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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from MAJOR Mt. Gox Update! (Bitcoin Sell Date Delayed)
"Let's discover some crypto news today. September 21st, it's 1130 AM because we always start on time here, and we got Drew and AJ on the ones and twos. How are you two doing? I'm doing great. Nice white tee, DZ. Nice white tee. Yeah, thank you. Well, I got the V. You got the regular, right? Yeah, you got the regular. Alright, so tomorrow, I'm going to have a deeper V, okay? We were just talking before the show. I want such a deep V that Salt Bae would be embarrassed. He would turn beet red from wearing the deep V, so maybe we have to get it that cut. Drew, your wife actually makes clothing. Will she make a custom deep V for you so we can match? This is absolutely going to happen. Top D with the deep V. Yours has to be in camo. Alright, guys, we're going to talk about Jerome Powell, some of the remarks after. They didn't change the rate hikes, what they mean. Also, we got Bitcoin at Mt. Gox has been moved. What's going on with that? When are these coins going to hit the market? When is this Mt. Gox Bitcoin going to hit the market? Is it going to dump Bitcoin's prices? Is it going down 10K, 1K? So we're going to talk about that as well. We got to talk about Maxine Waters and X potentially turn into a payments platform. Linda Yaccarino, the CEO, tweeted out something last night. We're going to look at that as well. And we got some XRP news. It's going to be a great episode, so please hit that like button, everybody. Are you all feeling good? Are we feeling red? You know, the market's down, but I still feel pretty good. You feeling good? I'm feeling good. Alright. Let's go to blue. Alright, alright. We're also going to have charts with Kelly at the end, too, so it's towards the beginning. Alright, well, let's talk about Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. He spoke at a critical press conference after the interest rates decision. Here are the details. We're just going to break down some of the key takeaways. As expected, they did not increase the interest rate, kept it constant between 5 .25 and 5 .5. And here are the important excerpts from Powell's statement, everybody. We cannot have strong employment market without price stability, so we got to get the price stability in line. Consumer spending is quite strong still. Rebalancing in the labor market is expected to continue. We keep scrolling here. There's a long road ahead for reducing inflation to 2%. And the fact that we decided to keep the policy rate constant does not mean that we reach the policy stance we wanted or not, so they're still leaving themselves open for an interest rate hike. A lot of people think there is going to be an interest rate hike, not the next one, maybe the one after that, maybe in the beginning of the year. And last but not least, we're pretty close to where we need to be. I wouldn't attach greater importance to an interest rate increase. So they're trying to minimize any market impact. I wouldn't attach greater importance to an interest rate increase. I wouldn't care that much if we increase rates. Does that signal that they are going to increase maybe one or two pauses from now? I think that's signaling a strong maybe with a capital M. Yeah, I think a big takeaway from this is where it says the full effects of the Fed's tightening have yet to be felt. And that is definitely the sentiment here. Like this isn't the first time we paused on the interest hikes and the markets have fallen. You know, the past two days on the live stream, everything's going up. Everyone's saying, oh, the price is going up. I'm sitting here saying, I think this is a bull trap. I think the price is coming down because I was looking at the stock market charts, looking at the DXY charts, DXY still going up because of the previous interest hikes coming into play, stock market coming down. But crypto is pumping. I'm thinking to myself, oh, this isn't this isn't going to hold up at all. We're going to come back down the reality. And that has started to happen today. So there you go. Right. All right. Well, let's talk about Japan's economy as well. Japan's economy on the brink as the end stumbles to 148 year low bond yields. So that's a decade or almost 15 decades right there. As Japan contends with depreciating in and rising 10 year bonds, its economy stands at a unique crossroads. The yen's fall to a nearly 150 year to date low against the U .S. dollar brings with it a mixed bag of economic implications. I'm surprised they had the yen that long, you know, throughout all the world wars and everything. Yeah, true. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's I mean, but still 150 year low, 150. The Bank of Japan now faces the intricate task of maintaining currency stability and keeping yields low amidst a high public debt environment. Complicating the test further is the yen dollar carry trade, which could intensify the pressure on the yen as the interest rate difference between Japan and the U .S. widens. So we're going to be keeping an eye out on that. We did lose the Internet, but it looks like we got it back. All right, Russia. Let's talk about Russia here. Let's rush into this next area. Russian Central Bank replenishes gold reserves to 2023 highs amid economic sanctions, according to a report by Kitco. That's where I use all my silver pricing data. Data from the IMF's international financial statistics reveals that Russia's central bank increased its gold reserves in August, apparently returned to the initial levels at the start of the year. Twenty three hundred tons. It was later confirmed by the World Gold Council. That just sounds like a shadowy group right there. The World Gold Council sounds like a bunch of bond villains. Kitco also reports that Russia is bolstering its reserves to mitigate the impact of Western economic sanctions, particularly those related to its invasion of Ukraine in February. Often we see Ray Dalio made this big, bold prediction as we see an empire on the decline. Debt is relative. And so, yeah, America's debt's terrible, but Japan's is worse. China's is worse. You know, everyone else is worse. So a lot of people use that data point, say America's debt can just get as bad as it wants to be, as long as it's not that bad relative to the rest of the globe. We're in no worry whatsoever. The other side of that coin would be, well, people will eventually stop buying debt and what are they going to start buying? They're going to buy gold, maybe some digital gold as well. So I'm expecting gold to go up. But silver silver price still lags gold. Have you ever done a deep dive on gold versus silver? I wonder if people even want that. Just would you want gold, silver data or you just want only crypto? I remember like a year ago, we were talking about doing a video that was I think we did a video that was like Bitcoin compared to gold and then Bitcoin compared to silver and then silver compared to gold. And it was it wasn't the most interesting video, in my opinion.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Interest Rate Hikes FINISHED?! (Crypto War NOT Over)
"Welcome to Discover Crypto! It is September 20th. It's 11 .30am. How are we all doing? We got Drew and AJ on the ones and twos today, folks. We're going to talk about the Fed. We're going to talk about what are they going to be saying with the interest rate hikes. And also we're going to be talking about Bitcoin and other cryptos. AJ, how are you doing today? I'm doing great, man. Another day in the life. Let's get it. Drew, how are you doing? Oh, just great. You know, can't complain. Well, you can. You can. You complain when you get home. You'd like, you know, just really vent to your two -year -old. Yeah, that's where I do it. Deezy, did you see the tweet that went out yesterday about the show I'm doing with from George from Cryptos R Us? What? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's with Blockchain Boy and Neutron. Joshua Jay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So we're all like, it's for crew, like, plus, you know, and basically we're all doing something different. I believe, like, Josh is doing like a news kind of show and Blockchain Boys. I'm not really sure what Blockchain Boys doing, but I know the videos are going to start coming out here pretty soon. We're still like brainstorming my concept, but I have a really good, like, rough idea of what I'm doing. But it's going to be really interesting to see how, like, where this goes. And I'm just fun to excited to do something different, you know? And I'm excited. We got Frankie Candles doing the charts today. I see Frankie getting ready in his neon square. He's in his, like, little neon area. I don't know if, oh, he can hear me. He's showing some recognition and anticipation of what Deezy is going to say next. Yeah, we saw the Donald Trump Jr. tweets. It looks like he got hacked. Also, Rob, you're popping it. Hey, we're going to see you back. Can't wait till you come back. All right, let's just get right into crypto. Marc Kepson's Drew is done. Am I too tall? Am I too tall? Too tall for the camera? Look, I got to stand. I got to do these shows a lot, you know? I take the shoes off. So I shrink, you know? They come in. I'm like 6 '11", and I take the shoes off. Then I drop back down to 6 '3". I got the Tom Cruise lifts. All right, Bitcoin is falling a little bit, folks. We were in the green this morning when I first woke up. Now we are down 0 .6%, and Ethereum is down 1 .3%. But XRP looks pretty good. XRP is up. It is up 0 .8 % on the day so far. Meanwhile, Cardano, I woke up this morning. It was up, but now it's down. It is down 0 .7%. Dogecoin down 1 .3%. TonCoin finally cooling off a little bit for the week here. It is down 1 .2%. Litecoin has taken a little bit of a beating, folks. Litecoin is down 5%. We talked about Litecoin a little bit yesterday on ATB. I highly recommend you check that out after this stream. All right, let's look at the top gainers. Then we're going to look at the top losers. You know, I have a streak of keeping my coins in the losers, but not today, folks. I'm feeling good. In fact, maybe I'll have a coin in the top 10. Who knows? All right, here we have Caspa leading the way. Caspa is just on fire, folks. The people who bought Caspa at $0 .01, $0 .02, looking good. Just put in a higher high too. You got past that last one, yep. All right, we are now above a nickel, and it looks like maybe price discovery mode for a Caspa. XDC is up 4 .3%. Maker is up. Radix is up. Aave is up. I have a coin in the ties. A little Solana. I think maybe I have some Arbitrum. Maybe. I'm not even sure I have to check. Then we have, you know, XRP is up 0 .8%. We got gold. Gold's moving to the upside. The graph moving to the upside, even though Bitcoin and ETH are down. Okay, so it's not all blood in the streets, but hopefully, it's not going to be blood in Deasy's wallet, guys. And again, I promise you, I do not check this ahead of time. I kind of like being surprised. I like discovering it with you. So let's discover cryptos, Deasy's coins in here. I'm looking good today. All right, I don't know how long the streak has been continuing. I don't know when's the last. I think I last held Litecoin in 2021. Never had Thor, Phrax, eCash, or I know Frankie likes to trade Adam. I like to trade Eve. So maybe we'll talk to him about the Adam is falling 4 % here. Litecoin down 5%. Thor chained down 5%. Any of these coins, you know, peak it. Well, if you go at it, I do have two in the top 10. I got two in the top 10. Just, you know, just to make it feel good. But any of these screaming at you here? Yeah, Thor, Litecoin, Phrax. Not surprised really to see. I mean, everything kind of came up yesterday. I'm still kind of sticking to the theory that the pump we're seeing could possibly be a bull trap. I think, you know, when we get into the FOMC news, the pauses that is likely coming is going to be bullish for the sentiment. I'm just still like kind of macro worried based off of the stock market sharks. Actually, the Algorand, you know, down 2 .8%. That one's kind of obviously yelling at me a little bit. I have a theory coming up, but I'm not going to say it right now. But I'm making a video about it, about Algorand. So stay tuned for that. OK, so you're going to create more? I'm going to create more. I create more crypto content every day and some of it's about Algorand. But I like how it's a period. Create more. No exclamation point. Just create. It's more like create more. Oh, OK. Great. More. Great. Great. Yeah. All right. Well, we're going to create some stories here about the feds. What are they doing? I don't know if we've ever had an article from this news organization. ABC. Shout out to Mickey Mouse and the Disney crew here. Fed to decide on a rate hike. Testing optimism about a soft landing as inflation rises again. Upon announcing the Fed Reserve's latest rate hike decision in July, Jerome Powell spoke out a lectern in Washington, DC for a half hour before he dropped a bombshell. The Central Bank staff has abandoned its forecast of a recession. Staff at the Fed, in other words, now expect the Central Bank to achieve a soft landing, an outcome in which the US brings down inflation while avoiding a downturn. Inflation has ticked up for two consecutive months, reversing some of the progress made in the effort to bring price increases down to normal levels. Meanwhile, oil prices have soared, threatening to push inflation even higher. Well, they got like moving ads. Whoa, whoa, what's going on here? Calm down, ABC. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect the Fed to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged, affording policymakers time to weigh their next move as a rapid series of previous rate hikes take full effect. I was looking at Caleb Franzen's tweets. We're at 99 % on the prediction market unchanged today, right? Have you been looking at the, when is the next one? Is it November? I can pull the calendar. I'm pretty sure it's the end of October. I think it's like maybe on Halloween. Let me double check. Oh, on Halloween is going to be spooky. Okay, Drew, are you going to give out candy this Halloween? Absolutely. You know, but actually I'll be doing candied apples. Okay, I'm going to be giving out pamphlets on inflation to children. Yeah, you know, you could have got Reese's pieces, but blame Jerome Powell. You can take advantage of the time and the season to teach your children about tax. Tax them. Like attacking kids for their pillowcases of candy? Taxing them heavily. Yeah, take 33 % of every Snickers bar they get. That's right. Yeah, that's just the way it is. Why wait? Welcome to America, you know? And yeah, the next FOMC is October 31st, November 1st, so. Okay, okay. October 31st. All right, all right. Halloween, what's Jerome Powell going to dress up as? Alex from A Clockwork Orange. Pat, do you want us to dress up on the channel? I might be willing to dress up in a costume. I might be willing. You know, every - I could break out the green spandex, go old school. You know, every Halloween, AJ disappears and a Mr. Meeseeks just shows up. Okay, I heard existence is pain though. Existence is pain. We're not fumbling around for meaning here, Deezy. All right. Well, I'm fumbling around for this rate of inflation. It eases slightly 6 .7 % despite the oil prices surging. You know, like we said, I think the oil is going to be a leading indicator, so inflation will trickle down from the oil prices. If you want to think about it, it's going to cost more money to get those bananas to drive from point A to point B because they're going to have to spend more in the gas tank. This is going to be - It's just give it a while, let it roll out to the rest of the economy. Namely, food. Oil prices really, really like to impact food prices a couple months down the line. Well, we're looking at the ONS as the Office for National Statistics, and they said the consumer price index measure slowed in the 12 months to August from the 6 .8 figure reported the previous month thanks to food rising at a weaker pace during the month compared to August 22. During the X minute, I have a tweet about Canadian food prices, and I just kind of look at where they've gone over the past 20 years. It is shocking. It is shocking. I used Bard. I was like, this doesn't feel right for the price. I went to a Canadian grocery store, and I went low. I went low. There's expensive eggs and cheap eggs. I typed in the cheap egg price. It was still very scary. All right, well, we have predictions. Jerome Powell's got his ideas. You notice I was thinking about this BlackRock. What is BlackRock thinking about all this? BlackRock and others predict the Fed's next move. What does it mean for Bitcoin though? According to Marilyn Watson, is a BlackRock's head of global fundamental income strategy. The central bank's federal funds target rate will remain roughly the same until the end of the year going through its September, November, and December meetings. For the record, I think the economic data has consistently surprised to the upside, she said. That includes GDP, the unemployment rate, and the labor market. Beware, beware of recession. The analyst has previously argued that Bitcoin's price is macroeconomic determined by conditions, including its four -year cycles, which I am still a firm believer in for this cycle. Might be less of an effect of the previous one, but I'm still a believer in the four -year cycle, going to push Bitcoin to the new high. I do think we'll set in a new all -time high. I don't think we're going to hit a quarter million dollars in two years, but I think we're going to flirt with $100K, which they do not believe are related to the Bitcoin halving. So they're saying the four -year cycle is not related. I don't know what they're saying here. Risk assets go lower in recessions. So I'd expect Bitcoin would not perform well in that environment. It has not seen a real recession in its existence. It was birthed out of a recession, but yeah, hasn't really gone through one from the beginning stages to the end there. Yeah, there's never been a Bitcoin bull run during a phase of quantitative tightening. We've always been quantitatively easing the money supply anytime Bitcoin goes up into the right. And that obviously is what it takes. I think they're kind of leaning into if we're in a recession, and that lines up with the four -year cycle. But just so far, we're three for three with the having idea playing out. And the trend hasn't broken yet, so that's why I always say sticking to November 25 as a benchmark, but that's just a benchmark. It could be behind that. It could be in front of that. We don't have a crystal ball, but we can go off the pattern that we've seen before. All right. Well, speaking of quantitative tightening, we also have calfskin tightening, the tightest calfskin in the entire world. I don't care if you have a baby cow jacket for an extra small on an 800 -pound man, there is no tighter calfskin than the man I'm looking at right now. That is Frankie Candles. Frankie Candles, welcome back. How's it doing? Does it feel good? It feels good. The calfskin is tight, and so is Bitcoin's price action. But yeah, I don't want to waste time here. Let's go ahead and jump right into the charts here. Now, here we are. Now, obviously, I talk about this all the time. I don't typically trade on newsdays like this. It is usually a complete washing machine. Usually the shorts get wrecked, then the longs get wrecked, or the longs get wrecked, and then the shorts get wrecked. So I don't typically trade. Now, I am in a few trades right now. I am in this Bitcoin long right now. I have profits locked in on this trade and my stop loss is at my entry. So kind of how I am playing this today is I'm going to be holding my long. I am long from about $25 ,000 to $50 ,000 just below this range. And again, I have taken profits on that stop loss at break even. And then I am also in a short position from somewhere up here. I am slightly in profit on the short position. So I am long up and now I am in this small short position that is in slight profit. However, this is kind of how I'm playing this today, DZ. Because basically, like I said, I never recommend people trade on these newsdays just because of the complete unpredictable volatility that you're likely to see. Now, the last FOMC meeting, I believe, was on the 25th, 26th of July. I believe someone could correct me if I'm wrong on that. But we actually have seen a few FOMC meetings where we didn't really have too much happen. And I've been telling people that we are likely in that kind of boring accumulation phase of the bear market. A lot of times, if you go back to at least the 2017 or 2018, 2019 bear market, we had that bear market rally. And once we topped off at that point, we kind of just bled out. And for the most part, if you kind of just ignore this panic wick from March of 2020, which was obviously a Black Swan event, we kind of just wiggled sideways. We got that big bear market rally, we topped off, bled out a little bit, and then we just kind of went sideways again with the exception of that panic wick. And I do think we are in somewhat of a similar situation here where the rest of this bear market may not be the most exciting thing ever. But for today, basically how I'm handling this, DZ, is I'm going to be kind of...
