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Wealthy Behavior
A highlight from A Primer on Mortgage-Backed Securities
"Welcome to Wealthy Behavior, talking money and wealth with Heritage Financial, the podcast that digs into the topics, strategies and behaviors that help busy and successful people build and protect their personal wealth. I'm your host, Sammy Azuz, the president and CEO of Heritage Financial, a Boston based wealth management firm working with high net worth families across the country for longer than 25 years. Now let's talk about the wealthy behaviors that are key to a rich life. On this episode of the Wealthy Behavior podcast, we have a special guest, Ken Shinoda, portfolio manager at Double Line Capital, where he manages and co -manages several fixed income strategies, as well as overseeing the team investing in non -agency backed mortgage securities. I can think of a few people who would be better to speak with at a moment in time like this for the market, just given the sharp moves we've had in interest rates, which have impacted bonds and stocks and mortgage rates being higher than we've seen in a long time. And be sure to stick to the end as I digest this conversation with our chief investment officer, Bob Weiss, and share his key takeaways as well. I'm excited for this conversation, so welcome to Wealthy Behavior, Ken. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Absolutely. Could you provide our listeners maybe with a brief overview of Double Line and your role with the firm? Absolutely. Double Line is a Los Angeles based asset manager. We predominantly manage fixed income, but we also have some passive smart beta equity strategies that have done quite well. We have a commodity strategy, but I would say about 90 % of our assets are fixed income based with a heavy tilt towards securitized products, which are things like mortgage backed securities, asset backed securities, collateralized loan obligations. We have about 95 billion under management. And what is your role specifically with the firm? I know I mentioned the bio, but how would you explain that to listeners? Yeah, I am a portfolio manager across a variety of our products, especially those that are more focused on mortgage backed securities. I also have the structured products committee, which oversees the asset allocation process on our securitized focused strategies. How did you get started on this career path? How did you get to this point? I wanted to get into something real estate related coming out of school. I had a couple of interviews. I actually was interning at Trust Company West TCW, which where many of the Double Line employees came from and just happened to stumble onto this role. I never didn't come out of school thinking, hey, I want to trade mortgage backed securities. It wasn't really something that was pushed on the West Coast. I think East Coast schools are more investment banking trading focused. So, luck happens. Pretty big asset management community out in the West Coast with a pretty big presence, especially in Southern California with PIMCO, WAMCO, Capital Group out here. So there's actually a pretty big fixed income focus, at least in the Southern California area. Great. And we've talked a couple of times already about mortgage backed securities. How would you explain those to listeners or maybe people who've read the big short and have some misconceptions about what they are and how risky they could be? If you go back a long, long, long time ago before we created the government sponsored entities, Fannie, Freddie and Jeannie Mae mortgages, if you went to a bank to get a mortgage, it was always going to be floating rate, a digestible rate mortgage because the banks didn't want to take on such a long duration risk. And what happened was Fannie and Freddie and Jeannie Mae were put into place to try to get the cost of debt down for Americans to buy homes and a goal to increase home ownership or help more people get into homes. And they introduced the 30 year fixed rate mortgage and then they would package up those mortgages eventually and create bonds backed by these mortgages. So you can basically buy a bond that's government guaranteed, that's whose cash flows come from these mortgage backed securities. And so instead of taking on credit risk, what you're really taking on is prepayment risk. If rates go down, borrowers have the ability to refinance without any cost really. And if rates go higher, then the refinancing activity slows down. So you have this kind of like uncertainty of how long your investment is. Is it a one year bond or is it a 10 year bond? It all depends on the prepayments through time. So instead of sitting around and worrying about credit risk and default risk, you're really sitting around and worrying about the direction of rates and what that means for refinancing activity. And so the direction of rates is a great place to go. You've been doing this for a while. How would you characterize the investment environment, the interest rate environment that we're in right now? Well, it's been the worst interest rate environment that I've seen from a sharp movement and rates higher. I mean, we've been in a bond bear market now for three years, the 10 year yield on a closing basis. The low was in August of 2020. Intraday, we were a little bit lower in March during kind of the fiasco when the shutdown started. And we've reached new highs in August across the curve really. So it's been a really tough market. Part of it's been driven by the Fed with their reaction to high inflation. And we've seen a pretty dramatic increase in short term rates and the long end has fallen. And we have a little rally as there was hopes and glimmers of a soft landing and data rolling over. But what we have now is the soft landing narrative is still there, but the data's coming in better than expected. So I think a couple of prints, the GDP print came in strong, you had services coming strong, you had some jobs that are still coming in strong. And so the whole curve has kind of shifted back up with the market now thinking the Fed may still have more to do. And if they don't have more than one hike, they're at least going to keep rates higher for longer. And if the economy is strong, then why should long term rates be so low? Maybe they should normalize up towards, let's say, four and a half, five percent on the 10 year. So that's kind of what's happened, I think over the last 30 days is the narrative has shifted from kind of this expectations of growth rolling over to, you know, perhaps growth is better than expected. And now the market's just waiting and watching for more data to come in to guide them. So you're not to put words in your mouth, but maybe you're more in the camp then that the higher rates that we've been seeing is a good sign for the economy versus a bad sign for the economy? I think in the near term, it's a good sign. It means that the data is coming in positively. The data is backwards looking, though. So I think inevitably the lags will kick in and higher rates will start hurting certain pockets of the market. You know, the what's happened is so many high quality companies locked in such low cost of debt and so many Americans locked in such low cost of mortgage rates. Right. Three, three and a half percent, you know, maybe a year or two years ago that it's just taking long for the transmission mechanism of higher rates to come to the economy. We just have way more fixed debt than than we used to. Europe is a place where the transmission mechanism is perhaps working faster because more of their lending to companies is floating rate at banks. So the places where we're going to see the pain and we're already seeing pain now are pockets that are more floating rate. So commercial real estate is a good example. A lot of floating rate debt there. You're talking about people that borrowed it like, two percent, three years ago, and now they got to roll their debt at like seven percent. Right. It's going to create issues. Bank loans, bank loans float and the cost of debt is effectively double. The average spread on the bank loan index going back 10 years is about 500. And short term rates are now 500 basis points. So these companies went from borrowing at five percent to now having to pay 10 percent. It doesn't happen overnight. It takes time. Those are those lags that everyone talks about. And I think that they'll still come through eventually. And it's probably going to happen sometime in the fourth quarter or first quarter next year. So right now, the move higher in rates, I think it's in reaction to the positive economic data that we're seeing. But I still think it's an attractive entry point. If you haven't owned long treasuries or assets that have interest rate risk, it's been a good thing for you. So congratulations. But now it's probably one of the cheapest parts of the market. I mean, you want to buy assets when people are pricing in all the bad things. There's not much downside left. When I think about treasuries, that's kind of how it feels right now. Like everything bad that could happen is happening or has happened. Right. The Fed is hiking. Inflation was high. Foreign buying is very low. Economic data surprisingly upside. So it's kind of like all the bad news seems to be in. Last week was interesting because you had that services PMI come in stronger than expected. It will jump up. I think it went from like 52 to 54 or something. If it's north of 50, it's expansionary. And the economy in the US is very service oriented. And off that news, the bond market didn't really move much. It's already kind of at these high levels. I think you would have expected another move higher in rates on that news, but it kind of just settled in. So the big headwind right now is the supply. There's just a ton of treasury supply coming. But if you get any data surprise to the downside come kind of Q4 or maybe Q1 of 2024, I think that could ignite a pretty strong rally in rates. So the thing to worry about is really, does growth stay stronger than expected? We grow our way out of this, right? Yeah, absolutely. So would you agree that the Fed is much more influential in determining short term rates and the market is much more influential in determining like 10 year yields? Yeah, I agree with that. I think that's accurate. So maybe back it up and help our listeners understand what makes the 10 year yield move in either direction? What does it mean when it's moving up or when it's moving down? Yeah, I mean, there's different ways to models that have come out from different participants to like estimate what the fair value for the 10 year should be. One of them is what is the neutral rate of interest that's neither accommodative or restrictive? The R star. And that's, I think, the first layer. So let's just throw a number out and say that's like 2%, right? Then sometimes people say, well, then you need to layer in what long run inflation will be over that 10 year horizon. So let's call that, that's another 2 % or so core CPI gets back down to that level. And then some term premium, maybe that's 50 basis points. So that would get you to like a 4 .5 % 10 year treasury yield. You're getting the neutral rate plus some premium for inflation over 10 years plus some term premium. And you could argue over the term premium, maybe it's supposed to be 50, maybe it's supposed to be a hundred. If you think it's going to be a hundred, then you should think 10 years going to 5%. Now on the flip side, there's buying from pensions and there's buying from money managers and other institutions that kind of can drive the fair value below that four and a half number we just came up with, things like QE, right? That's why we got to such low levels is that the buying outside of those that are just looking at that fair value coming in, maybe it's lack of supply, maybe it's foreign buying and so on and so forth. So part of it's driven by kind of expectations of inflation through time. And then part of it's just driven by the supply and demand of bonds that are out there. And that can be, things like QE can affect that, right? So that first 2 % that you called, I was picturing in my head is almost like the neutral rate. What determines that? What would cause that to be higher or lower? Or is that just fairly static across time in that assumption or that model? That's the big debate upon the context right now is, are we in a new world of higher inflation where the neutral rate would need to be higher? Whereas if you go back to like the last 20 years pre -COVID, let's call it when we were in this like world of secular stagnation, where there was arguments that maybe that neutral rates is much lower since we're living in a world of lower growth, lower inflation, so on and so forth. So depending on how things shake out and what the future looks like, maybe that neutral rates higher. What are some things that could make inflation and growth stay higher? There's like the three D's I call it. It's like demographics, right? We've had a smaller workforce every year going back the last 10 years because the baby boomers are retiring. We also stopped immigration pretty aggressively too. So demographics are part of it. You got defense spending, right? Governments are definitely spending more on defense and that could be inflationary, expansionary. We've got spending on decarbonization, right? There's going to be trillions of dollars spent on decarbonization. There's infrastructure spending that needs to happen in the US. There's all these sources of potential growth that are coming that in theory could keep growth higher, inflation higher. And this is not a bad thing for the economy, but it just means that rates will probably have to be higher. And so I guess the real truth will be shown is after we kind of get through the next 12 to 24 months, soft landing, no landing, hard landing, whatever, what comes next? And are these long -term forces that are potentially pushing through into the economy going to keep growth and inflation higher in the future? Got it. So pivoting to mortgage backed securities, what are you seeing in the mortgage backed securities market now? Yeah, mortgages look the most interesting they have in almost 10 years. If you look at the spread on current coupon mortgage backed securities, which are the bonds that are being manufactured today by the loans being made today. So these are like seven and a half coupon loans get packaged into six and a half coupon bonds. The spread on them somewhere call between it like 165 to 175 and relative to corporate spreads, which are almost a hundred or a hundred ish, maybe a little bit wide of that.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh "54" from News, Traffic and Weather
"Tacoma Bridge and the speed limit will be reduced for ongoing construction as well. Our next Northwest traffic at 11 -14. Alright thank you John. Let's get the teller in John. KOMO -TV meteorologist center weekend forecast sponsored by Northwest Crawl Space Services. Fall has arrived and it's certainly going to feel like it around here today. Temperatures only going to the mid 60s eight and increasing hours as Saturday goes on and more showers overnight through Sunday. Late Sunday into Monday another surge of rain comes through so the heaviest rain is going to fall late Sunday and through Monday up to an inch of rain in western Washington. But get ready for a change. Temperatures staying on the cool side rain in the forecast until further notice. In the KOMO weather center I'm Theron Son. News. KOMO Last weekend we heard they've seen a gondola their summer session for Crystal Mountain today if you want to up get and enjoy that today or tomorrow. Everett right now 55 degrees mostly cloudy there Spokane at 44. They're hoping for one cloud says they start their morning. Federal way 54 cloudy conditions we're looking at sound. Expect some light rain here soon through a temperature 52 right now we got clouds of 56 here in Seattle. Newsradio 1000 FM 97. Stay connected stay informed. Thank you for tuning in to Northwest News Radio here for early Saturday. I'm Mark Christopher, painter web our editor overnight and early hours stories
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 672:North Koreas Russian Crypto Strategy & Indias Dollar Rejection
"Why do tacos get their own day of the week? Is it because Mondays are so rough, we need a Tuesday filled with beefy tortillas shared with good friends? If so, why don't we have Wellington Wednesdays stroganoff Saturdays, and heck, beefball Mondays? Then Mondays would just be another reason to enjoy our favorite beef with our favorite people. Together, we bring more. Beef. It's what's for dinner. Funded by beef farmers and ranchers. Good evening, and welcome to the Crypto Overnighter. I'm Nick Ademus, and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax, and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10pm Pacific on Sunday, September 17th, 2023. Welcome back to the Crypto Overnighter, where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas, and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. Tonight we're diving into North Korea's cozy relationship with Russian crypto exchanges. Are they laundering money, or is it something far more sinister? We'll also look at India's ambitious plans to cut the dollar out of its trade equation. What does this mean for the future of fiat, and how might it impact the crypto landscape? Then we'll discuss the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's stern warning to crypto firms misusing the term bank. And don't think we're ignoring the bankruptcy saga of FTX and their reopened claims portal. Last but not least, some big names weigh in on the future of fiat and crypto. Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a ride. Hacking groups linked to North Korea are increasingly using Russian exchanges to launder stolen cryptocurrency. Chainalysis noted this shift in strategy. The blockchain analysis firm also highlighted a recent transfer of $21 .9 million stolen from the Harmony Protocol to a Russian exchange known for illicit transactions. This move coincides with the summit between Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin. UN sanctions monitors are also noting North Korea's evolving cyber tactics aimed at funding its nuclear programs. Elliptic, another analytics firm, reported that North Korea's Lazarus Group is responsible for the theft of almost $240 million in crypto in just 104 days. The group has been linked to five major crypto hacks in the last three months, including a $54 million hack of the global cryptocurrency exchange CoinX. Chainalysis data shows that the value of stolen cryptocurrency associated with North Korean hacking groups exceeds $340 .4 million so far in 2023, compared to $1 .65 billion last year. Despite the decrease, North Korea remains a significant threat in the cybercrime landscape, accounting for 29 .7 % of the cryptocurrency stolen through hacks in 2023. The DPRK -Russia cryptolink is more than just a financial loophole. It's a geopolitical chess move. While the world focuses on sanctions and arms talks, North Korea and Russia are quietly building a financial alliance in the crypto underworld. This isn't just about money. It's about power, influence, and a shared disdain for Western sanctions. Chainalysis and Elliptic aren't just telling us about hacks. They're exposing a growing alliance that could reshape the crypto landscape. Russia's noncompliance with international efforts gives North Korea the perfect cover to continue its operations. It's a symbiotic relationship where both nations benefit at the expense of global financial security. The drop in the value of stolen assets this year could be a smokescreen. North Korea's share of crypto hacks may have decreased, but let's not forget they still account for nearly a third of all stolen crypto this year. In a world increasingly dependent on digital assets, the DPRK -Russia cryptolink is not just a financial concern, it's a security crisis. It's a glaring example of how decentralized finance can be weaponized. As long as Russia turns a blind eye, the crypto world will remain a battlefield where the DPRK can operate with impunity. We've just unraveled the shadowy links between North Korea and Russian crypto exchanges. From one geopolitical chessboard to another, let's pivot to India's audacious move to cut the U .S. dollar from its trade equations. How's that for a change in global power dynamics? But first, if you're enjoying this deep dive, hit the subscribe button.
Thom Hartmann Program
Fresh update on "54" discussed on Thom Hartmann Program
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Guided Into Truth
"Well, as you heard announced this morning, today is a special day for our church. The air is getting a little bit cooler, a little more crisp. The rain is starting to come and fall kickoff is happening. This means many of our ministries and programs are getting kicked off, ending their summer hiatus and getting rolling for the coming year. Now in conversations I was having with the guys on our pastoral staff earlier in the summer about the different ideas for fall kickoff, themes to go with, emphases to put out there. We had a bunch of different ideas and I won't share with you the ideas that ended up on the cutting room floor, but I will restate our theme for fall kickoff this year is guided into truth, which I think is a theme that really encapsulates what we are to be all about as followers of Jesus Christ, right? I mean, when you think about it, for those of us who are followers of Jesus Christ in the room this morning, we have been guided into truth in the ultimate sense in that someone somewhere at some point in time shared the gospel with us. They shared the good news message of Jesus Christ dying and Jesus Christ rising and Jesus Christ saving sinners like you and me so that our sins could be forgiven and our hope of eternal life secured. And then we responded to that gospel with repentance and faith turning from the sin that once had its claws in us to put our trust now in Christ finished work on the cross. So we we have been guided into truth in that sense. Now. We're also called to guide others into truth. And if we're faithful to Christ and obedient to his Great Commission for his followers, we guide others into truth. That's what we do. That's what we're marked by we do so around our dinner tables as we teach our children about Christ and we do so at our family gatherings as we openly recognize that all that we have the roofs over our heads the air in our lungs the food in our tables the experiences that we get to share together. They are all because of Christ we do so at church whether we hold a formal teaching post or not. We give instruction and encouragement and exhortation from God's Word pointing other people people around us to Christ and then for a select few we guide others into truth by sharing the gospel message with the lost for some that means doing so through door -to -door evangelism for some that means at the Holmes Lake prayer tower for others. This happens more organically and the day -to -day evangelism that you've heard spoken of more recently where people are more adept at moving their conversations from more of mundane topics, you know, the weather and Husker football and the like to the gospel and getting to the hope that's found in Jesus Christ. Well today's message is going to have one aim and the bull's eye that I've been praying that this message would hit is to press in on this notion that evangelism is the territory or the realm of only that select few in the church. I'm going to throw the flag on the thought process that goes John Kerry is the deacon of evangelism and therefore John Kerry and his team. Those are the evangelists of the church. I'm going to challenge those of you who whether through fear or or laziness let's just get real here a lack of concern and love for those who are truly lost or abandoning your responsibility to do what Christ has commanded you and I both to do which is to share the gospel with the lost. I'm going to exhort you this morning to stop warming the bench and to get in the game. So last week we looked at prayer you might recall from Colossians this morning. We're looking at evangelism. I figured I could complete the trio of all topics that people like to hear about giving maybe next Sunday. No, but I'm going to say what needs to be said about being more evangelistically minded individually and as members of this body of believers to be more faithful in sharing the gospel not from a place of personal preference or desire because that really doesn't matter here. I'm going to speak to you through a text of scripture one that is very familiar to many of us and a text that is so rich in terms of the description it provides and the picture it paints of what it means to be guided into truth and what it looks like to guide another into truth turn with me if you would in your Bibles to Acts chapter 8 Acts chapter 8 Matthew Mark Luke John Acts book number five of the New Testament. We're going to hit pause on our series and Colossians this week so that we as a church body in keeping with our fall kickoff theme this week can zero in on this text where we encounter someone who was guided into truth and also see someone who is guiding another into truth. We're going to look at Acts 8 25 through 40 this morning. I'm going to try to take the whole bite. We'll see how I do this morning sermon has five points. They're all alliterated. We're going to see the context first in verse 25 in leading up to verse 25. We're going to see the command in verse 26. We'll see the contact in verses 27 through 30 the conversion in verses 31 through 35 and then the consequences in verses 36 through 40 now since today's passage or today's sermon is one of these one -off sermons before we just drop ourselves into this passage. It would be important and good if we establish some of the context. So as we look at the context here first point number one, let's look at some of the background here. The Book of Acts was humanly speaking written by Luke the same Luke who gave us the Gospel of Luke and what both the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts revealed to us very clearly is that Luke was a very detailed and meticulous historian. We see that over in the Gospel of Luke the very beginning verses of Luke Luke 1 3 where he says this to Theophilus who is the immediate recipient of the gospel. He says it seemed fitting for me as well having investigated everything carefully from the beginning to write it out for you in consecutive order. So we see how meticulous already Luke was and then here in the Book of Acts, which is really part 2 of Luke's writing the sequel as it were to the Gospel of Luke. He continues on and giving this very precise and detailed historical account of the early church. In fact, let's go ahead and take a few moments to do a real high -level flyover of the first seven chapters of Acts leading up to our text for today. In fact, go with me over to Acts 1 and you can do the flyover with me. In Acts 1 we see that the resurrected Christ appeared to his apostles and according to Acts 1 3 he did this over a period of 40 days and spoke of the things concerning the kingdom of God and then over the course of those 40 days and at the conclusion of those 40 days the Lord said to his apostles over in Acts 1 8 that they will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all of Judea and Samaria and even to the remotest part of the earth file that statement away in your minds, by the way, we're going to come back to it a couple of times this morning then in Acts 1 9 we see Luke recording the Ascension of our Lord to the right hand of the Father where he is seated today says after he had said these things he was lifted up while they were looking on and a cloud received him out of their sight then in Acts 2 Luke gives an account of the day of Pentecost one of the traditional Jewish feast days what was Pentecost and this is the day on which the Holy Spirit as Christ had earlier promised would happen descended and fell on that assembly there in Jerusalem. This is the day on which the Apostle Peter gave one of the most powerful sermons ever preached and according to Acts 241 about 3 ,000 souls came to Christ were converted through that preaching of Peter Acts 3 were told more about the ministry now of both Peter and John still in Jerusalem. We see that Peter heals a lame beggar in this chapter and then Peter also delivers a second sermon from the portico of Solomon and in this sermon the second sermon Peter gives in Acts 3 15 he calls out the Jews of the day as it says here in verse 3 15 for having put to death the Prince of life the one whom God raised from the dead a fact to which we are witnesses that in Acts 4 we see the arrest of Peter and John recorded and then we see their interactions with Annas and Caiaphas and other Jewish high priests and it's in front of those high priests that Peter filled with the Holy Spirit Acts 4 12 says this and there is salvation and no one else for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved then over in Acts 5 Luke gives the account of the second arrest of Peter and John and the other apostles we see that they were flawed and eventually released and after they were flawed and after they were released Acts 5 41 says they went on their way from the presence of the council rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for his name in the very next verse Acts 5 42 says while they were still there in Jerusalem every day in the temple they go from house to house and they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ in Acts 6 Luke tells us verse 7 that the Word of God kept on spreading in the number of disciples continue to increase greatly in Jerusalem and then the very next verse Acts 6 8 we are introduced to Stephen who full of grace and power was performing great wonders and signs among the people and then the remainder of Acts 6 we see that Stephen was then brought up for trial essentially before the Jewish leaders on charges of blasphemy then in Acts 7 Luke gives us this very detailed account of the the bold testimony and defense that Stephen gave which included him turning the tables and indicting the very people who were trying to indict him for having murdered their Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ and that doesn't go very well for Stephen because we see in Acts 7 54 says when they had heard this meaning Stevens testimony and indictment of them they were cut to the quick and they began gnashing their teeth at him and then the rest of Acts 7 records Stevens ultimate death by stoning Acts 8 now begins with these words in verse 1 Saul the one who would later become known as Paul was in hardy agreements with putting him meaning Stephen to death and then look at the very next words and on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria and what does that remind you of what we saw back in Acts 1 8 where Christ himself said to his followers that you shall be my witnesses from Jerusalem to Judea to Samaria and then to the remotest part of the earth now take a look at Acts 8 4 we're going to work our way closer and closer to our text because Acts 8 4 here really sets up the immediate context where we'll be today says therefore those who had been scattered out of Jerusalem it means went about preaching the word Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began proclaiming Christ to them the crowds with one Accord were giving attention to what was said by Philip as they heard and saw the signs which he was performing from the case of many who had unclean spirits they were coming out of them shouting with a loud voice and many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.
