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Jared Asch Asks Loella Haskew and Cindy Darling: Is "Measure O" Working?
"Let's get local and talk about Walnut Creek for a minute. It's been about a year since we've the people of Walnut Creek have voted in Measure O. Talk to us. It's an additional sales tax to provide benefits for the city. Is it working and what are we doing with the money? What are the priorities? Start Cindy Ann and you can fill in the gaps. Yeah. OK. So the first thing we did to promise the community is to find an oversight group so that they look at what we've done to make sure that we live up to our promises of what we and we were going to do when we started the Measure O process. Interestingly enough, when I first ran in 2012 or 2011, I ran on a half cent sales tax increase and I got the more votes than I ever did since then. I think there were a group of people who knew that we weren't quite we needed a little extra oomph in our spending. We've done some additions at the police department. We've made some spending for attracting more people downtown where we're doing things, a lot of things in and around it. But the biggest project is the one that Cindy Darling is working on. And so I'm going to let her take over. One of the reasons I ran for council is it's important for a community. My kids loved growing up in Walnut Creek. They swam, they played Little League, they played this, they played that, they did this art class. And a lot of the facilities that they were accessing were built back in the 50s and 60s. And we all know things that were built in the 50s and 60s are now starting to fall apart. And we need to pay it forward to the next generation. And that was a big driver on Measure O. The Clark Swim Center and Heather Farm is one bad accident away from its pumps not ever running again. So we are working on a new community center and a new aquatic center to carry on the traditions in Walnut Creek. And that was one of the bigger drivers of Measure O. We are in the planning phase right now and we have a lot of active, robust public input coming into the process. We have a survey out. You can go to the city councils with the city's website and take a survey on what you want out of that community center, what you want out of the aquatics facility. And we're going to be working to get it so it's up and operational by 2027 and it's going to be cool. Yeah. And there's there's some concern over the money from Measure O coming up on the ballot. Do you I don't want to take up too much time going into every detail on it, but can you talk about what is coming up in 2024 and what impact that might have on Measure O as well as a number of other regional measures? There are two things to be addressed by the population. The first one is how many votes do we need to do to get permission to have an additional sales tax? If we go out for a specific purpose right now, you need two thirds of a vote of a community and it's incredibly difficult to get that. If you go out for a general measure, you only need to get 50 % plus one vote. There is a measure being brought forth by a business council that wants to remove so much freedom with what we local people can do with taxes. And so they want to make every vote a sixty thirds vote. And the thing that is most concerning to us because of our position is they can claw back a vote that happened in 2022 and say you have to run it again and get the two thirds vote. So so we're nervous about the business one. And we're also thinking it's 10 % of people will vote no on any thing that has money to do with money. And that's in order to get 65%. You've got to work really hard. And so a lot of cities don't have the capacity to get important things done because they can't get out there and get this full measure of voters to pay attention.
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Fresh "50S" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Saturday temperatures upper 50s to middle 60s. I'm 7 News meteorologist Steve Rudin the First Alert Weather Center. Dropping fast down to 44 already in Bowie 46 in Leesburg 49 in Georgetown. Money news at 10 and 40 past the hour brought to you by PenFed. Great rates for everyone here's Jeff Playball. Home sales haven't been as slow as they are right now in more than 20 years. to Contracts signed buy an existing home fell to the lowest level since 2001 last month. Americans disposable incomes rose three -tenths of a percent last month the biggest increase since May. We're holding on to more of it personal spending rose just two -tenths of a percent. Tyson's based micro strategy founder Michael Saylor has placed one of his biggest bets ever on Bitcoin buying roughly six a and half billion dollars worth of Bitcoin this week. Saylor and MicroStrategy are among the largest shareholders of Bitcoin in the world. The Dow rallied 520 points today one and a half percent. Not so much for the broader markets the S &P 500 up 17 and as they lost two. Jeff Claybaugh, WTOP News. Thank you Jeff 641 not far from the White tonight House on the ellipse. Three, two, one. The national Christmas tree lights are now on. Merry Christmas everybody. President Biden and Mrs. Biden flipped the switch here not long ago. It's the 101st annual lighting ceremony down at the ellipse. Hundreds are there celebrating with live performances by Dionne Warwick, Darren Criss, Rene Rapp and others. There was a moment of drama ahead of this year's lighting after heavy winds on Tuesday toppled the 40 -foot Norway spruce. The National Park Service had it standing again by that evening and things are going just swell. All kinds of music getting everybody in the spirit of the holiday the state commission corporation has set a public hearing for January the 9th. Residents and businesses will be able to share what they think about the proposal to hike maximum tolls in the privately owned greenway by 40%. Now that chance to talk and give your opinion goes from 6 p .m. to 10 p High .m. at Freedom School in South Riding. Coming up on WTOP we'll hear from a local doctor about how you can protect your baby from that respiratory virus RSV at 643. For Mervis Diamond Importers this is Ronnie Mervis I'm inviting you to a holiday trunk show this weekend admire spectacular jewelry at specially reduced prices but for three days only don't miss out. Meet 12 international jewelry designers with their full collections it's your chance to try on all the latest diamond rings and wedding bands ear studs and jewelry as the only direct diamond importer in DC Mervis drives a savings
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"In the 50s once we get through all that turning mostly sunny on wednesday windy with gusts upwards of 30 miles hour per and highs in the 50s dry thanksgiving day at this hour 41 in fairfax 44 in the district on 81 in gaithersburg alright steve it's brought to you by lend the plumber heating and air trusted same -day service seven days week a coming up a holiday tradition returns to dc's ford's theater 9 21 when we think about a real transaction estate in a perfect world the seller works with an agent to list the property and a buyer agrees to buy it shulman rogers real estate attorney matt a legi has seen that things don't always go according to plan and has experience helping clients navigate real estate minefields go smoothly but more often than you might expect things don't go according to plan a buyer pulls out of a contract at the last minute or seller misrepresents a property's condition and that's when we come in and it's not just buyers and sellers who are having real estate problems right now we also work with real estate brokers and agents lenders title companies and other real lawyers estate to resolve disputes on their behalf whatever your problem is we've probably helped someone out of it before shulman rogers is a full -service law firm serving national regional and local clients for more information about shulman rogers real estate team visit shulmanrogers .com that's shulmanrogers at the blue cross and blue shield federal employee program we're helping you spend less on your prescriptions with the fep medicare prescription drug program eligible members with medicare can pay lower out -of -pocket costs for cost higher drugs and get additional approved prescription drugs than our traditional pharmacy benefit all with the same fep premium there's even a cap on the amount you pay
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Fresh "50S" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Of mornings. In fact yesterday was our coldest day, 298 days at Washington D .C. Just to give you some perspective on that. And the good is news we is don't have any more 20s at least in the forecast until potentially the middle of next week. So pretty mild this weekend. Highs tomorrow in the low 50s Saturday we're jumping 10 degrees up into the 60s once again. And Saturday is actually trending drier with some cloud cover. A little more muggy too with the humidity but at least we're mostly dry. Sunday looks that to be our next round of at least some decent rain during the afternoon and expect a few showers during your Friday as well. Anytime between noon and 5 p .m. Currently 48 now in northwest 52 in southeast dc. is at 51 and upper Marlboro 49. All right thanks Jordan. All brought to you by Dallas Glass.
Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
Jo Ann Fawcett Dramatically Changed Her Life Over the Last 20 Years
"Joanne Fawcett dramatically changed her life over the last 20 years, seven marriages, including abuse, divorce, and death, the seventh husband was a former military intelligence officer, an active member of the Mormon church for nearly 30 years, she left it behind to embrace the world of UFOs, elementals, magic, and paranormal, which speak deeply to her soul, through her many struggles, she found her strengths, gifts, and inner power, learning that dreams do come true, she is an international speaker on the topic of UFOs, extraterrestrials, including the military's involvement, her book, Midlife Magic, is the story of her journey, her passion is to teach others about this world of wonder, and today, she is a warrior who proudly carries the title, Wise Woman Crone, I love that, and you can find out more about Joanne if you go to her website, which is dragonhillbooks .net, welcome Joanne, thanks for coming today, I'm excited to talk to you. Thanks for having me, can you hear me okay? Yeah, I can hear you great, you sound great, you sound good to me, wow, so first, seven marriages you're like Liz Taylor, almost, yes, wow, that's so interesting, I can find seven people that I liked enough to even date, I don't even know about Mary, yeah, and then so was it the last, the seventh husband that got you, because he was an intelligent, in the military that got you into the UFOs, yes, exactly, all right, so I'm going to turn the mic over to you, like, why don't you share a little bit about, like, how you got into what you're doing today, and talking about UFOs and extraterrestrials, I totally believe in it, many of the people that listen to my show do, many of my former guests believe in UFOs, you know, so, yeah, tell us about it. Okay, well, and I can't remember, that was part of my bio, but you know, when I was a kid, we watched, I grew up in the 50s and 60s, so we watched Martian movies that were pretty cheesy, and then, yeah, I didn't think anything more about it, and I didn't, you know, I didn't even think about it until much later, I'd had some ghost experiences in my when I met number seven, I was still a member of the Mormon Church, but after I met him, and I started visiting him, and we started talking about other things, and other spiritual things, and stuff, I left the church, so that's, that's a different story, because like, it was no big trauma there, but then, you know, probably years, well, it wasn't right away, but years, I mean, I knew he'd been into the military, eventually, I knew it was military intelligence, and eventually, you know, it probably was a good two or three, or, you know, it was a few years into the relationship, and he gave me something to read, and type up, because he'd written this story about a space mission that he'd been on, and I'm going, what, this is real, and you've been in space, and there's aliens, and this is all real, and yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's funny, because in 2004, he said, oh, there's a, and at the time, I was living in California, and, and he said, oh, there's a UFO conference in the San Francisco barrier, you know, you might want to go, it's like, okay, that sounds like fun, and I went, and I was just going to go for one day, it's like, oh, I need to go back for the second day, because this was all new, and exciting information to me, and then, by the next year, I had enough of his information at my fingertips, so that I could have my own booth at that, that fair, and then I started getting on radio shows, and speaking at conferences, and things, so it, you know, it was, it lasted, well, I was, I was on the speaking circuit until a COVID hit, basically, okay, you know, yeah, and then I've been on a lot of podcasts, and, and I just start, I just did my first in -person speaking thing a couple weeks ago,
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Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 129 - Gitcoin - Elevating public goods with decentralization, quadratic funding, and community coordination
"You know, there are so many neat things that people are trying already. You know, like, for example, we ran around for a community group in Oakland, who had funding from their local government, it was basically all community organizations. You know, so really cool to see that play itself out. Even before we went down this road, Milwaukee was already doing some experimentation with quadratic rounds for very sort of niche applications, like helping people in Denver, Colorado, whose restaurants were struggling during the pandemic. We did a support for Ukraine round that was kind of a targeted approach at funding for that particular use case. But, you know, I think then another neat thing that's happening, which you may not even have heard about yet, is we now actually have a direct grants platform, which means it doesn't use quadratic funding. It's basically a way to use Web3 rails and all the existing tools, but just run more of like a traditional grants program. But I think we might start seeing things like people using quadratic voting to make decisions about how to give out the money amongst a smaller group of people internally. And so you might not be harnessing the wisdom of the crowd, but you can still have that transparency, that accountability, you know, all that kind of nifty stuff that comes along with using these tools. And also anybody who's created a grant proposal on builder potentially can apply to an even bigger number of different types of opportunities. So, you know, so I think, you know, we really, you know, are so just lucky to have such an innovative, creative, thoughtful global community. You know, like, we just saw a round run in Latin America where like the majority of the grant proposals were in Spanish, you know, and like we frankly, don't even have the resources internally to like provide support and documents and web pages. They just did it themselves, you know, which is so cool to see. And I think we're going to just see more and more of that. Like there's a Chinese community round that's happening. I've heard there's an African continent round that people are talking about, you know, basically any issue or cause you can think of, you know, there's probably somebody out there thinking about how they could run a grants program to do something about it. You know, and if somebody out there is listening and has some nifty idea, even without a big matching pool, like, you know, just like even a small amount of money that you put into a matching pool, or even just creating the space for people to give to something that matters, like even without a matching pool, I think can just be a really powerful thing. You know, there's something about just kind of creating the container for the conversation to bring the people together. And, you know, the neat thing about these grants programs is like the grantees are the ones who do a lot of that organizing, who bring their community with them, you know, and often do actually do a better job of supporting and onboarding people and creating guides and documentation and all that kind of good stuff in a way that makes sense to their community. So, yeah, I think it's super exciting and I definitely think about it a lot. Yeah, no, totally. I can see the excitement just as you talk about it now. And I think that, you know, what you said around the grantees is spot on too. It's just really cool seeing like how they've all kind of stepped up and contributed to the Gitcoin community in different ways, whether it's creating these educational onboarding materials, setting up one -on -one calls with people to walk them through getting a wallet set up and a passport set up, you know, which is fantastic. It's been really, really powerful. And, you know, obviously we have another Gitcoin granting round coming up November 15th, I believe you said was when it was starting, which is really exciting Gitcoin grant round 19. 56 million plus in funds allocated, really incredible. It's really been a catalyst for thousands of early stage Web3 projects. For those listening that haven't yet participated in a Gitcoin grant round, but are interested in maybe becoming a grantee, they have a really cool public good project, but maybe they're a little nervous. What advice would you give them? Yeah, I love this question. So a lot really depends on sort of what your starting point is, you know, so maybe slightly different advice, depending on like, you know, if you've already got a DAO that you're a part of, you know, you've got friends in the Web3 space, you know, I could definitely give some very specific advice for those folks, you know, versus like somebody who's brand new to the space, doesn't have an existing community. I think there's a place for everybody in Gitcoin grants rounds. And a big part of what we try to do as Gitcoin is like level the playing field, make sure that everybody has an opportunity to get in front of an audience, you know, that grantees can be discovered based on the kind of the quality and interest of what they're building. But yeah, I'd say the universal stuff, you know, it's very much like any community organizing or marketing. Like, you know, think about the picture that you put up as your picture, think about how you summarize the information in your grant proposal, think about the title that you use, good to have the name of your organization, and something to do with your value proposition. So people, maybe they're just looking for you by your name, and they know who you are, and they can find you that way. Maybe they've never heard of your project, but they're interested in your value proposition. So trying to be succinct and having both those things, kind of without needing to click away and go read it, you know, also that like, there's a bit of information that shows up kind of above the fold, as they say, like, you know, kind of in that little preview window, if you have a good little TLDR, that's like, this is what we're trying to do, this is how we intend to do it, this is why we're doing it, whatever you think is important for people to understand, like, I'm trying to raise this money so I can do this, you know, the more that you can be super clear about, like, by next round, or by six months from now, I hope to have accomplished this, and you can follow along and and sort of follow that journey. I think that's really important. Also, if you've been a grantee for more than one round, I know we're talking about new grantees, but updating people is super important, too. They sort of haven't seen that you've done anything with the funding, people start wondering, you know, like, you know, what are you really doing with this money? Should I give again? But I would say for like, people who in particular, who might be nervous, who don't have a web3 community, I would say like, there's a lot of people who are super supportive and helpful in our community. Like, so starting by coming to like our Twitter spaces, the Gitcoin hosts, which you can follow along at the Gitcoin Twitter account, and we're always announcing when the next ones will be. Also, you can usually find there's like a grantee support page, where we have like an event listing, which you can find linked to right off of the main Gitcoin website, gitcoin .co. So I mean, just follow along there, you know, and that can give you a sense of like, just if you just show up, you know, I can tell you that we are super friendly and supportive, you know, and you can just like come and talk about what you're working on, or even just listen for a while and see how other people are doing it and get comfortable, I think people will get a sense that it's a very welcoming and friendly space. You know, but also, like, there's a million, maybe not million, there's definitely tons of these Twitter spaces being hosted by people. If you're not already active on Twitter, I hear you, there's a lot going on in the world. And Twitter is not always my favorite place either these days. But, you know, it happens to be where a lot of the crypto community is, you know, definitely wherever your community is, like, try to bring them on board. But it's a lot easier to get donations from people who are already familiar with crypto, who are already familiar with Gitcoin than it is to like, you know, take somebody from never even having a wallet to like setting up their first wallet funding it, you know, connecting to passport going through all those stages. Definitely great guides out there. You know, I think it's a great idea to like host onboarding sessions or like office hours to help people in your community might want to support you. But definitely the lowest hanging fruit is the existing Gitcoin community that's quite active round after round. And you can find those people on our Twitter spaces, you can find those people, you know, in various discords, but also on the Twitter spaces that other people are hosting. And, you know, and I'd say one other thing I would throw out there is Telegram. All these tools that, you know, if you're from outside the web through space might be a little bit daunting. But you know, if you just join the Gitcoin Telegram group, there's so many people providing peer support, helping each other answering questions. Like if you just jump into that thread, which again, you can find it directly through our homepage, you know, you can from there, like find people who might want to help you with what you're building, or might have a similar project and want to collaborate with you, you know, or, you know, want to attend your Twitter space if you host one and invite other people. So yeah, I would say just like, focus on the people more than the technology. And like, figure out where the low hanging fruit is of like, where those people are that, you know, might be interested in working with you and supporting you. And don't hesitate to reach out and like DM people and, you know, and ask questions. You know, like, I'm always happy to chat if I can find the time. You know, definitely lots of people who are doing their project for the first time reach out. And like, you know, even share what you're thinking about posting in your grant proposal with others like, you know, there's no wrong time to do that. Even if you're listening to this right in the middle of an active grants round, and you missed the opportunity to apply, it's not too late to get involved to start listening to those Twitter spaces to join the Telegram. You can even post your grant proposal and then just apply three months from now in the next round. You know, so can't hurt to like, just moving start things forward, start onboarding your community, start playing with the tools yourself. Really helps to actually go and donate yourself to if you haven't before, because having done it yourself, you can then help other people do it more easily. Yeah, definitely. That's great advice. And you know, I think me personally, I only participated in two rounds, but was really kind of involved more as a community member and like just kind of listening in and being a part of the community before then, right. And it was a great way for me to learn and to kind of get my feet wet a little bit and to see what's going on before diving in headfirst. So great advice. Thank you so much for sharing that. As we near the end of our conversation, there's one thing I want to ask you about. I know that web3 can obviously be very stressful, fast paced, especially, you know, during Gitcoin grant season two, it can be feel like a bit of a sprint, especially for I imagine, the team that's working on the back end. You're also big, I know that you're a big advocate for getting outside for nature for laughter is the best medicine. I know you like to post some videos of you juggling, you know, by the lake is kind of a way to disconnect. Tell me more about how you stay grounded in this busy world of web3. Because I know that there's something that a lot of people struggle with. It's hard, man, honestly. And I can tell you, like, having spent much of my life working on, like, what feels like really life and death issues a lot of the time, like, this is definitely something I've struggled with for a lot of my life. I've definitely gone through cycles of burnout and like, you know, all that, you know, I would say just like, trying to not take everything too seriously, trying to take a step back and see everything in perspective, you know, surrounding yourself with like, friends and family that like, know you and love you and support you. You know, like, getting outside every day really makes a big difference to me. You know, my dogs are a big part of my life. You know, and they're, they're really a gift, because like, they demand that I take them outside. So even if I'm not feeling like going for a walk, they always do. And, you know, I feel like, basically, like, I having like a stressometer, you know, like, if you can sort of like monitor how you're doing, and when you get past like a certain threshold, like, just knowing that it's always okay to just like step away for a bit, you know, even just like, you know, just putting everything on pause and taking three deep breaths can go a really long way. But you know, like, I definitely feel like you really genuinely recharge your batteries by like going to a park or, you know, like the whole touch grass drink water thing like you have to take care of yourself to be able to like, you know, take care of business. You know, so like drinking lots of water or like, I mean, it sounds like, you know, sort of trite or soundbites or whatever, but I think it's really true. You know, and the older I've gotten, like the more just I haven't been able to just continue to like push indefinitely, you know, like that it used to be that I would just burn the candle at both ends and like, you know, it's like, I don't really need to go to bed at a reasonable time. I'll just stay up all night every day working and, you know, operate on zero sleep and not eat enough food and, you know, go for drinks at lunch and you know, like it just like all of that catches up with you after a while for sure. Totally. So I mean, like, as much as everything feels really urgent, like I think if you think back on what felt urgent, like six months ago, three months ago, month ago, even a week ago, sometimes, like a lot of the times things seem a lot more urgent and a lot more stressful in the moment that they really are. You know, so like just trying to have that perspective. And like, yeah, just, you know, take the time that you need to like pace yourself. That's, that's, you know, it's a marathon, not a sprint, that whole thing definitely can feel like a sprint. But, you know, even during the grants round, it honestly, it is a marathon. Like, you know, it's a, it's a couple of weeks with like, at least a week or two on either end of like, preparing and unwinding. And, you know, especially for our team, like, you know, I worry, even when I see like myself or other team members, like pushing a little too hard. And definitely, we see that with grantees too. But yeah, I mean, maybe just get off Twitter. I mean that, you know, the algorithms have a way of like, sort of sucking us back in, keeping us engaged. So, you know, like, you know, spend some time, more time on Farcaster or Lenster. You know, like, there's a lot of good vibes out there too, if you're in the web3 space. And honestly, I think there's a lot of alpha to be had in those social media networks too, that like, because it's a much smaller community, you can really focus on like talking to people who are working on similar things without a lot of the drama and chaos. And, you know, so like, even just making some little adjustments to how you're sort of spending your social media time, I find that pretty helpful for me. I actually hang out on Mastodon a lot recently, because it's an old school decentralized platform with all kinds of interesting people, and definitely different perspectives that I'm not hearing all the time in crypto Twitter. So yeah, I don't know. Everybody's got different things that are going to work different for them. You know, if you were having this conversation with one of my coworkers, you'd say meditation, you know, spend an hour at least every day meditating. You know, another coworker of mine would say, go dancing every night. You know, like, so I mean, you know, just like, I guess, like, figure out what it is that like, brings you joy outside of the space and like, force yourself to do a little bit more of it. And I think the end result is like, you'll actually find that your project is more successful, you're showing up with just like better vibes in general, and, and that resonates out and draws more people in and, you know, so, you know, there's even self -interested reasons beyond just like your health that I think, you know, people will notice if you if you make that little extra bit of effort not to burn yourself out. And if you are burning out, like, take some time away, like it, you know, might feel impossible. Like I definitely can relate to that. It feels like every time I take a week off at Gitcoin, I come back, it's a different organization that I left. But, you know, if you're in the right place with the right people, you need to trust that, you know, things are going to be okay. And, you know, if you're not feeling that way, like, maybe that's an indication that you should be thinking about if you are in the right place. And, you know, maybe there's a lot of different orgs, a lot of different, you know, things that you can get involved in, like, don't feel so trapped in the moment, especially for a lot of the younger people in this space, like, you know, don't have a mortgage or kids that they have to take care of, like, you can take those risks, you can make big changes, you can step away if you need to and experiment, explore other things, like, you know, give yourself that permission when the consequences are not nearly as severe as, you know, it will be like when you're, you know, in your 40s or 50s or whatever. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. That is some great advice. Well, thank you for sharing that, all that. And I can definitely resonate with a lot of that, especially the dog part. I have a very hyperactive black lab who I need to get outside at least for three or four walks a day. So it's been, oh, and there's my cat poking its head in the door right now, just on cue as we talk about pets. That's hilarious. So yeah, great advice. Thank you so much for sharing and so important in this, you know, rapidly growing, fast moving space. So it's been a pleasure just learning from you and hearing everything you've had to say. I've learned so much just from this short conversation. Obviously, we weren't able to cover everything. So for those listening along that want to follow you get in touch, learn more about Gitcoins work, what's the best way for them to do that? I am at Ben West on Twitter, because I was lucky enough to have a friend who registered my account for me in 2008. And I'm the same pretty much everywhere. I think Benjamin West on Telegram. I actually, if you go to my Twitter, I have like one of those link tree type things that you can click on it, I'll show you like a bunch of different places to reach me. But Twitter, Twitter definitely works. And probably most people listening to this are active on Twitter. So yeah, come find me there. That's probably the easiest one. Drew, thank you so much for doing what you're doing. By the way, I think you have crypto altruism is great. And the people the interview are super fascinating. And, you know, so so I'm, it's an honor to be part of your podcast. And thanks for doing what you're doing. Yeah, well, thank you. That means a lot. It really does coming from coming from you to hear that I really appreciate that. So thank you. And thank you for sharing all that information. I'll make sure to include that in the show notes for those listening along. And to wrap things up on this amazing conversation, I'm definitely going to have to take some time to reflect, you know, after after this conversation, because so many really cool things we've talked about. I like to ask everyone the same ending question. If you could name one thing that excites you most about the social impact potential of web three, what would it be and why? Hmm. And that's a tough one, because there's so many things that excite me about it. Truth be told, if I could pick one thing that excites me the most, but the thing that excites me the most is the opportunity for communities to empower themselves and accomplish their goals. Like I, you know, when I see projects come into reality that, you know, may not have otherwise that, like, are possible, because of, you know, whether it's Gitcoin grants, or just web three tools in general, you know, that excites me, there's, there's a lot of specific use cases that really are close to my heart. But like, I think the thing that's underneath all of it, you know, is that sort of cultural shift that, you know, that we talked about earlier, like that, you know, idea that decentralization really matters that, you know, individuals should not just be treated like cogs in a machine. You know, and I think for so many of us, we live in these worlds where like, our work day to day is not fulfilling. And, you know, we feel like we're not treated with respect. And to me, that just really sucks that that's fundamentally where we're at in our world. Like, you know, we've kind of democratized so much of our world. Yet, like, our work is this one place that is fundamentally undemocratic, fundamentally exploitative, often, and extractive. And, you know, and like, I think there's a way to change that, that's outside of these kind of old, like, left right socialism, capitalism paradigms. And like, to me, that's really exciting, because I feel like we've been trapped in this kind of debate that doesn't really go anywhere for a really long time. And like, there's a lot more nuance to be had in terms of like, how markets can be used by communities in positive ways, and how people can empower themselves, you know, by using some nifty tools and kind of working together. And, you know, really, just by all of us believing in this thing that we're doing all kinds of amazing stuff as possible. So yeah, I think that's really at the core of what excites me the most. Yeah, that's such a good one. And I couldn't agree more. I think that, you know, Web3 is such an interesting kind of confluence of so many different people and ideas and, you know, philosophies that it's really cool to just kind of be able to build and without kind of having to go through those same debates over and over again. So that's a great point to end on. Couldn't agree more. Ben, it's been an absolute pleasure. Thank you so much. Really enjoyed this conversation. And thank you for all you're doing to uplift public goods, Gitcoin and yeah, and to inspire so many early stage projects and builders. So thank you work you're doing. It's been an inspiration to me personally, and I know for many others as well. So thanks for being here today. My pleasure. Honestly, it's an honor and a privilege. And hello to your cat there who's joining us for the tail end. Yes, he always likes to make an appearance. Thanks, Ben. A huge thank you to Ben for coming on the crypto altruism podcast. Whenever someone asks me why I love the Web3 community so much, I typically point to Gitcoin grant season. It's a true testament to the power of decentralization and leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to fund what matters. Gitcoin is an incredible catalyst for public goods in Web3. And if you are listening to this between November 15, and November 29, then GG19 is live and you have an opportunity to participate by sending a VONATION to your favorite projects. So make sure to check out the show notes so you can follow along and get involved. And that brings us to the end of today's episode. Thanks so much for joining on the crypto altruism podcast. I had a great time and I hope you did as well. For more great content exploring the intersections of Web3 and social impact, check us out at crypto altruism .org. Also, if you love what you heard, I truly appreciate it if you rate, review, and subscribe to the show. You can also support the show by buying us a coffee or making a small crypto contribution. Crypto altruism runs on the support of community members like yourself and everything helps. Thanks so much for joining us and I hope you'll join us again for our next episode. Until then, let's keep showing the world the good of crypto. 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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Is Solana The Next Ethereum Killer
