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Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from El Salvador's Economy is BOOMING Because of Bitcoin | EP 837
"Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live. We're streaming from Santa Monica, California, also in, you know, in the greater Los Angeles area, because we're in L .A. for Pacific Bitcoin. Opti is currently on the move. He's he's traveling. So we got some people filling in for Opti today. We have my significant other who deals with my madness, deals with all the the Bitcoin talk, slowly converted her into Bitcoin. Slowly but surely, Internet Sophie. What's up? What is up, everybody? We're going to have to play producer here because we are in the same room and we're going to be giving each other a little bit of feedback. But I'm really excited to be here. It's the first time on the show. I'm honored. And yeah, let's get this rolling. Yeah. So it's going to be it's going to be a special show. But we have a lot to talk about today. We have we're going to talk about El Salvador, how else out, because that was one of the things that I've heard, like one of the criticisms was that Bitcoin wasn't directly responsible for El Salvador's economy doing well. Well, there is a report released by Banco Santander of Spain, and they said that Bitcoin tourism was directly responsible for a lot of, you know, El Salvador's economy improving. Also, not to mention the security stuff as well. And on top of that, the IMF released not only the IMF, the IMF and Jerome Powell, who is calling himself Jay Powell on Instagram, are starting to release memes. They're starting to release videos because they're realizing that they're losing ground on the battleground of the Internet. Now, unfortunately for them, we have home we have home turf advantage. Our meme addicts are better than theirs because they're based on truth and theirs are based on lies. So without their ability to control the narrative, like the total narrative, their memes will eventually fall short versus our memes. Again, we have we have the pillar of truth. We have a proof of work backing us. We have Bitcoin backing us. So I think we're going to out meme them, not to mention it's a bunch of boomers like trying to make Instagram videos like it's kind of strange. We're going to play it for you guys and we're talking about it. And also, I want to bring up my co -host today, the legendary one and only Mike Hobart. He's part of the Bitcoin Veterans podcast with Alex Stanzik and co. How are you doing, Mike? Thank you for filling in for Opti today. What up, nerds? Yeah, you don't have to thank me for that, man. As you guys know, specifically you and Opti, well, everybody else in the in the chat, I just enjoy doing this. So whenever you guys need some assistance, there's as long as the schedule permits, I have no problem helping cover down and talk about Bitcoin, dude. Well, I appreciate I appreciate you joining us, Mike, like always. And of course, we got Steve. Now, Steve is very interesting. He is he's a good friend of producer Jacob, and apparently he has solved the oracle problem or better. Maybe let me let me phrase it differently. He's presented a interesting solution to the oracle problem. So there's two problems in computer science, right? There's the two. Let me make sure I don't butcher this. The business in general's problem, which is something that I hate saying, saying that Bitcoin solved, but Bitcoin came up with a good solution for. And then there's the oracle problem, which is another problem in computer science. And Steve, apparently a lot of people were going crazy when you presented the solution. So could you talk a little bit about what the oracle problem is and what your solution does? Sure. Yeah, thanks for having me on the show. I'm not sure if I'd be quite so bullish to say I solved the oracle problem, but sure. So the oracle problem is, you know, who's the person that tells you what the USD price of Bitcoin or who's the person that tells you what the outcome of? Any event was betting on a football game or betting on an election or something like that. If you've got some kind of contract that needs to be settled, both of the people in the contract or both the people in the bet need to kind of agree that we are going to look to this source, you know, like NFL dot com or White House dot gov or like Coinbase dot com to tell us what the official answer is on the outcome that we're betting on. And this is a problem just because you basically need a trusted third party or some kind of centralized person to solve it. And so what I've done is I noticed a long time ago that the USD price of Bitcoin was an emergent on chain feature of the Bitcoin blockchain. And so I knew that I could tease out the price on chain for a while now. I've known this for like five years now, and I finally got around to doing it. There's multiple ways it could be done, but I released the UTX oracle dot pie dot p y. It's just a simple Python script. You can get it at UTXO dot live slash oracle. And this way, everyone can run the exact same very simple Python program and they can only communicate with their own node and takes about a minute to run, reads in 150 blocks or so. And you get the exact same price as everyone who runs this independently. That's kind of it's kind of nuts. I mean, there's trade offs. There's pros and cons. I won't say it's like the solution to the oracle problem. But like you said, just like Satoshi with Byzantine's general problem, it's not like he solved it. He just kind of like did some roundabout way about it. Yeah, exactly. I don't think they're solvable per se. I think that there's ways to tackle them. And they're, of course, like you mentioned earlier, there's trade offs. But it's very, very interesting because you used the basically data from Bitcoin to surmise the USD price without relying on a single exchange or a multitude of exchanges or whatever. You're just relying on on chain data. And I think that's absolutely fascinating. And I think there's something more there. I think we're just starting to see the first innings of that. So, Steve, we're super, super hyped to have you on the show today. We're going to dive more into what Steve is working on his project during the culture segment. But first, we got to get to the numbers. Let's start the show, everybody.
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Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Stanley Druckenmiller: Bitcoin is BETTER than Gold | EP 838
"Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live, streaming from Los Angeles. California because we're getting ready from Pacific Bitcoin. If all goes well, in today's setup we'll be live streaming from the floor of Pacific Bitcoin Thursday and Friday, which should be a whole lot of fun. Some special episodes. Dell and Opti are gonna be holding it down. I think our boy Chris Alamo from from from Bitcoin magazine should join us as well. There should be some interesting shows and then Opti is gonna be doing some some interviews with some high -profile Bitcoiners, so that should be a lot of fun. Really, really excited for the Pacific Bitcoin Festival. It's one of my favorite conferences honestly that I've been to. I know Opti had a lot of fun to say the least last year. Sophie. It was an amazing time. I'm gonna be honest, it's gonna be hard to beat this year, but knowing the Swan team, they're gonna kill it. A hundred percent, yeah. So they've been prepping for this for a long for for for a long time, so should be should be a lot of fun. Anyways, today guys we're gonna talk about the infamous debate, Bitcoin versus gold. And you know this this famous billionaire, apparently he is one of the most famous and most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street. 6 .2 billion dollar net worth. He said the quiet part out loud. He said, you know, he believes that if the gold bet is right, the Bitcoin bet is right. But I would I think that there's more to that, right? Because the physical characteristics of gold, like I think gold bugs were were right in their arguments. I just think that they had the wrong tool, right? And I think Bitcoin solves this because of its ability to, its ability for a human being to take self -custody of large quantities of Bitcoin by just writing down, you know, 12 to 24 words. And not only taking self -custody of it, but being able to send it across the world, you know, instantaneously for pennies on the dollar, right? So that completely changes, you know, the whole dynamics of this. And I think because of its ease of, its ability for people to take self -custody because it's an open ledger, I think it's going to be a lot harder for them to rehypothecate it the way they did with gold. And then a lot of people say because they did that with gold, they were able to control the gold markets. They were able to put downward pressure on the price of gold.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Bitcoin Resilience in the Face of Macro Turmoil
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Wednesday, October 4th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto as Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about bond market alarm, Bitcoin resilience, Ripple, jobs, and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. Now a markets roundup. Debt markets around the world are in turmoil. But before we talk about that and why it matters for crypto, it's worth talking about how well crypto markets are holding up. Given the meltdowns and melt ups going on in traditional assets, you'd expect them to be down by even more. According to Coindesk Indices, at 10 a .m. Eastern Time this morning, Bitcoin was trading at $27 ,428, down half a percent over the past 24 hours. Ether was at $1 ,636, down 1 .4%. Bitcoin continues to lead the market. Its dominance index, known as BTC .d, measures Bitcoin's market cap relative to the total crypto market cap. When Bitcoin is outperforming the rest of the market, this goes up. Yesterday it climbed yet again and is now at 50 .5%. Bitcoin now accounts for more than half of the whole crypto market. Bitcoin's strength is surprising given the colossal tightening effect of rising bond yields around the world, a rising dollar and a rising oil price. Tightening especially impacts risk assets, and crypto assets are arguably the riskiest in that bucket. Were typical correlations to hold, Bitcoin would be suffering. But so far, it isn't. It is easily outperforming most stock indices, even those considered less risky, such as the Dow Jones. This suggests that there is meaningful support in the crypto market. But rather than seeing it in price increases, we're seeing it in prices not falling by more. Ripple was a strong outperformer in crypto markets today, up more than 4 % to trade at 53 cents. This boost comes from two pieces of good news for the network's XRP token. One is securing a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, allowing it to keep providing digital payment token services in the region. The other is the denial of the Securities and Exchange Commission's request to appeal a recent call ruling. I'll be talking more about this in a moment. Moving on to strong signals in the macro market. Earlier today, the US 10 -year yield almost reached 4 .9%, while the 30 -year yield broke through 5 % for the first time since 2007. There seems to have been a pullback over the past few hours, but markets are spooked. It doesn't help that Fed officials are out on the speaker circuit repeating the mantra that rates may have to go up some more and at best will be higher for longer. It also doesn't help that global confidence in the US government's ability to function took a hit. Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to oust the speaker for the first time in history. It also doesn't help that the higher US debt yields go, the more the US government will be paying in interest expense. This is triggering doubts about the US government's fiscal health. The price of insurance against a US government default has more than doubled over the past month and is now at the highest levels since the aftermath of the banking crisis earlier this year. What we are seeing is not just about rising interest rate expectations. That explained much of the climate yields over the past month. What we are seeing now is more about confidence, or rather, the lack of. The jobs market delivered some positive data this morning, however. This has allowed the bond markets to come down a bit and stock markets to recover some or all of the day's losses. The ADP non -farm employment report is a narrower, private version of the official report we will get on Friday. This morning's release of the employment change for September came in much lower than expected, an increase of less than 90 ,000 compared to consensus forecasts of over 150 ,000. This suggests that the US job market is finally starting to cool down, which means that the Federal Reserve might be able to ease up on interest rates ahead of expectations. The official report due on Friday does not always move in line with the ADP version, but we may get some good news then as well. Over in stocks, this economic data point has given markets some breathing room. US stocks were a sea of red yesterday, with all three major indices down more than 1 .3%. The NASDAQ led the decline with a drop of 1 .9%, its biggest daily drop in two months. So far today, however, the losses are much more muted, with NASDAQ gaining 0 .3%. The S &P 500 is still up almost 10 % year -to -date, although its gain is rapidly disappearing. The NASDAQ is holding onto its lead with a year -to -date gain of over 23%. And a sobering statistic for those that are still betting on a soft landing for the US economy – the Dow Jones index is now below its January level. Major European indices were also hit hard yesterday, with declines of more than 1 % across the board. Both the German DAX and the broader Eurostock 600 indices are at their lowest levels since March. The yield on the 10 -year German government bond, considered the safest bond in the European market, broke through 3 % earlier today for the first time since 2011. This morning has brought some signs of relief with more muted losses from the main indices. In Asia, the decline in Japan's Nikkei index accelerated in today's trading with a drop of 2 .3%. This brings the accumulated drop for the month so far to 4%, but the index is still 18 % up year -to -date. Japanese investors are not just spooked by moves in global bond markets – they're also keeping a close eye on currency movements. Yesterday, the yen -US dollar exchange rate broke through the symbolic level of 150 for the first time since late last year. Shortly after, the currency saw a sharp recovery, leading many to speculate that the Japanese central bank was again intervening in the market. That's possible, but it would be unusual for the Bank of Japan to do so without an announcement of some sort. Central bank intervention would be a big deal. It's more likely, at least for now, that it was some buying triggered by the decline in anticipation of eventual intervention.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Bitcoin Resilience in the Face of Macro Turmoil
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Wednesday, October 4th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto as Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about bond market alarm, Bitcoin resilience, Ripple, jobs, and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. Now a markets roundup. Debt markets around the world are in turmoil. But before we talk about that and why it matters for crypto, it's worth talking about how well crypto markets are holding up. Given the meltdowns and melt ups going on in traditional assets, you'd expect them to be down by even more. According to Coindesk Indices, at 10 a .m. Eastern Time this morning, Bitcoin was trading at $27 ,428, down half a percent over the past 24 hours. Ether was at $1 ,636, down 1 .4%. Bitcoin continues to lead the market. Its dominance index, known as BTC .d, measures Bitcoin's market cap relative to the total crypto market cap. When Bitcoin is outperforming the rest of the market, this goes up. Yesterday it climbed yet again and is now at 50 .5%. Bitcoin now accounts for more than half of the whole crypto market. Bitcoin's strength is surprising given the colossal tightening effect of rising bond yields around the world, a rising dollar and a rising oil price. Tightening especially impacts risk assets, and crypto assets are arguably the riskiest in that bucket. Were typical correlations to hold, Bitcoin would be suffering. But so far, it isn't. It is easily outperforming most stock indices, even those considered less risky, such as the Dow Jones. This suggests that there is meaningful support in the crypto market. But rather than seeing it in price increases, we're seeing it in prices not falling by more. Ripple was a strong outperformer in crypto markets today, up more than 4 % to trade at 53 cents. This boost comes from two pieces of good news for the network's XRP token. One is securing a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, allowing it to keep providing digital payment token services in the region. The other is the denial of the Securities and Exchange Commission's request to appeal a recent call ruling. I'll be talking more about this in a moment. Moving on to strong signals in the macro market. Earlier today, the US 10 -year yield almost reached 4 .9%, while the 30 -year yield broke through 5 % for the first time since 2007. There seems to have been a pullback over the past few hours, but markets are spooked. It doesn't help that Fed officials are out on the speaker circuit repeating the mantra that rates may have to go up some more and at best will be higher for longer. It also doesn't help that global confidence in the US government's ability to function took a hit. Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to oust the speaker for the first time in history. It also doesn't help that the higher US debt yields go, the more the US government will be paying in interest expense. This is triggering doubts about the US government's fiscal health. The price of insurance against a US government default has more than doubled over the past month and is now at the highest levels since the aftermath of the banking crisis earlier this year. What we are seeing is not just about rising interest rate expectations. That explained much of the climate yields over the past month. What we are seeing now is more about confidence, or rather, the lack of. The jobs market delivered some positive data this morning, however. This has allowed the bond markets to come down a bit and stock markets to recover some or all of the day's losses. The ADP non -farm employment report is a narrower, private version of the official report we will get on Friday. This morning's release of the employment change for September came in much lower than expected, an increase of less than 90 ,000 compared to consensus forecasts of over 150 ,000. This suggests that the US job market is finally starting to cool down, which means that the Federal Reserve might be able to ease up on interest rates ahead of expectations. The official report due on Friday does not always move in line with the ADP version, but we may get some good news then as well. Over in stocks, this economic data point has given markets some breathing room. US stocks were a sea of red yesterday, with all three major indices down more than 1 .3%. The NASDAQ led the decline with a drop of 1 .9%, its biggest daily drop in two months. So far today, however, the losses are much more muted, with NASDAQ gaining 0 .3%. The S &P 500 is still up almost 10 % year -to -date, although its gain is rapidly disappearing. The NASDAQ is holding onto its lead with a year -to -date gain of over 23%. And a sobering statistic for those that are still betting on a soft landing for the US economy – the Dow Jones index is now below its January level. Major European indices were also hit hard yesterday, with declines of more than 1 % across the board. Both the German DAX and the broader Eurostock 600 indices are at their lowest levels since March. The yield on the 10 -year German government bond, considered the safest bond in the European market, broke through 3 % earlier today for the first time since 2011. This morning has brought some signs of relief with more muted losses from the main indices. In Asia, the decline in Japan's Nikkei index accelerated in today's trading with a drop of 2 .3%. This brings the accumulated drop for the month so far to 4%, but the index is still 18 % up year -to -date. Japanese investors are not just spooked by moves in global bond markets – they're also keeping a close eye on currency movements. Yesterday, the yen -US dollar exchange rate broke through the symbolic level of 150 for the first time since late last year. Shortly after, the currency saw a sharp recovery, leading many to speculate that the Japanese central bank was again intervening in the market. That's possible, but it would be unusual for the Bank of Japan to do so without an announcement of some sort. Central bank intervention would be a big deal. It's more likely, at least for now, that it was some buying triggered by the decline in anticipation of eventual intervention.
