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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from WINNING BITCOIN TRADES (Top Profit Taking Strategy)
"What's up, everybody? My name is Kelly Kellum. Welcome to Discover Crypto. I'm here to give you a needed public service announcement. It is you don't go broke taking profits. Bitcoin has pumped massively over this last week. Looking here on the chart, we see it's pushed up how many percent? All the way up over 25, 30 percent almost this week alone. If you are trading this market, and I'm not talking about long term investing, if you are trading this market, there is zero reason why at this point you shouldn't have taken some profits off this trade, reallocated it into your long term portfolio, into your short term trading portfolio, and of course, some cash on the side to make sure that you are living on some of these profits. What are profits if you're not taking them out of the market and utilizing them in your life? And so looking at this chart, we see, yes, Bitcoin pumped massively. We also see things like Ethereum pushed up. We see coins like Mina. Look at how large this pump is. In fact, this one far eclipsed what we saw in Bitcoin this week, over 144, 150 percent move. If you traded this, if you traded this breakout, what breakout am I talking about? Well, look at this massive downtrend that we see right here. Let's see if we can find a trend line somewhere within this. There is a trend line right there from point, point, point on this breakout. If you took this trade, great trade. But if you have taken no profits off this trade yet, then this is not a trade. If you're looking for the future, if you're long term investing, great. No harm, no foul. But if you are trading this, you're trying to stack your crypto before this next bull market. Why haven't you taken any profit? The way you really build your capital in this market as a trader is to take calculated moves. Head yourself. Also, use good, healthy risk management. Wait for those trade signals to line up, whether using the BitLab trading stack, whether using Stochastics and RSI and pattern breakouts, whatever you're utilizing, whatever strategy works best for you. You need to also have a strategy to exit the trade. And that doesn't mean you go all in and you pull all out. No, what you want to do is ladder your entries and ladder your exits. So how could we know where to take some profits on this? Let's go over to Bitcoin real quick. Well, zooming out on this chart, you'll recognize this chart I've been using over this last few weeks on Discover Crypto when I'm doing the TA. We got a couple key lines we got to watch for. That's just basically parallel channel we have going to the upside. We broke down from this critical juncture right here on August 14th. This is a very key level. We also see key bounce, key bounce, the formation of this trend line right here all the way up. Where did price action move to? Well, if you took a breakout trade anywhere on this chart, we could see we have a downtrend resistance right here that we did break out of. We did find that confirmation. We want to find those confirmations if we want to stack our profits over time. So we see the move is perfectly calculated. And there's multiple points in here in which I could have seen very small scalp trades and also maybe a little bit more of a swing trade over the course of a couple of days or a couple of weeks. In this case, we see a bull flag. We see a bull flag and we see an explosion right here, which is not at this point is a bit of a bull flag. But when we see this, the measured move on this right here, we see there's a flagpole and look at that. That would have been a perfect opportunity to take a portion of your profits out of that trade in case the market moves the other direction. Similarly, we got this bull flag again. Let's see that measured move. So you should have already had an identified level on the chart that you take some off the table, whether it's 15 percent, 25 percent, 50 percent, you're going to have to determine that yourself based on what your goals are in this market. But on this massive move that we see right here, if you've taken zero off the table, there's no guarantee this is going to go up because nothing in the market ever goes like this up, up, up, up, up, up and away forever. In fact, if we zoom back out and we go over here all the way, let's come look all the way back. Did this go straight up? It did. But then we had the pullback. We had a consolidation. We had a pullback, started rounding and it collapsed. It did not go straight up forever. If we go to another chart, we look at something like 2017 push up, pull back, push up, pull back, push up, pull back. Feels like it's going to go straight up, up and away forever. And what do we get? It moves down almost as fast as it goes up. A lot of times in these markets, if you are not prepared, you can get caught holding the bag while everybody else sold to you to take profits on their good position and you're holding the bag on the way down because you didn't have a strategy. This is all about strategy and how well you can keep yourself in line with strategy. So here's another great example of this parallel channel. We have the parallel channel as well as this rising level of support. You know, on this way up, there should be some some profit taking here, even if it wasn't in your targets, some profit taking, even if this continues up, at least you have some capital from the profits you took on this move in your trade. This again, not a long term investment. If your strategy on this move on a for a portion, an allocation of your longer term portfolio, you set aside for trading and then in your trades, you take profits on the way up and you rotate some of that into your long term portfolio, into your bag so you can take your wife or your boyfriend or your mom out and just show them love. Take care of the people in your life, give to charity, utilize the skills you're using in this market, the skills that you're utilizing to capture money making opportunities. If you never take any money out of the market, if you never rotated into your long term goal, your long term portfolio, what are you in this for? I don't want just to see numbers on my screen go up and say, man, at one point I had not because I've done this before, at one point when you're starting to take screenshots of a trade you just made or your portfolio because it's so high, that's a great indication. If you're not out of that trade, if you're not changing and rotating capital in your portfolio, it's a good indication when you're feeling proud of a move, it's probably a good time to start taking some profits. If we come over here to Mina, how could we known to take profits? Well, one, this is going straight up. Not only did it go straight up, let's look at how big this move was to the downside. That is a 20 % move to the downside. Now using the BitLab trading stack, you can see on this eight hour chart, we have high volume candles. That's what these teal candles are here. It's saying that there's a lot of buying pressure. Then we get a huge wick to the upside. We get a bearish signal right here, part of the BitLab trading stack. This is a BitLab intelligence and we can see we get the yellow candle means stopping volume. Now maybe you didn't get out here, maybe you didn't get out the top, but at this point, we got three key things at play. We have a bearish signal. We have almost a doji shooting stars type of candle suggesting the narrative of the bulls is no longer as strong as it was proceedingly. We see the expansion in bullish momentum. Now we're seeing a very equal battle between the bulls and the bears and stopping volume and a bearish signal, a lot of indications, even if you're not sure, is it going to go down? Is it going to go up? We have this trend line that broke out. It pushed to the upside. We had all the signals that we just went over. But in addition to that, how do I know what the identifier level is to take some profits off of? Well, let's go ahead. We can draw some lines. We can draw a horizontal ray there, draw a horizontal ray right there at this cycle low. We could do right here from this high. We also see this goes all the way from this high, this high, this bounces. And so this gives us an example. If you're not a fan of looking left on the charts, but you can also come over here, find your fib, do a fib retracement from the top all the way down to the bottom. I just want you to notice something. Where do we see? Where do we see that this price reversed at? Right inside the golden pocket, 0 .618, 0 .65. Right here, we can see that the price action pushed right into the zone and got immediately rejected. So once you're starting to pass the 382, the 0 .5 and the 618, you want to watch for an opportunity to get some off the table because this is one of the highest hit rates for where price action goes and pulls back from, finds a little bit of a rejection from. That doesn't mean that it won't continue higher after, but it's a great spot to pull some off the table and reallocate it on a pullback or again into one of those other assets you have your eye on. If you're not feeling incredibly confident about the move of the assets that you're trading, then it's a time to take some profits off the table, put it in your back pocket, rotate it in that other altcoin that's not moving yet. Great way to do this is come over here to CoinGecko. And when you see this listed, we can have it from one to listed basically by the market cap. But you can also come over here to the right to one hour, 24 hours and seven days. You can see, okay, what has performed best this week? Okay. You're not moving into what's performed best. So many new people in this market say, oh, that's performing best, I want to hop on. You're hopping on a train that's about to go off a cliff. You don't do that. Click again. You see the least productively in the last week. Doesn't mean you just go in on these. Then you start looking, digging a little deeper, looking into these assets if you're not familiar with them. Saying maybe there's something in here that has not moved yet. Maybe I can capture that before it moves. But you don't just jump in because it's down. You see it. You identify. This merely identifies an asset maybe you could be looking at. Then you jump into the chart and you utilize your technical analysis, the patterns on the chart. You look into some of the social media. What's going on? Is there anything on the calendar for development or new partnerships? What's going on? And if it hasn't moved, also check. Is there a reason it hasn't moved? Because maybe, for instance, something like Gala, where Gala was performing so well and then all of a sudden the co -founders were all of a sudden in lawsuits with each other. Well, maybe if that's not moving as fast, maybe that means that also may not be a good opportunity to get into. But when we come over here, 24 hours, we see Pepe, Rocket Pool, Rollbit, Chainlink, The Graph all performing very well in the last 24 hours. What's not performing so well? Maker, Mantle, Casper, Filecoin, Flow, OKB. You can see how you can utilize several different tools and just a little bit of diligence to identify where you can get into projects. But remember, you can utilize the capital from your trading when you take profit so you don't have to pull new money out of your wallet to put it in the market and risk more. Put money in the market, make your trades using healthy strategy and good risk management. Identify the areas to take profit. Start pulling some off the table, rotate that capital into your trading portfolio so you have your trading portfolio still growing into your long term portfolio. So no matter what happens with any stupid decisions we make and we all make stupid decisions, sometimes you're protecting yourself and you're protecting your future by taking profits. I just want to make sure every one of you realizes that you have the keys to success in you. And it starts with balancing your ability to hold yourself to a strategy. And if you don't have a strategy yet, tune in here a bit more often, learn from us on Discover Crypto. Head over to BitLab Academy. We've got all the tools, all the strategies, all the techniques for you so we can make sure that you can dominate this market.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1374: $500,000 Bitcoin Now on Table by THIS Date
"In today's show, we're going to be discussing the Bitcoin bulls risk trading a range loss as the Bitcoin price nears two month lows. Also in today's show, Bitcoin soars in Argentina as Javier Malay wins the presidential primary. Quoting myself, anyone walking around with a scepter preaching the holy gospel of Satoshi while exposing the central banking cartel has my full support. Let's freaking go. We'll also be discussing Coinbase wins the approval to sell Bitcoin and as well as Bitcoin supply crisis would trigger the Bitcoin bull market even if the ETF bids get denied. According to crypto analysts, we'll also be discussing the Bitcoin price will surge past $150 ,000 if the spot ETFs are approved. According to Tom Lee, quoting him here, well, if the spot Bitcoin gets approved, I think demand will be greater than the daily supply of Bitcoin. And so the clearing price is over $150 ,000. It could even be $180 ,000. Also in today's show, $500 ,000 Bitcoin price now on the table as classic indicator suggests a parabolic rally incoming. According to quant analysts, Plan B will also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam. This is first and foremost a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my rumble channel at crypto news, alerts .net. Again, that's crypto news, alerts .net. Welcome everyone. Just tuning into today's show. This is pod episode number 1374. I'm your host JV and today is August 17th, 2023 and checking out our market watch. As you can see on the screen, the market is correcting. We finally broke back below that $28 support, ,000 unfortunately, but we're right on the cusp of it and we're down about 4 % for the day. We also have ether back down at roughly the $1700 level and checking out coinmarketcap .com. The current crypto market cap sits at 1 .1 trillion with 43 billion in volume in the past 24 hours with the Bitcoin dominance at 49 % even and the ether dominance at 18 .8 % and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers in the past 24 hours. We have rune leading the pack up 3 % trading at $1 .57 followed by cosmos at 1 % trading just under eight bucks followed by our weave only up 0 .8 % trading above $5 and the rest, I mean not much in the green as virtually everything's correcting in the red. As you can see here, the top gainers for the week. What do we got to out of the top 100 actually in the green meaning 98 % losers not looking so great at the current time being and checking out the crypto greed and fear index. We're currently rated a 50 which is neutral. Yesterday was a 52 last week of 53 and last month a 56 in greed. So there you have it and welcome to y 'all just joining the live show. We got a jam packed session for you. So without further ado, let's dive into today's Bitcoin technical analysis and check out the charts and what's popping with the king crypto Bitcoin targeted two month lows today on August 17th as the US inflation returned to spook the crypto markets. And here you're looking at the not so sexy looking Bitcoin one hour candle chart data from coin Telegraph and trading view confirmed the lowest Bitcoin price level since June 21st with Bitcoin wicking to 28 ,300 is the current low. The downside came after the US fed published the minutes of its July meeting to discuss future monetary policy quoting the FOMC here, participants discussed several risk management considerations that can bear on future policy decisions with inflation still well above the committee's longer run goal and the labor market remaining tight. Most participants continue to see significant upside risks to inflation, which could require further tightening on monetary policy. Now, while the fed equally voiced uncertainty over the effects of existing monetary tightening. Now, do you notice they always talk about uncertainty and fear? Why that's so they can manipulate the markets FYI, keep you in fear and keep you away from Bitcoin the best they can. Let me know if they're doing a good job at it. Now, these included the 21 week and 100 days simple moving averages, which currently sit at 28 ,600 and 28 ,570, which you can see here in this chart. Now, Bitcoin also challenged the lower boundary of the multi -month trading range previously highlighted by popular traders, Dan crypto, as well as crypto Tony quoting him here, 28 ,8 has now been lost in Bitcoin. So I'll be looking to short this down now while we remain below 28 ,8. Now, meanwhile, not everyone appeared to be convinced that the next FOMC meeting in September would yield higher rates. According to the CME groups, fed watch tool, the odds of the fed keeping that current rate intact remained that nearly 90 % after the release and quoting Caleb Franzen disinflation plus stronger earnings plus stronger economic data plus nearing the end of the rate hike cycles has been the perfect recipe for market returns and the development of an uptrend. Now, while these conditions could change in the future, I don't see any evidence that it has changed yet. So there you have it. Let me know if you're currently bullish or bearish on the King crypto. Do you think we're likely to continue dropping even lower? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. Now let's discuss continued Latin American adoption in Argentina as the pro Bitcoin president is winning, at least in the primary. This is actually quite enticing and interesting. So let's break this down and shout out to everyone in Argentina. The price of Bitcoin jumped to a fresh high in Argentina since the news of the Bitcoin friendly presidential candidate Javier Malay won the primary election on August 13th with one Bitcoin reaching a value of 10 .2 million Argentine pesos on August 14th, according to data from CoinGecko. And while the global crypto markets are experiencing a notable slump, some parts of the world are still recording new all -time highs for BTC. In Argentina, Bitcoin has seen a sharp climb this week with Bitcoin rallying 21 % from 8 .4 million ARS to 10 .2 million in less than one hour on Monday. Look at this chart. Let's go. At the same time, Bitcoin has been steadily gaining against ARS since late 2022. And since hitting a new record high, Bitcoin price versus ARS has dropped slightly. And the most recent Bitcoin rally in Argentina has been attributed to the presidential primary win by pro -Bitcoin presidential candidate Javier Malay. After winning the primary with more than 30 % of the votes, Malay is now the front runner in Argentina's general election in October. Could you imagine if he does become the president and adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender as their population is much larger than El Salvador? Now, as previously reported, Malay wants to abolish the central bank and adopt the US dollar as Argentine's currency. The presidential candidate also believes that Bitcoin is a reaction against the central bank scammers, while fiat currency allows the politicians to scam Argentines with inflation per each. And with Bitcoin, we've seen record highs, as you know, in Argentina recently. With Bitcoin has been in the decline, however, in the global markets since August 14th, Bitcoin lost about 4 % of its value versus the dollar, dropping below that key psychological level of 29 ,000 just yesterday on August 16th. Argentina is not the only country that has seen Bitcoin price at its highest historic levels amid the massive inflation of recent. Bitcoin has also been trading near all -time high levels in countries like Turkey, which reportedly saw its inflation rate rising to nearly 50 % in July. And in July, Bitcoin climbed to the highest level versus the Turkish lira, reaching a value of 819 ,000 Turkish lira per BTC, according to data from CoinGecko. And quoting Malay, or actually is quoting myself regarding Malay, anyone walking around with a scepter, preaching the holy gospel of Satoshi while exposing the central banking cartel has my full support. So let's freaking go. How many of you would love to see him be elected of president in Argentina? And do you think he will abolish the central banking cartel if he wins? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. Now we all know we've been waiting upon a spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States for over a decade, but guess what? The regulators are approving futures ETFs. They just gave Coinbase the green light to do both Bitcoin and ETH futures, believe it or not. Let's break this down and welcome y 'all just joining us. Make sure to say hello in the live chat. American crypto exchange Coinbase has acquired approval from the government to offer Bitcoin and Ether futures in the US and a new blog post. Coinbase says it's been given the green light by the National Futures Association to manage a futures commission merchant and offer eligible US traders, both Bitcoin and Ethereum futures products. Now, FCMs are federally regulated entities that offer and accept futures contracts related to securities and commodities. Putting them here in September of 2021, we filed an application with the NFA to register an FCM. Our team has worked with regulators since then to ensure we'll comply with all the necessary regulations that our FCM's business model meets with the CFTCs, customer requirements. protection And today we're pleased to announce the approval has been secured, which will allow eligible US customers to access regulated derivatives products through Coinbase financial markets and alongside our spot market for a seamless experience subject to the oversight of the CFTC and NFA. Now, just keep in mind that derivatives are a financial weapon of mass destruction. They're not going to help you, fam. It's just only going to get you wrecked. So is it surprising that the SEC approved this and continues to not allow spot ETFs? You let me know your opinion. According to the blog post, Coinbase will be the first crypto firm to offer both traditional spot market trading as well as federally regulated crypto futures. Quitting them again here, the global crypto derivatives market represents 75 % of crypto trading volume worldwide and is a critical trader access point. The ability to trade using margin gives customers leverage so you can get wrecked and access to the crypto market with less upfront investment than traditional spot trading and being able to express long and short positions. Investors also use derivatives to manage risks on their underlying crypto assets. So there you have it. I am curious by a show of hands, how many of you have ever dabbled with futures ever before or have traded with leverage? Let me know in the comments. And how many of you actually have real plans to actually take advantage of Coinbase futures for either Bitcoin or Ethereum? Let me know. Or if you're going to be staying away from it, I'd love to know your thoughts and your feedback. And with that being shared, let's now discuss a Bitcoin supply shock, which could be incoming. And then we'll be discussing Tom Lee's prediction of $150 ,000 to $180 ,000 Bitcoin price once the ETF gets approved in the US, followed by the latest from quant analyst Plan B, creator of the Bitcoin stock to flow model, predicting a $500 ,000 Bitcoin price incoming along with the timeframe and timeline. Yeah, so let's break down the supply shock first. Popular crypto analyst believes Bitcoin will witness another bull run, even if the regulators all reject the ETFs. We're talking about Josh Rager. According to the crypto strategist, the halving, which slashes Bitcoin miners rewards in half, which is scheduled to be less than nine months out, will create a supply issue that sends Bitcoin price into a bull territory next year without a spot based ETF acting as a catalyst. So virtually saying we don't need the ETF, we're going to go bull either way. I would say due to the supply issue and the block reward cut in half that Bitcoin halving is definitely will have an impact on the price, but the impact on price is delayed usually by a couple of months. If you look at the past historical Bitcoin halvings and where the price started uptrend post event, the Bitcoin ETF is a significant factor in overall Bitcoin price and will have a major influence in upcoming year. Still, even if ETF was denied, though I don't see this happening this time, with the Bitcoin supply crisis at hand, it'll very likely Bitcoin price will continue to uptrend throughout 2024 after an ETF denial dump. And Josh highlights that the post halving uptrend has historical precedence, but notes that a sample size is low, quitting him again alongside this chart. One can't deny the fundamentals and impact that a decrease in block reward has an overall price over the following years. Even if the ETF denial happens, Bitcoin will still run up in 2024. He continues on to share my prediction for Bitcoin price over the next year. Bitcoin ETF in September also gets postponed until March. Price pulls back and continues to chop range between 20 and 30 ,000 over the next six months. ETF approved by March. Bitcoin price pumps into the halving event around April, maybe up until 40 ,000. And after the halving, price stalls and pulls back a bit for the week following. An up -only Bitcoin price action starts sometime around June -July of 2024 and runs hard into early -mid 2025. So there you have it. Let me know if you agree or disagree with the analyst Josh Rager that we're likely to start pumping and run up as we prepare for the next halving event. And now let's discuss the latest from Fundstrat's Tom Lee, who was recently interviewed on TV and made a very bold prediction that with the approval of an ETF in the United States, Bitcoin price is likely to rocket to between 150 and $180 ,000. Let me start by actually, I transcribed what he shared in this interview in case you missed it. Here's what he had to say when asked, I always like hearing your price targets because you are always so fearless. Where are you on Bitcoin by the end of next year, let's say? And Tom Lee responded, well, if the spot Bitcoin gets approved, I think the demand will be greater than the daily supply of Bitcoin. And so the clearing price is over $150 ,000. It could even be $180 ,000 per BTC. And they asked, that's only if the spot ETF gets approved. And Thomas Lee responded, yeah, a spot US because a spot Bitcoin ETF is approved already outside the US. And when asked, but if not approved, then are we just lingering at around 29 ,000? In which he responded, there is still upside cast because of the halving next year. So you'll have a drop in supply again. So the clearing price has to increase, but it won't be six figures. So there you have it. Let me know if you agree or disagree with Tom Lee. I definitely agree that because of the halving, regardless of the ETF, the price is destined to go up. But if we do get that ETF, it's just going to go up that much faster. Now in June, Wall Street, Heavyweights, Fidelity, Invesco, Wisdom Tree and Valkyrie followed BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager and applying for Bitcoin Spot ETF with the SEC. However, some of these firms may not learn their fate until sometime in 2024, as the SEC has up to 240 more days to make a final decision on an application after commencing the review process. And naturally, they're just going to continue to push it back as long as they can. The outcome for Grayscale's appeal to convert its GBTC Trust product into a spot Bitcoin ETF is however expected to come sooner rather than later. We have Bloomberg ETF analyst, Eric Balchunes and James Safart, who recently estimated there's a 65 % chance of these Bitcoin Spot ETFs being approved by the regulator, a significant increase from before BlackRock's application. Others have tipped that a 100 ,000 Bitcoin price can come much sooner than expected with Blockstream CEO Adam Back recently wagering that Bitcoin will notch the new price milestone the month before the halving. But what are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments right down below. And now let's discuss our breaking story of the day. And that's Plan B, the Quant Analyst. He just went live on his YouTube channel yesterday and shared some very bullish predictions regarding the stock, the flow, umbrella to strength index and these indicators, which are lining up perfectly right now for a bullish rally to take us to a new stratosphere of all time highs at around the time of the halving of next year. So let's break this down and welcome to everyone just joining us and tuning in. I appreciate everyone's continuous support. So here we go. And shout out to Plan B, the widely followed crypto analyst as a historical, reliable suggests indicator Bitcoin's price may surpass six figures in about one year and a new strategy session. The Quant Analyst tells his YouTube subs that Bitcoin's RSI, which is the relative strength index, appears to be repeating a pattern that previously signaled parabolic rallies. That's right. The RSI is an indicator that tracks the momentum of an asset. Here's what Plan B had to share in this recent interview video. It would mean that the RSI is going to rise from here towards the halving. There will be volatility, of course. It may not be in a straight line, then a bull market in 2024 with an RSI of around 90 or a little above, little below, doesn't matter. And then a bear market after that in 2025, 2026. Plan B uses a stock to flow model to predict the Bitcoin price and alignment with the forecasted RSI pattern. Now the stock, the flow traditionally used to track the performance of commodities such as precious metals and compares an asset's price to its available supply. So virtually it's supply and demand. The model indicates the Bitcoin can hit $60 ,000 heading into the expected April 2024 halving event. Send it, let's go. That's when the miner's rewards, as you know, are cut in half, followed by a massive move to between $300 ,000 and $500 ,000 per coin, quoting him here. And in Bitcoin price, it will look like this. So we are here at the moment at this $30 ,000 level, stuck for months there. And in this scenario that I just showed in RSI, this is the price that belongs to that. So it would rise with volatility towards the halving around the stock to flow value of $60 ,000 per coin. And then the bull market really goes on the second stage of the bull market with FOMO and greed. And then in this scenario, it's a rather conservative bull market that bottoms out or flattens out just below the stock to flow value of $500 ,000. So this averages at ,000, $300 which is still pretty okay. I would guess it is 10X from here. So there you have it. He's virtually saying on a conservative perspective, expect the Bitcoin price to rise 10X from the current price to roughly 300 ,000. And on a bullish perspective, we can see the Bitcoin price climb as high as $500 ,000 per coin post 2024 halving, which again is around the corner, scheduled to be sometime in April of 2024. And to watch this video he did, Plan B on RSI, Bitcoin of $300 ,000, which he shared on YouTube, check the show notes below the video in the description. And what are your thoughts? Do you feel Plan B will be correct and we're likely to hit a multiple six figure price post 2024 halving and even a climbing as high as 60 ,000 before the halving? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. And don't forget to check out CryptoNewsAlerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode.
Crypto Voices
A highlight from PE80: Black market peso price via Bitcoin...
"Hey everybody, welcome. Thank you for joining. My name is Matthew. Today I'm going to show you how to find the black market rate of the Argentinian peso using the Bitcoin price. All right. So here we have a quick little chart here of the Argentinian peso against the dollar. Uh, we see the devaluation that occurred here by the government just a couple of days ago on August 14th. All right. Peso was officially around 287 pesos per $1. And on August 14th, they devalued it a little over 20 % to 350 pesos per dollar. Uh, you see on the right hand axis there, the P, I know the P isn't actually the sign for the peso, but, uh, they, typically even use the dollar symbol, which is confusing, but, uh, this is, uh, this is just how I'm going to do it on this chart. So we see already a steady decline here from 252 pesos per dollar, uh, at the end of June, June 21st, 2023, and not even two months later, uh, including the devaluation, we're at 350 pesos. So not looking good for the Argentinian peso. Uh, this is not a secret, just in general, Argentina has been through five, six currencies in the last 50 years. Uh, those of you that have been following my monetary base updates, you know that I have included all of those in the global monetary base coverage that I do. Uh, this particular sort of route in the peso has probably been going on in earnest since about 2019. I don't have it going back as far from that for reasons I'll show you in just a minute, but in general, let's just describe what's happening here. So people have lost faith in the peso. The government needed to devalue it. Uh, what is the Argentinian peso? Okay. It's the official currency of Argentina, but what is the regime of exchange? If you want to exchange in the pesos with dollars or euros or whatever, what is the exchange rate regime? It's officially called a crawl like arrangement. Okay. And all that means basically is that there are a lot of capital controls against trading into or out of Argentinian pesos. Okay. So if you want to take, especially electronically, uh, Argentine pesos out of the country, uh, you're going to be faced with a lot of capital controls and you're going to face, you're going to be faced with basically the official rate that the government tells you, uh, the pesos need to be traded at. Okay. So this affects their bond buying and selling operations. Uh, it affects taxes. It affects a lot of things. It's just the official rate that they want you to pay, uh, the exchange rate on if you want to go into or out of their currency. Okay. So it's a very controlled capital controlled currency. Currencies like the Russian ruble come to mind, uh, Venezuelan Bolivar, uh, Zimbabwe dollar of old. These have a tremendous capital controls that are not free floating currencies like the dollar, the Euro or the yen. Okay. Those are free floating currencies, Swiss Frank, British pound, so on and so forth. Okay. So here was the devaluation. So basically it was already getting bad. This was not a secret. People in Argentina understand this, know this. Uh, most of the time they're not even holding pesos for their mid to longterm needs. They're holding dollars or other assets like Bitcoin. Uh, pesos are simply for their short term needs and when they want to get in to pesos, uh, they're not going to use this rate. What rate are they going to use? They're going to use the black market rate. Okay. So before I show you the black market rate, let's show you the Bitcoin price in Argentinian pesos. Okay. So that's going to be now on the left hand side, the left hand axis here. Here it comes.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from MASSIVE Crypto Win! (Gary Gensler Betrayed )
"We are here in Bahamas, we are going to make it right. If you can't be a millionaire, would you keep working? The commander is here. What's going on right now? Is California trying to figure out? Oh, I can. Oh, welcome to BitBoy Crypto. I've been holding out for 80 seconds, everybody. Today is August 14th. It's 1130am because we always start on time. We got a little bit different rundown today. We're going to talk about Trump. How much crypto does that man hold? We're going to talk about is Gensler out, everybody? And we got some Goldman forecast, some Coinbase stuff, some PayPal, more stuff, PayPal. Yeah, we're going to reveal how much crypto Donald Trump has. It's more than you think. Maybe it's less than you think. How much? Well, now we know. Well, I mean, do we actually know or we have a good guess? Well, they have to file. Right. They have to file. So we know that we know the window of where it is. How are we all doing today? Ben is, where's he at, by the way? Dubai? Right now, he's in Dubai. He's in Dubai. Probably sleeping. No, he's not. He'd be wide awake right now. Wide awake. All right. I know he's working on Ben Coin, doing some things out there, talking to some business leaders. Having a party. Having a party. That yacht party. Yeah, I'm probably not going to make it. I'll probably have to hold down the fort in Atlanta. Yeah. There's nothing wrong with that, folks. All right, let's just get right into the show, folks. We got a lot of crypto news to cover today. First, we're going to start with the Market Watch. Let's see where things are at. Let me hit refresh. It's because it says it's green, and I don't know if I believe it. All right, we have moved up. We moved up a little bit. It was flat this morning when I did ATB in the AM. $1 .22 trillion, 24 -hour volume, coming in at $32 billion. Not too much. It's kind of what we expect for a Monday. I think gas is coming in at 37 Gwei, Bitcoin dominance almost 47%, but not quite. Let's see. We have Bitcoin just started moving up, folks. It was flat. Let's just click on it real quick so we can maybe kind of just check it out. Yeah, you can see nice little movement up. So we were flat. You can see it there. It's just kind of boom. What is going on, folks? Well, we're up a half percent. Is it time to celebrate? Maybe not just yet. Ethereum is up 0 .1%. We have XRP up slightly as well. Doge has peeled back 1 .2%. Shiba Inu still up a little bit, up 0 .4%, up 16 % for the week. TonCoin, turn around Litecoin, turn it around there a little bit. All right, let's look with this little pump. Do we have any good gainers? Still Hedera. We recovered the Hedera news, right? HBAR news? Yeah, but it's still, I mean, it's one of the few coins that's still saying higher highs and higher lows in this timeframe. Everything else still kind of moving at least sideways, if not down. So Hedera is an interesting project, and I think it has a little bit further to go. I think Hedera has a little further to go to the upside. Well, they got a big partnership, and that partnership might lead to more gains coming. So we're going to talk about that later on in the show. We also have FRAC shares is up a little bit, 7 .2 % conflux, then APECoin finally having a good week. It is up 15%. THORchain though, look at THORchain for the week, it is up almost 50%. So THORchain really having some good moves there. Mina Protocol, Pepe, The Graph, okay, a lot of familiar coins that I like to see. I even hold some of these.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Aave GHO Risk Analytics Dashboard
"Welcome to your Ethereum news briefing, here's your latest for Monday, August 14th, 2023. Into the Block releases a RISC radar dashboard for Go, Starkware releases a short -term roadmap for Cairo, Aztec Network kicks off retroactive grants for NOR contributions, and Curve adds leverage borrowing for Curve USD. All this and more starts right now. Optimism is providing us with 500 OP tokens to onboard users onto the network. Visit ether .fm forward slash NFT and enter code word GHO for a chance to man today's podcast as an NFT on OP mainnet and earn a share of 500 OP tokens. DeFi Analytics platform Into the Block released a RISC radar dashboard for Avis, Go, Stablecoin. The dashboard includes 20 RISC metrics including PEG performance compared to other stablecoins, collateral distribution behind borrows, and whales' credit history. Users can use the dashboard to monitor de -pegging events in real time. There is currently 22 million Go backed by over $53 million worth of collateral, giving it a collateralization ratio of roughly 2 .4. 34 % of Go is currently backed by wrapped STETH, followed by 26 .6 % backed by wrapped Ether, and 17 .4 % backed by wrapped Bitcoin. Into the Block also notes that Go has slightly struggled to keep PEG with other stablecoins, likely due to low initial liquidity. Starkware released a short -term roadmap for Cairo, the native programming language for Starknet. Starkware is currently working on releasing Cairo version 1 .1 .0 on Starknet mainnet. The roadmap includes a transition to Cairo version 2, an upgrade that introduces new contract syntax aiming to enhance safety and decrease bugs. The new syntax will cause breaking changes, requiring developers to modify the outmost layer of their contracts. Upcoming features will include support for importing components defined in external libraries, Ethereum signature verification, support for signed numbers, and a native type for long strings. According to Starkware, Cairo is now stable enough to support complex applications. Aztec Network announced Grants Wave 3, a funding round that will provide retroactive grants for developers who contribute to the NOR ecosystem. NOR is a Rust -based high -level programming language for writing zero -knowledge proofs. The grants program aims to fund independent developers for completing NOR projects. Aztec is seeking the development of libraries, web auth applications, zk -aml, zk -email, and code visualizations, among other NOR -specific tooling. The grants program will remain open through the end of 2023. Developers who maintain non -NOR -specific projects used by the Aztec ecosystem are also encouraged to inquire into the grants. And lastly, Curve now supports leveraged borrowing for CurveUSD minters. Users can now access up to 9x leverage when borrowing CurveUSD against Ether, WrappedSTEther, StakedFraxedEther, or WPTC using the curveusd .curve .fi frontend. CurveUSD is an over -collateralized stablecoin that uses a lending liquidating AMM algorithm. Close to 50 million CurveUSD has been minted since the stablecoin's launch in May of this year. This has been a roundup of today's top news in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ether .fm. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Coronavirus
A highlight from Aave GHO Risk Analytics Dashboard
"Welcome to your Ethereum news briefing, here's your latest for Monday, August 14th, 2023. Into the Block releases a RISC radar dashboard for Go, Starkware releases a short -term roadmap for Cairo, Aztec Network kicks off retroactive grants for NOR contributions, and Curve adds leverage borrowing for Curve USD. All this and more starts right now. Optimism is providing us with 500 OP tokens to onboard users onto the network. Visit ether .fm forward slash NFT and enter code word GHO for a chance to man today's podcast as an NFT on OP mainnet and earn a share of 500 OP tokens. DeFi Analytics platform Into the Block released a RISC radar dashboard for Avis, Go, Stablecoin. The dashboard includes 20 RISC metrics including PEG performance compared to other stablecoins, collateral distribution behind borrows, and whales' credit history. Users can use the dashboard to monitor de -pegging events in real time. There is currently 22 million Go backed by over $53 million worth of collateral, giving it a collateralization ratio of roughly 2 .4. 34 % of Go is currently backed by wrapped STETH, followed by 26 .6 % backed by wrapped Ether, and 17 .4 % backed by wrapped Bitcoin. Into the Block also notes that Go has slightly struggled to keep PEG with other stablecoins, likely due to low initial liquidity. Starkware released a short -term roadmap for Cairo, the native programming language for Starknet. Starkware is currently working on releasing Cairo version 1 .1 .0 on Starknet mainnet. The roadmap includes a transition to Cairo version 2, an upgrade that introduces new contract syntax aiming to enhance safety and decrease bugs. The new syntax will cause breaking changes, requiring developers to modify the outmost layer of their contracts. Upcoming features will include support for importing components defined in external libraries, Ethereum signature verification, support for signed numbers, and a native type for long strings. According to Starkware, Cairo is now stable enough to support complex applications. Aztec Network announced Grants Wave 3, a funding round that will provide retroactive grants for developers who contribute to the NOR ecosystem. NOR is a Rust -based high -level programming language for writing zero -knowledge proofs. The grants program aims to fund independent developers for completing NOR projects. Aztec is seeking the development of libraries, web auth applications, zk -aml, zk -email, and code visualizations, among other NOR -specific tooling. The grants program will remain open through the end of 2023. Developers who maintain non -NOR -specific projects used by the Aztec ecosystem are also encouraged to inquire into the grants. And lastly, Curve now supports leveraged borrowing for CurveUSD minters. Users can now access up to 9x leverage when borrowing CurveUSD against Ether, WrappedSTEther, StakedFraxedEther, or WPTC using the curveusd .curve .fi frontend. CurveUSD is an over -collateralized stablecoin that uses a lending liquidating AMM algorithm. Close to 50 million CurveUSD has been minted since the stablecoin's launch in May of this year. This has been a roundup of today's top news in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ether .fm. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