"Can a Solana overtake Ethereum? We're seeing a lot of metrics that have a lot of people, their heads are spinning. They're surprised. They don't know what's happening. They don't know why Solana keeps continuing to pump, or we're seeing a lot of positive numbers. We're seeing active users skyrocketing. And also we're getting listed on Perpetual's futures on a very major exchange. You're going to want to check this out. This is Discover Crypto. Thank you for joining everybody. Welcome back, Rodney. We're talking about some altcoins. And now we're not going to talk about ranked 8 ,000 meme coins. Is that okay? We're talking about Solana. I guess we could talk about... Everybody's talking about Grok, I thought. That's right. Grok. Well, yeah. It was like, what? Maybe a top 200 at this point. Hit $186 million market cap. I just saw Kyle Chasse tweet, or Chasse tweet. He's like, I bought the top. Ah. You know, so it happened. As they do. Did you get in on Grok, Rodney? I did not get in on Grok. I faded Grok at 20 million. Sorry. Excuse me for not buying a meme coin. You know. It went up to 150, right? So you missed out on about a seven and a half X. It's still sending, yeah. All right. So you're only missing out on a 10X so far. So far, it's a 10X. But Rodney, you just got in last night, correct? Yes, sir. Yeah. How was that? How was it flying into the Atlanta airport? I heard it's... My fiance, she has Follow Atlanta now, and they're shutting down the whole airport. Apparently, it's like, you know, entire hallways are like two foot wide. What was your experience? Well, I actually drove here from Charlottesville, Virginia, so it was an eight hour drive, but very nice. Got to listen to Joe Rogge on the way here. Some of my favorite cryptocurrency channels. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, speaking of cryptocurrency, let's just get right into the stories here, folks. We are going to talk about Solana in a bit, but first, let's look at the crypto market. We have Bitcoin down about 1%. Let me go ahead and hit refresh just in case we're getting a little bit fresher. All right. Bitcoin down 1%. But Ethereum is up about 2 % right now, XRP down 2 .5%. Solana is cooling off, folks. Solana is almost down to 5 % along with Cardano, but both of them had a positive week. Solana just had a 10 times better week than Cardano there, 38 % to a 3 .8 % pump there. So if you're holding Solana over Cardano, you're feeling pretty good. If you're holding both, you're wondering, you're looking at your Cardano bag, poking it with the stick, like the meme, come on, do something, do something. It'll happen eventually, folks. Just trust me. Then we have Chainlink down to 5 .5 % as well, but Matic is up. But we look, look at Celestia, Tia, Tia is up. We were talking about Tia, Tia is up 25%, 125 % for the week. Now, TJ, did you see any Tia actually, you saw Celestia? I mean, I know it's Drew's wife's name, so he's been big on it, but he actually, I think was talking about Celestia. Yeah, we did a short on it a while back. We noticed it when it very first popped out. Obviously it's strong in some of the Asian markets, a competitor, so to speak, coming out of nowhere. We're seeing, we're moving up very quickly through the top 100. I think it's ranked 65, 68, something like that right now. I mean, it was under 100 a week or two ago when we first covered it. Definitely something to keep an eye on. And this is something that's important that I wanted to mention on today's stream. As we're getting into a new bull market, there's a lot of different ways to look at different altcoins and value different things. When you're building out your portfolio, there's something to be said for projects that have been around for a little while that you know are going to perform into the bull market. Again, we've looked at them a lot. They're in the top 20s, top 50s, the Maddox, the Mutables, the avalanches, the Solanas, kind of the big performers of the last cycle. However, the ones that tend to have the most explosive gains can be the things that are launching around this time, the newer things. It'll be interesting to see if that trend proves through in this cycle. But Tia, Celestia would be one of those ones that it looked like tech had been around for a while, the team had been around for a while, and they were waiting for the right time to launch to really capture attention in this bull market. So watching how those perform over the next few months, I do think is going to be key. We're going to be doing a deep dive on Celestia coming up in the next week or so. I have some of that going into the works. But watching layer ones, layer twos in the narratives, obviously, in this cycle, I think is going to be a good strategy if you're looking to make those gains. All right. But speaking of gains, we also have the other side of the coin, and that's the losses, folks. The biggest loser is Rollbit for the day, down 10 percent and then Kronos. But if you look at the week here, the biggest loser is Trust Wallet and then followed by XRP. Oh, no. XRP was the number two loser for the week, folks. So it's just interesting to see a top five coin be one of the biggest losers right there. Nio, Nio as well. Nio is down now. Nio is on a video I'm working on right now, the top five coins out of Asia, everybody. And Nio is one of the five. So that might be one. All right. I'll be joining in in a second here. But I think it's time for us to talk a little Solana here. Now, Rodney, what are your broad thoughts on Solana as a sign in real quick? Yeah, well, I think that could be one of the bigger comeback stories of this next run, because really the reason why it dumped down so much, because look at everything dumped during the bear market. But the reason why it dumped down significantly was the negative association it had with Almeida Research, Sam Beckman Fried and stuff like that. But now that we're putting all that stuff behind us, it's probably going to recover. I mean, beside what the occasional network outage is, it's actually a pretty solid project. So a lot of people bought that dip understanding that the reason why it was down wasn't because of function. It was because of the negative publicity. Just like Elon Musk going on Joe Rogan's show, smoking some, you know, green and then dumping Tesla stock. Yeah, I always talk about that podcast. I saw that podcast and I remember thinking, oh, wow, this guy is incredibly bright. I would want to own Tesla stock. A lot of people say, oh, yeah, let's dump it. Well, Solana is overtaking Ethereum by active users after a 70 % spike. Everybody let's look at some of the numbers here. So this is according to Arnimix, they had 356 ,000 unique users on Saturday beating Ethereum's 330 ,000. So beat them by 26 ,000 right there. The milestone was driven by a sharp uptick with the network hosting only 200 ,000 just one week ago, less than a week ago. So it was $100 ,000 less. For comparison, ETH consistently holds around 300 to 350 with two brief spikes above 400k in a surge of more than 1 million wallets. But the price of Solana has plummeted. Is it still more than 96 % from 2021 high of 250 bucks? Does that sound right? I don't know about 96%. Yeah, no, no, that's not right. At one point, at one point when it fell to $10 in January, active addresses on the network shrank 85 % from over a million, 1 .28 to around 200 ,000 this September, according to the block. But Solana refused to stay down and now it is up 145 % just in the past four weeks. So everyone holding on to the profit feel good. And then some analysts have been quick to pronounce that Solana has flipped Ethereum by active users due to the recent uptick. However, the ecosystem has expanded beyond its base layer with the majority of ETH activity now taking place on layer two. So Solana may surpass Ethereum, but there's a giant asterisk because if you want to incorporate little activity, two well, Ethereum, the EVM as a whole greatly surpasses Solana there. But TJ, what do you think about Solana ever surpassing Ethereum as far as, you know, being the number one chain? What odds would you, would you put it less than 5%, less than 1 %? No, I think what you just said really matters there by what metric, right? You know, so you've got transactions, you've got daily active users, you've got a market cap, you've got volume, you know, there's so many different metrics to measure a chain by. So I could see it passing it in transactions one day. That's what it's designed for, right? If you get some good, if you get some good games running on it, you could see it hit higher active users, higher transaction or, you know, but volume, probably not, you know, like DeFi is going to most likely live on Ethereum for the foreseeable future. We talked about that a little bit last week. The ecosystem really matters there. And so I think what we're seeing right now in price gains in the short term, sure, it could, it could outperform there. And I think part of what we should talk about here today is why we saw all that price movement happening over the weekend. And I think, I think you've got my screen here, BJ, you can pull it in here, but some of the factors that came up on this article on Cointelegraph, why Solana Price woke up this week, it really has to do with, you know, obviously FTX getting reopened back up. A lot of people thinking there's less likely for Alameda and what's held on the FTX balance sheet, less likely to dump.
The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from Aim to be above your business
"In this short talk episode I speak to Jonathan Jay about his experience in buying and growing businesses over the past 25 years. Jonathan bought a total of 53 businesses over the course of six years with five being before the pandemic and 48 during the pandemic. In this conversation he shares the top five mistakes entrepreneurs make when buying a business and the importance of identifying game -changing acquisitions based on the financial numbers, knowing when to sell business at its peak and the value of not being emotionally attached to the business. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Jonathan Jay. How you doing Jonathan? I'm very good thank you Judith, thank you for having me on. No thanks for coming on board. Now tell me, what's your favourite thing ever? I was expecting this to be a question about buying a business. My favourite thing ever? Oh my goodness, that's such a broad... my daughter, there you go. Can't get better than that. No you cannot, I bet she's gorgeous when she smiles. Even when she's grumpy she's fairly gorgeous. Brilliant. Jonathan tell us a bit more about you. Well this coming year, 2024, is my 25th anniversary of doing buying, selling, owning, growing and all those sorts of things in business. I've actually been in business longer but my first business was sale in 1999, so coming up to the 25th anniversary and it feels like yesterday in some ways and it feels like a very long time in other ways and I'm going to take it a lot easier from next year onwards, spend a little bit more time doing things other than businessy things. Interesting, so when you buy these businesses do you onboard a management team or do you become the CEO for a while or what do you do? Well it's an all depends answer on the different situations. I'm not particularly interested in operations and I'm not very good at it either. I'm not really the people person that's required to do that sort of thing so I always prefer other people to do that. Okay it's always good to know so many CEOs, founders as well they sort of get trapped into running it when they're not the right person. Well yes that's right because at the beginning you do everything yourself don't you? You are the business in every way possible so it takes quite a mind shift change to say that's not going to be me and there aren't any rules about when it stops being you. Does it stop being you after 12 months or 24 months? There's no rule so it just ends up being you all the time because at the beginning you can't justify anyone else being involved. You can't afford anyone else usually but it is a trap so the work on your business rather than in your business, massive cliche now but when Michael Gerber wrote The E -Myth over 35 years ago I think, it was quite a revolutionary change in people's thinking and he encapsulated it so well with that phrase work on rather than in and now I say to people work above the business so you become the investor rather than the doer or just the owner. And how easy is it to do that? I've never heard of anyone talking about being above the business. How easy is it to get there? Well there are very few things in business that are easy because everything takes discipline, effort, hard work, dedication and all of those things but I think it's important because if you do get dragged into the day -to -day you become the bottleneck in your own business and the growth of your business is going to be throttled by your time and your energy and to have boundless energy in our 20s and 30s past the age of 50 maybe the energy level is not quite what it used to be and we look forward to an early night and a good night's sleep so therefore capturing the energy and enthusiasm of other people allows you to do far more than if it was completely dependent upon you. Okay that makes sense. So in the last three years you've bought 48 businesses so tell me about that journey. Yes it's more than that actually, 53. So yeah I did a buy and build in 2019 which is what's that like that was five years ago actually five years back that I've been thinking about for a year prior to that so it really goes back about six years and I bought five of these businesses before the pandemic, 48 during the pandemic and it was stressful at times. I've got to admit that it wasn't plain sailing, very few people I've ever met have done that. There's only one person I can think of who's done it that aggressively and I ran out of energy. I was helping my daughter with her spelling homework and she was reading through the words for her spelling test that coming that coming week and one of the words was unhappy and she looked at me and she said that's you. Wow. And I said oh okay okay I let it go and the next day I said why did you say that and I said what makes me unhappy and she said work and I thought I've just suddenly become a very poor role model and at one point I was hospitalized. I'm not trying to put people off buying a business, I'm trying to put people off buying 53 businesses in like it was actually two and a half years. The stress started to get to me so no amount of money or no obsession with business is worth your health, your relationships, your family and all of those things and I think that early on in our careers we put everything behind our business and our career and then I think again when you tip into maybe when you tip into your 40s then you tip into your 50s you realize that you've got to get your priorities right because you start saying life is too short way too many times you've only yourself repeating that again and again life is too short life is too short so I think it's getting that work -life balance again yeah that was a kind of a new phrase 20 years ago and now it's work -life balance this that and the other but it's but it is very important. So you risked your health doing what you did but why did you do that? No one had a choice to be fair it kind of crept it kind of crept up at me I wasn't intentionally doing that. I had these stomach pains that wouldn't go away and one particular night you know I just didn't sleep the entire night I was just such agony and I was googling appendicitis and that was actually on the other side so it wasn't appendicitis I thought I couldn't figure out what it what it was I always thought my stomach was kind of in the middle and it's not actually it's to the to the side so I figured it was my stomach so I went to the doctor which I don't you know not something I've ever done on a regular basis and the next day I was having a colonoscopy which is not my favorite medical procedure out of all the medical procedures there are available a colonoscopy is not my most favorite one and they couldn't find anything which was good in some ways but what what was causing these the the stomach pains and it was all stress related so that was when I decided I've got to make a bit of a life lifestyle choice here and however big the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if I'm not here you know because I'm as long as possible and I can't risk um you know I can't risk my health sort of suffering because of something which is let's face it financially based so um so yeah yeah it's a very common trait though isn't it entrepreneurs pushing themselves far too far um because I suppose you just get used to it and then it makes then it becomes harder to let it go oh I mean I I I have been and to a certain degree even now addicted to my phone I mean it's like it's like I get uncomfortable if it's not in my hand or I can feel it in my pocket which is bizarre I mean I shouldn't be looking at my emails at the weekend should I I mean it's like what's happening at the weekend nothing's happening at the weekend so so why am I even looking um so so it's but but I but I also remember the very very first day back in I think it must have been the mid -2000s when someone showed me how I could actually get emails on my phone and it was like oh my goodness I don't have to sit at my desktop to get my I can actually get them on my phone and you think that um you know if you if you again if you go back 20 25 years where we didn't have Facebook and we didn't have social media we didn't have um phones of any description but we still managed okay actually this is going back 30 years we still managed okay and we managed with a fax machine and uh you never hear anyone saying they make more money now than they did back then because they've got phones and technology yeah it it it is meant to improve communication but I don't remember anyone ever saying communication was was bad it was just you worked with what you've got and you didn't expect an instant yeah people these days you send them a whatsapp message and you don't reply instantly it's like a it's it's it's considered to be rude um where you know no one ever got upset when you faxed them and you didn't fax back immediately had it changed for the better not necessarily yeah why did you buy all those businesses in such a short period of time and it was in opportunity um that uh it was an opportunity to grow a grow a a pretty sizable group the fourth largest in the sector um within a short space of time and the pandemic was good in some ways business -wise bad in other ways um and one of the ways it was good it was because there were we just went for it um what it was it was just opportunistic that's all what type of businesses are they are these were all uh child care oh wow okay that made do you do you still have those no well my my business partner took over when I I I decided like I said the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was not was not as enticing as I thought it was going to be so she took over um uh and and she was the child care expert I I was just the guy with the idea so my contribution was I had the idea and I knew how to do the deals and get the deals done um apart from having a child I I don't really know anything about uh how to run a child care business it's all highly regulated and you know I'm not qualified to do that anyway okay that makes sense so how did you know which of those businesses were good businesses to buy next to other businesses that you didn't buy uh because I looked at 500 so I looked at 500 first and it was kind of like a one in ten um of the of the 500 uh despite that you know some of them were better than others because they're not all created equally um and and some had some inherent cultural issues uh some had reputational some issues had financial issues uh you never get a perfect business right every business something that isn't appealing to someone else um maybe as the owner you live with it but to a new owner they wouldn't think it was um a good thing uh so so yeah so so the the bottom line was having choice of looking at looking at 500 in quick succession so if somebody was sitting there and they were thinking I need to I want to buy a business yeah is there any key things other than the fact that obviously you know the financials if you take the financials out is there any key things that people should be looking at well it is actually the financials the largest part because you want a business that's that's making good money and if you're going to buy a business why would you buy a business making 50 000 a year when you can buy a business making 500 000 a year with the same level of effort um as actually is easier to buy the larger business and the smaller business the larger business is going to be a better business than the smaller business um so they're uh yeah so the financials actually are are absolutely critical uh it's got to have enough staff enough people because you always get some when you buy a business you always get some people you want something that if you've if you've got a business with five members of staff and two leave you've got yourself a big problem uh if you've got a business with 50 members of staff and five leave or six leave it you know you don't notice yeah sometimes they were surplus to requirements anyway uh you've got to have a business that's big enough to be able to afford some good people to run it because you don't want that if uh it if it if it's you and you just bought yourself a job uh and even though it might be a well -paid job yeah we've kind of created that bottleneck that we were talking about earlier yeah and how did what sort of weight do you put on things like the culture of the organization well the that's the hardest part so you know if you buy two businesses one has a nine to five you know you walk in at one minute to nine you leave at one minute to five and then you've got the other which is work hard play hard and you know we're on call we're available anytime we'll do what's required to grow this business you try and put those two groups of people together and they won't mix so that cultural match is is really difficult and getting the staff on side is really important and that you know we did it really well and we did really badly yeah so and everything in between and sometimes it's practice slightly outside of your control as well so um you know you you might have a seller who who is a reluctant seller and some for some reason doesn't want the buyer to be successful and definitely doesn't want the buyer to be more successful than they were doesn't want to show doesn't want to be shown up so they they spike it a little bit with the staff and it's amazing how many people sell a business and then keep in touch with the staff and want to know everything that's going on they can't let go oh i suppose after 20 years of ownership i get that i understand that but uh that that makes things a little bit tricky so the the people aspects are typically the hardest okay thank you that's really that's really a good point so what are you doing now then um i go on holiday a lot and i take my daughter to school i pick her up from school um i watch uh dancing uh uh shows uh gymnastics competitions the other night last night and uh and i i do that i i i fill my day um helping other people buy businesses and benefiting from my experience over the last 25 years so uh these are either business owners already who want to expand by buying another business or they're entrepreneurially minded people quite a few property investors recently are not getting a very good return on property um and uh and see an opportunity in business so it's a it's a combination of all of uh all those different types of people and i i have sort of groups of business owners and entrepreneurs who come together and i guide them through the business buying process so they don't make all the mistakes and there's a lot of mistakes you can make and i've made all of them so i can help people avoid them that sounds really good so is there a top five mistakes that entrepreneurs make when they're trying to buy a business yeah um this is in no particular order because it's off the top of my head but uh definitely uh letting uh emotion rule the decision so ahead so it you turn into a motivated buyer you want to buy it and therefore you've got to make the deal work even though the deal shouldn't work it actually would help you if the deal didn't work um buying a business that's too small so you end up um getting involved because you have to and the business can't afford anyone to replace the exited owner um another mistake is using your own money you should never use your own money when buying a business why would you do that um you know we can we can finance the the acquisition without you having to reach into your own pocket and that's why people can buy multi -million pound businesses without being a multi -millionaire uh you don't need the money to to do that you just need the knowledge and the three mistakes that people make uh mistake number four um is that uh let's see um they uh get the numbers wrong so they don't do sufficient due diligence to understand exactly how much profit the business makes uh what the business will continue to make under the new ownership you know they rush the deal they rush this part of it because it's not very exciting due diligence um it's a little bit like waiting for the house survey to come back when you've already want to buy the house and even if there's a hole in the roof and you're gonna buy that house so people ignore the due diligence or skimp on it that's four thing four mistakes that people make i've done a video i've done actually done a video series of 12 mistakes that people make uh and uh so let me think of one of those for number five for you um so i i think going into an acquisition without enough knowledge of what to do so feeling as though you can make it up as you go along you can pick up bits of information of the internet i mean goodness me if you spend enough time on the internet you'll you'll be so confused because people say different things what you need is a process you need a system to follow you need to say like this is the first thing i do this is the second thing to the third thing and every time i see someone follow the system they get the result if they don't follow the system they don't get the result and it becomes frustrating or it becomes expensive or they end up just not doing it so i think it's really important to follow that process follow that system so there you go there's five mistakes that people make they're really good ones actually and they're things that you don't automatically think of and that i like the idea about not being a motivated buyer because you make mistakes because you just need and like you say you just need to buy it when it's been going on for ages so it's just like i've put i've already invested x amount of time so now it's i might as well just do well it um yes or i've spent x amount of money and yeah i feel as though i i have an obligation to follow through uh which is just not some not a good idea uh at all you you are looking for a motivated seller you're looking for somebody who wants to sell because if they don't want to sell why you know what you're going to do you're going to try and persuade them to sell to you does that sound like it's ever going to be a good deal so you want someone who wants to sell and you'll find that the more they want to sell the better the deal for you so out of all though millions of businesses out there i think you're probably better off finding someone who really is motivated to sell rather than someone who doesn't want to yeah and i suppose the other thing to think about is if you've got another business or other businesses is how does this one adds to the portfolio or does it distract from the portfolio i guess another one isn't it exactly and and it becomes a distraction it becomes a bad distraction if it's small and it sucks up time but doesn't give you anything back uh it's a good distraction um if it's a game changer acquisition and that and that's what uh um that's always what we're that that is a game changer or just something that you want to do how do they how can they tell the difference uh it's usually down to the numbers right okay to give an example a father and son duo who just bought their first business recently with my help um eight million of revenue 1 .1 million of pre -tax profit that's a game changer deal where you know you buy a business 20 that makes 000 pounds a year well that's never going to set the world alight right it's just like why put the effort in you might as well go and buy the bigger the bigger business okay and do you have any thoughts about knowing when to sell when someone should be thinking about it's time to sell yeah when things are going well but no one wants to sell when things are going well because i say well why would i sell things are going well now that's when you get the um most value and things don't go well forever no business goes up and up and up and up and up and up and up every business you know it goes up and down it's like a roller coaster so you need to know when you're going getting up to the top of the the peak and when you're going up to the top of the peak that's when you sell when you reach the top the only way is down and that's when you get the worst value and that's when you become seriously motivated to sell you should be motivated to sell because the business is doing well not motivated to sell because the business is doing badly. That makes a lot of sense and I guess you need to not be emotionally attached to the business because that's when it's difficult to sell. You get the best value if you're not emotionally attached. If you are emotionally attached your value goes down every single time. This is really useful. Thank you so much for that. Before we finish is there anything Jonathan you want to add or leave with the audience? Can I give a plug for my YouTube channel? Yeah go ahead and do it. If you type my name Jonathan J J A Y into YouTube I've got over 200 videos on buying a business and all interviews with my clients who've done it, me doing presentations to groups of people, all different types of videos and there's some free training videos there as well. If anyone's interested in doing this check out the Jonathan J YouTube channel. Brilliant and I think that will help as you said it's always good to have a bit of a template a bit of a process and an idea of what to expect rather than getting super excited and go I've got some money I can do something. Yeah and keep your money in your pocket don't use your own money when buying the business. Brilliant thank you so much for coming on the show. My pleasure thank you Judith. You're welcome and thank you out there for tuning into the Maverick Paradox podcast. I'm Judith Germain your host and thank you very much for listening to us today. The Maverick Paradox. Judith Germain is an author, speaker, consultant, mentor and trainer and the leading authority on maverick leadership. She is the founder of the Maverick Paradox which supports organizations to enhance their leadership capabilities and to help business owners develop and grow their businesses. Judith enables individuals, business owners and organizations to improve their impact and influence. She is also HR Zones leadership columnist and her expert opinion has appeared in national, international and trade press.
