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Mark Levin
China's Naval Dominance Rises as U.S. Focuses on Diversity
"Around the world the upper hand. China wants to set the stage right now to be able to have absolute naval supremacy in the South China Sea. What are we worried about in the United States of America? Back home? We're worried about that? We're looking at the warnings of history to think to ourselves, hey gee, maybe we should try to do something about this? Nope. Instead, what we're worried about is are we spending enough on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility? DOD The has scaled up its spending on DEIA in the past three years, jumping from $68 million in fiscal year 2022 to $86 .5 million in fiscal year 2023. But that figure surged another $28 .2 million to $114 .7 million in the department's initial year 2024. If a DOD's initial request for DEIA funding in the final legislation, the department will have spent $270 million on diversity initiatives across the last three years. $270 million on diversity initiatives. Biden's Pentagon has repeatedly pushed for further adoptions of the DEI agenda in its operations. The department's strategic management plan for fiscal years 2022 to 2026 listed one of its goals as
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "86" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Wizards. Unable to make it too straight for the first time all year. lose at Orlando 139 -120 Wiz now 3 and 15 as they'll face off against the Magic again on Friday College basketball on the men's side Virginia tops Texas A &M 59 -47 Georgetown in a one tight with Mary Mac 56 -54 that's in the second half George Mason beats NJIT 86 -78 AU falls to Harvard 80 -75 Navy beats VMI 67 -47 Maryland all over Niagara 114 -44 from College Park we got some hockey in about So from Los Angeles Capitals visiting the Kings Caps lost the first game of their five -game road trip the other night two to one at San Jose as they continue to struggle mightily on the power play Frank Hanrahan WTOP Sports Frank okay stay with us tonight on WTOP we are remembering Henry Kissinger a polarizing figure who helped shape the U .S. foreign policy under two presidents he has died at age 100 closely following the situation in the Middle East more hostages released by Hamas more prisoners released by Israel but will that continue or is it back to war the deadline only 90 minutes away stay with us for all that on WTOP the future depends on semiconductors semiconductors are the backbone of the global economy and America should lead the development and manufacturing of
Awards Chatter
A highlight from George C. Wolfe - 'Rustin'
"Monarch Legacy of Monsters, an Apple Original Series. The world is on fire. I decided to do something about it. On November 17th. This place, it's not ours. Believe me. The most massive event of the year arrives. If you come with me, you'll know everything, I promise. Oh my God, go, go, go! Monarch Legacy of Monsters, streaming November 17th. Only on Apple TV+. My guest today is one of the great storytellers of Stage and Screen, which is why it's only fitting that he's here at the Fest to collect the Storyteller Award. He's a playwright best known for writing 1986's The Colored Museum and co -writing 1992's Jelly's Last Gem. He's a theater director best known for directing the original Broadway productions of Angels in America Millennium Approaches and Angels in America Perestroika, two landmark plays in 1993, and a host of Broadway musicals, including 1996's Bring in the Noise, Bring in the Funk, 2004's Caroline or Change, and 2016's Shuffle Along. And he's a screen director best known for directing the 2005 limited series Lackawanna Blues and the films Night in Rodanthe from 2008, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks from 2017, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom from 2020, and this year's Rustin, the story of Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Over the course of his career, this 69 -year -old has been nominated 15 times for a Tony Award, winning three for best direction of a play for Angels in America Millennium Approaches in 1993, best direction of a musical for Bring in the Noise, Bring in the Funk in 1996, and best special theatrical event for Elaine Stritch at Liberty in 2002. He was nominated for an Emmy best directing for a limited series for Lackawanna Blues in 2005, and he has twice been nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for outstanding directing of a miniseries or TV film for Lackawanna Blues in 2006, which resulted in a win, and for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in 2018. The New York Times' Ben Brantley has described him as a brilliant stage director, arguably the best now working in the American theater. The Los Angeles Times declared, there are few living talents who could be viewed as as much of a New York theater institution. Interview Magazine said it would be difficult to overstate his status on Broadway, and Tony Kushner proclaimed that he is the premier theater artist of my generation. And those are just the quotes about his work in theater. There are many more about his work in film. But without further ado, would you please join me in welcoming to the SCAD Savannah Film Festival and to the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast, Mr. George C. Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe, thank you so much for coming to Savannah. Glad to be here, glad to. Let's just start at the very beginning. Where were you born and raised, and what did your folks do for a living? I was born and raised in Frankfort, Kentucky. My mother was a teacher, and she later became a principal of the schools. I went to that school. She taught me. It was horrifying. My father worked for the state government, and that's that. For the first eight years of your life, the town in which you grew up was segregated. Yes. You have spoken about wanting to go see a movie, 101 Dalmatians, and not being able to do that because of your race. Well, my grandmother was this incredibly ferocious figure who would take on anybody. I telling remember her that I wanted to go see 101 Dalmatians at the Capitol Theater. I remember her calling and them telling her no. It was sort of startling and shocking and fascinating because it was the first time I'd ever see her come into contact with a no. So that was fascinating. But then it integrated, and then at one point, when I went to high school, I was editor of the high school newspaper, and I went and convinced the man who ran the Capitol Theater that I should go see movies for free so that I could write reviews. He said, but by the time the review comes out, the movies will be gone. I said, but it's cultivating a love of movies, and so that's what my column will do. It was my slight payback because then I got to go see movies for free. I love it. Let's talk, though, there's a moment you've described over the years. You were in fourth grade, and your, at that time, all black grade goes to an all white class. But that time, I think it was probably a little bit older, so I got about the PTA and the singing. Well, I think by that time, Frankfurt was integrated, but I still went to this black school which was connected to a university there. And the principal, this woman named Minnie J. Hitch, you told us, because we were going to be singing a song, and the lyrics were these truths we are declaring that all men are the same, that liberty is a torch burning with a steady flame. And she told us that when we got to the line that liberty is a torch burning with a steady flame, we should sing it with a ferocity and that we would shatter all racism in the room. So I literally remember these truths we are declaring that all men are the same, that liberty is a torch, you know. And then racism was gone. And racism was gone, exactly. They were all transformed. But it sort of was like so cluelessly wonderful for somebody to tell someone that young that if you say words and if you say them with power and conviction, you can change people. And that sense of potency of conviction and language was embedded in me, and it's never left. When did you see your first theatrical production that was done professionally? When I was 12 or 13, my mother went to do some advanced degree work at NYU, and she brought me a log, and it was one summer. And so I saw a production of West Side Story that was done at the State Theater at Lincoln Center. Then I saw a production of Hello Dolly with Cab Calloway and Pearl Bailey. And then I saw a production, as it turns out, from the Public Theater and Mobile Unit that Cleavon Little played Hamlet. Wow. And it was done in Washington Square Park. Wow. And some in respect, each of those three productions had, I think, a lasting impact on a kind of aesthetic. Right. And the thing interesting about the Mobile Unit, it was free. And so it was seeing the rawness of that energy of the audience was also very, it was very, very, really wonderful and really interesting and great. So the throughout rest of your time in high school, you were increasingly involved in theater and school. I don't know if it was specific, I think, was it writing, directing, acting? What were you focused on at that point? Acting and directing. And also it's very interesting because when I went to that high school, I stuttered really intensely. So this is one thing I was talking about earlier. So they decided that I was stupid because I stuttered. And so they called my mother over to the school to say, and they wanted to put me in remedial classes. And she says, are you crazy? No, that's not happening. And so I developed an Evita complex. So I said, by the time I leave this school, I will be running it. And so I was editor. I was drum major. I was the worst drum major since the dawn of time. I just, you know, I was editor of the newspaper, of the literary magazine. I just did all these stubs just to, you know, how dare you dismiss? I could tell. And I never heard the story about them calling my mother over, but I could tell I was being disregarded. Right. I sensed it. And I went, no. So you start college in Kentucky and then move to Pomona and California. What at that time? This is there. Oh, yeah. We're doing the whole thing. Exactly. What was the idea of going out to California? Was it just to have a change of scenery or did you were you already thinking maybe that's where you go if you want to be in show business? No, not at all. I had always dreamed of going to New York. I would I would watch, you know, TV shows that were set in New York, like the Dick Van Dyke Show. And I remember this is kind of neurotic and crazy. But I what I really I was obsessed with Disney and I wanted to have my own amusement park. But I wanted money. I knew you need a lot of money. So I decided that actors made a lot of money. This is when I was seven or eight. And so and I knew the actors starved. So when I was seven or eight, I used to practice not eating. So that when I went to New York, this is insanely true that, you know, that I so I could deal with it, you know. Well, little did I know one doesn't need to practice starvation. So you graduate from Pomona, go to L .A. for a little while to do theater, to do theater. OK, now theater, as I guess you quickly concluded, is primarily in New York. Well, yeah, I mean, at one point I did shows and I started to get some good reviews in the L .A. Times. And then I got called in. I don't even remember for to be a writer on a sitcom. And and I and I said something funny and they said, oh, he's quick. We're going to have to tie one hand behind his back. And I took that literally. And that's when I went I'm moving to New York. You know, I just was it was like time to go time to go time to go confront a whole bunch of other stuff and things I need to learn and get smarter about. Well, so, OK, you move. It's 1979. You're in your 20s. You moved to New York. Early 20s. Early 20s. Right, right, right. Very early. In fact, I was 19. I was just pretending to be 20. Something like that. Yeah. You moved to New York. There are a number of years then after moving there that were we can say lean. You got to put into practice not eating so much. You what said once quote, I came to New York to write and direct. And when I got here, a lot of my rage came out. Close quote. What do you mean by that? Well, it's so interesting because in L .A., it's you know, it's you know, there's more space. So so, you know, poverty and wealth are very much so separated. And then in New York, it's, you know, they're next door to each other. And the intensity of the inequity at the time, plus the fact that I had no real power over my existence, sort of magnified all of that. And I remember I remember seeing I remember at one time seeing this image of this of this woman in a fur coat. It was winter and eating chocolates and there was a subway vent and there was this homeless woman sitting there. And she had newspaper wrapped around her legs instead of boots. And she was like like crazy and was like and just seeing those two images next to each other. It's you know, it's the thing about New York. Every single time you step foot outside your front door, you see somebody who is worse off than you and you see somebody who is living a completely different life to you. So you have you get instant perspective whether you want it or not. So in those those leaner years, you are teaching a little bit. You're going to get your own MFA at NYU Tisch in dramatic writing, your... Dramatic writing and musical theater and a double MFA. And then there's a opportunity to have a work of yours produced for the first time at Playwrights' Horizon, which is a big deal. Playwrights? No. And how did that go? Well, it it was interesting. It was it was ultimately the best thing that could have happened for my career. I didn't direct it. I wrote the I wrote the book and I wrote the lyrics for it. And it and there were things that in the rehearsal process that I. And also, when I first came to New York, I said, I'm a writer and director, and they said, no, you can't do both. You have to focus in on one. I said, but I could do both. And they said, no, you can't. So I focused just on the writing. So then I there were things that were happening in the rehearsal room that I knew weren't right. But in the spirit of ra ra ra, getting along and being good guy and all this sort of stuff, I didn't object. And then I remember there was a tornado passing through New York City on the day my bad review came out. So I'm standing on the corner of 95th and Broadway with the winds blowing. I'm reading this hate review. And it was so very painful. But it was really interesting because it was very good for me because, you know, I went, oh, if this happens again, if I get another bad review. And of course, I've gotten bad reviews. But if it's going to be because it's my vision. Because it's I because I put every single thing I had on the line. Everybody, we're only in the room to make a very beautiful baby. And if we become good friends as a result of that, that's fine. But we all have a responsibility. The people that you're collaborating with to do their finest, best work. And you have to do your finest, best work. And it was interestingly enough, when I was at NYU, the piece that I wrote that bombed, I went, oh, this is going to be successful. And then there was this play that I wrote just for myself called The Colored Museum. And yeah, none of y 'all applauded when I said the title of the other thing, Paradise, did you? No. But that's what happened. It was the most interesting thing because I wrote one for success and I wrote one for myself. And that was the thing that succeeded. And so it was a very deeply, deeply, deeply valuable lesson. It was just like, and then eight weeks later, all those people who trashed, eight weeks, no, eight months were that it were eight weeks. Eight months later, all those people who trashed me were going, oh, where has he been? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And I'm so glad it happened that way. I'm so glad that the first piece was treated that way so that therefore it gave me a clarity and a sense of responsibility. And doing and doing work that I believed in and and that was that I believe mattered as opposed to something that was going to lead to success. It was just one of those slap you in the face and get smart, George. So you mentioned The Colored Museum, which let's just say, though, you know, you had you're coming off the rough review. How did you even get the opportunity to do The Colored Museum, which is going to as if you don't know, it was the first big success for Mr. Wolf. So how did that opportunity even come out of that? Well, it came out of that because I was at Playwrights Horizons because the guy named Lee Richardson, who was running a theater called Crossroads, said you're at Playwrights Horizons. And I don't think there's ever been a black playwright at Playwrights Horizons. Do you have something else that you've written? I said, well, funny you should ask. Dada, Colored Museum. And so that's how it happened. So there is there were they were both connected in a in a in a way that didn't seem so at the time, but was sort of brilliantly perfect. I want to ask you. So The Colored Museum is produced at Crossroads in 86 and then moved to the Public Theater in 87, which you'll notice the Public Theater, the great off Broadway institution, is going to come up quite a few times in this conversation. But for people who weren't around at that time or don't know or whatever, can you describe what The Colored Museum is about and what the controversy backlash that that provoked was? Because it was you you had to develop thick skin early on because it was not all fun and games in response to that one either. Well, but that was different. That was called pure unadulterated jealousy. So that was that was that was just, you know, I came from nowhere and all of a sudden I'm at the Public Theater. And Frank Rich wrote a wrote a review, a rave review, and said it's the kind of playwright who takes no prisoners. And people thought and that meant he kills people. The language kills them. And people thought that that meant I was soft. So it was just like that was just dumb cluelessness. That was very that was very easy to dismiss. And and, you know, and it was it was just jealousy. It was and that I, you know, I went, oh, my feelings are hurt. Oh, I'm over that. OK, go to hell. You know, it's just sort of like I didn't I didn't sweat about that. Well, tell us a little bit about the show, because this is your big success. First. Yeah, it was first. Well, it's it's interesting when I was at NYU. In the dramatic writing program, there are about three or four people writing plays about old black tap dancers, and they didn't happen to be old black or tap dancers. And so and I was just I was just I just thought about it. And I said, so somebody has figured out, has made a decision or dynamics have been created so that people have decided what black is. And I'm going, I'm black, I'm black my entire life. And I view it as this ever changing, complicated, insane, brilliant, amazing thing. So it was an effort to shatter, shatter any preconceived notions that I thought were going to stand in the way of what I wanted to create. So I wrote this play, which was eight exhibits set inside a museum. So I wanted to shatter all the perception, any perceptions that were in my head. So it's to liberate me to go in any direction that I wanted it to. And that's what happened. And it became this and it became this very successful show. It played, I think, for I think for 10 months at the Public Theater. Then it went to the Royal Court in London. Then it toured all around. And now it's it's high schools do it now and stuff, which is great. So it's in. And then as a result of it, then I started getting interesting from that. I went from, you know, being completely flat broke to then I met the kids of studios. I got Mike Nichols wanted me to write a movie for him. Robert Altman wanted me to write movies. So all of a sudden, you know, these job opportunities happened. But it wasn't for many years that you actually went into film. In the meantime, you were kind of seizing this interest in the theater, this opportunity now in theater. There was a person who is legendary by the name of Joseph Papp, who founded and ran the public, who took a great interest in you and, you know, brought you in there. And and we can say, you know, in addition to producing the colored museum, right. Named you one of three resident directors there offered to have a producing entity within the public for you. This was a big champion to have. He then passes away in 1991. He gets succeeded by a lady who was there for only 18 months. And then in August 1993, this institution of the sort of first thing that comes to mind when you think, at least for me, off Broadway comes looking for a new director. How did you become aware that there was interest in you for that position? And was it was that job, which you then spoiler alert, got and held for the next 12 years? Was it what you thought it would be? Nothing is ever what you think is going to be. But that's the point of the journey. It was actually it was I was I directed a Broadway show called Jealous Last Jab. And then I was then offered Angels in America. And and then I was in the middle of directing a seven hour play. And then they called up my lawyer and said, we want to talk to George about running the public theater. And I went, well, I'm kind of busy right now. Can they come back after? And they said no. And so they wanted to make a decision. So when I was in rehearsal, it was announced that I was running the public theater. It was I loved the thing which I loved. I loved, loved about running the public theater was giving artists money, giving artists money and spaces where they could go do work. It was that, you know, because I after after Jelly, I went, oh, this is hard. Surviving Broadway and dealing with all of these all of the dynamics and the money and the audiences and all of that stuff. This is really, really hard. And you have to be really, really tough. And so I knew all these artists who were really gifted, incredibly gifted people, but maybe weren't as tough. Can we can I just mention a few? Because these are shows that were given a spotlight by you in those years, which, in fact, several of them were just revived in the last couple of years. So decades later, people are, you know, coming back to them. But let's note, Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992. This was a dear, dear, very Smith and important show there. That was 1994. We had Top Dog Underdog, Suzan -Laurie Parks wins the Pulitzer for that 19 excuse me, 2002. Take me out again. Just revive. So these are the kinds of people who were talking about where you can. And this the public was not particularly known for its being inclusive prior to your tenure. Well, I'd say it was I think probably yes. I think it's also a place that gave us, you know, for colored girls and it's also a place that gave us for short eyes. So I'm so I would I wouldn't totally agree with that. And also these were very smart artists and these were tough artists. But there were, you know, it's just you people when you're beginning, you need a place to play, which means you need a place to fail so that you can get smarter. Like I had with Playwrights Horizons, you need you need to to do the work and not feel the pressure of it being the biggest hit in the world because you're growing and you're learning and you're getting smarter and you're getting tougher and you're learning more savvy. Just like the things that I allowed on the first production that was done, I didn't allow on the second one. And so you get, you know, so you're growing, you're growing all these muscles. It's not just your talent muscles. It's your your ability to defend yourself and to protect your work and to go, I disagree with that. And, you know, I remember one time there was a writer who was doing a play and a couple of things got really wonky at rehearsals. And I said, well, why didn't you speak up? He said, well, I was just scared that I was actually doing a play at the public theater and somebody was going to discover I didn't know what the hell I was doing and throw me out. And it's that fear you have to get. You have to realize that fear and doubt and other stuff, all that stuff is a part of growing and you have to have permission to grow. And so that's that's what I took on very much so, which is creating a space that was there. I wanted the I wanted the audiences and the artists there. I wanted it to look like the subway at rush hour in New York. I wanted to have all kinds of people there. So that was the thing that I loved after a while. It became very, very clear to me that as much as I was creating spaces for other artists, it was very challenging to be one. And while being in charge. Well, let's go back to, again, what you were doing when you got that opportunity to go there, because this was the beginning. While you're creating these opportunities for people off Broadway, you were making your first inroads on Broadway. As you mentioned, Jelly's Last Jam, 1992, you co -wrote and directed this about Jelly Roll Morton and the birth of jazz. Your first Broadway show musical with Gregory Hines and small role the first time you're working with Savion Glover. And this gets 11 Tony nominations, wins three and sort of leads to Angels in America. Now, this is it's been looked back at. I think the New York Times looked at it as the greatest show on Broadway of the last 30 years. It's an all timer, obviously, but you first saw it as a spectator in Los Angeles. It started at the Mark Tabor Forum. There doesn't sound like there was even a thought in your head that you might ever have anything to do with this. How did that change? Well, Jelly had opened up and I worked with a producer named Margo Lion, who passed away, who was a very dear friend of mine. And everybody, you know, and there were some changes that were going to be made from the Tabor to when it moved to Broadway. And she brought my name up and Tony Kushner and someone called me up and said, Tony Kushner wants to come and talk to you. I said, OK. And he came over and he talked and I had never read the play. I had only seen it. So I talked to him about it and just gave him my observations.
