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Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from 10 Fun Facts About Realtors (#7 Will SHOCK You!)
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money, and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. We are back. We've got a fun show for you today. We are talking about the National Association of Realtors member profile. Julie and I picked out what we feel are the 10 most interesting points from the member profile and I think point number seven, maybe even point number eight will really surprise you. So Julie, we have a lot to go through. Let's just jump right in. Yes, this is about all of you listening and the agents that you deal with day to day. I think I had a few little mini surprises, but let's go through these relatively quickly. First of all, the typical realtor had 11 years of experience. That's actually up from eight from last year. I think that that's probably surprising to some of you because you know, there are a lot of new licensees and some of you deal with each other all the time, but 11 years of experience is the average. Now we're going to just remember as we go through these points, Julie and I are going to do our best to sort of decipher, I think in a lot of ways, some of this information because when it gets to, for example, they're going to, we're going to talk about average income for the average agent and all the rest of it, but they don't think it's confusing to be honest with you. I can't really understand and maybe somebody who is more knowledgeable about this stuff can put in comments, Nara will often say things like the family income or the household income of the average agent, but I'm not so sure. I mean, does that mean like for example, there's a guy and his wife is a brain surgeon and she makes like $14 million a year and he makes like $4 a year selling real estate, you know, and so obviously that's going to affect the average agent's income. Again, I'm not sure I'm reading the question correctly, but let's just get right to it. Yes, that's right. We'll translate as best we can with the information we've got. So next is interesting because with the market shift, a lot of people like to say, oh, everybody's going to get out of the business and yet 76 % of realtors were very certain that they will remain active as a real estate professional for at least the next two years. Now, Julie and I predicted that when the COVID hit and all the rest of it, that there would be no major drop off in the number of members of a national association of realtors. And those of you who've been attached to us for a long period of time, you will remember us telling you why, and I'll for the rest of you tell you why now, because in previous, you know, fortunately there wasn't a slowdown following COVID, but in previous slowdowns or recessions or all kinds of other things like that in the economy, there hasn't been a decrease in the number of agents, but an increase. And so Julie and I went back as far as we could find from national association of realtors looking at the number of members, and it was very clear that what we theorized was correct just simply by looking at the numbers of agents joining during economic slowdowns. So why do people get real estate licenses during slowdowns? Side hustle. That's true. They need to make more money. Or maybe, you know, if you go back to the sixties and seventies, there were a lot of ladies that were looking to get into real estate that maybe hadn't had out of the home employment before and things of that nature, retired people, but really the real reason why Julie and I knew there wasn't going to be a precipitous drop in the number of, you know, members of the national association of realtors was demographics and demographics ultimately is going to run the show for the real estate industry for the rest of our lives and beyond. The number of humans in the United States that want and need to buy or sell real estate is only increasing. And it didn't make sense to us that, uh, just because there would have been hypothetically because of COVID some kind of slowdown, which as all of you know, there was not quite the opposite actually. Exactly. And just a flash forward to today, we now see that again, Julie and I's theory was correct and you notice all the other naysayers that were, uh, predicting doom and gloom about the number of agents dropping dead, like, you know, 2014 levels or whatever. They're all wrong. And the total number of agents did decrease, but I think it was, it was by basically nothing. And now here's another prediction. Wait for it. We are expecting the number of people getting real estate licenses will start to increase over the next 12 months. I'm following, I think what was a lot of people deciding to, you know, should I get a license? Shouldn't I get a license? And here's how I know that's true. The number of emails and the number of texts I get from people who are getting real estate licenses who want to join Julie and I at eXp royalty is through the roof. Absolutely. And I would also concur from my own private elite coaching clients. Many of them have gotten their adult children licensed, their transaction coordinator licensed, their assistant licensed. You know, there's a lot of things that happen, um, with a change and doing more volume that just, you know, people want to have their family work in the business. There's lots of that going on about 6%. By the way, I did read that about 6 % of current licensees, uh, got licensed as a result of doing something during COVID, you know, supplementing their other job, for example. That's a good point. I mean, there also was a baby boom, you know, so between studying for the real estate test and the, you know, the other thing, I guess there you go, Oh, and I'm sure a lot of those babies eventually get licenses too. I mean, Zoe's already wanting to get a license. So as far as those of you who are looking to upgrade your brokerage experience, a reminder Julie and I are proudly associated with eXp royalty. So if you're looking to join eXp royalty and you're looking for a sponsor, they'll be very proactive in your success at eXp. There are two paths forward for you. Number one is you could just text me directly, and this is if you're ready to land the plane and join eXp and you're ready to choose your sponsor, text me directly at 512 -758 -0206, 512 -758 -0206, text don't call. The other thing you can do also is if you're filling out the application, just put Julie Harris, Georgetown, Texas as your sponsor. If you want to learn more about why so many agents are joining with Julie and I in our group at eXp Realty, by the way, our eXp Realty group, listen to this guys, our eXp Realty group so far this year has done 3 billion, 300 million in real estate transactions on over 11 ,000 transactions if I remember correctly, most of which are on the seller side. So if you want to talk about an incredible success during what should be a slower year for virtually everyone, our eXp Realty group is actually increasing by significant margins and units and in total dollar volume. So yes, we'd love to have you as part of our overall group and if you're ready to join eXp Realty here are your two paths. One, you can just frankly scroll down and click the link and go over that's in the show description below and read more about our eXp Realty group or you can just text me directly at 512 -758 -0206, 512 -758 -0206. In the market that is going to start happening, we're going to guess the next 6 to 12 months it's going to feel very much more like a real estate, frankly, recovery if not a surge. You definitely want to be with a broker that's going to have your back and definitely want to be with a team that you know is experienced to make it so you can help the most people and maximize your potential in real estate and please do consider Julie and I for the job of being your eXp Realty sponsors. All right, next surprising point. Well, next, in last year based on the NAR report, the typical agent had 12 transactions which was the same as the previous year. Now what was the sales volume? Well, the median sales volume for brokerage specialists increased to 3 .4 million from 2 .6 million, so things are looking up there as well. Now they always do a survey about how agents perceive what's going on with their prospects, right? Let's go back to that point, okay? So again, this always goes back to the interesting things when you dig into the numbers. So if the average agent and we are talking about 12 transactions, right? I'm looking at your notes. So 12 transactions and the average home in the United States is $400 ,000. So if you did, for example, I mean, if it's you guys, whatever your market commission is, but let's just call it $10 ,000, $10 ,000 times 12 transactions is $120 ,000 a year and you wonder why real estate is such an amazing business to be in. I mean, come on, it's incredible because during inflationary times, yes, everything is getting more expensive, but so is real estate, which means your average commission is also increasing. Look how smart you were to be in real estate where most everyone else is suffering from inflation and the cost of living and all the rest of it. You actually have a built -in pay increase year after year as things start to inflate even more so in real estate. So there you go, go you. Exactly. And related to that, 17 % of agents sold 10 million or more in volume, 4%, 15 million or more, and 5%, 20 million or more. Some of that you can chalk up to higher average sale prices, but again, go you because it's baked in that you're going to make more money doing more deals at a higher price, right? Okay, so let's look at the next one. All right, so at 32%, lack of inventory remains the most important factor limiting potential clients from making a purchase followed by housing affordability and difficulty finding the right property. I think difficulty finding the right property is the same as lack of inventory.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Fresh update on "300" discussed on Bloomberg Businessweek
"Lights, diamonds under my eyes. Reached over 200 million plays on Spotify. Matchbox 20 has seen an uptick in streams of its music since the film's debut because Ken sings their song Push. I don't know if i've ever been good enough i'm a little bit rusty and aqua's 1997 Barbie Girl single got a boost with a sample in the new song Barbie World. And I'm bad like the I'm a dog but I still want to party. Ed Corey Bloomberg Radio. And I'm Denise Pellegrini in the Bloomberg Newsroom. concern over the possible government shutdown we've been telling you about is spreading across country as we've been reporting a just week left until the government runs out of funding Congress is away for the weekend. and in Asheville North Carolina resident Danny Scruggs visiting the Blue Ridge Parkway with his wife says Congress needs to get it together. that I get annoyed that they can't just get along and compromise. and as locales across country worry about a dry -up in funding Bloomberg's Courtney McBride says something else is she says defense spending is also being held up by Republicans and McBride says this could be just the start of a growing debate over aid for Ukraine. as a fraction of the defense budget it's incredibly minuscule. it's only about 300 million dollars out of an 800 billion dollar bill but it's perhaps a harbinger of a wider fight over a much larger and much more significant for Ukraine's supplemental funding request from the White House for 24 billion dollars. Ann McBride with us there on Balanced Power on Bloomberg television. the Writers Guild of America is a group representing major Hollywood studios meeting again today according to the guild. the WGA and Alliance of picture Motion and television producers met for bargaining yesterday. meantime some developments on driverless technology. Governor Gavin Newsom of California has vetoed legislation that would have required drivers in autonomous trucks. now the bill was backed by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters so his stand does potentially make enemies according to Bloomberg within an influential constituency of the Democratic Party and New in York City. some bargains you want to know about at least when it comes to transportation because free bus service starts tomorrow. on five routes around the city we get more from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellet. it is one route in each of the city's five boroughs and it's all part of a pilot program to boost mass transit ridership. now this program will run for six months. the bus lines include the m116 in Manhattan, the Q4 in Queens, the B60 in Brooklyn, the BX18 bus in the Bronx and the the s46 and s96 buses on Staten Island. in New York Charlie Pellet Bloomberg Bloomberg Radio. all right Thank You Charlie global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2 ,700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. in the newsroom I'm Denise Pellegrini, this is Bloomberg. breaking news first the Fed decides the decision no change on rates of the Federal Reserve policymakers leave another rate move on the table for this year. we're in a position to proceed carefully. reaction first to Powell the press conference. I think the Fed delivered exactly what they wanted to. achieve the hawkish skit. I think I think what's really important was the whole concept of higher for longer. for the latest headlines from the Fed with Bloomberg radio. Bloomberg context changes everything. it's time for is when you get your news from Bloomberg you don't just get the story you get the. story behind the story how your battery may not be as green as it seems why a decrease in global birth rates could send countries scrambling to increase immigration you get context context changes how you see things how you change things because context changes everything go to bloomberg dot com to get context. together
HASHR8
A highlight from Auradines 4nm Bitcoin Miner w/ Barun Kar and Rajiv Khemani
"Welcome back to The Mining Pod. On today's show, we're joined by Auradine, a new Bitcoin mining ESIC manufacturer coming to market. We talk about the unit specs, the team behind the machine, and how they expect to compete in an ever -crowded market. Did you know that you can make more money by merge mining other networks? Check out MakeMoreMoneyMining .com for information on BIPs 300 and 301, a proposal to bring more revenue to Bitcoin miners through sidechains and merge mining, called DriveChains. Increase your mining revenues and learn more about participating in Bitcoin governance by visiting MakeMoreMoneyMining .com. Are you a miner who wants to activate Bitcoin improvements? Check out Activation .Watch. See what Bitcoin improvements the Bitcoin community, developers, and miners are considering and show support by signaling for one of many BIPs up for consideration. Activation .Watch. 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Solidify your trust in the world of artificial intelligence and the world of artificial intelligence. We'll see you there. Hello, welcome back to the MiningPod. I'm Will Foxley, joined today by Rajeev and Varun from Auradine. Thank you so much for joining today. We're really excited to talk about the new ASIC product you guys are bringing to the market. How are you guys doing? Doing great. Thanks for having us, Will. Definitely. You know, the market's clamoring to know more about you guys. The first time I heard about you was from someone who reads into Marathon Digital's deep SEC letters that they put out there, their filings. And they're like, what is this company Auradine? What's going on with this? And people are wondering about it. And then we found out this summer, you guys were public, you guys raised $81 million and there's a lot of momentum around the product you guys are bringing to market. So that's why we're having you on the show today because people have a lot of questions. I'm sure you guys are excited to start producing a new miner for the Bitcoin mining market. So let's just start there. If we could get an intro for both you guys, like your past backgrounds, what Auradine is doing, and then also on the product. My name is Rajeev Kimani. I am a Silicon Valley technology executive and entrepreneur. I've been in Silicon Valley for 30 plus years. Have been involved in multiple successful startup companies, as well as being a C -level executive in public companies. My background is in computer science and engineering, and then also an MBA from Stanford. And this is my fourth startup that we believe is going to be bigger and better than those other companies before this. Yeah, my name is Barun Kaur. So my last company was Palo Alto Networks. I was in the founding team and did two more startups before that. And I started my career at Motorola after I finished my PhD. Awesome. Thanks for that background. Fortune just did a great piece on you guys for like detailing the company. And it started from the question like, how did this company raise $81 million just like on the background here? And maybe you guys have some disagreements with that, but that aside, I like the ending of the whole fortune piece, which we'll link in the show notes, which is, and you guys are coming into a crowded market and raise a lot of money based on your background, based on the things that you guys have built before and as exited from successfully. So with that being said, let's talk about Auradine, the product that you guys are bringing to market and where you see it fitting into the competition landscape. Yeah, we started Auradine with a big vision and the vision was to build an infrastructure company for the next generation of the web infrastructure. And we believe that blockchain AI and privacy are fundamental building blocks that will really revolutionize how we all work and play. And we think that as we started to look at these spaces, we started with blockchain Bitcoin being the biggest blockchain and the most successful that there is. And then during that process, we connected with marathon. And what we said is, what can we do that's innovative and different than what has existed before us. And prior to us, as you know, what has happened is that Bitcoin mining has gone from CPU's to GPU's to ASICs. And then all of the ASIC providers have moved, have essentially been Chinese companies. And so what we saw was two things. One is that we need to provide a very robust US supplier of this technology, which is very important, especially for US and North American miners in general. So that was a very important aspect. But the second aspect is, was to do something that is much more symbiotic and constructive for the energy ecosystem. And so we have done a lot of innovation in bringing out this product, which is our very first product. It's the first four nanometer ASIC in the world. And we've executed extremely fast when people look at us that literally within from start to getting a product out in the market is not much greater than a year. But we have executed extremely fast on this. As you can imagine, we have an amazing roadmap in front of us. And we have some amazing capabilities in our first product. So we are super excited to bring the Teraflux mining product line to market. Awesome. Yeah. So it's kind of going on that whole line. Tell me a little bit about like the market you guys are building in. I noticed that you guys are building within the US, as opposed to Bitmain and others who are building mostly out of East Asia. Bitmain of course has moved its facilities a lot of times and they're mostly out of Malaysia. But then even like the chips themselves are coming out of Taiwan or in the case of MicroBT, they're coming out of South Korea. Tell me about your guys' supply chain, where you guys get your ASIC parts and how you guys choose to manufacture your whole machine. Yes. So I'll give an overview and Varun can add to it. But essentially, well, first of all, we are a US company. So we are a US incorporated company. Secondarily, the chip design is entirely done in the US. So we are based in Silicon Valley. All of our engineers are based here. So that's a second very important piece of it. So all of the intellectual property, the second. The third thing that we are doing is that we are, in terms of the foundries, we are working with the leading foundries. But what we paid extra attention to is that whatever technology that we use has a manufacturing plant in the United States. Now, turns out the two leading foundries, TSMC and Samsung, both have US manufacturing locations. And we wanted to make sure that those chips could be manufactured in the US. Very, very important aspect for us. And so, you know, even though some of the Chinese companies have moved to other parts, the reality is that the US has restrictions about access to leading edge process technology. There are tariffs. Are those companies bypassing tariffs using certain corporate models or not? Those are questions that are yet to be answered completely. But that's something that we have to do that for the US vendors. Awesome. Yeah. So let's go into the product itself a little bit more. And I like what you noted about like the difference of tariff restrictions. I think the geopolitical issue with ASIC importation itself is an under discussed topic. So from what we're seeing from public numbers right now, it looks like you guys released 22 joules per tariff for this machine with a plus or minus 8%. Curious a little bit more about some of these details. You guys can take this question as you want. Is this on the chip level or the system level? What do you think about that 8 % deviation from the 22 joules per tariff hash? Is that like higher or lower than you're seeing from competitors? And then from there, let's talk about the four nanometer chip that you guys are working on. Yeah. So this is the first product is four nanometers. The specs that we've done are at a system level, not at a chip level, because at the end of the day, customers care about system level specs. And then the plus or minus 8%, what happens is when you're in the leading edge process technology node and you're building the silicon, when you're manufacturing the silicon, there's a deviation in the capabilities of the silicon. And so that is really to capture that. Now, in terms of our competitors, we've seen numbers that are plus or minus five, and actually in other cases, plus or minus 10 % as well. Now we are early in the game. So as we get more and more learnings from building larger quantities of products, we can refine those numbers, make it a little more tighter. We may be able to improve some of these efficiency numbers as well, but we are coming from the point of view of being somewhat conservative. Other vendors before us have tried to be aggressive and then have missed expectations. And we hear that from customers. And so our goal based on our prior track records is to try to see if we can be somewhat conservative and delight people on the upside. So that's our philosophy. Barun, anything? No, I think that's... Great. I don't know if you guys have released these numbers and it'd be curious to see if you have or have not, but hash rate and then power at the wall. Have you guys discussed those publicly yet? Yeah, the hash rates, you know what, the world before our product, which is up till now, is that typically people give you a miner that runs at a certain terahash rate and has a certain efficiency. And what happens is that today, if you want to be able to go up and down, people refer to that as overclock or underclock. That requires either a