40 Burst results for "Bear"
The Bad Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Breaks $28,000! - Bad News for October 4, 2023
"Are there signs of life in the crypto market? Is the bear thinking about going into hibernation so the bull can run once again? Or is this upturn just another head fake? We'll take a look at the latest news in the Bitcoin and blockchain world to make sense of it all, and we're going to do it while dealing with the fact that there are less than 7 weeks of shopping days until Christmas. May this coming season find us saying, instead of, oh no, no, no. On our bad news, episode number 698 of the Bad Crypto Podcast. Are you crypto curious? Are you crypto serious? Or somewhere crypto in between us? It doesn't matter. You're in the right place because you are in the Republic of Bad Cryptopia with Sir Lord Joel and Sir Lord Travis. Your guides, your what are what are some of the things we call ourselves? I just went blank. Metaverse morons, web meanies, blockchain blockheads, that's it. I think the best way if we were in Australia would be, hey, we're the crypto cunts. Oh, my God. If we were in Australia, but we're not in Australia, so we're not going to say that. That's like, you know, in America, that is in America, that is such a strong word, right? People that is like one of the most disgusting things you can call somebody in Australia. If go you to Australia, that's like their favorite word. Yeah, they're all that. I love it when they go, yeah, good cunt. Wow, thanks. I don't know. Take that, brother. This episode marked with explicit rating courtesy of Sir Lord Travis, right? Man. So we have news for you guys. And I think it's time for us to get into it. Insert transition music here. All right, looking at CoinGecko .com here, checking out. In the last seven days, Bitcoin's been up about 5%. Yeah, we went about to $28 ,400. I'm not sure what set it off. The current crypto market cap here, time stamping on the 3rd of October, 1218 PM EST is $1 .12 trillion. Bitcoin currently pulling back a little bit. The last 24 hours, about 2 .5 % to $27 ,386. Ethereum also popped up to like $1 ,750 and then took a sudden dive back to $1 ,650. BNB, $2 .13, XRP, $0 .51, Solana, $24, Cardano, $0 .26, and Dogecoin rounding out the top 10, $0 .06. By the way, you may have noticed I've quit saying stable coins that are in the top 10. I think three of them are stable coins or staked Ether. What's the point? Because you know what the price of those is going to be. So let's just talk about it. You just kind of ignore those and you get a couple of other ones. Polygon had a pretty decent week, but Solana had a really big week as well. So there's a couple of things that's popped up on those that we will get to as well. Was there some big winners? There's some big winners. Solana was probably one of the biggest winners. Bitcoin SV was a big winner. Thor Chain Gala also had a pretty big week. Roll Bitcoin that I've never even heard was the big winner this week with about 37 % up. Not a lot of big losers this week though, Joel. Nope. Just some people that I know. Yeah, but we're not going to shout them out. We're not going to say their names, but one name we will say is John McAfee. And this news on protos .com says that the crypto legend John McAfee's suicide has been confirmed by Spanish courts. So there you go. You can trust them, guys. They're saying that it was a suicide, even though that he said he would never be suicidal. And even though Janice has said that he was not suicidal, they're saying that he was suicidal. He literally said, no, that if I hang myself a la Epstein, it will be of no fault of mine. Literally said it. He literally said that on October 15th, 2020, on June 2021, he was found dead. And why is it, Joel, though it's October 2023. Why did it take them, you know, 28 months for them to declare this like that? And why is why does Janice never got the body or whatever? There's a lot of weird stuff going on with that. I'm not so much of a conspiracy theorist around this one because there's not really much of a theory. It's they offed him. He had shit he was going to say and they offed him and they call it suicide because that's what they do. Because that's what they do. They suicide you. So moving on, the Daily Hobble says that more more than eight hundred ninety two million dollars were lost in exploits involving Oracle networks. What's the story all about, Trev? So, you know, oracles are connecting blockchains with external data and then it allows the smart contracts to execute certain tasks and defy. It uses oracles to really grab the prices of those particular cryptos.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
Fresh update on "bear" discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"Jeremiah is being pushed to second guess the prophecy that he's giving. He knows it is God's truth, but the overwhelming majority of people, people close to him are saying he is off base. And I want us to kind of grasp what that does to you because we recognize that our court system is oftentimes wicked and we see them push back and we recognize that this world is oftentimes difficult. But what if your family and friends start doing that? What if they start saying, let's denounce him? Actually, his friends and family are trying to trick him so they can end up getting him killed. Yet Jeremiah changed nothing about what he said. He just applied it specifically to the one person that was denying it so vehemently. Which leads me to the next kind of idea, even though he's been mocked, he's been labeled, he's been prodded to join the voices of false prophets, preaching victory and security, and everyone loves to preach the win. Instead, he responds by persisting in truth. Right after he's freed, he renames Pashor and it highlights what's really going to take place. I want you to recognize before you grab that and say, great, when the world attacks me, I'll just call them names. I will rename them all the things I want to rename them and go after them. That's not what he's doing. He wasn't being ugly or vindictive when he did this. This is a way of teaching the nation. You're no longer Pashor. You are terror on every side. This is what reality is. And so Jeremiah changed nothing but only isolated it and focus in. You're going to whip me and put me in stocks. My answer to you is God is going to accomplish this and you're going to personally witness it. He was making the message God wanted crystal clear. I put as an action step. We must recognize the potential of physical abuse and likely psychological stress that comes to those who bear God's truth. We have to be prepared and dedicated to not alter that message, even though pressure may come from the world or even harder from friends and family. We must remain true to what God has said and apply it accurately to our world. What we see in his focus on Pashor is a very specific application of God's truth that it's not left in theory. Instead, the message got more poignant, got more personal, got more applicable, but the hardest thing sometimes to overcome when we look at potential pressure is the thoughts in our own heads. So we look as we look at being his church with a message we need to share, it is important that we also recognize the potential doubts. This is the reality of life, is it not? And so I'm going to read portions of chapter 27 through the first part of nine, verse 10 and then 14 through 18, which is this massive self doubt. I wish I never lived. That takes us all the way back to what Job said at one time. Likely was said or thought while he was in the stocks. Again, it's not a chronological order, so it's just laid out there. But let me read that to see what happens when doubts arise. Oh Lord, thou hast deceived me, says, and I was deceived, thou are stronger than I and has prevailed. I am in derision daily. Everyone mocketh me for since I speak, I cried out. I cried violence and spoil. He says, I'm predicting what's going to come because thy word, because the word of the Lord has made a reproach unto me and a derision daily. Then I said, I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name. Verse 10, it said, for I heard the defaming of many fear on every side report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watch for my halting, saying, per venture, he will be enticed and we shall prevail against him and we shall take our revenge on him. And notice who wants to take revenge on Jeremiah. It's people close to him. Then 14 through 18, cursed be the day wherein I was born. Let not the day wherein my mother bear me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, a man child is born unto thee, making him very glad. And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew and repented not and let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noontime because he slew me not from the womb or that my mother might have been my grave and her womb to be always great with me. Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame. And you can see the brokenness that would come from somebody potentially locked in a painful position, shamefully put in front of all the nation to say he's wrong. What he says is out of whack. See Jeremiah is left wondering about what he's doing. He is doubting that he fulfills any good purpose because of the pressure of the many. He's exhausted by the constant attempts to trip him up. That's verse 10. And think about that. Think about if someone has just zeroed in on you. Their goal is to make sure they get you, to trap you, to get you to fall because they want to take revenge on you. He wishes he had never been born. That's verses 14 through 18. Very similar to how Job processed his grief and his pain at one point.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from An Old Womans Laughter
"Welcome to Gospel in Life. Throughout the Bible, there are signs that point us to the gospel. Today, Tim Keller is looking at how we can discover them and what they teach us. The passage on which the teachings base is found in your bulletin. Let me read it to you. Genesis 21, verses one to seven. Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah, as he had said. And the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age. At the very time God had promised him, Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. And Sarah said, God has brought me laughter. And everyone who hears about this will laugh with me. And she added, who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age. This is God's word. Why, in these morning services here in the fall, are we rummaging around in documents that are so ancient that they're called the Old Testament? I mean, how relevant is that? Very relevant. My wife, Kathy, tore out an article for me out of Mademoiselle Magazine, September 97. Very up to date. And surprising article, because it was by Naomi Wolf, who's a very sharp and pretty well known feminist author. And the title of the article is, Coming Out for God, subtitle, OK, I Pray, So Why Do I Feel So Funny Talking About It? And in the article, she basically says that she has come into a spiritual search. She has decided there's got to be more. And she is looking for God, and she's searching for God, and she's searching for spirituality. And at one point, she says, it's really all coming down to this. And she's not saying she arrived, but this is what she says she's coming down to. She says, beyond it all, I have the increasingly pressing question. This is the increasingly pressing question. What the heck does God want me to do, and how do I figure it out? What does God want me to do, and how do I figure it out? And when you ask the question, how do you figure out what God wants of me, that's the question of sources. Where do I go to find out what God's will is? And really, classically, there's really only two basic answers over the years. The one answer is look outside to some authoritative text, to some authoritative resource. Look outside to the objective. And on the other hand, the other kind of answer has been, well, you look inside. You look to the inner light. You look to the subjective. You look to your heart. You look to your experience. Now, the wonderful thing about the Old Testament that really needs to be understood, besides the fact that it's a book that's considered holy by Jews and Christians and Muslims, is with the Old Testament, you don't have to choose. What's great about the Old Testament is you have authoritative theological teaching, but it's always teaching in the form of stories, always teaching in the form of real human experiences. So last week, we looked at the existential despair of the teacher in Ecclesiastes. This week, we look at laughter. We will look at bitterness. You look at real human experiences, and the Old Testament says in those real human experiences, you've got pointers to God. You've got clues to God, but by going to the Old Testament, you not only look at human experience, you also do it in a way that people have been going to for years through the centuries, the Old Testament. Instead of being self -accredited, instead of just saying, well, I've looked at my heart, now I know what God wants, you're looking into the human heart, into human experience, and therefore into your own experience, but in the Old Testament, a place where millions of people over the centuries have found God. And that way, you can trust, so you don't have to choose, and that's why we're going to these great accounts. Now, in this account, we are looking at a particular experience, and that is a woman laughing because her only child has been born, but it's an incredibly old woman we have here. We have a woman who's 90 years old here, and we're told in the Bible that this laughter is a clue to who God is and what He's done, and how do you find Him? The reason that I read this little section, which many of you may not have even ever heard, even though you may have heard the story of Abraham and Sarah, is I think this is the fulcrum. This is actually the midpoint. This is actually the key, because all of Abraham and Sarah's life and all the fascinating incidents can all be understood in terms of the name of their son, because the word Isaac means laughter, means laughter. God has brought me laughter, and all who hear will laugh with me, and you can understand all of their life, and actually I think eventually you'll be able to understand all of your life, through the word yisak, Isaac, laughter, because there's been three kinds of laughter. If you read the story of Abraham and Isaac, there's three kinds of laughter, and only the last one is the best. They had to go through two other kinds to get to the third. What are these three kinds of laughter? First of all, first you see in the history of Abraham and Sarah, you see the laughter of scoffing, the laughter of disbelief, the shallow laughter of disbelief. If you go way back into the passage, go deep, you'll see back in Genesis 12, God comes to Abraham and says, I'm going to give you a son. A son will be born to you through Sarah, and through that son you will have a descent, a group of descendants will become a great nation, and through that nation, all the nations of the world will be blessed.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "bear" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Have to win. You're right. Eventually somebody. You can go for a long stretch with no winner. Alright, in Tampa right now the Rangers leading the race 7 -1. They're going to bottom of the eighth inning. Rangers getting set to move on to the American League Division Series. Top of the third in Minnesota, no score. Blue Jays and the Twins. Diamondback Brewers coming up tonight. Milwaukee needs to win to get back in the series. Nick has the down trailing 1 -0. Let's go Brewers. Okay, Marlin's Phillies. That was not right on cue. Very nice. Phillies home with the Marlins. I was waiting. Game to none as well. Commander's Bears tomorrow night. John Dotts and Curtis Samuel will be active. Byron Robinson, what's the game plan? Plan is always to be fast. You know, we always want to, you know, just play with great urgency. But other than that, I feel like we was on track. You know, we was on tempo. We had a great tempo in the offense. You know, most of the game, that really helped us put points on the board. And they'll see if they can do that tomorrow night. To the Bears. Washington will wear their alternate black uniforms. They've won their last three Thursday night games averaging over 27 points and 319 yards of offense. 10 -14 all -time on Thursday night. And since we do have a Thursday game this week, we'll give you a Wallace's pick tonight. Brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. It's a short week, yes, but Washington proved it can play with anyone if it wants to. We've heard a lot about how mature this team is and ready to take the next step. If that's the case, then they come out and beat a Bears team handily tomorrow. they're I think going to do that, especially in front of a sold -out crowd on prime time. Commanders 23, Bears 9. It's time to do it. All right, got to do it, right? This is the team you've got to beat, right? Absolutely. George Wallace, WTOB Sports. Thank you, George. After traffic and weather. Republicans search for a new House Speaker, and a key lawmaker is now seeking their support. I'm Mitchell Miller, today on The Hill. 527. Identity is the critical link between people and the sensitive resources they need access to, but it's more than that. Identity is the first pillar of zero trust, the foundation of IT modernization, and the key to great user experiences. Agency leaders can benefit from Okta for government high. A FedRAMP high identity solution built exclusively to protect U .S. government's most sensitive, unclassified workloads. more at Learn okta .com slash federal. That's OKTA dot com slash Dick Butkus here. I've got a game changer for you. When it comes to creating a winning website, there's one only team I trust. AmericanEagle .com. I've known them for 25 years. In my career, I learned that success isn't just about talent, it's about teamwork. That's what you'll find at AmericanEagle .com. They'll listen to your goals and work with you and handle all of your digital properties. They'll ensure your website is user friendly, responsive and optimized for search engines. AmericanEagle .com also provides ongoing support and digital marketing strategies that will keep you ahead of the competition. They even host our podcast. Whether you're a medium to large business or a big time player, AmericanEagle .com is the top choice. Visit www .AmericanEagle .com for website design, development man and online solutions that deliver efficiency and results, go to AmericanEagle .com or call them at 877 -WEB -NOW -1. Traffic and
Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from Apathy Among YSAs
"As many of you know, we recently published three episodes from the new podcast called At the Table. This is produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, and I had the privilege to help with this project as a consultant. After publishing the recent podcast on leading saints, those working at the church on this project were so impressed by the results and the feedback from the audience that they asked if we could share more episodes. Enjoy! And don't forget to send your feedback by taking the survey for each episode, individual which we will link in the show notes. I'm currently in Provo, Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California, right outside San Francisco, California. I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Manchester Mission, and some of my favorite things are playing pickleball, tennis, or staying inside playing some board games or reading books as well. And I'm just really excited to be part of this. My name is Kami Kastrijon. I'm originally from Colombia. I was born and raised there, and I moved to the United States when I was 16. I moved to the big city of New York, and that's where I joined the church. And then soon after, I served my mission in Riverside, California. Then after my mission, I moved to Utah, and I've been here ever since. I love dancing, especially salsa, hiking, baking, and I am thrilled to be part of this amazing podcast At The Table. Welcome to the At The Table podcast. I'm Jared Pearson. I'm here with Kami. Hi. And we're really excited today to be having Wendy Ulrich on our show, and we'd like to start with a little bit of introduction on Wendy's behalf. I don't know what's the most relevant here. I'm a psychologist by training, and I've served on the General Relief Society Council for a couple of years. Retired from that in August and taught at BYU, written some books. So right now, teaching institute down for a YSA stake in Provo, and really enjoying that. My husband and I do that every week, have for a couple of months, several years now. The whole time COVID's been running in before, so that's where we are. And met Jared in one of those institute classes and wards down there. So nice to see you again. Let me just say that was a wonderful institute class and probably still is. I need to attend again. But today I think we're talking a little bit about apathy and the YSAs and how to kind of tackle that, what it looks like. And I just want to pose the question first to you, Wendy. Is there apathy in the YSA setting or in YSA wards among both participants or leaders or what have you seen, especially in your assignments, to a ward down in Provo? The ward that we've been involved with, the stake we've been involved with, are some of the most remarkable young adults. I think I know the two people sitting in front of me on the screen that I can see a little of anyway being among them. So you tell me, what do you think about that? You're more engaged in that group with that audience. You've got more connections than I do. What do you think the issue is there? I also have been surrounded by great friends and I've been part of great wards and stakes. At the same time, I have also noticed a lot of those great friends kind of step away from the church or they just have no interest in being a part of the church anymore. And I feel like a lot of the things that I've gathered from them are just social things that are going on. The majority of them have felt like a lot of the things that they want to do that society is offering them are conflicting with their beliefs and they just decide not to have that conflict anymore and they want to do things that feel right for them. And they decide that, in their own words, that the church or the gospel is something that has served them, but not anymore. That's what I've noticed in my experience with my friends and in my community. I've had a really similar experience. Typically, I feel like I've had a very pleasant experience in wards and different activities and I've been surrounded with wonderful people who make me feel really included. On the flip side, I've had the opportunity to both serve in colonies where I'm in contact with people or just friends. We're a little bit disenfranchised with both going to church and being actively engaged in a lot of church -type things. This could be in the form of they get a calling and they start doubting like, why is this even a calling? And I'll be honest, sometimes I doubt it when it's like your calling is to empty the second trash can on the right. And I say, oh, that's interesting. Did you get set apart though? Was that pleasant? And they said, yeah, it was wonderful. It's a little bit weird. And I'm like, yeah, I understand that. On the other hand, sometimes it's, you know, my parents have been really involved in this. I'm doing it to make them proud, but I'm sort of not feeling it. And that's a lot more frequent. I had it in the past, but it's not really doing anything for me now, like what Cammy was saying. And that's more frequent than I feel like finding someone in the church to have problems with. It's just not finding enough there to begin with. And at least that's how I'd addressed apathy in the church rather than like antagonism inside as well. Yeah, I think that's helpful to think about. When have been the times in our lives when we felt most committed and engaged with something and what are the times when it no longer really seems to be serving us? A lot of times there are, I think there's a whole group of people for whom the apathy is really sort of about fear, fear of getting really engaged. Maybe I don't really feel like I'm capable of handling this, or, you know, I don't really find it. I'm a little nervous about really getting involved, but I think more often what I hear the two of you describing is more of a feeling of, this isn't really working for me. It doesn't really seem like I'm as engaged as I want to be. I'm not finding meaningful, purposeful things to do as part of my church experience that really helped me live my values in ways that matter to me or build relationships or develop talents or gifts that are important to me. And that's where I think good leadership can really come in and be really important. As leaders, I think sometimes we're trying to sort of spare people. We recognize how busy young single adults can be and how important their education is or their work or their relationships or things that they're doing. So we're trying to maybe not get them too busy because we don't want to overwhelm people. But on the other hand, sometimes there's just not enough to do to make it feel like a meaningful experience at church. And then people kind of give up. We know a little bit about what helps people feel committed and involved with something and gives us a sense of purpose in our lives, of well -being in our lives. And in a lot of ways, the church is great at that stuff. We know people are getting clearer about their values and what matters to them, what they care about, what they really want out of life. And they're seeing ways to live those values. That's one of the things that gives us a sense of meaning and purpose. And the church can do a fantastic job of giving people a sense of what the purpose of life is, what the plan is, what values will help us find happiness and satisfaction in life. But when those are not aligning particularly well, that can certainly be one of the issues that can begin to create a feeling of, I don't know if this is really what I want and if these values are really consistent with what I care about, what I believe. So helping people get clearer about what do you want out of life, what does matter to you can be an important step in addressing that particular issue. Have you ever had anybody kind of ask you questions about, you know, what do you want out of life and thought about what matters to you, what values are important to you? If somebody were to ask you that, do you feel like you could define that pretty clearly at this point or are you still exploring that? Where are you on those kinds of issues? Because of the knowledge of the gospel that I received a few years ago, I have a clearer understanding of what my goals are, what my dreams are, the things that I want to achieve in life. And for me, the gospel is the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me. It came at an age that was a really hard age. I'm an immigrant and I was 16 and my parents had separated at the moment and I was new to the United States, didn't speak the language, and had a lot of questions about my worth, my purpose, and everything about my life. And that's when I met the missionaries were when the gospel came into my life and it me gave all of these answers that I didn't really know I was looking for. And I have held on to those truths and to all the things that I've learned in the church, in the gospel, all these years. And it has given me a new perspective and a new purpose in life that I don't know how I lived my life without all of these truths and knowledge. So yes, if someone were to ask me, I would be able to tell them what my dreams and goals are because of the knowledge that I have now. Kenny, thank you for sharing that. That's really helpful to me and inspiring to me. I think sometimes the apathy can come when we've lived with these things all of our lives and we haven't really explored them for ourselves. We haven't really seen the contrast that you've experienced. And I'm delighted to know that as you came out of a different place from taking the church sort of for granted that you found a lot of answers here and direction and help. And whether we've been in the church all our lives or we're just finding it for the first time, that's the experience every one of us needs to have at some level. I remember as a young woman, I think 13 years old coming into a Sunday school class for the first time and sort of coming out of primary not very long and thinking, is there anything new here? Is there anything I haven't heard before? Is there any reason to sort of hang around here at the ripe old age of probably 13? And coming into a Sunday school class with a really dynamic teacher who knew the gospel really well and taught me things I'd never really heard or experienced. And I thought, I want to know more about this and began to really do a search of my own. So sometimes it takes a really good teacher, a really good leader to sort of wake our brains up and inspire us to feel like some of the questions we have in life are being answered here. We can find direction. We can find opportunities here to find values and goals and dreams that are important to us. I love Whitney Johnson, who talks about, she's got a book on dating your dreams. She talks about dreams and that it's not just, you don't just automatically know what you want to be when you grow up. You have to sort of figure that out as you go. And as you, she talks about the importance of sort of exploring our dreams and trying things and figuring these things out because we have experience with them. And I think that's one of the things that college and work are so helpful with is giving us an opportunity to experience ourselves in different settings, to get the skills that we need to be able to be successful at something really goes a long way in deciding, yeah, this is what I want to do. You can't really know you want to be a concert pianist until you've got enough skill to be a really good pianist. And that takes a long time. And I think we forget sometimes that the gospel and the church can be the same way. We have to get good at it in order to really feel like I can do this. And I love it when I do, when I'm engaged here and I'm involved with this, I begin to realize that this is exciting. There's stuff here that matters to me. I am learning. I am growing. I'm developing some skills that help me feel confident that I can live the gospel and I can be a disciple of Christ in a meaningful way.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "bear" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Had a deal to cut spending by eight percent and restore Trump's remain in Mexico policy the plan would have protected taxpayers and our borders but Matt Gaetz Matt Gaetz spends too much time chasing TV cameras and not enough time working together with conservatives to rein in Washington spending. Call Matt Gaetz at 850 479 -1183 and tell them to stop voting with Democrats and start Florida taxpayers paid for by Americans for tax reform learn more visit atr .org slash cut spending coming up the Rangers and Rays kickoff a day long of playoff baseball elimination games and the commanders make final preps for the Bears. Sports
Mark Levin
Part 3: How Freedom Caucus Members Voted on Kevin McCarthy
"Voted for McCarthy Michael Cloud Texas 27 voted for McCarthy Burgess Owens Utah 4th voted for McCarthy Bob Good Virginia 6th voted against McCarthy Ben Cline Virginia 6th voted for McCarthy Morgan Griffith Virginia 9th voted for McCarthy Alex Tony West Virginia 2nd voted for McCarthy Tom Tiffany Wisconsin 7th voted for McCarthy Harriet Hegeman who replaced Liz Cheney Wyoming at large voted for McCarthy she replaced Liz Cheney who urged Mr. Buck one of the 8th to vote against McCarthy I just went through the list of the freedom caucus. I guess they're all neo -cons, rhinos, sellouts, big government leftists too. Now these people are conservatives who understand everything that's at stake now. The existential threats all around us. Where do you think Hakeem Jeffries is today? Think he's having a party? Now the one question Matt Gaetz has not been asked is when is the last time he spoke to Hakeem Jeffries is or there any of the surrogates or any of the others in the Democrat party? Because it's interesting, Hakeem Jeffries puts out a note this morning and tells all the Democrats to vote against McCarthy when he said it was a party. I wasn't born yesterday. I didn't fall off the two. You're intelligent people. You're wise people. You know what the hell is going on too.