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The Crypto Conversation
A highlight from Scaling Business with AI Superpowers
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency space. Five years ago, deep in a bear market, a group of traditional finance experts founded Bitget, and they've been building ever since. Now with 20 million users worldwide, Bitget is committed to helping users trade smarter by providing a secure one -stop crypto investment solution with copy trading, future trading, and spot trading. Your security is their priority and Bitget has one of the largest protection funds in the industry with US $300 million to cover potential trader losses from unforeseen events that are not due to misconduct from the user or platform. Bitget wants to inspire everyone to embrace Web3, so if you're new to crypto, learn more at the Bitget Academy with free blockchain courses, crypto guides, cryptocurrency trading strategies, and more. Or for the experienced investor, trade smarter with daily access to institutional -grade crypto market intelligence and trends analysis with Bitget research. I've put links to Bitget research and the Bitget Academy in the show notes, so get amongst it, or simply go to bitget .com. Thank you to Bitget, and now it is on with the show. My guest today is Justin Flitter. Justin is the founder of New Zealand AI, among other things. Welcome to the show, Justin. Cheers, Andy. It's nice to be here. Nice to have you here. Let's do what we do at the beginning of the show, Justin. I'll invite you to please introduce yourself. Love to just hear a little bit of your, I suppose, personal and professional backstory and what has led you to getting involved with AI. Yes, my name is Justin Flitter. I'm the founder of New Zealand .ai. We are the place where New Zealand businesses start their AI journey. And how have we got to be here? Well, I'm a marketer by trade, I guess, and along the last 20 -odd years have been curious and interested in emerging technology and how that plays out in marketing and business. I guess I can kind of share around the communities that we've created, whether that's the Young Professionals group in Wellington in 2006, we were getting 300 under -30s in monthly events coming and learning from each other through to founding the Auckland Social Media Club in 2009 and getting 300 people a month coming along to those events right at the kind of forefront of social media for business. And then in 2016, I was working for a company called Results .com and their board investors had come out of Diligent, which had a mega exit, and they'd invested in and created this company called Aria, which was a natural language processing organisation in the UK. And I started becoming curious around how natural language would impact the world of marketing, certainly as we were seeing devices like Amazon Alexa and Google Home and all sorts of things that we were starting to talk to these devices. And the way that we ask questions verbally is quite different from the way that we type things in a search bar. And so I started going to a whole lot of vendor events around Auckland and meant a whole lot of other people working in professional services like me trying to figure out what AI was, what the potential was, is it another fad, what's going on. And so I did a whole lot of research and eventually started a meetup called the AI Show. And the first event was at a dark and dingy bar in Britomart, but Shannon Thomas, who was then the external PR and comms lead for IBM New Zealand attended and she said, oh, we'll host the next one. And so then started quite a long partnership with AI Show and building an events programme, getting 200 -300 people a month along for several years, where we would showcase companies utilising artificial intelligence and share the expertise and the tools and the tech enabling the capability and discussing some of the pressing issues around how AI was changing people, society, the way we work. And yeah, and so that's kind of really been the journey. And I guess, you know, we ran AI Day, which was the two biggest AI conferences in New Zealand in 17 -18. And then COVID hurt and everything kind of went into hiatus, so we went back into some marketing contracting. And then in October last year, OpenAI launched ChatGBT and it completely changed the game for everybody. What's fascinating about this, Justin, is, I mean, the reason that you and I know each other, or at least are aware of each other, we're not sort of good friends or anything like that. But I've known who you are for more than a decade. And the reason for that is, you know, we've both been on Twitter, or what used to be called Twitter, for, well, let's just say for over 10 years, and certainly in, you know, smaller countries like New Zealand or tech communities, you know, it's easy to see, you know, those kind of identities such as yourself pop up. And it's incredible, though, if you kind of think back that, you know, AI, and I'll say blockchain as well, crypto, Bitcoin, have been reasonably, you know, from a mainstream perspective, reasonably esoteric, and very much niche topics for discussion on, on, let's say, Twitter, but, you know, suddenly, you know, the world is changing. And these things very much are going mainstream. And as you pointed out, you know, the world really literally did appear to change overnight at the end of last year, when, yeah, the first rollout of ChatGPT was unleashed into the wild, right? Absolutely. Yeah, it's doubled the website traffic. And all of a sudden, I was rebuilding the website and getting booked to speaker conferences and run workshops and things like that. And I think it's really, you know, I mean, AI has been around since the 50s, since that Dartmouth University, and the UK with Alan Turing and his cohorts. But, you know, for many decades, it's really been sitting in the research labs and, and, and for the, for the first time for the general public, I think ChatGPT makes AI interactive, we can use it, our mothers and fathers and our daughters can use the same tool that we might use for our research assignment or to understand complex charts, or to write a blog post or to research new markets. And, and that's just a staggering change in people's perception of what artificial intelligence could actually do for us. And, and so putting it front and centre and giving everyone a browser based, free, interactive experience where these machines are talking back to us in human language, is seismic. Indeed, and the Turing test has finally been passed and, you know, in spectacular fashion. So, you know, Justin, you work with an array of different businesses, I'm sure, smaller, smaller businesses, larger scale businesses. And, you know, you consult with them to help them identify, I suppose, the different ways that AI can perhaps improve their business processes. But I'm conscious also that, you know, a lot of businesses are a little bit conservative when it comes to the adoption of new technologies, they need to be risk averse. So it's often kind of tech savvy individuals are the ones that are first able to really leverage these new tools. But so curious, give us give us a sense of how you see and find to talk about New Zealand, you know, how you find the business community, what's their approach to the sudden availability of easy to access AI tooling? Yeah, on one hand, I think a lot of CEOs and C -suite leaders are asleep at the wheel here. And they're really, you know, they're a little bit, you know, they're not, I don't think they're paying enough attention to this at all. Yeah. On the other side, we are seeing a groundswell of change. And, you know, we've been running an AI for Business webinar series and workshop series through the Employers and Manufacturers Association. And, you know, one chat GPT webinar we did a month ago, we had 1200 people on the call. And so this is, you know, this is this is workers across all all levels who are starting to use personal chat GPT accounts to short shift their work. And so they're using it to augment some of the tasks that they have to do every day to increase productivity to help them do things faster, smarter. And a lot of senior leaders are seeing that activity. And they're concerned they don't have necessarily the same knowledge. They, you know, a lot of C -suite leaders I talked to have never even used chat GPT. I get asked questions around how do I install it? I'm like, you already have it installed. You simply have to open the browser. And so they're concerned around so what are they pasting? What are they sharing? You know, are they sharing our software code? Are they sharing, you know, customer information? What are they doing with us? And so they're putting the roadblocks on it. And we're seeing, you know, that's not the right way to be necessarily to be thinking about it. We need to be leaning in and we need to be providing the education and the resourcing and the guardrails around these tools the same as what we would do with any other new technology that's coming to the market and any new software tools that we have at our disposal to enable people to use them safely and responsibly. Yeah, absolutely. Well said. And, you know, one of the, I suppose, for the, you know, enterprise use cases, one of the faster growing sectors will be, I guess, the custom chat models that are native to a particular business. So that's important so that you can ensure, you know, whatever internal data that your business have that is obviously you want to keep that secure. But if you can have a chatbot that allows you to, you know, query your own data in any way possible, then that is an immediate benefit to your business and it alleviates some of those privacy concerns. Yeah, so I think, you know, certainly that's one of the most common use cases for businesses getting started on their AI journey and that's to unlock organizational data. And so we're seeing generative AI and conversational AI platforms now where you can integrate all your different company data sources, whether that's, you know, your finance with Xero or your Microsoft 365 and SharePoint or your file storage, your CRM, your ERP, all of these different types of data that you have, which are all traditionally siloed and specific job functions, can now be woven together into this mesh of data that generative AI can cross -reference to help you better understand the business, to generate new insights, to generate new content, to create new workflows, and ultimately to automate some of that repetitive processing that you have in your business, which sucks up employees' time and unproductive work. Yeah, and what's incredible about AI is the, you know, it is causing, let's just say, tensions, right, in almost every sector of society, if not now soon. So obviously in business we've talked about that a little bit, but like one other sector, of course, it's a simple one, but education, Justin, for example, you know, I have a 13 -year -old son, so he goes to what we call secondary school here in New Zealand. He'll start secondary school next year and I can see already that there's, I'm sure there's disagreement amongst, let's say, you know, school boards or amongst school teachers as to what is the best policy in terms of, you know, do you allow students access to AI tools? Do you try and, you know, run their essays through these clunky AI, you know, scanners? It doesn't work, it doesn't work. You can't detect AI writing. You can't, you can't. No matter what they say, you can't do it. That's right. So it's just like, this is a bit of a, yeah, a tricky one, Justin, but what do you think is the correct approach? And obviously it can evolve over time, but if you were heading up a school's education department at the moment, what would you say? When calculators came in, did schools ban calculators? Just, you know, like, you know, yes, but people can, they're still buying them at home, right? So, you know, banning something automatically creates demand for people to use it. Like you're saying, don't do this. So then everyone goes and does it. It's, you know, facts or well, whether you can call chat GPT fact -based chat GPT is a large language model that's designed to convince you that the next word in the sentence is correct, right? So it's, it's a production, a production model. So all it's, so, you know, you can't rely on, on the information that it's, it's given you all the time. There has to be a human in the look. It's there to augment our work. Now, if as a, and there are, there are schools and you know, obviously my opinion is that's just the completely wrong way to think about it. It's, it's it's naive. And, and we, and it comes because of a lack of education, a lack of awareness and lack of knowledge around how to use and leverage these. And you look to the, the US and, you know, when, when colleges are on holiday chat GPT usage goes down 30%. And so, you know, no matter what you, what you decide to do as an organization, students are going to be using this tool at every level of their education, because it can be that coach, mentor, support person, teacher, that's, that gives them that, that confidence that, that they need, right? It's there with them at every different stage of their learning journey so that they don't have to start from scratch. They're asking a question, they're getting a response, they're able to have a discussion about that particular topic. And so instead of the education system asking them, is the answer this or this? The answer, the question should be, how do you interpret that answer? Why do I think more deeply about that particular topic? Contextualize that response. Why is that meaningful? And so you, I guess it's, it's how we're thinking about critical thought. And, you know, we're, you know, you've got the entire world's knowledge base sitting in the DBT. You can literally ask it anything you want and, you know, generally get a reasonably good, reasonably good answer out of it. You do have to check it, but, you know, how we, how we, how we teach people, how we ask them, how we score knowledge and, and test knowledge and, and contextualize those insights for the world around us is something that, you know, we need to be getting students to do, to do more of. You know, I mean, I was at, I was at a University of Auckland, I was delivering a marketing lecture a few months ago, and a student asked me, he was like, if the lecturer gives us a book to read, why wouldn't I just go to chat GBT and ask it to give me a summary? And my answer was, because when you get into the next class and the teacher asks you what happened in chapter 13 to Mike, and how did that play out for the result of the story, you're not going to know the answer. So, you know, it's, it's only giving you a certain amount of, you know, knowledge. It's not giving you that contextualization in terms of what those ideas mean in the world that you live in. Yeah. Thank you, Justin. Very well said. You know, I mentioned the, you know, the tension across different parts of society. So another part of society, Justin, is, I suppose you'd say, broadly, the creative industries, but I'm more specifically thinking of, you know, tools like Mid -Journey and Dali, the incredible kind of, you know, on -demand instant photography, instant image generation. And it's incredible just in the last 12 months, much more sophisticated. Something like Mid -Journey has gotten, you know, a year ago, an AI couldn't really generate a realistic human hand. But now they can. And it's, if you extrapolate at forward five or 10 years, it's fairly easy to see that eventually you'd be able to generate, you know, short films or even like full length films from a detailed prompt, which is crazy to think about. But yeah, it'd be tough being a digital artist or graphic designer at the moment. I mean, you know, we're on the cusp, certainly in the next couple of years, of 80 -90 % of the content we use in marketing or, you know, many sectors being generated by AI. And that throws up a whole lot of unique challenges. But at the moment, like we're seeing short films being created, I mean, you know, two or three minutes. And at the moment, these are four to six second snippets stitched together with a soundtrack and a voice overlay, or voiced as well using AI. And so you've got Runway ML, you've got Pixel Labs, you've got a whole bunch of amazing tools. And I would say, given the pace of change, three to five years, I think we're seeing, you know, we're seeing, you know, full feature, full length movies being able to be generated. And you've got the ability where, and this is where that kind of writers and artists block and Hollywood is coming up because, you know, we can clone voices, we can clone actors. And so, you know, there's a, we can make people say and do anything we like once we've got some footage or some audio of them, which of course, makes that whole production of traditional films a whole lot easier. Because if you need, you know, it might take away the need to do a reshoot. If there's a slight tweak, then you could use some AI to do a slight tweak to something with editing and certainly in the post production. But none of this stuff is particularly easy just yet. And none of it's like particularly that good just yet. And certainly, you know, we've got a guy here, Steve Ballantyne, who runs an agency called Brand IQ. And they designed the cover for the New Zealand marketing magazine a couple of months ago. And, you know, that would have taken hundreds of hours to build the layers and the artistry around that. So, you know, while we're seeing some parts of production and execution being automated, the ideas and that creative freedom is just exploding. Yeah, it really is. And look, well, if that's the case, then, Justin, if AI is both a revolutionary tool and a weapon, what do we do now? That's the topic of the panel that I'm on at the Devonport Library tonight. It is indeed. Yeah, look, there's some immense global challenges around us. And, you know, we're seeing, you know, challenges around, you know, battle for Taiwan with between China and the US around semiconductors and the race for compute power and, you know, the computer parts that process the artificial intelligence. And, you know, along that we're seeing a race with Microsoft, AWS, Google, Facebook, and all of these that are, you know, they're all trying to vie for an advantage in the capability to generate, you know, to generate AI powered systems. So we're seeing, you know, drones now, you know, swarms of drones replacing firework shows. And so there's, you know, while there's always a super exciting, amazing, positive, humanity changing use case for almost all of those, there's also a potential for weaponization. And we're seeing the likes of the EU and debates around Capitol Hill discussing and regulations around privacy and copyright and those sorts of things. And, you know, certainly there are going to be some movements around that. The EU always takes a lead on these types of things. And generally, you know, New Zealand's a follower, not necessarily a fast follower, but a follower. And so we're kind of looking to the instruction and the guidance from the EU in terms of what that might look like. But, you know, it's a super complex environment. Some might argue the cat's out of the bag with lots of these things. You know, no one knows what's going on in the research labs necessarily. I mean, we've just seen, you know, we've got Neuralink, which is putting chips into brains to help people with different diseases and things like that to short circuit their processing. And now we've got a another startup and I'm just trying to find it actually. I posted it on LinkedIn this morning. And so they're actually building, they're actually putting growing brain cells around a chip. And so they're doing the complete opposite to Neuralink. And so that, yeah, so this guy was at, is at the brain conference in San Francisco today. He's Hon Wing. So Cordica is the name of it. And, you know, yeah, they're putting brain cells around chips instead of putting chips around brain cells. And I think there's, you know, a whole lot of, holy crap, what's coming next when we start thinking about the implications of that around GPU and computer processing and, you know, how we still haven't created AI or chips that are nearly as good as the human brain. So, you know, could this be a paradigm shift? Indeed, indeed. All right. Well, look, Justin, as we finish up this part of the podcast, just for anyone listening who's interested in learning more about what you and the team do at New Zealand .ai, I guess that's the best place for them to go. But yeah, where should people go? What should people do? Yeah, so we help businesses understand and learn where AI can thrive within their organization. We run a series of workshops, both kind of AI lunch and learn style, which is kind of AI for everyone. We do an executive leadership workshop where we deep dive into strategy and the potential use cases, how we're preparing the organization and building out that strategy and roadmap. And then once we kind of get to that point where an organization goes, yes, that's a really great solution, you know, the things that we can create using AI we couldn't imagine or do any other way, then we engage different partners from around New Zealand. So we don't produce any tech. We don't make any tech. We leverage the amazing technology businesses around New Zealand and in Australia to enable that. So we're bringing in partners to design, build and integrate those AI -powered systems into those businesses. So yeah, we're the place for businesses to start their AI journey and, you know, right through from curiosity to integration, we're helping to support that process. Awesome. And listeners, just go to New Zealand .ai link, of course, is in the show notes. Let's go do a very quick break and then we'll come back. We'll finish off. We'll have some fun. We'll run Justin through a slightly modified version of the very famous crypto conversation. Hot tech ground back in one second.
