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The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep380: Now I Realize That It's An Even Bigger Problem Than I Thought
"But I do want to let you know that realistically, podcasting is taking off. Podcasting is growing. I know that because I helped many podcasters launch a brand new show just over the last few months. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, what's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And in this episode, I'm going to talk a little bit about urgency. Urgency is the thing that lights a fire underneath your ass. If you've got a fire underneath your ass, you're going to F and move. You're going to start moving. You're going to get up and you're going to do something. So there's this guy, super successful, multi, multi, multi -millionaire, several businesses. And I work with a couple of his friends who are the same. I work with a lot of people that are very highly successful. Something that I notice about these highly successful people, not all the time, sometimes they figure out what they want. They make the decision. They go do it. Like it's so easy. It's so simple. And other times they want to be frugal with their money. Even if they're a multi -millionaire, they want to be frugal with their money. They don't want to spend it all in one place. They want to make sure that they're going to get the value for what they're doing. And this guy, I'm going to call him Chris. That's actually his first name, but I'm not going to say his last name. This guy, his name is Chris and all of his friends keep pointing him to me. And he's had two different conversations with me, like almost two years ago. The other one was probably close to a year, like the end of last year. So getting really approaching. And I just dropped it because he had those conversations. He had those discovery calls. And I'm not going to force anyone. I'm not going to high pressure sale anyone. And, you know, someone like Chris, he's going to make the decision when he makes the decision. And I reached out to him yesterday and during the text messages, it was a Facebook message. I just asked him, hey, your podcast is being really successful. And it is. I want to get your story on my podcast. And he said he came back with basically almost a direct quote. I'd be delighted to come on the podcast. And by the way, I've been thinking about your services to grow my podcast. And here's the direct quote. Now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought. Now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought. So Chris reaches out after a year or two. We could have been giving him more listeners and giving him more social proof on his podcast, having more people that he could do business with. He's already a multimillionaire. But in two years, he lost out on a shit ton of listeners. That could have converted into actual dollars. And in his case, this might not be the case for everybody. He charges a good price when he works with people. And so in his case, he avoided, let's just call it six grand a month. We'll just agree to disagree. He avoided around six grand a month twice. And it cost him perhaps many, many hundreds of thousands, maybe even over a million dollars over the last couple of years. And he says, now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought. So I want to reach out and give that urgency to you. Yes, this is self -serving because I can support you and I'll make money too. My team will make money too. I get that. You got to understand where my heart is actually coming from. It's coming from a place of you needing to have a fire under your butt. Sometimes, some of us, we just won't make that decision to start our podcast. And because we don't get in front of those people for a year or two, we end up losing out on a lot of money. We end up having more competition than we would have if we just started now. There is about five million podcasts today. There's about five million. Of course, there's way more YouTube channels. The last I checked was 60 million. I'm sure we're pushing 100 million. I would like to pull up that number and verify it. But I am sure that it's way higher than the 60 million that I checked it out on three years ago. We just crossed five million podcasts that are out there. When Chris had a conversation with me two years ago, there was only around 1 .8 million, which means his competition is way more than doubled, way more than doubled in his competition. So you wait and you lose out. Urgency, light a fire up your butt and figure out what you got to do, whether it is doing the same thing as Chris is now going to do, hire somebody to help market his podcast so that he can stop missing out on those hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, or whether it's you finally launching your podcast, or whether it's something about your business or your health or your family relationships or your spirituality. It doesn't matter. Urgency, that's what we're really talking about. Chris says, now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought because he waited one year and then another year. And now he's freaking out because he knows that he's got to get this started, this marketing started or else it's going to make a negative impact on his business. We've got to get in front of those other people. It's not competition. It's not like that. I'm not trying to give you a scarcity mindset, but I do want to let you know that realistically podcasting is taking off. Podcasting is growing. I know that because I helped many podcasters launch a brand new show just over the last few months. It's how my business is staying in business, being able to support people that made that decision. And if my team is helping them do their marketing as well, they're going to grow and they're going to have a lot of listeners. I'm hoping that you get that urgency. You make the decision that you need to make to get off your butt and do something. Do something that benefits you. Think of something that you've been postponing. Think of something that you could have started a year ago. You could have started six months ago. You could have started three years ago and you just have held off. It might become a problem if you don't do it right now. Urgency. I'll see you on the next episode. This is serious. Don't go. Now that you've gotten whatever value that you feel that you've got, the actionable takeaways, you need to implement the stuff that you learn. If you remember me talking about Bird Church once and they learn how to fly and then they walk home. I don't want you to walk home. I want you to fly home. So take the steps, take the actionable steps for your benefits that you can become a better podcaster. That's the only thing that I ask of you. And I'll see you for more actionable tips on the very next episode.
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The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep379: The 5 Fs Podcasters Shouldn't Neglect - Jerry Dugan
"Be consistent with who you're speaking to, what you're posting off. Still show yourself and be a guest on other shows, especially if the show is like yours, because those listeners will also want more and more variety and they'll come to you for that. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams. And today I'm joined with Jerry Dugan from Beyond the Rut. And Jerry's passionate about supporting business leaders, helping them with different things like work -life balance. So one of the questions that I'm going to ask, does work -life balance even exist? Because I'll tell you it's very polarized. On one end, everybody's like, you have to balance, you have to balance. And then I read this other book that said, no, it's not balanced. It's switch tasking. You go here all the way, then you go here all the way. And then there's other people that say you have to be out of balance for a certain amount of time. So I'm really curious just to start there. Jerry Beyond the Rut supports people with a life worth living in faith, family, and career. So a lot of the listeners that you have are probably around my age and your age that are probably struggling with the work -life balance and making sure that they are putting enough to their faith and their family and their career. And I love that. I want to ask, why do you think work -life balance is real? And what have the other people said? Yes, ultimately, I think they're all saying the same thing. Like if you really break down to what, like, even the folks that say there's no such thing as work -life balance, what they're ultimately saying is like, we make life choices based on our priorities. And when I talk about work -life balance, I'm saying the same thing. One of my hope is that when you're on your deathbed, I already know you're not going to say, man, I wish I did one more launch of my program or man, I wish I was at inbox zero more days in my life. You're going to say things more like, I wish I had one more day to spend with my grandkids and my great grandchildren. I would have loved to have been there for my daughter's wedding or for my son's wedding, whatever it is. And in serving in combat and knowing some folks who worked in hospice care, that is the thing that they hear over and over again, that people wish they had more time to be with the people they love and on the flip side, when they have the people they love, they wish they succeeded more in their career. And so it's like, what if you could win in all of that? What if you could take your career as far as you can and not sacrifice your family at the same time? And so you look at what's important to you and how are your current activities impacting those areas of your life? How are you doing with your family life? You know, okay, work's taking a lot out of me. Okay. Is that a permanent thing or is this a temporary thing? If it's temporary, then you talk it over with your partner and you decide from there, like, okay, yeah, this is temporary. What's the deadline? What does success look like? And what's the bailout trigger that says, all right, we're not hitting these measures doesn't look like we will let's scrap that and go another direction. So that to me, that is why I'm a big fan of work -life balance. It's not just strictly. I spend so many hours at work, so many hours at home. It really is. How is getting out early impacting all the things? Am I going to miss my children's big school events? What's that impact if I do? And what's the message I send? Because I'll tell you from personal experience, I was a lot of kids, superheroes, because I would volunteer my kids' school for a day and their dad had to go to work and it's not the same thing against their dad, because why did the dad go to work? Because he wanted to provide for his family. And so the motivation for a good thing for the family was there, but there wasn't that balance to, I also want to communicate to my child that my child is important. I want to communicate to my partner that she's important. And so it's, how do you win at all those things? And how do you find the right company that will support you as a person while also supporting you and your career growth and getting you to perform well to help the company also succeed? It's like, there's a way to find all that. I want to hear a tip or two. And I'm thinking you and I talked a little bit about this before we first press record. You were talking about the checkbox and a lot of us, we got a checklist and we're checking off all the boxes and it's seems like we're checking off all the boxes. It feels like when we look at the checklist, it's pretty much full, but we might not feel fulfilled even at the expense of checking off lots of boxes. So if that's us, we're listening and we're trying to think of what is it that we think we've had success on paper, but we don't really feel it. We don't really feel like we're everywhere we need to do. What's one or two tips for the listener to be able to feel like they're doing the right thing right now? I think the first thing is you got to know who you are and that's the big broad umbrella piece of advice. Know who you are, what is valuable to you? Like, what do you believe in? What do you not believe in? It's if you believe in respecting the dignity of every person, then that is key. If you value time with family, then your calendar should reflect that. If you value being a supportive person for your family, does that go beyond just monetary support? And so knowing your values, I think is very huge. What is your vision, your purpose in life? I have a couple of mottos I live by. One is the Dugan crest motto. So somebody around the 1500s and it's a miracle that the Dugans are still around because apparently these guys called the Saxons came into like Ireland and almost wiped us all out, but like good Irish people, we stuck around. And so that's not important. The important thing is somebody added to the family crest. Oh man, it's by virtue and valor. So for Tute et valore, and it sounds cooler when it's Latin. I hope I said it right. So that's one thing I live by is am I living my life according to my family's crest motto, am I living by virtue? Am I living by valor being courageous to do what's right when even nobody's looking. But then from there, I had a vision that I wanted my children to live a life that was better than mine, but also be set up to be better adults than I was to have better successes than I did to know who they are and to feel comfortable pursuing their own dreams. Like that's in a written vision that I have tucked away on Evernote somewhere. So you got to have something like that. Like, what do you stand for? What is life like for you when you die? And I love talking about these things called the five Fs, your faith, your family, your fitness, your finances, and your own future growth or possibilities. Like looking at your life through those lenses, what does success look like for you? So I guess that's the second one is defining a second, Jerry. I missed an F F that I got faith. I got family. I got finances. I got fitness. And what did I miss? Emily, faith, finances, and fitness, future possibilities, future possibilities, always growing to be better today than you were yesterday. And then what's that future state of yourself you'd like to become. And so being a constant learner is that future possibilities. One reading books that are outside your usual norm, listening to podcasts that are outside your norm, being open to ideas that are not typically in your bucket or wheelhouse either a, to see how your own ideas and beliefs stack up, because sometimes like I myself had gone through life and realized, oh wow, I held onto this belief and I met three people who completely challenged that is my belief wrong or is it just not as strong as I thought it was, is there more context? I needed to add. And, and so sometimes I realized I was completely wrong about something. And other times I realized, oh, I was missing a lot of context here. I believe this, but only in this context, because I also believe this and my belief should not undermine somebody else's right to be who they are. And so it's like, oh yeah, okay. I can wrap my head around that. And I can be a decent person in my community that way. And so that, yeah, the future possibility is that a bit more unpacked, I should have put that in. Have you ever heard of, I think it's Gino Wickman and I hope I'm not wrong. And he wrote like three books. One was like, I'm going to just type in Gino Wickman. This is going to be the easy way. Then I'll sound so smart instead of dumb Gino Wick man. All right. So he wrote three books. Yes. Yes. What the heck is E O S he wrote traction and he wrote what it's not showing me the last one traction, what the heck is EOS and there's another one called rocket fuel. Okay. So these three books are interesting and it kind of is what you're talking about, but in more of a business category. And so I think this is really great to extract it and bring us to the listener in rocket fuel, what the heck is EOS and traction, ultimately what Gino Wickman talks about is your business should have a culture or have values that you all live by. And so it's interesting because when we look at all of the things that we can value, let's just pretend that I don't know the number. I'm just going to say that it's 20 values. There's 20 things that are good. And most people would agree with 18 or 19 of them. So one would be honesty, but at what expense are we going to be rude and honest? Another one might be politeness. Another one might be doing the right thing. Even when it hurts, you kind of mentioned your integrity. Even when people are not looking, am I going to be doing this with my family crest and everything? So the Gino Wickman also talks about like all of these things that we can value. And most of them are important to everyone. Honesty, of course, that sounds right, but not everybody puts that at the top of their value. Maybe they put discretion, maybe they put kindness above it, or maybe they put honesty above kindness and et cetera, et cetera, they might put doing the right thing, even when it hurts as one of the top values. And so in RocketFuel and EOS and Traction, Gino talks about how we need to build our team, our company culture around where all of us agree on these main values. Like we value making money, we value serving the client, we value X, Y, or Z. All of them are good, but which one is in the hierarchy? And so when I'm hearing you, you basically gave me two things. The first one is you got to know who you are. You got to know your culture. You got to know your values. What do you believe in? And you talked about by virtue and valor. What do you believe in? What matters to you? And then you focus on it and you bring people along. And the second one is a written vision. Like you actually write down the vision where you put in faith, family, finances, fitness, and future possibilities, and you figure out how are you doing these? How does this work for you? And you write it down because everybody's vision, like a fingerprint has to be different. Everybody's culture or their values have to be a little bit different, how they put them. And for you, you're saying a way that you can check off the boxes is to just know exactly what the heck the boxes are in the first place. Know which things matter to you and get rid of the rest. So you can really focus on those. And I thought that was really interesting because not only can we do it in our business, we can do it on our podcast. And as you've illustrated, we can do it with our family, with our own lives, our personal lives. So I thought that was really, really beautiful. I appreciate you going into that before we move on to anything, something that I missed or something else you want to share about being able to check off those boxes and feel really good about it, even that person who might be listening might feel like it looks like they're checked off, but they don't feel completely fulfilled. Yeah. Similarly to how business, they have their strategic plan that pushes them and they make big decisions off of that. Does this activity support the strategic initiative of this organization? And the answer is yes, they keep pushing forward with some adjustments. If it doesn't, they're like, well, then why are we doing that? Let's cut that out and let's restructure and reorganize. And it's cool to see that there are these business and even podcasting principles and practices that help us create a better podcast, create a better business, and we don't realize how easily we can just transfer those same skill sets into our very lives. And so it's the same thing. You know, how many people do we know who are physicians who hate being a physician? I can think of two or three or somebody who became a lawyer because the money was good and they quit being a lawyer because they realized that wasn't fulfilling for them or me, I left my corporate job because I realized I didn't want to start all over again and build something that belonged to somebody else and it was time to go after my dreams. So even my mom like kept encouraging me to become a doctor. I was a pre -med student. I'm not a doctor now because I did not do well as a pre -med student, but I realized later on it's because that was never my dream. That was my mom's dream. She wanted me to be a doctor. She wanted to be able to live vicariously through me and what she wanted success to be, and once I realized, Oh gosh, I don't want to be a doctor. What do I want to be? Of course, now it took a 10 year journey for me to realize what I did want to be, but I got there, man. That's that's important. So anyway, that was it. Yeah. You're willing to walk away from something really good stuff. I want to move into just your podcast journey now for the listener. I'll point out a couple of things that I'm seeing with your podcast. Hey, I think it, haven't you been doing it for like eight years? Yeah, this particular year, eight years. Yeah. Amazing. So with eight years, over 400 episodes and a lot of traction, not going back to Gina Wickman, a lot of traction on your podcast success, I think that we've got a couple of listeners that haven't quite been doing it for eight years, they may have been doing it for a year or two, they're new. And they would like to have the type of success that you've got with your podcast. So I'm like to get a couple of takeaways, what you've done, what you've learned, what you would do differently. First, a quick word from our sponsor, but when we get back, I really want you to focus on what made your podcast successful so that the listeners podcasts can also be successful. We'll be right back. Hey, my friend, as you know, this episode is sponsored by my company, growyourshow .com. We want you to be able to have the best tools at your disposal without costing you a whole arm and a leg. So right now you can get a free list of vetted equipment that like mics, mixers, webcams, sound treatment, editing software, everything that you need. I created the whole PDF with direct purchase links, just to save you time and money to help it be more convenient for you. So this free PDF will help you skip all the guesswork. If it's on there, it's vetted and approved by yours truly. And if it's not on there, it's probably not worth the money. So go ahead and get yours at growyourshow .com forward slash PDF. Let's get back into the show. We're back with Jerry Dugan. And we've talked a little bit about work -life balance, helping leaders with work -life balance, making sure that you're checking all the boxes and feeling fulfilled and the five F's and his family crest, which I don't even remember what it said in Latin. I think it was Latin, but it really means by virtue and valor. And I wanted to talk about now, how is his podcast so fricking well known and he's doing a great job. He's getting a lot of success through the podcast. And hopefully you'll be able to take away a couple of things that can support you in a successful podcast as well. Jerry, what do you think made your podcast? Yeah, a lot of what I'm seeing really is in the last year, year and a half, really. So I jokingly tell folks, but I'm not joking that it seems like I did year one, seven times, and then finally I had year eight happen all at once. So it's no overnight success kind of thing. I think the first thing that really helped was when there was a team of three of us. So we started off with three of us. We all agreed on one thing other than the name of the show. And that was the avatar of the show. So we have an avatar that we named AJ. He's 35 years old, married to his college sweetheart. He has two kids that they both have together. One's in elementary school. One's in middle school. AJ has a mid -level leadership career going on with a corporation in a metro area. And got the car, got the house, got the six figure income, but feels stuck in life. And so from there, we start to unravel how AJ feels stuck. There's the commute to work. There's the no real future in the job he's in. Not really making any progress. Wants to be a good family man when he gets home, but he's just drained of energy. And this cycle is putting a strain on his marriage. The kids feel like he doesn't love him, which is so far from the truth. So how does AJ live the life that he really wanted to live in his faith, in his family, in his fitness, finances, and his future? And so that's what we did when we came together to start the show. Now where we had a lot of weak spots, and I feel we did the first seven years over and over again, was that when you listened to the early episodes, we were all over the place, we didn't really stick to that mantra. Like what does AJ really need? And I hate to say it, but it wasn't until like the other two guys quit from the show that I realized, Oh, we're so far from what we wanted to do, who we wanted to help. And so how do I get there? And so year six, really going into year seven was how do I niche this down? I worked with a couple of different groups that really helped me start to niche that down. Jerry, you're helping specifically this demographic. You're helping them specifically with things like work -life balance and really having a mapped out future or a vision for their future focus on that. Okay. What kind of guests should I have? And so this kind of leads into the second one, which was that pairing down that niching down. So the first one was having that vision of who I wanted to help. The second one was really paring down and niching down. How am I going to help AJ? And once I started to see that a bunch of doors opened up and the third thing was I needed to get the word out there. So the marketing piece, I threw stuff out there for the first seven years, but really it's in this last year that I've been more intentional about it. The posts that I put out there on social media are aimed at AJ. The shows I appear on are aimed at AJ and you know, as that guest appearance on other shows, I think so far in the last 10 months, I've been on almost 70 other podcasts and to the point where now I'm starting to feel like I'm in alternate realities down. Like, how do I know Adam Adams? Oh yeah, I was on his show. All right, there we go. We talked about this, this, and this, or how do I know, Deirdre? Oh yeah, I'm here, here and here. It's just all that starting to overlap. But anyway, those would be the big three is know who you're serving. The second thing is truly niche down. Even if you have a lot of passions, interests, try to stick to one thing and just kind of lit little dose of yourself, sprinkle into your episodes. That way people know what they're getting when they come to your show. And then the third thing, I know I just said it. Marketing.
