39 Burst results for "2001"
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Decoding AIs impact on IoT with Sam Colley, CEO, Pod Group, Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of TR Publications, and I'm very pleased to have with us again, Sam Coley, who's the CEO of Podgroup. Sam, thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me, Doug. Well, we're going to be talking about the dynamic intersection of AI and IoT. I think this is a topic we've been talking about AI all year. We've been talking a lot about IoT. I don't think we've done a lot of work on where these two meet. So I'm really excited that we're able to do this. Thank you, Sam, for joining us and being able to expand our knowledge on this topic. Before we dive into that, could you just tell us a little bit about Podgroup? Yeah, so Podgroup has been in the IT now for over, well, since 1999 in various forms and its most recent form as a global MVNO since 2011. And in 2001, we were acquired by Giskindebrin, GND, a German security company who have kind of led in the field of eSIM and remote provisioning and SIM cards for over 30 years as well. So now kind of managing to combine all of the latest security technology alongside, you know, connectivity to deliver kind of solutions to the IoT to try and help them obviously evolve in a secure manner as possible. So you have a front row seat to the IoT world. Yes, I think it is middle row because I think the connectivity piece is pivotal in all of it. Without connectivity, you can't connect the device and you can't get the data to the cloud to do wonderful things like AI. So I feel like we get to sit in the middle and see all of the sides, which is a good vantage point. So with that, how is IoT changing the way we interact with our devices and the world as you're describing it around us? Well, I think IoT, you know, it's one of the things that kind of it's often unseen or, you know, it wasn't really until maybe five years ago you started to see billboards with IoT written on them. And as software and things became, you know, designed specifically for that vertical. But, you know, it's been around for, you know, 30 plus years probably in what used to be machine to machine. And I think the way in which we now interact with it as consumers has also evolved in that time. I think originally, you know, it was it was mainly for, you know, some sort of industrial applications, etc. I think old SCADA systems and things would be classified as IoT or M2M back then. But now, obviously, there's consumer IT in our in our homes with our smart devices, you know, with your Alexa's, to some extent, or your smart fridges. But also in terms of how you interact on a day to day basis, in terms of where you how you pay a store, how you consume advertising, in terms of digital signage, how you pay for your parking on the street. You know, all of its IoT and essentially it's kind of everywhere and we interact with it all day, every day, more or less if we're out and about or even at home. So I think, you know, it's it's something that maybe we don't recognize as much as we should, but it is pivotal to the way we live our lives today.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Fresh update on "2001" discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So Brendan, just kind of covering Europe in general, we're seeing this a little bit, not just Europe, but the Western world. You see it a little bit in Argentina, a little bit in the Netherlands. You're seeing a building rejection of the elements of mass migration, technocracy in overly centralized Brussels type Strasbourg type governing elite. Walk us through from a European perspective what you're noticing and witnessing here. What are the main drivers of this political realignment? Yeah, I think there's a populist revolt taking place around the Western world. I personally find it very exciting and very important. I like to think that we Brits were kind of at the forefront of it when we voted for Brexit in 2016. We voted to break away from the European Union, which was an earthquake in Western politics. Britain, alongside France and Germany, was the key member of the EU, and we kind of set the ball rolling really on a populist spirit that has gripped many parts of Europe. We've seen the rise of Giorgio Maloney in Italy. We've seen the success of the Sweden Democrats in Sweden, which is a party that criticizes immigration. You mentioned Geert Wilders most recently, his surprise victory in the Netherlands. What's really interesting, and I think some of your listeners may not be aware of this, is that actually people in Ireland beat us to the punch because in the 2000s, in 2001, the Irish people voted against the Nice Treaty, which was a treaty to expand the power of the EU. In 2007, they voted against the Lisbon Treaty, which was another attempt to expand the power of the EU. In both cases, they were ignored and forced to vote again, which created a lot of animus in Ireland towards the European Union. So I think one of the great ironies about Ireland is that the political class there doesn't realize that even its own population, who they think are just a bunch of idiots, that's how they treat them, even they are skeptical of the growing technocratic power of the EU, and even they have flirted with the populist ideals that we've seen growing up over the past couple of decades. So I think what's happening in Europe is that working class communities in particular, working class voters, the left behind, the people who are ignored, the kind of people who in the United States formed the backbone of the vote for Donald Trump, they have risen up and said, we're sick of being ignored, we're sick of being treated like trash, we're sick of being gaslit and censored and demeaned, and we're going to stand up for ourselves and vote for a different way of doing politics. And they've tried that in Ireland and it failed, and I think they may well try it again because the establishment there is behaving incredibly badly. Yeah, and I think there is a western, there's western themes here of pushing back against the overly centralized world economic forum-esque type governing model.I need to play this tape here because it's so extraordinary. It's cut 77. The Irish government expects the big tech companies to do censoring for them. It's amazing. Play cut 77. I spoke to a detective in Pear Street on Saturday who was actively engaged with the social media companies throughout Thursday, who was actively engaged with TikTok, actively engaged with META, so Instagram and Facebook, who was actively engaged with Twitter or X. She said very clearly that social media companies, in particular TikTok and META, they were responding, they were engaging with Gardaí, and they were taking down these vile posts as they came up. X were not. X were not. They didn't engage. They did not fulfill their own community standards and that is why we are moving to a situation where these companies do not get to self-monitor. That's why Commission the Man has been established, to make sure that these companies are held responsible, because while some were responsible, others were not. So let me reassure you Gardaí were seized of this. They were engaging. They were engaging directly with the social media companies. They just expect mass censorship. It's absolutely staggering to me that she can be proud that the police were engaging with social media, which basically means the police were putting pressure on social media to censor certain people. That is the beginnings of a police state. When you have the police directly demanding that certain people's posts be taken down and certain people's voices be silenced, that is the beginning of a form of Stalinism. And this is how serious the crisis in Ireland has become, where the government feels more contempt for its own people and their freeborn liberties than it does for the repulsive. Brendan, excellent work. Thank you so much. You're welcome anytime. God bless you. Thanks so much for listening everybody. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening. God bless. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com. Lots of channels, nothing to watch, especially if you're searching for the truth. It's time to interrupt your regularly scheduled programs with something actually worth watching. Salem News Channel. Straightforward, unfiltered, with in-depth insight and analysis from the greatest collection of conservative minds like Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Sebastian Gorka, and more. Find truth. Watch 24-7 on snc.tv and on local now channel 525.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Phonism and Snom Partnership is Game changing in Hot Zoom Phone Market
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of TR Publications, and I'm very pleased to have with us today Mark Magliano, who is SNOM America's Vice President, Channel Business for the Americas. Mark, thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me, Doug. I greatly appreciate it. It's always great to catch up with SNOM. We're going to be learning about a very exciting story today. We also have with us Steve Lazaridis, who's the CEO of Phonism. Steve, thank you for joining me today. Thanks for having me, Doug. Looking forward to it. Excited to be here. Well, I think this is a very timely podcast. Many of our readers will have read a recent announcement from Phonism and SNOM regarding the M500 DeX systems and SIP phones, and I think even a bigger story is we're going to be talking about a great opportunity for the channel. We're going to be talking about where the market is really looking, which is what will work with Zoom, what will work with the main ways people today are actually communicating, are there new ways and new things and new ideas for the desktop phone and what its future is. So this is a really huge topic. We're going to be tithing into all that in just a second, but Mark, could you just give us a little bit of an update on SNOM? I think a lot of readers probably know about the label or the logo or the company, but where are we today with SNOM? Oh boy, where should I start? One thing I like to tell people when they engage or re -engage, I like to really bring up the fact that SNOM has been around for quite some time. SNOM was actually founded back in 1997 in Berlin, Germany. And a lot of people don't realize, even long in the tooth industry, people don't really realize that SNOM was the first to come out with a mass produced SIP phone in 2001. So a lot of legacy that goes way back to the very beginning of SIP. Now we were purchased in 2016 by VTech. So I know that there's been a lot of questions around the VTech SNOM relationship. Yes, VTech is absolutely our parent company, but what that gives us, it gives us a multi -billion dollar resource to build our products and build our products stronger. So we still have our R &D in Berlin, but we also have R &D facilities in Vancouver as well as Hong Kong. But we still are very much that European or that Berlin, German company can have that European fit and finish that everybody loves and has grown to expect out of SNOM. And you know, before we go on, that is a very significant thing about SNOM from the beginning, has always been the aesthetics. It's always had a certain type of engineering, a certain type of feel and look and touch. Steve, tell us a little bit about phonism. Hey, Doug. Yeah, so some of the listeners that are familiar with us, we've been on here in the past, but we, phonism is an automated platform designed to deploy, manage, secure and migrate SIP devices at scale. So we work with a lot of service providers. We work with companies like Zoom Phone and other platforms, cloud platforms to enable more devices to come onto the platforms, help customers deploy devices simply, easily without rolling a truck, et cetera, reducing costs and operations. So Steve, explain to me what phonism and SNOM together do. So, phonism and SNOM, so we've been partners for a while, phonism, the phonism platform supports the SNOM family of devices. And recently, about recently, SNOM released the M500 devices. We support other devices as well. And one thing we did was we integrated some extended capabilities of the M500 deck system into phonism, providing our customers and SNOM customers more advanced management troubleshooting capabilities when deploying these devices, like, you know, anything from like zero touch provisioning to remote management, advanced things like remote packet capture, network level troubleshooting to help manage support ticket flow, help preempt troubleshooting items so that your technicians or your support team can preemptively resolve issues before you get a ticket from the customer. And recently, we partnered as the topic of today's conversation, we partnered to the SNOM devices are now certified for Zoom phone and the phonism platform has a Zoom phone integration. And through our partnership and integrations, we're helping distributors and Zoom phone resellers deploy the SNOM devices attached, ring ready to Zoom phone with the zero touch provisioning, plus all the other day two management features that we discussed. So the SNOM devices are now capable to attach to Zoom phone in a very easy, simple way. So, Mark, you know, I was recently at an event and I saw a lot of interest in the M500 deck systems and also in the SNOM line generally. So help me connect the dots. Why does why is this announcement and this connection with those new devices and the SNOM means family so much to the channel? All right, I'm glad you saw that. That's fantastic feedback. And I like the question. Really, Doug, what it comes down to is it's the key line emulation that we have in our M500 in our deck systems. It's something that our competitors just don't do as well as we do, to be quite honest. And Steve can certainly verify this. It's created a tremendous amount of buzz. Just imagine you now have the capability to take the M500 and deploy it in areas where you're challenged to run cable. You can literally just take this device, drop it in, connect it to your Ethernet with the right configuration, especially when you're using the provisioning and the zero touch provisioning and the DMS and everything else that Phonism gives the SNOM platform. All those capabilities just bundled in one are just awesome is the best word I can come up with. But just again, go back to imagine you now have the ability to just plug and play a full featured deck system in your up and running, something that would normally take certainly or days even hours of configuration can literally take minutes with the SNOM deck device, partner with the Phonism software solution. You know, and this is a good chance for us to bring to light something that SNOM, in addition to that great design, has always been famous for, which is you guys really master decked and you use it a lot. And, you know, it's good for the partners to know there's so many companies out there, so many different types of physical sites where cabling might be very difficult to do. Yeah, it's a fantastic solution, and the more we show it, the more we engage with the public and the channel, the more excitement is building. So as a sales leader, I'd love to see that pipeline build. And we're certainly seeing a lot of it right now. And so, you know, and from both of you, what I'm understanding is that, you know, the real world challenges that people right on the ground might be facing, which is, gee, this infrastructure was never built for cabling. And I have a customer that wants to use Zoom and my customer wants to have more updated devices. Basically, all that comes together with this announcement. That's correct. That's correct. So with the devices certified on Zoom Phone and Phonism's capability and interoperability with both of the devices, the SNOM platform devices, as well as Zoom Phone, it provides that ease of deployment. It provides that ease of troubleshooting and enables partners to deploy these with much less headache than before. It may be worth mentioning just for the audience, the M500 deck family is not just a handset deck phone like you typically see in the deck deployments. This is a family of desk phone level devices, as well as handsets like cordless handset, your typical deck hardware profile that you can deploy. So you can deploy a whole office suite managed extensively through Phonism, powered by the attached SNOM hardware to Zoom Phone. It's not just the deck phone you see in the pizzeria per se. Right. And so that's the sort of exciting thing. I think that's what I saw at the event that I was at, is this is a family of products. They work together and they anticipate even in one facility that there might be a need for something on a wall, something on a desk, something moving around, et cetera. There's mobile devices and so on. And with that, there's another part to this announcement that I think will be very important to for the community to hear, which is zero touch deployment. Yeah, if I may, the ability to partner with Phonism helped us go to market almost immediately with Zoom. We didn't have to go through all that interop that Steve was talking about before because Phonism did it for us. So it was super fast and super easy for us to go to market and to start to recognize revenue on the Zoom platform. So the zero touch provisioning or ZTP, as you'll hear a lot, is very important. Most if not all the MSPs would love to have it and they need it as part of their offering. We do have zero touch provisioning on most of our phones, but again, to leverage the Phonism platform was just a breath of fresh air and again, super easy for us to partner and then go to market with Zoom and others. Steve, did you want to comment on the zero touch deployment as well? Yeah. So zero touch deployment or zero touch provisioning, either one, it's kind of the same thing. The way we see zero touch, we've seen cases in the market where some people will do zero touch provisioning, but they still have to touch the device after deployment. So we like to use the term zero touch deployments or the way we see zero touch provisioning is full deployment. Everything is attached in Phonism, it's hooked into Zoom phone. The device gets drop shipped by distributors. There's no need to roll a truck, allow the customer to plug the device in and they're good to go. So that's impactful because even today, everyone listening on this podcast knows that they know either they as a partner or they know a partner that still roads trucks for deployments. And what we're doing here is we're helping companies become more ESG aware, removing the truck roll from the need for deployments. I think this is significant. You know, anybody who's paying any attention to the changing way we do business, the changing way literally companies make money in this market, it's very important to control those labor costs, to control those fuel costs, truck costs. It's a very, truck rolls are expensive. And I think this points to a bigger picture, which some has historically been famous for, which is easy deployment, works with everything and meets the needs that you have sort of seamlessly. I wanted to bring also to everyone's attention, one other thing that is also critical, which is security. So my understanding is there are some security features of significance here. Yeah, so the security features, so the SNOM devices support all the latest SIP -TLS protocols for the technical people on the call. They also support secure management protocols. So through the Phonism platform, alongside with the capabilities of the devices, we securely manage those devices over protocols like mutual TLS, which is the most secure way to manage these devices today. And the SNOM devices have that built in. And then on top of the capabilities of what the device has, but from the management side and deployment side, Phonism has capabilities where you can lock and enforce certain settings or firmware versions throughout your whole network very easily. So if you have 1 ,500 sites or 50 ,000 sites with 100 SNOM phones across the board, how do you manage that firmware, those logistics? Well, you can very easily do that in Phonism by building compliance rule sets and locking the firmware down across the network or in subsections of the network, as well as configuration parameters. So you may want to, an example that the VoIP community and the UCAS community will understand here, you may want to disable the web interface on the device itself so nobody can log in on it. How do you make that change across 100 ,000 devices at once? Phonism enables that in a very easy way, things like that. So, you know, Mark, it sounds like this really opens the door to the channel to do some new and interesting things. Yeah, it definitely does. The relationship that we have with Phonism and their platform that they offer the channel is, I think it's a game changer from my perspective. We now have the ability to not only do the provisioning piece of it, but to handle any migrations, any deployments, or any changes that need to take place at the distribution level. So partnering with our distributors, working with our distributors, and leveraging the Phonism platform is really a no -brainer. You got to think about it this way. Any distributor out there sells or resells most of our competition, our competitors' products, right? And most of the competition has some type of unique zero -touch provisioning or even a DMS offering. Well, those are multiple platforms that you need to manage, right, per each manufacturer. With the Phonism platform, it's one. It's like I like to say, it's that single throat to choke, right? You deal with Phonism, you can do all your provisioning for all the different manufacturers and then have all the extra enhanced tools that Phonism gives you that you just don't get from your standard tool set with your manufacturers. So for us, it's an absolute game changer. I mentioned it a little bit earlier, Doug. It helped us go to market quicker with Zoom and also strengthen our relationships at the distribution level. And Steve, you know, Mark, everyone seems to be saying this is a game -changing thing. Yeah, so it is. I mean, we've been working on, we've been doing this for years. And our team, we built up a lot of expertise around device management, device provisioning, integrations into platforms accordingly. And, you know, I'll give you an example, Doug. We were at Zoomtopia earlier this year and Zoom phones on fire. Everyone knows that. And we spoke to a lot of partners and partners wanted more flexibility around devices to support devices like SNOM. And when we spoke to them about what we were doing with SNOM, they were all engaged and excited. So we see a future where you're no longer kind of limited on what we want to do is we are extending the device support for cloud platforms. And when you partner with companies like SNOM and the M500 is a wonderful device, the deck device capabilities are second to none. It's got a ton of features and we can attach it to cloud platforms like Zoom phone, more modernized platforms. So that's big. You're no longer stuck waiting for the cloud platform to add support for a given device type. Mark, is this a family of products available? Are they shipping now? Yes, absolutely. The M500 entire series is shipping the desktop piece, the base station, as well as the two handsets. Everything is shipping. We also have an M900, which is also a deck solution with a lot larger range and a whole really leverages the mesh technology that shipping as well. They're all available at the usual distributors that are out there. We work with NetEx, we work with Teledynamics, 888, VoIP supply. Those are our major distributors here in the United States. And we also distribute up in Canada through GenTech and a few others. And if you're interested in becoming a partner of Snom's, is there a program for that? We definitely have a program. We have a partner program that's in place right now. You can visit that at SnomAmericans .com and take a look at the reseller partner program or become a reseller program. It's also being on both the website and the partner program. We're going to go through an overhaul. We want to add more features and functionality to it to become even more channel friendly. So the audience can look forward to a lot more to come from Snom and Snom Americas on the channel partner front over the next six months. And Steve, where can we learn more about Phonism? Please visit Phonism .com, follow us on all the social platforms. We're pretty popular on LinkedIn, Twitter and some on Facebook as well. So choose your platform of choice. Looking forward to hearing from you. Well, Steve and Mark, thank you for joining me today. I'm looking forward to our next podcast. I'm looking forward to hearing an update on how these products are rolling out. But for now, thank you very much indeed for joining me. Thank you, Doug, for having us. Yes, thank you very much.