Thom Hartmann Program
Fresh "54" from Thom Hartmann Program
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The Corporate Shadow
A highlight from 54. Navigating Conflict: Turning Disagreements into Opportunities for Growth
"This is the corporate shadow. I'm Dr. Ryan Giffen, a professor and people operations expert helping employees and bosses build stronger, meaningful, productive relationships. Conflict is like a constant companion in the realm of human interaction, and it's never more apparent than in the bustling corridors of our workplaces. It's a natural consequence of diverse perspectives, personalities, and ideas converging under one roof. But here's the catch. Conflict, if handled effectively, can actually be a catalyst for growth, innovation, and stronger relationships. However, when it's mismanaged, it can leave behind a trail of broken connections and irreparable damage. So buckle up and get ready to explore the transformative power of conflict resolution. By the end of this episode, you'll be armed with practical tools and stories of success that will help you harmonize your workplace and make conflicts work for you, not against you. Conflict is an inherent part of human interaction, especially in the workplace where those diverse perspectives and personalities converge. And so let's explore some of these techniques and provide real world examples of organizations that have successfully turned conflicts into opportunities for growth and collaboration. First, one of the techniques we can use is active listening, or I call this listen to learn. It's really one of the fundamental aspects of effective conflict resolution. Leaders and employees need to strive to understand the other party's perspective thoroughly. Encouraging opened and honest communication is vital. By active listening, individuals can gain insights into the underlying causes of conflict, identify common ground, and build empathy. If you want to take it a step further, Brene Brown tells us to have courage over comfort. And to do that, we need to be vulnerable. To be vulnerable is being able to get in the arena with the individual and wrestle with the conflict together. Here's a real world example, and it's at Microsoft. At Microsoft, CEO Satya Nadella has actively promoted a culture of listening and empathy. When faced with internal conflicts and disagreements, he encourages his team to engage in active listening sessions. That approach is what helped Microsoft resolve disputes and foster a more inclusive work environment. Another way in which we could tackle conflict is through empathy and perspective taking. Empathy and perspective taking. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person by putting themselves in the shoes of the other party and considering their feelings and motivations. Doing this is going to help leaders and employees bridge the gap between conflicting viewpoints. This will then lead to more constructive, empathetic conversations that help resolve disagreements. The online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos is known for its empathetic approach to conflict resolution. Employees are encouraged to take the perspective of customers when resolving issues. This is what resulted in improved customer satisfaction and loyalty. So apply that to your internal customer. Take an empathetic approach. Look through the perspective of the other individual. This will help you increase that relationship and perhaps even more productivity. Third is quite simple, and that is effective communication. Effective communication is really the key to resolving conflicts. And so leaders and employees need to express themselves clearly and assertively, focusing on the issues at hand rather than resorting to personal attacks. Additionally, by setting ground rules, setting ground rules allows you to come from a place of care for respective communication as this will create a safe space for resolving conflict. IBM has a long history of effective conflict resolution techniques. At IBM, the company encourages employees to use the I language rather than you language. For example, I would say, I feel instead of you always, or I would say I've noticed XYZ behavior rather than you're doing this behavior. By using the I language, this will be a more effective way to communicate that doesn't attack the other person. It fosters a more constructive conversation and minimizes defensiveness. Collaborative problem solving. Collaborative problem solving is the next technique we could use. And so rather than viewing conflict as a win lose situation, leaders and employees should approach them as opportunities for collaborative problem solving. Working together to find mutual beneficial solutions can lead to stronger relationships and innovative outcomes. Google is renowned for its approach to conflict resolution through collaboration. In fact, the company promotes a culture of experimentation and encourages employees to view conflicts as opportunities to brainstorm new ideas and solutions. This has really led to the development of many groundbreaking products and services in which Google has provided to the marketplace. And lastly, mediation and third party involvement can often be an effective technique. In some cases, conflicts can escalate to the point where an intervention of that neutral third party is necessary. And a mediator can help facilitate such conversations, ensuring that both parties have a chance to express their views and work toward a resolution. It doesn't have to be a fancy mediator that you spend thousands of dollars on. In fact, look inwards, look towards your human resources department. When all else fails between a manager and a coworker, perhaps HR could help act as a mediator so that all sides are heard. The United Nations regularly employs mediation techniques to address international conflicts. Skilled diplomats and mediators help conflicting parties find common ground and negotiate peace agreements, preventing further escalation. And so at the end of the day, you all, conflict is an inevitable part of life. Embrace it. Don't run away from it. It's how it's handled that can make or break relationships both in your personal and professional lives. Effective conflict resolution techniques such as what we discussed today, active listening, empathy, effective communication, collaborative problem solving, and third party mediation are the essential tools for both leaders and employees alike. By embracing these techniques, organizations can transform conflicts into opportunities for growth and collaboration, ultimately fostering a more harmonious and productive work environment. The real world examples provided today demonstrate that successful conflict resolution can in fact lead to innovation, improved customer satisfaction, and heck even global peace. That's a wrap for today's episode. Remember embrace conflict. This will be a catalyst for personal and collective growth. When you can transform disagreements into powerful opportunities for understanding, collaboration, and positive change in your life. The Corporate Shadow is produced by InnoSpire Inc. The views expressed in the Corporate Shadow does not reflect the opinions or views of Hyatt Hotels Corporation or any of its brands. Thank you for watching.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "54" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"What is possible we are making choices every day but we are also stronger together to learn more visit on us the web at blind dot org the National Federation of the Blind live the life you want WTOP a 322 Saturday morning lecture with this this WTOP news of a clean woman has been found guilty of killing her mother and sister after case her was heard for a second time a jury of the case found Megan Hargan guilty for the 2017 shooting deaths of her mother 63 year old business executive Pamela Hargan and her sister 24 54 year old Helen Hargan the prosecutors in the case say that Megan Hargan staged the crime scene apparently to look like look a murder -suicide committed by her sister Megan Hargan was found guilty last year but a judge in the case threw out well the verdict after a juror was found to have done outside research Hargan has said all along in this case she that did not do this she'll be sentenced in the case in late January and faces life behind bars let's talk politics on WTOP campaign 2023 you can now head to the polls for locally early voting in the state of Virginia and folks seem to have some important issues on their minds as they cast their ballots WTOP's own Kyle Cooper spoke with some
Coronavirus
A highlight from opBNB Goes Live On Mainnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Wednesday September 13th, 2023. Developers introduce an EIP for a new BLOB base fee opcode, DAP Radar releases a zk -sync ecosystem portal, the SEC sues the Stoner Cats NFT project, and the Lazarus Group siphons over 54 million dollars from CoinX. All this and more starts right now. KCG ceremony coordinator Carl Beek introduced EIP 7516, a proposal for the addition of a new Ethereum opcode called BLOB base fee. The opcode is similar to the existing base fee opcode and can be used to retrieve the BLOB base fee value of the current block. The opcode would allow smart contracts to access the BLOB base fee, which can be used to calculate BLOB data usage costs and facilitate the implementation of BLOB gas futures for smoothing out BLOB data costs. The proposal is currently open for feedback on the Ethereum Magicians Forum. zk -sync released a new ecosystem portal managed by DAP Radar. The portal ranks DAPs by key metrics including volume, total value locked, and unique active wallets. It also sorts DAPs by categories including DeFi, NFTs, games, bridges, and DAOs. SyncSwap, MEW, and Maverick Protocol are currently the top 3 DAPs on the network by total value locked. DAP Radar is the first external ecosystem portal for zk -sync. Developers can now apply to feature their zk -sync DAPs on DAP Radar for increased visibility. zk -sync era is an EVM compatible zk rollup. The rollup is currently the third largest layer 2 network with over $400 million in total value locked. The U .S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against the Stoner Cats NFT project for selling unregistered securities in the form of NFTs. The project had raised $8 million from its 10K NFT collection which sold out within 35 minutes. The SEC cited the project's marketing campaign which included holder benefits and promotion from celebrities like Ashton Kutcher. The Stoner Cats NFT project settled the charges with the SEC by paying a $1 million penalty and agreeing to a cease and desist order, which included the burning of all NFTs in its possession. SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce later issued a statement arguing that applying the Howey test to NFTs lacks clear boundaries and could stifle creativity among artists and creators. According to security researcher Taylor Vanno, the North Korean state -sponsored hacking group known as the Lazarus Group has siphoned over $270 million worth of assets in the last 102 days. Yesterday, the hacking group exploited $54 million from the CoinX exchange. Earlier this month, the group exploited Stake .com for $41 million. Vanno noted that while the stolen funds can be publicly traced to Lazarus Group, only a fraction gets confiscated through the freezing of assets. And lastly, OPBNB, a Layer 2 network built on the OP stack, is now live on Mainnet. An OPBNB network testnet was first released in June. Over 435 ,000 unique addresses have since interacted with OPBNB on testnet, processing over 35 million transactions. The network features a one -second block time and ultra -low gas fees. Users can now add the OPBNB Mainnet RPC to their wallet using Chain ID 204 and Bridge to the network using ZKBridge. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for watching. See you soon.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "54" discussed on Stephanie Miller
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Ethereum Daily
A highlight from opBNB Goes Live On Mainnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Wednesday September 13th, 2023. Developers introduce an EIP for a new BLOB base fee opcode, DAP Radar releases a zk -sync ecosystem portal, the SEC sues the Stoner Cats NFT project, and the Lazarus Group siphons over 54 million dollars from CoinX. All this and more starts right now. KCG ceremony coordinator Carl Beek introduced EIP 7516, a proposal for the addition of a new Ethereum opcode called BLOB base fee. The opcode is similar to the existing base fee opcode and can be used to retrieve the BLOB base fee value of the current block. The opcode would allow smart contracts to access the BLOB base fee, which can be used to calculate BLOB data usage costs and facilitate the implementation of BLOB gas futures for smoothing out BLOB data costs. The proposal is currently open for feedback on the Ethereum Magicians Forum. zk -sync released a new ecosystem portal managed by DAP Radar. The portal ranks DAPs by key metrics including volume, total value locked, and unique active wallets. It also sorts DAPs by categories including DeFi, NFTs, games, bridges, and DAOs. SyncSwap, MEW, and Maverick Protocol are currently the top 3 DAPs on the network by total value locked. DAP Radar is the first external ecosystem portal for zk -sync. Developers can now apply to feature their zk -sync DAPs on DAP Radar for increased visibility. zk -sync era is an EVM compatible zk rollup. The rollup is currently the third largest layer 2 network with over $400 million in total value locked. The U .S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against the Stoner Cats NFT project for selling unregistered securities in the form of NFTs. The project had raised $8 million from its 10K NFT collection which sold out within 35 minutes. The SEC cited the project's marketing campaign which included holder benefits and promotion from celebrities like Ashton Kutcher. The Stoner Cats NFT project settled the charges with the SEC by paying a $1 million penalty and agreeing to a cease and desist order, which included the burning of all NFTs in its possession. SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce later issued a statement arguing that applying the Howey test to NFTs lacks clear boundaries and could stifle creativity among artists and creators. According to security researcher Taylor Vanno, the North Korean state -sponsored hacking group known as the Lazarus Group has siphoned over $270 million worth of assets in the last 102 days. Yesterday, the hacking group exploited $54 million from the CoinX exchange. Earlier this month, the group exploited Stake .com for $41 million. Vanno noted that while the stolen funds can be publicly traced to Lazarus Group, only a fraction gets confiscated through the freezing of assets. And lastly, OPBNB, a Layer 2 network built on the OP stack, is now live on Mainnet. An OPBNB network testnet was first released in June. Over 435 ,000 unique addresses have since interacted with OPBNB on testnet, processing over 35 million transactions. The network features a one -second block time and ultra -low gas fees. Users can now add the OPBNB Mainnet RPC to their wallet using Chain ID 204 and Bridge to the network using ZKBridge. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
How I Got Here with Dave Fiore
A highlight from Episode 54: Jeff Culhane
"I was lucky enough earlier in the game that Jared Versa blocked a field goal and he had raised his hands the guy that blocked it usually is running raising his hand like he got it and so Versa did that earlier in the game and I'm trying to find somebody on the field in the middle of the celebration that's looking similar and Shaheem Brown is running down the LSU sideline with guys chasing him and he's got his hand in the air and I just went with it yeah could have been wrong could have been somebody else but I trusted it and I went with it there was so much going on and I said Shaheem Brown got his mitt on it and then I wanted to fire up the war chant and plant the spear. Knowles win, Knowles win, Shaheem Brown's the hero, Mike Norvell here's your signature win early on in non -conference play you're not gonna keep the Knowles off of Bourbon Street tonight baby you know and there it was. Right, that's awesome. From Fiore communications it's how I got here a show of inspiring stories from Tallahassee area leaders business owners and neighbors all the challenges opportunities inspirations the twists and turns of life that led them to where they are today everyone has a story worth telling and I am really grateful that we get to bring a few of them to you I truly have been changed by my conversations with these amazing people and I'm confident you will be too.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep369: Apply These Podcast Tactics To Amplify Your Business - Melanie Benson
"The design strategic of a conversation when it comes to podcasting is what creates this intimacy and this connection with your listeners and gets them to want to keep coming back. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, podcast search your host, Adam Adams. And I'm stoked to have a great guest today. And the problem, there's only one problem. I think we could do a dozen episodes with her or at least nine, at least close to a dozen of just unique things. And we may or may not cover lots of stuff. So I want you to have a pen and paper ready if you're driving, maybe listen to it again, because honestly, there's so much that's going to come at you and it's going to come so fast that I believe that if you're taking notes, it will be a little bit better. So we've got Melanie Benson, who actually started one podcast, let it go, started another podcast, booming success, like massive success. The numbers on this podcast are incredible. Three hundred and fifty episodes as we're recording now. Well, over one hundred ratings and reviews, which, by the way, listen to this point, six percent of all podcasts in our world, there's five million podcasts, point six percent of them, not even a percent, not even one percent, not even one out of one hundred has one hundred ratings for reviews. And she's got like well above that. And she also recently started another another podcast with a co -host. And so some of the things that I want to discuss with Melanie Benson today is how she gets some of the length of the episodes, how she interviews. She says she likes to hone in on her inner Oprah. And I know she's a great interviewer because she's able to be concise with her episodes. I want to talk about how a podcast works with her business because her show does that. Want to talk a little bit about how she's growing her podcast, because that main podcast amplify your success. It has amplified success as a podcast itself. Talk about the two podcasts. Is it good? Is it bad? Talk about solo casting, co -hosting, how to title episodes and maybe some of the failures that she's seen so that you don't have to go through that. And what she does as a business owner, she supports entrepreneurs like you and me, how to stand out in a crowded market. Right now, we have so many influencers, so many people that are making noise and it makes it difficult for your perfect avatar, your perfect person that you want to work with you to choose you over the dozens and dozens of other people that they see all day, every day on social media and on podcasts just like yours. So how do you stand out? So we're going to get through a little bit of this and it's going to be fun. So grab a pen, grab a pencil, a paper and let's dive in. Melanie, first and foremost, I was looking at your two different podcasts and I was noticing something that was pretty much almost a stamp. You know how when you have a stamp like a rubber stamp every single time, something looks almost the same. Now, you could put that stamp in a different color and it'll look that color. But what I mean is almost every episodes in that 20 to 30 minute mark, my episodes are not like that. The might listener think that they need to do this length or that length but I want to discuss the length of an episode with you for a little bit and there's a lot of questions around it because sometimes it's easy to go over when you're having a good time or when you're asking extra questions. And so my first question about the length of an episode is like, do you have a timer or how is it that you're getting all these so consistently like a rubber stamp? Such a great question and thanks for having me, Adam. You have such an awesome podcast. I've been very much looking forward to our conversation today. So I've studied neuro -linguistic programming as part of my career track and one of the things about neuro -linguistic programming is there is a concept of being in time or through time. And I am the person who, it's through time, I can see where I am in time at any given moment and because I can see where I am in any given time, I'm really good at managing time. So that's the truth of it. And we were talking in the green room a bit about my background with podcasting. I've been podcasting since 2009, 2010, something like that. And before that, I did the OG type of podcasting before we invented it where I did interviews that would go out via CDs. And so I've been interviewing people for a very, very long time, close to 20 years. And one of the things I know is that the strategic design of a conversation when it comes to podcasting is what creates this intimacy and this connection with your listeners and gets them to want to keep coming back. It's what gets them to say, Hey, have you listened to this podcast? Or, Hey, do you know Melanie? Like, have you ever listened to Empire? So the strategic design of each episode comes down to how long does my audience tend to listen to podcasts? And there is science that says 20 minutes to 25 minutes is an ideal time slot. Now, just to be totally truthful and make sure everybody has the full picture. My solo episodes, because I do three types of episodes on my podcast, Amplify Your Success. My solos are about 20 minutes because like, nobody wants to hear you talk for a really, really long time, right? Well, maybe some people do like Joe Rogan maybe, but I feel like everyone wants to hear me talk a lot. Oh yeah, of course. Cause you have that sexy radio voice. So of course you would, right? All right. Awesome. So people just turn off after a little while? Well, they get distracted. So let's say I'm driving my kids to school and I listen to podcasts. I got a 15 minute drive or I'm on my walk. What is that arc of the time that they're going to listen? I'm at the gym at about the 20 to 25 minute mark. People start getting distracted. And the key is, do they pick back up where they left off? Or do they skip to something else? Like most of us have this shiny object syndrome always pulling us to the next thing. And so I found that that 20, 25 minute mark is sweet for my solos, but with my interviews, sometimes we're going 40 to 45. And it's just, can you create a compelling conversation that keeps the listener engaged? So when you schedule an interview, do you tell the guest that it's going to be 20 to 25 minutes? Do you tell the guest to be ready for an hour, but I'm going to try to keep it under 30 or like, is there a communication there prior to recording? What does that look like? I'm really big on pre -framing expectations. And I think the more we can tell people what to expect, the better the experience is going to be for everybody. So I tell people that we're planning for 45 to 50 minutes for our conversation, but that means we're going to be connecting a little bit. We're going to be testing your tech. And I try to keep the interview to air at around 30 to 35. And then I even do that when I'm in the green room with them and I'm like, okay, I just want to make sure you know, we're going to go this long. If we're on a roll and it's really like good stuff, we might go a little bit longer, but I try to help them understand how to navigate their answers so that they can think about how long am I going in the answer itself so that they're measuring their own information sharing. You're not saying in 54 seconds, how do you do this? Or in 31 seconds, how do you do that? No, but I might say we're running close and there's something I really want to ask them because I always save two fun questions for the end of my episodes. So my audience knows that the fun question comes towards the end and the people that love those types of answers, they're going to listen.
Mark Levin
Should There Be Age Limits for Elected Officials?
