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Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1267. Xbox Leaks Crypto Wallet | Microsoft x Meta Web3 Analysis
"All right, so big news in the industry today, we're going to break it all down for you. This is all about the Microsoft leak documents and its connection to crypto. So this is an important one. If you are interested in crypto at all, even if you're not a gamer, you want to stay around for this one. It's going to be a good one. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back into Tech Path. Let's get into it today. And I do want to thank our sponsor, and that is Tangem. If you guys are looking at self -custody, this is one of the tools that I like. And it's a great tool because it's utilizing a card system that is basically an NFC device. If you go over to their website, you can learn a little bit more about the Tangem wallet. And if you decide you want to get one, there's a couple of options you've got. You can go right in and get their most recent one, which is the new Tangem wallet releasing here in early October. And then, or possibly even go in and get your classic wallet. The cool thing with the new one is you're going to have the optional seed phrase among some other things. Now, one of the questions that I'm asked often is, how secure is this, Paul? Is it? Because in many cases, if you've had NFC cards, you know, there's these technologies out there that are able to breach these. And Tangem tweeted something that was happening over at one of their events. And this is a product called Flipper Zero, which Flipper Zero, let me kind of play this for you guys real quick, and it'll show you real quick. So the wallet here, let's try reading his NFC. So, reads it, but it can't parse the data. So, let's go ahead... All right, so what Flipper Z does is essentially can analyze any NFC, most NFC, and able to pull the data right from the card. They were unable to crack the wallet right here on Tangem. So they showed that example. So if you guys are interested in security, and that's your thing, and it should be anytime you do self -currency, this may be a solution for you. Make sure and use our discount code, it's down in the links below. All right, so let's get into a couple of points, starting with this news right here. Leaked documents show that Microsoft recently explored the idea of supporting crypto wallets on Xbox consoles. Do you think this next console or software update will include support for crypto? This was actually from Forbes, where they were talking about the leaked documents, showed an Xbox roadmap from May of 2022 that included support for crypto wallets. Now, this is pretty big. Now, there's a lot here that supports this. Other than the leaked documents, we'll break into all of that for you guys as well. And also what its potential is. Now, this was a tweet we put out back in March of this year, March 18th. We put out this, Ethereum and NFT wallets coming directly to Microsoft Edge browser. Browser -based games are about to get a helping hand from the most powerful tech company in the world, being Microsoft. And then we showed the actual function of it, and I'll zoom in and on that. Right there is the crypto wallet integration. This is Edge wallets, and then right there is Ethereum. So again, this is the early stages of what many of these tech companies are prepping for, which I think is going to be a war in the gaming market. Now, this has happened before with Microsoft. Remember the browser wars when Microsoft essentially was going head to head with Netscape. And at the time, Netscape had most of the market share, was doing so great, and everybody kind of counted Microsoft out. And of course, Internet Explorer came, it kind of opened up the browser wars, Google came in behind that and pretty much took most of the market share. But the point is that Microsoft is making some moves. Here was a good example. Here was Azure, NFT solution accelerator. So this again also ties into Microsoft and the use of platforms like Ethereum. So more data kind of showing in where exactly their strategy is going. If you look at the Fortune 100 Web3 investors by number of deals, Citibank, Goldman, IBM, Google, Microsoft, number 15 right there. So you can see this is getting pretty interesting right here when it comes to the major companies understanding where this is going. Now, most of this has been mostly on the institutional side, which is reasonable and understandable. But I think Google and Microsoft are definitely out here in front. Now, the question will be is, how does this play into the rest of the market? Here's some examples of some companies, let me kind of zoom in on this for you guys, of some companies already making a lot of Web3 moves. Obviously, Microsoft with Activision, their acquisition positions Microsoft to build metaverse capabilities. You've got Meta and Imagine PTIX, PayPal and Curve. You can see there's a lot of companies in here that have really started to connect the dots here. Nike Artifact, we've covered it extensively. And then obviously, Apple, we'll see how that goes with their virtual worlds on the avatar side. The other things that I think when we get into this, if you think about, well, is Microsoft ready for this? And I think one of the things that Microsoft, a lot of people don't realize this, they have learned their lesson of these early -stage growth markets. And what I mean by that, this is a statement that goes all the way back into, you know, Wikipedia land. And ironically, I worked for Microsoft at the time when all this was going on. And this was by Bill Gates, where he simply said, this is also famous that the internet were not interested in it. This was a quote from Bill Gates in 1993. Let me kind of zoom in on that for you guys. And the internet, you know, we're not really interested in. And the reason I know this is because when I was working with Microsoft, you know, as a young tech guy, I was thinking, oh my God, this internet thing is going to be an absolute barnstorm. We're going to see an unbelievable growth, unbelievable innovation. And the teams that I was working for, all of my uppers, were essentially saying, don't worry about it. We're going to focus on OS and the future of the, you know, the WordSuite and all the utilities and productivity tools. And I couldn't believe it that that was happening, but it did. And I think Microsoft has learned something from that history in being too late to an early -stage market. And that, I think, is where we're going right now. When I go to this next clip right here, it gets into the Xbox history because they also almost lost the war. Listen in. The Xbox One was a byproduct of a lost and misguided Microsoft, which did not have the interest of gamers at heart. All we heard was TV, TV, sports TV, TV, TV, followed by horribly disconnected attempts at salvaging a situation where irreparable damage had already been done. Fortunately, we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity. It's called Xbox 360. Stick with 360. That's your message. Well, if you have zero access to the Internet. Meanwhile, its opposition went on from strength to strength, using Xbox's missteps to enhance its position. Xbox went on to lose its stronghold in two key regions, the United Kingdom and more critically, the United States. At the time, all this seemed like a near impossible task. Many were talking about the possible disappearance of Xbox from the gaming space altogether. It nearly happened. But instead, in comes in Phil Spencer, the newly appointed head of Xbox. All right, so Spencer was kind of the Messiah there and understanding the challenge that he was up against in terms of being able to go against, you know, makers like Sony, etc., that really kind of dominated the gaming space. The Activision deal was so critical for their success going forward, especially in the gaming sector. But now the question is, how do they maybe one up their competition? Because there is a new innovation land that is pretty much untouched. It's a brand new area called Web3 and what we'll see with the use case of crypto and NFTs. All of this is about to crack into what I think is going to happen in the gaming sector right now. If you look at this next clip, which is where Spencer talks a little bit more about creators and this is why I think we can draw the conclusion. Let's go to a clip by Phil Spencer on creators and why this is important. Listen. So that's why Xbox is interested in, you know, going down this road hand in hand with Activision as a king. But what's the benefit to gamers and creators and if possible, is that maybe an angle in the UK that benefits them? In the end, it's all about player and creator benefit. Like we know that as building a platform, if our players aren't finding great games to play and if our creators don't feel like they can build the best games and find players for those games, like nothing else matters. Because we're trying to create a larger marketplace for people who are building games across more screens. Different business models help players and it helps creators as well. And that's our job. And in the end, this has to benefit players and creators or it hasn't been successful for Xbox. I think his statement right there of benefiting creators in the end is critical to the overall strategy of how Xbox is going to go. Xbox and Microsoft are going to go forward and the tie into Web3 and NFTs is going to open up a whole new, not only creator community, but also a creator industry in terms of revenue, business models. All those kind of things are going to really advance in Web3 and I think that is the scenario that Xbox, with these leaked documents, might be setting up along with Microsoft. If you look at what's happening though with Meta, obviously Meta Connect this week, they had something that was kind of interesting. And that was the fact in this little promo, they actually put in a statement in there and the first look at what's next for the metaverse. So they're still using the term. They still see the potential here. And the predictions of what Meta is going to be doing and what Mark Zuckerberg is going to be doing could be much bigger here. And there's some interesting correlation between Meta and Microsoft. Now, you have to think about it. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Now, think about who the enemy is here. It's most likely Apple and what is happening with Vision Pro. I think there may be a connection here that starts to set things up quite interestingly. Now, as you look at Meta, this was just a quick clip right there from something that Zuckerberg posted. And part of this was really the fact that most likely we're going to see something dropping from Lego in connection with Meta. So again, most likely a lot of new stuff dropping, most likely we're going to see some hardware. And what I'm really interested in is what does that roadmap look for with all of these new devices and potentially new experiences coming to Meta. And we'll find out on the Connect Event. Let's go over to this next clip. This is getting into Game Pass and how this connection into VR works, especially tied into what was happening during this leak. Listen in. We have waited so long for Xbox to finally come to our Quest headsets. And while none other than Mark Zuckerberg made a huge promise that Game Pass would be coming soon to the Quest 2, Microsoft leaked some very important documents that showed their interest and plans for upcoming VR products, with them mentioning that they see XR as their future opportunity, even so much that Xbox can leverage it to build its next -gen platform for immersive apps and games. But probably the most important one noted that Microsoft wanted to expand its hardware portfolios to include complete new categories pointing towards VR devices.
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"Is good for Beijing and bad for Detroit. Unlock American energy, drill, frack, burn coal, embrace nuclear energy. Joe Biden should not be on the picket line. He should be on the southern border working to close our southern border. Donya Backish, PBS News, Simi Valley, California. Donald Trump wasn't at the debate. Former president saying he supports autoworkers, but he also said if the transition to electric vehicles go ahead, those workers will lose their jobs. It's a transition to electric vehicles go ahead. But no union official actually attended the rally. Jeff Gilbert, CBS News, Detroit. Unionized culinary workers, bartenders and housekeepers in Las Vegas have voted overwhelmingly to authorize the strikes, says CBS's Elise Preston. Behind the scenes, there are tens of who thousands cook the meals, mix the drinks and clean the sweets. We're struggling. It's not easy. 40 ,000 hospitality workers are ready to walk out, claiming low pay staffing shortages and safety issues. He crossed into North Korea from South Korea two months ago. Now the American soldier, Travis King, is back in U .S. custody, says CBS's Elizabeth Palmer. Why North Korea's leader Kim Jong -un decided to deport King now is a mystery, but the U .S. says there were no strings attached. We did not give them anything. We made no concessions as a part of securing his return. That was State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. The threat of a major earthquake hitting Seattle may be greater than thought. The state sits Bill Gates has topped dozens of active faults, many of which run underneath its major cities. The Washington State Department of on resources, natural says the state experiences earthquakes nearly every day. CBS's Jim Krasula, a NASA astronaut, and two Russians are now back on Earth after being stuck in space. For just over a year, year ago. Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching. that had been rushed up as a replacement. The extended mission means that Frank Rubio now holds the record for longest spaceflight by an American. He and his crewmates should have been returned last spring from the International Space Station, but their flight ended up being in doubled length after their original capsule was hit by space junk and leaked all of its This is CBS News. If you need to hire, you need Indeed, because Indeed's all -in one hiring solution helps you attract, interview and hire candidates all from one place. Visit Indeed .com Nobody slash brings you more value in fine jewelry than Diamonds Direct, and they're proving it again by rolling back interest rates to zero percent. But you need to hurry. Now through Sunday only, you can make any purchase and spread your payments over five years with an unheard of interest rate of 0 .0%. A $6 ,000
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from "Spirit of Satoshi" - The World's First Bitcoin-Centric AI with Aleks Svetski - September 5th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right. Good morning, all you Cafe Bitcoiners. How are you guys doing? Morning, Peter, morning, Zombae, Mickey, Jacob, shout out to Joe Carlisari in the audience, Mitchell, Robert, and all you regulars who come in here. Appreciate you guys. Good morning, Alex. Can you feel it? Can I feel what? We're winning. Telling you we're winning. We're winning? Yeah, we're fucking winning. Why do you say we're winning? I can feel the tide. I can feel the tide changing. I can feel the I can feel it in the air. I can feel it in the in in the the energy that is coming from from the people. I don't know. I can just feel it. We're winning. Be more specific. What do you what are in what area are we winning? Is Bitcoin winning? Is adoption winning? Is the cultural shift winning? Like what's happening here? What are you talking about? The cultural shift is winning. I mean, if we get outside of our of our echo chamber and really start to listen to what is going on in the general populace, it just really feels like we are winning. There is it is we the turning is happening. Give me some examples of what you mean. Oh, my God, what are you saying? Well, look, I'm my opinion, not trying to look, it's just a positive opinion. First thing in the morning, I wake up and I just can feel it in the air. OK, first of all, I'm not trying to exasperate you and I'm not trying to say that it's not true. I'm trying to say, tell us why you think this so that the audience can hear you and understand why you're seeing why you're coming to this conclusion. Because I'm really starting to hear people question things that I haven't in my lifetime heard them question before. Well, it's not that I haven't heard them question. I haven't heard as many people questioning the same thing. They're questioning what our government is doing. They're questioning what fiscal policy is. They're questioning what's happening in the world. They're looking around, they're waking up and they're starting to ask questions. And when you start to get critical thinking in on mass, I think it changes the direction of of society. I think it really it really starts to to to push communities to to look inward and figure out how they can provide for and make them make their their communities better. And, you know, it's just it's things like what's what's going on in Maui, what's going on in in in in Burning Man, what's going on with the things that are happening behind the scenes, this whole mosquito thing with with Bill Gates. I mean, it's just like there's just weird. Yeah, what's that all about? I said, yeah, what's that all about? I don't know, but but that's my point is, is that I'm starting to see I'm starting to see questioning of these kinds of things from places that I hadn't seen it before.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Who Is Worse? Blackrock Or The Catholic Church (Biggest Money Cartel In History)