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Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from URGENT! How To Get Your Real Estate Listings SOLD NOW! (Part 2)
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. Welcome back. Today is day two, how to get your real estate listing sold. So Julie, without any further delay. Yes, that's right. So this is the continuation. We did points one through five. We're starting on six today, about 11 unexpected ways in addition to a price reduction or instead of in some cases to get those listings to move. And remember this is point number six. So if you've not heard the first few points, make sure you go back and listen to those points because they're really critical that you are tuning your mind to the fact that there are a lot of ways to get properties correctly positioned on the market so they meet the buyer's expectation, i .e. priced correctly. And also if you happen to have a listing that is out of alignment with the market's expectation, how you can make it more competitive in addition to or maybe instead of, thank you, a price reduction. So make sure you read our notes. All of our notes from today's podcast, all of our notes from every podcast are down below in the show description. If you're on YouTube, it's very easy. Just click Show More or on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, all the billions of different places you guys listen to us. Scroll down, read the notes. They're all there. We obviously include about 1 ,000 % more in addition to the notes. When you were listening, you were noticing that Julie and I, because in the comments I'm reading what you guys are saying, we often do talk about things that are I think more drilled down than what our notes are. But the notes are there for you to use to remind you to essentially what to say, how to say it when you're speaking with your sellers or buyers or whatever's relevant. But also there's a link for you to join Premier Coaching. Thousands of you have joined Premier Coaching in the last year. From what we understand, it is the nation's number one coaching program. Why are so many agents joining Premier Coaching program? Well, a whole bunch of reasons, but the best reason is because it's a coaching program designed for this new market, for the agents that are willing to do what they don't want to do and they don't want to do it at the highest level. As a result of that mindset, on the other side of that mindset, when you have the skill set necessary, you're going to experience success at levels that you can only dream of because how do I know that's true? Because we have, guess what, thousands of coaching clients that are telling us that. So the link to join Premier Coaching is below. So scroll down and click the link or just go to premiercoaching .com. Take 17 seconds to join. Yes, we've timed it. If you type faster than me, you could probably do it in 10 seconds, but the link to join is right there and you have immediate access to the entire first level of Premier Coaching. All right, so again, this is part two, starting on point number six, 11 unexpected ways to get your listings to sell faster. Now, any of these ways can happen upfront as soon as you take the listing. They can also be added to the comments after you've had the listing for a while, as some of you are sitting on listings you're surprised that haven't sold yet. And we can also do more than one of these points at the same time on those listings. So you have some flexibility on this. All right, so other ways to add some perks and get these listings to go faster. Point number six, add a $1 ,000 commission bonus to a buyer's agent if it's pending by a certain date. Now, if it is more expensive, you could add a $5 ,000 bonus. You can add a $10 ,000 bonus if it's over a million dollars. If it's over $5 million, adjust accordingly, but add a commission bonus to the buyer's agent if it's pending by a certain date. The builders are doing this. You better do it as well, especially if you have a lot of builder competition. I know, I saw, I think it's from Lenar, it might've been KB homes in San Antonio. There are some agent bonuses as high as a 6 % to the buyer side. That's amazing. And it's not just on one house either. There's like lists and lists of this stuff. Do you remember, Julie, back in 2007, 2008, we had coaching clients who their sellers had like, I remember one in particular is a Lamborghini. It was like a year old Lamborghini and it was during a hard time for the seller and the car had depreciated. The house was, they still had equity, but they wanted to sell the house before the house was worth less than they owed on it. This was a totally different market, not work that we're experiencing now. So they actually included the Lamborghini in the sale of the property and the buyer's agent that ended up buying it, ended up representing the buyer to purchase it, took the Lamborghini in lieu of their commission because the buyer didn't give a rat's, you know, what about a car? I know. Well, I mean way to be creative, right? Right. I recently saw back and forth on one of the Facebook agent pages where an agent was talking about how their broker had invested in some kind of thing where it was like a vacation voucher that they could use on any listing. And you know, I was, what was crazy was the, the other agents on this social media thing like piled on, well, if you have to do that, you must have overpriced it and that seller must be crazy. And what is this, a timeshare? And it was like insane back and forth. And go you, whoever posted that, who said, no, actually we feel it's a smart thing to do to put on all of our listings, to have a little extra something to make sure that we're shown first. I mean, that was a very professional response. There were two vacation vouchers. One was for the buyer's agent. One was for the buyer and they didn't have to use it, but it was like X percent off of their travel. I thought it was pretty crafty. Okay. So along those lines, hopefully we're motivating you guys for what we're motivating you towards is wanting to sell more expensive listings because the tchotchkes obviously are better. Well, they get better. If our first two stories didn't do it, this one might. So Ben Salem, I know you're going to mention this. Yeah. Well, cause he sells a lot of beautiful luxury real estate and he works with a lot of, you know, high end, not in Los Angeles, exactly, uh, buyers and the bird streets and the rest of it. And he's not very, I, Ben's one of my favorite coaching clients of all time cause he's not high profile and yet he sells a lot of expensive homes and he doesn't, you know, he's not, he's not peacocking around about his success. He just gets the job done. That's right. So, uh, one of the things he did on a particular really weird house that was owned by a, I won't mention who is, it was a celebrity, uh, well fallen celebrity, I should say a fallen star. In any event. So this property in particular was very difficult to sell, had a lot of condition issues, um, the whole thing. And so what Ben did is he put an incentive on it that he would pay for the buyer's agent. It was all disclosed. Everyone knew about it. Nothing under the table, nothing like that to take a private jet and fly to Las Vegas stay at the wind and he was going to pay like the whole thing. It was just some ridiculous, some sporting thing or something. I don't remember. You know, I think it was not related to some event. It was something. Yeah, something like that. Anyway, that's what he ended up doing and he took a bunch of pictures and it became a big, you know, hoopty do for the buyer's agent. And it was something that got Ben's name on the radar for other listings that may have been a little cantankerous to sell and he got more listings from it. Point being, if you're in a marketplace where something isn't selling, the answer isn't always lower the price or if it is, it's lower the price and do some things that are more creative to hype up the listing, especially true in upper end listings where the house needs a lot of repairs, updates, that type of thing. Yeah, that's right. One of the problems with big luxury homes is there's more to do when it gets outdated and it's more expensive. You know, I can just see, I can just, I feel in the collective unconscious of all of the, you know, worn out buyer's agents from the previous market. They're like right up, you know, about time we get a few perks out of this, right? We feel you guys, we understand. So we were talking about doing a commission bonus. Always do a new seller's net sheet when you're adding any of these sellers concessions to the transaction. Make sure the seller knows how their bottom line will be impacted. Many of these concessions will actually cost less than a price reduction would have or make the price reduction smaller when combined with the concession. But make sure you're translating it into actual dollars so your seller's not surprised. And you know, again, advanced coaching here, but sometimes you can get your title escrow company to actually make those for you. So they're actually seeing all the expenses. I'm not saying your net sheets aren't accurate, but it's a little bit more authoritative in some sellers eyes when it's coming from the title escrow attorney type thing. So another thing you can do to give yourself a more professional veneer in the marketplace where it's the agent has the skill set that's going to get the listing. So don't avoid doing a seller's net sheet just because you don't know how to do it. Get some help. And there are some MLS is that allow you to plug in those numbers and they know how to figure your taxes and all that. But I agree with you. The title or the closing attorney can certainly do that for you. And it's not weird to ask them to do that. That's normal. Okay. Number seven, seller does not require inspections waived. Again, a new concept that replaces the old markets as is requirements. We talked about that a lot yesterday, so make sure you go back and listen to that, especially at how we tied it in at the end of yesterday's podcast to buying a home warranty at the time you take the listing and including seller's coverage and then having the house pre -inspected and having the repairs on the property done. So that when the buyer walks in, they're seeing that the property was pre -inspected, the repairs are done and the house comes with a home warranty. We are trying to position you so that you can compete against not just other resales, but also new construction. Very well put. Point number eight, have your favorite lender create a rate sheet to give away at showings and open houses. The rate sheet should show three different ways of purchasing the home. You can also attach that to your home brochure in your home brochure box. You could do a 30 year fixed, a 321 buy down, a 723 adjustable or a 525 adjustable. All of these can get a lower interest rate and lower payment. My favorite one is to just buy down points like the builders do and to lock in a lower rate for a 30 year fixed. But there are other creative ways to combat higher interest rates. We didn't say this yesterday, we should say it today. When you're doing things like what we suggested yesterday and today and you're being more creative and the seller is contributing money to buy the points down, in the description you can say at list price seller agrees to buy the points down, making the interest rate in a 30 year fixed rate mortgage, this payment range and that type of thing. So at list price, you can buy a little bit of insurance for the seller so that if the buyer comes in low and the seller is even inclined to accept it, that they're not also then going to have to concede to all those other concessions that they used as incentives to get the offer in the first place. Great point because you don't want to sign the seller up to both have to take something lower and to contribute 10 ,000 in closing costs or what have you. But don't be surprised when you do have, especially in a market where listings are harder to sell, where the buyer's agents do come in and they do ask for a lot of different things, you're just going to have to work through it. And again, we teach you how to do that in Premier Coaching, except the old days of throwing a dart against the board to price it and then waiting for the offers to come in over list price or long over. You have to have the skill set now, not just to list properties correctly and get them sold, but also how to counsel your buyers to get the properties. This is a new market. This is a skills -based market. Those of you are willing to learn the skills and do what you don't want to do and you don't want to do at the highest level, you're going to have an unprecedented, massive, unbelievably exciting real estate future. Yes, you brought up a little minor but important point because we're working through the transition of a super hot seller's market on every single listing that hits the market, no matter where you live, to a more adjusted, more reasonable, more normalized market. Now, we've been talking about how to buy down interest rates and do some more creative financing, which freaks some of you guys out. It makes you think, oh, I heard about that during the housing crash and adjustable rates are evil and we can't do that. I've seen some of this manifest in things like a seller will have an offer brought to them by their listing agent where the buyer is asking for closing costs. And the seller and the listing agent, their reaction is, well, if they need closing costs, they must not be a very strong buyer. That's a weak, truthfully, that's a weak agent. But you understand where they're coming from. Totally, completely. You understand why that's happening. But that's a weak agent who did not properly position the seller when they put the house for sale. This goes back to skills, guys. Now, I even have an instance of that, Federico in L .A. had a builder react like that when somebody asked for closing costs, even though they came in at list price doing what the builder asked because they asked for some closing costs. Builder was like, well, they, you know, why would I take that? They must not be very strong of a buyer. Just because somebody asks to get help getting a better interest rate does not mean they are a weak borrower. It means they're actually pretty smart about what they're doing. So you'll have a choice, Mr. Seller. You either lower the price by $30 ,000 or we actually give concessions to the buyer so that they can buy the interest rate down or cover the buyer's closing costs. Because the buyer is using all of their money, they need all their cash basically as their down payment to qualify for the mortgage. Now interest rates went up, they're going to need concessions to basically buy the rate down so they can afford the payment, qualify for it. Or Mr. Seller, you can just lower the price by 30 grand and we can hope and pray that we get another offer six months from now. It's up to you. Right. And in fact, if the seller were to counter it, you know, up for 10 grand and I'm going to pay 10 grand in closing costs, their net, you guys get focused on the wrong thing sometimes. Do the net sheet. The net to the seller is list price minus coming down 10 grand minus 10 grand to closing costs. Isn't that the same as taking a price of 20 grand less? It is. But that's, by the way, one of the techniques we show you when you have someone that's trying to fight with you over your commission is you don't get them to focus on the commission. You get them to focus on what their net is and in a marketplace where what almost all the houses, well, most, most, all real estate in the United States, according to Julie's statistics two days ago on podcast has increased by at least 45, 49 % since 2019, 49 % okay. So here's the thing. If they have to come down 2%, they're probably going to be okay. And if you're having them battle you over price or I'm not paying the $360 for a home warranty, you need to move their eyes to the bottom of the net sheet and circle with a red pen, their net, and then you need to get, have them understand that they've won the real estate lottery. Congratulations. Exactly. Okay. Number nine, find out if your seller has an assumeable mortgage. What's the rate and what are the requirements? Advertise this in your MLS description as well as in your home brochures. all Just note FHA, VA, and USDA mortgages are assumeable and some other loans are as well. All you have to do to find out is call whoever's servicing the mortgage. There are ways to look it up online as well, especially if it's FHA and VA, you can go to hud .gov and look it up by loan number. My beautiful wife, what are you, what assumption are you making? That they even know what an assumeable mortgage is. Correct. You're assuming, you're assuming they knew what an assumeable was. You were making an assumption. Well, I'll explain it quickly. So basically, someone's taken out one of these FHA, VA, USDA mortgages and let's say they have a fixed interest rate of say 3%. And let's say the property is worth, they paid $400 for it and now it's worth $500. If the buyer comes up with $100 ,000 or whatever the spread is between the market value and what they own the loan and they qualify with release, in other words, the FHA, VA, USDA has to, the person has to have decent credit and obviously... They have to be able to qualify for the mortgage. They can assume, they can actually assume the mortgage of that seller. So they themselves can have that ridiculously low 30 -year fixed rate mortgage. Now I'll even make it more interesting for you. Let's say your buyer only has $50 ,000 down, the house is worth $500, the USDA mortgage is only $400, the interest rate is 3%, the payment's obviously a heck of a lot less than it would be if they went out into the marketplace now and got a loan. But the buyer only has $50 ,000, but other than that, they qualify. You can get the seller to give them a second mortgage for the $50 ,000. And I don't want to get into the weeds on that, but this is something we talked about in Premier Coaching and we talked about in previous podcasts, but you can make deals happen where other people don't even see opportunity. That's called skill. Yeah, and that's even better than doing a rate buy down or an adjustable. I mean, potentially it's pretty killer. Just to overview, if you want to, you know, hopefully some of you are having some sparks fly in your minds, what would happen is the seller would give the buyer a second mortgage, I'll stick with $50 ,000, that is an actual lien against the property. So that means every month the buyer is going to be making the payment, now the owner of the new house is going to be making a payment on the first mortgage and on the second mortgage. You can do, and you will use an attorney to do this obviously, but then what will happen is the second mortgage, let's say the first mortgage is 30 -year fixed, the second mortgage might have a three -year arm. In other words, they're going to make the payment on that $50 ,000 for three years and then they have to pay the seller back the $50 ,000 or refinance it or there could even be a covenant in there, a carve out where if the seller agrees, you know, they can continue the mortgage, right? It's not just a balloon payment. It could be essentially... You can write it however you want. Exactly. You can write it however you want and if the interest rate makes sense and the payment's been made on time, I bet you that a seller is going to be more than happy to continue to have that $50 ,000 paid over terms because maybe the interest rate is great and they're making more money on it than they would investing in other places. You have just put a buyer in a house that they normally wouldn't have necessarily been able to buy because they didn't have the down payment and now you put them in a house or they can get the mortgage assumed. The reason that this is very powerful because a lot of the properties that are FHA, I'm not going to say VA, but FHA, well, I'll just lean into USDA. They're going to be more rural type properties and some of them are going to be working farms and small farms and things like that where you're going to have to be more creative to get the property sold. This is the type of information that gives you an unfair advantage and every marketplace makes you more confident, makes it so that when you wake up every morning, you're bouncing off the walls wanting to share with the world your real estate knowledge. I have seen some of these assumables already happening because smart agents have figured this out. I have a question for you. Maybe you don't know. I need to research this. Let's say that you have a seller that has an FHA assumable, but they've owned the house for like five years, which means they only owe 25 years. If I assume that, you pick up a 25, that's another advantage, right? I mean, that's huge. Yeah. You've just shaved off five years that you don't even have a 30 year. You've got a 25. They don't recast the mortgage, Julie. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure I had it right. But the same goes true. Like when you and I started selling real estate, there was a whole bunch, well, they were hard to find, but they were just sweetheart deals. And there were assumables out there where people had paid off half the loan. It was a 30 year and it was 15 years left. You'd pay them their equity and you'd basically have a 15 year loan. I know. It's amazing. And I was just reading, I think on housing wire, that a surprisingly large amount of this recent, you know, when we had all these low interest rates for several years, a lot of those, and some of them will be assumable, because rates were so low, people got 15 year loans when they refi'd or when they purchased in the first place because the payment was, you know, normally you wouldn't do a 15 year because the payment is higher, but with rates the way they were, it made sense to do 15 year. How are you going to use this information? First of all, ask your seller what type of mortgage that they have. Don't assume, here, I'll give you, assume they have an FHA mortgage or a Fannie or Freddie until proven otherwise, or a VA or, you just assume that they have a mortgage where there's a carve out for it to be assumable. And if you're in a marketplace where things are hard to sell, you can find out if they do because I promise you again, your sellers won't know. Find out if it's assumable. And then if it is, you have the ultimate unfair advantage when getting that property sold. A hundred percent. Because again, back to our example from yesterday, if it's that listing, which is an assumable at some outrageously, now outrageously low interest rate, and you're advertising that in your agent comments and there's four other homes that meet the buyers criteria, who do you think is going to get shown first? I'm going to even take this to the next level. If you are smart, which all of you are, otherwise you would be listening to our podcast, you're going to think, well, how can I pick up rental property this way? Because a lot of these mortgages, FHA, VA, USDA, the mortgage criteria to qualify in the first place is a little lower. You can actually use what would have been your commission as a, towards your down payment. And you can assume these low rate mortgages and you can actually start walking into rental properties. There you are. See? All right. So point number 10, use 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE on your for sale signs to generate leads and possibly sell your listing yourself. One of the best solutions to a listing sitting on the market too long is to sell it yourself. 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE .com. So also refer to past podcasts about that system. We're not going to dive too deep into that today, but capture unlisted phone numbers, answer zero transfer calls, or immediately call the prospect back. Secret, many of your initial calls will actually be from neighbors of your listing. Those are also listing leads guys. And that website, by the way, and the product is getting totally revamped. So anyway, go to 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE .com. Full disclosure, Julie and I own 50 % of that company. Yes. With a partner with one of our original listings, oddly enough. Actually, he was our first seller, wasn't he? Oh my gosh. We forget that sometimes. I know. Well, it's all related, right? Yep. Okay. Point number 11, use a home brochure box next to or attached to your for sale sign. There is an art to the home brochure. Of course, highlight all the attributes of your listing using 800 -HOME -HOTLINE and including your email address. But in addition to this, there's lots of different ways you can utilize the home brochure to make your phone ring. Now we have a podcast that we've done two or three times in the past called How to Hot Rod Your Real Estate Sign or Your Brochure Box. So there's all kinds of things that we did in a dedicated podcast on that. This is all about the fact that in many cases, you're going to have to sell your own listing because the buyers, agents, you know, a whole bunch of reasons. I'll give you guys a really good example. You'll remember this. It was our neighborhood in New Albany Country Club and there was a listing that was for sale when we moved there, expired, got listed with somebody else and expired again. I remember. And it was like caddy cornered to our backyard and they were moving back to Hungary. I think it was Hungary. Something like that. Yeah. And they're the nicest people ever. Super nice people. So we ended up listing the property and I was shocked the house hadn't sold. Me too. It's a good house. It was great. It was a typical expired where it basically gets a lot of activity when it's new. The local agents, you know, stopped showing it because there's other new listings, the whole thing, right? If you look at the curve on showing activity, it's really, you know, two weeks, three weeks and after that it starts to drop off pretty precipitously and after it's been for sale for 30 or 45 days in virtually all markets, the showing activity stops. Well that's what had happened to this property. But even worse, or I should say better for our advantage, even worse, the local agents were assuming that the house had some sort of problem, otherwise it would have sold. And how do I know that? I had, Julie and I had that listing. This listing I remember was five or 600 grand and this was back in. And so this house was, we had a for sale sign obviously and we had 800 home hotline. There was somebody parked in front of the listing.
