40 Burst results for "Ables"
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Evangelism: Muslims and Mormons
"Of things, looking at how when we speak and reach out to those who are around us, specifically we'll be talking about Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, and then atheists as well. What are some things that as we seek to point them to Christ, what are ways in which we can engage them well? And so we are going to do those things together here. And with anything that you talk about, especially other world religions, I know pastor has been going through different denominations in the morning and kind of looking at some different aspects of denominations. I thought this would kind of be somewhat in line with that, looking at other religions and ones that are a little bit more common to you and I, maybe some less than others, but how is it that we can engage with them well? And of course, many things can be said about Jehovah's Witnesses, what they believe, Muslims, what they believe. And so the point of this isn't to give an exhaustive discussion about everything in which a Muslim or a Mormon might believe, but just to give us some handles that we can hold on to in our brains as we discuss the gospel with them. I know for myself, sometimes if I see someone on the side of the road and let's say I know they're a Jehovah's Witness, you know, there was times in my life where I would say like, ah, well, I don't really want to engage with them because I don't really know what they believe and I don't know how to answer all their questions, so I'm just going to, you know, I'm not going to talk to them. Whereas with Mormons, I had a lot more understanding of Mormonism and I had talked to a lot more Mormons. When a Mormon would come to the door, I'd be like, ah, come on in guys, like you want to come in? I'll get you some water? I'm like, let's chat. Because I had a better understanding of the Mormon faith and I felt like I was ready to engage them. I felt like I was ready to have an answer for questions and try to point them to the gospel. And so the point of all of this is to equip us as a church, to equip us as saints, as we go out into the world, at your jobs, in your neighborhood, with your family members. We might not all have a Mormon cousin, but you probably have an atheistic coworker. And so being able to engage them with the gospel and feeling that you are equipped, and I know many of us are, many of us are, so I hope this will just be a supplemental help to you in that endeavor. And so we're going to begin working through these notes. And if you look at your notes, the first one is Islam. And I recognize that Islam is not huge in the Midwest, in Omaha, Nebraska in particular. For sure there are Muslims. I've talked to a few since we've been here, walking around different parts of Omaha, but you almost have to go and find them. But I'm sure that even, I know, I'm speaking to Dan Williams and others that there are coworkers even here in Omaha that are, hold to the Islamic faith. And so I want to walk through each one of these religions together, give us a little brief understanding of their history. And because Islam is so big, where we are in Mombasa, a large portion of Mombasa is Islamic. A lot of times you'll have Somalis in particular that we're working with. The father will be here working in America and he will, they'll live here as a family for many years, but eventually as the kids get older, they send their kids back to a place like Mombasa because it's not, you know, a war -torn place like Somalia, but there's a large Islamic influence there and they want their children to be brought under that Islamic influence. And so we'll have a lot of Somali Muslims that are there, the kids in the model are there, and they're being taught and trained in that Islamic culture, and while the dad is here in America working and supporting them. And so there's Muslims here and I hope I'm writing that. I hope, I know a lot of times we can be afraid of Muslims, but there's, for the most part, there's no reason for that theory. So what I want to do is spend a little bit more time on Islam because again, it's something that we have been very, very engaged in, spending many hours talking with Muslims, and so it will be a little bit more in -depth, but I will try to walk through this one quickly. So today for the Sunday School, September 24th, Understanding the Other Side, we're going to be looking at Islam and Mormonism. Just out of curiosity, just out of curiosity, how many of you have either, you know, neighbor, relative, co -worker, whatever, who is Muslim, Mormon, Jehovah Witness, or atheist? Just raise your hand. Just probably raise your hand. So at least somebody, right? There's somebody. Now if he just said Muslim, there might be like two hands that go up, but that's all right. We'll get to the others, okay? So very briefly, I'm going to try and be brief, okay? I was trying to be brief with these notes and they ended up being 11 pages, so not off to a good start, but that is all right. So as you've seen in your notes, Islam, A, the history of Muhammad, early life. So of course, whenever you speak of Islam, you're speaking of Muhammad, and so if you talk to any Muslim, they will talk to you about the prophet Muhammad, and then they'll go on to say, just be upon him and ramble on these Arabic blessings about his name, but Muhammad was born in AD 570 and he died in AD 632. And in his life, living in Saudi Arabia, born in the city of Mecca, he had a rough childhood. His parents both passed away as a young boy. As a six -year -old boy, he went off to live with his uncle, or his grandfather, and then as an eight -year -old, as his grandfather died, he went off to live with an uncle, and so he was kind of moved around from family to family. He joined in the family business of being a camel caravan driver, so he would go on all of these long trips across Saudi Arabia, Syria, with his uncle and others that they were working for, traveling all over the place, delivering goods. At that time, in Saudi Arabia, of course, at this time, it was not an Islamic country as we think of it today, but there was all sorts of Gnostic Christianity, which is no Christianity at all. It taught a dualistic type religion and many, many problems with some Judaism, other pagan religions, polytheism. There's just a hodgepodge of religion going on in Arabia at that time. And so Muhammad would have come across all of these things as he's traveling around, listening to stories, discussing with other people. The Quran itself tells us very little about Muhammad himself. We don't really understand much about Muhammad at all if you've got random passages that don't really connect with anything, and you have to have some sort of grid to really be able to understand that. And you find that grid within the other important literature in Islam, which are the Hadiths, the Sirat, and these other religious important books that give the traditions and the understanding of who Muhammad was and what he did and all of that. And so in the Islamic literature, we discover these things about Muhammad, where he was and what it was like for him growing up and these other things. And so you might think, okay, you know, the pastor's going through Quranicals, and so we don't really want to go through any more genealogies with Muhammad and figure out who his grandpa and all of those people were. And that's not the point of discussing him being moved around and all of these things. But it is important to note that Muhammad was exposed at a young age as he's traveling all over to various religions. He's hearing different stories as he's traveling around. He's hearing stories from Gnostic Christians, again, who are not Christians at all. And if you read and study the Quran, you find that Muhammad oftentimes quotes things in the Quran that he either thinks are biblical excerpts, or he thinks that they come from the Jewish scriptures in the Old Testament. But as a matter like the Arabic Infancy Gospel of Matthew and these other Gnostic gospels that no Christian would have accepted, what Muhammad quotes is that he believes that they are, in fact, the Christian scriptures. And so this happens time and time again. Muhammad thinks he's quoting from the Bible, but he's really quoting from the Jewish Talmud. And this happens oftentimes. And so the understanding that Muhammad had of Christianity is by no means what you and I, and so even if you read the Quran, you see that Muhammad believes that the Trinity, the Trinity that the Christians believe in is God the Father, Mary, and Jesus. Of course, no Christian believes that the triune God is made up of Mary, and not even, if you want to try to point the finger at Catholics or Orthodox, not even Catholics or Orthodox go so far as to worship Mary. And so there's just a, in many ways, a bad understanding, for lack of a better word, a bad understanding of Christianity within the mind of Muhammad. But at the age of 25, Muhammad is employed by a woman named Khadija. He starts running his own caravan. He eventually marries this woman, and then he begins, as we get on to point number two there, Quranic Revelation, Muhammad begins to really seek after God. He wants to worship God. He wants to know God. And Muhammad goes away. He begins to go into a mountain near Mecca. He goes up into the mountain. He goes into the cave, and there he's fasting. He's praying. He's seeking to know Allah, which is just the Arabic word for God. And he wants to know God. He's trying to have a closer relationship with him. And again, for the sake of time, we're not going to go into any lengthy accounts of Muhammad and the experience he had in the cave. But what happened as Muhammad is there praying and fasting is Muhammad says that there is an angel named Jibril, which is Gabriel. And Jibril comes to him and says, Muhammad, read. And Muhammad says, I can't read. And the angel says, well, first the angel squeezes him very hard. Muhammad says it hurts him. It squeezes him very hard. And it says again, read. And Muhammad says, I can't read. And so this goes on. It's kind of like, I don't know, a Three Stooges play. But Muhammad just keeps telling the angel, I don't know how to read. And the angel beats him up a little bit and tells him to read again. And it just goes on and on and on until eventually Muhammad, you know, starts to recite parts of the Qur 'an that the angel Jibril is giving to him. And so this happens, and Muhammad comes home. As I'm quoting, I'm not quoting, but the place in which I'm getting this story from is from the Hadith, it's from the Surah, it's from the Islamic tradition itself. It's not some, you know, angry Christian writing from their seminary office saying like, ah, Muhammad was, you know, this crazy guy who's getting beat up by an angel as he's reciting the Qur 'an. And this is all from the Qur 'anic sources, Sahih al -Muslim, Sahih al -Bukhari, and so on. And so Muhammad then, he runs home to his wife, he hides under their covers, and he is petrified from what has happened. And he tells his wife, he's like, I don't know if I was meeting her with a demon or what happened, but it scared me and it hurt me and I don't know what happened. But his wife assures him, no, no, no, it was God, God is speaking to you, you should go back. And so Muhammad goes back, he continues to go back to this mountain, to this cave, and there he continues to receive revelations from this angel. And Muhammad goes on to say, this is a quote from, again, one of the Qur 'anic, one of the Islamic resources here, Sirah Rasula, says, Muhammad is quoted as saying, I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself and gain rest. So I went forth to do so. And then when I was midway on the mountain, I heard a voice from heaven saying, oh, Muhammad, thou art the apostle of God and I am Gabriel. And so the Gabriel goes on to tell Muhammad, do not kill yourself, you're the apostle of God, you can't do this. But there's multiple times in the life of Muhammad while he is receiving Qur 'anic revelations where he seeks to kill himself, he tries to throw himself off of the mountain. And furthermore, there's other accounts of people saying that at that time, Muhammad was possessed by a demon. So these are just some facts to keep in the back of our mind. As we think about this, even within the Qur 'an, Surah, I had printed off, originally it was going to be in your notes, kind of a glossary of terms, because I know using a lot of these Surah and Ayah and all these type of things, you might not all know what that is, but Surah is just chapter and the Ayah is the verse. And so in the Qur 'an, Surah Adam 1, 22 to 25, 69, 41 to 42, Muhammad is trying to refute the idea that he is demon -possessed. And so he's arguing against the Jews and the Christians and are saying like, nah, we don't think you're demon -possessed, man. And he's like, no, I'm not. And he's trying to argue against that idea. And so this is just kind of a bit of a background as to how the Qur 'an was revealed to Muhammad. And so we might ask the question, well, do you think that Muhammad was just making all these things up? Is he just a total, is this all just a fabrication of his mind? I personally believe that Muhammad was not just making these things up. If you look at the scriptures and you see in the Old or the New Testament, you see various times when angels Abraham, appear to Mary, the Lord Jesus, Isaiah, there's many encounters where angels come and speak. Even the angel of the Lord comes and speaks to people. And many times people recognize that, oh man, like I am speaking to an angel and they are startled and there is awe and wonder that is within them as they speak to an angel. Not always, but we never see an angel of God coming and beating somebody up and hurting them and then causing them to become depressed and wanting to kill themselves and so on. And so what I believe is that as you look at the life and the story of Muhammad receiving the Qur 'anic revelations, his desire lines up much more with, as we read in the gospel, these, and again, not saying this to be crude or rude towards the Islamic faiths, but faith. But you see a herd of pigs when they are enveloped by demons, high -tempered toward the cliff and jumping off. We see Judas Iscariot, when he is the son of Perdition, when he is, it says, the Bible says that the devil goes into him and he betrays Christ and turns Christ over. Shortly thereafter, himself, Judas, killing, many believing, killing himself. And so it just doesn't seem that Muhammad truly had, of course we don't believe that Muhammad is a prophet of God, but it would be much more in line that, yes, Muhammad did have a revelation, but it was not from God, but rather, as we read in 2 Corinthians 11, 13 and 14, for such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh update on "ables" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from John Amanchukwu (Encore)
"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. We'll get you from point A to point B. But if you're looking for point C, well, buddy, you're on your own. But if you wait right here, in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now, here's your Ralph Kramden of the Airways, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. We have a guest on who, man, I don't even know how to start. First of all, I'll try to pronounce his name correctly. John Amanchukwu. I got John correct. I think I got Amanchukwu correct. John Amanchukwu is someone I've come to admire tremendously. He's in North Carolina. He is he's been a pastor for years. He is a brave voice in the midst of the madness, one of the bravest voices. And it's my privilege to have him as my guest for this hour. John, welcome. Hey, thank you so much, Dr. Eric, for having me on your show. You can't call me Dr. Eric because I'm not a doctor, but you can call me whatever you want. Could you call me the Commodore or Admiral? I'd prefer I really prefer that. But no, seriously, you you have been such a brave voice and people have seen you, you know, probably on Instagram reels or whatever. Tell my audience, because this is it's always better when my guest tells the story. But you've been a brave voice speaking out against the. What would be a nice term for it, satanic lunacy of. Profoundly sexual material being given to children in our schools, very tough for most of us to believe that this is happening, but it has been happening. You've been exposing it and you've been bravely speaking against it. So let's just start, John, with how did you get involved in this? At what point did you say I'm going to step up and start confronting these crazy abusers? Because that's what they are, abusers of our children. How did that start for you? Well, I've been involved in this kind of work for the past 20 years. I joined a church in college called Upper Room Church for God in Christ. I joined at the age of 19. And the senior pastor is Bishop Patrick Langwood and senior. And he says that our church is a cause driven church. You know, we believe that there is a cause in Christ. There's a cause in the marketplace for us to bring our biblical world view to it, to engage the culture and to fight against evil and wickedness. Isaiah 520 says, woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. And so we've just been on the front lines on the abortion clinic issue, fighting against fatherlessness and the black community. And now even with this indoctrination in the public school system, now, some people call it indoctrination and some people call it grooming. But I like to call it mental rape. That's the best way for me to define what has taken place in the public school system. I call it mental rape because it assaults the soul. It stains the brain and it robs children of their innocence. When you put pornographic material in a library and make it accessible for kids, K through 12, a child is going to pick that book up. And I went out to Asheville and spoke about a book entitled It's Perfectly Normal. That book is for kids 10 and up. It's hardcore porn. It's not soft porn. It's hardcore porn. That book gives Hugh Hefner a run for his money. When you open the book, it depicts images of heterosexual sex and homosexual sex. Why do 10 year olds need to see and learn how you should have lesbian sex at the age of 10? That's disgusting. That's evil. It's mental rape. There's an assault taking place upon children, and there's a critical point that's being left out of the equation. And that's the church. The church is not engaging. We need some modern day Karl Barth. We need some modern day Martin Niemol. We need some people who are willing to engage the culture and tell the church, listen, we are not supposed to be co -opted by the state. The state is not supposed to run the church. And when we go into a public school, we have this thing called parental choice. Some call it rights, but I call it parental choice. I call it parental choice because our rights come from God as parents. But choice parents have had the choice and the knowledge of being able to assess and know what's going on in the public school system and to have the freedom and the liberty to push back when there is an assault upon their children. Well, listen, everything you say, I mean, I agree with it violently. I am in churches effectively preaching what you just said in a little different way. But what basically this is called, what you are advocating for is called the technical term is Christianity. This is called Christian faith. If you do not do what what you're describing, if you're not pushing back, if you're not being salt and light in the culture, if you're not being a warrior for truth and speaking against evil, then you are not living out your Christian faith. But there are many, many churches and you and I know about that that do not do this. They don't get involved in this. They say we don't want to be divisive. These are the same people that would say, you know, we don't care if there's slavery happening, as long as it's not happening in my church. That's right. It's complete hypocrisy. And as Christians, we are called to step up. And I keep saying that the Lord has allowed it to get this bad to wake up those who are still sleeping, because what you just described is very tough for me and most people, even to hear that children would be exposed to this absolutely evil stuff. What do you call it if you don't call it evil? This is evil for children to be exposed to these kinds of things. And it's shameful that they're just a handful of brave souls like you speaking against it.
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "ables" discussed on Mark Levin
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The Breakdown
A highlight from ByBit Vacates United Kingdom as "Crypto Hub" Dreams Falter
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, September 25th, and today we are updating ourselves on the geopolitical landscape of crypto. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Hope you had a great weekend. There are lots of interesting things to catch up on. And today, a slight theme in some of these stories is where different countries are positioning themselves vis -a -vis crypto. Now, the UK has had an interesting relationship with the industry. They were for a time very harsh. The Financial Conduct Authority in the UK has never seemingly been that into the whole space. But then when Rishi Sunak became chancellor of the exchequer, he declared that the UK would be open for crypto business. He wanted to make the UK the most crypto friendly jurisdiction in the world. Well, of course, over the next few months, through a variety of weird ups and downs, Rishi eventually ended up the prime minister. And of course, it might be reasonable then to ask, is the UK getting friendlier for crypto companies? Well, on that front, Bybit have announced that they will suspend service to UK customers next week in response to regulatory changes. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority, or FCA, will begin enforcement of new marketing regulations starting on October 8. The regulations require crypto firms to ensure advertising is clear, fair, and not misleading, as well as presented alongside a risk warning. Advertisements are required to be certified by firms, but this process requires crypto firms to be registered in the UK. So far, UK licenses have been difficult to obtain for non -domestic exchanges. The rules also require a number of technical changes to exchange business operations around new customers. For example, exchanges need to implement a 24 -hour cooling -off period before a new customer is allowed to make transactions. They are also required to put in place client appropriateness testing and client categorization features. These measures could involve limiting the size, for example, of crypto investments based on the customer's net worth. Now, penalties for non -compliance in these new rules are harsh, with unlimited fines and even criminal charges available as punishments. As you might imagine, the crypto industry has been highly critical of these elements, especially those that require technical changes to platforms. In response to those critiques, the FCA said that they would provide a transition period for firms that request it, potentially giving exchanges until January to come into compliance. Last week, however, the regulators said that they are alarmed at the lack of engagement with foreign firms. Only 24 firms have responded to a survey sent to over 150 companies. In response, the FCA wrote, "...this lack of engagement gives us serious concerns about unregistered firms' readiness to comply with the new regime." Now, in their announcement that UK services would be suspended, Bybit claimed their "...primary objective is to operate our business in compliance with all relevant rules and regulations in the UK." Bybit said that they were making "...a choice to embrace the regulation proactively and pause our services in this market." They said that the "...suspension will allow the company to focus its efforts and resources on being able to best meet the regulations outlined by the UK authorities in the future." Practically, this means that from Sunday, Bybit will no longer be accepting new accounts from UK users. Existing users would be barred from making new deposits or increasing existing positions from October 8th. They will have until January to manage and wind down their existing positions. Bybit, as you might imagine, is not currently registered in the UK and is based in Dubai. Importantly, Bybit is not the only firm suspending service to UK customers in light of the new regulations. Last month, PayPal announced that it would temporarily pause crypto services in the country until next year. On top of that, crypto exchange LUNO said that it would be restricting some customer accounts from being able to invest on the platform until further notice. Bybit CEO Ben Zhao had flagged the firm's exit earlier in September warning of how overly broad the regulations are. He said, "...FCA has explicitly contacted all the major players — us, OKEx, Binance, everyone — and asked what our plan is to deal with this new law. And the new law is that if you use English as a language, they will see you as trying to solicit their users, so you cannot claim that you are in reverse solicitation. Everyone is in trouble. So everyone is thinking of plans of how to deal with this new law." George Morris, a partner at Simmons & Simmons, explained that the marketing regulations had been enforced for securities firms for decades but were now being expanded to cover the crypto industry. He said, "...the rules are extremely complicated and they're quite wide -ranging. It's not just UK firms that are subject to these rules. Anyone with a website that can be accessed in the UK is subject to these requirements." So there are a lot of different elements of this. One challenge is, yes, these advertising standards. But the bigger issue is this whole need to evaluate client suitability and potentially restrict investments. Practically, that either means a ton of financial disclosures from customers that they would have to manage and verify, or there's simply some self -attestation checkbox, which might not be that effective. Basically, with a set of marketing regulations, the FCA have figured out how to limit small retail's ability to buy crypto in the country. Now, one thing that is notable is that we haven't heard anything from the really big international exchanges yet in terms of how they're dealing with this. But in any case, it seems like a big detriment for UK crypto. As Leon TK put it, so much for the UK being a crypto hub, failing already. Now, speaking of places where there is more optimism, last week was, of course, the token 2049 conference in Singapore. And that led to a lot of different discussion around how different the Asian environment for crypto felt as compared to the US and European environments. Indeed, while Western jurisdictions seem to be bogged down with regulations that are unclear at best or hostile at worst, the vibes in Asia are reportedly immaculate. Major conferences around Asia during September saw an uptick in attendance, and regulatory regimes across South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan appear to be giving the crypto industry a clear set of workable rules to allow firms to re -establish themselves coming out of crypto winter. The block's Frank Shapiro spoke with some conference attendees and reported on an optimism emerging in the East. One conference attendee said that South Korean retail is flocking back to crypto. They argued that young investors in particular view real estate and equities as massively overvalued and out of reach, so are instead opting to buy cryptocurrency. They said they don't buy houses, but they can buy tokens every week. There is a huge market. Another attendee spoke about the difficulty of accessing the Korean market due to South Korea's notoriously tough corporate climate for international firms. They said the liquidity is insane, but it is siloed and protectionist. You have to speak Korean. On that front, crypto custodian BitGo recently partnered with domestic juggernaut Hana Bank due to the difficulty in accessing the market without a local connection. What's more, one anonymous trading firm said they had been waiting five years to operate as a liquidity provider on domestic exchanges in South Korea. They said when they open up, we can be first in line. It's a great retail market. To get a sense of scale, the largest Korean exchange, Upbit, regularly outperforms Coinbase in terms of spot trading volumes. Then there is of course Hong Kong. Their new regulatory regime is off to a tough start in some ways with fraud investigations into crypto exchange JPX becoming public earlier this month. The most recent update is that there have been 11 suspects brought in for questioning and losses have been estimated at 178 million across 2 ,265 victims. Local police have said that the ringleaders of the operation are still at large and have enlisted the help of Interpol. Some are referring to JPX as the largest financial fraud to ever hit the city. Yet despite the major investigation, there are currently no signs that Hong Kong regulators are seeking to reverse course on unexpectedly open crypto regulations. Indeed, on Monday, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission said that it would be releasing the full list of current applicants to ensure that users are able to identify false claims from exchanges. The theme appears to be the same across multiple Asian jurisdictions. Basically, that individual incidents of fraud and malpractice haven't tarnished enthusiasm for the industry as a whole. Another conference attendee told Chiparo, This Asia trip blew my mind. The excitement in Korea and Singapore is the polar opposite of what's going on in the U .S. Alex Vannevik of Nansen wrote, Vannek portfolio manager Pranav Kannadi added some color around how local investors are thinking about the space as well. On September 14, Pranav tweeted, Conversations were mostly positive and a key question was, We're in a crypto winter right now, but when should we expect the next bull run? Not a single convo mentioned the merits of the tech or whether the space survives, feeling optimistic. Now, hopping from Asia over to Europe again for a moment. According to a report from Fortune, Coinbase considered acquiring FTX's European business in the wake of FTX's November bankruptcy. Apparently talks never progressed to a late stage, but the preliminary interest highlights how important international expansion is to Coinbase, particularly regarding its derivatives products. Before the bankruptcy, FTX Europe was the only European firm registered to provide perpetual futures trading. And while derivatives trading remains heavily restricted in the U .S., both Coinbase and Gemini have launched offshore trading venues this year to provide derivatives markets to international customers with a keen eye on Asian regions. For Coinbase, the pivot to derivatives could provide a much needed boost to flagging spot volumes. According to Kiko Research, derivatives volumes in Quarter 2 of this year were six times large than spot. Now, the entity that became FTX Europe was originally acquired in late 2021 for 376 million. The firm was already licensed in Cyprus at the time, which allowed it to access European markets. Since the bankruptcy, the entity, along with its valuable license, have attracted interest from Crypto .com and Trek Labs as well. According to documents viewed by Fortune, Coinbase expressed interest immediately after the FTX bankruptcy and again as recently as last month. That said, FTX Europe has also been in the crosshairs of the U .S.-based FTX bankruptcy team for clawbacks. The estate launched a lawsuit against FTX Europe executives claiming that the original acquisition was a horrendous business decision, arguing that FTX effectively paid 376 million for a $2 million operating license, and on top of this, the sale of FTX Europe seems like a difficult task with active litigation surrounding the firm. In July, the U .S.-based FTX estate said, The FTX debtors' professional advisors have concluded that there is no realistic possibility of a sale. However, last Thursday, they said, The FTX debtors are committed to maximizing the value of FTX's assets to drive customer recoveries. As such, the FTX debtors are continuing to evaluate whether there are viable options for the sale of some or all of the assets of the FTX Europe business. Now one small aside on Coinbase. Arkham Intelligence claimed to have mapped Coinbase's bitcoin wallets and according to Arkham, Coinbase holds almost 1 million bitcoin worth around $25 billion at current market prices. This would amount to almost 5 % of the bitcoin in circulation, similar to the amount held in wallets believed to be owned by Satoshi Nakamoto. Arkham's report showed that Coinbase's largest cold wallet holds around 10 ,000 bitcoin, and the firm believes that Coinbase has additional bitcoin holdings which are not yet labeled and could not be identified. According to data published by CoinGecko, Coinbase only owns around $200 million worth of this gigantic bitcoin stash, with the rest attributable to client custody. However, staying on the Europe question and how valuable this Cyprus license actually is, with Europe's MICA regulations coming into force from June of next year, some firms are beginning to warn that a clear lack of guidance could lead to disruption. The MICA rules were intended to provide a comprehensive framework, but there are still numerous grey areas. One of the major problems surrounds stablecoins. There is currently no guidance on how MICA stablecoin regulations will apply to foreign and decentralized issuers. The default scenario seems to be a ban in Europe unless these issuers can obtain the appropriate licensing, with no arrangement to recognize approvals in other jurisdictions. The European Banking Authority has warned that there will be no grace period for coins already on the market. The EBA and its sister agency, the European Securities and Markets Authority, ESMA, are currently taking public consultation on how the MICA regulations should be implemented. Relatedly last week, the head of legal at Binance France said during a public hearing hosted by the EBA, we are heading towards a delisting of all stablecoins in Europe on June 30th. This could have a significant impact on the market in Europe compared to the rest of the world. Now, Binance CEO CZ quickly walked back the comments claiming, it was a question taken out of context. In fact, we have a couple of partners launching Euro and other stablecoins in fully compliant manners of course. A blog post from Binance explained further, stating that they would be required to delist stablecoins that fail to gain registration in Europe and that no licenses have been granted to stablecoin issuers currently. Binance wrote, While we are confident that there will be constructive solutions in place before the mid -2024 deadline, if left as is, this could have an impact on the European crypto market and the competitiveness of European crypto exchanges in the global market. Now the requirement that stablecoin issuers are EU -based could cause further problems for decentralized organizations. Thomas Vogel, a partner at law firm Latham & Watkins said, So, this is sort of the challenge with MICA. As comprehensive as the regulations are written, how they get implemented is still fairly up in the air. There was commentary around the time that MICA was being voted upon that it could either be a big step in giving the crypto industry a clear set of rules to function, or work as a de facto crypto ban depending on how it was implemented and whether enough licenses were granted. Now, with a little over nine months until MICA comes into force, there is still time to ensure that rules are workable for existing firms, but it appears that there is a lot of work left to do in that regard. Anyways, it's definitely a story to keep an eye on, as something that was seen as largely positive could become quite bad quite quickly. However, friends, that is where we're going to wrap for today. Lots going on in this fascinating world of crypto. Wherever you are enjoying it from, I appreciate you listening. And until next time, be safe and take care of each other.
