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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Arthur Brooks! Senators Cotton & Lankford, Fmr. Rep. Mike Rogers, Jim Geraghty and Olivia Beavers!
"Lots of channels. Nothing to watch. Especially if you're searching for the truth. It's time to interrupt your regularly scheduled programs with something actually worth watching. Salem News Channel. Straightforward, unfiltered, with in -depth insight and analysis from the greatest collection of conservative minds. Like Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Sebastian Gorka, and more. Find truth. Watch 24 -7 on SNC .TV and on Local Now, Channel 525. Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale at Hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And, of course, listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at hughforhillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Back now with my friend Arthur Brooks. Part two about this book, which we began yesterday, Build the Life You Want, Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey. Yesterday was the intro, Arthur. Now, I want to do in part two the most important takeaway for me. Now, that's not for everybody, but for me is stop judging people. Now, you and I are both Catholics, so that means we've both been exposed to a lot of terrible church music. And I try not to judge the liturgy every time I go, but I always judge liturgy. And in confession, I always get assigned the litany of humility because it's a very good litany. But I think it is the key takeaway to being happy. Would you explain what the judgment advice is and how you came to it in the middle of Build the Life You Want? Yeah. So this book talks a lot about how you can manage your emotions through three basic techniques. Now, to begin with, you have to understand your emotions and get space between what you feel and how you understand these emotions. And you can do that through journaling and meditation and prayer and some people go to therapy and whatever. But once you actually have some space between the things that are bombarding you emotionally and what you decide to do, then you can react in several ways that are very constructive. Number one is you can decide to react differently than you feel. The second is you can substitute better emotions for the ones that you feel. And the third is what you're talking about, which is you can disregard your own judgment on the world. And this is critically important. Look, people are walking through the world saying, this is bad, this is good, this is bad. I'm bad. I'm not lovable. You're not interesting. The traffic is crummy. The coffee is bitter. And it's just exhausting because when you're doing that, you're not observing the world. You can't live in awe. And the result is that you are, in those moments, the central character in your psychodrama. The minute that you're judging everything, then the whole world is subject to the judgments of Hugh Hewitt and you can't stop thinking about Hugh. And that's just torture. We need to actually get some perspective and some peace. And the best way to do it is judge not, to quote St. Matthew. Now, he says, judge not lest you be judged. And even if people are listening to us are not Christian men and women like you and me, then judge not lest you be judged. Because when you judge everything around you, you're judging yourself as well. And it's exhausting and you will be unhappy. Stop with the opinions already. You don't need an opinion on everything. You almost don't need an opinion on anything. Let it go. Just simply allow it to roll over your back. I think it's just maybe the key chapter, but there are a lot of key chapters in here, Arthur. Let's make sure I touch on the key technique. I told him what the key takeaway, which is to keep a database of positive memories close at hand. And I employed this when my oldest, who is now 38, was a little girl and she would have a nightmare. It's happened. I would always end up with her talking about her favorite ride at Disneyland. And we would substitute a Disneyland ride for whatever it is that had woke her up with the bad dream. And I immediately referenced back to that when you talked about keeping a storehouse of good memories close at hand. That sounds so simple. It's really a wonderful idea, but people don't do it. They keep their bad memories close at hand, but they don't keep their great memories close at hand. Am I right generally? Absolutely. We have a negativity bias and that's just part of evolution. Evolution has equipped us to always pay attention to bad things and refer back to the archive of bad things that have happened in the past. And there's a reason for this, Hugh. The negativity bias that humans have is because negative emotions keep you alive, quite frankly. Your anger and your disgust and your fear and your sadness. This makes sure that threats don't hurt you, you're able to run away, that you're afraid of being sad so you don't want to be separated from your kin. So don't you walk the frozen tundra and die alone. All of these negative experiences or the negative emotions that we have are keeping us alive. The result of that is they're always getting our attention and we remember those things very distinctly as well. But that's not adapted in a functional way. The truth of the matter is that walking the frozen tundra is bad, but Twitter is no big deal. And so we're thinking about negative things that are little and insignificant using the same onboard computing hardware that was developed for the Pleistocene era. So what do we need to do? We need to be smart about it. Don't live just according to our instincts, but actually think and create a strategy that's more practical for the current moment. When you have a bad memory, when you have a bad dream, when you're feeling particularly negative, usually that's not an accurate representation of the world around you. People always say, look on the bright side. Well, actually you have to be more specific than that. You have to be more tangible than that. And the Disneyland memories are a really good place to start. I recommend that people keep a running list of the things for which they're grateful. Update it every Sunday. The top five things. I don't care how stupid they are. I got a bag of candy corn and liked it. If that's on your list, more power to you. Update it every Sunday. Look at it every single day. Literally, you'll be 25 percent happier at the end of 10 weeks because of the emotional substitution that you're undertaking.
AP 24 Hour News
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"Area, and then into southern New Jersey. He says storm surge levels could cause local coastal coastal flooding. The high winds made driving difficult in Wilson, North Carolina. Drive up. I just want to get down. She spoke to WTVD at the S U Capitol. Some House members remain in town trying to negotiate a spending package, but Louisiana Republican Congressman Garrett Graves says they're holding the line to force spending reductions and address a lot of the fundamental problems that this administration is causing, particularly on the border in areas areas like energy inflation and just the inability of Americans to make ends meet. The fiscal year runs out next week, and a stalemate overspending threatens a government shutdown. Russia's foreign minister blasting the West at the UN General Assembly in New York. Our Karen Chalmers reports Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the US and the West as self -interested defenders of a fading international order. They're doing everything they can to prevent the formation of genuine a multi -polar and just world order. But no mention of his of Ukraine. The family of a black teen suspended from high school in Texas because of the length of his braids is suing the governor, saying there's a new law that protects people from discrimination because of this is AP news. The Pope advocates for migrants. I'm Walter Ratliff with the Religion Minute. Pope Francis has arrived in the French port city of Marseille to amplify his call for Europe's Mediterranean region to be a welcome place for migrants. The Pope's position on migration is an increasingly lonely one in Europe where some countries are emphasizing border fences, repatriations and the possibility of a naval blockade to keep a new influx of would -be refugees out. A court in Indonesia has convicted a woman of inciting religious hatred and sentenced her to two years in prison for saying a Muslim prayer and then eating pork in a TikTok video. at Judges the court in South Sumatra have also ordered her to pay a fine of more than $16 ,000. The woman, who identifies as Muslim, said a brief prayer that translates to in the name of God before eating a crispy pork skin in a video that was published in March and was widely viewed. I'm Walter Ratliff. And I'm Jackie Quinn, AP News. Hi, Larry Elder here. I never really thought much about how aches and pains can reduce a person's quality of life until pain started keeping me from living my life. best Just a few years ago, using the stairs was difficult because of the back pain. Then I found Relief actor, a 100 % drug free solution for aches and pains. Within a week, I was on my way back to pain being free. Now I have my life back. I take Relief Factor every single day. Relief Factor can help your body fight the inflammation that causes joint and muscle pain and the other aches and pains that come with everyday life. Treat yourself to feeling better. Move more, live more and just enjoy your life more with Relief Factor. Join me and more than a half a million others. Get started today with your 3 week quick start for Go to ReliefFactor .com to order now. That's ReliefFactor .com Feel the difference with Relief Factor. ReliefFactor Well Jordan Travis threw a 24 yard touchdown pass to Keyon Coleman to start overtime and number 4 Florida State rallied in the second half to defeat Clemson 31 -24. Number 1 Georgia handled UAB 49 -21. Number 2 Michigan routed Rutgers 31 -7 and 3rd ranked Texas Texas crushed Baylor 38 -6. Chip Tranum's 1 yard TD with a second left gave number 6 Ohio State a 17 -14 victory at number 9 Notre Dame. Number 10 Oregon routed 19th ranked Colorado hand to coach Deion Sanders Buffalo's their first loss and number 21 Washington State upset number 14 Oregon State -35. 38 Major League Baseball the Pirates overcame a 9 run deficit for the first time in their 133 season history in a 13 -12 victory over the Reds and in NFL news Browns running Nick back Chubb is believed to have suffered only a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee an injury that should not be career -threatening I'm Geffen Kullbaugh AP sports AP sports I'm Geffen Kullbaugh Florida State rally to defeat Clemson in impressive fashion in Death Valley AP's Dave Ferry reports Florida State had dropped seven straight to Clemson before the fourth ranked Seminoles pulled out a 31 -24 victory in Death Valley Jordan Travis threw a 24 yard scoring pass to Kion Coleman to start overtime we stepped up when we needed to Kion made a big -time play the offensive line gave me time that's just a fade one -on -one and I like my guy physical time Chip Traynham's one yard TD run with a second left gave number six Ohio State a 17 to 14 victory at number nine Notre Dame as a running back I mean you live runs for like that the nitty -gritty runs the runs where you fighting with your body to stay up number 10 Oregon routed 19th ranked Colorado 42 to 6 to hand coach Deion Sanders Buffalo's their first loss that was a really good old -fashioned butt -kicking uh we went into the game want to dominate several phases we lost offensively defensively as well as special team number one Georgia handled UAB 49 -21 number two Michigan routed Rutgers 31 to 7 and third Texas ranked crushed Baylor 38 to 6 number 21 Washington State upset number 14 Oregon State 38 -35 major league baseball the Rangers regained divisional dominance with a win over the Mariners correspondent Bob Stevens reports Jordan Montgomery and two relievers combined on a six -hit shutout is Texas blank Seattle two to nothing Rangers four straight win they now lead the ALS by a game and a half over Houston and two games over Seattle with eight to play the Astros suffered a three to two setback against the Royals correspondent Adam Lane with seven games to play the Astros still lead Seattle by a half game for the American League's final wild card But they have lost four of five and eight of eleven Astros third baseman Alex Bregman. I can just We're not, uh, we're not playing good baseball in any facet really. I'm Geffen Coolbaugh EP sports third ranked Texas opened its final Big 12 schedule with the 38 six pounding of Baylor Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkeesian. I want to make sure we appreciate these wins. These are tough wins to get on the road conference in play and to kick off conference play one to know that that's a big deal. Jonathan Brooks ran for two touchdowns while the Longhorns took a 28 6 halftime lead. He opened the scoring with a 40 yard TD burst and had six yards on 18 carries.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin PUMPS on Bullish Europe Inflation!
"Hey, everybody. Let's discover crypto. I was seeing if it was going to come back in a camera frame. It is Tuesday, September 19th. It's 11 .33am. Thank you for joining, everybody. We got AJ and Drew on the 1s and 2s. How are we all doing today? Another day in the life. It's Tuesday. Okay, okay. I thought that said XRP for a second. No, that's EXP. Express. Yeah. Okay, okay. That's what I'm wearing. That's what I'm wearing. It's today's show brought to you by Express. Nice. You know it is brought to you by the Express conduit of information flowing directly into your brain. That is discover crypto. We also got Drew on the on the board here. Now, Drew, you were late today. You're looking for a F -35, right? Yeah. No luck. No, no luck. There is a debris field in South Carolina. I don't know if you've seen that. You know, it's kind of just incredible that you act like you can lose an F -35. You know that. I mean, you've got to assume that there's some tracking systems on one of the most advanced technologically advanced hardware. No, it has stealth capabilities, and they turn it on. It's like I understand, like, you know, losing your sunglasses. Yeah. You know, I understand losing your wallet or your cell phone or like my ID on a plane that has happened. But to lose an airplane, I don't know, man. It doesn't add up to me. Where are you at? So it is like they lose three million dollars on a seed phrase or a hard drive in a landfill. Right. That's easy to lose. That's easy. Yeah. It's you know, it's this small, you know, it's in a gigantic landfill. Yeah. No, we have something like cruising around. I've heard that NASA, they can track everything bigger than a football. So that probably means everything bigger than a softball. Pretty much. Yeah. Well, you know, the Pentagon does lose trillions of dollars at a time from here and there. So it does happen. I know that they misplaced trillions of dollars. Things happen. DN says they have one for sale. I don't know if you guys saw that. Was it Craigslist ad? And it was like F -35, I have to move this thing fast. You know, it's like in South Carolina. It was pretty funny. That's hilarious. Guys, make sure you are sub to the channel. We putting out the lives, putting out the shorts, putting out the videos on the regular AJ. What is your next price prediction? I think I'm going to do it on Casper. I've had a lot of people asking me about a Casper video, just so many because, you know, it's. But the thing with this video is that with the all the other videos, I can go back and like look at, you know, all the previous price action, the previous dominance levels, the previous market with this. It's like, here we go. It's basically just a video on its tokenomics and a range of like what's going to be possible with its market cap compared to other coins that are doing a similar, you know, kind of thing that they're doing. So I'm excited to dive into it. Haven't done it yet. Probably going to film Thursday. Well, make a price prediction video where it goes to a penny so that I could buy a bunch. But speaking of prices, let's look at the crypto prices for today. It looks like the markets are maybe slightly edging up. We're going to go ahead and refresh this just to make sure. Yeah, it is a slight movement to the upside here. 0 .3%. We have 24 hour volume coming in at 38 billion dollars. Bitcoin dominance. I think is up 0 .1. It was 47 .3 is now 47 .4. And we have gas really, really low coming in at 18 gwei. Bitcoin is up slightly 0 .6%. So not a whole lot. The one hour candle is bigger than the entire 24 hours. So we went from negative into the positive in the last 24 hours. Ethereum still playing catch up, still down slightly. BNB down slightly. Lido staked Ether down slightly, but Cardano up above 1 % and Dogecoin up above 1 % and Solana up exactly 1%. Matic 2 up .2%. Polkadot, I think it got a little bit of bad news lately, right? It's down 1 .1%. All these are not really moving too much. We have Chainlink cooling down. Cooling down, it was, you know, close to 10 % now coming in at 1 .6%. So 15 % for the week. What about the biggest gainers? And guys, I haven't checked this and today I have a good feeling. Today, none of my coins are going to be in the top losers. How do I know? I don't know. I'm just trying to manifest it because I think this is a simulation. If I say it and I believe it, I'll make it happen, everybody.