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "2001" discussed on Mark Levin
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VUX World
A highlight from AI in Healthcare with Adam Odessky, Sensley
"Start the proverbial stream and here we are this is indeed yes yes yes as it is right now hello ladies and gentlemen boys and girls here we go welcome welcome welcome to VUX world I'm your host Kane Sims and I am with today Adam Odeski from Sensely. Adam hello. Hello Kane how are you? Good to connect. Good to connect long follower time first -time caller that's me to you not you to me I've been following you for a long time definitely definitely yeah it's I'm so glad that we can connect and definitely definitely appreciative of your of your time and we're gonna jump in in just one second but very firstly before we do that I just want to quickly give a shout out to everyone who's tuning in whether you're on the podcast whether you're on LinkedIn YouTube wherever you are we are doing webinar a on it's it's a fortnight it's probably two weeks away now depending on when you listen to this but it will be on the is it the 9th let me just double check my dates the 9th of November save the day 9th of November and what it is is we will be joined by wisdom we did a webinar with them previously we had a look at that tool we had a look at the conversational analytics components there this time we're going to be taking you through a framework for chatbot improvement and this is the whole kind of theme for this is patronum expecto summoning the majesty of chatbot improvement if you in fact if you're a Harry Potter fan you'll like the the theme for this one but even if you're not Harry Potter fan doesn't really matter because it's not magic it is a proven framework it's a step -by -step process and we're gonna walk through some case studies and some examples of how you can first find the things that need your attention so you're not working on the wrong things you make sure you're working on things that are moving the needle what kind of things can you do to remedy it how do you track improvements over time and how do you make sure that your chatbot is constantly delivering value to to the business so if you are interested in joining that you can go to V UX dot world forward slash events or you can go to the V UX dot world website and the events tab there and feel free to enroll and join and we will see you next Thursday alright as I said thank you Adam for for joining me well let's let's kick off let's kick off with with yourself first of all and we'll get into sense because I know since he's been around for a long time actually so tell you tell us tell us a bit about yourself and how you how you kind of got involved with essentially oh yeah sure so I've actually been in the avatar or the voice user interface world for a very long time my first job out of college was actually with the Oracle voice lab in Chicago where we were building enterprise this is back in 2001 I guess I'm trying to kind of figure out I'm getting old I feel pretty young feel like a kid still but I guess I'm pretty old now but back into back in the early 2000s I could say my first job out of college was with the Oracle voice lab and the goal of the Oracle voice lab was to build enterprise voice applications that would sit on top of the Oracle application server so things like email and calendar and files things like that sort of like what Siri does today or the Apple you know the smartphones do today we're building in voice with voice applications and the goal for establishing the Oracle voice lab and these applications was basically one executive at Oracle who wanted to listen to his email on his commute in Silicon Valley from like his his place in Santa Cruz up to Redwood City so he really wanted to like listen to his emails as he was driving he's like okay well let's let's establish this lab so we can build these voice applications like what I have to do for the day and my emails from the last night and my first sort of I guess claim to fame or one of actually the first applications that I wrote was voice access to email where it was based sort of a voice made a voicemail model and it's interesting with the voicemail model because back I guess voicemails you can just tap and listen to voicemails today but you know quite early before the way the way you would listen to voicemails is that it wouldn't go from the the latest voicemail that you have down to the earliest unread voicemail it would start at the earliest unread voicemail that you have and go up to the latest so more chronological order and so that was the pattern that we used for building voice access to email we wanted it to be just like voicemail and that was kind of a tricky algorithm to figure out which which of your emails is the most unread one you know the earliest unreading you have so I had to like build this application to sort of start with that earliest unread email and they had maybe other unread email scattered throughout your inbox but the earliest that was in chronological or in like pattern order that also follows other unread emails all the way up to the top and we use kind of a it was like a Genesis platform or the voice genie platform IVR platform at the time to to basically use voice XML right and I was a voice ex developer I started out as a voice XML developer to to build these to build these applications and besides email I built you know calendar and you can listen to like you you know the appointments so you have for the day and and you know in file so it's kind of an early version of a voice based assistant digital assistant you can you can compose new emails and you would use your voice to basically compose the email so we didn't have great speech -to -text technology back then so the the emails would come as with a voice with an audio attachment basically of your recording but we had you know a large grammar for and we had recognition to like basically say the name of the person that you're trying to email so that was kind of early experience one of the earliest they think experiences in building these kind of voice only IVR applications for enterprise right for personal information for information management that that employees could use whatever they were away from the phone so that was sort of the start of my career that's how I got into this space building these applications later on I actually worked on a real voicemail product that was based on email except the emails were actual kind of deemed as voicemails you can just listen to your voicemails that used email servers to basically be transferred around and later on I went after that I went to work for for tell me networks which was later acquired by Microsoft and there's another example of a similar thing though wasn't it an IVR based assistant that's right that's right and tell me networks had a very actually large enterprise business as well and this is where I got a chance to work with big companies building both inbound and outbound IVR applications for their customer service so we worked with you know companies like United Airlines and E trade a bunch of a bunch of these big names insurance companies like Humana etc and I always had a I had a kind of a niche for health care you know on the my family had a lot of kind of health care issues over the years my grandma especially had heart failure and it was interesting I was so experienced with these customer service IVR applications but if you look at you know the way doctors work the way hospitals work they hardly use any of these kind of technologies to communicate with their patients it was always difficult to get a hold of a doctor was difficult to book an appointment and especially people with chronic conditions you know they they hardly ever followed up and you know the way the better these conditions is for you to check like you check various vital signs like blood pressure and weight and you know other things like glucose levels if you're diabetic and I always like I wondered why is the healthcare industry so far behind you know travel and transportation for instance or insurance or you know hospitality and those are the industries I was mainly dealing at tell me and Microsoft and so that's kind of that itch became sort of a passion of mine to build something that was similar to what I was building in you know it tell me in it oracle but specifically focused on the healthcare industry to do these kind of IVR outbound follow -ups and you know conversations where somebody can report something new or report their symptoms and that's sort of the that led me to eventually start building out Sensly to focus on that part of the industry which I thought was very much underserved but at the same time the need was I thought higher than and you know both the social need and the financial need you know was it was higher than any other sort of enterprise applications I've ever worked on and that was sort of the focus that I started the path that I started going on which eventually led to creating Sensly and then here we are yeah here we are the rest is history so they say that's really interesting that the the stuff from from before they're kind of like the tell me stuff in that was that using like keyword recognition was there like it and it was that one of the first sort of like intent based NLU systems like what kind of stuff was that using and and how did that inform what you wanted to do when you started building Sensly yeah so back then tell me and a bunch of other companies in the space this is around you know 2005 2010 I would say that that period in time that was still heavily using voice XML as a language for creating these applications the way voice XML works it's very similar to HTML where you would specify these tags of prompts that you want the you know the voice bot or the IVR system to say and then you'd have these grant would call them grammars back then I haven't used that term I haven't heard that term now being used in a while but you would build grammars of the things that you wanted to recognize and now I guess these are called intense and the way you build grammars there's a bunch of these grammar specifications like GSR and and some other ones but they kind of involve both sort of specifying the kind of keywords right that you want the system the speech recognition system to to listen for and some of these can be very large you can have a very large data set of keywords and then you could also specify like slot fill so which which keywords or which words or which phrases I need to be assigned to a particular slot and that's kind of a definition of an intent right you have a bunch of these kind of phrases and patterns and there's a lot of these pattern matching type of scripting involved into figuring out like these particular patterns and these kind of patterned orders is what a person has to say in order to fill this particular slot and that's the intent definition I think is much more broad now and you can specify a lot more things you'd be able to specify before but you know the GSR and the other kind of grammar definitions that then we're pretty sophisticated the the the speech recognition systems obviously weren't as sophisticated because you didn't have this speech -to -text translation that you have now and the matching of the speech recognition system was specifically done on these grammars you have to pass it into the speech recognition system specifically what you're looking for and it'll tell you whether there's a match or not now what it does is obviously translated to text and then you can do a lot more more specific and more customized matching on that text to figure out exactly what you know what you're looking for what the intent should match to what do you think because that because voice XML not very many companies use voice XML anymore don't do they where our CTO Justin he was saying that there's a lot of functionality that voice XML had that now doesn't kind of exist like what was how is there anything from your perspective being lost in the kind of transition to that more sort of speech recognition translated to text pass it off to a to a you system and like is there yeah is there anything that you think it's been sort of lost there was any benefits to it over and above I think the specification of how you would listen for particular types of phrases or particular kinds of intentions was much kind of easier to imagine for a developer to kind of figure out like this these are the kinds of things that I'm I'm listening for but I don't think there's anything that's been lost specifically I think there's just more features that were more obvious that made people think about how to develop an application like the these grammar specifications so they'll turn out a lot like what exactly this is do I want from this and it's harder to do that now with just speech to text where you're getting like a text string the other thing that you know in text -to -speech you use SSML which is a markup language to specify like the prosody or how the language or how something is pronounced or how something is spoken and I see fewer and fewer companies and developers using the power of SSML to specify how to pronounce specific specific things they kind of rely on the text -to -speech engines to just give them what they want when they give it the text without thinking about how that text should be spoken but the SSML inside voice XML kind of provided sort of an obvious way and made the developer think or the designer think about specifically not just you know what what the text should be spoken according to design but how the text should be spoken what kind of tonality to use what kind of prosody to use where to put in the specific like excitement or emotional cues we do that quite a bit at Sensley because you know healthcare conversations by nature have to be empathetic or we want them to be as empathetic as possible to reassure patients or to reassure you know people that everything's gonna be okay and we use quite a bit of that's a smell in our work but I don't see a lot of designers well building voice applications do to these things today because I don't think a lot of them actually know that SS this even though you can and most text -to -speech engines you can embed us SSML inside the prompts but they're just not well known yeah I agree and then that's that's with a voice user interface all you have is what it sounds like so like this is ML is a crucial sort of design tool to make sure that you can create the experience in a way that people expect you know so I definitely agree yeah yeah there's such an underutilization of SSML I think the Alexa community that's when I first come across since it actually it was when I was kind of like you know really tracking the Alexa movement we were building out and designing Alexa skills and Google actions and stuff and that I think Amazon did a pretty decent enough job of kind of you know educating people about SSML but the the community now is there's people come from absolutely all over the place some people come for messaging now they're kind of doing voice some people come from the contact center kind of like getting into it that way and so I agree there's definitely a gap there in people's one maybe is understanding and to certainly usage of SSML and it doesn't make a huge difference and if you look at the rate then you know the ratings for how people have people complete conversations what people actually think of the of the you know that the voice bot those things really make a difference as far as like judgment as far as appreciation as far as empathy and connection I think those are important tools to build really high quality voice applications definitely so so so you you left what was then Microsoft then you you think you are you identified that there's a an opportunity in healthcare you had the idea for sense Lee where did that kind of begin it was 2013 so it was a while ago so what were the first kind of few years like of getting essentially going yeah so since Lee actually started in the orange voice lab or the orange the orange lab or is a large telecommunications company you may know based in France yeah in the UK as well used to be France telecom and so I worked at the local research lab here in San Francisco that's where I built the first prototype of the avatar having conversations with patients that was the original sort of goal of my project at that point in time avatars only existed on the web via Adobe Flash I remember that yeah it was important you know at that point there were no avatars for the mobile phone right down to the kind of for avatar creation tools so what I did was this is like the hack at the time I made Adobe Flash work on on the iPhone and was able to make it the avatar work on both Android and and the iPhone and the first sort of applications were kind of a symptom checking a symptom checking tool and that's when you know like I displayed this tool at like like an event one of the events here in San Francisco it was health 2 .0 and I got like a standing ovation based on this avatar that like this talking avatar nurse that that I built as a demo and orange got really excited and they allowed me to spin out the company and that's what became sense Lee and that's how since we started in 2013 he knows actually a spin -off from orange and the first application that we built was the symptom checking application that was able to essentially that we marketed it as a virtual nurse a virtual avatar nurse that you can get on your smartphone and you can tell it what your symptoms are and it would basically navigate and ask a few questions navigate you to the appropriate place for care for care and we we we started the company we joined a couple accelerators there was our initial kind of fundraising is that we got a couple hundred thousand dollars for from alchemist accelerator and a few investors and our first big client that we landed it was actually the NHS which you may be familiar with the National Health Center here in the UK oddly enough we're a u .s.
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Veteran on the Move
A highlight from Transitioning from Operator to Owner with Robert Poole
"Our next episode is for you entrepreneurs who are frustrated with being tied to their business and stuck in the day -to -day running the business and looking for a way out. Army veteran Robert Poole is here to show you how to make the transition from operator who's involved in the day -to -day of running the business to owner who only focuses on strategic things and has a freedom to take time away from the business and still have the business flourish. Total Business Results is up next on Veteran on the Move. Welcome to Veteran on the Move. If you're a veteran in transition, an entrepreneur wannabe, or someone still stuck in that J -O -B trying to escape, this podcast is dedicated to your success. And now your host, Joe Crane. Service isn't just what Navy Federal Credit Union does, it's who they are. That's why Navy Federal created tools to help you earn and save more. Learn more at navyfederal .org slash join. All right, today we're talking with Army veteran Robert Poole from Total Business Results. Robert got some great things to talk about, teaching entrepreneurs to get out of running that day -to -day in their business and be able to break free and think more strategically. Before we get to doing all that, take us back and tell us what you did in the Army. Yeah, well, first of all, thanks for having me on the show, Joe. Appreciate it very much. Yeah, I went to West Point and got out and went to OBC in Virginia. And I think I was there for about six months. And then I was stationed at Fort Polk. I was in the quartermaster branch. That was my specialty. I didn't, that wasn't my first choice at West Point. But that's what happens when you get in trouble when you're near the bottom of the class. I wasn't one of the smartest guys there, but I made it through. So my first choice was actually ADA, but that was taken. So, so but it actually was a great experience. So I was with the 46th Engineer Battalion, combat heavy, and which, for guys who don't know, that's basically the heavy construction stuff that engineers do, not the, you know, planting explosives and that sort of thing. So it's more of building roads and building buildings, that sort of thing. So heavy construction stuff. So I got to learn a lot about that sort of construction industry, how things are built, because I had no background in that. My degree was in economics. So it was far from engineering, but you learn a lot on the job. And I was there for a couple years. I was the S -4, Assistant S -4 for a while, then the S -4 for the battalion. And then we did a deployment to Haiti. I was actually in the left behind crew. And so, but I managed the whole unit movement thing, which is, again, a fantastic experience for me. You know, you get kind of thrown into that stuff as a, you know, young officer, and you kind of have to learn as you go. But it was handling that kind of responsibility and coordinating all that stuff was a great experience, which later helped me in business, I think, quite a bit. And then I got out, I was only in for two years, because the, this was right around, I got around 96, I got out and it was because I looked at, you know, the military life and everything, I thought, you know, I'm not sure if I want to have, you know, a family and all that kind of stuff. But, you know, in the military, it's very hard on families, as everybody knows. And, but also at that time, you know, we'd just gone through Desert Storm One, you know, Soviet Union and collapse, because I originally as a kid, you know, I was always getting into the army, because I wanted to fight the big bad Soviets. And then suddenly, the, the, the enemy went away. And, you know, it's in the 90s, I think the army and armed forces in general kind of struggling with their place. You know, we had peacekeeping messages and things which I wasn't a real fan of. So the bottom line is they had sort of a rift with officers right after, you know, the first Gulf War, President Clinton made a big thing about cutting down the military. So they asked for, you know, officers to volunteer to get out early, because typically have a five or six year commitment from going to one of the academies. And, and so I raised my hand and said, that's me, and got out and started getting into business and all that. So with those, that's kind of my my transition, or at least my military story, if you will. Yeah, so your transition probably came a lot sooner and quicker than you were expecting. So you may or may not have been really prepared for it. You're mentally ready to get out. But what what sort of things did you get into when you first got out of the army? Yeah, you know, that's right. And, you know, transition is, you know, it's difficult with civilian life, I heard on a podcast, and I can't remember if it was yours, Joe, but, you know, gentlemen talking about the kind of strange reception you get when you make that transition, because, you know, the military, we're our own world. And, you know, when you come into the civilian world, people don't necessarily understand that. So, you know, you show them your resume of all the things you've done, you know, you know, that all the coordination I did in that unit movement, you know, millions of millions of dollars of equipment and responsibility and blah, blah, blah. And it doesn't translate necessarily real well to the civilian workforce. And so when I got out, I knew that I wanted to be in business. And I figured one of the best ways to do it was to get into sales. So I did sales in commercial real estate, I did a short stint doing residential real estate, I did corporate recruiting, I did for a couple years, financial investments, like Merrill Lynch, like a stockbroker. So I kind of bounced around, to answer your question. And I think it was because I, I had a difficult time trying to figure out how to explain the skill set and make that transfer skill set, even though I think, you know, in retrospect, all the lessons that I learned in the army, and at West Point, you know, are just invaluable in business. So it's really about kind of making it through that initial kind of difficulty in trying to translate that skill set. But deep down, that skill set really does transfer. It's just hard to explain that to the, you know, civilian employers and things like that. So that's kind of what my transition was like. Yeah, you see that, we see that a lot. I think oftentimes it's the civilian employer that you could, most people could, most military folks could say, I went to West Point, I was in Quartermaster Corps, did the Haiti thing, and they get a real quick assessment of probably what you've done, what you're capable of. But in the civilian world, they don't really understand what all that means. And when you civilianize your resume, I think a lot of it gets lost in the translation. Unfortunately, I always, you know, try to get you to civilianize your resume, but I think a lot of the impact gets lost. And really, it's, if you're trying to go to work for some company that doesn't really understand anything about the military, it might not be the right company to be going to work for. If they don't really understand the true value that you bring to the table. So ultimately, you started getting into many other things down the road, entrepreneurial -wise. Where did the entrepreneurial bug come from? I I've think always been a fairly independent person, you know, and it's, I think most of us get into entrepreneurship because of one reason we think, well, you know, basically, it's the classic, you know, I want to be my own boss. And, you know, the reality is news to anybody who are just getting into entrepreneurship. That usually doesn't happen the first few years that you end up buying yourself a job where instead of working 40 hours or somebody else, you're working 60 and, you know, the stress and all that comes with it, you get tied to your business, which is something that I, you know, talk about frequently. We can talk about later, but, so, it's a different experience. And, so I, but how I got into it, I was actually working in financial services at the time. This was, I think, 98, 99, somewhere in there. And, I, actually it was around 2000, I think, when I started making this transition, but I had a friend of mine who owned a construction company and he said, geez, I really need a website. And this is back when websites were new, you know, and all that. And a lot of companies didn't even have them. And I said, well, you know, that I've always been interested in tech stuff. So, I bought a book. I said, let me build your website for you. So, I learned how to build a website. And then another friend of his said, in construction said, hey, can you do that for me? And so, I started doing this work and realized, wow, there's a lot of companies that don't have websites. And so, my partner or my friend that owned the construction company said, hey, we should start a company doing website design, which seemed like a good idea. So, this was, of course, literally, I think, July of 2001, when we started, which was not the best time to start a business, two months later with 9 -11, economy shut down, you know. So, it was a baptism by fire in business. But we started doing that for about a year. And at the time, of course, I didn't have any money. My business partner wasn't really financial set. We had very little money to start. So, it was bootstrapping. But so, we hired, we didn't have money for advertising. So, we basically started doing cold calling, which I was very familiar with it. I did it in all my sales jobs before then. I was pretty good at it. But I got to the point where I couldn't do it. I couldn't do enough cold calling and show up to the meetings and do the sales and all that. So, we hired some callers here locally that worked from home that did, started doing the cold calls for me. And eventually, we had a client of ours say, wow, this is, that we built a website for, say, wow, your gal that contacted me was great, you know, I can really use, you know, some cold callers for me. And we said, oh, okay, well, I guess you can, you know, we'll kind of contract out our person, she's got some extra time. And, and then we had another client say the same thing. And we realized that there was more demand for our cold callers than it was for our website business. And so, we, we literally kind of folded that company and started a new company based upon that. And, you know, 20 something years later, you know, we've, are a multi million dollar company that has been built primarily on co calling and business to business, you know. And so, that's, that's a long story. But that's, it's something that you kind of fall into. So, I didn't, you know, a lot of people get out, you know, and they go, okay, well, I'm really interested in this industry. So, I'm going to go do this. And it's very intentional. For me, I kind of stumbled into it. It was after doing enough other things, you know, in sales jobs, like I mentioned, that I kind of stumbled into this. And it turned out, I was really good at it. And we've been through all the struggles that business owners go through. But it's been a, it's been a great ride. And, you know, it's really worked out well for me. But it was not something that I expected to do and didn't intentionally get into if that answers your question. Oh, yeah.