The Breakdown
A highlight from A Flurry of Amicus Briefs in Coinbase vs. SEC
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me and LW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, August 14th, and today we are talking about a wild set of amicus briefs filed in the Coinbase against SEC case. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends. Well, today, as I said, the main focus of the show is a slew of amicus briefs filed in the Coinbase case at the very end of last week. But first, a quick update in the SPF saga. Now, I'm sure all of you guys are at least a little bit familiar with what happened at this point, but let's present it for completeness. TLDR, after months of playing fast and loose with bail conditions, Sam has been sent to jail to await his trial. Now, the big catalyst for this was, of course, last month's leaking parts of former Alameda CEO Carolyn Ellison's journal to The New York Times. Carolyn was the CEO of Alameda during the final months of operations, was at times Sam's girlfriend, and will also be a key witness in Sam's trial. Now, SPF had said through lawyers that he was merely trying to, quote, give his side of the story. This is something that he has done a lot of, apparently. Indeed, he has notched up over 100 phone calls with one New York Times journalist in particular, and that's just one of the many reporters that he has been in touch with. The prosecutor argued effectively that this was indirect witness tampering. They said that even though there hadn't been an overt communication with Ellison, the intention was clear, stating, I think the fact the defendant was more subtle in his methods than a mobster doesn't mean it was benign. Now, the judge ultimately sided with the DOJ, finding that Sam's conduct was closer to witness intimidation than constitutionally protected public defense. During the hearing on Friday, the judge said Sam had been willing to, quote, risk crossing the line in an effort to get right up to the line wherever it is. Of Ellison's writings, which Sam shared, the judge said, The documents are in part personal and intimate. They are personally oriented, not business oriented. They are something that someone who had been in a relationship would be unlikely to share with anyone except to hurt and frighten the subject. Ultimately, the judge said, My conclusion is there is probable cause to believe the defendant has attempted to tamper with witnesses at least twice. There is a reputable presumption that there is no set of conditions that will ensure Bankman -Fried will not be a danger. So the other witness tampering attempt that the judge was referring to came shortly after Sam's arrest and release on bail when he had reached out to former FTX U .S. General Counsel Ryan Miller, suggesting that they stay in touch, coordinate communications, etc. Sam had also previously broken bail conditions when he had used the VPN to access the Internet, something that he claimed was just to watch the NFL playoffs, which very few people bought as totally true. Part of Sam's argument for remaining out of jail had been that incarceration would make it more difficult for him to prepare his defense. Prior to locking Sam up, the judge ensured that he would have access to a laptop to continue his trial preparation, which it seems like is just about the only good thing about the facility that he is on his way to. The judge said, I am focused on the possibility that he will be detained at the MDC, not on anyone's list of five -star facilities. That said, I understand he could have a dedicated laptop at the MDC 9, 10, 11 hours a day. Sam's trial is set to begin on October 2nd. His legal team has, of course, appealed the decision to revoke his bail and requested that he remain on house arrest pending appeal, but were denied on that motion. Former journalist Dan Nguyen really captured, I think, the sensibilities of the entire Twitter sphere when he wrote, SPF got one of the sweetest bail deals in history, and all he had to do was chill at his parents' Stanford home, play with the new dog his parents bought for him, and not use a VPN to secretly commit more crimes on the Internet, and yet, clown face emoji. Anyways, guys, just another gross chapter in a bad story. But with that, let's move on to something much more positive. On Friday, Blockchain Association Chief Policy Officer J. Chivinsky wrote, Today is a fun day. The deadline for amicus briefs on Coinbase's motion for judgment on the pleadings of the SEC's enforcement action. I expect to see many excellent briefs on many different issues. They should start hitting the docket soon. And indeed, hit they did. On Friday, a slew of briefs were filed in support of Coinbase's motion to dismiss the SEC's lawsuit. Now, most crypto lawsuits from the SEC have seen numerous amicus or friend -of -the -court briefs filed, but the Coinbase lawsuit attracted more attention from the legal community than usual. The Coinbase motion for judgment on the pleadings was supported by venture firms Paradigm and A16Z, who filed a joint brief, crypto lobbyists including the Blockchain Association, the Chamber for Digital Commerce and the DeFi Education Fund, and perhaps most notable were briefs from Senator Cynthia Lummis, as well as a group of six legal scholars. Coinbase is, of course, being sued for offering the sale of unregistered securities. The SEC's lawsuit hinges on the claim that 13 tokens offered on Coinbase's centralized exchange are securities. In addition to alleging that the main trading venue requires registration as a securities exchange, the SEC also alleges that Coinbase's self -hosted wallet is an unregistered securities brokerage and clearing agency. Finally, the lawsuit also alleged that Coinbase's staking product is a securities offering. As usual, all of these claims rely on the Howey Test, which is a Supreme Court test to determine when a transaction is deemed to be the sale of an investment contract. Coinbase's argument is that none of the tokens they offer fully satisfy the test, and as such, the lawsuit should be thrown out without the court hearing any further facts of the case. In addition, Coinbase is arguing that the SEC has attempted to expand its jurisdiction beyond the authority it was granted by Congress. This argument, as we have discussed, is brought under the Major Questions Doctrine, which is a relatively recent legal doctrine put forward by the Supreme Court. The Major Questions Doctrine holds that administrative agencies must have explicit authority from Congress to oversee an industry which forms a major part of the U .S. economy. So now let's go through the set of different briefs kind of organized in the context that they came in. We'll start with the VC and lobbyist briefs. The joint brief from Paradigm and A16Z focused extensively on the damage that could be done to the industry if the SEC's view of the law was held to be correct. They wrote, The brief noted that the SEC claimed crypto tokens themselves embody the terms of an investment contract, so continued to carry a classification as securities into the secondary markets long after their initial sale. This approach was rejected in the recent Ripple case, but remains contentious among federal court judges. The brief warned that allowing the SEC to take this approach could extend their reach into an endless array of commonly sold assets including fine art, classic cars, and vintage wines. Now, a group of crypto lobbyists led by the Blockchain Association said in their brief that the SEC seeks to cast aside the nearly century -old understanding of an investment contract and usurp Congress's authority to decide how to regulate a burgeoning industry. They claimed that the statutory text, history, precedent, and common sense all foreclosed the SEC's attempt to rewrite the definition of investment contract to reach digital asset sales unaccompanied by any ongoing contractual obligations. In a Twitter thread discussing the joint brief, G. Kim, the General Counsel at the Crypto Council for Innovation, wrote, The SEC is trying to short -circuit the legislative process and seize the power to resolve questions of massive economic and political importance by presenting its flawed interpretation in enforcement actions. The Chamber of Digital Commerce echoed their fellow lobbyists in making the point that the SEC is exceeding their authority and using inappropriate methods to bring the crypto industry to heel. They wrote that the SEC is choosing to use the blunt and unpredictable tool of enforcement proceedings to the exclusion of all other methods. They characterized the lawsuit as Coinbase's turn on the SEC's roulette wheel. Now, the DeFi Education Fund took a different approach, focusing their brief on the technical side of the case and linking the underlying functionality of crypto products to the legal arguments. The DeFi lobbyist explained that both Coinbase's staking service and wallet are software products rather than regulated financial service products. They argued that a decision in favor of the SEC's overly expansive theories related to this software application would have a chilling effect on the developers and service providers that innovate in DeFi and consequently the users of this technology. With regard to the wallet, they pointed out that Coinbase does not route orders nor take control of customer assets, so it's difficult to see how they could be viewed as a broker in that context. In discussing staking, they noted that while Coinbase administers the validators which deliver staking rewards to customers, their, quote, function is squarely ministerial as an IT service provider. Put another way, Coinbase provides an IT product that leads to a financial reward, but that reward stems from the crypto protocols themselves rather than from Coinbase's efforts. Now, maybe the most striking brief in support of Coinbase was co -signed by not one but six law professors with expertise in securities law. This includes experts from UCLA, Boston University, Fordham Law School, Widener University, the University of Chicago Law School, and Yale Law School. And importantly, this isn't a group of outspokenly crypto -friendly professors. Between them, this group has written multiple textbooks and authored countless academic papers. Some of them quite literally wrote the book on securities law. Their brief focuses on the definition of the term investment contract and argues that it has a much more limited scope than the SEC seems to think. A key part of the SEC's crypto lawsuits has been the idea that a crypto token is one part of an overall investment scheme which does not require a formal contract between the parties. This would mean that a token could be considered a security even when the issuer doesn't make any promises to holders and doesn't take any direct investment from purchasers. The professors rejected this as ignorant of the history of securities law. Their opinion is that the Securities Act of 1933 used the very well -established language of investment contract to refer specifically to situations where, quote, the investor receives, in exchange for an investment, a contractual undertaking or right to an enterprise's income, profits, or assets. They argued that this definition of an investment contract had been present in state legislation and cases leading up to the passing of federal regulation in 1933. They added that this definition has been consistently used by the courts to decide lawsuits following Howey to this day. This historical argument flies in the face of SEC briefs, which have often discarded state legislation and cases prior to 1933 as irrelevant. The legal scholars wrote that nowhere in the Howey decision does the Supreme Court, quote, suggest that it was doing away with the court textual and historical anchor of the statutory term investment contract, i .e. contractual undertakings. Rather, Howey's reference to a scheme or transaction simply reflected the instruction that courts should consider the economic reality of a business venture to determine whether an investment contract exists. The law professors suggested that by agreeing with the SEC's definition of an investment contract, the court would be going against almost a century of case law. They urged that, quote, The court should adhere to the settled meaning of the term, consistently applied by the state courts interpreting state blue sky laws, as well as by the federal appellate courts before and since Howey. Under that settled meaning, an investment contract requires contractual undertakings to deliver future value, reflecting the income, profits, or assets of a business. Paradigm policy director Justin Slaughter writes, It takes real skill to so mismanage the situation that you have serious institutionalists like Professors Macy and Hammermesh filing amici briefs against the SEC in an enforcement case. This case is on track to blow up the SEC's powers and maybe weaken agency powers across the board. That people invested in the current securities regime are still siding against the current SEC position speaks volumes. Finally, Senator Cynthia Lummis has also filed an amicus brief addressing the question of whether the SEC has overreached its authority. Lummis began her brief by drawing the court's attention to the numerous bipartisan efforts currently underway in Congress to craft regulations for the crypto industry. She wrote that she, Has a special interest in upholding the Constitution's separation of powers by ensuring that federal administrative agencies do not exceed the authority conferred upon them or encroach upon Congress's ongoing legislative efforts. Amicus believes that the SEC's approach to enforcement in this case, and in the crypto asset industry more broadly, contravenes that separation of powers. Now given that the cornerstone of any major questions doctrine argument is that an administrative agency is exceeding the powers granted to it by Congress, it seems extremely relevant to be told by a sitting US Senator that they believe this to be the case. Lummis continued, When Congress created the SEC to regulate securities markets, it did not grant the SEC power to reimagine the definition of securities to expand the agency's sphere of influence into other asset classes or to encroach on other agencies and regulatory schemes. The SEC's attempt to shoehorn an entire new class of assets into the existing definition of a security and thereby add to the definition enumerated by Congress exceeds the SEC's authority, encroaches on Congress's lawmaking, and contravenes the separation of powers. Put simply, she said, Basically, the brief is an attempt to provide evidence to the court that Congress is not content with the status quo when it comes to crypto regulation. Much of the brief describes the various ongoing legislative efforts. And after outlining these bills, Lummis writes, The multitude of interests at stake require a holistic approach beyond the scope of a single agency. Ultimately, she says, Lummis urged the court to, Now, I think where most of the analysis lands, holding aside deep legal minutiae, which obviously will become very important in terms of how the case actually resolves, is from a sentiment shift it feels to people, of course, outside observers, that this is going to be a hard one for the SEC. Algorithmic trading firm CEO Xi Zhen writes, Now, I would never go that far given that Let's hope that these friends of the court are correct. Appreciate you guys listening as always. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
Divine Naples Podcast
"august. 14th" Discussed on Divine Naples Podcast
"Anyway, it was created by 11 year old Frank Epperson. Can you believe that? He created the original popsicle in 1905. He was 11 then? Yeah, 11. Wow. I guess I do the math. I don't know how old he'd be today. Well, then he was born in 1894. Yeah, maybe. Did you know that? No. Well, yeah, you subtract it. That's really good. That's more information I need to know. Did you know the average popsicle only has 100 calories? I find that hard to believe if it has the ice cream in it. But anyway, that's what the creamsicle is. And some more homework we can do. Maybe somebody in Naples or Southwest Florida makes their own creamsicle and we'll find out and bring that information back to you. If not though, you can go to Publix or your local store and buy a box of them. I love them. In fact, I usually a box won't last but a couple hours. There's usually about six in there. I enjoy the first one so much that now that I know there are only 100 calories. Yeah, you should get more. Like eat all six of them. Yeah, but they also make them with alcohol. Did you know that? I did not know that. Like the margaritas. They put them in this little pouch and you can just push it out. It's really refreshing on the beach. Just make sure you know you should not give it to your kids. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Especially when you have to be 21 years old and drink. Well, I'm just saying it can be very, kids see something frozen. It could be an accident, yeah. And then you find them sleeping underneath of the tent. Yeah, or act at all crazy cussing, I don't know. Or being aggressive. You know, things people do when they're drunk. Oh my God. Anyway. Well, I have a date that is really interesting and important that is Navajo Code Talker Day. Yeah. You know what that is? I do know what that is. I believe it has to do with World War II. And we used it as a strategy of communications so the Germans and the Japanese couldn't understand what we were communicating with the Navajo tongue. Well, actually. But I might be wrong. Actually, it somehow started in World War I when they started experimenting with codes. But then they put it in place in World War II for sure. And it's a very unique code that nobody cracked down there. Yeah, they did, yeah. And they probably were very successful because they were figuring out what language they're using when they were transmitting these codes. And let me just tell you, do you know how to say beautiful in Navajo language? No, I don't know how to speak any other language. No, that's correct. So then when I'm asking, this was just waste of my time. There's no such thing as a stupid question, but that might have been one. Based on the knowledge of your un-knowledge of language, yes, I agree with that. But it was accurate scientifically. I apologize. You hit the nail on the head with the hammer. That's what I did, and I heard that. So the word Nizhoni means beautiful in Navajo language. And it may think like this language will be dying, but it's actually not. It's still alive, very alive, but it's only selected people that are learning this language and keeping it alive because they don't want masses to know it. Yeah, wow. It's a secret that the CIA is using in, of course, times when they needed it. But these days, you know, encryption, you know, just like- You can figure it out. And there's, you know, the novel. No, I don't think they can figure it out. What I'm saying is they're using encrypted encryption in the sending messages, which is very difficult to crack down because it's mathematical. To decipher. Yeah, but, you know, it's just nice to have those old style things that help in certain times, even to win the war. Right, yeah. And, you know, just saying this is one of those things that you people don't even know existed. And we're celebrating this day on August 14th every year. So just keep that in mind. Some people might've known about it, but like, I kinda knew about it. You didn't know nothing. I know nothing. There we go again with Sergeant Schultz in Hogan's Heroes. You very- I know nothing! You're very familiar with that as your- It's one of my favorite shows growing up. Those shows from your youth. Yeah, when you were still in- Eating cold pizza and ice cream on Saturdays. That was usually the day I didn't do nothing. Now I changed it to Sunday in my Sabbath day. What are you doing today, nothing? Well, that's, you know, we at least brought some memories from your youth. Right, right. So that would be the days of, you know, we're celebrating national days or international days. And let's just bring the pain down from all those informations and the nice voice of our pharmacists. Yeah, you probably- Hopefully we didn't give you so much information that you got a headache. But anyway, I am the in-house pharmacist and I don't prescribe my aspirin. I prescribe vitamin D and I am licensed to do that. I'm licensed in my own mind. And so you might ask yourself, what is vitamin D? Let me tell you what vitamin D is. It is this. Would you tell somebody today about divinenapels.com and the podcast and have them subscribe and to like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram? Yeah, it's not something that you physically take. It's something that you physically do. Please tell somebody about divinenapels.com and this podcast today. And we don't even care if it's a lizard or a tarantula, like we said yesterday. No, really tell somebody that's human, any human. Get the word out. Tell somebody about divinenapels.com and there you have it. Bam! Bam! But just make sure you don't use the Navajo language. Yeah, they won't understand. They have no idea. No idea. I mean, sometimes I feel like we speak Navajo language. Sometimes I think you speak alien, but I digress. Well, you will never know because you don't understand any other language. Because I only know one. Yeah, that's not even language. But I am creating my own dictionary, Book of Mattyisms. Yeah, so you forget to tell people. You will meet them in the new social media, which is? Which is, which is, I was, didn't I create one? InstaBook. InstaBook. InstaBook. I'm working on that. Look at that. I'm working on it so much that I was, I forgot the name of it. I had a brain fart. That's why I'm here and I'm valuable for those cases. Yeah, that's right. August 14th, episode 413 is right behind us. We will be back tomorrow on Tuesday. Say hello to everybody who you know with sending them a link to our show. We appreciate it and we cannot wait to deliver another news from this beautiful city called the Divine Naples. From this Mike Rich. From this Mike Matt. Ciao. I guess I don't know, is that Davao? Yeah. I'll never know.