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Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IDL82 Part 3 Chapter 38 Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerning Hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. To continue production of these podcasts, prayers, and more, go to discerninghearts .com and click the donate link found there, or inside the free Discerning Hearts app to make your donation. Thanks and God bless. Part Three, Chapter 38 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Corey Webb. Chapter 38, Councils to Married People. Marriage is a great sacrament both in Jesus Christ and His Church, and one to be honored to all, by all, and in all. To all, for even those who do not enter upon it, should honor it in all humility. By all, for it is wholly alike to poor as to rich. In all, for its origin, its end, its form and matter are wholly. It's the nursery of Christianity, whence the earth is peopled with faithful, till the number of the elect in heaven be perfected, so that respect for the marriage tie is exceedingly important to the commonwealth, of which it is the source and supply. Would to God that His dear Son were bidden to all weddings as to that of Cana? Truly, then the wine of consolation and blessing would never be lacking. For if these are often so wanting, it is because too frequently now men summon Adonis instead of our Lord, and Venus rather than our Lady. He who desires that the young of his flock should be like Jacob's, fair and ring -streaked, must set fair objects before their eyes, and he who would find a blessing in his marriage must ponder the holiness and dignity of this sacrament, instead of, which too often weddings become a season of mere feasting and disorder. Above all, I would exhort all married people to seek that mutual love so commended to them by the Holy Spirit in the Bible. It is little to bid you love one another with the mutual love. Turtle doves do that, or with human love. The heathen cherished such love as that. But I say to you in the apostles' words, Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church. Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as unto the Lord. It was God who brought Eve to our first father Adam, and gave her to him to wife. And even so, my friends, it is God's invisible hand which binds you in the sacred bonds of marriage. It is He who gives you one to the other, therefore cherish one another with a holy, sacred, heavenly love. The first effect of this love is the indissoluble union of your hearts. If you glue together two pieces of deal, provided that the glue be strong, their union will be so close that the stick will break more easily in any other part than where it is joined. Now God unites husband and wife so closely in himself that it should be easier to sunder soul from body than husband from wife. Nor is this union to be considered as mainly of the body, but yet more a union of the heart, its affections and love. The second effect of this love should be inviolable fidelity to one another. In olden times, finger rings weren't want to be graven as seals. We read of it in holy scriptures, and this explains the meaning of the marriage ceremony, when the church, by the hand of their priest, blesses a ring and gives it first to the man in token that she sets a seal on his heart by this sacrament, so that no thought of any other woman may even enter therein so long as she who now is given to him shall live. Then the bridegroom places the ring on the bride's hand, so that she in turn may know that she must never conceive any affection in her heart for any other man so long as he shall live, who is now given to her by our Lord himself. The third end of marriage is the birth and bringing up of children, and herein, O you married people, are you greatly honored in that God willing to multiply souls to bless and praise him to all eternity? He associates you with himself in this his work, by the production of bodies into which, like dew from heaven, he infuses the souls he creates as well as the bodies into which they enter. Therefore husbands, do you preserve a tender constant hearty love for your wives? It was that the wife might be loved heartily and tenderly that woman was taken from the side nearest Adam's heart. No failings or infirmities, bodily or mental, in your wife should ever excite any kind of dislike in you, but rather a loving, tender compassion, and that because God has made her dependent on you and bound to defer to and obey you, that while she is meant to be your helpmate, you are her superior and her head. And on your part, wives, do you love the husbands God has given you tenderly, heartily, but with a reverential confiding love? For God has made the man to have the predominance and to be the stronger, and he of his flesh, taking her from out of the ribs of the man, to show that she must be subject to his guidance. All holy Scripture enjoins this subjection, which nevertheless is not grievous, and the same holy Scripture, while it bids you accept it lovingly, bids your husbands to use his superiority with great tenderness, loving -kindness and gentleness. Husbands dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel. But while you seek diligently to foster this mutual love, give good heed that it do not turn to any manner of jealousy. Just as the worm is often hatched in the sweetest and ripest apple, so too often jealousy springs up in the most warm and loving hearts, defiling and ruining them, and if it is allowed to take root, it will produce dissension, quarrels and separation. Of a truth, jealousy never arises where love is built up on true virtue, and therefore it is a sure sign of an earthly sensual love, in which mistrust and inconstancy is soon infused. It is a sorry kind of friendship which seeks to strengthen itself by jealousy, for though jealousy may be a sign of strong hot friendship, it is certainly no sign of a good pure perfect attachment, and that because perfect love implies absolute trust in the person loved, whereas jealousy implies uncertainty. If you, husbands, would have your wives faithful, be it yours to set them the example. How have you the face to exact purity from your wives, asks Saint Gregory Nazianzen, if you yourself live an impure life? Or, how can you require that which you do not give in return? If you would have them chaste, let your own conduct to them be chaste. Saint Paul bids you possess your vessel in sanctification, but, if on the contrary, you teach them evil, no wonder that they dishonor you. And you, O women, whose honor is inseparable from modesty and purity, preserve it jealously, and never allow the smallest speck to soil the whiteness of your reputation. Shrink sensitively from the various trifles which can touch it, never permit any gallantries whatsoever. Suspect any who presume to flatter your beauty or grace, for when men praise wares they cannot purchase, they are often tempted to steal. And if anyone should dare to speak in disparagement of your husband, show that you are irrecoverably offended, for it is plain that he not only seeks your fall, but he counts you as half -fallen, since the bargain with the newcomer is half -made when one is disgusted with the first merchant. Ladies, both in ancient and modern times have worn pearls in their ears, for the sake, so says Pliny, of hearing them tinkle against each other. But remembering how the friend of God Isaac sent earrings as first pledges of his love to the chaste Rebecca, I look upon this mystic ornament as signifying that the first claim a husband has over his wife, and one which she ought most faithfully to keep for him, is her ear, so that no evil word or rumor enter therein, and not be heard save the pleasant sound of true and pure words, which are represented by the choice pearls of the Gospel. Never forget that souls are faithfulness lead to familiarity and confidence, and saints have abounded in tender caresses Isaac and Rebecca. The type of chaste married life indulged in such caresses as to convince Abimelech that they must be husband and wife. The great St. Louis, strict as he was to himself, was so tender towards his wife that some were ready to blame him for it, although, in truth, he rather deserved praise for subjecting his lofty, marital mind to the little details of conjugal love. Such minor matters will not suffice to knit hearts, but they tend to draw them closer and promote mutual happiness. Before giving birth to St. Augustine, St. Monica offered him repeatedly to God's glory, as he himself tells us, and it is not a good lesson for Christian women how to offer the fruit of their womb to God. Who accepts the free oblations of loving hearts and promotes the desires of such faithful mothers? Witness Samuel St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Andrea Deficile, and others. St. Bernard's mother, worthy of such a son, was wont to take her newborn babes in her arms to offer them to Jesus Christ, thenceforth loving them with a reverential love as a sacred deposit from God. And so entirely was her offering accepted that all her seven children became saints. And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis her son. Witness her oft -repeated words, My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin, words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind and strengthen him in treading God's ways. We call races and generations, houses, and the Hebrews were to want to speak of the birth of children as the building up of the house, as it is written of the Jewish midwives in Egypt, that the Lord made them houses, whereby we learn that a good house is not reared so much by the accumulation of worldly goods as by the bringing up of children in the ways of holiness and of God. And to this end, no labor or trouble must be spared, for children are the crown of their parents. Thus it was that St. Monica steadfastly withstood St. Augustine's evil propensities, and, following him across sea and land, he became more truly the child of her tears in the conversion of his soul than the son of her body in his natural birth. St. Paul assigns the charge of the household to the woman, and, consequently, some hold that the devotion of the family depends more upon the wife than the husband, who is more frequently absent, and has less influence in the house. Certainly King Solomon, in the book of Proverbs, refers all households' prosperity to the care and industry of that virtuous woman whom he describes. We read in Genesis that Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren, or as the Hebrews read it, he prayed over against her, on opposite sides of the place of prayer, and his prayer was granted. This is the most fruitful union between husband and wife which is founded in devotion, to which they should mutually stimulate one another. They are certain fruits like the quince, of so bitter a quality, that they are scarcely eatable, save when preserved, while others again, like cherries and apricots, are so delicate and soft that they can only be kept by the same treatment. So the wife must seek that her husband be sweetened with the sugar of devotion, for man without religion is a rude rough animal, and the husband will desire to see his wife devout, as without her frailty and weakness are liable to tarnish an injury. Saint Paul says that the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband, because in so close a tie one may easily draw the other to what is good, and how great is the blessing on those faithful husbands and wives who confirm one another continually in the fear of the Lord. Moreover, each should have such forbearance towards the other that they never grow angry or fall into discussion and argument. The bee will not dwell in a spot where there is much loud noise or shouting, or echo, neither will God's Holy Spirit dwell in a household where altercation and tumult, arguing and quarreling, disturb the peace. Saint Gregory Nenzen said that in his time married people were wont to celebrate the anniversary of their wedding, and it is a custom I should greatly approve, provided it were not a merely secular celebration, but if husbands and wives would go on that day to confession and communion, and commend their married life specially to God, renewing their resolution to promote mutual good by increased love and faithfulness, and thus take breath, so to say, and gather new vigor from the Lord to go on steadfastly in their vocation.
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Level After Next With Katie Barnett
Dr. Victor Manzo's Unconventional Path From Chiropractor to Success Guru
"Right, we have Victor Manzo here. I'm so excited. One, because he's Italian and that awesome. is And two, because I have to tell you the weirdest thing, right? When I saw that you were on my calendar, I was like, I feel like I know this guy. And then I went to your website and I was like, yeah, I totally feel like I know this guy, but I don't think I know you at all. But it was just like this instant. I think this is going to be a good one. So I'm really excited. I have not gotten to watch your entire billionaire success formula intro, but I did get to watch some of it and I'm excited to share that with people. I'm excited to pick your brain. I don't know if you've listened to any of my podcasts, but it might get weird because I just, I want to know all the things, but okay, Victor, give us a little bit of your background and what brought you to this point, because I know you've done a lot of things and you have worked through some different businesses and you've created the success formula that has been proven. So I have a lot of questions about that, but give us the background. Who are you? Yeah, I started out as a chiropractor. Never had intentions on being a chiropractor. It's just one of those things in life. In the profession, we always say chiropractic finds us unless you're like, most of the time you have a story or something that intrigued you. And that's kind of what happened to me. Quick backstory. My mom's a fitness instructor and yoga instructor. She's been doing this now for 38 years. She still does both of those at this time. I think she's almost 67. And it's one of those things where I saw the definition of health from nutrition, exercise. She was juicing, taking smoothies, all this stuff. And I just saw this all my life. And so I thought, okay, that's what health is. So at 16, I started studying nutrition. I started working out at 13 years old. I was just so committed to be like, okay, I want to be as healthy as possible. So I'm going to do all these things. At 19, I went to go to Arizona State for school and I ended up being on the club. I ended up getting on the rugby team, their club team. And so talk about taking fitness to a whole nother level. What was puzzling for me at the time is my health kept declining every month. And there's new things coming up, acne on my back. No matter how much I slept, I didn't have it. I was exhausted. I couldn't think straight, just a bunch of different things. But long story short, in the middle of the summer, when I went back, my mom suggested to go see Dr. Frank, who was a chiropractor used to see. And that's when my life changed. And I was so intrigued by it that I decided to skip, forget going to computers, studying computers. I was going to go into chiropractic and I went to business school, back to Chicago and then so forth. That was my journey. And then I obviously went to chiropractic school, came out. But it's one of those things where I've always was interested in the mind. I've always been interested in the deeper elements of life. I used to be made fun of like, you always want to talk about deep stuff. I'm like, well, what else is there to talk about? That makes me feel good. And there came a point when I was in chiropractic school, I started studying energy medicine, not at the school, but outside of it, energy healing and all these things. I want to understand the depth of healing. I want to understand the depths of life. And that was a preface. I didn't use that stuff when I came out of school. I was practicing chiropractic and doing that stuff. But it was about five years later where the way we've been conditioned to what success is in life and what we think business success is and how a successful chiropractor should be, or just business owners, how they should be successful. I think it's skewed in a way because a lot of people are following the same like, oh, this is what it should be. This is what it should be. Instead of what is it for you? And I started asking myself this question because in five years I hit my financial peak. I did everything the business world was saying, well, not everything, but tons of stuff, self -help, personal development. And I was burned out every four to six months on something that I love to do, which was puzzling. I couldn't understand how I can love and be so passionate about chiropractic. But yet every four to six months, I was exhausted, burned out, didn't have energy at certain points. And so when I made a huge pivot change in my life, I ended up changing the way my office was operated. I started to stop listening to business stuff and start listening and feeling within what I think I should feel like I should do, not think, but feel. And I started to define what success was. I started looking back on my energy stuff that I studied years ago and I was like, okay, I understand universal laws. I understand consciousness. I understand quantum physics. I understand these things and how it works in our lives. I want to study that stuff so I can, now I'm going to start applying it. The heck with everything. I'm going to go all in and just start applying it. My business took a 40 % hit on purpose and I started to apply these principles and a year later, a little over a year later, I was back to where I was financially. I was working 50 % less than what I was doing and I was less stressed and I was just, everything in life was just so much better. And I was like, wow, I'm doing the opposite of what they're telling me to do. And I got the results. So that's what encouraged me to want to start looking at coaching business owners because I felt they needed this. And that was the journey that started. So I started coaching about four years ago and this last year, 2022, is when I went full time into coaching and actually stopped practicing chiropractic for the time being.
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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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Vivek Ramaswamy: Stop Paying People Not to Go to Work
"Should be doing and i think reagan understood that he did and i think that we can understand it again today to get it it's not even good for people the who we are paying to do that wonder why depression and anxiety are going up and sentinel use it and drug use it people don't have the sense of self -worth when they just think in the short run netflix and drink beer or smoke pot in my parents basement that doesn't give you purpose or meaning it's no accident we see the rise of this mental health epidemic precisely at a time when we also see opting out of the workforce so under my presidency one of the things we're dan going to do is we will stop paying people to do the exact opposite of what's best for them stop paying people more to stay at home than to go to work stop paying single mothers more money not to have a man in the house than to be married to a man in the house the father of their children stop paying people more not repay to their student loans than to repay their student loans go to kensington where i visited in the middle of here they say you know what the aid programs provide free needles and crack pipes forget about that help people with off the path of drugs this is common sense this is basic intuitive stuff and in the name of these people we're actually hurting them and using more of our taxpayer dollars to do it that's not going to happen on my watch it's common sense that's going to restore the fabric of our country and then i do think it's going to take somebody of a different generation i'm 38 years old i'm the youngest person ever to run for us president as a publican i'm not just running from something i'm leading us to something to our vision of what it means to be an american revive that national pride and i do not think an existing
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A highlight from UNCHAINED: With Execs Leaving and Market Share Declining, Can Binance Survive?
