40 Burst results for "65"
Capstone Conversation
Jared Asch Asks Loella Haskew and Cindy Darling: Is "Measure O" Working?
"Let's get local and talk about Walnut Creek for a minute. It's been about a year since we've the people of Walnut Creek have voted in Measure O. Talk to us. It's an additional sales tax to provide benefits for the city. Is it working and what are we doing with the money? What are the priorities? Start Cindy Ann and you can fill in the gaps. Yeah. OK. So the first thing we did to promise the community is to find an oversight group so that they look at what we've done to make sure that we live up to our promises of what we and we were going to do when we started the Measure O process. Interestingly enough, when I first ran in 2012 or 2011, I ran on a half cent sales tax increase and I got the more votes than I ever did since then. I think there were a group of people who knew that we weren't quite we needed a little extra oomph in our spending. We've done some additions at the police department. We've made some spending for attracting more people downtown where we're doing things, a lot of things in and around it. But the biggest project is the one that Cindy Darling is working on. And so I'm going to let her take over. One of the reasons I ran for council is it's important for a community. My kids loved growing up in Walnut Creek. They swam, they played Little League, they played this, they played that, they did this art class. And a lot of the facilities that they were accessing were built back in the 50s and 60s. And we all know things that were built in the 50s and 60s are now starting to fall apart. And we need to pay it forward to the next generation. And that was a big driver on Measure O. The Clark Swim Center and Heather Farm is one bad accident away from its pumps not ever running again. So we are working on a new community center and a new aquatic center to carry on the traditions in Walnut Creek. And that was one of the bigger drivers of Measure O. We are in the planning phase right now and we have a lot of active, robust public input coming into the process. We have a survey out. You can go to the city councils with the city's website and take a survey on what you want out of that community center, what you want out of the aquatics facility. And we're going to be working to get it so it's up and operational by 2027 and it's going to be cool. Yeah. And there's there's some concern over the money from Measure O coming up on the ballot. Do you I don't want to take up too much time going into every detail on it, but can you talk about what is coming up in 2024 and what impact that might have on Measure O as well as a number of other regional measures? There are two things to be addressed by the population. The first one is how many votes do we need to do to get permission to have an additional sales tax? If we go out for a specific purpose right now, you need two thirds of a vote of a community and it's incredibly difficult to get that. If you go out for a general measure, you only need to get 50 % plus one vote. There is a measure being brought forth by a business council that wants to remove so much freedom with what we local people can do with taxes. And so they want to make every vote a sixty thirds vote. And the thing that is most concerning to us because of our position is they can claw back a vote that happened in 2022 and say you have to run it again and get the two thirds vote. So so we're nervous about the business one. And we're also thinking it's 10 % of people will vote no on any thing that has money to do with money. And that's in order to get 65%. You've got to work really hard. And so a lot of cities don't have the capacity to get important things done because they can't get out there and get this full measure of voters to pay attention.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh "65" from The Dan Bongino Show
"Location. Migrants have begun moving into churches today as part of Mayor Brandon Johnson's unity initiative. 80 migrants have been moved or in the process of being moved from the District 5 police station into four different houses of worship across the city. Grace and Peace Church pastor John Zayas spoke with ABC 7. Just feel like the churches are ready. They're excited to have, you know, folks into their churches. Again, it's not just housing, it's hope. And so that's the key that we want to walk alongside them, work with them, establish them, move them on. 17 churches are opening their doors to house and feed migrants funded by $250 ,000 in private donations. Two South suburban youth football teams have their eyes set on national titles in separate competitions in Florida. The Robins Eagles 13U team secured its place in the American Youth Football League championship for the first time in the team's 40 -year history. Coach Justin Morris. For us to make it to the national championship this year is really a historical thing for not just the Robins Eagles but the whole community. The city and community donated $13 ,000 for the team at Pepper a Alley last night. Meanwhile the Dixmoor Vikings 11U and 10U teams are heading for the Pop Warner Championships. Their head coach Dwight Tyson. You know this is a great thing so I'm really really just excited to feel the emotion and I mean we take off in a couple days. The Vikings are still trying to raise more money to pay for travel expenses. Today friends, family and more honor former First Lady Rosalynn Carter at a funeral service at her home parish in Plains, Georgia. Rosalynn died at the age of 96 earlier this month. Members of the Carter family including Rosalynn and former President Jimmy Carter's sons offering their tributes during the service. John William Carter said that his parents had an unbreakable bond. She became a partner in the true sense of the word where they have equal footing. This service at Maranatha Baptist Church is smaller than the memorial service held in Atlanta yesterday. Hollywood actor Jonathan Majors in a New York City courtroom facing trial accused of assaulting his former girlfriend, ABC's Derek Dennis reports. Wearing a dark grey suit and appearing to be carrying a Bible, Marvel actor Jonathan Majors appearance in a New City York courtroom was striking. He was seen with his current girlfriend, actress Megan Goode, to go on trial for misdemeanor assault and harassment charges involving his former girlfriend last March. Before jury selection, attorneys on both sides argued over sensitive evidence and whether the courtroom needed to be sealed off from visitors and the media to review it. Majors has pleaded not guilty to the charges. If convicted, he could spend up to a year in jail. Derek Dennis, ABC News. And lastly, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is reportedly working on a deal to sell a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks to the family that runs the Las Vegas Sands Casino Company. The agreement would be in the valuation range of bench of about $3 .5 billion and could take weeks for the league to process. The 65 year old Cuban would retain control of basketball operations in the deal. He rose to fame after buying the Mavs back in 2000. This also comes after Cuban announced he is leaving the popular business TV show Shark Tank after its next season. WLS News Time 1204. On the road there. It's not a whole lot to report. We do have an accident on the Jane Adams westbound near Beverly. I laws. meg favorites. Back out. 35 disable. Vehicle blocks the right lane near 61st Kennedy shut it 29. Back out. Delay free on the Eden's Eisenhower half an hour in Thorndale's post this Stevenson also half an hour inbound I 3 55 for the drive. Dan Rand, Dan Ryan, medical emergency inbound blocking the left lane at the burn. Next traffic update in 15 minutes.
Mark Levin
Outrageous Stalker Attacks Religious Jews for Their Traditions
"So I, minding my own business, I posted it on my social sites. Then along comes this stalker, who obviously has nothing to do with her life, hanging on the looking at. And what does she say? Well, what do you call her, Mr. British? She retweets or responds to my quote, quote, treated Now her. in 2010, as the New York Post points out, she considers herself to be a deeply religious Jew. Well, she's a liar, I doubt that. She quoted Jewish conservative commentator Mark Levin's video footage of rabbis, a quorum of Jewish adults traditionally male required for certain religious observances outside the White House. And you know what this dimwit said? Where are the women? I thought women or woman was a banned word now. I mean, when you have a Supreme Court justice, a can't define woman. But Weingarten can because she famously announced that publicly nobody cared. Nobody asked I that. think she was married to another woman, something like that. Now, I didn't ask her for opinion. I don't care for her opinion. I don't I don't care about her. In fact, I dislike her intensely given what she's doing to the young people in this country. Where are the women? So this was really an attack on Orthodox Judaism. She would never do that for the Muslims that have separate parents. No, no, no. Where are the women? I guess there I guess they're praying over in another direction, which is the way it works. sorry, I'm everybody can't be members of the American Federation of Teachers, aka the American Federation of Propagandists. About 35 % of teachers are Republicans, but I'm talking about the other 65 % that run the show. Orthodox Jews have gender separated prayers and they've had it for thousands of years. Thousands of years. So I decided to respond to her, and not in any substantive way, because I think she's got a negative IQ and it wouldn't matter anyway. She's a zealot. So I wrote, you're a contemptible moron, get off my timeline, you idiot. Isn't that pretty much what I would say on the phone, Mr. Producer? You're a contemptible moron. You're a contemptible moron, Ron Garton. Get off my timeline, you idiot. So, others joined in. The story exploded. So she blocked the comments, didn't she, Mr. Producer? She didn't want to hear anything. Brother Ben Shapiro jumped in. But I will tell
Bloomberg Surveillance
Fresh update on "65" discussed on Bloomberg Surveillance
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The Dan Bongino Show
Biden's Inflation Numbers Exposed
"Jim, we got time for Rick Santelli, right? Here's Rick Santelli on CNBC. He was the guy who basically started the Tea Party talking about the inflation numbers. I want you to pay special attention to the last five seconds of this because that's where all the good, the nation is. Here, check this out. What I would consider potentially the most important, even though it's ex food and energy is over year year CPI, 4%, one tenth lighter than we are expecting, one tenth lighter than our last look, which was 4 .1 and the metric there, and this is a biggie, we have been under 4 % since May of 2021. Yes, under 4 % since May of 2021. Folks, that's the kicker. The Biden tea, why isn't it bad enough yet, like we started at the beginning of the show, because the media will not tell the truth. You can frame anything in a positive light if you'd like to. I mean, think about it, you get a pool of a thousand people and 600 are murdered. Oh my gosh, there's no way to frame that positively. You could say, yes, 400 people are still after alive the week in May. You're like, wow, that's really great. Never mentioning 600 died. The media is obsessed with the inflation's down 65%. Yeah, it is. Except the prices are still going up annually at a rate of about 3 and 4 % just because it was 9 % before and higher in some categories. The prices don't go down. If this show was by subscription only, not free radio, and it was $100 a year, and I raised the price to $110, and I say, news, good folks, next year we're only raising our prices
Bloomberg Surveillance
Fresh update on "65" discussed on Bloomberg Surveillance
"Good Morning Wednesday from the Bloomberg Interactive Broker Studio in New York City and points beyond to our worldwide audience equity futures point to a higher open here. Yields continue to decline with the 10 -year Treasury now yielding 4 .29 percent on the commodities front. WTI crude oil is higher just under $78 a barrel. Gold a little bit higher. Let's call it $2 $2 ,065 an ounce there so nice move for gold. Bitcoin also higher at about $38 than $2 ,200 per token. Coming up, we're gonna get the market call from Chris Grisanti, Chief Equity Strategist at MAI Capital Management. Plus we're gonna bring you an interview with General Motors CEO Mary Barra. But first let's get a look at some pre -market trading. The Bloomberg Equities reporter Jess Metten. Jess what do you have for us? I'm taking a look at Foot Locker shares this morning Paul. Ticker symbol FL so let's stock up nearly 13 percent ahead of the opening bell after the athletic apparel maker
Crypto Banter
A highlight from The Best Altcoins To Buy This Week! (Act Fast)
"This may not be the optimal market to start DCAing into coins for long -term holds, but right now is the optimal time for trading with a lot of amazing trade setups presenting themselves every single week. So in today's video, I'm going to run through the 14, yes, 14 trade setups, all of which are long setups this week, because you know what happens when you try to fight the trend, you get wrecked. This is a market where as long as the uptrend lasts, is your friend until the end of the trend. And that means we long more than we short. So today I have 14 long setups I want to discuss with you. Most of the setups are a little bit shorter term, like mostly focused on this week, but a couple are a little bit longer term, I would say like in the three to four month range. Not focusing on super long term trades here, but still definitely going to have some alpha for you in today's video as to what altcoins I think could be part of a rotation. As we're seeing right now, basically narratives hop from narrative to narrative as traders seem to be rotating profits into different sectors. And we're going to discuss where I think that rotation could take us. 14 very different altcoins in today's show. We're going to cover a couple narratives like gaming, like ZK, and hopefully you enjoy. Smash the like button if you are enjoying the content at the moment. Let's just start with Bitcoin. An interesting observation to make on Bitcoin is that the last time it had four consecutive weekly candles in a row to the upside, as you can see, like we have currently gotten, it actually did this in early January and ended up reversing for two weeks before continuing an uptrend. So I mean, just because it happened once doesn't mean we're necessarily going to get like a sustained pullback now. But I think what needs to happen and what the market is already starting to show us with weekly open here is that Bitcoin needs a little bit of a cooldown. Now a cooldown is not bad for altcoins. A cooldown, if Bitcoin just moves sideways, maybe a little bit down is actually good for altcoins because it gives the alt some breathing room. It takes the wind out of Bitcoin sales a little bit and gives the alt some room to run. So what I want to see longer term is definitely a sustained increase in Bitcoin dominance that shows liquidity is flowing into Bitcoin. And then eventually I want to see that siphon off into the alts. So I actually want to see dominance pushing up to 60 % for a really healthy market. So altcoins can have a sustained run. But for now, if Bitcoin just cools and alts run a little bit, that's okay for now. Another interesting thing to note is that Bloomberg analysts still expect a 90 % chance of a Bitcoin spot ETF approval by the 10th of January. At the moment, the SEC has another five days to approve an ETF. If they don't approve it, then they're going to have to delay until January. So we could see an approval this week. I don't think this will be the case, but it is a possibility given the fact this week we are in an approval window. So definitely look for some volatility on Bitcoin. All right, let's get into the official list of altcoins that I'm looking at my weekly watch list. By the way, this is a show that I've been doing pretty much every week, but obviously now there's extra attention on the show because we're finally getting some market movers. If you looked at my watch list last week, basically I think six out of the seven tokens that I listed all ended up in profits. We had some amazing trades from that watch list. So congratulations to everyone that got involved there. Hopefully from this week's watch list, similarly, we have some good trades that come out of this one as well. The first place I want to start is ThorChain. What you need to understand about ThorChain is that it's the ultimate bull market token. Because of its reflexive mechanism, the more capital that goes into Roon, basically the better the yields end up being because they need to incentivize LPs to stake tokens in the pools to balance out the Roon LP because Roon is pumped in price, right? So when you have a higher APR, a lot of people ape into Roon, increasing the TVL. We can see the TVL is skyrocketing at the moment, as you can see here. And what that means is that Roon has this really explosive effect, this compounding effect, this flywheel when the market starts to deposit into Roon. So Roon is actually pretty much the ultimate bull market token. In a bear market, it's the opposite. It's one of the worst tokens because it gets hit really hard the other way. When the Roon price is going down, the yields tank. A lot of people exit the ecosystem because remember, to facilitate omni -chain swaps, what Roon does is it basically has LPs where you're required to hold an asset one to one with Roon. So if you want to swap from, let's say, Ethereum to Bitcoin, you're going to need in the omni -pool your Roon pairing with Ethereum and Bitcoin in order to facilitate that swap. So that's why in a bull market it does really well and in a bear market it does really bad. Because we're in a bull trend at the moment, Roon is clearly performing really well. It's one of the strongest performers in the market at the moment. And for that reason, if we do see a pullback like we're seeing right now, this is one that I'll look to ladder into on continuation. As I mentioned at the start of the video, this is really a traders market and it's a market where you probably want to be longing more than you are shorting. And when we're longing more than we're shorting, we want to look at the strongest coins. There are a few rotational players that I want to talk about but you generally want to look at the strongest coins and on any major pullbacks you can use them as dip buying opportunities, not for spot but for trades only. So depending on your risk tolerance, you can use different amounts of leverage. Some people, if you have more capital, you'll prefer spot trading. For me, I actually do a fair bit of spot trading so I might go in with a bigger position or a low leverage position because I don't want to get wicked out like we saw on the 10th of November. But here are some levels that you can look at to enter Roon on the pullback. The major level I'm looking at is this cross section here between the horizontal and the upwards diagonal trend which comes at around $4. If Roon somehow makes its way back down there, I don't think it will. This would be an amazing zone to do some buying. If not, then you do have this zone right here at the 4 .7 area that could be an interesting look as a small ladder in zone. You could probably ladder in here and then your last gasp is at $3 .60. If it starts breaking this trend, then that looks really bad that it's just going to reverse all the way back down. I don't think that's going to happen though. I think momentum for Roon has been upwards and as such, we should treat it with respect and it's certainly what I'm looking to have a nibble at if we continue to get any sort of sustained pullback in terms of trading, of course, not long -term. Long -term positions will be on more key high time frame supports. If you want to learn a bit more about that, I actually uploaded a video called If You Miss The Crypto Rally Follows This Exact Roadmap, which talks about long -term investing. So today is the short -term show. Yesterday, if you go onto the channel and go onto my playlist, and there's also a playlist linked in the description, that will give you a roadmap for the spot side of things. In terms of buying spot Roon, you want to be doing so on key support levels on the higher time frames because we don't like to buy long -term positions on the shorter time frames. It just doesn't make or the lower time frames. It just doesn't make any sense, right? 4 swaps an interesting play now starting to wake up as well being the main decks on Roon. This is definitely a 4 beta play or a Roon beta play rather. So 4 is definitely what I'm looking at in a similar gist to what I'm doing with Roon. Any major pullbacks probably going to gobble them up from a trading point of view. And you can also see they closed with an all -time high trading volume right now. A lot of people are actually using Roon to swap, which is an amazing thing and great for the ecosystem. So that's Roon. Now I want to talk about Solana because Solana is in a similar position to Roon in the sense that being one of the most explosive price movers. But it's kind of an interesting spot, right? Because it's come all the way up from what $15 to $53 in price. It actually hit $60 for a brief period of time. Spot holders don't know if they should take profits here. Traders don't know if they should be longing here. It's kind of in a weird position. But if we look at Sol, we can see that it broke above the key weekly resistance at the $48 level. So for me, a pullback into this zone similar to a buying opportunity, because I think what tends to happen with these coins is the most explosive move happens last. We haven't, I don't think seen that blow off top yet. And I may be wrong, this $65 zone could have been this blow off top. But I still have a feeling that we get that final thrust from Solana that just squeezes all those shorts that are now starting to pile up a little bit. And that will be your final blow off top for Solana. So because I think there's a tiny bit of juice left in the lemon here, I would be looking at any major pullback similarly to Rune continuing to ladder in until the trend reverses. Happy to kind of lose a bit of money trying to play this game considering that the upside is fairly immense in my opinion, if you can hit that trade. So Solana is one that I'd be interested in longing on a major pullback. You know the key level on the weekly. Obviously, you want to confirm that with lower timeframe trade setups because you have a fantastic level to look at. And on let's say the one hourly, the four hourly, that's when you'd actually be entering. Okay, let's move on to a new subset of tokens. These are the tokens that haven't moved. I know Rune and Solana have moved aggressively and we are playing the by the dip game, I guess on those ones. But some of the coins I want to talk about now actually haven't really moved. Now they have moved because the whole market's moved, but just not as much like Polygon hasn't done a 5x like Solana has or you know, 6x, 7x like Rune has. It is significantly up of course, but there is a really interesting narrative starting to brew here and that's the ZK narrative. So if you actually remember back to earlier in the year, January, February, some of the strongest performers alongside like AI and LSDs were the ZK coins. There was a lot of ZK hype and Matic being your biggest coin in this ZK basket of coins tends to be a market leader and it also happens to have this big announcement happening on November 14th which is garnering a leader of the ZK sector if ZK starts to wake up. Because right now we're in this rotational market, we saw Solana rotate into Avalanche, we saw that rotate into Phantom, we saw gaming pop off, we're seeing all these narratives pop off, AI popped off last week. I think next, a narrative that hasn't really popped off, but one that did in January is ZK. So Matic's definitely one of them. In terms of trading this, you do have your major support at 76, but what I would be more interested in is a break of the 92 cent level on the four hourly. Any confirmation above this level would be a decent entry in my opinion and you can see this level mapped out on the daily chart as your key resistance that we're currently trying to test at the moment. If we break that level, then suddenly we can look at a scenario that happened earlier in the year in February, as I said during that ZK run, where Matic ran all the way to 150. A 150 Matic in this run is not out of the question at all. In fact, I think it could happen if ZK gains steam. So that's what I'm keeping my eye on. Now let's talk about some of the other ZK protocols, but before we get into that, while we're speaking on the topic of Polygon, if you do want to earn any yield on the Polygon side, you can go to the farming page on SmartX, which is one of our official show partners. It's an AMM, which reduces the negative effects of impermanent loss and sometimes leads to impermanent gain that currently offers some of the most competitive, in fact, the best rates on the Polygon side for yield farming. So you can see in front of you, you've got 30 to 40 % APRs on a variety of pools, which as I said, have a mechanism which reduces impermanent loss, which is obviously one of the biggest headaches when it comes to Lping in crypto. So I highly recommend using the link in the description below to check out SmartX if you are interested in farming, or you can also do swapping on SmartX and get some of the best swap in the market as well. Link in the description below to check out SmartX. I've got some big announcements coming soon that I'm excited to share with you as well, so stay tuned for that. So let's talk about some of the other ZK protocols. So if Matic starts to make a run here, what will I long? Well, I'm going to long the leaders. I'm not going to try and pick the laggards in this sector. I want to pick the strongest coins in this sector. If we look back to the last run, as I mentioned at the start of the year, some of the best performers were Mina Protocol, Loop Ring, Nute and Dusk. So these are the ones I'm looking at because the market's really familiar with them. I think there's a bit of synergy here with that narrative in these coins. So those are some of the ones I'm looking at. But whatever leads in this sector after Polygon, those will be the ones that I'm interested in. And you can see Polygon and Immutable, the two biggest ZK protocols have run, but a lot of the others haven't run yet. So I think it's a narrative that's flying slightly under the radar, but I think it'll catch up quick once it starts to gain steam. So as a rotational