"I mean, after just look at Joe Biden. Mitch McConnell and Dianne Feinstein. They don't exactly seem fit to, I don't know, be representing themselves, let alone us. In fact, Dianne Feinstein doesn't actually legally represent herself anymore. And yet she still represents California and the United States Senate. That is kind of fun. But then let me introduce Jon Fetterman into this conversation. Now. Whom among that group appears to be the most capable of the bunch? And I know, I mean, it's a really depressing exercise, isn't it? Like if you're going to try to take a look at Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Dianne Feinstein and Jon Fetterman, and you go, wow, let's rank them in terms of competency, not not most enjoyable exercise. This is obviously not our country's finest hour. This is like a real conversation. And that one of those four is leading the country. Which part of the larger point I'm about to get to. But here's my first point. Dianne Feinstein is 90. Mitch McConnell is 81. Joe Biden is 80. Jon Fetterman is 54. Now, Now, all four of these people are just like the others. OK. They all have awful an uncommon that goes far beyond politics. Now, the me to you, I mean, this is my opinion. Yours can differ. I'm not not picking. Not going to pick at your ordering here, but if I'm the one who is is ranking my it competency precedes of these three. And there is no joy in this exercise, but I got Mystery Mitch at
Daily Crypto Report
"Elon Musk's X obtains money transmitter licenses in multiple US states " Aug 31, 2023
"It's 8 a .m. Eastern, August 31st, and this is your Daily Crypto Report. Bitcoin is up 0 .5 % at $27 ,313, ETH is up 0 .5 % at $1 ,713, and Binance Coin is up slightly at $224. While Sam Beckman -Friede's lawyers argued against the government's use of millions of pages of documents for evidence claiming that they received them too late and that SPF can't properly review them in jail, the judge expressed skepticism and gave the lawyers until Friday to request a trial postponement, but there is no guarantee that it will be granted. The documents in question were obtained from Google due to a production error, but the judge noted that most of them were from SPF's own Google accounts. The judge stated that there's no evidence of the government acting in bad faith. Elon Musk's social media platform, X, formerly Twitter, has obtained money or currency transmitter licenses in multiple U .S. states, including Rhode Island, Maryland, and New Hampshire. These licenses allow for broader payment services, including processing crypto payments. Musk has expressed interest in supporting cryptocurrencies on the platform and has plans for X to expand beyond social media. The licenses obtained by X indicate that Musk may have intentions to offer payment processing services nationwide, similar to Venmo or PayPal, a company he was responsible for helping start. Other companies like Western Union and PayPal hold similar licenses in the states they serve. Coinbase is planning to list the newly launched PayPal stablecoin PiUSD pending sufficient liquidity. Coinbase will initially support PiUSD with an experimental label which is applied to new or low -volume assets on the platform. Sam Altman's Worldcoin has experienced a surge in signups in Argentina despite an ongoing investigation by local authorities. In a single day in August, approximately 9 ,500 Argentinians verified their World ID, averaging one verification every nine seconds. The project still faces pressure from Argentine authorities regarding data privacy. And finally, crypto data tracking platform Arkham Intelligence has identified Robinhood as the owner of the fifth -largest Ethereum wallet. The wallet holds approximately $2 .54 billion worth of ETH. Notably, these funds are held in custody for user balances. Robinhood has recently seen a decline in crypto trading activity with second -quarter revenue falling to $31 million compared to the previous quarter. Well, that's all for us today. Visit us at dailycryptoreport .io for sources and links. Listen to us everywhere else you podcast under Daily Crypto Report. that shares stories of the changing American South brought to you through the foods we eat. It's produced by the Southern Foodways Alliance and distributed by APT Podcast Studios. Listen to Gravy on your porch during happy hour to hear about the mystery of the missing Pappy Van Winkle bourbon. Don't miss out. Follow Gravy wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, welcome to the collective. I'm Brianne Helfrich, a 26 -year -old bioethics PhD student and clothing brand CEO. Welcome to my podcast where we talk all things health and wellness, navigating your 20s and becoming the best version of yourself. So sit down, play that episode and join the collective.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from $BEN To $.01! (Big Update)
"Move your to a DeFi wallet. A DeFi wallet would be a Coinbase wallet, not a Coinbase exchange, a trust wallet. Oh, my God. I saw these thumbnails from this guy. Here's his channel. Here's his channel. I'll blow his channel real quick. I'm subscribed. I've been subscribed the whole time. I didn't just subscribe just now. But he does a lot of cool videos, and he's been a big supporter of BenCoin. And so we want to bring him. He's going to be coming on regularly a few times a week, talking about BenCoin. So, beliefs, if you've already subscribed to the channel now, you got millions of subscribers. Let's talk about BenCoin. What do you got today for our BenCoin update? What you got? Alright. So, there was an AMA yesterday. The AMA was held in the chat. And in that chat, the liquidity is basically unlocking on September 16th, so it's going to be a lot of movement, a lot of action before you move to September 16. Then we're going to have liquidity unlocked, and then shortly after that, we're going to have the v2 launch. When that v2 launches, that's going to be a... Look, that's a giant catalyst for anybody. And we can't talk price action, but we can mention price action. I think it's going to be a very big catalyst for the project overall. Then you have less... I want to say there's less than 100 million, billion, trillion tokens. I think that the supply is going to be down just a little bit less than what people had originally expected. I know a lot of people had some wild ideas about how much the tokens supply, and I believe that... I would think that a penny, a dime, a dollar, whatever number we go with, I hope you guys are kind of putting it in that range. So, when we get to 10 billion market cap, every token is worth a dollar or something like that. Hint, hint on the supply for people who are looking. And the most important thing is you got a little time to get ready. We're looking at something that would make a penny very possible. That's what I'm saying. Really more on the penny than the dollar range. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That would be a nice one because that's one of those things, the motivating factor for a lot of people who are getting into tokens. They want to see a value. And the large token supply, that was a trick of mean coins, and this is not a mean coin. So, let's move on from that to a lower token supply. The important thing for everybody is know that it move your Bencoins to a DeFi wallet. DeFi wallet would be a Coinbase wallet, not a Coinbase exchange, a trust wallet. Do we have a sponsor here that I'm supposed to promote here? MetaMask? Today, the show is brought to everybody by ClearSell and Proactiv due to the zit on my forehead, but you can't move your, but you cannot, you can move ClearSell to Ben. I need that, but you can't move Bencoin to ClearSell. Thank you. No. Yeah, and I think that zit identifies as pus and filled. Yeah, that's true. That's why our guy, Bleeze. This guy's funny. This guy has made me laugh more times on this show than Tim has ever made me laugh. Well, it's because Tim's always trying to maintain a very serious show, and that's why everybody hates Tim, but everybody loves Bleeze. Yeah, Tim, you suck. Yeah, Tim sucks. Yeah, sorry. Sorry, Tim. Gosh. Bleeze and I are actually joined together, and we're going to overthrow you, Tim. That's what we're going to do. It's a race. It's a race at this point. It's a race. It's a race. So, now, now, Bleeze, what is going on? Do you have anything for the chart to talk about? Do you know how to pull the chart up on here on, do you have, you know how to share the screen on here? Yeah. Okay, perfect. Got it. Share it with you. And I keep mine simple. I don't do that Frankie Candles crazy stuff. Yeah, no, I don't either. Where I have all kinds of different levels. It's pretty simple the way this chart works and the way it works right now. So you can basically see that, I mean, you're trading and we're on an hourly chart, by the way. Not the most reliable, but it is what we're tracking it with. And I mean, you can see where this descending channel, the descending channel has been going on for a long period of time. There will be a breakout and my expectations, I just deleted it, but I think 45 and maybe 54 are going to be the next big levels that we can possibly bounce off of right in this little range right here. If we get something, there's going to be a motivating factor that's going to come at some point. Otherwise, I think we just kind of range through here, hopefully continue to use this level as a modicum of support. But then, there will be a big move. And then when we get to V2, which again, less than, I mean, it really looks like it's less than a month away. I can't give anything away because I don't know like everybody else, but I think that when that reversal comes, when that V2 opens up, I think we're going to see a massive sort of run. So I think in the meantime, this is the perfect opportunity for anybody to kind of accumulate right in the inch here between 3000 and wherever it drops. I mean, this is one of those moments where I think Ben and I the other day were arguing on Twitter about whether it's going to go to a billion or a 10 billion market cap. So there's very big expectations and there are very big ideas about what is going to happen with Bencoin. Be everywhere now. Expect that this is going to be at the forefront of mass adoption. There's a lot of different resources that can't be talked about until this launch happens. Guys, I'm always right. That's my logo. That's my slogan. So just believe me, I'm always right. And get ready for a moonshot. I think this is really going to have something in it, something in the tank that's going to take us off to a new level. So if you haven't already, make sure you subscribe to me. Of course, obviously. But, yeah, we're going to be killing it pretty soon. So I think if you haven't already, at least go look at the charts. Go check it out. Maybe we should post a contract link or something like that in the description of the video. And let's see what happens here. But I believe we're going to have something happen. Absolutely. Well, thank you so much for joining us, guys. Make sure to go check him out. He's going to be coming on a couple or a few times a week. Going forward. So this is our Bencoin guy. Now, who can you learn more about Bencoin from than anybody else? It's obviously me. But also beliefs. But also beliefs. So, yeah. Yeah, exactly. So you guys make sure you follow me because this is our guy. I mean, look, a lot of YouTubers, they talked about Bencoin in the beginning. They kind of retreated from it. Very few people have actually seen the vision. I believe they've seen the vision. And he knows where we're going. And it's an exciting place. So thanks for joining us. And we'll have you back on next week. I'm going to be gone for the next two days, of course. And we'll get that set up. Enjoy Denver. And we'll talk to you again soon. Alright. Thanks. See you. Bye. I like that guy.
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A highlight from 1377: This Will Send Bitcoin to $10,000,000 - Binance CEO CZ
"In today's show, I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis, as well as Gemini files a brief in the lawsuit against the SEC requesting to keep it simple. We'll also be discussing Bitcoin mining stocks up 200%, year to date, and one has soared literally almost 400%. We'll also be discussing when the Bitcoin price is likely to bottom after this crypto market downturn, according to crypto analytics firm Glassnode. We'll also be discussing the analyst Dave the Wave who called the 2021 crypto meltdown forecast a new Bitcoin all -time high. I'll be sharing his timeline. We'll also be discussing the Binance CEO CZ predicts the Bitcoin price will reach $10 million. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost a video show. So you want the full premium experience with video visit my rumble channel at crypto news alerts dotnet. Again, that's crypto news alerts dotnet. Welcome again to everyone just joining us. And today is August 20th, 2023. So happy Sunday. I'm your host JV, and this is pod episode number 1377. So let's fricking go. Let's start with our market watch as we do each and every day. You should be able to see this popping up on your screen right now. For those watching the broadcast, you can see Bitcoin still in the red, unfortunately, but the good news we're maintaining that $26 ,000 support, which I love to see. We have ether also in the red trading at $1 ,682 and checking out coinmarketcap .com. The current crypto market cap sits barely above that $1 trillion milestone. We got about 21 billion in volume in the past 24 hours with Bitcoin dominance at 48 % even and the ether dominance at 19 % even and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers in the past 24 hours. As you can see here, we got Stellar Lumens leading the pack up 7 % trading at $0 .13, followed by XDC up 6 % trading just under $0 .06, followed by ThorChain up almost 6 % trading at $1 .85 and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers for the past week. You can see a mixture between red and green with some of the top gainers, including Roon XLM and XDC and checking out the crypto greed and fear index as of a few days ago with that epic crash where we saw over a billion dollars in the crypto market liquidated. We're currently in fear, currently rated a 37. Last week was a 54 and last month a 50, which is neutral. So there you have it. How many of you have been taking advantage of this recent dip? Put BTFD in that live chat. Now let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis. Check out the charts and what is popping with that king crypto. Bitcoin hovered around 26 ,000 into the 20th weekly close as doomsday Bitcoin price targets kept coming. And here you're looking at the Bitcoin one hour candle chart. Now data from Cointelegraph and TradingView showed an eerie calm covering Bitcoin over the weekend with the market down 11 % in the past week. Yikes. And quoting Keith Allen and Material Indicators, I think 25 ,000 will eventually break down and clear a path to retest support at the 2017 bull market top, which was just under 20 ,000. But I don't know if we can get the retest for 25 ,000 support to potentially print a double bottom and provide a good foundation for another exit rally. If that setup presents itself, we're talking 28 to 29 ,000 range is realistic. And Allen continued that such a rebound may even hit the 100 week simple moving average currently sitting just above 31 ,300 dollars. Quitting him here, if and when we get the retest at 25 ,000, my eyes are looking at the next series of the lower lows. And he continued first would be 24 ,749 on Coinbase and the next is 19 ,567, which is not so coincidentally located just below the RS flip zone at the 2017 bull market top. Losing that level paves the way for a paradise and a potential generational buying opportunity. Now, if you'd actually look forward to the generational buy opportunity with a Bitcoin price that low, let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. And he also shares this chart. Others shared the consensus that 20 ,000 will be back on the radar only should 25 ,000 fail to act as support. Quoting Sku Analytics here, a break below 25 .3 will probably target 24 to 23 for a stronger buyback reaction else continuation towards 20 ,000. But a deep sweep below 20 ,000 is the extreme end in which would look like a swing long there. How many of you think that Bitcoin can have that probability of dropping sub 20 ,000? Let me know your thoughts. Keep it in mind that was like the price action six years ago is insane right at the height of the market in 2017. Now, Sku nonetheless suggests that the intraday Bitcoin price action might see a bounce around the weekly close with 28 ,500 as a potential target should the buy side pressure step up, which is outlined in this chart. Now, some less extreme support levels below 20 ,000 also came in from analytics platform Whale Map, quoting them here. In case we go even lower, it commented on a print of his data uploaded to X, adding that 19 ,200 and 16 ,600 were the other points of interest. Now previous, keep in mind the whale support at 28 ,250 and 26 ,950 nonetheless failed to hold the market on the way down. And check this out as Rizzo shared on X. This is a quote from Dan Morehead. Bitcoin is like buying gold in 1000 BC before Christ. And he actually shared this quote all the way back in August of 2013. And as Rizzo points out, true at $100 and true today Bitcoin. That's right, because one Bitcoin will always be equivalent to one Bitcoin. So keep stacking them stats fam. And now let's discuss the latest developments between Gemini and the SEC. As you know, Gemini won the top exchanges in the United States headed over by the Winklevoss twins. In fact, they were the very first to actually submit an application for a spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States over a decade ago, but no Claire Gere and the rest of the regulators that preceded him, the Jay Clayton's of the world have been denying it ever since. But let's see what's popping recently with this back and forth crypto exchange. Gemini filed a reply brief as a part of its efforts to dismiss the lawsuit it faces against the US SEC. The lawsuit alleges Gemini earned which is a service enabling customers to lend crypto assets like Bitcoin to Genesis breach security regulations by offering unregistered securities. How many of you were impacted by that Genesis earned program? Let me know. And according to August 18, court documents filed by the US District Court from the Southern District in New York, Gemini argued the SEC has failed to make a clear claim. Quoting them here, section five of the Securities Act is not hard to understand. The filings stated while arguing that the SEC has not clearly pointed out the requirements for claiming a violation of the act. The fact that the SEC cannot decide that what is a security is an issue which only underscores the weakness of its position. I think they make a great point right there. It further argued that the court shouldn't tackle the convoluted analysis presented by the SEC. And the agency should pose straightforward questions to determine whether it qualifies as a security. That's right, because ultimately, in Gary Gensler and the SEC's eyes, every single cryptocurrency is a unregistered security minus Bitcoin. That's just the way it is. Now it prompted questions including when was the alleged security sold? Who was the buyer? Who was the seller? And what was the price offered or changed? And it's all outlined right here from court filing. I'll include this in the show notes below the video in the description. Gemini also contended that the SEC must highlight the unregistered security first, in which they haven't done, then identify the sale or offer to sell that security. It claimed the SEC had not fulfilled this. However, the SEC has not met that burden and its opposition avoids the question before the court. The filing stated. Now, another person pointed out that the SEC is floundering. They can't even decide what the security is. And also shared on one hand, they claim that the loan agreement was a security, but on the other hand, they claim the entire Gemini earned program was itself a security, which really makes no sense, right? An argument absurd on its face. Here's my thoughts on why they're going after all of the Gemini earned programs or anything where you can earn yield, because it outperforms any standard bank and they don't want competition because the central bankers rule this planet, unfortunately. So for example, if you can earn hypothetically, say a 5 % reward by staking a cryptocurrency, what has the bank given you in a high savings yielding account? What do you get? 0 .01 % nowadays, virtually nothing. And you're really losing money due to inflation as Michael Saylor once described it as a melting ice cube. So not shocking, but I truly do hope that the Winklevoss twins and Gemini wins this lawsuit against the SEC, that the SEC can't continue their crypto crackdown. But how do you think this is likely to play out? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments. Write us down below. Now let's dive into Bitcoin mining stocks, which have been popping this year. Bitcoin may be down for the week, but it's still up 50 % year to date. So take that Peter Schiff. Meanwhile, Bitcoin mining stocks jumped over 200 % year to date with one minor stock, which is cipher mining up a whopping almost 400 % thus far this year. The Bitcoin price fell 10 % against the US dollar on Thursday amid speculations that SpaceX might have sold its remaining holdings, something like 375 million a Bitcoin, but it may just be nothing more than FUD. We have to also keep that in mind. Now, crypto stocks are up quite a bit more this far into 2023 than the broad stock market. The S &P 500 as well as the top 500 US companies have increased by a very healthy 14 % thus far this year. And the tech -focused NASDAQ is up a whopping 28 % for the year.