Bloomberg Markets
Fresh update on "86" discussed on Bloomberg Markets
"Senior Portfolio Manager at Federator Hermes to talk about the municipal bond What market. does he make of this move in these markets? Sean McCarthy, the CEO of Build America Mutual is here on site. Why not? Because it's his offices, so he'll be here. That'll be cool. David Dowden, Manager and Director at Mackay Shields is also going to talk about infrastructure investing in municipal bond market and municipal We've got a lot of muni talk coming up this morning. We're going to kick it off right now with Mr. Jon Tucker to talk about our business plan. All right, Paul, thanks. And this is an eye popper, at least for me. So let's start with Yeah! Builds the two -year, 11 basis points lower right now. We're at 462. So you have GDP revised up. We also had a downward revision of the core inflation index. As a result, that is moving yields to the session lows, just maybe the economy, not too hot, not too cold. And with the expectation of great cuts earlier than later, this all adds up to a boost for the major averages. S &P 500 up 30 points, a rise of 7 tenths of a percent. We're at 4585. The Dow's up 86 points. Nasdaq 100, 146 points higher. That is a 9 tenths of a percent. Well, it looks like the economy may be firing on all cylinders at this point. Third quarter GDP revised up to 5 percent. Economist Larry Raim at FSJV Holco had
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Victor Marx
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Find your folks welcome to the Eric Metaxas show sponsored by legacy precious metals there's never been a better time to invest in precious metals visit legacy p .m. investments calm that's legacy p .m. investments calm welcome to the Eric Metaxas show they say it's a thin line between love and line or at least make it a double or triple line but now here's your line jumping host Eric Metaxas let's welcome the hour two I warned you told you that we're gonna have my friend Victor Marx on the program Victor welcome it's hard to describe you I tried in the opening segment but I want to first of all want to say I'm not clear you are one of the first people to be on the scene at the music festival that Hamas attacked on October 7th am I getting that right yeah I would say that's accurate because you were already in Israel what were you doing in Israel at that time no actually we got contacted within 72 hours of the attack and had access and placement and an invitation from an organization there so we you know we jocked up got our team ready flew right in because of the relationships that we have with special operations community and commanders in the IDF and it really gave us access to things that I you know man I wish on one hand I'd never had to see but I know it's a responsibility to share it this this is this is I guess the point Kevin McCullough in our one today shared some things I've shared some things that I have read and heard and I want to talk to you about this now before we do that just to give people background on you you are the president of all things possible ministries you're hard to sum up maybe you can yeah if you can do a little bit of that for us yeah the former US Marine I have a background in martial arts passion is to help set captives free physically emotionally spiritually our organization's been around 20 years now we have a home in Iraq we've done over 130 missions into Iraq Syria northern Iraq northern Africa Southeast Asia we currently have teams in it certainly happened and it's turned into a calling you when did you come to faith Victor yeah I was 1986 June of 86 and I was still in the Marine Corps at the time had a pretty tumultuous background as a child you know I was abused as a kid and tortured and left for dead in a commercial cooler and I guess that's what is the imprint on my soul that never allows me to forget about kids who suffer at the highest level who did that to you Victor it was a the worst of it was a stepfather who ultimately ended up in prison and escaped prison and fled the country they never found him he actually turned himself in so he was a highly educated affluent pedophile and he was in connection with the network of pedophiles and you know sadly I was one of the kids that was a recipient of that and this is why a big part of what you do is rescuing kids from sex trafficking yes we we have a we just started a new division of all things possible ministry it's the pedophile hunter task force and we have acquired the best people that we believe just all tier one top former investigators detectives DA's and we are working diligently here in the US we started it in Southern California which is riddled we're expanding to other states but soon by God's grace and good hard -working men and women who are fearless will our goal is to be in every state in the nation attacking this problem and assisting both state and federal agencies to do really what they're not funded to or don't have the capacity to do and they love our help I obviously I want to talk to you about Israel that's that our main subject today but I want to talk to you about two other things one of them we're people like me I see my role on this program and in other places to help people process things because I am myself trying to process things when you hear about real evil yeah like sexual abuse of children somebody like me who was raised by a loving father and a loving mother who themselves were raised by loving parents it's nearly inconceivable to many people of the evil that is out there and when I talk to somebody like you and I hear about this I feel like part of what's happening in America today is God is allowing us to see the evil that's there he is allowing people like me who have thought that things weren't so bad to see the evil so that we can confront it so that we can so that we can stand against it so we can work against it so we can get serious about what God wants us to get serious about and what you're doing you know you you you've seen this and I think part of part of what's challenging is most people haven't seen this most people don't want to see it I don't want to see it but then you feel a duty just like what you said about Israel that we don't want to think about what was done to people but we sort of have a duty to know some of it and and that's when we're talking about you know child sex trafficking I've been talking a lot about the southern border how this is a moral issue you know the moral issue it's not a whole completely and if churches don't care about child rape why would God care about those churches if you're a Christian in a church that doesn't care that we have sex trafficking being aided and abetted by the US government whether intentionally or unintentionally if you don't see that as a moral issue what do you see anything as a moral issue I can't think of anything more serious than that but but because of the movie sound of freedom and a few other things somehow people are beginning to open their eyes to this and I guess that must give you some hope because you've been aware of this problem for too long yeah and I appreciate you saying that because I think we are in a process of Americans and Christians starting to understand this as a reality you know who's always known it our detectives law enforcement social workers this is the round that they live in and I'll tell you this part of the reason that I believe the church is so what's a good word impotent weak this whole deal is because they're that's why most people who are aware and could make a difference but don't it's because they themselves are involved in levels of darkness and wickedness that they just don't touch they don't publicly do anything and think about it one in three girls will be sexually assaulted by the time she's 18 it's one in five boys males will be sexually assaulted so what what America and the church is starting to accept through like the movie sound of freedom is well it happens other places and there's trafficking networks the hardest thing for people to learn and understand if they really want change in America is it's happening in our homes by families abusing children and trafficking their own kids it this has been known forever in the hood especially among the black community girls will get turned out by their mom put on a front porch and tricked out it's that culture the the dark side of that culture now like we'll use prostitution or trafficking high school boys were trafficking their own girlfriends ten years ago so there's this is why you have the moral decay and you know only fans and which is nothing more than self prostitution it's we're going to a break folks please subscribe to my newsletter at Eric Metaxas calm we send videos these to you you need to share this we need to get the word out Eric Metaxas calm be right back technology is moving so fast it's hard for many churches and nonprofits to keep up with the trends especially when it comes to giving stay ahead of the curve with secure give seven and one giving system with all new features like Auto card updater cryptocurrency giving and tap to give kiosks with Apple pay it's the system that's proven to engage more people in giving and it's all back with their full suite of management tools that enable you to gain insight into your church's giving at a glance but secure give is more than a tech company it's a partner in growing giving and engagement they 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family don't miss trans Siberian Orchestra live in concert the ghosts of Christmas Eve go to tso tickets .com for info beyond the sea welcome back talking to victor marks president of all things possible ministries victor we're talking about some dark stuff but you've been in this and you know I want to ask you how do you deal with this in your own soul dealing with this darkness with this evil my guess is that by doing good it gives you hope that you're you're in the middle of it and and you've been in the middle of it for such a long time but most people as I say most people don't kind of don't want to know about this and you you were saying earlier that you think a lot of people in churches are morally compromised and they they just don't want to they don't want to rock the boat yeah it's a great question and I've been asked that a number of times especially just coming back from Israel and seeing what I have and done and you know you spoke at dr.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Insights from Coinbase's Q3 Earnings Report
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Monday, November 6th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Cryptos Macro Now newsletter on Substat. On today's show, we're talking about trading volumes, layer 2 blockchains, business activity, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. Just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto markets had a relatively quiet yet positive weekend. According to Coindesk indices, at 9am Eastern Time today, Bitcoin was trading at $35 ,066, up 0 .04 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was trading at $1 ,904, up 1 .5%. Elsewhere, Ripple's XRP token is up more than 13%, Uniswap and Stellar are up more than 7%, and Avax and Filecoin are up over 5%. A more optimistic sentiment does seem to be consolidating, and when it comes to Bitcoin, the gentle upward slope of the price trajectory over the past couple of weeks suggests that the increases are from a steady inflow of new demand. This is more organic, as opposed to the sharp moves that we have seen recently, many of which were triggered by derivatives -related repositioning. Hopefully this also means the trend is more sustainable than other upward moves we've seen so far this year. In macro indicators, we need to look at a point from Friday that was somewhat overshadowed in the excitement about the soft employment report. We need to talk about the US Purchasing Managers Index, or PMI, specifically that for services. There are a few PMI series published, but one of the main ones comes from the Institute for Supply Management, which measures business activity on a monthly basis via an index that reflects responses from purchasing managers as to whether the market conditions are expanding, staying the same, or contracting. Anything above 50 is expansion, below 50 is contraction. On Friday, we got the Institute for Supply Management's PMI for the services industry. Services PMI is especially interesting given that services contribute almost 80 % of US GDP, and it is services -related inflation that has proven particularly hard to bring down. Well, in October, according to the index, services activity in the US declined for the second consecutive month. It is still expanding, but at its weakest pace in five months and notably less than economists had forecast. It's too soon to say this deceleration will last. A separate gauge of new orders increased in October after a sizable drop in September, so we could see activity pick up again next month. The reading does highlight that the economy is looking a bit choppy, though, and it makes the next few monthly PMI readings all the more relevant. In stocks, as expected, the US indices continued their upward march on Friday, as softer -than -expected jobs data brought forward expectations of a rate cut and pushed bond yields down further. The US 10 -year yield on Friday almost touched 4 .5 % for the first time since September, having been at 5 % just a few days earlier. The S &P 500 was up almost 1%, the Nasdaq closed up 1 .4%, and the Dow Jones rose two -thirds of a percent. Futures this morning are pointing to a mixed opening. In Europe, stocks were largely mixed to flat on Friday in spite of the US enthusiasm, but they closed out a strong week with the German DAX and the broader Eurostox 600 posting their strongest weekly gains since March. The FTSE 100 showed some weakness, closing four -tenths of a percent lower but still breaking a two -week losing streak. So far this morning, sentiment is still looking mixed. In Asia, sentiment in today's trading was decidedly bullish. Japan's Nikkei index jumped 2 .4%, the Hang Seng closed up 1 .7%, and even the recently beleaguered Shanghai Composite Index rose almost 1%. In commodities, oil prices settled more than 2 % lower on Friday as supply concerns eased. This morning, the Brent crude benchmark was recovering slightly, trading up 0 .5 % at $86 .50 the barrel. Gold is again holding steady, trading at $1 ,986 an ounce. Stay with us. After the break, we're going to take a closer look at some intriguing insights in Coinbase's Q3 earnings. Introducing PayUSD, PayPal's stablecoin. Designed for digital payments and Web3 transactions, PayUSD is the only stablecoin supported by PayPal. Built on Ethereum, it's compatible with widely used wallets, exchanges, and dapps, and fully backed by US dollar deposits and cash equivalents. Eligible US PayPal customers who purchase PayPal USD are able to transfer PayPal USD between PayPal and external wallets. Send PayPal USD to friends in the US on PayPal or Venmo without fees. Shop with PayPal USD on millions of sites. Convert any of PayPal's supported cryptocurrencies to and from PayPal USD. Whether you are a crypto expert or a newcomer, PayPal provides a secure and convenient platform for your crypto transactions. Start exploring at PayPal .com slash P Y U S D. Welcome back. Crypto exchange Coinbase released its third quarter earnings last week. Now that I've had a chance to go through them, there are a few things worth highlighting. Revenue fell by almost 5 % from the previous quarter, a smaller drop than most analysts were expecting, and the net loss shrunk from almost $100 million in the second quarter to around $2 million in the third quarter. Unsurprisingly, most of the revenue drop was due to a decline in transaction fees, which of course accompanies a drop in trading volumes. According to Coinbase, global spot volumes were down 24 % in the third quarter, which is, you know, ouch. Coinbase's volumes fell by less. Retail trading volume was down by 21 % and institutional trading volume was down by 17%. Nevertheless, this obviously hurt, but less than many other crypto trading businesses since trading revenue accounts for less than half of the company's income. An interesting insight is that it's not just trading volumes that impact exchange revenues, it's also crypto asset volatility. With higher volatility, traders trade more. According to Coinbase in the third quarter, crypto asset volatility reached its lowest point since 2016. Well, if you've been following the Bitcoin price recently, you'll have noticed that it has picked up. According to data from the block, 30 -day historical volatility for Bitcoin is roughly three times what it was at August's low point. This is good news for exchanges, especially since spot volumes should follow volatility up. Together, they should increase overall liquidity, which would be very good news as that could encourage more new large investors to enter the numbers. I want to mention something Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in the earnings call. He opened with what he himself acknowledged was a provocative statement about the future of blockchain development. I quote, on chain is the new online end quote. He goes on to elaborate how blockchains are extending the impact of the internet on the way we interact by bringing back the decentralization that was the original part of the internet manifesto. But not only that, blockchains also introduced the concept of ownership, which the internet was missing. But how can blockchains become as ubiquitous and flexible as the internet? According to Armstrong, it's through layer twos, which are scalable blockchains that anchor to layer one security. Layer one in this case refers to base layer blockchains such as Bitcoin and has this to say about layer twos. I quote, the transition from layer one networks to layer two networks can be likened to the transition from dial up internet to broadband. That's an evocative comparison for sure. Some could accuse it of being somewhat commercial since Coinbase launched a layer two network this summer. Called base, it anchors to Ethereum and aims to provide a fast and reliable platform for developers to work on practically any type of application. Activity has declined since the initial hype, but base is still doing pretty well. According to DefyLama, total value locked, which is the amount stored in smart contracts on the network is around $300 million with roughly 55 ,000 daily active addresses. For context, that's slightly less than half the number of daily active addresses on Arbitrum, the largest layer two in terms of value locked. But we should remember that base has only been open to the public for a long time. However, rather than dismiss the comparison of layer twos to the advent of broadband as a self -serving framework, we can look at the investment in base as an extension of a loftier goal to rethink what we want the internet to be. Here we have an exchange focusing on more than trading volumes. And while Coinbase will earn revenue on its layer two through sequencer fees, there are no plans to issue a token as yet that could centralize the monetization of network growth. Will layer twos become the new internet only with greater decentralization and a new concept of digital ownership? Obviously, I hope so. There's a long way to go though, in terms of usability. And there's the danger we end up with what we have now, a concentration of power and dubious monetization strategies. A big difference is the transparency of layer two development. And there's a lot of us watching and rooting for it to succeed. That's it for today's show. For more crypto podcasts, check out the Coindesk Podcast Network. You can reach us at podcasts at coindesk .com, follow us, and if you like the show, please leave us a five star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and produced by Coindesk. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