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A highlight from Ep378: Ed Mylett's Simple Strategy To Reach Goals Faster
"Go out and have that one conversation, that one decision to make, that one coaching call, that one book to read, that one event to go to. And it's going to be completely, totally life -changing for you, for your business, for your podcast, for your help, for your spirituality, or whatever it is. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, podcaster. It's Adam Adams, and I'm excited to share something with you, something that I think was like a real, something on Facebook or Instagram. And I believe it was Ed Mallette. I watched it a few times and it was really powerful. I shared it with a couple of friends and I thought it would probably help you as well. And so Ed Mallette, apparently, I think he was having a conversation with his dad. I think he was telling his dad like, hey, this is what I want to do. This is one day I want to do. And his dad said, you're not as far away from those dreams as you think. And Ed was like, what do you mean? As long as you look at it as that goal is far away, each and every day, and I'm paraphrasing, of course, each and every day, you will act as if it's far away. And so it'll have less urgency in your brain. The psychology that you have will hold you away from that because you think that goal is hard to find. It's hard to get to. It's almost unreachable. It's not today. It's a long time from now. But if you keep thinking that, if you keep believing that goal of yours is a long way away, you're going to keep acting as if it's a long way away. It's going to take way too long for you to find it, for you to achieve it, for you to experience what's on the other hand. So take a second, take a minute with me now, maybe even pause the podcast for a sec. And during that time that you are thinking, I want you to envision your goal. I want you to see where you want to be with your podcast or with your health or with your business or with your family or other relationships. I want you to visualize and imagine it happening right now. And then when we get off of this episode today, I want you to go directly for that goal and imagine that it's a lot closer than you think. And that's going to help you each and every day to do the things that you need to do in order to make that goal more reachable. Ed Millet goes on to say, the guy who interviewed him said, you know, what do we need to do in order to do that? What do I have to do? What does the listener have to do in order to truly imagine that? And says, first of all, the thing that you really need to do is you need to start believing that you're only one conversation away. You're only one phone call away. You're only one client away. You're only one book that you read away from a totally different life. You're only one decision away. You're only one day away from a different life. So jump off this podcast, take some time, close your eyes, envision that goal. Imagine it being much closer than you think that it is. Imagine it being reachable and then go out and have that one conversation, that one decision to make, that one coaching call, that one book to read, that one event to go to. And it's going to be completely, totally life -changing for you, for your business, for your podcast, for your health, for your spirituality or whatever it is. That was powerful for me. And I hope that you get off of the podcast episode, close your eyes and definitely just see what it is that you need to do. Because you're so much closer, like Ed says, you're so much closer to that goal than you really think. One decision away. I'll see you in the next episode. Oh, hey, because three of my clients came to me recently looking to find a way to have their podcast make the money instead of cost them money. We put together a resource for some of our clients and I want to give it to you as well. It's something that did actually seem to help because one of them is now making $2600 a month. Another one is $4500 a month. And the third is making between $5000 and $10 ,000 each month. And so it's been a resource that's been incredibly valuable to them. It's our sponsor sheet template. It's a template of a sponsor sheet. And it gives you something that you can hand potential to sponsors and hopefully also be making $2600, $4500 or between $5K and $10K regularly each month with your podcast. So this has been a contributing factor to helping all 3 of those clients turn their podcast into an additional income stream for them. And the way that you can find it is just go into our website, growyourshow .com. But put in forward slash templates, growyourshow .com forward slash templates. And then you can actually download that template and others that could be valuable to your podcasting experience. I'll see you on the next episode.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "adams" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"2000 right now, it's foreseeable that we're going to see a large influx over the next few days. El Paso Mayor Oscar Leaser the announced opening of a new 400 bed shelter to help keep down the numbers of those sleeping on the streets. They're really full and that's it's why become an emergency for our community. Buses continue to take migrants from El Paso, five leaving today for headed New York, Chicago and Denver. Chris Fox for CBS News, Austin. And in New York, Mayor Adams Eric is tightening shelter rules by limiting adult migrants to just 30 days in
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep377: Follow This Principle To Start A Show Even If Youre Busy - Rasean Hyligar
"If anybody's thinking of starting a podcast or just me personally, when I started it off, I understood the first one's going to suck. Check out episodes like the first episode, the second episode, you'll see massive difference between when I started to where I am now. And the only way you're going to get there and really find your own personal style is by repetition. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Quick disclaimer, the audio quality in this episode, at least on my end, is subpar. It's below average. It's not what I normally produce, but it was really good content with Rashaan. And so I still wanted to produce it. I made a mistake. I made a mistake by not following through with my checklist, which actually, if you check on the previous episode right before this, it's all about checklists. And I gave you 10, 11, 12, 13 options, ideas that could be on your checklist. So I want you to definitely check that last episode out. I think you're going to get value. And I hope that you'll give me some grace, some forgiveness that I made a mistake even after 900 -ish episodes that I published that I still somehow forgot to use the correct microphone. When I was recording this episode with Rashaan. Let's dive in right now and please give me your grace for how the audio quality on my end sounds. A lot of good content. Here we go. What's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam A. Adams. And today we are with Rashaan Heilinger. And we're going to be talking a little bit about his podcast, his podcast journey, where he is. And if you're listening and you've got a podcast or you're thinking about starting a podcast and you're working full time, now would be a really good time to check into the episode because Rashaan is actually, he's got his own business started while working full time as an engineer. And he launched his podcast. I mean, he's put out over a hundred episodes. Rashaan, when did you start it again? When did you launch the podcast? I started my podcast in November of 2020. So a little bit into the pandemic. Oh yeah, that's right. Just a few months after. What happened for you to make the decision? I've got a couple of like follow up questions with that. So just think through this. You probably had a full time job. You didn't start the podcast right away. So what I'm curious about and what the listener might be curious about is how long had you been thinking about starting a podcast? How long had you had your side hustle business, coaching and mentoring entrepreneur men? Could you give us that story? Like why six months in a pandemic? Why not before and why not right at the pandemic? So the idea for the podcast started back when I was in college, right? But the idea for podcasting came a little bit obviously before the actual podcast was launched. And the idea was that I wanted to provide impact and provide value to a lot of people. Since growing up, I had a lot of advice given to me from my parents, from mentors, from different kinds of instructors, whether it was in my martial arts journeys or anything of that nature. I had a lot of advice and a lot of good tactical tips that were given to me. And I said, you know what? This is fantastic information. And I want to give this back to a bunch of people who are ready to be held accountable for the choices that they make. They know that their life is fully their control. They need to take a grasp of life by the horns and really, really strive to actually do what they want to do in their life. Whatever that may look like for you. Let's say you want to make a ton of money. You want to get to a certain body fat percentage. You want to maybe be the best public speaker, whatever that goal is for you. My goal is to say, let me give some tactical tips to be able to start you on that journey to say, okay, you have this goal. Let's break it down to the more minutia. What do you have to do on the day to day to get you up to that? And so thinking about how I wanted to start the podcast, the idea for that came around the January, February ish timeframe, same year 2020. So before being shut down in March, okay. You said the idea came when you were in college, put a date on that. When do you think you got that idea? So the idea I would say came maybe right around my winter break of college. Since when I started the podcast, I was still in college. I've since graduated now, but it started around December 2019 ish. I would put right around there. And then January, February, you're graduating. I graduated in may of 2021. Okay. And when did you start your engineering job as a systems engineer? I started that in February last year, February, 2022. All right. So you launched a business and a podcast while graduating college. Right. And at the end of graduating college with an engineering degree. Yeah. A lot of homework. Where are you working to? Did you have like a job while going to school? I did. Yes. So we did a couple of jobs. I worked first as a lab technician. Well, I don't know how far back you want to go. Yeah. How about from December of 19? Like were you working at that time? December of 19? Yes. I was working as a laboratory technician. I was working contracted there and I was working in their microbiology portion of the facility. So I worked there for a couple of years. From there, I moved over to becoming an engineering lab technician at a different company where I worked there for about seven or eight months or so. And then after that, I saw an opening for a full -time position at that company. And then I said, you know what? Let's do it. And so I put in my resume, went through the whole application process, yada, yada, yada. And now here we are. I'm still in that position right now. Okay. And what came first? The chicken or the egg? Okay. What I mean is did your business start or did your podcast start? Like you had an idea that you wanted to help people. And so did you launch a business? And then later you're like, Oh, a podcast would be helpful to add, or did you have a podcast and you're like, Ooh, maybe I should do a business or how did that go? Actually the latter, because a lot of people actually start their business first and then see podcasts as the marketing channel for that. I'm actually like the minority. When I figured I was actually flipped it because my mentality the entire time was I just want to give back a bunch of value to people. And I just want to be able to give, give, give, give, give. And then eventually I started giving a lot of that. And then people started asking me for more advice, whether it be Instagram, whether it be on LinkedIn, whether it be in person. And they said, Hey, I have a question about this. I have a question about that. And I'll say, okay, cool. And we could do that. And then I figured, you know what? A lot of people are asking me for help. I can probably build some kind of a business around this. Right. So that's what I started saying. Let me go ahead, launch into start working on my coaching program. And so that's where we are now today. So started from podcast, migrated that now into the business. And now it's funny because now we're starting to do that switch back where now it's going to start becoming more focused on the business. And then the podcast will now start becoming more of like a marketing thing. However, not say that the podcast will change in terms of the value that's given or anything like that. Cause I believe in being fully transparent, keeping that as free as possible valuable tactical evidence on that every single episode, as we call it, the fluff free guarantee. So I promise to keep it a hundred percent there and keep it actionable. So every time people listen to an episode, they say, Oh, I can write down this, or I could take down this. I can implement that. So that's not going to change at all. However, it would still be some extra information for people to say, Hey, if you want more information, I do have a program. I have some questions that are stemming from people that have a decent amount of money where money is not a big stress. And then there are others where it's like, I really, really have to be careful here because I don't want to spend too much on this.
Inside Out with Tami Michaels
Fresh "Adams" from Inside Out with Tami Michaels
"Following a small plane crash at Arlington Municipal Airport yesterday afternoon. The ultralight crashed around 3 p .m. Everett Herald reports this is the second ultralight crash in that area in two months. The previous crash injured one person. Burglars hit another pot shop in a crash and grabbed burglary crash passed early last night yesterday near Battery Park every time. Police say the four burglars used a stolen Hyundai SUV to smash their way inside. The shop's owner tells us away they got with hundreds of dollars worth of products and he says this was the seventh break -in the chain has had so far this year. Monday On of this week burglars smashed into another dockside cannabis location that one happened in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. Come before Steve McCarron neighbors in Ballard say they need help with a homeless camp that keeps getting bigger the longer it's allowed to stick around. Come before us Joe Moreno reports. Seattle has cleared neighborhood this before but a homeless camp is back at a trouble spot in Ballard and neighbors say it's been growing. Part of the reasons I just moved was because of how bad it got. Maxine Adams still works in the area but when she lived here she says was she stalked by men who either lived or hung out at the homeless camp. I have been followed home multiple times I even had someone try to break into my house behind me. Businesses in the area say there are ongoing problems with shoplifting and some campers have been permanently banned from their stores but the owner of SMJ Studio has trying been to get to know the people living here by passing out coffee and trying to come up with a more lasting solution. When you sweep they just move somewhere else. The city says trash collection has been expanded and outreach teams have been on site since August to connect people to shelter though many campers remain on site. Come on news. News radio traffic from the high performance homes traffic center. Taking a quick look at some I -5 travel times for you. Everett to Seattle in about 45 minutes. Seattle to Everett in 30 Seattle to Tacoma taking 35 Tacoma to Seattle on northbound 5c and two slowdowns. That drive currently taking around 65 minutes. Tacoma to Olympia. Olympia to Tacoma both taking just over right now. Our next Northwest traffic at 3 14. The news radio 1000 FM 977 forecast from the Northwest crawlspace services
Bankless
A highlight from 188 - The Next Ethereum Upgrade: Blobspace 101 with Domothy
"Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. This is how to get started, how to get better, how to front run the opportunity. This is Ryan Sean Adams and I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more bankless. You know how we say blockchains sell blocks? Well soon, Ethereum is going to be selling more than just blocks. It's going to be selling blobs, too. That's right, blobs. So we're just a few months out from the biggest Ethereum release since the merge and I think no one has fully mapped out the implications of this, but it's going to be huge. So Ethereum is getting a new product to sell. It's called Blob Space, that is in addition to Block Space. The cost of transactions on layer twos is about to drop towards zero. The economics of ETH gas and the burn are about to change forever. We're calling this upgrade the Blob Space upgrade, EIP 4844, proto -dank sharding. That's what the geeks are calling this new Ethereum feature upgrade. And we want to cover today everything that you need to know about Blob Space and this coming Ethereum upgrade with Ethereum researcher Domothy. And this is an absolute banger of an episode. I couldn't be more proud to present this to the bankless nation. A few takeaways here. Number one, we go through what is Blob Space? Number two, we go through the history, how we actually got here, this roll -up centric roadmap. And number three, we go through the economics. What does this mean for Ethereum's economics, for ETH value accrual, for ETH the asset? David, why was this episode significant to you? I think if there's any sector of conversation that you and I really just love, it is the intersection of cryptography and economics, like numbers and economic manifestations on top of these protocols. Yeah, that's our love language. This episode is that. So I mean, we've talked about EIP 4844, we've talked about proto -dank sharding, those are the same things. We've defined it a handful of times in a number of different capacities. We've never done the aggressive headfirst dive down the rabbit hole and come out the other side of economics. So like we have technically scaled data availability at a technical level, that is a protocol improvement. But how does that connect to the markets side of Ethereum? The two marketplaces, the one marketplace that are now being fractured into two, Block Space and Blob Space are now two different independent markets that are being contained each inside of an Ethereum block. What does that mean for Ether? What does that mean for the marketplaces that arise around these things? How does the equilibrium of the supply and demand of each push and pull on each other? What does this do for layer two scalability? What does this do for economic use cases on top of layer twos? How does demand for layer one change the demand for layer two? There's so many good stuff at the bottom of this conversation. We're going to start with the basics, the ones that, you know, bank listeners probably know all about 4844 just to lay the groundwork. But then we're going to poke out the other end of the rabbit hole into the economic side of this conversation, which I don't know if many people have even had before. I don't think so. Other than back channels and Harvard DMS and speculation. Yeah. There's going through the implications is perhaps my favorite part. And this is one of my favorite types of episodes that we do because it's both frontier and imminent. I mean, we're just talking months away from this upgrade. So it's right around the corner. It's very relevant to our here and now lives. This is not sci -fi, actually, this is not sci -fi Ethereum stuff. This is the near term stuff. Yeah. This is the stuff we get to look forward to. So guys, we're going to get right to the episode with Domothy. But first we disclose nothing big to disclose today. Both David and I hold ether. You already know that. 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. All right. We're going to get right to the episode with Domothy. But before we do, we want to thank our friend and sponsor Kraken, which is our number one recommended exchange for 2023. Go check him out. 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 lightning 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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The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep376: Less Will Go Wrong With A Checklist Like This
"You'd be surprised how many things you can make a mistake when you don't have a good checklist and a lot less will go wrong if you listen to this episode, take a good note and have a checklist similar to what I'm about to share. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam A. Adams. And funny story is that this last week I was playing with different microphones. I switched from a different mic to the mic that I'm using now and I didn't check everything. And I ended up recording a couple of episodes that sounded pretty bad. One of them was a solo episode and the other is an interview episode. And so unfortunately, I'm going to go back and rerecord the solo episode another time. Took me like more than a half an hour the first time. And, you know, time is valuable. Time is money. Time is our most valuable asset. You've heard all of that. And I wasted it. I wasted it by preparing, getting in the right headspace and then pressing record. But I mistakenly didn't have the microphone hooked up to where it needed to be hooked up. And if you don't have the microphone hooked up to the right mic, then it'll sound crappy. And for a solo episode that's about a half an hour, I don't want to put you through that. I don't want to put you through having to listen to that. I don't think that's the right thing to do. And so I'm actually going to go and I'm going to re -record that episode and record it again. So my teammate, luckily, Jen, reached out to me and she says, hey, you know, the audio quality doesn't sound normal. I'm not sure what's going on. And she sent me these two recordings, the one that's a solo and the one with an interview. And I listened to it and I'm like, shit, man, I'm using my webcam mic. So it's because I turned my RODECaster off that disconnected my microphone. And then when I came back, it just, I didn't double check. I did double check in the beginning of this episode before I started recording this one. Of course, I went in and I was like, I need to do this. And it brings me back to when I was a newer podcaster, I was better at using a checklist. I had a checklist of six different things. Today, I'm going to talk about 10 ideas and you can take them or leave them. I'm going to give you like 10 ideas that will go on a checklist that will help you. But when I first started, I kept on recording. I kept on thinking that I was recording an episode, but I never pressed the record button. So I'd sit there for all of that time and energy, but I never even pressed record. Another bad thing is to actually record the episode, but not be using the right mic. And so your sound quality sounds really bad and it's hard to understand you. It's hard to hear you. And the echo and the reverb kind of gets in the way of the content for your listener. And so I had a checklist and a couple of the things were make sure that you press record, make sure that you're using the right microphone. So double check the microphone every single time before you record. And it reminds me of a story that my buddy of mine told me. It's about an airplane and how he literally almost died. I'll share that in a second. Before I share that with you, maybe I'll go over these 10 things that you could use as part of your own checklist. The 10 things that I've got written down here are A, make sure that you get enough sleep. It kind of sucks to go into a recording when you don't get enough sleep. So potentially you could even have as part of your checklist, make sure I go to bed at 9 PM the night before or 10 PM or whatever works for you. Make sure that I sleep in until 7 AM on this day because I really got to be functioning well and sleep is an important part of that. Another thing that you may add to your checklist. The second thing that you might want on your checklist is food. Now, some people say that you are a lot more groggy. It's harder for you to think clearly. Some people and I would say venture to say more of the doctors and neuroscientists are going to agree with this. They say if you eat within two or three hours of recording, your brain function is just not going to be as good because kind of like the digestion, the energy that is taken to digest all that food. It takes some resources from the rest of your body, your mind, and you are likely to have a worse recording if you eat right before, especially if it's a big meal. And so the thought is for you, is that right or is that wrong? If you don't eat, are you stressed? Are you going to be more distracted because your stomach is growling or are you going to have more energy? It's possible you might have more energy by eating. But most of the science would point to don't eat within three hours. So you might say if you're going to have a lunch break and you're going to go out to a restaurant and have a big meal, like let's just say noon, you probably wouldn't want to have 2 p .m. appointment for a podcast if you knew that you were going to be eating or drinking alcohol or something like that. So just make this as a consideration. Am I in a fasted state or am I in a fed state? Whichever one works best for you. Again, I'll repeat that on number two about food that the science would normally point to that you shouldn't eat within three meals of a time that you have to be eloquent, have a time to be able to think sharply, ask good questions to your guests or put out really good content. You just need to consider if food or the lack of food should be part of your checklist. The third idea that I've got for you as part of this checklist that you may or may not use is pre prep. It's what is the pre prep that I've done or am doing or the research? And so, for example, I'll just be completely honest with you. I don't really do a lot of pre prep. I might be a bad example of this, but I don't mind winging it either. I don't mind jumping in. And I think we can always have a great product for our listener by the way that we go into something. So pre prep on a solo episode would be do all of your research ahead of time and pre prep on an interview episode. Like, for example, you read that guy's book or you read that you go to her blog or you see what her company is or you check out what stages he's been on or you listen to her podcast prior to the recording or you read her blog or whatever it is. You do some research on that person. You find them on LinkedIn. You see what they're posting about. You get to know them. You get to know their book. You get to know their podcast and that can arm you with other additional questions. Now, for me, I'm more than happy, at least on my podcast, the podcast on podcasting. I know that I can ask questions that is going to benefit my listener regardless if I do that or not. I'm going to save my time and that's not going to be on my checklist. Might actually need to be on yours. So again, the third thing is your pre prep, which is research, doing your due diligence on the person that you're interviewing. The fourth thing that I have written down that is a huge possibility for you is your wardrobe and makeup. So for example, I don't wear makeup. I can't say that I never have. There was a Halloween