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Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Why Europe Will Eventually Try to Ban Bitcoin | EP 850
"Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live, we're your number one source for the peaceful revolution Bitcoin with code breaking news culture and medical warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state. Speaking of the separation of money and state today is one of those episodes. Yeah, that's right. We put it in the title. We saw the, the, the flack in, in the, in the chat, uh, Opti, if you could pull it up, if you could be so kind, we are going to make the case that if we as Bitcoiners, as Corey wrote in his, uh, his very, very famous, uh, win the adoption race, there is going to be an inevitable clash between, uh, governments, Fiat currencies and Bitcoin, right? And the reason is simple to use Christine Lagarde's own words, whose video we're going to play for you guys today. Bitcoin is an escape valve and escape valve from government currencies and escape valve from inflation. And they need you using government currencies. So if we don't win this adoption race, if we don't wake enough people, the F up, uh, yes, of course, they're going to try to ban it. Look at what happened in the UK. We covered this. I think it was either the yesterday or the day before there, January, I'm not making this January 6th, literally that day, UK citizens will be required to pass a test before they could purchase crypto and Bitcoin. Now you could say, okay, it's because of all the crypto scams and all that, blah, blah, blah, blah. But forgive me after everything that's happened after the last three years, if I'm a little bit skeptical, if that is their actual, uh, motivations behind, uh, passing that type of legislation. So, yeah. Um, and you know what, which is, I referenced this book all the time, highly recommend you read it. If you're a Bitcoiner, this is all something, the book, the sovereign individual predicted back in the nineties. And the case that they were making was essentially the rise of information technologies would fundamentally change the relationship between the individual and the state, because the internet would empower individuals, not only giving them the ability to source alternative forms of media of information, right? Look, look at how crazy, did you guys know that the New York times got their, uh, blue check or their verification badge removed? Uh, because apparently they were peddling some type of BS or something like that. But the reason I brought that up is it's a great example of how media has been democratized. Because of the internet, right? So anybody, if you're at home, if you're in your garage, it doesn't matter. You can buy a camera, you could buy a microphone. And if you're good at what you do, and if you provide value to your viewer, you'll start to build up an audience over time. Of course, if you put in the proof of work, right. And you know, the legacy institutions have to compete with all these millions of individuals all around the world that aren't bought by special interests. So therefore they have the ability to tell the truth, right? So, and then add to that mix, right? Just sprinkle it in there. How the internet has enabled people to use Bitcoin. So it's not only the disintermediation of information, but also the disintermediation of money. And it's kind of overlapping, overlapping. It's happening at the same time and it's causing chaos a little bit, right? Because all these systems of control, whether it's the control over information over the control on money are slowly starting to kind of shift up. They're slowly starting to shake up a little bit. And you know, it's, I think it's causing, you know, a lot of chaos for governments that have been used to having a monopoly on the truth, as like Naim Bukele said in his very famous article, Don't Drink the Elite's Kool -Aid and also monopoly on the control, the, the issuance of money and also the control of money, right? So yeah, it's pretty crazy stuff. So bunker down, fasten up your seatbelts, take your Bitcoin into self custody, not your keys, not your Bitcoin. And it's going to be a crazy ride. Anyways, my co -host isn't smiling today. So that is definitely a mole. Opti's not here. I'm going to do the show by myself today. Just kidding. He's smiling. He's smiling. I poke my eardrum last night with a Q -tip and I'm kind of hurting this morning, guys. I'm in pain right now, but anyways, it doesn't matter. The show goes on. Yeah. People are expecting optimistic Opti. I, guys, I'm telling you this West Coast time is really messed up. It, uh, I don't have enough time to, to get my coffee to blood ratio going correctly so that I am just absolutely jacked on coffee yet. I can only get enough coffee going through in the morning over here on the West Coast. So, you know, it, it, it, it goes, man. All I need is a Nico Jones rant and then my blood starts boiling. So like halfway through the show is when I'm like ready to go. So forgive me guys. Forgive me. Um, I, I'll be back home next week. I, I'm, I'm staying for some family stuff, so I'll be back to normal geeked out Opti on the show. But yeah, man, uh, crazy stuff, crazy stuff. Shouts out to Chrissy LeGarde. She's obviously very mad at me. Uh, I'm sure you guys saw that Bitcoin Bugle article that broke the news yesterday that my messages got leaked with her and, uh, she's very mad. So you can tell why she's constantly talking about CBDC's doubling down on CBDC's. I guess my pillow talk didn't work guys. I tried, I tried, I tried on both fronts to get her to embrace Bitcoin and for myself to get close to the money printer, neither of them worked. So, you know, I, I'm just taking the L it's it's okay. Whatever. Dude. So I remember speaking of Opti on coffee, I remember when we did the Bitblock boom live stream, um, it was, we've never done this before. It was like the first one. And we go live and Opti takes the microphone. Like the first thing you do is you play the sound for it and you're like, we're back. And I'm like looking at you and I'm like, bro, I'm like, welcome to the Bitblock boom live stream, bro. So that's what happens when Opti is not on enough coffee. I become a coffee addict. That was to me a highlight. That was, that was, that was beautiful. That moment to me, I'll never forget it. Never forget it. Anyways, everybody let's jump into the show. We got a lot to talk about today. Let's check it out. The Bitcoin numbers. Is your Bitcoin and cold storage really secure? 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Anyways, so here's the big news. Uh, this is a video that was released by Opti. I mean, let's be serious for a sec. Christine Lagarde, who is the president of the European central bank. She released this meme. Let's call it what it is because this is mematic warfare on the battlegrounds of the internet narrative trench warfare hand to hand one meme at a time. And uh, remember they have the same capabilities as us. So just like we can post videos and we can post pictures, they can do that as well. Right. So this is a form of, of I I'm, this is like, look, you can define it however, which you like, but like this is no different than if Opti stood in front of this like weird looking purple green screen and he just dictated you a war suit and dictated you a message. Right. So like it's no different. Like you could say, Oh no, but this is the president of the European central bank. You know, this is legitimate. You know, um, one of the key words in this tweet is the Euro is key to our European unity. A digital Euro exists alongside cash would future proof our currency. It would be safe, easy to use and free of charge. While the decision whether to issue a digital Euro will be taken later, we're now launching the preparation phase, right? Which is very similar to what they did in the United States. They launched the fed now program, which in my opinion is the first iteration of an American central bank digital currency. They launched it about a month after they denied Caitlin long's federal banking charter. Uh, coincidences, right? Um, and again, to launch a CBDC in the United States, they would need full approval from Congress. Now, I'm not the only one who's skeptical. The governor of Florida passed a law explicitly forbidding central bank digital currencies in Florida as a preemptive measure. And he's made the claim. He's, he said the quiet part out loud. It's not me, the governor of Florida, CBDCs are surveillance. They're, they're for surveillance. They're for surveillance and control. This isn't Bitcoiners saying this. These are real people in real positions of authority and power that have been elected, right? So this is, I watched it for the first time yesterday on simply sessions and it's a lot more dystopian that you would think there's a lot of aggressivity in the way that she says it. And it's like very 1984 ish. Like, you know, and again, it all comes with the guise of like, look guys, this is, this is democratic. We're doing this with legislative authority. You're going to have a choice to use cash or the CBDC. We're not going to get rid of cash. But what if you don't want to use either, right? What if you don't want to use a CBDC or cash? What if you just want to use a better money and that better money is Bitcoin? What about that? Right? Because I don't believe that if there would be a fair competition between a CBDC and Bitcoin, if you put them side by side, let's compare the two things, right? One is going to be censored and controlled as much as they say they won't do that. History has shown they will look at the, remember the Canadian Chuckers protest and they're going to want to debase it and inflate it, right? Then also not to mention the fact that if you compare that to Bitcoin, it's censorship resistant and there's a cap supply. So over time, where do you think people are going to go to? If they had a choice between the two systems, where are they going to flow? And they're going to flow in one direction, right? It's just better money, sounder money, right? So, but if government, like common sense, but if governments benefit tremendously from having the power of being able to create money for free that everyone else has to work for, what do you think they're going to try to do? Which is why I named the video today, what I named it, right? Anyways, I'm going to play you guys the video and then there's an article that I want to show you guys as well, specifically referring to what Christine Lagarde called Bitcoin. Anyways, let's check out the video. The digital Euro is on the move. Yesterday, the governing council of the ECB approved the opening of the preparation phase. It will be a journey and we will walk the journey together with the legislator. All European institutions will be involved to make sure that Europe is equipped with the currency of the future. Cash is here to stay. You will have all options, cash and digital cash. So what does it mean for you? For consumers, it would be free and easy to use everywhere in the Euro area. All of that of course is subject to the legislative process. Cash or digital, the choice will be yours. You Euro, your choice. My Bitcoin, my choice. That's what I got to say. And if I can, I really want to use the B word like, cause that would have emphasized it. My, my, uh, my Bitcoin, my choice, B. Um, anyways, uh, moving on. Okay. So what has Christine Lagarde said in the past about Bitcoin? This is a very famous video that was, was going around. Um, I actually found the exact, uh, exact quote, uh, European regulators and the IMF in tune. Oh, how coincident, like what a coincidence, right? This is the same IMF that criticized El Salvador, the same IMF that gave Argentina another bailout. But part of that bailout came with the condition that they had to de -incentivize the adoption of Bitcoin within the country, even though the country, you know, is suffering from a hundred percent inflation, that IMF. So it makes sense. Um, anyways, it goes on to say, according to Lagarde, Bitcoin represents a risk whose regulation must get applied on a global scale. Otherwise it could serve as an escape valve. If you still don't believe me, here's a video Walker of America, shout out, check out his, uh, his new podcast. I think it's called the Bitcoin podcast. Um, and you know, he replied to Christine Lagarde, right? I love how it already got kind of community noted. That's, that's absolutely hilarious. Wait, the E the EDBP argues that the digital Euro faces several hurdles, such as shaky privacy and anonymity safeguards, possibly limiting choice, accelerating cash displacement, allowing spending tracking. The digital Euro doesn't offer clear benefits, but has risks.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 120: Part 2: Tim Cardwell is a Top Cop for Drug Interdiction but Nearly Loses His Life
"Let's kind of pull on that dope thread a little bit, because you get onto the, you survive the academy, obviously. So you graduate, you get out, you start working. As you're working, we want to talk about now what leads you into doing drug interdiction. So obviously, when you start off, you're with a field training officer, you go through your training phase, then you get out on your own. What kind of things were you doing initially when you were out on your own? How does North Carolina do it? I mean, you train for a while, then you're out. And standard -like what? Traffic enforcement, work accidents? Yes. Pretty much, is that what you were doing? Change tires, go get gasoline. I warned you, Murph. Don't go there. One of these days, we're going to be driving, there's going to be Murph on the side of the road. You go, hey, can you help me? I go, no. Hey, Steve and I have had many of these constant back and forths on this exact thing. But yeah, so when I graduated the academy, it was 20 weeks, reported to my first duty station and did have a field training officer actually. What was that at? It was in Asheboro, North Carolina, Randolph County, which is on the south side of Greensboro. It was about an hour and 15 minutes from where I grew up, but it was still within the same troop, which was most state agencies have that similar structure where you have a troop and then you have districts within that troop. So that was my first duty station and I had a primary and a secondary training officer and went through, I'm thinking it was at the time, maybe six or eight weeks field training. And my primary field training officer, his name was Wayne Brumley, just a jewel of a man, wonderful training guy. And my secondary, his name was Tony Miller, who later he rose to the rank of major within the organization. He was a young guy who was been on about five or six years when I came on. So I had a good mixture of, you know, youthfulness as well as very veteran experience. And the shift I was on, it was similar type makeup. And so going into the field training officer, you know, having some of that law enforcement background, I had become pretty good at catching impaired drivers at the police department. And so it was a natural... Wait a minute, all the impaired drivers were at the police department? When I worked at the police department, I should say, I apologize. But it was just something I thought, you know, this is where I want to go. And so, and my training officer, he was one of the leading impaired driver troopers in the district and he really focused and was successful with that. He taught me a lot, but, you know, in the beginning, doing the traditional trooper type efforts, that's what my goal was. I really enjoyed it. It's what I wanted to do. And, you know, there's some funny stories in there, but one in particular that my training officer shared at my retirement luncheon and he would share with you today was, this was just kind of an internal trooper agency thing. I don't know if you did this, Morgan, or not, but when you would encounter in the old days, somebody whose license were suspended roadside or whatever, you would take their license there on the spot and you would put it over your driver's side window along the headliner there. Just slide it in there or you'd keep it over your sun visor. And my training officer had tons of those and it was just always something I remember Roger Smith having. So it was one of those little symbolic visuals that I thought, I want that. So I kind of set out on a mission, you know, to see how many licenses I could collect roadside in. So I made a comment to my training officer at the time and he said, you know, there are more trouble than they're worth. You have to keep up with them. And I said, well, that's what I want to do. So he handed me a handful before I got out of training and said, here you go, maybe this will help you feel like a real trooper. And so it was just one of those little symbolic things that I connected with. But in that, you know, his nickname was Brutal Brumley. He was a former military guy, about six foot, six one, thin guy, was very physically fit, marathon runner, still runs today and he's mid to late seventies. developed But he that nickname because of, you know, some roadside encounters, obviously through the courts. And I saw it in action during training. We stopped a gentleman for speeding one day late evening and the gentleman didn't initially want to cooperate. And this was when he had turned it over to me and he was just watching from a distance and, you know, trying to find my way through. This guy wasn't the most cooperative after a couple of requests. So next thing I know, my training officer commences to removing the gentleman from the car and not in how the gentleman wanted to cooperate. And this guy was twice our size. And so I saw firsthand in action, you know, how he earned his nickname. But he was very fair. And anyway, when we got the gentleman under control and took him to jail, he had a long conversation with me about taking control. He said, you cannot let anybody else get the upper hand on you out here. It's because of survivability. So it was a valuable lesson taught at the time. But, you know, I've seen him encounter so many situations where he showed a lot of compassion through accident investigations, as well as roadside stops for different violations. And so he was well -rounded and gave me a good lesson. And but at the time, interdiction was not even in the culture of the Highway Patrol, wasn't even thought about. It was just traditional trooper work. And the county that I went to had eight miles of interstate. But where we worked was non -interstate. And so that leads me into once he cut me loose, passed all my training, I started doing traditional trooper work. And at the time when I joined the patrol, I kind of have to go back here. There we patrol the troopers that have, you know, gotten killed in action. They kind of came in clusters, two and three at a time. And just before I joined patrol, we'd had three members that were killed roadside. And two of those were on interstate highway. And where I grew up, we didn't have interstate highway. So I didn't have any familiarity to it. And so I was like, you know, I don't want nothing to do with that. I just want to be a traditional trooper. But I was very proactive. I was finding a lot of stuff, roadside. And, you know, when I would make an arrest for driving one paired, I took the time to go up and search the car. And if I found anything else, I was making charges. And so I kind of developed the desire to do that. And then in our patrol office one day, my secondary training officer, the gentleman I mentioned to you earlier who had been on last time, he had attended our first interdiction training course, which was taught internally. And I remember him talking about it. And for some reason, it just connected, you know, I connected with it, the stories he was telling, the lessons that they were talking about. And when our agency started the interdiction effort, it was in partnership with DEA. And they had started the experiment on Interstate 95 down in Fayetteville. And the troopers that were working it down there had had a lot of success. They were kind of the first generation interdiction troopers. This is, you know, the mid and late 80s. And so a couple of gentlemen by the name of Chris Dew, who had a first K -9, and Terry Isaacs, who was really the one who was making a lot of seizures at the time, they taught that course. So anyway, he comes back to our district and is talking some about it, and it just captured me. And he had a bulletin that they had given him in that school, and it was an epic bulletin. It was a teletype that would list, you know, seizures from throughout the country of seizures that made the threshold. And so I started reading it. And for whatever reason, it just connected with me. And that's how I began, you know, pursuing the interdiction efforts. Oh, I remember reading those teletypes, too. You know, those were very interesting. You get the law enforcement officers killed summary and then the teletypes. But you mentioned something, too, I want to ask you about. You said that they traditionally didn't work interstate. You know, is that just because of like you're talking about the danger or was it because C is kind of the opposite, a lot of troops where I was at. We had a lot of Tulane, in fact, all of my stuff was Tulane, and you would have killed to be up on the interstate where you thought all the action was. Why did they keep you away from the interstate or why did you stay away from the interstate just because of part of the danger factor or something else? Well, I think it was a combination of reasons. Again, going back to where I said I grew up, non -interstate, a lot of secondary roads. That's just what I was familiar with. And, you know, those folks that had been like Roger Smith and a couple of his workmates, that's where they worked and built their reputation. And so, you know, trying to follow that lead, I think that's why I did that. And my training officer, he worked some interstate, but he wasn't in the interdiction area. He was just, you know, regular trooper enforcement. But that's the way he operated was secondary roads. You know, in that day, you were heavy on looking for impaired drivers. Then, you know, looking for the under the influence drivers, especially on Friday and Saturday nights on evening shift, it was a lot of priority placed on that. And so just trying to fall in line and follow their lead, I think is why I did that. And, you know, but what I quickly learned was what the interstate did bring you was if you were low for the week as far as, you know, number of citations or activity that you had to turn in at the end of the week for the supervisor to see, you know, you could go out there and with high volume traffic, you could quickly pick up on some of your total numbers for the week. And wait a minute, did the North Carolina Highway Patrol have a quota? No, we did not have a quota, but I will say the supervisors did monitor your number of contacts per hour of preventive patrol. That's how it was worded. And you had better be in that district average of what everybody else had. So, you know. I had somebody asked me that one time, do you guys have a quota? Said, no, sir, I can ride as many as I want. How many would you like today? Good response. Yeah, so that, you know, that was kind of my introduction. And then, you know, with my training officer, my secondary training officer introduced me to that. It just kind of took. And so I started going out there and trying it and having little success. Really didn't know what I was doing, but it was just a process of learning from there. And, you know, I was a very proactive trooper. I, you know, did a lot of high production. Got unmarked a car at a young age, young in my career. And anyway, the next time the next class came open internally, my then district first sergeant asked me if I would be interested in going. I said, yeah. And I remember sitting through that class with those troopers teaching it, and it just captivated me. That's, I mean, that's the simplest way. You know, they were given some of their case studies talking about, you know, what their findings were and some of the follow -up results. I thought, that's what I really want to try. And so I came back and started trying to apply. So you started doing this. So what was your first, what was your first big seizure? What's the one that cracked the, because, you know, you have to go, we started it. I was part of a four -person team, four -man team at that time. We started our interdiction unit. And so when you start off, you don't really like say, know what you're doing. You get a few things here and there. We were working 54, which if you remember, the Pipeline Operation report out of Epic, Highway 54 that came up out of Texas and Oklahoma and through Kansas, that was a major pipeline. They were making lots of arrests. So we started working that area. You know, we were stopping everything in sight, you know, trying to look for stuff. But you always kind of start off small. What was that watershed event for you? What was that thing that kind of cracked it open that once you get that first one, it's like, I got this figured out. Well, so this was in 1988. Again, it wasn't the culture of the Highway Patrol. It was just kind of getting started. And so there really wasn't a lot of information to pull from or, you know, a lot of guys saying, hey, let's go out and work this road and look for this. It was just kind of, you know, an individual effort, so