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A highlight from UNCHAINED: Heres How Sam Bankman-Frieds High-Stakes Trial Could Play Out
"Arbitrum's leading layer two scaling solution offers you ultra cheap and lightning fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. Toku makes implementing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. Today's guest is Nick Day, Coindesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation. Welcome, Nick. Thanks for having me. The trial for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman -Fried starts next Tuesday, October 3rd. There's been a lot happening pre -trial. For instance, Sam has requested release from jail multiple times and repeatedly been denied, including as recently as Thursday morning. My personal thought was that it seemed like all these requests that the defense was putting in at this critical juncture right before the trial was supposed to begin was maybe not the best use of their time, but that's just my personal opinion. I'm not a lawyer. Why do you think they made this such a point of focus in the last few days? Yeah. So I'm actually coming, you know, I was in the courthouse just a few hours ago where this very issue was brought up and the, you know, defense's arguments were, well, the first time we asked it was for pre -trial release. You know, this was right after Bankman -Fried was remanded into custody in mid -August. The second time was, you know, they were asking an appeals court to overrule the judge's decision to remand him and they lost that as well. In court today, the defense said, well, you know, now we want to ask for during trial, which is why we waited until this week to make that request. And they say that they want to, you know, the circumstances are different. They're not asking for Bankman -Fried to be released from jail in the weeks leading up to trial. Now they're saying, well, you know, during the trial, we're going to have to talk to him and check with him about defense witness testimony and cross -examination and things like that. So that's why we're making this request. And the judge didn't really find that compelling. And why do you think the judge has stuck to this position of keeping Bankman -Fried in jail? So in the judge's words, there's a couple of different reasons. One being that Bankman -Fried has had ample time to look at the defense materials. You know, one of the arguments was there are something like 1300 exhibits expected over the course of the trial. And the judge asked today, you know, were these all prepared and shared with you before, I think he said September 8th, so earlier this month. And the defense, they said, yes, we've seen all of this. We've had access to all of this. Bankman -Fried was out on bail for about seven and a half months. And so the judge's argument is, well, he's had time to look at this. You know, there's no surprises here. And he said that the defense has the chance to talk with Bankman -Fried in the Metropolitan Detention Center where he's currently being housed weekends during days that there are no trials. So, you know, the trial is not every weekday. It's going to be most weekdays. And he said, you know, you have the time, you have the opportunity, you are able to talk to your client. You're not really losing a whole lot. But he added kind of a, you know, made this ruling where Bankman -Fried will even be presented to the courthouse early on trial days where there's certain witness testimony that has to be discussed and let the attorneys just talk to him before the trial begins on those days. So he's saying basically, you know, you have opportunities to talk to your client and I'm going to give you more time to do so, but I'm not going to let Bankman -Fried out of jail. So the main focus next week as the trial begins will be jury selection. Tell us what you think that process will be like. It definitely will be interesting. I think it's probably going to be very boring from just kind of an observer perspective because it's a long process and we're going to be just sitting there watching this judge ask each individual, have you heard of FTX? Have you heard of Bankman -Fried? What do you think about cryptocurrencies? But it's going to be very interesting because this is the part where we're really going to get a sense of, okay, you know, these are the 12 or so people who are going to determine whether or not Bankman -Fried spends the next, you know, 10 to 20 years of his life behind bars and so I'm expecting to see maybe as mixed selection. I think if you pluck a random group of New Yorkers off the streets, some of them may have heard of cryptocurrency. Most of them probably will not have and they're going to be tasked with deciding whether or not one of the biggest figures in crypto committed fraud on the way up and on the way down. Something that was interesting to me was the prosecution said that they expected jury selection to take the better part of a day. I've seen some legal opinions that it will take longer than that. What do you think could potentially happen there and why do you think some analysts are saying that it would take longer? Yeah, no, I've spoken to a number of lawyers as well ahead of the trial, you know, where at Coindes we're trying to do a lot of kind of preview coverage, basically saying here's how it might go down. Everyone I spoke to said it will probably take a couple days. Part of that is because this is a fairly notorious case. A lot of people will have heard about Bankman -Fried and presumably formed some kind of opinion that would, you know, disqualify them from being a juror on the trial. I'm not sure where the DOJ is getting their estimate from. It's very possible that, you know, through the questionnaires that the jury pool is sent through the, you know, the kind of the mass selection process or deselection process that the judge engages in. Maybe that streamlines a big part of it by kind of, you know, reducing or like immediately filtering out the people who are most blatantly, you know, either knowledgeable or biased or otherwise have their own preformed viewpoints about the case. And so the jury selection might just be focused on, you know, those individuals who have made it through those initial filtering processes. But that's speculation on my part. I honestly am not sure if it is a better part of the day that we could see opening statements as soon as next Wednesday, October 4th, which would be a pretty rapid start to the trial. And Coindesk did some work to try to suss out what it is that Lower Manhattan New Yorkers might say if they were randomly picked for a jury. What did you discover there? Yeah, no. So Coindesk's Dylan and Victor went to Manhattan, downtown Manhattan to the financial district, and literally just went up to people and said, hey, we're with Coindesk. Have you heard of FTX? Have you heard of Sam Bankman Fried? And a fairly large part of this group just hadn't heard about it. You know, they weren't familiar with it. They weren't comfortable talking about crypto. They weren't familiar with crypto. And of those who were, you know, I think they found a fairly even mix. There were some individuals who had heard about Bankman Fried, some individuals who had only heard about crypto, some individuals who were very knowledgeable. They actually found a, you know, a Yahoo anchor who was the most knowledgeable about it, naturally, as you know, a reporter covering the financial space. But they also found people who were looking for jobs in crypto, people who were investors in the space. By and large, it seems to, you know, a lot of the people they spoke to just weren't interested or talking, interested in talking about crypto or in, you know, being part of this, being part of crypto. So if that is a representative sample of who we'll see next week at the jury pool, it'll be interesting because we'll see a large, potentially large, jury pool of people who aren't familiar with crypto. Again, on one of the biggest, you know, bang in on one of the biggest figures in the space. Recently, the defense proposed certain questions that it would ask the jurors and the government said that they felt these were quote unquote intrusive. What were some of the questions that were proposed and what was the government's response? Yeah. So, you know, the background here is both the DOJ and the defense team filed their proposed jury questions to help filter potential jurors. The defense team in particular had a number of questions about, you know, how these potential jurors felt about things like effective altruism, about political donations, about ADHD and people who have ADHD. And the DOJ response was really, you know, they felt that some of these questions, for example, about effective altruism and about political donations seemed kind of primed to or designed to prime the potential jurors to think, oh, well, Bankman Fried was trying to do all of this in service of this effective altruism philosophy. Therefore, he was trying to raise money to donate to better the world or designed to try and prime the jury to think, okay, well, you know, political donations is fine. So these allegations about breaking the law in the way he tried to donate funds maybe is, you know, overreach or whatever. And then the intrusive part, you know, treating just kind of this question of ADHD and whether or not people were, you know, involved with individuals who had it or the DOJ just felt that these questions were really designed to try and shape how the jury would see Bankman Fried as opposed to just kind of gauge their existing biases. And so the DOJ opposed these questions. And I think we're still waiting to see for sure if there's any public response on the judge prior to jury selection on Tuesday. All right. So in a moment, we're going to talk about different legal strategies that the defense might pursue. But first, a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible. 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"Travis and Buck Sexton. Sound off. Welcome And Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show our number three. We are rolling through the Tuesday edition of the program. We talked about the fact that Donald Trump has now moved to the top of the overall odds markets to be elected president of the United States in 2024. There are a lot of different storylines to follow and be associated with there. But a big part of this is what's going to happen with the third party process. And we say this, by the way, on the eve of the second Republican primary debate, which will be taking place in California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that and we know Donald Trump will not be involved in. But big story out there is that there may be a third party and in particular, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may be entering as a libertarian. Buck is of the opinion. And I think I maybe sign on with this, that an RFK Jr. libertarian candidacy could be a challenge to Trump as much or more than it would be to Biden. That will be debate. But I've got a poll up right now. And among my group of Twitter followers there, out about 30 % of you said that you would vote. Again, this is on Twitter. You can go vote at Clay Travis. About 30 % of you said that you would vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over Donald Trump. 60 some odd % say for Trump, 5 % say for Biden. Again, that's people who follow me on Twitter, anybody can go vote in that poll. And that would suggest that that's not a proposition ridiculous that Buck may well be right about this overall impact. But I think the biggest storyline is Joe Biden's incompetence. And when I woke up this morning, I saw this thing. This is the headline of Axios, which does a with a morning newsletter. One big thing scoop and Buck, this is not the kind scoop of that you want associated with Joe Biden. So this is not something where sometimes you're like, OK, they leaked to this. They want this story out there. Scoop. Biden's don't trip plan. And I thought, well, certainly this is a metaphor. It can't actually be what it says. No, no, no. The opening paragraph. President Biden and his staff are working on an urgent project to protect his election bid. A don't trip strategy. Democrats. This is this is crazy. Democrats, including some in the administration, are terrified Biden will have a bad fall with a nightmare scenario of it happening in the weeks for the 2024 election. So what are they doing? Remember, Biden tripped on fell on the stage at the Air Force Academy. Biden is working every day with a physical therapist to try to improve his balance. Since his stumble in June, Buck, they put him in tennis shoes with the idea being it's better for him to be walking in tennis shoes, I guess than dress shoes, which tend to be slicker. I'm guessing that's the theory. And they have. And this is a big story that I don't think has been talked about enough. They changed the stairs on Air Force One that the steps are shorter so he doesn't have to climb as many stairs in order to get on the plane. Now, the worst case scenario here, and this is sad to even think about, is when Biden gets off Air Force One and he stands up at the top of the parapet there, Buck, and waves, as he starts to walk down he could trip and then there's a lot of stairs and you bang and fall and like break a and bone I mean he could kill himself falling down as many stairs as there are on Air Force One, which is crazy. But the fact that Democrats have a top story coming out, a little bit less than 14 months, 13 and a half months from the election, where the story is Biden is training to try to fall less. They're putting him in tennis shoes and they've had to change the steps on Air Force One. I don't know how they escape this storyline, but it ain't a good storyline that they're terrified that he's going to fall and what it could mean for the 2024 election. Can you believe this is real? Would you have ever believed that this was possible? I mean, this is crazy. I mean, this is a recognition of reality. There's nothing about this strange. I mean, I shouldn't say there's nothing about them writing this or this being a story. That's strange because we can all see it. Of course, it's strange to have a president who's stumbling around but I think, man, if this were, this is my baseline assumption here for everything that we're talking about is if this were September of 2024, I think the Democrats should be in a lot of trouble with these numbers and Biden and everything else. But there's so much time here that they may be able to, at some level, normalize Joe Biden and meaning normalize his physical infirmities. I'm not convinced that Democrats, remember what they did with Fetterman, if you criticized his cognition issues, you were being, you were criticizing a man for his disability and that he's strong and you should encourage him to come forward and talk about the severe depression, all of these things. And they turned that around pretty effectively at the time. I'm not convinced that Joe Biden, I mean, this is going to sound crazy and this will probably be used against me at some point in the future. I'm not convinced that if they wheel Joe Biden out in a wheelchair and they're just like, hey, guys, he's gotten a little bit weaker or whatever, that that Democrats would necessarily say he can't. They just say his mind is sharp as a tack. I mean, this is what they've been saying behind closed doors.
Unchained
A highlight from Heres How Sam Bankman-Frieds High-Stakes Trial Could Play Out - Ep 549
"Even though each of these charges, if you look at the DOJ press release says, oh, it contains a maximum sentence of 20 years or five years, whatever, it's not going to be consecutive. It'll be concurrent. So the estimate I'm getting from various attorneys that I've spoken to over the past few weeks is it'll probably be somewhere in the, you know, 10 to 20 year range. Hi everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full time. This is the September 29th, 2023 episode of Unchained. Thinking of launching your own stable coin? Start with the open source stable coin studio toolkit on Hedera. Start your journey at Hedera .com slash Unchained. Shape tomorrow today. With the crypto .com app, you can buy, trade and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code Laura. Link in the description. Arbitrum's leading layer two scaling solution offers you ultra cheap and lightning fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. Toku makes implementing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. Today's guest is Nick Day, Coindesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation. Welcome, Nick. Thanks for having me. The trial for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman -Fried starts next Tuesday, October 3rd. There's been a lot happening pre -trial. For instance, Sam has requested release from jail multiple times and repeatedly been denied, including as recently as Thursday morning. My personal thought was that it seemed like all these requests that the defense was putting in at this critical juncture right before the trial was supposed to begin was maybe not the best use of their time, but that's just my personal opinion. I'm not a lawyer. Why do you think they made this such a point of focus in the last few days? Yeah, so I'm actually coming, you know, I was in the courthouse just a few hours ago where this very issue was brought up and the defense's arguments were, well, the first time we asked, it was for pre -trial release. You know, this was right after Bankman -Fried was remanded into custody in mid -August. The second time was, you know, they were asking the appeals court to overrule the judge's decision to remand him. And they lost that as well. In court today, the defense said, well, you know, now we want to ask for during trial, which is why we waited until this week to make that request. And they say that they want to, you know, the circumstances are different. They're not asking for Bankman -Fried to be released from jail in the weeks leading up to trial. Now they're saying, well, you know, during the trial, we're going to have to talk to him and check with him about defense witness testimony and cross -examination and things like that. So that's why we're making this request. And the judge didn't really find that compelling. And why do you think the judge has stuck to this position of keeping Bankman -Fried in jail? So in the judge's words, there's a couple of different reasons. One being that Bankman -Fried has had ample time to look at the defense materials. You know, one of the arguments was there are something like 1300 exhibits expected over the course of the trial. And the judge asked today, you know, were these all prepared and shared with you before, I think he said September 8th, so earlier this month. And the defense, they said, yes, we've seen all of this. We've had access to all of this. Bankman -Fried was out on bail for about seven and a half months. And so the judge's argument is, well, he's had time to look at this. You know, there's no surprises here. And he said that the defense has the chance to talk with Bankman -Fried in the Metropolitan Detention Center, where he's currently being housed weekends during days that there are no trials. So, you know, the trial is not every weekday. It's going to be most weekdays. And he said, you know, you have the time, you have the opportunity, you are able to talk to your client. You're not really losing a whole lot. But he added kind of a, you know, made this ruling where Bankman -Fried will even be presented to the courthouse early on trial days where there's certain witness testimony that has to be discussed and let the attorneys just talk to him before the trial begins on those days. So he's saying basically, you know, you have opportunities to talk to your client and I'm going to give you, you know, more time to do so, but I'm not going to let Bankman -Fried out of jail. So the main focus next week as the trial begins will be jury selection. Tell us what you think that process will be like. It definitely will be interesting. I think it's probably going to be very boring from just kind of an observer perspective because it's a long process and we're going to be just sitting there watching this judge ask each individual, you know, have you heard of FTX? Have you heard of Bankman -Fried? What do you think about cryptocurrencies? But it's going to be very interesting because this is the part where we're 12 or so people who are going to determine whether or not Bankman -Fried spends the next, you know, 10 to 20 years of his life behind bars. And so I'm expecting to see maybe as mixed selection. I think if you pluck a random group of New Yorkers off the streets, some of them may have heard of cryptocurrency, most of them probably will not have, and they're going to be tasked with deciding whether or not one of the biggest figures in crypto committed fraud on the way up and on the way down. Something that was interesting to me was the prosecution said that they expected jury selection to take the better part of a day. I've seen some legal opinions that it will take longer than that. What do you think could potentially happen there and why do you think some analysts are saying that it would take longer? Yeah, no, I've spoken to a number of lawyers as well ahead of the trial, you know, where at Coindes we're trying to do a lot of kind of preview coverage, basically saying here's how it might go down. Everyone I spoke to said it will probably take a couple of days. Part of that is because this is a fairly notorious case. A lot of people will have heard about Bankman Fried and presumably formed some kind of opinion that would, you know, disqualify them from being a juror on the trial. I'm not sure where the DOJ is getting their estimate from. It's very possible that, you know, through the questionnaires that the jury pool is sent through the, you know, the kind of the mass selection process or deselection process that the judge engages in, maybe that streamlines a big part of it by kind of, you know, reducing or like immediately filtering out the people who are most blatantly, you know, either knowledgeable or biased or otherwise have their own preformed viewpoints about the case. And so the jury selection might just be focused on, you know, those individuals who have made it through those initial filtering processes. But that's speculation on my part. I honestly am not sure if it is a better part of the day that we could see opening statements as soon as, you know, next Wednesday, October 4th, which would be a pretty rapid start to the trial. And Coindesk did some work to try to suss out what it is that lower Manhattan New Yorkers might say if they were randomly picked for a jury. What did you discover there? Yeah, no, so Coindesk's Dylan and Victor went to Manhattan, downtown Manhattan to the financial district, and literally just went up to people and said, hey, we're with Coindesk. Have you heard of FTX? Have you heard of Sam Bankman -Fried? And a fairly large part of this group just hadn't heard about it. You know, they weren't familiar with it. They weren't comfortable talking about crypto. They weren't familiar with crypto. And of those who were, you know, I think they found a fairly even mix. There were some individuals who had heard about Bankman -Fried, some individuals who had only heard about crypto, some individuals who were very knowledgeable. They actually found a, you know, a Yahoo anchor who was the most knowledgeable about it naturally as, you know, order covering the financial space. But they also found people who were looking for jobs in crypto, people who were investors in the space. By and large, it seems to, you know, a lot of the people they spoke to just weren't interested or talking, interested in talking about crypto or in, you know, being part of this, being part of crypto. So if that is a representative sample of who we'll see next week at the jury pool, it'll be interesting because we'll see a large, potentially large, jury pool of people who aren't familiar with crypto. Again, on one of the biggest, you know, bang in on one of the biggest figures in the space. Recently, the defense proposed certain questions that it would ask the jurors and the government said that they felt these were quote unquote intrusive. What were some of the questions that were proposed and what was the government's response? Yeah. So, you know, the background here is both the DOJ and the defense team filed their proposed jury questions to help filter potential jurors. The defense team in particular had a number of questions about, you know, how these potential jurors felt about things like effective altruism, about political donations, about ADHD and people who have ADHD. And the DOJ response was really, you know, they felt that some of these questions, for example, about effective altruism and about political donations seemed kind of primed to, or designed to prime the potential jurors to think, oh, well, Bankman Fried was trying to do all of this in service of this effective altruism philosophy. Therefore, he was trying to raise money to donate to better the world or designed to try and prime the jury to think, okay, well, you know, political donations is fine. So these allegations about breaking the law in the way he tried to donate funds maybe is, you know, overreach or whatever. And in the intrusive part, you know, treating just kind of this question of ADHD and whether or not people were, you know, involved with individuals who had it or the DOJ just felt that these questions were really designed to try and shape how the jury would see Bankman Fried as opposed to just kind of gauge their existing biases. And so the DOJ opposed these questions and I think we're still waiting to see for sure if there's any public response on the judge prior to jury selection on Tuesday. All right. So in a moment, we're going to talk about different legal strategies that the defense might pursue. But first, a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible. 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Recently, the defense did propose a number of witnesses, but the judge denied most of them. Who were these proposed witnesses and why were they denied? Yeah, so the DOJ and defense both had a number of proposed expert witnesses. The defense in particular had a number of individuals that they said could speak to everything from the terms of service that FTX operated under to the FTX software to just rebutting certain DOJ witnesses. The judge basically said he agreed with the DOJ in rejecting all of these proposed witnesses. There were seven. He did allow the defense to call for four of them later on, but they have to meet certain requirements and fill out certain disclosure forms first. A big part of the judge's reasoning was the witnesses had just not adequately explained what they wanted to testify about or what they would say, and so they didn't have or he didn't have enough information to allow them to testify, which was functionally the DOJ's argument as well. That being said, some of these proposed witnesses are intended to act as rebuttal witnesses to DOJ's witnesses. I know we're saying the word witnesses a lot, but that's what it comes down to is four of these witnesses could come back and respond to, you know, either FTX intercircle members who are testifying on behalf of the DOJ. One of the potential witnesses that the defense can call forward is someone who can speak to the actual technical software underlying the, you know, FTX program, again, in response to DOJ witnesses. The judge did completely ban, for example, a British barrister who was supposed to explain the FTX terms of service as well as someone who was supposed to speak to kind of the crypto industry at large, saying that, you know, those witnesses and that proposed testimony seemed a bit too far afield from what the case would be about and could probably do more to confuse the jury than to clarify anything. And SPF's team also wanted to block a proposed government witness that was also denied. Who was that and why did the judge deny that motion? The DOJ proposed a University of Notre Dame professor to testify about some forensic analysis he did on FTX financials. The defense objected. They said that this witness would basically just reiterate the DOJ's claims, the allegations, but the DOJ argued that he was doing his own analysis of the data he had access to. And so it wouldn't just be stating the DOJ's claim. He would be providing his own expert insight based on his own work, you know, examining the databases that he had access to. And the judge agreed with that and said that based on what he'd saw and based on what the witness disclosure had provided, the witness was likely just speaking to his own expertise and looking at actual data as a third -party expert witness might do. And so those witnesses are allowed right now. We're still waiting on the full and final witness list, but we now know that there are probably at least a dozen witnesses that we're going to hear from over the next six weeks. And who are the ones that stick out to you on that list? I think the cooperating witnesses, so the FTX inner circle, that's former Alameda Research CEO Carolyn Ellison, former FTX director for engineering Nishat Singh and Gary Wang. I forget which one of them was the director of engineering. The other one was a fellow executive, but you know, these are the three individuals I think we're going to hear from probably first, maybe. Might hear from them as soon as next week, not certainly the week after. They're the ones who were in it, right? They were involved in this. They were part of FTX. They were part of the highs. I think we're going to probably hear from them, you know, how FTX might've fallen apart. I know from court filings, we know that DOJ wants to ask Carolyn Ellison about the FTT token and allegations that Sandbank and Freed was directly involved in trying to argue for Alameda to take a large sum of it and to potentially allegedly manipulate the price. So I think that testimony is going to be really interesting just because, again, it's the firsthand account of what happened. We're also probably going to see the defense try and discredit these witnesses to the extent possible, right? Straight out of the gate saying, well, you know, you weren't threatened with jail if you didn't testify in turn against your former boss. So I imagine we're just going to hear arguments like that from the defense during cross -examination, but either way, I think this is going to, you know, those are the three witnesses I think we're looking forward to most right now. And then once we're past that kind of initial surge of FTX insiders, that's when we'll get to kind of more, I don't because I don't think that is the right word for it, but, you know, people who are looking at it from kind of the, you know, again, forensic analysis perspective, people who are going to be able to kind of dig through and say, all right, well, you know, we've looked through the smoking remains and here's what we found. And I think that will also be interesting because it'll be really a third -party perspective on, you know, here's how this thing was set up and here's where things may have gone wrong or here's where things may have fallen apart. And getting a third -party perspective on that I think is going to be really fascinating because there'll be, I assume, a bit more objective about it than, you know, people who built it and worked on it maybe could be. One other kind of motion that happened this week that was pretty interesting or development, I should say, is that the judge did allow SPF's team to ask some of the witnesses about their drug use. What do you think will be the significance of that line of questioning? I think that goes back to, you know, a witness, cooperating FTX inner circle member saying, while we were at FTX, Sam directed us to manipulate FTT, whatever, you know, just speculating what someone could say. And the defense comes back and says, well, you know, are you sure that's what he said? Were you high at the time of these conversations or were you engaged in recreational drug use during the time you were running this company? You know, if I'm a member of the jury and I hear, okay, well, everyone was partying and on drugs and doing weird stuff or, you know, potentially, you know, in an altered state of mind, that might shape how I view the, you know, the defendant, the verdict, the whole case. So the judge did say that prior to making those, you know, kind of questions, the defense has to notify the prosecution and the judge about it. So it's not going to be a case of like they'll blindside the witnesses about this, but I imagine that's going to kind of go back to this effort to try and say like, okay, you know, Bankman Fried wasn't doing something wrong on his own or intentionally, it's just that things fell apart, but they were well -intentioned. The defense is going to attempt to, I think, pin some of the blame on legal advice that Bankman Fried received. How effective do you think that argument will be at trial? That's a really hard question to answer. I think the problem that the defense has is there's really no denying that FTX fell apart and it fell apart in like a very dramatic fashion, right? The day it filed for bankruptcy that evening, what, a couple hundred million dollars or tens of millions of dollars worth of crypto was stolen, I think. I forgot the exact amount, but you know, it was a pretty dramatic way to cap off what was already a chaotic week. So the problem the defense has is they can't say, well, FTX is fine. And so they're leaning on this advice of counsel defense. Their argument is going to be, you know, Bankman Fried was well -intentioned. He told his lawyers everything he wanted to do, and he did everything they told him to do. And so because it all fell apart, you can't really pin that on Bankman Fried. You have to look at the advice he was given and the information he was acting on. And so I guess part of the problem that the defense might have here is did they share or did Bankman Fried share everything he wanted to do with his attorneys? Did the attorneys have all the information and did he do exactly everything the way his attorneys told him to? And I don't know, you know, I'm sure we'll see answers to those questions over the next, you know, six weeks or so, but that seems to be kind of how that might play out. And it's going to be an interesting argument for sure. But again, I think it goes down to the central problem of FTX for sure collapsed and how you respond to that. One other issue is that the judge did rule that the prosecution could mention SPF's political donations. And there are charges specifically related to that that will be tried in a separate trial next year. So why were those allowed in this case? So this is where we get into what has become one of the new fun parts of being a court reporter in this case is Bahamas extradition treaties. So the original indictment that Bankman Fried was charged with back in December of 2022 did include campaign finance violations as one of the charges. But because it did not appear in the charging document that the Bahamas Police Department had, there's a Bahamas National Police, something like that, Bankman Fried's defense team successfully argued that they could not bring that charge right now because he had agreed to be extradited on the first seven charges, which were wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit securities and bodies fraud, et cetera. So what it seems like is going to happen is the prosecution is going to try and fold all of that into all the political donation stuff into the other charges, into the wire fraud charges, and say, well, you know, we have the evidence, we have the allegations, and here's what you have to look at what that means for the next trial. And, you know, you're absolutely correct. There is another trial currently tentatively scheduled for either March or April 2024, next spring, either way, where we will be going through all of this again. But a lot of that is dependent on the Bahamas. And yeah, we could probably talk about that for another hour if you wanted to. All right. Well, we'll leave that for another episode. But one thing I did want to ask about is earlier in this interview, you said that his sentence was likely to be in the range of 10 to 20 years. And obviously, you know, there's many charges and we don't know which ones he'll be found guilty of and which ones he won't. But how are you coming up with that estimate? So yeah, I should definitely be more precise there. So I personally am not a lawyer or an expert in this. I have spoken to a number of lawyers about this. And what they said is, if you have a defendant who is found guilty, so these assumption here is that he is convicted on at least one of these charges. But if he's found guilty on even several of the charges, because all of the conduct is similar, because it's all kind of identical conduct at the core, a judge, when making a sentencing determination, will basically fold all the charges into each other, right? All the conduct. And so even though each of these charges, if you look at the DOJ, press release says, oh, it contains a maximum sentence of 20 years or five years, whatever. It's not going to be consecutive. It'll be concurrent. So the estimate I'm getting from various attorneys that I've spoken to over the past few weeks is probably be somewhere in the, you know, 10 to 20 year range. Some estimates came down as low as five years, some as many as 36 years. But they all seem to base that on just kind of the allegations, the charges themselves combined with the amount of money allegedly lost, which is more than 50 million, combined with the severity and all of that. Yeah. And so 50 million is sort of like some thresholds because I think it goes in levels of severity. Yeah. And the higher the number goes, the longer the sentence. However, that's the largest threshold, obviously. Yeah. I literally looked up the federal sentencing guidelines, which by the way, is a very confusing document. I did not understand it. So I asked someone else to explain it to me, but yeah, it's the different thresholds that you mentioned. And it starts with the, I think the thousands range and then just kind of escalates up and 50 million seems to have been the uppermost that they had. So it's 50 million plus. I think the allegation is something like 10 billion loss from FTX. So 10 billions, a hair more than 50 million. Just as many multiples. So that will probably be kind of the way they calculate it, probably. And again, this is dependent on if he's convicted on one or more charges and all sorts of stuff. Yeah. Okay. Well, we will have to see how all that plays out. Thank you so much for explaining all of this on Unchained. Thanks for having me again. Always great to talk to you. Yes. Same here. Don't forget next up is the weekly news recap today presented by veteran crypto reporter and Columbia University night budget fellow, Michael Del Castillo. Stick around for this week in crypto after this short break. Join over 80 million people using crypto .com. One of the easiest places to buy, trade and spend over 250 cryptocurrencies.