Divine Naples Podcast
"august. 14th" Discussed on Divine Naples Podcast
"Publix is start cracking down that the only train animals or train dogs or, you know, whatever, you know, animals will be allowed, not emotional support dogs anymore. So I guess after a successful 15 or 20 years, people being using and abusing this whole system, there's more and more coming out. Restaurants are kind of realizing, you know, it could be health hazard and also grocery stores already, you know, adding to it too. And last thing I just want to mention, there's a lot of good restaurants in Naples. We will go and start, you know, giving you one by one. But today I just want to say in Bonita Springs, there's a lot of good, Bonita Springs is from Naples, just maybe, you know, 30, 20 minutes, different traffic. There's a lot of good burger places. So let me give you a count from one to eight. We picked up eight. So our first would be Coconut Jack Waterfront Grill. It's on Bonita Beach Road. It's one of the best rated. And then second choice would be the other side, Bistro. That's in Tamiami Trail, Bonita. And again, American traditional cuisine. So you will enjoy that. Buffalo Chips restaurants, they've been there forever. Yeah, they're great. This place is known, I love them. I've been going there for over 25 years and they're an old 41. And you have to really find them, it's next to the motel. Really interesting and somehow magical place. 26,620 as the number old 41 Bonita Springs. So look for Buffalo Chips restaurant, best chicken wings I can recommend. They always been like that. The Royal Scoop, that is on 15, on 8th Street, Unit D, Bonita Springs. I know where that is. And additional to that, number five, Terry's Family Diner. That is in 2800 Imperial Parkway, Bonita Springs. And then number six, Merle's Diner. Merle's Diner has a few different locations. The one in Bonita is on 41, easy to find. You can always find inexpensive breakfast and lunch. The people love it. It's kind of from the movie, Merle's Diner. A lot of things are gonna remind you the 50s diner place with you eating even over easy and whatever eggs you are gonna be ordering. Now, Jimmy P's Butcher Shop in Bonita Springs. The owner just recently died and there was a sad news. And I tell you what, I'm so happy the family is continuing in the tradition, one of the local best butchers around. So there you find 25010 Burnwood Drive, Bonita Springs. And the number eight is Dolly Produce Patch and Eatery. That is 9930 Bonita Beach Road. And you can go there for American traditional breakfast and brunch. And as I said, a lot of them are highly rated, especially on the Yelp. So those are our choices for you in Bonita Springs. If you're looking for a place to dine, maybe we can go ahead and give them a try and let us know what you think. Don't forget, we're looking for people with stories. We're looking for people that will share their passion on a microphone with us. Please, if you know somebody, send us an email or let them know, contact us, send us message on the social media. But mainly, just let them know that we are here with this local podcast, episode 413. We've been doing this for five years now and we would love to share people's story and voices in our community. So that's another thing I will need to mention. You have? Yeah, just a couple of national days and I'm sure that you have one too. And the first one I wanna share with you is National Lizard Day. We got a lot of lizards around here, you know that? I have one next to me that was lying down on the sun doing nothing. Yeah, that's right. You know, hey, did you know that there's over 6,000 species of lizards? No. Over 6,000. Why is there many? I don't know. Did you know that lizards are even found on every continent except Antarctica? I wonder if they're up in the North Pole though. Hold on, have they been there? They know for sure or what? They say that there are lizards on every continent except Antarctica. What do you mean they say? Scientists. When I hear they say, then I'm very suspicious. Well, there you go. I'm assuming it's people that are doing the investigation. It's almost same thing. Why don't you fact check it? Well, I don't wanna fact check anything. I'm just telling you, it's the similar thing like you go to the store and they say, what's your zip code? Why? I need to put it in the system. System is the new thing you can get away with. Or they say. They say means you have to trust it and the system you have to give them your personal information. Yeah. That's just saying, you know? Yeah, there you have it. Most kinds of lizards absorb water from their food which means they don't need to be near water. That's kind of interesting. Right. I don't know. Lizards are cold blooded which means they need sunshine and in order to survive, they got plenty down here. Hold on just a second. They got plenty down here. Somebody says he's cold blooded. Cold blooded. Cold blood killer. Does he need to be on sun too? I don't know. We'll have to ask him. He needs to be in jail. He needs to be in prison. Yeah, we'll ask him. We'll ask him from behind bars or some glass. Lizards diets consist of a variety of foods including plants, insects, eggs, small animals. Some lizards range from the size of two inches in length all the way to 11 feet. Can you imagine that? 11 feet. 11 feet. That's gotta be that big commoded dragon. Is that even a lizard? I don't even know. I don't know. Would you like to meet 11 foot lizard? No, I wouldn't. But there you have it. Today's lizard game. Do they attack people? I don't know. Oh, those things will, that commoded dragon. But then again, it's a dragon. I don't even know if it's a lizard. We'll have to look that up. I mean, dragon is not lizard? I don't know. You ever seen those things? They're enormous. Do they fly? I don't know. It's a dragon. I don't know. So what do you know? I don't know. Maybe it breathes fire too. I got one more day real quick for you too. It's national creamsicle day. You know what a creamsicle is? No. It's usually an icicle, a popsicle with vanilla ice cream in it. And did you know that the original was- I was thinking it's a bicycle. It's the same thing? Sickle? I know. Bicycle? That's cycle but a ziggle.
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"Maybe I can go there and do nothing. There is a lot of talk about it because they're planning to open, guess when? I don't know. More than a year from now. Oh, more than a year. But they are putting press releases almost on a weekly basis, which is a big deal because there's only 20 of them in the United States. This is going to be a very special one because it's going to be like a blueprint for a new Great Wolf Lodge. And I guess they're going to be testing some new things and new stuff that they're going to try or they're going to put it together. So the address is 3900 City Gate Boulevard North next to the Paradise Coast Sport Complex of I-75 Collier Boulevard in Golden Gate State. So you can go to greatwolf.com and that's where you can find a lot of information. And I'm so happy that we can have 600 employment positions. That's a lot of jobs. That's more. And it's also going to bring other visitors to come to the area to vacation or, you know, just come over for a weekend from all over Florida or wherever. That's awesome for local businesses. Yeah, there's going to be 75 feet tall slide that kids can enjoy. Why does it have to be kids only? What if I want to enjoy it? I don't think you can fit in it. Okay. It has certain limits, man. It's just like you cannot do something for whole life. You should have done it 50 years ago. Now it's too late for certain things. Okay. You know what I'm saying? It's like if you're trying to be a kid again, then you need to start behaving like a kid. I'm going to be nice and not start pushing your buttons. No, I know it's coming. I know you're not going to need one of those tubes around your stomach to keep you afloat if you use it. You got one right there. I tell you what, I know it's coming and I'm just getting ahead of the times. Oh, I love you. Yeah, I just love the comments and the great things that you say about me. I mean, you know, it's no better. There's no better enjoyment than getting up in the morning and knowing that you're going to get rocks thrown at you. I mean, it's great. You know, I just get up in the morning, take a shower, go, Hey, I can't wait for the hail of insults to come my way. Today is just another day. Today is every day. It's like, I wake up and go, I can't wait for this. I can, I can tell you one thing. It will stop one day when you're going to be. Yeah. When you're six feet under and the only thing that's ever going to happen to get it to come back is the resurrection. Anyway. I wanted to say, when you're going to be dating a nice woman and I will be just the respectful, you know, not to, oh, I think a lot of things are going to be said to her, both positive and maybe negative, but not negative in the sense that you are trying to make the betray me as something else. You're just going to tell her the truth and she might get second thoughts about the whole process. Yeah. You know, you just never know. I done worse things to people. Some of them even stop dating based on my comments. So that might, I might need that help someday. If I ever give you this signal, like maybe, you know, just start rubbing the side of my nose or something, or, you know, giving these little nods, like, Hey, help me out of this thing. That's no problem. Then I don't care how much you bad on me, dude, do your best job to get, get this one off me. I don't worry. I know how to do that. And I know your signal should be easy. Yeah. Well, it's not going to be like some smoke signal. And you, you know, I'm giving you a smoke signals, like an Indian, Hey, help me or whatever. It'll be, it'll be discreet. Yeah. We know, we know our signals. Now let me just get those signals crossed though. Can you keep your pie hole for a little bit? In a second, right? Right now. Good. Can I go, right? Sure. I'm going, just want to remind people schools are back and school zones. Now there's a different speed. State of Florida have a 15 miles per hour speed in the school zone now. And I've been watching some videos that Collier County Sheriff's cracking down on speeders. Speeding tickets in the school zone is $500. So you want to maybe pay attention to where you're going, how you're going and how fast you're going to work every morning throughout the city. And especially in the school zone. So be careful on that additional to that. I don't know if good news or bad news, but you know, there's a lot, a lot of talk about, you know, dogs and dogs that are service animals. So we had a lot of discussion online with different types of people. And I tell you what, a lot of people, I mean, we also love dogs, but some people just went overboard. And now not just, you know, the service emotional support dogs been kind of banned from being accepted as a free flights on aircrafts already, but now Publix is cracking down on it.
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"Ah, I enjoy being fat, don't worry about it. I had 413 shows explaining it. How come I don't have any cookies here? Well, I like coming. You've usually got all kinds of stuff for me to eat. Why you don't go out of studio and ride around the corner? They're just waiting for you. I'll tell you what, you're only doing that as a diversion to get me out of here so that you can get on with the program. How about I do this and practice something that I never practiced? What is it? Close my yapper for a minute. Apple? Yapper. Yapper. I don't know how people will survive. Why don't you clean the wax out of your ears before we start a show. I cleaned it up before I started. Let me tell you something. You know what is the heat index outside? I don't know. You're going to tell me. It's the heat record. 114 years record was broken officially from 1909. I wonder who was taking that weather measurement in 1909. They're saying 95 was the record in 1909. But technically, that brings again an idea in my head that is the global warming was already happening in 1909 and nobody mentioned it. They kept it as a secret. Maybe they did. When's the first temperature gauge ever was created to measure heat? I don't know. I'm just saying. I mean, how can we even know about that stuff if we only have data for 100 something years? I don't know. I'm just wondering if it's such a bad heat right now that's created by cows farting somewhere. Farts and emissions. Yeah. So I'm just wondering how come 100 years ago it was even more heat. I don't know. But well, I think, especially with all the hot air that comes out of my mouth. I mean, I'm obviously contributing to this. Absolutely. Huh? Yeah. You are under fire. It's a motor mouth. It never stops. You are under fire. And that should probably really help for my dating prospects that I talk a lot. Yeah, maybe. I don't think it's going to help at all. But anyway. You should date a fire woman. Yeah? Like a fireman, fire woman. Oh, put the fire out? Yeah, she's trained. She's trained. She put the fire out. Yesterday we've been talking. I mean, Saturday we've been talking. What was that? Margaritaville? Margaritaville, bro. So I have something else for you. Oh, wow. What a surprise. Something is coming to Naples. What's coming? It works for a long time. Something that is going to create 600 jobs, 600 employment positions. I like that. Something that is built on 20 acres is going to cost $250 million when it's finished, right? It's going to have upscale dining and over 500 rooms you can stay in. It's going to have 60,000 square feet indoor and 90,000 square foot indoor water park. That's going to be 87. Indoor water park? Indoor water park is going to be 87. Air conditioned? 87 degree water year round. 80? You know what that is? Great Wolf Lodge. Really? Where is that going to be? That's going to be next to the sports park on exit 101. And they're already building it. It's going to be a huge site.