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep379: The 5 Fs Podcasters Shouldn't Neglect - Jerry Dugan
"Be consistent with who you're speaking to, what you're posting off. Still show yourself and be a guest on other shows, especially if the show is like yours, because those listeners will also want more and more variety and they'll come to you for that. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams. And today I'm joined with Jerry Dugan from Beyond the Rut. And Jerry's passionate about supporting business leaders, helping them with different things like work -life balance. So one of the questions that I'm going to ask, does work -life balance even exist? Because I'll tell you it's very polarized. On one end, everybody's like, you have to balance, you have to balance. And then I read this other book that said, no, it's not balanced. It's switch tasking. You go here all the way, then you go here all the way. And then there's other people that say you have to be out of balance for a certain amount of time. So I'm really curious just to start there. Jerry Beyond the Rut supports people with a life worth living in faith, family, and career. So a lot of the listeners that you have are probably around my age and your age that are probably struggling with the work -life balance and making sure that they are putting enough to their faith and their family and their career. And I love that. I want to ask, why do you think work -life balance is real? And what have the other people said? Yes, ultimately, I think they're all saying the same thing. Like if you really break down to what, like, even the folks that say there's no such thing as work -life balance, what they're ultimately saying is like, we make life choices based on our priorities. And when I talk about work -life balance, I'm saying the same thing. One of my hope is that when you're on your deathbed, I already know you're not going to say, man, I wish I did one more launch of my program or man, I wish I was at inbox zero more days in my life. You're going to say things more like, I wish I had one more day to spend with my grandkids and my great grandchildren. I would have loved to have been there for my daughter's wedding or for my son's wedding, whatever it is. And in serving in combat and knowing some folks who worked in hospice care, that is the thing that they hear over and over again, that people wish they had more time to be with the people they love and on the flip side, when they have the people they love, they wish they succeeded more in their career. And so it's like, what if you could win in all of that? What if you could take your career as far as you can and not sacrifice your family at the same time? And so you look at what's important to you and how are your current activities impacting those areas of your life? How are you doing with your family life? You know, okay, work's taking a lot out of me. Okay. Is that a permanent thing or is this a temporary thing? If it's temporary, then you talk it over with your partner and you decide from there, like, okay, yeah, this is temporary. What's the deadline? What does success look like? And what's the bailout trigger that says, all right, we're not hitting these measures doesn't look like we will let's scrap that and go another direction. So that to me, that is why I'm a big fan of work -life balance. It's not just strictly. I spend so many hours at work, so many hours at home. It really is. How is getting out early impacting all the things? Am I going to miss my children's big school events? What's that impact if I do? And what's the message I send? Because I'll tell you from personal experience, I was a lot of kids, superheroes, because I would volunteer my kids' school for a day and their dad had to go to work and it's not the same thing against their dad, because why did the dad go to work? Because he wanted to provide for his family. And so the motivation for a good thing for the family was there, but there wasn't that balance to, I also want to communicate to my child that my child is important. I want to communicate to my partner that she's important. And so it's, how do you win at all those things? And how do you find the right company that will support you as a person while also supporting you and your career growth and getting you to perform well to help the company also succeed? It's like, there's a way to find all that. I want to hear a tip or two. And I'm thinking you and I talked a little bit about this before we first press record. You were talking about the checkbox and a lot of us, we got a checklist and we're checking off all the boxes and it's seems like we're checking off all the boxes. It feels like when we look at the checklist, it's pretty much full, but we might not feel fulfilled even at the expense of checking off lots of boxes. So if that's us, we're listening and we're trying to think of what is it that we think we've had success on paper, but we don't really feel it. We don't really feel like we're everywhere we need to do. What's one or two tips for the listener to be able to feel like they're doing the right thing right now? I think the first thing is you got to know who you are and that's the big broad umbrella piece of advice. Know who you are, what is valuable to you? Like, what do you believe in? What do you not believe in? It's if you believe in respecting the dignity of every person, then that is key. If you value time with family, then your calendar should reflect that. If you value being a supportive person for your family, does that go beyond just monetary support? And so knowing your values, I think is very huge. What is your vision, your purpose in life? I have a couple of mottos I live by. One is the Dugan crest motto. So somebody around the 1500s and it's a miracle that the Dugans are still around because apparently these guys called the Saxons came into like Ireland and almost wiped us all out, but like good Irish people, we stuck around. And so that's not important. The important thing is somebody added to the family crest. Oh man, it's by virtue and valor. So for Tute et valore, and it sounds cooler when it's Latin. I hope I said it right. So that's one thing I live by is am I living my life according to my family's crest motto, am I living by virtue? Am I living by valor being courageous to do what's right when even nobody's looking. But then from there, I had a vision that I wanted my children to live a life that was better than mine, but also be set up to be better adults than I was to have better successes than I did to know who they are and to feel comfortable pursuing their own dreams. Like that's in a written vision that I have tucked away on Evernote somewhere. So you got to have something like that. Like, what do you stand for? What is life like for you when you die? And I love talking about these things called the five Fs, your faith, your family, your fitness, your finances, and your own future growth or possibilities. Like looking at your life through those lenses, what does success look like for you? So I guess that's the second one is defining a second, Jerry. I missed an F F that I got faith. I got family. I got finances. I got fitness. And what did I miss? Emily, faith, finances, and fitness, future possibilities, future possibilities, always growing to be better today than you were yesterday. And then what's that future state of yourself you'd like to become. And so being a constant learner is that future possibilities. One reading books that are outside your usual norm, listening to podcasts that are outside your norm, being open to ideas that are not typically in your bucket or wheelhouse either a, to see how your own ideas and beliefs stack up, because sometimes like I myself had gone through life and realized, oh wow, I held onto this belief and I met three people who completely challenged that is my belief wrong or is it just not as strong as I thought it was, is there more context? I needed to add. And, and so sometimes I realized I was completely wrong about something. And other times I realized, oh, I was missing a lot of context here. I believe this, but only in this context, because I also believe this and my belief should not undermine somebody else's right to be who they are. And so it's like, oh yeah, okay. I can wrap my head around that. And I can be a decent person in my community that way. And so that, yeah, the future possibility is that a bit more unpacked, I should have put that in. Have you ever heard of, I think it's Gino Wickman and I hope I'm not wrong. And he wrote like three books. One was like, I'm going to just type in Gino Wickman. This is going to be the easy way. Then I'll sound so smart instead of dumb Gino Wick man. All right. So he wrote three books. Yes. Yes. What the heck is E O S he wrote traction and he wrote what it's not showing me the last one traction, what the heck is EOS and there's another one called rocket fuel. Okay. So these three books are interesting and it kind of is what you're talking about, but in more of a business category. And so I think this is really great to extract it and bring us to the listener in rocket fuel, what the heck is EOS and traction, ultimately what Gino Wickman talks about is your business should have a culture or have values that you all live by. And so it's interesting because when we look at all of the things that we can value, let's just pretend that I don't know the number. I'm just going to say that it's 20 values. There's 20 things that are good. And most people would agree with 18 or 19 of them. So one would be honesty, but at what expense are we going to be rude and honest? Another one might be politeness. Another one might be doing the right thing. Even when it hurts, you kind of mentioned your integrity. Even when people are not looking, am I going to be doing this with my family crest and everything? So the Gino Wickman also talks about like all of these things that we can value. And most of them are important to everyone. Honesty, of course, that sounds right, but not everybody puts that at the top of their value. Maybe they put discretion, maybe they put kindness above it, or maybe they put honesty above kindness and et cetera, et cetera, they might put doing the right thing, even when it hurts as one of the top values. And so in RocketFuel and EOS and Traction, Gino talks about how we need to build our team, our company culture around where all of us agree on these main values. Like we value making money, we value serving the client, we value X, Y, or Z. All of them are good, but which one is in the hierarchy? And so when I'm hearing you, you basically gave me two things. The first one is you got to know who you are. You got to know your culture. You got to know your values. What do you believe in? And you talked about by virtue and valor. What do you believe in? What matters to you? And then you focus on it and you bring people along. And the second one is a written vision. Like you actually write down the vision where you put in faith, family, finances, fitness, and future possibilities, and you figure out how are you doing these? How does this work for you? And you write it down because everybody's vision, like a fingerprint has to be different. Everybody's culture or their values have to be a little bit different, how they put them. And for you, you're saying a way that you can check off the boxes is to just know exactly what the heck the boxes are in the first place. Know which things matter to you and get rid of the rest. So you can really focus on those. And I thought that was really interesting because not only can we do it in our business, we can do it on our podcast. And as you've illustrated, we can do it with our family, with our own lives, our personal lives. So I thought that was really, really beautiful. I appreciate you going into that before we move on to anything, something that I missed or something else you want to share about being able to check off those boxes and feel really good about it, even that person who might be listening might feel like it looks like they're checked off, but they don't feel completely fulfilled. Yeah. Similarly to how business, they have their strategic plan that pushes them and they make big decisions off of that. Does this activity support the strategic initiative of this organization? And the answer is yes, they keep pushing forward with some adjustments. If it doesn't, they're like, well, then why are we doing that? Let's cut that out and let's restructure and reorganize. And it's cool to see that there are these business and even podcasting principles and practices that help us create a better podcast, create a better business, and we don't realize how easily we can just transfer those same skill sets into our very lives. And so it's the same thing. You know, how many people do we know who are physicians who hate being a physician? I can think of two or three or somebody who became a lawyer because the money was good and they quit being a lawyer because they realized that wasn't fulfilling for them or me, I left my corporate job because I realized I didn't want to start all over again and build something that belonged to somebody else and it was time to go after my dreams. So even my mom like kept encouraging me to become a doctor. I was a pre -med student. I'm not a doctor now because I did not do well as a pre -med student, but I realized later on it's because that was never my dream. That was my mom's dream. She wanted me to be a doctor. She wanted to be able to live vicariously through me and what she wanted success to be, and once I realized, Oh gosh, I don't want to be a doctor. What do I want to be? Of course, now it took a 10 year journey for me to realize what I did want to be, but I got there, man. That's that's important. So anyway, that was it. Yeah. You're willing to walk away from something really good stuff. I want to move into just your podcast journey now for the listener. I'll point out a couple of things that I'm seeing with your podcast. Hey, I think it, haven't you been doing it for like eight years? Yeah, this particular year, eight years. Yeah. Amazing. So with eight years, over 400 episodes and a lot of traction, not going back to Gina Wickman, a lot of traction on your podcast success, I think that we've got a couple of listeners that haven't quite been doing it for eight years, they may have been doing it for a year or two, they're new. And they would like to have the type of success that you've got with your podcast. So I'm like to get a couple of takeaways, what you've done, what you've learned, what you would do differently. First, a quick word from our sponsor, but when we get back, I really want you to focus on what made your podcast successful so that the listeners podcasts can also be successful. We'll be right back. Hey, my friend, as you know, this episode is sponsored by my company, growyourshow .com. We want you to be able to have the best tools at your disposal without costing you a whole arm and a leg. So right now you can get a free list of vetted equipment that like mics, mixers, webcams, sound treatment, editing software, everything that you need. I created the whole PDF with direct purchase links, just to save you time and money to help it be more convenient for you. So this free PDF will help you skip all the guesswork. If it's on there, it's vetted and approved by yours truly. And if it's not on there, it's probably not worth the money. So go ahead and get yours at growyourshow .com forward slash PDF. Let's get back into the show. We're back with Jerry Dugan. And we've talked a little bit about work -life balance, helping leaders with work -life balance, making sure that you're checking all the boxes and feeling fulfilled and the five F's and his family crest, which I don't even remember what it said in Latin. I think it was Latin, but it really means by virtue and valor. And I wanted to talk about now, how is his podcast so fricking well known and he's doing a great job. He's getting a lot of success through the podcast. And hopefully you'll be able to take away a couple of things that can support you in a successful podcast as well. Jerry, what do you think made your podcast? Yeah, a lot of what I'm seeing really is in the last year, year and a half, really. So I jokingly tell folks, but I'm not joking that it seems like I did year one, seven times, and then finally I had year eight happen all at once. So it's no overnight success kind of thing. I think the first thing that really helped was when there was a team of three of us. So we started off with three of us. We all agreed on one thing other than the name of the show. And that was the avatar of the show. So we have an avatar that we named AJ. He's 35 years old, married to his college sweetheart. He has two kids that they both have together. One's in elementary school. One's in middle school. AJ has a mid -level leadership career going on with a corporation in a metro area. And got the car, got the house, got the six figure income, but feels stuck in life. And so from there, we start to unravel how AJ feels stuck. There's the commute to work. There's the no real future in the job he's in. Not really making any progress. Wants to be a good family man when he gets home, but he's just drained of energy. And this cycle is putting a strain on his marriage. The kids feel like he doesn't love him, which is so far from the truth. So how does AJ live the life that he really wanted to live in his faith, in his family, in his fitness, finances, and his future? And so that's what we did when we came together to start the show. Now where we had a lot of weak spots, and I feel we did the first seven years over and over again, was that when you listened to the early episodes, we were all over the place, we didn't really stick to that mantra. Like what does AJ really need? And I hate to say it, but it wasn't until like the other two guys quit from the show that I realized, Oh, we're so far from what we wanted to do, who we wanted to help. And so how do I get there? And so year six, really going into year seven was how do I niche this down? I worked with a couple of different groups that really helped me start to niche that down. Jerry, you're helping specifically this demographic. You're helping them specifically with things like work -life balance and really having a mapped out future or a vision for their future focus on that. Okay. What kind of guests should I have? And so this kind of leads into the second one, which was that pairing down that niching down. So the first one was having that vision of who I wanted to help. The second one was really paring down and niching down. How am I going to help AJ? And once I started to see that a bunch of doors opened up and the third thing was I needed to get the word out there. So the marketing piece, I threw stuff out there for the first seven years, but really it's in this last year that I've been more intentional about it. The posts that I put out there on social media are aimed at AJ. The shows I appear on are aimed at AJ and you know, as that guest appearance on other shows, I think so far in the last 10 months, I've been on almost 70 other podcasts and to the point where now I'm starting to feel like I'm in alternate realities down. Like, how do I know Adam Adams? Oh yeah, I was on his show. All right, there we go. We talked about this, this, and this, or how do I know, Deirdre? Oh yeah, I'm here, here and here. It's just all that starting to overlap. But anyway, those would be the big three is know who you're serving. The second thing is truly niche down. Even if you have a lot of passions, interests, try to stick to one thing and just kind of lit little dose of yourself, sprinkle into your episodes. That way people know what they're getting when they come to your show. And then the third thing, I know I just said it. Marketing.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin PUMPS on Bullish Europe Inflation!