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"And here's your prescription. I know just the pharmacy to get this filled. Who are you? A pharmacy benefit manager. A middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get, what you pay, and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to. Why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood? Because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own. No one should stand between you and your medicine. Visit PHRMA .org slash middleman to learn more. Paid for by pharma. In today's show I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis as one analyst predicts a Bitcoin price crash all the way down to $20 ,000. And check it out moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available. I'm also currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % in espanol. Let me know if that excites you. Also check this out Stanley Drunkenmiller is now known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street and is currently worth $6 .2 billion. He says straight up frankly if the goal bet works the Bitcoin bet will probably work better per each. Also in today's show Ethereum futures ETFs garner a lukewarm reception on the first day of trading with all of the trading volume across nine products at less than $2 million. We'll also be discussing the crypto community tells Elon Musk to dump the Satoshi X account. I'm also going to be sharing with you a Satoshi Nakamoto secret email emerging from the shadows never shared before. As well as here's what's in store for Bitcoin in the S &P 500 for quarter four of 2023. According to crypto analyst Jason Pizzino I'm also going to be sharing invest answers unveiling his max upside price target for Bitcoin in 2025. And quoting Max Keiser from November of 2011 he says Bitcoin has about 100 ,000 users now. My goal is to try to get that number up to 1 million in 2012. He also shared his short -term price target of $65 ,000 back in January of 2021 and lo and behold by November we smashed that price target. He now says that BlackRock agrees with my 220 ,000 interim price target for Bitcoin which he says is still in play. He also says by the time America catches up to El Salvador and starts buying Bitcoin the price will be over a million dollars per coin. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. yo what's good crypto fam this is first and foremost a video show so if you want the full premium experience with video visit my youtube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net again that's crypto news alerts dot net welcome everyone just joining us this is a live show as you know seven days a week welcome to the number one daily Bitcoin pod this is pod episode number 1420 just blaze today is October 3rd 2023 and the markets are correcting and consolidating after the recent pump let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day you can see Bitcoin correcting down 2 .2 % trading just above twenty seven thousand two hundred dollars also ether is down trading at 1650 along with the majority of the altcoin market and checking out coinmarketcap .com we're still sitting at 1 .08 trillion dollars with roughly 36 billion in volume in the past 24 hours we've got the Bitcoin dominance which has recently been on the climb currently at forty nine point three percent with the ether dominance barely up trading at eighteen point four percent and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours we got gala leading the pack up almost seven percent trading at one and a half cents followed by conflux up three percent trading at thirteen point six cents followed by polygon matic three percent trading just under fifty seven cents and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week we can see ultimately a sea of green with a handful in I mean a sea I should say of red with a handful in the green with our LB leading the pack of roughly seventeen percent with the biggest losers being Bitcoin cash and Ave down collectively roughly seven percent and checking out the crypto greed and fear index one of my favorite indicators hence why I shared every day in the show we're currently rated dead in the middle with a 50 which is neutral same as yesterday last week was a 46 and last month a 40 in fear so there you have it how many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto let me know and how many of you are anticipating a low as I'm going to be sharing an analyst predicting a twenty thousand dollar price crash and we'll be breaking down everything in between so let's get it shall we and again welcome to everyone just joining us make sure to say hello in that live chat as this is a live and interactive show and at the end of the show I read everyone's comments out loud so let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis Bitcoin just hit six week highs to start off October but some forecasts still see the Bitcoin price returning to twenty thousand in which lo and behold there's a CME futures gap if you didn't know and while up around six percent since the start of last month and now circling twenty seven five Bitcoin is not fooling many with its current price behavior the Bitcoin price strength in the recent weeks has many market participants hoping for a push and even through thirty thousand resistance send it let's go for some there remains every reason to be cautious however in an ex post analysis published October 2nd popular trader crypto bullet reiterated that twenty thousand is still very much on the radar as the Bitcoin price target the latest trip to twenty eight six he argued is now forming the right hand shoulder of a classic head and shoulders chart pattern with the downside logically due to follow if it completes quitting analysts here second half of October should be bearish in my opinion the idea was built on an August roadmap with a short term upside target of twenty eight thousand before reversing towards that twenty thousand target let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts I disagree I think we are bullish for this October and I think we're more than likely to continue up but it's good to cover all our basis is here now not all reasons headed heeded his warning with fellow popular trader you easy in particular skeptical of the likelihood for this scenario playing out crypto bullet however is far from alone when it comes to fearing that the worst for Bitcoin is over yet and one of crypto quants quick take blog posts on September 28th we had Wetson founder and CEO of crypto trading resource dominando crypto compared bitcoins performance between 2020 and 2022 quitting the analysts here between 2020 and 2022 Bitcoin underwent a notable appreciation region historic highs and capturing global attention however this phase was followed by significant correction that caused the prices to plummet sending crypto back to the lower levels say goodbye to your credit card rewards big -box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit hands off my rewards calm and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition now we also suggest that should history repeat a sub 20 ,000 level could resurface and an accompanying chart offered a fractal which now has been subject to a repeat quoting him again now in 2023 we are once again witnessing Bitcoin achieving over a hundred percent gains attracting substantial interest from institutional and retail investors nonetheless the market has recently experienced significant volatility and a downward price trend the similarity to the past raises questions about whether we are witnessing a repeat of the 15 ,500 USD if this fractal holds over the next few weeks which could result in a series of FUD and negative news in the crypto space furthermore there's a possibility of a redistribution where the price threatens significant highs but institutional profit -taking forces the price down creating the atmosphere of uncertainty in the market and as reported we also had another analyst rack capital who's demanding that the bulls step up to protect this support in order to avert the long -term retracement now for news as I shared in the intro of the show moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available and I'm currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % and espanol so we can serve our Latin community for the Bitcoin daily news let me know if this excites you and if you'll be one tuning in and also as shared here breaking news Stanley drunken Miller known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street who has worked 6 .2 billion he says frankly if the goal bet works then the Bitcoin bet will probably work better how many of you believe that he is probably right let me know your honest thoughts fam in the comments right down below and with that being shared yesterday was a historic day for ethereum futures ETFs launching however they ultimately flopped with less than two million dollars in trading volumes across nine assets so let's break this down and discuss it shall we here we go check it check it check it the rush of excitement that accompanied the launch of nine new ethereum futures ETFs appears to have yielded little in the way of investment dollars in comparison October 2nd nine new ETF products which are designed to track futures contracts tied to the value of the ethereum native currency arrived on the market of these funds only five hold exclusively ether futures while the other four track a mixture of Bitcoin and ether futures contracts quoting Eric Balchunes right here unprecedented day today with multiple ETFs all launching at the same time no clear winner has emerged all of them were pretty average lower than I would have predicted but it's a long run and remember these hold futures ETFs investors much prefer physical to derivatives that's right we much rather prefer spot ETFs because there's nothing but manipulation and price suppression continuously occurring in the futures market all by design hence by the regulators decide not to approve anything spot related but they continue to approve the futures ETFs which blows my mind personally in total all nine ETFs witness less than two million dollars worth of trading volume which is essentially nothing as a midday Eastern Time on the first day of trading the most popular of the futures ETFs products were Valkyrie's Bitcoin strategy ETF which tracks the combo of Bitcoin and ether raking up a total of 880 2 ,000 worth the volume it's worth noting had already been trading as a Bitcoin only futures ETF since October of 2021 but then adjusted its strategy to also include ETH the first day trading volume of ether ETFs paled comparison with that of the pro shares Bitcoin strategy ETF which debuted October of 2021 one month prior to hitting that all -time high and during a roaring market for crypto assets obviously it witnessed more than 1 billion dollars in trading volume on its first day so Wow compare that 1 billion in 24 hours to less than 2 million in 24 hours crazy now Balchune has noted that compared to the regular traditional finance ETF launched the volume witness was actually quite a lot though investors tend to prefer spot ETF products over futures Balchune has explained that all the products were scheduled for launch on the same day as the SEC wanted to prevent any one fund from gaining market domination now what if the SEC decided to do the same thing with the spot ETF approved them all at the same time like whoa meanwhile a range of United States firms jostled for the pole position for the nascent ether futures market ETF firm volatility shares canceled his plans to list a similar product saying that it didn't see the opportunity at the current time well we all know this we're all seeking the spot ETFs those are the game changers and there is probably about a 95 % chance that the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF get approved in 2023 I mean 2024 we're in 2023 hopefully right before the having occurs scheduled to be in what is that April of next year roughly six months out as we know it's gonna trigger trillions of dollars cascading into the Bitcoin market and that alongside the Bitcoin having are the two biggest catalyst for 2024 and let's add a third bullish catalyst which is a supply shock as there's currently less than two million Bitcoin sitting on the exchanges and for these ETFs once they get approved for the spot they have to be holding the underlying asset so there's gonna be mass accumulation continuing by the whales not only in this fourth quarter of 2023 but collectively in 2024 as well so let's freaking go and with that being shared now for the Satoshi X saga going on and also I want to share with you Satoshi Nakamoto's secret letter which came from the shadows never shared before I've never read it I'm gonna be reading it in real time with you so let's break this one down shall we members of the crypto community have rallied behind a post on X calling for Elon to remove a profile claiming to be the fabled creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto and here's your prescription I know just the pharmacy to get this filled who are you a pharmacy benefit manager a middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get what you pay and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own no one should stand between you and your medicine visit ph RMA org slash middlemen to learn more paid for by pharma October 3rd the user posted saying that both the account claiming to be Nakamoto and account with the handle Bitcoin should be removed because they breached the platform's terms of service which says doesn't allow misleading and deceptive identities as predator shared here hey Elon Bitcoin and Satoshi accounts are in breach of your terms of service for using misleading and deceptive identities please remove their checkmarks I guess it could be confusing to people thinking it is an official Bitcoin account and we know there will never be an official Bitcoin account and an official Satoshi account which we all know there will never be an official Satoshi account he says you can't misappropriate someone else's identity without disclosing you are a parody account it is no different than making a fake Tesla or Elon Musk account and I think he makes a great point what are your thoughts chat let me know the true identity of Nakamoto has been subject of discussion and the Bitcoin and crypto community as we know since the inception Satoshi X account is reportedly run by a user named Andy Rowe who was claiming to be posting from a profile back in 2018 and on July of 2018 Rowe said he curates quotes for the Satoshi account as outlined right here the account had been quiet since October 31st of 2018 however October 2nd yesterday the account made a new post saying Bitcoin is a predicate machine and went on to explain that it would explore different aspects of the Bitcoin white paper over the coming months as Satoshi Nakamoto announced here on X now what are your thoughts fam let me know another user call for the accounts to be disabled linking or likening them to how X responded to the account with the handle internet yeah interesting the Bitcoin creators true identity to this day remains a mystery what many people over the years claiming to be the true Satoshi the most prominent of which is fake Toshi Craig right now let's discuss this particular letter which recently surfaced from the shadows allegedly from Satoshi Nakamoto check this out fragments a Satoshi secret identity the genius responsible for the birth of Bitcoin has resurfaced shedding new light on the creation of the world's first crypto this revelation comes in the form of an email and bearing the date August 22nd 2008 we all know the Genesis block was I believe in January of 2009 now the email director to computer scientist way die offers a captivating window in the nascent stages of bitcoins creation a journey that would go out to profoundly alter the contours of the global financial realm this recently unveiled correspondence serves as a valuable historical artifact shedding light on the intellectual exchanges and collaborative efforts that paved the way for the development of Bitcoin by delving into this previously hitting piece of communication from Satoshi to way day we gain invaluable insights into the genesis of the revolutionary crypto a technology that would ultimately disrupt and redefine traditional financial paradigms worldwide so let's discuss it in the email Satoshi expresses profound admiration for way dies be money page indicating a strong connection to dies groundbreaking work in the field of digital currencies Satoshi goes on to reveal his intention to release a comprehensive paper expanding upon dies ideas ultimately culminating in the birth of Bitcoin now let's read the actual letter you can see it's dated here August 22nd 2008 sent at 438 p .m.
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A highlight from The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Begins - Everything You Need to Know
"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 Tuesday, October 3rd. The SBF trial has begun. This is all the background that you need to know. Of course, before we get into all of that. If you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on The Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello Breakers. As you can imagine, this is a fairly weird time for me. A year ago at this time, I was deep in the midst of planning FTX's second Super Bowl ad. And yet a month later, I had resigned, the company had declared bankruptcy, and the world had discovered a rotten core of fraud around Sam and his closest consigliaries. Now, I did a very long episode about the experience of the week of the collapse from the inside last November 14th. It was called Sam Bankman Fraud to give you a sense of how I felt about it. Since then, I've been covering the FTX bankruptcy and Sam's legal battles as I would any other crypto story. In other words, just part of the necessary cleanup of the last cycle, but ultimately something that is hopefully for the past and not for the future. When it comes to the trial, I've spent a long time deciding about how to approach it. The reality is, for the next five or six weeks or however long this takes, this is going to drown out a lot of other things that are happening in the space. I have to imagine that most products will choose not to launch during this time for fear of being outshined because everyone is just laser focused on this. The question then of course is how much time to give it. Is there a risk of over focusing on it? You bet. It's going to have lots of drama. But does it need to be covered? I think that the answer is also ultimately yes. This is something that has to get concluded for the industry to fully move on. It is in many ways an exorcism that just has to be done. And on top of that, I think that this trial and everything that surrounds it will have some impact in shaping how much the external world sees the crypto space as itself inherently fraudulent versus Sam as specifically fraudulent. So how is the breakdown going to cover this? Well, I talked to a lot of you listeners and the general request mirrored my own thoughts, which is to every few days do an update, sometimes with a guest discussion. This won't be then an everyday thing. At least there won't be some big feature every day. But you will get all the salient details as they come up. And with that in mind, I thought it would be valuable to try to create a bit of a definitive primer, something that if you haven't been paying attention at all, if you were barely watching last year, you could pick up and listen to and feel pretty well prepared to get into what you're going to see over the coming weeks. What that means is that today we're going to go over the charges, the rough timeline of events, the key witnesses, what we expect from the defense, the latest procedural news and info from the bankruptcy and the trial schedule. I don't think we'll have time to get into people's very strong feelings about Michael Lewis's book that just came out, but I imagine that that will be on the docket for later this week as well. However, where we begin is with the charges of which Sam faces seven. Those include two charges of wire fraud, two charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, as well as charges of securities fraud, commodities fraud and money laundering. More generally, Sam is accused of fraudulently dealing with customer funds in a multitude of ways. The most damning allegation, and the one prosecutors will likely focus on establishing, is that Sam knowingly diverted customer funds to FTX -affiliated hedge fund Alameda Research. Alameda, of course, served as the primary market maker on FTX. Now, FTX is widely understood not to have been able to obtain bank accounts, and so in many cases used accounts held by Alameda Research to receive funds from customers. The thing that prosecutors will seek to demonstrate is that Alameda not only held customer funds, but that it racked up billions of dollars in debt to FTX, which it could not repay. Evidence has been put forward that Alameda did not have the same risk controls as other entities when it traded on FTX, and that the lack of limits allowed Alameda to continue to operate while carrying a large negative cash balance. To put a fine point on it, the prosecution will allege that this large negative cash balance represented improperly using customer funds to trade and lose on the exchange. Now of course, Alameda had a significant balance sheet of assets held against this negative cash balance, but these assets were crypto tokens largely created by Sam and FTX. They were far too illiquid to realize it anywhere close to their full book value. The SEC summarized the allegations in their separate lawsuit by stating that Sam, Put more simply by Bloomberg's Matt Levine in an article published yesterday, It was pretty much entirely because Alameda had lost it. Now the key to proving these allegations will be establishing that Sam was aware of this financial artifice being run using Alameda. Fraud isn't fraud if it was caused by a mistake or an oversight. Prosecutors will need to show that Sam was either aware of the fraud or willfully blind to it. As the judge put it during a hearing last week, Now let's move on to the timeline of events. Much of the DOJ's case will center around the fateful final weeks as the FTX empire came crashing down. The beginning of the end came on November 2nd when Coindesk's Ian Allison published an expose on the Alameda balance sheet. There had been some rumors of trouble at Alameda prior to that, but with a partial copy of the balance sheet, this piece of reporting blew the lid off the situation. TLDR, what the balance sheet showed was that a huge portion of Alameda's holdings, the were pretty illiquid tokens and in particular, the native exchange token of FTX, FTT. Now in terms of a huge portion of their assets being in FTT, there were also a bunch of other Sam coins from DeFi projects that barely got off the ground, which in some cases had Alameda representing up to 95 % of the overall token supply. According to the Financial Times, just $900 million in assets on this balance sheet could be easily sold. The next major event was the very public sparring between Binance CEO CZ and Sam. Binance had been an early investor in FTX, but at that time had been bought out of their stake for $2 .1 billion. That repurchase, a theoretically pretty good return on an $80 million investment, had been paid out in a mix of stablecoins and FTT tokens. On the Sunday following the Coindesk article, CZ tweeted that quote, Due to recent revelations that have come to light, we have decided to liquidate any remaining FTT on our books. He said the firm would attempt to do so in a way that quote, minimizes market impact over the next few months. But of course, when you have CZ, the single biggest player in the industry, saying dump FTT and run for the hills, guess what happened next? Within the hour, Carolyn Ellison absolutely pissed gasoline all over the situation. She had taken over as sole Alameda CEO just a couple months prior and tweeted to CZ quote, If you're looking to minimize the market impact of your FTT sales, Alameda will happily buy it all from you today at $22. The market immediately plunged, with FTT's price being very visibly defended against Throughout the week before, FTT had traded around $25 and a market cap of $3 billion. By Tuesday night, with Alameda's traders and balance sheet exhausted, the token settled at $5 and FTX closed withdrawals. Now like I said, I gave my account of being on the inside. And while Tuesday when FTX closed withdrawals was clearly a final moment in the coffin for many of us inside, for me when it was clear that something very nefarious had gone on was on Monday, when I started getting hit up by other friends outside of FTX in the industry who were asking if I had heard anything about an FTX emergency fundraising round. Now of course, as an exchange that was supposed to be fully backed and given Sam's recent statements to the team that we had around $2 billion in cash and liquid assets thanks to trading revenue as well as recent fundraising, the only way in the world that we would need an emergency fundraising round was if Sam had been using FTX customer funds for purposes other than sitting on FTX's books waiting for those customers to reclaim those funds. Anyway, in the middle of that week after withdrawals were closed, there was also a weird sham sale announced to Binance, which they very quickly backed out of. And by Friday, with most FTX staffers having already fled the Bahamas, Sam finally capitulated to bankruptcy. Now to this day, Sam claims that he was forced by external lawyers to place the FTX empire into bankruptcy and appears to continue to be holding onto the idea that the exchange could have raised an emergency fundraising round to make customers whole. For most people, that might be where the event ended, but not so much for Sam. What followed was a bizarre string of press interviews, an incredibly disjointed Twitter thread, and basically an odd media tour that attempted to paint Sam as a wayward and naive CEO in over his head rather than a perpetrator of criminal fraud. This tour was capped off by a live broadcast interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times on November 30th. During that sprawling interview, Sam claimed that he, quote, didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone. Authorities disagreed, and on December 12th, Sam was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the US government. Although initially defiant, Sam ultimately agreed to be extradited to face charges and was released on bail. Once again, for any normal person, that might be the end of the story until we get to trial, but not for Sam. Although he was confined to his parents' house in California, Sam managed to continuously test the boundaries of his bail conditions. February, Sam was hauled before the judge on allegations that he had used encrypted messaging apps to contact the General Counsel of FTX US as well as using a VPN, which Sam claimed was just to watch NFL games. To the former General Counsel of FTX US, Sam had reached out to see if it was possible to, quote, have a constructive relationship, use each other as resources when possible, or at least vet things with each other. The DOJ characterized this communication as an attempt to taint a potential witness. At that point, the judge decided not to revoke Sam's bail, but instead expressly forbid Sam from using encrypted messaging apps and VPNs. And yet, in July, Sam stepped over the line once again by leaking the private journal of Carolyn Ellison to the New York Times. The judge agreed that providing this material to journalists was, at best, an attempt to embarrass Ellison, if not a brazen attempt to intimidate her and discredit her in the public eye. During the course of that hearing, it was uncovered that Sam had held more than 1 ,000 phone calls with journalists, including over 100 with the New York Times reporter who published the story. And thus, by early August, Sam had his bail revoked and was locked up at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center to await his trial. Since then, it's basically just been a never -ending set of appeals to try to get Sam out of jail, but alas, jail is where he remains. Next up, let's talk witnesses. What became clear quite fast was that there was a cohort of around four people, including Sam, that seemed to know about the extra special privileges that Alameda enjoyed and the fact that for all intents and purposes, customer funds on FTX were just used as a slush fund for their hedge fund traders. And it turns out that while Sam was still in the air being extradited from the Bahamas, multiple FTX executives were revealed to be collaborating witnesses. Of those, Carolyn Ellison is the one likely to get the most attention. As well as being the CEO of Alameda, Ellison was also Sam's former