40 Burst results for "2017"
InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
Adebayo Alomaja Is Revolutionizing Education With Micro-Learning
"Tell us a little bit about the course that you have designed. What topics do you cover? Yeah, sure. Sure. Thank you. As I think about how learning is going to become more and more interesting, more fun, even in K -12, we see a place of micro -learning coming into the equation. Okay. We see the place of micro -learning coming into the equation. So if you see what the course looks like, it's designed to cut off the noise. One of the things we need to, the problem we need to solve in K -12 is that there's a lot of noise. We expose kids to too many things that are not important. These things can be streamlined and presented from a micro -learning perspective such that what we are giving kids is just exactly what they need to know, just exactly what they need to know. And that's the idea of micro -learning. People think, is it going to be effective? It's going to be effective. And that's why we talk about teachers becoming learning designers, because by the time you're thinking as a learning designer, you will begin to focus on specifics, specific things that needs to be addressed and how you want to capture in the learning experience is just nothing but those specifics. In this course, it's about how to design authentic learning in K -12. And I just decided to address the basics, the starting point for anybody from anywhere, wherever you are across the world. If you're thinking about offering your learners something more than just being able to pass exams, something more that will make their society respect them, something more that will put them in a place where they can have real value to their society. You want to join the class of educators that are not traditional, but that are offering kids real value. Then you want to think about jumping on this course. I taught them all the basics. And then in the course, I talked about basically how teachers can become more familiar with context as against content. I talked about substituting content for context. Like I always say that context should determine content when it comes to engaging learners. I always say that. I got my inspiration from the story of what's happening in Dubai. I mentioned it in the course too, how Dubai wants to go and live in Mars by year 2017. That's like next 90 something years. So they lost the project in 2017. It was an 100 years project. So they traveled to Mars. And what they went to do was to study everything about Mars. And so when they were done with that, they came back to the earth and then built a colony, built something that looks like Mars. When it's right now, that thing is in Dubai. They built it. The whole atmosphere in terms of pressure, temperature, and everything in Mars, they came to replicate. They built like a simulation of that under the earth. So they are saying that they are going to live in that thing. And if they can live in it and survive in it between now, between 2017 and 2017, then that means they are now right to move to Mars, to build, to go and start building Mars. And the lesson I learned from that is that we need the atmosphere of a reality to prepare for that reality. That's the lesson I learned from that. So Dubai looked into the future, created the future and the present to prepare for the future. So that tells me, that tells K -12, that tells every educator that you cannot be effective if you don't understand what is coming. You don't understand what the world is asking for. You cannot be effective in a classroom because you only keep offering what is not needed. So there's a need for educators to understand the context, what is obtainable. For example, I always say that vocabularies are seasonal. There was nothing like child deputy in the year 2010, nothing like that, nothing like that. So if we want to stick with what our syllabus and the scheme of work says, and we want to just keep following it head on and on, what will happen is that - No innovation. Yeah, so we'll just keep disconnecting our learners from the reality and what real life is saying by the hour, right? And that's really going to be quite problematic. So in the course, I opened up educators to being able to get more familiar with context and how to begin to use context to influence how they design their learning experiences I sped up some very simple steps, practically, that educators can adopt to help them move and move and just keep gravitating. So that course is just like a starting point for every educator that wants to go into the world of authentic learning.
Leading Saints Podcast
Fresh update on "2017" discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"It's got some, a lot of personal experiences from my life where, you know, I came back from the mission in 2013 and, you know, my number one goal was to get out of New Zealand as soon as possible. And that's because, you know, I served in Hong Kong, I served with all these American elders, and I just thought, man, I want to go to America, I want to live there, you know, and I was quite stubborn. You know, I went to university and I got a degree in international business because I thought, just take me as far away as you possibly can from New Zealand. Man, there's no place I want to go right now than New Zealand. We should just, you know, exchange lives for a minute. Yeah. And so, you know, I really wanted to leave New Zealand and, you know, I got married in 2014 to my wife who I met on the mission. She was another sister missionary. Is she from New Zealand as well? No. So that's an interesting part of the story is that, no, she's not from New Zealand, she's from the US. Oh, okay. And so she's, yeah, so that's quite weird, eh? Yeah, we both met in Hong Kong as missionaries and, yeah, we just cut it off since then. Awesome. So keep going as far as this, you wanted to get out of New Zealand. Yeah, so I wanted to get out of New Zealand and I just talked to my wife and it wasn't until, so I got called as a world executive secretary, and then it wasn't until like the day, I just had a feeling and I just said to my wife, look, we got to save up for a house because at that time we were just living with my mum because she's actually got a pretty large house. It's two storied and so pretty much the whole second, well, the ground floor was ours. So it was kind of living in our own house but not. And so, you know, I just said to my wife, look, we need to start looking for a house and then she said, yeah, okay. And, you know, me and my wife, we were quite amateur at it because like, you know, people know how to get like a house broken and stuff like that. And, look, we didn't do any of that stuff. We just had no idea what we were doing. And we were just following the spirit and just trying to figure things out. And my wife just said, look, yeah, I think I agree with you. We need to start looking for a home and buy a house at that time. At that time, I was working a ferryman and wage job. I was actually working at McDonald's, which is quite funny. My wife has actually got, you know, she had a real job. She was actually a health caregiver at a restaurant. So she was making the money. And it wasn't until probably about July of 2017 that we actually started seriously to looking into getting a home for ourselves. And I remember we went to the temple and before we went to the temple in July, we actually put an offer for a home that we wanted, but we didn't actually get it. But I didn't actually feel bad about that. It was, you know, I felt confirmation in the temple that like, you know, our desire to stay in Dunedin in New Zealand for a while. I had finally accepted the Lord's will. That was it for us, for our family. And so when we got back, we actually found a house like a month after and we put an offer on it and it was really weird because the person, the real estate agent said, look, no one's actually put an offer on this house. You're the first one. And so we put an offer in and then the, you know, the homeowners at the time, they counted offered and then we counted offered and then we came to agreement. Then we finally got our home and yeah, and it was really crazy because at that time we didn't actually have that much saved for a home at all. We needed a 10% deposit. That's not, I don't know if that's the same in America, but yeah, in New Zealand we needed like a 10% deposit at that time. And yeah, it was just a huge miracle how the Lord actually guided our family into getting a home here in New Zealand. Because, you know, with our home, we've actually had a lot of young single adults that stay with us, like actually live with us. And we, we charged them barely any rent. You know, we just, you know, we, you know, we just, we believe that this home was given to us by the Lord and we use it to bless others. And yeah, that principle of being where the spirit needs you to be is really important because, you know, I think a lot of us, we have a lot of these desires to serve the Lord and we want to serve our Father in heaven.
The Greg McAfee Show
Mike Agugliaro: To Scale a Business You Have to Scale YOURSELF
"So what would you, what do we tell the company that the business owner who's been doing, you know, somewhere between two and four million and he's capped out and he's burned out and he's not charging enough. What kind of advice do you understand it? He's good at what he does, but he doesn't understand a lot of the business side. What kind of advice do you give that guy? Well, I mean, the first thing everybody should write down, that's listening to this to, to scale anything, you have to scale yourself. And I think people don't spend enough time investing in improving themselves. They, they carry these belief systems that they've been programmed with. Like my dad, you know, he, he told me when I was a kid, he programmed me with money doesn't grow on trees. And after I was doing about 20 million in business and just anybody listening, I went from under a million to 32 million in less than 10 years. So I had 165 service trucks on the road all over New Jersey. You know, we, we did 40 ,000 customers a month. So we did a fair amount of customers, 200 employees, double digit profit. And what's that? What year? That was 2017. And I sold it in 2017, which feels like yesterday to me, I sold it for a sign my name and walk away deal at one of the highest multiples, not compared to what's happened through this last roll up, but one of the highest multiples, I was like the cat's meow, you know, and my dad, I went to him and I said, dad, you were right about one thing and wrong about another. And of course, my dad's a big Italian guy. He wants to know what he did wrong, right? I said, first, you told me money doesn't grow on trees. I said, but if I had lemon trees and apple trees, I could pick that and sell it for money. And he said something to me that changed my life forever. He said, you know what, son, I only told you what my dad told me. And in his dad told him, I started to question myself, how many people struggling in business in the world today for whatever they want to do, because they keep following beliefs that might have some value, but may not have what you need today. So then, of course, Greg, you're probably wondering, my dad's like, oh, well, at least what did I tell you that that was true? I said, well, you told me you didn't own the utility company, shut the damn lights off. And I said, you were right. You still don't own you still don't own the utility company. And then I became just like my dad, my kids, my whole life telling them shut the lights off, right? I don't own the utility company. So I think that's part about business owners today is to sit there and say, hang on, maybe I don't know. The next one, I'd say probably number three here is I am such a believer in coaching. Not because we do forms of coaching. I've had seven coaches is the most I had at one time. I had spiritual coach, relationship coach, marketing coach, business scaling coach. I have seven. I am a big believer that you're investing in solving your most immediate problem. And you probably heard this phrase. Everybody heard it like success leaves clues. But like who has time to be like when my daughter was little, she used to watch Dora the Explorer for anybody that knows that like who has time in life, Greg, to go run around and play Dora the Explorer and look for a clue. I want someone to give me the clue right now and say, look, here's what I want you to consider. If you do this and this, you're probably going to get that. And we've proved that over time. So those three, those couple things there can change everything for everyone.
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
Fresh "2017" from Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
"Today. at the age of This 99. Charlie Munger, is Bloomberg the man Pause who Daybreak for helped thought, Warren Europe for Buffett two Fed this Wednesday build hawks the hint Berkshire 29th at a Hathaway Pause rate hold, into of November as an Bill in empire, for Ackman London tells Bloomberg coming thought, two Fed up he hawks hint at a rate hold, as Bill Ackman tells That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Bloomberg Daybreak Europe on DAB Digital Radio London Bloomberg 1130 New York Bloomberg 99 .1 Washington DC, Bloomberg 1061 Boston, Bloomberg 960 San Francisco and around the world on BloombergRadio .com and via the Bloomberg Business App Good morning from London, Carroll I'm Stephen and I'm Lizzie Bird and you're listening to Daybreak Europe live on London DAB Radio. Let's start with a check on the markets for you as trading has just begun here in Europe. The stock 600 just flat at the downside at the open, the FTSE 100 is three tenths of one percent lower, the CAC aren't in Paris down by a tenth, the DAX in Frankfurt up by two tenths, the FTSE may be up by a tenth as well. We're seeing GILTS join the rallying party on bonds as we see yields fall, the 10 year GILTS yield down three and a half basis points this morning 4 up Treasury 3%, yields continuing to see those yields fall today, the two year down five basis points 4 .68%, the 10 year at 4 .27 % and another four basis points as investors consider whether the Fed could be done with hikes after comments from Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman of the Fed. Wall Street futures are positive, S &P E -minis are up by a tenth of 1%. We've also just had the latest Spanish CPI number for November rising 3 .2 % year on year below estimates of 3 to our other top stories this morning. The famed investor Charles Munger has died at the age of 99. As Warren Buffett's right -hand man for almost 60 years, he helped transform Berkshire Hathaway from a failing textile maker into a global conglomerate. Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Matthew Palazzola remembers the pair's special relationship. For the company that they've built, you know, they talk about it being actually quote easy you know which is I guess a very humble understatement but I think they buy good companies they let them run and you know this machine they've built will go on you know all time really. Bloomberg Intelligence's Matthew Palazzola there talking as about impact Charlie at Munger's Berkshire Hathaway. Between 1965 and 2022 the firm's share price rose by 3 3 million .8 percent. That compares to a gain of almost 25 ,000 percent for the and S P 500. Two of the Federal Reserve's most hawkish rate setters have signals that they could be comfortable holding steady for now. The comments reinforcing expectations that the central bank's current hiking cycle is over. Here's Fed what Governor Christopher Waller told the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. I am increasingly confident the policy is currently well positioned to slow the economy and get inflation back to 2 percent. Waller's view is echoed by fellow FOMC member Michelle Bowman, who says she remains willing to support rate hikes if inflation progress stalls, but stop short of endorsing an increase next month. So that's what the Fed speakers say. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman, though, is betting the Fed will start cutting sooner than markets are predicting. Thank you. Fed David Rubenstein for The Bloomberg. Pershing Square founder said such a move could happen in the next coming months. I think there's a risk of a hard landing if the Fed doesn't start cutting rates pretty soon. So I think the market expects sometime middle of next year. I think it's more likely probably as early as Q1. Bill Ackman's comments are at odds with traders who are fully pricing in a first rate cut in June with a chance of a cut in May at about 80%. The activist investor also told our David Rubenstein's peer to peer conversations that he's already seeing of a weakening US economy. Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bil Talal has sown sold a $250 million stake in Citigroup to his investment company Kingdom Holdings. The share purchase raises the Kingdom's stake in the bank to 2 .2%. Alwaleed's relationship with Citigroup dates back to 1991 when he invested $590 million to become the bank's largest shareholder. His stature on the global investment stage has faded since 2017 when he was temporarily imprisoned without charge as part of an anti -corruption drive by the Saudi Crown Prince. Israel says Hamas has turned over 12 more hostages to the Red Cross. The release comes despite earlier competing claims of violations of the temporary truce and the war. That agreement has been extended by two days and is now due to end tomorrow morning. This Gaza president says he wants the ceasefire to continue. Thank goodness, a now we're and in truce hopefully the truce will be the long one. To be honest with you, Gaza has become uninhabitable. via a translator the voice there of one person living in Gaza. U .S. officials are seeking to further extend ceasefire and hostage releases. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to visit Israel and the West Bank later this week. Morgan Stanley is trying to overturn a French court ruling ordering it to pay 1 .4 million euros in bonuses to a banker who quit the firm. The case at the Paris Court of Appeals is considering whether or not the bank can refuse to pay a bonus once an employee has resigned. The ruling could have major repercussions for other top banks France. in Lawyers for the former employee say the bonus is performance -based and that French law prevents requiring staff to stay on in order for it to be paid. London's iconic black cabs available will be on Uber for the first time. Bloomberg's Tiwa Adebayo has the details. Once sworn enemies, London's cabbies have consistently protested against Uber's presence in the city. Hundreds of black cab drivers demonstrated in
Awards Chatter
A highlight from George C. Wolfe - 'Rustin'
"Monarch Legacy of Monsters, an Apple Original Series. The world is on fire. I decided to do something about it. On November 17th. This place, it's not ours. Believe me. The most massive event of the year arrives. If you come with me, you'll know everything, I promise. Oh my God, go, go, go! Monarch Legacy of Monsters, streaming November 17th. Only on Apple TV+. My guest today is one of the great storytellers of Stage and Screen, which is why it's only fitting that he's here at the Fest to collect the Storyteller Award. He's a playwright best known for writing 1986's The Colored Museum and co -writing 1992's Jelly's Last Gem. He's a theater director best known for directing the original Broadway productions of Angels in America Millennium Approaches and Angels in America Perestroika, two landmark plays in 1993, and a host of Broadway musicals, including 1996's Bring in the Noise, Bring in the Funk, 2004's Caroline or Change, and 2016's Shuffle Along. And he's a screen director best known for directing the 2005 limited series Lackawanna Blues and the films Night in Rodanthe from 2008, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks from 2017, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom from 2020, and this year's Rustin, the story of Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Over the course of his career, this 69 -year -old has been nominated 15 times for a Tony Award, winning three for best direction of a play for Angels in America Millennium Approaches in 1993, best direction of a musical for Bring in the Noise, Bring in the Funk in 1996, and best special theatrical event for Elaine Stritch at Liberty in 2002. He was nominated for an Emmy best directing for a limited series for Lackawanna Blues in 2005, and he has twice been nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for outstanding directing of a miniseries or TV film for Lackawanna Blues in 2006, which resulted in a win, and for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in 2018. The New York Times' Ben Brantley has described him as a brilliant stage director, arguably the best now working in the American theater. The Los Angeles Times declared, there are few living talents who could be viewed as as much of a New York theater institution. Interview Magazine said it would be difficult to overstate his status on Broadway, and Tony Kushner proclaimed that he is the premier theater artist of my generation. And those are just the quotes about his work in theater. There are many more about his work in film. But without further ado, would you please join me in welcoming to the SCAD Savannah Film Festival and to the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast, Mr. George C. Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe, thank you so much for coming to Savannah. Glad to be here, glad to. Let's just start at the very beginning. Where were you born and raised, and what did your folks do for a living? I was born and raised in Frankfort, Kentucky. My mother was a teacher, and she later became a principal of the schools. I went to that school. She taught me. It was horrifying. My father worked for the state government, and that's that. For the first eight years of your life, the town in which you grew up was segregated. Yes. You have spoken about wanting to go see a movie, 101 Dalmatians, and not being able to do that because of your race. Well, my grandmother was this incredibly ferocious figure who would take on anybody. I telling remember her that I wanted to go see 101 Dalmatians at the Capitol Theater. I remember her calling and them telling her no. It was sort of startling and shocking and fascinating because it was the first time I'd ever see her come into contact with a no. So that was fascinating. But then it integrated, and then at one point, when I went to high school, I was editor of the high school newspaper, and I went and convinced the man who ran the Capitol Theater that I should go see movies for free so that I could write reviews. He said, but by the time the review comes out, the movies will be gone. I said, but it's cultivating a love of movies, and so that's what my column will do. It was my slight payback because then I got to go see movies for free. I love it. Let's talk, though, there's a moment you've described over the years. You were in fourth grade, and your, at that time, all black grade goes to an all white class. But that time, I think it was probably a little bit older, so I got about the PTA and the singing. Well, I think by that time, Frankfurt was integrated, but I still went to this black school which was connected to a university there. And the principal, this woman named Minnie J. Hitch, you told us, because we were going to be singing a song, and the lyrics were these truths we are declaring that all men are the same, that liberty is a torch burning with a steady flame. And she told us that when we got to the line that liberty is a torch burning with a steady flame, we should sing it with a ferocity and that we would shatter all racism in the room. So I literally remember these truths we are declaring that all men are the same, that liberty is a torch, you know. And then racism was gone. And racism was gone, exactly. They were all transformed. But it sort of was like so cluelessly wonderful for somebody to tell someone that young that if you say words and if you say them with power and conviction, you can change people. And that sense of potency of conviction and language was embedded in me, and it's never left. When did you see your first theatrical production that was done professionally? When I was 12 or 13, my mother went to do some advanced degree work at NYU, and she brought me a log, and it was one summer. And so I saw a production of West Side Story that was done at the State Theater at Lincoln Center. Then I saw a production of Hello Dolly with Cab Calloway and Pearl Bailey. And then I saw a production, as it turns out, from the Public Theater and Mobile Unit that Cleavon Little played Hamlet. Wow. And it was done in Washington Square Park. Wow. And some in respect, each of those three productions had, I think, a lasting impact on a kind of aesthetic. Right. And the thing interesting about the Mobile Unit, it was free. And so it was seeing the rawness of that energy of the audience was also very, it was very, very, really wonderful and really interesting and great. So the throughout rest of your time in high school, you were increasingly involved in theater and school. I don't know if it was specific, I think, was it writing, directing, acting? What were you focused on at that point? Acting and directing. And also it's very interesting because when I went to that high school, I stuttered really intensely. So this is one thing I was talking about earlier. So they decided that I was stupid because I stuttered. And so they called my mother over to the school to say, and they wanted to put me in remedial classes. And she says, are you crazy? No, that's not happening. And so I developed an Evita complex. So I said, by the time I leave this school, I will be running it. And so I was editor. I was drum major. I was the worst drum major since the dawn of time. I just, you know, I was editor of the newspaper, of the literary magazine. I just did all these stubs just to, you know, how dare you dismiss? I could tell. And I never heard the story about them calling my mother over, but I could tell I was being disregarded. Right. I sensed it. And I went, no. So you start college in Kentucky and then move to Pomona and California. What at that time? This is there. Oh, yeah. We're doing the whole thing. Exactly. What was the idea of going out to California? Was it just to have a change of scenery or did you were you already thinking maybe that's where you go if you want to be in show business? No, not at all. I had always dreamed of going to New York. I would I would watch, you know, TV shows that were set in New York, like the Dick Van Dyke Show. And I remember this is kind of neurotic and crazy. But I what I really I was obsessed with Disney and I wanted to have my own amusement park. But I wanted money. I knew you need a lot of money. So I decided that actors made a lot of money. This is when I was seven or eight. And so and I knew the actors starved. So when I was seven or eight, I used to practice not eating. So that when I went to New York, this is insanely true that, you know, that I so I could deal with it, you know. Well, little did I know one doesn't need to practice starvation. So you graduate from Pomona, go to L .A. for a little while to do theater, to do theater. OK, now theater, as I guess you quickly concluded, is primarily in New York. Well, yeah, I mean, at one point I did shows and I started to get some good reviews in the L .A. Times. And then I got called in. I don't even remember for to be a writer on a sitcom. And and I and I said something funny and they said, oh, he's quick. We're going to have to tie one hand behind his back. And I took that literally. And that's when I went I'm moving to New York. You know, I just was it was like time to go time to go time to go confront a whole bunch of other stuff and things I need to learn and get smarter about. Well, so, OK, you move. It's 1979. You're in your 20s. You moved to New York. Early 20s. Early 20s. Right, right, right. Very early. In fact, I was 19. I was just pretending to be 20. Something like that. Yeah. You moved to New York. There are a number of years then after moving there that were we can say lean. You got to put into practice not eating so much. You what said once quote, I came to New York to write and direct. And when I got here, a lot of my rage came out. Close quote. What do you mean by that? Well, it's so interesting because in L .A., it's you know, it's you know, there's more space. So so, you know, poverty and wealth are very much so separated. And then in New York, it's, you know, they're next door to each other. And the intensity of the inequity at the time, plus the fact that I had no real power over my existence, sort of magnified all of that. And I remember I remember seeing I remember at one time seeing this image of this of this woman in a fur coat. It was winter and eating chocolates and there was a subway vent and there was this homeless woman sitting there. And she had newspaper wrapped around her legs instead of boots. And she was like like crazy and was like and just seeing those two images next to each other. It's you know, it's the thing about New York. Every single time you step foot outside your front door, you see somebody who is worse off than you and you see somebody who is living a completely different life to you. So you have you get instant perspective whether you want it or not. So in those those leaner years, you are teaching a little bit. You're going to get your own MFA at NYU Tisch in dramatic writing, your... Dramatic writing and musical theater and a double MFA. And then there's a opportunity to have a work of yours produced for the first time at Playwrights' Horizon, which is a big deal. Playwrights? No. And how did that go? Well, it it was interesting. It was it was ultimately the best thing that could have happened for my career. I didn't direct it. I wrote the I wrote the book and I wrote the lyrics for it. And it and there were things that in the rehearsal process that I. And also, when I first came to New York, I said, I'm a writer and director, and they said, no, you can't do both. You have to focus in on one. I said, but I could do both. And they said, no, you can't. So I focused just on the writing. So then I there were things that were happening in the rehearsal room that I knew weren't right. But in the spirit of ra ra ra, getting along and being good guy and all this sort of stuff, I didn't object. And then I remember there was a tornado passing through New York City on the day my bad review came out. So I'm standing on the corner of 95th and Broadway with the winds blowing. I'm reading this hate review. And it was so very painful. But it was really interesting because it was very good for me because, you know, I went, oh, if this happens again, if I get another bad review. And of course, I've gotten bad reviews. But if it's going to be because it's my vision. Because it's I because I put every single thing I had on the line. Everybody, we're only in the room to make a very beautiful baby. And if we become good friends as a result of that, that's fine. But we all have a responsibility. The people that you're collaborating with to do their finest, best work. And you have to do your finest, best work. And it was interestingly enough, when I was at NYU, the piece that I wrote that bombed, I went, oh, this is going to be successful. And then there was this play that I wrote just for myself called The Colored Museum. And yeah, none of y 'all applauded when I said the title of the other thing, Paradise, did you? No. But that's what happened. It was the most interesting thing because I wrote one for success and I wrote one for myself. And that was the thing that succeeded. And so it was a very deeply, deeply, deeply valuable lesson. It was just like, and then eight weeks later, all those people who trashed, eight weeks, no, eight months were that it were eight weeks. Eight months later, all those people who trashed me were going, oh, where has he been? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And I'm so glad it happened that way. I'm so glad that the first piece was treated that way so that therefore it gave me a clarity and a sense of responsibility. And doing and doing work that I believed in and and that was that I believe mattered as opposed to something that was going to lead to success. It was just one of those slap you in the face and get smart, George. So you mentioned The Colored Museum, which let's just say, though, you know, you had you're coming off the rough review. How did you even get the opportunity to do The Colored Museum, which is going to as if you don't know, it was the first big success for Mr. Wolf. So how did that opportunity even come out of that? Well, it came out of that because I was at Playwrights Horizons because the guy named Lee Richardson, who was running a theater called Crossroads, said you're at Playwrights Horizons. And I don't think there's ever been a black playwright at Playwrights Horizons. Do you have something else that you've written? I said, well, funny you should ask. Dada, Colored Museum. And so that's how it happened. So there is there were they were both connected in a in a in a way that didn't seem so at the time, but was sort of brilliantly perfect. I want to ask you. So The Colored Museum is produced at Crossroads in 86 and then moved to the Public Theater in 87, which you'll notice the Public Theater, the great off Broadway institution, is going to come up quite a few times in this conversation. But for people who weren't around at that time or don't know or whatever, can you describe what The Colored Museum is about and what the controversy backlash that that provoked was? Because it was you you had to develop thick skin early on because it was not all fun and games in response to that one either. Well, but that was different. That was called pure unadulterated jealousy. So that was that was that was just, you know, I came from nowhere and all of a sudden I'm at the Public Theater. And Frank Rich wrote a wrote a review, a rave review, and said it's the kind of playwright who takes no prisoners. And people thought and that meant he kills people. The language kills them. And people thought that that meant I was soft. So it was just like that was just dumb cluelessness. That was very that was very easy to dismiss. And and, you know, and it was it was just jealousy. It was and that I, you know, I went, oh, my feelings are hurt. Oh, I'm over that. OK, go to hell. You know, it's just sort of like I didn't I didn't sweat about that. Well, tell us a little bit about the show, because this is your big success. First. Yeah, it was first. Well, it's it's interesting when I was at NYU. In the dramatic writing program, there are about three or four people writing plays about old black tap dancers, and they didn't happen to be old black or tap dancers. And so and I was just I was just I just thought about it. And I said, so somebody has figured out, has made a decision or dynamics have been created so that people have decided what black is. And I'm going, I'm black, I'm black my entire life. And I view it as this ever changing, complicated, insane, brilliant, amazing thing. So it was an effort to shatter, shatter any preconceived notions that I thought were going to stand in the way of what I wanted to create. So I wrote this play, which was eight exhibits set inside a museum. So I wanted to shatter all the perception, any perceptions that were in my head. So it's to liberate me to go in any direction that I wanted it to. And that's what happened. And it became this and it became this very successful show. It played, I think, for I think for 10 months at the Public Theater. Then it went to the Royal Court in London. Then it toured all around. And now it's it's high schools do it now and stuff, which is great. So it's in. And then as a result of it, then I started getting interesting from that. I went from, you know, being completely flat broke to then I met the kids of studios. I got Mike Nichols wanted me to write a movie for him. Robert Altman wanted me to write movies. So all of a sudden, you know, these job opportunities happened. But it wasn't for many years that you actually went into film. In the meantime, you were kind of seizing this interest in the theater, this opportunity now in theater. There was a person who is legendary by the name of Joseph Papp, who founded and ran the public, who took a great interest in you and, you know, brought you in there. And and we can say, you know, in addition to producing the colored museum, right. Named you one of three resident directors there offered to have a producing entity within the public for you. This was a big champion to have. He then passes away in 1991. He gets succeeded by a lady who was there for only 18 months. And then in August 1993, this institution of the sort of first thing that comes to mind when you think, at least for me, off Broadway comes looking for a new director. How did you become aware that there was interest in you for that position? And was it was that job, which you then spoiler alert, got and held for the next 12 years? Was it what you thought it would be? Nothing is ever what you think is going to be. But that's the point of the journey. It was actually it was I was I directed a Broadway show called Jealous Last Jab. And then I was then offered Angels in America. And and then I was in the middle of directing a seven hour play. And then they called up my lawyer and said, we want to talk to George about running the public theater. And I went, well, I'm kind of busy right now. Can they come back after? And they said no. And so they wanted to make a decision. So when I was in rehearsal, it was announced that I was running the public theater. It was I loved the thing which I loved. I loved, loved about running the public theater was giving artists money, giving artists money and spaces where they could go do work. It was that, you know, because I after after Jelly, I went, oh, this is hard. Surviving Broadway and dealing with all of these all of the dynamics and the money and the audiences and all of that stuff. This is really, really hard. And you have to be really, really tough. And so I knew all these artists who were really gifted, incredibly gifted people, but maybe weren't as tough. Can we can I just mention a few? Because these are shows that were given a spotlight by you in those years, which, in fact, several of them were just revived in the last couple of years. So decades later, people are, you know, coming back to them. But let's note, Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992. This was a dear, dear, very Smith and important show there. That was 1994. We had Top Dog Underdog, Suzan -Laurie Parks wins the Pulitzer for that 19 excuse me, 2002. Take me out again. Just revive. So these are the kinds of people who were talking about where you can. And this the public was not particularly known for its being inclusive prior to your tenure. Well, I'd say it was I think probably yes. I think it's also a place that gave us, you know, for colored girls and it's also a place that gave us for short eyes. So I'm so I would I wouldn't totally agree with that. And also these were very smart artists and these were tough artists. But there were, you know, it's just you people when you're beginning, you need a place to play, which means you need a place to fail so that you can get smarter. Like I had with Playwrights Horizons, you need you need to to do the work and not feel the pressure of it being the biggest hit in the world because you're growing and you're learning and you're getting smarter and you're getting tougher and you're learning more savvy. Just like the things that I allowed on the first production that was done, I didn't allow on the second one. And so you get, you know, so you're growing, you're growing all these muscles. It's not just your talent muscles. It's your your ability to defend yourself and to protect your work and to go, I disagree with that. And, you know, I remember one time there was a writer who was doing a play and a couple of things got really wonky at rehearsals. And I said, well, why didn't you speak up? He said, well, I was just scared that I was actually doing a play at the public theater and somebody was going to discover I didn't know what the hell I was doing and throw me out. And it's that fear you have to get. You have to realize that fear and doubt and other stuff, all that stuff is a part of growing and you have to have permission to grow. And so that's that's what I took on very much so, which is creating a space that was there. I wanted the I wanted the audiences and the artists there. I wanted it to look like the subway at rush hour in New York. I wanted to have all kinds of people there. So that was the thing that I loved after a while. It became very, very clear to me that as much as I was creating spaces for other artists, it was very challenging to be one. And while being in charge. Well, let's go back to, again, what you were doing when you got that opportunity to go there, because this was the beginning. While you're creating these opportunities for people off Broadway, you were making your first inroads on Broadway. As you mentioned, Jelly's Last Jam, 1992, you co -wrote and directed this about Jelly Roll Morton and the birth of jazz. Your first Broadway show musical with Gregory Hines and small role the first time you're working with Savion Glover. And this gets 11 Tony nominations, wins three and sort of leads to Angels in America. Now, this is it's been looked back at. I think the New York Times looked at it as the greatest show on Broadway of the last 30 years. It's an all timer, obviously, but you first saw it as a spectator in Los Angeles. It started at the Mark Tabor Forum. There doesn't sound like there was even a thought in your head that you might ever have anything to do with this. How did that change? Well, Jelly had opened up and I worked with a producer named Margo Lion, who passed away, who was a very dear friend of mine. And everybody, you know, and there were some changes that were going to be made from the Tabor to when it moved to Broadway. And she brought my name up and Tony Kushner and someone called me up and said, Tony Kushner wants to come and talk to you. I said, OK. And he came over and he talked and I had never read the play. I had only seen it. So I talked to him about it and just gave him my observations.
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A highlight from AI Today Podcast: Generative AI Series: Implementing Generative AI in production
"The AI Today podcast, produced by Cognolytica, cuts through the hype and noise to identify what is really happening now in the world of artificial intelligence. Learn about emerging AI trends, technologies, and use cases from Cognolytica analysts and guest experts. Hello, and welcome to the AI Today podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen Mulch. And I'm your host, Ron Schmelzer. And everybody's talking about generative AI. It's everywhere. You can't not talk about it because it's becoming part of every system. And we've had here on the AI Today podcast our generative AI series, where we've been talking about the whole range of things that we want to think about with generative AI, from how does it work, to how do we use it, to how do we build things on top of generative AI, to what are the challenges and the drawbacks, and some of the ethical and trustworthy concerns. And if you haven't heard any of those podcasts, I encourage you to do so. And, well, today's podcast will continue on that sort of trend. And if you're new to AI Today podcast, you should know this is not the only thing we do. There actually are now entire podcasts where all they do is talk about generative AI, not even just AI, but just generative AI. Hey, I wouldn't be surprised if some of those podcasts were actually being generated by generative AI altogether. I'm sure that's going to be extremely common. But we are real people here at AI Today, and we've been going strong on AI since 2017. So we have lots of topics that we cover across the board, interviews with great thought leaders for AI, our failure series, our glossary series, our trustworthy AI series, and our series on all sorts of things around making AI work today. But today we're going to dive deep from something from our training. We can share with you about actually putting some generative AI stuff in production. Exactly. And if you're not familiar with CPM AI, we'll make sure to link to it in the show notes. It's a best practices methodology on running AI and machine learning projects. And we have many CPM AI certified individuals now globally. So we encourage you to check that out. But in today's podcast, we're going to be talking about implementing generative AI in production. As Ron mentioned, this is in our generative AI series. So we go over a bunch of different things. But we're really going to talk about how actually generative AI is being implemented in production, some of the things you need to watch out for, and some future looking things as well. We also are going to talk about the risks of generative AI in production. There's a lot of power. We talk about how transformative technology can really bring a lot of transformation, but it also is not without its risks. And at AI Today, that's what we like to discuss, right? We like to weigh all sides of these technologies. So we'll dig deeper into those topics as well. So generative AI provides a lot of really amazing things that we can do to create text and images and other things and really allows us to solve perhaps many of the problems that we have in our AI systems and allows us to shortcut some of the things, especially if we don't answer questions on data or do document classification, any of the things that we are trying to do with generative AI systems and the foundation models upon which they are based. The large language models in particular for the text generators and the image generators with their foundation models as well. And they're really very easy to use. I mean, that's actually part of the challenge here is that pretty much anybody who has access to any of a number of systems can generate text, can generate images, and it's actually in some ways a little bit too easy because we've moved from this idea of citizen developers who might be able to do low code or no code apps or data science. They can build, you know, dashboards or whatever in their favorite tool, which does require still a little bit of know -how and some sense there. But we've moved now to basically anybody could be a rogue generative AI user. They could be writing you an email and that could be generated by generative AI. They could be responding to a customer without your even knowing that they're using generative AI or doing anything, you know? So that's actually a bit of a challenge. So actually when we're putting generative AI into operation, it's not even a matter of how do we make it work because everybody's making it work every day. The question is, how do you make it work in the context of some greater application that you are trying to do? Because generative AI in many cases is not the ends, it's the means. We're doing this in the midst of something, as I mentioned, generating an email to a customer or producing some images for some, say, e -commerce application or whatever it is. So really the primary thing that we do when we put generative AI into operation, if we're not just directly using the interfaces of some of these third -party generative AI systems where you just type in a prompt and you get a response, that's not your application. You have nothing to build. You're just the user of that application. So that doesn't really apply to CPMAI. Everything we're talking about CPMAI is when you are building something and you're creating something that's specific for your needs, then it's not just a matter of using that interface. You have to create something. And therefore what we're doing is we're usually building applications that are around that surround a generative AI system to make use of the inputs into the generative AI and take the outputs and do something with those outputs. So when we talk about that in the context of CPMAI, we're really talking about the scaffolding, which is everything around the model, not the model itself. The model itself may be provided, perhaps a foundation model that you're using off the shelf or you fine -tuned, or a generative AI solution that you're querying with an API. So therefore everything you're doing is building stuff around it. And that stuff you build around it can follow very traditional application development methodologies. You don't need the data -centric CPMAI to build a web application or a mobile application or a back office application or RPA solution or something like that. So when we're doing generative AI in production, really what we're doing is we are creating, we're using the tools and techniques of prompt engineering, if I'm doing generative AI, or of handling inputs and outputs and really, and also handling the responses, the generative AI, and basically deciding if the generative AI response is sufficient, whether or not it needs to be reprompted or it needs to be modified in some way. And so when we are using these generative AI systems, we're building scaffolding, we really have a choice that we can make. We can either have our own generative AI model, perhaps we're using one that's off the shelf that we have access to. It could be a large language model like Llama or something like that, which the models are available. You can use them. You may not be able to retrain. They're gigantic. You may not be able to retrain them, but you can use them directly. Or stable diffusion, image generation, those models are open and available for download and use. And in some cases, even the weights are provided so you can retrain them if you need to or fine tune them, do whatever you need to do. The other option is not to host that generative AI solution at all, but instead to query the generative AI solution through an API that goes to that provider. So it could be OpenAI's GPT API, or it could be, sorry, OpenAI's ChatGPT API, or it could be any of the other APIs that are out there that allow you to query and use those models and get the responses back. So it could be, here's an audio file, generate a transcript, or it could be, here's a prompt, generate an image, or here's some prompt, generate some text response that follows a particular format using a particular prompt, or here's my document, I'm going to prepare it and I'm going to use tools perhaps like Langchain to combine the inputs, use my own documents, provide that prompt with a little bit of context and take the response and then manipulate that response in some way. That's what tools like Langchain do. They allow you to use both the onsite as well as the API hosted ones where you're just making queries. So really the trade -off when you make a decision as to, well, should I use one of these models that I can host on my site, or should I use an API, really comes down to control and quality in one hand. So you may have higher quality with some of these API ones that are being constantly updated and and revised enhanced in many different ways, and you may not have the ability to retrain those models, and it may take a significant amount of computing time and data and all that sort of stuff, and you need to be fairly expert and to make those models work. Some of those foundation models even use things like reinforcement learning to modify the outputs and things like that. So you may use those really high quality models through the API or through other methods, or you may want control, because the thing is is that when you're using the API, you don't have a lot of control. Those versions, the quality might change in some sufficient ways. We'll talk a little bit about that that are not in your control. You don't have control over, say, moderation features that may prevent you from querying those systems with particular prompts, or the results may come back in a moderated way. So there are benefits to the self -hosted and the API hosted version. There's also cost. APIs cost money for every query, but of course, if you're hosting them yourself, you have your own costs in terms of cost of hosting and serving and the infrastructure costs, whether it's on premise or in the cloud, and there's also complexity. If you're using an API, you don't have to worry about uptime and availability and queryability and that sort of stuff, so if you're hosting yourself, you have control over it, which of course means that you have to be responsible for uptime and availability, and there's tradeoffs because the API ones, sometimes they're not available either. Sometimes they respond too slowly. So you can see these are pretty evenly weighted. There's no overriding decision as to where and how to run and interact with the generative AI system in production. You have to understand what the tradeoffs are and make one that is relevant to your application. This is where CPMAI comes in. Even if you're not building the model, even if you're not managing the model and you're just dealing with scaffolding, the decision you have to make here is the method and means by which you would interact with the generative AI solution, and that goes into when you're doing the workbook to make a decision if you're using generative AI, how you interact with it, and perhaps that might change over time with versioning. So I do want to mention that there are some risks involved with using generative AI solutions in your production environment, regardless of whether it's a third -party hosted one with an API call or something that you are running locally. There's so much power in these big models that are doing some amazing things, but there's really a lot of risk, and the biggest thing that is it really does require constant and continuous monitoring. Almost every response needs to have some monitoring and management. You really can't set it and forget a generative AI system, even if they're doing amazing things, because we have lots of real issues with generative AI systems in production. Of course, we have the issue of hallucinations, which are models returning facts that aren't true, or images that have problems and things like that, whatever it is. They are clearly real. If you've spent any amount of time with a generative AI solution, you would have experienced that firsthand. But then the second issue we have is this constant need to moderate the outputs to make sure that they don't go rogue in a number of ways, obviously producing unacceptable content that could cause harms. If we're exposing this to a customer, we don't want generative AI systems making recommendations that could be harmful to the customer, or say inappropriate things, or do inappropriate things, images that are inappropriate, text that's inappropriate. Every response needs some monitoring, needs some oversight. We need more, ironically, with a generative AI solution, we kind of need more human in the loop than we might have with, say, just a text summarization system that we built ourselves that has much more fine grain. It may not be able to do all the things that a generative AI solution can do, but during our model evaluation phase, we were able to control the inputs and outputs and have some expectation, as it's not going to come back and generate some completely random text because of the limited nature of the models that we might have built that didn't have the general internet text. But with generative AI solutions, we don't necessarily have all the data or know all the data that these systems have been trained on, so we can't guarantee those outputs. So there needs to be this constant need for moderation, human in the loop, awareness, ability to flag and report inappropriate, or systems that, or like answers that these, if they hallucinate and tell your customer that they can do something with their bank account that they can't do, or that they make up an answer to an FAQ because that's how the tech system works, that's not good because the customer will say, well, your system recommended this or said this. So there's a constant need for looking at those responses. The other issue is that, and this has become a bit noticeable, that generative AI systems can get so -called dumber, that you might have had an expected level of quality and be like, oh my goodness, this GPT system is providing amazing results. Those results are not guaranteed to stay amazing. They could start feeling, well, not less amazing, that all of a sudden you're like, I didn't do anything to the system. I'm just making the exact same prompts and handling them the exact same way. But all of a sudden the responses are becoming less sophisticated. And there may be reasons for it, perhaps, if you're using a third party API hosted model, they may have changed something in the nature of the responses, but how are you going to handle that? How are you going to handle this issue of the system not performing as well as it used to, even when you've done everything in your power to engineer the prompts in a specific way and do those things? And this is a problem because it basically requires continuous monitoring, not just for the appropriateness of the responses, but also for the quality of the responses. And that's because API, especially the ones where you access over an API and you're just paying a penny or two or three or whatever the cost is per request, those versions can change rapidly. The cost can even change as well, that you might have, in order to gain a specific level of response, all of a sudden, perhaps you might have to spend more, do more interactions, provide more prompts, whether you have to use a more expensive model or whether you just have to do more prompts, either way, it's just going to cost more money. And that's an issue. The next biggest risk, which are in our systems in production, is that adversarial prompts, the adversarial ones where people try to come in and make your system do something that they're not supposed to, reveal information or say things that they're not supposed to. Very real. Lots of people are pushing the boundaries here, trying to figure out how to make systems do what they're not supposed to do, and they're becoming more and more dangerous, whether it's revealing information that you used in your training data that you don't want, whether it's stuff that you've done in your prompt and prompt engineering that you're not trying to reveal to everyone. These are issues because you don't have necessarily full control over how these systems respond unless you have some pretty good moderation and human loop, all the stuff we talked about before. So really one of the big things we have to say about this is that while generative AI in production offers a ton of value and may really shortcut your systems and allow you to do things much faster and provide much better results than you could possibly ever do yourself, you do have less control over generative AI, perhaps, than you might have with a more, say, purpose built from the ground up model that you developed yourself from all the data that you know and you have using your own controls and techniques. And even if we think, well, this has always been the issue because we have cloud -based systems, we don't always have control over cloud -based systems, well, you actually have even less control over generative AI than cloud. At least with the cloud, you have some control over what's been deployed. You may have some version controls over infrastructure. You may be able to have some control over the ingress and the outgress and that sort of stuff. But with generative AI systems, whether it's your own model that you're hosting or whether it is a third -party model you're accessing, you really don't have as much control over some of those quality outputs and therefore it really does require the cost of monitoring. And that may be a risk or a cost or a resource issue that you may not have. So some things to consider on both the plus sides of putting generative AI in production and some of the risks and challenges in doing so. I hope you got a little bit of information there. As mentioned, we dive quite a bit deeper into the whole spectrum of generative AI and our CPMAI training and certification. And for those of you that aren't aware, organizations and especially folks that are consulting, that are doing and implementing AI for other people should be doing it with best practices. We know everybody's learning as we go. That's just the way it is when you have technology that is literally changing as we go. But that doesn't mean making all the mistakes that everybody else is making. One of the biggest value propositions that we have for CPMAI is that it's based on all this learning experience from others who are really running AI projects across the board, everything from the business understanding to the data understanding and the preparation, building models, including shortcutting a lot of these needs with generative AI, and then of course, making sure these models are actually working, testing them, evaluating them, and then getting these various AI systems into production. That is the CPMAI methodology as a whole. Now, when we spend time with folks who are in the business of project management, a lot of folks have their own methods and processes for running projects. And certainly this doesn't make any of those existing project management approaches obsolete. Sometimes we actually find ourselves running into some challenges with terminology where some terms are used in very, very different ways in different fields. And I think for those of you who are listening who are, say, maybe afraid that their project management expertise may be obsolete or maybe don't have any project management expertise, what we want to tell you is that CPMAI is here to help advance the state of your AI projects and make you successful, providing those critical success features, those checkpoints, those criteria success criteria, if you will, as well as the best practices and the ordering for running these projects for success. So give it a chance. There are some people getting certified. 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The Crypto Conversation