"Hey, everybody. Let's discover crypto. I was seeing if it was going to come back in a camera frame. It is Tuesday, September 19th. It's 11 .33am. Thank you for joining, everybody. We got AJ and Drew on the 1s and 2s. How are we all doing today? Another day in the life. It's Tuesday. Okay, okay. I thought that said XRP for a second. No, that's EXP. Express. Yeah. Okay, okay. That's what I'm wearing. That's what I'm wearing. It's today's show brought to you by Express. Nice. You know it is brought to you by the Express conduit of information flowing directly into your brain. That is discover crypto. We also got Drew on the on the board here. Now, Drew, you were late today. You're looking for a F -35, right? Yeah. No luck. No, no luck. There is a debris field in South Carolina. I don't know if you've seen that. You know, it's kind of just incredible that you act like you can lose an F -35. You know that. I mean, you've got to assume that there's some tracking systems on one of the most advanced technologically advanced hardware. No, it has stealth capabilities, and they turn it on. It's like I understand, like, you know, losing your sunglasses. Yeah. You know, I understand losing your wallet or your cell phone or like my ID on a plane that has happened. But to lose an airplane, I don't know, man. It doesn't add up to me. Where are you at? So it is like they lose three million dollars on a seed phrase or a hard drive in a landfill. Right. That's easy to lose. That's easy. Yeah. It's you know, it's this small, you know, it's in a gigantic landfill. Yeah. No, we have something like cruising around. I've heard that NASA, they can track everything bigger than a football. So that probably means everything bigger than a softball. Pretty much. Yeah. Well, you know, the Pentagon does lose trillions of dollars at a time from here and there. So it does happen. I know that they misplaced trillions of dollars. Things happen. DN says they have one for sale. I don't know if you guys saw that. Was it Craigslist ad? And it was like F -35, I have to move this thing fast. You know, it's like in South Carolina. It was pretty funny. That's hilarious. Guys, make sure you are sub to the channel. We putting out the lives, putting out the shorts, putting out the videos on the regular AJ. What is your next price prediction? I think I'm going to do it on Casper. I've had a lot of people asking me about a Casper video, just so many because, you know, it's. But the thing with this video is that with the all the other videos, I can go back and like look at, you know, all the previous price action, the previous dominance levels, the previous market with this. It's like, here we go. It's basically just a video on its tokenomics and a range of like what's going to be possible with its market cap compared to other coins that are doing a similar, you know, kind of thing that they're doing. So I'm excited to dive into it. Haven't done it yet. Probably going to film Thursday. Well, make a price prediction video where it goes to a penny so that I could buy a bunch. But speaking of prices, let's look at the crypto prices for today. It looks like the markets are maybe slightly edging up. We're going to go ahead and refresh this just to make sure. Yeah, it is a slight movement to the upside here. 0 .3%. We have 24 hour volume coming in at 38 billion dollars. Bitcoin dominance. I think is up 0 .1. It was 47 .3 is now 47 .4. And we have gas really, really low coming in at 18 gwei. Bitcoin is up slightly 0 .6%. So not a whole lot. The one hour candle is bigger than the entire 24 hours. So we went from negative into the positive in the last 24 hours. Ethereum still playing catch up, still down slightly. BNB down slightly. Lido staked Ether down slightly, but Cardano up above 1 % and Dogecoin up above 1 % and Solana up exactly 1%. Matic 2 up .2%. Polkadot, I think it got a little bit of bad news lately, right? It's down 1 .1%. All these are not really moving too much. We have Chainlink cooling down. Cooling down, it was, you know, close to 10 % now coming in at 1 .6%. So 15 % for the week. What about the biggest gainers? And guys, I haven't checked this and today I have a good feeling. Today, none of my coins are going to be in the top losers. How do I know? I don't know. I'm just trying to manifest it because I think this is a simulation. If I say it and I believe it, I'll make it happen, everybody.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from New All Time High Coming? (Polkadot Price Prediction)
"Hey what's up everyone, my name is AJ writes crypto and this is the price prediction department. Every week in the comments, there are about 5 -10 people out there asking for a Polkadot price prediction. This one is for you, let's dive in and discover crypto. I'm going to start off by saying that Polkadot is a deep, deep dive. While some projects are relatively cut and dry, DOT is as complicated as it gets. If you really want to jump into the Polkadot rabbit hole, just a heads up, it's going to take weeks for you to get a well -rounded understanding of its complexities. I will link it down below in the description, but I have read the Polkadot whitepaper on two separate occasions now, and when you start seeing science class diagrams like this one here, understand that to do a full -fledged coin review on Polkadot would take at least three hours minimum. With that said, I'm going to give a brief overview and stick with the price prediction. Here is a quick explanation of Polkadot directly from that whitepaper. Polkadot provides the bedrock relay chain upon which a large number of validatable, globally coherent, dynamic data structures may be hosted side by side. We call these data structures parallelized, or parachains, though there is no specific need for them to be blockchained in nature. Understand that Polkadot's main focus is interoperability, or communication between blockchains who otherwise wouldn't be able to communicate. With that network of parachains and the XCM, or the cross -consensus message format, Polkadot has grown an ecosystem of over 600 projects who have the ability to communicate with each other. Another thing I really like about Polkadot is how they utilize their side canary chain Kusama. Kusama acts as a live testnet for Polkadot that is pretty much used as their science experiment to see what will and what won't work on the main chain. Without getting too far into the weeds, I want to point out that I know some people who are really big on Polkadot, and I also know some people who are completely against it. For those people who are completely against it, the complaints I've heard are either about Gavin Wood's personal life, which I will not get into, and I've also heard that the parachains were somewhat of a flop. When they started the original 41 parachain auctions back in November of 21, there were some projects that came out swinging, like Acala, Moonbeam, Astar, Clover Finance, but as the parachain auctions continued into 2022, there were less and less funds raised and less contributors to the projects as we ventured further into the bear market. I remember it used to be a really big deal when a project landed a parachain spot, but unfortunately as time went on, the more and more projects that landed them, the less and less it mattered. To be fair, the timing of the bear market really, really hurt their cause. But on the bright side, according to key insights from the Masari State of Polkadot Q2 update, OpenGov, their new decentralized governance model, launched back in June. This is significant because since Polkadot is a proof of stake blockchain, improving their governance is a big step forward for decentralization. Also, like I mentioned before, V3 of XCM recently launched, which is their cross consensus messaging format. This is basically like the key to the door of interoperability. The most bullish observation for Polkadot is earlier this year when the SEC was going hard in the pain against Binance and Coinbase, Polkadot was a lucky project that was not flagged by the SEC as the security. I mean, Gary Gensler has called every project under the sun a security, but not Polkadot. Let's give him a call and find out why. What's his number again? Oh yeah, six, six, six. Okay. Gary, how you doing, man? Yeah, I know that hearing was pretty rough, but hey, quick question. Why is Polkadot not a security? Wait, they paid you how much? And once again, he hung up on me. I will link that Masari update down below in the description. It is an excellent tool for those needs to know facts. I use Masari every day to keep track of all my favorite coins. Shout out to Ryan Selkis and Masari, not a paid advertisement. With all that said, let's get into the price prediction. Remember, the equation for price predictions is price equals market cap divided by circulating supply. Polkadot put in its all -time high of $55 on November 4th, 2021. At the time, its market cap was $56 .5 billion and its supply was north of $987 million. Today, DOT is 92 % down from its all -time high and it sets just over $4. Its market cap currently sits around $5 .15 billion and its supply is a little over $1 .27 billion, a 29 % increase from its previous all -time high. For perspective, if DOT put in its all -time high market cap with today's supply, that $55 Polkadot would now be a $44 Polkadot. As you can see, when the supply goes up, the market cap has so much extra work to do. The problem with this, though, is that DOT is inherently inflationary and it increases about 10 % every year. With that said, according to this chart here from TokenDOTUnlocks, its supply is projected to be $1 .688 billion by November of 2025, which is the projected top of the next bull run based off the Bitcoin halving cycle. For even more perspective, if we ran that supply against the previous all -time high market cap, that $55 DOT becomes a $33 .5 DOT. So for Polkadot to reach its previous all -time high with this new heightened supply, it would require a $92 .8 billion market cap, which is 64 % higher than its previous all -time high market cap. In other words, like I said, Polkadot has a lot of work to do. But to be fair, 46 % of the total supply was staked at the end of Q2 this year. So there is obviously a dedicated community and Polkadot has more active developers than any project in crypto. So my question is, what can that really do for the market cap? Of course, you probably know that I really like to use dominance as a gauge to see what's possible. For those of you that don't know, at the top of the last bull run, the total crypto market cap sat right around $3 trillion. When I use dominance for a gauge, it piggybacks off the idea that the total crypto market cap for the top of the next bull run is likely to range somewhere between $7 to $10 trillion. That is just an estimation. As you can see here, DOT has a relative support resistance line on its dominance chart at 0 .93%. The idea here is that if the total crypto market cap went to $7 to $10 trillion and Polkadot could get that 0 .93%, just less than one full percent, this would give us a range for its market cap. So when we pair that dominance level with the $7 trillion total cap, that would lead to a $65 .1 billion market cap for Polkadot. When you pair that with the new heightened supply, you're looking at about a $38 .70 DOT. If you pair the same dominance level against the $10 trillion total market cap, that would be a $93 billion market cap for Polkadot. When you pair that with the new heightened supply, ironically, we would have a $55 .09 Polkadot, which is only a few pennies higher than its previous all -time high. It is pretty funny how those numbers lined up like that, but I do want to point out that dominance is a guideline and it's not a law. I do like to use it as a tool to get an idea of the range to see what's possible, but to be honest, I do not think DOT is going to be able to put up a $93 billion market cap. So to be honest with you, this is one of those coins in my book that will not surpass its previous all -time high. Personally, for my price prediction, I see DOT probably landing somewhere between $25 to $37, where $37 is an 8 .4x and would require a $62 .5 billion market cap. Boom, there you go. There's my price prediction for Polkadot. Let me know down below in the comments what you thought. Am I too bearish? Am I too bullish? Let me know what you think. Also, I have the next two videos planned out, but after that, I want to know down below in the comments what coins you want to see me cover. I do read the comments, I do hear what you're saying, and I want to cover what you want to learn about. With all that being said, my name is A .J. Rights Crypto. Have yourself a great day.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Starts Fresh Rally! (3 Things To Watch This Week)
"Good morning, everybody. It's time to discover crypto. It is September 18th. It's 11 .32am. How are we all doing today? We're going to talk about inflation. We're going to talk about Chainlink. We're going to talk about Bitcoin. We're going to talk about Solana. We're going to talk about hot wallet hacks. Is it? Is that what's going on? What is happening to everybody? And once again, we got Drew and AJ on the ones and twos. What's up, man? How was your weekend, Dizzy? My weekend was pretty good. I got heartburned for the first time ever. Weird. I've never had it. I think it's because I'm lactose intolerant. I think maybe I don't have enough acid in my stomach, but yeah, first time ever had it. Guys, that thing is tough. It's no joke. We didn't have any Tums. Never experienced it myself. It was from a chili oil and a rare ramen bowl. One of those, you know, there's like for real Asian ones. Okay. It's like a little pack. Mess me up. Mess me up. But you know what? It just gave me time to sit, be calm and investigate some more crypto. And I bought more crypto. I've bought more crypto in the past 24 hours. I might even share what it is. And I shaved the head. Point seven chain link or one whole chain link? How far are we going down the rabbit hole? It wasn't chain link because I bought chain link live. And so it's a new coin, everybody. Hey, AJ, your tweet convinced me to buy algo. Okay. Yeah. I've heard that a couple times throughout, you know, a couple times I've heard that. Look at the hair. It's actually getting closer to flock of seagulls. It is getting close to flock of seagulls in a good way, though, in a good way. And CCC says the best is because we're getting old. Yeah. I was like, I don't know what this is, babe. I don't know. Maybe it's heartburn, but I've never had heartburn. She's like, yeah, you're getting old. I got torn apart by heartburn this weekend. So what was your food? Mine was chili oil. What was yours? It was spaghetti with bison, homemade spaghetti, bison. That's a Drew meal if I've ever heard it. All right. You know what? I'm ready to eat. I'm ready to bite into some crypto prices right now. I want to bite off some more of that Bitcoin, everybody. Uh, it looks like, uh, the crypto market caps are pumping, baby. We are up 2 .1%. We are now at $1 .1 trillion, 24 hour volume. I'm surprised it's even this low. It's 37 billion bucks. We have Bitcoin dominance coming in at 47 and a half in gas, really low at 23 gwe. Heartburn, uh, when you can't get a calmness. Yeah, man. It was, I was laying, I didn't know what I was doing. I was just laying down, probably making it worse the whole time. All right. Uh, we have Bitcoin moving up, everybody. It is up 2 .7%. I just refreshed, but I want to do it again. 2 .9%. We have Eve pumping almost up to 2 % here. BNB up one and a half percent Lido stake ether up a also 1 .9%. Solana baby Solana is up 5%. Cardano ton coin on the weekly up 48 .50 % on the weekly. That's holograms coin skyrocketed the top 10. No one knows where it came from. You can see it right there. Just whew. And then it's actually a bit kind of low ever since then. Uh, who would have known that was good. Accumulation zone. Crazy. Maybe a lot of people knew crazy. I, we just put a video on ton coin out yesterday. Really interesting coin to look into. Definitely check out that video if you haven't yet. And to roof Rolf, uh, I cannot pronounce your name in the, um, in the chat there, guys, you know, where I can get AJ's full predictions. If you go to the playlist, there's a whole playlist of all of them in order of when they came out. So if you go to the YouTube channel right here, you click playlists, uh, then your scroll created a caffeinated price prediction department right there. There it is. Okay. That's where it'd be. That's where it would be. And we got, um, polka dot price predictions coming out today. Normally they come out Sunday, last week, things were really hectic. So the price prediction for polka dot is today and then it'll be Sunday from here on out. All right. All right. Uh, so is everybody ready to hit that like button? Cause I heard if you hit the like button, you increase the odds that your coins are going to pop up on the top gainers of the top hundred coins of the past 24 hours. So go ahead and hit that like button. I'll give you three seconds. I was to take a sip of water. They didn't hit the light button yet. Oh man. They just hit it. I relief is washing over me in an awesome way. All right. Uh, in the number one gainer for the day, it is E cash. Everybody E cash is up 15 % skyrocketing up to the 72 ranked here, but check how many zeros there are. I don't like coins when they have that many zeros. What about you, AJ? Yeah, I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan. I like, you know, if it's like, you know, zero, zero nine. All right. But once we get like past that third or fourth zero, I'm just kinda like, I don't, I don't know. I can't do this. It's a lot. It's hard math. I'm three thousandth of a penny. You miss out on a 10 X. Was it a 10 X? Did it reduce by 90 %? Like subtracting. Uh, I'm picturing drew in a tree knife and mouth about to jump down on the bison camouflage, black paint under his eyes, bandana, American bandana trailing in the sky. As he falls down with knives in hand, he can picture it. I can see it. I got jacked up by an entire hornet's nest. I cut down a tree and then I got in the tree to push it the way I wanted it to go and found a hornet's nest. And my entire body is full of Hornet poison. Is that why it was so swollen this morning at the urine? Are you looking like on purpose? Are you okay, dude? I'm great. I'm doing just fine. He seems, yeah, he's doing good. He's, he's covered head to toe in calamine, but he's good. Everyone smashed the like button for drew for being here. If I got stung by an entire hornet's nest, believe that I would be at home watching like Harry Potter or something. I wouldn't be here. I tell you that. Did you eat the insects? All right. Uh, so we have e -cash coming in as the top gainer, 15 .7, but number two is the coin that DZ bought live on air. It was up 9 .4 % on the news. Although there's a lot of whale activity. I think there's a 350 million volume just from the whales. Uh, 420 million 24 hour volume there stacks is up 7 .1 % ton coin. You know, part of the reason you see it up 50 % it is up 6 .5 % today. Casper up 6 % Solana 5 % coins are moving today and they're moving strong. Like coin up 4 .5 % Bitcoin cash up 4%. Uh, any of these coins, anything popping out Bitcoin is you never see Bitcoin, uh, you know, even this high of the top gainer. So ape coin was going on. It's a reverse DZ indicator today, but we still got to look at the losers and I haven't checked. I promise you I haven't checked. I don't know if any of my coins are going to be in there. I'm hoping not. I'm hoping it's like 0 .2 and then everything else is up to the upside. Uh, no. Oh my God. Can you do the show? I don't even want to do the show anymore. All right. I guys, I promise you. I didn't look, I don't know why roll bits. Very sad. Very sad day keeps on giving. Very sad. All right. Roll bits down top coins down. I did take some profit like two months ago and then I've just been riding in this emotional rollercoaster ever since. Uh, we have Iota and then we go into the low areas. Then it's 1 .3, 1 .2 % below actually infinity. I'm just looking for another one of my coins, but uh, no, it's just, just the second biggest loser of the day. Uh, but then yeah, very shortly after that we are in the green. So three, six, eight, eight coins and then we're flat. One of the eight is a stable coin. So pretty much markets are flat. Really not too much has fallen except for, you know, one of these coins. Of course. Uh, DZ cut his hair. Yeah. It's more aerodynamic when I trade. Uh, we need an inverse DZ fun. Okay. Interesting. Son of a gun. It's a great idea. It's great. I'm kidding. Well, what? The hair thing? No, the inverse DZ. Oh, the inverse DZ fun. Okay.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from HOTTEST Altcoin Right Now! (What Is Ton Coin?)