firmware change or a different firmware, or you have to change the control board, or you have to write software on top of it to turn on and off these systems very kludgy. It's really, I would say it's still in the dark ages, so to speak, relative to the rest of the technology infrastructure. And that's because Bitcoin came from being more of a hobbyist product to the data center scale product. And it has done a bunch of batch work along the way. What we have in our systems is we have built in from the ground up the capability to go up and down in terahash rates, all the way from zero to 185 in our air -cooled systems, in our immersion systems to much higher numbers, some of which we haven't disclosed. And you can do that very fast. And that's super important for people who want to work with energy partners to bring down energy consumption and take advantage of some of those curtailment related economics that we get in a very rapid timeframe. So we have all of those capabilities built into the system. We refer to that as energy tune. It's patented technology. And I think people are going to love it when they see it. So we've done that. But in addition, what we've also done is we've made sure that these systems keep operating at high temperature ranges, which again is critical, as you know, in certain parts of the country, temperatures are getting hotter than they used to be, and miners are shut down for 10, 20, 30 percent of the time. In our case, it will keep running and will keep hashing and keep providing the economics to the miners. Awesome. For the four nanometer part, I want to go back to that. The energy efficiency, there's this general idea that as we go down to the size of the node from eight to seven to six to five to four, it's supposed to become more energy efficient. Tell me a little bit about that and energy efficiencies you guys are capturing within your new model and also how it compares to the market as of now. Yeah. So today, most of the products that are shipping are in five nanometer or older process nodes. To achieve energy efficiency, you do need leading edge process technology. In addition, what you also need is design and architecture to enable that. These Bitcoin mining systems run at very, very low voltages, and to make that work at very low voltages relative to every other product is a complex engineering and technology effort. And so we have both of those things in motion. As I said, we started the company literally a year and a half ago, and we have brought to market a product in record time, matching the best in class that exists in the world today. We have more tricks up our sleeve as we bring additional products to the world at Halfing and beyond. And we believe we are going to be the best in the world, if not within plus or minus a few percent of the best in the world. Both now as well as we go forward. So super confident of that. Right now, as you know, the world is in kind of the 21 plus or minus in terms of deployments. We think it's going to get much better than here. But when we talk to customers, we see there are certain customers that are very sensitive in cost of the miners. Others are more sensitive in the efficiency. But both of them care extremely about the variability and the energy tune features, which we think is going to become a must have requirement going forward. So yeah, let's talk about the auto tune features that you guys have put into this. From my understanding, there's a patent around this. How do you guys look at this technology compared to some of the other technologies that are out there? I mean, there's definitely lots of different firmware options for controlling a miner and controlling its temperature setting. What are you guys sort of doing different when you're building this unit holistically? Yeah, very different. Very different than anything that has been done before. So in the past, typically at a single miner level, you could actually run it at a certain terahash rate or shut down the miner, put it in sleep mode. Then more recently, people have started to put together an eco mode, if you will. That's the state of the art that exists today. And what people have tried to do is solve some of these fundamental problems through putting software level turning on and off of the miners. Not the most efficient way to do it. What we have done it is things that are inside a miner. And so we have these capabilities that are unique, very different than anything else that's been done before, where inside the miner through API calls, the hardware is able to change and adjust the various terahash rates and so forth. And what all you do is you just give all these inputs to the miner, and the miner figures out how to do it and does it, rather than trying to do it in a crudgy fashion outside through some software mechanisms. So that's very different, and that's where we have a patent for the energy tune and autotune capabilities. As you might expect, things like Bitcoin price, energy cost, transaction fees, temperature, all of those are inputs into trying to figure out what is the optimal point for the miner to run. More and more variables are coming into the picture. And to top it off also, autotune has the ability to go to tens of thousands of miners and be able to do an energy tune on each of them at the get -go. And we are trying to get to a point where we can do it in a few seconds so that it is in line with customer requirements where curtailment can happen at that short period of time. Now, there's a distinct difference between... So the autotune is one feature and there's the energy tune is another feature. Now, the energy tune also to couple with what Rajeev mentioned, we are using a machine learning techniques to do dynamic voltage frequency scaling so that each chip can be tuned to get to the optimal joules per terahash. Are you a retail or institutional investor interested in Bitcoin mining companies? The MinerMag brings you free data and analysis from all major NASDAQ listed Bitcoin mining operations to know who stands out. Check out visualized metrics and data dependent stories at theminermag .com. Filecoin's mission is to create decentralized efficient and robust storage infrastructure for humanities information. Join the Filecoin Foundation team October 3rd through 5th for PhilVegas, the first major Filecoin community event in North America in 2023 to explore how to adapt data storage for an AI centric future. Participate in conversations and hear keynotes focused on the importance of data integrity in the world of artificial intelligence. Register to attend and learn more at phil -vegas .io and make sure to use promo code miningpod. Did you know that you can make more money by merge mining other networks? Check out makemoremoneymining .com for information on BIPs 300 and 301, a proposal to bring more revenue to Bitcoin miners through sidechains and merge mining called DriveChains. Increase your mining revenues and learn more about participating in Bitcoin governance by visiting makemoremoneymining .com. Are you a miner who wants to activate Bitcoin improvements? 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Evening News with Art Sanders
Fresh update on "300" discussed on Evening News with Art Sanders
"They say there might be evidence of bribery, but if there is evidence of bribery, they haven't found it directly connecting to Joe Biden and they haven't demonstrated the evidence. News of staff will have a new chairman. Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr. was confirmed this week by the United States Senate, despite a longstanding political blockade. Mariana Alfaro is covering for the Washington Post and spoke with Northwest News Radio's Taylor Van Sice. This blockade goes back to Senator Tommy Tuberville's opposition to the Pentagon allowing service members access to abortion care. Mariana, how did the Senate get around that issue? Yes, so basically the Senate could bring any of the over 300 nominations that are still pending for the military to the floor at any time. The thing is that it takes a long time to get through all of those nominations, which is why the Senate has for decades done this thing where they just vote on this on blocks because most of these folks are already vetted, they've already been non preventational and nominations it's been part of the Senate's effort to not politicize the military so that way you know they vote them in blocks so it doesn't seem like you know one party or the other is more supportive of the certain general or commander or anything like that. But again because of Senator Kevin Reel's opposition they haven't been able to do this. So yesterday what Senator Schumer did was he put the three top nominations on the floor and said you know okay this the is happening blockade is still happening but we need to get these three through because the military needs leaders. It's not only Brown, today the Senate also confirmed General Randy George to be the next Army Chief of Staff and Eric Smith to be the next Commander of the Marine Corps. You mentioned that time was a factor and why this hasn't really been done before for all these you know 300 that are backlogged now but is that going to change? Is the Senate going to start saying okay let's just get these people into their jobs and do the long process? So that doesn't seem likely for now I think senators especially Democrats are very not willing to kind of give in to this just because again they don't agree with Coverbell's decision and you know Torvald still protesting this abortion policy. He said he's not going to change his mind about advancing the promotions quickly and you know my colleagues and I were talking to senators today and one of them, said you know we got these three through but we still don't know what the plan is for the next 300. So I think for now it's just wait and see maybe the next other top ones might come to the floor but I think Democrats are still waiting for Coverbell to kind of you know reverse course on this and he doesn't seem likely. In the end was the vote close for General Brown's nomination to the joint chief's chair was there much opposition? Oh no it was overwhelmingly I think the it line ended up being 83 to 11. So you know still not fully all 100 senators supported him but it was pretty much overwhelmingly yes. The other two I think were passed on a 96 to 1 and a 96 -0. So you would say that there's a lot of you know support for these members of the military it's just so more the political message that comes with Tucker Bell's opposition to this pentagon policy. Newsradio reported for the Washington Post you can read more about this and the the passing of Air Force General Charles Q Brown through this process online at washingtonpost .com. And that's Northwest News Newsradio's Taylor Vansize. Coming up next, the dangers of social media and disinformation when it comes the to press. When the northwest politic cast continues after this. From Pike Place Market to the San Juan Islands. The Space Needle to the Cascades. It's the sponsor spotlight. Brought
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from LST1 Introduction The Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux with Fr. Timothy Gallagher Podcast
"Discerninghearts .com in cooperation with the Oblates of the Virgin Mary presents The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. Father Gallagher is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual direction according to the spiritual of exercises Saint Ignatius of Loyola. He is featured on several series found on the Eternal Word television network. He is also author of numerous books on the spiritual teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the Venerable Bruno Lanteri, founder of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, as well as other works focused on aspects of the spiritual life. The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Father Gallagher. Thank you, Chris. Always good to be here. Talk to us about Saint Therese. What is the little flower to you? One thing I've noticed if you look at the writings of most people when they write or speak about Therese, they always start with how they first encountered Therese. If you look at Dorothy Day's book on Therese, for example, that's the way she begins, but you see this as kind of a pattern. In my own case it's very simple. This was before I entered the seminary and at a certain point, I'm a reader, I love to read, and resolved that I probably should do some spiritual reading, a little reluctantly because what I really like are stories and those sorts of things. Maybe it was Lent, I don't recall, but I remember going to a shelf bookcase with spiritual books, going through them, not really being drawn to anything, and then I saw this title that said, Story of a Soul, and it was the word story that caught my attention because I love stories. So I thought, well, maybe that'll be a little easier to read than some of the others. I began reading it and immediately fell in since then, very much at the origins of the process that led to entering the seminary. After theological studies, perhaps having read the basic sources, it felt like something done and kind of there, but more recently has opened up in a wonderful way again that leads to what we're doing now, and a rereading of the sources and amplifying that reading, and just coming to see in a new way the remarkable figure that she is. And so that's what leads us to do this now. You know, it was Pope Saint Pius X who called her the greatest saint of modern times, and I think we can easily not agreement at that now, declared a doctor. There's so much there. So I have the feeling that as we dive into this huge sea that is the life and teaching and writings of Saint Therese, that you can't go wrong. You know, wherever you enter, there's always going to be richness. You know, it strikes me that some of our listeners may be thinking, what's Father Gallagher? And he's an expert on Ignatian spirituality, and yet they may not realize that there's a heavy Carmelite influence in the Oblates of the Virgin Mary through the spirituality and the life of their father. But it's not a real push to see where in the charism of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, this calling, as it were, to also come to a ability to be able to communicate aspects of that Carmelite living. Does that make sense? Sure. Yeah. I mean, as I mentioned, I initially came to her before I even knew Venerable Bruno. But once I entered and got to know him well, I discovered, exactly as you said, that he was essentially Ignatian but not exclusively Ignatian. And you do see a lovely Carmelite component. For example, as he is approaching his ordination to the priesthood, you see amongst his spiritual proposals the plan to read in its entirety the writings of Saint Teresa of Avila. Also familiar with Saint John of the Cross, of course, Saint Therese comes after his lifetime. So that component is very much there. What is contemplative, what involves growth in prayer and deep prayer, and the kind of things that lie at the heart of the Carmelite vocation, all of that is very real in him, not only in his learning but very much in his own experience as well in his own prayer. It's so fascinating that, as you said, Pope Saint Pius X would say that she is, again, one of the most significant, one of the most important saints of the 20th century that she would be. At a time and era where the family has been so much under attack, the fact that this little flower can bloom in a garden of a family, as it were, that they themselves have become saints, not only her mother and father, but it looks as though her sisters are on their way in this area of the cause of canonization. Well, the cause of her sister Leonie, who would have seemed a very unlikely candidate of all the sisters, the most unlikely candidate for sanctity, that cause is underway now. She's the servant of God, Leonie Martin. And yes, there is a movement to try to promote the cause of the other sisters as well. In God's time, we'll see where all of that goes. But you have a family which is very much built on faith, on the search for holiness, on love for the church, on the desire to respond to God's vocation, in which all the members strengthen each other. And you see that in the letters that we'll be looking at. And of course, you see it in Therese's deep gratitude to her parents and her love for her sisters. Their family is simply a remarkable witness to a family as a family. It's the kind of family everyone would hope for, where there's a deep unity and bond and love between the members, and not only the immediate family, but also with the more extended family, very specifically Therese's aunt and uncle and their two daughters. And you see the great love there amongst all of them. You can go through all of the letters, and that's two volumes, 1 ,300 pages. And all you will see is there are times when there are some disagreements about this decision or that decision. You see some of that. But enveloping everything and underlying everything and above everything, what you see is a deeply united and loving family. It's a beautiful witness to the family, very much. The letters of Saint Therese are absolutely remarkable. If you are a devotee of the story of the soul, that in itself can sustain you for a lifetime. But letters the give us a fullness, a beautiful, rich imagery. And I say this in all reverence, but a more complete picture of Therese, doesn't it? Well, as you've said, Chris, I think it's obvious that the real center to get to know Therese is the story of the soul. That's the real heart of it. And then around that, there are other primary sources as well. What's called her last conversations, where her sisters and some of the others in the convent recorded her sayings and doings in her last months. The book entitled Therese by those who knew her, which is a large extract of the witnesses that were given on the diocesan level as her cause for canonization was begun. So these were people speaking out of their own personal recollections of Therese, about Therese. If you want to have there a real richness as well. But our initial focus will be the letters, probably because they don't get cited all that much, you know. We may have the feeling that looking at passages in the story of the soul, which we'll get to, that this is familiar territory. The letters might be less so. It does take a little bit of energy and persistence, I'd say, to read them because it is fairly lengthy, but they are remarkably well done, amply annotated with very helpful footnotes, with introductions. So they are a very rich resource to take the next step. The first step would be the story of a soul, but if a person wants to take the next step, then the letters would be the next step. There is a remarkable heritage that we've received from the lives of the saints through their letters. I think of the letters of, of course, Teresa of Avilot, Ignatius of Loyola, but we've seen through the letters of Venerable Bruno Lanteri, the letters of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity. The list could go on and on, and I have to say the letters of Catherine of Siena. When you read those, you get a real sense of the friendships, the, the family relationships, their interaction with those around them and with the world, don't you? Soon -to -be Saint John Henry Newman says at one point in his writings that his sense of the best way to get to know a person is not through a biography, but through reading the person's letters. And I think, as is generally true, he is right on the mark, and generally true of what, I'll call him, St. John Henry Newman says he is, I think, right on the mark. Today, I suppose, we do this more digitally, but if you were to take a selection of 30, 50 emails of a correspondence between two friends or two family members or two people who love the Lord and whom, you know, sanctity is evident, you would get, with a great immediacy, you would get a feel for the person. And that's what you get here with Therese. Now, there are qualities about her letters that I'll just mention one now. As I read through them over a number of months, it dawned on me after a while, all of these letters are other -centered. Just, it's remarkable. This is not a woman who is writing because she needs to write for her own sake. But you look at all of these letters, commemorations of family members' birthdays, encouragement to her father after she's left home, and she knows he's suffering her loss, and her sister, Celine, who is caring for her father and his illness. It's remarkable that we think of her as the one who practiced love, a very loving person, which she certainly is. If you want to get a concrete feel for that, of course, after the story of the soul, you can just read these letters. You know, most of us, when we write emails or letters, there'll be something that's a bit self -centered. I don't want to criticize that too much. Our friends, family members do want to know. But we may have some complaints here or there or be unhappy about something here or there, be angry about something here or there. In Therese, the one thing that you see is love. And after you go through this, after a while, a vision arises of, if this woman who is writing this way so consistently in every relationship that you see portrayed in the letters, lived this way within her community, her presence must have been a very beautiful thing. If she lived, there's no question that she did, but what you see when she spontaneously expresses what's in her heart in the letters, if that's what was in her heart as she actually interacted with the people with whom she shared life day by day, for us, we can think of our families or workplaces or parishes, then you get the image of what love can really mean in very ordinary, humble, concrete ways, as we'll see.
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Fresh "300" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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An Excerpt From Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s Essay 'Disuniting of America'
"The cult of ethnicity exaggerates differences intensifies resentments and antagonisms drives deeper and awful wedges between races and nationalities. The endgame is self pity and self politicization but of course this is the goal now the Democrat Party in their media and their Marxist structures. Schlesinger makes the point that for generations blacks have grown up in an American culture in which they have had significant influence and in which they have made significant contributions. Self Africanization after 300 years in America is play acting. Afrocentricity, he's writing, as expanded by ethnic ideologues implies coraphobia, separatism, emotions of alienization, victimization, paranoia. Most curious and unexpected of all is a black demand for the return of black white segregation. My God was he on point. Schlesinger laments quote that the revival of separation will begin if the black educator Felix Boateng is his way in the earliest grades. The use of standard English is the only language of instruction, he argues, that is Boateng aggravates the process of deculturalization. In other words, you need to deculturalize people so they're not assimilating but it states that they hate their country. He wrote a culturally relevant curriculum for minority children would recognize the home and community dialect they bring to school. So of course, Schlesinger notes, not all black educators share Boateng's view these but days many educators of all races and ethnicities do.