"Are you ready to wage a war without end against you? Are you ready to wage that war armed with nothing but bottomless poverty? I didn't think so. In that case, stop talking bullshit. And get yourself some shoes, because the air in here is unbreathable. Money corrupts, and that's not news. Today, it's Black Rock, Vanguard, and State Street. But not too long ago, there's an entity that held even more power than those multinational conglomerates. We're going to take a step back in time to the Catholic Church of the Renaissance and learn how it basically controlled everything it touched and how the game has stayed pretty much the same through the 21st century. We may just find similarities to how banks, hedge funds, and the uber wealthy elite wield political power today. Let's get it. Now, before you get your commenting fingers twitching about how I'm being mean to Catholics, know that I'm just talking about a political institution 500 years ago. I'm not talking about Catholicism as a religious practice or the church today. You do you when it comes to religion. This is America. Okay, now let's get back to the Renaissance. One big similarity the old school church has with our tradfi overlords is the emphasis on secrecy. Both institutions are shrouded in mystery. No one really knows their entire net worth or their intentions. Well, other than maintaining the status quo so they can rake in as much money as possible, both the Catholic Church and the banks have covered up scandal and corruption time after time so they can continue business as usual. Back in Da Vinci's time, there are all sorts of rumors of popes and other church officials not exactly keeping up with the Christian morals they were preaching. There is abuses of all kinds, incest, orgies, mistresses, bribery. We're not even talking about the polycule. You name the sin, the Renaissance popes were probably doing it. There is even a pope who supposedly drank children's blood. And that same corruption seems to be rampant within the banks and hedge funds in modern times. JP Morgan was found to be handling the payments between Epstein and the people he was trafficking with. In fact, the number of billionaires with connections to Epstein are startling. What were you doing on the island? And we'd probably hear more about similar corruption and scandals within Black Rock, Vanguard and State Street if they didn't own basically every news organization in the US. But we'll get to that a bit later. For now, the big boys just pay a lot of fines for doing bad things. And that brings us to the first tool you need if you want to control everything. Here's a hint. It's all about the money. Have you ever heard the phrase, money is power? Well, I'm pretty sure the Renaissance Church invented that concept. Most economists reckon the wealth of the modern day Catholic Church is actually immeasurable due to all the priceless artwork, artifacts and the money laundering going on. And the reported $30 billion net worth is still high despite countries going through a Protestant Reformation during the Renaissance and subsequently reclaiming church lands. So just imagine how much land and property the church owned back when Catholicism was the only thing on the Christian menu. Although it's really hard to know for sure just how much cash the pope was raking in during the Renaissance, economists estimate it would be a little over $40 million annually in today's terms. And remember, this income doesn't include the land or artwork they're receiving as gifts or claiming by force. This gave the pope the kind of capital countries are usually playing with. And thus, the church had the same power as monarchs. Some would argue even more. And folks, we may have ditched the funny tights and corsets or maybe you have, but we have the same kind of issue today. Vanguard, Black Creek and State Street manage almost $20 trillion, which is almost more than the U .S.'s GDP. And not only do they control more wealth than most countries in the world, those hedge funds are also managing wealth for countries, which creates a vicious, incestual cycle of corruption. Back in 2016, Forbes reported that the wealth gap is worse today than it was in the Middle Ages. And that's not very hard to believe when we know the top 1 % holds 15 times more wealth than the bottom 50 % of America. And during the COVID lockdown, the 10 richest billionaires doubled their fortunes, while 160 million people fell into poverty. So how did both the uber wealthy of the modern day and the ancient Catholic Church amass this kind of wealth? Well, the church had millions of people tithing 10 % of their income. Doesn't this sound a bit like the interest we pay banks on loans and banking fees? And 10 % is nothing in comparison to the types of interest we pay just to exist in the modern world. The highest credit card is over 30%, and most of us are paying somewhere in the 20s. And because the Fed is raising rates, other borrowing is getting more expensive, too. Student loan rates have increased, and taking out a loan to buy a home is nearly impossible these days because rates have almost tripled. mortgage rates haven't been above 6 % since the housing crisis in 2008. And yet, somehow, it's only us plebs who are paying these kinds of rates to borrow money. The corporations like BlackRock and JP Morgan take out loans with nearly 0 % interest. In fact, the wealthier you are, the less banks deem you as a risk. So you get the best rates. But in reality, this turns into a vicious cycle where the hyper wealthy hoard more money and the poor can't afford to borrow. Right now, the average interest for a personal loan is between 6 % and 36%, where the average interest for businesses is 2 % to 13%. Interest is leveraged against the average American the same way the Catholic Church used to leverage Ursary Usury is the practice of charging interest, and it used to be the biggest sin you could commit. But the church got creative with how it weaponized usury. It didn't go after wealthy banking families like the Medicis, who supplied the church with gifts and managed church money for free. The church conveniently cracked down on the practice so that the lower classes wouldn't have access to the extra capital that would give them the opportunity for upward mobility. It's wild how the past is so similar to our present. Why do you think day traders and TradFi have to keep at least $25 ,000 in their accounts? Supposedly, it's to protect the poor from the volatility of the market. But the way I see it, it's just another method of keeping smart people from changing their economic circumstances. And who do you think pressured the SEC to create that law in the first place? I'm willing to bet it was a giant money manager like State Street, Vanguard and BlackRock. They would like to have a monopoly on trading and hand all of us regular Joes a measly little 0 .01 % or whatever the bank interest is these days. I say no. And I want more than a toaster. And speaking of monopolies, the Catholic Church had a monopoly on salvation during the Renaissance, so people couldn't exactly go around negotiating that 10 % tithing rule or what exactly counted as a sin. It's really similar to how we can't really negotiate modern prices in this supposedly free market. The monopoly aspect is something the church and our wealthiest modern day corporations have in common. Look at the bank failures recently. Despite Jamie Dimon claiming the smaller banks are good for our financial ecosystem, Chase was very quick to gobble up the banks that went under. If we weren't there already, we're scarily close to a bank monopoly. Another way the Catholic Church made money was selling indulgences to rid the nobility of their sins. The Renaissance nobility were up to some shady things too and needed to be seen as moral so they could stay in power. The most corrupt nobles could buy a spot in heaven by donating land or commissioning artwork. Doesn't this feel a lot like government subsidies and contracts for major corporations? Hey, you want to look like you support green energy? Give Elon Musk millions to play with. Oh sure, Blackstone, we'll subsidize your billion dollar debt with taxpayer money because it makes us look like we're stimulating the economy. No problem. Another modern means of absolution is corporations using carbon credits to pay off their climate sins. This is how companies like Exxon have a higher ESG score than Tesla. They know who's palm to grease. Another great way to amass incomparable wealth is to be able to claim yourself as tax -free. If you can pull that off, it's an amazing feat. Just ask the NFL. Throughout history, the Catholic Church found ways to skirt taxation by the state and that practice is alive and well today. Do you think Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are paying income taxes? I hate taxes. You hate taxes. We all hate taxes. But in our current society, we pay them. And it's a little more than unfair that the wealthiest among us are acting like they're tax exempt. Both the mega wealthy and the Catholic Church of the Renaissance controlled education and access to information. So kind of like mind control. The church kept their religious texts in Latin to keep the masses from being able to access it themselves. We already talked about how they also chose a lot of their sins to maintain the status quo in social hierarchy. It's a sin if you don't hit the like button. Similarly, corporate lobbyists have forced the government to slash education funding. That combined with other factors have made tuition exorbitantly high. We already talked about the student loan issue. Most people can't even afford college anymore. And if you take your education into your own hands by trying to stay up to date on news and media, you'll quickly realize almost every media company is owned by major corporations who have BlackRock and Vanguard as their primary investors. So you can't always trust what they're telling you because they have an agenda to stay in power. That's why it's hard to find information on the full extent of the corruption of the likes of BlackRock and Vanguard. I'm sure many reporters have pitched stories that have been shut down by the shady higher -ups. But here at BitBoy Crypto, we're proud to bring you the content that can't be bought by dark Wall Street money. Finally, that brings us to the third way the church and finance sectors control the world. It's not what you know, but who you know. And you know me. And I know you know that I know you. Political wheeling and dealing. And if that doesn't work, position your family members in places of power. Every royal court and government had pupil ambassadors that would ride back and forth through the Vatican and other church lands negotiating with church officials. That sounds a lot like a very early version of a lobbyist to me. And because as the head of the church, the pope had immense power, he was able to recommend marriages, which usually involved installing a member of his family at a high position. Pope Alexander VI married his daughter, Lucretia Borgia, off three different times. He simply annulled her first marriage when her husband was no longer politically advantageous and the Borgias may or may not have been responsible for murdering Lucretia's second husband. Pope Clement VII married one of his family members, Catherine de Medici, to the future king of France, which was a helpful political alliance during a time fraught with Protestant uprisings. This should all sound very familiar because the majority of our politicians, no matter the political party, have familial or social ties to banks, hedge funds, and the uber wealthy elite. There are so many examples of this, we can't list them all, but here are a few to sink your teeth into. George W. Bush had an uncle who provided discreet banking services for people in Washington, DC, and his brother Jeb also worked in banking before politics. Then you have the Clintons, whose son -in -law is an investor at a Texas private equity firm. Trump is friends with all sorts of sketchy billionaires across the globe. And look at Jared Kushner. And then you have Biden, whose son Hunter has been a hedge fund principal, venture capitalist, private equity fund investor, and painter. And now we have even more of Jamie Dimon's shenanigans. He doesn't have enough power running the largest bank of America. He's thinking of going into politics? And remember, guys, political corruption is like an iceberg. The evidence we have is just the tip due to how good they are at covering their tracks. And the Renaissance pope's habit of just making princes is exactly what our financial overlords do today. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor out of nowhere, and Pope Alexander VI made one of the sons he had with his official mistress, a prince who supposedly inspired Machiavelli's The Prince. I don't think he inspired the artist, though. BlackRock and the likes are making princes, too. This is where we get into the modern day campaign financing, where it costs millions to be democratically elected prince. In 2016, only 158 families controlled 50 % of campaign financing. Our biggest banks spend millions on campaign financing for Republicans and Democrats every year, and that's just the money they actually report. There's a bigger, more illicit pool of dark money that controls politics. And if you think they're spending billions on these politicians just to be nice, think again. Nobody spends something for nothing. Billionaire Bernard Schwartz is quoted as saying, I don't ask politicians to do what I say. I want them to hear me when I have a problem. And according to Vanity Fair, BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink loved to go around saying that he told Washington what to do. Doesn't all this sound a bit like the Catholic Church saying, Well, you technically can do what you want, but if you don't do what I say, your soul will spend eternity in a very hot, not -so -nice place. You don't want to know where that poker goes. And now we get to number four on our list. It is better to be feared than to be loved. Also known as scare tactics. If the immense wealth, information control, and political corruption wasn't enough to scare the living daylights out of you, the Renaissance Catholic Church took it to a whole other level. The way the church portrayed hell through artwork and story was absolutely terrifying. Of course you're going to do whatever the Pope says to save yourself from eternal damnation. And the banks and hedge funds do this too. Make sure you have an IRA because if you aren't getting our measly 5 % every year, how will you possibly be able to retire? Don't worry, that number barely covers inflation on a good year. And if you don't buy things with credit cards or open a car loan and pay his interest, you won't have credit to buy a house later. And finally, this one's my favorite, guys. If you don't bail us out, the entire world will explode. We're too big to fail. And now we get to the final element you will need to succeed at controlling everything. Drum roll, please. Military power. Plato said, All wars are fought for the sake of getting money. And folks, he was probably right. The Pope would also deem certain wars holy and approve military actions. When Henry VIII left the church, the Pope excommunicated him and told his people that rising up against him was holy because he'd gone against God. Pope Alexander VI issued the Enter Saterra, which authorized Spain and Portugal to colonize, convert and enslave the Americas. And sometimes the Pope would even command armies himself. Did you know the Pope raised and commanded the army that was responsible for the Crusades? So I guess that we can be thankful that the hedge funds and banks haven't started raising their own armies. But then again, why would they when they have the entire government under their thumb and they could spend the free time bathing in gold? Today, massive corporate institutions lobby in favor of warfare because it benefits them financially. Corporations have made billions from the war in Ukraine and the Iraq war was conceived to financially benefit oil companies and their investors. Just look how much BlackRock has invested in military weapons. $56 .74 billion. And you can't tell me they don't have a financial interest in the military industrial complex. That was a lot of info, guys. And I'm impressed you stuck with us for this trip down History Lane. I don't want to leave you on a gloom and doom note, however. Here's the bright side, folks. The Protestant Reformation did come as a reaction to the Catholic Church's corruption and power. And hundreds of years later, the church is still powerful. Nowhere near as powerful as they were during the Renaissance. We have the same opportunity to throw off the yoke of the banks and hedge funds that control our current financial system and government. That's where crypto comes in. No matter how much they try to manipulate the market, they can't control our gains, especially when we think long term. Do your research. Find out who the biggest investors are in the companies you buy from and patronize smaller businesses. Take your business or credit unions instead of feeding the pockets of the giant banks. Really question what politicians are telling you and push for campaign finance reform. This is a potential future where we all are free. That's all I have for you guys. DZ out.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from GEN C: How Real Estate Is Embracing Web3 With Julie Allen, SVP of Digital and Creative at Howard Hughes
"Gen C is the generation of the new Internet. In Gen C, the C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer and collectibles, both digital and physical with on -chain provenance. It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. It stands for community and digital citizenship and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them. These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy and how they look at the hybrid, digital and physical spaces being built all around us. And finally, how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they interact with. We focus on how brands large and small are building for these audiences. Welcome to Gen C. Avery, we are back. Episode 42 of Gen C. Where does the time go? I'm coming to you from Brooklyn, New York City. Where are you? I'm at home in Miami. Look at us, both home. This is rare. Very rare. This is actually the second most popular week to take off in corporate America. The first most popular is the week between Christmas and New Year's. The second is apparently the last week in August, right leading up to Labor Day. So it's actually a nice kind of quiet week to get some work done. This is my favorite week in New York because there is nobody here. You've got the place to yourself. You can get reservations, you can get parking spaces, anything you want in New York you can get on this specific week. Well, there's been some interesting stuff happening in the world of general web three. The first one, which may be the weirdest blockchain story that I've read in a really long time, is the idea that, you know, the people who make Parmigiano cheese, which is sought after around the world, they are adding edible microchips to the cheeses so you can verify that those cheeses are authentic and they are validating them as authentic on the blockchain. So this actually, for me, was a really interesting story because this is kind of the practical use case that we had said a long time ago. This is actually a great use of blockchain. It's a public system. You can verify it. The edible microchip part, a little bit weird because I think about, you know, you're at the Italian restaurant and someone's grating that cheese over you and I'm like, how much microchip am I just getting? Right. But I did think it was sort of a fun use of the blockchain. And I guess one of my questions for you is, do you think we will see some of these kind of more boring uses, but very practical uses of blockchain coming more to supply chain dynamics to inventories around the world? Yes, I do, especially in highly sought after goods, rare goods where authentication is a real problem. So that is an interesting use case. I would be curious the durability of said chips. How exactly does that work? So I need to read further into that. But I think blockchain verification is probably the most clear use case to me of blockchain outside of crypto like Bitcoin, I would say is like the killer use case for blockchain right now. There are others and verification is one of them. I don't know about Parmesan cheese verification being a large use case. It is rather niche. 100 ,000 wheels of cheese so far have been tagged. That is an impressive number. It really is. So let's closely follow that. Let's get in touch with these cheese folks. Maybe we can ask our dear friend Mags Calla who spent a lot of time in that region this summer brushing up on her Italian. That's true. So I keep wondering about the folks who are worried that Bill Gates is tracking them, what it think that that is a case of practical innovation.