Sound ON
Fresh update on "2001" discussed on Sound ON
"Brief truce last as long as possible due to humanitarian considerations the Qatar is involved Egypt is involved a of lot mediators trying to see if they can prolong this brief peace between Israel and Hamas at least for another period of time knowing Joe that while there have been dozens as you say hostages released over the last several days there are still many more being held in Gaza though not all of them are being held so in far our numbers might sound or look a bit little different because not all of the hostages were released by Hamas but so far the group has freed 81 hostages mainly women and children Israel Kayleigh says they have freed 180 Palestinians who were imprisoned but still talking about it at least well over a hundred hostages who are left and we don't know where they all yeah exactly the number of them understood to be American as well Joe so there is still work to be done here and ultimately more humanitarian aid that needs to get in not just hostages that need to get out the question is whether or not another agreement can be made knowing the longer This truce goes on potentially the more opportunity it gives Hamas to regroup and as we've had conversations on this show as well as as well as on balance of power the humanitarian consideration the consideration for the hostages may at some point run into conflict With Israel's strategic objectives as Netanyahu still says they will go back to fighting until this is until the end until Hamas has been eliminated let's start our conversation with Michael O 'Hanlon a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution where he is director of research and foreign policy and a very reliable voice on what's happening in this part of the world Michael it's good to see you thank you we understand negotiators are talking about potentially another two is days that realistic are you optimistic? Greetings well optimism isn't really a word I allow myself to feel too much about this war at the moment because yes two days of relief additional would be great but of course it does as you just pointed out beg the question of what comes next and how long whatever comes next would last and what kinds of constraints would be placed upon the use of force how Palestinians many would suffer how many Israelis would continue to suffer so I do think there's a distinct possibility that you could imagine if more hostages are potentially released or proposed for release then that could certainly lead Israel to accept the burdens that Kylie just pointed out of or the potential costs of giving Hamas a little more time to and regroup you know I'm not sure those costs are that high at this point if Hamas has already had several days you know almost a week two more days may not make a big difference so I think Israel if it can get more hostages back probably would be inclined to do this and Israel is probably still refining what it wants to do militarily in the southern part of Gaza in particular where we see there's been a debate with the United States about just what kind of force to use whether to get close to hospitals and other such facilities whether to use certain kinds of weapons or not and to the extent Israel still processing all that conflicting advice is you know advice from the Americans advice from its own military leadership desires to eliminate Hamas as much as possible it may welcome a couple more days for planning. Well you say eliminating Hamas as much as possible how much realistically is possible as Netanyahu is promising to see this through until the very end are we looking at potentially indefinite conflict here? Well we United in the States remember well of course how we felt after 9 -11 and at that time the notion of seeing any al Qaida fighters survive our retaliation probably would have been seen as unacceptable but we all know that 20 years later there's still al Qaida out there most of them of course are people who were not in the ranks on September 11 2001 but some of the original supporters of that organization we never were able to find they could just put down their guns and blend back into a population depending on where they were there might or might not ever be talk about what they had done to implicate themselves in that original attack or other al Qaida activities Hamas is the the same you know the leadership the top leadership and those who cross the border on October 7th presumably Israel is going to work its very hardest and be willing to take some risks and pay some serious costs to get those people but even that group of you know a few hundred or into a couple thousand is going to be hard to identify with complete precision and complete thoroughness and the other thirty thousand ish Hamas fighters who at one time or another have taken up weapons for the organization I think you're going to be a human intelligence challenge that Israel can never figure out in terms of having any kind of basis to say who exactly is Hamas and who's not so if you literally take the idea of you know getting rid of every single Hamas fighter to its logical conclusion you specify a strategy for a war that cannot be won cannot be successfully accomplished and will cause certainly huge of numbers casualties along the way Israel is going to have to scale back from that ambition they're going to have to focus on leadership on the most lethal trigger pullers on weapons caches training facilities infrastructure major major command -and -control capabilities and that's going to have to be their definition of the Hamas they destroy together with the idea of Hamas as the government for Gaza I think most of those goals are largely within reach we know that Israel has been provided the names of another group of hostages due to be freed today but Michael I get nervous about headlines like this one that we're seeing from Hamas and a claim that the youngest of the Israeli hostages we've been hearing a lot about it a 10 -month -old boy named Kiefer Bibas his brother and mother they say are no longer alive there was hope that those names would be in this in batch this provided to the Israelis today Michael if this turns out to be true this is the headline type of that can change this conversation very quickly you're right and we obviously always want to in bear mind the very human and individual you know costs of this conflict and and any casualty is one too many but I have to say at a level of military and strategic assist I'm surprised how many hostages apparently are still alive and I would have thought that Hamas might have been trying to deter Israel's initial airstrikes and artillery strikes by putting more of the hostages near the likely targets of those strikes so the fact that we are still in a world where a lot of the hostages are alive to me is hopeful and you know it's it's a silver lining of this in what's an enormous tragedy and they're going to still be individual tragedies I'm afraid as you point out. Yeah absolutely and again returning to where we began this conversation there is effort underway to prevent potentially any tragedy from occurring for much longer keeping the pause in fighting going including reporting today from Bloomberg that Saudi Arabia is now in discussion with Iran about making investments into that heavily sanctioned economy in return for Iran stopping the backing of some of its proxies avoiding this conflict spreading any further regionally. Michael what do you think about that? Well you know that's the kind of hope we all have had for the Middle East for decades that's always been dashed you know the idea of having a two -state solution but otherwise good governance throughout the region that allows for people to pursue prosperity and that maybe benefits from some of the richer states investing in some of the poorer states I mean these are kind of the the dreams or the the aspirations upon upon which a lot of Middle Eastern policy has been based for decades but look where we are even here in 2023 where for a lot of groups the idea of being rejectionist the idea of impeding progress of one's hated adversaries actually seems to matter more than the benefits of
Crypto Banter
A highlight from You're WRONG About This Crypto Explosion! | Benjamin Cowen
"I mean, the short answer is I don't know, honestly. I mean, people have been talking about Spot ETS forever. I think there's a chance they get approved this year. There's also a chance it doesn't get approved till next year. I think there's also a chance that people view, you know, what happened recently is like just more evidence of, you know, fraud and manipulation in the space that you get a move of 7 % on fake news. I think if a Spot ETF were approved, I imagine it would lead to some new money coming into the space. Like, I don't think that we can necessarily question that it would lead to some new money coming into space. I think the bigger issue is does it lead to a longer -term bull run that takes us to new highs or not, right? Like, there's always a case to be made that Bitcoin takes out this prior high over here, right? It's possible that it happens. And if it does, and let's say it does it on the back of a Spot ETF being approved or something, and we see Bitcoin, you know, above those prior highs, I think the bigger question is, it's like, well, after that money comes in, after the initial burst of money comes in, then what, right? Like, then what? Then what happens if then a recession hits, you know? So, or what happens if the Fed still hasn't pivoted and we're still going to tighter and tighter monetary policy? I just, I don't, for me, when I see Bitcoin, it's mostly existed during a period of QE and low interest rates, right? And I think it's more evidence, more evident in the altcoin market that the altcoin market is really struggling right now. Bitcoin has not been, right? But I think the reason is because alts are moving back to Bitcoin again. So, if a Spot ETF is approved, I imagine in the short term, it would lead to a surge in price, just like we saw it happen, right? A few days ago when people thought it was going to be approved. I think the bigger question is, well, what happens a month or two after that, after the market has digested that move and the macro is still trending in the wrong direction, okay? So, I think that's my bigger concern right now. By the way, you could have a scenario, like, do you remember last cycle? I mean, I know you do. I mean, I know you were in crypto last cycle. You were in crypto the cycle before that. But last cycle, we had this sort of long wick to the upside in October of 2019. You see that wick? And then we sort of just slowly fell back down. We then put in a, we took out that low, right? We took out these prior lows. You can see it was a very similar setup as last cycle, where we had this June low. The difference, though, is last cycle, we actually did slowly go, we did slightly go below that level. But we had this major wick to the upside in October, and then Bitcoin fell over in November. So, if, again, the data, it's not going to play out in the exact same way. But you can imagine if it did, the narrative would basically write itself, right? Like, imagine last cycle were this cycle, right? Like, so, you get your fake ETF news. It eventually rolls over and sells off because it wasn't real. Then you get the real ETF news in the halving year. We go back up, back up to this level where the wick went to when people thought it was real and it wasn't. And then a recession hits. And then we put in another low, right? Like, It amazes me how well you know your charts. It amazes me how well you know your charts and your wicks and your time periods. And it amazes me how similar this cycle is playing out. Even though I've been a skeptic of the halving theory for what I said to you, right? Like, it's. All right, look, Ran, I think it's smart for you to be a skeptic of that stuff because, look, markets play out different ways, right? I mean, like, think about, like, post -election years, like, you know, like 2001, a lot of these other years, like 2017, 2021, a lot of times the stock market does well in post -election years, right? The market trends higher. But then think about happened in 2001. We had a recession, right? Like, so there are general trends that occur. But if you get a recession, you know, you can basically throw all that out the window. And the recession sort of takes over. So I think it definitely makes sense for you to be skeptical. Amazing. Ben, listen, it's been absolutely amazing having you back on, Ben. I mean, geez, the amount of alpha and the way that you know your charts is, I mean, unparalleled. Seriously, I think you're the master. Guys, just remember, if you guys want to use the same tools that Ben's using, there's a link below to Into the Cryptoverse. Go and check it out. I use it. It's absolutely amazing. It's become one of my, you've seen it on my show. It's actually become one of my staples. You know, I've got it open, got it open right here. I use it all, I use it all the time. So if you guys want to go and check it out, they've got multiple subscription plans. I think it is one of the most powerful tools that you can actually get. Ben, thank you so much, my friend. Much appreciated. Yeah, thanks for having me. Great. So good to have him on. So good to get him on and just to, sure. I need a dose of Ben Khan every, I don't know, every couple of months, every couple of months. Couple of things. So first of all, remember that we have the win a Bitcoin competition. If you want to win a Bitcoin, this is how it works. From now, I want you guys in the comments to tell me what you think Bitcoin is going to be at the end of the year. Sorry, at the beginning of the new year, Eastern time, we said what the price is going to be on Coinbase. Go to the most accurate price. And remember, you must have a Bybit account unless you're in the UK or Canada, in which case you can have a Bitgit account. And if you're in the US, you've got to have a CoinW account. Do that. Tell me what it is and you can win half a Bitcoin. And if you've put 10 trades through on your exchange between now and the end of the year, then you double it and you actually make it one Bitcoin. Also, I want to just remind you guys again, that these shows are brought to you by NordVPN. Now, you saw what happened earlier this week. We had, I mean, the Phantom Foundation were hacked. And they lost, I don't remember the exact number. Let's see if I've actually got it here. They lost, I think, $550 ,000 in Phantom. Now that could have been avoided if they just had threat protection. So you would have paid $2 .99 a month to save yourself from potentially getting hacked for $550 ,000 in Phantom. Guys, please secure. I don't mind if you don't use NordVPN, but just please use a threat protection. Use a VPN. And if you want to support us, get NordVPN. It costs you exactly, I think it costs less than $3 a month. And then the threat protection costs another $3 a month. $6 a month to support the channel and protect your crypto. One last thing, last thing. Don't forget if you want to bet on the football this weekend, the soccer, I'm going to take a bet on Chelsea Arsenal. I'm not exactly sure what the bet's going to be. You can do it on betswap .gg. And you can do it using your crypto. And your wife won't even know because it doesn't come off your credit card. So I'll see you guys again on Monday or I'll be on the weekend if anything else happens. Otherwise, until then, trade well, my friends. Thank you.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Is the DOLLAR DEAD? (BRICS Using Bitcoin)
"What would it look like if bricks made good on its word and rug pulled the reliance on the US dollar in mass, with a new currency backed by bitcoin and precious metals? Today we are going to do some speculation on what could be coming for bitcoin as the technological arms race between the world's two top superpowers begins to heat up. My name's The Druth, let's dig in. Since the advent of the very first block on the chain, bitcoin maximalists have longed for their investments to take them for a ride to the moon. So far there have been some thrilling moments, but nothing like the hopeful dream come true yet. Today we are talking about the elusive million dollar bitcoin, the big kahuna, to the moon and beyond, and how that could become a reality for the unlikely player that is actively seeking to change up the global financial markets. We are referring to a conglomeration of nations, currently accepting applications and rapidly growing bricks plus. Let's zoom in on why this contentious rival to the US dollar could be the linchpin erupting the price of bitcoin into the biggest super cycle that's ever been seen, and making every maxi's dream come true. Picture this, just before two jumbo jets impaled the world trade centers in September of 2001, a top economist at Goldman Sachs in Manhattan made a prediction of a group of nations called global bricks, which included Russia, India, and China, as its top members would outpace the US and its allies in GDP growth and their dominance in world trade. This prediction was published in the article titled, Building Better Global Economic Bricks. Uncanny timing to say the least. By 2003, the four countries called out in this prediction made up just 9 % of the global GDP. Fast forward to 2009, and they were touting 14 % of its figure and held the first brick summit in Russia, and just one year later, and accounting for the addition of South Africa to the roster, their numbers were up to 18 % of the aggregate global GDP. The exact valuation amounting to around $11 trillion, and they hosted their second summit in Brasilia. This group has certainly been gaining momentum and looking at today's numbers with the addition of several prominent new members including Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. They're edging closer to making up 32 % of global GDP and have officially surpassed the G7 in global dominance exactly as Jim O 'Neill said in 2001 Manhattan. Now that we understand the density of the financial potential for this assembly of nations, let's turn the page and take a look at their objectives moving forward. The current scene is set. The U .S. has realized an onslaught of political and financially destabilizing sanctions on Russia and China over recent years. At the most recent BRICS Plus summit in August in Johannesburg, South Africa, the senior Russian diplomat Pavel, can't say your last name, not even going to try brother, I'm sorry, said that the organization is looking into developing a BRICS specific currency that is backed by a diversified set of assets. It is drawing a connection line between this statement and others made by Russia and China who are openly deliberating backing their national currencies with crypto assets and suddenly there are implications here that are truly heady for crypto communities. The dominant theme for BRICS summits has been the dialogue on global economics and finance fostering the meeting of minds between ministers in charge of the area of finance and governors of central banks. It is fully transparent that crypto is on the tip of their tongues. Other major talking points for BRICS have been surrounding food security, agriculture, science and technology, and energy. Now that BRICS encompasses two of the world's largest exporters of oil and gas, as well as crucial trade choke points such as the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hermos, and Babal Mandab Strait, their imperatives are surely going to shape and widely impact the future of finance, but also just about everything else along with it. 84 countries in total have aligned themselves with BRICS, hence the big plus that has been added to their acronym. Together they now account for over 40 % of the world population and represent a large swath of the global south. These countries were slighted by the US dealings throughout COVID -19 crisis years and 40 % of global oil production, not to mention 75 % of critical minerals and metals are under their umbrella. Although these countries claim to not be anti -west and prefer the term alterna -west, their dealings are clear. Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called for a common currency for investment and trade between BRICS nations at the most recent summit and President Xi Jinping spoke of promoting the reform of international financial and monetary systems at the same time as Putin telling the congregation the objective irreversible process of de -dollarization of our economic ties is gaining momentum. It seems pretty obvious to any blockhead that crypto is a fluid solution for these objectives, with Bitcoin rising to the top as an ideal payment system that was essentially designed to fill this void. So now let's get to the fun stuff. Let's just say BRICS decides to allocate just 25 % of its GDP into Bitcoin as part of its overall backing of currencies. 25 % of a conservative $85 trillion GDP for BRICS comes out to $21 .25 trillion dollars. Bitcoin's total market cap currently sits at $543 billion. With $21 .2 trillion dollars worth of Bitcoin being purchased, this would explode the price of Bitcoin to at least $1 million dollars per coin. This would represent a 53 ,125 % increase in the market capitalization of Bitcoin. This would also likely cause a frenzy among other investors. They would see the movement of BRICS nations as a major signal that Bitcoin is the world's most valuable asset, thus pushing Bitcoin even higher. It is difficult to say exactly how high the price of Bitcoin could go if BRICS nations purchased this much of digital cheese. But one can assume these nations purchases would be laddered OTC as to not make it blatantly obvious to the open markets that the Bitcoin supercycle has begun. Bitcoin would become a major reserve currency, forcibly displacing the US dollar as the world reserve currency, just as BRICS plus intends to do so. My God. If this technological tea party excites you, if this digital revolution we're seeing unfold across the world gets your goat going, hit that like button if you love your freedom. I'll see you next week.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Macro Signals Are All Flashing Warnings
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me and LW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, October 6th, and today we are talking about the just unbelievable variety of deteriorating economic indicators. 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 a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, welcome back to The Breakdown. No updates on FTX today. As I am recording this, Gary Wang, the CTO and co -founder of FTX is on the stand, and I will say only that if Adam Yedidiah's testimony yesterday didn't look good for Sam, Gary's testimony yesterday and today looks even worse. I will quote from Matthew Russell Lee at Inner City Press on Twitter, who is, by the way, the single best person to follow for play -by -play coverage of this. The attorney asks Gary, did you commit crimes at FTX? Gary responds, yes, with Nishad Singh, Carolyn Ellison, and Sam Bankman -Fried. Rough. But what we're actually talking about today is the fact that outside our little corner of the economic world, basically every indicator is going to hell. Summing it up, Arthur Hayes says it's about to be rectober. So let's start with bonds because that's what everyone's talking about. A massive sell -off is underway in the long end of the U .S. Treasury market. The yield on the 10 -year Treasury note touched 4 .8 % on Wednesday, while the 30 -year note breached 4 .9 % briefly. Both are marks that haven't been seen since early 2007. TLT, the ETF which tracks the price of a basket of long -term bonds with maturities over 20 years, has continued its multi -year drawdown. The most recent leg has seen over 15 % of value wiped out in long -term bond investments since July. TLT has now lost almost 50 % of its value since the top in July 2020. By way of comparison, the 2008 crash saw a 57 % collapse in the S &P 500 across two years, while the dot -com crash of 2001 featured a 50 % decline in the S &P. The losses accrued during the current bond market route are twice as large as those during the bond collapse of 1981, when the Paul Volcker Fed hiked the interest rate to almost 20%. Now note, TLT is not a small ETF. It's one of the top 30 ETFs in the world in terms of assets under management, about a tenth of the size of the SPY S &P 500 index ETF. Now interestingly, although TLT has been getting pummeled, traders continue to flock in. The ETF has seen $33 billion in inflows since the Fed began hiking rates in March 2022. More than half of inflows have come this year. Assets under management have more than doubled despite the aggressive drawdown in price per share. As ETF store president Nate Gerasi put it, TLT has been a quote, cash incinerator. So what's causing this huge flow of funds into a collapsing bond market? TLT represents just one part of a massive collection of interconnected markets exposed to price action in U .S. treasuries. So it's impossible to know all of the positions being taken just by looking at one ETF. Part of the increased demand for treasuries comes from asset managers running fixed income portfolios. For example, pension funds, insurers, and bank balance sheets are some of the major investors who hold long -term treasuries. A paper loss on bond investments isn't typically a big deal for pension funds and banks, as long as they can continue to hold those positions to maturity. But as we've seen repeatedly over the past few years, holding to maturity is not always possible. Now, although these structural buyers are part of the story, many believe they don't explain the large increase in volume for TLT. Eric Balcona, senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg, wrote in a Twitter post that TLT investments quote, have cost traders $6 billion, but they keep coming back because it has to work. This is arguably the new fighting the Fed trade. When asked if he thinks it's just portfolio rebalancing, Eric said, that could be part of it for sure, but based on the elevated volume, it would indicate its traders betting. Now, one of the known bets being done in size is the basis trade. Basis trades in general are when an investor takes one position in spot markets offside by an inverse position in a derivative market to capture the price spread. In this case, hedge funds and other professional investors are taking long positions by buying bonds outright and then shorting futures. Short interest in U .S. Treasury futures is currently at all -time highs, recently exceeding their late 2019 peak. Importantly, a basis trade in U .S. Treasuries was widely blamed for the repo spike in September 2019. This trade is generally seen as a cause of systemic risk due to the massive leverage involved and its location close to the heart of the global financial system. The Fed, the Bank of England, and the Bank for International Settlements have all recently published papers warning of the risks of this arbitrage trade and noting its resurgence. Goldman Sachs, on the other hand, is much less worried, publishing a note last week which stated, we do not think the trade poses a major risk to treasury markets in the near term. Leverage in the system is materially lower than it was in 2019 -2020 as a result of a series of initial margin increases and price declines. Still, the BIS paper from last month said the basis trade, quote, is a financial vulnerability worth monitoring because of the margin spirals it could potentially trigger. Now beyond the trade, some believe this price action is simply the bond market pricing in higher for longer. At last month's meeting, Fed officials stood firm in their higher for longer rate forecast. Markets seemingly for the first time this hiking cycle are actually listening. Nick Timmeros, the Wall Street Journal's resident Fed whisperer, tweeted on Thursday, is the Fed finally getting tighter financial conditions? He attached a quote from Dhalip Singh, a former New York Fed official and now chief economist at PGIM Fixed Income, which said, these types of things often take on a life of their own until they self -correct, either through weaker economic data or a more sinister mechanism such as a financial stability scare. Either of those two developments would mark an inflection point back towards lower yields, but we're not there yet. Timmeros also noted that this is the first hiking cycle out of the past five where the without seeing a collapse in longer term bond yields. He wrote in a Twitter post, this time has been different. Investors had priced in and are now pricing out a recession with a quick turn towards rate cuts. However, in an appearance on CNBC earlier this week, Jim Bianco had a slightly different take on reactions to last month's Fed meeting. He said, what you're seeing in the bond market is a capitulation. Basically, most of the year, bond managers have been long in trying to argue why we're going to have a recession, why there's going to be a rally, and they've been having their brains beat in. If the Fed is done and the market senses there is still some inflation left, they don't want to touch bonds. I don't think the Fed cares about volatility in the bond market yet. They're asking the question, is it slowing growth in the real economy? Others noted that rates have hit a point where they are likely to cause a major problem for U .S. government financing. The Congressional Budget Office recently updated its forecast to note that interest expenses are set to reach 20 % of tax receipts by 2032 if they remain on current trajectory. Economist