38 Burst results for "21St"

"21st" Discussed on WCPT 820

WCPT 820

01:51 min | Last week

"21st" Discussed on WCPT 820

"21st featuring special guests including but not limited to mr. Glenn Kershner mr. Rob Reiner house sparks Angela and in spite of overwhelming popular demand me it's gonna be a riot sexy liberal calm heated yes other stars to be named later we're talking about that very thing just now it's a minute I wasn't off from work anymore it was great good good morning morning I gotta tell you the best thing about being out here I'm off coffee after years I finally found a coffee replacement that makes me feel better and more rested and tears it's um of the proud boys member yes the blubbering of all the blubbering what's -his -name Biggs yes it's the find out portion of the beverage yes yes by the way I you were here I don't know if we had seen the Republican debate yet but your Vivek impression Ramaswamy is almost as annoying as he actually is Daniel Day Lewis did hard it's hard to come back I don't know where I ended Vivek begins yes I was saying here this we go again with the media we have to do some Eric Bollarding because they're the ones making him into this like oh you know because there was a response in the room Ramaswamy's unfavorability was at 12 % post it spiked to 19 % so he was just as irritating apparently to the Republican base and his number went down you know he's irritating to 19 % of Republicans or of humans of Republicans since I mean bugs and cats find him annoying yes he is oh my god so irritating okay yeah um could you take your organelle he makes me ashamed to be ignorant privileged he really does okay uh you said oh by the way was it yes Mike Pence response Jacksonville to was we

Fresh update on "21st" discussed on Bloomberg Intelligence

Bloomberg Intelligence

00:17 min | 14 hrs ago

Fresh update on "21st" discussed on Bloomberg Intelligence

"We He found that in the material sector companies that have a lower carbon intensity outperform their higher intensive ones by I think the number was 56 % over five years. Really? Yeah. Think of something like like steel, right? So the cleaner method of production, like I said is electric arc, which is recycle steel. In that method of production you're not dependent on say supply chain disruptions. You're not dependent on commodity prices. So that is you know significant you know fundamental benefits. Big energy companies. How do they fit in? I mean just humoring Alex. Yeah. I'm just like how did they get viewed? So technology companies it's just kind of just get left out. Energy is one of the most excluded sectors for me as she funds regardless of what they do. companies, a lot of asset managers just have that policy right in Europe. The fund cannot invest in the first of your company. Is it the same thing for like a cement and steel company gets so weird because in so many ways like the hard to decarbonize industries are a lot dirtier than, say, an oil company that's cleaning up its own steel carbon. and Correct. cement the emissions So for lie in its its sort of operations, right? It's much more dirty than an energy company. But I I feel like cement and steel are almost, they're viewed excluded in cement self like and a steel halfway isn't there that excluded, and OG is almost but like it is really to re a fair extent. Jihin, thanks a lot. Jihin Dr. Bloomberg Intelligence, Senior ESG Strategist. All right, coming up on the program, we'll talk ETS and how they're dominant emerging as investment the vehicle of the 21st century. You are listening to Bloomberg Intelligence on Bloomberg Radio, providing in -depth research data on 2000 companies and 130 industries. You can access Bloomberg Intelligence through BI Go on the And I'm Paul Sweeney and this is Bloomberg. Bloomberg Radio on demand and in your podcast feed. On the this latest week podcast, edition of the Bloomberg a conversation Business with Mitch Allen, founder and yes, head elf at hire Santa on seeing high demand for Santa entertain entertainers this holiday season. We've had more demand for Santa Claus entertainers than than we've ever had before. And all types of it, whether it be a home office, retail establishment, malls, everyone to associate themselves with Christmas through the use of Santa. Hey, Mitch, I mean, so our numbers up demand is up from what Is it just been you've been seeing organic growth? Is there been a recent peak? Give us an idea. Give us some perspective So We've here seen at the higher demand for Santa's people reaching out to us is over last up over year and 36 last year was record demand even higher than pre -pandemic and that's turned into more events Our actual events that we've booked is up over 152 % over last year And many times that over pre -pandemic levels. So people are using it and what's interesting is We don't necessarily have a Santa index, but that's what I'm calling it that small Are and really medium -sized using businesses Santa this year. I think it's going to be a blockbuster year for small and medium size businesses if the demand for Santa Claus at these establishments is any indication. What about the The demands that you're getting right now from different people across the country who are saying well you know what I don't actually want a that Santa looks or sounds like the traditional Santa Claus. What are you getting requests for? So diversity city The Bloomberg entertainers is Businessweek one of as the big trends well podcast as that we're Spanish seeing subscribe speaking in Santa's. the on Santa Claus Apple entertainment Spotify Hear the space full and conversation we anywhere have a else on number you of the get your latest black podcasts Santa edition Claus of the plus listen anytime on the Bloomberg business app and bloomberg .com the big the big wildfires droughts wars and floods there's no doubt that 2023 has been a tough year and the challenges continue. what are the tools we need to build a more resilient future. Find out in the next episode of the risk opportunity a series brought to you by Bloomberg Media Studios and break. take your research to the next Take level with Interactive Brokers Fundamentals your Explorer. Fundamentals Explorer provides comprehensive worldwide fundamentals data to all IBKR clients at no will cost. Dive deep into hundreds of data points covering historical trends, industry comparisons, key ratios forecast ratings ownership and more so you can see the whole picture. Find data faster. Add depth to your trading analysis and compare beyond plain numbers. Visit IVKR When you get your news from Bloomberg you don't just get the story you get the story behind the story. How your EVs battery may not be as a green decrease as in it seems. global birth rates could Why send a countries scrambling to increase immigration. You get context. and context changes how you see things. How you change things. Because context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. This is Bloomberg Intelligence with Alex Steele and Paul Sweeney on Bloomberg Radio. ETFs are set to emerge as the dominant investment the 21st century as more large asset managers shift to attract investors more, we're joined by Bloomberg senior intelligence ETF analyst, Eric Balchunas. Eric, this is a wave like I don't think I've seen in my in my 30 plus years on Wall Street, the growth of the ETF space, the funds that are flowing The into traditional ETFs, mutual funds, which are my bread and butter back in the day, they're transitioning and reclassifying, I guess, ETFs. world as Just give us a sense of where the ETF space is today, how we got here how and you think how it's gonna go? Yeah, I mean, I would equate ETFs to a technology. I frequently program. We'll right be ETS tend to be low cost. I give Vanguard credit. A lot of ETS were based off of Vanguard index funds when they priced themselves, so Show, I'm Paul Sweeney. Thank you so about is to the asset compelling. our outlook managers is So what were you've they're doing got hesitant now all these organic is to instead move flows out of going the of mutual to launching fund ETFs. because you like make a just lot of Okay, a money we get clone in this those. advisors of love their mutual them. fund But the and So a just lot flows of hoping legacy are that too that new fun can, you know, get some assets, which it's harder and harder to do. They're going to lift up their whole whole client base

Guest Host Rich Zeoli Tackles Iran, Hamas and Wokeist Support

Mark Levin

02:09 min | Last week

Guest Host Rich Zeoli Tackles Iran, Hamas and Wokeist Support

"Yeah. And you know what? If some people fire, get lost in the ah, oh, well. And yet we gave them billions of dollars, pallets of cash, and we helped them expand their nuclear program. That's why Alan Dershowitz, when he was on my radio show, said Barack Obama's been a villain in all this, trying to equate that both sides here, both sides have been wrong. Israel was attacked by Hamas on October 21st. And I'll tell you something else, too. I got to give Sheryl Sandberg credit, the former CEO of Facebook, now known as Metta, because she came out with a piece and she talked about how we need to be calling out Hamas for raping women. And we need to be doing that. And these same groups on college campuses, you know, the Rainbow Hair and all their alphabet soup organizations, those same kids on college campuses who were there, out the pro -Hamas kids don't seem to care how women are treated. They don't seem to care how these terrorists destroy will women and they have no respect for them. They don't consider them equal. They'll rape them. They'll beat them. They'll assault them. They have no rights in their countries. But woke -ism is all about figuring out who the victim group is and then deciding to support that victim group no matter So what. in this case on college campuses, what you've seen is that the progressive woke people have all decided that somehow Hamas, they're really just freedom fighters here and they're the ones who are the victims. So that's why you have the pro -Hamas terrorists, protesters out there all over college campuses and now it's getting to the point where they're also ransacking the offices of the DNC. But how do we get here? I mean how do we get to this point where we can now as the United States of America turn around and try to tell Israel what to do and try to tell Israel how it should fight its wars? How do we get here to this place? Well, this is what Mark tweeted out a short ago. time It's now official. Biden, Blinken do not want Israel to win the war against Hamas and they more continue onerous to conditions place more on and Israel and as they plot to carve up Israel and give Judea and Syria, West Bank to the Palestinians, all of whose leaders are terrorists, and Gaza. The Biden Blinken plan is to destroy Israel, which is the original Obama Blinken plan. Meanwhile, while Biden Blinken

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Fresh update on "21st" discussed on Frankie Russo

Frankie Russo

00:04 min | 15 hrs ago

Fresh update on "21st" discussed on Frankie Russo

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A highlight from Who Are the Wise Virgins?  Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr. John Esseff  Discerning Hearts Podcasts

Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts

07:56 min | 2 weeks ago

A highlight from Who Are the Wise Virgins? Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr. John Esseff Discerning Hearts Podcasts

"Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to Saint Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope Saint John Paul II, to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests and sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. What's on your heart today, Monsignor? Today I was thinking very much about the end of the Church here, and God is going to present through the Church the final judgment, the end times. What does that mean? You know, in the epistle Paul, he wants to know, he wants to give them comfort as he teaches the Christians. What is going to happen on Judgment Day, on the final thing, not only for those here on earth who are going to remain, but for all those who came before, and all those who have died, that Jesus has come for the salvation of all mankind. But today, I really believe the Gospel was very much meant, yes, it is for the judgment of all mankind, but I would really think that today it was meant especially for leaders in the Church, for Charismatics, for those who are called to be leaders in the Church, especially for religious. And it addresses them in this way with regard to the final judgment. It's a magnificent teaching in the 25th chapter of Matthew's Gospel. This is before the teaching of the last judgment by Jesus in saying, I was hungry and he gave me to eat, I was thirsty and he gave me to drink, I was naked and sick and in prison. When did we do this for you, Lord? Whenever you did it to the least of these, you did it for me, emphasizing charity. But here he is talking about our relationship with God, which is much more important than what we do. And in the 25th chapter, in the first 13 verses, Jesus told his disciples this parable, The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones, when they were taking their lamps, brought no oil with them, but the wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps. Since the bridegroom was long delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep. At midnight there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom is here, come out to meet him. So all of us in all of mankind are being awakened, and this is the time when it is time to meet the Lord at the end of time. Then those virgins got up, trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out. But the wise ones replied, No, for there may not be enough for us and for you. Go instead to the merchants and buy some for yourselves. While they went out to buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in to the wedding feast with him. Then the door was locked. Afterwards the other virgins came and said, Lord, Lord, open the door for us. But he said in reply, this is very important words for each one of us to hear today, Amen. Then I say to you, I do not know you. Therefore stay awake, for you know not the day nor the hour. What is this about? Is this kind of a lack of charity on the part of this storytelling of the five whys? Why couldn't they have given their oil to the other five? Because it is the relationship with the bridegroom. What did the five have? What was the oil in the lamp? They had the relationship with the bridegroom. They knew the bridegroom and the bridegroom knew them. What about the five foolish? They didn't know him. The key to this is Matthew's same Gospel in the seventh chapter, beginning with the 21st verse. Not who everyone says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven. The same words that they were saying, Lord, Lord, open the door, unlock it. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom. But only those who do the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, this is so important, Lord, did we not do great miracles in your name? Did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do great and mighty deeds in your name? Then I will declare to them solemnly, I never knew you. Depart from me, you evil doers. It's not what we do. It's the relationship with the bridegroom.

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Fresh update on "21st" discussed on Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast

Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast

00:18 min | 20 hrs ago

Fresh update on "21st" discussed on Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast

"We got a dry run here in Canada of what can happen when a government decides to cut people off financially. And you don't think of Canada as being as draconian as it got. People couldn't pay their mortgages, things like that. It was just like they were cut off. A lot of people had their first interaction with Bitcoin be, oh, wow, this is the only digital payment mechanism that actually worked. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin podcast, a show where average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance and we talk shit. Today we are joined by the best YouTube tutorials available to explain not only how to use these devices, but why you should use them. We talk about UTXOs and multisig setups. We talk about butthole pucker moments, wearing Bitcoin underwear and soaking naked in a bathtub while watching sessions YouTube videos. Ben's got a couple of big events coming up in the near future. He is kicking off the Bitcoin circular economy with the Saturday sat market in Calgary at the White Diamond Conference Center. That will be happening on December 16th. Also, don't miss the BTC sessions Christmas special going down live on December 22nd. Dan and I will be on a panel joined by the infamous Dom Bay. Don't worry, we will reign him in and keep him from making any inappropriate dog jokes. There are five hours of panels and guests lined up. Don't miss it. If you have had a butthole pucker moment in your Bitcoin journey, then you understand the value of a cold card. I know that no matter what happens if my computer fails or is compromised, the cold card is sound. The cold card is designed ultimately for one purpose to protect your Bitcoin come what may. If you value your Bitcoin and would prefer to exercise your pelvic wall on your own terms, own a cold card. Use code BCB for 5% off. BTC sessions, AKA Ben, the legend joining us from the great white north, Josh Calgary, Canada. How much snow do you have there now? Like two feet by now? What is it? Literally it is. There's not a speck of snow on my lawn right now. Really? Yeah. It's weird. Although it did snow a few days before Halloween because Calgary likes to slap you in the face. Yeah. We got that too here. Yeah. Yeah. It's gnarly here. Not that we're going to say why there's a horrible intro topic for a podcast, but it is this it's like in the thirties and raining this morning. And I'll tell you, I got off shift in rush shape. I got a level with you guys. Enter my head space. Long, long night last night at work, Josh, a fire alarms, ambulance calls galore and left the fire station at eight 15 knew I needed to do everything in my power to boot and rally for one of our favorite guests on the show. So I have emptied the tank. The magazine is empty. Here is what I have done to get myself mentally and physically prepared for this chat. I have a venti Christmas blend Starbucks, Starbucks sessions. Got it right there. I am wearing my favorite slippers. Okay. Had these for years. They're my favorites. I am wearing, and I, before I say this, I am comfortable in my masculinity, but this is going to be shocking for people that have envisioned Josh and I only wearing turnout gear, slinging axes I have on teal Lulu lemon. I repeat teal Lulu lemon joggers. I am wearing panties for a big stand up and spin around really legit wearing panties for Bitcoin. And there's no professional or monetary affiliation. This is all coming from the heart. Here they are for the four women watching on YouTube panties for Bitcoin right here. Are you nuts? Just super comfortable. They are cozy. And then the hoodie for those on YouTube. How many days in a row can you get away with wearing those? You think I did two in a row. That's kind of sketchy, I think, but yeah, I go to quite a long as you, as long as you wipe, well, you're good. You know, you're good. Let's start with a while. It's wipes. And then the hoodie guys, I'm wearing the panties for Bitcoin hoodie. I just, basically my point there was I could not be more comfortable. I could not be more prepared despite the deck being stacked against me. Couldn't be more excited to, to have this discussion with you too. I'm excited that you started out this way because I want to describe a really quick, my morning so far, I slept great last night. Didn't work. You got up. My wife and I set out the alpha. We do the alpha on the shelf thing for our kids. So it was a big, exciting morning. The elves showed up, they were in the Christmas tree, shuffled the kids off to school with my wife. And then I drew myself a super hot bath, which I don't do ever. And that's very feminine, but I lit candles. I took a really hot bath and I set my eyes. I did. No, no, I did set up my iPad to watch your latest video, lowering your Bitcoin fees while I vulnerable and naked in my tub. Tell us about your morning. Yeah. Well, you know what? We did the alpha on the shelf too, but now I feel bad about it because American HODL tweeted out and he was like alpha on the shelf is a government psyop to get kids to the use of the idea of the nanny state watching over. We're getting them used to the panopticon now, like the alpha on the shelf is here now, but the tax, the tax man and the federal government's over your shoulder. Like think of, think of the analogy there. There is somebody watching everything you do and you do something outside of their rule set. They'll stop giving you handouts. It's the perfect analogy for the government. Bitcoiners should just fuck their kids up and ruin the whole Santa for the whole classroom and teach their kids to rebel. We should, we should all make it so that the elves continue demand to demand more and more of the kids. And then the elf yanks all of the presents. It's brilliant. That's a business idea right there. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a, it's a libertarian elf on the shelf. So I think the Bitcoiners version of this is just the Grinch elf. We need Grinch elves is what we need to bring reality back here. Yeah. And then they could have like Velcroed on like faces of the current politicians. Man, this could have serious legs. Hey, don't discount it. Yeah. Don't, don't give that away for free. Copyright. So we were talking just before we started recording about your latest video and just about how well done it is. And you were explaining just how long it takes to produce these things. And I did one a year over a year ago now just to kind of test it out and see, and I absolutely hated producing this thing. It was a nightmare. I have great respect for what you do after attempting one myself. And I don't think I'll be fucking wading back into those waters again. Give us a quick update on yourself. What's going on with you, some of your latest videos, just a quick update on Ben. Yeah. There's a, there's a lot going on right now. I've got to say it like, I feel like there's so many projects on the go that are in the midst of happening. So I guess I mean the, the business as usual stuff that's going on, I'm still pumping out tutorials every single week, still doing the news show with Nico every Thursday, still doing, why are we bullish every Friday? So like that's, that's the base of it. My wife is helping me up, helping me out. She chops up the Friday shows and picks the quotes. So whenever you see those like couple minute clips, she's behind them all. She's the one picking out the cool rants and doing all that, which is awesome. Yeah. So I'm, I, you know, hats off to Mrs. Sessions for that. So yeah, that the, the regular run of stuff is happening on the side. I've been doing a lot of stuff with the human rights foundation. And so I'm now, I received a grant from the human rights foundation earlier this year for for God, what was it? It was, it was for $25,000. Very cool, dude. Which was awesome. So I, you know, I threw my hat in the ring and, and they were like, yeah, you, you got a grant. And so now part of what I'm funneling that into is I'm, I'm number one, I'm, I'm working with different human rights, political dissidents from around the globe. And I'll do like one-on-one calls or group calls with them, teaching how to use various Bitcoin tools so that they can evade sanctions. This is bad ass. Holy shit. I didn't know you were doing this. Yeah, it's crazy. And it's so cool. Like I've spoken with people from around the world, you know, um, you know, post Soviet States where human rights conditions are, are not great people from central and South America. Um, it's, it's all over the map, but it's super cool. Um, so I'm working with, with that, but I'm also putting together a track of 10 kind of shorter than usual tutorials that are just kind of straight to the point. How do I use this stuff? And it's, uh, I'm starting with 10 videos of various tools that make sense for human rights dissidents, um, or, or for political dissidents that are fighting for human rights. Um, and, uh, and then I've started using AI to do translations. And when I say translations, I don't mean like there's, there's subtitles. I mean, I plunked this video into a program. I've heard about this in my voice. It's amazing. Makes it into Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, whatever I want. Those are the three languages I'm doing first. Uh, and it's CGI is my lips. So it looks like I'm speaking the language. I put it up, like, dude, you know, Spanish, like it was, it's that good. And there's like this odd word where it's like, it might not make entire sense, but like in the context of the video, it would be easy enough to navigate. I would just seem like maybe I misspoke or something, but like to give you an idea of, of how much this matters, especially like, I think to me and, and the ability to educate people from everywhere is what I was facing before was trying to figure out number one, you had to like get the actual transcription of, of everything I've said in there. You'd have to pay, find somebody that not only knows both languages, but also knows Bitcoin at the same time and can like create the new transcription. And then somebody, because I can't just have subtitles because people need to be looking at what I'm doing, not reading what's below it. And so I need somebody to overdub it, but furthermore, I need the overdub to be timed perfectly because it has to pertain to what's on the screen. So between all of that, the cost of that was going to be just so exorbitant that it was just completely, completely off the table right now. And I'm using part of the grant money for this. I paid 250 bucks a month and I can probably pump out three videos in different languages that would have cost me.