that I had a little bit of fun. I'll say that much, but typically saying that's not for me. I don't really have any makeup that I need to wear. It might be because I'm a guy or it might be because who knows, but that's just not something I have to focus on. So the makeup isn't going to be part of mine. But maybe, you know, shaving my beard, maybe giving my beard a trim or doing my hair or putting on a hat, maybe making sure that I have a collared shirt on or a button up shirt or maybe just making sure I have a shirt at all. Because sometimes I record sleeveless. I'll get home from the gym. I'll have some energy. I would have had an idea that came to me while I was doing some curls or some push ups or something. And then I'll have an idea and I'll just run home and I'll get excited about it. Jump right on the computer and start recording. But again, the fourth thing is consider your wardrobe or your makeup. Am I wearing? Am I looking the part that I want to look? Am I showing up the way that I want to show up for my person? And that also goes to your solo episodes, especially if you're recording. Listen carefully, because I've got some ideas here on the wardrobe and makeup on your solo episodes. There's a couple of reasons why you might want to do this. Number one is if you're recording video, then of course, you're going to want to look good on camera. But here's the secondary thing that most people don't think about is if your hair's messed up or even if you like forget to brush your teeth and you got rank breath, honestly, we'll distract you. Honestly, we'll take some of your confidence away. In some cases, if you're not wearing a suit jacket or even a collared shirt or something, for some people, that action, that omission of not putting on a certain thing or having the makeup done or having your hair done or having deodorant on or brushing your teeth or something like that, it will distract you so much that you'll put out bad content. You will not be able to put out good content. And so it gets into our mentality, it gets into our psychology and actually has us put out worse product than we could if we were to dress sharp. So even just doing a solo episode, regardless if we're recording it for the video to be shown at all, it may be in your best interest to look the part. The thoughts in your mind when you are looking sharp and feeling sharp, feeling like you did something like even just making your bed that day, hey, I'm going to make my bed. Now I feel better. Now I can go and do the rest because how you keep your house is how you do everything. That's what they say. So just make it a consideration. Should I add, you know, what my wardrobe or hair or makeup or making my bed is going to be? Should I be trimming my beard, whether I'm using video on or whether I'm having the video off? Make that consideration. Should I put this on my checklist? The fifth thing that you may want to have on your checklist is, am I standing up? I used to have a standing desk and I had a sitting desk and I started recording all of my episodes sitting down and then I found out that it will work better. You will have a better energy if you stand up. And so I would try to remember to go over to my other computer because I didn't have a convertible desk. My desk wasn't able to convert from standing to sitting. I had two different desks. I had a sitting one with three monitors and a standing one with two monitors. I did most of my work on my sitting desk with my three monitors, but when I wanted to put out a good product, I would go over to my other desk and I would stand up. And by standing up, I would have a better energy. I would approach it a little bit easier. And actually, when you're sitting down, you kind of close off your diaphragm. And so it's harder for you to breathe. It's harder for you to catch your breath. And in some cases, you sound like you don't want to be there. So for me, I would try to remember I'm going to get out of this desk and I'm going to go to the other desk. Or for others, you have to remember, hey, I've been sitting down, but for recording, I want to be standing up. And so you might convert your desk. Either way, I'm not saying you absolutely have to stand up for your recordings, but it is a good idea to stand up for your recordings. You will actually have better energy and you'll sound better and it'll just sound like you are more clear and ready. I believe that I think better on my feet. I know that sounds interesting. Excuse the pun, but I really believe that I think better when I'm on my feet. When I'm sitting down, I am more sluggish. I am more tired. I am more relaxed. When I'm standing up, it gives me that little bit of energy. And when I had the two different desks, I actually just closed down that office. Now I just have a home office. When I had that office, sometimes I would start recording sitting down and I'd be like, ah, I actually can tell that I'm not getting as good of a recording right now because I'm doing it seated. And so I had to remember to stand up to either convert my desk or to get up and go to the other desk or whatever it took to actually be standing. Because I would prefer that. And so if that's you, you might want to add that. Hey, make sure I'm standing up. You write down your own checklist and you go down the list. Sleep. Yep. I got plenty of sleep. Food. Yep. I remember to fast. Meal prep. No, not meal prep. Pre -prep. Research. Yep. I know about this person that I'm going to be interviewing. I have some ideas of what I'm going to ask her. And so I'm ready to go. Makeup. Wardrobe. All right. Am I wearing clothes that I feel comfortable in that make me feel energized, that make me feel proud of myself or confident about myself? And same thing with your breath and maybe even your stinky pit in some cases, right? Think about those things. And then the fifth one is standing up. The sixth one is a mic check. This is the one that I keep freaking messing up. And remember, remember for a second, I've got a story about a checklist about my friend literally almost died. Like he was really, really close to dying because he didn't follow the checklist. And so I will share that, but I want to get through these 10 things and we're going to take a quick break and then I'll share the story about my friend who literally almost died. Like not figuratively, actually was so fricking lucky that he's alive right now. All right. So number six was a mic check. What that means, I use Zoom. And so what I do to test my mic is that I go into the Zoom settings at the time that I'm starting it and I check my microphone. I push test mic and then it'll play it back to me and I'll make sure that the sound quality is what I'm looking for, that it's using the expensive mic that I spent the money on. Then why am I not using it rather than using my webcam like I did recently? We're going to get into that. So number six was a mic check. So you do a mic check. You make sure that you're using the right mic. Number seven is you do a pre -interview. These 10 things that I'm giving you, they don't have to be your exact checklist. But this is a framework of how to build your checklist. The seventh thing is to do a pre -interview. Now, I don't have this written down on a checklist of mine. Even back in the day, I didn't have it written down. It was so natural to me. I didn't have to write it down. You might want to. The thing that I would do and always do is before I start recording, I naturally do this. I say, this is who my avatar is. This is who my listener is. Tell me what you would like to pour into them. If you only left this podcast today with me and you only said one thing to that person, what would it be? And so that has always become part of my natural way to go. Before I start recording, I do. That brings me to an extra thing that maybe you should add to your checklist. Cause I've made this mistake before as well. So I'm going to actually give you 11 things. That's funny. I just came up with another one that I've made the mistake. And so I'm typing it down to make sure that I share it with you. I've made this mistake before and it is that I jump into the recording. I might just be meeting the first person for the first time, or I might know their first name, but not their last. And maybe they have a complicated first name or spelled super weird or from a country that you're not familiar with. Like a culture that is new to you, you know, where they have silent letters where you would normally want to use that. Like French language and English language are very different. There's a lot of silent letters in English that are completely different than the silent letters in French. And you get all of these new things like X's do a certain thing in the Spanish language, X's do a certain thing in the French language, X's do a certain thing in the English language. And in some cases they can be pronounced in different ways or the vowels might be a soft vowel or a hard vowel. There's a number of things. And so what I continue to do is I'll actually done this so many times with the person's name where I do all of the other things. And then I jump in, I'm like, welcome back to this podcast, whatever your podcast name is. Welcome back to the podcast. It's your host, Jon Smith. And today I'm joined with shit. How do you pronounce your name? Okay, let's start over. So there's an option. So you should just do it in the beginning as a part of your checklist. Like you should just make sure and verify that you are pronouncing somebody's name the way that they want you to pronounce it saying maybe they go by a nickname. Maybe they go by John or Jonathan. Mel or Melanie, whatever. Maybe they go by something else. So how do you want to be addressed? How do you pronounce your name? Okay, cool. And now you're in, now you're ready. Something that I hear people do is I just mentioned, I'm like, Hey, this is whatever podcast today I'm joined with shit. What's your name? I've recorded a couple of times where I've been in that position where I'm like, crap, man, I actually don't know how to pronounce your name. And then they correct me while I'm recording and I've published it that way. And I don't agree with that at all. I feel like that's the wrong thing to do. I don't think I should have done that. And I don't think you should do that. If you don't know how to pronounce somebody's name, you should get that cleaned up in the pre -interview time prior to ever actually recording. So you might ask them in the pre -interview, you might double check, Hey, how do you pronounce your name or what name do you want to go by? You might ask, what do you want to pour into my perfect listener? This is what they're going through. This is what they're worried about. What are you passionate about? Those are some good things. So I'm going to say that number seven is the pre -interview where you try to figure out all of those details. I'm going to say number 11 is making sure you're pronouncing the name right. Then go back into number eight, the avatar. Who is your avatar? Here's the thing that I've noticed. This happens so many times. Somebody is going to record an episode and they will not have their perfect listener in mind. They'll have a general idea of who might be listening. And they might even think that they have multiple avatars and so they're doing whatever or they might think that they're talking to a whole stage. Yeah, sure.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Shockingly, Gary Gensler Doesn't Like Stoner Cats
"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 Thursday, September 14th, and today we are talking about stoner cats. 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 Breaker's Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Alright, friends, well, I have to tell you, at this point we really have about four archetypes of breakdown shows. There's number one, oh god, more cleanup from 2022. There's number two, hey look, a new TradFi player is getting in the game. There's number three, hey look, a judge or elected official is smacking a regulator down. And then there's number four, hey look, an unelected bureaucrat is trying to expand their power again. And today's show is indeed an example of the fourth, and the reason it matters is not just because it's another SEC enforcement action, but because I do really think that this represents and is a great example of that impulse to authority expansion. So what am I referring to? Well, of course, I am referring to the SEC bringing its second enforcement action ever against an NFT project. This time, the regulator targeted Stoner Cats, a profile picture NFT collection that was sold to finance a web series. The SEC alleged that the sale of collectible NFTs constituted the sale of unregistered securities. The production company behind the project settled the allegations without admitting to the SEC's findings. So the details. Stoner Cats sold out their collection in around 35 minutes at the height of the NFT bull market in July 2021. The project raised $8 million from the sale. Marketing highlighted materials Hollywood producers and big -name celebrities attached to the web series, and suggested that the success of the show would increase the value of the NFTs in secondary markets. The company received 2 .5 % of royalties from secondary market sales, which produced $20 million in volume. In the settlement, Stoner Cats agreed to a cease -and -desist order and a $1 million penalty. In addition, a fund will be established to refund investors and all NFTs held by the company will be destroyed. Gurbir Gural, the director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a statement, Regardless of whether your offering involves beavers, chinchillas, or animal -based NFTs, under the federal securities laws, it's the economic reality of the offering, not the label you put on it or the underlying objects, that guides the determination of what's an investment contract and therefore a security. As an aside, I wonder sometime if they find their own writing as clever as they seem to. Beavers, chinchillas, or animal -based NFTs, wah. Moving on, the statement reads, Here the SEC's order finds that Stoner Cats marketed its knowledge of crypto projects, touted that the price of their NFTs could increase, and took other steps that led investors to believe they would profit from selling the NFTs in the secondary market. It's therefore hardly surprising, as the order finds, that Stoner Cats sold its entire supply of NFTs in just 35 minutes, generating proceeds of over $8 million, most of which were then resold, not held as collectibles, in the secondary market within months. Carolyn Welschans, the associate director of the SEC's home office, added, Stoner Cats wanted all the benefits of offering and selling a security to the public, but ignored the legal responsibilities that come with doing so. Now, Commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Ueda offered what has become their customary dissent against the SEC's actions. They claimed the enforcement represented a perverse extension of the SEC's jurisdiction and the borders of the Howey Test into the realm of art and collectibles. In a statement they wrote, The application of the Howey Investment Contract Analysis in this matter lacks any meaningful limiting principle. It carries implications for creators of all kinds. Were we to apply the securities laws to physical collectibles in the same way we apply them to NFTs, artists' creativity would wither in the shadow of legal ambiguity. Rather than arbitrarily bringing enforcement actions against NFT projects, we ought to lay out some clear guidelines for artists and other creators who want to experiment with NFTs as a way to support their creative efforts and build their fan communities. The Commissioners claimed the NFT project was more properly characterized as a fan crowdfunding. More broadly, they expressed concern that, through this enforcement, the SEC were attempting to exert jurisdiction over collectibles in a way they had never previously done with physical objects. The Commissioners likened stoner cats to a scheme surrounding the launch of Star Wars toys in Christmas of 1977. The toy maker sold early bird certificate packages in lieu of actual toys due to problems with production. These certificates were redeemable for toys in due course, but could also be resold for a profit in secondary markets at the time. The Commissioners asserted that, Using the analysis of today's enforcement action, the SEC should have parachuted in to save those kids from Star Wars mania. The main point of the dissent was that the SEC should not use its enforcement to stifle innovation in creative industries through the use of NFTs. The Commissioners said that, They argued that the SEC's More generally, it contributes to the legal ambiguity facing artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and others seeking to build a loyal, engaged following. There are a few different categories of reactions from people in the crypto community. Some honestly said that the stoner cats were not necessarily the best example to be a standard bearer for the industry. Gabriel Shapiro, General Counsel at Delphi Labs said, NFT trader, ex -lawyer, NFTs said, And the natural extension of that is any collectible that has a robust resale market — Jordans, baseball cards, comics, rare whiskey and wine, etc. — is potentially sold as a security. That is not the law, but it seems that the SEC is using essentially dicta in an order to creep its jurisdiction. Crypto criminal lawyer Carlos says injecting language like this into settlement seems to be a recurring pattern. To which ex -lawyer again responded, Obviously to us that's not true, but the SEC doesn't play fair and will take advantage of it. And indeed, this take that the SEC was overreaching here was by, in a way, the most common take. Marissa Tashman -Koppel, the Senior Counsel at Blockchain Association said, So now the SEC is in the business of regulating creatives and artists? Creating opportunities for ownership in the creative process is one way crypto and Web3 transforms how we interact online. The SEC shouldn't interrupt this process. Crypto lawyer Ujin writes, Hester Peirce emphasized in her dissent that the SEC's position limits legitimate ways for artists to make a living and she is right. Speculative sales of art are the basis for many sales of art, and that doesn't make those sales a security offering. Now still one more take was that we are seeing something of a positive pattern of dissent. Framework Ventures' Vance Spencer said, Peirce was on her own for a long time. Important to remember for something like an ETF approval, which requires three of five. Now staying on the theme of Gensler for a moment, it's like after the Senate hearing where he had to take some punches earlier this week, he had to go out and find a venue to get his own shots in. Appearing at a conference hosted by lobbyist group Better Markets on Wednesday, Gensler said, Millions of investors have been hurt in this field. It's an area that can hurt investors, but it can also hurt the broader economy because it can hurt investor confidence and finances ultimately built on trust. The conference was of course being held to mark the 15th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, giving Gensler plenty of opportunity for histrionics about financial risk. Gensler trotted out his usual talking points, although adjusted to consider recent criticisms raised in court. Still, there was one kind of awkward and sweet moment where the host suggested that the crypto do seem to be finding some sympathetic judges recently, to which Gensler was uncharacteristically silent in response. Now, Jason Franek from Alliance Dow really sums it up. He wrote, Now, somewhat related, while presenting a speech at a conference hosted by the Practicing Law Institute, CFTC Enforcement Director Ian McGinley pressed home his agency's antipathy towards DeFi. McGinley said, McGinley presented the complete list of CFTC victories in DeFi cases, including a settlement with prediction market PolyMarket and derivatives exchange operator UkiDao. He said, All of this is to say, the CFTC has brought groundbreaking actions in the DeFi space, standing for the proposition that when offering core derivatives products based on digital assets to the public, whether in a centralized or decentralized manner, you must comply with the law. The comments came just a week after the CFTC announced settlements with DeFi trading platforms Open, 0x, and Derridex for offering quote illegal digital asset derivatives trading. The enforcement actions were widely viewed as the regulator taking on easy targets in an attempt to send a message. Indeed, the attack on DeFi was so brazen that one dissenting commissioner even openly suggested that the CFTC was quote, creating an impossible environment for those who want to comply with the law. Bankless co -host Ryan Schott Adams tweeted, The IRS is attacking crypto, FinCEN is attacking crypto, the SEC is attacking crypto, the CFTC is attacking crypto, OFAC is attacking crypto. This is what the now they fight you phase looks like. Now speaking of the fight and not going down without one, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has called for DeFi protocols to take the fight to the CFTC and defend enforcement actions in court. He said in a tweet on Wednesday, The CFTC should not be creating enforcement actions against DeFi protocols. These are not financial services business and it's highly unlikely the Commodity Exchange Act even applies to them. My hope is these DeFi protocols take these cases to court to establish precedent. The courts have proven to be very willing to uphold rule of law. The only thing this is accomplishing is to push an important industry offshore. Now following last week's enforcement action against that trio of DeFi platforms, many commented that the order was a stretch of existing law. And while their cases may have been defensible, the diminutive DeFi platforms were unlikely to have had the resources to take on the US regulator, which is of course why many believe they were targeted in the first place. Now while Brian Armstrong stopped short of offering funding, many others in the space urged collective defense. Crypto law US founder John Deaton said, The industry needs to create a legal fund of some sort to help defend these winnable cases. LEO Trades amplified that, saying, Brian, if you really want to affect policy change, you and Coinbase should help create a fund for projects facing enforcement. Let's be real. Everyone is worried about the financial burden of litigation. This would honestly be a better use of resources than vague political campaigns. Now a different take was summed up by Jamison Lop, who wrote, My hope is that DeFi protocols be so decentralized that the notion of them going to court is absurd. Lawyer Jason Gottlieb wrote a thread about this as well, saying, I agree with Brian Armstrong that DeFi protocols should challenge the CFTC and SEC in court on overreaching settlement demands. The sad reality is that the agencies first attack smaller outfits for whom it makes vastly more economic sense to settle rather than litigate. We see what happens when well -funded projects go to court to fight shaky theories of DeFi liability. Cases or causes of action are dismissed, partial liability can be dropped, the dynamics are greatly changed. But the regulators start with huge advantages. They have typically worn down projects with an expensive investigation first. Even just satisfying the overbearing demands for document production in these investigations can cost six figures easily. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Every single subpoena a regulator sends to a blockchain project is one less engineering job in America and more money for lawyers. Even the lawyers who benefit from that, hi there, think that is a terrible trade -off for America. One problem is funding. The regulators can wear projects down and then offer deals that, while expensive and onerous, are better than more years of continued litigation where even if the project wins, it has massively lost time, funding runway, and momentum. Another problem is that these are people's lives. An investigation is obtrusive enough. Litigation is personally highly disruptive. For us litigators, it's just what we do, it doesn't feel bad. But for founders, devs, people just trying to build, it can feel terrible. So I would love for more DeFi projects to take the CFTC and SEC to court. And is this attorney advertising? I'd love to be the lawyer who represents them. But it costs a lot of money and it's emotionally hard. Companies that have taken on the fight have done great work protecting the space, sometimes behind the scenes in ways people won't widely know about. We need more. But not everyone is well financed and in a fighting mood. So we need to support the smaller projects financially and otherwise. Everyone who believes in the efficiency, privacy, and self -control advantages of digital assets is in this fight together. The battle over the future of crypto is the battle over the future of all digital assets. And since more and more of our lives are digital, that's more and more of our lives. This fight is far more important than when moon antics. It is literally the battle for the future of your digital life. The legal battles over digital assets are the battles over the direction of our collective future. Here, here. I think I will let Jason have the last word on that one because I can't do any better. I appreciate all you guys listening. And until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep375: Implement These 7 Things If You Don't Want To Podfade - Katy Murray