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh update on "bear" discussed on Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"After all who can resist a bear hug except don't hug these bears they're busy feasting you don't want to poke the bear either and you will if you go assuming this is a male dominated competition come on it's 2023 for cubs sake last year for example the young adult female 901 made it all the way to the finals I certainly didn't see that coming uh so the public you know they always seem to surprise us with the boat goes brian calvert northwest news radio northwest news time 114 we are your home for breaking news traffic
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1420: Bitcoin Will Surpass $1,000,000 By This Time - Max Keiser
"And here's your prescription. I know just the pharmacy to get this filled. Who are you? A pharmacy benefit manager. A middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get, what you pay, and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to. Why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood? Because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own. No one should stand between you and your medicine. Visit PHRMA .org slash middleman to learn more. Paid for by pharma. In today's show I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis as one analyst predicts a Bitcoin price crash all the way down to $20 ,000. And check it out moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available. I'm also currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % in espanol. Let me know if that excites you. Also check this out Stanley Drunkenmiller is now known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street and is currently worth $6 .2 billion. He says straight up frankly if the goal bet works the Bitcoin bet will probably work better per each. Also in today's show Ethereum futures ETFs garner a lukewarm reception on the first day of trading with all of the trading volume across nine products at less than $2 million. We'll also be discussing the crypto community tells Elon Musk to dump the Satoshi X account. I'm also going to be sharing with you a Satoshi Nakamoto secret email emerging from the shadows never shared before. As well as here's what's in store for Bitcoin in the S &P 500 for quarter four of 2023. According to crypto analyst Jason Pizzino I'm also going to be sharing invest answers unveiling his max upside price target for Bitcoin in 2025. And quoting Max Keiser from November of 2011 he says Bitcoin has about 100 ,000 users now. My goal is to try to get that number up to 1 million in 2012. He also shared his short -term price target of $65 ,000 back in January of 2021 and lo and behold by November we smashed that price target. He now says that BlackRock agrees with my 220 ,000 interim price target for Bitcoin which he says is still in play. He also says by the time America catches up to El Salvador and starts buying Bitcoin the price will be over a million dollars per coin. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. yo what's good crypto fam this is first and foremost a video show so if you want the full premium experience with video visit my youtube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net again that's crypto news alerts dot net welcome everyone just joining us this is a live show as you know seven days a week welcome to the number one daily Bitcoin pod this is pod episode number 1420 just blaze today is October 3rd 2023 and the markets are correcting and consolidating after the recent pump let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day you can see Bitcoin correcting down 2 .2 % trading just above twenty seven thousand two hundred dollars also ether is down trading at 1650 along with the majority of the altcoin market and checking out coinmarketcap .com we're still sitting at 1 .08 trillion dollars with roughly 36 billion in volume in the past 24 hours we've got the Bitcoin dominance which has recently been on the climb currently at forty nine point three percent with the ether dominance barely up trading at eighteen point four percent and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours we got gala leading the pack up almost seven percent trading at one and a half cents followed by conflux up three percent trading at thirteen point six cents followed by polygon matic three percent trading just under fifty seven cents and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week we can see ultimately a sea of green with a handful in I mean a sea I should say of red with a handful in the green with our LB leading the pack of roughly seventeen percent with the biggest losers being Bitcoin cash and Ave down collectively roughly seven percent and checking out the crypto greed and fear index one of my favorite indicators hence why I shared every day in the show we're currently rated dead in the middle with a 50 which is neutral same as yesterday last week was a 46 and last month a 40 in fear so there you have it how many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto let me know and how many of you are anticipating a low as I'm going to be sharing an analyst predicting a twenty thousand dollar price crash and we'll be breaking down everything in between so let's get it shall we and again welcome to everyone just joining us make sure to say hello in that live chat as this is a live and interactive show and at the end of the show I read everyone's comments out loud so let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis Bitcoin just hit six week highs to start off October but some forecasts still see the Bitcoin price returning to twenty thousand in which lo and behold there's a CME futures gap if you didn't know and while up around six percent since the start of last month and now circling twenty seven five Bitcoin is not fooling many with its current price behavior the Bitcoin price strength in the recent weeks has many market participants hoping for a push and even through thirty thousand resistance send it let's go for some there remains every reason to be cautious however in an ex post analysis published October 2nd popular trader crypto bullet reiterated that twenty thousand is still very much on the radar as the Bitcoin price target the latest trip to twenty eight six he argued is now forming the right hand shoulder of a classic head and shoulders chart pattern with the downside logically due to follow if it completes quitting analysts here second half of October should be bearish in my opinion the idea was built on an August roadmap with a short term upside target of twenty eight thousand before reversing towards that twenty thousand target let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts I disagree I think we are bullish for this October and I think we're more than likely to continue up but it's good to cover all our basis is here now not all reasons headed heeded his warning with fellow popular trader you easy in particular skeptical of the likelihood for this scenario playing out crypto bullet however is far from alone when it comes to fearing that the worst for Bitcoin is over yet and one of crypto quants quick take blog posts on September 28th we had Wetson founder and CEO of crypto trading resource dominando crypto compared bitcoins performance between 2020 and 2022 quitting the analysts here between 2020 and 2022 Bitcoin underwent a notable appreciation region historic highs and capturing global attention however this phase was followed by significant correction that caused the prices to plummet sending crypto back to the lower levels say goodbye to your credit card rewards big -box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit hands off my rewards calm and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition now we also suggest that should history repeat a sub 20 ,000 level could resurface and an accompanying chart offered a fractal which now has been subject to a repeat quoting him again now in 2023 we are once again witnessing Bitcoin achieving over a hundred percent gains attracting substantial interest from institutional and retail investors nonetheless the market has recently experienced significant volatility and a downward price trend the similarity to the past raises questions about whether we are witnessing a repeat of the 15 ,500 USD if this fractal holds over the next few weeks which could result in a series of FUD and negative news in the crypto space furthermore there's a possibility of a redistribution where the price threatens significant highs but institutional profit -taking forces the price down creating the atmosphere of uncertainty in the market and as reported we also had another analyst rack capital who's demanding that the bulls step up to protect this support in order to avert the long -term retracement now for news as I shared in the intro of the show moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available and I'm currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % and espanol so we can serve our Latin community for the Bitcoin daily news let me know if this excites you and if you'll be one tuning in and also as shared here breaking news Stanley drunken Miller known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street who has worked 6 .2 billion he says frankly if the goal bet works then the Bitcoin bet will probably work better how many of you believe that he is probably right let me know your honest thoughts fam in the comments right down below and with that being shared yesterday was a historic day for ethereum futures ETFs launching however they ultimately flopped with less than two million dollars in trading volumes across nine assets so let's break this down and discuss it shall we here we go check it check it check it the rush of excitement that accompanied the launch of nine new ethereum futures ETFs appears to have yielded little in the way of investment dollars in comparison October 2nd nine new ETF products which are designed to track futures contracts tied to the value of the ethereum native currency arrived on the market of these funds only five hold exclusively ether futures while the other four track a mixture of Bitcoin and ether futures contracts quoting Eric Balchunes right here unprecedented day today with multiple ETFs all launching at the same time no clear winner has emerged all of them were pretty average lower than I would have predicted but it's a long run and remember these hold futures ETFs investors much prefer physical to derivatives that's right we much rather prefer spot ETFs because there's nothing but manipulation and price suppression continuously occurring in the futures market all by design hence by the regulators decide not to approve anything spot related but they continue to approve the futures ETFs which blows my mind personally in total all nine ETFs witness less than two million dollars worth of trading volume which is essentially nothing as a midday Eastern Time on the first day of trading the most popular of the futures ETFs products were Valkyrie's Bitcoin strategy ETF which tracks the combo of Bitcoin and ether raking up a total of 880 2 ,000 worth the volume it's worth noting had already been trading as a Bitcoin only futures ETF since October of 2021 but then adjusted its strategy to also include ETH the first day trading volume of ether ETFs paled comparison with that of the pro shares Bitcoin strategy ETF which debuted October of 2021 one month prior to hitting that all -time high and during a roaring market for crypto assets obviously it witnessed more than 1 billion dollars in trading volume on its first day so Wow compare that 1 billion in 24 hours to less than 2 million in 24 hours crazy now Balchune has noted that compared to the regular traditional finance ETF launched the volume witness was actually quite a lot though investors tend to prefer spot ETF products over futures Balchune has explained that all the products were scheduled for launch on the same day as the SEC wanted to prevent any one fund from gaining market domination now what if the SEC decided to do the same thing with the spot ETF approved them all at the same time like whoa meanwhile a range of United States firms jostled for the pole position for the nascent ether futures market ETF firm volatility shares canceled his plans to list a similar product saying that it didn't see the opportunity at the current time well we all know this we're all seeking the spot ETFs those are the game changers and there is probably about a 95 % chance that the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF get approved in 2023 I mean 2024 we're in 2023 hopefully right before the having occurs scheduled to be in what is that April of next year roughly six months out as we know it's gonna trigger trillions of dollars cascading into the Bitcoin market and that alongside the Bitcoin having are the two biggest catalyst for 2024 and let's add a third bullish catalyst which is a supply shock as there's currently less than two million Bitcoin sitting on the exchanges and for these ETFs once they get approved for the spot they have to be holding the underlying asset so there's gonna be mass accumulation continuing by the whales not only in this fourth quarter of 2023 but collectively in 2024 as well so let's freaking go and with that being shared now for the Satoshi X saga going on and also I want to share with you Satoshi Nakamoto's secret letter which came from the shadows never shared before I've never read it I'm gonna be reading it in real time with you so let's break this one down shall we members of the crypto community have rallied behind a post on X calling for Elon to remove a profile claiming to be the fabled creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto and here's your prescription I know just the pharmacy to get this filled who are you a pharmacy benefit manager a middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get what you pay and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own no one should stand between you and your medicine visit ph RMA org slash middlemen to learn more paid for by pharma October 3rd the user posted saying that both the account claiming to be Nakamoto and account with the handle Bitcoin should be removed because they breached the platform's terms of service which says doesn't allow misleading and deceptive identities as predator shared here hey Elon Bitcoin and Satoshi accounts are in breach of your terms of service for using misleading and deceptive identities please remove their checkmarks I guess it could be confusing to people thinking it is an official Bitcoin account and we know there will never be an official Bitcoin account and an official Satoshi account which we all know there will never be an official Satoshi account he says you can't misappropriate someone else's identity without disclosing you are a parody account it is no different than making a fake Tesla or Elon Musk account and I think he makes a great point what are your thoughts chat let me know the true identity of Nakamoto has been subject of discussion and the Bitcoin and crypto community as we know since the inception Satoshi X account is reportedly run by a user named Andy Rowe who was claiming to be posting from a profile back in 2018 and on July of 2018 Rowe said he curates quotes for the Satoshi account as outlined right here the account had been quiet since October 31st of 2018 however October 2nd yesterday the account made a new post saying Bitcoin is a predicate machine and went on to explain that it would explore different aspects of the Bitcoin white paper over the coming months as Satoshi Nakamoto announced here on X now what are your thoughts fam let me know another user call for the accounts to be disabled linking or likening them to how X responded to the account with the handle internet yeah interesting the Bitcoin creators true identity to this day remains a mystery what many people over the years claiming to be the true Satoshi the most prominent of which is fake Toshi Craig right now let's discuss this particular letter which recently surfaced from the shadows allegedly from Satoshi Nakamoto check this out fragments a Satoshi secret identity the genius responsible for the birth of Bitcoin has resurfaced shedding new light on the creation of the world's first crypto this revelation comes in the form of an email and bearing the date August 22nd 2008 we all know the Genesis block was I believe in January of 2009 now the email director to computer scientist way die offers a captivating window in the nascent stages of bitcoins creation a journey that would go out to profoundly alter the contours of the global financial realm this recently unveiled correspondence serves as a valuable historical artifact shedding light on the intellectual exchanges and collaborative efforts that paved the way for the development of Bitcoin by delving into this previously hitting piece of communication from Satoshi to way day we gain invaluable insights into the genesis of the revolutionary crypto a technology that would ultimately disrupt and redefine traditional financial paradigms worldwide so let's discuss it in the email Satoshi expresses profound admiration for way dies be money page indicating a strong connection to dies groundbreaking work in the field of digital currencies Satoshi goes on to reveal his intention to release a comprehensive paper expanding upon dies ideas ultimately culminating in the birth of Bitcoin now let's read the actual letter you can see it's dated here August 22nd 2008 sent at 438 p .m.
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh update on "bear" discussed on Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
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Valley Green Vegan
Podcast Highlight: The Traveling Vegan's Dilemma
"Have recently run into a dilemma that I'm sure some of my fellow born again eaters can relate to how to maintain a healthful plant based diet while traveling. I mean, it is not always easy. A company that I work for part -time requires that I travel about eight to 10 days or so a month. I'm usually on a plane. I'm headed to a work site for a day. Then I'm headed back home again the next day. And sometimes it's a two -leg trip where I have to visit sites in another city. So that increases the challenge of finding vegan eats in airports and at hotels. The other issue for me is that normally I'm taking Uber for ground transportation. So unfortunately, there's not really a good option to stop at a grocery store to pick up healthy foods unless I want to pay an arm and a leg, you know, for the extra Uber fare. The other issue that I have found is cost in capital letters. On my last trip, I ordered Uber Eats from Noodles and Company for dinner. I was in the hotel and I ended up spending nearly $30 for some simple noodles with veggies. I mean, it was crazy. So even though my company, I mean, they do provide meal stipends, but they're really pretty limited for someone who has special dietary needs and can't just order a pizza and cheesy bread. And as we all know, on a plant -based diet, it's always easier to prepare your own food. I mean, even though many hotel restaurants and even, you know, just regular restaurants have one or two vegetarian options nowadays, more often than not, they include cheese or some kind of dairy, you know, in their toppings or in their sauces. I mean, I've tried to order risotto without Parmesan in it. It's nearly impossible. So I remember one time I ordered a house salad and specifically told them, this was through room service at the hotel restaurant, I specifically told them no cheese or eggs, I'm vegan. When it arrived, I was starving, so my starving tummy was really upset when I discovered a bowl full of iceberg lettuce, a few tomatoes, and it had a feta cheese tossed into it. So another time there were no vegetarian options on the menu, I ended up ordering two sides of mixed vegetables and a plate of French fries. I'm pretty sure those veggies had been cooked in butter, even though I told them I was vegan. So, you know, not exactly a well -balanced meal. And I have really kind of resigned myself to packing my own take -along food. And this is where you have to get creative. I mean, I hate checking bags. I try to do everything with carry -on, as most people do these days. And unless you're going to pay an extra $25 to $35 and check a bag with a pantry of food inside, there is a real need to become proficient at tucking healthful meals into your carry -ons. But last week, I was out four days with a trip from D .C. to Phoenix and then up to Connecticut. I had two carry -on bags, very limited clothing, some work supplies, you know, my laptop, basic toiletries, my bags were stuffed, and it was because of the food I was trying to take along. So what do you do in those situations? I mean, I've really given this a lot of thought since becoming vegan because it is essential for me to be able to maintain a healthful diet while I'm traveling. And I have decided to make it my mission to seek out every dehydrated food option that can tuck easily into my travel packing and doesn't require a cold pack for refrigeration. I mean, now keep in mind, you can carry non -liquid refrigerated food on board a plane, but if your cold packs have begun to thaw at all, TSA will not allow them through without following their 3 -1 -1 rule. So to me, worrying about ice packs melting is just one more added stressor that I don't need while traveling, so I avoid packing anything that needs to stay cold.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1275. Ethereum ETF Launches! | VanEck Predicts $11,000 Ethereum
"All right, so let's roll into the ETF futures launch today. It has happened. This is going to be a big episode for you guys. You don't want to miss this one. If you're an Ethereum lover or maybe you're just trying to venture into crypto for the first time and you're finding out, hey, there's an ETF futures out there on this thing. We're going to teach you a little bit about that. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back in The Tech Path. Let's talk a little bit about Ethereum, some of the projects it could affect, and also its future. That's what we're going to try to break down for you. I think you guys are going to like this. James Seaford, he's been on our show before, one of the ETF experts over at Bloomberg. He tweeted, updated version reflecting the change due to the end of the Kelly and Hashtag's partnership will just be the Kelly ETF's product. And he kind of breaks it down. But the point is, is you've got the ETFs that have launched here with VanEck leading the way right now. Of course, we've got a whole litany of these starting to roll out now. So this is going to get interesting around the ETFs as when it comes to the futures ETF for Ethereum. And we'll show some stuff on this and how this plays out. But very, very interesting. So further over here, here's kind of just the layout of the VanEck. Obviously the cheapest total expense ratio at about 0 .66. So one of the lowest fees out there in being able to get into an ETF for sure. VanEck also is starting to do a little bit of advertising. This is kind of interesting with them actually starting to promote an Ethereum ETF future. This is crazy. So truly, and this is obviously institutional finance, so good stuff out there. I want to play a clip of them talking about this. Let's go to that. Ethereum has emerged as the system for an age where connections are no longer bound by location or space. We're not just using the network. We are the network. So when you're ready, enter the ether. Now you can tap into Ethereum's potential with the VanEck Ethereum strategy ETF, EFUT. All right, there you go. Big, big news because that is mainstream advertising. And when you get into mainstream advertising, it means you're going to be getting into mainstream investing and investing is going to start to shift that. That's why ETH and this ETF is such a big thing. It's why we're seeing a little bit of movement on Ethereum itself. VanEck, of course, their Twitter account says, what sets the EFUT apart? Typical ETF setups don't give futures, good tax benefits. C Corp is set up now designed to have potential for better performance after taxes for people who invest in a long time. So there are some apparent tax benefits here that VanEck, of course, is touting. So if you are in that case, make sure and, you know, investigate it. Let me know what you guys think. Further into this, just to show you where you can get this, now you can invest through your brokerage account in Robinhood, SoFi, Charles Schwab, E -Trade, Fidelity, pretty much anywhere you can buy EFUT. So easy to do and easy to get into. I want to go to this next clip right here that kind of breaks down a little bit further into what VanEck is trying to do with Ethereum as a whole. And this is Mr. VanEck himself What do you see coming in the crypto space that you thought it was important enough to get your firm that was established in the 50s moving towards this new area? Talk about Ethereum and there was CryptoKitties and all the potential of the blockchain. It felt like a lot of talk back then and a lot of PowerPoint presentations. But over the last three years, especially this year, I mean, it's just amazing how many software projects are not only coming to the market, but also upgrading in a very significant extent. And that includes Ethereum. I see three major areas of finance being potentially disrupted. One is the banking and brokerage. The second is payments. And the third is banking and lending. I think the larger point is that Ethereum is the leader and Ethereum is making enhancements, if you will, to its software. And so it's getting better over time. I like the fact that we're starting to see real business people recognize what's happening because this is one of those things that happens in those early curves. And that I think VanEck is obviously all in. But there's many of them that are all in on this. And that's including companies like Fidelity. You look at what ARK and Cathie Wood has been talking about in terms of Ethereum growth. So where is Ethereum going as a whole? Well, here is a report by VanEck talking about Ethereum's price prediction. And this was $11 .8K by 2030. Now, I want you to think about that because Ethereum right now trading around $1 ,700. And look at that kind of growth in a very short period of time. We're talking about 2023, end of right now as we're recording this video. That's an accelerant that's pretty heavy. Let me go through a couple of things they highlighted in the report. So it's revenue rising from an annual rate of $2 .6 billion to $51 billion in 2030. Big move. ETH takes a 70 % market share amongst smart contract protocols, which implies a token price of around $11K by 2030, which we discount to around $5 .3K today. So that's what they think the core value is. And then we value Ethereum by estimating cash flows because they're kind of treating the chain much like a business would be treated in terms of revenue and et cetera. A couple of points here that they look at here in their revenue price targets. You see the base case, bear case, and then the bull case. $11 .8K right there on the base case. $3 .43K on the bear case 2030. And then a $51K bull case. That's $51 ,000 per token right there on the bull case. So a lot in terms of confidence around what this is in terms of Ethereum as a whole. There was a We introduced a novel revenue item called security as a service, which is interesting, which is going to help businesses will be utilizing security through the ETH ecosystem to enhance, obviously, security around businesses themselves. So another big advantage there. Since ETH is a bearer asset, ETH can be locked behind some businesses or protocol guarantees to act honestly. So it's another way for how blockchain is permissionless. And it makes it easier for so much of what we see in Web2 to be completely revamped in Web3, which is what Van Eck was talking about there around blockchain and what Ethereum is doing in the banking space, the investment space, tokenizing a lot of things that we typically have to have these intermediaries to be talking to. Further into this report, we assume that 5%, 20%, and 10 % of the finance, metaverse, media, and tech infrastructure activity will move on chain. And what they're looking at is the base case, bull case kind of scenario that plays into finance, metaverse, and media, which is kind of an interesting mix between those. But media, we've talked about one of the reasons we do what we do. We believe that media is going to be moving on chain in the future. Further into this, let's see, we have one more couple of points here. Yeah, all right. Base case 2030 price target $11 .8 to Dermot valuation today's dollars. And then we find today's discounted price to be around $5 ,300. So not a bad value if you're looking at the overall on this. Let's go over to another clip here. And the other clip I want to get into is Matthew Siegel and kind of how they got to this level. Listen in. We're seeing a base case for 5 % or so of revenue banking is applied in some way to crypto and public blockchain. So that'd be the base. And so we dial it up a notch to 10%. Likewise, we do the same thing with each of the other categories, metaverse infrastructure, the bear case, we pull that down to 1%, 5%, 1 % respectively. And the idea behind that is that we see regulatory climate or adoption curve failing in each of those from the bear, hyper bear scenario. Not only is like the end markets not using blockchain, but Ethereum has a very small market share. Our assumption in the base and in the bull case is there's thousands of interchangeable L2s that don't have any real way to differentiate themselves. And so in that kind of scenario, you can see the cut rate that Ethereum can take of those settlements would be much, much higher or the underlying businesses. In our base case, we assume that Ethereum will take 70 % market share of all open source blockchains. And when we do our models on Solana, like that, our base case is that Solana takes 70%. And then we see what type of upside we get when we put in those assumptions. And we look at owning each of these tokens is basically we're owning a bunch of call options that each protocol will become the dominant protocol, even though it's impossible that they all could do so. And then we manage our position size based on what type of upside we see. Most of our deep dives have been on either layer ones or application specific. We have not done one of these models for L2s. And I think there's just more uncertainty around how that's going to play out. All right. So those were the VanEck analysts breaking this down that were part of that report that we just showed just a minute ago. So both of them kind of indicating that obviously ETH in a very bullish case, also Solana in a very bullish case. So another thing that is happening within VanEck, which is kind of interesting, is this right here. So they announced, let me kind of zoom in on this for you guys, that they intend to donate 10 % of our ETF profits into Protocol Guild for at least 10 years. So Protocol Guild obviously designed to help the ETH ecosystem develop, prosper, build on new Ethereum projects that are really kind of growing the ecosystem. So that is a pretty big statement, but it's also kind of investing in the infrastructure. It's interesting because you didn't really see that happen during the evolution of Silicon Valley, which is kind of where I case what's is we're in that kind of zone. They talked a little bit more about it. I'm not going to buy ETH Futures ETFs, but if I was, I would buy VanEcks mainly because they're doing what they should be doing, and that is supporting the industry and supporting where the growth is going to come from. So that's always benefited. I think the interesting thing there is that the space likes it. Here's Eric Balshunis, and they're off. ETH Futures Derby underway. VanEck is in slight early lead. Although it looks like a few of them are not necessarily out of the gate. We'll post updates as we go. VanEck, of course, leading the way right there and you've got Valkyrie coming in with a little bit of activity as well. VanEck with their low fees and what they're doing as an overall strategy might be the winner here. Remember, they were the first one. So it goes back to first mover. If you look at the current ETH Fut, of course, it's very early trading, but you can kind of see the big boom and then a little bit of a slight down where they are holding right around $16 .91. So interesting stuff. Let's go over to this next clip. This will break down a couple of things, I think, when you really consider what the store of value argument is around Ethereum. Let's just play this next clip. You'll get what I'm saying. So the whole exercise of the store value discussion is a little bit, you know, I really have to put a big caveat in there because what I'm really doing is mind reading. I can't point to a statistic and say, people, there was no poll that says I bought Bitcoin because it's a store of value. Things could be built on top of Bitcoin as well. And maybe they're just saying, oh, no, actually, I think Bitcoin's the best smart contract software. So I'm not a mind reader. So these are kind of generalizations and best guesses based on the narrative. And if you look at the transactions, on -chain Bitcoin transactions are about $400 ,000 a day. And that hasn't changed a lot over the last several years, which I think is interesting. But if you look at Ethereum, the Ethereum transactions, the total amount of transactions on the Ethereum blockchain is in the trillions annually now. That's a big number. Ethereum is the most famous. Solana has performed really well this year. I actually think that will continue next year. That category of digital asset tokens has been the best performing this year. We think that's kind of accessing the blockchain and that's the space that we're most interested as a firm. All right. Well, it's good to know. I mean, because I think they hit on both the tokens that we like, which is Solana and ETH. And if you do look at Bitcoin's transactions that it was mentioning there, and I meant to say Bitcoin transactions, but this is the one year and if you just go out to the three year, there has been a little bit of an uptick here. But I think some of this has been the idea of where all of this is going, because just in the essence of what is happening in crypto in general, it's starting to accelerate in a big way. And what he mentioned there, meaning Van Eck mentioned, is that the explosion has been happening around Ethereum. Of course, if you look at Ethereum's transactions, almost same period of time, you see the kind of movement that we're talking about here all the way back from 2019 right there into 2020, all the way to where we are right now, which is in the depth of a bear market. We are in the depth of a bear market when all this is happening. And when NFTs are dead and all those kind of things that really cause pain in the ETH that's ecosystem, the kind of transaction levels that we're continuing to see. Now, other things that are driving this, there's been a couple of projects that have launched here recently. One, of course, is Pudgy Penguins. We did a full report on this, but Pudgy Penguins ran a live shopping experience on TechTok. And there are some interesting things within this that is going on. And what I want you to think about is just forget that it's Pudgy Penguin, I just want to think about retail in general, because retail in general is going to start to implicate. Now, obviously, a Pudgy Penguins project, they're very native to what's happening in crypto. But the cool thing is, is direct sales, they have some key insights. Let me zoom in on this for you. Direct sales showcase products, increase discoverability, audience engagement, global reach. Any retailer out there, especially direct consumer, etc., would love those kinds of insights coming out of something in terms of a digital campaign. So, big deal. A couple of things that came, they did a pin appeared, allowing viewers to add the featured toy to their cart and then check out directly within the app. Remember, this is the digital version of the NFT. And then Pudgy Penguins received over 33 ,000 likes. TechTok Shop recently launched in the U .S. It was available through parts of Asia and the United Kingdom. And then live shopping is expected to reach around $235 billion in sales this year in China. That's insane. And then Pudgy Penguins obviously is a unique position to leverage TikTok Shop to expand their brand. This will grow globally for them, but I think what you're going to see is more retail and also more projects that understand how to leverage all of this. Remember, this is all riding on Ethereum. So, it plays right into the hands of think of what's happening here. So, it's not all friendly Penguins. Now, we've got the Swiss bank UBS launching tokenized money market fund on ETH. And I think this is just one of those things. They're doing an exploratory initiative, but they are going to go through traditional financial institutions, fintech providers, etc. Further into this, you get Ethereum applications from the New York Stock Exchange to the SEC. All of this riding on Ethereum. This is the point that I talk about often, and that is this whole adoption curve. Many people think it's that slow curve, and then all of a sudden it's just straight up. I don't know if we're there yet, but what I am thinking is that there's so much activity in this space and the timing through this bear market has been so suppressive of some of these digital assets that we could be right there on the cusp of an explosion. Now, obviously, there's a lot of other things that have to happen. Some of the things that could happen to cause that kind of explosion are things like this. Is BlackRock's next to file for a spot ETF? That would be huge. If BlackRock said, we're going to go the Ethereum route as well, absolutely massive for the ETH ecosystem. So, for sure. Now, this was an interesting statement. Ripple effect of grayscale decisions is massive. SEC would have faced similar legal challenges for denying ETH futures and ETFs. By approving ETH futures, ETF, now the SEC is effectively conceding that ETH is not a security. This will no doubt impact the Coinbase and Binance litigation. All of that starts to play into this. You start to get a picture of this global reaction that is going to happen within this ETH ecosystem. And I think this is the kind of thing that starts to put you in a position where you can really start to leverage against these. Now, it's not all beautiful, but this was Dave Levine. He talks about this whole ETF futures thing as a scam. I want to play a clip for you. Listen to what he had to say. Do not be fooled by the news that there is an Ethereum ETF. There is an Ethereum ETF, but it's not buying Ethereum. In other words, Bitcoin went up 35%. It's a pretty big game. But if you bought the fake ETF that is not buying Bitcoin, you only went up 14%. So where did that other, where did 50 % of your gains go? They're lying in the pockets of the bankers. Again, it's supposed to be protecting investors. You know, that's why I call these ETFs a scam and they use the name Bitcoin to say what you're buying and it's not what you're buying and it's guaranteed to underperform. I mean, what is the definition of a scam, right? He is a hired gun to do that stuff, right? And the, and the court ruled on it. They said that the SEC loses on all counts because its case and its, and its, uh, its arguments are capricious and incoherent. And there is this risk that, you know, ETH goes up so much, so fast. The Wall Street bank that is trying to track the price because they don't actually own ETH can't actually track it because whatever they're holding doesn't go up anything close as much. And then they go bankrupt because they can't meet the obligations. Believe me, if some Wall Street bank goes bankrupt because ETH goes up or Bitcoin goes up so much because they were playing games and they got exposed, they're going to blame crypto, not their shenanigans. So the whole thing stinks. Coinbase has a thing, it's called stand with crypto click. It tells you who your Congress person is, gives you a little script. I went off script and gave them an air full. Do it. All right. So he hits on a few things with point with these future ETFs is it happens in all markets. This is, this is just one of many out there that are non crypto related. It's obviously being crypto related. So I would dispel the fact that these are scam. These are yes, they're high fee scenarios. There are other ways to invest in these assets, but people look at this in a different way. Mainly this is mainstream investors wanting to go in on these assets and they're not ready to open an account with Coinbase or other things like that. But he did mention something at the end and that is stand with crypto. Listen, this, if you're not already doing it, you should be doing it. Go out and just hit stand with crypto. You can call your Congressman, email your Congressman and it helps you kind of go through the process of letting people know where you stand on all of the 16 ,000 contacts right now at the Congress. So huge, huge movement here. 150 ,000 crypto advocates. This is going to be a big part of next year because next year we are talking about an election year. So it's going to be huge. So definitely. Now if you are interested in buying ETH directly, you can actually do this in a traditional finance way right through the Fidelity app. So check it out if you're not a Fidelity customer. They're not a sponsor, but we've used it, we've tested it and it's fantastic. So that's another way to go. All right guys, we're going to wrap that one up from here. One thing to remember, and I'll leave you with this, this is Mr. Patrick McHenry hitting it in right there home. And that is SEC Chair Gensler refuses scheduled commission vote to provide Congress with requested documents. They are talking about the first subpoena to the SEC ever. That would be huge in the way of who knows what they'll find. What would we see in the way of bipartisan, you know, enforcement that we've seen the FCC pretty much put at will to go out. This may play its course right now with Patrick McHenry. He's not playing around anymore. We'll see how it all plays out. But you guys know what to do and that is join the diamond circle so you can follow what's playing it out. Not only the legislative side but also taking a look at some of the projects that we break down and of course some of our additional content including our Web3 podcast over there with Kyle. We do a We'll leave a link down below if you guys want to catch me on Twitter. It's out there at Paul Baron. We'll catch you next time right here on Tech Path.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Bears WRECKED! (New 2023 Highs Coming?)
"Well, I like the 30 second and the 1 second, but I'll take the 5. We're in compromise. It's a compromise for me. On the 5 minute chart, we have recently gotten another good buy flash here. Oscillators are nice and low. Got that green reversal coming in here with the chart prime oscillator. So I think we're making another push to the upside. We're getting right there, weeks ago I talked about 28 .6, DZ, 28 .6 being a level to keep our eyes on. I'm going to talk more about that when I zoom out in a second, but that is the level to beat because look at these, even on the 5 minute chart. We are setting higher highs, higher lows here. So that trend is continuing. This is a bull trend on the 5 minute chart. So if you guys are looking to do some day trading, looks like a good opportunity, maybe to push one more time. You're probably looking to take profits somewhere around 28 ,640. I think it'd be a lot to ask you to get a little higher than that. This is clearly a rounding off pattern though on the 5 minute chart. Like if you were to move up to 30 minute, you're starting to get a little more overextended and it's working its way to the downside. So this is always important to kind of zoom out, continue to look at things. But 5 minute chart, I do think we have some bullish stuff come in there. Even the 30 minute chart, DZ, telling us we got a good little buy signal here. But I do want to kind of zoom out and give some perspective here. Of course, the bullish stuff that we talked about last week, guys, remember we broke through this level of resistance and then I said if we can come back down, use it as support, and we did. We did not close a single 4 hour candle below that red line again. We could get a push to the upside. I didn't know what the form of news would be, but I did think that we'd have a bullish push and that's exactly what we have here. Now, on the 4 hour chart though, DZ, let me go up here. There's some positives, there's some negatives here when I'm looking at the oscillators. Positives, look at this overbought flash, look at this bearish divergence and a peak seeker that popped up. A peak seeker? Like a peak seeker missile? Exactly. There's a missile on the chart. This is very - Making my missile moist.
Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
A highlight from 395// How to Know If You Are Bearing Good Fruit : A Devotional Bible Study on Matthew 7:12-29
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Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Night of the Grizzlies
"Get ready to dive into the future with Technically Speaking, an Intel podcast, the groundbreaking podcast from iHeartMedia's Ruby Studios in partnership with Intel. Each episode unveils the incredible ways AI technology is transforming our world for the better. Join host Graham Klass as he speaks with the experts behind the technological advancements that are powering a brighter and more accessible future for everyone. Listen to Technically Speaking, an Intel podcast, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Following in your parents' footsteps is never easy, especially when mom or dad happen to be superstar athletes. What kind of lessons do Hall of Famers like, oh I don't know, NBA legend Tim Hardaway and NFL icon Kurt Warner impart on their kids as they chase professional sports stardom? How do they teach them the importance of prioritizing health and how to overcome adversity? Well, you can join Heart of the Game as they explore these questions and more with some of the greatest families in sports. Listen to Heart of the Game on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, we want to let you know and remind you that our first ever Stuff You Should Know episode on vinyl, a podcast LP, is out and available for purchase. Yeah, and the episode is vinyl. Our episode on vinyl is now available on vinyl, if you can wrap your heads around that. That's right, and they're beautiful, they look amazing. We partnered with Born Losers Records and they were great to work with and it's just a real feather in our cap to be able to hold some Stuff You Should Know physical media finally. Yeah, and they make a great holiday gift for the Stuff You Should Know fan in your life, a great Halloween gift, a great Canadian Thanksgiving gift, a great regular Thanksgiving gift. They're appropriate for all those jams. So just go to syskvinyl .com and order yours now. They ship out on October 20th. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey everybody, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Jerry's here too, and this is Stuff You Should Know. Let's go. Oh, you like that one? I did. I'd also like this title that Livia gave this one. Yes. It's very fun. Can I read it? Sure. The night that transformed bare human relations. It's pretty straightforward and says everything you need to say. Yeah, it's actually sadly very accurate. Yeah, and yet, despite it being that straightforward, there's a pretty interesting story hidden amid those letters. Sounds like a crossword clue. It does. I feel like we should tell that story now, or else really what are we doing here, Chuck? Alright, well I think this is one of those, unfortunately, we can't just sort of play out as a teaser to reveal what happens. I think we kind of need to say what actually happened and then tell that story, yeah? Alright. Did you want to tease this thing out? No. Okay. I'm just being difficult. Because what we're talking about is a very sad night, August of 1967, when two young women, two 19 -year -old women were killed by two, and here's the kicker, two different bears in two different places in the same national park. If it was one bear that just went crazy or something and they were all camping together, that would be obviously tragic, but not like, hey, we need to really look at what's going on here, and that's what happened because it was two bears in two places. Yeah, and the reason why it was such a kicker is because in the 57 years leading up to that, that Glacier National Park was a national park, only three other people had ever been killed by grizzly bears, and then all of a sudden it went from three people in 57 years to two women in two separate incidents in one night. That is crazy, and it really did kick off this national conversation about should grizzly bears stay alive as a species because we like living in national parks. Do we have the right to do that kind of thing? It's a pretty interesting story. It's got a lot of facets to it, and I feel like we should talk a little bit about grizzly bears first because I didn't realize that they were just a subspecies of brown bear, although that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, grizzlies are brown bears. They are generally darker than brown bears in coloring. They're generally smaller. They can be a couple hundred pounds up to about 600, and it's interesting here because I think it depends on where you live and who you ask. Usually bears brown are called brown bears when they're more coastal, like the ones you see grabbing that salmon out of the river you would call a brown bear. I thought that was a grizzly. Whereas if you live inland and you're a bear, a brown bear, you're called a grizzly, but then I also saw people talking about coastal grizzlies, so it may be one of those names that's just sort of been tacked onto a lot of brown bears. Yeah. I think it's just, you know, it's confusing. Yeah, but they're brown bears. Yeah, they're brown bears, which makes them, you know, and they're a relatively small brown bear. There's a type of brown bear called a Kodiak that gets up to 10 feet tall when it's standing on its hind legs. No, thank you. Grizzlies are not nearly that big, but they're still big enough. I mean, the males can get up to about 600 pounds, and there used to be a lot more of them than there are today. The early 19th century, I think around the time of Lewis and Clark, there was an estimated 50 ,000 to 100 ,000 grizzly bears. They went all the way from Canada down to Mexico. They were in every what's now states along the West, all the way over to the Great Plains. There was a ton of them. And then as we started to move out there, we meaning white American settlers and colonists, part of what that whole westward expansion included was not just wiping out Native Americans, it was also wiping out large carnivores too. Yeah, like when they talk about taming the West, that's what they mean. It's like, let's go out there and kill things. And they did this for a few reasons. Sometimes it was because they had cattle that they wanted to take care of, or, you know, occasionally if they thought they were in harm's way, they might kill a bear. But a lot of it was just that sort of, I was about to say human nature, but really man's nature, at least some men, not me or you, to want to kill big, beautiful animals because they're big and beautiful and, you know, I guess could be considered dangerous. You got to keep an eye on those people because they can very quickly become real like most dangerous game types. Right. That's right. So by the time 1967 rolls around, when the two 19 -year -old women who died lost their lives, and I'll just go ahead and say their names are Julie Helgeson, man, and Michelle Koons, by the time they died in August of 1967, grizzly bears had been wiped out so thoroughly that they had a territory that was about 2 % of what it had once been. Mostly they were in national parks because those were protected areas, and there was something like under a thousand of them in the entire continental United States. Yeah, that's, 2 % is great when you're talking milk, it's not great when you're talking about animal populations. Did you write that one down? I didn't, it just came to me when I saw 2%. Good stuff, man. Very nice. Here's the weird thing though, is, and it seems rather counterintuitive, there were more, even though there were fewer bears, there were more human encounters with these bears for this very reason, and as we'll see, this is what, part of what led to this huge mess, and it's really hard to, if you're our age, and maybe obviously younger, you don't realize that national parks weren't always these places where they really were smart about everything they did, because at the time, they would do some crazy things in national parks. They would try and get bears around, they would leave food out. They would, there was one story here that Livia found where, and luckily a park ranger kind of stopped this in the act, but these parents brought a bear over with some food with a candy bar, and then tried to put their 18 month old on this bear's back to take a picture. Yeah, there's a story in that same article about a guy who was trying to lure a bear into his car to get a photo of it behind the wheel. Yeah. Just people interacting with, again, 600 pound grizzly bears, they can just take your head clean off if they want to, but that's the thing. They are really unpredictable, and for the most part, they're vegetarians, I think plants make up something like 90 % of their diets, and a lot of times, they're, I don't want to say docile, but the 18 month old baby survived, and so did the mom, and so did the dad. If that bear had acted any differently, they wouldn't have survived, so I saw that their personalities can best be summed up as unpredictable, but at the time, in the 60s, that is not the impression people had of bears. They were kind of considered a lot more gentle. There was a park ranger who was quoted by Jack Olson, who we'll meet in a little while, who said that on a scale of, a danger scale, where a butterfly is a zero and a rattlesnake is a 10, the grizzlies of Glacier Park would have to rate somewhere between zero and one. That is entirely wrong. He really should have said they rate between a zero and a 10, and you have no idea what it's going to be at any given moment if you encounter a bear. Yeah, and like a lot of large animals like this, when there is a, you know, their accident, so I'm going to call it an accidental killing, because bears weren't like, ooh, human, let me go eat them. Like you said, they're mostly vegetarian, and even when they ate stuff that was non -vegetarian, it wasn't like, oh, boy, let me go chow down on that person. It was, let me go chow down on that person's steak by the fire or the fish that they're cooking or something like that. And so when there is an accident, it's usually one of a couple of things. It's either the sort of familiar scenario of where you stumble upon a bear and scare them, or they may have their cubs around them, might be a mama with some cubs. Or it is that bear that's like, wait a minute, that's my food. You're eating that fish out of that river. I want it. So let's go. Yeah, apparently they defend their food like it's, like with the most jealous violence that they need to, like that is their food, even if it's your food. Yeah, exactly, because that bear thinks it's their food, because it's their territory. And the other thing that Libby was keen to point out, which is like, it sounds sort of funny at first, but it really is a thing that you need to pay attention to, is the Yogi Bear cartoon was a big thing. And Yogi and Boo Boo as these sort of friendly bears going after the picnic basket, that came about because that's what it was like. It wasn't like someone said, I got this crazy idea. Let's take these ferocious animals and make them Hanna -Barbera, and let's make them into a lovable cartoon character. It was like, no, that's when you went to these national parks. Like you said, people are luring bears around. They're like, ooh, take my picnic basket if I can take a picture, pick a picture, pick a picture, pick a picture. I'm just trying to make that into a funny picnic thing. Anyway, that's how things were. So that's why they made that cartoon. And that was just sort of what was going on. Like they literally at Glacier, at one, oh, I'm sorry, this is at Yellowstone, but they were doing similar things in Glacier. At Yellowstone, they put bleachers up around the open air dumps so people could show up and watch the bear show, which was bears wandering in to eat. Yeah. So a lot of people rightfully lay a lot of the blame for the deaths in 1967 at the feet of the administrators of national parks at the time because they were using the bears as entertainment. And at the very least, even if they weren't in some of the parks, they were not instructing the public on how to interact with bears and just how dangerous bears were. And that was a huge problem because like you said, people were treating them like they were just these docile, gentle animals that wouldn't do them any harm. And then the other factor that kind of gets overlooked is that this is right after the national highway system had really been developed and people were hitting the road. So these national parks were suddenly just swamped with tourists for the first time in their history. So people were, there were far fewer bears, but there were a lot more people all up in the bears' drills than there ever had been in human history. Yeah. And leading up to this specific incident, and we'll detail a little bit more of this after, I guess we'll take a break here in a couple of minutes. But at Glacier, there were sort of in the days leading up, there were a lot of alarming incidences where bears were becoming way more aggressive, or if you're watching a cartoon, way more friendly than they had been. There were fires that came through the park in the summer of 67, so that shrank their habitat some and kind of squeezed them into a smaller area. And there was one bear in particular that had been reported a few different times. I went back, I'm sure you did too, and read this great original Sports Illustrated article. Who was it that wrote that? Jack Olson. Yeah, Jack Olson is kind of the standard account of this horrific event. But this bear, it was an emaciated female who was underweight, had been reported a lot going up to people, being very brazen and, you know, not like typically when you see a bear, if you ever watch these outdoor shows, you start yelling at the bear, like get out of here or clank in a pot and the bear usually is going to leave. Bears are scared and they don't want to be around people. But this bear was not taking any orders and not doing any of the things that a bear would usually do. It would just come into a camp and start eating and not leave until they wanted to leave, this skinny lady bear. Right. So we have in the Western National Park System, a situation where bears have become acclimated to humans. They're totally fine with being really close to humans, kind of not scared of us. And then also they had become habituated on human food and garbage. And they now associated humans with food and they were no longer scared of humans. There were a huge population of bears in the Western parks with lots of humans coming to see them. All right. Well, let's that sounds like a very natural place to stop things and never come back. But we do. We have to tell this this bad story. So we'll be back right after this.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 687:Bitcoins U.S. Shutdown Surge, SBFs Trial, and Coinbases Singapore Milestone
"Good evening and welcome to the crypto overnighter. I'm Nicodemus and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10pm Pacific on Monday, October 2nd, 2023. Welcome back to the crypto overnighter where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas and no BS. But we do have the news. So let's talk about that. Tonight, we delve into the intricate dance between the crypto world and various power structures. Will Bitcoin maintain its golden status amid government turmoil? What's at stake for Sam Bankman Fried as he faces a monumental trial? As Ross Albrecht marks a grim milestone, we look back at Silk Road's complicated legacy. Meanwhile, Coinbase gets a warm welcome in Singapore. But what does that mean for its U .S. operations? Swiss Bank UBS is making waves on the Ethereum blockchain and Grayscale aims to revolutionize Ethereum trading. Lately, we've been talking about the recent political drama that could have led to a U .S. government shutdown, but it didn't. And Bitcoin reacted in a way that's worth discussing. At the 11th hour, Republicans and Democrats struck a deal to keep the U .S. government running for another 45 days. This is not a permanent solution. It's a Band -Aid. The disagreements over funding levels, borders and the Ukraine -Russia war are still there. But for now, the government stays open and the U .S. citizen bears the brunt of this political circus. Now let's talk about numbers. As news broke, Bitcoin shot up over 3 % to hit 28 ,000. It also collided with its 200 week moving average, a critical resistance level. As of the latest data, Bitcoin is sitting at $28 ,360 apiece. If it consolidates above this level, we could see it test the local high of just under $32 ,000. Bitcoin's dominance in the crypto world also spiked well above 50%. On the flip side, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 171 points or 0 .5%. The S &P 500 fell by 0 .3%, while the NASDAQ composite rose 3%. So while traditional markets were shaky, Bitcoin showed resilience. Jay Hatfield, CEO at Infrastructure Capital Management, attributed Monday's tech sector rally as a relief sentiment from the averted shutdown. But he also pointed out that interest rates are the dominant factor in trading right now. The Senate passed the resolution just before the midnight deadline, and President Biden signed it into law. Initially, equity futures were in the green, but they fell into the red before the markets opened. Why? Because investors are now focusing on surging interest rates near 15 year highs. The 11th hour deal to avert a U .S. government shutdown had a ripple effect on financial markets but none more pronounced than Bitcoin. While traditional markets like the Dow Jones showed a decline, Bitcoin sees the moment, surging past significant resistance levels. This is a testament to Bitcoin's resilience and its role as a sort of financial safe haven during times of political uncertainty. The Dow's decline in Bitcoin surge presents a stark contrast. It's almost as if the investors are saying they have more faith in a decentralized digital asset than in the stability of the U .S. government. And if so, who could blame them? Both the Dow's dip and the spike in the 10 year treasury yield indicate that traditional markets are still heavily influenced by government actions and are not immune to the chaos of political breaksmanship. Bitcoin's dominant spiking above 50 % is another key takeaway. It's not just leading the crypto bull market, it's dominating it. This could be indicative of a broader shift in investor sentiment, favoring Bitcoin over other assets including altcoins. The 45 day extension gives Bitcoin another window of opportunity. If the bulls can maintain momentum and keep Bitcoin above its 200 week moving average, we could see it test new highs. But let's not forget, liquidity is still scarce. Unless another significant event prompts more U .S. dollar printing, progress may be slow. Yet the message is clear. In a world where traditional systems are showing cracks, Bitcoin offers not just an alternative but perhaps a better way forward. In essence, Bitcoin has once again proven its mettle by not bowing to political uncertainties. It's a reminder of why we're all here. For a financial system that doesn't play by the rules of centralized entities. That Bitcoin resilience? It may help us weather storms like what SBF is facing. Speaking of Sam Bankman -Fried, his trial kicks off tomorrow and it's far from a simple legal hiccup. Here's what's unfolding. And hey, if you're as glued to these narratives as we are, hit that follow button. You won't want to miss a beat.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 118: Part 2: Marc Cameron - From Deputy US Marshal to Arliss Cutter to Tom Clancy
"Okay, so the next time I asked for a ride, I didn't get one. No, that's when you look at the other people and say, I meant to do that. Yeah, I meant to do that. Exactly. Well, yeah, that's what you do when your lights are on and they look at you, you just speed through the light and go on to some fake call somewhere, right? Drive like hell. Hey, I want to start progressing into talking about your books, but I want to talk about your time on the Marshalls. When you look back, what's one of the most impactful cases or impactful investigations or things that you did? Because when we had Billy Sarukas on, we talked about the DC Sniper. You guys do some just fantastic work. You've got some great technology. We talked earlier, Blair Dean, when he used to run the TOG, the tactical operations group, some of the stuff you guys do with phones, I mean, just amazing stuff. When you look back on it, what's one or two things that just really stick out to you and you think back and you go, I'm glad. Maybe it wasn't the biggest case, but you look at it and you go, that one made a difference. I really liked that one. Have you got one or two like that? Yeah, sure. It's interesting and I'm actually, in the book I'm working on now, I'm making a comparison. One of the things I really liked about the Marshall Service is you could start your day working with all kinds of tech, especially in Alaska and North Idaho, working with all kinds of technical equipment. Back when I was starting, it was pagers and things like that. That's kind of a cool thing. In the Clancy books, I could talk about pager technology and all that that we don't really use now, so it's not sensitive anymore. But working with phones and computers and all kinds of stuff, and then two hours later, be tracking somebody's boots on the ground through bear country up here and really have to do it the old way. And so, I really like that. I kind of gravitated towards rural work because yeah, we still use cell phone technology. We still use all that stuff, even in rural areas, as far as tracking people and even social media stuff, but we really have to rely on knowing how to physically man track and that sort of thing. So early on in my career, I really enjoyed the high tech, using pagers, using cell phones when they came. I sat next to a guy in the academy who is just a brilliant, brilliant deputy. Even back in 1991, he had a stack of papers about cell phone technology and he realized back then, this is the future of tracking fugitives. And so, he worked with Blair and those guys and I don't like to name their names because he's still kind of half in the business, but he's just a brilliant guy and he helps me quite a bit with the Clancy's as well. So, I really enjoyed those sorts of things and the cases were many, but when I got to North Idaho, we had a case. Now again, you guys mentioned Weaver and Ruby Ridge and all that. So that's the zeitgeist up there, the feeling and the kind of the anti -fed and the animosity and stuff like that. So we went into that and then we had a guy that was wanted on a... He was just wanted on a federal parole warrant. So back then, we had a lot more parole warrants and then, of course, parole got abolished, but we still had a few people wanted on parole. Now it's all supervised release. And we like parole warrants because there was no court. You just arrested the guy and took him to prison. When you violated parole, you just went back to jail. There was no, you know, pass and go or anything. You just went to prison, not even the county jail, the nearest, because they were property of the Bureau of Prisons as far as what the courts saw. So we were looking for this guy, his name was Farron Loveless. And as we started investigating more, we learned that he was a suspect in kidnapping a Jewish couple across the state line into Spokane. He held them hostage in their own home for three days, two days maybe, but I think a couple of nights. And he had like fed their dogs and snuck up to their house and got in and held them hostage. And he had been in prison, then he jumped parole and then come over here. And he had a hit list of a bunch of feds he wanted to kill and not just feds. So we're learning all this little stuff on him that kind of blossomed out of this parole warrant. And we worked it for a number of months, but we started to learn that he was just really a bad guy. But as we got an informant involved and some other people, we learned that he was hiding up on a mountain. He had married a woman, he was in his late 30s, and he had married an older woman in her 60s that had a son and a grandson. And she had Social Security and stored food and kind of back before prepping was a thing, she was a prepper. And so he had basically gotten all her food and he had his...because he was really living a life on the run, completely disconnected. He had no phone, no nothing. So he had moved this teenage boy and this 60 -year -old woman up into the mountains of North Idaho and they built their encampment up there. And they had booby traps, they had fish hooks hanging from monofilament. You might recognize this if you've read the book there. He had split pieces of wood with shotgun shells up through the middle of them and buried all around for like homemade land mines and various booby traps around. But now imagine in that situation when I write a note to headquarters that says, hey, we got this guy and a woman and a teenage boy up on a mountain in North Idaho, we'd like to go get him. They said, not in a million years are you going to go up and have a gunfight on a mountain in North Idaho with a teenage boy and a woman and a fugitive. And so we had to come up with a lot of different plans and it ended up that my partner who had been working on it with me, this was back after the first World Trade Center bombings, and he was part of our special operations group. So we were protecting the judges back in New York. So he had to rotate out every few weeks and go back and help with the protective details. And so he was out of town, so it was me and the FBI where they had helped work on the case because we all had to work together. And there was an FBI agent named Tom Norris, who's a Medal of Honor recipient, I should say. Tommy Norris, he's the only FBI agent I ever met with a glass eye. He's the guy that saved Bat -21. So, I mean, just a phenomenal dude and he mentored my oldest son. He's just a very unassuming, FBI let him get away with what he wanted to because he was a Medal of Honor recipient and really just a class act. So he was helping on it. So we came up with a plan to lure Farron off the mountain. And originally, he had a bicycle and we knew he would come down off this mountain. There was quite a hike up there, take his bicycle and maybe come into town once in a while for supplies. And so I came up with a plan to put a flashbang next to the bike and we'd hide and we'd lure him down to the bicycle and then get him there. Headquarters said, nope, no flashbangs on a mountain. So we came up with another plan and Farron was super prejudiced, super white supremacist, super prejudiced. So we said, we sent our informant back up and this is all not sensitive now because it's all come out in court. But we sent the informant back up and he said, hey, there's a Hispanic gun dealer in town that wants to buy some guns, but he's got two white girls that he's pimping out in Priest River, Idaho and you might want to come down and sell him some guns and take care cleaning of up the race a little bit. And Farron actually said, I'm going to come down and do that. I'm going to come down and get, I'm going to sell him some guns in air quotes and take care of this Hispanic guy that's pimping out white girls. And I mean, that's just the way his brain worked. And so we set up the time and we had Boundary County deputy sheriffs and Bonner County deputy sheriffs and Tom Norris and I. And the plan was when Farron came riding by on his bicycle, there's a long, long bridge outside Priest River, Idaho that goes over Priest Lake. And we were going to pinch him in the middle of the bridge because we knew he was going to be armed. He had a hit list and he had a violent past. And so Tommy was behind him and I was coming up to meet him. And the idea was when he got on the bridge, we'd get him pinched between our two cars and arrest him so he didn't, nobody else was in danger. We would close off the bridge. Well, as Tommy got in, Tom Norris got in behind him, he saw that he had a pistol out the, like in his hip pocket. He had a GP 100 pistol in his hip pocket and a little backpack on and a little, like a 10 -22 rifle sawed off sticking out the back of his backpack. And I mean, he's like the Wicked Witch of the West, you know, riding on his bicycle towards town to meet this guy. And Tommy, I don't know what happened, whether he touched the gun or what, but Tom pulled it beside him and just bumped him off the road. So he went ahead and endowed and went into the ditch. And so I sped up there and this all happened very fast. So he went into the ditch before he got onto the bridge. And so I was right there and there was a boundary county deputy right behind me in a marked unit. And so Tommy bailed out of his car. I bailed out of his car because of the way Tommy had to come around.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Cause of Conversion
"Thank you gang, good morning everyone. Typically when I'm preparing a sermon I do my very best to make sure that it's balanced and here's what I'm looking for when I say balanced. There are lots of ways you can deliver a passage of the Bible and I'm trying my best to keep some parts of the sermon theological and some parts practical. If you aren't familiar with that first word, as I wasn't until I was like in my late teens, theological meaning I want us to think, I want us to think right thoughts about God. That's theology. And then practical, based on what we know about God, I want us to act. So a sermon, I try my best to balance them, theological thinking about God and practical acting on what we know about God. And yet when you go through the Bible, some parts of it are more one than the other. And that's okay, that's the way the Bible works. Today is going to be one of those messages that are a little bit more heavy on the theological side than the practical side. So on days like that you have to pray and you have to ask God, remember what Jesus said? We're supposed to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our mind. So I'm going to ask that God would grant a very attentive mind. Because I'm going to ask you to worship the Lord your God through the word with a mind that thinks right thoughts about God. So Lord, that's our goal. We want to think. You've given us a mind, a working mind to be able to think. It's unlike the animals who can't think didactically like we can, but we can rationalize. We can think in ways that honor you and we can think in ways that don't honor you. So I'm asking that you would grant first, that you would grant in this room a very attentive mind, that we would all aim our minds toward God to tune out other thoughts and to just spend a little time on a Sunday thinking about nothing else but the greatness of the glory and the beauty and the majesty of our great God. So help us now as we worship through the word to love you by thinking about you. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. We're in John chapter four. So if you have a Bible, grab it, open it, go to John. That's in the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, fourth book of the New Testament and open to the fourth chapter. We're almost done with it, sort of almost done with it. We're about three quarters of the way through with it. Let me catch you up as you're tuning there. Jesus has been having a conversation with an immoral Samaritan woman, and no one wants to be around this woman, but Jesus did. And so he intentionally met her at the well. And boy, what a meeting they've had. John, the writer of this book, records the true historical account of what happened between Jesus and the Samaritan woman, and we've gone through most of it. Let me tell you what we've seen so far. Right now, Jesus has revealed certain things to this woman that she's gone away from this conversation knowing only one thing. She doesn't know about the cross, she doesn't know about the grave, she doesn't know about anything except she knows one thing. I met a man who told me everything there was to know about me. And she runs off and tells the townspeople, who she's going to in our passage today. She doesn't know about him being a savior yet. She just knows, I met a man who has the ability to tell me things that a mere man doesn't have. So she thinks, I just met a prophet. That's it. That's all she knows. Last Sunday, if you were here, as you're reading through John 4, John takes a pause, and he tells us this other lesson that's related that Jesus wanted to teach his disciples about this. And here's, in a nutshell, what that lesson was. Jesus says, look around you guys, God's field is full and it's ready for the picking with women and people just like this woman. The time has come when God's mission field is full of women like this one I'm talking to, women and men and children whom God wants to save. They're unconverted and God wants to bring them to the truth. And so now John is going to bring us back to what happened with the woman. So there's a story about the woman, I'm going somewhere with this, follow me, story about the woman, an intentional pause, and then it returns to the narrative about the woman. If you were paying close attention last week, if anybody comes up to me afterwards and says they knew this, I'm going to be shocked. If you were paying close attention last week, I skipped three verses. Usually I go one verse, then the next verse, then the next verse. We don't skip anything. And that's a big no -no. We don't skip verses. And so I skipped three verses because as I was studying, I realized these really belong with the text I'm going to show you today. So I purposely skipped them to save them for today. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to look at those three verses I skipped, which is found in verse 28, 29, and 30. Then we're going to skip the passage I preached on last Sunday, which is verse 31 through 38. And we're going to take the part I skipped and join it to the part where you'll see why. Can I show you why? This reads, this portion, you're going to go, wow, that reads so smoothly. It's almost like there was no interruption. Watch how smooth the narrative goes now, okay? So starting in verse 28, where I skipped, 29 and 30, then jumping down to 39, the narrative reads smooth. Check this out. So the woman, she's just finished talking with Jesus, and now this is what happens after. So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people, come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ? They went out of the town and were coming to him. Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, he told me all that I ever did. So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, it's no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the savior of the world. Now, there is a primary lesson that most preachers, when they preach this passage or if you've ever been in a Bible study or a Sunday school class, there's one primary lesson that's being taught here. In the job of an interpreter, you when you're home and you open your Bible in the morning with your cup of coffee or your spot of tea or whatever you drink and you're reading the Bible, you're all interpreters at that moment, there's only one lesson. And the job is to get at that one lesson. What did the author mean? If we get somewhere else, we've missed the interpretation. So our job is to find out what John meant by what he wrote and then get at that meaning. The meaning of this is not real difficult. It's very simple. Here's what happened. A woman had an encounter with Jesus and she went home and told everybody about it. That's it. That's the story. That's what happened. So if this passage is preached a hundred times this year in a hundred different churches all over the world, 99 out of a hundred times, here's what the sermon's going to be about. She's a witness. She's really the first witness in the Gospel of John. And so the message is going to be about witnessing. And they'll tell you, go home and do likewise. And they'll take you through it piece by piece, showing you how she witnessed, because she did a good job, and they'll say, this is how you witnessed. And I'm telling you, that is the faithful way to handle this text. A hundred percent of the time, that's the way to do it. I'm not going to do that today. Here's why. Knowing the majority of the people at our church and knowing that the majority of you have been in church your whole life, you've probably heard this preached 20 times. And I'm knowing that I could give you the main lesson in about 30 seconds, which I just did. I want to show you how the Bible can be like an onion, like an onion, and how you could read this. My grandmother's 105. You're probably getting tired of me telling you that. She woke up this morning and read her Bible for close to an hour. I'm telling you. You know how I know? She's done it her whole life. She's probably read this passage 105 times, I'm exaggerating. Every time, there's some new layer of the onion that gives her food for her soul. I want to peel back a layer. Again, there's only one meaning, but there's lots of ways, vantage points, to look at that one meaning and glean new food from this never -ending nourishment that is God's word. In narratives like the one we're reading, especially the gospel narratives where you're reading about a true historical account, this really happened in history, and where there's lots of different people in the story, you can look at it from her perspective or the perspective of Jesus or the perspective of the Samaritans. If there were other people, we could read it from different perspectives, and every time you do, you peel back a new layer of the onion. Isn't the Bible awesome? It'll keep you nourished for the rest of your life. Well, this week, I looked at the woman and I said, Lord, I'll preach this. If that's what you want, I'll just go and I'll preach a message on witnessing. I just couldn't do it. I wanted to peel back a little bit and look at this from the lens of the Samaritans. I wanted to see how it was that God converted them through first this woman and then through an encounter with Jesus. And so this morning, what we're going to do is we're going to do a case study in conversion. The Samaritans were my focus this week, which is why I've entitled this sermon, the 20th sermon, by the way, in our series through John, The Cause of Conversion. Would you give me two minutes before we start picking apart this text? Would you give me two minutes to define conversion? Because I imagine that there might be a lot of different definitions that people would come up with as to what that word means. What is that? Most people may have grown up believing, as I did, that conversion was the same exact thing as being born again. It isn't. Oh, it's related. As a matter of fact, you might think of conversion as the other side of the coin of being born again. Let me explain. Get your thinking cap on. Here we go. Being born again, theologians have a term for it just like they do conversion, and the term is regeneration. How many of you have heard the term regeneration before? How many of you have read the book of Genesis? Genesis is the beginning. When you were born, you had a Genesis. When you were born again, you had a re -Genesis. God made your birth happen again on the inside. Conversion is not the same thing, and here's how. What happens on the inside when you're born again, when God takes your dead soul, which is the way you were born, you're dead in your sins, so was I, when God makes you alive to Christ, that happens at the soul or the heart level, and at that very same instant, you mind falls, but at that very same instant, after God makes you alive, something happens in the mind. What happens in the mind is conversion, and it's really important. Here's why it's important. Look what Jesus said. This is going to get juicy. Jesus said, truly I say to you, unless you are, say the word, and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. So you tell me, is conversion important? You better believe it. Here's the word Jesus used. He used the Greek word, strepho, which simply means, look on the screen, to be changed, or a better definition, to turn and go another direction. Someone is born again. At that moment, their eyes are open to see the truth. Once that happens at the soul level, something happens instantaneously in the mind. In the mind, you are able to believe the truth about Jesus. You see him as he truly is. You no longer see your old life the way that it was. You turn away from it, and you turn to something new. That is the moment when conversion begins. It continues throughout your life. God continues to make you into something new. We call that process sanctification. It starts the moment you're converted, and it continues throughout your life. He's continually renewing your mind, changing how you see first God, then you, then the world, then every little thing continues this process of being converted into the image of Jesus Christ. So conversion is the flip side of the coin of regeneration, but it's not exactly the same thing. caused Conversion is by having the eyes of your heart opened, listen to these words, to a knowledge of God that you were prior blind to, and it's this spiritual knowing and believing that I see in this text. Martyn Lloyd -Jones said something about conversion that I think sums it up better than anybody else. Look what Martyn Lloyd -Jones said. He said conversion is the first exercise of the new nature. So once you're born again, the first thing you do, the first act is conversion in ceasing from old forms of life, my old sinful life, and starting a new life. It's the first action of the regenerate soul in moving from something, something I used to be, to this new life. That's the best definition of conversion that I could find, a way that I think will be helpful to you in your life in understanding salvation. In this text, I see a great case study of how conversion works. These people went from believing something to suddenly having their eyes opened to see something new. If you did what I did, some people, it's funny, they think that preachers somehow have some supernatural funnel from God where he pours information in your head. That is not at all what happens to a preacher. It's just discipline. That's all it is. Discipline to study the Scriptures and sit in it and sit in it, and then when you're done, sit in it some more. And God does for a preacher what he would do for you if you spent as much time in a text as I do. I spend on average about 20 hours a week preparing for a sermon, roughly 20 hours, sometimes more, sometimes less. If you spent as much time as I did in this little text, I promise you, you'd start to see little observations popping out, little things you're like, oh, I never saw that before. And if you spent as much time with me this week looking at this text and looking at it, looking at it, looking at it, can I show you a few things that might start popping out to you? There are three because statements in this text. If you're reading in the morning in 20 minutes and you're reading the story about the woman at the well, you're not going to stop on the word because, would you? Because it's just the because. No one stops at the word because. But if you did stop, you would see the cause of things. Can I show you these three because statements in the text? Take a look. I put them on the screen for you. Well here's the whole text. You'd see these three because statements. Here are the three because statements popping out. Put those up for me, Logan. You have the first one? Poor Logan. The first because statement, we'll get to the second one in a second, many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony. So they believed in him because of the woman's testimony. Look at the second because statement. Now Logan. And many more believed in him because of his word. But now here's the cause that changed my whole trajectory of this sermon, verse 42. They said to the woman, look at this, look church, it is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves. And we know, it's the first time this word is used in the chapter, we know that this is indeed the savior of the world. Church, look at me. Something caused the water bottle. What was it? Me. I pushed it. All I want to do is look at this text as a case study of what caused you to be born again, to be converted. I want to look at this as a case study to see what caused them to be converted so that you will know first how to pray for your unbelieving family, but second even more importantly, to know whether or not you're converted. There are lots of people who've been going to church for years who may not be converted. There is a major difference between being convinced and being converted. There is a major difference between being convinced about Jesus and being converted by Jesus. Not all belief is the same kind of belief. I'm telling you, I want to show you this morning, based on verse 42, there's a journey, a progression of conversion that I want to show you in this text. They were convinced and called by this woman's testimony, but they were not yet converted because they did not yet know him. There is a kind of belief in Jesus that does not cause conversion. It's the kind that maybe the brother of Jesus was talking about when he wrote this. Look on the screen. You say that you have faith, for you believe that there is one God. Well, good for you. Even the demons say the word. Wait a second. And they tremble in terror. So according to James, there's a category of belief that does not cause a creature, a human creature or a demonic creature, to be converted. So just because you see belief in the Bible doesn't mean it's the same kind of belief that leads to conversion. My prayer all week this week is that God would bring us somebody who needed to be converted today. What I aim to show you in this case study is the call to salvation used by God. This woman was used by God to invite them. Being convinced about Jesus. And then finally being converted to Jesus. Here's the big idea. I'm going to spell it out for you. If you want to snap a photo of this with your phone so that you can't forget it, it's fine with me. Some people are convinced because of a personal testimony. And God uses personal testimonies to convince people. Others are convinced because of a personal experience. Lots of people have had spiritual experiences and God uses those to convince people. But there's only one cause of conversion. The cause of conversion is knowing Christ as personal Savior. Let me show you this in the text. I'm going to split the big idea into three parts. Everybody still with me? Part number one. Some people, they're called during someone's testimony. They feel God calling to them. And they're convinced when they hear someone give a personal testimony. But it's not the same thing as being converted. Here's what I'm going to show you in this text. God has been pleased down through church history to use people's personal testimonies. To draw people to himself. Theologians call this an effectual call. He calls out to people, come to Jesus. Come to Jesus. By the testimony of someone that you love or a friend. And people feel and hear God's call. But it's not the same thing as being converted. Let me show you that right here in the text. Verse 28, 29 and 30 and then verse 39. Look what it says here. So the woman left her water jar. There's lots we could say about that. She left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people. So now she's suddenly an evangelist. Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ? God in this moment is using a vessel, a woman's mouth who just had an encounter with Jesus to call people to come. Come meet Jesus. That's what's happening here. They went out of the town and were coming to him. Many Samaritans from that town believed. And now based on what you just read about James, you should go, wait a minute, what kind of belief? So glad you asked. We're going to get into that, okay? Many from Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony he told me all that I ever did. So remember something. Follow me, church. All she knows at this point is that she met a prophet.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Bitcoin Pops As Uptober Returns
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, October 2nd, and today we are talking up -tober. 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. Well, friends, today we are doing our normal slate of news, but we are couching it in a slightly different framing, which is, of course, up -tober. Now, to understand what I'm referring to, let's look at a tweet from StackHodler who writes, Welcome to up -tober. 8 out of the previous 10 Octobers were positive for Bitcoin. Average gain, plus 22%. Looming bullish catalysts. ETF approval leading to Bitcoin marketing push by BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, etc. Bond markets forcing central bank intervention. Awareness of US debt spiral spreading. Search for a hard asset alternative to bonds. Overpriced equities in real estate still priced for 3 % mortgage rates. Looming halving in early 2024. The weak hands have been brutally shaken out. If you held through the bear market, your patience has been tested. Bitcoin's volatility is designed to scare off everyone who doesn't understand the asset. But in the end, Bitcoin always rewards the patient long -term thinkers. StackSats enjoy fall. So today what we're going to do is look at the news of the last couple days, but in this framework of October. And sure enough, October got off to a hot start on Sunday with Bitcoin, Ethereum and numerous alts pumping hard on Sunday night. Bitcoin surged by 3 % in just 15 minutes, while Ethereum gained 4 .7 % across the same timeframe. Now part of October's history with Bitcoin can probably be explained by how dismal September tends to be. Over the past 10 years, for example, September has seen an average loss of 5 .6 % for Bitcoin. Although this time around, September was actually slightly positive with a 3 .9 % gain. That could reduce the tailwind of mean reversion for crypto markets, which would leave any bullish momentum reliant on a strong narrative push. Now when it comes to bullish narrative, of course the last week has been all about Ethereum and the imminent launch of new exchange -listed products. Nine of those products, specifically Ethereum Futures ETFs, were slated to begin trading this morning. Competing products from asset managers including VanEck, Bitwise, ProShares and Valkyrie battled it out for a share of the first -day inflows. Giving a preview of the day, Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balcones tweeted, All right, we got nine funds ready to go in the Ether's Futures ETFs derby which begins 9 .30 a .m. Monday. This is totally unprecedented to have so many ETFs doing the same thing launching the same day. Going to be a fascinating experiment and great foreshadowing an undercard to the spot Bitcoin ETF race. I'm setting the over -under for total AUM for all of them at the end of the week at 200 million. Logic being that Bitcoin Futures did 1 billion and ETH funds globally have 20 % of the assets under management of Bitcoin funds. Also, I think issuers will tap their client list to get as much volume and flow as they can get early. Now, at the time of recording, it was a little lackluster. Again, Eric Balcones tweets, Pretty meh volume for the Ether Futures ETFs as a group. A little under 2 million. About normal for a new ETF, but versus BITO, which did 400 million in first 15 minutes, it is low. Tight race between VanEck and ProShares and the single ETH lane. Now, going into a little bit more about some of the specific products that launched. One of the Ethereum ETFs that began trading was a strategy change from Valkyrie. The asset manager had been granted approval to convert its existing Bitcoin Futures ETF into a mixed Bitcoin and Ethereum fund. The ETF, which trades under the ticker BTF, had struggled since its 2021 launch, gathering just 25 million in assets under management. As a Bitcoin -only fund, the Valkyrie product had launched several days after the offering from ProShares. That gave ProShares a dominant first mover advantage, allowing it to gather a near monopoly in the market for Futures -based Bitcoin ETFs. Now, on Thursday, Valkyrie had begun accumulating a small amount of Ethereum Futures positions ahead of their strategy change becoming effective. Although this move appeared to be technically allowed, analysts noted it gave Valkyrie a jump on the competition. On Friday morning, Valkyrie announced, however, that it had reversed course and would not continue accumulating Ethereum positions. It would also unwind all existing positions that had been entered on Thursday. Bloomberg ETF analysts speculated that the SEC must have threatened them to get them to reverse course. Now, moving out more broadly, once it became clear that multiple Ethereum ETFs would be launching on the same day, analysts noted that the battle lines would be drawn against two dimensions, fees and marketing. It's very clear that the companies, very clear that however these initial results look, the companies are going to be pushing very hard. From a fees perspective, VanEck is at 66 basis points compared to 85 from Bitwise and 95 from ProShares. That said, due to a difference in structure, the VanEck ETF will have a less different tax treatment, which could make the savings and fees slightly less appealing. However, on the marketing side, VanEck premiered two 30 -minute advertisements on Thursday in anticipation of this week's launch, mostly to positive response from the crypto community. Bankless co -host David Hoffman said, Now, in seeming recognition of that, on Friday night, VanEck had... Now, in seeming validation of that point, on Friday night, VanEck announced that they would be donating 10 % of profits from their ETH ETF to the Protocol Guild, a group of over 150 Ethereum core developers.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E16: Oliver: Writer, Producer, and Novelist Spotlight
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Mayolone. In this episode, don't have regulars, because raisins, as always, unfortunately. As for our guest, he's from Portland, Oregon, currently living in Los Angeles, California, and he is a film producer. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Oliver Tutill Jr. Well, thank you, Peter. It's actually Ted Hill Jr. But thanks for having me on your show. I'm excited to be here. Anytime. So, how's life? It's good. It's really exciting. I love the film business. I've been in the business for quite a while. And it's very exciting meeting different people, talking to different producers, actors, filmmakers, editors, composers, business financing. It's all very exciting. You meet a lot of very interesting people that are very involved in their work and are very creative. Ah, very good. And have you been up to much recently? Yeah, we've been pretty busy. My company's name is Cinema Development and Writing Services. And my business partner is Tara Walker. And what we do is, when we started out, we've had our business about a year now. And anybody that's curious, they can just go to cinema wds .com. That's our website. And what we do is, we work with novelists, and we adapt their novels into screenplays. And then once we've adapted them into screenplays, we've been asked by our clients to, well, can you place this with Hollywood companies? And we said, well, yeah, we probably can, you know, we weren't doing that. We're primarily focused on writing, but we started packaging, which means that we started putting together like a deck of electronic brochure that shows the actors we thought might be good for the role, and what the director is. And then we present it to different production companies, different producers and finance companies in Los Angeles, and sometimes in New York as well. Okay, very nice. And what inspired you to start all that? Well, I think I started out in the business, and so did Tara, we were both actors. And we enjoyed that. But it's, it's very, very tough. Getting regular work as an actor, you go through good times, and then there's these long stretches where you don't have much work. And so we said, Well, how can we get more involved in business? And so we both decided, well, why don't we become producers? So Tara started her own production company years ago called Alpenfest films. And then I started, I started out making a production company called Autumn Tree Productions, where I, at that time, this was in the late 1980s, I pretty much focused on making educational films, and actually was pretty much on emotional child abuse. And I did that for 10 years, I had a lot of success. A lot of my films, educational films are used in universities and colleges and many institutions. And after doing that for 10 years, I wanted to segue over into doing commercial motion pictures and, and documentaries. So I started a company called Bluewood films. And under that name under that company, I produced quite a few films and documentaries and pleased to say that some of them are on streaming platforms now where people can can see them. I just have my newest release was just last month. It's called Crazy Horse of Life, featuring Russell Means, the late Nakoda actor who did very well. Right, then. Very good. And have you ever considered like, releasing any of your work on an international level? Yes, I mean, Crazy Horse of Life is available internationally. They can definitely time to be TV so anybody can go to to be TV and anywheres in the world basically and watch it for free. It's ad supported. And then we've got another film called the right to bear arms, which is a dramatic crime feature starring john savage. And that's available on Amazon Prime and Amazon freebie and also on to be TV. And we've got another film that's distributed internationally. It's also on to be TV. It's called the Loch Ness Monster of Seattle and it features Graham Green, the Academy Award nominated actor from Dances with Wolves. It's been doing very well. My distributor is very pleased. He just sent me a letter the other day and he said how happy is that how well it's doing. So those those three films are available now. We've got new ones that are going to be coming out later this year. We're excited about. Wow, fantastic. So where would you see yourself 20 years from now? Well, that's a good question. And 20 years is a long time. But I would say in 20 years, I'd probably see myself and Tara, my business partner, our own company now, but probably producing eight to 12 motion pictures a year. Also, I'm a composer too. So I probably, I haven't been doing my composing recently, but I've, I've scored a lot of motion pictures and documentaries. And it's a matter of fact, Crazy Horse of Life. The score I did that score and I did actually I wrote the score years ago, but it's used in this big feature now and I scored the movie right to bear arms as well. So but 20 years, I want to still be producing movies and helping actors and helping create jobs for people that work in the industry. You badly because they can't get work. Yes, of course. So I want to provide jobs for people. And also, I'm a novelist as well. And I hope to have a few more novels released. I just had my first novel released by awesome Achilles publishers, which is their home offices in London. So it's definitely an international release. And it's called when the sunlight goes down, goes dark, excuse me, when the sunlight goes dark. And it's about a young, young boxer living in Los Angeles, who has to deal with unscrupulous promoters. And one of the one of the supporting characters in the book is a man from England who who wins one of the heavyweight titles. It's also a book that it also covers worker exploitation, family dysfunction, spousal Okay, fantastic. Yeah, let me just mention, Peter, that people can look at it to go to the website for the book. It's when the sunlight goes dark .com. That's the website for the book. And it's also available on amazon .com and Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, any bookstore, you go into any reputable bookstore, and they can order it for you. All right, then very good. So in terms of your written work, besides what, besides the novels you've just written, are there any more novels you're yet to write or have released? I do have one novel. It's called primordial division. I'm searching for the right agent to rep it. It's kind of a crime horror novel. It's also set in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. And it's about a woman who has the ability to see the future. She's kind of one of these mind readers and the kid, the male protagonist is able to, he's got the power of telepathy. Very good. And it's set in the context of the entertainment industry. Oh, nice, nice. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? I'm sorry, say that again, Peter, a 14. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? Oh, a 40 minute presentation? I could give it on, definitely, I could probably give it on, I made educational films for 10 years. So I could do on an education, I could do one on the film business. They cover all the aspects of the film business from development to pre production to production to post production, exhibition and distribution. I could do that for you. I've been in the music business since I was a kid. So probably give you a one on that as well. So, okay, very good. What which recent news story have you found most interesting? That's a really great question. The recent most recent news story that I found the most interesting probably would be what's going on with our climate and what's happening to the earth in regards to the climate crisis that's happening in the world today. That's that's one of them, I guess I know it's a big topic, but it definitely stands out. I'm also fascinated by what's going on in American politics today, who's running for president and what's going on in Congress in the Senate. And I'm also very concerned with the state of our country, you know, and how divided people are and how unhappy so many people are. Yeah, absolutely. I was gonna also say to my friends who are very struggling because they have kids, and it's hard for them to get daycare for the kids. So I have one friend, she had to give up work because she, she couldn't afford to hire a babysitter or a nanny or daycare. So yeah, she had to give up her job. Oh, no, that's just sad. Very sad, very sad, the income inequality in this, in the United States. I'm not an expert in your country, but in the United States, it's very sad to see so many people that are divided by class. Wow, I thought the UK was bad. I didn't know that the US has got bigger problems given its size. Yeah, there's a lot of problems. Definitely. We've seen the erosion of the middle class here. You know, it's been kind of disappearing for years. And the income inequality that exists in this country, it's pretty bad. And as well as you know, there was a, I was watching, I was watching News Nation the other night and the big story presented by Chris Cuomo, who's an interesting newscaster, whose brother to his brother to the former governor. And he his top story was these kids that these babies, basically, the toddlers and daycare that died from fentanyl overdoses. And he's all over that. And I'm thinking, yeah, that's, that's tragic. But a lot of people don't want to address what's happening kids into this country, they have many kids suffer from abuse, and how they it's very difficult for them to thrive and survive become and constructive citizens. That that puts something into the country that helps it grow more. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I can share one thing with you, I used to be a teacher. And I taught drama at a film school and a college, as well as film production. And I had a class, this is in Seattle, Washington. And I had a class where I had a quite quite a number of kids that were African American. And I'll never forget this, Peter, because like, they would come to class, sometimes the girls would be crying and go, what's wrong? She go, Well, Joey got killed last night. He said, What are you talking about? She goes, Yeah, Joey, you know, he got on the top of he got on the roof of Dan's car and Dan shot him to death. I said, Oh, you don't read about that in the paper. And then then another day, a girl came into class, she was weeping. I said, What's the matter? And she's when my sister was killed last night. I said, Well, what happened? She said somebody shot to her living room window, and she was killed. You don't read about it in newspaper. Just people don't know about that. Exactly. Yes, indeed. It's the media these days, they only want to show what they really want to show. They don't show the important stuff that goes on like poverty, financial crisis or things that impact a lot of people in this world. Absolutely correct. Yes, you're right, Peter. They don't know it's funny, funny because Chris, it's not funny, but I found it interesting. Chris Como mentioned one night on his show on news nation, he, he mentioned that people don't want to talk about class warfare in this country, you know, what's going on between the classes between the wealthy and the poor, or the struggling lower middle class, you get an idea of it. And now with all the strikes that are going on, you get the writers Guild of America on strike. You've got the screen actors Guild that's going on strike. Now you've got the United Auto Workers going on strike, and it's getting bigger, that strikes growing. And if that strike goes all out, it's going to, it's going to play havoc on the economy here. Yeah, absolutely. What do you disagree with most frequently? What do I disagree with most frequently? Probably people that say everything's going to be great. You know, you just have to hang in there. And also, I find myself disagreeing a lot with financial advisors who say, just, you know, keep it where it is, you know, don't sell, just stay steady, keep your bonds, 40 % bonds or 60 % bonds, 40 % stock or 40 % bonds, 60 % stock. I disagree a lot with financial advisors. Not that I'm an expert in finance, but I'm fascinated by it. I read about it. Absolutely. How much time do you spend on the internet? How much time do I spend on the internet? A fair amount, because I do a lot of research on the internet. And while I'm something to do research on something particular, then then you find, wait a minute, I've got to have to research this more. Then you find yourself going to another page, finding more things to read about. And then you realize you're going to be searching even more on the internet. So and to be honest with you, I spend so much time on the internet as it is on zoom calls. I'm tired of looking at the internet. I prefer reading books. So I read a lot of books. But I've got to use the internet a lot to do research. You know, especially I work with a lot of people that I've got to find out what their background is, you know, in the film business, and the financial business. So I do spend an enormous amount of time on the internet. I imagine you, you do yourself, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Hours upon hours. Yeah, it's a it's a necessity. It's a necessity today without a without a cell phone or computer. It'd be very difficult to survive. I do know some folks in their 70s and 80s. They don't use computers, they don't use cell phones. I do know one young guy who doesn't use a cell phone, but that's very unusual. But it's very hard to survive. I couldn't stay in business if I couldn't use a computer and cell phone. Oh, yes. Sure. It's the same for you. Yeah, of course. The internet is such a necessity. It's part of our lives, in a way. Absolutely. Yes. It is. It's built in. And you read about these kids, you know, they get addicted to their cell phones and computers. And there's so many psychologists that predict they're gonna have trouble with their personal relationships in looking at a screen. They don't spend time in person a lot. I don't know how that'll play out, but it makes sense in a lot of ways. What a world filled with clones of you, what would a world populated by clones of you be like, a world populated by I'm sorry, what what would a world populated by clones of you be like? You mean point of view? And a world populated by clones of you? What would it be like? Oh, clones of me? Yes. Okay, what would I think it would probably be a pretty peaceful world. To be honest, I don't think there'd be any wars, I think war would end. I think children would, we'd set up some type of educational system and change some values in the government in the country so that kids don't get abused, that parents are afforded the education and the training, starting in high school. Probably actually, I take that back, starting in grammar school. How to parent, how to treat other human beings, learning about themselves, becoming self intelligent, learning emotional intelligence, understanding their emotions. And growing up to be citizens that are productive and have empathy for other people. And if this happened, we could, I believe we could end this may sound naive, but I do think we could end poverty in this country. But there's no will to do that. There's no will to help kids because children can't vote. And they're not members of political action committee. So I would, I would make sure that their political action committee is available for children. I would allow children at a certain age if they can show that they have some knowledge about the political system, to have a say in voting, to see who represents them. And I believe with education, and with treating people well, with respect and compassion, having people trained for the type of work that they want to do, that poverty could could be eliminated. And so there are a lot of clones to me, there would be no more wars. And there would be a lot less suffering in the world. Yeah, that sounds that sounds like a very good reason. Thank you. Welcome. What's Education is the key. Education is the key and law. The merging of law and education. And again, unfortunately, the people in power, the bureaucrats and politicians don't have the will or the desire to bring about the needed changes. Yeah, it's so sad. What is your favorite quote? Yes. And probably, I guess it's a quote that is on my mind a lot now, because it's a quote I used to open my novel when the sunlight goes dark about the boxing family in Los Angeles, and the quote is, Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am so meek and gentle with these butchers. And it originally that quote is taken from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar when Mark Anthony is standing over the dead body of Julius Caesar and Caesar has been assassinated. by members of the Senate. And he's bemoaning the fact that he's so meek and gentle with these butchers because he's kind of going along with them at the time. And it's just a quote that just stands out to me because I've used it in my book because I my books about worker exploitation in one way because a lot of these boxers are exploited. And a lot of them end up in not very good shape. Because people aren't looking out for him. So I guess for today, that's my favorite quote. I mean, I have others too. But I guess for today, that's the one that would be my favorite. All right. Very good. And I could you could use that metaphorically, too. I mean, the sense that, you know, Oh, pardon me, you know, why aren't the people that are running the government trying to help the people? Yes, that's a very good question. I'm sure you've run into very similar situations in England. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All the time. What's improved your wife quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? I'm sorry, Peter, you have to say that one more time. All right. What improved your life quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? well, Oh, I would I would say I spent a lot of time in therapy. I came from a very dysfunctional family. I suffered a lot of abuse, I was put into a private boarding school where kids got regularly beaten very badly. One of the lucky ones, really, I never suffered any permanent physical injury. But I think if I hadn't gone into therapy, and I was in therapy for decades, I'd say that probably the key to my being a functioning productive adult today, that in a book I read, called compassion and self hate, written by Theodore Isaac Rubin, that book changed my life. I never thought a book could change my life, but that one did. Yeah, of course. That and of course, if you're going to be successful, you have to you have to work hard, you have to know where to put your effort, you have to work hard and you have to think smart. I mean, that old saying about if you work hard, everything will fall into place is not necessarily true. I've known, I've had guy friends that have worked hard all their lives, and they've got nothing. Yeah, absolutely. So you got to work smart, as well as hard. Yes. But the more success you realize, it just adds to your happiness and your fulfillment. Yeah, of course. But people need the basic necessities have to be taken care of. You got to have clothes, you got to have proper shelter, you got to have decent physical health. I don't think I've ever met anyone that's happy if they haven't had good physical health. Yeah, of course. How did you spend your last birthday? Well, my last birthday, I had dinner with my business partner and my best friend, Tara Walker. We went to a really nice restaurant down on the beach, had a great dinner. And then went home and watched a really great movie. And it was a great day. And you know, I talked to a lot of friends and family too. I got a lot of calls. Okay. That's cool. It was fun. Oh, yes. It was quite a time. Yeah. You like birthdays? Yeah, I like birthdays. It's pretty cool, I guess. It's funny. I was just reading about Jimmy Carter, you know, the former President of the United States who is a president. And he's going to be turning 99 here in a couple days. And someone called him up, one of his family members said, I wanted to wish you a happy birthday. And he said, that's, that's not real good. I'm not really excited about this birthday. I didn't know you even make this far in his life. Yeah, he's going to be 99 years old. And you know, he's been in hospice for seven months. Everyone thought he was going to pass in about two or three weeks and he's still going. Madness. Amazing man. Absolutely. We could use a young Jimmy Carter today. That's for sure. Uh huh. Yeah. That'll be something. It would be. Yeah. Yeah. What's the best way to start the morning? The best way to start the morning is to eat a good breakfast. I know so many people that don't eat breakfast. They have health problems, they're overweight. And I don't mean starting breakfast, you know, eating junk food. You gotta eat something healthy for you. Eat something healthy. Write down the things you need to do today if you have to make a list. Yeah, it helps me a lot before I go to bed to write it to do this. So when I wake up in the morning, I know exactly what I got to do. And I got to feel the body first. You got to take care of the body. I have a friend of mine who's, he had a stroke and he's in the hospital now. He can't barely move. And, you know, he, he didn't have the right diet and he's still a fairly young man. It's very tragic. So feel the body and feed it well. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure you know, because I could tell you put a lot of hours on your show. Oh yeah. It's, it's quite a process, but it's definitely worth it. Yeah, it's enjoyable. Yeah, sure is. If you could travel back in time, what would decade you want to live in? There's so many decades I would love to live in. There's so many centuries I'd love to live in. It's really hard to pick one, but if I had to pick one, I'd probably say the early 1960s. Sixties? That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's when Muhammad Ali came on the scene and that's when the Beatles came on the scene. To me, that's, I think we'll never see the likes of the Beatles or Muhammad Ali again. Yeah. So one of a kind, they always say. Yeah, but I, believe me, Peter, I'd love to live, I could go back to ancient Rome and be fascinated. Of course, your life expectancy wasn't very long. Oh yeah. Cause Sanitary wasn't up there and the advancement technologies got in the way. Yeah. Everything's like, ugh. I would love to live the life of a Plains Indian in 1840. I think that would be fascinating. It's freedom that people can barely conceive of today. And what a great, got the kids, Indian children back in those days, man, talk about having a great childhood. Yeah, absolutely. And that is all we have for this episode. It was great having you on Oliver talking about your works. You're welcome. And until next time, stay tuned for more.