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A highlight from 1376: This Will Send Bitcoin to $1,500,000 - Cathie Wood
"In today's show, we're going to be breaking down the latest technical analysis, as well as Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy and Bitcoin, three years after, now at 153 ,000 BTC on their balance sheet. We'll also be discussing Bitcoin's secondary scare now playing out, warrants top analyst Benjamin Cohen. But how low will the Bitcoin price plunge? We're going to be discussing that. As well as one catalyst which can trigger the Bitcoin price to explode by more than 450 % predicts fund strats. Tom Lee will also be discussing rich dad Robert Kiyosaki predicting Bitcoin rising to a million dollars per coin and gold hitting 75 ,000 while silver hits 60 ,000. If the world economy crashes, we'll also be discussing Cathie Wood confirming her one and a half million dollar Bitcoin price forecast for the king crypto. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my rumble channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's cryptonewsalerts .net. With that being shared fam, welcome everyone. This is podcast episode number 1376. I'm your fearless host JV and today is stacking Saturday, it's August 19th, 2023. Let's kick it off with our market watch as we do each and every day. We got Bitcoin still in the red unfortunately, but maintaining that 26 ,000 support. We have Ether and many of the alts back in the green, but barely after one of the biggest bloodbaths we have experienced in several months, we have Ether maintaining 1600 and it's just above one trillion. So the entire crypto market cap right now is only a trillion dollars. Isn't that insanity? Now there's 26 billion in volume at the past 24 hours with Bitcoin dominance currently at 48 .1 % with the Ether dominance at 19 % even and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers in the past 24 hours, we have SUI up about 16 % trading at 55 and a half cents, followed by Hedera, HBAR up 11 and a half percent trading at six and a half cents, followed by AKT up 11 % trading at $1 .55 and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers for the past week. Finally, we have many of the alts back in the green, but we have to keep in mind the massive bloodbath with over a billion dollars worth of liquidations practically in the past 48 hours. So naturally a lot of these altcoins are bouncing back after 20, 30 % losses and checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated a 39 still in fear. We were in fear yesterday at a 37 last week was a 54 neutral and last month a 56 in green. Greed. So there you have it. How many of you have taken advantage of this recent dip? Please do let me know. BTFD and Staccanem Sats, dollar cost averaging is the name of the game, especially if you're in this for the long haul and also want to ask you where my long -term hodlers at, make some noise in that live chat. Now we're going to do our technical analysis a little bit different today. Why not try something new? And yes, I got some color to my skin because I spent the day at the pool here in Puerto Rico yesterday with my daughter and it feels good. Soak it in those sun rays, free vitamin D, D3. Why not take advantage of it? But anyways, now let's break down our technical analysis. I'm using trading view today. You should be able to see this on your screen. Let me know in the comments. We're going to do the one day right now. It's a sell signal. Sell says 14 neutral is a seven and a buy is a five and you're going to check out these oscillators right here. It says buy and then you have the moving averages is a strong sell signal. You're going to see why here in a moment. Let's start with the oscillators, which you should be able to see on the left on your screen right now. Relative strength index we commonly cover, which is the RSI is a buy signal. The commodity channel index is a buy signal. The momentum indicator is a buy signal. The MACD is a sell signal. The Williams percentage range is a buy signal. We got some neutral signals, but let's check out these moving averages. Check it out. Sell, sell, sell, sell, sell. Everything virtually says sell for moving averages except the whole moving average. I'm not even familiar personally with that metric, but all the major ones, the exponential, the simple moving average, et cetera, all in the sell zone. Very interesting to say the least, but I want to know how many of you took advantage of this dip or are you expecting and anticipating the Bitcoin price to drop even lower? If you're one of those expecting a lower drop, how low would the Bitcoin price likely go? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. With that being shared, now let's break down the latest with Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy because it was exactly three years ago today he got his infamous Bitcoin position and now today they hold over 153 ,000 BTC on their balance sheet, which is no joke. Some say when Bitcoin hits new highs, Michael Saylor is going to be amongst the richest persons in this world. That wouldn't surprise me whatsoever, especially with his attitude of there is no second best and continuing to accumulate Bitcoin and never selling, he said, for hundreds and hundreds of years to come, so we shall see how that plays out. All I know is Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy is the smart money, Cathie Wood is the smart money, and I like watching the smart money and not listening necessarily to what they say, but more importantly, always watching what they do. I'm watching you. You know what I mean? Anyways, fam, let's break it down. MicroStrategy's co -founder and executive chair, Saylor, who served as the company's former CEO for over 30 years, continues to remain bullish on Bitcoin three years after his publicly traded business intelligence company decided to make its first Bitcoin purchase. That's right. If you missed the memo, Michael Saylor, his company MicroStrategy was the first publicly traded company to put Bitcoin on its balance sheet. Saylor also made a big price prediction for the asset, believing it could exceed a million dollars per coin. I say that's conservative because I've covered Michael Saylor predictions here on the show of him talking about a $14 million Bitcoin price. Real talk. Now, MicroStrategy made history and headlines. It was August 11th, 2020, virtually three years ago after becoming the first publicly traded company to purchase Bitcoin. The firm initially hinted back in July of 2020 about its plans to invest in assets such as Bitcoin or gold rather than holding cash as a way to escape inflation, with the company later deciding to buy Bitcoin worth a quarter billion, 250 million, and adopting it as a primary treasury reserve asset. And how many of you remember the infamous quote where he compared keeping cash on the balance sheet as a melting ice cube? I'll never forget that personally. And according to Saylor at that time, who was MicroStrategy's CEO, the decision to go for Bitcoin was made because of the crypto, served as a better hedge against inflation and had a higher return on investment compared with other assets. Now, that purchase marked the beginning of several investments amid the crypto's volatile price movements, causing the company to hold a large Bitcoin stash. And in June of 2023, Saylor announced that the business intelligence giant bought 12 ,333 more Bitcoin for $347 million, making it one of the company's largest purchases in a single quarter since second quarter of 2021. And as of July 31st of this year, MicroStrategy officially holds 152 ,800 BTC, which the company said was purchased for roughly $4 .5 billion at an average price of $29 ,672 per BTC. Now the business intelligence software firm is the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin. Besides corporate holders, we have the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, and they literally control over 400 ,000 BTC, just FYI. Meanwhile in a December 2022 SEC filing, MicroStrategy revealed it sold 704 Bitcoin to generate tax benefits. The sale was a first for the company with the action contrary to the previous statement by Saylor, who said that MicroStrategy would never sell any of its stash. Now Saylor is known as one of the biggest Bitcoin supporters and has continued to promote the asset as far superior to gold, which is fact, calling it digital gold. However, he has not always not been pro Bitcoin. I mean, there was a time it was actually against it. There's an infamous tweet dating back to 2013 stating it would suffer the same fate as online gambling. Meanwhile, online gambling seems to be soaring and thriving better than ever before. And the same thing with Bitcoin. Go figure. Even not a rocket scientist can be right every single time, right? But Saylor's view on Bitcoin has since changed and you got to respect he had the balls to change his opinion publicly. How many people like Peter Schiff refused to ever change their opinion, regardless of how wrong they clearly are. You know what I mean? Now the MicroStrategy executive chair in May of 2022 said the Bitcoin price can go into the millions per coin while stating it is the future of money. We know this is a fact. The following month, Saylor predicted Bitcoin price would skyrocket to a million dollars. And later in September of 2022, the exec said the crypto could be valued at 500 ,000 in the next 10 years if it matches the market cap of gold. And for context, Bitcoin's market cap is currently roughly 570 billion, while gold is currently estimated to be $12 .8 trillion. Now also, Saylor seemed to be unfazed by the ongoing enforcement crackdown on the crypto sector by the SEC, stating the regulators actions could benefit Bitcoin by boosting the asset's price and increasing its market dominance share to 80 percent. Could you imagine Bitcoin continuing to eat these altcoins kind of like Ms. Pac -Man? You know what I mean? I think it's likely to happen in just a matter of time. And Saylor, who served as the CEO of MicroStrategy for 30 years, left his position in August to become the company's executive officer, with MicroStrategy president Fongli serving as the CEO. The American business exec explained that his new role will help him better focus on the firm's Bitcoin acquisition strategy and related Bitcoin advocacy initiatives. So there you have it. The man just wants to focus on stacking more sets. You can't blame him. Much power and respect to him. Shout out to Michael Saylor. If he is one of your favorite Bitcoiners, do let me know. And which one of your favorite Saylor speeches? One of mine is, there is no second best. There's Bitcoin. And you got Bitcoin. Shout out to Saylor. Anyways, fam. Now let's cover our next story of the day and discuss when do you feel the bottom will be in for Bitcoin? Do you think the bottom is already in at 15 .7 or do you think we have lower to go? Let's see what some of the top analysts have to say. This is Benjamin Cohen. Cohen tells his 800 ,000 YouTube subs the current crypto downturn is in line with a pattern that occurs every four years. Quoting him here. The idea behind the secondary scare in crypto comes from the fact the S &P 500 tends to get a correction in August for September of its US pre -election year. As we know, we have a big presidential election in the US next year along with that having. So if we were to look at the 2023, you can see the S &P is in fact getting this correction, which we talked about. The S &P 500 is down a little over 5 % since the start of this month. And according to the widely followed strategist, Bitcoin has plummeted by between 39 and 83%. During the previous secondary scares, quoting him here in 2019, once the secondary scare got underway, once we got below the 20 week moving average, right, or the weekly candle that led us below it, Bitcoin dropped yet another 61%. This one, 2015, was about a 40 or 39 % drop. Then in 2011, you had an 82 .5 % drop before we actually finally bottomed out in the secondary scare. In all three cases in the pre halving year, the S &P dropped in quarter three of the pre -election year, and then Bitcoin entered into a downtrend for a while. And we have three examples, one where we went down about 80%, one where we went down about 40%, and one we went down about 60%. So on how long Bitcoin could fall going by historical precedent, Cohen outlines three scenarios, quoting him again. If it's a 40 % drop similar to 2015, 40 % drop puts Bitcoin at $17 ,500, OK? That would be the lowest. This would basically correspond to his 2015 move that would put Bitcoin at $17 ,500. A 61 % drop, which is what we experienced in 2019, would put it at around $11 ,400. And an 80 % drop would put it much lower, which I will say, I don't think it is going to go nearly that low. And to watch this video he did entitled, Bitcoin, the Secondary Scare Has Begun, check the show notes below the video in the description. And what are your thoughts? Do you agree or disagree with the analysts? My personal thoughts, the lows are already in. They were in a long time ago at the end of last year. We hit that $15 ,700 level. I personally am very skeptical that we'll ever see a sub $20 ,000 Bitcoin price ever again. But I could be wrong in the same token. That's my personal opinion. Is that OK? I'm just telling you how I really feel. I think it's a great discount to take advantage of buying Bitcoin right now, considering the all time high in November of 2021 was roughly $69 ,000. So you tell me the math, where are we at, like a 60, 70 % discount from the top? Not too shabby. I would be stacking stats like there is no tomorrow versus, oh, let's sell my entire Bitcoin stash and buy it back at $15 ,000. What if you're wrong? We don't go sub $20 ,000 and you lose out on a massive position. That could happen as well. I don't like gambling. I'm in this for the long haul and there's nothing like the real thing, baby. And that's the fastest horse in the race. That's the king crypto. We call it VTC. And with that being shared, fam, now let's discuss an $180 ,000 Bitcoin price prediction by the one and only Tom Lee of Funstrat Global Advisors, managing partner Tom Lees, is one of the catalysts which can spur the Bitcoin price to hit. Six figures is going to be Bitcoin ETF approval. Let's break down this Bitcoin ETF, because that's what everyone is talking about right now, right? Quoting him here from this interview, he says, if the spot Bitcoin ETF gets approved, I think the demand will be greater than the daily supply of Bitcoin. And so the clearing price, this is done by Sean Farrell, who is our crypto digital strategist, is over $150 ,000. It could even be like $180 ,000 per coin. A spot US because a spot Bitcoin ETF is approved outside of the US. When they asked him, do you think there will be a spot Bitcoin ETF? And with Bitcoin currently trading at what, roughly $26 ,000, that means he's predicting an appreciation between 467 % and 580%. Let's go send it. Now, on Bitcoin's likely price action, if a spot Bitcoin ETF fails to win approval in the US, Lee shares the following, they're still upside because of the halving next year. Yes, so you have a drop in supply again, so the clearing price has to increase, but it won't be six figures. So he's ultimately saying if we don't get the ETF approval, we can still go to six figures eventually, but not as soon as we would anticipate with the approval of a Bitcoin ETF. So according to the Bitcoin bull, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy going forward will impact crypto assets, quoting him again from this interview. Crypto is dependent on monetary policy, so if inflation is cooling, then we can start to bet on forward financial conditions, easing, and the central bank easing sooner. That's bullish for crypto as well as alternative assets. To watch this video he did on this interview, inflation is on the glide path towards sub 2 % by the middle, check the show notes below the video in the description. Let me know if you agree or disagree with Tom Lee, virtually predicting that the Bitcoin price will likely see 150 and 180 ,000 per coin between that range coming up here in the near future. And again, I'm going to read everyone's comments out loud, so please let me know where you're from and any comments or questions, address them right now in the live chat. Now let's discuss Robert Kiyosaki, the famous Rich Dad Poor Dad author, and his $1 million Bitcoin price prediction, followed by the one and only Cathie Wood of ARK Invest with her doubling down on her $1 .5 million price prediction and how she got to those numbers, you know, dates, et cetera, and everything that comes along with it, and then we'll dive into our live Q &A. Massive shout out to Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad was a very influential book in my young adulthood, which absolutely impacted me in a positive way. So give kudos and flowers when they are due. In a tweet on Monday, Kiyosaki explained that while he expects the price of Bitcoin to reach $100 ,000 per coin in the near term, he believes that it can soar to a million dollars, while gold will rise to $75 ,000, I take it he means an ounce, and silver trade at $60 ,000 an ounce if the world's economy crashes, noting, he has been saying for years, that gold and silver are God's money, while Bitcoin is people's money, and he also wrote the following, bad news, if stocks and bond markets crash, gold and silver skyrocket, worse news, if the world economy crashes, Bitcoin will rise to a million dollars, gold to $75 ,000, and silver to $60 ,000. Now would you consider this bad news? If the markets crashed and Bitcoin skyrocketed to a million dollars, that'd be the best news of my life besides the birth of my daughter, just saying. He added that us savers who hold the US dollar will be called fake money, they'll be in serious trouble, noting that the US national debt is way too high, preach. Kiyosaki often said that gold, silver, and Bitcoin are his preferred investments, emphasizing they are the best for unstable times, and following his warning about the global recession, he cautioned in May the world economy is on the verge of a collapse, the renowned author predicted in February the price of Bitcoin would hit $500 ,000 per coin by 2025, the year preceding the halving, and while gold will soar to $5 ,000 and silver will hit $500 during the same time period, he recently started saying that the price of Bitcoin would $100 ,000 this year in 2023, and $120 ,000 next year in 2024, which is the same prediction made by Standard Chartered Bank, and FYI, guess who is the primary shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank? You guessed right, it's BlackRock, and did you know that BlackRock owns even a large piece of micro strategy? That's right, so they're already indirectly invested into Bitcoin, just pointing that out. This week, he urged the investors to buy silver before it's gone, noting that it is more affordable than gold. Kiyosaki has been warning that the US economy is headed for a crash landing, he previously said that America is bankrupt and warned of hyperinflation, the rich dad author has been cautioning that a giant crash is coming for quite some time, many, many years, right? Moreover, he warned that the US dollar will die as the BRICS nations, which include Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and like 20, 30 plus other nations, plan to launch a common currency, and it's gonna be interesting to see how this plays out and what currency that they select. Could you imagine if BRICS adopted Bitcoin as their currency? Hmm, wouldn't that be a game changer? And also, there's other parts of the world right now with hyperinflation occurring in real time, I think Bitcoin is the only savior, just as it saved El Salvador, and if you translate El Salvador, it translates to the savior, go figure, could it be a coincidence? All by design. Let me know your honest thoughts, fam. And now let's break down our final feature story of the day, that's Cathie Wood of ARK Invest and her prediction of a one and a half million dollar Bitcoin price, send it and let's go, in a forecast case study released in February. Let me know if you can see the screen, I know the text is a little smaller on this particular article, but let me know in the chat, please. ARK Invest presented three scenarios for the crypto market until 2030. The bearish one suggests Bitcoin will just rise to 260 ,000. Not too shabby for a bearish scenario, send it, let's go, while the bullish one foresees a surge to one and a half million dollars per Bitcoin, and in the interview with Bloomberg this week, Cathie Wood said the team's confidence in the bullish scenario has increased. That's great, she's gaining more confidence, let's go. And as you can see outlined here, Bitcoin to likely scale into a multi trillion dollar market, you can see the bear case with a 2030 price target which shows 258 ,500 in this graph on the left, and then followed by that, the base case by 2030 represents 682 ,800 Bitcoin. I'd love that personally, I love all these targets, but could you imagine Bitcoin really hitting 1 .48 million, virtually 1 .5 million by 2030 in a bullish case, I most absolutely can see that happening. Wood believes Bitcoin will continue to establish itself as an insurance option against inflation. And that everyone will want it at the end of the day. Cryptos protect wealth from outright confiscation, great point, inflation and the risk of loss to third parties when stored or transferred. With the adoption of cryptos and the regulatory and legal framework in place, interest in Bitcoin will grow exponentially, I agree 100%. The SEC being flooded with applications right now to launch Bitcoin ETFs clearly indicates the same. ARK Invest teamed up with 21 shares and applied documents ahead of investing giant BlackRock, so they're actually first in line. The SEC has accepted this and other submissions as indicated in public records. A decision is due on 13th of August, but unfortunately, that decision ultimately shared that they were going to push back the decision now until I believe the first quarter of 2024. So sadly, there will be no Bitcoin spot ETF approvals anytime soon this year in 2023. That's the bad news. But some experts agree that BlackRock's participation increases the chances of a positive outcome existing crypto funds have already experienced an influx of capital from institutional investors not seen since quarter four of 2021 when we hit that all time high with over 700 million dollars invested into Bitcoin in just four weeks. So there you have it. And also, you can see here Bitcoin spiral for your cycle and you can see it shows you the bottoms, the halvings, and this is actually a pretty cool chart in this cycle with a record in 2026 Bitcoin will reach the maximum in the range, which is one hundred thousand to a million. I know that's a very wide margin and kind of the same as Stock the Flow model creator Plant B predicting Bitcoin being somewhere between one hundred grand and a million dollars after the halving. And in the next cycle, with a peak in 2030, the price will range from one million to ten million dollars per coin. Well, if you'd like to see a ten million dollar price action, let's freaking go. Now it's currently unknown whether the ARK Invest team was guided by the theory of cycles, but potential investors should consider that forecast and mathematical models give only a idea conditional of further changes. So there you have it, fam. How many of you are in agreement with Cathie Wood of ARK Invest that we likely to see that million dollar Bitcoin price or even above one and a half million by the year 2030, which is roughly seven years out? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. And don't forget to check out CryptoNewsAlerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
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"Percent slump from the same period last year, that's according to data compiled by Bloomberg. And again, it's become much more of a political issue here in the U .S., whereas when I talked to Tim Craig, head of Bloomberg Intelligence in London, he says ESG investing is more popular than ever in Europe, particularly in the Nordic region. But maybe it's frothier there as a result. Maybe it is. Maybe it is. So essentially, we'll continue to follow the ESG aspect of investing. It's a big part of the market. Sound on with Joe Matthew. It's coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Politics, policy and perspective from D .C.'s top names. While the GOP may hate Joe Biden, they don't hate him enough to interrupt this economic growth. In Georgia, they say elections are run clean. We ran a clean election and Donald Trump can go get indicted. Bloomberg Sound on with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. And welcome to Bloomberg Sound on. I'm Amy Morris in for Joe Matthew, alongside Bloomberg congressional reporter Billy House on this Friday afternoon. First things first, we're going to check the markets with Bloomberg's Charlie Pellet. Hi, Charlie. We do have the Dow holding on to a 14 point gain right now. S &P, NezStack, they are both in the red NezStack 100 index lower as well. Right now, we have got NezStack down by 54 points, down four tenths of one percent. That's the composite index, the NezStack 100 index down 60, also a drop of four tenths of one percent.