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A highlight from Growing Unease: Current Administrations Approach to Security and Travel with David Bellavia
"What do you think they're doing with cash, right? What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? Yeah. What do you, it's, this is a state sponsor of terrorism. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens. America's comeback now. starts right Welcome back Financial Guys podcast. Mike Speraza in studio live today with a guest in the studio. I haven't had this in a long time. Staff Sergeant medal of honor recipient David Bellavia joining me for about a half hour today. David, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Absolutely. So I'm going to stick based on your background. I'm going to stick with a lot of military stuff today and I want to start, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of the Joe Biden presidency. The Afghanistan withdrawal, in my opinion, did not go very smoothly. I'm sure many people listening agree. What were your overall thoughts of that withdrawal and how it actually ended up happening? I know we lost, you know, sadly lost 13 soldiers in that, in that withdrawal. People say we went off the wrong air base. People say that we shouldn't have gone out in the middle of the summer. There was a lot of different things there. What were your overall thoughts on that? I think it's like the worst day in American history since Market Garden. Just absolutely. And the reason why it was so difficult was it was totally unnecessary. So let's rewind to the Obama trade, Bull Bergdahl and the three first round draft picks. They get Marshall, they get MacArthur and they get Patton that end up the resurgence of the Taliban. These men not just go back to the enemy, they go back to the battlefield. They're in power when the government falls. You have misinformation coming from the White House that the president of Afghanistan is leaving with billions of dollars on his plane, which wasn't true. And then you leave the equipment, the cash. There's no recovery. We're getting reports of sales of American equipment left in Afghanistan in Southeast Asia. We're moving material across the globe. Our children will fight and pay and have to atone for these miscalculations. Let's talk about that. You being in the military and you knowing that area too, why did they just find it the easiest way out to just say, you know, just leave that billion dollar billions of dollars of equipment there and not think, again, if it was me and I'm speaking that someone that's never been in the military, but if it's me and I'm the president, I'm thinking, OK, I don't want to leave all our weaponry there. I don't want to lose any of my men. Number two. And number three, I want to make sure that everybody knows when and how we're getting out of there. And it just felt like poof. One day they said we're getting out of here. Well, it's because the military didn't make any of those decisions. I mean, look, Millie, it can criticize him. You can criticize Secretary of Defense worthy of criticism. However, none of these individuals are making decisions. This is about NGOs on the ground. This is about the State Department. So you've got Bagram Air Base, the equivalent of JFK. You've got Karzai International Airport, the equivalent of Teterboro. Right. Why would you ever do an exfil out of Karzai International Airport? It makes absolutely no sense. It's tactically unsound. But and then you've got all the ISIS -K. We retaliate from the murder of 13 of our bravest and we drop a bomb on a guy delivering water. He's on our payroll and we kill children on that. Then we take out Borat on a tuk tuk driving around like that wasn't even really what was happening. It's just a den of lies. And Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, all the heroes that brought us, you know, the Bergdahl deal, the Iran nuke deal. This is these. They the State Department is running all foreign policy, including what the DOD used to run. Well, that's I was going to say. I mean, I know Biden's the president, but do you blame him at all or is it everybody underneath him that, you know, maybe was giving him bad information? And again, some of these decisions, David, is Biden even involved in some of these decisions? Like, I don't even know anymore. Is he around? Is he paying attention to anything going on? Well, I mean, just from the press conferences, it was apparent he didn't know what was going on. And the great irony is that they actually were predicting that Ukraine was going to be invaded and, you know, no one believed them. So it's like you can't influence your friends. The allies don't trust you. The enemy doesn't respect you. You know, I mean, you've got Ben Rhodes is really proud of this State Department. Susan Rice loves what they're doing. But, you know, again, Americans died. And, you know, and what is the perfect culmination of the adventure in Afghanistan? Looking at your watch at Dover Air Base when bodies are coming home. I mean, nothing could you couldn't ask for a just it's it's a debacle. Yeah. And it's sad that that's that's the leader of our country there. Let's move in. You brought up the Ukraine there. So the Russia Ukraine conflict will get to Zelensky in a minute. He is as we speak in New York City right now. But so Trump's in office. We don't see many of these conflicts or any conflicts actually started under his watch. And then we have the Biden administration come in. And a year later, we have Russia invading Ukraine. Why did this happen and why? Why the timing of February of 2022? So let's go back to when we were fighting ISIS. Trump engaged and destroyed estimated some say 300 members of Wagner forces. But those were Russian nationals. We engaged. We destroyed them. What was the response from Putin? Nothing at all. So what do people in that section of the world, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, what do they respect? They respect power. They respect authority. You're not going to get any respect if you don't engage the enemy when they present themselves. I don't understand the calculus of again, I'm trying hard to figure it out. I don't get it. I don't. You know, Romania and Hungary and Poland, you're letting them unilaterally decide whether or not they want to send reinforcements into Ukraine. That's an act of war. If NATO members engage the enemy, all of NATO is engaged against the enemy. Poland doesn't unilaterally make that decision. Hungary and Romania don't unilaterally make that decision. We can't even articulate what the mission is. And if you look, go to the Institute for the Study of War, there's a plug for them. Check out their overlay from when the battle started, when the war started with Russia. And tell me what success this offensive in Ukraine has produced. I mean, let me ask this question, because I get confused. The answer is nothing. I asked this on Twitter, X, whatever it's called, all the time. What is the end game and how do we get there? Because all I see the answer is, hey, just blank checks. Hey, just write a check. Hey, here's a billion. Hey, here's 20 billion. Hey, here's another 10 billion. I don't actually see a look. I mean, like anything, right? If I write a business plan of what I want to do in 2024, my goal is X. I write down my steps to get X. I don't just write down X and say it's going to happen. I don't really know. And then the answer always is, well, we have to fight. We have to back Ukraine. Okay. But when does that end? Because the Afghanistan war and the war in Iraq lasted 20 years plus, right? And was there a real end to it? I don't know. That's where it gets frustrating for me, Dave, where I'm like, how do we know what the end game is? Do you win or lose? When does that happen? I don't know. I don't know. At least you're thinking about it. And I have fear that our leaders aren't, and that's the problem. So here's what this comes out. You're going to get a negotiated settlement out of Ukraine, right? But you talked about the billions of dollars that we're spending and giving to Ukraine as a blank check. First of all, Zelensky visited Ukrainian soldiers in the United States. Did you know that there were wounded Ukrainian soldiers in the United States? I did not know that. Well, today he visited them. So what's happening there? So that's a cost that no one is putting on the ledger. So now let's look at the blank check that Ukraine is getting. And by the way, I'm pro Ukraine. I want to fight communists all day and night. So let's punch Putin hard in the face. However, you're giving them a blank check and you're giving them munitions. Now here's the problem. We have to replace those munitions. Those munitions were purchased for 20 year global war and terror. And let's be honest, inflation is involved. So what you purchased for $10 is now $17. So you're not just giving them the money. You're giving them the equipment and the munitions that you have to replace yourself at the value of what is valued today. We haven't scratched the surface for the amount of money. CBO absent at the wheel. No one is tracking this. 2024 can't get here fast enough. How does this work, though, when you talk about some of these NATO nations coming together and making decisions, but us not just giving weaponry, giving everything money, whatever we're giving there? Is that not an act of war, too, though, David, at some point? We're continuing to fund Ukraine continuing the war in Ukraine. I mean, that to me seems like we're backing a war. Well, I mean, by the letter of the law and NATO charter, it's not. But here's the problem. It's schizophrenic because we were told that what was an offensive weapon was going to mitigate, you know, that wasn't going to help peace at all. So we went from, I don't know if they should get tracked vehicles to I'm not sure an artillery piece is what they need to high Mars rockets being launched. And let's be honest. I mean, the Ukrainians are I mean, the payload that they're going through, what you would have to have cataclysmic casualty numbers to be able to to the spandex that they're doing on the ground that they need to replace Patriot. If you're going through thirty five Patriot to, you know, missiles, I would expect to at least the C 20 makes that are shot down. They're using them for air artillery. They're using there for indirect fire. I don't know what they're doing, but this is going to end with Don Boss going to Russia. This is going to end with that land chain that Putin wanted through Crimea. And again, our friends in NATO, what are they even doing for Ukraine? What? Look, if you they said that Trump wanted to kill NATO, Biden did it. Right. Biden did it. And now Germany. And so Putin was selling oil at thirty dollars a barrel. What's it at ninety six? Yeah. He's making more money than he did before. And he's financing a war and killing innocent people. You mentioned before, too, and I think this is a good point. Everybody on the left and I'll say the media, the establishment, whoever you want to say, says that if you don't agree with the war in Ukraine, you're like pro Putin. Right. And that's just the most outrageous thing in the world, because I agree with you. I feel for the people of Ukraine. I don't want this for them. I don't want this for innocent people. However, at some point, the world's every every one of the world's problems can't be America's problem when we have a border crisis. And then I think they said yesterday ten thousand people came across. They got, I think, eight thousand of the ten thousand. But you see the numbers day over day. It's a problem. We have crime that's rampant. We have overdoses that are at record numbers. We have we have suicides at record numbers. At some point, we have to maybe just think about ourselves and not everybody else, because if we fall, sadly, I think the world falls at that point. Amen. The thing that I would add is I love the way the Ukraine refugee has been crowbarred into the migrant crisis in the United States. New York leaders from the city to all over Kathy Hochul, the governor of the state of New York, mentioning that, you know, like the Ukrainians in Poland, the the Polish have no intention to keep Ukrainians forever. That's a temporary you know, they're leaving a conflict to return to their country after the conflict is over. Again, this is just we're we're putting a round peg into a square hole and just hammering it away. But but there's no the media. There's you're our destroying military. I go to parents all the time around this country and ask them to give us their sons and daughters to join the military. And the one thing they bring up is Afghanistan. It's not about anything. It's Afghanistan. How are you going to assure us that you're going to maintain your commitment to our son and daughter when you betrayed us in Afghanistan that has lasting effects? And there's not a I'm trying to find a segment of our of our of our nation that's functioning. I don't know what it is. I saw in Chicago, they're going to have municipally owned grocery stores. Maybe that will figure it out there. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Real quick, do you think and we'll finish up on this topic, but do you think that they will we will ever have boots in the ground on Ukraine? I mean, I hope not, because I just don't know what the I mean, look at I'm I'm we're getting ready for China. We're trying to revolutionize everything. I don't know what the what the plan is. I mean, again, if you want to put a base in Ukraine, and you want to make that a sustainment operation going forward, that I here's the point. I don't understand what the inactive ready reserve call up was for. Why are you bringing those troops in the non combat support? Why are they going to Ukraine? What are you building infrastructure there? Here's what I do know. We're talking a minimum of $11 trillion to build Ukraine back. That is cataclysmic amounts of money. There isn't water, electricity, internet, you know, you want to help Ukraine. You're going to Russia is not paying for that if you negotiate a settlement. So I don't know what the plan is. But I hope we never see boots on the ground. I could guess what the plan is. I won't I won't say for sure. But I could guess that we'll be paying a chunk of that. And I do have one last one. So I did interview Colonel Douglas McGregor a few months back. And he talked about he's a real optimist. But he is really very, very bullish on Ukraine. Yes, very, very optimistic. I'm dropping some all over the place. But he brought up some staggering numbers, though. And even if they're half true, it's a problem. The amount of casualties and wounded soldiers on the Ukrainian side that we're not hearing about the media. I don't know if you agree with some of those numbers or not. But he's saying, I mean, it's people are acting as if this is an even war right now. And it's not even close. First of all, McGregor's a stud. I mean, he's an absolute, you know, that we're glad he's on our side. He's a military mind. I don't know if those numbers are accurate. I could tell you they're juxtaposed to almost everything we're hearing from every institution that we have, including a lot of our intel from Germany and England. But again, I don't know what to believe. So when you don't have when you don't have transparency, when you're not holding regular press conferences, when your Pentagon spokesman is now working in the White House and now you're getting a triple spin. I mean, the U .S. Open double backspin. You've gotten so many spins on the narrative. I don't know what to believe. But if he is even close to what is a segment of truth, you know, then look, Ukraine needs an investigation. There's a lot of investigations. We've got to start on Afghanistan. We were promised that by Speaker McCarthy. We need a hot wash on Afghanistan. And then we need to go to what who is oversighting the money that's going to Ukraine. And what have we got for our return on investment? Yeah, I'm not asking for much. Really, all I'm asking for in this conflict is can we just talk about what the end game is? And to your point, can we get an accounting of where the money's going and what's being spent in a real accounting of it? The Iran deal that just happened last week. First off, the fact that that was negotiated and completed on 11th September to me is just the ultimate slap in the face. But you again, you know more about this than I do. We do a five for five trade. OK, I'm going to use sports analogies. We trade five for five. And then we also approved of six billion dollars that apparently wasn't ours, but it was in a fund that now they can release to Iran. How are we winning on that one? Well, first of all, I was hoping that at least it was a digital transfer. The fact that it went as euros in cash through Qatar. And OK, so what happens the 24 hours after that deal is made? We're now getting issues in the West Bank. We're now hearing about issues in Yemen. We've now got Hezbollah that's reinforced. I mean, look, what do you think they're doing with cash? Right. What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? What do you it's this is a state sponsor of terrorism. They haven't changed. By the way, their president is now in New York City addressing the United Nations. This guy's killed 6500 of his own people. He admits to it. He killed the students that revolted and wanted democracy when we did nothing. He killed 5000 of his citizens in 1988. He's killed over 300 Americans. There's no accountability whatsoever. I don't understand what it is about Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken that believe that Iran is a partner. All you've done 10 years ago, they were refining 10 percent of their oil. And now they're a force. Now they're working with Maduro in Venezuela, and they're a huge part of their members of of the international community. They're in good standing there. I don't get it. Does anyone believe that the Iran nuke deal? Look, we got hit with cruise missiles under Trump in Iraq. How did they have those cruise missiles? Those cruise missiles were illegal under the Obama nuke deal. So how are you refurbishing missiles in two years? Do we believe that their centrifuges have stopped? That they won't have a program if they don't have one already? No, I mean, I guess my question, David, is how I mean, I know that you pay a lot of attention to this stuff, but how do people like in the media not ask these questions? Right. I mean, these are legitimate. I mean, we just traded to I put this on my notes here. This is on the heels of trading a WNBA basketball player for the Merchant of Death like six months ago. Right. I mean, and again, I'm glad Americans are coming back to America. I don't want to sound pessimistic on that. That's great news. But we also I mean, this this stuff just seems like I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. It warrants questions, but nobody seems to care. I'm in the world that if you take hostages, we take hostages. You want to exchange people? We'll exchange people. You know, we definitely have the partners in the area to do that. For whatever reason, this administration, they're they're they're contrarians. They're contrarians to you know, they claim Bush and Cheney are their best friends, yet they just go 180 degrees from that doctrine. I don't know what the Biden doctrine is. I don't know what Bidenonomics is either, but I could tell you that they believe that Iran is a partner. Now, here's another thing. Our envoy to Iran not only is no longer the envoy, he doesn't have a security clearance. Does anyone curious at The New York Times as to what happened to the lead negotiator in Iran that is escorted off a bus, taken into American custody, given a job at Yale or Princeton or wherever he's working now? I've never heard of a person going from top secret classified negotiations to no clearance whatsoever and in the custody of American intelligence community. No one cares. No one cares at all. It's fascinating. And again, for me, I mean, these are big decisions that we're making. And correct me if I'm wrong, but it used to be, you know, maybe we did a two for five deal and then we made the six billion. Now we're like, we're giving stuff away and we're on the losing end. Correct me if I'm wrong, but America was never, you know, America losing. It was always America winning, right? America getting the best of deals. At least McDonald's has a five for five. We didn't even get that. You know what this does though? Honest to God, if you're thinking about traveling overseas, things go sideways, cartel, South America, Mexico, wherever you're going, you have a price in your head now. No one in their right mind is going to bring you back whether it's Haiti or wherever you are, you're worth $1 .25 billion. And thugs and scumbags are going to take advantage of that. I mean, that's a great point too. Do you think about leaving the country? I don't know anymore. That's a little bit concerning. I don't care where you're going, right? That's concerning. This one I just had to bring up because it happened two days ago or yesterday. How do we lose a plane? And I heard that's like a third one in the last six weeks that something like this has happened. How are we losing $80 million planes? Well, they're not $80 million anymore because they've got a new engine and all this other stuff. Look, the F -35 program is a complete disaster. You want to talk about why our allies think we're crazy. We sold them a plane. This program has been around since the early 90s and we've got nothing on return for it. So basically two planes are flying in a buddy team. They're doing training and a guy punches out. We don't even know why he punched out, but that plane could have easily hit a building. It didn't, thank God. But the wingman didn't follow where his buddy went. So what is he doing? He just kind of went on and did his own thing. And now the Marine Corps put a Facebook post like a dog is missing. We're expecting the Ukrainian farmers to carry the F -35 out with their tractors. I don't know what the point of it's wild. Look, stop embarrassing us. Just stop humiliating us. That's all I'm asking. Just be the army and the Marine Corps that we know our men and women are capable of being. Get out of their way. This gender garbage, this social experiment nonsense, stop humiliating our military. That's all I ask. Why can we not get the... I mean, I know why we can't get the answer, but I'm asking this to you. But why can't we, at a press conference at the White House, why can't we say, I want to talk to the guy that was in the other plane, or you can tell us the transcript of what happened when that happened. Talk to the guy who jumped out of the plane. Why did you do that? And again, I'm not trying to put our military on the spot, but these are kind of big questions to ask, right? I mean, if I do something in my business, I have to go face the music on that. Why doesn't everybody have to face music for their decisions or why things are happening? I think it's kind of important. Well, you don't want to talk to generals because they're going to tell you the truth and they won't be generals anymore. True. And you don't want to talk to enlisted people. Because look, I mean, let's be honest. How many people are... Is this a merit -based military anymore? Do we have a meritocracy? Are we promoting people based on pronouns? Go figure. When we're putting politics above military strength, accidents happen. We don't know the facts, but the fact that nobody cares about getting to the bottom of it, the day of the Pentagon paper reporters are gone. Yep. Yep. Let's just talk about the 2024 race quick, and then we will wrap up for today. So your thoughts on the Republican primary so far, I'll stay away from the Democratic side till the very end, but your thoughts on, you know, there's obviously Trump who is now in a, has a huge lead. Ron DeSantis seems to be crumbling underneath himself. Vivek Ramaswamy has jumped up in the polls. Nikki Haley's there. Tim Scott's there. A few others that probably aren't going to get a lot of votes. Chris Christie's the anti -Trump candidate. Mike Pence is, I don't know what Mike Pence is. I'm not really sure. Your thoughts about the whole field so far? I mean, look, it's impressive. They've got a deep bench. There's a lot of diversity. I, you know, none of it matters. Trump is the guy. The more you indict him, the more you empower him. You know, I'd like him to work on his communications a little bit better. You know, but if Trump is Trump, Trump is a Frankenstein monster of Barack Obama. As long as you have that faction, you're going to get, you know, Trump is going to be empowered. I just don't want to see Governor Noem anywhere near the White House. And I, if he's going to pick a running mate, you know, it's hard to find an ally here, you know. But it would be nice to find a governor. I don't want to take anyone from the Senate. I don't want to take anyone from the House with the margins that tight. But I mean, the idea that Governor Noem is being floated right now. I mean, I'd rather take North Dakota. Yeah. A little sled there. You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I saw a lot of that this weekend. I mean, can we just, for lack of a better term, keep it in our pants for about a year and then do what you got to do? It really is. I mean, every time you turn, somebody's doing something idiotic, whether it's Boebert. And again, I say this, David, a lot of people know who you are. A lot more know who you are than they'll ever know who I am. But when you go out in public into a movie theater like that, and I'm going to Boebert, not Noem for a second, you're, you're extremely well known. I don't care if it's dark or if it's as light as it is in the studio right now. What are you thinking? I, you know, she's, she's, she's an embarrassment. She is. She's bad, too. Who would have thought that Marjorie Taylor Greene would have been the, the oasis of the Maryland? I mean, seriously, I, again, you're, you're in Congress every day. You're out in public, you're on the job. You know, at least she wasn't wearing a hoodie, you know, that's all in shorts. She was at least dressed for the occasion, but I, it was, it's wildly embarrassing. Vaping, singing, whatever you're doing. Getting groped. Yes. Who is your VP candidate then? Because I think, you know, you have names thrown around. There's, there's, the vague has been thrown around in there. You know, Byron Donald's has been thrown around in there. Carrie Lake has. I don't know. I love Carrie Lake. I just don't know that Trump needs to go with somebody so divisive there. I think he's got to go with somebody that's, that's firm in their beliefs, but also not maybe going to turn off half the country. Well, you know, it's, it's impossible. One of the, one of the problems with making Trump, you know, the, the enemy of the state that the left has done is that you've really made it difficult for him to even put a cabinet together. You know, I mean, what are you going to do with it? You've got a lot of loyalists out there. You know, the vague is, is I think maybe the most intelligent dynamic candidate we've ever seen run for president, but experience does matter. But you know, I love the way he thinks. I love the movement. I don't know if he would even take the job to be honest with it. I don't think he needs it. But you look at a Tim Scott, I think Tim Scott is, you know, there's a whole lot to his message and I think he's, he's got the experience in the Senate, but honestly, you could literally take the Clint Eastwood chair and, and throw it in there as vice president. I'm going with that because this, this from top to bottom, we have to have seismic change in 24. Do you think he would ever choose Kristi Noem at this point with all that now? Yeah, no one knew Mike Pence was a, was a 24 hour story and then he was the vice president candidate. So who knows? I mean, a lot can happen between now and then, but I just, I don't need, you know, let's just pick people on their merit. Let's pick people that are ready to be the president. Imagine this, imagine picking a vice president that can lead the country. If something happens to a 75 year old president, you know, like Kamala Harris. Yeah. Someone like that.
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "300" discussed on Mark Levin
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The Dan Bongino Show
Julie Kelly: Ray Epps Should've Have Faced Multiple Charges, Felonies
"It is highly unusual Dan and as soon as that information so an information is the misdemeanor version of an indictment that's a criminal indictment that has felonies this has a single misdemeanor count Went back quickly to the DOJ's January 6 website. I pulled up as many Could with a single count Dan roughly 15 out of more than a thousand now Now cases really 1 ,100 defendants only about 15 have a single misdemeanor charge It is a single count of When you dig even further this is so highly Unusual that ray Epps was not apparently not arrested that this information was filed against And he's already pleading guilty today. I I can find no comparison in the Almost three -year criminal investigation into January 6 where this ray Epps matter has A comparison there just simply isn't one. So we don't there's no there's no statement of facts. There's no affidavit which is contained in nearly every single case, so we don't even have The details about what DOJ Matthew Graves's office is basing this single misdemeanor count on But they didn't stop the corporate media Adam Kinzinger and others from jumping again to ray This is a defense when we have like I said all this video evidence look Dan he should be if we We were applying the law equally. He should have been charged with multiple offenses including felony Obstruction of an official proceeding which has been slapped against more than 300 January Sixers And Trump President he was at the first breach point the second breach point. He was in a restricted area For for over an hour and a half. He was interfering with law enforcement.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SPECIAL REPORT: SBF TRIAL 9-20 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. As we gear up for Sam Bankman -Fried's and unpack what happened in late 2022 that got us here today. It is one of the most consequential documents in financial history, given that it caused the collapse of a $32 billion empire in just nine days. And now to a highly anticipated criminal trial. It is the infamous balance sheet of Sam Bankman -Fried's trading firm, Alameda Research. Its explosive content served as the basis for a November 2nd, 2022 story by Coindesk's Ian Allison. The article raised questions about how sturdy the company's financial underpinnings were and by extension, how safe Bankman -Fried's better known crypto exchange FTX was. It turns out not at all. For the protection of our sources, we are not publishing the document itself, but rather describing its contents in finer detail than ever before. Labeled consolidated balance sheet 2022 Q2, it gets into the nitty gritty of Alameda's naughty empire. Much of that empire relied on tokens of projects Alameda was unusually close with, particularly the formerly white hot crypto startups it invested in. For example, it led eight figure investment rounds in the closely linked projects, Oxygen and Maps .me and counted nearly $600 million worth of those projects tokens locked and unlocked on its balance sheet. When FTX went bust, it stranded 95 % of those projects token supply in a state of limbo that seems to continue to this day. Those projects tokens have since lost much of their value, but even back then they were unlikely to be worth that much in practice. Attempting to trade them at scale on the open markets would have shattered their value. Alameda had multiple ties to Bonfita, the popular wallet naming service in the Ethereum ecosystem. It was the primary market maker for Bonfita's native token FITA. It acquired millions of FITA tokens by investing in that startup. Notably, Bonfita developers inherited development duties over the purportedly decentralized Serum crypto exchange, another FTX production. In SRM, the bounds of reality and believability began to break down for Alameda. It was a token that FTX group coders had conjured out of nothing for the benefit of Serum. The SBF founded trading infrastructure for much of Solana blockchain -based DeFi. Alameda reported holding nearly $183 million worth of locked SRM and $300 million unlocked, plus nearly $320 million in SRM collateral and an additional $330 million in locked SRM as a liability. But it was Alameda's miles deep holdings of FTT, the exchange token minted specifically by FTX, that proved to be the empire's undoing. CoinDesk's November 2nd, 2022 article authored by Ian Allison revealed that billions of dollars of FTT backed up Alameda's largesse, a fact that spooked market participants and eventually set off a run on FTX. It was during that chaos that people began to realize that the emperor had no clothes. Four days after Allison's story came out, Binance CEO CZ tweeted that, due to recent revelations, his exchange would sell its hefty FTT holdings. That quickly drove down the price of FTT, putting Bankman -Friede's companies into a tailspin. Bankman -Friede was forced two days later to seek a bailout from Binance. But that proposed takeover fell apart in a day, something another Allison scoop revealed was likely to happen hours before it was made official. Then, on November 11th, Bankman -Friede's companies were forced to file for bankruptcy protection. Allison's initial scoop on the collapse. Thousands of news stories credited CoinDesk for setting off the chain of events, including pieces from high -profile publications like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, The Verge, New York Magazine, CNN, and NPR's Planet Money podcast. CoinDesk journalists went on to win a George Polk Award, one of the top journalism honors, for their FTX coverage. And their finalists for the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award. Winners for that will be announced next week.