to speak. And at that same time, one of the troopers I mentioned early on Interstate 95, Chris Dew, he had had our first canine on the patrol, but it was just a narcotic dog. It was a Beagle. And, you know, some about that during the training, listening to him talk about, you know, the role the canine played that interested me. So when I came back to the district, not long after that, requests came through patrol headquarters or troop headquarters, any troopers interested in having a canine, you know, submit your interest. So I thought about it and I did. And the district commander at that time or the troop commander at that time, who was very much old school, was not on board with this, he was passing it along from patrol headquarters. When I submitted my name, he sent a message back that said, if you want a canine, I think I can find somewhere else in a different place to get you a canine assigned to you, meaning, you know, I'm going to transfer if you really want this canine. And again, you got to understand the internal culture of the organization. So I said, no, sir, no, sir, I'm not interested in one. So anyway, there was another supervisor who had been involved in the early stages of it. He said, I thought you expressed interest in this. I said, I did. But here's what, you know, what I was told. And he said, I'll take care of that. And I was like, oh, no, please don't get me in trouble here. You thinking Lumberton? Here I come. You know what, Trooper Cardwell just told me there for sergeant. And so anyway, you know, next thing you know, I got word that, hey, if you want a dog, we'll assign you one. We're going to send one to the central part of the state and one east part of the state. And you report to this canine school, which was actually in Greensboro at the time. And so we did. And anyway, the school was about 10 days, 11 days. You know, again, patrol hadn't had a program at that time. They were just starting to get into it. And so getting the dog really helped as far as going out roadside, learning what I was doing. And so I had made some phone calls to troopers that I had learned about on this epic Operation Pipeline Bulletin. There was a couple of guys that I kept consistently reading their names. Do you remember a guy named Jeff Faison out of Florida? Yeah, I remember his name. He was kind of the first generation that came along at the time. These other troopers I mentioned that taught us. And then there was some in the area, neighboring states, Mike Ralston and Georgia State Patrol, Benji Hodges, Georgia. And there were some others throughout the country. But I can't remember what it was that caused me to reach out to Mike one day, because I had expressed interest in getting more training. But again, it wasn't the culture. So somehow I made contact with Mike. He worked north of Atlanta on Interstate 75. And where I worked was Interstate 85 and Interstate 40. And I just cold -called him and introduced myself. And anyway, I told him what I was seeking. He said, sure, you're welcome to come down and ride with me if you'd like. I had to take vacation time because I couldn't get approval to go on patrol time. So I went down there and rode with him, spent my own money. And he took care of me really good. He showed me a lot. And then I come back. And we had had another gentleman by the name of Ed Lowry, who had worked on Interstate 95 in Fayetteville in our agency. I had gotten approval to go ride with him. But I had to take vacation time, too. So I went and rode with him. And this was the watershed moment that you're speaking of. While riding with him on 95, he was kind of the hottest guy at that time consistently making cases. And this was when everything was flowing out of South Florida, back when Steve was, you know, he was familiar with all the importation through South Florida. Well, everything those guys were getting was Miami -connected in some way, shape, form, or fashion. And I remember getting in a car with Ed. And he had just come off some days off. And says, he Bo, I don't know if we're going to have any luck. And that's what he called everybody was Bo. I don't know why. That was just the habit of his. But he said, but we're going to go out and try. I'm going to see if I can get you something. Well, the second car that he stopped, it was like that epic bulletin teletype operation pipeline played out before my eyes. The second stop, he gets a four -door, I believe it was a Buick old four -door sedan coming out of Miami, registered out of New Jersey, male -female occupant, and found a compartment built between a rear seat and trunk. And it had like five kilos of Coke. I thought I was just, I was seeing it play out before my eyes. And that just, that was my watershed moment. I was like, this is what I want to do. I had been trying it up to that point with minimal success, but between him and Mike, it really opened my eyes to other things that I really had not been paying attention to, human behavior, the importance of the interview. And anyway, so when I left from there, I was really energetic. And so I come back and started applying it. And having learned to operate my canine, I started looking at things differently as far as my approach and how to talk with people and what to look for roadside interview -wise. And so that first big seizure was a U -Haul that had come out of South Texas, which obviously still is today, but then the major source for our area, it was a U -Haul and it had about 850 pounds of marijuana in it. And once I got that, I was hooked. I mean, I was hooked a hundred percent. Well, let's go back to that seizure of Coke. When you opened it, did you know, I mean, when you saw the bricks, obviously, did you know what it was at that time or did you kind of have to go, okay, wait, you know, I'm just kind of like, whoa, what is this? Oh no, I know what that is. Kind of, yeah. I had never seen a kilo in person. And obviously it had, but I had not. I'd seen many pictures. And so I'm like, well, that's what it really looks like, I guess. So yeah, it was a really good learning experience. Now, so the 850 pounds of weed, that wasn't the case that you and I worked on, was it? No, this was a brother and sister that had come out of San Antonio and they were delivering somewhere in, I think around Richmond, Virginia area. But it's an interesting story on that. We had not had that kind of seizures go through our court system. And when it went for first appearance the next morning, the judge who was listening to the probable cause hearing, he said, he pulled me to the side before the hearing. He said, now, from what I'm told, you can't do this. And I said, well, what do you mean? And he said, you can't just go in and start searching somebody's belongings. And I said, well, I didn't, sir. I said, they gave me permission. And he was like, what? And I said, yes, sir. He said, they gave you permission to search their truck, knowing that they were carrying this? I said, yeah. And he's like, oh, okay. So it was a learning experience for a lot of us through the court process and myself. I love the way the judge was having a preliminary hearing out in the hallway before anybody was even sworn in. Well, again, it's a small community. And anyway, everybody knew everybody. And I'd built a good rapport with this judge. And I just remember that conversation. And once I said that, he said, wow, can't believe somebody would do that. I said, well, he said, where'd you learn to do this? And I told him. And he said, so they tell you to ask people to search the vehicle if you think you're suspicious to want to look for something else? I said, yes, sir. And he said, and they actually do? I said, yes, sir, they do. It's unbelievable. It is. It goes back to your point you were making. If you understand human behavior, if you understand how to talk to them and set the right circumstances, I mean, even to this day, Murph and I were talking about it on our Patreon channel, but at the time, it was the largest seizure of cash in Kansas. But it was only a quarter of a million. I mean, they've gotten much bigger stuff now. And people are going, I mean, they let you search the car. The guy I remember to this day, his name is Brian Lacy. I looked at him. I said, now, do you have anything that would be illegal in the state of Kansas? Guns, drugs, large amounts of cash. He says, no. I said, would you? And one question, one thing I learned to ask was not can I search? Because people always want to say no. I said, would you have any objection if I search for these items? And they would say, no. Well, no meant yes. And he even offered to show me, hey, I got a briefcase here. I opened up the trunk. There's the cash. And in his briefcase, plans for a methamphetamine laboratory. He had a marijuana press. It's like, you dumb son of a bitch. All you had to say was no. And we didn't have a canine at that point. There's not much I could have done. Yeah. It's amazing. I was just thinking, Tim, remember Dave Wilhelm with customs? Yes. Down in Charlotte. And he was murdered in Atlanta. So God rest him. But he called me one day, and I can't remember if it was Asper. I think it might have been Randleman. And he called and he says, hey, Murphy. He said, I got a tip. This trailer out in the country, some Mexicans are in there. Supposed to be sitting on a big stash of weed. He said, I need somebody to speak Spanish. So I met him down there. We took some people with us and walked up to this trailer. I remember that it was a huge lot with these big, tall pine trees. But there were no limbs from like 10 feet, 12 feet high before the limb started. So you had this wide open, we think of as a killing field that you have to go through to get to that front door. But we have no reason to be pulling our weapons out. To go up, like we're going to do a tactical entry. We knock on the door and I get up there and do use my Spanish. And they're like, yeah, come on in. We go inside. I forget how many is 1 ,200 pounds of weed or whatever they'd been using saws to cut it up. But there was an AR -15 sitting behind the front door. I mean, they pulled out and wiped us all out. But it's just amazing. They're sitting on the dope and they're like, sure, come on in. You know, and Tim, I don't know if you remember seeing this video if it was a Texas DPS trooper, but he's on the side of the road and he's talking to this guy in that Texas draw going, now son, you got anything that's illegal? You got, well, and so he's talking and you can see it's the old dash cam. This kid's getting nervous. Now, do you have anything in the car that's illegal? No, he's like, would you mind if I checked your car? And this kid just vapor locks and passes out into the ditch. He goes, well, I'll take that as an admission of guilt.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Touching the whole world of communications, Infobip democratizes interactions between business and people, Infobip Podcast
"This is Doug Greenin. I'm the publisher of DR Publications. I'm very pleased to have with us today, Ivan Mestajevic, who's the Chief Business Officer of Infobib. Ivan, thank you for joining with me. Thank you for having me with you. Thank you for recording this live at the Mobile World Congress Las Vegas 2023. It's been a great show. I understand you just came back from doing a speech during your presentation. Yes, I just had a presentation in the industry city. What were you speaking on? So I was actually telling how two megatrends that are colliding now, technology megatrends like generative AI and rise of super apps like kinds of WhatsApp, rich messaging are transforming industries. financial And what are we seeing there? Well, I'm going to look forward to hearing a little bit more about that in just a second. Ivan, could you tell us what is Infobib? So Infobib is a cloud communication as a service company with a global footprint. So we are present, our services are present more or less in all countries of the world. Last year we touched two thirds of all mobile devices in the world and we have physical offices in 77. So we have truly global footprint and one communication platform where companies can come and satisfy all of their communication needs. So it's businesses and communication between businesses and people. So that's also our purpose to democratize future interactions between businesses and people. So to be very concrete, if you're an Uber and you want to go hundreds through and thousands of telcos, you'll come to a company like us, connect, and we'll manage your communication in a safe and secure way. And in the same way like we do with SMS messaging, we have all other channels, voice, email, video, various chat channels, social media messengers, so all there. And then that's not enough. We are bringing one integrated end -to -end platform that can enable businesses to build engagement flows on these channels, like customer journeys. They can enter deep into the channel and build flows within the channel. So with all of this at hand, we are helping businesses also transform their digital customer journeys. So I understand with all this work that you're doing, you've actually gotten recognized by Gartner as a leader. Yes, we are very proud of this recognition as a leader. We are the leader in the latest and first inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for CPaaS, and it comes as a recognition of everything we've done. We haven't invested a lot in marketing because we're an engineering powerhouse. Jokingly, sometimes people within companies say for every dollar that somebody invests in marketing, we invest too in engineering. But I think the testimonials from our customers around the world and in the United States, as well as the breadth of the capabilities that we have with the channels, with the platform, with the engagement tools I spoke about, and magnitude of various use cases across industry verticals that we've done, got us there. So we're looking forward, driving further digital change with our customers based on that. And to get that recognition as a leader doesn't just mean that you have very innovative ideas, but it also, I think, means that your solutions are robust. Yes, very robust. So actually that's an interesting part. I'll spend three minutes explaining. So we are actually a so -called true full stack CPaaS provider. So by Gartner's in a cloud communication, the stack has kind of five layers. So we run extremely powerful infrastructure. I would call it like a hyper network where we are linking 850 telcos around the world into that hyper network. So we can channel communication like voice and SMS and MMS. These telcos, we are connected with major chat app providers. And then we have 43 data centers around the world, 40 are running in our private cloud because the volume, but also requirements for security and compliance, the communication we run need to be super secure and we need to control this. So that's kind of that very solid, rock solid infrastructure layer. On top of that, we have channels and these channels are managing extremely large volumes. So in the United States on Black Friday, in one day, we're managing around 3 billion, close to 3 billion messages through the network. And there is no delay. Everything is delivered perfectly. And then, as I said, we have around 18 to 20 channels, depends how you count, anything from SMS, MMS, social media messages and so forth to video, voice, email, et cetera. So it's one stop shop. But it's not only that. What makes it even more robust is we are working with major B2C platforms like kinds of Microsoft and so forth that serve other businesses. So we built a platform layer to automate their work and provision communications rapidly to them. And then on top of that, the fourth layer, we have all end to end platform that helps people automate their marketing in conversational chat channels that provide customer support within the chat that build various chatbots, generative AI bots, rule based bots, intent bots in these channels. And finally, we have a big ecosystem of partner that is exposing their partners, that's exposing their product in our exchange layer. So just to give an example, embedded insurance is one of those examples. If you're using messaging to book your travel somewhere, you can integrate from our exchange this API for embedded insurance and you can offer insurance in the same flow. Very easy to build. So that's kind of, sorry, it might be overwhelming, but it's a pretty kind of robust platform. It's very crowded in infrastructure. You have channels, but then you have tools that can help you extract so much value from these channels. You know, it's interesting to talk about the evolution of communications channel now, that you're one of these companies that millions of people have done business without knowing that they've done this. Yeah. You mentioned Black Friday, you know, millions and millions of customers, people just, you know, use your ideas and projects seamlessly and take it for granted that they've been able to do commercial things. It just has to work. It just has to work. So yeah, let's talk about that because that is part of, I think, that bigger picture. You know, we are here at Mobile World Congress. Where do you see it all going? What are your comments on evolution of communications? So I heard something today in a panel where I was, it's very technology mega cycle because many different tech trends are colliding like cloud and edge, like network and 5G. But the two most important one for our industry is the rise of generative AI and the analytics and rise of so -called super apps. So the fact that like WhatsApp is now much more than a messaging channel. It's not just an app, it's a super app. It's a super app. You can do commerce, you can do payments. It can be like a currency in a way. There are others that are really providing same or similar experience like Apple messages for business or iMessage for business, Google messages. Those are these Google messages on your Android phone and various other, you know, smaller providers around the world. And some allegedly through the press, some others contemplating to enter this space like Twitter. I think with these two trends, you all of a sudden are creating what I call a third pillar of digital transformations for companies. So, you know, you have the physical branches, let's say banking, that was my speech. That was yesterday. Today everybody has like a web portal or a platform and then an app and some omni -channel. I think that's the second pillar. So digital and then the third pillar. So apps and web are two pillars and I think the third pillar of digital transformation will become these conversational experiences where you can build very seamless, very cool customer journeys in chat channels for consumers. It'll feel like talking to a friend, talking to their favorite brand and all of this can be largely automated through use of AI. So you can get into like your favorite iMessage app and say, hi, I want to find a football match or a baseball match in Las Vegas. What's today on the program? And it'll, you know, the bot will respond and say, hey, here's what's on schedule today. Do you want to buy the tickets? You will click and you buy tickets there in your messaging app. That's what I'm talking about. And my speech was some work with some major banks around the world where we actually completely built out this third pillar of digital transformation in addition to apps and apps in the conversational channels and experiences that we had. And just to say, because I think you already might be interested, the conversions and marketing cases are two, three, four, even up to fivefold versus what you get with best email and messaging marketing and customer service. This is actually kind of almost oxymoron. We reducing cost 30 to 50 percent while increasing net promoter score three to fivefold because you don't need to wait. You can take resolutions rapidly. So that's kind of the impact that this will have. So that's where the communication, I think it'll go. You know, Evan, you know, we're here again at Mobile World Congress, very competitive market, lots of companies that are kind of summer partners and so on. How do you position Infogib? It seems like you're more of a cooperative company as opposed to, you know, very competitive. Very good question. So in one of the previous reports, Gartner actually put us in a category that is called co -creator because we work with others and co -create solutions. So fundamentally for me, there are two philosophies, especially in tech space, how you can approach things. So one is like big mega platform companies that own 80 percent of anything, and then they're sort of small plugins on top of them, but they're taking the whole cake. And the other one is more an ecosystem approach where you tie up multiple partners to create value for end consumers. So these partners would be telcos from a network perspective that could be tech providers that brings everything together and then vertical, let's say, solutions or players that are working to deliver that value. And I see more Infogib in a second camp where we really want to build an inclusive ecosystem where we can work with partners to co -create solutions for our consumers. And that sort of liberates human creativity, doesn't it? It creates new markets and new ideas and things nobody's ever thought of as opposed to, I like how you said that, cornered markets. Yes, I actually strongly believe in that we're just at the beginning building things together with our partners, but I really believe that yes, that'll allow small, medium, big companies just to work together and accelerate that cycle of innovation. Ivan, I really want to thank you for joining me today, taking some time out of a very busy show here, learning a little bit more about Infogib and really learning about your actual philosophy and your approach to the market and all your innovations and so on. Where can we learn more about your company? Where can we learn more about Infogib? So we are present on all social media, our website Infobip .com. I think it gives a first preview on what we do and then from there you can contact us and have a deeper discussion. Ivan, I'm looking forward to our next podcast together but for now thank you very much for joining. Thank you for having me, I enjoyed our conversation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A Father's Fight With Harrison Tinsley
"One of the more disturbing trends happening in America is how the courts are either neutral, indifferent, or against reality when it comes to this gender stuff happening in our country. This is a very chilling story. Joining us now is Harrison Tinsley. Harrison, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me, Charlie. So your story is really striking. You have a three and a half year old son. Correct. Born as a biological male. Correct. Your former partner, ex -girlfriend, wants to raise him as non -binary. Is that correct? To the best of my knowledge, yes. And it has started this massive court battle. Tell us about it. Well, so it starts a few years back. I met a girl in the Bay Area. We started dating, we fell in love. We never agreed politically. I always thought, you know, that was something we could get past and just agree to disagree on some things. Unfortunately, the country's become so polarized. I'm not sure you can do that anymore. But shortly into us dating, she became pregnant. And we were both very happy about that, thankfully. And we basically, she suffered with some mental illness problems, like borderline personality disorder. It's like, it's pretty serious. And it was just super up and down relationship. And as her pregnancy went on, she was constantly threatening me that I wouldn't see my son if I wasn't exactly who she wanted me to be, particularly politically. And she would bring up things like, oh, what if our kid's transgender? Why aren't you at the woman's March? Things like that. And it got to a point where she sent me a cease and desist letter. It's about halfway through her pregnancy. So I respected it. And I didn't find out my son was born. I found out about one week after he was born from social media. And it was two months after that I filed in court. It took 13 more. And this is right during COVID. And so I met my son finally when he was 15 months old, even though I was aware the whole time. And then there was this idea of the gender confusion, right? So tell us about that. So it goes on a little bit. I moved to the Bay when half custody, then it's right around the time I went half custody. It's a little bit before he's two years old that she starts, or at least to my knowledge, seeing pictures and stuff, calling him a day, putting dresses on him, makeup on him. There was a time she took him to Disneyland. And my son told me a couple months later, he's like data. When I went to Disneyland, I couldn't go on the rides unless I wore my princess shoes. I didn't want to wear my princess shoes. I wanted to wear boy shoes. I was super heartbreaking, just as one example of the things my son tells me. And so that happens. There's a lot of defamation of me on social media, et cetera. At the same time, I get granted a restraining order on a temporary basis. It's violated. Bring all of this to trial. Get granted a trial by the court, because his mom was also arrested for child endangerment and placed on a 5150 hold while he was in her custody. She ended up getting let off the charges, but she was charged originally. And so I get granted a five -day trial, which is a super long time in family court. Usually you get a lot, you get like 30 minutes. And so we have the trial. I'm super confident about it. There's witnesses, 850 pages of evidence on my side, almost nothing on the other side. And I'm super confident about it. After the trial, about two months later, I get a decision from the court. They decide they're going to keep custody the same. They won't rule on gender. And my son had to continue to see the doctor that the mom preferred. And the doctor was open to the trans thing, right? Yeah. The doctor admitted on the witness stand that she transitions kids as young as 12 at her clinic and that a place down the street does it to kids as young as six.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Why Bitcoin Just Flash Crashed