"It's a story that spans 8 ,000 acres of Blue Ridge Mountain beauty bathed in shades of orange and crimson. Fall won't last forever. Savor it while you can at Biltmore. Plan your stay at Biltmore .com. The past six Septembers in a row have been bearish for Bitcoin, but there's another coin that's on the verge of breaking into the top ten that woke up well before September ended. Toncoin, that stands for the open network, is on a fast track to onboarding millions of users in the next few years thanks to their integration with Telegram. You might not know that Toncoin and Telegram have a controversial past that dates back years before the recent announcement. So let's dive in and discover crypto. My name is AJ writes crypto and today we are going to talk about Toncoin, which has practically gone viral in just the past week. Some of you might not know this, but back in 2018, Toncoin was actually developed by, guess who? Telegram. For the record, it was called Gram back then. But anyways, Telegram raised well over a billion dollars in fundraising, but unfortunately they had to give it back to the investors and pay an $18 .5 million fine to the SEC due to a violation of federal securities laws. They got sued by the SEC before they even got the wheels spinning. Classic. Once Telegram was forced to abandon the project to stay out of hot water, a handful of dedicated developers in the community took it over because since it's open source, the code was on GitHub and they knew they had something special on their hands. Well, what's so special about it? Do you know how Ethereum planned on working out their scalability issues with sharding? Well, this is something Toncoin already has figured out since the project was designed for millions and millions of people to use it. Toncoin has an intimidating block time of five seconds and a time of finality under six seconds, not to mention near instant cross shard communication. If you take a peek at their roadmap, you will see how far they've already come and they have been building out this massive ecosystem slowly but surely over the years. Toncoin is not just the blockchain. They're also building out a decentralized storage system, a payment settlement system, and a proxy that allows you to change your IP address with zero downtime. According to their website, they have gone as far to say that they're building the reliable internet of the future, kind of like ICP. And of course, they have NFTs, cross chain bridges, and DNS domain names as well. But AJ, what about the price action? If you want the drop on that, you're going to have to stick around to the end of the video. My question is, how did this layer one get to where it is now? Well, their beginnings help explain this because their current consensus mechanism is proof of stake, but they began as an IPOW or initial proof of work. In June of 2020, using special Giver smart contracts, 98 .55 % of the total supply became available to mine, and for the next two years, they did just that. In June of last year, the last Toncoin was mined and then they switched to proof of stake, which is why the chain is super fast, efficient, and have the eco -friendly box checked. I do find it pretty insane on how fast Toncoin climbed the ladder in blockchain, but considering the plan was to always be tethered to Telegram, it does make sense. To play the devil's advocate, I have to address the issues that some people already have with this project. First of all, there are already people on the internet pushing back against Toncoin's claims about being decentralized. Like always, I will remind you that decentralization is a spectrum, but where this project falls on that spectrum is the real question. For example, Ethereum has over 700 ,000 validators, where Tonstat .com shows that Toncoin only has 351. That's probably because you have to have 300 ,000 ton to become a validator, which is about $558 ,000 today. Haha, it cost a ton. Okay, I'm done. Another worry that stands out to me is their rich list, or the percentage of the supply held by the largest holders. Also not the best look here for Toncoin, because according to Coincart .com, the top 10 holders own 77 .7 % of the supply, and the top 100 holders own 90 .7 % of the supply. Yeah, I mean, adoption is great, but those numbers are pretty terrifying. Another question people have is that the circulating supply is over 3 .4 billion, but why is the total supply over 5 billion coins? Are they just going to unload a billion coins on an unexpected market, or what? Well, not exactly. In a community vote earlier this year in February, they voted to suspend all of the inactive miner wallets who have never made an outgoing transaction. The vote went through, and over a billion coins worth over $2 .5 billion were suspended. For the record, these coins will be frozen for four years, so in 2027, this will come back into play. This vote also had a pretty harsh effect on the circulating supply as well. If you look at this chart here, posted by Toncoin, after the vote, the circulating supply increased from 1 .22 billion to almost 4 billion. This chart they posted is not 100 % accurate, because we know the circulating supply is currently 3 .4 billion, but at the end of the day, the supply still increased by over 180 % because of this vote. Moving forward, at least the total supply will only increase by 0 .6 % every year. The silver lining here is that even if some people didn't like it, in terms of tokenomics, the worst is behind us. And sure, there are some things that kind of worry me about this project, but the visibility crypto is going to get by being integrated into Telegram is absolutely massive. And I still think this coin could probably put out some pretty serious numbers. According to these charts Toncoin posted, Telegram is projected to have 1 .5 billion users by 2028, and if Toncoin onboards 30 % of Telegram's users, they will have over 500 million users in their ecosystem. They have a long way to go because according to Tonstat .com, there's currently only around 3 .3 million accounts and less than 800 ,000 active on -chain wallets. But hey, let's hope for the best. Considering that Toncoin's market cap sits just below 9 .5 billion today, I'm really interested to see how far this will go if they really do manage to onboard 500 million users. It's also worth pointing out that this project is already ranked number 12. I mean, it's on the verge of breaking into the top 10 by market cap in all of crypto. And the thing is, the largest crypto exchanges haven't listed it yet. It's only available on Kucoin, Bitfinex, Uniswap, and a few others. I am definitely interested to see how the price will react if it starts landing major listings. Time will tell. Speaking of price, Toncoin is currently hanging out around the $1 .90 mark after it was rejected at the $2 level after its latest pump. According to Masari, Toncoin put in its all -time high of $5 .16 on Christmas day of 2021. This isn't a price prediction video, but remember that Toncoin's supply was much lower back then than what it is now. With that said, to get back to that all -time high of $5 .16, Toncoin would need a $17 .8 billion market cap, which is 173 % increase from its current level. Considering how high its market cap already is, if you want to get a 10x out of Toncoin, you're kind of asking for a lot because that would require the market cap to exceed $65 .4 billion. I think this project has a lot of potential to onboard millions of new users, and I'm definitely excited to see what becomes of its ecosystem, but I am a little worried about its upside considering how much more work the market cap has to do to put in a 10x. But hey, it's crypto, anything is possible. My name is AJ writes crypto, that's all I got, have yourself a great day. From training materials to resources that can help you generate a greater profit. Learn more about growing your business with us at jameshardy .com slash build.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Tesla Buying Bitcoin?! (XRP Continues Winning Streak)
"Jeep Adventure Days is going on now. Hurry in for great deals on a great selection of Jeep brand vehicles. Now get 10 % below MSRP for an average of 6 ,903 under MSRP on the purchase of a 2023 Jeep Wrangler 4xe. Not compatible with lease offers or with any other consumer incentive offers. 6 ,903 average based on 10 % below average MSRP from all 2023 Wrangler 4xe models in dealer stock. Residency restrictions apply. Take retail delivery by 10 -2. Jeep is a registered trademark. It is time to discover crypto, everybody. It's 1131. It is Friday, September 15th. How are we all doing today? We got Drew and AJ on the ones and twos, and we're ready to talk crypto. What up, AJ? Let's go. What's going on? Happy Friday. It is Friday. Deezy, you got any plans this weekend? I see you got that blockchain basement shirt, man. I'm just enamored by that. I'm going to do yard work like always and more yard work, and then I'm going to do a cold plunge. Guys, do you want me to film the cold plunge and throw it on X? Maybe we show it Monday? You won't. I'm a little flabby, but you know, whatever. You know, there's no better motivation than bullying. That's how I was raised. I'm an 80s baby. All right, hey, how are we all doing today? Let's get right into it, guys. We got green Bitcoin. Is Elon and Tesla going to start buying Bitcoin? A lot of analysts think so. Also, we got to talk about Genesis a little. We got a regulation war going on, and we have Gareth Soloway on the charts, correct? He hasn't checked in yet, but he hasn't checked in yet. All right, he's my favorite Floridian trader. He was on a Twitter space, right? I think he's actually still on it, so he's probably hopping on it. Okay, okay, okay, yeah. If he doesn't show up, Evan Aldo's going to take the number one spot. Gareth falls to number two. I love Evan, too. Evan's my homie. He needs to book a trip on the Turkish hairlines. That was good. Yeah, it's getting, hey, guys, I told you it was going to start looking thin and wispy. I haven't cut my hair in, let's see, 23 days. All right, so it's growing. All right, all right. I do it on Mondays. I do it on Mondays. You told me once a week. But yeah, hey, I'll needle live. I'll needle live on Mondays. All right, guys, let's get right into it. All right, where are we at? Hey, where's CoinGecko? Oh, oh, you guys are going to make me type it in. Are we leading with the charts, right? Yep. Look what you're doing to me here. Unbelievable. God. All right, let's check out a CoinMarketCap here, or CoinGecko and look at the crypto market cap. We are down today, folks. We have fallen, taken a little bit of a tumble. It must be a semi -recent, because I thought I looked this morning, it looked good. 1 .08 trillion, you can round up to 1 .09 trillion. 24 -hour volume coming in at $32 billion for the cryptocurrency market. We have ETH dominance coming in at 17 .9, and Bitcoin dominance coming in at 47 .1, and we have gas coming in very, very low at 21 Gwei. So if you're looking to trade some alts, now's a pretty good time. You can get in pretty cheap, everybody.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from Cousins/Jets Momentum, Cowboys Fever, a Red Sox Reset, and Million Dollar Picks With Bryan Curtis and Kevin Hench
"Coming up, million dollar picks, football, cowboys, media, baseball, lots of stuff next. It's the Bill Simmons podcast presented by FanDuel. Get in on the football action right from the opening kickoff with America's number one sports book. The app is safe, secure, easy to use. FanDuel always has exclusive offers. When you win, you'll get paid instantly. FanDuel has lots of ways to play, like the spread, money line, over -unders, team totals, player props, so much more. Jump into the action at any time during the game with live betting. Combine multiple bets from the same game in a same game parlay. Download the FanDuel sports book app today. Make every moment more this football season. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit theringer .com slash RG to learn more about the resources and helplines available and listen to the end of this episode for additional details. You must be 21 plus and present in select states. Gambling problem, call 1 -800 -GAMBLER or visit theringer .com slash RG. This episode is brought to you by Uber Eats. I just use this. Here's something every football fan should know. You can get everything you need for game day delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything because you can't get the dream flex for your fantasy team delivered with Uber Eats. But Tech Specs? Yeah. Great pass protection? Can't get it. Great pizza selection? Oh yeah. While they can't help on the field, you can get pretty much everything else you need to watch the game delivered with Uber Eats. So this season get anything, almost, almost anything for game day by ordering on the Uber Eats app. Uber Eats, official on demand delivery partner of the NFL. Order now. I'll call and select markets and 21 plus to order. Product availability may vary by region. See app for details. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm on a bunch of pop culture podcasts this week. Did a rewatchables on Monday night. We did Black Hat. Also was on the Big Picture. We did a big Denzel Washington movie draft. I got way too competitive. And then on Wednesday night, Amanda Dobbins and I on the Prestige TV Podcast, we broke down the first two episodes of season three of The Morning Show. The most ridiculous show on television, not just this year, but every year it's on. It just wins the title automatically. If they had a ridiculous show category at the Emmys, they wouldn't even have any of their nominees. I mean, maybe winning time would get nominated. I don't know. But Morning Show just clears it out. What a batshit, crazy, ridiculous show. Wow. It's really like they created a podcast thing so we could just break down the morning show. That's really, I think, the real reason behind podcasting in general. Coming up on this podcast, Million Dollar Picks and a little Vikes Eagles at the top. And then editor at large at the Ringer, Brian Curtis, who was also a giant Cowboys fan, comes on and talk about the Cowboys. Could this be the year? Keep saying that, but could this be the year? And we talked some NFL stuff. We talked some sports media stuff. We talked about documentaries and just all the stuff that happens when Brian Curtis comes on. Oh, we talked about Joe Buck and Troy Aikman as well, who have hit a really interesting milestone as a combo. So that happened. And then Kevin Hench, my buddy, the Red Sox fired their GM today, and we couldn't resist spending 20 minutes recapping. One of the four -year oddest, strangest four -year runs the Red Sox have ever had. And we're still in the middle of it. And I still don't understand why Mookie Betts isn't on the team but also like, man, since the 2018 World Series, the Red Sox have just been a hot dumpster fire. And I say that knowing that they almost made the World Series two years ago, but when you look at everything that happened, wow. So Hench comes on and talk about that. It is all next. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. ["Pearl Jam Theme Song"] All right, I'm taping this part of the podcast. It is 11 .31 East Coast time. East Coast Bill is here. East Coast Bill is in Boston. I was visiting my daughter and doing some other stuff. And Thursday Night Football came on and I thought it would be a great idea to do the top segment after Eagles Vikings. East Coast Bill fell asleep at halftime. It was a new record for me. I guess I'm old. I have another birthday coming up this week. This is why I live on the West Coast because I talk about sports for a living. And East Coast Bill gets a little sleepy when the game is kind of boring and plodding along. So East Coast Bill missed some time, had to catch up, had to do a little rewind. Fortunately, there's so many commercials. I was able to still watch anything, but the Eagles beat the Vikings. They're now 2 -0 on the season. And I would say it's an uninspiring 2 -0. They probably shouldn't have covered against the Pats. They could have lost. This game they win, they don't cover. I guess on the good side, the DeAndre Swift, they traded like a 15th round pick in 2038 for them. And this little way they put together their offense where they load up on wide receivers, they hit the jackpot with hurts, and then they just say, you know what we're going to do? Just grab running backs because there's 98 of them every year. We're just going to grab two and pay nothing for them. So offensively, they look great. Defensively, you saw it last week with the Pats. The Pats were able to throw it on them. Mack almost had 300 yards in the last three quarters of that game. This game, Kirk Cousins, over and over again, heroically going for the cover, finally gets it. The Vikings cover, they don't win. Home team's now 5 -12 against the spread this season. Underdogs are 10 -7 against the spread. But for the most part, not allowed to report, the Eagles just state. They messed around in the first quarter and then said, screw it, and ran the ball down Minnesota's throat. I was thinking, Eagles, Cowboys, if you were going to make a combined over or under for wins for them, and I gave you 26, would you go over or under 26 wins combined for the two teams? They're 3 -0 right now. I would probably go over, especially when you look at the NFC and you think Philly, Dallas, San Francisco, lock those three down. I like Green Bay, Detroit, maybe New Orleans, Atlanta, and maybe that's the seven for the playoffs. And then you have Tampa Bay and the Rams. Who knows what was real and what wasn't real. Tampa Bay beat Minnesota by three in week one. We're like, oh, Tampa Bay, that's interesting. But now Minnesota's 0 -2, maybe that doesn't even matter. Rams, who knows? I mean, they just have so few good players that the moment two of them get hurt, it feels like their free fall will happen. So the NFC is already kind of uninteresting, I guess is my bigger point. Unless the Giants can rally, and who knows after the 40 -0 debacle last week, they're playing Arizona this week, so they looked out of that. But for the most part, it seems like three good teams, maybe the Packers, maybe the Lions, maybe the Saints, and then we're going to have a really bad seven seed. So if you're Minnesota, and you're looking at 31 of 270 teams started 0 -2 and made the playoffs since 1990. 31 out of 270. I can't do math, but that's not good. If you're Minnesota, at what point do you consider trading Cousins? Cousins was all over the place on the internet this week as a possible Rogers replacement. He makes 35 million this year, that's it. The Jets, I think, could do some chicanery if they wanted to. They have this thing where the Packers, it's a conditional, I think second, that turns into a first, but the Packers would have to waive the right for the condition. Clearly, Rogers is going to play 70 % of the plays, but still, they'd have to figure out some way. But if you're the Jets, could you somehow trade for Cousins and save your season? We're going to find out a lot about the Jets this week against Dallas. They get annihilated and they're one -on -one for the season, but annihilates Dallas them and they have to look at their offense and go, all right, we have a really good team. What are we going to do? Is it Jacoby Brissett or do we swing big and try to get Cousins for a year? Cousins has over 700 yards and six TDs in the first two weeks. He's been a fantasy god. I don't know how that plays out. I wish it was like basketball where I could just put stuff in the trade machine and see if it's going to work. For some reason, we made football trades more complicated than basically anything on the earth. I have no idea how the Jets would trade for Cousins, how it'd work, what the mechanics of it would be. What's he worth? Is he worth a first rounder for one year? Is he worth a third rounder? You just never know. Again, DeAndre Swift went for a 15th rounder in 2038. Cousins, I have my eye on because if you're Minnesota, you're not good. You were completely lucky last year to go 13 and four, whatever it was. Now that's evened out and maybe you start looking around and going, all right, let's pack in this year. I don't know what would have to happen, what number they would have to get to. Would they have to be one and four, one and five, one and six? But Cousins to the Jets, it's a fun talk radio topic, at least. We're not doing talk radio here. We're doing sleepy sports podcasting, but Cousins to the Jets has always felt right. It's always felt kind of perfect. He always just felt like a Jet waited to happen at some point in his career. The Jets fans listening to this right now are like, how can he keep doing this to us? We just had the Rogers thing. We had Zach Wilson. Now you're gonna throw Cousins at us. But again, Cousins, a little bit of a turnaround. He was in that Netflix show. He's kind of the big winner of quarterbacks with Mariota being the big loser. But I feel like the tide's turning on Cousins. Even Primetime Kirk today, always a disaster, gets the cover. Who knows? Put him in New York. We'll see. Philly's got, they're just basically have to figure out what their team is. They've already had a bunch of injuries and they even had a little AJ Brown, Jalen Hurts. Who knows what happened on the sidelines there, but didn't look awesome. But they have two months here to figure out their team. They're a big stretch. Week nine, Sunday, Dallas, that's home in Philly. Bi -week, week 11 at Kansas City on a Monday night. Week 12, Buffalo home. Week 13, San Francisco home. And week 14 at Dallas. So again, Dallas at KC, Buffalo, San Francisco at Dallas. And that's gonna be the five game stretch that determines are we a one seed? Are we a two seed? What is our season gonna look like? And they just have to get there. They have to stay healthy and they have to get to that point. So not a lot of lessons from Philly, Minnesota. Do I regret staying up? Although I guess I didn't stay up because I got this little nap in at halftime.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from It's Worse Than You Think! (CPI Data Released)
"Hey, welcome to Discover Crypto, everybody. Today is September 13th. It's 11 .32am. It's getting dressed. Guys, it is a wonderful, wonderful day for crypto news. We got some Ripple. We got some Hopium. We got some, you know, maybe bad news for Ripple Americans out there. We're going to talk about CPI. What is going on with CPI? Is it worse than you think it is for the average American? CPI numbers don't look terrible, but we're going to look at some metrics that actually affect you on a day -to -day life at a pretty enormous rate there. Also, we're going to talk about Gensler. We got PayPal, Stablecoin, we're going to talk about, and I think maybe the thing on the right, the rights. We got to update that, right? If Milady, is that on there? I don't know. It's old. It's old. Yeah, it was yesterday. Yeah, alright. But guys, thank you for joining. Make sure you hit that like button, everybody. We got AJ and Drew on the ones and twos. How are we doing? What's up? How you doing? I like your shirt today, Deezy. You're looking dressed up. Yes, alright, alright. So, alright, I see people, you know, yeah, I'm not in the hoodie. Where's the hat? I am going to the first wedding venue today that we're going to check out. We're hoping it's the winner. It's like the castle at something or other. And so, you know, that's what I'm going to be doing. So I might not be hosting ATB. We're going to have a special guest hosting ATB. I got to leave out a little bit early. I think it's like an hour or two away. Deezy rocking the collar shirt. Yeah, I want to rock the Michael Saylor shirt. I think you should pop it up, you know, collar up high. Alright, chat, let me know. Should I do pop collar up or undo two buttons? Three six mafia. Three six. Great, great, great rap group there. Crunchy Black, overrated. Alright, guys, make sure you're subbed to the channel. We're putting out a lot of great content. And make sure you sub to some of these other channels as well. ATB, BitLab Academy, The Basement, Candle Mafia, of course, Hit Network, and NFT Alpha. Taco, just talking to Taco, putting out regular content on there. Guys, make sure you check that out. Now, let's look at the crypto market cap. We are now above 10 ,000 coins again. They're going down, it's going up. Alright, 10 ,001, crypto market cap is up half of a percent. We are now coming in at $1 .08 trillion, 24 -hour volume coming in at $39 billion, Bitcoin dominance 47 .3, and gas really low, only 22 gwei there, or 11 per gwei, Deasy doing a meeting with his old... No, Jimbo, no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't even talk about that job anymore. That was a long time ago, it was like 15 years ago I worked there. Pants off, dance off, I'd have to have pants to take pants off. So, you know, just make sure I keep the waistline below the desk there, so pull that shirt down. We don't want to see the whitey -tities. Whitey -tities, what were we thinking? What were we thinking? What? How? Yeah, dude, like, what? What? I don't know, man. Alright, Bitcoin is up 0 .5%. We're coming in now at 26 ,285 ETH, is now still above 16 at 1611. It is up 0 .6%. We have XRP up 0 .5%. Everything is really just moving in this 0 .5 % range or lower until we get to two coins really popping off, Solana relatively going up here, 2 .6%, but TonCoin is up a ton. AJ, are you going to be doing, you're doing a little research on TonCoin, can you give us any alpha from the video that you're doing the research on? I think you're just going to have to wait and watch the video. Oh, man. No, it is super interesting, especially like, you know, they like Telegram created it, right? And then they kind of kind of got in hot water with the SEC, and then they kind of backed out of it. And now that the Telegram news is back in the picture, it kind of picked up super hard. So I'm glad that they're like kind of working out their original vision for the project. But there's a lot to it. I'm excited to continue to learn about it. Cool, cool. And I see your shirt, the VeChain, we're going to talk about VeChain in about 10 seconds. But first, yes, the desk is provocatively low, looking like a Fed.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Gary Gensler GRILLED By Senate! (Bitcoin's Next Big Step)