Cloud Security Podcast by Google
A highlight from EP141 Cloud Security Coast to Coast: From 2015 to 2023, What's Changed and What's the Same?
"Hi there, welcome to the Cloud Security Podcast by Google. Thanks for joining us today. Your hosts here are myself, Timothy Peacock, the Senior Product Manager for Threat Detection here at Google Cloud, and Anne Hunchuvakian, a reformed analyst and senior staff in Google Cloud's Office of the CISO. You can find and subscribe to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts, as well as at our website, cloud .google .com slash podcast. If you enjoy our content and want it delivered to you piping hot every Monday, please do hit that subscribe button in your podcasting app of choice. You can follow the show, argue with your hosts and the rest of our Cloud Security Podcast listeners on our LinkedIn page. Anton, this is a fun CISO episode that's full of growth lessons, leadership lessons, interesting stories of migrating to cloud and one of the strongest endorsements of cloud as both risk reduction and business velocity improvement I think we've gotten on the show to date. What did you think today? I think so too. I think that we should not lament that the episode did not cover how to improve configurations of your cloud armor or how to run SIEM or any of this. It's a really good episode with a guest who experienced some of the lessons that clients are learning today, but eight years ago. So it's really fascinating that it's like for many companies, his past is the future and that makes his lessons hugely valuable. Hugely valuable and his advice is applicable to both CISOs all the way down to people who want to get started and get promoted in our field. And so maybe with that, let's turn things over to today's guest. With that listeners, I'm delighted to introduce today's guest. Today we're joined by Jeremiah Kung at AppLovin. Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm excited to have you here because we have something in common. We've both had the East Coast to West Coast experience. I started my career in Washington, DC, and I swear to God, the people I worked with at the startup I worked at First Shape, to this day, if I get drinks with them, they rip on me for wearing a suit to my interview with them. So the East Coast to West Coast interview, the whole thing is very real. So what's your take on that distinction aside from costumes for interviews? Yeah, I totally get it. I'm not a big fan of wearing ties either. It feels like a weak pair of hands slowly strangling me all day long. Yeah, for me, it's more of a metaphorical one. I was born a West Coast surfer kind of guy for the longest time, but career wise, especially making the moves, working for bigger banks, which I saw them as East Coast, let's face it, the bigger banks are New York, North Carolina. It's very suit and tie, very more button down, very much more about the controls, the frameworks, the committees, and infosec has to give the go ahead further than it goes to production. West Coast being out here with places like Palo Alto, where innovation is rampant and it's wonderful, you got to move fast. So you live by the speed and the velocity of your releases. And if someone's slowing you down, they're going to keep you from getting to market faster than your competitors. So it's a very different approach to information security. I remember earlier when I started speaking about this about a year ago, you can tell all sorts of funny stories about being at an East Coast company. And you know, all the red tape you have to go through and everyone kind of sighs and kind of agrees with that. But you know, at the end of the day, the West Coast, you have other risks you need to be aware of too, as well. And it's about trying to find that balance and attending to what the risks are. So the fundamentals don't really change, but out here, you have to innovate faster? Innovate faster. And I think really what you need to understand to have is a clarity of the risk, right, to really understand what the risk is. Coming from a big bank, of course, losing data is a huge thing, operational risk, regulatory risk, and there's all of that layers that you need to go through. With the West Coast, you really need to kind of understand, okay, how's this company making money? Where's all our data sitting? And you know, what are all our attack surfaces? So I think this is a basic step for anybody information security is to really understand what the asset inventory is, including intellectual and data assets. But it's not just small company, large company, though, because it sounds like if you're in the West Coast startup, your risk of just dying, the risk of startup going kaput, deep in my heart, I think it's more important than cybersecurity risk. I'm joking about it. But ultimately, I understand if I am a startup guy, the startup going out of business is a higher risk than security issue. Of course, security issues can also drive you out of business. Yeah, I get that. But that's not just what you're talking about, right? There are other issues. Yeah, absolutely. Other issues on that, because operational risk is again, if your competitors beat you, and you lose market share, okay, yeah, regulators are going to come after me or something like that. But it doesn't really matter. I'm out of business. What's the big deal there. But at the same time, if you do get breached, that's going to make you lose market share as well. So you need to kind of figure out what that balance is. Okay, that makes sense. So let's shift gears. This was actually kind of a cool intro. And it introduced the whole concept in my mind. Now I kind of think, hi, are you East Coast CISO or West Coast CISO? Maybe my greeting for the foreseeable. One other thing we wanted to explore, and this may have something to do with this cost dimension is, initially, when cloud computing public cloud showed up, the default stance from any CISOs was kind of slightly negative and, or maybe strongly negative or get this cloud out. I'm not allowing it in my company. So this was probably like a good number of years ago. Now, certainly this changed, and we see a lot of CISOs embracing cloud. But here's the thing. We hypothesize that there are CISOs who are active cloud fans who kind of want cloud because it's better. And admittedly, we have a CISO here, Phil Danables, who is of that type, but he joins Google Cloud because of the belief, presumably. Now, are there other CISOs who think cloud is just superior for security and they're driving cloud adoption as opposed to resisting it? What is your take on this? Yeah, that's a great point. I've seen both sides of the coin. I've talked to people on both sides of the coin on this one, and I'm kind of obviously in the more cloud -centric side, but I'm a little bit more in the middle to the left of that, if that makes any sense. I'm very pro -cloud. I think it deals with, very efficiently, a lot of the old concerns that you would have about security, patching updates and Vone scans and Vone updates and all that other type of stuff, because you can spin these things up so quickly, the fixes and release it out there. It's not, back in the old days, some guy with a CD running around from every server trying to load and update patches and stuff like that. You know, that's such a funny thing to pause on, because maybe this is my youth speaking. I sometimes forget that people had to do that. And I think for a lot of our listeners, it's hard to appreciate that, yeah, really, that's how it used to work. If you had to patch something, it wasn't Terraform Apply, my new version. It was a dude with a CD in a server room somewhere. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And if you were in a freeze period to try to do patches, you had to go through all sorts of updates and things like that to try to get in, and it gets all sorts of approvals. I think the dude with a CD is the least of your problems, is the talking to all the layers for making a change, submitting requests in paper forms, you know, ideal bureaucrats. I think the dude with a CD would be like, dude comes in, sticks a CD, and does the patching. That's fast. No, no, no. But some of that still exists, right? You still need change windows, you still need approval. So maybe here's the question is, how does Cloud, for you as a CISO, change that part of the equation? What's the non -technical changes? Improved. Not changed. Take the pessimistic stuff out. How did Cloud improve this for you? Anton, I think that's known as leading the witness. Okay, fine. Yeah. I feel like you're trying to give me what the answer is there. But I mean, I'm already on that side. It's really the visibility. Because, you know, being at Apple, we're strong partners with Google Cloud and being all in Google Cloud, I can really see where our assets are, I could see trends over time, I could see the logging and the monitoring and all the alerts and the phones all in one spot, which is very nice. But I get it, not every company can be 100 % in the cloud. I would imagine that a bank, you're going to at best be some kind of hybrid approach to that, depending on the size of the bank. And I could see and outsource a lot of the running around changing. I just had this question the other day dealing with some audits. Hey, show me when's the last time you changed and rotated your keys and how often that is? Well, being in Google Cloud, they do that for you. And you guys do a random rotation of that. Whereas AWS does it to make sure the keys are rotated every 365 days, according to NIST and TIP standards. You guys do a random rotation, which it could be two weeks, it could be 365 days, but at some point, those keys will be rotated. So that's kind of the intelligence behind to keep it random, to keep it fresh, to keep it on top. I appreciate that from a security perspective. And I don't have to rely on a team to constantly run, again, running it out and changing keys and this and that, even at a cloud level where you have to, you know, you can just terminal in and do that. This is just handled for you. And as we moved more and more to Kubernetes, more and more to serverless environments, these ways old of needing to do security become less and less impactful. But then again, there's always a new attack surface that has yet to be discovered. New problems are going to come and show and raise their heads from a security perspective. We're just on the way of discovering what those are. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So I want to go back in time a little bit to maybe when cloud was newer for you. I understand you were part of some big migrations back in the day. What did you learn about doing those, quote unquote, right? It was really lucky to be with Capital One 2015, 2016, sometime when they were deciding to be the first big bank to move everything 100 % into the cloud. So famously cloud forward. Yeah, very cloud forward. Yeah. So how did that go? It was a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of work, but it was really interesting. It was great to be part of that team to really learn how cloud can mitigate, how to move quickly, how to combine the teams. I think one of the things that I found to be the right way of doing things was they took a very strong two in the box approach, really kind of a three in the box approach. And what they mean by that is for those teams to move forward, the development team would have one lead that was the business lead and say, hey, this is what the customers want. This is what the industry and market trends are looking at. And then there would be a tech lead say, okay, this is what the teams can develop and how long it's going to take. And then I kind of squeezed my way in there to become that three in the box, the security perspective to listen, okay, this is what the business wants. This is what tech can provide. And here's the risk and the risk we need to mitigate. And to have that conversation was invaluable because you got it from every angle. You didn't just hear what IT said that I can only do so much and why is the business wanting that? You got to hear it from the business exactly what they wanted, how they wanted to do things and why too, and why this was important for the business. That makes a ton of sense. So what were maybe some, for people in a similar boat in the future, how did you get effective at communicating the risk to people? How did you help business understand that? How did you help IT understand that? What was it? The saying that they say, fools talk, cowards stay silent, wise people listen. And that was really kind of key for me on that one was at first listening to the business, understanding their pains, understanding what they were challenged with. This really helped me to assess my risk and also come up with mitigation plans that would work for the business. Again, same approach with IT is understanding, okay, what are their pains? Where are they coming from? And this way I can come up with what the plans should look like with considerations for everybody across the board. Okay, so... Wait, wait, wait. Sorry, Tim. I am kind of curious about it, but I'm nervous that we are kind of reducing all this to effective communication only. Is this... Sorry, this doesn't sound very right. But the point is that effective communication clearly had a huge role, but there are other pillars for success because a huge migration of the first half of bank to the cloud had other tricky elements, right? Yes. So that was another one. What we had was a very strong partnership with our cloud partners at the time. They had been sitting and working with, especially since there were no frameworks, there was no really references. I remember even the regulators at the time were sitting, okay, that's great. You guys are doing that. Can we just sit and listen to see what you guys are doing so we can kind of spread this out with the rest of the banks and standards out there? I think the key partnerships with your vendor, your cloud vendor specifically, was invaluable, providing advice and having that back and forth feeds. I remember working with one particular tool. We said, hey, this encryption standard is not really up to snuff. Could you guys work on that and develop something? And sure enough, I think within two or three dev cycles, they had something that was what we needed. To this day, I find that to be an ideal approach, working with my cloud vendors or just any vendors that I have. I appreciate those who will sit down, listen to me and hear my complaints and do the whole listening and coming up with an approach. I think almost all my security vendors I'm using, as well as the cloud vendors with you guys, have that type of approach. Okay. That does sound like real magic for a lot of more technically minded leaders I've met. So this is solid. This advice is worth the price of podcast alone in my mind. So to sort of progress further, like you mentioned that you learned those lessons quite some time ago and many companies are still learning them even now. And for some of them, cloud is with the future, funny enough. So now that you've went through all this and other lessons, how are you approaching securing cloud given differently the lessons? Like what are you doing better in 2023 regarding securing cloud compared to the original lessons? For me personally, it's a little bit different. Talking to some of my peers who still haven't made that jump, they seem to have that lack of trust of having their data set somewhere not on a server that they're under control over at some point and at their own personalized data center that they have, their own physical security, own the HVAC systems and all other type of stuff. They want to have that data. Okay. That's an approach. It's going to be tough to scale over time. I think one of the things that I found to be very successful here that's helped is reading a lot, a lot of reading, a lot of talking to other peers in the industries and a lot of vendors going to these discussions to stay on top of what the recent threat is and what the other trends are and what the solutions are out there. I think that's key. We're a community and that has to be pushed forward if that makes any sense to continue to talk to folks. I think sitting in your own little silo is not going to work very well. Well, I don't think I know. Yeah. I forget who it was on the show, but they said that security is a team sport. Yeah, absolutely. So I guess on that thread, actually, I want to pull on this a little more. I often joke with CISOs on the show that what they need is not another piece of technology, but rather a family therapist to help their relationships with other teams. What advice would you give to other CISOs, security leaders on first building better relationships with other teams, and two, how to get out of the saying no mentality and into that real collaborative listening mode? Yeah, that saying no mentality. I've talked to some CISOs like that who said, yeah, I'm looking to hire and I need people to join my team because I need them to get out there and say no as much as humanly possible. No, people don't actually say that? Explicitly said that? Oh, wow. Yeah. I just remember I stopped and I looked at him and I said, how are you doing, man? Are you doing okay? Wow. I can imagine his life was pretty miserable. Maybe if you're working on a highly top secret government project where you got to hide the alien bodies, maybe. That's a good example. Yikes. Yeah. I think a family therapist is a great way to do that, to work with their teams, but I think really at the end of the day, it's not that hard. Everyone wants to do a good job when they come to work, hopefully, and everyone wants to get along with their work base. I think the thing is just the key is to be available for them if they have questions. Try to initiate those conversations and also learn when to back off. Everyone's busy. They have a lot of their own success metrics they have to shoot for, so if you can be part of that formula, great on a day -to -day basis, but if they're a little too busy for you to come back at a better time, pizza and beer is always a good way to go as well, but I think it's just trying to be as value -add as possible at all times and be understanding that everyone's trying to get their jobs done as well. I think that's key. That's good advice not just for security leaders, but for PMs as well. One of my favorite pieces of advice for PMs I ever heard was framed as bring the donuts, and I think security is kind of this way too. With PMs, nobody invited you, and they can get along just fine without you for the most part, so you've got to really understand where they're coming from and what value you're bringing to the equation if you want people to work with you constructively. Yeah, it's knowing your role. Security can be a value -add and can be positive for the business, but a majority of the time we're kind of a cost to that business, a necessary cost and maybe, hopefully, a helpful business benefiting cost, but at a cost, nonetheless, people aren't usually going to go to the company for how secure it is, especially on the West Coast. It's about how much money or how handy their product is first. Security is kind of a second thought, but we can definitely work together on that. I have heard some pretty inspiring stories on this show and in my professional life of how security helps teams move faster by taking, say, risk out of the equation or automating away some risk, and so I think maybe in cloud, due to its nature, there's unique opportunities for security teams to be helpful there. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Usually, if you're already moving into the cloud, you're kind of taking a fresh start, and that's where you can really do the security by design. I get it. If you're on mainframes and you've been around for 30 years and now you're the new security person, it's really to go back and difficult to do security by design from the start, right? You're kind of retroactively trying to find fits here or there. But starting fresh into the cloud, it's like, okay, we could do this by design. AppLovin's been great about kind of doing that with protecting their data by saying, hey, I don't need a lot of sensitive data. We're going to try to use our own attribution formats and other types of formulas to grow our customers' business without taking on a lot of that sensitive information. So that helps reduce the risk, again, secure by design. So this is good, especially excellent. Okay, Tim, you can make fun of me for saying excellent, but this is excellent. However, excellence hasn't spread uniformly, right? And you do see people who are still in the saying no mentality. And regarding architecture, we do see a lot of people still stuck essentially in the 90s regarding architecture. They want to lift and shift, or they're even debating whether this new cloud thing is for them. So given your experience, what's your best advice for the leaders of these organizations where either the CISO is blocking cloud or maybe even CIO doesn't want it? So basically, they are not getting any of the benefits. And when they start doing cloud, they do it in a very on -premise way, the lift and shift way. Yeah, that's a tough one, because you're really trying to tell somebody to change their entire point of view. Yes, that's exactly right. Yeah, you need to have that aha moment, travel to Damascus moment for them. And I don't think I could give them individual advice to have that aha moment other than travel the world, talk to folks and, you know, experience and see what else is out there. I know for AppLovin, when we jumped over 100 % into the cloud, our business just naturally spiked because of the efficiencies, how quickly automating compute usage was with that intelligence to go up and down for what our demands were. That's amazing. And, you know, again, that's a strong partnership with Google on that, having just an incredible team that really kind of jumped to everything that we needed, which was fantastic. Not easy to find in the industries all over the world. So that was really helpful. But I think they need to talk to people who have those success stories and just to see what it is. I think at the end of the day, if those folks would talk to the business more and to see what the business needs, they'll kind of start to see, yeah, that it makes sense. That's where we need to kind of move towards. But that has to be that personality of I got to get out of my silo. I got to talk to people out of my comfort zone, because you may not be a business person. You could be a genius infosec person. But if you don't get the business and have that background, it's going to be difficult to travel far. Yeah, that's for sure, Drew. It reminds me of that saying, if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. You really can't go far in security unless you can bring other people on board. And that's one of the things we've talked about on another show, I think, a CISO episode, talking about the challenge of developing people who've excelled for their technical skills as they rise in their career to then excel on non -technical skills. What advice do you have for those people to make that leap from I'm great because I can understand X .509 to I'm great because I can convince the person down the hall that our interests actually are aligned? Yeah, that's a great point. So even on my own team right now, I have people who are very smart, very technically have done some great things, and they want to get to that next level. So for me, to that level, to try to help coach them along those lines, I recommend understanding all the different domains and then having a very strong relationship with the business and spend time with them. I think peer mentorships and things like that to do exchange programs within the company are also very important to understand how the business works and just spending time with them. I think that's, I guess, it's almost like what a social CISO type of thing. It's just very social, and it's really about getting outside of your shell and understanding everyone else's pains and what their goals are to win for their game. That's really kind of at the end of the day, yes, technical, that's good. You need that, absolutely. But it's all about people, processes, and tools. It's a three -legged chair, right? So people are so key, and I think I find a lot of the really, really smart infosec folks tend to focus on the tools, and everyone ignores processes, right? No one wants to document anything, but that's also very important too. So those are the kind of key aspects. But this sounds like hard work. It can be, but it's really depending on your personality types. But it's really not too hard. There's a lot of great classes out there to kind of coach yourself through, and just the ways of thinking about stuff, which is good. I read this great book called Superforecasting, which was, Phil Tetlock wrote this, and it was really about a way of how to think of things differently. You don't have to be highly educated. There's these experiments that are to use folks to become, quote, unquote, superforecasters. Some of the best performers, one of them was a housewife who just had a high school education, but because once she learned how to use the little levers and stuff to do the math on this, it became about how did she see things and how she thought about things. And it was about, okay, most people would see an event and automatically change their opinion about something broadly. For her, it was about, okay, that changes my opinion a little bit towards this direction. And then she would gather more and more data, and each time it would move the dial to the left or to the right. And eventually, she was able to call out, yeah, in six months, this is going to happen. And she was right. I think it was close to 87 % of the time. People like that had that kind of approach is really helpful. And I think, again, that kind of breaks down from what we were talking about today is about seeing the trends and kind of seeing the forest of the trees and then looking at every piece of information. And they'll just stick to one piece of information, which might be legitimate, but have that kind of shade your whole approach. You got to see all sorts of factors to kind of come in and see at the end of the day. And I think if you do that, you're going to see that cloud's going to be, for most cases, not all. Again, if you're hiding UFO bodies, okay, maybe not. We'll see that it's an advantage. Well, Jeremiah, I hate to do this on such a note, but I have to ask you our traditional closing questions. Sure. First, do you have a tip to help people improve their security when migrating to cloud? And two, aside from super forecasting, which sounds great, do you have recommended reading for our listeners? Yes. Super forecasting was a great one. I read another great one recently called American generalship. I'm just about finishing it up right now. It's pretty good. It's ideal of how to become a stronger leader and a stronger follower at the same time too. This kind of helps you coach of, okay, this is how I can mentor somebody. And this is also how to be a good mentee at the end of the day. It also has a lot of really great military stories in the background on that too. So fun stuff there if you're a fan of the military. And I'm sorry, what was the other question? One tip, one easy to follow tip for people. Yeah. I'd say try to make a new friend inside the business. At least once a month, have these one -on -ones and have a cup of coffee. I think it goes a long way. I remember getting on an airplane ride home from one of these other team events, talking to sat down two folks that I don't normally work with and got to spend five hours instead of watching a stupid movie, sitting there and talking about their business and what they're seeing, talks of AI and how they're using co -pilot and chat GPT and all that other type of stuff. It was really fascinating to hear their point of view of what they saw from a line of business that I didn't normally do a lot of work in. That's a fascinating answer and fits with the theme of the episode, which I think might be listeners, go make some new friends. So with that, Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks guys. Really appreciate it. And now we are at time. Thank you very much for listening and of course for subscribing. You can find this podcast at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts. 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"What's up everybody, and welcome to another Saturday edition of the Alpha series here on Discover Crypto. I'm excited to sit down with Deezy, Mr. Nick Valdez, and talk about who he is, where he comes from, what he's all about, because I have no idea, and I'm sure a lot of you are wondering, why the hell is he hosting Discover Crypto? What's he all about? Does he even know anything about crypto? Well, let's dig into it. Deezy, how are you feeling? Thank you for being here. And what's your story, man? How are you in this position? Well, how are you talking on my shoulder? Who the hell are you talking to over there? What is going on? Is there hidden cameras in the wall? I don't know what's up. Talking to all of you out there. My name is Deezy, also known Nick Valdez. I'm a former professional Magic the Gathering streamer, whatever that means, not much in my opinion. And I've been in crypto. I've been making crypto content since 2020 briefly, and then I started working for the channel here back early 2021. And so I've been working in crypto full -time a little over two years at this point. I've been in content creation full -time a little over four years at this point. So you got into content creation for crypto in 2020, you said? Well, I started out with Magic the Gathering, but then I made my first piece of crypto content, which is Gods Unchained back in 2020. So does that mean you just got into crypto the day before that, or did you have a little bit of a pathway that got you there? I had a little bit of a pathway. I first discovered crypto from 4chan, actually, from the B board. So this was Bitcoin maybe a year or two old at this point. So fairly soon, I remember seeing some pretty low prices for Bitcoin. I remember my buddy trying to convince me. We worked together at ADT, the home security thing. So you ride around in a van, you leave headquarters, you might have to go to town an hour away. This is early days of smartphone. The web traffic was pretty low back then. The web pages were pretty low. There wasn't really social media networks like there is today. So I remember the text board on B, that's where I started discovering Bitcoin. And my buddy was like, man, we got to start buying some of this. But 4chan was nothing but scammers. And I thought, for sure, if I try to make Bitcoin, I'm going to get scammed. They're going to hack me. They're going to see my driver's license number somehow, my social security number. And it freaked me out being that it was related to that, and so I stayed away. Fast forward about two years, a buddy from high school was telling me about Silk Road and how he bought some ecstasy on it, full disclosure. And he was like, yeah, man, you got to get Bitcoin. I love this website. You can buy anything. And I was like, man, you're crazy. I don't know. This seems nuts. And then shortly thereafter, he lost, or maybe even during that time, he's like, yeah, I had to buy more Bitcoin because I lost Bitcoin on that computer. I remember him just pointing at his computer, and I was like, what do you mean you lost Bitcoin? I kind of had an idea of what it was. He's like, yeah, like I lost the password to my wallet or something. I just remember thinking like, wow, so you can have money in it, and you just lose it super easy, and it's associated with hackers? And so it kept me away from Bitcoin, even though I knew about it early, knew the proposition value of it early, it freaked me out. So that's a great spot to pivot there. That whole time, I'm investing in traditional stocks. And so I'm like, well, my Amazon's doing pretty good, guy. Right. No, but you bring up a great point because it's not just you as an individual. We see right now with all these Bitcoin spot ETFs, we see institutions on the horizon. And that's only because there's some proof of concept that's actually endured over a good period of time now, over a decade, in fact, for Bitcoin. But the question here, it kind of lies in, or the hesitation, I should say, lies in the lack of awareness broadly in both retail and institution. Because let's be honest, the people that are running institutions are people, too. And they are a part of retail. So the awareness factor of Bitcoin over the last 10 years has grown so exponentially. The question is, really, how do we get people from A to B, the genesis of first having the seed planted of hearing about Bitcoin, maybe seeing it on The Simpsons or in all the different media we watch, and then taking the leap to investigate it a little bit, and then taking that third step to actually get involved. So to get there, we need awareness. So I'm curious with you, where you came from, how old were you? What was your process like? At what point in life did you understand that there was a different value to money or currency than you were brought up, that change? When did that change happen? I learned that I was poor in second grade. I remember learning that. I grew up real poor. I grew up with a single mother. I could get into how, I don't want to say bad, it truly was, but things weren't easy. There's a period my mother was locked up. My father was put in jail, put under the concrete months after I was born. I never saw him. I saw him two, three times when I was 13. I haven't seen him since, and I never saw him before that. I haven't talked to him since, really. And so I grew up just very, very poor. But when you're five, you don't know you're poor. When you're six, you don't know you're poor. It takes a certain level. And I remember my mother dating Robbie Cumberland. He was a big jerk, man, really, really big jerk, abusive, not a fun time. But his daughter, I remember saying, oh, well, there's other people, they're more poor than us. And I learned the term middle -class. I didn't know what middle -class was. That's when I started seeing, as a seven -year -old, oh, there's hierarchies. There's social strata. There's social strata, and I'm down here. And then I don't know when it was, but at a certain point, you realize, I don't want to be down here. I want to be up here. So I remember pretty early, single digits age, you know, you're blowing the birthday cake. You're not supposed to say your wish is not going to come true. I remember just wishing, I want to be a millionaire. I want to be a millionaire. I was tired of being poor. And so I pretty quickly learned the value of money scrounging for lunch money in middle school. You know, like, maybe I would have an issue trying to get lunch money from my mother. I'm scrounging the quarters and the dimes and the couch cushions. While in high school, you know, I was pushed to work pretty early to help, to help. You know, a lot of people, they don't have that experience. You know, it's the opposite. Their parents encourage them to work at the same time, giving them money, paying for their car, paying for their cell phone, and then having them, oh, yeah, you need to learn the value of a dollar and make extra money on top of that. I was working and paying for my own school clothes. I was working, paying for my own school lunch. And so I learned the value of hard work and I learned the value of a dollar while being a high school student. And so that definitely gave me an advantage. Being poor, you know, statistically speaking, probably not an advantage. Your education is probably not going to be as good. Your influences are probably not going to be as good. Your home life is probably not going to be as good. But you do get an advantage with some aspects of mentality. And, you know, I just try to focus, you know, let's hone the positives from that and let's sharpen it and let's use it as a weapon to create financial independence. Yeah, I mean, what an interesting story there. And that's one of those things that all of us need to remember when we're talking to anybody, whether you're sitting in line at the bank or maybe not the bank because maybe you're walking down the street talking to a homeless person or a friend that you've never went deep with. Everybody has a story. Everybody comes from somewhere and there's depth there that we can truly connect on if we understand, even if somebody is being difficult to deal with or there's compassion and love there that we can engage with, right? And we can understand people better if we know that we all have a story. So you mentioned all this about your understanding of the lack of value proposition of the dollar and what it means to have money and the true value of money, I should say. But where did that value proposition that you mentioned of Bitcoin, when did that flip the switch in you that rather than you were just aware of it, that you actively said you pulled the trigger to do the first action transaction or purchase or something engaging with it? So it was almost going to be 2017. You know, that's when Bitcoin really started to go on its first major mainstream tear where, you know, started really getting people's attention. And I remember pretty early in the year. So, you know, well before December, well before October. So I don't know what level we're at, well below 10K. I remember it hitting headlines. And then that's when I decided to, you know what, it's time to do some education here. I, you know, probably like a lot of people in crypto, once you become fascinated about something, you want a deep dive on it. You want to go full blown, artisanal on it. And so that's a little bit of an aspect of what I did for Bitcoin there. And I remember looking into it and it was Reddit. It was Reddit of all places that I learned about the four -year cycle. So I saw about the four -year cycle pretty early because at that point, we did have a little bit of a spike in 2011 and then a spike in 2013. And then we're starting to spike in 2017. And then once we hit a new all -time high, then that four -year cycle really starts to look pretty clear. And you're like, oh, wow, we're setting up for a repeat of history here. And a lot of smart people were saying, oh, the having Bitcoin will go down. And I remember they're saying, guys, you idiots, 2K is the top. Guys, I know we hit 3K, but surely 4K is the top. And so pretty early in 2017, I just remember thinking, oh, this thing is going to reverse anytime now. It's going to reverse anytime now. It's going to reverse, it's going to reverse, reverse, reverse, because, you know, you see you're like, oh, I could buy this at 3K, should I? No, man, it's going to reverse. And then you go forward a few weeks and it's 5K and you feel like an idiot. You're like, well, I'm definitely not going to buy it now. So during this period, I'm watching it climb and I start doing some research. And pretty early, I got the mentality where I have to wait for it to retrace. It will have what they call a crypto winter. I start learning more about the four -year cycle, and that's exactly what I did. I didn't buy any Bitcoin or any crypto in 2017, I waited till 2018, and then I started buying. I looked, I think the first Bitcoin I bought was from the retracement down to 10, and I think I bought as soon as it got near 10. I remember thinking, oh, it's near 10. Now is when I start buying, and then it went to five, then it went to three, you know, so it kept going lower and lower and lower. But at the time, I didn't really care. I was like, OK, I finally have exposure. Of course, the first coin I bought when I downloaded Coinbase, oh, I'm going to buy that 10K Bitcoin. Whoa, XRP is how much? I could buy so much for $100 versus Bitcoin and I bought XRP. So that was the journey. That was the journey right there. I mean, I can honestly say that that journey is probably echoed by so many different people. You know, a lot of people and I say this, you know, on BitLab Academy, we're talking about these cycles. Everybody, everybody that's ever traded or invested ever has bought a top of an asset and gotten scared and sold at some point. Also, we've all bought a top and sold a bottom. And at the end of the day, it's all about how do you dive in, be ambitiously curious, dive into, OK, how can I fix my broken strategy? Because clearly that's not how people that made money made money. They figured out, OK, there's other data points I can look at rather than just looking at price. And then similarly, the XRP story, whether it's XRP, Shiba Inu, Dogecoin, Cardano, it doesn't matter. So many people come in and it's going to happen even more this next cycle. We're going to have the most onboarding of new adopters coming into the markets than we've ever had in this next cycle because institutions are coming in, because that aware the price breaking past 70, whatever that happens, that's when the hype cycle, the free press for crypto goes out and people are going to say, I can't afford a $70 ,000 Bitcoin. I'm going to go buy a dollar Cardano. And I'm not saying at all Cardano is a bad project, but people need to be curious about the assets they're investing. And so what would you say, knowing the journey you've had and the different sticking points or hurdles or failures, we've all had failures in this space, what we've learned from it. What would you say to somebody that's just coming in there on the fence about coming in or somebody that's watching as a family member that's asking about it? What's the advice for somebody that's stepping in this space? Very basic. Well, first, let me say coin price does matter per coin, separate from market cap. And this sounds dumb. No, the only thing that counts is market cap. No, there is a thing called like retail adoption rate. And if you download an app and all things being equal, same social, same token, same everything, except one has a million supply, one has a billion supply. People are more likely to buy the coin for a dollar than buy one or a hundred of that coin at a dollar rather than buy 10 % of the thousand dollar coin. Even all things being equal, it's just visually, I don't know if it's a visual thing, I don't know if it's just an ego thing like, yeah, I have a thousand of that thing versus I have 10 % of that thing. It just sounds better. So one, coin price does actually matter when it comes to whether or not retail is going to buy it. Might not matter so much for institutional investors, but yeah, that definitely does matter. As far as advice, new people coming in, I don't really like to give people advice of coins outside of top 20, maybe top 30. I'm not not not advice for coins, but more like you're stepping in. Oh, you're stepping in. The first thing you can do is go ahead and sub to Discover Crypto. The second thing you can do is maybe ask yourself, well, why, why am I just trying to get rich? All right, we'll have that be your investment thesis. Do I hate the government printing money? Oh, well, buckle up. You're stuck. You're going to be with us for the rest of your life. I'm sorry. You're a weirdo now. You know, there's going to be different angles. Are you just super into tech? All right, we'll start learning about smart contracts and solidity. So maybe, you know, find out why you would be interested and then that will describe the how or the what.