Harold Momgren said, the rise in long rates is primarily being driven by the huge and growing U .S. budget deficit. Added Jeffrey Gunlock of DoubleLine Capital, Now, former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes has published a new essay and has a strong view on how this bond market dysfunction ends. He argues that, quote, Hayes' point is that the large imbalances always resolve in one way. Printing money, he writes, Now, this bond market route has had Arthur banging the table all week. He has been pointing to the current yield curve move, known as a bear steepener, as basically unprecedented. A bear steepener is when long -term interest rates rise faster than short -term rates, un -inverting the yield curve while keeping rates high across the board. Arthur explains, As the 2s and 30s curve steepens alongside the 2 -year and 30 -year rates rising, fixed -income trading desks start bleeding money and can't figure out why. Due to the leverage and nonlinear risks embedded in banks' portfolios, they will begin selling bonds or paying fixed -on interest rate swaps as rates rise. More selling begets more selling, which is no bueno for bond prices. The faster this bear steepener rises, the faster someone goes belly up, the faster everyone recognizes there is no way out other than money printing to save government bond markets, the faster we get back to the crypto bull market. So that is some of the story in bonds, obviously. Not only could we talk about more, every cable news economic show is exclusively talking about that. But let's go to some other indicators in the macro economy as well. On Wednesday, the ADP published their private payrolls report. The payroll processing firm said that job growth for September had come in way below expectations. It saw just 89 ,000 jobs added for the month. This was down from an upwardly revised 180 ,000 in August and well below estimates of 160 ,000. This was the slowest job growth in the ADP figures since May 2020. ADP also said that annual wage growth had cooled to 5 .9%, the 12th consecutive monthly decline. Job gains came almost exclusively from the service sector, which saw 81 ,000 net jobs added almost entirely from leisure and hospitality. Major net job losses came from professional services, transportation and manufacturing. Now a lot of people said that this should give the Fed leave to continue its pause trajectory. However, this morning we got the release of the non -farm payroll report and it told a very different story. TLDR, September payrolls increased 336 ,000. The estimate had been 170 ,000. So basically we beat it to the upside by double. That means that this indicator that Jerome Powell has been looking at for a year and a half, which is tightness in the labor market, is still incredibly tight, which frankly gives the Fed leave and even potentially a mandate to increase rates even more. As Adam Cochrane wrote, In terms of GDP numbers, last week the U .S. Commerce Department published its final revision of second -quarter GDP, holding steady at a 2 .1 % annualized growth rate. Below the headline, the data showed a large downwards revision to consumer spending growth from 1 .7 % to just 0 .8 % on an annualized basis. This is 80 % lower than the consumer spending growth figure for Q1. Given that consumer spending accounts for around 70 % of U .S. GDP, the revision could speak to a troubling trend as the U .S. consumer cuts back. Claire Lee, vice president of credit strategy and research at Moody's Investor Service, said, Now, as an unconventional economic indicator, outgoing Nestle CFO Francois Xavier Roger had some troubling comments about the state of the global food market. He said that the total amount of food and drinks sold globally has been steadily falling since the beginning of the year. Roger said, Some pointed to, as a culprit, the recent adoption of new weight loss drugs. During an interview on Wednesday, the CEO of Walmart said, Now, while junk food purchases are unambiguously decreasing, many suggested the explanation is far more obvious and troubling than the adoption of weight loss drugs. Jeff Snyder tweeted, They're struggling to afford food, credit card debt is skyrocketing, and much more. What happened to the booming economy of just a couple months ago? Contributing to this notion of the consumer economy running out of steam, in September consumer delinquencies rose across the board. Auto loans, credit cards, and other consumer loan delinquencies have been steadily rising since late 2021 and have now reached decade -long highs. Credit card delinquencies are now at a little below 4%. And while that's nowhere near the 7 % seen in 2009, we are also well past the last peak in 2020. Now, mortgage rates have also been spiking alongside the rapid increase in rates for long -term treasuries. The average for a 30 -year fixed -rate loan hit 7 .49 % this week, according to Freddie Mac. That's the fourth straight week of increases bringing the average rate to its highest level since December 2000. What's more, some markets flashed rates above 8 % late this week, indicating that there are no signs of mortgage rates slowing down. Sam Cotter, Freddie Mac's chief economist, said, Unsurprisingly, this is pulling back home buyer demand. Now that lack of home buyer demand has been met with a slowdown in new listings as homeowners stay put. New listings declined last week, with this year exhibiting one of the lowest rate of home listings in recorded history. 2020 saw huge numbers of households refinancing into long -term loans at or below a 3 % rate. For many households, that historically low mortgage rate has made selling a financial impossibility with new loan rates as high as they are. So friends, that is the look at the macro. It is dicey out there. There isn't a lot of consensus about exactly what's going on. There is only consensus that it's getting worse, not better. Obviously, all eyes will be on Jerome Powell and the Fed and any indications that they give around their thinking is headed after this non -farm payroll report. And I, of course, will keep you updated as the picture becomes clearer. For now, I hope you are headed into a wonderful weekend in one of the best months of the year. And so until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Spice OH! Life (Chris & Angela)
A highlight from E49 - Back in the Day
"Hey, how am I coming at you? This is Chris Gray. This is the spice. Oh. Oh. Oh. I'm going to give you some more. Give me some more. I'm going to give you some more. Life. Yeah. How you guys doing today out there? Everybody doing good? Angela, how you feeling? I'm feeling pretty good today, Christopher. I'm feeling pretty good. Looking good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Feeling good, Billy Ray. Looking good. Appreciate it. Yeah. It's very good. It's a great day. I feel like it's a great day to be alive. Yeah. Yeah. It's a beautiful day. It's a beautiful day. Always a great day to be alive. Yes. I like that song from you, too. He says, it's a beautiful day. Then he says, so don't let it slip away. Yeah. Don't let it slip away. Don't let this beautiful day slip away from you. But anyway, we're talking about days. Back in the days, we're talking about nostalgia. Yes. And one of the things, I don't know if Angela even know I was going to do this, one of the things I want to talk about before we get into some of the things, I'm sure your brain's already churning, thinking about pickled pig feed and A, all this stuff we're going to talk about. Yes. But I was looking at this thing about nostalgic movies, some of the top nostalgic movies from, I guess it's from the 2000s maybe. 2000s. Okay. But we can go way back. Some people have something they're like, oh man, Rosebud or this, that, and the third. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So what's one of the first ones they mentioned here? The first one is Finding Nemo. Finding Nemo. You remember that? Yeah, I do. One too long. My kids love that movie. They still show that today. They do. And that was, that was so, I mean, I think cause it was Pixar, the way the graphics were, you know, what they did with animation was very great. You'd be surprised if you guys go look at it, it's been a long time since that first movie came out. What year was that? 2000? Or 2001? That came out.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from The Political Strategy Behind Open Borders with George Papadopoulos
"But you need the right leadership. The Biden administration clearly has an agenda to reshape America in a form that makes it unrecognizable. I think if Trump does not get elected, or at least a Republican leader who does not, who has, who does not have those populist, economic nationalist ideas, America will never be the same. USA, home of the brave. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, and my fellow citizens, America's comeback starts right now. From the land of the free and the brave. USA, I love my country. All right, welcome back to Financial Guys podcast here on the Financial Guys media network. Mike Sbarrozza in studio for another exclusive interview today. We have George Papadopoulos joining us. This is, I think, his second time on the show, so we're looking forward to talking to him again. It's been a little bit. George, how are you? Doing great, Mike. Thanks a lot for having me. Thank you for coming on. So I'm gonna start, we're recording this on 9 -11, so I'm gonna start there. Obviously, a very, very sad, tragic day in American history. And, you know, I think the one thing I keep saying is, one thing that did come from 9 -11 was the country uniting and coming together in that moment. On, you know, 9 -12, 9 -13, 9 -14, and 2001, and very, for many years after that, America was stronger than ever and came together. I think that's one thing to look at with that day. Obviously, such a tragic, horrible day, but where were you? What were your thoughts about 9 -11? Yeah, no, it's incredible how many years have passed. I was actually a freshman in high school, I think, in biology class. It's one of those moments that I don't think anybody around the world will ever forget where they were. And I actually had some families who were directly affected in my high school. Even though I grew up in Chicago, their parents were working in New York in the trade centers at the time. And, you know, to learn later that some parents had actually been killed in the attack, you know, of course, affected my high school and me personally because it made it very real. And then, like you said, there was this rally around the flag effect. Of course, Americans united. It was a beautiful moment. We saw what happened with Mayor Giuliani at Yankee Stadium, with President Bush. You know, it was just an incredible moment. It was surreal, it was sad. It was patriotic, and it really changed our history.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Commemorating The 22nd Anniversary Of The Sept. 11th, 2001 Attacks
"It's funny how people lie about actual real world events, even as we witnessed them on video, like Trump's visit to the Iowa football game. And he just got a resounding welcome. And they were trying to pretend he was being booed. You know, because there might have been a smattering of boos or a few people that gave him the middle finger, they wanted to pretend that he didn't get an absolute hero's welcome at the football stadium. And the video showed he did. Even CNN acknowledged it. Screaming, USA! USA! Trump! Trump! Trump! Man, oh, man. Republicans need to focus on Iowa and New Hampshire to try to stop him. I guess that might be their firewall if you're Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley or one of the others. I don't know how they're going to stop him. We shall see. It's September 11th. We're broadcasting from lower Manhattan. It's been 22 years since the September 11th attacks changed our world forever, changed our way of life, changed the way we view, oh, things like freedom. Freedom is on my mind today a lot. And I want to start with a difficult question about 9 -11. You know, 9 -11 spurred the Patriot Act, where the government felt that steps needed to be taken in order to be able to thwart terrorism. And the Patriot Act essentially took away the freedom that many, many Americans had enjoyed. Now, I understand we've got to try to figure out how to battle terrorism. Totally get it. But what I'm not too clear on is when the door got cracked open, where today the government is criminalizing speech to such an extent that they want to lock up the 45th president of the United States. The New York Times did a huge piece. Trump's indictments, key players in the 2020 election effort, it is quite the quite the article. They call out just about everyone in Trump's orbit and essentially accused them of being co -conspirators in a crime to overturn the 2020 election. It's insane. It's insane to witness the absolute destruction of speech in this country. And I want to ask you a difficult question. I want to start with it. Did it begin with the Patriot Act? Did this begin with 9 -11? Because my hunch is it might have. And if so, then Republicans are culpable as well. I think the more immediate place we're at right now is due to COVID. COVID cracked open the door to say, hey, if you question anything about the vaccine or about masks or about lockdowns, we're going to destroy your life. We're going to get you fired. We're going to deplatform you. We might even put lock you up. If you dare, I know a guy who lost a job, a good job, because he expressed a belief on social media that he shouldn't have to wear a mask because his coworkers were triggered by him. Now, he has since sued the employer, and I hope he wins. That's still winding its way, I think, through the legal process. But that's just one example of many. Everybody has an example. Everybody knows an example of somebody who paid a heavy price for daring to open their mouth. It used to be that America is a place where you were allowed to open your mouth. You were allowed to question authority. You were allowed to question any narrative you wanted, and we weren't going to lock you up for it. Democrats in 2016 questioned the election. All of them did. I've played that montage for you 100 times. Hillary, John Lewis, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jimmy Carter, they all said Trump didn't win. The New York Times isn't doing a big expose on them. The New York Times isn't calling them out. But now they're calling out, and I mean everybody, Ronna McDaniel, Ted Cruz, Mike Lindell, anybody within—in fact, I saw in the comments section of this shocking article in the New York Times, somebody said, well, shouldn't Fox News be next? What about talk radio? Yeah, that's right. The left wants to lock all of us up for daring to express opinions. When did this terrible, dark chapter begin? Was it COVID, or was it 9 -11 and the creation of the Patriot Act? Let's start there. 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If you're looking to lose that weight and keep it off forever go to myphdweightloss .com today sign up for your consultation better yet give them a call straight away 864 -644 -1900 864 -644 -1900 they'll answer all your questions tell them my name is mike gallagher this is your source for breaking news and what to make of it all this is the mike gallagher show more than three quarters of americans no matter what their political affiliation is favor maximum age limits for elected officials an illegal alien when the cops arrest them they don't know who they are and immediately they say asylum seeker asylum you can't touch him i want you to listen as what the crowd was saying as the former president left the stadium now from the relief factor .com studios here's mike gallagher you know there are a lot of headlines like that about trump in iowa and the age of joe biden and him falling apart in vietnam the political battles are upon us but this is a day that every american should should should hold in our hearts as the moment when thousands and thousands of people committed to joining the military thousands of young men and women decided to become police officers a lot of americans lives were upended forever as a result of the evil actions of those diabolical terrorists 22 years ago today just a few blocks from where i'm sitting right now there's a lot of ceremony that has been taking place all morning long commemorating the the deaths of of those of those martyrs of 9 11.
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Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #433 Carl Osburn People of Divine Naples The BEST Barbeque Master in SWFL that been rubbing the meats over 20 years with secret spices, love and gentle hands. His KNOW HOW brought lot of people together around his Table with slab of ribs. THANK YOU CARL
"Welcome to another podcast episode named People of Divine Naples, today you will hear an interview that was done on the very beginning of our Divine Naples podcast, this was the second interview I have ever done in the United States on 14th of January 2018, this interview was never published but for many reasons today I have to bring it to your ears, you will hear voice from my dear friend for 22 years, my neighbor for 18 years, the businessman that you should have known and the person that will be missed by many, if you are one of them you will always find his voice here speaking, enjoy the show. Hello all divine people, welcome to episode 433 named People of Divine Naples, I have the great pleasure to welcome person that decided to dedicate his 22 years of passion for people, he enjoyed to make them happy through taste buds and good vibration, he started experimenting in Naples 2001 with Chicky Hut where he blended in community immediately, after that he opened best rated and most successful barbeque restaurant in South West Florida, Black Eyed Pick and he built from scratch Franklin Social, here is one and only Carl Osborn. Hey Rich, how are you today? I am doing great, good to have you, you are comfortable? Yeah, oh good. Yeah, and our bar is serving good? Yeah, beer is good, check that out. We like to have interviews relaxed so we are prepared with whatever you wish as drinks, so if anybody want to come over and do the interview, so make sure we get the right information. So you are sitting here in a very humble studio, I hope you are feeling comfortable and good, whether it is cold outside, it is good, probably a good time to maybe do barbeque, a lot of people maybe do barbeque because it is Sunday today and you have been doing this for 15 years, isn't it enough of barbeque right now, you still going to continue? Yeah, we are just getting on a good roll right now, we are actually at the restaurant, we are in year 10 right now, but I had 5 years prior doing outside stuff. The question was, you know, if you still like it. I still like it, I love barbeque. That is good, let's just tell everybody what is the name of your restaurant, where you are located, so we can start with that and let's just roll. We are at the Black Eyed Pig Barbeque, it is 5307 Shirley Street in Naples, just off Pine Ridge Road between Airport or Naples Boulevard and Goodlett Road. It is hard to find, so you guys have to get on that road and it is a very short distance from Pine Ridge and you will see from a long way the pig eye, the design on the building. So it is barbeque with a big pig face. Yeah, it is a very inviting pig face. I wanted a big pig to put on top, but they won't let me do that. Oh really? Yeah. But you can smell it from a long distance. Yes. All right, you end up in Naples when? When did you come here? 2001, came down from the Orlando area. Oh really? So you lived in Orlando before? I did, I came to Orlando in 1986 with the Olive Garden. Oh really? So I didn't even know that. I know you for a long time, I didn't know you were in the Olive Garden. I was with the Ruby Tuesday prior for four years and came with the Olive Garden in 1986 to Orlando when they had four restaurants I think. So there is a long way, you are the expert in restaurants, you picked up a lot of practice there. Yeah, I've had a lot of practice closing restaurants and opening restaurants and lots of employees. So you know how to do it? Yes, absolutely. And you know there is a reason for probably keep it on the size you have it because it's very limited on seating, it's very limited with employees, so you can focus on the quality and there is probably, the end is, you've been voted, as many people say, the best barbecue in Naples, so what is the special on that? Well, we decided in the beginning, the building was a breakfast lunch restaurant when we bought it and I've never been open for dinner, so we started opening lunch and dinner and we got rid of everything that we don't do, we got rid of salads, so we're basically just barbecue. If you smoke it, we got, so we just sell what we do. We don't try to be everything to everybody, we do barbecue, that's it. That is very simple? Yes. And you do the hot sauces? Everything is yours? Homemade sauce. Recipes? Everything. Really? I just have to tell everybody who is listening right now, we don't talk ordinary barbecue one like you can buy in the Costco and you roll it out at your parking lot, load it in your SUV, this is serious business. Your barbecue is probably 10 times maybe more bigger, now you bought another little barbecue I would say, right? Specialty built for you, for your business? Yeah, we've got a competition smoker now that we're going to start with this spring, but we use it on a lot of caterings. But going back to the recipes, I've got a great friend of mine who I met here in my first business venture here in town, which is a little bar, he's from Oklahoma and his family has been in business since 1930 in the barbecue business. So a lot of my recipes came from him, so they're well tested, they've been there 85, the one on 88 years now. So, would you say this is like Saturn taste or what is this exactly? Well, Oklahoma, it's a dry rub, everything's dry rub and hickory smoke. Never baked, never boiled, it's just smoked. How many hours do you have to smoke like ribs? Ribs are around three and a half to four hours depending on the size. We do baby backs and St. Louis as well. St. Louis are the ones that came out of Oklahoma, we kind of threw the baby backs in for the East Coast kind of people. And what's the best seller? They sell about equal, we sell a couple of hundred racks of each a week, we have 35 seats, so we stay pretty busy. I think you did really well when bikers start showing up because they love the type of food and I think there's always a lot of bikes on your parking spaces. There's a lot of bikes, there's a lot of guys, golf outings, we always get the guys, we're a big guy hanging out for lunch and then they all bring their wives at dinner. Okay good, so you do what, I mean you do pick, you do chicken, you do sausages, just tell us a little bit. So everybody who's listening, their mouth is already watering right now. We do pulled pork is our specialty, we call ourselves home to pulled pork.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #433 Carl Osburn People of Divine Naples The BEST Barbeque Master in SWFL that been rubbing the meats over 20 years with secret spices, love and gentle hands. His KNOW HOW brought lot of people together around his Table with slab of ribs. THANK YOU CARL
"Welcome to another podcast episode named People of Divine Naples, today you will hear an interview that was done on the very beginning of our Divine Naples podcast, this was the second interview I have ever done in the United States on 14th of January 2018, this interview was never published but for many reasons today I have to bring it to your ears, you will hear voice from my dear friend for 22 years, my neighbor for 18 years, the businessman that you should have known and the person that will be missed by many, if you are one of them you will always find his voice here speaking, enjoy the show. Hello all divine people, welcome to episode 433 named People of Divine Naples, I have the great pleasure to welcome person that decided to dedicate his 22 years of passion for people, he enjoyed to make them happy through taste buds and good vibration, he started experimenting in Naples 2001 with Chicky Hut where he blended in community immediately, after that he opened best rated and most successful barbeque restaurant in South West Florida, Black Eyed Pick and he built from scratch Franklin Social, here is one and only Carl Osborn. Hey Rich, how are you today? I am doing great, good to have you, you are comfortable? Yeah, oh good. Yeah, and our bar is serving good? Yeah, beer is good, check that out. We like to have interviews relaxed so we are prepared with whatever you wish as drinks, so if anybody want to come over and do the interview, so make sure we get the right information. So you are sitting here in a very humble studio, I hope you are feeling comfortable and good, whether it is cold outside, it is good, probably a good time to maybe do barbeque, a lot of people maybe do barbeque because it is Sunday today and you have been doing this for 15 years, isn't it enough of barbeque right now, you still going to continue? Yeah, we are just getting on a good roll right now, we are actually at the restaurant, we are in year 10 right now, but I had 5 years prior doing outside stuff. The question was, you know, if you still like it. I still like it, I love barbeque. That is good, let's just tell everybody what is the name of your restaurant, where you are located, so we can start with that and let's just roll. We are at the Black Eyed Pig Barbeque, it is 5307 Shirley Street in Naples, just off Pine Ridge Road between Airport or Naples Boulevard and Goodlett Road. It is hard to find, so you guys have to get on that road and it is a very short distance from Pine Ridge and you will see from a long way the pig eye, the design on the building. So it is barbeque with a big pig face. Yeah, it is a very inviting pig face. I wanted a big pig to put on top, but they won't let me do that. Oh really? Yeah. But you can smell it from a long distance. Yes. All right, you end up in Naples when? When did you come here? 2001, came down from the Orlando area. Oh really? So you lived in Orlando before? I did, I came to Orlando in 1986 with the Olive Garden. Oh really? So I didn't even know that. I know you for a long time, I didn't know you were in the Olive Garden. I was with the Ruby Tuesday prior for four years and came with the Olive Garden in 1986 to Orlando when they had four restaurants I think. So there is a long way, you are the expert in restaurants, you picked up a lot of practice there. Yeah, I've had a lot of practice closing restaurants and opening restaurants and lots of employees. So you know how to do it? Yes, absolutely. And you know there is a reason for probably keep it on the size you have it because it's very limited on seating, it's very limited with employees, so you can focus on the quality and there is probably, the end is, you've been voted, as many people say, the best barbecue in Naples, so what is the special on that? Well, we decided in the beginning, the building was a breakfast lunch restaurant when we bought it and I've never been open for dinner, so we started opening lunch and dinner and we got rid of everything that we don't do, we got rid of salads, so we're basically just barbecue. If you smoke it, we got, so we just sell what we do. We don't try to be everything to everybody, we do barbecue, that's it. That is very simple? Yes. And you do the hot sauces? Everything is yours? Homemade sauce. Recipes? Everything. Really? I just have to tell everybody who is listening right now, we don't talk ordinary barbecue one like you can buy in the Costco and you roll it out at your parking lot, load it in your SUV, this is serious business. Your barbecue is probably 10 times maybe more bigger, now you bought another little barbecue I would say, right? Specialty built for you, for your business? Yeah, we've got a competition smoker now that we're going to start with this spring, but we use it on a lot of caterings. But going back to the recipes, I've got a great friend of mine who I met here in my first business venture here in town, which is a little bar, he's from Oklahoma and his family has been in business since 1930 in the barbecue business. So a lot of my recipes came from him, so they're well tested, they've been there 85, the one on 88 years now. So, would you say this is like Saturn taste or what is this exactly? Well, Oklahoma, it's a dry rub, everything's dry rub and hickory smoke. Never baked, never boiled, it's just smoked. How many hours do you have to smoke like ribs? Ribs are around three and a half to four hours depending on the size. We do baby backs and St. Louis as well. St. Louis are the ones that came out of Oklahoma, we kind of threw the baby backs in for the East Coast kind of people. And what's the best seller? They sell about equal, we sell a couple of hundred racks of each a week, we have 35 seats, so we stay pretty busy. I think you did really well when bikers start showing up because they love the type of food and I think there's always a lot of bikes on your parking spaces. There's a lot of bikes, there's a lot of guys, golf outings, we always get the guys, we're a big guy hanging out for lunch and then they all bring their wives at dinner. Okay good, so you do what, I mean you do pick, you do chicken, you do sausages, just tell us a little bit. So everybody who's listening, their mouth is already watering right now. We do pulled pork is our specialty, we call ourselves home to pulled pork.
Woz Happening!!!!