"This is a lot for one particular exchange, any company really, but an exchange as consequential as Binance to deal with. Binance US, obviously the first thing on their mind is sort of trying to fight the SEC and figure out a way forward. I mean, there is a world where Binance can exist where it's not quite as big as it was before. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as a senior editor at Forbes, I was the first mainstream media reporter to pick up a cryptocurrency full -time. This is the September 15th, 2023 episode of Unchained. Today's episode is brought to you by Overtime Markets, your premier Web3 sportsbook. The innovative protocol is changing the game one match at a time. Powered by fails, explore more at OvertimeMarkets .xyz. 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There have been a number of news events related to Binance over the last several months, to the point where there are now a number of questions swirling around the exchange in its future about potential regulatory and possibly even criminal actions against the exchange and its founders. And then, of course, what all of this could mean for the crypto industry if the exchange that has been the biggest crypto exchange for the last six years either falls or at the very least loses its top spot. So, Stephen, can you start by giving us kind of the main events or highlights of what has been happening with Binance over the last several months, including, you know, another big, you know, event this week that have brought Binance to really what feels like an existential point in its story? Sure. How much time do you have? Because I think this is just a 30 -minute show. But no, I mean, in crypto, we kind of feel like every day is a week, every week is a year, every year is a decade. And for Binance, there's been no shortage of big news. When FTX collapsed in November sort and of left CZ as like the big 800 -pound gorilla that really was kind of lording over all of crypto, there were a lot of thoughts that, hey, maybe this is Binance's moment. It was already the biggest exchange in the world by a large margin, and it just became so much bigger and even more systemically significant. It's been a very difficult year for Binance. I mean, just beginning with the fact that in the 60 days post collapse of FTX, more than $12 billion worth of customer deposits left the exchange. A colleague of mine, our terrific Director of Data and Analytics, Javier Paz, put together a report just talking about these massive investor outflows that Binance has really worked to try to stem ever since. I mean, then the hits kind of kept coming. I believe it was in February that the New York Department of Financial Services forced Paxos, which was the issue of Binance's stablecoin, BUSD, which at one point I believe reached over $20 billion in market cap and was seen as a legitimate competitor to Circle's USDC and the biggest stablecoin of all, Tether, which has a market cap of $83, $84 billion or so. But DFS forced them to with something that came out of the SEC as well. And that was a really big hit for Binance. It might not have been quite as flashy as the suits from the CFTC and SEC that came in later. But if you're just talking about dollar terms and financial impact, it was massive because Binance was really trying to make BUSD the biggest stablecoin in the world. They had incentives to encourage trading with BUSD. And in particular, think about what people do. And obviously, Lara, you know this and many people in your audience do as well. When you have $20 billion or $40 billion or $80 billion in cash, you can invest it in treasuries or money markets that are paying 5 % annual returns. And that's an incredible amount of money that you can make virtually risk -free, especially in a market like today where trading volumes are dwindling, reserves are dwindling. It's a really nice way to sort of supplement assets. So, that's one thing that happened. In March, the CFTC sued Binance for a suite of charges. A lot of it stemmed from the CFTC's allegations that Binance was operating as an FCM, a futures commodity merchant, basically saying that they're offering options and futures contracts at various digital assets without registering with the agency, which is required to do in the United States. And then in particular, and this much like the SEC's suit, which came out in June, they both talked about efforts Binance went to not only let US customers participate on the exchange, but actually help them find ways to get around geo -blocking activities that they put in to make sure that the best customers could still trade on the exchange. So, there's the CFTC lawsuit in March. There is the SEC lawsuit that came in June. There are rumors that the DOJ is investigating Binance and they would bring criminal charges. CFTC and SEC are sort of civil endeavors, which would kind of lead to fines and maybe bars from trading and certain activities. But obviously, DOJ could bring criminal penalties if they bring such charges and are able to get CZ into custody. And then, I mean, there's other aspects too as well. I mean, Binance has been losing payment and the banking partners around the world. Binance US in June had to become a crypto -only exchange because they lost their banking partners in the US, so they couldn't handle US dollars anymore. They lost their auditor in January. And then on top of that too, just a wave of executive departures going from the C -suite to country managers. So, this is a lot for one particular exchange, any company really, but an exchange as consequential as Binance to deal with. It's really been just an onslaught of bad news after bad news. I mean, there's been a few glimmers of new product initiatives and things like that. But a few other steps I want to throw in there are that spot volumes, like in terms of its market share, it had about 60 % of all crypto exchange volume market share at the beginning of the year. Now, for the last few months, it's been at 45%. And they laid off a thousand people. And then actually, let's also now mention the executive departure this week that was at Binance US. Tell us about that. Right. So, Binance, as you rightfully said, has been losing market share. They remained the largest crypto exchange in the world, but they are losing market share in this dwindling market. I actually believe the latest numbers that came out from CC Data put Binance's spot market share at least at around 37%, 38%. And if you're just looking at their spot volumes, I mean, they were comfortably still above $20 billion daily, even at the beginning of the year. Now, it's down to about $5 billion. At the peak 2021, it was over $60 billion. So, I mean, just think about exchanges make money by taking small cuts of every exchange. And if your volume goes down 80 % or whatever, I mean, that's money that you're no longer getting. And obviously, that's very consequential. And then with the executive departures, as you said, that's something that I know CZ has tried to gloss over. I know when we've reached out to some of the departed executives and they've either responded to us or to just public Twitter postings, et cetera. I mean, they kind of said things like, we want to take care of our family, the time is right. There was no acrimony involved, so on and so forth. But at some point, all of this takes a toll. And at least with regards to Binance US, which is the US I think franchise is the term that they like to use for that particular exchange, they're in a very tenuous situation right here. I mean, even before, and I'll talk about Brian Schroeder's departure in a second. I believe right now, I just checked the numbers before we recorded this, they're averaging about 20 million, not billion, not 200 million, but $20 million a day in transaction value. 10 million of which is Bitcoin. I believe that I think they charge something like 10 basis points per trade. So if you think about that, like 20 million times 0 .1, I'm not really good at doing math in my head. I use a calculator for that despite the fact that I'm a financial journalist, but you can just think about how little money that actually is coming in. And then obviously since Binance US was created in 2019, there's always been issues and questions about its independence from the larger exchange and would it actually be able to find that sweet spot of separating itself in the eyes of regulators while maintaining the super sauce that is made by Binance, a love brand by many customers. And they've gone through three CEOs at this point, Brian Schroeder just resigned. I was speaking with some sources familiar with Binance US and I was basically told that this was not a planned departure, that the 100 person layoff was, but the removal of CEO Brian Schroeder, the exit of him was not. I've also been told that it's important to kind of keep an eye off some of his key lieutenants now, because remember when he joined, one of the first things that he did was raise a $200 million actually seed round at a $4 .5 billion valuation. That's something Brian Brooks, his predecessor had wanted to, but he wasn't able to finish it. Brian Schroeder did. And then for part of that, that kind of saw Binance US as a growth company, he brought in some key lieutenants, chief legal officers, chief risk officers. And I think that now that Binance US is kind of moving away from obviously growth, like any exchange to sort of conservation, it's important to look at some people he brought in and they may be looking to leave. And actually one of the sources I was speaking with told me that their chief risk officer is Sydney Majala, and I want to look at my notes to make sure I don't get the names wrong, and head of legal, Krishna Jubelty, have actually emails that have been sent to them by some of the other rank and file, have started to bounce back. So I don't know if that necessarily means that they may have already left, but it certainly, I think it's important to, now that Brian has gone, see if some of people that he brought in after he raised this big round with a lot of high expectations, if they are going to follow suit. In a moment, we're going to talk about some of the potential regulatory or potentially even criminal actions against Binance and its executives. But first, a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible.
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A highlight from Child Malnutrition Estimates
"Hello friends, Joint Child Malnutrition estimates recently the 2023 edition of Joint Child Malnutrition estimates was released by UNICEF WHO and the World Bank. It includes estimates of prevalence and numbers for child stunting, over weight, wasting and severe wasting. The key findings are reduction in stunting. India has shown a reduction in stunting among children under 5 years. The prevalence rate of stunting dropped from 41 .6 % in 2012 to 31 .7 % in 2022. This resulted in 1 .6 crore fewer stunted children in 2022 compared to 2012. Global and regional compared region, globally, the prevalence of stunting declined from 26 .3 % in 2012 to 22 .3 % in 2022. In South Asia, including India, the decline was more significant, dropping from 40 .3 % to 30 .5%. India's share of global burden of stunting decreased from 30 % to 25 % over the past decade. Vasting remains a concern in India with an overall prevalence rate of 18 .7 % in 2022. India contributes 49 % to the global burden of wasting. Obesity levels, the prevalence of obesity among children in India increased marginally from 2 .2 % in 2012 to 2 .8 % in 2022. India's obesity numbers grew to 31 .8 lakh from 27 .5 lakh, contributing to 8 .8 % of the global share. However, the overall classification for obesity in India remains low compared to the global prevalence of 5 .6%. Weight issue, the prevalence rate of overweight children globally increased from 5 .5 % to 5 .6%. NFHS data, the decline in stunting observed in India aligns with the National Family Health Survey. NFHS -5 data, which estimated a prevalence of 35 .5 % compared to 38 % in NFHS -4 and 48 % in NFHS -3. NFHS -5 also highlighted improvements in access to health services and reductions in underweight children but raised concerns about amnesia. Vaternal malnutrition and wasting, wasting is a complex indicator that assesses acute malnutrition over short periods. In India, two -thirds of wasting cases among children at 12 or 24 months were found to be caused by maternal malnutrition. This suggests that children are born with low weight for height and do not recover despite weight gain.
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A highlight from With Execs Leaving and Market Share Declining, Can Binance Survive? - Ep. 544
"This is a lot for one particular exchange, any company really, but an exchange as consequential as Binance to deal with. Binance US, obviously the first thing on their mind is trying to fight the SEC and figure out a way forward. There is a world where Binance can exist where it's not quite as big as it was before. Hi everyone, welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full -time. This is the September 15th, 2023 episode of Unchained. Today's episode is brought to you by Overtime Markets, your premier Web3 sportsbook. The innovative protocol is changing the game one match at a time. Powered by fails, explore more at OvertimeMarkets .xyz. Arbitrum's leading Layer 2 scaling solution offers you ultra -cheap and lightning -fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. Toku makes implementing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. With the Crypto .com app, you can buy, trade and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code LAURA. Link in the description. Today's guest is Stephen Erlich, editor of Forbes Crypto Asset & Blockchain Advisor and director of research at Forbes Crypto. Welcome Stephen. Thanks Laura. Thanks for having me. Just a heads up everyone. I have a sore throat in case you can't tell, so you might hear a slightly scratchier voice from me today. There have been a number of news events related to Binance over the last several months, to the point where there are now a number of questions swirling around the exchange in its future about potential regulatory and possibly even criminal actions against the exchange and its founders. And then of course, what all of this could mean for the crypto industry, if the exchange that has been the biggest crypto exchange for the last six years either falls or at the very least loses its top spot. So Stephen, can you start by giving us the main events or highlights of what has been happening with Binance over the last several months, including another big event this week that have brought Binance to really what feels like an existential point in its story? Sure. How much time do you have? Because it could take, I think this is just a 30 minute show. But no, in crypto, we kind of feel like every day is a week, every week is a year, every year is a decade, and for Binance, there's been no shortage of big news. When FTX collapsed in November and sort of left CZ as the big 800 pound gorilla that really was kind of lording over all of crypto, there were a lot of thoughts that, hey, maybe this is Binance's moment. It was already the biggest exchange in the world by a large margin, and it just became so much bigger and even more systemically significant. It's been a very difficult year for Binance. Just beginning with the fact that in the 60 days post collapse of FTX, more than $12 billion worth of customer deposits left the exchange. A colleague of mine, our terrific Director of Data and Analytics, Javier Paz, put together a report just talking about these massive investor outflows that Binance has really worked to try to stem ever since. Then the hits kind of kept coming. I believe it was in February that the New York Department of Financial Services forced Paxos, which was the issue of Binance's stablecoin, BUSD, which at one point I believe reached over $20 billion in market cap and was seen as a legitimate competitor to Circle's USDC and the biggest stablecoin of all, Tether, which has a market cap of I think $83, $84 billion or so. But DFS forced them to shut it down. I believe that order was also issued concurrently with something that came out of the SEC as well, and that was a really big hit for Binance. It might not have been quite as flashy as the suits from the CFTC and SEC that came in later, but if you're just talking about dollar terms and financial impact, it was massive because Binance was really trying to make BUSD the biggest stablecoin in the world. They had incentives to encourage trading with BUSD, and in particular, think about what people do. Obviously, Laura, you know this and many people in your audience do as well. When you have $20 billion or $40 billion or $80 billion in cash, you can invest it in treasuries or money markets that are paying 5 % annual returns, and that's an incredible amount of money that you can make virtually risk -free, especially in a market like today where trading volumes are dwindling, reserves are dwindling, it's a really nice way to supplement assets. That's one thing that happened. In March, the CFTC sued Binance for a suite of charges. A lot of it stemmed from the CFTC's allegations that Binance was operating as an FCM, a futures commodity merchant, basically saying that they're offering options and futures contracts at various digital assets without registering with the agency, which is required to do in the United States. Then, in particular, and this much like the SEC's suit which came out in June, they both talked about efforts Binance went to not only let US customers participate on the exchange, but actually help them find ways to get around geo -blocking activities that they put in to make sure that the best customers could still trade on the exchange. There's the CFTC lawsuit in March. There is the SEC lawsuit that came in June. There are rumors that DOJ is investigating Binance and they would bring criminal charges. CFTC and SEC are civil endeavors which would lead to fines and maybe bars from trading and certain activities, but obviously DOJ could bring criminal penalties if they bring such charges and are able to get CZ into custody. There's other aspects too as well. I mean, Binance has been losing payment and their banking partners around the world. Binance US in June had to become a crypto only exchange because they lost their banking partners in the US so they couldn't handle US dollars anymore. They lost their auditor in January, and then on top of that too, just a wave of executive departures going from the C -suite to country managers. This is a lot for one particular exchange, any company really, but an exchange as consequential as Binance to deal with. It's really been just an onslaught of bad news after bad news. I mean, there's been a few glimmers of new product initiatives and things like that. But a few other stats I want to throw in there are that spot volumes, like in terms of its market share, it had about 60 percent of all crypto exchange volume market share at the beginning of the year. Now, for the last few months, it's been at 45 percent and they laid off a thousand people. And then actually, let's also now mention the executive departure this week that was at Binance US. Tell us about that. Right. So Binance, as you as you rightfully said, has been losing market share. They remain the largest crypto exchange in the world, but they are losing market share in this dwindling market. I actually believe the latest numbers that came out from CC Data put Binance's spot market share at least at around 37, 38 percent. And if you're just looking at the spot volumes, they were comfortably still above 20 billion dollars daily, even at the beginning of the year. Now it's down to about 5 billion. At the peak 2021, it was over 60 billion. So, I mean, just think