"Bingo, bango, bongo. To me, that is the real story. The utter lack of liquidity, a growing amount of leverage, peak market boredom, and this is just the type of stuff that happens sometimes. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, August 18th, and today we are talking about the massive crypto crash. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to get deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Happy Friday. Yesterday, I shared a meme with my wife. It was a tweet that read, hi, I have a question about toddlers, and my question is what the f***. Now, we are doing a little end of summer trip with the four and the two -year -old before the four -year -old heads off to kindergarten, so it struck the old funny bone. It was also exactly how I felt when I checked the markets yesterday after about three hours of being away from my phone to discover that they had completely nuked. So, friends, now you get to play catch up alongside me because I have a question about markets and my question is what the f***. This week's price action began much the same as it has throughout the past month. Bitcoin was painfully range -bound with basically zero volatility and muted volume. In fact, since the last week of July, Bitcoin has been stuck between 29 ,000 and 30 ,000, spending only a few hours marginally outside of that range. On Wednesday night, price began trending down, drifting below 29 ,000. Bitcoin hit 28 ,000 just before midday on Thursday, a move that would have been significant by itself. In fact, Bitcoin lost 4 % over the course of Thursday morning, including a 1 .6 % drawdown in one hour at 11 a .m. This was the lowest level that Bitcoin had traded at since the bullish catalyst of the BlackRock ETF application in early June. Then, at around 5 .40 p .m., Bitcoin flash -crashed. In less than 10 minutes, the price plummeted by more than 9%. Bitcoin hit 25 ,000 on Binance and plunged slightly lower on Bitfinex. Overall, over the course of two days, Bitcoin lost a pretty serious 14 % before finding a bottom. This made it the largest 48 -hour drawdown since the FTX collapse last November. Ethereum fared no better, recording a 15 % drop from its previous 1 ,850 level to hit $1 ,550 on Binance. Prices for both assets did recover marginally into the evening, with Bitcoin recovering to around 26 ,500 and Ethereum changing hands at 1 ,680. The level again decayed overnight, speaking to a continuing lack of confidence. As you guys know, whenever we look at price action, there is always some highly indiscernible combination of narrative catalyst, plus post -hoc narrative rationalization, plus news event catalyst, plus conversation, with usually a big dose of market structure thrown in. And so, as we look into what, quote -unquote, caused this, let's keep all of those caveats in mind. Let's start, however, with market structure. Yesterday, Czech Beatty from Glassnode wrote, newsletter released two weeks ago, quote, Bitcoin options markets have priced the lowest implied volatility in history, with put options in particular seeing the lightest demand. Given the context of Bitcoin's infamous volatility, is a new era of Bitcoin price stability upon us, or is volatility mispriced? Narrator, it turns out, volatility was mispriced. Maybe a little bit more crisply on market structure, Byzantine General wrote, holy motherfucking shit, we just had the biggest liquidation day since the FTX blow up. So, according to CoinGlass data, positions worth over a billion dollars were liquidated on Thursday across all major assets. Bitcoin traders alone came just shy of recording 500 million dollars in liquidations, and more than 90 % of them were on the long side during the price collapse. All told, Thursday was the largest single day of liquidation since June of last year. OKX saw the largest portion of liquidations among exchanges, recording over 30 % of the leverage wipeout. Indeed, some suggest there were individual concentrated positions being targeted on the Asia -focused exchange. Fiki Taut wrote, after studying a bit, I think someone got hunted on OKX. All the OI was building disproportionately on majors on OKX over the past few days, and perps on OKX wicked the lowest out of all the major exchanges. Now, open interest had been slowly ramping for weeks as volatility remained low. That means that more traders were piling into leveraged positions during the summer doldrums. The most recent commitment of the traders report showed a short bias among institutions. The report digests position data from the last week among hedge funds and commodity trading advisors, and showed that bearish bets had been increasing in the CME -listed Bitcoin futures market, with two -thirds of market participants positioned short. But the question is, of course, was that all there was to it? Was this just an example of market structure running rampant? Specifically, is there a possible macro interpretation? What's certainly true is that crypto markets weren't the only ones to see turmoil on Thursday. During the day, global bond yields continued to rise with multiple tenors reaching long -term highs. The US 30 -year bond reached its highest point since 2011, hitting an implied yield of 4 .42%. The US 10 -year yield moved above 4 .3%, matching its October 2022 peak, which hadn't been seen since 2007. UK and German yields have also accelerated this week. Also on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve had released its minutes from the July FOMC meeting. While the July rate decision was an entirely expected 25 -basis point hike, there was remaining speculation around how hawkish the committee was on the need for extremely noncommittal in the post -meeting press conference, saying little other than repeating a commitment to data dependency. The meeting minutes, however, confirmed that officials were concerned that the inflation fight could be far from over, stating that there was a potential need for higher rates. Coupled that with a recent resurgence in the housing market and continued resilience in the labor market were cited as risk factors that could drive inflation higher. The most recent projections from the Atlanta Fed have shown GDP on track to increase by 5 .8 % in Q3, which is of course much too hot to be consistent with cooling inflation if growth continues at this pace. Given that, markets are now pricing in a much higher chance of an additional rate hike later this year, although the majority of positioning is still betting that the Fed is done with this hiking cycle. Capturing a lot of the sentiment I saw yesterday, Frog Capital wrote, The Fed minutes are kind of terrifying. The clowns admit that they are hurting businesses and low -income families in particular, but hiked anyway. Then, they want the big banks to quote, establish readiness to use Federal Reserve liquidity facilities. They're prepping for disaster. On the back of this fairly hawkish set of Fed minutes and another leg higher for long -term yields, both major U .S. stock indices fell yesterday afternoon. The Nasdaq declined by 1 .17 % for the day, while the S &P 500 lost 0 .77 % on its second consecutive red day. Lewis Harland of Decentral Park Capital said, U .S. interest rates are rising to multi -year highs. This is bearish risk assets in general. If this sell -off in bonds continues, we could see negative price action in risk assets into the weekend. Noelle Acheson also put this in the context of the Bitcoin and crypto markets. She wrote, Okay, so we've discussed market structure, we've discussed macro, but what about news explanations? Candidly, usually this factor isn't really a factor. But in this case, it feels at least a little more plausible. There were at least two major news events that splashed across screens just as the market began to crash, both of which could reasonably be expected to impact Bitcoin and broader crypto markets in one direction or another. The first was the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled, A Rare Look into the Finances of Elon Musk's Secretive SpaceX. The headline was picked up by news aggregators as, Elon Musk's SpaceX sold all of its $373 million worth of Bitcoin. Now, of course, reading that, it's pretty easy to understand why that headline might have caused rapid selling from bots. Turns out, however, that the rereported headline was pretty misleading. What the article actually explained was that SpaceX had, quote, wrote down the value of Bitcoin it owns by a total of $373 million last year and in 2021, and has sold the cryptocurrency. In fact, the status of SpaceX Bitcoin holdings were not the main focus of the article, and that single sentence on them is ambiguous at best. It could mean that SpaceX has sold all of its Bitcoin at some point over the last few years, or that it had sold a portion like its sister company, Tesla. What it definitely didn't mean was that SpaceX had recently dumped $373 million worth of Bitcoin onto the market, which is, of course, how the Twitter news aggregators had made it seem. The $373 million referred to the balance sheet write down, rather than the amount of actual selling. Now, the second major news item that broke as the market collapsed was that Chinese property giant Evergrande Group had filed for bankruptcy in New York. Now, this news is not in itself particularly surprising. Just go listen to yesterday's episode about a primer on the Chinese economy. Indeed, this bankruptcy filing is simply to ensure that restructuring efforts that are already ongoing in multiple jurisdictions are recognized in the US. Evergrande had first defaulted on its corporate bonds back in December 2021 and announced an offshore debt restructuring program in March of this year. Trading of Evergrande shares have been suspended for almost 18 months. Still, the headline that a major Chinese property firm was filing for bankruptcy was likely enough to push news trading algorithms to sell off, even if the underlying news is something of a nothingburger. There are also a number of accounts trying to equate Evergrande once again with Tether, but I can't imagine that that had a meaningful impact on price action. And since that's the subject of the show, we will just move on. Interestingly, then, there was a flip based on another news event. Shortly after the price plunge, Bloomberg published an article entitled SEC set to greenlight Ether futures ETFs and win for crypto industry. So what's going on is that over the past few weeks, the SEC has seen a deluge of applications for ETH futures ETFs from almost a dozen fund managers. Until now, the SEC has always prematurely asked for applications to be withdrawn without consideration, so the fact that applications are still ongoing is a majorly optimistic sign. The big concern had always been that ETH futures were an underdeveloped market that couldn't support an ETF, but that market is now as large as the Bitcoin futures market was when those ETFs were approved in late 2021. The article itself updated the story with anonymously sourced comments, which claimed the SEC is unlikely to block the ETFs from launch. They suggest the products could begin trading by October. While this was broadly the position of ETF analysts already, the news was a clear bullish catalyst for ETH. The collapsed price was entirely filled in on the news, rising back up to $1 ,700.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from BREAKING Crypto Manipulation EXPOSED! (Bitcoin Dropping)
"We are going to make it right. If you became a millionaire, would you keep working? The commander is here. What's going on right now is California is trying to figure out how to beat California. Oh, I can. Welcome to my hair. It's messed up. Man. Do you know what I was thinking? My hair gel. Welcome to BitBoy Crypto. My name is Ben. No chance it works harder at keeping you in the know about crypto. I'm the biggest and largest and greatest crypto community in all the Interwebs. Nick, can I ask you a question real quick back behind the audience? Why don't we put the TV back up for around the blockchain? Can we, during my show, can we scoot it? You got to do it right now because I'm still, I end up just looking back over here again. Yeah, turn it off. That's great. That's great. Hey, you know what would be even better? No, let me tell you what would be even better. What? No, keep it up. Keep it up. Keep it up. What would be even better is if we could just get like a black window and put it on top of that so I can just see the, oh, that's all I need to see is the red and I can't see it on camera. Guys, that's technical stuff. We're doing a lot of technical stuff. We're doing a lot of technical analysis. This is BitBoy Crypto Show. As you know, we're an all -serious show. Yes. We're an all -serious show. I hope you guys watch the show this morning. Because if you did not watch it, do you see how many viewers we had? A lot. I wouldn't comment on it. We almost said 2 ,000 live. Yeah. We love the show. Yep. Yeah. Why? Because of the clickbait title, obviously. It was a good one. It was a good show because we spent the whole time, I know, guys, my voice is a little, because I'm in these conferences and different stuff, talking over part, you know, robots dancing and loud music at yacht parties and all this stuff. But the fact is, is that, what was my point? I forgot. Where was I going with that, Tim? Well, it's a serious show, a serious crypto show. So the morning show, what we did is we went back, and we looked through all my old videos in 2019, and you can see the sentiment of crypto by looking at my videos. The last day that I ever had less than 1 ,000 views on a video was in 2020, January 23rd. Somebody go look that date up. We're going to do it again, where I did it on the show this morning. Look that date up. Look what happened to the price on that day. That's when crypto finally started moving. And, of course, we had the pandemic crash, but views were at all -time highs at that point when the pandemic was, like, when it first started because people were so like, you know, oh, what are we doing? Everybody's home watching YouTube and stuff, so it started going up. Yeah. But I was trying to explain to everybody that this morning, like, where we're at right now, and I'll just do a quick thing here where we'll pull up Bitcoin. I'm going to pull up a different chart here so that way I can not have the drawings and stuff. I don't want that. I just want Bitcoin, USD. We'll go to Bitfinex. That's where it was earlier. Like, I want to show you guys where we are right now compared to where we're going. And I want to explain a lot of stuff to you guys here. Now, what are these indicators? I do not know. I'm going to turn them off. I think it's always Kelly. Isn't that what we decided? I don't know. That one, maybe. That, I... Yeah, I think Kelly, it's the one that looks at the exchange value profile like that. But the point is, when you go back, a lot of people remember when you look at 2020, and I'm not going to spend time on this because we spent time on this this morning. Well, I've already got it actually. This is the chart I used earlier. So here we go. Here we go. A lot of people remember how things were and things were tough back then, okay? 2019, the beginning of 2020, things were tough. Right here, this area right here, when you look at this, this is where we're at. Now, does Frank know that we're doing charts at the end now? I've already talked to them. Yep. Why is he sitting there then? I don't know. He's going to watch the show for an hour? He's excited. He loves your content because this is the best show. Are you just watching the show, Frank? Yeah. Oh, okay. Frank's watching. Oh, he wants it because he gets it like five seconds ahead of everybody else. True. It's true. He's such a DJ, y 'all. So anyways, so the point is, when you look back here at this, okay? And like I said, I'm not going to spend too much time on this. This is such a big idea. Go watch the 8 .30 AM show. It was incredible today. I'm telling you, you're going to want to watch it. This right here is where we're at right now. This is where we're at right now. This here, this was right after the last time I ever had less than 1 ,000 views on a video. This, and you want it, you know what's funny is? Do you want to know the name of that video? No. What is it? It was a podcast. Me and JChains, bearders and midcoins. We used to do that show. And the name of it was Crypto Influencers Quitting in Droves. And that, when you look at that second box there, or the second circle, the second circle, the very beginning of it, the line in between those two circles is when everybody quit. Now, like I said, this here, I thought this was a serious show. It is. What did you draw? Are you saying those look like? Okay, anyways. Okay. So this here was pandemic crash, so whatever. But I want to point something else out to you guys. The last thing I want to point out here before we move on is when you look here, and you look at 2019, here's the bottom. This is the bottom. It was December of 2018. Okay, I think December 15th maybe. Let's see. What day is that? The 14th. It went down to 3281. 3281. Yep. December 14th was the bottom. I called it a week later. I said that was the bottom. 100%. Never recanted on that. That's not something I threw out 74 opinions, and that one was right. Okay? This was the bottom of the market over here on the left side. This was the bottom. This, this circle right here where everybody quit, this was the bottom of the sentiment. This was when the bottom felt like the bottom because nobody cared in this range right here. And remember, this is where we're at right now in the market. I mean, look. You look at the volatility. You see it. Then you come over here, and you look. Well, we got to go forever. Here we go. There we are. Like, I mean, look at that. This is even more solid, even less volatile, even less volatile than it was then. Now, when you open it up, of course, it looks a little more volatile because that's the way it charts where we candle. But the point is, Yeah. is that I'm trying to tell this message to people. I had a guy, my guy MC Moreland, he messaged me today on email me at 9 .30am. I don't know if he's watching the show. This guy messaged me forever about crypto. And he said, No, I didn't respond to him. You know, I just I don't have a lot of time to respond to people, but I saw the email. And he said, I'm thinking about giving up. He said, I think I'm thinking about giving up. I think I'm giving up on crypto. Guys, the last video I ever did that less than 1000 views and go back and look. We're looking at this morning. My average views around that time was probably about 1500, 2000. You go back about a month or two before that, my average views are about 850. You go back a little further, 3400. Okay? Like, not a lot. I showed people the video today. I got a lot of very good video clips for us to pull by the way, by going through those old videos today. But think about this. It's not a coincidence. It's not a coincidence that, right now, the way people are feeling about crypto is lining up for the first time, most likely for most of you, with what all your friends and family and your haters have been saying. They've been saying it's dead. They've been saying it's over. They've been saying Bitcoin's not going to go back up. They've been calling it a Ponzi scheme. They've been saying the government's going to take it over. The government's going to ban it. The government's going to make it illegal. They've been making you feel bad for the whole time because you came at the top of the market. Most of you did. Face facts. Most of you came at the top of the market. Not that you had to face facts. I'm just saying that's real. But these emotions, markets are 100 % psychological. The emotions that you're feeling, the depression, the sadness, this is how you know we're getting to the end. But what makes it so dangerous is that your emotions are now lining up with what everybody's been telling you. And this is the No. 1 reason why people get out of crypto. And as I just showed you on that chart, they flock out at the wrong times. And if you're considering giving up right now, if you're considering getting out of crypto and cashing out because you need some money, I urge you, brother, I urge you, sister, I urge you, good friend, I urge you, bitchwad, do not do it. That is not a show for you to keep your crypto. I don't give a frick. It doesn't affect me a lick whether you buy or sell or watch this channel or not. It doesn't affect me a lick. You can go do whatever you want to do and make yourself happy. But as a person that went through it before and came out on the other side and was handsomely, not only am I handsome, handsomely rewarded by that stubborn hardheaded belief in something that I knew was the future, it changed my entire life and the entire trajectory of my life. Now, mo money, mo problems, they say. But I'd rather deal with mo money than mo problems than no money mo problems because you got mo problems, we got no money too. Hey, Ben, does it matter how many times you fall down? Now it matters how many times you get back up. Wait, was that BJ with an actual like... BJ's actually out here trying to inspire. That was good, BJ. Well, I was also going to say the one thing that's not going to give up is tyranny. And that's why it's super important to stay with crypto. Yeah. And stay with decentralization, stay with changing things. Absolutely. Man, this has become a serious show now. Oh, God, I'm sorry. No, I like it, BJ. This is serious. This is serious. We're having the votes. The votes came in. I hated that. I hated that poll, by the way. Like that poll made me so upset. It made me angry. It just made me upset, you know, but that's fine. Look, if y 'all want, if y 'all want, look, I heard you. I would say this. I heard you. I thought I was hearing you one way and I thought things were cool. I guess people weren't too happy. And so, look, I'm one of the people. This is what we're doing. And I want people to understand, you know, I will always continue to make it a joke, though. I will always continue to make that a joke about this is a serious show. This is a serious show. Very serious show. And there will be, you know, I'm now the king of no -nonsense, keeping the show on track. But I want people to know, the morning show, that 8 .30 show, definitely go watch it. Because Ben, he brings out Alpha, but he has fun in that one, too. And that's the end of the show. The crypto chill. We're just chilling, you know. Like today was a little more serious than we usually do, but... Yeah. But the end of the show, when we get to X minute and we get into that stuff, then, yeah, we'll go on tangents at the end of the show. So if you guys love the tangents, you love the nonsense, there will still be nonsense. It'll just be down to 2%, and it'll be the 2 % at the end. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. Okay. So, alright, guys. So make sure you hit the like button. Once again, number one thing you can do as a member of the BitSquad. So let's jump into the top story of the day, which is crypto manipulation. Coinbase has been shorting the crypto market. Public reports indicate. Now, is this news? Do people not know all this stuff? You think? I don't think a lot of people know. I mean, guys, and this is one of these things that's a little bit difficult because Abdul Aziz, my guy, appreciate that. Super chat, man. That's good. Man, although I felt already what you were saying deep down, but hearing you say it, man, I'm freaking pumped and bullish. That's why I put a tweet on I put a post on X. Very serious show. We can't say tweet on Twitter anymore. Yep. Nope. Did BJ just put his own Twitter handle in the thing? No. Somebody else from the marketing team did. BJ, this is a serious show. Please, don't pin that. BJ, you can pin that. Pin that for like 10 minutes. It's a serious show. We want people to follow you. You have a very serious name. But the point is, is that a lot of people have been feeling this way. A lot of people have been sad. A lot of people have been upset. But I lost my track of mind. What was my point? Where was I going with that? Before I started talking about Coinbase. That BJ thing really threw me off. Yeah. On the X minute, when we get there, I'll show you guys one of my tweets I made. People are making fun of it. They're saying, what a dummy. Because I said I'm more bullish than I've been in years and years and years. I am. Because I've seen this before. I've been through this before. I've experienced this before. So everyone's so bearish. And I'm saying I'm more excited. It makes me look like an idiot. It makes me look like I'm shilling crypto and just trying to get people in. No, guys. No, guys.