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 126 - Cerebrum DAO - Decentralized funding of brain health research
"I view it as a way to create a global network of brain health enthusiasts and those affected by neurodegenerative diseases to kind of change the game. We need to do things differently than we have in the past. And I think tokens and crypto networks are just absolutely fascinating ways when properly designed to coordinate people, talent really, and capital globally to go after common missions. Welcome to the Crypto Altruism Podcast, the podcast dedicated to elevating the stories of those using Web3 for good. I'm your host Drew Simon from CryptoAltruism .org. Now, before we get started, a quick disclaimer. While we may discuss specific Web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice and please make sure to do your own research on investment opportunities or any opportunity, including its legality. And now, let's get on to the show. Welcome and thanks so much for joining. Brain health and neurodegeneration are some of the most pressing medical challenges of our time. Neurodegenerative disease impacts millions every year and at this time lacks sufficient therapeutic treatments, especially for a problem of this magnitude. As a society, we need to rethink how we approach the most pressing scientific questions, including how we organize capital and talent to address them and fuel the next wave of scientific discovery. To dive into this, I'm excited to welcome Brian Magierski, founder of Cerebrum Tao, an open global community collectively sourcing, brainstorming, and funding solutions to advance brain health and prevent neurodegeneration. We discuss how Web3 tools can help advance vital brain health research, using Tao architecture to coordinate capital and the community, how the decentralized science movement can empower scientists and much more. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Brian to the Crypto Altruism podcast. Brian, thank you so much for being here today on the Crypto Altruism podcast. It is a pleasure to have you. How are you doing today? I'm doing well, Drew. Thanks. Excited to be here. Yeah, a lot's going on with you right now, I understand. And with Cerebrum Tao, which I'm excited to talk about, you've been traveling a lot. I saw you're at D -Cyberlin. So I'm excited to dive in all that. But before we get there, I want to hear your story. Do you mind just giving a little bit of an introduction to yourself and what your aha moment was that got you excited about Crypto and Web3 in the beginning? Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, Brian Magierski. I've been a serial entrepreneur for over 20 years now, mostly out of Austin, Texas, and started three different companies, mostly in the enterprise software B2B space, Web1, Web2, and mobile apps, serving enterprises and helping them be more efficient. And now just really full on and been obsessed for the past three, four years, based out of Zurich, Switzerland, and focused on brain health, pretty broadly, and a number of reasons for that, which we can get into. I've been in and out of crypto. It's funny, I got into crypto back in 2014. A friend of mine, a fellow entrepreneur, was into Bitcoin at the time. And so we just started brainstorming that. So I played around with it in 2014, was intrigued, but couldn't figure out what to do with Bitcoin. So I took a pause, and I ended up coming back into it around 2017, when Ethereum was kind of gaining momentum, and you could program it. And I was like, Okay, this is more interesting. Now you can actually build something on this. And dug in, went through the ICO phase. And then I had a fork in the road that got me obsessed about focusing on brain health. And ever since then, I've been looking at how do I leverage crypto networks and crypto assets in a way that can solve the problems I'm trying to solve in the brain health field. Yeah, yeah, definitely. And we'll dive into that, for sure, in terms of the story behind your interest in brain health, and why the focus on this fascinating area. But before you do that, do you mind giving listeners just a high -level overview of the mission of CerebrumDAO? Yeah, absolutely. So CerebrumDAO is on a mission to accelerate solutions and cures to neurodegeneration and overall brain health, advancing brain health. I view it as a way to create a global network of brain health enthusiasts and those affected by neurodegenerative diseases to kind of change the game. And by changing the game, it's a recognition of the fact that neurodegeneration and dementia in particular is the only major disease category that has had no effective FDA -approved therapeutic until recently, and now has had no FDA -approved therapeutic until recently, and still has no effective FDA -approved therapeutic. And we have an epidemic. We have an epidemic that's growing. We're going to quadruple the number of people with Alzheimer's dementia by 2050. It's affecting tens of millions of people, and it's unfortunately a disease that affects an entire family and friend network when it happens. And we need to do things differently than we have in the past, and I think tokens and crypto networks are just absolutely fascinating ways when properly designed to coordinate people, talent really, and capital globally to go after common missions. And this is a global mission. It affects all of us, and I think that that's what we can do with this. So that is our mission. It's pretty ambitious, and it's pretty big, but it's necessary. Yeah, yeah, definitely. For sure. Well, thank you for sharing that. You shared some information on the challenges that exist around brain health and longevity and the broad impacts that it has on just so many people, right? It's such a wide -reaching challenge faced by many, and I want to know about your why now. Why the focus on this area? Obviously, there's the importance of it worldwide. It's a really big challenge that's affecting every nation, every family probably in one way or another, but why the focus on brain health and longevity? Why is this important to you? Yeah, it started about four years ago for me, and it's tied to my youngest daughter, and she's now 12, at the time eight, and she was born 12 years ago with Down syndrome. And what we recognized, my wife and I recognized when she was born, as we looked at Down syndrome and tried to prepare for what we need to do to support her in her life, one of the things that jumped out at me was people with Down syndrome are 100 % susceptible to early onset Alzheimer's disease. And so you have a situation with people with Down syndrome that they're living longer lives now, so many of the life expectancy kind of extends into late 50s into the 60s now for people with Down syndrome. But what we've discovered is that early onset Alzheimer's is what's killing them, and it's an incurable condition, and they're all going to get it. So in many ways, there are kind of canaries in the coal mine for this condition to be able to study it, because anybody with Down syndrome you're looking at is somewhere on the pathway to getting Alzheimer's dementia. And so that was frightening, given the history of Alzheimer's and giving the status of no therapeutics and no immediate one on the horizon.
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Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from BTP-LOT3 St. Teresa on Being With Good People The Life of St. Teresa of Avila Beginning to Pray with Dr. Anthony Lilles Podcast
"Anthony, thank you so much for joining me. It's wonderful to be with you, Chris. Thank you for making all these conversations available. Discerning Hearts is doing such a powerful thing. I've heard from Carmelite friends all over the world about Discerning Hearts and Chris McGregor. I was with the Missionaries of Charity in San Francisco and an old Carmelite priest who was kind of serving as chaplain for them. He came up to me after Mass and he goes, Hidden Mountains, Secret Garden, and he kind of let me know that he had been following some of the conversations going on at Discerning Hearts and I could tell it built up his priesthood. And I think that effect that Discerning Hearts has is something remarkable and a gift to the church all over the place. And so, Chris, we all owe you a big thank you. Well, just praise God. Just giving back what he's offering to all of us. And we're so blessed to have you, Anthony, to be able to break open, or how can I say, unwrap the gift? It's not even break it open. It's more gently to open it up and to be able to view it. And a lot of times what you're showing us is this multifaceted diamond from all the different angles and all the different ways the light kind of penetrates. And ultimately, you know what that diamond is? It's really more of our own human hearts. And in reading Teresa of Avila, Elizabeth the Trinity, Therese, John the Cross, the great Carmelites, but also the many of the great saints, that's ultimately what they're trying to show us, isn't it? Or what they're trying to reveal to us? Yes, that God has created us for this great purpose and there's something wonderful about who we are. When we put ourselves in relationship to him, it's also possible that we betray the gift that we are and it is possible for us to completely ruin it. But that's not what God wants. It's not really what we want either. And so he comes to us in all our insecurities and fears and he kind of breaks through our indifference to him. That's probably the big enemy in the beginning. And he breaks through our indifference to him until we connect with him. And then he opens up beautiful possibilities before us as we see how good he is. Those who see the goodness of God, those who know the goodness of the Father, what they have is hope. Because they realize how good his intention is towards them personally. And that he's inviting them into a great work. And with that hope and with a sense of the future, a soul kind of steps out beyond itself and God is able to reveal his glory through it. People who otherwise are walking in darkness get to glimpse a great light whenever any soul does that. And that's why I'm very excited about our conversations right now on Teresa of Avila and her life. Because she is a soul that had to break through her indifference to God and begin to see his goodness. And the more she sees his goodness and realizes how benevolent his plan is towards us, the more radically she begins to embrace for herself that plan and beyond the plan to embrace God himself. And she unleashes a power in the world that I think has rippled through human history ever since. It's a powerful, powerful movement of prayer that becomes part of an impulse for. And I think this gift of prayer that she advocates in the Church is actually the leading force through which the renewal of the Church will occur. But she doesn't start out a great contemplative. She has to kind of be invited into it. And we can kind of see, well not quite kicking and screaming, but there was a lot of indifference that needed to be broken through. That's I think the real benefit from reading the life of Teresa of Jesus or the life of seeing Teresa of Avila. Because what you will find in the interior castle and even the way of perfection are these wonderful roadmaps in the spiritual journey. While other people were out there mapping the world in that time period of the 1500s, she's really mapping the interior life. But in the life of Teresa, what you're finding is that she's like us. She's almost somebody that is on the journey like we've been on the journey. And in those first couple chapters that we talked about in our previous episodes, we find this young girl who is not only experiencing the loss of her mother, but she is finding a great love for her father, for her family, and a desire to do good. And yet she's challenged by the culture and the things around her. And that also looked kind of good at first blush. And her response to that I think is not unlike so many of us in our earlier years and even some of us in our 30s, 40s, 50s still. And yet she has experiences in awakening. As we come into chapter three, she had a woman who took some time and shared with her. It wasn't so much the woman that ignited the desire for something more, something deeper, something good, something true, but it was maybe more her witness, wouldn't you say, the nun that she would end up meeting. That's a very important element in how we witness, too, isn't it, and how we can help others on that journey. Well, this is absolutely vital, actually. One of the things I do and the work I do is I work with a lot of vocations. And so the first thing that comes out in chapter three that's worth just mentioning is this nun who begins to talk to Saint Teresa about what religious life is actually. And we kind of need that to be recovered in our own time. People who are living a vocation need to kind of step out and reach out to the next generation and let them know that this pathway of Christ, which seems so bizarre, is actually meaningful and leads to a very fulfilling and rich life. This narrative isn't being told. John Paul II, in the first World Youth Day, it was in Poland. It wasn't really called World Youth Day, but a group of young Poles gathered with him. at He stood a naval base that was destroyed by the Nazi Germans. And the story of the naval base was that the Polish forces there never surrendered. They fought to the bitter end. They were invited to surrender, but they refused to surrender. They were going to fight to the end. And John Paul II, kind of referring back on that history, he said, The world will never demand very much from you. The world never demands anything from you at all. But Christ, He demands everything. Just like these people who laid down their life for their country, Jesus is looking for generous souls who will not give up and who will fight to the end. And He's not looking for success, He's looking for faithfulness. Well, when someone in their life begins to hear that for the first time, the enemy's immediate attack is, Oh, but if you do that, you're going to live just an awful life. And it will be too difficult, and you'll never be able to persevere. It will be too hard on you. You hear these kind of things. And this is where the witness, the witness of this nun, as you were saying, is so critical. She could say, Look, I've tried it. It's not so bad. And what was she doing? She was planting seeds. This nun was planting seeds. She knew that Teresa, she must have known that Teresa would not be able to understand or receive everything she was saying. She planted the seeds anyway. In the same chapter, the reason why these mentors for our vocations are so important, there's also an old uncle that she goes to who's a very pious man. And he, again, has her reading books that she would never read on her own, but he has her reading them out loud to him. And again, I think he was very cleverly planting seeds. And she had that experience when you're reading this beautiful literature of not really liking it because it's kind of demanding on your consciousness and on your attention. It makes demands on you so you don't really like it. It's not pleasant or convenient to read. But at the same time, when you read it, it fills you with a kind of sense of hope and desire for greatness. And these things are beginning to stir in her because of first this nun and then her uncle. And so she begins what you might call the vocational journey of her life. And it's an interesting thing. I think she already has some kind of life of prayer. It's very undeveloped. She's backslid since her youth. She's dealing with an illness, too. And that also has to be discouraging. We find in chapter three that she's fainting and just not feeling very well at all. So God comes to us even when we're not feeling well. He sends us people when we're not at our very best. And he plants seed kind of like when we're in a vulnerable place. And I don't know, I think that what we see going on in chapter three opens up maybe reconsidering, you know, how do we discern our vocation? And part of vocational discernment is, you know, who do we let in our lives and who do we talk to? And who do we let challenge us a little bit? We'll return to Beginning to Pray with Dr. Anthony Lillis in just a moment.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from Here Comes Bitcoin with Steve Lee & Haley Berkoe
"People think that I'm here to make them money. I'm just here to make money better. You know what I mean? Hello there from rainy Bedford this weekend. Weather's rubbish here. It's raining all week. I missed that California sunshine. Please take me back. I'm going to get it. It's so good to be back home. Love being back in Bedford. Have you checked out my latest film? Follow the money part four. Argentina's inflation crisis is out now. You can check it out on our Rumble page. It's also on our YouTube page. And thanks for all the great feedback. Really appreciate it. I do want to thank everyone involved in that, specifically Neil, who worked really hard on the research and the production, but also my DP Kurt, who also co -directed it with me, and also Aidan, who was the BCAM operator on the film. Thank you to everyone involved in that. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the absolute legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, Peter McCormack. And today I've got a very different show for you. I've got an exclusive actually. I have got Bitcoin on the show. Now we know Bitcoin. We love Bitcoin. We understand Bitcoin, but not everybody does. Bitcoin has been through a very difficult few years, highs and lows, probably mainly misunderstood from all the rubbish that's in the press, all the stories that circulate, the misinformation, the, the thought about Bitcoin. Bitcoin's had a tough life, but we thought it's time to get Bitcoin on the show. We wanted to talk to Bitcoin. We wanted to find out what life has been life for Bitcoin, what Bitcoin is doing now, what are Bitcoin's hopes for the future. So yeah, this is an exclusive interview. I hope you enjoy it. If you've got any feedback about this or anything else, you know how to reach out to me is hello at what bitcoindid .com. All right, Bitcoin, welcome. How are you? Oh, I'm good. I'm doing good. How are you doing, Peter? Yeah, I'm good. Doing good, man. Thank you for coming on the show. Oh, my, my great pleasure. It's a bit surreal for us. Yeah. So kind of reminds me of when we did the Bukele interview. I love that episode, by the way. Yeah. It's a real pleasure to be here. I was probably as nervous for that one as this one. You're not nervous. Well, I mean, Bitcoin, I mean, it's the first time. Yeah, he was my first president. Is it your first time? First time meeting Bitcoin. Oh, all right. You know what? I've made a lot of people nervous for that very reason. Listen, right. We're the first one to have Bitcoin on the show. And that's like, we feel privileged, right? You should. But we have got some questions for you, man. All right, go for it. We don't know anything about your past. We don't know about your childhood, growing up. Oh, man. You know, I only got to know you about eight years ago. I read about you. Yeah. Got involved with you. Yep. The tabloids, of course. I'm kidding. I heard some stories about you. I heard you like milk. I heard you like pigeons. Oh, my God. I can't get enough of them. Yeah. So, you know, I grew up in New York. I'm in the East Side, I live now. And I don't know, I guess my past is simple, you know, like most like most kids, you know, I had my issues, my social issues, social anxiety. I wasn't breastfed. So I think that might have something to do with my and my therapist says that's why I'm so obsessed with the white stuff. You know what I mean? But what was it? What was it like growing up in New York? Because you're you're a bit different from most kids, right? I mean, yeah, I mean, listen, New York, New York in the in the late 50s, early 60s. I mean, it was a very different place, first of all. Okay. So, you know, it was a different time. It was a simpler time. Definitely, definitely different than the other kids. But you know, we all get picked on. So I'm no victim. You know what I mean? Yeah, but what would they pick on you for? Honestly, um, was it the red hair? What were they picking on me boy? Honestly, you know, that's a good point. It might have been my red hair. A lot of redheads get picked on, you know. You're the edgier in a crypto currencies. That too. How about you? How about you? Did you get picked on as a kid? Yeah, I did. What did they pick on you for? I was from I was from a little poor suburb of Bedford called Kemston. Oh, that'll do it right there. Kemston. Okay. They said I grew up in a wheelie bin. They did. They made a song up a wheelie. We got we got to do the song please. What's up? I'm not gonna sing it. But it was it was you gotta sing it. It was on the rugby coach. And then the in the style of we all live in a yellow submarine. They were saying we all live in a yellow wheelie bin. And they'd say by day, that's true story. Wow. You know what, I don't want to re dramatize you. So I need to reenact that. But it does sound hilarious. I can't sing it. Danny. It's pretty funny, right? It's very funny. I might cry if I say get brings up choke. But then I fucking proved. I proved these guys wrong. I was gonna make money. There you go. Is that what you know? That where your drive comes from? Yeah, a little bit. A little bit. Yeah. Prove them wrong. I can see that kid from Kemston come good. I can see that. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I got some of that in me too. You know, people don't understand me. Okay. People do not get me. And, you know, I have to I have to, you know, I got to contend with that every day. People think that I'm here to make them money. I'm just here to make money better. You know what I mean? Like, why is that so difficult? So speaking of which, I can't believe you guys have this thing sitting here. Why not? Really? Well, we wanted to know your value. How do you think that feels? How do you think that feels Peter? Fucking Danny's idea. Danny. Fucking MBK. Danny. MBK. Bitcoin. You and I have got something in common, man. So I get a lot of shit online. And you get a lot of shit online. A lot of shit online, man. I see you take shit. Actually, you get it worse than me. I just get it on Twitter or in the YouTube comments. You get it from the New York Times. You get it from the, what is it? The Wall Street Post. That's right. The Wall Street Post comes out. The New Yorker. Yeah. They'll all come after you all the time. They said you're boiling the oceans. What do I have against the oceans? You know what I mean? I can't barely boil water. Anyway. Yeah. It's rough, man. How do you deal with it all? There's like a lot of pressure. You know what I do? I take a deep breath in through my nose, out through my mouth. Ready? One, two, three. Really? I just do that all day. I try to take it easy. You know, I try not to be too hard on myself. I try to remember that people don't get me and that's not my fault. People don't get me. You know, I've got a good Sarah. I'm a pissed. That helps. She's the one who taught me to breathe. I got good friends, you know, like my good, my girl Haley over here. You know, why, why do you think people don't get you? Can we rephrase the question? What don't people get about me? Hmm. What don't people don't get me because of their own concerns with their own self worth. You know, I think people have low self -esteem and they want to feel more valuable. They want to feel like they've got something of value. And then they want to know how much your value is. I'm like, you know, if you valued yourself, maybe we wouldn't be talking about numbers right now. Maybe we'd be talking about purpose our in life. And my purpose is to make life easier. You know what I'm saying? You get, you feel me, right? Hey, listen, you've made my life easier. I get it. Can we talk about that for a second? Can we, can we please post about that? How have I made your life easier? Well, I mean, you gave me purpose. I met my boy Danny because of you. And Danny's like one of my best friends in the world. I mean, come on. Who doesn't love Danny, right? And that, that wouldn't happen without you. I bought my local football team because of you. I put you on our shirt. Do you know you're on our shirt? I do. Yeah. See? Honestly, first of all, I'm honored. Thank you for that acknowledged moment. I really, you know, I'm here to make a difference. And I'm glad I made a difference with you. Oh, you did it for all of us. We've been lucky with doing this job, job to travel around. We've met some great people. We've been privileged to interview some great people, but to finally get a chance to sit down with you is like, this is a, this is a big deal for us. It's an important moment. You wouldn't understand how big a moment this, like, we've been talking about this for weeks. Like we don't want to fuck it up. Want to make sure you had a good time. Like we respect you, respect your time. We understand that this is exclusive. And so this is a big deal for me and Danny. You know, um, you've already fucked it up. You've already fucked it up because you haven't brought my girl Haley into the mix. Haley, come on. Haley, come sit down. Come here. Come here. Get in here, girl. Get down. And Steve, what about Steve? Come on. Let's go on. Steve. Good to see you. Come on. That's right. Listen, a couple of questions before we go. Okay. Okay. What are you, what are you going to be doing this weekend in LA? Oh man. I got so many things to do in LA. What did we talk about? Uh, I'm gonna go to the Santa Monica pier. First of all, I love kettle corn. So I'm going to get some of that. And I'm mostly pigeon hunting. I'm going to go, and I'm going to go feed the pigeons. If you know what I mean, Danny, and I'm going to go feed the pigeons. If you know what I mean.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Caregiving With Creativity: The Role of Improv in Caregiving
"Discover how Nancy Ann's unique life experiences have enabled her to bring joy, laughter, and an element of surprise to her everyday chores. From nursing to traveling to multitasking, she skillfully applies a dose of comedy to reduce stress and spread happiness. Hear how the concept of yes and can lead to creative problem -solving and how giving a sense of purpose to those we care for can unlock positivity. invaluable Nancy Ann's experience with Alzheimer's caregiving will leave you with a new perspective on living in the moment and appreciating the little things in life. Welcome to Fading Memories, the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years and when I went looking for answers, I had the start a navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. Welcome back, everybody. Must be Tuesday again. I have something fantastic for you. Not that every week's not pretty good, but this week, extra special. So I really appreciate you giving us a little of your time. With me is Nancy Ann Hobart, and she is a nurse and a comedian. And she is going to talk about improv for health and or also how we can use improv for Alzheimer's caregiving. So thanks for joining me, Nancy. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. I just love living in the moment. And that's what it's all about. I have learned to do that a lot better as I've gotten older, but it was not easy with my mom. And I don't know if it was because of the, you know, parent child relationship that, you know, even in my 50s seemed to dominate our feelings, even though she thought I was her best friend. It was it was hard. It was very hard to just let go and be in her world because, you know, I had other things I had to worry about and think about and get done. So I'm a nurse and I plan. But then I always say my saying is don't worry in advance because I have friends that say, Oh, I can't make plans with you on Tuesday because it might rain. Well, it might not rain. So I just say don't worry in advance. You know, if it doesn't work on Tuesday, we could do it on Wednesday. And I know with older people, my mom was ill for a while in Pennsylvania. I flew back a lot during COVID. You don't want to know how many airplanes I was on. And I went back a lot. It was fine. I was fine. But it's true. It's like you think this is going to happen. You could plan it. But, you know, be open to new happenings, new experiences. That's my saying. Yeah. Yeah, I needed to learn to be open to new things because, as you're probably aware, you know, my mom is in late stage Alzheimer's. So getting her into the car, over to the park, out of the car, and she was very good at watching her feet while she walked. And she would literally walk 10 to 15 feet behind me. I could do nothing to fix that problem. And it terrified me that she was going to, like, trip over something and land on her face. And I was going to be the you know what, because I wouldn't let her catch up or, you know, and it's like, I could not get her to walk arm in arm. If I slowed down, she slowed down. If I stopped, she stopped. It was just like, But she wouldn't hold your arm like that for support? No, I'm sorry. I hated it. So I had a guest, Tammy, and I can't remember her last name at the moment. She's been on twice. We were talking before we recorded and she said, Wait, you said your mom was the oldest of four? And I said, Yeah, she was baking. She was keeping an eye on the children. You were one of the children. It's just kind of like her natural state. And I was like, Dang, I wish I'd known that. That was it. Then I could have turned around and play acted like, you know, and talked to her and it would have made sense. But I was just trying to get her to walk next to me. And I know they don't have peripheral vision, all the things but oh my gosh, it was just like the biggest. My mom was also the oldest and I'm an oldest. So when I would go back, I think I was the only one that would give her jobs. And they were little jobs. I said, Mom, there's a load of wash. I'm going to wheel your wheelchair over by the chair. And you can fold it. She was like, Oh, I like to do this because everybody else folds it the wrong way. I'm like, Well, you fold it the right way. So my sister goes, How do you get her to do jobs? I said, I just said, This needs to be done. That needs to be done. You can't stand at the kitchen sink. I could do that. But you could fold the wash. So it's just like, I think it's important to give them little jobs. You know, even if you don't call it a job, say we're gonna have fun with the wash now. You know, and who cares how they fold it. So yeah, I'm a job giver. I'm an oldest. You want a job? Come to my house. I'm the oldest also, but my sister was never compliant.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Caregiving With Creativity: The Role of Improv in Caregiving
"Discover how Nancy Ann's unique life experiences have enabled her to bring joy, laughter, and an element of surprise to her everyday chores. From nursing to traveling to multitasking, she skillfully applies a dose of comedy to reduce stress and spread happiness. Hear how the concept of yes and can lead to creative problem -solving and how giving a sense of purpose to those we care for can unlock positivity. invaluable Nancy Ann's experience with Alzheimer's caregiving will leave you with a new perspective on living in the moment and appreciating the little things in life. Welcome to Fading Memories, the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years and when I went looking for answers, I had the start a navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. Welcome back, everybody. Must be Tuesday again. I have something fantastic for you. Not that every week's not pretty good, but this week, extra special. So I really appreciate you giving us a little of your time. With me is Nancy Ann Hobart, and she is a nurse and a comedian. And she is going to talk about improv for health and or also how we can use improv for Alzheimer's caregiving. So thanks for joining me, Nancy. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. I just love living in the moment. And that's what it's all about. I have learned to do that a lot better as I've gotten older, but it was not easy with my mom. And I don't know if it was because of the, you know, parent child relationship that, you know, even in my 50s seemed to dominate our feelings, even though she thought I was her best friend. It was it was hard. It was very hard to just let go and be in her world because, you know, I had other things I had to worry about and think about and get done. So I'm a nurse and I plan. But then I always say my saying is don't worry in advance because I have friends that say, Oh, I can't make plans with you on Tuesday because it might rain. Well, it might not rain. So I just say don't worry in advance. You know, if it doesn't work on Tuesday, we could do it on Wednesday. And I know with older people, my mom was ill for a while in Pennsylvania. I flew back a lot during COVID. You don't want to know how many airplanes I was on. And I went back a lot. It was fine. I was fine. But it's true. It's like you think this is going to happen. You could plan it. But, you know, be open to new happenings, new experiences. That's my saying. Yeah. Yeah, I needed to learn to be open to new things because, as you're probably aware, you know, my mom is in late stage Alzheimer's. So getting her into the car, over to the park, out of the car, and she was very good at watching her feet while she walked. And she would literally walk 10 to 15 feet behind me. I could do nothing to fix that problem. And it terrified me that she was going to, like, trip over something and land on her face. And I was going to be the you know what, because I wouldn't let her catch up or, you know, and it's like, I could not get her to walk arm in arm. If I slowed down, she slowed down. If I stopped, she stopped. It was just like, But she wouldn't hold your arm like that for support? No, I'm sorry. I hated it. So I had a guest, Tammy, and I can't remember her last name at the moment. She's been on twice. We were talking before we recorded and she said, Wait, you said your mom was the oldest of four? And I said, Yeah, she was baking. She was keeping an eye on the children. You were one of the children. It's just kind of like her natural state. And I was like, Dang, I wish I'd known that. That was it. Then I could have turned around and play acted like, you know, and talked to her and it would have made sense. But I was just trying to get her to walk next to me. And I know they don't have peripheral vision, all the things but oh my gosh, it was just like the biggest. My mom was also the oldest and I'm an oldest. So when I would go back, I think I was the only one that would give her jobs. And they were little jobs. I said, Mom, there's a load of wash. I'm going to wheel your wheelchair over by the chair. And you can fold it. She was like, Oh, I like to do this because everybody else folds it the wrong way. I'm like, Well, you fold it the right way. So my sister goes, How do you get her to do jobs? I said, I just said, This needs to be done. That needs to be done. You can't stand at the kitchen sink. I could do that. But you could fold the wash. So it's just like, I think it's important to give them little jobs. You know, even if you don't call it a job, say we're gonna have fun with the wash now. You know, and who cares how they fold it. So yeah, I'm a job giver. I'm an oldest. You want a job? Come to my house. I'm the oldest also, but my sister was never compliant.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from We've Heard It Ourselves