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"Bitcoin is currently breaking down from one of the major trends that it set all the way back in January at the start of this year. So with a Bitcoin breakdown on the cards, what does this potentially mean for altcoins heading into September, which is historically the worst month for cryptocurrency? In today's show, we're going to be going through the data to break down what's going to come next for altcoins. Is going Bitcoin to continue to lead the pack? And are alts any chance of recovering anytime soon? And of course, off the back of that, when is the right time to buy? Or is it simply just worth sitting out of the market right now and letting things play out its course? We're going to answer all those questions and more in today's show. Smash the like button if you're excited. It's going to be a massive stream. And let's just get straight into the metrics here. So we could see right in front of us that Bitcoin is along this major trend line that it is just starting to break down from at the $28K level. Now, it isn't a confirmed breakout yet because I am looking at this on the daily. And there's also a similar chart on the weekly that I am eyeing. So let's see how it reacts over the next couple of days. Sometimes Bitcoin does week under this level, as we've seen back in June and back in March. But we do want to see where Bitcoin closes here because if we get a close below this level, then you can start to target the $200MA on the daily. And of course, that major support level at $26 .5K as potential targets for Bitcoin. Once again, not panicking just yet, but we do need to see how price actually reacts around this area if we are to get a continued breakout. Bitcoin, however, is not operating in isolation. You can see the NASDAQ 100 right now is also breaking down. After it had a really nice rally since the beginning of the year, the NASDAQ ran up 49%. So a lot of investors are starting to panic and get worried about these recession fears that are spreading around the market. But what you have to realize is, I mean, it rallied 49 % and it's had a 7 % pullback. In my opinion, it's very normal behavior for these markets. But it is interesting to note from a pure technical perspective, we are now starting to get a trend reversal, which is being exemplified by the breakdown here of this diagonal trend on the NASDAQ. And we also can see a similar trend forming on the S &P, with it also just starting to show signs of weakness, also breaking below its diagonal support. Of course, Bitcoin being a risk asset and largely correlated to these assets has also seen a pullback in tandem with the stock market. And it's quite interesting, when the stock market was rallying, Bitcoin was doing nothing. It was moving sideways after its spot ETF rally. But now that the stock market's starting to pull back, well, this is where we're seeing the Bitcoin Pearson correlation, which is a measurement of Bitcoin's correlation to equities and gold, actually starting to tick up. Meaning that Bitcoin is now increasingly becoming correlated again with the stock market after the stock market has had a correction. Kind of sucky that it didn't hold up relevant strength with stocks coming down. But nonetheless, that has been the case for Bitcoin starting to show a little bit more strength. So what does all of this mean for altcoins? Well, what we've seen over the last few days is dominance beginning to spike again, and a lot of altcoins bleeding heavily versus their Bitcoin pairs. So just going on to CoinGecko at the moment, and we're going through this list, we can see that many of the major alts for the week are down a lot more than Bitcoin. So using Bitcoin as a reference, down 4 % alongside Ethereum, we can see like Solana down 6%, Cardano down 8%, Doge down 11%, Polkadot down 5%, Polygon down 12%. Like a lot of these are in the double digits, Uniswap, etc. We can go down the list and see most of them are between like 6 % and 12%, even though Bitcoin's only down 4%. So the altcoin market is showing relative weakness versus Bitcoin on these dips. And I think due to the major trend of dominance, as you can see in front of you, the trend for dominance is clearly bullish. And as long as this is the case, altcoins versus Bitcoin are likely to continue to bleed for some time. We'll get into when this can reverse in just a minute here. But firstly, what is the reason for this? Why are altcoins showing relative weakness versus Bitcoin? Well, the first reason is when investors start to get a bit worried, when sentiment just starts to shift a little bit like it is at the moment, extremely risky assets like altcoins, they tend to be the first that investors sell off in order to protect themselves. So just the general de -risking across altcoins is what is currently being exemplified in the market right now. But that isn't happening in isolation. That's happening off the back of huge regulatory changes with the Binance lawsuit currently underway. We see they actually filed for an amendment of the SEC case. This is ongoing and this is going to be a huge storm in the crypto industry that continues to brew for, I think, months and potentially even years to come. Now, of course, we will start to get some definitive answers on securities law throughout this case. But I think a lot of altcoin investors have started to de -risk just relative to Bitcoin ahead of some of the outcomes from this case. And we do think that we can see here a discovery storm may be brewing between the SEC and Binance as we start to see lots of documents being emerged from Binance. It's going to cause periodic elements of FUD. And obviously, there's still those big questions like what altcoins are securities, what altcoins aren't securities. The XRP case was in favor of the alts. And we did see a very nice response off the back of that. But I think the market's now realizing, well, there's still a little bit to play out on the regulatory front. Coinbase, however, looks slightly better positioned than Binance in order to beat this regulatory storm, considering the US actually allowed them to deploy their financial market futures fund, which is going to be eligible for US customers, meaning US customers will be able to trade futures on the Coinbase exchange, which is quite interesting. Now, which assets are going to be allowed? Let's wait and see. But it's kind of weird. If Coinbase wasn't going to have a better outcome than Binance during their lawsuit, then why would the US approve this new exchange? You've got to ask the question. I think Coinbase, as a public company that has shown to be a little more compliant with US policy, is being favored, I guess, by the SEC. So those are two of the major reasons why the altcoins are performing worse. But there's also the major elephant in the room here, and that's the Bitcoin spot ETF. And unlike altcoins, Bitcoin has a direct supply and demand side factor that is driving its performance and drove its performance during that run up that we saw last, or July, just one month ago. And that's, of course, the Bitcoin spot ETF. So the Bitcoin spot ETF, because it's kind of like a Bitcoin native related catalyst, it doesn't have a direct effect on the alts until we see an approval, and then maybe we can start looking at an Ethereum ETF. But right now, the narrative is very much still with Bitcoin with the spot ETF taking place. So you have a combination of things, investors starting to go more risk off as they just start to worry about recession fears, investors starting to go risk off in the midst of some of these lawsuits that we're seeing from Binance and Coinbase. And then also the fact that Bitcoin has favoritism in the market's eyes due to its spot ETF specific catalyst. And we can see these are some of the key dates that we have to watch, of course, the next major deadline for the SEC happening on September 1st. And then some of the other deadlines now being pushed towards next year, like ARK, which is set to be reevaluated in January. So I doubt we do get a response here in two weeks in September from the SEC. I think they're going to kick the can down the road and delay it again, which could see things be pushed into October and maybe even further into November and early next year is what some pundits are anticipating. Percentage wise, Bloomberg analysts still think the percentage of a spot Bitcoin ETF is over 60%, but we may just have to wait a little bit longer. And I think that's why the market's getting a little bit impatient now and we're starting to see a sell off from Bitcoin because the biggest catalyst in the market that pumped the price of Bitcoin in June and July is now no longer a catalyst until we get a concrete change in terms. And that would obviously be an approval or a rejection of the Bitcoin spot ETF. So let's go back to dominance. Let's look at what's happening in the Bitcoin dominance to work out. Look, what could be next for altcoins? Because there's history that can show us potentially a path here for altcoin performance over the next few months. So the first thing to note is that dominance did break above its major level at 48 % earlier in the year. We, of course, have covered that on the show. Interestingly, it actually rejected off the 200 MA on the weekly at the 52 % region. We did see a slight altcoin run. And then over the past few days, we've seen a little bit of a reversal. But what is clear here is that the dominance trend is still upwards. And until we get a concrete reversal, I mean, one can only assume this is going to continue for the foreseeable future. Now, could this end up being a reversal? Yes. But right now, it just looks like a simple pullback in dominance. And until you start to see a double top forming, I would be skeptical. I would wait to see how Bitcoin dominance reacts around that level. That's going to be super crucial. But what's happened in the past with Bitcoin dominance? Well, this red line here, this vertical line, this line and this line in front of us are the lines that indicate the Bitcoin halving. So the halving happened in April 2020. And then the next halving is scheduled for around March to April 2024. Dominance is interestingly following a very similar pattern this cycle versus last cycle. And although it's only one data point, I wanted to bring it to your attention. So we can see here in May 2019, dominance started to increase before reversing in September and altcoins outperformed leading into the halving. We can line it up with this year being a pre -halving year as well. The exact same month, May dominance started to shift to the upside as we saw dominance shifting to the upside in 2019. And then we are also starting to see potential signs of a reversal taking place. Now, this isn't a confirmed reversal yet. But we know that the last reversal we got was in September 240 days before the halving. This time, we can see that we are starting to reach that level. So will that mean that we pull back in dominance and altcoins perform from September onwards? I wouldn't be so sure because although history repeats, it doesn't, sorry, although history rhymes, it doesn't always repeat. And I don't think one data point is really enough to assert that, okay, just because dominance followed a similar pattern last cycle, it's going to follow another pattern. Because last cycle, we didn't have the spot ETF. We didn't have all these regulatory issues. We didn't have recession fears. We were, well, we did have recession fears around, you know, the pandemic. But it was quite different because we had a quantitative easing environment versus a tightening environment now. So I wouldn't be so quick to draw a conclusion. But just broadly speaking, right, historically, dominance has shown to rally into halvings, and then altcoins tend to outperform post halving more significantly. So although we did see an altcoin outperformance into the beginning of the halving, the real altcoin performance didn't happen till about a year post halving. So I think any major big altcoin performance, although you may see a reversal pre halving, the big moves will come post halving. And that is generally what I think we can expect as traders because Bitcoin dominance still being in an uptrend, I think you've got to establish that that trend can continue. Now, how long will it continue for? Right now, what I'm doing as a trader is really tracking the ETH BTC chart. So this is a chart that I've had since the start of the year. And I've been tracking ETH's performance versus Bitcoin. And what we can see is that it has been in a downtrend basically since the FTX collapse last year. But this downtrend does have a support line. And the support line that I'm eyeing is the 0 .055 level in tandem with the 200 MA on the weekly, which should also start to tick downwards as price starts to come down a bit more. So I think we're going to see a confluence of a few support levels is 0 .055 zone. And if that lines up timewise with what we typically see with Bitcoin leading into halvings, this could mean that we see an Ethereum Bitcoin temporary bottom because I don't know how long the uptrend will last, but at least a bounce around, let's say, October, November this year. Now, this is rough data. It could happen later. It could happen sooner. But the trend that we've been following has not really changed. So my thoughts on ETH BTC haven't changed. I think Bitcoin will continue to lead into the end of this year. And then we should see a reversal sometime maybe towards November, maybe towards October, anywhere in this blue box here. And that should, we're going to get the signs at that point of a strong bounce because we're going to see a strong reaction at this 200 MA. We're going to see a strong reaction at horizontal support as well. What's very interesting about this is this timeline potentially lines up with the performance of Bitcoin because Bitcoin typically has its worst month in September. So we can see that Bitcoin corrections have always happened in August slash September of the pre -halving year. We saw it in 2012. We saw it in 2013. We saw it in 2019. And we're seeing it again now. And if you look at the Bitcoin monthly returns, September comes out as the worst month averaging a minus 5 % return or a minus 70 % total return for September. Every other month is positive. September is by far the biggest outlier here with six of six, the six latest months for September performance all coming in the red territory. So if you do line that up with the chart here and just come to the assertion that September could be a red month for Bitcoin, then that also makes sense on the ETHBTC chart. Because if Bitcoin ends up dropping and altcoins have these risks that we previously discussed with the lawsuits and, you know, the selloff happening, then we could maybe assert that alts will bleed harder than Bitcoin during this period. And this September selloff could speed up this trend here, this scenario that results in us hitting these targets on ETHBTC. So if we want to just do a bit of maths here to get down to the support level, it's around 12 .26%. That could be the amount that alts because ETH is synonymous with a lot of altcoins, bleed versus BTC. And that would also see dominance correspondingly push up into this 54 % region, which is also a major resistance level for dominance. As we can see, it was support and may flip into resistance because this was a previous key level for dominance. So pretty interesting that everything's kind of lining up around this September period to be potentially a period that altcoins bleed but also a period where we see a reversal. So that is very, very interesting. Now, what I want to get into now is if this scenario does play out, and if we do see altcoins starting to significantly bleed over the next couple months and continue their bleeding, and then we do see a reversal, what are the best altcoins to accumulate for that reversal? So that's something I want to discuss now. What alts am I eyeing? Because, of course, these are creating big opportunities. Altcoins bleeding versus Bitcoin, every percent that they bleed is going to be an additional return on the way up. So the further an altcoin goes down, the more returns percentage -wise it's going to do on the way up if you can buy in a rough accumulation period because you're never going to get it right. But if you can time it in a rough window where you're getting close enough to the bottom, then you're putting yourself in a good position to take advantage of the multiples on the way up if you invest in quality. So I want to get into like what that quality looks like and some of the narratives that I'm looking at are for the scenario because for me, this period is an accumulation period. If we do get the altcoins bleeding a bit more, like I think we will, and if we do get ETHBTC starting to reach the support level and bleeding more, which I think we will, then I think that'll be a good opportunity to continue stacking altcoins. Yes, we're not going to time the bottom exactly. But if we get a general zone where we think that altcoins are good buys relative to Bitcoin, keeping dominance in mind, then I think that could be really good buying opportunity setting ourselves up for the next cycle. So let's talk about those alts. But just before we get into those alts, I want to give you a quick reminder that we're currently doing a one Ethereum airdrop every single week for liquidity providers on SmartX. So SmartX is a DEX platform that is essentially solved or mitigated the negative effects of impermanent loss. So impermanent loss is typically when you experience capital losses on your LP positions when you have two different assets that are moved together in price. But SmartX, they have a calibration mechanism which enables these LPs to actually retain their value relative to what you would have with a typical LP where you would lose to impermanent loss. So it's, I think, attractive for LPs. And off the back of that as well, they've got huge farming multipliers. So we can see 10, 20, 30 X multipliers on their farms, which are resulting in APRs of, I mean, pretty much the highest in the market right now. On their native pairs, it's 89 to 100 percent. On their USDC pairs, like Arbitrum, for example, it's 23 percent. But we actually teamed up with them to do a giveaway of one Ethereum, one airdrop every single week for liquidity providers that provide a minimum of $50 liquidity into any of these pools. So if you do provide $50 into Arbitrum, Polygon or BNB, any of the pools in any of those chains that I just listed, then you will be eligible as long as you deposit a minimum of $50 into one of those pools for our one ETH airdrop every single week. And I'll be doing my airdrop this week. So link in the description to access that airdrop over on SmartX. And good luck. Hopefully, well, I was going to say hopefully we get a winner, but we will get a winner because I'll be drawing it. But I hope you win. I hope, you know, good luck to everyone that is getting involved in that giveaway there. All right, let's get on to my plan now. So the first thing I want to establish is that I buy Bitcoin every single month. I've explained this in previous shows. That doesn't change. The only thing that changes is the amount that I put in and the variability between Bitcoin and Ethereum. So when Bitcoin is showing strength like it has been recently, I've been DCA -ing heavier into Bitcoin. And when Ethereum starts to show strength, like we see in this chart, if we do get a reversal or a breakout of this diagonal trend, then I'll start to go heavier ETH on my DCAs versus Bitcoin. But my goal is to have a really strong Bitcoin and ETH portfolio. Now, on to the altcoins. I'm looking for altcoins that I really understand and I'm looking for altcoins that I truly believe in. So I believe it's so important as a crypto investor to pick the narratives that you have conviction in. If you understand DeFi and you have a good understanding of the market dynamics, you should prioritize that sector. If you really understand crypto gaming and you're a gamer and you really understand the value proposition there, you should look towards those projects because it's so important in this market that you only hold things you actually have conviction in. Because if we do get some sort of altcoin reckoning and alts continue to bleed versus Bitcoin, let's say they go down another 50%, are you going to be fumbling the bag at the bottom? Or are you going to continue to lower your cost basis by buying more? Now, in order to have the conviction to buy more, you've got to really believe in what you're buying. So right now is the time to get your list together of the projects that you really want to buy and really want to accumulate because if we do get altcoins that start to bleed, you're going to know exactly what you want to buy. Now, I'm going to talk through a few of the things that I'm looking at buying. The first thing is GambleFi. I think Robert's the leader here and I'm continuing to add to my role position as we go lower. Hopefully we get sub 10 cents again, but maybe 12 to 14 cents. I'll do a bit of DCA and I'm also keeping my eyes on new casinos. So that is something that I'm looking at. I think GambleFi still has some room to run and I'm always on the lookout. The next sector that I'm looking at is L2s. I'm heavily interested in this EIP 4844 narrative that, as you can see in front of you, is going to reduce the cost of gas fees significantly on layer 2s. I think this will be a catalyst for layer 2s heading into that event. And because that event is happening in December, if we do get the timeline lining up with an altcoin reversal, let's say September, October, maybe even November, I think because these have the strongest narrative in the market, they could bounce the most in the immediate terms. They become attractive propositions from that perspective. Now, which L2s am I looking at in this narrative? Well, I think a lot of them can perform well, but for the safer mid to large cap plays, I think Arbitrum around a dollar is starting to become an attractive look. I also think Optimism is an attractive look considering their partnership with Coinbase, Debank, Mantle, et cetera, as you can see in front of you. So those are two I'm watching. The other thing I'm watching is unique narratives like privacy. So one of our show sponsors, Tommy, has a suite of privacy products. One of them is Dopp. Now, this one I'm really interested in because it essentially enables you to transfer assets without having to reveal those assets to the public. So you can have an NFT in your wallet, for example, that you want to show off to people. But you might also have Ethereum in that wallet that you don't want to show off to people. And you can essentially choose what you want to disclose and choose what you want to enclose. So I think privacy next narrative, I'm sorry, next cycle is going to be a big narrative. I don't think we've fully seen protocols come to life. So I'm always on the lookout for new protocols in this sector and Dopp's one of them. I think they have a token sale soon. But of course, do your own research. They are a show partner. But the reason we're partnered with them is because I think it's a really cool trend and one that I'm actively on the lookout for. And Tommy's essentially their mothership, which launches a lot of these products. So that might also be something to look into as well. If you're interested in DeFi, I think Frackshare could be something to look at. It's very interesting. They've got exposure to not just the stablecoin, decentralized stablecoin trend, but also liquid staking. They're actually one of the fastest growing eth liquid staking providers, if not the fastest on the market. So Fracks is definitely what I'm looking at. And what I'm trying to do is just back teams that have shown the proficiency to continue to ship great products and great code over the duration of the bear market. Fracks has been one of them and actually just integrated with KiberSwap today. And we're seeing them continuously innovate. So they're a good one, but always bet on teams that it continues to innovate. Now, this video isn't a shill. I'm not showing my bags. In fact, I barely own any Frackshare. This video is to give you the idea that I'm starting to look at narratives to accumulate. This video is to give you the idea that you need to start looking at the sectors and concentrating on the sectors that you want to scoop up if we do get an altcoin record. Because I don't think it's good enough to sitting on the sidelines and saying, oh, wait, because then the dips will come and you don't know what you're buying. So I'm not saying these are all the tokens I'm buying. Of course, there are more tokens. There are some I'm not going to mention in today's video. But the point is, now is the time to start preparing. And if Fracks is one of them, add that to your watch list. Solana as well. If you believe in the L1, the Altair 1 thesis, I know the L2 narrative is super strong right now, but if you think there will be other proprietary L1s that can perform really well, then maybe look at something like a Sol, which has a really strong dev ecosystem and has a lot of great DeFi product shipping. You could get a good look at this at even lower prices. I think TraderXO posted a chart showing a $14 support for Solana. Scary stuff. But if you're in a position where you believe in it, then $14 would be a big opportunity for you. And you probably wouldn't panic when we get down there. Another one that I'm looking at, coincidentally, another sponsor of the show is OpenExchange. I'm actually looking at buying some OX tokens just because I think, look, they have had a huge run up. And I'm not going to give you financial advice as to whether to buy or not to buy because they are a show partner. However, I am looking into this because I think I really like what Carl and you were doing. Look, I know it is a kind of contentious subject because it's kind of like a hated narrative in the market, right? But I do see the value here in a new exchange that has the propensity to list new coins super quick, gain traction super quick and ship code super quick. And OX has been an interesting development because they've introduced this staking function, which you can see in front of you, which enables you to earn yield on your asset, reduce fees on the platform, as well as earning airdrops. So just the staking, you can earn access to their airdrops. As we can see at the moment, they're currently running their Justin tokens airdrops as part of their real world asset RWA initiative. So this is one that I'm looking into. And it's not just the token, it's just a platform in general that's showing growth. So I'm always looking for platforms in this market that are showing growth, even in the midst of a bear market. And OX, irrespective of the fact they're a show partner, has shown this. But of course, do your own research, not financial advice. I want to make that clear that I'm just giving you examples of narratives that are performing well, and you can look into them in your own time. But don't get too caught up in what's popular and what's not. Like look in front of you. Some of the most hated coins, Robit, Unibot, are OX. These have been some of the best performers over the last few weeks. So don't always get too caught up in what's popular and what's trending online. Sometimes, especially on Twitter, the tokens that are hated actually end up performing the best. So just remember, the market doesn't care about your bias. And if there's an opportunity to make money and your goal is to make money, well, try and take that opportunity irrespective of what the market thinks, because it's crazy. Some of the most loved coins have been the worst performers. Some of the most hated coins have been the best performers. And you always want to be on the lookout for outliers. The other one is Pepe and Meme coins. If you're trying to left curve next cycle, then you may get good looks into accumulating Doge and Pepe at historically low levels. Pepe hitting prices we haven't seen since the early days of its launch and Doge also retracing after that Elon pump. So needless to say, there is a lot of opportunities out there. But now's the time to refine your watch list. Now's the time to pay attention. Because if we do get a bleed from altcoins, you want to make sure you have a plan to accumulate these also potentially generational prices. And I get excited about the opportunity of getting some of these entries because I know what's going to happen next cycle. And we've seen this time and time again, where when people start to get despondent when they lose hope, when they think there's never going to be another cycle. That's when they get surprised. And yes, we don't know exactly when it's going to be. We don't know if it's going to line up exactly with last cycle. We don't know when but we know that if you have conviction, and you stick around and you invest in quality, you're putting yourself in a much better position to benefit next cycle. And I'm really excited about the opportunities that we're going to get potentially over the next few months to accumulate and maybe even into Q1 next year, things are delayed a little bit because you can never predict exactly when the market's going to run. But you can start positioning. And to be honest, if we've got six months of accumulation here, I wouldn't be too mad because that's six months longer that we get to stack. But we could see an acceleration over the next couple months. And for that reason, I would really keep my eye on the charts that I showed you today. Bitcoin dominance, but more importantly, that ETH BTC chart, please, please, please chart it. And I'll, of course, give you updates on that chart on the show, because that's going to tell us when we want to go heavier into alts. I'm starting to scale into narratives I believe in, but I'm not going too heavy yet until we get the alts bleeding a little bit more, then I'm going to go more aggressive. But I'm just waiting for that really red day in the market. And then I'll start to position. But of course, I stick to my normal DCA plan and I've already started accumulating some quality coins and starting to stack up a little bit. But yeah, still have a lot of stables ready to deploy. So that is my update. Hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did, let me know in the comments below that you enjoyed it. Smash the like button and I will see you tomorrow. Peace out.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 08/17/23
"Bread aisle, are you ready to rock? Dave's Killer Bread is the country's number one organic bread for a reason. Always delivering killer taste, killer texture, and killer nutrition. This isn't bread. This is bread amplified. You've got the right stuff, baby, you're the reason why I sing this song. We got the right stuff, Mike. All that I needed was you girl, oh girl. We got the right stuff, baby. We got the right stuff, and I don't know why, every time we have a boy band birthday, it just sends me into that genre. New kids, right there, so who might it be, let's spin the big new kids wheel. It's Donnie Wahlberg. Donnie Wahlberg is 54. Have you ever seen an episode of Blue Bloods with Tom Selleck? Nope. I haven't either, because I just don't do network television hardly at all, but everybody just loves this thing. It's filled with values and just a good pro police thing in these. What's that got to do with boy band birthdays? Donnie Wahlberg, like his brother Mark, is these days quite the actor of consequence. Oh. He's Danny Reagan in Blue Bloods. Oh, Blue Bloods, okay. There you go. Well, happy birthday. Some would argue, why do we ever acknowledge boy band birthdays, but that wouldn't be me. I don't know. I don't think it's in either of our wheel houses. I mean, please, it's a 25 -year -old record. I don't know. It's just fun. And boy, did we have some fun yesterday. Congratulations on the two of us giving each other a lot of content yesterday. That's the secret. That's why we do this. Sure, we enjoy each other's company, but we know that it lights a fire under our own actual shows, and I'm totally kidding, even though it completely does do that. I really liked the passionate responses that we were getting for either people who agree with me that Republican candidates should unify and support President Trump. By doing what? By supporting Trump. I don't care how they do it. By doing what? By supporting Trump. What? There's no difference a day makes, 24 little hours. Yesterday you called on everybody else to suspend their campaigns, and to do otherwise is to fail to unify by Trump. That goes with supporting Trump. Of course. Okay, don't leave that out. There's no difference a day makes. Let me tell you, I've been thinking a lot about this. You don't want to see our birch gold survey at MikeOnline .com, which asks, do you agree with Mike that in light of the egregious act of these criminal indictments at the 11th they suspend their campaigns and support Trump, you don't want to see the results of that poll. I'm glad. What, 90 -10? What is it? I don't know. Now, does that say anything to you, Mark? Yes, it says that everybody who's all torqued off like you are, and like I am, by the way, the only difference between us is I want actual voters to weigh in, and we don't need to do another 15 minutes on this. No, we shouldn't. At about 8 .40 yesterday, I stumbled across something, and I think it'll make you feel better because we all have the same goal of having a kind of a universal moment of clarity that Trump is being horribly mistreated and hosed by the system.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The God Who Keeps His Promises