"Am a huge fan of being able to have solid takeaways when I listen to a podcast. And I know with like yours, you talk about how you help someone who wants to be on your podcast get everything in one spot. And that's awesome. It's here's one, two and three things that you can do today to be successful and to grow your business. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey podcaster, it's your host, Adam A. Adams. And today we've got Katie Murray on the podcast. We are going to be talking about her show. She's done coming up on a hundred episodes, which is awesome. And as well, she serves business owners. So her podcast is called ginger biz, the podcast with Katie, the link is already in the show notes. So go ahead and scroll down. She was a photographer on the side. She has a full -time job right now. She was also doing photography and then she lost the podcast. And now she's got a firm where she supports business owners utilizing the, her team, which is mostly VAs as I understand. Is that right, Katie? Yes, sir. Coo coo. So you help people with random things, like a few different things. One of them is Pinterest growth. So if you're listening and you're like, I want to launch a Pinterest. I want to grow a Pinterest. I don't know how to do it. I'm not sure what I'm doing. Katie does that. Her team does that. They also help with blogs, a little bit of website copy, not like building the website literally from scratch, but doing the copy to make sure that your website is reaching out to the right people. And we're going to jump in and find out her history of the last. Since let's see, it's probably been over a year, which means are you publishing more than once a week on average? Because it seems like you are. Yes. I generally do one solo episode on Tuesdays and then a guest episode on Thursdays. And have you always done it like that? Because you'd probably be over a hundred episodes already. Correct. Did you do like one for a while? Yeah. So the guest ones come and go right now. They're pretty fluent. Like we're doing good with that content, but definitely in there. It was kind of figuring out our steps. Okay. So let me ask you, and I think this would super beneficial for the listener. You started your podcast over a year ago and you've learned a couple of things along the way about podcasting even mentioned that some of the things are becoming more fluent. So where I want to start is like, Katie, if you were launching a brand new podcast with just the knowledge in your head that you've learned along the way, what are some things that you would make sure to do or do differently than the first go round? What would do now if you were launching? Yeah, great question, Adam. So I would say the first thing is kind of figure out what I wanted to do with guests straight out the gate so that I knew. And then I put a workflow in place, which has been amazing. I have an intake form. It asks every single guest the same questions and it slates me for rolling into their intros and getting them set up for the recording and getting the media out to them. And I should have been doing that from the get go before it used to be like, Hey, Adam, you want to be on my show? Cool. What do you want to talk about? And then it was just a lot of back and forth. Now I can hop in a group where I can meet somebody and say, Hey, here's a link to the landing page. It tells you all about my podcast and right on that page, you click apply to be a guest and boom, boom, boom, it's so seamless. And it literally takes me like six minutes to get a guest outline slated and ready to go with links and everything. So when they apply with your new intake form, the application to jump on the podcast, it might take them more than six minutes to put in all the information, but it takes you six minutes or less to know exactly what to do. Yeah, I would say on average, it takes people like 12 minutes to complete it. Now that's given that they know what they want to talk about. They have to have some sort of expertise because it says, what topic do you want to discuss? And what are three to five questions that I can help ask to keep the flow of the podcast going? So I have had a couple of people stumble on that. They're like, well, I don't know what to talk about. And so that's why I created the landing page to say, here's the people that I serve, here's what I do. And then they can kind of vet it themselves to see if they're a good fit. It's a little more of a hands -off approach. Okay. So you got a landing page and it says who you serve, like who is the perfect avatar? Who's the listener. And I think that's really smart. Like somebody who's launching a podcast right now, here's an issue that I see all the time. We don't, most of us don't understand who that avatar is ourselves. Even if we do, we're horrible at translating that to the guest who's coming on the show. And what that seems to do is people come on the show and their first thought is I need to self promote. I need to wiggle in a story about a client and they are thinking of a lot about themselves and they're not always thinking about who is your perfect listener. And I know that when I go on somebody else's show, I always ask like, who's listener, what are they worried about? So I can really understand that and then cater each of the answers to questions toward how to serve that person. So it's not coming across just as self -promotion. And so one thing that you've done is you've gotten that right up front. So they go to the landing page, they read about this and then they apply and it helps them to be more focused on your listener and hopefully less on themselves and what they have to promote. Is that part of it? Yeah, totally Adam. And something with that, that is beneficial, then I'm not rejecting as many people because I'm not like, Hey, Adam, unfortunately like that doesn't fit with what I want to talk about. And I think it enables people who may not be avid listeners or even listened at all to Ginger Biz. They can still step in and be an extension of me and help promote the overall message that I want to share. Let's talk about the title of the podcast and let's talk about your perfect listener. So you identify the perfect listener and I love that you put it on the landing page. Could you take a what they're going through and what you help them with? Yeah, absolutely. So I would say that my average listener is probably 30 to 35 -ish and they are zero to two years at the business or entrepreneurship, whether it's full -time or as a side hustle. And it's someone who has lots of ideas, but only has two hands and can't grow past their own knowledge base. So Ginger Biz, the podcast comes in as a pocket cheerleader and and encourager an advocate for here are tips and tricks that have worked for me. Here's what hasn't worked, but here's the solution. And just kind of putting it all together with very, very tangible things. I'm a huge fan of being able to have solid takeaways when I listen to a podcast. And I know with like yours in one of your previous episodes, you talk about how you help someone who wants to be on your podcast, get everything in one spot. And that's awesome because that's the kind of thing I want to hear. That's what Ginger Biz does. It's not these lovey -dovey stories of how we've been successful. It's here's one, two, and three things that you can do today to be successful and to grow your business. Yeah. I want to ask a question because as I look at the podcast artwork and the title, the title is simply Ginger Biz when it's just written out. And then you can see that the person in charge, the person, the host is Katie Murray. And then when you look over at the podcast artwork, it's going to be the white background. It'll say in the middle with the logo, Ginger Biz, the podcast with Katie. I'm curious if you've considered making at least a tagline because like I'm thinking about that perfect listener who's wanting to offload some stuff, wanting to start the 35, they're zero to two years in. And I'm curious if what they type in is automatically going to find you. Like if we're typing in ginger as like the reason what we're trying to listen to. So how have you thought about that? Is it, is it working? Is it not working? Are you adding anything to it? What do you think there? But it's funny you say that just before I jumped on with you, I've been in the process over the last month trying to figure out the perfect tagline because I want to introduce merchandise. And when listeners listen and rate my show, I want to randomly pick people to give merchandise, but as conceited as I may be, they don't want my face and then ginger biz with Katie on it. So I am trying to work towards picking a tagline. Most of my listeners, I think right now come through TD, targeted daily engagement. So it's not necessarily from a search engine. So that's something that I can definitely grow in. So yes, I've given it a lot of thought, but I'm super indecisive. So trying to figure out the perfect tagline is definitely a little challenging. Okay. So you mentioned something that I hadn't heard this term, these three letters before. I think you said T D E and was it targeted daily engagement? Yes, sir. So how do you do that? Like if we've got a listener who wants to grow their podcast, sounds like this is the way that you get your listeners. Is that part correct? This is how you find them. So how does the listener find listeners? How does the other podcaster find their listeners using TD? So Adam, it might be similar with how you and I ran across each other. We're in a group online and I'm interacting and I'm doing targeted daily engagement. So I'm specifically targeting who I want to either be on my show, which in this case, that was it. It was like, I was either finding a guest or wanting to be a guest. So that was the target for that day. And I do it daily because I want to continually show up in those groups or those feeds or whatever the case. I know Reddit is a very good spot to do it. So if I'm in there and I'm looking at entrepreneurial like things on Reddit and I'm interacting with those people, I make sure that the host of gingerbiz is in my bio. It's on my about me. It's all front and center. And then I just offer good insight for these people. And then they get curious, like, this girl knows what she's talking about. And then they stumble on my podcast. Now it goes back to what you said in the beginning. I'm not trying to get on this show or get in any of my areas and just sell. I'm not, Hey, come listen to gingerbiz, jump on, listen, listen, listen. Instead, I want to give them tangible takeaways. So that sparks the curiosity. So it's organic. I'm not just shoving gingerbiz down anybody's throat. So that's what I consider TD and you can do it on other platforms as well. You can do it in Facebook groups. That's probably my biggest one. And that's where I've gotten the last like 40 guests that I've had, or you can do it on Instagram or Reddit or even LinkedIn has seemed to be a pretty cool spot to start getting to know people and not to be too long -winded, but an additional point of that is. If I know Adam that I'm launching podcasts, one -on -one a course that would be perfect for your listeners. I want to go and interact with you and become a voice on your platform and get to know you. And then people will see us interacting online and that'll kind of grow it. So that's another form of TD. Cool. So you've had like 40 ish guests that came from that you've had close ish to a hundred episodes as we're recording now, and probably more when it launches, when this is being published since you're doing a couple of weeks and I'm looking at the ratings and reviews. And I wanted to find out like, if you're focused on getting that social proof, the rating and review or not. And if you are, I'm curious if you talk to guests or clients or friends or family to maybe give you that social proofing on your show. Absolutely. So after I do a guest episode, I do a couple of different things. Bear in mind that my podcast is secondary to business, although we are pivoting that so that it's more monetized and hopefully more the sole income for me. But that being said, I send a thank you, whether it's a gift or a card to each of my guests personally. And then I do ask them to drop a rating for me. And then in my newsletter, which like my email campaigns, I also request people to leave reviews. So I'm constantly asking people to leave reviews. I've done that with photography. I have over 150 reviews for KMP and I found that that's been hugely beneficial. So I am working towards that. Yes. Hey, do you still do the photography at all or did that go away? No, I still do. Definitely paired it back and maybe this gives some insight, but I'm multi -passionate entrepreneur. So I have triangle. I am a human resource profession by day. I have my podcast and branding photography to support other businesses.
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The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep374: Gary Vees Tips To Help You Avoid Business Failure
"You, who's listening, if you want this to work, you probably need to do both. You probably need to have your podcast. You probably need to stay with your podcast, launch your podcast, grow your podcast, keep having interviews, keep having solos, whatever it is for your podcast. You've got to do it. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And today I get to talk about somebody that I look up to, somebody that I respect and admire and follow his advice. And frankly, wish you as my best friend, because this guy is a bad -ass. He's just great in all of the ways. His name's Gary Vaynerchuk, Gary V. And many, many years ago, I was a high -end restaurant person. So I managed a French restaurant. I did serving and I did the bar manager. And then I did regular general manager and loved a lot about working in fine restaurants. One of my favorite things is we did wine tastings all the fricking time. And I just really fell in love with wine. And now I actually collect wine. I've got more than a hundred bottles, easily more than a hundred bottles. Some of them are expensive. Some of them are cheap. I can't only do expensive bottles because sometimes I drink two or three bottles with my friends in one night. So I collect everything and it's not always the price that makes good wine. And Gary Vaynerchuk taught me that a long time ago. And most of you don't know this, but prior to him launching what he does now, which is an advertising agency, coaching, mentoring, running masterminds, the stuff that he does now with his agency, the one day VIPs that people come in and spend a shit ton of money just to be with him for a few hours. Before he did that, he ran his family's wine shop. And before anyone else was really putting their wine online on the internet, they only had the shops. Gary Vaynerchuk said, dad, I'm going to sit down with a table and I'm going to put two or three wines in front of me and I'm going to taste them and I'm going to spit them out. And he spat them out right there on camera. And he would talk about wine in a very general way. In a way that's not looking down your nose like those people. And I loved it. So what I would do is I would get ideas. I would go and look at Grenache and Syrah and Movedra and Cabernet and Cab Franc and all these other grapes and the years. And I would watch him, listen to him and I would try to buy the same wines and I would try to taste them. And he's like saying, this one's got strawberry or this one's got plum or this one's got peach or this one's got blackberry. This one's got tar. This one's got tobacco. This one's got smoke. All these different notes that he said he either smelled on the nose or he tasted on the tongue. And so I loved what he was doing. And then he switches directions. Gary switched directions and his dad's company was making fine. They now were selling, most of their wines were being ordered and they didn't even have to stock the wine because they would just make the order for the client, for the customer And it would be dropped off or delivered by somebody there, or it would be shipped another way directly to the doorstep of that person. And all of a sudden they make a lot more money. And he learned something and that's what we're getting into for today's episode. Gary V learned something. He learned that you got to be active on social media and you're like, oh no, what do you mean? Gary Vaynerchuk says you got to be active on social. It's like a business card. One of the first takeaways that he said, you got to be active on social. It's a business card because of this. When your person who wants to work with you is going to vet you, they are going to search for you on LinkedIn and Facebook and other platforms. They're just going to type in your name and see what comes up. If nothing comes up, they don't trust you. They go with the other person. If nothing comes up, they don't trust you. They have to see what you're about. They want to know, is this person reckless? Are they going to spend all their money on this one thing? Are they the same faith as me? Do they believe in the same nature as me? Do they believe in the same God as me? Do they believe in mountain biking like I do? Do what I get along with this person? Is this the kind of person that I could trust? They find that stuff out by going to your social. So Gary Vaynerchuk said a couple of things. He said you had to be active on social and he said that you have to put out content with a podcast. So in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, I was all about wine and I was following Gary V. 2015 comes around and I'm going back to my entrepreneurship. I'm going back to being full -time in real estate, launching different businesses. And Gary Vaynerchuk says, I think it was 2015, perfect timing for me. He goes, if you're not active on social media and have a podcast by the year 2023, you will fail in business. So that brings us to what Gary Vaynerchuk said. What did Gary V actually say? Gary Vaynerchuk says that you who's listening, if you want this to work, you probably need to do both. You probably need to have your podcast. You probably need to stay with your podcast, launch your podcast, grow your podcast, keep having interviews, keep having solos, whatever it is for your podcast. You've got to do it and you've got to have your social going. You've got to be on LinkedIn and or Facebook or TikTok or Instagram. What's that other one? There's more. There's a lot more. But you should be on at least two of those platforms and have your podcast. And by doing all of this, your business won't suffer. So if your business is suffering today and you don't have a podcast, start your freaking podcast. Your business is suffering today and you're not active on social media. You're not posting on social media. You have the account, but you never post. People aren't going to trust you when they search you. So you need to start being active on social. And Gary Vaynerchuk also said jab, jab, right hook. He wrote a book about jab, jab, right hook. What does jab, jab, right hook even mean? It means the boxers, when you're fighting, they don't just throw these big giant blows. They throw quick, quick punches to surprise their opponent. They jab them. They tap their face a few times. And when it's time, when the punch will land, they take the extra efforts and inertia and time that it takes them to throw a big right hook with all their might. It would be a freaking waste of time to throw your right hook before that happened. At the wrong point in time, they would just dodge it and then you would use all of this effort and then you would line yourself up in a bad way and you would be the one who got punched down. So you got to put in those jabs. What does that mean on social media? I think it means, and what Gary Vaynerchuk has said, is that you can't always just be selling only. You've got to be giving, and this will depend on the platform. If it's YouTube or if it's TikTok, for example, you can do a lot more right hooks where it's content, content, content. But think of it like this, the jabs are the fun content that help people and the right hooks are after you've brought them in, after you've gotten a feel for what's going on because of the jabs. Now you can have them hire you or you can throw that right hook with, hey, I can help you, the links in the show notes, for example. I can help you. The link is below. So the jab, jab, right hook on Facebook might be a little bit different. Most of the time you talk about your hobbies and your children and your travels. So my hobby might be bodybuilding or taking ice baths or yoga or mountain biking or CrossFit or art, crafts or piloting, air flight. I would constantly post about my kids. I would constantly post about when I'm on a vacation just to let people know what's in person. Those are the jabs. Talk about piloting, CrossFit, mountain biking, your kids, your travels, whatever. And then the right hooks are about your business. So you might put up a testimonial, hey, got a great testimonial from one of my clients and I wanted to share it on here. It meant a lot to me. And that's the right hook. That's the right hook, meaning a way for you to jab, jab, right hook. So Gary V says what? He says, first two things, you got to be active on social media or you're going to lose in business by the year 2023 and wake up folks. We're already at the end of 2023. Like 2024 is happening and before we know it, 2025 is happening. And if you didn't do this, if you're not doing this right now, you've lost in business. Your clients are going to the other person who's active on social and has a podcast. Next thing that Gary V says is jab, jab, right hook. Don't always sell. Don't always make it hard on other people to be at that content. Give them some stuff, give them some value, value, value, and then let them know that they could hire you. Tell them about your hobbies, your kids, let them into your life, and then tell them about your business. And when Gary V was writing his book called Jab, Jab, Right Hook, that rhymes, I was like, did I say that right? Jab, Jab, Right Hook is the book that Gary V was writing. And when he was writing it, he was hoping that he could call it something with a lot more jabs and then the right hook. But his writing team said, no, it'll sell better with just two jabs. And he almost said this, I remember watching an interview, he goes, I said, if it didn't have like 20 jabs, I wasn't going to do it. And he lost that battle, still published the book. But here's the point. Here's the learning lesson in that. It doesn't mean that you have to go one, two, and then sell, give, give, sell, give, give, sell. That sounds like that one song, goon, goonch. You know? Anyway, it doesn't mean give, give, sell, give, give, sell. It doesn't mean that you have to do two thirds and one third, one, one, two. If you go with the advice that Gary Vee really wanted you to think of, he has a lot more jabs. It's a lot more value, value, value. How can you support your person? How can you help your person? Who's on your social media or who's on your podcast on LinkedIn or whatever? How can you give, give, give before you ask for that sale? Think about it as multiple jabs and then the right hooks. That might actually make it easier on you because I've had a lot of clients that came through and I used to just teach social media. I had a business to teach social media, taught, teached or taught. Obviously I'm not a teacher that way, but I had a business that where I basically consulted only with a few high level people. So it was $40 ,000 to work with me for a year. And then anytime they would post, they would send the post to me first and I would tweak it for them and send it back and they would get like lots and lots of likes and comments. And in doing so, I would teach this jab, jab, right hook as well to them. And I would say, you're going too much about the business. Let people in first. I also had a couple of people that came to me and they were very afraid of the business. They didn't want to throw a right hook. They didn't want to. And so I had to talk him into it. I had to say, don't worry, you can do lots of jabs. One guy, he's all about something called earthing. There's another term too, grounding. And so basically every weekend he goes to the same park, he takes his shoes off and he grounds himself to the earth or he earths. He walks on the beach and basically I'm not going to teach the entire thing, but it's supposed to be very good for you. And I practice it as well. And he was passionate about that, but he wasn't really passionate about like multifamily syndication and asking people for money. And that's what he wanted to do is ask people for money. So I worked with him. I said, don't worry, it doesn't have to be two jabs and then the right hook. It can be like six jabs, seven jabs, and then the right hook. That worked for him. I think it was 68 and he ended up turning 70 recently. He was like 68 at the time. And although he's in great health, he looked like he's 25, his physical fitness as he was doing jab, jab, right hook, he didn't even want to post on social media at all. And he only bought into it because he didn't have to push his business down people's throats. And that's the takeaway for you too, is you don't have to push your business down anyone's throat. You don't have to shove it there. You can just share the kind things and nice things, the value and about your hobbies and it'll all work out. So make sure you got your podcast. Make sure you're active on social media. Use the jab, jab, right hook, and I will see you on the very next episode. Don't go away. We'll be right there. This is serious. Don't go. Now that you've gotten whatever value that you feel that you got the actionable takeaways, you need to implement the stuff that you learn. If you remember me talking about bird church once and they learn how to fly and then they walk home, I don't want you to walk home. I want you to fly home. So take the steps, take the actionable steps for your benefits that you can become a better podcaster. That's the only thing that I ask of you. And I'll see you for more actionable tips on the very next episode.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Synapse Chain Goes Live On Testnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Monday September 11th, 2023. Synapse Chain goes live on Testnet, SAFE deploys on Polygon CK EVM, Offchain Labs partners with Espresso Systems, and Uniswap releases a feature to detect fee on transfer tokens. All this and more starts right now. Cross -chain liquidity network Synapse Protocol launched its Synapse Interchain Network and Synapse Chain on Testnet. Synapse Chain is an optimistic roll -up built using an extension of the OP stack, coined as the Syn -OP stack. The Synapse Interchain Network facilitates secure and trustless communication and settlement between roll -up chains. Synapse Chain serves as the data availability layer for all chains connected to the Synapse Interchain Network. Applications deployed on the Synapse Interchain Network can access blockchain data and enable instant liquidity transfers across the entire network of chains. The state of the network is posted on Synapse Chain where it is used for message attestations, staking and fraud reports. SAFE integrated its smart account infrastructure into Polygon's CK EVM network. Users can now deploy a SAFE smart contract wallet on Polygon's CK EVM. The integration also includes the deployment of the SAFE Core Account Abstraction Stack, allowing developers to build asset management tools on the Layer 2 network. Polygon's CK EVM is an EVM -equivalent CK roll -up focused on processing low -cost and high -throughput transactions. EVM -equivalence allows developers to deploy existing Ethereum smart contracts without code adjustments. Gnosis Pay, a crypto -based debit card, uses Polygon's CK EVM to process low -cost crypto -to -fiat conversions. Offchain Labs partnered with Espresso Systems to bring decentralized shared sequencing to Arbitrum roll -up chains. Offchain Labs is also contributing toward the development of a transaction ordering design called TimeBoost. The design will allow users to optionally pay an extra priority fee to reduce MEV attacks. TimeBoost will be integrated into the Espresso Sequencer, a consensus protocol that offers fast finality and high -throughput transactions. Offchain Labs is also working on an open -source production -ready implementation of TimeBoost that can be adopted by any network. And lastly, Uniswap now detects fee -on -transfer tokens on its DEX web app. Fee -on -transfer tokens are ERC -20 tokens with a predefined tax, often represented as a percentage. The tax is typically applied during swaps, directing the taxed amount to an address specified by the token's issuer. The feature also adjusts slippage to help prevent failed transactions. According to Uniswap creator Hayden Adams, fee -on -transfer tokens have been identified as the primary contributor to transaction failures on the DEX. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Coronavirus