"Welcome to Discover Crypto! It is September 12th, 11 .32am, guys. We got some huge news with Gary Gensler. Just testified minutes ago. We have the breakdown on that also. We have some XRP news. Bitcoin, is it going to be ZK roll -up time for Bitcoin? And also, Google Cloud is controlling a giant, giant crypto ecosystem. Is it your favorite coin? What does it mean for that coin? Also, we have M 'lady got rugged for a million dollars, not rugged, a million dollars stolen by a rogue team member. And it might actually have Fed ties. Might be a Fed, a psyop, everybody. We got AJ on the side. We got Drew in the corner. Drew's walking around doing something. I don't know. I think he's grabbing an MRE for us to eat later. But guys, crypto markets are looking good. Bitcoin is pumping everybody. We're up. Things are feeling good. They're feeling bullish. We're going to hit refresh just to make sure. Look at that crypto market cap up 3 .3%, everybody. We're coming in at 1 .0. I'm going to round up $1 .08 trillion, 24 -hour volume. Kind of muted, actually. It's still below $50 billion. It's coming in at $48 .5 billion. Bitcoin dominance, I think, is up a little bit. Isn't that right, AJ? I will pull the chart in a minute. Yeah, Bitcoin dominance coming in at $47 .3 and ETH coming in at $17 .9, I guess. Still a little low, $27. Not as bad as we've seen in the frenzied activity areas like we're seeing today. Bitcoin up 4 .2%, shaking off $25K, laughing at $25K, and now above $26 ,000. If we look at the 7 -day, just looks like a little brief blip, almost like an opposite of what happened here. Here we had a BART. Then we had an inverse BART. And what's this going to be? Is this also going to be a BART? Does that mean we're going to head down? I'm not sure. What are you seeing in the charts over there for the dominance, AJ? Yeah, I just pulled the dominance chart, Drew, if you want to go to my screen. And if you look this yellow, I'll delete this line here to not confuse anybody. But if you look at this yellow line I just drew right here, I'll make it a little bit bigger so you can see it. If you look at this level right here that was previously the ceiling, has become the floor. It was rejected here as well. And the fact that Bitcoin dominance flipped there, this is a two -day chart, by the way, the fact that it flipped there is pretty bullish for Bitcoin dominance to find that spot. Also, breaking through the 50 on the RSI on the two -day chart, very relevant. It is putting in lower highs, lower lows. But let's keep a close eye on this, even if we go to, say, like a 12 -hour. And let's see how far this can run up. Are we going to get rejected below that previous high right around there? Or are we going to find a way to keep going up? Because really, if you look at right there. So we kind of got to keep a close eye on Bitcoin dominance moving forward. All right, we got someone saying the thing's a little bit hard to read over there. You know, I'd maybe agree that the orange and the color behind it could be a little bit more contrasty. I don't know if that's the right word there. All right, let's look at Ethereum. Ethereum is up 2 .7%, is now above 1600, using that as a psychological support level right there. We have BNB up 3%, XRP up 2 .2%, we have Cardano up 2 .5%, but Tron is up 5%, is looking really good. We go down to Bitcoin Cash, it is up 7 .2%, it's feeling really good. Where's DZs? One of his favorite coins, Chainlink, is up 2 .4%. Still below $6, so I might need to add to my 6 .2 Chainlink, maybe I'll buy 0 .8 today, get up to my lucky number 7. Let's look at the biggest gainers of the day though. We have Render and then Casper. Dang it, I am still mad about Casper. Casper is up 25 % on the week. I keep saying, oh, I missed the boat, I missed the boat, you know, but a lot of people are saying just buy it under a nickel, idiot. Do you have any Casper? No, but it's definitely a coin that I've been thinking about accumulating, just considering when it pumps, it rips. So I guess I'm going to keep a close eye on like the next retest of this. I'm going to get involved at some point here. It's just too good to know. I got to figure out what exactly the ecosystem does. What is it for? Someone asked me, yeah, what does Casper do? I would say go up and down a lot. We have Bitcoin Cash up, is the third biggest gainer of the day, 7 .2%. Rollbit finally shaken off the streak of losses. It is up 6 .7%, Injectives up 6 .5%, and then Huobi up 5 .6%. All right, let's look at the top losers though. It looks like a day of volatility. What's the biggest loser? Nothing really too crazy here. We have Tezos, XTZ, and people aren't feeling XTC when they see the price is the number one dropper for the day, and the top hundred is down 2%, and NEAR, nearly being the biggest loser of the day, it is down 1 .7%. And then APECOIN, just because, you know, I can't open this without seeing one of my coins in the top five of the losers because, hey, I guess I'm the bear symbol or something. I don't know what's going on there. I'm with you there because I see Quant here on my screen sitting at 92 .28. Yeah. That's awesome. That's, you know, the lower Quant gets, I just, you know, I'm completely okay with it. Quant is kind of a magnet to that $100 level, and this is a coin that's in my top five that I believe in a lot moving forward. So anytime you can get Quant on the low, I'm down. Let's get it. This is Matthew Broderick WarGames colors. Great reference. I actually said it looks like a 1984 defense, like, contract hub is actually what I said. So I should have said that. That was a funnier one. What else do we have? Deezy, you missed the boat. You missed the boat on Caspa. Brian Mavor, I told you yesterday to buy Caspa. Should I just buy the wick? Should I just be an idiot and buy the wick? Sometimes you just got to buy the wick. Yeah, buy the top. I like Quant. I like Quant as well, Metaspawn. I have a little bit of Quant. It's been a while since I checked my bag. So guys, make sure you're following us on Discover Crypto, everybody. We're testing new thumbnails. I'm not going to say I'm the biggest fan, but hey, Deezy did a wardrobe change for you for this thumbnail. You might see the black tea underneath it. Maybe I'll do a wardrobe change in the middle of the stream. If you check out Shorts, you can see the big, you can front run the news on Milady's and is really a fed plant project there. It's almost saying no Ewok. What does that even mean? Like the short, oh my God, I walked into that one. I walked into that one. I really walked into that one. All right, guys, let's, you're ready for the biggest news. Let's get it. All right. We have Gary Gensler. He just had some comments. He just was speaking in front of the House Financial Subcommittee. I believe here in the SEC, Gary Gensler demonstrates an unbowed will to stand down from his stance towards crypto ahead of the Senate hearing. Here's the Senate, not the House. Following the commission's partial loss in the SEC versus Ripple lawsuit and an even more clear cut setback and the ETF contention, Gensler is seemingly poised to stand by his gambit, claiming he is out to protect both crypto users and issuers and investors. And in written testimony ahead of the Senate Banking Committee hearing, Gensler stuck to a consistent theme, lying. No, no, no, no, no. He's reiterating that nearly all cryptocurrencies fulfill the Howey test, a legal standard that determines whether an asset or transaction qualifies as an investment contract subject to US securities laws. As I previously said, without prejudicing any one token, the vast majority of tokens likely meet the test. Given that most tokens are subject to the securities laws, it follows that most intermediaries have to comply with securities laws as well, hiding behind vague terminology like most and a vast majority. So, and then also likely meet. So he's staying away from anything where you could point to and say, hey, you issued us a clear cut yes or no. No, he's doing the opposite. He's being vague. He's being obtuse. He's being gray and murky and swirly. And it's all smoke and mirrors, as I say. Likely, likely meet. It's most crypto tokens, most intermediaries. All right, keep scrolling here.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Crashing LIVE! (Vitalik Hacked)
"Welcome to Discover Crypto, everybody. Today is September 11th. Yes, September 11th. It is 11 .34am. You may notice a new change. A little different colors over here. Maybe a little bit of a different logo right there. But we still have the same squad. We still have the same people. We still got AJ. We still got Drew on the ones and twos in the corner. Me and Drew are one step closer to eating MREs. It's going to be fantastic. Guys, we're going to talk about SEC. We're going to talk about XRP. We got an ETH hack. Vitalik got hacked. Did ETH get hacked? Is all your ETH gone? So we're going to talk about the Vitalik hack. Also, FTX. What do they hold, everybody? But guys, we're going to have another video coming out pretty soon. Probably what? After the live stream. Do we know when that's going out, Drew? I'll have to check. We'll have to check. We'll have an answer by the end of the show. We have a video explaining a lot of things, explaining everything. We just hope that you watch it. We'll share it. When as soon as I get the tweet, I'll share it to everybody. But let's just get right into the show. Does that sound good to you, AJ? That sounds great to me. AJ, you look fresh today. You got the gel. You got the cool shoes on. You look tan. You look glowing. How was your weekend? I went to the first round of SMX in Charlotte, North Carolina, working for my weekend job, which is for Racer X Magazine. It's a very well -known motocross industry kind of thing. And I had an absolute blast. Caught up with a bunch of my friends. Spent way too much time in the sun, but hey, probably needed it. And the race was great. I'm excited. I might be going to the last round in two weeks in LA. Oh, did you see Johnny Crypto out there? Nope. He's the other motocross. Guys, we see Bitcoin is dumping. Okay, we're going to look at the charts pretty quickly. We might even bump it up a little bit just to get into it. Let's just pull it up. Let's just get right into the show, everybody. Yeah, you can see a fresh little dump. Let me hit refresh because, guys, it is not looking great on the short term. And even when you zoom out, you're going to see that we kind of broke some key levels. This is the 24 -hour chart for Bitcoin. Currently, we're coming in at $25 ,118. But if you look at the 7 -day, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. We've been trading in this range. We spiked above it, but you just see that flat, flat range. And we go to the 14 -day. In the 30 -day, it looks even more sharp. Just hanging out, hanging out flat, and then we drop below. Let's go to the 30 -day. You see, we haven't fallen below this level in a while. And if we keep going, you'll see even more of the same. Back about around 3 months ago, we dipped down into the $24K level. So as long as we stay above this area, I'm not going to feel super, super scared. Now, you see the dump, AJ. Are you feeling a little worried, a little fear here? Well, I know Kelly is doing TA, but Drew, if you go to my chart really fast, one thing I just want to point out is that this line right here, this yellow line, what I talked about last week, the $25 ,300 area, that is a super important support resistance line from way back here, right? And if we lose this line, I am pretty worried moving forward. Very, very worried moving forward. I'm probably looking to fall to $23 ,000s, maybe worse. But I've been saying it for a while that this line is my make or break right now. So let's hope for the best. And that's Marcus. Wait a minute. What do you got going? Is that trading view or a puddle filled with oil? I didn't clean it up, but this is Lux Algo. With Market Cipher, I run a lot of stuff. It looks like craziness to you guys, but it makes sense to me, but I'll clean it up for next time. It looks like the console from a 1980s sci -fi movie where they showed NASA desk. That's what it looks like. Let's look at the rest of the market here. We have Ethereum down as well. If we pull up this level, you can see we're now at $15 .59, dropping down everybody. We do the same thing we do with Bitcoin. You see we're hitting some levels we haven't seen in a while. And if you go down, we're actually lower than we were three months ago. Bitcoin fell below where we were three months ago. Ethereum is, I mean, held above. Ethereum is falling below, so losing some key areas right there. The 180 day doesn't look better. But when you go to the one year, it doesn't look quite as bad. And it does the same thing for Bitcoin. You click on the one year, it feels bearish. We've been trading sideways. Everything just feels bad. But you click on that one year, kind of puts things in perspective like, okay, maybe it's not all over. Maybe we are on an uptrend on the long term here. All right, let's look at some more coins here. We have BNB down 3%, XRP down 5 whopping percent, everybody. It is down basically the whole week here, down 6 .2%. Keeps growing by. We see Cardano finally broke out of that 25 cent range, been stuck at 25 cents. Now it is below. Am I going to look to buy some cheap Cardano? Maybe not. I might hold off and look for some different alts there. We have Solana down 2 .3 and then TonCoin down 5%. We're going to go to the top losers and have an idea. This is not going to look great. The top gainers, probably going to be stable coins. I don't know. I haven't clicked it myself. Let's see what we got. We have one coin. No, wait, whoa, gold. Gold is up and optimism is up. I don't even know if we should count PAX Gold. So we have one crypto essentially that is up. That is optimism. And then we have a couple gold pegged stable coins that are down. If we go to the top losers, we have RollBit down in the double digits, everybody. I hope you pulled some profits because we are down 27 % on the week. Arbitrum down 14 % on the week and Apecoin down almost 14 % of the week. Apecoin down almost 7%, Arbitrum down almost 10%. Huobi down as well. Radix. Radix always has to get in that top five of gainers or losers. And you can see you kind of hit the mark there. All right, anything standing out to you in the markets? Are you looking to buy some or are you looking to maybe see if we go down lower? I'm waiting to see what's going to happen, especially with the support resistance line on Bitcoin. I'm being patient right now. I'm being patient. I'm sitting out. Yep. All right. Well, some people weren't patient and they saw Vitalik tweet out a link. And they impatiently just snapped in, hit that button, they signed in and they connected their wallet. And next thing you know, they got drained from this Vitalik hack, everybody. But it wasn't his wallet that got hacked. It wasn't his bank account that got hacked. But his ex -account did get hacked, everybody. Ethereum co -creator Vitalik Buterin's ex -account reportedly breached. Hacker makes away with $690K. Did they stop there on purpose? Almost $700K, folks. You can see he was leading to a left of $690K. As per Decrypt, the breach happened on Saturday. A post surfaced on his feed promoting NFTs from a software provider, ConsenSys, which turned out to be a scam link displayed to his almost 5 million followers and asked victims to connect their wallets to mint the NFT. Instead, the hacker gained access to the funds. I believe a couple punks got stolen. So most of what got stolen was NFTs, folks. So just say you got to be careful out there. Maybe people don't have a whole bunch of ETH on the wallet, but they have some NFTs. And so they're out there, they're just clicking things, they're linking things, and it didn't end up going well for those people. So you got to be careful clicking links out there, folks. I think it was a little bit of a FOMO. If I'm guessing what, if you see an hour -long post or, you know, and maybe, but when you see it's, you know, you refresh by following and it's a 14 -second link, you might go ahead and click that because, oh, you know, only 5 ,000. Maybe they go get claimed, you go on Etherscan, you see 17 people did it in the last two seconds. You're just going to FOMO in. You got to be careful out there. It happened. It does happen. It happens. Don't think that includes the values of the stolen punks. I thought it did. I'm not sure. We'll look more into that as this story has time to digest, everybody. Just here to talk about, okay, Tim. Tim and the investing bros are out there 9 to 10 a .m. Everybody, you can check that out. All right.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from AJ Got HACKED! (Here's What Happened)
"Hey what's up, I'm AJ Rice Crypto and I want to be honest with you, this video, pretty embarrassing to make. So I kind of got stuck and then I got hacked and I want to explain what happened to me so it doesn't happen to you. To be fair it wasn't for all of my crypto but it was a good amount of money and I do have a ledger in crypto you know on different places and stuff like that. I've already pretty much have been made whole from what happened luckily like I have friends that help me out and one of them has a pretty loud mouth, I'm sure you get the joke but thanks to Loud for helping me out and I'm trading it back. But basically what happened is I wanted to use a trading bot that a couple of my friends were talking about that was on the Binance Smart Chain. The minimum buy -in was $5 ,000 so I put $5 ,000 and change from Ethereum to Binance using a cross -chain bridge called Seabridge. The transaction Seabridge worked just fine and my money was on Binance. Naturally the same day I moved that money to Binance the trading bot was migrating to like another thing and it was down for a couple of days so I kind of had to sit on the money and just wait for it to you know come back up. At the end of the day I had never actually used the trading bot because I was going to trade in my old car for a better car and I still did that but I wanted to use some of that money that I sent there for my vehicle. So when I went to move my funds back from Binance to Ethereum the same bridge that I used before Seabridge wouldn't let me do that for whatever reason. So I had to find a different bridge to go back to Ethereum and in the past I remember I used this bridge called AnySwap and it worked just fine and then I learned that AnySwap got rebranded to Multichain and I clicked on their Twitter I should have read the tweets underneath I did not you know they had almost 300 ,000 followers a hundred people I follow also follow that page and I just oh they just rebranded everything will be fine. One of the biggest mistakes here is that I didn't even send a test transaction. You know to be honest with you guys I'll keep it real with you like I've been in crypto for a number of years at this point I've personally have written over 300 videos for this company I'm in the game I know what's up I'm well researched I know what I'm talking about and because of that you know I kind of have an ego that gets a little bit too big sometimes and I really think this whole thing was a lesson in disguise because you know it definitely humbled me a lot because if you don't do that due diligence and you don't do your homework this is the kind of things that happen to you and you know it's just a fair reminder that crypto is a treacherous treacherous place and it can be a scary place for your money if you're not careful and if you don't do that homework and don't do your due diligence so lesson learned in that behalf. I did not send a test transaction and I also didn't know that the multi -chain bridge was just kind of not really working anymore but I just assumed because any swap rebranded that it would be fine but this isn't the worst part I sent that $5 ,000 back to ethereum and you know three hours went by and I looked at my metamask and I was like dude it's still not there like what's what's going on here you know what I mean so I went back to the twitter and I clicked on the telegram link that's in their twitter page on multi -chain's twitter page you know and like I said you know 300 ,000 followers 100 people I follow follow this page like I kind of thought that it was legit so I get into the telegram and I say what happened and someone messages me and they say hey like can I call you and I was like yeah sure so I got on the phone and there was this woman on the phone and she was like hey like what happened and I was like well I you know send $5 ,000 on the crosschain bridge and it didn't hit my ethereum yet and she was like can you prove it so I sent her the transaction on bsc scan and she was like oh okay so we just got to get you to claim that money and you'll be able to get it back and I was like oh yeah totally perfect and but then the conversation started to get a little weird she wanted me to download this other app which was just the crypto .com defi app so that's fine because I know that's a real app from crypto .com and then once I imported my metamask she said that she wanted me to change the language to vietnamese and at that point I realized that I was just dealing with a scam like this is already a scam like this this is bad and I panicked while I was on the phone with her and out of just habit I just bought a sappy seal and I moved my sappy seal from my ethereum wallet to a different ethereum wallet and then I just started kind of backpedaling out of the conversation like hey there's no reason I should change my language to vietnamese it was all because the claim button that does not exist on multichain wouldn't so she wanted me to use the browser on the crypto .com defi wallet because apparently it would show up on that browser so I followed her that far but when she wanted me to change my language to vietnamese I knew that something was up and I was just like why won't this claim button show up on this website and then you know we talked for a couple more minutes and then out of nowhere she hung up the phone and I refreshed my metamask and all of the crypto left in my metamask gone disappeared just like that I never gave her my seed phrase I never gave him my passport I never shared my screen I never did anything like that and I still for the life of me don't know how they drainbotted my metamask and you know I talked to Justin Williams about this and he obviously has you know somewhere down the line he's been hacked before too and he told me that you know whatsapp has like an encryption where telegram doesn't have the same encryption that whatsapp has and because of that just because she was on the phone with me that connection is all they needed to get into my metamask and that does not make sense to me I don't know how that works in my mind they need my seed phrase or my passport or something they didn't have any of those things and they still drained the rest of my metamask you know it was a notable amount of money Justin has told me in the past that drainbots have hit him and they took the stablecoins but have not but didn't take the ethereum in my case they took both the stablecoins and the ethereum and the bnb and everything else in my metamask but they did not take my nfts which is very strange but now I'm scared to put you know money back into that metamask to use for gas to get my nfts out so I'm not really sure what to do there but the lesson here at the end of the day is one never go into anything thinking you know everything don't like have that ego like oh like I'm AJ writes crypto I know everything that that mentality is stupid and immature of me to think that way like crypto is still a dangerous place I don't know how to code like I'm not a computer programmer there's a lot of things about crypto I don't know you know this reminded me of that like AJ like yeah you're a smart guy you've written a lot of videos you know what you're talking about but there is a degree that I don't know and because of that I still have to do that due diligence I still have to do my homework I still have to read everything carefully if I would have done 10 more minutes on multi -chain or sent a test transaction like none of this would have happened but you know I was in a big hurry I was just trying to get the money back I wasn't thinking I was not thinking and this is normally how this stuff happens and on also don't click any links that you don't know about apparently just getting on that telegram phone call with that woman without her knowing my password without her knowing my seed phrase they can wipe your metamask just like that from a phone call connection from telegram that is news to me it might be news to you and if you don't believe me well it happened and they stole my money I just don't want to see anyone else out there make the same mistake I did uh you know luckily like I said I have friends I've I've you know I've been made whole and I'm trading it back and I will I will pay them back but you know it is nice that like I'm not completely drowning and like I said it wasn't all of my crypto but it was a lot of money and it does really really sting but hey it's a bear market we still have plenty of time to accumulate leading up and really I think this is the challenge that I needed uh you know I had a pretty good head start and I was like kind of doing the moon math in my head I'm like well where I would be if this goes into this by 25 or the next bull run or whatever and and all that's out the window and that was a lot of work and that was a lot of effort and it's embarrassing it's embarrassing but at the same time this is a teaching moment and there's a silver lining for for you guys that to not make the same mistakes I did and as much as it pains me to come on camera and talk about how I was hacked for you know as much money as I was hacked for it's very embarrassing but the the point is is that I don't want it to happen to you so with that being said I mean I love you guys and be careful out there and at least I get to report that loss to the police and it'll help with taxes I guess so you know there's a win there and with all that said my name is AJ writes crypto and I hope you have yourself a great day.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Ethereum Spot ETF: Bullish Or Nothingburger?