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"Been reunited with her six month old French bulldog, Hendrix. He was stolen from the land Brooklyn neighborhood on Saturday afternoon. Somebody had reached out to her based on some social media posts that she put out. She contacted the detectives and got the ball rolling and made sure that law enforcement was involved. But Jeffrey Kopp with DC police says they're still looking for the person who took Hendrix. The person who had Hendrix before the reunification hasn't been arrested, Kopp says, but hasn't been fully cleared either. With regards to the details of how that operation went down, I can't share that with you at this point in time. It is still an active investigation. Worthy previously told WTOP that the suspect threatened to kill her if she didn't hand the puppy over last weekend. Scott Gelman, WTOP news. The Pope has canceled an upcoming trip because of illness. 86 -year -old Pope Francis will not be traveling to Dubai as planned this week for the Pope. WTOP 28 CLIMATE TALKS The announcement was made by the Vatican following advice by his doctors due to a flu and lung infection. The Vatican said the Pope's general clinical condition has improved, but the Pope agreed not to go ahead with his trip with great regret. But Francis has already limited his activities at the Vatican to conserve his strength this week. Sabina Castelfranco, CBS News, Rome. I'm Peter Greenberg and this is today's Eye on Travel Minute. Want to figure out your estimated travel costs ahead of time? Why not check out the zip code of where you want to go? And where are the most expensive postal codes in America? California, with 61 zip codes as the most expensive, led by Atherton, California, with an average home value starting at just under
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Insights from Coinbase's Q3 Earnings Report
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Monday, November 6th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Cryptos Macro Now newsletter on Substat. On today's show, we're talking about trading volumes, layer 2 blockchains, business activity, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. Just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto markets had a relatively quiet yet positive weekend. According to Coindesk indices, at 9am Eastern Time today, Bitcoin was trading at $35 ,066, up 0 .04 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was trading at $1 ,904, up 1 .5%. Elsewhere, Ripple's XRP token is up more than 13%, Uniswap and Stellar are up more than 7%, and Avax and Filecoin are up over 5%. A more optimistic sentiment does seem to be consolidating, and when it comes to Bitcoin, the gentle upward slope of the price trajectory over the past couple of weeks suggests that the increases are from a steady inflow of new demand. This is more organic, as opposed to the sharp moves that we have seen recently, many of which were triggered by derivatives -related repositioning. Hopefully this also means the trend is more sustainable than other upward moves we've seen so far this year. In macro indicators, we need to look at a point from Friday that was somewhat overshadowed in the excitement about the soft employment report. We need to talk about the US Purchasing Managers Index, or PMI, specifically that for services. There are a few PMI series published, but one of the main ones comes from the Institute for Supply Management, which measures business activity on a monthly basis via an index that reflects responses from purchasing managers as to whether the market conditions are expanding, staying the same, or contracting. Anything above 50 is expansion, below 50 is contraction. On Friday, we got the Institute for Supply Management's PMI for the services industry. Services PMI is especially interesting given that services contribute almost 80 % of US GDP, and it is services -related inflation that has proven particularly hard to bring down. Well, in October, according to the index, services activity in the US declined for the second consecutive month. It is still expanding, but at its weakest pace in five months and notably less than economists had forecast. It's too soon to say this deceleration will last. A separate gauge of new orders increased in October after a sizable drop in September, so we could see activity pick up again next month. The reading does highlight that the economy is looking a bit choppy, though, and it makes the next few monthly PMI readings all the more relevant. In stocks, as expected, the US indices continued their upward march on Friday, as softer -than -expected jobs data brought forward expectations of a rate cut and pushed bond yields down further. The US 10 -year yield on Friday almost touched 4 .5 % for the first time since September, having been at 5 % just a few days earlier. The S &P 500 was up almost 1%, the Nasdaq closed up 1 .4%, and the Dow Jones rose two -thirds of a percent. Futures this morning are pointing to a mixed opening. In Europe, stocks were largely mixed to flat on Friday in spite of the US enthusiasm, but they closed out a strong week with the German DAX and the broader Eurostox 600 posting their strongest weekly gains since March. The FTSE 100 showed some weakness, closing four -tenths of a percent lower but still breaking a two -week losing streak. So far this morning, sentiment is still looking mixed. In Asia, sentiment in today's trading was decidedly bullish. Japan's Nikkei index jumped 2 .4%, the Hang Seng closed up 1 .7%, and even the recently beleaguered Shanghai Composite Index rose almost 1%. In commodities, oil prices settled more than 2 % lower on Friday as supply concerns eased. This morning, the Brent crude benchmark was recovering slightly, trading up 0 .5 % at $86 .50 the barrel. Gold is again holding steady, trading at $1 ,986 an ounce. Stay with us. After the break, we're going to take a closer look at some intriguing insights in Coinbase's Q3 earnings. Introducing PayUSD, PayPal's stablecoin. Designed for digital payments and Web3 transactions, PayUSD is the only stablecoin supported by PayPal. Built on Ethereum, it's compatible with widely used wallets, exchanges, and dapps, and fully backed by US dollar deposits and cash equivalents. Eligible US PayPal customers who purchase PayPal USD are able to transfer PayPal USD between PayPal and external wallets. Send PayPal USD to friends in the US on PayPal or Venmo without fees. Shop with PayPal USD on millions of sites. Convert any of PayPal's supported cryptocurrencies to and from PayPal USD. Whether you are a crypto expert or a newcomer, PayPal provides a secure and convenient platform for your crypto transactions. Start exploring at PayPal .com slash P Y U S D. Welcome back. Crypto exchange Coinbase released its third quarter earnings last week. Now that I've had a chance to go through them, there are a few things worth highlighting. Revenue fell by almost 5 % from the previous quarter, a smaller drop than most analysts were expecting, and the net loss shrunk from almost $100 million in the second quarter to around $2 million in the third quarter. Unsurprisingly, most of the revenue drop was due to a decline in transaction fees, which of course accompanies a drop in trading volumes. According to Coinbase, global spot volumes were down 24 % in the third quarter, which is, you know, ouch. Coinbase's volumes fell by less. Retail trading volume was down by 21 % and institutional trading volume was down by 17%. Nevertheless, this obviously hurt, but less than many other crypto trading businesses since trading revenue accounts for less than half of the company's income. An interesting insight is that it's not just trading volumes that impact exchange revenues, it's also crypto asset volatility. With higher volatility, traders trade more. According to Coinbase in the third quarter, crypto asset volatility reached its lowest point since 2016. Well, if you've been following the Bitcoin price recently, you'll have noticed that it has picked up. According to data from the block, 30 -day historical volatility for Bitcoin is roughly three times what it was at August's low point. This is good news for exchanges, especially since spot volumes should follow volatility up. Together, they should increase overall liquidity, which would be very good news as that could encourage more new large investors to enter the numbers. I want to mention something Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in the earnings call. He opened with what he himself acknowledged was a provocative statement about the future of blockchain development. I quote, on chain is the new online end quote. He goes on to elaborate how blockchains are extending the impact of the internet on the way we interact by bringing back the decentralization that was the original part of the internet manifesto. But not only that, blockchains also introduced the concept of ownership, which the internet was missing. But how can blockchains become as ubiquitous and flexible as the internet? According to Armstrong, it's through layer twos, which are scalable blockchains that anchor to layer one security. Layer one in this case refers to base layer blockchains such as Bitcoin and has this to say about layer twos. I quote, the transition from layer one networks to layer two networks can be likened to the transition from dial up internet to broadband. That's an evocative comparison for sure. Some could accuse it of being somewhat commercial since Coinbase launched a layer two network this summer. Called base, it anchors to Ethereum and aims to provide a fast and reliable platform for developers to work on practically any type of application. Activity has declined since the initial hype, but base is still doing pretty well. According to DefyLama, total value locked, which is the amount stored in smart contracts on the network is around $300 million with roughly 55 ,000 daily active addresses. For context, that's slightly less than half the number of daily active addresses on Arbitrum, the largest layer two in terms of value locked. But we should remember that base has only been open to the public for a long time. However, rather than dismiss the comparison of layer twos to the advent of broadband as a self -serving framework, we can look at the investment in base as an extension of a loftier goal to rethink what we want the internet to be. Here we have an exchange focusing on more than trading volumes. And while Coinbase will earn revenue on its layer two through sequencer fees, there are no plans to issue a token as yet that could centralize the monetization of network growth. Will layer twos become the new internet only with greater decentralization and a new concept of digital ownership? Obviously, I hope so. There's a long way to go though, in terms of usability. And there's the danger we end up with what we have now, a concentration of power and dubious monetization strategies. A big difference is the transparency of layer two development. And there's a lot of us watching and rooting for it to succeed. That's it for today's show. For more crypto podcasts, check out the Coindesk Podcast Network. You can reach us at podcasts at coindesk .com, follow us, and if you like the show, please leave us a five star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and produced by Coindesk. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
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Fresh "86" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Know now. You are listening to 103 .5 FM at DOP .com. Sports at 25 and 55 powered by Maximus. Moving forward. Maryland was a big favorite and it showed in a 103 76 victory over Julian Reese and Jameer Young each scored a season -high 22 points with Reese adding 12 rebounds on a night when the Terps shot a hot 58 % from the floor coach Kevin Willard. The 17 assists six turnovers I think we're trending in right the direction that way. You know if you look at two of our losses early the turnovers killed us in both games. So I think these guys understanding taking taking care of the basketball and getting a shot up every time and not giving the other team easy buckets and making guys work. Meanwhile Howard was a double -digit underdog against undefeated Cincinnati and fell short of the upset bid in overtime 86 -81 suffering their first home loss of the season. The NFL set Thanksgiving a Day viewership record for the second straight year with a late afternoon game in Dallas between Cowboys and commanders averaging 41 .8 million viewers making it the second most regular season game on record behind last year's Cowboys Giants game. Speaking of Dallas time Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is reportedly selling a majority stake in his NBA team for a reported three and a half billion dollars but Cuban would still keep shares in the team and full control of basketball operations. The news comes the day after Cuban announced plans to leave his longtime TV show Shark Tank. Rob Woodfork, WTOP Sports. When you struggle with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis you get used to not feeling a hundred percent. I thought that was how it had to be until I discovered the Crohn's and colitis foundation. They told me about new medications that weren't around back when I was diagnosed. They helped me find a specialist who gave me a new treatment plan. I'm feeling better than I ever thought I could. Don't
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from Crypto Couple: Making Bitcoin Fun, Affording Life and Family, Girl Boss Culture, AI, Bitcoin in 10 Years
"We realized, all right, let's see if we can try to take some of this knowledge that we are now gaining and put it into bite -sized forms, because that was also a great way for us to learn more, because trying to explain something in 60 seconds requires you to really know that. Hello and welcome to the Coin Stories podcast, where we get to explore the future of money, business, technology, and Bitcoin's revolutionary promise to boost economic prosperity around the world. I'm Natalie Brunell, and I'm here to learn with you. This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. None of the discussions should constitute as official investment advice, and you should always do your own research. Please make sure you're subscribed to the show and hit that notifications button so you never miss out on any new episodes. This show is made possible and the content is free thanks to partnerships with companies I trust, and I'm very picky about who I choose to partner with, so I hope you take the time to listen to the ad reads throughout the show. Thanks for joining me, and if you're watching this on YouTube and want to see more videos like it, make sure to hit that like button. All right, it's time for the show. Welcome back to another episode. I'm so excited because I have two of my friends on this episode. Really excited to share Carla and Walker, better known as The Crypto Couple. Thanks so much for joining me. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. Okay, I want to hear a little bit about where you guys are from and how you became two of the funniest people and the most well -known in the space with your amazing videos. We kind of share similar Midwest roots and a little bit of the Eastern European flair between me and Carla. So tell me both of you a little bit about where you're from and how you grew up. So me, I was originally born in Bucharest, Romania. My dad escaped communism in 86. My mom and I came over in 93, and I grew up in Chicago, a great immigrant community in Chicago, Romanian immigrant community in Chicago is very lucky, but I always had a lot of education around money and authoritarianism just because of my background. So that definitely shaped a lot of things in my life that I didn't know they would just yet. It's definitely come into fruition now in the last three years, but yeah. Yeah, I grew up in the middle of nowhere, Wisconsin in a very small town. I think my hometown has a smaller population than the high school Carla went to. No way. Yeah, I think now it's up to about 2 ,500 people. So it's growing a little bit, but it was a very, very small town. Looking back, when you're young, it's like you can't wait to get out of your small home town. Can't wait to move into a big city and try things out, and then you get a little bit older and you get a taste of a few big cities and you start to think, man, I can't wait to get back to a small town again. It's amazing how our preferences change a little bit, but in contrast to Carla, I really did not grow up with a lot of certainly no monetary education. My parents were gracious enough to homeschool my sister and I, which was wonderful. And that was a, I'm very grateful for that experience overall, but there wasn't a lot of talk about money, financial knowledge in my household growing up. My parents did well enough to support us, but we were not by no means wealthy. We had a nice little life in a small town, but as I got older, I certainly learned a lot from Carla's dad about authoritarianism and monetary history. So I'm grateful for my American dad and my Romanian dad. Well, I can certainly relate to both of you, probably Carla a little bit more because I had the Eastern European immigrant parents as well who also grew up under communism and made sure to tell me not to trust anything that I hear, especially from the government. They were both gold bugs and all of that. So you guys met in college, right? Tell me about where you met and then your early careers before Bitcoin shifted things. So we actually, he's from Wisconsin, I'm from Chicago. Last minute, I decided to go to University of Wisconsin. Yeah, UW Madison, we met about the first, it was like the first week. Yeah, we were like 18. Yeah. So we've known each other for quite a while. A very long time. I was, I majored in industrial and systems engineering. Carla was in the journalism school, so we had journalism and business, no crossover for classes except for one site while I was still trying to chase her. People still wooed people back then. Well, she was, she said, she mentioned offhandedly that she was going to take this French class. I just wanted an easy A. Yeah. And I was like, well, you know, I could, I could parlay a little Francais. Yeah, he literally joined my French class. I was like, what are you doing? Which, which was very perfect. It worked out well, clearly, because here we sit today. But early career wise, I worked for Accenture as a, what do they call it? A digital business architect, whatever that means. Basically writing pseudocode for developers and spent about four years there before, before transitioning into a role with the family business. Where I've been working for the last 10 years. Yes. So Carla's got a little bit more time with the family business, including her entire childhood. But that was, it was nice to move out of the, the very massive corporate role at Accenture where I think there are like 350 ,000 people at that company. Like it's a small country to work in a family business where, yeah, you're, there's different types of stresses, but you feel like you're actually doing something that's more than just being a cog in a very, very, very large wheel. And like, admittedly, I, I went to grad school too for business just because like, again, realizing things now that I've gone into Bitcoin in the past, like I really was sort of in the rat race thinking that I had to get all these degrees and become this career woman. Like that was my plan for the longest time. And now here I am like about to become a mom and like doing creative stuff that I actually love. It's like a complete 180 that I literally never saw myself doing growing up. And I'm so much happier. Like it's crazy. Well, you guys are so perfect for it. Carla, did you always know that you were going to somehow end up working for the family business? And, and how did you guys come to start these creative videos that, that really have made such an important impact on the community? Because sometimes people take themselves way too seriously and you guys make it easy, but also fun to learn about Bitcoin. So if I always knew kind of, you know, when you're around a family business your whole life, I also wanted to give back because I'm very grateful for everything my parents have provided me and, you know, there's a business enabled to provide me. It's not a glamorous industry. It's like two way radio and distribution and system integration. So it's like nothing. It's very sexy. It's not sexy at all, but you know, it pays the bills. It's a job. But another part of it was my dad was always very supportive of, he always knew I was kind of a creative soul at heart. So he appreciated that I came to work for the business, but he also was very supportive when I was like, Hey, I also want to try something else on the side. So actually during the pandemic Walker and I started our own company on the side, just like to see, explore, like incubate a little startup, which we did for over a year. It's called get busy. And we were producing these hardware sensors and that was right when like the supply chain issues started. The timing could not have been worse for trying to source parts. Like we were, we needed chips and we were competing with like Sony and Nissan for chips. And actually we're still like, finally they're getting delivered in May, 2024. Like we placed these component orders like years ago. Whoa. But because we were in the startup mode, I started making content, video content again, just for the startup, which was like in the bar and nightclub industry. And I was like, Oh my gosh, I like forgot. I liked video editing. Like, you know, I'd studied some documentary filmmaking back in school and whatnot. And then once we got the news that no more manufacturing would happen for us for years, we were both like really sad and kind of depressed and on the couch. And I looked at Walker, I'm like, well, we make videos now. Like, why don't we just make a Bitcoin video? We both like, we both been on Twitter for a while. I think we both joined in like 2010 or 2011 and then discovered Bitcoin Twitter. This wonderful little sub, you know, sub vibe of Twitter. You know, probably around the start of the pandemic. 19? Well, yeah, 2019, 2020. And I'd just been lurking on there. And as you know, like we started making videos, I think May of 2021. Yeah, it was still a year. Started making crypto couple videos, May, 2021. And we had just been like, the vibes were not very great at that time. It was right after we'd blown off the first top from the initial all time high. After we like smash bought at 63. Yeah. You know, after, you know, buying like all the way up to that top and then watching it drop down to, I think it got down to like, you know, 28 at one point. And that was like in June of 2021. And the vibes were pretty harsh on Twitter at that time. And as you correctly said, people were just taking themselves so very seriously. And Carla literally looked at me and was like, you know, We had nothing to lose either. No, yeah. Like we had no audience. We had no plans. We were literally just on the couch. We were like, crypto couple has two C's like alliteration. That's fun. Let's just make a video. Ha ha. And then like it went viral, the first one on TikTok. On TikTok. So we weren't even on Twitter yet as our Bitcoin promoting personalities. This was just purely on TikTok. Like first one just took off. Before TikTok, like then later kind of shadow banned us. And now we don't use that really at all anymore. But it was your first video. It was the types of Bitcoin haters. It was like, you know, any time that's the beautiful thing about this industry is that both within it and externally, there is so much fodder for content because either people we can we can laugh at ourselves internally. There's plenty to laugh at. Oh, yeah. But there is so much more to laugh at from people not understanding it from without. Bitcoin? Yeah, I looked into it a little bit, but my managing director says it's probably going to get regulated. So hey, Jimbo, what's the score? Bitcoin is used for a lot of illicit demands, and that's what the U .S. dollar is for. Tulip mania, Ponzi scheme, bubble. I think that sums it up. To me, it's like, why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide? We actually recommend that our high net worth clients launder their money with us to eliminate the risk of jail time. I just think we need to conserve our natural resources for more important things like YouTube or Christmas lights. Look at the price of Bitcoin, then look at the price of gold. The price of gold stays steady. In other news, Bitcoin is dead again. Back to you, Tom. And so, you know, we made it was very easy to pick like eight or 10 different people that hate Bitcoin, personify them and put it out there. And it struck a chord. And we were like, whoa, people really like this. So many people were commenting like, we need more stuff like this. So we were like, OK, like, again, no plan, no, you know, we just started accumulating costumes as we went. We had no idea that years later we'd be emceeing events or going on podcasts. Like it all just happened. I mean, if I will say anything, it's consistency. Like, yeah, we just kept producing. In the beginning, we were making over a video a day, which was a lot of work. It is crazy to think about. I mean, I can relate to that as well. I had no plans for my podcast to become my job. And I came out right around the same time as you guys. And you're but you're both so it just comes so naturally to you. I think that's why so many people love the videos. They like it's just you're so naturally funny and you guys don't take yourselves too seriously. But yet you get across these very, very important smart messages. But how did you discover Bitcoin? Did you both learn about it around the same time? Like, what's that story? It's time for a quick break to hear these messages from my partners. First up, Bitcoin Conference 2024, the world's largest Bitcoin event is coming to Nashville next year. Come join us for three full days of keynotes, panels, networking events, workshops, concerts and more. My first ever Bitcoin conference was back in 2021. And that's where I dropped my first episodes of Coin Stories. Not expecting this to become my full time job. Just hoping to meet Bitcoiners and find more guests for the show. Anything can happen here, especially if you dream of working in the industry. Ticket prices go up every month until the big event. So don't miss out. You want to get your tickets early. And for 10 % off, use the code HODL, H -O -D -L at B .TC slash conference. I'll see you in Nashville. Next up, Fold. Fold is the best Bitcoin rewards card and shopping app in the world. You can earn Bitcoin on everything you purchase from Amazon to groceries to your Bitcoin conference ticket with Fold's Bitcoin cashback debit card. And you can play to win free satoshis or even a whole Bitcoin by spinning the rewards wheel. This is a great app to get someone totally new to Bitcoin and way better than earning reward miles and points. Head to foldapp .com slash Natalie. And if you use my link, you'll get 10 ,000 sats when you sign up for Spin or Spin Plus and spend at least $20 on the card. All right, back to the show. Well, I first heard about Bitcoin in like 2014. We all heard about it in college for like some, you know. It was the Silk Road days. For the obvious reasons. And I had a buddy of mine that was utilizing the Silk Road. And he was like, dude, have you heard of this Bitcoin thing? Like I have to use it on the Silk Road. I'm like, dude, I don't care. I don't want to know what you're doing. We were young. You know, just whatever, man. And boy, it's like one of those things where you look back and you're like, wow, if only I would have not just dismissed it immediately. But like most people do dismiss it immediately. Right. Like more power to the people who heard about Bitcoin way back when and immediately were like, I get this. This is the most important thing that's ever going to exist in terms of money. That was not me. That was not most. That was. Yeah. And then next, your dad. So, yeah, for that, for me, like he didn't really none of us picked it anything up in college, like the next time we actually got exposure. My dad, because he follows things closely. He was like, oh, Carla, like, have you heard of this cryptocurrency? It's a very good imitation. Like I was like, no, what's that? But I'm like, OK, I'll look into it. And at the time, I obviously did not look into it much because I was like, oh, my gosh, like I can't spend that much on a Bitcoin. So I was like, well, I'll just buy Ethereum then because it's cheaper. This was like peak, though. This was like when Ethereum was like four hundred dollars. So I was like, yeah, I'm going to buy one ETH. Good for me. And I like start telling him because we were. What were we at the time? Are we engaged? I don't know. No, not not. I don't know. We were about to be engaged. But I was like, I bought this Ethereum. And he was like, well, I was like, man, I'm pretty short on cash right now. I can't even like I can't even afford a couple of ETH. I'll just get one of these lite coins because that's like that's like the third most expensive one. So like that'll probably maybe it'll get us, you know, be worth as much as Bitcoin sometime. And I'll make a bunch of money like no Bitcoin because I can't afford a full Bitcoin. It's like, yeah, again, did not go deep at all. And then it crashes down. And I was like, I'm never touching this again. This is stupid. I can't believe I did this. Like all of this is so dumb. And then you just tuck it away in the back of your brain for a few more years. And then the pandemic rolls around. And like it was, you know, March 2020, things start to get really weird. They start shutting things down. They start at this point. I was following kind of monetary news more carefully than I ever had before, because I was like, what is going on? Where is all this money coming from? How are they just sending stimulus checks to all these people? Like, you know, I got one. And like, why did I get one? Like, I don't really need this right now. But a lot of people are in this case. There's so much money and we had nothing better to do. I mean, so that's like 2020 is when I finally went down the rabbit hole, so to speak, or my journey into the never ending rabbit hole of Bitcoin and just started like slowly with whatever, you know, I had more spare cash because nobody was doing anything. We weren't going out. We'd moved to the middle of nowhere, Wisconsin. Our expenses dropped a lot. And so it was like, okay, let me just start buying a little bit of Bitcoin and learning more. And he brought it up to me and I was like, well, I got nothing better to do. And so that's honestly what happened. And at this point, again, that was when we kind of kicked up our start, our startup. So we, you know, we're not solely focused on Bitcoin. We were just DCA into it. We were learning more about it, you know, lurking on Twitter. And then after the startup kind of went on pause, still on pause, that was when we were both like, okay, now we've been, you know, we've stacked Bitcoin up to this recent, like, all time high. And now we're still stacking as it goes down to this little bottom. And that was when we decided, okay, let's start to share, like, let's bring a little bit of levity to the space, but let's also see, like, all the education that's out there is super long form, which is great. Like, it is wonderful once you've gone down the rabbit hole to listen to a four hour podcast between a couple of, you know, guys who are really going deep into monetary theory and all these things. But you know what, for like 99 % of people when they're just starting out, that is of no help or interest. Like, I'm in the space and I still, like, don't even always want to listen to that.
Bitcoin Audible
A highlight from Chat_86 - Everything on Bitcoin with Robin Linus & Super Testnet
"BitVM is a virtual computer and if you've ever dealt with virtual computers, you download something like VirtualBox, you get the software for an operating system, you plug it in there and you hit go and suddenly you've got like a digital version of a computer running a copy of Linux or Windows or Mac or whatever operating system you told it to and it'll just pretend it's a Mac or pretend it's a Windows device. And that's what BitVM is, it's a virtual computer that we found a way to fit into Bitcoin. Robin, SuperTestNet, I just want to say welcome to Bitcoin Audible, it is really exciting to have you guys, I have been loosely diving into this project that you guys have been working on and listened to a bunch of stuff but I was super stoked, like I really just wanted to have you guys on so that I could kind of dig through some of the edge cases and really just kind of get a direct response and kind of explore this with, I know the crew has been kind of buzzing about this as well wanting to hear this episode. So I just want to say thank you guys so much for joining me on the show. Thanks a lot for having us. Thank you so much for having me, it's an honor to be here. There we go. Alright guys, so I want to start with just what led you towards producing this. The project, just in case anybody is unfamiliar at this point, is BitVM, which is a virtual machine, essentially arbitrary code, that we can actually use to lock the ownership of Bitcoin on chain. So even though there's an extremely limited scripting ability on Bitcoin, quote unquote limited programmability, we can actually trick it into not having that limitation. But I'm curious, and let's start with Robin and then we'll go to Supertestnet, where did this come from, how did y 'all kind of get to this point that y 'all were trying to build this, and also where'd the idea come from? What made you think you could even do this? Okay, that's a lot of questions. Like the high level goal is just to scale Bitcoin, right, to be able to process millions of transactions. And an idea that I find very appealing is to have a free market of sidechains, where essentially everybody can just spawn a new sidechain and be like, hey, I got this privacy feature or I got this scalability feature or whatever scripting capabilities. And I want to offer that to the market and then the market can decide if that's useful or not. And that would be really awesome if that would exist. But that requires some kind of two -way pack, some kind of bridge. And this bridge is complicated and people don't really agree on how these bridges should be built. And that's why it's so hard to convince the community to find a soft fork for building some kind of bridge. Bit300 is one proposal. But yeah, people don't strongly agree on it, I would say. And that's why it doesn't happen currently. Out of curiosity, were you a Bit300 proponent? Yeah, definitely. Okay, okay. What about you, Supertestnet? I don't think we've ever talked about it. Bit300 is better than BitVM because it's just the clean way of doing it. BitVM suffers from the same problem at the end of the day. If really the majority of the hash power is evil, then the system fails pretty quickly. Same for BitVM as it is for drivechains. Drivechains is even more. Yeah, I'm a fan of Bit300 and I wish we had it. Now, out of curiosity, and this is something that I have had a really, really hard time getting strict really clarification on, because one of the issues, like the golden ticket, so to speak, the magic bullet of a two -way peg is that no matter what on the sidechain or whatever system we have for aggregating a bunch of transactions, the keys remain someone's lock The hash for Bit300, as I understand it, is that merely the majority hash rate is the ownership of the coins. Is that or is that not correct? Like in the sense that the unlocking of the funds is purely due to 51 % of the hash vote for that UTXO, for that balance of funds.