A highlight from Drive My Car (2021}, (Japanese) Movie Review
"What's happening everybody? We're back again and this time Ben and I are covering another 2001 film. This one is a Japanese one called Drive My Car. Ben? Again, this is a movie that was told to us by one of our listeners. It was suggested so we threw it into the mix. We have a lot of stuff that we have to review from you people for sending us your suggestions. So don't think we don't listen. We do go off on our own because we do have our own agenda also, but we do have your stuff ready and about to be done. You're giving us time. Yeah, we're only two people. We can only watch so many movies a week, but let's get into Drive My Car. We had just covered Celine Sakama's Petit Maman which was an hour and 12 minutes and this movie is three hours long. This movie is, I will say, mesmerizing in parts and very atmospheric, but I get a little tedious in parts. A lot of scenes of driving the car, which I understand it's in the name, but... Yes, I agree. Three hours, I felt that it did not need to be three hours long. I really did. The movie's good and there's a lot of things in it that make you think. There's a lot of metaphoric phrases in it that we'll get into, but the three hour part, I was sitting there going, okay, I got up and got coffee, came back, sat back down and I didn't felt I'd miss a beat of the movie. I just like to say that. I'm telling you, it is a good, good, good, good movie, but for me, three hours was just really long to sit through. I find three hour movies to be long as well. Just a sidebar, I did go see Oppenheimer in the theater. That movie is three hours long and I felt the same exact way. I was like, why am I seeing all these shots of people riding horses? I don't know. I think there's a time and a place for a long movie and if you're filling it with things that are meaningful, not saying that this movie had a lot of frivolous moments, but I do think that it could have been whittled down just a little bit. This movie is based on a short story, which also shocked me because it was three hours long, but I have not read the story. Have you been? No. No, I didn't know it was a short story until you just told me, so I'm like, oh really? I'm like, how? How? One thing that I think is very interesting in this movie and one thing that was a very conscious choice by the director was that they don't drop the title card until 40 minutes in and I was like, that's a power move. All this was just exposition. Yeah, it was really confusing for me because my is television broken right now and it tells you everything people are doing, so it actually instead of just coming up on the screen, I actually was like, and the director is, and I'm like, oh, what is going on here? That would drive me legitimately insane. I would be like, no, I can read. No, so the movie is very good. It follows a screenwriter and actor in living Tokyo or yeah, Tokyo, and he goes to Hiroshima sometimes to do panels and to put on a play. He is doing a play of Uncle Vanya written by Anton Chekhov, so I will say starting off, it is a Japanese movie and one of the main points of it is a Russian play, so it is bleak. There it is. It is a bleak film, so if you're looking for any hope in this movie, there's some at the end, but it is barely there. It follows this playwright or this actor and his screenwriter wife and they work together. She's a screenwriter. He's an actor and obviously in the beginning of the movie, she is alive. He's attached to his red car. It looks like they have a good relationship. They do this thing where they will have sex in after or during. She will tell him stories and she won't remember them at the end and she'll ask him about it and be like, oh, what did you think? What did you think? Then he tells them back to her. We'll get more into that later because that plays a bigger part later. One day, he leaves to go to Hiroshima, but his flight gets canceled, so he comes back home. When he comes back home, he sees her obviously having an affair, but he doesn't say anything and he leaves. Then he comes back from his trip and everything is fine. Then he has to go out for a meeting one day, but instead we find out that he just ends up driving around and she's like, hey, when you get back, we should talk. When he gets back, she has suffered a brain hemorrhage and has died. Then the movie picks up two years after that. The person she's having an affair with is the lead actor of her newest play. He plays into this movie a lot. You'll find out later on why. The part when she had the brain hemorrhage and died, I wasn't expecting that. I was not expecting that and I knew that she was going to die because you read it in the description. It's not a secret that she's dead. I thought it was going to happen in a car accident. I kept waiting and then the car accident happened when it was just him. You find out that he has glaucoma and is going to go blind if he doesn't use these eyedrops. This is devastating to him because he loves driving. Then we see some scenes where they're driving together and then of course after she dies, he does drive himself. Then he gets a two -month residency as directing this play in Hiroshima for a festival. What I thought was really cool about this play was that it was a multilingual play. It wasn't just in Japanese. They had it in Japanese, Korean. Some people spoke English. There was a Korean sign language or Filipino. I thought that that aspect of it was actually very cool. I liked how they had all the different languages on the screen behind them and showing how stories are universal even though language is not. We have all these language barriers but we can still tell the same stories and have it be important and matter. I thought that was really cool. I really, really appreciated that. As he's casting this play, the actor that was having an affair with his wife comes in and auditions. You can see he's kind of distraught by this but he also gives him the lead role of Uncle Vanya. The guy's confused. He's like, Uncle Vanya should be old. Why aren't you playing this? He's like, no, no, no, no. We'll age you up with old age makeup. You can do this. You can do this. I thought that was really interesting because you kind of get the idea that he has this sort of, not ill will, but he has some reservations about him. He has some aggression. You can see it during his audition. He kind of cuts the audition short even though he's doing a great job. I thought that that, and then you kind of see that dissipate as they start to understand a little bit about each other. I thought he cut the scene short because he was trying to kiss the girl. I thought it reflected on his wife, his memory of the moment. He was like, that's enough. I think that's what he wanted to say when he went in the house but he didn't. He just decided to leave. When he saw him doing that to that girl, he wanted to step in and be like, no, done. I thought that's why he did that. Yeah, agree. Then they're going through the play and as a stipulation of his, he has some requests. He likes to live an hour away so he can rehearse lines in the car. How he does that is it is through a tape. The tape has every part but Vanya's because he would read Vanya's lines. A stipulation of the festival is that talent cannot drive themselves because they had a car accident a while ago and they're like, we're trying to avoid that. To avoid that, he has a driver and she is a great driver.
Woz Happening!!!!
A highlight from Petite Maman (French), (Drama/Fantasy) Movie Review
"What's world? happening It's Kira and Ben back again. This week we did a super episode last week and this week we are going to be doing a much shorter film. We are covering the 2001 Petit Maman by Selene Sakama. It is an incredible film. This was my first time watching it for the podcast. It has been on my radar because I was a fan of her first film Portrait of a Lady on Fire and I'm very excited to talk about her, to talk about this movie. Ben, tell me about your history with it. So these all come in from our followers and they give us these great movies to watch. They say, you know, you would really enjoy these movies. So I made the list and you were like, oh I know this one, I want to watch this one. So I went off your say and I was very pleased. Very pleased. I will say this movie is very accessible. It clocks in at an hour and 12 minutes. So it is wildly short. I think if the movie was any longer, I don't know how good it would be. I feel like everything that needed to be done was very encapsulating. It was a good, complete, concise story and I was overall very happy with it. Ben, what are your thoughts? Yeah, it makes you really think about your relationship with your parents and what you truly know about them. Like their history, them being children. What did they like to do? What emotions did they have? What feelings did they have growing up? And it made me sit back and go, hey, I really didn't know crap about my parents. I just knew that they were good workers, they loved me, but I didn't know the in -depth detail of their lives. And I totally agree with that and that's why I love how this story is told. I think when we are children, we don't know anything about our parents and as we grow up, I think they start to unfold themselves to us. But I love it. So I'm going to kind of briefly talk about what the movie is and then we'll get more into it. So the story follows a small girl, Nellie. She is eight years old and her maternal grandmother has just passed away and they were very close. And then so now they're cleaning out the grandmother's house and her mom Marion's childhood home. And obviously, Marion is struggling with the death of her mother and she leaves abruptly in the night without saying goodbye to Nellie. And so then Nellie goes out to play in the And there she comes across a young girl and the young girl has the same name as her mother and as they walk through the woods during a rainstorm back to this mystery young girl's house, it is actually the house that her, it is her grandmother's house and this is her mother when she is eight years old. And in this home, her grandma is still alive in her young age. And I think it's really sweet because I think there's a lot of really tender moments between the two. And of course, when Nellie figures out that it is her mother, there is that panic. She flees, she runs away, but she cannot stay away and she keeps going back. And I think there is a moment at the end when Marion as the eight -year -old drives away and Nellie goes back to her house. And when she's back, Marion, who is now her mother's age and the mother that she knows is there and they share this really sweet moment together. And I think, so I think they both were experiencing it. I don't think it was a one -sided kind of hallucination on Nellie's side. I think this is a little bit more surreal where both people did experience what we saw and it was really touching. So I think there are two conversations that stood out the biggest to me. One is when they're having the sleepover and they're talking about how she was like, oh, I don't know if you wanted me. That scene was devastating because it turns out that Marion had all these dreams of being an actress and wanting to do all this, things that Nellie never knew about. And she could not because she got pregnant at a very young age. But even as a child, Marion is like, no, I'm dreaming about you. I want you. You've never stopped anything in my life. And I think that was so beautiful and so powerful. And then the second one, the second conversation is kind of a continuation of that when they're saying goodbye. And both of those moments really resonated and stuck with me. Ben, what do you think? Oh yeah, a hundred percent. There was a lot of parts of the movie where you could see like the bond between the mother and the daughter is so strong. Even as a child, she's like, you know, I've always wanted you. And, you know, it's like reassuring the daughter because the daughter is kind of messed up when the mother leaves. Oh yeah. So she's kind of confused. She's like, you know, does she leave because she doesn't want to be with me or, you know, and then she's second guessing things. And at the end when she says the mother's name and the mother says her name back, you could tell, like, it wasn't a one sided situation that they both experienced that bond through time. Yes. And I thought, I thought that moment was so sweet. And I, and I thought it was really important because it showed that like, they're going to, and I believe in my heart that they're going to move forward and have this very special relationship now because they understand each other both on a different level. I think too, as parents, I'm not, I'm not a parent. So this is just all speculation on my point, but I think once you become a parent, you still try to preserve your child's innocence and you try to protect them from a lot of things in the world. And I think when you, when like, when I'm speaking like this, like when the mom regresses back down to being a child, they're viewing everything kind of the same and like, they're both being silly together. Like we see at the dinner table scene when the soup is gross, so they keep like spitting it back in. And a moment that really touched me when they're celebrating Marion's birthday is that she asks them to sing the birthday song twice because she doesn't want that moment to end. And I thought that was really beautiful because she knows, like, she has to go get this operation so she doesn't die, so she doesn't have the same illness as her mom does. And it is an unexplained illness, but we do see the mom walking with a stick. And so I don't know what it could be. Ben, what were your thoughts? I had no idea what she had. Some kind of maybe bone. Yes, and like degenerative. Or something, some kind of situation where she, her bones were fragile. I don't know. I'm not a doctor, nor do I pretend to be. But it was kind of moving that, you know, you find out this happened right before her birthday. Yeah. So, and then it was going to be her birthday in the present and that's when she disappeared. So, like, I felt like maybe it was a birthday wish. Yeah, that she could go back to her mom. Yeah. Or, you know, like to experience this time together with her daughter. And like, I don't know. I don't know. They don't really get into that part of the aspect of the movie, but it is a very heart -wrenching movie if you watch it because like it shows the bond of the daughter with the mother from the grandmother to the mother to the mother to the child. And even with the father, because the father's left, you know, to pick, finish pick up the house. And you kind of get this weird feeling, at least I got this weird feeling that there was a fear of like a divorce or something. So you felt like maybe she was leaving the husband. And I was like, oh, what's going on? Because she asked him, she's like, do you remember my foot? And he's like, no, I don't remember your foot. And she kind of like gives him this look like, like I wasn't important enough for you to remember these things. And then the daughter says it later too. She goes, isn't that you don't remember? Is it that you don't listen? Yeah. So, and then you kind of find out that he just doesn't listen. He's not a bad guy. He just, he just doesn't listen. He gets caught up in his own little things. And part with the daughter, she's saying something to him and he doesn't listen to her. And like, you could tell that she understands now that he's not a bad person and the relationship isn't doomed. It's just that he's not focused on everything. Exactly. And I think too, though, we see a moment where he opens up when she goes, like, I really don't know anything about you or mom. Like, what are you afraid of? Like, what were you afraid of growing up? I know what your favorite food was. And if you liked this, but I don't know anything like, what were you afraid of? And he, and you kind of get some insight into him where he talks about being afraid of his father. And you're like, okay, like, obviously you are not afraid of like a, like a father figure unless there is something going on. So I think it shows that like, as children, we expect a lot from our parents, but we have to remember that they were children once too, and that they are their own people, not just people to us. And I think this movie really made that message like very clear. And I really appreciated that. I thought it was, I thought it was a very fresh like insight onto grief. Yeah, I agree. And as a parent, I understand a lot because like, not a lot, I'm still, I don't know a lot of crap, but I understood like giving up things because now you have a different priority, that your priorities change when you have a child. Like at first your priority is about yourself. You're like, oh, I have to, you know, I want to do this. I want to do this. I want to do this. Then you have a child. And then those priorities change because now you're like, well, I have to support my family. I have to, you know, make a life for my daughter or my son, or, you know, you have to do this. So things change in your life. I mean, not for the worst. I mean, it's actually for the better because you become, you realize the responsibilities of having to take over like the growth of some of another being. And it's, it's a beautiful thing. And you see this in the movie that like they bond real good as, as kids and the mother loves the daughter so much that she's supposed like to raise this child. And she tells the daughter that she didn't care about that because that was the most important part of her life was raising her. Exactly. And I loved, I loved that scene because I think too, as children, not, not from anything that your parents do, but sometimes you feel like, oh, like, am I wanted? Like, are they treating me this way because they don't love me or they treat me this way because of that? And I think that was, that is really important. Um, while I was watching this movie there, it was reminding me of another film only in a brief scene though, cause they're two very different movies, but have you ever seen the movie about time? Yeah. Okay. So this is not that I won't talk about about time for that much longer, but I will talk about it for a little bit. Um, it is a great movie if anyone hasn't seen it. It is a romantic comedy, but deeper than that, it is a movie about a father and son relationship. And so Domhnall Gleeson, he is the main character and he has the ability with his father, Bill Nye, and they can travel to and from time without the butterfly effect being a thing. They can, it's like pretty loose science, but there is one moment where Domhnall Gleeson is about to have a child and once like a life event happens, um, anytime that you go back, the events will be different. So that's like the only thing that matters, which makes no sense. But like I said, the science is not there, but him and his dad decide, um, before the birth of his child that they are going to go back in time together and they are going to spend one last day together. And this movie kind of felt like it was like, like a version of that where the mom and the daughter get to spend one last time together in this like sacred place that they're both attached to, to deal with their grief and to say goodbye. So I thought that was really sweet. Um, I was just like, oh, I love time travel because this movie kind of plays with time again in a way that does not affect, that is not affected by the laws of physics because two of the, the house exists on opposite sides of the woods, even though the woods are just one place. But I thought it was really cool because I think, I think if we could go, I think we take a lot of moments for granted when we're younger and we're living in them. And I think the idea of being able to go back and live in them again and really cherish the moments that you need is important. Yes. A hundred percent. I was trying to think of the movie with Ashton Kutcher. The butterfly effect. Oh yeah. It keeps on, it keeps on like, he keeps on going back and reliving the same moments over and over until finally as a baby, he decides to kill himself. That movie was so bad, but at least the science was kind of there. It was terrible. But I kept on thinking of like, like how this movie was so much better than that because this reflects on, and even though they're stuck in a time loop, like it doesn't affect time. Like, and things progress in that little area of time. Like, like the magic garden. Yes. Yes. Where like they're there, but it doesn't affect anything outside of it. And it doesn't affect anything here. And when she's, when she's with her mother as an adult, her mom actually talks about building that fort and how important it was to her. And then when she's out there, she's building the fort with her mother. And then there's a part where she goes and she does all these like nice decorations on the fort for her mother. And when her mother comes and sees it, it's like a really like emotional thing because her mother's like really like, Oh my God, it's so beautiful. You know? And I don't think she was talking about the fort. I think she was talking about her daughter. Yeah. And like what she's done and like the bond that they've created. And I think, and I totally agree with that. And I think too, you can tell that, that the mom, I also don't think wanted to leave the situation when they spend those last moments together and they're out on the boat and they're like sailing around and like, they're just like having all this great time together and they're celebrating each other and like this bond, like, and I think too, it kind of, they kind of touch on the fact that they are both only children and the loneliness that you feel as an only child and then being able to like have someone there with you. Yeah. I mean, I always like to think, I know that we've talked about how this movie is not based in science, but like in the ideas of time, time is a circle or an arch. It is not a flat line. Like we view it as, and I think that maybe this daughter did go back and visit her mother and like the mom, you know what I mean? Yeah. And that's how like, she knows that like this is who she wants. I don't know. I don't know. I think about things like that. I don't know if it's based in anything, but this is a great film. Um, Celine Sakama is obviously a female French director, um, got her fame, um, from Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which is a fantastic movie if no one has seen it. And one thing I just want to compare between the two films is they're both totally incredibly different, but atmospheric wise, she can create a gut -wrenching scene and create love and passion between two people through like, um, set design and through camera angles and through, um, sound. She's very good at creating a mood and very good at creating a lot of this like longing. And I think that's what both the, I think that's what this movie and Portrait of a Lady on Fire has a lot is like searching for what you need and searching and longing for that. No, I totally get it because I was an only child and growing up it was lonely and I saw people with brothers and sisters and that bond they had and I didn't have that. I had older parents that, you know, I basically had to help take care of. So for me it was, it was a lonely childhood and I made a lot of friends outside and that was like my family. I still call my friends my family because I didn't have that like real big family unit. Right. And, um, I do have a daughter now, but we don't have a relationship. And when I was watching this, it was sad in me because I want to have that relationship that this mother and daughter had, you know, and hopefully someday I do get that, but for right now I don't have it. So that kind of touched base with me a little bit and I was kind of like, Oh, you know, I see how sometimes parents, even though you're a parent, you're not a parent. I mean, just cause you have a child doesn't make you a parent. You got to be a parent, you know? So absolutely. And Ben, it's never too late to have a relationship. Oh, I know. I know. I will eventually. I mean, I got to wait for her to come to me. Of course. You know, I don't want to force anything cause you know, that's not being a good parent. No, you can not enact your will onto your children. You got to sit back, relax and you know, and just know that the day will come hopefully. Yes. Some, some moments from the movie that I want to talk about that I thought were really sweet and I think it shows how good of a writer Celine Sakama is when, when the movie opens up, we see them in a nursing home and we see Nellie saying, giving everyone in that nursing home, like a really nice goodbye and, and you're, and when you're first starting a movie, you're like, oh, she's a polite child. She cares about these people that her grandma was spending her last moments with. And then she has a conversation with her mom when they get back to the house and she goes, you know, I'm really sad that I didn't give grandma a good goodbye. And I thought that was really sweet because then we see her trying to give a good goodbye. Like it just made me recall that opening where she was trying to give a good goodbye to everyone because now she doesn't know and she understands the finality of death. And I think having her mom kind of reenact that goodbye with her was cathartic for both of them. I mean, obviously it's the mom gone, but I think in that one moment it was really sweet. And I think that kind of was a catalyst to make the mom either wish to go back or go back. Yeah, I, I, I agree with that. And you know, it is hard to like, like when you don't say goodbye, like I didn't get to say goodbye to my mom, kills me to this day. Didn't get to say goodbye to my dad, kills me to this day. Cause there's things left unsaid. I think that's what touched on this movie is things left unsaid. They, they went back in time and they got to talk about themselves as kids and, and experience life together. And like, it was a closure and it's not a closure forever. It's just a closure on the things that they don't know about each other. So I thought that was kind of good. Cause you know, you, you want to have that last goodbye. You really do. Like it's, it's so important and many people don't get to experience that. They have to feel that last goodbye. And it's sad cause you, you want to close it out on a, on a note that, you know, you both, you both understand the love you have for each other. And if you don't do that, you just hope that the person goes on to another life knowing that you love them. Of course. And I think too, deep down everyone, like even if you don't get to say it, I think like they know that you love them obviously, but it is, it is always better to have that closure. And I think this movie, and I think what was good too was like when Nellie was talking to Marion as they're both children and she's like, how old am I when my mom dies? And she's like, oh, you're 31 and to a child 31 seems old and Marion goes, oh, that's old. And Nellie actually goes, no, it's not. It's actually young. And I thought that that was really, really sweet cause you can see where Marion is still very childlike in that moment. Whereas Nellie experiencing the death and going through it has kind of grown up and seen the effects of it. Yeah. I, I actually on my comedy skits, I do a stint where we're talking about when I was a kid and someone said that they were my age 54. I'd be like, oh, you're going to die. I was like, now I look in the mirror and go, oh, you're going to die.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Why A Pro-Bitcoin, Anti-Central Bank Economist Just Won Argentinas Presidential Primary