"Oh, welcome to the morning. Ow! My foot. Welcome to the morning stream, everybody. We're going to discover some crypto news today. It is September 7th. It's 11 .31 a .m. Eastern Standard Time. 8 .30 for the West Coast, folks. They're still waking up. They're still getting sleep out their eyes. Is it sleep or sleet? I remember I used to think it was sleet out your eyes. Sleet. What a weird name, right? I don't know. I never heard sleet out your eyes. Eye boogers? What do you call eye boogers? Eye boogers is what I usually say. Chat, let us know. Guys, make sure you're hitting that like today. We got some huge news with Van Eck talking about the ETH ETF, also Ripple Labs. We got Ripple Labs CTO revealing some secret XRP news, but we're going to try to guess because someone put out a list of like, hey, I bet you're going to do four or five of these things. He said, we're definitely doing two of them. So we're going to look at that list and maybe try to make some XRP predictions. It'll be pretty cool. We got the China ban, some Cardano news, and Reddit NFL stuff. Where are the NFL fans at? What's your team, Tim? I don't have an NFL team. I love the NFL. I grew up in Tampa, so you could maybe say the Bucks, but I don't really like the Bucks either. I don't know. I always have a team I choose. Right now, I really like more recent years what Detroit is doing. So I'm kind of a lion's fan. What is it? Barry Sanders? I was a Barry Sanders fan. Barry Sanders is a goat. I was but no, I love the coach at Detroit right now. If you guys like Detroit Lions, let him know in chat. Tim, do you know how much a pirate pays to get his ear pierced? I feel like that's an obvious answer that it's not coming to the tip of my brain right now. So go ahead and tell me the punchline. It's a buccaneer. Oh my God. There we go. That's good one. You hated it, didn't you? I'm sorry. All right, let's just get to the crypto news, folks. All right, CoinGecko, what is going on, everybody? We are down a little bit, but not too much. Let's hit that refresh. I lied. We're up, baby. We're moving up. We're up 0 .8%. It looks like market cap still largely coming in at 1 .08 trillion. 24 -hour volume is down slightly, $31 billion. Bitcoin dominance not really moved that much. Looks like it's actually down 0 .2 % and gas coming in at 27 Gwei. All right, let's look at the markets. We have Bitcoin up half of 1 % and Ethereum up only 0 .3%. Really not exciting news off that ETF, so the markets haven't reacted that strongly. BNB up 0 .4%, XRP up 0 .4%. Keep scrolling though, we don't really see too much stuff. I mean, just to get into the single digits, you got to get out of the top 10, go all the way down to Tron. Tron is up 1 .6. Very, very boring. So let's look at the exciting charts here. This is the biggest gainers and the biggest losers of the day. When you say biggest loser of the day, don't say DZ or don't say DZ's portfolio, although it might be, we're going to find out. The biggest gainer is Render. Render is up 6%. Stellar. Stellar was down and beaten down hard yesterday. I thought Stellar was down earlier today, so it's made a little turn out. Yeah, let's click on that chart. We'll see once we click on that seven -day, you can kind of see where we went from a negative into positive. Yeah, so you can see right there at one point, this is about 24 hours ago right around here. So yeah, at one point, yeah, it was just down and down heavy, but now since we kind of capitulated from that bottom, it's looking a little bit better. It is up, let's click on it one more time, was it 4 .2%, Iota up 4 .1%, Casper continuing to leave the station without DZ on board. Casper, please turn around, hit the brakes, do a U -turn, crash into a ditch, do something, let me pump up a bag, let me fill up a bag of Casper. We have Maker up 3 .4%, Algorand up 2 .6%, so I know AJ's excited about that one. Let's look at the biggest losers, though, the biggest losers of the day in the top 100 crypto market cap here. We have number one, not too much, folks, it's only down 1 .5%, that is nothing for crypto, especially with a gaming slash gambling token like RollBit, followed by Shiba Inu down 0 .7%. But then the graph, the graph is, you know, firmly under a dime, now coming in at $0 .08. I think, you know, it touched around a nickel, even a little bit lower at one point, let's just see, not even that long ago. Get out of here, yeah, yeah, yeah, cookies, something, yeah, whatever, I like them. All right, let's click the one year. Yeah, we got close to a nickel, I think it went below a nickel on some exchanges. But when you look at the 30 -day, it's looking down, but maybe find a little bit of support at this 8 .5%, so it looks like it touched it right there, touched it right there, and still kind of hanging out above it. Do you like the graph? No, I mean, I don't own any of it, so. How do you feel about the graph of the graph right here? I prefer charts to graphs for a trading view, but, you know, it's not worthless to see the charts or the graphs on, was that Core Market Cap or was that Gecko? Oh, this is Gecko. Yeah, they're not worthless, I just, it's easier to see a chart, so. Okay, okay, so you're more of a chart guy, not a graph guy, so you like Magellan, not, I don't know, I don't know my, I don't know where you're going with that one, yeah. I don't know, some sort of worldwide maritime chart person, I mean, Drew, Drew probably knows. Oh, God, they weren't escaping me. Can you look at the stars and know where you're going? Absolutely, that's what they did for thousands of years. It was like the North Star, that's about the extent of my knowledge. Listen, the fact that, do you just know that people were constantly going back and forth from Europe to different places in the United States in a time where all they had was the stars and they kept going at the same place over and over again, those stars worked pretty good. All right, all right, well, you know who's the star of 2021? Some say it was Ethereum. Ethereum, you know, blew up, had huge, huge gains, outsized relative to Bitcoin, but then when it fell, also fell outsized relative to Bitcoin. Well, it looks like ETH is trying to get another ETF on the board here. You know, first, got a lot of companies that started with Bitcoin, and now we have VanEck officially starting the in the coming days. The race for the spot ETF has officially begun after the Chicago board options exchange will ultimately start the clock for an SEC decision. Let's see, they filed these to be listed on CBOE's BZX exchange as the Chicago board options exchange and a pair of tweets. Looks like as opposed to the previously submitted filings, this finally means that the countdown is now in motion. The race is on saying, guys, this is a long, long deadline from now. We're not talking about next month. We're not talking about next week. Talking about March of next year. 3 -2 -3, 3 -2 -3 -2 -4. No, no, 5 -2 -3 -2 -4 there. Keep scrolling, keep scrolling. ARK Invest and 21Shares teamed up to file the S1 of the SEC on the 6th, although VanEck's filing dates back to July of 2021. They were trying to do this years and years ago, but now maybe the SEC might take it seriously. On the 17th, SEC reportedly singled its intention to Ethereum approve futures products while several firms including Grayscale and BlackRock are currently fighting to get the Spot Bitcoin. So we have ETH futures, Spot Bitcoin, and now we have Spot ETF in the process right now. Alright, so what is going to happen though? Some people are saying approval is inevitable. You know what's also inevitable? The fact that you're going to hit the like button in the next three seconds. Hurry, hurry, I'm starting to count down three. You only have two seconds to move the mouse, grab it one. You feel that? Oh my God, it's just a huge wave of relief and awesomeness just crashed over your body. Alright, let's talk about this approval though. Approval is inevitable. SEC Insider primes crypto market for a $15 trillion Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP price ETF game changer. These major cryptocurrencies could be headed into one of their biggest ever months. One crypto watcher has said it's going to be crazy. He said it's going to be like a movie, man. Last night was a movie. Now former SEC chair Jay Clayton has said eventual approval of a Spot ETF is inevitable following the SEC punting a decision on the ETF filings from the managers who looked after a combined $15 trillion until October. Looks like he's maybe looking at the fact that they punted the ball. They didn't go for it on fourth down. That's for you, football fan. Maybe because they didn't say no, and they said, I'm going to kick the can down the road. Instead of saying no, he's saying a yes is inevitable. But the signaling of the kicking of the can down the road. But it's not all roses. It's not all balloons and clown faces for Ethereum. There was a hack in this summer reporting. This is the largest fishing hack in history for Ethereum at least. It looks like this crypto whale lost $24 million in staked Ethereum to a fishing attack. Looks like they were transferred into the fully automatic exchange fixed float. Never heard of it. Here we have Joaquin, Joaquin dancing down the stairs. Cryptocurrency whale has fallen victim to a massive fishing attack, losing millions in staked Ether on the liquid staking provider Rocket Pool.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from MetaMask Partners with the World's BIGGEST Payment Firm!
"Welcome to The Morning Show, everybody. It is 1130 a .m. and it's September 6th. I'm here with AJ and the Druth. Hey, everybody. We have a great show lined up, everybody. We're going to talk some XRP and Asia. We're talking about Bitcoin millionaires, Bitcoin billionaires. We got some Tether news as well and also BlackRock doing some things and Coinbase taking action. And also, do you want to own Justin Bieber royalties as an NFT? We're going to talk about that as kind of a fun story right there. And then also, we might point out richest the person in every American state. We have the richest person in all 50 states. We're not going to go through all of them, but a little bit of fun with that. It's a pretty cool graphic too. How are we all doing today? Make sure you hit that like button, everybody. I think it's just time for us to just get right into the show. Make sure you're subbed to our channel here. Guys, make sure you follow me on XDZ underscore BTC. We're going to have the X minute at the end of the show. It's going to be a blast. You're going to definitely want to see what I've been tweeting and liking here, everybody. But let's just look at the markets. We've actually reduced the amount of coins by four. How do you lose your coin status on CoinGecko, AJ? You really got to mess up, I guess. I don't know. I don't know. Bear market, man. Bear market things, everybody. There's 848 exchanges. I need to start looking at that number as well. We are down, but you know what? Let me hit that refresh button. Sometimes DZ can bring us into the positive. It didn't work this time. $1 .07 trillion. 24 -hour volume is way down, though. We're not coming in at 29 billion. We're close to 50 just yesterday. Gas is only 33 gwei. Bitcoin dominance coming in at 46 .3. Feeling pretty good about my bet with Tim. Tim thinks it's going to go to 60%. It would be 62%, I think, or maybe 58 % on CoinGecko. We're going by the trading view metric. Feeling good about it, though, everybody. Now, let's look at the prices. We have Bitcoin. Bitcoin's down 0 .4%, everybody. We have Ethereum down 0 .7%. The markets, looks like the markets are really only down 0 .3%, 0 .2%. I wonder if that means there's a Tether print somewhere. XRP down 1%. We have Lido Stake Ether down right under 1%. Solana, losing a lot of those gains, folks. It is down 4 .5%. Didn't hold $20. AJ, how do you feel about Solana? I mean, can't seem to get past $20 and hold it. Yeah, I mean, it's definitely a psychological number, no question about that. I mean, the Visa news, it was big. I'm surprised people didn't pile in more, but it kind of just goes to show that the macro is more scary right now, especially everything that I've been seeing on the charts. September is never a good look. In general, the past six Septembers in a row have been bearish. Even in the bull run, still a bearish month. I just think the odds are stacked against Solana, despite the bullish news. And I think the odds are stacked for Chainlink, everybody. We have Chainlink up a little bit, up .4 1 % on this red day. XLM down 4 .5%. Chainlink, we're going to talk about some Chainlink as well. All right, let's look at the top gainers of the day. I heard if you hit the like button, you quadruple your chances that this will match your portfolio. So I'm gonna give you two seconds to go ahead and do it. One, two, all right, you clicked it. All right, now we have Casper. I didn't buy my Casper, AJ. Why didn't you tell me to buy Casper? It's my fault. You know why? I did. I did. And I didn't text you on purpose. I knew it. So why do you want to take food from my future children's mouths? It's not like that. Why do you want my dogs to starve? Do you hate dogs? No, I love dogs. I have a dog. I have a dog, Indy. All right, we have Crypto Savvy with the Super Chat. Still thinking we're going below 10k. I'm still thinking we're not Crypto Savvy. Hey, if we go below 10k, I'll give you a respectful Japanese bow. I won't go like full 90 -degree right angle, like submissive janitor looking at the CEO, but I'll give you a respectable bow there. Savvy says below 10k. AJ, do we go below 10k? Wait, below 10k on what? Bitcoin. On Bitcoin. Oh, God, no. I thought you were talking about something else. No way. No way. Santana, no need to delete that, Santana. There's no need to delete that. All right, we have Casper .2%. up 13 Again, I feel like I missed the boat. I bought 5 Chainlink instead like an idiot. Maybe I'll feel smart about it in the future, but I feel dumb today because I didn't buy Casper. We have Synthetix Network. It is up 5%. We have ThorChain up 3 .4%. Radix is always in that top 5 of losers and gainers here. Iota up 2%. And then, hey, you know, we do have Chainlink coming in at number 7 or number 8 there. All right, now let's hit the top losers. Okay, these are coins going down, going down the most. And it looks like Solana, followed by Stellar, then followed by RollBitCoin. So if you look at the weekly though, down 7%, down 2 .5%. So Stellar was in the green for the week until yesterday or until today, and then RollBit is down almost 20 % for the week there. We have eGold, also known as MultiverseX, down 3 .3%. Stacks, Stacks and Radix, always like hanging out in these top 5 areas. I don't know why. Then we have Casper, XDC. And after that, about 2 .5%. Nothing super, super crazy. Although we do have Gala. I was about to say, I'm surprised Gala is not down way more considering what happened there. I see a lot of people tweeting about the 1 .5%. So maybe there's something just a little bit psychological about the 1 .5 % there or 1 .5 cents there. So a lot of people are saying, hey, you know, it's beaten down so much. I'm going to buy more. So I think just people coming in and feeling good about that coin. Like we said, they probably just need one good, one good game. And then I expect a lot of positive price action. Nothing about the tokenomics, just a lot of positive price action. I also remember yesterday we looked at the Gala chart. It's like right at that double bottom. It didn't fall through that floor, which is good for like a reversal idea. But at the same time, it got completely wrecked from where it was even earlier this year. I remember Gala was one of the really big movers in the beginning of the year. Lost all of that momentum, but at least it didn't fall through and put in a lower low, double bottom. Hey, we have Armie Piper in the chat. I followed you today. Make sure you follow Armie Piper, everyone. I'm going to go work out and listen in. Cheers, chat. You take it easy. Armie Piper, hey, he's never, he's about the crypto gains, but he's about the real life gains too. Make sure you work your core, Armie Piper. Don't just go for the fluff muscles, talking to you, the people that curl in the squat rack. All right, you ready to talk about the main story here, MetaMask? Sure. Do you use MetaMask? Of course you use MetaMask. Of course I use MetaMask. So MetaMask is now allowing crypto cash out to PayPal and banks, but the fees could be high, folks. All right, there's a little bit of an asterisk here. They are the biggest self -custodial hot wallet. They have over 22 million users and they've added the option for users to convert cryptocurrencies into fiat like USD. As a growing list of Web3 players strive to make digital assets usable in the real world, the cash out feature initially supports the conversion of only ETH and two types of fiat depends on one location, but from there, MoonPay will take over and send the ETH to a user's designated bank account after calculating the exchange rate. Within minutes, the funds will show up in your bank. Users can also withdraw to PayPal, which is already a partner of MetaMask here. Let's see how the costs are divvied up according to MetaMask demo using MoonMask. The user chooses to withdraw 0 .5 % Ether. That's going to be roughly 80 bucks. It looks like this much is going to get gassed and then this much gets sold. So it looks like they're peeling off almost 20 % right there. Wait a minute. No, no, no. They're coming in and saying it's 8%. That's the, oh, that means there's an additional transaction cost. Okay. So we're not counting the gas fee in that total right there. Yeah, 0 .5. Okay. 0 .604.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from This Altcoin Could SKYROCKET Next Bull Market! (XRP Changing Focus?)