HASHR8
A highlight from Mansplaining Bitcoins Difficulty Adjustment w/ Dylan LeClair
"Welcome back to The Mining Pod. On today's show, we're joined by Dylan LeClair, Bitcoin analyst at Bitcoin Magazine Pro. Dylan and I talk about the security budget debate raging on Twitter these days, macro cycles for Bitcoin and how future flows could end up in miners pockets. Did you know that you can make more money by merge mining other networks? Check out MakeMoreMoneyMining .com for information on BIPs 300 and 301, a proposal to bring more revenue to Bitcoin miners through sidechains and merge mining, called DriveChains. Increase your mining revenues and learn more about participating in Bitcoin governance by visiting MakeMoreMoneyMining .com. Are you a miner who wants to activate Bitcoin improvements? Check out activation .watch. See what Bitcoin improvements the Bitcoin community, developers and miners are considering and show support by signaling for one of many BIPs up for consideration. activation .watch.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from 3 Altcoins I'm Buying This Week! (Insiders Are Accumulating)
"Insiders are accumulating. At least that is what some of the on -chain indicators were showing us overnight. But in today's video, I want to break down exactly how the market is looking in what has been super interesting price action and give you the main altcoins that I am watching this week. As you guys know, it is a Monday stream which means it's an altcoin watch this show where I go through my favorite plays of the week, one of which is actually Bitcoin this week given the recent price action that we're seeing. And I'm actually live this week. So a lot of you guys that have been watching my shows over the last week or so would know I've been pre -recording. But now I'm back in the studio which means I'm back to live streaming most days. So yeah, I can interact with comments today, do a bit more of, you know, interacting with comments, talking about alts. So if you guys have any questions that you have about any of the plays that I'm setting up for this week, ask me in the comments and I'll get to them and we can make it more of a collaborative show. Welcome back all of my loyal viewers. I noticed we have some regulars here. We've got BlackSales, Rob, Crimson, you guys are back even though I haven't really been that consistent. So thank you guys for joining. Luigi says he's present as well. And let's get straight into the show. So before we get into the alts that I'm looking at this week, the first thing I want to do is look at Bitcoin because there are a few major things happening that I saw in both the on -chain data and the centralized exchange data. The first thing to note is that Bitcoin pivoted nicely off this horizontal range support at 25k. We know that structurally 25k is the key level to keep your eye on. Bitcoin actually responded pretty well in this region and I mean if you really want to simplify the market right now from a TA perspective, all you really need to know is that you have this major 25k support. You break below and Bitcoin is looking bearish from a momentum perspective. You break above the 31k zone and that puts Bitcoin into bullish territory. Maybe people don't really like simplifying things too much because we all love to know what's going to happen in the short term. But if we take a macro lens approach to viewing the market, we can assert that these are the two major ranges and any kind of price action in between then, although it would create opportunities, is not going to come in the way of a definitive bull market or a definitive bearish breakdown. So I think that's an important thing to note as well. Now going into more of the micro here, so going into the daily, going into the four hourly charts to look at what happened with Bitcoin, things start to get really, really interesting. We can see on the daily chart, we pivoted off the 25 .2k level. This was the level that was the initial structural level before the entire BlackRock ETF speculation. So when we got news that BlackRock was filing for an ETF that resulted in a strong pivot from this area at the 25k level, that was in correspondence with a bounce off the diagonal as well as the horizontal support. We pivoted recently off that level and now find ourselves chopping in a new range, which is being formed between the 25k level and the 27k level. Super interestingly, on the four hourly chart, Bitcoin showed like an extremely aggressive move yesterday to the upside and actually pumped into resistance at the 27k level. As you can see here, that was an area that acted as temporary support back in late August before it resulted in an eventual breakdown, therefore a test of the 25k region before Bitcoin actually reversed. And now we get another test, but instead of a support test this time, it's a resistance test into 27 ,300. Now this test was failed, but we can currently see right now Bitcoin is making up its mind on the four hourly chart, whether it wants to close above the 26 ,800 level or not. I still view this as a fairly key level, as it was the initial marking of the range that was initially set out in August. We can kind of hold above there that I think there's a large chance that we can actually smash the 27k level. But of course that's wishful thinking because right now Bitcoin is currently reversing and looks like it does want to close below, which would simply mean more chop over the next few days. So definitely keep your eye on that as well. In terms of open interest, this is where the tile and the title of this video comes in, at least at the time of recording. We might end up changing it later. That's the massive spike that we saw in open interest. So open interest is indicative of the total futures positioning in the market, both long and short for, in this case, Bitcoin. And what we saw last night was the largest open increase amount in a single day with a 15 % increase in the total open interest level. You can see here that's exhibited by this flurry of green candles to the upside. This is the open interest chart, which shows like insiders or someone like a big whale presumably was starting to position themselves. Because from a retail perspective, there wasn't much of a general catalyst over the weekend, over Sunday and Monday. But we still saw a massive increase in open interest. So this raised a lot of questions. Are insiders positioning themselves? Is there going to be a spot ETF approval this week? Is something happening behind the scenes? And although those questions are like extremely hard to answer, what we do know is that open interest was essentially faded in the 12 hours preceding the spike in open interest. So what does this tell us? Well, as I said, it's hard to get a definitive answer what the pump caused. It is likely that some sort of like big whale institution fund decided to open a position. I mean, that's what the volume and the open interest increase is suggesting. There was rumors flying around at the time, like by runner expertise, a few other traders, even I did mention this on my Twitter. Like, is this a potential ETF decision coming this week that insiders are starting to position themselves for? I maybe would have been leaning more on the side of yes yesterday. But given the fact that the move got really quickly faded and wasn't able to sustain, I would maybe now err on the side of no. And this was just irregular market movement or someone positioning themselves ahead of what was an eventual flush out. This doesn't mean that open interest can't recover again. Let's see what happens over the next day and see if it comes back. If this was just a short term leverage flush out after the finance news came out, which we're going to get into now. But let's just see where open interest tracks. It still was a huge spike though. And if we do look at open interest aggregated for Bitcoin over the last week or so, we could still see that even though we did have a massive reversal, we're still sitting higher. So we are kind of making higher lows on the open interest if we look at the month of September as a whole. In terms of the Binance news, we did get news that Binance US, the auditor of Binance US, found it very difficult to ensure the company was fully collateralized at specific points in time. Which led to a lot of FUD on Twitter and a lot of FUD online that Binance may in fact be insolvent. And I mean, this is something that has been floating around on Twitter for quite some time. And it seems to be every time the market gets a pullback, it seems to be some sort of Binance news. I mean, I was just a token 2049 in Singapore, by the way, amazing, amazing conference. But most of the negative like headwind -esque reasons why people thought the market could come down were mostly related to Binance. So although we have a lot of catalysts, a lot of tailwinds, the Bitcoin's body tip being one, the Bitcoin halving being one. Maybe like a positive liquidity injection sometime next year if the Fed's forced to pivot being another. So there's a macro argument both for the bull and the bears. Like the overarching bearish headwind that most people referred to was Binance. So it's quite interesting that in terms of just like retail and investor mindshare in general, this Binance FUD seems to be encapsulating the masses. And that is, I think, one of the reasons why every single time we get a pullback or every single time we get Binance news, because it goes hand in hand, right? News can cause price or price can sometimes actually cause news, even though that might sound counterintuitive. That's, you know, results in a Bitcoin dip. BlackSale says don't forget to hit the likes, of course. Remember to smash the like button. If you're watching the show, show me some support on my first livestream back in a while. I did do one last month, but I haven't been too consistent with it. But yeah, but I'm back to livestreaming now. So yeah, we could see the Binance news came out, and this is one of the reasons why Bitcoin decided to reverse. And this is just a topic that we're going to need to keep our eye on. I don't think there's some sort of kneejerk reaction we need to make, because just in order to say that it's difficult to ensure Binance is fully collateralized, that's not asserting that Binance is insolvent. Maybe that's hinting on the fact that their financials are skewed or their financials are ambiguous, but ambiguous financials don't necessarily imply any explicit wrongdoing. So I would be careful to make assertions. Adam Cochrane is definitely not careful in terms of making assertions, because he's asserted for some time now that Binance isn't solvent. If he does turn out to be right, obviously that would be pretty devastating for the market if the market was to realize and we saw some sort of Binance collapse. But people are certainly aware of it, and people are certainly positioning themselves in some way, shape, or form, whether that's in terms of their actual net positioning or just their mindset, that there could be some negative Binance news coming out over the next few months. And maybe that happens sooner rather than later, but I did think that was a contributing factor behind the OI and price reversal today. Someone said recession is coming. This will happen when everyone's unexpected, rates at an all -time high, debts at an all -time high, price at an all -time high. The economy is never the same as before. Yeah, I mean, it does seem like that. However, you've got to remember, every single time we've kind of called for a recession throughout history, I mean, it's a very common thing, right? Pretty much every single year that people are calling for a recession, the market has just gone higher and higher and higher over a wide enough standpoint. Does that mean we can't get downside because of recessionary fears this year? No. Does that mean the market couldn't correct next year? No. All I'm saying is that over time, people tend to assert that a recession is coming and it does come, recessions eventually do come, but a lot of the time they take longer and they come when people least expect it. And right now, I wouldn't say it's least expected. I would say most people are expecting a recession. The thing with recessions is you can't really time them. So even if you know they're coming, there's no real way to actually prepare yourself because even the best fund managers in the world, even the best analysts in the world, they can't pinpoint a recession. So there's no real tangible way to even trade off this. If you think a recession's coming, well, when's it coming? Next year? The year after? The year after? If you're waiting for a recession and there's a huge rally in the interim, then you're giving up potentially the best year of gains in the market, right? Just because you're waiting for a recession. We saw this in years like 2007, which were great years, 2006, leading into recessions, even though people thought the recessions were coming in 2003, 2004, 2005, because they didn't buy them, they gave up the gains over the next five years or three years in that case. Then by the time the recession came, sure, they were right, but markets pulled back to the levels that they were when they were first anticipating the recession. So it's a very difficult one to time. And yet that's why I'm kind of skeptical of letting these narratives infiltrate the way that I trade. The best way to prepare for a recession is to make sure you're adequately diversified.
The Teachers Impact
A highlight from #71-Level Up your Classroom Management using Level Design and Class Dojo
"Welcome to the Teachers Impact Podcast, or better yet known as the TIP, where teachers can come to master their craft, use their voice, and enhance student learning. Welcome to the Teachers Impact Podcast, better yet known as the TIP. In today's episode, we'll explore how to use level design and class dojo for better classroom management. If you're as excited as I am, say woo woo! If you find yourself struggling with classroom management or looking to refresh your current plan, you're in for some valuable tips that will lead you to a more effective classroom management. If you don't know, Class Dojo is an online platform that allows students to earn points for developing pro -social skills and displaying good behavior. When I first started using Class Dojo, the novelty and newness of the award system kept my students engaged. However, like any exchangeable award system, the novelty wore off quickly. And so, drawing inspiration from my experience as a Google Maps contributor, where level design keeps us engaged by earning badges for accumulated points, I wonder how I could translate this idea to Class Dojo to keep my students engaged, just as I am when I'm doing Google Maps. So as part of my comprehensive classroom management plan, I introduced a treasure box where students can earn prizes. So instead of relying slowly on my discussion, I tied the prizes to the number of points they accumulated through Class Dojo. So these are the levels that I set up. You can set it up in the way that you feel best fits your students. So for level one, that's the easiest level that the students can get to. That was 300 points, and that would equal one prize from the treasure box. So level two is even harder to get to, which is 900 points. They can get two prizes from the treasure box. Okay, level three, you would have to get 1300 points, and you can get three prizes from the treasure box. So I'm still working on what happens as they go up in the levels. What I will probably do is to make it so that they're able to, one of the prizes or one of the things in the treasure box could be to sit in whichever seat that they choose or sit next to a friend. So I'm updating that this year, so I'll let you know how that goes. So what I did notice with that was once the students reached the highest level, they had the privilege of choosing their award from a selection of options. So students and students lost points for not following the classroom rules. So that's how I set up my Class Dojo using level design. It's really great. The students that I had last year were really into it. It was an incentive for them to really follow the rules and to keep the behavior, be able to manage the behavior more effectively. Definitely something that I would try out if you need something new to help you refresh into just something different for your students to keep with the novelty. And finally, my students did maintain their excitement throughout the year and they made every effort not to lose points. The system helped me to reinforce positive behavior and discourage those negative behaviors. While it may not be a foolproof method, it is an essential part of my effective classroom management plan. For more insights into great classroom management, be sure to check out these episodes of five must -do's for great classroom management and how to build a healthy classroom culture. Incorporating level design for classroom management is one innovative approach to keep students engaged, promote learning, and reinforce positive behavior. Key takeaways from this episode, a comprehensive classroom management plan was implemented, so making sure that you have a plan in place. This is part of the plan, so part of it is incorporating a treasure box where students earn prizes based on their accumulated points in class dojo. Specific point levels were assigned to corresponding prizes in the treasure box, encouraging students to accumulate points for awards. The system that was implemented made students excited and they made all the efforts to avoid losing points throughout the school year. Again, this is not a foolproof system, but it is valuable and can be an essential part of an effective classroom management plan. Thank you so much for listening. Don't forget to check out the website TeachersImpact .net. If you found this content helpful, please share, favorite, and rate on your favorite podcast app. It helps the show to grow, reach more teachers, and have an impact.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from HOTTEST Altcoin Right Now! (What Is Ton Coin?)