play, this is definitely one that I'm interested in this week. Another one I'm interested in, which is already starting to pump, but probably has a little more upside left in it, is Sei Network. Now we know how explosive these career pumps have been in recent times. Pretty much every token that's been listed on Korean exchange a bit has exploded. We saw this earlier in the year with Sui and Aptos. We've recently seen it with Mina Protocol. Now we're on its pair on Upbit. So Sei is definitely one that I'm watching. It's catching a strong career pump. It has moved, but Sei is what I would call a new coin, right? It's a coin that has launched in the bear market. It's newer. It has pumpermentals because there's less underwater bag holders, and it still is down from its original trading price on its first day. Not from IDO price, but from the peak that it hit on its first day because it had a huge pump, ended up coming back down. It did hit its low of, what is it, like 0 .09 here. It's now started to move back up to 0 .15, but that's less than a 2X on a coin that has, as I said, pumpermentals. It's obviously a trading blockchain built in the Cosmos ecosystem. So some interesting stuff with Sei. If you do want an entry here, I mean, you could look to get an initial position, but if you're using leverage, you want to be careful. I mean, this is kind of not really a great place to trade. Obviously on one hourly, you might be able to find, it depends how, like if you're trading breakouts, you could probably look for like a breakout of this trend here. By the time you're watching this video, it might be too late. So the best I can do for you is actually looking on the four hourly and showing you these key support levels. The 0 .1344 level, if we do get some sort of confluence with the horizontal and diagonal trend here, this would be a great pocket to buy in. But any zone along this major support zone will be an area that I load up, but it does depend on your trading strategy. If you are a high leverage trader, you want to be a lot more precise. Me, I'll either go in this with spot or super low leverage. So I'm not so concerned about getting the exact entry. I'm just trying to really catch it for the uptrend. So depends how you trade, of course, if you're trying to snipe that entry, got to be a lot more careful. For me, a much lower leverage than your average person because I found that's what works for me because I don't have time just personally to sit in front of my computer all day and snipe entries. That's not me. I much more size. So let's say instead of taking a 2k position, I'll take let's say a 10k or a 15k spot position. And then I can't get wrecked on margin, which has been helping me a lot. Or I'll just go in with like a 3x leverage position. So it would take a lot to shake me out of a trade. So that is one I'm looking at. Similarly to say another coin that has pumpamentals and has shown this in recent times as another new coin is Celestia. Remember guys, the new coins can pump so much harder than all coins in the market. That's why I've been saying for a long time, you should definitely keep your eye on the new coins from both accumulation and a trading perspective. Celestia, by the way, is one if you've been following me on Twitter that you may have gotten an airdrop for because I did an airdrop guide last year and I included Celestia and this could end up being one of the most lucrative airdrops of the year. Congrats to anyone that watched that guide or watch my tweet and got involved because right now if you held your Celestia bag, you'd won to $2 ,000 but for some people it could be a lot more if you use multiple wallets. So I think this one is fantastic and there's a few people that have been coming out and saying that it's this cycle's soul. Smartestmoney .eth, it's an account I respect. The number one coin m p &l trader on Binance, that's pretty crazy, that is very crazy actually, has added spot to a massive seed position quote unquote and basically said watch and learn wannabes. These guys out here buying salt while I'm buying the next Solana. Big call but I mean the market cap is reasonably valued 700 mil okay five bill fdvs a lot but we know in the short term the circulating supply definitely goes to dictate how explosive the price moves can be market cap 700 mils reasonable at rank 71 calling it the next soul I don't know I like this one I like it as a spot play but not maybe after this massive pump in terms of a trade though super interesting now actually on support trend you'll notice a lot of coins are following the same trend they have a diagonal up trend as long as they stick to that trend you long if they start to break down below you've got to be a little bit wary but they've also got these horizontal support levels that they make after their retracements so this is actually a good one too long there's a couple of levels here for you to look out for on the one hourly on Celestia so that's an interesting one and let's move into some of the final narratives here I've got two more to share with you and both of these include a variety of alt coins so the first one is perpetuals I think if this volatility is to remain in the market we could definitely see perpetuals performing well we're starting to see a catch up in terms of price and fundamentals despite that not being the case a couple of weeks ago and if you see in front of you volume is performing really well this is purpose trading season this is an on -chain aping season this is the season where people are trading perps I think the centralized exchanges are doing the best that's where most people are trading but I think decks could catch up and for this reason as well as the fact that I think volatility could remain for the foreseeable future I think the perp decks remain super interesting looks at the moment not for short -term trades this week but over let's say the medium term so two to three months maybe even six months so these are definitely ones I've got my eye on dydx I'm going to do a video on this week that's a very interesting trade GMX and gains network being the ones that are kind of your decks perp decks proxies and a few others and as you can see on the weekly a lot of these are barely moved so especially like GMX and games they're a very interesting look in my opinion and if you do want to snipe better entries on a coin like GMX I recommend you use Kyber AI which is a software that basically tells you the momentum of a coin based on a variety of on -chain indicators like the number and types of trades trading volume net flow to whale wallets and what I would do on a coin like GMX is essentially if you're lining up a buy and let's say you want to start buying when shifts momentum what I would look for is a pattern like this where it shifts from bearish into bullish territory now since this video is not live you're gonna have to open your up your own Kyber AI using the link in the description below to see where it currently is but right now this would actually be potentially an interesting place to long GMX if on the lower time frames it lines up with what the Kyber score is showing which is basically bearish price momentum shown by a strong reversal so heading back into bullish territory as you can see buys are now starting to outpace cells and volume is also up ticking across GMX all of those are metrics that go into the Kyber score Kyber score is one of my favorite metrics in crypto if you go to rankings you can actually sort by market cap I love doing this so I go more than 500 million for the large caps that you can actually trade perps on and you can see which coins are looking the most bullish this can help you get entries in the market especially in a bullish market like this searching for the bullish coins can be an amazing way especially using on -chain analysis to get better trading entries so link in the description to check out Kyber AI it's an extremely useful tool especially for confluence with getting trading entries and crypto bad to subscribers will get early access versus the rest of the pack so link in the description below of course it's free so not showing you anything paid it is a free service to use the last narrative I want to talk about quickly is one I think people are forgetting about it has had a bit of a pullback um but it's the gaming narrative into YGG the reason I say people are forgetting people aren't forgetting about gaming there's a lot of talk about crypto gaming on twitter but I think they're forgetting about one of the biggest gaming conferences in five days time starting on November 18th it lasts for a week there definitely could be some I mean a lot of the major projects are speaking there so there could be some interesting announcements and even if not I think there's bound to be hype into that conference so for that reason definitely keep your eye on the gaming projects there's two in particular that I like YGG because it's their conference and this is now having a pullback into a decent zone in my opinion and also GMT which on the weekly and I know once again you don't enter short -term trades on the weekly but on the weekly if it can pull back down into this pocket at 0 .22 and confirm this is support and if you line that up with your lower time frame indicators of course that could be a decent zone also to enter a GMT trade so gaming is something I'm not going to fade the bees are kind of going from one narrative to another but gaming is one that I've got my eye on ahead of the conference so I hope you enjoyed this video these are all the narratives I'm looking at right now mostly short -term some medium to long -term hope you enjoyed this was fast it was alpha packed let me know in the comments below if there are any other coins I should look at and I'll see you in the next one. Peace out.
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"It's been about a year since we've the people of Walnut Creek have voted in Measure O. Talk to us. It's an additional sales tax to provide benefits for the city. Is it working and what are we doing with the money? What are the priorities? Start Cindy Ann and you can fill in the gaps. Yeah. OK. So the first thing we did to promise the community is to find an oversight group so that they look at what we've done to make sure that we live up to our promises of what we and we were going to do when we started the Measure O process. Interestingly enough, when I first ran in 2012 or 2011, I ran on a half cent sales tax increase and I got the more votes than I ever did since then. I think there were a group of people who knew that we weren't quite we needed a little extra oomph in our spending. We've done some additions at the police department. We've made some spending for attracting more people downtown where we're doing things, a lot of things in and around it. But the biggest project is the one that Cindy Darling is working on. And so I'm going to let her take over. One of the reasons I ran for council is it's important for a community. My kids loved growing up in Walnut Creek. They swam, they played Little League, they played this, they played that, they did this art class. And a lot of the facilities that they were accessing were built back in the 50s and 60s. And we all know things that were built in the 50s and 60s are now starting to fall apart. And we need to pay it forward to the next generation. And that was a big driver on Measure O. The Clark Swim Center and Heather Farm is one bad accident away from its pumps not ever running again. So we are working on a new community center and a new aquatic center to carry on the traditions in Walnut Creek. And that was one of the bigger drivers of Measure O. We are in the planning phase right now and we have a lot of active, robust public input coming into the process. We have a survey out. You can go to the city councils with the city's website and take a survey on what you want out of that community center, what you want out of the aquatics facility. And we're going to be working to get it so it's up and operational by 2027 and it's going to be cool. Yeah. And there's there's some concern over the money from Measure O coming up on the ballot. Do you I don't want to take up too much time going into every detail on it, but can you talk about what is coming up in 2024 and what impact that might have on Measure O as well as a number of other regional measures? There are two things to be addressed by the population. The first one is how many votes do we need to do to get permission to have an additional sales tax? If we go out for a specific purpose right now, you need two thirds of a vote of a community and it's incredibly difficult to get that. If you go out for a general measure, you only need to get 50% plus one vote. There is a measure being brought forth by a business council that wants to remove so much freedom with what we local people can do with taxes. And so they want to make every vote a sixty thirds vote. And the thing that is most concerning to us because of our position is they can claw back a vote that happened in 2022 and say you have to run it again and get the two thirds vote. So so we're nervous about the business one. And we're also thinking it's 10% of people will vote no on any thing that has money to do with money. And that's in order to get 65%. You've got to work really hard. And so a lot of cities don't have the capacity to get important things done because they can't get out there and get this full measure of voters to pay attention. And I'm trying to pull up the numbers. Measure O was passed with almost two thirds, 65%, but fell about 100 votes short out of thirty five thousand of crossing that two thirds. So somebody repeals it just missed that mark. Right. And to make it retroactive after you've been collecting the money is an interesting court case in the making. Yes. And I think it's already in court prior to it going on the ballot because this retroactivity it's like, wait a second, you can't change the rules. We worked hard. We passed 65% of the people Walnut Creek agreed with the council and wanted to invest in our community. Shouldn't they have the right to do that? We are a majority rules world. Do we need to make everything two thirds? Yeah, so I want to move past that to another local issue, but it affects a lot of communities. Walnut Creek is a retail hub for the region. People come in from parts of Oakland, from Richmond, from Brentwood to do their shopping in Walnut Creek. But we've had a lot of organized retail theft. We talked a little bit about two thousand here. Let's not talk about the what's happened because we know what's happened, but it's an ongoing problem. What are we doing in Walnut Creek to reduce it from happening in the future and to keep the residents safe? One of the first things we did during COVID when we had the initial problems, we, or after it was the Nordstrom smash and grab, we allocated five extra positions paid for out of our COVID relief money to Walnut Creek PD to help increase the police presence downtown. With Measure O funds this year, we not only continued those by because that COVID funding was short term funding. So now we've moved in and backfill with Measure O funding to keep those five positions going. So a strong police presence downtown is an important part of crime prevention. For example, the recent smash and grab at Louis Vuitton, the officers were there in under a minute because there's already somebody there and they basically really interrupted in the middle of the smash and grab. The other thing we did is add a analytical crime prevention specialist to Walnut Creek PD so that they could better understand. And you can see the benefits of those kinds of things with the recent arrest at Lulu Lemon. They had formed good connections for immunity. And so when people show up with three to $5,000 worth of Lulu Lemons that they are returning to the store, it was instantly recognized as a problem. And they came in and managed to arrest the people that were allegedly fencing the stolen Lulu Lemon. And I think two other people in the car were also arrested. So getting more analytical about what the smash and grab and increasing the presence downtown. And we do have the bollards up on Broadway Plaza on either end of the street. Our staff worked really hard behind the scenes to figure out how they could get people to circulate past lifetime and pass the restaurants at one end of it. And we're going to keep that close through the holidays and then take another look at it at the end of the holidays. And that's the basic physically. No, you need a lot of drive cars through the windows of stores along that part of the street and police the fire department. But yeah, there's no decision, as we said earlier, as a black and white decision. The other thing that the police department is doing is they're working with other police departments. And there is a, I think, countywide gang thing. They're looking at the dark web. They're monitoring all the social media to find out what the gangs are doing. And it is a significant gang. I read in the paper not too long ago that they got to one of the distribution centers where all the thefts were taken so that they could distribute it out and sell it on the web. You got to be really careful. They make money and you got to be really careful when you're looking at what you're buying because it could be stolen property. If it's too cheap, it's either stolen or fake. Well, and when we talk about organized retail theft and the reason why it's organized is they have distribution centers. Like, I just want to emphasize that for people, this is not somebody coming in and swiping some one item. This is planned hits, targeted, well thought out crimes with a network of people to make it profitable for them, both on the web or returning items in the store or whatnot. And that's one of the keys to attacking this. When we were seeing the Rolex watch thefts, they figured out where those Rolex watches were going. And that's one of the ways they tackled that. It wasn't just who's stealing them. It's what are they doing with them after they steal them? That helps find the solution to these problems. And the chief made it very clear that they also need to rely on the citizenry. If you see something that's going awry and makes you nervous, please make sure that you report it to the police. The best eyes on the streets are the people who are there and seeing things happen. So it requires a teamwork of almost everybody to be affected in terms of preventing and or stopping and catching these bad acts. If the old expression at the airport, if you see something, say something. So let's come back to the original topic. What are some vital thoughts that you want to share with people who might be considering to run or starting to run a campaign for the first time? Words of wisdom, inspiration, whichever direction you want to take that. I think we've seen some real challenges in our democracy. And I think what you have at the local level is the elected offices that most directly impact people's lives. And part of the way we keep our democracy strong is we care about those things at the local level and we hold people accountable. We look closely at what people are saying when they're running and we make an informed vote. That's the undercarriage for all of democracy. And democracy is something that is a bit challenged these days and we have an obligation to double it down and support. So looking at it from where I was when I first decided to run, I had been around City Hall. I'd been a volunteer at Diablo Regional Arts. I knew people. I knew what the city was doing. I had a pretty broad understanding about this wasn't just a finance job. It wasn't just this. It is a broad, you can't tell what's going to come, could be argument over how many chickens somebody could have in their backyard. Or it could be when they're a multi-million dollar building goes a certain place. There's no way you can be totally prepared for everything. It's hard work to run. There's walking. There's coming up with money to pay for even the cheapest of campaigns. And I used to treasure them. That's another reason I got into politics is people keep asking me if I'd be their treasurer, they're hard to know how to finance. They're hard to know how to put together a strong campaign. We're still learning how to do it in social media. And that's a whole different skill that we don't have. So it's hard work to run and it convinces you that if I've done this hard work, I deserve to give it back. And then you be patient with yourself for the first couple of years if you do get elected. It's like drinking water from an ocean. It just all comes at you at once and you have to adjust. And the reason I ran the second time was because I figured I needed to give back to the city my learning time so that I felt better and I wasn't shortchanging what I promised the citizens to do. So maybe the next question is, what do I look for? What do I hope are the skills of the person that runs for city council? First of all, like I said, it's the ability to listen. It's the ability to not layer your opinion on everything that you hear. It's the ability to learn quickly and to adapt. It's the ability to admit when you don't know and ask for help so that you get the necessary background training. And it doubly helps to have a good sense of humor because there are just times when if you only focus on what the job is, you're going to lose all your duot-a-by, duot-a-by. And so it should be a person who has a good sense of proportion too. Cindy, I bet you've got something to add. Well, I think you get on it. It's the ability to listen, the ability to come at it with an open mind, the ability to recognize. Sometimes when you hear people running for an office like this, they say, I am going to do this. But you're one of five. And if you can't get three people to agree, you're not going to get your way. So you have to learn how to work with the other council members to craft solutions that work across everybody's interests. And that's those are the most effective council members. We have a relatively high functioning council in Walnut Creek, but you look around at other cities and it's not always the case. There are places where people don't agree and it's hard to get the three votes and sniping at each other in social media and things like that. You have to be able to look at an issue, understand it, and then look for the solution that works for at least three of your council. I would also add to that is both of you, as you talked about your experience that benefited you both on council, but as well as your interests, you're both very involved in the city and your neighborhood and your communities beforehand, whether it was back when your kids were in school, you were in leadership positions, volunteering at the schools or in their sports. You were volunteering beforehand. And so I would really encourage people who are looking at running, get involved before you're looking at running, know your community, build relationships that will help you be succeed both in the campaign and in the office to maximize those relationships. The best experience I had preparing me for city council was the six or seven years I was a soccer referee for India soccer. There were times it didn't make any difference.Nobody agreed with it. So, yeah, well, and I love the optimism and enthusiasm that some candidates bring to the table. But I remember one time I was listening to a candidate and it was somebody that I really respected, but they did not have very much experience with the city government. And they're like, oh, and we should bring together everybody that works on homelessness. We should have like a task force with it. I'm like, oh, we should have the Walnut Creek homeless task force where the task force includes the homeless services, the city, the county, the faith community. Yeah. That's been running for a while. They didn't even know what they didn't know. And know what you don't know if you're going to be open minded to learn. Yeah. Yes. It's a good takeaway from that. So I really appreciate the two of you being here today. By the time this airs, we should have a rotation. So it is Mayor Pro Tem Luella Haskell, who will likely be the mayor at the time this airs and Councilwoman Cindy Darling, who will be likely based on that order, Mayor Pro Tem as we head into the 2024 calendar year. So I appreciate them both being here and their time today. And hopefully everybody in our audience continue to learn this. Please hit subscribe and follow up and get notices about every episode here on the Capstone Conversation. Thank you both. Thank you. Thank you. 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A highlight from Avalanche Skyrockets Gaming Bull Run Begins