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"Minute of every morning, Seven News is on your side. Great to have you with us tonight at 823. This is UTOP News. A Native American group is suing the Washington commanders in its efforts to restore the team's old name, a name that many groups consider offensive and racist. The lawsuit has been filed in federal court in North Dakota by the group called Native American Guardians Association. The group is charging the Washington team defame them in their attempt to bring back the old name, defame them in a sense by calling them a fake group. The commanders say that this lawsuit is without merit. What happens to monthly social security checks and other such benefits as Medicare if the government does shut down at the end of the week? We've got the answers to those questions and more. Professor of Economics and Public Policy at George Washington University Joseph Cordes says because Social Security and Medicare don't rely on funds approved every year by Congress, they are safe from a government shutdown. But if you have a question need or help with a benefit, no one may be there to take your call. That's it. basically Yes, there might be more of a delay or they might not be able to get back to you at all until the shutdown ends. As far as SNAP food benefits, they will likely be paid ahead to states but probably only last about 30 days after a shutdown. Kyle Cooper, WTOP News. New laws go into effect in Maryland starting October 1st and that includes new laws governing guns, sex crimes and hate crimes. Starting in October, people with concealed carry permits will be able to their take guns to fewer public places in Maryland. Another law repeals the so -called defense which prohibited prosecuting a person for a sex crime against their legal house. Victims of hate crimes will be able to sue the person or group who committed the offense against them and hospitals will be expected to screen for fentanyl when doing urine tests and report positive findings anonymously to the Department of Health Neil Constein, Lloyd WTLP News. And new tonight, a pair of teenagers under arrest on carjacking charges in Montgomery County. The suspects are 15 and 17 years old, both from Upper Marlboro. In one case on Friday night, police say the teens attacked a 77 -year -old man on Coleridge Drive in Silver Spring. The man was hit after he was told to give up his wallet and his car keys. Then, early Saturday morning, the suspects are accused of trying to break into a car in Bowie and they were arrested soon after that. That followed a police chase in stole a a car. Police are currently holding both of these teens in detention facilities and were waiting learn to about charges that are pending in Prince George's County. Sports at 25 55. and Powered by Red River, technology decisions aren't black and white. Think Red. At 25, here's Rob Woodfork. Alright, the first half of the first half of the Monday doubleheader Night Football is winding down in Tampa. Excuse me, just moments ago, Baker Mayfield through actually, his first interception of the season, the Eagles with the ball leading 10 to 3 as they are inside of two minutes to go. In the first half, the lone touchdown, Jalen Hertz to Olamide Zaccheaus, the former UVA wide receiver. Burrow Joe in the lineup for the O -2 Bengals in Cincinnati tonight against the 1 -1 Rams in a Super Bowl matchup. That one just now getting underway in what is a scoreless game in the opening two minutes. The commanders still licking their wounds from a near shutout loss to the Buffalo Bills on their home field yesterday. Very little went right for Ron Rivera, but coach says of his team, we're not going to stay indoors because the sky is falling. to We're going show up, we're going to work hard, we're going to get it corrected. This is a good football team, good young football team that needs to learn and understand. You're going to make mistakes, you're going to get your butt kicked. How you respond, that tells everybody whether you're worth a crap or not. Well, according to Fanatics via ABC, this is a story I hate to pass along here, but Taylor Swift's appearance in Kansas City yesterday sparked a 400 % uptick in sales of Travis Kelsey merchandise, placing him as one of the top five selling NFL players. I have to say, if he likes his attention, just wait for the inevitable platinum breakup album that she drops when you guys I was thinking about that, but I also think he's the kind of guy that can maybe take that. Oh yeah, he can take that. Look, Mama Kelsey will come after everyone, with her little double jersey. She was sitting next to Taylor Swift, or near her, as far as I could from see that luxury box. Yeah, that's not going to end well. Alright, you heard it here. Coming up on WTOP, the full week's forecast here, latest on the roads and the latest on the battle in the House between Republicans who are threatening to shut down the federal government and Republicans who want to keep things running. The Mid -Atlantic Winter is coming. Thompson Creek Window Company's energy efficient windows are built right here for our unique climate to save you money on your utility bills. Call today for their
Tech Path Crypto
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"All right, so let's jump into the week ahead. We'll be looking at what micro -strategies is up to. Take a look at some of the scenarios that might be playing out here in the market. And also at the end of the show, we'll break into some Bitcoin action along with some other altcoins. You guys don't want to miss this one. My name is Paul Baron. We'll come back into Tech Path. All right, before we get started, I want to thank our sponsor today, and that is iTrustCapital. If you're looking at long -term holding and you want to get into a crypto IRA, this is one solution you can go with. Of course, all you have to do is visit their website. They've got a ton of offerings both in the altcoin side. You can also do gold and silver over there as well. So just check out iTrustCapital .com. And if you want, use our link down below. It's going to give you $100 funding reward if you decide to do something over there on that. All right, let's get into a couple of topics today. I want to jump over to just this tweet, kind of outlining the week, key events this week. Consumer Confidence data comes in on Tuesday. We'll get building permits and new home sales data also on Tuesday. That'll be an interesting data point to look at. GDP data also coming in from Q2 on Thursday, pinning home sales data on Thursday. Fed Chair Powell speaks also on Thursday. And then the August PC Inflation data comes in on Friday. And then wrapping up the week, we'll get a couple of Fed speakers this week. So it's going to be a big week. The question will be whether or not we see continued downturn in the S &P. Of course, we'll take a look at a handful of crypto markets that seem to be holding up fairly nicely in terms of resiliency. That's the one thing I think right now that we've continued to see with a lot of these projects is just their consistency in this bear market. Others to watch for this week is Meta. Meta, of course, will be releasing their new event called Meta Connect. It's almost here, so you'll be able to get that. They're doing this via virtual event, so check it out. I was noticing right here on, I won't play the audio there, but first look at what's next for Metaverse. So they're still using that term.
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The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Market Update with Joe Consorti, "The Bitcoin Layer" - September 25th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. Yeah, I mean, how much longer before we get, you know, a bunch of businesses in our hometowns? And I live in Boston, so it's like I'm in a big city, right? You would expect there'd be a lot of businesses already accepting Bitcoin in such a big city, but there's honestly only like two. There's like a sushi place and a fucking reptile store. It's like, that's all we got, baby. I'm just waiting. It's like, come on, where's the liquor store? OK, it's like where's the I don't know, where's the where's the fucking dispensary? Like we need some other options here. What is the grocery store like the corner store? I don't know, man. I feel like give it a few more years and hopefully there'll be some options here because I want to spend my Bitcoin at these places. Well, Wicked, I had a huge realization on this. I'm sure you already know this, but I'm kind of working with the chamber to get local businesses in Santa Monica to accept Bitcoin ahead of Pacific. And there's few. And what I've found in working with a few that have been like, OK, we're down to do it is their point of sale systems are so walled off, you know, they just go like you hit them up and they go all accept it. I'm down, but I don't have time to train any employees to do some extra. And I needed to work with my point of sale system because everything is integrated with that. The inventory, whatever point of sale system they use, makes it easy for them to do everything. They simplify everything. And so as I'm trying to like there's it's so easy to take stats, there's plenty of point of sale systems external. But when it comes to tying those in, then they just go like, I'm sorry, I'm out, I'm out. I got too much stuff going on. And so we got to connect because I know like toast take some like like you can integrate PayPal and Cash App for easy tracking and stuff. But some of these cheaper point of sale systems, they're a wreck, dude. Yeah, man, this is why, you know, what strike is trying to do by just going straight to the source. Right now, going to like the biggest point of sale network in the United States and they're just trying to like integrate Bitcoin directly into there so that effectively, you know, basically every major retailer all of a sudden gets Bitcoin available for payment overnight. Right. And that's really smart. But but I also think that, you know, it's also it's probably a good idea to target smaller businesses who favor cash as payment, you know, because it's like, well. You know, it's like either I'm going to pay with a credit card, I'm going to pay with Bitcoin, so I'm not going to pay with cash. It's going to have cash and Bitcoin is better than credit cards. Right. You're already you're already preferring a cash payment, which means that you've got a system for, you know, tracking all of your shit when people pay with cash. So might as well like throw some sats in the mix there if if your preferred payments cash anyways. So I'm trying to I'm trying to work with some trying to work on some people who are around here, some smaller businesses. There's got to have got a liquor store around the corner. I know the guy who runs it. I'm just like, hey, buddy, so you ready to accept Bitcoin yet? No. OK, well, enjoy this three percent fee when I pay with my credit card. Yeah, I'm trying to do that, too, also the mechanic and what he does is that he either lets you pay with he asks you to pay with Zelle, like the bank payment method, he's like, can you pay me through Zelle? And then when not, he points to the sign and it says that basically you're going to pay the credit card fee, like if you want to pay visa or if you want to pay with a master card, like you're paying the extra. So it's like, man, and I talk to him about Bitcoin, but it's like you say, it's like a no. You know, it's funny the I've been using your wick and I've been using your thing about Cash App. I mean, you can pay with Bitcoin and I mean, it's just you can receive in Bitcoin, you can pay with Bitcoin and Cash App. I was talking to my brother about it the other day. I said, do you have he said, well, how do I get how do I get Bitcoin and how do I get cash and blah, blah, blah from Bitcoin? And how do you do that? And I said, do you have Cash App? And he said, yeah. I said, well, there you go. Yeah, and how much is he accepting Bitcoin for Cash App or? Can you what, Terrence? Is he accepting Bitcoin for Cash App now? My brother? You were talking about somebody who is. I was talking about my brother, Terrence, and all I did was shut his ass up. OK, so is he using cash or is using Bitcoin through Cash App or no? No, I just shut him up, Terrence. That's all I did. He was trying to FUD Bitcoin and my inability to be able to use it as a as a as a means to purchase things. And I just I said, look, dude, you can you got Cash App? He said yes. And that just shut him up. Speaking of Cash App, do you see the news that that Jack Dorsey just took over the basically the point of sales, like whatever, whatever, whatever. So I wouldn't I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing, you know, like all those all those Cash App point of sales that you see in some of these businesses. Right. Like you go and you pay and it says you can pay with your Cash App account if you want. I wouldn't be surprised if they start to integrate like a payment over Lightning and that same point of, you know, point of sale system is something that I've been I've been wondering, like why they haven't done that for so long. Right. And it's like it seems like the obvious move, especially since they're so Bitcoin focused. You know, it reminds me of like Mollers came out, made that gigantic announcement that he was working with NCR that they were going to integrate Lightning into all these different point of sale terminals is like whatever the fuck happened with that. Well, he waited. He said he said definitely going to happen by the end of the year. And then he literally waited until the last day of the year, like December 31st of 2022. And he said, oh, yeah, it didn't work out, but we're still working on it. So he basically like, yeah, I don't know. They're probably still working on it. I'm guessing that it's a really complicated thing to try to do. Like they probably thought it was gonna be easier than it ended up being. Lightning is pretty complicated. And honestly, as a protocol, it's not like it's not like fully solidified. It's changing a lot. It's got a lot of like wrinkles that still need to be worked out. Yeah. You'd have to figure out all the node liquidity. Right. For that to work. And then you would have to push firmware updates to all those terminals. Right. Or something. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and also like when you're talking about. OK, so I mean, part of the problem with Lightning is that as a decentralized network, payments fail pretty frequently. Right. Because because of the way that it's structured. Right. It's not like it's not like Bitcoin where you send a payment and it goes through no matter like who the fuck you are. It doesn't matter. Right. You can just broadcast a transaction to the network and a node's going to pick it up and then they're going to broadcast it to the rest of the nodes they're connected to. And eventually everyone in the network picks that up and puts it in their end pool. And it's an unconfirmed transaction. But everyone knows about it. Right. With Lightning, the way that it's structured is, you know, you push out a payment and you're trying to find this like, you know, you're trying to thread a needle through this like network of nodes and you don't really know if you're going to make it to the end. And a lot of times you don't make it to the end. So payments fail all the time in Lightning. And it's I think it's difficult as a payments network for them to, you know, like get it to work as well as they wanted to. Right. And we're still trying to wrinkle out all those all those problems. Hasn't really, you know, like it's not perfect yet. Right. And it probably never will be. But but it's getting better. Yeah. These these point of sale systems, you know, the thing that's for people listening in is they do much more than just point of sale because they that's that's how they score with, you know, restaurants. Right. Imagine if you're running a restaurant and there's there's all, you know, from accounting to inventory and things like that, they start doing more for the for the business than just point of sale. And that's what that's how they get in. Right. They solve all your problems, not just point of sale. Hey, we're going to make sales easy, but we're going to handle all this stuff like staffing, all these things. And so if you want a lightning point of sale system to come in, it has to be a fully functional point of sale system that checks these boxes because these folks are, you know, they're dug in and they'll be like, oh, I can't I can't switch because I have everything integrated with that staffing inventory, all that stuff. And so I'm sure that's why it's taking some time. That's actually pretty smart. That's fucking brilliant. Actually, it's building a motor on your business. Oh, yeah, for sure. And but the thing where they go wrong is these these less expensive point of sale systems come in, they get, hey, Rolls Royce, we're here for you 24 seven customer support. But if you talk to restaurants and stuff like that, they're always switching point of sale systems because they get some new thing where they go, oh, we'll knock down the take from three percent to two point five or, you know, whatever it is. And then they disappear once the thing is operational. And then the system kind of doesn't update. It's a very transient like, you know, kind of parasitic kind of a service, you know, other than the big ones like toast, which are massive operations and do have some ability to integrate like PayPal, cash app, et cetera. What I will say is lightning when you're using custodial lightning that were wallets works like a charm. So people hate talking about this. But like if you're using a water satoshi and you're trying to pay, you know, someone who's got a cash at point of sale or like, you know, you're trying to pay like someone who's who's, you know, using like some other custodial lightning that are wallet like I guarantee you those are going to be connected. They're going to have enough liquidity to zap sats back and forth and you're never going to have a failed payment. So I mean, this is part of the thing about lightning is, you know, as a as like a as a network for, you know, regular plebs to just run their own lightning notes. That's only going to scale so far. Right. And it's not really going to work for everyone to do that. But as a network for people to have custodial Bitcoin on that they can spend with. I mean, I think that's kind of where it's going to shine, whether or not you like it. And so what I'm excited for is like, you know, once we start getting all of these bullshit exchanges and they start to integrate lightning and then you've got, you know, all of your point of sale systems integrated with lightning. I mean, imagine a system where it's like, you know, you've got like you've got some Bitcoin on an exchange, maybe it's cash app and now you can pay for your groceries or you can pay with whatever from your cash app using lightning as the rails or you can zap around sats. Maybe you're like, oh, cash app is kind of shady now. I want to move it over to, you know, whatever. Like you can just like zap those sats over to the next, you know, trusted custodian or you can hold a little bit on each one. I mean, there's ways that you can kind of mitigate the risk of having custodial Bitcoin. And again, like I mean, this is like spending Bitcoin. I'm not advocating for people to have all their Bitcoin or most of their Bitcoin in a custodial wallet. But for your spending balances, I mean, if you want the convenience of lightning, I think custodial is kind of the way to go. I mean, it's cheaper, it's more convenient, it's more reliable. I don't know. Shoot me.