"It's a story that spans 8 ,000 acres of Blue Ridge Mountain beauty bathed in shades of orange and crimson. Fall won't last forever. Savor it while you can at Biltmore. Plan your stay at Biltmore .com. The past six Septembers in a row have been bearish for Bitcoin, but there's another coin that's on the verge of breaking into the top ten that woke up well before September ended. Toncoin, that stands for the open network, is on a fast track to onboarding millions of users in the next few years thanks to their integration with Telegram. You might not know that Toncoin and Telegram have a controversial past that dates back years before the recent announcement. So let's dive in and discover crypto. My name is AJ writes crypto and today we are going to talk about Toncoin, which has practically gone viral in just the past week. Some of you might not know this, but back in 2018, Toncoin was actually developed by, guess who? Telegram. For the record, it was called Gram back then. But anyways, Telegram raised well over a billion dollars in fundraising, but unfortunately they had to give it back to the investors and pay an $18 .5 million fine to the SEC due to a violation of federal securities laws. They got sued by the SEC before they even got the wheels spinning. Classic. Once Telegram was forced to abandon the project to stay out of hot water, a handful of dedicated developers in the community took it over because since it's open source, the code was on GitHub and they knew they had something special on their hands. Well, what's so special about it? Do you know how Ethereum planned on working out their scalability issues with sharding? Well, this is something Toncoin already has figured out since the project was designed for millions and millions of people to use it. Toncoin has an intimidating block time of five seconds and a time of finality under six seconds, not to mention near instant cross shard communication. If you take a peek at their roadmap, you will see how far they've already come and they have been building out this massive ecosystem slowly but surely over the years. Toncoin is not just the blockchain. They're also building out a decentralized storage system, a payment settlement system, and a proxy that allows you to change your IP address with zero downtime. According to their website, they have gone as far to say that they're building the reliable internet of the future, kind of like ICP. And of course, they have NFTs, cross chain bridges, and DNS domain names as well. But AJ, what about the price action? If you want the drop on that, you're going to have to stick around to the end of the video. My question is, how did this layer one get to where it is now? Well, their beginnings help explain this because their current consensus mechanism is proof of stake, but they began as an IPOW or initial proof of work. In June of 2020, using special Giver smart contracts, 98 .55 % of the total supply became available to mine, and for the next two years, they did just that. In June of last year, the last Toncoin was mined and then they switched to proof of stake, which is why the chain is super fast, efficient, and have the eco -friendly box checked. I do find it pretty insane on how fast Toncoin climbed the ladder in blockchain, but considering the plan was to always be tethered to Telegram, it does make sense. To play the devil's advocate, I have to address the issues that some people already have with this project. First of all, there are already people on the internet pushing back against Toncoin's claims about being decentralized. Like always, I will remind you that decentralization is a spectrum, but where this project falls on that spectrum is the real question. For example, Ethereum has over 700 ,000 validators, where Tonstat .com shows that Toncoin only has 351. That's probably because you have to have 300 ,000 ton to become a validator, which is about $558 ,000 today. Haha, it cost a ton. Okay, I'm done. Another worry that stands out to me is their rich list, or the percentage of the supply held by the largest holders. Also not the best look here for Toncoin, because according to Coincart .com, the top 10 holders own 77 .7 % of the supply, and the top 100 holders own 90 .7 % of the supply. Yeah, I mean, adoption is great, but those numbers are pretty terrifying. Another question people have is that the circulating supply is over 3 .4 billion, but why is the total supply over 5 billion coins? Are they just going to unload a billion coins on an unexpected market, or what? Well, not exactly. In a community vote earlier this year in February, they voted to suspend all of the inactive miner wallets who have never made an outgoing transaction. The vote went through, and over a billion coins worth over $2 .5 billion were suspended. For the record, these coins will be frozen for four years, so in 2027, this will come back into play. This vote also had a pretty harsh effect on the circulating supply as well. If you look at this chart here, posted by Toncoin, after the vote, the circulating supply increased from 1 .22 billion to almost 4 billion. This chart they posted is not 100 % accurate, because we know the circulating supply is currently 3 .4 billion, but at the end of the day, the supply still increased by over 180 % because of this vote. Moving forward, at least the total supply will only increase by 0 .6 % every year. The silver lining here is that even if some people didn't like it, in terms of tokenomics, the worst is behind us. And sure, there are some things that kind of worry me about this project, but the visibility crypto is going to get by being integrated into Telegram is absolutely massive. And I still think this coin could probably put out some pretty serious numbers. According to these charts Toncoin posted, Telegram is projected to have 1 .5 billion users by 2028, and if Toncoin onboards 30 % of Telegram's users, they will have over 500 million users in their ecosystem. They have a long way to go because according to Tonstat .com, there's currently only around 3 .3 million accounts and less than 800 ,000 active on -chain wallets. But hey, let's hope for the best. Considering that Toncoin's market cap sits just below 9 .5 billion today, I'm really interested to see how far this will go if they really do manage to onboard 500 million users. It's also worth pointing out that this project is already ranked number 12. I mean, it's on the verge of breaking into the top 10 by market cap in all of crypto. And the thing is, the largest crypto exchanges haven't listed it yet. It's only available on Kucoin, Bitfinex, Uniswap, and a few others. I am definitely interested to see how the price will react if it starts landing major listings. Time will tell. Speaking of price, Toncoin is currently hanging out around the $1 .90 mark after it was rejected at the $2 level after its latest pump. According to Masari, Toncoin put in its all -time high of $5 .16 on Christmas day of 2021. This isn't a price prediction video, but remember that Toncoin's supply was much lower back then than what it is now. With that said, to get back to that all -time high of $5 .16, Toncoin would need a $17 .8 billion market cap, which is 173 % increase from its current level. Considering how high its market cap already is, if you want to get a 10x out of Toncoin, you're kind of asking for a lot because that would require the market cap to exceed $65 .4 billion. I think this project has a lot of potential to onboard millions of new users, and I'm definitely excited to see what becomes of its ecosystem, but I am a little worried about its upside considering how much more work the market cap has to do to put in a 10x. But hey, it's crypto, anything is possible. My name is AJ writes crypto, that's all I got, have yourself a great day. From training materials to resources that can help you generate a greater profit. Learn more about growing your business with us at jameshardy .com slash build.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1256. $300 Billion Coming To Bitcoin ETF w/Mark Yusko
"All right, so welcome in today. We're going to be diving into topics around ETFs and also what is happening with the SEC in terms of their enforcement actions and some of the things they've been doing that could be causing a slowdown in innovation for blockchain. We'll break into all this good stuff today. I think you'll like it. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back in to Tech Path. Joining me today is a regular guest, one that I think you guys all love, and that is Mr. Marc Usko coming in from Morgan Creek Capital. Great to have you on the show today. No, great to be with you, Paul, as always, and happy Friday. It's going to be a good one, Marc. Let's first of all get into a few things. I want to lead off the show with a tweet from James Seyfert, who is one of the Bloomberg analysts on ETFs. He does a really good breakdown. He's been on our show before. There's some dates to watch here. We've got middle of October, next major days to watch. October 16th with Global, and then also October 7th. And then you've got all these scenarios playing out right here with iShares, which of course is BlackRock. I'll zoom in on that a little bit so you guys can see it. Second deadline coming up on 10 -17, and then a slew right there on that same day. First of all, I want to get your opinion on, do you think that this October is when the SEC might actually give us an early Christmas present? Or are you just going to get pushed again? No, look, I'm 50 -50 at this point. So I do think more tricks than treats for anyone who's 10 -17 date. So any decision before that date, I think is a negative decision. I'm not sure it'll be an outright denial, but will definitely be an extension and a push. And then we come to the big dog. I believe, and I've said multiple times, that BlackRock will be the first one. I've actually been saying that for over a year. I actually might even go stronger and say, oh, that'll never happen. That would be too much corruption. Well, I'm just saying it's certainly possible. What's probably more likely is BlackRock first, and then a gap, and then some number of others. But the thing is, whoever's first is going to get the vast majority of assets. Vast majority. Well, first mover is always going to be taking. I mean, that's just like the gold ETF, kind of the same kind of scenario. Yeah. The gold ETF is an example with GLD. You had the Bitcoin futures ETF with Bitto getting 98 % and then a couple others getting like 1 % each. So that's just my belief. And I believe it's who you know in this game, not what you know. There are a lot of people who have should gotten approved. The Winklevoss twins were the first to apply. They should have gotten approved. There was no reason not to approve it other than, again, kind of the way the game is played and the people in charge want to be in charge. So any new disruptive players I think are unlikely. Cathie Wood partnered with one of our companies, portfolio Amun, to do 21 shares. That looked like a great application ding pushed out. I think Bitwise is a day ahead of iShares on 10 .16 as much as I would love it. Again, portfolio company, full disclosure. I would love for them to get approved. I just don't think it's going to happen. Again, I don't think it'll be denied. I just think they'll be pushed. And here's why I'm 50 -50, Paul, to answer the question. I think they could approve on the 17th, but I don't think they will. I think they'll push it into next year. So you push 90 days. That gets you into January. January 15th. Yeah. You could push again then into March, April. But that's it. Then you have to approve. Now, what's interesting is we have this little thing called the halving coming up in mid -April of 24. And so it would be an interesting alignment of stars. But I said, could they pull the trigger on BlackRock in a month? Yeah, they could. Yeah. All right. Well, with that and to your point, the third deadline, just so everybody can put it on your calendar out there, you've got January 15th for BlackRock and then moving in all the way into March, what we're going to discuss there. March would be an interesting timing. I think you're right, because obviously the halving right there on the cusp of that, along with maybe a little bit of lightening the load in terms of inflation, because I feel like we're going to continue to see some inflation hits through the end of the year. What is your thought on how the inflation numbers came in this week and how the Fed might react? I don't think the Fed cares about gasoline prices, quite honestly, Paul. All this little blip is gasoline prices, all of it. I think most of the other components were actually negative. And the gasoline prices are because Saudi has decided to go a different direction. We had a very hunky dory relationship with Saudi from 1973 till now. And that's clearly over, right? The big guy went over to Saudi right before the election last year and tried to get them to pump more to get oil prices down and gasoline prices down, because there's this inverse correlation between presidential popularity and gas prices. And they basically said pound sand. And so he came down, he came in and said, well, this is a convenient decision to get gasoline prices down. Guess what happened? Democrats did pretty well in the election. And because there's no way out for that now, though. I mean, there's no way. Now we have an empty SPR. And the thing is, we can't fill it up ourselves because, and again, not to get too technical, but there's, there's light sweet crude, which we produce and a number of other places, Nigeria and others produce. And then there's heavy sour crude, more sulfur content, because we cut this deal with the Saudis in the seventies, we built all of our refining inventory infrastructure, sorry, around processing heavy sour. Yeah. Well, here's the problem. If now Saudi is going to sell their heavy sour to China and Russia and other places, and we're not going to get as much of it, what are we going to do? Well, we've got to build new refineries or retrofit the refiner. It turns out no one wants a new refinery in their backyard. Yeah. I think I'm right. It's been like 30 years since we built a refinery. It turns out they spit out, you know, pollutants and things like that. So nobody really wants one around. We all like driving cars by the way. And and living our lives and, you know, Oh, well, you know, we can, we can stop using oil. No, we can't. Nothing you do every, I mean, everything you do every day, the vast majority of it is powered by oil and gas, the vast majority. And yeah, you say you could get an electric car, but where'd the steel in that car come from? Did they make a little electricity? No. How about the plastics? Nope. Oil. So it's just, it's kind of comical when I hear we're going to, you know, outlaw fossil fuels, but back to the inflation number I think this might not be temporary in the sense that Saudi announced, they're going to do a voluntary cut. Why? Cause they're just sticking the knife in a little bit deeper because they're like, all right guys, you said you were going to refill the SPR. You didn't do it. Oil prices were all the way down in the sixties. Could have easily done it for sure. Now oil prices are in the nineties. Yeah. We're going to hit a hundred bucks a barrel for sure. How does this, okay. So when you look at that Mark and you look at an election year coming in, you've got all this pressure from the macro side, including most likely jobs market getting a lot stiffer. Companies starting to really get some pressure on. We had bankruptcies at the highest point ever. We've had a very long period of time for independent companies. This does not look like a rosy picture. Where do you think we come out of this in relationship to the timing of the havening, a Bitcoin ETF, maybe into next summer? How far into 2024 do you think this happens? So I believe the ETF will be approved sometime around year end, whether it's in early January or December, sometime in that timeframe. And I think that will pave the way for a very large influx of capital. I know you've had Eric on the show about Eunice and he does this great work, right? I mean, there's 30 trillion with a T 30 trillion. Remember 1 trillion is a dollar every second for 31 ,710 years, but 30 trillion is going to come into, or that's the total amount of money managed by RIAAs and others that is not allowed at this point for whatever silly reason to own Bitcoin. And they can't own GBTC and they can't own Bitcoin miners and they've called a timeout. Well, once there's an ETF, particularly if it's an ETF that BlackRock runs, there are going to be no excuse and they're all going to have to approve it. Their clients have been asking for it. I would say I have a family harmony account at UBS. They let me buy what I want to buy. And they're like, no. So I think all that goes away. And I think Eric's number is, let's say one 10th of 1 % comes in. That's 30 billion. Well, but wait, 30 billion on 500 billion. That's not that much. Well, no, it's not 500 billion. 400 billion of the 500 billion of Bitcoin's market cap doesn't really trade. It's either locked up like the Satoshi wallet or the Winklevoss wallet or, you know, hodlers that just said, you know, take it out of my cold, dead hands. It's only about a hundred billion that is the free float to borrow a TradFi term. And so 30 billion on 100, that will move the price. But I don't think it's going to be 10 basis points. I think it's 1%. I think you have to do 1%. As a fiduciary, if you got, you know, 50 % in equities at some of the highest valuations in history, and you got another 30 % in bonds, which have had the first two negative years in the history of the bond market, 140 years of history, two negative years, looking pretty ugly. And you got this asset that is the best performing asset again, 11 of the 14 years that Bitcoin has been alive. It's been the best performing asset of all assets. It's the best performing asset then this year. Yeah. Eric hit on his prediction about 150 billion in terms of market impact. Do you like that number or do you think that he's still like it? Well, again, I think 150 billion would be half a percent, right? Instead of 10 basis points. And it looks like he's updated his, his thoughts. I'll go further and say 1 % seems more likely that'd be 300 billion, 300 billion on a hundred billion of free float price goes up a lot, a lot, a lot. And here's the, the interesting thing, Paul, is the way halvings work is the fair value increases. So we've got a tailwind that the fair value today based on Metcalfe's law model that Tim Peterson runs and that I think is fantastic, says that the fair value is somewhere in the low fifties, 52, 53, let's just call it 50. So at the halving, fair value doubles. What do you mean, Mark? What are you talking about? Well, think about it. The miners who secure the network, their costs are fixed, mining machines and electricity. So if their block rewards, the number of rewards that they're paid to secure the network gets cut in half and the price doesn't move, then they're out of business. So there's a built in mechanism to move the price higher, which is actually really interesting because that attracts attention because there's movement. And so long story short, fair value, every halving added has a zero. So we went from a hundred to a thousand, then we went from a thousand to 10 ,000. Now we go from 10 ,000 to a hundred thousand. So a fair value is a hundred thousand and we're trading at 26. It's a pretty rapid increase to fair value, I think, as investors buy things that are below fair value. But then what happens in the post fall halving, you get this parabolic blow off top. And in the previous cycle, fair value was around 30K. We got all the way to 69. That was because there was too much leverage and too much gambling and speculating. I don't think we go 2X this time or two and a half X this time. Could we get one and a half X? Sure. That gives about 150K, something like that. Yeah. Well, that is OK. So that's very intriguing. If you're if you're estimating this could be in the 300 billion dollar area, you know, for based on, you know, just the exposure to these funds and obviously how that might play out. How do you think retail response to this? Do you think retail is going to come in like a banshee coming in on this with a lot of now what would be legitimized ETFs? How do you think they play? Again, it's I've been saying this for five years. My hashtag get off zero zero is the wrong number, right? This is a truly unique diversifying asset that must be in everyone's portfolio. Doesn't have to be your whole portfolio. I never said that. It should be at least one percent.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The State of the American Church LIVE from TPUSA Faiths Pastors Summit
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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Will FTX Dumping Solana Crash The Price? (Token Schedule Revealed)
"As a contractor, I choose Hardee fiber cement because I've seen it outperform wood -based siding and other hard siding materials. The high -quality craftsmanship translates into beautiful and durable results that leave our customers at G -Fidel extremely satisfied. Using Hardee siding has significantly reduced my callbacks and warranty claims too. At James Hardee, we're here to support you. From training materials to resources that can help you generate a greater profit. Learn more about growing your business with us at jameshardee .com slash build. Is FTX going to crush Solana's price right now? You see Solana's hanging around $19. Does FTX sell off of its crypto assets? Going to push that thing down to $10, $5, even lower. Okay, what's the news? Two days ago, FTX was given the green light to sell off their crypto assets. The crypto asset that's got everybody in a tizzy is $1 .1 billion in Solana. Okay, and there's a lot of people fearing what's going to happen if they were to dump the billion dollars worth of Solana. Why is the billion dollars of Solana worth, you know, why is it such an issue? Well, guys, it is roughly 20 % of the entire Solana amount that is circulating into the supply right now. That is massive right now. Okay, it's $1 .1 billion. But here's the green light. Here's the silver lining to this cloud, everybody. I don't think FTX is going to absolutely destroy Solana's price. And there's a few reasons. Okay, first off, the $1 .1 billion, it is that much Solana, but they don't have access to that much Solana. I've been watching Sopranos, so that's why you saw my hand do that. Now, the $1 .1 billion, you know, so that's the first wrinkle. They don't have all the Solana. The Solana is locked up on what they call a vesting schedule. Now, a vesting schedule is when you go on a boat, and then they say, alright, everybody put on your life jacket, that stands over there, and then everybody, now you put your life vest on. But no, this is a crypto vesting schedule. Crypto vesting schedule means, you know, usually a linear drip of daily, monthly, something like that, you will be given your crypto allotment. You have this allotment of crypto that you're going to get, but they don't give it to you all at once. You know, maybe if you get in, you know, you invest in a company, you invest in a protocol, or, you know, maybe you're one of the founders, you'll have a vesting schedule where they'll do 1 % a month, but they'll do it for 100 months. You're seeing something similar with Ripple, what they're doing, you know, they're dropping a billion a month on a vesting schedule. Well, Solana has a vesting schedule for FTX. I actually printed it out. I have the vesting schedule right here. A couple takeaways. It's not going to be fully vested, meaning FTX won't be. Okay. I'm talking about five years from now. There's some that's going to end in 27. There's going to be some that ends in 2028. And there's a bunch that does end in 2025 as well. So they don't have the $1 .1 billion of Solana right now. Guys, that's not even all of it. They're also limiting themselves to how much they can sell per week, because they do have other assets. They have Aptos, they have ETH, they have XRP, they have the Bitcoin, they have Wrapped Coins as well. They're only going to limit themselves to $200 million a week, okay, because they also have a half billion dollars worth of Bitcoin in addition to the billion dollars worth of Solana that they have. So you can see here, you know, it's broken down. Shout out to Masari Crypto, and they're just using the Solana Foundation website for their reference there. So it's going to be a lot of selling pressure for Solana. But that's going to be normal situation. A lot of VCs got in on this token. I don't think FTX is going to be selling all this Solana, though. And they can't sell all the Solana. So it's going to be broken down. It's going to be slowly but surely. I didn't mean to call you Shirley. Shout out to all the Shirley's in the chat. Make sure you hit that like button. 200 million weekly, vesting till 2028. The founder is, you know, FTX, he's potentially going to be locked up. The trial starts next month. Is that bullish case? You know, it's going to put more attention on FTX. It's going to put more attention on Solana. And it's going to permeate and, you know, percolate in the mainstream news. And all news is, you know, news, right? All publicity is not necessarily bad publicity. I'm not saying it's all good publicity. But you're going to have more and more people hearing Solana, hearing FTX, hearing, you know, oh, what is that? And then what's retail going to do? The retail is going to say, oh, you know, that sounds real scammy. But let me paint a scenario for you. They're watching Fox Business News or MSNBC. They're talking about Sam Bankman -Fried. They have the court sketch drawing. You see the curly hair. They're like, you know, what is it? Oh, yeah, that's that guy that the Bernie Madoff of crypto. And then let me point something out to you. What if they show the Solana price chart to the millions of normies? What do you think those normies are going to feel when they see that price hanging out at 20 bucks, then jumped up to 40, and then jumped all the way up to 250 and then back down? Okay. And then they see it. Now, where do they see it? They see it back at 20 bucks. Maybe they start doing some thinking like, hey, maybe I buy five of these for $100. It used to be 250 bucks. That'd be $1 ,250. You mean my $100 could do a 12X? And then someone's going to say, yeah, and some are saying, predicting of an even higher price next pull run. They're like, whoa, Solana can hit $300, $420? Okay, now sign me up. So I think we might see a little bit of retail offsetting a little bit of the institutional dumping. I am bullish on Solana in the long term. I do think it is. It is fast. The chain has been shut down numerous times. But when I bought NFTs on the ecosystem using Magic Eden, it has been a relatively good experience, although I never tried to trade when it was down. I'm sure if I needed to trade and Solana was down, I would have a much different opinion. But I do think it can hit new highs. I don't think it's, I'm leaning towards unlikely, but there's a lot of smart people who disagree with me, and they think it's more likely than not than Solana will set in a new all -time high. I do think it can certainly hit 100 bucks again. I think it can probably hit 200 bucks again. I think there's a lot of sell pressure there. So just be careful when you see all this Solana FUD, you see the FTX, you're thinking, you know, oh, the market cap's, you know, $7 billion, and they have $1 billion, $1 point something. They're going to dump it all. This is going to crater the price. It's FUD. I'm not saying be super bullish on Solana. Definitely don't be super bullish on FTX and SPF. But when you see the fears of, hey, a billion dollars is going to hit the market all at once, it is not true. The vesting schedule is going to 2028. Big drop off, a big chunk ends at 2028, a big chunk ends 2027, and a big chunk ends in 2025. So guys, this is years from now, perfectly timed up with that bull run. You know, maybe that was part of their planning with the vesting schedule there. So just be careful out there. If you are going to buy some Solana, don't bet the farm on it, but at $19, it doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world. Alright. Hope you enjoyed Discovering Crypto with Deezy. Thank you very much. Hit that like button. Leave a comment. Tell me what you think Solana price is going to go to. Maybe we'll revisit it. Maybe we revisit this video in two years. We try to find the guy who gets closest, find the person who gets closest. Alright, that's all we got. Hit that like button. Thanks for discovering crypto. Bed Bath and Beyond is back with more to choose from than ever before. At the new Bed Bath and Beyond, you'll find all the products and brands you love, along with a huge new selection of furniture, decor, and everything else you need to create the home of your dreams. All in one amazing online store. Download our new app and save even more with exclusive deals and offers. Plus, get free shipping right to your front door. Welcome to a bigger, better beyond.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Holesky Testnet Launch Fails
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Friday, September 15th, 2023. Ethereum's Holeshki testnet experiences a launch failure, 472 nouns opt in to join a fork of the noun style, Optimism distributes unclaimed OP airdrop tokens, and DevConnect announces a censorship resistance event. All this and more starts right now. Happy Merge Day, September 15th, marks the one -year anniversary since Ethereum's transition into a proof -of -stake chain. Since the merge, Ethereum's supply has remained deflationary with 300 ,000 Ether being burned. Ethereum's Holeshki testnet encountered a launch failure today stemming from misconfiguration issues. Although the network's Genesis epoch commenced at 2 p .m. UTC, it failed to attain slot proposals. 31 out of the 32 slots in the Genesis epoch had missed proposals. Since no blocks were created, nodes remained in a sinking state. Holeshki aimed for a Genesis validator set of 1 .5 million validators, approximately three times the number of validators on Ethereum mainnet. The testnet is set to have 1 .6 billion Holeshki ETH available at Genesis. Ethereum researcher Proto .eth clarified that the launch failure was not a consequence of the network's large size. Development teams agreed to schedule a relaunch for the testnet. Holeshki is designed to replace Gourley as a testnet for staking infrastructure and protocol development. Gourley is set to be deprecated this coming December. Holeshki also allows public validators, including DVT projects, to participate in the network. Ethereum testnets have a lifespan of five years. Out of a total of 847 nouns, 472 nouns, or about 55%, have chosen to exit nounstyle via nouns fork version 0. Those who joined the fork can claim about 35 .5 Ether from the nounstyle treasury in exchange for their noun. The remaining 377 nouns will still be able to participate in nounstyle proposals as usual, with the project's remaining treasury of 13 ,310 Ether. The nouns fork is a mechanism that allows nouns NFT holders to exit the current iteration of the nounstyle. This design was introduced as part of the project's V3 upgrade in July. Nouns is a generative NFT project that auctions off an NFT daily, with the proceeds being directed into the DAO treasury. Each noun NFT holder is able to vote on proposals. Optimism announced that it will distribute all unclaimed OP tokens from its first airdrop to eligible addresses. A total of 48 million OP tokens will be airdropped directly to 88 ,000 unique addresses who have not yet claimed the airdrop, which first went live in June of 2022. Usually projects send back unclaimed tokens to their DAO treasury. Roughly 590 million OP tokens remain allocated for future Optimism airdrops. And lastly, DevConnect, an Ethereum -centric conference in Istanbul scheduled for November 13th, will now feature a full -day event dedicated to censorship resistance. The event, coined as censorship .wtf, will delve into research and cryptoeconomics related to censorship resistance on Ethereum, spanning from the protocol to the application level. Currently, speakers can apply to present at the event. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
Coronavirus
A highlight from Holesky Testnet Launch Fails
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Friday, September 15th, 2023. Ethereum's Holeshki testnet experiences a launch failure, 472 nouns opt in to join a fork of the noun style, Optimism distributes unclaimed OP airdrop tokens, and DevConnect announces a censorship resistance event. All this and more starts right now. Happy Merge Day, September 15th, marks the one -year anniversary since Ethereum's transition into a proof -of -stake chain. Since the merge, Ethereum's supply has remained deflationary with 300 ,000 Ether being burned. Ethereum's Holeshki testnet encountered a launch failure today stemming from misconfiguration issues. Although the network's Genesis epoch commenced at 2 p .m. UTC, it failed to attain slot proposals. 31 out of the 32 slots in the Genesis epoch had missed proposals. Since no blocks were created, nodes remained in a sinking state. Holeshki aimed for a Genesis validator set of 1 .5 million validators, approximately three times the number of validators on Ethereum mainnet. The testnet is set to have 1 .6 billion Holeshki ETH available at Genesis. Ethereum researcher Proto .eth clarified that the launch failure was not a consequence of the network's large size. Development teams agreed to schedule a relaunch for the testnet. Holeshki is designed to replace Gourley as a testnet for staking infrastructure and protocol development. Gourley is set to be deprecated this coming December. Holeshki also allows public validators, including DVT projects, to participate in the network. Ethereum testnets have a lifespan of five years. Out of a total of 847 nouns, 472 nouns, or about 55%, have chosen to exit nounstyle via nouns fork version 0. Those who joined the fork can claim about 35 .5 Ether from the nounstyle treasury in exchange for their noun. The remaining 377 nouns will still be able to participate in nounstyle proposals as usual, with the project's remaining treasury of 13 ,310 Ether. The nouns fork is a mechanism that allows nouns NFT holders to exit the current iteration of the nounstyle. This design was introduced as part of the project's V3 upgrade in July. Nouns is a generative NFT project that auctions off an NFT daily, with the proceeds being directed into the DAO treasury. Each noun NFT holder is able to vote on proposals. Optimism announced that it will distribute all unclaimed OP tokens from its first airdrop to eligible addresses. A total of 48 million OP tokens will be airdropped directly to 88 ,000 unique addresses who have not yet claimed the airdrop, which first went live in June of 2022. Usually projects send back unclaimed tokens to their DAO treasury. Roughly 590 million OP tokens remain allocated for future Optimism airdrops. And lastly, DevConnect, an Ethereum -centric conference in Istanbul scheduled for November 13th, will now feature a full -day event dedicated to censorship resistance. The event, coined as censorship .wtf, will delve into research and cryptoeconomics related to censorship resistance on Ethereum, spanning from the protocol to the application level. Currently, speakers can apply to present at the event. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
What a Weird Week
A highlight from What a Weird Week: Alien Mummies Again? Fri Sept 15, 2023
"This is the what a weird week show alien mummies again. Hi everybody. It's weird. This is like crazy moon healing. Really weird, weird tale. Well, I got a great show for you today. It was so wonderful. Weird stuff. Hi friends. I'm Scott. This is what a weird week, a show about weird stuff from this week's news for the links, the videos, podcast stuff, everything we talk about. Go show notes .page. If you can remember this, you will find it all show notes .page. 10. Hey, here we go. Season four episode 51 first published on Friday, September the 15th. Number 10 is man from Pennsylvania sees 777 theater movies in one year. That's a Guinness world record. Zachariah Swope is 32 years old. He loves movies. He hit 777 movies in a year. That means you have to average more than two a day. Zachariah demolished the old record of 715 movies. Zach used the record breaking odyssey to raise awareness for mental health initiatives. Then the theater where Zach broke the record, the regal surprised him with a donation to the American Federation for suicide prevention. The amount was $7 ,777 and 77 cents. How did he do it? Zach would get off work and then watch two movies. And then on weekends he would watch more. Taking one night off a week. That's like 16 or 17 movies every week. He used a movie pass deal. So it only costs act between like this was all out of pocket for him between two and 300 bucks. If you didn't have that movie pass, it would have been like a lot more in the thousands. Number nine is chopping chopper chops a lot. Wallace Wong has an inspiring story. He overcame obesity. He beat cancer. He became a bodybuilder and a chef and a tick tock star. And now he has a chopping world record nickname is the six pack chef. He set a record for the most cucumbers sliced while blindfolded in 30 seconds. The record is 166 slices of cucumber, more than five per second. Usually I'm like, come on, try to beat this world record this weekend. You could do it. Beat Wallace's record. I would say, please do not try blindfold chop stuff. He is an expert. We have a video and more on the story in the show notes or go show notes .page.