"America is not just going to hand over the world reserve to a crypto project. There has to be like some sort of war involved, in my opinion, for America to give the dollar away as a world reserve and then there would have to be another country that is the world that breaks nations or something like that would be the world reserve. Let's talk about Visa. All right, throw your Vs up in the air. Visa expands stablecoin settlement options to Solana. This just sounds a boring way. Stablecoins, Visa, and Solana. This is huge, folks. Visa expanded its USDC stablecoin settlement capabilities to Solana, former partnerships with WorldPay and Nuvei, I think it is. Ari said it's moved millions of USDC over the Solana and ETH blockchains to settle payments through VisaNet. They announced this will include Solana blockchain in addition to existing capabilities on Ethereum, so they partnered with WorldPay. All right, here we go. Q Sheffield, head of crypto at Visa, said that the move aims to speed up cross -border settlements and provide a stablecoin payment option for clients. This announcement also marks Visa inclusion of Solana as the supported blockchain for settlements, making it one of the first major payment companies to do so. This is huge, huge news for Solana. It makes that $20 Solana look kind of attractive, though. Now, can it go past $250 since the whole FTX collapsed? There's a won't be manipulated to the upside anymore. Guys, I still feel like Solana could still pull the 10x here. I agree. I ran some numbers on Solana. I am going to do a Solana price prediction this week. I pivoted last week. But with that said, hold on, what's so funny? Crypto Face said, why are you capping? No, Crypto said, no, someone just made that up. OK. With Solana's supply, I looked into that. It has grown a little bit over 35 % since the top of the last bull run. And I still think that as it's kind of adopting, picking up bigger partnerships like this, it's going and we all know how much the VCs love Solana. I feel like Solana is destined to pump. And I don't know, I feel like the supply has gone up, you know, 35%. But that's not that bad compared to the supply situations in other coins. I don't know. I think I think you could put in a new all -time high in the next run. It doesn't file coin supply issues. Yeah, it didn't gala or the graph for optimism. We don't talk about meta money like that. All right, let's talk about Solana, though. Solana emerges as top choice for altcoins. Speaking to AJ's point with record inflows, so the VCs do love some Solana there. Institutional interest in altcoins may have waned, but one coin seems to be weathering the storm, weathering the storm better than the attendees of Burning Man. Solana year -to -date inflows have surged million 26 since the beginning of the year, according to a September 4th Fund Flows Weekly report by CoinShares. Notably, Solana has experienced an inflow worth $700K over the past week, while investors have pulled out $8 million and $3 million from Polygon and Ethereum, respectively, during the same period. Reports indicate that Shopify has integrated Solana Pay with this payment option with the support of Stablecoin USDC. So we got Solana still making headway, still, you know, doing the thing as far as partnerships. It's like they're Polygon, but they're like, hey, we're a little bit faster, maybe a little bit cheaper. Nando said Deezy growing out his hair. He said he's getting braids. All right. I didn't know that's where that was going to end. I don't know if my hairline can support the braids. We'll be starting way back here, folks. No, this is the longest my hair's been since 2020. Jess Jim says, congrats, Deezy and Kat. Yeah. Big news. Yeah. I got, you know, publicly I'm engaged over the weekend. She said yes. She said yes. She said yes. Congratulations, bro. Hey, thank you. Thank you. When are you going to pop the question? You know, you know, kind of answering this on a public, you know, we are on a live stream. But yeah, so Jayden and I have been together for over five years now. And now that we hit the five year mark, we've been having the conversation more and more and more. It feels like more real. Like once you hit five years, like you're in, but it's gonna, it's gonna happen eventually. Well, let's keep it on you, man. So, you know, where did you propose? Like, how did it, how did it go? Like, give me the scenario. It was her birthday. I took her to a nice little restaurant. Then we came home. I had her hang on the driveway for about 30 seconds. And then I had hearts laying out on the floor. Then, you know, we had a ring record everything. So that's, that's how I did it. Well done. You know, I tried to get down to one knee. I fell over. I kind of rolled a little bit, fumbled it out of my pocket. Threw up on my work. It was, it was good though. It was still, she still said yes. Still said yes. Good. Okay. So the 8k sounds like we missed a lot of context. Heard it on a stream earlier today. Tell us who, Kyre, so we can call him out. All right, now let's talk about Vitalik calling out Maker. He sold the tokens. He said it stinks like sulfur, like hell. Maker tokens. He sold them as MakerDao co -founder pushes for a Solana -based new chain. Looks like Vitalik did not like that at all. He was, he was, he was just bothered. He was bothered. I was going to make a pun about, you know what, I decided not to. Vitalik sold around 580k worth of Maker tokens after Rune Christensen advocated launch in the project's new chain on a Solana -based platform. We keep scrolling here. Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana co -founder, clarified that the proposed new Maker chain has nothing to do with Solana's main net or the ongoing Ethereum versus Solana debate. The Ethereum co -founder also paid a visit to the Discord channel of the rival stablecoin platformer, Reflexer Finance, where he encouraged the community to expand their collateral options to liquidity staking derivatives on Ethereum.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Solana Is Back! (Top Crypto News)
"Welcome to BitBoy Crypto! Home of the BitSquad, the largest and greatest crypto community, and all the Interwebs. Come to us if you want to discover all things crypto. It is September 5th. It's 11 .31am. We got AJ on the side. AJ, how are you doing? How was your three -day weekend? It was awesome, actually. I had a really, really good time. Jada's back from the West Coast, and we just kind of hung out, went shopping, got a bunch of groceries, you know, just did the normal, normal, normal weekend. So you spent like $2 ,000, $3 ,000? Nah, like $400, $500. Okay. But it's still, you know... It's still a quarter ETH? Yeah. Still a quarter ETH. But hey, no big deal. Drew, how was your Labor Day weekend? It was real good. Real good. Lots of work, a lot of trees cutting, a lot of things moving. I'm making a road. I'm moving and building in. All right. Guys, we're going to be talking about Solana and the stablecoin, of course. We got some Bitcoin news as well. Also, China dumping. What's happening with that? Jim Cramer just turned bullish on this top 10 altcoin. Guys, we're not kidding. We're going to talk about that as well. Should you start selling? Is it a short? Is it a long? Also, we got some Elon Musk stuff, and also Cassio, huge watch guy, G -Shock, partnering with Matic. That's pretty big news. And we're going to talk about Gala as well. Then we got the X news, and Deasy has crazy, crazy life news, folks. I just posted something up. Some of you who follow me on Instagram or X might see it as well. All right. We're adjusting the camera for AJ. Okay. Okay. AJ, you're just too tall. Just a tall strapping lad. I should try. Should I scoot down? Okay. I'm good. I'm kidding. We're good now. Guys, make sure you're following us on YouTube. We've got a lot of great videos coming out. We're going to keep putting out the awesome stuff. We just got some BNB stuff you're going to want to make sure you follow. Let's get right into the crypto market cap, though. Look at coins, AJ. Look at the number of coins. You see that? So many coins. Let's just stop, everybody. Just stop. No more coins. Of course, we know there's tens of thousands extra besides not listed here. Market cap is down. I kind of want to hit refresh. Just make sure we have that fresh, fresh data because Deasy just turned the market green, folks. That's the power of Deasy. That's the power of you hitting that like button. Now we're coming up 0 .2 % to the upside here. It is 1 .8 trillion, essentially. 24 -hour volume looking pretty good for a Tuesday off a holiday weekend, 45 billion. Bitcoin dominance, 46 .3. Tim is sick. He's working from home. If you watch the Investing Bros, you probably saw him. He was in his basement, his bunker. He had like a towel on his head, a big box of tissues the whole time, but he still brought the alpha, though, for sure. Did he get COVID from Jill Biden? Oh, I hope not. I hope not because he has a baby. Let's hope it's not COVID. It's just normal, human sick, nothing crazy. Yeah, let's just hope it's normal. I think he can fare better as well as the baby better than people in their 80s, though. Gas is really, really low, folks. If you're looking to get into some alts, I will say this. I peeled off, put some back into some ETH this morning. I'm not going to say what, but I did grab some ETH this morning. Peeled off a quarter, quarter ETH, aka AJ's grocery budget there. All right, let's look at the coins in Bitcoin is down 0 .4%. So what does that mean? It means the other coins are going to be picking up the load here. So we have Ethereum. It is up 0 .4%. We have XRP up 0 .2%. Cardano almost up 1%. Dogecoin up 1 .6%. But then Solana kind of taking it home here. It is now 4 .1 % to the upside. Ton coin fell a ton. It is down 6 .4. Polygon also picking up some good news with the watchmaker. You might be g -shocked to see it go up 2 .8%. All right, let's look at the top gainers, everybody.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin's BEARISH Month! (September Crash Coming?)
"Welcome to BitBoy Crypto, my name is AJ, and I'm sure you all know how much I love music. I'm listening to a very specific Green Day song today, and it's a red day on the charts. Already I'm not surprised. Yes, historically, September is a bearish month. In fact, the past six Septembers in a row have been bearish, and the question is, will this September be the same? Regardless of the direction of the overall trend, I can't help but noticing that all of these Septembers act as the setup before the bigger move, and I think that is more important. In September of 2017, yeah, from beginning to end, Bitcoin went down 7%. There's so much more that happens in the middle than taking start to finish at face value. Like the first half of the month, Bitcoin actually fell 42 % down below 3 ,000, and then once it hit that bottom, that was the start of the reversal for a much bigger move. 94 days later, it pumped 587 % to 9 ,600. 2018 was a similar story, but it was going the other direction. Yeah, from start to finish, Bitcoin only fell 5%, but from the start of October to mid -December, Bitcoin fell over 50%. In 2019, the bulls got trapped because Bitcoin pumped 12 % in the first three days of the month, and then it fell almost 30 % the next 26 days. That was one of the biggest drops of that year, but at the end of the day, from start to finish, it was only recorded as a 13 % loss. Do you see what I'm getting at here? Yes, it is a bearish month historically, but taking it at face value of the drop could be deceitful based off of the bigger move. Look at 2020. Overall, it was a very bullish year, a 300 % move to the upside from start to finish, but September was still a bad month. In the first four days, we crashed 16%, and the rest of the month was spent recovering from that crash. The net loss was 7 .5%, but look at the bigger move. From the start of October, Bitcoin spent the next almost 200 days pumping 500%. 2021 sort of follows the same idea. We all know that 2021 was the year Bitcoin put in its all -time high, and although September from start to finish was a 7 % crash, the fall that month was the higher low that led to the all -time highs. Always take the bigger picture into account. 2022 is no different. Look at the overall bearish trend from the terrible time we had last year. I remember the buildup to the September bearish sentiment, and the market did its best to trap the traders. The first six days of the month, Bitcoin stutter -stepped down 7 % below 20K, and right when everyone went short, thinking it was going to crash down further, it rebounded 23 % from top to bottom in the next six days, trapping the bears. When the bears got trapped, it rebounded past 20K and past the 50 -day EMA, so now the bulls thought that it was going to retest 25K, and everyone went long. Naturally, again, the bulls were the ones who got trapped, and from top to bottom, Bitcoin fell 20 % back under 20K in the next six days. September last year, Bitcoin battled in a big range, fighting over the 20K level, but if you're only looking at the month as a whole, start to finish, it only lost 3 .1%. My point here is that there is always more to the story than just A to B returns for whatever month, and sure, September is bearish, but it always leads to the bigger move. Even last year, after the fight for 20K in September, Bitcoin put in its local low in the 15 ,000 two months later. So of course, you're thinking, AJ, what's going to happen now? Look at this chart on your screen here. Do you see that yellow line across the middle there? That's around the 25 ,200 level, and this is the support resistance level that is the deal breaker in my eyes. The bigger picture for 2023 has been bullish overall, but things have been a little scary since the high in July. As of right now, Bitcoin is above that 25K, but if it loses that same level and puts in a lower low, that would structurally break its pattern in a big way, and that could be the precursor for the future bearish action. On the flip side, that same support resistance line we're headed to could act as a big spring that projects us back up to the 30 ,000 and put in another higher high. What scares me is that when we pumped up at the end of August and immediately got shut down, that rejection counts as a higher low. We got rejected from the 200 day moving average, we got rejected from the 50 line on the RSI, we're looking bearish on the momentum oscillators, and the current price action is dead smack in the middle of a low volume node. There's not another big spike in volume until we get around the 23 ,000 level, and if we did fall to that 23 ,000, that would be a break of structure and I would expect more downside from there. Listen, you guys know me, you know my style. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you it could go up or down. I'm going to tell you that that support resistance line is the deal breaker, and as much as I hate to say it, my guess is that we are going to lose that line and continue down before we turn around for the pre -halving pump. To be fair, I think that the bottom is already in, and whenever we turn around from the dump that's about to happen, that is going to be the higher high that takes us up to the next bull run. Let me know what you think in the comments down below. Am I being too bearish or are we gonna bounce off the support resistance line? Catch me in the price prediction department this Sunday, and that's all I got. Have yourself a great weekend.
TED Radio Hour
"aj" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
"It's the ted radio hour from npr. I'm newsom roti and today we're spending the hour talking to writer. Aj jacobs about his journey on the gratitude chain with ted talks that have inspired him along the way including one by benedictine monk david stein. No great food living. That is the thing. And how can we live gratefully experiencing becoming aware that every moment is a given moment as we say it's a gift you haven't earned it you haven't wanted about in any way you have no way of showing that there will.
TED Radio Hour
"aj" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
"It's the ted radio hour from npr. I'm a newsom roti. And today we're spending the hour talking to writer. Aj jacobs about his journey on the gratitude chain with ted talks that have inspired him along the way including one by benedictine monk david stein. No great food living. That is the same. And how can we live gratefully experiencing becoming aware that every moment is a given moment as we say it's a gift you haven't earned it you haven't wanted about in any way you have no way of showing that there.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"aj" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"Is this the thing that will finally maybe take down the former crack and meth head Hunter Biden. This asshole probably not but we can hope. So it turns out this prick used the N word a bunch of times in conversations with his white $845 an hour lawyer because we found some text, not me. But text messages of what this lawyer will revealed. And these texts have to be embarrassing for his dad. Joe, the resident in The White House who just last week gave this big speech to creating racism on the hundredth anniversary of the Tulsa massacre and how racism is systemic. Yeah. Well, guess what? He can't like this because Hunter Biden has a text back in January 2019 to his corporate attorney about having a big penis and he said to the lawyer quote, I only love you because you're black and true that nigga. Sorry, you want to cancel me for saying the word, then can we please fucking cancer Hunter Biden too? How much can this asshole get away with? Without getting canceled of being removed from any position in life. Another text earlier, he wrote to a Chicago lawyer saying, how much money do I owe you because nigga, you better be charging me Hennessy rates. You better not be charging me, Hennessy with. He's the whitest guy in America. His father thinks that racism is so crucial in such a problem with white America. Has he seen his sons fucking text?
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"aj" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"But I tried to think about how much money it costs someone to get to the higher levels of Scientology. It's insane. As members get higher in the Scientology church. They are expected. You got to keep taking courses. And courses can run from 6 or 700 bucks for a beginner's class. And those escalate into several thousands of dollars per course. Then there's the audits. They ordered you the audience cost 800 bucks per hour. And all those books on dianetics, there are 12 basic books in Scientology and the package plus $4000. Imagine getting that Bill, you got to get your textbook for the next semester. Here, 12 books, $4000. And by the way, they make certain members buy those books multiple times whenever Scientology says, oh, that book got updated, get a new copy. You know, they don't put like a little pamphlet inside saying, here's what this no, get a whole new fucking time. And they already tell members that libraries have a demand for the books. And they encourage their members to buy multiple book packages and then donate to libraries. They have all these lectures and audio CDs from L Ron Hubbard. You've got to buy that. They want you to donate to the church's causes. You got to pay a membership fee. Then the Church of Scientology, they want you to pay the charge 10% of your gross income. Look, as you climb up the ranks, these programs run into tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Basically, it's not unusual for somebody to spend over a half a $1 million to reach the top tier of
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"aj" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"I don't want to try to make this funny, but if this, if this was a days of our forefathers, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Britney Spears would be wearing a very big powdered white wig to hide the clumps of hair that are falling out of her head because of this venereal disease. It's that bad. There's a bigger story here that said, it's too delicate for the press to ever touch, but I wanted to at least shed some light on it because no one else does. I've sat on it for a long time. You know, I want to hand it because look, it shows how carelessly she was treated and not looked after properly as a young girl. And on the other hand, it also shows us just how sad life can be for people who think who we think have it all. When in reality, we don't have no idea if their level of misery and they can't tell us why. So when you see these videos of her rocking back and forth that are fucking palatial mansion, dancing to dream on at 2 o'clock in the morning with short shorts and all the extensions in two day old makeup and understand what's going on in her life and more importantly with her health. And beyond the mental health aspect of it. But meanwhile, this court appointed attorney for Britney Spears said during the latest conservatorship hearing last week, that she wants to talk to the judge in court. Brittany wants to speak. They said that conservatives requested that I seek from the court, a status hearing at which she can address the court directly. And hopefully this will happen with the next 30 days. Obviously, everybody got more interested in Britney's case since the release of that framing Britney Spears documentary that The New York Times put out on FX and Hulu back in February. It sparked a social media conversation about the singer's treatment by the media and by some of those people she trusted the most. And many of her fans have actively participated in an online free Britney campaign as you know, their crazy about her, they're calling for an end to the oversight of her life and affairs. But Britney himself has never directly addressed this situation.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"aj" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"I'm thinking about my voice. I could hear it's different. I know when I'm different. I know I know I'm known for having a distinctive voice. You know, I know way back in the day, I knew my voice was something I could use as a tool as an instrument as another distinctive part of whatever I have in my, I hate to say this word. Weaponry, but where the fuck I have as a performer actor, whatever, writer, your voice is a big part of it. And I remember when I got the mysteries and scandals job, way back in 98, I didn't know just what a recognizable distinctive voice could do to people yet. I had never dawned on me. Now, you know, I don't want the thing about voices are, especially with television. You know, when you're in someone's living room where someone's bedroom at midnight, well, they TiVo you and play you with 2 o'clock in the morning and suddenly it's very intimate your voice. That's why to me, podcasts that are even more intimate than television because there's something about a voice just going directly into your ear. You know, women fall in love with their ears, men fall in love with their eyes. George Hamilton told me that. And I got to be honest with you. I've never in my life this sounds so narcissistic. But honestly, I've had women talk to me about my voice since this podcast began and said crazy things about my voice and I take it as a compliment, but I remember getting letters back in the day from gay men from guys in prison from housewives about my voice. One woman wrote to me that she would begin to masturbate as soon as she heard the first notes of the mysteries and scandals show and when I talked to say like, you know, Marilyn Monroe, she was a sexy sultry siren, but as soon as she heard me begin to speak, she would start playing with herself. And she would write me and say, I'd climax before you get to your name. How many J benza? Join me as we take a look at Marilyn Monroe, whatever the fuck that means. It is what it is, but I thought if they go, wow, voice is a big thing.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"aj" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"Fay ray, and the screenwriter Robert riskin, they were an early Hollywood power couple. They each had a very lasting legacy in that town this town. Ray fay ray more people know she's more easily, you know, in definable. She she's the most famous scream queen of them all if you want to get technical. And Robert riskin probably considered the father of the romantic comedy. So they were quite a couple. I mean, men loved fay ray before she was with risking. She was married to a guy named John monk Saunders who was a Rhodes scholar who wrote the story for the first best picture Oscar winner wings, he ended up taking all of her fucking money and kidnapping their daughter. Jesus, later fay ray has a love affair with the playwright Clifford O debts. He's no slouch. And then she starred on stage opposite Archibald leech, and he fell head over heels in love with her, and this was before he changed his name to Cary Grant. Gary Cooper was hot and bought all the Fay Wray. They were in a few films together. But Robert risking a little less recognizable, but like I said, he penned great stuff. He wrote the Frank Capra movies meet John Doe, mister deeds goes to town and it happened one night with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable. He actually invented the term doodle for mister deeds. Actually, when Adam Sandler remade mister deeds, he kept enough of the original script to give Robert riskin a screen credit. It's pretty cool. But brisket was no slouch himself. He had a lot of pussy after him. Loretta Young Carol Lombard, who Clark Gable went bananas for and when he died, still wanted to be buried next to her, even though they hadn't been together for years and Clark cable had remarried after her. Somebody wild stories when it comes to Hollywood and love lives and who dies and lives next to someone so and eternity at this funeral. I mean, at this graveyard it's insane.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