A highlight from BCB134_ANDY SCHOONOVER: Fiscal & Physical Health

Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast

05:32 min | 3 weeks ago

A highlight from BCB134_ANDY SCHOONOVER: Fiscal & Physical Health

"Which might as well be Darth Vader, right? Like we're screwing Darth Vader, right? Like nobody cares if Darth Vader gets screwed, right? And what we're trying to say is like, no, no, no, you're screwing me, a human being who has to ultimately pay for this. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast, a show where average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance, and we talk shit. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome in. Glad you're here for another week on Blue Collar Bitcoin. This time around, Josh and myself, Dan, got the pleasure of spending an hour with Andy Schoonover. After attending Stanford Business School, Andy has built an impressive entrepreneurial and business resume. Since 2021, he's been the founder and CEO of CrowdHealth, a company looking to completely redefine the meaning of healthcare in today's society. Andy also hosts a great show called the Sovereign Health Podcast, and he's a dead serious Bitcoiner. He recorded this episode from the Bitcoin Commons in Austin, Texas, for Pete's sake. You'll be able to tell right away Andy was practically born with a microphone in front of his face, and this chat was substantive. We cover the importance of creating a work -life balance, why the medical -industrial complex is so opaque and so expensive, and what CrowdHealth is doing to fix it, metabolic health, butt -naked ice baths, and much more. We think that you'll agree after listening to Andy that what CrowdHealth is pioneering is truly badass. If you have healthcare needs, and you want to cut your costs and support human beings rather than large insurance companies, CrowdHealth is more than worth a peek. You can come and go as you please, month to month, no stupid commitments, no confusing bullshit. And if you so choose, you can use code BLUE for a significant discount on your first six months. Lastly, as price starts heading north, I'm going to take time to remind all of you folks to self -custody your freaking Bitcoin. If you don't hold the private keys, you hold a Bitcoin IOU, not the real thing. Someone else is your Bitcoin Dom. Assuming you're not a sub, take custody yourself folks, or at the very least start learning how this process works. Our go -to solution for storing our Bitcoin private keys is the Cold Card. It's extremely secure, easy to use, and Bitcoin only. We've used these bad boys for years. They simply work. You can use code BCB, that's BCB, for a delectable discount on Cold Card, and click the CoinKite link down in our notes to see discounts on a variety of other CoinKite products, including the BlockLocks. Josh, Andy, Schoonover, Daniel, is here. In usual fashion, we just got a lot of good stuff out of the way before we click record, but we'll have to leave that up to the audience's imagination, right, Andy? We got some saucy stuff on the Sovereign Health podcast just before we click record that we can't disseminate to the world, unfortunately, now. We are. It's locked in. We're going to have to tread lightly in this one too, Andy, because we're going to be talking, I'm sure, quite a bit about being paramedics, about our day job. We actually had an incident in our last episode where this happened a couple of times on this show where we get a little too specific and we're like, wait, could that really fuck us down the road if a chief listened to that? We've got to basically go, this happened to someone we know at a neighboring department years ago, whatever story that we're about to just throw out there. Didn't happen with us. It happened with somebody else far, far away. Twenty years ago, we knew a guy that worked somewhere else that once had a patient where this went down. Friend of a friend. Exactly. Yeah. Well, good to hang out with you guys. It's been about, what, about a year since we last hung out. So appreciate y 'all having me on. I think about exactly. Now is the time. You know, everybody's thinking about healthcare for next year. So I appreciate y 'all having me on this time of year. As always, last year was super fun. So I'm sure we will not disappoint this time around. No, we won't. Yeah. We just finished open enrollment at the department. It's like herding cattle too. Like the, you know, they send out the initial email from HR, you get half of the firemen that do it. Another week goes by. You've got stragglers. You got to kind of get the shepherd's crook around their neck, pull them in the pen. It's like when you do a sexual harassment training, you know, nobody wants to do it. Like who wants to sit there and they want to click through, like, don't touch anyone on the penis. Don't look at anyone's ass, obviously like, yes, yes, I know I'll take the bullshit quiz. I'll get 75 % on it and I'll move on with my day. You guys went that direction. I was thinking more like doing taxes every year. Like it's one of those things like you hate doing, you know, we're actually going to put up a post either today or tomorrow on Twitter around, like do this once and never have to worry about it again. Cause we don't have open enrollments at crowd help. Like it's month to month. If you want to quit next month, if you want to quit in four years, you can quit in four years. Our average person's, you know, with us for two and a half or three years or something like that. So, um, you know, it takes five minutes to sign up. You never have to worry about it again. How beautiful is that? That's worth its weight in gold. Sure is. Yeah. I heard you when you were on with breed love, one of my main takeaways that everyone listening is thinking is why is the system and, and even just your plan, take it. If you've had a health insurance plan, an HMO, a PPO, whatever it is, it is one of the most confusing things anyone ever comes across. I consider myself squared away on so many fronts can, can read through these documents, generally understand them when it comes to healthcare.

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A highlight from Bitcoin ETF Frenzy | Bloomberg Intelligence INTERVIEW

Tech Path Crypto

16:19 min | 3 weeks ago

A highlight from Bitcoin ETF Frenzy | Bloomberg Intelligence INTERVIEW

"All right today we're going to dive into some ETF news but also some analysis from the experts really looking at the potential of what ETFs might mean for crypto in general but also of course Bitcoin. We'll dive in deep. My name is Paul Berra. Welcome back in to Tech Path. Joining me today is James Safert who is an ETF analyst over at Bloomberg Intelligence. Great to have you back James. Thanks for having me on Paul. Happy to be here. Excellent. Excellent. Last time we had you on early stages of a lot of the ETF activity. I won't let you off the hook about the ETH ETF though because we're going to ask you about that. The potential. But I want to go into first of all a little bit about what's been happening over the last 60 days. And most of this has been around the potential for BlackRock. And let's just kind of get that question out of the way. Obviously BlackRock I would say the number one at least institutional asset manager out there that's being looked at as possibly could be the leader. In your opinion you look at all the filings that have been made. What is going to happen when we do get these approved? If they all come at once do you feel like BlackRock just automatically wins the race here because they're BlackRock or do you think there would be some others that could really win some marketing points? Yeah. So the way that we look at the space is it's a winner take most world. It's not like there's going to be a winner take all type situation. You can't overlook the fact that Grayscale already has 20 billion in assets right now based on the current valuation. So they're also going to be a big player. So there's going to be anywhere we look in the ETF space there's usually one big leader who gets most of the assets, possibly most of the flows and the trading volume. But usually there's other aspects of what these issuers will find ways to differentiate themselves. So in gold ETFs some ETFs are going to be way cheaper than the most liquid ones. So that's grown. Some are going to store through their gold and Swiss vaults instead of the London vaults. So I suspect we'll see something similar on the Bitcoin side of things. You're going to have issuers that are going to focus on the fact that they've been dealing with advisors themselves and talking to them about what this space looks like and what it's going to look like and offer to be like we know this space very well. We're not just an asset manager. We're putting blockchain and crypto first. So people focus on that and then the people that will say like we're going to lend out the underlying Bitcoin and give you dividends or offer very, very near zero fees. Some will talk about like different custodians are going to possibly market on the custodians they're using. As we know, we've seen that has been an issue. So there's like a whole bunch of different ways, but it is likely to be winner take most in this world. And BlackRock obviously is likely to be the leader. But the idea that we have GBDC and Grayscale already existing with 20 billion assets is that's a huge thing to hurdle even if you're BlackRock. So based on you guys's analysis, if you look at the ETF services that could be offered because there's probably going to get some fairly creative services within these companies, what would you think would be one of the most critical things that a BlackRock or 21 shares or even a Fidelity could bring to the market to say, this is what we're going to do. We're going to come out and kind of hit with a splash and try to draw in these investors. I mean, the easiest, most simplest one is going to be fee, right? No matter what you do, no matter what your offerings are, if you're charging double the price of everyone else, you're going to have a hard time competing. Right. But also, you hinted at it. We think there's going to be a lot of marketing around here. BlackRock is likely going to market the hell out of this. You're going to see ARK in 21 shares. We've already seen VanEck start to market this type of stuff already. So we're going to see a lot of these players try to market and get to advisors. Directly to retail, they're going to be talking about why their products are better versus the others. But like I said, it tends to be a winner -take -most type world in the ETF space, particularly when you have just a single asset here, right? It's just giving exposure to this one thing. So people are going to differentiate on what they do as a firm and the products individually and who knows where it's going to go. But like I said, one of the things I did mention is in gold, there are some ETFs where if you have enough money, for the most part, you can't redeem the actual gold. But there are some ETFs that like, if you have $10 ,000, they'll deliver it right to your doorstep, things like that. So there might be a similar situation in crypto down the line and won't, not initially, but that might be a case down the line where like, if you have a certain amount, they'll send it to a private wallet. Right. Right. Okay. You mentioned something here about retail and because I look at this and this was in reference to an article, you know, Crypto Reshaping the American Dream for Younger Generations. This is a report by Coinbase. And within the Coinbase art or the Coinbase report, there were a few things that they pointed out to. One of course, was this millennial age group, 26 to 40. And a lot of this was around just crypto and blockchain as kind of the future of finance. Millennials really see this as a big opportunity. When you look at retail and you look at the current runway for a lot of these institutions today, do you feel that the target audience, because it seems like the millennial audience could be the new holy grail of the investment class, especially in reference to retail. Do you think owning that would possibly put someone out in front or do you think it's going to be kind of old school capital that could be leading the way at first? What are your thoughts on that? So specifically for the ETF, it's probably going to be more the advisor type of space that it's going to be looking at this. I mean, if you're a retail person, anyone, if you really wanted exposure to this, you could have downloaded Coinbase or Gemini or any app, FTX, you could buy at the click of a button. So one of the parallels we like to look at is like when gold ETFs came out, they democratized investing in gold. Yeah, you could always go down to like the corner street and buy like some gold coins, but that's very different from having it in a like professionalized portfolio. So that's more what the ETF is going to do. We don't think the one thing it will do for retail potentially is if you're a trader and you're like to trade these things in and out, the ETF is going to be way cheaper than a lot of these platforms. It's going to trade penny wide, there's going to be no commissions, which is not the case for most of these platforms. So the real people that are going to use these products if and when they get approved are really going to be institutions and advisors who maybe they have clients who have money in their own personal accounts on the some of those apps I mentioned, and it would just be way better if like we could control it. If an advisor, they know exactly how it is, they can basically sell when it gets too large of a portion of the portfolio and buy more when it dips below because we know we all know how volatile the market is. So just getting that professional management. Also from the advisors perspective, if I'm an advisor and you're my client and you're buying this on Coinbase or FTX, I don't know what you're doing. And also I'm not making money. That's not under my purview. Like typically the most advisors nowadays they charge an AUM fee. So whatever those total assets are, they're going to charge a slight fee on those total assets. And this brings us under that umbrella. So what ETF is going to do is going to put DeFi on the TradFi rails in a way that hasn't been done yet, which again kind of goes against the ethos of many of these things. But it's not going to detract from the underlying ethos of Bitcoin and what people want it to be. It's just going to be additive to people who want it in a different basically wrapper. Yeah. I was looking at your partner, Eric Balshunis in there, this is one of the many reasons so bullish on ETFs and think they'll dominate for decades to come is their usage is inversely correlated to age. Eighty -nine percent of millennials say the vehicle of choice versus boomers, which is though it is increasing in the survey data that came in from Schwab. But I guess the future is really going to lean toward these other alternative investors who are going out to advisors and saying, hey, I've got some assets here I want under management and here we go. And with that being the case, you've already got a mindset that's starting to restructure how capital might be deployed in the future. Is that something where do you think the switch would happen? Is there a time frame that you say, OK, maybe over the next three years, this we could truly see a shift in the demographic data that could push these ETFs into kind of a stratosphere? Yeah, so like if we're just looking at ETFs in general, one of the things I track, I obviously don't just cover crypto. I look at the whole space. And one of the big trends recovering is mutual fund to ETF transition, which goes to a lot of those things that Eric was pointing out, specifically on the ETF side. It's not going to be like these things launch and all of a sudden they're going to get like billions of dollars in in one week. Like I said, it's going to be institutions. So a lot of institutions, endowments, pensions, they have restrictions on what they can and cannot hold. So they have to hold securities or bonds, what have you. They can't hold this thing directly. Putting in an ETF wrapper allows them to hold it. So if there is there and we know for a fact that our institutions out there that want to have a one percent allocation to this thing, this might be a way for them to do it. The other part of it is basically it's the advisors, right? They're not going to if they want to put maybe some portion of their clients they think would fit to have a one, three, five percent allocation to a product like this. They're not going to do it the day it launches, right? They're going to do their due diligence. They're going to look at things or they're going to slowly put it in over time. So it'll be like an allocation that goes on over the next one, one to three years, kind of like you mentioned. So it's more about the long term impact of these things being launched necessarily than necessarily like, oh, this week it's launching and all of a sudden it's going to send things to the moon, if you will. That's unlikely to happen, in my view, personally. So obviously we'll get an initial splash once these do hit the market. That's going to be kind of the case. Is there any framework of what you guys think at Bloomberg would be the kind of inflows that would be relevant to what the size of this asset class is? I guess it would be similar maybe to what gold or is it even similar to gold that first hit the ETF market? Yeah. So when we look at gold ETFs, which is like something that people kind of overstate, gold ETFs in the U .S. have a hundred billion in AUM. This is, I mean, Bitcoin ETFs aren't going to get there anytime soon, in my opinion. And like I said, Grayscale, I mentioned like twice or three times already, GBC already has 20 billion in assets. So the idea that all of a sudden there's going to be hundreds of billions in these products in any sort of shorter timeframe than years or decade out is kind of unlikely. But yeah, I think of the upper limit or in like a three year time frame would be that a hundred billion number maybe, but there's no way to actually know what type of money's going to come in. The problem is like, we don't know what advisors are going to do, right? Are they going to do that 1 % allocation, 3 % allocation, 5 % allocation and what percent of advisors are going to use these products? And then also what percent of their clients are they going to want to hold these? Not every, this isn't going to fit for every single client in the world, right? It's going to fit for a subset of clients that they feel like meet their risk profile. So deciding that. So it's hard to really know Galaxy actually did a really good piece on this. I'm trying to guess the numbers. They guess I think 14 billion in the first year, but there's also a lot of things going on. We don't know how much money is going to come out of Grayscale because a lot of money that's in there was specifically playing what was going on with the premiums and discounts. And not necessarily like, Oh, I want this exposure. It was more like, this is a trade I'm making to bet on the discount closing or to bet on the premium or something like that over the last five years. So there might be some flows that are come out of there that might not go into some of these other ETFs. Now, how much of that is going to happen? I don't know. So here's a question to you is with Bloomberg, the way you guys analyze ETFs, but also the advisors within the industry, is there any data out there showing the demographic of the actual advisors? Because I would think that if they are falling into the millennial audience, they may kind of be leaning a little bit stronger into these kinds of assets. Yeah, there are a lot of advisors that are leaning into that. So like this, this kind of gets a little bit out of my wheelhouse. We don't have a lot of the advisor data because most of that is like survey data. There are a lot of really good sources that get into that and we'll use those other sources and let me try to figure out what's going on. But for the most part, a lot of the advisors are much older crowd that aren't really interested in this. That said, if you have a client and you're older and the client says they want exposure to this, this is the way that they're going to do it, right? They're not going to open a Coinbase account for them. They're going to go through and just buy this ETF if it's allowed, even allowed. There's a process that could take one few months or two, three years where these platforms have to get the okay from their risk metric teams and compliance teams to actually be even allow advisors or anyone to brokers to even buy these things for their clients. So who knows how long that could take. You mentioned Grayscale obviously kind of being a potential leader, I guess, going out of the gate. What is the next step for them? Obviously, they've had a much further advancement, but why not, why are we not seeing this just going out as a listed ETF right now? Yeah, that's a good question. I don't actually know. The real answer is like they won their court case, right? And there's likely a conversation that's happening between the SEC and Grayscale. Grayscale saying, probably pushing the argument that, look, the deadlines and the statutes say if there is no issued order here, then all of a sudden we're approved. And your order was vacated and that timeframe means we are de facto approved, which that's a legal framework that's unlikely to actually ever happen in the real world, but that's probably what they're saying to the SEC. I'm assuming the SEC was saying, no, you're going to restart and refile this whole process, which is a 240 -day process to go through this and then we'll talk. And then I'm sure there's some like haggling going back and forth. We'll make a deal. We'll refile if we get X number of days, like you guarantee we're going to give us an answer or maybe even just the SEC is telling them we're going to give you an answer on what's going to happen in the next 30 days. We don't know. It's completely quiet. I thought we would have had an answer to like what the next steps are and what's happening last week, the last week or the week before. So I was like thinking by last Friday, we'd have an idea of what's going to go on. And I think I actually tweeted this out. I was like, we have nothing. They're completely quiet. So we're entering a zone right now starting tomorrow where theoretically they could start approving some of these things. Obviously, I'm not saying that that's what's going to happen, but like up and tomorrow is the first date that it could theoretically happen in the last of the next few months. All right. So with that being the case right now, I know you and Eric have kind of looking have been doing these percentage of probability ranges by end of year. Where are you guys at now on this? We're still at 75 percent by the end of the year, but we think basically one thing that goes into all this is we think the SEC is going to try to allow most, if not all of them to launch on the same day. They're not going to play kingmaker. They played kingmaker with Bitto, which is the pro shares Bitcoin futures ETF, got a billion and a half or over a billion in two days dominate. They have 96 percent of the assets, 96 percent of the volume. They utterly dominate. I don't think they don't want to do that again. So I think the SEC is going to try to find these like angles and areas where they can allow a whole bunch to launch at the same time. And like I said, one of those one of those like time periods starts tomorrow and goes through like roughly the 17th, maybe the 21st, depending on with all these other filings. But if you include GBTC, there's 12 active applications right now in front of the SEC. So the SEC might have to figure out a way to do this. So like I said, November could happen. There's also a period in December. Our view is that the final deadline for ARK and 21 shares is January 10th. And I just don't think if they deny then by that January 10th deadline, if they wait all the way up until that deadline, which they don't have to, they can go very early if they want to. We saw that in September. They went months early in some of these cases. They will approve by January 10th is our view. We're at 90 percent on that now. That said, if they deny at that time period, it's unlikely that they're going to deny ARK in January and then approve everything else in March, which is when BlackRock and all these other issuers are due. So we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. But we think we're at 75 percent this year. I think they could try to get it done just like before the Christmas and New Year holidays. So it's kind of a tight squeeze to fit it in like right after New Year's and before that January 10th deadline, unless they have everything ready to go. And again, the next like opening where we could see like a wave of approvals is later this week, potentially into next week.

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A highlight from BCB133_SAIFEDEAN AMMOUS: Austrian Economics & Brutal Takedowns

Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast

02:38 min | Last month

A highlight from BCB133_SAIFEDEAN AMMOUS: Austrian Economics & Brutal Takedowns

"These people will tell you we're going to take the statue of the Virgin Mary and put it in the jar of fists and that's so stunning and brave and powerful and it speaks to something really profound and if you don't understand it that's because you're a fucking idiot. And now when I call these people idiots now they turn into the religious conservatives like how dare you call Mark Rothko an idiot for masturbating into the paint that he put into that painting. Like how dare you. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin podcast a show where Average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance, and we talk shit. Welcome to this week's semi the honor of speaking to Saifedean Amous. If you're listening to this we recommend you check out the YouTube video just to see Saif sport some badass red sunglasses. Saif is the celebrated author of the Bitcoin Standard, everyone's go -to book for orange -pilling the uninitiated. Saif recently dropped his most recent book Principles of Economics. If you want to have a holistic understanding of the tenets of Austrian economics this is the book for you. We highly recommend it. In this chat we cover some ground, we slander dead economists and scientists, we steelman fiat money, we ruminate about what science actually is, we toss pejoratives at shitcoin bag holders, and we watch a full -blown takedown of modern art. We give Saif the opportunity to defend his stainless steel pans. Saif does not pull any punches in this episode whatsoever. Fast and Loose is our preferred modus operandi and Saif sent the this one. Fast and Loose is a blast in conversation but when you want to protect valuables you want steady and secure. You want an airtight conservative and well -tested device. The cold card has been measured, tested, and found to be the ultimate solution for Bitcoin cold storage. It is the industry standard for protecting your valuable Bitcoin for perpetuity. We have been using cold cards for years and highly recommend them to friends and family when they ask what they should use to protect their Bitcoin. Use code BCB for 5 % off the Mark 4. It's getting chilly here in Chicago and if you've been thinking about mining Bitcoin and could use a space heater, take a look at the Heatbit Mini. This is a plug -and -play device that is a space heater, a Bitcoin miner, and an air purifier. Use code BCB for 5 % off.