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Bear Grease
"bear" Discussed on Bear Grease
"The season. It was long enough the quota was large enough that, you know, the way I took that is, most people were able to hunt through the weekend that wanted to bear hunt. And so, you know, it was a success, I felt like it was a great success on where we placed the quota based on the best research information we had when we started the season. I think there could be some fine tuning on the season, but you know really just the fact that we had a bear hunt in the gulf coastal plain of Arkansas, and we have a bear season in roughly four fifths of the state now, which is something that I mean, I just don't think people would have envisioned that. 43 years ago. Would you have thought it inside of your career? I was really skeptical at one point. If it was going to happen, I mean, I knew we had research on going and depending on what that research said, but we kept having, you know, historic flood events, you know, hundred year flood events to two out of 5 years. I mean, you know, so that affected our research. So the research kept getting put off and put off and put off. And everything like that. So I was beginning to wonder. If it was going to happen in my career. But it did. And man, I feel I feel really proud that I got to see it in my career. Yeah. That's big. The first time that I went on a den study with Myron years ago, probably it was at least ten years ago. I was, I remember, I had never never been to a bear den and we walked way back in to an area. And Myron kind of snuck up to where he believed this bear to be. And first of all, I was shocked that this tiny little hole, I was expecting a bigger hole for a bear to be able to fit in. Yeah. But they're like a squirrel. You know, if you got a hole that big in a tree, a gray squirrel that's about that big can fit in it. Bears are the same way. Exactly. He walks up to this little bitty hole that couldn't have been more than about that big. And you have been the hundreds of den, so you probably don't remember which one it was, but I could take you to that den today. Like I remember where it's at. I'm trying to remember and I'll tell you later. It was kind of a, it was on the side of a ridge in the hole, though, was like in the ground, like an armadillo hole. Like, it wasn't like a cave in Myron, he's stuck his head down there and crawled in and it's like his rear end and his legs are the only thing sticking out. And he stays down there for a minute, and he comes back out and he hands me his flash shot, and he says, stick your head in there. And I said, I said, how close was that bear? And he said, oh, it's just like right there. And I said, how close? And he was like, oh, like from me to you? That's it. Is it awake? And he said, yeah. Get your head in that hole, you idiot. It's your own question. And I said, does that come? He's like, yeah. No, I remember leaning upside down into this hole. And turned it on this flashlight, and from me to Brent, for real. There's Brenda. It was Brenda. Okay. Like a, she was big. Just glowing eyes. It's like for me to Brent. I was looking. And I'm hanging upside down this whole shot and you hear the cubs chuckling and feeding. And I'll never forget doing that with you. And then I've been several times since then. Pretty incredible. What have you learned about bayard dinning in the gulf coastal plane that's different than in the mountains? Has there been some different stuff? Well, I've learned that I don't know near as much about bears as I thought. I mean, I really have. This has been, they're just different down there. It is a different world. Their behavior is so different than mountain bears. You know, I mean, I knew that it didn't chronology was later in the year, you know, the cycle starts for pregnant females lighter, you know, but man, it's just, I've just learned a lot in the past 6 months about where behavior what their preferences are. They're kind of nomadic down in that part of the world, which makes them incredibly hard to trap. And I did learn one thing that corn is the icon of the south. Yes. It most definitely is. Tell them what you mean by that. Well, I mean, they're just not interested in anything else you have to offer. Trying to bait even in the summer months, you know, when we were trying to bait, I've literally stuffed snare snare sets full of pastry donuts. I mean, how can a bear pass up a nice Christian cream donut? I was stopping at the mini march and extra glazed Tony buns 'cause I'm thinking this is it. No, they just walked by turn their nose up at it and go over and eat, you know, Apollo corn. You know? So it's just different behavior. You think they get acclimated to that because of all the deer hunt down there over the years. Well, I think they've become acclimated to that. Food choice because that's what has been available to them. You know, maybe not 30 years ago, but certainly in the last 20 years. I mean, if you got bears there 20 years old, you know, what did their mom teach them when they were cups? You know, where to find the food in the fall. So I learned that, you know, bear populations in the gulf coastal plain aren't homogeneous across the entire gulf coastal plain. They're kind of patchy. You know, there aren't bears everywhere in the gulf coastal plain, even though it's a big zone, 11 county zone. Bear zone, but you know southern Bradley county has a lot of bears. Eastern union county, western Ashley county, has a lot of bears. Dallas county has a lot of bears. Wash dog county doesn't have that many bears, even though it has a wash tall river running right down the side of it. And bears use those river systems and brakes as travel routes. If you, if you look on the display, we had out here showing some of the movement patterns of some of those bears. I mean, you can watch them over time. You know they're running around running up these SMEs or strange management zones in between these corporate timber products or running through these river systems and stuff like that. The corridor was the repairing zones. I mean, that's what those bears do, just running around in between that to get from point a to point B a lot of times it's not necessarily straight across the ten year old production. That's where they did. So yeah, it seems like every bear in the gulf coastal plane wants to find the perfect geographic center of the thickest thicket. You could ever imagine. And that's where they want to have. Where are they then? And are they digging holes and root balls? Not really. Most of them are ground nesters in the gulf coastal plain in areas that don't flood. I'm talking about timber production land in Dallas county, Washington county, drew county, Bradley. They'll just make a ground nest. But we'll be in a thicket. You could be walking through the Woods and see just see a bear laying on the ground. And he's been in. That's pretty incredible. I mean, you know, we run across it in the Ozarks and the washi talls ground nesters, typically they're going to be in thickets, wash towel, Dan's, are typically dug outs under root balls. Ozark dance are typically crevice type dens. But the gulf coastal plane, if they're now if they're in a floating regime, they're going to be up in a tree.
Bear Grease
"bear" Discussed on Bear Grease
"James Floyd says the backwoods man made a living with his arms who has it worse than a man, no sir. Like a white tail bug she loves to land humble on earth. I can tell you I know it's the first time. By the sawdust pound he would count use the saddle for a pill and keep his head getting down the ridge top scamps he would
Bear Grease
"bear" Discussed on Bear Grease
"With people because there were these kind of charismatic revivals in people would go into these sessions of repentance and be loud and showy and so him saying that connected to people. Oh, but he knew that a bare death mode. How many Americans could you walk up to today? And say, is there anything peculiar that happens when you shoot a bear? And it does. I may not, I mean, I don't know. I don't know how many out of a thousand. A thousand random Americans, I would say ten. Maybe. I didn't know that. Okay, yeah, they have a wild death mode. One of the few animals I tried to look up all the animals that do it. The only one I know for sure that does is a cape buffalo buffalo. That's the only one that I did not know that. But dad not the first bear that we ever killed death mound and we didn't know that they did that. And but the way he described it was so was so. Cool. What else is on your list? That's good. Hey, one thing you triggered my thought was I was really caught up in the fact that people from the east wanted these stories. I mean, this was like, please deliver something to us. We want to know what you're doing. You know, out west out west was Mississippi Arkansas. And you know, we're the same way today. I want to get on the news and I want to find out stuff, you know. And they were hungry for these type of stories. The bear failed through a fence like a tree falling through a cobweb. I mean, you know, we just don't talk that way. Every little thought he had, he created its own image in your mind. You know, you're going like, wow, that's a heck of a bear. Well, when it came over the fence, he came over like black smoke. Yeah. And I mean, it's like all of a sudden your mind just goes like black smoke. He went from being graceful to barbaric when he lived there. So I tell the story, Josh tells the story, we go, we tell the story. You know, we put us off in a room. We tell the story. We tell it and 5 minutes. Hunting stories over. This guy, I mean, he's created ten, 15, 20, 30 different stories. My mind just sees this bear running through the Woods, being followed by a pack of hands. Only reason he's running in my mind is to entertainment. Once he gets tired, he goes, okay, boys. Gigs up. I'm gonna slap you out of sight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, if you've ever seen a bear navigate an obstacle, it's shocking. I don't think he would describe a deer jump in a fence, like a tree, falling through a cobra. He would describe it different. But a bear, they are extremely articulate with all their feet, and they can just move through stuff. I mean, they are some of the most mobile animals and able to move their body and the description of it coming over the fence like a black mist.
Bear Grease
"bear" Discussed on Bear Grease
"Guy, this fictional character, Jim doggett. Kind of branded Arkansas. Hey y'all, I'm Tyler Jones. And I'm Casey Smith, and we host the element podcast. We're a couple native Texans that love to push the limits in all our outdoor pursuits. We're also a couple of longtime friends started stomping around our local creek bottles, but a found ourselves blessed with the opportunity to hunt all over the country. From Elk, to whitetails, hogs, and even fish, we share a hunting stories, tactics, and we'll tell you how to pair the rot chips with the rot salsa, how to paint a little el pastor and put it on a tortilla and I tell you what we'll even talk about some of our failures along the way that help us learn how to do what we love. We've also just recently joined the meat eater for so look forward to eating more intense moments and crazy adventures with those fellers. Maybe we can even teach them those jokers a little something about hunt. If you can't get enough of the outdoors and want to learn more about how to get close to the game, you pursue. Listen to the element podcast on the iHeartRadio app. On Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Brent, what did you think of the podcast? What stood out to you? Was there a part that was fun? It was surprising what stood out to you. Well, I've never heard that story. Before, I was totally ignorant of that amongst a volume of things I'm totally ignorant. But it was kind of ironic that he said the tone and the idea that people that weren't from your head Arkansas and it was a guy from New York that did it. Exactly. Yeah. It was totally removed, might as well have been on the other side of the planet, you know? As far as his relationship to what was going on. At that time here. He was, he was he was coming down the river on that boat. He was seeing it for the first time, too. You know? So I thought that was kind of ironic. Yeah. But he did such a good job. Absolutely. Even in the way told the bear hunt, it was clear, I don't think people told Thomas bang Thorpe about bear hunting because he knew some of the intricate details about the way bears be a dog. And about the way a big bear will walk a pack of bayon dogs.
Bear Grease
"bear" Discussed on Bear Grease
"He now has books. He made after the podcast. He reprinted the book. Awesome, because I'm still getting DMs. He reprinted the book. And so you can now go to modern Francis Buchanan's website and order the book hulk Collier. Well, Brant second is a motion. So, misty, what say you? Yay. Brent. Yay. Yay. Yay. Josh, yay. Gary. Yeah. Yay. Yeah, yeah. Clay Ye. All right, holt car is now officially in the Berger's hall fan. Gary voted twice. Jerry voted twice? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, but I'm all in. Good, put me down for 5. He's worthy candidate, right? Yeah. Are we conducting someone else too? Yeah. So this is a big day, big day for hot Collier. Okay. The second person that I would like to induct into the bear grease Hall of Fame. Irrevocable by historical revisionists a hundred years from now. If you're a hundred years from now listening to this on some archival mechanism that you can listen to stuff like this, you can't change this. I would like to induct tecumseh. The Shawnee, Shawnee leader, incredible really, when I do these series, I just get into these guys, and I just feel like I know them. And we did a big three part series, just finished it on tecumseh. His name means a panther crossing the sky. He was a visionary. He was, he led the largest combined Native American forces against the United States of any Indian leader in American history. Basically, he was the biggest threat to American expansion westward by Native Americans. And he was, he was considered by some to be one of the greatest potentially in his so speculative. We don't have no recordings of him. But by evidenced by the way that he could move people, one of the greatest orators in American history, potentially. Great warrior, great hunter, walked with a limp his whole life because when he was 21, he fell off his horse when he was hunting a bison. Incredible man, incredible resoluteness, died when he was 45 years old, prophesied his own death. Shawnee leader tecumseh.
Bear Grease
"bear" Discussed on Bear Grease
"Welcome to the bear grease friend. It sounds familiar. We have a pretty normal crew of the render here today. And we're going to talk about the Magnum Opus of my life. Wow. This podcast. It's the best podcast. Mister Newcomb's Opus. That's ever been created none accepted. Wow. Wow. Wow. That's a bold statement. That's my opinion. Let me introduce who's here today. I have my lovely wife missing to come to my left. Hello. Great to have you here. Great. To be here. Thank you to misty's left. Brent Reeves. How are you? I'm good, brother. Okay. Glad to be. I want to hear what you think about this. This podcast. All right, I'll listen to Brent's left. Ben lagrone. Thanks for a long time, buddy. You've been here a couple times on the bear grease render. A couple times one time. If you've been here one time, you've been here a couple times. That's right. That's right. Ben feels particularly familiar today because he has a 1980s best pro shop hat on. Yeah. Those are hard to come by these days out here. Yep. Or maybe not card to come out with their popular. That's why I wore the meat eater shirt to make sure there wasn't too much of a class of companies. You've got to meet your shirt on. To Ben's left, Josh Lambert, spill maker, who's been starting to get recognized once every other week. Yes, my micro celebrity grows. By the every other week. Biweekly. Tell us where someone recognized by a great young man by the name of Jacob down at the two local tool rental business. Doing some remodel work on my house had to go rent some tools. And he was like, are you laughing? Are you the lady? Well, you asked me my name, and I was like, Josh filmmaker, and he goes, are you familiar with the bear grease pasta? Yes, I said way too familiar. He said, what's your middle name? And you were like land bridge. That's right. Saving America one land bridge at a time. That's great. To your left, the man who's been missing for a couple episodes, the patter familias. Gary believer nukem. Good to be here. Yeah, man. Good to have you. Yeah. Thanks again. I've been listening to your stuff at last render group was really good. Did you like them? Yeah, I really did, man. I met at the squirrel. Yeah. Did you? Yeah. Good to hear. Good to hear. Hey, I'm like all business today. Because today is a monumental. This is a monumental burger surrender. Because we are, well, let me back up one step. There is such a thing. There is such a thing called the bear grease Hall of Fame. Which is a very real thing. This isn't a joke. One day I believe there will be a mountain somewhere in the Ozarks with the faces of these people carved into it. Bear grease Hall of Fame, very real. Men who qualify women who qualify people who qualify to be in the bear grease Hall of Fame have a very some very evident and some very intangible qualities about their life that make them shoe ins. And sometimes these qualities are hard to articulate, but when you see it, you know it, okay?
Bear Grease
"bear" Discussed on Bear Grease
"Had been suckling pigs. In the dogs weren't slow and making a ring around him at a respectful distance. I tell you, even Bowie knife himself stood off. Then the way his eyes flashed, while the fire of them would have singed a cat's hair. In fact, that bar was in a wrath all over. Only one pup came near him, and he was brushed out so to tally with the bears left Paul that he entirely disappeared. And that made the old dogs even more cautious still. In the meantime, I came up and taken deliberate aim as a man should do at his side just at the back of the foreleg if my gun did not snap call me a coward and I won't take it personal. Yes, stranger, it snapped and I could not find a cap about my person. His eyes flashed with such fire, it would have scorched a cap. And we now see that this is no ordinary bear. He swatted a dog, and it vanished. And this veteran hunters Muslim pop to cap, meaning it didn't fire. But now he's beginning to plan for his final hunt. And if he doesn't kill it, he's leaving Arkansas, or maybe he'll be dead. It's unclear. Then I told my neighbors on that Monday morning, name in the day that I would start that bar and bring him home with me. Or they might divide by settlement among them, the owner having disappeared. Well, stranger on that morning, previous to the great day of my hunting expedition, I went into the Woods near my house, taking my gun and bowing off along just from habit, and they're sitting down also from habit. What should I see? Getting over my fence, but the bar. Yes, the Obama was within a hundred yards of me. And the way he walked over that fence. Stranger, he loomed up like a black mist and he seemed so large. He walked right towards me. I raised myself, took deliberate aim and fired. Instantly, the var wield and gave Yale and walked through the fence like a fallen tree wood through a cobweb. I started after, but was tripped up by my inexpressible, which either from habit or the excitement of the moment we're about my heels. And before I had really gathered myself up, I heard the environment grown in a thicket nearby like a thousand sinners. And by the time I reached him, he was a corpse. Stranger, it took 5 men and myself to put that carcass on a mule's back. An old long hair's waddled under his load, and if he was foundered in every leg of his body, and with a common whopper of a bar, he would have trotted off and enjoyed himself. Wouldn't astonish you to know how big he was. I made a bed spread of his skin. In the way it used to cover my bar mattress and leave several feet on each side to tuck up, would have delighted you. It was in fact a creation bar, and if it had lived in Samson's time, and if it had met him, in a fair fight, it would have licked him in the twinkling of a dice box. But stranger, I never liked the way a hundred him and missed him. There's something curious about it. I never could understand. And I never was satisfied at his given in so easily at last. Perhaps he had heard of my preparations to hunt him the next day, so he just come in like captain Scott's coon to save his win to grunt with and die in. But that ain't likely. My private opinion is that the bar was an unhung bar and died when his time had come. The bear was grown in like a thousand sinners. I'm impressed that Thorpe knew that a black bear is one of the few animals that we hunt on the planet that has a death moan, a double long shot bear, one that dies quickly, will often give a loud sometimes spooky elongated groan that can be heard a great distance. I'm talking like a couple hundred yards. It usually lasts longer than you think it should, and it's a sure sign of the bear's death. For a bear hunter, it's a bewildering moment of internal conflict as the excitement of certain success, wars with a sobriety delivered by the beast grandstanding auditory expression of death. Both feelings are usually of equal measure. Dog it also suggests that the bear heard his plans for his hunt and basically turned himself in. The sounds like a sensational thought, but in the book make prayers to the Raven by Richard Kate Nelson. We learned that the co Yukon people of Alaska believed the black bear was near the apex of spiritual power in the natural world. They believed that when a person plans a bear hunt, they should be careful not to speak directly about their hunt plans because the bear will hear them and avoid being killed. A hunter must speak in code using vague terms if he wishes to invite others or discuss hunting plans. And dog it suggests that this creation bear may have heard him. The death of a hunted bear is regarded with such ceremony with the ko yakan that its second only to a human funeral. They regarded bear mate as a delicacy, but killing one was a, quote, quest for prestige, and a high expression of manhood. This is similar to what bear hunting became in the south. And I hope you caught it, but doggett says that the bear was a creation bar, which is the same descriptor he used to describe Arkansas, the creation state. This is a spiritual place and beast. No one I've talked to really knows exactly what he meant. It's mysterious, but the climax of the story is that dog it says the bar was an unable bar that died when his time had come. Almost as if his death had been scripted in the hunter had nothing to do with it. The story is now handed back to our New Orleans traveler and he describes the peculiar response of the big bar. When the story was ended, our hero set some minutes with his auditors in grave silence. I saw there was a mystery to him connected with the bear, whose death he had just related and had evidently made a strong impression on his mind. It was also evident that there was some superstitious awe connected with the affair, a feeling common with all children of the wood when they meet with anything out of their everyday experience. He was the first one, however, to break the silence, and jumping up, he asked all present to liquor before going to bed. A thing which he did with a number of his companions evidently to his heart's content. Long before day, I was put ashore at my place of destination and I can only follow with the reader and imagination. Our Arkansas friend and his adventures at the forks of the cypress on the Mississippi. There was some superstitious awe connected with the bear. Doggett was moved by his own story, and he left a major impression on the fictional people, but the story left an impression on the real people of America and the writers who had script some parts of our American identity. We didn't read the full story, probably only about half of it, but now you know the premise. I've known for a good part of my life that Arkansas was once known as the bear state. I discovered this while in college studying the thesis writing of university of Arkansas students and faculty, but deep in the literature, this golden acre and lay there for the taken. No one ever told me this. I never heard about it growing up. Doctor Brooks blevins is the undisputed historian of the Ozarks. I wanted to ask him about why we were called the bear state. Arkansas the bear state, you know, the truth is no one really knows exactly when or how the state got that nickname. There's no, you know, it wasn't an official nickname. But we know that before the Civil War, the state had earned the nickname the bear state unofficially. Did he show up in literature? Yeah, and I would say there are probably two reasons for that. One is that Arkansas did become known as a state full of bears. I mean, it was a state where bear hunting was very good and you think about in the days before the Civil War, you're talking about a really sparsely populated state that has a combination of highlands and swamps, but probably more than that was because of the literary component. You have, and I think timing is really important in this. Arkansas becomes a state and at that very moment you've got really the genre of southwestern humor was really starting to take off and it becomes in some ways the most popular genre of literature before the Civil War. Arkansas became a state in 1836 and it's hard to say if it was expressly created for the bear, or if the bear was expressly created for Arkansas. And literature is a powerful tool for identity. Doctor blevins believes the big bear of Arkansas in 1841, along with other bear hunting stories, branded the young state, sucking the backwoods bear hunting image into the identity vacuum created by new statehood. America desperately wondered who we were. So we don't know who said it first, but it's clear it's connected to Jim doggett in this new genre of writing called Southwest humor. But what is southwest humor? As the name would suggest it's a humorous kind of writing that is based in the southwest and in those days the southwest wasn't New Mexico and Arizona. It was Arkansas and Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana and basically the westernmost part of the United States at that time. Right. So yeah, that becomes the southwest and all these stories are, for the most part, published back east in sporting magazines, sporting periodicals, the spirit of the times in New York was the most prominent publisher of the southwestern humor stories and a lot of these stories had to do with hunting. A lot of them have to do with bear hunting, they also had to do with horse racing and politics and all kinds of stuff that you see out in these kind of frontier rural communities. But so many of them had to do with bear hunting and you've got the most famous bear hunting story that comes out. That's the big bear of Arkansas. This story becomes so popular and so famous that some later literary historians in the 20th century would even refer to southwestern humor as the big bear of genre of literature. I mean, that's how much the big bear of Arkansas is in stores. A whole bunch of other riders after him. Yeah, all the way down to faulkner and people in the 20th century. Mark Twain. Right. And these people were fascinated with these southwestern humor stories frontier characters in the dialect and all that kind of stuff. Here's university of Arkansas professor and folklore specialist doctor bob Cochran. What a cool guy. Tell me why this short story, the big bear of Arkansas was so influential though that when this one came out, it was a climax piece that was a line in the sand almost of and they called them the big bear humerus after that. And then that later would influence other American riders. Like why was this one so good? I think it was, it became so famous because it was recognized right away as better. It was more it was more complex. It had the language it had the jokes. It was deeper. How was it complex? Well, just it's a bear hunt story, but it's more than a bear hunt story. It's about crossing into the experience, which is the unknown. It's a burning bush story. You know, it's something that shocks you out of the way you perceive the very world. You don't think the world has this in it, and it does. You know, it's one of those kind of you're walking along on a bush catches on fire will it changes your life. Well, he's walking along and he sees this. They spare walk through a fence. You know, there's a sense on that line. Remember when Saitama sized that he went through a fence like a tree falling through a cop. And it almost dematerializes the bear, right? And there's a place where the bear hits one of the dogs and the dog disappears, right? It doesn't say it's yelping off to the side or killed or he says he uses that word. He said the dog, it's not there. He atomizes the dog. So in other words, I think it's a complex story because it takes you into the unknown. It takes you into the unknown. I have more questions for doctor Cochran. Let me ask you this. Is there a modern example of what this would have been like inside of our media today? Would it have been like my 75 year old dad looking at TikTok or? Well, the first thing I think is that many readers would have spurned it. And many readers would have regarded it as sub literary, you know, as sort of just like a shame to our culture. You got it. You got it. The way my grandmother felt about country music from West Virginia. Really? Yeah. Oh yeah. She didn't like country music. She thought there was a world of difference between a mountaineer and a hillbilly. And she was proud of being a mountaineer, and she would not abide the word hill. Really? Yeah. You know, we were when we were little kids. We were said, don't say hillbilly around grandma. Really, in West Virginia. West Virginia. And so mountaineers. You'd stand up and salute. And so your grandma wouldn't have liked this because it was kind of hillbilly. That made me funny. It was a demeaning stereotype. And that would have been true about a lot of people in respectable Little Rock wouldn't have liked it either. Because the same thing, you know, we still have that today. The state being judged by what some people in the state would think of as its lowliest members. But to the people that this appealed to, this was wildly popular. Wildly popular. Wildly popular, literature was usually quite formal and authors riding and dialect with something new. People loved it. I've got more questions. Tell me about where this was published. The spirit of the times. Right. It had some competitors because it was so successful, but it was the most successful. It had a wide readership and its readership was much wider than the people that it was discussing. It was a red just by hunters or people, but it was a sporting journal. Absolutely. If it was interested in one thing more than hunting. And I think it might have been. It's not like I've sat down and read all the back issues of this thing. What would be the first? Horse racing. Horse racing. Yes, sir. In the horse race and was a big thing back then too. It would have been like today's NASCAR. Yeah. And interestingly, in the first bit of this story, the big bear of Arkansas, he makes a horse jockey joke. He said his bear dog Bowie knife knows a bear the way a horse jockey knows a woman. Yeah. Which I can only assume it means that the horse jockeys were the cool guys that the women favored. Yeah. Because they were stars in a way. It's about as risque as you can get. This genre of writing was pretty risque for the day. You could get away with stuff that you couldn't get away with and my grandmother would have gasped when she read that. Yeah, she might not even picked her. Yeah, this was like rebel stuff. Yeah. And trashy. In some ways. But the people who read it were not trashy financially, they were pretty well off. It cost money to subscribe to these things. Would it have been like a print magazine? It would have been like a kind of tablet. Yeah. And it was extraordinarily popular. Thorpe used colorful descriptors and metaphors. In some sections I didn't read, he said he didn't plan to go to New Orleans in a crow's life, using its lifespan to describe a measure of time. He said running a bear in warm weather would turn him into a skin full of bars grease. And once dog at proclaimed mosquitos is nature, and I never find fault with her. If they are large, Arkansas is large. Her varmints are large, her trees are large. Her rivers are large, and a small mosquito would be of no more use in Arkansas than preaching in a cane break. That kind of sounds like something Brent Reeves would say. I'm still trying to understand just how popular this story was in America. Here's the old Hickory nut himself, Steven rinella, who happens to be one of those highfalutin New York Times bestselling authors. He's gonna talk about what he noted about the big bear of Arkansas. It was very poetic but not in an obnoxious annoying way. That they were at that time people were using poetic description. So effectively, but him describing in one passage when a bear comes over the fence. It rises over the fence like a black mist. And when it goes back through the fence, it goes through a fence like a falling tree cutting through cobweb. Poetic. Born of the earth is born of the land and not born of some writing workshop. You know, you think about these guys, they did not have YouTube. They didn't have Netflix and Hulu. This was their craft, the writing, writing was the primary means of communication. And even a primary means of entertainment for people. This story written as it was would essentially be like saying, dude, you should check out that Netflix documentary. It is awesome. Do you think riders have gotten better worse at the command of the English language? And really, when you talk about the command of the English language, what you're really saying is are people able to really describe what's happening on Planet Earth and inside the body of a human. I don't want to talk about the population writ large. I don't want to just refer to just general adult Americans, but I'll say of our leaders. Of our prominent figures, the use of the English language has suffered since this time since then. I mean, just go simply go read transcripts of Lincoln's who would have been at his prime alive and well at the time of this writing. Go look at his command and use of the English language compared to a transcript of any modern president speaking today. I think that, you know, more people of higher percentage of people are literate now than then, but the level of mastery of the English language as exemplified by key individuals has suffered. And I think that that ability to speak in such a colorful flamboyant energy laden way has gone away. However you feel about him. I followed him and known in my whole life and spoke to him. But you go look at the fire inside the language of a figure like Ted nugent. How fiery and colorful and exciting he's able to speak, right? It sort of brings the mind like the character speaking in this thing. He'll say a sentence. I don't understand how you just strung that sentence together. Yeah. Without working on it earlier, like an amazing ability to string sentences together. To hit two sides of the spectrum, nugent will say sentences that blow me away. Obama could string a sentence together that when you read a transcript of the sentence, I think to myself, how could someone have formed that as a spoken sentence? Having not written it out first. I'm not often blown away by people's sentences they put that they put together. But reading this, and again, we're confusing. This was created by a writer. This wasn't a transcript of a thing. So it was created by a writer who's did their research and spent their time in reading it. I sort of lament that that flamboyance with language isn't normal. And I wonder how was it normal, you know? 