about exchanges make money by taking small cuts of every exchange. And if your volume goes down 80 percent or whatever. I mean, that's money that you no longer that you're no longer getting. And obviously, that's very consequential. And then with the executive departures, as you said, that's something that I know CZ has tried to gloss over. I know when we've reached out to some of the departed executives and they've either responded to us or to just public Twitter postings, et cetera, I mean, they kind of said things like, we want to take care of the family, the time is right. There was no acrimony involved, so on and so forth. But at some point, all this takes the toll. And at least with regards to Binance US, which is the US I think franchise is the term that they like to use for that particular exchange. They're in a very tenuous situation right here. I mean, even before and I'll talk about Brian Schroeder's departure in a second. I believe right now, I just checked the numbers before we recorded this. They're averaging about $20 million, not $200 million, but $20 million a day in transaction volume, 10 million of which is Bitcoin. I believe that I think they charge something like 10 basis points per trade. So if you think about that, like 20 million times 0 .1, I'm not really good at doing math in my head. I use a calculator for that, despite the fact that I'm a financial journalist. But you can just think about how little money that actually is coming in. And then obviously, since Binance US was created in 2019, there's always been issues and questions about its independence from the larger exchange and would it actually be able to find that sweet spot of separating itself in the eyes of regulators while maintaining the super sauce that is made by Binance, a love brand by many customers. And they've gone through three CEOs at this point. Brian Schroeder just resigned. I was speaking with some sources familiar with Binance US. And I was basically told that this was not a planned departure, that the 100 person layoff was, but the removal of CEO Brian Schroeder, the exit of him was not. I've also been told that it's important to kind of keep an eye off some of his key lieutenants now, because remember, when he joined, one of the first things that he did was raise a $200 million actually seed round at a $4 .5 billion valuation. And there was something Brian Brooks, his predecessor had wanted to, but he wasn't able to finish it, Brian Schroeder did. And then for part of that, that kind of saw Binance US as a growth company, he brought in some key lieutenants, chief legal officers, chief risk officers. And I think that now that Binance US is kind of moving away from obviously growth like any exchange to sort of conservation, it's important to look at some people he brought in and they may be looking to leave. And actually one of the sources I was just speaking with told me that their chief risk officer is Sydney Majala. And I want to look at my notes to make sure I don't get the names wrong. And head of legal, Krishna Jubelty have actually emails that have been sent to them by some of the other rank and file have started to bounce back. So I don't know if that necessarily means that they may have already left, but it's certainly I think it's important to now that Brian is gone, see if some of those people that he brought in after he raised this big round with a lot of high expectations, if they are going to follow suit. In a moment, we're going to talk about some of the potential regulatory or potentially even criminal actions against Binance and its executives. The first quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from AMAZING Ethereum Opportunity! (Watch For These Levels)
"Welcome to Discover Crypto! Today is September 14th. It's 11 .34am. We got Tim and Drew on the ones and twos today. How are we all doing today? We're doing fantastic. Alright, you ready to talk some crypto? We're going to talk about, we got some glass node charts that we're going to pull up. We're going to pull up old stock to flow model for Bitcoin. We got some top analysts issuing warnings about Ethereum, also Coinbase coming after SEC, and Bitcoin died again. I don't know if you guys have heard. It has died every now and then, Bitcoin has died again. And then we're going to talk trash about Zuckerberg, maybe. It was a good run though. The life of Bitcoin was a good run. It was good. It was good. You know, Satoshi's vision, it lasted a while. Yeah, it did. We got 15 years or so, you know, it's a good run. Yeah. Alright, well, let's get right into the markets. How are we all doing today? Alright, first off, we got the markets are moving on up, moving on up till we refresh. Alright, we went from 1 .6 to 1 .3. Still looking pretty positive here. We're almost, we could round up to say we're at $1 .1 trillion for the entire crypto market cap here. 24 -hour volume coming in at $38 billion. Dominance coming in at $47 .4 and gas, just not available. Or no, it's North American gas. So what does that mean? $3 .14? I don't know. This is like $3 .60 here in like Georgia. Okay. If gas is high in Georgia, you know, it's high everywhere else. I remember like as a family outing, whenever we like went on family trips, we always got gas in Georgia because it was the cheapest place to get it. So when we're high here, it's… I went to the state line. I went to the state line, checked out the wedding venue. I'm not going to share the name, but I think we're going to go with it. Okay. Some of that good state line barbecue. What is up with state lines? They always have good fire, fireworks? Yeah. Good barbecue. They usually have good carnivals too. Good carnivals too. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. Alright, let's see here. We have $1 ,632. It is at 1 .3 % as well. Keep scrolling. Then we have XRP. It is at 1%. Dogecoin only up half a percent. Solana up 2 .7%. Cardano also only up 0 .4%. Looks like it barely wants to leave that 25 cent range. Just likes being right out of quarter for some reason here. We do have a couple losers here. We have Polkadot down slightly, barely really. We have Toncoin down slightly, down 1 .1%. Really, really nothing is exciting as far as the losers and the gainers. So let's see something. Let's sort by most exciting, but you know what excites me more than anything, Tim, is when people hit the like button. It's a good one. It's a good feeling when people smash like. Yeah, I heard it boosts your happiness 8 ,000%, but there's only one way to figure it out and that's to hit the like button. And then you got to commit. You got to commit. You can't just like hit it and then wait, wait for something to happen. And then unlike it, no, you have to leave it there. I think you have to sleep on it. All right, guys, we do have some movers. We have some gaming, gaming token to the upside. I know KG Jan is quite excited. KG is celebrating because Axie Infinity Coin Axis is up 8 .8%. We have Rollbit just still ripping faces. I actually haven't sold any lately. It was depressed. I didn't really want to sell into the red candles. I might have to try to sell some Rollbit into the red candle or into the green candles. Maybe I sell this as it's overheating and then buy this, but I just feel like it's overheated. I know I saw people in the chat, Caspa. Bye, Caspa. Too late. Yeah, yeah, I'm still too late. It is up 6 % today. We have HBAR. All right, I think I need to add some HBAR. I'm making a post here. If I had 100K, how would I allocate my crypto? Shout out to JChains. JChains had a really, really good viral post where he did it. And me and him, we have somewhat similar portfolio, so I think I'm going to put HBAR. I only have 8 coins that I'm going to choose. I think HBAR should be one of them. Maybe type in a coin. I think I have Cardano and I have Chainlink. I have HBAR. I'm not going to reveal the other 5. Bitcoin and ETH's on there, so I'm not going to reveal the other 3. We have 4 Chain up 4 .4 % to Central Land. Mana is up 4 .1%. I'm still pretty bullish on Mana. Mana was a floater. Almost made it on there. Probably be number 9 or 10. I think what Apple is doing could spell out to be a very bullish scenario for Central Land. VCs love Metaverse. VCs love video games. VCs love whatever the next AI could be. When I say the next AI, I mean just the big VC money suck wives. So then they can have a nice exit strategy. I think video games is going to be one of those strong, strong narratives for VCs. I've been looking at it. I've been doing a lot of research. Coinbase Ventures, A16Z, Paradigm, L1s, and gaming seems to be some of their big, big investments lately. Now let's look at the top losers, the big, fat, juicy losers.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 669:FTXs $3.4B Liquidation and Armstrongs DeFi Challenge
"Beef, it's what's for dinner. Funded by beef farmers and ranchers. Good evening and welcome to the Crypto Overnighter. I'm Nick Ademus and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10 p .m. Pacific on Thursday, September 14th, 2023. Welcome back to the Crypto Overnighter, where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas and no BS. But we do have the news. So let's talk about that. Tonight, we're dissecting the court approved liquidation of FTX's 3 .4 billion dollars in digital assets. We'll also delve into the tug of war between the CFTC and Coinbase's CEO, Brian Armstrong, over DeFi regulation. And if that's not enough, we have FWOBY's rebranding fiasco, the SEC going after stoner cats, Singapore's regulatory hammer coming down on 3AC and the EU passing a new crypto tax law. Get ready for a deep dive into the land of the markets that never sleep. FTX received court approval to liquidate its digital assets. These assets total approximately 3 .4 billion dollars. Judge John Dorsey made the decision in the U .S. bankruptcy court for the District of Delaware. The assets include 1 .16 billion dollars in Solana, 560 million dollars in Bitcoin and 119 million dollars in XRP. Galaxy Digital, led by Mike Novogratz, will act as the investment manager responsible for conducting the sale. The court approved plan allows FTX to sell up to 100 million dollars worth of tokens each week. This cap could potentially be doubled for individual tokens. FTX's liquidation plan was approved despite some opposition. The exchange has assets totaling around 7 billion dollars, which it aims to use to repay creditors. The exchange also has 38 real estate properties in the Bahamas. The liquidation is part of FTX's broader strategy to repay creditors and is considered one of the most significant asset liquidations in cryptocurrency history. FTX co -founder and former CEO Sam Bankman Fried is awaiting trial in October. The exchange has the option to sell, stake or hedge its digital assets. This court approval is a landmark moment not just for FTX but for the entire crypto industry. It sets a precedent for how bankrupt crypto exchanges can handle asset liquidation, especially when creditors are involved. While the court's decision may seem like a straightforward legal procedure, it has far -reaching implications. For one, it's a nod to the legitimacy of crypto assets as a form of property that can be liquidated to repay debts, a concept still not universally accepted. Moreover, the involvement of Galaxy Digital adds another layer of credibility to the process. It's not just some random entity handling the liquidation, it's a well -known firm. Mike Novogratz is a name many in the crypto community trust. This could set a standard for future cases where large sums of crypto assets are involved, from FTX's crumbling empire to a battle for DeFi's very soul. While FTX's liquidation exposes vulnerabilities, the CFTC and Coinbase's Brian Armstrong are locking horns over the future of decentralized finance. Now before we jump in, hit that like button if you appreciate unfiltered insights.
The Living Waters Birth Podcast
Preparing for an Autonomous Hospital Birth With Nurse Midwife Beth Connors
"Would really love to have a conversation about the things that you have seen inside of the system that can like really interrupt. And I mean, we've talked about some of them, but can really interrupt that autonomous birth experience. And then what do you recommend to kind of encourage mothers and the fact that a good autonomous birth experience inside of a hospital setting is possible if you implement certain things like, like what are some steps that women can take to get there? Yeah, I do think that like the first thing comes like first and foremost, like find a provider that is going to support you and that's truly going to take time to answer your questions. I, I feel like that is something that is almost overlooked because I mean, whether it's like finances or you have somebody that is recommended to you by a friend, like a lot of times you're just going to the OB that you've seen forever or that somebody, somebody recommends or is on your insurance. So I feel like even just like auditing in that way and interviewing different providers, like don't even be afraid to switch if it's not a good fit. Like it's not good for anybody if it's not a good fit. But I feel like that is something that I've helped a lot of moms like get out of that situation. Even if they're like 38 weeks and they're like, I can't switch now. And I'm like, you totally can, you could totally go to a random hospital and have your baby just on a whim. Like people do it a lot unplanned, but you can do that planned as well. Not that I recommend that necessarily, but if that's something that you feel inclined to do. So I feel like that's like the first thing really is just like feeling heard throughout those 40 weeks of pregnancy, finding somebody that is actually going to support you and like talk to you. And if you're not getting the education, like to really seek out that education and ask questions and look up like what interventions I should look up or what scenarios should I think about before with my partner, I think is a really helpful thing to do like an exercise. Like I have all of my clients do like an exercise of, okay, if you're in this situation and you know, you're 41 weeks or something and your doctor is like adamant that you get induced at 40. It's like usually like 41 and three or 41 and five, depending on like the practice. But if that's the case, like what is your next step? Like what are you going to do? And I feel like a lot of people in certain situations are like, I really don't know. Like, so it's nice to have that conversation before that actual day happens in terms of like inductions or if you're having a breach baby, if your baby's breach and you don't want a C -section, like is there a provider that will support you in that? Or if you've had a C -section, like can you try for a VBAC? I just feel like a lot of things like that are sometimes just overlooked until a year later on. And then it's all of a sudden, like I feel stuck and I don't want anyone to ever like feel stuck in where they are. And then that leads to more intervention and more uncertainty and more anxiety. And that's overall just not a good experience. That's a great idea to have like prompts for people to work through because you're right. Like a lot of the time it just sprung on people at the last minute and they're like, oh, I don't know when it feels like way too late to even scope out the options. Right. Or even knowing like when your partner, if like, if you're the dad and the mom is like, I want an epidural, like, okay, let's, you know that she doesn't want the epidural, but I know that she's in pain. I don't want to see her in pain. Like, how would you navigate that situation? Because that, I feel like 10 times out of 10 will happen. And the dad's like, what do I do? And you're like, what do you do? What should you do? What does she want you to do? You know her the best. I'll give you all the information. But having that conversation too, with like parents about like, there's the support person, like, how are they going to help best support you? Because I feel like now that I'm newly, I'm like newly offering doula support. So I haven't actually had an in -person client yet. I have a couple of scheduled for early next year. So I'm excited for that, but really preparing the families to like take over in that space. Like I'm hoping to prepare people enough, whether I'm your doula or your online birth educator or a friend. Like, I just want to give you the information that you can go do it on your own. And like, you don't need somebody like standing there coaching along the way, because it is such like an intimate experience. And it is something that you can learn and be empowered and have that experience for yourself. Like you don't need somebody to come and like save you to have your birth. Like you don't need anyone to have, to be there for you to have your dream hospital birth. I think when moms are like, I'm not a provider, I'm not a nurse, I'm not a doula. Like, how can I do that? And that's really empowering when they can like take on the education for themselves and the information and make those decisions and know that they made the decisions that led to their perfect birth. I think it's really special.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Acts 025 - The Spirit's Power