"All right, today we're going to dive into some blockchain game wars that I think you guys are going to want to listen to. We're going to be breaking down a lot of projects and also giving you some insights as to where maybe some of these game companies are going to be going. It's going to be a good one. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back to the Tech Path. All right, let's get started. I do want to thank our sponsor today, and that is Tangem. If you are looking at a self -custody wallet, which you probably are, maybe jumping into crypto for your first time and you're thinking, I want to park some of my crypto off of exchanges. This is one of the tools that you can do it. All you have to go and do is go over to tangem .com. You can jump right into one of their cards. One of the things you're going to like here is the flexibility of both the card and the app versus using a hardware wallet. You know what I'm talking about. It's very simple. You get a three -card set, keep one with you, park the other two, hide them up, and then use it anytime you need to do a transaction right there on your phone, both iOS and Android. Make sure and check it out. You get an initial discount by just using our code, so we'll leave one down below. Make sure and check it out. It helps out. Now, I know everybody was kind of dogging us a little bit about my statement last week, a reference to the situation around Alluvium and them being on Avalanche. I just want to kind of clarify, there's a lot of research that comes, of course, across our desk here, and some of it is through things that we just are constantly perusing. One of the things that really kind of caught our eye was what was happening over on BeamHub. And BeamHub right here, as you can see, and our team tells me that this used to say coming soon, even though it says popular Alluvium Arena. And so the theory is that maybe there's going to be some action here of Alluvium on Avalanche at some time. So that's just, I just want to get that out there, kind of get it away because I know everybody was kind of freaking out about that earlier. I want to get into a couple of tweets. We'll kind of start right here, Coinbase Exchange, adding support for Solana and Avalanche Perpetual Futures. This course is in the international exchange. Now why is this? It's very simple. Both Solana and Avix, very active in the gaming ecosystem and the likelihood of moving and seeing a lot of growth, I think, in the coming months and years for blockchain gaming and Web3. Overall, this is a good move by Coinbase for sure, and I think eventually we may see some stuff like that here in the US, but right now we've got to deal with what we've got to deal with. And of course, that's just getting Coinbase past their lawsuit with the SEC. If you have not checked out our full playlist on Avalanche, go check it out. It's going to give you a full rundown of a lot of the projects, some of the games, some of the SocialFi experiences, all sorts of things that we've covered over the months and years with the Avalanche team, many of their devs, all that, executives, et cetera. Check it out. You guys will like it. It's a good playlist to get kind of indoctrinated into understanding what's happening in gaming, and why Avalanche is going to probably be one of the top ones out there. So why are so many crypto games are switching chains or calling it quits? And there's some reasons here. I want to kind of highlight a couple of points here. Let me kind of zoom out on this. There's a few things that I want to focus in on. 81 % of current blockchain games use non -gaming -focused layer 1s, so that's one reason. Early on, they're going to have to move into some of these layer 2s. 74 % of games are now choosing an EVM network, like Solana's virtual machine. Comes in a distant second, making up about 10 % of games, and this is in comparison to what's happening over on Ethereum and Polygon. ETH sidechain Polygon remains a top choice. You can kind of see the chart right here. And the number, Solana looks like they're number four, ETH number three, and obviously BNB and Polygon pretty much holding the top two spots, so something to be aware of. 65 of % blockchain games move networks, so this year, up from 48 games switching things up across all of 22. So a little bit of activity. Could be something happening there, I think, on the sense of urgency, meaning that people are probably realizing, okay, we've been building, we're at that time now where the market is going to start heating up, we need to be ready, and we need to be on the blockchain that we're going to be on. So I would agree that it's a good strategy move. 60 % of games that left a layer one network moved to a layer two scaling network. This is all based on fees. It's the situation that really kind of boils down to everything. As more people have migrated to Polygon, this is one of the developers, we just started to run into scaling issues with Polychain, and we're paying between $3K and $4K a day on gas. Just untenable, so this is preventing us from both scaling and the game. So that's a problem I think eventually will be solved with some advancements in Polygon tech that will eventually get that into a scalable solution for the growth that we're going to see around gaming in general. Also want to take a look quickly, just so you guys are aware, Polygon soared last week after IMAX Immutable, a Web3 gaming platform, shook hands with video game giant Ubisoft. So similarly, Solana has also been favored by institutional investors recently, getting some attention of top crypto whales, which I think both those tokens in general, but more importantly, the vision of what these tokens represent. That's the thing that I think a lot of people are going to continue to see happening for sure. So, very interesting, I'd love to get your feedback. When you look at all the chains, whether it's what's happening, or within the ecosystems, if you're looking at IMAX or you look at Immutable, you look at what's happening within Solana or even Polygon, maybe Avalanche. Is it something that you would focus in one particular area or games within one particular area? Let me know, drop some comments down below. Make sure and smash the like button is one of the ways that we understand what you guys really want here on the show. One other thing, I want to kind of go into a few tweets, this of course coming in from Sandeep over at Polygon. It's easy to price talk, this is obviously with the price changing and moving so quickly over the last few days. It's hard to discuss fundamentals, fundamentals have the last laughs, I always agree with that. And I think this is something also, hopefully we're supposed to get Sandeep on the show. He's been scheduled a couple of times, we're going to try to get him on the show, hopefully before year end to give you guys kind of an update of what's happening at Polygon. Here's Robbie Ferguson from Immutable. Are you getting it, Hanon? I don't know if that's a message or not. We'll see. Anyway, Assassin's Creed, Maker Ubisoft is building a crypto gaming experience with Immutable. And I think this is something that we're going to continue to see a lot of major partnerships really make their way into some of these projects that I think are good for the industry, but more importantly are good for this cycle. And what I mean by that is, and everybody always asks me, you know, what's going to be the big winners this time around? I totally believe that it is going to be gaming. We thought gaming was going to be the last bull run metaverse kind of play. Many of these projects just were not ready. Many of these, you know, blockchains weren't ready. Now it's a different story. And when you think about that, look at what is happening with Avalanche. Why are AAA game studios choosing Avalanche? They're on a full PR run right here, and you can kind of see some of the things that you have to kind of focus in on with Avalanche. Shrapnel, Gunzilla, build on Beam, we've been talking about that. Again, Beam, definitely one that I'm watching very closely just in reference to the token itself. Obviously Shrapnel, we've had Shrapnel team on our show. Great graphics. Gunzilla, just the ability for them to be able to kind of leverage both traditional and Web3 I think is going to be a pretty big deal. Now let's remember some guys in the moves that you guys will probably recognize. This of course is Ryan White. And Ryan was over at Polygon, and now he's moved over to Optimism. So I knew he wouldn't stay out of the business long. And the interesting thing since Optimism, this is just something that you have to look at, if you look at Optimism in general, a little bit of activity here, this is just on the price. Market cap right here as you can kind of see it exploding a little bit, 1 .6 billion currently. And if you look at the Explorer token unlocks, there are some things getting ready to unlock in a big way here. So I don't know, could be some action going on here. So I would just be very aware of that. If you are looking at or really analyzing Optimism OP as a whole, just something to be aware of. There's getting ready to be a pretty significant unlock. What does that mean? It means that we're going to see a dump. For some of you guys who have not seen or been around the crypto markets very long, if you haven't subscribed to the channel, eventually you'll start to get and understand kind of the vernacular that we use and what the industry use, follow crypto Twitter religiously and make sure and follow the projects themselves. Because a lot of times there's a lot within the projects and the devs within those projects that can be looked at that can kind of set you on a research role that I think you'll pay attention to. A good example, a tweet from Alexander from Scott Mavis, Axie Infinity, if you guys are, maybe you have been around crypto gaming for a while, you know Axie, but if you haven't read up on it, learn a little bit more about what Axie did because they were really one of the first ones out there. Now what he's talking about here was in reference to a show we did last week where we released a PBN exclusive and that was Roblox talking about introducing NFTs into Roblox. This was actually the piece that Alexander is talking to specifically. It was an interview with Squawkbox and the CEO of Roblox and it was all about the potential for NFTs. Short answer, yes they're going to be planning, it's coming into their roadmap and I think that was what Alexander of course is kind of referencing is that hey they've been involved with Roblox often and of course they've got investments from them and plans for Ronan and Axie and all that starting to play together. Point being is that there's a lot of intersection between what's happening in traditional gaming, Web 2, and what is getting ready to happen in Web 3, which is why everybody needs to be paying attention. This is a good example right here, Gala Games putting out a simple tweet, never short on Web 3. You'll notice this little icon right here guys, does anybody recognize that? I'm going to zoom in on that just for you guys a little bit. Right there, does anybody recognize that? Yeah, well that's IMX because they bought the hashtag and now every time that's being used, kudos to Robbie, you just punked everybody on crypto Twitter for sure. Interesting stuff out there. Games are being played in many ways right now and it's more than the kind of blockchain games that we're thinking about coming our way. Alright rolling out another topic, of course many of you guys have probably heard us talk about Zilliqa way back in the day. Well they're active again and guess what, they're making the Fusion Gaming Hub, the first ever Web 3 gaming platform available for download through the Microsoft Store. It's real guys, there's a Web 3 platform called Fusion, right there Fusion, on the Microsoft Store and you'll kind of get here Web 3, some of the things that are happening there. I don't know, I'm just, we'll see. But the point is, is that someone's going to be first and of course this is interesting that this was the case. Alright further into it, let's go over here, Chili's on the move again, likely to be on the move for some time with this move right here, announcing that Animoca Brands joins Chili. Chili's as a new validator, so they aligned the blockchain innovation with Chili's Sportfi, we've talked to Chili's before, we've went around Chili's and if you don't know about Chili's check out some of our videos because we do a full breakdown. Think of it really as a blockchain for the fans of a lot of these major sports leagues and this could be everything from MMA to soccer, etc, you know, European football for those of you in Europe. And then another one I want to hit on of course, this is Yat -Su right there, starting to rev up the engines with of course Torque. We had the Torque, well rev on their team on, so we were dropping a video this week, you guys are going to not want to miss it, make sure and check it out, this is just giving you kind of a precursor. Another thing that we've got coming is an interview with the HiveMapper team and if you guys don't know about HiveMapper, this is the company that is really expanding mapping in the blockchain and what that might mean for every kind of company out there in logistics, all that. This is the utility scenario that plays into a lot of that. So just, it's a good one to watch, we're going to drop a video on that this week as well. Alright, just as an example, this of course as everybody understands, Atlas was one of the first movers out and of course that as we've seen with in terms of their amazing development as a game overall. Others to watch this week, Uniswap we're kind of keeping a close eye on, if you're watching some of our videos you'll know why, go back and look at our video a little bit more on stablecoins tokenization and around that. Other ones to keep an eye on, I want to kind of scan down in here, this is Chiliz, this is the one that we just mentioned a second ago. This is another one to keep an eye on and a handful of others, there's obviously Wild, we've talked about Wilderworld before, over, a couple others you might want to take a look at. Anyway, the point is that we're starting to see a little bit of activity in Web3 around a lot of these games and eventual platforms of what's gonna play into the future of gaming as a whole. Alright, if you guys are not part of the Diamond Circle, make sure and get in right now, it's one of the best places that you can get additional alpha from us. Couple of podcasts, Kyle has his Web3 and business podcast over there, it's a great one, listen to that one. And if you want to follow me out there on X, it's at Paul Baron, catch you next time right here on Tech Path.
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"Sherry Preston. International negotiators including CIA director Willian Burns are working around Israel the clock and trying Hamas to convince to extend their ceasefire. So far more than 80 hostages have been released. There is another exchange set for today in Tel Aviv. ABC's Matt Cutman. They might be the final hostages released unless there's negotiators in Qatar working around the clock including CIA director Burns can hammer out an extension to this deal. And the big question, will any of the nine American citizens still believe held in Gaza be on that list? We understand that two of them are women and should be eligible. One in her 40s, one in her 70s. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is in Brussels talking with NATO leaders about the situation in Ukraine and about the possibility of a longer truce in the Middle We're working on that every single day and I expect to take that up tomorrow when I'm in Israel meeting with with the government and again we have other colleagues in the government who are intensely working on it. Major lake effect snow hitting the Great Lakes. Cleveland and Buffalo digging out this morning. Buffalo got more than a foot of snow. What's going on with Mark Cuban? He's making some big life changes including selling his precious Dallas Mavericks. Mark Cuban was in his usual courtside last seat night's for Dallas Mavericks -Houston Rockets showdown even as the internet blazed with news of the purchase of a controlling interest in the team by Las Vegas casino magnet Miriam Adelson. Earlier in the week acknowledged Cuban that he's leaving the ABC TV reality show Shark Tank. At 65 Cuban is in good shape and while he's talked of running for president a source tells Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA that his decisions are not based on his health or any political plans. Jim Ryan ABC News Dallas GM pre -tax earnings took a billion dollar hit this year because the auto workers strike however the company says it expects to absorb the costs of the new contract and tells investors this morning it's even raising its dividend this is ABC News. Finding great candidates to hire can be like well trying to find a needle in a haystack sure you can post your job some to job board but then all you can do is hope the right person comes along which is why you should try ZipRecruiter for free at ZipRecruiter .com slash free ZipRecruiter doesn't depend on candidates finding you it's powerful technology identifies people with the right experience and actively invites them to apply to your job you get qualified candidates fast so while other companies might deliver a lot of hay
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A highlight from Is Solana The Next Ethereum Killer
"Can a Solana overtake Ethereum? We're seeing a lot of metrics that have a lot of people, their heads are spinning. They're surprised. They don't know what's happening. They don't know why Solana keeps continuing to pump, or we're seeing a lot of positive numbers. We're seeing active users skyrocketing. And also we're getting listed on Perpetual's futures on a very major exchange. You're going to want to check this out. This is Discover Crypto. Thank you for joining everybody. Welcome back, Rodney. We're talking about some altcoins. And now we're not going to talk about ranked 8 ,000 meme coins. Is that okay? We're talking about Solana. I guess we could talk about... Everybody's talking about Grok, I thought. That's right. Grok. Well, yeah. It was like, what? Maybe a top 200 at this point. Hit $186 million market cap. I just saw Kyle Chasse tweet, or Chasse tweet. He's like, I bought the top. Ah. You know, so it happened. As they do. Did you get in on Grok, Rodney? I did not get in on Grok. I faded Grok at 20 million. Sorry. Excuse me for not buying a meme coin. You know. It went up to 150, right? So you missed out on about a seven and a half X. It's still sending, yeah. All right. So you're only missing out on a 10X so far. So far, it's a 10X. But Rodney, you just got in last night, correct? Yes, sir. Yeah. How was that? How was it flying into the Atlanta airport? I heard it's... My fiance, she has Follow Atlanta now, and they're shutting down the whole airport. Apparently, it's like, you know, entire hallways are like two foot wide. What was your experience? Well, I actually drove here from Charlottesville, Virginia, so it was an eight hour drive, but very nice. Got to listen to Joe Rogge on the way here. Some of my favorite cryptocurrency channels. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, speaking of cryptocurrency, let's just get right into the stories here, folks. We are going to talk about Solana in a bit, but first, let's look at the crypto market. We have Bitcoin down about 1%. Let me go ahead and hit refresh just in case we're getting a little bit fresher. All right. Bitcoin down 1%. But Ethereum is up about 2 % right now, XRP down 2 .5%. Solana is cooling off, folks. Solana is almost down to 5 % along with Cardano, but both of them had a positive week. Solana just had a 10 times better week than Cardano there, 38 % to a 3 .8 % pump there. So if you're holding Solana over Cardano, you're feeling pretty good. If you're holding both, you're wondering, you're looking at your Cardano bag, poking it with the stick, like the meme, come on, do something, do something. It'll happen eventually, folks. Just trust me. Then we have Chainlink down to 5 .5 % as well, but Matic is up. But we look, look at Celestia, Tia, Tia is up. We were talking about Tia, Tia is up 25%, 125 % for the week. Now, TJ, did you see any Tia actually, you saw Celestia? I mean, I know it's Drew's wife's name, so he's been big on it, but he actually, I think was talking about Celestia. Yeah, we did a short on it a while back. We noticed it when it very first popped out. Obviously it's strong in some of the Asian markets, a competitor, so to speak, coming out of nowhere. We're seeing, we're moving up very quickly through the top 100. I think it's ranked 65, 68, something like that right now. I mean, it was under 100 a week or two ago when we first covered it. Definitely something to keep an eye on. And this is something that's important that I wanted to mention on today's stream. As we're getting into a new bull market, there's a lot of different ways to look at different altcoins and value different things. When you're building out your portfolio, there's something to be said for projects that have been around for a little while that you know are going to perform into the bull market. Again, we've looked at them a lot. They're in the top 20s, top 50s, the Maddox, the Mutables, the avalanches, the Solanas, kind of the big performers of the last cycle. However, the ones that tend to have the most explosive gains can be the things that are launching around this time, the newer things. It'll be interesting to see if that trend proves through in this cycle. But Tia, Celestia would be one of those ones that it looked like tech had been around for a while, the team had been around for a while, and they were waiting for the right time to launch to really capture attention in this bull market. So watching how those perform over the next few months, I do think is going to be key. We're going to be doing a deep dive on Celestia coming up in the next week or so. I have some of that going into the works. But watching layer ones, layer twos in the narratives, obviously, in this cycle, I think is going to be a good strategy if you're looking to make those gains. All right. But speaking of gains, we also have the other side of the coin, and that's the losses, folks. The biggest loser is Rollbit for the day, down 10 percent and then Kronos. But if you look at the week here, the biggest loser is Trust Wallet and then followed by XRP. Oh, no. XRP was the number two loser for the week, folks. So it's just interesting to see a top five coin be one of the biggest losers right there. Nio, Nio as well. Nio is down now. Nio is on a video I'm working on right now, the top five coins out of Asia, everybody. And Nio is one of the five. So that might be one. All right. I'll be joining in in a second here. But I think it's time for us to talk a little Solana here. Now, Rodney, what are your broad thoughts on Solana as a sign in real quick? Yeah, well, I think that could be one of the bigger comeback stories of this next run, because really the reason why it dumped down so much, because look at everything dumped during the bear market. But the reason why it dumped down significantly was the negative association it had with Almeida Research, Sam Beckman Fried and stuff like that. But now that we're putting all that stuff behind us, it's probably going to recover. I mean, beside what the occasional network outage is, it's actually a pretty solid project. So a lot of people bought that dip understanding that the reason why it was down wasn't because of function. It was because of the negative publicity. Just like Elon Musk going on Joe Rogan's show, smoking some, you know, green and then dumping Tesla stock. Yeah, I always talk about that podcast. I saw that podcast and I remember thinking, oh, wow, this guy is incredibly bright. I would want to own Tesla stock. A lot of people say, oh, yeah, let's dump it. Well, Solana is overtaking Ethereum by active users after a 70 % spike. Everybody let's look at some of the numbers here. So this is according to Arnimix, they had 356 ,000 unique users on Saturday beating Ethereum's 330 ,000. So beat them by 26 ,000 right there. The milestone was driven by a sharp uptick with the network hosting only 200 ,000 just one week ago, less than a week ago. So it was $100 ,000 less. For comparison, ETH consistently holds around 300 to 350 with two brief spikes above 400k in a surge of more than 1 million wallets. But the price of Solana has plummeted. Is it still more than 96 % from 2021 high of 250 bucks? Does that sound right? I don't know about 96%. Yeah, no, no, that's not right. At one point, at one point when it fell to $10 in January, active addresses on the network shrank 85 % from over a million, 1 .28 to around 200 ,000 this September, according to the block. But Solana refused to stay down and now it is up 145 % just in the past four weeks. So everyone holding on to the profit feel good. And then some analysts have been quick to pronounce that Solana has flipped Ethereum by active users due to the recent uptick. However, the ecosystem has expanded beyond its base layer with the majority of ETH activity now taking place on layer two. So Solana may surpass Ethereum, but there's a giant asterisk because if you want to incorporate little activity, two well, Ethereum, the EVM as a whole greatly surpasses Solana there. But TJ, what do you think about Solana ever surpassing Ethereum as far as, you know, being the number one chain? What odds would you, would you put it less than 5%, less than 1 %? No, I think what you just said really matters there by what metric, right? You know, so you've got transactions, you've got daily active users, you've got a market cap, you've got volume, you know, there's so many different metrics to measure a chain by. So I could see it passing it in transactions one day. That's what it's designed for, right? If you get some good, if you get some good games running on it, you could see it hit higher active users, higher transaction or, you know, but volume, probably not, you know, like DeFi is going to most likely live on Ethereum for the foreseeable future. We talked about that a little bit last week. The ecosystem really matters there. And so I think what we're seeing right now in price gains in the short term, sure, it could, it could outperform there. And I think part of what we should talk about here today is why we saw all that price movement happening over the weekend. And I think, I think you've got my screen here, BJ, you can pull it in here, but some of the factors that came up on this article on Cointelegraph, why Solana Price woke up this week, it really has to do with, you know, obviously FTX getting reopened back up. A lot of people thinking there's less likely for Alameda and what's held on the FTX balance sheet, less likely to dump.
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"Interactive Brokers charges USD margin loan rates from 5 .83 % to 6 .83 % rated the lowest margin fees by stockbrokers .com. Their clients can also earn extra income by lending their fully paid shares of stock. Join Interactive Brokers clients from 200 plus countries and territories to invest in stocks, options, futures, funds, and bonds on 150 global markets. Rates subject to change. Learn more at ibkr .com compare. Hosting a gain on the week. Remember those first three days of the week even though we were in the green it was relatively tepid gains here so the strength that we're seeing here on this Friday really just kind of clawing us back I think to kind of where we were about a week ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is gonna finish out the day higher up by about 1 % or about 390 points and change. The S &P 500 higher by about 68 points or 1 .6 % and if an official close above 4400 4415 and change which is also above that 100 day moving average. Meanwhile the NASDAQ composite higher by almost 300 points or 2 % on the day and for once the Russell 2000 decides it actually wants to play along up a percent on the day. Alright well that's pretty broad -based at least in the S &P 500. Peeling back the layer there Scarlett you see 436 stocks in the S &P 500 higher today only 65 moving lower. I feel bad for whoever's doing decliners Scarlett. Yeah that'll be me later on. I look at the New York Stock Exchange almost three stocks higher for everyone that is lower and that it's pretty much reflected in the industry groups as well. Chip companies are the best performers on the day and for the week as well up about five and a half percent this week. Software services and autos that's really Tesla bringing up the rear in terms of the best three performing groups. In terms of laggards because all the industry groups are higher food beverage and tobacco telecom and farmers so the more traditional defensive sectors are not doing as well today. Alright let's take a look at what's going on.