"Welcome to the podcast of first presbyterian church of gulfport, mississippi to learn more about our church our beliefs And our pastor, please visit fpcgulfport .org Throughout the old testament god made a series of incredible promises Promises that defied his people's expectations And in his time he fulfilled every last one of them in today's study of first kings 8 We'll consider the god who always keeps his promises Including those that he's made to you and I You know one of the very lowest or worst times for god's people Occurred back in the book of numbers is in the wilderness god's people were in the wilderness now Why were they in the wilderness? Well, they're in the wilderness because that's where they chose to be You see if you remember the story god had told them I have made you i've created i've set aside for you a promised land It's yours go for it And so they sent in spies to check it out to see what it was like to see if they indeed could take it However, when the spies reported back the majority of the spies said no way They said the land is great. No problems there. The land is great the problem is There are giants there. The problem is we're just a bunch of people in the wilderness They've got cities like jericho with walls that are high. They've got armaments. They've got soldiers who stand one and a half times above us God may have told us to go there, but we can't because we'll die And so they spent their time in the wilderness. And in fact a whole generation died out Of that level of distrust or lack of confidence what god told them to do So they're wandering in the wilderness. That's what made the book of numbers so sad They're in a place No one wants to go doing things that they shouldn't be doing and they do it for a whole Generation and they did it based on fear They did it on the basis of that. We just can't do what god has told us to do We know god is strong. I mean, of course, he's strong. Look what he did to pharaoh. He brought all those plagues 10 of them and yet And yet he won't do that for us. I mean he did it back then but You know that was then this is now They had enough faith to remember moses. They had enough corporate honesty to know what happened In their recent past and yet they didn't have enough faith to think that what god did in the past had any bearing on What he would do in the future god says go into the land. They say no We'll die despite the fact That one generation earlier god had literally swapped the armies of pharaoh under the red sea that god had brought down all these plagues If you're god, you're thinking to yourself, you know, I think i've made a pretty good case for myself Am I willingness to protect you? What are you doing? But the people were were fearful They're anxious God had made them a promise They just doubted his ability to come through on it Is that where you're at matters of faith a whole generation of israelites That's where they were at They had enough faith to believe god was there Do you believe god's there I hope so The problem was not that they didn't believe he was there And their problem was not that they didn't believe he'd done some really cool things a long time ago. The problem was They didn't think they would come through for them in this particular instance. No matter what he had said. They knew he'd promised They just doubted the reliability of that promise and for some of us That's our concern We don't doubt god exists. We know he's there Sometimes we doubt whether he loves us enough to count us in that promise And other times we just doubt whether he's actually going to do the very things that he said that he was going to do Well today's text we're seeing psalm is stopping the presses. He's taking the people by the lapel He's shaking him and saying dear heavens. Do you see what god has done? Not a word failed Of what he said not a word not a syllable has failed what he said he would do And he made some of the most amazing promises You could possibly make to people who are in no position to believe that they'd ever be received He told abram old abram and old sarah that they'd have a not just a kid But a progeny the more numerous than the stars in the sky It was a promise seemed unbelievable to fulfill and he fulfilled it to a t He's done everything that he would say he would do and the reason that was important for them And the reason that's important to us is because he's made you a promise, too He's made you a promise about your future And the question is can he come through will he come through In today's text psalm wanted to encourage his people and god wants to encourage us that the answer is yes Let's look at the first couple verses. Let's start with verse 54. Then. Let's work our way through the balance verse 54 And so it was when solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the lord That he rose up from before the altar of the lord from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up To heaven All right. Let's stop there in the verses immediately preceding today's passage The temple was done it had taken a while But the temple is now done and king solomon if you read earlier in chapter eight, he had prayed a lengthy prayer That's okay. He had a lot to say so he praised this lengthy prayer and during this prayer. He'd recounted god's faithfulness Sometimes that's okay, too We pray to god and we thank god and we remind god of what he already knows the things that he's done And by virtue of us reminding him of what he already knows we remind ourselves of what we need to hold on to going forward So he prayed this lengthy prayer and then he rises up and stands but as he stands he swivels And he looks out a bunch of folks whose faith was probably like a sine curve Ups and downs from person to person maybe from day to day maybe from hour to hour Solomon was looking at those who had doubts and anxieties not that different from those that many of us had He's also looking at some folks that he knew to be hard -headed You ever read moses experiences in deuteronomy ministering to god's people just hard -headed people David had had the same experience psalm and already as a young king. He had seen the same thing the people are hard -headed They not only tended to reject a lot of things that the prophets and leaders said But they also tended to reject what god had said, but god had still been faithful That was part of his prayer. Thank you god You've been so faithful we've been such such goofs we've done all the things we shouldn't do we've really messed up But you've never let us down You fulfilled everything to a t meanwhile. We're just staggering around the wilderness Even as they'd come into the promised land It's still their faith was like a sine curve and psalm praises says god. Thank you that you don't operate the way that we do Thank you that your promises are reliable So in verse 54, he wraps up this prayer and now again as he swiveled to talk to the people He wants to both encourage them and to challenge them. Let's see what he says in verses 55 and 56 Verse 55 then he stood and he blessed all the assembly of israel with a loud voice sang Blessed be the lord who has given rest to his people israel according to all that he has promised There's not failed one word of all his good promise which he promised through his servant moses If someone were to make you a promise What's the first thing your brain does? So it makes you a promise. What's the first thing you do? Well, here's the first thing I do You think through and you say well what other promises have you made in the past? Because I think i'm going to adjudicate Your ability and willingness to come through on this particular issue On the basis of whether you came through on other issues If someone makes you a promise you immediately you can't help it you think of the track record You think is this a reliable source? Of information promises and the like we consider a new promise in light of what has been done with the old ones Well in verses 55 and 56 Solomon says look there are still better promises yet ahead if you think that this promised land is cool Just wait till you see what is yet to come there's better promises of a better land. There's a better moses coming down the road There's all sorts of stuff in the future that we have to hold on to By faith and in order to believe those promises of that outcome you need to look back and ask Did god come through and what he already said he would do and in verses 55 and 56 he says yes He says look god said some amazing stuff in the past And he delivered he delivered on things that seemed impossible for him to fulfill and so with a loud voice in verse 55 He basically tells the people he says You are the most fortunate of all people because your god Unlike the gods of the philistines and the canadites and the moabites and the amorites and the hitites and the jebusites and every other Ite he says unlike them your god has an unbroken track record Unlike the pagan prophecies and pagan gods of stone and marble and wood That have failed consistently habitually That have let down the very people who have bent the knee to them unlike those people You have a god who came through on every last thing he told you he would Blessed be you and blessed be the name of the lord And he wanted them to remember some of the things that god had done in fact, that's healthy. That's why we read the book That's why we study the old testament And the new as we understand we remember what god has done and how that applies to us We think about the things he did how amazing they were and if he did those amazing things Maybe yet there'll be a resurrection from the dead. Maybe yet We'll all go to heaven. Maybe yet all the things for the future will be fulfilled if he's done all these things in the past You know, as we said some of the things that god promised Defied expectations and the belief of everyone who heard them at the outset I already mentioned abraham and sarah You take the old couple tell them that they're going to have a child and they've been barren all these years and where time has passed Sarah's reaction. I was just to laugh it seemed utterly implausible God made them a promise that seemed utterly implausible and yet he he came through Psalm looked out and saw the descendants He saw the fulfillment of this one promise Think even further back think of noah god promised to this one guy this one Paragon of virtue and just a sea of apostasy and unrighteousness he says it's going to rain But you're going to make it because you're going to build a boat However, it's not going to be just any boat You're going to build a boat big enough to fit all the creatures within the creative realm within it now dear heavens If there is a promise that just defies expectation and belief that it could ever be fulfilled. This is it Of course noah trusted god and went about building a boat in god's time It was filled with animals and god's time the rain came God made a promise that defied expectation then then he fulfilled it Just after the time of when they entered the promised land they came up to the city that god's people You know, they crossed the jordan they come in. All right, so we're in the promised land. Uh -oh. Uh -oh What's that big city with a big wall just right over there? Oh my stars. We made it across the jordan We're in the promised land, but now surely we're gonna die God says no, I promised you got this you got this I got this i'll take you through this And they're like, well how we don't have any weaponry We barely made it across the jordan. We've been in the wilderness. We don't look at that wall And god says hey and rolls up his sleeves. So this is proverbial sleeve so to speak and says tell you what Just march around the city playing the instruments in the light Do that. Sometimes the wall is going to come down who would believe that? Well, they did And god responded God made a promise and god delivered Back in deuteronomy 12 god had said this he says when you cross over the jordan and dwell in the land Which lord your god's giving you to inherit and he gives you rest from all your enemies all around so that you dwell in safely Then there will be the place with lord God your god chooses to make his name abide in deuteronomy 12 written during the time of moses long time before solomon God says this is going to be a future you're going to have a place and there's going to be a temple and in that temple My name will abide well again Psalms looking out at people who had anxieties about what would god do in the future and he says, please Look what he did in the past Please if you have anxiety about what the future holds if you have trouble believing Aspects of what the future the promised future to the church as a whole or use an individual, please Look at what he did in the past and see how he came through and understand. Nothing's impossible In fact god honestly a hundred percent delights in doing things you don't expect in ways that you wouldn't expect That's just the way he operates So he says here just hear the promises evaluate the promises against promises of old and understand That there is a track record that you can turn to whenever doubts strike whenever these concerns come to mind So in verses 55 and 56, this is what he's saying and he goes even further than that He says not only has god fulfilled all his promises, but not a word of them has failed It's not like he did everything in the abstract that yeah, he delivered, you know largely what he said he was going to do You're at a contractor If a contractor is going to build a house or you know Put up a shed or doing a number of different things and they go out They start to work on the thing and so forth and then when you're done you look and you say well He did largely what he said he was going to do. I mean, I don't love everything It's not all perfect, but it largely honored what he said That's the way most contracts with most individuals and everything work largely they're fulfilled Solomon says the contract the covenant the promises that god has made. It's not just that he fulfilled them largely He fulfilled them to the letter not a word had failed of all the impossible things That god told his people to expect unbroken track record. Let's look at verses 57 through 60 verse 57 And so may the lord our god Be with us as he was with our fathers May the lord god who did all that stuff long time ago to people that generations earlier May he do to us as he is done with them May he not leave us nor forsake us that he may incline our hearts to himself to walk in his ways to keep his commandments And statutes and judgments that he commanded to our fathers and made these words of mine with which i've made supplication before the lord Be near the lord our god day and night that he may maintain the cause of a servant and the cause of his people israel As each day may require god is the god of every day of your life Not just god of this whole thing or god of when you're finally saved and on the other side. He's god now Whatever you're doing today this week He is the god of this day verse 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that there is a lord That the lord is god and there is no other All right. Let me ask you a different question. I asked one earlier. Let me ask you something different Have you ever had someone that you've loved or trusted? Leave you Have you ever had someone that you've loved or trusted leave you volitionally Have you had someone that you've loved or trusted walk away from you or reject you Neglect you although you needed them There's few heartaches for those who can relate to that There's few heartaches as great as being left by those that we love It can be just heart -rending to have someone's presence in your life there for a season and then in a different season in your Life when you desperately need them They're not there If you've experienced that You may find that even months or years later that the hole hasn't gone away It still hurts With that said notice what solomon said in verses 57 through 60 He said may the lord our god Be with us as with our fathers. May he not leave us or ever forsake us You know the gods of the pagans disappeared at times They went off and did their own thing, which is why elijah mocked bale and the others perhaps your god is sleepy We need to wake him up is what he told on mount karma what he told the prophets of bale The pagans had gods that could go away for a season the greek same deal That gods would be busy up on mount olympus, maybe they'd care for you one day maybe they wouldn't But here solomon tells his people and god tells us That he's with us just as he was with our fathers just as he was with moses Whether you're here your name is bob or stew or frank or fran God's with you. God's with you every bit as much as he was with moses That's an encouraging thought because We don't feel like moses most of the time But his presence is with us his presence is with our church And so solomon says, you know if we understand that and we cleave to him our future is bright It's so bright because the right man is on our side the man king. Jesus The right man is on our side, you know, even if the whole world should turn against you Which given enough time it might Even the whole world should turn against you. God won't even if every other promise is broken If even if every loyal friend breaks ranks with you in the time that they come god won't And when you're hurting in that midnight hour when you feel all alone, he says i'm with you And we got this together I'm with you and we got this. All right, let's look at our last verse verse 61 our last verse So now he's encouraging the people about how to respond to these promises and god's presence and the like verse 61 He tells the people and you can imagine his hands that he says it he says let your heart therefore Be loyal to lord our god Let your heart therefore be loyal to lord our god to walk in his statutes and keep his commandments as it is this day This is a benediction of sorts it's a blessing It's also an exhortation And in this exhortation king solomon tells people what he told them previously He says if we believe all this to be true if we believe there is a god in heaven if we believe that he loves us If we believe he's told us how to live Then the evidence of that belief is not simply what we profess with our mouth the israelis profess things all the time That wasn't their problem It's what they did with it how they acted how they responded Remember, we've talked about the difference between orthodoxy and orthopraxy orthodoxy is the easy part orthodoxy is just accepting propositional theological truth And saying amen. Amen what's harder is going out those doors and acting accordingly So solomon he puts his hands out and says hey Aaa Be careful to be loyal to our god and to keep his statutes his laws and his judgments Let me ask you do you remember you remember what your first car was? I got in trouble. I talked about cars recently What was it pinto? Was that what it was something like that? I got in trouble I called out a car and someone said that was my car. So i'm not gonna do that I'll call out my first car. My first car was a brown mazda b2000 pickup Man alive they were a lot smaller and they're making pickups these days pickups these days or something else You know, I had this little thing going down the road and like so I had this mazda b2000 pickup now I did love the car. It was my first car So of course, I loved it and I waxed it and polished it and shined it and like at first Then I went to college and still had the car and I had other priorities or other things that interested me other pursuits for my time and suddenly it wasn't even just a lack of washing the car Other things like I don't know oil changes just things that you just should do, you know, the common sense stuff I was like nah this This car hasn't let me down before right? I mean, I didn't give it an oil change in the last month So it probably doesn't need this one month. Well kick that forward a while. What happens i'll tell you what happens It ends up with me on i -5 north of eugene oregon on the side of the road having Say flipped a rod. I'm those you know cars better. I don't know what happened bruised a rod broke a rod Whatever there was a rod involved and it stopped working And so the car stopped working and it never drove again. That was it I kissed a goodbye it went on a tow truck and it was and it was gone We tend to prioritize the things that are important to us It's easy to ascend to propositional truth when it's right in front of us the people there at that time With the new temple and the hurrahs and you know the celebrations and the dinner on the grounds They were having back in this day. The people were excited. It wasn't hard to get them excited It wasn't hard for them to get amen and all that the hard part was in nurturing and caring For that which god entrusted to them down the road and for prioritizing the same things through their actions that they prioritize with their lips Right here and the sad thing was that they wouldn't When I say this is the high point of israel's history up to this point i've been it What does that imply? It implies that things got worse Which they did God made a promise I got you I got you in your future And they had made promises to the differences. They didn't keep theirs And so they backslid in the most egregious of ways to the point to the sad point as we studied in our review of ezekiel Last year whenever it was To the sad point that the same god who came to dwell in this temple in first kings chapter 8 would leave it and ezekiel 10 He would depart the temple leave it as ikabat empty of his glory There's things that have been trusted to matters of faith if you're a parent if you're a father There's things that have been entrusted to you to look out after your loved ones to nurture their faith To take care of their faith to take care of your own faith so that it doesn't get broken down on the side of the road When life circumstances throw you a curveball, which is inevitable There's bins in the road. You can't see coming So The way that we grow and sustain our faith is by immersing ourselves in the faith by doing what god has Said all right before we wrap up or in closing here I want you to notice at the very end of verse 61 He says something interesting and at first when I looked at this text a few years ago I missed it, but I don't want to miss it today verse 61 He said let your heart therefore be loyal to the lord our god to walk in the statutes and keep his commandments And then he adds these four words as at this day Solomon knew the people's history He wanted them to have that particular day emblazoned on their mind to do that Which they had promised to do that day in the time yet to come and yet As we said just a moment ago They wouldn't Roughly 400 years later after this text That day would be a distant memory and they would have forgotten it 400 years later there would be no more cheering There would only be what we call lamentation There would only be disaster Roughly 400 years later as we said before god's glory would depart the babylonians would show up. That's a bad trade They gave up the glory of god. They received the babylonians Ezekiel 10 says this the glory lord departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim and the cherubim mounted up from the earth in his sight Same temple look Can that happen to a church to a denomination a nation? Yes, yes, and yes It can happen if we don't keep the first things first It can happen if we don't prioritize that which we're called to prioritize It can happen if we stop trusting god and start trusting ourselves It can happen if we ignore what god has said in his word And start coming up with our own precepts and following the wills and wants of our own hearts In this passage that we've read today Solomon god through psalm is reminding the people that hey, there's some intentionality i've made you a promise and yet and yet There is a degree of intentionality on your part That your future is going to be heavily predicated upon. What will it be? What will it be are you going to be zealous to do the very things that you promised me on First kings 8 that you promised you say you're going to do you say amen. Amen. Are you going to do that? You won't if you're not intentional about it and in time In time the temple might be empty and in time churches or denominations can follow suit and if you don't think that's possible Go to europe Go to new england Just see places that once not that long ago resonated that once With at least a cultural religiosity And all likelihood of something far stronger now be turned to just empty husks of what they once were If it could happen in israel if it could happen in europe if it happened to england it could happen in the bible belt Our responsibility Is to cling to that which god has delivered us once for all through the saints And to champion no matter what the world tells us no matter what's going on in the culture around us Let the culture go to the wind This is what we're called to adhere to and salman put it before the people in an old testament context Said do this and live The same is true for us Let's pray Join, dr. Toby holt and dr.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from All GOP Presidential Candidates Should Suspend Their Campaigns And Support Trump
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. This is your source for breaking news and what to make of it all. This is The Mike Gallagher Show. Even when everything you say makes sense except it's all bullshit. It's all non -stop. We know this is designed to banish and isolate and to destroy a political outsider. That's the funny thing about this Democrat party. It does hate America. It's hated America since its founding. Voters decide who our presidents are. Not district attorneys, not big donors, not anchors, not pundits, not lawyers. Voters decide. Now from the relieffactor .com studios, here's Mike Gallagher. The voters get to decide. And the voters are going to decide. I'm convinced of that. If not, my country is gone. Welcome aboard. It's Wednesday. I was reading this morning about the Fulton County Sheriff's Department and how the sheriff says, oh, they're all going to get booked and processed. Trump and the 18 other indicted co -conspiracers. There's going to be this three -ring circus next week, a week from Friday, where President Trump and Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell and all the rest of them are going to get booked and processed like common criminals at the Fulton County Jail. There's one goal there. You know what it is. It's to embarrass. It's to intimidate. It is to attack a guy that more than half the country loves. And every attempt to embarrass him is going to result in his popularity increasing. Every effort to embarrass him is going to result in greater popularity for President Trump. I had a No Interruptions podcast that dropped this morning. Wherever you get your podcasts, I hope you subscribe to The Mike Gallagher Show No Interruptions podcast. It's really special because we present two points of view without any interrupting. You know, there's a lot of interrupting with Mark Davis this morning. You'll hear it today, the Eminem experience. Mark and I disagreed mightily about my belief that if Ron DeSantis and all the other Republican candidates would simply throw their support behind Trump right now, drastic times call for drastic measures. Jack Smith and Fannie Willis and all the rest of them, Biden's Justice Department, Merrick Garland, they want to destroy your ability to elect the next president of the United States. They're what an amazing, inspirational move it would be if Governor DeSantis said, you know what, I'll try again in twenty twenty eight. But right now I'm all in for Trump. I can't believe they've weaponized the Justice Department this way. It cannot stand. It will not stand. I'm in for Trump. And first of all, DeSantis becomes the single most popular politician in the history of America. His twenty twenty eight landslide would be guaranteed. Second of all, Trump's election in twenty twenty four would almost certainly be guaranteed. These Republicans could unify and have the opportunity to turn this whole thing around just like that. Now, it's not going to happen. I'm sure I'm delusional, perhaps. But man, oh, man, what a game changer that would be. And Mark Davis, boy, he went off on me. He just thinks I'm crazy, delusional. I don't want to let voters vote. I'm Hugo Chavez. I'm Venezuela. He kept arguing with me today that I'm trying to take away the right to vote. I said, Mark, that's precisely what Biden's Justice Department is trying to do. Don't you get it? And for Mark and people who feel the way Mark feels, it's just business as usual. Let's let it all play out. Let's have the primaries. Let's have the debates. Oh, next week. OK, let's get our popcorn out. There'll be a lot of drama, but that's OK. It'll all sort itself out. It's not going to sort itself out. People are going to have to stand up and and do things they would have never considered doing before. And I believe that would include Republicans unifying behind Trump. It could be a pipe dream, but then again, hey, it's 2023. Anything is possible. So back to this no interruptions podcast, a back and forth. This week's no interruptions podcast was between Caroline Wren, who's the former finance adviser for Trump, his Trump Victory Finance Committee. She's also been working with Carrie Lake and David Carlucci, who's a Democrat strategist and a former Democrat New York state senator. And we debated election integrity. Caroline said something and there's no interruptions. First of all, make sure you check out this podcast. Again, subscribe to The Mike Gallagher Show, no interruptions podcast wherever you get your podcast. You're going to want to hear this one. 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"Go from a relative sense now but like what if facebook acquires twitter. What if and so the i back to your earlier. Point like yeah. I don't think amazon's should be this big for like a whole host of reasons. And i don't think facebook should have been able to acquire instagram and like we have these antitrust laws. We don't use them because we go. Oh well somebody's being responsible for the moment. Yeah but like what happens when they get a new leadership and it's also there's also a cultural component to all of this that you know like there's a point in our history where we may have said something like there's no alternative to my space you know like people went around saying that and they're obviously were alternatives for my space and just the cultural moment moved away from my space and i feel like the cultural moment ease shifting away from facebook initial delete. Facebook thing came around a bunch of my friends. Just did it. They just delete a facebook. I mean facebook for some quarters of the american population is just like a non entity you know a wonder if cultural pressure on just regular people can force it to become less used less popular. Can we get the ants of america to use a platform. You know what i mean. I'm looking at you to my aunt. But britain into your point like the cultural shift is really a generational shift which is why it's dangerous. That facebook acquires instagram. Right right and and and so you know because then you have the same leadership potentially making the same decisions either question. I'm often wondering what has facebook innovated on. Since the core idea that zuckerberg potentially took from somebody else right at the beginning like what. What really have they done you know they were able to. I don't wanna like sidestepped. The fact that it definitely took some vision and insight and talent to to grow that company in the beginning and when they did acquire instagram. A lot of people thought they overpaid for it and it was crazy and all that. But you don't monopoly are anti monopoly. Laws aren't just about like the question of what happened at the point of acquisition but what happened subsequent to that and it's really hard to avoid these platforms. If you want to communicate with your relatives your friends are you. Want to grow your business. Etc and objectively as they have been under more and more scrutiny publicly paid more and more fines their revenues have grown well beyond the point where these fines even make a difference to them to the point. Now where they're worth over a trillion dollars. They continue to grow as a company and so they they seem immune to consequences unless the consequence is you no longer exists in the form that you're like there's almost no fine or other consequences that they would even take seriously at this point which they have armies of lobbyists in dc fighting every potential regulation against them. Yeah i just don't understand how we had a big lawsuit to say. Microsoft is not allowed to sell windows with netscape already in it but facebook can buy everything else. It doesn't make any sense to me. It doesn't make any sense for just not we're just not we have laws in place like you're saying we have laws in place and we're just not it's sort of like how we we do have taxes in place for wealthy people. They somehow are able to skirt them right. We just don't collect so. This is another one of those examples of like we have antitrust laws where why aren't we Enforcing them well. Let's talk about another fund subject. Let's bring it back to tucker carlson. I saw tucker. Carlson has been using his platform as show to basically encourage the forging of vaccine cards by a fake. Vaccination card is not a quote serious crime. It's not even close to a serious crime. Buying a fake vaccination card is an act of desperation by decent law abiding americans who have been forced into a corner by tyrants. I just wanted to bring this to the two of you because this is fox news. Tucker carlson this is the law and order crowd and i. I know this isn't the first or and it won't be the last instance if chrissy here. But no is this notable that we have The people who get up in arms over you know. They play every clip of like somebody going into a dwayne reed and san francisco and stealing goods and walking out or whatever and that they they make those viral flash points at the same time are encouraging people to break the law and lie about the fact that they are more likely to transmit a deadly disease. I mean like in my wrong to be a little appalled by this a lot also. It's totally appalling. But it's also a weird it's like are. Are you proud of your position of not having a vaccine or you're not proud like us vaccinated in terms of like what he's saying is his listeners. It's like i thought the whole point was that they're proud that they're not part of it is that they're not vaccine. They're proud that they're upholding their whatever it is about the vaccine against i mean so it's like then telling them but then lie to everybody. Pretend like you are back seen. It's like well no. Do you believe in your convictions or do you. Not i don't understand. And and are you the party of like strengthen your convictions. Which i feel like they often talk about or are you not. It's like it's weird to tell people to lie about a up deeply held belief. Yeah i totally agree. That's what confused me about. It was like the. You don't understand civil disobedience like this you know i mean this is this is like if instead of you know. Refused to sign up for the draft during the vietnam war. It was like pretend you already did a tour in vietnam. It doesn't make any sense. it really doesn't. They need to read a henry david. Thoreau just one more time as we have already once just another time. Yeah well. I'm curious what else tulsa and thinks is appropriate to do out of desperation. So if you're a parent for instance you lies about your address to send your kid to the fancy suburban school and the district next to where you live. Is that acceptable. If you're someone who doesn't have money and you go into a local grocery store and steal groceries. Is that acceptable to. I'll welcome him to that resistance crossing crossing the border. Yeah right right right. It's a slippery slope tucker carlson Watch out what. you're what you're suggesting..