"Okay, well come on in. The water's fine. Good to see you all this evening. And welcome back to our Wednesday night Bible study. We took a summer break. And in the last quarter, we started a study on the book of Acts. Made it all the way through chapter 3. And this morning, not this morning, this evening, if you could locate Acts chapter 4 and verse 1. Sort of to get the cobwebs out. The book of Acts is about the birth and the growth of the church. So in Acts chapter 1, Jesus ascended. In Acts chapter 2, the church is born. Day of Pentecost. In Acts chapter 3, Peter and John heal a lame man. I think he was born lame. He was about 38 years old. And his legs were miraculously restored in Acts 3. Which gave Peter a chance to preach to a crowd. And Peter there condemns 1st century Israel for their rejection of the Messiah. And chapter 3, as you surely could imagine, flows right into chapter 4. Where Peter and John get arrested. So here's an outline of Acts 4. Even going into Acts 5, the Ananias and Sapphira incident. But you have the apostles arrested, verses 1 through 4. The apostles examined by the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin is the existing Jewish legal authority, religious authority in 1st century Israel. That's in verses 5 through 12. Then the Sanhedrin makes a decision, verses 13 through 22. And then the apostles go to prayer. And this is a very powerful prayer that they pray in verses 23 through 31. And then the chapter kind of ends with them, the church that is living in their communal arrangement. Which we saw develop in Acts at the end of Acts 2. And that sets the stage very nicely for the first 11 chapters in chapter 5. Because in that communal arrangement, it involved selling your property and giving the proceeds to the church. And there was a couple there, Ananias and Sapphira, who publicly misrepresented their generosity. And they were slain in the Holy Spirit. And when I say slain in the Holy Spirit, that's not a good thing. Okay. And God brought upon them maximum divine discipline. And that had, as we're going to see, a purifying effect on the early church. So anyway, that's kind of the lay of the land that we're moving into this evening. I don't think we'll be able to cover all of this this evening, but we can make a healthy start. First of all, the apostles are arrested. We have an interruption. The reasons for the arrest. The arrest and the results of the arrest. So notice, if you will, Acts chapter 4, verse 1. It says, as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them. So when it says they were speaking to the people, this is in reference to the sermon that Peter primarily was giving in Acts 3. Where they healed a man who was lame, born lame. He knew nothing but the lack of use of his legs for, I think it says, 38 years. And he's miraculously healed, not by Peter and John, but by Jesus through Peter and John. It's just Jesus is exercising his ministry now from the Father's right hand. Through the church, through the apostles. And a big crowd gathers and Peter uses the opportunity to condemn first century Israel. Their decision nationally to reject their own Messiah. So that's what it means there when it says as they were speaking to the people. So as they were speaking to the people, they're now interrupted by the religious authorities. Who are the religious authorities? It says it right there in verse 1 of chapter 4. The priests, the captain of the temple guard, and the Sadducees. So these are religious officials or workers. We have priests, the captain of the temple guard, and another group here called the Sadducees. And easy to remember the Sadducees is the Sadducees were always sad, you see. Sadducees. Basically, the Sadducees were people that if we were to try to parallel them today with somebody, we would call them theological liberals. A theological liberal denies what the Bible says. You know, it denies prophecy, denies miracles, and that kind of thing. And that's who these Sadducees were. The Sadducees only believed in the first five books of Moses. That's all they believed in. They didn't accept the rest of the Old Testament. So that's why when Jesus is talking to them about resurrection, the Sadducees, and the Gospels, he does not quote from Daniel chapter 12, verse 2 to prove resurrection to them. I mean, why didn't he quote Daniel 12, verse 2? Daniel 12, verse 2 is a great verse on future resurrection. It says, many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but others to everlasting disgrace, to disgrace and everlasting contempt. So why didn't Jesus, when he is arguing with the Sadducees and the Gospels about resurrection, why doesn't he quote that passage? That's a beautiful passage to quote from. Well, the answer is the Sadducees did not accept Daniel as authoritatively coming from God. They only accepted the first five books of the Bible. So it wouldn't do any good to prove resurrection from the Book of Daniel to the Sadducees. So instead, Jesus quotes the Book of Exodus. And I'm getting this from Matthew 22, 32 and 31. Here he's speaking to the Sadducees and it says, but regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God? And now he's quoting Exodus. the I am God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, but the living. In other words, he points out that based on the Book of Exodus, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are alive right now. And he uses that to prove future resurrection. So why would he quote that passage? Because that's one of the books they would accept. He doesn't quote the more obvious passage because the Sadducees did not accept anything other than the Pentateuch, the Torah, the first five books of Hebrew Bible. The Sadducees were also sad, you see, not only because they denied all other scripture outside of Moses, but they denied resurrection. That's why Jesus is debating them about resurrection. They did not believe in angels. Acts 23 and verse 8 says, for the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor an angel. Matthew 22 and verse 30 indicates that the Sadducees didn't believe in resurrection. So you're dealing with people that only believed in the first five books of Moses. They didn't believe in angels. They didn't believe in resurrection. So Sadducee is a pretty good name for these people, right? I mean, I would be sad too if I had a limited acceptance of the authority of the totality of what God has revealed. The Sadducees are a little bit different than the Pharisees. In fact, they're a lot different. In the Sadducees, we can analogize them to modern day theological liberals. Pharisees were conservatives, but they were hyper legalists. They brought in, and this goes back to the Babylonian captivity, the Jewish rejection of the Sabbath sent the nation of Israel into the Babylonian captivity for 70 years. And when the nation of Israel came out of that captivity and came back into their homeland, they said to themselves, we're never going to let that happen again. And so they built what we call a fence around the law. Meaning we're going to pass so many laws against breaking the Sabbath that no one will ever think about breaking the Sabbath. So they had all these rules about how you couldn't eat on the Sabbath. You know, you couldn't rescue a man on the Sabbath. All of these things come into the life of Israel through something called Mishnah, and then Talmud, and there were two Talmuds. There was one in the land of Israel. There was a later one developed in what's called the Babylonian Talmud. And this is why Jesus said of the Pharisees, you make null the word of God through your traditions. Because what happened is the tale started to wag the dog. They started to read the law superimposed over the law were a bunch of man -made regulations and restrictions. So when Jesus is dealing with the Pharisees, he's always dealing with this issue. You know, he's feeding his disciples on the Sabbath. Pharisees are upset about that. He's healing people on the Sabbath. Pharisees are upset about that. And what are they upset about? They're upset about the fact that he's not respecting their rules. Where Jesus' point is the tale's wagging the dog. Your rules are being superimposed over God's actual law to the point where you're burying the original intent of the law under layer after layer after layer of man -made regulation. So Jesus, as the Lord of the Sabbath, was always trying to get back to what the Sabbath meant. It was supposed to be a blessing for man. Pharisees are saying, nope, you can't do anything on the Sabbath. You can't heal someone on the Sabbath, even though that's a blessing for man. You can't feed your disciples on the Sabbath, you know, pick crops and that kind of thing on the Sabbath. Even though that's a blessing for man, you're ruining our rules. So that's a little bit of who the Pharisees were. Pharisees are conservative, but they're beyond conservative. They're hyper legalists. Sadducees are just deniers of what the totality of God's word says. The Pharisees are going to be dominant in the synagogue. They had a higher sphere of influence in the synagogue. What was the synagogue? The synagogue were these places that Jews would gather, you know, all over the Greco -Roman world. And they gathered there during a time when there was no temple to go to. Remember the temple, the first temple that Solomon built was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and wasn't rebuilt until the days of Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah. So what did the Jews do? They would gather in the Greco -Roman world in these places called the synagogue. And the Pharisees were dominant in the synagogue. The Sadducees, as I'm trying to describe it, were dominant in the temple area. So that's why the people that are harassing the apostles in early Acts, really all the way up through Acts chapter 12, are the Sadducees and not the Pharisees. Because the Sadducees had ascendancy in the temple area. In Acts 1 through 12, the early church hadn't spread out yet. And it had a very strong sphere of influence in Jerusalem. So that's why the early church is dealing with the Sadducees, the Sadducees, the Sadducees, the Sadducees, until the Apostle Paul in Acts 13 and 14 goes out on missionary journey number one into southern Galatia. And then you'll start seeing him going to the various synagogues outside the land of Israel. And now the people coming against Paul are not the Sadducees, but now they're the Pharisees. So Sadducees, liberals, Pharisees, legalists. Sadducees dominant in the temple area, Pharisees dominant in the synagogue. Sadducees will be dominant as long as the church has a place of influence in Jerusalem. But the Pharisees as opponents of the church will become dominant as the church spreads out and moves outside the land of Israel. So verse one says, as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them. That's a little bit about who the Sadducees are and why they are the primary detractors of the church at this particular point. So Peter and John, Peter's conversation that he was having in Acts three, a very effective conversation is interrupted. The reasons for the interruption are given in verse two. It says being, now notice this, not just disturbed, but greatly disturbed. Being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and in proclaiming Jesus the resurrection from the dead. So here are these apostles and if you drop over to verse 13 for a minute, you see the way that the religious authorities looked at the apostles. It says, now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus. So what is upsetting to the Sadducees is number one, these apostles are teaching the people and they never went to our Sadducee school. I mean, they don't have a Sadducee degree. In other words, they don't think like we do. I mean, if these apostles thought the way we thought, then they would only accept Moses. They would reject angels. They would reject resurrection. And here are these men who are untrained fishermen teaching the masses there in Acts chapter three. In other words, they don't have the authority to be teaching anybody is how the Sadducees were thinking about the apostles. And what really upset them is they kept talking about Christ's, but starts it with an R, resurrection, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Now that was really upsetting to the Sadducees because the Sadducees didn't believe in resurrection. And here they're claiming that the man that the nation of Israel just turned over to Rome for execution has risen from the dead and his tomb is empty. That doesn't fit our doctrine. The Sadducees would say to themselves. And this puts the apostles on a collision course with the Sadducees. The moment Peter in Acts 2 24, which is a wonderful sermon, said these words, he became, I think at that point, a marked man by the Sadducees. Peter said, but God, speaking of Jesus, raised him up again, putting an end to the agony of defeat, since it was impossible for him to be held by its power. Peter continues the subject matter in Acts chapter three and that sermon there in verse 15. And it says, but put to death, speaking of Israel, the prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead. And he says a fact to which we are witnesses. Remember what Paul would say to the Corinthians. Now there's 500 eyewitnesses, 1 Corinthians 15. Check it out for yourself. They've all seen the resurrected Christ. So what they were saying is Israel rejected her own Messiah. That made the Sadducees angry enough. So then they said this Messiah rose from the dead and the Sadducees were upset even more because they didn't believe in future resurrection or any kind of resurrection. That's why when you look at verse two, it says they were being greatly disturbed, not just disturbed, but greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people. Here are these unqualified fishermen teaching doctrines that we, the religious authorities, oppose. Now you put all of this in motion and you can see why they're arrested. And their arrest is described in verse three. So they laid hands on them, that would be Peter and John, put them in jail until the next day for it was already evening. Now, why didn't they put them on trial right then and there? It's part of Jewish law. Jewish law says no trial in the evening hours. The only one that they violated that rule for was who? Jesus, because they couldn't wait to rush him through the judicial system to get him dead as quickly as they could. So they violated everything in their rule book. But here at least they're respecting the rule book and they're not having a trial in the evening hours because that is forbidden by the Mosaic law. And what is the results of all of this thing, all of this? Because we're kind of in the mindset that, oh no, if the mandates come back, which they could, they're talking about it, you know. And Sugar Land Bible Church stays open, which is at least my intention. I mean, I would like to stay open. I don't think a pastor or an elder board has a right to shut down a church because whose church is it? It's God's church. If God wants to shut down a church, it's his church, he's more than capable of doing it. A pastor doesn't have an authority to close down a church. So if all these mandates come back and hypothetically, let's say we stay open, my goodness, what if they come in here and they fine us? What if they come in here and they arrest us? What if they do like they did to that pastor of that Baptist church in Northern California where they actually chained the doors and keep assessing fine after fine after fine against him with an attempt to completely drive the church that he was pastoring, you know, under? You know, what do we do then? Well, this is where Acts chapter four is so instructive.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 667:DOJ vs FTX, Celsiuss FTC Woes, Grayscales SEC Triumph
"Rockstar Energy punched, bringing a bold and unapologetic flavor packed with energy through a blend of B vitamins, guarana extract, and 240 milligrams of caffeine to fuel what's next. Rockstar Energy drink. Good evening and welcome to the Crypto Overnight. I'm Nickademus and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax, and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10 p .m. Pacific on Tuesday, September 12th, 2023. Welcome back to the Crypto Overnight, where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas, and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. Tonight we're diving deep into the legal labyrinth engulfing FTS and its founder Sam Bankman -Fried. We'll also explore why the FTC is going after Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky. If that's not enough legal drama for you, we have updates on the SEC's standoff with Grayscale Investments. On the regulatory side, find out how the FCA is shaking up crypto investments in the U .K., starting with LUNO. And for a change of pace, we'll delve into the chilling tale of how Ethereum co -founder Vitalik Buterin got SIM -swapped. Finally, PayPal is making its own waves in the crypto ocean. Stick around, you won't want to miss this. FTX is embroiled in a complex legal battle with the U .S. Department of Justice. The DOJ has been accused of overreaching by attempting to block all seven of Bankman -Fried's proposed expert third -party witnesses from testifying. The defense argues that this move undermines Bankman -Fried's right to a fair trial. In preparation for the trial set to begin in October, both the defense and the DOJ have proposed questions for prospective jurors. These questions aim to identify any potential biases among the jurors, especially those related to cryptocurrency or the case itself. Bankman -Fried's bail was revoked last month and he's currently in jail. FTX's assets are valued at approximately $7 billion, including the $1 .2 billion in sole tokens and 38 properties in the Bahamas appraised at $199 million. The company also holds $560 million in Bitcoin and $192 million in Ether. FTX filed for bankruptcy last year, and since then, nearly $2 .6 billion in cash has been secured. The company is facing claims worth $65 billion, including a $43 .5 billion claim from the United States Internal Revenue Service. Over 36 ,000 customer claims worth $16 billion have been filed against FTX. The company is also exploring the possibility of resuming business and has contacted 75 potential bidders for this purpose. The DOJ's aggressive stance against FTX and its founder raises questions about the fairness of the legal process. This is especially concerning for the crypto community, which already harbors distrust towards governmental institutions. The attempt to block expert witnesses could be seen as an effort to control the narrative, potentially skewing the trial in favor of the prosecution. The asset portfolio of FTX is another point of interest. With billions in various cryptocurrencies and real estate, the company's financial dealings are under scrutiny. The fact that FTX is considering resuming business adds another layer of complexity to this already intricate case. The sheer volume of claims against FTX is staggering. The .5 $43 billion claims from the IRS alone could have far -reaching implications for the crypto industry. If the IRS's claim is validated, it could set a precedent for how crypto assets are treated by tax authorities. Now if you thought the FTX situation was a labyrinth, wait till you hear about Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky. The regulatory sharks are circling, folks, which seems to be coming up a lot. Is this the new normal? Keep listening to find out. And hey, if you're liking what you're hearing, don't forget to follow and enable notifications.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Ripple's Fortress Acquisition Shows the Brittleness of Crypto Infrastructure