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A highlight from 1366: BlackRock Insiders Say Bitcoin ETF Likely 6 Months Away
"In today's episode, I'm gonna be breaking down the latest technical analysis, as well as Bitstamp delists many altcoins, specifically for US customers. We'll also be discussing Bitcoin isn't going away, says $385 billion Wall Street giant, the Carlyle Group. That's right. We'll also be discussing Quant Analyst Plan B, creator of the Bitcoin stock to flow model, says history is suggesting a two year long Bitcoin rally approaching after critical indicator turns bullish. Send it. We'll also be discussing BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager. Their insiders say the Bitcoin ETF is likely only six months away. I'll be breaking this down for you. As well as BlackRock and Coinbase deal can trigger a Bitcoin burst to $773 ,000 per coin, according to Invest Answers. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my rumble channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again, that's crypto news alerts .net. And welcome everyone just tuning in. This is pod episode number 1366. And on X, this is live stream number three on rumble. Maybe we're up to live stream number nine. It's hard to keep count. I'm your fearless leader, JV. And today is August 9th, 2023. Let's kick off today's show with our market watch. You should be able to see on your screen. We've got Bitcoin currently correcting down 1 .6%. Yesterday we recaptured 30 ,000, but unfortunately it was short -lived and we dropped right back down to currently where we sit at 29 ,400. As you can see Ether also correcting down a half a percent, trading at $1 ,850. XRP, one of the few alts actually in the green right now. And checking out coinmarketcap .com, the current crypto market cap sits at 1 .17 trillion with about 38 billion in volume in the past 24 hours. The Bitcoin dominance is 48 .7 % with the Ether dominance at 18 .9%. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers in the past 24 hours, Aptos leading the pack up almost 11%, trading at $7 .45, followed by Chainlink up almost 4%, trading at $7 .66, followed by XRP up about 3%, trading just above 65 cents. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers for the past week, you can see a mix between a sea of green and red. Some of the biggest losers include OPMNT and PLS with the top gainer being Aptos up 11%. And checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated a 50, which is neutral. Yesterday was a 54 and last week a 53 neutral and last month a 56 in greed. So there you have it. How many of you currently bullish on the King Crypto? Let me know in the comments right down below. And now let's break down today's technical analysis. Check out the charts and what is popping with the King Crypto BTC. Bitcoin consolidated at a key flip zone August 9th as Bitcoin price strength staged a sudden return, which you can clearly see here in the Bitcoin one hour candle chart. Data from Cointelegraph and TradingView showed Bitcoin trading near 29 .8 after a surge during the previous day's Wall Street trading hours. That followed a recovery from the local lows under 28 .7 and topped out only after a trip to 30 ,200, which was yesterday. Bitcoin's highest August price thus far. The rapid change in moods soon impacted market participants' expectations for the market. Quoting analysts here, that indeed was the higher low. Bitcoin continues to maintain a bullish market structure, said popular trader Jelly. He also said it needs to break 32 ,000 from here. Let's see if this bounce has any legs. And he makes a good point. I think once we break 32 personally, there's not much resistance between there and 40 ,000. And he shows us a bullish outline where the level to break so we can continue marching forward. Jelly additionally noted that on the one day timeframe, Bitcoin completed a bullish cross on the Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator, quoting him again. Another item we can add to the list of bullish signals, he commented. And the day prior, crypto analyst Michal Venday Pop stressed the significance of 29 ,700 as he shared here. Bitcoin party starts when we break 29 ,700. Until then, it is just consolidation. Part of the day's analysis argued when Venday Pop subsequently added that Bitcoin was close to doing so. And quoting Rec Capital, Bitcoin is pressing beyond the 29 ,250 level, which is positive. But historically, we have seen upside wicking beyond this level to the 29 ,900 to 30 ,100 resistance area. He also says this time thus far, Bitcoin has upside wick to 32 ,000, 30 ,200 that is. Bearish is the rejection, is strong enough to push the price down to 29 ,250 and weekly close below there. However, if Bitcoin would be able to dip into 29 ,250 and hold it as support, that would be a more bullish price development. Now, let's discuss the whales getting active, analyzing the impetus for the higher spike. Observers soon noted increasing buying amongst various classes. A Bitcoin whales, as pointed out here by material indicators, fire chart shows the moment purple whales decided to convert a $20 million Bitcoin bid ladder into the market orders that started this rally yesterday, purple continued buying upwards of 50 million so far. And meanwhile, a brown mega whale just joined the party with a $2 million market buy order. And quoting SCU Analytics, shorts given up already. This bounce here on the low timeframe is driven by shorts closing out on coin margin and USDT margin over open interest down in perpetual delta CVD up, letting this low timeframe range balance out some more. And a SCU further noted whales require quite thick liquidity to exit or close positions. And most often this is during a squeeze event. Let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts. Now I actually wanna share with you a tweet, which I shared on crypto Twitter, I believe just yesterday, which was getting a lot of buzz and traction regarding Max Kaiser and the recent censorship on YouTube against Bitcoin creators. I wrote the following, when I arrived to Twitter, September of 2019, I maybe only had a couple of thousand YouTube subs and my tweets got virtually zero engagement. Max Kaiser was the only influencer to retweet my content at the time, which provided me with a massive beacon of hope as he's always been hands down. My favorite Bitcoin content creator via the Kaiser report along with Stacy Herbert, the Kaiser report still to this day is the greatest financial news show to ever exist and credited with the very first international TV mention of Bitcoin back in 2011. Max literally called it the biggest story of the decade, quoting him here, this is the greatest achievement of the global insurrection against banker occupation. Bitcoin is the currency of the resistance. And he also said, YouTube took down 900 hours, 1800 episodes, 13 years of work, including the first extensive multi -year international coverage of Bitcoin via the Kaiser report because we've reported on some inconvenient truths and deep rooted corruption about the US economy and banking system. How many of you were fans of the Kaiser report and are missing the Kaiser report now that it has been scrubbed off of YouTube? Let me know in the comments right down below. And now what I wanna do is actually play for you an interesting soundbite, a rant that is classic of Max Kaiser and his rage against the bankers and central bankers, et cetera. This is classic Max Kaiser in his rarest form. So here we go. Wall Street is fraud, America is fraud, the world is fraud, banks are fraud, central banks are fraud, we live in an era of fraud. It's all based on fraud and they get a percentage of the fraud, that's the business model. To suggest that there is any moral or ethical aspect to anything that's going on now is to be completely naive about the fact that we live in an era dominated by financial terrorists. Terrorists, terrorists, jihadis of banking. They're here to kill you and themselves. They don't care because they're trained at madrasas called Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. They believe in an ideology, not the Koran, but Adam Smith, that they completely misread and interpret as something to justify their blowing themselves up. And the cost of terrorism is cheap. 9 -11 only costs $500 ,000. The ability to borrow money and take over a company by Warren Buffet is zero. He's borrowing money at zero. He's taking all those jobs away. He's creating economic destruction because they're fighting against terrorism. And that's the era that we live in today. Why are we gonna stop it? There's only one way to stop it. Race interest rates right now. Make the cost of terrorism too high. Do it today. If you don't, you're a fucking terrorist. Jada Yale is a terrorist. Mario Draghi is a terrorist. The Central Bank of Japan is a terrorist. These are the real terrorists, not the immigrants, not the people dying in the water. Hey. Hey. Hey. So yeah, massive shout out to Max Kaiser. He is the man, has been doing his thing for over a decade, warning people about the fiat corruption in our society. So you gotta give massive respect where respect is due. And with that being shared, now let's dive into our next story of the day and discuss Bitstamp, which is a crypto exchange delisting several altcoins, which is pretty interesting. Obviously for them to do that, they must be getting some pressure from regulators such as the SEC. So let's discuss which cryptos were just recently delisted off of Bitstamp and curious, how many of you have ever used this crypto exchange before? Do let me know. So here we go. Bitstamp says the decision comes as part of the continuous elevation of its crypto offerings taken into account the changing regulatory environment of the US. New orders for the seven cryptos to be disabled on August 29th and existing orders will be canceled according to the exchange. And it's interesting, will other exchanges do the same thing is the big question. However, US customers will be able to hold the asset in their Bitstamp accounts and withdraw them at any time. The exchange recommended users execute any desired buy or sell orders for the affected assets before the August 29th deadline, meaning you got 20 more days fam. So be quick about it. To ensure a smooth transition during the trading halt and after that date trading related to AXS, Chili's, Mana, Matic, NEAR, SAND and Solana will be permanently disabled for US customers on Bitstamp. So despite delisting those assets for US customers, Bitstamp noted it would continue offering up to 30 available cryptos to trade on its platform. The exchange said it remains committed to providing a comprehensive range of trading options even with the halt for US users. Now Bitstamp is not the first major crypto to platform to the list assets due to regulatory environment of the US. Earlier in the year trading platforms like eToro, Robinhood and Bakkt also remove support for certain cryptos. The harsh regulatory climate has led many exchanges to limit their offerings in order to comply with American rules and avoid potential legal issues. So there you have it, as the crypto crackdown as they entitled Crypto Choke Point 2 .0 continues. So yeah, you guys let me know. At the end of the show, I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud in our live and interactive Q &A session, which we do each and every day. Now for some big news coming from the Carlyle Group. I'm sure you have heard of them before. As you can see here, they share that Bitcoin isn't going away, says $385 billion Wall Street giant, the Carlyle Group, and you should be able to see my screen now. You can see here the chairman says the mighty BlackRock is willing to have a Bitcoin ETF. So maybe Bitcoin is going to be around a while longer. And I actually wanna play this clip for you here today. You should be able to see my screen. Let me grab this sound bite and you can hear it first and foremost coming directly from the Carlyle Group themselves. Here we go. This is perfectly timed because Novogratz has been the pinata of Bitcoin when it goes down. It's been the genius of Bitcoin when it goes up. And all of a sudden, Larry showed up at the door to say, hey, big, respectable firms can prosecute and do Bitcoin. Link Lawrence Fink of BlackRock to Mike Novogratz. Well, what's happened is people, as you suggest, make fun of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but now the establishment, Larry Fink at BlackRock, is now saying they're gonna have an ETF if approved by the government in Bitcoin. So you're saying, wait a second, the mighty BlackRock is willing to have an ETF in Bitcoin, maybe Bitcoin's gonna be around for a while. Lisa wants to jump in here, but I'm gonna cut to the news moment. Is Carlyle announcing this morning a Bitcoin advocacy? No, I don't think so. But there's no doubt that Bitcoin is something that I wish I had bought it at $100 a Bitcoin when Mike Novogratz started buying it. It's now at $29 ,000, so he's made a lot of money. And a lot of people who bought it at the $100 or less are feeling pretty good. Now, it went up as high as $61 ,000, I think, even down to $31 ,000 or even $29 ,000 now, it's still a pretty good profit if you bought it at $100. We all wish we would have bought it at $100. And to write it up, it's one thing for BlackRock to come up with an ETF because they believe the proposition of Bitcoin. It's another because they see a profitability proposition where they can basically take advantage of the interests other people have. I mean, isn't that more of what this is, that basically Wall Street is saying, if there is a market for it and we can viably make one for them and make some money, why not? Well, remember, Wall Street is in business to make money and this is something they can probably make money off. You have to remember, the United States government has been somewhat skeptical of it. I think Democrats in the Congress and particularly the people regulating the SEC are skeptical of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. And that is correct. His billionaire wishes he bought Bitcoin at $100. But outside the United States, there's a lot of interest in it. I think FTX really hurt when it went bankrupt and it hurt the crypto industry. But a lot of people around the world wanna be able to trade in a currency that their government can't know what they have and they wanna be able to move it around, rightly or wrongly. And so I don't think Bitcoin is going away. I think the Republicans on Capitol Hill have been pretty supportive of it. There's a difference between having a seamless cross -currency payment, basically saying that instead of going to Western Union, I can go and just transfer something in Bitcoin if it has a stable enough price. That's one proposition. But the proposition of Bitcoin as a store of value that could kind of be bid up the way that gold or silver could seems to have been parked with the advent of yield suddenly that you can get for actual money. I mean, isn't that sort of the feeling that you're getting? Well, there's no doubt that when interest rates are as high as they are, you don't need to have gold or other kinds of things to get you some solid return because when you get 5 % on treasuries, but eventually 5 % will be coming down at some point. I don't think Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies that are the better ones, the better known ones, Bitcoin and a number of others are gonna go away. There's enormous interest around the world in being able to have something you can transfer without the government knowing about it and keep it private. And you can say people shouldn't do that, but that's not gonna stop people from doing it. Mr. Novogratz and Mr. Gensler, what did you say about the efforts of our chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission? Gary Gensler, who's the chairman of the SEC is not a big fan of cryptocurrency, I think that's fair to say, but he lost a major case recently in court where he was trying to argue that one of the cryptocurrencies ripple was a security and he lost that case. So I think the SEC has not been able to convince these the government yet, or at least the courts that cryptocurrency is such a dangerous thing. And I remember a lot of people in the government now are thinking that Gary Gensler won't be the chairman of the SEC forever. I mean, these guys just wait them out, right? I think that's a strategy that's very popular in Washington, waiting out regulators you don't like. There you have it, you heard it from him first, waiting out regulators they don't like, such as Gary Gensler. So for BlackRock and the Carlyle Group to be all bullish in and all in on Bitcoin is obviously a pretty fricking big deal. So that goes to tell you what's about to come here in the future. And in a bit, we're gonna be covering Novogratz specifically about talking Bitcoin ETF likely being approved within the next six months, which means before the Bitcoin halving, which is obviously a big deal and we're all anticipating that as well for fireworks coming after that halving. So with that being shared, now let's actually break down our next story of the day and discuss this potential two year long rally according to Plan B, creator of the Bitcoin, Stock the Flow Model, here we go. And shout out to Plan B by the way. Closely followed quant analyst says, the Bitcoin has crossed the key resistance level that historically kicks off multi -year rallies. Synonymous analyst tells us almost 2 million followers on X. The Bitcoin's five month realized price crossed the two year realized price, which is a pattern that previously marked the start of the bull market three times in the past, quitting him here. Five month realized price is now above the two year realized price. If history is any guide, it will stay above for the next two plus years. Interesting times ahead. Now the realized price metric measures the value of all of its tokens as the price they were bought divided by the number of tokens in circulation. So during the bull market, the crypto king's price tends to remain above all its realized prices according to Plan B. He predicts the Bitcoin will not revisit prices below the 30 ,000 level if the bull rally is underway. Quitting him here on crypto Twitter, not buying Bitcoin at less than 30 ,000 now is like, not buying Bitcoin at less than 10 ,000 in 2019 and 2020, and not buying Bitcoin at under $500 in 2015, 2016, and not buying Bitcoin at under $10 in 2011 and 2012, life is all about choices, preach. Now Plan B is also keeping a close eye on the RSI, a widely used momentum indicator that aims to determine if an asset is overbought or oversold. He says the indicator is setting the stage for a big rally similar to that of 2015 as outlined here, like clockwork, exact same spot as October, 2015. The analyst previously predicted the Bitcoin would hit $50 ,000 before the next halving event, which is expected to be in April of 2024. Let me know if you agree or disagree with Plan B. With that being shared, now for the latest regarding the BlackRock ETF potentially being approved by the SEC within the next six months as per Mike Novogratz. Let's break this down. Here we go. US's first spot Bitcoin ETF could be approved sometime before February, according to Galaxy Digital CEO, Novogratz, citing sources at BlackRock and Invesco. Quitting him here, it's a big deal. It's a big deal because both our contracts from the Invesco side and from the BlackRock side get you to think that this is a question of when, not if. That the outside window is probably six months. Novogratz told shareholders during the Galaxy August 8th quarter two earnings call where the digital asset company reported a $46 million net loss as shared here. This is probably six to four months or four to six months if you had to put a pin to tell him the donkey on it that the SEC is going to approve a Bitcoin ETF. Novogratz's Galaxy Digital is one of the many contenders for a spot Bitcoin ETF, which it reapplied for in June in conjunction with the 1 .5 trillion asset manager, Invesco, the fourth largest ETF issuer in the US. And as Eric Valchunes points out here, according to contracts from inside BlackRock and Invesco spot Bitcoin ETF approval is a matter of when, not if. Likely in four to six months, Galaxy CEO Novogratz on the earnings call this morning. So that's quoting Novogratz directly. And speaking of shareholders, Novogratz said he wouldn't have a comment on the expecting timing of the ETF approval, which is an unknown as it sits in the SEC. Now, however, he believes that once approved, the spot Bitcoin ETF issuers such as BlackRock and Invesco will be fighting tooth and nail for market share. As he outlines here, the news of both BlackRock filing the ETF and quite frankly Invesco plus Galaxy, we are going to fight like cats and dogs to win the market share there once it gets approved. And in response to a question, Galaxy Digital President Chris Ferraro added that he wouldn't be surprised if the SEC ends up approving a potential Bitcoin ETF to avoid being labeled an obstructionist because they have no choice, right? They've been denying the ETF in the US for over a decade, just FYI, quoting him here. I think that's where the potential ETF approval comes in saying, hey, you can't call us anti -crypto, we just approved an ETF. And so we are hoping that that's the same for our filing. Meanwhile, some analysts believe the wave of spot Bitcoin ETFs could come sooner than later, depending on how the judge rules in Grayscale's lawsuit against the SEC. As you know, Grayscale last year sued the SEC for rejecting its app to convert its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust GBTC product into a spot ETF. As Craig Salom shares here, if the SEC loses its case against Grayscale, as we expect, the path of least resistance would be a wave of simultaneous approvals for all spot Bitcoin ETF apps, including Grayscale and the other eight active filings. Let me know which ETF you feel is likely to be approved first by the regulators. Now, analysts believe that should the SEC lose its case against Grayscale, the path of least resistance would be simultaneous approvals for several or all spot Bitcoin ETF apps, which include ARK Invest, Cathie Wood and all the ones previously mentioned here in this article. What are your thoughts though? Let me know in the comments right down below. Now let's discuss a potential $773 ,000 Bitcoin price target based off the BlackRock ETF and their partnership with Coinbase. This was actually predicted, I believe, in the latter of last year before there was even all of the recent news of BlackRock refiling for their spot ETF application. And then we'll dive into our live Q &A as soon as we finish this final story. So here you go. Popular crypto analyst breaks down how the partnership between two financial giants can trigger Bitcoin explosion to $773 ,000 per coin. If you'd like to see that turn into fruition, let me know in the comments. Last week, US -based crypto titan Coinbase announced teaming up with BlackRock, as we know is the largest asset manager in the world. And here's what Invest's answer, shout out to him, told his audience, if BlackRock just put a half a percent of their assets under management into Bitcoin using my multiplier, which is 21X, that will impact the market cap by over a trillion dollars, which will add about $75 ,000 to the Bitcoin price, taking it to 98 ,000 and a return on investment from today's price of 326%. This is very, very achievable. Now, if they allocate, let's say 1%, which of course will take time to get to that level, that would be adding 2 .1 trillion to the market cap, $150 ,000 to the price. And that would take the future price of Bitcoin to 173 ,000 per coin, which is a 652 % gain from here. And if they add 5%, which is what Dan Tapiero says, I think it is way too aggressive, but maybe over time, maybe in the next three to five years, that would be possible. That could take the Bitcoin price to $773 ,000 and the next three to five years pretty easily. Now, the crypto strategist's analysis was inspired by comments from 10T Holdings CEO, Dan Tapiero, and according to the prominent macro investor, the deal between BlackRock and Coinbase could propel the Bitcoin price above 250 ,000, quoting him again, chart that got BlackRock excited about the partnership with Coinbase, quoting them here alongside this chart, no bigger a macro opportunity for BlackRock than acting to facilitate Bitcoin adoption. A 5 % shift in BlackRock assets is $500 billion, greater than the Bitcoin value today. So the catalyst for the path to 250 ,000 -plus post -Bitcoin halving is becoming clear. So there you have it. Let me know if you agree or disagree with this analysis. And don't forget to check out CryptoNewsAlerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode, HODL. People.