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A highlight from CARPE CONSENSUS: Moving on From Sam Bankman-Fried
"This is Carpe Consensus. Join hosts Ben Shiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto. Hello and welcome to Carpe Consensus. This is a podcast from the CoinDesk Podcast Network. I am Benjamin Shiller, Features Editor here at CoinDesk. And joining me today is Danny Nelson. He is the co -host. And also Helene Braun. She is a reporter here at CoinDesk. And we're going to be talking about the SBF trial, which just wrapped up last week with the former founder of FTX being found guilty on seven counts of federal fraud and related charges. And that was a pretty big deal for the crypto industry and certainly here for CoinDesk as we broke the story originally. So Danny, what was it like to be there at the end of the trial there with the verdict? Yeah, I got to say it was unexpectedly emotional, right? So for five weeks, we heard all these co -conspirators, these insiders who pled guilty to various crimes, testifying against Sam saying he made me do this, he told me to do that. Caroline, Nishad and Gary all coming with their very powerful stories. And then at the end, Sam testified and then he was bad for him. I know, weird thing to say. I don't feel like he is innocent or I don't think he's not guilty rather. He's definitely guilty. He's guilty as hell. But watching him in the courtroom, watching his parents there, I just felt like this sense of, wow, I felt the gravity of the moment. And I don't know, we should lock him up, but we shouldn't give him 115 years. This is a hot take, I know. Maybe we can get into the rights and wrongs of how long he's going to get. Helene, what about you? How did you feel when you saw the verdict being read out? Yeah, I did not feel bad for him at all, especially after we heard all the closing statements. We heard two different closing statements from Assistant US Attorney, Danielle Cezune, and they were very compelling and very convincing. And I felt like there was this moment in her closing argument where I looked at Sam and it just felt like he finally realized that this was it for him. There was no going back. His defense was just not good enough. And I think the jurors knew too. And at that point I was just like, I hope he gets 150 years or 200 years. I don't feel bad for this guy. All the evidence that we've heard was just crazy to me. So no, I totally disagree with Danny. I think he deserves to be in prison for the entirety of his life. Right. So you mentioned the defense there. I mean, there seemed to be a consensus amongst lawyers that we spoke to about the trial and the defense that he didn't get a very good service on that score. I mean, how much of a difference do you think that actually made? I mean, it seems like a structural set of circumstances where he would get a guilty verdict anyway, and most people expected him to go to jail. But do you think if he had a better defense, he could have gotten a better sentence or a better verdict? Yeah, I think it's interesting because in the beginning of the trial, it sort of felt like the defense wasn't trying very hard. And I think it must be so funny if you're Mark Cohen, the defense attorney that Sam was represented by, to read all these articles about you and bad of a lawyer you are and how bad of the defense strategy you have from all these, you know, journalists that have nothing to do with the law and are attorneys themselves, and they're just judging your work, basically. But I think in his closing statements, I could see that he was trying really hard and that I think he was he had hope for his defense. I don't know. He's supposed to be good. I don't know. I was wondering that, too, if is he supposed to be a really good lawyer or is he just the guy that all the bad guys go to? He's the only one who is willing to defend them. From what I've heard, I think Mark Cohen is a fine lawyer, but that's the name of the game when you're a defense attorney. Your clients, especially the more outspoken ones like Sam Pink and Fried, you're not going to win all your cases. And if you have a really bad deck, well, that's the deck you have to play with. And he went to trial with this guy who had so much evidence against him. I think it was very insurmountable. So, sure, maybe he wasn't as quick on his feet with some of the strategic and tactical things in the courtroom, like objections and phrasing of questions and things like that. But if you have all these people testifying against your client, and then when your client takes a stand, you can't get him to sound the way that an innocent person would sound. And also, you have to remember, before the trial even began, the trial would go. The judge wouldn't allow the defense to bring in all of Sam's philosophical arguments. They wouldn't allow him to bring defensive counsel arguments. He went to trial with a losing hand, and it's not completely his fault that the trial ended up going against his client. Right. I mean, I have to say I agree with you, Danny, about feeling a little bit sorry for SBF. I mean, both things can be true. On the one hand, you can say this guy was a fraud, he was a criminal, he took a lot of people's money, and he spent it lavishly and irresponsibly. On the other hand, he is a human being. To get this huge sentence, he could go away for 115 years at maximum, seems like a rather excessive amount of time. And there is an argument out there that he is very much the fall guy for the industry, and the guy who's kind of taking the rap for a lot of cultural problems in the industry and a kind of lax, general corporate governance culture out there. I mean, there were VC funds that put millions of dollars, billions of dollars into FTX without doing any due diligence. And that's not a criminal act, but it was an act of cultural indifference or negligence that you could say contributed to this enormous folly. So, you know, I think there's a reasonable argument to say that he is taking the rap for the entire industry when maybe he doesn't quite deserve that kind of level of status here. What do you think about that, Danny? I don't know. I think it's a special kind of stupid to set up a company in the way he did. And sure, there's a lot of follies that crypto in general has committed, but just the arrangement between Alameda and FTX, and that's this whole case, right? That Alameda spent all this money from XTS customers. That is so unique, right? That doesn't even have to do with crypto. The way that this fraud was committed was mostly because people were wiring their money into Alameda Research to get it into FTX. So there was also the allow negative code and the let's borrow $65 billion code that was more crypto native, but I don't know. And, you know, look at me, I'm contradicting myself again, right? Because earlier in the episode, I'm saying, well, I feel bad for Sam and here I'm saying, well, he's guilty as hell. I don't know. I think there's room for both statements because it's very hard to watch someone's parents in the room when a guilty verdict is handed out. Like they're older, right? He's going to be locked up probably for the rest of their lives. I don't know. I just, I can't get over that scene in the courtroom. I did feel guilty. I'm sorry. I did feel bad for him. Did you steal the money? I did feel bad for him up until his testimony, because up until that point, all these people that he used to be friends with that were all part of the scheme to like, he wasn't just the only one that committed this fraud. All these other people, Caroline, Nashad, Gary, they're all part of this. And they all were put up on the sand as the good guys, so to say, just because they cooperated with the government and they told their side of the story. But his then testimony just showed that he is not remorseful at all. He still is trying to lie to people. He's still trying to talk himself out of this. And at that point, I was just like, it's too late for this. You're already in this trial. You're on the stand. It's time to look back and be a little bit remorseful and stop thinking that you're smarter than everybody else. I mean, do you think it would have made a difference if he was remorseful? Well, if he was remorseful, he wouldn't be convicted even faster. Yeah, except because he can't really be remorseful because in his opinion, he's not guilty. Right? So what's he going to say to the jury? He could say something like, I'm sorry, the people got hurt and I made mistakes and something like that. Well, he did say that. That was the very first thing he said, basically. And then after that, everything was basically, I don't remember. He decided to say it because he had to. Helene, among the witnesses that flipped on Sam, who's the biggest villain? Like you sat through that whole thing too. Who do you walk away feeling the least bad for and who do you feel the most bad for? I feel like there are easy answers here. I feel the least bad for Caroline just because literally just because of that tape that we heard from that meeting in November where she told her employees that it was kind of fun to, you know, steal money. She obviously didn't explicitly say it like that, but she said it was fun. She sounded a little crazy in that recording. So after her testimony, after hearing that recording, I thought, wow, she's definitely not the innocent little girl that everybody says she is. She certainly knew what she was doing. And she certainly, you know, she's certainly guilty as well. So I feel the least bad for her. The person that I felt really, really bad for wasn't a shot. Okay. But I also don't know if that's just because he's very soft spoken. He has a very low voice. He seems like a very sweet guy. So it could just be a front that he put on for his testimony. I have the opposite answers, actually, like a complete opposite. I feel like Caroline from reading the Michael Lewis book, which is sympathetic to Sam, but also some of the things that were said about Caroline were repeated by the government in their narrative. Caroline just comes off to me as someone who was completely, I guess the word I would use is submissive in every aspect of this business and personal relationship. And I don't feel bad for her at all, but I feel the least bad for her, even though she did big fraud. I think that Nishad, though, is next level evil. He presents himself, like you say, as this guy who is soft spoken. Oh, by the way, after he learned that the companies were stealing money from customers, he took out $3 million to personally buy a house. This wasn't like in furtherance of the scheme to keep it all afloat. This was so he could have a house, like personal enrichment. So I think it's all just a front. And Gary, I don't know how to read him. I think he just doesn't talk much. And he took the deal as soon as his lawyer said, we should make moves here. Do we know what the deals are with those collaborators who turned on SPF? I mean, will they be getting any jail time? We don't know that aspect of it. I would imagine that Gary will get the best deal because he offered himself up to the government before the government was even investigating. Caroline, she didn't speak until they raided her house. So you get negative points for that. And I don't know about Nishad, but I would expect Gary to get the best deal. Gary said he hopes that he doesn't get any jail time, though. And I think that could actually be the case, because we see in a lot of these white cases that those people or the witnesses that cooperate with the government actually get zero jail time. So I think that's a possibility, which would be crazy to me. Yeah, we'll probably get years of probation. So if they would violate the deal, then they would go right to jail. But I think Caroline might get some time. I don't know about Nishad, and I would expect Gary to get no jail time. Could we even see them back in the crypto industry? I highly doubt that that seems exceptionally unlikely. I think they want nothing to do with this. In fact, in other cases, the government, like for securities fraud, so some of them have some of them pled guilty to securities fraud. When you plead guilty to securities fraud, the government often makes you say, I will never work in the securities industry again. That probably means they shouldn't work in any of crypto, because most cryptos are securities. Bitcoin's not a security. Well, Bitcoin's not a security, too, and neither is Ether. But a lot of the other ones probably are. So if I were them, I would steer clear. I don't know. I think they've had their fair share of the crypto industry, and I don't think anybody needs to see them back in the industry. I think Adam Yedidia, who was one of the first witnesses, who was a senior software engineer at FTX, I think, or Alameda, he is a high school teacher now. Yeah, he's a math teacher. He seemed a little traumatized by this whole experience. Well, maybe in a few years' time, we can do a sort of where are they now article.
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We had four games that everybody thought were gonna be great and as it turned out, three of them were pretty good. One of which was a blowout. We'll get to all them here in a minute then of course we have our week 10 lines of five games that we're gonna focus on from our SI Sportsbook odds and then from there we also have the midseason awards that we have to get to as we are halfway home in the 2023 NFL season. Before we get to all that, let's welcome the other man of the tandem, Gil, what's going on man? How you been? Yeah, I'm doing well. Matt, as you know, I like to brag about my wins and complain about my losses and last week was a good week. I went 12 -2 with the picks but I am pretty disappointed that I betted against Joshua Dobbs. What a game, right? Unbelievable. I'm annoyed. You went 12 -2, I went 11 -3 and I feel like 11 -3 should have given me some bragging rights for the week and yet it did not happen. So I will say on the whole, our group, yourself, myself, Connor, Orr, Albert Breer, Mitch and John our editors and Claire, another editor of ours as well that does great work, I feel like everybody's picks have been really pretty good this year. There are some years you look at picks and go, oh my god, I'm barely above 500. Right now, I've got the sheep pulled up in front of me, so the best record is Albert who's 95 -41, went 11 -3 last week and then after that, Claire Kawana is right behind him with 92 wins and then in gold it says 87 wins and then it's myself, yourself, John and then Connor Orr at 75 and 65 pulling up the rear, so Connor's got to step up. Connor is bringing down the credibility of this entire group. That's not bad for last play, so 10 games over 500? His thing is, we all do our upset picks and he's done 50 upset picks. I think I've done like 16. So that's part of the reason, but yeah, the picks are good and of course people that want to can read those over at SI .com, we put them out every week. The editors are nice enough to put that together. All right, so last week, like I said, we had some great games. We had Chiefs Dolphins over in Germany and then we had Ravens, Seahawks, which we thought would be a great game, turned out to be a massacre, Late Window, Cowboys, Eagles, which was one of the wildest games I can remember seeing in quite some time and then of course we had Bills, Bengals at the end, the Sunday night game there and so like I said, we'll get to all those. Let's just start with how the day actually started. Over in Frankfort, Chiefs build up a 21 -0 lead on Miami. Miami comes back, makes it 21 -14. They had a couple drives at the end where they could have tied the game, even taken the lead if they went for two. They got into Kansas City territory both times, but both times ended up going backwards, lose the game. They dropped to 6 -3. Chiefs, of course, improved to 7 -2. Both teams go on their bye weeks. I'll So, let you set the stage here, Gilberto. What is it to you, is it more about the Dolphins that game or is it more about the Chiefs? It is more about the Dolphins because they can't beat a team with a winning record and don't tell me the Chargers are .500 and the Dolphins beat them. They barely got to .500, so I am concerned about the Dolphins, but I don't want to let the Chiefs off the hook, Matt, and I know you've been writing about this, but the Dolphins have been pretty average. It got to a point where now Mahomes is saying, yeah, we sting. We're pretty bad. Go talk about the defense. That defense is carrying us the entire season. You know what's kind of funny, Matt? This season, it feels like the team with the best defense might win the Super Bowl, and the Chiefs still have the best defense right now, it feels like, so it's kind of a weird irony, but you expect better from Mahomes and Kelsey, but the wide receivers, they can't create separation. And it wasn't for that awesome fumble, reverse play, whatever it was from Cook there. They would have probably lost a game there, but what's going on with the Dolphins offense? Averaging 17 points against the Bills, Eagles, and the Chiefs, so I go with the Dolphins there because I feel like the Chiefs could figure it out. It's halfway point in the season, they're just cruising by, and I think something will finally break out there, but I'll let you maybe talk about the Chiefs a little more. But the Dolphins, man, you're supposed to be the most explosive offense, highest scoring, and you can't even get a first down. It's like, do they have too many home run hitters? Too many touchdown makers? How about some chain movers? How about some first down people? How about some quick outs, and just get four or five yards, and everything just feels like a home run, and they don't adjust, and they don't kind of make end game adjustments because credit to the Chiefs, and Tyreek Hill said it too, they covered, there was great coverage on Tyreek Hill, so it's kind of one of those games where like, why not get a tight end that can help you out here? Why not get some guys that can make it easier? How about go to Raheem Oster a little more? He had like 12 carries, and he's averaging 7 .1 yards per carry, so I don't know what's going on with Mike McDaniel on two, and two was pretty bad in that second half there. Yeah, he had the touchdown to Cedric Wilson, but make some adjustments, Mike McDaniel, and stop going for the home run ball, Tua. Yeah, look, first of all, I agree, I think the Dolphins are the bigger storyline coming out of the game. Like, they've now played three really good teams, and they've lost all three of them, and they came back against Kansas City, but they were getting killed in that game too. They were 21 -0 midway through the third quarter, and frankly, if Chris Jones doesn't take one of the dumbest personal fouls you've ever seen, it's probably 21 -7, and we're having a different discussion. I think your point though, man, is good with the Dolphins in the sense of like, there's timing strung off. They're just dead in the water. They have no answer for it, and we've seen that now multiple times, this year and last year. Kansas City basically said, we're going to get up on the line of scrimmage, we're going to get our hands on Tyreek Hill, we're going to reroute them, we're going to cause problems. Look, who knows them better than the Chiefs, right? I mean, they know what can cause some issues, and they actually went back and watched practice tape of a couple years ago to try to figure out how to stop them. They went back and watched how they worked against him in team drills and practice, and tried to figure out some things, and it obviously worked. But from the Chiefs' angle of this, listen, the offense is a disaster, okay? They had 46 yards in the second half of the game in a turnover. But they're 7 -2 in the number one seed in the AFC because the defense is incredible, and they're just shutting people down left and right. If you go and look this year at teams that have played the Chiefs, nobody's thrown for 300 yards. Kirk Cousins came the closest. He was up in the higher 200s because he threw a million passes. But if you look at Gough's numbers, 253 yards, one touchdown, which was a good game. That was without Chris Jones that week. Trevor Lawrence, they didn't score a touchdown. He threw 41 times for 216 yards. Justin Fields threw for 99 yards. Zach Wilson, of all people, had one of the best days against him, 245 and two touchdowns. That game. wild And then you had Cousins, who went for 284 and two touchdowns on 47 attempts. Russell Wilson threw for 95 yards one game, and in the other game, the game that they won, he threw for 114. These teams, two I didn't throw for 200 yards. Nobody's throwing for yardage against them. They're second in the league in sacks, the first in pressure rate. They've got two elite corners in McDuffie and Sneet, and so, look, the question with Kansas City is obvious. Can this offense get going? Because if the offense gets going, they're probably the best team in the NFL. I mean, if they get even borderline top -10 production out of that offense, forget it. They have the week now to scout. I was texting with some people around the team, and I think there's a general thought of like, look, it's a bunch of little things that are throwing off the whole thing. Question is, how many of those little things can you fix in the next couple of months? The good news is you have Mahalem, you have Kelsey, you've got a good offensive line, you've got Andy Reid. The bad news is they have you and me at receiver. So, I mean, that's the question. My guess? They'll fix it to an extent. I don't think it's going to be a unit that you'll look at and go, oh my God, they're incredible. I think it's probably going to be a top -10 unit right around there at the end of the year. They're in the mix, but yeah, I agree, man. The Dolphins are definitely the thing that you'll look at right now, and the team you'll look at right now and go, all right, you're going to make the playoffs, but what are you going to do when you get there? Are you going to beat somebody good, or is there going to be a one -and -done? Matt, let me ask a quick question, because you watch this team closely, and I think I watch them good enough because they're always on prime time, but all these analytics people are saying, look at the EPA, look at the DVOA. They're top five in offense in all these categories, and I'm like, I get it. You keep showing me the numbers, but I keep watching the games, and the wide receivers are not that great. They're not scoring points. They had nine points against Denver, so I don't know what it is. Maybe when you said disaster, I'm like, okay, cool, because I was trying to play it safe. Maybe they're average because there's something here that I'm missing with the DVOA and the EPA. They're a disaster by their standards. By anyone else's standards, yeah, they're probably still an above -average offense, but by their standards, they're a train wreck. I will say this. People forget it because they won the Super Bowl last year. They were somewhat of a train wreck offensively the first half of last year, too. They had a bunch of games last year. They lost to the Colts last year. They muddled through a Chargers game that they ended up winning because of a pick -six that went 99 yards the other way. They struggled offensively against the Bills. They ended up beating the Raiders on a Monday night last year, but they were down 17 -0, and they needed to come back in that game. They were not good offensively for stretches of last season, and then they're them. In January, they cranked it up, and that was it. Even on one ankle, Mahomes did enough to win. But this has been the year before that. They were 3 -4 at the beginning of the year. They couldn't score a point in that season. That was the year Mahomes played, again, by his standards, not by anybody else's, but by his standards. He played poorly. You go to 2021, and they lost in the AFC title game. They were 3 -4, and then people say, oh, well, then they came out of it. They did in terms of that they won games. Their point totals after that 3 -4 start, they won 20 -17, 13 -7. Then they blew the Raiders out, scored 41, 19 -9, 22 -9. The last couple of years, they've had stretches like this, but by their standards, they're a disaster offensively right now. By the NFL's standards, they're probably somewhere between 10 -12th in the league offensively. So, got to take it for what it's worth. Yeah. All right. Let's get to the next game here. The Bengals and the Bills will go right to Sunday Night Football, speaking of a team that by their standards is an offensive disaster, despite what EPA will tell you. I'm not here to bag on the analytics, guys. I will tell you this. I'm a big eye test guy. You watch the Bills. My eye test, I don't care that they're fourth or whatever in EPA offensively. They have not been good over the last month and change. I don't think there's any way to say that otherwise. They go to Cincinnati. They made it a little bit closer at the end, but they were down 24 -10 with a few minutes left. They score a touchdown. They get the two, but they can't get the ball back. The Bengals now, 5 -3. Winners of four straight playing like we expected them to play at the beginning of the year. The Bills are 5 -4. It has been a struggle for them. They started the year 3 -1. Since then, they're 2 -3 going in the other direction. They have a very hard schedule. We'll get to that in a moment. What was your main takeaway from that Bengals -Bills game? Just the difference in quarterback play between Joe Burrow and Josh Allen and how to cover that game. I wrote about it. I kept seeing Joe Burrow moving around the pocket and extending plays. Then I look at the boxer, I'm like, wait, he has four rushing yards? I thought he ran for a bunch of yards. I know he had that one where he had the first down kind of signal. It's just when pressure comes, he knows how to move. It's smooth. It's not like he has to speed it up. He just says, okay, cool. You're right there, but I'm still going to do what I have to do and just extend plays. Matt, when it's Drew Sample and Tanner Hudson and Erskine Jr., Trenton Irwin, these guys are making plays. Then you look at Josh Allen, when the pressure comes, it looks difficult. It's chaotic. He has to kind of see what's out there and then, okay, force a throw or miss a throw. I get the Bengals defense is better than the Bills defense, so Burrow had maybe an easier time, but there was pressure. He was fighting pressure. I get it. The second there is not as good there, but it just seems harder for Josh Allen.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from MASSIVE XRP PUMP! (Ethereum Not Done Yet!)