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 12th, and today we are talking about all of this dust up with fortress and the Ripple acquisition and what it means and who you should be mad at. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends. Well, today we are talking about one of the biggest discussion points for the last week or so on Twitter, which has been the issues surrounding fortress trust. Let's begin our particular slice of the story on Friday when Ripple announced that they had acquired fortress trust. Now, the deal was pitched as an expansion of Ripple's regulated crypto offering as they built out a vertically integrated blockchain services product suite. And Monica Long, the president of Ripple, said in a statement, licenses are a powerful enabler to build and deliver best in class customer experiences for enterprises using Ripple's crypto infrastructure across our payments and liquidity solutions, which she was referring to as the fact that fortress trust holds a Nevada state trust license, which allows it to custody crypto and act as a financial intermediary with the traditional financial system. This would add then to Ripple's existing strategy of accumulating licenses. Between Ripple and its subsidiaries, the corporate group now holds 30 state money transmitter licenses, a New York state bit license and a major payment institution license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. So commentary over the weekend on this fell into two camps. On the one hand, this could have simply been Ripple buying a company to add a custody service to its one stop shop approach to crypto. On the other hand, many viewed this as a quiet bailout of fortress. And indeed, the Friday acquisition announcement was slightly strange in tone. Executives asserted that fortress could add a key piece to Ripple's vertically integrated crypto offering. However, the deal announcement was a little bit out of sync with previous announcements from Ripple. Specifically, the acquisition valuation was not mentioned, which was out of character for Ripple who had brashly announced a 250 million dollar deal to acquire crypto custodian Medeco in May. And of course, we have to put it in the context into which it happened. Fortress itself was already viewed with skepticism. The licensed crypto custodian had been founded by former prime trust CEO Scott Purcell in December of 2021. Purcell had left prime trust in January of that year. That was around the same time that prime trust mishandled wallet storing customer funds, leading to an 83 million dollar shortfall. Several key executives left prime trust to follow Purcell into his new venture. The firm was also aggressive in hiring former banking regulators to their team. The rift between companies was so acrimonious that there were even allegations of IP theft in taking software systems built at prime trust across to fortress. In June of this year, the shortfall in customer funds at prime trust came to light. Around this, the company was first placed into receivership by the Nevada regulator and later declared bankruptcy. Now prior to prime trust acknowledging their insolvency, numerous high profile customers fled for other custodians. It was already widely suspected that prime trust was insolvent at the time. The most impactful departure from prime trust was swan bitcoin. In June, swan announced that they would be transferring all customer funds held in custody to fortress. The transfer took over a week and involved a shutdown of automated transactions with swan. To many, it felt like an emergency operation more than a normal business decision, although throughout the process, swan executives assured customers that funds were safe. So this is where we were over the weekend. Lots of speculation, lots of questions around fortress, lots of questions around ripple. And on Monday, new information came to light around the circumstances surrounding the fortress acquisition. The day before the acquisition, my birthday, September 7th, fortress had posted a disclosure about a security incident which they tried to make seem relatively innocuous. On that day, they tweeted, Thankfully, there is no breach within fortress technology or systems, impacted accounts were fully restored. And most importantly, of course, there is no loss of funds. We immediately terminated the vendor integration and out of an abundance of caution paused all accounts to assess and ensure system wide security. We are taking all necessary measures to make sure the vendor is held accountable. Although this has been resolved, transparency and security are of the utmost important to us and our customers. We also have some big company news we are excited to share later this week. Now, Ryan Weeks, a reporter at the block received a tip that the incident had been far more impactful than it was made out to be. Indeed, he was told that 450 Bitcoin worth around 11 .3 million had been stolen from fortress trust, although that specific amount has been unable to be verified. What has been verified is that the ripple deal was much more of a bailout of fortress than it initially seemed. A ripple spokesperson said, Conversations accelerated last week following the security incident via a third party analytics vendor, but this opportunity makes sense for Ripple in the long term. Luckily, Ripple was in a position to act quickly to step in and make customers whole, and there have been no breaches to fortress technology or systems. Fortress notified customers immediately of the incident when it happened, as they mentioned in their tweets. Now, for those of you eagle eyed observers out there, or I guess eagle eared as the case may be, owl eared, whatever, you'll notice that fortress's Thursday statement said, This technically is consistent with Ripple swooping in to make customers whole, but also somewhat misleading if in fact Ripple had had to bail fortress out to make those customers whole, but also somewhat misleading if ripple indeed had to come in to make sure that those customers didn't actually lose their funds. Now what was also made clear on Monday is that the ripple deal is still pending regulatory and due diligence approvals. Given that we already saw the Bitco acquisition of prime trust fall apart during the due diligence process earlier this year, there is certainly no guarantee that it actually goes through. Now, of course, as you've already heard, there are numerous other companies tangled up in this mess. Swan Bitcoin is, of course, one of fortress's most well known customers. They have been in an absolute narrative battle and have claimed throughout that they were completely unaffected by the issue and the client funds remain safe. The other companies impacted are the custodian services subcontracted by fortress. Their role in the industry is mainly as the holder of a relevant trust license rather than as a tech provider. We know, for example, that hot wallet services are provided by fire blocks, while cold storage is provided by Bitco. And indeed, with the behind the scenes detail now made public, Bitco CEO Mike Belshi wrote a Twitter thread outlining his disappointment with how the entire debacle was handled. On Monday, Mike wrote, they are still at risk and whether Bitco was somehow involved. Spoiler alert, we were not. When fortress lost funds, they chose to omit facts about what happened, downplay the event and conclude, quote, most importantly, no funds were lost. Obviously, we now know this was not true. I guess what they meant to say is we believe we fixed the problem and we have taken steps to make sure clients are made whole. But those two statements are not even close to being the same. Ripple has done the right thing and disclosed that a breach did occur. But fortress still has not made a real statement about what actually happened. So, summarizing what is publicly known, along with what we know from Bitco, one, fortress suffered a breach through some third party integration, not Bitco, two, via fortress's platform and some third party integration, the attacker was able to drain funds from fortress's hot wallet system, three, fortress used fire blocks for its hot wallet system, four, fortress noticed the failure and says they have fixed the problem with the third party, five, although fortress did use Bitco to custody some of its Bitcoin and digital assets, Bitco was not affected. None of the fortress assets held at Bitco were at risk from this third party integration or taken. After the breach, fortress reached out to Bitco. Bitco strongly advised fortress to disclose what happened immediately. Fortress did not do that. Eventually fortress decided to sell to Ripple. This is a great outcome because Ripple was able to make all clients whole and will hopefully help fortress with resources to correct the security weaknesses which led to this event. Ripple is a good actor here and should be applauded. The real victims here are fortress's clients who deserve enough respect to get the whole truth. They are not to be blamed. The whole situation is exactly why we need decentralization. We can't continue to be dependent on the honesty of custodians, bankers or trusted third parties acting with integrity when bad things happen. Bad things will happen and most humans don't have enough courage to be honest through it. So there are a lot of things that people are upset about here. One of the biggest strands of conversation has been around Swan. On September 11th, the company tweeted, Swan client coins are in insured cold wallets at Bitco and did not move during the reported incident at fortress. The coins are protected by video calls and physical access and are not subject to any incidents at fortress. Swan set up this agreement with fortress to use Bitco as a cold storage sub -custodian precisely to prevent such a scenario. Swan has direct on -chain visibility to funds at Bitco. When someone asked what kind of insurance Swan was referring to, Corey Clifton the CEO said, It's $250 million per wallet, with no wallet holding more than $250 million, provided by Lloyd's of London. It's the best setup we've seen. As always, take self -custody if you're willing and able. Now, responding to the critique in general of Swan being associated with these companies, which now have a less -than -stellar record handling customer assets and are now owned by a company that is anathema to many Bitcoiners, Corey wrote, Separation of brokerage and custody is the model for traditional assets for good reason, and there's a good probability it becomes law for digital assets in the U .S. I am not a fan of the trust -me -bro model of brokerage and custody under the same roof, like Mt. Gox and FTX. The goal is to have no single company able to unilaterally move user funds. We very intentionally set up Fortress and BitGo with that model. Now, I understand the narrative frustration here, but at the end of the day, the reason that Swan had to work with these companies is that there just wasn't anyone else. This is why as much as some Bitcoiners are worried about the entrance of traditional financial actors into the space, many others view it as necessary to just have more market options for crypto -native brokerage companies like Swan to actually work with. Anyways, the whole thing is a mess, reflective of how bad the infrastructure is for crypto and Bitcoin right now in the U .S., and a reminder of just how challenging digital assets are, even for companies that have big history in the space. The one other big story from yesterday that I want to cover was the FTX creditor update. The FTX bankruptcy team reports that they have marshaled around $7 billion in assets. Using updated valuations from the end of August, the estate holds $3 .4 billion in major crypto tokens. This includes $560 million in Bitcoin, $192 million in ETH, and $1 .1 billion in Solana. Now, of that, it appears that only $137 million worth of Solana is listed as vesting, meaning a much larger portion of the tokens may be eligible for sale than previously thought. The non -crypto assets include 38 properties in the Bahamas worth around $200 million, as well as $529 million worth of securities primarily made up of grayscale Bitcoin trust shares, $2 .6 billion in cash, and $4 .5 billion in venture investments, although no current valuation of those investments was provided. The firm's liabilities show $65 billion in non -customer claims. That figure is massively inflated by a $43 .5 billion claim from the IRS, which is presumed to be subordinated to customer claims. The IRS generally submits the largest possible tax claim during bankruptcy proceedings, but often negotiates down significantly or differs entirely to a creditor distribution. Of the remaining liabilities, a $9 .2 billion claim from FTX Digital Markets is assumed to be invalid or redundant, which leaves $4 .1 billion claim by Genesis and $2 billion claim by Celsius as the major non -customer claims to deal with. So far, a little over 36 ,000 customers have filed claims totaling $16 billion. Of the claims that have been scheduled so far, around 10 % of customers have agreed to their scheduled claims, while 18 % have disputed their claims and 72 % have yet to respond with either an agreement or a dispute. Now, easily the most discussed part of the news dealt with the firm's clawback strategy. Transactions done within a 90 -day window of the bankruptcy filing can be eligible for a clawback, but in practice, not all claims are pursued. The estate has successfully pursued $588 million in claims so far, and they identify an additional $16 .6 billion in clawbacks that could be pursued. The estate is currently considering how to deal with customer clawbacks where users withdrew from the exchange close to the bankruptcy being filed. Several options being looked at included the full 90 -day window for clawbacks as well as a shorter 15 -day window which captures the major public news surrounding the FTX collapse. Travis Kling tweeted about this saying, This brings up a big question of executability. How feasible is it for the estate to go sue people in every corner of earth? This is a really surprising turn in this deal. Everyone was thinking this outcome was quite unlikely the entire time. If the estate ends up doing what it looks like they want to, it will change the nature of this bankruptcy process. We'll learn more at the 9 -13 hearing. Indeed, the estate is due in court tomorrow Wednesday for an omnibus hearing which will cover numerous aspects of the case including the potential liquidation of crypto holdings as well. You might remember that three weeks ago FTX asked for permission to appoint Galaxy Digital as a selling agent. Selling would initially have a limit of $100 million per week which could increase to $200 million if creditors agree. The market has obviously begun to price in significant fear of this FTX liquidation. Sunday for example saw a liquidity breakdown in Solana as rumors of imminent dumping spread. And yet many think that the market is overreacting. Jeff Dorman, the CIO at ARCA said, The way crypto market makers and traders are front -running the FTX supply shows a complete misunderstanding of how a syndicated sale process works. This isn't an every -man -for -himself VC unlock. This is a court -ordered process that Galaxy will sell very slowly and opportunistically. Lastly, the potential reboot of the exchange remains a possibility. According to the report, 75 bidders have been contacted. The report stated that Proposals are being evaluated. Transaction timing will depend on nature of transactions, readiness of bidder, and other considerations. So, friends, if there are currently two archetypes of breakdown episodes, with one being legal battles that are increasingly poking towards a positive direction for this industry, and the other being cleanup from the excesses of years past, this unfortunately was one of the latter. But, as they say, the only way out is through, and so until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from XRP Has New Competitor?!
"That's what he said. He called crypto and Bitcoin. Everything was a pet rock back in the fall of 2022, early 2023. All right, let's talk about JP Morgan here. Big bank enters the crypto game, everybody. JP Morgan launches a blockchain -based deposit token. You maybe heard of that bank. Kind of big. There's Jamie Dimon right there. Bitcoin price has a long history responding to changes in the banking industry. A recent development on the 8th suggests that JP Morgan is preparing to make a significant impact on digital finance. According to Bloomberg, the bank is on the verge of completing a blockchain -based deposit token, but it is pending approval from US regulators. But I mean, after State Street, after BlackRock, after Vanguard, JP Morgan is going to be high on that list where maybe they're more likely to get a yes than you are or than I am or just, you know, regular regional bank and just boom f Egypt. All right, finally, blockchain and banking. A new start in contrast to stablecoins issued by non -bank entities. This new token will be introduced by traditional depository institution. This token will complement JPM Coin, which is currently limited transactions within the bank itself. However, the new token will enable transactions not only within JP Morgan, but also within other financial institutions, particularly for settlements involving tokenized securities here. Their new system alongside the existing system XRP has raised questions. Some believe it may be impacted by regulatory issues, allowing the SEC to allow new crypto players while retaining Ripple. So yeah, JP Morgan and Ripple are semi -competitors now. Yeah, he got tired of everyone else's pet rocks making money, and so he decided it's time to make some pet rocks of my own, I guess is what we're seeing happen here. I miss the pet rock craze, but I guess I was an NFP, so it's the same thing. Yeah, that's what he said. He called crypto and Bitcoin. Everything was a pet rock back in the fall of 2022, early 2023. So it's pretty classic JP Morgan move here. Again, I've said this before. I think it's a requirement when you're applying to be the CEO of JP Morgan that you have to commit to at least three misdirections a year to tell your clients to do one thing while you do the other, and Jamie Diamond's doing a great job. He's definitely earning his bonuses in that category. All right, we got some big Mackie fans in the chat. Captain Kirk can't stay for the whole stream. He's off today to go ride his motorcycle with some friends on the beach. Hey, that sounds pretty good. Guys, it is the weekend. Make sure you touch some grass. Some point, some point over the next 72 hours. Just at least one blade. All right, let's talk about BRICS here. JP Morgan predicts the future of the US dollar. The world's leading bank and financial institution analyze the de -dollarization efforts initiated by the BRICS Alliance. The dollar is at risk of losing its reserve status as the BRICS countries use local currencies for trade settlement. In a recent analysis, JP Morgan predicted the future of the dollar after facing threats from the BRICS block. The institution studied the risk of de -dollarization as other currencies look to become the global reserve. JP Morgan predicts how long we can remain as the said that the Chinese Yuan is the only contender that is looking to topple the US dollar outline two scenarios. First is global financial situation turns worse, making the dollar lose stability. The second scenario would be external factors outside the US when other countries boost their native currency. So just think, uh, you know, we're stagnant while they move ahead. The first scenario includes adverse events that undermine perceived safety, safety and stability of the greenback and the US is overall standing as the world's leading political and military power. The second factor involves positive developments outside the US that boost the credibility of other countries, economic political reforms in China, for example. However, the chances of these two occurring on top of each other remains slim. The dollar remains the de facto Supreme currency and the Yuan comes nowhere close to threatening it. Therefore BRICS block might not be thrown the US dollar anytime soon. According to JP Morgan, the bull case scenario against BRICS would be, uh, some of these countries do not really get along. Folks, uh, China and India are literally in a land war today. They're shooting guns at each other. And so there's, uh, some of these countries, you know, traditionally speaking, they don't want to do business with each other, but you know, the trade is pretty heavy amongst them. But you know, the, the agel is saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so they can put differences aside if they decide that the dollar is the bigger enemy and US is the bigger enemy. So yeah, you're right. There's that, that happening, but it's going to be interesting to see what BRICS does with, especially, I mean, no, no, no currency in BRICS and BRICS nations is a good currency. I think they are going to have to go the blockchain route to create something to actually compete with the dollar. Does that happen anytime soon in terms of actually giving the dollar problems? I don't know, but that's gotta be the only solution for them. Uh, Deezy, where's your hat? Crank. It is gone. The wind blew it away. The wind blew it away. Uh, channel is still chill. Thank you. Uh, evil mist will touch some grass. Well, don't do no evil misting on your yard outside, or at least wait till it's dark. Top ramen better than hospital sandwiches. I don't know. Some hospitals probably got good food. I mean, there was a hospital out in Tampa that had fantastic food. All right, chat, type in your favorite ramen topping that you add. What's your secret ingredient? Me, probably, if I had to choose one, going with hard -boiled egg. Going with hard -boiled egg. JP Morgan, though, final thing on JP Morgan. Guys, they're not exactly a great actor within the space. This is the violation tracker of banking here, and the penalty since 2000 that JP Morgan has paid, $38 ,000. No, no, no, sorry. I missed a comma. $38 million. Wait, I missed another comma. $38 billion, folks. $38 billion, basically $39 billion. And they've made $100 billion in all those illegal activities, so they are sitting nice and happy. Oh yeah, they're still in the green, baby. They're still in the green. Number of records, 266.