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Here's doctor Cochran continuing to describe how influential this big bear of Arkansas story was. There was one volume in his life that was published that had nothing but his stuff in it. And it was called hive of the bee hunter, 1854 and has 24 pieces in that. The big bear is one of them. And the second most frequently include historian anthology is nothing next to the story. It's a trivial piece. It's called a piano and Arkansas. And it's a hook story. I mean, it's just got one point. You got a village braggart, who's very proud of the fact that he's made two trips to the capitol, Little Rock. And he thinks he knows everything. In other words, he's the expert on the big world, right? Yeah. And he's heard that a newly arrived family in town has a piano, and there's great curiosity in the town called something like hardscrabble. You know how they name his technique? A fake town. Fake town, yeah. Nobody knows what a piano is. And this guy says, well, he's seen more pianist than what they see woodchucks. I mean, and what happens is, of course, that he is exposed as a braggart and a liar because he mistakes a newly arrived washing machine for piano. He thinks, okay, so that story is nothing. It's just a one, that's it. I just told you that it's a story. One shot joke. Whereas this story, we could spend an hour and a two just trying to figure out what the final thing the story is about. So I think it became the most popular story on really solid grounds. I think it's as good a story as there is. It's the most complex one I know. These southwest humor stories created lovable and interesting characters, but they were also setting up my beloved homeland for a rough 150 years of what scholars say was the most picked on state in America in the 20th century by far. We've mentioned that the big bear school of literature likely had notable effect on Mark Twain, who would begin publishing in the late 1860s, becoming America's most famous writer. Here's Steve vanilla. A thing that I noticed too that was the, it was evocative of Mark Twain. Yeah. What made Twain Twain was his ability to capture vernacular. His ability to live a life of research and take almost his characters were born of deep experience that he had personally, meaning there was no huckleberry Finn. There was no Tom Sawyer, but Mark Twain, and that was his pen name. Samuel Clemens, spent his life on the Mississippi, was raised on the Mississippi, had proximity to slaves, grew up in a slave holding place, fished catfish. He was a riverboat pilot. He did hang out with people. He knew these individuals, huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were perhaps more real than actual real people. And what gave him so much his character so much humanity is they were, they were low class people, but he loved them. He loved them deeply, low class people. That was his soul, right? Was bringing these people to life and defying stereotypes. So here you have, you know, you're hearing this tale spun by this Arkansas bear hunter, but you look like how the narrative is captured as clearly the writer had spent time around people. And you're like, this Arkansas bear hunter, who's sort of being in jazz portrayed as this rough and tumble individual, but in fact, he's exceedingly articulate. He's a very clear communicator. He's full of compassion and empathy and he's like a spiritual figure. Who approaches life with a great lost, you know? And so it's loving. It's loving in a way that a lot of stuff you see when you're watching something now and you're watching some stupid Disney movie in a hunter comes up, it's hateful. He's a southern accent. He's bloodthirsty. He's ignorant. I mean, these are all things you see all the time, right? But at this time, you could have this person like, what steps in the door, here's this uneducated, uncouth redneck bear hunter, but let's hear him talk. What emerges is all those things I said earlier, like a very passionate, deeply articulate. Deeply feeling individual. Who ascribes all these emotional things to a bear hunt and takes a story in an unexpected direction and loves this barrier like his brother and misses the bear. And so it's this whole package of what comes in is like, you know, you're expecting to have this guy be lampooned, but this guy is handled with great care. Yeah. You like you read it and you like dudes from Arkansas. Yeah. You wish you could talk to that guy. The dichotomy of the ignorant backwoodsman being a complex individual with his humanity on display is fascinating, but not new, even then. Here's doctor Cochran. It seems like this narrative of the simpletons of the south or the hill country or Appalachia or the Ozarks being portrayed in this complex way of being really simple, but also educated and in the know and kind of this striking contrast. This seems like a common narrative. The simpleton is actually the smart guy. Was that pretty common back in those days? Well, it's an old trope. It's an ancient trope. Jack and the beans. Jack is a simpleton. But Jack is smart enough to do what the guy's daughter tells him to do. And he wins. So I'll sometimes they're making fun of the guy like in that piano in Arkansas story that the town sophisticate is exposed as a fraud. But here, it's, again, it's part of the wonder of the story. It's much more complicated. If you move to the last paragraph or so that when he finishes the story, he's told a deep story about himself. He's told a story. He's a great hunter, but remember he says the bear was hunting me. Yeah. The bear came and sat across my fence and killed a hog whenever he wanted to. In other words, he tells a story about his own defeat. So here you have a ring tailed roar, while their scores of ringtail roar stories, but they're in a few ring tailed roar stories where the roar says here's the story where I got beat. Here's the story where I was in over my head that I don't even today really understood. What happened there? I mean, this story almost is unique for that look that kind of depth in this genre. And if you look at the last paragraph, I mean, you read that opening paragraph that he won people over right away and his total self confidence. In the end that self confidence is gone. Yeah, when the story was ended, our hero set some minutes with his auditors and grave silence. Yeah. I saw that there was a mystery to him connected with the bear whose death he had just related that had evidently made a strong impression on his mind. The big bar of Arkansas turns out to be one of the most interesting, deepest people on the boat, leaving the passengers in all of his life, his philosophy and right smart enamored. Maybe even envious. This is a popular theme. Doctor blevins wrote about the times having a romantic impulse to exalt an envy, the supposed and unattainable simple life of the hillman. Decide is no less strong today than it was then. Here's another layer of depth to the story from Steve and I. Today there's this narrative inside the hunting space that we all kind of have attached ourselves to is this deep respect for our quarry, which we sometimes think was absent during the market hunting era of this country. And we kind of feel like it's new. Like now when we kill a deer, you know, we think about, we really take that's a good one and this is significant and this is meaningful. This is not a small thing. And pay respect to this animal. But really that is so old. But what surprised me? And what I loved so much, but when Jim doggett, the Arkansas bear hunter, when he saw his dogs walk in the bear, the bear was walking and the dogs were all around it. He said he couldn't tell if the bear even knew the dogs were there, and he said, I loved him like a brother. I mean, if somebody said that today, that would seem like cutting edge. Be like, wow. Man, 1841. Thomas bang Thorpe's fictional character Jim doggett, Arkansas bear hunter, loved him like a brother. And I think that that inside of that emerged a functionalization of that love, which turned into the North American model of wildlife conservation. Really, what we're doing managing wildlife in this country goes back to Jim Dogg at loving that bear like a brother. And now his lamenting its passing. Yeah, and then when the bear dies, he said, the bear hunter became extremely melancholy and sad, and he said he missed the bear. And you wouldn't have thought that would have come out of the 1840s. The doubt had been a sentiment. I think that's one of the greatest lines in American literature, especially as it pertains to the lasting ethic of the American sportsman that has functionalized that love of a beast into saving wild places and wildlife. Lardy laud in my brothers, we have walked into a bird nest on the ground as we live in one of the greatest heydays of American wildlife wild places and access to hunting. I believe that's why these stories of our heritage are identity as Americans are so powerful. In the midst of a rapidly progressing society, seemingly trying to forget the backwoodsmen. We can not forget who we are. Society needs to continue to create space for hunters to manage the lion's share of wild places and wildlife. We've got a long track record of success. And if we do, there will be space and wildlife for all the stakeholders to partake in whatever means they like. This is America and we're hunters that love the great beasts and our caretakers of the wild places where they live. Can you say amen to that? I wanted to ask Steve why hunters seem to be so enamored with the ones that got away or the unkillable animal. Here's what he said. It's a good question. You can go super deep psychology and have it be that you're a establishing that in the end, the animal can prevail and that what you're doing is exceptionally difficult and you might see that someone that had come from a line of resource destruction, market hunters, and we were like, you're literally wiping species off the areas map that you would have a mythology of the ones that can't be got as a way to alleviate some of the guilt or blame. Or it could be just that it creates that it's like an act of reverence
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"bear" Discussed on Bear Grease
"Many readers would have regarded it as sub literary, you know, as sort of just like a shame to our culture. You got it. You got it. The way my grandmother felt about country music from West Virginia. Really? Yeah. Oh yeah. She didn't like country music. She thought there was a world of difference between a mountaineer and a hillbilly. And she was proud of being a mountaineer, and she would not abide the word hill. Really? Yeah. You know, we were when we were little kids. We were said, don't say hillbilly around grandma. Really, in West Virginia. West Virginia. And so mountaineers. You'd stand up and salute. And so your grandma wouldn't have liked this because it was kind of hillbilly. That made me funny. It was a demeaning stereotype. And that would have been true about a lot of people in respectable Little Rock wouldn't have liked it either. Because the same thing, you know, we still have that today. The state being judged by what some people in the state would think of as its lowliest members. But to the people that this appealed to, this was wildly popular. Wildly popular. Wildly popular, literature was usually quite formal and authors riding and dialect with something new. People loved it. I've got more questions. Tell me about where this was published. The spirit of the times. Right. It had some competitors because it was so successful, but it was the most successful. It had a wide readership and its readership was much wider than the people that it was discussing. It was a red just by hunters or people, but it was a sporting journal. Absolutely. If it was interested in one thing more than hunting. And I think it might have been. It's not like I've sat down and read all the back issues of this thing. What would be the first? Horse racing. Horse racing. Yes, sir. In the horse race and was a big thing back then too. It would have been like today's NASCAR. Yeah. And interestingly, in the first bit of this story, the big bear of Arkansas, he makes a horse jockey joke. He said his bear dog Bowie knife knows a bear the way a horse jockey knows a woman. Yeah. Which I can only assume it means that the horse jockeys were the cool guys that the women favored. Yeah. Because they were stars in a way. It's about as risque as you can get. This genre of writing was pretty risque for the day. You could get away with stuff that you couldn't get away with and my grandmother would have gasped when she read that. Yeah, she might not even picked her. Yeah, this was like rebel stuff. Yeah. And trashy. In some ways. But the people who read it were not trashy financially, they were pretty well off. It cost money to subscribe to these things. Would it have been like a print magazine? It would have been like a kind of tablet. Yeah. And it was extraordinarily popular. Thorpe used colorful descriptors and metaphors. In some sections I didn't read, he said he didn't plan to go to New Orleans in a crow's life, using its lifespan to describe a measure of time. He said running a bear in warm weather would turn him into a skin full of bars grease. And once dog at proclaimed mosquitos is nature, and I never find fault with her. If they are large, Arkansas is large. Her varmints are large, her trees are large. Her rivers are large, and a small mosquito would be of no more use in Arkansas than preaching in a cane break. That kind of sounds like something Brent Reeves would say. I'm still trying to understand just how popular this story was in America. Here's the old Hickory nut himself, Steven rinella, who happens to be one of those highfalutin New York Times bestselling authors. He's gonna talk about what he noted about the big bear of Arkansas. It was very poetic but not in an obnoxious annoying way. That they were at that time people were using poetic description. So effectively, but him describing in one passage when a bear comes over the fence. It rises over the fence like a black mist. And when it goes back through the fence, it goes through a fence like a falling tree cutting through cobweb. Poetic. Born of the earth is born of the land and not born of some writing workshop. You know, you think about these guys, they did not have YouTube. They didn't have Netflix and Hulu. This was their craft, the writing, writing was the primary means of communication. And even a primary means of entertainment for people. This story written as it was would essentially be like saying, dude, you should check out that Netflix documentary. It is awesome. Do you think riders have gotten better worse at the command of the English language? And really, when you talk about the command of the English language, what you're really saying is are people able to really describe what's happening on Planet Earth and inside the body of a human. I don't want to talk about the population writ large. I don't want to just refer to just general adult Americans, but I'll say of our leaders. Of our prominent figures, the use of the English language has suffered since this time since then. I mean, just go simply go read transcripts of Lincoln's who would have been at his prime alive and well at the time of this writing. Go look at his command and use of the English language compared to a transcript of any modern president speaking today. I think that, you know, more people of higher percentage of people are literate now than then, but the level of mastery of the English language as exemplified by key individuals has suffered. And I think that that ability to speak in such a colorful flamboyant energy laden way has gone away. However you feel about him. I followed him and known in my whole life and spoke to him. But you go look at the fire inside the language of a figure like Ted nugent. How fiery and colorful and exciting he's able to speak, right? It sort of brings the mind like the character speaking in this thing. He'll say a sentence. I don't understand how you just strung that sentence together. Yeah. Without working on it earlier, like an amazing ability to string sentences together. To hit two sides of the spectrum, nugent will say sentences that blow me away. Obama could string a sentence together that when you read a transcript of the sentence, I think to myself, how could someone have formed that as a spoken sentence? Having not written it out first. I'm not often blown away by people's sentences they put that they put together. But reading this, and again, we're confusing. This was created by a writer. This wasn't a transcript of a thing. So it was created by a writer who's did their research and spent their time in reading it. I sort of lament that that flamboyance with language isn't normal. And I wonder how was it normal, you know? Were these characters out there who would speak
Bear Grease
"bear" Discussed on Bear Grease
"There was some superstitious awe connected with the bear. Doggett was moved by his own story, and he left a major impression on the fictional people, but the story left an impression on the real people of America and the writers who had script some parts of our American identity. We didn't read the full story, probably only about half of it, but now you know the premise. I've known for a good part of my life that Arkansas was once known as the bear state. I discovered this while in college studying the thesis writing of university of Arkansas students and faculty, but deep in the literature, this golden acre and lay there for the taken. No one ever told me this. I never heard about it growing up. Doctor Brooks blevins is the undisputed historian of the Ozarks. I wanted to ask him about why we were called the bear state. Arkansas the bear state, you know, the truth is no one really knows exactly when or how the state got that nickname. There's no, you know, it wasn't an official nickname. But we know that before the Civil War, the state had earned the nickname the bear state unofficially. Did he show up in literature? Yeah, and I would say there are probably two reasons for that. One is that Arkansas did become known as a state full of bears. I mean, it was a state where bear hunting was very good and you think about in the days before the Civil War, you're talking about a really sparsely populated state that has a combination of highlands and swamps, but probably more than that was because of the literary component. You have, and I think timing is really important in this. Arkansas becomes a state and at that very moment you've got really the genre of southwestern humor was really starting to take off and it becomes in some ways the most popular genre of literature before the Civil War. Arkansas became a state in 1836 and it's hard to say if it was expressly created for the bear, or if the bear was expressly created for Arkansas. And literature is a powerful tool for identity. Doctor blevins believes the big bear of Arkansas in 1841, along with other bear hunting stories, branded the young state, sucking the backwoods bear hunting image into the identity vacuum created by new statehood. America desperately wondered who we were. So we don't know who said it first, but it's clear it's connected to Jim doggett in this new genre of writing called Southwest humor. But what is southwest humor? As the name would suggest it's a humorous kind of writing that is based in the southwest and in those days the southwest wasn't New Mexico and Arizona. It was Arkansas and Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana and basically the westernmost part of the United States at that time. Right. So yeah, that becomes the southwest and all these stories are, for the most part, published back east in sporting magazines, sporting periodicals, the spirit of the times in New York was the most prominent publisher of the southwestern humor stories and a lot of these stories had to do with hunting. A lot of them have to do with bear hunting, they also had to do with horse racing and politics and all kinds of stuff that you see out in these kind of frontier rural communities. But so many of them had to do with bear hunting and you've got the most famous bear hunting story that comes out. That's the big bear of Arkansas. This story becomes so popular and so famous that some later literary historians in the 20th century would even refer to southwestern humor as the big bear of genre of literature. I mean, that's how much the big bear of Arkansas is in stores. A whole bunch of other riders after him. Yeah, all the way down to faulkner and people in the 20th century. Mark Twain. Right. And these people were fascinated with these southwestern humor stories frontier characters in the dialect and all that kind of stuff. Here's university of Arkansas professor and folklore specialist doctor bob Cochran. What a cool guy. Tell me why this short story, the big bear of Arkansas was so influential though that when this one came out, it was a climax piece that was a line in the sand almost of and they called them the big bear humerus after that. And then that later would influence other American riders. Like why was this one so good? I think it was, it became so famous because it was recognized right away as better. It was more it was more complex. It had the language it had the jokes. It was deeper. How was it complex? Well, just it's a bear hunt story, but it's more than a bear hunt story. It's about crossing into the experience, which is the unknown. It's a burning bush story. You know, it's something that shocks you out of the way you perceive the very world. You don't think the world has this in it, and it does. You know, it's one of those kind of you're walking along on a bush catches on fire will it changes your life. Well, he's walking along and he sees this. They spare walk through a fence. You know, there's a sense on that line. Remember when Saitama sized that he went through a fence like a tree falling through a cop. And it almost dematerializes the bear, right? And there's a place where the bear hits one of the dogs and the dog disappears, right? It doesn't say it's yelping off to the side or killed or he says he uses that word. He said the dog, it's not there. He atomizes the dog. So in other words, I think it's a complex story because it takes you into the unknown. It takes you into the unknown. I have more questions for doctor Cochran. Let me ask you this. Is there a modern example of what this would have been like inside of our media today? Would it have been like my 75 year old dad looking at TikTok or? Well, the first thing I think is that many readers would have spurned it. And
Bear Grease
"bear" Discussed on Bear Grease
"When the story was ended, our hero set some minutes with his auditors in grave silence. I saw there was a mystery to him connected with the bear, whose death he had just related and had evidently made a strong impression on his mind. It was also evident that there was some superstitious awe connected with the affair, a feeling common with all children of the wood when they meet with anything out of their everyday experience. He was the first one, however, to break the silence, and jumping up, he asked all present to liquor before going to bed. A thing which he did with a number of his companions evidently to his heart's content. Long before day, I was put ashore at my place of destination and I can only follow with the reader and imagination. Our Arkansas friend and his adventures at the forks of the cypress on the Mississippi. There was some superstitious awe connected with the bear. Doggett was moved by his own story, and he left a major impression on the fictional people, but the story left an impression on the real people of America and the writers who had script some parts of our American identity. We didn't read the full story, probably only about half of it, but now you know the premise. I've known for a good part of my life that Arkansas was once known as the bear state. I discovered this while in college studying the thesis writing of university of Arkansas students and faculty, but deep in the literature, this golden acre and lay there for the taken. No one ever told me this. I never heard about it growing up. Doctor Brooks blevins is the undisputed historian of the Ozarks. I wanted to ask him about why we were called the bear state. Arkansas the bear state, you know, the truth is no one really knows exactly when or how the state got that nickname. There's no, you know, it wasn't an official nickname. But we know that before the Civil War, the state had earned the nickname the bear state unofficially. Did he show up in literature? Yeah, and I would say there are probably two reasons for that. One is that Arkansas did become known as a state full of bears. I mean, it was a state where bear hunting was very good and you think about in the days before the Civil War, you're talking about a really sparsely populated state that has a combination of highlands and swamps, but probably more than that was because of the literary component. You have, and I think timing is really important in this. Arkansas becomes a state and at that very moment you've got really the genre of southwestern humor was really starting to take off and it becomes in some ways the most popular genre of literature before the Civil War. Arkansas became a state in 1836 and it's hard to say if it was expressly created for the bear, or if the bear was expressly created for Arkansas. And literature is a powerful tool for identity. Doctor blevins believes the big bear of Arkansas in 1841, along with other bear hunting stories, branded the young state, sucking the backwoods bear hunting image into the identity vacuum created by new statehood. America desperately wondered who we were. So we don't know who said it first, but it's clear it's connected to Jim doggett in this new genre of writing called Southwest humor. But what is southwest humor? As the name would suggest it's a humorous kind of writing that is based in the southwest and in those days the southwest wasn't New Mexico and Arizona. It was Arkansas and Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana and basically the westernmost part of the United States at that time. Right. So yeah, that becomes the southwest and all these stories are, for the most part, published back east in sporting magazines, sporting periodicals, the spirit of the times in New York was the most prominent publisher of the southwestern humor stories and a lot of these stories had to do with hunting. A lot of them have to do with bear hunting, they also had to do with horse racing and politics and all kinds of stuff that you see out in these kind of frontier rural communities. But so many of them had to do with bear hunting and you've got the most famous bear hunting story that comes out. That's the big bear of Arkansas. This story becomes so popular and so famous that some later literary historians in the 20th century would even refer to southwestern humor as the big bear of genre of literature. I mean, that's how much the big bear of Arkansas is in stores. A whole bunch of other riders after him. Yeah, all the way down to faulkner and people in the 20th century. Mark Twain. Right. And these people were fascinated with these southwestern humor stories frontier characters in the dialect and all that kind of stuff. Here's university of Arkansas professor and folklore specialist doctor bob Cochran. What a cool guy. Tell me why this short story, the big bear of Arkansas was so influential though that when this one came out, it was a climax piece that was a line in the sand almost of and they called them the big bear humerus after that. And then that later would influence other American riders. Like why was this one so good? I think it was, it became so famous because it was recognized right away as better. It was more it was more complex. It had the language it had the jokes. It was deeper. How was it complex? Well, just it's a bear hunt story, but it's more than a bear hunt story. It's about crossing into the experience, which is the unknown. It's a burning bush story. You know, it's something that shocks you out of the way you perceive the very world. You don't think the world has this in it, and it does. You know, it's one of those kind of you're walking along on a bush catches on fire will it changes your life. Well, he's walking along and he sees this. They spare walk through a fence. You know, there's a sense on that line. Remember when Saitama sized that he went through a fence like a tree falling through a cop. And it almost dematerializes the bear, right? And there's a place where the bear hits one of the dogs and the dog disappears, right? It doesn't say it's yelping off to the side or killed or he says he uses that word. He said the dog, it's not there. He atomizes the dog. So in other words, I think it's a complex story because it takes you into the unknown. It takes you into the unknown. I have more questions for doctor Cochran. Let me ask you this. Is there a modern example of what this would have been like inside of our media today? Would it have been like my 75 year old dad looking at TikTok or? Well, the first thing I think is that many readers would have spurned it. And
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"Of Alaska believed the black bear was near the apex of spiritual power in the natural world. They believed that when a person plans a bear hunt, they should be careful not to speak directly about their hunt plans because the bear will hear them and avoid being killed. A hunter must speak in code using vague terms if he wishes to invite others or discuss hunting plans. And dog it suggests that this creation bear may have heard him. The death of a hunted bear is regarded with such ceremony with the ko yakan that its second only to a human funeral. They regarded bear mate as a delicacy, but killing one was a, quote, quest for prestige, and a high expression of manhood. This is similar to what bear hunting became in the south. And I hope you caught it, but doggett says that the bear was a creation bar, which is the same descriptor he used to describe Arkansas, the creation state. This is a spiritual place and beast. No one I've talked to really knows exactly what he meant. It's mysterious, but the climax of the story is that dog it says the bar was an unable bar that died when his time had come. Almost as if his death had been scripted in the hunter had nothing to do with it. The story is now handed back to our New Orleans traveler and he describes the peculiar response of the big bar. When the story was ended, our hero set some minutes with his auditors in grave silence. I saw there was a mystery to him connected with the bear, whose death he had just related and had evidently made a strong impression on his mind. It was also evident that there was some superstitious awe connected with the affair, a feeling common with all children of the wood when they meet with anything out of their everyday experience. He was the first one, however, to break the silence, and jumping up, he asked all present to liquor before going to bed. A thing which he did with a number of his companions evidently to his heart's content. Long before day, I was put ashore at my place of destination and I can only follow with the reader and imagination. Our Arkansas friend and his adventures at the forks of the cypress on the Mississippi. There was some superstitious awe connected with the bear. Doggett was moved by his own story, and he left a major impression on the fictional people, but the story left an impression on the real people of America and the writers who had script some parts of our American identity. We didn't read the full story, probably only about half of it, but now you know the premise. I've known for a good part of my life that Arkansas was once known as the bear state. I discovered this while in college studying the thesis writing of university of Arkansas students and faculty, but deep in the literature, this golden acre and lay there for the taken. No one ever told me this. I never heard about it growing up. Doctor Brooks blevins is the undisputed historian of the Ozarks. I wanted to ask him about why we were called the bear state. Arkansas the bear state, you know, the truth is no one really knows exactly when or how the state got that nickname. There's no, you know, it wasn't an official nickname. But we know that before the Civil War, the state had earned the nickname the bear state unofficially. Did he show up in literature? Yeah, and I would say there are probably two reasons for that. One is that Arkansas did become known as a state full of bears. I mean, it was a state where bear hunting was very good and you think about in the days before the Civil War, you're talking about a really sparsely populated state that has a combination of highlands and swamps, but probably more than that was because of the literary component. You have, and I think timing is really important in this. Arkansas becomes a state and at that very moment you've got really the genre of southwestern humor was really starting to take off and it becomes in some ways the most popular genre of literature before the Civil War. Arkansas became a state in 1836 and it's hard to say if it was expressly created for the bear, or if the bear was expressly created for Arkansas. And literature is a powerful tool for identity. Doctor blevins believes the big bear of Arkansas in 1841, along with other bear hunting stories, branded the young state, sucking the backwoods bear hunting image into the identity vacuum created by new statehood. America desperately wondered who we were. So we don't know who said it first, but it's clear it's connected to Jim doggett in this new genre of writing called Southwest humor. But what is southwest humor? As the name would suggest it's a humorous kind of writing that is based in the southwest and in those days the southwest wasn't New Mexico and Arizona. It was Arkansas and Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana and basically the westernmost part of the United States at that time. Right. So yeah, that becomes the southwest and all these stories are, for the most part, published back east in sporting magazines, sporting periodicals, the spirit of the times in New York was the most prominent publisher of the southwestern humor stories and a lot of these stories had to do with hunting. A lot of them have to do with bear hunting, they also had to do with horse racing and politics and all kinds of stuff that you see out in these kind of frontier rural communities. But so many of them had to do with bear hunting and you've got the most famous bear hunting story that comes out. That's the big bear of Arkansas. This story becomes so popular and so famous that some later literary historians in the 20th century would even refer to southwestern humor as the big bear of genre of literature. I mean, that's how much the big bear of Arkansas is in stores. A whole bunch of other riders after him. Yeah, all the way down to faulkner and people in the 20th century. Mark Twain. Right. And these people were fascinated with these southwestern humor stories frontier characters in the dialect and all that kind of stuff. Here's university of Arkansas professor and folklore specialist doctor bob Cochran.