Fresh update on "2017" discussed on The Crypto Conversation
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency space. 5 years ago, deep in a bear market, a group of traditional finance experts founded BitGet and they've been building ever since. Now, with 20 million users worldwide, BitGet is committed to helping users trade smarter by providing a secure one-stop crypto investment solution with copy trading, future trading and spot trading. Your security is their priority and BitGet has one of the largest protection funds in the industry with US $300 million to cover potential trader losses from unforeseen events that are not due to misconduct from the user or platform. BitGet wants to inspire everyone to embrace Web3 so if you're new to crypto, learn more at the BitGet Academy with free blockchain courses, crypto guides, cryptocurrency trading strategies and more. Or for the experienced investor, trade smarter with daily access to institutional-grade crypto market intelligence and trends analysis with BitGet Research. I've put links to BitGet Research and the BitGet Academy in the show notes, so get amongst it or simply go to bitget.com. Thank you to BitGet and now it is on with the show. My guest today is Maxim Hamrat Sol. Maxim is the founder and CEO of Good Crypto X, a non-custodial DEX trading platform that looks very interesting. We're going to learn all about it today. Welcome to the show, Maxim. Thank you, thank you. Glad to be here. Glad to have you here, Maxim. Let's do what we do at the beginning of the show. It would be great if you could please introduce yourself. Love to hear a little bit about your personal and professional backstory, what you've been doing in the lead up to founding Good Crypto X. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. My story, probably not the usual one for a tech founder, but I began as a management consultant some time ago. Then I moved on to real estate, spent almost 10 years there, actually CEO of the largest Ukrainian real estate investment development company for a while, and left that position actually to when I fell into the crypto rabbit hole, as many of us did, late 2017. Basically, in 2018, I started working on Good Crypto, which is a good crypto access tech cousin, that's their app that works for centralized exchanges, and I've been working on that for the last four years. And quite recently, we begin working on Good Crypto X, which is kind of a DEX cousin to Good Crypto. Okay. So, just explain again a little bit more about what Good Crypto is, and then why you've decided to build the DEX component of Good Crypto. Absolutely. Yeah. So, Good Crypto is an all-in-one crypto portfolio management app and multi-exchange trading terminal that supports 35 largest centralized exchanges. Basically, it gives a single trading interface to all of them, and provides a single set of advanced trading tools which are not available natively on the exchanges. And so, basically, that's Good Crypto, and since we've started building it, not since we started building, but maybe since Uniswap V2 was launched back in May 2020, and when it became clear that DEXs are where the buck is going in terms of crypto trading, and that that's kind of the future, they're viable, and we were looking into DEX space, and we both wanted to integrate the centralized exchanges in Good Crypto, and to bring to decentralized exchanges the tools and kind of the user experience that we create for centralized exchanges. And we've kind of lived with that thought for a while, but there was no technical possibility to do that, at least, there was no good technical solution, clean solution that would work for us to integrate DEXs until recently, this year, ERC4337 account abstraction Ethereum improvement proposal was adopted, and we saw a great technical opportunity to integrate DEXs into a good crypto fold as well, and started working on crypto DEXs. And talk to us, Maxim, why do you think there's a need for more DEXs? Because it's an interesting time in, I guess, the wider crypto exchange ecosystem around the world, you will have seen probably the Department of Justice case against CZ and Binance, CZ, of course, pleaded guilty yesterday and has effectively stepped down or resigned as CEO of Binance, and I guess it feels like in America, at least, US users, they really want US users to use KYC exchanges. So who are you aiming Good Crypto X at, who are your kind of target users, I guess? Yeah, we aim it to all any and all users of decentralized exchanges, whatever is the reason they use it, either for privacy reasons or for safety reasons or whatever else the reason might be, but anyone who trades on decentralized exchange is our potential customer, and those may be DEX native users or the users that moved from centralized exchanges to DEXs. You just gave a very good example. Last year, when the FTX debacle happened, we saw a lot of our users used to trade on centralized exchanges, telling us that we're taking our money off centralized exchanges for moving to DEXs, and we stop basically trading crypto until you bring your tools to decentralized exchanges as well, and that basically was the last night we needed to start building it. So we saw that even the users who were on centralized exchanges for years and years now don't trust them and want to self custody and want to move to DEXs. So yeah, that's kind of what was the additional reason for us to start building it. Yep, makes sense. And are you going to have a number of DEX-based trading bots on Good Crypto X? You talk about the next generation of trading bots. Do you want to just kind of run us through some of those different bots and how you see that working out? Sure. So the account abstraction framework that we adopted, smart contract wallets, it's part of the framework, allows us to build very different types of bots for centralized exchanges from the ones that users have probably heard about and used on centralized exchanges such as a TCA bot or a grid bot. The TCA bot, basically what it does, even if you enter a position and price goes against you, it buys additional, basically increases your position at a better price point and adjust the take profit and stop losses accordingly based on the predefined schedule, basically to improve your enterprise and grid bot maintains a grid of buy and sell orders around the price point, basically doing what most of the, automating what most of the market maker basically do. So those bots are now widely available in Texas, but they do not exist on DEXes. We're bringing that to DEX. Trading, there will be things like automated buying on different signals from, for example, technical indicators from trading, you will be able to use those signals or trade strategies to buy assets on DEXes as well. And there will be a couple of bots which are uniquely enabled by contract wallets, basically. There will be a so-called SOS, a fireside bot, that basically will allow you to exit all your holdings or convert all your coins into stable coins with one push of a button, one click and actually one transaction. So all the transactions will be batched and you will pay gas fee only once and no matter how many coins you have in your wallet, you'll be able to convert them very cheaply and fast to the stable coins if the market starts dropping and convert them back once you leave the market, actually start recovering. So that's kind of something that you need to bring in there. There will be a copy trading bot where basically you will follow the trades of the other, the wallet that you decide or the best performing wallets that we found based on our own chain analysis of all the wallets trading on DEXes. There will be an L2 mirroring bot which will automatically match the trade that you set up on L1, on L2 if it finds that it can be made cheaper. So the bot will auto-bridge your tokens from Ethereum, for example, to Arbitrum or Optimism, execute the trades there and bridge them back for you. So that's just a kind of glimpse of what the smart contract wallet framework allows us to do in terms of offering bots on the access. Yeah, there's a lot of DeFi functionality there that will certainly be appealing to DEX natives and DeFi natives.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from This Strategy Will Make MILLIONAIRES In The Crypto Bull Market! (Watch Till The End)
"I want to show you the most powerful tool that I have in this bull market. Trust me, it's the way that I've made the most money since I started trading. We've just had a huge breakout in Bitcoin. I know it doesn't look like it, but Bitcoin has been battling this resistance line for a long time and we've just broken through the resistance line beautifully, beautifully right over there. And what that means is it means that we are getting into the next stage of this raging Bitcoin bull market. The next stage is going to be a much, much, much faster and much more vicious stage of the bull market. Up until now, we've been battling this resistance line, but once we get through it, we get into the next part of the Bitcoin bull market. And if our thesis is right, if our thesis has been right up until now, we are about 30 % of the way in this bull market. The first 300 days were the build up, the accumulation phase of the bull market. And the next 600 days is when all the action happens and we do something like this. So what does that mean? Well, it means that you've got about 600 days to make real life changing money. Because if you don't make real life changing money in the next 600 days, I think the next cycle for crypto is going to be a lot more relaxed, a lot more regulated, and to be honest, a lot less fun. What it means is that we've got 600 days left to make real life changing or wife changing money. Now listen, I've been in crypto for a long time. I've been around for the previous two cycles. I lived through this 2015 to 2017 high. I lost most my money. And then I lived through this 2021 2022 bull market. And if I learned anything in those bull markets, I learned two things. The first thing is that making money in a bull market only happens if you have a plan. If you don't have a plan, you ain't going to make money because what you're going to do is you're going to end up riding this bull market right up to the top and you're going to get flushed out because you don't have a plan. And the second thing I learned is that even if you've got a plan, if you don't have the right tools to execute on your plan, you have got zero chance of keeping your money. I've seen this twice. In 2017, I made fortunes and I landed up losing fortune. In 2021, I ended up making fortunes and luckily I ended up keeping it. So when it comes to making a plan, we have a great plan. And to be honest, we've been executing on our plan and our plan is performing. What we said is we said that we put 80 % of our money into this diversified portfolio, which by the way, up until today is up 60 % in just one month. It's a beautifully diversified portfolio that talks to all the narratives and has a well diversified number of coins. And you can see it's broken up beautifully. So that's our plan and we're executing as per that plan. 80 % of our money is going into that ETF and 20 % is going into a whole lot of small speculative bets that can really, really, really explode your portfolio. Things like the next Casper or the next Kojira. That's what our plan is. And if you want to know more about our plan, I'm going to leave a link to the video below where we actually devised the plan, where we actually made that plan. Today's show though is about the second thing that you need. I want to show you the most powerful tool that I have in this bull market. I built it because of what I learned in the previous bull markets and because of the mistakes that I made. And I want to show you the tool and I want to show you why it's so powerful. So listen, if you're watching this and you want more of this content and you want more plans, subscribe to the channel. Now's a beautiful, great time to subscribe. And if you're already a subscriber, just smash the like button. Let's get everybody else listening and let's get everybody else looking and using these tools to make you guys life -changing money in the next, well, 599 days now. So the tool I want to show you today is Banter Bubbles. And to be honest, when we built this tool, we never realized how powerful this tool was going to be. It's only when we started making real money on this tool that we realized exactly how powerful it is. So what is it? Well, here it is. Or in fact, here it is because it's available on iPhone, on Android, and of course, on desktop. What is it? It's a tool that's designed to show you how tokens are moving very, very quickly. The idea is that you can, with a quick glance, understand exactly what's going on with the bubbles. When the bubbles are green, it means they're going up. When the bubbles are red, it means they're going down. The bigger the bubble, the bigger the move. So you can see on today's bubbles, Neo is up 15 % today, FTT is up 80 % today, and Alluvium is up 30 .62 % today. Now, I always used to use this tool when I used to wake up in the morning, look at my phone, see if it's going to be a good day or a bad day, or if I was going to a restaurant and I snuck off to go to the toilet, I quickly went and looked at the bubbles, and I realized which tokens were going up and which tokens were going down. But that wasn't enough because knowing whether the why they're going up or down. And so what we did was we built a chat in every single one of the bubbles. So when you see a bubble going up, you click on the chat, and it's a place where the community gather and share alpha as to why the token is going up or down. So you can see the whole Casper community is gathered here in the bubbles. And it gave you an idea. The idea was to say, hey, the bubbles are going up, but why are the bubbles going up or down? And that's where the chat came in. But that wasn't enough. We wanted to give you guys more alpha, we wanted to make the bubbles more interactive. So what did we do? Well, we created a general chat. An idea behind the general chat was to say, you can sit down, you can watch every single one of the bubbles. And while you're watching the bubbles, you can see what the community is talking about in response to the bubbles moving. And there's a lot of alpha in this chat. In fact, this is where I'm starting to get a lot of my alpha. That's amazing. We then built a whole lot of features in the bubbles. Like for example, you can add filters. So you can add a filter over here. And you can say, I want to see the performance of gaming coins only. And there we go. It's now showing you the performance of gaming coins only. You can filter it even further by saying I want to see it on the hourly chart. And now I'm looking at gaming coins specifically on the hourly chart. You can add watch lists. So you go over here, you press on lists, you add a watch list, and you can add your tokens that you have in your portfolio. So let me add in Bitcoin. I have Bitcoin in my portfolio add token. Let me add it over there. I have Solana in my portfolio. Solana is doing fantastically well. I have Casper in my portfolio. I'm going to add it there. And so you can add your own, you can create your own watch list with just the tokens that you're interested in watching. So you can block out the noise. You can obviously do a whole lot of other things. You can see the top 100 coins or even go all the way down the list as you see fit. And if you like categories, well, that's simple. Just go to filter, find the categories that interest you, whether they're gaming, centralized exchanges, liquid staking tokens, metaverse, and click here, and you'll immediately see just those coins. So that's what we did. We built an amazing tool, but we weren't happy. We wanted to give you guys even more alpha. And even though our competitors thought we were crazy and the market thought we were crazy, we did something absolutely insane. We took the banter newsroom, the place where we get all of our research, and we added it to the bubbles for free, which means that effectively if you go onto the newsroom, you can see every single tweet, every single article that, that our 40 researchers are looking at real time. As we see them here, we have 40 researchers and what they're doing all day long is they are looking for research that we make our trading decisions with, and that we use to make our content. And it's all available right here for you to see. And to be honest for our competitors to see too, because we don't really care. People said we were crazy, but you know what we decided to do? We decided to double down. Not only did we make our entire newsroom absolutely free for everyone to see so that you can watch the news and watch the effects that the news is happening on the bubbles. We also gave people free access to our research call. This is a call that happens once every day with the entire banter team. And it's where we discuss all the alpha for the day. And we discuss what we're going to put into our shows. It happens about six hours before our shows.
Crypto Altruism Podcast
Fresh update on "2017" discussed on Crypto Altruism Podcast
"The other thing that I really, really try and like focus on, nonprofits is sort of interesting for donors. It's very interesting is just the nature of crypto being borderless and near instant, you know, is I can send money from, to Africa, to Southeast Asia in a few seconds. And it settled, you know, like that. I think solve so many problems for nonprofits and for just like traditional payments that, that also is a great reason. Yeah, definitely. I mean, for sure. And yeah, big fan of, of glow Darla, like you mentioned and yeah, great, great pointed to around just like the different steps it has to go through through for traditional financial systems to send funds, you know, to an organization on the other side of the world. Whereas with, you know, crypto and can be instantaneous very auditable, you know, less of those kinds of intermediaries that take a little cut. So yeah, both very compelling reasons, you know, to get involved with crypto philanthropy. And, you know, as we wrap up this conversation, I'm wondering, you know, going into giving season, what's your call to action for donors this giving season? I would say donors, like if you're, if you're, if you're crypto curious, or you're on the fence or like, just check it out. It's, it's not as hard as you think. There's lots of great things out there. There's lots of strides we've made to like make crypto more accessible and more friendly. You know, when I talk to my family about it, it's like, it's like I'm sending them to Jupiter or something. I'm like, listen, it sounds complicated when I try to explain it to you because crypto is, but the actual experience is easier than you think. And so I would totally consider that you look into it and give crypto fundraising a try and try making donations on any of these platforms that I'm sure Drew has been talking about. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, no, great advice. And I think, you know, it seems to be getting easier every day as more resources came out, come out more, you know, onboarding tools, those sorts of things to really break down, you know, the experience and help bring new folks into the space. So yeah, great advice. Thanks so much for being here. It's been a pleasure. Thanks, Drew. Thank you to Mitch for joining today on the Giving Tuesday special and make sure to head over to giveth.io to learn more about their work. And next up, we're excited to welcome Steven of Givepack to the stage. All right, Steven, pleasure to have you back on the crypto altruism podcast. This time for our Giving Tuesday special. So thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having me, Drew. Yeah, my pleasure. My pleasure. I know a lot has changed since we last talked, a lot of great developments coming out of Givepack since we spoke a couple of months ago. I'm really excited to focus in today on your work on donor device funds, because I think that that's a really cool application of Web3 technology and really democratizing access to that tool for something that was really previously restricted to large donors with a lot of capital. So it's really cool how that's changing now. So maybe for those that aren't as familiar listening in, what is a donor device fund and what value do they bring to nonprofits and donors? So donor device funds are the fastest growing philanthropic vehicle in the US. The number of donor device fund accounts has grown 29% year over year since 2017. So it's been a sustained uptrend. And about 13% or 14% of all nonprofit donations are contributions to donor device funds versus direct donations to nonprofits. And so donor device funds are really cool because it's kind of like setting up your own private foundation within a 501c3 or sponsoring organization. You can take assets in particular. Appreciated assets are the best for this. Stocks or crypto, whatever it is, you can put those assets into the donor device fund and get the immediate tax benefit that calendar year. Then you can work with the sponsoring organization, depending on their investment policies, to keep those assets invested in the assets of your choice. So say you fund a donor device fund with some Bitcoin, you can keep it invested in Bitcoin. And then you basically can watch that portfolio grow over time and issue grants from it whenever you want in the future. So from the crypto context, it's really interesting because we have these cyclical cycles where people are sitting on large appreciated assets or large unrealized gains within one calendar year, and they want to offset those through philanthropy, but they may not want to issue all those grants immediately. They may want to dole those out over time. Yeah, very cool. Yeah, it's interesting.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Rafts $R Stablecoin Suffers $3 Million Exploit
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Friday November 10th, 2023 Raft suffers a 3 .3 million dollar exploit, Oboe Network will launch to main it open beta on December 1st, Aragon introduces a plugin for multi -chain governance, and an Etherrock NFT sells for 100 ETH. All this and more starts right now. Stablecoin protocol Raft experienced an exploit resulting in a loss exceeding 3 million dollars. Raft allows users to mint its rStablecoin through collateral depositions using Ether or Liquid Staking tokens as collateral. An attacker was able to mint 6 .7 million uncollateralized rStablecoins using a series of flash loans. The stablecoins were then swapped for ETH on Balancer. Unexpectedly, the attacker burned 1 ,570 Ether, valued at around 3 .3 million dollars, by transferring it to a null address. The Filema engineer 0xNGMI noted that the burn led to a net loss for the attacker. Raft has since halted the minting of new r tokens. Users who have active positions on Raft can still repay their positions and withdraw their collateral. Obel Network is set to launch its Mainnet Open Beta on December 1st, allowing anyone to operate distributed validators on Mainnet. Distributed validators, which distribute a validator's key across multiple nodes, enhance Ethereum's fault tolerance by ensuring continued validation even if a node in the cluster goes offline. Obel also introduced the Obel SDK, a TypeScript tool for creating and managing DV clusters, and Obel Splits, a series of smart contracts for handling reward, principal, and fee allocation within DV clusters. Obel is also launching a credential program for validators who successfully complete DV -related tasks. Argon introduced a multi -chain governance plugin that uses Layer 0 for cross -chain messaging and zkSync era for cost -effective vote settlement. The plugin allows DAOs to manage assets and permissions across multiple EVM chains from a single Mainnet DAO contract, helping improve cross -chain protocol governance. The plugin is open source and will be available on the Argon app in early 2024. And lastly, an Ether Rock NFT sold for 100 Ether, which is equivalent to about $209 ,000. Ether Rock is a collection consisting of 100 NFTs, each featuring a distinct clip -art image of a rock. The collection was originally created in 2017. Following the sale, the minimum price to acquire an Ether Rock NFT is now 150 Ether. In other news, Poloniex suffers a $120 million exploit, RISC -0 introduces Bonsai Pay, and ERC -7556. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
Coronavirus
A highlight from Rafts $R Stablecoin Suffers $3 Million Exploit
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Friday November 10th, 2023 Raft suffers a 3 .3 million dollar exploit, Oboe Network will launch to main it open beta on December 1st, Aragon introduces a plugin for multi -chain governance, and an Etherrock NFT sells for 100 ETH. All this and more starts right now. Stablecoin protocol Raft experienced an exploit resulting in a loss exceeding 3 million dollars. Raft allows users to mint its rStablecoin through collateral depositions using Ether or Liquid Staking tokens as collateral. An attacker was able to mint 6 .7 million uncollateralized rStablecoins using a series of flash loans. The stablecoins were then swapped for ETH on Balancer. Unexpectedly, the attacker burned 1 ,570 Ether, valued at around 3 .3 million dollars, by transferring it to a null address. The Filema engineer 0xNGMI noted that the burn led to a net loss for the attacker. Raft has since halted the minting of new r tokens. Users who have active positions on Raft can still repay their positions and withdraw their collateral. Obel Network is set to launch its Mainnet Open Beta on December 1st, allowing anyone to operate distributed validators on Mainnet. Distributed validators, which distribute a validator's key across multiple nodes, enhance Ethereum's fault tolerance by ensuring continued validation even if a node in the cluster goes offline. Obel also introduced the Obel SDK, a TypeScript tool for creating and managing DV clusters, and Obel Splits, a series of smart contracts for handling reward, principal, and fee allocation within DV clusters. Obel is also launching a credential program for validators who successfully complete DV -related tasks. Argon introduced a multi -chain governance plugin that uses Layer 0 for cross -chain messaging and zkSync era for cost -effective vote settlement. The plugin allows DAOs to manage assets and permissions across multiple EVM chains from a single Mainnet DAO contract, helping improve cross -chain protocol governance. The plugin is open source and will be available on the Argon app in early 2024. And lastly, an Ether Rock NFT sold for 100 Ether, which is equivalent to about $209 ,000. Ether Rock is a collection consisting of 100 NFTs, each featuring a distinct clip -art image of a rock. The collection was originally created in 2017. Following the sale, the minimum price to acquire an Ether Rock NFT is now 150 Ether. In other news, Poloniex suffers a $120 million exploit, RISC -0 introduces Bonsai Pay, and ERC -7556. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S14 E12: Actress, Coach, Global Life on Stage