NOCTURNAL
"38" Discussed on NOCTURNAL
"Opened. Dead unmoving eyes stared out. The girl screams brought Amy back. She found herself lying on the carpet. She'd passed out. For the briefest of moments she allowed herself to imagine it had all been a dream. But then she saw tabs, gagged and screaming. Her father's blood matting her hair and dripping down her face. Amy saw the monster holding an automatic shotgun to tabs his head. A monster soaked with that same blood. Amy saw myrrh tucked under the snake man's huge arm. Murr kicked and fought, but snake man just ignored it. And in the middle of it all, Amy saw smiling teenage boy. There, Rex said that's all done. Now I'm going to ask you more questions. Unless you want me to make you choose again, you'll answer them. Amy nodded, and kept on nodding. Over and over and over again. Chapter 33. Handiwork. Rich birdie was just about maxed out. Too many years of this bullshit. Time to start thinking about retirement. Someplace warm. Some plays with rich divorce says and enough booze to drown out any memory of this fucking city. Boca Raton maybe. The wind whipped at a blue tarp tied up inside a cluster of Golden Gate parks gnarled Australian tea trees. The trees were spooky enough all by themselves, even without the corpses that had been found hidden among the twisted, contorted trunks. Rich in several uniforms stood just outside the tarp. He didn't want to be in there, not with those bodies. He'd had his fill of cymbal killings. More than enough for one lifetime. Baldwin Metz was on the way. The silver eagle would get this body out of here, look at his split. That was the process. That was how things were done. Rich just didn't want to be part of that process anymore. He wondered how he was going to tell Amy. How would she take it?
NOCTURNAL
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Leadership Lifestyle Podcast
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"If they're not doing things you need to do that. Contributing to the culture. They gotta go. I know it sounds gotta go get to point where you're firing everybody but you have to build a team that is working together on the same thing again bill. Your credibility as a leader is dealing with those things immediately. An all the time it consistently the same way to where people say. Wow this leader is serious about culture in commitment in what we're gonna do and they're gonna follow right behind you and number three in. This is really super important because a lot of us actually do a large chunk of one in two lately not all of it not a lot of it but number three. Does each team ever know that what they individually do matters in other words if you if you can't describe the impact of each person. Why are they there. If you can't say if this person doesn't come to work in perform these things do what they do. Here's what hair. Here's how it's going to hurt can you. Can you describe that if you don't know their contribution how can they and if you don't talk about it how can they. How can they know. They're being seen that. They contribute does each person on your team see their task list or the team purpose because a lot of our jobs a lot of them a lot of the parts of the job are boring and not fun and if you described some of them to people they might say that's a that's exciting. Yeah but they're necessary for a bigger picture is boring and unfulfilling or purpose villain engaging when you think about things of what contributes to your company. Winning in the can't win without a it sounds somebody in payroll you'll pay payroll taxes. Promise you the federal government is gonna come visit. You may not sound very glorious working in payroll but there's a lot of things going on there where people are compensated for what they do in the businesses doing things the legal way. And if you don't have that they don't see that higher purpose of hey we cannot function without you while they're gonna feel like they're doing something boring they're gonna feel like their unfulfilled. Each team role matters. No one should be hiding if they are or they. Don't i mean really matter like if you really listed everybody and every job out on a sheet of paper and it didn't matter didn't contribute to what you were doing. You shouldn't have that role you shouldn't be paying it but if you are they can't be hiding. They have to understand why they're important. The bigger picture of what it contributes to make make them understand think of if you work in a corporate office in the e have nightly sanitation going on. If that just wasn't there and everybody had like really cool idea of we're going to save money so everybody who comes in before they do anything cleans up everything real quick. How productive you think they would be if they were doing. Things like that Every role has to matter but he can't just say hey you matter you have to say here's why you matter here's the contribution you're making an if this wasn't here we wouldn't be successful in what you gotta do with that. That's this right. Here is probably the hardest part to do of keeping everybody motivated understand. What's going on. So let's talk about the mental gas tank for just a second you. You know if you're taking a long road trip you have to fill up the car as you go. You go a couple of hours of your like me. i used to. I don't do this anymore. But i would go until the tank ran out. That's our next stop. That's about six hours recipe when the car. Not so happy with that but would you. Do you fill the tank. Get out you walk around strategy get something to eat. Econo- refocus sitting car.
Leadership Lifestyle Podcast
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"What does winning look like for your team. The second thing you gotta do is does your team. No they are winning again. I know that sounds like a crazy question. But do they really know in. Here's here's what you need to be doing. This is the question you got to be able to do. They really know they're winning without much research like they don't have to ask constantly or wonder is he really. We talked about gauge men earlier. If they don't know what they do is creating a win. How on earth you expect him to be positive to want to do more to to want to help the rest of the team or ask more questions. And i know it sounds like a crazy thing but once you've defined what winning looks like you got to tell what the progress where they're at. Why are we hiding data. Why do we think it's top secret. Are you afraid that oh well of is not going well at the moment. Maybe the shut off people want honesty. They want clarity. They wanted direction. So your team has to know without really digging into a lot of stuff or waiting the end of the quarter to know. Are they winning or not. They have to know it so as a leader. What what data can you find. What can you give them if you've already established in step one of showing him when he looks like and what that really is is laying out the daily behaviors in decisions that support winning at whatever goal. You're trying to accomplish. So how do you gotta now that you set that. How do you show them. They're actually doing it. What can you give them again. Is the celebration about the process or just about the final number. And if we don't hit it or make a goal that doesn't make sense to them but they don't know how they're not even gonna try and you don't wanna create participation trophies which do wanna create his benchmarks which do wanna show them as you're heading in the right direction that they're going toward that goal based on what they're doing every single day because you laid it out for.
Leadership Lifestyle Podcast
"38" Discussed on Leadership Lifestyle Podcast
"Everybody wants to on the one who helped win in a weird sense. They almost hope the people they actually work with. Don't do well that they lose so they can look better thinking about an entire sales team in lot of places they have. They're all of their sales people all their numbers on the board. There were there at a lot of times when people are competing like that. They almost hope somebody else loses a deal so they can look better so they sabotaging each other orally supporting each other. Do they really understand that. It's important for example on a sales team. If for whatever reason you picked up the phone and it was the client of another salesperson and you can help close that deal knowing you don't get official credit for if that's what you wanna call it or even a commission. Would you still help. Would you still contribute to make that happen. So did you make winning goals into chewable chunk behaviors because everything you're working toward is really behaviour-related of are we doing the right behaviors right decisions and all those things but when you just make a huge one off lofty goal again the last chapter of the book. It might look so large that they're just we. How are we're going to do all that. And do you break it down into steps on how to get there and put it into chewable chunks of behaviors of a couple of things it could be doing in order to get there at. Here's where you gotta be tough as a leader mentally do you. You celebrate progress. I in focus on behaviors. That you want this is what's really tough about that because it is so easy to constantly talk about what you don't want or you get what i call shotgun accountability. Where one person on the team does something and you email everybody telling them not to do it in ninety eight percent of aren't doing it but you really got a honing in on. What are the behaviors..
Leadership Lifestyle Podcast
"38" Discussed on Leadership Lifestyle Podcast
"Is that what we're rewarding. Is that what we're talking about constantly doing in order to get that result or do we just skip to the end. There's almost like reading the first chapter of a book and reading the last chapter of a book and expecting one the book to be enjoyable to understand it all. You're reading the last chapters. Like how did we get here in often so we just continue to to miss all the good stuff in the middle of. How did they get there. And how does your team get there. So if you don't spell that out for him 'cause while at the same time you're frustrated about it you're not spelling out what needs to be done as far as what are. They doing every single day in their behaviors in their decisions. But here's what's always missing is we never say. Here's why it matters. Here's why the team gets to perform well in a conference on goals if we do these things and the because i said so is not is not good is not productive is not helpful. Just because you think you're charging to say that but if you really want to build that team commitment through follow-through accountability communication collaboration ask yourself this. What is the culture of your teamwork How do they communicate as cheesy. But you think about love languages. How people you probably. Hopefully you have some people that work on your team. That can just start saying something in the other person gets it almost like a love language. How do they do that. You turn into a work language or do they really know like it's time to pull the car over in talk in..
Leadership Lifestyle Podcast
"38" Discussed on Leadership Lifestyle Podcast
"Ugh about winning. We want to win. We all have goals to hit. We got sales goals profitability goals production goals. And so on. But when i'm talking about is how do you create sustainable winning over a long period of time and at the same time build your team get them to collaborate away. They never have before and build your brand as a leader. We're gonna get into all that in three steps that you can take to make all of that hap- coming right up is found for the leaders of myself podcasts. Welcome to another episode of lifestyle podcast on your host mark stress. And i know whether you're starting a small business you're a solo noor or leader in a large company. You need to collaborate with people. I want to help you make those.
Paul Pickett Podcast
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"Least <Silence> <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> outgoing like <Speech_Male> it. <Speech_Male> The <SpeakerChange> lease it <Speech_Male> becomes sports <Speech_Male> now. It's not entertained. <Speech_Male> The more you add <Speech_Male> politics sports <Speech_Male> at least in attaining <Speech_Male> it is. <Speech_Male> Sports is a form <Speech_Male> of entertainment. Politics <Speech_Male> is not a form entertainment. <Speech_Male> so what'd <Speech_Male> you co-pilot all these politics <Speech_Male> or the sports <Speech_Male> you take it out their detainment <Speech_Male> aspect of <Speech_Male> his. It's not entertaining. <Speech_Male> No more <SpeakerChange> <Silence> when you know <Silence> <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> why people <Speech_Male> turn on <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> the <SpeakerChange> nba <Speech_Male> in pretty <Speech_Male> much be told <Speech_Male> all white people <Silence> are racist <SpeakerChange> which <Speech_Male> is a <Silence> blatant lie does <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> not a fact. <Speech_Male> It's no <Speech_Male> truth. <Speech_Male> No proof <Speech_Male> whatsoever. <Silence> <Silence> <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> This idea <Speech_Male> any race is <Speech_Male> a one hundred percent <Silence> anything <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> is <Speech_Male> bullshit. It's <Speech_Male> horse shit <Speech_Male> it's bogus it's <Speech_Male> fairy. Tales <Speech_Male> made <Silence> up magic <Speech_Male> bullshit. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> No races <Speech_Male> one hundred percent of <Silence> any one <SpeakerChange> thing <Silence> <Speech_Male> <Silence> at once again. <Speech_Male> Even in <Speech_Male> racist people <Speech_Male> have preferences <Silence> <Speech_Male> in. <Speech_Male> That's african <Speech_Male> american listens to <Speech_Male> hip hop <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> to jazz. Rb <Speech_Male> saw <Speech_Male> some listen to rocky <Speech_Male> role. <Speech_Male> Guess what <Speech_Male> some african <Speech_Female> americans listen to heavy <Speech_Male> metal. <Silence> Believe it or not <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> not <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> <SpeakerChange> only <Speech_Male> just white. People listen <Silence> to heavy metal. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> There's plenty african. <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> Americans <Silence> that are grungy <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> rock <SpeakerChange> people <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> stop it. I <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> dated a check. That was <Silence> a grungy ratchet <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Silence> and she was black. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Music_Female> <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> She listened to <Speech_Male> more rock rock <Silence> and roll music. Did i did <Speech_Male> <Silence> you know. <Speech_Male> But <Speech_Male> but that's america <Speech_Male> you know what atlanta <Silence> the hypocrites <Silence>
Paul Pickett Podcast
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"Excuse me you wouldn't have the border wide open. The border is wide open. And you sit in unvaccinated. People catching kovic stop it. You don't care you don't care it's everything is all politics politics. Every dig is all about pieces. Sell buddy it's always about peace at everybody. 'cause you can't appease everybody in politics you can't appease everybody period in life people always buy a preferences. People always have preferences. I talk about this music business audio time artists thinking at the just cause you make music. Everybody's supposed to just love your music. Just 'cause no people have preferences you know they have preferences so yeah man. We gotta stop it with this hypocrite. Hypocritical stuff in america man. I mean it's a bunch of critical stuff the security. Richardson us hypocritical. 'cause i mean come on stop it. She got away with murder compared to japan because she would have got five to two years for smoking weed in japan. And we gotta stop acting like american laws dictate laws. One st dictates all america's laws just because she is it a state that might be legal as doesn't mean she compete for the country. because guess what. It's not legalized everywhere. It's not it's my state is going to be the last illegalized potato right now. It sucks. I hate it but i know. Women's soccer achieved much hypocrites. You know you wanna reap the benefits for playing for the limpets but you hate america so much. Anti american in a You hypocrites go compete for russia and china and then you won't be so much a hypocrite. That's what anti america's really would do you know Not much more really talk about. Usa Yeah won't usa lost in basketball and really the basketball team's pretty woke to you. Know all these guys they lose woke. Usa basketball team won't women's soccer team but at least a men's basketball didn't really deal though it. I'm saying if they did. I would have to say that. needle should be competing for olympics. You know like. I said what they feuded. Nil in the nba is another thing. If you don't epics such a hypocrite you competing for the country. You reaping all the benefits for competing for the country. But you're anti you're anti country that wouldn't fly the world's only america. Would you get away with it. Get the little rich. 'cause i'll tell you. North korea china. Cut your wrist off. If you think you new. They flag during olympics. That you went. That went. fly your cut your hands off the though you in prison. I know that for a fact. They're not you ain't gonna see if any olympic athletes north korea. China was the neil for their flag. You never see that guy again a laugh. I'm guaranteed you'd never see him alive. It might be prison or might be dead but he will. You won't you. None of us will see him alive. I guarantee that was it. Hit that could subscribe button. Don't get the audio version of our podcast. Spotify equities amazon tooting slacker iheartradio. Google paul pick. Podcast i'm your host. Paul picket triple p. As started out as a sports podcast. But now we're doing sports music politics all combined road up in one. You know what i'm saying. Well i'll give you my take on different topics and basically brought in politics music because.
Paul Pickett Podcast
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"Once they go from person to person they spread and a natural organic matter. It's not like you can talk like we don't blame people for getting the cold every single year. We don't buy people forgetting of flu or stomach virus. Well we're going to blame people forgetting kovin just because they say that now vaccinated okay. That's cool okay. Yeah maybe the now vaccinated more at risk. Maybe maybe okay but also maybe some people don't want to control what goes into their body. I got friends that don't eat like i eat. I eat non healthy stuff. I don't eat healthy. And i have friends that eat very healthy. And they like to control what goes into their body. First of all the vaccine isn't even on full approval so if somebody has doubts they have all the reason in the world have doubts when it hasn't been fully approved second of all democrats are the biggest hypocrites in the world sitting there complaining about cova numbers rising. When you tell everybody just come in from south america with a border you telling everybody come one come all your such the biggest hypocrites on the planet because if you really cared about. Vaccinations spread it. Vaccinations being taken. And you really cared about. Covert spreading. You you got you got. You would have a border open. We got more restrictions across the border inside america than we do at the border. The borders wide open. It's wide open for business but inside. Are you still got restaurants. That aren't even open for you to go inside. I still can't even go get a fish platter up here at the the country fish fry. I still can't even get a fish played in the country fish. Fry. 'cause it's still cova restrictions. You still got masks restrictions. Now they're talking about oh about bringing mask restrictions back for vaccinated and now vaccinated. Okay first of all if you got to bring back mask mandates for the vaccinated. What does that tell you. What does that tell you. Leaders vaccination isn't all that hundred percent like they it is all the great vaccination at it they get is and if it was if it was such a great vaccination you would only have to take it once when you get a flu vaccination you don't take it every six months you just take one flu vaccination and last you a lifetime so the fact that first of all it's not a it's just a temporary solution. Basically is what they're saying. Second of all. It's not a guaranteed solution. That's what they're saying if they if they're going to bring back masks even for vaccinated people all they're saying is they have no faith that the vaccinations are as effective as they say they are. They don't they vaccinations of fully effective. They think they're temporary solutions. Data files she could get on spew. All the lies he wants. This guy is a puppet on the strings. Has he said something's true possibly. Maybe i'm sure he has. But this idea that we didn't get money to the chinese who spoke his money from. Us went to them. Now if you want to sit there and say you gave him money for one thing and they use it for another. Hey that's okay but guess what it does it negate the fact that you're still complicit in you're still guilty 'cause you gave them the money in the first place you trusted though if i give somebody money and i think.