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A highlight from The Clippers Are Dumb, Plus the NFL Trade Deadline, Sleeper Teams, and 'The Godfather' With Michael Lombardi

The Bill Simmons Podcast

07:57 min | Last month

A highlight from The Clippers Are Dumb, Plus the NFL Trade Deadline, Sleeper Teams, and 'The Godfather' With Michael Lombardi

"Coming up, the Clippers trade for Harden. Lots of football talk and some Italian movies. Oh yeah, next. It's the Bill Simmons Podcast presented by FanDuel. It's the best time of the year with football in full swing and basketball returning soon. FanDuel, the best place to bet on the action. The app is safe, secure, and easy to use. And when you win, you get paid instantly. Get exclusive offers every day. Jump into the action at any time during the game with quick bets and take home a fast W. Plus, check out the Explore page for the simplest way to start betting. Download the app today. Bet with America's number one sportsbook. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Visit TheRinger .com slash RG to learn more about the resources and help lines available and listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Must be 21 plus and present in select states. Gambling problem, call 1 -800 -GAMBLER or visit TheRinger .com slash RG. We are supported by McDonald's. This month, McDonald's is upping its game by introducing two beloved sauces to its lineup. Mambo sauce and sweet and spicy jam. Hmm, why do I love these? Well, they both pack a spicy punch. They let you switch up the flavors in your usual order. I like having more choices. You know what, if you're gonna give me eight choices, why not give me 10? The sweet and spicy jam sounds delicious. These two sauces are only available for a limited time at participating McDonald's, so make sure to try them. While you can, tap the banner to learn more. We're also brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network. I put up a new rewatchables on Monday night. We did the Omen. We did the OG Omen. We did the 1976 one. One of the creepiest movies ever made with some of the scariest scenes that have ever been in any of these movies. Me and Chris Ryan broke all of it down for you. What else happened in The Ringer universe? Oh, The Ringerverse crew. Everybody got together for the first time and they did a live show in LA on Monday night and even dressed up for Halloween, a couple of them. It was great, great to see everybody all together. Check out the, all of our basketball stuff on Ringer NBA, Mismatch, Brazilos Pod, Ringer Gambling. Austin Rivers has his new podcast, Off Guard. And then obviously our football stuff, all our culture stuff as well. And we're gonna have a big announcement on this podcast on Thursday about an upcoming show you might not be expecting. Coming up in this pod, I'm gonna talk about the Clippers trading for James Harden at the top and why I thought it was a huge mistake. And then our old friend Mike Lombardi, we're gonna talk about the trade deadline in the NFL as well as what team that seemingly looks like their season's almost over might actually jump in the second half of the year. And then last but not least, we're gonna talk Italian movies and Italian TV shows because why not? This is a fun podcast. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. ["PURL JAM"] All right, I'm taping this on Tuesday before the Clippers game on Tuesday night. The Clippers traded for James Harden late night. They tried to do this as late as possible at night when the most possible people were asleep because they were embarrassed by this trade. And they should be because they're the Clippers. They haven't made the finals ever in the history of the franchise, dating back to Buffalo in 1970, talking five and a half decades of bad luck, terrible injuries, mismanagement. We had the Donald Sterling piece of it. We had load management. And in the last couple of years, they've had some of the worst playoff losses of the 21st century. And now they're trading for a guy who's quit on his last three teams. So they decided, you know what, we'll do this in the middle of the night on the East Coast at least. So we'll take the least amount of slack. They were bidding against nobody. There's 30 teams in the league. One of them had James Harden. 28 other teams were like, we're good. And the Clippers said, you know what, we need this guy. We'll still be not nearly as good as Denver, but if we do this, maybe we could lose in either round two or round three, maybe? I just feel like they don't have any draft picks left for the rest of the decade. So they basically traded three picks for James Harden. The worst one was a 2028 unprotected first. Why do this now? Why do this for a team with no other offers? Why bid against yourself? And why not just wait? If you know you're trading basically two and a half picks plus all these expirings they had, why not wait? The league, I don't know if you've watched it the first week, the league is more talented and more loaded than it's ever been, probably in 30 years. And there's a really, really, really good chance that a couple teams that thought they were gonna be good are not gonna be good. Like for instance, Memphis is 0 -4. Or is Memphis gonna go 25 and 57? Probably not. But there's gonna be a couple teams that are just way worse than they expected. And guess what happens after Thanksgiving and in December and in January? Those teams panic. Guys become available. Like what if Toronto is bad? What if they're like, you know what, Pascal Siakam, this just isn't working for us. What if Chicago, who's already had two team meetings, I think, in three games, what if they decide to put Zach Levine on the table? Like you just don't know. What you do know now is that there was only one team bidding for James Harden and the Clippers ended up with him anyway. The other thing, if you're giving up this much for one guy, I better know that I have a chance to actually win the title. And I just don't feel like they do. I went to the game Sunday night. Kawhi, he looks fine. He looks fine. Does he look like the Kawhi from the mid -2010s? No. Does he look like the guy from 2019 Toronto? He does not. He looks like an older playing himself back in the shape version of Kawhi. And if that's your best player, that's just not gonna be enough this year. The Celtics are too good. Denver is too good. Milwaukee has Giannis and Dame. Phoenix has a ton of scoring. Golden State's gonna be really good. They're still not in the mix. So that was my first issue. The second one, who are you getting? Who are you getting in this trade? Where you're getting I .S. Quinn on three teams. You're getting the most disappointing playoff star this century, literally this century. And there's no other person you can put in there. There's nobody who has even half of the qualifications from a playoff disappointment standpoint that this guy does. Zach Lowe came on the Book of Basketball podcast, I think in 2019, we did a James Harden podcast. And in that podcast, which was four years ago, called him the Karl Malone of guards. And I was immediately the most jealous I've ever been of a comparison. Since then, he had the 2020 bubble flame out. Then they had in 2022, the Miami series, which he sucked in. And then in 2023, the Celtic series, this guy, it's an all time resume. And the Clippers who are just playoff futility through and through for the entire franchise history were like, that's the guy. That's the guy that can take the lovable loser Clippers over the top, James Harden. He slows you down. He needs the ball all the time. The Clippers now have Paul George, who succeeds the most when he has the ball. Koulai Leonard, who has perennially succeeded the most when he has the ball. Russell Westbrook, who loves to either have the ball or crash the boards. And now Harden, who needs the ball. See four guys who need the ball. Then Norm Powell comes in, he needs the ball. Bones Holland comes in, he needs the ball. Are we playing with three balls now? No, we're gonna still play with one. James Harden can't guard anybody. That seems relevant. He hasn't played defense in four years.

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A highlight from Liver Function, Bile Flow, Gut Problems, Itchiness, and Inflammation with Dr Jay Davidson

Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition

04:42 min | Last month

A highlight from Liver Function, Bile Flow, Gut Problems, Itchiness, and Inflammation with Dr Jay Davidson

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A highlight from Gary Gensler ADMITS there Should be a Bitcoin Spot ETF | EP 856

Simply Bitcoin

09:28 min | Last month

A highlight from Gary Gensler ADMITS there Should be a Bitcoin Spot ETF | EP 856

"Yeah, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live, we're 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. Speaking of the separation of money and state, there is literally a video, Gary Gensler caught in 4k basically saying it's kind of weird how there's a futures ETF, but there isn't a spot Bitcoin ETF. Strange, right? Like why the change in tune? Why the change in tune? And the case that we've been making for you guys over the last couple of months is that we believe that this is politically motivated. There is a, we played you guys a video last week on Simply Bitcoin Live of an SCC commissioner herself saying, I have no idea why this thing's why this thing hasn't been approved. And then if you, if, if you just analyze it from those single data points, maybe you'd say, okay, there's nothing there. But if you connect it with operation choke point 2 .0, if you connect it with Caitlin Long's bank, custodia bank being denied a federal banking charter to make her competitor competitive with other banks around the United States, if you connect it with the psyop campaign that happened last week, where Elizabeth Warren and co tried to circumvent the legislative process, going straight to the treasury so that the treasury would implement these broad regulations on the industry. It was so broad to the point that, because they try to say, Oh, this is we're going after coin mixing, coin mixing is bad. But when you actually look at the document and Shinobi did a great job breaking this down on Bitcoin magazine, like it was so broad that single use addresses were targeted. That is by default, how Bitcoin works. If you have a, if you have a Bitcoin wallet, if it's a good one, it will give you a new address every time. So like it was clear Lee, a psyop attack on Bitcoin, social media played to our favor because we were able to react very quickly. And what happened over the weekend was that the wall street journal actually retracted. There's so much pressure. They actually retracted. It was a ha it was a half -assed retraction, but they did retract it. They did retract the article. They admitted that they made mistakes. So a couple of things that that's showing here. I do believe that the ETF has not been approved for political reasons. At this point, if Gary Genzer himself is questioning, why is there a futures ETF and there isn't a spot ETF. The other thing is it's a example of how much your voice matters. It's an example of the fact that your memes, your likes, the fact that you're sharing videos, the fact that you're sharing press and pitches article, that all counts. It all makes a difference. And I was worried in the beginning of last week, but when I realized we had one was when Congress people themselves and the, and the banking Senate committee were literally calling out the BS. And I realized, okay, we, we mounted, we, we put up so much pressure that they folded, that their lives were exposed or misrepresentations were exposed. Thank God for the internet for us to be able to do this. Because if it wasn't for social media, if it wasn't for the internet, we would have been toast. That's just the reality of it. So crazy, crazy stuff. But it also makes me extremely optimistic. Speaking of optimism, how are you doing Opti? What's up, man. Because we won this one. We won this battle and I tweeted this out. I think I was on Friday or Thursday. They're gonna, they're not going to try to do this again. They're not going to try to use the legacy media the way that they used it before, because they would have been able to get away with this before social media existed. But after social media, when people have a, have a, have a platform or an ability to clap back and to be like, Hey, like what you're saying is BS. It's very difficult for them to control the narrative. And I think that's really what we saw last week. And then it coincides with the theory that I've been talking about for many months now, which is we're not only living through the disintermediation of money and state, we're also living through the disintermediation of money. I mean, of information, right? Anyways, Opti, how you doing? Doing good. I'm good. No smiles, no smiles. What's going on? I'm just, I'm watching the chats and stuff over here. Your boy's working over here. I want to disagree with you, Nico. I, I think that we will see more attempts of this nature. I I'm convinced that this will not stop. Uh, obviously we didn't make enough noise and we have yet to make enough noise. And, um, I just, I, I don't think those, those, uh, gaslighting attempts will stop with just this one news story. I think they just got caught and they had to make some kind of statement, retracting it anyways. Anyways, totally other topic guys, before I forget, I want to say this right now, before I keep forgetting to say this, uh, we're going to do a giveaway at 21 K on our YouTube channel. So we have prizes from, from our sponsor. We're going to give you guys some gifts. So, uh, like, subscribe to our YouTube, our Twitter account. And, uh, I still have to get all the rules, but we're about to hit that 21 K and I, and I want to, I want to get it out there so that you guys know, we're going to give you guys some stuff. We're going to give back to you guys. And, uh, the mega big prize guys is going to be a gift for a special, special gift to everyone that hangs out in the chat. So I am writing down names and I'm checking it twice. 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"21st" Discussed on The Maverick Paradox Podcast

The Maverick Paradox Podcast

03:13 min | Last month

"21st" Discussed on The Maverick Paradox Podcast

"It was a flourishing, a flourishing, you know, economy. You know, we used to go and try and trade and all that kind of stuff with them. So exactly, that's kind of my point. But yeah, I think as a historian, you're always like going, well, you know, you're always like thinking, well, hang on a second, is that right? Because also people do go around, you know, claiming quite a lot of things in life, you know, as facts. And, I mean, I think as a historian, you're always inclined to kind of go back and check what the facts are. I mean, I think there is a disadvantage, though, to being a historian, to being a journalist and writer sometimes. I do like chronological order. And I think maybe that's a bad thing, you know, I'm a bit hung up on chronological order and maybe I need to move away from that. I don't know. Well, at least you'll be able to write a coherent story with a beginning and a middle and an end. Yeah, well, exactly. I mean, that's exactly, that's kind of, that's definitely what you need as a journalist, a beginning, a middle and an end. You know, it's very handy. Brilliant. So just before we end, though, Sally, is there anything in particular you want to leave us with, any thoughts or comments or whatever? I think my comment, actually, is perhaps being open minded, really, because I went into this book and, as I said, there were some people that people don't really know very much about. And then there's some people, you know, people think they know an awful lot about and, you know, particularly someone like Elon Musk. And I think, you know, I mean, he, the way he comes across on social media and things and some of the things he does, you can certainly see why people really don't know what to make of him and all this. But, you know, when you actually kind of study him, you know, you think to yourself, I mean, he like, it's literally, he's a force behind three really big companies. SpaceX, Tesla and now Twitter, which are sort of now no longer Twitter X. But, you know, any one of those, you know, I know he's job type, he's not technically CEO of Twitter, he's technically in charge, really. With any one of those, it's like a huge job in itself to actually sort of have all three of them. I mean, no one, you don't really have lots of people going, all that's a bit, that's quite remarkable, really. But it really is quite extraordinary. And I think that's one of the things that gets quite, you know, people underestimate about him. So I think that one of the things you realise when you kind of look into all these people is you can have assumptions about them and then you kind of look into them and you think, oh, you know, I know you might come across as a bit of an idiot on social media, but you're actually quite extraordinary. And it's not keeping an open mind about things. I think it's kind of quite important in life. That's fantastic. Thank you so much for coming on the show, Sally. Oh, you're welcome. Thank you for having me. I really enjoyed it. You've been fun. Thank you. And thank you out there for tuning into the Maverick Parox podcast. I am Judith Germain, your host, and I hope you've enjoyed listening to me talking to Sally.