Crypto Curious
A highlight from 91 - FTX 2.0 - FOR REAL!! Coinbase's BASE Launch, and Optimism's Meteoric Rise
"Welcome to the Crypto Curious podcast, proudly brought to you by the Bamboo App. Crypto Curious is your go -to source for all things cryptocurrency. Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the world of crypto, we've got you covered. Each week we'll break down the top news stories of the past seven days, giving you the information you need to stay on top of the latest trends and developments. Plus we'll share quick bites of news and insights that you won't want to miss. If you're new to crypto, we recommend starting with our early episodes where we break down the basics and give you a solid foundation to understand the crypto world. Join us as we explore the ever -evolving world of cryptocurrency and educate ourselves along the way. On this week's episode, we talk about the rebirth of FTX exchange and get some insights from someone who's lived through the pain and lost money in last year's meltdown and what it means for those who got burnt. We chat through Coinbase's new L2 blockchain base, which launches this week. And we've got a mover and shaker of the week. And this one is optimism. We'll tell you a little bit about why that token has been pumping. My name's Tracey. And finally, Craig is back from his epic holiday. We were sick of seeing the photos. So it's three of us again. Welcome boys. Good to have you back, Craig. Thanks guys. I'm tanned. I've taken a huge break from the markets, but it seems like nothing's really been happening. I don't know, I've been listening to the podcast and it seems I just got caught up on the way home and it's been good to have a bit of a break. Look, you just hit the nail on the head there. Nothing's happened in the markets. I reckon we're probably at the same place we were when you left a month ago. Yeah, literally like Ethereum and Bitcoin, same price. Ethereum greed is still neutral. It's just a bit boring right now, isn't it? Mate, is this correlation or causation, guys? Craig, you're not trading. Look what happens. True. I've stopped pumping the markets. I'm back now. So we'll see the markets turn around. Well, look, it's good to have you back and I'm glad that you're nice and rested and you're ready to jump back into some crypto news. So let's do that with story number one. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the current state of play. Coinbase is being sued. Binance is being sued. So both are being basically choked out of the US. But FTX exchange is relaunching. Hmm. Are we in the twilight zone? Yeah. After much speculation, FTX has officially submitted a proposal to restart its services for non US customers. How do you feel about this? And what do we actually know, Blake? Yeah, you know, there's a lot going on here. It looks like there's been a lot of assets that have been found, 7 .1 billion and maybe a couple billion dollars in cash, which means that they can, you know, get the business back up and running. You know, those people that are creditors to the administration may not get all of their funds back, but it looks like they might get a majority of their funds back. We're looking, you know, 50 to 70 percent at least. So that's really great to hear. And as we've heard, there's a line of people looking to buy or acquire FTX from the administrators, which is interesting as well. But you know, it's a valuable asset. It was a great product. There's millions of users there. And there's a potential for somebody to turn that into a very prosperous business. So what we talked about a few episodes ago now that there were literally over 100 different entities looking to buy this, but we still have no idea, do we, on who it is that will be taking this off? That's right. And you know, it might be worth pointing out as well that we're talking about, you know, the organization, global which has, you know, subsidiaries or entities based in Europe, based in Australia and based in other jurisdictions and the purchaser would be acquiring all of them. Right. Okay. You got any thoughts on this one, Craig? What's SPF? What's he got to do with this or is he completely out the game now? I would say he's completely out of the game now, yeah. And have you guys heard the conspiracy that he did that, be that bold hack? Have you guys heard about this? I did read a little bit about this last week, but fill us in. Okay. So there was this project called Bold, which was a meme coin on bold, meme coin on base. And it did like millions of percent increase in like a week and, but you couldn't bridge off. So once you were in, you couldn't get out and then it literally got rugged and there's to SPF as like an elaborate way to recover the FTX hole. But I don't know if it's true, but I think, you know, it wouldn't surprise me. It keeps on unraveling, keeps on going and it's insane. Now we did speak to a well known crypto trader, Dax from Crypto Dojo here in Australia. Dax has been vocal at offering up input and help to make sure that those affected had their claims sorted via the correct legal channels. We thought he would be the best person to get an idea of how the feeling was out there amongst the trader community and ask him a few questions earlier this week. What is it that you and the other creditors are pushing for? Do you like the idea of a token? The creditors and the community of creditors would like to see a debt token for sure that is tradable. So, you know, if people want to get access to any of the gap that they're not going to get back from the debtors when they do give the final payout, we can trade that straight away or, you know, we can hold it to maturity and get paid out over time by the exchange fees. All right. So just to give a little bit more context about what a debt token or a utility token for creditors could look like is that, you know, when I used to use Bitfinex back in, you know, 2016, 2017, they were hacked for hundreds of millions of dollars. And they said that they would pay back their customers through revenue, but it could take several years. Right. So what they did was they created a token that and anyone that had debt received the token. And it was initially trading, I think, 10 cents or even 30 cents in the dollar. So if you wanted to recover 30 % of your debt, you could sell that token down. However, over time, it became clear that they were paying down the debt, Bitfinex was, and this was adding to the value of the token. People were eventually made whole. And then this actually became an asset that people traded online. And not from memory, people could also leverage traded. The debt token. You're in poignomics right now. Yeah, yeah. But they came through in the end. And I think what people are wanting here is a similar thing. For example, if creditors only receive 50 cents in the dollar or 70 cents in the dollar and the project, FTX, restarts, then they want a share of the revenue moving forward until their debt is fully recovered. And this is a really interesting mechanism to keep all of the users on the platform and promoting it. As well as that, I think creditors are pushing to have, to be equity holders in the holding, global holding company. So the creditors could actually end up making some really good money out of this. Obviously it's going to take some time and they're going to have to be patient. But if they execute this well, it's going to be an incredible feat. That leads into another question that we asked Dax, which was how the users are feeling about using the FTX exchange again. In terms of like, why would people use that exchange, right? So for example, if you have $100 ,000 or a couple of million dollars on FTX right now, and maybe you get back 50 or 70%, and you know if you trade on that exchange, it's going to add liquidity to the books and the fees that you're paying eventually going to come back to you over time. And also it sort of like creates an entire army of promoters for that exchange as well. You have literally 200 ,000 to a couple of million people that want everyone to use that exchange. I think there's not that many quality exchanges at the moment in the crypto space. So if they can come out and build a lot of trust because of everything that's happened, you know they have a good VC company buys them and they know they do things the right way and they have a really strong custodian that's separated from the business that buys them and you know they don't have a hedge fund that's trading against the traders using their own capital like all the other ones seem to be doing at the moment. It could be a place where it ends up performing very, very well. So we'll have to wait and see. I might just point out one thing that I think we missed here is that one of the key factors that increased the pool of assets was that they removed all executives from the list of creditors as I suppose a punishment. So you know that's one of the other factors that's contributed to people getting a little bit of extra money back. But kind of continuing on from that thought as well, you know FTX had a massive venture book which means they invested into hundreds of companies and many AI companies have done really well in this latest AI boom. So some of these companies I think had done a 10 or 20x. So these things are really helping to chip off the debt for creditors. So there you go, it remains to be seen who will take the reins and exactly how it rolls out but it seems there's some hope for those affected FTX users in this rebirth, ladies and gentlemen. Coinbase is launching their Base Layer 2 blockchain. Starting this Thursday, users will be able to bridge their ETH with the official launch of the main net. Base is the latest Ethereum Layer 2 network developed using Coinbase's OP stack and that's on optimism. Although Base testnet was launched back in February, the main net goes live on August the 9th. Craig, do you want to tell us a little bit more about Base? Yeah, so Coinbase as we know is going to be a Layer 2 on the Ethereum blockchain which is pretty much a whole new network with cheaper gas fees, quicker transaction sizes. So Coinbase are trying to do what Binance have been doing. So Binance launched their own smart chain called Binance Smart Chain which is essentially a fork of Ethereum and now Coinbase are launching their own Layer 2 called Base which is going to be built on top of optimism which we'll talk about in the movers and shakers. But this has kicked off a bit of an on -chain summer where a lot of people are trying to bridge over to the new Layer 2. There's companies like Coca -Cola, Atari, OpenSea all building applications and making art on Base. So it's going to be really interesting. It's going live tomorrow. Actually at the time of recording it would be going live now so it's going to be really interesting to see how the market reacts especially with the Coinbase share price and see how many users actually jump over. And I know we were saying before that they've come out and said that there is no plans for a token but as you know early adopters do tend to get rewarded in these situations. And Layer 2's definitely are the flavor of the season right now. Blake, what are your thoughts on this one? Yeah, you know obviously Binance did a similar thing with Binance Smart Chain. They want to open up the world of DeFi for their organization and build products and services on chain. Essentially Coinbase is a centralized application. They want to diversify their offering clearly and create value for their shareholders but also de -risk a little bit. And I think from a regulatory point of view, these platforms like these side chains and Layer 2 chains are a little bit more regulatory safe right now because it seems like the centralized players are getting sued left, right and center as you see. So yeah, I think it's a great move and it does stick it to Binance a little bit trying to compete with them. Binance did so well with the Binance Smart Chain and PancakeSwap and all the dapps that build on top of them, all the NFT activities. That feels like forever ago but when was that? And all the, I'm sure it was less than two years ago. So I think it's an incredible thing and yeah, it's great to see them evolve and I think this is Brian Armstrong's long term vision, you know, to become a company that builds products and services across the whole ecosystem, centralized or decentralized. Don't forget, Coinbase have a huge venture team where they've been investing in DeFi Web3 projects built on Ethereum and I guess now they'll be the intention to get all those guys building on base and they've got millions of users, 120 billion assets on the platform. So it just seems like an obvious value add for Coinbase. There you go, Coinbase adapting to the market and moving forward. Time now for our Mover and Shaker of the Week. Everyone loves a crypto pump and each week or two we will feature a cryptocurrency or token or project that is grabbing attention and popularity in the market. We want to share the reasons why it's on the rise and what utility and value it holds. This week we take a look at optimism or OP which we've just mentioned in the previous story. This monthly move has been 46%. So Craig, what is it? Yes, so we've just gone through this a little bit. So optimism is a popular layer two solution that makes transactions on Ethereum cheaper and faster, very similar to Arbitrum. They're both actually probably competitors. So optimism now has 120 ,000 users, 850 million in total value locked. They've actually overtaken Arbitrum with transactions and users in the last few months which is, you know, translated into this token pump. So all of the dev environment and all the users are now trying to bridge over to optimism, get involved and try to be the early users on these new Coinbase products. So as you know, actually we've covered this before but optimism was actually one of the big airdrops that happened probably around six months ago. So now I guess all the sellers of the airdrops have ran out and now optimism is now sort of in its second phase. What do you think, Trace? Yeah, look, that's a big one. It's definitely contributed to but there's also a second reason that that pump's occurred and another really well -known project. What's that, Blake? Yeah, exactly right, Trace. Worldcoin has also decided to launch on optimism. While the release has been controversial to say the least, it's helped optimism bypass or surpass the Arbitrum daily transaction number for the first time. And as a result, optimism is up 30 % over the last week and 46 % over the last month. Massive gains. And yeah, so Craig, did you sell your airdrop? I'm an Arbitrum man, no I haven't. Oh, watch out, nice work. I'm huddling, I'm huddling. Yeah, there you go. You've got a bit of long -term commitment to the project. That's good to hear. Look, a lot of projects are also committing to the OP stack, so this one could be one to keep your eye on, folks. OP optimism. Before we head into the break, let's chat really quickly about Litecoin, boys, or LTC, because this one has been a bit of a build -up for the last two or three months to their halving event, which actually took place last week on the 2nd of August. This one's also been a coin that we all speak about in our little chat groups as well. But so far, the Litecoin halving hasn't really done much for the bullish price. Actually, it's quite the opposite. The price of the coin is down 8 .5 % since the event, trading at around $82 .20 at time of recording. So all the price action that was positive happened in the lead -up to the halving, hit $110 early in July. Why has this happened, Blake, do you think? Yeah, is it kind of buy the news and sell the event type of deal? Potentially. Buy the rumor. Buy the rumor. Buy the rumor, yeah, and sell the... could be. It's just a sign of how boring this crypto market is, that our group chat and Twitter was getting excited over Litecoin halving, a coin that no one's used since 2017. I think it's just a sign that we're just looking for something to do, we're looking for something to trade, and there was a narrative that did pick up and then it... yeah, it's over. Yeah, I think it might be worth drawing some similarities and parallels between Litecoin and Bitcoin here, because generally when the Bitcoin halving happens, we see massive price appreciation, but we don't see that with Litecoin, because it's not a dominant player in the ecosystem. And Litecoin is a copy of Bitcoin, it runs a little bit faster, it has some cheaper fees, so it's very similar in dynamics, just... yeah, it looks like it's primarily used, however, for speculation now. Yeah, so just following off that, Blake, the Bitcoin halving is now 252 days away, so 26th of April.