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Crypto Banter
A highlight from 5 BIGGEST Opportunities In Crypto THIS WEEK! (I'm Taking These Trades)
"In today's show we're going to talk about the five most interesting plays of the week, three of which I am actually taking. We have short setups, long setups in what is said to be a pretty interesting week for altcoin specifically and that's why I'm bringing to you my favorite setups of the week and also some of the most interesting coins that have altcoin specific catalysts. So if you do enjoy these watchlist shows every single Monday to prepare you for the week make sure to smash the like button and let me know in the comments below you do enjoy them and we will keep this going as a regular series. All right, kicking off with coin number one, we're going to be boring. We're going to talk about Bitcoin. Of course, it's not an altcoin, but it is in a pretty interesting zone right now, hovering above the key horizontal support level at the 25 -3 zone on the weekly. Bitcoin though, important to note, is still below the 200 MA on the weekly, which is typically a bearish indicator for Bitcoin. We know previous times that this level has acted as a major level of support and resistance. also So the 200 weekly moving average is super important and also the 200 moving average on the daily as well. So just keeping my eye on how Bitcoin reacts here, clearly 25k is that key level, but it doesn't look great for Bitcoin. Momentum in my opinion is still to the downside and the more we test that support the higher chance it does have of breaking, not being too bearish necessarily, but just urging you guys like a little bit of caution as long as we are below the 200 MA on the weekly. Let's get into the first altcoin of the video though in light of that, and that is Chainlink. So Chainlink is one that's actually performed really well this week in the lead up to their Smartcon. Their Smartcon 2023 is essentially a conference where developers and speakers all meet together and talk about the future of the industry, but specifically Chainlink. And we see there are many major speakers, the founder of Chainlink, we even have the former CEO of Google and multiple other major prominent figures across the crypto space speaking. So in the lead up to this, we've actually seen Chainlink perform really well from a price perspective. But in the graph in front of you, I do have the chart that outlines how Chainlink has performed in previous times leading into Smartcon and then leading out of Smartcon. And we can see in 2022, Chainlink actually peaked on the day of Smartcon and then gave up its gains in the following weeks. We can see in 2021, a similar thing happened. Two days before Smartcon, Chainlink peaked. And then after the conference, we saw a huge post -conference dump. Will the same pattern play out? Well, not necessarily, but I am convicted in the case leaning towards a dump post -Smartcon just given the price action that we've seen recently in line with previous data. So I'm convicted if I have to pick between longing and shorting Chainlink, but I think there is a decent short setup brewing here if it does push into the upper echelon of its range territory here on the weekly. And also, as you can see on the daily too, it's firmly within this range, actually approaching the mid -range zone. Maybe we get one last thrust into Smartcon because we know that the conference doesn't start until October 2nd. So that is still a week away. So I expect price performance probably to continue to the upside over the next few days. But then leading into the conference, if you are looking for a short, this may actually be a good one if those RSIs start to get into overheated territory just given what has happened in the past for Chainlink. So that is on my watch list, not as a long, but actually as a short, just playing the range here. We know if you take trades towards the extremity of the range, you're getting much better risk -reward. So the extremities being the upper echelon here near range high and the lower echelon here close to range low. These are your major levels that you want to take swing trades at considering since May 2022, more than a year Chainlink has been in this range. Very, very boring coin, pretty much a stable coin, but has provided great opportunities to those that have been able to long close to support and short close to resistance here. So maybe a setup starting to prime here on the short side if we continue to push upwards. Why wouldn't I long? Well, considering what's happened in previous conferences in line with the recent massive move that we've had, I think you may be longing into an area where it's going to be hard for Chainlink to push any higher. So that's that. All right, now we're going to have a bit of fun. Going to give away some money. So I'm making bold. Five users going to close my eyes actually to make sure I'm not accused of manually picking the users here. All right, I've just highlighted five people in bold. All of you guys are going to win $200. Bang, just like that. So every single person, this wallet here, this wallet here, this wallet here, here and here. If you are in bold, you are going to win $200. We're going to send it directly to your wallet. And that is because you provided liquidity on SmartX. So as you know, every single week, we are airdropping $200 to five random people that provide at least $50 worth of liquidity into SmartX across either Arbitrum, BNB, Base or Polygon. If you don't know what SmartX is, it's essentially an AMM -powered DEX, which is solving the problem of impermanent loss in crypto. A big problem to mitigate the negative effects of impermanent loss and also provide some pretty nice yield opportunities for people that are looking to earn yield on assets like Matic, like Arbitrum, like Ethereum, like BNB and all sorts of assets. USDC also, you compare with their native coin as well. So depending on what risk you want to assume, depending on which tokens you hold, you can stake it into the platform to earn some pretty nice APRs between 20 and up to 50 plus percent. And yeah, if you deposit minimum $50 liquidity and you enter your wallet address using the link in the description, you will enter the giveaway to be one of these lucky people that just won $200 on the show today. So link in the description. Good luck to everyone that is entering the competition for next week, where I will announce the next crop of five winners. And without further ado, let's get straight on with the show. The next coin I want to discuss is Arbitrum. Arbitrum is a really interesting one because they just announced their short -term initiative grant program, which is essentially a form of ecosystem stimulus. So we know when they did the airdrop, that was largely concentrated towards people that were using the Arbitrum chain, but actually now they are starting to help out the projects to incentivize them by essentially allocating some of their token supply towards the projects in the form of incentives grants. So what the projects can do is they can essentially bid for an airdrop. And if Arbitrum elects them via a DAO proposal, which is actually recently being completed, these projects will receive airdrops and then they can choose how they want to distribute those new tokens to their community. So I think that is a little bit of a catalyst to the Arbitrum ecosystem because we could see increased incentives across these platforms, which could obviously help attract some more TVL into the ecosystem. Next week, we also have Arbitrum Odyssey returning, which is also another initiative to get retail involved and you can earn rewards via that. As I said before, we've got this short -term incentive program launching with 50 million ARB, which is around $30 million being distributed to active Arbitrum protocols that apply for the grant. I think this will give the Arbitrum ecosystem a nice boost. I'm just looking at the chart here. Well, the chart looks ugly, but Arbitrum is at significantly discounted levels since it broke below this major dollar support region, which has been pretty strong support for Arbitrum since it first launched. So yes, technically Arbitrum doesn't look good price -wise, but I am maybe going to add a little bit to my bags this week. I have to decide whether I'm going to do that this week or whether I'm going to wait a couple of weeks. Nonetheless, I am definitely eyeing this as more of a spot trade, not a leverage trade because we're not at a key support level. My leverage trading scenario would probably kick in closer to this region if you do get like a confirmed reclamation. But until then, I'm definitely looking at the possibility of adding spot and that's why it makes my coins of the week, given it has a proprietary ecosystem catalyst, which comes in the form of the grants alongside heavily discounted prices heading into EIP 4844 later in the year. Another coin that's heading into EIP 44 being a layer 2 protocol is Optimism. But Optimism actually comes in as my short hedge of today's video. So you guys know in these watch lists, I don't just like to give long setups. I discussed Chainlink potentially being a short setup. Optimism as well, I think could potentially be a short hedge set up this week. What do I mean by short hedge? Well, a lot of you guys probably have relatively like long weighted portfolios, meaning like you're more long than you are net short. I mean myself, that's the case. And usually when I take longs in the market, that will put me in like a naked long position, meaning like I don't always like have a short hedge. But sometimes in markets that are looking kind of shaky, like right now when we get Bitcoin chopping and looking kind of weak, sometimes it's smart to have a hedge. So let's say you long three altcoins in a week. Sometimes it's good to pick like a specifically weak altcoin to hedge short against those other positions to get some sort of neutrality in case your trade goes wrong. Then you can kind of minimize the amount of risk you're taking. It's a strategy like all the top traders will use. And depending on your position size, you can even reach like Delta neutral territory with pair trades and all that sort of thing. But just to keep it really simple, I think Optimism has like a major unlock this week with over 3 % of the circulating supply hitting the market, $30 million worth of Optimism. The unlock event is in four days time. So this is a significantly big unlock for Optimism in what has been a pretty significant period for unlocks overall for the Optimism token. So in light of that, I mean, if you watch my video on token unlocks, search token unlocks, crypto banter, you should be able to watch that whole video. I explained what happens post major token unlocks. And typically what we see is despite peaks happening into unlocks, often the two weeks following the actual unlock date, we do see tokens tend to bleed and give up most of their gains. And if that plays out here on Optimism, then maybe we can expect like a rough couple of weeks from Optimism from a price perspective. So it's looking relatively weak. And if I look at the chart as well, we can see it put in its high here. It got rejected off this horizontal level at 1 .8 and it's made a lower high, another lower high, and looks to be rolling over again. If you start to clear these lows, then I think we could see further downside on Optimism. So those lows come in at the $1 .20 region. I'll just highlight them for you now. This level here, if you start to break below as we are now and you do confirm that breakdown, then Optimism could definitely be going lower. And for that reason, I would look at a short if we do get some sort of roll over here and a lower high start to firm up on the daily chart. But you could even look at it on the four hourly chart. Of course, you don't really want to take trades in the daily, use daily for your confluence, use one hourly, four hourly for your entries, depending on your timeframe. And yeah, Optimism definitely looking quite weak. So that is my short hedge of the week. So now let's get into a couple long scenarios because we've talked about two shorts. I've given you a long. Now let's talk about two more tokens that are more interested in longing that I am shorting. The first one is the OX token. Now for full disclosure, OpenX, the exchange, which is obviously powered by the OX token is an official show partner in today's video. I don't want you guys to get confused between the token and the partnership. I'm not paid to shield the token when I'm paid to promote the token. And I'm mentioning the token in a completely neutral light in today's video, just based on my personal thesis that has nothing to do with the partnership. Just want to make that very clear. The OX token though, the token itself, not the exchange, has, I mean, been significantly beaten down over the past few weeks. And this is because essentially a lot of users had locked up their OX tokens for three months after they bridged Flex, which was the coin Flex's exchange token over to the OpenX protocol and to stake OX tokens. And in light of that three months after they closed the bridge, you get a significant amount of unlocks because people are entering or coming out of their stake period. So when people come out of their stake period and they now have liquid OX, some people are going to choose to sell if they want to either take profits or just, you know, minimize risk on a maybe potentially oversized position that in tandem with users starting to receive their vested OX as part of the normal token distribution. We've kind of seen a lot of supply come onto the market over the last week. And this has resulted in a huge drawdown in the price from the 0 .7 region to the 0 .2 region. I mean, it's really been beaten down and I even took a loss on this cause I bought some OX and I staked it and I'm actually down on it. However, considering the staking ratio is still relatively high and there are a lot of people now going to be relocking for the long -term which reduces supply pressures. I do think that OX is starting to become a slightly more interesting look now at these heavily discounted prices if you do believe in the OpenX vision. And that vision is essentially, you know, of course, Carl Davies and Zhu Su but also betting on a protocol that's quite unique with its transparency features as well as the governance features of the platform which make it really unique for users like allowing you to, for example, stake OX and get its real -world assets in exchange for staking. So they do native airdrops. They've also been launching lots of tokens like really quickly. So they have this propensity to list tokens before any other exchange. So it's kind of like the degen exchange, I guess quite in tune with the market. And if you're betting on the redemption arc then OX does become an interesting bet. The volume on the exchange has been fairly strong $8 .5 billion trade volume since launch actually quite impressive. Average daily trade volume is around 100 mil on the seven day and or more than 100 mil on a seven day and 30 day timeframe. And actually 61 % of OX is staked and locked in the herd. So we are seeing some people after their unlock starting to actually relock OX tokens into the exchange. So look, you've got to make your own decision whether you wanna buy the token personally though not financial advice, but personally I will be adding some more to my bags and I'm gonna stake it as I staked a prior 10 ,000 OX might increase my position by let's say 30 % that would give me another 3000 OX. I'll probably go ahead and stake that. And that's my plan for the week but that's not financial advice. You don't have to do the same. And I wanna give full disclosure that OX is of course or OpenX not the OX token itself is a partner of the show. There's a link in the description to OpenX. If you do wanna check it out check out any information as well. And yeah, just thought I would mention that one because it's interesting getting a heavy discount if you do believe in the ecosystem, which I personally do. All right, let's get on to the next token. Another ecosystem I believe in and I believe in this one quite a lot. This is frack share. So I did a show last week. I think it was on real world assets and the potential. I mean, the sector is projected to grow by 26 X on the conservative side according to analysts at the Boston Consulting Group. On the more aggressive side of the spectrum they're anticipating 113 X in the real world asset sector by the year 2030. So that's seven years potentially looking at a 26 to 100 X. So this is a huge growth vertical and a massive adoption vertical for crypto really with tokenized assets coming on chain. And I'm always interested in protocols which are harnessing the potential of this. Now fracks isn't necessarily a real world asset specific protocol. They're doing a lot. They have their fracks land. They've got their fracks B3. They're launching fracks chain. They've got their stable coin. They've got a lot of stuff going on. They're essentially how I like to think of them as like a DeFi powerhouse. They're like the hand that controls DeFi, I guess. And is doing a bunch of stuff in multiple DeFi ecosystems. But if you're interested in real world asset exposure alongside a variety of other DeFi initiatives then I think fracks becomes a super interesting bet for a diversified portfolio. Now, the reason I'm talking about them in a watchlist video though, cause you know these Monday shows aren't just talking about long -term bets. Most of these are geared towards, you know the medium to short term type of trades is because fracks has its V3 actually completing its audit this week. So the fracks V3 audit means V3 is going to be on the horizon within the next few months. So that is an immediate catalyst for fracks as well as the fact that they could be getting an ARB grant because obviously their protocol is deployed across a variety of EVM chains, Arbitrum included meaning they could definitely get their hands on an Arbitrum grant, which would be another catalyst for the fracks protocol. So lots of stuff happening with the audit with the grant, with the new products that they're shipping fracks chain is also coming soon. So just lots to look forward to. And from a price action perspective it's been pretty resilient. Like we can see over the last 30 days it hasn't given up a lot of its gains. And even over the last 90 days, it has drawn down but it's only really dropped from, you know, 6 .8 to 5 .5 when a lot of other tokens have been smashed 30, 40, 50%. So yes, it's down, but it's not down as much as the rest of the market. And that tells me there's some sort of bid here for the fracks token at what is a discounted price versus a similar times last year. So fracks is an interesting one for me long -term mostly but in the short to medium term for me, this is a decent zone for me to add a little bit more fracks to my portfolio. And it's nice because it gives me DeFi exposure but it also gives me reward asset exposure. And it's a nice asset that I've just been DCA into over time. So that is a super interesting one. Let's just go through the market right now and actually look at Banta Bubbles and see if I can spot any that come to mind. Obviously I've given you a few trades in today's video but let's just see if there's anything else. Aptos actually does look interesting. It recently broke above some of the key horizontals that it was breaking down from over the past couple of months. So as a reversal trade, I definitely look into that. If I was a trader, I was even considering taking along today on it. I missed it unfortunately, but if we do get a pullback I might get into that one. So that's what I'm looking at. IMX not too interested in, let's just see on the weekly curve. Lots of stuff happening on curve but overall leans bearish with the amount of sell pressure in my opinion. FTT is a volatile one that if you're a trader you could definitely look at day trading. We know that there's lots of stuff happening with FTT given that the court case is currently underway and lots of the tokens now are changing hands and some are being sold. So it's quite interesting to see what actually happens here. We also saw some stuff happening with FTT and Binance as well. So those are kind of the coins from Banta Bubbles that I would keep my eye on. Another project to keep my eye on that's actually going to be launching soon is Serenity Shield. Now, Serenity Shield is a partner of the show that has a very interesting product launching soon. They're essentially launching a product which is referred to as the strongbox. Now, the strongbox is your ultimate security protocol for you to be able to store your assets in a decentralized, immutable and secure way. So if you want to store your assets but not have to worry about exploitation risk, not have to worry about ownership of keeping it on a centralized exchange, you can keep it in the strongbox protocol which is built purely for security to encrypt your data and encrypt your assets. But there are a couple really interesting features which they're introducing to make self -custody easier for the average user. One of them is the recover feature which enables users to have peace of mind knowing that their data is available using their recovery software without needing a hardware wallet which is available 24 -7. That's a good one because I don't know if you've ever been in this situation before but I have where I've lost a ledger and I can't find the seed phrase and I've been scrambling to redeem my assets. That's actually happened. I don't know if it's happened to you but if I had my assets in the strongbox that wouldn't have been an issue. The transfer function though I think is probably the most novel and maybe a kind of weird one to talk about since it's talking about inheritance which sometimes implies the death of yourself or potentially a family member but this does solve a massive problem in crypto and that's what happens if something happens to you. What happens to your tokens? What happens to your crypto? Are they easily accessible? Well in strongbox what you can do is you can put in a designated nominee and you can choose where your assets go if something were to happen to you to transfer your wealth down to your nominee. So it is quite interesting that they have this function inbuilt. It might be specifically attractive to adopt maybe the older generation that's actively thinking about this and they might hold bitcoin or ethereum but want those assurances and securities. They could leverage a protocol like strongbox that essentially enables them to have peace of mind over their assets and the transfer of those assets. So it's super interesting. You can see a little example of the platform in front of you. I will be using the platform on the show over the next few weeks to test it out for you but if you want to get involved right now they have a $50 ,000 search rewards pool. They recently had their token IDO, their sale to allow people to buy the token. If you want to get your hands on the token and you can do so via the airdrop all you need to do is click the link in the description and you can take part in the incentivized testnet for the strongbox dapp which is powered by the bnb chain. So all you need to do is essentially test out the application. You've got four days to do so using the link in the description and you could get an airdrop of some tokens. So not a bad one. If you just want to spend a few minutes of time there I will leave a link to this post which has a full tutorial and all the links needed in the description below and also in the comments as well to help you out. And yeah okay well that's pretty much the video. I got through it in a shorter amount of time. If you notice I'm speaking quickly it's because I want to get the info to you. We have the Bitcoin price which is currently leaning bearish but still at a major support but below the 200ma. You've got Chainlink which I'm looking at a short post conference. You've got Arbitrum which is interesting with its incentives grant. You have Optimism which I think is relatively bearish heading into a pretty significant token unlock. I just don't know if market conditions right now can absorb that amount of sell pressure. You've got Ox which I think is an interesting spot play considering a lot of the selling has now happened and we're looking forward to what hopefully is a slightly better period for the token with you know in the face of a lot of unlocks. You've got Frax Share launching their V3 and also their Frax Chain. This is one that I've been DCAing into and you've got the Serenity Shield airdrop as well. So that's the video. I'm going to see you in the next one which will be tomorrow. I really hope you enjoyed. I've actually been testing out a lot of training bots so I'm going to get back to testing out my training bots right now and I'm tweaking some strategies. That video will be coming very very soon. Very excited for that one but until then I'll see you later. Peace out.