Bitcoin Audible
Chat_86 Everything on Bitcoin with Robin Linus & Super Testnet
"Price inflation is the highest it's been in decades. Labor participation is the lowest it's been in decades. Wealth inequality is continually going in the wrong direction since 1971 and has accelerated during the QE period. The bond markets are more volatile now than they have been in decades and 2022 was the worst year for stocks and bonds since 1920. The ballooning of the money supply and growth of the debt -based monetary system is not a left versus right phenomenon. At least in America, both sides have presided over the destruction of the dollar's purchasing power and the weakening of the banking system.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Bitcoin on the Rise, Briefly Breaking $35K
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Tuesday, October 24th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Cryptos Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about crypto moves, US GDP, fund flows, privacy, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Well, yesterday was interesting. The climb in Bitcoin price that I talked about in the previous episode accelerated, with Bitcoin briefly breaking above $35 ,000 for the first time since May of last year. Back then, Bitcoin was on the way down as the collapse of the Terra Luna system was rocking markets. Now, Bitcoin is on the way up, and there is more than one tailwind at work here. I'll talk about those in a moment. According to Coindesk Indices, at 8 a .m. Eastern Time today, Bitcoin was trading at $34 ,540, up 13 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was up 10%, trading at $1 ,845. Other tokens also managed to rack up double -digit gains. Flow was up 11%, Decentraland and Filecoin were up 12%. Now, on to what seems to be driving Bitcoin's move. There's the macro narrative. In yesterday's episode, I talked about the US 10 -year yield hitting the symbolic level of 5%. Well, it turned around fast. We've seen in the past that 5 % has acted as a peak, with 10 -year yields pulling back each time they reach that level. This happened yesterday and was accelerated by posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, from two well -known bond investors suggesting that they expect yields to drop from here. The 10 -year yield dropped almost 20 basis points yesterday and has recovered slightly this morning to 4 .86%. Back to Bitcoin's move, there's also a crypto -specific narrative. Yesterday, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, which handles NASDAQ clearing, listed the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF with the ticker symbol IBTC. Also, BlackRock filed a registration statement amendment with the SEC, saying that it may start to seed the fund with cash this month in preparation for trading. None of this means that approval is imminent, but it might, and investors are starting to position for the expected bump when that eventually gets confirmed whenever that may be. There's still plenty of risk, however. Bitcoin's liquidity is relatively thin, which can amplify moves up or down. And stock markets are still looking nervous, despite the drop in Treasury yields. In macro indicators today, I want to talk about US GDP growth. You've no doubt been hearing conflicting accounts of where the US economy is and where it's heading. On the one hand, we've been told for months that a recession is imminent, and we may already be in one. US bankruptcies are up at levels last seen during the pandemic, and before that during the 2008 financial crisis. Bank credit is contracting. Consumer sentiment is dropping sharply. On the other hand, the economy is growing, the job market is still strong, and retail sales are still heading up. This Thursday, we find out the preliminary figures for third -quarter GDP growth in the US. The average forecast has it doubling from the growth achieved in Q2. Economists expect the US economy to have grown 4 .2 % annualized in the third quarter versus 2 .1 % in the previous period. This does not look very much like a recession. And there's more. The Federal Reserve of Atlanta runs a GDP model which takes in economic data as it is released, and spits out a frequently updated growth estimate. They go to pains to specify this is not a forecast, it is an estimate based on actual data. The Atlanta Fed model, known as GDP Now, has the third -quarter growth coming in at 5 .4%. More than a full percentage point higher than economists' prediction. I have no idea what the number will be, but we could be in for a surprise on Thursday. In stocks, the drop in US Treasury yields seems to have calmed investors a bit. Yesterday, the S &P 500 fell less than two -tenths of a percent, the Dow Jones dropped just over half a percent, while the Nasdaq even managed to squeeze out a gain of almost three -tenths. This morning, futures are pointing to a more upbeat mood as investors wait for earnings reports from a handful of mega -cap tech stocks. European indices also delivered mixed results yesterday, with the FTSE 100 down almost four -tenths, and the DAX and the Eurostock 600 more or less flat. Today, things are looking tentatively positive. The mood also seems to have shifted in Asia. Japan's Nikkei index was up two -tenths of a percent, and the Shanghai Composite rose almost eight -tenths on growing conviction that the Chinese government will do what it takes to support the market. The Hong Kong market bucked the trend, however, and fell just over one percent, dragged down by corrections in its large tech stocks. In commodities, the Brent crude benchmark continued to retreat from the local highs reached last week, down roughly six -tenths to trade at just over $90 per barrel. Gold is also settling back, down almost half a percent to trade at $1 ,963 per ounce. Stay with us. After the break, we're going to look at currently listed crypto funds and privacy. This communication is not directed to investors of any specific jurisdiction or to recipients based in jurisdictions in which distribution is not permitted. It cannot be considered investment advice or results of market experience. Past results are not indicative of future performance. Trading derivatives products involves the risk of loss. Please consider it carefully. Full disclaimer included in show notes. Welcome back. In headlines today, we're going to be talking about an issue we all should care about, as well as a positive development on that front. But first, let's look at listed crypto funds. Crypto fund manager CoinShares publishes a weekly report on inflows and outflows into all listed crypto investment vehicles. This is worth keeping an eye on, as it gives some insight into what investors are doing, specifically the type of investor that prefers to get exposure to the crypto market through listed funds. These tend to be institutions as well as more mainstream retail investors. The latest weekly report published yesterday shows the fourth consecutive week of inflows. Most of the inflows, over 80%, went into long Bitcoin funds, with Solana accounting for most of the rest. The only crypto asset to see outflows was Ether, with total investment declining for the second consecutive week. We'll include a link to the report in the show notes. Next, I want to take a step back and comment on a fund raise that highlights an important aspect of crypto that could use some more attention. I'm talking about privacy, which is a touchy subject with regulators who insist they need to be able to look at all financial transactions in order to prevent crime. Nevertheless, it is a topic many of us care about, especially given how easily it can be eroded and how that erosion can leave people more vulnerable to censorship, extortion, or maybe worse. Normally, privacy is not something people value until they need it and realize they don't have it. This comes to mind today because this morning, Coindesk reported that privacy infrastructure builder NIM Technologies has received commitments from crypto venture firms of more than $300 million to fund further development of privacy technology. I'm not endorsing NIM Technologies, but this is a considerable amount of money which will hopefully go toward making Web3 and blockchain applications more secure. This should enhance their utility as well as the overall health of the internet. It's a big task, but one that matters individually and collectively, and it's good to see a significant investment in its development. That's it for today's show. For more crypto podcasts, check out the Coindesk Podcast Network. You can reach us at podcasts at coindesk .com, follow us, and if you like the show, please leave us a 5 -star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and edited by Eleanor Paul, with executive production by Jared Schwartz. I'm Noelle Atchison for Coindesk. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Bitcoin on the Rise, Briefly Breaking $35K
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Tuesday, October 24th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Cryptos Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about crypto moves, US GDP, fund flows, privacy, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Well, yesterday was interesting. The climb in Bitcoin price that I talked about in the previous episode accelerated, with Bitcoin briefly breaking above $35 ,000 for the first time since May of last year. Back then, Bitcoin was on the way down as the collapse of the Terra Luna system was rocking markets. Now, Bitcoin is on the way up, and there is more than one tailwind at work here. I'll talk about those in a moment. According to Coindesk Indices, at 8 a .m. Eastern Time today, Bitcoin was trading at $34 ,540, up 13 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was up 10%, trading at $1 ,845. Other tokens also managed to rack up double -digit gains. Flow was up 11%, Decentraland and Filecoin were up 12%. Now, on to what seems to be driving Bitcoin's move. There's the macro narrative. In yesterday's episode, I talked about the US 10 -year yield hitting the symbolic level of 5%. Well, it turned around fast. We've seen in the past that 5 % has acted as a peak, with 10 -year yields pulling back each time they reach that level. This happened yesterday and was accelerated by posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, from two well -known bond investors suggesting that they expect yields to drop from here. The 10 -year yield dropped almost 20 basis points yesterday and has recovered slightly this morning to 4 .86%. Back to Bitcoin's move, there's also a crypto -specific narrative. Yesterday, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, which handles NASDAQ clearing, listed the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF with the ticker symbol IBTC. Also, BlackRock filed a registration statement amendment with the SEC, saying that it may start to seed the fund with cash this month in preparation for trading. None of this means that approval is imminent, but it might, and investors are starting to position for the expected bump when that eventually gets confirmed whenever that may be. There's still plenty of risk, however. Bitcoin's liquidity is relatively thin, which can amplify moves up or down. And stock markets are still looking nervous, despite the drop in Treasury yields. In macro indicators today, I want to talk about US GDP growth. You've no doubt been hearing conflicting accounts of where the US economy is and where it's heading. On the one hand, we've been told for months that a recession is imminent, and we may already be in one. US bankruptcies are up at levels last seen during the pandemic, and before that during the 2008 financial crisis. Bank credit is contracting. Consumer sentiment is dropping sharply. On the other hand, the economy is growing, the job market is still strong, and retail sales are still heading up. This Thursday, we find out the preliminary figures for third -quarter GDP growth in the US. The average forecast has it doubling from the growth achieved in Q2. Economists expect the US economy to have grown 4 .2 % annualized in the third quarter versus 2 .1 % in the previous period. This does not look very much like a recession. And there's more. The Federal Reserve of Atlanta runs a GDP model which takes in economic data as it is released, and spits out a frequently updated growth estimate. They go to pains to specify this is not a forecast, it is an estimate based on actual data. The Atlanta Fed model, known as GDP Now, has the third -quarter growth coming in at 5 .4%. More than a full percentage point higher than economists' prediction. I have no idea what the number will be, but we could be in for a surprise on Thursday.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from MASSIVE XRP Victory Changes Crypto History FOREVER! (Bull Market IS BACK)
"XRP, baby! Hey, how are we all doing? Today is a great day to discover crypto. It's Friday, October 20th. We got the green background. We're feeling good. We're going to talk about the XRP victory against the SEC. We got Gareth Soloway on the charts today. About 10 minutes from now, we're going to break down some price levels for you too, including can Ripple or can XRP hit a new all -time high? Also, we got some BlackRock news as well. We might got some updates with SPF as well. We got Drew and Nick on the ones of twos. How are y 'all doing? We're in an XRP hoodie. I know. So you seem forlorn and upset. Is it burning your skin like a vampire wearing a silver chain mail? No. I got to put respect on the name of, wait, can you even see it? There it is. XRP. So yeah, it's an XRP hoodie. I just put it on because this is a day of celebration. And for what has happened with Ripple. Okay. So it's not like when a demon touches a cross or, you know, you splash the holy water. So it's not burning your skin. Is it itchy at least? Is it a little itchy? It's annoyingly comfortable. Oh, I like that annoyingly comfortable. Hey, so's the hat, baby. And you can catch all you get that at hitmerch .com. That's right. Let's look at the crypto markets folks. Let's just get right into it. I want to hit refresh because we are feeling bullish and we are up. We went from 1 .2 to 3 .0. So the crypto markets are up 3 % today. Total market cap coming in at one point. I'm rounding up $1 .2 trillion. Bitcoin dominance is down a little bit from yesterday. It was 49 .9. I believe now it's 49 .8. Gas is barely up. Bill's 18 Gwei yesterday. Now it's 21. All right. Well, let's look at some of these prices here. Bitcoin is up 3 .4 % now coming in 29 ,500. It was briefly flirting around that 30 K level. Maybe it's going up 3%. But look at XRP folks up 7%. We are now above 51 cents. I saw Jenna actually tweeting about 51 cents. She is almost like she called it. Shout out to Jenna XRP. Friend of the channel there. Solana. Solana is up 10 .8%. We got a Solana video coming out pretty soon. Do you know the schedule on that? This weekend, Saturday, I believe at 3 PM, big Solana bull scenario video. We're bullish on Solana. Look, I ate crow. This was two or three months ago. I ate crow and I said, guys, I was wrong about Solana. And I was wrong about Solana. I think it's going to do very well. We go into big details. You're going to say the same thing about XRP. Nick loves XRP. You know he's buying at these levels. Wake me up when Doge is at 21 cents. I got 21 questions. When's that going to happen? And then Nick Houdy, candle daddy. Nick's hoodie burned my eyes. I know. Look, it's burning my spirit right now. But look, we got to move on. Here's the important thing, Deezy. The important thing about all these things on CoinMarketCap is look at the volume. Look how much volume up we are. Yeah, we're seeing a lot of volume. 40 % up. And not only that, yesterday, 24 -hour volume was coming in below $50 billion. And now we are at $86 billion. A 39 % pump in volume alone. 40 % pump. So we got a 3 % pump in prices, but over a 30 % pump in volume here, folks. That is what leads to the large moves. All right. We got a lot of movers and I'm feeling good about the biggest gainers today. I heard if you hit the like button, you increase the odds. Your coins are in the biggest gainers. Bitcoin SV. I did a Bitcoin short video today. I was actually looking at the price because I want to look at like 20 levels. And wow, was I shocked when I saw that it was up 21 % today. Stacks is up 12%. Solana up 10%. These coins are moving, folks. Manil is up on the Manil. It is up almost 11 % as well. XRP 7. eCash 6 .66%, I think, actually. I looked. GMX up 6 .3%. And then Stellar. All right. A lot of Stellar fans in the chat. I know Stellar is up 5%. Flat for the week until yesterday. All right. So Render is up of 12 .7%. Okay. And you were talking about Render yesterday, correct? I always talk about Render. I'm very bullish on Render. Render is a great, great project on Solana now. It was on its own chain. Now it's on Solana. What does it mean? What does it mean, Deezy? Manil, we're doing a video on Manil coming up pretty soon. Nick is a 70s top kind of guy only. I'm going to take this off and you're going to see what I'm wearing underneath. All right. Now let's look at the biggest losers. I saw the top coin, my coin. I don't own that one. I haven't looked at the other nine, but look, today is green, folks. And today is the day Deezy doesn't have a coin in the top 10 losers. I can just feel it. I can feel it. All right. Number one loser for the day is Trust Wallet coming in at 1 .3. OKB, XDC. Guys, this is six coins and I don't have any of them. I don't know. I don't know what's happening here, folks. I mean, guys, we're literally hundreds of days at this point. I've always had a coin in the top 10 losers.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 12:00 10-13-2023 12:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. The Thunk It, S &P 500 off a half of 1 % here, WTI crude oil up 4 .5 % here, $86 .60 for WTI crude oil. More coming up. This is Bloomberg.
How I Got Here with Dave Fiore
A highlight from Episode 55: Warren Cave
"So when I started Chi -town and the Chi -town boys in the middle 80s, 86, 87, 88, we had a motto, we gonna get high and rob till the day we die. We gonna not live to be 25, either we gonna kill somebody or they gonna kill us in the street. So now I'm over 25, but I hadn't really changed. So when I went to AA, when I was sober, I saw better days that I could have. But the more I got high, it was like, whoa. The only good part about me being high is when my friends would say, man don't come out here praying and crying. From Fiore Communications, it's How I Got Here, a show of inspiring stories from Tallahassee area leaders, business owners, and neighbors. All the challenges, opportunities, inspirations, the twists and turns of life that led them to where they are today. Everyone has a story worth telling, and I am really grateful that we get to bring a few of them to you. I truly have been changed by my conversations with these amazing people, and I'm confident you will be too. I'm Dave Fiore, and in this episode, I speak with Warren Cave, the founder of the Clean Start Initiative, a nonprofit ministry to help those previously incarcerated and their families. Warren grew up in Coral Gables as one of 13 children and was an outstanding student and basketball player, in spite of the fact that he would often be drunk and high before the first school bell even rang. He spent four years in the 10th grade with more time on the streets of Coconut Grove robbing tourists than in the classroom. That led to repeated trips to jail and eventually prison as an addict who didn't expect to live past the age of 25. Warren's life took a dramatic turn when he heard from God in the back of a police car and began to turn things around. And while his journey has not been without setbacks, he has dedicated his life to helping others, especially the homeless and those struggling with drugs and alcohol. He and his wife Yolanda met at the fun station playing basketball for some Popeyes chicken, a game he lost. They have five children in their family and are grateful to be making a difference together. We started our conversation talking about growing up in a rather unusual home environment. I went to predominantly white school, which was Coral Gables Senior High. I was raised around a bunch of, we were like, not really poor, but my dad had so much money that I thought we were rich. So I came up in that environment, never suffered, never had the big, never thought, never seen lights out. We fed a lot of people through my family. It was a lot of drinking and drugging was normal for lifestyle and that's, I will tell you later, the first time I ever had a drink of hard alcohol or whiskey. I don't think I was eight years old. So within your family or within the community? In my house. Okay.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from Pro Trader Teaches Me How He Wins 86.3% Of Trades (Trading Secret Revealed)
"Today, I'm joined by a very special guest, runner XBT, who managed an 86 .3 % win rate in Q3. So in today's video, I'm going to ask him all the questions about how he achieves such an amazing win rate. And if there's anything that we can learn, any trading secrets, trading strategies that we can take as traders or prospective traders to make ourselves better and succeed in this market. Runner, welcome to the show. It's amazing to have you. I know it's pretty early slash late for you, but thanks for joining. Hello. Good morning. Thanks for having me. I guess my first, like where I want to kick this off is pretty much, yeah, I'd love to get a recap in your words about how you managed to achieve this in Q3, because it's a pretty amazing result. Like we say in crypto that, you know, if you're getting in the mid fifties for a win rate, that's considered like a pretty decent win rate, but you've smashed it in Q3 with an 86 % win rate. And you can see here out of 365 trades, you won 315. So yeah, I would love to just get your version of events of how you managed to do this. Well, the screenshot you're showing is since, as it says, like November, 2022. So I guess Q3 kind of starts in the middle of the climbing, climbing up the mountain or whatever you want to call it. I would like to maybe highlight in the beginning that win rate, I mean, I told you this before the stream, but also a win rate to be taken with a pinch of salt, because there's a lot of people or like, just for you to be a profitable trader, you don't really need to have about 50 % win rate. I know it sounds like a very logical consequence or like, you know, equation, but there's a lot PNLs, of meaning let's say you can be losing a lot of trades, but if the loss is very small, and your winners are very big. So like, just to put it in, like why I'm saying it, to kind of downplay, I guess my performance because I don't think it's fair to be celebrating win rate, but yeah, in Q3, why I've done well is, because when Q3 started, I believe it was, Bitcoin was at like 31 to 32k, if I'm not mistaken, we could maybe look at the chart, but I, and my trading is mostly shorting, so I was just shorting everything, basically, all quarter, yeah, I think Bitcoin was where it was.