"Hello, welcome to The Loatney Show. I'm your host, John Mayolone. In this episode, we don't have regulars, because reasons, I guess. As for our guest, she is from Nigeria, but currently in Israel, and she is an actress, producer, and well, so much more. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Rania Mann. Hi, Peter. Just a very, very quick one. I'm actually originally from Israel, but residing in Nigeria. Oh, that was confusing. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, cool. So, how's life? Well, normally I'd say life in Nigeria is beautiful for me, because there's a lot happening here. I feel like I'm in the heart of a lot of things. I'm in Lagos, so Lagos is the commercial hub of Nigeria and of all of West Africa, really. So, I feel like I'm in the New York of Africa. But, you know, we can't... Yes. Oh, dear. And your audio just got cut off. Can you hear me? Oh, yes, I can hear you now. Okay. Did you hear me? No, I did not. Your audio just cut off completely all the way through. But I heard... Oh, that's funny. I heard you. Okay, so where should I start over or how? Just repeat what you just said entirely. Okay. I said that normally life in Lagos is pretty fun. Lagos is the commercial hub of Nigeria and of West Africa, I think, I would say. So, a lot is happening here all the time, and I feel like I'm in the New York of Africa. So, yeah, but with me being Israeli and what's happening in Israel right now, that's a cloud over our heads at the moment. So, that's life. Oh, alright then. So, what is it you mainly do for a living? I'm an actress and I'm also an acting coach and I produce. I produced a film festival here for about five years and now I produce films as well. Wow, impressive. What was life for you growing up? Oh, that's a very big question. I mean, I grew up in about seven different places till I reached high school. I mean, yeah, till I finished high school. I was born in Israel, then we moved to Ivory Coast, then we moved back to Israel and we moved to Nigeria. Where else was I? Okay, within Israel, we moved to another place and then I moved to England. I did my high school in Thorpe, in Surrey, and then, yeah, went to Israel again. So, I was moving around a lot. Alright then. Which I think is great because it makes you a very cosmopolitan, rounded person. Yeah, absolutely. And if you could live anywhere else in the world, where would it be? And the audio got cut again. Okay, now I've got you back. I don't know what's going on with the audio thing. Let me see if I can just close off some apps, if that would help. Alright. How's this now? Yes, fantastic. Okay. So, what did you hear me say? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Oh, great. Okay. So, your question was where would I like to live? Where else would I like to live in the world? Yeah, if you could live anywhere else in the world, where would it be? So, I was saying that for me, I don't know, maybe that's why actors have this tendency to live through characters, right? And I think it's something inherited in me because it depends on the season, it depends on the mood, it depends on the time in my life, the period of my life. Because in Nigeria, for example, I love living here because there's so much I can contribute. Can you hear me? Yes, I can still hear you. There's so much I can contribute to the film industry here and that makes me really, really happy. I think any place where I would feel I'm making a difference and where the weather is not too cold, that would be the place for me. Yeah, fair enough. If someone wrote a book about you, what do you think a title would be? And here we go again. It just cut off, right off. I can't hear anything, she says. Good grief. What a day. And I'm not doing anything. Now I can hear you, now I can hear you again. Right after I told you the question, I couldn't hear you, I couldn't hear you at all. This platform is gaslighting me. Maybe there's like a delay. Okay. Can you hear me now? That's crazy. Yes, I can still hear you. Okay, Okay. so a book about me, I hope would be my mission to this world, which is bridging worlds through art. Oh, alright then. If your mind was an island, what would it look like? If my mind were an island. Gosh, that is such a... Can you hear me? Yeah, I can still hear you. That is such a creative question. Wow. If my mind was an island, it would have... It would have... Multiple... What's the word? Like, you would have a tropical area, then you would have a very cold area on the island. Maybe like a mountain top. Like a foggy mountain top. And then a sandy tropical beach at the bottom. Because, yeah, so you could, you know, be in any place in the island. choose... So you And I get cut off again. Thanks, Spotify, for gaslighting me. I don't understand why this is happening. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. And now you're back. No, because I can hear you very well, though, all through. Yes, but there are times that now, there are times that your audio is just cut off completely from my end. So, yeah, this is crazy. Hmm, what can we do? You want to try another network? What other network? Is this the only one? No, like, let me try and cut off my Wi -Fi and just use my phone network. Let me try that. Okay. One, two. Yes, one, two. I could hear that. Okay. So let's try this and see if that works better. All right, then. Here we go. Right, an island. My mind is an island would be something that you could choose where... You know, according to the mood you wake up with on that day? Yes. You heard that? Yes, I heard you. So it would be maybe like, it would have a tropical, sandy beach and a mountain, a foggy mountain top as well. Okay. Yeah. Nice, very good. Yeah, oh, oh, and a very, and a very busy, hyped urban area with like clubs and music and coffee shops and cinema and all that good stuff. Nice, very good. It must have a theatre. Of course it has to have a theatre. Yeah. Yes. Would you rather not be able to open closed doors or not be able to close open doors? Would I rather be able to open closed doors or... Not be able to... To close open doors? Yeah. Is that what it says? Yes. Judging by the way I live, I normally open closed doors. So, yeah, that's me. Okay, close enough I guess. What happens in real life but rarely gets portrayed in movies? And I can't hear you again. I don't know why I keep doing that. I'm getting gas lit again. Yay! Could it be something, could it be something on the other end? I mean, my Wi -Fi is working alright. My headphones great. I can't, I have no idea to be honest. And this has never happened before? Because it's never happened before to me either. Yeah, this is the first time for me. Any issues that I've ever encountered would actually stop me from recording episodes altogether. I never had an issue that still kept the episode going but still had a bit of an inconvenience to me. So, yeah, it's a weird and funny one for me. Yeah, I agree. I think it's just a delay, I don't know. Yeah, first time for everything. So, what did you mean by close enough? Well, listen, I'm not mad. I understand that this misinterpreted the question, but the question was would you rather not be able to open closed doors or not be able to close open doors? Oh, I didn't hear the first not. I would say I would rather not be able to close open doors. Because I can maneuver myself through open doors. But I hate closed doors. I'm a boundary breaker. Yes, that's great. What kind of music do you often listen to? Okay, can you hear me now? Because I just heard a beat. I can still hear you, yes. Okay, good. I find myself lately listening a lot to The Weeknd. You know them, right? Yes, I've heard of them. Oh, shoot. Here we go again. Let up the gas again. Yeah, it's a current thing over and over again. It's just... Cut the audio from whoever's end. I'd be surprised if this keeps going to the very end. Wow, this is actually a lot longer of a cut than I thought. Oh, this is... That's crazy. No, I know you can... Okay, now you're back. That was a longer audio cut than last time. Or like Evan's recording. I know, but the funny thing is I can hear you all through. Like if you hear this recording later on... Yeah, of course. But the question is, when it comes to the editing process... I'm not sure. Do you want to... Do you want to start over? No, let's keep... I feel like there's some good moments in this that will be very good. And also, we're still going on, so let's keep going and yeah. Yeah, okay. No, what I meant is maybe if we... We don't start the whole thing over, but we'll just start a new recording and then continue from where we stopped and maybe the new recording would be better. I don't know if that's something... I can actually... I've actually worked around editing in the past, so whatever happens, it'll still be good. Okay. Okay. So where were we? You were saying something. Asking something. Great. Fantastic. If you could host a talk show, who would you have on as your first guest? I... Wow. I don't know. I don't know. What would the talk show be about? Well, whatever you like. I think in this point in time, I'd like to talk to Mr. Biden. President Biden. Oh, okay. Or maybe just... Yeah, probably the American president. Yeah. I'm always fascinated by how those people think because I feel like they think in multiple channels simultaneously. Oh, of course. If you're going on a road trip, what two items do you make sure to bring with you? Only two? Oh, gosh. Yes, only two. Yes. Now I can hear you. Can you hear me? Now I can hear you. I was waiting to see how long it would take for you to come back again without me actually speaking. Oh, so how long did it take? I don't know. I wasn't counting seconds. Well, I think it was four minutes by the clock to be recording. Okay, so... That's very little. Usually I'd have like a little purse with some first aid kit. But I think if it's only two things, it would be a phone and a sunscreen. A phone mainly because I'd need something to write with or write on. Yeah, so a phone and a sunscreen. Yeah. I'd like something to write all my thoughts. Yeah, so I don't have to keep them in my head. Yes, absolutely. What's your favorite season? Spring. Definitely spring. Anything warm. Absolutely. Have you met anyone famous? Well, yeah, it depends what you call famous. But I'd say so, yeah. A lot of famous people from the Nigerian industry for sure that are famous all over Africa. And a couple of times met some famous personalities in Israel. And how about again? And now? And you're back. Yay! Well, if I met anyone famous, I think famous is like... I mean, I've met actors that are very famous all over Africa and in the diaspora, of course. I've met some famous people from Israel, from the Israeli scene. But I mean, they're just people. They're my friends. They're just normal people. So, I wonder why would that be a thing? Yeah, absolutely. You never know. Before, they were even famous. They were on the same level as us. No, I mean... So, there's a very, very famous actor. Now he's famous. He's called Daimio Kalawong from Nigeria. And I met him back in 2017 where he was just beginning his acting career. I mean, he hasn't changed since then. He's still the same person and we're still good friends. He's just more busy now, you know? Yeah, I can see that. How much time do you spend on the internet? Hmm... Probably five hours a day or more. Alright then. I'd say the same, to be honest. Would you rather sleep on the wall or sleep on the ceiling? When I'm back. And you're back! Yay! Yay! I would rather sleep on the ceiling. Ask me why. All the floor space you could have? Because I can see everything better from the ceiling. You'd have an abundant view. Oh yeah, that too. Where is the most relaxing place you've been? The most relaxing place I've been. Can you hear me now? Yeah, I can still hear you. I think relaxing place is a state of mind. Because I found myself many times in a resort, in a beach resort, when I was not relaxed at all. And then I found myself many times in bed feeling relaxed and then many times feeling very unrelaxed. So I think it's a state of mind. It's not a physical place. Nice. If you could erase one past experience, what would that be? Any experience in my life. Yes. Any experience in my life where I found myself speechless or numb or... Anything. Yeah, I would erase all of those. All right. All those times. Where I went afterwards and said, I wish I would have said that. I should have said that. All those times. Yeah, that's crazy. Would you rather speak all languages or talk to animals? Can you hear me? Now I can hear you. Wow, this is really challenging. It sure is. Yeah. Could you repeat the question, please? I'll try. Okay. Would you rather speak all languages or talk to animals? Speak all languages. Yeah. Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. I think that the more we can communicate with our human race, the better our race will be, the more beneficial it will be for the world. So I think that God put us here for a purpose. And the purpose is to better ourselves and to better our world. So, you know, he enabled us to communicate amongst ourselves for that purpose. Yeah, absolutely. If you could turn any activity into an Olympic sport, what would you have a good chance of winning a medal for? Oh, goodness. Connecting people. That's my best quality. Nice. That'd be an interesting sport. Yes, it would be, wouldn't it? Yeah. Okay, you do this. Oh, you do that. Okay, that's your passion. I know, I know who you want to talk to. I know who you need to talk to. Bloom. Yeah. Fabulous. If you could travel back in time, what decade would you want to live in? What era I'd like to live in? I think it was the Renaissance when everything was blooming. Arts and science and I don't know. So. Yeah, I'd like to be then when everything was still fresh and new. To kind of be there to impact it. To impact. Nice, absolutely. And that is all we have for this episode. It's great having you on, Rania, talking about your brilliant acting career and working as an acting coach and producer and everything else you're doing in Nigeria. It's been great. Okay. Can you hear me, Peter? Yes, now I can hear you. Okay. Fantastic. This is awkward because it's happening so often, I don't know why. By the way, it was great having you on and I wish you best of luck. And with that being said, until next time, you're welcome. Stay tuned for more.
Crypto Voices
A highlight from PE81: Bitcoin's Power Growth Trend
"Hey everybody, welcome. Today we're going to go back to the good old all -time power law trend line of the Bitcoin price. Alright, so here we are again with the good old Bitcoin price, all -time price history starting on May 22nd. It's my date, I'm roughly picking May 22nd 2010. Bitcoin pizza day where Laszlo, our friend, made the first recognized Bitcoin barter transaction. 10 ,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. So a couple months ago I was back on Peter McCormick's podcast with Peter and Danny talking about this chart. It's a favorite of theirs and of many have been publishing a variation of this for at least five years now, probably six years. a Based on couple good posts from Bitcoin talk back in the day, even though they were using a little bit of a different model than I am. There's four basic trend lines and statistics, a linear trend line and there are three non -linear trend lines, which would be logarithmic, exponential and power. This is a power law or power regression trend line where on log scale it grows pretty quick at the beginning, but then it's a little bit asymptotic, decays at the end. But that's just how it looks on log scale. That's just how it looks based on the formulas. If I go back to linear scale, it still looks exponential. It's just a little bit different than an exponential curve. Point is, with Bitcoin far and away, the best fitting statistical trend line curve that you can draw is a power trend line. I'm not saying for sure that Bitcoin's price will stay on this in the future. This is just probabilistically how the price has been behaving and we can draw some percentiles to suggest how price would be in the future. Do see my prior videos on explaining the different curves and looking at gold as well for these different trend lines. But anyway, 95 % R squared is a great fitting trend line for Bitcoin. So I just want to do a very, very quick revisit here on this episode. Here we had the 2021 boom, a little bit hidden by my tooltip, but it's a double top. They're getting over $60 ,000 per Bitcoin twice. Actually, let's zoom out just a little bit to get the tooltip not in the way. There we go. And so we see here again, once you draw that trend line. Using simple statistics, percentile bands, which are basically standard deviation bands, we can show based on every single day's worth of pricing data where that price data point fits at any given time. And unlike early days, these double tops here in 2021 were actually not so rare based on the all -time trend. They were above a one standard deviation move up, which means they were outside of two thirds of the time. So two thirds of the time, the Bitcoin price will be within these blue bands. And then what is the red band? What are the red bands? I should say that is a two standard deviation move or a 95 percentile move. It means that 95 percent of the time, based on the statistics, based on the data, based on the coefficients, we can expect the Bitcoin price to be within these bands. And unlike other models, which have been lauded and praised and then forgotten in prior years, this is just a very simple statistical model. It will adjust every day up or down based on the Bitcoin price. So unlike in earlier years, just a quick revisit here in 2011, 2013 and in 2017, we got to two standard deviation moves based on the all -time trend. Now, they were probably even more extreme at those particular times. But looking back, using all the data that we have, even until now in 2023, we can see that those were still extreme moves. They were still relatively for the time. And based on the power trend line, extreme moves. And 2021 was actually not so. Only one standard deviation move up. But of course, the main point of this video is in the last year, specifically from all of the scam coin crises here in mid 2022, culminating in the FTX bankruptcy in November 2022, Bitcoin's price also took a tumble and it took a pretty big tumble. You see here when we were about $16 ,000-$17 ,000 per Bitcoin in December 2022, we were at a two standard deviation move down. And so that band, that red band there. Let's just take off all the bands so you know exactly what I'm talking about. That red band there. It meant that Bitcoin was touching an event that only had happened five percent of the time in the past. So pretty rare. Pretty rare. It actually bounced right along that band. Again, this is not technical analysis. This is just basic statistics. It bounced along that band and then creeped back up. Even during the banking crisis of March 2023, where badly managing cash managed banks, mismatched asset and liabilities, banks had many problems, had to be pseudo bailed out in the US and other places. Bitcoin still rallied from the lows here at $16 ,000, went up to $30 ,000 mid year and into the summer, fell back down to about $25 ,000. And now I'm actually, I have the data as of today, as of literally this recording, we are about at $36 ,570 per Bitcoin, and we have had a nice little bump here from the high $20 ,000s in the last couple weeks. So this is where we are now. Now let's put the other standard deviation bands up to see where we are. We already have the trend line. We can see we're well under trend. Let's just quickly look at that. The trend line here based on today as of recording November 10th is $60 ,000 for Bitcoin, $59 ,918 per Bitcoin based on every single day of pricing history in the past. That is the trend line. That's theoretically where the price could or should be. And we have the actual price $25 ,000, $24 ,000 below that. And the two standard deviation down move, which would be a very rare move, which we did have a year ago, would be if Bitcoin tumbled back to $23 ,000 per Bitcoin. So they're all rising. All the trend lines are rising. Now let's look at one standard deviation down. We're above that as well. So what this means now, let's put one standard deviation back up. Let's even take away the two down means right now we're right back in normal territory. No matter what CNBC tells you, no matter what Peter Schiff tells you, no matter what Bloomberg tells you, we're actually right back in normal territory for Bitcoin. We're not even on trend. We're below trend. But we are in the territory that occurs within one standard deviation. It means within two thirds of the time, two thirds of the time, two thirds of the days analyzed, Bitcoin will be within this band. And we can see that it actually is right now. So we're within one standard deviation territory, pretty normal. If we were to get to say two standard deviations up, if we had a major major bull run, which I'm not claiming will happen anytime soon. But just so you would see a two standard move up. And this is where you can really see the not only the volatility of Bitcoin, but just the dynastic growth that has occurred as it's been adopted by millions of people around the world. In the last 14 years, a two standard deviation move up based on the numbers today, which would mean 5 % on the on the upside, it's actually two and a half percent on the upside. A very, very rare move. OK, so outside of 95 % of the of the observations, Bitcoin price would need to be $394 ,000 for Bitcoin. So that's where we are. As always, I'm pulling this chart out to 2030. And just if you're curious, I have had this many times shown this in many videos before. The trend line at the moment is roughly $600 ,000 per Bitcoin in December 2030. Again, the 95 % are squared. Trend line will move up or down every day based on new data that is fed into this model. This is what it is. Pay attention to it. And thanks for watching.
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
A highlight from AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series- Methodology, Waterfall, Agile, CRISP-DM, Cognitive Project Management for AI (CPMAI)
"The AI Today podcast, produced by Cognolytica, cuts through the hype and noise to identify what is really happening now in the world of artificial intelligence. Learn about emerging AI trends, technologies, and use cases from Cognolytica analysts and guest experts. Hey, AI Today listeners. Want to dive deeper and get resources to drive your AI efforts further? We've put together a carefully curated collection of resources and tools handcrafted for you, our listeners, to expand your knowledge, dive deeper into the world of AI, and provide you with the essential resources you need. From books and materials, ranging from fundamentals of AI to deep dives on implementing AI projects, to AI ethics, tools, software, checklists, and more, our resources page will help you on your AI journey, whether you're just starting out or you're well on your way. Check it out at aitoday .live slash list. That's aitoday .live slash l -i -s -t. Hello and welcome to the AI Today podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen Mulch. And I'm your host, Ronald Schmelzer, and you know, we've been doing these AI Today glossary series podcasts now for a while, and I think it's really great because we're covering the full scope of putting AI into practice and making it successful. And as you may have gathered from all of our podcast episodes, it's more than just about machine learning models and algorithms and training data. That's a small part of it. Making AI successful really is about the full scope of big data, and it's about AI and applying the right pattern of AI. And it's all about understanding, you know, how you need to deal with some of these ethical concepts and how we need to deal with dealing with data and moving data around and understanding it. So that's part of the glossary. It's not just, oh, yeah, be familiar with terms, but also like, oh, wow, maybe I need to be aware of these things because if I want my project to be successful, there's a lot of things I need to factor into account. So definitely continue to listen. We're going to have tons more on the AI Glossary Series. We have lots of other things, of course, that we've been doing on AI Today since 2017. So yeah, six years into this and hundreds of podcasts, you know, we'll continue strong. We don't never run out of things to say on the AI Today podcast. So stay subscribed and be part of our AI Today community. Exactly. So with our AI Glossary Series, if you've listened to them before, you know that sometimes we present one term and other times we present multiple terms together on the podcast so that we can, you know, help you understand how these terms fit together. And these are AI machine learning and big data terms that we have in our glossary. So on today's podcast, we're going to define the term methodology, also waterfall, agile, crisp DM, and the cognitive project management for AI, CPMAI. So we've talked about methodology a lot on all of our podcasts because we are advocates of doing AI right and following best practices methodologies. But sometimes when we talk to people, when we talk to people with more of a project management mindset or background, they totally get methodology. When we talk to folks that are more technical, more developer background, they don't always understand the term methodology. So we want to make sure that we are level setting it. And just in general, sometimes people don't, you know, not necessarily those roles in particular. So I don't want to single any one particular rollout. But so we said, why don't we actually define the term methodology and put that in our glossary? So a methodology is a set of steps, process, and framework that is followed in a particular order to achieve desired and repeatable outcomes. Methodologies are generally practices and procedures that people follow for particular tasks and adopted organization -wide to ensure that the organization adopts the same approaches to systems. So that's important to understand because it really is a step -by -step approach. It's repeatable, usually documented so that you're not kind of just making things up on the fly. It's a step -by -step approach that you can follow every time to get repeatable outcomes. So methodologies such as CPMAI methodology provide a project management approach to running and managing AI projects in a predictable and iterative manner, optimized for success and avoidance of common reasons why AI projects fail. And we had a huge, you know, common reasons why AI projects fail podcast or AI failure series. We'll link to those in the show notes so you can check them out. But just at a high level, understand when you do apply best practices methodologies, you are limiting your, you know, some of those common reasons why AI projects fail. Yeah, you know, methodologies are really important. People don't put enough emphasis that it's the way you do things often that define the difference between success and failure. I mean, if you listen to many of our interviews here on AI Today and you look at some of the stuff that we've been talking about, especially in our failure series, this is probably the most relevant, that you'll see that we bring examples from organizations that have some of the best researchers and technologists on the planet. There's like nobody better than some of these researchers who have been doing AI and machine learning and they know their stuff. And these companies themselves have tons of technology, some of the best technology, some of the great, they're not short on resources, right? But they're failing. They're failing. And of part the reason for that is that they're ignoring these processes. There are some rational approaches for doing it right. So people need to focus on investing in approaches. And the irony of it is that it's so inexpensive to learn how to do something. Nobody is telling you that you have to rigidly implement a process in the exact same way over and over again. But if you don't have a process, all you're doing is you're just doing a whole lot of trial and error and you're going to make mistakes that other people have made mistakes, sometimes really silly ones and stupid ones, you know, honestly. And this is like the smartest people are honestly making some of the dumbest mistakes. So, you know, pay attention to it. You may think, I don't know if the word methodology trips you up. I don't know. We were on a podcast once. We asked them if they were implementing any methodology. They said scientific methodology. I just couldn't hold back. I'm like, no, you're not. First of all, it's ridiculous for you to say that. So maybe the word methodology trips you up. You want to think of it as a process or a framework. That's fine. But you need to understand that it's a methodology. So let's bring in some methodologies that have been around, especially for project management that you may or may not be familiar with. And one of the ones that have been around for a while is called Waterfall, which is that's the name of the methodology. And it's an approach to project management that uses sequential development process sort of in a top to bottom approach that flows like a waterfall. So as you complete the requirements and it fills, then you can move on to the next phase on the project. And usually they kind of, they're sequential, so you can't overlap them. There are approaches that overlap, but let's not confuse things too much. You know, generally the approach with Waterfall is you have a requirements phase, then you have an analysis phase, a design phase, an implementation phase of some form, then you have sort of a testing phase, and then you have this final deployment phase. And, you know, these sorts of, this sort of steps kind of like an assembly line, or it's used in complex processes where you really do need to set out those requirements well in advance because you don't really want things or expect things to be changing too much. And they don't, so you can kind of guess where things are going here. They don't require sort of the too much iterative and agile stuff. So think of large engineering projects, building skyscrapers, building shopping walls, any sort of construction project, because you have to really know things well in advance, get permits and figure out where the utilities will be and the streets and the traffic and all that sort of stuff. You don't need last minute changes. You don't want last minute changes, right? But even technical projects that are just very complicated and you need to have well -defined steps. You know, Waterfall has its uses and has its approaches and has been around for a very long time. And, you know, generally that's the approach. But, well, you know, Waterfall isn't great for everything. Exactly. So Waterfall, as Ron mentioned, is still around, is still used. But Waterfall approaches follow, you know, a real engineering approach. And that can pose challenges when we are doing software development projects. So Waterfall really borrows from assembly line methods of production and operation management approaches. And as you can imagine, the timeline from when you're, you know, scoping your project out to completing the project and delivering it can be quite long. I mean, it's, you know, not uncommon, maybe 12, 18, 24 months. That's okay if you're doing things like building a shopping mall. But that's not really okay with software development. So also Waterfall requires lots of planning and documentation, requires teams to predict major obstacles, which when you're building, you know, like I said, a shopping mall, maybe you can predict what some of those major obstacles will be because you've seen them on previous jobs. But that's harder with software development. Also, it's a high risk of building the wrong thing. And you're unable to quickly respond to changing technology, requirements, needs, and bias problems, which, again, can pose huge challenges for software development projects. So from that, there was this idea that came about that we need to be more iterative and agile. We need to, you know, have tighter, short iterations so that we get to the goal of rapidly producing a deliverable within a much shorter timeframe. So no longer do we have these, you know, 12, 18 month projects, but we have shorter two weeks prints and iterations. And this is kind of that idea behind agile. So it's, again, more optimized to software development. But what exactly is agile? Yeah, so agile is a specific approach and it's also a philosophy, if you want to think of it. But it is defined as a methodology for development of any kind. It originally was for software development, but it's really kind of been applied more broadly that really focuses on these short iterative sprints. So that's the agility we want to we want to deal with change. We want to deal with the fact that requirements change and environments change and technology changes as we run into unexpected problems. Right. So that's sort of like the opposite of waterfall. Right. We want to break up our project into these smaller sections rather than tackling the whole project at once. And there are these a lot of related ideas. So agile is a general approach. There's some specific stuff there, but there's also this idea of Scrum and Kanban. I don't want to get into all those details because now you're entering the project management world, which is really interesting. Here we are on a podcast about AI and machine learning and we're talking about project management. And the reason why is because, as we said, most often the cause of failure for AI project is not bad people or bad technology. It's bad process and bad methodology. So that is why we need to bring in some of these very fundamental project management concepts. Now, agile does have this philosophy and it has a manifesto and it basically says we need to treat the requirements and needs of individuals and interactions over some rigid process and tool. Obviously, waterfall being rigid process and specific tools. The agile manifesto says really focus on delivering a working product. It has this idea of minimum viable products and really sort of working towards having something, having something to show an iteration over having comprehensive documentation, which is sort of obviously waterfall says, let's have a complete requirements document, make it as complete as possible. You're not going to have complete. And besides, even if you did, things change. Right.