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"Very possible at this is preventing deaths. Come out matters of life or death. We need to be precise. And once again. I wanna say that i. There is a valid critique of people who take this and don't get vaccinated but i would just focus on the not getting vaccinated part of that like forget about this yes the people who are running out to livestock shops and taking the horse version of this. That's tough like that's bad. We said it's like it's tough to steph to keep a straight face when you hear but that is their problem. That is not like you'd need to ask yourself wire upset about that. Are you really worried about that. Person's how do you know that person going at horse place. You know. I was reading about this. Las vegas feed shop. That actually is requiring people to show a picture of their horse but like really. If you're getting worked up over that you need to ask yourself. Are you worried about that person's health or you just looking to have fun. And i'm seeing people like and this is a very common thing among people we really like including some guests to this podcast. Who only talk about this. As a or st warmer and that to me is not honest because that doesn't get at the vast majority of people taking us which be honest. The problem is when we talk about this instead of just talking about the need for people to get the vaccine. It's not because we're having fun. It's because we're feeling superior and that's the problem that is that's where we heard credibility and making the argument. Well there are other issues here that are percolating throughout society. one. I'm the i hear everywhere. I see it on my instagram. I see it on my facebook. Actually hear it in real life. Is this idea that people who are vaccinated are getting coded at the same rate as everybody else. L. teams most successful wide receivers tweets this on a daily basis. And i just wanna go through the data here in this surgical so The case rate for full fully vaccinated people at sixty six her one hundred thousand people case rate for unvaccinated people's two hundred forty three hundred thousand people. So that's four times. Plus amount of people getting cova were unvaccinated and people were vaccinated or fourteen not four but fourteen times less likely to be hospitalized way less likely to die and there was a study published in lancet which is one of the most respected medical journals in the world. That just came out a couple of days ago. I think it was september. First that said that not only is there. A decreased risk of infection and severe symptoms if you get vaccinated but there is a forty nine percent lower risk of what they call long cove. Which is the months or longer version of kobe. Where you get brain fog. Her taste of smell hair loss numbness for many months. I know some people who've gotten covert at the beginning of covert and you're still experiencing symptoms so basically across the board getting vaccinated is an unambiguous. The now to me is like when somebody says this to you. People with you know people still get cova when the vaccinated. It's like well. Yes you can still get in a car accident if you are completely sober and have your seatbelt on but the result is way different. And it's far less likely to happen so maybe just drive sober and wear your seatbelt amen. To that we haven't done this in a while. L. let's do a little quarantine slash..
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"Not too long ago to spend a whole podcast with two of friends to talk about this but this wall to give you some background pass and may but it went into effect last week when the supreme court declined to stop the law. Which i'll get you in a second on. The law essentially says at any pregnancy in which heartbeat is detected cannot be boarded Effectively means that nobody can happen. Past six weeks The really strange and and and terrible thing about this law Is that it incentivizes. The public sue police abortions and allows anyone living in the state of texas who is not a government official to sue an abortion provider. Or anyone else they suspect at aiding and abetting abortions and gives a ten thousand dollar word for that that is really important for a few reasons. Most important be it was crafted to prevent this live from being reviewable by the courts and this is not obvious. Let me explain this or folks. You didn't go to law school or for those who did and might have forgotten a few things that could have been me. I can't figure out why they can't start your to tell me well. Here's what happens when a state passes a law. There's this issue that you you're probably familiar with called standing right like if you want to challenge that allow you have to have standing. And in order to have standing child's estate wa usually you. You can't sue the state itself because there's this concept called sovereign immunity where the state is immune to suit spot. You can sue There's this case from nineteen o eight. That says you can sue an officer of the state who's carrying out the law. So they crafted this law and actually explicitly carve-out. It says any person other than an officer of the state blah sets can enforces law. Very specific language. Essentially saying ordinary citizens can carry out this law but not state officials which means you don't know who suit And that's when the supreme court five four said they're gonna let the law stand. They did say that there had serious questions about the constitutionality of this but were unsure of how to stop it. so essentially. what's happening is. There's nobody is sue right now. Maybe would there. It's actually more complicated an but there's nobody to sue depending on how you look at the law now my sense. Is there too big orcs in the road here. Number one is if this law is actually implemented by any citizen suing another citizen that will trigger litigation and matt's where the constitutional challenges will come from obviously this law being an effect already deterring people from seeking the care that they need which is a huge problem. But it won't be until this law laws actually enforce that people can challenge this particular law. There is an exception to that. We'll talk about that later. The second thing is that there's there is another case in the supreme court about mississippi law. That says you can't get an abortion after fifteen weeks at actually is on the docket or a this fall. Which will at least give us a sense of where the supreme court is heading all is to say. This is a particularly sinister law. There are other states. That are gonna try to copy this. My sense is that this is absurd. And that if if the supreme court allows this particular mechanisms stan than liberals should mimic it on issues that we care about so for example near surpass law. Says there's ten thousand dollar bounty on anyone. And i mean bounty not like in the way that most people interpreted but i mean in this sense for anybody who owns a gun. Why don't we do that. Then start carving out constitutional laws. At know we think will withstand judicial scrutiny. Needs for being really similar right because just like you have sovereign immunity as As a government we have through our stupid legislation. Basically given the equivalent of sovereign immunity just immunity to the gun manufacturers. So it's very similar now. Well it's just another case of republicans playing chess while we play checkers and this comes as brier has declined seems to retire. I mean we've gotta get our should together here. It always seemed. I don't wanna be negative. This is not awful but it always seems like the republicans are the ones coming up with these insane crazy mechanisms to push their world view on the majority of people who disagree with them whereas we have the majority with us and we seem to be honoring like all these things like the filibuster and etc that a no in like this sense that there's a de politicized supreme court so briar doesn't wanna step down during a democratic administration molly southie and it just seems like we're playing one game. They're playing yellow two bullets. Let's when we say we let's be fair. We are not frankly like even in washington. I think this is true. Our generation of democrats are not. It's you know. It is generally cast as like progressives and moderates but let's be real like it's like generational even know biden is largely. Come around but he was a perfect example of somebody who had been in these institutions for so long and it was really hard for him to come around to the idea that no that ain't gonna work anymore but like you know brier mansion the folks who are approaching things this way are just people who not unlike the conversation. We had a few minutes ago about how we thought nine. Eleven was going to change everything. It's taken us time to adjust to the idea of how polarized everything is after nine eleven. It's taken them way more. Because they had all these years of republicans and democrats clocking out and then go in and get drinks together. At hawkins there was a dance in the in the federal court which. That's one of the most conservative. I think the most conservative circuit in the country. I'm not gonna bore our listeners with the procedure around this but if you go down the rabbit hole. I went down looking at the way. This case has made its way through the system. I've never been a believer. That courts.
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"Right. Well jason four this week and misinformation wanna keep it light. Let's let's poke some fun at some ohio politicians and i and i love the great state of ohio. I was conceived in that state. Which is something. My mom hates it. When i say the ohio is instructive. It's instructor for a few reasons number one. It's a state that democrats used to win and we've been finding it harder to win over the past few cycles And it's also a state where there was this particular kind of republican like the mike dewine type pro business. Yada yada yada journalism. Yeah casick kinda moderate right and now We have a new kind of politician. We have politicians like jd. Vanson josh mandel. Who are they themselves. Were the old brand. Before which i'm sure you have some thoughts about like people who were position themselves as moderates. Jd events had previously site in two thousand sixteen that he couldn't stomach trump in an interview to terry gross and now tacking extremely hard right And sucking up to trump. I know that you have some evidence of josh mandel. The state treasurer doing the same. The same is true. Also the state. Gop chair jane timken who you know like a good a good case study of this is is this guy Representative anthony gonzalez. Who was an ohio state university receiver. He was an nfl first round draft pick but he you know committed the senate voting to impeach trump and in even in the weeks ahead after that vote to impeach trump. Jane timken that's state. Gop chair called him an effective legislator and a very good person racy praising him when she thought the Does this even just a few months ago. When she thought that the politics were good for that but then once she decided to jump into the race for senate. She's been denouncing him. And so i think this means something really. This is something is meaningful as a sort of bellwether for the. Gop's heading jason as somebody who ran in missouri. Which is a state that i think has become harder for democrats to win. What do you make of this and condemn crafts capitalize on this extreme turn to potentially win the state of the first thing that i think is really confusing about it. Is it's not as if that brand of republicans still doesn't still exist in the electorate there right so so my point is i think it's fascinating that you have this group of voters in this primary who you know i i would imagine are probably the majority of voters But they're not the entirety of those voters and that nobody in that race has the stones to be like. You know what. There's gonna be a lot of people in this race and i'm not gonna go compete for the voters everyone else's competing for i'm going to go compete for the voters who i think will be enough for me to actually win a primary that split several different directions and by the way that then puts me in a better position to win the general election. I think for instance about our friend. Spencer cox who we interviewed on the show who won a primary in utah running a guy who admitted like i didn't vote for trump and i'm not a fan of trump and he won the republican primary because he looked at it and he said One guy who's not gonna actually just say whatever he has to say to win. He actually believes in some things but he also recognized that there was a lane for that that it wasn't going to be the majority of those voters but it was going to be enough to win and i'm fascinated that nobody is doing that in this primary. Considering the fact that that's who most of these people actually seem to be like it's incredible to the extent that they maybe that's who they are or maybe that's what they thought. Everybody was looking for at one point in time. No you don't know right like that's one of the things i said this week. Is that actually. Jd vance is entirely consistent. He pandered to the you know like crowd who stood up to trump when he thought that was cool and now he literally apologizes for doing that when he thinks that's cool so he's very consistent in that he believes in nothing other than advancing. Jd vance so i guess in that way he's iraq But i my my point is that that i think is odd But then beyond that. Yeah i think it absolutely creates a Opportunity for democrats but not just because they're gonna the republicans are going to go in a direction. That's just all trump all the time and it's not just that it's that combined with the fact that democrats actually have a lot to brag about if we'll start bragging about it like there's always this thing in the party of people in states like mine who are democrats who get upset about you know some of the issues that are pushed by by afc and focus on the coast. And i always say to those folks. It's like look you. You should waste no time worrying about what other members of the party who are incentivized to talk about the issues. That are issues where they're from like trying to get them to talk only about things that are going to play better here. Don't do that instead. Make the mainstream conversation of the party doesn't have to be more moderate but just make it the stuff that wins here make it about dacoven. Relief packages make it about infrastructure. Make it about the stimulus. Make it about the child tax credit. Make it about the issues that really move voters in our state to the point. Where then they you know other people in the party can talk about those issues but they're ultimately come home to talk about the things we all agree on and the example of this is last year while there were all sorts of different issues out there that you could be picked up on by by the the further left folks. At the end of the day everybody came back to the same basic argument. Which was we got to elect joe biden and if we can consistently have a mainstream core message like that we can win but if you can do that in ohio combined with the primary forcing all of them to go hard hard right trump then you should win and you should win by fair march right when i think of these guys and gals i think about my experience often. I coach candidates. Right when i when i've been running arena and in a common experience i had before covert is somebody come into my office. And they'll say. I want to run for office but i'm worried about x. y. and z. And i'll say well look like the only way to run is to run in a way where you could look back and say you proud of dick. Statistically you're not likely to win you should. you should absolutely believe you're gonna win and you should like stridently. Move forward with confidence but you need to prepare for the possibility that you don't for one reason or another and you want to look back and say i'm proud of what i did. And i think about this field fielded candidates and only one of them is gonna make out of the primary and potentially none of them wins the whole election right which means that most of them are gonna go home with consolation. Prize in that constellation prize is going to be massive. Shame about the fact that they've thrown out at least in the case of events. And i guess mandel before but i think this is his third time running for senate or something like third year. So he's been through this exercise. I think before they're now going to like the the majority of these people in this race all but one or maybe even none are going to go home with a completely fraudulent record..
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"Not ending. thank joey. Jones has a question. All right right down here right here. This was actually sent to me by a friend while we're waiting outside. So there is a clip making the rounds on right wing social media of president and biden saying that citizens would need f. fifteens and nuclear weapons to take on the government and she was questioning it and the sense of shouldn't we be afraid about the size of government if this is the case and so i was just wondering how you would respond to questions about the size of government especially related to The second amendment and unrein's what was the thing it was is biden it was in the In the gun control speech about the new restriction or the with with But he said something. That's kind of a joke about how citizens would need at fifteen and nuclear weapons to take on the government. All right okay i see. Yeah i mean basically. He's trying to thank you for your question. He's basically going out that second amendment that we we need these arms because we got to stand up to the government. He's saying like fifteen nuclear weapons so he's just kind of undercutting that argument and then yeah. I think the response that the right takes to that as they say. Well isn't that messed up. you know. And then because they've tried to do this to me when i've made similar comments then they're like. Hey there's some people just come with this over and over. Remember that time that candor is like we should use tanks against our sentencing slowdown. It's not what i said. So i think if you're going to go down the road with people it's important to remember that like at the time that it was written that the second was written like it was muzzle-loaders and it wasn't as if the government had tanks right like i mean the concept of people standing up like it was an actual thing that could happen in fact it had just happened. Which is we're about to celebrate. July fourth happened and so to me. It's like you gotta just pushed aside by saying okay. We live in a really different world now and the reality is is that factually he is correct. Like factually. If you were going to overthrow the american government you would probably need more than what you have right. So i think just get everybody as best you can on the same factual basis and then like around here to be honest. If you're dealing with somebody. Who's like i have guns because i have to stand up to the government and like you know. Perhaps you persuade them but but what you can do around here is you can get real with them and be like work. I understand what you're saying but isn't it really just that you you like guns. That's what i do when people do that. I'm like because i'm pretty versed in guns. I can be like you know. I'll be honest. i like them too. You know. I don't. I don't like the idea of everybody having them. And i don't like the idea of everybody assault weapons and i'm against that stuff but like i'll shoot you know i'll go out and target you like a to me and i'm not saying everybody in here can connect that way but if somebody is persuadable and they're saying that the only reason they're persuadable is under the surface they really just like guns so let's like normal gun conversation instead of a conversation about the government using f. fifteens against him but he's getting at though that i find useful. Maybe not that particular person. But i'm trying to talk to people about the second amendment is that you know it's written was written before jason said all these arms exist and it says a right to bear arms and literally within the definition of arms or nuclear weapons and so i use that as a starting point in conversation of people to say i'm not gonna convince you about the meaning of well regulated militia and the second amendment right even though conservatives used to believe that was limiting even robert bork and richard nixon thought it was limiting and would be way to the left of the republican party today on these issues. But what i do say is somebody who's arguing for the right to bear arms as a pretty laissez faire pieces. The you think. I should have a nuclear weapon. Antifa protesters right should have nuclear weapons. No so then you think that we should be able to restrict the right to bear arms in some way because those are arms so everybody is interpreting this in light of today. And that's the difference between our philosophy on the supreme court and there's that's why finding such a useful example. Because really can you just pull out of your head. In example that can actually help frame. A conversation is usually like the amount of misinformation sanity. You have to have google out and be like all right. You said this. I'm going to write this down. I'll come back to you in a week. That's very pure example because nobody saying thinks that everybody should have nuclear weapons and at that point they open themselves up to the very thing you're doing which is you're calibrating. How many arms it and so that the points not about the constitution is about personal preference. We got four more. I one brooke roberts. Okay so i grew up in rural kansas and i went away to college in the east coast. Where are my friends still are and i. My question is more on the flipside. Instead of trying to convince my mom down in kansas why she should be progressive. Oftentimes my arguments are with my very liberal. Friends friends friends. I'm almost country there. My liberal friends are all very much about like middle america. You're the only good one brooke like. Let's just ignore them. Why waste our time and energy so my question is more. How do you respond to your very liberal friends. Who think this place is not worth our time. You go first because you live here and you. I'll send them background for those of you don't know as i grew up in staten island. Which is like it's like an interestingly representative more of a place like mississippi and it's politics than the rest of new york city. But i lived in nashville. I lived in mississippi. So i think about this a lot. First thing is in some cases. It doesn't matter that much like what my friends in williamsburg for example think of my friends in kansas city. It's relevant every so often but and in some ways it's almost the opposite problem. It's like their phone banking into your neighborhoods and causing trouble So it's a thing that we've tried to channel people's like well intentioned energy into ways that are useful. It's not always easy. I would say even with the new york. City mayor's election. I can just. I'll use this as a metaphor. I had a hard time convincing people in one neighborhood in new york city to understand what was happening and the other like we we had. We have eric adams as mayor. Because of a phenomenon happened within the city which is that williamsburg and park slope and upper west side. Upper east side have this certain bubble. There's certain vehicle not all those people but enough of view of of what the city was and they were shocked when staten island and east new york and bronx voted overwhelmingly for somebody that they couldn't stand in those other neighborhoods and it was our own mini version..
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"This is ravi wheelhouse. So step back from the ninth and tenth grade so fourteen old we guys can follow up question just to narrow narrow it down. What is your goal to persuade her. As your goal just to sort of like stop the crate like just kind of have them actually learn what's really happening so it's more so the latter two but also like i think a lot of like the ethical bounds. I have as a teacher not wanting to like overstep by any means and making it where my views are being pushed onto my students by any means perfectly themed question to go with our misinformation. Thanks ravi yeah. I think you're you're already in some ways given a gift in that as a teacher. You know you no matter what. Your views are generally aren't allowed to to to push your students to have any certain kind of politics and in some ways that's helpful and helpful that you teach social studies because all the critical race theory debate aside which we're going to talk about next week there are so many tools at your disposal in our history and there's this book i keep mentioning called these troops from jill lepore but there's so many books like this where you have good foundational texts now that have been coming out over the past ten years some of which are not controversial at the moment that you can use to teach people for example. Jason and i were talking about that. There's evidence that george washington for example. What what do you think you know about. George washington teeth that their wooden things right but the poorer argues. And there's some dispute about this that they were pulled from the mouths of slaves right. So that's a lesson right there is to say you don't have to go all the way and say in that lesson and therefore america is blank. The students can put to into together right. You can say all right. Let's picture this. Let's visualize it. Let's think about what that means and you don't have to add it up for people you can pick those examples to say. We love our country but there are things about this country that that happened a long time ago that are super relevant to the problems that we have today and you can kind of. Let them thread the needle with some really well out. Examples and lessons awesome. Yeah i'm.
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"Want her to be win not to be president. This is only winning. This is about winning elections and so in that spirit. My second is going to be frank underwood. Whose similar character. I'm just saying winning. That's all i'm saying. I'm just talking about winning. I really thought i was going to get stuck in the last names that thank you. Here's the thing. He was basically winning every season. Against all odds. and then. If it wasn't for kevin spacey being creep. He would have continued to win but they had the right. They had to write him out of the story so it took like something outside of the character in order to stop him. So i'm feeling good about our chances if we've got frank underwood on that ticket. Very compelling any. You could just argue. He was technically a democrat. He's successful democrat in both fictional and nonfiction rapid rise. Yeah captain jack sparrow. Because at this point it would just be a really fun campaign to work if you were working on frank underwood like everyday. It'd be like oh my god. We're going to be like if captain jack sparrow. Is your candidate. You'd be like who who knows you know like it's going to be great. Voters want to see you having fun. Yeah i think it would be a great campaign. There's no names left on the list. Grayson name left on the loaders. We're who who nope know she goes you name well. Okay leslie biz last. May i just say she retired. I have qualms she's not last she's my pick.