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
A highlight from AI Today Podcast: Trustworthy AI Series: Ethical AI
"The AI Today podcast, produced by Cognolytica, cuts through the hype and noise to identify what is really happening now in the world of artificial intelligence. Learn about emerging AI trends, technologies, and use cases from Cognolytica analysts and guest experts. Hello, and welcome to the AI Today podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen Walsh. And I'm your host, Ron Schmelzer. And, you know, thank you again. As you know, we've been well on our way with the Glossary Series podcast. We've had a number of great interviews as well with some great luminaries in the AI space. And we're just getting started with our trustworthy AI Series podcast. We've had a couple of podcast episodes so far. We have some more queued up and we wanted to vary it up a little bit. I think some people we hear from you, you love our Glossary Series. So a lot of you are really especially going to some of these more esoteric concepts that But they do explain what's going on. So it's very helpful. Some of you who are getting our training, our CPMI certification. Other of you who are just learning these terminologies so you can be better informed and have a good conversation. Well, but we also have heard from some of you that, you know, maybe it's time for a little change of pace. So we are trying to intersperse the glossary with more topics. And of course, this one, we're focusing more on some of the trustworthy stuff, because Making AI work in today's reality means paying attention to some of these really big issues that will kill your projects if you don't do it the right way. Exactly. And so we thought it was important to bring this trustworthy AI Series because many of the companies that we work with, we've started to talk to about this more. And I think in general, with the news, with everything that's going on. Yes, AI is, you know, seems to be in the news a lot lately and people are using it more in their everyday lives, which is wonderful. But in order to make sure that these systems really do provide the benefit that they seek, right? Because at the end of the day, that's what we're hoping for. We want to make sure that we are we are building trustworthy AI systems. And in order to do that, that means that, yes, you need to follow, you know, frameworks, learn from others and actually understand what it means. So that's why we thought it was important to bring this series. If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to AI Today. We have a lot more in this series coming up and also go back and look at some of the past episodes that we have on the Trustworthy AI Series. We'll link to that in the show notes as well, just so that you can see them all. But on today's podcast, we want to talk about the ethical AI layer of the trustworthy AI framework. And we think it's important to dive deeper into each of these levels. So in one podcast, which we'll link to, we had given an overview of all of them. But we want to dig deeper into the ethical AI layer and say, you know, why are societal ethics important for AI systems and what does that mean? Yeah, as we mentioned, there's five main layers of trustworthy AI, which encapsulates a lot of different ideas. And the reason why they're in layers is because they're not really all addressing things from that same perspective. So as Kathleen mentioned, we'll link to the podcast where we talk about those five layers. But to refresh your memory, this ethical layer really deals with issues of AI systems in society and trying not to do things that would hurt people or hurt society. And so that generally covers a bunch of ideas that we want not only systems to have, but also people, right? We want machines that will comply with the most fundamental of our human values, you know, doing no harm, right? Things like that. We don't also don't want to build systems that make whatever ethical problems we have in the world. We don't want to make them worse. We don't want to make machines that basically are the dystopian version of humanity take whatever ills we have in society and just magnify them. Certainly, we've seen a lot of science fiction movies. And when you watch the dystopian ones, that's what happens. You know, you take things to the extreme. We don't want to make systems that do that. We also want to avoid not only physical harm, that is, you know, machines that cause actual physical harm to people, but other forms of harm, you know, emotional harm, financial harm, you know, any sort of harm to their reputation, harm to their ability to get things done and live their lives. You know, we don't want to be building systems that do that. Right. And we also want to make sure that whatever AI systems we build will never be beyond our ability to control them, because if we can't control them, then, of course, we can't make sure any of these ethical systems, any of these ethical principles will happen, because if we can't control them anymore, then systems will make decisions for whatever systems will do. Ethics be gone. So at this layer, we talk about these big societal ethical issues. Exactly. And so we say, you know, do no harm. But what does that mean? We say to make AI systems trustworthy and beneficial, because, yes, we want to build trustworthy systems, but we also want to make sure that they are, you know, beneficial for a purpose, actually doing something. We always say don't do AI just for AI's sake. So if we are going to, you know, do no harm, we need to make sure that we have systems in place that can do things like, you know, we said don't cause harm. And so what does harm mean? Well, harm can be physical harm. So we definitely don't want to injure humans because of this. But we also don't want financial harm, emotional harm. And that's something that not everybody addresses, but is incredibly real. We had talked in a previous podcast about fears and concerns related to AI. You know, some of these are emotional. We want to make sure that we're not doing any emotional harm, also societal harm, environmental harm as well. A lot of people don't talk about that. And that is in this layer where we don't want to be having a negative impact on the environment for, you know, humans. We don't want to do that. And so we don't want machines to do that either. And also mental harm. So these you know, that sort of goes with emotional. But really, we want to make sure that these are beneficial. And so we're trying not to have harm. We also want to make sure that systems aren't being misused or abused. This is incredibly important and part of that trustworthy AI, you know, especially with the societal ethics, because it can be easy for people sometimes to misuse and abuse technology. And again, we had talked about, you know, we don't want this to be beyond human control. AI shouldn't systems be beyond the ability for humans to control their actions. A lot of people, especially if you have, you know, more philosophical debates on this, we talk about, you know, what happens and how do you actually control these machines? We say this isn't something that you can just unplug. There was a, you know, people talk about you can't unplug the Internet anymore. So it's out there. And how do you go about living your life with the Internet and the things that are on the Internet, whether or not you necessarily wanted them on there or intended them to be on there, you know, maybe 10, 15, 20 years later now at this point. AI systems also should provide some element of transparency and explainability. Yes, there are, you know, certain algorithms that are going to be more explainable than others. But at the end of the day, you need to be thinking about when we're saying do no harm, what what level and what element of transparency and explainability do we need in these systems and how do we go about thinking about that? So really trustworthy AI is going to require ethical AI. And that should hopefully by now you're getting it and you're saying, OK, what do I need to be thinking about when I'm thinking about ethical AI, when I'm thinking about doing no harm? How do I go about doing that? Yeah, you know, and some of it, as Kathleen mentioned, are these fears. And and certainly we can build systems that, well, cause people to be scared because people are scared about things like general intelligence, even though we don't haven't yet built any system that is capable of all the general intelligence tasks that humans are capable of. That's why we call artificial general intelligence, because we don't need to have one system that does image recognition, another system that does text to image and other system that does something else. What if we can build that one superhuman, super intelligent system that can do all these things? That's what people are scared of because, well, machines can do things that humans can't. And if you give them the intelligence that humans have, then I think we're at a little bit of a disadvantage. So there's a lot of this concern about AGI more so than there is concern about the narrow applications, even though we don't have any AGI, we only have narrow applications. Therefore, we really should be more scared of the narrow ones because that's what we have today. But people are really worried about that. They're worried about the singularity, which is this idea that at some point machines will learn how to learn and then we will never be able to catch up. You know, there's these popularized ideas in various books like, you know, Life 3 .0 or Super Intelligence or AI or Final Invention, where they talk about the paperclip optimizer, which are AI systems that are so narrowly focused on a goal that they destroy everything else. It's such a tiny, tiny risk. For a while, you know, people in the press, like notable personalities like Elon Musk and Hawking and Bill Gates were like so concerned about this that they were like, hey, guys, we got to be really worried about it. But then again, now they're building systems that are actually doing some of those bad things, which kind of makes you wonder. So really what we have to do with ethical AI, some of this has to do with just laws. But, you know, we can't count on laws because different countries have different concerns and people will always go to where things are possible. So this really has to do with putting in like logical common sense things in our applications so that we're not intentionally building the robots of destruction, even though we haven't built AGI yet. And we'd tell people have a little bit of a reality check. You'll know that we're kind of heading towards super intelligence when you can talk to your voice assistants and they're not dumb because still you talk to your voice assistants, you tell them something basic and they don't understand it. So, you know, we're really not anywhere near that. But we have to build systems that don't prey on people's fears.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Good Ranchers' Benjamin Spell Talks About the War on Meat
"This is a super important topic as you've kind of touching on. You look at Bill Gates, the synthetic meat movement. They can control you if they can control the food supply. There's a lot to this from the MRNA shots. I just want to say, I love Good Ranchers. Every one of our Shabbat dinners, we have all of our Good Ranchers meat. We run out of it pretty quick. From the chicken to the cowboy, it's amazing. By the way, riff on this for a second here, Ben. There's this movement to try to get rid of meat in our society. I think it's really damaging. It's not scientific. I think it's trying to create metrosexual beta males that are more subservient to a tyrannical government. We've been demonizing meat and especially cattle for such a long time. The people have kind of just been sitting by silently just letting it happen. We have to stop. The meat is actually good for you. Being a carnivore is what produces testosterone in men. We have to eat meat. It's what makes us men, actually. Just so everyone's clear, we don't know if it's necessarily only because of this, but testosterone rates are down like 80 % from where they were 30 or 40 years ago. The average male in his 20s or 30s has a 280 to 350 free testosterone rate where it should be between 750 and 900, just looking at the spectrum. No one wants to talk about this. If you go to Seattle and Portland, you can see it. The men are basically feminized women. I'm not saying that eating meat will solve all the problems, but it certainly won't hurt. They're also trying to get rid of meat because of climate change, too. As of January of this year, there's a little over 28 cattle million in the U .S. raised for beef. 200 years ago, there were over 60 million bison roman. My point is there were 60 million bison roman freely and there was no climate change issues. We only have half of that raised for beef in the U .S. right now. Like I said, there's just this demonization of beef. For some reason, the U .S. beef gets it worse than I don't know, places like China.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from The TRUTH about Sam Altman and WorldCoin
"Set summer in motion with the most adventurous Honda vehicles yet, like the Passport and Pilot Trail Sport and the Ridgeline, built for better off -road performance and engineered for more adventure. Summer is here. For a limited time, well -qualified buyers can get a 3 .9 % APR on a 2023 Honda Pilot, a 2 .9 % APR on a 2023 Passport and a 0 .9 % APR on a 2023 Ridgeline. Buy online, reserved from select dealers, or visit your local Honda dealer today. See dealer for financing details. My worst fears are that we cause significant. We, the field, the technology, the industry, cause significant harm to the world. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. Artificial generalized intelligence. If you haven't heard of that before, well, I'll bet you probably have even heard of or used Chat GBT, midjourney or any one of the dozens of AI tools that have been taking the world by storm this year. In this video, we're going to be taking a closer look at the man behind the curtain, the mysterious wizard of Silicon Valley, Sam Altman, and we're going to be getting to the truth about him, his companies, what they're building, and, most importantly, what it all means for you and the future of humanity. This might be the most important topic in the world right now, so we want to make sure to bring the BitSquad up to speed. Let's get it! Welcome to BitBoy Crypto! My name has been today. We're doing a deep dive on the king of AI, Sam Altman, finding out what this awkward -looking startup junkie is really all about. Samuel Harris Altman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He got his first computer at the age of eight. This was back in the 90s when computers were still using dial -up and Pets .com. In 2005, young Samuel dropped out of Stanford after one year studying computer science, co -founded LÜT, location -based social networking mobile application. Go ahead and smash that like button and turn on the channel notifications, which puts you in the BitSquad. Make sure you stay up to speed with the latest crypto news so you don't drop out of all the best gains in the next bull run. But as the CEO of LÜT, LÜT Altman raised over $30 million in venture capital at the business -savvy age of just 19 years old. Imagine being so rich, you think it's a good idea to give $30 million to a 19 -year -old. Anyways, LÜT failed to gain traction, but Sam was still able to sell it in March 2012 to the Green Dot Corporation for $43 .4 million. Not bad for a first -time failed startup. Just one month later, the dropout failed. The founder co -founded another company, Hydrazine Capital, with his brother Jack. And in February 2014, Sammy's startup was named president of Y Combinator. In 2014, Sam claimed that the total valuation of Y Combinator companies has amassed 65 billion. Their catalog is much more impressive than Sam's resume and includes Airbnb, Dropbox, Coinbase, Instacart, OpenSea and Stripe, among countless others. Altman set a target for Y Combinator to fund 1 ,000 new companies per year, which is so many it makes it seem like Sam is just slinging more and more bad ideas at the wall to see what sticks. In 2015, Altman donated $10 million to start Y Combinator Research, a nonprofit research lab that Sammy funded to research basic income, the future of computing, education and building new cities. All these topics seem related, almost like they're part of a larger plan. Sam co -founded OpenAI with Elon Musk in 2015 and in 2019 announced that he would be stepping back at Y Combinator to focus on being CEO of OpenAI. OpenAI has several products including Doll -E, a generative text -to -image AI tool, Whisper, an AI -driven speech -to -text tool and Codex. But the most famous AI tool that OpenAI built is called ChatGPT. A generative AI tool that returns text, images or videos in response to user input prompts. Now, you input your like and subscribe to the channel to get the latest in crypto news. About 27 % of y 'all aren't subscribed. I don't get it. Now, I don't have time to get into exactly how all this AI stuff works, but just from some basic understanding, generative AI is a broad term for any AI system that primarily creates content. Large language models or LLMs are a type of AI system that works with language and draws from a large set of data and computational power. These can create a foundational model which is a term for AI systems that can be applied to a range of purposes. So ChatGPT is a foundational generative AI model that's based on a large language model. Okay, so sorry if that was confusing. I think this stuff is pretty cool, and it's important to understand what all these geeks are talking about with this stuff. I got to research it. I guess they know it intuitively. Moving on. ChatGPT was so popular that it reached 100 million users just two months after launching in 2022, which set an all -time record for user adoption. In response to this unprecedented user demand, Microsoft, a longtime investor in OpenAI, decided to increase their investment and extend their partnership, announcing in January 2023 that they would be investing an additional $10 billion into OpenAI. By now, you might be wondering, Ben, that's all great, but what does Sami have to do with crypto? Back in 2019, when he stepped away from Y Combinator to run OpenAI, Altcoin Altman also co -founded Tools for Humanity, the company building a global IRIS -based biometric cryptocurrency system called Worldcoin. What is Worldcoin? Well, according to Sam, Worldcoin was conceived as a prototype for universal basic income, which Sam sees as inevitable due to the rise of the technology that Sam keeps building himself. Also, it seems like if he would stop building all these things, then we won't have to depend on him to protect us from them. So weird. Sam tried to keep this project quiet at first, probably because it sounds so evil, but the idea simply is this. Users get paid in Worldcoin in a wallet they can use in the Ethereum ecosystem and runs on Optimism's tech stack. WLD tokens will be claimed by people and to verify your identity and unique personhood, Worldcoin wants to scan your IRIS using a super evil -looking silver camera called The Orb. I swear you can't make this stuff up. Worldcoin has a kiosk in Barcelona, offering free french fries in exchange for scanning your IRISes. Good thing I only eat freedom fries. Some offer a $10 rebate on purchases. Some offer a chance to win a new car. Where's Bob Barker when you need him? But whatever paltry bribe Sam Altman and his Worldcoin henchmen are offering, I guarantee you that it's not worth it. Details on this project are still deliberately being kept under wraps, but basic human intuition should tell you whatever they're up to, it's dystopian at best and an evil conspiracy to control the world at worst. My friends at Altcoin Daily said it well. Your eyes will be scanned. You will give up your biometrics data. You will accept your UBI and WLD