The Crypto Conversation
A highlight from StealthTest - An end-to-end solution for Web3 Development
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Five years ago, deep in a bear market, a group of traditional finance experts founded Bitget, and they've been building ever since. Now, with 20 million users worldwide, Bitget is committed to helping users trade smarter by providing a secure one -stop crypto investment solution with copy trading, future trading and spot trading. Your security is their priority and Bitget has one of the largest protection funds in the industry, with US 300 million to cover potential trader losses from unforeseen events that are not due to misconduct from the user or platform. Bitget wants to inspire everyone to embrace Web3, so if you're new to crypto, learn more at the Bitget Academy with free blockchain courses, crypto guides, cryptocurrency trading strategies and more. Or, for the experienced investor, trade smarter with daily access to institutional -grade crypto market intelligence and trends analysis with Bitget Research. I've put links to Bitget Research and the Bitget Academy in the show notes, so get amongst it or simply go to bitget .com. Thank you to Bitget and now it is on with the show. My guest today is Colin Woodward. Colin is the president of StealthTest, a secure cloud -based environment that enables teams to create test networks across chains. various Welcome to the show, Colin. Thanks for having me, Andy. I appreciate it. It is a pleasure. Let's do what we do at the beginning of the show, Colin. Could you please introduce yourself? It would be good to hear a bit about your personal and professional story. It's an interesting one. I've had a look. What have you been doing in the lead up to getting involved in StealthTest? Yeah, certainly. So as you mentioned, I'm Colin Woodward. I'm president and general counsel of StealthTest, which is an API -based software platform and developer toolkit that features private test networks for most EVM -compatible chains. Right now, we're live on Ethereum and Polygon, Moonbeam, Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova, and we have a couple of new networks that we're adding just about every month now in two to three -week sprints, so very exciting there. I guess to kind of reel back things a bit, my background is actually as a corporate lawyer by trade, one who was very interested in emerging technology and kind of just markets in general. And as you might imagine, emerging tech plus markets, I quickly found my way to crypto in 2017 and actually kind of was introduced to crypto and perhaps a common fairly way that many people might encounter it for the first time. I was working in a large law firm at the time, and I shared an office wall with a colleague of mine. And one day in 2017, during kind of one of the previous bull cycles, he kind of popped in my office while I was busy at work, and he's like, hey, you ever heard about this crypto thing? It's really big right now, and I think you should check it out. And I said, Dave, I have no idea what you're talking about, but feel free to have a seat and share what you know about crypto with me. And so we chatted for a bit.
Cryptocurrency for Beginners: with Crypto Casey
A highlight from When to Buy & Sell Cryptocurrency Timing Next Bull & Bear Market (With 1 Simple Tool! )
"This past FOMC or Federal Open Market Committee meeting was an important one for both the traditional and cryptocurrency markets, with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announcing another pause in interest rate hikes. Sure, he remained hawkish sounding, hawkish meaning signaling continued tight monetary policy, or potentially tighter monetary policy on the horizon. However, as we discussed last month, when the first pause was announced, historically, literally every single time in the entire 110 years of the Federal Reserve's existence, interest rate increases are like a staircase upwards on the chart, and once they start decreasing, it's more like an elevator straight down. Wall Street called their bluff. And this second pause is likely confirmation that the substantial interest rate decreases are on the horizon. With all these wars popping off, and with an important presidential and congressional election just a year away, we can be certain that the money printer will be in full force. And when this happens, markets are more keen on risk on assets like cryptocurrencies. So at the end of the day, here's what we all need to let soak into our brains. This stuff isn't rocket science. It's cyclical, predictable, and we don't need gurus to break it down for us. Sure, we have black swans only deep state globalists are privy to like the pandemic, the attack on Ukraine, the attack on Israel, etc, are always a possibility that can derail us. However, for the most part, this stuff is simpler than most people think. Another thing we tend to overthink as people interested in and invested in the cryptocurrency markets is what cryptocurrencies to buy, when to buy them, when to hold them, and when to sell them, which is what we are going to demystify together. Hello, I'm Crypto Casey and in this video, we are going to explore an extremely simple blueprint we can follow regardless of whether we are new or experienced in this market that will make our cryptocurrency investment strategy of what to buy when to buy, hold and sell very simple and easy to follow. Let's hit it. Please be sure to check out our sponsors Afani, Heatbit and Tangent Wallet get 100 % guaranteed protection against SIM swapping using Afani secure cellular services, which you can learn more about in this video easily mine Bitcoin for passive income with Heatbit Minis easy to use three in one Bitcoin mining rig, which is also a space heater and air purifier and invest in your very own cold storage wallet like Tangent wallet. It's the size of a credit card multi chain multi currency and it's by far the easiest crypto wallet to set up and use on the market right now. Tangent just released their latest new wallet that is a sleek black design with cool new features. So scroll down and use the links below to access the correct and official sites as well as redeem any special offers they have for us. Sweet. All right, we're going to keep this very, very simple. First and foremost, if we want to enjoy this journey and live long and prosper, we must be like Spock from Star Trek, we need to completely remove emotions from the equation. If we don't, and we let price action affect our emotions, we will get absolutely wrecked. And if you can't do it, the crypto market is not for you. If you can't stomach watching $100 $1 ,000 $10 ,000 $100 ,000 going to zero, you may be in for a really, really unpleasant experience. As we always discuss together on the channel, crypto, especially altcoin investing and trading is not for the faint of heart. And anything we invest, we need to be 100 % prepared to lose. That's why we never ever invest more than we can afford to lose in this new speculative asset class. Because at the end of the day, buying and selling altcoins for potential gains is a zero sum game, we will be buying altcoins low from scared weak hands and selling them potentially for a profit at a higher price to someone who is filming in at the wrong time. Both scared and weak hands and people who fomo or have fear of missing out are letting price action affect their emotions, emotions about price action and crypto will destroy you. So turn them off. Nice. Next, whether this is your first, second, third or fourth crypto bull cycle, here's something we need to understand. The tech has come a long way. We've got a lot more historical data to work with. And we have new tools available we can use that weren't well known or that did not exist the last few times until now. So the main tool I've been using since the last bull cycle is what we are going to explore today. And yes, it is a paid product service, because anything that provides value costs money. And if we want to make money, we need to invest in gaining knowledge and using tools to give us an advantage over everyone else. Anything that is free, you are typically the self custody our cryptocurrencies and digital assets. We are literally our own bank, our own security system, we are in complete control and ownership of our assets. And if we aren't using products and services to properly secure them, like cold storage hardware wallets like tangent, encrypted email services like proton, virtual private network services like Nord VPN, security apps like wallet guard, we are putting all of our assets at risk. And you can check all those out and more using the links below. In this video, this particular tool is more so for helping us know what to buy, when to buy, when to hold, and when to sell. Because remember, trading alt coins in the crypto markets is a zero sum game, where for every winner, there is a loser. We are all in constant competition with one another. So whatever we can do to get an edge in the market or advantage over other traders, we need to do it if we want to increase our chances of success. So let's dive right in. First, we are going to learn about what the tool is, how to use the tool. And then we will look at several different alt coins together to see it in action. We've used this tool several times on the channel over the past few years. So most of us may already be familiar with it. This is the money line, formerly called the BSI or Bitcoin strength index indicator. And it's a charting tool we can use on trading view, which is a charting platform and social network used by traders and investors around the world to help spot opportunities across global markets like cryptocurrencies. Although it doesn't guarantee risk free profits, it can potentially increase the probability of us realizing nice gains off of buying and selling alt coins. Moneyline combines technical analysis with on chain analytics that gives us interesting insight into the crypto market before everyone else. It can help us identify when alt coins flip from bearish trends to bullish trends and vice versa. So we increase the probability of buying an alt coin before it pumps, holding without selling it too early and selling before it dumps. We can get access to the money line with any of the paid plans for Morales money, which we can get a seven day trial of both their starter and pro plans for just $14 using the link below. And if you don't know what Morales money is, it's a platform that helps us find alt coins that were recently created before they even get listed on indexes like CoinGecko. It lets us create and save strategies we can run to explore new alt coins. We can set alerts, view security scores of alt coins and much, much more. We walk through Morales money together in this video guide you can check out by clicking on the link above. And more features are rolling out soon that will allow us to automate our alt coin trading strategy simply and easily. So scroll down and use the link below to access the correct and official site, as well as redeem any special offers they have for our community. Nice. Now let's learn how to read the money line and then see it in action. So this is the Bitcoin price chart with the money line indicator overlaid. It's extremely easy to read. These green areas indicate a bullish upward trend. And when a red dot with text bearish appears, it means the trend has flipped bearish. And as we can see, it's followed by these red areas that indicate a bearish downward trend. And when a yellow dot with text bullish appears, it means the trend has flipped bullish. And it's followed by these green areas until the trend flips again. So the idea is buy when the trend flips bullish, hold until the trend flips bearish and sell. It's that simple. Just look at how great worked historically for Bitcoin over the last few market cycles. In the last bull cycle, I actually sold all of my crypto except a Bitcoin and ether right here around May 2021, the second highest top in the cycle. And what's funny is I didn't even reference this chart, I decided to sell because I needed to season money, which means I had to have it in a bank account for at least 90 days in order to use it to buy some real estate. Because remember, from our profit taking strategy video guide, you can check out by clicking the link above always have what you want to do with potential gains in mind, whether it's paying off debt, diversifying into other assets, buying a house, buying a car, etc. Because otherwise, we can hold on too long and get wrecked. Once you've got the gains to get what you plan to do with the gains, take profits, fam. So looking back at the chart here in May 2020, when Bitcoin flipped bullish, imagine all the people that sold here, here, here, here, and here, if they had been referencing the money line, they would have bought here when everyone was scared, held here when everyone was scared, and sold here when everyone was in a frenzy. Same thing back here in 2017 bull cycle, buying here back in July 2017, when it flipped bullish, and selling here in January 2018, when it flipped bearish, massive profits. And again, here in 2013 and 2014, buying when the money line flips bullish and selling when it flips bearish. Super simple. So now let's apply it to altcoins, starting with some of the popular ones with the largest market caps. Here's Ethereum, actually, the week of September 18, 2023, it flipped bearish. And if we put some lines here between this price range it's been staying within, once it flips bullish and breaks above this $2 ,000 resistance point, the probability of that being a good buy in point is high. If it doesn't and remains bearish, it may continue to trend downwards, we shall see. Next, we have Solana. It actually flipped bullish back in January 2023, and has been sideways staying within this price range until recently when it broke above this $40 resistance point. Buying in now has a higher probability of working out for us, so long as we remain bullish. And if we do, simply hold, ride the rocket upwards, and when it flips bearish, consider selling or at least taking some profit. Cool. Here we have Cardano. It just flipped bullish this week, and we can see this price range with a $0 .40 resistance point. If it can remain in a bullish trend and break above that $0 .40 price point, there is a high probability that it's a good time to buy in. Next up, Dogecoin. Yeah, no, this is not looking good. There is a high probability that now is not a good time to get in, and it still is in a bearish trend downwards. So if we are interested in Dogecoin, we need to wait until this sideways consolidation action breaks upwards and starts trending bullish. So the best thing to do would be to find another opportunity or keep checking the money line for when the trend flips. Sweet. Here we have Polkadot. It just flipped bullish this week. However, as we can see, it's been in a tight price range here. So it's probably better to wait and see if it can clear and stay above this $9-$10 resistance point. This is a wait and see play if Polkadot interests you. Cool. Now let's look at some of the altcoin gambles we covered together a few months ago, which you can check out in this video by clicking on the link above. Here we've got ThorChain. It actually flipped bullish around the first week of August 2023, and it cleared this $2 resistance point and is on a clear bullish trend. There is a high probability that this is a good time to buy and a good time to hold ThorChain until the trend flips bearish. At which point we sell or at the very least take profit. Amazing. Next we have Meld, which issued a new token recently so there isn't a ton of price data available for this version. It's currently in a bearish trend and has been very sideways pretty much this whole time. If this one interests you, higher probability to wait and see if it flips bullish and can clear this $0 .25 resistance point. Great. Next, Radix, which is in a bearish trend still headed downward. So high probability that it's not the best entry point. So it's a wait and see play if this project interests you. Here we have GameSwift. A very very new project, so very risky. Not a lot of data, and it's been very sideways. Looks like a bit of a breakout upwards in this bullish trend. If you're a gambler, it may turn out to be a decent play but be prepared to potentially lose all of your money for sure. And finally, Axlr. Also a very new project. It's on a bearish trend with lots of sideways action. So the probability of sitting and waiting may be the best play until it flips bullish and breaks above the $0 .60 resistance level. Amazing. And just for fun and to prove how powerful this tool can be when we take heed about bearish downtrends, check out this chart. So here's the simple blueprint we can use to increase our probability of realizing gains by trading altcoins. Instead of saying, hey Casey, what do you think about this altcoin? Should I buy it? Should I hold it? Should I sell it? Do this. Look it up on trading view. Look at the money line. And if it just recently flipped bullish and has broken above a resistance point, there is a higher probability that it's a good time to buy. And when it flips bearish, sell it or at least take some profit. And likewise, if it's in a bearish trend, there is a higher probability that it isn't the best time to buy. So either skip it, wait and see, or maybe if you're really interested and don't care about shorter term price action, start DCing or dollar cost averaging in. So scroll down and check out the money line for yourself with a seven day trial for only $14 and test it on some altcoins you are looking to gamble on and trade this bull cycle. And make sure you have a cold storage hardware wallet like Tangem wallet to transfer altcoins from the exchange to hold until it's time to sell and take profits. Tangem has released their latest wallet with this nice sleek black design that works the same way as their classic wallet, except now we have the option to generate a seed phrase or import one from another wallet if we want. Tangem's mobile app has its 5 .0 software update right around the corner, which will feature a dark mode, the option to automatically or manually organize our crypto holdings, the capability of hiding our balances from the main screen, 24 hour crypto price change history, transaction histories for specific networks like Bitcoin vs Ethereum, rapid access options from the home screen, and an overall comprehensive redesign of the app making it cleaner and more user friendly. So scroll down and use the links below to access the correct and official sites of any cards that interest you and redeem any special offers they have for us. Awesome. If you would like to explore the growing Morales money platform and how it can help us potentially make more profits this next bull cycle, check out this video. If you would like to learn how to use Tangem wallet and transfer crypto off of exchanges to our very own cold storage hardware wallet, check out this video. And to get your very own Tangem cold storage hardware wallet, click on the link on the screen. Like and subscribe for more. Be safe out there.
The Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Jordi Baylina of Polygon zkEVM | Zero Knowledge, Privacy, Scalability and Building Useful Technology
"So this episode we have Jordy Balina on, it's Baylina, sorry, not Balina, but Baylina. Not to be confused with that other Balina dude that disappeared because he was so kind of scammy. Yeah, the Instagram one who was flaunting his portfolio. That's without the Y, that's Balina, not Baylina. Anyways, it's a great interview. We talked about ZK. We talked about life. But overall it had a really good range of technical depth and a broad overview of what zero knowledge is, how the industry is working and what's happening in the future. I was really impressed with our ability to get through all of that within the hour. Welcome back to Hashing It Out. I'm your host, Dr. Corey Petty with Dee and Jesse, of course, and today we have Jordy We've done quite a few things throughout the industry for a long period of time. In fact, we've known you quite a bit at Status and your contributions to the early start of Status. Wanted to talk about kind of what you've been up to recently with Polygon and the ZKVM. You want to do the normal thing and kind of give everyone an introduction as to who you are, what you've been doing and what you do today? Well, yeah, I'm Jordy Balina. I'm a developer, I'm an engineer, 30 years experience engineer. I've in been blockchain and Ethereum since 2015, since there, I mean, I just learned about blockchains and I participated at the beginning in a lot of issues. I was one of the white hats in the DAO. I also was the main white hat in the parity multisig. I did a lot of auditing at that time. From that one, I got a lot of interest in zero -knowledge. I was just started studying. I wrote some important toolings right now, but for me, it was just, well, I brought Silco and Snarg .js. At the beginning, it was just learning tools for myself about the technology, but right now they are quite used in the industry. Since then, I created identity, which is a self -sovereign identity project. From there, using all this ZK tooling that we built, we built Hermes. Hermes is a payment roll -ups, payment -only roll -ups, and since a couple of years ago, we just joined forces with Polygon and we have been building the Polygon ZKVM and that's mainly what I'm building right now and what I'm improving and what I'm working currently. Busy man. Busy, busy man. Well, busy, but enjoying a lot at the same time. For me, all these things, I am always saying to everybody that for me, this is not even work. For me, this is just a present. It's an honor to be in this industry and for an engineer, it's very motivating. So yeah, it's busy, but it's enjoying at the same time. So it's not the kind of busy you may think. So one thing I didn't know was that you're a founder of Dapnote, Jordi, right? Yes, I created, well, yeah, I mean, I created, so I funded some of the projects. I funded Gibeth with Grief at the beginning. I funded Dapnote. Dapnote for me was, so here is, and this is part of the industry at some point, but as you may know, I'm very involved in the Catalan independence movement and at some point, I try it. I mean, it was 2017, 2016, 2017 and I was just learning a lot about the blockchains and at some point, I was just trying to use this technology for this movement, for this revolution and you realize that, I mean, nothing works. It's from the practical sense and from there, well, I just did an analysis. I want this to be work here, I think, and I made that like as the goal of my life. I mean, it's like my strategy of my life. So it's like what we have to do in order to bring this technology to mainstream, to actually for work the Catalan movement or for anybody that can take value from this technology and you start seeing, like I did a division on layers of the things that needed to be done. Of course, scaling is one of those, security is one of those, but decentralizing infrastructure is definitely an important thing. I mean, it makes no sense to decentralize systems, but then everything is running in AWS. So, that node was just a project that's still, I mean, it's still up and running and with some colleagues that are handling that, but it's just a software for any user to run their own server, their own node and this is, I think this is a fundamental piece for the space decentralize to the infrastructure to this lower level layer. So yeah, it's an important project. I think they are doing a good job, but probably the space is still very centralized, still a lot of big actors, especially with these big stakers and so on, it's a little bit worried. This is not the best. And the initiative like that node or any initiative that decentralize the hardware, I think is really important and should be supported.