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"There's like a widely circulated instagram posts. That had to be flagged that said he was lined the american people meaning that he knew masks were he either knew that mass where effective and lied and said they weren't early on or knew they weren't effective and then was lying to the american public afterwards. And saying where the mets which just very strange wha what his motive would be an either scenario but like the truth here is that there is an email from february fifth way before we as a public health community in the united states understood the true nature of the virus and how masks help where he was saying. Here's this very limited circumstance. In which i recommend masks and otherwise. Let's not make that part of our guidance. He along the entire american public health community changed their tune on that from april fifth. Ford have been consistent on that from april fifth four so unless you're a perfectionist saying that like the only people left in american public health to be people who have been one hundred percent rights being which i think would mean. Zero people would be left within our public health establishment. Unless that's your standard. That's not a good seconds that he had a friendly exchange. The chinese public health official too early stages of this virus and i am very distrustful. The government of china but also they have a people and i believe that we have to both to the fire on providing data on the origins of the virus at the same time. We need to coordinate resources because it's a globe if like as we know if the virus spreads in china it will spread here if it spreads the united states it will spread there so there needs to be some baseline level of cooperation. There's more an exchange with public health official in the united states about whether this originated this virus originated from a lab in milan and choose very measured. He was like look all of eleven and says it wasn't but you never know no smoking gun there. Basically you'll see a lot of stuff like that or she was very measured. He talks like a very careful scientist. But who has a really young a strong lock on how to spend his day and how to give people clear guidance as it's coming to him and he stays up past midnight. Just helping people solve problems so i think it just makes them look good. I guess i would ask what is it. You think fell cheese motive was if you think he was doing all this terrible stuff like why. Here's what they're trying to say. He's a publicity hog. This is what trump ascent like trump in his remarks saying. Oh here's a guy who loves the spotlight. So they're not like connecting the dots to say. Hey this is a guy who loves spotlight. Therefore he's misinforming you. I think they're stir. They're kind of just putting lezo over at saying. Oh this guy cares more about that than anything else. And maybe he's incompetent. Maybe he senator. He was starring. Just throwing a whole bunch of different arguments at it. But i think their overall frame is. This is a guy who just loves the spotlight. He's doing it for celebrity. And he's not a serious credible person and he. He's within the mold of a democratic celebrity type. People who care more about that world than about the everyday americans that are affected by their policy. I think that's their frame. If somebody said that to me. I would say all right. Let's take this out to. Its most logical conclusion. Let's say everything you said about. Dr fauci is true one. That's a pretty serious allegation that you're saying that man who's been working in government for his whole life has been doing it to build up for this opportunity to let hundreds of thousands of americans die unnecessarily so that he can throw out the first pitch and a nationals game. Like that's wild. Like you definitely think this guy should be in prison for the rest of his life. Is that where we're at at. I'd make them commit to that. And the second thing i'd say is let's say you're right. Was he in charge. Or was trump charge because it seems to me that there were a lot of things that he was pushing for the trump said no to so if trump knew this whole time that found she was this bogus publicity seeking guy who didn't really have a handle on the science then. Why wasn't trump in fact pumping lights and hydrochloric queen. Whatever bleach into people. If he in fact knew what to do because again. They're trying to rewrite history. So you just gotta go back and go explain to me how this absolves trump at all. I think the one thing i would add to is to to color in the fao chief thing for people is to say okay. What i get from these emails. Is that this guy. Like the rest of us didn't have all the answers right. He had more than us because he's a scientist and he had been studying this for a long time but he was searching for the answers to so. If you want to resign at this point then what you want. Is you want to get rid of the one person who has been. They're trying the hardest to find the answers this entire time and has more experience handling a pandemic than anybody else in the entire country. Like maybe he wasn't right about. I mean he wasn't right he would tell you wasn't right about everything all the time but he now knows more than anybody else about a thing that we're continuing to learn about. I would think that it makes a lot of sense. Then that biden looks at that and goes. That's the guy. 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"Together and unite our country. And i'm not supporting that. Because i think it would divide as further. And that's just the mentioned says no that it's done. It's dead senator. Manchin came out last week against the bill Mentally gets bill but also saying that he will not he not weaken or side to filibuster to support the bill Writing in the local paper in west. Virginia he said i believe the partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening of democracy. And for that reason i will vote against afford people act. Furthermore i will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster and then he went on to say the fundamental right to vote has itself become. Overtly politicize jason. Does this mean that the bill is dead. H felt that way when i first saw this spread. I've been talking to people in america. Vote and it incident since united. And i don't believe that it's dead a few things to know. There's overwhelming bipartisan support. In west virginia for this seventy nine percent of people polled are for this legislation. west. Virginia i also the argument that partisan legislation on voting rights on civil rights is somehow to be avoided al-qass sort of forget the fact that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were passed on partisan vote and i doubt that senator manchin would say that. That was the wrong thing to do When it comes to protecting voter voting rights and election reform. It's important to remember that. Senator manchin who is now saying he'll vote against it that he actually previously sponsored before the people act in the last congress so you know his position has moved around on the so much that i choose to continue to believe that he has persuadable because he has now been persuaded in multiple different directions to date. Even though he's now talking about the bill itself it is still the case that his concerns are about process. It's why he's talking about partisan votes that's why he's talking about and obviously the process should not stand in the way of protecting the freedom to vote so we have to continue to push forward. Finally when he comes to the realization which at some point he will do. Maybe not on this issue but on another but when he comes to the realization that republicans in the senate are not acting in good faith. He's going to have to make a decision about whether he's more committed to an unattainable search for bipartisanship or to the millions of americans who want this and other things to get done and so our job in the meantime is apply as much pressure to the senate to the congress a whole including the senator manchin to make sure that all of the proper political capital and political pressure is in place so that that can actually go the way we want. When that when that comes to fruition it's important for people to remember that the aca died like a thousand times before it actually got passed on a partisan vote said that this is not at all impressed in it and people just need to keep pressing forward. There's always a way we're talking about the senate. They literally make their own rules. Which means those rules can change. And it's our job to apply the necessary pressure so that they including senator mansion feel the need and the opportunity to change those rules to get this done yet. It's also important to let our listeners know that mansion has still said he supports the john lewis voting rights act so there are two different bills here one bill for the people act is much more comprehensive and it has a robust changes to the way we re district to the dark money in our campaign finance system way more aggressive measures to prevent a lot of the types of terrible education. That's making its way. Through states to restrict voting in ways that are transparently racist system for the people at the john. Lewis voting rights act is a much more narrow bill that focuses on voting rights in the strictest sense and largely takes aim at restoring the voting rights. Act that is definitely progress. But it doesn't do a whole lot to stop a partisan gerrymandering. It doesn't do a whole lot to does do anything to get dark money out of our politics and it doesn't do anything really to stop this. Lot of republicans installing partisan officials to important voting which is my number one concern into the state positions or whatever positions in states oversee. Our elections doesn't do anything to stop that. That is my number one concern because my nightmare scenario is that no matter how much we win by. They're going to be stooges in these offices. Who we're going to overturn the results of elections and mess around with the ballot box. I mean they're they're messing with the ballot box. Ready from twenty twenty. They're still auditing quote unquote those results. So i'm concerned that this john lewis voting rights act is not enough but even that he says he was. He's he was talking about it. Like it's a bipartisan piece of legislation from what i can tell he is one republican supporting lisa murkowski nine more people to support this piece of legislation to satisfy his requirement that it passes in regular order. Yeah and i think it's important for people to understand a couple of that as you said. The john lewis voting rights act would prevent a lot of future bad stuff but doesn't go back and fix a lot of bad stuff that's already happened but that's still a good thing and it is a kernel from which we can begin to work so not to mention the fact by the way that the whole first portion of the for the people actors actually written by john lewis as the voter empowerment act. So there's a lot of room to work here with the political messaging to get people like senator mansion in the right place but either way if we want any of this stuff to actually happen we have to continue to apply pressure. If you continue to apply pressure on passing the for the people act. You're also only increasing the chances that you actually get the opportunity to pass the voting rights act again so either way it makes sense to do that and i will sail that say two more things one is that there's a great speech That ralph warnock made on the senate floor is actually his maiden speech on the floor where i think his last line was most important. I stand before you saying that. This issue access to voting and pre-empting politicians efforts to restrict voting is so.
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"Number twenty three which british actor who suffered serious head injuries in the nineteen ninety car accident played the character of renting in the bbc. Wartime sitcom lolo number twenty four. Which city provides the setting for the opening scene of one thousand nine hundred seventy one film. The french connection number twenty five. What's the name of the process by which an unstable nucleus loses energy but radiation okay ancestor. Today's quiz then one was games. People play number one. The decade of the nineteenth century when overarm bowling was legalized in cricket. Walls the eighteen sixties. It was eight hundred sixty four to be precise number two in the card game bridge. The highest ranking suit is spades number three the maximum number number of runners permitted to start the grand national be forty horses number four and it is in diving that a competitive performed tux. And pike's number five in the board game cluedo the feature that the four corners rooms contain that the others don't is that they all contain secret. Passage round two was marble play sculptures and statues round number six. The armless statue that has been exhibited in the louvre in paris. Rediscovery is the venus de milo number. Seven overlooking rio de janeiro christ. The redeemer is a thirty meters tall number eight. The army that was buried with the emperor of china was made of terra. Cotta number nine. The italian artist antonio canvas sculpture of perseus is holding up the head of medusa a number ten the artists that produced a series of found found object sculptures known as ready mades with the porcelain urinal. The bicycle wheel was marcel. Duchamp ran three was the oh happy day round number eleven the shakespeare's history plane that contains we few we happy. Few we band of brothers is henry. The fifth number twelve the animated film in which elijah wood robin williams and hugh jackman are improperia. Wins is happy feet number thirteen according to the advert. Happiness is a cigar called hamlet number fourteen actor and director who played ritchie cunningham. In happy days is ron howard. A number fifteen as of march twenty twenty one the un world. Happiness report ranks finland. The happiest country in the world has done four times in a row round four. Was the grays the new gray round number. Sixteen the name that you would better know lord greystoke as tarzan number. Seventeen the ex prime minister. That was always gray and spitting image with john. Major number eighteen the Oscar wilde novel walls the picture of dorian gray them nineteen lady. Jane grey was the queen of england for nine days and the twenty. The nintendo game boy was first released in the nineteen eighty s. He was nine hundred thousand nine in japan and north america and then released in one thousand nine hundred. Ninety in europe and career ran five. Was the general knowledge round number twenty one. The tv adverts that feature the james bond star figure that goes to great lengths to deliver box of chocolates to a lady is for milk tray number. Twenty two the maiden name of jacqueline kennedy onassis bouvier number twenty three the british actor who suffered head injuries in one thousand nine hundred and played renting twat in lolo gordon k number twenty four. The city that provides the setting for the opening scene of the french connection is marseille. I'm number twenty five. The name of the process by which an unstable nucleus loses energy by radiation is a radioactive decay but also accept nuclear decay radio activity radioactive disintegration on nuclear disintegration.
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"Terms. I think democrats would be better served to if they could figure out how to do this. And not have people think like okay so like the republicans are the ones that the military and the flags and all that stuff. I think you're right. And i think reuben jason are good examples of of folks who have have come to understand the demonstrating patriotism is not about doing republican things or saying republican things right since you brought up that ad like the reason that broke through. There are many reasons but you know to go. A little deeper is that it was me making an argument for progressive thing. There are a lot a lot of democrats had done ads featuring a gun in the past all of those you would have thought that they were a republican even rising job were shooting the cap and trade bill. That right right we made decisions in that ad. One of them was even though actually what i did. At the end of the ad is a functions. Check the end of a functions. Check your dry. Fire the weapon. You're supposed to pull the trigger. I made the decision not to pull the trigger. Because that's not what i was trying to do right. I didn't pull the trigger. I didn't fire the weapon. And on top of that. Like i was for gun control. And the point that you're making and i agree with is lee. Help the republicans when we say republican things and then say that's going be us being patriotic. No we gotta say democratic things and demonstrate why that is patriots. We're really talking about here. Is the difference between patriotism and nationalism. Right and really is it even nationalism. When it's an insurrection. i don't think it is. I agree that it's a huge question. Right like what are we proud for and get to that. I think it's worth mentioning it. This is kind of a circular point the they want to close off opportunity for different kinds of people to serve in the military and that service is one of the only ways to be able to access at narrative so a good example where we have candidates now that we wouldn't have had twenty years ago. Chrissy houlahan realistic. Slatkin or gina ortiz. Jones it's not just a dude's narratives anymore and those are going to be some of the most powerful candidates that we have not just because of their identity just because we're opening doors to more people with more interesting things to say. But isaac what you're saying which is true. Patriotism is defending our democracy. That's essentially what biden said on memorial. Day this is the narrative that he's pushing and jason of what you said like the biggest threat we have is something we've talked about for a long time now. Is domestic terrorism like our biggest threat. Is that deep division in violence that is happening within. Our borders and duchess makes the tenor of the so challenging. Because part of what austin's trying to do in the pentagon is clean it up so that we don't have people who are disloyal to the united states of america inside of the military and that's a really hard thing to do. It's probably something we haven't doubt let since probably civil war remember the feeling you got as a kid of getting tucked into bed or the fuel you get now in the arms of somebody you love safe and secure to feeling of security. It only comes through human connection. And that's why the people at simplisafe home security or so important you know. I have an apartment. And i've simply safe and i know that even just a week or two ago somebody broke into my hallway. It's not much to imagine somebody coming up in trying to take my stuff. And i love that. Simplisafe is here to protect all my belongings and protect me..
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"Successfully and the primaries and everything that happened over the last few years. It's gotten lots of excerpts have trended on twitter and made it into all sorts of different Pieces on the news and he is agreed to join us. We are so fortunate. Isaac good to see a man and you have agreed to have me. I'm excited to be here. Thank you ravi. what's going on this week. Well we're obviously coming off of a long weekend and vice. President harris got into a bit of a controversy. I hesitate to even call it that but she tweeted over the weekend that we should enjoy the long weekend and nikki. Haley re tweeted it saying. That harris was unprofessional and unfit presumably. Because she didn't mention the troops and the real meaning be memorial day and just as an avalanche of criticism coming from the right jason. You served How offended are you. And should we begin the impeachment proceedings now for a vice president harris. I was deeply offended while enjoying my long weekend on vacation. No i mean this is so stupid. And but i think we have to talk about it because it leads into what is a larger strategy right now by the republicans right which is to go back to the well to check their traps and to do the whole. We are more patriotic than you thing. In fact we're so patriotic that we want to overthrow the government. That is the real measure of their patriotism. Isaac you seem to take issue with some of what tucker carlson had to say. Look i think harris. It's it's the things you're talking about. Jason's awesome stuff that i've written about the she is an easier target for republicans than joe biden has proven that Republicans in washington keep talking about a must be biden's staff that's really leading the way on things because they can't seem to hit things on him with a woman with a woman of color. It is proven easier for them to attack her. They've gone after on the border Particularly and neither done is one of violence. Top advisors A few weeks ago. I don't remember the republican. Saying it was mike. Pence's job to fix the border. But they do say that harris but this tweet it was it theories no one in america who doesn't think memorial day weekend as long weekend and they're literally a long week. I mean literally. The definition of a three day weekend is the beginning of summer. The unfit It's all that stuff. It's also and there was another tweet from her respecting the troops in thanking them for the service in the remember. The ones who died. But i do think that like the memorial day weekend ended with tucker carlson sitting at his home studio in relaxed clothing. The end of a long weekend and making a comment about how the military doesn't protect american anymore at that is accusing. It's not just not remembering the troops accusing him of betraying their oath of service of betraying the country. That seems more serious than a tweet. That was written by a hates. Reveal it to your listeners. But comma harris did not type that tweet after self some aid. Low low down in her office with was that that poor person. Yeah well. I don't know about you guys but i spent my long weekend just camping out at the tomb of the unknown soldiers bathing in my own. Tears it seems like others had experience. I did it right But a you know. I i like you guys have probably. I have so many family members you served to end. They like other. Human beings can walk and chew gum at the same time. Like we can take time off. Enjoy each other's company while also paying respects to people who served obviously that goes without saying One fun pastime of people on twitter has been finding people making mccain. Who were so appalled by harris's tweet but who also couldn't be bothered to discipline themselves over the weekend she francis was in vegas. I think the next day talking about how. I'm able to go to vegas so i just. They're not even applying the same senator to themselves which is par for the course at this point but isaac. You mentioned something that gets to the deeper issue here. Which is this is a coordinated series of points and attacks on democrats is has been going on since i was in elementary school dukakis but this seems to be coming together at a time when the right wing seems to be criticizing biden particularly for this woke kness in the military that they call it and both tucker carlson ted cruz and others on the right are are particularly criticizing secretario sin and the pentagon for a series of steps taken diversity training recruiting videos. There was one particular incident where do as an army recruiting video were. Corporal was talking about her childhood growing up with two months and people on the right like sep gorka said on his show. You are a disgrace to what it means to serve in the military at any rank so there seems to be the gorba- who was walking around with the insignia of a nazi affiliated order from hungary has to be a difference the same set gorka that that kelly basically set out of the white house like Prince you know. That's what comparison. But somehow we're in this weird universe where a tweet debt that fails to to to mention the troops memorial day is somehow unprofessional unfit but within the right. There's this coordinator tack on the military and particularly the sense that there's only one profile of people that can serve in the military and that any sense of any attempt to provide a richer deeper narrative about those who serve is woke woke bed. What should we make of this that you see a twisting of the sadly has become core to the republican political talking points go at it from something closely related not the same thing as troops. But you've got to respect the police in and protect the police and there were police officers. Who were attacked and died because of the riot on january six and there is no interest in looking into what happened. But there's also no not really a lot of interest in even talking about the those officers. Lisa murkowski the day before the commission was voted down by the senate Standing there with family of one the officers..
Flash Fantasy: Rift Walkers
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"I think we have enough to carry on vowel. If you want to recall your little pets and gets us suited up. Do i feel we have enough. You tell me. Kelly s thing. So i mean the army is like on the move right now. Right hard of them right. It seems people are starting to move about the drills are ending. The real stuff is about to begin. Okay so i. I do think this would probably be a good time move so i will bring the archbishop back end. I will fit us up in some lovely lovely human disguises. I will say that. I will specifically make myself look like valentine even tied just in case someone like polls. I don't know. I need to identify in some way. I will have papers for that. Great but everybody else will just be like whatever makes of humans i saw and then i will make reza's orlando gears outfit a little little nicer little more officer leash. Let me be less arm early because it was it was. It was pretty. Snazzy does mc look like mic usually does take man style yes mickle transform back into that but if anybody suspicious sell to say i put on my disguise layouts leary ian and county. Ace change form into human faces of varying backgrounds. Meanwhile everyone sports armor of this armies common infantry and except for orlando has a more officers garb about him county ace who is still retains most of her facial features but just a fellowship. Face now looks about and says well. I think now's a good time has ever to ditch the horses and move in if we meet up with anyone we've got our story and let's get on with it. Shall we the sooner we get through this the bachelor very well. Let's get closer to the camp and then we'll fallen marching orders so then everyone falls in behind roland dear. Yeah you'll also dismissed the archbishop. Because i don't think anybody in the army has now you are wrong. That's actually very very common. Common pet among the army's scratching owl brigade well sharp. There's so many owls because of all the field mice getting into the food stores and so they bring up the barn owls as you all press onward then dismissing the horses and carrying on through this. Brush picking your way through until you eventually come to that wagon path. You begin marching ran deer. And if ron leading the way until you come to the camp proper at which you pass by v command center that the archbishop had scouted out just as this kernel that valid seen steps out of the tent tightening some gloves and braces and he peers to his left. Seize your little group and then calls out to relax. Staff sergeant come humidity and relax. Air marches a few paces faster than the group. Turns any crisp angle and walks towards name staff sergeant. Agate ago company three.
Flash Fantasy: Rift Walkers
"54" Discussed on Flash Fantasy: Rift Walkers
"I don't want to to my own horn. But i have read at. Oh on the bathroom. fighting hand. in victoria's combat type ran up something about reason convincing exigency. Should it become necessary. Do you speak finnish raking it with your now. It's not really terrible bad. forgive me. I think that's in matters of human armies perhaps relented it will be a better suited for our leader could always just say i wasn't about that case you bring up a good point Wow that's not. They'd you military science lad practically born and raised. Divide talk fast enough now. I know it's happening cover up. What are some names of the different ridgemont officers. I couldn't tell you. Honestly i could tell you one's from where i served up bastion but again that was some time ago and hold on now but apps but apps this solution to the problem of uniform can also be dissolution of the names if we send the bishop ahead val you can see and hear through the archbishop. Is that correct. Yeah then perhaps you should listen enough. You conversations figure out who demand respect and today fear and should we need to. We can casually mention a few names. I think that'll be a great idea. Orlando nods in agreement. What do we waiting for. Well seren says larry in you did say ride. And he just gives you a quizzical and he responds back. I'm glad you asked. And then leering says a couple of words and and eight appear. Are these just like normal standard onto the male horses or are they like seo horses. Would you like riding horses or draft horses writing. Sorry sorry i the thing i was going for is do. They look like ghosts. St misty things look like actual like regular horses. 'cause the rats were like light rats right. Everything about them seems normal. Besides there is and because you didn't ingest aliko or anything of the sort you will take three strain. Well let's seeing the weight. The told us took on leeann goes and gives him a lighter than normal heavy pat on the back..