"Today is a great day to have a new set in crypto. How are we all doing today? It's 11 -6. It's November 6th. It's 11 -32. Sorry. It's 10 -33am. How are we all doing today? We got a new set. We got some new people. This is going to be phenomenal. Look at that lighting down below, folks. It's lovely. I'm loving it. Hey, chat, let us know what you think about it. But guys, we're going to be talking about XRP. Why is XRP pumping? What is going on with Ethereum? Is there more activity? XRP is the crypto market's back is all -coin season starting. Also some huge Bitcoin ETF news as well and Grok AI, the AI that most resembles a caveman's name. But yeah, we got Drew and Kelly. I don't know which way to look. Do I look at the camera? Do I look at chat? Do I look at these two lovely gentlemen? Look me in my eyes. All right. Let's maintain eye contact for the entire show. Love the new set. It looks amazing. Nice. Nice. Okay. A little bit of an echo. Special shout out to our entire team here at Hit Network, BJ, Aaron, and Joel, and Bobby, and Owen. There's so many people who just work tirelessly. If I forgot anybody's name, a lot of you. Love you all. We appreciate how much hard work you do. Really special shout out there. Drew, any message on the beginning of the set? How do you feel about it? Man, it's just - You helped carry some things. Yeah, no, it's nice to have a fresh start. And I mean, this is just, it feels as professional as we act every day. Oh, that's not at all. I mean, I don't know. We bring the heat. So we have a new set up here. It's nice to be able to conversate back and forth with you guys, bounce ideas by each other a little bit more organically as we go through the news. So - Legit, because he DZ being a future Jimmy Kimmel. No, I will never be the CIA's puppet master. Okay. I will never be their puppet. All right. Let's get right into the show here, folks. Guys, let's see if I can share your screen. Make sure you're following us on Discover Crypto. We just put out two phenomenal videos over the weekend. In this Cardano video, I also added it to my pin tweet here, if you want to see it. But I highly recommend you go check it out on YouTube. Get in there, get in the chat, leave a couple of questions, we'll start replying to the videos. I don't know how I'll do it with the next video, working on some top three tips to master the bull run for the first hour that the video's out, we'll go ahead and maybe we'll engage with you. So if you've got any questions, I'll jump in there. Also, we did another video on Jimmy Bitcoin. The heist Bitcoin is stronger than any Bitcoin heist in history, billions of dollars. So it's a really, really good video. I recommend it. He's like the Bitcoin heist meister. He's the heist meister. Yeah, yeah. He's not Heisman, but he's the heist man. All right, folks, make sure you go to hit merch as well. And I think it's time for us to just get right into this Ripple story, folks. Ripple gaining momentum, $850 million, and whale buys push price above 75 cents here. You see it broke out above a critical 65 cents resistance, and now it looks like it's off to the races. So over the last two weeks, crypto whales have been spotted buying XRP aggressively. Not only are the whales buying, they're buying aggressively, folks. As of 2023, the event edges is now the best time to get crypto. You know what? I can see why Bobby's wanting me to move left. I tend to lean to my right. All right, between October 24th and November 6th, the whales, how much XRP did they acquire? 1 billion .26 XRP, folks. And if XRP does say go to $2, $2 .50, even $4, talking about billions of dollars here. So they're bringing their new balances to a new 2023 peak. So we're at a new peak for XRP balances on the whale wallets here. Now there is a big event coming. It's the 2023 edition of Swell Digital Asset Conference in Dubai later this week. It's an invite -only event. So we'll feature keynote speeches and dialogue with some leaders, regulators, and innovators. Now Drew, you're kind of Mr. XRP here. I think you're probably the biggest fan of XRP. The whales are buying. Now are they going to start dumping? No, I mean, we'll always see a little bit of sell pressure, but I think that banks being even just slightly willing to test out XRP and its remittance payment systems and these continuing patterns growth that I see for Ripple in general, I think that things across the world are seeing this. The US still has the gray area, but the rest of the world is feeling ready for it. So I don't think that that'll be on us anytime soon, a big dump. All right. All right. More conspiracy talk. You guys are always on point. No, no, no. We got to get off the rails here. Poor Jimmy. You know what? Poor Jimmy Zong. That's the only Jimmy I like talking about. All right. Here we have the social dominance chart. So this blue line is where people mentioned XRP. So when you see a little bit of spike in social media chatter, oftentimes you're going to see a little bit of a price increase as well. But sometimes social media chatter precludes the pump. Sometimes it's after the pump. They're just, it depends because as a coin doubles in price over a month, people will just start talking about it naturally, even if nothing else is going on. But so here's the social dominance metric is showing the percentage share of a cryptocurrency in comparison to the 50 most talked about projects in the crypto media channels. So they'll just look at keywords, how many TikToks are being made and compare it to the other 49 coins there. But having cleared the resistance at $0 .65, XRP price now faces minimal resistance on the road to $0 .70 as well. So not only that, though, we also have Deaton coming out. He was coming out in favor. So there's a little bit of a settlement with the SEC versus XRP months ago where, hey, programmatic sales, hey, that seems fine. But when you're selling to a hedge fund, that seems bad. So we had one win, we had one loss, and we're saying, so this is like a 50 -50, right? This is like a 50 -50 win -lose. So Deaton's coming out saying it is not 50 -50, it is 90 % win, 10 % loss. So we're looking at more of a 90 -10 ratio here. So here, let's just get his quote out here. In a recent post, he strongly refuted the idea that the result was close to a 50 -50 outcome here. The people who argued that the SEC got a 50 -50 victory in the ripple crates are 100 % right wrong here. I'm still messing around with it. It was more like a 90 -10 in Ripple's favor. If Ripple ends up paying $20 million or less, it's a 99 .9 % legal victory. Did it feel like a 99 .9 % legal victory, Drew? Yeah, I mean, absolutely. A lot of the talk from famously like Pomp when we first got the Ripple case laid out, he's like, oh, you're holding securities, but kind of dancing on the graves of people that held XRP, even in the retail, which I think was just an absolute spit on the face disservice and a to our freedom to transact and to have new systems come about to do those transactions. So seeing even these chunks of wins from XRP and Ripple are massive, massive gains in confidence for people across the world. Now they're looking at this thing and many people are calling it the most regulated crypto on earth just from these recent wins. You brought up gains of confidence. You think I care about the gains of confidence? I don't care about the gains of confidence. I only care about the gains in price. And that's where we're going to go to Kelly here. Kelly, we have some charts here. I don't know if you're looking at XRP, but yeah, 65 cents, 70 cents. Is that all just a facade or is there a real support and resistance happening here? Well, it's throwing it here to the chart. We can see that this is essentially a chart I've been looking at for some time. And interestingly, we have this sort of uptrend parallel channel that on this break to the upside, which is when we have that initial news breaking of the sec the court case stuff that we got this massive pump and essentially rejected right here at a known level that goes all the way back. I mean, this goes all the way back to this base point here, December, 2020. So this is a pretty interesting when the price was going, I was looking at this suggesting, and this is going to be likely turnaround point. We got a stiff rejection off that until we broke down and tested the lower bound here. Got a deviation below. Now why will we have a deviation below is because these smart money people out there, these the people that really understand how to move the markets, they try to do everything they can to trigger those of you and those of me and drew DZ. Everybody that's in this market is subject to emotions. And those that are in control of their emotions and have a sound strategy and risk management doesn't get triggered by this consistently. But those, somebody sold down here cause they thought it was going lower. Oh man. It gave that opportunity for a lower entry for a long, okay. Now we're seeing here, especially where we're at in relationship to the having coming up and we have all this stuff on the horizon about the the IPO for ripple. And we have all these court cases winning into to your point earlier. I don't think they're going to win a hundred percent, but I think that's baked in. I think in the sense that at 99 .8 % or whatever, they're going to have to have some concession not to make Gary Gensler feel like he completely has, you know, a full face of egg on it. So there's going to be some sort of small fine paid or some concession that they have to make, but it's literally just going to be the fee of doing business. We see this also, it's not, it's not the end of the world. We look at you know, traditional banking, they've had $40 billion in fines since 2000 traditional banking. And yet there's, you know, they're able to continue doing business because it's the price of doing business. Now, are these levels that you're talking about? You said 65 cents. Yeah. 65 cents. And then a lot of resistance at 70 cents as well. 65 cents is right here. This previous range high that we broke through. I do think if we come back down, this is a great area. If we're very bullish, this is a great area for price to bounce on. It doesn't mean if we lose this, it's not bullish anymore. In fact, we can come all the way back down here to this horizontal line. That's in perfectly a basically cross section right here to that 60 cents level. This would be a great opportunity for another, you know, still bullish pullback if we come back to this level. Now, if it does continue to run, where is it going to go? Are you going to buy DZ? Are you going to buy on the way up if we get two candles in a row that are still bullish and we break 85 cents, is that a signal for you to buy and prices just running higher? You know, as much as I like candles, I don't like buying wicks. And so just I even when it hurts me, I just I'm averse against buying wicks. Yeah, no, I hear that. And so the point here is if things are running, that's a signal that there's a lot of stuff going on. Let the pullback let the chart come to you in your strategy so you can so you can make a smart buy. Now, let's go ahead, look at Bitcoin, Bitcoin and an interesting sort of channel that it's it's trading here. A lot of people are speculating. Is this going to be a setup for a sort of kind of flopsided bar pattern where the price action actually continues chopping in here only to break down and, you know, to this level? But why is that level important to previous high level that thirty two thousand dollars? Now, whether we continue higher or pullback down there now, at some point, I do think we're going to test below this range that we're in right now. Things are I mean, we see the momentum here is trending down while the price is still slightly turning higher. So there is some signs that we may be having some issue here coming up fairly shortly. I think C90 says the best. We're too far away from the having to not have at least one pullback. I don't know if it's going to start tomorrow. I don't know if it's going to start two months from now, but we're looking at an April twenty twenty four halving date. There's I'm assuming it's going to be much more likely than not in those six, five, six months. We'll experience a pullback now. Everybody want and I just did a video on this on the bit lab morning stream talking about the pump season. It's holidays. Everybody not only has a bias that they wanted to go up because you want to feel happy during the holidays, but there is data out there. There's data out there that shows that on average, November has a thirty seven percent pump to the upside. But that doesn't that doesn't mean every November is a thirty seven percent pump. There are some November's that have been negative. Basically, you've lost value in November. And we can see on this chart right here, this is seasonality. This is Q4. These these yellow bars, horizontal bars. This is Q4. And yes, we had a pump here. But look, we had a dump here, consolidation here, pump here, break down here. So you have to you have to take it into the context of where you're at in the market cycle compared to the halving. So as it stands right now, I do think we very well could get a pump. But look how far we still are from having to me if we do get that pump, I'm going to be looking for an opportunity coming into the halving for still some lower prices to whatever level we pump from pump two. So I would just urge caution. The higher we go, start looking for opportunities for prices on a pullback. All right. Let's say what is the coin you want to get more of during a pullback? I'm just going to say boring Bitcoin. I feel like I don't have enough Bitcoin. So if there is a pullback, I think I'm a scoop up some more bitty. What about you two? I'm going to be going after Cardano next. That's the next big bag. I have too much of it. What about you, Kelly? Well, I'm torn because I mean, look at pull up this chart real quick, because we see dominance is coming into a known zone. Not a carry off. Do you like Natalie and Bruglia? I'm told that's how I was trying to think of the song is that I'm still coming into this zone. Dominance is pulling back. We're seeing a little bit of capital rotate out of Bitcoin. And we also see the Ethereum dominance broke. Everybody wants to see this breaking, thinking every alts are just going to moon. But we still could very well have those alts pull back. So it's still a little bit. Everybody wants this to be an alt season because we're seeing some pretty big gains, you know, also because we're all overexposed in alts. That's why. Yeah. You know, one of those ones, everybody was kind of taking a little doodoo biscuits on was right here. Albert Rand. Everybody was saying they thought it was dead because they're also doing that rebrand. But look at this 45 percent pump. But it's pushing higher. But don't get lost in the bias just because you're feeling good in a green candle. Look for those pullbacks. If I had to pick one, it would be Bitcoin.
The Plant Movement Podcast
Plantiful Is Modern Software Built for Plant Growers & Wholesalers
"So talk to us real quick. Let's say we walk through. So I'm a nursery. I have today 65 acres of inventory, and I don't, let's say, track it with a software that you have. So I grab all my inventory, I plug in numbers, which would give me, it would have, it will be somebody going out, counting everything that's there, plugging it up. I would assume the first time would be the more time consuming type of thing. Right. And is this user -friendly for us to be able to do without having to contact you guys and all of that? It's user -friendly. Correct? Oh yeah. That's, that's a huge part of this, right? We, we know that our goal is to get people to spend less time on the computer and more time hands in the dirt, sell on the customers, grow on the plants. And so what's been crucial for us is making sure that everything we build is one, two clicks. You're on a tablet, you're on your phone, you're out in the field and you can say, yep. You know, inventory is up to date. Oh, this one, not up to date. Let me click, click. Now it's good to go. You know, I can take a picture of it, have that in the system, all that kind of good stuff. All that stuff. So I go and I sign up and you guys do some stuff behind the scenes. Cause I remember you telling me it takes her a little bit to start setting everything up. Once everything's set up, I start plugging in all my inventory, all my numbers, everything. And then from there, now I have everything logged in from a liner up to field grown from specs and gallons. It's all set up for us guys. So now from there, I can link it with my QuickBooks, correct? Yes, sir. So when I go selling, clicking on the items, it automatically does the deductions, correct? Exactly. It does it in the system, generates pick sheets for your guys. So they know exactly what to pull, where they're pulling it from, uh, you know, sends an invoice to QuickBooks. So that way you can track, you know, from accounting perspective. So like, let's say you have multiple properties. You can name each location, you can name each block, you can name it by the item, like the name of the plant, the scientific name, common name, whatever you want. If there's a nickname that you and your, your employees call a plant, you can put it under that. And then from there, it automatically deducts. And then as you go planting, you just see what was planted in that day or that week or however you guys want to do it. And then you just go uploading it again. And there's also ways of showing what inventory is. Cause let's say I plant something, it might take three months, six months, a year to be rooted and ready to sell. I can put it there as inventory, but not, not ready to move. Right. I could do it as well. You can set task lists as well. So you can, you know, set up, Hey, I need some of my guys to pop this up on this date in the future. I am telling my sales team, this will be ready to go in eight months. Someone calls me up in the fall. I want big order for ahead of spring. You can actually pull up based off of that forecast, Hey, here's, what's going to be ready in April. Here's, what's going to be ready in June, you know, tie up that inventory so that you sell ahead and plan ahead and keep track of everything. We do a lot of pre -booking here, like certain items, we will put them out, but as a pre -book. So Hey guys, we just planted them or Hey, the liners are ready. We're going to start them up into threes. If you guys are interested and you want to get your hands on them, that actually just happened with a plant called arbor cola dazzle today happened today. Today we launched them. That's it. They're large and we already had the list of all the pre -booking. So we already called everybody and said, Hey, they're 50 % rooted. If you guys want them, you can take them now. And they're not a hundred percent, but at least you can have them there and start getting inquiries. Your customers can look at them. They can pre -book with you. And that's it. We're already pulling all those orders so they can get shipped. So that's very cool that that's offered.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from Bitcoin vs the Infinite Money Printer with Luke Gromen
"They're not going to cut the entitlements. They're going to print the money. And they're going to print the money with oil at 90. They're going to print the money with Bitcoin at 35 ,000. They're going to print the money. They're going to print the money. Happy Monday. How are you all doing? Did you have a good weekend? I did. OK. Real Bedford. They won on the weekend and were top of the league. So that is Real Bedford men and Real Bedford ladies both at the top of their respective league. What a start to the season. We've both got massive cup games this weekend. Get anywhere near Bedford and you want to come down, especially on Saturday, because before the men's game at 12 o 'clock, we've got a meet up. And I'm going to be joined by Robert Breedlove. So please do come down to Bedford. Come down to McMullen Park, enjoy some football, enjoy some Bitcoin, and hang out with the man Breedlove himself. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the massive legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, Peter McCormack. And today, we've got macro genius Luke Gorman back on the show. Now Luke is one of our absolute favorites here at WBD. Me, Danny, and producer Ben all love Luke, and he brought the fire this episode. We get into the infinite money printer, the bond market getting crushed, inflation, and social unrest in the US. We covered the lot. I know you're going to love this one, but if you've got any questions about this, any feedback, anything else, please do hit me up. It's hellowhatbitcoindid .com. And if you haven't checked out our event next year in April, Cheat Code, please head over to cheatcode .co .uk to get yourself a ticket. All right, on to the show. Luke, how are you? I'm doing well, Peter. How are you today? Yeah, I'm doing well. I do wonder if we'll ever jump on one of these calls. We do every six to 12 months and be like, yeah, do you know what? The economy's good. The banks are making good decisions. The government's doing well. It has no inflation. The world's all right. That would be nice, you know, we could all go to the beach and have a margarita or something. Yeah, it's a bit weird. It seems like everything's just getting worse. We had planned all these things to talk about and just while Danny was setting up the cameras, I was flicking through, I hate saying X, I'm going to keep it to Twitter. And our mutual friend Linaldin tweeted out that the Treasury expects to borrow nearly 1 .6 trillion in net new debt during the six month period covering this quarter and the next quarter. Is there no limit to how much money they're going to borrow? It seems like the bond market is maybe making the early noises about attempting to restrict what they can borrow without Fed help, but it's really ultimately a function of what's the dollar, what's the bond market doing, what's the dollar doing? It's that classic rates versus currency decision. Can you explain that? Can you walk us through that? What is the bond market saying and explain it so I understand. Sure, so there's sort of the case for most places and then there's a case for the US because where the reserve currency is sure. And you also have this giant offshore dollar borrowing market, right, the euro dollar market, but there's 13 trillion dollars in offshore dollar denominated debt according to the BIS. So means that the implications of that are that as the dollar goes higher, so the Fed raises rates, the dollar goes up, dollar goes up, the foreigners who have borrowed in dollars see their effective borrowing rate go up, the cost of servicing that dollar debt goes up and so they need to somehow raise dollars. Well, they can't print dollars like the Fed, so where do they get their dollars from? Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on which side of it you're on, foreigners have run surpluses against the United States by virtue of how the system works for a long time and particularly in the last 25 to 30 years. And so foreigners have about 18 trillion dollars net, so I don't want to say it's closer to 40 trillion gross, but I think it's 18 trillion dollars net in US dollar assets more than we have of theirs. It's this net international investment position I've talked about. So they have 18 trillion dollars of dollar assets, about seven point six trillion of that are Treasury bonds. And so, yes, they are short dollars, but only to the extent they are unwilling to sell treasuries to get dollars or sell stocks to get dollars to defend. And so what you see is this virtuous or vicious, I guess it is vicious cycle where the dollar goes up. Foreigners are forced to sell treasuries that rates go up as rates go up, the dollar goes up. You wash, rinse, repeat until we either get a calamity or more likely more. The way it's worked really increasingly frequently is the US Treasury market gets dysfunctional. And there's an index we follow called the move index. It's the volatility of the Treasury markets created by a gentleman named Harley Bassman who pointed out once that index goes over 150, the Fed has lost control of the bond market. And October 3rd of this year, it was 141. All of a sudden, everyone and their mother on the Fed came out and said, well, maybe the bond market's done our job for us. Maybe we're done raising rates. They tried jawboning the dollar down. It's it's sort of worked. It's stopped the dollar going up like every day, but it's it hasn't really gotten the dollar down. But that's ultimately as it relates to this situation for the US that as long as the dollar's going up, given this massive offshore dollar denominated debt and this US massive dollar asset net position that foreigners have that they can sell to get dollars. Ultimately, it's sort of all fun and games until the Treasury market loses an eye. And once the Treasury market loses an eye, the volatility gets to a point where it is indicating that the Fed is losing control of the Treasury market. That has been the point over the last four years. Where the Fed steps in and says no mas and at that point, they kind of say, well, it's not QE, we're growing our balance sheet, but it's not QE. You know, Jackson Hole, a couple of guys gave a speech that said it was a presentation. It was, you know, it's possible the Fed might have to do non -monetary policy purchases of treasuries. But it's important that we sort of lay that out that, you know, it's it's almost like, you know, those are those are trading sardines, not eating sardines. It's it's, you know, they're printing money for for market functioning reasons, not for monetary purposing reasons. And the market's not going to care. But that's ultimately that do they want if they want the Treasury market to function really well, given these levels of debt, they need the dollar to be a certain level lower than it is. If they want the dollar here, then they're going to need to restrict how much they're trying to borrow or be willing to lose control of the bond market and the Treasury market specifically. I'd like to pretend like I just understood all of that. I would. I really want to say I pretend I can understood all of that. But but it sounds complicated for the layman like me, the everyday guy, I can't interpret what that means. So basically what it means is unless the Fed prints the money to buy the rate down, then the rates are going to go up on the government until the government until rates ostensibly extremes inform the means. In theory, we the bond market could run away and then all of a sudden. The in theory, you can get to one hundred percent of your revenues in interest expense, nobody, nobody for anything else, in which case either the Fed prints the money or we say, sorry, Ukraine, sorry, Israel, sorry. Everywhere we're bringing our boys home. And in fact, they have to book their own tickets because we don't have the money. And boomers, you're on your own. I know we promised you hip, sneeze, drugs, docs, all that, but sorry. All we have is money is to pay the interest. So this is an issue of supply and demand in bonds. And the big risk is they cannot afford the interest on the debt they have themselves, because what is it like 30? Where are we at now on the debt? Thirty three trillion themselves? Thirty four. High interest rate is so it becomes unaffordable themselves. It's the only way to see that is it's more QE. Yeah, that's exactly I mean, it's ultimately a supply demand problem of of debt versus not just existing debt, new debt, and then also against the supply of balance sheet. Right. There's only so much global private balance sheet that can that the capacity to buy the stuff and continue to hold the old stuff and the balance sheet capacity increases as the dollar goes down, it decreases as the dollar goes up. And ultimately, that balance sheet capacity has repeatedly needed to be supplemented by the Fed's balance sheet, which is infinite. They can buy as much as they want. They will never run out. The flip side is, is that has implications for the dollar because you're effectively printing money to finance deficits. But if they do do that, would it be a case if they're trying to bring down the interest rates and they're using QE to do this? Isn't this just the cycle we've been going through over and over again? This will lead to more inflation and more inflation will lead to them having to raise interest rates again. You know, isn't this just a cycle that gets worse every every time we go through another cycle of this? Yeah, oh, it's to me, it's been a very it's a very I think it is the most important macro cycle. It's a very obvious cycle. In 2014, global central banks stopped growing their holdings of FX reserves. And what that means in plain English is foreign central banks stopped adding to their supply of treasuries. So if if one of your biggest marginal buyers stops buying, somebody else needs to buy. And as that happens, a couple of things, a couple of things happen. Number one, the dollar starts going up and number two, rates start going up. And that can manifest given the omnipresence of the dollar and the centrality of the dollar to the system that shows up a lot at different places. But dollar up rates up. And we've seen this sort of at first we regulated the banks in 2014 into, you know, it's a little bit like the cracks in the dam. Right. So the first crack in the dam is like, OK, foreign central banks are buying the debt anymore. OK, what are we going to have by what we have regulate the banks into doing. So they do that. And that works for a while. And then because the supply of water, which is U .S. federal deficits, just keeps growing and growing and growing. Right. Inevitably, the pressure from the water growing, growing another crack, money market funds. We're going to regulate them into that was 2015, 2016. Again, both of these things crowd out global dollar markets. They send LIBOR short term rates up. Then you end up driving the dollar up to levels that start creating problems around the world. What do we do? We weaken the dollar in 2016. We weaken the dollar in 2017 with the Treasury general account. Basically, the Treasury's checking account starts to inject our liquidity to kind of manage this process. 2018, more cracks, especially now that the Fed's QTing in earnest. We start regulating Trump, regulated U .S. corporate pensions into buying more treasuries, gave him a tax break. OK, now we've got our thumb in the in the in the wall. So and, you know, 2019, we get another crack with repo rate spikes. OK, oh, now the Fed has to step in. Now the Fed's growing their balance sheet. But it's not QE. It's just fixing the fact that repo went from two to eight overnight because there's too much supply of water and not enough demand for the water that kind of holds. That breaks again in March 2020 at the depths of the covid crisis. The Fed does mega QE. They call it QE. OK, leads to inflation. 2022, we're going to start backing off, we're going to tighten. They get, you know, whatever they really start getting aggressive in March, April of really tightening. And by September, the UK gilt market blows up. Uh oh. They all get together in Washington in October of 2022. And they give Janet Yellen, what we used to call on the desk, a hey MF 'er conversation and Yellen comes back and runs on the TGA. The dollar goes down 15 percent, buys time. Another, you know, so it's just this you it is a constant cycle that started 10 years ago, but it keeps getting faster and faster. Right. That 2014, we regulate the banks. We worry about it again to like 2015, 16 with money markets. And even then, you know, you didn't have to worry about the the dollar was not too high in that case till 2016, 2017 and had to be addressed. Then it was already end of 2018. The Fed had to stop raising rates. Then it was September 2019. Then you kind of covid sort of screwed up the pacing of it in terms of of getting a clean apples to apples read. But since then, it's accelerated, it's September 2019, you had March 2020, you had September as soon as they started raising rates, March 20 or September 2022, March 2023, September 20 or October 2023. Now, it just it's getting faster and faster. And so, yeah, it is really it fundamentally the problem is very simple, way too much U .S. deficits, not enough global private sector balance sheet unless the Fed is in there helping to buy this stuff of printed money. That's at the end of the day, that's it. That's the problem. Is it essentially paying off your credit cards with a new credit card? Absolutely. While the rates going up on it, if the Fed does step in and start buying bonds in that way, does the U .S. just turn into Japan? Japan? No, we turned into Argentina. Japan, Japan is. Night and day different than the United States in this situation, right, so Japan is a net international investment position, remember, so I said we have foreigners own 65 percent, that 18 trillion, 65 percent of US GDP. So the U .S. net international investment position is negative. Sixty five percent of US GDP. Japan's is positive. Sixty percent. So for starters, when Japan runs into that problem, the first thing they can do is ring, ring, ring, hey, Washington, it's Japan. Those dollar assets we have to the tune of 60 percent of of our GDP, we want to start selling five percent a year because we need to finance our our fiscal deficit of three percent a year and do two percent of stimulus. And they can do that for a long, long time. That's number one. Number two, they run a current account surplus, right, their trade surplus. So they are running the surpluses on the current account versus us running deficits. We need number three. OK, the deficits we're running, the twin deficits historically have been foreign financed. They have financed internally. So you can run you if you're financing internally as Japan, deflation is an option you're when you're financing internally. Right. Because now you can pay your people, you know, zero percent interest on long term bonds because the cost of living is fear and deflation. Your cost of living is falling. Living standards are rising politically. That works. You cannot do that when you're in the United States. If you're financing externally, you start running deflation as a twin deficit. You get into a debt spiral. Your debt pile gets bigger and bigger and bigger nonlinearly every year. And pretty soon you run into debt credibility issues. You also, as Japan, do not have to provide most of your defense because your friends, the United States, have provided it for most of the last 80 years. We have to provide our own defense and that defense appears to be getting much more expensive by the minute. And then lastly, the United States is very heterogeneous in population. And Japan is very homogeneous in population. So it's a lot easier to sort of get people to sort of, you know, go along to get along and take one for the team. Culturally, there's much more of a willingness to take one for the team. I think their government has probably all in all done probably a better job of maintaining their credibility or maybe losing their credibility less fast than ours has with its domestic populace, maybe a better way of putting it. And so when you roll those things together, but especially the net international investment position, the current account, you know, Japan can say ring ring Washington send us our money. We need it to finance ourselves. And that throws that, you know, sell treasuries. We're going to bring back the dollars and defend the yen with those by selling dollars and buying yen. And they can do that for a while. They have 60 percent of GDP in that area. There is no there is no ring ring for the U .S. The ring ring. They don't call anybody overseas. The ring ring is, hey, Fed, start printing again. And when you say when they have to do that again, whenever that is, because they're going to have to do that again. Yeah, then that's why it gets much more into an Argentina like dynamic. And as I've said, Argentina with U .S. characteristics, not Japan is what is going to be the outcome. I was out in Argentina recently, was it three or four months ago, Danny? And I made a documentary while I was there about inflation. And one of the interesting things about being in Argentina is if you're certainly in the middle class, you have access to dollar products, whether it's cash dollars or digital dollars or crypto dollars or U .S. equities or U .S. bonds, you have access to dollars to mitigate against inflation. And most people just get rid of their peso and get some kind of dollar products as soon as possible. But if if you're an American, there is there is no equivalent. I mean, yes, there's gold and yes, there's Bitcoin. And, you know, we've seen this rise in both gold and Bitcoin recently. Perhaps that's it. I mean, is that it? The short answer is yes. You know, you can kind of see right who is who has won over the last 10, 20 years in the U .S., right? It's if you if you own a lot of stocks, you're doing great.
Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
A highlight from 418// How to Persevere After Church Hurt
"Do you sometimes doubt if you're truly hearing God's voice or if it's really your own? Or have you been in a season where it feels like He's completely silent? Have you been praying for a way to learn how to hear His voice more clearly? Hey friends, I'm Rachel, host of the Hearing Jesus podcast. If you are ready to grow in your faith and to confidently step into your identity in Christ, then join me as we dig deep into God's Word so you can learn to live out your faith in your everyday life. Need a new roof for your home or even just some repairs? That's a big investment, one that you should take very seriously. And you want the job done right by professionals and at a great price. You need to call your hometown roofing contractor. Serving Northeast Ohio for over 65 years, Coats Bros Roofing, 440 -322 -1343. How have they been in the roofing business for so long? Quality work at a great price. They keep their promises and communicate with you, the homeowner. Coats Bros Roofing will listen to you and find solutions that will accommodate your roofing needs. They'll give you a better than competitive price on your roofing job and make sure that it fits within your budget. Financing is available too. The highest quality at a great price. Coats Bros Roofing, call 440 -322 -1343 or go to CoatsBrosRoofing .com. That's C -O -A -T -E -S, CoatsBrosRoofing .com.
Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
A highlight from 415// Dealing with Evil in Our World : A Devotional Bible Study on Matthew 12:15-29
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Game of Crimes
A highlight from 122: Part 2: Jim Lawler Recruits Spies, Chases Nukes, and Tracks Bioweapons for CIA
"I got a question for you. So when you select a target, it sounds like you have to get pre -approval from Langley to recruit these people. Is that true? That's true. Yes. You get what we refer to as a provisional operational approval. In other words, you've developed this person, you've assessed that they have access. You don't recruit people who don't have access to something that we need. You've been approved. The boss, if you're working for a chief, he or she encourages you or discourages you. They may discourage you if they think it's a waste of time. But if it's somebody that we think has access, or at least potentially has access, then you're encouraged to do that. But you can't pitch somebody unless you've got this approval from headquarters to go ahead. Okay. So you've pointed out the vulnerabilities. Here is what you think you need to persuade this person. Maybe you need a certain amount of money for their retainer, and you get that. But you can't just willy -nilly go and pitch somebody without headquarters saying, yes, this is worthwhile. Do it. There was another spy, too, back in history, Adolf Tolkachev. He was recruited. He saved the same thing. His information saved billions of dollars in research for the Air Force on what were the actual capabilities versus what was being said. I don't think people realize sometimes the value of finding the right person. It's not just about, I mean, quite frankly, it is about national security. But part of national security is not spending money on things you don't have to and spending money then on things that are going to really make a difference, like Star Wars, the strategic defense initiative. But hey, let's circle back. Let's have a quick discussion about the polygraph before we leave this, because you're wondering our views and I'm wondering your view. So Murph, let's start with you. What did you think? We've all used polygraphs to one extent or another. You used them sometimes, too, to assess sources. But what's your feeling? Well, overall, I'm not a big fan of polygraphs. However, you learn to use them to fit the narrative that you want to put forth. So I'll give you an example. After Escobar was killed before I left Columbia, there was a walk -in came in and this fella had worked for Pablo. His story was he'd worked for Pablo. He had since found religion after Pablo's death and he wanted to atone for all his sins and his crimes included making payments to a third -world country president every few weeks to allow the Medellin Cartel aircraft to land on that country's military bases, unload, and then they were a transshipment point for cocaine coming into southern Florida. So that's something you want to believe, but you really have to vet the crap out of that. Well, this guy, because of the person that he was talking about, the president of this particular country, was so well known by our politicians in power at that time, not only did our polygraphers come in twice, but so did the agency's polygraphers come in twice. And some of the questions, you know, this guy was, this potential informant was able to describe the rooms that he met in at the military bases he went to where he would meet the president personally. He could tell you what color the floor was, what pictures were hanging on the wall, the shape of the table, how many chairs were at the table, all the things that would tell you that, hey, he's actually been in the room. And all four polygraph tests he passed. Now I don't put a lot of credit in a polygraph test, but when you're looking for an informant like that who could potentially lead to the indictment of a president of another country, you know, you tend to want to believe that. Now when we finally developed a case and were ready to indict that president, that's when we got a call from the White House saying, uh -uh, you're not like this guy, go find somebody else. So I don't put a lot of stock in polygraphs, just to be quite honest with you. I think they can be beat. I think people that have that particular sociopathic personality, like you said, it's not a lie detector. It's a stress detector. Well, if you practice, you could beat stress. Well, I'm a nightmare for polygraph, polygraphers, because I'm a long distance runner. I have a very low heart rate. I'm a non -reactor. If you said, is your name John Lewis? And I said, yes, it would still be Flatline. It's you know... Go back to the Seinfeld episode of when Jerry was going to get polygraphed by the sergeant at NYPD. He was dating and they're asking him if he ever watched Melrose Place. You know, he's trying, who can, who knows how to beat a polygraph? Who's the one person? George Costanza. So George says, it's not a lie if you believe it. You know? Well, that's true. I looked at the polygraph, I mean, three ways. One is teaching out there at NSA, but really there was a study done and actually it was with John Reed and Associates who I was instructing for at the time. They took 300 known cases from NSA and they went back and they looked at it and they said, look, if all you did was listen, you know, verbal only, they were accurate about 55 % of the time. If you watched body language, you were accurate 65 % of the time. If you combine verbal and nonverbal together, you were accurate about 83 % of the time. But they said a properly trained interviewer using both verbal and nonverbal communication armed with the case facts can correctly assess truth alert deceptive behavior 93 % of the time, which is more reliable than a polygraph. So I always looked at a polygraph like I looked at it as a tool. It is not the ultimate outcome. It went in the hiring process. If you could get an admission against interest, that saved you your time. Boom, you're done. You're gone, right? Yeah. If you get a confession. Yeah. Now, of course, people can give a false confession, but if you get a confession, that's pretty indicative. You can test, but you can test the confession then because you can test it like Merce said, hey, if you were in the room, then tell me what's the room like? Who did you hear? What's his nickname? But I always used, I looked at polygraph as a means to an end, not the actual end. We had a Kansas Bureau of Investigation. We had great polygraphers. They would come in and we would do it on criminal cases. And my whole thing was, it was, if you had a good pre -interview and to your point, structured the correctly, questions then it was the follow up to the interview. And a lot of times we would work with the KBI agents doing the polygraphs because we'd want them, we didn't want to break continuity. So we briefed them on the cases and they would come in and they could follow up on the cases. They knew where to go. And so we got several successful conclusions on that. Not because the polygraph said, oh, you're a liar. We didn't really care about that. What we cared about is did it provide cracks in the story, things that we could check out. And then the stress of being found out that, hey, now you're not being truthful. The only way to deal with that stress is to be truthful, to relieve that manifestation of that anxiety. So I'm with you. I think you can beat the polygraph. And I think the Russians spent a lot of time teaching some of their agents how to do that. You know, Alder James comes to mind. But other people? Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, it's a stress detector and the best polygraphers are basically good psychologists. They're observing the body language. They're observing the way what people say. They can they I mean, I can do that, too. I can tell. I mean, I don't need the machine. The machine is kind of adds to the technological little hocus pocus to this. It's like a tangible thing that they can see or something tangible. Americans love technology. They think they can tell you whether you're lying or not. And so it's part of the show. It's part of the thing, you know, to put people under stress. I refer to polygraphs as the colonoscopy of the soul.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 122: Part 1: Jim Lawler Recruits Spies, Chases Nukes, and Tracks Bioweapons for CIA
"I'd like to do an intro, but I can barely see, because Murph's face looks like the surface of the sun. Yeah, baby. I got a little color. I got my vitamin D today. You got your vitamin S for sunburn, man. Let's see. Can't tell from my arms. Yeah, my arms. Ah, a little bit. You got a little bit. Anyway, hey, guys. Welcome to Episode 122, Game of Crimes. I am Morgan. This is... Murph. Hey, everybody. What were you doing? Just before... I mean, we're recording this on a Sunday, because I was tied up all week, and I'll tell you about that in a second, but you were doing something pretty awesome. You sent me a video. Oh, yeah. We got to go to the Orlando Air Show, and the stars were the Air Force Thunderbirds. I haven't seen them since I was a kid. I've seen the Blue Angels several times, but I haven't seen them since I was a kid in Tennessee. But just going to the Air Show just makes you so frickin' proud of our military and what they can do. They had an F -35 there that just... Oh, my gosh. It was a lady pilot, and she had that thing. I mean, she could turn that thing on a dime. She's come through at symphersonic speeds. They didn't break the sound barrier, because they didn't want to hurt everybody's ears, but when she would come through, you know how you get that vapor coming off the jet? Yeah. We got some pictures of that coming through. Then they had the F -18 Super Hornet with those things, screams as well. They brought that thing through at less than 100 miles an hour, and it was kind of almost at a 45 -degree angle, like it was dancing in front of you, and that engine was just screaming, just growling at you. And then the Thunderbirds, twice, you get focused in on the four main diamond formation, and then one of them will sneak up behind you and just scream through at about a bazillion miles an hour and just make you crap your pants. The second time, you know, that's the first time everybody laughs, and then everybody's watching. Well, then all of a sudden, he sneaks in again and gets you a second time, and that one I even ducked when he came through. Tell you what, it makes you think twice. If you want to be a bad guy or girl out there or a terrorist, it's like death from above, man. Oh, my gosh. It just makes you so freaking proud of our military. It really does. I can see why they do that. Yeah. Well, I had an exciting weekend. I wasn't going quite as fast, though. Yeah? No, I did. It's called the Great Pumpkin Ride. I did 64 miles. They had a 24 -49 and a 64, so I did the 64 -mile ride. Where did you have to go for that? Down in Warrenton. So Fauquier County, beautiful. It was a perfect day. Temperatures started out at about 65, went up to 80. It's peak color. It was just beautiful riding through there. It was a fun time. It's been a while because of COVID and everything else. I was supposed to do some century rides, 100 -mile rides. This one's called a metric century. It's 64 miles. But you voluntarily rode 64 miles on a bike? Damn skippy, man. Can you sit down in a regular chair right now? What do you think I'm doing? I'm bouncing around. I'm fun. Hey, it's like anything else. It's like firearms. Anything else. If you just train, you train, you train. So this was fun, though. I just got my bike back. I had it all completely worked over, new gears, the whole work. So it's like this thing was brand new. It was great to go out there and ride. It was fun, though. There's lots of people out there. It's a good time. But what was funny is all these people that you start off, it's like one thing I've learned at my age, it's kind of like no need for speed, man, just steady state. Just keep going. All these young whippersnappers who go flying past you, I ended up passing a lot of them towards the end as they're just dragging ass because they were trying to impress everybody and I'm going steady state. I averaged about 17 miles an hour. It was 2 ,800 feet of climb going down and up. One of the hills, if you're into biking, was 8%. That was a bitch, I'm telling you. And to go through all that and come home with biker's ass. No, I tell you what, I got some good new bibs, you know what they call bibs and stuff. So it's all good anyway, but here we are pontificating about that when we need to get to our facility. But this was just a fun weekend. You had fun. It was.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Bitcoin's Surge, GDP Insights, and Market Turbulence