CRYPTO 101
A highlight from Ep. 572 Exploring Layer 2 Competitions with HAI
"All right, everybody, welcome back, all you good, wonderful citizens of Crypt Nation. It's Bryce, and today I am joined by Reza Jafri, who is the co -founder of a decentralized stablecoin called HAI, amidst many other things he's doing in the crypto space of which we will dive into in just a bit. But this is a big one, and we're excited to have Reza on the show. So Reza, welcome, and how are you doing today? I'm doing great, thank you. How about yourself? No complaints. Sunny San Diego very rarely elicits a complaint from me. So yeah, things are really good, and the team's growing. We're in the builder season of the market, obviously. Not a huge lot of price action, but you see the fake Bitcoin ETF announcement the other day that shot Bitcoin at 30k? Yeah, and then the Cointelegraph editor -in -chief's response to it of basically being like, well, really, it's the market's fault. It's the people's fault. She blamed it on society, I think was her words, that everybody's trying to be quickest to the punch with headlines. But really, her intern got duped by some scammer on Telegram, and there was apparently no checks and balances there for what gets posted. Honestly, my biggest takeaway from all of that was I was surprised at how many people still trust Cointelegraph. Yeah, that definitely tarnished their reputation there. Got to check your sauces. Got to check your sauces. Got to. But man, let's dive in, Reza, into a little bit about your background and how you founded Hi. Absolutely. I've been in the industry since around 2016. I'm not a developer, so 2016, the only thing I could think to do at the time was write as much content as I could. So, I basically just started publishing blogs on Medium, Hacker Noon, and answering questions on Quora and stuff like that about Ethereum, Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, just trying to get a foothold in the space, really. I read the Ethereum white paper and was like, this is the future. I need to be a part of this, but I was also so broke. So, if I can't buy into it, I need to find a way to contribute to it. And at the time, all of the information about ETH and crypto in general was written for the most part by developers. So, I just started writing beginner level content aimed at non -technical people to try and educate them about crypto. And for a while, I was the most read writer on Medium and Hacker Noon and Quora for the subjects that I was covering. Before Deloitte and companies like that started writing about Bitcoin, I had the number one ranked articles for like, why is Bitcoin dropping? Find your stuff then. I was all over those forums. That's awesome. From there, I worked with an ICO accelerator in 2017, 2018. That got acquired and worked with a few coins here and there, writing white papers and stuff like that. And then started working with Decrypt around 2020. And that's also the same time that I met Amin Soleimani, my co -founder and high. And Amin has just been slowly, slowly... What's the word he uses? So, radicalizing me into the decentralized stablecoin meta. We became friends over the pandemic and we would play video games together, just chat and he's just whispering my ear over rounds of video games about how evil the dollar was and slowly I started to believe him. And here we are now. It's funny. He actually, he told me about the concept of high. He came up with the concept of high a long, long time ago and he kept talking about how he wanted to fork rye and go off in this new direction. And I was just needed someone to kind of take the wheel and help spearhead it. And eventually I just raised my hand. I was like, you know what? Let's do it. Time to jump in with both feet. Yep. Cool, man. No, it's incredible. You've got a wealth of knowledge and I think when people hear fork rye, for instance, they are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. What does that mean? And so I think many people are familiar maybe with MakerDAO and the DAI stablecoin, which I now see there's a theme between the names.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S14 E10: Authors, Novel, and Consultancy
"Hello, welcome to The Eloni Show. I'm your host, John Marr Eloni. In this episode, we don't have any regulars, because reasons, I guess. As for our guests, one is from New Jersey. He is a writer and consultant. And the second guest is from Missouri, Coorion, Florida, and he has written a book. What book would that might be? Well, you're about to find out. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Frank Giammanco and Brian Elman. Hello. Hello. Hello, lads. So, how's life for the both of you? Brian, you want to go first? How's life? Well, pretty good. Tallahassee, a beautiful day. We finally got some cool temperatures. Oh, you're up in Tallahassee. Yes, Tallahassee. Been here since 2012. Actually, no, excuse me. Yeah, 2012. Are you involved with government? No, I'm retired. I'm a retired computer science professor. Oh, wow. I retired. I retired early in 2012. Well, good for you. That's terrific. I'm sorry, John. What did you ask? I was asking you, Frank, how's your life going? How is my life going? It's good. It's good. You know, I published my first novel in December. It's called Lord of the Wood. It's effectively about Bigfoot. And it's been getting some traction and, you know, picking up some good reviews. And I also write business books. I'm writing a memoir right now for one of the luminaries of the industry I used to cover when I was in business to business publishing. All right. Very good. And have you, lads, been up too much recently? I'm up to 5 '7". Oh, cool. What about you, Brian? Hello. Are you there, Brian? He was. And now he isn't. Oh, he'll join back. Well, it says he's still connected. Yeah, I think something's wrong with his mic or something. He can hear us, but he can't hear us. So, well, Brian gets back on. Yeah. So what inspired you to become a writer and or consultant? Well, basically, I've worked my entire career in the publishing industry, principally publishing, you know, in the business to business market sector and more specifically for people in the excuse me, the vision care fields. And I started a business in 2000 to publish in that industry. And we did very, very well. We sold the business in 2017. And at that point, then I sort of opened another chapter and became not only a writer, but a consultant to a lot of the companies that I had been calling on for advertising and such for many years. So that's that's that's the background. But I mean, since I was a kid in elementary school, I've always kind of fancied myself a writer. During a Thanksgiving holiday period, when I was in elementary school, the teacher asked us all to write an essay about Thanksgiving. I wrote a story instead about a talking turkey. And she was so impressed with it. She made me read it to the to the class. And then she held me back, you know, as class adjourned. And said, you really have to consider becoming a writer. And so there we are. So writing has always been a function of my my skill set, so to speak. And and publishing. Oh, fantastic. What do you see yourself 20 years from now? Oh, you think 20 years from now? Yeah, maybe dead. Well, I'm kind of joking, but, you know, 20 years from now, I'll be a little on the oldish side. So. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know where I'll be, to be honest with you. OK, I see that. All right. Are you going to ask me again where I want to live? Did I ask the question where you want to live? You asked me the last time we spoke. Oh, yes. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? And I think I said to you, Hawaii. And that was before our our our brief exchange was was kind of compromised. Yes, until the incident happened. The incident? Yes. But, yeah, no, I love Hawaii and I don't know, I think. I'd want to live there as much as anywhere else, you know, with its great weather and. You know, all kinds of stuff, of course, now that you know, they've had had that calamity in Maui, it's, I guess, a little bit more challenging. Ah, OK. If someone wrote a book about you. Yes. What do you think its title would be? What would its title be? That's a good question. How about just thanks for the eggs? Sounds good. And you want me to explain that to you? Yeah, I actually like to hear the story behind that. When I when I was a small kid, I was maybe about five years old and I was, you know, going to regular catechism and trying to live life as a good Catholic. And, you know, every time we'd have breakfast as a family, I would, you know, engage my parents and my daughter, my daughter, my sister in in going along with the prayer. And so my prayers tended to be a little long winded, which people say that I often am. But in any event, my sister got very my sister is was three at the time. She got very frustrated because she wanted to eat. And she said, oh, just thanks for the eggs. And so that's, you know, that's come to be kind of a catchphrase with us and my family. And I don't know what else to say about it. OK, I like it. What items do you carry with you every day? Let's see, my wallet, my car keys.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Michael Saylor: Bitcoin Will 10x From Here | EP 861
"It's all going to zero against Bitcoin. It's going up for everyone. Bitcoin! You're against Bitcoin, you're against freedom. Yeah, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live, your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution, breaking news culture, medic warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state. Michael Saylor, literally saying the quiet part out loud. He's saying basically that Bitcoin will 10x from here. Now there's a couple of things that he said needed to happen in order for that to be achieved. But the important part here is that he didn't just say this on a Twitter spaces, right? With a bunch of anons like listening in. No, no, no. He said this on the legacy corporate media and he said, you know, Bitcoin will 10x from here. These three things happen or a couple of these things happen, 10x from 35k where we are currently sitting is $350 ,000 Bitcoin. That's a really big statement, but at the same time, I think he has the ability to say that because obviously his strategy using Bitcoin as an alternative to holding dollars on his balance sheet clearly has worked. But what are those three things that he said needed to happen? There needed to be a change in the accounting rules, the FASB accounting rules. Check that off the list that happened. That was a big deal when that news broke. The other thing he said needed to happen was that large banks needed to have the ability to Bitcoin custody for their institutional clients. Check that off the list. Multiple banks in the United States and Europe are applying for licenses in order to do that. And then the third thing he said needed to happen, which was the approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF. So those three things have happened on Twitter spaces, which he didn't say this on the legacy corporate media. He said if those three things happen, we would be going to $5 million per coin. He wasn't as bullish on the legacy corporate media, but he still said 10x, which is a huge, huge jump from where we are now. So anyways, I thought that was super noteworthy. And I think that, guys, we are in the beginning of the next bull cycle. We're in the first, you know, first innings of it. I think we all feel it. We had a little bit of a tease when the price of Bitcoin went from $27 ,000 to $35 ,000. I think it touched $26 ,000, and now it's been kind of hovering around this area. That was a massive candle, right? What was that, like $5 ,000, $6 ,000, $7 ,000 in a day or two? All of Bitcoin and Twitter was losing their minds. If you've never experienced a full bull market cycle, that was a tease of what is to come. Strap in, hold on, don't trade, stay humble, stack sat, stay solvent, because we still have about, you know, a year and a half, two years of this bull cycle left. And my intuition is telling me it's going to be a little bit crazy this year. There has never been a time in Bitcoin's history where the amount of Bitcoin on exchanges, it continues to go lower. And that wasn't the case last cycle. It was trending up for a while. Now it's trending down. The hash rate continues to make all time highs. The hash rate represents the estimated amount of computational power actively mining the Bitcoin network, theoretically making it more secure, making it more difficult to attack. Right. So theoretically, the higher the value proposition, in my opinion. So anyways, it looks like all the stars and planets are aligning, but I want to bring up Opti to talk to him about this, because I think a lot of us are, you know, specifically the class of 2017, 2018. I think a lot of us have PTSD from the last cycle just because it was a bit of a tease, bro. It was a bit of a tease. A lot of people had this expectation that Bitcoin was going to hit one hundred K and it fell way short of that. And I think American HODL had this great threat over the weekend. I was just about to mention it. Yeah. So he says bias is a mother effer. Last bull, we had two blind, we had two major blind spots, one one hundred one hundred K guarantee, two higher lows. In my opinion, the big blind spot, this bull is diminishing returns. Many will sell far too much, far too soon. Imagine selling one hundred K only to watch it explode to five hundred K shortly after pain. Right. And one thing, wait, literally attacking Nico love to see it. Yeah. American HODL. It's good. It's good. It's good because that was like the mainstream consensus. The mainstream consensus was one hundred K guaranteed. And I think a lot of people were let down because of that. And now I think a lot of people have PTSD. A lot of people got like, you know, disillusioned, so to speak. And I think people are expecting, you know, diminishing returns. That's what I've said. And I think that there is going to be some type of diminishing returns. But I also think that if the mainstream consensus is, you know, we're only going to reach one hundred K, one hundred twenty K, one hundred thirty K Bitcoin, you know, Bitcoin tends to do the thing that everyone least expects, you know, so I would be pleasantly surprised.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from Bitcoin vs the Infinite Money Printer with Luke Gromen
"They're not going to cut the entitlements. They're going to print the money. And they're going to print the money with oil at 90. They're going to print the money with Bitcoin at 35 ,000. They're going to print the money. They're going to print the money. Happy Monday. How are you all doing? Did you have a good weekend? I did. OK. Real Bedford. They won on the weekend and were top of the league. So that is Real Bedford men and Real Bedford ladies both at the top of their respective league. What a start to the season. We've both got massive cup games this weekend. Get anywhere near Bedford and you want to come down, especially on Saturday, because before the men's game at 12 o 'clock, we've got a meet up. And I'm going to be joined by Robert Breedlove. So please do come down to Bedford. Come down to McMullen Park, enjoy some football, enjoy some Bitcoin, and hang out with the man Breedlove himself. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the massive legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, Peter McCormack. And today, we've got macro genius Luke Gorman back on the show. Now Luke is one of our absolute favorites here at WBD. Me, Danny, and producer Ben all love Luke, and he brought the fire this episode. We get into the infinite money printer, the bond market getting crushed, inflation, and social unrest in the US. We covered the lot. I know you're going to love this one, but if you've got any questions about this, any feedback, anything else, please do hit me up. It's hellowhatbitcoindid .com. And if you haven't checked out our event next year in April, Cheat Code, please head over to cheatcode .co .uk to get yourself a ticket. All right, on to the show. Luke, how are you? I'm doing well, Peter. How are you today? Yeah, I'm doing well. I do wonder if we'll ever jump on one of these calls. We do every six to 12 months and be like, yeah, do you know what? The economy's good. The banks are making good decisions. The government's doing well. It has no inflation. The world's all right. That would be nice, you know, we could all go to the beach and have a margarita or something. Yeah, it's a bit weird. It seems like everything's just getting worse. We had planned all these things to talk about and just while Danny was setting up the cameras, I was flicking through, I hate saying X, I'm going to keep it to Twitter. And our mutual friend Linaldin tweeted out that the Treasury expects to borrow nearly 1 .6 trillion in net new debt during the six month period covering this quarter and the next quarter. Is there no limit to how much money they're going to borrow? It seems like the bond market is maybe making the early noises about attempting to restrict what they can borrow without Fed help, but it's really ultimately a function of what's the dollar, what's the bond market doing, what's the dollar doing? It's that classic rates versus currency decision. Can you explain that? Can you walk us through that? What is the bond market saying and explain it so I understand. Sure, so there's sort of the case for most places and then there's a case for the US because where the reserve currency is sure. And you also have this giant offshore dollar borrowing market, right, the euro dollar market, but there's 13 trillion dollars in offshore dollar denominated debt according to the BIS. So means that the implications of that are that as the dollar goes higher, so the Fed raises rates, the dollar goes up, dollar goes up, the foreigners who have borrowed in dollars see their effective borrowing rate go up, the cost of servicing that dollar debt goes up and so they need to somehow raise dollars. Well, they can't print dollars like the Fed, so where do they get their dollars from? Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on which side of it you're on, foreigners have run surpluses against the United States by virtue of how the system works for a long time and particularly in the last 25 to 30 years. And so foreigners have about 18 trillion dollars net, so I don't want to say it's closer to 40 trillion gross, but I think it's 18 trillion dollars net in US dollar assets more than we have of theirs. It's this net international investment position I've talked about. So they have 18 trillion dollars of dollar assets, about seven point six trillion of that are Treasury bonds. And so, yes, they are short dollars, but only to the extent they are unwilling to sell treasuries to get dollars or sell stocks to get dollars to defend. And so what you see is this virtuous or vicious, I guess it is vicious cycle where the dollar goes up. Foreigners are forced to sell treasuries that rates go up as rates go up, the dollar goes up. You wash, rinse, repeat until we either get a calamity or more likely more. The way it's worked really increasingly frequently is the US Treasury market gets dysfunctional. And there's an index we follow called the move index. It's the volatility of the Treasury markets created by a gentleman named Harley Bassman who pointed out once that index goes over 150, the Fed has lost control of the bond market. And October 3rd of this year, it was 141. All of a sudden, everyone and their mother on the Fed came out and said, well, maybe the bond market's done our job for us. Maybe we're done raising rates. They tried jawboning the dollar down. It's it's sort of worked. It's stopped the dollar going up like every day, but it's it hasn't really gotten the dollar down. But that's ultimately as it relates to this situation for the US that as long as the dollar's going up, given this massive offshore dollar denominated debt and this US massive dollar asset net position that foreigners have that they can sell to get dollars. Ultimately, it's sort of all fun and games until the Treasury market loses an eye. And once the Treasury market loses an eye, the volatility gets to a point where it is indicating that the Fed is losing control of the Treasury market. That has been the point over the last four years. Where the Fed steps in and says no mas and at that point, they kind of say, well, it's not QE, we're growing our balance sheet, but it's not QE. You know, Jackson Hole, a couple of guys gave a speech that said it was a presentation. It was, you know, it's possible the Fed might have to do non -monetary policy purchases of treasuries. But it's important that we sort of lay that out that, you know, it's it's almost like, you know, those are those are trading sardines, not eating sardines. It's it's, you know, they're printing money for for market functioning reasons, not for monetary purposing reasons. And the market's not going to care. But that's ultimately that do they want if they want the Treasury market to function really well, given these levels of debt, they need the dollar to be a certain level lower than it is. If they want the dollar here, then they're going to need to restrict how much they're trying to borrow or be willing to lose control of the bond market and the Treasury market specifically. I'd like to pretend like I just understood all of that. I would. I really want to say I pretend I can understood all of that. But but it sounds complicated for the layman like me, the everyday guy, I can't interpret what that means. So basically what it means is unless the Fed prints the money to buy the rate down, then the rates are going to go up on the government until the government until rates ostensibly extremes inform the means. In theory, we the bond market could run away and then all of a sudden. The in theory, you can get to one hundred percent of your revenues in interest expense, nobody, nobody for anything else, in which case either the Fed prints the money or we say, sorry, Ukraine, sorry, Israel, sorry. Everywhere we're bringing our boys home. And in fact, they have to book their own tickets because we don't have the money. And boomers, you're on your own. I know we promised you hip, sneeze, drugs, docs, all that, but sorry. All we have is money is to pay the interest. So this is an issue of supply and demand in bonds. And the big risk is they cannot afford the interest on the debt they have themselves, because what is it like 30? Where are we at now on the debt? Thirty three trillion themselves? Thirty four. High interest rate is so it becomes unaffordable themselves. It's the only way to see that is it's more QE. Yeah, that's exactly I mean, it's ultimately a supply demand problem of of debt versus not just existing debt, new debt, and then also against the supply of balance sheet. Right. There's only so much global private balance sheet that can that the capacity to buy the stuff and continue to hold the old stuff and the balance sheet capacity increases as the dollar goes down, it decreases as the dollar goes up. And ultimately, that balance sheet capacity has repeatedly needed to be supplemented by the Fed's balance sheet, which is infinite. They can buy as much as they want. They will never run out. The flip side is, is that has implications for the dollar because you're effectively printing money to finance deficits. But if they do do that, would it be a case if they're trying to bring down the interest rates and they're using QE to do this? Isn't this just the cycle we've been going through over and over again? This will lead to more inflation and more inflation will lead to them having to raise interest rates again. You know, isn't this just a cycle that gets worse every every time we go through another cycle of this? Yeah, oh, it's to me, it's been a very it's a very I think it is the most important macro cycle. It's a very obvious cycle. In 2014, global central banks stopped growing their holdings of FX reserves. And what that means in plain English is foreign central banks stopped adding to their supply of treasuries. So if if one of your biggest marginal buyers stops buying, somebody else needs to buy. And as that happens, a couple of things, a couple of things happen. Number one, the dollar starts going up and number two, rates start going up. And that can manifest given the omnipresence of the dollar and the centrality of the dollar to the system that shows up a lot at different places. But dollar up rates up. And we've seen this sort of at first we regulated the banks in 2014 into, you know, it's a little bit like the cracks in the dam. Right. So the first crack in the dam is like, OK, foreign central banks are buying the debt anymore. OK, what are we going to have by what we have regulate the banks into doing. So they do that. And that works for a while. And then because the supply of water, which is U .S. federal deficits, just keeps growing and growing and growing. Right. Inevitably, the pressure from the water growing, growing another crack, money market funds. We're going to regulate them into that was 2015, 2016. Again, both of these things crowd out global dollar markets. They send LIBOR short term rates up. Then you end up driving the dollar up to levels that start creating problems around the world. What do we do? We weaken the dollar in 2016. We weaken the dollar in 2017 with the Treasury general account. Basically, the Treasury's checking account starts to inject our liquidity to kind of manage this process. 2018, more cracks, especially now that the Fed's QTing in earnest. We start regulating Trump, regulated U .S. corporate pensions into buying more treasuries, gave him a tax break. OK, now we've got our thumb in the in the in the wall. So and, you know, 2019, we get another crack with repo rate spikes. OK, oh, now the Fed has to step in. Now the Fed's growing their balance sheet. But it's not QE. It's just fixing the fact that repo went from two to eight overnight because there's too much supply of water and not enough demand for the water that kind of holds. That breaks again in March 2020 at the depths of the covid crisis. The Fed does mega QE. They call it QE. OK, leads to inflation. 2022, we're going to start backing off, we're going to tighten. They get, you know, whatever they really start getting aggressive in March, April of really tightening. And by September, the UK gilt market blows up. Uh oh. They all get together in Washington in October of 2022. And they give Janet Yellen, what we used to call on the desk, a hey MF 'er conversation and Yellen comes back and runs on the TGA. The dollar goes down 15 percent, buys time. Another, you know, so it's just this you it is a constant cycle that started 10 years ago, but it keeps getting faster and faster. Right. That 2014, we regulate the banks. We worry about it again to like 2015, 16 with money markets. And even then, you know, you didn't have to worry about the the dollar was not too high in that case till 2016, 2017 and had to be addressed. Then it was already end of 2018. The Fed had to stop raising rates. Then it was September 2019. Then you kind of covid sort of screwed up the pacing of it in terms of of getting a clean apples to apples read. But since then, it's accelerated, it's September 2019, you had March 2020, you had September as soon as they started raising rates, March 20 or September 2022, March 2023, September 20 or October 2023. Now, it just it's getting faster and faster. And so, yeah, it is really it fundamentally the problem is very simple, way too much U .S. deficits, not enough global private sector balance sheet unless the Fed is in there helping to buy this stuff of printed money. That's at the end of the day, that's it. That's the problem. Is it essentially paying off your credit cards with a new credit card? Absolutely. While the rates going up on it, if the Fed does step in and start buying bonds in that way, does the U .S. just turn into Japan? Japan? No, we turned into Argentina. Japan, Japan is. Night and day different than the United States in this situation, right, so Japan is a net international investment position, remember, so I said we have foreigners own 65 percent, that 18 trillion, 65 percent of US GDP. So the U .S. net international investment position is negative. Sixty five percent of US GDP. Japan's is positive. Sixty percent. So for starters, when Japan runs into that problem, the first thing they can do is ring, ring, ring, hey, Washington, it's Japan. Those dollar assets we have to the tune of 60 percent of of our GDP, we want to start selling five percent a year because we need to finance our our fiscal deficit of three percent a year and do two percent of stimulus. And they can do that for a long, long time. That's number one. Number two, they run a current account surplus, right, their trade surplus. So they are running the surpluses on the current account versus us running deficits. We need number three. OK, the deficits we're running, the twin deficits historically have been foreign financed. They have financed internally. So you can run you if you're financing internally as Japan, deflation is an option you're when you're financing internally. Right. Because now you can pay your people, you know, zero percent interest on long term bonds because the cost of living is fear and deflation. Your cost of living is falling. Living standards are rising politically. That works. You cannot do that when you're in the United States. If you're financing externally, you start running deflation as a twin deficit. You get into a debt spiral. Your debt pile gets bigger and bigger and bigger nonlinearly every year. And pretty soon you run into debt credibility issues. You also, as Japan, do not have to provide most of your defense because your friends, the United States, have provided it for most of the last 80 years. We have to provide our own defense and that defense appears to be getting much more expensive by the minute. And then lastly, the United States is very heterogeneous in population. And Japan is very homogeneous in population. So it's a lot easier to sort of get people to sort of, you know, go along to get along and take one for the team. Culturally, there's much more of a willingness to take one for the team. I think their government has probably all in all done probably a better job of maintaining their credibility or maybe losing their credibility less fast than ours has with its domestic populace, maybe a better way of putting it. And so when you roll those things together, but especially the net international investment position, the current account, you know, Japan can say ring ring Washington send us our money. We need it to finance ourselves. And that throws that, you know, sell treasuries. We're going to bring back the dollars and defend the yen with those by selling dollars and buying yen. And they can do that for a while. They have 60 percent of GDP in that area. There is no there is no ring ring for the U .S. The ring ring. They don't call anybody overseas. The ring ring is, hey, Fed, start printing again. And when you say when they have to do that again, whenever that is, because they're going to have to do that again. Yeah, then that's why it gets much more into an Argentina like dynamic. And as I've said, Argentina with U .S. characteristics, not Japan is what is going to be the outcome. I was out in Argentina recently, was it three or four months ago, Danny? And I made a documentary while I was there about inflation. And one of the interesting things about being in Argentina is if you're certainly in the middle class, you have access to dollar products, whether it's cash dollars or digital dollars or crypto dollars or U .S. equities or U .S. bonds, you have access to dollars to mitigate against inflation. And most people just get rid of their peso and get some kind of dollar products as soon as possible. But if if you're an American, there is there is no equivalent. I mean, yes, there's gold and yes, there's Bitcoin. And, you know, we've seen this rise in both gold and Bitcoin recently. Perhaps that's it. I mean, is that it? The short answer is yes. You know, you can kind of see right who is who has won over the last 10, 20 years in the U .S., right? It's if you if you own a lot of stocks, you're doing great.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Fidelity Just Said Bitcoin is Exponential Gold! | SIMPLY OG CLIP
"You can see the distribution of the positive versus the negative returns for Bitcoin is much more positively skewed than it is for silver and gold. And so to me this is why Bitcoin is kind of the new version of gold and silver is because of its convexity. It's like a more convex version of gold because of its network effects and its increased scarcity that this has become kind of the leader in terms of hedging against monetary inflation. Getting pretty hard to deny that the Bitcoin bull has arrived. And that was Fidelity's global macro director Jurien Timmer dropping a bombshell on the Bitcoin versus gold debate. And he didn't stop there. He said Bitcoin is in its own stratosphere and projects that possibly Bitcoin could hit 700k this cycle. Is he insane? I don't know. We're getting a lot to cover. Let's get it. So Jurien Timmer, the global macro director of Fidelity Investments said that although often compared to gold, Bitcoin can increase in value faster than the yellow shiny rock. Quote, in my view Bitcoin is a commodity currency that aspires to be a store of value and hedge against monetary debasement. Now we've heard digital gold but Timmer says I think of it as exponential gold. Now let's see why. Alright, let's go ahead and run through Timmer's thread here. Bitcoin is volatile but its scarcity and adoption curve create potential for it to be a high powered hedge against monetary shenanigans. I think of it as exponential gold. This rally is way beyond the rumor. I think the rally today is about a flight to quality with all the issues around the Israeli war now. Global terrorism. And I think there's more people running into a flight to quality whether that is in treasuries, gold or crypto depending on how you think about it. And I believe crypto will play that type of role as a flight to quality. Next he gets into Bitcoin's adoption. One of the attributes of Bitcoin is that it's a network asset and as such its adoption curve has followed the typical S curve shape. We've seen many of these throughout history but man that Bitcoin line is pretty steep. So where is Bitcoin along the S curve? A network asset value driven by its adoption so the slope of that curve does matter. As we know the supply of Bitcoin is already fixed, set, its monetary schedule is known. The only variable then to add in is demand. And Timmer may echo some of us. When we first went down the Bitcoin rabbit hole its adoption curve which he defines as the number of non -zero addresses was very steep. It resembled the S curve for mobile phones during the 1980s and 90s also echoing Michael Saylor who called that one and was one of the first ones on Wall Street to get in other than Jerry and Timmer because Fidelity got involved in 2015 even been mining as far back as such. So let's get into more of what Timmer was talking about. Bitcoin is exponential gold but what makes it valuable? Well monetary debasement. Bitcoin was designed to be the safe haven. Now more into Timmer's projections as he hints at a bullish Bitcoin future. If history rhymes, say it followed 2011 and 2013 trends, he believes this could catapult Bitcoin to 700k. A more modest outlook mirroring 2017 suggests a rise to 200 -300k. We talked about it yesterday. We kind of talk about it all the time but there appears to be an awakening to the understanding that there is Bitcoin and then there is everything else from Larry Fink and we got more of that coming. Michael Saylor, this FTX debacle was a great advertisement for why Bitcoin and not crypto but right here and this is again Jerry and Timmer. He created this risk reward chart for investment assets and the report stated that Bitcoin's risk reward is in a different universe and they're not wrong. Think about FTX. FTX is creating its own token. It was not a defi. It wasn't a ledger that was open to the world. It was a closed ledger. It was not distributed. So the whole foundation of what crypto is is supposed to be a distributed ledger that is across the system. I actually believe this technology is going to be very important. Man, it's very interesting. Take a look at the past couple days of Simply Bitcoin Live and yesterday's episode, kind of getting into this, but everyone is flying to quality, flying to safety but what are they fleeing from? And that is essential and it is the insane economic damage that has been caused by central planners, the Fed and inept politicians for way too long and Bitcoin is here to rebalance the scales and give that power back to the people. Really? Yes. I'm encouraged by how many people are focusing on it. I'm encouraged about the narrative but I don't believe we should think about crypto as a substitute of currency but I am fascinated by it as an asset class. Specifically on Bitcoin, we're a believer in digitization of products and we do believe it could revolutionize finance. It's digitizing gold in many ways as a hedge against inflation, a hedge against the devaluation of your currency. Bitcoin is an international asset and so it can represent an asset that people can play as an alternative. The foundation of BlackRock is about hope. The floodgates institutional are about to open and it is epic that we've had the opportunity to front -run these people. But be sure to self -custody your Bitcoin, get them off exchanges and if you need any help using Bitcoin best practices or have questions on what wallets, what nodes, things of that nature, well, we got just the guys to get you started. As your dedicated Bitcoin IT team, the Bitcoin way is here to guide you from start to finish on your journey to properly self -custody your Bitcoin. What's more, they've recently introduced 100 % privacy -focused collaborative custody services where you benefit from advanced multi -sig security, inheritance planning and much more while remaining 100 % in control. Book a free 30 -minute call to get started using that link below. So much major bullish news coming out the past few weeks and it looks like Vanguard and VanEck and BlackRock are kind of projecting the ETF to be approved by the end of this month. So buckle up, guys. Make sure to like, subscribe, share that sound money gospel. We got some more fun stuff coming your way this weekend. So make sure to set those notifications and follow us on Twitter where we're getting all the breaking news out there. Follow all things simply and we will be your guide through the peaceful Bitcoin revolution. I'll catch you all tomorrow. Peace.