"21st" Discussed on The Maverick Paradox Podcast

The Maverick Paradox Podcast

30:24 min | Last month

"21st" Discussed on The Maverick Paradox Podcast

"Yeah, so that does tease the question then, isn't it? Was there any particular favourite icon that you interviewed? Well, in terms of the ones I sort of studied, I think my actual favourite is I studied Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin. And that was probably my favourite in the sense that I'm really intrigued by this idea that someone could found this. You know, I mean, regardless of what you think about Bitcoin, whether you think it's a good or a bad thing. I mean, you know, probably most people would say it is a good and a bad thing. But regardless of what you think about it, it's quite astonishing that someone should come up with this quite incredible idea, spend a couple of years trying to help it get off the ground with all these developers and then just disappear, which he did do. And to this day, nobody actually knows who he is. I mean, he may not even actually still be alive. And I think a lot of people think he is no longer alive. But, you know, this kind of vision that he created was so powerful that he was able to get it off the ground and just sort of like carried on without him really. And, you know, it became sort of a community project, which essentially is what it is, developers all working together to make it happen. And I think, you know, there's something about it. It's quite, I found that quite intriguing. You know, the power of the vision was so great that it could do that. And I kind of like studying it a bit and thinking about who Satoshi could be. I found that one quite interesting. But the other person I did find it incredibly interesting to read about and study was Elon Musk. You know, I mean, he's rarely out in the news, isn't he? And everybody's kind of got an opinion on him. And I mean, he is quite incredible and I think probably quite misunderstood in quite a few ways. And so I did find it really quite interesting sort of reading, studying about him as well. And I got the latest biography of him by Walter Isaacson and I'm getting ready to read that. I haven't embarked on it yet. It's quite big. It's sitting on my coffee table. Interesting. OK, that sounds pretty cool. So how many people are featured in the book? Well, I've got featured in the book is 16 sort of very well-known sort of icons. I didn't actually interview in person. I don't think I would have been able to get to speak to individually, but I kind of did a lot of research, reading their autobiographies, reading blogs or articles that they've written, watching sort of interviews or podcasts with them. And then I interviewed five up and coming leaders and I did speak to them in person about their leadership practice and their businesses and what they do well, areas of improvement to work on, things like that. So that between the 16 sort of established icons and the five up and coming leaders, that makes 21. So the idea was 21 leaders for the 21st century. So it's 21 in total. OK, cool. So what have you learnt from these 21? Well, I think I mean, it's obviously like a lot of findings, actually, as you can imagine, come out. I mean, obviously we're quite a diverse group of people. So, you know, some of them, you know, maybe more classic examples of leadership could practice. Others are not necessarily such classic examples of leadership could practice. I mean, I think one of the things that came through is not very glamorous these days is that actually how incredibly hard these people have worked. And, you know, to get where they are, there's sort of not much talk about work life balance in their career histories. I mean, they really have worked extremely hard. And that's been quite come through quite clearly to me. I mean, some of the other things that have come through is that setting of big vision and having this idea of in their own ways, they're sort of all really wanting to make the world a better place. Now, whether you think the world a better place because Amazon is in it or not. I mean, some people would say, you know, it's the worst place for having Amazon in it. But actually, I personally think the world is a better place for having Amazon in it. It might. Amazon is not perfect as a business. Nothing is. But when you see what Amazon, you know, for example, the COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us in this country anyway, you know, relied on Amazon to deliver things for us and everything like that. We didn't have to go out anywhere. And so, you know, that's just one example. If you look at Elon Musk and what he's done to the electric car industry, I mean, he's really been a disruptor who's kind of said electric cars are sexy and everyone should get one kind of thing and help to galvanize that thing towards electric cars. So and then I profile an even shoe an artist that found a Patagonia and, you know, that's a very environmentally focused company. And I think some of the things that he's done, you know, really helped to keep the environment in the spotlight. In fact, he prioritized environmentalism long, long, long before it was so fashionable with everybody else. So I think one of the things that really struck me about these business people and I found it really encouraging was, you know, the idea that business can be a really a force for good, because I think we all tend to think that doing good in the world is a preserve of the nonprofit sector. And what came out to me really strongly in all of this is that actually doing good is something that is done by business and it is actually done by business all the time, every day. But people don't always see it as doing good because businesses by nature profit generating activities. People assume because something is profit generating, it cannot also do good in the world. And that's not true. And I think certainly comes through with everybody I profiled that while they're in business and therefore their aim is to make profits, that's not the reason why they're in business. They're in business for whatever, you know, and they want to make the world more connected by Facebook, you know, like Facebook. So that was kind of the mission of Facebook and things like that. They have a big purpose of why they're in business, but the profits kind of come along the side because they're really trying to achieve that purpose and that vision. So I think that's a really big message that came out from the book for me as well. Yeah, I think that's really interesting because I think that's probably the missing link, isn't it? That idea that businesses can work for the greater good and that's what Generation Z are going into these organisations to do. So we need to kind of wake up because these people won't stay if you're not fulfilling that mission for them. Yeah, I mean, absolutely. I think we all want to believe that our work has meaning in life, don't we? And that in some way we're contributing to something greater than ourselves. And, you know, I think the reason why a lot of these companies have been very successful is actually that they are able to communicate to that, to their employees, that people understand what the bigger mission is. That makes an awful lot of sense. So all these icons and that commonality about the greater good, is there any particular ones that you saw as mavericks, woofly independent people, or did you think they were all maverick in their own way? Some of them are definitely more maverick than others. So, for example, I see, I don't know, you can share your views on this, but I see Elon Musk as very maverick. I mean, he's a complete lord to himself. I think Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, he definitely strikes me as a maverick leader. James Dyson, I think he's very maverick as well. I mean, there's three particularly, I mean, you could say Jimmy Donaldson, who missed a beast with this YouTube sensation. I mean, I think he's quite maverick. I mean, I guess it depends, your definition of maverick might be different from mine, but I think when you've been buried alive with the cameras in your box with your whatever, that strikes me as quite a maverick thing to do. There are some though, there are a few that are more corporate. I would say the maverick ones are more male, now I come to think of it. I can't, I think out the female ones that I crave, I don't say any jump out of me as being particularly maverick, which begs an interesting question, you can share your views on it. Is it easier to get away with being maverick when you're a man rather than a woman, would you say? Absolutely. So like in my own book, The Maverick Paradox, The Secret Power Behind Successful Leaders, I talk about the different types of mavericks and you have extreme mavericks with some of those you've named already, and you have your socialized mavericks. And one of the things that I say is that women, women struggle to be extreme mavericks because, not because they're not capable of, but the society will not accept it. So they have to start socializing, whether they want to or not, if they are to survive. Oh yeah, that's interesting. You can't, you know, get away with being a female version of Elon Musk very easily. No, because it would be considered too extreme when women have strong opinions, as it is anyway, and we've already seen what happens. I was reading an interesting article today on H.R. Grapevine and they were talking about the differences between how men and women are treated and they were asking specifically transgendered individuals, who were saying that, you know, those that went from female to male suddenly got a whole more respect and people listened to them, for example. And then those that went the other way suddenly like lost salary and weren't treated very well. And it was quite interesting that from their perspective, the differences that they saw depending on whether they presented as male or not was quite fascinating. Interesting. You have to share that one with me. That's really interesting because actually for most of us, we only have one experience of life, don't we? So we never know exactly how it would be for us if we presented differently. And so nothing really interesting to read the perspectives of people who are able to make that comparison. And yeah, I think that does kind of fit in with, you know, when you are a woman, you do have to be... Well, I don't know whether you do have to be the right way, but you feel you have to think about how you present yourself and you manage yourself a lot more. Yeah, like you say, and actually I did feel that about the female leaders in my book, you know, that there was a lot less controversy about them than there were some of the male leaders. And I think that's because, not that they wouldn't necessarily have strong opinions, actually, or that they haven't been involved in controversies or anything like that, but I think that they just are really just careful about how they put themselves over to avoid appearing controversial. Even if they do have strong views, they just maybe feel they need to keep them to themselves. I think there are some strong views. You have to be, I think, if you're a maverick by personality, then you can probably weather the storm, but you will be definitely more socialised and more careful about where the controversy sits. So the controversy may well sit in an opinion on how something should be done, but they wouldn't have the controversy fit in, say, in their personal life, because there's the double standard. So they would get filtered out fairly quickly. So I think they'd be okay with, this is a new way of doing this because this way is excellent, that's fine, but if it's like, in my private life, I've been found out to have sex affairs and 20 children and whatever, and you're female, it'd be like, okay, it shows you can't lead. And whereas if you're male, it's like, oh, good on you, it shows that you're virile. Yeah, that's true, actually. And in fact, actually, the female leaders I profiled, yeah, you really don't know very much about their private lives or anything like that. I know, because then people kind of make judgments, don't they? So how does somebody become an icon? Tell me. So if somebody wants to be in your next book as the 21st century icon, book two, how do you get in there? What were you looking for? What was your criteria? I mean, I think one sort of quite important criterion is having heard of them. I mean, if I say names like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, James Dyson, people have heard of them. They might know very little about them, but some of them might not even necessarily know which company they belong to. But often the very name will ring a bell. But that's not the case for all of them. There are some that if I said Melanie Perkins people, people would be like, who's that? Because they don't necessarily know if you founded Canva. But I was kind of looking for people. I actually started out and I included Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors and Rosalind Brewer, who's the CEO of Walgreens Boots Lines, the two very well-known businesswomen. In fact, Rosalind Brewer is one of only a handful of black women. He's ever led a Fortune 500 company. And I started with them. But then I discovered that actually profiling entrepreneurs sort of dug up more interesting things generally than profiling corporate people. Although I did think Rosalind Brewer's story was very interesting. But generally speaking, I moved away from chief executives of companies because I started to think, well, actually, the entrepreneurial stories were quite interesting of sort of how they sort of got to where they'd got to. And there was the idea that Jeff Bezos, he's stepped back from Amazon from day to day basis. He's now chair, but there's another chief executive. But he will forever be associated with Amazon. It will always be business founded by Jeff Bezos. And so, yeah, I was looking for people like that who because jobs, as we know, are transient. You might be editor of a magazine today, you might be chief executive of the company today, but tomorrow you'll be something else. But when people have actually created a business that has gone on to be very successful, even if they then, you know, spend the rest of their days laying around the Caribbean or something, they will have always created that and brought that to life. So I think that was one thing I decided I was looking for. And also, it was like the subhead of the book, the leader to a changing our world. I really was looking for people who were actually changing the world in some way. And that you could actually say, if this person wasn't in the world, what would the world look like now? And imagining a world without Amazon, a world without Facebook and not just those particular companies, but the impact they've had on other companies in the ecosystem. You know, the other companies that have been inspired by Facebook to then, you know, launch social media businesses, for example. And some of these companies, you know, you take them out of the last 20, 25 years of history and you think to yourself, well, we'd be very different places that didn't exist. So I guess that's what I was looking for in an icon, someone who had founded a business that, you know, if you actually took it out of the equation, the world might look a bit different because of it. A really good way of looking at it, isn't it? It's like, if these people didn't exist and you think of all the other businesses that have occurred because they've existed as well. Exactly, exactly. It's not just them exactly, it's what they, you know, what they've kind of ignited elsewhere in the economy. Yeah, it's really powerful when you start to think about that, you realise it's not just one company on its own. You know, I mean, Amazon, for example, it shows what could be done in e-commerce. You know, it sort of paved the way and said, this is what you can do in e-commerce. It was the trailblazer and now look at, you know, the world's full of e-commerce, isn't it? And Amazon has helped to inspire that. So, you know, for good or for bad, some people say, well, I've killed high streets. But, you know, most people, if you said, let's get rid of e-commerce, would be horrified. I suppose if there was no Amazon, would there have been the e-book? You know, how many people have become authors because they could sell on Amazon? Well, exactly. And that's an excellent example. Yeah, exactly. I mean, possibly, probably, you know, it's quite difficult to be originalised. Someone would have come up with the idea. I mean, maybe, you know, Amazon got the idea from someone else, but they were the ones who popularised it and made it happen. But your exact point absolutely stands that, you know, the e-book, it's kind of transformed things. And they were the force behind that, whether they originally borrowed the idea from someone else, I don't know, it's possible. But essentially, they actually made that happen. And like you say, now it means that, you know, loads of authors are being published and stuff on Kindle and things like that. I mean, it has really changed the world, Amazon, as a business. Well, if you think about something as simple as that, it's like for me with my book, my first thought was, oh, I'll do an e-book, you know, sell it on Amazon. And then actually, as I was writing it, I was like, oh, actually, it could be a hard copy book, you know what I mean? But I didn't think it wasn't the paperback book, what I thought first, do you know what I mean? Because like if you're a new author and you're doing it yourself, you're kind of like, oh, maybe I'll just do like an extended PDF on the new. Oh, no, actually, I'll write an e-book. Actually, you know what, I was going to write a book. But it's that kind of like movement on the thinking, isn't it? Well, it is, exactly. But Amazon has helped you to formulate your processes, your thought processes there, hasn't it? You know, kind of inspired you, you know, the existence of Amazon and the e-book, it makes anybody think, well, I could write a book if I want to. And how you might then go about doing that might vary. But it puts it, it's kind of putting power in your hand and saying, you know, we can all write a book. It's not just down to, you know, the traditional publishing industry to decide who writes a book anymore. You know, Amazon's opening up to the world. Yeah, so it's perfect. Let's listen to a quick advert. The Maverick Paradox. Judith Germain is an author, speaker, consultant, mentor and trainer and the leading authority on Maverick leadership. She is the founder of the Maverick Paradox, which supports organisations to enhance their leadership capabilities and to help business owners develop and grow their businesses. Judith enables individuals, business owners and organisations to improve their impact and influence. She is also HR Zones leadership columnist, and her expert opinion has appeared in National, International and Trade Press. Welcome back to the Maverick Paradox. This is the podcast for the pathologically curious. So tell me, because you're best placed to do that. Is there a common path to icon status? Well, I mean, there are a few things I did notice, which, you know, some people, you know, maybe a little bit platonic. One of the things I did notice, there's a lot of them who became icons, did it quite young before they didn't have any children. I think there might be something there. Yeah, there is something there. And that was one of the things I kind of thought, oh, my gosh, you know, you get to 30 or whatever. And then you decide to start having a family and you haven't made it to be an icon by that point. You might have slightly missed a bone. Having said that, you know, James Dyson, he did have a family. I mean, he's been around for quite a while, so everyone thinks he's been around forever. But actually, he really only started, you know, really taking off in his 40s. And so he sort of gives you hope, you know, because he did do it whilst having a family and, you know, struggling for money and all these kinds of things. So there was a bit of hope with him. I mean, obviously, I know Rosalind Brewer, for example, of Walgreens, you know, she has got children. And she's now in her early 60s, and she's obviously climbed the corporate ladder despite having a family. And so it's kind of, it's not completely, you know, if you haven't done it by 30, it's all over. But I think that was one of the things I did notice after a while, after I keep reading the chapter, I thought, why are there people who haven't had children? And actually, maybe if they'd had more children earlier, you know, they might have been able to be quite so successful. But that was kind of one thing. One thing I noticed is a lot of them were pretty well educated because there's a bit of a myth, I think. You know, because you do get some business people incredibly successful and they say, oh, I haven't done very well at school. And my children use that to me to say, oh, you know, I don't care how I do in my test mum because, you know, I can be a billionaire without having done very well at school. And of course, it is true. Some people do become incredibly successful without doing very well at school. Now, what I always say to them, yes, there are some people who do that. But, you know, the majority of people who don't do very well at school, if you actually track them, probably don't do so well in life. So that's why you need to study for your test. So that's what I say to them. And in fact, studying this book, a lot of those icons that I've studied, yes, there are some who had dropped out of university. But, you know, Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard, you know, so he had done pretty well in his education to that point and things. But actually, if you look at them, a lot of them actually are pretty well educated. And that was one of the things. And, you know, certainly the upcoming entrepreneurs I featured as well were well educated. So I think what makes me think is, yes, OK, if you're not great at school, that's, you know, don't think that's the end of the world. And, you know, be kind of yourself and, you know, we know schools, you know, not necessarily set up for, you know, neurodiversity and all those kind of things. But on the other hand, actually working hard at school, getting a good education, you know, it can really set you up in life as well. And I think that was one of the things that came through from my book too. Brilliant. Thank you for that. I think actually when you were talking, I was thinking often those that dropped, you know, dropped out of school because they weren't doing so well at school, it was the often it was the testing regime that they couldn't get on with as opposed to they couldn't understand, not that they couldn't understand the content, but also that they were studying other stuff, you know, so it wasn't as if they weren't educated or able to be educated. It was that their own pursuits was more pertinent to what they wanted to do than they were doing, you know. Actually, that's a really good point. Yeah. And I think that actually that came out of people is what they all had in common, whether they were highly educated or had dropped out or whatever, is that thirst for knowledge, which is what you're talking about here. Maybe that doesn't always have to come from mainstream education. You don't, you know, you don't have to get top marks in all your A-levels. But what you do need to do is be wanting to develop maybe knowledge in the areas you are interested in and curiosity. And having that thirst for knowledge is actually that's really key. I think that's actually a better way of putting it that, you know, it's not about tests, but it's about developing knowledge and a willingness to learn and applying your brain and, you know, that kind of stuff. Yes, I feel like I've given a new narrative for your children there. Yeah, you have actually. Thank you. The thing is the purpose of school isn't to get a whole load of qualifications, really. Because, as you know, once you've done your first job, no other job really cares how many A-levels you've got or GCSEs or whatever. No one cares past the first job. It's more about teaching you a way of thinking, a way of getting lots of data and putting it in a form that makes sense and learning how to collaborate with others, learning how to summarise, learning how to search for knowledge yourself. It's a bit like, so I did the sciences and I recognise, you know, when I'm working things out, I very much use a scientific method. And I wouldn't have done that if I didn't do my biology and chemistry. So it's that thing when people say, oh, what's the point of learning this? And it's like, well, it's not the information that's important, it's how you got to the information that was important. Yeah, you're absolutely right. It's about kind of chaining your mind to thinking. I find the same. I did a history degree and people say to me, do you still use a history degree? I say every day because history is all about analysis and putting arguments together, which when you're a journalist, you know, that's what I'm doing right now. And studying the evidence, you know, and kind of drawing conclusions for it. I do that all the time. And it's exactly what you say. It's not, you know, what happened to cause the outbreak of World War One. It's kind of, it's the thinking and the approach to thinking that you develop. It's really key. Yeah. Actually, I remember reading somewhere that history is apparently the gateway degree because so many things that what you've, what's learning. I mean, I didn't do history. Well, not past UC anyway. But, you know, they're saying that the methodology that you learn in history is so applicable to so many different career paths. It's almost like a gateway one, which I was really surprised at, because it's not what you would think, that history would be so important what you're learning there. So there you go. So you've done a history degree and you became a journalist. And people wouldn't think that's a career path because you didn't study journalism as per se, if you sort of mean. Yeah, no, I didn't. People would probably expect I might have an English degree, perhaps, or that, yeah, I'd gone and done a journalism or media studies degree. I mean, I did do a journalism course after I decided that's where I wanted to specialize. But yeah, I don't have an English degree or a journalism degree. But actually, I did find having a history degree is quite useful as a journalist. Because, you know, people, you know, kind of, you know, sometimes things come up, people say things like, oh, yes, China's just risen to the center of the world first. China's just risen to the world stage for the first time ever and things like that. And you're just like, you know, no, that's not the case. You know, China and India, you know, they were major powers for decades and centuries, you know. You know, you're just looking at it through, you know, okay, yeah, in the 21st century, so the 20th century, China had a bit of a tough time of it. And that's, you know, basically, you know, your whole opinion on China's forms and just what happened since 1900. And yeah, you do get things like this, you know, and actually having a history degree just helps you to really kind of understand, you know, just the global context of things, I think. And be more objective, I suppose, because if you're a historian, you're less likely to be biased, I guess. Not that you would be biased, but you're more likely to be looking at the... So you would be able to look further than that and say, well, let's look at the colonial impact on these countries. And perhaps that might mean why this period, it wasn't maybe so flourishing, perhaps, you know. It's that kind of thing, isn't it? Yes, people like think India didn't exist before it was part of the British Empire and stuff like that. And you're like, no, India didn't exist. It was a very influential country, but, you know, people just have, you know, they don't have that concept. And I think, I think kind of, you know, things like that. Yeah, it's just, and I guess your question is something that's naturally the story, and it's quite good for fact checking. And, you know, you kind of go back and you go and check things and assumptions. And actually, you know, I've just said to you, India is a very influential country. And what's just popped into my head is, actually, if I went back and looked, I probably would find India didn't exist as sort of one country as such as it now is. It probably was kind of different, you know, kingdoms or whatever. But the point is, India, you know. There were people there doing stuff.

"21st" Discussed on The Maverick Paradox Podcast

The Maverick Paradox Podcast

03:41 min | Last month

"21st" Discussed on The Maverick Paradox Podcast

"In this episode I speak to Sally Percy about what it takes to become a business icon. We talk about her book 21st Century Business Icons and the importance of businesses working for the greater good and the challenges women face in being seen as extreme mavericks in leadership roles. This is a wide ranging conversation about the leaders who are changing our world. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Sally Percy. How are you doing Sally? I'm great thank you. How are you? I'm doing really well thanks. And I was wondering what types of things make you sing in the shower? Oh, sing in the shower. Do you know I don't know if I do a lot of singing in the shower. I do a lot of thinking in the shower. Like trying to solve creative problems. Like maybe think of a headline for an article in my tube or something like that. But I don't really do a lot of singing in the shower. Do you do a lot of singing in the shower then? I'm more kind of like humming in the bath. It's probably nearing me. What makes you hum in the bath then? You know what I think it's definitely mood driven. Do you know what I mean? So sometimes it's kind of something with a really kind of like heavy beat that I would be like kind of like dancing to myself. And other times it'd be more kind of contemplative, you know, when you just, as you said, you just like your brain is just open to input. You can tell you're a journo. Look how you turn that round on me, sneaky woman. You're going to have to watch me with this one. You know, you are going to have to watch me. I like that. No, I do like that. That's really cool. So I've called you a journo. Tell us more about you. So I am a now a business journalist, and I've been a journalist for about 20 years now. I did a few things before I became a journalist. And when I first became a journalist, I was actually living in New Zealand at the time. That's my boyfriend, now husband. He's from New Zealand. And I went out there and I got, he was from a rural area, he's from a farming family. And I got a job as a rural reporter on the local newspaper, which was quite funny because I was a vegetarian from London. I didn't know anything about farming, really. It's quite eye opening. I do now know a lot more about farming and I'm probably a bit rusty on it, so don't test me too much. And then I stayed out there for a couple of years and I found New Zealand a bit quiet. So we came back to the UK and that's when I really started to become a business journalist. And I originally joined Accountancy magazine and became editor of Accountancy magazine. And then after that, I decided I sort of wanted to broaden myself out of it and not be too focused on accounting and finance. And so over the years since then, I've worked freelance and I really moved myself much more into the general business space. And I particularly like doing leadership and management. I'm currently editor of Edge, the magazine of the Institute of Leadership. And recently I have and I've written two books. One was called Reach the Top in Finance. I wrote that in 2017. And then my most recent book is 21st Century Business Icons and that kind of profiles some of the world's best known business leaders. And I really enjoyed doing that because I learned a lot from them and found out a lot about them.

A highlight from 21st Century Icons in business

The Maverick Paradox Podcast

03:41 min | Last month

A highlight from 21st Century Icons in business

"In this episode I speak to Sally Percy about what it takes to become a business icon. We talk about her book 21st Century Business Icons and the importance of businesses working for the greater good and the challenges women face in being seen as extreme mavericks in leadership roles. This is a wide ranging conversation about the leaders who are changing our world. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Sally Percy. How are you doing Sally? I'm great thank you. How are you? I'm doing really well thanks. And I was wondering what types of things make you sing in the shower? Oh, sing in the shower. Do you know I don't know if I do a lot of singing in the shower. I do a lot of thinking in the shower. Like trying to solve creative problems. Like maybe think of a headline for an article in my tube or something like that. But I don't really do a lot of singing in the shower. Do you do a lot of singing in the shower then? I'm more kind of like humming in the bath. It's probably nearing me. What makes you hum in the bath then? You know what I think it's definitely mood driven. Do you know what I mean? So it's sometimes kind of something with a really kind of like heavy beat that I would be like kind of like dancing to myself. And other times it'd be more kind of contemplative, you know, when you just, as you said, you just like your brain is just open to input. You can tell you're a journo. Look how you turn that round on me, sneaky woman. You're going to have to watch me with this one. You know, you are going to have to watch me. I like that. No, I do like that. That's really cool. So I've called you a journo. Tell us more about you. So I am a now a business journalist, and I've been a journalist for about 20 years now. I did a few things before I became a journalist. And when I first became a journalist, I was actually living in New Zealand at the time. That's my boyfriend, now husband. He's from New Zealand. And I went out there and I got, he was from a rural area, he's from a farming family. And I got a job as a rural reporter on the local newspaper, which was quite funny because I was a vegetarian from London. I didn't know anything about farming, really. It's quite eye opening. I do now know a lot more about farming and I'm probably a bit rusty on it, so don't test me too much. And then I stayed out there for a couple of years and I found New Zealand a bit quiet. So we came back to the UK and that's when I really started to become a business journalist. And I originally joined Accountancy magazine and became editor of Accountancy magazine. And then after that, I decided I sort of wanted to broaden myself out of it and not be too focused on accounting and finance. And so over the years since then, I've worked freelance and I really moved myself much more into the general business space. And I particularly like doing leadership and management. I'm currently editor of Edge, the magazine of the Institute of Leadership. And recently I have and I've written two books. One was called Reach the Top in Finance. I wrote that in 2017. And then my most recent book is 21st Century Business Icons and that kind of profiles some of the world's best known business leaders. And I really enjoyed doing that because I learned a lot from them and found out a lot about them.