Ric Edelman
Fresh update on "bangs" discussed on Ric Edelman
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Meanwhile this is a Sun Devil team with a new coaching staff hoping to break a seven -game losing streak against FBS opponents. Already having used three starting quarterbacks this season. home Conference opener Bears and Sun Devils from Cal Memorial Stadium. Hi again everybody I'm Justin Allegri along with Mike Polosky and Kevin Danno welcome into the Bud Light tailgate show. Bud Light easy to drink easy to enjoy. First and foremost Mike you gotta get last week behind you and you got to try and build some momentum forward in Pac -12 conference play. In a big way because that Washington game up against a very good team in Seattle can leave a mark if you let it. That team just dominated that football game so Cal needs to wipe that one off the slate right okay it happened it's over get through it get rid of those nerves or whatever individuals left from that but you're playing in the Pac -12 now you're playing we talked about this the meat grinder early on you when head into the Pac -12 the team that you're going to face this is a very winnable game I talk about it I this game on paper and you think about not a lot of offensive output by the Sun Devils offensive line is quarterback banged up is banged up this is a chance to win Cal's defense first and foremost needs to get back they faced probably the best offense in the country last week this week so they need to get back on track and for goodness sakes quarterback play be needs to consistent it doesn't have to be phenomenal but it has to be consistent and to do that offensive needs line to give some protection you need to run the ball efficiently when they need to right they got some running yards in the end against the twos sure at Washington but they need to be able to run the ball efficiently when it's called in the first quarter and if they can do that get the quarterback efficient back there they give themselves much a better chance moving forward into conference play look we hate to sound like a broken record but that's the reality of the situation where the Bears are right now the quarterback play we've seen multiple quarterbacks in each game this year there hasn't one guy to take something over and coach Wilcox has kind of reflected that we we don't want to keep talking about it but have we to I mean it's just the reality of where they are we prefer to talk about our quarterback in the Heisman race like Washington all things being equal that would be the conversation but that's not where they are they need to get a quarterback be to consistent that's the number one indicator of team success quarterback rating you just took everything else out of the picture quarterback rating will tell you how good a team is yeah and we talked to coach Wilcox a lot this week from and you'll him hear a little bit later on in our interview he's going to he's going to throw other people into the mix Mendoza will maybe get a chance here to try and show what he's made of he was great in practice this week but it's nothing against Sam or Ben right now they just need production production and no dumb mistakes you cannot throw the ball away if somebody makes a great play and makes an interception that's one thing you're trying to fit a ball into a tight window that's another thing but if you panic and throw interceptions that cannot happen that that is a predictable error that you could stop and if you if you don't panic sometimes you just got to eat the ball take the sack or throw it out of bounds but do not throw it to the other guy that you can control that because that puts your defense on its heels last week before the defense ever saw the field yeah the Bears were down 14 to 0 so do not turn the ball over so the Arizona State team they've been struggling to score some points this year although they showed some signs of coming out of that against USC they put it 28 against the Trojans last week having averaged 13 points per game prior to that outing against USC should be a good one it's though the Bears at home against the Arizona State Sun Devils this game is brought to you by carbon health is the official healthcare provider for Cal Athletics committed to making great healthcare more accessible we'll take our first break on the Bud Light tailgate show when we come back we'll have more about this matchup it's the Bears and the Sun Devils here this afternoon you're listening to Cal football driven by your Northern California Toyota dealers from when the but the the game goes into overtime the choice to enjoy Bud Light easy to drink easy to enjoy order Bud Light online today enjoy responsibly Anheuser plan to catch a Cal Road game this season whether you're following the blue and gold traveling for business or heading for fun in the Sun Oakland International Airport has a convenient flight for you with exclusive on airport parking and on -time flights to more destinations than ever before fly the East Bay way with new flights from coast to coast including Hawaii and Mexico Oakland International Airport it's your friendly reliable hometown airport and proud to be the official airport of Cal Athletics pay over a hundred bucks a month for cable when you can get live sports and TV for less with fubo TV watch your teams shows news and more on over a hundred channels plus on -demand entertainment including full TV series all on your TV
Evangelism On Fire
A highlight from Sydney Sundance Smith's - God Story
"Welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. My name is Mark Thomas, an ordained pastor, a teacher of the best selling book of all time, your host, and most importantly, your evangelism coach. Every episode, I bring you an inspiring message to help you live the most exciting life God has created you to live by actively sharing your faith in Jesus with others. I believe in the power of the gospel and the potential of all Christians to live out the mission of the great commission. I believe the best way for Christians to grow is to go. It's time for a revolution in every Christian's life around the world so that every person everywhere around the world can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ from a friend or a family member through one -on -one evangelism. I'm so thankful for our time together today. I absolutely love spending time with you, evangelism on fire nation. I believe this podcast will truly inspire you and I believe it will inspire so many people that you know. And if you're inspired and feeling moved to share this, then please message some friends, post this on social media and let people know about this episode so we can get this message out there more. I appreciate you and everyone listening right now. And a quick reminder, I encourage you to subscribe to the podcast, to rate it, to review it, to spread the word on social media and spread the message of evangelism on fire forward. Many people are looking for hope these days, especially young people. They wanna be part of something bigger. And here at evangelism on fire ministry, we have big plans to reach them in 2023. Here's where you will not find hope. You won't find hope in the culture. You won't find hope in technology. You won't find hope even in many ways in politics. Now, all of these things have their place, but true hope can only be found in God. The message that we wanna share is that God wants to give hope to the young generation and all generations, that there is hope for them through a relationship with God, through Jesus Christ. And we wanna offer this hope to as many people as possible in 2023 through our outreach ministries, which of course includes our EOF podcast ministry. I'm asking you to join us at EOF ministry and become a partner. A partner is just a friend that makes a regular commitment to us each and every month. They stand by us. That enables us to respond to the opportunities that are coming our way. In many ways, we live in a hopeless world, but through Christ, we have hope. Life without God is a hopeless end. Life with Him is an endless hope. Join us right now and become a part of our team and let's reach the world with the most important message that exists, the gospel message. Join us for the plans we have for ministry in 2023 by becoming an Evangelism on Fire ministry partner. Are you ready? Well, this is your next step. Go to today's show notes and click on the giving link to become a monthly partner by setting up a monthly donation or go to our website evangelismonfire .com. Click on the donate button to give a monthly reoccurring donation or a one -time gift. Thank you for joining us to give hope to the world. All right, welcome Evangelism on Fire nation to today's podcast episode. Man, I've got a big time treat for you guys today. We have on our podcast episode today, Sydney Sundance Smith. She's 31 years old. And let me tell you what, she's on a mission to be one of the world's top female bare knuckle fighters. And listen, she has her eye on the title. And you know what? Something that I love about Sydney is that she is a true spiritual warrior and she carries her faith and her father's memory with her everywhere she goes and into the ring. Sydney Sundance Smith, welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. How are you doing? I'm blessed and highly favored. Yeah, I'm doing well. I feel really good. You know, I'm in a really good place in my life, so. That's awesome. I'm so happy for you. So you know what? So my audience, Evangelism on Fire Nation, so they know more about you. I gave you a little introduction, but tell us more about who you are. Oh, wow. I feel like that's such a big question, right? Like the, what does Shrek say? Like an ogre, I have like an onion, I have ears. Yeah, I don't know, man. I'm just like a kid from the middle of nowhere. I grew up on a horse farm. All three of us, my brother and my sister and myself, we were all born at home. We were not born in a hospital. Oh, you were born at home? Not a hospital, at home. Oh, wow. And so for my sister's birth, my dad actually had to deliver her because the midwife was somewhere else. And so she didn't get there. Oh, wow. So my dad had to deliver my sister. That is wild. What was going on with the midwife? It starts wild. She was delivering another baby like across the county. Right. Wow, that's such a cool story to start this podcast off. Hey, it's interesting from starting to talking with that. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, I mean, I don't know. I just grew up out like in the middle of nowhere in a place called Middlebrook. Doesn't even have enough people to be considered a town and still considered a village to this day. When I first heard about you, I was when I was training at Mixed Martial Arts Institute here in Richmond, Virginia. And I would hear your name mentioned, you know, in my training sessions. Then I got to be good friends with Gigi, who she owned MMA Institute around the area that she lived. In Charlottesville, yeah. Yeah, for a little bit. And through Rick McCoy and Tyus Thomas and David Gladfelter, I got to know more about you because I would just hear your name around, you know, the Institute. So let's get right into it. How did you come to faith in Jesus Christ? So I actually, I grew up in it. I just kind of always believed he was there, that he was and that his son existed. And I didn't really know too much about the Holy Spirit growing up. That wasn't really something, it's not really something that Presbyterians talk about a lot, you know. And so, yeah, I mean, I had a relationship with him for, you know, most of my life, but it really didn't, it was like, you know, like the shockwave kind of hit more when I was like 16, 17. And I was really starting to go through like some really serious suicide and depression. And I got really, you know, just really into the word. And, you know, my mom bought me a study Bible on Easter, the year I turned 17. And I still have it, I still use it every day. And so that really just kind of, cause I just have this insatiable appetite just like to know things. I don't know why I just do. And so, yeah, so giving me a study Bible was a great way. And I just never looked back, you know. And that's, I mean, I've had my ups and downs, right? You know what I mean? I'm not saying, I've walked a perfect path since I was a teenager that is far from true. But, you know, it doesn't mean that I've ever stopped believing in God or loving God or talking to God. You know, I think that I just kind of have this different understanding of who he is and like what he wants to do. Like he's never gonna give up on you, you know? And I think that's something that's really important and not something that I really want to get out there is that I'm not saying go out there and do all these bad things. We shouldn't sin much so that grace can abound much. But what I'm saying is that like, grace covers a multitude of sins. That's what I'm saying. And there's no shame, no condemnation for those that are made new in Christ. And that's what I'm trying to come and talk about is there's a way, we've kind of gotten to this point as a society where if anybody starts saying like, thus sayeth the Lord, or you quote the word in a way that people know that you're quoting the word to them, they just shut down, right? And so I don't know, I just feel like God has written it on my heart in a way that, you know, I just talk about it. I'm not trying to shove it down your throat. I'm not trying to like preach at you, but I just, I feel like God is so enmeshed in everything and every single moment of every single day that I mean, his word is just one more example of that. And speaking it is very powerful and that's something I learned along the way. And so to speak it, you have to know the word. Say that again, Sydney, maybe that one more time. To speak the word, you have to know the word. So yeah, you know, write it on your heart. Yeah, to speak the word, you have to know the word, you know, and I've read some articles about you that you are in the word daily. Yeah, I love that. I love that. Every day. In my study Bible, Josephus, you know, I've got like the concordance, the Hebrew and the Greeks dictionaries. Like I really do, like, I truly go through it all, all the time. I just love it, you know. I think it's really interesting. And I think that when you study the different translations, not that anyone is better or worse than any of the others, but I think that, you know, they all have something to offer. And, you know, that goes for like the Hebrew and the Greek too, because their vocab, like, I don't know how to explain it, but their vocabulary was richer. It was like more dense than ours is. I feel like the words that they chose to communicate what was going on or how they were feeling or what God was saying were chosen for specific reasons. They did a lot of like play on words with, you know, like was it Adam and I can't remember the other one, like that that's similar to his name, but it's like Adan or whatever, you know. And like, so one means Adam and one means something that's like completely opposite and bad that he did or whatever, you know. Hey, you know what, if someone's listening right now, right, so this is mostly a Christian podcast, but a lot of those listeners out there right now, they're not reading the word daily, say like you are or I am. What encouragement would you give to them to pick up the best -selling book of all time, the Bible, right, and get in the word and, you know, taste that a little bit every day. What would you, what encouragement would you give to them? I mean, what do you have to lose, right? Like there's so many places in the Bible where it talks about how we should meditate on God's word. And that's not just sitting there and being like, oh, you know, I'm thinking about your word. But the Hebrew and the Greek actually means to like speak on the utterance, to talk to yourself about it. And honestly, you know, you shouldn't look at it as a chore. I know for a long time, you know, it's not like I've read my Bible every single day for my entire life, right? Like we all go through stages and phases and seasons, but, you know, habits are what you consistently do. So, you know, it's gonna take time to get to that point where, you know, you make it, it's just part of what you do every day. You have your coffee and you sit down and you spend time with God first thing, you know, that's kind of like what I like to do. Just pick a time that works for you. It doesn't have to be like, oh, I'm spending 45 minutes, you know, just literally anything is better than nothing, right? Like God just wants you to say, hey, you're important to me and I'm taking this time out of my day to just spend this time with you. Set yourself up to like read five verses or read a chapter a day or, you know, start with small bits. But I mean, honestly, try not to look at it as a chore. I mean, you're meeting with the creator of the universe and magnificent things happen. Ah, come on. I mean, you know, Jesus is the word, right? Yeah. So, I mean, if you shun the word, you're kind of like shunning Jesus in a way. And he came to give us life more abundantly. So how can you have abundant life if you kind of like refuse the one who's trying to give it to you? Wow, that is, that's deep. That's profound. That is so good. That's the Holy Spirit now. That's the Holy Spirit. Speaking in and through you. Just do the talking. Cause I ramble. People know that. I'll talk forever, especially when it's about God. So I was like, God, please just let the Holy Spirit. Isn't it cool when the Holy Spirit speaks in you and through you and you hear what you just say and you're like, wow, thank you, Holy Spirit. That was totally you. Yeah, that was not me. You're like, whoa, that was good. Yeah, that was fire. That was fire, straight fire. Yeah, I was praying for like tongues of fire to be dropping on people in Albuquerque and stuff. Like it would be so heavy in the arena. Like I pray for that kind of stuff. Like to me, when I walked into church on Sunday, cause I've been doing like a really in -depth study on Joshua. I actually did a pretty in -depth study on judges. And then I went back and did Joshua cause God was like, go read Joshua. And I was like, all right, cool. So that's what I did. And you know, so I walked into church on Sunday and I just, I felt God say, take your shoes off. This is Holy ground, you know? And that was what I prayed over the ring the last time I fought in May, cause they let you go out and check the ring out. And so like, I prayed in the spirit and, you know, people call that speaking in tongues. To me, I call it praying in the spirit. It's personal between me and God. But you know, and I just remember saying like, this is Holy ground. Do you know what I mean? And I like closed the whole circle of it and like, you know, I just, and I pray about it before I go, pray about like his spirit being there, you know, and the Bible says that, that God himself is enthroned on the praises of Israel. And then people want to ask me, like, why do you walk out to Christian rapper, Christian praise music? And I'm like, why wouldn't I, you know, I'm inviting, I'm inviting God to come in and like come into my situation. You know what I mean? And just, and yeah. So to me, it's, it's a lot different, you know? So much of it is spiritually based for me. I mean, even like the hashtag, watch me rise that I use, right? That actually comes from one of my favorite verses in Judges. And it's because it was a woman judge who spoke at Deborah. And you know, I'm always about like the women warriors, like the outcasts that, you know, in society it's like says to be ladylike and they're like, no, I'm going to go fight with the dudes. Like that's who I've always identified with, you know, like Mulan was my favorite Disney movie. Like, yeah. So yeah, I mean, I don't know. I lost her. So, you know what you, you mentioned a moment ago, August. So you have an upcoming fight Albuquerque, right? Just trying to trace that one back, but yeah. But you also mentioned that how you went into the ring and prayed at your last fight. Now your last fight, you beat your opponent. You landed 98 punches to her 26. And you know what I'm like that. Yeah. And you only suffered a few bruises. Tell us about that fight. You know, there was a lot of craziness going into that fight that, you know, I just kind of briefly spoke on and that's pretty much, you know, most of like that's like the gist of what I'll say about it just to like, you know, maintain a modicum of respectability, but basically my corners last minute abandoned me for no good reason. And like one of them wasted a promotion flight and all this stuff, like it was insane. And I'm like at the airport, you know, trying to figure this stuff out. My friend drove down from South Carolina with her mom and her four year old son and like to corner me. And man, it was just wild. Like so many God moments happened. You know what I mean? It was like for every curse, there are two blessings. Like that was, that came true. You know what I mean? Like that was just so evident. And it wasn't just for me. It was for so many other people around me too. Like my friend who came down, she had been, you know, kind of like, you know, a rough state, a stagnant place in her faith with God. And, you know, I guess was feeling some type of way. And when she saw like everything that had happened and how God just like made everything just boom, boom, boom, boom, she was like, look, I told my whole family, there's no way I'll ever question again, if that is real, you know? So literally it was just nothing but God. I was just having a blast. Like I had to put all that stuff out of my mind. I didn't feel any emotion. Like, you know what I mean? I felt some, but I just prayed for protection and peace and to stay on point for what we came there to do. You know, like I had, like I have people who like, I have prayer warriors who literally like that is what we do is we pray over these events. It's not just we're praying over my fight. We're praying over the event as a whole, you know, we're praying over all of the millions of live viewers, you know, that's what we're doing. And it, I mean, hey, I couldn't have, I mean, it was other than, you know, just wanting to push the pace a little bit more. I feel like, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't a bad start to be KFC, you know what I'm saying? And you know what? BKFC, now, one thing I love about you, okay? You're a different breed, okay? You have martial artists, you have your MMA fighters, but tell my audience, maybe some of them don't, they do not know what BKFC is. You're a whole different beast, okay? All right, you're a whole different human beings. So evangelism on fire nation. If you don't know what BKFC is, listen to this. Tell my audience what type of fighter you are, Sydney Sundance Smith. So I started off in MMA, but I was waiting very patiently for them to open my weight class. And when they did, we fight with no gloves, just a little bit of wrap support around your wrist. And you know, I take down some of that. You're talking bare knuckle. Bare knuckles, yeah. Bare knuckles. 100%. She said 100%. Facts, yes. I'm so like, okay, so they're coming up with this new card. It's one in Thailand. It's like the super fight or whatever. And they're letting them do, it's a special rules, bare knuckle Muay Thai. Ooh. I have been bugging the crap out of them. Like, hey, can we get a bare knuckle Muay Thai? And they're like crickets. And then this happens and I'm like, I see y 'all. I see what's happening. Y 'all keep me in mind at 1 .15, I told them, I told all of them, I've told my manager, I've told Dave Felt, I mean, you know, I've told them all. I said, if you start a bare knuckle Muay Thai, don't even ask me any questions, you just sign me up. Sign you up. Every single time you have a fight for me, don't even ask me, don't ask me no questions, just sign me up. Don't do that until the day I cannot fight for. That appeals to me. So how do you go from MMA to bare knuckle fighting? How does that transition happen? Very carefully, I guess. It's hard not to kick people and knee people. I mean, honestly, I was just waiting for them, like I said, to open my weight class. It's been around for five years now. So you're a straw weight, correct? Yeah, yes. All right. They had 1 .25 for a while and I, you know, I've been offered a couple of different, different promotional bare knuckle, you know, fights at 1 .25. But I just, you know, I had a lot of medical issues and stuff and, you know, even now healthy, I have to, I have to work to be at like 1 .32 walking around, you know, like a healthy 1 .32. So there's no way I could fight at 1 .25. Those girls cut from like an insane amount and yeah, no. I'm good at 1 .15, you know, like I can make the weight. It doesn't bother me. I make 1 .15, like my body just automatically knows like, oh, it's time to cut weight. And it just does it. Like I really, you know, I just have this really good system and as long as I stick to it, then I really don't have any problems. I cut weight and I feel so strong. It's so weird, but it's just, I've gotten it down to that, down to that point, you know. You know, one thing that I've heard about you, tell me if this is true, but I've heard that you're a fighter who likes to get hit. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so like, you know, Donald Cerrone, you know, he kind of like a little bit of a slow starter sometimes. He's got to get hit a few times to like kind of wake him up. And then he's just like, you know, like back in the day, that's, that's kind of like me. You know what I mean? It's like, if you don't, if you're not going to exchange with me, it's kind of hard. Like, yeah, I mean, I still fight you, right? But it's not going to be the same level of fight. You know, if you're, if you want to bang with me, you're going to, like, I know people think like, maybe I'm just, you know, exaggerating or whatever, but like, you're going to get a different, a different side of me. Like you're going to bring out something in me that is like, oh, okay, you think that was hard, like my turn. You know what I mean? Like I get to hit you now, right? So I don't know. I just, I love it. I've always loved it. I fought Chelsea McCoy for my first fight, right? Like Rick McCoy's daughter, first ever MMA fight. She hit me so hard, I fought double. I'm not even kidding, right? I didn't know what to do. I had never, like, I was training out of a basement with some, you know, with a guy who had a few amateur fights under his belt. Like, it wasn't like I was Rick McCoy's daughter trained at the MMA Institute, right? I apparently even knew what the MMA Institute was. And I was just like, yeah, I'll fight her. Everybody was like, you're really going to fight her? And I was like, yeah. And then like, I didn't get knocked out or submitted or anything, right? Like we had a good fight, but yeah, she made me see double and I was just kind of like, you know, it was in that moment where it was, it was kind of like, you're either going to do this and you're going to love it. Like, that's going to, that's going to do it for you. You know what I mean? Yeah. Or you're done. You know what I mean? This is not for you. Yeah. And I was just like, I shook my head and I was like, well, then I was like, just pick one, you know? So it kind of solidified that. And you know, so it's not the last time I've seen double in a fight.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/25/23