A highlight from Synapse Chain Goes Live On Testnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Monday September 11th, 2023. Synapse Chain goes live on Testnet, SAFE deploys on Polygon CK EVM, Offchain Labs partners with Espresso Systems, and Uniswap releases a feature to detect fee on transfer tokens. All this and more starts right now. Cross -chain liquidity network Synapse Protocol launched its Synapse Interchain Network and Synapse Chain on Testnet. Synapse Chain is an optimistic roll -up built using an extension of the OP stack, coined as the Syn -OP stack. The Synapse Interchain Network facilitates secure and trustless communication and settlement between roll -up chains. Synapse Chain serves as the data availability layer for all chains connected to the Synapse Interchain Network. Applications deployed on the Synapse Interchain Network can access blockchain data and enable instant liquidity transfers across the entire network of chains. The state of the network is posted on Synapse Chain where it is used for message attestations, staking and fraud reports. SAFE integrated its smart account infrastructure into Polygon's CK EVM network. Users can now deploy a SAFE smart contract wallet on Polygon's CK EVM. The integration also includes the deployment of the SAFE Core Account Abstraction Stack, allowing developers to build asset management tools on the Layer 2 network. Polygon's CK EVM is an EVM -equivalent CK roll -up focused on processing low -cost and high -throughput transactions. EVM -equivalence allows developers to deploy existing Ethereum smart contracts without code adjustments. Gnosis Pay, a crypto -based debit card, uses Polygon's CK EVM to process low -cost crypto -to -fiat conversions. Offchain Labs partnered with Espresso Systems to bring decentralized shared sequencing to Arbitrum roll -up chains. Offchain Labs is also contributing toward the development of a transaction ordering design called TimeBoost. The design will allow users to optionally pay an extra priority fee to reduce MEV attacks. TimeBoost will be integrated into the Espresso Sequencer, a consensus protocol that offers fast finality and high -throughput transactions. Offchain Labs is also working on an open -source production -ready implementation of TimeBoost that can be adopted by any network. And lastly, Uniswap now detects fee -on -transfer tokens on its DEX web app. Fee -on -transfer tokens are ERC -20 tokens with a predefined tax, often represented as a percentage. The tax is typically applied during swaps, directing the taxed amount to an address specified by the token's issuer. The feature also adjusts slippage to help prevent failed transactions. According to Uniswap creator Hayden Adams, fee -on -transfer tokens have been identified as the primary contributor to transaction failures on the DEX. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/11/23
"There stars are in the southern sky and if ever you decide... If my research is correct, this was what the Madison Square Garden crowd heard to begin the show that Mike was in attendance for when he was in New York. I'm just watching guys play tennis, but this is what Mike did. I bet it was awesome. Mike and I were in New York City at the same time doing very different things. Wait a minute. Don't say Mike and I were in New York City. You created quite the drama by your refusal to spend even a second of time with me when you and your beautiful bride were celebrating your anniversary. Well, excuse me for not peeling away for schmooze time on an anniversary event. It took Peg Hudson to set Joe and me straight. Let me give you the backstory. Yes, there's always backstory. Your research is spot on. That was what they opened with. They all lined up across the front of the stage, including the great Vince Gill. Oh my God. That show was unbelievable. I mean, when's the last time you've gone to a concert and for two hours you hear the band just do hit after hit after hit after hit? Who can do that? It's not a long list. The Eagles can do it. And they did it. Opened up by Steely Dan. And in fairness, there's an example, three quarters of the songs, I don't remember it. I never heard of, but there's a couple of hits there for some of the great Steely Dan. And then of course, the Eagles with what was an incredible night at Madison Square Garden. But anyway, you're here, you're in town. I'm in town with Joey and Peg. We're seeing the Eagles and we saw a couple Broadway shows and I figured when Mark and Lisa go do stuff, it's Mark and Lisa time. And I should have known that. So I delicately said, hey, you want to get together for lunch or dinner while you're here? I mean, we don't see each other in person very much. And of course, as predictable as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, oh, we're slammed. Thank you. We're very busy. We're very busy. We're slammed. We're a little maxed out here. We're maxed out. And so Joey and I got all up in arms about it Saturday night. My man, my man, buddy card is being revoked. We went to dinner at a place called Centurion, New York, and I had a table set for you and Lisa. I mean, we were in a private room on the 55th floor of one Wondervelt. I'm not kidding you. It was unbelievable. It's this brand new dining experience. And we had a room with a table of six with three of us. And I kept saying, gosh, what, how perfect that would have been for Mark and Lisa to have joined us. And Joey and I started bellyaching about your rudeness. And then Peg says, it took a woman to point out, are you guys high? Right. Well, she says, do you think they want to spend their anniversary weekend with you talking shop? And I said, well, first of all, we're more than just shop. It's not just work. We're friends. Exactly. There's all kinds of commonalities and tastes and the culture in our lives. And we're intertwined, of course, it would have been lovely. But it wasn't because you didn't give us the time of day. I know my priorities. Well, you're right. Okay. I mean, good for you. And I hope you had a lovely weekend. So what exactly should I have given up? Should I have, well, here's a weird story because we thought that one night was going to be at the Arthur Ashe Stadium for tennis purposes. And the other one was going to be at Elio's in the Upper East Side, the restaurant where I proposed to her in March of 2002. So which of those should I have cashed in, you know, go hang out with y 'all as much as wonderful as that would have been. I mean, is the proposal restaurant all that significant? Come on. Yes, it is. But here's what's weird. Here's the weird thing that happened on tennis day. Do you know how weird tennis is trying to attend it? If you want to go to the Cowboys and the Eagles on December 10th, you can get a ticket right now for the Cowboys and the Eagles on December 10th. But if you want to go see Novak Djokovic, which is what my bride wanted to do, because from 10, 15 years ago, we're watching Nadal and Federer, and she just loves these guys. And we have loved watching tennis together on the TV box. And I said, for this anniversary, I'm taking you to the U .S. Open. It's like, great, we'll go see Djokovic or other great players, Daniel Medvedev, the young Carlos Alcaraz, who may be the next Nadal. But if you want to see Djokovic, you can't. He's not guaranteed to play on a particular day at a particular time. You can nail down the day. We did not know until hours ahead of time that Djokovic and Ben Shelton, the American, would be the early match. And silly me, I thought, there's no way. He's got to be the late match. So I bought tickets to the late match at no small expense. But then all of a sudden it's like, ding, ding, ding. Nope. That is Medvedev. He'll be playing Alcaraz at night and beat him, of course, because it was Djokovic and Medvedev. And Djokovic won in the final that we watched last night. It was great. So here's what I had to do. I've never done this before. I'm a big fan of the secondary market. So I had these tickets on Ticketmaster. In the old days. You tell me you sold tickets because I was desperately trying to get tickets to go. I'm going to kill you. What? No. I wanted to go so bad. To the open? I wanted to go to the open so badly I could taste it. And I went on the secondary market. You know, God's been good to me and I have a pretty good living. I ain't spending $14 ,000 a ticket. Okay. You want to talk real dollars? I'm going to do this. I am going to do this for my bride. She doesn't do mink coats or huge jewelry. You know, she's just one of the million reasons I love her. We were in unbelievable seats for the night, for the night one in the hundred level, the loge level. And they were $1 apiece. ,700 $1 ,700 apiece. So $3 ,400 to put my wife and me in these magnificent seats. Then we learned, guess what? Djokovic ain't playing at night. He's playing in the daytime. So now I got to go get seats to that. But here's the thing, since the world expected Djokovic to be at night, that's why those seats were $1 ,700. The moment it was announced, I flip immediately to the day session, got the exact same seats on the other side of Arthur Ashe Stadium for $600 apiece. Boom. Then I sold, with my phone still in my hand, sold the ones that I had bought. Obviously, their price went down a little bit. So I didn't make it all back. But I essentially paid for the other ones with the sale of the first ones. It is a crazy modern world, man. It is a crazy modern world. And heaven forbid you would have said to your talk show buddy, you want a couple tickets to the open because I would have bought them from you direct. I wouldn't even know. Funny, I don't know how to transfer them to another actual human being. Well, there's a way. There's got to be a way. All right. I think there's enough about that. Here's my proclamation. If I come to Dallas for a weekend, I'll make time to see you and Lisa, okay? And I will find a restaurant with a private room and a seat for anybody you want to bring. All right. We'll replicate it, Texas. Let me share with you the sights and sounds of what I experienced this morning walking into work here at 111 Broadway in lower Manhattan. All the police activity as the commemoration, the bell is ringing, observing the moment the flight hit the North Tower. Twenty -two years, Mark. The moment you know well. Boy. You were in the Empire State. Sure was. And we're going to relive that today on the show as we always do. We're also going to play that beautiful faith -filled tribute called Silent Night that our friends at KRLA in Los Angeles made many years ago where God, you just don't believe it, but he has a plan and he is always, always with us, even in our darkest hours. So, you know, Axios had an interesting piece this morning about how young men and women enlisting today and joining the military. They don't have that sense of understanding or recognition of 9 -11. So many people became members of the military because of 9 -11. It was such a movement in this country and it was beautiful and it continues to be. And they're in their mid -forties now. Correct. You know, ish. And you think about, I mean, there are people of legal adulthood, 21 years old now, who were not alive for 9 -11. Absolutely. For them, it's not like it's Pearl Harbor or anything, but it's just something that happened before I was born. I got to wrap my head around that. It's interesting that I heard, that's a second time today, though, I've heard somebody say, well, it's not like Pearl Harbor. I really feel it is. Just to me, it's, maybe it's because of our age and, you know, we run around. Here's the crazy thing. You and I were both born less than 20 years afterward. Correct. After Pearl Harbor. So it was just something that had recently happened. That's right. Had a certain stigma and, you know. So I think about the people who joined the military on behalf of those who died on 9 -11 and fighting for our freedoms, fighting against tyranny. And Mark, I am stunned at the rapid way tyranny has come to our own governance. I read an article the other day in the New York Times. It's an opinion piece, to be fair. Trump indict Trump's indictments, the key players in the 2020 election effort. And Mark, they did one of these and I read it online, one of these comprehensive articles about how everybody who questioned in any way, shape or form the outcome of the 2020 election is a co -conspirator in the election denialism that is traitorous, that is traitorous, that's treason. Now, attack on democracy. Right now, never mind all the Democrats, including Hillary on down, who lined up in question the outcome of 2016. I guess that doesn't count. I'm sure the New York Times didn't do, you know, an extensive piece on this, but they've got everybody ensnared in this, Mark. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley. We saw Lindsey Graham almost got indicted in Fulton County. And all they were doing was saying, what happened here? And exactly daring to inquire. And that has become a tactic of the left. And I think COVID, tell me if you agree with me, COVID broke the door open on this. If you dared question the vaccine or if you dared question the lockdowns, you were shut down. You lost your social media status. Some people lost their jobs. Look at the, look at all the airline pilots we lost because they wouldn't get vaccinated. And that kind of opened the door. And now it comes to the, to election integrity and the New York Times and people who think like them want to weaponize our free speech right to question anything. And criminalize it. And so your metaphor is apt. It absolutely is. And I hope it goes a similar way that the COVID extremism did. And that is that the pendulum swings. And now we have relative rationality, even though I did see in New York City, people walking around by themselves in Washington Square Park, wearing a mask outside. But not many, right? Not very many at all. Listen, I almost wanted a mask to keep away from the weed smell. I asked a New York City cop, what's with the weed? And he told me, he said, look, it's legal. You can't have enough where you're trying to sell it. You can't give it to kids, blah, blah, blah. But it's pretty, and I said, has it been a problem? He said, not really. He said, I don't like it either, but it's people doing, so, but not to divert. So your metaphor is apt. I hope that the pendulum swings, as it did with COVID, and I hope it does it maybe even quicker because the, because the Fauci's and the various other people who hit us with this have been proven so terribly, terribly wrong and corrupt so relatively quickly. I hope that can happen on weaponization of election. Well, Mark, there's reason to be optimistic. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling, huge win for free speech where this appeals court upheld the prohibiting government officials from communicating with social media companies. There was a preliminary junction. The defendants include Joe Biden, the U .S. Surgeon General, the Health and Human Services Secretary, and the courts are agreeing that it is absolutely unlawful for government officials to try to censor speech on social media. Of course it is. Well, it took a long time. Sure. Well, listen, justice delayed is justice denied. But that's the pendulum swinging. And I hope you, speaking of New York, I hope you saw the New York -based shrews over on The View Friday, Anna Navarro and the rest of them now complaining about the illegals in New York City saying they need to be resettled elsewhere. Anna Navarro and the rest of them on The View want to kick illegals out of New York. How unwelcoming. Oh, how well, how unchristian -like of them. But listen, I heard somebody say this somewhere else and it's true. People like Greg Abbott and others have called Eric Adams bluff. Yep. We've called their bluff. We've said, all right, you want to be a sanctuary city? Here's what it looks like. This is it. Welcome to Texas. Every day, the amount. Welcome to El Paso. And, you know, so golly, I hope the pendulum is swing. Great to have you back. It is wonderful to be back. Great to kick off a big, big week. I'll be in Philly tonight for a big event with Dennis Prager and Pastor Robert Jeffers. Faith and Freedom Coalition event. And then back here on in New York Tuesday and then back to Florida. So, OK, this is crazy. Mr. Acela corridor. You're in Philadelphia for an event tonight. I'm on the 115 Acela. I love that train. In the morning? 115 this afternoon. To get there. But where are you doing the show tomorrow morning? From Philly, from AM 990. And then taking the Acela back. And I have to admit, I'm not a big train travel fan. Yep. I like that Acela. Yep. Pretty cool. And, you know, I think I've got to be in first class just so I can, as an observer, experience what that first class experience must be like. If you're going to do it, do it. You might as well go up front, you know, and or actually in the back. Sometimes the first class on the Acela is on the way in the back. But I still like walking over to the cafe car and getting a hot dog. Kicking it old school. Absolutely. Yeah. Love it. Love it. Big week. All right. Happy Monday, my friend. Happy Monday. Mike Gallagher there for you on this very. I'm just. Think identity theft won't happen to you? Think again. There's a new victim every three seconds in the U .S., over 15 million this year alone. And many don't even know their victims. LifeLock alerts you to identity threats you could miss, even when you monitor your credit. If your identity is stolen, your dedicated U .S. based restoration specialist will work to fix it. No one can prevent all identity theft, but everyone can save up to 25 percent their first year at lifelock dot com slash Salem. Identity theft protection starts here.
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Monitor Show 15:00 09-10-2023 15:00
"In with America former USTA chief Katrina Adams. Plus, why there's literally a trillion dollars at stake as global companies search for the correct return to office strategy, and the story of digital marketplace FlashFood, whose founder is on a mission to reduce waste and save grocery shoppers money. This is Bloomberg Business Week. I'm Tim Stenebeck, stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is a Bloomberg Money Minute, as you've probably been hearing about, rising theft is stealing profits from many retailers. Organized retail crime is certainly a part of it. Dana Telsey is founder, CEO, and chief research officer at Telsey Advisory Group. It is a real headwind. It's probably the highest rate of shrinkage that we've seen in quite some time. Telsey herself says she witnessed retail theft on the West Coast that surprised her. You better be careful and be aware of your surroundings. Nordstrom, Dick's Sporting Goods, Ulta Beauty, Target, and Walmart, all saying theft or shrink is hurting the bottom line. The National Retail Federation says theft cost retailers almost $95 billion in 2021, but Telsey says retailers are determined to keep brick and mortar stores open in key locations. Retail and physical footprints have more relevance than ever in order to create the environment and the engagement. Telsey also says retailers are in discussion with high -level government officials on clamping down on retail theft. Denise Pellegrini, Bloomberg Radio. Sometimes it seems the crises just keep coming for children. COVID, war, drought, and famine. They can seem downright relentless. But you know what? So can our response.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep372: The Difference Between Successful People
"Whatever is for you, I need you to think, need you to consider. As soon as you're done listening to this episode, I need you to ponder for a little bit and think to yourself, what is it that I need to make a decision about and just stick to it. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams. And I want to talk about something that successful people do a little bit differently than less successful people. And that is making a decision and sticking to it. So this episode today is going to be short. It's going to be a what it means to you, what you need to do in order to get it. Successful people make a decision and then they take action on that decision. Less successful people, those of us that struggle, we are reluctant to make that initial decision. We move through it and we kind of try a little bit of stuff, but we never commit. We never really go full bore. Think of a rhinoceros, think of a rhino at the African jungle. They will put their head down and they will charge. They just put their head down and charge. They make a decision. They commit to it. They go forward and they bulldoze everything out of their way as they do that, as they put their head down and they stay committed. So I'm encouraging you today, whether you need it for your podcast, to hire a company like ours, to take off all of the hard stuff, like the post -production and all of the graphics and emailing your guests for you. Maybe you need that. Maybe that'll help you save 12 hours a week. Or maybe you need to start doing some marketing for your company. Maybe it's that you need to start doing social media more. Perhaps you've avoided social media because you're afraid. You're scared. You're not sure. You're a little timid. You're like, I don't want to offend anyone. So I'm not sure if I want to do this on social media, or I'm not sure if I got the money. I don't want to pay for some marketing. I can do it as good as I need it to edit my own podcast. Now I don't mind spending those 12 hours a week editing one episode. And so I'm not going to do that. Whatever it is for you, I need you to think. I need you to consider. As soon as you're done listening to this episode, I need you to ponder for a little bit and think to yourself, what is it that I need to make a decision about and just stick to it. I'll be a little vulnerable and be honest with you about something that I'm doing. And I went and did my bodybuilding competition. And then in the next day and a half, I think I gained 16 pounds from 186 or 0 .9, like about 187 pounds up to 203 pounds in just the next day. It was like the afternoon of the one day and then the evening of the following day, I gained 16 pounds. Yeah, of course it can't all be fat. It can't all be muscle. It can't all be water. It's a combination of things. I probably ate a lot of food. It got stuck in my gut. I was probably on a calorie deficit. The point being that I gained it real fast and then it was hard to get it off. It was hard to get those 203. I'm not now back to 187. I'm not yet there. It's going off much slower than it came back. It's going off much slower. And I was reluctant. Listen, this is today's takeaway. I was reluctant. I felt like I put my heart and soul into fitness for so long. I counted calories. I ate many, many meals a day at exact times of the day. I worked out six days a week and it got great results, but I was tired and I wasn't ready to commit. I hired a strength coach and I wasn't quite ready to commit. And so I was kind of flopping because I didn't make a decision and stick to it. Now, just a couple of days ago, I'm recording this on a Saturday and on Wednesday is the day that I went to the gym and I got there and my heart wasn't all in it. And I was trying to ask myself, should I just leave? Should I just quit? Should I just not do this new challenge of strength? It's basically a CrossFit total. Anybody knows that it's like powerlifting. So I'm looking for a CrossFit total of a thousand pounds or a powerlifting total of 1 ,125 pounds. Those are my goals. And I hired a coach to do that, but I'm floundering. I go on a vacation. I was in Tulum this week and I came back on Tuesday and on Wednesday I was feeling like, I didn't work out on Monday because I drank too much on Sunday night. And so I just didn't feel like working out on Sunday, excuse me, on Monday. And then on Tuesday it was like a travel day. So I did not sleep hardly at all because I wanted to make sure that I caught my cab on time. So I got two hours of sleep and then we fly, then we drive and then we fly and then we land. I get home and I did not feel like I had the energy to go to the gym that late. And so Wednesday comes around an option in motion stays in motion, an object that's stagnant. Usually we'll just stay stagnant. It's hard to change inertia. If something's moving, it stays moving unless something physically stops it. If it's still, it stays still unless something physically moves it. And after a Monday and a Tuesday, I got into that, I feel like I'm staying still place. And I have dedication. I have discipline. So I showed up, but with a pissy attitude, with a I don't want to be here attitude. Am I even sure I want to do this? And so I contemplated and I thought, and this is what you're going to do after you listen to this episode. And I thought about my fitness and what my real goals are and why would I do it and why wouldn't I do it? And it was then and there that I made the decision that I'm going to enjoy it. And so I smiled. By the way, when you smile, you release endorphins in your body that makes you happy. Using your smile muscles releases, what is the best way to say it? Releases oxytocin. Oxytocin. Oxytocin. Oh my gosh. I can't talk. Oxytocin. And now all of a sudden you feel happy and healthy. So I did that. I made the commitment. I made the decision. I said, hey, I shouldn't be doing this. I feel stagnant. It's not easy to get started moving when you've been still for a while. Now this works with your podcast. This works with your business and certainly works with your health or religion or your family. In this case for me, I'm using my health as example, but for you, when you leave this podcast, it might be religion or family or health or your podcast or your business. I need you to make a commitment to do something and to go full bore in it. I committed that I would enjoy the gym. And so I got a new energy just after I smiled and after I decided I got a new energy. And then I went back the next day with vigor, with enthusiasm, and I crushed it. I got done with all of my workouts much faster than I normally do because I was excited about it, because I tricked myself the day before, because it kicked my ass and got myself in motion. And now I'm staying in motion. Friday, same thing. Go back. Today's Saturday. I'm halfway tempted to go. I want to go. I'm like, this is great. I don't want to take a day off. I love it. I love the way that I feel after I go. And you're going to love the way after you hire my company to support you with your podcast. You're going to love the way you feel. You're going to say, this is great. Why didn't I do it sooner? You're going to love the way you feel when you make those sales calls, when you follow back up with the people that you already did us a discovery call with. When you do that, you're going to feel better. When you go to the gym, you're going to feel better. When you call your mother and you're like, hey, I know we haven't talked in a while, you're going to feel better. And now you're an object in motion and you're likely to stay in motion. So the difference between successful people and non -successful people is that they make a decision and then they stick to it no matter what. Tony Robbins always says, the only way that you're going to take the island is if you burn the boats. You and your Vikings come to take over an island. You keep your ships there. You've got a way out. But when you're decided and committed that this is the thing you're going to do no matter what, you get rid of plan B and you just do the thing. I'll see you on the next episode. Oh, hey, because three of my their podcasts make the money instead of cost them money. We put together a resource for some of our clients and I want to give it to you as well. It's something that did actually seem to help because one of them is now making $2600 a month. Another one $4500 a month. And the third is making between $5000 and $10 ,000 each month. And so it's been a resource that's been incredibly valuable to them. It's our sponsor sheet template. It's a template of a sponsor sheet and it gives you something that you can hand to potential sponsors and hopefully also be making $2600, $4500 or between $5K and $10K regularly each month with your podcast. So this has been a contributing factor to helping all three of those clients turn their podcast into an additional income stream for them. And the way that you can find it is just going to our website, growyourshow .com, but put in forward slash templates, growshow .com forward slash templates. And then you can actually download that template and others that could be valuable to your podcasting experience. I'll see you on the next episode.