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"They got a half a month to go visit the spa or do something for themselves health-wise. Yeah. Don't you, I thought you knew math. I know it's not because it's 14. So we still have to, yeah, but that means we got 17 days left. So you got plenty of time to go out and to visit the spa or do something healthy. Yeah. You know, anyway. Tomorrow is 15. You have to mention the, you know, the most important person. Me? Who invented a lot of things. Who? My father. Oh yeah. Oh, this is, we'll talk about that tomorrow. Don't let the cat out of the bag. Yeah, I'm just saying. What's another saying that we need to look up again. Why, what's with the cat out of the bag thing? I have no idea. I'll look it up. Why would you put cat in the bag? I don't know. Well, how about a rabbit in the sack? I'd like a rabbit in a stew pot maybe. I had a friend, he always have this saying, and he said, I seen everything. I seen submarines flying. I said, not on the railing. And I seen horse puking. I seen everything in my life. There you go. I've never seen a horse puke. You never did? No. I didn't even know they puked, but anyway. Of course, every animal. Have you seen a horse? Yeah, I've seen a horse. I was just checking. Actually, one of the worst experiences I ever had was going to a youth camp on the California coast at the beach. And what happened? Well, you know, you rent these little horses as you go on a ride. Little horses? Well, you know, horses, sorry. Anyway. Many horses. No, they were regular size horses, and I got one that, and they say this happens quite often, and we started taking our tour right onto the beach, and all of a sudden, my horse just took off. I had no control of it, and it ran itself right back to the corral, to the barn. And I was done riding, and I've never liked horses ever. But it's funny, because I grew. He brought you back to basics. Yes, back to the, right. And I love horses, because my father, you talk about your father. He was first born here from Ireland. I mean, my grandfather was a original cable car driver from Ireland. And one of the things in the San Francisco Bay area that was very popular was racetracks, horse racing. So I kind of grew up in that environment, going to the racetrack or whatever, but I'll tell you, that one experience, when I was about 10 years old, did it. I don't think I ever wanted to, and ever have, got on a horse ever again. But anyway, I guess I can always overcome fear and try it again sometime. Now, if you want to go on horses, you need a special one. The one that pulls the woods out of the forest. What's that, an ox? They have extra strength. Oh, why? The weight, you know. Oh yeah, the weight, here we go again. The fake limit. The weight. We don't want to see a broken back on horse, you know what I'm saying? Boy, these people are going to be surprised if they ever get a real look at what I really actually look like. Yeah, very skinny. And this imaginary person that you bring out. But anyway.
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"That's not a Greek language. So anyway, so anyway, I tell him specifically, cause you know me and sauces, I don't like a lot of sauces, right? But that I like. And so I said, make it traditional. I just want that sauce, the little bit of lettuce and the tomatoes. It's for my friend, I'm all excited and stuff. And I was all happy. And then this particular person that probably made the order that kind of, I don't know, I can't imagine anybody not liking me. Yes, I can actually. But anyway, you just drop it here. Your order's ready or whatever it goes. Cause I've been in there several times. Did you tell her something about podcast? I did not tell her anything about podcast. So we could talk all we want today. No, I mean, just make sure she doesn't feel like she needs to spice it up for us, you know? No, no. But anyway, it was just a mistake. But anyway, I'm going to get, return and get the right one. But anyway. That's okay. Tomorrow, you know what? I'll be hungry tomorrow again. Right. What I'm thinking is I might bring you a pizza from somewhere else the next time. Would I like to treat you every once in a while? Just don't put a hot sauce, no buffalo sauce. No, I'm going to make sure that I watch the, make sure that the order's done properly and open up the product before I leave the establishment. Yeah. From now on, wherever. Good, good idea. Anyway, there you go. Yeah, well, that's, I'm still grateful for it, but it was a very good sandwich. And- It's not a sandwich, it's called a- Giro. Yeah, Giro. Oh, so it's technically a sandwich. Right, well- You eat it with your hands, right? And it's wrapped in some kind of bread product. It's called a pita. Right, we had this whole story about sandwiches. Right. I can actually, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to introduce sandwiches, how they started to people today. How about that for you? Yeah. Okay. So just, you know, the official thing. Julien Brewster, a guitar and Pachuli music. It's playing in your ears right now, and that was the intro song. We are super grateful for them. They're going to be back in town soon. Maybe in no time, you're going to be able to enjoy them in life here and mostly in Botanical Garden. Nice, beautiful concert with the guitars. So we thank them for the music. Beachesos.com, our official sponsor. If you're going to the beach or somewhere near, you want to surprise somebody with, you know, you want to be the man that cooks. What if you want to be your woman? And clean the windows and everything else. You get your girlfriend, just type beachesos, order something, we bring it to your beach. If it's bottle of wine, cocktail, sandwich, dessert, Advil afterwards, or, you know, if you need a baby vibes. We are here for you. Now you can, you know, hit up the print button and print some money. divineapals.com forward slash discount dash coupons, $500 waiting for you. And don't forget the August whole month is wellness day month and do something for your body. Maybe we suggest to go to our spa. Our spa is Divine Spa next to our Divine Naples and Coffee and Wine Bar, easy to find on Fort Avenue. This is also where we're sitting right now recording in our office. So that is the officials, right? Yeah, you got a half a month left to stay healthy. I'm kidding.
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"Hello all you mind people, Monday is back and it's August 14th and episode 4.13. The numbers don't match anymore, but we enjoyed last week when the numbers were matching. It was more easy for me from this Mike Rich. From this Mike Matt. Yeah, so we are off of the numbers now. Oh, we're not gonna do numbers anymore? We do numbers, but they're off. The 14 is 13. Okay. And then 15 is gonna be 14. Okay. So we're just a little off. Yeah, you're off maybe. No, I'm perfect. I know exactly what's going on. You have no idea. I don't. I know this though, I'm in the trajectory here, you know, the kind of the flow of the show is you start with Mondays. No, we have Mondays, then then we get ready and we hit hump day. Yes. Then when hump day comes, we get over the hump and we get we get moving towards small Saturday. And on small Saturday, we slide into the weekend. So that's basically what your week looks like with us. Yeah, you thinking about exactly what happened yesterday, Sunday, you've been doing nothing and you're looking for another Sunday doing nothing. Shout it. That's your favorite, favorite activity, doing nothing. Right? Yeah. Somebody's got to do it. Yeah. I called you and he goes, Hey, what are you doing? Nothing. And don't try to get me to do anything because I'm busy doing nothing. I even get busy doing nothing. Yeah, because you almost retired. You're in that age, you know, people retire, people doing nothing, but they are really busy doing nothing. You know what I did? They are so busy. They're most busy than when they were doing something. I'm such a producer. You know what I did within an hour and a half process today? What? I got up, I started the laundry, finished it completely with everything folded and put away. Hold on, on Monday? I meal prepped. Food prepped everything because sometimes I eat the same thing all week because I'm doing the keto type thing and I had everything cooked, done, packaged and cleaned. Okay? Yeah. And then took care of a bunch of business. Ladies, are you listening now? Yeah, because I do laundry. Yeah. And I clean the bathroom. Perfect guy. He does laundry. Yeah, bathrooms. So I do everything, but it's, you know, because I do nothing, but anyway, I like to take my Sundays off and I'd like, you know, I like you're sitting there making a pitch ladies, or even if there's any ladies that would like to hang out on Sunday, doing nothing with me where we could actually do something with and call it nothing. Yeah. I'm available on Sundays. No Mondays, because you're doing laundry, you're cooking, you want me to go through this again? Monday he's busy, ladies, he's only available on Sundays because he's doing nothing. So don't expect any action on Sunday. That's nothing. It's just like, you know, it's just perfect guy. Yeah. There you go. You don't get nothing out of him. Sometimes it's so painful with you listening to your stories. Yeah. I'm sorry. But I give you credit. You brought me gyro today and I thought it was enjoyable. Except this. How come you call it a gyro? Why do I call it a gyro? I dunno. Because it's gyro. And the only thing that bothered me on that was the Americanized even gyro now. Right. They put Buffalo sauce. It was like a floating in there. Yeah, and I don't want to be mean, I don't want to be mean. I love this place or whatever, so I'm not going to say anything about it. And I love the people, but it might be just this one person. But I went in and I was all excited to share this with you, because you told me the other day, I look to please people. And so you told me, hey, those are one of my favorite things. And I said, hey, I got this place, I like it. And I loved it so much. So today I called you and said, hey, would you like something like this today? And you said, yeah, so I'm all excited. I drive there and I tell the guy that took my order, I want it exactly just the original. I just want the, what do you call that sauce? The one that's not also- Satsiki. Si.
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A highlight from Matt is like a lizard. He loves doing nothing. He invites ladies to do nothing with him. Perfect guy to get nothing out of. Rich gets his Gyro from Matt, but he ruined it with buffalo sauce. Cat out of bag or Rabbit in the sack?? Episode #413 August 14th. 2023 Matt is like a lizard. He loves doing nothing. He invites ladies to do nothing with him. Perfect guy to get nothing out of. Rich gets his Gyro from Matt, but he ruined it with buffalo sauce. Cat out of bag or Rabbit in the sack?? Ep
"Hello all you mind people, Monday is back and it's August 14th and episode 4 .13. The numbers don't match anymore, but we enjoyed last week when the numbers were matching. It was more easy for me from this Mike Rich. From this Mike Matt. Yeah, so we are off of the numbers now. Oh, we're not gonna do numbers anymore? We do numbers, but they're off. The 14 is 13. Okay. And then 15 is gonna be 14. Okay. So we're just a little off. Yeah, you're off maybe. No, I'm perfect. I know exactly what's going on. You have no idea. I don't. I know this though, I'm in the trajectory here, you know, the kind of the flow of the show is you start with Mondays. No, we have Mondays, then then we get ready and we hit hump day. Yes. Then when hump day comes, we get over the hump and we get we get moving towards small Saturday. And on small Saturday, we slide into the weekend. So that's basically what your week looks like with us. Yeah, you thinking about exactly what happened yesterday, Sunday, you've been doing nothing and you're looking for another Sunday doing nothing. Shout it. That's your favorite, favorite activity, doing nothing. Right? Yeah. Somebody's got to do it. Yeah. I called you and he goes, Hey, what are you doing? Nothing. And don't try to get me to do anything because I'm busy doing nothing. I even get busy doing nothing. Yeah, because you almost retired. You're in that age, you know, people retire, people doing nothing, but they are really busy doing nothing. You know what I did? They are so busy. They're most busy than when they were doing something. I'm such a producer. You know what I did within an hour and a half process today? What? I got up, I started the laundry, finished it completely with everything folded and put away. Hold on, on Monday? I meal prepped. Food prepped everything because sometimes I eat the same thing all week because I'm doing the keto type thing and I had everything cooked, done, packaged and cleaned. Okay? Yeah. And then took care of a bunch of business. Ladies, are you listening now? Yeah, because I do laundry. Yeah. And I clean the bathroom. Perfect guy. He does laundry. Yeah, bathrooms. So I do everything, but it's, you know, because I do nothing, but anyway, I like to take my Sundays off and I'd like, you know, I like you're sitting there making a pitch ladies, or even if there's any ladies that would like to hang out on Sunday, doing nothing with me where we could actually do something with and call it nothing. Yeah. I'm available on Sundays. No Mondays, because you're doing laundry, you're cooking, you want me to go through this again? Monday he's busy, ladies, he's only available on Sundays because he's doing nothing. So don't expect any action on Sunday. That's nothing. It's just like, you know, it's just perfect guy. Yeah. There you go. You don't get nothing out of him. Sometimes it's so painful with you listening to your stories. Yeah. I'm sorry. But I give you credit. You brought me gyro today and I thought it was enjoyable. Except this. How come you call it a gyro? Why do I call it a gyro? I dunno. Because it's gyro. And the only thing that bothered me on that was the Americanized even gyro now. Right. They put Buffalo sauce. It was like a floating in there. Yeah, and I don't want to be mean, I don't want to be mean. I love this place or whatever, so I'm not going to say anything about it. And I love the people, but it might be just this one person. But I went in and I was all excited to share this with you, because you told me the other day, I look to please people. And so you told me, hey, those are one of my favorite things. And I said, hey, I got this place, I like it. And I loved it so much. So today I called you and said, hey, would you like something like this today? And you said, yeah, so I'm all excited. I drive there and I tell the guy that took my order, I want it exactly just the original. I just want the, what do you call that sauce? The one that's not also - Satsiki. Si.