"Alex Krueger, who I frequently quote, who is himself from Argentina, said, Mille is neither good nor bad. He is different. And for Argentina, different means good. 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 Tuesday, August 15th, and today we are talking about the Argentinian presidential candidate who is a pro bitcoin candidate. 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 a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, welcome back. If you have been on bitcoin twitter in the last day or so, you've probably seen someone talking about the pro bitcoin Argentinian presidential candidate that just won a primary election. As a representative tweet, Marty Bent said, Argentina electing an anarcho capitalist president and embracing bitcoin would be pretty epic, especially when the world sees how quickly they recover from a multi -decade bout of fiat -induced economic mismanagement. This is indeed a really interesting development. However, it can be very easy, all too easy, frankly, for bitcoiners or crypto advocates to get so excited about a politician from somewhere else sharing our views on those particular topics that we fail A, to see the politician for their full set of policies and beliefs, or B, fail to put it in the context of what's actually happening in the place that politician has emerged. I think both of those things are extremely important and so today what we're going to do is just a little bit a very, very superficial background on Argentina, its recent economic turmoil, and of course the candidate in question, Javier Millet. So first let's talk about what actually happened. On Monday night there was a shock election result when libertarian congressman Javier Millet secured a victory in the presidential primaries with 30 .1 % of the vote. Millet came in ahead of pro -business center -right candidate Patricia Bulrich, who garnered 28 .3 % of the votes, as well as the candidate from the incumbent center left government Sergio Masa, who got 27 .2 % of the vote. Masa is the current minister of economy and is a party member of the Renewal Front, a part of the ruling coalition of democratic socialist parties. To get a sense of why people around the world are talking about this, economics professor Lawrence White wrote, 30 % in the first round for a candidate who wants to abolish the central bank and dollar rise. Remarkable and encouraging whatever disagreements I may have with Millet on other issues. So who is Javier Millet? Well, he's a relative newcomer to Argentine politics. He was a founding figure in the libertarian coalition, which was formed in 2018. The party's power base is centered on the capital of Buenos Aires, but they are far from a dominant political faction. The party had a glimmer of success during the 2021 elections, obtaining a parliamentary seat for Millet. Overall, the libertarian coalition holds only four seats in the 257 seat lower house and none in the senate. One of the things this could mean that if Millet is successful in the final round of presidential elections to be held in late October, he might need to form an alliance with the center -right opposition in order to pass legislation. Before turning his attention to politics, Millet had a two -decade long career as a professor of economics. He is firmly of the Austrian school, believing in hard money principles. He has been highly critical of the university of Buenos Aires, which he views as being responsible for the, quote, proliferation of Keynesian brutes. Outside of economics, he is extremely socially conservative. He's put forward opinions, for example, around the extreme restriction of abortion, unrestricted civilian access to firearms, and climate change denial. Now, one of the things that you'll note if you've spent any time with Western press characterizations of Millet is that he gets compared to other right -wing populists like Trump and Bolsonaro quite a bit. In fact, most of the American coverage of him includes some phrase like Trump -loving or Trump -admiring literally in the title of the article. What's important to note is that his political communication is significantly more focused on politics. Indeed, his election campaign has centered on the economics of Argentina. During rallies, he has called for a massive reduction of government spending, formal dollarization, and the abolition of the central bank. He's also come out as a fierce advocate for Bitcoin as an answer to the control imposed by central banks over the money supply. However, before we go deeper into the Bitcoin dimension of this story, let's talk a little bit about the larger context. The Wall Street Journal characterized Millet's victory as a middle -class revolt, and it's pretty hard to argue with that point. Millet outperformed both the center -right opposition candidate as well as the center -left candidate from the incumbent government. Indeed, his victory in this preliminary stage of the elections is being viewed as a rejection of career politicians and the ruling class in Argentina. Current ruling party is part of a coalition of Peronist democratic socialist parties which have carried forward the political ideals of post -World War II president Juan Perón. While obviously the political history of an entire country is way, way out of depth for this show, at a very high Wikipedia -style level, Peronist presidents have been successfully elected in 10 of the last 13 elections in which they have been allowed to run, and so in that way definitely represent the entrenched incumbents in Argentina. Their ideology features things like nationalization of industry, strong government -supported labor unionization, and a hefty dose of social welfare. However, this ideology has been increasingly on the outs over recent years. For example, between 2015 and 2019, Mauricio Macri from the opposing center -right party, the Republican proposal held the presidency. In 2021, the Peronist coalition lost their majority in the Senate for the first time in 40 years, leaving the party impotent to pass legislation in their own right. Now, Mille's surprise victory on Monday could represent the final collapse of power for both of the major political coalitions in Argentina. Pre -election polling had the Dark Horse candidate finishing in third place behind the more established party figures, but was obviously way off. Now, part of why there has been such a political shift is that Argentina is going on 25 years of economic dysfunction. Starting in 1998, a string of global economic shocks led to a three -year depression punctuated by a sovereign default in 2001. In that period between 1998 and 2002, the Argentine economy contracted by 28 percent. Because of that, the nation turned to the IMF for debt restructuring to deal with an exponentially growing pile of dollar -denominated debt. After 2023, growth did return. Both unemployment and the 2008 global recession with its growth intact, but the economy sputtered out again in 2013, and since then, Argentina has experienced five recessions in the past 10 years. Now, things arguably took a turn for the worst after the change of government to the longtime opposition in 2015. By the second half of that year, inflation hit 30 percent, and the Argentine peso was cut in half to an exchange rate of 30 pesos per U .S. dollar. The central bank responded by hiking interest rates to 45 percent and draining its foreign currency reserves to bolster the collapsing peso. Inflation never came back down significantly below 40 percent prior to the pandemic, and the peso continued to devalue year after year. In 2019, power transitioned back to the dominant center -left coalition, and capital controls were put in place. Citizens could no longer freely exchange their pesos for dollars. In this environment, the central bank sets an official fixed exchange rate, at which individuals are only allowed to exchange $200 per month without paying punitive taxes. In spite of that official rate, however, the nation functions as a semi -dollarized state with citizens exchanging currency at a free market rate known as the blue dollar. This exchange in physical dollar bills is illegal but generally not enforced, as anyone who has visited BA knows. Alongside the blue dollar rate, there are a range of other exchange rates designed to act as either a subsidy or a tax on certain import and export industries. Most notably is the agricultural or soy dollar rate, which was introduced last year. The soy dollar rate was intended to offer farmers a more favorable exchange rate after they began to stockpile their crops rather than participate in economically critical export markets, however still had the problem of not being the actual rate that dollars were fetching on the blue markets. Now fascinatingly, on Monday, as it became clear that Miele had outperformed his rivals at the polls, the government announced another adjustment to the official exchange rate. The peso was devalued by 18 percent to trade at 350 pesos per dollar. Blue dollar rates also shifted by more than 14 percent and now sit at 675 pesos per dollar. That is a new all -time low for the Argentinian currency. Alongside the devaluation, the central bank hiked its key interest rate by 21 percentage points to reach 118 percent. Inflation is now firmly above 100 percent per year, and there doesn't appear to be an easy way to stabilize the currency or the economy. Now the devaluation is being blamed on an economic meltdown in reaction to the election. Alejo Costa, the chief Argentinian strategist at BtG Pakchual and BA, said investors like Miele's economic message but fear the execution and institutional risk considering his lack of power in congress and aggressive style. Now one concern is that Miele or any other president will have their work cut out for them. Claudia Kalich, the head of emerging market debt at MNG Investments, said that whoever is in charge by the end of the year will need to begin unwinding unsustainable policies. And ultimately this is what makes Miele's success at the polls start to make more sense. The core pillars of Miele's proposed economic reforms are to formally dollarize the economy and slash government spending to the bone. Given that the people of Argentina have seen their peso savings slashed by two -thirds in just the past year, the message appears to be resonating. So at this point let's start to bring crypto back into this story. Argentina is a place that has embraced crypto for some time now. In fact, I've often told this story on other podcasts, but in early 2019 I actually brought my father -in -law to BA for a couple day trip where we effectively just hung out with people who were working in the crypto space and that's where it really clicked for him. It was soon after that trip that he made his first bitcoin investments, which by the way, if you look at what bitcoin was priced at at the time, was a pretty damn good time to get in. Now back to Argentina itself, local laws allow for up to 20 % of wages in kind, which some workers have used to receive part of their salary in crypto. That has represented a significant boost for global workers who otherwise would have had US dollar payments automatically converted into pesos with the banking system. According to International Payroll Company Deal, Argentina has more workers getting paid in crypto than any other nation in the world. Now a big part of the adoption in Argentina is around stablecoins. This makes sense given how dollarized the economy is. Many blue dollar exchange offices now accept and distribute stablecoins and their use in the economy as a payment method is also increasing. Several major banks even began offering crypto services in recent years. Now perhaps because of all of this, the amplified adoption of crypto in Argentina has alarmed the IMF. Since 2020, the government has been seeking IMF assistance in restructuring its debt, but negotiations have been painfully difficult. The IMF has insisted on a range of economic reforms and austerity measures, but a lack of a parliamentary majority made it difficult for the government to make a firm commitment. In March 2022, the government signed a letter of intent with the IMF on a loan of $45 billion and one of the terms of the agreement was that central bank would discourage the adoption of crypto in Argentina in order to quell money laundering, informality, and disintermediation. This was, of course, the IMF's very own Operation Chokepoint Argentina and despite there being no formal policy, multiple major banks suddenly shut down their crypto services. Now $5 .4 billion of the IMF loan was distributed to Argentina earlier this year, but with elections and potentially a change in government coming, it's not clear when the balance of the loan will be paid out. For many citizens, the current government has used the central bank to pursue a failed policy of currency controls and sky -high interest rates. And in spite of all of that, inflation is still above 100 % and shows no signs of slowing down. Is it at all surprising then, that Argentinian citizens are attracted to a politician who pledges to burn down the central bank? Now, several months ago, when Mille was enjoying a groundswell of support, he made an appearance on national TV to put forward his economic positions. In that interview, he was asked specifically about his views on Bitcoin and what its adoption could mean for Argentina. Mille answered, and of course, all of these quotes are translated from Spanish. The first thing we have to understand is that the central bank is a scam. It is a mechanism by which politicians cheat the good people with the inflation tax. What Bitcoin is representing is the return of money to its original creator, the private sector. Money is a private invention. In order to be used to solve problems, for example, in a bartering economy, the double coincidence of wants and indivisibility. Then paper money appears in order to solve portability. And then that evolved and the currencies that people chose were silver for small transactions and gold for bigger ones. Then, because back then it was very dangerous to move the gold, people used to deposit the gold and get in exchange a receipt. Then in the year 1445, in the first Genovese Congress, the states appropriated the exclusivity to issue the money. That's the legal tender, which is a key point. Because legal tender allows the politician to scam you with the inflationary tax. Bitcoin has an algorithm that one day it will reach a certain amount and there is no more. It can compete with other currencies. In fact, it competes with Ethereum and others. And what is the good thing? It's the return of private money. But what is the problem? The problem is that governments will not give up the legal tender because with legal tender they can scam you with the inflationary tax. Bitcoin is the natural reaction against the central bank scammers and to make the money private again. The flip side is that the thieving politicians are not going to allow you to go against legal tender. In economies with high inflation, the scam problem is bigger. That's why, as I suggest, you can propose to close the central bank.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from XRP New HUGE Partnership! (ETH Domination Heating Up)
"We are right here in the Bahamas. We are going to make it right. If you can't be a millionaire, would you keep working? The commander is here. What's going on right now? Is California trying to figure out? Don't beat me. Don't make that pop in your butt. Yeah. Oh, I can. Bad news, guys. I just got— Can we do a different background color somewhere in a blue shirt? I don't— And I'm drinking a blue drink. Nobody can see me. Fine. Purple. Purple? Purple? Green? I mean, we're having a good day. Green is good. Green. Let's do it. Let's do it. Okay. That's the show prep you guys miss out on. Guys, what would a big boy crypto, home of the big boy, the largest and greatest crypto community in all of the Interwebs? No channel works harder to keep you in the know about crypto. Someone says, Richard Hart, wannabe boy? Excuse me. Excuse me. I do not have a Burberry bonnet. Do not have a Burberry bonnet. Yet. Yet. It's on the way. We love Burberry. We love bonnets. I can't believe it's not butter. Okay, so, what am I talking about? My name is Bill. We come to you live every single day at 1130 a .m. Eastern Standard Time. Didn't even—big announcement. Didn't even need anybody to do the intro for me. I was here on time. I was ready though. You were ready. Tim boy crypto is always ready. I call him Tiny Tim Crypto. Tiny Tim Crypto. Tiny Tim Crypto. Yeah. Tiny Tim Crypto. So, guys, the purple looked better. People are asking for the purple? Oh, no, it's because it's saying salon. Oh, royalty. Let's go back to purple. They think I'm the king. They tell me I'm the king. Look at that, guys. I'm the king. Here we are. Guys, don't forget to smash that like button. Number one thing you can do as a member of the BitSquad, if you're in BitNation, make sure to smash it. Look at that. Do we put different shirts on this guy all the time? That's smart. I just noticed that today. What about on my monkey? Does he get a different shirt? Yeah, again, if you change the color of the shirt, we're like Madonna. Because, you know, do you know about Madonna? About her bored ape? Do you not know about it? I did not know she did. Do you know about it, Drew? Yes. Okay. Yes. Okay. First of all, what is this doing up here? Mmm. Johnny. The cats are in the office, so. Johnny, hide your trash. Hide your trash. Johnny, come up here and get your trash. Unbelievable. Get your trash, Johnny. Thank you, Johnny. Thank you. God. Monkeys? Okay. Mice? No good. We'll see. We definitely should have put a poll up. How many of you guys, when you use a computer, prefer the trackpad using Apple or a mouse? It's not a reliable poll, because a lot of people are dumb. Trackpad is far superior. When you understand how to use this, like a pro, you cannot do better. You cannot do better. Oh, here. You can't do better than a trackpad when you know how to use it. And when you don't know how to use it, when you're low IQ, you like a mouse. I get it. Technical analysis is borderline impossible using a trackpad. Absolutely not. High level. High level technical. Absolutely not. Kelly, what are your thoughts? Trackpad, mouse, TA. Mouth only. I'm telling you. These people are monsters. They're monsters. They're monsters. That's why I call them Tiny Tim. And that's why, well, Kelly's over there. I don't even call Kelly anything because he's just Kelly. Like I don't even, you know, he's irrelevant to me at this point. No, we love Kelly. He's coming on the show later. So I gotta be nice to him. Hey. What's the poll? Everybody's saying mouse, right click it? Yeah. Guys, it's because you're just not experts with a trackpad. When you understand the expertise of the trackpad, you will definitely move over to it. Now, what were we talking about? Bro, try playing counter. Okay, gaming, I get. I understand gaming. I understand gaming. I will give you that. What were we talking about? I lost my train of thought. Madonna. Madonna. Madonna. We love talking about Madonna. Madonna, thank you. We love talking about Madonna. Madonna Borde. This is so stupid what she did. It's so unbelievably dumb. Okay, so. You remember that NFT video? Oh, I do remember that. Not flashbacks. Let's not show that. Okay. That was terrifying. Yeah. Okay. Here it was. Wait. This is it, I think. I think that's it. Let me click images. Hmm. It's this one. Here it is. Okay, so. Here is the actual. I think this is the actual ape right here. Okay? Do you guys see it? This is the actual ape. Now, you can't really see it. Oh, here we go. You see it right here. Now, notice a couple things about it. Cigarette and background. She changed it. She literally changed her NFT. She got rid of the cigarette because it promotes smoking, and she changed the background. And this is what she put out. Madonna. It's just a scared monkey now. Madonna, that's not your NFT. That's not your NFT. That's not it. You can't change the characteristics of your NFT, and it'll still be the original NFT. Now, you can brand it, and then you could do stuff with the branding of your monkey, but that's not your NFT. I'm sorry, Madonna. I guess when it comes to these NFTs, she's like a virgin. What can I say? Don't cry for me. Don't cry for me. Okay. I can. She needs help. She needs help. Madonna. Madonna needs help. You know, she needs help. We got to say a little prayer. A little prayer. A little prayer for Madonna. It's another Madonna song. I don't know that much about Madonna. Well, it's because you're not like into like worldly things. You're not into worldly things. It's true. You're not a material girl, Tim. I'm not. There we go. Okay. Boom. That was a good one. You got a bit. That was good. That was good. That was good. Where do I come up with this stuff? I don't know. I guess I just, it's because I'm fashionable. I'm in Vogue. Okay. You just can't stop. Guys, I'm a secret. I'm a closet Madonna fan. I'm a closet Madonna fan. Like, I'm not going to rock Madonna on the radio when I'm driving around in the Lambo, but only because I'd be embarrassed. That's fine. I do love Madonna. I'll tell you this. My favorite halftime show of all time next to obviously the number one of all time, nothing touches it. Anybody know what it is? No. Dr. Dre, Snoop, and Eminem. Okay. That, yeah. A lot of people like Prince. A lot of people like Prince. The Prince one goes over there too, but like, I was, Prince, like, you know, purple rain, purple rain, purple rain, because I could have been a singer. Yeah. This purple inspired me. A lot of people like the Prince one, but my favorite halftime show ever was the Madonna one. I really loved the Madonna one. Actually. I really did like it. It was great. The Who. I don't know about the Who. I don't know about the Who. Let's see what other people. Don't Cry For Me Argentina. Yeah. I really liked that one. That wardrobe malfunction one was fun. Oh, the JT and Janet. Was that planned? It was planned, obviously. Obviously it was planned. She had a thing on. Yeah. Obviously it was planned. It was intense. Oh. Hey, my wife is here. Hang on. Hon, Ria is here. That's Ria. Ria's here. I just made an introduction from behind the camera, in front of the camera. It was amazing. Okay. All right. So, guys, let's get going on the show. Should we do the show today? We should do some form of a show. But before we do the show, if that buzzer ever stops working, I need one from my desk too. Okay. Can we get a new one? Probably. Where's my guy who made that one? A lot of people like Bruno Mars. Bruno Mars one was okay. Pregnant Rihanna. Not because she was pregnant, but I'm just not a Rihanna fan. I've never really been in love with Rihanna. I don't know why people are so. It's a strange show. Yeah. People like Snoop Cat. Snoop Cat. Snoop Cat? You do halftime show after 9 -11. What was that? Was it Bruce Springsteen probably or something? I don't remember that one. I'll look it up. Shakira. Shakira was pretty good. I like Shakira. I think the worst one was probably where they had Britney Spears, NSYNC, I think Aerosmith may have been involved in there. They had like Nelly was there. They liked too much. It was too much one year. Looks like U2 did the one after 9 -11. U2. Okay. U2. Well, I don't like U2. Okay. I've been in a few Super Bowls. So I saw the Snoop one. I was there for that one. And then how many Super Bowls have I been to? Two? Or no, I've been to three because I went to the one I forgot about, Falcon Super Bowl. Lady Gaga was a halftime show of that. So that's a great question, TC. That's a great question. I don't know what to do about that. I don't know what to do about that. Well, I think we were going to go to Berlin and say, we need to talk about this today. We're going to talk about all this today. Okay. People are asking. People are wanting me to come to Germany. Finally, The Rock has come back to Germany. The other one I saw was The Weeknd, The Weeknd, which the halftime show, The Weeknd halftime show was meh. The real life concert of The Weeknd was awesome. So there we go. Win Winnipeg? You want to do this, Winnipeg? Winnipeg, you want to do this? Winnipeg, do you want to do this right now? Look, Winnipeg. People in Winnipeg are great. Love Winnipeg people. Love, love people from Winnipeg. So great. Y 'all stole our freaking hockey team. I'm sorry. I'm not coming. Y 'all stole our hockey team. And what have you done with it? What have you done with it, Winnipeg? Yeah. Y 'all got Winnipeg. We got Winnipeg. Here. That's how it felt. You took our team. Did the Atlanta team move to Winnipeg? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Several years ago. You know what killed our hockey team was Danny Heatley. Danny Heatley was on the cover of NHL like 2001, whatever year it was. He was supposed to be the greatest hockey, the next Wayne Gretzky, and he came here, and he came here in Atlanta. He was a rookie, I think, or a second year maybe, and he was drunk, driving I believe it was a Ferrari and crashed and killed the guy in the passenger seat, which was another guy on the hockey team, and then we had to ship him out of here. So that was the beginning of the downfall of Atlanta. Very sad story. And, no, we had the Flames earlier in the 70s. I wouldn't lie for that. I don't know. But we love the Thrashers. Thrashers were great. But we miss them. Cobalt Chuck, you stole him from us. Saints Falcons meet up in New Orleans. We'll see. I like going to New Orleans. So, here's, here, we made this incredible video, incredible video. Where is it? Here it is. Well, let's go to the, let's go to videos here.