coin. Sounds like exactly what the World Economic Forum has been planning for years. The scariest part? It's working. Hundreds of thousands of users are being quietly onboarded to Worldcoin in exchange for one of Sam's silly little bribes. According to Nansen, Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, Optimism Arbitrum surpassed in daily transactions for the first time since January. The spike in activity began on July 24. The same day Worldcoin token went live on the Optimism mainnet. Although Worldcoin is careful to try and hide this information, they definitely do not advertise what's really going on. If you look close at the privacy deep dive section of their website, you'll see they say they're collecting a lot more than just users' irises. They need lots of data to make sure that the orbs are trained to recognize eyes regardless of who had scans. Initial scans targeted mostly children in developing countries like Chile, Indonesia and Sudan. I'm all in favor of decentralized digital identity, but there are a ton of great projects that are working on solutions for that. And none of them have relied on this creepy system of bribing poor children in third world countries so they can harvest their biometric data. There has to be a better way. Now, if you're like me, this kind of behavior by one centralized company, especially a company run by Sam Altman, the man trying to build the world's first AGI, it should worry you. Apparently, it worries European regulators too. Last week, French privacy watchdog group said the legality of this collection seems questionable as to the conditions for storing biometric data. They're coordinating their ongoing investigation with German authorities as well. Britain's information commissioner's office also confirmed that it was making inquiries. Even Ethereum co -founder Vitalik Buterin warned Worldcoin has major issues and pointed out that iris scans could inadvertently expose a person's sex, ethnicity and maybe even their medical conditions. Talk about a privacy risk. How many of you incels living in your mom's basement want people to know that you never even had sex? Oh, that's not what they're talking about? Despite what seems to be nearly universal concerns about Worldcoin's operations, Altman says they're going strong and onboarding one new verified person every eight seconds. That's a bull run. A bull ride. Crazy to think about, but at that rate, it would take them five years to get to 20 million users. So Altman's plans to 5X Worldcoin's onboarding capacity, well, it's going to be done by the end of the year. And now we get to the most interesting part of the story to meet anyways, and that's Altman's ongoing and highly public feud with the Dogefather himself, Elon Musk. A short version of how this conflict started is in 2018, Elon approached the other founders of OpenAI and expressed concern that the company had fallen hopelessly behind Google in the quest for AGI. Musk proposed that he take over OpenAI in order to catch up. The other founders rejected his bid. Musk eventually left the company and withdrew his funding. Altman eventually took over, and the two have been in competition and even some conflict ever since. When Chat GBT launched in November of 2022, OpenAI instantly became the hottest name in tech. Musk was reportedly furious. In December 2022, Musk pulled OpenAI's access to Twitter's data, ending a contract sign before Musk acquired Twitter. February 17, Elon tweeted, OpenAI was created as an open source, which is why I named it OpenAI, non -profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source maximum profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. On March 15, he tweeted, I'm still confused as to how a non -profit to which I donated about $100 million somehow became a $30 billion market cap for profit. If this is legal, why doesn't everyone do it? That's Bill Gates. He does it. Altman finally fired back in an interview saying about Elon, I mean, he's a jerk, whatever else you want to say about him, but I think he does really care, and he is feeling very stressed about what the future is going to look like for humanity, which is very interesting because a lot of this sounds exactly like conversations I had with Sam Bankman -Fried around the time of the FTX collapse. Things he said about me to me and to other people was he knew that I really cared about the stuff that I was talking about, but I just was going about it the wrong way. Very eerie similarities there. The reason for their dispute though seems to come down to both men wanting to prove themselves. Elon wants to be the man who took down Google and Twitter, and Altman seems to just want to make up for the fact that his first startup would fail. He tweeted in February, I failed pretty hard in my first startup. It sucked! And I'm doing pretty well in my second. The thing I wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do and that as long as you don't psych yourself out, you can try again. It's crazy the two guys with such big brains can be still so small -minded. So we talked a lot about Sam Altman, but what's the takeaway here? What's really at stake in this story? Well, I think it goes back to where we started. Fear. Altman is a prepper. He said in 2016, I have guns, gold, potassium, iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force and a big patch of land and big shore I can fly to. What is he prepping for? Well, he doesn't say. But the key is the answer to that question was asked in Congress on May 16, 2023. What's his biggest fear? My worst fears are that we cause significant. We, the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. So it's clear that Sam is consciously aware of the risks of what he's doing, but he's doing it anyway. He's taking an attitude of technological determinism, the idea that anything can be done will be done. So why not do it first? Why not create the tools for a dystopian nightmare future and then have all the power you need to avoid it right there in your hand? There's just one problem with that. If you believe in technological determinism, you also believe that the path of technology is the same for everyone, which means that anyone else could go down the same path and beat you to the prize at the finish line. And what's that prize? Well, if you ask Sam, artificial general intelligence, AGI, which means a piece of software that combines solutions to new unfamiliar tasks, basically code that can actually think. It's likely that the creation of such a piece of technology would lead to what's known to sci -fi nerds as the technological singularity, got in a box. The singularity refers to a point at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to humanity and civilization. OpenAI published a paper in April concluding that the latest OpenAI model exhibits many traits of intelligence, including abstraction, comprehension, vision, coding and understanding of human motives and emotions. In June, The New York Times published an article alleging that many leaders of Silicon Valley are becoming concerned that the singularity may already be here, and we just haven't realized it yet. Altman himself stated during his recent appearance on Lex Freeman podcast that he believes that multiple teams will create AGI while working on different projects in different parts of the world at roughly the same time. In other words, Sam isn't just worried that he won't get to the singularity first. He's worried that even if he does, his creation still won't be enough to save him from itself. And that's Sam Altman's worst fear. Sam once tweeted, AI is the tech the world has always wanted, but we don't want it if it means we have to let him scan our eyes and unleash something on mankind that has the power to take over every aspect of our lives before we even realize we've lost control. Let me know down below in the comments what you think about Sam Altman and his plans to control the future of civilization. And let me know what you think about AI and which projects are using it in creative ways that might give them an edge in the next bull run. And most importantly, Sam Altman vs Sam Bankman -Fried in a cage match, who wins? That's all I got. Be blessed. BitBoy out.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from The God Of Already
"Hey, this is Steven Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Come on, lift your hands like this. God, we receive you in this place, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, exalted and lifted high, ever -present, always faithful. Anything you want to do today, Lord… Whoever you want to heal, whoever you want to set free, whoever you want to change, do it again. You've done it before. Do it again. Do it again and again and again. We give you glory, and we rejoice in your presence. In Jesus' name, amen. I don't think I have to tell you what to do, but just in case, high -five seven people and tell them he's going to do it again. Oh, yeah. God is so faithful. How many know he's a faithful God? I've been preaching this series about God. Hopefully, all of the things we preach here about God, but in a very unique way, God has been downloading to us that there's so much about him. There are so many ways he desires to show up in our lives that we haven't recognized yet. I started week one. I talked about how he's the God of also. That message really meant a lot to me, because it reminded me that we haven't met all of God yet. God isn't changing or morphing or expanding. He's immutable. He can't change, but we certainly, as we move through different seasons of our lives, need to see him in different ways, so he's the God of also. Last week, we preached on how he's the God of again and again and again and again, because of each other. Stop. I have to move on to part three. God gave me a part three. Today I want to talk to you about how he's not only the God of also and not only the God of again, but he's the God of already. Let's give glory in this room. So real quick, shake three hands and say, It's on the way, and you may be seated, the God of already. You may be seated. You're here for a reason today. God has something for you today. In the spirit of last week's message about the God of again, I'm going to use the same passage from last week again. John 21, verses 4 through 9. We'll select a little different passage this time but from the same story. Time permitting, I want to also hit that Luke 15 again from the prodigal son. One was a story Jesus told a parable to teach, and one was a miracle he performed, but they share a similar lesson, the God of already. Verse 4. Early in the morning Jesus stood on the shore, but his disciples did not realize it was Jesus. He called out to them, Friends, haven't you any fish? No, they answered. He said, Throw your net on the right side of the boat, and you'll find some. When they did, they were unable to haul in the net because of the large number of fish. Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, It is the Lord. As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, It is the Lord, he wrapped his outer garment around him, for he had taken it off, and jumped into the water. The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from shore. About a hundred yards makes me get ready for football season. About a hundred yards. When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it and some bread. The God of already. This message has a subtitle, Let Him Cook. I thought I'd tell you a little story. I couldn't remember if I shared it. My oldest son said he had never heard it. When I was in high school, right after I got really fired up for Jesus Christ, I was running around telling everybody they needed to be saved and they were going to hell, and I wasn't. So be like me. I was burning all my Motley Crue and Guns N' Roses CDs and listening to Striper. I burned my Pantera and went over to Petra. If you're in the subculture, you know. If you don't know, you don't know, but you don't need to know. I'd tell people all the time I was very, very bold. Some would say zeal without knowledge, but I was excited. Fired up. My dad wasn't in church at the time. He'd been in church when I was a little boy. My mom always took us to church, but my dad wasn't in church at the time. He would go out and play golf on Sundays, a little par 3 golf course, get drunk with my uncle. I think as sort of an atonement, when I was getting ready to go to church, he would wake up early and cook us breakfast, so he'd be over there making some scrambled eggs and grits. If you don't like grits, I don't need you as a member of Elevation Church. Then he would make, on occasion, some corned beef hash, some fried bologna, but it was all because he felt bad, because he wasn't going to church. He'd wake up early and cook for us, and then he'd go off to the golf course, and we'd go to church. That was going on for a little while. One Sunday morning, I remember really clearly whatever came over me. I looked at him and said, this "'Dad, breakfast is great. Thank you for making it, but I want to tell you something. I'm only 16 or 17 years old." I said, "'It's not going to be long before God is going to get a hold of your life. I've been praying for you, and God answers my prayers. Pretty soon you're going to turn to the Lord, and it's going to be crazy. You're going to be reading the Bible all the time. You're going to church. You're not going to be just cooking breakfast and going off. You can cook this breakfast today, but eventually, soon and very soon, you'll be going to church with us.'" I don't remember if he said anything. He didn't go to church that day. He kept cooking, and I ate and went to church. It was about a year or more later when I had gone off to college and I came back home to preach at Santee Circle Community Church for a weekend. After I preached the sermon, my dad came down for the altar call. When I went down to pray with him, he said, "'Never stop preaching.'" We had many bumps and bruises after that. He wasn't raptured up to heaven. He didn't become the next pope, Billy Graham, or Bill Gates for that matter, but it really was a change in his life. He started memorizing the Bible and stuff like that. He told me something. He said, "'Remember that day when you told me when I was cooking breakfast that God was going to get a hold of my life and all this stuff you were saying to me?' I said, "'Yeah, because I was proud of my prophecy having come to pass.'" He said, "'What I didn't tell you is I felt so sorry for you when you were saying all that, because I thought he was going to be so disappointed. He has no idea. I felt so sorry for you that you didn't know how low I was and how far I was from God and how I would stand in the shower every morning before I go open the barbershop and just think, "'God, if you give me the strength to get through this day, I promise I'll change,' but I couldn't change. So I sat there and listened to you, and I felt so bad that you were that crazy and that naive to think I could change, because you didn't know how far away I was." Will you do me a favor? Will you look at your neighbor real quick and say, "'You're not as far as you think you are'? That's what God knows you don't. That's what the Devil knows you don't. From that life God has called you to live and from that victory he has called you to accomplish in his name, from that freedom that to you feels like some sort of dream right now, you're not as far as you think you are, because the God of already is in the house. I tell you that story not to impress you but, as the motivational speakers would say, to impress upon you or rather to reflect myself on these moments we have in our lives, like I had with my dad, where you know something. You don't know how you know it. You sense it, even though your senses are telling you different. Your spirit says it. It actually just came to me this morning to tell you that story as I was asking God, how can I bring them into this text, which is a story about a fisherman named Peter who was called to be a shepherd and had to make a transition, because he had been through an experience where he'd let himself down and, he thought, let Jesus down. Now he's out there fishing, and Jesus is on the shore. I was wondering, what was happening in that moment with my dad? What's happening in those moments of our lives where one thing seemed to be already in progress? Do you all remember back when they used to interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to give you a news report or a weather report? You used to be watching Family Matters on Friday night, watching Urkel try to get Laura Winslow one more time on Friday night, and the news would come on. There's a storm. They'd just interrupt your regularly scheduled programming. Then when they would get back to the program after they had said whatever they needed to say and just broke in on your program, they'd say, we now return to your regularly scheduled programming. Already progress. in Then it would just go right back. No DVR. You can't rewind. Urkel still isn't with Laura like always. You just drop right back in in the middle of it, because it's already in progress. That's the challenge with the text I read you, because I just jumped right into something where Peter has denied Jesus three times. He's out fishing. Who knows how bad he felt. Who knows how far he felt. He has already seen Jesus, but Jesus shows up again. I love verse 4. This really touched me, because I related to it. It said, Early in the morning Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. Kind of far off in the distance. They're tired. They've been fishing all night, caught nothing, frustrated, probably a little discouraged. They did not realize it was Jesus, but that doesn't mean he wasn't there. In seminary they taught me this term that stuck with me. It's called the already not yet view of Scripture. It sounds like a contradiction, but it's not. It's just the tension we all live in. Everybody say already. Not yet. This side you can be already. They taught me that in seminary. The kingdom of God came when Jesus came to earth. He said, kingdom of God is at hand, and he inaugurated that kingdom with miracles, signs, and wonders. He did amazing things. He was crucified dead and buried, risen from the dead. He ascended to the right hand of God, and he's coming again to establish his kingdom once and for all. He already died for the sins of all who will believe on him. He already rose to life, and he's risen with all power, and the keys of death, hell, and grave are in his hand. He's interceding for you right now. He already paid the price. He already won the victory. As the Bible talks about these realities, there is a sense in which they are already fulfilled and a sense in which they are… Y 'all still aren't ready? Maybe next week. I'll do it again and again, and y 'all can try it again. The picture here is that if the Bible says you are saved, it will also say you will be saved. It's talking about something that happened and something that will happen. It's like, I am saved right now from the penalty of my sin, but I'm still not completely set free from the pattern of sin. That's why I can say I'm already a child of God, but I'm not yet well behaved. I'm not yet grown up like I want to be. It's the already not yet. I think if you'll look at the Bible that way, it'll help you understand why sometimes you see things in the Bible and you're like, oh, am I even a Christian? Pray without ceasing. I don't live that way. Well, you already pray some, but the without ceasing part, that's the not yet. The Bible even says we have been adopted into God's family, and then it says we are awaiting our adoption. Which one is it? Well, it's already technically true, but I have not yet fully understood all of the implications of it. It would be like if they switched cameras right now. There's somebody back there that's on the other camera. Let's just switch to this one. He had to be ready to do it, and I gave him no preparation. That's why he had to be there. He was already there, waiting for a word, in order to do what he was there to do.