"And thus the reading, John chapter 4, verses 27 to 42, yes, we've been in this chapter now for several weeks. And after I did the evening Bible study from another part of the chapter, or the same part of the chapter, I should say, our deacon Mike commented, you know, you've got five or six sermons just in this one section, and how true that is. Every chapter in the Gospel of John, in my opinion, is worthy of serious, detailed exposition and study. But here, we're talking about what happens when the Samaritans hear the message of the kingdom. We saw last time how this nameless Samaritan woman was used in the Lord's plan to spread the message of the kingdom. It is one of the great themes of the Gospel of John that Jesus is the Messiah who came to save His people from their sins. And His people are from everywhere, all kinds of people, not just well -placed, educated Hebrew scholars like Nicodemus. Even a Samaritan woman is a recipient of the grace of God. Now all of that is quite in keeping with what John said at the very beginning of this Gospel message. Back in chapter 1, John forewarned his readers that Jesus, the eternal logos, the divine logic word of God, came into the world and His own people did not receive Him. But for all who did receive Him, they were given the right, they were given the privilege to be reckoned as the children of God. And that was one thing among many that made Jesus and His message totally unacceptable to the Pharisees and the other leaders of the Jews. They believed they were the only ones who could be called the children of God or the children of Abraham. And we learn here that not only are they not the children of God or the children of Abraham, but they are very people whom they considered to be the outcasts, the untouchables. They are the ones who become the true children of Abraham and thus the rightful inheritors of all the promises of God made through him and to him. This is further reinforced in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 21 verse 43, where Jesus flat out tells these people, the kingdom of God is being taken from you and given to those who are manifesting the fruits thereof. So in this story, we have seen the progression and how those Samaritan people came to know who Jesus was and is. And as we look closer now again at this section of God's Word this morning, we should be asking ourselves, who is this Jesus to me? In verse 27, Jesus' disciples were sent to go and gather some food and they returned to find Him doing something very unusual. He's talking to a Samaritan woman. Now last week I shared with you something about the history of the mutual animosity between the Jews and the Samaritans. And I told you then that the Samaritans were distant cousins of the Israelites who had intermarried with pagan people. They weren't totally pagan. I guess today we might compare it as the difference between Reformed Presbyterian Christians as opposed to Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses. As much as we disagree and believe that those groups have wrong teachings, they nevertheless are within the wider orbit of, quote, marginal Christianity. They're not Buddhist. They're not Hindus, even though they may have imported some doctors there. That's not what this is about. The point is, the differences between the Jews and the Samaritans were significant, but it didn't make the Samaritans total pagans. They weren't polytheists, for example. And we know that the Samaritans accepted as canonical, as we would say, the first five books of the Old Testament. They considered them inspired, but they rejected the rest of it, and they substituted their own traditions. Now of course they weren't alone in doing that because the Jews, the Judaic people, had done the same thing. They accepted more than the five books of Moses, but of course their Talmudic traditions displaced just about everything else. I saw a video just recently, recorded in Israel, by the way, of a man who was a Christian speaking to another man who was a part of a larger group of Orthodox Jews. And these people were not at all happy with the Christians being where they were there in Jerusalem. And he was having a somewhat reasoned, if not slightly heated, discussion with this Orthodox Jew. And the Orthodox Jew just flat out told him that the Torah, that is the law of God, what we call the Bible, is that it tells me that I should hate you, and I do. I hate you. Now see, what's interesting about that is what that meant was that the Talmudic tradition of his Jewish leaders tells him that the Bible tells him that, because you certainly don't love the writings. Now back in the time of Jesus, Jewish men were forbidden by farseic law from having any friendly contact with Samaritan women. But what made Jesus' disciples marvel at him was the fact that he was talking to any woman at all, because, again, staying with this issue of the Talmudic tradition, the writings of the Talmud, the rabbis warned, and I'm quoting directly here, Prolong not conversation with a woman, even with one's own wife, and especially not with a neighbor's wife. Hence, the wise men say, he who prolongs conversation with a woman brings evil upon himself and seizes from the words of the law, and at the last inherits eternal damnation. So Jesus really is breaking with tradition. But you see, the point is, it is a so -called tradition that needed to be broken, because it had no foundation whatsoever in the Word of God. But notice what the Samaritan woman did. As soon as she realized the gift that she'd been given, that is, aionios zoe, age -enduring life, this gift of everlasting life, she ran to the city, leaving behind her water bucket to tell them in what had happened to her. So there are here, for the rest of this message, I want to, I want us to think about these two things that are a result of what's happened. Let us note, well, what she did, and then what she said to her fellow Samaritans. So first of all, she leaves behind the water bucket. Now I think we can see in that, and this is why I'm saying that's worth noting, this is a symbolic action of turning away from the old and turning to the new way. The water bucket represented the old temporary means by which a person might quench their thirst, their physical thirst. And let's not forget in terms of symbolism, this well is the well of Jacob, the father of the nation of Israel. The woman has turned from that to something far better, because there is a well of living water, the wellspring of life everlasting, which is now given to her by the new Jacob, the new Israel of God, Jesus the Christ. And notice that in her turning away from this, she is turning to do something very specific. She's gone to tell others about it. And I think this is an example for all of us who have received this new life in Christ Jesus, because we too ought to be about the business of sharing what Christ has done for us with others. There are people who think that for someone to become a Christian, they must be dragged off to a church or a revival service somewhere. Now let's say, as our catechism teaches, it's the hearing and the proclamation of the Word of God that is the normal means of informing and encouraging those, especially those already in the faith of Jesus. But even those who do not may well be converted by attending some service or other or hearing the word priest. But the good news of the kingdom, it seems to me at least, is most effectively spread when people ordinary simply share with their friends and co -workers and family members what Christ has done for them. Reminds me of a story of a man who, and this is some years ago in Great Britain, maybe I think back in the 1940s or 50s, he was a non -Christian, and he'd been prevailed upon by a Christian friend of his to attend revival services held by a well -known revivalist preacher. And this preacher gave a tremendous salvation message, and all during the message he exhorted and admonished his hearers to turn from their sins and cry out to God for deliverance. As it was, the man was leaving the great revival service just as lost and in his sins as he had entered it. But just as he got to the parking lot, he was met by another friend who had been at that service, and he invited him to go to the home of yet another man where there was a meeting of the men of the church. Well this fellow was rather curious about what a group of churchmen would be meeting about at someone's house after already having attended a worship service. So he went along and when he got there, he found about 25 men gathered together in a large living room. Now the host of the meeting announced that the group was to spend time sharing with each other what the Lord had done for them in answer to prayer. But there was a condition.
C.G.Jung Helpdesk
A highlight from Jung vs. Freud
"Hi, my name is Markus, and this is a companion podcast for the C .G. Jung Help Desk Meetup Group. I host live events on Zoom every two weeks about the concepts and ideas of the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. Every event I give a presentation about Jungian concept, so have fun with this event's topic. All right, good evening to you, everyone, and I want to talk today about a special topic for you, because when Jung is mentioned, very often Freud is also mentioned, not only because they lived at the same time, but because they also work together. And just to put a little bit into a reference frame, there's a way to structure Jung's life into certain blocks, and his life's work pretty much follows his own life, and that can be these blocks very neatly distinguished. And the first block in his life is a psychoanalytic block, where Jung was a professor and also taught about psychoanalysis he practiced. He worked with Freud very closely together, and this is in the first part till age 39. This is the other part, the next one following, which is the part that most people know, with the archetypes, the collective unconscious, anima, animus, where he explores and develops his ideas there. And the last part is a chemical part where many people don't go, but where he also talks about ions and synchronicity. So his ideas become more and more all -compassing and complex to get into, and the very beginning is the psychoanalysis part, which is personal because it's around patients. So what I will talk about will be very much colored by Jung's view on Freud. There's the collective works for those who have it or want to have it. There's the fourth book, I have it here in German, it's called Freud and Psychoanalysis. It's a neat little book because it really focuses on this topic of Freud and psychoanalysis. When was Jung thinking about how to structure his collective works and his life's work, his first impulse was to say, okay, when people should read me, they should read me in chronological sequence, because then people can see, okay, what developed after what. And on a certain point of view, it makes sense. On the other, Jung talks about so many different things, his whole life, that it's better to bundle these things. And this book is also a bundling. So here you have within one volume, his very beginning views on psychoanalysis, where he is basically sending fan letters to Freud and he's helping him fight against critics, then coming good friend of him, and then later changing his view. So it's a book that's spending decades of Jung's personal development and his life and his views on psychoanalysis. But it's not only that which I read, I also read The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud. And I read an introduction into Psychoanalysis also by Freud. Freud is a little bit easier to read because that's not so much. Freud did not write so many things. And he was more of a guy who would rewrite things, not for the topics, but rather he would expand and refine it a little bit. And you really notice it when you read The Interpretation of Dreams, which came out in 1899, and he would publish revisions of that the next 10, 20 years. And it's a very well -structured book, so you really get the feeling that somebody invested a lot of time in there. But because Jung was such a close friend of Freud, I guess he also has a lot of unique insights not on only Freud's theories, but also his personality, how he was privately. I will just talk a little bit about Jung's life and how he came into contact with Freud and how their friendship started. So when Jung had to decide what to study, he was unsure what to do, and he was thinking about doing archaeology because he was very interested in the past passion that stick with him his whole life, or whether he should go into medicine. And this was something that troubled him a lot because he knew he wanted to study, and he wanted to study in Wasser, but it was a dream that finally convinced him what to do, that he should pursue the path of medicine. And there he got into contact with psychology as a field. And back then, this is around 1900, psychology was a completely new field. It was the newest science. It was the bleeding edge, like the Silicon Valley, IT startup, crypto space of, okay, we are now exploring a new realm of the world and nothing is really clear. It's really like discovering a new continent. And he uses that metaphor very often. So there's a clear distinction between the world before psychology and after psychology, the discovery of the psyche. And one very clear distinction is that how patients were treated. So when somebody would have psychological problems, the going theory was that they had brain damage. When somebody has brain damage, there's basically nothing you can do. And so they would just put the people somewhere just to store them like furniture, wait until they would die someday. But there was not really an attempt to treat them or really a successful way to treat them. Jung grew up in that atmosphere where this was a change of, okay, there might be something more to the patients than just the problems and the symptoms that they have. And he would be very involved also in analyzing the brains of people who had died that had problems. And he could not find any statistical relevant damage of the brains that you could say, okay, this part is rotten. This is why the person cannot live normally. So he got very suspicious about the orthodoxy back then. He would start doing his own experiments. So he would study medicine. He would study psychology. He would start working in Buchholzli, which was a psychiatric institution in Switzerland. He would start to design his own experiments to get his own data about delving into the psyche of people. And the method that he's invented is called the association test. And the association test works in the way that you give people a word, for example, family, a house, child, money. And you would try to get the reaction. So the idea is the patient is just giving word, word, word, word, word as a stimulus, and they would give back the reaction. And of course, the word would be noted that the patient said, but also the time that it took the patient to say the word. And he worked on that for a very long time and got some really interesting results. This was this investigation into the psyche because there was a certain phenomena that people normally they would get into a kind of groove and they would say a reaction within a certain time frame, very short seconds. But sometimes when he would say a word, there would be a long pause and sometimes the patients would even forget the word and they would give some reaction, but very often delayed. It's a smart thing that Jung did was to make the same test again, same words, same order. But very often the patients, the word that they said that was so delayed that came where the answer came very late, they used a different word. So everything was the same, but then they used something else or he would point out, oh, you said that word and they could not remember. And this made him suspicious that there would be something in the psyche acting outside of the willful control of the person, that the person was not aware what the person would say, that they would trigger something happening in the background that would be distracting and autonomous. And back then, there wasn't really a word of that. And the word came through Freud. And this was the unconscious that there's background processes happening that we are not aware of, but they're influencing our life. Jung was doing these experiments already for a pretty long time. And was following the literature of all the people who would publish about the topics. And he said, Freud was the first person who could come up with something as a concept, a concept of the mind that would explain the empirical findings of Jung. And of course, Jung was immediately a huge fan of Freud. And he would write all these letters to him and he would argue with people about psychoanalysis and he would become very well versed in psychoanalysis. And finally, he had the chance to meet Freud for the first time that they met. They spoke for 13 hours straight. They just talked and talked and talked and talked for 13 hours. And this was the beginning of the friendship. Jung back then was in his mid 30s, early 30s, rather, and Freud was 20 years older. He was in his 50s. So there was this age difference and also this difference, a little bit of who is, let's say, well -known or who is hyped right now. And Freud was very popular back then because of his book of the interpretation of dreams and his ideas of psychoanalysis and the unconscious, especially in Europe. Interestingly, the ideas and methods of Jung became very popular in the US. So they traveled also around, also to the US. And there Jung was more well -known and popular than Freud back then. But this was a shift over time. So they became incredibly close. They wrote a lot in regards to letters to each other. They would analyze each other's dreams. So it was really Freud's hope and idea that Jung, because he was 20 years younger, could take over the scepter and bring psychoanalysis into the world. Because Freud had a little bit of a chip on his shoulder. He had to convince the world of something which is very hard to understand and to believe, to say, okay, you're not the Lord in your own house. And to say, okay, there is all these forces inside you and you need to deal with them. And there's also outside help necessary to do this. As they work together, Jung himself said he followed Freud, also like a father figure, not only because of the age, but also Jung was a little bit disillusioned with his own father, who died pretty young in Jung's life. And there was this teacher -student dynamic happening there. Even though that Jung, as I said, he was established, he published his own papers, did his own research. He was already a doctor, a professor, teaching. But this is the part that many people know when you talk about Jung and Freud, when they say, oh yeah, it's a pupil of Freud. But that's not completely correct. This is how they showed up. But Jung was established as a psychologist and as a therapist all on his own. But over the years, Jung realized that there are some differences in worldview and understanding that he thought of Freud's idea as a little bit restricting and simple in certain regards. Jung was always very interested in the occult, the spiritual, religious, and Freud would have nothing of that. He would be not interested in that at all because he saw himself really as a fighter who could not deviate from his idea about psychoanalysis and libido as source of psychic functioning. He did not want to have any strange ideas in there that could distract from the ideas of psychoanalysis. But this was something that was gnawing on Jung and it got only worse with time. As I said before, they were analyzing each other's dreams, but with time they would start hiding their dreams from each other. One started with Freud who said, okay, I had a dream, but I did not want to talk with you about it because I felt it would undermine my authority. And this is when Jung got suspicious. And Jung also had a specific dream about a house which not only had a cellar, but multiple cellars where you could travel back in time where it was the 1800s and the 1000s, then ancient Rome and in final, like in the Underfall cave. And there he already had the feeling, I cannot tell this dream to Freud because he would interpret these things into there. So they were already living apart a bit. The relationship ended after roughly six and seven years in a very dramatic way. Doctors and professors and friendships by writing a book. And Jung wrote a book called Similes of Transformation. It's the fifth book of the collective works. The original title was a little bit different, but the modern name is Similes of Transformation. And it had all the stuff in it that Freud did not want to talk about. It was about religion, mythology, spirituality, and all those things. And he sent it to Freud and he only got a letter back that said something like, okay, seems like you want to do your own thing now. It's a quote for me. But what it meant was the end of their friendship, but also of Jung's career. And he knew this. So his academic career was done. He was tightly associated with Freud. Freud was at that time very powerful and he cut Jung just completely off. So Jung could not teach anymore and he withdrew. He still had his private practice, but he knew that his career that he worked for, basically his whole life was with that over. But he had the feeling that there was the right thing to do. And if you think about it, the things that everybody knows about Jung, the collective unconscious, the archetypes, but also ions or the views on alchemy, all this came afterwards. Before it was Jung the psychoanalyst, but afterwards it became Jung the phenomenon. That is the reason why we still talk about him now. And interestingly, in the collective works, the first four books are about this block in Jung's life, about his work in psychoanalysis. And this is a block where I think it's the least read part, but it is highly, highly interesting to understand Jung and where he's coming from. And this is also why I wanted to talk about this, to have the background to understand that. So to give an introduction into Freud and psychoanalysis, as I said, it's a easier way to do it. You have to think of yourself as the ego, the person which is experiencing things with the it, under it, where you have all the primal forces and instincts that are trying to act on the ego. And you have the superego, which is the rules of society and the laws, how you were educated as a child, and they act like a selector. And they say, oh, this is a good instinct to have. This is not a good instinct to have. Oh, this is not appropriate now. And everything that gets discarded gets discarded into the unconscious. So the Freudian idea is that the unconscious is like a waste basket where you have a lot of things that can accumulate there. And if you discard the wrong things or discard the right things, this can create trouble in the psyche of the person and prevent the ego from working normally. These things in the unconscious are complexes that can cause neurosis or hysteria, which brings the person to act in strange ways. But through talking with the patient, through these problems, to take the things from the waste basket and bring them to life, there's a way to heal the person of the complexes of the hysteria and make them functioning normally again, that they're part of society, part of life. And this was a revolutionary thing. As I mentioned before, the idea was, oh, your damaged goods says nothing you can do. And the idea from Freud is, and this is why it's called the talking cure, you can talk with people through their problems and you can heal them. And not only in their psyche, but also bodily, that there are certain symptoms that disappear when you help people working through their problems. And talking about the things that are in the unconscious, you would often use hypnosis. So this was a tool which was not really used back then before. But he would hypnotize the patients or try to hypnotize them to open up the unconscious to bring out these very dark contents, because these are contents that were not approved of from the parents of the patient, of society. And the complexes that Freud saw in this waste basket, they were very often associated with the parents, with the mother, with the father. And he said, the main drive of it is the beetle is sexuality, the sexual drive. And this sexual drive needs to be steered in the correct direction. And he said, the natural way how this beetle normally flows is towards the mother, sexuality towards the mother or towards the father. But this is frowned upon by society. So it goes into the waste basket, but it should not be in the waste basket. It should be used differently. So the idea of Freudian psychology is to say, okay, you have to find your mother in a partner or you have to find your father in a job to hear this energy in a productive outward direction, not inward towards the family, but outward to the world. So this is called the incest complex that is blocking the patient and living their own life. And he compares this to an infantilization that people are still like a child. So even though they should grow up. For this, he also used dream interpretation. And this is one of the other things that Freud brought back into the modern world to use dreams as a diagnostic tool. So this was lost for hundreds, thousands of years because dreams are a little bit of individual revelation, which is a big no -no in Christianity, but had a higher value in ancient like societies Roman societies, Greek societies, and earlier Egyptian societies. So he rediscovered that and he established that as a valid diagnostic tool. And this is, should you read the interpretation of dreams, you would find it there that he's very meticulous and takes it incredibly serious and has a lot of concepts there that you can even try yourself and you can find out, okay, yeah, Mr. Freud wrote over a hundred years ago, you can find in your own dreams. This is interesting, really interesting.
WTOP
"50s" Discussed on WTOP
"Veronica predicts 40s and 50s for the low. We're down to 51 in Washington now. Good morning to you. Indeed, Lane. We do indeed thank you for taking us along for your early 1 a .m. hour Thursday morning ride. By topping the stories we're following for you this morning, we begin with a number of Muslim and Arab students reporting cases of harassment and intimidation in local schools stemming from what's happening overseas right now this morning in Middle the East for some Muslims who are in school right now. There is a very real sense of feeling vulnerable. Saynip Chaudhry heads the Maryland chapter of the Muslim advocacy group CARE. She says students have filed complaints at a number of high schools and college campuses in Maryland this week claiming they have been facing harassment that's impacting their lives. Many students we have spoken to have said that they think twice before they make decisions like going out for cup a of coffee or going to the library to study. In one incident reported at Johns Hopkins University a Palestinian woman says while she was walking across campus an unknown man went up to her and said you're getting what you group of those students received Yesterday But We Judged Israeli people after that surprise attack. The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is leading the fundraising drive in our area at shalomdc .org. The group's leader Gil Proust says donated funds go toward expanding recovery efforts in Israel. They need the resources to hire more therapists to rebuild homes to make sure that people who are displaced, the thousands of people who are displaced have a place to go now and for the next several months. Proust says donors should contribute to established organizations. I would go with trusted ones that people are familiar with not new ones that just show up in the middle of the night. Proust also asks that people reach out to friends in Israel as a show support. of Dick Iuliano, WTOP News. WTOP at 105. Tense moments here at home and huge frustration at BWI Marshall Airport on Wednesday. Statements made by a man apparently led led to a huge police response on Wednesday. Law enforcement had to drag away a suspicious vehicle that was near near the terminal. This, as you might imagine, all caused a ground stop and badly jammed airport traffic. WTOP's Mike Murillo was there and heard from some of the impacted travelers. As Nikki Williams of Baltimore was helping to direct taxi cabs here, she says she heard police yell. Go inside and stay inside. And she did. Now she went inside. Then I started seeing the guys in the green with the guns jumping out. Then they arrested a man. What were you thinking when you saw this going on? What the hell is going on? And Matt Cochran of Georgia says no one really knew the answer to that. They made everybody go upstairs and there would be buses up there. We waited for two hours and never got a bus. were Until things cleared, traffic was snarled around the airport, leaving people unable to get to their rides and others running late
The Dan Bongino Show
An Analogy (Sorta) on How the Israel Fight Is Different
"I understand. You should be heard. I like to make decisions that would involve the potential intervention of 18 to 20 year old American soldiers could who come back in boxes deliberately and with a whole lot of information and not impulsively. difference The with this fight is this fight is already here. This is not their fight. Yes, it's their fight, but it's not their fight. These same savages motivated by the exact same ideology are coming for us too. I guess the best way I can explain it, maybe this analogy to you will work. Let's say I went to Archbishop Malloy High School in Jamaica, Queens. Great school, loved it. But let's say there was a marauding gang of pirates and bandits out there who had a generational beef with Malloy. Jim, tell me if this analogy works. If it's dumb, say, damn, this is stupid, it's not working. So say in the 50s, this marauding band of pirates had some property confiscated from them and they have Malloy. And you're at Malloy High School and marauding bandits are outside and a bunch of vehicles with weapons and machetes pointed at you, screaming how they're going kill to you and you're yelling out the window, I'm just a freshman, got nothing to do with the place. All right, maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but you see the point I'm trying to make why this fight is different and why you should look at it different for the sake of your own safety, not mine. I worry about my own family. I'm already on this. I'm really sincerely trying to protect you. Any silly comebacks that are juvenile in nature that don't use rationality like, you know, I
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Parasocial Relationships: That Podcaster is Your Friend!
"Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. And this is Step You Should Know, the little close to home edition. Yeah, right. In two ways. One is that as podcasters, we are on one end of the parasocial relationship relationship. Correct. Yeah. And the other is like, I have these, I don't know if you do or not, but I have parasocial relationships of my own with podcasts. I don't have any because I'm sane. Right. Oh, I'm totally kidding. I don't think I have any. No, I don't have any. I think what it is, is it has nothing to do with sanity. My imagination is just not that vivid. Oh, okay. You know what I mean? Because I think for this to set, you have to be able to imagine yourself like in the room with the people you're listening to, for example, or what you would do after they stopped filming the TV show or something like that. Like any, you're big into comedy. Any of your big comedian people that you love, you know, never think like, God, we would be friends if we knew each other. No, I really don't. I don't. I feel like deficient because of it, but I genuinely do not have any parasocial relationship that I can bring to mind. And I don't remember ever having that. I think I just assumed that they wouldn't like me rather than they would like me, which makes it much harder to have a parasocial relationship with somebody you just assume you wouldn't get along with very well. Well, then by some estimates, you're part of the 49 % of people that of Americans, that is, that do not have parasocial relationships. And if you're yelling at us right now, because we defined it yet, a parasocial relationship is a, it's like when you listen to a podcast and you think, I know those guys. They're like my friends. We would be so, we would be such good friends in real life. It's a one -sided relationship between a consumer of a thing, a fan of a thing and a public figure. Yeah. And one of those papers you sent me, I saw it described rather aptly as a one -sided intimacy at a distance. Yeah. And in our go -go, be normal as much as you can type society. That sounds a little like off base, a little weird, a little out there to some people, I should say to others. It's like, well, yeah, of course this is normal life, but we, we should say like, there's nothing inherently wrong with it. It can go wrong as we'll see, but at its base, having a parasocial relationship does not make you a loser, a loner, social misfit, a weirdo. It actually makes you slightly healthier emotionally, intellectually, in my opinion. Yeah. And as we'll talk about, studies bear that out that it's, you know, I think they put it at generally about three to 5 % of the time it can go south and we'll talk about that kind of stuff when it becomes obsessive and stuff like that. But yeah, for the other 95 to 98 % of people, it actually provides quite a benefit because it makes someone feel good and it makes people laugh a lot of times. And I feel like comedy a lot of times is what you associate more. I'm sure you can have parasocial relationships with like Peter Jennings or something or Dan Rather. I'm sure that happens. It would be harder though as we'll see. You generally think of it in terms of like either a podcast or a TV show when you would sit around and you would think about which friend am I or which Sex and the City character. You're such a Miranda. That's the kind of thing that we're talking about here when people identify so much that it's like a real relationship. Yes. And I want to say I am in that very unusual and unique position as are you and as are most podcasters. That you're Miranda? Right. I totally am a Miranda. Actually, no, what's the other one's name who is married to Kyle McLaughlin. I feel like I identify more with her. Yeah, Charlotte. Charlotte. Yeah, I'm a total Charlotte. What I was going to say though is I'm in the unique position of being on the opposite side of a parasocial relationship. That's a very rare place to be. And I can tell you that I do enjoy hearing about that. Like when we're at live shows and people tell us like where they think of us as like their friends or whatever, I always love to hear that kind of thing. Yeah, me too. Yeah. So I don't want to, I don't engage with them myself, but when they are thrust upon me, I'm like, oh yeah, I love that. Yeah. And we feel the same way generally. And most times when we meet listeners who are awesome like that, if we did know each other, there's a good chance we might be friends. Yeah. I think that's another thing too is I think that's kind of like that weirdo view of it. Like the irony of it is they're so far off base that like if they ever actually did meet the person in real life, they would be horribly crushed and maybe even mocked. I mean, at least from our experience, most people who do come up and tell us that they think of us as friends do seem like people we would probably hang out with in real life. Totally. There's also, and I'll talk about this a little bit I guess later, but I'm in a situation where a lot of the podcasts that I consume are comedy podcasts where I do kind of know the person. Oh, okay. But that's a quasi -parasocial relationship because I find myself thinking I'm better friends with them than I am when in fact they are just industry colleagues that are loose pals perhaps. But I think like, oh yeah, me and Scott Aukerman are like great friends because we have so much in common. Yeah, he does not think that. Scott's a great guy, super nice, he's always been very nice. I'll be on his shows occasionally. We both worked with him a little bit but we're not great friends even though I feel like we are because I listen to so much of his stuff. Okay, I'm glad you need to check somebody. I was going to ask you who you have parasocial relationships with but I feel like quasi -parasocial relationship is very niche. Yeah, probably so. So let's begin at the beginning. These things haven't been around forever mostly because they're a product of media communications. They would not exist otherwise because without media you would actually be interacting with this person face to face and that's the big rub of the whole thing is that other person is on the other side of a screen. They're in your headphones. They're not there physically but the way that they present themselves to you tricks us into um becoming friends with them or having an affinity for them just as you would if you met them in real life and the whole thing is traced back to a couple of sociologists named Donald Horton and Richard Wall who back in the 50s started noticing that people would actually talk back to their TV and that they as sociologists they said this is interesting that's kind of unusual and probably new people don't understand TV and I think I'm sure it existed before in radio but as we'll see media has added to itself added to itself added to itself over the generations over the the last you know half century or so to make it more likely that you're going to have a parasocial relationship with somebody in media and a deeper one too but the whole thing started with TV and people shouting at it and what they coined was a term called parasocial interactions. Yeah and that's I think TV also was all of a sudden you had a couple of other ingredients to the recipe that could spawn a parasocial relationship which is repeated consistent faces that you're seeing it's not like you know go into a movie which you could do before the you know 1956. That person being in your house in your living room every week or even every night was a different thing and they were talking to you they were looking at your face and there were new kinds of media personalities that they hadn't seen before which is like game show hosts talk show hosts newscasters people looking into the camera and talking to you the home audience and that changed things and they were fascinated by what they called this relationship between what they dubbed personae who are you know the Dan Rathers or whatever I don't know Dan Rather or so on the tip of my brain. What's he even doing these days? He's writing and stuff right? I don't know it's been a while I haven't heard from him in a while he hasn't called me back.
RADCast Outdoors
A highlight from Wives Takeover Special: Crystal & Krista in the Drivers Seat
"Fish on! Hey, Radcast is on! And welcome to the show, Mr. Jim Zumbo. Gentlemen, I am pleased to be here and I use that term loosely when I say gentlemen. Al Winder. Just want to welcome you to the show. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to hang out with us on a podcast for a little bit. I am looking forward to it. Nothing makes me happier than to be clocking the box. Hailing from Wisconsin, Janna Waller. Thanks so much for having me. It's Radcast. Hunting, fishing, and everything in between. Powered by Bowspider. Brought to you by PK Lures and High Mountain Seasonings. And now here's your hosts, Patrick Edwards and David Merrill. Today is a very special episode of Radcast Outdoors because we've kicked the guys out of the studio. We are the wives of the Radcast Outdoors hosts. I am Crystal Merrill. And I'm Krista Edwards. And we are here because we're going to talk about what it's like to be married to someone who is quite literally obsessed with the great outdoors. So the guys are definitely in trouble. Yeah, that's right. We are going to have a good time. We're good. We kicked them out. No boys allowed. And just dive into what it's like to be married and have kids with an outdoors enthusiast. That's obsessed. Yeah. As we know, our husbands love hunting and fishing. David is a hunter and Patrick is a little bit more of a fisherman. So tell me about your experience in the outdoors, Krista. So I was raised down in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and I was my dad's fishing buddy as a kid. We would go fishing just at the lakes that are close by. So the Curt Gowdy State Park lakes, he would take us trout fishing. And then as I got a little older, we would go camping with my grandparents on their pop -up camper trailer. I love doing that. My grandpa, I remember, took us to Hog Park and the Miracle Mile and we got to do some fishing there. I've always liked being outside. I've never been an enthusiast of any sorts or anything, but I've always enjoyed being outside hunting, just outdoor recreational activities as well. How about you? I have the same experience as a kid. I was immersed in the outdoors. My dad was a trapper and a hunter and a little bit of a fish or two. There's a picture that exists of me in a diaper standing in front of a bunch of skinned raccoons in Oregon. That does exist. But when I was a teenager, shot my first black tail deer in Oregon, which is where I grew up. And then in 2009, my dad invited me over here to Wyoming, which is now where I live and love, to an antelope hunt out here in the middle of near Riverton, Wyoming. We got a nice antelope. My husband and I, David, we both shot antelope that time. And then we decided to go explore our lives and travel around a little bit. But eventually we did end up back here in Wyoming. Awesome. What do you love about Wyoming? Except for last year? I love the climate. Yeah, that was brutal. The negative 50s was a little bit much last winter. But I love the open wide open spaces. I love the people how friendly they are and just kind and wholesome and morals. I just love the people here. Yeah, I agree. I have really just grown to love Wyoming. I love the mountains. I love all the outdoor recreational opportunities. I love that you can make close relationships because our biggest towns are still small ones. So it's a small world. I don't ever imagine living anywhere else. We love Wyoming. How about you tell me how you met David and how your relationship came to be? We both grew up in Oregon. We actually met in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. I was a Forest Protection Officer working for the Forest Service. And there's this little mountain house store in the middle of nowhere. And so I would stop in there and I'd get like candy or soda or something on my way. And David was actually a cook there and friends with the owners. He didn't have enough gump to introduce himself to me. So the owner of the store, because David and I were like 17 and 19. When we met, the owner of the store forcibly introduced us and basically told us we were going on a date. And so I think the next day I drove up to the mountain house after work and we watched a movie and talked all night. And that's the history of David and Crystal. The rest is history as they say, right? How about you guys? How did you and Patrick meet? I think we met a couple of times before we actually I don't know. Patrick says that we've met we had met previously, but we actually graduated high school together. We're in the same graduating class. I have vague memories of him there. But we officially started we're introduced by a mutual friend when we were in college down in Cheyenne at the community college down there. One of the new weeks of school, he was standing in line waiting for food. And we because we had been introduced, we started a conversation. He let me cut in line with him for food. We had lunch that day and just started talking and getting to know each other. And like he said, rest is history. We were also young. We were both 19 when we started dating when we first met. We've been married 17 years now. And we have four children, which Patrick has mentioned on the podcast before. Leah, our faith, who is 10. And Benjamin, who is nine, I have to think about that sometimes because they're, they stair step down. How about you? How long have you and David been married? So we've been married 17 years as well. We both I think we both got married in 2006. Didn't we? Yep. Okay. So yeah, we got married in 2006 in Oregon. And yeah, that's the rest of history. So when you first met Patrick, did you really know how obsessed he was with fishing? Because we lived in Cheyenne, I don't know what his passion was when it came to fishing. The opportunities in the Cheyenne area are much less than it is up here in Riverton. And his grandma lived in Riverton. And so when we were first dating, he would come up and visit her, but I didn't always come. So he would fish when he came up here. And then when I would come and visit, we would go fishing. But because it was so sporadic, I didn't realize just what the full depth of the obsession of the hobby, the passion was at that time. So no, I didn't realize when we were married for a few years in 2008, we moved up to Riverton for the first time to help with with his grandma and to help care for her. And it was then a couple years into our marriage that I fully got a full view of how much he really loved it because he had the proximity of Boysen and the ability to go more often. So those I would consider some of our harder years of marriage as we were figuring this out being newlyweds, and also him having these opportunities to go and fish and want to do both be a good husband and stay home but also pursue his hobbies and his passion. So it was then that I really got a full grasp on that. What have you done throughout the years as you've adjusted to being married and realizing how much he loves fishing? What do you guys do together? Do you guys go fishing together a lot now? Is it a family thing? What's the favorite part of being a wife of a husband who just loves the outdoors and has a passion for it? In the beginning, before we had kids, I would go fishing with him sometimes. I will say when we first were married, and I realized that it was difficult, it did create some fights. And we have some fights early on that are in the history books that we can laugh about now today. But as our family has grown when we had kids, it was a great way for us to get outside as a family. And he loves sharing his passion of fishing with children, whether it's our own or anybody else's, he loves teaching people how to fish. So it's been really awesome to see him share that with our family. So we do go as a family and sometimes I don't even fish. I'm just there as referee, making sure that kids aren't dangling up their lines, or I'm helping them pull them out of the water. So bait the hook. Yeah. So he's able to go on a date nights where I just go with him. It's not my passion. I don't mind doing it. I like doing it. But I mainly like spending the time with him. It's really fun to be able to go do something with him that he enjoys so much. And I know that it fills his bucket fills his love tank, whatever you want to call it to be able to do something he enjoys, and to be able to share that with me and with our children. So we do as a family, sometimes it actually has worked out now that our kids are older, that he'll take a couple and leave a couple home with me and he'll take a couple and so that's actually been a really special thing. It gives him the opportunity to spend one on one time or two on one time with with our kids when you have a big family. Sometimes that gets hard with busy schedules and stuff. I don't always go but I've got to a point now in our marriage where I am supportive of him going. I'm to the point now where I recognize the need for him to go when life has been really crazy and he's been really busy or things that work have been really stressful. I can see it and I will encourage him to go where in our early years of marriage when it was just the two of us and we didn't have kids that would not have been the case. I did not want him to go and leave me home alone. But now I say, I see that there's, you're stressed, you should go for half a day or whatever. Because I know that it just helps to renew him and refresh him. And then when he comes home, he's just able to be more present and attentive to our family. And he's just more at peace. So gotta be the support system for the family. And that doesn't mean you always go on these trips. But it looks different. Maybe it means that you cook the fish that he brings home for all the things for the with fish. I cook don't get me wrong. I do cook but he cooks and cleans. There is a learning curve when it comes to cooking fish. We like to cook together. And but he just is really good at fish specifically. I've done a few things and we usually do it together. But yeah, no, when it comes to fishing, he likes doing it all. He loves the catching. He I don't know if he loves the cleaning, but he does the cleaning and then he helps the cooking as well. It's, it's been great. It's been a great way to enjoy it as a family. How about you do fish or hunt with David? Do you guys so we do as a family? Yeah, we do a little bit of everything. Since I've had kids, I have three kids, the youngest is nine months. And so I don't get out as much as I would like. A couple of years ago, we ended up going over by Cody and I got an elk tag and actually harvested a very nice bowl, my first bull elk ever. We dropped the kids off with grandma and we went over there in the winter and harvested a nice bowl. It was awesome. It was nice to get away and do the things as a couple. Now that we have a bigger family, and it's a little bit harder to get out, get everybody ready. Because as a mom, we know that we get everybody ready, we get all the snacks, we get all the clothes, warm and hot and clothes and everything you need to get ready for a trip. It's a lot. It takes a lot more time to prep and prepare. And it's just a lot of effort when you have the kids. But as far as hunting and fishing, I really do enjoy the time. It brings me closer to God. Honestly, the silence, getting away from all the electronics, just the peace of being out in nature is awesome. And I would love to do it more. But I just have to wait till my kids get a little bit older to make it a little easier on everybody. Right. Absolutely. I feel that connection with the Lord as well being out in nature. And then also, just with my husband, the connection there. I don't know how David is. But I can tell you, like when when I went fishing with Patrick, just the two of us, we went a couple of years ago to Keyhole for an anniversary trip. And he was more excited to see me catch fish than than him catching fish. He was going for a trophy. And sometimes I would just read a book while he was trying. But when we started catching crappie and stuff, he would get so excited. And I imagine David's reaction to you getting a big elk was probably the same. And it's just a really special connection that you can have when they they share their love for that. And then it makes when they see somebody that they love, yes, pursuing what they let's just it. It's a cool way to bond. Yes, it is. I will agree. He was actually there with me when I shot my first black tail deer to we were tree stand hunting behind my house and I was climbing up in the tree and he was going to climb up behind me but the deer is already there. Oh, I know eating some apples from the orchard. And so he's standing down there at the bottom of the tree. And of course, I was waiting to get a good rest. I wasn't going to make a poor shot on my first year. I was very patient. The deal wasn't going anywhere. I had plenty of apples. So I was taking my time to get a good shot made a great shot. It was awesome experience for us to just instill that as a new couple and I wish that more couples would get out and do these things together even if you don't necessarily enjoy the sport. Just supporting your spouse. It's a great way to support your spouse just going, doing whatever you can to support them in their passions. Absolutely. When we were dating, it used to be the joke that I would always outfish Patrick whenever we would go fishing when we were dating and first married and I would tease that's why he didn't take me because I would always outfish him. But the real reason why I'd outfish him is because he would set me up in order to catch catch fish. I know this now. Yeah, back then I would tease that I had better skill. I meant that I was doing a better job. But really, he lovingly set me up in a way that I would I'm gonna give you a better lure or a better bait. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. In order for me to have success because then you have fun doing it together like that. Do you have any specific outdoor memories of your family from your childhood or any memories that are your favorite from being in the outdoors with your family? From my growing up years, one of my favorite outdoor memories was a camping trip that I went on with my grandparents and my uncle. My mom is 17 years older than her youngest brother. So my uncle is only like eight years older than I am. We got to do things with him similar to what you would with like a cousin because of the age difference there. We went and I believe it was down by Miracle Mile in a hog park and camped outside. I'd never slept outside open air, no tent, no camper. And he rolled out the sleeping bag like he was going to sleep outside. And I thought that was the coolest thing. So I slept outside open air next to the lake that we were at with my uncle. And so that was really special. I probably was 11 or 12. I don't even remember how old I was. But it's still a memory that sticks with me. And you didn't get carried away by the mosquitoes. Not that I remember. And I remember that was my first wallet I had ever caught. It was on that trip. I had never caught a wallet before. So that was really cool. And then my family. Oh, so many memories as a family with kids now with Patrick and our family, our younger kids. But one of them that I really love was our first camping trip after Katie was born. So Katie's my second. And Leah would have been a year and a half, two years old. Katie was five weeks old, sitting in a tent, nursing my five week old baby while camping. And this trip was so hectic. We got lost on our way. When we got to the lake, Patrick started catching fish immediately. It was like some of the best fishing he'd ever been to. We went to, I can't remember what it's called, a lake in Nebraska. And when we woke up the next day, we camped one whole night, the whole tent set up, the stress of we had to go home. So it was like less than a 24 hour trip. It was so stressful. And looking on it now, it's not a favorite. If you think, that was a wreck. We were a mess. But at the same time, it was just the beginning of we're just going to go no matter how hard this is, we're going to try anyways. And so that was a jumping off point for us on just family camping trips. And we've done many more, always having good parts and always having stressful parts like using the set up, the extra packing with kids and whatnot. So sleeping out under the stars really reminds me of a funny story from David and I when we were first dating, I was, you know, working for the Forest Service. So I was supposed to know all these different trails and everything and be able to read a map. Well, Crystal forgot the map, we were going to go to Danica Lake in Oregon. It's beautiful. I've been there. I hiked in there for my work. And I was going to take David in there, we're going to go fishing. It took a wrong turn on the trail. And we ended up not going into the wilderness, but staying near like a logging trail. And we came out to a place where I knew I was familiar with it was, we had hiked probably 10 miles that day, Danica Lake was not a 10 mile hike. And we get to a place and we just go to a lake that's right off of the road. It's a gravel road, but it's right off the road. And we were just gonna sleep out underneath the stars, we put a tarp down, had our sleeping bags, and we went to sleep woke up the next morning. And David says, I hear something scratching. Oh my goodness. So we look around us. And because we laid out our stuff almost in dark, we laid our tarp down on top of an ants nests or high ant flow area. And they weren't the small ants. These are the big ants. So he now has an ant in his ear. And we are probably two hours from any hospital or anything. Oh my goodness is before I'm a nurse. So I didn't know what to do. I've never had this encounter before. So we were, he was freaking out because something was in his head, scratching. And he's not a calm person around this kind of things. Anyways, I come up with this idea to drop some water into his ear to flood the ant out. And luckily it worked. But to this day, I will never live down the fact that we never made it to Danica Lake. Oh, you never went back? Never made it. Oh, bummer. So it's always this story of if Crystal plans a trip, are we really gonna make it to Danica Lake? Or are we gonna make it somewhere else? You just never know. And then as far as outdoor stories with my family, one of my favorite memories is when I harvested a moose here in Wyoming in 2017. We didn't know the area. So we were just hiking around and we came across a bull moose that was shootable. And the awesome thing was, my oldest son Hunter was probably three or four at the time. And he was on the shoulders of David. David was carrying him when I shot my moose. Oh, cool. So we had this experience together. My father in law was there too. We shot this moose and my son was able to be a part of that experience. And not that he is super enthusiastic about hunting yet. He's 10. And so he's interested in video games and other things like that. But it's a great family memory for us to remember. And then with my middle child, Drake, my dad took me out around Riverton to get an antelope and antelope buck because I for some reason when we first moved here, I drew antelope buck tags almost every year. Nice. Nobody else did. I don't know. So I got to spend that time with the Drake as well when I was harvesting that antelope buck and there's pictures of him sitting on my lap with the antelope and we harvested it together. We butchered it together at home. We do actually most of our own butchering and processing of our meats. That's great. And I think Patrick does the same, doesn't he? With his fish and whatever. Absolutely. Yeah. And the kids, it's a great way to teach them. It's one of those things that kind of get lost in our culture. I feel like today where a lot of kids and I'm not saying necessarily Wyoming kids because we live in a state where it's a little unique, but a lot of times kids don't know where their food comes from. And so whether it is game, wild game and fish, or it's things like poultry and pork and beef, we both have chickens on our properties and we raise pigs. And I know that you guys have done so in the past before. It's just such a good experience for kids to see the whole process. It's not just I went to the store and bought the ass. We went, when you hunt, you harvest it as well as bring it home, clean it, cook it, and then eat it. Same when you raise your own animals or eggs or whatever. It's just good for kids to know that it's not just go to the grocery store, that there is work involved, that it's not actually that easy. And it just brings a greater appreciation for your food as well as for the people who do, our farmers and our ranchers, who raise the food that we eat. And the quality of your food. Absolutely. That's what I love about processing my own game is you can be super fine with how you butcher it. You can be selective with the meats and you can, we do a lot of hamburger. It's not hamburger, it's elk burger, venison burger. Right. We treat it like hamburger and it tastes delicious and we love it and my kids love it and all of these different recipes that we have that we use with wild game because it cooks differently. Absolutely. You can't just cook elk like you can a normal beef steak. It takes a little more love and tenderness for sure. So talking about our kids and getting them involved. So you have three boys, 10, four and nine months, right? Yes. So with your kids, what have you found to be ways to get them outdoors? Because it is extra work, you do have to prepare. You're not just thinking about going to and hunting or going to the lake and fishing. You have to think about all their needs and all the things that you might need for the day to keep them occupied or whatever. So what kinds of tips and things have you found that help? And then also, how have you been motivated to make sure you get your kids outdoors because it is extra work? So how have you motivated yourself to continue doing the work to get them there? So some of the things that I have found that works for my kids to keep them, for lack of a better word, entertained during hunting because it's not always entertaining. They can play with sticks and rocks but they do eventually get bored and then they do eventually get hungry and or cold or hot. So you have to plan for those things because you want for kids the experience to be a positive one. You don't want them to look back and say, oh, I was so cold or I was so hungry and mom and dad didn't have any snacks for me. So you got to plan for those things. Sometimes you do better than others. As far as what I do to the effort, it is important to put that effort out. Yes, it is time consuming but I know it's good for their soul. It's good for my soul to get out even if we just go to Ocean Lake or Morton Lake for the evening and go fishing. It's beautiful to get sit on the beach, listen to the waves come in. It's therapeutic for everybody and it helps everybody's mental health. We just love taking those opportunities to do those small things and I know you do the same thing with your family as well. We do and I always tease that I could be talked out of it every single time. Easily. Yes, especially like the first camping trip of the year when you have to get the camper cleaned and prepped and make sure your supplies are there. Every time we're getting ready to go camping for the first time, I always think we don't have to do this. We can stay home of effort. So much work and so I say that about every trip. You could tell me and say, would you rather stay home? I'd probably say yes to you on a heartbeat. So don't offer that as an option because otherwise I'll probably take you up on it. It's worth it once you get there. You take all the time to prepare the food and to pack all the clothes and to clean up and get the dogs ready and whatever else it is that you need to do in order to get yourselves there. But once you're there and you're set up and you're in nature and you're able to not worry about all the at -home chores and busyness and schedule and you're just able to soak in whatever it might be, it's so worth it. So it's worth the time. It's worth the effort and start. My tip would be to start young. Don't wait till your kids are old enough to hold the fishing pole or do whatever because if you just make it part of your lifestyle to just go and do and be together as a family, then it will get to a point where your kids will look forward to those times. One of the things I also tease about like where people say camping is relaxing and I'm like you have never gone camping with kids. However, we, my family doesn't have little kids anymore. You guys still have a few, a toddler and a baby. But when we got went camping a couple years ago and our kids range from ages 11 to seven and we were able to go and Pat would go fishing and I got to sit in my chair and talk to my friends or read a book and my kids were running around and playing with their friends and and they were all over the place night. I looked at it and I go, oh we've arrived.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1275. Ethereum ETF Launches! | VanEck Predicts $11,000 Ethereum