girlfriend. The couple split prior to the collapse of FTX and there will no doubt be extensive cross -examination which questions Ellison's motives in giving evidence against Sam. Although Ellison was only at the helm of Alameda for a little over two months, recent reporting describes her as essentially in charge of the trading firm for much longer, at least as much as anyone could be in charge of the firm relative to Sam himself. Nominally, Ellison and Sam Trabuco, another Sam in this story, had been appointed co -CEOs of the firm in October of 2021 when SPF stepped away from the role. However, Trabuco had recently been described as almost entirely checked out at that point, leaving Ellison in charge of day -to -day operations. Ellison is expected to give evidence regarding the inner workings of FTX and has acknowledged that she knew about the hole in Alameda's balance sheet prior to the collapse of the exchange. Nishad Singh and Gary Wang are the other two executives known to be cooperating with prosecutors. Singh acted as engineering director while Wang was the exchange's CTO and co -founder. These two basically built all of FTX from the ground up, so anything going on with the codebase is basically going to be mostly just their work. Nishad is expected to give a first -hand account of how the Alameda backdoor was enabled in the code. Nishad was reportedly extremely distressed and wracked with guilt during the final weeks at FTX and was confrontational with Sam during that time. Gary was one of the last employees left in the Bahamas as the exchange collapsed and famously coded almost the entire platform by himself. Some have speculated about how he will be as a witness given that he is notoriously quiet. Now, each of these three key witnesses have already pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges and have agreed to testify in exchange for a lighter sentence. Prosecutors will need to demonstrate that each one is presenting an honest account of events rather than merely throwing Sam under the bus to save themselves. There are also complicated personal relationships between each of these executives and Sam, which could be used by the defense. All three cohabitated with Sam in a Bahamas penthouse and were some of Sam's closest friends as well as employees. To give an indication of how hostile cross -examination could become, last week a DOJ motion to prevent the defense from asking questions about recreational drug use was denied. The defense will need to provide notice to the court before asking witnesses about their drug use, but the subject was not ruled to be out of bounds. Another FTX executive who has pleaded guilty to criminal charges is Ryan Salem, who served as CEO of FTX Digital Markets. FTX Digital Markets was the operating company for the Bahamas. Now, Salem was particularly involved in the political campaign side of things for Sam and was charged with violations of campaign financing law in relation to making straw donations to politicians on Sam's direction as well as operating an unlicensed money -transmitting business. Unlike the other three, Salem is not cooperating with prosecutors as part of his plea deal, but could be called to testify as a non -cooperating witness. Alameda co -CEO Sam Trabuco has not been heard from since he stepped away from the company last August. He has not been disclosed as a witness and has not been charged at this stage. The DOJ has also flagged that they have at least two additional witnesses set to testify under a grant of immunity but have not publicly identified them at this stage. By and large, speculation about who those witnesses might be include not only Trabuco who we just mentioned, but Daniel Friedberg who served as FTX's chief compliance officer and who had formerly been implicated in a major online poker scandal, and Constance Wang who was FTX's COO and was described as Sam's right hand during fundraising efforts. Now in addition to FTX executives, the DOJ will also call multiple customers and investors to give brief testimony. Prosecutors have flagged that they will call upon retail customers who traded tens of thousands of dollars on the platform, as well as institutional clients who traded millions of dollars. The high range could imply notable industry figures will make an appearance on the witness stand. Several high profile market makers are listed as top creditors of FTX and are no doubt none too happy about their funds being locked up in the bankruptcy process. Both customers and investors are intended to present their understanding of the FTX terms of service and representations made about the use of customer funds, which could be crucial in refuting possible defenses. Which indeed brings us to that section of this primer, what are the defense strategies that Sam might try to employ? SPF's legal team have flagged a few potential arguments. In a filing on Monday, they sought clarification on a few issues they may wish to present. The filing asked whether the defense could argue that FTX International was not regulated in the US and therefore did not have to follow applicable rules. They also asked whether Sam could discuss the likelihood that creditors could see massive returns from the bankruptcy process. Still, the primary defense expected from SPF relates to instructions from legal counsel. In August, SPF's team flagged a plan to argue that he relied on advice from both in -house attorneys as well as lawyers from Fenwick and West in basically all elements of FTX's operation. Sam sought to introduce advice from lawyers on topics ranging from his use of self -deleting messages, unconventional banking relationships, and intercompany financial arrangements. The DOJ objected to this defense, claiming that not enough detail had been provided, but the judge reserved their decision on this point until later in the trial. The judge said that they would make rulings on individual advice of counsel arguments on a case -by -case basis as they come up. Outside of what indications we've gotten from Sam's team, the industry and the wider world at large have had no problem speculating about how he might defend himself as well. Bloomberg's Matt Levine paraphrased his view of a likely defense as The crypto market crashed, there was a run on the bank, and the run on the bank is what evaporated the customer's money. It was an accident, perhaps a careless accident but not theft. Certainly, in media commentary, SPF has been focused on the bank run, rather than the hole in Alameda's balance sheet as the cause of FTX's collapse. Now, of course, there are some obvious issues with that defense, particularly if witnesses establish that Alameda had effectively commandeered customer funds in contravention of the exchange's terms of service. Another plank of Sam's defense will likely be to rely on prosecutors being unable to In a New Yorker article published last month, the journalist wrote, Going back to his article, Matt Levine again sketched out a plausible way that Sam could brush off an $8 billion balance sheet hole as a careless oversight rather than willful fraud. He suggested Sam could claim he thought FTX had so much money that $8 billion was a rounding error. From Levine's back of the napkin math, at its height, FTX had somewhere approaching $100 billion in crypto assets on its books. Finally, it's also expected that Sam will seek to blame Caroline for mismanaging Alameda. The publication of excerpts from Caroline's journal was an attempt to paint her as a naive child way out of her depths, and some of Sam's leaked writings also showed a belief that Alameda had failed to hedge correctly, as if that was the main issue here. Now, one thing that's important to note is that when considering defenses, SPF does not need to prove his innocence. He only needs to introduce a shred of doubt in the minds of the jury. To convict, the 12 jurors must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Sam is guilty and reach a unanimous decision. Prosecutors often fail to get their cases over the line due to being unable to entirely convince each juror of the defendant's guilt. This can be even more of a difficulty when the case involves complicated financial crime which can be difficult to fully understand. And yet, many commentators are convinced that the case is damning. Daniel C. Silva, a former prosecutor who participated in the BitConnect case, said, Now, in terms of the latest from the bankruptcy, as the trial gets underway, the FTX bankruptcy process is entering its 10th month and has had no shortage of intrigue. The current focus has been on pursuing clawbacks from people and organizations that had been, in the estimation of the bankruptcy estate, unjustly enriched by FTX. On the very top of that list are Sam's parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried. Two weeks ago, the estate sued Bankman and Fried, claiming that they had received over $26 million in gifts from FTX, including a luxury property in the Bahamas. The lawsuit alleges that Bankman was intimately involved in the operations at FTX and used his position to enrich himself. You may have seen the now -famous email where he tried to raise his salary to a million dollars by threatening to involve Sam's mother. Now, speaking of Sam's mother, Barbara Fried is alleged to have directed political donation efforts at FTX. This instructing included Sam on how to structure donations to avoid donation limits. She is also alleged to have knowledge of loans made to FTX executives, which were then used to fund election campaigns. All in all, the lawsuit alleged that the pair, quote, Now, for their part, Sam's parents immediately hit back at the lawsuit through lawyers saying, A last note on the bankruptcy, while current FTX CEO John J. Wray has no doubt been cooperating with prosecutors in providing internal documents, he is not currently expected to testify as a witness. Now, in terms of the latest trial procedural stuff and timeline, today was technically the first day of the trial with jury selection the goal. Both sides have alleged the other is attempting to bias the jury pool. The DOJ claimed that Sam's questions for the jury about effective altruism, political donations and ADHD are intended to paint him in a sympathetic light. In particular, prosecutors are concerned that asking about charitable and political donations could improperly introduce the idea that Sam's actions were justified outside of evidence. The defense, meanwhile, have complained that the DOJ are treating Sam's fraud as an established fact in their jury questioning by omitting the word allegedly. They also claim a question about being stopped or questioned by the police is intended to racially filter the jury in a manner irrelevant to the case. Last week, as I intimated before, SPF placed a last minute appeal to be released from jail for the duration of the trial. Sam's team claimed that his incarceration would be an unreasonable barrier to adequately preparing for each day's hearing. Unfortunately for him, the judge found this argument insufficiently convincing and stated that they consider Sam to be a flight risk. They said, Sam was granted some concessions to be allowed to meet with his lawyers early at the courthouse each day, as well as during jail visiting on off days. Now, while a decision is yet to be made on exactly how Sam can introduce the concept that he relied on the advice of lawyers, limits were placed on what can be said during the defense's opening arguments. Specifically, Sam's lawyers have been prohibited from mentioning any advice of counsel arguments while presenting their case. The judge ruled that this argument may confuse or prejudice a jury when presented without specifics and evidence. The trial is currently scheduled to take six weeks. Jury selection is expected to be completed by the end of today's hearing, although before I was recording this, there were some indications that it might go into tomorrow morning as well. In either case, tomorrow we will likely see the beginnings of opening arguments. After that, the prosecution will present its case and call its witnesses. The DOJ has estimated their case will take four to five weeks. The defense will then have an opportunity to present their case, which they have estimated will be much shorter, taking around a week and a half. Now, the defense is not compelled to present a case and can simply choose not to if they are confident the charges have not been proven. We don't yet have any indication of whether SPF will speak in his own defense. Traditional legal strategy suggests that defendants should never take to the witness stand to avoid giving prosecutors an opportunity to cross -examine them. However, this is no ordinary trial and SPF is no ordinary defendant. Judging from how extensively Sam has defended himself in the media, I would not be surprised if his lawyers have a tough time keeping him out of the witness box. Hearings will be held four days a week with a short break after three weeks. If the trial takes longer than six weeks, it will be extended, but the consensus seems to be that it will be all over by Thanksgiving. And won't that be something to be thankful for? Now, even if Sam escapes a guilty verdict, his legal troubles will continue well into next year. The DOJ will present additional charges related to bribery of Chinese officials, as well as political donation violations during a second criminal trial, which is scheduled for March. Sam will also face civil lawsuits from the SEC and the CFTC after the first criminal trial is concluded. Beyond that, there's still the possibilities of lawsuits from the FTX bankruptcy estate, as well as from former customers and investors. So my friends, that is the lay of the land. That is what we are going into. Like I said at the top, for me, the most interesting thing, the thing that I will be watching most closely, is actually the meta -narrative analysis around this. I want to know how much, especially mainstream media looks at this and treats this like what it is, which is Sam Bankman -Fried going on trial, versus what I fear it might become, which is the entire crypto industry being put on trial. But in any event, this truly is a scenario where the only way out is through. So get on your boots, friends, because we are getting into the muck. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
CRYPTO 101
A highlight from Ep. 567 Full Update on the Solana Network with Austin Federa
"All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast where I am your co -host Bryce, and I'm joined by my trusty compadre, Mr. Brendan Veman. Brendan, how are you doing today? Hey, I'm doing good. Welcome back everyone. You're hanging in through the chop in the market. You're not overtrading this, are you? No, definitely not. We definitely are seeing a bit of range -bound activity, but we're surviving it. Good, man. You saw the Philly game the other night, I hope. Yeah. Big Eagles fan over here. I'm satisfied. We're 2 -0 now. Your boys are looking good. Let's freaking go. Your boys are looking good, and yeah, fantasy season. We've got a whole Crypto 101 podcast, 12 -man fantasy league that we've been competing with, so it's been a ton of fun. And yeah, anyhow, we're joined by an awesome guest. This is one that we've been really, really excited to dive into. Everybody who's listening has probably heard of Solana. The soul token is burst onto the scene, and it is just an incredibly vibrant community. You've had your members go across the world to some of the hackathons that Solana continues to host. And we're really excited to speak with the head of strategy, a gentleman and a scholar named Austin Federa, who is joining us today. Austin, welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast. Hey, excited to be here. Thanks for having me on again. Yeah, we're excited. Yeah, we had you on maybe six months ago or something, and it's just crazy how quickly Solana keeps rolling out developments and partnerships. You guys don't sleep. I know you're across the world right now hosting hackathons, and it's just crazy. So before we really dive into all the new things that have been going on, just catch us up for new listeners who are curious about what the Solana Foundation is and how you guys are a part of the ecosystem here. Yeah, so we are the nonprofit Swiss foundation that's sort of behind a lot of the ecosystem development work of the Solana network. And so you can think of this very similar to the role the Ethereum Foundation played in the Ethereum network. But we are basically an organization that got a grant from basically the Solana network at the beginning to issue grants on the network to act as a group that helps sort of solve those public resource goods problems that no one is economically incentivized to necessarily solve without a nonprofit stepping in. And that's kind of the work that we do, right? We're not the main marketers of the network. We, you know, talk to probably less than 5 % of the applications building on the network. This is a global decentralized permissionless network that anyone can build on and thousands of people do build on. But you know, our role is to do things like make big bets and fund things like fire dancer and new validator clients and make sure that the open source tooling that people are building is something that they can actually afford to build. And that's kind of the grant giving component is a major function of what the Solana Foundation does. There's also Solana Labs, which is sort of you can think of it as similar to the world consensus plays in the Ethereum ecosystem. They build products and services on the network. There's sort of a profit motivation behind what they do. And you know, there's about five different core contributor teams at this point, all building software and services to keep the Solana network running. And then, of course, it's run by thousands of individuals all around the world. Yeah, that's incredible. And you're also no stranger to podcasting. You've got a great podcast of your own called The Validated Pod. Tell us a little bit about that and what kind of guests you have on and kind of what your goal is there.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from Time To Buy The Dip On These Altcoins? (LAST CHANCE)
"The market is finally showing signs of life and many altcoins are now starting to break out of their month -long downtrends. So in today's video, I'm going to discuss what altcoins I am looking at this week. I've got a variety of long setups for you. I've also got a couple short setups that I want to share in today's video. And it's funny, every single Monday I do the Watchlist shows, right? But they don't get that many views. You can see in front of you last week, I only got 4 ,000 views on the show. Yet, in my opinion, they are my most alpha -packed shows of the week. Because if we just look at last week as an example, there were many trades here which we nailed. I mean, Bitcoin, I pretty much said it was going to move sideways for the majority of the week. That is what happened, although we did get a pump in the last couple of days. LINK, I said that I was expecting us to move up heading into the conference. And then the conference could be a local top. Well, we've certainly gotten a massive move up. Now is the conference. So proof will be in the pudding when it comes to that one. But we did get the first part right. Arbitrum has pushed up massively in price. So we got that one right. OX, I was a little preemptive when it came to DCAing. That's one we can talk about later. But they have had a massive correction. And if you like OX, it could be a DCA opportunity. OP as well, I said they weren't looking as strong on a relative strength basis versus Arbitrum. And I was waiting for PostUnlock to reconsider my positioning. And I mean, pretty much you haven't missed out on a relative basis versus ARB, which has been the stronger trade. And it's all about opportunity cost in crypto. And then Frax has performed very well. And I said I was buying some Frax as well. So mostly hits when it came to the watchlist last week, 80 % hits. The only one that I did take a slight knock on was my DCAing into OX, which obviously did end up dropping. But on all the other coins, we pretty much have traded them pretty well. So that's why I believe that the Monday shows are so important. If you're not watching them, I recommend watching them every single week because this is where I go through my plans for the week. I talk about the old coins I'm interested in. I talk about what I'm seeing in the market. And it's really important. It's a great chance for us to reset and chat one on one ahead of every single week. And this week is looking to be a little more lively than previous weeks. And it comes on the very important day for Bitcoin, which is the beginning of Q4. So October, now we are officially in the Q4 period. And actually historically Q4 is the best quarter for Bitcoin. And specifically October and November are the best performing months historically for Bitcoin. You can see in front of you, October is the second best performing month and November is the best performing month for Bitcoin. So it's funny that we've kicked off Q4 in style with a very strong Bitcoin move to the upside. We've now started to break above that key 200 EMA level, as you can see here. Although last time we did break above and then we deviated below and then we didn't end up having a daily close above. So this is really what you want to keep your eye on now. Can Bitcoin actually close above and then look to use that as a launchpad to push into that major zone at 30K? That's obviously going to be the next question. Or will it close below again? Only time will tell. We'll know obviously within the next day. This video is prerecorded a few hours before it goes live. So we will be approaching daily close at that point and we will need to monitor this level. But I would like to see a few days continuously above. Just one daily close above oftentimes isn't strong enough. You often want to see multiple daily closes above and it just forms some sort of support basis, a substantive basis for Bitcoin to spring to the upside. But let's not get too much into the Bitcoin discussion because we have lots of altcoin talk today. And my plan on various altcoins I want to discuss with you in today's video. So as you can see, the market is up today. The market is up this week. Arbitrum, one of the best performers that we talked about in last week's watchlist. Solana, one of the best performers. I'm going to get into my thoughts on Solana in today's video. This is one I also called on my Twitter when I said that I thought that the pre -dump was going to be greater than the actual selling event. That is what happened. And we ended up timing the bottom pretty nicely on Sol. So overall, it's been a great couple weeks of trading, but let's get into today's one. The first thing I want to talk about is Ethereum. I think it would be remiss of me not to talk about the leader of the altcoins, given the fact that it's primarily an altcoin video today. Ethereum showing some interesting signs here, starting to push into this range high territory. It has pivoted nicely off those lows at 1540 and never quite got down to that major structural support level at 1422. And it's actually started to respond and show signs of a reversal here. Range high does correspond with the 200 MA. So that's going to be your major resistance level. Only time will tell whether Ethereum has the strength to break through there. But that is a heavy level of resistance. So if it does get rejected there, I would not be surprised. I probably wouldn't be longing ETH into resistance. But I do find more interesting is the ETH BTC chart. It did get rejected off its major resistance level. However, this is a level that it did an SR flip back in July. This is definitely a key level for ETH. If you're looking at ETH, maybe outperforming Bitcoin on a relative basis over the next couple of months, that would be your level that you really need to reclaim. This was a trade that I was in. I got stopped out. I mentioned that on the show that I did about my ETH pair trade at 62 here. But this may be a trade I get back into if we flip and confirm above this major level. So that's what I'm watching on ETH BTC. And it comes at a time where the ETH futures ETFs seem to have gotten approved, which is obviously great news for Ethereum. But we are still hanging out for that Ethereum spot ETF. Lots of speculation now about an ETH ETF. Lots of speculation also about a Bitcoin ETF. Very interested to see what happens over the next few months when it comes to ETFs. Looks like Bitcoin will be pushed forward into Q1 2024, given the fact that we got a slew of delays last week. But the Ethereum ETF is another one to keep your eye on. And the Bitcoin ETF would certainly be precedent for ETH, although ETH is on a lagging basis versus Bitcoin, typically regulatory -wise on about an eighth to, I would say, 16 months lagging basis versus Bitcoin. Now let's get a little more degen now that we've framed the market. We've looked at ETH. ETH BTC is interesting. We've looked at Bitcoin and the key levels there. Now let's get into some of the alts. Got longs, I've got shorts, and I'm going to go through this rapid fire. So I'll probably be speaking really quickly, but I want to get the alpha to you and not waste your time with 40 -minute shows anymore. First one's Radiant Capital. I like Radiant Capital long term because it's one of the only bonafide proxy bet plays for the layer zero airdrop, which is going to be in Q1 2024, most likely alongside Stargate. So Radiant's one I like. Lots happening on the third. So Radiant's one that I've been accumulating, and this is one in my watchlist every single week on the show and on my Twitter. I've been quite public about the fact that I've been accumulating spot, and I actually did buy some spot at the support level at 22 and added a little bit more lower towards the 19 to 20 zone. In terms of Radiant from a TA perspective, we have broken above major resistance at the 24 cent zone, although we have had a very explosive move to the upside. So personally, with my spot positions, I've started to unload a little, and I do think we may see a mean reversion back down into this zone here at the 24 cent level. I mean, if the market keeps pumping, clearly Radiant can pump up until this next resistance level at the 30 cent zone. But for me, at some point, I do think there is a significant amount of liquidity here that I think is logical that Radiant comes back and captures. So for me, that's why I've just started to offload a little bit, and I'll continue to offload out, ladder out if we go up in price. And I may even look to short Radiant if I have the balls to do it over the next few days. I need to firstly wait for a confirmed reversal and breaking of structure on the lower time frame, because obviously I don't take trades on the daily time frame. I would take it on the one hourly or four hourly. So that would only happen once you start to do something like this and reverse under and make a lower high. And then maybe I'll look to get into a short position. But until then, it's all longs and Radiant from a long term perspective, irrespective of the short term trading opportunities. For me, remains a good one to DC into on major pullback. So that is my Radiant update. It is definitely a token to watch this week, given the fact that they have their main net, but by the rumor, sell the news, maybe, maybe. And that's why I'm being cautious and offloading some spot. Let's get into Solana now. This is the talk of the town. This has been one of the market leaders over the last couple of days. And that comes off the back of a few different reasons. Firstly, the fact that there was a massive shorter that got liquidated and that caused a short squeeze to the upside. So this massive whale got liquidated on a huge Sol position. And also the fact Galaxy didn't end up selling any so far Solana from the FTX liquidation. So I did a tweet on this. Actually, I said, as bearish as the one Bill Sol liquidation seems at face value. And this was back in September, a month ago, the majority of the Sol's locked. Gallancy are incentivized to sell for the best possible price. There will be a $200 million a week cap on FTX sales. And I wouldn't be careful shorting. And pretty much this was spot on. In the end, the pre -dump was greater than the actual selling event. And once again, it's another reminder that peak FUD equals peak opportunity in crypto. I did a tweet saying I was buying Solana and Matic during the Robinhood sale FUD event. And that ended up being the local bottom. And I did another tweet again saying, I would be cautious shorting here, given the fact that we could likely see a pre -dump greater than actual selling event. And that's exactly what happened again. We saw the FUD, so the market's fear to do with the selling actually accelerate the downside quicker than the selling could actually be priced into the