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
A highlight from Ep. 120 - Bands, Breakups and the Brilliance of 1986
"Well here we are episode 120 got a little emotional there on this episode I have the usual crew the wrecking to oh I like that I just made that up I have the usual crew of the wrecking to we're going to be talking about 1986 why am I doing all this yelling and extension of my voice by 86 is a good year it's one year from going in the military and meeting Todd Sockman on a lighter note it should be a good show so sit back relax enjoy 1986 the kofb studio presents milk rate and turntables a music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean now let's talk music enjoy the show thank you Amanda for that wonderful introduction as usual welcome back my friends to the show that never ends you know the name I'm not gonna say it welcome to the podcast we're streaming live right now over Facebook YouTube twitch Twitter D live or not Twitter X is anyone ever going to just call it X is that ever going to take hold or will it always be the artist formerly known as Twitter I don't know does it matter I don't think so in the big picture did it matter in 1986 when the when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor no oh you know what this is a perfect opportunity to bring on the record to Mark Smith what where it looked what where is he what what's he what I in the party what what the hell just happened there hi well I had this big intro and you just like you know verbal warning time long show hey at least I'm lit real nice that's right you got a nice lighting I mean now lose back in France so he has to be subdued it's nighttime in Paris hey good evening patty she says you're on time this week that was I don't know it's Lou's fault last week I think maybe I don't know somebody's fault marks well drummer's fault yes it's just blaming on the drummer what am I apologizing for that you don't need to know I will say something was my fault oh wait my autographed port you could porcupine tree picture fell this week because that story you were telling Lou and I was you know what you're apologizing you know right into the penalty box there is no apologizing on this podcast there this is not a soft podcast this is a podcast where you speak your mind we don't self -censor on milk crates and turntables I won't show my scar definitely in the box then definitely in oh disturbing behavior yeah that that was in that even was evoked a comment on Twitter someone said it was one of the funniest stories they ever heard they even had the time they had the timestamp from like I was like one hour and 52 minutes to one hour and 57 minutes like funniest five minutes like that we're at almost at two hours at that point I know three hours mark didn't go to bed earlier than that but looking at looking at night in the events of 1986 we're definitely not doing a third three hour show tonight not a lot happened in in 1986 as far as like you know big things usually when I do these years when we do these years it it's a significant list of music events but this I looked I went whoa okay we'll be talking about movies that was a relatively peaceful year I guess yes for me I was concerned about graduating high school a year because I from going in the in the Air Force he failed Jim I graduated college that year and then I took the just another year off took from that point on so I had to I had to go to like I guess they call it summer school so they let me go to graduation but I didn't get a diploma because I was a couple credits short but I had it set up for the summer class thing and somebody that's my buddy good evening she says good afternoon so evidently she's in another time zone and y 'all y 'all is she in the south well she's in the south west you know but I know what she means I know what she means Tiffany's my buddy spent the day with her the other day on Tuesday and a big united mission united veterans conference of all these different non -for -profits that are helping veterans it's a great time a great time yeah and then at the end Tiffany and I stole sandwiches I'm just saying it wasn't me wasn't my idea it wasn't my idea so everybody leaves and they had the mission united their form of the United Way she says no just working a different intern internal time clock that's a busy girl she is a busy girl but back to the story so Tiffany I would like the last ones to leave the conference the guy that was running it he's a buddy of mine from mission united he's talking to some people so he had kept saying throughout the comments eat the food because the whole back table was just all you know sandwiches and mac salads and desserts and drinks and he's yeah it's a lot of food over there that's it yeah it is she says well so well it's just I'm gonna get some I said you're the same okay I'm with you I'm with you right so you're over and she takes to get some plate she gets in the sandwiches were like mini subs okay she said oh my god my 95 year old grandma would have killed me if I let them throw it away you're not getting out of this one that easy Tiffany no no that's a deflection she says yeah well she did say can't let good food go to waste so she did say that right so she gets a salmon they were like two they were like good like eating subs right and they were cut in half with a big toothpick she gets one I said well I don't really too you need to one for me one for dr.
Bitcoin Audible
A highlight from Read_769 - Orange is the New Green
"Our existing financial system is a mirage of wealth and liquidity, sustained by an ever -expanding money supply. Bitcoin emerges as the ultimate shield against the inevitable reckoning that will shatter this illusion. The best in Bitcoin made audible. I am Guy Swan, and this is Bitcoin Audible. What is up guys, welcome back to Bitcoin Audible. I am Guy Swan, the guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anybody else you know. I just want to thank, off the top, our amazing sponsors for this show and our supporters. Thank you to the audio -nauts and everybody who donates sats on fountain. I don't get to go over there and check on that stuff a lot, but I just want to say that I do see it. I do read them, and even though I don't mention them on the show because I feel like I'm always just rushing to get to the next thing lately, I do really, really appreciate it, and it is amazing. I can refill my Zap wallet on Nuster, and I can also take some and buy the final sticks of RAM for my AI machine and get that thing finally up and running. It really is amazing to just kind of have that constant support from you guys, and I just want to say thank you because I don't mention it enough. Also, our amazing sponsors who keep the show alive, seriously, and I don't take my sponsors lightly. I use companies that I use. Literally some of my absolute favorite and most used products that let me have a Bitcoin life. They are Fold, the Fold card, the debit card that pays me sats back on everything. I just paid for a big bill and got 87 ,000 sats. I've got 87 ,000 sats. It's my biggest ongoing payment for the business expense. I got 87 ,000 sats. That's crazy. And then the cold card hardware wallet where I keep those sats safe and get to use them with NFC by tapping my phone to the nunchuck wallet because I love it. It's just magical. And then, of course, Nodeless .io, a simple, no obligation, no KYC way to accept Bitcoin directly in your online store, your fundraiser, or your project, or whatever you want to set up. Understand, if you use my link to check these guys out, this actually helps the show because they know that I sent you there. They know that people are hearing about them and checking out their products and services. So if you want to check out any of our sponsors, the links will be in the show notes. Now today's read, I'm a little bit behind on this. I wanted to get this out earlier, but this is another amazing read from Axiom BTC. The previous was their announcement piece, Capital in the 21st Century, and talking about moving to the Bitcoin as the standard, as the unit of account. And I thought it was a really, really great piece, and I loved the framing, and I've been very, very interested to stay up on what these guys are doing. And the last piece was written, I think, exclusively by Alan Farrington. I can't remember. I'll have the link in the show notes where all the details are. And this one is by Théo Mongeau. And this one is about how Bitcoin can completely change the plumbing, the foundation, the base of the global financial structure, and that there is actually a path to Bitcoin, even in its volatility, being the best option for short -term cash holdings. If that sounds crazy to you, you are absolutely going to want to listen to this piece. So with that, let's go ahead and get right into today's article. And, it's titled… Orange is the New Green By Théo Mongeau The Emergence of Bitcoin Money Market Funds Introduction The transformative power of Bitcoin as a savings technology is now widely acknowledged. No other asset class in history has been able to rival its long -term returns, underpinned volatility, and the commitment of its holders to long -term accumulation. During a recent interview, legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller shared an insight he gained from Paul Tudor Jones II, perfectly illustrating this dynamic. When Bitcoin's price plummeted from $17 ,000 to $3 ,000, an astonishing 86 % of those who acquired it at its peak did not sell. This steadfast HODL mentality is vividly illustrated in the HODLwaves chart, as shown below in Figure 1, a graphical representation of Bitcoin supply categorized by time held. The chart demonstrates the gradual reduction in circulating supply as long -term holders transfer their coins into cold storage. This process explains in part Bitcoin's appreciation, but also its characteristic volatility, as a significant influx of capital into an asset with a fixed supply naturally leads to pronounced price swings. That said, I believe there is a plausible scenario in the medium to long -term in which Bitcoin absorbs short -term cash balances. To be clear, this would be before attaining anything like the status of a global unit of account, and despite its seemingly disqualifying volatility relative to fiat competition. This may seem self -contradictory at first glance, but I believe that by introducing Bitcoin into a flawed incentive structure and teasing out its less -than -obvious properties, a compelling solution emerges, incentivizing holders of cash balances to actively contribute to Bitcoin's adoption. This article delves into this intriguing prospect. It commences by dissecting the challenges faced by holders of cash balances. Subsequently, it explores how Bitcoin can offer a deposit facility superior to existing alternatives. I conclude by examining current prototypes of Bitcoin money market funds and contemplating alternative designs. Unlike quote, basically risk -free crypto yield products, throughout the article I will draw attention to the intricate trade -offs integral to designing the types of product discussed.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Vitalik Discusses Enshrined Functionality
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here is your latest for Monday, October 2nd, 2023. Vitalik Buterin discusses the challenges of enshrined functionality, Eth .limo announces a specialized DNS implementation for ENS, Grayscale follows a form for a spot Ethereum ETF, and Redacted Cartel launches PXE. All this and more starts right now. Vitalik Buterin published a new post exploring the dichotomy between integrating features directly into the Ethereum protocol and constructing them through additional layers. He noted a shift in interest to incorporate more features into the core protocol to enhance gas efficiency, minimize bug risk, support diverse EVM opcodes, and improve censorship resistance. In his post, Buterin discusses the complexities and potential hurdles involved with integrating account abstraction at the protocol level. He mentions various proposals for account abstraction including EIP -86, EIP -2938, and ERC -4337. Buterin states that there should be a balance between streamlining functionality and avoiding over -complexity in the protocol, advocating for a strategy that adopts minimally viable enshrinement. Eth .limo announced LimoWeb3DNS, a specialized DNS implementation tailored for ENS. The project is geared toward the direct resolution of ENS records, focusing on public name servers and the .eth top -level domain. It will allow the ENS community to host and manage their own DNS implementation of the ENS protocol. Eth .limo is in the process of developing the implementation. The implementation will feature native ENS resolution extensions to various networks, support for the resolution of all ENS record types, and a gateway optimized for seamless content hash record resolution. Eth .limo says it will be compatible with CCIP read. Grayscale Investments announced that NYSE ARCA has filed Form 19B4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a crucial step toward converting the Grayscale Ethereum Trust into a Spot Ethereum ETF. The development comes after the SEC's approval of the first Ethereum futures ETF. The Ethereum Trust holds nearly $5 billion and accounts for 2 .5 % of all circulating Ether. It is also owned by over 250 ,000 US investors. In alignment with its broader goals, Grayscale is working to transition its complete range of crypto investment products into ETFs. Grayscale holds over $30 billion in assets under management. And lastly, Redacted Cartel launched PXETH on the Gorly Testnet. PXETH is a liquid staking token that allows users to earn rewards from MEV in addition to staking rewards. Users have the option to deposit their PXETH into an auto -compounding rewards vault where the rewards get converted back into PXETH. The release comes ahead of the upcoming launch of Dinero, an over -collateralized stablecoin touted to be backed by Ethereum block space. The Dinero protocol will consist of its own RPC endpoint, the stablecoin, and the PXETH liquid staking token. Additionally, Redacted DAO is set to incentivize PXETH on various liquidity protocols. In other news, Altlayer supports xERC20 tokens, Synthetix launches its V3 Testnet trading competition, Farcaster introduces PAS keys, and Vannex, eFute's ETF, is now trading. Outro This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily, also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Coronavirus
A highlight from Vitalik Discusses Enshrined Functionality
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here is your latest for Monday, October 2nd, 2023. Vitalik Buterin discusses the challenges of enshrined functionality, Eth .limo announces a specialized DNS implementation for ENS, Grayscale follows a form for a spot Ethereum ETF, and Redacted Cartel launches PXE. All this and more starts right now. Vitalik Buterin published a new post exploring the dichotomy between integrating features directly into the Ethereum protocol and constructing them through additional layers. He noted a shift in interest to incorporate more features into the core protocol to enhance gas efficiency, minimize bug risk, support diverse EVM opcodes, and improve censorship resistance. In his post, Buterin discusses the complexities and potential hurdles involved with integrating account abstraction at the protocol level. He mentions various proposals for account abstraction including EIP -86, EIP -2938, and ERC -4337. Buterin states that there should be a balance between streamlining functionality and avoiding over -complexity in the protocol, advocating for a strategy that adopts minimally viable enshrinement. Eth .limo announced LimoWeb3DNS, a specialized DNS implementation tailored for ENS. The project is geared toward the direct resolution of ENS records, focusing on public name servers and the .eth top -level domain. It will allow the ENS community to host and manage their own DNS implementation of the ENS protocol. Eth .limo is in the process of developing the implementation. The implementation will feature native ENS resolution extensions to various networks, support for the resolution of all ENS record types, and a gateway optimized for seamless content hash record resolution. Eth .limo says it will be compatible with CCIP read. Grayscale Investments announced that NYSE ARCA has filed Form 19B4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a crucial step toward converting the Grayscale Ethereum Trust into a Spot Ethereum ETF. The development comes after the SEC's approval of the first Ethereum futures ETF. The Ethereum Trust holds nearly $5 billion and accounts for 2 .5 % of all circulating Ether. It is also owned by over 250 ,000 US investors. In alignment with its broader goals, Grayscale is working to transition its complete range of crypto investment products into ETFs. Grayscale holds over $30 billion in assets under management. And lastly, Redacted Cartel launched PXETH on the Gorly Testnet. PXETH is a liquid staking token that allows users to earn rewards from MEV in addition to staking rewards. Users have the option to deposit their PXETH into an auto -compounding rewards vault where the rewards get converted back into PXETH. The release comes ahead of the upcoming launch of Dinero, an over -collateralized stablecoin touted to be backed by Ethereum block space. The Dinero protocol will consist of its own RPC endpoint, the stablecoin, and the PXETH liquid staking token. Additionally, Redacted DAO is set to incentivize PXETH on various liquidity protocols. In other news, Altlayer supports xERC20 tokens, Synthetix launches its V3 Testnet trading competition, Farcaster introduces PAS keys, and Vannex, eFute's ETF, is now trading. Outro This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily, also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
WTOP
"86" Discussed on WTOP
"86 in Leesburg and in Georgetown we're also at 86 money news at 10 and 40 past the hour it's brought to you by pen fed great rates for everyone hello Jeff play ball hello and co -working office company we work says there's a substantial doubt about its ability to stay in business because of financial losses we work was once the largest single non -government leaser of office space in the DC area four years ago at 21 locations here it's down to just 11 now if you ride hail is it uber or is it lift lift remains smaller than uber and its post -pandemic recovery has been slower lift had 21 half and a million active users at the end of last quarter that's more than a million fewer than it had before the pandemic there are already a lot of sports betting apps now there's another one ESPN is partnering with gambling company pen entertainment to launch ESPN bet it launches in 16 markets this fall that was up 22 points the S &P 500 is index still down to the Nasdaq is down 58 points Jeff Klayball WTOP news alright Jeff thanks 241 now on WTOP abortion is shaping up to be a defining issue in the upcoming elections a new poll from The Economist and YouGov shows 77 % of American voters say abortion rights are either very or somewhat important that includes 87 % of Democrats polled just 23 % of the overall survey folks say it it's not important poll comes more than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade 1500 respondents took part in the survey the polls margin of error 2 .8 % new details in the case US of a Navy sailor charged with providing sensitive military information to China prosecutors say the sailors mother encouraged him to cooperate with a Chinese intelligence officer telling her son it might help him get a job with Chinese the government someday chinchou way was arrested last week on a rarely used espionage charge is one of two sailors based in California accused of giving military information to China in separate cases there's been an explosion on the grounds of a factory north of Moscow that factory makes optical equipment for Russia's security forces more than 40 people are hurt some severely officials say the blast occurred at a warehouse storing fireworks they was in the grounds of an optics manufacturing plant the regional governor says the company had rented the warehouse for storage but later claimed the plant was mostly producing pyrotechnics whatever the cause the explosion produced a tall plume of black smoke adding to Russian jitters over nighttime drone attacks alleged to be by Ukraine on Moscow as well as alarm about smoke seen over the port the best of all in Crimea I'm Charles de la desma coming up on WTOP paradise is burning parts of Hawaii one of the islands Maui is on fire it's 243 uncover risk gain insights and make confidence supply chain decisions with Exeter Exeter's AI software is transforming supply chains defense contracting and procurement one customer saved an incredible 150 million dollars in raw materials purchasing another reduced compliance costs by 70 % Exeter is empowering professionals to succeed in a volatile market experience the power of a single platform to achieve resilience compliance and cost savings combined navigate your way to transparency at exi ger .com the supply chain game changer you've been searching for get fast reliable Xfinity internet and now you can add a the whole new way to entertainment watch you love introducing now TV the best value in live TV
How to Live A Fantastic Life
"86" Discussed on How to Live A Fantastic Life
"Life to be? And build it grain of salt by grain of salt, grain of sand by grain is saying it had come to a break in a bill to a brick in a bill to a wall. And just not compare yourself to others. But build on who you are and what you want to be. Those are important concepts. So before we leave, I just want to point out, you know, one of the companies I've also followed along the way is the hard rock cafe, and the hard rock cafe was started that go. In a time when they had to start a value system in order to really start. And you know, they came up with four founding printers in their model. And I'm not sure if you know them, but you probably have come across them in all that you've studied in everything else. These are therefore principles. One is love, whole, serve alt, number two, take time to be kind. Number three, save the planet. A number four hall is one. Yes. Wow. Those are pretty suspicious things for a company to start this, you know, decades ago, and you know, that's carried them through all these difficult times. And you know, there have been, I don't know how many hundreds of companies that have gone bankrupt in the last few years. And how many companies that have stopped living beliefs and having to change radically, yet this company has still managed to arrive with their hotels with their restaurants with their staff and those are things that I think are important. It's not the glitzy memorabilia in their places that keep them going. It's their mottos that have kept them going. And I think that's something that's important when people are developing their companies and so on to keep them at their perspective. Is that not rateless? Absolutely, because you know why? It was filled into the foundation. We go back to that. If your foundation is strong, if you know what's part of the foundation, a part of that mix that you that cement that sand.