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"When you're at your best, you can do great things, but sometimes life gets you bogged down, you may feel overwhelmed, or like you're not showing up in the way you want to. Working with a therapist can help you get closer to the best version of yourself because when you feel empowered, you're more prepared to take on everything that life throws at you. And if you're thinking of giving therapy a try, better help is a great option. It's convenient, flexible, affordable, and entirely online. Just fill out a brief questionnaire to get matched with a licensed therapist and switch therapist anytime for no additional charge. If you want to live a more empowered life, therapy can help you get there. Visit better help dot com slash Greece. Today to get 10% off your first month that's better help. HELP dot com slash Greece. Thank you. Aw, he went until he came to a tree, the limbs of which formed a crotch about 6 feet from the ground. In the crotch he got and seated himself and the dogs were yelling all around it, and there he set I and them as quiet as a pond in low water. A greenhorn friend of mine and company reached shooting distance before me and blazed away, hitting the critter in the center of the forehead. The bar shook his head as the ball struck it, and then walked down from that tree as gently as a lady would from a carriage. It was a beautiful sight to see him do that. He was in such a rage that he seemed to be as little afraid of the dogs as if they had been suckling pigs. In the dogs weren't slow and making a ring around him at a respectful distance. I tell you, even Bowie knife himself stood off. Then the way his eyes flashed, while the fire of them would have singed a cat's hair. In fact, that bar was in a wrath all over. Only one pup came near him, and he was brushed out so to tally with the bears left Paul that he entirely disappeared. And that made the old dogs even more cautious still. In the meantime, I came up and taken deliberate aim as a man should do at his side just at the back of the foreleg if my gun did not snap call me a coward and I won't take it personal. Yes, stranger, it snapped and I could not find a cap about my person. His eyes flashed with such fire, it would have scorched a cap. And we now see that this is no ordinary bear. He swatted a dog, and it vanished. And this veteran hunters Muslim pop to cap, meaning it didn't fire. But now he's beginning to plan for his final hunt. And if he doesn't kill it, he's leaving Arkansas, or maybe he'll be dead. It's unclear. Then I told my neighbors on that Monday morning, name in the day that I would start that bar and bring him home with me. Or they might divide by settlement among them, the owner having disappeared. Well, stranger on that morning, previous to the great day of my hunting expedition, I went into the Woods near my house, taking my gun and bowing off along just from habit, and they're sitting down also from habit. What should I see? Getting over my fence, but the bar. Yes, the Obama was within a hundred yards of me. And the way he walked over that fence. Stranger, he loomed up like a black mist and he seemed so large. He walked right towards me. I raised myself, took deliberate aim and fired. Instantly, the var wield and gave Yale and walked through the fence like a fallen tree wood through a cobweb. I started after, but was tripped up by my inexpressible, which either from habit or the excitement of the moment we're about my heels. And before I had really gathered myself up, I heard the environment grown in a thicket nearby like a thousand sinners. And by the time I reached him, he was a corpse. Stranger, it took 5 men and myself to put that carcass on a mule's back. An old long hair's waddled under his load, and if he was foundered in every leg of his body, and with a common whopper of a bar, he would have trotted off and enjoyed himself. Wouldn't astonish you to know how big he was. I made a bed spread of his skin. In the way it used to cover my bar mattress and leave several feet on each side to tuck up, would have delighted you. It was in fact a creation bar, and if it had lived in Samson's time, and if it had met him, in a fair fight, it would have licked him in the twinkling of a dice box. But stranger, I never liked the way a hundred him and missed him. There's something curious about it. I never could understand. And I never was satisfied at his given in so easily at last. Perhaps he had heard of my preparations to hunt him the next day, so he just come in like captain Scott's coon to save his win to grunt with and die in. But that ain't likely. My private opinion is that the bar was an unhung bar and died when his time had come. The bear was grown in like a thousand sinners. I'm impressed that Thorpe knew that a black bear is one of the few animals that we hunt on the planet that has a death moan, a double long shot bear, one that dies quickly, will often give a loud sometimes spooky elongated groan that can be heard a great distance. I'm talking like a couple hundred yards. It usually lasts longer than you think it should, and it's a sure sign of the bear's death. For a bear hunter, it's a bewildering moment of internal conflict as the excitement of certain success, wars with a sobriety delivered by the beast grandstanding auditory expression of death. Both feelings are usually of equal measure. Dog it also suggests that the bear heard his plans for his hunt and basically turned himself in. The sounds like a sensational thought, but in the book make prayers to the Raven by Richard Kate Nelson. We learned that the co Yukon people of Alaska believed the black bear was near the apex of spiritual power in the natural world. They believed that when a person plans a bear hunt, they should be careful not to speak directly about their hunt plans because the bear will hear them and avoid being killed. A hunter must speak in code using vague terms if he wishes to invite others or discuss hunting plans. And dog it suggests that this creation bear may have heard him. The death of a hunted bear is regarded with such ceremony with the ko yakan that its second only to a human funeral. They regarded bear mate as a delicacy, but killing one was a, quote, quest for prestige, and a high expression of manhood. This is similar to what bear hunting became in the south. And I hope you caught it, but doggett says that the bear was a creation bar, which is the same descriptor he used to describe Arkansas, the creation state. This is a spiritual place and beast. No one I've talked to really knows exactly what he meant. It's mysterious, but the climax of the story is that dog it says the bar was an unable bar that died when his time had come. Almost as if his death had been scripted in the hunter had nothing to do with it. The story is now handed back to our New Orleans traveler and he describes the peculiar response of the big bar. When the story was ended, our hero set some minutes with his auditors in grave silence. I saw there was a mystery to him connected with the bear, whose death he had just related and had evidently made a strong impression on his mind. It was also evident that there was some superstitious awe connected with the affair, a feeling common with all children of the wood when they meet with anything out of their everyday experience. He was the first one, however, to break the silence, and jumping up, he asked all present to liquor before going to bed. A thing which he did with a number of his companions evidently to his heart's content. Long before day, I was put ashore at my place of destination and I can only follow with the reader and imagination. Our Arkansas friend and his adventures at the forks of the cypress on the Mississippi.
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"And there he set I and them as quiet as a pond in low water. A greenhorn friend of mine and company reached shooting distance before me and blazed away, hitting the critter in the center of the forehead. The bar shook his head as the ball struck it, and then walked down from that tree as gently as a lady would from a carriage. It was a beautiful sight to see him do that. He was in such a rage that he seemed to be as little afraid of the dogs as if they had been suckling pigs. In the dogs weren't slow and making a ring around him at a respectful distance. I tell you, even Bowie knife himself stood off. Then the way his eyes flashed, while the fire of them would have singed a cat's hair. In fact, that bar was in a wrath all over. Only one pup came near him, and he was brushed out so to tally with the bears left Paul that he entirely disappeared. And that made the old dogs even more cautious still. In the meantime, I came up and taken deliberate aim as a man should do at his side just at the back of the foreleg if my gun did not snap call me a coward and I won't take it personal. Yes, stranger, it snapped and I could not find a cap about my person. His eyes flashed with such fire, it would have scorched a cap. And we now see that this is no ordinary bear. He swatted a dog, and it vanished. And this veteran hunters Muslim pop to cap, meaning it didn't fire. But now he's beginning to plan for his final hunt. And if he doesn't kill it, he's leaving Arkansas, or maybe he'll be dead. It's unclear. Then I told my neighbors on that Monday morning, name in the day that I would start that bar and bring him home with me. Or they might divide by settlement among them, the owner having disappeared. Well, stranger on that morning, previous to the great day of my hunting expedition, I went into the Woods near my house, taking my gun and bowing off along just from habit, and they're sitting down also from habit. What should I see? Getting over my fence, but the bar. Yes, the Obama was within a hundred yards of me. And the way he walked over that fence. Stranger, he loomed up like a black mist and he seemed so large. He walked right towards me. I raised myself, took deliberate aim and fired. Instantly, the var wield and gave Yale and walked through the fence like a fallen tree wood through a cobweb. I started after, but was tripped up by my inexpressible, which either from habit or the excitement of the moment we're about my heels. And before I had really gathered myself up, I heard the environment grown in a thicket nearby like a thousand sinners. And by the time I reached him, he was a corpse. Stranger, it took 5 men and myself to put that carcass on a mule's back. An old long hair's waddled under his load, and if he was foundered in every leg of his body, and with a common whopper of a bar, he would have trotted off and enjoyed himself. Wouldn't astonish you to know how big he was. I made a bed spread of his skin. In the way it used to cover my bar mattress and leave several feet on each side to tuck up, would have delighted you. It was in fact a creation bar, and if it had lived in Samson's time, and if it had met him, in a fair fight, it would have licked him in the twinkling of a dice box. But stranger, I never liked the way a hundred him and missed him. There's something curious about it. I never could understand. And I never was satisfied at his given in so easily at last. Perhaps he had heard of my preparations to hunt him the next day, so he just come in like captain Scott's coon to save his win to grunt with and die in. But that ain't likely. My private opinion is that the bar was an unhung bar and died when his time had come. The bear was grown in like a thousand sinners. I'm impressed that Thorpe knew that a black bear is one of the few animals that we hunt on the planet that has a death moan, a double long shot bear, one that dies quickly, will often give a loud sometimes spooky elongated groan that can be heard a great distance. I'm talking like a couple hundred yards. It usually lasts longer than you think it should, and it's a sure sign of the bear's death. For a bear hunter, it's a bewildering moment of internal conflict as the excitement of certain success, wars with a sobriety delivered by the beast grandstanding auditory expression of death. Both feelings are usually of equal measure. Dog it also suggests that the bear heard his plans for his hunt and basically turned himself in. The sounds like a sensational thought, but in the book make prayers to the Raven by Richard Kate Nelson. We learned that the co Yukon people of Alaska believed the black bear was near the apex of spiritual power in the natural world. They believed that when a person plans a bear hunt, they should be careful not to speak directly about their hunt plans because the bear will hear them and avoid being killed. A hunter must speak in code using vague terms if he wishes to invite others or discuss hunting plans. And dog it suggests that this creation bear may have heard him. The death of a hunted bear is regarded with such ceremony with the ko yakan that its second only to a human funeral. They regarded bear mate as a delicacy, but killing one was a, quote, quest for prestige, and a high expression of manhood. This is similar to what bear hunting became in the south. And I hope you caught it, but doggett says that the bear was a creation bar, which is the same descriptor he used to describe Arkansas, the creation state. This is a spiritual place and beast. No one I've talked to really knows exactly what he meant. It's mysterious, but the climax of the story is that dog it says the bar was an unable bar that died when his time had come. Almost as if his death had been scripted in the hunter had nothing to do with it. The story is now handed back to our New Orleans traveler and he describes the peculiar response of the big bar. When the story was ended, our hero set some minutes with his auditors in grave silence. I saw there was a mystery to him connected with the bear, whose death he had just related and had evidently made a strong impression on his mind. It was also evident that there was some superstitious awe connected with the affair, a feeling common with all children of the wood when they meet with anything out of their everyday experience. He was the first one, however, to break the silence, and jumping up, he asked all present to liquor before going to bed. A thing which he did with a number of his companions evidently to his heart's content. Long before day, I was put ashore at my place of destination and I can only follow with the reader and imagination. Our Arkansas friend and his adventures at the forks of the cypress on the Mississippi.
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A greenhorn friend of mine and company reached shooting distance before me and blazed away, hitting the critter in the center of the forehead. The bar shook his head as the ball struck it, and then walked down from that tree as gently as a lady would from a carriage. It was a beautiful sight to see him do that. He was in such a rage that he seemed to be as little afraid of the dogs as if they had been suckling pigs. In the dogs weren't slow and making a ring around him at a respectful distance. I tell you, even Bowie knife himself stood off. Then the way his eyes flashed, while the fire of them would have singed a cat's hair. In fact, that bar was in a wrath all over. Only one pup came near him, and he was brushed out so to tally with the bears left Paul that he entirely disappeared. And that made the old dogs even more cautious still. In the meantime, I came up and taken deliberate aim as a man should do at his side just at the back of the foreleg if my gun did not snap call me a coward and I won't take it personal. Yes, stranger, it snapped and I could not find a cap about my person. His eyes flashed with such fire, it would have scorched a cap. And we now see that this is no ordinary bear. He swatted a dog, and it vanished. And this veteran hunters Muslim pop to cap, meaning it didn't fire. But now he's beginning to plan for his final hunt. And if he doesn't kill it, he's leaving Arkansas, or maybe he'll be dead. It's unclear. Then I told my neighbors on that Monday morning, name in the day that I would start that bar and bring him home with me. Or they might divide by settlement among them, the owner having disappeared. Well, stranger on that morning, previous to the great day of my hunting expedition, I went into the Woods near my house, taking my gun and bowing off along just from habit, and they're sitting down also from habit. What should I see? Getting over my fence, but the bar. Yes, the Obama was within a hundred yards of me. And the way he walked over that fence. Stranger, he loomed up like a black mist and he seemed so large. He walked right towards me. I raised myself, took deliberate aim and fired. Instantly, the var wield and gave Yale and walked through the fence like a fallen tree wood through a cobweb. I started after, but was tripped up by my inexpressible, which either from habit or the excitement of the moment we're about my heels. And before I had really gathered myself up, I heard the environment grown in a thicket nearby like a thousand sinners. And by the time I reached him, he was a corpse. Stranger, it took 5 men and myself to put that carcass on a mule's back. An old long hair's waddled under his load, and if he was foundered in every leg of his body, and with a common whopper of a bar, he would have trotted off and enjoyed himself. Wouldn't astonish you to know how big he was. I made a bed spread of his skin. In the way it used to cover my bar mattress and leave several feet on each side to tuck up, would have delighted you. It was in fact a creation bar, and if it had lived in Samson's time, and if it had met him, in a fair fight, it would have licked him in the twinkling of a dice box. But stranger, I never liked the way a hundred him and missed him. There's something curious about it. I never could understand. And I never was satisfied at his given in so easily at last. Perhaps he had heard of my preparations to hunt him the next day, so he just come in like captain Scott's coon to save his win to grunt with and die in. But that ain't likely. My private opinion is that the bar was an unhung bar and died when his time had come. The bear was grown in like a thousand sinners. I'm impressed that Thorpe knew that a black bear is one of the few animals that we hunt on the planet that has a death moan, a double long shot bear, one that dies quickly, will often give a loud sometimes spooky elongated groan that can be heard a great distance. I'm talking like a couple hundred yards. It usually lasts longer than you think it should, and it's a sure sign of the bear's death. For a bear hunter, it's a bewildering moment of internal conflict as the excitement of certain success, wars with a sobriety delivered by the beast grandstanding auditory expression of death. Both feelings are usually of equal measure. Dog it also suggests that the bear heard his plans for his hunt and basically turned himself in. The sounds like a sensational thought, but in the book make prayers to the Raven by Richard Kate Nelson. We learned that the co Yukon people of Alaska believed the black bear was near the apex of spiritual power in the natural world. They believed that when a person plans a bear hunt, they should be careful not to speak directly about their hunt plans because the bear will hear them and avoid being killed. A hunter must speak in code using vague terms if he wishes to invite others or discuss hunting plans. And dog it suggests that this creation bear may have heard him. The death of a hunted bear is regarded with such ceremony with the ko yakan that its second only to a human funeral. They regarded bear mate as a delicacy, but killing one was a, quote, quest for prestige, and a high expression of manhood. This is similar to what bear hunting became in the south. And I hope you caught it, but doggett says that the bear was a creation bar, which is the same descriptor he used to describe Arkansas, the creation state. This is a spiritual place and beast. No one I've talked to really knows exactly what he meant. It's mysterious, but the climax of the story is that dog it says the bar was an unable bar that died when his time had come. Almost as if his death had been scripted in the hunter had nothing to do with it. The story is now handed back to our New Orleans traveler and he describes the peculiar response of the big bar.
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It was a beautiful sight to see him do that. He was in such a rage that he seemed to be as little afraid of the dogs as if they had been suckling pigs. In the dogs weren't slow and making a ring around him at a respectful distance. I tell you, even Bowie knife himself stood off. Then the way his eyes flashed, while the fire of them would have singed a cat's hair. In fact, that bar was in a wrath all over. Only one pup came near him, and he was brushed out so to tally with the bears left Paul that he entirely disappeared. And that made the old dogs even more cautious still. In the meantime, I came up and taken deliberate aim as a man should do at his side just at the back of the foreleg if my gun did not snap call me a coward and I won't take it personal. Yes, stranger, it snapped and I could not find a cap about my person. His eyes flashed with such fire, it would have scorched a cap. And we now see that this is no ordinary bear. He swatted a dog, and it vanished. And this veteran hunters Muslim pop to cap, meaning it didn't fire. But now he's beginning to plan for his final hunt. And if he doesn't kill it, he's leaving Arkansas, or maybe he'll be dead. It's unclear. Then I told my neighbors on that Monday morning, name in the day that I would start that bar and bring him home with me. Or they might divide by settlement among them, the owner having disappeared. Well, stranger on that morning, previous to the great day of my hunting expedition, I went into the Woods near my house, taking my gun and bowing off along just from habit, and they're sitting down also from habit. What should I see? Getting over my fence, but the bar. Yes, the Obama was within a hundred yards of me. And the way he walked over that fence. Stranger, he loomed up like a black mist and he seemed so large. He walked right towards me. I raised myself, took deliberate aim and fired. Instantly, the var wield and gave Yale and walked through the fence like a fallen tree wood through a cobweb. I started after, but was tripped up by my inexpressible, which either from habit or the excitement of the moment we're about my heels. And before I had really gathered myself up, I heard the environment grown in a thicket nearby like a thousand sinners. And by the
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"For me. Back to our story, the New Orleans traveler has now heard the big bar mentioned bears. So he asked if he hunts them and dog it quickly brings up his two favorite things. His gun and his dog. The way I hunt them, the old black rascals know the crack of my gun as well as they know a pig squealing. They grow thin in our parts at frightens them so, and they do take the noise dreadfully, poor things. That gun of mine is an epidemic among bar. If not watch closely, it will go off as quick on a warm scent as my dog Bowie knife will. And then that dog. Whoo. Why the fella thinks that the world is full of berry finds him so easy. It's lucky he don't talk as well as think for with his natural modesty if he should suddenly learn how much he is acknowledged to be ahead of all other dogs in the universe. He would be astonished to death in two minutes. Strangers, that dog knows the bar's way as well as a horse jockey knows a woman's. He always barks at the right time, bites at the exact place and whips without getting a scratch. I never could tell whether he was made expressly to hunt bar or whether a bar was made expressly for him to hunt. I hope you're beginning to hear the colorful way dog at speaks. What made this story so famous was the brilliant dialect capture by Thorpe. Dog its dog, Bowie enough, was so good, it isn't clear whether he was made to hunt bear or the bear was made for him to hunt. What a brilliant thought. This man was a genius. The big bar was a larger than life character, articulate, and opinionated. He proclaims his gun as an epidemic amongst bears, and Bowie knife, who is naturally modest, but is the best bear dog on Planet Earth is kept humble only because he can't talk. With his verbose Ness, the big bar is setting himself up to be one of those most interesting men in the world characters. The passengers are mesmerized and shocked that the life he's revealing, one that is more complex and interesting than their own. And I haven't even mentioned the wildly risque and suggestive horse jockey metaphor. We'll talk about this in a minute with doctor Cochran. Now our narrator asked dog it for a bar hunting story. In this manner of the evening was spent, but conscious that my own association was so singular, a personage would probably end before the morning. I asked him if he would not give me a description of some particular bear hunt. Adding that I took great interest in such things, though I was no sportsman. The desire seemed to please him, and he squared himself around towards me. Saying that he could give me an idea of a bar hunt that was never beaten this world or in any other. His manner was so singular that half of his story consisted in his excellent way of telling it the great peculiarity of which was the happy manner he had of emphasizing the prominent parts of his conversation as near as I can recollect. I have italicized them and given the story in his own words. Stranger he said in bar hunts, I am numerous and which particular one as I say to you, I shall tell puzzles me. There was an old she devil I shot at the hurricane last fall, and then there was the old hog thief off popped over at the bloody crossing. And then, yes, I have it. I'll give you an idea of a hunt in which the greatest bar was killed that ever lived. None accepted. Our New Orleans narrator includes how striking the delivery of the story was. You can feel the intensity and passion of the big bar. This is a fictional story, but it's clear our author Thorpe had heard men like this before. Doggett is an exaggerated caricature of the half horse, half alligator men that Crockett met here. This was the early stages of the southern storyteller, speaking in dialect, being exported to broader America, which will learn, they would be highly interested in for centuries to come. Some would laugh somewhere endeared to these people, some would see them as sensational and simple minded, crude and grotesque. And some love to just have someone to sneer down their noses at. Whatever the reason, America couldn't get enough of the southern voice. The big bar, dog it is now going to tell us about the greatest bar that ever lived. None accepted. Well stranger, the first chase I ever had with that big critter, I saw him no less than three distinct times at a distance. The dogs would run him over 18 miles and broke down. And my horse gave out, and I was nearly as used up as a man could be. Made by my principal, which is patent. Before this adventure, such things were unknown to me to be possible, but strange as it was, that bear got me used to it before I was done with him, for he got so at last that he would leave me on a long chase quite easily. How he did it, I never could understand that a bar runs it all as puzzling, but how this one could tire down and bust up a pack of hounds and a horse that we're used to overhauling everything they started after no time was past my understanding. Well stranger, that bar finally got so sassy that he used to help himself to a hog off my premises whenever he wanted. The buzzards followed after what he left and so between that bar and the buzzard, I'd rather think I was out of pork. Dog it like any good storyteller is setting us up with a backstory of his hunt for a bear that will learn is un hunnable. Things had gotten personal as the sassy bear was still in pigs and could mysteriously outrun his hounds and horse. Horses and Hutton dogs are big thang down here. And his desire to kill this bear starts to affect his health. An agar is slang for the ague, which is like malaria. Well, missing that bar so often took hold of my vitals, and I was wasted away. The thing had been carried too far and it reduced me in flesh faster than an agar. And I would see that bar and everything I did. He hunted me, and that too, like a devil, which I began to think he was. While in this fix I made preparations to give him a last brush and to be done with it. Having completed everything to my satisfaction, I started at sunrise and to my great joy, I discovered from the way the dogs ran that they were near him. Finding his trail was nothing. For that had become his plane to the pack as a turnpike road. On we went and coming to an open country, what should I see, but the bar very leisurely ascending a hill in the dog's close at his heels, either a match for him this time in speed or else he did not care to get out of their way. I do not know which, but wasn't he a beauty,
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"And who appear to gain a livelihood simply by going up and down the river in pursuit of pleasure or business. I have frequently found myself in such a crowd. In the beginning of our story, the listener finds himself on a Mississippi River boat, headed north out of New Orleans. This wasn't America's first riverboat tale, but it was close, and the cultural atmospherics were beyond interesting to people in the east, hungry for tales of frontier life. The region's west of the Mississippi were mysterious and in some ways a blank slate to Americans. But nothing on this planet can sit long without being labeled. Like a cockle bird cotton britches identity has barbs and attaches itself and won't let go. But no one knew how much these early stories would stick. We're reading a story called the big bear of Arkansas written in 1841 by New Yorker named Thomas bang's Thorpe, who moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1837 for health reasons. He was a painter and an author known for his ability to describe nature and even though he was new to the south. He was enamored with folk speech and was gifted at capturing the dialect of his subjects. The big bear story would become the greatest by far story of this genre of rioting called Southwest humor later will learn how influential it was on the young state Arkansas. And yep, I am foreshadowing. Y'all remember when that iTunes reviewers set up foreshadowed too much. In this first section, Thorpe used colorful phrases to describe the man of the Mississippi River valley. One that had been heard before, spoken by none other than David Crockett himself. While passing through Arkansas in 1835, he said at a public speech in Little Rock that was recorded in a newspaper, he said, if I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are the real half horse, half alligator breeds such as gross nowhere else on the face of the universal earth. It's interesting that Thorpe used Crockett's exact words. Anyway, we're about to be back on the riverboat in our narrator an anonymous city slicker from New Orleans is about to introduce us to an interesting character. While I was thus busily employed in reading in my companions were more busily still employed and discussing such subjects as suited their humorous best, we were startled most unexpectedly by loud Indian whoop uttered in the social hall and that part of the cabin fitted off for a bar then was to be heard a loud crowing, which would not have continued to interested us such sounds being quite common in that place of spirits, alcohol, had not the hero of these windy accomplishments, stuck his head into the cabin and hallooed out who ra for the big bear of Arkansas. And then might be heard a confused hum of voices. This continued interruption attracted the attention of everyone in the cabin. All conversation dropped and in the midst of this surprise, the big bar walked into the cabin, took a chair, put his feet up on the stove, looking back over his shoulder past the general and familiar salute of strangers. How are you? He then expressed himself at home as much as if he had been in the forks of the Cyprus, and perhaps a little more so. Some of the company at this familiarity looked a little angry and some astonished, but in a moment every face was read in a smile. There was something about the intruder that won the heart on sight. He appeared to be a man and joined perfect health and contentment. His eyes were a sparkling as diamonds and good natured to simplicity. Then his perfect confidence in himself was irresistibly droll. The word droll means curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement. I had to look that up. This riding is now over a 180 years old and I find myself lost at times, but by the next sentence, I'm usually understanding again. You might be the same. The author is setting the context for our story. A riverboat is full of strangers from all over the country when a loud charismatic and unusually likeable man enters the cabin introducing himself as the big bar of Arkansas. The author spells the word like he wants us to say it. BAR pronounced like an iron bar with a little more belly in it, bar. Many in the south still say it this way today. Later, we'll learn that our storytellers given name is Jim Dogg. He goes on to tell a story about killing a 40 pound turkey and how plant and corn in Arkansas is dangerous because he once had a Sal hog fall asleep on some corn seed and the percussion of its sprouting killed her. He then says, I don't plan anymore. Nature intended Arkansas for a hunting ground, and I go according to nature. A passenger then asks in disbelief. Where did all this happen again? Here's dogging. Where did all that happened asked a cynical hoosier happen? It happened in Arkansas. Where else could it have happened? But in the creation state, the finishing up country, a state where the soil runs deep to the center of the earth, and the government gives you a title to every inch of it. Then it's airs, just breathe them, and they'll make you snort like a horse. It's a state without fault, it is. Dog it, the big bar describes Arkansas, which he spells with a W at the end as a state without fault. The creation state, the finishing up country. Its meaning is a complete mystery, but it's clear he knows something we don't. The descriptor is clearly spiritual, almost as if God created Arkansas first and the rest of the world resulted from its wake. Americans on the frontier were heavily influenced by Native Americans, and this was particularly strong in the Mississippi River delta region of eastern Arkansas where the fictional character dogged lived. Many tribes had site specific religions and believed their homelands to be the center of the world. I'm speculating, but dogged doctrine doesn't mesh with western religious doctrine. Arkansas became a state in 1836, just 5 years prior to this writing. Some of the first reporting of the Arkansas territory going back to America was in the 1820s from a dead gum, New York Yankee and I'm not talking about a baseball player, but a real Yankee named Henry rose schoolcraft who despised the people he met here and spoke extremely critical of their backwards grubby crude frontier lives. To this day, schoolcraft's demeaning account still sting a little. It's interesting that Thorpe chose for his fictional character dog it to be so certain that this Arkansas spelled with a W was a place without fault. We're going to learn that they were actually making fun of us. And this could easily be traced to a trend in the 20th century. And I'm saying us because I'll have you know that my great, great, great, great grandfather Thomas James Newcomb came to Arkansas via Kentucky in the early 1830s. So this whole thing is close