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A highlight from Bitcoin and Freedom

The Breakdown

07:00 min | Last month

A highlight from Bitcoin and Freedom

"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, October 29th, and that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Happy Sunday. You know, some weeks when I look for LRS stories, I really have to stretch it a little bit. I have to find something that I'm going to have a lot of commentary on or maybe connect with a different piece, and that's fine. Obviously, I like the analysis. Some weeks, however, there is something that so clearly stands out as the obvious thing to read that it just screams at me and practically drives its way into this show. This week, as you might have guessed, we have one of those. The piece is by Preston Pish and is called Bitcoin is Anti -Totalitarianism. I, or rather the 11 Labs AI generated version of me, is going to read this piece and then the real non AI me will come back with some analysis at the end. In the face of ongoing challenges to our cherished freedoms, it is imperative to critically examine the forces at play that threaten the very fabric of democracy. The ideals of freedom and open markets are at risk of being undermined by influential political forces seeking to impose oppressive order and control in the name of security. This article delves into the pressing need to fix our manipulated markets, protect Bitcoin and its inherent anti -totalitarian qualities, and inform US policymakers that democratic values are what's at stake. Section the erosion of free markets and capitalism. People who think we currently have capitalism and free and open markets haven't been paying attention. The American economic landscape, once a paragon of capitalism, has undergone a seismic shift, particularly since the 2008 financial crisis when lawmakers selectively bailed out the bankers at the expense of the broader economy. The central banking system's pervasive influence has led to a distortion of free markets with quantitative easing, QE being employed as a tool to manipulate the bond market, artificially lowering the cost of capital and thus distorting the prices of everything. This manipulation has had far reaching consequences, including the gutting of the middle class and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. In the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank failure this March, the deployment of tools such as the Bank Term Funding Program, BTFP, has further exacerbated these distortions, providing de facto yield curve control for banks while leaving ordinary citizens to grapple with soaring interest rates and inflation. This divergence from naturally occurring economic markets and the suppression of a free and open cost of capital has pushed us closer to an economic model reminiscent of you name it, communism regime, threatening the foundational principles of capitalism and democracy. Section. The newest assault on financial freedom and Bitcoin. In a recent letter from Senator Elizabeth Warren and numerous congressional members, they leverage international crises to further their own political agenda and curtail financial freedoms. Armed with a freshly published Wall Street Journal article that falsely suggests Hamas raised a significant sum of crypto funding to attack Israel, the truth couldn't be more obscured. The irony of the claim is that the public Bitcoin blockchain provides evidence that anyone can dispute, which is exactly what happened the day following the senator's letter to the president. On October 18th, blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis clarified that while some terrorist organizations, including Hamas, do leverage cryptocurrencies for funding, the scale is extremely small relative to traditional fiat banking means. They emphasized that the transparency of blockchain technology makes it a less suitable medium for illicit activities, including terrorism financing. Additionally, Chainalysis pointed out that government agencies and private sector organizations can collaborate using blockchain analysis solutions to trace and disrupt the flow of funds to these terrorist groups. They also highlighted the importance of understanding the role of service providers in these financial networks and cautioned against overestimating the scale of terrorism financing in cryptocurrency based on flawed analyses and misinterpretations. Delving deeper into the facts revealed by Chainalysis, it becomes increasingly evident how Senator Warren's letter dramatically skewed the situation. The detailed analysis zeroes in on a specific address that conducted over 1 ,300 deposits and 1 ,200 withdrawals within a mere 7 .5 months, with a total inflow of roughly $82 million in cryptocurrency. However, a mere fraction of this amount, approximately $450 ,000, can be linked back to a wallet associated with terrorist activities. This represents a mere 0 .3461 % of the purported $130 million claimed in the letter, a staggering discrepancy that lays bare the deceptive nature of the narrative being pushed to the White House. Not only has Business Insider reported on October 21st that Hamas operates with an annual budget of $300 million, but a significant portion of its funding also stems from taxing imports into Gaza, as well as international connections with Iran, a country to which the U .S. government recently and rather ambiguously may have released $6 billion in fiat currency 2 in September, just a month prior to the attack on Israel. Unlike Bitcoin, which offers a publicly accessible audit trail, citizens are left in the dark about this substantial financial transaction. The narrative on what was actually released depends heavily on the news outlet or political interest one consults, often resulting in biased and self -serving points of view, the irony. This stark contrast between politically manipulated numbers and the transparent reality a public blockchain provides underscores the urgent need for thorough, factual analysis and the adoption of publicly verifiable monetary units like Bitcoin. Section. Why is this so concerning? Knee -jerk policy reactions based on false information and poor reporting can have devastating long -term impacts to the U .S.'s competitive economic position and more importantly the liberties and freedoms of the citizens. In what appears to be a coordinated policy response one day after Senator Warren's letter, the U .S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN, came out with a proposal for special measures regarding convertible virtual currency mixing and labeled it a primary money laundering concern. Based on all the information contained in the FinCEN proposal, it opens the door for expansive policy to infringe on the rights of individuals. For example, the increased surveillance and potential loss of privacy could subject individuals running Bitcoin full nodes to unprecedented scrutiny. They might find themselves burdened with regulatory requirements that are not only onerous but also infringe upon their personal privacy and the privacy of users transacting through their nodes. The uncertainty and legal risks associated with running a full node under these proposed measures could discourage individuals from auditing their property, thus increasing their risk and reliance on bad actors. Bitcoin holders that ran their own node and took custody of their property in 2022 were not impacted by fraudulent centralized gatekeepers like Sam Bankman -Fried and third -party custodians that acted maliciously. Additionally, a policy attack on node operators creates less financial freedom for U .S. citizens and an incentive for businesses in this new sector of finance to move offshore. Developers might be discouraged from creating and implementing privacy -enhancing features, limiting the potential and the very essence of American citizens and builders within this country.

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A highlight from BCB132_LUKE GROMEN: Back To The Future with Neutral Reserve Assets

Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast

03:08 min | Last month

A highlight from BCB132_LUKE GROMEN: Back To The Future with Neutral Reserve Assets

"Now, it's no longer America can't afford defense, entitlements, and interest without the Fed printing the money out of tax receipts. Now it's we're getting scary close to America having to print the interest on the debt alone. And when a nation has to print the interest on the debt, that's it. Currency systems stop. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin podcast, a show where average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance, and we talk shit. Howdy there, folks. We are back in the saddle for yet another rodeo here on Blue Collar Bitcoin. This week, Josh and myself and Dan are joined for a second time by the macro catfish from Cleveland, the one and only Luke Gromen. Known for his independent thinking, Luke Gromen is a CFA who has become one of the most respected names in the global research sector. This discussion does not disappoint. Over the next hour plus, we cover Luke's more detailed take on Bitcoin, Bitcoin versus gold, why energy is the real base layer of value transfer, the transition to a multipolar global environment, the world's desperate craving for a decentralized neutral reserve asset. And we end this one with Luke's practical suggestions for everyday portfolios. In this chat, we do spend a fair amount of time comparing and contrasting Bitcoin versus gold. And one of the key distinguishing factors Bitcoin has in its favor is the ease of self -custody. If you do own Bitcoin, it's imperative you safeguard this asset from counterparty risk. Enter the cold card, the ultimate solution for those who prioritize the safety and integrity of their Bitcoin. The cold card is a straightforward yet robust device designed to enable you to store your private keys offline. Sleep like an overfed sloth with a snooze button, knowing that your funds are shielded from potential threats. Whether you're a seasoned Bitcoin enthusiast or just starting your journey, the cold card is user -friendly and adaptable to your growing knowledge and needs. Don't forget you can access discounts on various CoinKite products, including the block locks, through our affiliate link provided down in the notes. Plus, get an even more enticing deal on the cold card by using promo BCB. Before we unleash Luke Gromen, several other quick reminders as fall is upon us. First, open enrollment is here. If you have healthcare needs or healthcare bills and want to save money while supporting people rather than large insurance companies, check out CrowdHealth at joincrowdhealth .com. And you can use code BLUE for a big discount on the first six months. Second, with winter weather here, there is no better time to use a space heater and an air purifier that also mines Bitcoin. Check out the HeatBit at heatbit .com and you can punch code BCB for a discount. Lastly, you can also use code BCB for 10 % off tickets to the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville next July. Alright, click those seatbelts. Get ready for a wild ride with LG.

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A highlight from S14 E05: Matthew: Actor, Author, 'Sinister City' Success

The Aloönæ Show

02:44 min | Last month

A highlight from S14 E05: Matthew: Actor, Author, 'Sinister City' Success

"Hello! Welcome to The Ohlone Show. I'm your host, John Maylone. In this episode don't have regulars because reasons as always. As for our guest, he's from Los Angeles, California. He's a professional SAG slash AFTRA TV movie actor published author and movie screenwriter and he's been a veteran actor since he was a child. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Matthew Campbell. Alright, thanks for having me, man. You're welcome. So, how's life? Oh, it's good, good. I'm currently on this book tour with my book, Sinister City. We're going all over the country, so we're having a blast and just enjoying life. Oh, that's pretty cool. Is there anything else you're about to do in the next few weeks, months or so? I've got a book signing on Saturday in Burbank, so that's going to be really exciting. And a couple others during the course of the month. On the 21st, we've got another one. I'm coming out in two magazines, so that's really exciting as well. Wow. Impressive. Yeah. What was life for you growing up? It was, you know, I'm from a small town in northern California, so it was. Yeah, it was pretty, I guess, normal. Nothing too crazy, but it was it was fun. It was a fun time. I'm the middle child. So, you know, there's always that, you know, star for attention, that kind of thing. Absolutely. Yeah. So what inspired you to become an actor? Well, when I was seven, I had this really bad stuttering problem, believe it or not. And my mom is friends with the theater director at this community, this community theater in Sacramento. And she recommended I joined a theater to get rid of the stutter. And I was just seven years old. And so I went in and I absolutely loved it. And basically, you know, never left, really. So I did all kinds of plays. And that was kind of where I kind of really fell in love with acting and stage and all of that. Nice. Nice.

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A highlight from BCB131_DANNY KNOWLES: Bittersweet Bitcoin ETF

Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast

04:45 min | Last month

A highlight from BCB131_DANNY KNOWLES: Bittersweet Bitcoin ETF

"We're going to get an ETF in the next six months or at some point very soon. I think more and more people will come to Bitcoin who come to the games and never even understand the revolution. And what I'm worried about is that if we don't scale the kind of Bitcoin culture, we could end up, you know, 10, 15, 20 years down the line having lost all identity of what it means to be a Bitcoiner, potentially because of Bitcoin's like weird messy consensus, end up with some unideal protocol changes that don't maximize for like decentralization, don't maximize for censorship resistance. And we end up like having a cup version of like digital gold with, we still have the scarcity but it doesn't have any of the elements that actually allow us to be like revolutionary technology. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast, a show where average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance and we talk shit. Thank you for continuing to listen to us after we lambasted Bitcoin for an entire episode. We are obviously massively bullish on Bitcoin, but we think it's a good exercise to challenge your own assumptions from time to time. In this episode, we are talking to Danny Knowles. Danny is the executive producer of what Bitcoin did. We appreciate not only the hustle that has gotten what Bitcoin did to the top of the podcast game in Bitcoin, but that they have done it without having a sacred cow. Peter and Danny are willing to have some controversial guests and viewpoints and they don't shy away from pissing people off. This is the mark of real journalism in our view. If the content you are listening to is always petting your perspective, you are not growing as a thoughtful person and the content creator you're listening to is likely captured. Unlocking Danny in this episode was a pleasure for us. Whenever he contributes during episodes of what Bitcoin did, it is additive and his perspective was great in this episode. Danny has been a Bitcoiner since 2016 and he has seen a lot of antics in the space. He has had a front row seat to speak to most of the prominent people. Danny also has a keen interest in the QE as money printing or not question and we explore that in this episode. We take some serious time to consider the ETF and the good, bad and ugly potential outcomes from this ETF. He has been well -traveled and he can confirm that Americans are indeed the fattest people in the world. No matter your opinion on politics, gender, fat people or which geriatric president you prefer, you can protect your Bitcoin with the legendary cold card Mark 4. The cold card is a lean, mean, sat -stacking machine that cares not about your opinions. It simply locks your Bitcoin into the most secure digital space possible, safe from the prying eyes of hackers, nannies and most importantly, exchanges. If you are not custody -ing your Bitcoin, you are leaving yourself open to the most devastating risk in the space, counterparty risk. We have close personal friends who have been rugged by the likes of FTX and BlockFi. We do not want our listenership rugged. The best way to protect yourself is to take custody, and there is no better self -custody solution than the cold card, full stop. Use code BCB to get 5 % off a cold card Mark 4. Although it feels like it's barely on the horizon, Bitcoin 2024 will be here before you know it. Get the best price on tickets by buying now, and use our coupon code BCB for 10 % off tickets to Nashville at Bitcoin 2024. So, let's get this thing kicked off. We have no agenda either. We're just going to chill out, dude. I've had a long week. I've got a vodka tonic poured. I'm so jealous. It's 10 a .m. here. I can't do it. I just came. I was actually telling Josh before you got in here, I had a pretty legit fever all day yesterday on duty. I just kind of tossed it out, and I'm a huge pussy, by the way. For anyone that's wondering, I'm a giant fucking pussy. I was going to say. You definitely had someone check your rectal temp, I'm sure, on the ambulance. Yeah, we did rectal. Of course. I had all five other dudes probe me on duty to check it. So just a normal shift for you? But yeah. You've got to get the core temp. Kind of in recovery mode, just coming out of it, though. You know when you've been sick and you regain normalcy, and you're like, fuck, this feels really good. I'm thankful to be a healthy human being. So you're straight back on the alcohol. And yep, straight to the cocktail, which - It'll kill the bugs, you know? Yeah, I mean, alcohol on this show, Danny, it cuts both ways. Maybe we have more fun, but the signal definitely plummets.

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A highlight from BTC Rallies, ETF Nudges Closer, and a Fresh Fraud Accusation

The Breakdown

08:32 min | Last month

A highlight from BTC Rallies, ETF Nudges Closer, and a Fresh Fraud Accusation

"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, October 21st, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. We are back with another live analysis show. This was a conversation filmed and recorded between me and Scott Melker, also known as The Wolf of All Streets, on Friday morning. Now, for those of you who want to catch this live, it goes out every Friday morning at 9 a .m. It's on all his channels. It's on all my channels. And basically, this is a chance to get a little bit more talky when it comes to the news and what it means. This week, obviously, the big stories were once again, the new NYAG suit against DCG, Elizabeth Warren's attempt to use the tragedy in the Middle East to bully her way to new crypto legislation that really doesn't have anything to do with Hamas, plus a little dose of SPF coverage. I think overall, the way to sum it up, though, is from the last story, which is about a Morgan Stanley blog post that suggests that we are in what might be called crypto spring. Crypto spring is neither the bull market of crypto summer, nor is it the brutal bear market of crypto winter. Instead, it's a period where one day can be very good and another day can be very bad. It's messy and muddy and often rainy. But in it, you start to see the very first seedlings of what comes next. The stories this week, I think, are a pretty perfect encapsulation of that. We have this big Bitcoin jump up. We had ETF news, both fake and real things that are very much about the future. But then we also had a heck of a lot of cleanup and stories about the messy in between that we still face. Anyways, there is a lot here, both in terms of the stories themselves and also what they represent about where we are. So without any further ado, let's dive into the conversation. Happy Friday. Good morning. And man, we've got a lot to talk about today. We do. And it's not all Sam. It's an amazing week. Although I will say, for whatever reason, people really engaged with our conversation about Sam last week. So it's clear that people are watching that trial and really interested in what's happening there. It's our exorcism. So of course, you can't look away. That's what's so bad about it. It's this slow moving train wreck that you have to watch and collective catharsis and therapy all at the same time. Really good. We can dig into the stories of this week. And we've touched on some of this, obviously, in the past. I like to put up her picture just to trigger everyone really early. We've got Elizabeth Warren here. U .S. Senator Warren leads lawmakers to push administration on crypto backed terrorism. Of course, she's getting the headlines, but there are one hundred and two lawmakers that have signed this. Clearly, there's real interest in Congress and the Senate in pushing this narrative that crypto is funding terrorism. Here's a bit of what she had to say or the letter did. It's not just her. Given the clear and present danger posed by the financing of bees and other militant organizations, we ask the administration to provide additional details on its plan to prevent the use of crypto for the financing of terrorism. Congress and this administration must take strong action to thoroughly address crypto illicit finance risks before it can be used to finance another tragedy. Is this a fair criticism of crypto or is it not? This is why people hate politics in a simple, cute little package. A thing that is very, very tangentially related to an actual tragedy and horror show of modern life becomes a leverage point for someone who's just pushing an agenda that they had in advance. Nothing is new, just to be clear, about the bill that's being pushed from what it was being pushed earlier in the summer. It has nothing to do with exchanges that, for example, have been known or proven to facilitate terrorism. It is entirely about just DeFi KYC. It's a very, at most, orthogonally related thing. But in the wake of the horrendous attacks, and particularly after the Wall Street Journal writes this piece saying that it's funded by crypto, it's just exactly what she needed to go leverage this point. Now, there are a couple of things that make it perhaps less bad than it seems. And some of these go back to what we talked about last week. The first is when it comes to these 102 people, my strong guess, now I haven't sat down and gone through this with the fine tooth comb. My strong guess is that about 97 or 98 of those 102 were handed a letter by a staffer that said, this letter says the White House should do something and Congress should do something about crypto financing terrorism. And on the face of it, that's fine. People are going to sign on to that. And I think that this is sort of this point is the evidence of this is the fact that there are a number of pro -crypto Democrats who have signed on. If the premise of the letter is just, hey, guys, this is an important vector for funding of terrorism in the future, we should make sure we have good policies for that. Totally reasonable. Everyone in crypto would agree with that. Now, what we know is that there's a bigger agenda behind it. Here's the other thing about politics, even these 102 senators know or the 102 people who signed on to this, they still know that that's not the same as actually supporting a bill. This is just a letter. It's an open letter. It is actually the cheapest, most convenient and least committal way to associate your name with anti -crypto terrorism financing without having to actually do anything about it. So it's just as toothless as anything else she does, except in so far as it continues to kind of erode and distract from other conversations. So I think it is extraordinarily frustrating. It's completely predictable in some ways, but it in and of itself, I don't think necessarily shows a lot of shift in momentum other than what we might already have have seen around this. When push comes to shove, this bill will either be actually kind of advanced or it won't. And when it is or isn't, it will be debated on the merits of it then. So it's kind of just a distraction. It's a very annoying one. I do think that it has impacts for all the people who are in the crypto lobby in D .C. who are just trying to have common sense conversations and move things forward sensibly. But it's probably less impactful than it is annoying is my kind of short take. I think this goes back to the old adage, never let a good tragedy go to waste. Right. And especially if you're a politician and you have a specific talking point and you can somewhat superficially attach that talking point to something that's happening in the world, you go for it. Now, I will say I agree with you. This should be addressed right. If crypto is being used in some way to fund terrorism, then sure, that should be stopped. But it's crypto. So they are freezing wallets. They're actually taking action against these things, regardless of what Elizabeth Warren says. And so you can take that criticism and it's valid, but you can't take it in a vacuum because you have to make the same criticism for every other form of illicit financing for terrorism, like pallets of cash being delivered, you know, across the border, which we all know is happening. So I think that it's an unfair singling out of crypto. More importantly, when you dig in, I mean, here's the rest of the story. Chainalysis says some reports might be overestimating crypto's role in terrorist financing. And this isn't just an overestimation. I'm just going to read you what Chainalysis had to say easier than discussing it. We've seen recent estimates related to the attacks on Israel that appear to include all flows to certain service providers that receive some funds associated with terrorist financing. In other words, these total include funds not explicitly related to terrorism financing to the untrained eye. It might appear that eighty two million worth of cryptocurrency was raised for terror financing, but it's much more likely that a small portion of these funds were intended for terrorist activity and a majority of the funds processed through the suspected service provider were unrelated. So they're saying that with the estimate that Elizabeth Warren's talking about is eighty two million has an extra few zeros there. It's about four hundred and fifty thousand worth of funds that actually ended up in terrorism affiliated wallets.