Home Gadget Geeks
A highlight from Randy Walker with WordPress Updates, Tips and Tricks for 2023 HGG580
"This is the Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geek Show No. 850 with guest Randy Walker, recorded on August 3, 2023. Here on Home Gadget Geeks, we cover all the favorite tech gadgets that find no meaning to your home. News, reviews, product updates and conversation all for the Average Tech Guy. I'm your host, Jim Kallsen, broadcasting live from the Average studios Guy .TV here in a sweltering, super hot, high humidity. It's the worst part of the summer here in Bellevue, Nebraska. And of course, we post the show with World Class Show. And that's why we have a few out there at theaverageguy .tv. Big thanks to Christian Johnson. He'll, he'll be important again a little bit later in the conversation. But big thanks to Christian, who joined us last week. And if you haven't caught up on that, it's good to catch up with Christian. He's got a lot of great information. Of course, we talked a little bit about Maple Grove Partners as well. Check that out. It's a long show. I know that. But we're just catching up with Christian, and that's, I just go as long as I want when I want to do it that way. So check it out, 875 .79 with Christian. And big thanks to him. Big thanks to our Patreon subscribers as well. If you're finding value with the podcast and you want to get back, you can do it through our Patreon team. Check out the page, theaverageguy .tv slash Patreon. Randy Walker is back. Randy was on, I want to say in the spring, I think, right? Or, somewhere around there, yeah, February, March, maybe? Yeah, spring timeframe. We talked a little bit about bourbons and drinking and some other stuff. But you're a WordPress guy. We're going to talk about, well, first of all, welcome back. Great to have you. Thank you. Glad to be back. Anything new and exciting in between the last time you were here and now? Oh, boy. Not that I can think of. I don't lead the most exciting life usually, but... Any gadgets? Have you picked up any gadgets? Did you take advantage of Prime Day? I didn't get anything for Prime Day. I was, I didn't see anything I wanted, except for, I should have got a solid state drive. One of the Samsung solid state drives were two terabytes for a hundred bucks. Wait till Black Friday. They'll be back. But my, my time machine backup drive died already in the process of dying. So it would have been perfect to switch over to SSD. But I have recently picked up a zoom mic track M2. That is their 32 bit float handheld recorder. Oh, nice. Mic track M2? Now why'd you pick it up? So one of the podcasts I'm involved with, Daily Detroit, I do some field work. So this is good to just have on hand for interviews and things like that out in the field. I think I got a picture of this. Let's bring it up. Official product page two. I think this is it. Is this the right one? That is it. Yeah. Yeah. 200 bucks. It's on sale actually. Which is weird because it just came out. I got it for $150. Oh, nice. Nice. During the, was this during the Prime, seemed like everybody runs sales now during Prime Days. No, I've had this for a couple of months now. Um, they released this back in November, but then pulled it, some reviews were having some issues with EM interference. So they did a recall and relaunched it in March. I think I want to say I picked it up in May for $150. Mostly vocals of that year? Yeah. This is totally for interviews out in the field, sticking like fun in somebody's face and having them tell me about their business or product or yeah. Back and forth on kind of thing. And how's that work? Is it working out pretty well that way? It has worked out pretty well. We recorded an episode out on a soccer field post -match, um, analysis wrap up. Um, just the host and the sports guy passing the microphone back and forth. Yeah. Sounds great. Um, 32 bit flows. You don't have to set levels on it or anything. You just turn it on, push record and you're good to go. And then I'm assuming, uh, it doesn't have a chip or a card that comes with it? Yeah, it takes a micro SD card. Could, could you plug it in and just pull the, pull the data off the mic or do you have to? I believe it also has a USB mode as well, but we were out in the field. I pulled, pulled it out, um, pulled the chip out, stuck it into a SD card reader for my adapter because it's a micro SD card. Stuck it into an adapter, which then I stuck into a little micro SD to lightning adapter into my phone and pulled it off my phone that way, right away. So I got to get it to the, yeah, I just feel like those, that kind of memories, like communion wafers. Yeah, they are quite small. Just waiting for it to fall apart in your hands. And you're like, ah, like, you know, this thing is, I would prefer it plug in, you know, you, you plug it in and plug it in and download it that way. Do you have to interview a guy that's wearing a beanie cap in the middle of the summer that, you know, to be cool on this thing or anybody can do it, right? Anybody can do it. I mean, the picture there, you've got up Ming Chen, he's a pretty cool guy. Yeah, yeah. I hung out with him a few times. The with guy the, with the beanie cap, it always cracks me up that I see, I see some, some cool guys wearing those in the summer. And you're like, OK, I get it. It's fine. Anything, so good, good purchase. And, and would you pick up a second one to have as a backup? It's working well. The only thing I don't like about it is the windscreen that comes with it is horrible. I had some extra clown noses laying around. So I just stuck one of those on top. But yeah, it's a solid device. And as met her needs so far. The picture I'm showing right now is, you know, they got it at a table. It's in between two, two. Does that work pretty well? I mean, we don't often, Dave Jackson and I, you know, we do this Saturday morning show called Ask Podcast Coach. And I'm not a big fan of one mic and two people. But does this, does this work OK? It does have stereo mode. So this, the way it's set up probably works OK. But I definitely, for swapping back and forth, I put it in mono mode for interviewing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We used to, I used to do a lot of this kind of stuff on the road. Go out and, and, you know, do conferences. I'd set up a, I'd go out and set up a board and two mics and two, two arms and just, it was easier that way. It was also quieter, a little quieter when you had a noisy conference space. We were always in the hallway. We wanted it that way. We wanted people moving around behind the scenes. Yeah, exactly. It gives a little ambiance. I do have the Zoom PodTrak P4 with some tabletop microphones and stands and those things for a more formal sit -down interview. But this definitely is good for a quick stop.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Return of the Gods with Jonathan Cahn
"The U .S. dollar has lost 85 % of its value since the 70s, when the dollar decoupled from gold, and the government seems bent on continuing the tradition. Charlie Kirk here. From now until after the elections, the government can print as much money as they want. The last time they did that, inflation went up 9%. Gold is the only asset that has proven to withstand inflation. Invest in gold with Noble Gold Investments. You will get a 24 -carat, one -fourth of an ounce gold standard coin for free. Just use promo code kirk. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com. That's noblegoldinvestments .com, the only gold company I trust. Hey everybody, Jonathan Cahn, author of The Return of the Gods. Fascinating conversation. If you want to support our program directly, go to charliekirk .com slash support. That is charliekirk .com slash support. Get involved with Turning Point USA today to be a force to help save Western civilization. TPUSA .com. That is TPUSA .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Jonathan Cahn joins us now. Jonathan, welcome to the program. Great to be with you, Charlie. So Jonathan, build out for our audience the main thesis of your book, The Return of the Gods. Yeah, The Return of the Gods is, well, number one, it's probably the most explosive book I've ever written, and it is what if behind what is happening, the changes, the transformation of our culture, what if it goes back to what actually the Bible says? What if it goes back to what the Bible speaks of as gods? And what if the gods are not just fiction, but there's something actually behind them? And what if they returned? What if they actually were in the world? What if they were affecting our culture? What would happen to it, you know? And what happens when you turn away from God? Well, what The Return of the Gods is is really showing that it's happening. Once you see it, Charlie, you can't unsee it. It is really what is behind everything. We're all dealing with it, and the thing is that I wrote The Return of the Gods not only to, you know, reveal this, but also to arm God's people, because if you're in a fight and you don't know what you're fighting, chances are you're not going to win, you know? So it's really, you know, listen, it stunned me, and I knew that this is the hour that this had to come out. So, Jonathan, I want to make sure I get our terms right. I believe when you're saying the return of the gods, you mean the idea of fake gods. You are a monotheist, correct? You believe in... No, I know that's a silly question, but you're not suggesting that we live in a polytheistic reality. No, no, yeah, of course. Yeah, I'm a believer in Jesus. I'm a Jewish believer and a because let me go right into it. Yeah, the Bible says that when it speaks about the false gods, and that's exactly what we're speaking about, it says that behind them, it uses a Hebrew word. The Hebrew word is shaddim. Shaddim, it's in Deuteronomy, it's in the Psalms. It means literally not, you know, fables, it means spirits, entities, beings, and when it gets translated into the New Testament, it becomes the Greek word daimonia, where you get the word demon from it. So what it's saying is that behind the gods are actually spirits. When in the pagan world was worshiping gods, they're actually under a possession. You know, when you turn away from God, this is what happens. So this is pretty universal. Everyone worshiped gods except Israel that worshiped God until they turned away from God. So the first question is what happened to all this? Well, what happened was the gospel. What happened was Jesus. And when the power of God came into the ancient world, literally it drove out the gods. That's why you don't see many people worshiping Zeus outright and all these things. It was gone. But if behind the gods are spirits, that means it wasn't just turning away from gods. It means it was a casting out. It was a, it was an exorcism of Western civilization. That's what's made the West so unique. And so the thing is, so the thing is that then, then the next question is that, okay, where did they go? And then, and the next kind of clue to set up what I'm, what I'm going to, what I'm sharing is that Jesus gave a parable and he said, when a spirit goes out of a man, it goes looking for a place, doesn't find it. It says, I'm going to go back to my house, the guy, and he goes back and finds the house, the guy, empty in order, clean, bring seven other spirits. The Bible says more evil than itself. And the guy, but when you read the end of it in Matthew, it says, so it shall be with this generation. And so the premise is this, the warning is this, that, that first of all, cultures, not just people can be oppressed and possessed. They can be delivered and they can be repossessed. So the warning is for America and for the West and for much of the world, modern world, any culture, any civilization that has been delivered of these spirits by God of paganism by God, if it should ever turn away from God, then the spirits that were cast out of it will come back into it, to repossess it. If you want to understand what's been happening to America for the last half century, we're witnessing a repossession. We're witnessing a turn from a Christian civilization into a pagan one. And this is, this is the beginning. This is key. So if you, if you read the Torah, which means teacher, through the lens that there was an obsession from the writing of it to wage really war on river civilization, pagan polytheism, right, this idea of one God that is not in nature but created nature, this idea of one morality, this idea of, of, of Hashem or Adonai or Jehovah, whatever term you want to use, was, it was, it was not just foreign, it was a mystery and a threat to the predominant views. And if you look at some of the themes that, especially the first 11 books of Genesis lay out, we're seeing almost a resurgence of that, whether it be earth worship, whether it be doing what is right in your own eyes. So when you say a return of the gods, we're almost just seeing a replaying of the same temptations and vices that the first couple books of the scriptures go out of their way to wage war on. Yeah, absolutely. What we are witnessing is, it's kind of the reverse. It's the reverse of what happened when the gospel came in. It's a de -Christianization, which means also it is a turning away from monotheism. Well, when you turn away from God, the warning is, I mean, look, look at the case examples we have. Look at Russia. Look what happened when Russia turned away from its Christian foundation. It wasn't secular, it was demonic. Look what happened to Germany when they turned away from God. It was not secular, it was demonic. We are now witnessing that in America, and the warning that Jesus gives us, the house will not stay empty. You take God out of the schools, something else will come into the schools. You take God from the children, something else will come into the children, and that's what we are witnessing. Everything you just said, it's not an accident. In fact, why things are so irrational. We say, how could they believe this? How could they do this to children? Well, this is all part of it, and the thing is, Charlie, it's not just a general thing. There are specific entities or gods or spirits that the Bible thinks about that are literally at work right in our culture right now. So that's a really deep and important point that honestly I don't even have theological clarity on, and I want your take. I want to spend some of our hour on this, because I ask pastors and I get different answers, understandably, and you've obviously done some deep thinking on this, which is, what does the Bible say? Who is Satan? Does he have lieutenants that we would call demons? And so walk us through what the Bible says. Outside of folklore or tradition, what specifically does the Bible say? Who Satan is? What is his jurisdiction, and does he have, you know, lieutenants or demons or helpers? Yeah, well, number one, you know, Satan in Hebrew, really, it's a Hebrew word that means satan, means the one who opposes you, it becomes in Greek diabolos, we get devil, you know, from that means the opposer. Well, it says, the Bible clearly says that Satan was also a spirit, an angelic being that fell, so therefore you have, starting with that, but interesting too because, Charlie, you know one of the words for Satan is beelzebel, you know, or beelzebel. Well, that actually comes from a which is one of the spirits or one of the gods that Israel worships. So yes, he has, the Bible says very clearly there is Satan, and then there are spirits that are part of this realm, just like God has angels, there are spirits. Well, what would a spirit do more than draw attention, you know, draw the worship of God away from God to itself? So when you look at the pagan world, you know, there's a reason why it's demonic. You know, when you look at pagan worship, it's demonic. It's not just, you know, they have all the signs of possession shaking and foaming at the mouth, and a possessed culture is literally, I mean, a pagan culture is literally demonic. So therefore, yes, and the thing is that we've kind of forgotten that at our peril, to our peril, because when you take out God, it all comes back. Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here. We are saving babies with Preborn by providing free ultrasounds. When you introduce a girl to her baby by providing an ultrasound, you're giving her the truth at the most important time in her life, and more than 85 % of the time when she sees the baby and hears the baby's heartbeat, she will choose life. The voices that call themselves pro -choice are loud and proud, and they are everywhere. It might feel like an uphill battle, but there is no better fight to fight than with the truth of an ultrasound. $140 gives five mothers a free ultrasound and saves babies. $280 can save 10 babies. For just $28 a month, you can save a baby a month for less than a dollar a day, and $15 ,000 gift will provide an ultrasound machine that will save lives for years to come. 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The Dan Bongino Show
'Dan Bongino Show' Will Broadcast Live on 850 WFTL
"Give us give us a ring and that actually kind of ties in bit. a little Folks, listen we're honored to be on every station. You know beggars can't be choosers in the space if program directors choose to carry the show. We're, you know, we're honored. You want, you know, you have the show. We really are. I mean me, I say we cuz it's not just me. Me, Jim, Mike, Teresa, Suzanne. There's a team big behind this show. It means a lot to us. So sometimes we're on delay. Mostly we're live and most of the overwhelming majority of stations were live, but some were on delay and we'd rather be live, but that's their call. We understand. Sometimes they have other shows in that spot. So a lot of the stations have been moving us to what they call in the radio industry a live clear, which you don't, you know, really cares about the jargon, but if you want to know, whatever. So we're moving to live on my, one my of favorite stations. And I say that not to begrudge any other station, but because I live here And our station in South Florida is 850 WFTL. And it is so cool that as of Monday, we were on an hour delay. We'll be live. It makes a difference because now if you're a caller to this show, I mean, it's easier to call because if you're on, you can't call when we're off the air. So, uh, it's really cool. It's my hometown station. So big hat tip. Uh, thank you WFTL for taking us live and the great Joyce Kaufman, who is a legend around. He'll be on after us. So you guys are awesome. And, uh, it's really cool. I think it starts on Monday. Father Marty, Jim, just texted me to remind me that, you know, Father Marty, he calls him to the show. So I told him, now you can call in live cause he listens on a
The Officer Tatum Show
Blackness or Poor Credit?
"It's just like the bank borrowing thing. You know, people can throw out statistical data and I'm going to read a data point and this article that I read that was written by Larry elder had an had these incredible points that is unbelievable that most people don't think about when you look at statistical data, you have to say, well, there's a lot of other questions to be asked. You know, Larry elder was saying that he was listening to NPR and he saw that the NAACP was filing a lawsuit against several banks. And he says the study shows according to the lawyer that Morgan's lenders charge black home loan borrowers, higher rates of interest when compared to white borrows. When I guess it's the question that Larry was asking, he said, everywhere white and blacks have identical for oh no, this is not the question he's asking, but this is a follow-up to it. It's just everywhere white and blacks have identical financial profiles according to the lawyer. Banks still charge blacks higher rates of interest. And I want you guys to consider this and understand this. Every time they come up with these ideas, you have to ask more questions. They say, well, black people are charged to hire a higher rates of interest when they go and get bank loans and it's like, you have to ask more questions. Do you honestly think that a black man walks into a bank and they go, you know what? Because he's black. We're going to charge him more money. Just because he's black. His financial structure looks great. The guy is definitely going to pay stuff. He had an 850 credit score. But because he's black, though, we're going to find a way to charge him a higher interest rate. And what is not being discussed is look at all the other components around getting the interest rate, right? Can you negotiate? How many of these black people who are going in to getting loans? How many of them are negotiating a better rate?
The Breakdown
Are the WSJ Articles on Binance and Tether Trial by Press?
"Let's kick off with some good old fashioned tether FUD. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that tether had used falsified documents and shell companies to obtain bank accounts, citing emails leaked to the newspaper they discussed some of the tactics used by tether and their intermediaries back in 2018. The article claimed that an email from Stephen Moore, one of the owners of tether holdings limited, said that a major Chinese counterparty was trying to quote circumvent the banking system by providing fake sales invoices and contracts for each deposit and withdrawal. He wrote that it was too risky to continue with this method, considering his signature was on the fake invoices, and recommended that the counterparty abandoned its attempts to open the account, saying quote, I would not want to argue any of the above in a potential fraud slash money laundering case. In March 17, according to The Wall Street Journal, Wells Fargo stopped processing transaction from several Taiwanese accounts that tether had been using, and in a lawsuit filed against the bank, tether called the move quote, an existential threat to their business, but withdrew the lawsuit shortly thereafter. A few weeks later on a conference call with users, Phil Potter, tethers then chief strategy officer attempted to calm concerns, saying quote, we've had banking hiccups in the past. We've always been able to route around it or deal with it, open up new accounts or what have you. There's been lots of sort of cat and mouse tricks that everyone in the Bitcoin industry has to avail themselves of. The article also claims that another account opened up on behalf of tether in turkey was later used to funnel money to a Hamas linked terror organization. And on top of that, the article also chronicles an attempt to funnel money through Panama using a company called the crypto capital corporation. The company allegedly used a series of shell companies to move around more than $1 billion. In October 2018, around 850 million was seized by authorities in the U.S. and Europe during an investigation into bank fraud and alleged money laundering. The seizure caused ripples through the crypto ecosystem with tether losing its peg and making a loan to bitfinex its sister exchange to shore up tether's balance sheet. But for next claims to this day that it was defrauded by crypto capital corp and is still fighting the seizures.
Mark Levin
DOJ Commits More Resources Against Trump Allies Over 2020 Election
"Justice Department is adding prosecutors and resources to its investigation into the actions of former president Trump's allies to overturn the 2020 election According to people familiar with the matter is the related congressional hearings have turbocharged interest in mister Trump's own role in that effort And I always told you that the committee was basically a front for the Department of Justice that they are colluding And the committee is gaining access to information through the back door circumventing the protections at each person has as a means of turning that information over the department of injustice A Justice Department team focusing on elements of the investigation beyond the violence that the capital on January 6th has in recent weeks been given more personnel office space and an expanded mandate the people said Now we have a criminal investigation of the Trump campaign Of Trump Trump surrogates and Republicans Prosecutors have charged around 850 people A connection with the January 6th violence Including more than a dozen members of right-wing groups charged with engaging in a seditious conspiracy against the United States Have you ever heard of one of these marxists charged like this I can't think of one Certainly not a modern times Maybe Sarah rump can tell us Maybe she'll call nassar the EPA
The Mason Minute
Book Banning (MM #4055)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. Book banning has become a hot topic over the last year or two as more and more governmental bodies attempt to ban books. In fact, according to the American library association, 729 materials were challenged last year, most of which targeting books featuring black or LGBTQ characters. Yes, it has to do with red politics and blue politics, but in Texas, one state lawmaker requested the public school libraries disclosed whether they held any of the books on a list of 850 books about topics including race and sexuality. It's startling to see, so what are libraries doing? In Brooklyn, New York at the Brooklyn public library has announced that young people across America can register for a free digital library card, which gives them access to a bunch of banned and challenged books. We had book banning back in my day, stuff like the catcher in the rye was banned because of the drugs and drinking. Times sure have changed, haven't they? And I don't know if and when that's going to change again.
The Mason Minute
Book Banning (MM #4055)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. Book banning has become a hot topic over the last year or two as more and more governmental bodies attempt to ban books. In fact, according to the American library association, 729 materials were challenged last year, most of which targeting books featuring black or LGBTQ characters. Yes, it has to do with red politics and blue politics, but in Texas, one state lawmaker requested the public school libraries disclosed whether they held any of the books on a list of 850 books about topics including race and sexuality. It's startling to see, so what are libraries doing? In Brooklyn, New York at the Brooklyn public library has announced that young people across America can register for a free digital library card, which gives them access to a bunch of banned and challenged books. We had book banning back in my day, stuff like the catcher in the rye was banned because of the drugs and drinking. Times sure have changed, haven't they? And I don't know if and when that's going to change again.