"All right, so let's roll into the ETF futures launch today. It has happened. This is going to be a big episode for you guys. You don't want to miss this one. If you're an Ethereum lover or maybe you're just trying to venture into crypto for the first time and you're finding out, hey, there's an ETF futures out there on this thing. We're going to teach you a little bit about that. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back in The Tech Path. Let's talk a little bit about Ethereum, some of the projects it could affect, and also its future. That's what we're going to try to break down for you. I think you guys are going to like this. James Seaford, he's been on our show before, one of the ETF experts over at Bloomberg. He tweeted, updated version reflecting the change due to the end of the Kelly and Hashtag's partnership will just be the Kelly ETF's product. And he kind of breaks it down. But the point is, is you've got the ETFs that have launched here with VanEck leading the way right now. Of course, we've got a whole litany of these starting to roll out now. So this is going to get interesting around the ETFs as when it comes to the futures ETF for Ethereum. And we'll show some stuff on this and how this plays out. But very, very interesting. So further over here, here's kind of just the layout of the VanEck. Obviously the cheapest total expense ratio at about 0 .66. So one of the lowest fees out there in being able to get into an ETF for sure. VanEck also is starting to do a little bit of advertising. This is kind of interesting with them actually starting to promote an Ethereum ETF future. This is crazy. So truly, and this is obviously institutional finance, so good stuff out there. I want to play a clip of them talking about this. Let's go to that. Ethereum has emerged as the system for an age where connections are no longer bound by location or space. We're not just using the network. We are the network. So when you're ready, enter the ether. Now you can tap into Ethereum's potential with the VanEck Ethereum strategy ETF, EFUT. All right, there you go. Big, big news because that is mainstream advertising. And when you get into mainstream advertising, it means you're going to be getting into mainstream investing and investing is going to start to shift that. That's why ETH and this ETF is such a big thing. It's why we're seeing a little bit of movement on Ethereum itself. VanEck, of course, their Twitter account says, what sets the EFUT apart? Typical ETF setups don't give futures, good tax benefits. C Corp is set up now designed to have potential for better performance after taxes for people who invest in a long time. So there are some apparent tax benefits here that VanEck, of course, is touting. So if you are in that case, make sure and, you know, investigate it. Let me know what you guys think. Further into this, just to show you where you can get this, now you can invest through your brokerage account in Robinhood, SoFi, Charles Schwab, E -Trade, Fidelity, pretty much anywhere you can buy EFUT. So easy to do and easy to get into. I want to go to this next clip right here that kind of breaks down a little bit further into what VanEck is trying to do with Ethereum as a whole. And this is Mr. VanEck himself What do you see coming in the crypto space that you thought it was important enough to get your firm that was established in the 50s moving towards this new area? Talk about Ethereum and there was CryptoKitties and all the potential of the blockchain. It felt like a lot of talk back then and a lot of PowerPoint presentations. But over the last three years, especially this year, I mean, it's just amazing how many software projects are not only coming to the market, but also upgrading in a very significant extent. And that includes Ethereum. I see three major areas of finance being potentially disrupted. One is the banking and brokerage. The second is payments. And the third is banking and lending. I think the larger point is that Ethereum is the leader and Ethereum is making enhancements, if you will, to its software. And so it's getting better over time. I like the fact that we're starting to see real business people recognize what's happening because this is one of those things that happens in those early curves. And that I think VanEck is obviously all in. But there's many of them that are all in on this. And that's including companies like Fidelity. You look at what ARK and Cathie Wood has been talking about in terms of Ethereum growth. So where is Ethereum going as a whole? Well, here is a report by VanEck talking about Ethereum's price prediction. And this was $11 .8K by 2030. Now, I want you to think about that because Ethereum right now trading around $1 ,700. And look at that kind of growth in a very short period of time. We're talking about 2023, end of right now as we're recording this video. That's an accelerant that's pretty heavy. Let me go through a couple of things they highlighted in the report. So it's revenue rising from an annual rate of $2 .6 billion to $51 billion in 2030. Big move. ETH takes a 70 % market share amongst smart contract protocols, which implies a token price of around $11K by 2030, which we discount to around $5 .3K today. So that's what they think the core value is. And then we value Ethereum by estimating cash flows because they're kind of treating the chain much like a business would be treated in terms of revenue and et cetera. A couple of points here that they look at here in their revenue price targets. You see the base case, bear case, and then the bull case. $11 .8K right there on the base case. $3 .43K on the bear case 2030. And then a $51K bull case. That's $51 ,000 per token right there on the bull case. So a lot in terms of confidence around what this is in terms of Ethereum as a whole. There was a We introduced a novel revenue item called security as a service, which is interesting, which is going to help businesses will be utilizing security through the ETH ecosystem to enhance, obviously, security around businesses themselves. So another big advantage there. Since ETH is a bearer asset, ETH can be locked behind some businesses or protocol guarantees to act honestly. So it's another way for how blockchain is permissionless. And it makes it easier for so much of what we see in Web2 to be completely revamped in Web3, which is what Van Eck was talking about there around blockchain and what Ethereum is doing in the banking space, the investment space, tokenizing a lot of things that we typically have to have these intermediaries to be talking to. Further into this report, we assume that 5%, 20%, and 10 % of the finance, metaverse, media, and tech infrastructure activity will move on chain. And what they're looking at is the base case, bull case kind of scenario that plays into finance, metaverse, and media, which is kind of an interesting mix between those. But media, we've talked about one of the reasons we do what we do. We believe that media is going to be moving on chain in the future. Further into this, let's see, we have one more couple of points here. Yeah, all right. Base case 2030 price target $11 .8 to Dermot valuation today's dollars. And then we find today's discounted price to be around $5 ,300. So not a bad value if you're looking at the overall on this. Let's go over to another clip here. And the other clip I want to get into is Matthew Siegel and kind of how they got to this level. Listen in. We're seeing a base case for 5 % or so of revenue banking is applied in some way to crypto and public blockchain. So that'd be the base. And so we dial it up a notch to 10%. Likewise, we do the same thing with each of the other categories, metaverse infrastructure, the bear case, we pull that down to 1%, 5%, 1 % respectively. And the idea behind that is that we see regulatory climate or adoption curve failing in each of those from the bear, hyper bear scenario. Not only is like the end markets not using blockchain, but Ethereum has a very small market share. Our assumption in the base and in the bull case is there's thousands of interchangeable L2s that don't have any real way to differentiate themselves. And so in that kind of scenario, you can see the cut rate that Ethereum can take of those settlements would be much, much higher or the underlying businesses. In our base case, we assume that Ethereum will take 70 % market share of all open source blockchains. And when we do our models on Solana, like that, our base case is that Solana takes 70%. And then we see what type of upside we get when we put in those assumptions. And we look at owning each of these tokens is basically we're owning a bunch of call options that each protocol will become the dominant protocol, even though it's impossible that they all could do so. And then we manage our position size based on what type of upside we see. Most of our deep dives have been on either layer ones or application specific. We have not done one of these models for L2s. And I think there's just more uncertainty around how that's going to play out. All right. So those were the VanEck analysts breaking this down that were part of that report that we just showed just a minute ago. So both of them kind of indicating that obviously ETH in a very bullish case, also Solana in a very bullish case. So another thing that is happening within VanEck, which is kind of interesting, is this right here. So they announced, let me kind of zoom in on this for you guys, that they intend to donate 10 % of our ETF profits into Protocol Guild for at least 10 years. So Protocol Guild obviously designed to help the ETH ecosystem develop, prosper, build on new Ethereum projects that are really kind of growing the ecosystem. So that is a pretty big statement, but it's also kind of investing in the infrastructure. It's interesting because you didn't really see that happen during the evolution of Silicon Valley, which is kind of where I case what's is we're in that kind of zone. They talked a little bit more about it. I'm not going to buy ETH Futures ETFs, but if I was, I would buy VanEcks mainly because they're doing what they should be doing, and that is supporting the industry and supporting where the growth is going to come from. So that's always benefited. I think the interesting thing there is that the space likes it. Here's Eric Balshunis, and they're off. ETH Futures Derby underway. VanEck is in slight early lead. Although it looks like a few of them are not necessarily out of the gate. We'll post updates as we go. VanEck, of course, leading the way right there and you've got Valkyrie coming in with a little bit of activity as well. VanEck with their low fees and what they're doing as an overall strategy might be the winner here. Remember, they were the first one. So it goes back to first mover. If you look at the current ETH Fut, of course, it's very early trading, but you can kind of see the big boom and then a little bit of a slight down where they are holding right around $16 .91. So interesting stuff. Let's go over to this next clip. This will break down a couple of things, I think, when you really consider what the store of value argument is around Ethereum. Let's just play this next clip. You'll get what I'm saying. So the whole exercise of the store value discussion is a little bit, you know, I really have to put a big caveat in there because what I'm really doing is mind reading. I can't point to a statistic and say, people, there was no poll that says I bought Bitcoin because it's a store of value. Things could be built on top of Bitcoin as well. And maybe they're just saying, oh, no, actually, I think Bitcoin's the best smart contract software. So I'm not a mind reader. So these are kind of generalizations and best guesses based on the narrative. And if you look at the transactions, on -chain Bitcoin transactions are about $400 ,000 a day. And that hasn't changed a lot over the last several years, which I think is interesting. But if you look at Ethereum, the Ethereum transactions, the total amount of transactions on the Ethereum blockchain is in the trillions annually now. That's a big number. Ethereum is the most famous. Solana has performed really well this year. I actually think that will continue next year. That category of digital asset tokens has been the best performing this year. We think that's kind of accessing the blockchain and that's the space that we're most interested as a firm. All right. Well, it's good to know. I mean, because I think they hit on both the tokens that we like, which is Solana and ETH. And if you do look at Bitcoin's transactions that it was mentioning there, and I meant to say Bitcoin transactions, but this is the one year and if you just go out to the three year, there has been a little bit of an uptick here. But I think some of this has been the idea of where all of this is going, because just in the essence of what is happening in crypto in general, it's starting to accelerate in a big way. And what he mentioned there, meaning Van Eck mentioned, is that the explosion has been happening around Ethereum. Of course, if you look at Ethereum's transactions, almost same period of time, you see the kind of movement that we're talking about here all the way back from 2019 right there into 2020, all the way to where we are right now, which is in the depth of a bear market. We are in the depth of a bear market when all this is happening. And when NFTs are dead and all those kind of things that really cause pain in the ETH that's ecosystem, the kind of transaction levels that we're continuing to see. Now, other things that are driving this, there's been a couple of projects that have launched here recently. One, of course, is Pudgy Penguins. We did a full report on this, but Pudgy Penguins ran a live shopping experience on TechTok. And there are some interesting things within this that is going on. And what I want you to think about is just forget that it's Pudgy Penguin, I just want to think about retail in general, because retail in general is going to start to implicate. Now, obviously, a Pudgy Penguins project, they're very native to what's happening in crypto. But the cool thing is, is direct sales, they have some key insights. Let me zoom in on this for you. Direct sales showcase products, increase discoverability, audience engagement, global reach. Any retailer out there, especially direct consumer, etc., would love those kinds of insights coming out of something in terms of a digital campaign. So, big deal. A couple of things that came, they did a pin appeared, allowing viewers to add the featured toy to their cart and then check out directly within the app. Remember, this is the digital version of the NFT. And then Pudgy Penguins received over 33 ,000 likes. TechTok Shop recently launched in the U .S. It was available through parts of Asia and the United Kingdom. And then live shopping is expected to reach around $235 billion in sales this year in China. That's insane. And then Pudgy Penguins obviously is a unique position to leverage TikTok Shop to expand their brand. This will grow globally for them, but I think what you're going to see is more retail and also more projects that understand how to leverage all of this. Remember, this is all riding on Ethereum. So, it plays right into the hands of think of what's happening here. So, it's not all friendly Penguins. Now, we've got the Swiss bank UBS launching tokenized money market fund on ETH. And I think this is just one of those things. They're doing an exploratory initiative, but they are going to go through traditional financial institutions, fintech providers, etc. Further into this, you get Ethereum applications from the New York Stock Exchange to the SEC. All of this riding on Ethereum. This is the point that I talk about often, and that is this whole adoption curve. Many people think it's that slow curve, and then all of a sudden it's just straight up. I don't know if we're there yet, but what I am thinking is that there's so much activity in this space and the timing through this bear market has been so suppressive of some of these digital assets that we could be right there on the cusp of an explosion. Now, obviously, there's a lot of other things that have to happen. Some of the things that could happen to cause that kind of explosion are things like this. Is BlackRock's next to file for a spot ETF? That would be huge. If BlackRock said, we're going to go the Ethereum route as well, absolutely massive for the ETH ecosystem. So, for sure. Now, this was an interesting statement. Ripple effect of grayscale decisions is massive. SEC would have faced similar legal challenges for denying ETH futures and ETFs. By approving ETH futures, ETF, now the SEC is effectively conceding that ETH is not a security. This will no doubt impact the Coinbase and Binance litigation. All of that starts to play into this. You start to get a picture of this global reaction that is going to happen within this ETH ecosystem. And I think this is the kind of thing that starts to put you in a position where you can really start to leverage against these. Now, it's not all beautiful, but this was Dave Levine. He talks about this whole ETF futures thing as a scam. I want to play a clip for you. Listen to what he had to say. Do not be fooled by the news that there is an Ethereum ETF. There is an Ethereum ETF, but it's not buying Ethereum. In other words, Bitcoin went up 35%. It's a pretty big game. But if you bought the fake ETF that is not buying Bitcoin, you only went up 14%. So where did that other, where did 50 % of your gains go? They're lying in the pockets of the bankers. Again, it's supposed to be protecting investors. You know, that's why I call these ETFs a scam and they use the name Bitcoin to say what you're buying and it's not what you're buying and it's guaranteed to underperform. I mean, what is the definition of a scam, right? He is a hired gun to do that stuff, right? And the, and the court ruled on it. They said that the SEC loses on all counts because its case and its, and its, uh, its arguments are capricious and incoherent. And there is this risk that, you know, ETH goes up so much, so fast. The Wall Street bank that is trying to track the price because they don't actually own ETH can't actually track it because whatever they're holding doesn't go up anything close as much. And then they go bankrupt because they can't meet the obligations. Believe me, if some Wall Street bank goes bankrupt because ETH goes up or Bitcoin goes up so much because they were playing games and they got exposed, they're going to blame crypto, not their shenanigans. So the whole thing stinks. Coinbase has a thing, it's called stand with crypto click. It tells you who your Congress person is, gives you a little script. I went off script and gave them an air full. Do it. All right. So he hits on a few things with point with these future ETFs is it happens in all markets. This is, this is just one of many out there that are non crypto related. It's obviously being crypto related. So I would dispel the fact that these are scam. These are yes, they're high fee scenarios. There are other ways to invest in these assets, but people look at this in a different way. Mainly this is mainstream investors wanting to go in on these assets and they're not ready to open an account with Coinbase or other things like that. But he did mention something at the end and that is stand with crypto. Listen, this, if you're not already doing it, you should be doing it. Go out and just hit stand with crypto. You can call your Congressman, email your Congressman and it helps you kind of go through the process of letting people know where you stand on all of the 16 ,000 contacts right now at the Congress. So huge, huge movement here. 150 ,000 crypto advocates. This is going to be a big part of next year because next year we are talking about an election year. So it's going to be huge. So definitely. Now if you are interested in buying ETH directly, you can actually do this in a traditional finance way right through the Fidelity app. So check it out if you're not a Fidelity customer. They're not a sponsor, but we've used it, we've tested it and it's fantastic. So that's another way to go. All right guys, we're going to wrap that one up from here. One thing to remember, and I'll leave you with this, this is Mr. Patrick McHenry hitting it in right there home. And that is SEC Chair Gensler refuses scheduled commission vote to provide Congress with requested documents. They are talking about the first subpoena to the SEC ever. That would be huge in the way of who knows what they'll find. What would we see in the way of bipartisan, you know, enforcement that we've seen the FCC pretty much put at will to go out. This may play its course right now with Patrick McHenry. He's not playing around anymore. We'll see how it all plays out. But you guys know what to do and that is join the diamond circle so you can follow what's playing it out. Not only the legislative side but also taking a look at some of the projects that we break down and of course some of our additional content including our Web3 podcast over there with Kyle. We do a We'll leave a link down below if you guys want to catch me on Twitter. It's out there at Paul Baron. We'll catch you next time right here on Tech Path.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from BKL496 St. Therese, the Little Flower Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr. John Esseff
"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. Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to St. Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered St. Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope St. John Paul II to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests and sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. What's on my mind is such a, such a humble and beautiful saint, the little flower of Jesus, St. Teresa. The story of the little flower is so powerful in itself. It's so contra what our modern day sees as successful. First, like she goes to a Carmelite convent and, you know, people of our day say, well, she buried her talents, she buried her life, and even the idea of prayer being contributory to the world and its happiness. The little flower spent eight years in a Carmelite convent, a very short life. She died at 24. Even when she was in the convent, the sisters hardly knew anything about her life of holiness. She had kept a journal, her autobiography. She was asked and in fact ordered to write it by her superior. The wisdom of that book, I know, and I was in the seminary in the 40s and the 50s. Her story of a soul is one of the most popular spiritual books and it's so simple. She is the saint of the ordinary. She transforms every act of her life into an act of love and also a desire to unite her prayer with the sacrifice of her love. She became a victim of love for souls. Her whole desire during those eight years was to save souls for God through prayer, through sacrifice, through love. The hiddenness of her life, in fact, when she died, her sisters, who didn't know the depth of her love and her sanctity, said, what are we going to say about her? She has done nothing extraordinary, nothing that would catch the attention of anyone. She takes something like the rattling of the beads, which drove her crazy. She was so highly sensitive and some nun would rub the beads up against the bench in back of her and it would cause her like chalk on a blackboard and that's what would do with her system. She used that as an act of sacrificial love and transformed it and took it as an occasion and an opportunity to offer a sacrifice to God. The crankiest and the most rejecting of all the sisters, she would see them and embrace their rejections. I was just recently with a priest. His face would crack if he would smile. He was so unhappy. It's amazing and just to be around him, it was like pus oozed from his system of unhappiness. He wanted to know everybody to know just how unhappy he was and he would want to make everybody as unhappy as he was. And even to stand next to him, you know, what an opportunity that would be that St. Therese would say, why don't you just give him love and offer him the love so that he could have an opportunity to love. You know, just being around a person who's angry, upset all the time. So all of us have these opportunities in our day and the scripture in the mass that Jesus taught us, the church is teaching us on her feast, the disciples came to Jesus with the question, who is the greatest, most important in the kingdom of God? He called over a little child and stood him in their midst and said, I assure you, unless you change and become like a little child, you will not enter the lowly. Becoming like this child is the greatest and most important in the kingdom of God and the heavenly reign, the simplicity and the humility of a child. Now I believe in order for us to see a child who just simply looks at you with simple love. And so therefore, I really believe what Jesus is looking at is a little, little child in our society. Take today and see where in your neighborhood, in your family, look at a child. My cousin, Christine, of baby, she was so sweet, Olivia, just her eyes, her every smile, everything that would come into that child's face would be some of the most beautiful things that I could remember. I think that's the kind of child this was that our Lord meant in the gospel. There's a prayer. I was with my cousin and he had been making an avina to know what job he should take. And his favorite saint, and she is a favorite saint of so many, was the little flower. He would say this prayer to God through the intercession of St. Teresa. And she claimed, those who are devotees of St. Teresa claim, that they receive a rose or would have a rose as a sign that their prayer would be answered. And he made an avina and he got not only a rose, but his wife had given him this 30 roses. She didn't know that he was doing this, saying these prayers. He got an offer for a job that was absolutely unable to refuse. It was so powerful a sign right after he had received this bouquet of roses. And it was a sign to him that he should change his job. So many that I've talked to, the beautiful example of the little flower of humility, simplicity, childlikeness, and the prayer. My mother's middle name was Cecilia Teresa Esef. It's on her tombstone. She had this tremendous devotion. In fact, she gave a middle name to my sister Marlene. Marlene is Marlene Therese and also Mayanne Therese. And she had great devotion to the little flower. And she herself was a third -order Carmelite. And she had a way about her. My mother's prayer was very powerful for all of us. All of us, my cousins and so many people in our family. She never was out there. She wasn't someone who got into the mother's in school or in the altar and rosary in the parish or outside the family. She had five children. When I was a little boy, I would get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and I would see my mother on her knees. I thought every mother did this. When she would take us for a walk, she would stop in the church and she would make the Stations of the Cross. And we would kind of be there with her. But we just took for granted. That's what mom did. All her life, her entire life, her rosary, her prayers. And she had this power about her. Not really being noticed. But in our family, I would say, everyone who would refer to my mother would say she was like the holiest person they had ever met at her death. That's what she was known for. Prayer, humility, and childlikeness. She had a simplicity about her. And I saw this characteristic in some. When a person has this hiddenness, this characteristic of trusting in the power of prayer. Although the little flower never left her caramel and died at the age of 24, she has been known all over the Catholic world as the patroness of the missions. She is the saint of Vietnam.