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"Hello all you mind people, Monday is back and it's August 14th and episode 4.13. The numbers don't match anymore, but we enjoyed last week when the numbers were matching. It was more easy for me from this Mike Rich. From this Mike Matt. Yeah, so we are off of the numbers now. Oh, we're not gonna do numbers anymore? We do numbers, but they're off. The 14 is 13. Okay. And then 15 is gonna be 14. Okay. So we're just a little off. Yeah, you're off maybe. No, I'm perfect. I know exactly what's going on. You have no idea. I don't. I know this though, I'm in the trajectory here, you know, the kind of the flow of the show is you start with Mondays. No, we have Mondays, then then we get ready and we hit hump day. Yes. Then when hump day comes, we get over the hump and we get we get moving towards small Saturday. And on small Saturday, we slide into the weekend. So that's basically what your week looks like with us. Yeah, you thinking about exactly what happened yesterday, Sunday, you've been doing nothing and you're looking for another Sunday doing nothing. Shout it. That's your favorite, favorite activity, doing nothing. Right? Yeah. Somebody's got to do it. Yeah. I called you and he goes, Hey, what are you doing? Nothing. And don't try to get me to do anything because I'm busy doing nothing. I even get busy doing nothing. Yeah, because you almost retired. You're in that age, you know, people retire, people doing nothing, but they are really busy doing nothing. You know what I did? They are so busy. They're most busy than when they were doing something. I'm such a producer. You know what I did within an hour and a half process today? What? I got up, I started the laundry, finished it completely with everything folded and put away. Hold on, on Monday? I meal prepped. Food prepped everything because sometimes I eat the same thing all week because I'm doing the keto type thing and I had everything cooked, done, packaged and cleaned. Okay? Yeah. And then took care of a bunch of business. Ladies, are you listening now? Yeah, because I do laundry. Yeah. And I clean the bathroom. Perfect guy. He does laundry. Yeah, bathrooms. So I do everything, but it's, you know, because I do nothing, but anyway, I like to take my Sundays off and I'd like, you know, I like you're sitting there making a pitch ladies, or even if there's any ladies that would like to hang out on Sunday, doing nothing with me where we could actually do something with and call it nothing. Yeah. I'm available on Sundays. No Mondays, because you're doing laundry, you're cooking, you want me to go through this again? Monday he's busy, ladies, he's only available on Sundays because he's doing nothing. So don't expect any action on Sunday. That's nothing. It's just like, you know, it's just perfect guy. Yeah. There you go. You don't get nothing out of him. Sometimes it's so painful with you listening to your stories. Yeah, I'm sorry. But I give you credit. You brought me a gyro today and that was enjoyable, except this- How come you call it a gyro? Why do I call it a gyro? I don't- Because it's gyro. And the only thing what bothered me on that was just the Americanized even gyro now. Right. They put buffalo sauce it was like a floating.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Matt is like a lizard. He loves doing nothing. He invites ladies to do nothing with him. Perfect guy to get nothing out of. Rich gets his Gyro from Matt, but he ruined it with buffalo sauce. Cat out of bag or Rabbit in the sack?? Episode #413 August 14th. 2023 Matt is like a lizard. He loves doing nothing. He invites ladies to do nothing with him. Perfect guy to get nothing out of. Rich gets his Gyro from Matt, but he ruined it with buffalo sauce. Cat out of bag or Rabbit in the sack?? Ep
"Hello all you mind people, Monday is back and it's August 14th and episode 4 .13. The numbers don't match anymore, but we enjoyed last week when the numbers were matching. It was more easy for me from this Mike Rich. From this Mike Matt. Yeah, so we are off of the numbers now. Oh, we're not gonna do numbers anymore? We do numbers, but they're off. The 14 is 13. Okay. And then 15 is gonna be 14. Okay. So we're just a little off. Yeah, you're off maybe. No, I'm perfect. I know exactly what's going on. You have no idea. I don't. I know this though, I'm in the trajectory here, you know, the kind of the flow of the show is you start with Mondays. No, we have Mondays, then then we get ready and we hit hump day. Yes. Then when hump day comes, we get over the hump and we get we get moving towards small Saturday. And on small Saturday, we slide into the weekend. So that's basically what your week looks like with us. Yeah, you thinking about exactly what happened yesterday, Sunday, you've been doing nothing and you're looking for another Sunday doing nothing. Shout it. That's your favorite, favorite activity, doing nothing. Right? Yeah. Somebody's got to do it. Yeah. I called you and he goes, Hey, what are you doing? Nothing. And don't try to get me to do anything because I'm busy doing nothing. I even get busy doing nothing. Yeah, because you almost retired. You're in that age, you know, people retire, people doing nothing, but they are really busy doing nothing. You know what I did? They are so busy. They're most busy than when they were doing something. I'm such a producer. You know what I did within an hour and a half process today? What? I got up, I started the laundry, finished it completely with everything folded and put away. Hold on, on Monday? I meal prepped. Food prepped everything because sometimes I eat the same thing all week because I'm doing the keto type thing and I had everything cooked, done, packaged and cleaned. Okay? Yeah. And then took care of a bunch of business. Ladies, are you listening now? Yeah, because I do laundry. Yeah. And I clean the bathroom. Perfect guy. He does laundry. Yeah, bathrooms. So I do everything, but it's, you know, because I do nothing, but anyway, I like to take my Sundays off and I'd like, you know, I like you're sitting there making a pitch ladies, or even if there's any ladies that would like to hang out on Sunday, doing nothing with me where we could actually do something with and call it nothing. Yeah. I'm available on Sundays. No Mondays, because you're doing laundry, you're cooking, you want me to go through this again? Monday he's busy, ladies, he's only available on Sundays because he's doing nothing. So don't expect any action on Sunday. That's nothing. It's just like, you know, it's just perfect guy. Yeah. There you go. You don't get nothing out of him. Sometimes it's so painful with you listening to your stories. Yeah, I'm sorry. But I give you credit. You brought me a gyro today and that was enjoyable, except this - How come you call it a gyro? Why do I call it a gyro? I don't - Because it's gyro. And the only thing what bothered me on that was just the Americanized even gyro now. Right. They put buffalo sauce it was like a floating.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Self-Sovereignty 101 with Deep State Mechanic and Why Bitcoin is Winning with the Caf Bitcoin Crew - August 14th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. All right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Good morning, John Bay, Peter, Ant, Wicked, Jacob, and all the awesome folks out there. Monday morning, once again, we're doing it again. Today is Monday, August 14th, 2023. Welcome to Cafe Bitcoin episode 411. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach the other 7 billion people on this planet why there is hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin. Today's show, we're going to be talking about BTC and politics, legal cases, why Bitcoin is winning, among other things. Later, we have Deep State Mechanic, aka Grass -fed Bitcoin, is going to be joining us to talk about self -sovereignty, security, OPSEC, join market, maybe? I hope. We'll see. Let's get rolling. I hope you guys had a great weekend. First thing that's up, there is a libertarian candidate in Argentina that is leading in the polls. You would have imagined in Argentina's presidential primaries, libertarian candidate Javier Millet took first place. Defying pre -election predictions that placed him in third place. And here's an interesting quote from this cat. He goes, the central bank is a scam. It's a mechanism by which politicians cheat people with the inflationary tax. Bitcoin is the natural reaction against central bank scammers. All right. So what do you think? Is this guy legit or is he just another? We can't trust him because he's a politician guy. Is this the guy that's currently shadow banned? I don't know. Is he shadow banned? It's hard to say when it's someone in a different culture, on a different continent, in a different country, that that's just difficult to surmise. Did anybody have any thoughts? Go ahead, Michelle. Good morning. Good morning, guys. I don't have any personal thoughts, but I will say that we have several developers in my office from there and they are all super, super excited. So just a note. It's cool. Like it's yet to be seen, right? It's like, watch what they do, not what they say. However, I mean, that's pretty vocal. The central bank is a scam and it's used by politicians to cheat people. Yeah, I mean, you're setting yourself up for self -destruction if you say something like that and then you go in and you do something else. I don't know. I suppose it's what any of them have done, but dang, it's pretty strong. At least they're coming from a place where the currency has been, has been completely devalued, what, three times it's been completely turned upside down? It's, has it? I feel like it's been more than that. I think it's three times. I think I've heard stories of people who have had built wealth and then had it destroyed by the, by the inflating currency. Let's figure out the exact number. We have a lot of smart people up here. Somebody who has access to Google and is not, doesn't have broken fingers. Let's figure it out. How many times has Argentina hyperinflated? It's been a lot, I think. I think it's four. What does it mean to hyperinflate multiple times? Like, are you saying like it goes through a bout of hyperinflation, then it subsides and then it goes through another one? Yeah, the currency actually hyperinflates, then collapses. They reset the currency, then it does it again. Too many times. The guys at my group chat are saying that it's four. All right. I feel like one time should be enough, right? Like if you have a hyperinflation one time, you would think the people would be like, yo, this system sucks. Let's do something different. Well, I mean, they did, which is why nobody ever saves in Argentinian pesos, right? Like no one does that anymore. And they all know that it's a shit system, which is probably why it's hyperinflating again over and over because no one actually believes in it. That's a fair point because confidence is a critical component of the stability of a currency, right? And if the people inherently just think it's garbage, then that would, that makes some sense. Wikipedia says since 1816, it's defaulted on its debt nine times. How many times has the United States defaulted on its debt? I don't know. It depends how you define default. Yeah, probably zero, according to Wikipedia. I did the, uh, shadow band tester and yeah, his account is, uh, it's not shadow band, but he's not showing up in searches. If you look for him, apparently what's the shadow band tester. Oh, you haven't been shadow banned yet. Peter doesn't believe that's a thing. He thinks they're all nice. But now what is that word? Benevolent third benevolent people. They don't do things like that. As a well -worn battle scarred, uh, survivor of multiple shadow bands over the years. Let me tell you that it does exist, Peter. I never said it didn't exist. That was Alex putting words in my mouth, trying to trigger me as usual. But I do something like that. Come on, Lynn. Good morning. How are you doing? Can I hear you? Don't know what's going on with that. So Lynn Alden tweeted out that she went, she's heading back to Egypt for the rest of the summer. Different line by the way. Oh yeah. Sorry. My bad. Thank you for clarifying that Lynn Alden. So we have Lynn B who's come up on stage and she's working out her mic issues and we've got Lynn Alden. Who tweeted she's heading back to Egypt for the rest of the summer and over the last 18 months or so, their currency has been cut in half relative to the dollar. So this is an interesting thing that's going on. So you've got this, there's this concept called the race to the bottom where countries around the world to remain competitive, essentially devalue their currencies intentionally versus other currencies, um, on the international game board, so to speak. And so all currencies are devaluing against the U S dollar and the U S dollar is devaluing against everything. It's, it's a wild time that we live in Peter. So chat, uh, uh, GPT says that there's four, um, one of them being the first one being the great depression in the 1930s, but then it happened again in 1989.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 19:00 08-13-2023 19:00
"The PVOC these days, but it doesn't look like the PVOC is going to do much this month, at least, Brian. Yeah, we also have big investors selling more properties in Hong Kong. Li Ka -shing, she's got a piece as well, she really does. Li Ka -shing selling more flats at a big project from CK Asset. So that's something that we'll also be focused on all throughout the morning's program. Well, the next hour of Bloomberg Daybreak Asia begins right now. Many thanks to Bonnie Quinn. At Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act, this is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Daybreak Asia for this Monday, August 14th in Hong Kong, Sunday, August 13th in New York. And coming up today, Asian equities may struggle after U .S. stocks cap the week with declines following mixed data on inflation. China is issuing a plan to attract more foreign investment to bolster its economy. And Country Garden will suspend trading in at least 10 onshore bonds. Maui Fire now the worst death toll in the U .S. in over a century. The recovery process in Lahainotown is slow work. China says Taiwan's vice president's stopover in the U .S. violates its sovereignty and expectation of another Trump indictment this week. I'm Ed Baxter with Global News. Could PSG superstar Kylian Mbappe actually remain in Paris? I'm Dan Schwartzman. I'll have that story more coming up in Bloomberg Sports. That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia. On Bloomberg 1130 New York, Bloomberg 99 .1 Washington, D .C. Bloomberg 106 .1 Boston, Bloomberg 960 San Francisco, Sirius XM119 And around the world on BloombergRadio .com and via the Bloomberg Business App.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 18:00 08-13-2023 18:00
"Good stuff. Danny Lee is Bloomberg's Asia transport reporter. I'm Doug Krisner. You can join Brian Curtis and myself weekdays here for Bloomberg Daybreak Asia beginning at 6 a .m. in Hong Kong, 6 p .m. on Wall Street. Tom? Thank you, Doug. And that does it for this edition of Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend. Join us again Monday morning at 5 a .m. Wall Street time for the latest on markets overseas and the news you need to start your day. I'm Tom Busby. Stay with us. 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 Bloomberg Daybreak Asia for this Monday, August 14th in Hong Kong, Sunday, August 13th in New York and coming up today Asian equities may struggle after US stocks cap the week with declines following mixed data on inflation. China is issuing a plan to attract more foreign investment to bolster its economy. And Country Garden will suspend trading in at least 10 onshore bonds. Maui Fire now the worst death toll in the US in over a century. The recovery process in Lahaina town is slow work. China says Taiwan's vice president's stopover in the US violates its sovereignty and expectation of another Trump indictment this week. I'm Ed Baxter with Global News. Could PSG superstar Kylie Mbappe actually remain in Paris? I'm Dan Schwartzman. I'll have that story more coming up in Bloomberg Sports. That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia. On Bloomberg 1130 New York, Bloomberg 99 .1 Washington DC, Bloomberg 106 .1 Boston, Bloomberg 960 San Francisco, Sirius XM 119 and around the world on BloombergRadio .com and via the Bloomberg Business Act.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1197. Elizabeth Warren Demands More Crypto Taxes Pro-CBDC Army vs Stablecoins
"So, Elizabeth Warren up to her antics again, this time using taxes, using CBDC, and many other tools to her disposal to try to take a position against crypto. We're going to be breaking down all of this for you guys today. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back into Tech Path. I want to get into the first story here. Democrat senators want Treasury, IRS, to pick up the pace on crypto tax rules. So a few things that I want to break down in this article so you kind of know who the players are. I'm going to zoom in on this one. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Robert Casey, and then Richard Blumenthal, all involved in this. The idea is pretty simple. Treasury and IRS have until the end of the year to finalize new rules to help close the estimated $50 billion crypto tax gap. Now, this is something we'll break down because this is not necessarily the real scenario. It's what they're proposing out there. The other thing they want to put in here is, without quick action, your agencies are at risk of failing to meet congressionally mandated deadlines and the implementation of the final rule. We urge that you act swiftly and implement strong crypto tax reporting rules for cryptocurrency brokers. All of this, which we'll get into, one of the things the industry has said has become very antsy waiting on guidance, particularly with regards to the IRS defines a broker. Industry observers have claimed that the broker definition is very broad. We all know that because it could include miners and also software developers. That's another problem that already exists in crypto of who is a broker. And then secondly, or additionally, what are we hoping for? An industry perspective that is updated with the 6045 regulation, which basically gives different qualifications based on type of activity. The other thing they break down is it'll hopefully make it clear that not everyone effectuating a transfer of a digital asset would be subjected to a broker reporting. So this gets into some of the details of when taxes do apply, and we'll show a little bit more about this. The letter, the senatorial letter, comes days after the IRS issued new guidance update in 6045 regarding crypto staking, which is the other part of this that's pretty big, in which the agency ruled that staking income, regardless of the gains are realized, will be taxed as income. So you have to think about that for a second. You're staking ETH, you get ETH in return. You haven't sold ETH, but you're taking that as an income. That is the argument I think that everybody, of course, is up in arms about. If a cash method taxpayer takes stakes cryptocurrency native to a proof of stake blockchain and receives additional units of cryptocurrency as rewards, which is what happens here when the validation occurs, the fair market value of the validation rewards received is included in the taxpayer's gross income. So if you are staking, that's a problem. The interesting thing is that you do not take tax gains if you're putting that in a money market and you're getting paid interest. That's not gains until you exit those kind of scenarios. So this is an interesting aspect of how the IRS and how Elizabeth Warren is really putting pressure on it. Another point I want to get to here. This was coming from the 2021 Infrastructure Investment Employment Act, which is where all this came from. But basically, it said if we do not act quickly, that is, if the Treasury and the IRS do not implement these new rules in a timely manner, we risk missing out on roughly $1 .5 billion in tax revenue for fiscal 2024. At this point, you should not give this chance to tax evaders, which is what they're calling crypto people. And I think this is something that people don't realize just how much taxes are being paid by people in crypto. In fact, countries with the most taxpayers currently in cryptocurrency, United States leading the way, number one, Japan, number two, Germany, United Kingdom, and Austria. So you can kind of see we're already handling this because crypto is like any other really asset out there if you think about it. If you take a gain, if you sell an asset and you take a gain, that's a capital gains tax. And it applies to capital gains rules. Those are the same kind of scenarios that play into it. What I don't necessarily think is going to be popular is for them to continue to reach in to these unrealized gains, like taking unrealized gains and taxing them in any other corporate infrastructure, just not necessarily the model in which this plays out. The other thing that income tax is payable on is you're getting paid in crypto. That's revenue. So you're paying tax on that. You get an airdrop. That's a new asset you've received. Getting taxes on that. Staking rewards. That's the other scenario that plays into this. DeFi interest. Mining rewards and then even referral bonuses. All of those are income taxable at this time. There was a couple of things here in a report from CoinLedger that I want to showcase. And this was really kind of going through the people in their survey of who understood when a taxable event occurs. So 65 % of investors correctly identified that selling cryptocurrency is a taxable event. Now you have to sell it for a profit, of course. If you sell it for a loss, that's not obviously a taxable event. But only 38 % of the investors correctly identified that a crypto -to -crypto trade is a taxable event. So this is still questioning and also it's still not completely clear so that the IRS, but also even your tax preparers understand really what's happening out there in the place. And I think, again, this all goes back down into regulation, which will flow into the tax code and many other aspects. This is kind of interesting right here. This was further from the CoinLedger report. 