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Monitor Show 06:00 09-08-2023 06:00
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The Financial Guys
A highlight from Incentivizing Immigration Reform for Broken Legislation
"They don't even have to be a Trump supporter. I don't consider myself to be a Trump supporter. I will vote for him if he is running against Joe Biden. I'll vote for a ham sandwich over Joe Biden. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, America's comeback starts right now. From the land of the free and the brave, USA. I love my country, they can't take that away. All righty, welcome back. Financial Guys Podcast here on the Financial Guys Media Network. Mike Speraza in studio today. Have a return guest coming on. We've spoken to a lot on the radio show and on our podcast. Buffalo immigration attorney. I'm going to talk about a little bit national because I saw you won an award there, Matt. Also a national immigration attorney here. Matthew Culkin joining us, but he does have offices right here in Buffalo and we love to say that because we love to support Buffalo businesses. Matt, how are you? I'm great. Thanks for having me back. Absolutely. So let's talk about the thing that you focused on most first. Let's talk about immigration. Every time we've spoken, it's gotten a little bit, I guess, weirder and weirder with what's going on and sadder and sadder with what's going on at our southern border and even our legal side first, but just the world of immigration from what you're seeing and what's going on across the country. Well, basically what has happened is that the Biden administration's non -enforcement policies at the southern border and in the interior of the country have resulted in our immigration courts being completely overwhelmed with backlogged cases, which is going to cripple our ability to be able to ensure that individuals are afforded due process. I mean, everyone that comes to this country is allowed to present their case before an immigration judge, especially if they have expressed a credible fear of return to their home country. And there's no way, given our limited resources, that we will be able to go through that backlog in the remainder of my career, and I'm still relatively young. I'm in the middle half of my career. I don't think I'll see conclusions of these cases until one of my children take over my practice. Yeah, that's obviously a problem. And I think you're seeing that across the board with a lot of these issues. And Matt, to bring it locally, we're talking national immigration here, but locally, what we've seen with the migrant crisis here and what Mark Polenkars has done and his lack of action, calling people like us morally repugnant, those are the types of things, the type of rhetoric they're saying. But you look at Mayor Adams in New York City and you look at Mark Polenkars in Buffalo, they're blaming everybody else for the decisions that they made. And we look locally here, we've had numerous sexual assaults, we've had numerous assaults, we've had a case of tuberculosis, we've had property destroyed, like local hotels and motels. What's it going to take, Matt, for these people to realize that these policies stink and they don't work? Well, I think we're starting to see it because when you have tent cities popping up in Central Park in New York and expensive hotels are being overrun by the refugees that are being housed there and the streets. I just saw a video of migrants who are sleeping literally on the hotels and the line goes around the building. Our asylum system was not designed to allow individuals who want to come to this country simply to make a better life for themselves, to be able to enter the United States into the general population, obtain employment authorization for what could be decades while their case winds itself through the process. And I have a feeling that once these Democrat -controlled cities understand that they don't have the resources to be able to provide for these individuals, that there's going to be a very steep shift in the political landscape.
Adams on Agriculture
"adams" Discussed on Adams on Agriculture
"Information america's farmers and ranchers need to know on a now back to mike atas and back here at husker harvest as grand island nebraska and we're broadcasting from the syngenta ten joined now by travis gustafsen astronomic service representative four syngenta. Good to see you to be here. Let's talk a little bit about conditions..
Adams on Agriculture
"adams" Discussed on Adams on Agriculture
"Does now. So how much of a market mover do you see this being. Well i think the market has already priced in a million acres increase for corn It's it's priced in an increase in yield for corn and soybeans and and frankly our customer survey showed an increase in yield For corn and soybeans as well as the former agronomist. In me those thinking might there be surprise here today. We'll see. But i don't like the way we finished the year The growing season. When you've finished the way we do. Yes we got some rain but we were also hot. Corn doesn't like the heat we had the scene like the fungicides can ran out particularly east of the mississippi river and so we had a lot of disease come into the corn late. I don't like the way the beans finished either. I'm just wondering if we're going to get a smaller seed size whether that'll show up in this report or not. I don't know this'll be the first report based on actual field samplings so it may show up in this report but overall. I think we may end up coming in with a A little smaller crop. Not a short crop Certainly a short in the north western belt but when you look at the the corn belt the soybean belt as a whole the good and a bad added together i it. I don't think it's going to be quite as big. A crop is what some people think. And it's gonna leave stocks tight over the coming year. Will the combines a rolling. That's the real The real numbers are coming in now. Yeah absolutely and Is they're rolling. We like to be moving. It out of the gulf is soybean harvest started in the south. It was rolling right into the gulf. Low being loaded onto ships headed for china Of course hurricane ida put a stop to that but we know that the export demand is there especially for soybeans. So as we start opening up these terminals and getting power terminals we expect that those soybeans start flowing significantly once again and it was good to see china come in with the large purchase of about fifty four million bushels of soya. Beans a weekending september. Second reported this morning. We believe the demand is going to be there. Just got to get the port open. And it'll be flowing in that direction as we harvest and wings the actual yield yet. We have to be able to to deliver and we're getting closer to that What are your thoughts on where china's at what they're buying in. They're buying pattern right now. Well we look it crush margins coming from our people who are operating the crush plants. In in china they're crush margins are good and we pushing crush back above two million metric tonnes per week and we felt like that pace. It probably continue. Because the commercialize hog farms are still getting enough a margin that they're continuing restock and expand How are we saw. the in. The latest week reported we saw the crush dropped about one point. Seven million metric tonnes Trying to figure out. Okay how how is that temporary or is that something more significant to crush margins don't seem to justify that we know they've got the supplies of soybeans at the ports so we anticipate that that crush total is going to come back in if it does come back into them. Taking thirty five million metric tons of us soybeans. That'd be a little bit lower than what we were this past year but still be solid lower primarily because south america providing a larger supply But we think the demand is going to be good and then the question is when do we get soybeans planet in brazil. So how early will the harvest be or how late. That'll kind of determine how long we go with that export season overall. If we get does business we anticipate. We think it'll kind. Keep supplies relatively tight at three and a half to five million five percent stocks to use ratio probably closer to lower into that and leave us vulnerable. If there's any weather problems along the way with linnea redeveloping again. We're talking with ireland. Silverman was stone. Axe odi assia harvest rally or not a lot of. It's gonna depend on today's numbers. If we get that lower yield number that i think might be in in the workings. Then i think that refocuses the trade on just how important south american weather is in the dry forecast that we have right now for the rest of the month of september for brazil for the center west area I think it refocused trade on that. If we get the yield increase at i think we probably struggle right on into harvest and we struggled for a little bit But i think the time probably comes when we get refocused on the fact that the balance sheet is tight weather and south america matters and we do have a rebuilding a demand in china and again. Not getting ahead of ourselves but This battle for acres next year. I think it's gonna be fascinating. It will be fascinating. Because it's not just corn and soybeans It's going to be wheat and grain sorghum and cotton All these major crops are going to be looking for area and we had the price incentive this year to increase area that was planted. Go fencer defensive who to speak. We've seen the prevent plant numbers that indicate that farmers did everything they could to plant everything that could this year So it's not like we got a lot of spare ground in there in. This is at a time when usda's trying to buy more acres for their conservation reserve program as well. So i think the battle for acres is going to be there in another area of support for these markets arlen always liked to get your perspective on the the general economy and then how that impacts the economy. What are your thoughts overall on our economy right now where we're at. We saw some pretty hot inflation numbers this morning. And i think that's a concern you say why hasn't shown up in the treasury yields. I think that's largely because we have so much money sloshing around in the economy right now A lot of that banks are putting their surplus money into those treasuries. And that's helping to keep yields down so we're not seeing reported but when we look at the actual inflation pressures there and and even if we look at china data came out yesterday wholesale inflation over nine percent. That's the type of inflation to gets exported to the united states in europe. I see more of a perpetual inflation problem. That could eventually create some stagnation in the us. Economy the fed and the congress look to try to continue to push stimulus into this thing to keep things going that keeps demand strong that keeps inflation there Overall this is a market that i think the funds are more and more going to start looking once again to the commodity sector as a hedge against that inflation. That doesn't mean the prices go straight up. It does mean though that if that happens that we have them in that underlying level kind of maintaining ownership and so when we do have the breaks in the market. They don't go back to those old. Lowe's they stay at a more elevated level it also means input. Costs are higher for the producer as well and we're certainly seeing that play out. Yeah i think too big issues and their related certainly Inflation and supply chain Problems yeah absolutely. And i do think that we'll start seeing the supply chain issues. Start to work their way out in the months to come. We're seeing workers going back to the ports working. Obviously we have the hurricane ida issues in in new orleans but as look elsewhere the last jobs report showed hiring more people at the ports. M- more that work through. I think that starts to work through. And then we start looking at some of these other issues creating.
Adams on Agriculture
"adams" Discussed on Adams on Agriculture
"Hi this is mike adams. You're listening to a oh a adams on agriculture. Don't go away more adams on agriculture. Coming right up heading to husker harvest days in grand island nebraska this year. Be sure to stop by the syngenta booth to talk with local agronomists and product experts. Then walk across the aisle and visit the syngenta square to relax and enjoy a cold beverage. Mike adams of atoms on agriculture broadcasting. Live all three days from syngenta booth. Eleven o six. Ooh stop by to watch. The show live at nine am. That's who eleven o six at nine. Am we look forward to seeing you. In grand island at husker harvest days these acres. Put your life into your view each harvest morning while the ag industry changes. This land is meant to be here for your grandkids. Then there's that's why. Ads drainage contractors across the nation are doing our part to protect america's farm families. We're proud to provide water management solutions that make family farms like yours more profitable now and for generations to come learn more about how we keep families farming at ads. Pipe dot com. You're listening to a oa. I'm kirsten rawal today. The usda releases there was d. and crop production reports at eleven am central time yesterday the. Usda released a daily export sales notice of one hundred and thirty two thousand tons of soybeans to china. Meanwhile palm oil prices continue to slide lower putting pressure on the bean bean oil markets. Us ethanol production increased slightly last week but remains at its lowest seasonal level in five years. Us harvest is getting underway in many locations whether it's favorable for continued harvest through the weekend and into early next week across the corn belt december corn trading two cents lower at five. Oh eight the march contract down two and three quarters at five sixteen and a half cent for soybeans november contract up a penny and three quarters at twelve seventy two and a fraction the january contract up a penny and three quarters at twelve eighty and a half cent for weeks chicago. Wheat december down a nickel at six eighty seven and a quarter kansas city. Wheat december down three cents at six seventy nine and three quarters. Minneapolis spring wheat december down seven and a fraction at age sixty five and a fraction the march contract down six and a fraction at eight fifty six and a half cent. The livestock complex struggled thursday with only a few nearby live cattle contracts. Closing higher cash cal. Trade looks to close this week. Generally dollar higher hugs me to valiant effort to hold weakness lowly flooded contracts looking at live cattle futures on the board of trade the october contract down a nickel at one twenty three seventy five december down twenty at one twenty eight sixty four feeder cattle september down ninety five at one fifty four eighty the october contract a dollar seven lower at one fifty eight seventeen in lean hogs the october contract downtown ten at eighty five thirty seven the december contract down forty five cents at seventy nine. Oh five in the outside markets. The dow is down fifty five points. The nasdaq composite up. Forty two the s&p five hundred up one the. Us dollar index is trending lower. You're listening to a away. I'm kirsten role ticket. Look under your bed. Find stuff under there. What about jobs no. Now try your basement. There's a pair of overalls that overall. You're not so into anymore a perfectly good laptop. 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Join me monday. Through friday for the latest farm and agriculture news from around the world information america's farmers and ranchers need to know a now back to mike adams all right so we just heard from steve since key. Ceo the american soybean association soybean industry not willing to go along with these proposed tax changes in order to get boosts in egg funding. We heard basically the same thing last week from the incoming president of the national corn growers association. We've heard from the american farm bureau federation about deep concerns over these proposals and again secretary vilsek coming out saying keeping step up. Basis does not protect farmers. He's going to get a lot of reaction to that. And that when i said he may be a team player. Maybe he's just being a team player for team biden but i really think a lot of farmers and ranchers are going to say to him. Thought you were on our team. I thought you're supposed to be leading our team and that that comment is not going to go. Well not sit well with a lot of people in agriculture. So that'll be a story to watch Story today of course will be the big september crop report as we talk now with arlen. Sugerman chief commodities economist for stone. Axe we don't have the numbers yet will get a full recap and review them up coming up on monday show although arlen thanks for joining us a. Usda did gonna give a sneak preview with a little little Leakage and information earlier in the week didn't they. There was a lot of jokes going around the industry about some intern getting fired for having posted those Numbers inadvertently and my thought was Maybe that qualified him for government service now so You know it was an inadvertent. Posted the data yanked down but Some of us got it before it was yanked down or able to look at it and then. Usda did the right thing but making it available to everybody Does it tell us what's going to happen in the way of changes in acreage today. No it gives us some indications but translating. fsa numbers directly into wasi numbers. Doesn't work just one to one like that. But we can make some assumptions we think suggests a million acres. Maybe just a little over a million acres more corn planted Soybeans people discreet depending on their methodology. Translating we think it means so he'd be nacre stay pretty close to where they are right now. Some people see a notable increase. We do not see that in the numbers.