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A highlight from Crypto and the Major Questions Doctrine
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, N .L .W. 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, August 7th. And today we are talking about the latest in Coinbase's fight against the SEC. A quick note before we dive in. Sponsorship is back open again on The Breakdown. You've heard over the last few weeks a number of sponsors of the show, and we are currently booking out for the fall and into the beginning of next year. If your company is looking to reach easily the smartest audience in the crypto space, shoot me a DM or send us a note at sponsors at breakdown network. And with that, let's get into this show. Now, this morning, a really significant thing happened. And that is, of course, PayPal's announcement of PiUSD, which is their new stablecoin offering built on Ethereum. Right now, the leading contender for the most important trend of this bear market is TradFi muscling in on the territory that was seeded by crypto native companies behaving badly. And this could obviously be another big example of that. Now, this news just happened after I had already prepared today's show, so we will get all into that tomorrow. But for now, we have some big things from the end of last week to catch up on. On Saturday, CoinFund CEO Jake Brookman tweeted, This might be one of the most important documents ever produced that explains why digital assets are, in general, not securities. The document he was talking about came from Coinbase, and it was a request from that company to dismiss the SEC's case against them. Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal wrote, Today Coinbase filed our brief asking the court to dismiss the SEC's case against us. Our core argument is simple. We do not offer investment contracts as that term has been construed by decades of Supreme Court and other binding precedent. By ignoring that precedent, the SEC has violated due process, abused its discretion and abandoned its own earlier interpretation of the securities laws. By ignoring that precedent, the SEC has trampled the strict boundaries on its basic authority set by Congress. So there is a lot in here. And even in that short thread, you can see that there's really at least two big things going on. The first is an argument about what is or isn't a security, and the second is about where the SEC's authority really begins and ends. So let's take a step back and get into it. Coinbase has officially asked the court to dismiss the SEC's lawsuit against them. On Friday, they filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings, which raised questions about the validity of the lawsuit and indeed whether the SEC even has the jurisdiction to police the crypto space. The Coinbase motion argues along two dimensions. First, they argue that cryptos are not securities. Now, the argument for Coinbase rests on the familiar Howey test analysis, which we've seen across all token cases to date. Howey, you'll remember, identifies investment contracts as a class of security sales which are subject to SEC regulation. And for a sale to be considered an investment contract under Howey, it has to satisfy a number of different elements. It must be an investment of money. That investment of money must be in a common enterprise. There must be the expectation of profit, and specifically the expectation of profit must be derived from the efforts of others. In other words, this isn't something that you are putting work into yourself and expecting to benefit from thusly. In their motion, Coinbase argued that sales of tokens on their platform, quote, do not involve contractual undertakings to deliver future value, reflecting the income, profits or assets of a business. They are commodity sales with the obligations on both sides discharged entirely the moment the digital token is delivered in exchange for payment. Now, of course, they also discussed last month's decision in the Ripple lawsuit. In essence, the judge in that case decided the tokens in and of themselves are not securities, but they are sometimes sold alongside promises from an issuer, which would make those particular sales subject to SEC regulations. Coinbase argued that the facts in Ripple were, quote, substantially identical to those alleged here. Specifically, one of the key decisions in the Ripple case was that anonymous sales of the XRP token through an order book were not considered to be sales of investment contracts. For that reason, they were not found to be under the SEC's jurisdiction. Coinbase are arguing that the 13 tokens named by the SEC in their case are substantially similar to Ripple's XRP and should have the same results from Howie analysis. This would mean, of course, that sales conducted through Coinbase's exchange should not be considered the sale of securities. Coinbase relied on similar arguments to claim that their staking and wallet products were not subject to registration under securities law. They claim that customers are simply using their commodity tokens within software products offered by Coinbase. This would, of course, distinguish these Coinbase products from more traditional asset management services, where profit is derived from the skill of the asset manager. Now, within the whole security discussion, there is one particular analogy that's getting a lot of attention. Austin Campbell tweeted, one of the interesting parts of the SEC interpretation for me is that, if correct, I don't really see a dividing line between crypto and many other activities. Are limited edition Nikes now securities? I think Coinbase lays bare some of the issues well. Now, the specific analogy in the Coinbase argument is actually around baseball. They write, one can invest in a baseball or other trading card company through an instrument that imposes obligations on the company, and that will be a security. Or one can buy baseball cards on the open market, hoping they appreciate in value, and one will have bought a commodity. That remains true even if the company makes representations about plans to create a premier trading card platform to drive up the value of the cards it sells. Those representations can't turn baseball cards into securities. Baseball cards are not shares in the baseball card enterprise. This principle applies equally here. Coinbase goes on, the transactions over Coinbase is platform and prime are not and do not involve contractual undertaking to deliver future value reflecting the income profits or assets of a business. They are commodity sales with the obligations on both sides discharged entirely the moment the digital token is delivered in exchange for payment. The SEC's complaint does not allege otherwise because it does not and cannot plead the required elements of an investment contract. The SEC's Exchange Act claims should be dismissed. Now, still, even with colorful analogies like this, the in many ways more significant part of Coinbase's argument involves the major questions doctrine. And this is something you've heard me reference a number of different times on this show, but let's give a little bit of background. This is a legal doctrine that has been relatively recently developed by the Supreme Court. The major questions doctrine, or MQD, holds that administrative bodies, such as regulators like the SEC, require explicit guidance from Congress when tackling issues which have a major impact on the U .S. economy. It was recently used to strike down the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program as it exceeded the authority of the White House. More classic cases include subjects like the tobacco industry and emissions reduction within the energy sector. Now, the point of MQD is not that regulators are never allowed to take on new areas of responsibility, but rather that Congress needs to be very specific when expanding a regulator scope. In a way, MQD is a statement about how regulatory legislation should be interpreted. In the original Supreme Court case, Whitman versus American Trucking Association from 2001, Justice Scalia said that Congress, quote, does not alter the fundamental details of a regulatory scheme in vague terms or ancillary provisions. It does not, one might say, hide elephants in mouse holes. For the Coinbase lawsuit, the argument is that Congress did not intend to hide widescale jurisdiction over the crypto industry for the SEC within the Securities Act of 1933. In their brief, Coinbase claimed that, quote, the major questions principle applies directly here. The wholesale regulation of secondary markets for trading digital assets qualifies as extraordinary, and the digital asset industry worth around one trillion dollars is a, quote, significant portion of the American economy. Now, digging a little bit deeper into this from, you know, an actual lawyer, Morrison Cohen's Jason Gottlieb wrote a really good thread about this exact MQD issue. He writes, Coinbase's brief is fantastic. No surprise, given the strong arguments in their favor and great lawyers in -house and outside working on it. One point, though, the major questions doctrine, I think Coinbase actually undersold just how major a question this is. As background, the major questions doctrine is basically that when an agency claims the, quote, power to regulate a significant portion of the American economy that has, quote, vast economic and political significance, it must point to clear congressional authorization for that power. A different district court judge in the same courthouse recently found that the crypto industry, though certainly important, falls far short of being a portion of the American economy bearing vast economic and political significance, unlike, say, energy or tobacco. I think that judge and other folks, even within crypto, vastly underestimate the majorness of this industry. I often see references to it being a, quote, trillion dollar industry, which is basically just the headline market cap of all crypto. Coinbase's brief skillfully lays out the base case. The industry is worth around one trillion, one in five adults in the U .S. is on crypto. Hundreds of millions of people globally use crypto currencies for myriad purposes. But this is an underestimate that one trillion dollars is just the market cap of all the tokens. The value of the industry isn't just the market cap of tokens any more than the value of the smartphone industry is the stock valuation of Apple and Samsung. What about all of the people, the productivity of all the engineers, programmers, designers, lawyers, accountants, auditors, all the IP, the network of companies that don't have tokens but support the ecosystems, the interconnections with companies outside the U .S.? And most of all, our lives are becoming more digital with no clear line between cryptocurrency and other digital assets. So when the SEC says, quote, all tokens are securities, it is aggregating authority not just over crypto, but the entire digital asset economy. The market cap of all crypto tokens may be one trillion dollars, but the value of the digital asset economy is certainly many multiples of that. It is literally the future of the entire economy minus a few necessarily analog portions of analog industries. Coinbase was right and smart not to go into this depth and a motion for judgment on the pleadings. It's not the right legal or procedural place for it. But in future arguments on the major questions doctrine in crypto, let's not understate or undersell the majorness of the questions. If everything is becoming digitized, this fight isn't just about cryptocurrency. It's a much larger battle for the right to your digital life and whether the Securities and Exchange Commission is the proper regulator for the entire digital economy. Spoiler alert, it is not. Now, one of the things that really stands out in this whole engagement is Coinbase not really being super solipsistic in their fight. This is not a document that reads like an exchange fighting for its survival or even just asserting that they are in the right in a particular case. Instead, it's about these much bigger questions about authority and how authority is determined. It's fundamentally about questions of administrative power in America and what the limits on that should be. In many ways, crypto is just serving as the next logical battleground for that legal point. Now, tactically, right from their initial defense filing, legal commentators have suggested that Coinbase may be rushing to get a major questions doctrine decision on the books in a lower court. This would allow Coinbase to take the issue before the Supreme Court ahead of other crypto cases that also might deal with the major questions doctrine, including the Binance and Terraform Labs lawsuits. Some have speculated that Coinbase is concerned that having an MQD fight with those much less favorable lawsuits will be an extreme negative to the industry. In any case, the SEC will have until October 3rd to file a response. And overall, I think that the tweet that best captures the vibe of this weekend was Zcash founder Zuko tweeting, I never knew it could be so fun to read legal filings. Anyways, that is the big one that we wanted to explore today. But real quickly, before we get out of here, just one more from the rumor mill, New York Attorney General Letitia James is reportedly locking horns with Barry Silbert as the digital currency group empire comes under additional scrutiny. According to an article from Bloomberg, the AG's office is conducting a probe into DCG. According to anonymous sources, investigators have requested information from former Genesis executives. Genesis is, of course, the crypto lending arm of DCG, which filed for bankruptcy in January. That bankruptcy stowed controversy when it was revealed that the largest creditor was a group of Gemini customers who had lent out their crypto. Early during bankruptcy proceedings, it was also discovered that DCG had taken out 1 .6 billion in intercompany loans from their subsidiary. At the time, DCG had given the public impression that Genesis losses from the bankruptcy has been extremely acrimonious. The Gemini co -founders, the Winklevoss twins, have publicly called out DCG numerous times for failing to do enough to refinance the loans, along with a whole other slew of accusations. Now, the SEC has already sued both Genesis and Gemini for offering unregistered securities for sale in relation to the lending arrangement, and there had been rumors of a Justice Department probe in January, but nothing appears to have come from that investigation. According to this new Bloomberg report, former Genesis chief risk officer Michael Patchen has already been questioned in the AG's investigation. That investigation is rumored to have taken place over recent months, and according to one anonymous source, the DCG loans are a critical part of the inquiry. Particularly, it seems like the AG is interested in how they were characterized to investors in the market. Of course, DCG CEO Barry Silbert has remained adamant that the loans were, quote, always structured on an arm's length basis and priced at prevailing market interest rates. Following the Bloomberg article, a spokesperson for DCG said the company is assisting regulators and investigators upon request and that, quote, DCG has always conducted its business lawfully and with the highest ethical standards. So, my friends, that is going to do it for today's episode. There is a lot coming up this week. I tease the PayPal stablecoin story, and then there is also a lot of smoke around Huobi, although it may take a few episodes to really understand exactly what's going on there. In any case, it appears that we are not in for that quiet August that so often happens in financial spaces. So, as always, until tomorrow, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
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"2001" Discussed on Cinemavino
"Everything you asked. You know, I killed, what's the name? Damon. I did this. I did that. This is okay. I killed Damian. It was all for you. That's a great movie. So 13 goes got 17% on the tomato meter. 17. 48% on the audience score. That's interesting. Good God. Yeah. Is a rotten tomato. Yeah, that's a spicy meatball. So the critics and the audiences got out the chainsaws and started hacking away. Interesting. I am the 48. Interesting. So Matthew Lillard was in the Scooby-Doo. And the curse of the 13th ghost. So that's kind of a world colliding. This just released on DVD, February 5th, 2019. I just had to know. 2019. Animated. You'll be doing the curse of the 13th goes. Interesting. He pointing to watch that and probably I do want to watch that and do a compare and contrast. 82 minutes long. I love that. That's like the hour and 15. And it was without a paddle, by the way. And I had to get over the third. What's that? Who's the third pad? I got sidetracked because apparently Matthew Lillard who was a phenomenal actor. Beetle and Graham. Since 2013 supplemental. He just all he does is Scooby-Doo. Yeah, electric boogaloo. And let's be honest, if any of us had that role, we would do that for give that hub. If I could be anybody Shaggy, you name it. I'll be scrappy do. You give me that crappy new money. I'll retire. Dax shepherd. And with a surprise appearance by Burt Reynolds. Oh. Interesting. Yeah. We'll deliverance action. I guess. I think 2004. One of my favorite memes I just saw the other day was if you could eat any animated or any food and animation, what would it be? Mine would be the eggs from Shrek is what the meme said. The comment write underneath that said, Daphne from Scooby-Doo's ass. Anyway, you can get that. Thank you Matthew Lillard. I absolutely will not cut that. I'm going to leave that. Right. I'm pretty much speak for our audience out there. But I'm here for it. God, damn. So 13 ghosts. Took 68.5 million at the box office against a $42 million budget. Senator profit. Yeah, it was fun. Modest profit. A modest profit. But probably also why we haven't seen SQLs to it since then. 14th ghost would be a little on the nose. Can I say 15 will be a busy movie? The last ghost we saw juggernaut ghost. I got this film in my head mixed up with the film with Michael J. Fox frighteners. Where I was a 100% sure that Jake busey played the juggernaut ghost in 13 ghosts. Honestly, I was like, oh my God, he's going to be a ghost twice? No way. I saw the film. I saw the juggernaut go so I was like, oh, that's not Jake BC. One of my thinking of, oh, that's right, frighteners. Yeah. I think the resemblance would have been better at Jake busey been in it. Yes. That's true of most movies. They could benefit from Jake busey as a ghost. Also, I would like to see a remake of Amadeus where Gary Busey plays soluble..
Cinemavino
"2001" Discussed on Cinemavino
"All right, we're going to have you be a tree. Just be a tree out there. You know, the cameras aren't you're in the background. It's fine. We'll find a scenic like overpass somewhere where you can see to the ocean and then just have him pose for a picture, and then get in the car and drive off. You know? But that was the height of his career too, right? Scream, I think. Monsters unleashed. I think was up there. What was the bushwhack? Was that 2002? Yeah. This was 2001. Taylor said what you just said again? Was he in bushwhack? He was in the movie where there was a bunch of canoes. There was a canoe and they were in the battle. No, no. Seth founder paddle? Seth Green, without a paddle. Oh, that was it. Who is the third? Matthew Lillard, Seth Green. It wouldn't have been Sean William Scott. Could you say Matthew Lillard one more time, please? Matthew. It was a little touch and go. Anyway, talk amongst yourselves. Anyway, I mean, that was like his prime time. He was a definite 2000. Yeah. He was a high demand D list actor. I was like, we need someone that we can just give a back of Oreo of two and do a film. We're gonna call Matthew lyric. Can we refer to that as a dude? Where's my car era? Oh yeah. God. I don't mean to be so critical of him. He just got on my last goddamn nerve. Speaking of critical, this movie is on Roger Ebert's list of his top hated movies. Really? And obviously, hated is one of the things I loved about him is when he, when he loved a movie, he was all in, like he loved it all the way through when he loved her bonsai. Yeah. And when he hated a movie, oh, he loved tremors. Tremors was three and a half star movie for him. He hated 13 dose. With a passion, you read his review, it is like it is like an ice bucket challenge with sarcasm. And sarcasm. Yeah, he hated this movie all the way through. And it's like, I don't feel that strongly about it. Just mainly Matthew Lillard's performance. That's most of my life. I didn't look at this one up. And this is not the right podcast to do this on. But Friday night that we did do a podcast on got a 92% on the tomato meter. And it's 76% on audience score. I went to mention that earlier, and I didn't see it here. 16% of you all need to have your heads adjusted. But 13 ghosts, what was the status of that? Let me check talk amongst yourselves. Tomato meter. I did think that the ghost hunter order name was David's character. Didn't really matter. She was pretty unconscionable. She squished. I thought that her transformation into the villain was a little bit clunky..
Cinemavino
"2001" Discussed on Cinemavino
"They're like you said, I love the room, the glass. I love everything moving. Yeah. I actually fucking like this on a lot. And I don't have a lot of negative to say about it because this is the film where I watch frightening. I was just like, damn, dude, this is like 2000 or 85. This is amazing. This blows my mind. This one I'm just like, oh, yeah, well, they should be able to do this. And it was like, yeah, and so I was more focused into the film of it and I'm like, damn, this is fucking crazy, you know? And I'm still I might not be like phenomenal, the plot's not, you know, I didn't really mean anything. It reminded me of The Simpsons episode where it's the beginning of an episode that means absolutely nothing, but it starts off the very beginning. Great and it died. You have to stay one night in a spooky house and they were like, oh, okay, so you know, you tend to be the start of the episode that go there. It's like The Simpsons walk in, they come out the next morning and they're like, oh, the bed felt great. They're tap water tasted better than ours. And then they come to the gun. Here you go. $500 per state in the will. They're like, wait, what? We just stayed here and I was like, oh, I should have mentioned that earlier. I forget that sometimes. Oh, well, and this walks away. I'm like, that's how this movie felt. It was like there was no real answer to anything but I was just like, I was still watching it. So when thrall with it, I like the film a lot. The acting, I thought was good. And regardless of the plot, but, you know, just the visual effects kept me into it. Most of the time. And I like the ghost thing. To me, it had another kind of like with the ghost. Maybe I'm wrong here, but it made me feel like you were kind of like more into the ghosts. Like not really the storyline. Kind of like cabin in the Woods. Yeah. We're about to go. Exactly. How many is that story? Yeah, it's like cabin in the Woods was kind of my thing too. It's like, wait a minute. I want to know more about the ghosts. I was like, I mean, I get this is great, but I want to know more about this. Why are we all together? Why these? I don't know. There were a few things I wish that would have done differently. They put so much detail into the ghosts and put so much detail into the makeup of the ghosts to not say anything about it for hour and a half. Yeah. So frustrating. Yes. This seemed like it should have been a Avengers style movie for the 13th movie of The Conjuring. After they've caught 13 ghosts, they finally get them all locked up and ghost jailbreak..
Cinemavino
"2001" Discussed on Cinemavino
"I started but yeah, normally I speak from my D&D culture is they can use telekinesis that they can make objects moves or they can smash into people or make them move and still walk through objects. And they're going to be dispelled by iron or salt. Sure. Okay. Yeah, interesting. And then they said that it was the lord's prayer that was just written everywhere, which is in Latin. Yeah. Gotta be Latin. Interesting. Sure. Yeah. I also have that this is a mixture of very high powered actors like Tony Scalia booze and wings. We call him monk. Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. I mean, he's been in some high pro. He's a great actor. I think he's really good actor. He really took off, though. Oh, yeah. I guess. Yeah. F Maria Abraham, who, like you say, it was salieri and Amadeus. I didn't say it in this one, but yeah. In the previous episode, he won the Academy Award for this? No. He also played Hannibal and loaded weapon one. 5 beans and a nice chilled fresca. Holy shit he did. Yeah. He was my favorite film. We're going to watch it at some point. Was he not in last action hero also? I think he might crazy. He might have been, I think he was. He was a villain in Star Trek insurrection, too, that oh yeah. Had to have his skin stretched to stay young. And super love that one. An odd numbered. It definitely was one of the weaker star treks, but he was the bad guy. But yeah, he's an Academy Award winner. And then you have embeth David, who was in Schindler's List. It's like, you have some. Yes. She was also the teacher and Matilda, I think. And she was in some Robin Williams film, was she one of the bicentennial man? But yeah, so the recognized cast and then there's Matthew Lillard. Gee. From scream. Scooby-Doo. Also, he's a big D&D fan and he has his own website. Beetle and grims where they have supplemental materials for Dungeons and Dragons if you want to go there. Matthew Lillard is. Wow. Can we appreciate that at one point in this movie, Matthew Lillard turns the group and says, let's split up. Yeah. No, he said, did he say that was a bad idea? Yeah, he said it was about it. He was my favorite character in this. So you enjoyed it more than I did. I don't characterize. You've seen it before, and he was like, fuck it, we're screwed and he just took his pills. He was like, nah, screw it, guys. I'm going to chill here for a while. And then he had a redemption arc. Well, he did literally see his own death in his mind. And he was like, oh, that's going to happen. He's just going to get bent over a bar by the juggernaut..
Cinemavino
"2001" Discussed on Cinemavino
"And welcome back. We're just talking about 5 of the points. So this is our final Halloween film that we're looking at. What? Really? Well, final in our series, we're going to do a couple Halloween surprises for you. But in our regularly scheduled Halloween lineup, this is our final. 13 ghosts or E 13 ghosts. It has a 13 in the middle of it. That ain't chief. So this is a remake of a 1960 horror film that came out. Is it technically roommate? Is it a reboot? It's a remake. So one thing I was going to touch on later, but cool thing. So in the 1960s, they had special glasses that you could put on during the movie. And when you have those glasses on, you can see the ghosts. Wow. Yeah. So it's kind of like a 3D movie kind of effect. That's cool. So the inspiration they took from that was in this movie, the characters could only see the ghost if they had these special glasses on. That's cute. Yeah. So it was kind of a cool little inspiration from the original. But I haven't looked too much into the original one how that gimmick worked if that was like a red blue sort of that was a strange thing. But yeah, have you seen the original? No. I have not either. No. And I don't know how it would work now if you can't see the ghost without glasses from the 60s. Yeah. So this film came out October 26th, 2001. Roughly 20 years ago, almost to the day. On this day 20 years ago into black flame candle. So it's a little bit alarming that 2001 was 20 years ago because I feel like 2001 was like 5 years ago. Oh yeah. This movie age really well for 2001, right? It looks great. So it was produced by Robert Zemeckis and Joel silver. For those who don't know Joe silver produced the matrix films, he produced the lethal weapon films, die hard. So dude is a big deal in Hollywood. Robert Zemeckis obviously is Forrest Gump, who's from roger rabbit Back to the Future. So the two powerful people produced this movie in Hollywood. That explains why I had a 40 plus $1 million budget. And very expensive production values. So that's where that came from as those two guys attached to it. It's a good looking movie production. Oh yeah, so 2001. Yeah, I think that's why at age well. You can see that you can see the money on both and acting too. You can see it in terms of the good cast. Except maybe Matthew Lillard, but we'll touch on that in a minute. Oh my God, yeah. I don't know what you're talking about. He makes evil lead look like Orson Welles in my opinion. I just did was. Can we just touch on when Travis texted the group? He's like, Sean, I'm really mad that you're making me watch this movie with the voice of the boy in 13 ghosts. And I was like, you made me watch fright night with evil led. The little kid and he has the classic little kid voice in the movie. Yeah. He didn't die, and I wish he did..