50 % of non -taxpayers don't report because they haven't made a profit currently in cryptocurrency. You have to remember the last two years, really since 2021, almost anybody in crypto, along with other assets out there, have been in the negative. Right now, haven't made a profit, so you're not going to be paying taxes on that. I didn't know I had to report. Some people said that. I don't understand how to report, 12%, and then I don't want to pay taxes, 7%. So that should have been larger. Government doesn't know about my cryptocurrency. Okay, those are the bad guys right there. So the likelihood is if you guys are watching our show and maybe you're brand new to crypto, it's treated like any other asset class. Doesn't have any really differentiation. It is money. If you're taking it as revenue, if you're taking it as income, if you're taking a sale and getting profit from it, you're going to be able to take taxes at that time. Those are taxable events. The other problem is that it's not like an investment if you do lose money where you get to use that as a tax loss. So that's another problem of how this could. Now you can do some tax loss harvesting, of course, obviously you should get with your own CPA to understand how that works. I want to go to a clip here because the clip will go into a little bit about where, and we're kind of transitioning out of taxes into CBDC, but where Warren stands on CBDCs. Let's know what she said. So that's not so hard on stablecoins. The harder one is what do you think Bitcoin is about? If you think it's about being able to transfer value without having to go through banks, and little side note, I think banks have done a really bad job of a lot of the things they're called on to do. Yeah, the biggest advocates of Bitcoin sound like you. Yeah. Meaning they want to break up these big banks have been terrible, right? That's exactly right. And they've cheated consumers and they've kept prices high and they're slow and they won't cash a check. Five to seven days to three to five days. There you go. And it was a huge victory. Huge victory, right? That they only held onto your money for five to seven days. So a lot that banks do wrong, if you think we could improve that in a digital world, the answer is sure you could. But in that case, let's do a central bank digital currency. Are you there? Oh, for a central bank digital currency? Yes. All right, so you can see she's very pro central bank digital currencies. If you look at Warren Davidson's tweet right here, in America, CBDC should be banned. This was one option, a jailable criminal offense declaration of war and implemented. Obviously that was his kind of poking fun at, but banned is the big one is that we shouldn't use it. This is a big scenario that plays out, has been playing out for quite some time on the CBDC front. So let's just understand that CBDCs, if we do get to that, and I think this is one of the reasons that obviously crypto in general has been more popular and started to become more popular around the world, especially in countries that already have problems with their fiat. And I think that is going to be an issue that will continue to face here in the U .S. of how that does play out on a digital currency. If you look at what's happening in China, obviously their social credit system is all tied to eventually to the money. So definitely a problem. Now the other things that play into this is that there could be some scenarios right now where Gensler is going to start trying to do some other things to try to deflect maybe a possible loss that could be coming at him. One of the things that's happening right now, this of course, hacks crypto founder used investor funds to buy almost four and a half million Black Diamonds. This is the SEC. So this again is nefarious actors like Richard Hart and others that have been in the crypto space. Listen, this is not the only place that has those kinds of actors out there, but this is a good example of just how the SEC is trying to go in and deflect a little bit. Here was one of the things they charged, SEC charges 18 Utah defendants with a $50 million crypto fraud scheme. So again, Gensler and the SEC are on the warpath right now. And I always wonder why, because these are small fraud. And I look at this, they're definitely not a Binance, they're not an FDX, and they're definitely not a Coinbase. So why are they going out after these very low hanging, I'm sure they should, but it's almost making mountains out of molehills in the kind of scenario that this is faced into right now. Are they maybe setting up for deflecting off of a potential big loss, such as possibly an approval through the House on these crypto bills? Just to give you an idea of just how close Gensler is to the regulatory and the political landscape, look at the timing here. January 12th, this was 2023, he sued Genesis. During that time, we had the House Financial Services Committee announcing their subcommittee on digital assets, so nice timing there. February 12th through the 14th, Wall Street comes in and says they've issued a Wells Notice for Paxos. At the same time, you had a committee hearing on crypto crash, why financial system safeguards are needed. Then you had this one, March 19th, he goes in and he publishes the op -ed in The Hill, and then you had the Senate Ag Committee saying we're going to do these crypto hearings. Then he does April 27th, and you can kind of see it just all ties in to activity that's happening in the political forefront. He is coming in, or the SEC coming in, and timing is everything. So the reality is that all of this is going to play into the hands, I think, of the industry and also to the lawmakers understanding what the SEC's overreach has been. So it's going to be one that will probably play out in a very short period of time. I want to go to this next clip of Ron Hammond from Blockchain Association. Listen in. At least in the market structure bill, which again, got more votes than the stablecoin bill from Democrats, which blew everyone's mind in D .C. No one expected that to have ever happened. We were expecting like four or five. We had six Democrats join. Stablecoins were expecting 12 or so Democrats to join. We only got five. All right. So simply kind of taking a little bit of a victory lap of what has happened here recently on the House floor in terms of the committees and getting ready to send both of these bills to the House for a potential vote. This will happen in September. Let's take a listen to this next clip on Hammond on Gensler. And I think the market structure vote in particular just shows how much he's lost his own party in terms of buying the narrative that, A, the status quo is fine, B, there's no need for legislation, and three, he's doing a good job on the enforcement end. And we saw that on all three arguments from different Democrats fail each time. And I think the fact that there's six Democrats who bucked their own party, who bucked the SEC and said, yeah, we're going to advance the market structure bill forward. Even the House Act Committee said, yeah, we're going to advance this bill forward, too, without any opposition recorded. That's huge. All right. So I think the play out on this, you know, when you look at the current landscape right now of what Warren's attack is, the crypto army, you look at the positioning that really D .C. is doing currently, and now could this play into the political landscape for 2024? Yes, it could. But the bigger play here, I think, is still the regulatory front. And that means that either the SEC is going to lose some of its power and the CFTC is going to come in and start to have a little bit more divvy up of what digital assets and how they're controlled through these government agencies. But really, how does this play out maybe into the future? This note right here from the block, they were talking about the commission being the SEC has so far received 52 letters about these proposed funds. This is in reference to ETFs, with most of them expressing support. So it's very possible that we could see an ETF actually get passed here. And you've seen some of the things we've talked about here on the channel before in the last couple of weeks, you know, everything from the Bloomberg team and so on around the potential of the ETF getting passed, the Bitcoin ETF. If that does get passed, that would be huge for the market, would absolutely legitimize what's happening in this space. And I think it would probably, in most cases, put so much pressure on D .C. that they have to move to going in and actually getting some landscape in play. Most of the comments against the approval appeared in multiple letters from a business consultant calling themselves the due diligence. I think basically this is a bunch of banks tied in behind this and this was the counter argument to what an ETF should be. So there is full political folly in play here and it is happening at, I think, light speed right now, much faster than what I anticipated even. One of the last things here is the comment period wraps up next week. So the SEC accepting letters for the final funds around August 11. So meaning that Gensler is getting ready to have to actually make some decision either for or against or a delay, which is probably what most likely will happen. But the good thing is that, like I said, there's going to be a potential right now which keeps increasing of a potential approval coming from some of the best ETF experts in the world that are analyzing where the situation is and kind of how it's going forward. Additionally, you've got anti -crypto movement now escalating Congress's assault on privacy. This is where a lot of people are starting to look at the idea of cash and just personal privacy, which is one of the biggest issues really around the world. And if you think about just how important that is, this would give you an example, cash matters, free citizens entitled to privacy and the protection of their data. In the UK, 74 % of people say cashless society would take away the people's right to choose. In the U .S., it's 73%. When it comes to purchases, personal preferences should remain exactly that, simply meaning that with a CBDC, we all know what that means, the control of the cash, control of what you spend on, then it gets into the control of what you spend on based on your political viewpoints or other aspects of your life that all start to play it. So cash does pretty much empower citizens to become capable of kind of voting with their wallets. And I think this is a very critical scenario that's playing out right now. CBDCs will be a big part of this. So you've got CBDCs happening, you've got what we're going to be dealing with on a taxable side and then the legislative. So all of this happening right now, literally in 2023, and it seems to be coming to a head very quickly. I think as we move forward, there's going to be two things that come out of this, and that is how these bills start to move their way through Congress and eventually, if we do get approvals, to the president's desk. Here's of course, the Senator Lummis and Gillibrand bill. Just another piece of legislation that is making its way through. Most likely, this is one that will not happen, mainly because of the association and the collaboration, I think, with the ICC. The bill involves a broader swath of agencies, so this is kind of interesting because it gets into the Office for Foreign Asset Control, the FTC, OFAC, FinCEN, et cetera. The SEC is provided also with something that a section -by -section overview claims resolves a long -standing issue with the SEC custody requirements. Probably the bill that will not make its way through, which gives us back to the scenario of the two bills that are currently on the floor that most likely will make it. So good news, I think, in general, bad news for the crypto army and CBDC is still coming to a head, but I think the good thing here is that, in many cases, it's like bad PR is even good PR, but the point is that the industry, lawmakers, finance community, they're all talking about crypto, and in the end, that is good for the asset class. One other thing that did happen, which is kind of interesting, this was a letter to Tim Cook, and we did a full video on this, so I won't go into the detail of this, but mainly it was trying to get Apple to get less and less constrictive on asset classes that are making their way through apps or innovation that are involved with blockchain. One of the things that they got into was purposely limiting choice and stifling innovation at the expense of user experience. This is a problem that Apple kind of faces for quite some time. And we broke down a lot of this, but the big deal is this right here, responding to the following questions no later than 5 p .m. on August 14th. So this is another issue that is coming to a head here in August of Apple having to actually address what's happening in Capitol Hill around the blockchain and the crypto industry as a whole. So again, just another big benefit, I think, for where this market is going. I want to go to this next clip here, and this is again Ron Hammond, on where he thinks Apple's position is. Listen in. But this is a bipartisan letter from the leaders of the subcommittee on innovation. That sends a message that says, look, I mean, Apple's getting hit on a number of fronts, but this definitely sends a message saying, you know, hey, look, you're on the clock right now. We're looking at you. So that committee is going to be taking more of a role over time because we've seen this talk and this narrative of crypto really shift more and more in D .C., at least, talking about the tech itself, which is perfect, is exactly what I want to talk about, the innovation and the technology itself. And that's the Energy and Commerce Committee. That's a bipartisan letter that sends a pretty good warning shot to others in the industry saying, look, you know, crypto is here to stay. We have concerns that the U .S. are probably blocking them out. And that's not good on our watch. All right. So I think this is one of those things, again, that the thwarting of innovation is a concern here in the United States because it's one of the things that pretty much pushed the U .S. ahead of the entire planet when it comes to really capital growth, entrepreneurship, how we grow our own economies, but more importantly, our position in the hierarchy of the global structure in terms of just being the global power. And I think if you consider that, you have to look at what's happening in Europe. And with the EU, markets and crypto assets regulation, this is MICA, this is a regulation that's pretty much been in place, and it's now starting to take form. And one of the things that you have to kind of look at here is their consultation package three. These are all actually happening now. Qualification of crypto assets and financial instruments, monitoring detection, notification of market abuse, investor protection is happening, you can kind of see the things there on reverse solicitation, policies, procedures, all that. System resilience and security access, all that is building. Mainly what is going on right now in MICA is they're prepping to get all of this regulation in place so that they can roll out this program. And when they do, it is going to put the EU at the front and center of one of the biggest asset classes that has ever been created. This is the power of what crypto and blockchain is bringing to the planet. And that's why I think we are seeing all of this scrambling going on here in 2023 in the U .S. Look at the timeline here of MICA. June hits, publication goes out. July, the consultation package one already rolls out. October of this year, we're going to see package two. And then by Q1, that's when that consultation package three goes into play. And then we have early entry into the application and then the rollout by end of next year. So this is pretty significant. Further into their rollout, this kind of, let me kind of zoom out on this a little bit. This shows more background on all the transitional measurements that are going to take place. And this looks complicated, but really what it simply means is these are the deadlines that they're trying to meet to get all of the organizations that are applying for regulatory position in the EU into play so that they can go into the markets with all of these things in a legal way. And I think that is what is interesting. I think they're going to stay very sharp on these timelines because they don't want to look stupid. And right now, the world is watching. Everybody's looking at this. Asia's watching this now. The U .S. is pretty much on a big race with it. I want to go to a next clip here. And this next clip is a little bit more about the BRICs, now why the BRICs matter. And listen to this one. This is an important one. Yeah. So BRICs is a collection of countries that are trying to find an alternative to what they see as the hegemonic dollar based U .S. run global economy. So BRIC stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. But what happened in the wake of the Ukraine invasion is that the U .S. seized Russia's presumably to try to set off a banking crisis. Now, ironically enough, for separate reasons, our banks crashed. But anyway, that didn't work. But the problem, yeah, the problem is that every country on earth saw that happen. All right. And you've got now all these countries that they were never really hostile to the U .S., but they're starting to wonder now, could they come after me? Could they try to crash my banks? But at this point now it's accelerating. And so they've got a meeting coming up in August. And one of the items that may or may not be on the agenda is the prospect of a gold backed BRICs currency. What I think is interesting is that if any country did gold back a widely used currency, that would I mean, it would be catastrophic for the U .S. dollar. Right. That would give the world an alternative sort of payment rail that is even stronger than the dollar is today. All right. So hopefully you guys are seeing how all of this is connected. You go from everything that Elizabeth Warren is doing on the legislative front to basically tax Americans, kind of setting up the scale of what and how this asset class is going to be dealt with, to how we're going to control the digital dollar, which is the CBDC, and whether or not FedNow will play into that in the future. Then you tie into all this regulatory framework. And then lastly, but not least, is BRICs and their importance on the global front. If you look at this tweet right here on World Statistics, GDP at purchasing power parity of the world. Here's the G7. You can kind of see U .S., Japan, et cetera, all the way in there, 45 percent 1993, all the way down to 2028, around 27 percent. The BRICS nations, all the way down to 2028, they will actually accelerate over the GDP of the G7. This is pretty significant because all this was, again, projected by the IMF, the International Monetary Fund. One of the things around this is whether or not, and St. Auge talked about that, Peter, the guy that we just did a clip on, he talked about the importance of this gold -backed dollar or BRICS currency. If that were to occur, that would be, as he said, catastrophic for not only the U .S. dollar, but I think catastrophic for the globe because we would see a shift in power pretty quickly. So here's the alliance right here. This is a scary picture. BRICS alliance will discuss the usage of local currencies for cross -border transactions in the upcoming summit in August. Now, the good thing, the good news, if there is some, is they're talking about using local currency as opposed to gold. Had they used gold, that would have been a huge blow into, really, the future of the U .S. dollar, and they still may go that direction, so you have to be considering that. Again, why is it important to be investing in cryptocurrencies or digital assets? We've just painted out a picture for you and the reasons why all of this flows up in a very interesting domino effect toward how just monetary systems are going to be run in the next 100 years. Stablecoins' potential counter to de -dollarization, that's a big part of this. So in this particular scenario of this article, people familiar with the talk said that the last moment the White House National Economic Council, this was Lael Brainard, dumped cold water on this stablecoin bill saying it didn't put federal regulators in a strong enough role. And remember, if you'll recall, we did a video on this where, of course, Patrick McHenry and Maxine Waters were negotiating that. And there seemed to be an agreement prior to going to the vote. And then at the last minute, Maxine Waters pretty much got the phone call from the red phone and that was dislodged. And then, of course, McHenry went to the floor with what was the old bill that did not have all the changes in it. So again, a lot of politics being played out right here in D .C. And again, this is very important because of the global position and what we are trying to do to essentially compete at a very high level. I want to close this out quickly with our last clip here. This is just the stablecoin timeline from the Blockchain Association listening. It does, unfortunately, hinder it a little bit, but I've had conversations with staff and members of Congress after the fact, and they seem very gung ho in trying to resolve this issue before the whole entire House votes on that bill. But likely what's going to happen is that in the fall, there's going to be a general House floor vote. Every member of the House gets a vote on this, which, again, it's a lot of education. So I've already had some Republicans reach out to me for more the right wing of the caucus saying the stablecoin bill is just a CBDC bill. And it's like, no, it's not. It's nothing related to that. On the left, we're seeing a little more consumer protection concerns and also just the general crypto skeptic concern as well. So August, we're going to have a break and in the fall, you're going to have a vote, right? Exactly. But I think for sure in twenty twenty three, we'll have a general vote on the House floor. And then you can see for yourself what your members of Congress are supporting crypto or guardrails for crypto and which ones say, you know, nah, you know, I don't I think the status quo is fine. All right, so big actions happening this fall and part of this will, of course, will be the stablecoin bill, but also crypto and digital assets in general hitting the House floor. This and as Hammond said, this will be a critical time because the scenario that plays into this right now is it's going to showcase into a lot of what we'll see in the political runs and the campaigns that are being run next year in twenty twenty four. So this could become a little bit more of a voting scenario. So hopefully this has given you guys a rundown. I know it's it's it is a lot here to to kind of digest. If you're new to our channel, we try to break these down. And I promise we're going to try to get these in a little bit, maybe smaller bite sizes. But you can see the breadth of what's happening globally, especially here in the United States right now, because this is a fight for your wallet. And that's why it's so important and that's why we're seeing so much activity happen. You guys are part of the Diamond Circle. Great. Glad to have you in. But if you're not, make sure and join. All you have to do is click the link down below. We we do, of course, a podcast over there, a lot of additional research. I even do additional analysis over there. So it's a great place for you to start here with the PBN team. And of course, it's the best way to get to us. Just go to our website. You can join right there. Of course, if you're not following me at that out there on X, it's just at Paul Baron. We'll catch you next time right here on Tech Path. We'll be right back.
Clark Howard
At Least 10,000 People Waiting at Kabul Airport for Flight
"The U. S military says there are still more than 10,000 people at the airport, the Kabul airport in Afghanistan. Waiting departure and a number of those 10,000 are Americans. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the estimated population of American citizens in Afghanistan was 6000 before August 14th so far, 4500 private citizens have evacuated And in the past 24 hours, the embassy has been in touch with an additional 500 citizens, giving them specific instructions to get to the airport and evacuate. He says. The estimated 1000 remaining may not be in the country may not actually be Americans or may choose to
The Stuttering John Podcast
"august. 14th" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"We didn't hear that. We haven't seen any of that. And that's what bothers me. You know, we on the Democratic Party will hold our leaders accountable. I mean, governor Cuomo is no longer the governor of New York. In about ten days or something, the new female swears in. But you know, the Democrats. The Republicans were screaming that he needs to be held he needs to be held accountable. But the Democrats were screaming louder than the Republicans, this man needs to be held accountable. But yet, when it's on the opposite side, it's crickets. They don't care. And I mean, another guy mentioned it yesterday. There was another guy that was a Republican strategist that was big supporter of Trump and was at some of Trump's meetings and stuff. He got busted for child sex trafficking. I mean, it seems like. One out of 25, you know, perverts out there is a Democrat in 24 I'm a Republicans. And that's the way it's been looking because all these people that keep getting busted for doing this stuff are on the Republican ticket. So I mean, you know, they don't hold their own people accountable. By the way, I don't get like Diane results says I don't like her super chats. I don't know what you're talking about. I read it and asked the army major the question. God, I mean, people get so sensitive. I didn't say anything. I mean, I guess our question was about Haiti. But I don't know anything about Haiti about Clinton and Haiti. Look, look, as a soldier, we're not privy to the funding that comes in. You know, all I know is that there was a lot of, you know, we were giving out bags of rice. We were giving out cases of water and it was just it was a horrible, horrible situation. Haiti was probably the worst experience of my life. Because not only was it hard work from sun up to sundown, nonstop, but let me tell you the amount of death that we had to deal with there was far worse than anything I saw in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I can justify taking somebody out that was doing the wrong thing. But when you look at an entire school that pancaked and you're smelling the kids, when you got kids, when you got bodies laid out, it's bloated, you know, you can't justify that. I'm gonna dress this one with time. Diane, I did read your super chat. Nikki I can't go back that far. It only allows me to go back a certain amount. But I did read it. And it was about 80 and I just didn't know. I didn't know much about it, but it doesn't mean I didn't like it. I read it, and I asked the army major. Let me just. Maybe this is my help. Haiti had the worst construction capability. There was no standards in Haiti. You would have a 200 foot cylinder block wall that had two pieces of rebar in it. And that's it. And then the second floor is three feet thick of concrete board. And when the earthquake happened, the walls buckled and the second floor come straight down. It killed everybody. And I did read it..