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"Modern medicine is an incredible, incredible thing. And the amount of gratitude I have for my astonishing wife who's astonishing in every single way. She not only has the babies, but then takes care of the babies. And then of course, she's a doctor on the side and somebody who really has her priorities straight, somebody who knows what her priorities are in life and really takes care of our children. It's it's an astonishing, astonishing thing. I could not be happier or more grateful for baby number four repopulating the earth with baby Shapiro's. And of course, he is a very squishy baby is a very squishy baby indeed. Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate. So thing number one that I remember last week, I told you that the Dodgers had been pressured and had finally caved to common sense, at least in a minor way, they continue to do their pride night the LA Dodgers. But then they decided that they were going to uninvite the Sisters of They dress up like nuns and then promote promiscuity and, and indecent behavior. And it turns out that that offends a lot of people, particularly in Los Angeles, which has a heavily Catholic fan base. And so the Dodgers backed off it. Well, now they backed off the back off. They put out another statement. They said, after much thoughtful feedback from our diverse communities, honest conversations within the LA Dodgers organization, and generous discussions with the Sisters of perpetual indulgence, the LA Dodgers would like to offer sincerest apologies to the Sisters of perpetual indulgence, members of the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sin community and their friends and families. We've asked the Sisters of
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"You're taking your life in your hands if you're a black person in Florida. It's just the stupidest garbage ever. That was not the only ridiculous hit on DeSantis over the weekend. Politico, which has just become essentially a talking points outlet for the Democratic Party as well, put out an article targeting Casey DeSantis. Now, let me I've met Casey several times. She's one of the most charming people on earth. Casey is a delight. Ron's wife is just a wonderful person. And this entire article is about how terrible she is. They literally compare her to Lady Macbeth in this article. Who do they quote to suggest that Casey DeSantis is, in fact, Lady Macbeth? They quote David Jolly, an ex GOP Florida congressperson who's now an MSNBC analyst. They quote a bunch of anonymous Republican lobbyists. They quote Roger Stone, who is a Trump devotee and a rat effort extraordinaire. That's literally his job. He's going to compare to Lady Macbeth. Quote, Stone's hyperbolic charge is part of a broader effort on the part of Trump to kill in the crib the candidacy they consider their greatest threat. They recently have scored a series of key, albeit early strategic wins, a flurry of in -state endorsements, for instance, contributing to the perception of a novice faltering DeSantis that's also visible in a slide in early primary polls. In the tragic drama, of course, Lady Macbeth prods her husband to kill the king so she can be the queen. At this juncture, the literary analogy only goes so far. And then that's because DeSantis isn't going so far after Trump, really. But they then quote a bunch of former DeSantis administration staffers. Quote, she sees ghosts in every corner. She's more paranoid than he is, said a second staffer. He's a vindictive mother effer. She's twice that, said a higher up on one of his campaigns. She's the scorekeeper. Does she sort of humanize the robot? Does she push him on the grip and grin, baby kissing, give him a cleaner, softer image? Yes, said another former gubernatorial staffer. Does she also feed into his worst instincts of being secluded in insular and standoffish with staff? Yes. So the idea here is that she's bad because he trusts her a lot and uses her as a political advisor. Obviously, that's terrible. Now, there's only one problem with this theory, which is that, again, Casey is rather delightful. As a cancer -surviving mother of several children, she also happens to be a pretty good political advisor to a guy who just won the state of Florida by 20 points. So it is obvious that this is effectively a two -person race. The entire media are allied not against Trump, but against DeSantis in the primaries. Trump has joined them, which is why he's attacking DeSantis from the left. You're going to see a series of ridiculous hits on DeSantis, despite the fact that Trump, the person that is supposedly the most dangerous person in the race and the most dangerous person in America, is running. The media know exactly who they want to be the nominee, pretty clearly at this point. Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest on the national debt fight. Believe it or not, Republicans are about to win a battle, and they should take yes for an answer. We'll get to that momentarily first. The CEO of Innovation Refunds and GetRefunds .com has been on TV explaining how they've helped so many small businesses with their ERC tax refunds. They've completed thousands
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"Go check them out right now. Policygenius .com slash Shapiro. Okay. So according to CNN, the NAACP is warning people of color about traveling to Florida. They issued this travel advisory, quote, in direct response to DeSantis's aggressive attempts to erase black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools, the group said Saturday in a statement. Now remember, Florida requires the teaching of black history. You have to learn about slavery. You have to learn about Jim Crow. All of that is required by Florida law. It must be taught in Florida schools. As far as diversity, equity, and inclusion, what that means is that you're not allowed to essentially use affirmative action programs or Ibram X. Kennedy anti -racism training in any sort of publicly funded program. What does that have to do with the safety of black Americans? Nothing. It doesn't matter. The NAACP president, Derek Johnson, he was out there saying that it is literally unsafe for you to go to Florida right now. Here's what he had to say. You just heard the words of DeSantis himself calling this call by the NAACP a stunt. How do you respond? Well, the governor has perfected the art of doing stunts to gain campaign contributions. Unfortunately, this will impact people's lives. We should not use race or othering as a tool to weaponize against people. And unfortunately, for a large percentage of the Floridians, that's what he has done. Therefore, we are advising African Americans and others that if you travel to Florida, beware that your life is not valued, that we have a political landscape that could cause harm as we prepare for the 2024 elections. All this proves the NAACP is just a democratic party apparatus and they've lost all relevance, like all political relevance. If the NAACP has been relegated to targeting racism by suggesting that if you travel to Florida, that your life is at stake, they're a joke at this point. And they clearly are a joke, by the way. How much of a joke are the members of the NAACP board? At least five members of the NAACP board have enjoyed vacationing in Florida under Governor DeSantis, according to Matt Wolking. Despite the recent warning that others should avoid traveling to the state, that includes NAACP board vice chair Karen Boykin -Towns, who went to a lovely Florida vacation in April of 2021. It has also been enjoyed by Claude Cummings Jr., another NAACP board member. Also, NAACP board member Theresa Deer visited Florida under Governor Ron DeSantis, said that she was having a delightful time. NAACP board member Michael Curry enjoyed time in Miami, Florida under Governor DeSantis as well. And NAACP board member Scott Estalli loves traveling around the great state of Florida under Governor DeSantis. He went multiple times to Florida, so obviously he is living in just virulent fear that he's going to be murdered on the streets of Florida because Governor DeSantis does not truck with diversity, equity, and inclusion. All of this is absurd on its face. The media are running with it anyway. Perhaps my favorite take on this comes courtesy of an MSNBC guest who is now suggesting that she went to Florida. She's a lesbian black woman, but she went to Florida for spring break, but she did so at risk to her own life, which is what you normally do on spring break down to Florida. Here we go. I think it was extremely clever and I really appreciate the NAACP's guidance on this issue. You know, I just took my family to spring break in Florida recently and I think about all of the folks who traveled there for sun and joy and peace and restoration. And to be reminded that actually this is getting to the point where Florida is about to be a terrorist state to many of us here in America. Certainly as a lesbian, as a black woman, I don't want to have anything to do with the place. So then why did you go there for spring break? That was like five minutes ago. Saisha Mills. Do you go to terrorist states normally for vacation? You know, places where you literally are going to be murdered for who you are. Is that something that you typically do? For actual vacation, not for ideological reasons. You just head on down to Florida because you as a lesbian black woman have your life in danger. Of course, this is unbelievably silly. Representative Byron Donald of Florida, he slammed the NAACP over all of this as he should. The NAACP hereby issues a travel advisory to African Americans and other people of color regarding the hostility towards African Americans in Florida. Why are they doing that? This is silly and it's dumb. It's political. It makes no sense. We should be focused on making sure people actually have the opportunity to achieve, which Florida is actually doing and thriving in way better than other states. Let's say New York or California or Washington state. We're doing a significantly better job helping black Americans succeed. And it's not just about me. It's about all the millions of black people that live in our state. They're talking about the they say regarding the hostility toward African Americans in Florida. Do you feel hostility? No, no. Again, this is so dumb. I don't even know what we're talking about, man. The only hostility I feel is this inflation hit in my pocketbook. I'll tell you that. Byron Donald's, of course, exactly right. That's coming from somebody who's already endorsed President Trump. It's one of the dumbest political hits I've ever seen. By the way, Florida's population is black and that Florida's black immigrant population saw an 81 percent growth from 2000 to 2019 with the addition of three hundred and fifty thousand people. That growth is larger than the entire 2019 black immigrant population of Colorado, Arizona, Washington, Nevada, Indiana and Ohio combined. So, yeah, clearly you're taking your life in your hands if you're a black person in Florida. It's just the stupidest garbage ever. That was not the only ridiculous hit on DeSantis over the weekend. Politico, which has just become
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"Peer Talk, wireless for Americans, by Americans. Go check them out right now. Okay, so Donald Trump obviously is not taking Tim Scott's candidacy particularly seriously. It is very obvious that Donald Trump believes that Ron DeSantis is the true only threat to his candidacy. He put out a statement reading, quote, good luck to Senator Tim Scott in entering the Republican presidential primary race. It is rapidly loading up with lots of people and Tim is a big step up from Ron DeSantis, who is totally unelectable. I got Opportunity Zones done with Tim, a big deal that has been highly successful. Good luck, Tim. Okay, I have a question. When has Donald Trump ever wished somebody good luck genuinely? Like truly genuinely? Anybody who's a threat to him anyway? Anybody who's competitive with him? I'm sure there are lots of people in life he's wished good luck to. But when, since anybody who threatens Donald Trump's interest, have you ever heard him be magnanimous and generous with other people running for president as a general rule? So far he's been magnanimous about Vivek Ramaswamy. He's been pretty generous with him. He's been magnanimous with Tim Scott. He was slightly less magnanimous with Nikki Haley early on and then he's kind of he is spending every iota of his time and effort on is Ron DeSantis. That is the guy. And again, the reason that is the guy is because Ron DeSantis is combative. Ron DeSantis does have a quality record in the state of Florida. Ron DeSantis is to his right on pretty much every issue. He has a ton of money ready to go in the bank. And so I think Trump, like pretty much everybody else, is assuming that DeSantis is going to be sort of his chief rival for the nomination. DeSantis, of course, has not even declared yet and Trump is spending every waking moment thinking about Ron DeSantis. Well, that would make Trump one of two partners thinking about Ron DeSantis almost full time. The other partner, of course, are members of the media. And you can see by the overwhelming wave of antipathy for DeSantis, they really want Trump. I'm talking about everybody here from CNN and Politico all the way up to Matt Drudge and Drudge Report. Drudge Report is running pretty much every hit piece he can find on Ron DeSantis at this point. I don't know if that's for traffic or whether Drudge really likes Trump or what the story is here, but there is pretty obviously a lot of support for Donald Trump and a lot of antipathy toward Ron DeSantis in the way that the media are covering Trump. So the big fake story over the weekend targeting DeSantis, and there's one nearly every weekend now, some idiot story targeting DeSantis that doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense. The one from last week, of course, was the idea that Disney had canceled this billion dollar project in Orlando. And then it turned out, well, actually, Disney was ready to cancel that back in November because it didn't pencil out for them since they've been losing money hand over fist. They lost four million subscribers and half their stock value over the course of the last years. So why exactly would they build a one billion dollar headquarters in Orlando that was completely separate from their creative team in California? But they canceled it and then they claimed, Bob Iger did, that it was Ron DeSantis and the media just totally ran with it. Oh, he must that he's being totally honest with you. It's not a lie at all. It must be totally. OK, so today's lie of the day comes courtesy of the NAACP, which, of course, is a wild left wing organization. Drudge made this his top headline. CNN headlined it. The NAACP issued a advisory travel about traveling to the great state of Florida. So first of all, let me just say this. If the left warns you not to come to Florida, I totally agree with them. Don't come. Please don't move here. Please don't vacation here. We are perfectly happy here without you. And if you could just stay where you are in your miserable blue cities, we would be very happy to not have you here clogging up the traffic lanes and bringing your perverse views of politics down here. We are perfectly happy in our red state paradise down here in Florida. So if you would prefer to stay up there, please enjoy yourself in New York. Please, if you're in California, still enjoy yourself. Really enjoy the homelessness and crime and high taxes like let it rip. But let's be real about this. There's not actually a travel advisory from the NAACP. They're completely full of it. But the media ran with it anyway. Now, that, of course, is incredibly silly. Is the same NAACP that was complaining that Jim Crow 2 .0 was being built in Georgia while black voters were being registered at the highest rate ever. So they have no credibility on these issues. But credibility doesn't matter when the media is trying to break a politician. Right now, they're going after DeSantis because they're hoping for Trump to be the nominee. Trump wants to be the nominee. The media would like Trump to be the nominee. DeSantis is the guy most likely standing in his way. We'll get to more on this in just one second. First, I have a brand new baby.