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"Night is the deadline to prevent a government shutdown. White House Press Secretary Corrine Jean -Pierre. This is the job of Congress. One of the basic jobs of Congress is to keep the government open. A deal made. was Lawmakers have to pass a dozen appropriations bills funding the federal government for another year or a short term deal to extend funding while negotiations continue. CBS's Tony DeCopel. In the event of a shutdown, roughly 4 million federal workers will face delayed paychecks and furloughs and some federal offices will have to close or face shortened hours. Essential workers will be required to work with paychecks on hold. Those essential workers include more than a million active duty members of the military, law enforcement officers, air traffic controllers and TSA officers. Hollywood writers have reached a tentative contract with the studios. KNX is john bear in los angeles nearly five months on the picket lines the writers guild was able to hash out a deal new with the studios in about five days flat sal cajeros is a WGA member after 140 plus days on the picket line there's a lot of hope in the air hope that they can get back to work soon and hope that the tentative contract will help SAG -AFTRA quickly score its own deal for the striking actors john Baird for CBS News Hollywood president Biden heads to Detroit tomorrow to walk the picket line in support of auto workers on strike against the big three on Maui some Lahaina residents including Tani Katayama are returning to their wildfire destroyed properties it's so unreal go to see and you know we've driven past it and we've seen it on the news but I
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A highlight from Leveraging Relationships In Evangelism
"All right, well, I got the microphone this morning for the first time in like nine days and a little bit, not nervous, I'm very excited about preaching this morning. Brother Hunter came into my office. You go over to Mark chapter number four. Brother Hunter came into my office on Friday and he said, I am so glad I am not the one preaching after that revival. And I told him, I said, I'm glad you're not the one preaching after revival too. And, but I am excited about preaching to us this morning. I've got a heart full of stuff I wanna cover. In fact, my heart is so ready for it. I wanna pray ahead of time. I wanna pray to start out the service and we're gonna get a running start. I'm so excited about it, mind you. I have actually, I told my wife, I worked in, I draw in my notes. I have, sometimes I have an issue reading. I'm a little bit dyslexic and things. So I actually put like illustrations in my notes and I, in my notes, because of how excited I am, I actually drew a yellow triangle for a yield sign to remind me, slow down, okay? Slow down during the service today. So that's my hope. I wanna try to be slower for you today because I just got a heart full of stuff. I hope you do as well. I hope as you've come to revival over the last few days that God is doing a work in your heart. He's certainly doing a work in our church. And I don't wanna leave you behind, okay? And I mean that with all sincerity. I don't mean that as a threat. And you know, either get on the bus or we're gonna run you over. That's not my heartbeat at all. But if the bus leaves the station, I want you on the bus. And a lot of our meeting next week's gonna be about that. And I'm just looking forward to what God's gonna do. But we're gonna start with prayer this morning and ask God's blessing on the service. And would you pray for me as I preach? I'm not nervous particularly. I just, I wanna do the sermon justice. There's some big things I think in our church that we've gotta grasp. Me as a Christian and you as a Christian, we've gotta lay hold on some of these ideas. If we are gonna have an effective global outreach and local outreach, there's some things we really gotta lay hold on. And so pray for me, but also pray for you in these next few moments that God would work in your heart and that the word of God would not fall on deaf ears, but that you would receive it with gladness and with meekness. I love that that's one of the ways Paul says we're to receive the word with meekness. Meekness simply means power under control. So you've got all this ability, you've got all this horsepower under the hood, if you will, but you need to have that tempered and controlled by the Holy Spirit. And when you receive this word, there's power that comes with it. And we've gotta let the Holy Spirit guide us as a church. So let's pray and we'll dive in. God, I need you today. And Lord, you know that's true. And so Lord, I don't wanna waste this prayer time. I simply don't wanna, I don't simply wanna just fill in with prayer time either. Lord, I need a special unction from on high this morning. I know the power is present. I just, I'd like access to it. And I pray God that in a special way, your spirit would do a work in our hearts that we couldn't explain as any other method than yours. And so Father, we commit this service to you. I pray you'd allow me to say the things you desire. And Lord, I hesitate to pray this. You've done this before, but Lord, if there's something you don't want me to say, I pray I wouldn't say it either. But I pray that today's service just be specially guided by your spirit. And Father guide this church. Lord, give us a special grace as a church to be able to accomplish certain things. Lord, I so loved what preacher said on, I think it was Wednesday night, about the grace bestowed upon the churches of Macedonia. They had a special grace on them. And I pray for a special grace for us as well, Lord, that we would have a part in global evangelization, but also local evangelization as well, Lord. Spark a flame in us, rekindle the fire. And Lord, help us to have a passion for souls in a way that we have not known prior. And God, would you burn that flame brightly if we ever to reach this world, we're gonna have to adjust some things as a church and as Christians and as parents and as spouses. I pray God that just in a special way, you'd work in our hearts. We ask in Christ's name, amen. Let me say again, what an amazing week we had. I hope that you were here and we had great crowds each night. So if you weren't here, I may not have even noticed that because the crowd was so good, but it was a blessing to see what God is doing in our church and working in our church. We've been praying through the, if you think about it, we've been trying for the whole year to align our mission strategy and our evangelism strategy closer to the scripture. And we have certainly heard a truckload of scripture this week and just Bible verse after Bible verse after Bible verse, story after story from the scripture about how global evangelization works. And so we are trying to align to that. Let me say this too. I'll talk more about this next Sunday afternoon as well, but let me say, I have never been more proud and more relieved to be a Baptist than I am right now. And here's the reason, and I am convinced a Baptist, but that's a sidebar. But what I am grateful to be a Baptist for is that as a Baptist, if anything defines a Baptist, it's that this is our source of authority. That if the Bible tells us to do it, that we are supposed to do it. If it's in the book, it should be done by God's people. And if what we're doing, we find to be incompatible with what's in the book, then we're the ones that are supposed to change. And that will and has always been true of Baptists. And so long as we call ourselves a Baptist, and I think till Jesus comes back, that's our intent. But as Baptist, that means we're supposed to be doing what we find in this book. We're supposed to be doing it the way we find in this book. And we don't do the things that we do as Baptists historically or presently because other people are doing it. We don't do what we do as Baptists because it's pragmatic or it works. We as Baptists, if anything throughout history has defined a Baptist, it has been that their source of authority is found from the scripture. In fact, even pastoral authority, it only is only borrowed from the Bible and only goes so long as the Bible allows it to go. So the only real source of authority we get is from the Bible. And so in areas where the Bible gives clear instructions and examples, what we are supposed to do is follow those instructions and examples. And over the last couple of weeks, we've been working, I've been working in my office 50 plus hours reading Baptist history from our inception in the early 1500s to how it flowed through America and all of those things. And if anything is true of the Baptist, it's this, that this book gets to define what we do. And as a pastor, I just wanna say, I'm relieved that that's the case. Because if there's a change we have to make as a church, all I have to do is copy what scripture says. All you and I have to do is copy what scripture says. You remember when you were a kid and maybe some of you don't, but my generation will probably remember, you remember tracing paper? I don't know if that's still a thing or if it was a thing before me. Those older than me, did you have tracing paper as well? Oh, okay, all right, I just assumed it was all rock and, I'm just kidding, just kidding. But tracing paper, all you have to do, you can pretend, people will give you credit for being an awesome artist when all you did was copy, right? And as Baptists, we don't have to be awesome artists, we just have to copy. I don't have to come up with some original plan in my genius little brain, all I have to do is copy. And so as a Baptist, that's the relief I get to take as a pastor to say, hey, church family, all we have to do is copy. And we've spent the last week hearing how God desires for us to do it. The problem is, and maybe you've experienced this when you were a kid, if you accidentally take two pieces of tracing paper or three pieces of tracing paper, it becomes harder to see the lines. And I'm afraid that sometimes in some ways as Baptists, we have heritage and we have the way we've inherited and we've had the default positions that don't necessarily, the lines aren't necessarily unbiblical, they're just not compatible with the patterns we find in scripture. And so what we're gonna do over the next couple of weeks is just revisit, hey man, this is what the Bible says and here's what we ought to be doing and here's how we ought to follow that and what a blessing that is. So do not miss next Sunday afternoon as we fellowship. We've got some plans, but we want input, we want involvement and contribution. This is our collective church. And as we heard, evangelism is an all church responsibility. It's a whole church strategy. Well, if it's a whole church strategy, here's my plan. I want it to be a whole church decision. I don't want anybody in a year from now saying, oh, pastor, you did this. No, we are gonna do this. We as a church are gonna make some decisions together about how we want to approach missions, where we want to dedicate our money. There's partnerships, there's journeys, all the things that we have talked about. And so I am excited about the opportunity to preach. It was a great missions conference, but I will say this, halfway through the missions conference, God had already really worked in my heart about what direction and then shortly thereafter gave me the passages to go to. It's March chapter number four. And so what I want us to do is, I want to be careful how I say this. I want to come down, not to reality, but I want to come down to today. Right now, I am starry eyed. I cannot wait for the things that are coming. I want to go to all the world. We have some plans for March and the following six months after that with our church and everybody wants to go. They're in the middle of next year. There are some things in the works. We're gonna talk a lot about it next week, but listen to me, church family, we don't have to wait to reach the world, nor should we wait to reach the world for the simple reality that Bakersfield and Kern County is very much a part of the world. And so while we get excited and starry eyed and man, I want to go do, and I do too, and I am excited and I've been talking to some different men and trying to put together a team and put together a plan. And I am excited. We need to cross the oceans, but we cannot forget there are people who are literally across the fence from us who are within our reach. For the last few months, we've been driving as a staff and planning for a special Sunday on October the 22nd. At the end of service, you'll get to see a video and you'll get one of these on your way out. I'll explain more about it, but basically what we're going to do as a church is I'm gonna give you five tracks and over the course of this next week, you're gonna pray and ask God what five families you're gonna go invite and bring to church that are within your reach. And that Sunday is gonna be entitled True Purpose. And the heartbeat of it, you'll see the video in a minute like I said, the heartbeat of that is that your neighbors, your family, your friends and your coworkers would understand what the true purpose of Jesus coming was. I remember as a lost person, I had no idea why Jesus was here. I had no concept of what he came to do. I didn't know he was God and there was a bunch of things I didn't know until someone explained to me the whole purpose Jesus came. And the whole purpose of October the 22nd, we're gonna see more over the course of the next few weeks is to bring those nearest us to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. And please hear me, listen, church family, I want, I am praying, I am awake, planning, trying to build out a global missions strategy. I wanna reach Zambians and I wanna reach Angolans and I wanna reach Fijians, but God also desires for us to do the work of an evangelist right here and now in our communities and in our county. And the passage we're going to this morning actually brings that whole, all my introduction into a very clear biblical focus. So we're gonna go to Mark chapter number five. I think I told you chapter four, I apologize. Mark chapter number five is where we're gonna be this morning. Mark chapter number five, we're gonna read our texts together, we're gonna walk through it, we're gonna unpack it and we're gonna really introduce the whole concept and walk through the whole story together. And we're gonna see this story in detail and we're really not gonna get to the message until the very, very end, but you stay with me and we'll learn something this morning. Mark chapter number five, verse number one says, and they, that's speaking of Jesus and his disciples came over onto the other side of the sea and that's the Sea of Galilee. And so Jesus has just left Capernaum, that's his hometown. And he's traveling 40 miles to the east and he's heading over into verse number one, into the country of the Gadarenes. So that's Gadara. And in chapter number four, in fact, you can look back there in just a second with me, but in chapter number four, while they're making this journey, a massive storm hits. And what happens is Christ is on the boat and the disciples are losing their minds. They think this boat's gonna sink reasonably so. And Jesus speaks to the wind and the waves and he calms them. Now, please understand to you and I, that's like, yeah, that's what Jesus does. But to the disciples, they have just started following him. You realize we're only in chapter number five, Jesus has barely just called the disciples. They're actually on their first Gentile mission according to Mark that they've ever done. They're gonna go over into the Gadarenes. But this is one of the first miracles the disciples have ever seen. And at the end of this chapter, you can look at it, chapter four, at the end of the chapter number four, it ends with the disciples making this beautiful statement. What manner of man is this? That even the winds and the waves obey him. So this unbelievable, unnatural, supernatural thing happens in chapter number four. The sea becomes glass. They end up on the other side of the shore or in the country of the Gadarenes. And I want you to notice what happens immediately. Verse number two.
Bitcoin & Crypto Trading: Ledger Cast
A highlight from Rate Pause
"Hello and welcome to Ledgercast. My name is Brian Crossguard here, as always, with one and only Josh Olsowich. Hey Josh. Mr. Brian. How you doing? How are you? I'm good. I'm happy to be with you today. You're already cards pulled up, ready to go. I got my best podcast hoodie on, you know. Only the best Ledgercast family. Getting the hoodie season, depending on what part of the country you're in. For sure. My dear Alabama, I mean, this is the weather that you live here for. Like, most of the year is incredibly humid, but September, October, November, that's when it's the good stuff. Well, people didn't come on this podcast to hear about the weather. They came to hear about head and shoulders. We always start with the weather. I know. It's like a podcast faux pas, but we do it anyway. It's the human experience. There's a head and shoulders on like every market on all timeframes. Like, you can't not see it. ETH, Bitcoin, S &P, Qs, any risk market, we'll put it like that, any risk market looks very, very toppy still to me. What are your thoughts on, you know, as we enter our 37th week as macro LARPing traders? Yeah, well, this continues to tell a story, right? Dollar legitimately been up only on a weekly basis for more than two months. Hold on, hold on. Jeff in the chat said. Jeff, were you listening for your show? We were just discussing the accelerated aging of Ryan in the show. I feel like I feel like the bear market is hitting me in every possible way right now. Sorry, continue. Yeah, I'm I'm going to be very gray and old and wrinkly if I make it through another cycle. Anyway, the Dixie is up. Yield. You know what I realized this week? Back to the Dixie for a sec. I realized that the Euro chart, Euro USD is basically the Bitcoin chart. So if you're rooting for Bitcoin, you're basically rooting for the Euro chart. I don't know how that's going to work out. It's not the team I want to be on right now. No, I agree. I don't know how that's going to work out for us because that Euro chart looks bad, quite awful. Yeah, that's bad. So I keep that in mind generally for people, you know, if you see some good news or positive news in Euro land, which I think is rare these days, it should generally signal wellness for Bitcoin. Yeah. Well, it's mostly that dollar strength. It's just not. Yeah, it's all it's all just the same thing. Right. Yeah, exactly. We titled the show Rate Pause because rate hikes were paused. So this is the first time in quite some time that we've gone into FOMC with no change. The result of that was you start to see the 30 year kind of catching up to the two year because they also said that they are planning on staying high for longer. So we're not going to do the thing where we just immediately start going into cuts. And so, yeah, it may not have the desired effect that people might expect by a rate pause. At this point, holding rates at this level is restrictive eventually, right? It gets more and more restrictive as the lower interest rate that like rolls into this new environment, you know? Right. But I think it's honestly, I agree with the Fed. I think keeping it here and doing a wait and see type attitude makes more sense than keep raising and then panic cutting when the time comes. I think you have a potential to break a little less in this regard. I think they should have paused a while back and should have started way before they did. But nevertheless, the idea of pausing but not committing to a cut, I think is reasonable. Well, the markets didn't get angry at pausing. The markets got angry because they hinted at two more hikes still. So if that actually happens, I don't think it will. Look, I'm a chaos agent. I say go all the way, right? Pedal to the metal, no half measures. If you want to kill the economy, go for it. So yeah, let's do two more. Let's do one in November, one in February, whatever. I don't know. I think the consensus, though, is that markets aren't going to last that long. Markets being the economy, I guess. But the economy just isn't going to last and hold up through that. So unemployment is going to tick up considerably. That's the expectation. You're not going to get your soft landing. And Paul basically said as much that that wasn't his base case during the meeting. So you got to keep that in mind when you're looking at risk markets like crypto and alts especially are just still obliterated and continue to look terrible. Two -year looks like it wants more. The three -month yields look like, all the yields look like they want more. Yeah, they're all acting like it. Especially if you take today out of the picture, which I'm not sure I'm going to read too much into what's happening on a Friday. Well, we had, so yesterday we had a negative 1 .6 % day on S &P. And there were already legacy analysts coming out saying, oh man, Paul's going to have to cut this year. It's been one day. You people are so soft, so pathetic. Pillsbury Doughboy over here asking for cuts after a down day. Give me a break. Just absurd. The chart on the S &P does look like it has room for more downside like that. Oh, for sure. Pretty clean breakdown, but it's not in panic mode. It's in the middle. It's in the chop zone. 4200 makes all the sense in the world based on some basic technical analysis. Look at the 200 -day moving average. All this is just meaner version. You have people panicking that the number is going down instead of up and they're pathetic. I mean, that's legacy for you. Even when you look at non -technical analysis, if we were in price discovery for the stock market right now, it would not make sense. It just does not make sense relative to the economy. But ledger, price is in the forward future. It doesn't look at what's happening now. We're not going to get a recession. We're going to get a huge GDP print, man. Forward future looks like we got another year or two of grinding. Like grinding economically, trying to figure out this balance of wage inflation, commodities inflation, cost of goods. There's a balance that has to exist there. Life is more expensive for people. Their homes are more expensive and their business loans are more expensive. are Their wages up, but they're not caught up to that. And so the economy needs to figure itself out. It needs to find its Zen zone. I agree. That could take time. But that's not the S &P. The S &P is eight companies who have billions of dollars, don't need to borrow, don't need debt at this interest level. But now the problem, I think Apple especially, I don't expect their new phone to sell gangbusters because the economy is... It's one of the easiest things to not upgrade. Right. Well, that as well. But USB -C, right? Welcome to the 21st century, everybody. So I'm expecting those numbers to be soft. The Nvidia story seems to be softening, even though it's hard to really know what's going on there. There's still lots of lots of demand for those checking news. Yeah. But I guess the point is, who cares about the rest of the S &P, the 493, right? It's all about the top seven right now. And if those are weak, which they are, just in the charts, the markets are going to turn lower because you're not getting any help from the other 493. All right. I want some of what Andre is drinking in the chat. I'm just going to plop this onto the show. Here we go, Andre. This is your moment. Fed waits another year to lower rates than the BTC happening. The presidential election and lower interest rates are all going to be happening at the same time as we go into the next bull run. Space exclamation point, which is another way of saying triple exclamation point. Where do you put that space in front? Andre, I'm with you. I hope you're right. I think people believe that if they cut, then that will be bullish, but they won't cut until things look terrible. So if they're cutting, then we have a different problem, right? We have a recession if they're cutting, right? It's over if they're cutting. We just have to dodge a recession. You just have to dodge a recession. Around halving, whatever. And then there's this other school of thought, which is kind of what Andre is hinting at. Maybe the halving doesn't matter. Maybe it's just a coincidence that we've been in these four -year business cycles, and it's just lined up perfectly. I've seen that narrative growing recently, which is surprising to me, but it makes sense. Look, if you look at the data and you just don't pay attention to halving, I agree. But I think the halving brings eyeballs. It brings people understanding the asset a little differently because they're like, oh, wait, what do you mean? The supply is going to be cut in half or whatever, the daily emissions. Anyway. And meanwhile, Bitcoin and ETH both basically at their 200 -week moving average. This was okay. So that's the tweet you have up. This was my engagement bait last night. This is if anybody was paying attention. It's comparing the 200 -week and the 200 -day moving averages on Bitcoin. The last time... They're converging. Yeah. So they're converging. And the last time it looked like this was 2015 for a bull cross. It technically didn't cross bearish in 2015. I just want to highlight, though, Josh. We are both getting rejected by that right now, if you look at this weekly. Yeah, but that's okay. It's September. It's key three. I don't care. But yes. They're just winding around in there. They're meandering. It's not good. Also, one other comment. Yeah. Gotta work on this hashtag. 250k or bust. Gotta work on that. Well, that's the target. We need some ideas. That's the 8000 % target from here is 250k. That's where that came from. Yeah, we gotta do better. 250 by 25 is too much of a mouthful. I feel like the phrase millie needs to be in there. Millie? Quarter millie? Quarter millie. Maybe just full millie. Look, I've been on the record. 250k is the target for the next run. Okay. Even before this tweet, the stars are aligning. Yeah. People are saying what's happened to me. I'm using a different camera. I'm in a different place. And I got a haircut today. And everyone says you look old. I look weird and old. I am old. Here, I was I was puffing you up early. You're telling me I look good. And I was telling you how old I felt. And now the whole chat's like, hey, you look old. You look terrible. I think you look fine. But you know, maybe it's the rates, you know, the rates are just killing everybody. It is the rates. I'm gonna go ahead and go out on a limb and say that I'm affected by that. Sure. So yeah, if we look at if we look at Bitcoin, also, We've also got if you don't like the head and shoulders, at the very least, you have to admit there's some sort of double top there. Yeah, double top, lower, lower low by a smidge. Rejected by the fast and long moving averages potentially. There's a there's reason to be concerned here. If we're above 28, at any point Q4, I think we're good for move higher, which doesn't like logically make sense based on what's going on in the world with rates and everything. So if this then that if we get above 28, we're good. Until then, I expect lower lows, ETH especially. What's going on with ETH, man? You're the ETH fanboy, the ETH cheerleader. What's happening? It's even better than BTC in terms of rejection off the 200. That's clean. It's nice and clean. That's a dump it. Let me translate that for everybody. That means it's even more bearish. I think this tells some of the story like there's not many people in the ecosystem that don't consider pair trades, you know, like opportunity cost or a risk profile of being in one thing versus the other. And a lot of people are dancing on like long tail of altcoins. Like they'll play on those playgrounds. But the people that are in big assets are looking at this where ETH BTC is breaking down further. It looks like it might be escalating. It looks like it might be going from breakdown to a steady progression to the downside. And I don't know, maybe that also looks double toppy to me. Yeah, but maybe another 10 -15 % on ETH is on that relative to BTC and people just don't see the upside as worthwhile. I get it. I understand. I like 05. And if 05 doesn't survive around the ETF stuff, assuming the ETF stuff is going to be bullish, I like 03. I think a 200 week tap at a minimum would make sense. So, you know, you're looking at another 10 % relative in that scenario. And that would probably be a bullish bottom. Bullish, she says. A bullish bottom if it maintains that. I'm sure, I don't know harmonics well enough to just like eyeball it, but I'm sure there's some sort of harmonic. Batwing harmonic, yeah. Yeah, there's something there where you could draw like a crab or something. If this one's a 0 .03, that would be concerning. Well, what's the breakout level of the head and shoulders? Like 0 .035, 0 .036? Yeah, I think that's reasonable. I think that would put ETH people, myself included, just in Jordan tier mode. Look, if ETH doesn't get an ETF and Bitcoin does and it actually sees flows. It could happen. It could happen. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Hit your targets, Josh. 0 .053 before 0 .035. That's true. I mean, we need to spot ETF first, which... That's just math, just so you know. And dyslexia. It's just kind of interesting that it has not made a higher high since going proof of stake. Kind of weird, right? The Real Dangles asks, can we do a mini series on learning macro fundamentals? I've only ever looked at crypto, so half of what you guys talk about is foreign to me. No, but there's some people that you can learn from. One of the best, in my opinion, and I was... Jeebus was giving me crap about this, but Ray Dalio is, I think, the greatest macro mind that actually takes their information and then shares it. Big Debt Crises is a book. It's a study of cycles, basically. It's a study of deflationary, inflationary cycles, and they're very good. I would read that. That's a great start. Like, that'll be good. That could teach you more than I ever could. There's many, many other things, in addition to what he talked about, that go into what he talks about. But at the end of the day, it's all about cycles. And that's a terrific book. I would listen to a bunch of podcasts on macro stuff. Blockworks does a billion of them. Yeah, but don't worry. If you listen to those, you'll end up a bear. So you gotta know that going in so that you don't end up a bear. I don't care if you're bullish or bearish, but being able to form your own opinion, that's the end goal. But people that do nothing but talk macro are all bears. They're all dirty bears, Josh. I agree with you. They're doomer macro people. But just knowing the language and knowing what people are looking at definitely helps you understand what the hell is going on. If you listen to them, just know that you need to protect your beautiful, bullish beauty. Don't take their advice, air quotes here. Don't take their advice. Your beautiful, bullish innocence needs to be protected when you listen to the doomer bears. You'll learn all about the SPR and why it's the end of the world. What is it about macro that makes people perma bears? I don't know. I think all this cyclical stuff, the raining down of potential for bad makes you think it's imminent. Yeah, they're very pro -commodity, pro -being anti -market. That's their whole personality and identity. Now I'm thinking of Sven specifically, for those of you who know who that is. But the macro people will be wrong for years and years and years. And then we'll finally get a down move. And they'll be like, yes, I told you so. Now I've lost all my money and the market 10xed at that time. But I told you so. We would get a correction. But I like that about them. The macro people also generally don't like Bitcoin. Some of them do, certainly. But most of them don't. So that tells me we still got time. It's still early. There are very few Lynn Alden's of the world where I simultaneously massively respect their macro analysis. And they don't discount crypto. She does discount everything but Bitcoin. But I'll forgive her for that. Because she's already really good at two things. That most people can't combine their goodness of that. Yeah, she's great. That's another easy listen as far as trying to pick up. She just wrote a book about money, too. I'm sure it's got some good macro stuff in there. There you go. So we'll stop that. Rate's up. Murray, I don't know what we're saying is like Michael Murray. But if he's a doomer bear, then yes. Yeah, this is a doomer bear that he was right at the right time on the right cycle as the media fell in love with such characters. So that carries a lot of weight. Like he can now be wrong for the rest of his life, but he was still right in 2008. But I respect people that have these opinions. I just think it's a lot easier to make money if you're a bull over the long period of time. I agree. Tripsy says he thinks the TA makes a better bear case than macro. I agree. I pay attention to the macro because it's kind of interesting. And having the ability to discuss it is powerful. But if all I do is pay attention to the TA, then I'd be fine. If you see the macro and you make this great bear case and then you see the chart and the chart looks like it wants to explode to the upside, don't make the trade. Not financial advice, but don't sell everything in that scenario. I wouldn't. But if the chart looks like doo -doo and the macro looks like doo -doo, then maybe it's just doo -doo. Well, knowing yields and rates helps you understand the DeFi angle a little bit. Knowing risk premium helps you understand like if I'm not getting paid an insane amount in DeFi right now, it's just not worth participating. You know? Yeah. Assuming a risk -free rate in U .S. government bonds, treasuries, whatever, you're not getting paid that differential in DeFi. Typically, you are seeking yield growth balance, right? There's some combination or you're looking for either or, but there's a balance of yield and growth. If your available yield today is high, so let's say you can earn 5 % in a money market or something like that, then two years ago, you could only earn 1%. Then your need for growth is even higher to make up for your annualized compounding year -on -year returns because when you're seeking growth, you're compounding that growth to make up for the lack of yield. So when the yield is higher, you need even more growth so people get less interested in the growth because the growth needs to be so severe to replace easy yield that's available today. So that's why risk assets that focus on growth look less attractive when yield is high. That's a general concept that can be useful. I always like to think about the extremes. So they used to say, Tina, there is nothing else when you're talking about allocating capital. So if there was no yield before, you get all this crazy VC shit and altcoins and NFTs. Because it's growth at all costs. Because that's it. That's the whole game, right? Now that there's a balance, it'd be much harder to create something like FTX in this environment where you can get a yield, you know? Yeah, there is demand for return on those dollars that's not just growth, that's not just bring it back to me more valuable. Did you hear that NFT story? The NFTs are 95 % worthless thing? Yeah. Yeah, there's some really good replies from NFT people that I thought were worthy. I've retweeted one of them. I don't remember who it was. I think it was the punk person that works, that does the streams all the time. Pink haired punk. You know, most of them always have been worthless is what they mentioned. And I think that they're doing a classic throw the baby out with the bathwater thing. Like the speculation on JPEGs was always going to pop. The underlying technology does have inherent value, it's just who's going to win from that. Like, will all the current market participants, collections, companies, whatever, will they all go away and then somebody will rise from the ashes and win the technology emergence where game the underlying technology can be taken advantage of to create real business value? I think that's what will happen, but which of us will be there to survive it? And then some stuff will get Lindy effects of art, digital art. There was product market fit, there is product market fit for that. But like, you can't just mint 10 ,000 pineapples and expect to make millions of dollars now when there's nothing else. If your denominator is infinity, then yeah, 95 % are useless.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep381: Delegate These Tasks To Make Podcasting Easier - Jay Aigner
"Because I'm very much of the mindset that as soon as something becomes a grind or feels too much like work, like hard work when it shouldn't be that hard, I need to switch something up. So I would say the biggest thing I struggle with today is just I've got a pretty good formula for my questions. I got a pretty good cadence for my show and I try to mix it up, but I struggle with how much should I mix it up for myself and my listeners more than keeping it the same and kind of just asking the same things robotically. And if you do 10 episodes a week saying the same thing over and over again, you're just like, man, this is we've got to mix something up here. And I actually just a quick plug to my friend, Els Kramer, runs an awesome podcast. And she was talking about she has these index cards and she basically has a bunch of topics on them. It's money like or success or hobbies or whatever. And she kind of shuffles them up and then we'll like randomly ask them those questions throughout after mixing them in. And I could see how it broke up the monotony of a normal interview for her because she would go, OK, tell me what your thoughts are on money. Right. And it's just like a random thing to throw into an interview. And it really did help her mix up some of those questions. So I think that would be my biggest struggle today is keeping it fresh for myself. Awesome. All right. So the last question is, if somebody's listening and they're not as far along in their journey as you are, what would be your best advice for success in a podcast that maybe we haven't covered today? I talked about a little bit, but use tools. Descript is a great tool. Descript saves a lot of time. But use people like Adam, use people like you. If you're serious about doing the podcast, the production will weigh on you eventually. If you do enough episodes, it doesn't matter how short they are. It doesn't matter how quick you think your process is going to be. It drags on and it's a lot. And if you have close to 100 episodes in the bank like I do, it gets to be a lot. The production is a lot. So delegate, find a team, find an agency, find a freelancer, find a somebody to hand some of that work off to. So you don't just grind down. And it also helps with your cadence. Like you were just mentioned, I just went on vacation and for the first time I had four episodes released and I didn't have to do anything. I didn't have to touch them. I didn't have to download the raw files on my computer. I didn't do anything. The descriptions, the titles, the artwork, the editing, the posting, the sharing on social media. Everything was done because I learned how to delegate that to my team that I have already for my company. And so I would say hire somebody to help you. You're buying your time back. I'm a big proponent of that anyway. If you're considering this a serious sales channel for your business, I would buy your time back by hiring somebody to do the work for you so you can go out and do more episodes. You can book these bigger guests. You can work on your other business, actual business that you're probably trying to do. And you're not spending two to 10 hours a week doing semi monotonous, semi painful parts of the process like uploading and posting social media and just these things are just like over and over again, find somebody to do it for you. And maybe Adam Adams because he's a great guy. Appreciate that. It's been great checking in with you, finding and learning what you've been doing, how to get the success. I loved your idea of just asking for the ratings and reviews, asking people that, you know, you have a relationship with and getting so many in a short amount of time, talking about some of the tools that you use for editing, like the people that you partner with for editing, for making your life easier. The tools that you use on LinkedIn, on pod match, for example, just stuff that we should all be thinking about. And your podcast is the first customer, by the way, if you're listening, the link to the first customer is down in the show notes, so you can scroll down, you can check that out and find out how people are getting their first customers and their second customers, because this is a way that all of us can have growth. So if you've got a business and you listen to a few episodes of the first customer, whether you've had your first customer or not, you're going to learn ways of getting clients, ways of serving more people. The link to the first customer is already in the show notes. Also, Jay's company link is already in the show notes. So if you want to check that out, if you want to work with him for quality assurance for your app or what you're doing, that link's already in the show notes. Same thing, any social media that he wanted you to connect with him on LinkedIn or anything that's in the show notes. So that way you can connect with him there, get him on your podcast or vice versa. I also just mentioned that on this podcast, Jay subtly mentioned that there's two ways to do content. Now, one of the ways is putting the burden of the content on the other person. All you got to do is just ask the questions. And half of my episodes are like that, like this one today with Jay, I'm asking him and all the content's coming from him. And I also queued up some really good content that is going to be beneficial for you. I know what you're going through. I know what you're worried about and I want to support you. And so I have a solo episode that's coming up right after this. I don't want you to go anywhere. It's going to be a short episode packed with value. So I'll see you there. You know, I really don't say this nearly enough. I don't mention this and I feel horrible because it's a great resource for you to be able to take your podcast to the next level. And it's simply a free resource that I don't need your email or anything. It's just a podcasting course that I created that has ended up putting in the very first six episodes of this podcast. So if you haven't checked it out, definitely going to want to just check out those first six episodes, see how they can help you improve your podcast, get in front of more people and have a better result where you're making more money through the podcast, et cetera. So much can happen after you listen through episodes. One, two, three, four, five and six. So if you haven't done it, go do it now. And by the way, if you're subscribed, you'll keep hearing more great content. So to those of you who are, I'll see you on the next episode.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Bull Market: What No Ones Telling You!
"Anytime you start making paper Bitcoin, or paper silver, or paper gold, and what do I mean by that? Futures, ETFs, stuff like that, that creates paper version. That's not actual spot, right? So anytime you do that, yes, the same money that comes in to buy it, so that they can actually short it, and they could keep it down with unlimited money and unlimited leverage, they could keep it down indefinitely, or until they scoop up as much as they want, when everyone loses interest, and then it takes off. What's up, everybody? Good morning, good afternoon, and good night wherever you're tuned in from. Welcome to another Saturday edition of the Alpha series here on Discover Crypto. My name is Kelly Kellum. Welcome to the show. If this is your first time, and I hope to guarantee that it's not going to be your last time, we've got an excellent guest lined up for you today. Mr. Jesse Olson is going to be breaking down what it means to cut the noise out of all these narratives from FUD and HOPE. Look at the chart, let the chart do the talking for you. So without any further ado, let's go ahead and dive in right to our guest. And I want to ask him a question right up front. Jesse, first off, thank you for being here, but do you think we're still going to get another bull run, bull runs like we've seen in the past, or do you think all these new institutions coming in and big money players coming into the market are going to change the dynamic of what a bull run is in Bitcoin? What's your thoughts? What's up, Kelly? Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. And we should have some fun here. Coming from a trading standpoint, right? I'm going to come from a trading standpoint and a point of view. When I first got the first bull run, right, 2020, 2021, I was still learning. And yes, I was doing pretty good 2021, really good. But the whole time I was saying this, I was like, please give me one more bull run after this, right? Please give me one more. I'm not 100 % certain that we get another bull run like we did on the last one. And I'm not as optimistic with the big institutions coming in. And I wasn't back in 2020 and I wasn't in 2021. Because coming from options, I know that manipulation is in there because they want to make money. They have billions, if not trillions of dollars. They've had algorithms for, I don't know, 12, 15 years or longer that are probably where us retail folk are at now, right? And they have the money behind it, right? So when futures were created end of 2017, I think Bitcoin started to become more correlated. Then there's trusts like GBTC. And if there's ETFs and stuff like that, I think it will become more correlated. I think it's amazing for traders, right? I just don't think that if I'm wrong, I hope I'm wrong because I will do much better, right? I will do much better if we get a massive bull run. But if we don't, it's because it will become more of a trading thing than it will be a long -term great. I just, you know, it can't be that easy. And if it is great, we'll all be there, right? I'm trading Bitcoin. I'm trading it with leverage. I welcome that. I make way more money on a long position with leverage than I do on a short position because, A, the leverage you're gaining profit and the coin value is going up. But on the short side, the coin value isn't going up, it's going down. So I collect more coins, but the coin value isn't going up. So first and foremost, I do want another bull run and I beg for another bull run so all my snipers can participate and they can make money as well and change their lives. But I'm not certain that it's going to happen. And I would be surprised if they allow it to happen. If big companies are coming in, you know, I don't know. We'll see. It'll be interesting to see. But we'll be there if it does and we won't be surprised if it doesn't. Put it that way. Now, Jesse, I have to say how much I appreciate people that are in this space that bring a balanced view because everybody thinks it's just going to go up, up and away, especially considering the fact that we have the halving right around the corner. Do you think the halving is going to be the primary driver of if we do get a bull run? Do you think the halving really truly is going to have an impact on price action? What's your thoughts on this? I have a couple of thoughts on it. So one, I think the halving will still play a factor, right? If all things are the same, if the same, you know, if the one there's a couple of things that could hurt it. Right. So Bitcoin has never Bitcoin came out after the 2008 crash. Right. So it's never experienced a dot com bubble crash. It never experienced 2008 crash. I have. I went back to zero. I lost everything. So for me, the up only left me a long time ago. Right. Like, I know it's not up only when I thought it was up only in my mid 20s. Right. So for me, a couple of those things. I do have hope for Bitcoin. I do believe on some level they'll be able to manipulate it and suppress it. If you look at gold and silver. Right. Gold and silver should probably be $30 ,000 an ounce by now for gold. And silver should probably be $1 ,000 per ounce by now. And because of paper, silver and gold should probably suppress it. Right. So I believe those are probably should be worth a lot more. The one positive with Bitcoin is anyone can go buy spot Bitcoin much easier than silver and gold. Right. I've bought silver and gold and they deliver it to you in a weird package and it's heavy. Right. It's not easily transportable and all that stuff. So there are some positive about Bitcoin. Right. So, you know, who knows what the agendas are? I don't. That's why I stick hyper focus to the charts, because I don't know what the backroom deals are happening. I don't know the narratives. I don't know any of that stuff. I'm not a top point one percenter making those decisions. So the only thing I can do is trade the charts. But, you know, going back, if we do get this bull run, I do have some reasons why, you know, like you said, you brought up one hundred fifty thousand. I do have a couple of reasons why that I could see Bitcoin hit one hundred and ten, one twenty five and maybe even top would be like one hundred forty thousand dollars. But that's a lot of what ifs. So, you know, we will take it level by level and swing trade the heck out of it all the way all the way up in the bull run. If we get another bull run, that's kind of like the topping that I would see price it. So now I appreciate that answer. And I'd like to shift gears here for a second, because you've been trading for years, years before Bitcoin was even around. And I'd like to dive into that experience a little bit and throw it back to the beginners out there, because we do have beginners that are out there still right now. But disproportionately, as we get new bullish impulses, especially in Bitcoin or the rest of the altcoin markets, we're going to have a huge number, a huge influx of new people into the space. So what would you say if you had that? Maybe not a secret sauce, but a beginner's pack, a beginner's sort of encouragement and the need to knows and the need to uses for people that are starting from scratch. Maybe they don't have a pro trading view account. Maybe they're not buying one of our indicators of one of your indicators or some of the many paid indicators out there. There's a lot of free tools. So what would you say for beginners getting started today or at any point in the future? Where do they start? How do they dive into this? Yeah, definitely. I mean, you know, first and foremost, like before this, I would say salvage as much capital at first as possible. I feel like the faster you want to jump in to make money, the faster you are going to lose money. So it sounds generic that, you know, learn first. Right. But say you already passed, you're going down discovery road and you're trying to learn and develop your own strategy. Right. Well, if you're on trading view, for example, you can get a relative strength indicator for free. If you're on trading view, free platform, you can get the MACD indicator. I think that's the most commonly used for beginners is the MACD indicator. And just before you do anything else, just study it and study it some more and then back test it and develop a strategy based off of your back test. There's an amazing replay button on trading view that you can go back and kind of after you develop a strategy, you can easily go back and hit the replay video and see what that, you know, how that kind of plays out in the past. It doesn't mean it's going to happen in the future, but you can get an idea over time of back testing with the replay button. That's probably number one. And then paper trade. I know it's not exciting. I know I didn't do it. I jumped head head first. I would have five digit wins followed by five digit losses. And it was brutal. Right. And I've never had a six digit loss, but I've had six digit wins. But I've had five digit losses and it wasn't until the five digit losses that made me like I made five digit wins with basically hardly any strategy whatsoever. And that was probably the worst thing that could happen. The best thing that could happen is that I had the five digit win loss and it made me go back to the drawing board. It made me reevaluate my whole life. What am I doing in trading type of thing? That aha moment. And that's when I really went obsessive on the charts and developing my own strategy. I saw other people's strategies out there. And when I would back test it, I went through a phase where I back tested so many other people's strategies. I would just say, didn't work. This doesn't work for me. This doesn't work for me. And every strategy could work differently for different people, especially on different timeframes. So develop something that works for you. Find a timeframe that works for you and your lifestyle. Some of our snipers, they can't do swing trading on the daily chart. They don't have the patience for it. They're scalpers. They're day traders. So you got to know yourself too. And then at that point, as you're graduating from paper trading and back testing, the next level is maybe risk some lunch money. The amount of money you and I would go off for like a nice lunch. And if I were to buy your lunch, I don't even think twice about it. Like something that I'm not even going to lose sleep over. Then I talk about doing lunch money. Then maybe you do lunch money with leverage or blah, blah, blah, or a little bit more money with spot, right? So you got to take it in levels and kind of make it a systematic approach. And if you treat it like a business in those levels, that's when you're going to have a better chance of making it. Otherwise, if you jump straight in and you want to go 50 X leverage, no strategy, no experience, no back testing. I guarantee you blow up account. I guarantee it. One of the things I say is like, if you're, if you're trying to double down, like you were doing well, right? So a couple of things that I've talked about in coaching is that, and by the way, I don't do live coaching anymore. I have recorded coaching, but I don't do live coaching. It's just too much time and energy. But when I was doing those live coaching calls, we talked about this and we talked about that. You know, every time you win a trade, if you're treating it like a business, you pull out, for example, I pull out my personal strategies. I pull out 50 % out of that trading kill and I take it out of the digital world and then go maybe put it in the physical world or diversify in some other way. Right? So you're always taking a piece off, always taking a piece off. And one of them, one of the students is like extremely young. Right. And, uh, I, I said, Hey, what are you gonna do with your winnings? Right. He crushed it. And I was actually jealous of his trade. He, he actually nailed it on high leverage. And I'm like, I'm like, go buy your mom something nice. Right. So not only take like money off the table, but it's the whole mindset. If you're not taking money off the table on each trade, what happens is you're up. Like you were say, you know, $50 ,000, $100 ,000, $10 ,000, $1 ,000. Maybe you're brand new. You're up $1 ,000. And that's the most you've ever had. You want to flip that into $10 ,000, right? Then you want to flip that into a million dollars. And that's, and that's what you just fell into that same example you just gave you fell into that mindset. And you only can do that by learning the hard way. So what you have to do is be more systematic about it. And after a win, fighting the urge of going back in and instead of going all back in, you're, you're pulling some out and then you're, you're, you're going at the new, every trade you have to treat as brand new and instead of jumping in and out is everything lining up on the charts, just like it did the first one, you nailed the first trade. And a lot of times this happens when you're, I talk about it, you'll have like nine winning trades in a row and we're human. We're not robots. I'm not a robot. I know I'm most likely to have a bad trade after I've had nine in a row. Why? Because my confidence is so high. I've skipped steps, right? So if you skip steps because your confidence is so high, that's when you're most likely going to have your next loss. And if you forget to put, and if you make a mistake on that, you forget to put in a stop loss. You do too high of leverage. Next thing you know, you're having a major setback and a change. It sets you back not only on financially, but mentally. So be cautious. Once you are making the wins and you are winning like nine times in a row, you're going to have a loss. And usually it's because your confidence is so high, not because you're, you've been on a losing streak, right? So just want to point that out. And it was based off what you're kind of talking about. You're winning. It was the bull run. And then all of a sudden you went all in with more leverage and took a $70 ,000 loss. So you learn from your mistakes, right? Yeah. Well, I got to say, I couldn't agree more with you on all those great places to start for beginners and how utilizing a lot of those free tools that are available to you to get started, to understand the mechanisms of all these tools that you're going to be utilizing when you're doing price analysis and trying to figure out when to buy and when to sell. It's not just about looking at price action. It's about looking at those underlying data sets that can give you an edge as to when trends are going to shift. So with that being said, I have to say, Jesse, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for taking your time to share your thoughts with us and your lens on this market. And everybody, if you want to see more of Jesse, throw one in chat, comment down below, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button, ding the bell. And if you would make sure you head over to Jesse J -E -S -S -E -O -L -S -O -N, find out so much more about him here, all kinds of different content he shares on a daily basis, really breaking down charts. He even has his own Market Sniper Academy right here at MarketSniper .Pro. You can also find out more information on BitLab Academy right here at Academy BitLab. Follow me, of course, at Kelly Kellum, K -E -L -L -Y, K -E -L -L -A -M. Make sure you check out bitlabacademy .com. We have all the tools and courses and strategies and the community that can really help you dive into this space and understand what is going on. Self -custody, trading fundamentals, psychology of trading, on -chain analysis, candles, candle patterns, indicators. There's so much in here as a point. Join us here in BitLab Academy. You can still use our coupon code GIVEME30 for an additional 30 % off your first month. I hope to see you in there in the Discord and over on the BitLab Academy daily YouTube stream right here at youtube .com forward slash at BitLab Academy. I'll see you there. I hope you all have a wonderful day. Have a wonderful weekend. Get out of the charts and we'll see you in the next video. Adios.