market. And no, there hasn't been any material selling of Sol yet. So this is another reason, a contributing factor as to why Sol pumped massively in price. A lot of people were anticipating selling and we didn't get major selling. So Solana definitely is one to watch. This isn't really one that I'm that interested in shorting. Maybe only if we start move up here into the $26 zone and then you may get an opportunity to short at range high. But for me, this is mostly looking bullish and Sol's one I've been stacking spot for quite some time. So any major pullbacks, I'll continue to look to add Sol at these key horizontal levels that I've laid out here. If you are looking at a leverage trade, I think you've missed the major trade. You would either wait for mean reversion back down to the 200 MA, then maybe you could long that's around the $22 zone if Bitcoin is still structurally holding up. And then the X level is obviously that short at $26 .5. So until then, we're in no man's land, but this is the hottest token. And it's funny seeing everyone suddenly liking Sol again after fighting it a couple of weeks ago. All of a sudden the price pumps, everyone likes it again. And that's something that Rand pointed out in his tweet. If you're looking at getting additional confluence with your trades on top of your TA, one tool that I've been using is Kyber AI. For Solana, it's a bit weird because there's only wormhole Sol. So it's not native Sol on the Solana What you can do on Kyber AI is you can see the Kyber score so you can get a bullish momentum score. This can tell you the momentum of the token based on on -chain analysis. Something I like to do is look at the changes in trading volume. So if I want confluence for a long, I'll look in a reversal from trading volume going from large sell amounts to flicking into that bullish territory where you start to see more buy volume kick in and vice versa. On the short side, I'll look for reversal from the buy into the sell zone. So Kyber AI is a tool I've been using to help my on -chain trading and you can also see here net flow to whale wallets. This gives you an idea as to whether whales are buying or not. So positive net flow where it's more green than it is red indicates that whales are buying and then if it's more red than green that's called negative net flow and that generally means that whales are starting to sell. So also interesting to see what whales are doing when it comes to positioning themselves in tokens and that's something I also look at when it comes to trading. But yeah it's not just soul that you can look at on Kyber AI. There's a bunch of other coins as well and if you actually go to their bullish section or their bearish section you can see the most bullish coins of the day. Kanto is actually one of them. This is one that fundamentally I've been doing some research into and I really do like as a project based on the limited research I've done so far and you can see that this is heavily in bullish territory and if you look at the on -chain analytics you can see buyers are starting to ramp up and we also seeing the trading volume to the buy side starting to ramp up as well. So yeah you can basically look at the most bullish coins and the most bearish coins for the day and this can help you become a much better trader. So yeah Kyber AI is one tool that I thought I would mention today in the context of this watchlist given it's a more trading centric show I guess although we are incorporating fundamentals of course as usual as per my you know normal show structure. But if you do want to use Kyber AI there's a link in the description and for every crypto bounty member that uses the link we're going to give you early access because if you're in the general public it's very hard to get access because there's a huge wait list that can take weeks to get approved. We are going to expedite approvals for crypto banter loyal viewers so link in the description below. If you do want access to Kyber AI it is a free tool so I'm not shilling you a paid service it's a free tool that I think can really benefit everyone and yeah of course Kyber is a sponsor of the show and they've been a great partner to work with because I believe they built an amazing AI product. Let's get into some of the other coins these are really interesting link especially very interesting trades being one of the most bullish coins over the last week or two and I actually have a controversial play here I'm thinking of picking off a short on link and I'll explain why even though a lot of people are starting to long link maybe this will bite me in the ass but I'm going to tell you why and I'll also give you my invalidation.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
A highlight from Celtics Land Jrue Holiday
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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from How to Turn $3.2K to $313k with Crypto (Altcoin Degen Tales)
"A trader flipped $3 .3K up to $313 ,000 in just 19 days. This is crazy money, and ex -user dealer .eth shows us how they made it happen. Watch until the end for how I plan to integrate this strategy into my trades. Let's discover crypto. These trades were insane, and they were all in meme coins. It's the Vegas casino of crypto where you either get rich or get wrecked, and there are only a few people who really know how to do it. This trader got in early, and I think the reason they were able to do this is they were watching live pairs for new coins, doing some easy research and just simply buying early. Now, no one is sure, but this seems to be the most likely way this person was able to make a 1000 % gain in just over two weeks. So what happened? It started with a big buy. Six billion fined tokens on the second day of listing, making five purchases totaling about $30 ,000 that ended up netting him just under $149 ,000. This mega swing trade took about seven days to make a huge profit. They sold and then bought another fine specimen of blockchain tech called Real Smurfcat. This one they bought within its first hour of listing. It 3Xed $18K into well over $50 ,000. Real Smurfcat went on to do another 150 % move to the upside from there, but this trader had already moved on to greener pastures by then. This shows you you don't have to time the exact top or even close. They then bought $8 ,000 worth of Super and $15 ,000 worth of Curve NU plus a few extra random meme coin tokens. A few of them popped while some of them went back down to the gutter they crawled out from. These are meme coins, so as always, the wins can occasionally be huge, but the mini losses are generally bigger. The token Curve NU generated 150 % gain while Super or Supermarket price, it fell flat. The action in meme coins is light right now, but there are gains to be made and, of course, heavy losses, too. Now, this trader is an outlier because it's almost all losses in S -coins. The huge wins are the glory stories, but the losses can leave you reeling. So back to it. The rise of Pepe was the last mega meme coin pump, but sh** coin groups are still out there pounding the pavement trying to find the next big win. Now, this is not financial advice. You should know that already. I personally don't really trade meme coins unless the meme's power is just undeniable. Like I said, most people that buy meme coins at the very least get wrecked and the price goes down. Sometimes they even get honey potted and can't sell once they buy or even click the wrong approval and get their wallet drained of crypto and NFTs. It can happen, trust me. If you want to go to the crypto casino, many traders just go to dextools .io, live new pairs tab, but rest assured 99 .9 % of them are going to zero, so be careful. Trading new live pairs is like touching a live wire. It's basically paying the ETH gas fees to try your luck on a new token that just hit the Ethereum blockchain. Almost all of them are scams, but it is possible to find a good one that has an active community, committed devs, a website, and social channels in place to drive up the price. Looking at this wallet, I'm guessing that's how they turn $3 ,000 into $300 ,000. But the size of the bets is telling me they knew they picked coins that had a chance of winning. Whether that's from doing research or being part of a meme coin community is speculation, but live pairs is definitely the way to get in early. And again, in case I haven't driven this point home enough, it's also the way to get wrecked. So, yeah, it's a mean world out there, but occasionally there is serious money to be made. Crypto is full of possibilities. Look, that's all I got for now. I'll see you at the top.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Where Crypto Has Product-Market Fit (And Where It Doesn't)
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, October 1st, and that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, welcome to one of the best months of the year, October. You love to see it. Around here in these crypto parts, we call this October, and I don't know if the price is going to follow that, but I certainly know that the vibes will. Now, it is Long Read Sunday, and this show represents for me not only a chance to bring in the opinions of other people, but also a chance to think a little bit more broadly, a little bit less focused on the news of the day or the week. And so with that in mind, we turn to a piece from Li Jin, one of the co -founders of Variant, that makes an argument about one of the big challenges that faces the industry as it attempts to go more mainstream. I think it's an interesting argument, and so I'm going to read the piece and then we'll talk about it a little bit further. The essay is called, The Barrier to Mainstream Crypto Adoption Isn't UX, It's Product -Market Fit. Li writes, Discussions about accelerating adoption of crypto often focus on improving user experience. The popular thinking goes, Web3 products lag behind from a user experience perspective, onboarding poses multiple points of friction, and technological concepts come with learning curves. Web3 is missing a seamless experience for apps that will unlock greater adoption. While improving crypto UX is certainly important, I believe that the more significant and urgent barrier to adoption is building things that people want. Web3 has a product market fit problem, not a UX problem. Product market fit is when a product satisfies a strong market need. For consumer builders, the elegance and challenge in building for consumers is that humans have remarkably consistent needs across time. That's why Maslow's hierarchy of needs continues to resonate nearly a century after its introduction, with universal needs ranging from the physiological food, shelter, and clothing, to the psychological — belonging, love, entertainment, and esteem. The history of consumer startups is one of continual innovation in solving for human needs in novel ways. Though people often dismiss new consumer apps as incremental innovations in flipping categories — i .e. teens making dance videos — the truth is that successful startups offer a step -function improvement in enabling people to achieve a core need. Amazon sold us books and everything else in just a few clicks, dramatically easing the process for procuring goods. Facebook enabled us to connect with those we care about instantly. Tinder exposed us to an order of magnitude more potential romantic partners than anyone could stumble on in real life. There is a lot of evidence that when the user benefit is great enough, users are willing to jump through UX hurdles and learn new behaviors, in crypto and beyond. Examples include the first iPhone, which lacked a touch keyboard, the internet itself, and all crypto assets and applications that have had significant adoption to date — NFTs during the last bull market being a primary example. For products that solve a core need, unfamiliar and complicated UX hasn't been a blocker. Despite the long list of multifaceted user needs, so far, explorations of the opportunities that crypto can uniquely address have been largely limited to the financial realm. While income is a widespread need, products where income derives from speculation work when the market goes up but lose their appeal as prices fall. It's a tough sell, especially when there are alternatives for users to attain income with less risk and uncertainty. There is an opportunity for crypto builders to build products that better address other human needs, such as belonging, community, and entertainment. What could that look like? On a small scale, NFT communities and decentralized autonomous organizations have satisfied some people's need for belonging, forging novel social graphs on the basis of asset ownership. To those who say that shared financial interests can't be the basis for real relationships, consider that many of our real -world connections are predicated on ownership, whether that's There's an opportunity to leverage on -chain assets as the basis for new communities that solve for belonging, esteem, and connection. In August 2023 alone, 94 .5 million NFTs were minted across Ethereum and its Layer 2 scalability protocols. As the volume of user activity grows, imagine inferring users' interests based on on -chain actions and exposing connections based on a rich activity history. On -chain media expands our entertainment options, giving us skin in the game for what we consume and create online. On platforms like sound .xyz, friend .tech, and Zora, users can bet on media and creators they believe in, enhancing their experience of the content and turning these networks into financialized games. In a world where all media is incepted as NFTs, there will be a new economic dimension that can enrich our experience of the internet. These are just starting points for what it could look like for crypto to find product -market fit and address needs beyond just income. There's room for much more experimentation from here. To achieve widespread adoption and evolve beyond their current niche, crypto products need to enhance the human experience through solutions that wouldn't be possible without crypto.
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Riot Games Acquires Hytale Developer Hypixel Studios
"League of Legends developer Riot Games has just shared its next big bet. Recently, the company said it had acquired Hypixel Studios. They're the creator of an upcoming role -playing game called Hytale. If you're not familiar with the game, think Minecraft, but with more of a focus on adventuring and combat. Riot didn't disclose the financial terms of the acquisition. However, it doesn't sound like Riot plans to change too much about how the studio functions. The company says Hypixel will retain its current structure with plans to open a new office in Northern Ireland that will host additional back office and quality assurance staff. Riot adds it will share its experience in developing and publishing acclaimed player -focused games with Hypixel. The acquisition is the latest move in what has already been a big year for a studio that for the longest time only had a game to its name. It's not surprising to see Riot try to recreate the success of Minecraft. The now almost 10 -year -old title is one of the most popular games in the world at the
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Disney Plus Streaming Sets 'Artemis Fowl' Premiere Date
"Disney set the streaming -only premiere date for live -action sci -fi fantasy Artemis Fowl on its Disney Plus service worldwide, hoping it gives more juice to the subscription VOD product while all of the theaters are closed. Artemis Fowl, directed by Kenneth Branagh, will be exclusively available on Disney Plus beginning on Friday, June 12th. It had originally been set for a May 29th theatrical debut. Based on the best -selling book by Irish author Ian Culfer, Artemis Fowl follows the journey of a 12 -year -old criminal mastermind as he desperately tries to save his kidnapped father. Artemis must infiltrate an ancient underground civilization of fairies and track down the Oculus, the fairies' most powerful and coveted magical device, to pay the ransom. In a statement, Branagh said that Artemis Fowl would be as proud as I am that families around the world will now be able to enjoy his first amazing screen adventures together on Disney Plus. Artemis Fowl stars newcomer Ferdia Shaw in the title role, alongside Laura Macdonald, Josh Gad, Tamara Smart, Nonso Anozzi, Josh Maguire, Nikesh Patel, and Adrian Scarborough, with Colin Farrell and Judi Dench. Branagh and Judi Hofflin are producing, with Angus Moore Gordon and Matthew Jenkins serving as executive producers. Connor McPherson and Hamish McCall wrote the screenplay. Amid the COVID -19 crisis, Disney has postponed nearly every one of its forthcoming movie releases, including Black Widow, Mulan, The New Mutants, The Eternals, Jungle Cruise, and Indiana Jones 5. The media conglomerate is betting that Artemis Fowl will draw more subscribers into Disney Plus, which surpassed 50 million paying customers worldwide in its first five months of service.
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A highlight from Your-Weekly-Tech-Update-EP-134
"Hello everyone! Welcome to your weekly tech update, the show that explores the newest, coolest, and sometimes mind -boggling side of tech available on the interwebs. I am your host, Ray McNeil. Coming up on the program today, Google Meet video calls are getting a Zoom -like layout. Impossible Foods rolls out to nearly one thousand new grocery stores and supermarkets, and will take your mind off the world and put a smile on your face with this week's Moment of Joy. That and a whole lot more coming up on today's edition of your weekly tech update, next. Google Meet will undergo huge changes over the next few weeks as the tech giant rushes to make it a more viable alternative to Zoom. To start with, the video conferencing tool is now directly accessible from within Gmail for business and education users. Those who prefer Zoom for its gallery -like layout that can show up to 25 participants at once would probably be more excited to get another feature coming later this month. Google will roll out a new layout option that can display up to 16 participants. There's already a Chrome extension that can mimic the Zoom feature for Meet, but its official release means there's no need for a workaround anymore. The company will also enhance Meet's video quality in dim lighting and its ability to filter out background noise in the coming weeks. In addition, an upcoming feature will allow users to display a specific tab open on their Chrome browser during a call. Zoom recently enjoyed a surge in popularity due to a shelter -at -home order, but it suffered from various privacy issues that has prompted a lot of organizations. including several school districts in the U .S. to ban it outright. With these changes, Meet could become a new decent alternative to Zoom, especially since its premium features are free to use until September 30th. Disney set the streaming -only premiere date for live -action sci -fi fantasy Artemis Fowl on its Disney Plus service worldwide, hoping it gives more juice to the subscription VOD product while all of the theaters are closed. Artemis Fowl, directed by Kenneth Branagh, will be exclusively available on Disney Plus beginning on Friday, June 12th. It had originally been set for a May 29th theatrical debut. Based on the best -selling book by Irish author Ian Culfer, Artemis Fowl follows the journey of a 12 -year -old criminal mastermind as he desperately tries to save his kidnapped father. Artemis must infiltrate an ancient underground civilization of fairies and track down the Oculus, the fairies' most powerful and coveted magical device, to pay the ransom. In a statement, Branagh said that Artemis Fowl would be as proud as I am that families around the world will now be able to enjoy his first amazing screen adventures together on Disney Plus. Artemis Fowl stars newcomer Ferdia Shaw in the title role, alongside Laura Macdonald, Josh Gad, Tamara Smart, Nonso Anozzi, Josh Maguire, Nikesh Patel, and Adrian Scarborough, with Colin Farrell and Judi Dench. Branagh and Judi Hofflin are producing, with Angus Moore Gordon and Matthew Jenkins serving as executive producers. Connor McPherson and Hamish McCall wrote the screenplay. Amid the COVID -19 crisis, Disney has postponed nearly every one of its forthcoming movie releases, including Black Widow, Mulan, The New Mutants, The Eternals, Jungle Cruise, and Indiana Jones 5. The media conglomerate is betting that Artemis Fowl will draw more subscribers into Disney Plus, which surpassed 50 million paying customers worldwide in its first five months of service. That's been buoyed by its recent launch in India and eight Western European countries, along with the early release of Frozen 2 on the subscription service. In the U .S., Disney Plus is $6 .99 monthly, or $69 .99 for a one -year subscription.
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A highlight from 3 Points with Chris Mannix - Dame is finally traded
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from A Dame Trade Deep Dive With Ben Thompson, Plus Seth Meyers and Million-Dollar Picks
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We did the big chill. It was very, very exciting. I have Kyle Brandt coming on Monday's podcast. I'm just gonna tell you the movie now because it is gonna be the best moment of your weekend if you spent two hours watching this classic. We're doing Toy Soldiers. It really brings everything possible to the table. So if you wanna watch it ahead of time, there it is. That podcast is going up Monday night. If you wanna hear stuff about the debate, we have Tara Paul and Mary's podcast, Somebody's Gotta Win. That reacted to it as well as the press box with Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker. So there you go. Our debate coverage has been on point. Also, higher learning. Van and Rachel had Larry Elder on this weekend. It made a lot of noise, man. That podcast is great. I hope you check that out as well. Hope you're checking out theringer .com. And on this podcast, gonna talk about the dame trade at the top. We're gonna bring in Ben Thompson from the Techery newsletter, which he's been on this podcast I think four weeks ago. And he's a huge Bucks fan. He's gonna give the Bucks fan side of things. We're gonna do million dollar picks. And then old friend Seth Meyers talking about a whole bunch of stuff. So really good podcast. It's all next. First, our friends from Pro Jam. What's up? All right, I'm taping this on Thursday afternoon. Normally when there's a big MBA trade, I always do the emergency trade reaction right after the podcast. But we just put up a podcast on Tuesday. So I decided to play it a little differently this time. I wanted a little distance, I wanted to listen to stuff, read stuff, and try to form some big picture opinions coming out of this. So I have four smaller ones, then one big one. First one, I thought Portland did an incredible job with this trade. I really liked this trade, especially everyone was trying to bully them in June and July about, oh, you got to take Miami's offer. You just got to. It's where he wants to go. It's the only offer you're going to get. And guess what? They waited. They played it perfectly. They stared Miami down, and they got a much better deal. First of all, they get the Drew Holiday piece that they can flip into a bunch out of their stuff, which we'll talk about in one second. I love the DeAndre Ayton gamble. As you know, on this podcast, I am a big DeAndre Ayton guy. Not in the sense of I'm the biggest fan of his in the world, but I'm a fan of the asset. I just think I love the valued assets, no matter what it is. Whatever market we're talking about, DeAndre Ayton, 18 and 10 for his career, 60 % field goals percentage, 25 years old. He's played in 45 playoff games. He played four rounds in the 2021 finals. Last year, he got his ass kicked by Jokic. Oh, sorry. Like, that never happens. And Phoenix just sold on him, which I can't wait to talk about. But just from a Portland standpoint, they not only get Ayton in whatever they get for holiday, they get the 29 first, they get the two swaps, and they dump Nurkic. Nurkic hasn't had a healthy start to finish all the way through the playoffs here since 2018, which I'm positive was a long time ago. He's basically 12 and 8. He's, you know, a 50 % shooter. I made a list of the top 30 centers. I encourage you to do this at home, because what's more fun than making lists of NBA centers? I can't imagine anything. I made a list of who I thought were the best assets of the center position for talent, contract, everything. He was 29th on my list. The only person I had ahead of him who's technically a starter, unless you start talking about the Detroit or Charlotte guys, was Zubats on the Clippers. I thought he was the 29th best center asset in the league. And Phoenix, you know, just quickly to go to them, they're trying to win this year. They got worse. They turned Ayton's money into Nurkic and Grayson Allen and Nasir Little. Grayson Allen, we already know with him, he can't play in playoff series. We saw him 22. We saw it last year. I heard and read in some places like that, I got two rotation players. Did they? Is Nurkic a playoff rotation player? Is Grayson Allen a playoff rotation player? Because I'm positive he's not. So for the same money that they were spending on Ayton, they got three guys that I don't think are going to help them. In 25, the money comes down a little bit to 23 million just for Nurkic and Little, which is 7 million less than Ayton. And then in 26, that money goes up to 25 .5. But I don't understand what Phoenix was doing. Why not wait to see if Ayton clicks with Vogel? Vogel has such a good history with centers. He rejuvenated Dwight Howard on the 2020 Lakers. He basically created Roy Hibbert's career in 2013 with the defense verticality thing. I thought he was going to do a good job with Ayton. I'm stunned that they gave up on him. I'm almost waiting for one of those, now they tell us stories when, you know, that's where Brian Curtis calls them, where like a week after something happens, there's this kind of notebook dump where it's like, here's seven terrible DeAndre Ayton stories. So maybe that'll happen. But for Phoenix just to be like, cool, we locked this down, man. We got Nurkic. You're trying to win the title. You have KD and Booker and Beal. And like, what are you guys doing? Anyway, from Portland's standpoint, I love the Ayton thing. I love that they didn't get bullied. And I know they're going to turn Drew Holliday into something. So this to me was at least an A minus for them, for where they were two months ago, where Dave's like, I want to go to Miami. That's it. And if you don't trade me there, that's kind of fucked up. And they made this work as it got reported that, uh, I think in the athletic, that he expanded his list to Brooklyn and to Milwaukee in the last two weeks. And that's what Portland was waiting on. You know, they were banking on the fact that he's a competitive dude. He's one of the best 75 pairs ever. He wanted a situation settled. So, you know, you wait, you wait, you wait, they expand the list and then you go. Uh, there's a Drew Holliday piece to this. That's awesome. He becomes a contender prize. I wouldn't call this a Drew Holliday sweepstakes. I reserved sweepstakes for the superstars, but it's a mini sweepstakes. This is somebody that could have a huge impact on the playoff race. You know, not only the usual suspects, everybody's talking about Boston, ironically, Miami is a really good fit for him. And in some ways, um, I'm a little more scared of them with Miami than Dame in some ways, especially at a much cheaper contract with giving up less and keeping some of their assets. Philly, if they could pull it off, they have to be in there in Golden State, Minnesota. I think I have to mention Sacramento, I think is a team that if they could figure out how to get Drew without giving up their core, which is basically Keegan Murray and Sabonis and Fox, like that's, you know, could Davion Mitchell be in that trade with some, with a salary and some picks, who knows. The team that I love for Drew Holliday is OKC. I have OKC, you know, I started doing my MBA research for the over -under spot and I haven't landed on a number for them yet, but to me, they feel like a high forties team with Chet and with the growth of their young guys. And if you just like, let's say they traded Lou Dort and a bunch of their picks, maybe two firsts and two of their lesser picks or three firsts and a second, whatever it is. And they just say, fuck it. And they get Drew and you put him with Giddy and SGA and Jalen fucking awesome Williams and Chet Holmgren and all these other dudes they have, that might be a top three team in the West. I mean, that, that's starting to give me some early 2010s OKC vibes. So where he goes is going to be important. I just feel like there was so