How to Live A Fantastic Life
"86" Discussed on How to Live A Fantastic Life
"How he was most successful at what he was doing. There I worked with the CEO, and we used to laugh all the time. And some staff will come and be like, but I can't do this. If you go, here's the crazy part. We've never really asked for your resume. We asked, what do you want to do? What's your strengths? What are you good at? What can you bring to add to this company? And you rattled off all this stuff and we said, great, that's exactly what we need you're hired. Now you're telling us you can't do what you said you can do. Now that's a problem. Because you gave us the skills that we needed. You said that. And so we need to understand that, yes, you have to allow people to do what they do. But we also have to make sure that they can do with victim that they say they can do. That's rather important. And I think the important thing is people, you know, it's one thing to talk the talk. But it's a whole different thing to walk the talk. Execution is important. Important there. But let's go on to another concept that I think is very important. And that's creating a company culture you can be proud of. Yes. That means you've listened. You listen to your employees. Favorite word of not listening to react, but active listening. That you really do hear them and see them. And so instead of saying, oh, you just want Fridays off. Okay, you get it off at 2 o'clock. What does that do for the bottom line? What does that do for the morale of the company? Is there a way that you can maneuver certain things that people understand that you're just not giving? I love the companies who see it that give programs. We're going to buy this program. We're going to buy this program, but yet no one uses the program. And so you made everyone go through this train and they're like, but it's not useful. That's not what we asked for. You've made it much more difficult. So are you listening to what your employees are actually saying to you that they can do their job better for the company? Cupcake Fridays and beer Pong, okay, all of that's great. I'll never turn down a cupcake. But that doesn't mean that when I go into you and say, hey, you know, I've been doing this job for three years. There's a new position open. What do I need? That's the route I want to go. How do I get there? Then you don't make sure that I'm being prepared that I can get to that next level. That there's additional education and pay equity that there's a feeling of inclusiveness not belonging because that's not a job to make you feel like belong. I get to decide where I belong, but there's a feeling that I can go speak to someone that I can get the extra skills that I can get a raise that I can move up. That what I do is important, and that starts to build company culture because people walk in and they feel like they are actually contributing as opposed to feel like that someone's always sucking and taking from them. You know, I think in this year, particularly, the worker has an all time powerful position because they don't have to stay in companies anymore. They can choose to work wherever they want to. As they want to. So the power that's being vested in them is they have to decide whether they want to stay and build the culture or they could go on their own and do their own things now. And that's a big change from the way things were in years gone by. Absolutely. Part of what the cover group does is we do work with companies helping to recruit, for CEOs, for senior positions, and I always say to them in the interview. Don't think that you're just interviewing the potential and employing the employees interviewing you. They get to decide what type of culture they want to work in. And so, and remember we're all on Zoom. It's a camera so people can see you and how you interact with each other when you're asking questions or who's rolling their eyes. They're paying attention to that. Because they do have the power to work where they want to work now. Yeah. And one of the cultures I had followed fairly closely over the years is the Disney group and how they've built an empire because they've been a company that really has over the years worked hard to keep something going to keep high in the public's eye. And at the same time, to try and keep a company going, even when theme parks were shutting down. And everything else, which is very difficult when you don't have the revenue to keep things going, yet they have tried to keep people on board. Because they know their employees are the people that are the ones that keep it going. Absolutely. And employees keep everything going. You know, yes, you can have stock and you can have inventory you can say the trucks can still keep moving. One fighting this over here, but they don't have to show back up. No one's looking for that goal watching that corner office. And the pinch in the way that years ago you were taught, that's what you did. You went into a company and you stayed there forever. That is no longer how it works. So if you are not taking care of your employees, I always say, you're outside and you're inside must match. That means you can be all shiny to the consumer. Look at us, look at us, but if your employees are unhappy on the inside, trust me, you're outside is going to start to show it. Yeah, for sure. And I think that's the important part of what goes on in this. Well, believe it or not, we're getting close to our end already. And I always like to end the show with two questions. And lastly, this show is called how to have a fantastic life. And I'm going to ask you personally, how do you have a fantastic life? I love that question. My spiritual basis, my base, so I know that I feel grounded, and that I have options, and so like I said, my post was on twirling into 2022, because I always know good otherwise, I always have options. And then that means my life will always be fabulous because I could decide on directions. It may not always be the direction I want it to go, but I have options. That's rather important and I think you know yourself and that. That is a very hard one because once you know what your options are and who you are, you decide. I'm going to ask the flip side of that question. How do you think others should have a fantastic life? Understand that it's their life. Understand that they have to live it for themselves first. That they can't be compared to their brothers or their sisters or their uncles or what they see on TV and celebrities that again, what's in your bag and what do you want your.
SRB Media Podcasts
"86" Discussed on SRB Media Podcasts
"You never gonna get anything done. Only the people up the pressure. Because i can see that you know the quality player to play out from by absolutely they also tell him an album of just taking the pitch. Don't recognize being apart. From the case. But i think he's made eleven changes against arsenal Raised strong saudi. It's an honor to the oath. Owns and again you look at it from the early conversations in the podcast. What's the point you. You just look at it as now being funny thinking. Hang on we got off. The beating arsenal had really really poor starts. If we put our best eleven we could get into the next round but the blocks in sort. You know what we're bothered so thank bothered. Aren't going to be bothered to watch him. We always talk to play it because you finds top of yet. Great atmosphere when you get a full. Oust westbound baffles me but i still they kinda followed by the because he a adjustable oppression so he's got to win this game. I think you will given the law as planner reasonably strong to muster guard started God they've just kicked off in the forgets the just call again. These these fools just drove me. Mad the politically correct idiots in this guy. Rotary sam's started that vacuum as we're speaking it's been road of so it only means down football folk s so we're gonna fly through all one eight last week. So it's two one two two gab of taking an early lead i think also multi clearly laid in these games and all. This is one of your reform clubs away from at broughton broncos decent. What a piece yet again. A w what did i tell you about him. Brian one hundred written say no unfairly dismissed an all get proper football capable symbol season. This year you send sending to be distant to say but grandpa of think. He's a great manager. Think he's doing a great job much broin ply often. I could evanston to wanna grigny. There's always meant to yet. He does so you'll go on one. I'm going to one side. Broaden new castle versus one full mclovin science all can see science getting something from this guy. I'm gonna go powder to one southampton of put to say dhabi. Essy's far east watts. I battle The maitland's.
SRB Media Podcasts
"86" Discussed on SRB Media Podcasts
"Night is what he said. Some stein wrote how are you. I'm good thanks. W i'm very well result last night tremendous result fast in villa six-nil away at barrow. Young man scored a hat-trick watching it while. I'm doing me notes for the view and did that. All of the aston villa goalscorers hatrick goalscorers in the lake up where broadcast room and everybody else's front room puff from some steinruck. It's almost as of your goals on your debut against staff in the laker in knowing. It before the premier league is being forgotten. No you know when real football was taking place up until when the primarily was created. You know the record stop then An and as as people are only interested in what happens since the primarily Who she's just dumb silly You know he changing name so history stops or history begins from that date I'm i'm with you be outrageous. It's it's It's a real slice on the people that played the game before the you know and You know you could actually say when i say real real football even actually this season Tried to change the rules around. So they can. You can be a little bit rougher as you know. feel sorry for him if it's too real A go each point credible. Because you're absolutely right. Football as a context bull. Football is being going since hundreds and the erosion of all of our history. I think he's not just a slant in a slice on the the game of football think. It's an absolute disgrace. I think what they're trying to do is wholly wrong but let's just briefly talk about your debut for that wonderful club. Aston villa four goals on that first guy. Most of an instant halt hand hero. Yeah i think He's a good style and mckee's any game after that you you startling Yeah he was a guy style and I it's been a long story about that but You know villa wendy. Only team earning to me at the time and did actually not barcelona bike To go to the i should be..
Restaurant Tales
"86" Discussed on Restaurant Tales
"Were international magazine. It's pretty cool really had to have chip in other countries. That hasn't really come up yet over the industry to but yes. A lot of fun is the accent. Three hundred seventy two submissions published eagles publishing seventy four okay rating on. That's where's the farthest that you guys have had someone Inner something from australia has got to be. That's way but Lasted a bus asia australia. We had a couple of artists from africa has time india. South americans submit i. I don't think so at this point but we're trying to move in the future. Maybe translations of poetry oldbury cool. We can work with different languages as well. We don't have to tell you guys. Feel like the industry's kind of diverse. At least an entire issue someday kitchen spanish. I'm a big fan of that. I was gonna. He's got a kind of a funny story. Actually how we all got connected on this as well. I was just like popped up on instagram. And i was like oh shit. This is a really amazing idea. So the started following you guys. I was like oh man. I was like super super excited about it. One night i was. Actually i was sitting at the bar. A where where brady works. My girlfriend was working. And i was like she would really like. I should order one of these copy of of this magazine. Because that's definitely something like she would love this and i also selfishly Wanted to read it to. And so i ordered it and then and then i think we zach. I think we connected like the next day or something like that about it about and then in and there was like i was like actually really last night i just ordered just ordered a magazine from you guys for my girlfriend and they're like well. We should probably just do this. I think so credibly surprising. Yes like that's really adds up all each other for a minute. Yeah i mean we. Cd is or was like. I'll take credit for like sort of finding finding gas tax to use instagram. Gets us basically just like some people stuff just search hashtags stop and i was like oh Yes actually restaurants so beatable at all and yeah and now now. We're here. But so. I wanna i wanna talk a little about you. Both your backgrounds Service industry wise and stuff and then from there maybe get into the story of how you kinda came up with eighty six logic and started this whole process. That sounds great as before beauty..
The Hedge
"86" Discussed on The Hedge
"So this is quite adequate communications. But we wanted to explore things like applications of indications which is something that you do a winning deform from the applications so for example. You have you come to the you're always with your phones and your few five jeanette back and you come to your own. Your wifi That you start to pick and at some point you have actually too good networks the five g and wifi and you may have a user's policies that says when i get back to home i moved to wifi right and then what you need to do at some point is not to have something like a quick connection medication that brag connections to move the the bites rights. You want something that's seamlessly move connections window networks without cutting the connection even for reflection of time so we did that with wichita's designs so we can actually inner some kind of condition modes. You're gonna be -cations who have defense teams so you actually opened a new schemes the new network and during a fraction of them. You're actually two games over to network with the negation modes blood and then use the themes of the fight undefined on the fight g and forty on on wifi. Yeah this is different because is what you do today would be that you would simply start a new. Tcp stream with the different five triple. Yeah that server. So you're keeping the five to pull. You're just switching the endpoint connective from one device to another from one network to another and technically this could be from one device to another as well right if those two devices could share state. But you could be watching the big game on your cell phone and you could walk into your house and switch it over to your television using the same five people and therefore there's no actually you don't need to log back in you don't need to re. You don't need to do any of that stuff. It's the same connection from the servers perspective now and the same thing on the server side right. I mean the server could hand off to a local server. You can move from from behind about brussels and get off the airplane. And i mean theoretically in theoretically be session if it keeps going across that entire time could be moved from the serve baharaini brussels and nobody would actually know the difference. Because it's just going on whether it's is in the right place at the right time when i would. I would imagine that from an application standpoint. Your application developers would appreciate that level of functionality. Because they're that requires a lot less error checking you restart in an complexity at the application development level because all of that is being handled reliably at a different layer of the stack. Yes so i think there's this two vision in which you can put things in this tax. The emperor the dumpty montiel's can. It doesn't have to deal with that. So i anticipate is this is what we call fade over but the application seven vacations. He sees something that you want to that the report s to pull on so he does use the api to move to one hundred there's connections and decides oh or whited weeds and we just need to make it easy to an extra. That's quite simple so we have an api.