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"Some of those starting very soon and the frustrating part is the longer it drags out the oil industry benefits. They win because exemptions are in place so They're all throwing dragging it out Because it's to their advantage we're talking jeff. Cooper president and ceo renewable fuels association. All right. let's hit some other topics here The administration now roy pushing the renewable aviation fuels What are your thoughts on that. What kind of an impact could that have for the industry. What's actually something. We're we're pretty excited about mike And you're you're right the the white house today later this afternoon we'll be holding a roundtable Conversation and event at the white house we'll be virtual We've been invited to be part of that And there will be some announcements. Made about this administration's goals around sustainable aviation fuels And and really. I mean they look at the nation sector And people don't typically understand that you know we burn about thirty billion gallons of jet fuel in this country every year And it is a large source of carbon emissions I don't think we're going to be electrifying. Airplanes anytime soon so there is a real push to lower the greenhouse gas emissions from aviation fuels and ethanol to jet Technologies are really coming along way and and the economics are improving and so we think we we could very well see a day sooner than later where Some ethanol is being converted into jet fuel and as being blended with traditional aviation fuel to help reduce emissions from from the aviation sector You know so we. We expect to see see in here a lot more about this initiative In the in the weeks ahead and again we see it as a large opportunity for a new market for for ethanol producers ads. potential for sure What are your thoughts on secretary sack also talking about finally some assistance coming to the biofuels industry. This has been a longtime coming as far as some financial aid. What can you tell us what you have any details on this yet. Well it is very long overdue The ethanol industry was left out of the the first several rounds of covert relief that were approved by congress and distributed by usda We finally got Biofuels included in this latest round of usda covert relief assistance But it still hasn't been distributed. And frankly mike we still don't know the details on when When those funds will be distributed to the industry We heard secretary bill sack. Say back in. June that up to seven hundred million dollars had been sort of set aside. four biofuel producers and that. It was her hope that they would get that Funding distributed within sixty days. Well you know sixty days came and went and we still haven't heard anything more definitive from department on when to expect That relief funding. And and i'll tell you it's still very much needed in the ethanol industry mike We got a lot of producers. That are still still recovering from from covert or attempting to recover. And now we've seen ethanol production slide eight weeks in a row Here in the most recent eight week period. And we're back. You know to below fourteen billion gallons of of production on an annualized level. That's the lowest we've seen since that Sorta polar vortex in in march so The industry is is still hurting and and could definitely use assistance a long lag time between the time government officials announce. Someone's going to get some money in the time. It actually gets there. Something keep in mind more spending bills or being debated right now One got about a minute left. Jeff one more topic your efforts in california that key market and they're low carbon initiatives out there and trying to show them how biofuels ethanol in particular can play a part in helping them achieve those goals yet. Mike i think what's happened in california over the past decade Is is an example. That people should pay attention to When we talk about where we're headed at the federal level all we hear about in dc today is electric vehicles. And we're not going to have liquid fuels and we don't need ethanol and we don't eat biofuels That's the same thing. California was saying ten twelve fifteen years ago when they began their low-carbon fuel standard. And here we are today. Ethanol has played a tremendously important role in helping them achieve their low carbon fuel. Standard goals. It's produced more credits under the l. Cfs than any other Any other low-carbon fuel definitely more than electricity So we're we're hopeful that that model that's been in use in california Will will provide a roadmap for where we want to go in terms of federal law carbon fuel standard policy. Now there's things we don't like about the california program that we hope would be fixed If we kind of export that that program to the federal level but overall i think has really demonstrated that ethanol can and should be part of any effort to reduce emissions from the transportation sector. Alright jeff as we said lots going on in the battlefields world. Thank you so much for being with us and bringing us up to date. Good to talk with you all right. Thank you might figure. Jeff cooper president and ceo the renewable fuels association up next we talk markets with dtm's lead analyst. Todd hultman. you're listening to a. Oh hi. this is mike adams. You're listening to a oh a adams on agriculture. Don't go away more adams on agriculture. Coming right up heading to husker harvest as in grand island nebraska this year be sure to stop by syngenta booth to talk with local agronomists and product experts. Then walk across the aisle and visit the syngenta square to relax and enjoy a cold beverage. Mike adams of atoms on agriculture. We'll be broadcasting. Live all three days from syngenta booth. Eleven o six stop by to watch the show live at nine. Am that's booth eleven. O six at nine. Am we look forward to seeing you. In grand island at husker harvest days progressive farmer producers the best content in agriculture each day our editors post unique content to our website bringing you the latest news and information. You need for your day to day business decisions. Dt anna progressive farmer provide insights throughout the year. Two questions like what is the outlook for form yields. In twenty twenty one will feed prices surge. 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"Draw for the show as well. Yeah there'll be a lotta. There'll be a lot of folks here that don't don't grow any any crop. And if they do grow crop they're chopping it for silage and their feeding it at at their feedlots so you don't have to go too far west from here and the pivots go away and you get into to cal cap country and and and you know when you're in when you're in grand island nebraska and You know the majority of our visitor base comes from three or four hour. Drive time around grand island brassica just like when waring decatur illinois You know the the the big majority of the folks walk in the streets drove in that morning and so there are three or four hour drive time circle around the show side while the the circle around grand island were from an agriculture standpoint. Looks a lot different. Which is why you know. The four major pivot companies. They have the biggest display. They put on anywhere here at husker harvest days because this is the wheelhouse for again row. Crop brokaw production. And and and so the the the show reflects whether you're talking about farm progress show or sunbelt expo new york firm show whatever you're talking about the the the show reflects the local agriculture. And and you know the the folks that that you and i talked to back in you know in in illinois awry or something if if if they i tell them if they have anything to do with beef or anything to do with with irrigation husker harvest data needs to be on the bucket list. Because it's it's it's quite a show you can tell that it's managed by the the same outfit because of the way it lays out and and and a lot of those things but but it's certainly different when you look at that exhibit or face now about about Feel demonstrations what will you have As far as field work going on at husker so we have. We have everything that that farm progress show. Visitors would be used to plus some stuff so we have the corn harvesting. We have the tillage. We have a dedicated area for strip till Here at husker were adding dedicated area for autonomy ravens going to have both platforms running and does going to have the drones running seating cover crop and showing spring water so they can show they can apply crop protection and then in addition to all of that. We have a huge cattle handling demonstration. And we dedicated our to hey tool so we've got mowers and breaks and peppers and baylor's and and we run all of that and at the end of that. We run cornstarch bailing demonstrations as well. So it's you know it's it's there's a lot more going on out in the field and you're kind of going bang bang bang bang bang from one thing to the next out there in those field demonstration. So it's it's it's about as interactive and and exciting out there in the field as it is inside the show side and is you have told us before you've made significant improvements to the show site itself a lot of infrastructure improvements. Yeah the the show site. The show was forty years old in two thousand seventeen so for the two thousand eighteen show. We were able to show off a six million dollar investment that we made. And it's kind of like a remodeling job. You know we had to leave. We had to leave all the streets in place where they were but we just made the improvements in place and try to build a new show side on top of an existing one. Which was its own set of challenges but now it has It has the six inches of concrete on all the streets. It has storms that were drainage perimeter fence better infrastructure and all new infrastructure electricity. Now if you if you think of of living in a forty year old house if you never made any improvements you would you would be pretty miserable to keep all your electrical devices running and everything so really did a major upgrade on the electoral distribution which allows the exhibitors to put on the show that they wanna put on before this they were putting on the show that the power based on the bill the small amount of electrical distribution we had well. That's that's not a problem anymore because you've got a nice backbone of electrical distribution internet It's it's probably the best outdoor exhibit exhibit facility in the country if not the world in terms of the infrastructure in place. Now i know there's a big event coming up on tuesday the opening day Tell us about that yeah. We're really excited. That was something that came together. Kind of last minute. governor rick. The governor of nebraska. He's doing He's he's he wanted to do an ag technology summit and he he's elected to hosted here at husker harvest day so from one o'clock to four o'clock on tuesday. He's gonna he's going to say if you were but but really what he's doing is he's He's bringing in experts to talk on different subjects. It's he's he's got three subjects. He's got astronomic technology. Where where we're talking about. We have speakers from a lot of the big seed. Companies plus one of the irrigation companies. And then next generation equipment has executives from several of the big exhibitors. John deere case cloth as well as lindsay one of the irrigation companies and then. The third category is bio economy advanced. And that is that's got corn refiners and cargill and nature works. The ceo of nature works speaking. And so it's it's really kind of its own free standing summit within the bounds of husker harvest date. There there isn't any additional charge It it's just it's just part of the show We had we had a partnership with a gi. They had a building that we could use host the thing. So it's going to be really comfortable setting for the governor or to you know to really promote not not just nebraska agriculture but generally promote agricultural where it is today and maybe start to get a glimpse from some of these speakers of of what it might look like down the road. And he's part of the food and farm He's part of a group of governors. That happened on organization called food and farm and this is kind of one of the outcomes of of that organization and utilizing husker harvest days. It's a real honor for us that the governor is going to do this versus somewhere else and so we're proud to have it and and really excited about this summit occurring during harvest admits it's tuesday again. It's tuesday from one to four the first day of the show and You know. I think it's something that you're going to put on your bucket list because the list of speakers is pretty impressive when you drove from your home and western illinois way out to grand island. Did you see much. Harvesting get underway yet. Or how do things look i saw. I thought the beginnings of seed corn and i saw some silence being chopped. But i didn't see any number. Two yellow being harvested lotte as i drove across eighty. There's a lot of field that have got that yellow look to them But but nothing. It doesn't look like things are underway. Which is a good sign for husker hardisty. Sometimes when we're when we're fourteenth fifteenth sixteenth of september like we are this year You know you start that parviz just right around the corner and you know our even our ninety nine day core here show site that we're going to start picking off. We're gonna start peeling off andro friday. It's it's probably going to be in the high twenties. So i think the farmers generally aren't quite going to be in the field yet so they're going to have the opportunity to come to the show. We're talking with matt. Young men nationally. Vince manager for farm. Progress looking ahead to next week's husker harvest days next tuesday wednesday thursday in grand island nebraska. I'll be there all three days broadcasting from the syngenta. We'll take a break and come back. We will get more information to get you ready for husker harvest days next week than as we look ahead to that big show and also wanna remind you that As i said i'll be broadcasting from the syngenta ten and hope that you will stop by if you going to be in the show love to talk with you. Enjoy talking with a lot of folks last week in decatur illinois. Look forward to talking with more next week in grand island. Nebraska are husker harvest preview is brought you by suggestive back to wrap things up right after this..
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"Hi this is mike adams. You're listening to a oh a adams on agriculture. Don't go away more adams on agriculture. Coming right up heading to husker harvest as in grand island nebraska this year be sure to stop by booth to talk with local agronomist and product experts then walk across the aisle and visit the syngenta square to relax and enjoy a cold beverage. Mike adams of atoms on agriculture. We'll be broadcasting. Live all three days from syngenta booth. Eleven o six stop by to watch the show live at nine. Am that's eleven o six at nine. Am we look forward to seeing you in grand island at husker harvest as these cruces. You've put your life into your view each harvest morning while the industry changes this land is meant to be here for your grandkids. And then there's that's why. Eighty s and drainage contractors across the nation are doing our part to protect america's farm families we're proud to provide water management solutions that make family farms like yours more profitable now and for generations to come learn more about how we keep families farming at ads. Pipe dot com. You're listening to aoa. I'm kirsten role. Export sales saw the impact of hurricane ida tuesday. Last week's crop shipments were about half of the prior week's volume and only about forty three percent of the ten week average volume. So even inspections. We're the worst week in seven years. The positive news coming out of new orleans is that the mississippi river was reopened to barge traffic however most export terminals remain without power on the board of trade. We saw some early morning strength now. We are trading mostly in the red on the trade december corn trading. Three quarters of a cent higher at five eleven and a half cent. The march contract up three quarters at five twenty one in a fraction for soybeans and november contract. Down two and three quarters at twelve seventy four and a fraction the january contract down three and a fraction at twelve eighty four four weeks chicago wheat december down seven and a fraction at seven twelve and a half cent kansas city. We december down a dime at seven. Oh seven and a half cent. Minneapolis spring wheat december down. Thirteen and a half cent at eight. Ninety four and three the march contract down fourteen at eighty two and a half cent commodities fell in general on tuesday as traders came back from the extended weekend seeing overall bearish news. The increase of cova cases might hinder beef demand. To some extent as some slowing of restaurant activity may surface however this may be offset by retailer mant looking at the futures on the board of trade. The october live cattle contract. Trading forty cents higher at one twenty four twelve december contract up a dime at one twenty nine sixty four feeder cattle september. Up seventy two at one hundred and fifty seven dollars even the october contract up thirty at one sixty thirty five looking at lean hogs the october contract dollar five higher at eighty nine fifteen december up seventy seven at eighty one fifty five in the outside markets that i was up thirty eight points. The nasdaq composite down. Forty eight the s. p. five hundred up one the. Us dollar index is trending higher. You're listening to a away. I'm kirsten role. I'll take dig a little learn a lot for thirty bushels soft and crumbly tom. How does healthy soil. Feel to the touch correct. Dig a little for forty bushels sweet and earthy tom. What does healthy soil smell like. Yes go again dig a little for fifty bushels. Dark porous and the live tom. What does healthy soil look like you win. Understanding the basics and benefits of healthy soil can make your farm a winner to through lower input costs better yields and drought protection which can lead to a healthier bottom line for your business. Contact your local natural resources conservation service office today to find out how you can unlock the secrets in your soil. This message brought to you by. Usda's natural resources conservation service and this radio station. Hi this is mike adams. Thanks for listening to adams on agriculture. Join me monday. Through friday for the latest farm and agriculture news from around the world information america's farmers and ranchers need to know on a now back to mike adams all right time for our husker harvest as preview brought to you by syngenta. Our guest is matt young nationally. Vince manager for farm progress. Before we look ahead matt to next week's husker harvest stays in grand island nebraska. Let's look back one more time last week. Farm progress show indicator ideal weather and a very successful show. Yeah i would. I would agree completely and you kinda you get that evaluation. It's kinda built around a lot of different things. That's what the what the growers are saying. And what the good that are saying. The vendors and the transactions that occurred and those kinds of things and you know. I got out the husker Earlier this week and you start seeing the exhibitors that made the same trip i did. They did farm progress show. And then they're out here setting up husker harvest days and the conversations that i'm having with them. Is you know stack up with everything that you said that that they had a good show They you know most of all they were just glad to be back together. And having event and and have the industry get together And so it was. It was very successful and you know it. It just seems like when we have a good farm progress show it rolls over to get husker harvest days. The weather patterns kind of a look similar in and you know so everything is in everything. Everything is looking up for for next week. Yeah the checking. That forecast for grand island does look favorable at this point for next tuesday wednesday thursday for husker harvest as you mentioned The exhibitors that moved from farm progress to husker one of those being syngenta. I broadcast last week from this agenda tent all three days and all broadcast from the syngenta tent all three days next week but even though the exhibit field looks different more irrigation equipment and more on the livestock side at husker than at farm progress. There are several exhibitors at do Go to both right. Yep yep you've got You know your cornerstone cornerstone corporate exhibits the big ones. You know you have your The the folks from case. I h or are already here setting up john deere and atco new holiday are. Everything's everything's rolling in and it's kind of like all the conversations we've had through the summer and leading up to the show where right now we're at that point worthy. The infrastructure is pretty much their tensor up and the church are finishing up. The landscapers are working hard. And it's the beginning of the exhibitors rolling in and starting to put the displays actually put the pieces in place whether it's display components or pieces of equipment And i actually as her on the phone looking out the window the show office. I just saw the first pressure. Washers count in so. That's that's the next logical step in this once. Once they get things in place for good the pressure washers will come in and make it look shining and while some people may go to both shows as far as just show attendees. You're drawing from a different geography. Really for husker right. You'll reach out to some folks who are on the out in the western part of the country and have a pretty big draw. Multi-state.
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"Hi. This is mike adams. You're listening to a oh a adams on agriculture. Don't go away more adams on agriculture. Coming right up heading to husker harvest days in grand island nebraska this year. Be sure to stop by this injects boots to talk with local agronomist and product experts. Then walk across the aisle and visit the syngenta square to relax and enjoy a cold beverage. Mike adams of atoms on agriculture will be broadcasting. Live all three days from syngenta boot. Eleven o six stop by to watch the show live at nine. Am that's who eleven o six at nine. Am we look forward to seeing you in grand island at husker harvest days when it comes to squeezing the most fuel efficiency out of every gallon of diesel fuel. There's nothing better than diesel school from. Nfs modern engines are designed with more power while preventing harmful emissions diesel expert. Keep them operating that way with. Its advanced detergent. Chemistry that keeps injectors operating like new. And it's healthy dose of c. Tina pervert that make sure engine start quickly and combust fuel more completely so count on diesel for mathis absolutely the best fuel to power and protect diesel engines visit go further with dot com for more information. You're listening to. I'm kirsten roll coming off the three day weekend the grain and oilseed sector is lower across the board the usda wall st report due out. Friday traders will be aligning their positions to their expectations all week. Private trade estimates are calling for the average. us corn yield to increase one point. Three bushels per acre over the august estimate to one hundred seventy five point eight bushels per acre and the bean neil to increase point three bushels per acre to fifty point three traders expect. Us corn and bean ending stocks will be increased for both the crop and new crop. Us week carryover is expected to go the other direction. The average trade estimate predicts an eleven million bushel reduction in week carryover on the board of trade this morning december corn trading seven and a half cent lower at five sixteen and a fraction the march contract down seven and a half cent at five twenty five and three quarters four soybeans the november contract down to in a fraction at twelve eighty nine and a half cent the january contract down two and three quarters at twelve ninety eight and a half cent for week chicago. Wheat december down eleven and a half cent at seven. Fourteen and three quarters. Kansas city december. Down six and three quarters at seven sixteen and a fraction minneapolis. Spring wheat december. Down six cents at nine. Oh six and a half cent. The march contract down six and a half cent at eight ninety four and three quarters. The pressure seen four. Cattle futures has been ruthless box beef. Prices continue to decline with choice cuts down a dollar fifty and select cuts down. Eighty four cents last week once holiday. Demand is assessed further price direction will be established for live cattle futures on the board of trade. The october contract down five cents at one twenty four seventy five the december contract down fifteen at one thirty eighty two four feet or cuddle september down forty seven at one fifty eight even the october contract down. Sixty five at one. Sixty one eighty two in lean hogs the october contract dollar twenty lower at eight thirty seven december dollar seventeen lower at eighty ninety. Two you're listening to a away. I'm kirsten rall as an organ donor. Your story doesn't after end the good in you can live on in fact you could save up to eight lives with gifts. Your heart could keep beating kidneys. Could keep filtering and your intestines keep digesting for others. And that's not all you can improve the lives of fifty more people as an eye and tissue restoring sight and health. 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Increase from from the previous month but it the index has been relatively flat on the last three months. And so we were at one hundred. Thirty eight in august That that compares to one hundred thirty four in july and a hundred and thirty seven june so relatively flat when you look at the two sub-indices however there was a there was some improvement in the in the index of current conditions. And and i. And i think that's can be explained and a couple of different ways first of all You know crop prices at held fairly steady in terms of the prospects for this this fall but as we get closer to harvest. If if it's look at it's look it looks like there's going to be fairly good harvest People get a little bit more optimistic and so we may see some in depending on on on yield projections. We may see some improvement as we move into the fall Based based on a potential crop yields so up just slightly from a month ago. How do the august numbers this year compared to the august numbers last year. Well the this year are are better quite a bit better What they were last year particularly the index our current conditions and But also the index of future expectations. is is is down is it's actually down slightly and so and so it's kind of a mixed bag. The current conditions index is rather substantially. But that's not surprising. Price started climbing Last fall Last fall and they've really stayed relatively high compared to what they were last august The terms index future expectations are higher than we were last We we are a little bit lower the mobile where last summer. and that's a little bit Little bit confusing. But i think what's happening. There is when you look at the index and future expectations for the current month They're seeing the prices are going to be a little bit lower than what they were in in fall. Twenty twenty one. And i think that's keeping that index of teacher expectations a little bit lower than what it has been Has been earlier this year and also.
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"Coming right up information america's farmers and ranchers need to know on a. Oh now back to mike edits. We continue to look at the economy last time. We talked with american farm. Bureau federation economists. Veronica ni- we were talking about rising input costs certainly a challenge that Even during this time of higher commodity prices Higher input costs Are a factor for farmers to deal with Even with a strong market that we've seen for some time. Now there are still economic challenges out there for some farmers who went to look at the the farm bankruptcy numbers veronica. Thank you for joining us. what levels are we at right now with of farm bankruptcies compared to a year ago or two years ago and yeah so you know actually For the first time since two thousand fifteen. The overall national data on farm chapter twelve firm bankruptcies is that we've actually seen a decline. Which of course is is welcomed news but measuring from july one twenty twenty through june. Thirty two thousand twenty one That that's the basis of for counting or look we saw four hundred thirty eight chapter twelve bankruptcies in the us which was down twenty four percent from where we were in the same period that ended june thirty twenty twenty so certainly the right direction Though you know. I'd be remiss to if i didn't say you know every week farm. Bankruptcy that that we see is certainly called three pause and is an unfortunate so Not too not not to jump out with the. Hey good news but still acknowledging but you know any any farm losses it is. Yeah the good news. It's trending in the right direction but as you said There are still those individual issues and challenges that are faced out there and we hate to see anyone go through that So when we look at the overall economy Another time of strong prices. They're up and down a little bit but overall certainly higher levels and we seem for some time that gives opportunities but As we've talked about before the higher input costs there are challenges yet. Still manage that right. So Just because the commodity prices are higher. That doesn't mean everything is Everybody's going to do a great and All all problems go away. It just doesn't quite work that way does it now. Unfortunately doesn't and i think when we look at regional data it start and becoming more apparent. What the challenges might be on obviously mentioned the input prices which is certainly weighing heavy on on folks When you look at the The west and the southwest tour going through substantial amount of you know sort of unprecedented drought right now We saw significant uptick in those regions For the number of bankruptcies and unfortunately Would one would expect that that that we'll probably see some more on when we look back next year on this time. So you know in in the southwest which is a region that doesn't tend to have a lot of of bankruptcies Forty one percent increase this year. Compared to two laughed in the west which the west is is Cal basically california He's on a thirteen percent increase..