Crypto Critics' Corner
A highlight from SBF Deserves Human Rights
"Welcome back everyone. I am Cass P. Ancy. I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, Mr. Bennett Tomlin. We're both good today. We have already recorded an episode, so we're dumping in... dumping in? That's probably the wrong way to put it. Get him out! What happened to the other? Can't even stop it! The episode's just sliding through its walls! We're pouring trash out of our mouths! We're vomiting and spewing all over you. Hey, works are all in! Not the way I wanted to start this episode, but there you go. Welcome back everyone. We're going to be talking about a subject that I wrote an op -ed about, and Bennett wrote a piece about as well in the newsletter for Protos. Something we both seem to care about that the reaction to was pretty mixed. Honestly, I expected more vitriol for my statement, but yeah, it was pretty mixed. Some people liked it, some people hated it. We're both making the argument that while it is pretty funny, in a sense, to see SPF struggling and in pain, I think everybody gets some real value out of that in terms of they're like, yes! A guy who's hurt so many people, and legitimately, right? This guy has damaged thousands of people, probably ruined dozens if not hundreds of people's lives for a significant, if not forever, amount of time. So seeing him in pain, people are enjoying a lot. But I think that it's a more important point that's being stated by him. And basically, he went to court and said that he's not getting his medications on time. He's on, as far as we know, I don't know how many medications he's on, but we know for sure that he's on NSAAM, and he's on Adderall. Now, Adderall, I'm sure most people are familiar with. It's for treatment of ADHD and some other mental disorders. NSAAM is a pretty serious drug, as far as I can tell, in terms of its effects on you. And it seems like he's taking a lot of it, for both of them. For both the, I guess I don't know, I don't know, I'm not a doctor, I don't know what a lot is. Basically, he's not getting his drugs, and he's not getting the vegan meals he wants. He wants vegan meals, and he's not getting those vegan meals, because I guess the prison system is basically like, why should he? He's not special. But therein lies the problem, which is, don't you think prisoners should be getting the medical treatment they need? And don't you think they should be getting basic food given to them, even if it's something demanded like vegan food or vegetarian food? Yeah, why don't you get us started off on that? No, I think this issue is kind of multifactorial and multifaceted, and I understand why a lot of people are having the feelings they're having. And so first I want to acknowledge that Sam Bankman -Fried's experience with the justice system has been one very much shaped by his privilege, right? Like he was able to find the people to put up his massive bond, and even after like repeated bail violations connecting with the VPN, doing all these other things, he remained free until he started doing what I'm not going to say is legally witness tampering, because I'm not a prosecutor, but that feels a lot like witness intimidation. As soon as he started doing that, now he has to go back to prison. In case anyone is unfamiliar, let me stop you right there. In case anyone is unfamiliar, just so you understand, Sam Bankman -Fried released Caroline Ellison's personal diaries. Now Caroline Ellison was the head of trading over at Alameda Research at the time of the collapse, and he released these very personal kind of sensational diaries to the New York Times, which is just wild, as you said, like he had been reprimanded before for his bail violations and kind of pulled to, he was skating on thin ice already. And I do get why people are like, well, if you didn't want to go back to jail and get treated like crap, maybe you should have thought about that. Understood. But anyway, sorry, I just wanted to give, paint a little color there. Like that's absolutely true. Sam Bankman -Fried was lucky to get the bail conditions he did and should not have been violating them. And repeated violation of bail means he should be in pretrial detention. And like one of the other things that's come up is Lawrence Tribe, a constitutional lawyer, wrote a motion, wrote a letter to the court describing Sam Bankman -Fried's treatment and like insisted that if Sam Bankman -Fried were to be detained, where he was talking about being detained, not having access to a computer would make preparing his defense much more difficult and that represented like a potential constitutional issue. And I think there's a bit of merit there. But, and this gets into like the bigger problem here, that these problems are so much bigger than Sam Bankman -Fried, right? Like not just Sam Bankman -Fried should be able to get their medications and like a diet in accordance with their moral wishes. Everyone being held in pretrial detention is presumed innocent until proven guilty. These are people who deserve to be, like, to have reasonable standards while they're being detained, should have access to things that help them prepare their defenses, should be able to receive medications they need, and the United States justice system fails to provide that for such a vast number of inmates, including, because he is there right now, Sam Bankman -Fried. Yeah, I mean, I think actually part of this for me calls into attention how serious the issues are in the justice and penal systems of the United States of America, right? Because here we have possibly one of the most famous white collar criminals of all time, not just of the past year or two, of all time. He's up there with Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. Like this guy is going to go down in history as one of the biggest financial scammers and possibly, allegedly, maybe he'll get off and no crimes were committed in fucking La La Land. But anyway, my point here being that this guy is as big as it gets. And the fact he's still being mistreated in prison or in, sorry, excuse me, in pretrial detention in jail speaks to how broken the system because imagine how the people with no voice are doing right now. Imagine how the people who don't have money to pay for bail even, so end up in prison or in jail for weeks, if not months before they go to trial. Like these are real issues that are happening every day to millions of people, not just SBF. And that's the important part of this. That's why I'm glad there's some attention being brought to it, whether or not people agree with whether SBF should be given these basic human rights. I think he should. Whether other people think so, I guess is just how angry they are with him. Yeah, I especially understand why like other people who have had experiences with the criminal justice system might end up feeling particularly frustrated themselves because they'll be, they may see it as, I had it even worse than that and I didn't even steal $9 billion from my customers, you know? And so I certainly understand there's lots of reasons for lots of people to be lashing out, but like you said, fundamentally the thing is people deserve rights. They deserve to have access to these things that help them form their defenses and they deserve a strenuous defense on their behalf in the justice system. And those things are important, those things, we should strive to provide those to everyone. And everyone happens to include him. Yes, and a lot of these issues are totally fixable as far as I'm concerned. Like vegan meals, there's a lot of people pushing back on my statements about that. I was like, oh, give him his vegan meals, just give it to him. Everyone's like, well, he doesn't necessarily deserve to have, it's not like it's covered by the Constitution. And i .e. there are prisoners who are Jewish or Muslim in prison who are given kosher meals and halal meals, right? To meet their religious needs. The pushback for the veganism that I heard was, well, this isn't a religious thing. I want to push back on that and just say one, vegan meals are incredibly easy to cook. We're talking about rice, bread and vegetables. Like if you're not already, if you don't already have those things available for prisoners, there's a problem. All of those ingredients should be actively there for you to be able to make this thing. I know that they make vegetarian meals for vegetarian, probably because there's Hindu prisoners, and some of them need to follow strict vegetarian meals and guidelines, right? But we are equipped to handle this. We have the money, we have the rules and regulations in place that this should not be an issue. It's crazy to me to push back on the idea that this guy can eat vegan food in prison. The thing I want to highlight there is there often are legal protections for people with sincerely held religious beliefs to get access to certain things, like you're talking about kosher halal and things like that, and often our prison system fails to do what it's legally supposed to in many of those cases as well. Again, this is just an example of the pattern and history of human rights abuses across the U .S. penal system. There's a reason international human rights organizations regularly raise alarms about the U .S. prison system, and it's because there are regular and massive human rights abuses in our prison system. Yep, and that brings up another point that I brought up, which is people I think like to assume like, oh, well, this guy's a big fucking scammer. He deserves to rot in jail and get shivved and get treated like shit. I hope that's what happens. And I go, okay, just for some perspective here, 5 % of the entire U .S. population is going to spend some time behind bars. So if you're not the one who ends up in jail at some point or in prison at some point, someone you know absolutely will, 100 % sure, 100 % sure, right? If you go outside and meet people, someone you know will go to jail or prison. Do you want them to be treated respectfully and with dignity, or do you not give a shit? Do you really think like anyone who's in jail, anyone who's in prison deserves the worst kind of treatment? It's time to reflect on these things, you know? We live in a society. It's true, though. Like we shouldn't be, the fact that it's such punitive measures, right, instead of worrying about recidivism, instead of worrying about rehabilitation, instead of worrying about making sure that these people don't repeat their fucking problems when they go back into society, we're focused on hurting people as much as possible. And the reality is, if Sam Bankman Freed gets 15 years in prison or something, 10, 15, 20, and is treated like horseshit the entire time, like no human rights, do you think he's going to come out a like capable and reasonable human being? At least if you try to rehabilitate him, he's not necessarily going to be as bad. At least you can say you tried. Like just damaging someone repeatedly, we know what that does to people. So I just don't understand this at all. And I think people need to reevaluate their, like vengeance is just so easy. And I think people really need to reevaluate where their morals and ethics lie when it comes to this. I get it. It's easy to hate SPF. He is a total scammer. He lies constantly. The dude cannot open his mouth and speak any honest truth for years on end. He's like, his behavior is disgusting. He's as despicable as it gets without getting into like murder and other horrifying crimes. Right. He's disgusting. Fine. He's also a human being. Like, I don't know, man. It just the reaction was just so it was kind of like, man, I don't understand how so many people think this is acceptable. Yeah. And like that's what you're up with. Ed was about. And there was definitely a lot of people who agree that human beings deserve treatment as human beings, which is good. The other thing I want to talk about besides this, which is also something we talked about a little bit in our Reggie Fowler episode, if people want to go back and listen to that. There's been still conspiracy theories about Sam Bankman Fried and his ongoing criminal prosecution, including the fact that as part of our extradition treaty with the Bahamas, we have certain responsibilities about when charges are introduced and when people are extradited. And those were not necessarily followed with Sam Bankman Fried, which has since required certain charges to be removed from the current trial date. And the allegations either incorporated in to other existing charges or other charges are pending reintroduction for months down the line. Yes. And so those charges are not really going away. And as we've talked about before in the case of Sam Bankman Fried, if prosecutors really wanted, they could go through and add one wire fraud charge for like every single person who sent money to Alameda Research under like the false pretenses that it was going to FTX or something. Right. And so prosecutors can and potentially will still scale up his prosecution in the future if that's what they think is justified and appropriate. So I've just been a little bit frustrated with some of the conspiracy theories around those dropping of charges. And like the other thing I want to emphasize, just to kind of make sure people understand this, just because Sam Bankman Fried is pleading not guilty right now does not mean he will continue to plead not guilty. Often you are required to plead not guilty initially, even if you think you are guilty, just because like the system's not ready for you to plead guilty yet. And like that's an actual thing that exists. And I want to be clear here, too. If you have a capable legal team behind you, which as far as I know he does, you're generally not going to plead guilty right away. Why? Well, you're not going to get anything in return, right? If they don't offer you anything and you go, I plead guilty. Well, they're going to accept your guilty plea and they are going to hang you from the gallows. You've got to get something in return. And to get something in return, you're going to play a little bit of a game. And that, unfortunately, whether we like it or not, is a part of the legal system. Right. So you have to have something for them, for you to plead guilty, give them something and them to be like, OK, well, then we'll cut you a deal. And that's what SPF is hoping will happen. That doesn't mean that's what happens. That doesn't mean he gets only five years or only 10 years or who knows. But that's what SPF wants to happen. And we don't know if it will. Yeah. Sam Bankman Fried's goal, as far as I can tell right now, is basically to muddy the waters, cast doubt on key witnesses and the evidence they're introducing. Try to place the blame like his mens rea, his head state for many of these decisions. Say that that state was induced by legal counsel and other things to make it so that prosecutors don't want to add more charges. That'll be hard to prove. So that, like you're saying, he can eventually come up with some deal where he shares whatever information he does have in exchange for a reduced sentence. Yada, yada, yada. That's the meta probably of what his team is planning to do. The other thing I want to emphasize to people is from where I'm sitting, and again, we're not lawyers, we're definitely not prosecutors, we're not experts. But it seems quite likely to me that Sam Bankman Fried is going to prison for much longer than Sam Bankman Fried would want to go to prison. Any time is more than he wants. Yeah, but there are already guilty pleas from almost all the rest of like the top executives at FTX. They have full cooperation, access to all the communications, like all the text messages, all the records, all the logs. They have such an over what, four million pages or something was the initial like discovery they're sending over to him. There are massive quantities of evidence, powerful cooperating witnesses, like he's in a really bad place. And that's just for evidence. I want people to understand that. This is just, we're just saying like, oh shit, there's a lot of evidence against this guy. So he's in trouble on that front. But I want to point people to a recent guilty white collar criminal, Elizabeth Holmes, okay? She is going to be doing nine years in a federal prison, okay? She just had her second baby. She was pregnant during the trial. If that isn't going to win you some, you know, benefit of the doubt and some, oh my gosh, well at least, you know, she's a mother now. We got to make sure that she's able to spend time with her kids and they don't grow up without a mom and blah, blah, blah. She's doing nine years behind bars for her crimes. She didn't hurt nearly as many people as Sam Bankman Fried. She only hurt mostly just very wealthy people. So like in terms of that, just reflect on that, right? That's nine years for someone who did essentially a smaller fraud that hurt less people and is a more sympathetic character. You think SPF is going to get off? Fucking wake up, dude. There's not a chance in the world. I'll bet anyone. If you think he's not going to, if you think he's genuinely going to do no time, I'll bet anybody. I'll bet anyone. But Cass, Cass, he donated to President Biden and was part of some vague conspiracy involving Zelinski. And he met up with Gary Gersler, right? Whatever. I just don't, it's so, it's so, I'm so past it. And then, and for me, the one thing I also want to emphasize here is how obviously failed the cash bail bond mechanism is in general, right? And I think proof of this is SPF. SPF gets $250 million bail bond. Obviously, the way it works, in case anyone's unfamiliar, is you pay roughly 10 % of that and you can get out. If you don't have the money to pay for it yourself or the collateral to pay for it yourself, you can usually get a bail bondsman to take on that, that collateral obligation for you partially, and then you have to pay back a loan on that obligation. What did this accomplish, right? We have to reflect on this. What did it accomplish? He put up, they put up $250 million to get Sam Bankenfried out of detention. Then he goes out, he starts spreading rumors, getting in touch with journalists he's not supposed to, breaking all the rules of the bail that he was given with this money and this collateral, and now he's back in detention again. So it accomplished nothing. It allowed him to break some rules and, as you said, muddy the waters and make things more complex and weird. Another individual who just got a big, gigantic, I think the largest in history in terms of actually being paid for, Joe Lewis, who is the owner of Tottenham Hotspur and the Albany, which is where SPF was living when he got in trouble. This guy just got in trouble, too, for insider trading and fraud, and he put up a $300 million bail with his yacht and private jet. So what do we think this is going to do? I mean, this guy's a billionaire. He can buy a new jet tomorrow. He can buy a new yacht tomorrow. It doesn't matter. He can go run away if he needs to. Nothing is going to stop him from doing that, right? Unless you put an ankle monitor around him. You ensure that you're tracking him with GPS and satellite tracking, that you ensure that he isn't leaving the country. You take his passport. There are protocols to ensure it, and none of it has to do with money. We need to get rid of this cash bail bond system, like, immediately. It doesn't make any sense at all. I strongly agree. I think the cash bail bond system is, like, one of the clearest examples in our criminal justice system of how we have codified a certain privilege for the most privileged, right? That once you have money, you can avoid these things that others can't. And as you're saying, the only real differentiator between these cases is whether or not you have money when you're accused of a crime. That shouldn't be the goal of our system. The platonic ideal of our legal system is one that treats, like, the most downtrodden and the most, like, wealthy and powerful as equal as you possibly can. And, like, there's limits within reason of how far you can take that, perhaps, but, like, that's the ideal, and cash bail bond is just one example of where we don't even try to do that. Yeah, that's right. It's just an obvious advantage for rich people, and really no advantage for anyone who doesn't have the income to deal with this kind of thing. Yeah, it's just a very gross, gross, broken system that needs fixing. Well, and if you listen to, like, testimony of certain convicts and stuff, like, when you are destitute prosecutors and DAs have been accused of using that as leverage, basically, because they know you're going back into whatever horrible detention facility you're in, they know you're more desperate to strike a deal or to say whatever to do whatever because you don't want to go back. Right. And to be clear, like, it's one of the founding principles of our country is kind of this innocent until proven guilty, right, that you aren't going to be treated like you are guilty, even if everyone, like, watched you do the crime. Like, until we prove it in a court of law, you are innocent, and so, like, reasonable bail without having to pay an arm and a leg just seems like the right thing to do here as a country to follow our guiding principles. Like, maybe I'm shouting into the void here, but like this, it's just something I think is necessary for us to talk about, and something I really do think can be fixed within our lifetime. Like, I don't expect the entire penal system to get overturned. I hate the idea that private prisons do what they do in our country. Yeah, that they exist. Like, that they aren't more heavily regulated. Like, that's why there's so many people in prison in our country. I have no doubt about that. But, like, if we're not going to change that anytime soon, and we're not, then the least we can do is ensure that bail bond is working properly, that prisoners are getting their medicine, that prisoners are getting the food that they need. Like, obviously within reason, right? If somebody says, I'm on an only Wagyu steak diet or something, I understand being like, go fuck yourself. Who's going to be the first indicted Bitcoiner to argue that they have a moral conviction that requires them to have only red meat? I would think they would already be in there, right? There's got to be a few dudes who are already in prison trying to argue that already. That I don't fucking buy. There's a limit to even how far I will go in terms of my sympathy. But yes, I do think we need to reform this stuff. SPF is a good jumping off point for that, so we thought it was worth talking about. I understand some people are just going to be like, SPF isn't going to change this. But we can make this a point of retention of this information for everyone in crypto. To be like, we need to change this. A lot of people do focus on this stuff and they understand the corruptness of it in cryptocurrency, and that's good. But a lot of people also don't care about criminal reform and the justice system. And I think it's probably time to think about it. Because some of you are definitely going to go to prison.