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"By visiting expressvpn .com. My listeners will get an extra three months for free. Again, that's expressvpn .com. Do not allow yourself to be put in a dire position by hackers. Don't allow ISPs to control the data that you are putting out there. Don't allow the government to watch what you're doing. Go check out ExpressVPN right now. Expressvpn .com. Again, my listeners get an extra three months for free. Okay, meanwhile, the 2024 presidential race seems to be heating up. Tim Scott, the senator from South Carolina, has decided to launch what is largely considered a long -shot bid with Wall Street support. So Tim Scott's support is pretty soft on the ground. There are not a lot of grassroots Republicans who are very into the Tim Scott candidacy, but there are a lot of money Republicans who are very into the Tim Scott candidacy because, again, he represents a sort of kinder, more gentler brand of Republican politics. Doesn't mean that he doesn't have a lot of interesting things to say, but what Republican kind of the base is looking for right now is a candidate with edge, a candidate who is willing to cut, a candidate who is rough and is willing to battle with the media. And the question for Scott is whether he is up to something like that, whether he is too conciliatory in demeanor, whether, in fact, he appears to be somebody who's a go -long -to -get -along type. You know, that makes a huge difference in a Republican primary these days. So Scott is trying to run a different sort of campaign, sort of the bright, sunny, optimistic campaign. He argued that he can unify the GOP, according to Bloomberg, with a positive forward -looking message built around a compelling personal story and upbeat demeanor at an event in North Charleston, South Carolina. He let off his campaign, and here is what it sounded like. We live in the land of opportunity. We live in the land where it is absolutely possible for a kid raised in poverty in a single -parent household in a small apartment to one day serve in the people's house and maybe even the White House. Biden and the radical left are attacking every single rung of the ladder that helped me climb, and that's why I'm announcing today that I'm running for president of the United States of America. Okay, so, you know, I'm not a big fan of the affect. I'll be honest with you. I mean, if we're going to sort of analyze affect when you are running, that's not an amazing affect when you have to yell into the microphone to generate excitement. And I can't say there's a huge amount of buzz about Tim Scott outside of sort of the intelligentsia of the Republican Party. Again, I find Tim Scott a very, very appealing person. I think he's a terrific senator from South Carolina. I think that if you have to kind of categorize him with the rest of the Republican candidates right now, he probably goes in the Nikki Haley, Mike Pence category, meaning people who are not Ron DeSantis who are sort of hoping that DeSantis falls down on the job. And again, the question is whether he can actually get a crowd going. He tried it a couple of times during his opening speech. People were making fun of him online because he sort of a Howard Dean moment. Howard Dean was the Vermont governor who ran for the presidential nomination on the Democratic Party ticket in 2004. He ended up not winning the nomination. He collapsed pretty late in the process when he had this very weird kind of screamy moment downstairs. It was very strange. Here's how Tim Scott led off his campaign. People were sort of making the comparison. Okay. Again, is the enthusiasm and the excitement there or does it seem to be, somewhat manufactured? It doesn't seem like there is a lot of kind of call and plan for Scott to be the guy, but there are a lot of Republicans, coastal Republicans in particular, who are looking for somebody who isn't so abrasive. The problem, of course, is that the base is looking for somebody who's abrasive because they feel like they're under constant assault from the media, which they are. They feel like they are under constant assault from Joe Biden, which they are. And so the question is, who is going to be able to participate in a knife fight? Again, the reason Donald Trump became the nominee in 2016 is largely because Republicans had run a couple of candidates who in effect were much more like Tim Scott. John McCain in 2008 was trying to run an upbeat, positive campaign. And then, of course, Mitt Romney tried to do the same thing, kind of too smooth, not rough around the edges, not willing to get combative. The question for Tim Scott is whether he is able to get combative and kind of smooth, almost use some sandpaper on himself in order to become less smooth, just in terms of his personal affect, the way that he approaches politics. Republicans want somebody abrasive. He's not abrasive enough. And again, being abrasive is a quality of authenticity. It's not really clear, by the way, that Scott has any sort of attack plan on Trump. And so he becomes also the latest Republican candidate not to have an attack plan with regard to President Trump. In the early polling, Scott isn't even, he's not even registering at this point. But again, I think that the plan for a lot of the Republicans who are in the race who are not Ron DeSantis is basically stand aside, let Trump rip down DeSantis, maybe you rip down DeSantis too, and then you step into the gap. If you are an anti -Trump person, this strategy was tried back in 2016 to no avail. Every other Republican candidate basically said, I'm going to avoid hitting Trump and I'm going to hit Ted Cruz. I'm going to hit Marco Rubio. And then everybody else collapsed. And the only one standing was Trump. Again, Scott is starting from way behind, but he does have some moneyed friends who are in this race. There are a couple of Republican colleagues who have already endorsed his bid that he South Dakota Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds. Rounds called Scott the closest to Ronald Reagan that you will ever see. And Thune gave the opening prayer on Monday at Scott's campaign launch rally. He's also accepted something like $30 million from Larry Ellison. Bill Haslam is serving as Scott's national campaign co -chair. He is visiting Iowa. He's sort of banking everything on the idea that maybe he will perform in outsized fashion in Iowa. Again, just because he has a great optimistic story does not necessarily mean that he is going to have a lot of durability in this race. Democrats, I don't think, are very much afraid that Tim Scott is going to win the nomination. I don't think they're particularly afraid of him if he does win the nomination, again, because they think that he is too conciliatory. And I think the dead giveaway is how Donald Trump is responding to Tim Scott. We'll get to that momentarily. First, remember the last time you got one of those quote unquote free phones? You started out feeling great. Then came the hefty fees for line requirements and, of course, the binding contract. Peer Talk is giving you a free 5G Samsung Galaxy phone without the feeling that you've been duped. When you switch to Peer Talk's unlimited talk and text data
The Ben Shapiro Show
"bill gates" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"This is probably what Epstein was doing with pretty much anyone. He had these very, very lucrative relationships with some of the richest, most famous perverts on the planet. I mean, there is a reason that people are flying to and from Epstein Island where he was pretty overtly trafficking in underage girls. Mila Antonova, Russian bridge player in question, declined to comment on Gates and said she didn't know who Epstein was when they met. She said, I had no idea he was a criminal or had any ulterior motive, I just thought he was a successful businessman and wanted to help. She added, I'm disgusted with Epstein and what he did. But again, this demonstrates exactly how Epstein was operating. He met with everybody around Bill Gates, apparently. He gained access to Bill Gates. And then while he was working on this charitable fund with JP Morgan Chase, he finally met in 2013 with Gates and other Norwegian officials visiting Epstein's townhouse. Epstein told one former Gates Foundation employee that he knew these Norwegian officials and could help Gates win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to eradicate polio, at which point Gates and Epstein met together in March in Strasbourg, France. That September, Epstein scheduled a meeting with Gates and others at his townhouse. And again, so it looks like he would make a connection with somebody and then he would dig up dirt on that person and then he would blackmail that person. And this is not the only story that has emerged about Jeffrey Epstein over the course of the last couple of months alone. It emerged a little bit earlier this month that Jeffrey Epstein helped move $270 ,000 from Noam Chomsky, the wild left linguist, and he also paid $150 ,000 to Bard College president Leon Botstein, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, he had financial dealings with the two academics. He had met with them multiple times as well. Again, we still do not have the entire list of what exactly Jeffrey Epstein was doing with all these people, but the baseline assumption has to be that if you had repeated contacts with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of years, there's a good shot that you'd had dirt on you and then he was shaking you down for money. Remember, at the exact same time that he was shaking Bill Gates down for money, Bill Gates was pretty openly saying that he was not being blackmailed by Epstein. In fact, here is Bill Gates saying just that. Epstein had a way of sexually compromising people. Is that what Melinda Okay, said? so that is Bill Gates pretty much openly lying to journalists, saying I was never shaken down by Epstein. We were just the best of friends, which raises a question about everybody else who says that they were best of friends with Jeffrey Epstein and raises the further question as to just how much Epstein was being protected by people in positions of power. I mean, the answer has to be some because otherwise how could he get away with this for decades on end being a registered sex offender? Well, in just a second, we'll turn to the 2024 presidential race, but I think suffice it to say that a lot of the conspiracy theories that people have about people in positions of elite power who are working with one another or who are blackmailing one another or who are engaging in improper behavior behind closed doors and that are making themselves susceptible to blackmail by state actors, that number is pretty shocking. When the full Epstein scandal eventually breaks, which I think it probably will, when that breaks, it's going to bring down a lot of worlds. Okay, we'll get to the 2024 race in just one moment. First, I want to talk to you about Daily Wire's most trusted privacy partner and premier sponsor of this show, ExpressVPN. Using the internet without ExpressVPN, it's like checking your baggage at the airport without a lock. You think your stuff is safe, but you never know who might be going through your belongings. When you go online without ExpressVPN, ISPs can see every single website you visit. They can then legally sell that information without your consent to ad companies and tech giants who then use that data to target you. When you use ExpressVPN, internet service providers can't see your online activity at all. Your identity is completely anonymized. Your data is also encrypted for maximum protection. I love ExpressVPN because it's really easy for
The Ben Shapiro Show
"bill gates" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"Jeffrey Epstein was found dead of an apparent suicide by hanging in his jail cell, there's been a lot of speculation about what exactly happened to Jeffrey Epstein. Obviously, the big joke meme online is that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself, but there are serious questions as to whether Jeffrey Epstein actually killed himself, considering that he said previously that he was not going to kill himself, and then he apparently hanged himself in a jail that was supposed to be secure in the first place. But there have been a lot of questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein for years, because Jeffrey Epstein hobnobbed with all the richest and most famous people on the planet, and nobody had any idea exactly where Jeffrey Epstein had gotten his money. And nobody knew why it was that Jeffrey Epstein, who was in serious trouble with the law in the mid -2000s, was still able to gather all sorts of attention and credibility from some of the richest and wealthiest people and most famous people on the planet. All those questions have been percolating in the background. So as early as 2020, 2019, 2020, there were serious questions about where exactly Jeffrey Epstein had gotten all of his money. There was talk about the island, that he had multiple homes all over the place, that he had supposedly amassed a fortune of 500 million pounds, which amounts to something like 700 million dollars. And it is very unclear where exactly he made that money, because he was fired for poor performance in his early academic career. And then he ended up at Bear Stearns, and then he worked there as a trader and then a partner for a long time. But then he had breached security violations, and then he left his job. That was in 1981. And then he set up a consulting firm called Intercontinental Assets Group. And it is totally unclear where exactly the money came in. But suddenly he was worth, you know, half a billion dollars or more. And nobody knew where that money had come from. And if again you look at the timeline of Jeffrey Epstein's life, it is a very mysterious timeline. He started in the 1990s this financial management firm, which included the CEO of Victoria's Secret as a Client, according to CBS News. In the 2000s, he continued to invest tens of millions of dollars into various funds, including a fund that was found to be leveraged 17 to 1 and that helped to eventually lead Bear Stearns into collapse in 2008. In March 2005, a 14 -year -old girl became the earliest underage victim to formally accuse Epstein of molestation, citing an incident at his Palm Beach mansion. It took 10 years, 2015, before investigators executed a search warrant on Epstein's Florida home as the case brought forward several other teenage sex victims. But in 2006, police were charging Epstein with multiple counts of unlawful sex acts in a minor. State Attorney Barry Krischer referred the case to a grand jury. The grand jury heard from only one accuser in June of 2006. In July 2006, after the Palm Beach grand jury, the FBI opened a federal investigation. In June of 2008, after more than a year of investigation and bargaining between the two legal sides, Epstein finally appeared in a Florida courtroom and ended up pleading guilty to one count of solicitation of prostitution and one count of solicitation of prostitution of a minor. Under the age of 18, he got an 18 -month sentence and he was registered as a sex offender. And then he began work release in jail as early as October of 2008. By July 2009, he was given early release from jail completely and he never served time in a federal prison at all, at all. And then for years and years and years, he was hanging out with the most famous people on planet Earth. Jeffrey Epstein's little black book included names ranging from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump, just a huge number of very, very famous people who were hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. And after his death, there were questions as to where the records went, what was in his black book, why did he know these people and what was he doing for them? Were they paying him for something or other? Had he killed himself? Well, now we have a story that has emerged from the Wall Street Journal that really is shocking only in the sense that it's precisely what you expected. But the fact that it took this long for it to be uncovered is in fact rather surprising and it serves as the foundation for the generalized theory that Jeffrey essentially Epstein was a black male specialist who must have had support of some sort of government because the fact is that everyone apparently knew exactly what he was doing and he escaped prosecution for a very, very long time. The reason I say this is because the story of what he did to Bill Gates here is truly an astonishing one. According to the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, Jeffrey Epstein discovered that Bill Gates had an affair with a Russian bridge player and later appeared to use his knowledge to threaten one of the world's richest men. According to people familiar with the matter, the Microsoft co -founder met the woman around 2010 when she was in her 20s. Epstein met her in 2013 and later paid for her to attend a software coding school. In 2017, Epstein emailed Gates and asked to be reimbursed for the cost of the course according to one of the people familiar with the matter. The email came after the convicted sex offender had struggled and failed to persuade Gates to participate in a multi -billion dollar charitable fund Epstein tried to establish with JPMorgan Chase. The implication was pretty clear was that if Epstein did not get the money from Gates, then he would reveal the affair. So again, the idea here is that he uncovered an affair that Bill Gates had had with this woman in early 2010s and then Epstein later met her, found out about the story, and then paid for her college education, her software coding education, simply so he could then go to Bill Gates and shake him down, pretending that he was being reimbursed for that when in fact he was actually just being paid to shut down the blackmail. A spokeswoman for Gates said Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purpose. Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates. So that is Bill Gates acknowledging full well that Epstein was blackmailing him. Now again, this is not a giant shock because this is probably what Epstein was doing with pretty much anyone. He had these very, very lucrative relationships with some of the richest, most famous perverts on the planet.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Stephen Strang on the Prophecy of Trump's Unexpected Victory
"Idea that God speaks today, there's no doubt that he does. The only question is how and to whom and how do we perceive that correctly without going off the deep end and worshiping profits and being, you know, but you rightly acknowledged that people had prophesied that Donald Trump would be elected, this is before 2016. And I do want to talk about that a little bit because a lot of people forget there are a lot of people listening to this program who just don't know anything about this. This is crazy. This is real. And we need at least be honest. Even if you don't know what to make of it, let's at least be honest about the fact. So talk a little bit about that because it's at least fascinating. Well, I documented it very carefully. I knew I'd be attacked, and I'm a journalist, and I believe that accuracy is important. And you know, as interesting, I got almost no attacks, either from the people in the church that you referred to that don't believe in this stuff or for the other side. The prophecies were that this person this outsider, this chaos candidate is somebody called him, would be elected twice. And when that did not happen, the critics came out of the woodwork. Now, when you say when that did not happen, you're talking about 2020. I'm talking about 2020. So actually, I'm glad you brought that up because I have been myself very confused about who said what and exactly what they said. Let's go way back to 2007, Kim Clement said that Donald Trump would be elected twice. Clement. Right. Okay, now there are two famous videos or both on YouTube. They both been watched well over a million times. And some of it is kind of encode. And he said that God was going to raise up Trump like a trumpet. He also said that he was going that Bill Gates was going to be a gate. I mean, you know, the Bible says we see through a glass darkly.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bill Gates and the CCP Should NOT Be Buying Up Our Farmland
"Michael Peters. A member of the Lee Republican executive committee moved down here from north Florida, lived there for 15 years. Owned a small business there. Got to be real good friends with lots of other small business owners and farmers. And the farmers in north Florida are being bought out by Bill Gates. How do we stop it? It's a great question. So this is where we need to push back against oligarchy and it's not just Bill Gates. It's the Chinese Communist Party as well. And so for us. And you can't blame the farmer. So some people say, oh, why are the farmers selling? Because they come in with unbelievably lucrative cash deals people, okay? I'm talking about ten times multiples on earnings, right? Four times and they're like, I can't say no to this, right? So I believe there should be a law passed on a state by state level that billionaire oligarchs should not be able to buy millions of acres of pharma. You want to buy a couple 100,000 acres. Okay, there could be a limit. But the Chinese Communist Party should be able to buy zero, okay? I would be willing to go as far to say that Bill Gates, you already own enough land as it is in the country. Bill Gates is not buying farmland because he wants the betterment for the country. He's letting it go fallow. It's what? He's letting it go foul like. I believe it. BlackRock, for example, should not be able to buy up single-family homes and write them back to our kids. Amen. So what we're getting at here is the next exciting development in the conservative movement. I'm a free market guy. We all like free markets. However, free market should serve people. When free markets fail to serve people, we should be willing to use prudence practical judgment to make the market serve the people. It's against the free market to have a guy worth a $110 billion, go buy farmland, let the land go. You said fallow is the technical term, right? Correct. And so foreigners should not be able to come in and buy our farmland. Single-family homes should be owned by families or small investors not $10 trillion funds.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Author Michael Wilkerson Reveals Scary Truths About Globalists
"I continue my conversation from yesterday with Michael wilkerson. He's the author of why America matters the case for a new exceptionalism, why American matters is the book, and you can find him at storm wall dot com. Mike, we are talking about scary stuff. The globalists, the people at Davos, Bill Gates. They have all revealed themselves with the advent of the COVID pandemic, whatever you want to call it. We are in a new world where the forces of evil have revealed themselves to be evil, at least that's my short version. They reveal themselves to be at war with American values, biblical values. This is all new. And so it's helpful in that it's clarifying. And we said this that lots of people have woken up and are waking up day by day who were formerly sleepwalking, drifting along with the narrative. But things got so bad that tons and tons of people are waking up to this dramatic threat. So what are your views of what is the threat and what do we do about it? Well, let's talk about what is globalism. I think it's important to understand that this is the idea that, well, first of all, anyone who's a globalist believes not in the world that you just described, a world of judeo Christian values, a world in which there is a God, but a world that is mechanistic, that it's just running on its own, and therefore the only way to solve these great problems that the world is about to face, whether it be their view of the climate change apocalypse as sort of the main objective or other issues facing the world is to impose a technocratic solution that only the smartest people and the most powerful people on earth can come up with.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Kari Lake's Election Lawsuit on Signature Verification: What to Know
"Whatever you think about Carrie Lake, this woman is a fighter, she has been battling through the legal system to get this whole Arizona case looked at and looked at on the substance of it. Now she lost at the district court level. She lost at the appellate court level, but the Supreme Court in a remarkable move while denying a number of her emotions to investigate this and investigate that did send the case back to the trial court and said, there is one critical issue that you need to investigate and that is the matching of the signatures. Now, this is a really important issue because a lot of the ways that voter fraud happens is that you've got bad voter rolls. And so you've got people on voter rolls who shouldn't be on those roles. And then you also have a signature matching process that is essentially evaporated. People don't really check the signature and as we're about to find out miracle but county does not check the signature shows very accurately or carefully at all. Now, the Maricopa County establishment, which is to say the recorder Steven reiter, the board of supervisors, chairman Bill Gates, these are sort of never Trump or types, they're in league with the Democrats. The apparently have been working really hard to defeat Kerry Lake and defeat manga candidates, not just Cary Lake, a holiday, and a Mark fincham. As well. And it's also emerged that these guys, at one point, started a super PAC, dedicated to sort of fighting and opposing the Trump and the maga movement. So their agenda is really clear. And now that they are have been ordered by the Supreme Court to cooperate in providing these ballots so that Kerry lakes team can start looking at the signatures, they're refusing to do it. They're going, we don't need to do it. We're not we're not under legal obligation to do it. So what are they doing? They're basically stonewalling.