The Stuttering John Podcast
"august. 14th" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Outward sign of white supremacy and how they did not want a black president. Which was indicative in their posters and signs that they held at their March on Washington, which explains why Mitch McConnell said his main goal in the Senate is to make Barack Obama a one term president. Wouldn't you say that because Obama won? And by the way, was one of the greatest presidents that we have ever had. It wasn't Obama that was divisive. It was the fact that he was black and these white supremacists couldn't deal with an African American president, so they decided to rebel against the black men. Would you not agree? Oh, absolutely. I mean, you put it as succinctly and as candidly and as correctly as possible. When Barack Obama was elected, the Tea Party was the first notion of white backlash. I hold that every time in America every time there is black progress. There is white backlash. And the Tea Party formed, it had nothing to do with policies. It had nothing to do with fiscal responsibility. It had everything to do with America's audacity to elect a black man as president of the United States of America. And for the first four years, we saw the most vitriolic response to a president that we have in the history of this nation. We're talking about hanging him in effigy. We're talking about, you know, the signs they were holding up, even prior to the trumpers that people have to remember before there were trumpers. There were tea partiers that were holding the sign saying that a village in Africa has lost its village idiot. They were telling him to a chimpanzee and a gorilla. Yes, yes. Go back, you know, to Africa. They were calling his wife a gorilla in heels. You had people like Rush Limbaugh who were playing the little tune Barack the magic Negro, and then when Mitt Romney failed to reinstate their dreams by getting that black man out of office, they redoubled their efforts, but they had to deal with four more years of seeing a black man in The White House. Seeing a black family come in and out of The White House. And what happened in those next four years, a lot of the overt the covert racism just became covert racism. And it set the stage for a guy like Donald Trump to be able to come down that escalator, give a vitriolic racist announcement speech and talk about Mexicans being rapists and all of this kind of stuff. And they embraced him. You know, and I say that they didn't embrace Donald Trump in spite of his racism. They embraced him because of his racism. I'm a friend, the bishop Darren Moore who put it like this. And I think this was probably the best way I've ever heard.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"august. 14th" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Communist spies. He gaslight America to advance his own political career. Now mccarthyism is back with a new McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy, just like Joe, Kevin McCarthy is gaslighting Americans. Everyone who's listening do not be silent about this. President Trump won this election. He protects white nationalists, anti vaxxers and conspiracy theorists while he whitewashes January 6th all to advance his political power. Americans must once again stand up and ask. Have you left no sense of reason? I.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"august. 14th" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Who came out and said that the ICUs are full of children right now. And if your kid has to it needs the ICU, he has to wait for another child to die. That's how sick it is. You know, my children with the exception of one, my youngest is 14. The rest of my children are adults. 1915, yeah. Yeah, but and of course he was old enough fortunately for us to get him vaccinated. But I do have grandchildren. And all of my grandchildren with the exception of, I have one 13 year old. The rest of them are all too young to get vaccinated. And I've got a great concern when you talk about children going back to school and you have idiots like Ron DeSantis like Greg Abbott who are who are pushing forth rules and executive orders to nullify mask mandates to protect and safeguard our children. I mean, what kind of death dealers are these who don't care about the lives of children and have completely politicized. And somebody said the other day that it really is a politicized it's a Republican eyes because they're the only idiots out here, you know, trying to make whether or not you wear a mask about politics. Which is completely insane that in 2021 we're actually having this debate in the public sphere where the medical professionals are saying wearing masks help stop the spread of a deadly virus that has taken the lives of at least 600,000 people. And there are some out there who say that those estimates are too low that we have probably lost as many as 900,000 Americans to COVID. And we have people playing games with this deadly virus for political purposes. I mean, these people are the worst of the worst. They have the dregs of society. They need to be shunned. They need to be ashamed. People need to get them out of office and quite frankly..
The Stuttering John Podcast
"august. 14th" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"150 to. Captain Mitchell. Get all step inside. Get up with it. Get off. If you want you to be all right, you all ground get out of town. This train is all straight fast. The train is built today. All of all the top three. Get all the trouble. What's happened in your neighborhood? What about the Trump train? Get on folks. Yeah. Baby welcome to the world famous stuttering John podcast, which are favorite podcast host stuttering John Melendez. Hi, hi. Thank you. Thank you. How are you? There's the link to donate PayPal dot me slash John Melendez, Inc, that's PayPal dot me slash John Melendez, Inc and you can donate, let me say hi to everybody in the room. Good as gold is here Marco 5 one 93 John death Mark P with the best Kenneth otta was here another patron.
WGN Radio
"august. 14th" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Bill done. Our roads are crumbling. Our bridges are in disrepair. We need to make sure that we are taking a look at our locks and dams, which are so critically important place like the state of Illinois, where your entire Western borders the Mississippi River. House leaders are offering a September 27th date for a vote on the bipartisan bill. As a compromise and President Biden updating the withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan. Today we are currently on a pace to finish by August, the 31st The sooner we can finish, the better. Each day of operations brings added risks or troops. Biden says the evacuations are contingent on the Taliban. Allowing access to the airport button is under pressure from allies and members of Congress to negotiate more time to evacuate Thousands of people still waiting to leave Afghanistan. Biden says the U. S has evacuated over 70,000 people. Since August. 14th Kevin Powell is watching all things sports The big 10 A C C impact 12 joining forces today, creating creating an alliance to work together on the future of college athletics and scheduling Big 10 commissioner Kevin Warren, But we're really at the beginning stages of this, but the beautiful thing about this we have some of the brightest minds. In all of college athletics, um in our athletic departments with our athletic directors and also are leaders on campus, so to be able to get in the room now, over the next couple weeks and months and start rolling up our sleeves and going to work to figure out how this will come together is exciting. The move comes in response to Texas and Oklahoma committing to join the S. E. C. Justin Fields will start for the Bears Saturday in their pre season finale at Tennessee. Andy Dalton will start week one. That's according to Matt Nagy today. Dylan cease on the mound for the White Sox in Toronto tonight. Sacks of draft three straight Cubs House Colorado doubled the NBA Chicago sky visit Atlanta I'm Kevin.
AP News
"august. 14th" Discussed on AP News
"Country in the fight against the pandemic, acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock who want to underscore that our efforts to move as quickly as possible, have in no way sacrifice. Scientific standards or the integrity of our process, and she's hoping the approval will push more people to get the vaccine for some an FDA approved covid vaccine made and still in them the confidence to go and get vaccinated. I'm Shelley Adler, John Kirby at the Pentagon says the Defense Department has been waiting for this All service members will be required to receive the vaccine is what's important to remind everyone that these efforts to ensure the safety of our service members Promote the readiness of our force, not to mention the health and safety of the communities around the country in which we live. New York City says all public school teachers and other staffers will have to get vaccinated against the coronavirus at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan. Since the end of July. We have relocated approximately 42,000 people. Since the beginning of evacuation operations on August 14th. We have evacuated approximately 37,000 Major general Hank Taylor, with the Joint Chiefs of Staff says more people are getting out, but the Taliban signals they might soon tried to shut down the evacuation. Today is clean up day from what was on re in places like Monroe Township, New Jersey, It's a mess. I mean, the water was coming in through, I don't know even have them what it gets. And I tell you, honestly because it was in the closets all over the floors. It was above my ankles. I was, you know, it was just a horrible mess. Power is out in parts of New England. An internal probe clears the Capitol police officer in the shooting death of a woman, Ashley Babbitt, in the capital on the day of the January riot. Stocks remain higher on Wall Street. This is a P news Some British officials want a bigger troop presence in Afghanistan. Some military leaders say Britain should keep troops at Kabul airport to continue the evacuation effort, even if the Americans leave. But armed forces Minister James Hippie says there is a hard reality that there would be no international airlift. Without the way the U. S is underpinning it, he adds. An agreement with the Taliban would also be needed for an extension. Britain says its forces have evacuated some 5700 people, chiefly UK citizens and Afghans from Kabul in the last 10 days. Charles de la Decima. London A British judge ruled songs by punk Trail Blazers The Sex Pistols can be used in an upcoming TV series despite the opposition of former frontman John Lydon, once known as Johnny Rotten. The Disney Back series is based on a memoir by X Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. I'm Ed Donahue. AP News. Good Morning I'm Ed Donahue with an A P news minute at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan Since the end of July. We have relocated approximately 42,000 people. Since the beginning of evacuation operations on August 14th. We have evacuated approximately 37,000 Major general Hank Taylor, with the Joint Chiefs of Staff says more people are getting out. Our mission remained focused. Ensuring a steady flow evacuees out of Kabul to the intermediate staging bases in safe havens at our installations continue to rapidly build out capacity. As needed to ensure reception and providing humanitarian assistance. German officials say a firefight just outside the Kabul airport killed at least one Afghan soldier. Meantime, the Taliban sent fighters north of Kabul to eliminate pockets of armed resistance to their lightning takeover earlier this month and have surrounded the last province that remains out of their control. I'm Ed Donahue. AP News..
WBAP 820AM
"august. 14th" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"Than MSRP. Punch your ticket today find new roads enjoying the difference. Entomologist Brad Barton. In the W B A P Weather Center Sunny and 98 today 79 tonight 99 to 100 tomorrow and Wednesday and not much change through the end of the week. Right now. W b a P. 80 degrees President Bindon updated the nation Sunday on the latest in Afghanistan, correspondent Douglas said. The president says he is convinced that he made the right call for this speedy withdrawal from Afghanistan. But speaking yesterday, he acknowledged now that his timeline to get this done by the end of the month may have to change their discussions going on among us and the military about extending Our hope is we will not have to extend, but they're going to be discussions. I suspect on how far along we are in the process, The White House says the U. S. Has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation of more than 30,000 people since August. 14th. Meanwhile, forward based American Airlines is among the six commercial carriers being enlisted to help with the evacuation of Afghanistan. Refugees. And while the situation continues, Afghans in the DFW Metroplex are watching and waiting Right now, nobody is in control. There's no president, no government and nobody knows what the future is holding for that eight million people in Kabul That's for hard Nechayev, the president of D FW's Afghan Unity Now attack on Texas business sponsored by the law office of Nick Nemeth here, Spencer McGowan from Network Radio. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil bounces back by $2 this morning 64 16, the Dow. Also in rally mode, premarket trading up 166.
All Things Considered
Joe Biden Addresses Afghanistan Evacuation
"Biden says he's focused on getting Americans out of Afghanistan by August. 31st The president updated the country today on the status of evacuations out of Kabul, less than a week after the Taliban overthrew the Afghan government. NPR's Asma Khalid reports, The administration has been facing mounting criticism for the chaotic scenes that continue to play out at the airport in the capital. The White House says the military has evacuated roughly 13,000 people since August 14th. It doesn't have an exact tally of how many Americans are still in Afghanistan. Despite reports of chaos on the ground near the airport, Biden offered this promise. Let me be clear any American who wants to come home, we will get you home. There are reports of Afghans getting stopped at Taliban checkpoints. The president says there's been no indication that Americans can't reach the airport, citing an agreement with the Taliban to allow Americans through. Some reporting on the ground calls that account into question.
KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"august. 14th" Discussed on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"My motorcycle in the summer because I just figured fall off. I don't want to scrape my hands on the ground, but What's so much of it is the whole cool. Look. The image? Yeah, real quickly, John. Which Which option would you buy? Would you pay the full 800? Or would you get the foreign? The fully The other one there just ripping you off in insurance. Yeah, I said, yeah, I want it wouldn't work for me. Maybe you could show it off at your party this summer. By the way, moved the date. I've moved the date till August 14th. Oh, okay for legal purposes. Why? What happens after I'm gonna sell tickets? Because I want to raise money for a friend of mine has got a charity, right? But I can't get the ticket Can't be associated to the alcohol and the food because then all of a sudden somebody gets drunk. And they get good crash. I'm now the provided I paid them. I was supposed to monitor how much alcohol it's so complicated, so complicated. So everybody that comes over serve you, but I'm going to give you an $862 vest. But you could put on there's your heading back that on Nelson Siding Road if you run into something Okay. You're gonna be okay. Well, I might have to miss it, John, if that's the guy we're gonna be. Well, I work in. Yeah, yeah. Or or overseas if things break rocks. Are you going to Paris? Maybe. So. Come on, Tom. Let me play coy with you ask, you know, nothing is yet we have We have tentative plans. Do you, um Ireland in Paris, But we don't know if we'll be able to do that or not Those places I was going to go that were canceled last summer, so we'll have to see how they're all right. Because right now we can't get in either of those places. But anyway, all right, All right. Well, good to know Here's Tracy telling the traffic people you're traveling not from Ireland or Paris, but just home. I won't be able to make it either. If you're if you're moving the date, so Sorry. Okay, A couple of things we're watching, one of which is the power outage in the power lines that are down and Everett record avenues block both directions of 47th Street. Southeast in that said again power lines drivers. They're gonna run into this Rex that's on south and four or five as you approach, 90 D O T says it's cleared out of the way that point it's really messy over on the East side backups on south and four or five start from just after 85th in Kirkland, and that was all the way through Newcastle. North 25 busy as we work our way into parts of shoreline, a little tangled up again after the Boeing Freeway up towards highway to not that bad getting into Mary's veil for right now, the bridge is seemed to be okay. Unless you're on. I 90 eastbound. There's some heavy your traffic coming off of Mercer Island of four or 564, or five is locked up outside of Bellevue. Traffic is brought to you by Cairo seven. In a spike in fertility problems. Kyra, seven, investigates the chemicals. Making it harder for you to have kids and even grandkids. Watch tonight at 5, 30, Cairo Radio. Real time traffic. I'm treating me me, me, me, me, but also you the payroll fast forwards his favorite porn film effectively powdered doughnut. Okay, What's my line? Three Only line.
Dana Loesch
NASCAR, IMS move Brickyard 400 onto speedway's road course in 2021 for first time
"To the Brickyard 400 as you know it. NASCAR and the Annapolis Motor Speedway announced this morning that starting in 2021, the Brickyard will be moved to the IMS Road course taking away the oval that NASCAR has been on since 1994 also announced that the Brickyard weekend next year will be a NASCAR IndyCar doubleheader on August 14th and 15th.
Del Walmsley
Washington, DC - Possible coronavirus exposure at Alexandria church
"Members of an Alexandria church are biting their nails today and checking their temperature health advisory has been issued over concerns of possible exposure to members of the Today in marriage Church. Anyone who was on the property between August 14th and 17th may have been exposed to the Corona virus. The Alexander Rhea Health Department is on the case. The church is located at 75 South Brag Street, Alexandria. The church says they're working with health officials to take the necessary steps to protect the community.
Colleen and Bradley
Katy Perry delays 'Smile' album release to Aug. 28
"Katy Perry announced on Instagram that her fifth studio album will no longer be released on August 14th. As intended, Perry said. Unavoidable production delays are to blame for the pushback release, with the album now set to drop on August 28th so just a couple weeks after the original due date. The singer did add that she doesn't know which will come first. That album debut or the birth of her