The Site Shed
"300" Discussed on The Site Shed
"You with your the why you communicate and you everything anything that like. You've really got to put yourself in a position where all of your assets are in your control. You don't want to leveraged in respect to any one other person type one hundred percent control where you can and again you remember. These ties back to mission statement. We want to put people in control so too. Often you see situations where we have. These boys weekly if will come to us. The website reveal because their existing website is built. Why some makali'i agency whose because some proprietary web design program and he can't give him access and you want to change a couple of texts to spend three hundred bucks a do it like it's just bullshit. Let's just put yourself in control. Tom management massive. Just use your calendar Organized plan shedule and don't be afraid sign artists things like especially meetings meetings of the biggest time. Why don't we get all the time all we love. This is one thing that you guys will rely to meetings typically like okay. I'm all for meetings. We have a lot of meetings work. But they're old targeted. They're all always and they're all structured and there's always designed outcome for that meeting the meetings sinai to things like when supplies during you often. They go hey just wanted to take you off a launch or just wanted to take you out for coffee and pick your brain like who wants to have their brian picked. What a frigging jerk like all would never ever accept a meeting that even all. It's you know it's comfort catch up. The typically that wants something fear what is before you go and allocate valuable time to that person which luckily end up wasted so strangely enough with a lot of these sales roles and things like that some of the kpi's include spending time with clients one on one meetings things like that like they they job is saying basically obey to take some of your time they want to get front of you to sell you more shit guy so just be responsive with that control your on calendar side note of things and if you don't have to do it in a rude way you can just say hey real busy lightly what was it. You wanted to catch up on specifically just flick mile. Marker probably get much of these things answered for you in the light up to the meeting if we still need to have it. That's pretty much template for one on one meetings is and now that the big city. It's not an issue because anyway but now it's now it's relevant for things like zoom meetings. So you've still got have you on god to.
Republic Keeper - with Brian O'Kelly
"300" Discussed on Republic Keeper - with Brian O'Kelly
"Does the other thing i'll say is. Palestine is our generation in south africa. And if if if we don't step up boldly courageously to end the imperialist project. That's called israel. we're doomed and the imperialist project called israel and we'll be right back with one more clip on black lives matter and thing that's a scandal at amazon and a big announcement right after the Right after we come back from the break. So this is republic keeper and minded. Brian kelly produced by coal mcallen. Thanks for your time and attention. And like i say we get back. We've got a villanova professor Using marxism to justify critical race. Theory of all things. So crazy i the world we're living in. It's just gone not spirit back. You're listening to republic keeper and now republic keeper with brian kelly so welcome back to the republicans were broadcast and told you have a big announcement coming up Two more quick clips. And then we'll we'll get to that so Let's just run right into them. The first one is i promise you. Villanova professor using marxism is the reason why we need to teach critical race theory. Heroes i want to say that.
That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs
"300" Discussed on That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs
"La if everything is online anyway and i can audition online. It's just so nice being surrounded by friends and family so it. It ended up being such a gift that you got to be home. Didn't have this is home. Absolutely yes and you know. As much as i love l. a. and i love the energy and i love the people there and i love the industry there i am such a family person and i am such an outdoorsy person and the fact that i was closed in by concrete walls twenty four seven did a real number on my health that i didn't realize it was doing so as soon as i got back here. My parents one hundred acre horse farm. Yes it yes. Yes yes and so i was able to quarantine on this one hundred acre farm which was such a blessing and i can't even describe like how hopeless i feel being you do that. I'm only like four years into experiencing horses therapeutically and like the gift. They are yes. They're way they are in tune to people. Did you grow up with them. Have you always had that. i did. Yeah i my favorite story to tell us that my mom was told that she was not allowed to ride horses while she was pregnant with me and she rode horses up to the day before she had me. And then Had me and about a month later was like here. Go baby you can sit on the source. And so i started writing very young. I started falling in love with horses very young. My first little pony that i got was i was obsessed with roy rogers and trigger so i bought a little palomino pony and named him trigger. Yes i rode all through my childhood. Oh my gosh do you experience that now especially as an adult we talk about your experience of like the connection with horses and what it means. Yes i'm definitely labeled as a crazy horse girl or something. I don't necessarily wear proudly. And i see other crazy horse corrals and i'm like oh you're you're crazy horse way i'm not Yeah i do. I think that you know. I had a horse that i was really connected. With growing up and He's still he's around and kicking even though he's mean and we had so much fun together growing up and he truly did protect me so many times that i can't even get into some of the stories that he really did like step in and protect me and a lot of people don't really have those experiences with horses. They just they don't really see them. You know they see as man's best friend they don't really see horses as having this emotional connection to people but they do and even though there are a lot more quiet about it and there are a lot They're very reserved their a lot. Slower to trust than a dog is They do still for emotional. Connections to people which i think is so sweet. How many horses do your parents have out there. We have eight. Oh my gosh yeah you don't have to give your address but is it kind of going down toward like hillsborough old hillsborough and like Yeah levers for area is is sort of where it is We actually have a couple of kenny. Chesney sources out there honored to take those boys on when he's not some island right to come right his. We'll see listen puckett's down. There is an all time favorite. Oh my gosh. it's it's the best pockets that there is when when patients come fully agree. Yes when people come to nashville and they're like. Oh yeah we're gonna try to hit pockets and i'm like no you're not necessarily for sport. That's right don't go now. No downtown bucket your gray. Yes but if you're gonna puckett's you've got to go to the original pockets. We ride horses up to the pawtucket and horses and eat at the puckett's and then go hop back on our horses and leave. What you were just describing. Someone has said to me before. What's the dream and i have said what you just said. Come ride with me. I'm just saying can we just go there and eat some okra and go back. You can take any chesney sports. We will ride up. This is am. I speaking so happens to it. So did you go to public school here. I was actually home schooled. So i decided i wanted to get into acting pretty young and was pulled out of school. I went to a little christian like elementary school kept new hope academy. Oh girl everybody around here so yes pretty much. Everyone i know went to new hampshire. Some point it's just like it's this tiny little school that you're like. Oh my gosh. What a small world that. Yeah i was pulled out of there pretty young and started Homeschooling which i loved couldn't have been a better experience for me. I can totally see how other people would not be into. But i loved it. Why did your parents say yes when you said. I want to be an actress. Take me out of school that i mean. That could have been like. You know what that sounds rational. My my mom goes back and forth between being not rational person and gary rash. Okay one of the places that she's like. I'm not rational is the enemy of as rational. The way she's a mother so she's like my daughter wants to spend more time with me. That's what she heard got it. And so she said yes yes and so she also pulled both my brothers out. Okay and we all three started home schooling. I loved it you know. She loved it because we got to work in her garden and we got to do all the chores around the property. I was reading at like twelve thirteen and doing auditions. Yes yes did you see on tv or in the movie theater. That made you go. That is what i want to do. So i've always loved storytelling. I mentioned that. I do like writing and i love. I've always been the biggest book nerd on the planet. I used to have a a book. Blog that was called roses reads. And i thought it was the cutest thing. Because it's your yes. It's my name is really embarrassing. That's an actual great thing to tell you. It may be embarrassing now but crazy. I girl and a book blog. I was paid by amazon. I made more than any of my other friends. Because i was paid by amazon to refer people to defer. I was like an amazon affiliate. These books yeah. I was paid by authors to review. Their bucks was yes. Wow i was living my best life and i was a huge book.
Bourbon Pursuit
"300" Discussed on Bourbon Pursuit
"Sixty five seventy five eighty five. Yeah it it it is a it is an interesting Dilemma when it comes to pricing. And i think sometimes too it's like it's bad business By the distillers smaller distillers to push that price out there and we saw a lot of the seventy nine dollars bottles initially are definitely peerless Garrison brothers came out very expensive but we saw some of the turmoil they took. Even though they're whiskey was well rated a. And appreciated you know people would see the turmoil and now you're seeing craft whiskey. Be forty bucks. You're not you're not in an forty bucks. Is that kind of price. Points like Am i buying it. Maybe maybe not. But i'm not complaining about it. In and i and i think i think there has definitely been a trend of the smaller distillers with the young whisky come out of below the forty dollar price point because You know poor peerless. That's that's the only question they they filled in for their first. Two years was is a ninety bucks. Ninety bucks wasn't ninety bucks as the glass is ninety eight pounds. just they they. They didn't shoot themselves in the foot. They had the confidence they. They've pushed forward with confidence. They're fine they're fine. Garrison brothers Same story they've got. You know the pool of texas and they're fine but You know other brands may not have that. And so like you. You've seen you've seen people take less margins. Not factor in one of the things that i learned very early on. My career is when i was interviewing stephen thompson. The president of brown foreman at the time He said that you cannot put put the cost of. You're still and your facilities and the price of your bottle. He's like if you do that. You will lose every time and so one of the one of the tried and true methods of of pricing is just to go in the store and see what bottle you wanna be by and price it that way and and that's that's the that's where i think people are going back to and people want to be next to maker's mark and they want to be next to woodford reserve true in bullet a lot of people 'cause both selatan to and well it is crazy and speaking a young whiskey but good god they just when you think of we think of bullet me think of stuff like that. Sometimes it's a race to the bottom right. I don't know if you wanna be there next. Twenty thirty forty dollar price. Point does good. it's an everyday value bourbon. But if you're a craft whiskey. db everyday value bourbon. Or do you want to be. Somebody's like mid tier right. And i think that's where the play is for a lot of them because they are not going to have the the stocks that are capable of being able to produce a suburban bourbon. Don't see it happening. Yeah i mean. I think for me personally if somewhere in the fifty to seventy five dollar range if it's a good for your craft whiskey that i'm excited about. I think that's probably a good price range that i'm willing to spend on but it's got to be something that i've tried and have had an enlightened enjoyed Because you know when you're a bourbon geek and you've taste all the stuff you get pal fatigue on you know a lot of you know these older bourbons and if something's interesting unique i'm willing to pay a little bit more than have that in you know when my buddies come over and be like you gotta try this something different some unique that i'm willing to pay for that because it creates a new experience for me. It's funny we say this because we're like try these younger whiskies that tastes like older. Was like how they told us right now. The other thing that you brought up in. I think it's important when we look at the craft market in general is packaging. How much does packaging should have really play into a craft whiskey when they are trying to come the market. I mean we look at things like You know fray ranch We got peerless. These are big bottles with big packaging. Like they're winning awards based on packaging now thankfully they also have the whiskey to back it up but that doesn't always happen right and so it's like which way do you go like. It's very rare that you had you had homerun. You have kinda like you hit both of these great whiskey with great packaging but see like you d have great whiskey and you sacrifice in the packaging a little bit and you get some you know off the shelf bottles you can find or do you go the whole customer out and really try to sell the packaging. Even though your whiskey might not be up to par what it a couple of things like our in goal here is the goal to like. Get consumers initially or at really. What do you think's gonna sell like what's going to sell like as as a craft whiskey and you're thinking like okay. Well i think our whiskies pretty good and we spend a lot of money you know basically making the whiskey and also kind of stuff like we just gotta get up there market or we say like you know. We're pretty good but we're not the best out there but if we make some flashy packaging we're gonna. We're gonna sell some bottles. Yeah one of the one of the one One brand comes to mind The came out with flashy packaging and had young whiskey and was bell. La bell floor Had the stanley cup on it. And it had like this Kinda real rigid like the fifteen year. Old i w harper bottling and i think it was it was a two hundred dollar bottle and i and i tasted it was. It was good as a two hundred dollars. Good so i think when you when you get that when you when you push the packaging into the price and it's getting north of that seventy five dollar price point. You're comfortable with ryan. I think that's the pro. That's where the problems lie if you can have that nice packaging. And here's the thing the package does. It always have to be about the glass. It can just be the label. But i would say i would say the most important thing for a new distiller and their packaging. The bottle can't be too tall and it can't be too fat because when it's too fat and too tall it's it's. It's not doing the job on the shelf. And the retailer will dismiss it because it's going to take up too much space art and bartenders. Be easy to grab you know. And that's why the bullet. The bullet brand has so popularly bartenders. It's got it's got an easy grip to it. Yeah i mean to me i mean. I think it's all about the product the whisky you know. It's you go to any liquor store now and go the barbed section. It's overwhelming how many there are in so guess maybe packaging stands out but to me. I'm always maybe. Because i'm so in deep into this industry that i'm always hesitant about good packaging but To me i have to hear about you from somewhere to go in. Pull you off the shelf. Because there's so many options now at so many fanciful packages If there's something good about it somebody's gonna talk about it and you're going to hear about it through other people that's the route i would go but you can't look like you know piss poor either like there is a brand with like a donkey on it for a long Asks yeah yeah no bourbon. Yeah every time. I saw that. I was like this is the worst bottle ever and you know the whiskey was never but the it was it was fine but it was like the bottle was just like who was feeling the energy to buy that and just so packaging. You know. it's funny like we all say i agree with you. I care about the whiskey but when we're really breaking down of something and why a bottle doesn't move we always go to the packaging packaging and you know what are the best case. In point of at working is bakers bakers changed their packaging and suddenly everybody.
Bourbon Pursuit
"300" Discussed on Bourbon Pursuit
"Be doing as brooks and rebel yell barrel selections. We are still on track to be selecting forty barrels this year. And if there's a small distillery that we should have our right around for doing these selections send us an email to barrel club at bourbon pursuit dot com and make sure you check out the club at burn pursuit dot com and click on the barrel club link for all the information on how to join. And how you can help. Support this podcast. I know many people have been wondering when will pursue united be ready again. I'm excited to say that we have all of the barrel secured that we need for our next batch. This next run will be four times as large as the first targeting a little bit north of eight thousand bottles. I've also completed one of the most difficult tasks that i don't envy for any distillery out there which is creating a ten year plan trying to look into that crystal ball and figure out. What do we actually need to grow. And i'm giving more excited to say that we've now secured all of rules that we will need for the next four years while we let our new make come of age and speaking a new make we've also entered into a new make agreement which will lock in all three components we need to grow pursuit. United we are putting down eight hundred and sixty barrels of new make this year. We'll be scaling that to run eleven hundred in the next few years so twenty twenty six. You're going to see first. Major scale point pursue united moving from around eighteen thousand bottles per year to ninety thousand. Now they might sound like a lot but we're actually holding a lot of bills back so pursuit united will eventually be a six year old product with all three of those components and ultimately hitting our biggest scale point of two hundred thousand bottles per year in twenty thirty one. It's crazy to think that we have tenure product roadmap or so excited with the feedback that we got from the initial launch. That we want to grow this thing. And we hope that you continue to drink lots of bourbon here for the next ten years and moving onto bourbon. Release news the spring twenty. Twenty one release of the old fitzgerald bottled in bond decanters. We'll start making. Its way out very soon. It's comprised the barrels that were produced in the spring of two thousand thirteen and bottle in the spring of twenty twenty one making them eight years old. This edition will be available with a suggested retail price around eighty five dollars in. Today's podcast. myself ryan and fred. We sit down and we discussed young whiskey and is it a good thing or bad thing. There's all sorts of things to examine. Because in this ever changing landscape of losing h statements craft distillers putting amazing products at young ages and urban drinkers continually looking for something. New is the age of the whiskey less important now than ever aircraft. Spirits always setting the bar for some of the best blends in the market using stocks and barrels. More around the world. And you can get your hands on some right now without ever leaving your house. Good a barrel. Bourbon dot com and click the pinal button with that enjoyed. Today's podcast now. Here's spread mimic with above the jar. I'm fred mimic and this is above the char This week's idea comes from my dow mosso above the char idea. How much bourbon do you drink on a day. On average what is acceptable. I get everything in moderation but to poor straight four ounces a day is that too much that kind of thing. I'd like to know by the way. Mike writes me on fred minute dot com and know mike. This is a question. I'm internally struggling with all the time like first of all there is like work consumption for me. people actually pay To sip whiskey. With me i get booked. All the time for private tastings From companies like amazon google. At and t. and believe me. I ain't complaining. I love it. But when i get off work when i'm not doing work tasings that's when i find myself kind of like you know. Maybe i shouldn't have that second bourbon or that third or fourth bourbon. In fact. I've talked about this in episodes past where i have. I have my big issue. Is tv bourbon so i will have like a tv series. That i'm in love with. And i will pour myself some Good everyday bourbon. Like rare-breed role force or nineteen twenty. Or i'll dip into some of my old stashes of barrel picks from a few years ago and sit there and i'll watch I'll watch whatever series of watching poor comes to becomes three becomes maybe four and then i'm like you know what maybe maybe the fifth portrayed so bad you know and so like it. It is an internal dialogue all the time. But i do force myself to take off days and i am all about drinking responsibly. So i i will say this. I will say this. We are in a hobby that can damage you if you drink too much of it. So be cognizant of that. Be very cognizant of that because it has a physiological impact on you so follow the fda guidelines as best as you can and. That's that's the best. I can give you because you know i do this for a living and what you know. My my levels are not a good barometer. Of what what you should be doing. But that's this week's above char. If you're like mike and you have an idea for by the char. Make sure you hit me up on fred. dot com. That's fred mimic dot com. Just click the contact button and hit me up with your idea until next week cheers and we're back with another berm pursuit the official podcast of bourbon. Today were analyzing a trend in bourbon. I guess we could say when we had a glut era when a lot of us got used to what sixty five dollars craig eighteen on the shelves and now we also are starting to get into a new era of craft whiskey. That is very very good at a very much younger age in the three to five six year sort span. There's a lot of experimentation a lot different things so today we're gonna start looking at is young whisky just as good as older whiskey. So let's go ahead and we'll kind of dive into it a little bit. I know that for myself. Personally i am. I do tend to lean towards you know eight twelve whatever years old. I will say that there is a time wind doesn't dino i know but there is. There is a point where it does get to old. I mean we've talked about it previous at length before about you. Know older parkers and some other twenty four twenty seven year sort of heaven hill products and again look a little musty taste to and i'm not a big fan of it but i do kind of a kind of geared towards that way i mean preference wise ryan league were to use it in that sort of spectrum for me. It's always been probably seven the like fourteen fifteen count. i mean. I like to keep my tannin's and check. I mean for whiskey for me. I like the fruit. Easier freer notes. I'll like more of the desert type notes when you start in too much. Like oak in smokiness woody news and all that stuff i of dislike it. That's just me personally. And that's what i love about. These newer younger whiskies is like you get so much vibrant fruit flavors citrusy like. There's so much like like loud environment. Flavors that are just so unique that you don't get that are kind of mellowed out as whiskey turns like eight to twelve yes. They're going to be much more smoother and more caramel vanilla easier on the palate. But there's just like it's just mellow whereas some of these younger newer stuff vibrant. And i really enjoy him. Yeah yeah the those older whiskies you know. They've been in the barrel you know for and pulled when the still thought they right.