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A highlight from Why Europe Will Eventually Try to Ban Bitcoin | EP 850

Simply Bitcoin

17:23 min | Last month

A highlight from Why Europe Will Eventually Try to Ban Bitcoin | EP 850

"Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live, we're your number one source for the peaceful revolution Bitcoin with code breaking news culture and medical warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state. Speaking of the separation of money and state today is one of those episodes. Yeah, that's right. We put it in the title. We saw the, the, the flack in, in the, in the chat, uh, Opti, if you could pull it up, if you could be so kind, we are going to make the case that if we as Bitcoiners, as Corey wrote in his, uh, his very, very famous, uh, win the adoption race, there is going to be an inevitable clash between, uh, governments, Fiat currencies and Bitcoin, right? And the reason is simple to use Christine Lagarde's own words, whose video we're going to play for you guys today. Bitcoin is an escape valve and escape valve from government currencies and escape valve from inflation. And they need you using government currencies. So if we don't win this adoption race, if we don't wake enough people, the F up, uh, yes, of course, they're going to try to ban it. Look at what happened in the UK. We covered this. I think it was either the yesterday or the day before there, January, I'm not making this January 6th, literally that day, UK citizens will be required to pass a test before they could purchase crypto and Bitcoin. Now you could say, okay, it's because of all the crypto scams and all that, blah, blah, blah, blah. But forgive me after everything that's happened after the last three years, if I'm a little bit skeptical, if that is their actual, uh, motivations behind, uh, passing that type of legislation. So, yeah. Um, and you know what, which is, I referenced this book all the time, highly recommend you read it. If you're a Bitcoiner, this is all something, the book, the sovereign individual predicted back in the nineties. And the case that they were making was essentially the rise of information technologies would fundamentally change the relationship between the individual and the state, because the internet would empower individuals, not only giving them the ability to source alternative forms of media of information, right? Look, look at how crazy, did you guys know that the New York times got their, uh, blue check or their verification badge removed? Uh, because apparently they were peddling some type of BS or something like that. But the reason I brought that up is it's a great example of how media has been democratized. Because of the internet, right? So anybody, if you're at home, if you're in your garage, it doesn't matter. You can buy a camera, you could buy a microphone. And if you're good at what you do, and if you provide value to your viewer, you'll start to build up an audience over time. Of course, if you put in the proof of work, right. And you know, the legacy institutions have to compete with all these millions of individuals all around the world that aren't bought by special interests. So therefore they have the ability to tell the truth, right? So, and then add to that mix, right? Just sprinkle it in there. How the internet has enabled people to use Bitcoin. So it's not only the disintermediation of information, but also the disintermediation of money. And it's kind of overlapping, overlapping. It's happening at the same time and it's causing chaos a little bit, right? Because all these systems of control, whether it's the control over information over the control on money are slowly starting to kind of shift up. They're slowly starting to shake up a little bit. And you know, it's, I think it's causing, you know, a lot of chaos for governments that have been used to having a monopoly on the truth, as like Naim Bukele said in his very famous article, Don't Drink the Elite's Kool -Aid and also monopoly on the control, the, the issuance of money and also the control of money, right? So yeah, it's pretty crazy stuff. So bunker down, fasten up your seatbelts, take your Bitcoin into self custody, not your keys, not your Bitcoin. And it's going to be a crazy ride. Anyways, my co -host isn't smiling today. So that is definitely a mole. Opti's not here. I'm going to do the show by myself today. Just kidding. He's smiling. He's smiling. I poke my eardrum last night with a Q -tip and I'm kind of hurting this morning, guys. I'm in pain right now, but anyways, it doesn't matter. The show goes on. Yeah. People are expecting optimistic Opti. I, guys, I'm telling you this West Coast time is really messed up. It, uh, I don't have enough time to, to get my coffee to blood ratio going correctly so that I am just absolutely jacked on coffee yet. I can only get enough coffee going through in the morning over here on the West Coast. So, you know, it, it, it, it goes, man. All I need is a Nico Jones rant and then my blood starts boiling. So like halfway through the show is when I'm like ready to go. So forgive me guys. Forgive me. Um, I, I'll be back home next week. I, I'm, I'm staying for some family stuff, so I'll be back to normal geeked out Opti on the show. But yeah, man, uh, crazy stuff, crazy stuff. Shouts out to Chrissy LeGarde. She's obviously very mad at me. Uh, I'm sure you guys saw that Bitcoin Bugle article that broke the news yesterday that my messages got leaked with her and, uh, she's very mad. So you can tell why she's constantly talking about CBDC's doubling down on CBDC's. I guess my pillow talk didn't work guys. I tried, I tried, I tried on both fronts to get her to embrace Bitcoin and for myself to get close to the money printer, neither of them worked. So, you know, I, I'm just taking the L it's it's okay. Whatever. Dude. So I remember speaking of Opti on coffee, I remember when we did the Bitblock boom live stream, um, it was, we've never done this before. It was like the first one. And we go live and Opti takes the microphone. Like the first thing you do is you play the sound for it and you're like, we're back. And I'm like looking at you and I'm like, bro, I'm like, welcome to the Bitblock boom live stream, bro. So that's what happens when Opti is not on enough coffee. I become a coffee addict. That was to me a highlight. That was, that was, that was beautiful. That moment to me, I'll never forget it. Never forget it. Anyways, everybody let's jump into the show. We got a lot to talk about today. Let's check it out. The Bitcoin numbers. Is your Bitcoin and cold storage really secure? 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All you got to do is scan the QR code on your right. Use promo code simply and get yourself a titanium Bitcoin seed phrase, storage kid on stamp seed .com. You want to save your Bitcoin, your generational wealth. You don't want to lose it because you stored it on paper. Here we go. The price of Bitcoin at the time of recording is 29 ,565 sats per dollar, 3 ,382 block height, 813 ,071 blocks to having 26 ,929 having estimate April 21st, 2024 total lightning network capacity, 5 ,369 Bitcoin capacity value, 158 million us dollars realized monetary inflation, 1 .74 % continuing to take Fiat currencies to absolute school market capitalization of Bitcoin, 577 billion dollars of the B Bitcoin versus gold market cap, 4 .36%. And the grand scheme of things. Bitcoin is still a baby. Now one of the things I wanted to point out, I say this every single day. I'm going to continue saying it once the Bitcoin market cap reaches the market cap of gold that will put it at 500 K per coin. Anyways, so here's the big news. Uh, this is a video that was released by Opti. I mean, let's be serious for a sec. Christine Lagarde, who is the president of the European central bank. She released this meme. Let's call it what it is because this is mematic warfare on the battlegrounds of the internet narrative trench warfare hand to hand one meme at a time. And uh, remember they have the same capabilities as us. So just like we can post videos and we can post pictures, they can do that as well. Right. So this is a form of, of I I'm, this is like, look, you can define it however, which you like, but like this is no different than if Opti stood in front of this like weird looking purple green screen and he just dictated you a war suit and dictated you a message. Right. So like it's no different. Like you could say, Oh no, but this is the president of the European central bank. You know, this is legitimate. You know, um, one of the key words in this tweet is the Euro is key to our European unity. A digital Euro exists alongside cash would future proof our currency. It would be safe, easy to use and free of charge. While the decision whether to issue a digital Euro will be taken later, we're now launching the preparation phase, right? Which is very similar to what they did in the United States. They launched the fed now program, which in my opinion is the first iteration of an American central bank digital currency. They launched it about a month after they denied Caitlin long's federal banking charter. Uh, coincidences, right? Um, and again, to launch a CBDC in the United States, they would need full approval from Congress. Now, I'm not the only one who's skeptical. The governor of Florida passed a law explicitly forbidding central bank digital currencies in Florida as a preemptive measure. And he's made the claim. He's, he said the quiet part out loud. It's not me, the governor of Florida, CBDCs are surveillance. They're, they're for surveillance. They're for surveillance and control. This isn't Bitcoiners saying this. These are real people in real positions of authority and power that have been elected, right? So this is, I watched it for the first time yesterday on simply sessions and it's a lot more dystopian that you would think there's a lot of aggressivity in the way that she says it. And it's like very 1984 ish. Like, you know, and again, it all comes with the guise of like, look guys, this is, this is democratic. We're doing this with legislative authority. You're going to have a choice to use cash or the CBDC. We're not going to get rid of cash. But what if you don't want to use either, right? What if you don't want to use a CBDC or cash? What if you just want to use a better money and that better money is Bitcoin? What about that? Right? Because I don't believe that if there would be a fair competition between a CBDC and Bitcoin, if you put them side by side, let's compare the two things, right? One is going to be censored and controlled as much as they say they won't do that. History has shown they will look at the, remember the Canadian Chuckers protest and they're going to want to debase it and inflate it, right? Then also not to mention the fact that if you compare that to Bitcoin, it's censorship resistant and there's a cap supply. So over time, where do you think people are going to go to? If they had a choice between the two systems, where are they going to flow? And they're going to flow in one direction, right? It's just better money, sounder money, right? So, but if government, like common sense, but if governments benefit tremendously from having the power of being able to create money for free that everyone else has to work for, what do you think they're going to try to do? Which is why I named the video today, what I named it, right? Anyways, I'm going to play you guys the video and then there's an article that I want to show you guys as well, specifically referring to what Christine Lagarde called Bitcoin. Anyways, let's check out the video. The digital Euro is on the move. Yesterday, the governing council of the ECB approved the opening of the preparation phase. It will be a journey and we will walk the journey together with the legislator. All European institutions will be involved to make sure that Europe is equipped with the currency of the future. Cash is here to stay. You will have all options, cash and digital cash. So what does it mean for you? For consumers, it would be free and easy to use everywhere in the Euro area. All of that of course is subject to the legislative process. Cash or digital, the choice will be yours. You Euro, your choice. My Bitcoin, my choice. That's what I got to say. And if I can, I really want to use the B word like, cause that would have emphasized it. My, my, uh, my Bitcoin, my choice, B. Um, anyways, uh, moving on. Okay. So what has Christine Lagarde said in the past about Bitcoin? This is a very famous video that was, was going around. Um, I actually found the exact, uh, exact quote, uh, European regulators and the IMF in tune. Oh, how coincident, like what a coincidence, right? This is the same IMF that criticized El Salvador, the same IMF that gave Argentina another bailout. But part of that bailout came with the condition that they had to de -incentivize the adoption of Bitcoin within the country, even though the country, you know, is suffering from a hundred percent inflation, that IMF. So it makes sense. Um, anyways, it goes on to say, according to Lagarde, Bitcoin represents a risk whose regulation must get applied on a global scale. Otherwise it could serve as an escape valve. If you still don't believe me, here's a video Walker of America, shout out, check out his, uh, his new podcast. I think it's called the Bitcoin podcast. Um, and you know, he replied to Christine Lagarde, right? I love how it already got kind of community noted. That's, that's absolutely hilarious. Wait, the E the EDBP argues that the digital Euro faces several hurdles, such as shaky privacy and anonymity safeguards, possibly limiting choice, accelerating cash displacement, allowing spending tracking. The digital Euro doesn't offer clear benefits, but has risks.

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A highlight from Crypto Exchange Update - Kraken, CoinEx, Coinbase, Binance

The Bitboy Crypto Podcast

04:28 min | Last month

A highlight from Crypto Exchange Update - Kraken, CoinEx, Coinbase, Binance

"The crypto landscape is full of options, and that can be overwhelming for those who are new to the space. One of the things you'll need to use in your crypto journey is a crypto exchange, a platform that allows you to swap tokens and trade. But not all exchanges are made equal. So what exchange should you use? Here at Discover Crypto, we are fans of self -custody, but when we want to swap tokens quickly, we will move our trading funds to a centralized exchange. Not all exchanges are created equal, so we wanted to give you some tips on picking a good one. Choosing an exchange to trade crypto on is all about trust, because when you put your coins onto an exchange like Coinbase, Kraken, CoinX, or Binance, you're giving the exchange custody of your funds, or in other words, they are holding your keys. There are some decentralized exchanges that allow you to hold onto your private keys, but for this video, we're going to talk about the centralized exchanges, since that's what most people use. And just so you know, a decentralized exchange is called a DEX, and a centralized exchange is called a SEX. If you're new to crypto, you've probably heard of Coinbase or Binance. But what about those other exchanges in the cryptoverse? What are the advantages to using them and what are the risks? Let's dig into that. A smaller boutique exchange like CoinX will give you access to different tokens and trading pairs than the major exchanges and quite often give better customer support. They've been around since 2017 and have seen their fair share of bull markets and bears. They're also one of the few exchanges that operates its own charity, doing humanitarian work around the world. CoinX offers many advanced trading features that give traders and investors an edge, with research tools to keep you up to date with what's happening in the market. But CoinX isn't just about fancy trades and token data. CoinX has their customers' backs, and that was evident in their most recent hack on their exchange that happened on September 12 of this year. A crypto exchange getting hacked isn't new, and even back in the early days of Bitcoin in 2014 with Mt. Gox, there's always been risk built into holding your money on exchanges. But as the hacks have improved, so have the responses of the exchanges. Coinbase and Kraken are known for their customer service, and exchanges like CoinX show just how far the industry has come since the wild west days of Mt. Gox. Let's dig into the latest exchange hack and show you how it handled it the right way. On September 12, 2023, CoinX discovered that some of their hot wallets used to transfer customer funds on the platform were making anomalous transactions outside of CoinX. Within minutes, the hot wallets were deactivated, but the damage was done. Almost $70 million worth of crypto, mostly Tron, Bitcoin and Solana, had been drained. Customer cold wallet funds had not been touched, of course, but $70 million worth of customer exchange funds is a big deal. So CoinX kicked things into high gear by reaching out to exchanges that the stolen funds traveled to and freezing those accounts. This is standard for the industry, but CoinX was able to do this within hours of the attacks. While the cause of the breach was being investigated, CoinX was able to pull from its reserves, and within three days of the attack on the 15th, they publicly promised to 100 % cover the losses to their customers. This is not unprecedented, but a good show of strength by an exchange in the industry and set the gold standard for customer service amongst centralized exchanges. The community noticed and called it out. By September 17th, CoinX was able to patch and reconstruct their internal wallet system. It's important to note that during this time, CoinX locked all withdrawals from the exchange, not because of lack of funds, but to cut down on any phishing or scam attempts to pull funds away from panicked traders. But as of September 21st, withdrawals have been reinstated across the exchange for all users in all countries. For your information, CoinX is posting the latest status on their official ex -account to keep the info public and transparent. For many in the cryptoverse, seeing exchanges mature and be more transparent with their customers is helping onboard more and more people onto crypto. Check out CoinX and the other exchanges we mentioned in this video in the description and stay tuned as we discover crypto. I'll see you at the top. 10 % below MSRP for an average of $6 ,960 under MSRP on the purchase of a 2023 Jeep Wrangler 4xe. Not compatible with lease offers or with any other consumer incentive offers. $6 ,960 average based on 10 % below average MSRP from all 2023 Wrangler 4xe models in dealer stock. Residency restrictions apply, take retail delivery from dealer stock by 1031. Jeep is a registered trademark.

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A highlight from Basics_10: How Bitcoin COULD Fail

Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast

04:03 min | Last month

A highlight from Basics_10: How Bitcoin COULD Fail

"There threats, are there are underlying currents, there are underlying themes that may very well put a threat to this into the future. If it does form a large portion of your portfolio, you have to do the work. To buy this thing and just park it away and not keep your finger on the pulse is just irresponsible in my mind. Not what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you know that just ain't so. I think one of the biggest threats to Bitcoin is actually ourselves. It's not all these external threats. There's making a change to the Bitcoin code that ultimately opens up an attack vector that compromises Bitcoin. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin podcast, a show where Average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance and we talk shit. Welcome in, folks. We are back for part 10 of our Bitcoin basic series. Josh and myself, Dan, are joined as usual by Daz and Seb. It's been a downright privilege doing this basic series alongside these two wildly intelligent and thoughtful dudes. We have details in the notes about where to stay in touch with their work and be sure to get a copy of their book B is for Bitcoin, The Essential Guide to All Things Bitcoin. In this book, these two eloquently cover many of the concepts we've hit throughout this collection of conversations. Although on this show we regularly like to throw in healthy doses of steel manning, we've spent the vast majority of our first hundred and twenty nine episodes, as well as the first nine parts of this basic series, exploring the boundless reasons why Bitcoin is prone to succeed, grow in its adoption and accrue value. This week, we flip that script and in this hour and a half, we explore viable threats to the Bitcoin protocol and network reasons it could be delayed, underachieve or fail. Now, I'll be dead honest. This really isn't basics material. If you're newer to Bitcoin and or haven't listened to the first nine parts of this series, or you just haven't spent considerable time studying Bitcoin, then I'll recommend you shelve this episode and come back to it. Much of what the four of us say and what's upcoming may seem blasphemous to the hardcore Bitcoiner. And that's the fucking point. We want to trigger the hell out of you. If any one of us feels captivated and enamored by an idea, a perspective, a group, an ideology, a movement, a religion or an asset, then real intellectual integrity necessitates we drop the shallow certainty, escape the black and white, embrace the gray and engage with responsible counterargument. Nothing is a guarantee, Bitcoin included. Dare to put your big boy or big girl pants on and play the inversion alongside us. As the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett once said, seek out the arguments that make your own position uncomfortable. The truths that have made it through the crucible of critical analysis and experiential testing are the best we have. A couple other quick items before we sling this one. Folks, get a cold card. If you have a cold card, well, then you likely realize you want another one. You can use code BCB. That's code BCB for a delicious discount on these wondrous pieces of hardware. And visit our Coinkite link down in the notes for discounts on a variety of Coinkite products, including the block locks. These hardware wallets or signing devices are the best in the business. They're secure as hell, chock full of useful features, and they just simply work. You can also use code BCB for 10 percent off tickets to the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville next July. These tickets will only go up in price moving forward. So if you're going, why not avoid wasting precious sats and get them ticks today? Lastly, open enrollment is upon us. If you have health care needs or health care bills and you want to save money while supporting people rather than large insurance companies, check out CrowdHealth at joincrowdhealth .com and use code blue for a significant three month trial discount. OK, sit back, relax and enjoy getting triggered.

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A highlight from Israel Crypto Aid INTERVIEW | Combating Mainstream Media FUD