RADCast Outdoors
A highlight from Pack Wisely, Hunt Confidently: A Two-Part Series with Mike Kentner and David Merrell
"This episode of RadCast Outdoors is brought to you by P .K. Lures, Bow Spider, and High Mountain Seasonings. Fish on! Hey, RadCast is on! Hunting, fishing, and everything in between. This is RadCast Outdoors. Here are David Merrill and Patrick Edwards. Well hello and welcome everybody. Back to the RadCast Outdoors podcast. I'm David Merrill. We'll have to excuse Patrick Edwards today. He is traveling on the road and I am home between hunts for a momentary break in time. I actually was out trying to fill an elk tag this morning and was rather unsuccessful at filling a tag but had a great morning anyways. Fall is in the air guys. It's definitely time to get your gear, get out of the woods, and go enjoy it whether you're fishing, hunting, hiking, or backpacking. I've asked a former guest and another guest to come join us today. I've got Mr. Mike Kentner with me. Hello Mike. Hello. Glad to be here. Yeah, we were out looking for a few elk this morning and hiking around and I twisted his arm and said let's talk about what's in Mike's backpack. As you guys know I like to go hunting and over the years gear has changed dramatically from when I first started in the mid 90s and certainly from when you first started, right? Absolutely. In the early days we carried a fanny pack, nobody carried a backpack. Nobody had the idea Everly stock came out with I think to coin the phrase go in light come out heavy to be able to pack out when you went in. The early days we never did that. It's all kind of a newer concept in my world anyway. And I started in the scouting industry doing 50 milers and that kind of stuff so I had a pretty good grasp on what you should and what weight should be on how to navigate through the mountains. I had some orienteering, some compass, some basic survival under my belt, some first aid and some safety. But you have to put all that together and then you've got to start putting your backpack together and there is so many options now compared to when I first bought a $10 book bag from Walmart and put a few things in it and went hiking around saying man this and when we harvested stuff for the most part I threw a quarter on my shoulder and went hiking down the trail or I went and got horses or a dirt bike or a quad or a four wheeler but for the most part western style stuff it was I remember getting one of the very first real hunting backpacks I got was a fanny pack style. Yeah that's what we all started with back then we carried just the basic essentials maybe something to light a fire with, stuff to take care of your game if you put something down and then if you shot anything you walked all the way back to camp empty changed out for a metal frame and went back in for your meat. Yes and those metal frames have pretty much gone the wayside. A few guys still have them there's some companies making some really cool ones now and what you mean by metal is an external just a frame pack no bag attached nothing. It had a load shelf on it you set the shelf on tight most time they didn't have straps you had to use paracord or some kind of cord to tie your meat onto the pack. Now backpacks have obviously evolved the idea of backpack hunting has evolved and we're discussing a little bit today you know when I'm going on an expedition style Everest climb style hunt I'm taking a completely different kit than I am day hunting elk from the truck. Right everything down to I may use the same frame the same base frame but my bag load will be different I use a very small bag for my day hunts like today I use a 2800 inch bag for my day hunts and you go over a 6000 for a long hunt if you're going in for five or six days or more. Now day hunting what is your backpack in a way versus when the difference between a four day hunt and a ten day hunt you only have food difference you've got the same spotting scope the same shelter the same clothes for this kind of discussion a little bit we're basically going to talk day hunt or multi day now if you're talking four day or ten day that the only difference there is you're adding six extra days of food realistically same if I'm only going two nights then I might do something different but if I'm going for four to five nights I'm doing the same thing I would be doing if I'm doing ten to twelve nights. Yeah as far as your overnight gear still is pretty much the same. So that leads me to this first question is and I used to the first year or two elk hunting here in Wyoming I took my 7000 cubic inch bag just compressed it all the way down ran it empty and hunted with that but it stuck up so much higher than my head every time I duck under something I'm getting hung up so I switched to a 1850 Icon Pro from QU years ago I'm now running the Stryker XL from Kefaru that's my day bag and it's inch and then I throw a Sherman pocket and a guide lid and a claymore so now I'm like 3000 cubic inch but I don't have that completely full and we discuss this how full do you run your 2800 in day hunt mode? My day in day hunt mode is less than half full of what I pack and then I have plenty of room for jackets clothing depending on the weather any of that kind of stuff I'm gonna have in it but my base bag with my everything to take care of game and everything is less than halfway full. So some of the things that are in mind that I can think of is I always have a small first aid kit right nicks cuts scrapes burns some aspirin and then I have a kill kit usually involves I actually really like to use rubber gloves I grew up not doing it but when you're doing multi day multi hunt multi tags it's really nice to have a pair of rubber gloves to keep a little bit cleaner while you're processing but you definitely need those game bags I run six game bags how many do you run? Usually five I keep five in there for elk and big stuff it's always five and the reason guys I'm why running more than four quarter bags is well you've got neck meat back straps tenderloins I like to keep those two separate and what I've found is when we're doing either llamas or horses it's really easy even if we're backpacking and we've got to hang the meat away from bears I like to have all four of those quarters in their own bag and then I need two more for the rest of the stuff and sometimes I even like to grab another bag to put capes in. Yeah it's nice to have one for your cape if you're in the backcountry and you think you're going to have an animal mounted it's nice to have a cape a bag for your cape go as well so I usually carry like when I shot my bull this year I had six bags in me with me at the time so I have my five I primarily put meat in and then I have one backup one for the cape to bag it in so you need a good quality bags and quite a few of them. I don't typically pack water filtration in day hunt mode sometimes I like to run an algae and a bladder bag and I just fill that up in the morning and typically that's four liters of water I can pretty much make it through a day on that much water yeah I'm starting out a little heavier but I don't have to stop and pump during the day so do you what do you do for water in typical day hunt mode? I run bladder bags two liter bladder bags and so I usually run either one and a half or one liter and a two liter or two two liter bags so I'm running three to four liters and but I do carry the small Sawyer water filtration pretty much everywhere weighs under four ounces does about a pint at a time you got to refill the bag but it is a good way to get some extra water if you need it.
Bankless
A highlight from 189 - Taking Treasury Bills Onchain with Martin Carrica
"If you look at like last seven days Ethereum versus run rate for Circle, it's the same amount of money. Huh, is the equivalent to Circle? Exactly, exactly. Holy shit, Circle is printing money. Every time you pay gas, like that amount of gas, that's the same amount of money that Circle is making. Tether is three times that. Tether alone is making more money than the whole rest of the crypto ecosystem outside centralized exchanges. Oh, that's your margin. Your margin is my opportunity, is that what you're saying, Martin? Exactly. Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front -run the opportunity. This is Ryan John Adams, and I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become more bankless. This is certainly a money opportunity to front -run. On -chain T -bills is the topic today. The overnight Fed funds rate is 5 .3 % right now, and that's some pretty good yield. But how much are you getting in your bank account? Probably not very much of that. How much are you getting from your stablecoin is maybe a better question for crypto natives. And if it's an instrument like USDC in your Ethereum address, the answer is probably nothing. You're not getting any of that yield. But what if we could tokenize treasuries instead of just dollars? What if we could create a USDT, and the T is for treasury. And that tokenized treasury yielded 5 % just for holding in your ETH address. That is the promise of tokenized T -bills, and it's gearing up to be a major theme over the next 12 months. I think another force for democratization worldwide. We have Martin Karika here. He's the founder of a tokenized T -bill company, and he's here to get us up to speed. A few takeaways for you on the episode today. Number one, why don't we already have tokenized treasuries? Why doesn't that product already exist? Number two, we talk about why on -chain treasuries are a force for democratization worldwide, especially in emerging countries. Number three, we talk about why the US government actually wants this, even though they may not admit it. Number four, in this weird paradox, we talk about why US citizens will probably have a hard time getting tokenized T -bills as well. David, you're laughing right now because, man, it is hard being a US citizen in crypto these days, isn't it? Yeah, really. The irony of US citizens being the people that are going to be the hardest population to be able to access the yield from their own government's money printing. And in fact, no, we're going to just export it straight to the foreign countries of the world. Bankless listeners, you'll just have to listen to the episode to understand, understand the punchline there. But Martin, not the guests on the show, does a really good job laying it out for us. I think Ryan presented this as the promise of tokenized T -bills, tokenized treasuries, on -chain T -bills, whatever you want to call these things. Also, I'll add that there's an economic weight here. It's kind of destiny. You know, like maybe we don't get there for some reason that I can't understand, but incentives will produce this outcome. Eventually, stablecoins will be replaced by tokenized treasuries. It's kind of the same if you accept that eventually all vanilla ETH will be replaced by some liquid staking token alternative. Eventually, like why would you just hold vanilla ETH and Aave when you can do our ETH and Aave instead? If you accept that, then it's kind of the same thing. Eventually, all vanilla stablecoins will just be replaced by tokenized treasuries and you will get the yield natively. There's a gravitational pull, right? It's like water goes downhill and liquidity finds a way and a yield will find its way in a tokenized form on -chain. So there's been just growing demand and interest about this topic of on -chain treasuries and real -world assets. So Bankless listeners, you can consider this the first of a few steps into the world of real -world assets on -chain that we want to explore here on Bankless, starting with tokenized treasuries. Yeah. I'm looking forward to discussing this with you. A lot of interesting implications here. And David and I are going to discuss that in the debrief. Of course, if you're a Bankless citizen, you already have access to that on the Bankless Premium feed. So go check that out right now. Ad -free. Bankless Premium feed. Ad -free. It's a beautiful thing. But before we get into this episode, first we disclose and the disclosures are there's nothing really to disclose here. Of course, we hold crypto assets. Didn't even talk about ETH. No, we didn't. Crypto assets that we do hold stand to benefit from tokenized T -bill transactions. But of course, you know that. And we are long -term investors. We're not journalists. We don't do paid content. There's always a link to all Bankless disclosures in the show notes. You can access that at bankless .com slash disclosures. All right, we're going to get right to the conversation with Martin on tokenized T -bills. But before we do, we want to thank the sponsors that made this episode possible, including our number one recommended crypto exchange for 2023, Kraken. Go create an account. Kraken Pro has easily become the best crypto trading platform in the industry. The place I use to check the charts and the crypto prices, even when I'm not looking to place a trade. On Kraken Pro, you'll have access to advanced charting tools, real -time market data, and fast trade execution, all inside their spiffy new modular interface. Kraken's new customizable modular layout lets you tailor your trading experience to suit your needs. 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Veteran on the Move
A highlight from Bank of America Military Affairs with Lindsey Streeter
"Army veteran Lindsey Streeter leads the Military Affairs Strategy at Bank of America. He joined the Bank of America family in 2016 upon retiring from the U .S. Army as a highly decorated command sergeant major with 31 years of military service. He's been a leading voice in Bank of America's commitment to recruit, develop, and retain military talent, and Lindsey was recently named 2023 Veteran of the Year by the Military Times. Coming up next on Veteran on the Move. Welcome to Veteran on the Move. If you're a veteran in transition, an entrepreneur wannabe, or someone still stuck in that J -O -B trying to escape, this podcast is dedicated to your success. And now, your host, Joe Crane. As a member of Not -for -Profit, Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing they do. Find out more at navyfederal .org. Alright, we're talking with Army veteran retired command sergeant major Lindsey Streeter, who leads the Military Affairs Strategy at Bank of America. Also, the 2023 Veteran of the Year by Military Times. Wow, what an awesome award there and great title. So, Sergeant Major Lindsey, thanks for being here today. Before we get to talk about all the great things Bank of America is doing for hiring America's veterans, take us back, tell us what you did in the Army. How many years was it, 33, 34? Hey, Joe Crane, I'll tell you what, man. I appreciate the opportunity to be on the show here today. And yeah, it was just a little north of 31 years that I did. Started out as a logistician, was an Army parts guy. Spent a lot of time in aviation units, you know, chasing Black Hawk helicopters around, trying to keep them flying, and I did that for 10 years, and then I transitioned over into recruiting command where I absolutely found my niche there as an Army recruiter. Ran a couple of recruiting stations, found a lot of success running those stations, a lot of promotions that came along with that, and ascended into leadership in recruiting command, ran the Army recruiting school, ran two companies as a first sergeant, and I was tagged to go to the Sergeant Major's Academy. Came out of the academy and pinned on Command Sergeant Major and headed up to Nashville, Tennessee, to head the Nashville recruiting battalion there and part of the command team there. Did that for about three and a half years, and then the Army saw fit to bring me out into training and doctrine command to run a leadership academy to round out my career, so I served as the commandant of the NCO Academy down here at Fort Stewart, Georgia, where I retired and then smoothly transitioned over into Bank of America. Yeah, so Bank of America was your first job out of the Army? It was. It was. I had a soldier that had worked for me about nine years earlier, and he had been with the bank about a year and a half, and he called me one day. I was driving home trying to contemplate whether or not I was going to retire or take another position in the Army, a nominal position as a sergeant major, and I got a call asking me to send him a resume. I believe there's a little divine intervention at play there because I prayed a prayer for some guidance with regards to transitioning, and I got the phone call and I quickly crafted a resume and sent it in, and said he something that was profound to me. He began to talk about the company, but he knew me very well, and he said to me that you fit here at this company, and I don't believe there was any more profound of a statement that could have been said to me. I think when veterans are transitioning, they're oftentimes looking for an organization that they believe they'll go there and do good, but where do you fit? Well, within that organization, and my colleague believed that from what he knew about me and my traits of character, there'd be a perfect marriage with me coming to Bank of America, and I thank goodness that he gave me that call. Yeah, no kidding. I mean, talk about using your network. I mean, a guy I know used to work with him in the Army. He's there. He brought me in. I'm good. I mean, that's how you get a job right there, but let's face it. Most guys aren't that lucky. I mean, you know, especially nine years before you're eight, you've actually kept in touch with him, and it worked, but ultimately that's the golden goose right there. Yeah, that's the formula. I think if they know you and then they know the organization, it automatically triggers in their mind where to stop on the Rolodex when they begin to seek referrals to bring it to the company. So I was thankful that he thought of me, and he got it right. Absolutely. Now, over the years I've heard a number of things with Bank of America, and before we hit the record button, I was talking with you about, over and over we talk about transition and getting out and getting a job. A lot of us want to go into entrepreneurship, run our own business, but let's face it. Some of us, if you're the main breadwinner, you've got to go get a JOB in the meantime and work on something on the side. So transitioning and getting a job as you get out of the military is definitely something you still end up having to do even though you want to run your own show. And some folks think, oh, you're retiring. You're a member of the Paycheck of the Month Club. What stress do you have, man? You already got a check coming in, whatever. Sometimes it's harder to find a job when you're retired from the Army because you're older, you're stuck in your own ways, you've never done anything else with the Army. You're kind of boxed in, and companies are looking at you like, well, what can you do for me? You spent almost all of your adult life in the Army. It can be much more difficult to convince a company that you can still speak civilian and you're able to put on a suit and you're able to show up to work and blend in, and sometimes it is harder, you know? Yeah, Joe, you really touched on a few things that I found were a challenge, and we continue to, as we invite new talent into the company, to work on these veterans with those attributes of assimilation, as I call them, demonstrated assimilation. You know, less than 1 % of the country serves, and so we're scared when we go in, but we're absolutely horrified when it comes time to take the uniform off and to depart. And, you know, so you're entering a realm of the 99 % that did not serve, and so what you owe to them is not for them to bend to you, but for you to bend and mold and become one of them and to really demonstrate that. And I believe it begins with being humble during your interview, especially as a senior leader in transition. You know, a lot of times we want to boast about our leadership ability and leadership demonstrate capability because of our past and those things that are contained within our resume. And those companies, if you can lead, they're going to afford you an opportunity to lead, but what they want to know is can they trust you with their brand and reputation of this company? Can you get here and humble yourself enough and be vulnerable enough so that they can hang some skills on you and you can demonstrate business acumen and how to dress and how to really work in a collaborative environment that's demanded by corporate America? And so I thank goodness I had some coaching and some grooming to help me with those things, and I work for a company that spends a lot of time trying to get that right. And what we do is we've invested into the scaffolding that's required to ensure that our veterans smoothly transition. So we charged ourselves with not just joining a crowd of being veteran friendly, but we wanted to demonstrate that we're veteran ready, and we did that by, or we do that by being meticulous in our selection process up front. We want to give the veteran the best opportunity to succeed at the company, and we do that by matching up their skill sets with an opening in the company. So we want to get this right fit piece fixed from the beginning. And then we want to make sure that the living room is straight inside the house. And so we have a robust ERG in our military support and assistance group that helps us with onboarding of our veterans, and we pair them up with a more tenured and seasoned veteran, and they hold their hands for about the first 90 days that they're here just to get them through the fits and jerks of assimilation. And it's a soft space, right? It allows them to ask the stupid questions to match a pair of loafers with a belt, you know, to understand which color suit pattern that they need to wear. And so it's those sorts of things that they feel like they can feel safe and feel welcome while they're going through that transition. And what we're hopeful is that what we're seeing is that it closes the back door, and we know that because we survey them. We use employee satisfaction surveys, and we gauge the morale and the motivation of our veteran cohort that way. And so we're proud of that work that we put into those challenging times. And the other thing is that, you know, we have a problem with our resumes and bridging the gaps, bridging our skill sets. And so we know that, we understand that, and we try and take that into account when we're placing talent that those resumes may have gaps in them, that they may be missing pertinent information. And so we've invested in a veteran recruiter that helps us to look at those resumes in detail and tell the story that the veteran's resume may not be telling. Absolutely. Hold that thought. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Latina to Latina
A highlight from How Reyna Noriegas Year of Responsibility Ushered In a Year of Rebirth
"Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to the colorful world of Skittles. Skittles brings you a jolt of five fruity flavors in every bite, giving you the chance to taste the rainbow like never before. Break free from the ordinary day -to -day with the help of Skittles chewy candy. Skittles is a must in my candy jar, movie snack, even my secret to an afternoon pick -me -up. And I don't even care who knows it. Add a splash of joy to your day with Skittles. There's nothing better than fruity fun that tickles your taste buds. Taste the rainbow. If you have seen Reyna Noriega's colorful and vibrant artwork grace the covers of Science It might be hard to believe that she almost forwent a career in the arts completely. We talk about what pulled her back, the year of responsibility that gave way to the year of rebirth, and her powerful message about ignoring the rush and the trends in the service of building something meant to last. Reyna, I am such a fan. Thank you so much for doing this. Thank you so much for having me, Alicia. All right. So you and I both have Cuban dads. Your mom is Bahamian. You grew up in Miami. How does the Caribbean then show up in your home? It's everywhere to the point where I'm spoiled and I didn't realize that not everyone lives like this. You know, from the meals to just the presence of just joy and music and how all of that is kind of like ingrained in how we interact, how we celebrate. It was such a vibrant upbringing. As an Afro -Caribbean Latina, I don't need to ask if you saw representations of yourself in the media because you and I grew up consuming the same media. We know how few and far between that was. And I think the damage that does is hard to quantify. What happens to a kid when you don't see yourself reflected back at you? Yeah, I sometimes mention like this cognitive dissonance that existed within me that I thought that my blackness came from my Bahamian mother when my abuelo is Afro -Cuban from Havana. You know, so like I'm seeing it. I'm seeing Celia Cruz and I'm seeing my family and it's not clicking. Well did you talk about race in your house? Not, I mean, I think there were definitely conversations, but not really with identity. I know that my abuela was very proud of her husband and that she had chosen to marry a black Cuban, probably against what was the norm at that time and what was accepted. And so that was vocalized, but they always joke with me. Like as a kid, I would say that I'm light black. Like that was my terminology. And so it's just like, you figure it out along the way. Reina, you go to FIU, you get a bachelor of arts in psychology, you minor in visual arts and English. What was the plan at that point? The plan was to figure it out and make my family proud. I discovered that I loved art and I was good at art in high school, but up until that point, I was just a scholar. So I was getting the highest test scores and the highest grades. When I made the decision to apply to colleges for visual arts, I was really happy about that. And I thought, you know, like, this is so fun. This is so great. And I chickened out during my orientation when they, yeah, FIU announced that they were doing a psychology pre -med track. And obviously it's every parent's dream to have a child that's a doctor. It wasn't forced on me, but it was definitely something that I was aware of. Like that would make my parents proud if I was a doctor. And I think the mind is really cool. I could do this. So I approached psychology for that reason, because it was like, if I ever decide that I want to do pre -med, I could do this. I don't want to cut people open. So this is a good way to still do both. And then I was like, you know, art, art is not a sure thing anyways, so I'll just keep it as a minor and I'll have it just in case. That's not how it panned out. It's only a few years after chickening out, taking the safer, more secure path that you really end up pulled back into the arts. What is it that happens in 2017 that you're able to commit yourself fully to a life in the arts? I think I saw throughout college that, you know, obviously as a psych major, I was supposed to do internships and all types of things to complement that. But every time an internship would come up for the arts, like that's what I was pulled towards. And so I did our Basel internships and things like that. And it just, I felt so free and I felt so much joy there and I felt so much possibility that it kept calling to me. And after I graduated in 2015, I got the opportunity to be a high school art teacher. And that was just supposed to be like a buffer period until I got my master's in behavioral psychology and figured out what direction I wanted to take. And all of that. And it just like, it really reinvigorated my love for the arts and the possibilities. And over time I experimented with different materials. When I became an art teacher, the courses were digital drawing base. And so that is where I learned illustration. I had not tried illustration before that, but I had to learn really quickly for my students and to appear like I knew what I was talking about. And so it was a great kind of like push. Like I didn't have time to say like, oh, I like this. I don't like this. I'm scared of this. It was like, you're teaching high school kids digital art and they expect you to know it. So you can go in there as a very young teacher and look like you don't know what you're talking about, or you can go in there confidently. Like, you know everything about it. And so it was pretty much like overnight. I had to teach myself Adobe Illustrator and some other like drawing apps that I could go through with my students. And yeah, it evolved from there.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Preaching in the Valley of the Drum
