gonna need it. You're using chrome that finds a way to eat what you have somehow. Try to get everyone. I know to switch the fire fox. It's so hard to just make them understand that they're going to have a better easier time with their worst. Pc's just do your if you if you know going if i need to build a pc guys out they were friends. Traumatize us how we do. And that's pc. Experts say has given by disclaimer. Do not take anything we see on research obviously personal opinions when you start looking into the peace. I'm happy to for any opinions or help. Built michael overly of on. I'm already regretting it. But hey i not. I cannot wait for violent to build his. Pc and just to friction touches is shared. His mother boarded fried oil. The us built my pc. Everything was that is start working on. I four i'd accidentally So i screwed everything in it starts then stop at any would rinse repeat. And i it was the seaview because it would be fine once. I took it out so i thought shit i bought the so. You thought you'd static that. I'd gotten another. Cpa still same problem changed the power because it could been possibly still same problem. Turns out one of the screws was causing actor. And i was. I got so pissed. I left it for a few months. Came back to it. Turns out to be a screen and it was just so frustrating. Fortunately either spent process. At when i eventually did break it when do not great but it was the you do have a i. If this video gets two hundred likes. I will build the p. c. onstream on video teach took. Let's go listen. I made a for anyone that wants to watch the equivalent of that one video. We all made fun of for months of that guy that magazine building a pc..
Faffing with Friends
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"Do for too long everything starts to just let you start to stop understanding english to your point you just give up. What are these people saying. Why why am i. What life choice of lou. Let me to this idea to speed on the first episode. The transcript for the first episode. And i completely what you mean i to do over the weekend before launch and i was like because i really wanted it to be up because we want our show to be as inclusive as possible and it was such a godsend when i listen to mind if i take over yes takeover please the Funny enough the very fast videos we did. I did all of the editing. And some thomas and for the first few. It was okay but i eventually. You'll notice if you ever look on youtube channel that we cut off employment and that because i completely bunt out from To death of all of the editing and subscribing because they were like ten minute long videos and the clips were maybe of a two minutes or even seconds long depending on what they are And he just bought me out and i. We only picked it up again. Once we distribute the load. 'cause i just refused on the yeah. I'm a big fan of video essays especially based not games and for years now. I've pretty much been writing scripts collecting footage. And then i get to the editing process and for video essays. They're usually our so right. So what. I have like. Sixty hours of footage destiny to have the script written. And i'm looking at it and i'm like i have to. Now edit this to the script into what. I'm recording to say. I completely burn out. I never upload anything as a result scientific multiple projects that just sit there for years on my hard drive and someday i might finish the but my god editing. Anything of that length is just. You may as well not. It's too much it's quite. The journey didn't up happing..
Faffing with Friends
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"Everyone to faffing with friends now. I know you'll love the last guest episode. Everyone has such a great reception for gary even though he stuttered here there and like to look away from his mike alah well since we love you guys. We're bringing you another guest. I know you're losing your mind Would you like to introduce yourself the amazing guest of this week. Hi my name's liam. I'm pov a youtube stream of coke from Friends green and brian. I'm sure these guys be plugging us at the end. I guess maybe uc if unlucky. You're gonna get plowed clubbed. So hard won't ever want to be only only if the interview is only emotive but yeah i've Liam has mentioned. He's part of a collective of rome hounds and my first question towards you as i imagine this this is going to go is. How did you come up with the name hans. Why did you get it. How i know i know you like to drink your run. But how did that happen. How did that come into fruition. The when we first met bringing together it was initially just knee. And brent and brian given his love for dogs hound. May you go inside and the fat trust me. We went for a low of different names and none of stock you just combined two things that thirty love alcohol and we have to make sure it wasn't used anywhere else. Fortunately it wasn't user ready Green kim intimate people say alcoholism never leads to anything wonderful. It's motivation but it is very ration- yes is very creative team. We had a similar. We have similar thing with four. We're coming up with fighting with friends actually struggled for a bit and we went to look to if if it was taken and realized that it wasn't it was just one random youtube video at the time of something called fasting with friends and joe was joe over here was like enough to just pounce on it and that's how we became fascinated with friends..
Health Hats, the Podcast
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Health Hats, the Podcast
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"Make some sense of all of this Mile grandson leeann was six. He and his dad intensely studied dinosaurs. Jokingly i said your aunt is an urban war though.