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"bill gates" Discussed on Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"So how much do you actually read, like what's a typical pace of reading for Bill Gates? You know, if I don't read a book in a week, then I'm really going to re look at what I was doing that week. If I'm in vacation, then I'll hope to read more like 5, 6 or 7. Of course, books are quite variable. In size, you know, over the course of the year, you know, I should be able to read close to 80 plus books, you know, I have a younger children who read even more than I do, so it's kind of like, oh, jeez. You know, I have to be, you know, which solo books am I going to read? I still read all the pinker, you know, some authors that are just so profound and have shaped my thinking. But, you know, reading is kind of relaxing. I should read more fiction when I'm I fall behind my non fiction list tends to dominate. And yet, you know, that people have suggested such good fiction stuff to me. And that's why, you know, I kind of share my reading list on Gates notes and so what's the over under, you're famous for saying that you want to read David Foster Wallace's infinite jest like over under that happening in 23? Well, if there hadn't been this darn AI advanced. I'm kidding you, but it's really true. I have allocated and with super excitement a lot more time to sitting with Microsoft product groups and saying, okay, what does this mean for security? What does it mean for office? What does it mean for our database? Because I love that type of brainstorming because new vistas are opened up. So no, it's all your fault. No infinite just this year. Excellent. Well, I appreciate you making that trade because it's been really fantastic over the past 6 months having you help us think through all of this stuff. So thank you for that and thank you for doing the podcast today, really, really appreciate it. No, it was fun, Kevin, thanks so much.
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"bill gates" Discussed on Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"They weren't the only ones. There were people over in Europe doing some of these things. But they combined it with a lot of things. They put it on a network. They got a laser printer. And Charles Simone was their programming this and did a word processor that used that very graphical bitmap screen and let you do things like fonts. Stuff we take for granted now. And so I went and visited Charles at park at night and he demoed what he had done with this bravo word processor and then he printed on the laser printer document of all the things that should be done if there were cheap pervasive computers and he and I brainstormed that he updated the document printed again. And it just blew my mind and the agenda for Microsoft came out of that's like in 1979 that I'm with him and computers are still completely character mode and so that's when the commitment to do software for the Mac emerges from Steve Jobs having a similar experience with bob belleville at Xerox Parc. And park built a Xerox built a very expensive machine called the star that they only sold a few thousand of because people didn't think of word processing as something you would pay. You had to come in really at the low end. So PCs with first character moment later graphics were processing, so I hired Charles Charles help do word and excel in many of our great things. And eventually, you know, 15 years after Charles had showed me his thinking and we brainstormed, we largely achieved through Windows and office on both Windows and Mac. We'd largely achieved that piece of paper, but so I told the group that that was the other demo that had kind of blown my mind and made me think okay, what can be achieved in the next 5 to ten years, we should be more ambitious taking advantage of this breakthrough, even with the imperfections that, you know, we're going to reduce over time. Yeah. It was really powerful and motivating anecdote that you shared. So maybe one last thing here before we, before we go, or maybe two more things. So what do you think are the big grand challenges that we ought to be thinking about over the next 5 to ten year period? So like in a sense like this, I actually have this piece of paper that Charles wrote. It's like here by my desk frame because I think it was one of the more unbelievable predictions of a technology cycle that anybody's ever written and I don't know why everybody doesn't know about the existence of this thing. It's just unbelievable. But so as you sort of think about what lies ahead of us over the next 5 to ten years, what's your challenge, not just a Microsoft, but to everybody in the world who's going to be thinking about this?
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Cheryl Chumley: Why Is California Entering the Reparations Game?
"Memphis area where I am from and our show originates, they are actually using COVID money to the tune of $5 billion to actually study a reparations plan that would put cash into the hands of black citizens, but it pales in comparison to what's happening in California right now. It does California really has seized the day on this one. They're considering $640 billion a package for reparations, which would amount to about 360,000 dollars per eligible black resident in the state. And what's really interesting about California is for those who know their history, California entered the union as a free state. There were discussions in Congress over slavery and finally they signed the California delegate signed the compromise of 1850, guaranteeing that the state would remain a free state. So for California to get into the reparations game, it's a little bit mind boggling. Do we have any idea where they're getting this $640 billion from? Well, you know it's going to be taxpayers. That's not exactly front and center in discussions, but where else are they going to get it? I don't think that a Bill Gates or George Soros type philanthropist is going to come through and supply the money. I'm curious to know if Oprah is going to get her check. Right?
The Eric Metaxas Show
Naomi Wolf on the Corruption of Covid-19 and the Globalist Agenda
"A simple person in many ways. And I just have to over and over and over, you know, repeat the obvious or try to remind myself I'm not I'm not dreaming this. I'm not making this up. This is real. You have bravely and brilliantly uncovered what is happening because there are millions and even billions of people around the world wondering what is happening and it points you said very clearly very obviously very darkly to China. Wanting to kill Americans and westerners and to destroy us. And we can talk about that for a long time. But we were just touching on how that relates to the globalist agenda because again, the way evil works, it's never simple. You have various things. This is how the Nazis took over. You have greed. You have fear. I mean, pure greed, somebody says, I can get a lot of money if I keep my mouth shut. I'll take the money and keep my mouth shut. Or if I say the wrong thing, I'll get in trouble. So I will keep my mouth shut. So you have all these different things going on, I can understand why the Chinese would want to do this that makes perfect sense. But link it as we were just going to the globalists agenda because they have obviously been working over time to help. Yeah, it's an alliance. And in my book, the bodies of others, I spelled that out. It's, of course, the World Economic Forum, which Klaus Schwab, the leader of it boasted that he has graduates in cabinets all over democracies around the world, and we've seen them from Trudeau to Ardern, and so on. It's the World Health Organization, which is funded by China and Bill Gates overwhelmingly that has been in lockstep with China. I mentioned the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It's a big tech as well. I mean, big tech is invested in the vaccines. And big tech as the bodies of others showed is up net 23% net revenue in 2020 to 2022 till the pandemic lifted. Because of the advantage to big tech of locking people in their homes.
The Dan Bongino Show
Bill Gates: China's Rise Is a 'Huge Win for the World'
"Here's our business Titans You know Bill Gates major shareholder found their Microsoft here's Bill Gates just in an interview he just gave a little bit ago Saying that the rise of China which has been unquestionably bad for the United States at this point Folks we mistakenly believe that China's entrance into the World Trade Organization and their embrace of pseudo capitalism which is what it is It's not real capitalism We mistakenly believe a lot of us And I got to be honest folks throwing myself on the device Me included I always thought that the fruits of capitalism would break down the walls of socialism because people would crave that prosperity and freedom that comes with economic freedom But I should have listened to Hayek where economic freedom and political freedom are tied together because it doesn't matter who you vote for If they can under your communist system steal your stuff and manipulate your vote tomorrow Our business leaders don't get this Here's Bill Gates on China Saying how it's such a huge win for the world China's rise Take a listen I tend to see China's rise as a huge win for the world I mean that's 20% of humanity They today match their portion of the global economy and their personal global population match exactly Countries like Australia the U.S. have per CAPiTA GDP is 5 times what the Chinese have So we have a disproportionate share folks they own us
The Dan Bongino Show
Barack Obama: We Need a 'Civilian National Security Force'
"Back at his presidential days Here's what he wanted to do and I think this is what the design is Here we go We can not continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful just as strong just as well funded Yeah and when I hear that it sends shivers in my body it just does I'm going wow so we can and that's why I'm saying when they thought stop talking about get rid of the police and they start talking about cutting police back and cutting budgets And these idiots and craziness people Antifa group Black Lives Matter Anybody else involved in this Anybody on the left George Soros Bill Gates It's absolutely crazy to think that you can't have Miller You got to have police people but you need them to be local and state let them take care of the states If it was a priority they would hire them right number of people And number two the court system would lock these bad people up and people had a murder and killing and raping people They deserve To get what they get And that's why you ought to have the death penalty I'm talking about people we know That are just doing wrong that are never going to make society a great place to live But what Barack Obama and somebody's people want folks I can't believe anybody would think this is a good thing
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Dives Into Those Unanswered Epstein Questions
"Going to put a little bit of a ending on the Epstein topic. I do want your thoughts as well. Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. But the significance is that I don't think enough people talk about this. I don't think enough people remain curious about it. And I have a theory about this. Not only number one, not only did Epstein and the killing of Epstein fuel the legitimate questioning of our institutions. It also angers me to a great deal. When I have to see QAnon and they think that a pedophile ring, hold on a second, just back off, okay? Why do you think people believe this? Epstein shows that you should be open minded to things. I'm not saying, you know, like people say, oh, Charlie, I don't even know what QAnon is, okay? The point is, are you going to slander or smear? Millions of people that want to question their institutions. While Epstein was likely almost assuredly killed in a prison cell, like, oh, shut up, just take the regime narrative as it is. You know what? No. Why is it that so many people get involved? In contrarian theories, because Epstein happened right in front of our eyes. That's why. Number two, for all the media that says the baseless accusations that there's an elite pedophile ring, I don't know if it's true, not, but it certainly seems like it is. It certainly seems that the most powerful people Prince Andrew Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, seemed to have frequent trips with the guy that was trafficking young girls. And the third thing is the cover up was so brazen. Basically telling us that we are in charge, sit down and shut up.
The Dan Bongino Show
Gates Foundation Pledges $200 Million for International Digital IDs
"Is it article the post millennial to my newsletter I highly recommend you subscribe It's free We don't make any money off of you We don't charge people for it But I'll give you these articles every day It's bonjour dot com slash newsletter This one you need to read The Gates Foundation eponymously named after Bill Gates pledges $200 million for international digital IDs Now there's an author out there who wrote this book His name is Michael rectum He wrote a book called very clever playing words The Google archipelago for those of you who need some fans like myself The Google archipelago the digital gulag and the simulation of freedom And this author has been warning about the negative consequences of digital IDs saying quote of all the other means of identifying and tracking subjects digital identity poses perhaps the greatest technological threat to individual liberty yet concede amen brother Michael reckon walled Rectum bald notes it has the potential to trace track and surveil subjects and to compile a complete record of all activity from cradle to grave You are darn right
My First Million
"bill gates" Discussed on My First Million
"On our podcast actually a month. So you can't go wrong. With adding jordan harbinger showed you rotation. Check it out. Search for the jordan harbinger. Show that's h. a. r. b. i. n. g. e. r. on apple podcasts. Spotify wherever get it check it out. he's awesome. I love okay. So i want to talk about this thing. I've been doing that. this week. Called crypto week. So okay. What are what are they almost got. I got so mad at you. And i saw that tweet because he go. I told bad. I was like sean. We only have one meeting this week. It's only ten minutes please. I hope you'll got up. But i did tell i did tell ben and i said hey that will meetings this week. I did one with you. Our youtube channel ten minutes. Ten minutes. Those brain jonah essay. It was at this pocket. There's only two commitments. I have on the calendar this week. Good you so. Besides that cleared everything. Off and i just the counter meetings. I just said. I'm not working on my other ship. Ecommerce business not doing it this week and ironically is a catholic. It's become like. I basically just told our ad i said. Hey i'm on vacation now. Might actually no. I'm sitting garage eighteen hours a day neck. Deep in crypto. And why is it. So basically i city with your phone right now. Is that what you're doing. Because like i whenever. I do these weeks which i do them as well. I met surrounded by books reading. But you really. You really just leaned over on your chair with your phone in front of you and you're just like drinking my laptop my laptop drinking milk exactly. I'm on that ed on that. Edison diet right now drinking milk. And i'm inventing so So what i think is. This is kind of amazing. So i had read that bill gates. Does this like one week out of the year. He calls it his think week or reading or something like that where he's just like. Throughout the year he gets interested in certain topic but he doesn't. He's so busy that he doesn't get to go as deep on that topic as otherwise want to. He's got more curiosity than he has. Time in the moment what he does is he carves out this one week a year. And then let's say that that he's all about crisper. Let's say that that's what he was really interested in and dot and by the way for all the people like bill gates. You like fucking poisoned everybody. Years ago.
My First Million
"bill gates" Discussed on My First Million
"You can look at how much car washes are selling for. And i'm honestly shocked at how expensive bizarre because he what they're does you can see. What the prophet or what their profit with a revenue. You could see all types of stuff and it's pretty fascinating. I think because this is so interesting. I think that there's a world where someone could get into this business tweeting about it constantly and just tweet publicly are you. Two people. Put the website this like but the website go to buy and put that on the on the screen right now like this is how you know. This is a great website because all those things that are sold it goes it just as this huge status has sold and then there's balloon clip art balloons listing. That's that's all. I know that this thing is amazing. It's like you know when you see somebody who's like driving a fancy car. They get out and then like total like dad wardrobe. It's like yeah this person's it's the opposite of the person who's really slick getting out and you're like did they leased this thing and this is this is a rental like they're doing for the image versus when the images so bad but the money is so high it's like oh yeah that's where there's dumb money it's great. Yes and. I think that you could do this. So nick scott gotta ping on this guy's doing strip malls Moses and keith multifamily. Nick got storage There could be. There's a guy quinn's vending. There's a there's room for car wash. I was thinking you were going somewhere else i think. And maybe this is just me probably u2 right now which is i once you get a little bit of money. It's like you go get your phd and tax avoidance and. I think it's crazy that nobody has just taken the throne here of sang. I'm gonna talk all day about these little financial hacked strategies for high net worth people around just either examples or strategies or loopholes or little. Did you know about you can go into an opportunity zone and then you could roll that through ten thirty one over here and then you can back door the door. Ira that you can do a super roth. It's like you know what. I'm just making up terms but there should be made sense. But there's somebody who should be owning that like there's one guy names mitchell something mitchell aldridge. It's one of those names. I never sat out loud. I just see him on twitter all the time. He kind of does this. It's basically a. Cpa way if he does he look a really really white dude like a dennis. The menace. yes exactly mitchell. Baldrige says his aunt twenty one thousand followers. I did a call them. Because i was thinking about him for my stuff And it's like yeah he's a texas. Cva focus on family helping high net worth thirty two five hundred million investors and business under preserving.
KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"bill gates" Discussed on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"But for some reason, Bill Gates decided to befriend the guy and Bill Gates took flights on the so called Lolita Express. Jeffrey Epstein's private chat. And Melinda Gates was upset and concerned that Bill Gates was hanging out with a known pedophile. We're also finding out that the divorce Is very bitter. The kids seem to be siding with Melinda. She went to Ah resort that is 100 lives $160,000 a night. 162,000 and night when they made the divorce announcement. In all, three kids went with Melinda to the resort and bill was left by himself. The kids seemed just deciding With their mom, which also makes you wonder what they know about this split. My theory about that time. You know, I love going on vacation family vacations with our girls, even though they're adults now and My wife. Every year. I say the same thing to my wife. My wife goes well, Shouldn't they at least pay their own way now? And when our oldest daughter was 18 I said, Honey, this might be the last vacation we ever take as a family. And then, when she was 19 and 20, Honey, this might be the last one we ever take. And she said You said that last year and the year before. And it's so finally I said, Well, how about if we pay for the rooms?.
A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"bill gates" Discussed on A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"Listen to the stories of men and women who transformed their lives using pure passion and cheer hard will to become the pioneers in their field and change the course of history. This is wizard ruse biography. Podcast the podcast. That helps you learn the real truth about successful. Personalities subscribe now to get access to future episodes by the late nineteen nineties. Microsoft had a solid line of products like windows. Office and internet explorer moreover. Thanks to the monopoly. It'd created microsoft was able to dominate the software market so throughout the nineteen nineties microsoft shares continued to soar as a result bill gates who owned a lot of these shares became extremely rich so in nineteen ninety five when he was just thirty nine years. Old bill gates became the richest person in the world has net worth at that. Time was twelve point. Nine billion dollars. When microsoft launched windows bill gates envisioned a world where every house owned a computer and that computer ran on windows in one thousand nine hundred nine he came close to realizing the latter part of his dream by nineteen ninety nine. Almost ninety percent of the world's desktop computers were running on windows that year microsoft made nineteen point seven billion dollars in sales and gates net worth increased to ninety billion dollars but bill gates is not the only one who profited from microsoft success in the nineteen eighties and nineteen ninety s. Many employees accepted microsoft stocks as a part of the payment for their sixty hour workweeks so by nineteen ninety-six when microsoft stocks increased more than one hundred. Fold within ten years. They became rich to the ccording. To richard s conway junior and economist from seattle. Who microsoft hired to study the impact it had on washington state. There could have been ten thousand millionaires and three billionaires among microsoft employees by the year. Two thousand these figures only increased one year later when microsoft launched the original xbox gaming system and entered the gaming industry after making microsoft a global leader in software creation in two thousand bill gates stepped down from his position of ceo. His harvard friend. Steve balmer succeeded him as microsoft ceo. Bill gates then took the role of a chief software architect and worked in microsoft until two thousand eight in two thousand eight. He quit his full time job but microsoft but retained position as the board chairman in twenty fourteen. He stepped down from that position too but retain the position as a board member after that he started working as a technology advisor. Even though bill gates might have earned a reputation as a rude boss and a fierce competitor. There is another side to him as well. He is also one of the biggest philanthropists of the twenty first century bill gates and his wife melinda gates have contributed a lot of money for charitable causes. Nine thousand nine hundred seven three year old. Melinda and french joined microsoft as a product manager. Three weeks after joining. She went to new york for work there. At a dinner event she met thirty two year old bill gates who sat next to her after dinner. Bill asked her to go dancing with him and his friends however she had already made plans with her friends so she turned him down. After a few months they met at microsoft's parking lot. Bill struck up a conversation with her and asked her to go on a date with him after two weeks however his tendency to plan everything far ahead of time turned her off since he didn't even know what she would be doing after two weeks so she turned him down once again citing that he wasn't spontaneous enough for her so trying to be spontaneous. Bill called her after one hour and asked her for a date again. This time she agreed. It was one of the many dates. They would go on before starting a relationship the year into their relationship. Both of them found out that they love each other so melinda wanted to get married to him but bill wasn't ready to commit yet moreover he didn't know if he could run a family and a business at the same time so he made a list of pros and cons of marrying melinda and eventually ended up marrying her in nineteen ninety four when he found that the pros outweigh the cons. Bill and melinda gates have three children the nine hundred and ninety four the couple along with bill gates. Father established the william h gates foundation. The goal of the charity was to promote global health and improved pacific northwest community. Two years later their first child a daughter was born so melinda resigned from microsoft to spend time with her daughter and focus on charity one year. Later in nineteen ninety-seven. They founded the gates library foundation. The charity donated computer hardware and software to public libraries to help them get access to the internet so that low income communities in north america can access the internet eventually it was named the gates learning foundation then two thousand. These charities were merged and the bill and melinda gates foundation was established. That's priorities were to improve global health global education and a global development in two thousand six. Warren buffett pledged his company. Berkshire hathaway stock worth three billion dollars to the foundation. Then two thousand eight. Bill gates quit his full time job. But microsoft has a chief software architect to focus on the bill and melinda gates foundation as of twenty nineteen the bill and melinda gates. Foundation is the largest nonprofit organization in the world with assets worth fifty point seven billion dollars every year it donates one billion dollars for important causes today. The foundation focuses on a radical hunger and poverty. It funds research is that try to produce. Rice enriched with nutrients it provides grants to organizations that research issues which affect developing countries like sanitation hygiene water problems et cetera. The bill and melinda gates foundation fights to reduce death rates and inequalities in health in developing countries by focusing on improving nutrition health of mothers and newborn babies health of children vaccine delivery and emergency response for diseases that cause widespread death in developing countries. The charity funds projects that research on improving health and medical facilities in developing countries. It works with governments to raise public awareness of its work and advocates tobacco control to people that strives to reduce homeless families. The foundation has also funded the tuition fees of twenty thousand college students and installed forty seven thousand computers in eleven thousand libraries across the usa. Fact you probably didn't know. Even though bill gates and microsoft have become synonymous today. the company wouldn't be what it is today. If not for paul allen it was allen who wrote most of microsoft's first program. According to veterans he also played a very big role in microsoft's big successes like dos windows and word. even the company's name microsoft was actually allen's idea by the year two thousand seven bill gates his wife melinda gates became the second most generous philanthropists in america in two thousand seven bill and melinda plan to donate ninety five percent of their wealth to charity. Eventually ten years later they announced that they would leave ten million dollars to each of their three children.
A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"bill gates" Discussed on A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"While retaining its copyright now that they started making money by writing software. Bill quit college and along with allen founded microsoft in nineteen seventy five microsoft started becoming famous and writing programs for other companies. Few years later they made ibm an operating system called dos. An operating system is an interface that lets the user communicate with the computers hardware even if the user doesn't no machine language the only language known to computers hardware once ibm purchase. Dos from microsoft. Other companies also came to microsoft and purchase dos thus dos became the standard operating system. At that time dos however only had a command line interface and no graphical interface to work with. There was no concept of a mouse. Users used a keyboard to type in commands. That opened her edited files. Once dos became famous apple came to microsoft and asked them to create excel word and version of basic for their macintosh computers. When bill gates went to apple to demonstrate these software he noticed a graphical user interface of macintosh which was driven by a mouse. It was more user friendly than dos. Bill gates immediately realized that microsoft would be or advocated if it didn't create a graphical user interface of its own so bill gates announced that microsoft was working on an operating system with a graphical user interface similar to macintosh's graphical user interface. He called this new operating system windows. Due to bill gates announcement dos users. Waited for windows rather than purchasing macintosh computers to experience. The new graphical user interface when microsoft eventually launched windows it was slow and cumbersome but the second version of windows was much better however it was similar to macintosh's graphical user interface so apple sued windows for stealing its graphics however the case was decided in favor of microsoft then the nineteen nineties. A company called netscape launched an internet browser called navigator. It became quickly famous because of its graphical interface and the ability of independent developers to add additional functionalities as plug ins this made. Many users believe that netscape navigator had the potential to replace windows so to keep its ship from sinking. Microsoft launched a campaign to destroy navigator. I it launched. Its own browser. Called internet explorer by purchasing an old version of code written by netscape's founders. Then it pressurized computer makers to install internet explorer in their computers instead of navigator as a result netscape's business was destroyed and internet. Explorer started to become famous but scape was not the only company that suffered at microsoft's hands many other companies including ibm intel and apple suffered because of microsoft microsoft's use of its monopoly in.
A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"bill gates" Discussed on A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"Such informative episodes for just two dollars per month. you can get early. Access to all our episodes. The short summary of last week's episode bill gates was born in seattle washington on october. Twenty eighth nineteen fifty five. The name he was given at birth was william henry gates. Three bill gates is actually the short form of william henry gates. Three bill gates. Father was a successful lawyer and his mother was a teacher as a child. Bill gates had disruptive behavior questioning his parents decisions and refusing to obey them so his parents took him to a psychologist heating to his advice. Bill eventually stop questioning his parents decisions. This improved his relationship with his parents and they started supporting his interest in computers since childhood bill gates was interested in computers when he was in eighth grade. Bill got an opportunity to use a computer for the first time. He immediately developed a liking to it so he and his friend. Alan started skipping classes to go to the computer room and learn programming. They both then wrote several programs that run on computers when he was seventeen years old. Bill and alan developed a traffic program. That was extremely useful so they sold it to the government and made twenty thousand dollars now. They realized how lucrative programming could be so they wanted to quit school and start a software company. How ever bills parents did not permit him to quit school instead. They forced him to join harvard to study law. Two years after bill joined harvard. Allen showed bill and advertisement showing new microcomputer called alter eighty eight hundred those days. The most common computers were mainframe computers which occupied an entire room. The personal computers that we use today were so small. In comparison to these mainframe computers so when they were invented personal. Computers were named microcomputers bill and allen modified an existing programming language called basic. That runs only on mainframe computers so that it could run on microcomputers. Then they sold it to the company selling alter eighty eight hundred for three thousand dollars while retaining its copyright now that they started making money by writing software. Bill quit college and along with allen founded microsoft in nineteen seventy five microsoft started becoming famous and writing programs for other companies. So i've em came to microsoft looking for an operating system for their new microcomputer. An operating system is an interface that lets the user communicate with the computers hardware even if the user doesn't no machine language the only language known to computers hardware. Bill immediately said that he has an operating system for ibm even though he didn't have one then he quickly bought an operating system from another programmer in seattle. For fifty thousand dollars. Then hearing named it to dos and sold it to ibm retaining its copyright once ibm purchased. Dos from microsoft. Other companies also came to microsoft and purchase dos thus dos became the standard operating system. At that time dos however only had a command line interface and no graphical interface to work with. There was no concept of a mouse. Users used a keyboard to type in commands. That opened her edited files.
A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"bill gates" Discussed on A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"See it. However alan bill hadn't actually written any code. They just wanted to see if the company would be interested in purchasing a version of basic for microcomputers. So when the president of its asked to see the code they started working day and night to write the code but they didn't have an altar eighty eight hundred to test their code on hence they simulated it on other computers in harvard's computer lab. Bill started working very hard to finish the code. He would code the entire day in harvard's computer lab sleep at the computer. Wake up the next day and pick up programming at the exact place where he left off the previous day for working several days like this. They developed a newer version of basic. However they still did not know if it would work on alter but despite their doubts about their new software. Allen flew to albuquerque and new mexico to show it commits to his surprise when he tested on an altar. Eighty eight hundred. The software worked perfectly so they sold it to midst for three thousand dollars while retaining. Its copyright now. Alan and bill knew that programming for microcomputers had a bright future. So alan persuaded bill to drop out of college together. They moved to albuquerque and established microsoft in nineteen seventy five the name which was the short form of microcomputer software initially had a hyphen between micro and soft but the hyphen was removed later mitts. The company allen and bill wrote code for was soon acquired by a bigger company but that did not stop at and bill from writing software. They continued writing software for other startups. Like apple tandy corporation and commodore in nineteen seventy nine. They moved to seattle soon. Microsoft started to become famous for its computer software. So ibm the largest computer maker at that. Time came knocking microsoft's stores. They wanted to know if bill had an operating system that they could use for their first microcomputer the ibm pc. An operating system acts is an interface between the user and the computers hardware by managing both the hardware and the software. It lets the user communicate with the computer even if he or. She doesn't know the computers language when ibm asked bill if he had an operating system for their microcomputer. Bill immediately answered that he had one. But the truth is he didn't have any functioning operating system so he quickly bought an operating system from another person in seattle for fifty thousand dollars. Then he developed it into ms dos. Which stands for disk operating system using dos users could navigate open and edit files on their computer through a command line. Instead of a graphical user interface like windows microsoft then sold dos to ibm microsoft however retained the right to license. The software to other companies after all writing software costs time effort and money and bill gates. That people should pay to use the software then till then customers either rode their own software or the software came pre installed with the hardware so ibm thought people would only pay for the hardware and never pay for the software. Therefore they didn't have a problem with microsoft selling ms dos to other companies however just like bill had anticipated other companies like compaq also purchased. Ms dos like ibm. They decided that purchasing an existing operating system like ms dos would be cheaper than creating their own operating system so ms dos became the standard operating system for the computers of that era as a result. Microsoft sales rose from seven point. Five million dollars in nineteen eighty two sixteen million dollars in nineteen eighty-one thus by nineteen eighty-one microsoft had become a familiar name across the usa. If not the entire world however two years later when the company was making huge profits allen the man who played a vital role in microsoft's formation and success left the company. But why would he leave the company when it was making so much profit after all the things he had done to make it grow then. Nineteen eighty-two allen was diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma a type of uncommon cancer that develops in the lymphatic system thus naturally his productivity in the company reduced but bill got frustrated at his lack of productivity so bill and his new lieutenant plotted to reduce allen's ownership stake in the company doing stock options to themselves and other shareholders however fortunately allen overheard them talk so disheartened. He left microsoft year later. After alan left the company microsoft became a multinational company establishing offices in great britain and japan by nineteen eighty-three almost thirty percent of all computers in the world. Were running it software. Then the late nineteen seventies when microsoft was slowly rising to fame. Bill gates met steve jobs. Just like bill gates steve. Jobs was also a young man with high aspirations just one year. After bill and allen founded microsoft stephen. His friend was founded apple. The meeting between these two young men would later become a historical incident that hastened the course at which the world was advancing. How did the meeting between these. Two young men changed the field of personal computers. And how did it affect the world. Find out in the next episode of our biography. Podcast if you like this episode and learn something from it please subscribe to our podcast and give us a five star rating in your favorite podcast app. It will cost nothing for you but help us a lot. Motivating us to continue making awesome episodes. If you have a suggestion for us please send us a tweet. You will find our twitter link in the episode description..