"Were you hardwired into this program Mike? Kinda, yeah. This was an actual hit. The theme song of this was an actual hit on the actual radio in 1976. We have a happy day's cast birthday. That would be Potsy. Potsy is 74. I have no idea how old Ralph Mouth is. Well, they're all in their 70s. It's a weird birthday too because Mark Hamill, virulent liberal Luke Skywalker, he is 72. And you know, you just pause, you stop and you think about the career and what happened. The great Christopher Reeve would have been 71 today. That 1995 horse accident, man, I still haven't scrubbed my brain of that and what heroism and activism. So anyway, big showbiz birthdays. A lot going on in the news. You want to do some new stuff or the book, the article? Well, let's do both. Yeah, the book comes out this week, the Fox News book, but let's start, let's not bury the lead. This Washington Post poll has people in hysteria. I mean, they are running through the streets of DC with their hair on fire. This is kind of unusual. I've never seen a media organization like the Washington Post produce the results of a poll and then trash their own poll and bang on it. Right. It's an outlier. This can't be real. This can't be right. I mean, it's devastating news for Biden if it's to be believed. Now let's face it. Polls are quirky. Here's why polls kind of matter. We kind of, they don't. The reason they don't matter is because Lord knows we saw polling about the big red wave in 2022 and that didn't quite work out for us. So let's remember before we get too excited about polls that they are subject to change dramatically. But here's where it does matter. It does give a person like Donald Trump momentum. There is an appearance of momentum. There is the facade of surging and momentum, which kind of feeds upon itself. It just, it just snowballs. So it's real. I mean, it's very, very, it's very, very palpable. And it becomes even more and more unlikely that anybody's going to overcome him. But we never know. A lot can change. We still could, we still could change. How about the debate Wednesday? I heard you mentioned driving in. I thought I saw Burgum. Yes, you did. I rectified that a couple. He did. He managed to get 3 % in Iowa, 4 % in New Hampshire. Speaking of polls I'm skeptical of, there's one, but bless his heart. He seems like a good guy. It seems to be wasted time. I have a very short appetite for wasted time. How about wasted money? How about the money he's spending on the ads? You know what those ads cost? I know. And they're all, I see, I see six Doug Burgum ads every day on Fox news, speaking of Fox news. Every ad I see on Fox news for Doug Burgum, I think how many families of police officers would that help? Or how many poor people would that feed? Or how much, how much of a border wall would that fund? It's his money. I know he can do what he wants. But what a waste of money. It seems to be. Unless, unless he comes in third in Iowa or New Hampshire, kind of punches a ticket out of the month of January. And I mean, stranger things, well, not many stranger things have happened, but then maybe, maybe he ends up with some, how old is he? Is there running mate buzz? You're not going to have a North Dakota running mate buzz. There's not buzz about him over here at the 7 -11 down the street from the airport. Buzz. There's no Doug Burgum buzz. Here's the conspiracy buzz about the Washington Post poll that you just mentioned is that this is on purpose. They want to show Biden as desperate so that in the liberal and the Democrat ivory towers, they can really get the ball moving on replacing him with somebody who might have a prayer of winning. So that's not without some merit. I mean, you know, they got to be sitting around saying, this is our guy. I mean, last week at the UN, at one point it was utter gibberish. And you're looking, I'm thinking my Lord, that's the commander in chief of the United States of America. So the Democrats have to see this. Mark, no way he'll be the nominee. No way he's going to run. Shall I ask you? I mean, okay. I'll ask you again. It's a flow chart.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from John Zmirak
"Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. I believe it's Monday. Chris, is it Monday? Check your watch. It is Monday. It's Monday. First of all, we decided to start the week off with a bang. His name is John Zmierak. Everywhere I go, people say, I love John Zmierak. I love John Zmierak. I say, you're welcome. Zmierak is awesome. We're going to talk to him about everything. He's like a human kraken, I like to say. Yes, like a human kraken. It has to be released carefully and not too often. We got Zmierak coming up. A lot of news here, folks, before we get to John Zmierak. Of course, we're going to talk to John Zmierak about all kinds of news. I'm not sure who we have in an hour or two today. It might be Rosario Butterfield, who has a new book out. And we have Jennifer Morris as well. It might be Jennifer Morris, who has a book out. Oh, my gosh, we got some heroes on this program. It's such a privilege over the years to have gotten to know these wonderful people and to have them on this program and to bring them to you, my listening audience or viewing audience, if you're watching this on on Rumble or or whatever. But OK, some big news. I believe I mentioned it last week, but my book Letter to the American Church has struck a nerve around the country. Thank God. And people are giving it to their pastors. And this has been going on for a year. I've never been busier, which is good and bad. So please pray for me because it's a stressful time. But the wonderful news is that a documentary film has been made called Letter to the American Church based on my book, Letter to the American Church. The trailer I saw the trailer the other day I was with Charlie Kirk at TPA USA Faith at a pastor's conference in San Diego. And I just want to say that the trailer is shorter than the film, but it's intense. And everyone raved about it. And I'm very excited about this. If you want to see the trailer, we if you get my email, which is the Eric Metaxas dot com, the newsletter, I'm pretty sure we sent it out this morning. It did go out this morning. You can also go to Letter to the American Church dot com as well. And we will be I'll be posting it on Twitter, probably on Instagram. But it's so exciting to think that the message, which I want to say is not my message, folks. This is what I believe God is saying to his people. And we are just his vessels. But it's about waking up the American Church in the way that the German church did not wake up in time. And that's a big deal. It's a very big deal that we would kind of act like, well, weird stuff could happen in the past, but, you know, everything's cool here. No, everything's not cool. And God is calling us to wake up and to get involved in everything. And, you know, it's an interesting thing because we know that the state, the government is not supposed to have any involvement in the church. We know that. But the church is supposed to have every kind of involvement in the government and politics. We who are in the church are supposed to bring God's values into every part of the culture to propose those values by getting candidates elected who share those values to the best of our ability. OK, we're not going to ever find a candidate that agrees with us on everything, but it's all very important and we're in a very, very crucial time. So the idea that this documentary will be out, probably.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from "DO NOT Buy Bitcoin Now! Here's WHY..." | Gareth Soloway
"I'm back and we're one day before the FOMC Bitcoin still at 27 ,175 now Gareth says Gareth Soloway He says that Bitcoin can get back to $30 ,000 But then he also says that even though Bitcoin can get back to 30 ,000. He wouldn't actually buy it. Listen to this Now interestingly enough, let's talk about how high can price rally right? So, I mean, let's let's talk about it So if you're someone who's saying wow, do I buy Bitcoin now? Honestly the answer is no now But he does think you can go back to to $30 ,000 So listen, what we're gonna do is we're gonna get Gareth on the show a bit later on He's gonna talk to us about what he meant when he said he thinks Bitcoin can go back to 30 ,000 level But he wouldn't actually be buying Bitcoin right now and that's ahead of the FOMC now. Remember it's a big FOMC why because we haven't heard from Jerome Powell since the 25th and 26th of July, so we haven't heard anything from Jerome Powell since the 25th and 26th of July and Remember that since the 21st and 26th of July we've had two very big inflation readings So the big question is what is Jerome Powell going to do tomorrow? Is he going to engineer a soft landing that is one thing that he could be doing or or or is he going to Fly the plane like that plane that got lost I think what we need to do is we need to spend some time talking about this because honestly Honestly, honestly, honestly I Mean, how can anyone? Lose an 80 million dollar plane even the Biden administration. Like how can you lose an 80 million dollar plane? No one can lose an 80 million dollar plane. Not even the Biden administration So this we've got a lot to talk about today. We're also gonna talk about finance We're gonna talk about finance in the SEC. They did go to court yesterday There was a little bit of FUD that came out of the court case yesterday Usually as you know, I don't really pay attention to the finance FUD But this time it's coming from the same people that warned me about Celsius and they were right So I took the side of Celsius and they were right So as I said, I don't usually pay attention to finance FUD because I think it's like usually just bat And I think there's too much finance FUD But I do think we need to talk about what came out of the hearing yesterday. So listen, I'm back We've got a huge show today one day before the FOMC. Let's go guys I Mean we have to laugh we have to laugh Not only did they lose a plane But then like to make matters worse they want us to help them Find the plane now. I mean, this is a true story They lost an 80 million dollar plane and they want us to help them find a plane That's the type of discussion that I usually have with James like I lost the soundboard James. Where's the soundboard? I lost it on the way to work. Anyway, we'll talk we'll talk about the plane later. There's a lot to talk about Listen guys, I'm back. I'm back in the studio. We've got a lot to discuss today Got a big show ahead of the the FOMC Also, I want to talk to a little bit about Asia I want to talk to you about Binance I want to talk to you about altcoins because we are getting bounces in the altcoins as you can see right here on the bubbles But it seems like it's stuff going up one day and down the next day Which means that there's no new capital coming in we know that and what that also means is that we're getting Asset money rotation between between one place or another and then also as a city later on gathers Garrett's coming on the show So we've got a lot to talk about we're a lot we're gonna be here together But let's talk about remember if you haven't yet subscribed the channel help us because one of the things that I realized in Singapore Was the bigger our channel the bigger the guests we can get on the channel the more attention they pay their pay to us And so when you guys subscribe to this channel when you like this content And we get the content out there and you subscribe to the channel That helps the channel grow that helps us bring more bigger guests onto the channel. That's why we need you I'll bring you the highest alpha per minute show in the world every single day and You will just like the content and then everything's fine. Everything works. It's a symbiotic relationship. Anyway, let's talk about Where we are right now Let's go to the charts what we can see when we look at the charts is that Bitcoin is above 27 ,200 one day before the FOMC meeting now, I heard rumors earlier That the reason why Bitcoin was actually rising is because the mount gox trustee may be forced to delay the distribution of the mount Bitcoin 2024 till that was actually written up by the blocks I heard the rumors much earlier today and then the block wrote something about it They're saying Bitcoin bounce may be due to mount gox delay rumors, but still targeting 22 ,000. That's a fan manager called QCP bitcoins price is largely due to rumors of delay that mount gox may drag their payments into 2024 that's actually exactly what I heard earlier today. So it could be that we may not be getting the mount gox Bitcoin hit in the market. Now you ask yourself. Why would that happen? So you very simply why would that would happen mount gox was hacked in 2014 this this this story took place in 2014 The liquidator like the FTX liquidator earns money on The longer this drags out the more the liquidator and it's almost like think about it like a lawyer Okay so the more this thing drags out the more money that the liquidator makes and it looks like the liquidator is going to continue to Pressure the side of the year now, let's go back to the charts because I want to show you something back on the chart So then if you remember but Kyle dupes said something very interesting. He said look when we get this death cross What will happen after the death crosses, but Bitcoin will go down But then Bitcoin will go up back to the price of where the death cross happened, which is twenty seven thousand seven hundred so so far Kyle's little I don't know if you want to call it a prediction is is actually playing out and playing out exactly like said Gary says we can actually go even to 30 ,000. I actually think that both of them are wrong I think that we may at some point soon this year this this month this year We will break that 30 ,000 everyone. I've been saying it for a while I don't know if you remember but I did say at the beginning of September when everybody was completely bearish about Bitcoin and everyone said oh September's gonna finish down because it finishes down every single September. I said no guys I think September's gonna finish up so far. I'm up five point five two percent So so far it feels to me like like like like I'm gonna look I'm gonna Get this but you must realize what's actually happening here James. What what's for lunch? Scacra doesn't talk but he's chewing here. I can hear the chewing going in my one ear and out and out over there Anyway, what we are seeing here is you need to look at the open interest on Bitcoin and what you realize is that the open? interest is just Completely tracking the price which means that price goes up open interest goes up price goes down open interest goes down That's what's going on here, which means it's just short term Ups and downs so to speak that are happening in the market and it's not real volume or real buying coming in So we still I'm still not convinced that this is the pump that's gonna take us over 30 ,000 But I am convinced that bitcoins gonna go north of 30 ,000 end of September Maybe even early October and I think shaldino shares the same the same sentiment as me because he's just opening lungs and lungs and Lungs and you should I think today you opened another long on the show. Did you guys did you guys watch Sheldon show today? scarecrows Scarecrows don't talk but the children open along yes or no scarecrows He opened us a line along. Okay, so say he did open a lot the guys got big big big kahunas I think the same thing was happening with alts when I look at the alt coins It looks like we're just getting a shift from one old coin to another old coin So yesterday roll, but was up today roll, but is down yesterday rune was up today rune is down and that's exactly what's happening There's no big moves. Let's just quickly check on the one hour time frame. No big moves. No big moves in all coins it's basically just a rotation of Many the good thing is that the fundamentals of Bitcoin and I said I don't say this likely but the fundamentals of Bitcoin have actually Never ever ever been stronger and what I mean when I say the fundamentals of Bitcoin have never been stronger So there's two parts of the fundamentals. The one part of the fundamental is the research So what does the research say? What are the fundamentals behind it? The other part of the fundamentals is something that is unique to Bitcoin and unique this asset class Which is the on -chain data because if you look at other asset classes, they don't really have on -chain data Bitcoin has on -chain data So, you know like when we say fundamentals we can actually just go to the chain and we can just say look Well, what is it? What does the chain say? What is the the data on chain say and here this is where it gets a little Bit exciting so it gets very exciting. The first thing is long -term The supply held by long -term holders up to the highest that it's ever been so you can see the percentage Supply that is held by long -term holds the Bitcoin never ever ever been higher that is Also evident here where you can see that 80 % of all Bitcoin have not moved in the last six months so what we're seeing here is long -term holders keep growing and then when they lot they hold they They hold for forever because it hasn't moved for more than six months What we also see is we see the short -term holders have been capitulated. They're out of the market. We don't see them anymore They were here. They they were good tourists and then we said bye -bye and they were just sending their money back to exchanges When I look at the unchain The unchain data right now and I said I don't say this lightly the unchain data right now looks the most positive that's ever been because the coins are sitting with the people who ain't gonna sell the Coins and when I say anchor solid coins, they holding the coins for for six months plus The sentiment is also very good. And I saw this tweet by Chris Paniski and he He shares the same sentiment that I shared in Asia He was struck by how incredible and what the buzz is that happened in a token 2049. You can see his his These guys are killing my ears Thanks guys. Thanks for thanks for destroying my eardrums. I used to have eardrums now they're gone Anyway, that's his version of what happened at token 2049, but he's been around for a while He says contrasting token 25 20 49 to the first bear market conference. I went to inside Bitcoin in April 2015 the worlds are completely different and that's true because Even though from a pricing point of view, we're in a bear market I'm gonna show you something very very very interesting about where we are in the market The other thing that's happening now, which we haven't seen in Bitcoin for for for a long time Since I got into Bitcoin people have been promising me that the institutions are coming into Bitcoin. It's always been the narrative It's like look we've got to prepare ourselves got to prepare us off Because you know what the institutions are coming in when the institutions come in The price of it coins gonna go to the moon and every time the institutions never came in They launched a Bitcoin futures and bang the the price collapsed So I've always been hearing since I got you That the institutions are coming into Bitcoin when the institutions come into Bitcoin They're gonna bring all the money with him But it's been this letdown because it like as much as I've been hearing about it The institutions just haven't come but they just didn't arrive now the institutions are undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly here So we have got Citibank. They are now Unveiling their own Separate blockchain which is going to which which they're going to start piloting you got this is old news But you got the LSE looking to tokenize assets in the line the stock exchange As your as you will recall if you saw my video about token 2049 in Singapore I thought hey said big bull market he predicts and if you go watch that video see what he said But he basically how he breaks down why the bull market is gonna happen in 2024 he also breaks down that AI is gonna be the narrative that's gonna lead it and then he says, okay Well, then you need to you need to be buying file coin Then a German banking giant will be able to hold a number of crypto currencies for its clients So you can see what's going on here. You can see exactly what's going on Yeah, this industry is becoming more and more institutional Deutsche Bank one step closer to launching a digital asset custody service You've got Japanese banking giant Nomura launching a Bitcoin adoption fund for institutional investors You see what's going on here the institutionals the institutions are here are finally actually getting here but we are in a very very very unique time now because this is What Michael Saylor described when I interviewed Michael Saylor last time you'll remember it if you watch the Michael Saylor discussion This is what he said about where we are now about the unique time that we are now in In the cycle able to pick up the phone and call your broker and buy 50 million dollars worth of it Right. So we're at that stage where we know it's coming but We really haven't plugged Wall Street into the asset yet We're in this in between period which in my opinion is the best time to be it's like, you know the future No one else can act on it. If you if you have a crypto account with a crypto Exchange to buy Bitcoin right now So so you hear what he's saying he's saying if you we know they're coming they just it's like it's like it's like this Imagine a concert, you know, the concerts gonna start everyone's waiting at the door, but the gates aren't open yet You know when the gates open everyone's gonna come in and go to the car the concert you have the inside information But they can't act because the doors are still closed. That is where we are. Now. The institutions are coming in this morning I saw that blockchain capital Which is one of the original og funds in crypto, these are like, you know, these are two brothers original og og og funds in crypto raised 400 and say five hundred and eighty million dollars for two new funds now if you read where did they get their money from? most of the firm's limited partners are traditional institutional investors including University endowments So they've got five hundred and eighty dollars from all of these sovereign wealth funds and guys I mean if you were here in 2017 and you were here in 2018 and you were here in 2019 and notice it you look You know in next year or in two years time you're gonna get five hundred and eighty million dollars Given to two brothers in the United States Who have got a good track record and the money's gonna be given to them by institutional university By university endowment private foundations the writing's all over the world. All you have to do is You just have to Act because it's inevitable. It's completely completely completely inevitable And I know like a lot of you may may be sitting here and going yeah But you're not crypto is full of scams and you know, you know We spoke about keeping our customers happy and how every time we get the big names in crypto coming into our into our industry We destroy them, etc, etc You need to remember that every single technology goes through the cycle and I want to read you something which I saw earlier today which made me smile and and again affirm that I was in the right direction so Visa seemed like a disaster when it was first launched the kind of people who attack new things would have been all over it from From the Wikipedia article it says listen to it says they're talking about visa However, the program was riddled with problems as Williams who had never worked in a bank's loan department had been too earnest and trusting in His belief in the basic goodness of the bank's customers and he resigned in December 1959 22 % of the accounts were delinquent not the 4 % expected the police departments around the state were confronted by numerous incidents of of a brand new crime called credit card fraud Both politicians and journalists joined the general uproar against Bank of America and its new fangled credit card Especially when it was pointed out that the card holder agreement held customers liable for all charges even those resulting from fraud Bank of America officially lost eight point eight million dollars in on on the launch of Bank of America card But when the full cost of advertising and overheads were included the bank actually lost around 20 million dollars I mean if you change the word credit card there and you replaced it with the word blockchain you'd say hell them This is exactly what's going on here.
Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
A highlight from BUILD CONFIDENCE - Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
"You cannot consistency. The person who does what they're supposed to do day after day, regardless of how they feel, is going to be the person who wins. The people who are the most successful in the real world, the people who wake up every day and work. If you're the person who wakes up, does work, is fantastic at it, but then takes three days off, you're going to lose. They say that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. And it's completely true. You have to be consistent. You have to decide, are you the kind of person who wants to make a lot of money in this life and live a life of freedom? Or are you the kind of person who wants to look back when he's 30 on his 20s or 40 on his 30s and look at that decade and go, what did I do with that decade? Well, I didn't get rich. I didn't travel the world and live like they do and take confidential. What did I do? Well, I had a day off here, a day off there, a bunch of nothing days amalgamated to this decade of nothingness. And you're just wasting your time. If you want to win, you need to be consistent. You don't need to be the smartest. Not at all, but you have to be the guy who's there day after day. And I guarantee you, I will guarantee you right now, IQ has nothing to do with how successful you are. What is going to determine how success you're going to be is, are you there every single day? Are you doing what you're supposed to do day after day? I can also apply this to sales. I knew guys who were terrible on the phone back in my day on sales. You start to call companies. I was smooth. I was the best. We have some other guys who are smooth that land the deal, go buy a nice car, whatever, take a few days off, take it easy. We had people who were terrible. When I say terrible, I mean, they had a thick Indian accent, didn't speak English that well, didn't know the script that well, didn't know the answers, but they were always in the top 20 percent of the company because they just hammered the phone. They just were on it. They needed to feed their family and bang with it. They didn't give a fuck. They were just calling. That's it. Day after day. When you're on lunch break, he's on the phone. You can win with hard work alone. That's what's amazing about the universe. And I say that God will give you anything you truly want. If you truly want money and you truly try hard and truly listen to us, you are going to have as much money as you can possibly have inside. But if you think you want money, but you kind of want something else, or you're arrogant or you're lazy, you're going to end up somewhere in the middle. If you're lucky and talented and you're not talented. Why on earth are you going to go through life and believe you're an unlucky individual? I don't see how that can benefit. Why would you think it's kind of crazy? Because I say this, the number one thing people don't have control of in their lives is their mind. But what's funny about that is the only thing in life you can truly control is your mind. Can't control other people. Can't control the world. Can't even control your health. Your heart might stop beating. You don't make it beat. It just goes. So it's going to turn off one day. The only thing you can control in your life is what you think in your mind. So if you're going to sit there and go, I'm sad. Well, you you can change that if you actually try, but you don't. You just accept it. Right. So people have lost control of their own minds. And I don't understand why you would allow your mind, your own mind, to take power from you. Why would you believe in your let your own mind convince you? You're not a lucky person or I'm not this or I'm not confident. Why would you let your own mind sabotage you? Why wouldn't you reprogram your own mind to be on your team? Should be your ally. Right. Like I don't ever feel like I'm satisfied. I never like won the world title. Yes, I'm the champ now. It's just like, OK, next, next, next. I was kind of always like that. You know, what's amazing? Lots of now I have money. Lots of people always ask me, how do I get rich? And I say, when's the last time you've talked about money? When's the last time you sat down with your friends and refused to talk about anything else but how to make money? How are you making money? How are you making money? How am I making money? How can we make money together? How's that guy making money? How's that coffee shop there making money? Is that coffee shop making money? I don't know. Do they sell cake? No, why don't they sell cake? Everyone in here is a businessman. If they had a cute young waitress, a girl instead of a guy, they'd probably sell more coffee. Like no one analyzes anything. They just want to get rich. Right. I want to be rich, but they have no plan to get rich. And a hope and a plan are very different things. I explain this to people all the time. Everyone has a dream, but no one has a plan. And nothing good is going to happen on accident. Right. I didn't become world champion on accident. I didn't wake up and someone go, how did you become world champion? I went, oops, you have to plan for it. So a lot of them, the male instinct to conquer Earth is financial. I think this is why men work so hard is why men are so obsessed with money. Or they should be. They absolutely should be obsessed with money. Some men are born with something else inside of the fire inside of them, which cannot be extinguished by beans on toast, TV at night, nine to five, sitting around with a wife. I know me as an individual. I could not be satisfied with that. That doesn't mean I look down on the people who are absolutely congratulations. But my time on the planet, I guarantee will be more eventful. I will die with more stories. I would have made a bigger ripple in space time because I refuse to comply with just the average. This is OK. You'll be happy with this. Take it. There's always been that class of person even since the dawn of time. There's been the normal guy and then there's been the dude who insists on conquering the world. There's been Napoleon who says, no, fuck you. I'm taking this and this and this. It depends what you're born with. Right. I think a man should have absolutely no interest in whether he's actually happy or not. If I wake up and I'm unhappy, I will do the exact same things as if I am happy. I will go to the gym the same. I will work the same. How I feel has no impact on how I live my life. I don't think happiness as an index is a healthy view for a man to have on life success. Women are different. Women just want to be happy, right? Women just want to smile. They don't care how. They don't care if they deserve it or not. As long as they get to smile, women are happy. That's women. But I think for a man, if you're waking up and going, oh, am I happy? Am I not? You're looking at life wrong. I think of a man, if you put happiness far, if you move it down the scale, right, and you start looking at am I, am I successful, am I competent, you know, am I achieving things? Am I respected? If you start to look at these indicators of your life, you're going to end up being happier without actually analyzing if you're happy or not. So for me, I understood very, very well that half a million dollars a month is good, but a million dollars a month is better. And I also very, very much understood that as soon as you stop pushing forward, as soon as you go stagnant, you're dying, right? As soon as you stay in one place, you're slowly on the way down, right? If you were to if you're if your podcast, if your channel now were to stagninate in views, you'd be worried. That's effectively dying. It has to grow at all times. So every business has to work. So for me, I was under enormous pressure. I didn't think, oh, I have plenty of money now. It was a complete opposite. I wanted to work harder, more hours. I found the tap.
The Voicebot Podcast
A highlight from Generative AI News This Week - Google Gets is Gen AI Mojo Back, ChatGPT Enterprise Debuts, New Big Funding Rounds, Products & More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 349
"Hello to all you generative AI news fans out there and Voicebot Nation, this is Brett Kinsella, host of the weekly generative AI news rundown. Today we take you into the deep recesses of generative AI land with my co -host, Eric Schwartz and a featured guest, Alan Furstenberg. Alan is a Google development expert. He's got deep knowledge of conversational AI and generative AI, so it was great to welcome his insights this week. As always, you can just listen here or you can watch the recording on YouTube. We have visuals this week, but I don't think the visuals are that critical to the conversation. So it's really up to you. If you do want to watch on YouTube, please go to Voicebot's YouTube channel. And while you're there, give us a like, maybe subscribe if you haven't already. That'd be great. Top stories this week, ChatGPT Enterprise debuts and shows how OpenAI is going to service big companies as an application provider. Google Cloud Next introduced dozens of new generative AI announcements. We talk about more than 15 in today's rundown. We go really deep on this. And so if you want some Google news and you want the perspective of Alan, Eric and myself, that will be the place to get it. The funding fountain also gave us some big news. Hugging Face landed over $200 million in giant new valuation. AI21 Labs took down $155 million in established unicorn status. We'll talk about that. CoreWeave is flirting with a two to four X valuation increase. This is like many billions of dollars and that's just since April in five months. It shows how important access is to the latest GPU chips right now. We also have product news from Meta and EncodeLlama, AI21's word to him. A new Harman smart speaker. Yes, a new smart speaker with a feature no one was expecting. ConverseNow's new LLM based chatbot, Gupshups, domain specific LLMs, GM, Walmart, and a bit more. We finish up with a generative AI winners and losers of the week. Next up, Google, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Meta, Walmart, and much more. Generative AI ends the summer with a bang. Let's get started.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/12/23
"This was an easy one. 1975 Elton John singing about the city of liberty, the city of freedom, the city of brotherly love. The light was shining on our buddy Mike Gallagher last night. City of a lot of traffic, oh boy. Did you just make it by the skittier teeth? Oh boy, oh boy. I said I can't wait to talk to my buddy Mark if I make it. And Mr. Uber driver, please go faster, please go faster. Memo to self, don't stay in Center City when you've got to go out to the radio station which is in, I don't know, Lafayette Hill or wherever the heck we are. A lot of traffic, a lot of construction and what a joyful night last night. A hundred, I mean it was like over 700 people at the Fuge which you would love. It's a NASA, you know, Center Fuge. It's a reference to the Center Fuge exhibit and stuff like that, yes. And they do like a venue. They've got an event venue there. This is the second or third time I've been out there and Lorenzo and the team here at 990 The Answer in Philadelphia do a fantastic job. Phil Boyce, our boss, the big boss, was the moderator. He does a fantastic job. And of course on stage, Dennis Prager, Pastor Robert Jeffress. Yeah, man. And he is so good. Man, Dr. Jeffress is so good when it comes to defining the battle of good and evil that we're witnessing. He also made a Trump reference. I've heard him say this now many times, we ain't considering a pastor for the competition. And he has been very, very loyal to President Trump, much to the chagrin of some within the evangelical community. And so we dealt with all of that faith and freedom and liberty and tyranny. The great Chris DeGaulle, the local host here who is so strong. Man, oh man. And boy, does he get a hero's welcome last night. This community loves him. So we just had a blast. It was a great night. I told the story about Mike Lindell, who I'm speaking to today, about the way they've targeted him. And much of it started with Mike after he said at the Rose Garden, hey, crack open your Bible and turn to God. They didn't like that. So it was just a great evening of conversation. Of course, lots of concern about Joe Biden, lots of debate and discussion about Joe Biden's dis, his snub, his refusal for the first time in either New York or, you know, Shanksville or DC. What a disgraceful. And, you know, they know what they're doing, Mark. They know what they're doing. Okay. What are they doing? Because I know my first answer. And for yesterday, all of yesterday, if there's anything I really tried to do, and I know you do too, it's to be as fair as possible, as accommodating as possible. So if I am going to come down hard on somebody, it's because I've internationally, you know, doddering around in Vietnam, tough to get back in time for 9 -11. So maybe that's bad planning. Tough to get back. I know. I know. It's the president. He's got Air Force One and get wherever he wants to get. Don't give me that crap. Believe you me, the test did not succeed because even under the harshest light of goodwill and grace and latitude, there is no excuse. He was with troops in Alaska. Anytime you're with troops, it's good. But 9 -11 is about three places, New York number one, not to rank them, obviously New York and obviously the Pentagon or Shanksville. You've got to be in one of those places and to fail to do so is conspicuous by its absence. So my answer to give it back to you is the reason they didn't do it is because they knew that it would have been as big an embarrassment as it was in Alaska where he made up crap again. And David said, Drucker well, Biden has been embellishing for a long time. Yeah, but that's when he knew what he was doing. Now I think Joe actually does believe that he was at ground zero the next day looking into the gaping maw of hell or whatever he said there among the smoke and the debris. He wasn't there. He was on the floor of the Senate. He is mentally unhinged. His White House knew it and that's why they knew they could not have him at any of the important 9 -11 sites. Well, two things. You know, first of all, I think there's a lot of wisdom to the argument that if he was at one of the 9 -11 events, the reception he would get inevitably would embarrass him. Have you seen - Reception? Reception? I'm talking about booing. Nobody's going to boo him on 9 -11. Yes, they are. Yes, they are. Don't underestimate the anger and rage the that people have towards this guy. I mean, look, already he's gotten - I mean, I saw it with my own eyes when, you know, I've seen the loving reception that Trump got when he was being arrested from people in the inner city and people lining the streets cheering him. Look at the reception. And you've seen Biden get booed at various events that he's attended. New Yorkers in particular are aggravated and anger. Listen, ask a 9 -11 family what they think of Biden shaking the hand of the Saudi potentate or whatever he is. You know? And you don't think Saudi Arabia was complicit in 9 -11? I mean, this is - And so, yeah, I think you're right, the reception. And number two, this man's a liar. This man will just flat out - And I want to see how they're going to spin this whopper that he was standing, looking through the gaping jaws of hell the day after on the - as George Bush was. George Bush stood on the pile. George Bush had that bullhorn and George Bush said, I hear you. And soon the people who took down these buildings are going to hear you. Biden's trying to, you know, take away Bush's real life experience. Stolen presidential valor. Exactly. Somebody else was there and he wasn't. And you're lying about it? You're saying I was there? I mean, I know people who do this. Listen, I don't want to mention names, but there are people, frankly, and they're kind of pitiful. They just want to live on 9 -11 infamy and they want to bang that drum and they want to puff up their chest and say, look at me, look at me, look at me. The true heroes are the - And there are people who are trying to rescue people or find people and they've had post 9 -11 sickness and illness and death.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #437Afterhumpday show triggers idea to rename all of the days in the Calendar and the clock as well since Rich works 28 hrs. a day. How you change HIS-tory and how books were dismissed and burned after loud BANG. Matt wants to run for office but before that he wants to be on a calendar. Hamster wheel can get you arrested if you want to cross the Atlantic in it. Episode #437 September 7th. 2023
"And yes, we are here on our seats again ready to roll another podcast of Divine Naples Podcast Episode 437, September 7th, 2023, and today's Thursday. It is Thursday and from this mic it's Matt. Oh, from this mic it's Rich. We've been forgetting everything since we're so happy all the time and just loving doing our podcast. Yesterday was hump day. Oh yeah. But we forgot, we got so excited about what we were talking about. How do you forget about hump day? Well, I was probably humping anyway. I wonder if anybody's looked up the Humpty Hump song. I don't know. We should look at it. I'll show you. It's after hump day. Yeah. So let's roll. Well, it's going to be technically a little hump day. Yeah. You have this, you hit the string on the guitar, right? And the top of the head is the most sound, but there's a little wave. So we are still in that hump wave. Well, I guess we'll ride that wave out a little bit, but we don't want to start confusing everybody. Technically what do you say? You don't say hump day with full breath. You just take like 70%. Yeah. That's it. That's it. But listen, we're going to start confusing everybody by giving each day of the week a different name. I mean, we're in between hump day and this Thursday and sliding into tomorrow's small Saturday. Somebody created the names, right? Did we confuse anybody yet? No, but somebody created the names for calendar, didn't it? Who created it? I don't know. We need to find out. We will. I need to have serious talk with him. Because if we're going to be the guys that know everything, we should know that. Yeah. So I know one thing. And second thing is we need to make some adjustments. Yeah. Always. People need to make adjustments in their life. Yeah. Right. Hump day is good adjustment. Yeah. I like it. I like it too. Small Saturday. Yeah. I mean, people, I mean, we're growing into better humans, right? Right. That's the whole idea. Why we would have calendar that is a thousand years old. I don't know. Is that's a Gregorian calendar. I work. Yeah. I will start to make the Matt and Rich calendar. That's correct. Yeah. Do you think we can name all 365 days? Just the calendar is not the issue. Issue is we're going to have to change the clock too. Oh. Because I work 28 hours a day.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #437Afterhumpday show triggers idea to rename all of the days in the Calendar and the clock as well since Rich works 28 hrs. a day. How you change HIS-tory and how books were dismissed and burned after loud BANG. Matt wants to run for office but before that he wants to be on a calendar. Hamster wheel can get you arrested if you want to cross the Atlantic in it. Episode #437 September 7th. 2023
"And yes, we are here on our seats again ready to roll another podcast of Divine Naples Podcast Episode 437, September 7th, 2023, and today's Thursday. It is Thursday and from this mic it's Matt. Oh, from this mic it's Rich. We've been forgetting everything since we're so happy all the time and just loving doing our podcast. Yesterday was hump day. Oh yeah. But we forgot, we got so excited about what we were talking about. How do you forget about hump day? Well, I was probably humping anyway. I wonder if anybody's looked up the Humpty Hump song. I don't know. We should look at it. I'll show you. It's after hump day. Yeah. So let's roll. Well, it's going to be technically a little hump day. Yeah. You have this, you hit the string on the guitar, right? And the top of the head is the most sound, but there's a little wave. So we are still in that hump wave. Well, I guess we'll ride that wave out a little bit, but we don't want to start confusing everybody. Technically what do you say? You don't say hump day with full breath. You just take like 70%. Yeah. That's it. That's it. But listen, we're going to start confusing everybody by giving each day of the week a different name. I mean, we're in between hump day and this Thursday and sliding into tomorrow's small Saturday. Somebody created the names, right? Did we confuse anybody yet? No, but somebody created the names for calendar, didn't it? Who created it? I don't know. We need to find out. We will. I need to have serious talk with him. Because if we're going to be the guys that know everything, we should know that. Yeah. So I know one thing. And second thing is we need to make some adjustments. Yeah. Always. People need to make adjustments in their life. Yeah. Right. Hump day is good adjustment. Yeah. I like it. I like it too. Small Saturday. Yeah. I mean, people, I mean, we're growing into better humans, right? Right. That's the whole idea. Why we would have calendar that is a thousand years old. I don't know. Is that's a Gregorian calendar. I work. Yeah. I will start to make the Matt and Rich calendar. That's correct. Yeah. Do you think we can name all 365 days? Just the calendar is not the issue. Issue is we're going to have to change the clock too. Oh. Because I work 28 hours a day.
CRYPTO 101
A highlight from Ep. 562 Our New Co-Host A Crypto Analyst Joins the Team!
"All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 Podcast. It is a big, big day in Crip Nation. Man, sound the alarms, bang the pots in the pans because it is a momentous occasion. We are joined by a new co -host, or I should say I am joined by a new co -host, Brendan Veman, who has been working with us behind the scenes at extreme length for the past two years. He's getting called up to the big leagues. So, Brendan, dude, welcome to the Crypto 101 Podcast. This is your new home, brother. Welcome. Hey, excited to be here. Like Bryce said, it's crazy because I've been working with you guys for almost two years now, and it's been awesome. Excited to come to the forefront. Excited to connect with more people in the cryptocurrency space and preach the great gospel that is crypto and blockchain. Yeah, dude, this is awesome. I'm so, so pumped. I learned so much from you, so I view this as just great for opportunity this podcast to just get kicked up to another level. I've been following you for a long time. I'm very pleased that you've been choosing to work with us. Man, we're going to have an awesome time. I want to make this episode all about you. I know that we've had you on previous episodes, so I think anybody who has been watching religiously for the past couple months or so, they've for sure run into you. But I want to have them all hear it from the horse's mouth. So, Brendan, this is your episode. We're going to introduce you to Crypt Nation if they don't already know you. So I'm going to ask you some questions. You feel good about that? You feel okay revealing a little bit about who you are? Yeah, I'm ready for the barrage of questions to begin. Awesome. Let's just start off high level. So what do you do? Who are you? What do you currently do? How did you make it on the Crypto 101 podcast? Yeah, man. So I started off in the early days of Bitcoin. My realization point or what got me interested is that I found this thing early. A lot of people around me had unpopular opinions, or maybe at the time it was popular opinions, but they were more anti -crypto. That motivated me and inspired me to really dig into this thing more. And so I did. And so as the years went on, like a little hot button issue, and you were like, oh, this is kind of getting people's gears going. There must be something here. Is that kind of what it is? Yeah. I mean, exactly. Like at the time, Bitcoin was worth a couple of times more than what the US dollar was. And it was this asset that just stood out. And me being the curious individual that I was, was like, hey, this is making people angry. It has a crazy pairing against fiat currencies. Like, let's really explore this thing. That's where I found my base. And so as the technology expanded and grew over the years as blockchain tech really begin to kind of, I guess, show its fruits. And then you had Litecoin and Ethereum and Monero and all those early stage cryptos really began to show just how versatile and helpful blockchain could be. That is when my interest in crypto went from just kind of this side interest, the side hobby to like, hey, this is going to really change the world as we know it. And that leads me to starting the crypto analyst YouTube channel in 2017. That's how I found you. Yeah. And I, and I'll tell you why I started that originally because I had so many people around me not understanding crypto. Crypto wasn't super mainstream yet. It was a kind of on that brink of that big bull run that it had, but I was still getting the same questions asked to me all the time. And I'm - I'm pre -recording answers for family and friends, go to my YouTube channel, and then it just kind of caught fire. I mean, exactly. That's kind of what it came down to is, here are all the answers that you're going to ask me anyway. And so that's really why the YouTube channel originated, but also because I love talking about it. I loved it. I believed in it. And also I didn't want to answer the same stuff all the time. So I was like, boom, YouTube channel is born. And that was like my real step, like full time. I'm into this thing. I'm committed. Like, here we go. And you know, man, I've ran that every single year. I mean, I have over 750 public videos now since 2017. We're at 10 ,000 subscribers. Like it's grown into a really cool thing. And, you know, occasionally I still see people that are from the very early days of that come around and they're like, Hey, Brendan. And it's great to see the community go strong as we are over here. So, you know, we're going from one strong community to another and the mission is still the same. Yeah. No. And it's been awesome working with you for the past couple of years here. And for folks who are listening, you don't know, behind the scenes, we've got, you know, premium subscriber only content that we roll out every single day, every single week. Brendan has been hosting live streams with me. He's been doing all sorts of amazing, you know, written and video content for the Crypto 101 University video course that we have. So if you want to check all that stuff out, we will link to it in the show notes. All the stuff we've been working on and the Crip Nation private group, guys, it's an incredible community that Brendan and I have been building up for, you know, along with our whole team here for the past several years. And we're so excited to be bringing Brendan to the Crypto 101 podcast. And with that being said, Brendan, I want to ask a little bit of a lightning round sort of rapid fire question and answer. How do you feel about that? I kind of prepared some things. I know I didn't show you ahead of time. I want it to be surprising. Does that sound okay? Let the surprises begin. I will do my best. Okay. I've got a long list. And so this is going to go quick. And when I say one word answer, I mean, one word answer. I don't want you to go off off the rails or anything. Maybe if you need two words or I'll give you three is the most. Okay. No tangents. Okay. No tangents. So I'm going to start easy and then I'm going to ramp up. So first is like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Ethereum. Okay. And by the way, I almost started the tangent I'm breaking my rules, but these will definitely inform all of us of really who you are and how you think. And this is on the record. So I want you to know that. So you say Ethereum, the next question I had after that was proof of stake or proof of work. What do you think is better? See the one world answers are already killing me here. We'll go with proof of stake. I'm sorry everyone out there. Then you choose proof of stake, which is the consensus model that it uses. Whereas Bitcoin uses proof of work. Let me ask you when you're analyzing the crypto markets, if you had to choose one technical analysis or fundamental analysis. Man, technical is all the way. I'm a trader at heart. Yeah. What I always say is price is the final arbiter. Price knows everything. Good fundamentals kind of put you in the same place as good technicals. So price should have all the information. So I would probably side with you on that one. Let me ask you this, trading or holding, what is your style? Trading. I'm a trader at heart. Okay. You're quick hot potato. Timeframe trading daily or monthly? Daily. Okay. Making trades daily, closing positions out. Leverage or no leverage? Oh, one word answer to this one. Leverage yes or no. We'll go with no leverage. No leverage anymore. Honestly, a man after my own heart. I've always advocated to stay away from the leverage. There's a great quote that it's like a Warren Buffett quote about the way people go broke is like ladies, liquor and leverage. And that's like the three ways that men go broke, ladies, liquor and leverage. So stay away from the leverage. But let me ask you this, what's your favorite exchange? Kraken recently. Okay. Kraken. I'm a big Kraken fan, but favorite wallet. I'm going to roll with MetaMask. I'm going to roll with MetaMask. I don't think I expected that. I don't think I expected anybody to like MetaMask, but here we are. God bless them. Everybody uses them. I think they've been getting better. Yeah. They've been getting better. I agree. And I have to say recently I've been liking treasure wallets. Obviously they're safer, but I've been really digging them, especially more than the nano ledgers. I have both and treasure has been standing out to me. Okay. I like it. It's a hot take. Trezor. T -R -E -Z -O -R. Kind of a play on words of like a treasure chest, right? Where all your crypto gets stored. Let me ask you this, Brendan, your favorite dap, and I'll restrict it to your favorite dap. DeFi Okay. Hot take here as well. I'm going to roll with, I think most people would expect maybe like Uniswap, but I'll roll with Osmosis here. I'll throw a wrench in everything. Hold the door. Hold the door. I did not expect it. I did not see that coming. That's a great pick though. The cosmos decks, the cosmos DeFi one -stop shop. Osmosis. Hot pick.