much Drew Holliday slander the last couple of days. You know, he's one of my favorite players. Even Haralabob, who was the chairman of the board of the Drew Holliday fan club for years and would have the benefit dinners there and, you know, just did a lot of yeoman's work on that front. And even he was like, yeah, yeah, Dame's better than Drew. That trade makes sense for Milwaukee. I was hurt, Haralabob. I was 100 % hurt by that. But you know, Drew got his ass kicked by Jimmy Butler in the playoffs last year. I get it. It happens. Jimmy was unbelievable. I feel like he would have kicked anybody's ass. By the way, why is Drew Holliday guarding Jimmy Butler? That speaks more to some of the issues with Milwaukee. He was never supposed to be a point guard and a creator. I think he was always better as an off -the -ball guy. We saw that with Rondo and New Orleans and just in general. I want to see him with a point guard. I want to see him just being unleashed, not having the ball a lot, just worrying about hitting threes, being an occasional, you know, make -shit -happen guy and being like the third or fourth best guy on a team without having the offensive responsibility to have. All their half court issues got blamed on him for the last couple of years. And I get it. They weren't like an awesome half -court team, even the other one in the finals, but I really value that dude. I had him, even I did the trade value list in August and I had him 37th and I had Dame 23rd. I think he's one of the best 30 players in the league still. He's 33 years old, which, you know, I'm going to talk in a second about when guards hit their mid -30s, but just in general, I think he's a real asset. If he goes to a team like the Celtics and they can keep Derek White and Tatum and Brown in the center, it's like, look out, man. So little mini sweepstakes, rarely do we get the trade, but then we still get another asset to talk about. Thank you for everyone involved in the trade. And then the fourth small point is just that, you know, not rocket science, Milwaukee bought some Giannis time here. They have one of the best 20 players of all time. They were staring down the barrel of a situation that was not good. I was talking about it on this podcast in late June and early July. I thought he was going to put them on the clock. I thought Mark Lasry selling his stake was a really bad sign for all of this because that dude is smart. As I laid out in June, that guy is really smart. And if he's feeling like, you know what, it's time for me to sell my buck stock, that makes me nervous. And then all the stuff that Giannis said and did, which I thought he did really fairly and really smartly. And I think that dude's about titles and that's it. And I know we say that about players, but I think in his case, I don't think he cares about, you know, what's my legacy, how do I compare against Dirk DeWhisky, any of that stuff. I just think he wants more rings. I mean, think about the guys who have won two rings out of the best 35 guys on my list of my pyramid. Those are all guys in my top 35 that won multiple wings. You go to the one -ring side, Jerry West, Oscar, Moses, Dirk, Jokic, Giannis, Pettit, Garnett, Kawhi, Rick Barry. That's the list he's on now. I certainly don't think he's looking at that list going, I got to get away from these guys, but it's a slightly different list. I think when you win multiple rings in multiple situations, it elevates you in a certain way. I think he fundamentally understands that at least a little bit. I want to be the best player since LeBron James. I think that's a thing that he wants. How am I going to do that? I need more rings. I need more finals trips. He knew from last year and maybe even the Boston series that they just weren't good enough. Whether this trade is going to be the thing that propels them, we'll find out, but he's been in the league 10 years, two MVPs, five first teams, two second teams, and now we have this little two -year window. Kawhi and the Raptors was a one -year window. This is a two -year window, I feel like. With Giannis, he's got two years left in his deals. So does Lopez. Middleton has two in a player option. Dame's got two, and then this crazy $120 million player option extension thingy that he has that just keeps going and going. It's probably two years. There's a world where this could go terribly this season, at least for what the expectations are, and then maybe it becomes Kawhi, Raptors. Maybe Giannis is like, you know what? That didn't work. Trade me. And the Bucks, who have no picks left and no future, they look at it next summer, and they go, all right. We tried it. Giannis, what can we get for you? Dame, what can we get? And they just do a reboot, rehaul. Remember, they won in 2021, which just takes so much pressure out of this. It's so much different than the Clippers situation, where they went all in on Kawhi and Paul George. They give up all those picks and SGA, and they've gotten nothing out of it. They haven't even made the finals. So it's got to happen. I think they at least probably have to make the finals. If they get bounced in round two, do I think Giannis is going to stay because they made this Dame -Mower trade? Probably not. So that leads to the big question, is how good of a trade was this? So there's a big picture angle on Dame, and it's going to sound negative, but I really don't want it to sound negative because I think Dame, I voted for him for NBA Top 75. I think he's been one of the best guards in the last 15 years. I think there's a ton of great things you can say, and there's a chance that he goes to Milwaukee, and this thing is fucking awesome. I know any Celtic fan I've talked to, including Isaiah, who's helping produce this podcast today, the Giannis -Dame pick and roll is just terrifying. Other than Jokic and Murray, it's going to be the single most unstoppable offensive play in the league. It is. We are conceding that point. The spot Dame is in right now, big picture -wise, it's weird. He's a superstar, but he's not, and we've seen guys like this before. I judge superstars by, do you have the resume statistically, and is your team succeeding consistently at a certain level? You can't totally say that about Dame. He's never been on a 55 -win team. He's missed the playoffs completely four times in 11 years. He said three first -round exits. He made the Final Four once in 2019, which was really lucky because Golden State and Houston were the two best teams, and then they got smoked. He's never been on a true contender ever. Instinctively, you go, well, that's not his fault. Who's he played with? Well, he played with LaMarcus Aldridge and CJ McCollum and a couple other guys, but not really anybody. The reason I'm putting this up is there's a success element that he has not had yet that for somebody with his resume is actually kind of unusual. I went and I looked up how many guards in the history of the league averaged 22 points a game for their career and played at least 700 games. I thought the list would be like 20. I didn't know. I didn't know what I was walking into. Only I think 75 guys have averaged 22 a game. So I went and I looked up the list, and it was 10 guys, 700 games, 22 a game for their career. There were some guys who came close like David Thompson, who I think is one of the best guards I've seen in the last 45 years, but had a short career and had some drug issues. He didn't make it. He didn't play enough games. Pete Maravich, 24 .2 points a game, but he didn't play enough games. Kyrie hasn't played enough games yet. Bradley Beale is five games away. I'm actually kind of glad the cutoff's at 700 so we don't have to talk about him. And then Mitchell and Trey Young aren't there yet. There's only 10 guys that made it, and the 10 guys are all fucking awesome. And again, I mentioned this in the context of Dame, who we think he is versus the success he's had. So the 10 guys, Michael Jordan, 30 .1, Jerry West, 27 .1, Allen Averson, 26 .7, George Gervin, 26 .2, Oscar Robertson, 25 .7, Kobe, 25 .0, Harden, 24 .7, Curry, 24 .6, Wade, 22, barely made it, and Russ, 22 .4, and then Dame is at 25 again. All right, what does he not have that those other guys have? Well, MJ, don't need to talk about him. Don't need to talk about Jerry West, who's the freaking logo. Allen Averson, pretty good comparison, right? Big stats, really memorable player, but not a ton of success. Here's the difference. Averson made the finals once. He won an MVP. Dame has done neither of those things. George Gervin was the best scoring guard of the 70s. He made two final fours. He had some bad luck. He really, in 79, really should have came close. And some of it's on him, right? He could have come through. Bobby Dandridge is the one that ended up coming through for the Bullets. They lose. But two final fours, he had four top five MVP finishes, five first teams, four second teams. He was just unassailably the best guard in the league until MJ. Oscar Robertson, don't need to go through him, but he won a ring and an MVP. Kobe, five rings and an MVP. Eleven first teams for Kobe, by the way. James Harden, three final fours, an MVP, six top five MVP finishes, six first team MBAs. And even though Harden has never made the finals as the best guy, he made it with OKC as the sixth man, you could build a contender around Harden. We saw it. We haven't really seen it with Dame. I think that's a fair thing to bring up. Curry, four rings, two MVPs, you know, the Curry thing. Dwayne Wade, three rings, two top five MVPs, two first teams, three second teams. He's more in the Dame waters a little bit, but he had the 2006 finals and he was the second best guy with LeBron on those heat teams. And then Westbrook, who you would say, well, Dame had a better career than Westbrook. Did he? Westbrook made the finals in 2012. He was second best guy on that team. Almost made the finals in 2016. He won an MVP. He had two first teams and five second teams. It's at least like a real argument. And I think when you look at Dame, he only had that one 2019 round three, got bounced. He's only had one top five MVP finish. He's only had one first team MBA and four second team MBAs. Really, really good top 75 career. But the piece that's missing is, have you been on a really good team? Have you made a real run at it? Which is why, you know, I think this Milwaukee trade is so much fun. This is his real chance. I get nervous about a couple things with this trade. One is that, you know, if you look at the 33 and older guards who average 22 points a game in a season. Jordan did it twice. Curry did it twice. Still going. Kobe did it three times. Jerry West twice. Sam Jones once. Hal Greer once. That's the entire list. Now the NBA is different. We have more three -pointers now. It's easier to score. Scoring is the easiest it's ever been. Guys can play at a longer age. So I'm not ruling out Dane being good for the next three years. But just pointing out, history is saying, be a little nervous. In general with guards, like Chris Paul, we saw from age 35 to 36 to 37, like it just dropped. But that's two years older than Dane. Maybe it's fine. I just worry about guards. We have not a lot of instances with guards in their mid -30s of them either peaking as players or being able to sustain whatever success they had during their prime. It always starts to go down with really no exceptions, except for Steph Curry. He's the only non -exception. So if your case is Dane's as good as Steph Curry, or Dane can be as potent as Steph Curry on a winning team, like, you know, Steph Curry is better than Dane, but I'm not going to argue that he couldn't do a lot of the stuff that Curry did in Golden State. The bigger issue for me, the age I'm definitely worried about. Dane has not been healthy the last couple of years, and we have not seen him play nine straight months at playoff basketball with a big bullseye on his back. Everybody coming after you, you're the best team. We haven't seen him do that ever, much less than the last couple of seasons. So can he stay up? Can he stay healthy? That's one thing. The defense with Dane just got kind of swept under the rug the last couple days, and I don't really understand it because there's five categories of defensive player I feel like. There's excellent, there's good, there's average, there's not so good, and then there's bad. And I think Dane's a bad defender. I think the stats back it up. Like, his defensive rating last year was 245 out of the guards. He's the 245th guard for defensive rating. You know, 117 .4 individual defensive rating is 483 overall. Portland's team's always defensively, it was the Achilles heel for them. Partly because of Dane, because he couldn't guard anybody. He's too small. And, you know, think about what we saw from the playoffs the last couple years. I think about the 2020 bubble Celtics playoffs, not infrequently, because I think that team had a chance to potentially win a title. What happened? Everyone hunted Kemba Walker. It was hunting season. It's like, where is he? Got to get a switch. Got to get Kemba Walker guarding somebody who's bigger, or got to beat him off the dribble, and it just became a hunt session with him. And basically, he got played out of the league. He's not in the league anymore. You know, we had this with Isaiah Thomas, too, in the mid -2010s. I think it's been an issue with Kyrie Irving. The Celtics certainly went at him in the playoff series with Brooklyn a couple years ago. Curry, you saw, who I think is a better defender than people give him credit for, but the And he's a much better defender than Dame is. Jordan Poole is somebody that got hunted in playoff series recently. Chris Paul, obviously, is a big one. Jalen Brunson, remember what the Heat did to him? Mitchell, when he was on Utah, this was a huge issue. And then Trae Young, obviously. My fear with Dame is he's a DH, and I think in Portland, part of the reasons he was able to put up the stats he did was because he wasn't playing defense, right? It was just, how many points can I score? My team isn't very good, and I'm just going to do my thing. He's an incredible offensive player. But how much of a trade -off is the defense, right? Well, you think, all right, well, Milwaukee, they're really good defensively. They'll be able to protect him. Here's the team. Giannis, Dame, Lopez, Portis, Middleton, Conaton, Beauchamp, Crowder. Who's guarding Trae Young on this team? Who's guarding Jason Tatum? Here's a partial list of guys that I don't think this team will be able to guard this season. Devin Booker, Tatum, Butler, Trae Young, Kyrie, Curry. Who's going to be chasing Curry around the screens? Dame lowered? Good luck. SGA, Luca, Mitchell, Murray, Edwards, Brunson, Ja, Garland, Fox, Halburn. Are they going to be able to cover Derek White? I don't know. The way this team is constructed, they are not going to have the ability to guard other guards at all, which means they're just going to have to be in a shooting match with them, right? It's going to be not much different than what's going to happen with Phoenix, where they're just literally going to have to outscore the other team. I've just watched too much playoff basketball over the last couple years, where it's like, if you have that weak link on defense, and you're playing a team that's smart enough, they're going to go after that weak link. Like, think about them against the Lakers, right? The Lakers figure their crunch time. Let's say they make the finals. It's Milwaukee and the Lakers, and Lakers crunch time. They're going to have LeBron and Davis and Austin Reeves and, I don't know, a shooter and a point guard, whatever. All they're going to be doing is trying to find where Dame is on the court and going after him. What about when they play Boston? Boston puts out White and Brogdon and Tatum and Brown and a center, and all they're going to be doing is trying to make sure Dame is covering somebody who has the ball who's now torturing him. I think it's a real problem for them. And what's funny is they gave up Drew's defense and, you know, they, what they gave up on defense, which is significant, and they gained an offense, it might end up just being a wash and they might just be a different version of the same team where they still have a huge flaw. It's just on the other end of the court. I'm just shocked that nobody brought up the defense. I agree he's an amazing offensive player and what's cool about this trade and what I'm excited about as a basketball fan is, can he go up a level? Right? A lot of these stats he put up, especially the last couple years. They didn't mean anything. They were, he was on bad teams. Like, who cares? Ultimately, Bradley Beal scored 30 points a game on the Wizards. Who cares? I think most really good offensive players, if they're on a bad team, can get between 25 and 30 a night. Can you do it nine months in a row? Can you do it when you're getting hunted on defense all over the place? How much can Milwaukee protect him? And what does he have in the tank at age 33 with 900 plus games on the O 'Dominor already? I'm still afraid of the Bucks, but people have, like, FanDuel had them as best odds in basketball and I think most people feel like they're the favorite now. I don't feel like there's a favorite. I think you can go through every team. Boston, I could, I'm scared of Porzingis. What's going to happen with Jalen Brown out there? He has contracts. Can Peyton Pritchard, all these different things. Philly, God only knows. Miami, they're unquestionably worse. Yeah, Milwaukee is going to be really good, but depending where Holiday lands and how this all plays out, I just think it's still wide open. And the other piece, so if you're just talking Boston, Miami, Tatum kills Milwaukee. I have no idea why. Boston is kind of built to at least stay with Dame and, you know, Derek White is about as good of a person you're going to have to try to keep Dame in check, at least. And Boston's done a really good job of guarding Giannis over the years. They don't have Grant Williams this year, but I just don't think, I think there's as many ways this goes wrong as it goes right, I guess would be my final thought on this because for what they gave up, especially with that 29 unprotected and the two swaps and, you know, they are all in on this team. And you know my theory, when you go all in on a team, you better think you can win. Not positive, but it's an awesome trade. It really is. It makes the league so much more fun. Dame and Giannis together. I'm going to enjoy watching Portland. I still have my eating stock. Watching Phoenix fans slowly realize that Derkiszna isn't the answer is going to be fun and then we'll see where Drew Holliday goes. So really fun trade. We're going to talk about it a little bit more with Die Hard Bucks fan, Ben Thompson in one second. Let's take a break.
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A highlight from 1243. Should You Trust Pet DNA Tests?
"Celebrating the connection with our pets, this is Animal Radio featuring your dream team, veterinarian Dr. Debbie White and groomer, Joey Vellani. And here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. Do you know what kind of pet you have? Well, certainly if it's a cat or dog, you probably know the difference. But do you know what kind of breed? Is it a mutt? What is making up the DNA of your dog or your cat? And do you care? A lot of people do. There's about 10 different tests on the market right now where you can send in saliva or cheek spittle, I guess? Yeah, cheek swab. It's actually the epithelial. So it's the cells that you're getting off the cheek, not necessarily the spit. Epithelial? Is that what you said there? I learned so much from you. And they'll tell you if it's what kind of breed it is or if it's made up of several different breeds. You did this, Judy. I think your results came back like lion and elephant. They weren't even dogs. It was so bizarre. She's full grown now. She weighs nine pounds. And it came back all these St. Bernard's, German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois. I thought, really? So that was a cheek swab. And then when I did the blood... Oh, you did a blood test too? I did a blood. It came back Jack Russell, miniature pincher and Maltese. And are you going with that? Oh, definitely. She's definitely Jack Russell. It came out 50 % Jack Russell. And that's what she is. Now, why did you want to know this information? Well, first of all, I didn't want a Jack Russell because I did my research and I know how hyper they are. And I'm not that hyper person. I want a more laid back dog. And so I did my research and got her from a rescue when she was eight weeks old. They said she was a Chihuahua, but there was no Chihuahua in this girl. And I questioned that as she got a little bit older. And I thought, okay, I got to find out. And I wanted to know what she was because people ask, people look at her, and everybody had their guesses. And it's like, I don't know. And I wanted to know what my dog was. But would it be safe to say you didn't want a Jack Russell, but you love your dog? Oh, I would not trade her for the world. I'll keep that little 50 % Jack. So the blood test really made little difference in anything, really, except telling people. Just what it was. It was kind of like bragging rights to know what my dog is and be able to say when people ask. That's basically why I did it. But then again, still, at least I know if there's anything I should look at, you know, with the breeds that she may be predisposed to down the line. You mean like a sickness or a disease? Health? Yeah. If she starts doing something or something happens and I can say, well, that's typical of this breed. So what kind of diseases and sicknesses are typical of, what did you say? Was it Jack Russell? Jack Russell, 50%. And a Min Pin? Well, we can see a lot of things with knees, so we can see patellar luxations. She's had two knee surgeries, two back legs. But that also fits with a lot of other small breeds. But, you know, there can be some host of skin diseases, allergies that we may not have like a specific test for. You know, but there are some conditions in some breeds, like say golden retrievers have a genetic linked with seizures. So if you had a yellow large breed dog and you didn't know what it was and it started developing seizures. And if I knew this dog was a golden retriever, I'd say, wow, you know, sometimes golden retrievers can be very challenging to manage with seizures. And we really have to use every means at our disposal to try to get those seizures under control. So it wouldn't change necessarily, you know, would I treat or not treat, but it might make us say, okay, our expectations are this is going to be a more challenging patient to try to manage. So that's one example. But there's a whole tons of things, you know, cataracts are inherited, heart diseases with certain breeds can be inherited, and kidney problems with cats. There's a type of polycystic kidney disease, a kidney disease in Himalayans and Persian type cats that can cause different problems. So, you know, there's all sorts of things that there are genetic tests for. It doesn't mean your dog or cat will get them. It just may mean they have some genetic tendency or genetic marker for that. So I see these online tests and but you do it in your office there? Do veterinarians offer these tests? Yeah, I mean, not everyone is going to do that. But we we do like that. And it's one is it's kind of the ooh, cool factor, you know, so you can, you know, have a party and people will ask and you can actually have some answer that sounds, you know, like you didn't just make this up. That's one important thing. But I do think it can help guide some decisions on awareness and potentially your pet's health down the road. So I wouldn't say it will make me do something different for a patient as far as putting them to sleep. But I do think it's important information to be armed with to know what you need to worry about to watch for in your pet's life. I agree. And if you can't afford it and somebody asks what kind of dog you have, say snuffle up against it really will throw the middle. It'll be different. So we're going to talk to a lady today, a doctor, Dr. Lisa Moses. She practices pain and palliative care at the Angel Animal Medical Center in Boston. And she says you may not want to bet the farm when you do one of these tests, as sometimes the information may not be accurate. And I wanted to find out about this. How important is it? Are people making decisions with bad information? So we'll have her on the show in just a few minutes to talk about that. Also today, we're going to be talking to the folks over at Smoke Alarm Monitoring. What's this guy's name? It's spelled really weird. Z -S -O -L -T. Zolt. Is that Hungarian? What is that? Sounds like it could be. He says our pets are starting fires. He sells smoke alarms for a living. And he says that our pets are actually, while they're unattended, starting fires in our house. See, I hide the matches. You do? Little delinquents. Oh my goodness. Yes. What do you expect? But first, your calls toll free from the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Let's go to Gary. Hey, Gary. How are you? I'm very good, sir. How are you? Very good. Where are you calling from today? You have kind of that southern twang. North Carolina. North Carolina. How is North Carolina today? It's kind of warm. It's not unbearably hot, but it's a warm day. What's going on with the animals? I have the whole team here for you. Okay. Well, I've been listening to your program lately over the last several weeks and was interested in the discussion that I've heard about yeast infections, skin conditions, and the treatments. And then also, there was also somewhat of a separate discussion about the use of human products on animals and how effective they can be, or harmful, or whatever the case may be. And I wanted to tell you about my little guy. I'll give you a little background on him, a little of the tale of the tape. He's approximately eight years old, as far as we know. He's a Yorkie mix, he's a small guy, just a shade under eight pounds, and I found him abandoned out in the country. And he was in pretty bad shape. He was missing hair and had a lot of parasites and skin infections, yeast, and all that. And we've been battling it for nearly three years now, but he's made much improvement, just great improvement. I kind of took it upon myself to use a product that's designed for human females, actually, who might have that kind of affliction, and rubbed it liberally on the elephant skin areas of my dog. And after doing that for three or four days in a row, it really seemed to help clear it up. What do you think of that, Doc? Well, we have to be precise when we talk about different products, because there's some products that actually can have harmful ingredients in them, and some won't hurt, and actually have active ingredients that might be appropriate. So I'm going to back up, because when we talk about elephant skin, and kind of that thickened skin, like for anybody who's not seen this in dogs, it typically is when their skin gets real thick, leathery, they lose the hair in the area, and it actually, from a distance, looks like elephant skin. And that's a combination of what we call hyperpigmentation, so the skin turns dark, and lichenification, which is where the skin becomes thick, and there's extra layers, if you will, that kind of are put on top of the skin. Those things happen from a couple possibilities, and we can see it with allergies, but really with things like yeast and bacterial infections. So it sounds like you're certainly barking up the right tree there, but the cautions I have with some of the female yeast products that are used for vaginal yeast infections, there are some that actually contain anesthetics. A vagus cell, for example, contains an ingredient called benzocaine. And this can be highly - Well, that's actually what I used. I used the generic, but yeah, you're on the right tree there. Okay. Yeah, so actually, benzocaine can cause toxicities in both dogs and cats. So just licking it off their skin, it can actually be toxic to the red blood cells, causes what we call hemoglobinemia. So if it contains that ingredient, I would say, put it back on the shelf and save it for your wife in the household. But there are certainly, say, athlete's foot creams that contain chlorotrimazole, which is an antifungal. In that, we've used that on surface yeast infections. But the reality is, if we've got that kind of change in the skin, most of those pets actually need kind of a two -pronged approach. So the topicals only get you so far, and they really need to be on some kind of oral or systemic therapy. So most of the pets that I have with that kind of skin can take a course of maybe three months to get them improved, controlling the itch, controlling the infection. If they've got yeast or bacteria, then we put them on either an antibiotic or an oral yeast form, like ketoconazole, per se.