The Mason Minute
Book Banning (MM #4055)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. Book banning has become a hot topic over the last year or two as more and more governmental bodies attempt to ban books. In fact, according to the American library association, 729 materials were challenged last year, most of which targeting books featuring black or LGBTQ characters. Yes, it has to do with red politics and blue politics, but in Texas, one state lawmaker requested the public school libraries disclosed whether they held any of the books on a list of 850 books about topics including race and sexuality. It's startling to see, so what are libraries doing? In Brooklyn, New York at the Brooklyn public library has announced that young people across America can register for a free digital library card, which gives them access to a bunch of banned and challenged books. We had book banning back in my day, stuff like the catcher in the rye was banned because of the drugs and drinking. Times sure have changed, haven't they? And I don't know if and when that's going to change again.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A Look Back at the Great Financial Crisis of 2008
"So in 2004, 5 and 6, you saw the housing boom, largely thanks to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Thanks to the negligence of our own quote unquote housing regulators, cheap money policies from Washington, D.C., buying up bad mortgages and incentivizing people to do the same. We built an entire economic model on a House of Cards of people that were bar waitresses earning cash tips that had three homes, two of which they've never visited because people were incentive incentivized to go to low income neighborhoods and sign up people for as many mortgages as they possibly can. We all know what happened next, which was the great financial crisis, Lehman Brothers, bear Stearns, and for the first time ever, despite the insistence of Jim Cramer, those companies went under. In the years that followed 2008 and 2009, our leaders were faced with a tough decision. You see, the 2000s saw an economic boom the likes of which we never thought was possible. Now what our leaders decide to metaphorically take the cough syrup, tighten the belt, tell Americans that we're not going to indulge in this continual behavior of deficit spending and debt mounting on future generations, of course not. Barack Hussein Obama won the election in the fall of 2008 was sworn in in 2009 and Ben Bernanke then Federal Reserve chairman, Hank Paulson treasury secretary and Timothy Geithner under treasury treasury secretary three awfully treacherous people if you asked me all decided, hey, let's just keep interest rates low. It's not like we're going to experience long-term inflation. And then we saw a stimulus package passed by Barack Obama, a then 850 to $900 billion stimulus package. It was passed as the national recovery act after that Obama passed ObamaCare, a takeover of the American healthcare industry. Debts and deficits continued to sword, and then a couple years later, I started to get
KOA 850 AM
"8:50 a.m." Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"Now. Dave Hunter K away News Radio live everywhere on the I Heart radio APP. A mental health competency hearing has been scheduled for the man accused of the Boulder grocery store shooting and the Dow was down today. But the tech heavy NASDAQ closed Eddie record finish. Those stories and more coming up at five o'clock with Cathy Walker on KO, a news radio. You're listening to Big Alan Joe Joe on the exclusive radio home of your Denver Broncos away news radio. Of course, it Manfred Mann's Earth band. Bringing us back made Mother Light wrapped up like a deuce. Another runner in the night, blinded by the Welcome back. It's big Alan, Joe, Joe and K Away NewsRadio, 8:50 A.m. and 94 1 FM. It everyone the free I Heart Radio Act Big al is, uh, out today under the weather. Brandon Crystal sitting in for The big fella. I want to remind you, Rod Smith. Former Bronco Great is coming up at five o'clock They lost to catch up with the end Wrap reporter NFL Network Insider, by the way, Uh, ESPN launched 42 years ago today. Yeah, I heard that earlier this morning, George Grand, and I remember who he was sitting in the chair to the first SportsCenter together. George Grant called the Reds for a long time after after his first couple of years there do you have in your mind when you think ESPN You have a couple of personalities that immediately pop into your head like without? Well, I mean, just I mean, obviously Chris Berman. Um When Dan Patrick and Keith over and we're doing it together. I mean, that was another think those are the first for me. I think those are the first three to pop into my head and then probably Stuart Scott would be forced Yeah, He would definitely pop in my head as well. Um, I mean, this is without thinking about it. So that's sort of the like when you picture ESPN. Steve Levy. Okay. Steve Levy sits in there. Um Uh, was it Roy Firestone? Yeah. Yeah. Roy Firestone slips in there because, you know, he showed he was famous for making everybody crying up close. Yeah. He was famous for making everybody somehow some way tear up over something, including the great Rod did well, that's right. That's right. Fiction. It's just fiction, folks. Just fiction. Uh, want to remind you are pro picking challenge Presented by Circle K is back online K away news radio dot com is where you get yourself. Signed up, you.
KOA 850 AM
"8:50 a.m." Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"So you know, there's there's enough data now to say we have a pretty good under understanding of what's going on. And you know, I don't know. I'm just I just say, I said it was going to talk about it now. But at 12 25 When I go to break I'm done talking about this, But in general terms, I think, baby boomers, the elderly Uh, they went through the polio vaccine, which was a a game changer for everyone. They went through the chicken pox, mumps vaccine measles vaccine, which change for everybody, But Millennials didn't have any of those events and I think that's one of the reasons they're not excited about vaccinations. Again. And I had this conversation with my mom last night because I was telling her what was going on in my home because she knows a couple of these people as well from when I was a kid and, uh and and my mom said the exact same thing she goes. I remember the polio vaccine. I remember being terrified, Terrified that I was going to end up paralyzed for the rest of my life. That was what polio did to you and she said when they lined us up. Oh, boy. They lined us up in school. They didn't ask for anybody's permission. They just gave us the shot. And that was it. Exactly. I don't want to go back to that and again. See, here's the thing. I don't want to ever mandate vaccination. Don't ever want to make compelling enough of an argument. I want to lay out a compelling enough case, but the CDC has undermined their credibility so badly. That they're the ones that we should be looking to for guidance in this situation, and Dr Anthony Fauci holds a great deal of that responsibility. I've got an actual story about him at the bottom of the blog. It appears through Freedom of Information Act request. The doctor Fauci has been proven again a liar this time in front of Congress. Rand. Paul was right. When we get back, though, I want to jump into some local issues, including a story that I don't have on the blog because I just saw it before the show started Civic Center Park. Is going to be closed. Guess why. I'll tell you after this chat Bauer in for Susan Witkin, Chad, What do you have in your news today? Well, Mandy, the King super shooting suspect was in court this morning, and President Biden visited New Jersey to assess damage from Hurricane Ida. Whole story's coming up at 12 30 on K Away NewsRadio, 8:50 A.m. and 94. 1 FM Bundling home and car insurance with Geico is so easy. Your neighbors.
KOA 850 AM
"8:50 a.m." Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"It's happening now are people what they need on Ko a. 8:50 A.m. and 94 1 FM. Labor Day with the Rockies and Giants coverage today at one on K Away news radio. I'm Ryan Gorman holding things down from the team here so they can enjoy this Labor day off. Hopefully, you've been having a great labor Day weekend yourself right now, let me bring in senior retail reporter for insider Anya cane to talk about how the pandemic continues to impact supply chains. Anya, this is Has been an ongoing issue for quite a while now, and I guess the place to start would be. How did we get to this point with these massive disruptions in so many different supply chains? Thanks so much for having me on. Yeah, This is a situation where we're really seeing a perfect storm happened. Where Covid is exposing, and also really exact er baiting some of these supply chain and also, uh, stock issues. So how did we get here? It kind of depends on whatever industry or product you're really looking for, is going to differ a little bit based on what exactly we're talking about so with something like dollar tree They've been having a lot of shortages of products lately, and a lot of great issues, and that's because they're highly dependent on trans Pacific. Uh, great shipping from China. And unfortunately, if you CNN the news around transportation, yeah, there is a huge backlog. It is a mess on the Pacific. There's over 40 ships that are just kind of like Stuck out there because ports keep getting closed down due to covid infections. Uh, basically the time stretching out, Uh and there's no real end in sight for this until more ships come online with the man. You know, it's just swamping the supply in terms of these ships. So that's that's one example of how covid has really slowed, uh, this down from the product coming into the United States. Another good example of how covid and housed in recent news stories have affected Supply chain is when you're talking about furniture. Uh, the phone components in furniture are created using different chemicals that are often uh, basically manufactured in Southern states, of course, were hit by some really bad winter storms is here, you know, particularly tax it. So that slowed everything down there. The lumber shortage lumber prices are spiking. All of that means that that counts that you ordered on way there that could take months to come in. It's going to be a nightmare. Um And so it kind of list goes on and on, and Kobe definitely exacerbated things. Labor shortages. There's not enough truck drivers to go around in the United States anymore. Um, so that means everything gets slowed down, right? Uh, so just a number of things kind of happening at once, and it's very unfortunate. But the upshot is that some of these shortages were kind of here to stay for at least a little while until some of the structural Uh, aspects are corrected. I'm joined by Anya Kane, senior retail reporter for insider one of the shortages that I think most people have heard about by now. Chip shortages and how they're impacting all kinds of different products all the way to cars. What do we know about the chip shortage at this moment? Absolutely, um so this goes back to the fact that there is such demand for computer chip right now and simply not enough supply when we're talking about the materials and the manufacturing Needed to create a computer chip. Um, it's just it's we do not have enough. The United States in particular, we went from going, uh, producing basically around 40% of the world. My conductor manufacturing capacity. To only doing around 10%. And that the result is at this point. There's just not enough car to go around Modern day cars need a computer chip and you go to any car dealer at this point, and many car dealers have very much window supply. Um, they're not yet. I mean, they're desperate I've seen are people lots can be kind of empty. You know, it's a mad I mean, I would. I'm very glad that I do not need to buy a car right now because I've heard some horror stories that And it's just like a nightmare. And there's not really an ended cycles. There's no quick fix to this. You know, you might say Well, just still build more computer chips, and it's simply not that simple. I mean, Its semiconductor manufacturing is very complicated, Um, industry and the fact that demand is surging. It's just it just can't keep up. Do you hear that? A shortage like the microchip shortage? That's one that could last longer than, say, the labor shortage where even though the workforce is is disrupted right now, because of covid, and then also, there seems to be a pretty decent sized segment of the workforce. This just Looking for different opportunities that fit their lifestyle. Better. Um, is that a shortage that maybe will resolve itself sooner rather than later? Yeah, I think that depends on sort of what employers are willing to do. I think just from a just from a personal perspective. I think a lot of people are finding that The pandemic made them realize, you know, maybe I'm worth more than this. Or maybe I deserve to be treated better at my workplace, and a lot of frontline workers in particular, are angry about how They've been treated, so they're not making a lot of money, they might seek better opportunities elsewhere, so I think his employers, especially in front line Um companies, like retailers are willing to raise wages really offer competitive benefits. They might have a much easier time in hearing some of those positions, basically making it worse workers while to work for them, right, And we've seen companies even like WalMart officer to offer like educational benefits. And that's not a you know, an area where they're trying to become more competitive today. Here's why it's worth your while to work for us. Maybe they'll get yelled at by some angry customers, but we're going to give you the benefit. To make you happy. And so you know, it's employers are willing to play ball and make themselves more attractive to workers. I think that labor shortage, you know. It will be much less of a big deal going forward. Of course. Yeah, the car, the car shortage. I know. Some analysts have predicted that will go on well into 2023, which is kind of scary to think about great as far away, but it's just there's just no quick X, So some of the things we are into the long haul until the supply can catch up with the demand. In terms of navigating the shortages. What are some things that you should by now where you can get a good deal, and there is enough of the product to go around. Absolutely. And that's a great question, because Labor Day is upon us, right? That's known for its deals. Yeah, one of the traditional deals has always been summer closing. I think that's a pretty safe that that's a good deal. Apparel was hit three hard by the pandemic because people stop dressing out. People stopped going out, right, so I know I did. I know I did. I stopped up on goodwill..
KOA 850 AM
"8:50 a.m." Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"Really We appreciate it. Thank you, Ryan. And thank you for sharing these stories as well, of course. And to all of you listening, please do tune into my 20th anniversary 9 11 special this weekend. It's going to be quite a shell. Coming up next. We're going to talk about the secret history of food. You're not gonna want to miss this. Hang on news radio time is 11 30. Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park will be closed today and tomorrow following a death on one of their rides. A six year old Colorado Springs girl died on the haunted mine drop ride Sunday just before eight p.m. Over seven million Americans are losing their unemployment benefits this Labor day as pandemic unemployment programs expire today, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told the Today show. There are still some options built into the American rescue plan passed earlier this year. We have allowed governors across the country if they need to look at using cares money actually using rescue playing money. To extend the unemployment benefit in their state. If they need to. The the rate is different all across the country 7.5 million unemployed Americans will stop getting an extra $300 a week in benefits. Many states had already ended the pandemic benefits, with governors claiming that it was keeping people from taking available jobs. Our next update at noon. I'm Chad Bauer on cable news radio 8:50 A.m. and 94 1 FM from the BET, Fred Sports Traffic Centre. Seeing a little bit of slowly North found 25 between Colorado and University. Also, painting Boulevard is unusually heavy, both inbound and outbound between I 70 and 84 70. Rest Your Denver drive looking good, But we do have a pretty serious crash up north. I 25 north beyond a protein. Longmont blocking two right lanes were stopping. Go delays back to highway 52..
KOA 850 AM
"8:50 a.m." Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"They're pretty crazy. I mean, I just read one about Shanxi, the new Marvel movie, and it talks about how these women are our warriors in the film that the supporting players how great they are, and they kicked audience. And then it mentions what it's about. It's about a nail. We'll hear the story is about a male Supergirl. Why do you take off points for that? Why do you mention that, like it's never quite enough. You can go so far with diversity and empowerment and all these things that we want in theory and then say, Oh, but it's still not enough for what is enough. When do we stop? And when do we say, Let's tell a story first and kind of maybe check the boxes later. Let me ask this. You mentioned the female Ghostbusters the the all female cast. We've now got a new Ghostbusters coming out that I'm very excited about with Ivan Reitman. Son directing, I guess. And are we done with the regenerating of cast? Can we? I mean, we had oceans eight, which I have to say. I kind of enjoyed that movie. I just watched it not too long ago. Again Popcorn movie. It was fun. It was great. I can't tell you that the plot line at all Now, you know, three weeks later, But are we done with that? Or is that still happening? Because I got to tell you. There's got to be somebody writing good stuff for women. So we don't just have to repurpose a man's movie to take the worst example of that was they made a TV movie back in the day that was a remake of It's a wonderful life. And they had Marlo Thomas playing. The Jimmy Stewart role. Uh yeah, I said, this trend is not done. They're making me how I met your mother. But from the female perspective, I think there are other ones and I can't think of him at the moment. I'm pretty sure I've read a couple of more very similar things. But you're talking to the point. It's kind of insulting rather than write a new story. With these new, vibrant female characters that matter. We're going back and kind of shaking up the old and that's listen. That's lazy. That's you know, brands matter in Hollywood these days or if they recognize something, and by the way Oceans eight, which was fun and good was one of the few films that was an outbound success. Most of these films are either failures or they perform a mediocre fashion at the box office or on the small screen. So it's not like these movies are raking in the cash. They're not, and they're often just not good. When does your book come out? Christian? It's January. 18th. I wish he was tomorrow. And, you know, I will be keeping people who follow me on social media and my website up to speed on all these issues, But really, you know whether it's today or January I want people to realize what this means. What this says about the culture and the culture does reflect Hollywood sometimes, or vice versa. Obviously the back and forth relationship, but it should not be dismissed. It does matter and I just want I want people to speak their mind to create the stories they want to create and not be censored and silence and that's what's happening right now. The book is virtue Bombs. How Hollywood got woke and lost its soul. It comes out January 18th. You can pre order and I put a link on the blog on Amazon. It would be awesome. If Christian launched his book in the first place on January 18th. You can help them do that by pre buying the book. I put a link there, Christian, we'll talk again. I'm sure you know we were kind of talking. I said, Well, we'll have you back on a change where, when the book actually Comes out that will be very, very cool. And by then you're going to have what, like a 500 page appendices to add in. I mean, I'd love to say that you're not gonna have anything new to add, but I think we both know the answer to that question. The revised edition will be, uh, anticipated greatly. That's right. It comes in a multi volume set right There you go, Christian. I appreciate you making time, my friend and best I'm just I'm thrilled for you. I'm so excited that you appreciate the support Wonderful. Oh, accomplishment and we will check back in with you in January to remind people that it's coming out, all right. All right. That's Christian Dodo. Let's check in with Susan Witkin. Find out what is happening in her news today. Oh, no, She's not here yet. I'm sorry. I should have looked at you. I will take a moment to remind people that coming up in this break Listen for your chance to win $1000 and a trip to our I Heart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas. You're going to get the cuter text just in in a couple seconds here after I talked to Susan who is now ready to go? Yeah. Sorry. I was just grabbing this really great sound from Charlie Watts. You know, the very sad news today that did die, but Do you know anything about his drumming? Education? 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"In for April, Along with Marty Lens, Fox 31 pinpoint weather 63 outside and highs today in the mid nineties, and we're going to stay that way pretty much most of the week, no apparent threat to the All Star festivities in Denver. That's our top story this morning on Colorado's Morning news. That's what Denver police officers are saying after they arrested four people with guns. Drugs at a hotel near course view we believe that there is not an ongoing threat related to this July 9th incident and we are going to follow where the investigation takes. US. Chief Paul Position says The arrests happened Friday evening after a tip from a staff member at the Maven Hotel, public safety director Murphy Robinson. This is how our system is set up. This is how our police department can really work with the public and making sure that we are investigating everything that you tell us. So when you see something, say something, the suspect's face weapons and drug charges. Three are due in court later this morning, while one made an appearance yesterday. It's a pretty big deal the home run Derby tonight at Coors Field, Rocky Spanish, But Black has Trevor story in the competition, but admits We'll be watching to weigh Phanom show high Shohei Otani of the Angels Tony can pitch and he can hit more than 30 homers already this season from the offensive side with the power, the batting average And also take the mound and throw the balls in the upper nineties and potentially dominated game with his arm. As a pitcher, Bud tells K Away of Patani sustains what he's doing now. Over the next few years, he may go down as one of the greatest ever. Of course, we are the official station of All Star Week. This afternoon beginning at three big Alan Joe Joe will be on location, of course field. Then at six. We will have live coverage. Of the home run derby. I heard the aged brothers are going to be performing tonight. Also tomorrow, Alan Joe Joe are at lot back at Coors Field, followed by Live coverage of the All Star game here at all Right here on K Way. NewsRadio, 8:50 A.m. 94 1 FM and streaming live on the I heart radio app. Why do they always get the plum assignments? Oh, that's right, because no one's occurs Field at 3 30 in the morning. You don't think No, I don't. I don't think so. Hey, with thousands, flooding the downtown area for all Star game events. Local businesses are hoping That is going to be a boon for business and put a much needed recovery into that fast forward mode downtown, coming back to life, enjoying life again restaurants like Jack special seeing a huge increase in revenues for the first time in more than a year. It's just something different about having them in the building in your home and taking care of people and you get an energy that feeds off of that is great. The Big Red F restaurant group owns 13 restaurants in Colorado, Lola's Centro, West Sun Tavern and post chicken and Beer. Spokesperson Kelly Cummings called the problem solvers. A lot is riding on all Star game events. People bustling about so, yes, it can absolutely help us fast forward into jumpstart recovery. Many restaurants, which were relying on takeout service to stay afloat over the past year, are now able to pet seats once again. And even add extra staff to handle all of this business. We're at full capacity. One of the challenges is labor. I think it's no secret that there's a labor shortage. That was such a quick shift. They'll also have to be ready to handle what else can come along during all Star game celebrations that includes special training all over staff and bartenders are keeping an eye on, you know. Alcohol consumption, making sure that we're not over serving, making sure that everyone is really safe, really comfortable and really enjoying themselves. The numbers will tell whether restaurants knock it out of the park. But the way things look right now the All Star game is serving downtown businesses Exactly what they need had his Fox 31 Shell Turner Douglas County investigators are asking for your help in the search for a missing 15 year old boy. Alexander graduates disappeared last Thursday and hasn't been seen since. The team is said to be developmentally delayed and left his Castle Pines home after a dispute with family. Alexander is described as five ft. Six with a thin build and brown hair and brown eyes. So far, investigators have conducted a thorough search of the area. With no trace. Anyone with information is asked to call the Douglas County Sheriff's Office chat. Hoffman K. Away news radio. There's another one fans have in and out Burger expected to be out in force in liquid Today, the fourth Colorado location for the burger chain will open this morning on South Wadsworth Boulevard and lines are expected to be so long that the Lakewood police tweeted out a special map or drive through customers. Last night, the Police Department hopes to keep traffic manageable by directing cars from West Alameda onto several other streets that lead to the restaurant. To top expert on Coronavirus says that he has no doubt vaccines will get full FDA approval Right now they're only authorized for emergency use. Dr. Anthony Fauci, shared with ABC News this week that one reason why so many people may be waiting to get a shot is because it's not fully authorized by the FDA only for emergency use. But he says switching labels is just a technical issue a distinction without a difference. The only about 40% of the nation is fully vaccinated discovered cases arising again. At least 42 states is on increase last week, and it takes a while to get the FDA approval or it does. I mean, I had this conversation with kind of a legal expert at one point, saying in the in the E. He came down and said, No, it's not really a distinction of that difference is a difference. But health experts as saying, We've gotten this far. You know, labeling it this way. You know if that's something that's keeping people out from doing it, and it's really not not a big of a different kind of a head scratching 36 37 here in Colorado's morning news done right home improvement, helping out this time with the news. We check in again and get the latest on your driving that car away jet copter and checking in with Dave Hunter..