The Breakdown
A highlight from SEC Defeats, Binance Intrigue, and a Bitcoin Flop: The Biggest Stories of the Week
"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 Saturday, September 2nd, and that means it's time for the weekly recap, albeit a slightly different version. 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 the link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. How's it going? Happy Labor Day weekend. Now, one of the things you've probably heard me talk about before is that I'm never exactly sure what I want to do with this weekly recap slot. A lot of the weeks I just use it as an extra episode because there's been so many topics going on that we just didn't get a chance to cover everything. But one of the ideas that I had for it going way back to when I first started doing these recaps was to actually use it as a chance to do a bit more call it editorialization. When it comes to the average Breakdown show, part of what I think you guys like is that I keep the opinion and op -ed to a minimum. Now, of course, I have my perspective on things and they come out and there are some times that episodes just need to let the hot takes rip. But by and large, my goal is to give you information. I think that news in general and especially in a sector as contentious as crypto is so hot under the collar that simply presenting a diverse array of perspectives without trying to just nudge you towards my own is the value add that I can offer that maybe is missing in some other places. That said, I also do think there's something interesting about being able to contextualize the news and give some takes around it. And so when Scott Milker, who some of you listen to as the wolf of all streets, asked me to start experimenting with a Friday news countdown recap show, I thought it was totally worth a try. So what you have is a first collaboration that comes from a live stream on Friday morning. Basically, we talked through what we had determined were five top news stories from the week. And as you'll hear, have a whole lot more room for discussion and analysis than just reporting the news. Now, if you guys just strictly want facts, you will have heard about all these things before on the shows earlier this week. However, if, on the other hand, you want some of those hot takes and more discussion around the big events of this week, this might scratch that itch. Now, as to the specific topics, one of the things that made this week interesting is that a lot of the summer has been fairly quiet, but it ended with kind of a bang. The court cases that were determined this week have, I think, big implications for things heading into the fall. And so there was, as you will see, a lot to discuss. Anyways, you know all the different channels to find me at NLW on Twitter, YouTube comments, or, of course, in the Breakers Discord. Let me know what you think about this format. Let me know if you enjoyed the conversation. And we'll see where we go from here. For now, like I said, I hope you're having a great holiday weekend. Let's dive in.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from Part 1: The Annual NFC Over/Unders With Cousin Sal
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Kidderminster: Made in the Image of God
"So I'm here in Kidderminster on the afternoon of Sunday the 27th of August 2023 to preach the gospel. It's quite relevant. Father I pray that you bring people to hear the gospel, people whose hearts have been prepared for eternity. I pray Father that you give the preacher strength and liberty and unction and utterance Lord to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ faithfully. I pray Father that your work will be accomplished now, that the name of Jesus Christ will be lifted up, that sinners will be drawn to him Lord. I pray that there will be conviction of sin. I pray that there will be weeping and wailing and mourning and lamenting over sin. There will be a looking to Jesus Christ alone for salvation. I pray Lord that you would discomfort the people of Kidderminster. I pray that they would be aware of their lostness, of their ruin Lord. That they deserve the judgments of God, that they do not deserve the mercies of God. I pray that the whole town would be abuzz with people talking about their souls and what must I do to be saved. I pray Father that by your Spirit's power you would come down upon this town of Kidderminster and have mercy upon the people of Kidderminster and save souls in Kidderminster Lord. I pray that the preaching would come with power and with conviction and I pray Lord that people would have nowhere to hide from you. I pray Lord that they would be, that your Godliness, your glory would be revealed to them in super abundant power so that they would cry out, Men and brethren what must we do to be saved? Father I pray that you would be with the preacher now. Forgive me for my sins. Cleanse me in Jesus blood. Thank you for my salvation. Thank you for my saviour. I commend myself to you now in his precious name. Amen. Amen. Well a warm day but one that's threatening in terms of rain could happen at any time but the forecast was for very heavy rain I think. We'll see what happens but by God's grace the gospel will be preached. Well good afternoon it's my privilege to be here and to declare the gospel to say that Jesus Christ is the saviour of the world. To say that he is the one that will take away your sin and give you peace with almighty God. To say that without Jesus Christ you cannot be saved. Without the Lord Jesus Christ you cannot be delivered from the wrath to come. And without the Lord Jesus Christ you will go to hell. That's why I preach this gospel because I know the Lord Jesus Christ as my saviour from my sin. I have believed on him. I sought him. He found me. He delivered me from my sins. He delivered me from the wrath to come and he gave me everlasting life. Well in the book of Genesis chapter 1 and verse 1 we read as follows. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. We are told that there is a God who pre -existed everything. God is eternal. God has always existed. We are told that there is a God who has the power to make all things. To make the universe. To make the planets. To make our earth. To make animals. To make plants. To make us. We are told that there is a God who has that power. We are told that all things are made by God. God has made all things. He is the creator of all things. Now you may choose to believe in a big bang. That would be foolish. Even the scientists now are saying that's been disproven. But you may choose to believe in that and somehow you're going to believe that everything you see around you here today came out of nothing. An explosion of nothing. And bam we have Kidderminster. How did that happen? But the Bible tells us in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. God did it by his power. The eternal God. The God of all glory. The God who is infinite in his glory. In his holiness. In his power. He created the heavens and the earth. He made the universe. He made the vast expanses of space. He made the galaxies. He made the billions upon billions of stars in those galaxies. God made the heavens and the earth. God did it by his power. He is the eternal God. The living God. Now people say how could God do that? And they say they'd rather believe as I said in the big bang or that everything happened by chance. But I think it's a lot easier to believe in an infinitely powerful God who made all things than to believe in an infinitely powered nothing that made all things. After all nothing is nothing. There is no power in nothing. There is no space in nothing. There is no ability in nothing to create all things. But God made all things. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. God did it by his power. But you see we are created in God's image. Verse 26 of Genesis chapter 1. And God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. So mankind is the pinnacle of creation. Mankind is the greatest of God's acts of creation. Mankind is over the rest of creation, over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air and so on. But mankind unlike the animals we are created in the image of God. Genesis 1 27 tells us. We have a moral aspect. If we break God's laws we are guilty. Now the animals don't have any moral accountability to God. A fish cannot sin. A dog cannot sin. A bird cannot sin. But you and I are sinners by nature. We are guilty before God. And we are not just animals. We have not just come out of some primordial soup. We are created in the image of God. Male and female we are created in the image of God. God made us. He made us for his glory. He made us in his image, accountable to him. And he gave us a purpose and that purpose was that we should know him, that we should love him, that we should glorify him, that we should worship him, but we have not done that. We have fallen. We have turned aside to our sins. We are guilty before Almighty God. We are all together become corrupt. There is none righteous, no not one. There is none that seeketh after God, the Bible says. So you see the God who made us for his glory, that very God who had the power to create the heavens and the earth, the God who made all things, created all things, according to his wisdom, majesty and power, that is the God whom we have rejected. That is the God to whom we need to be reconciled by repenting of our sin and believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the God with whom we have to do. And we must one day stand before the judgment throne of Almighty God and give an account. You must stand before the judgment throne of Almighty God and give an account for your sins. For your corruptions. For your wickedness. For your transgression of the commandments of Almighty God. You must stand before God and give an account. Every lie, every swear word, God sees it. God knows all about the sinful desires of your heart. And God will judge you for your sin. And God will cast you into hell for your sin, except you repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the way of salvation. That's the way back to God. Jesus said, I am the way and the truth and the life. No man cometh unto me except by the Father. You can only come to God through Jesus Christ. There is no other way. There is no other name. There is no one else. There is no other saviour of mankind. The Lord Jesus Christ. He is the saviour of the world. So we read here, God made mankind in the image of God. Male and female created he them. That means you and I are made in the image of God. We have a moral component. We are created to worship God. We are created to know God. We are created to fellowship with God. We're not created God. We're not created gods. We are not God. We are not gods. We will not become God or gods. We are created beings. We are human beings created in the image of God. We have no divine capacity in us. But we are ourselves created in the image of God. And that makes us accountable. It makes us accountable for everything we do. It makes us accountable for everything that we say. It makes us accountable for everything that we think. And we are accountable to Almighty God for every aspect of our lives. The Bible says the wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God. We are sinners by nature. Sin is rebellion against God. All sin deserves death and all sin deserves hell. Mankind was never created to die. We died as a race when Adam and Eve fell in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve fell in the Garden of Eden. They took of the fruit of the tree, of the knowledge of good and evil, the Bible tells us, and they ate it against the express command of Almighty God. And in so doing they died. And not only did they die physically, they lived a long time, but they died physically. Death came into the world through that transgression, through the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. But they died spiritually, so that the Bible speaks about a second death, a place called hell, a place which is known as the lake of fire. Again, that is why I have to preach this gospel to you, because there is a second death. There is a place called hell. There is a lake of fire, and men and women will be cast bodily into the lake of fire. There is a judgment to come. There is a wrath to come. That is why we need Jesus Christ, because the only way that we can stand before Almighty God on the day of judgment is if our sins are forgiven in their entirety. And the only way that our sins can be forgiven in their entirety is through the death of Jesus Christ. We must believe on him. We must have faith in Jesus Christ if we are to be saved from our sins. But God made us male and female in his image. That means that God's image is present in every man and in every woman. You see, God has done an extraordinary thing. He has made us human beings. But he has made men and women different from each other. And those differences display or declare the glory of God. They declare his wisdom, his power. It was God who created DNA. It was God who coded the DNA. It was God who made it so that DNA would code for the proteins in our bodies and coordinate the manufacture of those proteins, and also coordinate the construction of our bodies in the womb. It was God who did all of that in his wisdom. But he made us male and female. And if God has made us male and female for his glory, that is a glorious truth. But it also tells us and makes very clear that men can't become women and women can't become men and that men can't be trapped in a woman's body and that women can't be trapped in a man's body. God made us male and female. So you are what God has made you. If you are a man, God has made you a man. If you are a woman, God has made you a woman. And that cannot change. All of this stuff about people changing sex or there being hundreds of genders and all of this stuff or people being trapped in the wrong body is all merely man's attempt to flee and escape from God. It is just another way for us to say we are masters of our own destiny, captains of our own ship. It is the height of foolishness, madness and folly to say that a person can change sex. It is the height of madness, foolishness and folly to say that a person can become a member of the opposite sex or be a member of the opposite sex. It is impossible and most of us are wise enough to recognise that fact. But we live in a generation, we live in a nation, we live in a world where these things are these fantasies, these foolish lies are promoted by our governments and our education system and our healthcare system. Our healthcare system taking away the term mother and replacing it with birth parent which is offensive to women, which is nonsense. A mother is far more than just the person who gives birth, but she is also the person who carries the child. And of course childbirth may be very traumatic, but she is a mother not a birth parent. Her responsibilities don't finish at birth. God has made us male and female in his image and you can't change that, but if we are made in the image of God we are accountable to almighty God for our sins. The wicked shall be turned into hell. There is none righteous, no not one. The wages of sin is death. We need Jesus Christ. We need the one who is the saviour of the world. We need the one who has delivered sinners from sin. We need the one who has proven by his resurrection that he has the power of life and also that he has the power to defeat and to destroy death. And that's the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Now the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, is the saviour of the world. He came into the world to save the world. He came into the world to be that saviour, that salvation that God has made. We cannot save ourselves. That is not possible. Now in our generation people are very blasé about their souls. Oh they say, oh they say, we'll come to God in our way and God will accept us as we are. But my friends there is a holy God on the throne of heaven, a God to whom we must answer, a God who says we can only come to him one way, we must repent of our sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the only way. A holy God who hates sin, a holy God who has said that the wicked will be turned into hell, who has told us about hell, a holy God to whom we must give an account. And so rightly, if we understand the majesty and glory and power of Almighty God, then we will never ever be trivial about our salvation. God is not to be trifled with. God is a God who hates sin. God is a God who takes sin seriously. God is a God who will cast the sinner into hell. The wicked shall be turned into hell. Whose server's name was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire, the Bible tells us. So we must turn from our sins. We must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. We must seek the Lord Jesus Christ if we are to find the salvation that comes from Almighty God. Now here's a description of the ungodly. Psalm 10, Why standest thou far off, O Lord? Why hideest thouself in times of trouble? The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. Let them be taken in the devices they have imagined. For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God. God is not in all his thoughts. His ways are always grievous. Thy judgments are far above, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud. Under his tongue is mischief and vanity. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages. In the secret places doth he murder the innocent. His eyes are privily set against the poor. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den. He lieth in wait to catch the poor. He doth catch the poor when he draweth him into his net. He croucheth and humbleth himself that the poor may fall by his strong ones. He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten. He hath hidden his face. He hideth his face. He will never see it. Arise, O Lord, lift up thine hand. Forget not the humble. You see, there is always a time when God arises against the wicked. There is always a time when God arises in his wrath and in his sore displeasure and judges. We go to the book of Revelation and the account of the last judgment. We see that there is a resurrection of the dead. And those who died and were buried in their graves are raised from the dead to stand before the throne of God and give an account. Those who were lost at sea and eaten by fish are raised from the dead to stand before the throne of God and give an account. Those who were burned to ashes or vaporized in a nuclear explosion are raised from the dead to stand before God to give an account. There is a day of God's wrath. There is a day of God's judgment. There is a coming day when God will judge the world. And God, my friends, is not to be trifled with. One lie would see us cast into hell for eternity. One swear word, one blasphemy, one covetous thought, one foolish thought, one evil thought. God looks at the heart. He knows you. He knows me. Now I know the Lord Jesus Christ is my Savior. I know what the Lord Jesus has done for me. Though I am a hell -deserving sinner, though my sins are very great, yet they are forgiven. And I have received mercy from Almighty God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I know that mercy. I know that forgiveness. I have found that salvation that comes from God. And I have obtained that mercy. You see, it is the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us from all sin. He was taken by cruel hands. He was crucified. He was nailed to a cross. He was raised up between the heavens and the earth. The Lord Jesus was crucified. He died in the place of sinners. He laid down his life in the place of sinners. He loved sinners. He gave himself for sinners. And he is the propitiation for sin. That means he turned away the wrath of God from the sinner. God's wrath against sin is exceedingly great. If you were to tell one lie, you would go to hell for eternity. If you were to tell one lie, you would go to hell for eternity. And in eternity's time, which is never, you still wouldn't have paid for that sin. And God's wrath would still be justly kindled against you for your lie. That's how serious sin is. That's how holy God is. Hell is the just recompense and reward for sin, for lies, for swearing, for blaspheming God's name, for unbelief, for wickedness of every kind in our hearts. And we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. There is none righteous, no not one. We are guilty before Almighty God. We are under the wrath of God. We need a saviour. We are ruined, damned, wretched, lost. We are vile and corrupt. God sees us in our sins and He will cast us from His presence into everlasting fire and torment, into hellfire because of our sins.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Evidence for Inspiration: Part II
"First Timothy chapter number six, we are discussing the evidence that there is for the inspiration of scripture. We believe the Bible to be the word of God written, pinned, written down, recorded by 40 different men in three languages over a period of 1600 years, but evidently with one author and that author being almighty God who created us to have relationship with him and loves us and so he's revealed himself to us in writing through what we call the Holy Bible. It's a book of books, 66 books, but all fits together and we believe it to be divinely inspired inerrant, meaning without error, it is pure, it is perfect, it is powerful and there are very few people who still believe that. The majority of people believe that the Bible came somewhat from God, but you know you can't really believe that every word is as God wants it to be. There are more people who think it's a myth and a fairy tale and a legend than who believe that it is the word of God and is to be taken literally. 415 times the Bible uses the phrase, thus saith the Lord, 313 times the Bible references the word of God or the word of the Lord and we believe that. I believe that. You've got to make up your mind whether or not you believe that. I trust that you do and so what we're covering is the evidence that we have to support that belief. God does not ask us, he does ask us to exercise faith. He does not ask us to exercise blind faith. Faith and reason are not mutually exclusive. Faith and evidence are not mutually exclusive. This is not a blind faith. This is a credible faith. There are reasons to believe that the Bible is the word of God and if the Bible is the word of God and if what it says is true, then it would behoove us to find out what it says and build our lives upon it. It has the answer to eternal life, life after death. It has the answer to salvation from sin in relationship with God. It has the answer for the best way to live upon this earth. We read in 2 Peter chapter 1, where into ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place and so while we study the evidence for the inspiration of scripture, there are two different benefits, primary benefits that we derive from this study. Number one, it bolsters our faith and confidence. Wherever that might be lacking, it gives us every reason to continue to believe that the Bible is the word of God and continue to attempt to build our lives upon the truth of scripture, but then what we also want to be able to do is to articulate these truths in conversation with lost people that we're trying to witness to, many of whom have no point of reference when we try to start in and give them the gospel and tell them about Jesus Christ and his death on the cross, his resurrection, how we can be forgiven. Well a lot of times we've got to go back to the very beginning and establish that God is the creator and he gave us his word and there are many who will oppose the truth that we believe that the Bible is divinely inspired and we want to be able to give some reasons for why we believe what we believe. We were in Pennsylvania a couple weeks ago, had youth camp all week long. On Saturday we went downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania to do some street preaching and some witnessing and had a great time with a few brothers down there and right before we left I had this conversation with a man who came by and wanted to oppose what was happening and call us names and so you know how it goes. Most people want to make you know snide comments or smart comments but they do it while they're in motion and while they're almost out of earshot, you understand what I'm talking about? They don't come up to you and say something to your face so they can engage you in conversation, they try to just like lob a bomb right after they're out of reach and so you know I challenge in a friendly way I hope, in a nice way I challenge the individual, tell me what you believe, let's have a conversation. I walk over to him and he's cussing and he's being profane and he's you know calling me stupid and he believed in the big banks so I asked him for his evidence. He had absolutely none, he had absolutely no reason to believe what he believed other than, and he basically admitted this and I pointed out to him in the conversation excuse me, other than he didn't want God to tell him what to do. I've got some coffee, I need to cough, excuse me, okay that's better. So it's good to be able to and I went into some of these things about why we believe the Bible is the Word of God and it is we have reason to believe it and the next one this morning we talked about the continuity of Scripture, the unity of Scripture, how you could not replicate what we have in the Bible if you were to attempt to do this. These 40 different, 1600 years, three different languages and so many topics and it all fits together and no contradictions and then we talked about the endurance of Scripture, heaven or earth shall pass away but God's Word shall not pass away and this Bible has been attacked throughout history and yet it remains the best -selling book in all the world. We talked about fulfilled prophecy and we could go on and on and on talking about fulfilled prophecy and how it verifies the inspiration of Scripture, 351 Old Testament prophecies fulfilled in the first coming of Jesus Christ. But we'll continue this morning with scientific accuracy, scientific accuracy and I've misplaced my copy of the bulletin so I can follow along with your notes, there it is. First Timothy chapter 6 and verse number 20 is our first reference we'll look at, not sure how many of these references we can get to this morning but we'll try our best. First Timothy chapter 6 and in verse number 20 the Bible says, oh Timothy keep that which is committed I trust avoiding profane and vain battleings and oppositions of science falsely so -called. Now God anticipated the arguments that people would make against his word, God anticipated that people would say they don't believe in the Bible they believe in science, that was this individual that I spoke to a week ago yesterday. He claimed to believe in science, when I asked him what science he believed in he had no idea, he had no answer for why the Big Bang contradicted the scientific laws of thermodynamics, the scientific law of the conservation of angular momentum. Science and the Big Bang are incompatible. Now there are scientists who believe in the Big Bang because they don't want to believe in God but science is knowledge that is gained through observation and experimentation and nobody has observed anything like the Big Bang taking place. Nobody has observed the evolution of one species to another species, these are people who call people who call themselves scientists believe these things but that is science falsely so -called, it comes under the name of science but that is a misnomer, okay. It's not science at all, it's theory, it's belief, it's religion, it takes faith but people don't believe in the Bible because they believe in science. I believe in science, I believe in the water cycle, right, I believe in things that you can observe, I believe in germ theory, that's been demonstrated, right, I believe that a mask is about as helpful as a chain link fence, that's scientific, those are starting to come back out. Anyway scientific accuracy backs up the Bible, the Bible is not a science book but where it makes a scientific statement it is always accurate, in fact the Bible outpaces modern scientific discovery over and over and over again, there are things that began to be discovered in the 1800s that men thought this is modern scientific advancement and those things that were discovered beginning in the 1800s and on were in the Bible all along and how did these men who wrote thousands of years ago have this advanced scientific knowledge unless and here's where it is, I mean unless, unless God inspired what these men wrote, if the God who is the creator of heaven and earth, if the God who is the one who set up the laws that govern nature, if he's the one that gave the words, they don't make perfect sense that these men could have some advanced understanding of scientific principles and there are so many illustrations of this, we'll just take a few of them this morning, let's turn quickly, Job 26, Job is the oldest book in your Bible, I understand it does not come first sequentially but the book of Job was written prior to the book of Genesis, Job 26 and verse number 7, Job 26 and verse number 7, the Bible says in Job 26 7, he stretches out the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing, here's what Job knew thousands of years ago that the Job understood what was theorized and demonstrated by Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton and modern scientists, Job understood the principles of gravity that the earth hangs upon nothing, that God stretched out the north over the empty place, that's a scientific fact in your Bible, Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 22, Isaiah 40 and verse number 22, the year 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, he was going to arrive in the East Indies by sailing west, there was deep concern that he would fall off the edge of the earth, what they did not know at the time was that on the edges there were huge walls of ice and it would be impossible for Columbus to penetrate those and fall off over the edge, but no here's what Columbus believed that the earth was round, it was a sphere, you could go west and eventually circle back to the east, now it was a lot farther than he imagined that it was, he landed in the Caribbean and thought he was in the Indies or claimed them to be, so anyway you got the East Indies and the West Indies, but in Isaiah 40 and verse number 22 the Bible said in 712 BC, 712 years before Christ, it is he, God, that sitteth upon the circle of the earth and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers that stretched out the heavens as a curtain and spread them out as a tent to dwell in, the earth is spherical, that is a fact that was written many, many, many, many, many years before Galileo, Isaiah wrote down that the earth is round, Luke chapter 17, look at that one, no go to Job 25, Job 25, I've got some extra references in my notes that we didn't put in yours just because we have a limited amount of time, Job 25 and verse number 5, Job 25 verse 5, the Bible says behold even to the moon and it shineth not, yea the stars are not pure in his sight, so the moon does not shine, now in the sky at night it looks like it shines, especially on a clear night with a full moon, the moon is bright, you almost don't need a flashlight on a night like that to go out at night time and see because the moon is shining brightly except it's not, we understand now that the moon simply reflects the light of the sun, it does not shine at all of itself, which is a type of picture of the Christian, let your light so shine, well Jesus is the light of the world, he's in us, we're to reflect his light like the moon reflects the light of the sun, but here's a scientific fact, in the oldest book of the Bible, the moon does not shine, it reflects sunlight, look at first chronicles chapter 1, first chronicles chapter 1, verse 19, there's even science tucked into the genealogies, how many of you get real excited when you're reading your Bible and you come to first chronicles chapter number 1, here's my chance to learn how to pronounce all these weird names, first chronicles chapter 1 verse 19, and unto Eber were born two sons, name of them was Peleg, it's a weird name, I wonder if he tried to pronounce that differently because in his days the earth, I wonder if he had a dog, anyway because in his days the earth was divided and his brother's name, now come on wouldn't you be bitter if your name was Peleg and your brother had a cool name like Joktan, his brother's name was Joktan, but what happened in the days of Peleg, let's call him Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, continental drift theory, remember learn about that in science class, Pangea, the earth is all one land mass and then it splits apart and it moves apart and we have continents, listen the Bible wrote about that in the book of first chronicles, these events are 4000 BC or a little bit sooner and God gave the writer of first chronicles this scientific understanding of continental drift, look at Ecclesiastes chapter 1.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from He's Fired!! (We Had No Choice)