"Well, standing in my usual place and about 50 hours down there's a group of people with a loud amplifier who are doing karaoke in the town centre. Of course, I'm not going to interfere with that in any sense, but it could make it harder for people to hear the gospel or they might prefer karaoke to the truth. But I commit this to the Lord and the Lord, and it's a good time to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Father, I pray that you have mercy upon this town of Kidderminster. I pray, Father, that conviction of sin would come upon the people. I pray that a hunger for God would come upon the people. I pray that they would gather together to hear the word of God, that this world and its sidelines, its attractions, its music, its karaoke, its songs would mean nothing to them, Lord. That they would have a concern for their souls, that they would be awakened to their lostness, their ruin, their damnation. I pray, Father, that you would use the preaching today for your glory, and I pray, Lord, that you would have mercy upon those who are perishing in their sins. Lord, I pray that they would be awakened. I pray that they would find Jesus Christ. I pray that they would find mercy. I pray that they would seek Him with all their hearts and repent of their sins and believe on Him to the saving of their souls. And Father, I come in weakness, and I can't do this work except by your help and by your Holy Spirit's going on, and ask that your name would be glorified, that your grace would be magnified, and that your gospel would be faithfully, fully, and powerfully preached in the power of the Holy Spirit. And I ask for forgiveness of my own sins. I trust in Jesus Christ alone. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank you, Father, for sending your Son into the world to be my Savior from sin. I pray that His name would be glorified now. Amen. Well, good morning. I pray that you would come crucified and to declare that there is salvation in no other name, under heaven, given amongst men, whereby we must be saved. Jesus is the Savior of the world. The Lord Jesus came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost, and that was sinners like you and I. We cannot save ourselves. We cannot deliver ourselves. We cannot by any means cleanse ourselves from sin or redeem our own souls We need a Savior, and Jesus Christ is that Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And He is the Savior of all those who put their trust in Him, the Lord Jesus, who came into the world and died in the place of sinners, loving sinners. The Lord Jesus Christ gave Himself for sinners, and the Bible tells us, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life. If you believe on the Lord Jesus, you're saved from your sin and you have everlasting life. If you do not know Jesus Christ, your sins remain upon you. You are lost and damned and ruined and under the wrath of God. Repent of your sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn from your sins. Seek Him with all your heart. He is not dead. He is risen. Jesus Christ is raised from the dead by the power of Almighty God, and He is seated at the right hand of the throne of God on the throne of heaven, and He will save you from your sin and deliver you from the wrath to come if only you come to Him. Now if you will not come to Jesus Christ, you cannot be saved. You cannot be saved. If you will not come to Jesus Christ, you cannot escape the fires of hell. If you will not come to Jesus Christ, then the wrath of God abides upon you, and on the day of His wrath you will be charged with your sins. God knows your heart. He knows everything about you. He knows your sins. He knows your corruptions. He knows your wickedness. And incidentally I should add, in a day when many people are becoming addicted to vapes, He knows your heart where you do not care about addicting people to something which is harmful to them. I say that because a man who owns a vape store opposite was listening. And vapes harm people. They've replaced smoking but they harm people. And they're addictive. Jesus Christ is that Saviour of the world who will save you from your sins, deliver you from the wrath to come, and give you everlasting life. This world will very soon end. Very soon. All the signs are that very soon the clouds of heaven in all that glory and all that majesty that belongs to God alone. God alone is the Saviour of the world and He is the Saviour of all those who put their trust in Jesus Christ. So if Jesus were to return on the clouds of heaven today and you do not know Him, you would be cast into hell for eternity. That is the plain teaching of the Bible. That's what the Lord Jesus Christ Himself taught us. Hell is a real place, a terrible place of terrifying fiery torment for eternity. Yes, that's right, yes. Well if you listen, if your swear words are foul, why should God allow somebody that swears like you into his heaven? God will never let a swearer like you into his heaven. You must repent and all the love of God is revealed in Jesus Christ. All the love of God is revealed in Jesus Christ. I didn't know children were allowed to buy vapes. I didn't know children were allowed to buy vapes, but there we are. Two very small children went into the vape shop. Am I okay? I'm fine. I'm preaching the gospel. What was that boy saying to me then? That's what he said. I'm not going to repeat it because it's foul. I'm not going to repeat that. Was it a bad thing? Oh yes, very bad things. People hate the gospel. They hate Jesus Christ, but if you find Jesus Christ, he is the savior of the world and he will save you. It doesn't matter what he said to me. He didn't like what I was saying and I'm talking about Jesus saving us from our sins. Okay, so say one thing in here. Okay, Jesus said, okay Jesus said unto them, this is in John's gospel in chapter two, he said, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. Now there was this huge temple like a great cathedral in Jerusalem and the Jews thought that Jesus was talking about destroying that temple, but actually he was talking about them crucifying him and nailing him to the cross. Yes, of course. Okay, so I believe in God, but Jesus Christ is God, so we must go further and we must believe in Jesus Christ and if we believe in Jesus Christ, then we've found God. Now that there is one God, but there are three persons within the Godhead, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. You won't find that in Islam. Jesus is God the Son and God's love was so great towards us that he sent his son Jesus Christ into the world to die on that cross, to be the savior of the world. Now I've got some gospels here, I wonder if you'd like a gospel to read. Sorry, my foot's stuck in there. I wonder if you'd like a gospel to read. Yes, of course. You can keep it. Yes, yes, of course. I give these out to people. So you can share that and that will tell you more about the Lord Jesus and what he did. Thank you very much. The Lord bless you. God bless you. So you'll hear the drums and as they started, those two girls were distracted from the preaching, but I was able to give them the gospel. Father, I pray for those two girls and for the man who swore and I pray, Father, that they would find mercy and I pray that they would find the salvation which comes from Almighty God. And Father, I pray that you would silence the drums because the drums are silencing the word of God. And I pray, Lord, that because you are the Lord of heaven and earth, that you would silence the drums, maybe by the batteries running out or maybe by heavy rain or something, Lord. But I just pray, Father, that you would work and that you would, Father, that this is your word. I pray that you would ensure that it goes forth to the glory and honour of the Lord Jesus Christ. For people are distracted by drums just as they were distracted in the valley of the Son of Him and when they were offering their children to sacrifices, to idols. So I pray, Father, that you would deliver us from the drums and I pray, Father, that the gospel will be faithfully preached because my voice isn't strong enough and my frame isn't strong enough to compete with the drums, Lord. And people are drawn aside. Lord, again, have mercy on those girls and that man. In Jesus' name I ask and pray. Amen.
Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from BCB128_TIM NIEMEYER: History Echoes Bitcoin
"You know, the phrase Bitcoin fixes this, I really think it incentivizes this because what you're talking about is incentive, take these incentives away. What is there to do? Free societies lead to an increased quality of life for that very reason. Controlled societies lead to a decreased quality of life for that very reason. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast, a show where average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance and we talk shit. Welcome back into the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast. This week, Josh and myself dance sit down with Tim Niemeyer. Tim is the co -host of the Lincoln Land Bitcoin Meetup in Springfield, Illinois. He has a background in technology. He was a U .S. Air Force avionics technician. His degree is in psychology and his day job is as an elementary school teacher. He also loves history and he just authored a book titled History Echoes Bitcoin. Those of us who have spent any time studying Bitcoin recognize that it's like a sprawling, gorgeous cave. One small entrance leads to larger and larger chambers, each one blowing your mind more than the one before. What you thought was just some bizarre and useless internet money morphs into a species altering idea that could foundationally improve human cooperation. During this chat and in his book, Tim does a marvelous job leading us into the Bitcoin cave and exploring how Bitcoin's design and incentives mirror a variety of powerful and recurring patterns throughout history. Bitcoin's a big idea and history illuminates why. Speaking of history, one thing it teaches us is that too much trust in other human beings can leave you exploited and broke. We recommend that you keep at least a portion of your net worth in an asset you can fully control. And when it comes to Bitcoin, that requires you embark on self custody. We both use the cold card and there's a reason why this device has stood the test of time and is used by a large percentage of hardcore Bitcoiners. It's because it fucking works. It's reliable, ultra secure, easy enough to use, but still gives you room to grow if your technical aptitude and appetite increases. You can use code BCB that's BCB for a delectable discount on the cold card or visit the cold card link down in the notes for discounts on a bunch of their products, including the block locks. Couple of other quick shout outs and codes if they're helpful for you. If you do plan to attend Bitcoin Amsterdam coming up quick here in early October or Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville next July, take 10 % off your tickets with code BCB. These ticks aren't getting any cheaper, ladies and gents, so jump on it if you do plan to attend. Also open enrollment is upon us. If you have healthcare needs or healthcare bills and want to save money while supporting people rather than large insurance companies, check out crowd health at join crowd health .com and use code blue. That's code blue for a big discount on a three month trial period. Lastly, do us a huge favor folks. Can you just sit back, relax and strap in for a cosmic and occasionally comical romp with Tim Niemeyer. Tim, welcome to the show, man. You wrote the book History Echoes Bitcoin and I'm reading this book and I love history and obviously we love Bitcoin. So it's a great book and it reminds me, and I think you should take this as a high compliment. I don't know if you guys, either of you guys have read this book called Lessons of History by Will Durant. It's a short, it's very similar to yours and it's like short essays on different topics. This book is phenomenal and the fact that your book reminded me of it is I think high praise and if anyone hasn't read either of these books, you should read them both. Thank you very much. Thank you for helping me by the way. Appreciate that. Yeah, we're delighted to have you. It's a fun, interesting, very important angle. This kind of book and this theme that we're going to explore today really peels back the magnitude of Bitcoin. Like there's probably a newcomer or two out there listening that's like, I thought this was just some stupid quickly passing fad of fake internet money. And this is the kind of book that's saying, no, this whole decentralized protocol thing we call Bitcoin, it's hitting on some of the deepest, most powerful and important threads that date back through the history of our species. I mean, even if Bitcoin doesn't work, I think we learn a lot from Bitcoin. Obviously the three of us think Bitcoin is going to work, but my takeaway from reading this book is just a healthy reminder when I finished it. Bitcoin is a really, really big fucking idea. Absolutely. I mean, from what you're saying, it makes me think of the phrase in Bitcoin zoom out. So many in Bitcoin, we tend to hyper focus on the little things on the details of the code or whatever, the 21 million, this that, but when you zoom out far enough, you see how all of these ideas, all of the properties that are expressed in Bitcoin, they've been with us kind of throughout history. We've been wanting to be free of asking for permission or being censored or whatever. When you zoom out far enough, you're forced for the trees kind of thing. You're able to see how this all kind of comes together. 100%. Before we go too deep, let's rewind for a second. Who the hell are you? What do you do? You kind of have a little bit of an interesting story. We've never had anyone on here that's teaching music to kindergartners, Josh. So, Tim, who are you? Introduce yourself. I'm Tim Niemeyer. I'm from central Illinois. I grew up around here. My father was a farmer. I did a few years on that and I was thinking either do I want to be a farmer my whole life or do I want to see the world? So I ended up going in the Air Force, spent a couple of years in Japan, traveled around a little bit. And then after tour of service, I decided to go to college, got into psychology, got into elementary educating.
The Crypto Conversation
A highlight from Ethena Labs - Enabling the Internet Bond
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Hey team, we have a new sponsor here at the Crypto Conversation, BitGet, one of the world's leading copy trading cryptocurrency exchanges, yes indeed. What happens if you've got the funds to invest but you don't have the time to keep track of the market? You still want to make smart money moves? What do you do? Well, copy trading is a popular choice for beginner traders. You can shorten your learning curve by uncovering tips and strategies from more experienced traders. BitGet's copy trading platform has over 80 ,000 elite traders to choose from and 380 ,000 followers just like yourself who are already using the BitGet copy trading platform as a potential passive income stream. All it takes is one click, you can subscribe to an elite profitable strategist, set your limits, automate your orders and monitor their trades. I've got some links in the show notes below, one link will take you through to the BitGet sign up page, give you a VIP discount. So learn all about it for yourself thanks to BitGet. And now it is on with the show. My guest today is Guy Young. Guy is the CEO and founder of Athena Labs, the crypto infrastructure building, a USDE, the first ever global internet bond and stablecoin not reliant on existing banking institutions. Very interesting. Welcome to the show Guy. Thanks for having me on man. It is a pleasure. Let's do what we do at the beginning of the show Guy, it'd be great if you could please introduce yourself. I'd love to hear a little bit about your personal and professional backstory and what has led you to founding Athena Labs. Sure thing. So my background was in traditional finance. So originally started my career in investment banking work in London and then I moved over to a US hedge fund. And that's where I spent the last five years and we were focusing primarily on financial services. So that was looking at everything from banks to insurance companies, especially finance and investing across the capital structure into those types of businesses. I had a friend who's a DeFi founder who introduced me to crypto back in 2019, was investing into it on the side of my day job until midway through 22 when we had the collapse of Luna. Arthur Hayes came out with a thought piece a few days after that where he outlined his vision of how we could try and create a scalable crypto native solution for stablecoins that could live outside of the banking system. And his basic idea was being long Bitcoin on one side and then using that collateral to short the perpetual on the other. But those two positions coming together netted off to create what is a synthetic dollar position. And yeah, I read his piece, was inspired by the vision and the way he thought about things and decided to quit my job to start building out Athena on the back of that. Yeah, fantastic. One of, I guess, a few people from traditional finance have been inspired by the many visions of Arthur Hayes. But yeah, I think I remember the thought piece or blog or whatever you want to call it that you're referring to. And obviously Arthur is a reasonably prolific writer and he's an interesting thinker in the space, certainly, isn't he? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I've been reading his pieces for a couple of years before that. I think one of the great things that he sort of gets across is really just trying to blend the macro view on the world and how that sort of feeds through down into crypto. And yeah, had been a fan of his work for a long time. And actually, funnily enough, part of the idea that he has here, I think predated thinking about the stablecoin because it was actually sort of used on BitMEX by traders who are trading there with Bitcoin collateral all the way back to 2016. So when you didn't have stablecoin sitting there on BitMEX, the way that people thought about neutralizing their position to get into synthetic dollar position was actually using Bitcoin to then collateralize the short position on the other side. So people have actually been doing what we're sort of trying to turn into a product now many years before he came out with that piece. And really, this is just sort of like the natural evolution of that, which is tokenizing that trade into something that can then be used as a stablecoin. And so are you in comms with Arthur? Yeah, so Arthur sort of led the seed round that we completed a couple of months ago with Dragonfly. He's joined the team as a founding advisor, helping us sort of think through the strategy, the go to market and just ensuring that we have the right relationships at different exchanges, which is a pretty important piece of how the product is sort of put together, as you can imagine. So, yeah, we're super thankful that sort of Arthur got behind us to back us. And yeah, I was excited to work with him on bringing that vision to life. Yeah, sorry, you're exactly right. I had that in my notes that a Dragonfly capital. But of course, yeah, just slipped to my mind. But yeah, it was Arthur is actually, yeah, behind Dragonfly capital. So, of course, yeah, that all makes sense. All right. Well, let's yeah, fascinating backstory. So that's yeah, that's brilliant. Let's rewind a bit, I guess. And yeah, start from the beginning. So, I mean, you kind of explained the idea, I guess. But yeah, Athena Labs, what is the vision then? Yeah, I think it's really just building on the idea that Arthur had. His core idea, as I said, was long Bitcoin on one side and then using a perpetual swap on the other to hedge out the price volatility to give you a synthetic dollar position. We took the idea in his piece and made two fundamental changes to the way that he was thinking about things. The first was that we're starting with Stigdeth as an asset rather than Bitcoin. We can jump into the reasons for why that is. But really, it boils down to the fact that you have now for the first time, a positive carry for being long Ethereum. So when you're long that position and you're getting paid 46 % for being long Stigdeth, that obviously looks more attractive than Bitcoin, which has no inherent yield in the underlying product. The other piece for that is actually one of sort of security and safety. So part of the risks of these types of designs is that you could go through periods where funding on the perpetual contracts or the cost or amount that you're being paid to take out that short, that does vary through time. So traditionally, it's been pretty skewed to the positive side where you get paid to put on that short, but you do have periods where you actually have to pay out to hold that position. And so obviously having that embedded yield within Stigdeth now also just adds an additional margin of safety to the product itself. I think the second change that we had with Arthur's idea was just thinking about the underlying custody of the assets. So he was pretty insistent and it's something that we agreed with as a team that you needed to access centralised liquidity in order to be able to get the product to scale. So you've seen previous iterations of this type of design attempted to be bought to market fully on chain. So you've had other projects who have tried to put together this delta neutral stable coin, but only using decentralised exchanges on Solana and on Ethereum. The problem with that is that you just don't have enough liquidity on chain to be able to scale it a size that's meaningful and into the billions, which is where we sort of see the demand for a product like this. And so if you accept the fact that you need centralised liquidity, we ask ourselves the question of how we could do that in a risk minimised way for our users on the other side. And since the collapse of FTX, we've seen some interesting sort of developments around the way the custody solutions are being brought to market within crypto, where you're able to disaggregate the custody of the underlying assets and the execution and settlement of the trades. And so what that means is that you can hold the assets sitting off of a centralised exchange server, but still use that collateral as a margin instrument to take out the short. And so for us, that was a pretty huge unlock to basically make commitments to our users that we could keep their assets off of centralised exchanges and just reduce the counterparty risk to those entities. Yeah, very nice guy. And I suppose, of course, the other reason why you're using Ethereum here as well is, I think, it's part of what we find so interesting around DeFi, which is just the composability element, right? So stablecoins that can exist just in exchanges. Yes, it's interesting and it's extremely useful to have a trading pair that you can go back into dollars. And that's part of what's driven Tether's success to grow to 80 billion dollars. Really, the function that they provided was the holy grail of basically being more of a trading pair, more of a trading pair, more of a trading pair, more of a trading money exchanges. on But actually, when you start to take an asset like a stablecoin and then more interestingly, a stablecoin with a yield, and you start to use that and compose with it in interesting ways throughout DeFi, for me, that's actually an exciting bit of what you can start to take this asset and start integrating it through DeFi. Because if we think about the way that DeFi sort of functions today, really, it's working up for cash, sitting behind most of the balance sheets within those projects. So whether it's a backing to something like MakerDAO, where you have USDC or FRACs and then a lot of the money markets, it doesn't make a lot of sense, right, that these things have no yield that's embedded into them. If we think about an analogous reference point within the real world, insurance companies, banks, they all have treasuries instead of cash. That's like their form of cash. When they need short term liquidity, they can take those treasuries to the repo market and sort of satisfy their short term liquidity requirements. But within DeFi, you actually you don't really have that bond like instrument which sits there on the balance sheets of those businesses. And we actually think that, yes, a stablecoin is an interesting product that comes out of these two positions. But actually, the more interesting product is this idea of an Internet bond, which is basically a stable position with an embedded yield, and that yield is derived from crypto native sources.