Podcast RadioViajera
"300" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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Podcast RadioViajera
"300" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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Piecing It Together Podcast
"300" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"Which you know i mean is basically a chase right. It's it's basically what it is. So i thought that worked but then i started thinking about the other ones though i mean the original man max i mean it's it's a it's a simple revenge movie and it's very much a series of chases so they're very much video games if you think about it. It's almost as if they were part of the culture that helped influence video games right. And then you've got three hundred that fills lake. It is a product of video games. Because you've got not not not like clash of the titans where you do have some of that early on where he kind of going on a quest going here to see this magical. He goes to season siring. So you've got this kind of feels like clash italians there but then once you get on the on the move they fight this squad people they fight this monster this this thing attacks you know you've got this series of bad guys. They're fighting which is pills very a video game. It just feels like it's like okay. We cleared this level. Alice throw in the monsters. They take a break. And then it's like okay and now here the more immortals then they take a break so it's very much video game filling in that regard definitely And so just. Like i said i mean madman max of i felt like what the best i could think of was. It seemed like mad. Max helped a lot of ways influence video games and this one felt influenced by video games..
Beat Infertility
"300" Discussed on Beat Infertility
"On a wild ride sense than it and i guess you know. I'm just so grateful that i know so much about the industry. So much about my body reproductive endocrinology and infertility. And i wasn't gonna wait a year six months like so many women do and really grateful. It's been a really long process for us. I ended up discovering winning. Initially that i had a uterine polyp be went ahead. Tried to get it out in the office. It was a little too painful for me but we decided to move ahead with an iowa. The of any ways we thought. Maybe it was as firm Issue based off our first semen analysis. That you i obviously did not work and then be didn't seem analysis when things opened back up in june and i had apollo to me. My husband's previous essays have been out of the park. Great thanks to my supplements post june post. Getting that about. We did another you. I didn't were burning. Cramping king back in and we realized you know what we really think. I have ended. Nutria says than i know. We'll talk about it. So i'm gonna save. You know my story for a little bit later on 'cause we'll come to this topic's by it. We saw and another iowa in august. I got pregnant. I was super excited. And we miscarried. Seven weeks. I decided to do a knee because i wanted the testing i thought that would help us dictate where we go. Next did a dna found out. It was an admirable mail and then we went into ibs in october. I didn't stem as well as we thought i think. Based of the me trio says ended up getting five embryos for genetic testing three came back normal and we knew we kind of want talked about doing another round. 'cause we want to three kids by when i went to go do the second round in november. I had a big system. One of my ovaries in. It wasn't looking optimal. But my doctor said you know what. Let's try a transfer cycle. You've three riyan their normal. Everything looks great. And i got pregnant with a normal female embryo and then again at about six and a half weeks miscarried. So right now. i'm probably like many of you. I am in the midst of a lot of second opinion council gathering information and trying to figure out why we are miscarrying normal embryos at this point an i believe it has a lot to do with endometriosis an immune factors so yet. That's me trying to cram cram my story to a short time. I hope ever owned was able to follow that. I am so sorry for your losses and animatrix is just a terrible terrible disease. I haven't myself. I'm not sure if you knew that now. It is terrible. And i know you've had losses yourself so i know you understand how a whole it is. I definitely do. I definitely do so. Let's actually dive that topic because as you mentioned before that's where we're going to be talking about today is there. One major predictor of infertility. That women should know about biggest things still to this day that we have a scientist to cling onto when it comes to predicting brutality is a. This is the number one predictor of infertility that that we have. And that's because we know math humans are mammals. We're the only mammal known to make admiral eggs on when we procreate which is like super crazy fascinating by Starting actually around twenty seven are Starts to decline. And then when we get into thirties around thirty four thirty five. We see a much steeper decline in our fertility in what i'm talking about. There is the number of normal. Or what a scientists will you floyd eggs. So that is the biggest predictor fertility. And what's happening. Today is a lot of couples are pushing off their time to first pregnancy until later on for a whole host of reasons including you know economic lifestyle. You name it but we were waiting longer and mother. Nature has not had to fit the lifestyle that we living and we want an eight one in six women deal with infertility in a lot of times. You know the biggest predictor is age. And you know once you hit that for told mark. There's a number of different reasons why someone may be struggling with infertility for those who don't know what is dimitrius this and how is it. Linked to facility and dimitrios assists is a disease. And it's win the endometrial cells so all of the cells that make up for what you might hear as the lining of the uterus. It's when these found outside of the uterus and they're found in that peritoneal cavity behind it. These cells may even attach themselves to other organs so they can attach your ovaries below tubes the bowel bladder. It's really invasive disease and it's one of the it's the only other disease that acts like a cancer in the body in in the way that it spreads so it's really interesting but it's also kind of scary to think about if you have. This is a problem because when all of these endometrial cells which are supposed to be in your uterus and up outside of it we get this inflammatory reaction and it actually leads to some doctors. Call it inflammatory suit so you can see this inflammatory soup. It's like this kind of brownish liquid. The dental sit behind the uterus. Any it's visible on laparoscopy. And it's filled with all of these immune response cells like macrophages and white blood cells and that's because of the inflammatory response caused by these endometrial cells being outside the uterine cavity. So that's the basis of dimitrios from a scientific standpoint but the.
She Podcasts
"300" Discussed on She Podcasts
"Can i get out of this immediately so like i i you know. I steve the madness of it because he wants to look. Here's all the first aid. Here's all the hair shit. Here's all the medicine you know. I got that but it didn't include anything on the point there shell over the floor and sh- aleta brundage invited me to come talk to her network. They were celebrating a year of network. Yesterday and i was invited to be on their thing so to get in the shower so i get ready for the shower. I step over one thing instead over everything. I'm actually almost in the shower. And i turn around and grab something step on something on the floor. That rolls try to catch myself another thing. That rolls landed like all my ass bone. Because then i go. I'll just go to the toilet right. So like i run the toilet only to blake near miss it you know and like and like hit my lower back and my god on my hand and my ankle and stuff like it was the most and skies in the chair going no because he can't stop he and is both were like. Oh my god. I'm like falling down anyway. I've now been sitting in this chair for an hour and look my lower back is starting to really like what is happening right now. I know know apologize but it's just like it just so happens i never fall through the first thing you said to me when i stopped falling was if you don't take dance classes. You never would've been able to do that. You'd be done on the floor. But but apparently you know i still have a skill of being like okay this. What's not working. Let me go to this one. This hands not working. Let me go to this. One kinda watched me like i don't usually fall. It's just say that. I trip plenty but i very rarely fall and land so happens like a once a year..
She Podcasts
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"Else keeping me awake. Am i getting up and down and up and down. I've learned a lot like an actually. Since the pandemic i've only slept like four or five hours a night used to sleep at least six or seven and it's for various different reasons like it must be stressed. Although i'm trying i try really hard to keep my stress level down but i get up a lot and then i can't go back to sleep or i wake up early and then i sleep during the day. Like is a mess right now so i monitor that i also. There's a walkie talkie app. That i use for scott so we're in different parts of the house. I don't have to yell or call his own cool. That's smart yeah. You can do it with anyone. I can do it with you if you had to watch we could. We could just walk talk each other. It's yeah i do with my sister too. Yeah so that's cool and then the weather I use it for that. I use it to pay starbucks in my car. You just over to the heating and yeah. There's all kinds of fun stuff. I would use it primarily for health reasons like literally for working out and for monitoring my heart. That's really what. I want it to be able to monitor that kind of stuff. Not sure i would want to wear it to go to sleep. But i do want to put it on when i'm more for like movement oriented things but i really like this idea. I really liked the idea. That apple is getting behind. They put some little tiny things. Like the whole washing of your hands thing and the ability for the watch to tell you to stand up like it has a few things that are thoughtful in in trying to help people. I guess not be totally tech focused and not be in their bondings but so in that respect kudos to them but i do feel that all of us need to be moving around a little bit more. I mean i feel the same way to like i'm now. I'm no winner in this category. Like it takes like i. That's why i got so anxious inside. Because i'm like i am so i have never been the sedentary in my entire life in my whole life and i feel it my entire body feels it. And here's the worst part. The inertia to not do anything is massive. Welcome to my world yet. Because i don't have any number one by myself. It is a nurse. Show once you slow down and stop. It's very hard. It's very hard. And you and i have no momentum from the world like nobody other than internally and you know internal momentum is the hardest thing to build for yourself..
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"The best trainers new workouts added every week now with time to walk and audio walking experience. That's yeah it is cool. It's extremely first of all. Just the shows the first of all just the trainers and the courses are cool. I don't know the trainers but the classes are cool. I mean shawn mendez is going to be talking with you for sixteen minutes. Sure and then i zero. Hey i'm up for walking dolly parton. It's all who wouldn't who wouldn't i mean. Yeah that audio. It's totally do it. This alone would actually make me wanna buy it. What it doesn't make me wanna buy an apple watch. I love my apple. Watch so much. Though i don't i don't and actually it's only for fitness that i would buy it but then this seems really interesting because just the conversation i think the concept of it. And it's like you know. I don't want to talk about this for too long. Meaning 'cause i'm gonna mentioned clubhouse here but one of the ways. That i mentioned that i wanted to use clubhouse was to do like walk with elsie where i would just going to clubhouse and say come walk with me and we would just walk the walk and we would talk because what i have found is and i saw an article the other day justin i. I was really really like sort of panicked disappointed. Scared at the same time about the fact that this pandemic has caused the majority of us to even even those of us who are in quote a little bit more fit to really lose our ability to move in the world as an enormously meeting. We don't have to get in and out of the car. We don't have to reach into the back seat. We don't have to like walk down to the in the grocery store. We don't have to randomly go up and down stairs. We don't have to do all the basic nor like picking up your heavy bag pudding. I wear backpacks all the time. I don't have to wear a backpack anymore. I used to wear that all the time. And all of those little movements in the day. Make your body stay healthy in some way even if it's not about working out and because of the pandemic now we have like literally zero every day mobility for your body. You're not doing much of anything at all. And so it is so hard for us. To walk with elsie as well. I think that'd be so fun. In fact i was thinking about whether or not i would do it..
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"Dot com. You can search for show and then it generates all these relationships with other shows. It does not explain what they're based on. No no yes it does let me. Can i tell you wish demographics yeah yes. Eighty s based on. This is the only thing that i don't really care for. It's based on the recommendations through apple. Podcasts the apple podcast database so whenever. Somebody's subscribes to your show in apple podcasts. At the bottom of the list and apple podcast. It has this thing and also also listened to section at the bottom which you cannot in any way. Do yourself like. There's no way to even find out what the heck that algorithm is but this tool has capitalized on whatever that algorithm is and it gives you all of the relationships and for those of you who are watching you can see jessica move around in this dc three d. multidimensional yeah. I don't even know what it is. Where all the people who listen or have subscribed to our show or listened in apple podcasts to our show and also subscribed to and then it provides you with this like these other podcasts. That folks listening in apple podcasts also. Lci to how do you feel about the fact. Both the free podcasts. I from john lee dumas ann. Cates take our one bounce away from us any feelings about that whatsoever but then again it mind you. You have to remember that. This is oily in apple podcasts. So if if like let's say your podcast happens to be of either a demographic or psychographic that is primarily listening on spotify this is not going to reflect that audience for you. So if if spotify for you wins if google podcasts for you wins pandora wins if your if your audience is outside of the apple podcast ecosystem. This doesn't help you because this is a specific type of psychographic. This is somebody who only uses who listens to podcasts. Only an apple. Podcast say an advertiser wants people who listen to my favorite murder. Or let's just say she podcast right. Okay they go here and they click here and if they want to go to more info about our show they can they click on this and then they will see if it's active when it was founded. How many episodes what categories and then how much actual reach what. Our engagement score is. What kind of presence. We have elsewhere on the web. That's a credible amount of data. It is an incredible amount of data. And then let's go back like it's not just because it's my show. I just want to show you like good. Cates take same thing. Wow this about any. Oh it's not active though oop seen. That's all right. We'll see that's what that's what really good because then folks can actually look at that. Ooh look number. she's the venue is very exciting Okay so like yeah. Here's here's jody women. If i go back to hear me click show women take on the whites all selected. I wish that would stop your. That is so bizarre. I mean it's kind of neat to be able to see all the and also i don't know if you notice to just that we have to like and not little thing that's amazing. I mean we have two of those things set up an opposite places meaning we have all of like sort of like the women business leadership branding. Yeah things and then the rest of them on the other side are all the podcasts. About podcasting things. Yeah so if. I were an advertiser. This would be helpful also if i wanted to create partnerships. Yes like who would be a good partner for she podcast who has similar audience. Who has similar topics..
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"To a lot of folks are kind of afraid of saying what they believe thing. Yeah and dumb. Like how is your spoiled in that i'm such a big enough nobo- yeah and so it's like so what do you think about that. And it's like well that's really good. It's one thing he doesn't have to worry about his opinions. She's got to to the most opinionated co host in hope in the history of the world. It's true between me and rob. You must really like a good argument. You must really always some dissonance that and then he doesn't surprise me because you also married someone who likes to have these like in depth in fact. Llc is probably another reason why our show works so well and that we've stuck with it so long as we are the kind of people that liked to have friends that will intellectually battle. It out and not. Everyone wants to do that. They want their show to be tied up in a pretty little bow. The pretty little package and a pretty little message. We don't give any cares about that whatsoever and it must be hard to be on a show with someone who's trying to make everything neat and you're just like. When does the fighting yet. when does it. I mean it's not even my gloves. Let's do this do that even fighting. It's just a deepening of the conversation right. Yeah that's interesting you're right. I guess i tended do that. I'm like that too. I don't like to be on shows with people who are the icing and not that cake if that makes sense right delicious and it's beautiful but it doesn't fill you up. Yeah for me. It's been great to be able to do it but anyway all right should we take our we. It's a one. How long are we going to be doing this thing. How long are we done. And what are we going to take. You want to do the tool tip because you really liked the to go. Because i don't know enough about it to you. I just know that it's cool me. I will learn together. Yeah we'll learn together and also we must have this. We have to put it up on screen so john's gonna or somebody needs to share it. Just john's accent is south jersey. Yes know are i'm midlantic. Definitely i have a bit of maryland now. Philadelphia is accident. But john john soldiers e baby. That's all i hate my accent. Let's look at the tool tips. Lc's tool tips for today sees tool. So.
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"We've tried making money. Like every all the ways. I think it all worked on some level but elsie. I haven't always enjoyed them all. Yeah and so. Yeah i mean. That part's been complicated. But i've never felt like. I would never do the show again. And who and there have been times when i've had take long absences and she's had long absences and we will say that had long. Yeah and and in december. I just don't want to do it but mostly it's because with everything that's happening in december. I also don't want to think about podcasting news. Because all i can think about is like my to do list and she's traveling and i'm getting together with people and we have these things to buy that things buy in this thing and that thing by the idea of every monday coming up with an hour long shows like too hard so we just don't do it. It's not because we don't want to. It's just life is too ridiculous during that time. But also i think that that's in terms for us for longevity sake right the idea of i think the podcast itself. It doesn't have the the meaning of work behind. It doesn't have that aspect to it. it has a diff-. I don't even know if it has a label and even if there was a way to get over like let's say we were all put together and that's something that we've learned to if i say. Hey just i'm going to be gone for two months during the summer. I'm not gonna be able to record the way that we do. Why don't we batch episodes. Like that's just something i know we would never be able to get no because it's like that's just it goes against i either give a guest or you don't fucking do the show. Yeah that's it. There's no way we could batch prepare or we use audio. That's been out there because even when we do have like audio that we put in an interview or something that we've done in the past like one of our qna's because we couldn't record..
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"To do it like you say that but you forgot to publish last week and nobody gets mad. You should on saturday and nobody gives a fuck right or that if you didn't the show notes one week or if you're five minutes late to show up to record or if john doesn't have any other drops that day or if mike is you know we just do it. Who'll it right. Cool beans all the time. And i mean again. That's not something. I don't know that. I would have with with everyone i said earlier. I really tested her. At first i was irreverent and inappropriate. And she was like. Let's do the next one. Let's you know like she doesn't care. We never looked at our stats mean. I offered to do show notes. But she said she was doing it instead. And like that's been the end of it and now as symbolically as possible. Here's my son to interrupt. Yes isaac well. How can i help you snow. Come here. I don't know i know it's raining. He's okay bye bye. I put him in the most possibly stained and messed up shirt. So that if we go out in the snow it'll just get so aetna. Oh good all right. Well i need you to go. 'cause i'm actually recording a show in front of a little bit of an audience and angel to leave now. I'm sorry i love you but getting back to the whole forgiveness aspect of it. Because i think it is. It's like you. it's sort of like we even we've been able to sustain it because it's weird to say this we don't give a shit you know what i mean like. They're ladies. sorry. Now i think what it is is when something happens. It's we explain it and we used as a teaching moment like there's no bad guests. There's just things that happened but we just keep going of it. Is that you know when she asked about like what's made you kind of want to quit..
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"But like in scottsdale everything that's inside a sort of outside so the first benefit of doing it there is that it's it's a lot of outdoorsy. You can't go from one place together without going outside because it's not inside it's not a hotel was in atlanta so there's that and then also were negotiating with our tech team. How will do a more robust hybrid version if you know if in how and when we need to increase our speakers can't come for whatever reason or in case things are different and they're also being really nice about yeah like what she said just letting us know making sure that we have enough space so right now we don't have as big of a. We don't have the same kind of space as many people as we had before And so we're making some changes in that way where last year we had about seven hundred fifty so people in this year. We've knocked down to six hundred so that we can make sure that we're not overrunning each other in and around the hotel as well as like in the ballrooms and in the breakout rooms. Sorry the breakout rooms. Sorry lose my mind. Let's stay tuned so we're talking through a lot of those things and seeing what it is. I believe i don't know johnny has contacted are the folks that applied to speak last year. So if you did apply to speak last year you should have gotten an email..