WTOP
"50s" Discussed on WTOP
"Upper 50s and middle 50s overnight 1130 this is wtop news everything you need every time you listen the wtop producers desk is wired by IBEW Local 26 where and good evening I'm Dimitri Sodas Juan Herrera is our producer top stories we're working on tonight on wtop this is new a group of far -right House Republicans are plotting an attempt to remove Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker as early as next week four people familiar with the effort are telling the Washington Post those members are coalescing around nominating Minnesota Republican Tom Emmer to be the next speaker the members believe that Emmer who's a member of McCarthy's leadership team is more in line with what they want however Washington Post live anchor Leanne Caldwell tells wtop Emmer is not really interested in that Emmer has shown no indication that he wants the job or has been lobbying for it or at all in fact he sent me a statement saying that he completely supports Kevin McCarthy and he has no interest in the palace entry McCarthy has faced warnings about a move move like this for months for members within the GOP conference because of promises he made to those hard right lawmakers to win the speaker's gavel back in January Leanne Caldwell is Washington Post live anchor also the co -author of early the two oh two well staying on Capitol Hill House Republicans impeachment inquiry of President Biden began and today with a feisty hearing the Senate has taken a key vote related to efforts to try to avoid a government shutdown in the middle of the weekend WTP Mitchell Miller today on the hill House Oversight Committee chair James Comer says his panel and have others turned up troubling information involving the president and the business dealings of his son Hunter for years President Biden Biden has lied to the American people about his knowledge of and participation in his family's corrupt up business schemes but Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin questions why Republicans are pressing ahead with the inquiry at a time time when the country is only days away from a government shutdown and Republicans are launching an impeachment drive based based on a long debunked and discredited lie meanwhile in the Senate the ayes are 76 the nays is our 22 the motion is agreed to the vote opens up debate on a short term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown with a deadline only three days away on Capitol Hill Mitchell Miller WTOP news things could get get rocky for a lot of people around here if Congress is not able to pass something to keep the agencies funded beyond this weekend Mark Hamrick from Bankrate the federal contractors out there so many of them in the that are tangentially related to the operation the federal government is the restaurants in our city the dry cleaners the coffee shops that stand to really lose here and a lot of economic activity is destroyed during this process and by the way it's not an effective use of taxpayer dollars to furlough hundreds of thousands of workers ultimately when they do get paid to do nothing Bankrate senior economic analyst and Washington bureau chief Mark Mark Hamrick joining us earlier on WTOP new tonight former President Trump will not try to move the criminal charges brought against him by Fulton County Georgia district attorney Fannie Willis to federal court he is now going to work keep them in Georgia the move does come as a surprise as Trump was largely expected to try to move the Georgia case as part of a bid to invoke immunity protections for federal leaders the deadline for the former president to formally make the request was tomorrow and Trump has suffered a legal setback one more of them in New York State civil case over his business practices state appeals court has rejected the former president's bid to delay a civil trial of the fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James the judge handling that case ruled that Trump's company committed years of fraud the state's intermediate appellate court has cleared the way for Judge Arthur Ingeron to preside over a non -jury trial starting Monday Trump is listed among dozens of possible witnesses Tuesday's fraud ruling threatens to upend Trump's estate real empire and force him to give up prized New York property such as Trump Tower a Wall Street office building golf courses and a suburban estate he has denied all wrongdoing I'm Norman Hall campaign 2024 on WTOP did you watch the second GOP debate night last from California turns out you were one in nine and a half million viewers if you did sit down for it the second Republican
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"50s" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"In the 50s and then sunny, warming back to the mid 80s tomorrow we'll do it again on Thursday, checking temperatures now? Let's say we've had 74 in Seattle, we've got 76 into coma 77 in Bellevue and 74 in snoqualmie, northwest news time, 6 36. Now that the governor has signed the law legalizing mushrooms in Washington state, local researchers are under orders to test the potential of psilocybin as medicines. That law requires University of Washington researchers to start treating test subjects in about a year and a half, so they're working to build the infrastructure needed to conduct the psilocybin study. It's being led by psychiatry professor doctor Nathan sackett, who says mushrooms are already being used to treat depression end of life anxiety and substance use disorders with what he calls a dizzying number of new indications. A lot of these disorders are very challenging to treat. We have very limited options for our patients and it's very, very frustrating. And these are life debilitating disorders. And so we are desperate for new solutions. Doctor sackett says, because they're in such early stages, the nature of the study could change, but he says right now, the plan is to recruit about 30 to 40 veterans and first responders with post traumatic stress and alcohol use disorders since those two are often linked to see if psilocybin might help them. Ryan Harris, northwest news radio. A man had a very close encounter with a shark off the coast of Hawaii recently and it was all caught on video as we hear from ABC's Victor akindo. The terrifying moment, a shark barreling into
Northwest Newsradio
"50s" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Some clouds tonight and a partly sunny day tomorrow. It'll be noticeably cooler with highs tomorrow in the low 50s, Friday, The Rain returns with a high near 50°. Right now it's Bremerton airport gets cloudy and 43 ever checking in with 39° this hour, Olympia 36° in Tacoma, it's 46 in issaquah this hour, it's 42 and in downtown Seattle, we have partly cloudy skies and 45°. It's 5 56 in that's time for life beat with Marina rockinger. High blood pressure is tough to deal with on its own, but having it during pregnancy can be frightening for some women. O-b-gyn, doctor tos and goji says there are three types of high blood pressure disorders that are most common during pregnancy. We have chronic hypotension. This is a woman who was given a diagnosis of hypertension, even when she was not pregnant. Or who was diagnosed with hypertension before the 28 week of pregnancy, then we have gestational hypertension. This can now continue from gestational hypertension to become what we call preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is a more severe type of hypertension that occurs in about one out of 25 pregnancies that can potentially impact organ function and the placenta. Doctor goji says there are some things women can do to avoid hypertension during pregnancy. Exercise healthy diet, staying active, taking more fruits and vegetables, drinking more water for life beat. I'm Marina rockinger, northwest, news radio. Our top stories of the morning coming right up, it's 5 57. Have you ever wondered what a federal court judge really thinks when hearing a case? This is Rick found sites welcoming federal court judge Ronald B Layton as our next life speaker at CEO to CEO on Thursday, April 13th at the Bellevue club, Joe Kennedy was the Bremerton high school football coach who found himself embroiled in a controversy for leading prayers at midfield at the end of games in 2016 he was fired by the Bremerton school district after refusing to stop a lengthy legal process in the courts made its way through the U.S. district courtroom of judge Ronald B Layton and later the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in favor of Joe Kennedy on religious freedom grounds. Hear about the judges thought process behind this case and others also hear his thoughts on how the law and politics can sometimes work together for good or for bad. CEOs and business leaders can register for this next CEO to CEO breakfast event featuring federal court judge Ronald
BiggerPockets Money Podcast
"50s" Discussed on BiggerPockets Money Podcast
"Scott. i really enjoyed talking to lisa. She's doing great. And i think we don't make it a point frequently enough to tell them how great they're doing on the show but i think she's doing fabulous. I think she's doing great. I think she's in pretty good shape here. I think she just needs to make a couple of tweaks and maximize our last year working and figure out but she wants to do in retirement. How she wants to handle that so it sounds like she's got a lot of good options. She's willing to do some part time work. She's got airbnb option. She's got a investment decision to make with If and when she decides to sell that property the land and and how to redeploy it so i think she's got a lot of good options and mississippi to see what's researcher. Yeah i am excited to to see what's going on and i'd like to check back in with her in about a year and see what she did with that property and see what what sort of work she's doing again. I want to hear from you regarding the raise rent question like i mentioned in the beginning of the show you can join us in our facebook group at facebook dot com slash groups slash. Bp money and chime in and tell us why you advocate for raising the rent on your tenants or why you do not advocate for racing the rent. Why would you keep it. The status quo assuming that there is a difference between what you're charging and what the market rent is. okay scotch. We get out of. Here was stewart from episode. Two hundred and thirty of the bigger pockets. Money podcast. He is scott. Trench and i am jensen saying chow. Chow brown cow..
BiggerPockets Money Podcast
"50s" Discussed on BiggerPockets Money Podcast
"Scott. i really enjoyed talking to lisa. She's doing great. And i think we don't make it a point frequently enough to tell them how great they're doing on the show but i think she's doing fabulous. I think she's doing great. I think she's in pretty good shape here. I think she just needs to make a couple of tweaks and maximize our last year working and figure out but she wants to do in retirement. How she wants to handle that so it sounds like she's got a lot of good options. She's willing to do some part time work. She's got airbnb option. She's got a investment decision to make with If and when she decides to sell that property the land and and how to redeploy it so i think she's got a lot of good options and mississippi to see what's researcher. Yeah i am excited to to see what's going on and i'd like to check back in with her in about a year and see what she did with that property and see what what sort of work she's doing again. I want to hear from you regarding the raise rent question like i mentioned in the beginning of the show you can join us in our facebook group at facebook dot com slash groups slash. Bp money and chime in and tell us why you advocate for raising the rent on your tenants or why you do not advocate for racing the rent. Why would you keep it. The status quo assuming that there is a difference between what you're charging and what the market rent is. okay scotch. We get out of. Here was stewart from episode. Two hundred and thirty of the bigger pockets. Money podcast. He is scott. Trench and i am jensen saying chow. Chow brown cow..
Rooks and Becords Podcast
"50s" Discussed on Rooks and Becords Podcast
"Yeah that'd be a bucket list show for me for sure. So as we wrap up the podcast. Let's go lightning round bliss. Your three to one honorable mention and snub. Michael you i yeah number. Three on my list was miles davis kind of blue number two by the who my favorite band. Tommy the rock opera and number one by the beatles abbey road my honorable mention jimi hendrix axis bold as love and the paul butterfield blues. Band the resurrection of pig. Boy crab shaw was my sixty snub. John i'm pig boy crab shah and here's my top. Three number three on the rolling stones list helen. Wolves moaning in the moonlight from nineteen fifty-nine. My number to led zeppelin's led zeppelin released in late. Nineteen sixty nine. My number one. The beatles revolver released in one thousand nine hundred sixty six. My honorable mention was the doors. Their first record simply called the doors in nineteen. Sixty seven and my snob. The rub snob goes to the kingston trio's debut album. The kingston trio released in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight mile number three. Is the beach boys. The beach boys today. number two is john. Coltrane's love supreme number. One miles davis kind of blue and the honorable mention goes to howlin wolf my snub stevie wonder for once in my life that was that was a fun. Little johnny podcast we. We've covered a lot of ground. But that's it for the episode. I wanna thank michael. Golly for being our special guest are for this mini series as we rank our top three from the fifties and sixties on rolling stone's five hundred greatest of all time. Thank you michael. For way beyond dudes you will you will be back for the entire arguably our special guests for the entire arc. In the next time we exploring the nineteen seventy s on this greatest hits. He's gonna need more time. I said great. It's the greatest albums of all time. That's what i meant okay. So with that. John i was love hanging out with you. It's i look forward to this each week. And say this almost at the end of every podcast but every time we come like that was so much fun. Had and it's i appreciate and i always say i love you ted at the end of every podcast and i mean absolutely meet. I have the. Let's let's let's do like our are dating game where we just blow a kiss and say i love john. It's fine michaels. Like he's trying to duck below the blowing of the kitchen but having michael part of this and we not the first time in a definitely will be the last. it's always fun to have his perspective his musical knowledge. I always learn something when michaels on the podcast. So i just wanted to shout out to him. I appreciate him taking the time to be a part of this Michael we love you too brother. Thanks john thanks. Ted ed thank you so much for listening to the essentially the inaugural ended. Podcasts were beaming out.
Rooks and Becords Podcast
"50s" Discussed on Rooks and Becords Podcast
"What's your man is so freaking hard my honourable mention is the great jimi hendrix axis bold as love. And i will just say that. It's maybe not as well known as electric lady land or are you experienced. There are some great songs on here. I love this album alone. Just four castles made of sand and little wing. But that's what i love about this album and this trio with mitch. Mitchell and noel redding is the rest of the songs really aren't that well known in the hendrix catalogue. And that's what. I love about this particular album. That is my honorable mention access. Mold is left john. What's your honorable mention. My honorable mention was an album. That man this would speak to me for whatever weird reason it's the doors their debut album simply entitled the doors came out in nineteen sixty seven. Not only did i just love. Jim morrison's almost frank sinatra like vocal delivery. Which was sort of weird for a rock frontman. That kind of the crystal ship is good. I think even sinatra actually like threatened to sue him if he didn't stop singing like in like in you know in the late sixties may be an urban legend. Why this record spoke to me is because as a guitar player and a drummer. I love the freaking keyboards on this album. They are so rocking. Raymond's eric took the concept of playing like a semi cheesy sounding hammond. B three kind of a vibe and if you listen to break on through that song has no balls without the keyboard. The keyboard everything. Raymond's eric's the backbone of that band. Obviously jim morrison's writing singing. But you can't listen to that record nocco. Dang keyboards aren't just filling the background. They're not just playing string arrangements. They're the lead guitar in a record. And i could be wrong. There's many records are released in the sixties. But i'm going to go ahead with that as my honorable mention the doors from nineteen sixty seven. My honorable mention was on john's list. And it's howling wolves moaning in the moonlight I have nothing else adding john again. You said it really well. And i was just like i learned so much from your comments. About how influential. This album was to a lot of sixty zero seventy zero bands. My favorite song title on the record is i asked for water. She gave me gasoline so perfect. And let me say real quickly to both of you. You guys have done the same for me with jazz. My jazz knowledge other than having played a little bit back in junior high seven. Hundred years ago You guys really gave me a lot to chew on to think about with regard to jazz records that i need to become way more familiar with an eye. Chrissy suggestions because that helps me expand my just my collection but my sense of my love music. I appreciate that from both of you thank you. You're welcome will now go to the snubs. Thanks a lot for you. Think you're right exactly so like hey rolling stone. Thanks for this. You know middle finger and all but michael witcher snub. My snub is digging into the weeds. A little bit deeper here. And it's by the paul butterfield blues band and it's an album called the resurrection of pig. Boy crab shaw of titles album. It's the first album. With elvin bishop on lead guitar. It takes the great..
Rooks and Becords Podcast
"50s" Discussed on Rooks and Becords Podcast
"Davis record really connects with him. I was living in san juan capistrano wits southern orange. County near dana. Point and san clemente. If you're familiar with the geography down there and we had just moved onto our street and there was a band playing a bunch of like high school or junior high school kids. I was about ten when we moved there. So they're old kids in there were probably shaving their drinking beer and smoking reefer. Anyway they're they're. They're making music little three piece band out at the very end of my street. So i i go down there with my brother. Brian and we got their garage door up and they're jamming. They're playing some zeppelin song. That i know at the time because i was. I was a beatles in a beach. Boys fan like you. I was more into melodic pop. Am radio stuff. Okay and so. I start watching them playing and they're like aaron. You really into what we're doing what we're playing led zeppelin on. My coups led zeppelin so the guitar player. Another guy named brian ironically loaned me a cassette copy. This is one thousand nine hundred five. So cassettes weren't even necessarily that common copy of led zeppelin too. I went home and played it on my mom's little cassette recorder that can we didn't have one in our stereo system. So i sat there and listen the minute i put in a shitty cassette and a terrible speaker but heard the initial cords of whole lot of love. Come up babble by by boban boban. I went okay. I'm done i'm gone. How do i find a guitar. How do i get in a band. As much as i was a beatles fanatic as a little kid and a beach boys fan. And i like the carpenters and unlike anything that had am radio harmonies that initial. Listen to that cassette was what started my musical career. I knew i couldn't look back. I knew i had to learn how to play guitar. I had to play drums. I had to play something. I wanted to be in a rock band. Because of this record nice it's really why why picked it. There's a lot to recommend it if you like hard rock the lead breaks that jimmy page does on that record or just beyond phenomenal. They're really why he got established in and got lumped in with some of the better guitar players like back who were better guitar players and he was but he's included in that not just because they were all in the yardbirds together but because of that record because of led zeppelin to the solo work. He does. We actually breaks the middle of a song heartbreaker on inside to. There's a whole. Just they stopped. The band stops page. Just plays a solo. You know with a little echo on it. And you're like that guy's good baby. Wow cancer melodic not really a bad song on that record. There's no throwaway tunes. Although interestingly just to throw a little bit of led zeppelin trivia to the song live and levin made which happens right after heartbreaker which was a big hit for them and they played. It live in concert a lot. They never played live and love and made jimmy page hated it because he thought the song was to commercial. He thought it was too poppy too. Like who's pictures of lily or something that was just kinda goofy goofy theme about butlers and maids it's kind of anti-female a lot of zeppelin's music is in was but they never ever played that song live. It was a song. They pretend they never did but led zeppelin too. I recommend it if you don't own it. What the hell's wrong with you. I would just say for me..
Rooks and Becords Podcast
"50s" Discussed on Rooks and Becords Podcast
"I was learning how to play the guitar. I was a teenager. I love the who. And i was absolutely mesmerized by towns in style and it all comes into play here on this album. All of his acoustic guitar is rhythm playing the rapid strumming. All of these songs. I was trying to learn how to play. You know it's a boy the ov- insurer the acid queen amazing journey. I'm free and of course the big one for me. Because i've got the supple wrists. I can do the pinball wizard i mean my friends and i were jammed and we were playing this stuff and you know we were into the who and it was all about tommy for me. That is number one on my list. You'd anti-static choices you make so many good points about this record. Michael very inspired choice. And i think another thing that happened for the who this time besides all of a sudden making them that's more like legitimate artists and not just like a gimmicky singles rock band. A lot of people at the time. I think we're comparing them. A little bit too led zeppelin the say the setup where you've got the kind of guitar goddess guy in a blond bleed singer. They took it in a in. A direction was so different than zeppelin with this record because i was a fan of both bands but more of a guy Irv amazed that there was a rock band that i love and they were rocking but there were writing a rock opera. I just remember that as little. So does that mean like opera now because operas not cool the like you know a twelve year old boy intellectual piece. That came in there that i thought was noteworthy about the who because i was a fan of gimmicky stuff. I love my generation. Like pictures of lily and us this album. It took them in a direction that pushed him a little bit. Farther away from the stones and led zeppelin and i would just add quickly. You listen to this album. There's so many recurring themes guitar themes and pieces..
Rooks and Becords Podcast
"50s" Discussed on Rooks and Becords Podcast
"Thanks for beaming down to the planet. Lp podcast is our seventeenth episode but our first with the new name. I'm ted us. Do and with me as always john young. Hello john hello ted. Welcome to the planet. My friend you'll find. The atmosphere is very pleasing here. He's got fresh air. See lots of waterfalls of album's coming down there that's beautiful. You're new to the podcast. Just know that we used to be called brooks and backwards after a book and record store in san francisco. But now john and i welcome you to planet. Lp we drop the needle on world albums and boy. That's pretty much what we're starting. This world is so large that we are beginning our adventure with a kind of an arca a mini series if you will as. We tackle our top three favorites from rolling stones. Five hundred greatest albums of all time. This is a huge undertaking so we decided to break it up into a mini series. If you will in this episode we'll be featuring our top three from the nineteen fifties sixties those two decades. Kinda get lumped or fuse together because rolling stone has so few albums from the nineteen fifties on the list that i decided just lumping together into the sixties for better for worse i get it you know. People are going to quibble but quibble. All you want and did your own podcast. I suppose but easy to cousins because this is such a big topic. We bought in big gun to expand the conversation and he is michael. Golly a huge music fan and my co worker at i heart media slash total traffic and weather network. How low michael. How are you gentlemen. Great to be on the show again and a new name. I'm so honored to be included here on planet. Lp michael and i are big music nerds at work and we just kind of geek out on this stuff. And he's been on the podcast before. This is your third time this time. We are recording on a saturday morning. So all three of us don't have the time constraints of a You got twenty seconds left Before you gotta get on the mic and do some traffic reporting or newscast or deadline so we can stretch out on the saturday morning but before we dive in i want to highlight a few things. One.
Real Monsters
"50s" Discussed on Real Monsters
"They take Bonnie beck up to her bedroom tyrod. That's the backup to hers. Which ones yeah the mom and the daughter they okay yes separate bedrooms their bedrooms guy and then After binding both of them they have heard clatter in the cellar along with kenyan but again in different rooms down there guy. I think we have some pictures of that. I think it's time to try those out. Yeah and ultimately what they do is perry smith slits the throat of herb clutter and then he hands the knife to dick and says dick. You gotta do your part now but apparently what hickok did with that was just stuck the knife in the same. Hold that perry had made okay. But but after that smith picks up the shotgun and a sensibly he says again in his confession that i picked it up to put him out of his misery because her bed and i and he shoots him in fact the quote with that again for he talked about seeing a flash of blue light and then seen herbs head explode dark. The only light at this juncture is flashlights. They hit that's ed guy. But they do that to herb and then move along to. Kenyan is also dead for One twelve gauge wound to his head. Then according to hickox confession up to on nancy's room and she was interesting because she was the only one who was posed on her stomach in the back of her head so he was shot basically execution style in her bed while all the others were face up and then they moved on and they did the same to bonnie but face a inundate a Left basically fifty bucks in your pocket. It was and radian. Well yeah radio. Nba killers is interesting because their bodies were found on morning by friends who ric urea swin. Nobody was answering at the house and nobody was. That is when they knocked on the door. Nobody was answering cars. Were in the garage and when they win over to another house. That had a phone in. Tried calling in was answering. What did the week or so did this happen. I i don't think you mentioned it. Says sunday when they found the body. Sunday the fifteenth. All right. so there's a saturday night so People might have missed him at church. For example yes stat was a big thing with it And they ultimately decided that they were going to go into the back of the house so they let them through that door and a coupla be daughters. I believe it was. The walt family was the name. The father rory iwo had brought his two daughters over a sensibly to get the clutter and go to church. The daughters ultimately go in thinking okay. Maybe they're sleeping really.