Farm To Table Talk
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"So one of the misconceptions that i hear a lot is that subsidy payments or what's with this system a subsidy payments pay farmers to grow corn soybeans. It's actually. I don't want to get into it because it's so complicated. I talk about it in the book at length about how those work but you actually do not get paid for growing corn Beans so that and to add to that the payments that farms that are the size of ours ours is five hundred and thirty acres. That's above average for iowa. The average farm sizes three hundred sixty acres and the the payments that we get Like we get the payments even if we're not growing corn and soybeans we got something like forty five hundred dollars so it's not enough money to really inspire people to go and grow corners by means. It's just it's kinda hoping a you know the for for all the debt people have. It's helping people stay in that game and it. It helps people to justify like not being able to get out right because if you start growing fruits and vegetables. That's the time that you lose your subsidy and it's very complicated. There's real there's actually reasons for it. It's not just like terrible government policy there's actual reasons so But yes like you're saying in this region of the conservation reserve program so it's the crp is used very heavily. And so what at means is that people can't put areas of their farm that are available or Very heavily heavily forested into that program actually land that has been a. It's really not great soil. it's overused and they can put it in the sierra program and then get money to do like seeding prairie seating like. We're getting some money to restore pasture prairie that kind of thing so there are a lot of conservation programs that are actually out there. I think there's again a misunderstanding that there's no support for farmers doing positive things for the environment. That's just that's not true. We actually just enrolled in a program To promote butterfly habitat on the farm and will be paid to help. See that in to help. Have that for many many years. Actually news can go into the county Usda office right and why out about the programs and sign up to be in certain programs that are just in your county you can..
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"You know things that people would like to be able to do for when when they're working right. So here's my diatribe about that. The term hobby farm is used many times to kind of discredit like. Oh those are. Those are the small farms that somebody's farming as a hobby doesn't really matter if they make an income and it's it's actually quite an insulting term because most of the people who are in that category of farming our farming their butts off. They're working you know. Sixty seventy eighty hour weeks in the summer. That's not that's not a hobby and spending tons of money. What what is really interesting. Is that a lot of people who are doing row crops which are supposed to be the farms that are making money the conventional add. Those people are the people who typically have off-farm jobs that are supporting the farm. So they're not. Just the ninety percent of farms now have off-farm income that supports not only the family but the farm itself. It's paying for the actual farm. So i think that the distinctions here between you know what type of farm is it not whole conversation about. Oh those are too small to make any money. They're they are not that helpful in us thinking about the farm system because who where is where is where do we draw the line and say okay. This is a farm that then is a real farm. That's making money is it. Is it a farm that grows corn and soybean that nobody can eat. Is that considered an actual farm. That's doing great service to our society. You know that we're going to consider. Is the real thing it just it becomes. It becomes a conversation that i find is not that hopeful There are there are thresholds of income like the usda shows that if you net over three hundred fifty thousand dollars a year. That's when farms ten to stop needing off-farm income as much But but again that that brings in the whole question of how much of that income is then. Subsidize payment subsidy payments Because those largest firms we all know are bringing in huge subsidies as well so if those can't kind of be self sustaining either and not need the government dole to be surviving than what is the profitable farm. I don't know will. That's the big question and i think that when you talk about the other sources of funding when we've just been going through covert payments to farmers on the covert payments. I think i read. It was close to thirty percent of the total revenue was coming from something related to Kovin related payments a couple. Several billion dollars to two farms. Well i shouldn't start throwing numbers around but the different kinds of agriculture. That was getting some of these kobe funds. And then the two other areas that you discovered when you move there that you didn't know too much about before you end up having this the crop insurance which is kind of a subsidy arrangement That people can so-called quote insure certain row crops a basically a works out very much like a subsidy. but there's another form to. That's the conservation reserve program. And i think in your hilly area if i'm not mistaken you're pointing out that. That's a much greater amount in some of those counties than just the subsidies that actually pay the farmers to leave the land idle. Yeah so that that is again..
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"We just got a buck a few weeks ago and so we will have many more goats come the spring and you have any green that you're producing we do not. We have hay ground in pastures so we took out all of the row crop. That was here. The john's dad was doing and we planted it all in pasture. There is a small section that his dad's still runs out for some extra income That we have gotten with the one family that raises organic green in the area of they are currently conventionally growing But we're hoping that it picks up so that we can have them doing organic grains on the farm. What have we learned about the economics of farming You had some statistics. I know in your in your book about what farm incomes are in the. I'm sure a lot of people be fairly surprised of how low those average incomes are but which are read on this as a way to make a living. Well the statistics. You're talking about actually updated version so in the book i was using twenty nineteen statistics that twenty twenty. Statistics are a drum roll. Please you know The median income for the two million farms in this in this country so half of them made less than a negative twelve hundred and forty eight.
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"And you also have an like. Maybe you've thought this through already to with with ravens corner issues. Right so marcus. Peters was obviously under the literally the preseason snap practice. Snap after gus edwards was so he's out is jimmy smith playing in this game. He still smith's questionable. But i think the expectation is that he's gonna play baltimore. Secondary is really deep. Though just another reason why. I kind of like the under in this game like they have a lot of good players like like. They're not as good as marcus. Peters but they are like one of the teams that could potentially absorbent not having completely like like the chat like destroy the team. So marcus peters being being out. I don't think destroys them. But i think rugs literally one catch gets you there so i'm gonna personally going to be in on the rugs bet. Okay yeah my thought would just be like if we know that. This is a deep position group for the ravens. And this is an area of strength. And it's derek carr throwing to these guys the rugs thing. I totally understand like it's literally one deep target so you would never catches over but maybe the average like catch like he just needs to catch the pass like to me. It's got like i get why these numbers are low and we liked the under in the game like this is why people are like well. He's being so reluctant to agree with all these vets. 'cause i liked the under in the game. I think it's going to be a low scoring game thirty five and a half though. It's not like it's like a hundred yards touchdown here. He's the one catch. And i think he gets it so you think there should be. What do you think this should be done. Because you say it's thirty five. And you think it'd be like in the mid forties. I forty everything i think. It's priced appropriately. Because of the what he did last year. But i think that this is going to be better than that this year. So it's a bet on henry rugs. Basically the idea is basically like this is where rugs was lying when he was actually healthy last season. But like this season's going to be much different. Because the indications we have from the raiders and that's the reason to make the bet basically. Yeah i yeah exactly okay that actually i mean that makes a lot of sense to me and with edwards. Like how about this..
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"My problem is like as cargo to do the same thing like they're going to be just as dumb as mccarthy and kellyn are probably but like just on volume you had me sold at his gruden. Yes you had whistled. So let's let's take a very. It's a very low number. It's a very low number and you think it should be low and you're right. I think that's like it's already very low all right. my favorite. The probe king's favourite bet tonight favorite province and had a couple of that. I like actually. But i love this one. I just think this lines up for a monster. Mark andrews game tonight for the ravens here like especially with rishaad bateman out like i like hollywood brown. A little we'll talk about him in a in a couple of moments here but just like with the way. The defence is set up like the raiders. Don't have anyone linebacker safety that can cover andrews the ravens just extended mark andrews. They gave him a big deal down year last year. He was still pretty good. I just think this is like a smash bought for mark andrews tonight so for me. This is easy. Mark andrews over fifty eight and a half receiving yards. Okay what are the ravens ravens. Receivers like hollywood definitely has a number. It's probably i'm guessing we've got we've got andrews andrews now to fifty nine and a half so i had that fifty eight and a half earlier. Hollywood is fifty and a half watkins. Thirty nine and a half tyson williams. Ten and a half. Do any of the other ravens like like i. I know you're big on andrews tonight. It's feels like feel more than anything not saying. It's not feel. I would like his matchup. Like he's gonna smash tonight the matt who's match on vegas. He owns like maybe like. I don't even know like which linebacker would be. That would have the success. He's he's going to torture all of them. Okay and then like the rest of the ravens receivers any interest at all or or you think those numbers. I kind of like i kind of like hollywood a little bit. I just can't. I can't quit man. I can't quit setting yourself up for tuesday segments tuesday segments that we can't do on terrestrial radio anymore. Love it okay so andrews over fifty nine and a half like i'm in on andrew whether whether you want to join me in the pool it or not it's up to you. I mean i think i'm going to pass. I get it. And i mean i don't blame you for like it's not like it's a super high number for what's probably gonna be the highest usage player in the game. The passing game so make sense any interest in hollywood. No i never have interest in this all right. So we'll we'll pass over hollywood for now. Maybe we'll come back to hollywood. Let's go to the raiders. Here a really intriguing. Like trio of pass. Catching up for royal scrutiny. Here on you better. You bet that mukasey barclays we wrap up the show by going for profits for the ravens and the raiders..
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"Don't i don't disagree with. Let me ask you another tampa question offense related. Were you surprised by how effective gronk was last night and how important actually was to the game and that was definitely something we didn't anticipate coming into the game either. He looks and spry as he's looked in a long time. Roy people if he was he was he he. He looked like he was back. And i think it's a great point by here we're gronk becomes. I think someone we certainly look at. In the anytime touchdown. Market rock is obviously pinky of. Brady's has been for really long time. I think yet this going to steamroll people this year. They are absolutely gonna smash this year. All these guys stay healthy. A gronk adjustment is needed as well. So look listen. Maybe evans number does need to come down. Because you're right about that but what you said about rob gronkowski on a note on dallas. I feel like people are gonna freak are going to panic. People that in the top five of their fantasy football draft of you'll elliott the top six the top. Seven zeke obviously did not have a very game last night in the not in the passing game to my chagrin or running. The football expected tony pollard. Played a good amount of the game last night and people are sounding the alarms right now. Defcon five right. Over ezekiel elliott. Defcon zero is the worst. I don't know. I have no idea what the correct in whatever you say. I'm taking doesn't matter defcon. Twenty-one zeki jersey number five hundred sixty four whatever. It doesn't matter one second martin comes back. I have to think. And i could be wrong. I was wrong with the dallas offense offensive approach. I have to think that when there are matchups that aren't against like tampa. Billy like these really outstanding run defenses. That zeke is still gonna find a lot of success this year so i would say people in fantasy leagues where we're drafted zeke. Last out the top five pick is going to be really upset. go try against the by the dip. Try and buy low on z and curious to see as he starts to face softer fronts like the chargers next week not an insult to the chargers. But they're not the box or moving forward here. are we going to get depressed. Yardage numbers on ezekiel elliott. Where like last night. I wasn't interested at a depress number. Because they're playing tampa but maybe we'll be able to take advantage of this year because he's going to get the rock the offensive line's going to be really good ones. Zack martin's back. And you have to imagine. They're pain of thirty million dollars this year. Plus he's gonna get the football. Yeah well that's the interesting contrast to like. Were praising kellen moore in the game plan like great job by them and we're also saying right but eventually they're going to get eliot involved. I just think what we're describing is just a unpredictable mysterious situation right. Which don't have all the facts yet to be able to decide like as is dallas that chameleon team that's going to adjust their game plan. Every week you brought that up Earlier in this segment are they. Are they the team. That's actually just gonna go heavy pass because they don't trust their offensive line and it's a lot of quick passes and it's just you trust act to make reads when he's under pressure which did great last night you know like what is it is..
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"Underdog. I think everyone assuming that it's an automatic upgrade right out of the gates a matthew stafford we know over time and sean mcvay will be on the same page but is it fair to expect stafford to hit the ground running again much. Like the chargers didn't take any reps with the first teamers in alive action. We do know about all the stage practices and everything else. Though these coaches employed to get their players ready for an upcoming season. I have to tell you friend. Tarkenton woke up this morning. Not knowing he was going to get a shot on a bet the board. Sometimes you have to respect the great that came before us all right pain and eventually down the road. When you ride off into the sunset with your eight-figure settlement once bet to get sold to a larger entity. You're gonna hope that people mention your name on sports betting podcasts as far as nfl analytics are concerned. I appreciate the coaching up hours away from a major announcement. Listen the major announcing by the way spoiler alert is not an eight figure payday coming for bet the board so i want to let those listeners knows they're not disappointed. You mentioned the of staffer getting acclimated to a new offense. We know mcveigh's way he doesn't wanna play his starters. He said if he had his druthers starters he'll never play another starter again in that preseason game should go poof and we haven't seen that hinder. His offense is out of the gate. They come out flying. And i've mentioned this. That camp and some of the practices are are quite rigorous. He puts his guys through gauntlets on the offensive side. To the point. Where that kind of is there seasoning. Those are their preseason games with with internal scrimmages. But there could be you know. Some amount of time where takes stafford acclimated but when we kind of pair these two together. I think it's the perfect fit. And the one thing that's been lacking from mcveigh's offense is that quarterback that can stretch a defense that can threaten them. That can make them say. Hey like we're not going to be able to just load the box here against this outside zone run system and that's what's going to be important and that'll be interesting to see what that impact has on the rams offense overall because we know golf at this point boy who read some of those reports out of detroit. Not not a good fall for him. It's just been terrible camp but the one differentiator between golf and stafford is stafford's ability to stretch the ball down the field. I mean golf. Last year was was captain dink dunk forty. Five percent of his passing yards only came through the air. The arrest was receivers. Doing dirty work after the catch stafford completely different. His completed air yards were more than goff's intended air yards per attempt. And so that's really big factor. Here i do think stafford has an ability to open things up and when we did our preview on the chicago bears. The question we had was in the second there so that'll be an interesting match up to watch his does stafford push the ball down the field a little bit more. Does he threaten the part of the bears defense. That's a little susceptible and so that will be the the interesting thing here to sean. Jackson is is going to be kind of that home run threat. That the rams really haven't had downfield. Obviously we know woods is great and cup is fantastic and hippies great over the middle. But they've never had that deep threat. Now he's gonna play a ton of snaps. I don't think unless someone goes down with injury but he is going to be that change. He's going to be that one hundred hundred mile an hour fastball. That gives the rams a little bit different of a look here and was interesting. You know todd. We're looking at his game. Right sunday night football. It's all about the public being on the favorite in this game. I'm sure john is going to be rooting for the dog here. But to this point there's been legitimate pro money on the rams here and one of the larger teaser. Legs of the week from protesters. There's just not a lot of faith. Andy dalton matt nagy defense. That's probably gonna regress just to touch this game last year. I know the bears have a different. Starting quarterback saw how outmatch they were in terms of their skill position talent. The other thing that i believe is worth mentioning here. You talked a little bit about brands. Daily and how great a job he did with the rams last year kind of slowing down number one receivers well for the rams this season last i checked. They still have a guy in jalen ramsey. So ramsey's able to lock down allen robinson. Do the bears have any other players. That really scare you on the offensive side. David montgomery going to struggle to run into that defensive. And i don't think darnell mooney. Coal combat are the kind of players at this point in their career. That going gonna keep opposing defensive coordinators up at night before a contest. That's the hope. Is that those to emerge. They need big second year leaps. There's been a lot of buzz about mooney taking that step. They think he is a bona fide deep threat and they have this season but those two guys are going to need to take this offense to the next level the offensive line. Here's the problem as well. I mean the bears offensive line somehow appears on paper worse than it was a season ago and you went out and you thought you drafted your day. One left tackle and boy. Did those plans get spoiled. And if you've watched some of these preseason games doesn't matter if it's the starting unit doesn't matter if it's the backups. Opposing defensive lines in front sevens are just swarming the bears quarterbacks. And so that's going to be an interesting matchup within this game is now. We're talking. About andy dalton. We don't think it's a great quarterback but now is likely to be under pressure as well. Yeah definitely a team that that bears watching. I know when you look at the bears win. Told the we talked about seven and a half folks thinking they could get eight nine. Hey look maybe. They catch lightning in a bottle with justin fields i. I don't think it's the kind contest that they're able to go on the road and win week..