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"Joe Joe. There's no keyboards. That's a guitar, huh? Yeah, it's definitely guitar dark guitar. That's why you gotta get back mean No, Let's keep it right there. Let's get our first. I mean, for sure. If the keyboard that's a guitar to look around. They will know all guitar and keyboard experts call up waiting all guitar BK all guitar. Uh, welcome back. It is a big Alan judge on KY News radio. 8:50 a.m. 94 1 FM in everywhere in the free I heart radio at Brennan Crystal sitting in for the big fella today. Uh, did John Morrissey take the good equipment with him when he left or what? Uh, know what ended up happening is the K away jet copter has gone out of range. It got sent up to Fort Collins to take a look at something. So, uh, Jonathan Steele is going to be doing our traffic here for a little bit until the jet copter gets back into range. Hope everything's all right there. That was actually pulling the curtain back a little bit more than I normally would. But that is fine. Right, by the way. So the the match which John at the steel talked about? Is on and you got to shambo playing with Aaron Rodgers. And you've got Phil Mickelson playing with Tom Brady. And I mean, how nice is it when when both those guys hit the ball out? I pretty much put it in the in the bad stuff way out about. They got like 10 people out there looking for it. You know, Mickelson and Brady are literally just sitting on the fairway Bs and waiting for these guys to come back. And not only did Mickelson did they put on the fairway he out during the distance. The distance was farther than the shambles and he's talking trash as they're leaving the tee boxes like you just can't have a 51 year old outdrive you you just cannot have that happen. Because that's to Mickelson is and I'm here. For all of it. It is. I'm glad to get to kind of watch it. But it is kind of about where you'll get to listen to the whole thing. Because, you know, obviously chatting. You did that promo read for the Celebrity All Star Game softball game softball game on Sunday and I got an email about a PR event. We can go down and talk to some of them before they hit the field, and I don't know I'm gonna make it to the stadium for that actual game. And I'm kind of okay with that, because I don't view and I've ever had this conversation. But as much as I love covering sports and doing what we do the main reason in my head that I ever wanted to have any level of fame but then in quotes, was to be able to play and celebrity softball games. Flag football on the beach, MTV's rock and jock basketball that I used to watch as a kid was like man. I could definitely take Urkal or Dan Cortese to the whole or Kevin Hart. In more recent years, so as much as I enjoyed you Kevin Hart. Yes, I definitely post him up. I stood next to him at events. He's 53 on his best day. 54. Maybe so it gives me four inches over Kevin Hart. I have no doubt that I could Catch the ball on the block and get a shot up real real easy over Kevin Hart, even though he's in really good shape, So I'm glad I'm not going to be down there because if I were on the field or near it, I think I would just be aggravated looking around me like Are you kidding me? With the way Cuervo just swung. And I understand being one of the guys in me goes gets you a little more leeway. You get the right deal, right? You know, and it's cool. They have wounded warriors. Obviously a lot of former players. But then there's definitely something like C and D level celebs. It will end up making that game because I'll watch it every year. And I'm like, Are you serious? This guy like trying to think I played in a I played in some sort of a celebrity softball thing against, um Michael Bolton. Michael He's got like a traveling softball. Michael Bolton back in the day used to have a traveling like a bunch of all stars. He does. And Jason Aldean, don't they do a traveling softball game to his crew? I don't think they're as good as Bolt. No, I mean there's a bunch of guys that usually try to play. Some sort of a pickup game. Are you really playing some Michael Bolton music right now? Take that Jim Morrison Now he was not. He was not that great of a player, but his team was but he did have some stacked.
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"News radio time. 1 31 our top story. We're learning that accused step school shooting suspect Kevin Eriksson, who is on trial now in Castle Rock. For the murder of Kendrick Castillo and the wounding of other classmates, is facing additional charges for a jailhouse fight Our partners that Fox 31 report that back in March, Erickson tried to take a swing at another inmate. Would called him a murderer. Senate Republicans are blocking formation of an independent commission to investigate the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Ah, procedural vote to move a bill forward today failed on this vote. The ayes or 54, the nays are 35 3/5 of the senators, duly trolls chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative. The motion is not agreed to. Most Republicans cast no votes. It's another sign that is somewhat normal. Summer is backwater World opens tomorrow. Probably that we were asking people to buy their tickets online in advance. You know, we will ask people to that haven't been vaccinated to wear a mask, Waterworld Show and Cortez Our next news updated two o'clock I'm Cathy Walker on Keohane News radio 8:50 A.m. and 94 1 After now. Here's Brit Morgan from the bed. Fred Force Traffic Center. Still a tough drive getting into one across downtown 25. North bound. Slow from the bridge is up past Colfax South found slow from the turnpike all the way into downtown down to spear. Also backed up on I 76 do that crash and fuel spill it federal looking but looking better eastbound, but westbound still backed up into the high 25 interchange. And if you're head of the high country on westbound I 70 of crash at Genesee backing it up. Usual volume slow down there from the top of Floyd Hill down through Central City Parkway, and the closure remains in place on the Western slope. There's a rollover crash on eastbound I 70 year hanging leg. I've got both directions of I 70 shut down through Glenwood Canyon right now, and a big delay south of Castle.
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"In effect between Palestinian and Israeli forces, 11 days after violence broke out, killing hundreds and wounding thousands more. It seems that both sides are ready for this to be over. Both sides are tired. Both sides have said that they have notched achievements. Hamas has been able to launch well over 4000 rockets at Israel to confuse Israel's Iron Dome missile rocket defense system. Israel says that it's been able to target Hamas is tunnels that honey comb the Gaza Strip thousands of miles of them apparently also assassinating several key leaders. So both sides were able to come away with this with some sense of victory. A B C's mad gunman as covert cases ticked downward in spots across the U. S. Questions continue about whether we'll need booster shots down the line. ABC NEWS, Dr Alak Patel. Why is it that the CEO of the pharmaceutical companies are saying we need a booster shot? We know that these vaccines offered great immunity at the six month mark. It could be longer that we also these vaccines protect against Ah, lot of the variance right now. So it seems a little premature to say, Hey, we need a booster shot, and I worry that that language actually feeds into some people out there who question the efficacy of vaccines in Colorado about 11% of Kids ages. 12 to 15 of now had the first dose the number of elderly covert cases continues to decline. As more of that population becomes fully vaccinated. Next update at 10 o'clock, David Ko Ko, a news radio 8:50 A.m. and 94 1 FM. Now we get a check on traffic with Rick Morgan. But the bed Fred Sports Traffic Center in pretty Good shape across town right now, things have loosened up better in the Texan who got that crash out of the way South on I 25 Bellevue, but South on I 25 downtown still heavy between 38 Park Avenue and Spear. Also, that ramp eastbound six to south on I 25 loaded up a bit westbound. I 70 slows with that road work there between Quebec and Monaco. Western to 70 slowed vast gas in a car fire The foothills Highway eight right there to 85 cause a little bit of slowing their fox 31 pinpoint weather. Partly sunny, windy, high of 82 Partly cloudy tonight Low 54 Partly sunny with a nice lady storm borrow, still pretty breezy with a high of 77 Sunny, breezy and 78 on Sunday right now at.
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"Away news. Radio time is 40 to Englewood Police shot and killed a man Tuesday after he crashed into them, then dragged them with a stolen car he was driving. Officers were responding to a report of a stolen car Tuesday morning at an apartment complex near Hampton and South University. The 22 year old suspect and the officers went to the hospital where the suspect died. A female inside the stolen car was arrested at the scene. Prosecutors and shape the county of attitude. New charges against very more few who is accused of murdering his wife, Suzanne. She went missing on Mother's Day 2020 and her body has never been recovered. More. Few is now charged with tampering with a deceased body and possession of a dangerous weapon. He's already facing charges of murder, tampering with evidence and trying to influence a public servant. It's now illegal to share public health workers personal information online. During the pandemic. People docks these workers, meaning they shared their addresses online, then threatened them and vandalized their homes. Governor Pulis Sui is elected officials are probably accustomed to. I should say to the public health officials welcome to our world, but you shouldn't have to be in our world's Pulis signed the bill into law Tuesday. Current law already protects law enforcement officers and human service workers and their families. Three House Republican lawmakers were issued $500 fines for not wearing masks on the House floor after ignoring previous warnings. Seven other Republicans, including Colorado congresswoman Lauren Gilbert, will be issued formal warnings and would face $500 fines if they refused to wear masks on the House floor again. Republicans went mass close on the House, Florida protest the House floor mask mandate that remains in place. Despite new guidance from the CDC over tweeted Tuesday, the speaker Nancy Pelosi, that her mask mandate is quote dumb, arbitrary and outdated. In baseball. The Rockies lost to the Padres to toe one in 10 innings on a walk off wild pitch. I'm Chad Bauer on K Away news, radio 8:50 A.m. and 94 1 FM Afraid sports traffic.
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"The Blue Jays will make Buffalo, New York their temporary home in June. The Packers are reportedly upset. The Broncos may have contacted Aaron Rodgers to see if he'd want to play for mile high. No tampering. Charges have been filed and Broncos tackle Dwan James could lose $20 million after suffering a season ending injury while working out a way for the team facility. Mr Jordan Download the top rated Draftkings Sports book at today and used coat sports for a special offer When you sign up that's code sports for a special offer when you sign up on Lee at Draftkings Sports book. Okay, we news radio time is 10 30. Former President. Trump is reacting to the decision to uphold his Facebook suspension, saying that quote free speech has been taken away because the radical left lunatics are afraid of the truth. Facebook must reconsider the indefinite suspension. Ah, big recall an apology from pallet on after concerns arose over the safety of its relatively new treadmills, with one child killed and others injured. Pellet on had fought pressure. The issue a recall now apologizing for the Delay pellet on his re calling both of its treadmills over safety concerns. It's telling customers to stop using its treadmills into contact Pellet on for a refund or a remedy like sewn evey. See, there's a Denver woman has undergone successful treatment for blood clots. After she took the Johnson Johnson vaccine. Morgan Wolf received her vaccination April 1st began feeling ill a few days later. Now that she's doing better, she said that folks should not shy away from vaccinations due to the risk of clotting. Our next news updates at 11 I'm Chuck Clark on K O A news radio 8:50 a.m. and 94 1 at them, Fred Sports Traffic.
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"Are heavily seating Yep, That means everything's been right for the maple trees that mean everything's been right for your landscaping. I think what? Yeah, for the most part is may. In fact, I'm getting in our area where his own six I'm getting calls from folks just this weekend. That said, Guess what? My rosemary over winter that I left outside over the winter time. Rosemary is cold Hardy, but it won't take Extremely cold temperatures for long periods of time. So you can over when I'm in the garage, but typically can outside the further south. You can, But we're now seeing that folks saying that you know that over wintered outside That shows us right there. That in microclimates within the landscape was a pretty darn easy winner, and they were able to come through. So I think, for the most part, as I look out there looking pretty good. And you know, we had all that snow that surprise snow that came down the sudden dips and temperatures. I don't think that affected anything. Besides a few hostages. Did see some horses that much doubt or really tender annuals that planet early. But other than that, I think we came right on through there with no problem. Real quick outdoor lighting. We see it used everywhere and Homes. They'll, um, And if that after lighting's left on all night is that a problem with growing bushes and stuff, you know, I don't think it's been a lot of research done on what? How that effects overtime, eh? So I can't answer that. I don't know. Yeah, I don't think it does. That's led lighting too, You know, I mean, what could it's just a lot of outdoor lighting now? And I was thinking the other night date with the led. People are leaving all night. Wonder if that effects the growth better it could, But I haven't seen the research to back it up, so I really don't know what the effects are. At this stage. We're gonna find out as that research becomes available Run. Wilson will share that with us. Thank you, my friend. That a mayday, mayday! And your pick for the Derby. Rick, Quick, Hot Rod, Charlie. All right, Hot rod. Take care will continue at home with Gerry Solomon. Fix it right with a call to Gary Sullivan at 1 808 to 3 talk. This is at home with Gary Sullivan. I'm Gary Sullivan. This is K O a 8:50 A.m. and 94 1 FM..
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"Selection. Detroit Lions Select Levi owns a reek a defensive tackle Washington Almost a Rico high school teammates with Skylar Murray. They won state championships together now had both in the NFL. Not on the same team. Obviously, good Lord, can you imagine both those dudes the same My school thing when I went on the offensive, one of the defense that's just unfair for nobody else. But, yeah, they want a couple of state championships together. And by the way, the Dolphins have traded up with the New York Giants Dave Gettleman trading down again, trolling everyone. On the Dolphins trade up. We'll be taking Liam Aiken Berg. My second round list is so messed up, Dave. I'm counting on you to keep all this straight at this one. I've already given up. I'm not giving up. I'm just gonna look at your sheet. If you don't mind. We'll let me let me just be the first to say from me to you. Good luck on that. So let me let me just start real quick. Okay. So with Aaron Rodgers he's made $241 million in his lifetime as a quarterback in the NFL. He is going to get his wish. I think the Denver Broncos are one of two teams, maybe three teams. But this is a June 1st designation for the Denver Broncos, and for the Green Bay Packers. That's the only thing that I could come up with. Okay. And so when we're looking at What we do as a franchise or what did we do last night as a franchise? Look at the fact that we took a cornerback that we know we need because we're gonna have two guys that are becoming free agents next year. And we're not gonna have a pick next year, So let's get the best defensive back defensive player that we can possibly get. That's going to be an area of need next year. I think, I think quite possibly, that's the exact mindset. Of the Bronco, So I would just say no guarantees here for me, But I would urge Bronco fans to be patient. And let's just see the month of May is going to be fairly not eventful. Let's just see what happens in June with this team. It is 5 55. You're listening to a live exclusive draft coverage and Keohane news radio 8:50 a.m. 94 1 FM, and on the I heard radio app. Hear the voice of Colorado everywhere with the free.
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"100 or 9708708989. We're here for you. We'll be right back. Stay away news radio time. 10 30 The Senate has voted to allow witnesses in the second impeachment trial of former President Trump. The vote could stretch what was expected to be a short Senate trial into a weeks long process against the hopes of the Biden White House, ABC, Cecilia Vega reports. Biden team president of spite himself has made it very clear and that they wanted this to be a short trial, and everybody in the Senate had said Look, this will prove that the Senate can walk. Can chew gum at the same time that we can work on passing his nominees that we can work on passing covert relief on so they had this decision Early on T O not call witnesses. House impeachment managers had said they wanted to call one witness, but Trump lawyers warned that could open a Pandora's box and suggested they might want to call 100. We continue in the polar vortex single digit temperatures through the weekend. Next update at 11 David Ko Ko, a news radio 8:50 A.m. and 94 1 FM's big problems on the north side of town. In the bed. Fred Sports Traffic Senator We have a crash is closed the highway I 25 South founded 84th Avenue, backing up to 104th another. Close your eyes 70 westbound at Brighton Boulevard. That's been there for a while, but the highway is now closed back in. You have to Colorado Boulevard you drive up in the mountains now looking pretty good. No major problems between C 4 70 in the Eisenhower Tunnel. Fox.
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"Their case today against former President Trump Here's Colorado congressman Jonah Goose senators. Evidence is clear. Showed your statements, videos affidavits that proved President Trump incited an insurrection. Colorado Congresswoman Diana to get also presenting today this must be our wake up call. We must condemn it. Because the threat is not over. The former president's defense team puts on their case tomorrow. Defense Attorney David showing isn't ruling out, wrapping up their case in one day. Denver means it when the city says, Don't leave your pets out in the cold. The city of Denver requires owners to protect pets from extreme temperatures. If they're going to be outside for longer durations during this cold, make sure that they have adequate outdoor shelter or a way to escape the elements. If you don't you could be faced with a nearly $1000 fine and or up to a year in jail. Joel Hillen k Way news radio icy roads in North Texas today. Five people were killed in a 75 vehicle pileup on I 35 in Fort Worth. Microsoft says Atlanta will be a major hub for its operations. Major League Baseball issued its schedule today. And for the first time since 1968 all clubs will play their first game of the season. On the same day. Opening day is April 1st. The Rockies will host the world champion Dodgers. Of course field. It's a two 11th pitch. On Wall Street, The Dow lost seven the NASDAQ and S and P 500 set records. Today. The NASDAQ was up 53, the S and P 500 gained seven in sports It see you men's basketball ahead against Stanford Kaylie coverage of the game's starting at 4 30. Our next news update at 3 30. I'm Cathy Walker on K Away News Radio 8:50 A.m. and 94 1 FM. The thing about the home and auto bundle from progressive is that by now you've heard.