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Friday, October 27th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about crypto performance, US GDP, and the market impact of the ongoing trial. You know the one. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Crypto markets are in general settling back today after a week of holding relatively steady while stock markets around the world were falling fast. According to Coindesk Indices, at 8 a .m. Eastern Time this morning, Bitcoin was down 0 .03 % over the past 24 hours, trading at $34 ,067. Ether was down 1 .8%, trading at $1 ,782. An article published on Coindesk earlier today points out that, in terms of the Turkish lira and the Nigerian naira, Bitcoin is at an all -time high, despite the asset trading 50 % below its peak in US dollar terms. To that list, we can add the Argentinian peso. Bitcoin, in terms of the Argentine currency, is at an all -time high and up a whopping 270 % over the past 12 months. In US dollar terms, Bitcoin has appreciated 65 % over the same period. Looking at other currencies, we see some more strong performances. In the Russian ruble, Bitcoin is not at an all -time high, but it is up 150 % over the past year, while Norwegian investors will have seen their chrono -based Bitcoin appreciate 80%. Of course, around 90 % of Bitcoin trading is done in dollar -based pairs according to data from CryptoCompare, but the point is that the base currency does matter when gauging performance, especially for investors looking to protect their savings from local currency depreciation. In macro indicators today, I want to add a bit of detail to the US Q3 GDP figures I talked about yesterday. You may remember that the growth came in at 4 .9%, more than double that for the second quarter and well ahead of average expectations. Most of the increase was largely due to discretionary personal spending and, well, there were a lot of fun things to do this summer. The categories that saw the highest spending increase were phones, cameras and music equipment and, for some reason, luggage. It's not clear that this momentum can be maintained, however, especially given the resumption of student loan payments, higher gas prices at the pump and a likely decrease in job security as the high interest rates start to bite. Another meaningful source of GDP growth was defence spending, which grew 4 % in the third quarter. This is, unfortunately, unlikely to reverse in the near term. Defence spending does boost GDP and it can be argued that in these tense times it is necessary. However, it's not great for the economy going forward in that it is defensive spending rather than productive spending. That is, the investment is not going to improve industrial productivity or other factors of economic growth going forward. Another item related to the GDP that caught my attention was Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's reaction. Speaking at a Bloomberg event yesterday, she blamed the current high level of US bond yields on the strong GDP. Treasury yields are now the highest they have been since 2007, with a 10 -year benchmark rising above 5 % earlier this week. According to Secretary Yellen, this is, and I quote, "...largely a reflection of the resilience people are seeing in the economy." This comment has understandably surprised many people because we thought that a large part of the reason yields were climbing was to do with fiscal policy. In other words, we thought that bond yields climbing even beyond levels that correspond to interest rate expectations was something to do with the vast amount of supply set to hit the market. But no, Secretary Yellen assures us that's not the case. It's that the economic strength is keeping bond yields high because interest rates are likely to remain high. There's no need to lower interest rates if the economy is doing just fine, with Fed funds at their highest rate since just before the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. This does seem to me a bit like driving while looking in the rearview mirror, but Secretary Yellen is a much more experienced economist than I am. In stocks, the US Indices had yet another day of red. It's been a bad week for equity investors. Yesterday, the S &P 500 dropped 1 .2%, the Nasdaq fell 1 .8%, and the Dow Jones lost 0 .75%. The markets are not loving the earnings reports, even though most so far have come in ahead of expectations. In Europe, the FTSE 100 and the DAX closed down roughly 1 % yesterday, with the Euro Stoxx 600 down 0 .5%. This is despite the European Central Bank pausing rate hikes for the first time since the start of its hiking cycle in July of last year. So far this morning, European markets seem to be taking a breather, with the major indices largely flat. Asian markets are more cheerful today, with the Japan's Nikkei index up 1 .3%. Japan's inflation data for September came in higher than expected, with the headline index increasing 3 .3 % year on year, not far from the US headline figure of 3 .7%. This is bringing forward expectations of a long -awaited shift in Japanese monetary policy, with a possible interest rate hike expected to help support the depreciating yen. The Shanghai Composite increased 1 % today, while the Hang Seng index was up 2%. In commodities, oil prices reclining again as tensions in the Middle East ratcheted up a few notches after the US conducted strikes on Iran -linked facilities in Syria. Earlier today, the Brent crude benchmark was trading 1 .3 % higher on the day at $89 .64 per barrel. Gold is more or less flat, trading at $1 ,982 per ounce. Stay with us. After the break, I tackle a topic that has been all over the headlines. You can probably guess what it is.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Bitcoin's Surge, GDP Insights, and Market Turbulence
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Friday, October 27th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about crypto performance, US GDP, and the market impact of the ongoing trial. You know the one. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Crypto markets are in general settling back today after a week of holding relatively steady while stock markets around the world were falling fast. According to Coindesk Indices, at 8 a .m. Eastern Time this morning, Bitcoin was down 0 .03 % over the past 24 hours, trading at $34 ,067. Ether was down 1 .8%, trading at $1 ,782. An article published on Coindesk earlier today points out that, in terms of the Turkish lira and the Nigerian naira, Bitcoin is at an all -time high, despite the asset trading 50 % below its peak in US dollar terms. To that list, we can add the Argentinian peso. Bitcoin, in terms of the Argentine currency, is at an all -time high and up a whopping 270 % over the past 12 months. In US dollar terms, Bitcoin has appreciated 65 % over the same period. Looking at other currencies, we see some more strong performances. In the Russian ruble, Bitcoin is not at an all -time high, but it is up 150 % over the past year, while Norwegian investors will have seen their chrono -based Bitcoin appreciate 80%. Of course, around 90 % of Bitcoin trading is done in dollar -based pairs according to data from CryptoCompare, but the point is that the base currency does matter when gauging performance, especially for investors looking to protect their savings from local currency depreciation. In macro indicators today, I want to add a bit of detail to the US Q3 GDP figures I talked about yesterday. You may remember that the growth came in at 4 .9%, more than double that for the second quarter and well ahead of average expectations. Most of the increase was largely due to discretionary personal spending and, well, there were a lot of fun things to do this summer. The categories that saw the highest spending increase were phones, cameras and music equipment and, for some reason, luggage. It's not clear that this momentum can be maintained, however, especially given the resumption of student loan payments, higher gas prices at the pump and a likely decrease in job security as the high interest rates start to bite. Another meaningful source of GDP growth was defence spending, which grew 4 % in the third quarter. This is, unfortunately, unlikely to reverse in the near term. Defence spending does boost GDP and it can be argued that in these tense times it is necessary. However, it's not great for the economy going forward in that it is defensive spending rather than productive spending. That is, the investment is not going to improve industrial productivity or other factors of economic growth going forward. Another item related to the GDP that caught my attention was Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's reaction. Speaking at a Bloomberg event yesterday, she blamed the current high level of US bond yields on the strong GDP. Treasury yields are now the highest they have been since 2007, with a 10 -year benchmark rising above 5 % earlier this week. According to Secretary Yellen, this is, and I quote, "...largely a reflection of the resilience people are seeing in the economy." This comment has understandably surprised many people because we thought that a large part of the reason yields were climbing was to do with fiscal policy. In other words, we thought that bond yields climbing even beyond levels that correspond to interest rate expectations was something to do with the vast amount of supply set to hit the market. But no, Secretary Yellen assures us that's not the case. It's that the economic strength is keeping bond yields high because interest rates are likely to remain high. There's no need to lower interest rates if the economy is doing just fine, with Fed funds at their highest rate since just before the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. This does seem to me a bit like driving while looking in the rearview mirror, but Secretary Yellen is a much more experienced economist than I am. In stocks, the US Indices had yet another day of red. It's been a bad week for equity investors. Yesterday, the S &P 500 dropped 1 .2%, the Nasdaq fell 1 .8%, and the Dow Jones lost 0 .75%. The markets are not loving the earnings reports, even though most so far have come in ahead of expectations. In Europe, the FTSE 100 and the DAX closed down roughly 1 % yesterday, with the Euro Stoxx 600 down 0 .5%. This is despite the European Central Bank pausing rate hikes for the first time since the start of its hiking cycle in July of last year. So far this morning, European markets seem to be taking a breather, with the major indices largely flat. Asian markets are more cheerful today, with the Japan's Nikkei index up 1 .3%. Japan's inflation data for September came in higher than expected, with the headline index increasing 3 .3 % year on year, not far from the US headline figure of 3 .7%. This is bringing forward expectations of a long -awaited shift in Japanese monetary policy, with a possible interest rate hike expected to help support the depreciating yen. The Shanghai Composite increased 1 % today, while the Hang Seng index was up 2%. In commodities, oil prices reclining again as tensions in the Middle East ratcheted up a few notches after the US conducted strikes on Iran -linked facilities in Syria. Earlier today, the Brent crude benchmark was trading 1 .3 % higher on the day at $89 .64 per barrel. Gold is more or less flat, trading at $1 ,982 per ounce. Stay with us. After the break, I tackle a topic that has been all over the headlines. You can probably guess what it is.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"65" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
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How to Live A Fantastic Life
"65" Discussed on How to Live A Fantastic Life
"Really, those are skills that people do not have. And so to get from point a to point B, the shortest way is a coach. It makes sense to have a coach in those ways as well. Yeah, and to me, it's also empowering because often I'll talk to people and they're blaming the man they're blaming the woman. They're blaming the town they live in and while they're certainly truth to your environment and external factors, you can't do anything about that unless you pick up and move or whatever have you. But the empowerment is if you have guidance and change things about you, you can get a different result. I always say it's a little bit like the matrix. Doing so many movie talking today. You know the matrix. Well, like you could walk in the same world and your reality is that you don't see anybody that that's good for you or you pick the wrong people. But when you have an intention and a plan where you're starting to look at the world a little different, it's like putting on a pair of goggles or glasses, you're in the same world, but you see things different. There was a woman, I love this story, talking about perception. She called me up and she's like, you know, there's no one in this town. She lived in Canada, actually. She was in Montreal. She walked to work every day. And she's like, I've scoured the town. I've dated everyone in here. There's no one good enough for me. And I'm about to give up. I said, don't give up. I said, do me a favor. I want you for the next week because she hired me. And this is your first homework assignment. I want you to take the same route to work every single day. But this time I want you to take the blinders off. And I want you to look around and notice who's noticing you. Just do that exercise and then report back to me. She's like, okay. So she comes back a week later. She says, Kimmy, do you have a voodoo doll? I said, no, I do not have a voodo doll. Not that powerful. What magic did you create for yourself? And she said, I can not believe what just happened. So I did what you said. And I went to work and I think it was the next day. And I see this really handsome gentleman sitting on a bench. And I see that he's looking at me, and I'm looking at him. And before I knew it, we start talking. And before I knew it, he asked for my number. And before I knew it, I had a date with him. And I really like him. That guy ended up being her boyfriend. Yeah, yeah. It's true that we all were blinders. We all keep ourselves in our own little box so to speak, how we don't want to get out of that box. And that is the danger a person gets into when they want to get into a relationship and it becomes a limiting factor.
How to Live A Fantastic Life
"65" Discussed on How to Live A Fantastic Life
"And what that means is that we all default back to what we know. Good batter and different, right? And with this woman's case, she didn't even realize she was falling into that same pattern in who she was attracting. Like, she had a father who was not in the picture when she was very young, her parents got divorced. And she was honest constant quest to gain the love of her father, but she didn't even realize that that was happening. So she was in this relationship. That was somebody who was not available to her. Like he kept coming back leaving her, coming back, leaving her. It was like the same dynamic with dad. And it's just like, as we were talking on the phone, it was just kind of coming together for her. And she didn't realize that, oh my God, this is the same pattern. So then the question becomes, well, how do you break it, right? And that's why I really consider myself more of a strategist than anything these days 'cause I think we're all pretty savvy to some of these things. It's just knowing the tools of how to shift all that. Yeah, I think so. What's the movie? Is it stitch or something like that? Where that black actor is? Oh, hitch. You are so close. Yeah, people call me hitch at some times. You are in the female hitch at. You are the person that does that and hitch is basically a funny thing where a person comes to him and wants to meet this person that he considers to be out of his league. Way out of his league. So he hires hitch to put him in that mold of changing his brain, changing these things and getting him into that situation. Yeah, no, it is. I often tell people I'm hitch meets what not to wear if you know that show. It was a makeover show. And then people get it, you know, once they and you know what's been, you know, during the pandemic, also it's been really tough, you know, because now, even if it was hard for you to go out and put yourself out there now, we had to be indoors, right? And so figuring out ways to really connect with people has been actually a beautiful thing because I think it's forced people to slow down and really pay attention to what it is that they want. And there's this new thing called slow dating, you know, back in the day, when we all used to court one another, it's kind of forcing people to do that again. And it's a beautiful thing and because of that, I think people are able to connect in ways by being slower and more intentional in their connections and building healthier relationships right from the get go. So I've been working with a lot of people virtually, so I'm taking hitch online and doing a lot of flirt workshops, which actually I have one coming up that I'll share with you at the end about. And you know I do virtual makeovers and for me it's been so fun to help people all over the world with just building confidence. And people can do this on their own. They just need a little guidance..
How to Live A Fantastic Life
"65" Discussed on How to Live A Fantastic Life
"I was just scared. I was hiding. So then I had to get really comfortable being seen. And that was also another story from there, you know? And this is why I really love the process that I work with people now because of the evolution of what I went through is that there is a symbiotic relationship between the outer and the inner. And sometimes when you work on the outside and I know you know this as a doctor when you worked on the outside too, the instantaneous confidence that can come from that. And then of course you have to do more of the inner work afterwards. But it was the quickest gateway into evidence of somebody feeling good about themselves when they see themselves a certain way. So it's just, you know, you know, when I was a cosmetic surgeon, I mean, Botox was the number one tool. Now why was Botox? Such an important thing. Well, it was an injection that was done right here. And that little area when a person frowned all the time, made him look angry and me. So a little bit of Botox was something that really changed their whole world. It stopped them looking angry. It stopped him looking me, and all of a sudden they weren't looking angry and mean, so they weren't angry at me. People were approaching. People were talking to them. People were saying, hey, how are you? Because they're real inner cells. We're being now, why do people look angry and meanwhile? Well, you've got that teacher's look. You've got that, you know, that snarly look. And we have a word for that, by the way. I love this. Have you heard of RBF? No, what's RBF? Resting bitch face. Can I say that here? That is something that people have to protect themselves. Yes. It's really something that people put on as part of that mask. In addition to the black clothes that they wear. Yeah, absolutely. God, if I knew you back then, I should have you come on my wing gal sessions and just do Botox..
How to Live A Fantastic Life
"65" Discussed on How to Live A Fantastic Life
"And gentlemen, today we have a very special guest. Her name is Kimmy seltzer, and she helps men and women all over the world. Unveil their attractive self, whether it's updating their image or transforming their dating life. Her philosophy is simple. Work from the inside out to achieve your goals and boost yourself confidence. And that's the big bug abou is the self confidence thing, isn't it giving? It confidence is everything. And I think it's, you know, something that people don't think about as much, you know, in ways of the outcome of what people are searching for. And that includes love, you know? But through my journey and all the people that I've helped, people always at the end of their story realize that they end up having themselves. Meaning they find confidence within, and that's what ends up helping them attract what they want. So all the other things are important. I mean, we're right clothes, doing the right things. Learning how to talk to people. But unless you have that self confidence aspect, that just doesn't take you there. Does it give you? Now, when I define confidence a little bit different than a lot of people, you know, I don't believe that there's one person out there that's not competent. Because I believe confident is experience. You know, you could find an area in your life where you feel really confident and maybe that's work, you know? And you have to think about before you learn your trade of work, how did you start? Where did you begin? Because most people weren't confident when they started. And so you went to work every day, you practiced. You did it in repetition over and over again until it became you. And you know, I find that when people aren't feeling good about themselves and of course, I work with most people in the dating world..
Quizbeard
"65" Discussed on Quizbeard
"The cycling removed, leaving only swimming and running. And number 25 known as the 8th wonder of the world, which professional wrestler had film and TV roles in the fall guy, the $6 million man, and the princess bride. Okay, answers for today's quiz. Round one was fireworks. Number one, the member of Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring that was famed for his dazzling and inventive fireworks was Gandalf. Two. The firework that has a name that comes from the method by which a Christian saint was condemned is the Catherine wheel. Three. Derived from a small firework that's gotten wet, an expression that is describes a disappointing event is a damp squib. Four. Released in 1995, the same year as his most famous novel, the author that wrote the firework maker's daughter is Philip Pullman. And number 5, the U.S. company that is the world's largest consumer of fireworks is Disney. Round two was TV opposites. So all I wanted you to do here was give me the actual name of the TV show from its opposite representation. Number 6 blue giant is red dwarf. 7. North drive is South Park. 8. Daughters of order is Sons of Anarchy. 9. Booze, his cheers. And number ten worse ignore Paul is Better Call Saul. Round three was the general knowledge round, number 11. A high batula akan zarda is the third supreme leader of the Taliban. 12. There are 8 phases of the moon. New moon, waxing Crescent first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning jewels, last quarter, and finally, waning Crescent 8 of them. 13 TV chefs Dave Meyers and psyching are known collectively as the hairy bikers. 14, the four largest balearic islands are Majorca, menorca, Ibiza and the answer I wanted is for Montero. Number 15. Gonzalez is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Round four was classical composers and musicians. Number 16 at the end of the high street and muster you would find a statue of Edward Elgar. 17, featuring the aria Nissan dormer, the opera by puccini that was completed posthumously by Franco alfano is Turin Doe or Turin dot depending on how you'd like to pronounce that one. 18, the classical violinist who's famously an Aston Villa fan is Nigel Kennedy. 19 the Australian sorry, the Austrian composer, who wrote the symphony in which each musician stops playing an exits the stage individually until there are only two left is Joseph Haydn. 20. The Australian biopic of 1996 with Jeffrey rush and John Gil good in which a main character suffers a mental breakdown after playing those piano concerto number three is shine. And finally round 5 was the letter a in sport. The sport number 21, the sport that features in the 1987 film over the top and causes all those injuries is arm wrestling. 22, the Dutch football team that play at the Johan Cruyff arena is iax or I'll accept AFC IX or iax Amsterdam. 23. Historically an event in lumberjack competitions, hurling and implement it from around 12 feet before it reaches the target. Is axe throwing. 24, the name of the sport, the closely resembles a triathlon, but has no cycling, so it's only swimming and running is known as a quang. And number 25 known as the 8th wonder of the world the professional wrestler that had film and TV roles in shows such as the fall guy, the $6 million man and was.
Quizbeard
"65" Discussed on Quizbeard
"As in BAO S. And number ten. Worse ignore Paul. Round three is today's general knowledge round. 11. High bar tala, akan zada is the third supreme leader of which organization. 12. How many phases of the moon are? 13. TV chefs, Dave Myers and si king are known collectively as what. 14. The four largest of the balearic islands are Majorca, menorca, Ibiza, and which other. 15. Gonville and keys is a constituent college of which university. Right round four is classical composers and musicians. Number 16 a statue of which composer can be found at the end of the high street in Worcester, England. 17. Featuring the famous the famous aria necessarily, which opera by puccini was completed posthumously by composer, Franco alfano in 1926..
Quizbeard
"65" Discussed on Quizbeard
"Fireworks, TV opposites, general knowledge, classical composers, and musicians, and the letter a in sport. These are the 5 rounds in today's episode so get ready for quiz beard. 65..