Spider-Dan And The Secret Bores
"2017" Discussed on Spider-Dan And The Secret Bores
"Uh Got three of those Uh, just just for americans blackpool's pretty legendary. Yeah, it was a holiday seaside resort. Yes I was gonna say isn't it? Maybe okay. Okay. I'm not i'm not greta gurwig I'm, not painting the best but i'm not painting the best picture of blackpool But like it was in he tim burton came and filmed. I think it's miss peregrine's weird kids or whatever it was called. Um Um, it wasn't called that but that's what it's about. I mean, it's basically that though, isn't it? Yeah I think they're called peculiar actually Okay Yeah, but I like them. I like them. I like them. They're good in a weird way weird good way Anyway, but yeah, I kind of there was a lot of times where i'd be like, oh i'm from san's like where the fuck's that? Blackpool, it's it's blackpool, you know, it's because just because it's quicker it's easier and it's it's shorter Conversation than trying to explain where the logistics of it is. Um Now there's a there's a trope in this film like a lot of these tropes. Um, I don't really like When it's used it's mostly in kind of rom-coms this particular trope, but I think this film Actually did it In the best possible way with a different kind of love and that's the running through the airport motif at the end I was absolutely Devastated at that moment because it was like, you know, it's not this like oh will they won't they shitty rom-com? It's a genuine Hey, are we not shit on rom-coms? I don't i'm not saying all rom-coms. I like rom-coms rom-coms make me cry I'm, just saying there are some particularly bad rom-coms out there you rear have reviewed a lot of them on the pop gorillas Uh, I know you enjoy the shit ones as well but for me like then a lot of them can fall flat and I think Using that idea But applying it to this again mother-daughter love relationship Was far more powerful than most of the times that trope has ever been used because she misses her Yeah, and that's even more devastating because she she had a chance and she still has her emotional catharsis because he's there the father to hold her but it's like She missed it, which is honestly how those airport scenes should go every single time You miss them. You waited too long. You're an idiot Like don't leave till the last minute, you know, like this should be the life lesson not definitely leave it to the last possible moment and then Like just run after them like no do not do that Say your piece and I was grateful that she didn't catch her because she was a real bitch. Yeah She gave her the silent treatment and I feel like and i'm using that word how I really feel because she she used the silent Treatment against lady bird and I think there's more and more conversations about how the silent treatment is abuse But that was not something that was talked about when I was younger and and I thought That the mom says, you know, well when I was your age She was getting the shit beat out of her. She doesn't use those words, but that's obviously what happened to her So she she feels like she's not doing that And so what she's doing doesn't hurt And I think in this scene we really see it's not only hurting ladybird. It's hurting her yeah, and And I loved that she didn't catch it would have pissed me off if she caught her. Well, that's the hollywood That's the hollywood version of that isn't there but they do. Yes, they do reconcile. They do have the hook and she goes You gotta work harder. Yeah, exactly that You know, like you gotta work harder. You just did some damage. Yes, you loved her, but you also put your Really damaged feelings ahead of hers and you're the grown-up And what what what is this doing to the dad as well? Like I know like what's it doing to him? He's already like he's on antidepressants and other stuff. He's having a hard time dad. Yes. Fuck me. Yeah She does it multiple times throughout the film and that's what I find so interesting when ladybirds talking to her about being ready to have sex And about she's found her dad's medication And the way her mom speaks to her and doesn't Tell her The truth or not all she she's so withholding the way she withhold withholds Information that would make their relationship better that would make ladybird's life better that would make her Understand more things about the world and her parents and relationships Which apparently is what her mom wants her mom talks about how selfish she is how she doesn't think about all of these things But then she doesn't provide her she doesn't provide ladybird the space or the respect To be able to talk about these things and you know, we see it again with the way She talks to someone she's trying on The dress and all of those sort of things That I love that they don't resolve it because it's true to the character Yeah, and it hurts it really hurts and ladybird's doing the thing where she's like i'm sorry i'm so selfish I mean that was I cried there like i'm so selfish Talk to me I anything and you can just see her just like Dissolving before you're like begging for her mom and her mom just won't give her an inch And and she does that twice in the film and both times but that last one.
What Difference Does It Make
"2017" Discussed on What Difference Does It Make
"And i was like. Oh my god. Who is this kid now. We like it now. We still have like we still talk about it. That concert to this day still do the are inside joke. Like just like him just looking at it like amazing just among himself on stage thousands and thousands of people just being obsessive themselves and the concert really six in my mind still remember how. The show started how he came out on stage. No okay did you watch the you watch the when doves cry video. Yeah so you see him. Like get out of the tub crawl. Yes that's how the show no now that you said i do remember. He crawled on stage or like five minutes without saying anything. The music is building. All you know you were looking puzzled. I think what. I know i was because at this point. I still had no idea who he was. Basically like i did. But i didn't like the name trends. I knew you know you had the shirts. And we listened to a couple of his songs and everything like that. but i didn't realize how obviously kohnic in like influential. He wasn't until way after pitcher. Bob me can make expose the bay. Day lacks bob by when i would go back to school after break and tell my friends about my cool break. They were all like who like impaled. No which is why they will. But you are the dad. That i have so that i could you know get to know all these things were so but i would like who doesn't know prince now. You know but you. I knew him when no one else did in my generation..
What Difference Does It Make
"2017" Discussed on What Difference Does It Make
"Welcome back to the what differences. That may podcast and our super special guest emma. Sloan number three in two thousand seventeen is. That's what i like. Bruno mars and i think all parents love bruno mars. All parents do love. Bruno mars all parents because he reminds us of artists from nineteen eighty-four. This song would have been a hit. One thousand nine hundred four. I believe yeah. I would say that too yeah. Do you like bruno mars. I'm not like a big fan of bruno mars. But i went his songs. Come up. it's not like all necessarily skip them. Endorsement wants them obviously is huge like style fans. 'cause he's not he's obviously like a really big artists now and has a lot of as a big fan base in everything has really catchy songs. But it's personally not my music taste. So that's why. I don't necessarily listen to him a lot but when he comes on when he performs i watch you know. He's a really good performer. As well i got a baby so of dropout. I'll bet if you if you own it it's just to get show Lucky lucky okay. So back in the day when you went to parties and things was bruno. Mars ever played bruno at bar mitzvah zeke. We're parents are around events when the parents around bruno mars is played. Parties are more songs like kendrick like rap songs that are played or medium songs. You now. you can't really dance that well too but still an interesting distinction like parents sanctioned events. You get bruno mars. Ooh because he's safe and the millier. Yeah he's not perfect have profanity necessarily but actually song as pretty fain pretty spicy..
What Difference Does It Make
"2017" Discussed on What Difference Does It Make
"Saw john Think also a big part of why no a lot of these songs is. Because i'm you know his donor like you know music playing in the house and so i always or like randomly you know. I feel like you've must've showed me this music video or something like that because you always music videos or like look at this one right. That's why it. I don't i don't think i ever showed you against all odds. Did you watch the video. Yeah okay. so how shocking. To see jeff bridges. Because i know i know you love him. It's put that in the notes. I wouldn't have been recognized him. I wouldn't have known that was my coach ticket. Yes that's one of emma's favorite movies. Is it one of your favorite movie so good. He plays his coach and stick it. Yes but i wanna know like dude. You were in college once. Remember when you were. Did you ever watch the big house going okay. The big lebowski seems like it's always a college thing..
Bald Movies
"2017" Discussed on Bald Movies
"What to expect it very odd puzzle pieces and they fit to get in. the movie. wants you to say that like they fit together perfectly unlike. That's very romantic concept right but it's also like a fine line between i mean it's high fantasy this is this is a navy version joker harley quinn right yeah why not you know. She's the only one crazy enough for him and you know but you know and sh- she. He scared her. And all this stuff at god help anyone that disrespects queen bull like that kind of like yo like the you know you guys are actually just terrible. People this is this is A close kin to like Jersey shore you know you don't know me like as your stripped down to the club the naked waste at the club. Starting to fight with the bartender like no. This is all very unhealthy. But it's kind. It's a nice fantasy right like if you're with the person that like you've gone through some kind of big training tactic struggle and you know you've you've been through there. There's a romantic way to kind of look at those things. I think this is it. It's not but that's not again endorsing it. I don't know if i'd articulating my theories here correctly or the ideas that film or is trying to get across. That's what i was getting. You know like it's a very like this is a very particular sketch of a very particular relationship and within the bounds like canopy some version of happy. But even in that like you got this ideas like she gonna take ten years off. This guy's life with the mushroom treatments and instead to his shoes. Or i mean what is okay. The end of this movie also has like a hazy sort of sierra radical future that alma comes up with And herself with child and taking care of you know the the dress making business while he is down and out with the mushrooms how much accurate. I guess d. Do you think that this is the future that they have together. Or is this some fantasy that she's living in with a.
Bald Movies
"2017" Discussed on Bald Movies
"The fabric. Oh my god you can just like feel how soft and velvety and also how stiffened conforming. Some of the material was. Yeah and there's really up. Close like sensuous stitch work It's it's pretty it's like. I said it's did you have any expectations for this film coming into now. I know you obviously daniel day. Lewis from other movies there will be blood etc and i expected that he would be great in it and he absolutely is. He's fantastic and i knew that he was a dressmaker in this movie. And i had zero other expectations. Yeah like in like There will be blood. That's another film that. I was really looking forward to watching. 'cause i'm not even sure why we didn't make this a first run bald movie. I know it was like circled in red on the bald move calendar and i feel like maybe you were in rome or maybe i was really sick or like there was something that kept us from getting to it But it's one of those things. Where i really wanted to watch it but going into there will be blood. I knew that that dude is on oil man and he drank a milkshake Which is one more thing that i knew about this film which is yeah. It's about a dressmaker A fashion guy. I guess i knew it was going to be a bit of a romantic drama though boy. It's hard to describe this movie as romantic when you individ and yet and yet it's perfectly fitting as well i. I'm very very confused and conflicted and delighted and surprised by the end of this poofy mosaic. About that is. It became a lot more because i thought this is going to be like you said kind of like. Well it's kind of a thinker art piece leg question the nature of relationships and power dynamics on that kind of stuff and it's interesting and then the last little bit and kind of like you said elevated. It's not quite the sixth sense but it is something where it's the only thing i wanted to do. Like manage. want to rewatch this film and see if this informs a bunch of different stuff in the movie. Yeah it doesn't it doesn't reach contextualized quite as much as six cents which is one of the ultimate examples of that but it does it is. There's more art to what it's doing at the end of this film than anything. Six cents did at the end and just the way it makes you feel about the characters. and what they've been doing all along it's great. And i really felt like in the script like paul thomas. Anderson is very good because.
Bald Movies
"2017" Discussed on Bald Movies
"Sake and into handing totally changed my mind on it. Yeah like what. If barry lyndon had characters you actually cared about and people were actually emoting and expressing things We never ever way barry lyndon even though we why do we wanna like shit on a great well regarded stanley kubrick and it would be shitting on. It's just us like we don't i. Yeah like my short review of barry lyndon is I think this is supposed to be a like monty. Python style farce lake doctor strange love. I was not in on the joke until halfway through the movie when i started noticing. Like no. there's no way he's is fucking serious and it seemed like that's one of the common accepted ones but like man has gone a long way for a thin joke but it is damn near the most beautiful film i've ever seen yet and this i i so i i feel like i really enjoy experience watching experiences where like it starts define expectations where you know i do the podcast thing like oh sullen labels But that's that's gonna be a message that she unravels late in the thing that's going and like somewhere in the in the first thirty forty minutes like that stop and it just. I just started watching like this is just inherently interesting and just like wondering things like you know why why did like tailoring ever become like a thing like when did win. Y y can mainly people no longer make dresses and suits and pat fine clothes and things like that. It's like why. Why is that been relegated to the feminine in increasing like this happen rapidly to in this is like kind of like accurate kind of feel. And i assume the pta jointed probably is like this is back in the fifties. And then i then i started. But there's like. I just started like kind of like notice in one room. A lot. inada astro. Where i to start like i guess admiring it like a modern art piece. But this is that that's like feels like it's damn faint. Praise because at astra's vary kind of kubrick in that. It's very devoid of human emotion. And there is a little bit of that because like these are very british people and they're trying very hard to maintain that steely grip on their emotions. But they're just fucking roiling full-time and you've got The the latest muse In his life All vicky creeps. What's alma who is upsetting costly upsetting that balance you see that thing crack and all the emotion and stuff for out but man. There is a lot of in the movie where i was just pondering like you know. Who's being abused here. Who is doing the abuse Who is the you know. Enabler and like the sister dynamic that he has with the The what was her name..
Bald Movies
"2017" Discussed on Bald Movies
"Hey everybody welcome back to another bold move prestige film today. We're gonna be talking about the phantom thread that came out in two thousand seventeen. I would have sworn it came out in two thousand nineteen late two thousand and nineteen. We just missed. It is directed. By paul. Thomas anderson written by paul thomas anderson starring. Daniel day lewis. This is their second collaboration. After there will be blood. Which if you listen to that commission podcast way back. When you'll know the we liked a whole lot it also stars lesley manville who i really liked. As linnea quick glee in harlot she's the evil harlot from harlot and vicky kreps creeps craves who i did i recognize and i looked up in wikipedia and she had a pretty prominent role in the daas boots series. It came out a couple years ago. And i know you watch the first couple episodes. I watched a lot of more. But i never finished it. But yeah she's she's doing good work here to This film i'll still up upfront. This film is about a taylor and nineteen fifties london like a very Amazing word right haute couture. You're very lucid. Email private label dresses princesses for their weddings. Countesses for balls etc etc and He is Lives with his sister. you get the idea that their mother might have died early early early than he was ready for which probably was any time in his life. Visit the sister she kind of sets up the runs. The the the business aspects and kind of manages the household and insulates in from any possible distraction from his. Life's work which is clothing beautiful women and beautiful clothes and he burns through a succession of muses where he gets a young woman. Who you know motivates them to do whatever and then he kind of like she starts getting resentful of is very rigid calcified routine and then he gets pissed off at that and then they're dismissed and this is about the latest cycle. This is. I would describe this as you know the movie secretary now. with Maggie julianne hough and Dana daniel spader spader david. But david spader david. Who's the guy from. Stargate davis baiter. Jesus christ james spader jail air on 'isms accounts gonna have a field day with this one james spader thank you..
Reel Chronicles
"2017" Discussed on Reel Chronicles
"As jarrell. I mean that's that's that's kind of like needs to be it to oregon freeman or mortgage for. Yeah the voice of the book. The voice of like the The fortress of solitude yes and since be there exactly and then the last bit of news is more a just a thought on the mcu face forces oreo I'll start off by saying i don't know why this wasn't at the oscars because i mean not. A lot of people watch the oscars as we. We talked about last week but My comments are gay. We got a lot of release h. We're getting a lot of marvel movies very relatively quick. But i am most excited for the eternal deity. Turnovers looks like the most unique different marvel film that we've ever gotten and just for my little snippets of like them on a desert talking. It just looks like it for someone that's seen Closure films it looks at closure album. It doesn't look like traditional marvel film. I'm very excited for that. It is a traditional film. This is going to be the most divisive marvel film of all time and i'm all in for Outside of that. I'm everything else. Looks great from what the titles. Nothing shocks me the conifer ever. I wanted to get your guys thoughts because my my immediate thought was like all right. We're gonna make this sequel not about the character of black panther board just going to make it about what conduct a whole. I don't know maybe. I'm reading too much into societal leo. Would he thought. I i agree with you. I think the from the from from the tragedy of the passing of of Of highway boseman. A marvel feixi d- disney. They've always said they're not gonna recast it right. They're going to go forward. And and continue the storylines of the rest of the cast. And that's exactly what. The title kind of signifies like it's black panther right by panthers sequel but will conduct forever is. They're bigger than just one person. I mean if you even take the comic book into effect right like chaka gets killed. That's why t challa becomes black panther like there is this like royalty lineage of the line continues despite the individual yep I think i. I completely agree with you. I think it's going to be more like the different. The the ensemble cast because black panthers cast. Was that stan. And then the other thing. I wanted to add before moving onto ryan is the interesting. We had spoken about this two years ago that they were looking at a all female thima movie and we are getting that but not the one we expected and i am all in for the marvels. I think this is a good way to bring monica. Rambo in here and communist columnist marvel and then obviously captain marvel. I am all in for. And i love the logo. Leo thoughts on that one Well before i go on this marvel a ride as you have anything for like I miss this is a real to be completely honest but the golf guy stakes. I will say i agree to. I think it's going to be a series rise to being black panther and it's going to be just that story because They burn all the way like the plant in whatever is call to make the black. The black panther no. That's all gone Yeah the heart shaped herb gets You're right to get scorched to the earth. Thanks to kill monger. Yes oh interesting. How the power transfers. And how. They write that off tim to fight. He knows what he's doing. Oh yeah no no no. I'm thinking interesting. I'm not saying. I know it's going to be great in both but i'll back to go back to the the marvels Dave you you hit on the head. I think this and i do believe that there might earlier today. There came a report that the reason that the movie got changed instead of like captain marvel to the marvels was just because of the reception of b. Larsen as captain marvel in that it wasn't as triumphant or successful people would have hoped and this is a good way to like get people back on board with the brand would be like to give them like the beloved marvel's I do believe that this is going to be a really cool way to showcase The other the other officer. 'cause i know kamala khan becomes one of the most beloved characters in modern comics And giving her a time to like giving her a series and also like a pretty hopefully considerable role in the show It should really really cool to see. And i think we have a super. I mean we already have a superheroes for little girl but now we literally have a young girl as a superhero. So that should be really really fun to see. says ri- you didn't really see the rest of the Kind of hypes up. What's coming with different dates and stuff like that all the way. Down to twenty twenty three and then an opening from stanley which is like everything it kind of. I think it kind of put a bow on everything. i'm phase one through threes. That's kind of the feeling that i got from this real quick speaking stanley going. I went to stash recently in the stanley. Tribute thing as you walk in almost in tears. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah and that's all the news for this week Quick rundown of what we watch this week. I want to just highlight three things too. I can talk about one. I cannot a i finally finish ted lasso and ted lasso is one of the best shows on television. It is hilarious. It is such a bright spot for like television when in a time where everything is so depressing on television. This is a fantastic fantastic show. Adjacent davis is is fantastic. Leo you you may not your into the to the world's game right. Yes yes yes. I'm i am a soccer fan. Have you seen lafayette or no. I haven't i haven't i'll be honest with you. Jason bakker's is not one of my more favorite at same here But but i mean this. Show sweat all the awards. Oh yeah it's it's kind of how i felt after a week. Yeah it's like everyone can't be wrong. This has got to be a good killer. Show so all i'll say. Is this the premises. He is an american football coach. Who gets brought in to coach a soccer team. Yeah it's a isn't it just like a spin off of his snl character. I believe so or a commercial or something along those lines. Yeah yeah i know. He's like a very nikki type dude but like like one of those like lovable. Ignorant type yup bubble. Yeah but will help. The show is the fact that it's The supporting cast is fantastic. That's probably will. You'll love about the show. The moses to support the. It's a straight up on samba. He's the lead and he'll probably get all the awards love but the ensemble is incredible. I think you'll really dig it I saw probably the best animator film. I'll see all year. And i haven't even seen luca and gone through yet. I saw the mitchell versus machines. Which is fantastic. it's lauren miller. It is their follow up after spider verse. And it looks like they are going back to the oscars. I don't know if the win. But they looks like they're going back to the oscars. This movie is fantastic. Absolutely and just for our fans this is just like like quick insight into like. I'll off the air after this movie davis saw this he's been recommending the crap out of everybody everyday any chance. He gets any chance he will. I don't think i've seen this. Pledge dave pushing.