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"I mean every box that you'd want a quarterback to check this guy. Does but you bring up an interesting point trying to figure out what those weapons will look like in terms of depth outside of travis calc- tyreek hill and unity lesser extent. Clyde edwards layer. So this game will go a long way. In determining if the browns are forced to be reckoned with and they can start the season with victory. Or we're talking about the same old. Kansas city chiefs three big games during the day pain and unfortunately in my opinion and for all those bears fans out there this not exactly the game that we all are running to see. Come sunday night a little bit anti-climactic to cap off a big day of football the pairs we'll take on the rams for what feels like the forty seventh season in a row. It's the ramsey seven and a half point home favourite a fan duel sportsbook total in this game sits at forty six and a half when you look back a season ago. The rams finished the campaign twelve and four under the total. This is a rams team. That's four no straight up and against the number in week. One under sean mcvay and when you look at the way the rams played at home they actually became the first team since the buffalo bills. Back in two thousand three play. All eight of their home games under the total. The rams have been outstanding in primetime for the most part this when you look at the fourth meeting between the bears and rams well offense is not exactly been. The storyline gone three an average of twenty six point three points per game of course paying the biggest story line for the chicago. Bears is who they're starting quarterback at least a week one bill laser matt nagy singing the praises of andy dalton's maturity the way he's led this team through practice and maybe a silver lining for the chicago bears. They did face or he morris defense last year and we're able to erase a late deficit when the bears had a comeback against the atlanta falcons. I'm looking for more than a mature quarterback. I'm looking for one. That actually has some talent. And i'm not sure. Andy dalton is that guy at this point in his career and we know matinee with his asks on. The line has taken back. Play calling duties. And i'm not sure that's a recipe for success. I mean when is this guy shown anything. On his own merits ages hasn't main his offenses have gotten worse and worse as the seasons progress. And so i don't really have high hopes for chicago's offense. Maybe that changes. The line continues to be a little bit of a train wreck. I don't see this working out very well for for the chicago. Bears offense here. I just don't think nagy's the guy to lead an offense. I thought he should have handed off. Play calling duties to bill laser. He did that last year but really didn't allow bill to do some of the things that he wanted to do. But i mean this is your four for nagging and dalton is going to be the guy the full season he is going to have to hit the lotto here. I think with justin fields to retain his job. And i just don't see that being the case and you have andy dalton at your out there and i get it. You're on the road. It's going to be a hostile environment. We want to go with the veteran over the young kid with more talent and an attribute that andy dalton does not have with his mobility. But i just don't what are you getting with. Dalton i mean i. It's just a very bad combination of otc play caller in quarterback any. This is i just. Don't get thirty four year old quarterback right. There's a reason the bengals organization said. Hey you produced a at a rate last year. Seventeen percent below an average quarterback. So i don't see a situation where andy dalton's doing much here in saying that though and we've talked about this and and a lot of times you know. Say some of the same things when we get to week one. Because we've already done the previews on both of these teams. But i do expect the rams defense to probably regress. I don't know if the system will be as good. We know the schedule past chicago gets a little bit more difficult. You did lose some pieces in the secondary to cap casualties. So that's the interesting component about this game is in before we shift to the other side but in general here this total just going absolutely bonkers both ways right. Initially i thought under would be the side here. We saw some some under money. Then forty four a key number hit and we've just seen waves of over money route out to forty seven and i can see it from the perspective of dodd. We think the rams defense is going to regress. we think The bears defense is going to regress. So you have to defenses trending in the same direction it would make sense. But i don't know what we're going to get from the bears offense and i'm not sure if the bears offense going to be good enough to push the rams offense which is obviously a little bit more explosive this year. It's so bizarre. Because you mentioned the total and the level of familiarity which is rare for teams outside the division. And it's not like we're talking about peyton manning against tom brady with their annual showdowns. I mean the bears and ramsey didn't figure we're going to be teams to do battle and four straight seasons but alas here we are with some level of knowing what the opponent wants to do especially when you factor in the other side of the ball or matthew stafford will make his rams debut and when you look at what staffers been able to accomplish. Only five quarterbacks. Or i should say five. 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You also have a key cog out for kansas city. Willie gay is injured once again on. Feel tell my friend that pesky tell the pesky toe that pesky saito has really the only linebacker on this roster that has the ability to go sideline island was beat. Ben neiman's beers replacement below average linebacker gave up almost twelve yards a reception and a lot of one. Twenty two passer rating in coverage. So i think there's plenty of advantages here for cleveland's offense. You know what. I liked most about cleveland. Coming into this season we know about them upgrading. Their overall talent level on the roster but the players were saying the right things and one of the lines. That really resonated with me that i'd read in multiple spots was talking about calm within the chaos. And just kind of taking a franchise known for being all over the place providing identity as much as anything else and the other thing that came out about this game normally. If you probably talked to baker mayfield. Three years ago it would be about revenge and getting the best if kansas city but all the players have talked about focus realizing hey look you know there are thirty one teams. That are disappointed after every. Nfl season their season ended no differently theoretically the kansas city chiefs. And this is a chance for them to kind of start. Something special knowing that. They're such high expectations. Now if cleveland's gonna be successful. We know about the offense and what kevin stefanski wants to establish their but their oscar de needed a secondary to step up. That was extremely beat up a year ago. And when you look at the names in talent in that defensive backfield. John johnson troy hill. Greg newsom richard the count i mean grant delta creedy williams denzel ward. I mean this is really a. Who's who of guys that are out there. But the biggest question pain can they gel as a unit. Can they stay healthy. And can they do anything to neutralize a white hot patrick mahomes especially when it comes to early season starts. I think it's really interesting. Because we've seen this reshaping of the browns defense and it is specifically to defend offenses like the chiefs and the bills two teams that they're going to have to go through to make a super bowl run and you mentioned the area of improvement. It's the back end. They add three new stars. They spend a first day. Pick on newsom. He is going to be a day one starter. They add troy hill. They add john. Johnson from the rams hill was beasts last year defending the slot. One point zero three yards per coverage snap allowed that was fifth best among corners with at least two hundred snaps in the slot. John johnson created out the fifth best cover safety. And what's crazy as you alluded to this. You have greedy williams and grant talpet to is taken inside. The i forty six picks step guys aren't even starting and so then you go out in the draft. Also you get j. okay. He was brought into phil. Avoid is a coverage linebacker. Tough task the gate here but he was drafted to defend a guy. Like travis kelsey. He was one of the best cover. Linebackers is final. At notre dame i've raved about. Joe woods is defensive coordinator and that's what's interesting in this game because his specialty is working with defensive backs and even though he had the most injured secondary along mile last year he's scheme was so good. He removed number one receivers from the game. The browns were the fourth best team in the league. Negating opposing teams number. One nine terry kills a little bit of a different animal but something to think about here where the browns were susceptible was to the answer. Larry sears because they had no depth. That's different now and you start to look at things and you know you don't want to be too obvious here and obviously in two thousand twenty one. It's it's important to cover but why it's so important to cover a matchup like this is like patrick mahomes you. You riddled off the stats. But your guys in the secondary have to cover for longer stretches. Because you can't blitz mahomes you gotta hope you get natural pressure you cannot blitz the he will end your life if you blitz him. Sixty nine percent completions. Last year ten yards and attempt seventeen touchdowns zero picks one forty one passer rating against the blitz. So you need one of two things. It's natural pressure. Were cover corners that can stick on their man for longer extended stretches and the hope is. That's what cleveland has right now. You also have myles garrett with david clowney. Who's dealing with the flu this week. I sounds like he's going to play. But you know might might not be able to have his normal snap amount. The hope is that that those two guys can bring some natural pressure. Joe woods as talked about moving those guys around a little bit to disguise them things you add some cheaper resources along the d. line with me jackson and the interior. He got tack mckinley on the outside. Maybe they can assist a little bit but knowing that you might not be able to blitz too often. I think joe woods is going to probably come up with some stunts up front. You have a rebuilt chiefs offensive line. No doubt i think of was the right move. I think you got more talent and you got younger so that is too great things right. You gotta line now. That can build with. Patrick mahomes along the way. But let's not forget this first game. Oh line includes a rookie center and rookie. Right guard along with a second year right tackle so there is some youth there that may take some time gaining some cohesiveness in acclimating to you know games at this large stage but i'm dynasty this match through the air because dot. I've sent you some tax about not being happy with the chiefs weapons. We know what to rekindle his miekel hartman. Obviously taking on an expanded role we expect boom. But you know still some question marks there. There isn't like a no doubt about it. Nicole is going to be solidified number two. I don't love the outside receivers opposite. Tariq right byron brindle and damarcus robinson stunned brett. Vh call miami and move one of their backup lineman for preston williams or maybe even try to go one step further with an upgrade devante. Parker they don't have that big body receiver that can run that you know eighteen yard post in just box out in body a defender. They don't have that guy inside the red zone where you can just go have a jump ball and see if a guy can make a contested catch. I hope they go out and get a big receiver opposite tyreek hill in demarcus robinson. Looks good getting off the bus. I just. I don't think the elevator goes up. 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"I mean the schedule was a bottom eight schedule and overall efficiency. Passing efficiency pass blocking efficiency. Third down efficiency. The quarterbacks we've discussed like wentz daniel jones. Alex smith kyle foles nick mullins cam. Who is unemployed darnold to in the first career start. Let's see what this looks like this season. I'm not ready to go out there and anoint. Him bill belichick yet. I'm also not sure what scott turner is is an osi if you watch what he does he feels like he's on the cost of some some good things of being great tries to do a lot of the right things with motion play action and passing on first down passing two running backs but he hasn't put it all together. Curtis samuel. You mentioned one of the larger weapons that was brought in this off season that that washington felt like. Hey this is going to be a quick fix for wide receiver to and he's also got familiarity with with ron and scott from carolina. He's not gonna play this week. So the focus is turned back on. Terry maclaurin again. Now staley did a pretty good job last year. Removing number one receivers. But also terry maclaurin did very well with horrific quarterback. So that'll be something to to to watch and monitor here. If brands staley goes to his usage of lightboxes plays with an extra defensive back on the field which he assuredly will probably do here washington's o. line was dominant and run block win rate last year. Finished third antonio gibson running behind that line needs to dominate. I think there's an advantage there for washington the other up in this game which could be a little bit more difficult. For washington's offense is logan. Thomas bless you verse during james and logan. Thomas obviously has been all the buzz this offseason. He's had continued growth with the position. Change and now. He has a quarterback they can get him the ball apparently ryan fitzpatrick and logan are like in sync. Just vibe out this entire offseason. That's his go to guy even though you have tearing apart but derwin. James is an absolute freak very versatile. It's probably a piece. That brains daily complained the slot so he helps in the box against the run but he's also shown inability to be a lean coverage and remove tight end. So i think that might be the game within the game that ultimately decides the game so something to watch there as well should be one hell of a football game two teams that have big aspirations coming into the season. One of them will get off on the right foot. The other will have things tempered at least a little bit. And when you look at washington's upcoming schedule they can't afford any games. Get away although they do have the interesting distinction of playing the giants on a short week on thursday and then not seeing another divisional opponent on their schedule until the calendar flips to december so from two appetizers in the early portion of the day to the main course in the afternoon and no doubt the best game of the weekend in my opinion the kansas city chiefs. Well welcome in the cleveland browns in a rematch of last year's divisional playoff. You're looking at kansas city. A six point favorite fan duel sportsbook this total fifty four fifty four and a half. It's hovered between those two numbers. Kansas city in that contest finished with a net yard per play advantage of plus one point nine. They were able to hold the browns passing attack and check did give up five yards per carry but at the same time. Hey look the bottom line. Is they lead. Daqing box to wire when you look at this cleveland browns team. They have a dubious distinction working against them week. One the last sixteen season openers fifteen and one meanwhile on the other side. Patrick mahomes your beloved patrick mahomes. I should say pain ten. Oh in his career during the month of september but maybe most impressively never thrown an interception in this calendar month when you look at some of these numbers are staggering and we can get into homes a little bit the chiefs. Though a season ago had seven wins without covering the most by a team since the san francisco forty niners accomplished the feat in one thousand. Nine hundred ninety. When you look at this game pain we know the headliners probably or the kansas city offense against the myles garrett led brown stop unit but on the other side of the ball. You're looking at baker mayfield matched up against the kansas city defense. That probably doesn't get enough credit for how well they've played in stretches over the last couple of seasons they definitely have performed better than people think although they did have a little bit of a drop off in year two with spags but when i look at the browns offense it feels like they are built to give the chiefs trouble right. Cleveland's bread and butter is what the chiefs have struggled with defensively over the last few years. Mostly everything for cleveland is built off the ground game or making something look like run right disguising things. That's what's the fans greater when you have the second most expensive offensive line in the nfl. In cleveland plans to you upfront. It doesn't feel good matchup when kansas city's defense twenty-sixth in run stop win rate last year. Twenty-fourth in line yards thirty first and overall defensive run efficiency and i get that. It's twenty twenty one before the browns. They have to be able to run the ball. That is how the systems built now. Kansas city. I notice is going a little bit heavier along the line. We kind of said. Hey watch out for this in their season preview. they're going to go with their best for chris. Jones if you looked at the depth chart is listed as a defensive end and then you have some inside guys that Doron read derek. Noni that they're pairing. And then you have frank clark on the other end. This does create more bulk. But when you look at the metrics and what these players are like john. Reid obviously adds more bulk but a little bit better in terms of getting pressure than he is a run stopper finished outside the top forty in run stop rate back to back years. Frank clark hasn't consistently said an edge ever really so you know on paper big edge for cleveland. The ground game unless the adjustment along the d. Line just improves. Things and spags can get chris jones to be you know willing ed shedder and frank clark to care about stopping the run. 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"Tha that you can take away from that. But i did want kind of point that out there on the match side slash injury front. You mentioned austin missed. Another practice with the nagging hamstring injury. This is the one that took him out last year and reading between the lines. It doesn't overly great and aside from that like one of ecuador's best traits as as a pass catcher out of the backfield and year one of ron. Rivera event of ocean was top. Five in both receptions and yards allowed to running backs then you have the right tackle bryan blogger dealing with the hip. Flexor injury did return to practice on monday. He's been taking things pretty lightly. Let's monitor that. It would be a big loss. Obviously if he doesn't play or at some point has to be removed from the game because origins defense third in pass. Runway ninth in pressuring if blog is out or can't finish that changes everything we've seen in the past right going back to college football. I know you love this. The first round pick rashawn slater he is able. He's like the only guy in college football. That could actually make chase young. Look like normal human. When ohio state northwestern played each other so suddenly if blog and go you can move chase young around and find him a better match up on the other side so these are some of the reasons that that we've seen some pro money. Start to enter the market here in washington. This week you know it's interesting too because obviously we know. There's a high level of optimism around justin. Herbert you talk about the la times covering that story. And keenan allen saying that justin. Herbert has no ceiling strong praise from veteran receiver. But at the same time you do wonder about the weapons that the chargers have to attack that washington football defense. Meanwhile on the other side of the ball i mean all the talk with discharge teams. How talented this roster was for the last couple seasons and they kind of bottomed out last year gave up more than twenty six points per game. They were twenty third in the nfl in that department twentieth defensive efficiency now i know incomes defensive-minded head coach who spearheaded the rams world-beater defense last year personnel. Not quite the same but getting derwin. James back should help chris. Harris the savvy veteran and strong praise again for another rookie and asante samuel in terms of what he can contribute. Joey bosa back in full. But this is a washington team who in my opinion. Pain gets a massive upgrade at quarterback in ryan fitzpatrick not necessarily as a clubhouse leader or a game manager. But a guy who can actually stretch the field and take advantage of some of the underrated weapons. That washington has on the offensive side. Yes i agree to an extent but for me. There's still some uncertainty on this side as well and and fitzpatrick no-doubt massive upgrade for washington. And i think the question becomes. How large is the upgrade. And that's what's going to lead us to some of potentially the projection inaccuracies as better. Because what is he looked like. Is it the guy that performed last year at a top five rate overall but the reason he was top five last year and a lot of metrics was because he had an anomaly season under pressure which typically isn't replicated. But when you're talking about replacing a dwayne haskins or an alex. Smith in terms of value over average. Haskins was the worst quarterback in the nfl. Alex smith was the second worst. So this is a massive upgrade. Even if ryan fitzpatrick is average to slightly below average. Ni- mentioned this in the preview podcasts. In the nfc east. But it's interesting to me. Because i'm a fan of like human nature stuff and everyone loves ryan fitzpatrick the impossible not to like him and he again. He is an upgrade for washington. But in probably the fedex driver who dropped off your cash after you know first winning week in college. Football is an upgrade over the quarterbacks that washington had last week and you know last year. I when i look at this. And it's just like there's a reason ryan fitzpatrick played for nine different teams. Right the nfl record that yeah and you know when we have seen him have some of his success. Aside from an early season star in tampa where he was absolutely on fire. It is much easier to play any sport across the board. Not just football and quarterback in this instance. If your team doesn't have aspirations are large goals right when you're coming off the bench as a relief pitcher in your team's behind like you can play fast and free because if you off the upset the cock of the walk you've come up short. 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The Better Life Better Work Show
"bet" Discussed on The Better Life Better Work Show
"Podcast episode on i tunes Just text me the word podcast that we all know you came to the broadcast so with that this is episode number one thirty two. We're going to talk about betting on your south over and over actually again and again betting on yourself again and again so i wanted to tell you a hokey little story about me. When i was probably ten or eleven years old. I had this fantasy. This is really corny and this fantasy of being discovered for being remarkably unique and one day. I begged my brother. Cameron who is a year younger than me. Who to let me. I'm going to take off by jacket. 'cause i guarantee you mark podcast producer will be like. What is this sound. Sorry elise that is that is a new lesson. Do not wear puffy jacket. While you're trying to record a podcast okay. So i begged my brother. When i was about eleven. That means who's probably ten in. It was his chored mother yard. I was like please let me know the yard. And here's why. It's not that. I really wanted to mow the yard. But i knew that. If i mowed the yard then a limo with a hollywood producer would drive down belmont avenue. Which is the street. my parents live live on. It's not a busy street. But that that this hollywood producer would drive down bowman avenue. Mb stunned and enchanted by the special little girl who is mowing the yard because girls did not know yarze and he would see my uniqueness and my specialness and he would say. I'm gonna take a chance on this girl. I would be discovered. I know it's really corny. So i did the mowing job. I did a terrible job of it and the whole time i was mowing. I was like looking over my shoulder. Waiting to be discovered and i have shared that story a couple of times with clients and i have clients that that also have their version of that and no one is coming to discover us. So there's a couple of things that we do. This could be a whole podcast in itself waiting for discovery waiting for to know our purpose waiting to resolve our shit waiting from signs for the universe needing to have passion waiting for certainty waiting to be rescued. Having somebody come in and rescue us waiting for permission for others in waiting for everything to be perfect. Those are reasons that we stop ourselves. And i want you to stop stopping yourself. I want you to start betting on yourself again and again and again speaking of which. My banner is a little incorrect. Let's update that betting on yourself again and again and so one of the things that has created with success that i've had in my business over the last seventeen years are the bets that i take on myself. What do i mean by betting on yourself. While in relation to the story about being discovered my fantasy of being discovered is that somebody would take a chance on me and they would give me their faith and belief and behavior in opportunity and betting on yourself is giving yourself that faith that behavior that opportunity me. Let's hit save. Let's show that there. We go betting on yourself again and again so the fantasy of discovery i know now. This is a mental trick in our brain when we want to avoid discomfort. No one is gonna come as my mom told me. I shared this story before to. My mom told me when i was living at home my fifth year of college. My second senior year and i was waiting. It was a friday night. And i was upset. And 'cause i didn't have a boyfriend because i didn't have any Girlfriends and my mom was like well. What do you think they're gonna do. What do you do. You think they're gonna drive down bowman avenue and so this is interesting right like i still had the same fantasy as a fifth year senior in college that somebody was gonna drive down bowman avenue and see the light on in my room which faced the street. And say oh. There's an amazing girl in there. And i'd like to date her. I'd like to be friends with her. And so often were waiting for the discovery. I want you to stop what you to stop waiting. And i want you to start betting on yourself i get that it is human and our brain wants to be efficient at our brain isn't really excited about taking those risks. We want that certainty. We want somebody else to validate us but when we can begin to make that bet because we believe in ourselves. And even if it's shaky rumbling belief one of the things that i know helps me is by doubling down on myself and i have quite a few instances in betting myself. Sometimes it's a financial bit sometimes. It's an emotional bet. Sometimes it's the decision bet by going live today here by creating every single week on my podcast. I am doubling down on myself. I am not waiting to be discovered. I am putting myself in front of your face. Because i decided because i believe that my message my words my stories will resonate with the right alliance and that it will help you. So here's another one Are may have spoken about this last week to other people to refer us right sometimes like oh. I do business by referral. Only but what if your greatest refer betting on ourselves is an act of faith in our belief in our service and our product and what we have to offer the world and no amount of discovering or validation from the outside world can give that to you you have got to dig deep and give it to yourself and then once you get it how are you been embodiment embody it so i have. Here's a handful of some of the beds. I've made this is just some. These are some of the beds have made on my saw so the first one of was not the first one the first one i have on this list because there were many board before that but the first one was leaving a stable income of salary job to become self employed in one hundred percent commission based business owner Deciding to do that for myself. At at the time i had mortgage at the time i was single my husband had just left and i was living in determined to keep the house that his income paid for and my teacher income certainly didn't pay investing money to hire my first coach so that i'd be likely to be more successful as a commission based business owner was a bet on myself. I bet on myself at one point in my marriage with bill i This was early in our marriage. He was not comfortable with. Somebody who is self-employed was not a part of his world grownup. He grew up military and having his family had a paycheck every friday of the month as teacher for twenty nine years. He had that as a retired teacher. He still has that.