Relentless Geekery
"65" Discussed on Relentless Geekery
"That makes you question some of your own beliefs and values in a very significant way to the point where it's like, why don't we take a break for a couple of days before we do another one? Because I really need to clear my head if it's not really that disturbing exactly. But then the last movie I watched was called suck and it's a vampire rock and roll movie. Iggy Pop is in it and Alice, Cooper dead, Alex lifeson from, Russia's in it. Now if you're thinking that okay. Yeah, and it's very they do claymation, but it looks like some eighth-grader did it for a project at school. I mean, but it's purposefully done bad and I loved every minute of it just had a very good time with it. So, you know, it's just across the board being very fun. So I'll put a link in October. About some of the movies you should. Some of them, I guarantee you've never heard of probably are worth seeing for most people, but both right? I'm curious. But I know I've said this before, I really don't wash have images put into my head, that I can't get rid of some ways. If I don't know that I'm going to watch the worst of them, the goriest of them, the most disturbing of them because I, I'm just kind of okay to be sheltered from the. Well, I right now, the two you do not want to see our Martyrs and la la casa muda, because those were the most disturbing ones we've seen so far. Okay, but them is a fair Pyar, one called Byzantium. That is almost an art piece and it's it's interesting to watch. There's nothing that's hugely disturbing and the vampire stuff in it is like minuscule. It's like the story itself is more important than the vampire stuff. So, you know, sounds interesting, all over the place or you some good stuff. And then of birth. For ending the season with Todd and the Book of Pure Evil. It's a series. I think. I think I've seen, I know that there's one with wage. Let's see. Dale. And somebody else Dale, and Todd Todd. Something against evil, with the Buick wage. Exactly. So, I wonder if it's of that series or like that, if you will, I think it's like that. I haven't watched it yet. Straight White Hart. In fact, after some of the disturbing ones..
Hermit_Radio
"65" Discussed on Hermit_Radio
"All it is a few seconds and a few words or a simple act. That's how you deal with things like sadness and depression. Take yourself out of your shoes. Look at the big picture. Feed people serve people and listened to people. It's never going to be perfect but if you allow it to be which you wish it to be in your mind then that is your reality what you think you become so if you can think about bringing heaven to earth the nadu's what reality will be for you if you think that every person you talk to is blessing them in you're planting a seed. Then that is what will happen. But as i've said time and time again doesn't matter if you are enlightened were if you are awakened or whatever you wanna call it until the rest of the world catches up with us. We're going to be doomed to repeat our mistakes and to continue to live in sadness and suffering before we go today. I wanna share a parable story that i made and It's a good one. It's it's pretty subtle. But i think that gets the message across. There was a small village that lived off the coast of a little island shore. Very small fishing community probably about one hundred people except there was one man who lived in the woods just far enough away from the rest of the village that he could live this person's this hermit this monk. He lived in his little shack by himself. He didn't really participate with any of the community in the villagers made rumors about him saying that he was you know he had to be wealthy. Because that's the only way he could live out by himself like them. He was wealthy and that's why he lived away from everyone or that he had. He had valuable items in his shack that he didn't want other people to see so. The villagers in the community grew jealous of him..
What Up Patna
"65" Discussed on What Up Patna
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Make sure your living in the present. Have your fool focused attention and the president can do anything but the future in the past right now and the president is where you need to be focused and put all your effort into your thoughts. What you want right now. I live at live it project. The future is that what you're saying yes very. It's very good. Doom project the future things you want in your life. Everybody does abe is about secret. The secret the secret to where you could Manifesting memphis things just thought messiah creation. I know some thoughts. I heard of those are. They will every single baby dirty. They said being baby mamas niccolo any words of wisdom tonight wa before my words of wisdom. Message ho call was a suburban suburban commando one of the greatest alien movies of all time next to e no bullshit and firing this guy to fuck you ever fire in. The sky is based on a true story. Guy based on a true story. Two guys went hogan an alien and he was he was the he's really different about another dope as normal using eating another dope asshole. Cogan movie where you had a dope pass boat and he was like a commando in a boat he hit a high speed boat and all he did was save. Lives like eight like eighteen. But he had a boat was was this is the remix of erik. Estrada maybe close We're selling land up in washington. You may know me from films such as chips which is short mini series. Many nick koech straps. I'm one time leaving the baseball game. Dodgers you saw david. Eric davis eric estrada at a dodger game. He's take a picture with him. No no that's from for an autograph man pints you call them pints if you come you pregnant pissed off not pine some eric that what you would do. Pine the pine compliance. What's his name white. Dude i here. Who's punches partner's name brian john. John oh john john. coming from. Gaza guest understands mr chips from the stand. So nick any words of wisdom for partners tonight hours wisdom like i was saying. Oh my favorite. Just living matter. What's going on your life if if you're having any problems you know. Don't be afraid to reach out to people you know you're partners your partners partners Hit somebody you talk to somebody. There's always options you know. Be kind and you with all this racism. And i know that you know it's it's it's an everybody you know. You don't always have to act on it interesting words there so you're saying a lot of people have these feelings about different races and someone wild out some. Don't someone say stupid shit and some were just like i mean you know. I get my racism from comedy. You know i. I like to fuck around with different races but at the end of the day. We're all partners right so would nikolov is trying to say is. Don't be a fucking moron. You joke about it. You could be it but at the end of the day. We're all partners. Mr well known what you got year. Pay it all in all possible. You think that's ever going to be possible. What for for people not to be dirksen each other. No jerk i believe never gonna be pozniak not gonna happen how it's possible but it will never happen because there's always gonna be people they go fucking you can't please everybody. How do you fix that. Fix it about marlene spread. Love fucking love the macarena. How do you fix david. This i can i dance. You cannot listen to it or not. Then you were saying the way you fix it as you make racism illegal. Oh good into law. That worked without work. There's there's there's there's videos out there on youtube there's instagram. There's my space this west stop you know and all this other stuff and i do not see not one of them. There should be a law where where they go to jail for at least a year. Who you don't go you. Don't go and bill yourself out. No no there's no more. I don't wanna law where. Racism is legal. You know. I wanna make it illegal because his power to the people you there's no there's no love or hate over here if you're willing to die for this country and you're not from this country you should be in this country or if you're willing to if you willing to do dirt for for for those type of jobs. That aren't that you want in do because you don't want to get your nails dirty dude come on like there's a lot of care neglect possible nick as far as embracing eradicating People being jerks he was talking about right now. Is like people that come here to work. They should be able to to be no no no. I'm not talking about none of that. Everybody i'm talking about everybody. There's not. I'm not saying people come to this country. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying people in general don't matter what raise what size everything. If you're willing to work for the dollar. They go but then at the same time it comes to the corporation and then union. You know like like me. I got the unions back. I don't keep corporation. How how's that iraq racism again. That's the question again. So who's who's ready for. Change nobody but there is the house that iraqi racism. Let me get you gotta get there quick. Oh quick he does. He can take time three words. Tell me how you oh because you're saying that you turn into law where you get in trouble or racist that's dope getting to work. Nick i mean sh if tomorrow you can't what am i know. Mac lahser there you know. Everyone breaks a lot of their everyone..
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"Sixty okay. It make lohman. I want you to fact check. How many be mamas are in the six six area code go. Relevant number one approximate get unlike china. Look profiles girls. Oh what baby mamas. The sixty six i mean. Yeah there's there's young maybe mamas okay plus eighteen baby mama sixty six. You can look that up now. So mr well-known is Constantly talking about a single baby mamas and we have now identified whether or not. That's a different porn. John from the word mill usa. Well known what is your take on the difference between males and single baby mamas sin. See the keyword single. Look yeah that's it. That's all you need right there. We'll see seeming mills kamal shapes and sizes komo. You know what i mean but at the same time i like my girls. Vw big beautiful women. Or i don't like curvaceous just something. You can grab something that ends with suits. Us nana i like the ones that can hide the turkey league under the law has to time saying what taking lake county fair. He's he's a story. This is nice titi l. What looked for tomorrow. We'll celebrate tonight. I like to show one student shit because they get crazy. They're the ones who stabbed him on the shortlist. Charlotte saint saint in the polian. Fucking armpit dances liver the vital organs and once fucking slash my my fantasies ones. That are taller than me. No shit. I swear like ninety five percent of the population. I want you to pick. Yeah so you wanna be mad. Nikola wasn't your porn genre. Like buff cheeks or some shit last time. Yeah female bodybuilding it's The reason i like it. Because i just i like the you know being choke kind of you know yes while i'm going down shit and i just imagined those muscular legs. Just you know trying to trump. Like a like a python asks hon. Which got planned for us tonight guy. I got a good question for for you guys out there any good deeds out there. Actually i did a good deed before. I got here before about this. Not did you do the deeds. Good d- oh yes. Take back my left coming. Good for good. Deeds you've put money in the salvation army bucket at walmart truck in santa claus so what i did is at the same eleven and And i had had the eighteen pack. I looked at the family. It was a single mom. Three kids gained some chips and celebrities with a single mom. Get the fuck. Have you doing the wedding ring as well. The thing is like will. She reminded me of my mom. You know they were going through. Some type of struggle and struggle is just right there. So is there for everybody. It doesn't matter if you're rich. You know what i mean. Whatever it is you know but this this this particular woman Reminded me and my mom when i was young and we were going through that struggle. So what i'd like to do and this is literally just happened today. she let me go in. I bought the eighteen pack. I pulled out forty bucks. i said. look a favourite. he goes yeah manually. pay nausea nano. See these forty bucks. I want you to go ahead and and pay for their stuff and and just kill the forty bucks all the way to the end for the three guys in the back so whatever whatever you could get out of this forty bucks pay for this look for this woman ran her kids and then on the other two guys then or three guys that go. How did he feel though. Because as a former cashier he probably wasn't going to balance his drawer pocket yet. No no. it's just a pain in the ass because you gotta like gotta do math and you. You're gonna make sure you balance at the other night. I remember one time. I gave his knick's. I gave this lady when i was in high scores working. What's up to the panama. Dig- jackson market and This lady showed me like a shitload of wicks like from top to bottom. She's pulled it out bunch of wicks and i accepted all of them hanging. Fuck scatting all whatever whatever and then. My boss caused me in the next day they You accepted three hundred dollars worth of expired weeks yesterday. You're in big trouble my bad i'm gonna fuck them in high school. I got a d. frigging economics. I live well. Yeah no it was. It was cool. It made me feel good. That did that. But i didn't do it on purpose but at the same time i was like well. Good for her she she she made it through. You know she really needed that shit and that was my last good deals twenty years man and you just walked out. You just walked. Also that's it she. She didn't know she well. This is what i like to do. I do that like once once a year or two just the month of december doesn't make you feel there doesn't make you feel makes me. It makes me feel really good to be honest. is just. It takes me back to to where i come from from from the first episode like i said i was. I was young. I was washing cars. My pops up you know. And so i like to pay i to paying full. Yeah you know what i mean. Even ford yeah pay for they go assizes melillo ultra. How many in your life would you say. Good okay mic. Look i fact check. What is the average amount of good. Deeds that the human being makes in north america.
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"65" Discussed on What Up Patna
"Welcome to the. This is a new episode. What to all my partners sled man how we feel in the night plan with any great. And now everybody's doing graduates right. Sounds like you got to drink. Their slid positively oregon. Nothing to say all of the above. I said how are we doing tonight. We're doing great pal man. How are you feeling that you're currently looking across the table and there's no bigger well there's the big ass black hole empty hallway here in your heart or off the above. He brings a certain energy to the table. And it's just not there but we feel his aura still. Yeah i felt something might over. The back of my net here is standing up. It was weird i got. So what's up to my pattern. Nick lockout. they're welcome. Back to the doj joe nichols are world famous. Fact checker all right. He's faster than the average theory. 'cause fucked up. What a planner saying. What's up here. Awfully got a good show. They'll wait on drew brown but once he gets here utah. He don't take long to get into effect. He walks in heart why he had he cocked. I think he does. Is he parks. And he just works on it and he walks in. Go hard on stuff tries to show off. Insist don't pay. Don't look at it as hard on. When he walks in up to the pilot day. Welcome back to the doj will partner. It's a pleasure. Having you back the pilot david key missile known got a little faded. Would've last time but tonight we're gonna get a lot. Faded what partner. What a partner was cracking. She welcome back dougie. Thank you good to be back. Did you expect a big tonight. Or how are you feeling. Then i still. I still feel like he's here even though i'm like one of his legs you know Whatever he's doing if anybody. Ceo so you feel like one of his legs is with us. we're all transformers a bigger. Oh i'd be one of his. You'd be like one of the burns so bad so you're the third leg. Hello hello so man. Welcome back to the doj. Oh it's a pleasure avenue back for those who don't know the partner here has been on a couple episodes and i'm fired up to have them back. You know we we give them a call and say we need you to the doj tonight bodies that you know what i'll be right there and the mother showed up bad beer and the guys ready to go and he's fired the football club. Welcome back plattner. Went up on them. I'm good i'm happy. Thank you for having me here again. Southall single mamas up there. I'm be giving my number out. Oh you're real number. A real number know shit so stay. Tuned say their own Like the i can get the area code real quick.
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"65" Discussed on What Up Patna
"Lt and detective hefner in the question here from cables now reporting live Well well did by any chance When is there any weren't winning. Apprehend criminal here. This shouldn't take too long. We went to our local Street tacos and asked around and by by some miracle this this big guy this law or he got he got there fas- so we're just we're following the trails of the nasa three plus three bucks where we're following all that right now right here from w k balls as well. I've got a question for you. Detective there's chatter out there that big as currently He hasn't checked in with an his loved ones. He withdraws funds from his bank account. Have you had a chance to look into his finances or are we to early on in the investigation. Well i will say this. He grabs his right hand. Puts it in his right pocket. Put it on his left hand and puts it in his left pocket so a so we were safe to say. He's closed all his bank agains. Yes he had a dollar fifty to his name. Wow thank you listening. Hefner misbehavior from here. Do you have any leads us. Based on case here any any any other witnesses day no were Was it his ex. Wife was an ex wife for An old friend that Got him going out of his mind. I believe there was a sock leveled seatbelt. And because he was wearing socks it was They were high so the higher. The soccer downer the full. You know what i and folks were. We're getting reports that that was the end of the press conference. Atip just came in and the lead detective had run off. I wanna thank you all for joining us on the emergency situation. We have now on the ground with disappearance of bigger. We'll be back and hopefully we'll have updates for you throughout the episode otherwise disappears big out folks prayers for bigger. We miss them We podcast newsroom. Are really worried about his mental state. we are worried about the evidence. Detective laid out. We're worried about the questions that theodore's coming west. And the the witnesses by far are not that credible. One of them was drawn. The other one barely spoken english. Or i'm a little worried that we not have no leads other than the taco guy that detective mentioned Thank you for tuning into night. It's to be a dope past show because this is the water of podcast missing bigger. We got the pilot. Dave mr well-known up in the mother furger lead man. And we've got nick lok. Welcome to the potty pal. As john maclean would say what. I'm talking about partners out there..
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"65" Discussed on What Up Patna
"Yeah duta to reporting live from the what podcast newsroom. Where he got your local anchor putting their jim. Thank you very much for tuning in tonight. we have emergency situation. We have a missing person. Mr big is reported missing as of. Oh nine hundred. We're going to the chopper out. And we've got a scene of the last known place. He was visible. Yeah we're flight above head with the last known. Location for bigger reporter down on the ground theodore. What's going on down there. Alot ruin alter yes. This is the adore. buchanan ruben. Reporting live down here at the scene. Hey here i have. The night witnessed here. His name is one garner. Wanted to garner. What did you see your today. Oh yes mr brooklyn is really like what you report on the on the cases you're on a happy to meet you. It sounds like you got down there there theodore. Can you ask him what he saw. Does he gave that. Does he have any idea. What may have led to the events of big missing. Mr juan gardner. Exactly what did you. What did you see today from your neighbor across the street i was right here to cutting the grass and from from the corner of my eye. See this big guy. I don't know he was big. And hey here's naked. Was running naked to give phone recording. I want to go and try to get won't and when i came back he was done. Did you see anything else. I he had a very smart. Thank you mr. John gardner have here. Rick molasses hell you doing rick. How's it going mr buchanan. Seeing this big guy running down the street. And i was driving down the street and he was running the same direction. I was and for a big guy. He is pretty fast. He actually passed me while i was driving. And i i mean. I couldn't believe it like i was in shock and i almost hit the curb because i never seen a big guy a guy that big rig molasses labor let me ask you a question mr. Have you been drinking tonight sir. Theodore academy we have breaking news. Now we're going down to the scene. The the lead detective is actually gonna make a press conference. Detective is gonna make confidence listening on that. Now theodore might learn everybody high on the lead detective camping. I can't really talk too much about it. But we did an investigation. We had a blue light and at at the back door. We also found a g stream or x. with some skid marks on it That's all i could say. Take up bang. Nick logo to podcast. Yes he stig marks. we're talking about. Are they asking mark. Nevada tire are it look are ozias straight ass and look like mr hanky had an audit all over the couch and brought four more. Mr hanky and on top of that. They took shit detective..
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"65" Discussed on Who Cares About Men's Health?
"I'm buying you know six or seven items and didn't have a mask on. It was the most bizarre feeling. I was steadily just so embarrassed and ashamed and there were some other people there and i noticed the looks from the And i hadn't even thought about it up to that point like i'm embarrassed even mentioned that i'm a physician you know. We've got masks all. We should be masking and i just i walked in there. I didn't even realize that of a mask on it was like the equivalent of. I don't know if you've ever had these dream. Scott where you know you're out in public and you realize you forgot to put your pants on. It's like the twenty now twenty twenty one but the twenty twenty equivalent of the stress dream about being in public. And you don't have pants on. What do and i seriously had. That thought we'll do. I pull my shirt up over my face. Put my arm over pace. What do i do. I scanned fast. As i couldn't even put it in bag. They just can't it in my cart and blessed out of there was a kind of bizarre experience. It's like do you cover your hand with your mouth. Yeah that's you grab. Grab one of the plastic bags. Put that over your head about it. Plastic and i thought well. That's not a good idea. I won't be able to breathe but at least it won't be spreading covid. Yeah just going to leave this here. I told you the last. Just gonna leave this here for twenty twenty was. I have gotten into puzzling. And i finally completed that puzzle and well and i really enjoyed it. I'm just really bummed out troy that you don't enjoy public. I join you puzzling. Join me for puzzling. But i just wanted to say. I finished it. I enjoyed it the last part. I didn't finish pretty calm if it was like the world puzzling championship. It wasn't like i was looking at the pieces and putting them all together..
Who Cares About Men's Health?
"65" Discussed on Who Cares About Men's Health?
"And you find yourself having trouble that we talked about at the top of the the episode. We'll talk about how to solve that. But that could be one of the reasons why you're experiencing some of that mental fatigue or inability to concentrate in scott and i think thing we always used to complain about but i think we all miss now is commuting. I mean that was a time in the day. there was a part of our routine. And you've mentioned it before how it was sort of like your separation like moving from home life to work life and then the return then to home life and leaving work behind were that commute is now gone and that was something i think for so many of us. That drive is second nature or that bus ride or train ride or whatever and you just kind of turn your brain off in you. Listen to a podcast like who cares about men's health. You listen to an audio book or music or whatever and that's gone and just you know just having that that That piece of routine out of our lives. I think has also contribute a little bit too that mental load. Okay number two emotions can also interfere with your working memory that of that precious resource that we've talked about and lord knows we've been through. Ups and downs with emotions and research is supported this so if something stressful is going on in your life it can make it hard to concentrate. Because you're you're that that that memory that you wanna reserve for solving problems that working memory can be impacted by your emotions. So you know. There's a lot stressful right now. Covid how you know. We're approaching life with covert What's going on in the government Some people got new pets as rewarding as those. Are those also. Can you know these stressful and interfere with that So emotions can also interfere with that. Working memory capacity. I think a great example of that is if you've ever had a fight a fight with your significant other before you've gone into work and it just kind of sits chills and your brain and you can't get it out right that distract you that impacts your ability to use that memory for what it's meant to do which is solve problems. Yeah i think that's a reality. I think we really need to acknowledge that just being in such close proximity to so many family members where before it was like there was work life and there was home life. I think that's impacted a lot of people you know. And so funny. I got a a a a holiday card from one of my friends from med school from his wife. She'd clearly written it cause she's pretty funny but she said something about you. Know days in quarantine with her two boys x number of days days homeschool with the do boys x number of days in seventy six days in home 'isolation with the boys priceless. It's just like her. Yeah really priceless. It's kind of like this is what we've been dealing with with. You know whether you've got your kids at home. Or whatever whole lot of emotions come with family and that family time has you know in many cases tripled or quadrupled when you really look at the waking hours in a day spent with family members.