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"Are seeing higher futures for the grain and oilseed sector september corn trading eight cents higher at five forty five and three quarters the december contract up eight at five forty three and a half cent for soybean september up. Thirty one and three quarters at thirteen. Twenty five and three quarters the november contract up twenty-nine at thirteen twenty one and three quarters for weeks chicago wheat. September down four cents at seven. Fifteen and three quarters. Minneapolis spring wheat. September up three and three quarters at nine twenty eight and a half cent. The december contract up two and three quarters at nine o eight and a half cent for livestock. Both live 'em feeder. Cattle found strong support from the cattle on feed report with all contracts making new highs on monday the july cold-storage report showed beef inventory at four hundred and one point three million pounds slightly lower than june but nine percent below a year ago the commitment of traders report showed funds as net buyers of one thousand nine hundred and sixty one contracts increasing their net long positions to seventy thousand seven hundred and seventy three contracts for live cattle on the board of trade. This morning october up seventy five cents at one thirty two seventy the december contract up a dollar seventeen at one thirty eight even for feeder cattle. The september contract a dollar thirty to higher at one sixty eight sixty to october up a dollar forty five at one seventy two seventeen four lean hogs october contract trading thirty seven cents higher at eighty seven eighty five december contract down to what eighty one thirty seven. You're listening to a away. 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Through friday for the latest farm and agriculture news from around the world information america's farmers and ranchers need to know on a now back to mike all right so epa is expected to propose lowering biofuel usage levels for twenty twenty one perhaps increasing them next year. Let's get reaction to that. From the ceo of the national biodiesel board donal re hagan donald. Thank you for joining us I know this has to be frustrating to you. Because you've wanted to see. Biodiesel levels increased over the years. And now you're looking at the possibility of them being lowered. Well very disappointing for us. If this is in fact the way things are going to be You know whereas industry very well poised to increase our production and bring more of these. Clean transportation deals into the marketplace. And we kind of felt like that was what the biden administration was looking for cleaner transportation. And so we're we're definitely scratching their heads on this one so they may be lowered and twenty twenty one. It's going to be all before we know in the year is almost over. Talk you donald regan. Ceo the national. bio-diesel board. I was saying lowered in twenty one even though the year's almost over now so that's frustrating in itself but perhaps increase some next year. The law still specifies that there should be a final increase in twenty twenty two five hundred million gallons for advanced biofuels and that's a category that biodiesel renewable diesel fit into so we would expect you know at least that But as i said earlier. I mean we've got great potential this year much less next year to see those kind of increases and to bring cleaner transportation fuels into the marketplace. And again i think this is exactly what the bite administration was looking for and it was something that he spoke about on on the campaign trail. So we're really unsure of how we get how we've got into this position where what he said in what he's The administration is looking to do or are different. Is this some attempt. You think to make mo sides happy biofuels and the oil industry. I mean we've we've gone through several years of trying to find that Compromise and it hasn't been found yet. Well you're exactly right i. I'm sure there's some element of that we've seen this for years with the are fast Every administration has tried to find that sweet spot. You know that keeps the renewable fuels organizations happy and the refiners happy at the same time and knowing a little bit about the rfs. I'm not sure there's a sweet spot like that. I mean at the end of the day. Congress said we want more renewable fuels. They said that a dozen years ago and and We used there should be increasing volumes on an annual basis. That's what congress established in the first place. Don now i keep coming back to this. Because i mean it seems so obvious if if your goal is to improve the environment hit you have these climate goals that you've set and you're acknowledging high prices The motor cer- paying and you could lower those prices by using a domestic industry. That's in place and ready to produce to help you achieve both goals. But yet the administration doesn't seem to wanna fully embraced the biofuels industry. Well i think it's that conflict you know with The the oil refiners as well looking to try to hang onto as much Their industry as they can there is. There's a conflict here so i don't think it's something that can't be You know a pathway found through that challenge shaw again. We're talking about a smaller volumes. In our case you know three billion ish gallons a year to a relatively small amount When you look at the overall Pool of fuel and so It just doesn't seem like it would be this difficult to To see growth in our industry on an annual basis moderate growth we're not asking for exorbitant growth and growth at a level that we've proven that we can do And that sends those signals to us. and and signals investment into our industry and therefore it's a great thing for agriculture. As well for a while it seemed like this was going to be a huge opening for renewable diesel. We heard about all the opportunities and the possibilities but then again the focus on the attention all seemed to go back to electric vehicles. Where do we stand right now for Renewable diesel well. Renewable diesel has a very hot commodity at the moment And i think will be for a long period of time. It's very compatible. And nearly identical to diesel fuel and so it makes it easy drop in replacement fuel and one hundred percent renewable and so The the fast again will create these baseline for demands. But we're seeing an increased growth in state policies that are drawing bio-diesel in renewable diesel into their marketplaces as they seek their own goals to reduce carbon and approved the g. h. e. profiles of fuels that are being used in their spaces. That's a good point don al. We talk a lot about the federal level but More and more states are doing things. And that's a key moving forward what these individual states do. What types of.
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Broadcasters almost twice as reliable as major news outlets farm radio continues to be transparent honest and trustworthy. This message brought to you by the national association of farm broadcasting. You're listening to a oh a adams on agriculture. Hi this is. Mike adams you can rely on us for the latest farm and ranch news from around the world information america's farmers and ranchers need to know on a show. Now back to. Mike ed's all right. Welcome back we've been talking with. Naomi bloom senior market advisor for total far marketing for some time about the markets. And what could Slow the market rally down or or anything like that and she said well there's always the potential of a black swan event. Naomi bloom joins us now. Naomi could this Rumored rv announcement of lower rv levels for the year for biofuels. Could that be a black swan event for the markets and absolutely it would be something fully unexpected and that's what. It was a really blow for prices last week on friday when the news broke that. Epa was going to potentially do lower lending mandates for the rest of this year Maybe next year and then after the market closed on friday then there was a new announcement that said well it might be lower for the rest of the two thousand twenty one but twenty twenty two could potentially bring in new demands so the bottom line is that we don't have a clue what's going on and we're not sure where things are going to be. I know that in november is the deadline for This process to be finalized and for recommendations to be made but the market didn't like it especially with now perception. that is the yield. Maybe a little bit larger out there in the field with some of the rain. That's been coming through so again when you have just a lack of continuous bullish news on marketplace prices usually drift lower. And that's what we saw friday. And that's continuing again today for monday's trade deadline's on this me. Nothing to epa in any administration seems like. They're always late with these here. We are waiting for the twenty twenty one announcement and it's probably at least another month away. I mean the year's almost over before we get it so Remains a big question mark so we see. You mentioned the improving conditions in some places. I mean That could help some crops but not a lot but it is kind of set up more of a different tone for the markets as we head into harvest though exactly what's happening because seasonally it's kinda normal for the price slide lower throughout the end of august. So we're starting to see that seasonality come into play and again because there's not this confirmation of tightly tightly tightly supplies and smaller and in fact that's just making the market slide. A little bit lower. So now we're going to be stuck here waiting for some news dreamers. The first bit of news is gonna come later this week when we come and see fed commentary. They're all getting together for their big pow jackson hole. And that's gonna affect the value of the dollar and then the next year report of course isn't until september so we have a little bit of time there before we get a better confirmation on yield. And what it's going to be doing so Overall though here's my thought if prices do drift a little bit lower you're going to see more countries coming in and doing some buying because of the overall theme of how tight ending stocks are not just for corn not just for soybeans. But it's all wheat now here in the united states and its oats and it's canola and the global wheat pies are starting to drift a little bit lower as well so any price break that we see is going to be met with buying and we saw that this morning. Mexico came in and i had a huge export sale for corn. So i think it's only a matter of time where we see china come in and do a little bit more buying as well because it's good value. The ending stocks are tight. And i still think we're going to start to see traders figure out overall how tight ending stocks are especially for this old crap. I still talk farmers who slept out there bins weeks ago and these are folks who maybe would have been dragging their heals yet and other years but there is really in my opinion not a of old crap out there so we are in dire native. This new crop to get harvested. And you're still seeing that with your cash. Market's showing positive basis levels and the demand overall is still strong so i'm still bullish for the long term because demand is strong and we have the tight tightening tax everywhere but just might have to do with slight drag prices for the short term until we demand kick up and step in again. You mentioned the fed meeting this week and the value of the dollar. We need to watch that.
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"On this topic. Well we tried to reassure our members that electric vehicles despite all the rhetoric despite all the talk electric vehicles are not going to take over anytime soon that there will be hundreds of millions of vehicles for decades upon decades on decades that are going to depend upon liquid fuels to operate and if climate is genuinely goal of this administration. You would think they'd wanna do everything That they have the power to do to make sure that we're using the maximum levels of renewable fuels. And it really goes back to what we were just talking about it a minute ago. Does this administration want to reduce greenhouse gases or do they just wanna talk about it because if they just wanna talk about it then keep the rhetoric up on electric vehicles because today's electric vehicles are plugging into power generated from fossil fuels. It'll be decades from now before we see renewable energy. Powering the those electric vehicles. But if you want to do something today in a meaningful way to reduce greenhouse gases. Let's us more ethanol in our fuel supply and we tried to assure our members that we are indeed part of the solution laid out the number of ways we can reach net zero emissions from corn ethanol net negative greenhouse gas emissions from corn ethanol. So we're trying to empower our members to go on offense. Mike we need sort of a Someone on the other end of that Receiving end of that message to be willing to have a conversation with us and and we've been struggling with that so far with this administration. Yeah they don't seem to be listening or or taking the message. That doesn't sound like now. Congress to i mean didn't they missed the boat on this infrastructure package which we wait to see what happens with head. I mean there are a lot of good things in the infrastructure package. The one point two trillion. That could really help agriculture with with hard infrastructure. But they kind of missed the boat where they could've helped with the The biofuels industry to they sure did and we had representative. Angie craig minnesota come visit with our Conference Members in person and she admitted that that on the senate side They missed the opportunity to really provide support for blender pumps or other infrastructure at the retail level for higher blends and methanol. There's bipartisan legislation out there to provide incentives to automakers to make sure there are more and more of these flexible fuel vehicles on the road that can use up to eighty five. I was encouraged to hear the congresswoman. Say that as this legislation this infrastructure legislation begins to make its way over to the house of representatives. In fact they are reconvening today to take up infrastructure for a couple of days that she and other members of congress are going to make Make it a priority whether it's Usda biofuel infrastructure assistance flexible fuel vehicle incentives or her legislation that would restore that e fifteen market year round. We do have some champions that are looking out for us but we gotta make sure that we get something meaningful in these infrastructure bills. If they're going to be headed to the president's desk he did get a grant from through. Usda though to help but with infrastructure as far as blender pumps well on thursday of last week. Usda did make an announcement of another. I think twenty three million dollars. That was already that was previously sort of allocated For usda through the hbo program but every bit helps there's no doubt about it mike And we're grateful. Usda continues to you know address that and make sure that they're geographically spreading out where they are helping incentivizes infrastructure. So people all around. The country can benefit from higher blends of ethanol. So it just wrap it up. You did have a good conference last week. It's good to be back Safe to face with people again right. Yeah despite the headwinds are challenges or however you want to describe it. People were really pleased to get back together. I think it was. It was very re-energizing for myself and our staff and our board to get together with remember so we appreciate the opportunity mike. Yup just wish you had better news to tell them to talk about but Hey this industries faced big challenges before and you've been able to overcome them. I'm sure you will again now. Brian thanks a lot. Always good to talk with you. Thanks so much mike. Take care you too. Brian jennings ceo of the american coalition for ethanol. Yeah just extremely frustrating. This This should be a time. That should be a real boom for the biofuels industry. These climate goals and You know helping lower prices at the pump. That's what this industry this domestic industry. This biofuels industry could do but the administration continues to look the other way while could this expected announcement on. Rv levels be.
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"As we go along. Yeah it's it's more difficult to push things about now of course we're in pollination now for the bulk of the crop were the bulk of the crop. Nationally is pollinating within a ten day period. So that's very significant. Had we seen a major doma doom like nine thousand nine hundred ninety eight or two thousand twelve. It would've been devastating for the crop but because of the tight global situation right now especially with the short brazil crop that just going to get smaller. We don't need that type of situation to create problems. All we need is a five percent drop in yield and we've got a problem In and actually less than that just a drop in the yield down to one seventy five and we have a problem. So and i get a lot of people saying arslan. You're overstating things you know. We we got a lot of corn around the country. Yeah we do that. It doesn't or titan if it doesn't take that big of a problem in order to create tightness in the global balance sheet going forward and that's why matters fact on soybeans anything less than a trend yield and we have to ration demand So there's even less margin fair was silly being twitches why soybeans have been taking more of the lead here over the past week or so. It's just a different scenario than we've had for quite some time. We're talking with arlen superman with stone ex all right. So china makes another one of these announcements that they're going to increase production I said this yesterday a political announcement and the reality and reality are too often two different things ride. Just because you say you're gonna do something doesn't mean you will or can yeah. That's an excellent point night. I had a conversation with our team in shanghai about this Just this week earlier this week and We talked about the various things that the government is doing to try to bring about. Increased supply Because they do want to be self sufficient. They don't like having to be dependent on importing food related products And so they've been investing in the seed industry. They've been investing in a lot of different factors they've given quotas to the various provinces that reward them if they increase production in there that in their region of responsibility well within china what that does is encourage line and so local authorities say well we increased production more than they actually did. So the numbers come out. Perhaps that's why we see inflated stocks levels for china right now that. Usda continues to report to this day. Even though we know from the cash market that china's basically out of corn And having to import what they're auctioning now is what they've actually imported from the united states and ukraine so the other factor is i specifically asked water the chances that they're going to be successful at increasing yields with all the things that are doing and he said it's going to be very slow going first of all chinese farmer puts on far more fertilizer than what he needs to. He already over fertilizes. so he's trying to maximize yield that way already and it you know. And they're still getting a national average yield of around one hundred bushels paret ker versus where we're at today of eighty bushels about eighty percent above that so then what about genetics so they still have tremendous opposition to gmo there within china and while there have been a lot of cooperative farms developed over recent years With a lot of people moving from the country into town they still the dominant situation. Agriculture is hundreds of millions of farmers with a little acre half acre to an acre farm. And it's very difficult to get them to accept the new technology and to apply it and china could do things to move those people off the farms and to build the big cooperative fires within. What do you do with these hundreds of millions of people that you gotta provide income to in economy. That's really struggling right now And so it. I think short term. They may be overstating. Ucf may be overstating. What china needs to import or will import near term. But i think they still have a big corn feed deficiency problem. That's going to continue in the years ahead right. Let's look at our economy as an economist. How concerned are you about inflation. I'm very concerned. Obviously when you come out of a recession and in this case it was a made to to shut down the economy. Slow the spread of corona virus When you come out of that you're gonna have a surge in demand. It takes some time to get to supply lines going again and so you're gonna have some inflation that's the transitory or temporary inflation. There are certainly a lot of evidence of that. What i've been arguing though is. We're gonna have more perpetual Inflation beyond that and for that. We simply had to wait for the evidence. The back that up and now we're starting to see that the data that Excuse me that we've seen come out the last couple of days and the consumer level and from the producer level is showing that it's showing both it's showing the transitory and it's showing more the perpetual now and i think it's a big problem when you increase you do have increased demand but there's some shen is it. That's just temporary. But when you increase money supply the way we've done five trillion dollars over the last two years That of increased availability of money into the consumer's hands to translates into higher spending levels. And what the otherwise would and yes. They're paying down debt But they're still spending more as well and a couple of reports that came out this morning from the new york fed. manufacturing district as well as philadelphia. The first of the round for this month cycle of fed district Reports again showing the tremendous demand manufactured goods and prices going up at a rapid pace and the fed type likes to take food and energy out of the equation when they'd look at core inflation but food and energy costs are going up fast and they are foundational for a lot of these others and wage. Inflation this morning's report showing projected wage inflation afford a five percent. That's perpetual inflation there as well and that tends to be imported of commodities long-term arlen. Thanks a lot appreciate it. Thank you arlen. Centerman chief commodities economists for stone Stay with us. You're listening to a i. This is mike adams. You're listening to a oh a adams on agriculture. Don't go away more adams on agriculture. Coming right up take a look under your bed. Find stuff under there. What about jobs. No now try your basement. There's a pair of overalls at overall. 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"Join us. Every tuesday for a round the table brought to you by c. h. s. as we examine how the modern cooperative system solve today's biggest challenges. We'll be talking to see. Hsa experts and farmers and ranchers just like you and will learn how cooperative supply innovation and technology to help co up owners get more value every day. So join us for around the table. Every tuesday or visit cooperative ownership dot com to learn more. You're listening to a adams on agriculture. Hi this is. Mike adams you can rely on us for the latest farm and ranch news from around the world information. America's farmers and ranchers need to know on a day. Now back to mike adams always good to talk with steve since key. Ceo the american soybean association and former deputy secretary at usda. Steve thanks for joining us when it gets your thoughts on Usda and the biden administration's plan to address a lot of areas a are really aggressively Getting into a lot of different Areas including these executive orders from the president seeking to address consolidation throughout the economy especially in agriculture They requiring us aid consideration new rules under the packers and stockyards act They want to get into address the right to repair farm equipment issue. We know they're funding now putting them funding small meat processing plants. I mean they're they're they're proposing a lot of things here From your time at usda was it like to implement that kind of an agenda. Well mike. it's I it's a big lift And certainly that's what You're absolutely right. On the executive order that the president has issued it outlined seventy two different areas where he seeks to try to increase competition in the economy which is great. I mean we're a capitalist. Society and competition is is is great for that but in many areas the actual eeo itself it says it urges agencies to consider certain actions and so that means that they have to go through rulemaking process and To go through both the proposed rule to get comments on it too then issue a final rule And make that effective that is about a year and a half two year process under the best of circumstances. Yeah i've been talking a lot about that. I mean there's a lot of it you know you get a lot of fanfare around the initial announcement but then you get into the process. The bureaucratic process the red tape and everything that you've got to go through and it does take it does take a while. And sometimes he sings kind of bogged down in that process. Yes it does. it does But that being said i mean there. There's really some things i mean. We'll have to look at some of the details on some of these proposals once. Usda or other agencies issue proposed rules but there are some areas that certainly we at the american soybean association. You know we're supportive of initially Take a look and and certainly you mentioned the right to repair for farmers Giving farmers right to repair or have independent Repairs operated on their equipment. That's something that are voting. Delegates came together this last winter. And that's something that they came down in supportive as is that right to repair There's other things in there. about allowing Encouraging the surface transportation board to allow competitive switching. So when you have a Shipper that served by only one railroad To request a bid or rate From from A nearby railroad which we think is good to try to help deal with some of these captive shipping type issues and exorbitant rail rates that can occur in some instances I want to get your thoughts on something else. what when you when. I hear that the government's going to have listening sessions whether its farm bill or some of these things My first reaction is. Oh here we go again. I mean i. I understand the need for them. Appreciate the opportunity for people to speak out on these things. But i often wonder how much difference do they make. Do we hear the same thing from the same people the same groups. You already know what they're going to say but they get another chance to say them. And then. how much does that. What they have to say actually influenced the outcome from your time at usda. What was your experience. I might my experience from from being working at. Usda and serving as deputy was that they actually do have an influence. Mind that You learn things through that process of both the listening sessions But especially also the notice and comment period like we just talked about how long it takes to issue a proposed rule and then to receive comment on that but that is actually a good thing because you actually do get some very constructive comments that come in through the comment period that Give suggestions on or or point out you know Unintended consequences that might happen And so is far better to go through that process even though it takes a little bit longer than it is for government agency to try to impose a rule without any kind of comment period or listening session. Because that's where you really do. Get the unintended consequences. Meanwhile we're saying the slow process in congress trying to get an infrastructure package through. What are you seeing there. That makes you either optimistic or concerned. Well we remain optimistic. We're the american soybean association. We're supporting the bipartisan Infrastructure package that says you well no. That's the one with what we call the hard infrastructure the investments and the roads and bridges and inland waterways and ports and broadband Rural water systems We think that's that actually makes a lot of sense and that they're still struggling to try to put all the details and how it's going to be paid for together But again goes are all priorities that we in agriculture have advocated for for a long time. So we're strongly in favor of that it's going to avoid needs to avoid the poison tax provision like the stepped up basis now the other packages that they're working on is And just the senate. Budget committee announced the top line number last night. Three and a half trillion dollars on what is known as the soft or the human infrastructure. And there's just a lot of things in there and how it's going to be paid for a lot of questions about that. Yeah they questions on how to pay for it for sure so we wait and see what they come up with but Yeah it seems like one day. You think you're you're the one Package is getting a little more traction than the other than the next day it turns right around so we're still waiting to see all right. Steve always appreciate your perspective. Being on both sides of the a lot of these issues from your time at usda and now back with asap. Appreciate your perspective. Thanks a lot. Thank you. So much mike. Talk with steve sanski. Ceo of the american soybean association with that wraps it up for today. Thank you so much for joining us Tomorrow we'll talk more about some of these issues and look at some of the Growing concerns over inflation for our economy overall and what that would mean for agriculture. Hope.
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