"So, Ryan said that if we were one second late for the morning call, then you're kicked out of the research group and you basically can't ever come back. There's no redemption. Wait, am I allowed to swear? Yeah, I'm allowed to swear. This place is full of shit, bro. You ask and if you ask, there's no way back into the call. There's just no way back. It's finished. So if you get kicked out on the morning call, you're not coming back. So I don't care who you are. I don't care whether you're the host or not a host, we're now making this call live at quarter past. We expect everybody on at quarter past. If you're not on by 20 past, you're out and if you're out, you ain't coming back in. We need to show up on time. We need to show up prepared and the one thing I'm not going to tolerate is people arriving at the morning call as passengers. People arriving at the morning call with no alpha and no value add, just thinking that they'll sit there and comment. I don't accept that shit. If you're not here at quarter past nine, you have five minutes to get on and get the legs. If not, you're out and if you're out, you ain't coming back. We are all there at a certain time every single day and we expect that everyone arrive on time and prepared. So, I mean, I made a rule now because people kept coming late, certain people, I'm not going to mention names. So the morning call is the whole team jumping on in the morning and preparing what's the top news, what's the top coins and I think a lot of people work here just to be on that morning call and this is because of me. I couldn't find the link, I was seven minutes late and now I am in shit. That's it. If you're not there five minutes after the call starts, you're out and once you're out, there's no way back into the call. Don't tell him, but I was 14 minutes late today. I don't think he noticed, so we'll see. Thank you if you are. Thank you if you're Kyle, Sheldon, Rand, Miles, I don't give a shit if you are. Anyway, let's carry on. In the military, there are people getting on. You see a few NBA players, you see a few pretty big gamers. It's too hard to use. I mean, if I lost like $20 worth of ease trying to do it, believe me, people have lost a lot more. Yeah, there's problems. We have major technical issues, as usual. I don't know what to do. I'm serious. Do I just go live like this? I'm luminescent. What else am I supposed to do? This is fun. It's important. We've got to do it. I don't know what to do. This thing is like we already meant to have started two minutes ago. And now Alistair's frothing here with excitement that there's problems. Look at him, salivating like a bloody Kardashian cameraman. Hi, Rand. We're having trouble with the green screen, getting it set. We're doing that thing where it's either the host or the green screen. Can I be adjusted your colour, your green for the preview? Yes. Preview. Wait, there we're back. We clicked preview. It worked. Now, on the black magic card, press the find button. On this thing? Yeah. That one? Yes, press that button. Okay, I'm there. It worked. Well done. You're a genius. This is why you own this company. He's not impressed. He's having his breakfast and matcha and we're late. What can we do? Guys, let's just quickly close off over here. Remember, we do have the morning call as well, which is right now. That is on the Banta Bubbles chart, the newsroom. You can go there. Sign in right now. The call has just begun. It's capped to, I think it's 500. So make sure that you jump in. I see someone says that Karl's going to be late. Yes, I'm going to be late. I'm still on the show. I'm paranoid if I'm late. I'm out. That's where you can hear Rand shouting at people. So if you find that a good time, then make sure you join. There is also a lot of alpha in the group. I've got a problem with it. The problem is that you're not accountable in any element. The language is done. I don't get my translations. The influencer campaign is two weeks old. I can't get involved in it. I just need results. Just need results. I can't get involved in the process. Can't get involved in managing the resources. That's what you need to be doing. So I've given you four things. Now you need to focus on those four things. One, the tech must work. No bullshit, no downtime. Make sure the tech works. You've had millions to know on this tech. No bullshit, no downtime. The ability to patch guests in seamlessly during the show is important. Can't carry on in the middle of the show, interrupting the show, not being able to share screens, audio is not coming through. That needs to be fixed like now. Your responsibilities are very simple. The tech in this office must always work. Must be seamless. I called me in, gave me more work and less time and layered through the deliverables and just basically said that none of the tech should ever give a problem ever again. And it's quite hard to agree to something like that because that's not how tech works. I don't need to know the process. I don't need to know the issues. Everyone else here gets their job done. They manage the resources to get the job done. I'm expecting the same from you. Okay? If I risk doing it and I mess it up, it's a big thing. So I need to get someone who's got the knowledge and has the experience to do it. It's a nice statement, but it's not possible. In some situations it's not. All I do is kid -shadow them and how hard I push on both sides. Is that just the reality of life? It's the reality of life. I don't hear it from anybody else. I don't hear it from you. I don't take it personally. I find as a teacher it's fascinating to learn, but if you're looking for compliments and you feel uplifted in your life, go somewhere else. 100%. And when we're doing this, is our life a reality show? Yes. Seriously, I'm going to be on a weekly reality show. Give them cocktails. You're going to do good stuff. You're going to get compliments, bro. No. Once a year. Give them cocktails. Life will get bad on you. James has had a very tough day. Nothing that a good cappuccino and what we call in South Africa, I've been here for a long time. I've been driving shows. I've been doing pretty much whatever. My job has evolved into pretty much everything here. I'm bored of driving shows. I've finally been off shows. I'm doing projects now. Projects for Cryptobancer. So influencer marketing, translating the languages, moving our broadcasting system over, then not only that, I've been keeping up with all of my stuff, following up on everything every day, but I've also been getting knocked out every day. Also getting a little bit of shit every day. But I also know from being here a long time, sitting here and arguing and making excuses doesn't help either of us. Long -term portfolio. Long -term portfolio. Yeah, it's more higher time frame for your stuff. Yeah, fair, fair. So long -term stuff, bro. So I'm going to help them build the ultimate portfolio. You know how I do that soldier sort of mechanism of understanding the different levels that your altcoins should be inserted into your long -term portfolio. So it's higher time frame portfolio plus strategies and you're preparing them mentally for the bull market and how they're going to act on it and what they're going to do when it comes, et cetera. Okay. Thank you. How long are you going to be? Not more than an hour. No more than an hour. It never stops, no? Working on the run is like, it is really, really, really hard. Some people can... If you don't do something right, you don't stay in your lane, you're going to get hit on hard. A lot of people can't take that. A lot of people will leave. I've seen many people come in and out of these doors that can't hold the pressure. He is a top businessman. He is a man that's savage in his industry and you've got to give him respect. There's a very small percentage of the planet that's got a nice vibe he has. JAMES' TROUBLE James, are you in trouble again? When am I not in trouble? James is always in trouble. Always. James is trouble. We had the disco moment, remember? Last week when Ranz Lightz went on and off five times. It happened again this morning for Kyle's show. But yeah. He didn't shit again. James is going to get fired. Look, I know it's tough here. This is a high performance environment. But if we're going to achieve our objectives, we can only have a high performance environment. But it's my responsibility to make sure that we are executing according to our vision. And our vision is to build a billion dollar business in less than three years. And to me, as I say, culture is the most important thing in a business. It's what separates good businesses from bad businesses. And I won't let the culture of this place decline. It's just not something that I'll do. I won't compromise on culture ever. It took me 17 years to build a $150 million business. I've done it before. This time it's actually about changing people's lives. And if you look at every single person that I work with here, they'll tell you their lives have changed. I don't think anybody's going to complain in three years when they're sitting on their yachts sipping on margaritas. They won't complain anymore. It's a single swim. That's all. So, Rand always striving for success. I think that's very, very good. That's the perfect leader that we need. Yeah, he's an incredible human, incredible business person. And his work ethic is unparalleled. So, I look up to that. I see him as a mentor. Because, I mean, I thought I worked hard. He has four kids and he still works harder than me, which is just mind -blowing. It's insane. So, yeah. What are you talking about? Yeah, so, obviously, Do's been under me and, like, within the business. He's been running the live training sessions. He was very, very afraid of being behind camera in the beginning. But I just had this feeling that he had to get his ass behind cameras. And I think he's more than just doing my charts on Discord. I think he should have a show. I think he will annihilate in the pool. Like, he's really good. But I feel a lot of our hosts are going to struggle in the pool. I think they do well in this market. I don't think they're going to do well. And I think we've got a channel that we're wasting. The fact that we don't have daily shows there. I think we're going to rebrand the channel, the other channel. I think I'm actually leaning towards Banter Plus. Because I think Banter Plus just says everything it needs to say. It's like, it's the better channel, it's plus, it's additional. Plus, it's the better channel. Yeah. If it says Banter Plus, if you're making a step -style channel, people aren't going to watch it. People don't watch the second league. People don't watch Formula 2. People don't watch. People want to watch the best. I promise you, bro. I'm going to move my show. I'm going to move my show to another channel. Soon. Rebrand and move. It's too much of a move. I'll do it when there's movement in the market and there's a full cycle. I'm going to jump. So you want two main channels? Sure. Why? What do I gain if I don't do it? I've got a channel. I've got two amazing channels instead of one. We'll rebrand a channel. Then you can try another show there. But you know, if you get onto the show, you sign a contract, because we don't want to build stars here that don't compete with us. Wait, you know. You know where my loyalty is. I know where your loyalty is. You know what they say. When you marry your wife, you're marrying your best friend. When you're getting divorced, you're getting divorced from the wicked witch of Eastbeck, bro. You can't even talk to her when you're getting divorced. That's what you've got to plan for. You know what I mean? We do have one. We do have one quick problem, and I need the banter fans' help with it, okay? Especially this sniper army. Run is considering his maybe, because we have a second channel coming up. Maybe Dylan should have his own show. So what I want you to do, I want you to go to Run's show today, and I want you to spam the shit out of the comments and say, Dylan must get a show. Dylan must get a show. Dylan must get a show. I love these altcoins. I just love these labels. I love these foods. I mean, I'm doing this stuff every day, and I'm so happy to share it with you every day. We're going to basically park there to pay, so you're going to have two powerhouses driving to one run. Yeah, that's the difference here, because a lot of people aren't there. What you do in the background is your deal. You guys are going so much at the end of it. You're not going to come... I just want to make sure that he has a show and that you... For as long as your show is growing and you have a lot of community... You think I'm good enough to have a show. I don't want to come here and sell one. more So, exactly, this is my point. I was always a reluctant presenter. So Ryan pulled me into the office. We were talking about the show and everything and the possibility of me getting one. It's not something I was always pushing and chasing myself, so it was quite strange to me when he told me I'm potentially not good enough. So, I mean, there is a difference between show business, obviously, and the content work that I do. I know my content is 10 out of 10. I'm not the most exciting or charismatic presenter, but I think I can get better. And I think I can prove him wrong. Yeah, so people want to know if I'm good enough or not. You just need to come look at my charts, really. I mean, look at this tweet. When everyone is getting all depressed, I said to them, Pump town coming for render even though there's a death cost, okay? Look at this. Bang. Perfect. Absolute perfection. Into the trend. TP time. We're out of this trade. Look at this one. Oil. Everyone was so bullish on oil. We got the short lie. We traded this oil completely live on the channel. Look at Rune. Called a short on the live into a banging resistance zone. I mean, there it is right there. Look at this camp. Looking so sad. Rune's coming down right to this zone here. At least 1 .4. Maybe even down there. So, it's all happening in here all the time. Just come look at my charts. They're here in the Discord as well. Look at this. Look at this DYDX. We said it's breaking through resistance. It was a big resistance zone. Looking for support to develop. Look at that. Bang. Now we're going to short this thing. So, you decide. Is my work good enough? I don't know. We'll find out. I like Dylan. Dylan I've known for a long time. In fact, Dylan's wife and my wife are actually very good friends. That's how we met. And when we moved into Banta, I brought him along for the ride. Because I just knew we'd find a spot for him. Now, the ball is in his court. We're giving him the screen. We're giving him the platform. And now he has to perform. And it's kind of cute to see how stressed he gets. Because Dylan's skin -haired beard. And now he's shitting himself in front of the camera. So, it's actually quite fun to watch it happen. We'll obviously support him. I want him to succeed. When you get to 50 shots, that's a lot better if you didn't have to have a phone. You want to embarrass him? Let me show you how embarrassing my first shoot was, bro. This is the first time I ever did fucking live. Live fucking TV, bro. I do really love you. Good luck. Good luck to 50 years. Welcome to Crypto Trader at the World's Best. How bad is this? How bad is this? This is basically true. I am Crypto Man Ryan. And I'll be your host. How bad is this? I'll be your host. You're a mess. I want you. I want you. I want you. I don't want you. I'm so bad. Just for everyone, I know how tough it is making content at this time when shit's happening. And when it's getting more and more and more boring. I'm starting to get my momentum back, which is why I think I'm going to cancel my career trip because I just can't afford a disruption in momentum. I think we need to use this time to build because you're like two green candles on Bitcoin and you know what happens, everyone's going to rush back. When that happens, a lot of changes are going to happen in this business. So the first bit of content we're going to do is Dylan's going to have a show. We're going to finalize all the agreements here, but Dylan will have his show.
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Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
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"And was never that interested in sports, or it wasn't like the traditional whatever. So I had the privilege of being picked on and called names every day. But I think that like that, I mean, I hate to be like, it was okay because it made me who I am, but it really made me resilient and made me realize that, you know, people are always dealing with their own shit. It's never about you. If someone picks on you or makes fun of you or doesn't like you for who you are, it's not about you. It's about them. So like just remembering that, kind of just frees you up to like live, live the life the way that you want to. And Texas can be rough. Dallas in Dallas is a big city. You know, but it's still it's full of a lot of people, especially when I was growing up that weren't allowed a lot of self expression that deviated from that certain type of person. So anyone that like deviated from that or was different than that type of person was like an assault to people because they were like, oh my God, why does this person get to be more expressive or louder or like what they like and not what everyone else does? And that can be scary to people and but it's just like fuck those people. You got to just be who you are. Wonderful, wonderful. Thank you. Oh my God, I didn't mean to get so deep. Now I'm reliving my childhood and I'm depressed. I'm just kidding. Did I not tell you this was a comedic podcast claim? What's going on? What's easier? It's probably neither. But dating men are dating women. And I don't know if that's a silly question, but I mean, I would just, I don't think it's I'm not good at dating anyone, so it's like none of them none of them are good or easier for me.
Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
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"I love that, you know, you're almost creating your own sitcoms, so even if you're not on somebody else's, you're creating your own work. And that's brilliant. Yeah. I mean, I think it's like, it's true. It's like for anyone listening, just like, follow your passion and heart when it comes to creating content. That's how you get people to pay attention to it, you know? And I love what you said earlier at the top of the show, which was, you know, we have to create this and put it out there because you can't just open an account and go, oh, well, where are my followers? Yeah. We have to give them a reason to follow us, creating content. And consistency and posting and all that. And the rest will come. I mean, I've just been organically growing mine across Twitter, Instagram, TikTok. And one year on TikTok and Instagram, I've had more views than in 15 some years on YouTube. So it just depends which platform works for you, but I abandon YouTube for ten years at the beginning when we're doing channel one O one back in Hollywood. I remember channel one O one. I was a big part of that, you know, so. Really? Yes, yeah. So do you remember Mike rose and drew, you know, Mike rose and drew drogue? Planet unicorn? Planet unicorn. So interesting story, planet unicorn was one of my favorite things before I moved to LA. I was obsessed with it. And then when I moved here like two of the first people I met were Mike and drew. And I was like, I was like, oh my God, I'm like a huge fan of the show you guys make. I did it like, is this how LA works? Like you just like meet your idols and, you know, they weren't like huge celebrities, but they were making cool, cool shit that I was like really into. So it was fun to get to work with them early on. And I did a channel one O one show with them called fagne and gacy. I love yeah, of course. I don't know if I can say it, but yeah. I was in that show and it's like still one of the funniest things. They're so funny. Maybe that's why you look familiar because yeah, no, Mike rose and my ex-wife used to do drag addiction, which is a podcast covering RuPaul's Drag Race. Oh, amazing. So she and Mike Andrew, you know, best of Friends. Yeah. So yeah, so channel one O one. I know that drew also did Chloe. Yes, I could never pronounce her name. But just all brilliant people that I think really excelled there at channel one O one, but that's great. I was in classroom with Mike. I think Mike rose and Tyler spears. And.
Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
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"I mean, yeah, I started in just kind of like, you know, the traditional way. Like I started doing church plays when I was, oh shit. Sorry, I'd hit the camera there. I started doing church plays and that sort of thing. And choir when I was like really young and then that just kind of kept going. You know, I started doing all the school plays and elementary school. I remember I was doing like, there was like a Shakespeare team that came and worked with when I was in like 6th grade and they worked with us and I remember interestingly enough since you're such an improv guy, I kind of went we were doing like midsummer night's dream. And I went up on a line when I was doing Shakespeare and this was in 6th grade. And I just started like improvising in like a Shakespeare, not like in Shakespeare verse, but just like within the moment in the play, I was improvising the audience loved it and it was funny and I just kind of like getting that rush of like being in the moment and improvising and having like an immediate reaction like that just kind of like hooked me from that moment. That's when my obsession with validation that's very unhealthy started. And continues to this day. Sure, wonderful. But I mean, yeah, it's just continuing to do that and then when I went to school for theater at like this school that did not focus on theater. But I just couldn't give it up. I started working in Dallas at like a hotel and I was like on track to be like a hotel manager and I could not stop acting and I got laid off back in like you remember that recession in like 20 2008 and then that was like such a blessing because I was like,
Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
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"I'd also be willing to support because that's what we need. As individual artists, how are you involved in it? I mean, I know you're an actor in it, but also writer, producer. Yeah, I mean, I'm like technically, I call myself the showrunner because that's essentially what I do. I write the whole series, I am one of the, I'm not the main, I'm kind of like a second character, you know, a secondary character in it because I also direct and I mean, I do pretty much everything. It's like the biggest lesson I've ever learned and how to make movies and how to make TV. It's been like that part of it's been invaluable and I mean, yeah. So yeah, I'm a writer, actor, creator, all that in it. Wow, wonderful, brilliant. And what a lesson, I would imagine. I mean, just honestly, I mean, it's like, if there's any actors or there's listening, it's the way to learn how to do this shit is just make it. Just start doing it, you know? And then it's kind of funny having done that when I'm on like a normal television set now. Because I'm so involved in the process on Tammy bangs or some of my own content I make. I have to bite my tongue whenever I'm working on scenes because as you probably know when you're on a TV show, they're not very open to ideas or fresh takes on things or line changes unless you're like the star of the show. So a lot of times I have to just remember to zip it. Know your place. And you know what? I think I noticed that you were on a soap opera as well. Did you do? Have you done that? I have done a soap opera. I was on Days of Our Lives. I had a small recurring role in Days of Our Lives, which was also like a lesson. A crazy experience to be on a soap like that, yeah. I did a bold and a beautiful. I was on for a couple months and I learned, 'cause I'm both bold and beautiful. Yes, you are. Thank you. Because and I learned exactly what you said, kind of like, and it was, you know, you're worried about continuity usually. We're doing the scene and when I left the night before the trash candles on one side, when I came back to trash can was on the other side and I go, hey, I don't mean to be out of place here, but just so you know that trash can was over there when we finished filming last night and the guy kind of goes the art director, whomever he goes, he goes, you know what? He goes, it's a soap opera. He goes, no one cares. He goes. Very nice. And I was like, I got you, and it won't happen.
Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
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"But my parents weren't in porn, correct. Yeah, my parents were at my dad is actually Ron Jeremy. Right. Okay, that's what I thought. We're getting folks. No, I'm trust me. I think our audience, well, most of them are smart enough that when they watch it, they realize exactly what it is. I mean, within the first couple of seconds, you're laughing already. It's just so brilliantly done. And I love that documentary style The Office, you know, things like, I think it's just so well done. Spinal tap, you know, going back to the spinal tap. Yeah. And if I were to work on this, this would be the second project almost like that. The other one was a movie that will sasso wrote if you remember will sasso from Matt. Of course. So he put me in his movie called. It was initially it ended up being called for Christ's sake. And I just played a sound guy on a porn set. But initially, fucking for Jesus or fucking, yeah, fucking for Jesus, where he uses his brothers. His brother is a priest, a Catholic priest, and will goes to him to borrow money. He tells him that he's sick and he goes to borrow money in order to finish making his porno. Yeah. Ten years ago, 12 years ago, you know, I'm sure someone recommended they changed the name, right? They absolutely did. They're like, yeah, we're not calling it fucking for Jesus. If you want anyone to see this, if you want any if you want this to stand any chance, exactly. But no, I think not to keep harping on it, but I think you guys have something really, really great over there. And I'd love to be able to watch the rest of the episodes just to, I'm already invested just with the trailer. Great. Investors are definitely like, I'll send you a link so you don't have to pay.
Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
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"So we hope we basically paved Vimeo. They host they host it for us. And it just interacts very well with the website and all that. So yeah, I mean, there's a whole subscription based model that they have as well. And that's just the one we ended up doing because it looks really great and it looks really great. It's easy, it's functional, they don't take a lot of the profit or anything. It's like to have something that clean and like that runs that smoothly. You really want to go with a better you can't just build your own website because it's not going to handle the content. It's going to lag. It's going to there would be too many issues. So yeah, people we give them the first episode free and hopefully that gets them to bite and kind of like any TV show it makes you want to watch more and that's kind of been the experience. How much is it? And do you sell it by the episode or do you go like no? So you can go on and buy per episode and I think each episode is like a dollar 99 or you get you get the entire series, which right now is two seasons for 1999. So but that's the other thing it's like it's not cheap content like $20 is a big ask for people but this is like a professionally produced very funny like we're very proud of it show and there's like fans. Now we have fans like I've been out in public and been recognized for like Tammy bangs, you know? And it's kind of like so cool. Sure, sure. But it's also, it's also on our end, it's kind of like, you know, we could try to take it through like a more traditional route or like something and we want to do that with like our next thing we produce but for this we like to keep it kind of like you know like very, I don't know.
Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
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"You see a lot of boobs, you see a lot of butts, you see some dong, but I mean, you know, like Chelsea Lynn, she's like a bigger gal and she's like 6 foot two. She's very open and proud of her body and showing her body and like we really lean into that and that's part of it. But we also, I think we also do well at hitting like we're as raunchy and non PC as we can be with still being very PC and respectful. Like you feel like you're watching this like crazy over the top comedy but if you really get down to it, it's like there's nothing you know it's like we're still being like modern where it's a modern comedy take. But you will see some nudity. So if you're offended by that, do not watch it. I'm absolutely not offended by that so I will definitely be watching.
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"Whether or not i don't know but they're going in the right direction i think. What do you think donna. No you call you. Ventas games tailor. you're worried about them at all season massively massively team lost against ugly. Especially in amid seal. And i'm thinking that's not the best you've midfield and the scene continues a very very good player. But he's not elite. Just yet rub. Eli always deceive yet. See the best of western mckennie. So i think gathered miranda all. You could do so points over the years. I don't think an ear mounding you would get. But i don't think he's with you by this facials right now. They're not maybe not see. How no how all is well it. You've map select. We've come through the door and the league manager one of the very best whose work over the squalor. In my opinion that's beyond me. Land behind in. He's all trying get anywhere near the title season. Not you stone in. You've i don't see you getting anywhere near the title of the season. So if. I'm usually final whoopi worries. I think i took issue. I i i agree with them but the one thing that was was lasted. Are you worried for them. I think we need to get off this high horse where we worry if they don't win the title i we've all become used to. This is like putting a frog and you know the story of like the frog of the pan of boiling water. And you eat a gradual. You think it's normal and then it doesn't jump out you die. I don't know if you've got quite got that and now the point is it's not normal. Well you've interstate is it. Normal with byron did is normal. Well parry says your mandate is. None of this stuff is normal. It's normal on the other. Hand that teams go in cycles. And when psychos ed they rebuild that is normality so i think you are going to finish top four this season. I still think they have a decent shot to win the title if it's a tragedy because they're not dead cert winners like they might have been a few years ago. Well there's a for that you spend your money before you took a big hit on kobe. Three hundred odd million over two seasons. Now you gotta go and pay the piper and you've you've accepted this and you've decided to go with with young players will maybe we'll come in a couple years by this whole culture that that's been in football in recent years of papering over cracks and all the other one six seven eight nine in a row and now we'll win the champion this year that had to end. That's not sustainable. Down has got to be a strategy account. You sit there. Event is one of the biggest in the world and say well alright cycles the and s forget about you've every year or two just got to be there's got to be a strategy where they move on yeah brin strategies there and it has okay. Well i'll lose a strategy was signing keys. Coup cesky look at le- Mckennie players dot core young benton cores. Also still young still young and and you develop those players and these are players who arrived most of them at considerable expense. And you develop those players and you hope that they represent the next generation. That's the strategy. Rebuilt you rebuild with youth rather than doing what they did before they would veteran every year thinking like oh look. It's a missing piece of the puzzle. That might have worked then. It's.
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"Bangs rubber bands around ankles. Hannah says feathers in I, uh cava Richies richies, actually axe body spray. Was that a phase? I don't know. Rachel Glue on fake nails, Gauchos, an oversized belt. Olivia said razor stage all like the scooter. The razor school. I don't know. God, I miss my Kimberly Was it over? We're talking about the raver stage. Come on, guys. Raver with the waiver and the Big Bang, I I went through that too. I was a raver. Pinky. Come on. Come on. Thank you guys favouring some of this stuff. I was just never even cool enough to recognize it was happening. So maybe that's part of the reason Apple warehouses I wasn't supposed to be. Uh Oh, my God. Harvey. Harvey, Come on. We know Harvest McCormick Center. Then they tried the idea, everyone I was 17.5. I could not get in. I spent $120 on that. Wow. Well, thank you, Kimberly. Have a good day. All there was also if you're a child of the nineties, there was also like a roller blade face. Remember that everybody was rollerblading, and then you go to the skating rink. You know, your parents would drop you off at the skating rink on Saturday or whatever. And they'd be like two sessions. Sexual tension of the skating rink as you're 13 years old, and you had like the skaters, and then you had, like the rollers, skaters. You had the roller bladers. And there was like a little bit of. Yeah, the roller blades would just be weaving in and out of the roller skaters. And then somebody got shot at the skating rink. They never reopened it So that was The end of skating Saturdays. Yeah, it was too bad. Yeah, quite wild. No, I'm just saying, I drive by the place into computer store Now I drive by it all the time. And I'm like, Oh, the fun we used to have until I just remember like the carpet would always be like the same cover that's always in like an art. Oh, my God. I'll pick the bowling alleys. Yeah, we think the pattern the pattern and it glows. Upgraded. Yeah, And it was so dirty. Yeah, Yeah, I got the police was disgusting. Yeah. All scared All Skate Bielski direction..
Newsradio 970 WFLA
"bangs" Discussed on Newsradio 970 WFLA
"Filipino Bangs it back in. Canadians starting to press a little bit here Late first McDonough around the far boards for Ross Colton does well to win it and feeds Kucherov at center ice. Now two point steamroll into the offensive zone. Left corner. Kind of lost it to Webber Webber kicks it for Sharratt. To write a check Cross. Colton grabs it right circle. Colton protects it. A drop pass blocked by Tyler Toffoli to foliar feed up the middle. Intercepted by point at center ice at one time it right back in. Five late left in a scoreless first bench. Toronto Montreal left side attitude to Foley from the Red Line. The whistle it in block played by Stamkos to the lightning far corner behind that circuit, Kev. Okay. We, David Savard. Turn it out to center Ice, and Cirelli works it in. Brett Kulak back to Montreal and nearly lost to Colton. Coolant gets loose Lack of side feed. It is Suzuki across the wind left circle pulls up in the left corner and fumbles. The puck gets back up, though. Winds across ice skate race of that puck maroon will knock the ball around to the near side. Suzuki is there, though, to the left point over the stick of Kulak comes out to center ice will act reverses for Nick Suzuki. Lighten your change here across the one coffee electrical Suzuki Open. Suzuki takes the left corner. Little centering feed shot score Josh Anderson on Montreal's second shot, the Lightning got caught in a little bit of a slow change. Montreal has its first lead in the series. It's one other Canadians. That's exactly what happened. It was a slow change by the lightning, and they took advantage of it. And maroon was on defense..
Does This Happen to You
"bangs" Discussed on Does This Happen to You
"Hi i'm chris. Kepler and welcome to does this happen to you. I'm an actor voice actor audiobook narrator and writer. I love telling and sharing stories about the strange experiences. My friends and i have while doing mundane things like grocery shopping. That's why this podcast features funny stories from fantastic writers about our daily anomalies a micro audio book about life in befuddle men. Just for you our story. This week is from sarah lofgren who you'll find on medium dot com and here is why my bangs refused to give me the sense of control. I crave has this ever worked for anyone about a year and a half ago. I decided to become a bangs girl mainly for two reasons. One i thought it would make me look mysterious and interesting to. I am in possession of a foreheads. So large i have to tilt my head downward if folks want to see where my hairline line begins when i pull my hair into a tight ponytail. I look bald. I've always had a huge forehead. When i was a kid. The recess monitors would watch me running around the playground like a maniac and wonder why is that. Hyperactive child bulled. And why does she keep collecting slugs and putting them in the play fort. That second question is a story for another time. My pediatrician thought he was making a hillary's joke when he compared my cranium to that of my extremely bold grandfather. Thanks dr milford. Don't worry you didn't hurt my feelings. I just tossed the resulting insecurity onto the trash pile of my brain. And i'm sure one day the garbage collectors will show up and take care of the mess for me. One day you might be surprised to learn that. I have a ton of hair. The problem is it's a limited to the back of my head yes. I've address my dissatisfaction with mother nature. Why did you put all the hair in one place instead of spreading it out more evenly but mother nature hasn't been forthcoming and i suspect. She has some kind of trauma she hasn't properly dealt with. Otherwise why is she out. There inventing creatures like the venezuelan poodle moth. That's not the action of someone who has healthily processed the difficult moments in their life. When you've got a forehead so large it can reflect coded alien signals. The only solution is to try bangs. I've gone the banks route a few times in my life but the road was oily in flat. Thanks puberty and i always ended up. Vegas ing the experience what happens in banks land stays in banks land but now i am older i have a medium account instead of a live journal. I figured out what shampoo works for me and my hormones aren't quite as insistent on sending me through my days looking like i recently stepped out of a bottle of olive oil so bangs time i went to the salon and had them chop those babies telling them to make me look more like xena the warrior princess. Then matilda wormwood not. That matilda isn't a bad ass but it's not the look i'm going for then. The pandemic happened. And i lost all access to hair care professionals to stay safe. I'd have to walk through my bank experience alone. It was just me and a pair of scissors with splotches of tape goose on their blades. The process went all right. Considering a few months would pass. And i chop again. I gradually improved. And now i occasionally get compliments when i stare into the zoom abyss. The problem is it can be difficult to tell what should be bangs. And what should be normal hair. My hairdresser left me a guideline in the before times. So i try not to exercise too much enthusiasm. But there's this one chunk. I don't know what it's supposed to be. The hairdresser left long were they. Were they wrong. Can i trust anyone these days. I don't cut it short. But i don't think it wants to be long. It rages forward every chance he gets. It escapes every hairband screaming. Da la la. Look at me. I shall not be contained which is annoying when everything in the universe is outside my control right now. You'd think this one chunk of hair could just suck it up and soldier onward like the rest of us but instead it's gone rogue this damn hair might be the death of me as it dances around in the wind getting tangled in my face mask and yelling. Nana them. maybe i respected a bit. That chunk is a jerk. But i wish there was more of that stubbornness and persnickety nece in my own character. Maybe then i'd be better at standing firm against the waves of rejection that come with being a writer. Maybe i wouldn't feel like i have to hide the parts of my personality others. Don't appreciate or understand. maybe. I wouldn't grow quite so depressed at the way the world continues to spiral out of control instead. I just swing my pen around in the air and sing blah blah blah blah. Second up suckers. Thanks so much for listening. If you enjoyed the story let me know and share it with your friends. Follow me at kris k. K. aria on twitter or kris k. Kepler on facebook or check out my website. Www dot chris kepler dot com..
Fatherhood Friday’s
"bangs" Discussed on Fatherhood Friday’s
"Dot com is easiest. Way to make a pocket. Caribbean dot. Com is easiest way to make audit trip anger anger. Angry angry angry is tv. Make a pocket. Pc dot com issues later makeup. I would say the parents don't take shortcuts. He got to do the hard work lifting one. Want children to wait on when you look back on your life. What's one thing here. Your father say my experience and can only go off of whatever i experienced where you got to go. Tesla yup are welcome to five season. Five reporting live is the final boss knows nod. This is your host with the most shumur. And you're listening to another episode of fatherhood. Friday season five episode three. So glad you can join us on this late night..
Pantheon
"bangs" Discussed on Pantheon
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Pantheon
"bangs" Discussed on Pantheon
"That's right off the debut album. Get the firehouse at number four. I'm just going to let you know. Now that's my number four so go ahead okay. So what can you say about firehouse. The studio version the live version every version. I love the song i know. A lot of people prefer the live version. It's a little peppier. But i'm on record as saying i really liked that kind of slow studio version. I just fucking classic song could have been number one for me but it's number four. Yeah the backing vocals the dual vehicles. All that shit is that paul. Is that gene awesome. And then when. I see it on the mike. Douglas show and the sirens. Oh glomming. I'm a sucker for a siren kiss. Song live alive version of it is incredible for me g. Ask just set the house on fire. The fire house Yeah that's number four for me. Easily all right so back to number three and other duplicate call dr love was my number three. I call and talk to the d like rock and roll. I like rocko. I like kiss seventies. Kiss kiss is cool. I like kiss. I like i like. I like kiss albums..
Pantheon
"bangs" Discussed on Pantheon
"One old seven aptly titled bang. Bang you oh man. You gotta love that one. Third kiss songs. Oh we can't wait. We're going to get into this and it's gonna be good. Do you remember when we did the the last one. So what are you going to do. All the folks on the fifth. Yes yes yes. Yes and we're gonna explain the why we're doing this. There's a reason why we're doing this. We'll get into that. Yes there is yes okay. How's it going. It's going you know hanging in there the same old shit. It's just me and you this week after the a blockbuster episode last week it's just mean you hang out here. Yeah nothing new today Pretty slow day. What january twentieth. Yeah slow news day. Nothing going on nothing going on nope nothing in the news. No basic day. Sorry i've been waiting for years to do that yet. No no takes on this show no. I'm excited that. We got some a fresh young face. Hasn't been in politics fresh ideas for the country. It's it's it's an exciting time to be an american right now. It's very exciting. But it's even more exciting to be shuttered loud. Castor was going to say better than fucking dumpster fire. Anyway no politics on this show. I because i think people already know it's okay. Well listen. I think we should have another spin off of the show. The fucking beltway boys pot to bring back hannity and colmes. No because i'm not fucking combs restaurant piece. Look like fucking combo skeleton for in fuck in the watcher from buffy. The vampire slow. He looked like the guy from raiders of the lost stock looks into the thing in his fells. Face melts off. That's you isn't a worst buffoon on bill coupla combs in what god those shows. Now when you look back there were like fucking parodies yell rally would yell at people on his show and he's all them by the last name everybody by their last name every condescending. All right yeah. That's a good one perino who who was back. Fat democrat guy. That had the suspenders. Oh bill Bob beckel allback. Bob bows going to say bill barr. That's another fat guy. Who is the beltway boys. Besides the whitest man in america contract in the other guy was the guy who barnes phil barn. Something that was his. Fred barnes morton fred mort kondracke and read the beltway boy flashbacks to fred. Qc goin' coming up next moesha and homeboys from outer space seriously fred q. Sick is these sports version of mort kondracke the whitest straightest guy on tv and then we had phil what didn't fill ball used to say. Do you remember what take a bus. Besides v very fat chicks take the bus. I don't even know what that fucking meant or the he would be at a bar be like. Yeah i'll give you a bud light and one bud. Well he used to say. Be like fred kuzak. Gay got boyfriends in the down in southie. Dude why the fuck. He's the most beloved grandfather figure to all sports people new england. What the fuck are you making up. Rumors of this guy was happily married for like sixty years million grandkids. But he would say it with a straight face. Yeah i know yeah. These foreign southie him in him against johnny buzek allegations him in pie mckenzie. I heard just most asinine rumors and stories would make up. See this is the spin off. Show us reporting on old. Tv person knows the spin off. Show needs to be us talking politics. We yell at each other and make fun of the people on tv. We could doing that right now. Pretty much or better yet do what we normally do when we talk politics like fuck it. What's her name from part in. Msnbc oh that shik from fucking fox off all. We could tell people what we were doing before we hit record tonight. What will you ensure can what my short term memory. You scare me. Because i'm like what would we do. What searching for old pictures shot coming out of the ocean okay. Somebody needs to find this for us. It's a picture that exists. Okay for our teaser. we're talking about. We're like oh something with three and we're like. Oh what is a tripod. I was a big yeah like college. There was a photo shack and he was. I think it was an si. He was coming out of the water. Have these like blue shorts on and his fucking she had like a what do you call it. Like a pine tree coming down and his leg to look like it was looking at a piece of driftwood stuck in his bathing suit. he was a coming war ho. How was this photo. Fucking not one. Agassi fucking awful. He's like leg than this. Big fucking huge log novel. French bad get huge puffery coming out of his blue wattage shorts coming out of the pool fucking focusing on anything i was like. Oh my god see. This is what happens when we don't have a guest on. We just totally lose. Focus on everything like that's what we were thinking about. I'm like yeah. Let's find that that will be our fucking teaser. Yeah because it looks like he's a tripod fucking shack check. It looks like a bar. Stool coming out of the fucking ocean shacks long. Jesus oh man. We try to get murph to find it for us now. Mind you if it's fine. How would be for this episode. You what are you talking about you did you. That as a teaser. Yeah so who knows. Yeah murphy's the resident sharyl outcasts research. Like i'm already on it. Oh my god oh right oh shits that's how we came up with our topic and so one of the things we wanna do as before we start any episode. We just want to give you a quick shout out to our new patriot. Fans and that is we got a few more this week. Tom so we have ray mad nonni. You might pronounce correctly. just calm. heavy mail.
WMAL 630AM
"bangs" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"The important feature that you lie as you're lecturing. Yeah, So So for a bunch of reasons. One d she's suggesting Okay again. This is about racism. She She's Kamila Harris throwing her voice in with the with the people who are alleging that the Capitol police were racist that you know, they just treated described differently. Um And there's an attempt by the way to say that the crab was like, I guess uniformly white. That's not true. Have you seen the photos of the crowd? Actually a diverse crowd a lot of white people. Of course, in a lot of the photos, I've seen a lot of black Trump's reporters, Black Trump supporters standing in the gallery. Of the of the house with their Maga hats on inside with the group of people who got into the capital this week, but airbrush that out, airbrush that out. This is this is meant to be Divisive. The way that this has been talked about is meant to be Is to accelerate the division not to rectify and not to bring the temperature down. Not to say boy can't believe something like this happened. How do we bring the country together? None of that you know is to accelerate it again. And so for her one of the lies that she told in the midst of this was that Well, I'll tear gas wasn't released on these people. What Yeah, that's just not true. They were using tear gas on the crowd. They were using tear gas. They were using riot control. They were using pepper balls, pepper spray flash bangs. On the Trump riot this week on Wednesday. Was all used on those same people. But comma Harris makes it seem like that never happened because it's inconvenient for her retelling of this designed to make you think that they were, they were subjected to a much more permissive standard. Well, you know, craft the life retell it loudly retell it often It becomes truth for people right? And that's exactly what they're doing here. There were responses to her. Tim Kearney, respondent Twitter saying, Does she know they also released your guest yesterday on both crowds of writers and crowds of peaceful protesters there, people just standing there are our engineer. Luke was there and because the way the wind was blowing, he went of getting to your guess. He wasn't in the capital. He was on the steps of the Capitol. He was outside, just hanging out, Julio. Rosa says, As someone who was cause covered many of the rights last year I can say this narrative is simply false cheer, gas, pepper balls, pepper spray. Flash bangs were all used yesterday. Justus. They were used on writers in 2020 to your point that this is about the division. This is not about healing the country and I would say that these people Are ratcheting up the narrative and ratchet and inciting their base. If you will, that trump supporters of racist they're They're just making it even worse. Then they're doing well, Of course they always do. What they accuse you of doing here is cut for this Is Joe Scarborough on MSNBC listen to what he had to say about the Capitol Police. If these insurrectionists were black, they would have been shot in the face. And my God, If these insurrectionists were Muslim, they would have been sniped from the top of buildings. So I want to know from the Capitol Hill police. What? What is it is it was just white people are isn't Donald Trump supporters. Why do you scream at people for walking across the street three blocks away from the capital, But then Trump supporters comment and you open the doors for, um and let them breach the people's house. What is wrong with you? I also want to know. Are we a nation of laws? Okay? Did he ask those questions of we're a nation of laws all summer. They ask of his nation laws when you saw people in in their in their businesses who are being beaten up because they were trying to stop people from stealing everything they have. Did he ask about if we were a nation of laws then because I'm sure it's a big fat? No, it was ignored because it wasn't convenient at the time. This is just going to incite violence against Trump supporters and like We have to admit how many times there was a 14 year Air Force veteran who was shot In the capital. What is he talking about? And boy has he lost his composure and and again, he's doing the same thing Everyone else is doing of the people we played for you this morning. Joe Biden, Kamila Harris. Capitol Police are racist. Capital Boys were racist. You know, one of the things I was thinking about it kind of in the early moments of this, as you did have Trump's reporters, You know, pushing, shoving and breaking their way into the capital on Wednesday. I wonder if the Islamic state the Capitol police were surprised. You know, I mean, like this particular group has shown no proclivity for violence when it comes to any of this, right, So if when they demonstrate they're not violent, and that's what led me. I mean, even awesome. Wednesday morning when we were talking about this, I was like the National Guard to contact the National Guard. Yeah. Okay, That's Francie. Come on now and In the end. You see Trump supporters bashing some windows, making their ways in fighting with the cops. You know, you hear from on the ground from people who were on the ground like reporters like Robbie Sober. Who were there who saw it first hand what was going on? And regardless, I'm part of my instinct is at least in the early moments that some of the cops must have thought. Okay? Yeah, Look, they're boisterous. They're strong. They have strong opinions, but probably don't expect a big police issue out of this group. So that may explain from the beginning moments. But, boy, if you want to talk about what happened in terms of the interactions between police and rioters, the flash bangs the tear gas, the actual the death of that woman. Those all happened and the media's like pretending is none of that happened, of course, but I just want to say one thing. Bernie Kerik tweeted out a video yesterday, and it shows a group of people who in helmets, one of the helmets has trump across the back of it all dressed him, You know, black, mostly backpacks, and they're using nightsticks on the window, one of the windows trying to get in, and there's a group of guys standing around them kind of protecting them from the rest of the crowd..