Sitting Ringside
"86" Discussed on Sitting Ringside
"Yeah in two thousand eleven. I fought for three fifty three fifty three hundred fifty dollars to show three hundred fifty dollars the win. That was my second or five. My first pro fight was bella toward twenty and that was six and six. And i was happy to get that you now. I went from that three fifty. Three fifty a yeah. It's it's a hard buck in life being a fighter man especially with all the beatings and broken bones and cuts me. You know i. It's just. It's hard a lot of nine a lot of people see that and i'll be skaters at tweet or have been messing gene you. I'm sure they'd never stepped inside. A fucking jim and rose with anybody or sparred with anybody or even done in the training that you know that you do before you even get your be able to art. You know it's hidden are haters. We we get that all the time. We even get him. We even have a couple of ufc fighters that are haters aid for some reason. I don't know not this europe soon. Retired but yeah amendment messages. A guy the tweet side yet and some of them in our grey by said light some people really like i i mean and then like at first. I didn't want to get my full story out there. you know. i want to tell everything about my dad. I didn't want to tell everything but people knew what i was saying wasn't the reason i was retiring now like it. Just it didn't make sense. Especially so assad you know and i just have to tell the truth i had to get it out there and but you know at the end of the day i there's other fighters go through this. I had a ufc bet. Contact me and tell me. He's forty two years old is came out of retirement over five time and he didn't know why he kept fighting. You didn't know why. And he said that when he heard my story he knew that why he kept fighting and now he is ready to stay retired and he said he's he thanked me for telling my story and i've had multiple people do that but one. Usc bats to tell me that and that's a ufc. Bet i trained with it was just. It just made me so happy and then i know when i write my book. That's really gonna make a difference. And then i ran into a kid the other day and he's adopted and he said he can't wait to read my book because he told his adopted parents like that kid kind of lived alive. I lived on dad and he was like yeah little bit in on his his book. And i have motivated the shit out of me now so i made sure you know i got that meeting with my zoom are by publisher and the morrow morning on you know doing that zoom meaning and we're going to go farther and we're going to push farther and the sooner sooner out the better and i can't wait. I'm inside me to. I can't wait to get it off on bombing to be there. You know once it's released dude. I'm i'm either going to buy it online or get the hard copy. Yeah yeah let's do both. We'll do both. I'll be like no for sure man. I'm excited a big move for me. A big opportunity. And i'm excited for life man. A senate show it show. Your faith broke it shows on your on your body language that you're just like just happy you don't have the that fighter mentality right now as far as like us you know. I should be at the gym training. Berg communing jimmy so After your book is out in between that time and now are you Are you still going to go out and train. Are you gonna or do you plan on being a coach to kids. Or what are you wanting to do. A lot of people think. I'm going to open a gym and Like what people don't realize is if you wanna gym a no different than fighting and you're the to s so that's from everything i've learned over the time is now. I don't want to open the gym. I do want to help other fighters. I was actually supposed to corner a fighter church the weekend that i announced retirement and He had some way cutting issues and he took the i don't short notice and he was pretty disappointed. Because you're going to have corner. And i told him look and i'm still going to be there. You know like that's what i wanna do now. I want to tell these guys be able to see what these guys don't through talk to him and tell him stuff. I went sir. Irwin and help with situation and i'll be there training. Am i trained four days a week. Not at all you know but the dais they made me. I'll be there. The days that i know i need to be there to push these guys since My coach leo. He traveled man. Probably all over from federal tax is to florida. We have guys like down in florida. All the time With the wmo and abuse t something down there florida and their traveling everywhere but we also have guys that fight here lake. So we're going to use me to be able to stay here more locally and you know help these guys and be able to corner them so i'm never gonna lead the fight then percents but i'm not gonna sacrifice my family for the fight game no more and that's what i'm trying to get across to people. That's why made my decision. And that's what i'm doing. That's awesome man well. I'm glad that you're not gonna leave the fi game. You know it's it's always a fighter but once you retire or you step away from the fighting heart is still in it you know. And that's why. I started by giving me. You know the podcast and other stuff. That i do in the biden world even though i don't fight anymore. But because he had that love for the sport you'll wanna give back rem even if you don't even if you dick for free you still inside you know that you a person's heart and he made the right choice and know that fighter is going to be like you know what i remember when jimmy said this to me you know and that right there is what she's my life so stuff like that man is always good. It's awesome and glad that you're still going to be there for your fighters over your friends. You know to corner them and do all that stuff. Because you know it's just something that you gotta do. Oh yeah mandate they supported may in like training. Tae man gave their time helped me. But after like i opened the door for them to let them know like hey man if i do stay i can make seek guy in my gym actually was a you'll if see fighter and and that changes changes guys mindsets and helps them out and i can talk to motivate them and let them know you know just my goals for different my goals to make. Ufc other people's goals. They're going to be able to win. That you have goal have more fights in the ufc in.
Podcast RadioViajera
"86" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"86" Discussed on Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"Transparent. But to you know, we went legal in 2000 fucking 15. It's two goddamn thousand, almost 21. We're still having OCC investigate for unlisted ingredients. Yeah. That shit didn't sit on the shelf for four years. No. I don't know what to tell you. Start listing your shit, and then don't come back. You've learned something. Oh, we learned something. And so, no, you didn't. Yeah. List your ingredients because then when you do learn something, you can still have said you were transparent, not you are now transparent. Right. Right. So with that said, and then also to daf dirty arm farm and I want to mention funk, they come out with some limited edition shit that's really fired. Yeah. Check that out. But the fresh exotics. Brother, it went away from CRC. Funny how that works. Back that for a long time. Really liked it. I mean, haven't got to try the fresh exotics yet. Funny enough, we talked about how when we were buying dirty arm farm from the get go from 2015. Like in all his library, we even liked his freaking porn snap. That he was making back then. Way back when. Way back, we loved it. It was great shit. And then all that whole CRC wave and it's the best. I stopped buying and it just fizzled because it just became more and more terrible. I stopped buying when it was as soon as it became the hater tears. The only stuff I'd buy of the hater tears was the garlic cookies and the tropicana and I think there was one other one that I may have bought, but most of the time I absolutely refused to buy them from hater tears on. So I never bought an NP 7 ten. I refused. I tried it. Because the fact that, you know, I had friends that had them and they're just like, oh, you got to try it. I'm like, well, fine. I guess I will. It wasn't my favorite. I thought I was from day one. I thought it should be in a dripper.
Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"86" Discussed on Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"Oh, 'cause of Kim in April, yeah, let's talk about it. They don't know what you mean by it when you said come April. Well, hopefully it'll be here by April. Hopefully, just got word that hopefully the building will be done inside and out by April. So, I mean, what we talked about hoping in our little minds is maybe a four 20 grand opening for lucky. Things are getting cleaned up real well out there, though, I guess. Farmers. So rogue farmers should be open real soon, if not. Yeah, they're not opened yet, but I think they'll be open soon. They just need to fix up their roof. Yeah. I know they're getting palettes and stuff. And then, yeah, so hopefully April ish. And I like to see that happen myself because I can see you would like to get back out there. I love where I'm at though, but yeah, it's I'm used to being where I was at in this. I feel like this is a temporary job because I know that it's coming back. But I'm happy where I'm at, I'm very grateful, so. That's awesome. And what's really cool, though, is you get to go back with all new stuff. New computers, hopefully. Well, I use my computer, as you know. Yeah, I know, but I just mean like, hopefully new POS and everything. Well, we were already in the midst of trying to figure out a new one. Anyway. And all the cameras are pretty fired by the time you left too, huh? You'd put a whole new camera system to me. He had put a brand on camera system in. We had gotten a new, like a whole new system actually going on. And we had gotten all the safes in. But we were just getting ready to do a knock down the front wall. So it's like, we were looking to fix up some stuff anyways.
Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"86" Discussed on Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"Full spectrum. Plant medicine. I'm going to have to say, full spectrum experience. Right. Is that a new word? Well, be now. And then I just wanted, we were talking about CBD. DJ Khaled. Oh. He's launching a CBD company. Of course. I want to join the rest of the troops. Why CBD? I mean, because everybody else is doing THC. That's what I think is funny. It's like, you're going to really, that's really what you're going to do because everybody's going to see a lot of people are doing CBD. A lot of people are doing THC. I see so many people that are shouting out to that now. I just don't see CBD being a long-term successful. Sovereign fields. We should talk to sovereign fields. Maybe. We'll be there reps. And then just real quick we'll end with this. This is kind of a, I don't know, a side note to something that should be noted, that didn't make sense. A side note that should be noted. I think it is, sits on the side. This company called biomedical. They said it discovered a process to biosynthesize a new class of rare cannabinoids called sesqui cannabinoids. I want to talk to Jason Wilson from curious about cannabis about this because I'm sure he's going to know more about this. I think he'll bring him on and actually make this a subject. But there's sesquiterpenes that are known class of terpenes. And so this is interesting that there's these rare cannabinoids called cannabinoids that they synthesized. The really weird part is they're patenting the process to biosynthesize these cannabinoids. Which essentially patents the cannabinoids because it's the way to make them is what they're patenting. Yeah, really weird and strange and that doesn't sound very cool. What they're touting, I don't have to go into all this BS weird terminology, but with the paper touts, is that there's these CBD a CBG a susques CBD, CBN, Cisco THC V, THCA, all the major compounds. And there's this assessment version. And so
Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"86" Discussed on Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"Well, but you don't need to. The organ is setting up clinical setting, situations to take hallucinogens. That's good enough. You don't need to take it away from people. Part of the medicine, part of the mind altering is the fact that you're fucking hallucinating. Psychoactives in my humble opinion work because they are full spectrum. Yep. You can not take the full spectrum of the high, the feeling, whatever the full experience is, like caffeine, you get a boost of energy. Don't tell me you're going to give me a fucking caffeine and not give me that little boost to energy that comes with it because you think I can get medical value without having to fuck you. No. I'm sorry. It wouldn't just be parking coffee. It's part of the experience. And it's part of the medicine and in my opinion. I'm not a doctor. So whatever, but I'm going to go down saying that when it comes to psychoactives, is that their medicine and part of that medicine is the highest self, whatever that is. It's the full experience. I'm not saying it's just the high. But I'm saying it's a full experience. The high they come down, the use of it, the after effect, during effect, the pre effect, all of it. And to always dilute not even dilute it, try to isolate it down. Always people trying to isolate it down to something. No. It doesn't work cannabis. No one likes isolate nothing. Nothing. My rant. So it sucks, 'cause I knew they'd do this and it seems like they're going to they're going to claim to be successful. I think it's just like THC. You can have 90 fucking 5% THC diamonds that's isolated THC. And I'm sorry, don't enjoy it. It's flat high. And yeah, it gets you good and high for three minutes. And whatever. But there's no other experience
Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"86" Discussed on Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"I'm not sure what family has left. After serving 31 years, he said he's just eager to restore the lost time. Delisi was believed to be the longest serving nonviolent cannabis prisoner, according to the last prisoner project, which championed his release. Delisi also finally met his 11 year old and one year old granddaughters for the first time this week. I'm a blessed human being, a survivor, delisi said in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday while he was in the parking lot of his favorite hamburger joint as he watched his granddaughters laugh and bounce a ball. He was sentenced to 90 years for marijuana trafficking in 89 at the age of 40. Wow. Even though the typical sentence was only 12 to 17 years, he believes he was targeted with the lengthy sentence because the judge mistakenly thought he was part of an organized crime because he was of an Italian he was an Italian from New York. Delisi said he had opportunities but never had any desire for that life. I can't even. We've been watching 60 days in. That's on Netflix for people that haven't seen it. Netflix and Hulu. Hulu if you want to get all 5 series or all 5 seasons. Were these random participants go into not even prison? They go into jail actually from 60 days. And man, it's like, you get to see as a normal average person, which I think is great. What it's like to be in jail. And it's not good. Man, I can't imagine 30 years. Especially for a plant. Yeah. And I don't care how much of that plant it is. I mean, like you said, maybe if they were trying to tag in with some organized crime bullshit, but damn. I mean, nonviolent, see this kind of stuff is what's heartbreaking. Half baked is the movie. Half baked, right? Now everybody feels better. I got this. I got this. But he's said it helped him. He learned to read and write prison changed him. He never really knew who God was. He kind of found that way, of course. And he also got to mentor young inmates and helped them along. So I guess he found meaning in it. Nice. This is interesting.
Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"86" Discussed on Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"If it should be anyway. Yes. Don't get me wrong. I do agree that a lot of it helps with a lot of stuff, but you just can't tell people that. And especially as a company to just put it in their packaging or on their packaging that it cure stuff. Although CBD companies are just really trying hard to do that. They really are. CBD companies are kind of notoriously known for that. It's sad, because pain. Okay. Well, you know, there's been outlandish cures COVID. Anyway, FTC is coming down on that. There's several articles we could go over, which I won't, but because it's continuous, every week I see him where they continue to talk about busting certain companies or it's just ridiculous. It's really made it to the point that if you really talk to anybody that uses cannabis, THC specifically, you just don't hear people talking about it now. People have stopped THC users have literally pretty much stopped talking about it. Yeah, most of us know what it works on and what it doesn't work on. And we're already using something that's mixed somehow. Like if it's CBD, we use a lot of CBD, but it's always in conjunction with THC. THC. Because honestly, if you know anything about the plant itself, like CBD and THC in order to make those two compounds work together, they need each other. So in order to get that CBD to give you the effect that you need, you need THC with it because the fact that it opens all of it up so you can get it all. That's like if you extract one, you never know if that other one's going to work properly for you. It works best with both. Both. Yes, make sure they're both there. And full spectrum, all the terps too. A study found evidence, here's on the scientific side, a study has found evidence showing pesticide occurrence on common surfaces in cannabis growing facilities and points to a need for routine monitoring and strict control of pesticide use in cannabis facilities. So all it's saying though is that basically cross contamination is so easy with pesticides. So you could bring it in, you could,
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"86" Discussed on Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
"Any more you don't see a lot of pictures of just cannabis leaves. I mean, you do, but not cannabis leaf is very universally symbolic of cannabis. Most people, even if you don't haven't seen a real cannabis plant, know that the cannabis leaf is cannabis. Or weed, marijuana, that's pot. And but you look at a bud, like a full mature female frosty bud and you haven't been around weed plants. You may or may not. No. What you're looking at. And you probably will enjoy the looks of it 'cause it's pretty. Yeah, and that's what he said is like really pretty. And so he recognized it. So damn, you know, he said he would smoke a bowl over drinking and I just bet you he would smoke a bowl. I don't think he's a regular smoker, but that's awesome. Goes to show you. I mean, I don't know. And it gets to the point where it's when it's a part of your life. And then you have people in your home and what are you going to do? Right. Exactly. You got anything for us that you can. Yeah, absolutely. The drug enforcement administration issued its final rule for licensing more growers of marijuana to be used in research. More than four years after its first said it would end the monopoly on approved cultivation. The move came just days after both the House and Senate pass bills pressing the federal government to take steps to expand cannabis studies. So in other words, they're going to let other people try it besides just them. Who's them? They, you know. They. The feds. The mysterious day. Well, obviously the DEA Adam 9. They so they're obviously allowing other people besides just colleges and remember because there was a university white university was at University of Boston or something like that that was that was doing studies on cannabis. Yeah. What do you got? Federal TSA is Instagram rants about sticky icky icky marijuana on national brownie day. National brownie day was this week and while you might have missed it, the U.S. transportation security administration's social media manager didn't. We here at national brownie day so we're here to toke about something really sticky icky icky. Oh wee. The federal agency posted to its verified Instagram account on Tuesday. What was he already eating? Did he get fired? Yeah. Did he wake up to some Medina in the morning? Do you take it the night before? Hopefully this doesn't post near four 20 because we're about to dooby down. Oh my God. Following the high flying introduction is a public service announcement of sorts, warning travelers not to bring cannabis through airports. How cool is that? That is hilarious. I like it sounds serious like he was already eating some of this.
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"Show. I'm higher peaks. And this is lady sativa. All right, welcome back, everybody. Start off. I just want to do some quick talk about our feeds. I just want to let everybody know. And I posted this on our story of a week or two back about how well Spotify did last year. And it did real well. It actually did better than iTunes. And awesome. Yeah, and so I posted that insane numbers. What you wouldn't expect every year, like 500% and shit. But we grew big. And the year before it came out that funk extracts was our number one Spotify episode. Hell yeah. Yeah, it was 2019. And we were doing good on Spotify that year. But this year we really just jumped up a lot. As much, actually, I'm probably think it does as good as iTunes now, which is really something to be said because iTunes is like your bread and butter when it comes to podcasts. And Spotify is right up there, which is amazing. It amazes me. And it doesn't surprise me though. I prefer spa Spotify. You use Spotify. And now we were talking recently, you use it even over podcast addict, which we used to use. Yeah, only because when I switched phones, it didn't switch my likes, even signing into my account. It did not, it did not bring over my stuff that I had already went and followed. Sure, sure. So you can start over basically. And I didn't like that. So I'm just like, well, shit. Now I have to fucking figure it all out all over again. What's estranged? And I guess that's because you don't really have to sign into it or anything. But it asks you to. Does it because I don't think I signed it? You don't have to, but I have the account that's just like, it's a free account, but right, right. And I always like podcast addict because one thing about that platform is it always provided the links that I put in my post. So which is really nice because I try to put in links to stuff we talk about or even the people we talk with and it's always frustrated me because one thing with iTunes is that they don't like you to go outside their platform. So when I put in the link that you can't even tell, you can't tell there's a link there and nothing you can't use it even if it was there.