Planet LP
"2001" Discussed on Planet LP
"It's only a trio and really only two people play music. There's a. There's a guy named nick zinta on guitars. And then there's gani branch on drums but sometimes it's very melodic but other times it's just noise in two thousand one. I thought well you know what every now and then every really every decade or so there seems to be a band that comes out and it's just all stripped down and it's all this kind of this punky bye-bye or this loud noise and the reason. Why bands like the ya-ya yeahs come out. Maybe every ten years or so is because the record industry or the music industry has to go through some sort of palate cleansing. The a ezra right at that point in two thousand one where i think that they thought you know what the music is gotten a little too polished. A little too sterile. We need to get back to this sort of russia's kind of feel to it. The white stripes did they had an album that came out the same year so they were kind of like that as well. The a s didn't have that kind of pop sensibility yet. The next album. The actual full album later did but this one it does have that sort of punk five that i really liked glommed onto because of eyebrows sounds like seventies punk and stuff. It's great so there's my number five yet. If you do like a lot of weird shit which is i do you. You know who else is a fan of the yeah. Yeah yeah's elton. John believe it or not came out with. I think it was one their debut album. The full album came out and one of the first people to kind of promote them. There was an unlikely promotion. You know what. I mean for eight great artists who also by the way to give elton john. His credit has taken chances career. Chances to and maybe that's what he appreciated about that banned But a well done ted. You're gonna make me take a left turn into some album. I have a lot of to. And i'll by the end of this thing. Of course remember when ted puts together his spotify list. You dear inhabitant will have a chance to hear some of these songs if you had a chance to really delve into him ted. We'll give you that chance on spotify. Yes yes. I'm ted got who by the way so we go to the number four now with with your number four yes well. I'm is my body to booty leashes for you babe. It should be because my number four pick came out in april of two thousand one around the month. I turned thirty. Six years old. it's survivor from destiny's child.
Planet LP
"2001" Discussed on Planet LP
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Bald Movies
"2001" Discussed on Bald Movies
"So it kind of takes me out of it a little bit whereas if they had written original piece. I would be immersed in the visuals audio and not thinking about. oh yeah. the lyric is from this song. Because that's not a lot. But i have to It's not watching them. But a lot of this stuff only recognize. If i'm being honest about half the songs so like i give up pretty quick. There are some things like you know. Like mama mia was like. Oh yeah i know but like this is the i you know who i had. No i'd never heard until. I heard the song unit nat king cole's nature boy. So right there's a bunch of here there's a there's a couple of classic rock and i mean the he'd like there's like fifty different songs in that love montage where like. She's trying to argue that like she's just as a strictly business type of girl and he's like but what about love. They must pull like the chorus lines from fifty different songs ban. The ham one point. It's in this isn't do. Maybe the most thing in the entire movie is gonna get you in mcgregor to sing a line of winnie. Houston's fuck what is the name of that song blanking. I will always love you. The bodyguard one game. They try and get him to do a. We switch. Bring us this morning we did. Yeah the ones. What the hell can you any names They pull it off reasonably well but it's not waiting. Houston come on. There's you mentioned about this. This movie being very funny. It's funny in a very kind of three stooges almost slapstick. Kind of way. Where it's like. It's all about mistaken identity that then just keeps compounding and compounding and that mistaken identity led to this awkward situation that it's it's not like really sophisticated verbal wordplay or things like it's it's more of just like very broad situational humor but like he there's no he has. There's no shame this movie hasn't any of like it's essentially awesome you know. What a lot of the comedies. Like austin powers Like holding grapefruits in front of his dick kind of style stuff Lake you know guy spying on set with telescope thinking you see in one thing and seeing something else and beans zach kind of laughs. But they. I don't know. I think they're really funny. Especially since they are like nicole kidman goes for fucking broke on. This sheet says christ that elephants seen man. She's doing her like You know trilling in yipping like a little fox and it's like.
They Called This a Movie
"2001" Discussed on They Called This a Movie
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They Called This a Movie
"2001" Discussed on They Called This a Movie
"Just as the governor shows up starts barking orders that everyone as they're about to start spraying the selenium general sets off the napalm causing the meteor to evolve and expand to enormous blob that search taking over the entire desert. Ir team has to flee out of the cave. The army tries to shooting at it but it doesn't work giant Divide the might dozes. The governor tries to get the president on the phone and he says he doesn't think it kuwait an hour so that means the president wants to wait an hour before dealing with a net a national disaster and it was bush at just so for reference for context. This came out three months before nine. Eleven invited to scream movie written and chat before nine eleven in terms of how they were able to sneak on an army base too early. Yeah so the true. The crew tries to enact the head and shoulders plan again by shooting it directly into the blobs anal cavity and it starts to work but harry get sucked up into its anus. They drive out just as the blob starts to collapse and then explodes and they celebrate. The governor gives them their congratulations to the press tells wayne that he talked to the fire. Chief wayne is now. An accredited firefighter. Naira and allison go to the firetrucks. Thuc assumingly covered in alien gut. Still and then we get a head and shoulders a commercial and then it ends at the end of evolution. So how much how much. And how long do you think they laughed in. The writer's room about the Alien farting on them on the fire. Truck yeah i hope someone like cried. After that was written is the best thing i've ever written. This is it man. This is my. I'm not gonna get an. I peeked right. Because you can't have a giant alien anushka not have it fart right. That's that's like the biggest two thousand comedy sin. Yeah someone who also an independent day fan one hundred percent right up yours. Hello boys on back. Yeah it's not the worst movie we've ever seen but yeah it's just exists really again. It's it's a get me over. Fastball of movie does it has It has a lot of At least my feeling watching it of people that came after a governor lease in done came to the realization that maybe they weren't as funny as they were decade ago. You know it was like you know. Sorta like trying to do the same gags and going. Oh wait that's it's not funny anymore. got i think would anthony said at. The beginning really holds true. Where when comedies missed. They missed in such a grand manner. You know. it's it's not like other. John was of movies. Where even a you have an action movie..
They Called This a Movie
"2001" Discussed on They Called This a Movie
"Containment governor says evac. The general says evacuate and burn it with napalm and they realized that the aliens of evolved into primates that it's about to come up the elevator the rally the troops the elevator but the elevator is empty. And then the primate jumps out from out of nowhere started attacking. Everybody including ira wayne manages to grab a gun. That an officer drops and he kills the primates. This was a weird moment because it felt like it was like a character defining moment but firefighters. Don't carry guns. you know. Usually not like if he was trying to right and he was out in the middle of desert the beginning of the movie trying to shoot at targets and he failed and he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn if he was standing on the right and he and that's when the meteor hits right and then he has this moment where he you know. Dead is a primate alien. That's character moment. That's that's a character are it's is like this you know he'd like shocked and everything like that and it's like but that's part of his character is the first time he's ever picked up. This isn't the first time he's picked up a gun in this movie. Yeah the scene. Prior he had a shotgun yeah he gets his character defining or we should have been his character defining moment at the end but he never really gets it. I i guess it's just like he's a huge fuck up right so this is him not fucking up. I guess yeah but what he should have been look. You shouldn't trying to become a cop is what i'm saying right. I think that would have been better. But then you can't. Where do you get the fire truck from. Who does he still the fire truck from at the end The two fact as they know a guy and i was just going to say Ethan lee and donkey lips. They even get a character. Arc has a a satisfying ending to it. Charlene i'm scott does it. He's he's not even handling the fire going. He doesn't get to go up the ladder exactly with the fire. Hose at the end and that's what it should have been should have been the one to go up the ladder like oh the hose got stuck or something like that and he has to saw. How run it up. I don't know how to be a firefighter folks. So bear with me so he has to like untangle the line or do something with the line and you know david duchovny gets knocked out. Whatever he's the one who administers the anima but now he's like nowhere to be seen at the final we just we just needed orlando jones. Going up but crack not funny. Yeah see we. We already made this movie better. Sean sean scott an arc. Despite how terrible he is everyone else gets an arc and the governor then gives the general. The okay napalm all to hell the journal kicks out irish team allison quits and decides to join. The team manages to get iras research files back from the government. She trips again because funny she does. She does the job. Sweden trip and fall into a precarious situation. Right she to sean. Liam scott's crotch alive and reitman even though i think he's dead now he's alive is he still alive. He's alive because i thought the safe because he's not making the new ghostbusters. Son is right right okay. I thought he got into this. Podcast saying oh god. Harold ramos rest. Yes so Lost my place hold on the evacuation begins and irish team heads into the hardest city. Some of the students are having an evacuation party including donkey. Lipson ethan suppling. They would go back to lab again and he talks. To his first sample the way ghostbusters..
They Called This a Movie
"2001" Discussed on They Called This a Movie
"Be the worst moment of movie. It's the low point and for some reason it works. Harry manages to grab the girl and then irish shoots the alien with a shotgun eventually. They'll have to shoot it again in for good measure and they sing. Play that funky music. White boy in a victoria drive home. This is the low point actually orlando jones is not quite clapping on key on like there was a different song. Oh you're right yeah. They are singing the song. So because i thought the same thing too that i was also thinking like they shot went into my head is like i wonder if they did. Multiple takes with different songs. Just in case they couldn't get the rights and jen threw shade at me there. Go this is your song. We how dare you. I always get uncomfortable with people start singing like along with a song and a movie especially when off key like you said. Yeah and it's it's just. I don't know just cringing. It didn't it right i. What did they do. Shot an alien right. Yeah they show so they show up at the getting ahead of myself. They show up at the site as if they've solved the problem and all they've done was killed one orlando jones. Wanted to pack it up. What do we do guess. We'll pack it up what you to call it quits. Man get the ivan reitman news report. Montage that he didn't both ghostbusters. And then the governor. Dan ackroyd plies and tears. The government officials new asshole. General tries to throw iron harry under the bus. Alson gives the governor the briefing saying that the alien ecosystem is expanding rapidly in arizona would be lost within a week and the rest of the country in two months. Did it feel like dan. Ackroyd didn't really know how to play this governor again. Just there for a paycheck. He boy two different governors in this movie. Yeah i he didn't seem to make a make a choice because at the end he seems like a good guy right but when he comes in he seems like he was going to be like a mayor from jaws sorta guy yeah just like not really cares about the wellbeing of people cares about votes yes Size with the the government obviously and honestly everything up until very end. I agree with the government on this and this movie David do coveney and orlando jones. Should be nowhere near this Meteorite they have. No they're teachers. They're not professionals. Yeah well the the army was gonna make it worse because they weren't learning listening to science right but until until they break in nothing was going on. It is weird that the government only brought a single scientist with them being alson from the cdc. That is true. I there's no scientists in the government that's la- that's what david the company was doing at the pentagon right army research so they could have brought his replacement. Maybe that was tie burrell. Maybe i don't know he seemed like lackey. Yeah yeah he he was more. I guess they are just to be the right hand. Man like you said Yeah i don't know i it again. It's just government bad. But i agreed with them for the most part yeah. I don't really think you guys should be in the crash site here. Sorry they they had. They were doing what they could until they decided to drop the napalm and that was bad idea that that was the bad idea. Yeah everything is solved with. The you know big booms then ira harry and wayne show up trying to get credit for killing a single alien government. The governor asks what the plan is for..
They Called This a Movie
"2001" Discussed on They Called This a Movie
"Their fire truck is sean william scott stolen and when they get back to the irs office the feds have taken all the samples. So ira and harry poses. Military men in order to break into the site eventually sneak back into the whole and a whole new ecosystem is thriving underground. They try to get some samples. Meanwhile harry keeps telling ira alison wants to fuck just happens at alison is watching them on closed circuit television with audio at that very moment she goes down to the whole a couple of other guys and the accuser stealing their discovery and the and she says that they didn't and then a bucks the harry suit and an end to his body so they bring harry to medical tent and we see the bug crawling all underneath the skin and his leg then up his leg and then finally into his colon so the doctor has to go in with an anal probe and grabbed the bug. Because it's the two thousand because that just hilarious and you got the old Like oh don't take leg. It's heading towards his crotch. We'll take the leg. God and done a thousand times and we can see orlando jones. Get an anal probe. So it's good thing you finish. That sentence see orlando jones. Get anal government's not looking at my porn up searches to be fair. He did. He did act as if he was getting. A metal. rods showed up and the scene did a pretty convincing job. I'll i'll give him a point for that. Yeah at the country club. There's a party or wayne gets shit on by his boss so he gives them a stiff drink and then his boss makes is with the woman at the party so they go to a golf green where he goes sets up some sort of picnic thing. It's eaten by a crocodile. Like looking alien and harry. Ira make it back to their office after. Ira has conversation with allison which is going back to his office. A lot of a lot of this movie wayne is there and he brought with him. The crocodilian that wayne says just randomly died in sand trap and we also get a scene of some random mass women finding an alien in their home including the Cousin cousin eddie's wife from the vacation movies that's right. alison goes back to her hotel. And ira. is there waiting for her. He tells her that they're evolving. And they need to be destroyed before it's too late when he asks her if she'd ever find him attractive he makes a joke. Also in this. That was probably maybe supposed to be funny. I don't know it was ad libbed written in. When he meets her to counter goes to single beds were fighting. Lending remember them. Yeah yeah yeah. I make this made me roll my eyes and like you know she. Obviously she already staying at the hotel. That joke doesn't help. We're make sense So she goes to her room and he meets up with harry and wayne who were having breakfast at a diner now. Harry might be sexually inappropriate with his volleyball team because he says he might show. He sometimes showers with them..
They Called This a Movie
"2001" Discussed on They Called This a Movie
"And appreciate i rented it and i remember just thinking it was fine and i continue to still think it's fine. You know this was touted as ghostbusters. Three essentially because we at that point in the early two thousands. It didn't look like we were ever going to get a new ghostbusters. This was supposed to hold us over and it it feels like desperation to get g that there are things that i've been doesn't hear that. He lifts completely out of ghostbusters. Like the news. News report montages. It's it's just blandly. Competent is how i would put it. Because it's it's not a terrible movie but it exists in that who cares level of competency. It's nowhere near as funds ghostbusters. It's not nearly as fun as men in black which is a contemporary It's probably better than men in black two from what i remember many black too but it's also probably not better than men three. It's probably the men in black three level. It just exists. David company is not a very good leading man orlando jones. As we said is trying his best. My favorite part was seeing documents from suit. Your shorts show up. That's you that was. I couldn't place my finger on who that was. Yeah that was the enjoyment. I got out of this movie. That doggy lopes was in. This movie is the equivalent of get me over fastball. Yep you know. It's just your down in the count three. Oh your easiest throwing down the middle but that's ivan reitman basically gave us all right. We'll you're not gonna love this movie but you're also probably not gonna hate it you. You got an hour and forty minutes to kill on. A rainy sunday wanted to go to the movies and see evolution. You'll forget about it while you're having lunch you're it's it's kind of upsetting that ivan. Raymond put this out Obviously he's he's done so much good work and again you can kinda just cross this off Yeah you know just. Maybe it was A favor that he owed or something silly. Maybe it was like a pet project. Or maybe you wanted to be the one to discover the next great sitcom starring typo in this What's his name's in this. Movie to herald from harold and kumar. Was it a john show show. Yeah john show. He shows us first split second. He's in the in. The class is credited as student. Yeah he's one of the students that this is very accurate. Sarah silverman shows up for no reason. Yeah that plot went nowhere almost got here without shirt on. Okay cool a that. Serve no purpose and for us. Twenty four fans out there. The the guy that gets eaten at the golf course played one of the president's on twenty four look familiar buffalo bills in buffalo bill levin. Yeah insulin perfectly shitty and this all right so evolution from two thousand one has directed by ivan reitman. Who you know better as the director of ghostbusters. A mile so stripes and meatballs among other movies stars. David dukov ni orlando jones. Julianne moore sean. William scott ted levine. Ethan simply michael. Bauer pat kilbane tiber l. Dan ackroyd and catherine town has an md..
They Called This a Movie
"2001" Discussed on They Called This a Movie
"At the age. Where stiffler was you know. Something we were a cool guy is. Yeah yeah that stiffler does not translate to twenty twenty one by have you before evolution. Yeah yes i had seen it. This is probably my fourth time seeing it almost as good as league of extraordinary gentlemen but not quite at least at least at least they both suck. I was in say at least one of them. Has sean Sean connery in it. Yeah but that really doesn't do much for it though Yeah i and this is like the weird time when they were trying to make orlando jones. A thing yeah and it just. Unfortunately it didn't pan out but lately he's been getting more shine which is good. He's a fine actor but in the early two thousands. I i remember him from this. And replacements seven guy. Yeah was it. i didn't know that four godfrey. Yeah oh okay. Godfrey the the comedian. Wow not gilbert godfrey godfrey. I forgot about that. I mean he. It's weird because you get three different ends of the spectrum with this movie we you get again sean. William scott is unbearably terrible Then you have. David do coveney. Who's just so boring so dry and so dry and you clearly doesn't give a shit in this movie and then you have orlando jones. There's just you know he's doing his best. Yeah yeah he's giving it his all and you know. God bless him he definitely seems like he's in a different movie than than the other two. Yes but mark where. You're coming from with evolution. Yeah so the closest ever seen. This movie was I remembered that poster with the three smiley face everywhere. I have not seen this movie. But it's one of those on that list of movies where it's like. I should have seen it when it came out. You know like your of that age. Where you'll you'll see you know. I saw that we really love those seven up commercials and i was at a a young enough age has seven guy. Let's go see his movie without doing any research into movies. Because i was a domiant teenager but the did i ended up seeing it but maybe slightly glad. It's off my bucket list. I who is it on the bucket list. You're happy man nowadays. Yeah a lot of dance choices. End up for that list. Mark is actually Scott back ula and mark spotty do finally leap. He's wanting to watch movies. Thank you dan. i would watch that movie yes. Essentially it was glad that i saw today. I can finally maybe get that curiosity every time. I sorta see that poster pop up on something white gone prime or netflix or something but yeah no no real history with it. I've seen this once..
They Called This a Movie
"2001" Discussed on They Called This a Movie
"He's got that he he's oozing mccheese mo- he's hotter than he has any rights ready and david do companies never touched hot. He's like lukewarm at best. What about california never watched it. Yeah i hated that show. Does he smolder in it He just like he talks a new person every every episode and are usually like less than twenty three so he's basically He seinfeld this was this was. This was the area where he announced he had a sex. Ge's i forgot about that. I you know. I don't think she's the love interest in too much. She's been in june. I'm assuming she's love interest there the fugitive. Who is she is she. she's a doctor. She's not a love interest there this way to. This is kind of early Early nineties her career. Big lebowski everyone's gross in the big lebowski so yeah that's that's okay. Ladies man is shoe have any investing the ladies man not in twenty ish years. I can't imagine any of us would admit to seeing that. Yeah i just. I was curious just because looking at her here she she's definitely a chameleon like sometimes she looks really good and sometimes she's just you know playing to face. Yes i guess she. She does what she's called upon for which each with each Casting sure thirty rock as she has that insufferable boston accent. Oh yeah terrible. I'd be here worth acting. She has she has some weird pronunciations in this movie. That were watching. I didn't catch any the way. She says humping. I don't where is she. I think when i looked up earlier. She's from north carolina. She she says humping like she might be from pennsylvania okay. I don't know how the i can't even replicate hoping is that. Have they speak in north carolina. Right mark that's more of like a pennsylvania. Right i guess i that's what i would point it to marcotte really self conscious about his accident on. I'm not trying to..
Midnight Double Feature - A Film Podcast
"2001" Discussed on Midnight Double Feature - A Film Podcast
"Man. Yeah alonzo strong into getting with the program. A los angeles police department narcotics officer was killed today serving a high risk warrant. Lapd spokesperson said. This officer is survived by his wife and daughter home. Add what a pinch hitting moment. Wanna pants shitting. Biron memphis jack. Dude i love my favorite moment in the entire movie jake grabbing the shotgun from a czar and destroyed up telling him you've pulled a gun on me once before i will not let it happen. It will not happen again like it's just like holy dare what what a great mentor to prove to these guys that you not like raja gonna take this lying down well. Yeah plus again underestimating. Even at room full of people he like he pulls denzel book of eli shock in just gets it and it's like shit it's also an dir. Denzel reaction to this is equally as impressive. He's like god. Damn i thought i knew i had like. Aw fantastic i love. This does l. says you give me eighteen months. Give you a career planning all wakes on like this is when he wanted. All this is when it all comes to fruition. Right like he's been pumping him full of pacey pay. He's been planning it all week. Like this is yeah. If your jag dirt you are both impressed and pissed off rodber. Econ held but not be impressed right. I think there's something there's there's so much going on. I think ethan hawke really juggles that well of like yes. I am worried about my career. And i think that there's part of him that's like have i been really this naive the whole time to think this stuff like this doesn't happen and maybe stuff like this will always happen. Were pretty much always be corruption. But you do. I have to is something that i have to be a part of to some degree you know and that definitely happens. There are real constitute like. Hey yeah. i have a confidential informant who sells crack and we don't bust him because he gives us good information we leave him be and let him do shit. Our has or her shit. I'm like yeah. Like that's kind of like what i what i like is there. Is this realistic. you know. he's okay with him. Having a guy who sells we'd again make some money. He's my confidential informant but this is just like now you are manufacturing crime. You are you our scripting your scripting right right. Crime did not exist before you entered the saying. Yeah absolutely like this is this. This is one hundred percent crossing a line and we talk about it in breaking battle. The time runabout crystal when hank is watching these low level deal is like Who who was the the informant. One was crazy. Ride and hank is using crazy to get information on the big guys on the cartels on someone like toco makina So yeah i mean this is..