Fallen Short Podcast
"38" Discussed on Fallen Short Podcast
"Run into so many challenges. And that's when we're like that scripture thaddeus read. We're putting our mind on earthly things. We're looking to the earth to help us. Whether that's an addiction or family or your spouse or your boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever we can look to the world around us to comfort us filling burden when we're filling way down by the world rather than looking to god and so for me i. I wanted to start out our first week. Talking about mental health and roots have depression to really talk about the importance of having your soul. Inker to god and i'm looking forward to the next few weeks. I have some really good content. That i'm really excited. But this is i know to you might feel very simplistic because you might already be a follower of jesus and that's awesome but there might be some of you who have yet inker your soul to the lord and have yet to walk in that place of complete surrender of the things that are weighing you down and i hope this encourages you to draw near to god. The bible says draw near to god and he will draw near to you. And so i would just encourage you. If if you're feeling really weighted down right now. This is the best best best place to start when i've struggled with anxiety and depression. The very best place to start has been by going to god. I think what you said trish near reference to scripture about coming near to god and come near to you. it's it's important that that we do give that priority that we don't just shrug it off. You know and i know like you know this first week might be a little simple and there may be a lot of people that listen to this that had already believers but it to speak to you that already believe in jesus and what he's done for us it's really you know. Make it a priority to seek came out and if you're not there yet keep listening and hopefully we can provide some insight not that we're perfect or that we have all the answers but you have any questions. Let us know if you enjoyed this week's episode coming to you on thursday. I know last week. We've mentioned that. We're kind of sorting wednesdays or thursdays. Well i think thursdays this is what's going to be so again. Might not be every week but we do have an exciting resume super exciting june. So hang on tight as we're working out details for what most of june will look like but we are so excited to be talking about mental health because it is not talked about enough especially in the faith community and if it takes a whole month of dedication to mental health to kind of break that stigma and like i said if you are wherever you land on the mental health spectrum listen to this because there are things that you will be able to pull from it and be blessed by be on the lookout On thursdays and we're going to try very best to more active on social media as well so if there isn't going to be eight episodes hopefully we can give you an update or if there is will hopefully be giving some promotion to it and so you can find us on facebook now if you look for fallen short podcast. You can find.
Fallen Short Podcast
"38" Discussed on Fallen Short Podcast
"Our life a certain ways and our depression is acting in a certain way but really deep down what is causing that depression. And i know for me. That's when my soul hasn't been inker to god when my depression has hit its peak of peaks that spike spikes has been those moments. Where i'm not putting my hoping. God jesus said in matthew eleven twenty eight through thirty come to me all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens carrying around that anchor. That weight and i will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you. Because i am humble and gentle at heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy to bear and the burden i give you is light. I think in that passage. I mean it's very direct right and come to me right. I'm here for you just like when you've heard probably that you know god sent his one and only on the die in the cost for you know for you for your sins right and we were just coming off of eastern and so a lot of us have heard about easter and and how jesus came and he died for our sins but he didn't just come to die for our sins. He came in this passage. Saying come to me. You're you're carrying these burdens. Bring them to me. I'm going to give you rest right. Like he's gonna take it off. We're carrying this inker. Were carrying these things that hold us down and when we go to jesus and we hand these things to him that are like down in our burden to us. He is willing to give us. Restaurants has his yoke is easy to bear his burden. He gives to us as light. And when it's talking about the yolk carry this yoke upon their shoulders and upon their neck and it would connect them to another accident and then they would carry the carts through the filled and plow and dig up the land in the soil. And what jesus telling us. Is that when we come to him. He helps us we. Instead of being yoked to the world and connected to the world we get connected to jesus and he helps carry that.
Fallen Short Podcast
"38" Discussed on Fallen Short Podcast
"The rest of the month of may. And maybe we'll go into june. We'll see where this goes. We're going to be talking about mental health as the month of may is designated as mental health awareness month. There is such a stigma around mental health. And here's the thing. We all have mental health. Some of us have a better mental health than others. Some of us have a worse mental health but we all have a mental health oftentimes with mental health. We want to focus on the symptoms of mental health such as struggling with eating disorders cutting ourselves suicidal thoughts etc kind of the way our mental health displays itself to the world. However we don't focus enough on the root of what is causing our issue with mental health. And so we're going to take the next month or so to just really dive in talk about different. I would say routes mental health tonight. We're talking more specifically about having on incurred soul who's six versus nineteen and twenty says. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul. A hope both share and reliable and one which enters within the veil where jesus has entered as a forerunner four us having become a high priest forever. According to the order of melchizedek the scripture is talking about how jesus is the anchor for our soul. What happens when a boat is anchored. It just gets tasked about between the wins in the ways it doesn't sit stagnant. It keeps going wherever the wind takes it and it doesn't find a resting place. What is interesting to me about this passage of scripture. I was just reading recently in hebrews where it was talking about this and it really like spiked interest in my heart. Because what it said. Is that the forerunner back in the day. Was they'd have these huge massive ships but they wouldn't be able to take the ships into the harbour because it wasn't deep enough so they would send out a boat that they call the forerunner and it would go into the harbor with the inker and it would drop the anchor in the harbor so the boat would stay close to land but it wasn't too close land to get hurt but it was still anchored to the land and talked about how jesus is our anchor and how jesus is our forerunner. And he's the one who inkers our our soul in our heart to god into the kingdom of god. And i just thought it was really cool and it really blessed me because that's where hope is found and that's where our salvation is secured. I think oftentimes what we do. Is we try to do things ourselves in life. We try to will ourselves to be better. We try to try. We try to be our best. We try to.
Caffeinated Chaos
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Sidewalk Ghosts
"38" Discussed on Sidewalk Ghosts
"More big fan of science fiction right and who's happened and science fiction has is not about the future. It's about the now through different lens. And i get very frustrated with a lot of distance stories. You know the stories that are bout was miserable. The end times it's going to be this So when i look at the world. I see a lot of problems. You see a lot of harshness. Souci lot of this union and and disorder in distress. And and i thought often about the fact we don't have community places to have real exchanges and i've insert myself into those into those conversations. You know where. I don't agree with what they're saying. But i try to find ways sometimes to to sort of say. Hey i here. You're saying book. Let's actually have a dialogue about. Let's let's find some commonality and so far. I've walked away generally unscathed you know. There's there's usually resistance what are you doing. Why bother me but if you approach it the right way you actually find. Maybe not agreement at the dinner. You haven't swayed somebody else over but you've actually found a place to have a conversation and maybe you're nodding your head a little bit about what they're saying and maybe they're actually nodding in return which we don't get otherwise we've lost so many of these and replace them with memes and news feeds and mistakenly think that those actually activate that commonality at first impression of his resume it can be assumed. He's a man driven by list of temporal accomplishments. Yet as he shares of who he is and as we take the chapters of his introduction. It's easy to see the humility that resides within him with the mind that but what's to come thinker. He not only ponders of the world in which we're living but imagines the world where walking into he recalls. Simple moment years ago when i work more directly and in comic books and and i would get invited to stores signings autograph sessions instead of things and i got invited to this one in west texas think it was west texas this texas definitely somewhere texas big place and and you know was all full of myself and went to the store and nobody showed. Nobody like nobody cared. That i was there so i sat there for hours. Stacks of whatever it was assigned except for this one. Kit showed up and young. He had a couple of stories and maybe illustrations he had done. And i had nothing else to do so i just talked to the kid. Most of the day gave him pointers joked with them. This that and the other thing didn't think twice about it. And i had a driver that day because it was so far away west texas. The driver was sitting there that whole time. And we got back in the car at the end of the day and the driver turned to me. And i wasn't thinking about any of this and he said that kid will never forget this day for the rest of his life and as a pretty talking about you know he was making the point the fact i had given that kid attention and encouraged his doing but i had an intended. It wasn't like i was leaning into it but sometimes it's those at those things that maybe are just small gestures. You don't even think about but they they can make a hopefully they do make an impotent and they add up over time as opposed to well. I'm gonna do this big thing and speak programs big. Whenever baby steps and commonality he suggests speaks of how small or large the wakes of even our smallest gestures can radiate asks us to not get so caught up in our own accomplishments disappointments that we don't take time to truly see those around us. Perhaps he is gently challenging us giving us reason to look over the walls of a plausible dystopia future and as he does he releases. Each of us sincerely consider the links that bind us. I think that there's an inherent need for connection. And you owe it to yourself to discover that and if you can do that on your own through introspection or finding a philosophy finding a faith some type of therapy. If that's what's necessary cracked the code on yourself at no matter what point or stage you on your life. Well i'm fifty. whatever. I'm i'm past the point of doing that or i'm twenty. I'll still figure it out on my own home. Take the time to figure it out. You owe it to yourself and it's okay to be selfish in that way being separate is not worth it. Yes he has achieved a degree of success yet. When he speaks of his priorities he mentions no quest for wealth even admits his work is secondary to what he feels most important simply. His role was a loving father as a caring husband as a good friend and as a contributing citizen to this world in which we share so it is as we take a pause to absorb the voice of today's stranger. Now friend dan. My we open our hearts minds and actions pass any barriers. That just might be of our own making back to dan. I would say ask the person next to you. What matters to the most because when you understand that about somebody else you see yourself more clearly and then you. You understand them better. I think if we understand that and the answer is honest if we listen we truly listen. Go beyond the go beyond. I can't understand that now. There are all these factors these burdens that we carry. And it's hard to think about the other and not just within yourself. And i think every one of us can find something relatable and that's what we should aspire to.
Flash Fantasy: Rift Walkers
"38" Discussed on Flash Fantasy: Rift Walkers
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You Really Shouldn't Have
"38" Discussed on You Really Shouldn't Have
"Album the very same week my record with lulu and the top ten with lulu death metal. Didn't tell death metal band that the thought my lose started a chain of events because not smith. Money's take listen to it. It was a fan of lulus instead to gary. Whoever's made this album so she sounds amazing. We should continue with us. So i all the phone call. You want to take back and the next thing was a phone call alone. Gary ballo in alliott coins man guys became batch mates and we still always told to each other every day getting better. But that's we row everything changes in the sitting. And you know. I always had them bishen number one by the time. I was twenty five and freakishly everything. Changes once number one on my twenty fifth thursday simone. Believable he was an incredible by tell that much and it was. Now you mentioned earlier and say you'll be. There was a big sonia right with them. But how did that comes to be a bit of a story there yet. You know after everything changes at a couple of other hits and freaked out a little. I felt a bit of a phony. I really wanted to be a great songwriter. And i felt like i was flying by the pants. From honest i really feel. Like i was and you what i was doing so i asked. My manager is my publisher sony. Would they support me. If i put a little studio home icy bohm. That's house off them. They wanted to bungalow in. You know they. They hold a sample. How successful extension on the back and wheel semi and you know sheffield and but i could put my gear in their work from home said to martin my manager. I know this is a risk ano- it means only working people just want to shut the doors and spend a year like learning my craft as a as a as a songwriter and i feel like it can take on anything i said. Okay fair enough. Point i'd us to be To go talk me. This guy who has gone to see wanted to talk about. I don't see him and this was Christina and he was managing. Another playing. I i was gonna say so. I asked critical to manage anyone else. You know and he said well we've call these five girls nice not quite ready yet. Psychopath embracing it's already for you. And i said really sounds awesome. Fire go by and just done boy bands. You know let's Said let me wear with them. And if it goes well our the other artists now and okay so we put together the night before that session. I call martyrs. I've known about these girls tomorrow or anything about it. He said nobody. If the council they'll have to pay for the cancellation the studio booked two studio for anyway later on the nile. In know the session. I phone call. One of those big old brick foams the vibrate really knew about the whole building and it was The guy from the studio that boat day. Stay there from Fond of to hear the needs to talk to you from on your working with jerry melby and we need to see. We got to talk to you again. The address where they came up and she said look. I know this is awkward but with sacking manager. Tomorrow he won't as what with anyone and we decided to. We've left the house and were firing him and we wanted to find you because we really wanna wear it with. You wouldn't give as your number so we've just turned up to sheffield to find you. I said what she's we thought we'd let you open the phone number in the phone book realize that five or six hours ago so just called every studio so we could find you. I said you know that gas. And luckily i don't even know you manage your cost. Continue into the great is anyway. I stay so that was overnight. Five sisters descended on me which might sound like a fun time. I can tell you we had the best the best time. They crashed over that no money. Give them money for petrol. Feed them and take them for pizza and whatever else but oh my goodness do we have a great time. Just it was absolutely brilliant. Time of harry. They his nose a bit. I was relegated to the sexy. But jerry and i started a fantastic friendship that continues. I love that girl. I love all of them. They're incredible goals and they went out. We wrote these fun songs. Brilliant time in my house and they will now literally changed the world one of those songs who say we that now we've reached the part of the show elliott where i have to ask you. What is the worst gift been given the worst for always given to me by my sister. Ever if you ever sold the amazing series this is england just brilliant senior when the young when he had the first series when the young lad wants to dock to be us cadet and he's does wanting to get ducks since this shock a shopkeeper clocks while the moments doing and she gives him so the pair boots and says he's a from london made all the difference. My sister used to do this all the time. By the west especially for the kids in particular my daughter i remember once she addressing an a ninety and she wants to see them and they were so cheap and nasty actually gave off. Sparks worried that she was gonna get into flames in his book. I'd say what is this schwinn. it's not changing of come from london. Come but i remember ossis you bought my son a car and looked impressive and she tended on an ally of flushing stuff and then incredibly loud and distorted. Was that record columnists and wrong be. It's really loud blaring out on this thing. And i looked why you think jim lasts about five minutes. I think but the worst one this this was this was the funniest. We got some relatives. That my mom. My mom is so efficient shoes to have those capita monte ornaments in a house. You know there's old fashioned like dancing ladies nice of them all time but my relatives who would see on seoul. I liked them. I got married me some of these paths. Which would you laughed all released but the kind of people that might just descend on one some afternoon so we kept them in a little box next to the sets a and anytime i saw the creek with put him on the mound sophie so the own logo go. You bet your own. Oh yeah we live here. So one time. I went out. Came back to find that car in the drive and had not pract my partner about this so i came in a lows and they went up on the mantelpiece now could say stood there so confused and i said to my partner. We told them about the break in. And oh no no. I said oh. Yeah we were burgled. I said the only expensive obviously conceded. So call the catamounts in a couple of other things. But i must have scared the mosca to the wires roll out of the back of the taliban in style out somehow total fudge around the find. The both thankfully we're able to throw him out because hold on. I'm telling.