Horror Vein
"2017" Discussed on Horror Vein
"I expected.
Horror Vein
"2017" Discussed on Horror Vein
"Did that to you. Know no no. And when i finish what like rob is gonna rip me a new al. He's gonna he's gonna be. I'm watching a film at the beginning. And i'm like oh cam not into this film and then this like i said the liquor store thing. I'm like okay back. And then when they get they go to build this little shrine to get like this little stuff like a drive. The guy you didn't you didn't know no no no listen listen. Listen aren't so they they do all this stuff so they pack up to leave and then it starts raining so then. The shrine is like being devastated by heavy rain. So i'm like okay. Well i'll let i see what you're saying. That wasn't even worth it. I kind of like the series of Stupid things. I don't know like yeah starts off in the in the liquor store. He's stupid he doesn't stand up. I friend maybe. What i'd i guess. I your nets instead of rob. I know it is a tough situation. I i it. I i did but i was like okay. You're gonna show this devastating scene but has no connection to the film whatsoever other than the fan other other than the fact that is guilty and his friends hate him because he didn't stand up. I wasn't attention but nothing. Nothing was connected and yeah there was a tension in whatever underlying tension but then really matter. Because i didn't really get to know any of the character sudden careful when he died wasn't like a big thing it was like you know you look at hush back to look at harsh. I like ashby. i like the main character. Yeah well not just because you've seen her and other movies but no it's not the end. She's hot no has nothing. Oh yeah the has nothing to do with it. I liked her character and i was rooting for her. And i didn't feel like that towards any of those characters Because like i said after the incident in the liquor store. I just didn't respect. The character like his friends at respect them concrete this week. Maybe he's going to change and it is you know as friends are just kinda their wishy washy and then all of a sudden. There's a huge hole there walking. How did this guy miss it. I don't know me. I may have to watch it but only when it falls into whole like oh right right right. Right right yeah. Yeah and they're like well. We're we're going to have to go through the forest a shortcut. Yeah obviously there's a trail in the people know you're on the trail and again i don't have any experience hiking but if i'm going into a force that they don't know i would usually leave tags so i could galley out. I was smart. Yeah here they are with a compass but then the compass doesn't work. Yeah but they keep going forward and then the next thing they see is gutted animal and they still keep going suspended from the then tonight is to then you start seeing the pig signs. And i'm like and they keep going forward and then you get to this cabin. They break into the cabin right and they get into the cabin and i'm like i don't blame him because it was raining really hard. Okay i get it. But then i see that and you see this training like what do you need to be presented to you to go. This is a bad idea. Let's get the fuck out of this but the movies so no so. So what i'm saying is it's like really bad screenwriting. It was stupid. you needed something else. Go this idea that okay. So that's the point is you're making is that my point is that they needed to rework the whole the reason why they're in the forest. I think they needed to build the legend of the creature. So could buy it. It just was thrown at you. See what you're saying. Okay you're you're you're taking in all this stuff and you're not giving me reasons to bring to believe you because you're dealing with stupid characters. I see that was my first rate. So i guess what i'm thinking then as a screen writer director would have you. Maybe absolute like what you're saying. Rework the story but of of scientists going. Oh there's this creature was seen was like bigfoot right. You want me to believe in bigfoot. And i don't and cabin i do. I see what you're saying because these people are explaining it but at least i know something about bigfoot. I don't know anything about this north creature and unless you do research i mean they try to explain to you but a heat that are gonna put you on his. I'm gonna put you on the spot now. You can make the same argument that why. Why is something alien or aliens different. They're going to this planet. They don't know what's going on there. I i by an alien by an a by the alien The way it's presented I bought it. But then you're looking at this big four legged creature that's basically skin and bones right. I'm an alien creature that has substance to it. I can buy that lives on an you know on two different life another planet. I see what you're saying. This is a mythological creature. That's basically i don't think it's alive or dead. I don't know what it is. I see what you're saying. It's a something of loki Was their explanation. Was so maybe what we could have done is like this. Let me just. You'll get people's normal reactions like what you're saying you walk in. You see these symbols okay. That's a red flag. You see this animal suspended from a tree got it. That's the huge red flag. So you turn around and walk. No no no wait. Wait wait wait wait. Wait the first red flag before they got into. The forest was the abandoned. Volkswagen doll right right. Like what is that was one here right. Okay yeah that was. That was even before they got into the forest. Okay so i guess what you could have done is to. The compass. Three was a good at creature right or was the thing in the second. Well let me just. Let me get this out now. Then they're here her here. Are all your flags your red flag so now what you could do you could have done is take and then have them walk away from these things and put them in a different such an another situation and take the movie in that direction. Which would have made more sense than having them go forward. Is that kind of what you're saying which makes sense to me well. No what i'm saying is is that the whole movie should've been changed. It should have been. Maybe it was. I'm an. I'm just throwing some like a group a group of scientists. The you know the one guy. Was you know researching norse legends. And they're like well if you go to one forest has been sightings missing. There's been missing campers and all this other stuff so that would give them a reason to stay in the forest because they're trying to find it there in the forest are lost but yet they don't want to leave. I seem to zero because the guys need but the guy is walking fine. It wasn't there wasn't any. I see you know urgency to this guy. You know he wasn't. It wasn't a life or death. Situation was absolutely moving around pretty good. So why don't you fucking just take the long way around around win..
Horror Vein
"2017" Discussed on Horror Vein
"You can listen to the lost journals on your favourite podcasting apps including apple podcasts. Google podcasts amazon music and now i heart radio. All car of the fear film studios podcast network. If you're looking for something fun geeky and motivational to listen to check out this podcast shannon the slayer where we are slaying negatively and taking your mentality to the next level one episode at a time. So if you're ready it's time to level up. We're slowly pay. That was we got the video. I can make all these stupid. I can do things like point with my hands. And just now i gotta watch you know remain. I don't wanna pick my nose or anything. I just say you know. I noticed in the last video. Your like picking your. I didn't need to just yeah. You know over here. I got god knows how many so this week. We're good the ritual yes. Don't pick your nose where we're doing. I'm just yeah. I don't have all the information in front of me but well in the front. The funniest thing i thought was when i saw the poster for the movie it says this should have gone to vegas. Yes well yeah and they even talk about that film now. Stupid long before really hard. and i. i don't know how you feel about. We're gonna find out soon. Find out that's for sure how you felt about this film but let me just say that It's a netflix original horror film. Yes it came up. You know like the amazon. You know has suggestions for you. This came up as suggestion for me because of all the other stuff that i've watched the trailer for heard about it. I get kinda mixed with another movie but go ahead saw. Here's what i did. You know it. You know you're like don it's your neck next so you know. Think about a movie. So i'm like you know what okay. I walked over to my. Dvd's i'm looking at. You know what i mean. Let me let me turn on netflix. I know rob as netflix's now so let me just bring net flicks up start flick clicking around. I'm like you know done. Is this all this very necessary. Absolutely so then. I'm like you know what. Let me. just let me google the top. Ten horror films on net flicks. So i did that. Okay tomatoes right and it was uh well. They liked it to believe it or not. This came off the top. Ten horror flicks on netflix Some like oh all right. So i watched the trailer and it looked really good. You know some like all right. I'm gonna. I'm gonna take a chance on this one. I'm i'm gonna i'm gonna deviate firm from our normal path. I'm gonna i'm to branch out and try this netflix's horror film. So that's why i suggested it and we'll start with you rob start. Well i could start. You want me to start. I can start. I wanna only. I want your opinion since you pick this only here. Well they know where i'm coming from. I have mixed feelings. Good so i really. I really liked the beginning The the scene in the in the In the convenience store that was fantastic. That was great. And i liked how. They were really good friends because here for our listeners. So there's some spoilers will talk about that in our little but ago cans warnings. Yeah so you know. If you haven't seen the film and you know take a break anyway come back and listen to the rest of the podcast after you've watched but anyway so yes so you know it just re. What a realistic scene. You know i mean i just felt like oh my god. What if i was put in that situation. You know they just go into buy a few things for their trip and they're just these goal. Yeah that's what was roy. Liquor store robert. yeah. I mean just like in this. His friend gets attacked already. Had been at the pub drinking. I know now. They need more for their trigger and stay his his friends Friend ends up getting murdered And he's behind hiding behind one of the shelves holding a bottle of liquor. Just torn you know. What do i come to attack them with this bottled way. What do i do and before he can really decide you know his front. Yeah so what i felt. That was a really powerful scene. And then you know they were. They were really good friends. They decided to take this trip. And i liked what they did. At the time you know. They climbed to the top of the mountain and they did a little memorial for this friend. I liked that. I liked the tension between didn't anne workout either but good. Well we'll get to that. But i want to get your take but i'm you asked me i. I'm going i so i. I liked that they had this this underlying frost tension like tench. Is that what you call it. Okay yeah because it's like some of the french fault like he should have done something some you know you go ahead. You don't find out until later but right so it's like and they you know they fight about it later but i like that fact that you know the one friend goes wasn't your fault. Don't worry about it. let's try to put it behind us. Let's take this camping trip or whatever I liked all of that until this shooter went to vegas. Yeah they should have they when you find but no and you know. They're going to go through the forest and you know she's going to go down and that it was obviously in the trailer It had me up until when they woke up in the cabin and they were having the nightmares. It didn't like When the when you finally see the people that didn't like that wasn't that wasn't the moment So that was before the people. Yeah i liked the When they i walked in. And i think it was a cow or whatever it was that was suspended from the trees. That was gutted that was. I like that now Now before before you go forward okay. If you were walking in the forest and you saw that i know. Rob i know and they argued about that. They did the like..
Underrated
"2017" Discussed on Underrated
"But yeah like i totally like even in then you could even keep it live. Actually you like go like a like a no no no like a a lion king you know like yeah homeward bound through like that's like i forgot lion king jungle book. The new ones exists. I just thought about the cat. The hangs out with the two dogs in homeward bound and third is. There's allie sally it they should. Yeah like i get what you're saying. They should have done something like that. You know you can have the cats like stand up and stuff like that. So what were the goods like good there in the film that mexico men that was okay like i was like okay enjoyed that it was just horrible way through jersey. You can't get over. How the cats look. It's very uncanny valley like the writing a super. Cringe like the you know. It's it's very clear that it's like trying so hard to be oskar bait but like missing the mark by million fucking miles It's so bad that it's good. That's there's no actual good. I didn't like it. I usually don't like movies. That are supposed to be so bad. They're good unless i watch them with somebody and we're making fun of it. But which is what i did. I did that. When i saw like i saw it with a bunch of people from work and I was sitting next sir. urban Our friend and like it was. There was a state he every time somebody would come on screen like every time a character was introduced which is pretty often. Because it's like here's this character. Here's bus jones. Here's fucking cavity. Here's you know. Whatever and he kept saying is that taylor swift is that swift is that every single time. And then when taylor swift showed up. I like leaned over to him. I was like that jason derulo under rule. He is so ridiculous and over the top. This we he's having such a fun time. Like i feel like the movie are just like they like like. Oh yeah like. This is like prestigious. We're going to be like acting our hearts out and jason derulo just like just doing a jason derulo concert like he's just like ooh he's like the quote like sexy cat that like all the cats wanna fuck and it's so weird and like you know the whole reason that You know what's her name. Jennifer hudson is like banned from like the. She's like an outcast cat and spoiler..
Deck The Hallmark
"2017" Discussed on Deck The Hallmark
"Guys get it shove off. Mine is yeah alonzo. You mentioned it. But emily is able to hack into her computer because she says you kept your password in plain sight now. We don't get any many more information about where she is keeping her password. But i won. Why like do you still every time you open up your laptop you need to remember what you can't remember your password. You need a reminder and to where is she hiding it where is it. it's re- it's written on a note card. She got off a great expectations on the bottom. And yeah like i. I just can't imagine not knowing the password of being so insecure about whether i can remember the password tobacco that i'm st no somewhere who tries to get under the speaking of that says fraud fraud. Broad question mark password. Yes what do you think your password was passed. Yeah that's another good one. One two three four five six or password. Dan's all this word rudy rudy. What is this guy like. What what are you. We're not gonna have clearly defined characters but first of all is she adopted because because there's not a liquor familiarity between the two of them at one point he's got a new york accent and one point it's a little bit hispanic and at what point is just kind of like animated character bad guys player in there. There's some italian at some times. I don't know what's happening with this character. I just need a back story on rudy. I don't know every time he's in a scene. I feel like he's going for something different. I don't know what's happening with him. He's got a five alarm chili five. Long chilly that's right dan. I don't know how much clearer you can be mexican dishes in the poster clear crystal. I was his wife like pre call. Like how did tonight like how did they get to her. As the spawn with him sight outta goodfellas and the kid. The kid is like blonde pale. Skin i don't like what happened there. Do you even get the pre cog joke. Don't but i. I'm proud of it but i'm sure it's really you know i am perfectly content On poor fran no kidding. She says everything stood at home. Okay good don't worry be okay see god bless okay okay fair enough thank you tracy. Thank you so much. Shell off shovel. What do you say we do the second one next week. Oh please could. I insist on the have you seen all three. Of course. I think we went back to the well but before you watched him or you like okay i guess i gotta do this or or your side to watch it. In the season i get caught up in things and i was talking about it on podcast and you know this is also that thing where you see the first one that you fight it. Their secrets like. I guess. I'm committed to that point Yeah that's how i. I've been there for sure that third princess which comes down the line i'm there you know. Yeah we i mean. That's that's princess which is different than christmas pregnancy and is different than a christmas. Which with princess switch is what. I thought we were doing last week. Yes when they suspected as much. But i didn't say anything and i should have said. Please say sunday brand. Got me over there on a spreadsheet. And i'm just calling out name. I'm over here know molin there. I didn't know anything about these movies to watch him. He's like i'm overdue christian and he's like what about a christmas switch and i'm like. Oh yeah that's a good. What was the print of good jokes. We did it today guys. We'll be back tomorrow with. Don't go chase. What does it chasing. Water ice and water. So please do chase waterfalls. Don't stick to the rivers and other bodies of water until then maybe the i wish you a merry christmas neck. The homework is a bramble jim. Podcast recorded live. and yeah that greenville. South carolina is produced by brandon. Gray set decor by plum. Haywood mall for more information on all bramble. Jim podcast. You can go to bramble jim. Podcasts dot com for more information on how to listen to the homework ask free. You can go to bramble jim. Plus dot com..
Deck The Hallmark
"2017" Discussed on Deck The Hallmark
"The line. Good thanks megan. Sorry about everything. The crowned to you there is a jain enormous poster inside of this diner says mexican dishes. Yup just just says mexican dish those new york diners though they have everything they have every kind of food. mexican dishes. That's why champaign on new year's right that's right that's flat champagne in this bobble lucian pain. That's the good stuff one of those mexican dishes and some champagne specialties. The on the rocks if you could water it down some. That'd be amazed at the fact that there's a poster that just says mexican dishes on an or that somebody bought it for a move in what i'm surprised by mexican dishes canada's idea of what right true story probably on the mexican dishes. Yeah there's a line there's always a line or two early in the movie. When they're trying to establish kind of the impetus of the plot moving forward or like where the character is to start their journey and sometimes they're worse than others. this is. I don't know why i laughed so hard at this. But the her best friend in the office says amber we're junior editors not writers. And and i like for the life of me. If you're in this line of work and your editing writing like to say that you've not climbed the ladder to writer is that line exists for no other purpose aside from to set up. Just how low she is on the totem pole. And it real bad. And i've been an editor at a magazine even a junior editor a magazine. And let me tell you we. All were expected to be able to write at one point. Or that's right. You have to right to do that. Job whoev- whoever is making. This movie is so excited. That get throw around term abdicate which we haven't said i think since seventeen eighty three but we get to say it. A lot in this movie. Earn kugler at three times. I kept forgetting the magazine also. Interact them. Yeah yeah not since the oliver cromwell's that on tv yeah come on family friendly toward shove off. Along a small we know things So hardly no rhythm. There's a her boss. The the the boss lady big boss lady jeffreys Who is in charge. Who's mad because of the story. There's a giant magazine cover in her stone. Office of office made entirely of rock. Apparently the title of the headline of the magazine justice pop singer. That's all it says he doesn't have a name or world's best it just as pop singer on it like here probably got an the same poster store she gets full on special goes by Her dad's diner to pick up food and he's like an irish bloodhound in a coffee. I don't know what an irish bloodhound is. Anybody here know. I can do a quick google but i am amazed that she is going to get in new york city cup of coffee. And whatever is in that bag for four dollars and ninety five cents and that is apparently retail price. I'm very impressed by that. Prince richard is an expert archer and by expert archer. It means he cannot hit anywhere near the bullseye eye from twelve feet away. That's what that means. He is outside shooting a bow and arrow at such a close range. There is a possibility of death from reverberation. he is right beside that bulls. I don't know if you've ever seen people actually do archery. But it is a long way away. It's not in the same room with you. How in the world does he is literally standing if he lays down twice. He's at the bulls eye. He's there and he's like man can't hit the bulls but everybody else father told me archery when i was a kid. I haven't picked it up since like was he was. He warming up the bow. He going to back up at some point that seen as embarrassing. I just don't people in our dove. You don't know how to high five. They haven't learned that yet. I found that to be a little bit suspect. Can we talk about princess margaret. What's her name. The little emily prentiss. Emily the math. She is doing she the actor. I looked up. Maybe twelve filming this movie. The math she is doing is some college algebra minimum. the math. she's doing is the reason why i didn't finish college. That's right like. I just don't understand like what are we. We're pushing her. This hard three days before christmas three days before christmas. She's gotta find like the you know the co tangent of theta as a twelve year old. Like i don't i don't think that's necessary. It is very important that she be educated for the for when she never gets to become queen of the country. It's right. She has to rely on her intelligence because she's female to be in charge. She can only be the scheming person next. That's her limit. Can we talk about a thirty year. Old birth certificates that look like i printed them out this morning. What in the world. Those have been in drawer for years. And it's like kinko's worked him up for like it should be dot matrix if i'm simon. I'm like hey that's not proof. I could admit that this morning that is not worth of anything like the king seal from that thing in the in the acorn is old and tattered which he wrote last year right wrote that last year the adoption paperwork and birth certificates. What you're thirty years old or just crisp and pristine you know. They became out of the software that she uses to take notes. I don't know how but thirty years ago that software existed clearly ben the secret compartment for all that time in the cabin okay. Let's yeah climate in some sort of glass carries and also it was nine hundred ninety one and nothing looked that good.
Zero Credit(s)
"2017" Discussed on Zero Credit(s)
"To revive him using the power of a mother box which has the power to create slash. Destroy a planet. So that's the only thing that has enough power to bring superman back to life by the way. I can't imagine this isn't gonna be in the snyder cut. So this is an indictment of sex tighter. I guess if there's another way. Superman is brought back to life in the snyder cut. I'm going to eat my words but so the way they have to do it. Is they have to the mother. Box has the conveyance power to superman. By the way the power to destroy slash create a world. It's unclear yet. It's the only thing that can bring superman back. And they're gonna do that by putting power through the mother. Box adjust electricity. I guess and then it will trans for through the power of electricity. It's power into the back tank and revived superman. However there is not enough power. So barry allen famous for his ability to generate lightning by being fast got hit by lightning makes lightening just makes sense. Yeah sure he has to. They spend a lotta time time but how to get enough runaway to build up enough speed to create electricity but now the rules have changed that he has to touch exactly when it hits the water And it can't just be sitting in the water for some reason so that creates tension right. Any does it on the first try. Yep so. I don't really know what his all the time like building up the tension and then superman is brought back to life. Yes you nailed it. I i assume for i think from a writing standpoint. They could probably stand to lose eighty percent of that. Yeah at least. I hope what is was going to happen. I think you're right. I think this is absolutely legs. Action either coming up a way to bring back superman. But what if we watch the snyder cutting their like let's just electrify other. And they do it. I really hope they explain the power of the mother box because that was never clear. I mean apparently cyborg was created using a mother box. Somehow what do you mean the two sentences where they say. The mother box has the ability to reshape planet. The power to create a planet. That's just what we need. Apparently batman bruce wayne has a line. Where apparently superman cells are perfect just lying dormant as we all know when we die our perfect cells just become imperfect the the the the insane thing to me is everyone's like the power to create slash destroy a planet. That's just what we need. And then there's you know the a series of medium close ups of people to indicate they're all thinking the same thing which really works in cinematography if the audience could be believe as customary on. To- bring superman back win. Did anyone reach that conclusion app and they all treat them like the idiot. That's what we were all thinking. But like can i do wanna i wanna say. The flash uses super speed throughout the movie. There's this electrical effect like. I'll give you a specific scene. Bay go into the bat cave. And barry allen has the lines whoa. It's like a cane And then he runs around and it comes back and says like that cage a anyway. Hope that's gone but he runs throughout that entire area and lightning sparking off of him onto electronics. Some shit and apparently is not having an effect at all..
Zero Credit(s)
"2017" Discussed on Zero Credit(s)
"That's because they don't understand that. Batman versus superman is a perceived conflict in batmans mind of human verses alien in the fact that superman has a mother that you know he he wants to say goodbye to humanizes him and batman realizes okay. He's more on my side than i thought. He's not an alien ear to take over or judge us with impunity. he's also he has similar human traits. And it like it's kind of unresolved in that film because they get into interrupted by doomsday. The brilliance of schneider's filmmaking. Is that it concludes in justice league. Batman says alfred. We need superman. He's more human than i ever was. Yeah he's learned his lesson from the previous movie and it ties into why they would need to bring him back ties into the conflict of the the the army that ends trump alliance of trying to forge is not working because batman has become so dehumanized through his just endless fight against crime that the alien from another planet is more human than he is in could lead them yet. I mean i think that. I don't think that it's too far outside the realm of possibility to say that when we do end up getting a snyder cut the the ultimate realization of that snyder cut is to say we do need god. We do need the the sun of krypton to save us and we can't do it alone because we can't do anything alone. The there's an under girding helplessness to batman v. Superman which has its problems. But at least it's like narrative of a whole and the problem with justice league as you have those scenes which do peak at the greater mystery of these movies but then they're like sandwiched between a weird re-shoot right in of jokes in just complete gutting them characters because like the we get the most. This is a movie or sort of meeting all of these people for the first time in a way. That's why diana wonder woman has her scene with the british museum. Sorry the paris museum but the british terrorist. I was confused. Where i was She gets her seat kicking ass. We get introduced to the flash. We're supposed to get introduced to cyborg. But his character is the most gutted like to the point where he's just a walking plot device with no actual character behind him on such a shame. Because you can tell. That ray fisher is doing a really good job. L. man ray fisher for the few lines he has. I didn't count or anything..