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A highlight from Pablo se glora en la cruz de Cristo | Glatas 6 con Chepo Guzmn
"We will see, if you want to see this podcast. I'm talking about your food, your coffee, what you eat. And for other people, it's not like that. Because it's your work. It's like if you're living, you know what you're eating. And I think that's a more common problem, as the government is the best part of the problem, is that it's not like that. Someone is just being taken out of their time, of their records, for a great amount of time, for courtesy. Because this is also, I have a huge problem with it. You are to listen to the podcast. Did you see? Let's start. More or less, a lot of manipulations. More or less. I don't know. Wait, wait, wait. I don't know. And why do I have to do this? And why do I have to do this? And why do I have to do this? And that would be a problem for the living. Look, I want... Wow, we're talking about the housekeeper. What housekeeper? Look, look, look. Silence, silence. Silence. I want to... Wait, wait. I want to know if the moon is going to be able to be the housekeeper. So... No, John, first of all, I don't think that the moon is going to be, and when the moon is, it's a privilege. No, not really. If the moon is going to be able to be the housekeeper. I mean that, so that you are aware of your father, and you say, if the moon is going to be the housekeeper, it's a factor that you don't have to work, you have to be secular, and the only thing you have to do is to dedicate your life to. So it's a manipulation, you have to, you have to, you have to live a life that you can't do, if you have to work, you have to work in the secular, that's another factor. Now, there are cases, there are cases. But, but, but, but... If you have to do anything, well, I'll tell you the same thing, I'm not the same person. You don't have to do anything, it's a pastoral thing. I don't... I don't have a wife. No, but you don't have to do anything, how do you do it? Let me tell you, let me tell you, my time at the house, my life, is during the times of separation. And these times I don't get the services. This time apart. I can see that, that's the moment. This time for me here, that's functional, in this time of labor, I have to be part of my work. I think there is a point of crisis, you have to have a sabbatical, you have to do things and now literally my participation is exclusively in the areas of Reunion and two hours a week in my house. The difference of the organization is... There are no words to describe the difference of the organization. It's not formal. It's just... Abysmal in the game. And how does it come from a small group that works hard? It's a very small group. Many times I say this, it's not that it's a normal group. But of course, it's simply my sermon. I just wrote my sermon. It's very different from the sermon that I have today. I have time to write a liberal book. The sermon that went on for a year. I can write one or two books per week. It's very different. And I remember saying to myself, it's clear, it's just part of the work. No, no, no. It's very different from the sermon. You have to write your book, because you have to... You have to write a book, because you have to... You have to write a book, because you have to write it here. And you have to write it there. Okay, what does that mean? It means that you have to write more than a lot. How do you process the information that you have written? I didn't write the work. For me, it's a level in the work. A small group. And many people have their own group. a sauna young y sierta siglesias donde hice pastor cellepon when the moment is a little while the man is we get it so you have to be clear to the channel they enter a pyramid Michael so this is important it's a new casio me me me Pelea john semer is a car persona que hace algo semer ese entiende para mi problema siempre cido cuando de una organización que tiene digamo dos sientas tres sientas quinientas personas solamente reciben su elto una seis cinco cuatro personas en ese iglesia que tiene una función abísmal cuando una máqui una iglesia es una máqui nagigantesca que ocupa muchísiman manos y a todo de más eleven como voluntarios y se leven como me cervejo y se le hace algo y si llaman hanano y para mi todos me resen ahora si hau a un ció no no sorry sorry pero sorry pero spera se que yo termine si un ció porque son lo tuye importa guesando quiero la rágil más no lo esas de más que los empleados que hacen correr el negoción, ya y un problemas y gantesco. Y esa sido mi queja con mucha de las iglesias y con mucha de las megas iglesias. Pero ha más, yo voy a hacer que un pastor que tiene una iglesia y a todienta personas que trabajan tres semán y todo eso que no me rese algo del igle por su pueso que me rese entiendo mi problemas cuando llegamos a niveles donde a esa persona en pieza y la casi que la unica que recibe y recibe cantidades abísmales y en pieza a busar de su poder es ese sido mi problema siempre. Ahora mi queja no es con los pasores especificamente. Mi quejas con la institution y con pastor es que ellos mílmos se poner en esa posición donde hacen que gente es en capacidad de poder llegar aído la tracarlos porque ellos mílmos buscan, ellos mílmos manipula, ellos mílmos, ya, hay una razón por la que muchas personas quieren ser polícias y se tiene que hacer examenes cicologicos para filtrar porque mucha gente con mucho de cedo poder que quieren meterce y tristamente hay cierta tendencias cicologica en personas que estamos cando poder que sona emes críticas que yo siempre le ahoguada víde. Hay ciertas personas con ciertas tendencias quieren hacer en siestas posición es para busar de otras. O siempre esenciamente para sentirse por en cima de lo emas y si les va bien proder a va sentir.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from BITCOIN REVOLUTION | TUCKER CARLSON & JAVIER MILEI MAKE HISTORY
"We don't see lugar a ludas, esta nueces una taria para tibios, esta nueces una taria para córdes, esta nueces una taria para los politicamente correntos. Xo no me me ti yaca para estar y ando córderos. Xo me me ti yaca para despastar de odres. ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! When you think of Argentina you might envision tango, soccer, or maybe a juicy steak, but today it's all about a wild surge in bitcoin advocacy and a man whose opposition to statism might be louder than a wake -up call from Frankie. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM That's right, baby. Wake the f 'up and get on the Freedom Train. We get a lot of s*** to cover. Let's get it! I think that it can be my moment. Because as we have seen, we are in all of them. And we are not one of them. This is what we are in all of them. Because we are going to do everything, and we are going to take care of everything in the world. Yes, to be able to build Argentina properly. A liberal Argentina. An Argentinian people. An Argentinian that is going to build the borders of the world. And yes, in 35 years, we will be able to build the first global potential. So yes, effectively, I am going to be in politics. be Will it Teresa? Míle he is right. Míle? Míle, he is right. farm. go I'm gonna ahead and start with this go ahead and take a look down there 339 .8 million views and I want you to put that in perspective so when I said that you know these bit corners just made history well they're both advocates and it just became the most watched interview in history now Tucker's last interview with that orange guy yeah Trump that set the record and beat Oprah's former record with her interview with Michael Jackson and it appears Tucker Carlson is going full Eminem breaking a record every time he drops a record right now what this really had me thinking is the fact that well you know Joe Rogan gets like 11 million views he's the number one podcaster in the world Tucker was the number one show on Fox News and all mainstream media and he was getting about three four million views I'm putting that in perspective he's gone independent and he's got 340 million views blowing everyone out of the water talking about well look at this Argentina's next president and this guy is winning big -time you saw those crowds who is he well Tucker traveled to Buenos Aires to speak to him and find out and we of course hear it simply Bitcoin have covered Malay quite a bit but very exciting stuff an amazing conversation very base and before we get into that now Malay you got to understand they kind of do language a little different right so when he uses the the terms liberal he's referring to classical liberal like Bastia which is closer to libertarianism or anarcho capitalism if you'd like to say and when he refers to anything like socialism or communism of course they're all the same thing all statism and that's really the point that he's driving home is the fact that it's freedom versus the state and I love it until you fix the money for example a lot of Western democracies went full tyrannical regimes over the past few years and they're supposed to be democracies with representative government that is supposed to work in your best interest but I think we know the truth well let's get to it we're in downtown Buenos Aires the capital of Argentina this was once about a hundred years ago one of the richest cities in the world and you could tell as you walk around the fated grandeur of a once great city but this is now a desperate country its economy is in shambles has been for a long time Argentina famously defaulted on his debt more than 20 years ago but now hyperinflation has made this country genuinely desperate you see when you have dinner here in restaurants and people pull out bricks of local currency the peso to pay it feels like Weimar or Zimbabwe but it's not this is a developed country that's moving backwards at high speed and because of the frustration that has built up among the population particularly among poor people a man called Javier Miele is poised to become its next president he's a former soccer star goalie a performer in a Rolling Stones cover band and a libertarian economist he's not a libertarian in the traditional American sense he wouldn't fit into the Cato Institute he's libertarian in the traditional sense he believes people should have the maximum amount of freedom they can be given which is a lot much more than they now get in Argentina he has moved from basically nowhere in the last several years to become maybe the most famous person in this country the election is next month in October and once again it seems like he's likely to win he himself is a Bitcoin enthusiast right he jetted off to Argentina not for steak not for soccer but to meet the rock star economist and fellow Bitcoin advocate Javier Miele why do you think from your perspective you've become a man with no political background so popular so quickly in this country that in a cable con el hecho de que ese de huador de football a mismo tiempo ese do cantante rock -and -roll y ademas a soy economista y creo que esa combinación es una combinación attractive en terminos de producto televisivo pero por otra parte lo que también es importante el tema de las cídeas y argentina a pasicamente es un país que se va cien años abraçando las cídeas socialistas y entonces la revelión natural del sistema era ser libérales y es por eso que la revelión natural la parece siempre los jovenes y los jovenes encontraron alguien que man Miele from an 18 % poll prediction grabbing a 29 % victory in the primaries Miele maybe is unpredictable as a Bitcoin price chart and with hair that's probably more talked about than the latest thing what is that now like men in black aliens in Mexico or something and the guy is very based he's just gonna say what he thinks what he feels but Miele's boldness isn't limited to just critiquing the state but he also questioned the Pope talked about advising the orange guy and has many times advocated for Bitcoin is the future of financial freedom in short Javier Miele is making waves the Pope the current Pope is from Argentina I would think he would support you he has instead criticized you and you've called him a communist why the disconnect bueno primero porque el papa juega politica vente a si luma some papa donde tiene forte Ingenencia política ademostrado además una granda finidad con dictadores como Castro o como comaduro si restar el lado de de dictadores wait I'm sorry Raul Castro's a murderer si if you got to the minute at Rocesino but the Pope you believe the Pope has an affinity for Raul Castro si exacto si decho no los condena si repatante condescending de conesos y esta mien condescending de con la dictadora venesolana a si el condescending de con todos los discuiras a un cuando se verdaderos criminals toco el esos un problema prudemas es a lien que consider a que la justicia social un elemento central de desu vision y eso es muy complicado porque la justicia social case robar el fruit su trabajo una persona y dar ciudad otra en dos es implicado dos cosas una es un robo y el problema es que el robo esta encontra de lo que seniela los días mandamientos si ha valar la justicia sociales ha valar el robo por otando son problema de que está violando los días mandamientos el otro problema es que es un trato decíbal friende a la ley now me and myself I'm kind of against protectionist policies but Malay on the global stage he has a clear stance no deals with status so china lula unless it's about decentralized money of the future bitcoin probably don't bother knocking you've said that as president of argentina you will not do business with china de cho no solo no via certain negocios con china no via certain negocios con nimún comunista esir habar yo soy un defensor de la libertad de la paz y la demogracía lo comunista no entranay but also incredible beyond the politics and probably his bitcoin price checks who is this Javier Malay at heart well one thing he's a man whose phone screensaver is joy has no end and is as passionate about freedom the austrian economic community as he is about bitcoin and decentralization no no no no no no when you talk about and live according to your conscience you don't have me because you know what is the definition of this personal me you know that when you are in the last moment or when you are in the constant pressure of being big you know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? This will pass all over your life.
DARKWEB.TODAY - Hackers & Cyber SECURITY
"ables" Discussed on DARKWEB.TODAY - Hackers & Cyber SECURITY
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DARKWEB.TODAY - Hackers & Cyber SECURITY
"ables" Discussed on DARKWEB.TODAY - Hackers & Cyber SECURITY
"Anyway, so now I've got to call that asshole ex-boyfriend of mine as well. So which is really annoying. And I have to do with the house, they're the police situation. The reason the police pay is because they couldn't get out of him. Which makes sense because obviously he's busted his phone. And he's using a different number and I don't suppose for one minute. He bothered to well, why would you inform the piece? But it's to do with this accident. He's got going for a voluntary interview to do with his accident. So. You know, I don't know. It's just. Rather he Andrew went with him. Because that's what he does for a living. So I know he will, it's fine. I've got to speak to him anyway, but because Henry's still got no fucking phone because where he's got that stupid Android, but it means I can't talk to him. I can't come in because he's on Android now. I can't message him and he can't message me unless he's got credit and I've got no credit and I can't buy any credit. So at the moment so I can't communicate with him because obviously the police when he got stopped with his friends. Just before Christmas, the policemen threw his phone into the van when he searched him, and it broke it. His phone. The police broke the phone. They broke phone? Yeah. Okay. Turn on or anything now. Which is an iPhone. I can't remember which one it was. I mean, they've all got better iPhones than me. So, but we put in the report and everything, but we just heard nothing, and that's always the way, isn't it? There's no fucking accountability for these fucking arts holes. Same here in the states, yeah. Do you have pretty awful extent sometimes, you know? Yeah, but it's just, you know, you can't eat they're so used to dealing with fucking. I suppose I shouldn't say this, but the dregs of society that, you know, you don't stand a chance as being a normal person because they don't treat you any differently. Yeah. Yeah. I've just a 15 year old boy, as far as they're concerned, and so he's bad. You know? The fact that I can't communicate with my son now, they don't care about that. They don't care that I can't afford to put credit on my phone. So that I can physically call him or message him for three weeks or whatever, you know, that doesn't mean shit to them, does it? It could be a lot worse. People living on the street and all the rest of it, but still it's like you were hanging on for a thread as it is and situations like that. It just breaks me so fucking cool. Not cross ups. I don't know what it makes me. Clearly, I'm not cross, I'm just fucking crying. They say that when you are a hammer, all you see is nails or something. Something like that where there's a better analogy there, but basically, yeah, they see everybody as a criminal, right? Every interaction that they have with is that you know you're a criminal or not or in the wrong place or whatever. You want to share the body with the team brush, turn everybody with the same brunch. Yes. Yes, they do. Are you even had some fucking copper? Well, I don't know if it was a copper. I think it was a copper, but he was trying to fucking take me down in a tweet conversation the other day because I commented on an LBC. A post London's biggest conversation in the radio station. About policing. But because somebody had taken it some guy had been messaging the daughter of this man. And he took this man turned up and it turned out his daughter was 12. And this man turned up to, I dunno, see his daughter, whatever, and I think and the man let his dogs on him or something. Sorry. Yeah, and that's please for you. They're all fucking bent. This was the man. There's a father of this daughter that had found out that this man was coming to me is 12 year old daughter, and basically he was taking his own action, you know, against the man because it was what's the point in calling the police. And I was just agreeing with that because I do agree. I think what is the point of calling the police for a lot of things? There is no point in calling police, and they don't do anything. You know, I've experienced that numerous times now. So, you know, even to put my house was broken into, they didn't even come out for that. You know, it's fucking terrible. So anyway, because I made a comment about that and then oh, well, that's our kind of what he said now, but you just started baiting me about how stupid I was to say such a thing and I'm like, well, that's my opinion, isn't it? But it's not stupid at all. People taking the law into their own hands, it seems to be projecting into that future more and more these days, because for those reasons, you know, what's the point they're either shitty full of attitude? And then he made this comment oh, so when were you arrested then? As if to say, you know, so he automatically made this assumption that I was some kind of petty criminal that had been arrested for something that apparently I didn't do sort of thing, you know, I saw a fuck off. Anyway, so I don't even know even relaying the story very well, but it's pathetic, all of it. Well, yeah. Not saying, I don't know, this person, but yeah, it sounds like you probably never had a negative experience with a law enforcement officer, like a lot of them. Or he was, yeah. Okay. 'cause he is handle something like something to do with sadly serving still or something. I don't even know. I mean, I can't imagine why anybody else would make a comment like that. Even if. I don't know, sometimes it's like, you're not even able to see from somebody else's perspective, maybe. You haven't had that experience okay. But you're not able to relate or have empathy. Some people are arc. And I
ROCK 107 WIRX
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"More specifically nineteen ninety-seven geo metro anybody's one point three liter. Seventy horsepower in line for it gets forty four to forty nine miles per gallon. Yeah and yeah. That's what i need. That's what i'm looking for. Geo metro news after-sale. I will pay big bucks for geo. Metro by buddy is go. Had one broke it on purpose. Parents bottom the exact same break. You don't know what you got man you blew it. It just hated it. Well i mean you're in high school you're trying to look cool and you pull up an geo metro. Nothing's crueler than fuel economy. Okay now am i now now. And you're trying to be cool anyway enough about geo metro getting into your topic of the day brought to you by special indicator and benton township. What are you glad exists. Let's say nineteen ninety-seven geo metro super glad that exists. Let's take a phone call. Wrx low gotta go with the easy one beer. Oh how did. I not even think about that. That's the answer. That's if you didn't think about that. You have the man card sell cry at least not for a day. I'm sorry i apologize. Best answer there you go. Yeah beer. For god's sakes as a great thing it's been around for quite some time to. Yeah yeah it says. It's caused a lot of major things in this world beer responsible for a lot of stuff. let's go to facebook. What are you glad exists leashes at airplanes. And kind of nice. When you're trying to get somewhere. Yeah yeah you have to deal with idiots not using their cruise control. jason said. We'd rick said pie carly had a good answer answer. Well she had a couple carly said soap lunch ables but her first answer answer at hand brock soap. She said sell food. I am cleaner than you. What are you talking about. Did i am so clean. Not after this morning's pomona incident. But i i will be later. No her first answer was a really good one. I thought cameras and photographs. That's a great answer. That is a great answer. You really think about that. Granted we've taken it too far with all the five hundred sell fees that you chicks taken what do think about like the moments that that have been not captured in that saying. We need to have a photo of everything but do this. I'm sure ben. Some amazing things that never got photographed. Remember one cameras. You only had twenty four patients right. It should be like that now. You only get twenty four pictures. A day choose wisely. That's what we had to do back in the day. Yeah if you wasted a picture on oh yeah you gotta go get those developed to take time..
Task Force 7 Cyber Security Radio
"ables" Discussed on Task Force 7 Cyber Security Radio
"Time line you know. Perhaps between when the initial entry has been gained by these attackers before they've done that lateral movement and eventual locking of your of your files detecting that level movement might be able to prevent actual ransomware from hitting in the first place right though. This is a little bit more complex. You know there's a time. Limitation here requires a little morbid advanced team. This threat intelligence can play a really good role. These folks in the in the space are doing a good job enumerating the infrastructure that these folks are using for operating these campaigns to even. If you don't have the capability of having the tuning specificity to prevent some of these attacks from coming in. Perhaps you can at least detect the communication with the known command control infrastructure. Associate with random. Wear so that you can isolate the infected systems before they have an opportunity to you know spread like wildfire and detect the exploration of data to. So they don't you don't get double-whammy there right so need and then they put time constraints on you and say okay. If you don't give the money by wednesday we're gonna be information and by the way when you pay the ransom. Only if you pay the ransom. There's nothing the say that they will release the information. Anyway they usually don't because that would ruin the business model. But you never know your who else they've given it to or you know where it's being stored for future use ages digital right so you don't know. Yeah so we've got reactive. I've i've already been owned. I got a backup. You've got a little bit more less reactive with more proactive varian. But they haven't deployed yet. I'm going to stop them spreading. Stop the cancer from spreading and then you're probably in my opinion the best thing to do is put a bigger wall up front. No stop the people who are looking for a foothold to use that analogy with you know. You don't have to be faster than air. You gotta be faster than everybody else running away from the bear or at least the slowest person running away right if you assert that these guys are targeting industries So long as you don't fall victim to the amount of time. They dedicated to attack in your industry. That wave will pass until the next one so if you can stop it at the foreground like don't let these attackers talk to your users. Weather's through fishing. Or whatever i think stacking differences there. If you look at the average enterprise probably have mark self though three six five you know. A lot of them have advanced threat protection enabled and even with all those bells and whistles are still like a ten percent. Gac is actually someone we cover with. This project were measuring this every single day. Just take all the stuff that we see in the wild many of which leads to ransomware feed it through a bunch of accounts will be control and see who's good at blocking what so admiral there at a secure email gateway out a product like inquests. Stack it up to the point that you've drastically reduced the amount of content that's reaching your users who are over ninety percent of the time that's where it begins. Some user has been coerced into interacting with a website or email or a file but they should have never been interacting with so a little bit more about that. I know we talked about your stare. At the beginning of the show How does that. Italian of to the ransomware discussion. That we're having right now. Sure so again. The the vast majority of these attacks they start with an email some somewhere down the line. Someone got an email that they either clicked on a lincoln entered their credentials into a you know a fake logging and those credit harvests credentials. Were were used to then get a foothold or they interacted with some some father that was sent to them and so for us as a small company. The only way for us to compete with the big boys is to be laser focused on solving a gap. Right we were born out of gap analysis so we decided to apply that same logic. Let's go see where the where the holes were. False are in the most commonly deployed technologies. And that's what the trista projects entirely about right. We from multiple locations. We're looking at a few million dollars a day and we leverage our own machine. Lemme stacks and product to dog food and isolate what we know to be known. Real world power. That's emerging an evasive in the sense that he can buy. It can at least get to your e mail spool. If you're a google or microsoft customer from there that allows us to see what these campaigns operators are doing. And they changed their tactics. You know. Overtime by focusing on the portion of it that we know is successful. It's a much smaller a challenge for us to track. And if anybody's interested you can go check out all the data we we just publish it this blackout earlier this month. If you're the labs. I think quest on that is a big tall their culture stare on you can dig through the graphs and you can see them comparing over time You know it's neat but but to do this. The key is you gotta pull in data at scale like you've got to really get a good statistical sampling of the mauer corpus. That's just out there than what in in in terms of the scale. What are we talking millions here. Yeah absolutely you know you need to be looking at in order of of of millions of samples Which what has what happens there is that will get pruned down or if you look at the stats for example on On page we're not pumping a million samples through microsoft and google everyday. We take those million samples duplicate them. A lot of them are just different of the same exact threat. Can't duplicate a perfectly reduce it from millions to couple thousand a day that actually we use for testing as you take you start with millions of samples that you call eight from all over the world you know some are open source sources are crawling yeah through partnerships some of attornal. But then you still onto maybe a couple of thousand a day when duplicate the various copies of the mauer. And then we'll take that and we feed this through the microsoft and google pipes that we've set up to see which ones go through and in the end we end up with you. Know typically dozens of samples that we know are capable of that day being able to reach the user's inbox. And so that's where we focus our efforts. That's what we look at. The purpose of the tarot project is surface the samples that you should be focusing your attention on because you know they're capable of reaching your users so this is pretty interesting. How do you choose the samples question you know we. We look at everything and all sorts of file types so execute ables documents scripts and archives one of the newer things that folks are doing is instead of sending fishing urals inside an email body. Go put it inside of a file. Right that's bypassing. Any security products doing are well rewriting of your roles within the email. That's not gonna apply with yours inside. The actual file attachments so attackers are kind of stuffing their indicators deeper into layers that make it a little more difficult for for folksy as it's gone across the wire so to speak so we're kind of outcome you're looking for here like what is the. What is the desired outcome. Or you know or what are what are the. What does the typical outcome look like. Basically yes so one of the natural questions. That folks always asked me as an initial question i tell about this experiment is who's better is marks up at are always google better and i can give. It's hard to answer this question. You'll see while dive into. But i can give one definitive answer. If you're looking to set up a free email account for less technical person your parents grandparents whoever i would go with the g mail over a free outlook dot com because by far google security is better out of the box for free accounts. In fact google's what's available for free from google is comparable to what is available from microsoft with their advanced protection added on top of it which pay for a service. so typically when. I'm asked about this. i'm comparing google to microsoft with. Atp which is kind of unfair because one is free and one is additional cost. But that's what i'm generally looking at and.