Tech Path Crypto

16:57 min | Last month

A highlight from Israel Crypto Aid INTERVIEW | Combating Mainstream Media FUD

"All right, so today we're going to dive into issues, obviously, that are happening in Israel. But one of the things and one of the angles that I want to focus on is the amount of crypto FUD that is starting to occur. And this is important because it's going to start to break down why you need to pay attention and why crypto is an important effort in a lot of these issues that happen globally. So we'll break all that down for you guys today. My name is Paul Beryl. Welcome back to Tech Path. All right, I want to open up here with an article from Quartz, and this was their headline. This came out yesterday, Cryptocurrency Fuelled the Hamas War Machine, Bitcoin Tether Funneled Millions of Dollars to Terror Group. You can kind of see a little bit of the statement here I thought was the probably the most ridiculous. Its role as a source of finance for terror groups hasn't always been made on available on the Web3 pitch decks. This is kind of that approach that I think mainstream media is bringing out when in reality what's happening is crypto is one of the fuels that actually help a lot of these efforts to sustain livelihoods, to sustain entities, businesses, families, etc., that go out there. So I want to welcome into the show Ben Samoka, who is with Crypto Aid Israel. And I want to kind of we're going to break it down. But Ben, thanks for stopping in on the show today. Thank you for having me, Paul. All right. So, Ben, I know you guys are, you know, really obviously in a very rough spot right now, but I want to learn more about Crypto Aid Israel. I'm going to go over to your website, Stand with Israel, where you guys can, of course, do donations. Pretty easy to do that by just going over and visit CryptoAidIsrael .com. You'll be able to jump to it. First, Ben, tell me a little about what you guys are trying to do here. How are the funds being used? Kind of just give me a rundown of what you guys are all about. Yeah, of course. So essentially, we are a group of volunteers from Israel, from individuals to companies with big names like Market Across and Fireblocks and Ironblocks and Collider and the operation of arranging donations for Israelis. We have four primary goals for what we do. One is to support the people in the south of Israel and rebuilding of their lives. Essentially, the headline today of now that we can assess the damage that has been done to the settlements at the kibbutzim and the cities around Gaza Strip, if they're completely destroyed, houses are burnt. An incredible amount of bodies were found and they need huge assistance. I just got off the phone this morning with an organization that needs a million shekels worth. That's $300 ,000 worth of funds just to relocate its population because the bobbing doesn't stop and the terrorists never stop coming. So that's just one example. We want to help the families of the dead and the missing. So currently it's estimated that there are officially at least 150 people that are missing and assumed kidnapped by Hamas and are in the Gaza Strip. We don't know dead or alive and we want to be able to move funds towards them and help them process the situation, whether if it's for shelter, food and obviously psychological support. We also are in collaboration with Zaka to help with medical emergency equipment and whatever we can provide on that front. And we have one more thing we want to accomplish, and that is support for the families of soldiers and reservists. We lost in the hundreds so far and more than 300 ,000 Israelis already went to the military as reserves. So we want to be able that now that when both mom and dad went somewhere to help protect Israel and help fight our fights. So that's our purpose. For that, we have established a network, a flow of funds, just like we know in the crypto spirit, a multi -sig MPC based wallet with fire blocks and with support of fire blocks. We have iron blocks providing cybersecurity protection on the Web three infrastructure phase, and we have many, many cyber volunteers helping protect our website. We also established amazing partnerships with very big groups of big Ford companies, fiat off -ramp providers, et cetera, so that we'll be able to bring in the funds to Israel. And from there, we have established a finance committee that will allocate the funds to the nonprofits we discussed and potentially to individual families that are in need. So far, we have managed to raise more than $90 ,000 within 48 hours, maybe a bit more. That's incredible. But there's so much to do. And we need this support. We need this help. The conversation today was devastating. And it's just one of so many horrific, horrible stories that we're hearing. All right. So obviously, a lot of companies have come to the aid here to get this up and running. Interesting that you guys have had to put so much effort in the cybersecurity side of things, because that is another area that most likely could get attacked, you know, in a scenario of especially something that is providing aid to Israel in the source of being able to kind of jump into some of the things you mentioned here. I was looking at your Twitter account. Attention on Support of Israel, new ERC -20 wallets were added to the website. So you guys started with a couple of different addresses there. I noticed the one when we were kind of diving into the research, it appeared to be a sandbox as a source. So I'm kind of curious, what was the reason? Was it just kind of early stage as you were building it and the addresses had to change? And are all the funds being tracked between the two addresses? How are you guys kind of organizing the accounting side? Yeah, so everything is organized within our Fireblocks vaults in collaboration with the finance community. The reason we changed the addresses is because we want to create separate flows of funds that are regulated. And for that, we are constantly in communication with different government entities and regulators in order to ensure that the transition of money to Israel goes smoothly. Eventually, Israel is considered a country that is relatively hard to bring in money from crypto to within, especially when we're talking about anonymous donations, at least until up to the sum of $10 ,000. And that is why we had to make that decision. We announced it. We did it the right way. Yeah, yeah. Well, good for you guys. Now, I look at, you know, other efforts that have been utilizing crypto in general, and obviously we have, unfortunately, a good example being of what's happened in Ukraine. Ukraine did something that was kind of interesting here. This was a report from United24, the National Bank of Ukraine, where they actually started tracking. I'm going to go to page nine of this thing. The reason I wanted to bring this up was they got into the efforts in which a lot of that crypto that was utilized and or raised in these programs where we had a lot of donations, etc. But they go into the whole scenario of showing what it was used for, all that, etc. Good accounting. Are you guys planning on doing something like that with Stand With Israel? Absolutely. We have 14, I think, at this point, group of volunteers that are operating on every aspect of this voluntary organizations, whether if it's marketing and social media and public relations with our cybersecurity and whether if it's the work we do, both with the nonprofits and with individual families that we want to assist as part of our establishment of the finance, the finance committee. We have also established a policy of what is the information we need to gather from each nonprofit and from each individual families. And our goal is to obviously publish this not only because we want to be very transparent with our bank and with the regulator, but we want to be transparent with our donors. That is why we also chose very familiar and recognized nonprofits to work with, which we are hoping to announce very, very soon. These are very big names and we'll be able to track the funds to the bottom line where it goes and we'll be able to share it so that we can do it just in the meantime, while we are establishing our banking connections and making the flow of funds easy, we have already managed to help many, many people by providing them with shelter, by providing them with food and games for the kids and psychological support. So we are already receiving the proof from the ground of how much impact we provide for these families that in this case specifically in 36 hours inside the emergency room while Hamas terrorists were inside their home until they finally were rescued and evacuated to Tel Aviv. So that's what we're up to. Yeah. All right. So was it hard with the because, you know, as we know in general, I think on ramps have been really tightened down around the world, around crypto. Was that a difficult achievement there within Israel to get that done so quickly? How were you guys able to do that? Yeah, so we are in talks with different regulators and with different banks and we are establishing the connections, some of them are already begun working, but we haven't processed any transaction yet from the wallet until we have it all figured out that's a policy decision. So we are in talks with every party involved, not just on the donation front and the flow of funds on that angle, but also in coordinating efforts to bring down donation campaigns to Hamas, which we all also play a role given our location in the local ecosystem. And when I say our location is that the individuals involved, including myself, we have large communities, we have large content platforms. So people come to us and they tell us, listen, we saw this donation campaign for Hamas. Let's bring it down. And we are able to establish disconnections with the police, the Israeli anti -money laundering authority to anyone that can help. So there is also a group of civil volunteers taking place, which is essentially what the most I can say about it, because we want to stay anonymous in terms of our operations and how we do the things that we do. So that's also happening the same time. So a couple of things here, because there's a lot of FUD that has circled around crypto in general, around especially around war efforts, and I think that's one of the things we're trying to dispell, that this was an article from AJC on the amount of money that's going into Hamas in general. And even if you look at where the money is coming from, this is a good example. This is in 2020. The U .S. State Department reported that that Iran had provided more than 100 million in annual money to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. So it's coming from everywhere. So obviously you're fighting that situation with what you know there in the region. But it's also starting to kind of move into spaces right here. I was looking at this New York Post article. This was between August 21st and 23, collectively around 134 million in crypto, according to Israeli government seizures. This again was what was happening around these terrorists being back. Now, granted, you're seeing both crypto and traditional fiat going into this. The point is, is that with crypto, we actually are seeing the capability of freezing these assets, being able to do some things. Obviously, Israel had frozen crypto accounts belonging to Hamas now in cooperation with Binance. So that is another good reason to example of how this can be utilized, especially in these efforts going forward. So I look at this and I think, well, this is going to be a way for what exactly what you guys have done with Stand With Israel, be able to spin these up so quickly, be able to create transactions that are, you know, somewhat, you know, inexpensive, but more important, speedy, which is the problem that you have with traditional fiat that you cannot do where crypto really jumps in and takes part of that. Have you know, some of the organizations that you guys have been involved with that are traditional fiat or, you know, TradFi companies, have they been surprised at how fast this has been able to take place? Yeah, obviously, they all come aboard and they all allocate resources despite having their businesses working as usual, because most of them are also facing the international audience of clients, so they can't just stop everything and they're allocating resources towards our campaign and helping us work out through these things. I think the main message here is to remember that freedom of money brings tradeoffs, right? So we can use the money for good purposes, like donations for what we perceive obviously as the moral case, and that is to protect people instead of to murder people brutally and to slaughter babies while they're sleeping. So there are tradeoffs and it allows you to have one thing like donating to the freedom truckers in Canada, which is what we would prefer to see as good. And it can also be used for bad purposes. Does that mean that crypto is bad? No, it means that people can use money for bad purposes, just like they can use fiat for bad purposes. So obviously it's a good clickbait, you know, people like clickbaits. That's what brings the audience. So when you get a headline of frozen funds for Hamas or Hezbollah, that's an opportunity to remind the connection between crypto and bad stuff and create a negative image instead of talking with us, for example, and talking about the good things we can do with it. And just like Ukraine case or the freedom truckers case that didn't receive the same mainstream attention as it should have. Yeah, I've been surprised at that. I guess I'm not really surprised at how mainstream media makes crypto out to be the bad guy sometimes and not really the fiat system, which is really the bad guy. I was looking further into the United 24 on how much they raised and they do a pretty good job of tracking this, but around 483 million collected for the Ukraine efforts. And of that and remember, they used to have actually the ability to submit crypto on and during those kinds of campaigns. And when you look at the amount of crypto that was done and raised almost 225 million, part of this was ETH, kind of ironic, and then a lot of USDT there. But the point being is that when you look at that figure versus this 483 figure, this to me is significant. And that's why I think what you guys are doing is important because it opens up an opportunity for money to move in quickly and be able to get to these efforts very fast. So because right now, speed matters just like any kind of major issue like that. So I just think it's a good scenario for you guys that are watching out there to see what was able to happen with Ukraine could easily happen here with what you guys are doing. So it also shows the faults of the current system. Right. So the thing that I personally say also to colleagues and to regulators that I speak with on a daily basis when I educate them, right, the system has changed. It has changed to a place where you are first a criminal that you have to prove you are not.

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"21st" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible

Bitcoin Audible

02:25 min | 5 months ago

"21st" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible

"Let's get into today's read. And it's titled, Capital in the 21st Century by Alan Farrington. Part one, the Axiom of Capital. Bitcoin has spurred a renaissance of thought on the question of what is money? Bitcoin is often linked to the Austrian school of economics without much thought as to why, but pondering this question allows for the most thoughtful justification. Money is an emergent order and understanding its operation depends on appreciating irreducible uncertainty, subjective value and methodological individualism. Often described as a logical treatment of a subject fundamentally resistant to scientific analysis, the emergence of Bitcoin and its acceptance in the market has many Austrians rightly cackling at a real -world proof of the efficacy of the school. On which note, Mises' monumental The Nature of Money and Credit is essential reading for any Bitcoiner, and Manger's On the Origins of Money might be the single best prose answer to the preceding question. More a Bitcoiner himself than an Austrian, or at the very least a polymath, Nick Szabo's essential reading not only for Bitcoiners, but for anybody struggling to understand what on earth is going on in the world. Contemporary Austrian economist Raheem Tagisa Degan has indeed credited Szabo's thesis in shelling out as a novel contribution to the school. That said, we do not think of Axiom as a money business, and nor does anybody else for that matter. We operate in capital markets, and I have personally found it impossible in the past few months to set up a capital markets business without thinking about the nature of capital. The reader will not be surprised in the least to learn, I believe, there is an intimate connection to money, and hence that capital on a Bitcoin standard is likely to be every bit as different as money, and possibly more so. Joseph Schumpeter's critique of the nonsense of equilibrium as leaving no space for entrepreneurship is as much about capital as anything else. Without entrepreneurs, there is little to distinguish productive capital from mere assets, animate matter rich with potential from mere inanimate stuff.

"21st" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible

Bitcoin Audible

02:25 min | 5 months ago

"21st" Discussed on Bitcoin Audible

"Let's get into today's read. And it's titled, Capital in the 21st Century by Alan Farrington. Part one, the Axiom of Capital. Bitcoin has spurred a renaissance of thought on the question of what is money? Bitcoin is often linked to the Austrian school of economics without much thought as to why, but pondering this question allows for the most thoughtful justification. Money is an emergent order and understanding its operation depends on appreciating irreducible uncertainty, subjective value and methodological individualism. Often described as a logical treatment of a subject fundamentally resistant to scientific analysis, the emergence of Bitcoin and its acceptance in the market has many Austrians rightly cackling at a real -world proof of the efficacy of the school. On which note, Mises' monumental The Nature of Money and Credit is essential reading for any Bitcoiner, and Manger's On the Origins of Money might be the single best prose answer to the preceding question. More a Bitcoiner himself than an Austrian, or at the very least a polymath, Nick Szabo's essential reading not only for Bitcoiners, but for anybody struggling to understand what on earth is going on in the world. Contemporary Austrian economist Raheem Tagisa Degan has indeed credited Szabo's thesis in shelling out as a novel contribution to the school. That said, we do not think of Axiom as a money business, and nor does anybody else for that matter. We operate in capital markets, and I have personally found it impossible in the past few months to set up a capital markets business without thinking about the nature of capital. The reader will not be surprised in the least to learn, I believe, there is an intimate connection to money, and hence that capital on a Bitcoin standard is likely to be every bit as different as money, and possibly more so. Joseph Schumpeter's critique of the nonsense of equilibrium as leaving no space for entrepreneurship is as much about capital as anything else. Without entrepreneurs, there is little to distinguish productive capital from mere assets, animate matter rich with potential from mere inanimate stuff.

"21st" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM

WCBM 680 AM

08:43 min | 2 years ago

"21st" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM

"You're listening to 21st century radio with Dr Dzhokhar Hieronymus and I just loved being on this show, and she is such a great interview. I know you're going to enjoy whatever you listen to. Yes, also. And I We have a mutual fan club. I just absolutely adored his book on the left and right hemisphere the whole path. The whole brain path to pieces. I found it to be one of the more useful books for anybody, particularly people who are interested in bringing peace to the world and in their own life. And, you know, I think as as sort of a tag Priscilla to your own book, you You talked about something that Olson would categorize as the left hemisphere meaning? When the colonists came to this country, um, you know, seeking destroy was kind of the premise even though you know our wonderful movies make the The beginning of this nation rather than just killing all the Indians make it look like the colonists somehow or other We're really going to settle the land. Talk to us a little bit about your own research on that. Yeah, I grew up in Ohio. And, um I didn't quite realize that Ohio had been heavily forested and that the settlers really clear cut the land, and they did that throughout the northeast throughout the heavily that heavy North American forests. There seemed to be a frenzy to get rid of the trees to get rid of the forest and, of course they needed to plant their crops they needed to plow fields. But they really destroyed the trees. Um, a greater degree than was necessary if they just wanted to plant some crops, So I was intrigued and horrified by this urge to remake the landscape, and I discovered that it goes back that Idea or the conceit that we can remake nature actually goes straight back to the Roman Empire, Um Cicero boasted in the first century BC That we make irrigation. We plant we plow. We turn the rivers. We control the waters we make as it were another nature, he said, and that idea that we can conquer and control nature. Has been with us for a very long time. And so because it's a long habit, it's going to take some attention to move into new directions. I love the fact that you know, malady me So maybe because his book probably 15. Maybe 20 years ago when he joined me on his book of water and spirit of beautiful spiritual autobiography and aren't many that sort of stand in the tradition of Parma handsy Yogi Ananda, another Great spiritual autobiography. How did your work with the so maze? He and his wife impact your life. Well, I was called in to be a book editor. Actually, The very first contact I had with them was a workshop when they were still married, and they lived in Oakland, and they lead a workshop on grieving. And I was in a deep state of mourning and I was suffering depression. At the time. I had undergone a lot of losses and I attended their workshop on grieving and there I heard them talk about community. And they said in the village when a woman gets pregnant, we all get excited because we wonder who this new person is that the ancestors are sending us because obviously This person is bringing gifts that we must need. So they said, we work real hard to find out what this new persons purpose is in the world. And then it becomes our responsibility as a community to help that person remember their purpose. And I was so astonished because that was a very different understanding of community than I had grown up with, Um, community, um, where I came from, and to a certain degree throughout mainstream American culture. We tend to think of community is something that Needs to keep people in line. The government is what punishes wrongdoing and you can read it. Even in the documents of the The American Revolution in American history, Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet. Called common Sense, and in this pamphlet where he was agitating for revolution, he said, society namely our inter relationships with family and friends, society is based on our goodness, but But government is based on our wickedness, and we need government to keep us in line. So there runs this thread of thinking throughout political and religious history of Western cultures. That the community is something that that that it's a disciplinary force. It helps restrain the badness in people. And from Mala Doma and suburban Fu. I heard a completely different view of community completely different experience of community that the community whether the small community or the larger community Knows individuals and helps them supports them in carrying out their purpose in the world in bringing their gifts to through it fruition in the world and it was a very liberating moment. And then later I've been a book editor for years. I got called in to help Mala Doma, uh, to edit the book that he was working on next after water and the spirit and it became the book. Um Let me see if I remember the title. Uh, community which the I'm sorry I'm blank. That's all right. Um, but, um, in in as an editor, you know, one thing and editor does is get inside the head of the writer. So as I worked at that process of getting inside what melanoma was saying, I found The those ideas that came from his village. I found them taking root in me. It was a really wonderful experience. When I when I had the chance to talk with him on air on future talk and the zoo show to other shows I hosted before I found the clarity of his own life experience of having been sent away from the village to Be brought up in sort of the Christian theology and betrayed by the fathers, and then eventually having a calling back to his native tradition. It is it is really like I mentioned James Olsen's work. The difference between Using your left hemisphere primarily or your right hemisphere and one left, which is pretty much the dominant theme in our culture is very, um Very separatists. Very analytic, Very aggressive versus the right hemisphere, which, like his second book, which I have my producer look up was called ritual power, healing and community. That's really a very right hemispheric, very feminine approach to being in the world and James Olson's thesis in his whole perspective is that we really need to bring them together. It's not like Just having a right hemisphere of being intuitive and artistic and creative and integrative will work if you don't also have the analytic, the self preserved self preserving the the part that defends what's Holy And so when you look at your own work about defending what's holy, That's sort of what I think about your work. I love that. You told the short story of a 19 twenties Forrester, Adolf Leo. Paul was it Although Leopold Yeah. Mhm, would you share a little bit about that? Because I thought it was a really I love the way you wove so many beautiful historic truth into your own journey. Well, although Leopold was a forester back in the 19 twenties and thirties, and, um, the famous story about him that he told near the end of his life was that he was a hunter and he was hunting in the canyon country of Arizona and He shot a wolf down at the bottom of this canyon by the river and, um, he went down. He scrambled down the rim of the canyon and Came upon her to find she was dying. And, um, he went closer.

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"21st" Discussed on That’s Wild Podcast

That’s Wild Podcast

02:03 min | 2 years ago

"21st" Discussed on That’s Wild Podcast

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"21st" Discussed on Brew Talk  1310 KFKA

Brew Talk 1310 KFKA

04:30 min | 2 years ago

"21st" Discussed on Brew Talk 1310 KFKA

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"21st" Discussed on That’s Wild Podcast

That’s Wild Podcast

07:17 min | 2 years ago

"21st" Discussed on That’s Wild Podcast

"At already knew my feelings on on that. Let me ask you a question. Well what age were you when you realize you wanna do like radio for free for living It was actually not so college. Okay not to college. Like when i first went to sack right outta high school i actually took classes to get ahead my the summer after i graduated and then when it came to the fall. And you gotta pick a major. I was like okay. My mom does accounting. I guess i'll go into that. And then i started looking at the classes like dude. I suck at mass. Would i do this. And then i had a bunch of friends who are like the art program and i was like cool cool. I'll do art house. That can't drive shit. And then i just saw radio tv and film and it was like i like radio. I like music. Why not and then. I got into it and started doing it ever since. What age was that when you jumped into it. Eighteen shit and yeah. That's bad ass shit. Yeah well hey you know you've been in it for a long time. You know you got a bunch of years under your belt. What what what would you tell somebody you know right now. Who's just starting out. And just you know in the radio business. They're working the boards. You know they're really trying to get in you know what would you tell somebody right now in in that particular situation you know what i mean. It's barely be yourselves. Don't try to be a persona that. You're not be proactive. I think about. I think about all the years at kiss before i started getting on air. And it's like man. I should've taken the opportunity to try and go for being on air before. I actually did like just do do your thing but really get yourself out there and like with with look how. Y'all are doing a podcast. Like i'm doing my show. You don't have to look to corporate radio. There's there's casting independent shows that are getting paid and they're getting sponsors so you don't have to look at that as the be all end all to Have your radio career. Because i chose. I chose the lieven and do my own thing. And it's like. I don't get paid pay jack shit for what i do. Hopefully manson's Insured here and there not about it it. Do you think that radio eventually will. It's never gonna go away completely. Talk radio you think. Eventually it's gonna be kinda phased out. Podcast is gonna take over. I think i can see music. Radio kind of going away talk shows. I think talk shows will be around because people love you know people doing dumb shit in the mornings and on the drive home. Yeah you know where they can call in. But as far as music i think i think music based shows we're gonna go more towards the digital and online platforms than than what is now because there's so much good music out there and a lot of it you can't say on the regular radio the essence. No and i think you pretty much you narrow that right there for me. I don't mind most of my mind. Music i listened. To's always on spotify or something. Listen to talk radio we got. We got a one to the bone here. I promise from all day. 'cause they're right here. I know what's going on is is good here live radio. Yeah and i think people like that. And i think people enjoy shows that are local. You know they enjoy that local field talking about like the obviously here in san antonio talking about the river talk about how you hate seen spurs or whatever everybody likes yeah. Everybody likes that local field and everybody loves something that they can connect with. And i try to do that with my show. You know for the the show for the people if you will because i mean corporates man but it's taken over. Xm radio is taking over everything man. They're trying to push like you know what people what they think people want to hear and what they think people want to jump on this is horseshoe admit like that's you know it's always been like that. Even when i worked back in corporate radio is like that the you know the music was picked by by focus. Groups wasn't picked by what's in new wasn't picked by what's good is picked by a ten second clip of a hook of a song that you've heard five million times. I liked that song no like that. So that's and that's where it goes. And i got a question for you since you've been in radio as it i i mean i know it's a money thing but why is it. That stations play the same songs over and over and even if they play an old song. It's always that same old song this so much shit out there. Why isn't a station. Come out and play different stuff all the time in breakaway from what everybody else doing. It's it's a safe space. It's a comfort blanket. You know if they're doing things. And like i said with the testing the focus groups you know they get they get syed back from a certain point of view from people who take those focus group tests of what songs they want to hear Nobody's gonna say oh. I want to hear the new foreign the strange van song the nobody's saying that in the focus group they give them they force feed them what they want to hear. No because i'll be there like a man. I want to hear the knicks. Fucking war bringer. Come on man. I want to hear some good. She some bullshit man. When when's the next cannibal corpse coming up. Yeah no shit you know. I want to hear some good shit. You know a Play some dying fetus. Broke them on tape. To would be half. The song be beeps. But but i know what those hours are saying. Go deeper like hey come on. Let's hear some anal con bands with the those bands. Were there. you can't understand what their name says something offensive on the t shirt chuck. What what's the craziest interaction. You had with a fan like when you're on air Craziest interaction with a fan. Think about that.