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"I was watching Turner classic movies yesterday. You know, sometimes in between movies, they have these interstitials where they show you all film reels and that guy talking on the real talks like this. Next week, American GIs will prepare for moral world too and go to fight the Nazis in the japs. That kind of stuff. And these are things that typically appear on movie screens when people went to the theater in between double features or triple features. So they show them on Turner classic movies and one of them was so remarkable. It was footage of American GIs fighting hand to hand combat, getting ready to go to World War II and as this announcer said, fight the japs and the Nazis. And well, I'll just read what he said because I wrote it down, it's fantastic. I mean, it would just never fly in any capacity today. But these two American guys are fighting in the announcer goes, the japs know their jiu-jitsu. So our guys are taught how to protect themselves. It's not the way we do it here, but that's the way they want it. And we can short dish it out that way. So japs, beware. If the japs like hand to hand combat and even employ the use of death sticks, well then these leathernecks will learn pretty quickly. The japs introduced choking people with bamboo sticks before they could cry out. Now all we've got to figure out is how to do it better and more deadly than the nips. I'm not making a word of this up. Marines have always been able to take it, but from here on in when it comes to the japs and the Nazis, they're going to be able to dish it out. That was a good old American confidence. Can't be that way anymore.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
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"When I was in high school, it was just a kid named Tommy colgan. Who one night we all we knew that the hottest girl in school suhan eno was dating the quarterback Scott marriage. And everybody loves to. We still love suit to this day. And she was at Scotty's house. And Agatha now and I and Marvin and the guys were like outside. You know, when people stay in the basement, this was a little windows that you could see down. So they're in the basement. And we're watching them get it on. They're like, he's feeling a rock. And they're like, we're 17 years old. He's feeling her up. He's fucking rubbing an air that kissing. She's putting her hands on him. And it's going to go down. We couldn't wait to see this. And Tommy colgan's knee hit the fucking window or something. Scottie and suit turn around and look at the window. And we had to fly out of the backyard so that months later we couldn't stand Tommy Cogan. He went to a party, one of our buddies, Mark fangirls, brother of the delicatessen, we got a pound of American cheese, and we crazy glued it. He took his father's Cadillac out for a party night. I got my father's catty guys. Wow, Tommy, great car. We crazy glued craft singles to decide of his car when he couldn't see it. So when he drove it, but when he parked at home, it was like 18 craft singles. Crazy. And then Chico at the same party. This is what you're inviting us to a party back then. We've been going to an open house. I don't know if they have the same or open houses where people just open their house, their parents write it down. Immediately go in and plug the refrigerator, put the fucking thermostat up to 98°. And Chico once took an axe and cut down someone's tree in the front of the house during the party.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
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"Thing. When you lost a ton of weight, leaving said this before. But yesterday, I don't know how much personally you want to get on the show, but yesterday did Adam Carol's actually daring today. Adam Carolla interviewed me for his show taking me and I brought up your fart right away. Fair enough. Because Joey sends Adam his long farts and no, and I mean, there are people who do 6 second thoughts, 5 second thoughts and think they're like, you know, ready for the fucking Ripley's believe it or not. Joey spots top out at 22 seconds, and it's not fake, I've been in the room with him. And Adam wanted to know what is his diet because you lost a ton of weight, so you're not like just pigging out at home. No, no, no. What's happening? I'm keeping it clean, but it's just, there's something happens to my body. I have some half and half and wasabi peas. Half and half and wasabi. Yeah, I can really, it's good. The wasabi, something about that spice that knocks a little like an RPG though. That was a good another octave higher. And the half and half really gets it going. They have finance to me would be like the base. Yeah, exactly. But is there any truth to the room you ate cereal with half and half? I do. And what is your favorite? But here's the thing with that, people think that, oh, you know, milk, milk has a ton of sugar in it. Half and half, yes. It has a lot of fat in it. Yeah. But it's actually not as bad and has like, it has no sugar in it. Half and half is better than milk. Technically, yeah. But even if you look at it, it's at standpoint, 'cause look at milk and look how much sugar it has in it. And half and half doesn't have the same sugar. There's no sugar. But it's sweet. It tastes better. That's what I'm saying. It's just fat.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
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"When the French ruled Italy, it was a rough go of it. The Italians had had it. We're talking the year was 1280. There's a famous night they call the night of the pigs. This is not even the vespas. I'm not talking about there's a similar story about Lucky Luciano and no, this is way back in the 1200s, but when France ruled Italy or Sicily, I should say. There were, they put it French soldier in every house. In Sicily. And that French soldiers job was not only to make sure there'd be no Sicilian uprisings, but also to impregnate the Sicilian women there. Make that Sicilian woman have a child that had French blood. And at this point, Sicily had been ruled by many, many countries, like I said, and this particular group of Sicilian men had had it. So one night they all banded together. I believe it was Easter night. And they met and they said, look, Easter night at a certain hour, that's the night you're going to overpower the French guard in your house. And you're going to kill him. You're not only going to kill him. You're going to kill any children he may have sired with your wives. We've got to stop the bloodline becoming too French. By the Italians and the French don't really get along too well. So they did that. They did just that. The hour came and there was an uprising and they killed. Now, here's how this is fascinating. Here's how the Italians could find out if a French man was lying who said he was Italian. Because I'm sure there are many French men who did that trying to pose as a non threat and live. There's one word that the French, for some reason, can not pronounce like the Italians can. And it all comes down to a white being an Italian we call it a cheat should have been cheat to that. I don't know what it is about the palette of French men or women or the way they move their lips or tongue or the roof of the mouth. They can say chicha, like sicilians can. And the minute, a Sicilian herd of French man out of that word, not the way it's supposed to be pronounced, they were killed. Could you imagine your life coming down to the fact that whether or not you can pronounce a fucking bean in the dialect, you need to do it in? Ruthless,
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
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"You know the story by now coming out of the NFL, I think it stinks, at least it did, it's getting the possibility now looks like maybe there's a pattern with the superior quarterback for the Houston, Texans, deshaun Watson, maybe this is the kind of pattern where he gets sexually aggressive with massage girls, women, but if you want to say, but he's been accused by multiple women now for being sexually aggressive to put it in the best way possible. So four lawsuits have been filed. That brings the total number of cases in the court system against Desean to 7. The last four accuses four 5 6 and 7 all obviously being called Jane Doe. They all make similar accusations to the previous accusers. All four of them say they have a contact that I want to perform a private massage and he got aggressive in pursuit of who knows a handjob, some head or actually just having it go on it. I don't know. Maybe he wanted a happy ending. Those things happen in massage Polish. Not saying you force a girl to do that, but maybe that was his kink, maybe he's had it done before. And he says, I like this. Let me see if it can happen again. I'll tell you my story in a second, though. But all four of these women say claim, they were contacted by Watson to perform this private massage. And they say they never felt they never consented, never felt, and then they felt very violent. So never consent, very violated. And they're suing for civil assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
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"Time. Me and Chico were living together in the house that I own Long Island after my divorce before we moved out to New York City. I didn't pay the bill on time. Money was running low and I missed I missed one of the heating payments for the oil man to come, right? And then the guy quoted me a price because it was so fucking cold out New York. There was a cold spell. And they could charge you anything, like fuck you, you need oil? Well, I'm gonna charge your XML and was more than I thought was necessary. I cursed the guy out. I'll solve calling somebody else, fuck you. Well, the next 5 companies had called didn't even want to come out because it was too cold. So there was a weekend too. So I had to go back to the first guy and hat in hand, say, man, I'm sorry. Your price is high, but you know, I guess I got to pay it. So he came over, but before he came over and did the oil. Put the oil on the tank. I had a nice fireplace in the living room, and that's where Chico slept on the couch in this sunken living room with a nice big fireplace. I slept in my bedroom naturally. My other buddy John slept in the other bedroom, so it was three men and John's son was with us a lot, three men and a baby. It really was. So cold that night that I was in the two or three blankets. Everybody was doing the same, but she goes on a couch and I didn't have that many blankets or comforters. So I wake up to the sound of a crackling fire, which I don't care. Light a fire, it's all good. And we had a real fireplace, not a gas powered fucking thing. And it was around saint Joseph's day, maybe three days after. Almost walk. Got to be 25 years to the day. No more. It's just like 1990. So, yeah, whatever the fuck 31, 31 years. All right. I go, you gotta fly and nice. He goes, yeah, I gotta have a fire. It's finally feels a little warm in here. So I walk into living on the talk to him and I see in the fireplace is a box of pastries. And they were like four full year dells left. And I said that she'd go, you burning the pastry box, he goes, no, I'm burning this fool, you don't. It's freezing. I gotta get some warmth in here. I said, you burning the fucking pastry. She goes, they burn nice. They've run long for me to tell. We had a good laugh at that. So even when you want something else other than rain, saint Joseph answers, in this case, Chico needed heat, he got his heat, even though it was at the expense of us
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
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"So Elizabeth Banks is directing a new movie called cocaine bear. And it's based on a true story from 1985. It's a fucking doozy. Back in those days, 85, the head of the height of the cocaine era, a black bear, stumbled upon a duffel bag, filled with 70 pounds of blow. It's worth $15 million. And some forest in Kentucky. The poor bear comes around and says, holy shit, a bag of food for me. You know, they can smell things in mile away. He scarves it all down, and he dies of an overdose. Right near the bed. I mean, he just fucking dropped dead. His body was found months later. Right next to the bag, which was empty. So what happened is the drugs had been dropped from an airplane by a local smuggler. This guy that was once a former comp who was also killed at the hit in his head while he was parachuting out of the plane. And 9 more bags of cocaine were recovered. I mean, Jesus Christ. Maybe I spoil the movie, but I don't think so, because there's a lot of angles to this and they're not quite saying what angle they're going to take. Is it going to be told from the people who find the dead bear from that angle from the angle that a guy jumping out of the plane? Who knows for the cops who went to try to solve the case? I don't know. But it's going to be produced by Phil lord and Chris Miller. These guys did Star Wars story, The Lego Movie, Spider-Man, cloudy with a chance of meatballs. They got a good imagination. But Elizabeth Banks in the director's chair, you know what? She did pitch perfect to terrible movie unless you would shake and it's just not even like a cool chick, a corny chick, she did the Charlie's Angels, which was fucking awful. So I don't know why she's getting a third chance. Everybody loves this woman. I like her as an actress, but I don't know who's going to play the doomed drug smuggler. I don't know who's going to play the bear for that
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"aj" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"Many years ago, Marilyn Manson wrote a book and he wrote in his book that Trent reznor and he got some chick blackout drunk and once she passed out, they both fucked her and had their way with her. That's what he wrote in his book. And after he read that, Trent reznor completely broke free from Marilyn Manson and is on record saying he fucking hates the guy and has had nothing to do with him for 25 years and the story he wrote is complete bullshit. He's a crazy liar and will do things like that just to get a rise out of people. You know, I believe Trent reznor, even though he wrote that song about wanting to fuck a girl like an animal, I still believe because I know a girl who went to his concert really, really beautiful girl, especially when she was 19. She was young and sexy as all get out. And she went to his show where she was very up close to the stage, clearly he mentioned, I like that shake down below. One of his underlings went and got her after the show and said, Trent wants you to come back and meet him backstage. So of course she goes, and when she went there, they were like, he's not in the room. He's around the corner. He was like, up a ramp in the arena alone. She went and see him. He's like very nice to me because you're really beautiful. I'd love to see you but we're leaving right away to go to the next city. Do you want to come and see us play I don't know Phoenix, whatever the fuck it was. And she's like, oh my God, that's amazing. Yeah, you get on the plane with us. We'll go, you know, I'll make sure you get home. You know, no problem. And she goes, well, God, I would love to. She goes, because well, how old are you? And she was 19. Which is legal, but he was classy enough to say, you know what? You know, maybe it's time for you to go home, hunt. Maybe the next time, why don't you come back in a couple of years and we'll make this happen again. Cool guy, not many guys would do that. I don't think Marilyn Manson has that in his repertoire. But Trent reznor did that. So I'll take him for his word when he says he never did to that girl. Manson claims they did.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
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"But I do want to let you in on something that I know to be true that not many people are talking about with regard to the Marilyn Manson Evan Rachel Wood just terrible story about her coming forward and saying The Rock and roll star was abusive to her and groomed her and you must know the story by now. So it's not just her Rose McGowan had a lot of shitty things to say about Marilyn Manson, what they were dating, did it von teese, who was married to him, they dated for 7 years, but married for a year before she left because of cheating him cheating on her and also his drug abuse was just fucking through the wall. Everybody knows that about Marilyn. He admits it. He's not wanting to hide behind it. But Dita Von Teese was letting people know, because once Evan Rachel Wood blew the whistle and said, he's the most abusive person and that the deed of antis was like, well, wasn't abusive to me, but he wasn't cheater and that was a message to Evan Rachel Wood because that's who he cheated on Dita Von Teese with. So she has her own her own battles to fight. A lot of people are taking sides on this drama. Not many are taking Marilyn Manson's side or Brian Warner, his silly real name. Now you know why he changed it. When I first talked about this story a couple of days, a few days ago, I was like, look, you know, let's just wait and see what the fuck happens. We always condemn somebody because of what one person says. A girl sits up and says, he was my abuser and everybody starts to cancel a person without any proof and really there's still no proof. But I'm going to be the first, not the first. I'm going to be, I'm going to join the list. I'm going to join the ranks of people who probably think it's true. And let's face it, it's because he dresses like a fucking asshole, his music, while some of it's great. I love, I love the beautiful people. But, you know, it's insane. A lot of the stuff he does. His videos, his music, his costumes. He strives to shock people, and obviously that carried over into his relationship with Evan Rachel Wood. And clearly the longer he went, the more popular he became, the bigger his star rose, the more money he made. He got crazier.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
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"From workhouse connect in AJ benza. Fame. He liked to be walked on a leash and played really dirty kinky sex games. The guy put the cock in the peacock network, okay? Bitch. Hey everybody. AJ benzene here with fame is a bitch the original, the freebie that I give you guys Monday Wednesday and Fridays in the hopes that you will succumb to all this great information and gossip and storytelling and go, you know what? That guy's earned my 5 bucks a month. That guy's earned my 16th sense a day. God damn it. He goes the extra yard. That's why I hope anyhow. Great Patreon showed today. I wish you could have heard it. Some of you have some of you don't. But I have asked my patrons to ask me anything. I've already got about 25 questions in my inbox of people who are on the Patreon show asking me anything and some of these questions are pretty personal. And I've committed to telling the truth to all of them. Not hiding from anything. And at some point, that will be a Patreon show. And then you know what I'm going to do because for such good people, me and Agatha, we're going to let you guys hear it. When uploaded on the free show on this show and see if that doesn't entice you to climb a board. Anyhow, here we are. The date is January 22nd, 2021. One, two, two, two, two, one, backwards forwards at the same date. One of my newer patrons with the last name potomsky, I don't know his first name. Also loves all things palindrome. And he offered me one. I'd never heard before on the show yesterday on Patreon. I said, I love the sentence. A man, a man, a plan, a canal Panama. I love that dad says the same thing backwards. It just boggles my mind, how that could happen. And he gave me one, I've never heard before. Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog. I don't know how people think of these, but to me, it seems like that would be harder than anything asked of a man. I think these people should work for NASA or Elon Musk or some it's like super duper, they should be in some super duper secretive program. That's in the bowels or The Pentagon. If their minds can do this, what can't they do? How do you come up with go hang a salami? I'm a lasagna hog. How do you do that? I had dreams last night that I rarely do. My wife's a big dreamer when she dreams the next day, she starts telling her stories and we all go, oh, come on, 'cause they're impossible to believe. Like, how does this happen in your head? So my dream, I don't know where, how, why did this happen? I was just Eminem. We were both at the dentist's office, and he was getting all new teeth. He was showing me the x-rays of his head. And I said, you know, something? I'm going to do the same thing. He goes, do it. I said, I got to do it. He was getting all steel teeth and for some reason I wanted to do the same thing. I wanted to be like Eminem. And then as they called his name to go in through his procedure, I realized I wasn't going to see him for a while, or maybe ever again, so I asked for a selfie, which I didn't want to do, but he said, yeah, let me take it with my iPad. I'm like, no, no, no, let's do it with my phone. You know, I didn't want to have him do it with his iPad because, you know, I couldn't show my kids. I was with him. Then he'd have to picture, and I doubt he would send it to me. And we got the trade phone numbers and it just didn't seem like it was going to happen. So as you know, I'll use my iPhone. He goes, all right, suit yourself. And I go to take my phone out and I couldn't get the camera option to work. He goes, watch. And he takes his iPad and he takes this picture of us and he goes, look, it came out great. But it came out with us as caricatures of ourselves, like cartoon figures. I said, this is no good. It looks fake. You know? I want one where people can see we're obviously together as people, not something that could have been drawn. He said, no, I can't do it that way. And I'm like, that's fucked up. My kids would love to see me with you. And then just as he was going to the office for his surgery or whatever, he said to me, look, I feel bad. So I'm going to give you something for your show. I said, oh, you know about my show. He says, yeah, I know about your show. He said, listen to this. Dr. Dre is going to pay his wife whatever she wants in the divorce because she knows he had people killed and that can't come out. And then he just disappeared into the office. And I was like, what the fuck? And then I woke up. Anybody want to tell me what that means? I was in a restroom with Dr. Dre once at the Mondrian hotel and actually it was the standard hotel, which just closed down, by the way, in West Hollywood sunset boulevard. The standard hotel was so fucking cool. They put the name of the hotel upside down. They're very quirky. When they first started out, they had this big window display. And they would put a very number of different sexy girls, beautiful girls in the window display laying on lawn furniture, putting on suntan lotion, just sitting there watching TV. It was like a gimmick. You walk down sunset at your drive down sunset and you see this beautiful girl in the window of a hotel. Now I ended up dating one of the girls who actually used to work at E, but also did that on the side. Her name was Anne Marie. Really sexy girl. No, just in the window on sunset boulevard crazy. That happens in this town. When I first moved here, I was driving through West Hollywood, which part of it we call boys town. The area between la cienega and doheny back then, it was said, now you can say you'll be canceled. Back then, it was said, if you drop your wallet at the corner of laciana and Santa Monica boulevard, keep kicking it to doheny because you don't want to bend over and get it. You get it. That's the joke. But I remember being here and my mom first trip said I'm driving through a boystown where there's a gang of gay bars and all this kind of shit and they're in full display. And there was a clothing store that sold like leather and fucking chain mail shit, like a real hardcore bondage gay shop. It's like two 30 in the morning. And there's a real life guy a muscled out freak wherein like the skinniest little banana hammock speedo type, you know, dating suit, oiled up, greased up, dancing to music that was playing at a speakers, you know, just hired to dance in the window while nobody was in the store. That's the kind of shit that goes on. Any other standards out of business. So I bumped into Dr. Dre one night in the men's room at the standard. And he towered over me, had to be 6 four. I mean, this guy's big, too. Like he's built like a big guy. And it gave me a great view of how the women he beat up over the years must have had a terrible time with him because he beat up more than a couple. He beat a female singer named. I think her name is Terry, Tyree, TI, RI Terry, whatever the fuck. Apparently he got pissed because she said he looked like a faggot. Her words when he was.