Chicago Dog Walk
"ables" Discussed on Chicago Dog Walk
"He won but we're all probably going to get yelled at now. I bet you were dana. Also was great pick. Were you making our chicks dana. Once i was like one of those once you get hot hot so once i had one make out. There was a million of them with a girl at a school. Dance semi formal type of thing. I mean i was just making out with the whole. Great records dow henry t wing school. Cool brag pick surprising. Pick like you would think of more educational from from barstool chief. He's always trying to just put me in these in these boxes his narrative and suits the brand and the wrestling thing that he's trying to create here these different characters. But i love six flags as much as you probably my. Gosh yeah i. I just thought he'd fuck in the botanical garden. It would have been my next pick state state house. Go down the stairs. Exactly look the rub. Abe lincolns knows why. Tax dave i'm going to the lunch item category and i'm going with the one and only lunch ables faulk. Yeah i was down to either that or six flags so i was completely blocked. Fox i hear talk of milk too because it literally i just pass to. I mean once you bulls are synonymous with like grade school. Not so much middle school but grade school. You get the little pizza ones. You get to make your own pizzas. Put the pepperoni and the sauce on there. Every time i walk by winning the grocery store to this day. I think about picking up just for nostalgia purposes but Like looking back like if you consistently had launch ables like every day at lunch you were like one of the rich kids. I feel like or you is already parents. Was that a couple of buddies always coming in with way. Yeah got launch. Ables scenario like their parents did not make the bread the same right. Yeah unless you're right though david. It was a treat like for. Yeah for me now give. Pj every fucking day. Yeah but then like yeah. Yeah like offshoot. When my dad was responsible that's launch came revealing. Hey what do you feel balance. Just maybe a couple of calls this week perfect. Yeah it's great. You like the pizza ones. I thought those songs like it didn't matter pete. I was just using that for were popular. The ham cheese one number. One i toss up to me. Didn't matter either or wasn't wouldn't nit-picker complain. Fuck got one. Or the other but launch bulls like that was that was the fucking that was the jamming mitten. Did i miss out. What's your favorite one i. I didn't hear if you're i mean to me. It was a total toss between the pizza ones and the The ham and cheese on is like still eat. The pizza wants to. I believe i believe in like a grownup baby. I feel traveled of mix of a trash and a baby trash person. A baby wakes delays on the balcony bedspread in the fucking sauce off. No just a constant sleep voice like that. that's how you're saying wouldn't crossville pepperoni..
Future Ear Radio
"ables" Discussed on Future Ear Radio
"It would be smaller than typical microphone and a mobile phone. You know in the old days and now their application has proliferated as well. They're becoming more and more popular hearing aids because they're smaller and the performance Is very high. We have a specialty line for hearing aids at very low power consumption very high performance To meet the particular needs a hearing aids well and they were still just dumb. Dumb microphones by now because semiconductor. Technology is getting more and more miniaturized more more policy a powerful. We're starting to put intelligence right in the microphone. So we can do voice wake within the microphone for example and that's only going to increase because when you can do things when you can do higher higher level processing right within a microphone. It's low power and very low latency and so that's the driving force behind that you see it in iot products for example you can. You can have an intelligent microphone. Nettle do basic controls for a microwave oven for example in all on the edge But in this particular case gets to the point where we can actually build an ai. Neural network a microphone. You can do all kinds of interesting processing within the microphone. And you know if you take a hearing aid case if you've already cleaned up the audio or to get the voices extracted from the noise before you do. The classic hearing aid processing amplification going to a hearing aid a lot more powerful or you know or a horrible device running in restaurant mode for example. So we'll see where all this goal is. This is a new relationship but it just points to how quickly things are steaming. Along in terms of intelligence you can pack into an inner device. It's gonna make all devices whether here ables hearing aids more powerful these technologies move along. Yeah i think it's like you listen to this stuff and and die as like to audio nerds. I think that like we really appreciate it. You know but. I think that a lot of people. It's their eyes gloss over a little bit but like the the end result is something that i think we all can appreciate. Which is the these are like the driving forces behind why these things continue to just become more sophisticated in more capable you. it's like. That's that's the real underlying reason why we have devices that can do the things that they can do. And it's setting the stage for all the things that they'll be able to do next. Which brings me to the last thing i wanted to talk about. Today you know you are the the biggest proponent i know of what we refer to as voice. I hearing aids for those of you. That aren't familiar boys. I is like twitter kind of jargon thing that was made popular by the voice community. Really what it implies is like this idea that you can use all kinds of different voice features as almost like the voice as the user interface for these devices and one of the things that andy and i connected early on with was really this idea that like at a certain point where you have these two sort of disparate technology sets. That are taking place. You have all the things that are happening with voice and you have all this stuff. That's happening with here. Ables the way that they will ultimately meet in the middle. Is that the voice. The voice will kind of be the main controller of like your technology and it will be housed in your in your goals and you know so. It's like today you kind of see it with siri airpods or you could be like andy. He wears his phonak marvels. He has google assistant. That's it's really..
The Promised Podcast
"ables" Discussed on The Promised Podcast
"Who couldn't escape and whose names we don't know unlike benjamin's he also built the way of human rights and nuremberg thirty pillars and on each of twenty seven of them. There is one article of the universal declaration of human rights in germany and in one of twenty seven other languages in nuernberg caravan was saying two things at once to the people of germany. I you can choke on this demonstration and necks despite what your people did despite what you people did coming to truly care for human rights is not beyond you today. See caravans nonstop heartbroken. Disappointment can't be separated from his faith that people have it in us to be good or at least better. When he spoke political demonstrations is. Matthew was outrage. The memorial he built in nuremberg he said at one protests that i saw he might soon need to make a similar memorial here in israel. Speaking of the relief wally. Sculpted in the knesset plenum. He said another demonstration quote. I'm ashamed of the knesset and of the people who are photographed against the wall that i designed and quote parent was cranky..
Pop Culture Junkie
"ables" Discussed on Pop Culture Junkie
"Okay alex last but not least summer. Play your time have one please Something i call summer grooves. And this is kinda just more so dancy. Feely kind of a playlist Like a little bit of funk. These mostly are like hip hop artists. But on my top five year if i were to list them i have american boy by a stellan kanye west and kanye west was going to make it into this somehow even if it were by feature yeah this one was kinda like bumping i felt like. Oh they'd probably talking about me. And this american boy you know what i'm saying like and saw i remember back. Motto is definitely bump into nen. There is financed by bruno mars. Like i love that funky field. You know. i love that. Like james brown just like getting all up in old that you know that that that superstition stevie wonder dude. I love bruno mars. He makes such just danceable. Listen general all the time to a ball script. We came out to bruno. Mars at our wedding came out to. What's the word. Don't believe me just for times and break my voice. Yeah just like the one. That's like the bridegroom here. They believe me juices. Don't believe any getting married. Don't believe just watch. We're getting by bruno. Mars on the top of my list album too. I think and this album as well as that song for all my god. That is such a sexy song was pretty much. Told me somebody to take off their saatchi. So they can make sweet love. Okay i have to say it. Sounds like you have somebody who wants to sing to you in the background. He's like party. He's like hearing all the tunes and he's like. Oh my god. I want to know what that is. He loves music. That's lorenzo boy. Yeah he he starts banging he like he. He's already like sometimes. We suspend him asleep to like some like cello life channel. Sonatas that he's into that you put him to sleep to bruno mars to my nephews. I mean sometimes. I get a little putting logo trapping. The on the on the speakers crump in and stuff he loves. It started doing three. Yeah but vanessa definitely a love that song in like the original because there's also the cardi b. b. you remix came out later after so but no i'm not. I'm not as much of a fan. He's a gap about bye. Bye sleep fit. Because i doubt when i first heard the cardi b. Surprise i thought it was the original version. Then party started rapping. Nothing you know probably be has good times but for finance. I don't know. I rather just stick to the one that was released in the album. I would also say. Am i wrong by anderson. Pack featuring schoolboy q. And anderson is another one of those groovy artists use a lots of different instruments trumpets drum percussion strings even and decide policies. Things just like start singing and rapping over these things. I like overly the he's really. He's really groovy featured very prominently on the trolls to soundtrack. If i can offer the mom personnel on one of the main characters and did like and like several like the lead song. Think he and justin timberlake together. I wouldn't be surprised that he made a town for it. I didn't know it was voicing by doing like character work too. that's cool. He's he's been. I think he is very part of like the production in like the scoring of like the music that he makes than Am i wrong. It's like a song it's like am i wrong. Like if this person can't dance in my wrong for thinking that they also don't know how to dance in the bedroom. I think that is an accurate assessment. So that that's all pretty much of that. You know when you're out in the summer you know you out here dancing a whatnot and sometimes
Pop Culture Junkie
"ables" Discussed on Pop Culture Junkie
"That is one of those memories that i have is just like peaks some urges calvin harris. Dj me and my girlfriends in the pool. We have those tacky like plastic cups that you drink your drinks out of end just partying and dancing the whole day away and we kept me like i can say i could see like looking for calvin harris so definitely listened to that song. It's this whole album like on this top ten list. I have two songs from that same album. It's all just summer vibes. The other one that i have good memories of is so happy i could die by lady gaga. So this is from the fame monster so this came out in home. My god. i'm going to be a terrible gaga fan right now. Two thousand ten two thousand nine and it's not one of the singles from the album by just have such vivid memories of like driving to vegas and driving around this or wasn't driving to vegas is driving around the strip once already gotten there and the lyrics of the song just like i'm so happy i could die just like i'm up in the club with my girls have a bottle of red wine. We're dancing our asses off. I could die. And i'd be happy. This describes me like in my bed. Been hunt order. I'm so happy. I could i i i right now so definitely that would i. I swear i do other things besides party in vegas. But that's what i think of what i think of summer long vegas and that's like a weird thing coming from someone who barely gambles and doesn't drink but like i- legit love. I guess my sister lived there for ten years and so i would go there every summer to help her. Take care kids. And when i was out of school and i have always had just like a deep affinity for there. There's a reason like the others are my favorite band. Dude like that that will the glitz and glam and that is steadily. Yeah absolutely like when. I was a kid like we would go on to dance competitions and we would dance in vegas and my aunt took me and my cousin once i mean we were kids so we couldn't do a whole lot but vegas used to have other things that families could do. They had like an amusement park. Mgm grand and there was like roller coasters in like a water rapid ri- we would go down the gondola. Then as you get older your activities chain we'd start going to shows in clubs and they got rid of all that stuff when the new governor came in and was like what how because they realized that when people were bringing their kids they weren't drinking and spending in gambling so they got rid of all that stuff yeah absolutely so they took out the the abuse park and they got rid of like the the pirate ship show at treasure island. And
A Penny For Your Thoughts c/o Beautiful Girls and All We Have Gone Through
"ables" Discussed on A Penny For Your Thoughts c/o Beautiful Girls and All We Have Gone Through
"Just thinking about what was just said a minute. Let me think about what was just say. I know that she didn't try to get the best of me. Like there is no situation to risk. But am i supposed to stop doing what i'm doing to make someone in her life comes and goes when i am not even their compliments and the fact being related related whose relation and trust the people you are around and about which does not dictate what you can say. What will be a pandemic. Which is the situation hand. You'll never be able to heal by going back to what broke. You does not make family. Those relatives family is those with home. You share your good bad and ugly and still love one. Another in the end family are the ones you select justice. Sentence peration okay. Let me see this person. Wants me to go back into someone. I once knew to make the life. Easier could jeopardize what i have been within my life really. I can't even fathom thoughts sitting around with someone who will make me feel ill. It's not all peaches and cream. When the person was in my life the attitude just to wear the shades the fact of lies and disrespect one thinking. It was okay for not looking. Like i was just there to be there but boy do they have another thing coming. You cannot understand a person without understanding what a person has been through in overcome when you can realize for the first time you have no pain of moving on letting the toxicity be removed completely in my life so when i show up i am proud to be. Just how far will you go to make someone feel special instead of making memories. Not say a bucket list. The bucket could not makes a difference in some ways it may be good or just. The course in life makes the pale too small of an ocean with fish swimming of things. I would love without hurting someone. Make sure you have a poll so you can say oh man here. Let me add this to the bucket minute. That was so much fun. I think i could just toss the fish back. So when i am ready to make you feel at ease up i can go back out there again. Not still swimming in the water. It makes the bucket which causes the love of new energy and life away. No one will be able to stand. There is no room in life when it's someone else's fault then it was you who could have done something about who what where or win. That is a real question. You can ask yourself to put it mildly given the opportunity to do again i just could have a because the path he walked. No one is able to pick up those shoes even if they just lifted off the show. So start from. The beginning is putting you and your place in a new era. It cannot be traced back to you. The lie said a coming within a person smile. You know obsolete nothing about you what you will do so let us get the shop. Talk to make the talk real. Sure let them through in through the good pitch. Lynn whack the heck out of the ball for the grand slam play. The denny's could not even recreate knowing how to say. I apologize is so much different in. I am sorry that is just thrown around like passing a term paper or something and the difference with an apologetic state is within sincerity of the mistake or the unwillingness of the situation helping to make the healing process as well as the relationship with understanding. Do not grit your teeth. Do not make fix miles. Do not come around when someone asks about you. Just do not look at the calendar. Just say i thought i would say hey to keep you on. Reserve didn't with such is only a quick fix. When you can say how you feel tell the truth and you can work. The situation and there is how to get things started. I know you don't understand but you have to live with you. And i am responsible for what i do. So if you love me like you say you do not thin you will keep your issues within you. Not price them on people. You had no intentions of trying to see. It will not help you in it. Postpones the inevitable of another day because no one sees you like idea flipping pages like you're in the book. When going through life you have a lot of comings and goings some people maybe in your life or duration and then there are others who just come around to see what you're doing. Do not bat your eyes pull down the shade glasses or even turn your head to the side not understanding the situation. Just hold up your head and take responsibility for what you did or even said and no one is in a Incidence this is even happening. It is just the time to pull out the weeds in your life that causes you to grow in a patch of something. Someone may not even want it around now. I say that to say this. It is not i who must decide about you in life. You must be the one to find out the answer within yourself and put forth the effort to say. I have nothing to lose. But so much to gain when i decide to make that change.
The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"ables" Discussed on The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
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The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"ables" Discussed on The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"Because of what i was doing. I follow guided an to again find. This is my purpose is what i'm supposed to be doing that. I work seven days a week. If you'd give me an eight. I would have done it too. I went there was one year where we were opening up some programs in hawaii so travelled to hawaii to speak with you do a presentation on base and all the things and i did it over a holiday weekend so that i could actually take a day or two to relax while i was. There didn't do it phone in hand the entire time on the plane. Back to san diego. I thought oh god lee remember much of besides my phone like i didn't disconnect couldn't relax. I couldn't have just focused focused. Must you know more locations. Keep writing grants keep looking. Keep looking for sponsors them this. It had grown into four different locations. Were sponsoring salsa night we We're asked to go to a white house. Summit called the united state of women to talk about our work with female veterans of military sexual trauma and how alternative therapies like dance can can and should be explored rather just traditional math therapy methods. So you know tons all these accolades which were amazing. And i had again the increase incredible team of instructors that had aired to work with me. Who shared that vision that we all know how to teach dance and we all know. That dances not accord. You know the not the that making dancers is not important right. They all know that this is the vehicle we are using to get people. You know out of their houses to reconnect with their spouses reconnect with their level. Can i of course duty joy like we all shared that passionate social responsibility That nonprofits are. I didn't know anything about so. It's just trying to stay one step ahead of where supposed to be. Learning is a learning ago. Struggled with fundraise it. You know i would talk to some outside like look what i'm looking at. Whom going to donate to to charities in front of me. Homes were drew Or i've got year. And i don't know homes for our troops is actually a real organization of trying to make up something. But hondo judah incredible place but something who is constructing adaptive homes for for veterans or a dancing one. You're not getting my money. that is housing is more important. I'm like yes. I agree with you. Housing is more important and gives them a reason to leave the house. Comeback people can't stay in their house being shouldn't be one or the other..
The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"ables" Discussed on The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"The moment at the tom just talking about physical therapy combat injuries but as we started to expand as starting to speak with other therapists somebody with traumatic brain. Injury could really benefit from dancing right to be able to learn a series of steps and execute those steps while talking to someone while listening to music takes so many brain functions to do and if that same person comes back next week and repeats and remembers that pattern. Now we're talking about another ausman of the brain is straining strengthening that part of the brain. And if i if. I tweeted just a little. I know last week we went to the wrapped. This we're going to the right whole different brain process now involved. There's so much firing that leg they saw the can. I have my. Tv patients. Come in and then working with patients with some level of post traumatic stress of who were isolated. Who are feeling. They can't make eye contact with someone who You know are just afraid to go into new spaces in new things. Well cut Come here there's a consistency. I have these amazing volunteers who are showing up every single week. You will have a familiar smiley face that will greet you every single week. You will laugh you will. You will accidentally catch yourself making eye contact with somebody and joking around going. Oh and then you know our job my job as a teacher but also as a therapist and reading up our notes of reflecting back to them be like. Hey remember ask you when you came in and asked you know how you felt anxiety level on a scale of one to ten like ten and i just asked you you ready to spend an hour dancing and your anxiety level drops having you know like you realize how impressive that is for you right. The yeah like this is. This is an amazing thing for this hour. Like i can't reach come back next week. And when i hear those words i can't wait to come back next week and having them like..
The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"ables" Discussed on The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"Just simple things like that where she'd be like i'd get up to do something changed. Cock-up the chair. Let's go just determined right. These are the friends that you can lead on. You know in these tough times. I mean i think like these other friends that saved my life. They they were doing small acts of of service to me. You know that wonderful love language someone coming over and taking care of my daughter came from you walking my dog or cooking meals. I had a friend who flew in from georgia and rearranged my kitchen in a way that i have to reach for anything. Heavy emptied out my entire kitchen. Reorganize the entire thing like to be able to recognize that each one of those things were acts of love. You know that they just showering on me anyway. Could now were and you know as my father always said. Your true friends are the ones who are still around when all your chips are down right and those are true blueprints indeed absolutely indeed all right fantastic. So let's talk about your healing okay. And you get to a point to where it's like as abraham lincoln once said If we can't predict the future perhaps we can create it right. How does all that quite all right. I love the love. The bark. And i'll say hello to talk about your healing. And then how does that. How does that. Abraham lincoln quote kind of applied to the next chapter in your journey. I love that. And i need to write that down. So thank you for that. A when i felt well enough to that i could manage on my own physically physically could get by without always having to rely on somebody else. I decided that. I wanted to move somewhere where i wasn't afraid to slip and fall on the ice and snow. I was literally my motivation for moving all the way across the country to leave dc. Leave my friends. Leave my family and come out to california where never been before right like the fear of slipping on the ice and messing at my back again. Because i had just gone through and never wanted.
The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"ables" Discussed on The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"To do this. I my parents are helping me out financially in this like just a how i felt like i was letting them down because i wasn't now secure not stable on my own. Two feet literally couldn't stand her for too long couldn't sit for too long but financially could do and it just it felt. It was crushing really crushing hopeless. Helpless help hopeless. And so how bliss. And i think that when i think about the when your whole identity and your hosts tonnes of value and worth is tied up in a job or a hobby or title of some sort like that when i define my as a dancer. If i'm no longer a dancer. I have done nothing else in my life to to find myself fulfill if that's gone i don't know who i am outside of dansk who i am. I am questioning. Why should he be and Some really 'cause. I thought i had a purpose. I found my purpose in if i was so wrong. Maybe i don't have a purpose. And if i don't have a purpose purpose why should be here. That's a dangerous place to be. That's that's a very very dangerous place to be for sure. And i have to say when when when people go through a major setbacks especially in an area in which it was the core of who they are. Their hearts love their passion. They identified with this such as you identifying with dancing. Okay that was your life. It wasn't a hobby and during during that time a setback. Challenge the struggle which is very real by the way even if you have support from your parents or support from friends. What are your thoughts on. Someone just can be so so crushed with the support of their family and friends that they could still feel isolated and alone. Yeah yeah it's I have a very different level of understanding the end. Compassion for i mean. I've always had that for mental health and carried over obviously into the charity work. That i know we'll talk about in a bit but that this is what i feel like. A lot of. People don't understand when they look at someone who has taken their own life But they had it all going for them they loving friends and family.
The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"ables" Discussed on The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"And to take it to the next level and help others who were struggling through dark times at a young age. We grow up with dreams and are taught to remain determined and steadfast in achieving those dreams. At all costs right. Then when you reach the point to where you are living the dream. A huge setback event occurs. You know not once but maybe even multiple times. Well you know when that happens what are we. What does that say about our dreams right. What does it say about us and who we are. Well my special guest has some first hand insight on this leaving her secure job insurance. She pursued the dream of dancing her dream of dancing ever since childhood. She also founded an organization that taught veteran amputee how to salsa. Now check this out and calorie multiple setbacks. Hers is a journey of resilience and embracing identity. We're about to hear her incredible story. It gives me great pleasure to introduce jennifer.
The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"ables" Discussed on The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"Hello my fellow roadies. Starting new year is often associated with two things wind. A fresh start clean slate in two ways to improve myself in the spirit of self development. I am extremely excited to share with you..