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"21st" Discussed on That’s Wild Podcast

That’s Wild Podcast

06:08 min | 2 years ago

"21st" Discussed on That’s Wild Podcast

"Crazy. and then the wild boys and all that shit that should an alabama looks like his dad. You donate in the next show. Might do either the yet. That's fucking got some got some issues going on. He's got to straighten out. No shit man. I check i wanted to ask you. This question too is the last day on earth. Man blazing glory wish you know what shoes put on blaze of glory. I will say air jordan. Four fire risk. Oh halio those are one of my first ones. I got back in eighty nine and so those always had good memories. God i wish. I wish they re released them so many times. But i'm not paying. I'm not paying four hundred dollars for a pair jordan's you know. I like them. But like i tried to get those a would they adidas. I'm really onto a kick of adidas and plumas right now and i tried to get the adidas. They did a collaborative south part of cowley. Oh yeah and the whole shoe is like is the towel material has his and it has his eyes on there and they look normal but then with the uv. When you go out in the sun they get all bloodshot. And they're all droopy. They sold out in like like thirty seconds. And now they're going for like four hundred bucks on ebay also heard those have a little compartment for know little stash spot. They do they do right on the inside of the tongue. I'm gonna have to look those up. I haven't seen those yet. I heard they look crazy. Shit man joe chuckles harder. I had a talk heat. Orlando spending money on those Old town road shoes that were coming out. What's his name joe. Same leg satan shoes with the blood in thought he was going to make an investment from down growth. The good investment though. They saw like crazy if you were to get an to get an order in two and the actually get the shoes than you could flipped them for crazy amount of money because they did the whole injunction or whatever and then the company decided to say. Okay we're not gonna put the shoes out so if you were able to actually acquire a pair and say you spent a thousand dollars on them. You could flip them for four to five times that to some crazy. Sneaker collectors joke chuck. i'm pretty sure they they did. They did ship some of them. Not a whole bunch there. They you know they were trying to make people mail and back there like right. Got mail back. Which no one's gonna mail them back. But i would just send them a big a big picture me shooting the middle finger at good wearing the shoes. Like fuck that man. Yeah do that shit. That's it was crazy. It pissed of people off. I like god. Damn i cannot believe how many people got pissed off over fucking shoe and nike nike. Did a a a collab- similarly but it was called the holy waters they were like supposedly had holy water in the shoe or whatever and it was like okay. So you're pissed off about satan but you're not gonna get pissed off about the blasphemy of using holy water in a shoe. Come on it was the same the same style shoe air maxes under airmont ninety five there from longtime ago. Yeah and and it's like people got sneaker. People got pissed off because of the satan things it did. They did a religious one too but nobody got pissed off at that one. I'll be honest. My biggest regret the shoe that Always i could go back and get again and you know have forever is Those a alan iverson's the ones that zipped up i yeah. I can't wait for the coming out. I had the black ones. And i had the white ones but my favorite one where the black ones man. I love shoes man. I think you'll you'll get another chance to get him. They're iversons they're coming out with all the irish they're redoing it. Yeah but those shoes do now is by far the kobe. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah definitely can't go wrong with that well. Because they ended nike. I think ended. The partnership is contract was up. So they're not gonna make anymore. Nike kobe shoe. So those ones are gonna go skyrocket through the roof and the reseller market. Now you that he is gonna be hard to get a pair of those now. I i did have a whole bunch of the iverson's the questions like when they first came out to low top. The high top with the color in the front. Be like i. I probably had a lease fifteen pare back then. Oh yeah they did. Those shoes like every color. Yeah it is. Yeah hell yeah dude was popular shit man. God damn like anything that had arisen and it was selling like crazy back name the most popular never wintering j. Does it man. He's got the crossover on jordan. And oh well now the what was it the step over on tyron lube in the final day. That's right that's right. He's got that. I'll give it to them and throwing a gun on a lake. I think have ringing. I'm not gonna lie to spiegel rings man. Doing.

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"21st" Discussed on That’s Wild Podcast

That’s Wild Podcast

07:12 min | 2 years ago

"21st" Discussed on That’s Wild Podcast

"Already man know what time it is. That's wild podcasts. Baby welcome back. I'm tito p that's my boy e. hours with me man. We got a very special guest today. Man from likes of ic- and philip ensemble. This man has interviewed them. Man the one the only chuck veins how. How are you doing today. Are you doing doing fine. Man appreciate you coming on. It is a privilege and honor heavy on this. Show sir i will thank you for having me pleasure to be a guest here on four twenty four twenty here surprisingly set that up like that but he does like. Oh man you got four twenty. I'm like a yeah. Yeah yeah yeah ooh. Oh yeah definitely definitely looking deals background and more than just that. Who's who's never said. Notice some truckers feed every now. Hey i mean if it's free. Yeah so chuck man. I wanted to ask you you know with this whole pandemic thing going on. You know how the bands are doing all these virtual concerts. What do you think about those man. Well now that it's kinda lightening up a bit now. We're kind of seeing a little bit glimmer of hope at the the light at the end of the tunnel. It was rough. You know but. I knew it was going to happen. I talked to a couple of friends of mine. And i said just watch it's gonna be streaming concerts and they're gonna charge you for it because they bans gotta make money and they're going to sell exclusive t shirts for that streaming concert in a lot of bands like dropkick murphys many others have done streaming concerts and you know no knock on them. Hey they had to make money and put food on their table. Keep a roof over their head while all this crazy times. We're going on you know it's it's affected my show i had to do virtual interviews with people when you know the first the first one i did when the pandemic hit was the ice tea interview and yeah and so it's it the music in studio with us. If it wasn't for the pandemic he was they. Were going to do a concert. Up in austin probably i think it was may of last year maybe and we were we were going to set something up and then damn all this happened and everything got cancelled and then it was like well just reach out to them like hey will you wanna do virtually and then it kind of steamrolls from there from some of the other bands that i've interviewed since you know that i haven't been able to see in person has Still great ed. You got to interview him but man you've had him in person i'd experienced would have been like mind blowing. We've already we've already. We talked about it. The first concert that happens anywhere around here in texas. It's going to happen. Oh hell you already booked it. S bad us man. Fuck yeah so. Don't get my stevens autographed. Did you enjoy any virtual concerts. That all are all kind of like it is what it is. And it's all we got. I i watched some dropkick. Murphys did some one of my favorite bands. Mr bungle did did a couple ally. But it's it's not the same man. It's not the same as seeing that ban. You know five feet in front of you and getting sweat on ya spilled on ya and all kinds of other ship. It goes on. I can cuss on this right. Oh yes sir yes okay. Okay okay. Good fuck fuck you know. I like five or six episodes that we did. We were cursing way too much to the point that people were making a drinking game out of it. All nice okay. Well if they're still doing it. Sucks up fuck fuck. Fuck drunk on me. So what what would you say like what was the best interview you had. That like was absolutely amazing. I was saying your head forever. It honestly it was icy one because he dropped me so much. He drove so much knowledge on the pandemic and everything that was going on at the time. Talking about how you know his friends scarface got it was in the hospital and just talking about how people on law and order. There was a guy on law and order that actually died from it in new jersey. Yeah so he's had people that he's known that's died and and then you know obviously talking about body count cop killer and obviously with the verdict. That happened today. And you know everything's been the same but now we just have videos video cameras in our hand that it's it's it's not anything different than what was going on in ninety two when he first put out the first body count record. Seems like everything's like a rerun right like it's all back even the style and stuff you know the clothes and everything you see all over again. Oh god i tell my daughter. We go to the ball and they. I got her she. She likes billie eilish and billie eilish did a collapse with cross colors. And i told her i was like you don't know what cross color is and guess overalls with the one flap down and you know z. Cavalry cheese in like all that ninety style is coming back and it's like i like the sneakers that those are coming back but some of the fashion like and i. I'm like a thirty eight waist. 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"21st" Discussed on The Community Safety Podcast

The Community Safety Podcast

05:21 min | 3 years ago

"21st" Discussed on The Community Safety Podcast

"It hasn't gone down but the irony of course is the that actually the ultimately the costs to society of treating mental health end up being far greater than the costs would have been keeping people well in the first place and you could make the same argument about lots of things that those other things that police officers are involved. But it's kind of this hugely short-sighted position that says what we haven't got time to do that and we can't afford to do that as a consequence of which we ended up actually taking longhand spending money. I made so full of madness. It absolutely is in. Look at some of the mateen's Around the room and you look at the salaries involving those individuals and you think To look i. We can chinese because it he's mountainous totally agree you. We just ate those tight more effort. Sometimes david bodily Ronald goldman sachs john. I think we both audiences by the what we're trying to do. He just get the audience to think about it really. I think it's about the in thinking about how we can change things on again. La elliott's hiking. i rarely taken out for epping. Bald bain bain. So of united courageous to do something different. We'll time i get that probably switching a little bit of mental health as well. I think he's obviously also combined but again one of the things that really probably may at the moment is emma of young people that are involved in violent crime young people particularly in london. Elda we all seeing it across the only this week in birmingham Has been three amulets arrested for murder of a fifteen year old ones fourteen. Once fifty one sixteen troubles made the amount of crime that was saying guns with paypal. County loins which is obviously yelm involved in the criminal exploitation of young people into the drugs trade again. John which we've go wrong. Gosh where to begin. Maybe the best way to answer that is to to give you a a relatively brief case. Study because this one of the subjects. That i feel most passionately about knife. Crime and violence evolving young people. is a humanitarian disaster on. It's happening all watch in our country. I it's no good just standing there ringing all hands and and watching the madness of history repeating itself. It's no good waking up every day to the repetition of the same old headlines. That's not fix anything I often use the example of boy. Could billy smith He's not a real boy is he's a figment of my generation. But but he says he has in common an awful lot of things with with real people. That i've mentioned had dealings with down. The is an annual case. Study billie is arrested at the scene of a fatal stepping. And let's be honest between the of may he did in in the period immediately following the focus whether it's a scotland yard or on the floor of the house of commons or in the pages of the media the focus will be on. What's most immediate a not..

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"21st" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM

WCBM 680 AM

09:32 min | 3 years ago

"21st" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM

"Welcome to 21st Century radio. I'm Dr Sahara Hieronymous, Slower corners. Our executive producer. Anita Brockington, Our engineer. Joining us this hour is the gentleman who in the past spoke with us as his role as a senior fellow at the Worldwatch Institute. Eric Asadoorian Directive. Five editions is the state of the world, which I did every year and two editions of vital signs. And as a researcher, he study consumerism, corporate responsibility, sustainable communities, education. Global security, global sustainability indicators, ecological ethics and religion's role in sustainable development. The last time we were together, we spoke about their state of the world 2017 Earth, Ed. Rethinking education on a chance changing planet. He had authored the introductory chapter and the final chapter, talking about global education being redefined by the needs of our time. Now he leads groups taking shape around. What is called guy in is, um, a philosophical path through an ecological, unstable time. Eric joins us this hour to discuss his own trajectory into finding a guy in principle of movement building on efforts like Deep Ecology and James Lovelock Sky, a theory You better give us and our families and our societies the tools we need to keep our earth and to restore our earth and live sustainable lives. He joins us for lively discussion of how to do these kinds of things in our lives and what he's doing with his own family. In this direction. Thank you for rejoining us, Eric. It's been quite some time. Yes, Thanks for having me. One of the things that attracts me to you, year after year, and, uh, in the past the Worldwatch Institute itself. Is that your inaction person as well as a visionary, and they don't always go together, sometimes visionary, see the future, but they don't Do something. So I was fascinated to find out in preparation for our chat this evening that one of your projects was a reality TV show made in collaboration with big mouth productions that ran For four seasons, starting in 2014 called yard farmers. I mean, this is an example of a visionary moving into action. Talk to us about that. I would love to. Although I have to correct the record, because okay was a We tried to make it go. Okay. You know, I did a lot of reading on trying to do reality television and one of the lessons Even the biggest kind of producers and directors is that ah lot of its luck getting it produced on de especially on a topic like this. So what we did. We got further than I had expected truthfully, considering the topic. The topic was Not just yard firm, right? But I mean, everyone likes kind of local gardening and that kind of thing, But ultimately it was a little bit. Um Versus like. The idea was to bring millennials back home to live with their parents in often oversized from a global perspective, homes. You know, the average American household has 2400 square feet, and that's usually for two. Maybe three people on de so that's too much face for a family considering the ecological impact of that space, and there's large yards and most of the Yards faces just for long, which is actually the fourth largest crop by acreage in the United States. So how could we take all that unproductive space and start producing local food, which could help reduce the obesity epidemic, which could build local resilience as a global supply chains? Disrupted by different Challenges that we're facing on day actually create a non consumer livelihood half for those households, right? So I mean in the in the peasant era. People had multiple types of revenue stream, which was much more resilient. You know, not just going to not just having a trade but also growing some of their own food and all that, So it was an attempt to really move us away from the consumer era and make it And speaking of American language, Right, make it fun and sexy and have you know young young people from around the United States Come back home, and I have a great idea. Now I see why I thought you did it. You were writing from the future. Reading back, and I thought it was actually a true statement that these things that happened that but it's a brilliant idea on who knows? Maybe at some point, someone else will see the wisdom in it. Because, you know, forming communities. You point out And building resilience into the local economy. There's really nothing more important right now for any of us to be doing. I always say that you know to whomever's listening to focus on your local communities, economy networks and support systems because As you point out, the planet is changing fast and you write from a human perspective. Quote. You could even say the Earth is dying. But of course, switching to a hot state where the tropical forests and coral reefs disappear, etcetera, etcetera. But the truth is our our responsibility is to do as much we can to improve life on earth and to restore ecosystems and to live with the changes. We know that our upon a center prepare for them properly. When you launch this Effort at guy in ism and sort of the guy in philosophy. Health is about what your basic thought line is and what you hope to accomplish with this. I would love to and and just to give some perspective because it Zaveri different than the 18 years of researching that I was doing it at world much, but actually came the world Watch as a research in turn right out of college pretty much. After having studied psychology and religion and the director of research at the time, I wanted to understand the religious communities role in moving us toward a sustainable future. And he was focused more on the ancient traditions. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, that kind of thing and You know, I got a chance to study that as you mentioned, sustainable community building. You know that localizing economy and all that and whatever I studied Was always too little too late, and I don't know if that's just because I'm writing. I was writing in two thousand's right. And it was actually Dana Meadows back in the 19 seventies. Yeah, who wrote about the limits to growth? And if we listened, her and other Luminaries back then or visionaries, Then we might have been able to get to a sustainable future without Terrible transition. That's going to happen in the process now because we've waited so late, but the environmental movement right now, someone once said. I think one Palmer when actually comparing it again to religion, he was made this point that Environmentalism is like Like religion or church Without the joy, the community the celebration all that it's just the guilt. You know the dark side, right? I mean, because we're so worried about the future that we forgot. Or didn't take the time to build community That's fine, that higher purpose and higher calling and the joy from serving that higher calling. So for me, this is kind of Inevitable process, right? I've written about the changes we need to make. I don't feel supported in that in a sense on. I want to build community around this because they were my grand purpose, or, you know all of ours, I would argue. Is Seo recognize that were part of a living earth. On and independent on it. And if we don't Story. I mean, take care of it. Yes, but really restored because we've done so much damage, then our future is already written, and it's not a good one. I think your perspective is a fascinating one because I think I have suffered from ecological depression, my entire life and truthfully because I started as an activist at age 14. Handing out flyers in southeast Baltimore for talk when acid rain being given by Ralph Nader. And I like you and many others in our audience. Who are those you know who listen online have spent a lifetime trying to remind people that the air we breathe shared air and we shouldn't be dumping oil in our waterways and destroying our land and You know, destroying our seed bank and etcetera, etcetera, And you're right. I think that there is, um Great deal of sadness about the state of affairs because so many of us were wide awake from the sixties until today and tried to convince the rest of the world wake up, you know, Stop what we're doing, and That was unsuccessful. And so now we have much younger people who will inherit such a difficult challenge. With an earth coming undone. You know what species Celery with species extinction, ours and theirs. And I think your perspective and Diane is, um, is such an important addition to make. Uh s o that there is some hope. Thank you. Man in your writing you feet more and more articles about ecological anxiety or were ecological depression as you called it? I mean, in fact, I mean some of the stories I mean, Greta turn, but she she kind of went through this..

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"21st" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM

WCBM 680 AM

01:45 min | 3 years ago

"21st" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM

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"21st" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM

WCBM 680 AM

05:45 min | 3 years ago

"21st" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM

"You're listening to 21st century radio, Dr Bob Hieronymus. What a fantastic host years He's lively. His questing in oath story can be the shortest route between a human being in the truth. Listen to the show you her many stories and you might just wake up. The deepest story of your life and find the courage in the world. Follow that that will change everything. Well, the book they were talking about tonight changed everything for me. We'll talk a little bit about that later on our guest, of course, histories cross. Secrets of the Druids from Indo European origins to modern practices. Second edition. This one is revised edition of these sacred cauldron in our traditions. Find a link to her website and order her book form 21st Century Radio Facebook page and subscribe to our YouTube channel, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Okay. Hi. Are you still there, dear? Oh, yeah. Okay. Commercials are commercials. There's nothing we can do about it. Um Did did the kilts and the East Indians have any contacts in prehistoric times? Nothing we know of, and You know why the time into European said, branched out geographically, all over Europe and all the way into Iran and India and into all the way to the Ural Mountains. God. What was now Russia, Um We No, the into Europeans branched off into many different People's as their languages. You know, hangs over the centuries s O. We have you know, for example, the vaulted people's will. It's a warning in sin Latvians and deal Prussians who were later German incised by the Germans, and then we had the Slavic people such as Russian and Polish and Ukrainian and so forth. And of course we had some languages die out like virgin. And Hillary and and so forth. They were into European On. I had a I like to give people list of the numbers one through 10 and then the European languages so they can hear how similar they sound from one language to the other. Would you do that for us? Yeah, for help it. Let's say we'll do. I IRA and Daughtry patter could shave shock. Huh? They a deck. Thank me, 10. We got a Latin. We get a little duel. Trace clock for Quinn. Poise takes said Come on cone on, Beth. Um No, it's a similar, Ari. Um As a drift. You go toe Gothic, a Germanic language. It died out. Uh, And Easter year from Crimea was the last place and they said all right. Why three US? Good war, then. Okay? Uh, Seven. After so nailed cavon. That that one through 10 and you notice some of similar is but even England? Yeah. And Sanskrit it second by science. Chuck got US puncher sauce, Satya. Nava Dasa. So, um, you know the similarity there? Um And then, of course, pronto under your pan itself. Let's say goes, I know, uh Uh, Duel. Okay. Okay. It's uh, quite borders on point. But Step through upto noon. Uh, death. Um No, no, no lurking and that Thank you very much from that. No similarities between those sounds. Yes, I did. I did. Of course, I've read your entire book, so I began to see some of those myself. You know, uh, one of the things that I think I've learned. There's so much I learned from you and I'd really do appreciate your scholarship. It really You know some of the books that I had read earlier concerning the Druids. They sounded really very nice, but I had some doubts about them. I remember a little bit too flowery in some areas, but what kind of deities did the Celtic peoples worship? Well, they will. Polly feels like most Pimples were in those days. They believed in many gods and goddesses, and they worship them with sacrifices and offerings. Uh, the couch weren't Didn't answer for more. Five there. Dear, is Aziz marches. Some of the other Europeans the dead. Then they crudely carved wood on Probably set up a few idols and Cem groves or name Aton. And The Greeks were really into anthropomorphizing there, there..

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"21st" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM

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01:44 min | 3 years ago

"21st" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM

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